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I think you're assuming that people are following his 'expert opinion' when in fact what people are really mostly following is the very interesting information he often brings us.

Scoble works very hard to bring us stories about startups and products and the people behind them. That doesn't necessarily mean he's 'insightful', but he does bring a ton of value to the tech community.
I've got a stupid question. When people quit their job and go solo like this, what do they do about health insurance? Do they just forgo it since their young and it's unlikely they will need it or are there affordable plans you can get when you don't have insurance through your employer? I've looked around the Internet but can only find vague information on the topic.

For example this http://www.ahipresearch.org/pdfs/2009IndividualMarketSurveyF... document seems to indicate that someone in their late 20's would pay just under $2,000 on "average" but the numbers seem to range wildly with location and some family plans going as high as 13k per year which seems ridiculous.

Edit: This thread though it contains helpful responses confirms my suspicion that getting non employer health coverage is a complete CF.
It would go a lot farther than a year for a single founder, and even farther than that if they were willing to move somewhere cheaper than the Bay area.
Let us try again.

He is confusing having more features with being "more expressive" (whatever that means). And even if we work out what that means, he's confusing "being more expressive" with "being more powerful" (whatever THAT means).

By this logic, C++ is the language to beat.
And what is the objective measure of how "powerful" a programming language is?
There is probably an app for that.
You probably went to the wrong school. Google is notoriously discriminating when it comes to pedigree even if you have a decade of post-school experience under your belt.
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has done something fairly similar (http://www.icmje.org/urm_main.html), and, in the US the government backs it up with a mandatory prepublication database of all ongoing trials: http://clinicaltrials.gov/

Also see Ionnidis's paper on why most published research is wrong: http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-docum...
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After reading this explanation, it's hard not to acknowledge this as a disruptive gamechanger. I mean, this completely changes the game for YC and every one of their successful applicants.
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True, but there are still the options to set up strategic frequency jammers, set up rogue nodes transmitting /dev/random to each other at max speed, nodes with routing black holes, randomly sabotage every TCP stream... etc.

Where can that be fixed? The nodes need to have the intelligence to route around potential rogue nodes.

In the UK the spectrum regulator is looking into "white space" use - basically even though this frequency is licensable, if you are using it in an area where no licensee's are, and you're under a certain power, that's fine. Assume that we can disconnect from their geo-location control databases, and burst transmit across many frequencies - jammers become an unrealistic problem.
While the leaked code may ease the work of malware writers, keep in mind that whoever writes malware regularly tests against all popular antivirus software.

No point in releasing something only to get caught right away.
...the source code remains the intellectual property of Kaspersky Lab and downloading, distributing or using it without consent is illegal.

Is it true that downloading it is illegal?
This post needs some proofreading.
Cool. Does the web site actually say that? How would I know without signing up first? Why would I sign up without knowing it?
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maybe Im misunderstanding you here, but when you have a collision of namespaces like that cant you just fully qualify the object you want?

eg var foo = new Name.Space.Object();

For me the using statement in C# is handy shorthand for something that implements IDisposable(say, SqlClient for example) making sure that Dispose gets called.
How much bandwidth could we squeeze out of long-range packet radio technologies? Even big commercial shops like Verizon and AT&T have to be careful about bandwidth usage on their networks.

What we would really have to do is take over one of these existing companies. Sprint, for example, has a market cap of $13B. I'll start a Kickstarter project.
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You didn't just tell us all that being forced to check for null references strengthens the spirit, now did you? That is akin to saying that being forced to check for buffer overflows is edifying, or that no programmer from a good family uses garbage collectors.
That wouldn't be nice. There is a big difference between copying content from Stack Overflow, to running a Planet news aggregator on a community site for your open source project. The first is an ad scam, the second is valuable service to the members of the community.
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Expressiveness usually means "working code to boilerplate ratio". For example: (C#)

SomeMethod((x) => SomeOtherMethod(x));

is more expressive than: (java)

class WrapperIDontReallyNeed() {
public void AnotherWrapper(uselessType x) {
SomeOtherMethod(x);
}
}
...
SomeMethod(new WrapperIDontReallyNeed());

(or anonymous classes - before someone points out they exist - just trading Wrapper for IWrapper and no `class` keyword)

And again - I don't see any mention from his side about being powerful. I don't think he's confusing anything either - expressiveness of a language is a pretty common term and is true in this case. C++ is easy to beat from that point of view, unless you add a tonne of Boost.
I think in terms of raw feature count Common Lisp probably "wins" - I can recommend a read through Steele's Common Lisp the Language if you have some time to spare:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html
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The last startup I did my cofounder did not have a job. (I still kept my job to help fund things). If I recall correctly he was able to get "oh shit, I have cancer" insurance for somewhere around $100/month. I think his deductible was $5,000 or some nonsense.

As a young guy I think this is a fairly reasonable amount of risk to take on. Although this would be basically impossible if you had some sort of preexisting condition. Unless you live in Europe or somewhere with universal healthcare.
A good analogy (I think) is real borders. In this case airspace borders.

What Egypt have done would be the equivalent of saying to it's air controllers "Any plane incoming for an Egyptian airport, tell them we don't know where it is." And the only option that plane has is to return home (real analogy: the message gets sent to the source airport and the plane disappears into a black hole).

However, any plane that wishes to fly through Egyptian airspace to reach other countries, that's fine, and get's it's routing directions just fine.

The alternatives that the article are talking about, closing down the "bottom" routers: close down all the airports, instead of the whole airspace. This has the same effect, but is harder to co-ordinate.

A complete border shutdown would be like unplugging the cables... any aircraft flying through the airspace would be blackholed, and aircraft attempting to fly in will be blackholed, any attempting to fly through will be blackholed... all with a polite notice of course.

DNS would be equivalent of keeping the airports open & saying "shut down all the screens and don't let any airline attendant tell people the gate that their plane is flying from" (except that are millions of gates...). If you're smart enough to have written it down (cached), or know the gate directly, then you're still going to make your flight. If you don't, you've no chance of making it. (Let's not add vhosts into the mix... okay, maybe for fun... like arriving at the plane, and them saying "this service stops at 100s of destinations, and you've lost your ticket, so we can't let you board").
Original:

def double(x):
return x+3

BUG REPORT: double(4) returns 7 instead of 8.

Fixed:

def double(x):
if x == 4:
return 8
else:
return x+3
Stencyl looks like a lot of fun, kudos! And am I right that some of the linked games have even managed to score themselves sponsorship?
Are you 37signals?
For the first 18 months, COBRA is available to keep getting the same coverage. Beyond that there are non-employer pools you can sign up for, and also organizations like the Freelancer's Union.

You should definitely be expecting to pay a lot of money, though. Because employer-provided health insurance is tax-deductible the overall cost that you and your employer pay is lower, so you'll get either lower prices or higher quality.
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Probably it depends on what country you're in...
_Negative results sit in a file drawer, or the trial keeps going in hopes the results turn positive._

There is a more unfortunate scenario that often plays out. That is that they get a different statistician in who has a goal of getting positive looking results out of a negative result set though various means and then often carefully manipulating the wording of the success criteria to match their best attempt at making the data work. This is quite common, my partner (in the girlfriend sense) work within medial journal publishing and sees it quite a lot.
marketing, marketing, and marketing.

I use dropbox forever, was in the closed beta, and at that time I was using win. And until today I never heard about syncplicity, even though I know and tried similar services.

It's not about features, platforms, or whatever. I've seen the worst product succeed only because of marketing.
You can remap the keyboard shortcut to something harder to accidentally hit in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Applications. Then click the plus icon. I used this trick back when Safari didn't ask before quitting with multiple tabs and just confirmed it works in Chrome too.
If I were you I would never use the description above ever again and just stick with "tymr is a social network where you can find, create, share and promote any type of events".
Oh I exactly know how it all works, hawala or otherwise.

Again, the question is not if it's a move that will deter such laundering and so on. It's one of those things that you'd do to make people believe that you're up to something.
Yes, downloading is akin to making a copy without consent of the copyright owner. (Edit: At least according to the Berne Convention, which most countries have signed.)

Edit2: I think dchest is right and illegality of the act of downloading does probably not follow from the Berne Convention, sorry. Distribution (offering for download) certainly is and I think at least according to German law the resulting copy has to be destroyed. Mind you, I'm no lawyer and might be mistaken.
The torrent has lots of Chinese leechers.
The site wants an E-mail address before showing me anything in my area. Then, after I provide that, I'm told the service isn't even available for my zip code. Now I feel like I've been tricked. Why not allow people to see sample sale items in a given zip code, and let users know if the site even serves their area before asking them to provide an E-mail address?
Its convertible debt, meaning that whenever the startup raises the A series funding, at how much ever valuation, SV angel gets 150k worth percentage stock in the startup.

e.g. If the A series funding was taken at $1.5 Million valuation, the SV share in the company would be 10%. No valuation ceiling, no discount. Lower the A series valuation, better off SV angel are.
nice advice, thanks!
How does a post like this hit the front page so quickly?
Why? Cloning a repository doesn't improve the morality of downloading and viewing this code. In the same way that it is wrong to receive a stolen radio, you shouldn't touch this code with a 10 foot pole no matter how it's packaged.
Like Alex, I can heartily recommend Cocos2D: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/

We made a Monkey Island-style point-and-click (well, point-and-tap) adventure. It was a fairly complex project, but Cocos always felt empowering rather than limiting. Happy to answer any questions!

About the game: http://launchingpadgames.com/games/scarlett/
I think this is dead on.
I'm good with euthanasia and all, but go practice this in an uncrowded field if that's going to be the method of dispatch.
It never ceases to amaze me how resilient corporations are, given so many decisions are delegated to the people least qualified to make them.

The only reason I read mainstream tech publications is to know which silly ideas I will have to demolish in the near future because some clueless PHB decided it would be the next great thing.
...manipulating the wording of the success criteria to match their best attempt at making the data work.

While not impossible, it is very tricky to do this before you actually have the data. I'm advocating that the wording of the test criteria, statistical tests to perform, etc, are all decided before the trial.

Bringing in a different statistician post-hoc is pointless, all he could do is run the exact predetermined statistical test. In fact, you can do even better: submit code to the journal before the study, and submit data after the study. The journal runs the code on the data and decides which conclusion to publish.
I miss him. There's a guy who loved his job.
Even if the article doesn't really mention why she left google one line jumped out at me:

> I really miss the heated toilet seats.

I never ever thought that that would figure in to reasons for leaving or staying at a company.

It looks like having her project canceled hurt her pretty badly, big companies have a way of axing projects that do not take the feelings of the people that work on them in to account at all. We all understand it has to happen, how you go about it can make all the difference.

I hope that she finds what she's looking for, if you're thinking about doing the same, it helps if you have a better idea of what you're going to do when you quit your job, it helps even more if you've already been experimenting with different avenues while still employed, that way you save some runway that might bite in to your savings in a way that you regret later on.

Having a good plan is really important, quitting without having a good plan may work but it will definitely complicate matters.

Best of luck to Jean, I hope she keeps us informed about how this all works out.
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Maybe her liberal arts background gave her an advantage? There must be thousands of people with more or less identical world class CS background at Google. They might consider having someone with a different perspective on things a good thing. Even if you are a programmer, having a big picture understanding of things beyond code and algorithms can be a huge advantage.
COBRA applies if you are laid off - not if you quit. (IIRC)
As I said above, I realise it's a dubious request. I know it doesn't improve the morality either.

It's more for the sake of viewing the code. I associate those 2 brands with viewing/sharing code.
Very good point. The "good" statistician then gets a bonus at the end of the year for being productive and helpful. The "honest" statistician gets slowly pushed out.

Accumulate this over the whole range of companies and studies and we end with a disaster.
It might not be for every company, but my wife quit her job last year and we were able to get COBRA.
Not true. I quit my last job and was on COBRA.
The vitamin D claim is misleading. Sure, most people have enough vitamin D for bone health. But vitamin D does a lot more than make your bones healthy, so supplementation is still probably useful. Luckily, unlike vitamin C, too much vitamin D is not harmful so all you're wasting is money if the other claims for vitamin D also get disproved.
One thing that amazes me at most of commercial codebases I have seen (leaked or not) is the sheer size of them. How can one spend 1GB of source code on something like anti-virus program?
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I suspect that most of these people had no realization that reality would come and bust in their door. There remains a widespread illusion of anonymity and invulnerability when it comes to the tubes.
I would be very interested if this is possible. It could be used for different sites aswell, not just HN
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It is worth pointing out that The Pirate Bay has been doing this, also combined with hilarious responses:

http://thepiratebay.org/legal

One of my favorites:

http://static.thepiratebay.org/whitestripes_resp2.txt
It's not limited to commercial code... Lots of codebases for complex applications are substantially large. Often the translation files filled with strings alone will be 50% of it.
DDOS attacks are attacks on the very fabric of the internet. If you believe in the internet, you will not support those sorts of activities. This has a very real ramification for much of the subject matter of HN: The investment community needs to know that any iCompany can't be destroyed by some teenagers with a downloaded tool.

Recall that the last freedom exercise was to try to suppress Gene Simmons' right to free speech (however stupid his opinions might be) by a DDOS on his servers, with all of the collateral damage that entails.
Or by the western governments who back them.
Proper due diligence during seed investments is very rare anyway, this is because a proper due diligence costs anywhere from 35K and up (legal, technical, financial, financial can be quite abbreviated in a start-up), it simply isn't worth it at the level of most seed investments.

Seed investments are all about team, product, vision and trust, they're not about technology, legal issues (other than obvious ones) or financial statements.

> Anyways, this is pretty interesting for entrepreneurs in generally cause they can close a seed round (even $2M) in a few weeks. ;-)

It's ridiculous to call $2M a seed round.
Good post. Points out the real need of other methodologies like Customer Development and Business Model Generation for finding profitable product/market fit.

Leancamp's a good example of this too. It has product/market fit, and passes the Net Promoter / Sean Ellis tests. But the business model itself isn't easily sustainable or scalable, which is where I've had to place my attention the last few months.
Come now, you were admitted into a highly-competitive incubator that attracts a lot of investor attention and puts you in touch with some very valuable mentors.

The next term might be a bit better off, but it certainly doesn't suck to be you.
You probably only need to isolate the most populous centers.
How about some real world grounding? It's not the spelling that I have a problem with, the content in general makes no sense. Also, if a moderator could get rid of the caps in the title that would be nice.
> Converting an int to a string should be: String s = "" + x;

"should" is rather subjective; there are a variety of ways to do this, and the usage of the overloaded "+" operator with an empty argument has always felt hackish to me. String.valueOf(int_var); is equivalent, but (also subjectively) more cleanly shows ones intent.
Two hours is not that quickly. Voting rings typically act in the first few minutes.
David Heinemeier Hansson of 37 Signals made the same point about pricing at SXSW last year. He encouraged people to charge more, and pointed out that 37 Signals' experience is that the quality of customer feedback and customer relationship goes up with the more you charge.
Those jerks.
> part of the argument for generics was that they would make code shorter and easier to read.

An insignificant part. The main goal was a wee bit more of type-checking at compile time.
Not where I live.

They would wish it to be so, but that's a different matter. It won't scare off anybody though, that's for sure.

Distributing it is illegal where I live, but downloading it is not.
I'm pretty sure Berne Convention says nothing about the act of downloading. Your use of "akin" may be incorrect. Of course, different counties have different laws, but if we try to infer legality or illegality of downloading purely from Berne Convention, I'd like to ask this question: how can you make a copy of something that you don't have the original in the first place? Thus, it's more likely that the party who's distributing the work is making a copy, not the downloader.
On the surface, YCombinator IS giving a shitty deal. 6% for a few thousand dollars? That's highway robbery.

Except, of course, you're getting a lot more than money for your 6%. The difference is that YCombinator's promise are much less empty than that of a record labels.

(I know, I deflected. Milner's terms are not shitty. It's YCombinator's that are, but only on the surface).
I've read conflicting accounts from different news articles.

Some articles state the bomber's handler sends a text message to the bomber to say when to detonate the bomb, to maximize terror, but this situation seems like the text message actually triggers the device which seems very precarious and conflicts with the handler theory.
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For the large code bases I've seen, the size is often taken up by Third party code.

If we depend on a third party library we'll down load the source and build it for all supported targets( x86 and x64) (debug and release) (windows and linux). This can really increase the size of your code base quickly.
Someone should fund 50% of YC co's $150K by coin flip so that we can get a convincing answer to this question
Then why the advertisement? This is about Google's search result algorithms.
Maybe "cracked" would have been a better choice of word when used in the context of Sourceforge. ;)
I was working on a similar idea, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in talking about a potential partnership.

Email me (my email address is in my portfolio) if you are interested.
Yes and no; people who are going to buy based on price only are doing that already. Likewise, those quality based shoppers probably aren't going to stop buying quality because of a company such as this. As any reputable consumer advocate would tell you, don't use deals like these to buy anything you normally wouldn't; use them to save money on the things you'd buy anyway.
As a Dane I have to disagree with that statement - Denmark doesn't hang non-christians, and they can speak and write and debate, but not only is a particular version of Christianity favoured by the government, the members of the Royal house must be believers in this faith, but we also teach the bible in the public schools (and we used to teach pupils to remember hymns the way they are thought mathematics, etc this practice didn't stop until about 20-30 years ago).

So no, even Denmark is far from a secular state, either by law or by practice.
Actually, I'm working on a library that takes care of that for you and more.
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Once again the human element proves to be the hardest to secure.

Three years in jail is a pretty solid sentence, but still, every company with employees handing sensitive data like this is potentially at risk. All it takes is one bad leave and your corporate crown jewels could be on the street.