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The problem definition lacks concrete measurable goals that identify when the problem solved. Without those, there is much room for interpretation and disagreement and the actual problem isn't well-defined. It only seems well defined, because you instantly fill in the gap in your mind.

It's unclear when the manager would consider the website 'tested'. If a manager said something like this and the first thing that came to mind was 'Selenium, full test-suite, 1 month', then the next thing to come to mind would be "that's probably not what he meant, since he doesn't want me gone for a month'.
A man who built an empire and donated $100 million dollars vs. two douchey looking dudes who sued an empire. There is a difference (We are talking about how they got these gains)

Also, he just because he is worth a lot doesn't mean he has $10+ billion in liquid assets either.
My understanding of gamification is that it aims to make things simpler and faster (playful, game-like), not more complicated.

When someone does something that is already complicated or that is positive to the site, "reward" them for it. But it has nothing to do with adding challenges to an existing site or making the site more difficult.
I think you're very much missing the point: if you want to spend all your time with family and friends then find a way to do that - start up a family business, go live in the woods, live on benefits. I suspect the reality is that you want to do more than simply spend time with family and friends.
Ten out of the 11 techniques mentioned – all except 'deferred compensation' – involve avoiding either capital gains or estate taxes.

So here's a simple solution: abolish capital gains and estate taxes.

The mega-rich manage to get around them, anyway. They have the accounting tricks, and the government not only can't keep up, the legislature can easily be tricked/lobbied into adding new loopholes in the future. The taxes mainly catch the slightly-rich, and spawn a giant negative-sum industry of tax manipulation.

Get the revenues instead from other taxes, that are both broader-based and harder-to-avoid-via-symbolic-manipulation. Consumption taxes and property taxes, for example.
Hey - I'm one of the Pieceable founders.

The pricing plans we've put up so far are definitely intended for agencies / dev shops that want to share apps-in-progress with clients. We know there's a lot more we could do with this, though - we're just waiting for everyone to tell us what they want before we add new pricing :-)
Alerts, in various forms, are definitely one of our top priorities. That was the spark that ignited our project. So, we're focused on making those as intuitive as possible.

As for auto discovery, we have a rudimentary form of this in place. Spreading of the software agent is manual, but its as easy as running it on a new server to get it up and running. The data reporting and metrics all begin automatically.
the tradition that demands "academic freedom" also says academics should stay out of what they ought to consider "mere politics".

Does it, now. I assume you're referring to the 1940 statement of principles, linked below. But your argument doesn't hold much water, since Cronon's comments are not made in the name of the U of Wisconsin or presented as teaching materials in his class. In expressing his personal views on politics, he can go as far as he likes.

http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/policydocs/contents/1940sta...

By the way, my support of his dual freedoms - to be an academic and also to express his political views - does not mean I agree with said views.
I think this has substantially reduced group-think though.
I found it. http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOrigi...

google.com = 146,718,000 refers
bing.com = 5,592,000 refers
On a related note, embedded advertisements with audio drive me to close a window and its article before finishing it.
It's true. Even for beginners it's ridiculously hard to compile buggy programs.
Coase's 1991 Bank of Sweden Prize for ^: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1991/...

Oliver Williamson's 2009 Bank of Sweden prize updated Coase's theories. Speed read: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2009/...
I got straight A's in high school. One of the most important things I learned in college was how to fail (and if you don't, you aren't working hard enough). College holds some important life lessons, if nothing else.

Some people think colleges churn out incompetent zombies, but whether or not you get good at your craft is up to you -- get involved in projects, research, and seek internships. This could even lead to a start-up of your own.

The best part is, worst case scenario, you have a degree to show employers you are competent. You need to get money from somewhere (even if you are working on a start-up)!

There are so many more perks to graduating college. I really encourage you to go! So many great experiences await you. But as Mark Twain said, "Never let school interfere with you education."

And to re-iterate the sound advice of those who commented before me...there's always someone better.
Justin, what a great story about self-realization and growth. This is a very common problem among young, successful, technical entrepreneurs. But it seldom turns out as well as it did with you. Good luck and Godspeed.
The problem is that american adults are really not.
I learned assembly on my TI calculator while I was bored in math class. But that doesn't seem like a reason to keep the calculators: whatever ends up in its place can also be where people 'learn to program', and it might even be better to learn in another environment.
ADA is also good for that.
Correlation is also why we started this. A little story: we were using Cacti on a cluster of ours. I was showing a friend of mine the graphs, only because I was explaining our infrastructure setup. I noticed one had unusually high CPU load. The server with the high load was one of our SQL database servers. I SSHd into it and sure enough it was MySQL causing the load. But ... why? So, after so log file browsing, we found that our site was being scraped by some bots, and the particular page being scraped was doing a sorted query on a small range of data, which was causing the entire table to be sorted then scanned, which was causing high CPU usage, we thought. So, the correlation there between high CPU usage and the cause was less direct, and a simple graph was only enough to alert me of the fact that there was a problem on that machine. Plus, I wasnt even alerted - I stumbled upon it.

So, this is something we're aiming to fix.
I think failing a YC interview is much worse than failing the application, you are scrutinized far more in an interview than your application is scrutinized.
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This is great advice for participants in the budding northeast hackathon scene. I've never done a startup, but from what I can gather, doing a hackathon isn't that far off. You code furiously and you try to win. You pivot if it's not working out. You make awesome shit, and fast. Hackathons are just a bit a shorter. I figure if I can win a hackathon, I'd a) be better prepared to win in startupland, and b) get noticed by the people who pull the strings. So far, it's working out well, and I'd recommend any budding programmer (read: student) to go to as many hackathons as possible.
Yes, we do, too :-)

The first version was actually all standard web stuff, but the performance was just a little bit below what we wanted. Flash works for now.
I think you underestimate how serious OS vendors are taking the quickly growing popularity of SSD drives. A lot of work has already been done on OS/filesystem level just for SSD drives, for example to support TRIM.

Sure, it will be a long time (if ever! likely, mechanical drives will remain important for bulk storage) before filesystem developers focus solely on SSD drives, but SSD performance is already very important.
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"At least 10% of Chernobyl's radiation release, and perhaps more if we can't stop it" to me sounds very comparable to Chernobyl.
JFFS(2) is aimed at embedded devices that directly access flash chips. With a controller in between, such as with SSD, which performs wear leveling and other tricks to emulate a real harddrive, it might even be hurtful to performance.

I'm not sure about LogFS.
Thanks for explaining. Interestingly do you know of any cases where someone had gotten in trouble giving such an advice over the internet?

Also, you mentioned that as an ex-law student you must be careful? Is there any special status associated with ever studying law that makes you more susceptible to such charges rather than say, if you had studied history or math?

> if there's one and only one thing that law taught me, it's a habit of professional paranoia.

You might make a good security researcher then ;-)
And your noob throwaway account is now highlighted in Green. Check out the Noob Stories page for more (or to see if it's already changed back) - http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories
I never said that, not even anything close to it. If you read beyond the first sentence it should be pretty clear.
I believe checks are safe and better for sender/receiver/govt
What you find by scanning for high-point comments is not necessarily insightful stuff but rather, most upvoted stuff. Then you upvote it, making it feature even more prominently on the page. The comments that you didn't read, no matter how insightful, get no points from you so they fall further down the thread. I've seen this happen, joke comments positioned very high while truly good comments are very low because nobody had the patience to reach the bottom of the page, read them and vote.
I've heard the other reason is their math libraries. I don't know a whole lot about the calculator industry, but I've been told the number of companies with good embedded math libraries is very small, and the cost of developing one is prohibitive.

This adds big barriers to entry. You can't write your own libraries, and you can't use more powerful hardware to compensate either- TI's calculators cost them very little (the popular TI-83 uses a CPU designed in 1976), and will shove you right out of the market with their huge profit margin.
I agree with what jchonphoenix said.

If you want to be a developer of note without school, you're going to have to work your ass off, and then once all your ass is gone you're going to have to work up some ass debt and keep learning, except that you're not sure what to learn next, you don't even know what you don't know, you don't have friends in class going through the same thing or guidance from a professor. You'll be on your own. It will be stressful, and there won't be any pretty girls to kiss.

If you want to be a developer of note with school, then you'll have an incredibly solid foundation to build off of. And if you work on your ideas on the side (as you should) there's nothing better than learning something in a lecture and being able to go home and directly apply it that evening to your own work.

You've already said that you want to make technology to aid education, so immerse yourself in it. Get the best education you can, study the education you're getting, not just the material you're learning. Ask yourself, "How could this be better, how could I make some manner of technology to improve this experience, or bring this to other people?" By furthering your education, you'll not only be getting the tools you need to create your idea, you'll be doing the research too. It's always better to kill two birds with one stone.
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I'm not aware of any such cases, and no, law students are not afforded special status. However most freshers / 1Ls are repeatedly warned to keep. their mouths. shut. by the lecturers. In most professions, sophomorism is annoying bordering on cute; in law it's a potential fast track to ruination.

In short: To give unqualified advice, you must first be qualified.
> the customer doesn't completely own the device

Is this legally possible? (Except for the obvious software part)
You have no basis but online links that have no relation to the transformation that is underway. Try and search around about the transformation of Bihar over last 5 years since Nitish Kumar came to power and how it is the 2nd fastest growing state in India and how corruption has taken a steep dive. It's okay. You want to hate, do so. I ll pass.
It seems to me that acknowledging influences can be incredibly dangerous in our presently litigious patent environment.
It's very rare that there is a huge volume (>100 comments) of insight provoked by a single article, just because there's not usually that much insight to be had in the first place on that topic, and you can be sure that 100 separate comments didn't have it all on the same thread.

You usually can only get that much noise on a topic by poking people such that they NEED to correct some injustice done by the article. Sometimes good articles poke people like this, but in either case the comment thread ends up sucking.
That article is from April 10.

Since then the severity rating of the Fukushima nuclear crisis has been raised to 7, the highest rating, according to:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13045341
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For programs that are permanently online, it is a good idea to have updating as a high preference. At least when your operating system is not doing the updating off all installed software automatically.
The trick about this concept, and this strategy, is that you have to consider just what exactly you are practicing. I took a peek at his MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/sickabodsane) and honestly, he is not the most technically adept rapper. His rhymes and rhyme schemes are usually fairly simple and his topics aren't particularly striking. He has good cadence and breath control, he is easy to follow, and his stuff is catchy though.

I would argue that in this process his key outcome was not improving his rapping ability. He learnt about stage presence, handling a microphone, interacting with a crowd, picking suitable topics to entertain that crowd, and probably more. As a result of consistently performing and being in this place he has likely built a network of people doing similar things and of fans. For someone who wants to succeed in a rap career these are all important things, but my question is did his rapping actually improve?

It's all a question of metrics and of knowing exactly what you want to get out of your project.
it would be cool if the score of an object in the system was a vector-like thingy in which every value is the result of operations created by people in your same account-demographic (e.g. accounts older than 3,6,9,12,15,18 months).
You would be able to filter for stuff that has the most total votes, the most votes among people in your age class, and the most people across all age classes at vote time (people who are now one year old but voted for it one year ago)

This way you could still select between stuff that is useful/interesting to everyone, such as a new $X by $Y and stuff that was interesting for people when they first read it but it's now boring since it's the tenth submission ("harry potter and the methods of rationality" comes to mind).
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This is amazing.

1. Ceglia appears to be the first to recommend they really drop the 'the' from the title.

2. The emails make it sound like MZ is a hired hand in the creation of the site where he is demanding to be paid for working on it.

3. It reveals that he simply had no business savvy - but when he knew the idea was gold he hung on to it tooth and nail.

4. it reveals that he may in fact have been working on FB prior to the twins offer - but that he used the twins as social proof and, as I mentioned in another post, agreed to help them build the other site in order to stall them/prevent them from materially developing.

5. there is, seemingly, no way the others in his circle couldn't have known about this; dustin, edwardo, etc... if this were criminal, could they too be culpable?

Wow.
I think the last point about your best chance for getting a good salary being during the interview is a pretty good one.

Salary increases tend to be considered in relation to your current salary, not in relation to your value to the company, unless you do something mind-blowing. Better to get in at $120k and never get a raise than to get in at $80k and get small raises every 6 months.
HTML is a web technology, but video codecs are needed by a wider range of applications, including playing optical media, games, and presentation software.

But inside the browser it's a web technology. That's the whole point of the video tag.

When a browser's raison d'être is "political" as you put it, then of course any such decision is going to have a moral component. It isn't just about short-term support -- it's about a long-term vision for what the web should be like, and more importantly shouldn't be like. H.264 isn't compatible with that vision.

they are putting their political goals above the users' needs.

But those goals are the users' long-term needs. The minor loss if people can't play H.264 video right now is offset by the much greater victory if the web stays free and open.

I don't want my browser to include it's own unoptimized codecs, it's own half-assed OpenGL implementation, it's own font rendering code, it's own widget library, it's own PDF viewer, and it's own device drivers.

Stop making ridiculous blanket statements. This is much more nuanced than that, and involves balancing the costs of including custom code with its benefits.
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What % on non-windows?
Certainly. I understand what is happening. But either way, I don't have the time nor the desire to read every page of comments in its entirety, and I like having some kind of filter.
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'Quite possible' is a pretty generous overstatement - almost 0% of startups go through YC and very, very, very close to 0% become giants.
Am I the only one who's more shocked about the content of the article that was allegedly infringing?

Apparently a man got arrested without bail for ejaculating while getting his genital piercing patted down ... for "sexual assault" of a federal officer. Way to go TSA
I think it is better to disclose the total points after I vote the comment.
It's interesting, the same thing drives people to piracy of other media too. Just yesterday I was discussing with a family member who just bought a Blu-Ray movie and then got the 1080p torrent rather than messing around with watching the actual disk. This way he can put it up on his Mac's 30" display which would never happen with the actual DRMed disc he bought.

I nearly came to that myself when I went to watch a Blu-Ray at my parents house and their playstation refused (or was unabled) to play it until we'd updated the system software which took 1/2 an hour. Grrrr...

Media companies need to learn that the more they push consumer unfriendly DRM, the more consumers stop feeling guilty about pirating stuff. Just from my small anecdotal sample size of people that I know, approximately 100% have no moral/ethical qualms about pirating something they already own on some other media.
The problem is that any appreciation in value will attract tax at sale. Buy for £5m, sell for £8m and there will be tax to pay on the £3m profit. If this was your only home, you wouldn't have to pay any tax.

On the flip side, if you have multiple properties it makes sense. You can also write off any maintenance, refurbishments, etc as tax deductible expenses.
it's funny. because I was actually viewing the wiki page before I saw this post. Had it open in another tab, and when I went back to it to read it I found the little surprise left by some troll.
I don't know much about the technical details of JFFS2, only that it takes forever to mount after an unclean shutdown and runs painfully, painfully slow on larger flash volumes (i.e. >512MB) as they approach capacity. I wrote a tutorial (mostly so I could remember how to do it myself) for converting a SheevaPlug from JFFS2 to UBIFS because of the performance difference: http://nitrogen.posterous.com/converting-a-sheevaplug-from-j...
This is a case of where "commander's intent" would have been useful.

"We need to ensure that the site remains up. It would be helpful to know very quickly when it goes down. I need you to write a test suite to do that."

Without the framing of knowing why something is asked for, the risk is that the work will zoom off in unexpected directions, or, just as bad, get stuck on a triviality.

Staff can do their bit by asking for intent, if the corporate culture allows it.
I am really curious what skill are those calculators teaching. I grew up in a country where they were not used, and I went to a math-oriented high school, and math grad school. We had math problems designed for paper which taught us how to think. We had math problems where we had to use advanced numeric methods, because that's what most real life problems are like. Where is the need for something in between coming from?
I am not sure if it is me being quoted here but if it is this is what I said:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431534

The point is, granted that YC will improve your chances of success, just like being on american idol will help make you a success, but most stars next year will not be from american idol or from YC.
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If I was pg I'd be closely monitoring these developments, this may make an even bigger mess of funding and financing as he mentioned in one of his latest essays.
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Disclosing/discussing your salary, while often forbidden in your employment contract, isn't enforceable in many countries.

In the US, some states have specific laws that make such clauses unenforceable (yes, even if you sign the contract). Beyond this, Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act says that you have the "right to engage in concerted activities for mutual aid and protection." The section has more pretty clear wording on just how well-protected you are.

In the UK, the Equality Act 2010 also protects such discussion/disclosure for the purpose of ensuring you aren't being discriminated against (how can women know that they are being paid less than men if they get fired for talking about salary).

I have to believe that other countries have similar laws, but you should obviously double check.

Of course, if you piss people off, they can generally get rid of you for some other infraction (or none at all). This is easier in some places (like the US with At-will employment) than others (like the UK where I'm told it's considerably harder).
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From the article: "Quick tip about “Clever Trevors” – you will always find someone in the audience who tries to show off their knowledge instead of asking a question."

Now, imagine this will happen:

You: "And in conclusion, we have found Oracle to be an excellent database for our website. Any questions?"

Trevor: "Yes, I have a question. Why didn't you use MongoDB? MongoDB is a web scale database, and doesn't use SQL or JOINs, so it's high-performance."

(The rest of the conversation can be read on http://mongodb-is-web-scale.com/)
I could buy the speed reading claims, perhaps at slightly slower rates. One of the cool things about language and our brains is you can miss letters and get order mixed up, and instantly guess what was meant with a very high rate of success.

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