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Any nontrivial organization around for a sufficient period of time will end up with a collection of old servers running various apps. The accounting system. The document management solution purchased 5 years ago. The sprinker system. The program that's needed to recover data from the old backup tapes that everyone hopes will never be needed. And so on.

Many of these apps can never be migrated to newer OSes, nor can they be switched off (yet). These are often good candidates for virtualization.

A hypervisor running n Windows instances, each of which running one MS server product is an ideal situation for MS.

OK. But in the real world we deal with systems other than the ideal situation for MS.
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short hairstyles typically place on immediately.many women a suitable hairstyle is a personal statement and very much a big problem, which is why daily drawing rooms in the whole world are with women in search of up to hair ideas and pictures of hairstyles cut and style forms her hair at some time chock-full explains newer, shorter and more freshly.
You should have read what those pseudo-reactor-experts wrote, maybe then you'd unserstand what they were trying to say.
jsprinkles - Just looked at your pyramid. So are your attacks ad hominem or name calling? You definately are not at the refuting the central point section. I laid out an argument why that is true, you have failed to address it at all. I maintain that it would be the biggest win for liberty since those events. Can you think of a better example?

And yes. I am being serious.
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Well, it's more like:

They started digging a hole for fun in their backyard. Then the Army Corps of Engineers showed up, gave them some cash, and told them to divert the Mississippi.
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Business is business, but is it good business?

If the OP is genuinely happy with the job itself

If your tech lead is using the word "stupid" to describe their loyalty, I'd say it's bad business. Note that the OP is not wondering whether they're underpaid or under-equitized, or any other in-kind value judgement, they're already past that. It's now a matter of pulling a simple switch and bailing into a seller's market. Competent C-levels avoid this situation, especially in a startup environment where the midstream boatchanging of technical leadership can have painful consequences.

It's irresponsible for a company leader to exploit a crucial employee who can learn the truth about their situation, not that letting the launch slip by a year doesn't already mark them as possibly-incompetent. I can't recall if it's Fred Brooks or something possibly-apocryphal, but the rule of thumb that I've heard is that schedules slip by the units the milestone is measured. If the deadline is "two months from now," the schedule will slip by two-month periods. Slipping by a year? The business may not even get off the ground. I realize that it may have slipped by a year in two month increments (e.g.), but in hindsight the company's momentum sure doesn't look healthy.

In your solution he's got to spend a bunch of his spare time applying for jobs first, which could all be a waste of time

Pure FUD.

If they're petty enough to be asses now, they'll be petty enough to be asses in the future.

True that.
Until someone sues you for patent infringement. You have enough opensource stuff out there they wouldn't even need to look hard for it.
I don't know if Ramsey's theorem really says anything as grand about disorder as Maxwell's demon and the like, but it does express something quantitative about the existence of subsets containing some specific properties as the size of the graph increases.

For me, Ramsey's theory is particularly interesting its rare that an open problem in mathematics can be explained to anyone with relatively little background in mathematics or logic for that matter. Mathematicians have discovered some bounds on R(n), but an exact solution looks like its no where in sight.
Actually I went to West Point and served in the Army, so I've dealt with the government. Bitcoins would not likely be a big, significant part of any income anyway.

I would recommend taking a look at the pyramid again.
Definitely need a solid base before moving forward. Personality, chemistry etc are everything. I think these are readily fleshed out in a weekend though. There was one dude who kinda self excluded himself.
Not sure if we are ready for roles yet. Like a vinn diagram many of us overlap, in a good way. The equity discussion should be fun. Any recommendations? What worked for you?
The title here is both a direct quote from the essay as well as the title given to the essay by the author when he shared it on twitter:

http://twitter.com/ftrain/status/69952439767404544
I'm about 45 miles south of the launch pad. We watched it go up this morning and came in once it had disappeared into the sky (far higher than this video as we had a clearer view). Once we came back in and I sat down at my desk, the sound finally hit us, some 3.4 minutes after take off. It was still powerful enough to feel. I couldn't imagine being that close to one.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/640805/open-source-ios-co...
Yup. The quasi-official policy at some places I've worked is that engineers are not to browse the patent database, for exactly that reason.

Ironic, given one of the original primary reasons for the patent system.
Texas passed such a bill last week, and others are hoping to take it nation-wide. I'm skeptical on the latter.

http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/235348-loser-pays-bill-pas...

http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/235498-texas-lawmaker-prop...
Looks interesting, thanks.
On the flip side, I know people that took pay cuts to work for Google and never regretted it. Culture, work environment, and coworkers are worth something, and it's up to you to figure out how much they're worth to you and decide accordingly.
I great example of the trouble someone had to go to prove they were first is the ABC computer. It's an important case if you consider that without John Atanasoff the personal computer would never have existed. At the time IBM and some other corp I can't remember the name held some important patent on memory and other things that would prevent anyone from creating a personal computer without paying IBM. Those patents which had come from the creators of ENIAC were later found to have been heavely (well in reality stolen) from the ABC computer. After years of battles, IBM lost the patents and right after that the PC came to be.

For a worse horror story, just take a look at Farnsworth trouble with RCA about the TV patents.
'Filter Bubble': The consequences of being isolated in a Web of one
In my experience you can mitigate this effect quite a bit by placing the "loopback" video window of yourself (with Skype) directly under the camera at the top of the screen while also full screening the incoming video.
It makes sense. Your example with "Brown" is interesting, but it might be more relatable if you expand the use case a little more. Explain why you are trying to find related files in this case. That sort of thing.

Also, it seems as though topic labels are still have drawbacks... like if I don't add a topic label called "Brown" to related files, Im in the same boat as if I search for brown... actually I might be worse off.

Maybe automatically tagging files in certain directories with topic labels would alleviate that.
>why do employees agree to it?

A lot of people take what they can get.
The State of the iPhone 5: No NFC, maybe an Edge-to-Edge display?
"...and I think it's good that they're trying to get a decent foundation in place before they go all over trying to market."

I'd argue they shot their load well before they even wrote a line of code.
Because it gives you a chance to see if you like working for/with this company/person. Typically in an interview you don't meet with or talk to everyone you will be working with. You might find out 2 weeks in that the guy sitting next to you is someone you just can't work with long term. Better to do that knowing that you can leave anytime and continue the search than have to start all over from square one.

By doing a contract basis for a bit it lets both sides 'test the waters'.

With that said, it's not for everyone. I myself prefer it.
From http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/autor-autor/

> ...the influential analysis of Autor, Levy, and Murnane a few years later, which argued that the crucial difference in terms of possible replacement of humans by machines was one of routine versus non-routine, rather than white-collar versus blue-collar, and that computerization was if anything likely to increase demand for some “low-skill” occupations and reduce demand for some traditionally well-paying white-collar jobs:
This is not a "signaling" issue, it is hugely important. One of the few industries that has been generating tons of innovation and jobs over the last 20 years is under constant attack from stupid patents, but you think that is less important than banning flag burning?
Ask HN: Can we all stop saying "dead simple"?
It's a bizarre expression and jarring for people who are dealing with actual death.
I know what you were trying to say, but "doesn't come close to the radiation released by the thousands of atomic bomb tests" isn't exactly the way to calm people about the amount of radiation leaked.
The fact that people need to hire lawyers is a frictional cost.
.... and, the incident at Fukushima was magnified by the safety features' reliance on active, powered cooling. Current reactor designs are capable of passive cooling, without external power, and would cause even less damage than this.
I don't totally agree with this. If you shift from big company to startup, you'll almost certainly have to take a pay cut, but usually you're doing this in exchange for seniority and equity. I wouldn't agree with a blanket statement that you should never take a lower-salary job.
Sigh, I really wish Apple steps in to weed out such frivolous patents.
When should a dev/startup be worried about IP research?
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A bit of money put together with croudsourcing (or doing it yourself - it would take about 2:46 hours) would beat this.
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Your example suffers from the fact that it is not an example for anything. It's just a special case and it's incorrect on top of that. The example he gives shows the power of lambdas and the generalized concept of sequences perfectly well.
> If you don't get patent protection you are left with (a) trade secret (b) copyright.

You forgot "(c) First-mover advantage"[1], which is historically very effective at rewarding innovators.

Without our current patent system, I'm fairly confident innovators would come up with clever ways of capitalizing on their ideas despite those ideas being easy to duplicate. Of course, it wouldn't be a perfect system either, but in my opinion a much better one.

PS: Up voted you as I believe you are making and interesting point which is worth debating. I wish people would stop down voting comments they disagree with.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage
I'm not criticising the project, just detailing my account. I just wish they actually read my email, at least...
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> The capability of modelling a physical system with math does not mean that physical systems are math.

It's the modeling of physical systems that its patented, not the physical object itself. Those patents usually protect the inventor from people creating any number of variations on their exact design because it's the approach to solving a particular problem that is being patented.

I think there are a lot of people who take an absolute position against software patents and end up going through all sorts of contortions to differentiate between why ideas in the physical realm should be protected and ideas in the software realm should not.

That said, I certainly agree that most software patents are far too obvious and not deserving of any sort of protection. The challenge, of course, is how to fix the system to afford protections to real innovators and not to those who simply connect the dots.
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What an abstract collection of words. This post doesn't contain a single tangible sentence.

"We are working on an outline of what we have learnt so far, and where we see Diaspora going in the next year."

Right.
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And yet tens of thousands of people are dead because they couldn't flee the wall of water, so the tsunami was a disaster, the damage to the nuclear plant was not.

And what about the 70,000+ people in the 20km evacuation radius who have no idea when or if they'll be able to return to their contaminated homes? (or even bury their dead) You're going to tell them Fukushima Daiichi is not a disaster?

At least the people who fled the tsunami are able to rebuild on that land.
Maybe he's stretching the truth a bit to make a point, but his point is a very good one.

Look at fusion research: can we say even now which of tokamaks, laser inertial confinement, Focus, Polywell, magnetized target fusion, sonofusion, and even cold fusion is likeliest to produce results? I know lots of people have opinions, but the fact is, we don't know. And yet look at the funding profile: we've placed a huge bet on ITER, a smaller one on NIH, and by comparison, practically nothing on any of the others. This is not the right way to do basic research -- particularly not when it's this important.
Nor does that view generally represent reality. Quite a few libraries are fighting for digital version of books to be allowed for lending and the publishers are pushing back. In some cases if a library has a digital copy they can only lend it out to a single person at at time, and are only allowed to purchase a single copy.
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The purpose of a patent system and the purposes of people using a patent system are two different things. The first one might motivate lawmakers; but it is the second one that actually matters.

Do you honestly believe there is such a problem with sharing innovation in the software industry, that we need government intervention to encourage sharing?
Show HN: My side project, a RESTful API to create authentications for your apps
try_files allow you to use a named location as the final argument as opposed to a file path. This means you can have

location /static_files {
try_files $uri @fallback;
}

location @fallback {
expires 30d;
}
These dude are always there to spoil the party. Don't give/commit any equity upfront. Workout chemistry, commitment level,start building a real world product and on the way distribute equity amongst those who stays with you along the path. We know how we built products in startup weekend :).
I dunno, the concept seems rather foreign to the person I replied to.

In the general case, for the overwhelming majority of people, things that work are more important than things that are ideologically pure.
But the point is not Diaspora, the point is distributed social networking.

Diaspora is raising awareness, it's bootstraping a movement around it, and it's contributing to the technology required to make distributed social networking possible (protocols, algorithms).

Perhaps they'll be the Hurd of social networking. So long as there's a Linux, I say let them be the Hurd.
If you ever stopped by #nginx on Freenode you'd be told multiple times per day. :)
Nokia is still the biggest phones maker and it still dominates the market for low-end mobile phones ... the brand itself is still very valuable, with subsidized Nokia phones selling like crazy in Europe. They are also full of patents related to mobiles, being the one company that can kick Apple's ass in that area (does anybody know what happened with Nokia versus Apple?)

If Microsoft purchased Nokia and they would play their cards right, they could build a really credible competitor to the iPhone, with total control of the stack. They could also sell these phones through their huge network of partners, subsidized (as they did with the XBox), but without a 2-years contract.

Basically - subsidized high-quality WM 7 phones without 2 year contracts + Skype preloaded == the bomb, and if Microsoft did this ... holly shit !

BUT, I'm not seeing Microsoft doing it. And if they'd do it, chances are they are going to screw everything because of internal politics.
Show HN: Super-size your Twitter audience. Simple afternoon project.
Paul Biggar On Why Y Combinator-backed NewsTilt Was Shutdown
Check out vps.net. They take a few minutes to come up, but are billed by the minute. However, when you create a vm, they bill you for the remainder of the month up front. When you destroy the vm, you are given an account credit for your unused time.
Adam Curtis documentary trailer: "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"
A little crass, but agreed.

That actually bothers me a bit. You do work as part of an interview, aren't offered a job, and aren't compensated for the work done, but the interviewing company gets to keep and use the work. I'm assuming the applicant would have had to sign something to that effect at the beginning of the interview process, but it just feels like a raw deal to me.
This is a cool site -- great start! I would like to make a couple of suggestions:

1. don't just focus on exercise, include an "eat healthy" component too (maybe based on both calories and general healthy food attributes)

2. Find a way for user goals. Maybe a "self directed quest" is required for any given level, be it lose X pounds, or reach Y bench weight.

3. Find a way to keep stats for people and show them graphs of improvement (or otherwise), not just levels, but attributes :)

Keep up the good work.
I knew this comment looked familiar.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2543642
That's beyond ridiculous. Not even Ballmer is _that_ stupid.
IMHO the title of the blog is incorrect. What he is saying is that he never hires anyone fulltime without at least working with the person on a project, and not that he doesn't interview.

Since, think about it, how did he find the person who will do the project in the first place, especially if there were multiple applicants.
Unless of course the blogger is also saying that he never posts a job and only works through reference, which defeats the entire argument anyway.
Couldn't disagree more. Sure, as a society of wanna-be/successful code entrepreneurs, we are more likely to be affected by this issue. But that doesn't mean the issue isn't substantive. It is more accurate to say that the majority of people outside of our "tribe" are simply unaware of patents and the type of burden it places on innovative thinking. Your argument essentially points to software patents being a non-issue. If that were true, we wouldn't be seeing well written websites taken down or extorted through the patent system.

I'm not just flag burning here. Privacy might be a better issue to put into the "tribal affiliation" buckets as I have heard of few real instances where privacy actually harmed a real person (I'm talking about stuff like google tracking your searches). As a developer, there is a real chance you will get sued over patents, and if you do there will be real damage done.
I buy the argument that software is math and thus unpatentable. My experience has also been that most software patents (and especially always the most notorious) are trivial applications of an algorithm to some subject area.

But here's a more pragmatic argument.

The current patent system exists to provide financial incentive to bring the number of inventors in an untouched area from 0 to 1.

It is completely broken wherever it brings the number of innovators in an emerging area from 50 to 1.

The first case is probably true in any industry with high startup costs and unproven technology. The second case is true of software and services on the still young, still evolving internet, with low technological barriers to entry and fertile soil as far as the eyes can see.

If we want to see what innovators are really capable of, we'll get rid of software patents and watch them duke it out in the market.
This is true :)

The most significant thing made apparent by this nuclear disaster, personally, has been how carefully authorities are forced to step around an uneducated public and a wild, hysterical mass media. How can we ever have transparency and full disclosure while the press are inclined to behave this way?
La Societé Nokia va abandonner la marque Ovi
Le premier fabricant mondial de téléphones portables en volumes avait lancé cette marque - sous laquelle sont notamment proposés un service de cartographie et une plate-forme de téléchargement de musique - en 2007, alors qu'il dominait le secteur de la téléphonie mobile, avec une part de 40% du marché des combinés.
http://www.amazon.com/Logo-Lettering-Bible-Leslie-Cabarga/dp...

This is the most "no BS" design book ever, with absolutely zero fluff and maximum good information per page.
I read it. By and large it was "don't worry, this won't be another Chernobyl because the control rods went in and shut down the reaction and the cores don't contain flammable graphite".

So, yeah, it wasn't Chernobyl, it wasn't TMI, it was its own Fukushima Daiichi style of meltdown disaster better in some ways and worse in others.

But the many experts and analysts who went on record early saying this wasn't going to be a major disaster and that it was a "victory for nuclear engineering" were flatly proven wrong and it reveals the blind pro-nuclear bias in their thinking.
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Sorry to be blunt, but it's because you don't understand how reactors are built, and what they are built to withstand.

All reasonably modern reactors are built so that the reactor containment vessel completely contains the nuclear fuel, even during a period of full meltdown.

Even some basic cursory research on your part will help you understand the whys and hows.
"Personality, chemistry etc are everything. I think these are readily fleshed out in a weekend though. "

If you met a girl/guy and had one awesome weekend - would you believe you've figured each other out enough to commit to marriage?

People are complex. Walking in with optimism is great but with a blind-eye to respecting the complexity of human nature may be unwise. In every social dynamic there are storming stages and if the relationships aren't strong you simply won't survive the storm. Or at least, most probably won't.

The next step seems clear to me though. Keep communication levels within your team high and find customers. Avoid the rocks and keep your eye on the prize. Welcome to the fray.
I see a point made in this article (and other comments in this thread) that I'd like to semi-debunk: it's a widely held opinion that deviating from the "web/entertainment" track is too difficult and full of BS you'd have to deal with, but this argument is a complete and utter cop-out.

Innovation is a concept that sits above that; if people don't aim to get above the difficulty/BS barrier, nobody ever will, and innovation will never happen in those areas. Yes, maybe Silicon Valley isn't the area to do innovative work in the nuclear sector, but there is absolutely no reason that we couldn't see more startups based around furthering education, or helping to solve homeless problems, or any number of real world problems that we all see and deal with on a daily basis.

The companies that actually try and change the world around us deserve massive amounts of respect, and we should be glorifying them far more than we do (and far more than the startups we generally see discussed). So many of them won't make it but at least they tried to do something worthwhile to the world around us instead of releasing yet another photo sharing app for a smartphone.