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I've done 2 set of interviews, and I'm not bitter.

I wasn't impressed with their process the first time, but the second time (2 years later) was a lot better.
This makes me wonder if the way linux repositories are done is the better way - take comments out of the repository altogether.
What's wrong with googling for "reviews of X" to find a review?
Is it worse than the one-sided view the existing comment systems present?
Actually I would argue that your traveling experience is exactly what made you aware of the opportunity of living a decent life right there at home, and if you never had such experiences you probably would not value your current situation as much.
Sounds like a splendid idea. Not sure if I'll be at TCD this year but if I am I'll be sure to check it out.
There. You nailed it. I was thinking back of my mind while reading TFA - where have I a heard something similar in style to this before?
Here's a short video from Audience about how the technology works. Audience calls the technology "earSmart." The video turns to fluff about halfway through.

http://www.audience.com/about/earSmart-introduction.php

My big question now is: can it work with an in-ear headset and microphone? I like to leave the phone in my pocket or on my desk and use my headphones + mic while calling.
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A colleague of mine signed up for an MLM a few years ago (He was broke at the time). He put massive effort into it and now makes more than $50K per month pretty much without working.

Would I do it? No. Do I recommend it? No. Can it work? Absolutely.
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It's also important to note that almost every self help guru has a sad story about their former lives, then goes on to tell you how they used their 'system' to pull themselves out of it. This post is a classic example of that type of storytelling.
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It's not a "Get rich quick". It's a "quit your job and do independent work", which is a pretty common idea amongst HN members, I think.
Although I'm certain HN has been gamed in the past (search through the top results on searchyc for high traffic blogs and you'll notice a trend, and high upvotes with very few and completely worthless comments -- the effect of a content-less post), but in this case I'm not so sure.

I keep a hawkeye out whenever I see a post from a top blog on HN's frontpage, shit like this problogger, smashingweb, and mashable which are always either contentless diatribes or a bizarre summary of a link that's at the bottom of the post. There's a specific name for these types of posts but I forget exactly what. Anyways, this poster has a history if submitting from these major blogs anyways, so I think it's just a case of him/her being subscribed to their feeds.

The truly worrying part is seeing it with 100+ upvotes on the frontpage. That's not a good sign.
If I may ask, why did you give it up?
+1 and, at least for some of us from Latin America, it's not just US/Canada but pretty much anywhere.

I can work from anywhere with an Internet connection but because of immigration laws I couldn't just move to any country I want. Europe has pretty strict laws, same with the US/Canada.

Unless you have money to invest in a country or are employed by a company there, they won't let you stay there except for a 90 day tourist visa.
They'll need to explain really strongly why it's not, then, because that'll be all most people will think.
How did this app for iPhone got accepted when the Bitcoin app was rejected ?
My guess is that they fear vendor responses would turn the review system into a noisy discussion/support forum. This would be distracting, possibly intimidating, and require costly moderation. These are reasonable concerns.

Keep in mind that the purpose of the review system is to make the exceptional apps float to the top. The rest of the apps don't matter much to the store.

In Apple's store, you can provide plenty of text and a support link. And you get a fresh rating when you update.

When I write a review, I am typically not looking for a response. When I am, I contact the developer directly.
> If you could buy/sell Beiber or Gaga this system might actually work.

Hollywood Stock Exchange:

http://www.hsx.com/search/?keyword=bieber&status=ALL&...

http://www.hsx.com/search/?keyword=gaga&status=ALL&a...
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PlayAlong.com

Can't tell how much it'll cost, but it's just parked there for now. The name is like "Come, play along with me!"
I'm assuming it's not... But... doesn't this sound like slavery? Especially if you are an engineer who joins the startup and has no significant say in who you get acquired by... My guess is that you could just walk away but lose any promise of some kind of substantial pay. What's the deal?
He's not telling people to do exactly what he did, that's obviously not going to work; it doesn't take a genius to realize that.

He's saying that you can do independent work (aka "indie") and still get a damn good income that may even surpass your "job" income (depends on how hard you work and how dedicated you are).

It's not really all that different from what PG writes in his essays. PG is just more specific "do a startup", this guy's post is more general "go indie".

I don't think he ever intended to imply it's some sort of "magic"; he clearly says it's hard work and there will be time where you'll want to quit, which is also something that PG says.

> While some level of motivation is necessary to kick start action, too much motivation is a crippling addiction that turns individuals into self-help cult members who follow every move of their marketing guru.

Same could be said about this community. A bunch of people who follow the PG cult of "quit your job and come to YC and get rich". While some of them do indeed succeed and get rich; the majority don't. (just playing the devil's advocate here)
Fair enough. Thanks for the insight. I just saw 3 comments and 50+ upvotes and it seemed fishy.
In the local Twin Cities startup scene I have seen several .NET startups. But rather than make me question my feelings about .NET it has made me question the local tech scene. (FWIW a lot of these are around medicine, which may be a healthcare IT culture instead of an internet culture)
"Here's a guy for whom I spent 6 months working for free and now he's threatening to sue me" is not a sweet opener. This kind of client is very hard to find a replacement for.
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Thanks. I'd love to know how you disagree, though.
I think he is telling people to do exactly what he did. He has products talking about 'money making' and 'guest blogging', and the conclusions that he draws at the end tell you almost exactly what to do to be like him.

Also if you read my comment you will notice I said the people who resonate with these posts are susceptible to magical thinking. I didn't directly say that there is magical thinking in the post, other than he seems to believe strongly in positivity being the key to success.

I do agree about HN being very cult like. There is an ideology in play here, if you post things that agree with the ideology you are upvoted, if you disagree with it you are downvoted. The positive reinforcement is right there. Over time users learn what comments will lead to upvotes, and thus they change their thinking to match.
You said it yourself: you did it for many years before you got over it. Just because you won't do it again doesn't mean it's not something worth doing. People say the same thing about startups.
Ask HN: Another Equity Question
Hi HN, I would greatly appreciate your advice regarding my situation.

Sometime back, I was offered 7.5% starting equity going up to 10% (beta go-live) by a start-up. The start-up consisted of one Business and one Technical guy who were working on the idea part-time for a few months before they contacted me. An equity only offer was made to me and it involved no salary. The plan was for the three of us to continue to keep our day jobs and continue building the site part-time. Before the offer, I was shown mockups of the proposed site and informed that the back-end was already done, and that I was to build the front-end for the site. I accepted the offer based on two considerations: a) Based on my estimation of the effort to realize the mockups shown, b) Based on the back-end of the site already being done (I was expected to do a simple presentation layer that needed to be added on top of it to access the functionality).

However, over the next 5 months, the mockups that I was shown were changed substantially and the effort that I had initially estimated increased by a factor of 3 (or more). Additionally, almost all of the back-end of the system which was supposedly done, now completely needed to be reworked.

At the time of the offer I had inquired as to what the equity break-up was and had not received a clear answer. But, the project sounded exciting, the two guys looked strong in terms of the value they added to the company, the back-end of the system seemed to have already been built and the 7.5% to 10% equity sounded reasonable for the effort. However, with how things progressed over the next 5 months, I started questioning if the equity break-up was really fair.

I let them know my concerns and also tried determining what the current equity break-up of the company was (how much between the two guys, how much set aside for investors, option pool etc). The reason behind this question was for me to determine if I really wanted to continue in a setup where I was doing as much work as anyone else, came in at the same stage in the company as the other two guys, faced the same risks and still only got 10% while they shared 45% and 45% between them.

However, I was told that the equity break-up was confidential and was only something that was discussed between the "founders" and the "board of directors" and it was inappropriate for an "employee" to know.

So, I quit. I want to learn from this experience. Did I do the right thing?
I'm surprised no one linked to this, it being HN and all: http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html
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Thanks for the copy. Cybertrust Inc., currently a subsidiary of Verizon, signed the VA's certificate and appears to be a legitimate CA; is there any particular reason why that certificate authority did not ship with my (very) recent Firefox?
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>Turning to domestic affairs, I wouldn't call China's policies nuanced either. Maybe draconian? Their one-child-per-family policy, their restrictions on speech and travel, their widespread confiscation and displacement, (I could go on) I would call evil, not nuanced.

I used to feel the same way until I visited China last year. Their social restrictions really are nuanced! They allow a lot of freedom to the rich/intelligentsia of appropriate ethnic groups and restrict the "restive" segments of their population. A lot of care has gone into the system by which their government maintains control while simultaneously trying to maximize growth and material comfort. It's not just naked oppression.
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Another issue that needs to be considered for this initiative to meet its goal (which I assume is to install a professional engineering/applied sciences base in NYC) is where these people will work once they receive their educations. Tech is on the rise in NYC, no doubt, but it's too soon to call it a long-term trend. Fin Services will continue to consume the majority of the talent for the distant, yet foreseeable future. Academia alone won't make this goal a reality.
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Unicorn has never done that to me. For production use, that makes the decision really easy
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What a needlessly contemptuous article.
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You mean by providing users old and/or crappy movies classified as "new" ?
Many compagnies can execute better (better ipad app, better website, better streaming), Amazon, Google, Redbox.
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The simple answer is that they think of you as an employee. And you aren't being paid. If you dont feel your cut is fair (and based on what you are saying it looks like thats the case), you should quit and feel no qualms about it.

Treat it like an employment situation. If your job was bad, there's no reason to continue working there.
Not to mention that young kids will watch shows over and over and over again. When my daughter (now 11) was that age, we mostly used DVDs, but these days netflix would be a fabulous investment for meeting that need.
I suppose the meaning of "tech" is somewhat subjective, but to me it seems like most of the companies mentioned purely provide a platform or a service to consumers or businesses, largely with the motivation of selling a consumer something.

I guess I hoped there would be some cool startup working on non-linear optics that I've never heard of, or some bioinformatics startup changing the way we do medicine. Research spin-offs, I guess. I understand there's a lot more intellectual overhead in some of these things, and maybe they just aren't as glamorous or something, but I was hoping to see something along those lines.
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Well... many of the problems people are listing seem to apply to other door styles as well (like a minivan's big sliding door, or a two-door car), and actually aren't noticeable problems there.

It's a bit too easy to get caught up in shooting down ideas, I think.

Here's a shot at spinning it positively:

- if you have kids in the back, no need to worry they're going to open their own door while you're doing 75 on the highway (sure, there are child safety locks... are you sure the little switch is where you think it is? If you ever carry adults in the back, or once your kids notice there's an interesting little switch there, it probably isn't)

- tight parking spaces; you (or your child) will never ding another car again while opening a door! I'm also frequently in super-narrow parking garage spaces, where it can take some creative gymnastics to squeeze through the door, particularly because I have to get a baby from a rear-facing carseat in the back of a 2-door hatchback That highlight in the video looked pretty appealing to me -- this is a frequent annoyance. I also have a nice little dent on my own door (the only dent on the car...) where someone banged my door with theirs in a parking lot, and left without leaving a note. These are pretty common use cases.

- Raining? Zing open the big door (and pop open a big umbrella or two) and let everyone get out at the same time, quickly and easily, helping each other without dodging around four large wet pieces of metal jutting out of the side of the car -- you can even hop out of the back seat to help your grandma out of the front without a big, wet, dirty door in between you.

I'm not sure I want these doors -- to be sure, there'd be a price premium, and there may be other downsides I haven't seen yet -- but I'd consider it, with or without a map pocket (er, they could have one with a closing lid, I suppose).
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Engineers are notoriously the most anti-social and lacking in etiquette of almost all professionals. Anti-social behavior is what drives most of us into engineering in the first place.

Engineers also prefer data to hokey stereotypes and sweeping generalities. Got some?
I haven't had time to review his portfolio and decide if he's worth it, but that is not too pricey. The fact that you wouldn't pay $100 for it does not mean it's without value.

Everybody here can code a nice landing page? I see thread after thread of Hackers saying "Hey! I don't don't know much about design, where do I start?" or "Where can I find an affordable skilled designer?". If your user interface / design skills (as well as HTML & CSS code) are truly up to par, congratulations, but there are many here who are not.

If you prefer to work through things on your own and wouldn't consider paying $100 for a professional designer's time, that's fine, it's your choice. Posting that this is too pricey is an extreme fallacy and in my opinion, required correction.
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We were talking about opening the hood, which is where the battery usually is.
I built something similar a while back (http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com/ if you're curious), for iOS I found that the easiest way to set up bookmarklets is to add them on the desktop (Safari or IE) and then sync to the phone. At the time bookmarklets didn't work on Android so we ended up making a native app (I think you have to register for the "share text" intent, it's been a while).
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Just to counter the negative bias :)

I had an awesome hiring experience. Extremely responsive recruiter (I understand that's not always the case given the number of temps). Took me two weeks from on site to getting an offer.
Everyone I referred so far had a similar experience.
Beyond watching the same thing over and over again, his tastes will change suddenly. We've gone through a phase where he was into nothing but Toy Story, followed shortly by Cars, then back to Toy Story, then Thomas, and now back to Cars. We aren't purchasing nearly as many DVDs as I had anticipated because he's perfectly happy watching Hero of the Rails or Misty Island Rescue another time and both are streaming. By having a variety of kids shows available we are also saving quite a bit on disc replacement costs. He can work the PS3 but doesn't really get that touching the bottom of the $30 Bluray discs is not a good idea.
I don't think you even read the article properly, you just went into a knee jerk "OMG ADVERTISING!!! DIE DIE DIE!!!" mode.

Quoted for truth:

" Every day, I get emails from students who say my advice has changed their writing. Every day, I get emails from clients who say my strategies have changed the way they do business."
Google should create a turbo-charged version of Docs that requires Chrome, Firefox 4, or other sufficiently advanced browser. If Linux can boot in a browser, Google can make a much better spreadsheet for people on better browsers.

Like Chrome, they can offer a different channel. It might even encourage people to install Firefox/Chrome.
I don't believe in "pretty much without working" part.
I'm pretty sure he's still working pretty hard.

Anyway, I see your point and agree with it.
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I don't know anything about their recruiters, but in my own experience with other companies, the recruiters know eff-all about what is really required for the job.
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Hey buddy, I get that you're excited about your company, KyMaLabs. Three links to your own blog over the span of four minutes will come across as a little spammy to many folks, though.
I guess my pattern recognition skill is coming from weeding out MLMs postings from my job board.
folds would increase the surface area at the expense of a small amount of volume...

Why would increasing the surface area increase intelligence? Is it to increase the amount of contact with the surrounding medium? (Fluid?)

I thought current ideas about intelligence were about the number of connections between neurons?
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What about the opposite end of the spectrum? Say I'm comfortable with avr-gcc and I took half of an electrical engineering major in college: what environment and hardware should I use instead of Arduino?

(I've looked at the AVR stuff on sparkfun before, and it is expensive and crappy compared to Arduino. I've built stuff with the Teensy. But I really want the ability to cheaply "mass produce" if necessary, but don't want to build everything myself.)
They're going to.
In order for you to have an argument here you need to demonstrate how I 'read the article improperly'.
Skype has 13% of calls. It has lots of connections to the various different telephone networks all around the world. MS bought the largest telecommunications company. MS wants into telecommunications in a big way.

Skype has a product that corporate users want - voip/conference calls/video conferencing. MS has access to that market, which Skype did not really have.

Skype has a massive user base(663 million registered users as of 2010). These users also have contact lists - business, friends, and family. Think of these social connections in a user base larger than facebook. MS wants more into social.

Skype has a massive amount of peoples credit cards on file, and agreements with those people.

Skype has a huge botnet(110 million+ active nodes). Many of the computers running Skype process data, and use their internet pipe for Skype. Remember Skype is a P2P network.

The Skype brand is quite strong, and is something people like. MS needs to buy into brands like Skype, which people love - since many people hate the MS brand.

Then there is the raw talent they are buying. These are some seriously good hackers, and business people.

I think MS got Skype for a great price.
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They might also have problems keeping the "BASF" people that somehow managed to get in anyway. If hiring is job 1, retention probably should be job 0.

(BTW, your internal epitaph was posted as requested. Hope things are well with you...)
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I'm sure people on HN also know folks who won the lottery after playing it for years. The odds are still well and truly against you. Very few benefit, mostly the manufacturers of the dream.
I don't have much empirical evidence one way or the other, but we went with it basically to reduce the number of moving parts. Although it could be argued that Passenger is only one moving part anyway, with its ability to install Nginx for you...
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Almost ready for primetime. Keep up the good work Google.