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I'm in Canada if that changes anything. I do have records stating the equity position, but nothing formal. I am listed as a cofounder in various media we have floating around, from presentation vids to the biz plan, investor sheets and social media presence. The IP lawyer I talked to told me that since I'm under a contracting agreement and I haven't been paid the code is mine. The law regarding this may be different in the states. And yeah I am thinking of getting some non-dilution clauses in place for the likely possibility of an exit. Negotiating this and a licensing agreement for my library is what I think my fuzzy plan is at the moment. My concern is going down a litigation path against a much larger wallet, but I think my case is pretty strong.
You haven't understood my post at all.
1) I do not think that the British colonising India was a good thing. Indeed I even went to the trouble of using the negative word 'subjugate', instead of the neutral word 'colonise' to get the point across.
2) I certainly don't think it was a good thing for India, and I never said anything at all to suggest that I did think it was a good thing.
3) I don't have a problem with taxes. I have a problem with rich people taxing poor people and then hoarding the money. My entire post was about this. I didn't criticise the British for taxing their people, because those taxes were then re-invested to the benefit of the people. India chose not to do that, and I would argue that this is the sine qua non of a weak culture.
Thanks, I tend to agree.
Humans don't have "intrinsic" desires, and we don't have instincts

Says who? Based on what?

You are seriously underestimating one of the hardest questions ever posed and for which there is no (and there may never be) definitive answer. Tabula rasa, genetic determinism, nature vs nurture, etc are all deep, hard problems.

As a matter of fact, can you even significantly define “desire” or “instinct”?
A lot of smart people have tried in the last 2500 years and there is no consensus yet.
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I've had to get quite a few people up to speed on Git. What I've found is that for most CS-oriented people, beating around the bush is really just getting in their way. If you create the correct mental model for them, much of git becomes self evident. This isn't easy and takes a couple of days of intermitent whiteboarding but everything 'clicks' soon enough.

Big things:

Explaining that the object name (d56abc..) is really a SHA1 hash of all the contents. Git then uses this name to uniquely identify Git Objects.

Git Objects consist of: blob (file), tree (directory), commit (pointer), tag (well.. its a tag..). When you do a "git checkout" you interact with commit objects. When you do a "git ls-tree master ." you are looking at a tree object.

Branching is done by putting the following in .git/refs/heads/branch_name:
d56abc..

And a branch will always just point to a commit object.

Finally, the working directory is of very little concern to git. It has handy functions to drop some of its stuff there for you and it can tell you some differences between its HEAD and your files, but really Git begins at the Index.

+ Lots of little things.

Edit: It is always fun to do a quick 'echo "dbc123.." >> .git/refs/heads/new_branch' and show someone that that is all it takes. It really quickly shows how not-scary git is. There is a ton of complex technology that enables its awesomeness but it is a relatively simple system.
Are we now in the age of the "Articles using the word bubble to gain traction" bubble?
"and are probably rewarded with some chemical brain fix as a result"

Dopamine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine

Realizing what gives you award stimulus is important for reinforcing behavior you want and discouraging what you do not want. It is also good to know for all you app and game developers out there.
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Did you need this permit for something specific, like your insurance or for having your home address as your business address?
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Sponge learning is very good, especially when one wants to learn new vocabulary and tech jargon.
"3. Ripe for cost cutting
A company like Blackboard is bound to have a good deal of fat that can be cut. Slashing R&D funding and whatever growth spending will increase the amount of cash flow that goes to investors. My guess is they will streamline the company to be more focused on its sales force than whatever developer-base they have in place at the moment."

This is probably what will happen. And since blackboard already have a product that is widely disliked and considered very much out of date, this timely cost cutting will basically guarantee that they will not update their product as necessary and someone will eat their lunch. So that nice steady recurring revenue stream will disappear and the bank and the LBO fund will lose their money.
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It's about feeding a man vs. teaching him to find his food. All the collected wealth will vanish if we use it to feed people. People/Communities/Governments have to learn to build wealth and not live off it. Some part of this can go into making the land a better place but I think the most important use of it is to make the people proud and want to live better and build more wealth (hence standard of living). A large part of this treasure should be proudly displayed in a fantastic Museum.
Shannon's paper would be a good example of a great math paper that introduced deep, original ideas -- many of the higher-rated papers are good, but not original work.

I love reading the works of original authors. For example, there's a Dover edition of Georg Cantor's Theory of Transfinite Numbers which gives essentially the original development of ordinal numbers, which is based on (Cantor's own) development of set theory. Another original I recommend is Conway's On Numbers and Games, although that field (surreal numbers) has not been as influential. I think it's underrated.

About Lockhart's Lament: This guy sounds a bit angry about things. I'd love to see change in math education, but I'm afraid that basing it on strong negative emotions is not the best approach. In more detail, I'm not completely convinced that he's isolated the real source of trouble in the US math education system. A champion for math education reform I admire is Keith Devlin (http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_03_11.html).
Google apps users cannot currently create profiles. This is causing a bit of a problem among those of us which want to use our google apps accounts on Google+. They are looking to have this working in the coming months though.
Oh good, just what I needed. Less battery life on my phone.
This is why I'm not keep on the apps phenomenon - I'm still getting rid of DRM and I don't need more.

I'm sure there are a lot of good programs I'm missing, but (from a Debian-user's perspective) nothing is worth that sort of hassle.

The mobile market still seems bent on packaging users as the commodity. First holding them ransom to carriers (remember when people had to pay for new ringtones?!) and now to app-store dealers. Nobody makes the phone they really want to use, they make the phone they can best monetize.
Yes, sometimes the simplest solutions are the best :)
Interestingly enough, it's not the people with low skill levels that have trouble finding a job, but people with intermediary skill levels - office clerks and such.

Collecting garbage is a job that cannot be outsourced, but doing mundane paperwork can and is.
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To put a frame around this. We're expecting to be profitable within the 1st year. We think we won't need any money after this, unless it's a more strategic play and then we'll think of VCs. Our hosting/infrastructure costs are zero. (I'd give away too much info if I said how). We have several LOIs with potential customers. The CEO to be brought his last company to 500m sales (not sure of the time frame on this). We anticipate getting in this range in about 3 or 4 years barring an earlier exit. So that's the playground. Way, way out of my league.
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Only programmers that enjoy philosophy. Personally I feel the whole field is obsolete with the invention of neuroethology and similar.
Oh, I am not saying that Argentina is in a perfectly happy situation. The huge problem in economics is that you cannot really do comparative studies, but how do you think Argentina would have developed if they hadn't let their currency float freely (and as a consequence defaulted on their government debt)?

There is at least a clear correlation between defaulting and subsequent growth of the economy, and there is a very plausible theoretical reason (roughly outlined in my earlier post) that this connection is causal: defaulting and free-floating currency is what allowed Argentina to return to a path of growth.

This does not mean that things will be perfect immediately or even 10 years later. It just means that - assuming responsible economic stewardship - the country can go back to fully realizing and growing its potential.
Too late to edit, replying to save myself from the HN army...

Just because I explained how it works, dosen't mean I agree with the policy. US asset seizure and forfeiture laws suck. They are an abuse of the "war on drugs" powers in the same way that wholesale wiretapping is an abuse of the "war on terror" powers.

Stop downvoting me like I had something to do with the creation of this system!
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Ask HN: Why did the NPR "Indian treasure" story get killed?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2732429

Just wondering... Is it off-topic? Was it posted earlier this week?
I like the server-client model more, for example BitPay which uses instawallet.org (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=24452.0).

There is also mtgox vouchers-app: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25307.0

These apps use QR codes, but I think the way to go is NFC communication.

The benefit is instant transactions with server-client model, but on the downside you have to rely on 3rd party. I think it isn't that big downside, since you have always handed your money to 3rd party before bitcoin...
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Until the newly hired programmers start demanding demanding shares of your company in the interview and ask about the availability of your onsite sushi chef and masseuse we still won't be able to match the high point of the first dot.bomb era. And did I mention about companies competing to see who can through the best party?
Neurethology for one thing assumes the existence of matter, in particular neurons... It may not be your cup of tea (or mine!), but I very much doubt philosophy will ever become obsolete as long as there is a functioning mind ;-).
Word. I imagine it would take my old HTC Magic about 9 years to process the block chain. Also even though I wouldn't keep much BTC in this wallet, I don't like the idea of just storing it 'in the cloud' or whatever.
Perhaps it's a bubble ponzi scheme ;)
its nce........
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So people who want to learn from HN should not?

From what you two are saying a person like myself, who is just starting out and therefore not writing much in the way of code or blogposts, should not be reading HN because I can't join the discussion with anything but questions?

What about likeminded people discussing a topic that interests them? Is there no room for that?
I think it's safe to assume the existence of neurons.
The party room at reviews site Yelp Inc. has three beer kegs with built-in iPads to offer information about what's on tap.

Uh, do you need an iPad for that? It's a keg, you can just write 'Kilkenny' on the side in magic marker and be done with it.
"Home-based shopping will permit consumers to control manufacturing directly" - Services like Amazon have made a lot more available but the products are largely the same. The technology exists for far greater customization but the profit margin would be lower so no one has done it.

The technology to do that is 3D printing, but it's at a very early stage right now. I think they got this right in 1982 but underestimated how long it would take -- maybe because they didn't understand how much competitive manufacturing depends on scale and offshoring.
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People "liked" your anniversary?

This is why Slashdot has multiple reasons for +1/-1 mods. More flexibility.

Congrats might be appropriate, but should that count as a +1 making your update more visible? It's hard to say. Perhaps it should differ by user - being a +1 to users who tend to congratulate others.

But anyways, your experience might lead me to try G+ where I haven't tried their competitors.
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We actually prepackage a recent blockchain with the app when you download it. So it only needs to udpate the last bit the first time you run it (< 1 minute over wifi). After that future updates are near instant (a few seconds) over 3G or WiFi.
"Wallet file backed up in the cloud (synced to your Google account) in case you lose your phone." Here's hoping that the wallet is encrypted.
I do not identify as an anti capitalist by any means, but I can't help feeling a wee bit Marxy when thinking of someone in Manhattan reading the WSJ opining that an engineer getting fed by the company constitutes a perk bubble. (I also get a little Marxy about the perks themselves, as they are explicitly designed to trick twenty something into not saying what they need to say, which is "Screw the soda, it's a seller's market right now, and that offer is under market by twenty thousand dollars.")
Don't fret, my friend, It sounds like you are in a very good position to negotiate. The CEO/other members of the team do NOT want a Facebook on their hands, so it's likely that they'd want to work this out either now or later. I am not familiar with Canadian law at all, so unfortunately, I can't help you with that. But if it's anything like US law, all of those informal pieces of "evidence" would be enough to prove your equity. Remember- you have a lot of bargaining chips. You can very strategically negotiate your way to the amount of equity you deserve. Is your company incorporated in Canada or the US?
We went with QR codes for initial development because most phones still don't have NFC built in yet. I definitely agree, though. In the long term, NFC will take over. It's on the dock for future versions.

It's still early to push any cloud wallet solution for the mass market. Until any of these services build up trusted reputations, handling the transactions on the phone is the best way to go for the average user. Setting up personal servers works for nerds like us, but isn't a general enough solution.
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Am I the only one interested in mobile payment apps that let you buy real things with dollars? Are dollars suddenly that uncool?
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To be honest, I am surprised that your co-founder dares to do this before you guys go live... Everyone knows you do NOT mess with the tech co-founder, especially not pre-launch. To echo the first comment, it sounds like a toxic environment. You gotta get yourself outta there!
Fail to mention what to the government? That they got married? I'm pretty sure that's impossible to hide from the government. Especially when tax time comes around.
The entire production blockchain is 14MB right now. We keep this on the SD card of the phone. Many smartphones today have 8GB SD cards or more, so 14MB is not a big deal.

I agree though, I think a thin-client or server-client model would be better long run. There just isn't a service I'd trust with it currently.
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Very nice paper; it seems to cover datastructures used for several different algorithms.
I've only glanced at it so far, as it is quite long. I noticed in 1.1.5 "Correctness" that it discusses equivalency of locking, sequential non-locking and combining tree methods. This is the bread and butter that I'm personally looking for, but it appears that the paper doesn't do any more than just mention methods that are used for proving correctness and equivalency.
Can anyone recommend some good resources that delve into that topic?
I'd also love to read about mapping high-level concurrency to low-level locking primitives, and specifically how to prove correctness. Again. :D
Brilliant software... have been waiting for this.

One obvious question: is there anything to prevent someone from repackaging this, as it's open source, and modifying it to rob folks?
We make no guarantees about the security of the backup. This is beta software :)
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That seems a little insane. How about a "we stop subsidizing breeders" policy? The rest of society no longer subsidizes and cares for your mistakes and desperate need to hump without a rubber and if you want to have a kid (just like if you want to own a car or a boat or a home or a pool table), you have to be able to afford it.

I'm not for government involvement in things, so I'm hesitant to suggest they be taxed additionally for having children, but it's certainly reasonable to stop encouraging them to breed when they can't even afford rent as it is.
but how much of that is the interpreter's fault?

I know I can't run typhoeus + thin on 1.9.2 on OSX as it reliably crashes every ten minutes and I have no clue on how to debug it, but it is not a problem with the interpreter, it's a problem with external libraries.
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I don't know this guy, but he looks Indian?

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Curious myself. It's a fascinating story. I had a post titled "Rejected by YCombinator, Accepted by Kickstarter" which got renamed.

Kinda makes me sad inside.
Well, those will come maybe in couple of years I guess. Banks/Payment processors etc. are generally very slow to innovate on new technology, so I think we won't see dollar-based payment-app very soon.

I think the biggest reason why bitcoin is so fast to innovate is that there is no barrier to entry, which means that anyone can create bitcoin android client. But if you want to create dollar-based android payment software, you have to be either visa or mastercard, or some big bank.
And it's your opinion that AOL failed because of that!?

I'd argue that AOL failed despite that.

(i've never really used AOL)
Thanks for posting the link, I was about to ask.
Another great prediction of the rise of electronic commerce way back in 1967 from the Harvard Business Review archives.
Including an amazing illustration.

http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/hbreditors/2011/03/hbr_predicts_the...
Olalonde: it has been posted before, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2728999
You know what this'd be great for? Narrative puzzles. Imagine if Planetarium (http://www.beholder.co.uk/planetarium/) had had access to this technology.
Several already exist.

There are barriers to entry, such as laws; Bitcoin simply ignores them. Without real merchants, Bitcoin is useless to me no matter how fast it innovates. And even if it were useful, it's still [going to be] illegal.