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A lot of discussion around dilution ignores the important aspect of the number of founders.

If you are a single founder, you might want to raise more money to hire a larger team and you would be fine with greater dilution since you own a bigger chunk to begin with. You are still going to own a meaningful stake even after the extra dilution.

If you are a team with 4 founders you need to be extra careful with dilution.

I find it strange that the standard advice on dilution often ignores this important aspect.
Can I look forward to a Google thorium salt reactor in the near future?
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I was replying to the "massive" part. But yes, you're right, and I wish more websites would do that.
:'( I'm so, so sorry. Len was an amazing man.
Given that prime frequency is around ln(n) on average, and that nineless frequency is around .9^log_10(n) (log-exponentially low, or whatever the right terminology is), this isn't actually that surprising when you think about it.
I cannot stress this more. Portfolios speak volumes, and if you have yet to start on a project with your new found skills the obvious course of action would be to create your own to start with.

When I was starting out with Python I wished to work with Django projects, so I thought myself the framework. Then I created my first web app in Django, http://www.cvstash.com, and with it I scored a couple of Django projects just by showing it. Now I work full time. If I'm going to switch technologies or would like to get some freelance gigs on other frameworks and/or languages, say RoR, I would do the same. Work experience is better, but being able to work on something on your own to start says a lot.

Off-topic: If you put time in examining a possible market with your website it might even turn out to be a win-win situation, with you getting passive income from it.

To summarize, you need a portfolio like vishaldpatel said. If you don't have one yet, then get started with doing something for yourself. Buy a domain if you don't have one yet, and show off your skills there.
It should be pointed out that the author currently is employed by Facebook, and is not an impartial user commenting on the rivalry.

That said, I found it hilarious that the author went on a defensive tirade for half of his post trying to somehow undermine the "Public" option when you make a post on Google+. It appears he completely missed the point of it being Public: that anyone is free to view and/or comment on it, along with your friends. That's what Public means, and there's a reason it's off by default.
Another data point:

Even in India (which has 25% of world's Thorium reserves), it is a mystery to many, as to why the Govt. chose not to invest more heavily in Thorium based research, rather than going for traditional ones.

Edit: grammar.
Interesting article; so unfortunate that it looks so bad in my browser history
Indeed, for callbacks and such I find it good to just think of the web browser as just another web service client calling an API: that's where you draw your line of trust (your own code running in your own environment).
you have created value without depriving others, so it is only fair to receive compensation.

How is this fair to everyone else who had the same idea but wasn't as fast or greedy?
To keep expectations low, and then over-deliver. They kept expectations very high with Wave and Buzz, and then under-delivered. Clearly it was the right approach with Google+.
Yes I think you could, the intent "action" is an arbitrary string there would be some sort of ocr/scan intent, then anyone who wanted to integrate with this service would simply startAction with the ocr/scan intent.

We were thinking of providing a action verb for print, so it is essentially the opposite of this (well nearly..)
I do not think that corrosion is the showstopper.

It rather seems to be the lack of irresponsible megalomania, which actually fuelled the GE/Westinghouse frenzy. And I can hardly blame anybody for the lack of it, because for all the better... Our planet has became smaller in the last 50 years, and running (tea)pot operations would be a tough sell, even on Fox. But obviously (offshore) oils rigs and gas are no better either, though people are still happy with oil running their cars and data-centres.

But useful lifetime/economics of scale/TCO does matter, because ROI in the strict and sole monetary sense is the only metric of success. Note, that most reactors have been rubber-stamped to operate beyond their design lifetime.
Hey, Zed, can you tell us all how much we're losers because we don't get as many blog post hits as you? The irony was a big hit last time.
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I think the point is that the premium is part of your belongings, and the probability is that the premium over the period you have insurance is more than the amount of any claims you'll get reimbursed from the insurance. You're therefore better off paying those premiums to yourself until you've built up a large enough fund to replace whatever you wanted to insure. Now you're self-insured in-perpetuity, with no further costs.

The risk is that you're going to have an accident before you've built up that fund. Insurance helps there, but they're going to jack up your premium rates and make you pay for the claim. In essence they're giving you a high-interest loan to pay for your accident, except the loan payments never stop. If you've got credit, an actual loan is probably better than the insurance for this situation.
It’s Not Easy Selling Managed Services
MSPs are finding that there has been so much talk of the “Cloud” lately that perceptions are becoming somewhat hazy. Take for example Microsoft’s latest commercials, where “to the cloud” means anything but cloud computing – Microsoft presents the cloud as a place to edit photos, record TV shows and other desktop tasks – it’s all a little bit ridiculous. Ultimately, Microsoft is marginalizing MSPs by misinforming the public.
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"as the terms get bigger, it becomes increasingly common to find your chosen 'digit' in almost all the terms, thus making the series convergent."

No! I think that condition is necessary, but it certainly is not sufficient for the series to converge. For example, non-primes become increasingly common, but the sum of their reciprocals is divergent.
Is that sales to customers or sales to retailers?
Social networks are not so social after all
1. I agree
2. He didn't post it someone else did, and no, I don't think it should have been posted.
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So, you are considering becoming a managed service provider! A journey that starts with a lot of little steps. However, those little steps can accumulate into a large leap into a new business that is still shrouded in mystery and doubt.
We agree on the sites, but I don't see what the conversation being flat has to do with it. Reddit is famous for the AMA threads, those are threaded.
I'm not so sure, largely because of Apple's overpriced accessories. The battery of a laptop is pretty much guaranteed to need to be replaced within three years, and the power cords on the pre-unibody macbook pros were guaranteed to fray at the connection point within a few months. I bought a used laptop that came with AppleCare, and got two replacement cords and one battery, which would have retailed over $300.
The terminus of your argument admits to using ROT13 as a cipher. Surely there's some attacker ROT13 bars. While you're at it, Base64 the "ciphertext". There are professional pentesters that can't recognize Base64 on sight! And if you want to get really tricksy, swap the Base64 alphabet around. That'll hoist that fruit up higher.

In reality, no credible cryptosystem accepts the flaws I'm talking about.
I'm so sorry. I was lucky to be able to spend some time with him (and you) at PETS08 in Leuven.
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Do you know anybody that’s in a band or owns a business? I’d let them know that you are now in a position to tackle any creative, online problems they may have, or suggest projects that would help them that you can deliver on. Or hell, just tell everyone you know that you can create stuff now; I’ve been surprised at how many people I knew from work had side-businesses they never talk about, but could have used a website.

Just watch out for those that take your friendship or the difficulty in creating a website for granted; don’t do the work for free, even if your portfolio is severely lacking.
The difference between normal software and browser javascript is that browser javascript is effectively re-installed every time you visit a web page. People install new software packages less than once a week.

This is a nerdy argument I'm not particularly interested in hashing out again, so you're welcome to the last word.
It isn't society's responsibility to make writing profitable.

Society rewards everything that benefits itself (at least the society i have agreed to live into). For example it rewards good scientific research because it makes everyone more productive and happier. I believe it has a good reason to make it profitable for writers to write good books too.
It was a suicide. :(

https://twitter.com/#!/maradydd/status/87586809818775552

Len was brilliant, the inventor of mixmaster, cocreator of CodeCon, and a wonderful human being. The world just lost a great mind and a great man.
Even if the laws are wrong? And even more "bad" laws are being introduced?
And that comment right there is why programmers shouldn't design social networks.
How does genetic recombination during meosis work with a setup like that?
How exactly are you verifying the authenticity of the code? By looking at the Javascript code? Even if you're among the 0.0000000% of users who could look at JS AES and know if it's backdoored, how do you know if any of the Javascript functions it's calling have been backdoored? Similarly: what does it matter if you can see plaintext on the wire? The attacker siphoning off your data can re-encrypt it for themselves. You helpfully provided them a library to do exactly that.
The point is whether such laws should exist or not, not if they should be enforced.

The fact that without such laws some activities are unprofitable is not a reason to keep those laws, unless you think we should ban email to avoid layoffs of post office worker. Or ban Netflix to avoid losing jobs in video rentals.
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I'm simply taking the discussion back to the topic. A discussion about the theoretical basis of a copyright law.
Some Apps Do Sell: Developer Makes $750K in 3 Weeks on Android Market
Searching for "plasma dlna" returned nothing.
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IIRC it doesn't actually use BitTorrent, it's just inspired by it. The Git and BitTorrent models are related enough that an intelligent synthesis could work nicely.
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A thousand times yes for search. It's like the electric company branching into book sales but lighting their bookstores with torches.
Let me amend it to say it isn't _necessarily_ society's responsibility to make writing profitable, and from what I've seen enough good writing gets done without being profitable that the distinction between professional writer and serious amateur writer is no longer meaningful.
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Similarly, it would be nice to let students specify whether they are graduate/undergraduate, and maybe their field of study/interest.

I can imagine if I was paying to send an offer out to find people to solve hard CS or math problems for me, I'd be disappointed to find that 90% of the recipients were (for example) undergrad marketing majors.
well, almost all, yes.
Granting exclusive access to exploit a resource avoids the tragedy of the commons - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

The argument for ownership of land is solid and clear; the argument for intellectual property, less so.
As par Wiki Info, he was 31. Really sad to hear this loss
feel sorry:(
I'm feeling very ambiguous over the recent Dropbox fiascoes.

Call me naive, but I really do believe Drew, Arash and the rest of the Dropbox team really do have the best intentions.

On the other hand, they continuously keep tripping on their own shoelaces with horrible PR management and lackluster communication with their customers.

Dropbox should have expected that their newly published TOS would be scrutinized down to a microscopic level, making the latest shitstorm possible.
If you're boxed in and the car in front of you slams on the brake and you hit it, pretty much the only way it isn't your fault is if the car in front of you has broken brake lights.

As you said, being boxed in is a common situation, and there are a million legitimate reasons why the car in front of you might slam on the brakes. Just because the car in front didn't have a legitimate reason doesn't mean that you're not at fault for hitting them. They could be charged with insurance fraud, but you could still be charged with a driving offense.
Nice service. But how are you at interpreting the data?
The funny thing is that the terms in question are really common, and used by eg: gmail and google docs, which nobody seems to be complaining about in this context.

So I guess the lesson here is don't make your terms of service readable by normal people, because while they might understand the language the media will make sure they don't understand the content.
I think it was the intention of the author to remind you of Blippy, since they specifically mentioned them in the next to last paragraph by linking to an article about them.
India seems to only go for technologies that foreign companies have developed. Guess why? Kick backs are a nice way of living the good life. This, even as recent hikes in fuel prices across the country are putting paid to the dreams of a growing economy.
Nope, can't get in. Not open to everyone.
Interesting experiment which suffers from the problem that all psychology experiments have: based upon observations of college students. I've been around the block a few times and I definitely don't now perceive respectful people as weak.
I think this is true...to an extent. Facebook is possibly "the best internet business of the decade", but not just because of the idea, but also because of the way it was executed. At least, that's how I see it.
> Suppose I spend a year writing a novel.

In a world without copyright, why would you even do that? The very concept of "#1 bestseller" would disappear, probably with interesting ramifications for cultural diversity.
Instead of the normal find any email address and spam with virility supplements?
Use search facets for every attribute of every product. When I was shopping for a car a few years ago, I had to click 8billion ways in order to construct a shopping list based on the length of the car. This isn't the kind of thing that people can tell you when asking "how do you choose the best GPS?" It's a reason for you not to know what people want but to be able to give them the information more easily.

Put it this way, what do you mean when you say you want to be sure you've found a "quality item with great value?" If you can't explain it in terms of a few (and which) clicks to perform on Amazon, then you're asking the wrong questions.

What sucks about online shopping? The minimal amount of data entry that companies seem to think is required to have a good online shop.
> Let's imagine a world without copyright. Suppose I spend a year writing a novel.

You'd know up front this probably isn't a profitable venture because writers would be starving artist types in such a world; novels would be written out of passion, not for income.
Insurance is like open source software in reverse. Not having it is only free if your time (and anxiety) is worth nothing to you.
Unfortunately no; it was unambiguously suicide.

Depression is a horrible, horrible thing, both for those who experience it and the people who love them. Len was a brilliant, sensitive, loving man with the rotten luck to be too tormented by his own brain chemistry to realise how much he was valued by so many people, no matter how often we told him.

He was 31.
Has anybody ever said that apps don't sell?
I politely disagree. The article seems to say that since insurance companies run a profit, they can not be worthwhile. And of course, for most people, they are not worth their money since most people never have a huge emergency that costs more than the sum of their premiums.

But then, the very point of insurance is to help in case of an emergency where you can not help yourself any more.

Someone once drove my car through a wall in an accident. The car was old and worthless, but the wall would have cost me 15000€ to repair had I not had car insurance.
With health insurance it is even worse: You are risking not 'just' money but you very life.
Absolutely, and this is my point as well. If you read the post I responded to it should be clear I think. That is, if you believe in the theoretical basis of the law, then the internet does not change that fact.
When was the most history made? A quantified view.
They probably did think that it would be scrutinized at the microscopic level, and that there wasn't anything controversial to find. The fact is that there isn't anything out of the ordinary here. I defy you to find a popular content sharing service that doesn't have some kind of license granting clause in its terms of service or eula.
How does this compare to InternMatch?
I would like this solution better if I knew a way to play an audio file from "the commandline" without having to rely on a big app like iTunes or VLC.
>Intellectual property at least makes a certain sense, since it is something you create yourself out of thin air

That's obviously not true; all works are based on every work the artists has experienced in his life. All art stands on itself, not as isolated works.

If you mean the support in which it is impressed, then it's not true either - the materials are finite just like land.
zephyr.pellerin as well
Earlier submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2724140
I was never one to argue that apps don't sell on the Android Market; however, I do believe that it's a tough business decision for a startup to invest time and resources to a platform that has a sell-rate worse than a fixed las vegas digital slot machine.
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That makes sense. I think the reason I can't remember the name is that it has no real connection to what I'm trying to accomplish. I think Ninite is fine for a company name, but maybe you could use a product name or something to more firmly establish the connection between the name of your product and what it does.
As for applecare, the argument actually makes sense. After all, the most you can lose is the cost of one computer.

For health insurance though... You are not just betting a few thousand bucks. You are risking your life.
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I am so sorry. My ex was prone to depression. I can't imagine what I would have done had he taken his own life.

I'm dreadfully bad at the whole condolences thing. I hope you get the support you need to get you through this.

And thank you for taking the time to respond here on HN.
It would be interesting to know what those disagreeing think.
Google had zero market share, but they did not start Android, they bought it and finally released.

Apple had zero market share and developed the OS and the hardware themselves.

What do I miss?
Does this actually work, or are the songs and movies just drawn from a list of songs and movies that most people think are great? I have a co-worker who's a hard rock / metalhead and his recommendations are indistinguishable from mine.
> Because I stipulated that the contract was exclusive and time-limited

And why should you have the right to control that?
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By the logic of this article, buying anything makes you a sucker. A store would never sell you something unless they were coming out ahead, after all.

Insurance companies sell certainty. You buy insurance if you value that certainty more than the cost of your premiums. The insurance company wins, because they get the premiums, and you win, because your net value is greater than the premiums you pay.
check the commit message:
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Personally, I believe the concept of natural rights is nonsense, but for someone who does believing in them, supporting IP is contradictory because it violates such rights.

If I own a music CD, a blank CD and a computer, it's a violation of my property rights to stop me from copying using the latter to copy the CDs, or from distributing such copies.
@maradydd - Deepest condolences.

It is extremely sad to lose a brilliant young guy to depression. Oh the vagaries of life.
I believe you hear everyone in the hangout session. It shows you in main screen whoever is talking the loudest (i.e. the focus), but you do hear everyone.
I'm not sure if the following links refer to the same thorium architecture but in Germany there was a test-reactor and several rather hard to solve problems appeared

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300

http://juwel.fz-juelich.de:8080/dspace/bitstream/2128/3136/1... [50+ page PDF outlining the problems]
It would not be wise to replace the current IP system with nothing. We need to replace it with something better, more granular, that will use technology to reward based on who uses what IP product and how. Popularity alone is not the ideal criterion, or else we would not have the Picassos or the Frank Gehrys of the world.
The other content sharing services also din't publish a policy when they started saying that (in interpreted form) the data you transfered was encrypted and that there was no way they could decrypt or access your data.
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> Why is IP justified?

From an economic point of view, by trying to prevent something like the tragedy of the commons.

Since everyone can make copies if there is no ownership, the majority of authors have no incentive to make their works public. And since authors can figure this out before starting to work, there's less production of works than beneficial.

In other words: Nobody would have spend the money to make movies like Lords of the Rings, or whatever you fancy.

The free market argument applies in a world with ownership, too: Those who paid the price for a work are assumed to be better off, otherwise they wouldn't have agreed to the bargain. If they would want works without ownership, they can always assemble, throw their money into one pot, and have works made for them.

Since they don't do this, an average, the incentive of having works with no ownership can't be that great.

You got to admit that every author is the possessor of his work, even in a world without ownership, since he possesses the first copy. So, the question is: How can you make him publish his copy?
The question is how the users feel about it. How the users should feel about it is irrelevant.
You assume it to be, but that's the point of this discussion, it isn't or shouldn't be. If you spend a year doing something no one wants to pay for, you don't have a right to force them to.
Animals have very strict rules and regulations about the sacred act of rubbing genitals together.
I think it depends on the kind of startup. If your startup is trying to grow an audience around a service with a free app, Android is a good place to start, if you are dependent on sales of the app for revenue, I'd go with iOS.