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You're definitely making the best counter points in this discussion. Unfortunately, I'm only familiar with peering agreements in so much that I can read about them on Wikepedia and follow links. The peering agreements are private, so we don't know who pays who.

Your questions regarding the fees for bandwidth are especially relevant. More things I can't address, because I don't know Comcast's costs for transport or last mile.

When I say that consumers won't/don't want a metered internet plan, I'm basing this on what's in the market and basic consumer tendencies toward simplicity. Metered services have a tendency to make customers feel "nickel & dime'd". Put plainly, consumers will choose a flat rate service over a metered service, even if the metered service would result in a lower bill [1]. It's basic risk aversion.

I'm of the opinion that "free market" ISP solutions aren't working out all that well. The necessity of public land-use rights in order to reach the last mile severely limits competition in the ISP space. I think that a good first step toward fixing the problem would be forcing some more transparency on ISPs. I'd love to know what's going on behind closed doors. I'd love to know who pays who. I'd love to know just how Comcast's transport costs break down.

Until we know some of these details, it's mostly speculation (yes, especially on my part), but I think there are some reasonable assumptions to be made.

1 - http://www.canavents.com/its2008/abstracts/109.pdf
Complete control over your creative process often results in the Star Wars prequels (or worse). Overrated!

Cleverly working around limitations on your freedom is where the real art is.
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This game is a labor of love, from a guy who left his job to make it. Very topical I'd say...

He's around, so AHA I imagine.
I wouldn't assume most developers are paid for providing services, there's an awful lot of developers out there writing code for products used internally or as part of a projectthat is sold at a significant price to very large customers.

I'd almost say that most developers are paid to write software and not provide services. Though it really depends who you refer to as 'end users'.
What's the replacement for SparkBuy?

I want to buy an inexpensive laptop with 80+ GB SSD and 4+ GB RAM. Where do I go to find that?

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Edit: thanks to sliverstorm for suggesting newegg.com
It's seems to be a good replacement to SparkBuy (unlike Google Products Search).

NewEgg even looks somewhat similar to SpartBuy interface.
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We've used a similar technique - although not very aggressively at http://row27.com

We work in sports, and found that although we had 50+ clients in college, the pros were hard to penetrate. So we started http://rowshow.com and contacted a few industry leaders to be on. Very quickly that got us our first two pro teams, 1 NBA, and 1 NFL - 100% conversion to sale.

Although after reading this I think we might do it in a more organized fashion, at least after all other contact methods have failed.
Consider Groupon's tipping point sales model to be the innovation.

Groupon clones took a method known to work in one market, and applied them to new vertical and geographical markets before Groupon could. As far as the technology (in his case a promotion methodology) can be applied to the market, and as far as this can be predicted with some certainty, an arbitrage opportunity exists.

In my mind, yes, arbitrage is inherently a low-risk investment, but only when compared to the potential return of the investment.
I am near and in a large city and will take this advice. It's not something I have really thought of or tried before. It wont be easy though as I am not the most social.
...and I've hit my query limit for the day. I guess that means I should work on round 2.
me: https://plus.google.com/115440827534646207947/posts

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2737152
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What about for the 1-5 years before employee #6 joins?
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(OP here) I tried to explain this in my post here:
http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/08/vc-insanity-economics...
although rfrey's explanation is excellent and succinct.
First, he's wrong about the money sitting it in a bank account - it is distributed to the LPs (as rfrey says)

Second, it doesn't have to be the case; it's just that most funds are structured this way. There are funds called evergreen funds, where the proceeds return to the fund and get reinvested.
Back in April GoGrid had their entire customer database - including credit cards - hacked (http://blog.liox.eu/2011/04/20/security-breach-at-gogrid/). It was a pretty serious breach.

I'm not sure if this person's hack is related (eg an attacker has his portal password/api key/etc) or if it is indicative of vulnerabilities in GoGrid's system.
If you're looking for smoking guns in state intelligence matters you either need to not be a civilian or wait 40 years after the event. For everyone else there is reading between the lines.
So basically it makes no difference how much effort I put in, if I don't get in the top 3?
"Big organizations are needed for big problems" - Not necessarily true. Most of the big problems till date have either been solved by a small group of people, or in some case just by individuals.
> The whole no purchase necessary clause.

But none of the games/tasks cost anything anyway... so no purchase is necessary. (What am I missing?)
m on it sir!!
Not at all! I can leave any time I choose. But I'll be here for a good while - it's a great team doing cool stuff, I'm learning & making great connections, and it wouldn't be cool to ditch. There's obviously some economic incentives as well, but that's the lesser part of it at this point.

While I personally wouldn't mind sharing details, for obvious reasons, I can't.
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Sigh. Another inconsistency. Asking how many users you have is another way of asking what impact you're having.
If Google were interested in integrating with Skype, then they would have bought Skype and not a company that merely uses the Skype API.
The difference between rates and quality from a startup to Google is staggering. I've been on both sides (as a startup CEO, and receiving COBRA from Microsoft years ago) - you get vastly more coverage for dramatically less money when you're a big company.

You can get expensive, crappy health insurance as a startup, but for a lot of great candidates, quality health insurance is a hard requirement.
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There's a hidden advantage to this: if you're wealthy it is harder to raise your children to be resourceful without money. Growing up, money was one resource I did not have much access to; instead, many of my toys were self-built, my projects often involved making money, and my motivation sprung from necessity. I really couldn't have asked for a better education as an engineer/entrepreneur.
I see a pretty significant issue with "one-click voting" for a scientific paper. Reading papers is often a tough exercise and one that involves rereading, thinking, and rereading again. How many times have you read a dense webpage, reread it over the course of a week, then clicked the upvote on HN? Never. You glance at the webpage, think "that's neat" and click away.

This isn't to say that the journal-of-reviewers model is perfect, but I am wary of casually tossing it away in favor of "upvotes." Upvotes have massive semantic ambiguity: does it mean the article is accurate? Does it mean the article is funny? Is it maybe wrong, but important to think about? Does it merely match the reader's interest? How do you express something such as "we believe your underlying methodology is correct but aren't certain your analyses are rigorous enough to prevent X." A downvote?
I was hoping my post wouldn't incite ad hominem arguments.

Moot point though, nobody watched it.

Did you agree with the lecturers logic?
My experience (in computer science, ymmv) is that a vast majority of researchers would agree that, with the Internet, the profits made by journals are excessive relative to what they do (ie. what they actually do, not what they outsource to other researchers).

The reason why there are still there isn't because we're convinced that we need them (as the article implied), but because of inertia. This is the criterion by which most researchers judge each other and themselves, and it survives because few people have the guts to refuse it: everyone knows it's evil, but it's hard to walk away. People are lured by prestige, and by the tangible consequences of prestige (like funding).

We do not need a killer app to get rid of the journals, we need a good number of motivated and prominent researchers to opt out and bootstrap something else.
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CSS

Understand how to do general vs specific border/margin/etc assignments and how they cascade. Useful for generic

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I think what we really need is the patent on approving patents.
The Fujitsu ScanSnap is the greatest piece of hardware ever.

If you use OS X, you can also get DEVONthink (not free).

Way better than Evernote. Combine it with DropBox, and away you go.
Could you share one last detail: when would economic incentives irreversibly kick in?

I'm a little bit skeptical here, considering the following:

1) You are not working for Google founders directly. You are working for subordinates of subordinates (think bureaucracy).

2) You are not working for any of the best Google teams (Search, Ads, Gmail, Maps)

3) Your project is killed already without any working replacement.

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Edit - to all of you downvoters here: I consider the decision Dan made as quite reasonable.

He did a good job and got good reward for that.

He also shared his experience with all of us, which is very educational. I'd like to thank Dan for that.

Still, there is another side to that story which I think should be exposed too.
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tl;dr

"We have a system for evaluating devs, and pay people more for living in NY."

The article has a bunch of words, but doesn't actually say anything about how much you should pay developers. Not sure why there are upvotes.
While I’m not in the position of my good friend Rand, who’s gone on the record saying that his life savings is $25,000, I was not previously wealthy

I continue to be of mixed minds as to whether having personal wealth (or not) leads to a greater or lesser level of risk tolerance - and itchiness to exit.

Sure it's easy for those with a high net-wealth to take bigger risks but we see all the time those with nothing (or even less with nothing, ie college debt) take just a big risks because they have nothing to lose.

I wonder if willingness to take risk is essentially a bi-polar bell graph, which leaves something like $25k in the bank in that sticky middle... not enough money to risk it all but too still much to be lost.
Counter with a higher amount, say +$10k, and at least a full week of vacation time. Also to consider, what are the health benefits that are being offered? These are typically standard across companies regardless of salary.

If they don't at least match what you asked for initially after countering, then just move on. Unless you in an extremely desperate situation, just move on.
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If you are exploring and testing SSL, the SSL Labs tools come in handy. For instance, see what Gmail and Github are doing:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssldb/analyze.html?d=mail.google.com

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssldb/analyze.html?d=github.com
Do you imply that Google was interested in killing integration between Google Voice and Skype?

That's possible.
>spend as low energy on this absurd project as you can, read about new stuff at your work if you can and grow your normal skills at home

If you were any good you'd solve the problem the absurd project was created to solve. Instead you can't solve it so you pretend to be elite by "learning" rather than doing.
She said "real world" not "3rd world", which certainly adds different context.
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The act of writing software can be summarized as generating ideas and writing down these ideas in a language computers can understand and execute. Software programmers are in the business of writing ideas all day. This combined with the fact that the bar for ideas being patentable is very low means that programmers probably generate and write down multiple patentable ideas per day. From the get go they are inevitably setting up a huge patent minefield.

I don’t know if anyone has ever calculated the average density of patentable ideas in code, but if you consider, for example, that performing an online transaction with the last entered customer data (the infamous 1-Click patent) is patentable, I would very roughly estimate that there is a patentable idea every 20 to 50 lines of code.
As an example, the Linux kernel (just the very core of Linux) contains more that 10 millions lines of code. If you consider a complete Linux distribution (by adding the graphical user interface and a bunch of utilities) you get at least ten times that amount, that is more than 100 millions lines of code. Using the rough estimate above, we can calculate that there are more than 2 millions patentable ideas in a consumer operating system. That is an incredible amount of complexity. In fact, it is a testament to human ingenuity that we can (sometimes) get all this code to work together.

Now code is not used side by side like an infantry of little computer processes working in parallel to make computers or phones go. It is rather organised and packaged in a huge network of building blocks, a pyramid of hundreds of thousands of libraries, APIs or functions heavily inter-dependent on each other. What’s more, the building blocks are usually not all written by the same people or organisations and their consistent and stable behavior is critical for enabling compatibility (remember, often between millions of parts made by thousands of developers).

This hierarchical and networked architecture is inevitable and the best way to organise complex information, however the stability it requires at the bottom of the pyramid means that some building blocks cannot be changed once the pyramid is built. Someone claiming ownership of the shape of a bottom block after the pyramid is built, someone having the power to force a bottom block to be removed and replaced with a different shaped one, no matter how simple and obvious this bloc is, does not have power over just this block but over the whole structure above it and all the components that depend on it. This means patent holders have a disproportionately large amount of power when they target such a bloc. They know that changing it would require tearing down, redesigning and replacing often thousands of dependent projects and probably break compatibility for millions of users of these projects. It is usually simply not an option.
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Great, so in summary:

We don't really know if the chinese govt are involved, but we suspect they are. And we don't really know if the U.S govt are involved, but we suspect they are.

... hmmm
Maybe the linkbait title?
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What to you is a "big problem"?

I find myself thinking of SpaceX, which is tackling a real challenge and "big problem". They have, according to Wikipedia, more than 1250 employees.
Did you read the article? In only one place did it mention "immigration issues".

The H1B Visa is "a non-immigrant visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a)(15)(H).

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Title is kind of linkbait. The article talks about how to pay equitably and transparently compared to co-workers, but doesn't actually say how _much_ you should pay. No real dollar numbers are discussed other than a range that "top-notch" C# developers are paid $30k to $200k (and with bonuses and other compensation, I think the top end is actually low on this).
Although i'm not personally familiar with the "standard series seed" documents, I would think this problem could be easily avoided through appropriate application of copyright to the original documents.

Something to the effect that the document may only be amended in certain ways which would be apparent on reading the amended document (ie. all amendments must be made by way of special condition).

Allowing investors to make changes to "standard" draft documents which will only be picked up by experienced startup lawyers defeats the purpose of having those standard form documents.

EDIT: fixed grammatical error.
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You're not really any safer building any other kind of software, although you may be subject to less patent troll scrutiny with a web app or something.
It seems plausible to me that "big organizations are needed to scale solutions to big problems."

And, maybe, that's what is meant by Big Organizations are needed for big problems. But, without a solution, you don't really have a need for big organizations. Big organizations can certainly get in the way with finding the solution too.
Am I the only person amazed that Google+ is not G-apps enabled?
You're matching an engineering solution to a social problem. Trying to map a paper's social significance to an abstract number is really hard, and in the process you lose a lot of ability to present papers based on taste. Showing me a paper because "these numbers are high and you tend to like these kinds of numbers" is fundamentally different than "you should see this because it is groundbreaking." On the other hand, if we can create a metric for elegance and another for "brings the reader closer to enlightenment," then I'm all for it.
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Is a top notch C# salary $30,000 in some parts of the world?

Well, frankly after reading it I still have no idea how much pay it is for someone that's all B or all AAA+++. Do they use the checklist or an algorithm?

What is SE's starting salary at least?
I had the last model of iBook with notoriously bad memory controller, and a MacBook that had sleep problems, and the MLB was the smallest replaceable part.

Still smaller than the part replaced when the display on my iPad developed a discoloration; walked out of there with a whole new unit.
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Is there any business model which can limit the damages from a patent troll?
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He said that multiple exits should not constitute "a successful track record" which is ridiculous. Such a founder is a rockstar and should be courted by all investors.
Small companys have an advantage, but the potential influence of a large organisation suggests that there's a great benefit in size if you can effectively overcome the natural tendency toward stagnation through a tree structure.

I think technology can certainly help an organisation work effectively together with weaker integration, but ultimately a huge portion of it will be culture and personality.

Developing effective technology that assists in the development of the right sort of culture for a fluid, large organisation would be an interesting challenge. I think it might address the same sort of things that 'team building' exercises and retreats usually spectacularly fail at.
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Your boss tells you to solve the project using the wrong tools. Maybe you would be able to solve it with the right tools, but you're being denied the possibility.
This is why I get mad when I see all those super custom pieces in the new sets!
There are several that were acqhired when they were just the founders.
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The internet is a massive thing. Chances are, any problem with the internet will only be experienced in a small region. Thus, given that HN users come from all over the world, statistically speaking it's just you.
Why use proprietary (less tested, less stable) solutions while there is community-tested and community-supported ones? ^_^

People still stuck with a stereotype that most brilliant programmers work for corporations. This is, obviously, not true. Most of corporations outsource their R&D and QA and spend for marketing instead. That is a very common strategy.

Now tell me - how this strategy correlates with a quality of a code or services? ^_^

Oracle vs. MySQL is a very good example - high quality community code is usually much better and well tested. (hint: it is about comparing the code quality, not a feature lists)

Being attached and depended (that is exactly what their marketing department is for) or not is your own choice. In some cases, like SAP, there is no community-supported alternatives, but it this case there is more than one.

Some people could say that we really need all those modern features, such as iscsi per lun mirroring, etc. But it is exactly this code is less tested and lower quality.

One cannot compete with Linux (Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS) communities in matters of testing and code quality. No code is better tested than those included in mainstream kernel or a polular distribution.
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Simply brilliant! All this time i’ve been thinking i’d like to write staff scheduling software for cafe’s, if only i could make some contacts with cafe owners. This sounds like a great way to make those contacts.
Do you mind telling us which blog it is that you’ve got? Was it important to the prospects that your blog has lots of readers? Also, were the prospects you called in an internet-related industry where linkbacks and blog posts are important to them? Or were they simply bricks and mortar?
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Realistically, I probably would have the same reaction, but just as a thought experiment, what if it was something similar with an off-color (not necessarily outright offensive) slide regarding someone's ethnicity or sexual orientation? I feel like it would be comparable.