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> I guess my question would be, what's an example of this.

I don't know if this is exactly what your parent had in mind, but I found it relatively difficult to make a REST API. I had to work around a lot of things with model binding and routing to come up with my solution, and even after that, I still find it kind of hacky. In addition to that, IIS fights you at several points along the way, for example by adding spurious HTTP headers or doing things like automatically redirecting certain status codes.

With a framework likes rails, this is baked right in. With the PHP framework I used to use, the framework was so transparent and lightweight that it was trivial to bend it to my whim.

A lot of this was exacerbated by the fact that it was much harder than it should be to set up my project to use the source code for the framework that it should be. In thoery, you just grab the project from MS, add it to your solution and change some references, but in practice, if you're using any other libraries that were built against the DLL from Microsoft, you run into issues, because the MS DLL is signed, and the DLL you build from source is not.
Well, Matt did write something wrong. The original post about nginx "sucking" at SSL was wrong. Maybe it sucks for SSL in its default configuration (is that even that case, or was Matt's config copy/pasted from elsewhere?), but saying it sucks in general is incorrect and link-bait'y. You can presumably configure other web servers to suck just as much at SSL by enabling DHE ciphers and providing DH params.
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Sorry, Comcast has been handed a monopoly franchise for broadband in many parts of the US, including Seattle. With their obscene profits comes an obligation to provide acceptable service in all reasonable cases. This is not an equal bargain between two independent parties -- the OP has ZERO alternative broadband providers and the real battle Comcast is fighting is against Netflix.
I think the best way I can describe my reaction is by describing the effect reading novels (not blog posts or stuff on the internet, but actual literature) affects my inner mental dialogue. It affects the way I communicate information with myself. That's huge, in my mind. I speak more concisely, using a more elaborate diction than I otherwise would.

I don't want to imagine what my monologue would sound like after twitter. That's why I feel its sad.
LOL!!! this is quite universal statement. anything can goes. The problem with (%s) is Itself.% ( any random person , location , company ).

LOL!!! stupid peoples.
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There's also the problem of the cost of publishing a paper in the first place. In my field (astronomy), publishing a paper in a peer-reviewed journal will cost you at least $1000 with an extra $100 for every table in it. You can easily spend $3000 for the privilege of publishing a paper in a peer-reviewed journal and then pay $20 for the privilege of reading it.
Sorry, but Qwest and Clearwire both cover nearly all of Seattle as well. You can argue about how broad you have to be to be called broadband, but they are both going to be suitable for a home user.
I think it is natural to want to self-identify as part of a community. I also don't think it's wrong to self-identify as part of more than one community.

Saying "I'm a .NET developer" or "I'm a Java developer" doesn't preclude one from simultaneously "I'm a Ruby/Rails/Python/whatever else" developer.
True, and I'll admit to being lazy in my use of language there. I'm using "firm" and "organization" as though they were completely synonymous. That need not be the case, of course, depending on whose definition of "firm" you use.

Anyway, I find it interesting that Coase argued that firms exist to mitigate transaction costs resulting from imperfect information... and then Downes & Mui argued that digital technology would reduce transaction costs to a point of eliminating the need for large firms, creating what they called "The Law of Diminishing Firms."

So far we haven't seen big corporations fading away, but I still come down on the side of an eventual transition to networks of collaborating (smaller) entities displacing some of the bigger firms.
I'd consider this a "100% response rate" rather than an aspect of conversion rate. Conversion typically implies sign ups or sales of some form, especially in the context of cold calls.

That said, this information is gold -- I'll use it myself to increase high-priority responses.
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Damn! I better start brushing up on my modem whistling skills! I used to whistle Hayes 300bps and AppleCat 1200bps handshakes in order to lock open lines when speed dialing. If you timed it right you could 99% of the time secure the dialup line with the real modem when the remote modem cycled the line connection.
I've been seeing so many Euro HN'ers gush about Spotify for so long. So I can't wait to give these guys my money, at least for a month to try it.
Hey, maybe the OP isn't exactly the most informed. But you can't argue that Tim O'Reilly doesn't know what the Valley is all about. And he's said some similar things.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10045321-36.html

If I can "pivot" this discussion a little... as part of my job I've interacted a lot with Ward Cunningham, who invented wikis, helped invent Agile methodology, started people talking about design patterns, etc. This guy didn't exactly do any market research when he invented the wiki. He didn't throw up a landing page with a coming soon graphic. He didn't validate the concept with Google Ads. He didn't impress investors, or even customers. In fact it's likely that no one would have ever invested in the concept.

He created something that, based on his experience and judgment, that he thought users needed. Turns out he was right.

Maybe this kind of inspiration isn't productizable, which is why SV shies away from it. But is there no room for this sort of thinking? Even Google began in an academic environment, not in the business world. It seems to me that entrepreneur-thinking can get you only so far. Every really successful entrepreneur I know -- and I know a fairly high number -- has been a little bit crazy, and had ambitions far beyond monetization. Some of them ended up making a lot of money almost by accident.

In our time, the hackers rebelled against the suits and are now running their own companies. A magnificent achievement. But is it going to be the final irony, that hackers are now going to think and act like suits?

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That is a fair point. I debated about that phrasing specifically, but a friend of mine in outside sales uses 'response rate' for a cold call to simply mean he got to make a pitch.
Many VCs raise a fund, allocate it, then distribute the proceeds to the limited partners as the investments exit. That's why VCs are sometimes seen simultaneously sitting on several boards, looking for the last one or two investments, and raising the next fund.
With luck, one day Stephen Wolfram will discover how to write paragraphs with more than 2 sentences, on average. This technology will completely revolutionize the way humans communicate with Stephen Wolfram.

He could have easily spent his entire life writing 2 sentence paragraphs. Or he could have delegated his writing to someone else.

But that surely would have introduced errors. With his new discovery, his deep and unique ideas may finally become more accessible to the rest of us.
I'd actually still keep the title the same -- I went to this post first and read it from top to bottom because of it :) Talk about conversion!
> It's the most fair way to support the system and will naturally prevent people from doing something similar to leaving their lights on all day.

Depends on what constraints the resource.

If the network's bandwidth isn't used at the moment, not using it won't save any money. (Apart from saving power.)
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Sounds like you've already got a decent portfolio in place, which is the most important part of the process.

Are you near a major city where there are a lot of developer meetups? If so, have you tried going to any?

Two years ago, I was a guy with a business degree and some open source web apps, but no official programming experience. I started going to meetups, and ended up meeting the CTO of a really interesting company at one of them. We had a good chat, I showed my open source apps, and I've now been working there as a developer for a year now.

So, I think the takeaway is...you might have more luck with a bit of social engineering than by just applying for job openings. It's easy for companies to dismiss someone when they've only seen a resume. Meeting the right person in a social setting, however, and showing that you're smart, sociable, and able to get things done can help tremendously.
> I’ve interviewed around two hundred startups and there’s only two, out of two hundred, I think are game changers.

Breaking news: only 1 in 100 startups will significantly change the world. Film at 11.
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It's entirely plausible that US intellignce services have totally owned the entire IT infrastructure of the Australian Government, but this incident does not imply that. Google didn't have to hack other companies to know they'd been hacked by the same perpetrators. They learned of it when they traced back the hack on their own system.
This tactic is actually quite brilliant.

I tried cold calling a few prospects, but I could only get through less than 20. It was brutal.

But now that you have proposed this, I am going to re-think my process and see how I can integrate this.

I think this can work, when done right.

Plus, it can be an awesome source for some good quality blog articles - that increases SEO traffic on those keywords.
I have Qwest because Comcast can't provide reliable service to my 1920s apartment building, and I only get 2.6 Mbps down. I wouldn't think I'd have to explain on HN why that's not a viable alternative. It's certainly not for the OP's use case of streaming video.
Does anybody know if these work across data centers? I can't find anything about it in the documentation they have.
In my experience, you've just proposed doing nothing.
Actually a lot of these people making a fast buck are moving on to the big companies with a stack of experience behind them where they are doing things that effect a lot of people.
Aren't you basically saying that whoever came out with the original software idea should be given an amount of time where they can profit from it without worrying about competitors? Like, say, a software patent?
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Also however cutting edge your research would be , it is would be most likely built upon on some of the research that is already done in the field. Any clone implementation (free or non-free) make use of the knowledge already is available in the public domain and improve in the direction your product is built on. More novel , innovative is your approach it would be as much harder for any alternative ways (free or non free) to catch up.
How big is the company? I've worked for a number of smaller (less than 300 person) companies and there are always wide deviations in salary. It seems like a third of the people have "special" deals in one way or another.

It won't hurt at this point to be bold. I would be surprised if you could get them up to $70K from $53K so there isn't much to lose.

If they're replacing someone, flat out ask them what the previous person made and why he left. Point out that he might have stayed if they'd paid better. Or ask what other people in similar positions within the company are making. Insist that you should be at the top end of the range.
> Why doesn't a revenue tax make sense?

Suppose there are two companies. The first company buys resource A for 100$ to produce B. The second company buys B for 110$ and produces C, which it sells to the public for 120$. A merger of both companies would approximately half their total revenue, but wouldn't change their total profit.

We don't want the tax system to determine the optimal size of a company.
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not to sound snarky, but you should file a bug report so this can be addressed.
I want to move to Silicon Valley and my cofounder doesn't. He says it's 1. expensive and 2. full of shortsighted startups that are really features, and people who start startups because they find it glamorous.

It seems to me like it's impossible for a place to be full of genuinely driven, intelligent, purposeful visionaries. Who cares how bad some people are, as long as the others are awesome?
I'm refering to the portion of the comment I was responding to: "These "financial secrets" are emailed in the clear after every transaction"

The implication being that since they were sending the information in the clear in a separate part of their system, that they were wrong in configuring their https site as they did. I object to that conclusion.
and no mention of mendely?
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the pain point is that people are focused on the publication - you need to focus on the people. i don't care what you think about a paper, but i want to know what Feynman has published and who he keeps an eye on. professional scientists know who to keep an eye on - the rest is noise. science is the oldest social network there is...
Google essentially killed http://www.sparkby.com
(Like it killed Gizmo5 in the past: http://www.google.com/gizmo5/ - initially it was "temporary", but then became permanent).

Why does Google do that?
Why not allow it to grow and gradually integrate refined pieces of technology into larger project [Google Product Search]?
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Yes but can you whistle up a GIF file? If you can whistle a GIF image of yourself into a modem then I name you King Of The Universe.
The issues he discusses seem to be addressed by phygg, essentially a combination of arvix and digg for physics: http://www.phygg.com/phygg/

I see no reason why this shouldn't work for arvix as a whole.
Hi Jill,

I'm sorry, I misunderstood the level of the position. Totally my fault, I should have asked more questions. Thank you for your time and please keep me mind if you have a more senoir level position in the future.
Have a good summer!

-imns
It's not that expensive to get group insurance for a startup with 6+ employees. Count me skeptical of the idea that health insurance reform will unlock a wave of entrepreneurial talent from people who previously couldn't figure out how to swing a few hundred dollars a month for personal health insurance.
I think you have a misunderstanding of why people invest.

There is no correlation between the type of business and the willingness of the founders to sell out quick vs ride it for the long haul, assuming in each case the founders are equally rational.

There is however a difference in aptitude for running an early stage startup and building a business that will pay you $300K per year. Many times the founders intend to do this but fail b/c it's not their strength. Let's face it, a lot of success has to do with timing and luck.

This is where something like YC is hugely valuable. You're working with seasoned entrepreneurs who can help avoid common pitfalls (which looks like luck) and funding is also more readily available so you're less likely to make a decision out of financial desperation.

I think you have a bit of blindness (no offense) in your argument to the way that market forces dictate what the right decision is. Given equally rational and equally risk-hungry decision makers, the decision to be acquired vs sticking it out is not often ambiguous. To argue that it's a matter of the individual psyche is I think fairly silly and overly focused on the personality/pr aspect of startups than on economic reality.
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Dan, how long do you have to work for Google?
I usually find that when employers haggle over vacation days, its a huge warning sign that its not going to be a place I want to work. I usually press them for extra or make up a "previous engagement" that I'll need time off for during the bargaining just to see how they react.

Then again, I always did find all of the ceremony around "earning" vacation days through attendance, banking sick days, and rolling over vacation like its cellphone minutes to be completely insane.
Was afraid that might be the case. That's an ok compromise though. Following.
You make a good point about already counting the bytes. That fact flew right past me when I was considering the overhead.

I can't answer the second question because I can't see Comcast's peering agreements. I do know that they're not always comfortable (see last year's Comcast/Level 3 dispute), but as the FCC pointed out, peering agreements are a private matter.

I'm playing devil's advocate here to some degree. I get that everyone wants to see an improvement in the availability and cost of broadband in the states. No question about it, but this article is about a person who used 250 GB of data in a month on a residential connection. I'd love too see a histogram that shows the distribution of data transfer usage per customer, but Comcast doesn't publish that information, so I'm left to assume that the fact that very few people encounter that limit is proof that it's pretty far above the norm. Feeding the sense of entitlement that this type of usage should be allowed is not how we'll make progress here.
We're commenting on this blog post. As was Ben, who didn't comment on the previous post, but did single this one out here and, as I recall, on Twitter.
Because the company may have demonstrated both a carelessness about security and poor customer service on day 1?
Ah. Patchy works there. I'm sorry about that. Having a hairtrigger day.
You know that "Call phone" link in your gmail, and when you answer a phone call inside your gmail, that's Gizmo5.
Bollocks. F/OSS, when most effective and disruptive, is often the product of other corporations out to drive the value of a component that they don't make to zero, to free up resources for the stuff that they actually do.
This is customer development, not sales. He wasn't selling anything. He was doing research on potential customers' needs. He was 100% upfront about what he wanted from them: to hear about what they do.
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Cool. It could be useful to add the incomplete gamma functions. They are used in calculating the chi squared distribution, and so come up in analyzing A/B testing.
Thanks for a great interview!

I've noticed that the link to Jeremy's twitter account is wrong on your website.
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IMHO the OP is misleading in saying he only wants to "know more about <industry>", because he actually wants to turn these people into early customers. Isn't that a way to piss them off? Otherwise maybe the idea is to defer the customer development phase to later, but it seems a waste to find interested people and not having them as customers.
Cool, another story on a hacker news site about marketing. Thanks for this.

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It says pretty clearly in the article that he wasn't selling anything. He admits in his script that he doesn't have anything to sell. Your point is valid, just not applicable to this article.
Ugh. I feel like I just read Ruby slash-fiction. I'm not even a .Net developer, and this is still too self-congratulatory to handle.

Takeaways:

1. How is Ruby crossing into the mainstream? It's been mainstream for quite some time. The fact that it's not the number one language does not mean that it's still some little niche language. Moreover, what does it matter if Ruby has crossed some arbitrary threshold into "mainstream"?

2. Ruby is not a "better platform". It's a different platform. Ruby and .Net each excel at some things. Some of those things overlap and some do not.

3. If you're not excited about .Net, then don't use it (unless you're being paid to). Rambling about how it's stagnating and playing catch-up (aren't those contradicting?) is pointless and shows a lack of historical understanding. How much effort was poured into Ruby to build the libraries and frameworks that were already available in Python, Perl, or (god help us) PHP?

4. People identify themselves as X-developers all the time. It's not a negative thing. Ruby developer, Java developer, .Net developer, C developer. Whatever. Single out ".Net developer" does nothing except demonstrate personal bias.
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I'm not selling them anything. I do write a blog in their industry. Honesty is important to me. I'm establishing relationships and trying to understand people and the problems they may have with their business.
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Uh, He doesn't even have a product to sale.

This is basically the equivalent of an information interview that he then writes about on his blog. He even addresses this with: "There were a few skeptics on the phone that wanted to know what I was getting out of the arrangement. I replied with the truth:" and what he says is the truth.

I don't see any lying at all in this.
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How about ability to integrate Google Voice with Skype?

Gizmo5 did that.

GMail does NOT.
If he solves their problems and the become customers why would anyone be pissed off? If it validates his idea it's far more valuable than the time he'd waste developing his concept in a vacuum. Seems like I've read somewhere that if you want to succeed in business you need to be OK with pissing a few people off.
Agreed - a disappointingly vague piece. There are certainly better English-language sources, The Dark Visitor, for example.
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One should add that it's ridiculous that Comcast counts 250gb transferred up or down, since almost all of their customer related information refers to down speeds.
One way to think about a FOSS clone is for it to take out the bottom level of (potential) customers from you, the one's that are never really satisfied, don't want to pay the full price etc. One's for which the ROI is negative (counting in support time etc).

So sure there might be a FOSS clone of your product, but they would only be copying the features that you've currently got, not the ones which you are developing. Could almost think of it as a lite version.

This is of course only one possible way of thinking about it.