skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big clue is how few of the companies in his survey have ever had venture capital -- which he cites as "myth-busting" about startups, but really just revealingly myth-busts his sample set.

I could go next month and start an innovative book shop with a wine bar instead of just coffee drinks, but that's why we have the distinct term "startup" to mean a new business likely capable of exponential scaling once it proves product-market fit, the only kind VCs want to plug into, and not just a new small business that is likely always going to stay small or at best grow slowly, that will be fun and might pay the bills but would never be worth outside equity investment.

Wadhwa gives no indication that I could tell that he's made any attempt at that distinction, except in the negative with the very low VC rate of his sample group, and with the claim that they are in twelve "high growth" industries. Twelve entire industries is a pretty broad segment of the entire economy, and doesn't approach the defining distinction of startups.

EDIT TO ADD: his selection criteria were just involvement in any of fifteen (17 except two are listed twice) industries indicated as high-growth, and which include for example "engineering consultants", "health care facilities", and "audio and video equipment" though a little later it says some of the respondents were also from "other (non-technology)", so it's pretty non-selective. He also defined a "founder" as "an early employee, who typically joined the company in its first year..." so his definition of "founder" is also pretty loosey-goosey. Good thing he cleared up myths about startup founders.
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She chose to be homeless.

Any rational person would have changed the locks and moved on by now. The only difference here seems to be that Airbnb, i.e. an intermediary, is involved.

You do the math.
Does it really matter? even if you half Bush junior's chunk you're still more than the 2 last republican president combined. That's incredible. But circumstances are not the same (i'd like to see inflation adjusted numbers for one).

If a CEO had those numbers, shareholders would be suing.
Just speaking for me, but I was able to quit supporting IE6 around the time Facebook dropped its support for it. If you have business clients, they want the social and if social media doesn't care about outdated garbage they don't. It saves me and the clients time and money. Reading this guys post did make me smile though, I remember all to well my days in IE6 - good ol' png fix, ah how I miss those shitty gray boxes around all my lovely images.
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this is what is missing in all modern browsers, browser is envisioned from start as a client and therefore not able to access such things. But i agree there sholud be browser with JS and all that with capabilities of server behaviour.
maybe next gen of browsers will have that. allthou it could brake the concept of thin clients.
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And as I've said, ulisesroche, that is one side of the story. No more likely to be true or accurate than the other based on the available facts. In your own words: we've been through this. How long is it going to take for you to admit we just don't know the full story? What will persuade you that it's possible EJ has reframed the situation just as it's possible Airbnb has done so as well? Your insistence on standing up for one side is really where you've gone wrong here. I maintain that neither side is at fault. It's tiresome to see this become a debate over "he said, she said" hearsay evidence.
I've recently had some experience with this and it seems only about 60k h1b visas are available each year (year starts in September).

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f... If you want to see a count down for the 2012 quota

I've been told that most of those go to larger companies and that startups might find it harder to get them (this is anecdotal though)
In this regard, it is similar to driving. Vast majority benefits, but there are few who suffer greatly. The solution there is to regulate; introducing specific rules and making it illegal for people to drive unless they have a license. There is already a regulated hosting system: hotels; airbnb wants to change the system without keeping the regulations. I'd say they carry some responsibility here.
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I guess the AppStore hasn't quite made 99cents seem like nothing. Users still don't want to pay for anything, no matter how small the cost may seem.

Shouldn't most if not all iOS developers already know about jailbreaking/Installous? If your revenue stream is 100% hinging on selling the app (as opposed to in-app purchases or ads), then shouldn't you be cognisant of the piracy issue associated with a jailbroken iOS device and not naive enough to think that every copy of your app will be obtained legally?

I do think it's a shame that companies put a lot into creating a premium app for the AppStore, which gets pirated and downloaded for free. But I don't really see an end to this for the foreseeable future. Apple has already tried to make jailbreaking illegal, but it failed to do so.
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I do on my MacBook (Clam), not on my iMac but all my web traffic is routed through a proxy that does virus scanning. I should probably look at getting some to cover viruses from other places
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It better have very strong support for ARM, too. It already bugs me that Google wants to use Intel chips so much for some of their products, that they end up making them too expensive, and as such a failure in the market. See Google TV, and now even Chromebooks (which should've been much cheaper).

If they would've started off directly with ARM chips, they wouldn't have had the same problem, because the products would've been priced more reasonably (unless manufacturers wanted to put the "early adopter tax" on them, too).
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On the other hand, many companies avoid using AGPL code altogether. Code that isn't used can't be improved.
Have any ratings agencies threatened a downgrade based on a failure to reach an agreement? S&P has threatened a downgrade if we raise the debt ceiling without taking action to reduce the deficit significantly. However, assuming that we fail to reach an agreement, we will immediately reduce our deficit to zero and continue to be able to service our debts. Why would we expect this to trigger a downgrade?
This is an incoherent objection. "Efficiency" isn't some abstract Platonic concept. It is always efficiency for what? And for whose goals?

EDIT: Not to mention that there would be a profit incentive for a private regulation business if the market's already incredibly stong medicine of loss of reputation and business failure weren't enough. Not every problem requires violence or the threat of violence to solve.
Good catch - we should flag this one and specifically direct people to the other.

I've edited my initial comment to reflect that. We could now just delete this exchange to keep things tidy.
Shiven, it's not been proven "conclusively" that XMRV is involved in CFS. I'm not aware of any serious scientists stating as a fact it was the "cause". It remains controversial, and research continues. Ian Lipkin's study should yield results within 12months and that seems likely to provide more solid answers.

CFS, in the UK, is a wastebasket diagnosis based on very loose and broad criteria. It's absurd for anyone to suggest it is one condition. I know of people who have been diagnosed with CFS, but then subsequently diagnosed with MS, bone disorder, and other conditions. ME, however, looks to be a specific subset. CFS and ME are not the same - ME is a smaller sub section of the patient population.

In the absence of a biomarker and test, we are however reliant on diagnosis based on symptoms, and so I'm pleased to see the new ME International Consensus Criteria published this month. These diagnostic criteria were created by 26 researchers and doctors from thirteen countries, with 400 years of professional experience, who have treated 50,000 ME/CFS patients. Their view is that the correct diagnosis for many patients is ME, not CFS, and that ME is a very specific illness involving multiple systems.
There's a copy hosted here: http://www.wpinstitute.org/news/docs/me-international-consen...

Shiven, no sensible person is condoning attacks, but you have completely misunderstood what is happening. The reason people are so angry with the likes of Wessely is that in recent years ALL of the very small amounts of UK gov money going into ME/CFS research has gone to psychiatrists, when there's plentiful research showing (when patients are properly classified using proper criteria) they are physically very sick indeed with significant dysfunction in the immune system amongst others. It's indefensible. The majority of sensible patients are saying that they want biomedical research. It's absurd to suggest, as you are, that all ME/CFS patients are being self-destructive and stopping research by attacking researchers when it's a tiny minority. That kind of stereotyping is offensive, in any context. Let's not, as the press have blindly done this week, tar all patients with the same brush.

The poor results shown by The PACE Trial, even despite its sizeable cost, show the limits of what psychiatrists are able to do to treat ME patients (or even CFS patients). The psychiatrists are not succeeding in treating these conditions, and so clearly more work is needed.

If Prof Wesseley was threatened in the way he says (I've seen no evidence or heard of prosecutions) then those responsible must be prosecuted and if necessary jailed. However this drama created by Wesseley apparently putting out a press release (why?) is distracting us from the real question, when will the UK gov start putting funding in place to (additionally) look at biomedical causes of ME, which is a quietly devastating disease?
At what point did someone think this was a good idea? How is this AntiSec?

up to 10 Giga Bytes of confidential information, including protected witnesses.

So in the name of AntiSec they have released the details of people who need & deserve anonymity. Ridiculous.
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why not go and use a full blown VM

Because you may not need a full blown VM; also D allows for manual deallocation of memory if you seek predictability, something that full-blown VMs like the JVM or CLR cannot do.

C++ is still used for applications development a lot, in instances where people recommend these full-blown VMs. And while companies/individuals are naturally conservative, this also does say something about the viability of Java/.NET for development of applications.

I would also add here that I've never seen a Java application that I liked, or that .NET has a stigma attached so that many people won't touch it with a ten-foot pole.

D is somewhere in the middle of Java and C. It is low level enough to provide predictable behavior with little overhead, but it is also high-level enough to be comfortable and does guard (somewhat) against shooting yourself in the foot, in many cases in which C++ does not.

the advantage of C++ is knowing exactly
what happens when

But you don't know exactly what happens and when in C++, this being one criticism against it -- in some instances D even has more predictable behavior.

I see no reason to spend extra effort on the
language's verbosity.

It's not the language verbosity that's an issue with C++ ; it's more about many constructs being hard to use and error-prone. D fixes some of that.

It's also about the C++ language being hard to parse, that only companies with big budgets like Microsoft/Borland can produce usable IDEs. It's also so hard to parse that you'll always find inconsistencies between compilers and this is also why the world has standardized on only 2 compilers: GCC and Visual Studio, while using anything else (while wanting to maintain compatibility) is seriously asking for trouble.

Not that D has many compilers (it doesn't) but its syntax was specifically designed to be easier to write tools for it.
That means that WSGI Lite app can run with WSGI server, not vice versa. At least that's how I understood it.
Yet another article that completely misses the point of copyright. What's the article trying to say? That you can create all images, therefore you own the copyright?

As a poster on that page says, this will explain it:

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Interesting point because Apotheker was quietly shuffled out of the largest business software company in the world - SAP. Mind you this was only after he served as co-CEO for 2 years. I was shocked when I heard HP had decided to hire him as a CEO, because he was (for lack of better words) horrible at SAP. It was clearly the dark days of innovation at SAP.

I think what Ben might be getting at is that Eric and John are very much exceptions to the norm and that finding/identifying these type of people is extremely difficult to do.

On the other hand, what about some other technology companies who do have founding CEOs. How about RIM? Lazaridis and Balsillie have traditionally done a remarkable job, but lately it looks like innovation is about to fail as Android and iOS begin to eat their market share.
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I don't think copyright is compatible with the Internet. It's time for everyone to realize that. Times change, and some laws become obsolete. It's not the first time it has happened and it's not going to be the last. Then a couple of decades later you look back at them and realize how absurd they have been. Not all industries have copyright, and they seem to have done pretty well so far without, most likely much better than they would've done with it.

These are some good videos on this, if you haven't seen them already:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL2FOrx41N0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Plm1ulrp2s&feature=relat...

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Look, people make comments about D without knowing a thing about it.

Of course D has RAII -- http://www.d-programming-language.org/memory.html#raii

In D you can also do manual deallocation of memory, if predictability is what you want, the difference being that D comes with a garbage-collector from the start and encourages you to use it, which is a lot better than reference-counted pointers or other hacks; but at the same time it is also possible to use D without a GC.
Well... I also use FFmpeg to encode all the video that's presented on th iG (a large Brazilian portal+ISP) channel in Sony and LG internet-enabled TVs. It works really well.

If any FFmpeg developer is reading this, thank you for making our product possible. If you ever come to Brazil, the beer is on us.
No it couldn't, a judge is not a program and law does not work like engineering.

I highly recommend reading this essay, it answers a very similar question.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php
I fail to understand how hotmail could be viral.

To receive the message with "viral" footer, you had to already have a mailbox. If you did, why bother?

Maybe it was viral in the sense that it was the first widespread webmail and thus was in demand?
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I meant to say "grid frameworks".

Of course grids are highly relevant to design. My problem is with the grid frameworks that are bulky with preset classes that expect me to use in my html.

I don't think it's relevant in my html whether a div is 2 columns or 8, that's presentational. Why can't someone make a framework that has clean standard html and a css file with lots of boilerplate grid code that I can use to apply to certain divs in my html?

When I want to make a change to the appearance of my page then I go into the CSS file, not mess around applying classes to my div's in my HTML file. That was kind of the point of CSS in the first place.
Well, I don't know about the rest, but question 1 is a direct consequence of unarmed combatants choosing to not wear uniforms. You know, the reason that we use uniforms is so that combatants are easily identified, which indirectly protects civilians, by clearly indicating that they aren't targets. If you're going to hang out with someone that has made a habit of launching attacks against a country whilst running around in civilian clothing, then yeah, you're at risk of becoming collateral damage. Don't do that.
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Another major flaw in the presentation of this data has to do with the base rate fallacy. For example,

"founders of tech companies tend to be highly educated."

Observing that the majority of successful founders have college degrees tells you nothing about the effect of not having a college degree. If 1% of students drop out, 99% do not drop out, and of the founders from the 1%, 80% are successful and from the 99%, 20% are successful, we would still see the vast majority of successful companies coming from non-dropouts.

A very poor analysis published by a man with a pro-education agenda.
Ask PG: Would you put your house on Airbnb?
Sorry if this question sounds snarky, but I'm genuinely interested if you would or not and the reasons why or why not.

(And my apologies if this question has been asked before in one of the other mammoth threads).
As a non-native English speaker, I wonder: what's the story behind using umlauts in the word "coöperating"? Never seen it before.
This and other tools like Hype seem to generate reams and reams of javascript (that file you linked is ~150kb of mostly repeats and slightly tweaked values). It seems a bit mad to me - is a large complex animation going to end up being a 1mb monolith of javascript?
I'm obviously not as up to date as you on the happenings of Airbnb and neither where the guys that voted the story up .. until it got flagged that is.
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Great article and well written, the thing that struck me the most was the references to god, he was killed for "god and country", well Osama thought he was doing his gods work, whose god is right?

Religion is such a giant fail.
So instead of improving on the state-of-the-art of telepresence and have people work remotely from any place in the world, certainly possible with today's global communications infrastructure, they want to put actual physical boat with developers on it close to shore, to avoid immigration laws?

And from all places it's a silicon valley enterpreneur proposing this? This is so bizarre and inefficient I don't have words for it... It's crazy in an anachronistic way like putting a horse in front of your automobile to avoid fuel taxes.
More evidence of the benefits of getting up:

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Some related blog posts:

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* Snakes on the web - http://jacobian.org/writing/snakes-on-the-web/
The problem is not that it's happening at all, it's that it's happening in a relatively short period of time for a lot of people, and that time period will keep shrinking in the future. I think Governments could help here by spurring entrepreneurship in the country, and also by having nation-wide free training problems for jobs are "are the future" and are in high-demand. It should alleviate the transition.
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I'd love it if you told your story with respects to sealand. I was fascinated with it when I first heard about it many years ago, especially to learn that the UK govt seemed to have allowed it to exist without shutting them down.

For others reading this who don't know the story my recollection of events is that it goes something like this:

(1) UK builds large offshore firing platforms in the english channel to target german bombers in WW2 then abandons them after the war.

(2) A military family moves to one of the platforms after the war and declares it to be an independant state. The UK government lets them get away with it.

(3) Over the years they remain there and allow others to come and live on the platform. They issue passports etc. At one point they were the base for a pirate radio station. At another point they fended off an armed invasion/attempted coup of the platform.

(4) In the late 90's havenco set up a business on the island. The idea was to provide secure hosting outside the scope of any legal harassment from authorities. The business didn't work out.

(5) A few years ago the platform burned down in a fire.

I'd love to hear accounts from people who have actually been there & seen it for themselves.
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