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Great stuff! I would add my company, but there is not point - I have no patents!

I think until we see Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Apple on that list it wont be worth much.... and if we do see Apple on that list, would be believe them? and would they care if we didn't believe them?
The first Arab revolution was in Tunisia. Shortly before that there was a Wikileaks release about the corruption of the Tunisian dictator and his family. The success of the Tunisian revolution inspired the other Arab countries to revolt.
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Ask HN: Close to launch, yet all I can think about is getting out
I'm nearing launch on a startup I've been working on for a few months together with my partner, yet all I can think of is getting out. 3 things bother me. First, the thought of having to exclusively commit myself to this after launch. Second, being the only one with tech skills, meaning that I get to do even the most basic technical work like creating landing pages. Third: I strongly believe in underselling and overdelivering, which is hard to do when 1/2 of the team only has sales skills. Any thoughts? Similar experiences?
i cant see a place to take the pledge so i added one on my own site http://littlebiggy.org/2005087. its still in alpha but it oughta work since you need to use your real name.
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Apologies, but I think until I can use them I can't really tell about the overall "design".
The two examples seem to serve different purpose: one to enter a pair of related pieces of data (Expiration month and year) vs the other to enter data that seems more loosely coupled (Event Category and Event Age Limit). This, for instance, means that the placement (on the same horizontal line) of the two dropdowns on the left may be appropriate but would not be as appropriate for the data on the right.

Anyways, I suspect you were wondering about the aesthetics aspect (but my point above is: design is not simply about the aesthetics).

Personally, I like the use of color on the left (assuming it doesn't clash with the surrounding page), but I'd like the dropdowns to provide a larger target area for the user clicks (like those on the right).
I'd also be curious to see the two examples once they are expanded to form a complete opinion, and I wouldn't include the code used to generate each one (unless we're talking about the design of the code)

HTH
Not everyone can be a game A.I. programmer, so it's nice to get introduced to new tools or undusting old but forgotten tools, b/c they look complicated from where you are standing right now.
this post assumes (if i have understood the argument correctly) SHA-1 is secure. it's isn't - it is well and truly broken. people don't use SHA-1 for security any more (well, they certainly shouldn't). is their any real analysis that shows that git is secure, given the weak nature of SHA-1?

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.ht...
This is wrong. The DoJ is suing to BLOCK the deal, there's no opportunity for negotiations. It is up to the judge now.
I'd say the right, it looks nicer and fits the style of the other elements better.

Also remember, the styling of the left dropdown is based on what Mac OS/X shows a dropdown to be, if you look at it on Windows/Gnome/KDE etc. it will most likely look different (Unless the images of the Mac default select are hard coded in, which would be a lot of extra effort, if you were going to do that you might as well do a custom dropdown)

Post; If you're interested in doing something like the right hand one on your own site check out https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen
Guy sensei gets snatched by a bird. Watch Naruto episode 227 at TailedFox
The said chrome will only accept one particular CA when verifying the signature for google.com (which is one of the reason the fraudulent cert was detected).
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I’m not outraged, more amused. Wikileaks has to take responsibility and communicate better. Especially their communication has been a disaster.

If they want to be a respected whistleblower website they have to show that they are competent. I’m sorry, but I just cannot see how Wikileaks has done that during the last few weeks and months. Based on that I personally wouldn’t trust them with anything. I wouldn’t be surprised if many other people (who, unlike me, actually have something important to leak) think the same way.

(I don’t even want to say anything about DDB.)

But I guess saying something critical about Wikileaks (even if you support the idea of a place for anyone to safely leak stuff) isn’t very popular around these parts. Ah, well.
For me, I have come to this realization after making a move to a large company (Motorola Mobility) from a small one. I have been working for them for two months, and I am already hating it. Being placed in China puts a whole additional layer on top of the typical bureaucracy you see in these large companies. Tons of red tape everywhere!

Needless to say, my experience is very much the same. I see lots of unnecessary office politics, the inability to get anything done at breakneck speed as you would at a startup, and for the most part total lack of innovation. It is really disheartening, and as the OP put it, makes you go home at the end of the day very disheartened.
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It's used a lot in Erlang, FWIW. It's used so much that OTP has a built-in finite state machine behavior[0].

Of course having nicely isolated processes probably helps noticing that you have an ad-hoc state machine on your hands.

[0] http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/fsm.html
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It should only go back to previous page if the input is not focused. I've been bitten by this myself a few times and have developed a habbit to check if some input is focused before pressing backspace.
So they should kill silverlight, right?
Cities or towns that want to host conferences work really hard to make them attractive to conferences. (See the work done by local authorities/venues @ http://wiki.linux.org.au/Ctte/LCA_Bid_Guidelines) Maybe the value proposition just isn't there for London with everything else they've got going on?

edit: I remembered Yahoo had to hold a London hack day in some kind of stadium (to get enough capacity); the roof was struck by lighting and opened letting water in. Video of the incident http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acUEvkMu2xM
There's only so much care you can put into it without crippling the tests.

Looks like they need to put a where's my phone app in those test builds.
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If only there were someone around here with access to a lot of data about startups...

I guess they're a bit conflicted though: YC startups need employees, and if their results showed that the early employees were getting screwed, they might not want to release them.
CA certs are currently the only widely available web technology against MITM attacks. The alternative is to build your own web of trust.
Talk about Naruto 227 at Anime Forum
I read it as

- the guy was excited about the company/the job opportunity. This is, at least in my world, first and foremost not connected to the money to be made. 'Yay, I could join a cool startup'

- the guy got a safe/decent job (based on the assumption that he's in IL and his salary is _good_) and probably never had any experience with the math behind funding rounds.

You are, according to your profile, a startup founder. Therefor I assume

- you did the math at least once (maybe before for other startups, how can I tell..) and it's obvious. Now.

- you still base your assumptions on experiences that you cannot expect to be given

- (tongue in cheek, not completely serious) you might be the guy on the other side of the table (founder), asking for talent to accept a similar/related offer

I for one liked the article. My startup experience is rather limited, but I did join as a first employee once, with a big paycut and it didn't work out for me. I think it makes sense to at least remind people that startups are a risk not only for the founders.
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need more details on the agenda. who's coming? what's the topic? need a good reason to spend a fine weekend away from loved ones.
This is a pretty good post, but I think a lot of these things can be said of any start up, not just of a startup going through YC. Interesting read, though. Can't wait to try myself.
Took me a while to figure out its not RockMe_i_t...domain isn't even registered.
Wow! This is exactly where I'm.

Another obvious problem in this scenario is that we do NOT have anyone smarter than us (technically speaking), which hampers our personal growth and ends up rusting us in longer run. However, the bigger issue that I'm facing is that there's no one immediate to critic my work and provide feedback.

However, I've decided stay because I don't feel comfortable ditching in the middle without someone around to take care of things, and send the startup into a mess. I'm desperately looking to hire someone smarter than me and I suggest you do the same.

Or just leave, if you feel strongly about it. Your career matters too.
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There's no office politics in a micro company as there's no point, one person often has absolute power. And even if it's not one person, the founders will often trust each other a lot more than you. That's fine until you don't agree with one of them.

1. The case of the mysterious Piggy Bank

This caused a lot of problems at a 2 founder startup I worked at where the guy looking after the books was semi-inadvertently skewing everything in his favour, the company paid for renovations to the office that was actually his property he'd just bought. He claimed to have 'invested' £100k (leant) but he was constantly calling in those loans. But then putting some back. And then taking it again. In tiny chunks of a few £k here and there. And the accountants were incompetent and couldn't keep track (the semi-inadvertent part of it). It took me a month and a lot of late nights with paper accounts and excel to convince the other founder what was going on. When I cut through the accountants' mess I found at one point he actually owed the company £10k for a few months.

The only reason I started looking is because I couldn't fathom how we'd spent so much money.

The guy to this day doesn't really get what he did wrong, he viewed all his companies and his own money as piggy banks for each other when they weren't doing so well. But we were operating on false assumptions. Like we were profitable now, when in fact we had been profitable, but were no longer. Because we got rid of the good sales guys.

The mess was much bigger than that, with crazy salaries for mundane jobs and some employees he knew personally investing in the company as it was 'profitable' but expanding, when in fact they were investing to pay their own salary until one of his other companies had enough money to pay back an intra-company loan. Luckily they all got their money back.

Needless to say that period was crazy political for me and very stressful. On the plus side I made a good friend out of it that I still see today. And he learnt his lesson and never ignores the books now.

2. The Tank

A similar, funnier, scenario happened at my mate's old employer where one founder (CEO) had much bigger equity than the other (CTO). This was a 15-20 person company, kinda just past the startup phase.

The CEO also had a love of tanks. And a tank museum.

The company therefore went into the tank buying business. Which meant the company couldn't expand how the CTO wanted. This led to office politics, some supporting the CEO, some the CTO. The CEO eventually promised no more tanks.

A month later a tank accidentally got delivered to the company instead of the museum. The CEO was away, when he got back in the office the CTO simply took him to the back and pointed out the window to the tank. He ended up leaving to start a new venture and took half the staff.

TL;DR From personal experience I disagree, politics enter startups when things go wrong or the CEO has a love of tanks.
State Machines are also useful when you need to develop on asynchronous environments but think in a more synchronous way.
Windows has good parts :D?
I worked with LDAP servers for a few years, but never liked it much. Perhaps I missed something. What can you do in huge directories that is so amazing?
Hackers break into Linux source code site
I'm focusing on the fact that I think the one on the right is style over function. Based on the jquery hiding the select box and displaying a list of spans (or something similar, depending how you go about it). Either way, the original select box is mutated all for a simple change of aesthetic.

So my question is focused on the designed/engineered implementation of the select box. I was interested if anyone would bring this up or agree/disagree.

On principal, I see this as the equivalent of printing a white piece of paper with a black background. Thoughts?
tangent: is $2.17 an hour really typical pay for waiting tables in the states? In Australia, minimum wage is around $15 (I think). No wonder tipping is so important in the US.
I think its quite interesting that the example chosen to display how bad theory without practice can be is swimming (which is an excellent example). Im currently working in the Philippines with setting up an development team and here some of my local co-workers have had theoretic swimming in school. They got a grade, but cannot actually swim! Got a bit surprised when I heard it for the first time.
It's only simple if you can plug in accurate numbers.
I'm not sure I agree at all, there's about 6 or 7 UK based Google developer advocates, around a quarter of all the EMEA based Google developer advocates.

http://code.google.com/team/

So while we don't get the big Google conferences here, we do get the ability to meet with these guys reguarly if we want to.

For example, Paul Kinlan works a couple of days a week in an co-working space in Liverpool, if you want to speak to him, you can just arrange to drop by. I'm sure there's people in other countries who'd kill for that kind of access.

http://doesliverpool.com/press-releases/does-liverpool-provi...
>aren't even close to (or trying to) fixing the news.

Agreed. I think what is needed is a combination of:

1) Google news (filters duplication)

2) Reddit style voting & subreddits to customize

3) RSS mechanism to access it, with ability to filter keywords

No idea how to earn cash with that though.
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I wonder if the negative attitude of so many Britons towards Europe might play a role (for bigger, non-local events).

Anyway, at a practical level:

- No Euro, and higher prices

- No Schengen

- An island at one extremity of Europe
If you are a C developer, try Ragel [http://www.complang.org/ragel].
I use it lot, also can be easily pared with the Lemon parser generator.
There is risk associated with hiring an employee. There is no risk associated with a cash investment, There is investment risk, the risk associated with making the wrong investment like hiring the wrong employee.

The investor with 50k in hand now vs the 100K per year employee willing to work for 50k. The Investor wins. With the 50K the start up can hire the 100k per year employee for 50k. If thing do not work out you can fire them and hire another one.

The money is less risky giving it a higher value, plus its all upfront which has already been discussed.
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I think maybe you're projecting here, a 5 year old bug isn't that uncommon. I've followed bugs that old from Microsoft as well. I'm not sure about Apple, you have to pay $100 to see their bug tracker.
Gamification is a bit of buzz word at the moment. Has anyone used this opensource project? Does anyone have any other suggestions of projects like this?
'According to James Traub (writing for The New Republic), Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences has not been accepted by most cognitive scientists nor by most academics in the education field. Indeed, George Miller, one of the psychologists credited with discovering the mechanisms by which short-term memory works, wrote that Gardner's theory boiled down to “hunch and opinion.”'

http://latestlearningcurve.blogspot.com/2010/01/learning-sty...
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It's not quite that simple. When cryptographic functions are broken, practical vulnerabilities are usually years away. A reduced SHA-1 collision time is certainly a good reason to move away from SHA-1, but it doesn't mean that an attacker can compromise an existing piece of code secured by a SHA-1 hash.

In this case, it is not merely sufficient to find a collision, but to find a collision that is also a valid Git commit, implements a vulnerability, and, ideally, is not immediately obvious at first glance it is a hack (i.e. having kilobytes of garbage data in the commit diff). This is much harder than just finding a random set of bytes that just happens to match the commit SHA-1.

Now, it could be that an organisation like the NSA is sufficiently ahead of public crypto technology that it is capable of not only finding a SHA-1 collision in feasible time, but is also able to craft a malicious Git commit with an identical SHA-1 to a legitimate commit. Inserting such a commit into the Linux source in an appropriate place might result in compromised kernels appearing in commercial products.

But... I kinda doubt anyone is that far ahead, and in any case, it seems extremely risky to try to play such a high-value advantage in a public repository. If someone happens to spot your faked commit, suddenly everyone knows what you are capable of.

So whilst Git would be more secure using SHA-512 or an equivalent, it's currently very unlikely that anyone has the practical capability and will to compromise the kernel's commit log.
Harbouring a known criminal is often illegal.
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This is such a case.

But your offer of equity paid on a probabilistic basis intrigues me.
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I think Berlin is a great choice - better than London. Berlin is developing and changing quickly and seems to be setting the scene for a perfect startup hub: lots of bright young people and cheap offices (cheap everything relative to the rest of europe) meanwhile London is primarily a financial district, not engineering.
Dropping out of college to run a startup is a bit like dropping out of college to play in a band.

For a lucky few (and I do mean lucky), it works out magnificently - but for the majority who try it, you don't get anywhere meaningful.

During the boom time a few years back, it was a more viable option, but in todays economy it's a far more risky venture and you're highly likely to spend a few years going nowhere, rather than ending up with a degree and the reasonable shot at a steady job that that gives you.

I probably wouldn't recommend a CS degree at a liberal arts college not known for its CS program, but I would certainly recommend studying at a well-known institution over striking out on your own.
At a start-up I'm making a good rate for my first job.
In any case, cell phones require real-world field testing. There's only so much care you can put into it without crippling the tests.

Create a paired bluetooth device (or whatever), one half is a tiny attachment that goes on the prototype, the other is attached to a buzzer on your keychain or somesuch. Out of range or only at half power? Off goes the buzzer: "Hey, I forgot something!". For a company as secretive, innovative, and wealthy as Apple, this kind of 'prototype protection' in the field is easily answered.
Nice polarising title, but:
1. You're not getting screwed, you are making a choice, which is driven by market factors like your alternatives, expected utility from the job etc.
2. The numbers given are quite extreme - if the guy is really worth 100k I find it hard to believe that he would be offered 50k and only 1%. Also his option stake could raise with more responsibility given, this is just the initial negotiation point as I see it.
3. It only makes sense in the Valley or US.
Hrm, maybe I was just lucky but when I was looking for a student intern earlier this year I got several dozen replies, and even tho many of these were pretty poor fits I still ended up having to choose between several good candidates.

The one who ended up doing the internship was top notch (better than I expected a 20 year old student to be) & I'm pretty sure at least 1 or 2 others I filtered out (only had 1 position to fill) would have done a good job as well.
Compared to London, Berlin is less expensive, better food, has more fun stuff to do, better weather, better accessibility, vastly more attractive women, and less of a police state. I'm sorry they are so offended but London just isn't all that much fun to visit.
In any case, you can always do a `git co hash`.
Their total compensation must be at least minimum wage to comply with the law. Tipping is very common, so you could probably pay wait staff $0/hr legally.
Yes, to be clear, I'm a founder. All of my team whose salaries are in that range have better stock arrangements. I didn't think the point of the argument was whether the comp package was competitive. It was about comparing salary investment to an investor's investment. I just think the argument is flawed.

Really, the driving point is that an investor puts in all money up front at the immediate valuation. An employee puts minimal money in daily with the option to leave anytime, while they have day to day knowledge (hopefully) of the health of the company.

The author seemed to be arguing that the investment of salary wasn't being valued at what an investor receives. But they ignored all kinds of factors, such as the time over which the salary is "invested", and the fact that the investor may invest time and other resources, while the employee is likely to invest only time. Just having certain investors gets you other investors, gets you press, gets you all kinds of things. Very few employees get you the same things. They get you hard work. It's valuable. But the salary forfeited is just one very small component. Trying to convince employees that they should think of their $50k as the same as a $50k angel investment is leading them astray.

[Edit] All of this being said, yes, everyone who takes stock in lieu of pay takes risks. Employees should almost certainly treat options as icing on the cake, and expect nothing from them. Then, be pleasantly surprised if they get a return.
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If you give employee #1 only 1% of your startup, then there is something wrong with you, or employee #1 is more of an intern and not a key hire.