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But it gives you a basis for further consideration. Surely nobody will pay $1000/hr for your services. If they pay $100/hr and you think you have a 1 in 10 chance of exiting for $10M then maybe that's break even.

Really, if you don't think your startup is going to be worth even $5M at some point in the future, I think you have to take a hard look at what you're really trying to accomplish.
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The video is showing beyond the login screen with the laptop ready to use. So you need to measure from the login screen to desktop and add that to the 6.7s. Or set up autologin(if that can be done).
Years / 2000? I recall `yearly_salary / 2080 = hourly rate` for 8 hours / 5 days. I think running a start up typically takes more than a 40-hour work week.
It's a purely qualitative study.

You're right, it's a bit outside the normal ambit of computer science. I'm interested in multidisciplinary questions; we do also have non computer scientists among the authors, for example Prof. Nissenbaum http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/

Overall, as you suggest, our analysis is a mixture of CS, economics and social science.
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It's also a shame they haven't done so with other features -- like getting rid of checked exceptions.
I would say Python is my favorite language at the moment too. But gosh can it be improved. You seem to imply in your post that Dart is gonna be a specialized niche language. Not necessarily. Just because they announce it as a PL for web programming doesn't mean it couldn't be a general purpose PL.
Once you start getting your work out there your name will become the brand. Of course a brand/biz name that comes up in searches, etc is going to a plus. But also consider how much even for the biggest brands they are defined by the leaders, e.g. Apple: Steve Jobs, Microsoft: Bill Gates, Oracle: Larry Ellison, Linux: Linus Torvalds, etc.
Plus, they publish their videos in the MP4 format so you don't have to install Silverlight crapware first (or are even unable to watch it at all if you're not on Windows).
I've been developing on OSX for years and have never run into that scenario. What, pray tell, are you doing where CMD+C requires privilege elevation?
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Everyone has principles and everyone views them differently.
But, this guy is an asshole. All he does is complain. That's all.
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I've been in the situation you describe for roughly the past 3 years. You and your team must be successful at consulting _and_ the startup, and many people spend their lives without succeeding at either.
The situation is sour to begin with. A lawyer script though? This isn't a cover your ass situation. This is about respect.

I think she honestly spoke what was on her mind. She was insulted that they would do it via an impersonal lawyer script and said as much.
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This is almost certain. Even more certain is that they will fight it as long and hard as they can, even if it kills them.

The reason we want this to happen is the same reason the carriers don't want it to happen: it's a lot harder to make margins on being a dumb pipe.
Okay, I know I should go do some research instead of writing an HN comment, but let's face it, I'm not yet a perfect person, so I haven't done that research, so here goes the HN comment instead. To be clear, my goal here is to provoke someone into convincingly explaining how wrong I am.

What is the dilly with carbon sequestration? How can this make sense? Isn't this ideally mostly snake oil?

Once upon a time (say 800 years ago?) we had huge quantities of carbon trapped deep below the surface of the earth (coal, oil, maybe I'm missing something else), AND ALSO huge quantities of carbon fixed in solids on the surface of the earth (large forests). Now we've taken as much coal and oil as we could find, and put it all in the atmosphere. Plus we've also chopped down lots of trees, and much of what was chopped down was burned.

Let's just acknowledge that with 7 billion people needing food grown (not to mention living space), we as a race will not be replanting more forests than existed 800 (or even 100) years ago. At best, we'll replant some of them. So what happens to the carbon that's in the atmosphere from all the coal and all the oil? It won't be going into trees, will it?
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Actually, there is a distinction to the carrier.

Text messages are an interesting one. Essentially, they cost nothing to the carrier in that they get transmitted as part of the control channel. However, there is a cost to supporting a phone idling on a network. The control channel has to be in communication with it using up bandwidth. So, the SMS gets put in with the control channel instructions and so its marginal cost is 0, but there's still a cost. Beyond that, your carrier has to pay a termination fee to the receiving carrier when you send a text message to them and that is a cost. So, when you send a text message off-network, there is a cost to your carrier.

Voice similarly travels a different path. In CDMA systems, the voice channel and data channel are physically separate. Even with UMTS where the voice and data traffic travels over the same channel, there have been significant advancements for data transmission (HSPA, HSPA+) that allow for greater efficiency.

Even with VoIP, a real distinction can be made. Like texting, the carrier of the receiving party charges a termination fee to the carrier of the calling party. So, if you're on Verizon and call a user on Sprint, Sprint charges Verizon to connect the call (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_rates). That means that while VoIP would use network resources in the same way as data, the carrier would face a higher cost because of the termination rate. This is also why many free VoIP services won't let you call those free conference call services (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/att-says-google-voi...). They're usually set up with a carrier who charges an absurd termination rate that pays for the service.

While they are travelling through the same towers, they're taking different paths and those different paths do have different costs. Part of it is regulatory: termination fees are meaningful costs to carriers even if one considers them artificial. Part of it is the current time: in 3-5 years, we'll probably be on VoIP. Part of it is that data transmission (wired or wireless) has low marginal costs, but decent fixed costs: it doesn't cost the carrier much to support you as a marginal user, but they have put tens of billions into their network even if your phone just idles on it. Right now, wireless is priced in a "consumer" way. We don't pay for what we use, but rather some awkward approximation based on what they think consumers will accept charges for. This is in contrast to, say, utilities which usually have a fixed charge for being on the network (to cover fixed costs) and then a usage rate (which covers marginal costs).

I don't really have a conclusion. Carriers are trying to make more money off you in a way that's objectionable, but they aren't the same. I won't defend the pricing, but I want to point out the difference.
>On top of this, written hiragana or katakana maps unambiguously to the spoken language

This is true in probably ~99% of cases, but not all.
>While I was testing it, the whole pipeline, from pressing the "go" button to the page being fully rendered could take as little as 15 seconds.

How is that possible? I thought the whole point of SMS was that it resided in the wasted bytes towers use when they "ping" phones. The reason text messages aren't instant is that these pings aren't sent frequently. I could be way out to lunch on my understanding, but this seems to be a latency killer (not to mention the limitations of packet size).
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> that Grouper is a Y Combinator-funded startup.

They're not actually claiming to be funded by Y Combinator. Betabeat's headline didn't mention YC either.
I chose those terms to win easily. ;)

buddycloud already claims over 500K users and seems to have significant momentum, some developer discipline, and is using well-known standards, even if XMPP isn't everyone's favorite standard.

And as others mention, you might want to count identi.ca too.

If you think my bet is too paltry perhaps we can raise the stakes.

However, note I said greater than 1M monthly actives, which is a more serious measure of traction than just user accounts.
The stuffs an inventor created would become prior arts. Patent trolls filing after seeing the invention would get its patent invalidated.
One of the most inspiring comments on this post -
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Seriously, chad, Congrats. :)
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curious why you think multicore enabled resume would not help with disk io? Atleast on an SSD, I would think it should.
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It depends on whether it's W2 hourly or 1099 (or even corp2corp).

If you usually make 50/hr + benefits on W2, you should charge at least 70/hr for 1099.

It also depends if you can negotiate. If you can, start with a very high number and negotiate it down.

One of the most important rules of salary negotiation: DON'T ASK, DON'T GET.
I was going to say that we should be encoding IP packets to be sent over SMS so that we can do VoIP over SMS.
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The responses aren't sent by SMS, but MMS. My understanding is that to download an MMS you essentially get a data connection with your provider that only lets you download MMSes.
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I think it's going to be regular work, but I'm pretty skilled at the technology they're asking me to use.
I believe that has been the case since Vista.
I've been doing this for the last three years or so -- I wanted to launch a startup but realized it just wasn't the kind of startup you could bootstrap as a side project (i.e., without significant financing). I had already written almost all of the code needed for an initial launch.

I started my consulting business to provide income that I could divert to the startups I wanted to do, but so far it hasn't provided enough excess to allow that. So, that's the potential downside: if you aren't careful, you can become a consulting company where consulting is your primary activity and there's no time or money left for starting up. I think PG has mentioned this too.

I don't think it's an altogether bad way to run things, though. It eventually comes together in many cases and you don't have to worry about pitches, sneaky or uncouth investors, diminutive equity, etc. Investors can really be dangerous and I think a lot of people take investment without understanding the potential consequences.

I knew a major local investor on a somewhat personal level and I've developed a deep distaste for him. I don't believe that he operates ethically and I want my businesses to stay as far away from him as possible. He is dangerous and sneaky, and I believe many investors are.

Bootstrapping yourself as a consulting company first and using excess income to finance startups is a viable concept and I think more people would be wise to consider it. It provides a lot of good experience in the technical and business side of things, and you have to do what you can to stay afloat.
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It's kind of interesting, I like how clean it is, and that the most important keywords are presented in 2-word titles, which makes it very easy to scan.

I would remove "via", it's polluting the page.

EDIT: And maybe add the timeframe selector. Since it's a news site, it would be cool to see the trending news of the last hour, for instance.
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But do you get paying users from a site like that? If I'm anonymously filling out surveys for $4 per hour I'm probably not in the target audience for your $10 per month SaaS service or a particularly prolific purchaser via affiliate links.

Does anyone have any actual success stories in that area?
I believe you misunderstood my point.

1. People are uncertain whether Google Plus, a centralized social network, will gain significant enough traction to become a force in social networks.

2. Google Plus, in 2011, has had extended periods (weeks, months) where it gained 1M users every 3 days (the number of users in the bet). Thus, orders of magnitude more than 1M users is not sufficient to necessarily be a substantial social network.

3. In 2014, presumably there will be even more users on the Internet, and it will be possible to gain traction even faster than in 2011. Further, a social network might need to be even larger to be a substantial force in 2014.

4. Therefore, why would one set the threshold for "significant" traction for distributed social networks in 2014 at one network with 1M users, when that number may be orders of magnitude too small to be relevant in 2011?

(This ignores the question, of course, of what counts as distributed and/or what counts as a social network.)

Obviously, Google Plus is not distributed, or else one of the people would have already won the bet, since Google Plus already has millions of users!

I am confused, however, by your comment about users rolling over from Gmail. First, do you have evidence for this claim? (If anything, it seemed to be false in the case of Buzz.) Second, how is it relevant?
Trillions for banksters, millions for the entrepreneurs. It's a start I suppose.
I believe this is, in part, exactly how Intellectual Ventures operates.

Even if they don't have a patent on something, they can use interference to get some cross-licensing settlement going.
I don't know what the "market rate" is there. The way I determine if we can take on consulting gigs is to look at the hourly rate and figure out how many days we get "off" for how many days we work.

It's somewhat complicated by the fact that we don't live hourly, we live annually, so I do the following:

Let's say, to live comfortably, we want $60k a year each. There are some 220 work days in a year, with about 6 productive billable hours per day on average.

That means if I charge $100/hour then I get 2 days to work on the startup for every 3 days of contracting work.

You can pretty easily plug that into a spreadsheet and vary your hourly rate, then come up with an estimate on hours for a project and see how many days you'll get to work on your product.

If your goal is to have 4 spare days per day contracting, you need to charge a lot more per hour, so you need to find a market segment and service that will pay that amount.

Once you've decided this it gives you a really strong sense of "fixed costs" for your time so you feel much more comfortable saying no to work (because it's as simple as having bought something for $1 and therefore needing to sell it for $2).

The one thing that we consistently come across is that people often want to negotiate "partnerships" or cheaper rates in exchange for Other Value Proposition X.

The stock standard answer to this is, of course, we have no spare capacity for that type of proposition because all of our speculative investment is tied up in investment of our own products.

I've found I have more time and more money since I started thinking about things in this way.
Richard Stallman's way is a close 2nd:

For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

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Yeah, maybe not the best example because it's sort of a repetition of oku, meaning put it there (implied:so I can do something with it in the future).
It just stuck in my head because I had heard it conversationally before I learned it in class and had a ding lightbulb moment.

Maybe a better example of ~teoite->~toite shortening is aketeoite (proper, 6 syllables), meaning open it (for some future purpose) -> aketoite (spoken/casual, 5 syllables)?
Something inspired me to write a Brainfuck interpreter after reading this so I just put together one in Scheme with a TrollScript compatibility layer. I haven't tested it extensively but it seems to work with everything that I've thrown at it.

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I wrote it using Guile 1.8.7 and I have no idea if I'm using Guile specific features or not.

edit: Seems it's still a bit broken. The reverse string example in this thread doesn't work for example.

edit2: Well the reverse string example works now. I changed it to read the EOF as equal to 0.
There are two rules we're using at Steam Clock that are keeping this problem at bay as we bootstrap with consulting:

(1) 50% of our time should be spent on our own products

(2) If we're spending more than 50% on average on client work, we either raise our rates or turn away the least reasonable clients

If you can't pay your bills with the above formula, there are two options:

(1) Promote yourself more, increasing demand and letting you raise your rate

(2) Cut your costs

It's simple, and has worked well for us.
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No clue, sorry.

I imagine Google didn't bother renewing because they're hoping to get interesting data from Google+ users.
Geez if only everyone I knew put together had a spare $25k
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Kudos on being able to shut down cleanly.

The world has lots of stories on starting up, but way too few on shutting down. If you can bear to, please write about your experiences!
Wow, that's actually a really cool idea. When do you guys plan to expand outside the US?
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When I refresh the page, I don't see the alert again. Did you even check any referrers, or just set a flag to only show the alert once?
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Those same group of people happen to storm and migrate to At&t for more infestation ...
Sure, I read the article and I get that, but those are user expectations based on existing Windows PC behavior. In a 'post-PC' world, computer devices don't behave like that. Users will come to expect instant 'on' and only one possible 'off' state once they realize that their $300 Android tablet can get to their email instantly, yet their super fast expensive laptop can't.
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Krugman wrote a column on BitCoin:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/golden-cyberfett...

He predicts failure by asserting its algorithmic scarcity results in an ultimately deflationary currency which will result in hoarding and not spending money on goods, and uses it as a proxy for arguing against returning the USD to a gold standard.

I thought the first answer was an interesting repudiation regarding currency divisibility and effects of deflation. I think it's interesting that although prices for computing power are massively deflationary, consumers continue to keep buying faster computers every few years.
I don't currently have any plans to expand this since I can only receive SMSes from US phones.

Sorry :(
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Yeah, when I get a chance I'll gather together some stats on all the languages I have data on (about 40).

Finder reports 630,942,867 bytes for the whole directory. Assuming most files will be plain ASCII, that should give a good approximation for the total number of characters.
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These three activities have different QoS constraints: "voice" data is real time, lossy, and therefore has hardware assisted compression and routing; text messages and data are non-lossy, but have drastically different timing and retry constraints. So, even if they "traveled through the same towers and pipes" (they don't, a detail more expanded on by mdasen in his comment), it wouldn't make sense to charge the same for them as they have different cost requirements (although it might be somewhat more equal than it is now; in particular, text messages, which occupy valuable and limited control channel space, would likely become cheaper).
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