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Did I read this article wrong? Why would American Mormons need to go through American immigration to work in another country?

I live in Northeast Thailand, and there is a hive of Mormons not too far from here who always travel on bicycle in pairs, and always wearing black trousers, white shirts and little black name tags. Local people just think they are crazy and ignore them. I have know idea how they work out visas out here. But I do know they have a lot of under the table political clout in many countries mostly because of money paid over many decades. When I lived in Hong Kong, I remember someone telling me that in 50 years they had only converted a handful of people.
Orrrr, even better, the container they send the show in dynamically changes the ads based on what advertisers are trying to sell.
This. My company recently had a training session for their new development platform. Creating one entity with four attributes using "best practices" of TDD and abstracting everything resulted in over 20 Java and XML files and over 2000 lines of code. Each individual piece of that bloat had a somewhat reasonable justification, but the net result was just ridiculous. I had already decided to accept a less enterprisey job elsewhere, and am now even more convinced it was the right call.
On this discussion, I really recommend Jaques's post: http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+To+Sell+Your+Company
Willpower is not a resource, and glucose is not willpower fuel. See the following links:

http://www.epjournal.net/blog/2011/08/willpower-is-not-a-res...
http://www.epjournal.net/blog/2011/08/glucose-is-not-willpow...
http://www.epjournal.net/blog/2011/09/willpower-meets-the-co...
http://whatblag.com/2011/08/04/poverty-and-willpower-as-reso...
matter of time before he is trolling on HN!
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I am writing a research paper answering the question: "of companies that have participated in the Y-Combinator process, what has made some companies jump into a high level of success, while others have just remained at a mediocre success level? Moreover, what defines a high level of success within the startup industry?” I am hoping to interview as many founders as will let me, as well as stir some discussion about this question on HN itself.
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No. I'm tired of waiting for downloads, dealing with external hard drives, re-encoding video files, syncing my phone/tablet/TV, etc. Streaming is such a superior experience. Search, hit play, watch. Happy to watch an ad or pay a subscription for that convenience.
Another Java hater? :s
I bet Tom Preston Warner is basking in glory right now...and rightfully too...way to go Tom!!
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Because, fundamentally, most people aren't assholes.

I vacillate between both sides of the piracy issue. I used to pirate, when I was 14 and had no money. About the time I turned 16 or so I realized it wasn't a good idea and pretty much went without if I couldn't buy it; I saw no reason why other people couldn't do likewise, and got pretty annoyed at the casual piracy at the time. Having graduated from college and moved into a nice job, I buy stuff pretty much on the basis of "it looks interesting and it's only two bucks," and I can't bring myself to care about the pirates at all anymore. They're not part of my worldview.

If you can make the process of buying something simple enough and pain-free enough, I think that most people who can afford it will buy it. Others will pirate it because they can't afford it, and I think that there's a compelling argument to be made that many of those will eventually become regular consumers when they've got the money to do so. There surely is a group of dyed-in-the-wool douchebags who will never buy anything they can pirate because they are, at their cores, Bad People, but them's the breaks--I've come to the gradual understanding that these people are shitty human beings who will screw others so long as they don't have to look them in the eye to do so, and all you can do is write them off.

But I think that, for the most part, if you treat your potential customers right, they'll do right by you. (The same is not true, I think, of "donate what you want"--I strongly feel that method of revenue generation encourages people to pay as little as they can rationalize, and what even nominally 'good' people can rationalize is really really small. But that's another topic.)
but copyright last a long time, Apple couldn't copyright their UI design so I guess this shouldn't be able to be copyrighted either but you never know.
Torrent isn't needed for authorized content. Ads can be updated and targeted without torrents.
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Anything by DJ Decryption, he does intellectual rap that's interesting to listen to.

Pink Floyd, specifically the Gilmour stuff.
I thought that was the post itself... very meta.
This isn't really going to move the tongue farther from the cheek, but here goes:

Why not a mail-order spouse programme for founders? Surely there must be a lot of Americans, especially with the financial crisis, who would be willing to take a bet on a founder's future income in exchange for a green card. You could make proposal pitch decks with Lessons Learned from previous marriages.

And if it doesn't work out there's always Series B.
I can't remember where I saw it, but I distinctly remember reading recently that the LCARS interface isn't actually owned by CBS/Paramount/Whomever. It was a comment - on HN, IIRC - by the developer of a LCARS iPad app. I'll see if I can find it.

Edit: Found it. Relevant discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2918834
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Speak for yourself. I didn't find it useless at all.

Knowing is half the battle.
They use more "fashionable" languages too. Just not for distributed databases. Most popular open source databases are also written in C/C++/Java.
It doesn't matter -- you SHOULD be doing things at the beginning of your startup that does not scale.

The fact of the matter is that it is extremely unlikely that you will ever get 100X registrations -- it just does not happen. Most people "launch" a landing page or their MVP, and it's more of a squeak than a bang.

You need to make your early customers evangelicals, and you do that by doing things for them that do not scale. Something cool like the Skills welcome email is very appropriate, and if executed sincerely, does a great job to convert casual surfers to potential users.
In which case the NSA say "Oops, it was a genuine mistake. Sorry." With 200,000 lines of code, there will almost certainly be unintentional security holes that haven't been found.
Is flaming out considered an exit?
Entrepreneurship:

http://cdixon.org/

http://derekandersen.me/

http://davidcummings.org/

http://viniciusvacanti.com/

http://www.steveblank.com/

http://37signals.com/svn

Startup/Tech Marketing:

http://www.responsys.com/blogs/nsm/

http://startup-marketing.com/

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/

http://unbounce.com/blog/

Venture Capital:

http://bhorowitz.com/

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/

http://www.feld.com/wp/

http://www.avc.com/

http://vcinjerusalem.typepad.com/vcinjerusalem/

http://sixkidsandafulltimejob.blogspot.com/

http://redeye.firstround.com/

http://informationarbitrage.com/
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Unfortunetaly a.f.a.i.k. you need to be in a relationship for two years in order to apply for a greencard, but I love the idea of a russianbrides.com for entrepeneurs :-)
i bet he's working on a desktop environment; first the kernel, then git, now i heard that he's fed up with gnome and kde, so let's see.
Yes, but not a good one.
You misunderstand. I'm wondering why they allow only 140 codepoints and not characters. Even in Unicode, 1 codepoint != 1 character.
Agreed. Not taking joy in programming says more about you than the state of programming.
A "please don't use this code for evil" license would, by definition, not be open-source. (Also, such a license would almost certainly be ignored by evildoers.)
I find it amusing/insane that a government gets to decide what is and is not an allowed religion.

Q: Do you worship someone?

A: Yes.

Q: Good! Does he live in the clouds or in some Great Beyond?

A: No he lives in Palo Alto.

Q: Sorry, that's not allowed. We reject your religion on the ground of not being spooky/irrational/superstitious/ambiguous enough. Next please!

A: I believe in faeries!

Q: Too late. Plus that's not a serious religion. Faeries aren't real. Don't be silly.
I'd be scared of the Tolkien estate.
Should be a poll
I'm guessing that the idea is to make it easy to enforce permissions at the application layer. You give permissions, and you get only cells that the current query-er is allowed to see. With HBase, it would be pretty easy to put permissions by the row (add a permission column, or column family if it's complicated enough), but if you want some columns in a row to have some permissions and some to have different ones, it would get unpleasant and inefficient fast.

And regardless, all of the filtering would have to occur at the application layer, meaning you'd have to wrap every get/scan to have it do the filtering for you. The Accumulo way also gets you some efficiency because it never even has to transfer the cells that get filtered by the permissions (or even fully read their content from disk, possibly).

Even though each cell isn't separately encrypted to get you true security at the cell level (which would destroy your performance, I'd guess), this seems like a huge win if you want to have permissions at the cell level.
American Mormoms in Thailand deal with Thai immigration, foreign Mormoms in the US deal with US immigration. In Utah you can get a tour in dozens of languages, so there's a lot of people in that second category. Of course there's also American Mormoms going from state A to B; they don't need to deal with immigration at all.
> this nightmare scenario

Hyperbole much?
software engs in the startup I joined made anywhere from tens of thousands up to more than half a million (depending on how early they joined, when they sold their options, etc).
Leadership definitely means leading people, and there are different ways to lead. I think of livestock.
One can stand in front of the livestock and call them, pull on a rope attached to them, get behind them and push them, or get behind them and scare or whip them.
Those are all different ways to 'lead' the livestock and can all technically be effective if done with the right skill sets.
The author is talking about the "Stand in front and call" type of leadership.
"53-year-old man now going on six"

Awesome!
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This proves that you are learning and there is still much to learn. I've been programming for 6 years and I feel it all the time. I think the only way to feel better is to keep writing better code by keep reading better code.
You're definitely not alone in feeling like this. "Good enough" always depends on the circumstances, so the best way to know if your feelings are warranted is to get honest code reviews from the people who will be working with your code. Balance that with external reviews from programmers you look up to (expecting some contradictions) - then take your own path.

Don't despair if you get a lot of negative feedback - it's easy to improve by reading some of the books listed in this thread and repeat.

Enjoy the journey - I've yet to meet I've yet to meet someone who's reached the destination (although plenty have stopped along the way).
If the urge, desire and instinct to communicate is universal, but only the means of production have been democratized since the advent of blogging, then I wonder: fifty years ago, what were the people who are most likely to be blogging today doing to express themselves?

I suspect that they were much more locally focused. Writing letters to the editor (because people still read the paper), aligning with community social organizations, being more actively involved in their communities.

So now we're able to form narrowcast tribes across geographic (and even temporal) boundaries. Are we better off? En masse, such connections may leave whole societies better off (Arab spring) but I think that perhaps we won't realize the full benefits until the focus returns to the local. And that won't happen until there's a rise in the locality of the internet.

Think reinvention of the local paper; or maybe a craigslist for the issues of the day.

And that can't happen until the technology is in the hands and power of EVERYONE. Think Kindles (or iPads, or whatever) in a rack at your McDonalds, literally replacing the local paper. Perhaps the biggest advancement here is the price point; but we need to cut that iPad cost in half perhaps 5-8 more times for this access to happen.

When that day hits--the day of the ubiquitous $1 Kindle--then I think we can claim democratization, and we will see a return to locality and the strengthening of our communities.
I hear you and agree very much. Gladwell had an interesting article posted here recently about the racism of the Red Sox owner.

The challenge is what to do about it? It would be VERY hard to regulate since the internet is so dispersed.

Could a non-profit offer to help?
I'm not sure if you would consider these "startups" per se, but I've been at two private companies that had an acquisition or equivalent.

Large comparison shopping site, I joined about 9 months before a majority stake was sold to a private equity group. They took a while to grant my options and by that time they were in talks about the acquisition, so the options were priced at the acquisition price (since once they'd seen an offer, they couldn't price "fair market value" below that). I didn't exercise, since at that price it wasn't going to perform better than any other stock and wasn't liquid.

Next time around, I got eleventy billion options in a "startup" around series G or H funding. They got acquired but did not cover the liquidation preferences for investors, so no employees saw a dime. They did hand out some pretty significant bonuses.
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I think you're asking how much was earned on the day the deal closed - which is a fine way to measure.

But it's worth keeping in mind that it's very common for employees, particularly early/key employees, to have significant additional upside after the deal closes: unvested shares, retention bonuses, etc.
It also helps underscore exactly why allowing out-of-band installation is crucial.
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It does not mean that you aren't leading people, if you aren't trying to lead people. There are many great leaders who never intended to lead anything. And aren't pioneers leaders? They were the first and the others followed. If people are following that promotes the unbeknownst pilgrim to leader.

I agree that if you aren't leading people that you aren't a leader, but I don't think that is what the author implied. There are many many great leaders who are never seen as or talked about as "leaders."
One place to get this information is in SEC filings. Look, for example, at Google's filing for the YouTube acquisition:

http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.uM1t.htm#_rom20596_5

With a little rummaging in LinkedIn you can figure out who started when. Multiply the number of shares times $500 or so and you'll know what they ended up with.
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Having lived for a short time in "Cohousing," which is simply a fancy word for a bunch of people who own an entire condo complex/set of houses as a group, sharing ownership of a clubhouse and other facilities -- YES.

The core problem was diverse goals. The entire group each time (I somehow made this mistake TWICE) had a hard time coming to common solutions around the most trivial decisions.

Until you have something like a manifesto with a long set of explanations of what will be expected of everyone, you shouldn't even try to START forming the group. No more than a set of 3-4 friends should write the manifesto, either, or it won't have enough teeth.

And there's a downside here, too: If you're going to live together with a lot of people with shared rules, the one thing you DON'T want is a lot of cultural diversity, at least not before the rules are set down and the new "diverse" members have bought into them.

I've seen a community with strict vegans who wouldn't ever attend a meal where meat was served and other members who wouldn't eat if there wasn't a hefty meat portion. Now everyone gets their own kitchens, but the optional 2-3 times a week "common meals" were a strong way to stay connected with others in the community -- except in that they were also a source of conflict, for meat/no-meat and other reasons.

tl;dr: Living together with (say) 30 other people is somewhat like being in a marriage with 30 other people, only with fewer benefits. At least in most such communities.
I have the same news which you are basing your own assumptions on. Apple didn't search his house for no apparent reason. Do you really believe that the GPS and cellular triangulation they were using were wrong? This is the same as Homeland Security are using to capture terrorists.

I'm not arguing this on a legal basis. I will leave this up to the courts. I grew up on the streets and, while I may not have stolen something in my youth, I can tell you I would've been the guy to tell him to shut the phone off.

There is this belief among many of the absolute of good and evil. Most times this is not the case. It's always complicated and not always clear.

If you disagree, please explain the reason why anyone was there in the first place.
Sorry, my Unicode is a bit weak.

I think Twitter should use whichever usually gives the user the most characters, to prevent them from getting burnt.

I think in many cases, the normalized form is more permissive, as it puts "character plus diacritic" together into one character. In a language with lots of diacritics, the number of codepoints might be more than the number of normalized characters (depending on the client). You wouldn't want to allow (say) ~70 Korean characters on one OS, and 140 on another, just because they use different codepoints to represent certain characters - one with character then diacritic (2 codepoints?), another with both crammed together in one codepoint.

But as I said, I'm not a unicode guru (and I don't know much about Korean, I just saw it as an example). This might be wrong.
Thanks, neither suggestion worked. My tablet is the viewsonic G-Tablet with a modded version of honeycomb. I assume that's the problem, flaky describes the whole thing. I doubt this is a big problem though, I can see why you'd want to keep all downloads through the market for tracking.
I made something like US$18k (pretax). Was the downpayment on my house. Not as much as I wished, but beats the hell out of flaming out.

ETA: Company sold out about 2 years after I started. I didn't make nearly as much as if I had continued being a contractor with a BigDumbCo. But I had a _LOT_ more fun.
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This problem has been solved hundred years ago. The solution is called post office. Nowadays they were getting to expensive and therefore have been replaced in Austria by post partners like gas stations, or small super markets in your neighbourhood. Works perfectly.
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Some time ago I met some people from the .gov cyber security, NSA and other offices. The head of the .gov office on cyber security was really nice and invited me to go to dinner with them.

The guy from the NSA was hands down the biggest evil piece of shit I have ever experienced in my life. The way he talked, what he said, and the fact that he was given free reign to commit crimes in his training, which he openly bragged about, made me want to murder the guy right then and there.

I lost any and all respect for what the government and the NSA do.
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Just put down a few bucks. Good luck with the rest of the fundraising.

Any future wireless add-on potential using RF, zigbee, etc, etc?
Don't tell my team. We have a blast every day.
My previous company was a little beyond the startup phase. I had a decent amount of stock options. Nothing to retire off of, but it would have been a nice pay day had the company grown to an appreciable size (i.e. valuation). Unfortunately that never came to be. After a few haphazard mergers and acquisitions and a downright terrible financial performance my options were worthless when I left. My new employer is a much smaller startup. We'll see how it goes over the next year or two.
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The "torvalds" github account claims to have been created today. Did github have reserve that account name for Linus or did they boot a squatter? I see there dubious accounts registered for "linustorvalds", "billgates", and "stevejobs" but not "billg" or "sjobs".

btw stevejobs uploaded Windows 8 source code in 2009! Bill, you might want to give Steve a call. ;)
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20k on a 30M purchase by a large company wanting to enter our space. I didn't know shit about options. Pretty good for 9 months, nearly even with the salary I should have had in a non-startup job. So in the end, deferred savings plan.
My company re-released our flagship PHP app as open-source
Supposed to be a "Tell HN: " announcement, but that was stripped.

We're really excited, and would love to get some feedback from the HN crowd!

The product is a CMS and rapid PHP web application development platform built on CodeIgniter called "Hero".
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Yeah. New copyright bills have been put on the table a bunch of times in the last few years (C-60 in 06, C-61 in 08, and C-32 last year). Every single one of them just got pushed aside as governments dissolves/elections declared or whatever. They've never been put up for a vote, and frankly, I'm scared of what would happen if they ever did go up for votes.
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I've taken to just buying a season/series on dvd, then ripping them to a hard drive.

I get the double whammy of 1) I feel all good and whatnot of making sure the content produces get some money (even if it's realistically, like, 10% of what I payed to get the series), and 2) I have rather high quality masters that I can then rip rather high quality copies to a hard drive.

Also, this is faster than just torrenting the shows at similar quality. (maybe a few days, regardless of the show compared between a day and more than a week, depending on the popularity of the show)