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I've had the opportunity to speak with Gerry on a couple occasions. He's an incredibly nice and brilliant man. He pulled a postdoc into his office and they talked to me for about an hour on a huge variety of topics. He taught me the Y Combinator, gave me a pocket protector (same as the author's) and signed my copy of SICP. (Hal, unfortunately, was on sabbatical at Google at the time.)

What impressed me about Gerry was the incredibly wide variety of topics he could speak on, not just computer science and electrical engineering but many other hard sciences and I even remember him mentioning something about the ambiguity of ancient Hebrew. He had something intelligent to say about everything. A few other interesting points are that when he was my age (high school) he used his knowledge of chemistry to make explosives for fun, and he had a chair hanging from the ceiling he had built himself. Being around someone that knowledgeable and intelligent has the potential to automatically make you more ambitious, and it's something I recommend every young person do as soon as possible. (PG said something similar about showing founders how to be relentlessly resourceful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=508048)

I came back and visited Gerry a few months later for a briefer visit. At the time I was deciding between colleges. He asked me about where I was considering and provided me the most helpful overview of the strengths and weaknesses of each of their cultures. Needless to say, he was a pretty big fan of MIT. ;)

He told me an interesting anecdote about Marvin Minsky that I haven't heard anywhere else so I'll put it here. We were discussing good procrastination. He said Minsky advised putting all mail in a pile, newest on top, and only processing the pile top-down. Then, once a month throw out the bottom half of the pile to save time. "Anything important will come twice," Minsky said.
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So?

And still, you can group friends into lists and share selectively. Just like Circles in Google+.
What a wonderful sense of values are on display here. Let's all be like this.

"Now I just had to figure out how I was going to tell me wife that we are about to move to Seattle as I should point out, at this point I hadn’t told her I was interviewing for the gig.
Pack up your life and move to Seattle.

I eventually wore my wife down who just gave birth to our second child Emily, so there I was organizing my entire family to move from Australia to Seattle. My wife had never set foot in the US in her entire life, and here I was dragging her away from a promising career at Ernst & Young to work for $20k USD less than we were earning in Australia (Not including her wage either)."
I had no idea what you were talking about. But Googling "Fred Wilson bitch" gives this: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/fred-wilson-be-your-own-bit...
Sure, but do you? I don't, and I don't see most people taking the time to do that.
Okay, Let me try to be a bit more specific :)

In the start it was mostly SEO mini sites then its more PPC arbitrage and then when search marketing got tough i started creating sites that depend on word of mouth/viral traffic. At my peak i was making $400k per month!

BTB, Most people with my kind of track record start to develop their personal brand and become a "Make money online Guru" and start sellimg systems and ebooks. But that life is not for me :)
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The person you're talking about hacked into Valve's network for six months and obtained internal emails as well as source code for a major project that was in development. He was also charged in Germany with the creation of the Agobot botnet. I'm not getting what's raising your eyebrows.
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Man, I came here to make this joke, but you've beaten me to it... and you're the only other comment.

I love HN. <3
I'm pretty sure an 8$/month VPS will be sufficient for a very long time.
You might not see the value, but someone else will. Value is always determined by the market.
On a separate note (by reading your comment), isn't funny how you need to be lawyer in order to find out whether you are breaking the law or no for trivial things as this one.

USSR perfected that approach but we are getting there.
The information has been public already, ever since you joined Facebook. But since it's easier to access everything soon, a "Delete posts, activities, and likes older than a $TIME" button would be a nice feature, for some value of $TIME.
That. I'm a relative git novice, and feared that the survey would not allow me to answer well because of that. The opposite was the case and I learned about possibilities and tools.
Sharecropping is an arrangement with a land owner who rents out their land to a farmer for the payment of a percentage of the crop instead of cash.

It reduces the risk for the farmer because they only have to pay based on what they are able to grow instead of a fixed amount as seen in most cash-rent arrangements. The landowner stands to lose if the crop is a failure, but can make more if the crop is a success.

The term may also come with some historical meaning, but that is what sharecropping has come to mean today.

Edit: Down vote me if you wish, but that is what sharecropping is in the rural community. Speaking as a farmer, sharecropping is a great way to access land in a low-risk way. I don't know why sharecropping land is seen as a negative.
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Self-hosted CRX installs are not on an even footing as Google-hosted CRX installs, and CRX-less installs are not fully supported by Chrome.

What is needed, however, is a unified storage quota and permissions api completely distinct from the Chrome Web Store and its branding. In the interest of the open web, and given the commercial forces at play, this responsibility cannot be relegated to the Chrome Web Store.
Hard to disagree with this as far as content scraping and Instapaper go.
Awesome man! Congrats on finding your path.
for some reason i sympathize this team, but really.. if you are so high profile hackers group, why use mostly-legitimate-use vpn service when you can buy:

1) vpn service hosted in the bot net (i.e. on zombies machines)

2) hosting on the bot net (i.e. one you can not stop at all, you can not track it)

These "services" quite possible to buy and they are not really expensive. The only downside is link speed which should be pretty slow keeping in mind that bots are hosted on regular home PC on adsl/cable internet connection..
That's your fault for friending anyone who asks.
This is shameless threadjacking, but their videos look a lot like a little art project I did some years ago with Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brevity/sets/164195/

It's kind of a similar hack. There's a many to one relationship of images to a tag. Then that relationship is reversed and averaged out to get a consensus image. Of course this only works at the linguistic/labelling level, not at a brain level.
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Yeah, I can't log back in right now. It looks like they had a failed update to the system. It might also just be overloaded.
Obviously Microsoft is taking a page out of Apple's book, but this is going to far. Micrsoft needs to recognize it's long-term strength has always been the open(ish)ness of their platform.

Hopefully they recognize the error of their ways and make the app store the best place to get apps, not the only one.

I don't necessarily have a problem with using IE, if IE10 is a decent browser, most people would have no reason to change as the numbers of IE6 has proven over time. If the majority of users aren't going to install another browser anyway, why lock down those who will?
The ISS is great and all, but the real value of the shuttle was that we could park next to Hubble or one of our spy satellites and do maintenance in place, so milking a lot of value out of orbiting platforms that would otherwise have to be shut down. I don't see what we have that replaces that right now.
Thanks for clarifying.

I think I like rust version better: when I see an '=' sign, I assume that the RHS returns something which is assigned to the LHS, and something doesn't depend on the LHS. Coffeescript violates that, and it feels much more like 'special syntax'. But without knowing either language, I won't go further than "this seems weird".
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It's terrible writing. How many sentences randomly end with a question mark?

> A guy I barely knew but was in charge of the video side of Silverlight?

> Fine, I thought maybe I can get a fresh perspective and start something new in this team?

> I’m riding the Junior bench on all these ideas that he stole from not only Brad (my old boss) but also me?

Seriously?
The karma of the submitter has no effect on how a story is ranked. Nor I suspect does it affect whether people upvote the story, except when the submitter is one of maybe 100 HN users who are well enough known that their username as submitter makes people pay attention to the story. Plus if we noticed anyone consistently rewriting titles we'd ask them to stop and eventually ban them if they didn't.
With over a decade building products that are used in them, I'd agree but it's even worse than that. The sale is so abstracted it's nuts. Purchasing decisions are made by group-executives, for hospitals, for users (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, patients).

The distance between the users and the buyers is awful. I think it's easily the largest problem in getting quality innovative products into the hands of acute-care clinicians.
Nor can ChromeBooks run Trident or Gekko.
It got acquired by Colourlovers.
The HN title is misleading. From the site:

What you’re watching above is the first few sections of the course.

You have to be a paid member to get access to the FULL course.
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And it's unfounded statements like this that contribute to ignorance and useless "debate." They do not keep their models "secret," it's just difficult for them to release homebrew software not written by software engineers to the general public and get much use from the exercise without a lot of handholding. Difficult != secret.
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I'm British, and currently living and working for a startup in NYC. I love the city and my job is great, but I'm starting to get to the point where I want to start doing my own thing sometime soon. I've got ideas and the ability to execute on them (I'm a developer) but it's extremely difficult for me to set up a company and work for it- and as far as I know it's impossible for me to do it on the side of my existing job.

So, I'm starting to wonder if I should move back to the UK. Is there anyone out there that's spent a decent amount of time in both, and could give an account of how they compare?

It feels like NYC has a hackathon event every weekend and an active social scene to back up the industry- not to mention a ton of investors on hand to pitch to. Can the same be said about London?
Ugh. I worked QA years ago and swore to never do it again. Management hates you because you're telling them the product is not ready to ship. Developers hate you because you're pointing out their errors. No one has your back, and everyone wants to blame you.

The company had literally fired the whole testing department previously for saying the product wasn't ready. With those annoying testers out of the way, out the door it went. And promptly had multiple emergency point releases the following week to fix showstoppers cropping up at the customer sites.

That got them to create a testing department again - but it was still without honor in the company. And firing the whole group again was often discussed, as they were _still_ delaying releases by finding bugs!

I departed. They got eaten in a merger several months later.
Im not looking forward to the new copyright practice laws that will come around when this technology matures..
I was talking about interpersonal email ("A friend sending another friend an email"), but by chance, yes, I have sent bulk email. I don't dispute that bulk messages can be banned, sometimes capriciously, by the big guys. My point is that for social emails, i.e. emails between people, the email system is a very open, free system. Overall, that's the kind of system I want to base my livelihood on.

To give a concrete example: a few years ago, I set up an email server in my garage using an old computer that was being thrown away at work. I used all free software. It successfully sent email. None of my emails were blocked. I engaged with my social network, (my "friends") using it. If my ISP had blocked my email sending, there were many, many other providers willing to send my email for the price of the connection. Given that spam cannot be eliminated, despite decades of trying, I think it's fair to say that I won't run out of alternatives, especially given that the email I want to send is innocuous.

By comparison, I cannot set up a Facebook server in my garage. If Facebook blocks me, I'm done. If that was my livelihood, I'm fully screwed.
I think that most, if not all, of the developer community understands the importance of QA, but the mystery is how to grow a developer to do QA.
Good idea- I did exactly that:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3030902
yeah I was trying not to confuse the issue, the audience is perhaps the non-technical and i couldn't remember myself the Baud / bps / Bps and I gave up :D
The nitty-gritty details of corporate politics at Microsoft is of interest to me.

Given the recent barrage of positive tech articles about the upcoming Windows 8, I enjoyed a look from the inside at what looked from outside like a remarkably successful product (at least on the marketing side).
It's been a while since I've watched it, but I didn't get the impression that Blank lost it. As I remember, Andrew just made a big deal out of his minor misstep and focused on the misstep rather than getting the interview back on track. I think most interviewees, not just Blank, would find this annoying.
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I kind of get the strategy, but it seems risky and expensive to try and "catch" all (or at least enough to be effective) bronx rappers before they got famous.

To be honest, if it was a foolish plan, that sort of makes it more scummy in my mind: to care so little about others that you execute a crappy plan just because you can.
These things are designed to be forgotten, but with the Facebook Timeline, much of your life is all but indelible, published front and center until you go through each item individually and hide or delete it.

That, right there, is why this is so terrifying. Regardless of stalkers and people who browse your past for kicks, this is an insane utility for profiling individuals down to the minutiae of every day life. What's more is that it's a catalog, itemized down to the hour of activity on your Facebook. Yes, this has been available in theory for awhile, but now it's highly accessible and easy to find and scrutinize any moment in anyone's life (that is, if they've been posting to their Facebook). The scary part: a lot of people do.

The geek in me wants to applaud Facebook for the technical achievement of the whole thing, but deep down, this just feels a bit too much like opt-in surveillance (whether that be by the government or individuals).
'Disrupt' has an entirely different meaning when you're working in healthcare or government, where there's an intimidating culture of politics, status quo and big money. Actually, those sectors are probably the ones that need disrupting the most.

There's two distinct things here: medtech/biotech and software. The former is riddled with patents, government approvals, waiting periods and stonewalling by the very hospitals and insurance companies that are supposed to want healthy people, etc. Software is easier: an easier EMR (they exist) might remove complexity in daily life for medical professionals, but I'm waiting to see a startup make an impact in the way of meaningful doctor-patient relationships, especially outside of a static, single clinical visit.
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You can probably generalize this and bit and say that capital is currently flowing to activities that are expensive. In this case the activity that everyone is trying to "fix" is marketing. It's insanely expensive to market products and services. Reducing costs there would free up resources to go to things like biotech or whatever else people would rather capital go towards. I try to stay value free in my judgments on this topic so I'm not really moved by this to begin with.

I realize that there is a lot of money spent on health care but that money is spread among a lot of different activities so it's not something a startup could target and hope to fix on a large scale.
I accept that in response to abuses, the practice may have evolved over time. However, that does not in any way diminish the value of the metaphor, because the vast majority of people who encounter the word “sharecropper” think of the kind of farmer who can be evicted after harvest and often were.

Further to that, I strongly suspect that most of those who are aware that the practice has evolved since those draconian times read the metaphor and immediately grasp that the metaphor refers to the historical meaning of the word and can go on to extract value from it without belabouring a pedantic point.

I will go further and challenge you: When you read the above posts, were you unaware of the historical behaviour of landlords and sharecroppers? Is it news to you that this practice was so abused that the word has pejorative overtones even though the practice may have evolved in modern times?

Or is it simply that you wish to share with us the interesting news that times have changed for farming sharecroppers even if they haven’t for developers on proprietary platforms?
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Some of the new autoshare features are a bit silly, but you can easily opt out of those. The facebook profile has always had ALL of the same info as the Timeline, it was just presented differently, and required someone to click a button several times to load previous info. Sure, a lot of that history was initially hidden and required a bit of digging to get to, but it's always been there. I guess I don't see how it's really any different.
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Ok, that's a good point. I assumed poster quality mattered because posts which are highly rated are mostly from posters with high karam. Confusing cause with effect probably.

That said, the quality of the titles matters a lot, and getting some up votes quickly also seems to mater a lot. Users could be bad actors and intentionally do bad titles. They also can try to avoid collect early votes through timing their posts during the weekday morning west coast time. I suspect that hacker news traffic peaks wednesday at lunch time PST.
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That's unfortunate, but understandable considering how much they squeezed into the machine.

Thanks for the correction.
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"It is hard to start a space tourism business if the person developing your vehicles is barred from showing the CEO of the company the designs (as happened to Virgin Galactic for a couple years because Richard Branson is not a US citizen"

For the military, that is a feature not a bug.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Launch#Concerns_and_investi...

Realize anyone with the ability to get to orbit has the ability to drop things on the USA.

Contrary to popular belief, the people in government who make laws and control regulation are not bumbling idiots. Sure, it's easy to make jokes about the DMV or the post office, but the reality is that the person at the counter you interact with doesn't make laws. The guys making laws are generally really sharp and well educated, and in fact a lot of them actually have economics degrees because it is a great background for that position. So they probably understand better than you or I roughly how many jobs are going to be killed by these tight regulations.

That is weighed against the military's desire to keep space less open for security reasons. For a long time the military was winning the argument. It has slowly started changing, but the delay certainly has nothing to do with a mis-understanding of economics.
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Yeah, that's what I meant by the "prototyping" bullet. The inclusion of the processor says both nothing and something obvious. It's barely notable.
You should watch the course on "How to use blogging to building traffic, brand awareness, and SEO juice for your product" :-)

In other words: Do a series of blog posts about this on the Mixrank blog!
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Really great insight. Being part of an accelerator program/tv show/pageant shouldn't be all that matters. It should be about building real businesses that solve actual problems the founders can relate with. Not building just a feature.
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