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Yeah I suspected that I fail as a yc poster. Bad title + long narrative means few replies. Still, I appreciate the response.

I work part-time for this company at a salary of about 65% less than market value amortized over my entire work period.

The mathematical models serve as predictions based on data collected. This is one of the main competencies of the service. However without the integration and infrastructure this wouldn't be too useful. I am probably replaceable in the sense that they could have found someone else but if that person was willing to work for cheap as me for no equity from the beginning and do same quality work is unlikely.

If I were to walk away, since I have pretty much designed and implemented most of the code base and infrastructure, this would probably be quite a bad position to leave them in as we have no other coders right now and we have looked to hire for several months with no avail.

The idea is I would continue working for a reduced salary after graduation. Probably reduced about 40-50% below market value.

I appreciate any additional comments.
I wanted to study Medicine.
I ended up working for Wall Street.
Is free-standing actually a good thing? It seems to me if you're trying to maximize flux per unit material, you can't do much better than a flat sheet. The only problem is that the sun moves, but it seems like a free-standing array would only get slightly better performance for much greater cost.
I'm sure we've all seen the picture of Bill Gates at a Microsoft conference with a mac in the background running a presentation application. Not all that shocking.

This on the other hand is shocking:

The most common operating systems are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux, while the most common microprocessors are x86-compatible CPUs.
-Wikipedia

Amazing how it says Windows AND Mac OS. Stop with the dichotomy.
I read on TechCrunch (and scores of other places) that Microsoft said that this has been their plan all along.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/17/its-over-for-seinfeld-b...

Gizmodo says that CP+B confirms there was one produced that hasn't aired, but may later, along with others yet to be produced:

http://gizmodo.com/5051682/microsoft-ads-featuring-bill-gate...

There you go. Got anything to the contrary that isn't baseless hearsay like "Microsoft's questions from the press were replied to by their public relations agency, ergo they are panicking"?

Surely you must admit now that Gruber's logic there was deeply flawed.
I wonder who would request that this video be removed from blip?
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I'm no stranger. (To the point that I disassociate!) I couldn't agree more on the futility of trying to bend Wikipedia to your will.

But I reject the "play along, or else, I don't care" methodology. Democracies are often wrong. We have to hold the community as a whole accountable.
Lithium-ion batteries can easily achieve 150-200Wh/kg

Li-Ion in vehicles usually involves redundancy so as to minimize the discharge-damage to the cells. The Tesla Roadster batteries weigh about 400 kg and are rated to hold about 50kWh = 125 Wh/kg.

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/technical-discussion/354-tesl...
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Business people have shown over and over again that they are just as incompetent and inefficient, if not strikingly more so, than government.

I'm old enough to remember the nationalized industries, British Gas, British Telecom, British Airways and so on. They became infinitely better almost overnight when they were forced to compete in the market rather than being subsidised monopolies.

Cooperation, rather than competition, is the higher good.

Even Marx didn't believe that, that's why he was always banging on about dialectic materialism.

Name one significant scientific or technological advance that didn't come about through competition, even if it was only to see who could do it first.
From a related article (http://www.katu.com/news/local/28432984.html):

If he is right, solar panels with his 3D cells would provide 500 times more light absorption than commercially-available solar cells and nine times more than cutting-edge 3D solar cells.

So apparently there is some advantage to 3D cells, apparently related to multiple light interactions:

"Regular solar cells are only 2D and only allow light interaction once," he said.

It's still not apparent what the basis is for the 500x light absorption figure. Seems to me that the most meaningful basis is the footprint of the device, but that is not clear from any story I've read on this subject.
They use CMD-# for switching tabs. I think bookmarks are better because they're less likely to shift... but I guess its kind of handy if you always keep say gmail on your first tab.
Wait what? How do tabs in different processes preclude cross-domain user scripting? You can already do that!

In addition if you use the task manager you'll notice that child tabs are within the same process as well.
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Management. The more companies I work for, the more I realize that coherent decision makers are the foundation of successful enterprises.
It's pretty confusing, it looks like a service I might use so I went to the home page and set up an alert for "fizzbuzz", I then got a prompt asking my to register (do I have to register for the alert to work ? is it optional ?). After registering I ended up at a page which confused the hell out of me.

"we haven't found any of your comments yet" left me thinking - have they not found any comments that match my search term or does it mean something else.

The options given were:
# Claim Comments – help us find your comments
# Edit Account – review your account details
# Edit Profile – so people can find you
# Search – for people to follow

The "Search" option kinda sounds like what I want to do, but the "for people to follow" makes me think it isn't. It's completely unclear what I need to do in order to track some keywords.
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It even worse a connotation. Just lame.

Tools are just meant to enhance productivity and aid people. Bottom line is people and strategy and not tools.
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What's interesting about this is that you can give the browser's javascript access to phone-side API's!
Why are you all assuming no one notices this feature? The improved and very productive in-line search is one of the first things I noticed about Chrome, it's just plain awesome.

Anyway, the earmark of good UI is that nifty features are there when you need them, and when they manifest themselves they're helpful. Features that get in your way when they serve no purpose only serve to clutter and bloat; so props to the Chrome team on this one.
I know people on the IE development team that use Macbooks (running OS X) as their primary machines - it doesn't mean a thing.
This was just flagged as [dead] a little bit ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=309558
Password Reset is one of the best reasons to embrace OpenID. While there are many lesser reasons and even some against using it, the weakness of password resets (as demonstrated in the Palin email crack) scream for the adoption of some sort of decentralized, user-in-control authentication mechanism. When you only have one password and you use it everywhere, you have no reason whatsoever to lose it, and therefore no reason to need a silly password reset feature.
Chinese Engineers have done a very nice job! They design a low ressources but dynamic netbook.Now, they can go forward. First, they have to implement a mini OS displaying directly the homepage browser after a few seconds boot as Splashtop.Secondly,to allow alternative energy supplies as FreePlay(solar,dynamo,AAcells).
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However, it promises significant savings in bandwidth and improvements in quality over these codecs, by some claims even superior to those promised by the latest generation of codecs such as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC or SMPTE's VC-1 (which is based on Microsoft's WMV 9).

Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_(codec)
Sorry -- Alerts require you to be a registered user so we can deliver them to a verified e-mail address. If you don't want to sign-up, you can perform searches and subscribe to results via RSS.

We thought it would be cool if we carried an alert through the sign-up process and added it afterwards. I guess we didn't realize how confusing it would be when the registration was complete. We'll be making this a lot more clear; thanks for the feedback.

The page you're viewing (the Dashboard) allows you to:

- View comments by people you're following (/home)

- View alerts you've subscribed to (/home/alerts)

- View comments shared by people you're following (/home/shared)

We're going to revisit that welcome msg; for now, you should visit http://www.backtype.com/home/alerts to find your alert and subscribe to more. Alternatively, you can perform searches on http://www.backtype.com/comments and subscribe to them from the results page.

Thanks again.
I am surprised that David encourage you not to demo the product and just show a screenshot... if I were an investor, I'd like to see what I am investing in.

It also go against all the other recommendations I have read -- they usually recommend demo your product early if you have it.
"conversations that may require our participation"

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An ex coworker of mine worked at an ad agency that handled some MS stuff, and they had to use MS tools for a lot of things.
Gosh, I miss Belgium, spent 5 years there. Australian weather is great and stuff, but it's boooring...
Is any more evidence required that the music industry has no respect for it's audience?
It's still not apparent what the basis is for the 500x light absorption figure.

Maybe it is a mis-paraphrase of 500-suns concentration capacity. Alternately, it might only refer to UV.
> most yachts carry a truckload of batteries

All we need is a second flywheel battery to power the first one...
Seriously. Is the Daily Mail any worse than your average academic journal?
It seems to me that from a narrow legal stand point, you have a decent argument. From a more practical stand point, if you wish to monetize what you write, I'd suggest that posting it as comments isn't a good way to go about it. Why not just post to your own blog and have the comment be just one sentence and a link to the post? Then BackType would be sending you traffic instead of "stealing" your content.

So what are your goals here? Are you trying to monetize your writing, or are you trying to prevent others from doing so?
It's all about subtle bugs that shouldn't be there in the first place. Python is great, but the listed oddities ought to be fixed or very well documented with big red marks.
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quit my job, no funding, just own savings,
each day of my personal freedom and a hard work is the best revenue I can get from this risk!
Bruce mentions : "Passwords have reached the end of their useful life. Today, they only work for low-security applications. The secret question is just one manifestation of that fact."

I guess he means we all ought to be using encrypted key pairs and the like instead, or some other system not involving anything as guessable as a text word.
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But compared to batteries they're very, very cheap.

Lead-acid batteries can do something that air-tanks might not do as well: provide ballast.

http://www.google.com/search?q=commuter+cars+ballasted+paten...
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Actually, while reading this article, I found myself wondering whether these guys might have made up the email... I wouldn't put it past them, and a single piece of evidence is a bit thin.

That said, I agree that the recording industry deserves to go out of business. I just like to hear a little bit more supporting evidence than a single email that a couple of activists claim they received.
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The point was, that for hackers this info is completely irrelevant so it doesnt belong here. They will use whatever to create ads and that's it. Let digg users or Walleywag to worry about it.
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An eye opener, good read! On the same topic I highly recommend this google techtalk video, Advanced Python or Understanding Python:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7760178035196894549&...
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None of us can say too much without more info (which paradoxically wouldn't help b/c we'd all "tl;dr") but let me ask this: if you were to quit, what is the chance they would succeed without you?

I also think you messed up by doing the hard work up front and then asking for equity. As it sounds to me, you were paid for the work you did therefore you get no equity; you were "hired" as you put it with a competitive salary for your position/experience so I don't see why you feel you deserve any equity TBH. If you get no equity, then mark it as a lesson learned and go work for another company out of school or your other startup.

Just an outsider looking in though. Good luck :)
Yeah, that is what would interest me: how to experiment with Nanotech at home.
So basically, creating games is not worthy? How about creating art, or creating music? Writing novels?
I don't know... If they're not going to make any money on distribution because of free downloads, something like this becomes more attractive.
This is how most of humanity reacts to internet access.
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Who cares? Today's Pop music isn't music anyway. It's all specifically crafted to make it extremely popular so people will buy albums for singles, listen to the same songs 100 times on the radio, and buy tickets to overdone concerts with half-naked women dancing and crazy lights flashing everywhere.

Britney Spear's (does she still "make music?") next hit single could be an advertisement for Coke and I couldn't care less. In fact, I'm confident most fans wouldn't even notice.
Ever flown out of Tel Aviv?
Huh. In that case, there's no way that '500 times' can have any bearing towards reality whatsoever. :)
There is now some good science to show that Alexander Technique is effective, at least for lower back pain:

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Noooooooo! He is and always will be the "I'm Linux" guy.
A kick in the groin for all the midwesterners.
authentic: "Do not try to be someone who you are not. Be who you are, and be a good one."

"If the [new management] doesn't "get" what makes product matter to its customers, they're likely to destroy it."
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Since January 2000 when he became CEO, MSFT stock has been flatlined around $25, more than eight years delivering nothing!

In the same period of time, Steve Jobs has taken AAPL from $25 to more than $140 delivering iPods, iPhones, iTunes, iMacs, MacBooks, Tiger, Leopard, etc.

Ballmer will be remembered as the worst failure as CEO in the history of corporations.

Ballmer, you're fired!
Oz is boring? Im stuck in the UK and would love to be back in Oz because the UK is boring (and the weather is terrible)! My theory is that no matter where you live, it becomes normal (aka boring) after a few years.
This has been going on since the birth of the record industry. The only thing different about the present and the past is the volume of chatter about the subject.
I prefer to comment on another person's weblog instead of commenting on my own because (a) it keeps the conversation in one place and (b) the author is almost sure to read the comment if I post it there. As a consumer of weblogs, I find the comment saying "I've blogged a response: <url>" to be extremely annoying. The lack of effective (spam-proof) trackback functionality is another reason I avoid doing that.

Right now I'd rather not have my comments aggregated at all, anywhere. But, if I change my mind, I want to be in control of the aggregation--who does it, what content is aggregated, what details are disclosed, and how much I am compensated for it.

I think eventually all search engines will have to do revenue sharing with content producers. Because, while search engines provide a useful service (even Backtype might be useful if it had a bigger index), they cannot exist without content to index. Plus, search engines are increasingly competing with content publishers (e.g. Google Knol, everything on Yahoo).

So, really what I am opposed to here is the opt-out (instead of opt-in) nature of the republication. I would be less opposed to it if there was an effective and convenient way to opt out of it. It seems right now the only ways to opt out are to file DMCA complaints and/or lobby websites to exclude the spam bloggers' robots in robots.txt.
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Question for you Danielle: are the dual-mass oppositely rotating flywheels usually side-by-side, or wheel-in-wheel? Is there any advantage to one or the other?
If they are saving premature babies, then say that. Isn't that a good enough cause on its own?

I object to dressing it up as saving the world, though, because population growth and world saving ... well, they don't go together too well.

Nice wax warmer idea, though.
I can't actually find the podcasts.
http://www.rubyology.com/podcasts/show/65 for example, it says mp3 but there is nothing to click.

I would really appreciate if someone could post a wokring link since I would be very interested in listening to this.
Well this just exposes the musicians for the charlatans they are when they say things like "I only want to sell my album as a whole on iTunes so as not to sacrifice the artistic integrity."
Makes sense. Thanks for the additional info.
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Good night and good luck Nik Cubrilovic, Mike Arrington and the rest of the Omnidrive crew.
I had a CD come apart in a very cheap drive once.

I remember calculating that the outer regions of a CD spin at almost the speed of sound in a modern CD drive. (But do not take my word for it - until I do the calculation again, it's been some time.)
It's more likely to break apart violently.
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"... No offense to bootload who has submitted tons of good stuff ..."

None taken.

Microsoft is a software company with a dud, second rate product trying to sell their latest products. I find the people-hacking attempts interesting because MS is trying to replicate past successful campaigns. It worked in '95 with the Start-it-up campaign with Windows '95 - saturation media to get the word out. MS & their marketing companies are trying to convince users emotionally rather than demonstrate the product is the best is counter to what Startups should do. I thought to just how hard they are trying might be interesting.
Haha, so true!
Physicists from the future strike again!

"It was speculated that all accelerators producing large amounts of Higgs particles like the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC for short) would call for initial conditions to have been so arranged as to finally not allow these accelerators to come to work."

-- Test of Influence from Future in Large Hadron Collider; A Proposal / http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2991
Nothing huge yet, but a risk I may be taking in a year or so is moving out of the province/country.

My goal is to move to Seattle with my girlfriend but obtaining a working visa trying to work at a small company/startup seems tough and basically start something new before moving back to Canada to start the next part of my life (probably a family)

It's a big risk to me because I'm currently in a nice cushy startup with great people, good money, and I really can't complain. But a man's gotta experience life you know?
You know what would be awesome? If Slinkset sites used Disqus.

Most sites powered by Slinkset will only get hit by the early adopter / tech savvy crowd so I think using Disqus wouldn't hurt it at all.
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Interesting tid-bit.

Omni was listed in the top 100 web2.0 software companies in Australia ~ http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2008/06/official_l... and listed in a local biz mag ~ http://www.brw.com.au/searchresult.aspx?search=Top+100+Web+2... So I contacted a Journalist, Renai LeMay ~ http://twitter.com/bootload/statuses/850502396 at ZDNet Aus who had direct knowledge of the list (I forget how, I think he helped compile the list with Ross Dawson) to ask why Omnidrive was listed when it appeared to be dead? I got an interesting reply ~ http://twitter.com/renailemay/statuses/850550575 Now this was back in July this year.

So the question is why is an Australian, top 50 BRW web2.0 company got a dead site, no feedback and poor reputation? ~ http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Omnidrive+Nik+Cubrilovic

Ironic for the homepage that reads: "Short of cash? It seems we are always out of money at the worst possible times. Just when you have spent your last dollar for the week ..."
Very cool, short video. This guy has the right idea, esp. since the housing market is collapsing and lending is going to get really tight, not to mention the low environmental footprint of this "island."

One thing I wish they had asked him, though. What happens when the bottles/nets begin to deteriorate? (Does he replace bottles on a revolving basis?)
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What the heck is going on in Minnesota? That's the one that really jumps out at me. Anyone know?