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Good point, I had more or less stopped reading when it started looking like too much of an advert.

All three of the things you pointed out, particularly the last two, speak slimeball-ville to me. I mean, really? An organization that speaks so often of civil liberties hires Bryan Cunningham?

"From its inception, Palantir Technologies has supported these ideals and demonstrated a commitment to building software that protects privacy and civil liberties." - Palantir's apology regarding the HBGary fiasco.

It's almost not possible to think of a legal advisor more at odds with that statement. There's a few, but not many.

It actually saddens me knowing that they generally hire really smart, clever, creative people on the engineering side, but have such an immense ability to tolerate clear ethical problems in the corporate management side...it seems to me that it's only a matter of time before that place blows up in a scandal like the ticking time-bomb that it appears to be.
This would be more or less exactly the same with migrants living and working on a ship.

The only point I'm making is that I can't see a substantive difference (for people in the home country) between migration to SanFran and migration to the USS SanFran.
As a side note, presuming that the DRMed tracks are from iTunes there is away around the problem. If you are a US user, you can sign up for iTunes Match, match the DRMed tracks, download DRM-free versions of the matched DRMed tracks and then cancel your subscription.

I think Apple would charge you for a whole month, so it probably isn't worth it for 20 tracks, but in case anyone else is in the same boat with a larger amount of music...
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Overall, I loved the "Wealth" essay. I do wonder though if Paul ever considers that the same thing he says about Bill Gates' success could also be said about his own.

"Bill Gates is a smart, determined, and hardworking man, but you need more than that to make as much money as he has. You also need to be very lucky."

Or perhaps PG thinks his personal success is based purely off his own brilliance with no helpful outside factors needed (i.e. competitor blunders, etc)? :)
The point that JWZ is making is that you are by no means guaranteed getting rich, or anywhere close to getting rich by following the "work your ass off as a startup employee" advice that Arrington seems to be providing. It is a pretty sure-fire way to generation substantial ROI for VCs, but it's not a good strategy for coders. Indeed, overall it is probably a less worthwhile strategy than punching a clock to the barest minimum of requirements to earn a salary and then using the remaining free time to acquire new skills (technical or otherwise) or work on personal projects (like one's own startups).
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The article is discuss the most common yet popular method in finding friends, which is through social networking websites.
Not really a plug - just proud of what we are doing. Actually from a strictly selfish point of view I'd rather have kept it a secret and not said anything, because the more people realize how much talent is out there without geographical boundaries, the harder it'll be for us to hire. But at the same time we really do like our freedom, including freedom of information, and we want to lead by example.

Think of it this way ... the guys at 37signals always have their own vision and culture that they are pushing. We have the culture of freedom, enjoying life, getting things done, and making smart tools that empower people to get things done better, have control over their data and liberate them from having to waste their time on the computer. We are proud to be a company that is able to take advantage of the latest opportunity that is out there ... to get work done without all the nonsense, and to still have time to enjoy our lives!
Agreed. I doubt each individual sensor needs to transfer more than a few bytes each time and probably not more often than a few times a second (and thats the extreme case - like you said, once a minute is more likely). This can easily be done with a low cost, low power RF circuit (and low power would have some additional advantages over the design in the article - eg, smaller batteries = smaller device) and wifi connectivity can still be achieved through a hub/base station. You only really need one wifi connection per sensor installation.

If you need special super sensors that have their own connection for some reason, then special case those, charge appropriately and leave the base sensors as cheap sub-$10 devices. A simple temperature or vibration sensor or whatever shouldn't need to cost much more than about $5 or so, nor would I be willing to pay all that much more than that (certainly no more than $12).
That's not the parent's point: the point is that iOS — correctly — asks for permission when required, not in advance. The idea is that asking in advance is similar to a click-through EULA, not that Apple doesn't use one.
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As smart as the Hacker News set may be, most people are not experts in the field and could do with a little context.

Also, Aaronson's a well-known computer scientist, so this helps establish that the result's both credible and important in the eyes of people who may not (forgive me) all be qualified to judge the paper on its merits.
My "fakebook" personal data is mostly false, including birthday and age (wtf, combined, that's one of the keys used for auth verification at banks!)

It doesn't help when I got 30 incorrect "happy birthday" wishes, but that was when I decided I should just hide all my (fake) data from friends too... real friends know who I am, anyway.
If you love what you do, then you will be thinking about doing it. In fact, the problem is often that you are thinking about it when you are expected to be having fun - because you're out with people.

That's when you know you love your work.

But anyway -- I mean it when I say: people live lives, companies create products. A person can devote only 10-20 hours and still be productive. If you write documentation in a common framework, and you have a common process for everyone, then the developers have an easier time picking up whether others left off, and working together. In a word: better encapsulation. I think Google had this back in the day with their interchangeable desks/developers :P
Work on whatever you actually use.
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If one was to buy some Facebook stock on a secondary market, would those shares be converted into public shares when the company IPO's? And if so, would you have to abide by the IPO rules like the minimum hold time?
this is for writing arm assembly afaict, ndk is c/c++ (though u can probably do assembly) but this is kind of like an msvc vs gcc thing
>> Facebook in 2011 is small beans compared to the effect it could have on our species over the next hundred years.

Hmmm... I was under impression that Tech companies work at best for 15-20 years and some other company with newer/better technology beats them.
There's a difference between putting in 40 hr work-weeks doing solid work and putting in 80 hr work-weeks giving your entire life over to a project for years at a time. If you aren't compensated for the latter with the ability to retire or move up the salary ladder quite a few steps then you probably got screwed.
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I'd previously tried WiaB and wasn't able to get it running, but, inspired by your comment, I managed to get it up and running in a single evening. You weren't kidding: it is easy (especially if you figure out early that Google's original WiaB instructions assume you're going to clone it from them instead of from Apache, and update the instructions)...
I think you are obsessing about minutiae. Perhaps mathematical instruction is very different in Germany than in the United States, or perhaps our brains are simply incompatible, but I've never found symbology to significantly affect my understanding.

Symbols are just convenient and useful abbreviations. In my experience, they facilitate both speed and precision in mathematical work, far and above what is possible in a natural language like English. There is no particular reason why certain concepts are associated with certain symbols apart from convention. Any decent mathematician should be able to operate with any set of symbols, although not necessarily with equal proficiency.

I won't deny that many mathematicians have a hard time expressing themselves in natural-language speech and writing. Perhaps for them the symbols have become a crutch. But I still think you have erected a mental block around an ultimately inconsequential aspect of mathematics, which is needlessly impeding your understanding.

That having been said, I think there are definitely bad ways to approach the use of symbols in instruction. Concepts and their related symbols should be introduced incrementally, and you should always have ample opportunity to practice with the ones you have just learned before having to learn new ones. I think that a well rounded mathematics curriculum should include a course with a significant focus on understanding and manipulating common mathematical and logical techniques, with mathematical language being a significant if not necessary part thereof.
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Haha, nice — I'm the developer if anyone has any questions (it's using a canvas element to convert images/data URIs to ASCII art).

Also, here's a link to the Github repo: https://github.com/zachwill/asciifi
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Facebook has over 800 million active users. (from https://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics )

With a $100bn valuation, that would be $125 per user.

But hey, there's room for growth right?

Let's be generous and give them everyone in the world, recently about 7bn potential users total. That's $14.29 per user.

It's hard to imagine a business model that can leverage that kind of money per person on average, much less with all the people who are inaccessible for various reasons.

It's going to be interesting to see where they go with this.
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I think you guys are being unduly cynical. Thiel recently debated this on NPR (http://intelligencesquaredus.org/index.php/past-debates/too-...) and I found him very convincing. He repeatedly talked about the concern of young people leaving college with 200k+ in debt -- which I think is very fair.
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Probably through Harvard's 2+2 program, which accepted its first class in 2009. The 2+2 program permits undergrads to apply to HBS. If accepted, you agree to work 2 years then go to HBS for 2 years.

I've had a couple of friends that were accepted in 2009, and they speculated the 2+2 program had as high as a 30% acceptance rate in its inaugural year since it wasn't well publicized.

That's my guess.
It's not about working hard or getting rich. It's about working until you've put your health in danger. It's about coding until you're hallucinating. It might be necessary. But it's not laudable.

Likewise, with your dad, what's laudable is the result. What's not laudable is the process. I'm sure that your dad would have jumped at the opportunity to make the same amount of money for fewer hours worked every day.

In life, you don't get credit for trying. You get credits for results. Yes, working hard is necessary. It's not sufficient, though. You need a lot of luck to strike it rich like jwz did. That's the point he's trying to make. Sometimes, you work 16, 20 hour days, and you just go home bankrupt because the market just isn't there, the investors aren't willing to believe, and the customers don't give a damn. Then what do you have? You've ruined your health, you've alienated your family, you've isolated yourself for what? A dream. An illusion.

I'm not trying to take anything away from your dad. Those 16 hour days had value. But let's not pretend that there was zero luck involved. What if the travel agency hadn't given him rentals? What if his taxi had broken down and he'd been forced into debt in order to secure repairs? What if he'd come down with diabetes, heart disease, cancer, or any number of ailments that could have ended his career? All those things (and many many more) would have prevented him from being able to provide you with that college education.

So yeah, definitely celebrate hard work. But don't pretend that pure hard work and saving money gives you the ability to stand on your own two legs. Those are the prerequisites, but there's a whole lot of other things that have to go right for everything to turn out well.
The intranet search engine concept is interesting and will help this grow. Anyone know of anything else which is a search engine in a box, basically an open source competitor to the various Google Search Appliances?
I'd imagine Amazon fears becoming a monopoly. US/EU antitrust would break them up pronto.
But you have to remember that the battery producers aren't especially interested in the safety of the battery (beyond a certain level)-- they care about price, capacity and re-usability.
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That half-arsed stuff in the middle is called living, and it's the only way you can do this sustainably.

Startups are like going to Hollywood. Your goal might be to become as successful as Clooney, but that's not likely to work out. Still, if you're talented & dedicated, you can make a living in this industry and enjoy it.

I've been working for startups for the past 12 years. I won't be a millionaire even if my current company sells for $.5b - there are preferred stock, dilutions down the road, taxes etc. But I hope to be in startups for the rest of my career, simply because it's fun to create something from scratch, work in a small company with relatively little office politics etc.

It's not fun to sleep under a desk, though, or consistently work 12 hours/day. If your boss expects you to do that, he's a poor manager. If your VC tells you to do it, he's trying to exploit you, as JWZ correctly points out.
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There are two copies of the video: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1237941/Screen%20Shot%202011-11-28%2...
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Might not be a bad idea to have some kind of tit-for-tat feedback thing in place. I've tried feedbackroulette, but found the quality of responses lacking.

Mutual review sound reasonable?
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And I didn't say all startups take VC money, nor did I say that all startups require insane work schedules (that was addressing the VC will work you to the bone). But just because it's not always required, it's always a possibility that you will need to work like that in order to succeed, even in a big corporation things can go very wrong and you end up pulling a bad month (when launching a project in one big company I worked with the integrator went bankrupt and we had to finish the project on our own, IIRC I did 320H that month but got 5x pay check).

In startups chance that you will need to work long hours is so high it's almost a certainty - startups are just like that, disorganized, unpredictable, underfunded and understaffed - for various reasons. You have no way of knowing that you won't need to do 80 hours in one week if something unexpected happens, that's the nature of it, it's a high risk/reward game (and I'm not implying that reward is guaranteed if you work "hard") and anyone entering should know what they are getting them selves in to.
That's just simply valuing each user by dividing Facebook's estimated valuation by the number of users. I'm sure Facebook will not only continue to improve their revenue to constantly please the pencil pushers, but is it so crazy to value each user at $125? Remember, that's not revenue; it's just value per user.

Most public companies trade for at least 12 times their earnings. Google is 20x earnings and their market cap is $190 billion. Your math would be assuming that Facebook will have $0 in assets and will be trading with a P/E of 1. Earnings of $6.25 per year, per user (at 800 million users) justifies a $100B valuation at a 20x P/E with $0 in assets and no expected future growth.
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How would you know anything about your data without doing some statistical analysis. I'm not sure if you're saying some statistics are gathered or that any statistics are hard.
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1) That would depend on the job. For almost all jobs it's not ok.

Besides, keylogger is an extreme thing here, because it's direct way to steal identity (which is very bad).

Let me remind you, that original fiction story implies that information was already available to Google, and Google shared part of that information with Government. Keyloggers weren't part of that picture.

Please also restrain yourself from slippery slope argument. The slope is not slippery. In my view we have more privacy than we really need. That does not mean that privacy is not needed at all. But if we lose a little bit of privacy we are likely to gain more than we would lose.

Now freedom of speech and freedom of flying is a very different story. There is almost no benefit from limiting it, and there is lots to lose.

2) You are mixing up "watching" and "limiting freedom to fly" - something that I explicitly asked not to do.
Unreasonable placing on no-fly list is bad. Watching for "risky" search queries is not nearly as bad by itself.

Regarding leaks of collected information from government agencies into hands of bad people - that can be fixed by suing government agencies in case if such leak did happen and it hurt innocent people. Then government agencies should pay for the leak. A lot. And perhaps being dissolved if while losing tax payers money they did not provide enough benefit for the society.
I wonder what google's user equivalent value would be (vs FB's $125)
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It's all about the short term, as the article makes clear.

The biggest winners will be those who can cash out quickly. Goldman and some overseas investors.

Long term I think the Facebook _data_ will be sold and resold (licensed) many, many times. It may end up with a company (or companies) that today does not exist. The legacy of Facebook will be the data. We told some antisocial nerd who our friends are. And he sold us out.

Facebook the entity will probably fade away, probably by being acquired. The value is the data. They just managed to get an enormous amount of personal private information for free.

It's an amazing thing to have 800 million people give you their email address, a list of their friends and possibly additional personal info. Certainly there is potential value there. But that itself does not a business make. In my opinion. We'll see what happens.
I'll tread softly here, because obviously this is a sensitive issue to you, as it is family.

To me, working "smarter" has always been about recognizing where the "leverage" is in your business and taking advantage of it.

At the end of the day, there are some businesses that simply don't have an obvious or easy "leverage" point. Lawyers and dentists and doctors can only bill so many hours in the day. They are fundamentally limited in their earning potential by the clock. The "leverage" point becomes a practice, where they build a book of business and take off the top from the billing hours of employees.

A taxi driver has very little "leverage" to speak of.

Software, on the other hand, has an incredible amount of leverage: distribution is cheap; the marginal cost of customer acquisition and maintenance tends to be much, much lower than other businesses; initial capital costs are much lower than other businesses. That's why you get rags-to-riches stories in software more than other places: home-runs are cheaper to swing for.

In the taxi-driver business, it is hard to define "smarter." Points of leverage probably include discovering the optimal locations and times for maximize fares-per-hour. Ultimately, you're bound by the number of hours in the day, and that is a tough business to leverage. When there is no leverage, it is tough to work smarter; often, you have to resort to working harder.

Think about Coca-Cola. What is the core asset? Certainly they have developed a brand, but they protect their formula as trade-secret. Coke could theoretically be run as a pretty small organization, maybe just an IP holding company, and leverage bottling and distribution companies to take advantage of their already existing infrastructure. To me, that is working "smarter." That is what a lot of software companies do. Look at all the "bottlers" and "distributors" that are coming out of the wood-work for software. For a start-up, I can pretty much out-source (from open-source, nonetheless) the majority of my components, IT infrastructure, and IT maintenance. That is leverage. That is working "smarter."
One of the things I've seen more than a few times is a failure to gain critical momentum.
I have an untested hypothesis that this is due to attempting to start with multiple forums rather than a single 'general' forum. It's my belief that forcing this choice, and not providing a single page showing what's new in the forum lessens the likelihood of engagement with your users. Once your community gathers momentum, it should be easy to add new forums as 'general' starts getting busy. Having a problem with scaling is a good problem to have ;)
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