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I would love to involve some social good, but I also would like to make it a profitable venture. I am a strong believer that the maximum value is created when creators/team members are incentivized (by profits) to continue the work even through rough times. Any ideas on how to build a social venture while still being profitable?
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A bit more context: Stanford did not hire Virginia Williams, and she is looking for a job. Academic hiring in CS departments is driven by tweets. Hence the sensational blog post. /cynic (I do wish her luck.)
May 2010: Googler Paul Adams was writing a book called Social Circles. http://www.thinkoutsidein.com/blog/2010/05/book-update-cover... (Google supposedly later blocked publication of the book: http://www.thinkoutsidein.com/blog/2011/07/why-i-left-google... )

June 2010: Paul Adams (that guy again!) gave a talk on "Designing for the Real Life Social Network" at Voices That Matter: http://webdesign2010.crowdvine.com/talks/10505
I find this Chrome extension pretty handy for that:

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Hahaha, this reminds me of a conversation I had with my art teacher in 7th grade. I told her I don't care about the rules, I just wanted to do my own thing that I had in my head. She said that this only gets you so far, and that you have to actually know the rules in order to know how to break them... I think this carries some relevance here, and that there is some truth to it.
Whatever the degree to which these errors are purposeful vs. accidental (a distinction I think can actually be hard to make when you consider how thoroughly and subtly people deceive themselves), remember that it's a hell of a lot easier to improve the statistics education of the researchers than their ethics. And improving their education for some of these simple ideas can be at least as effective; if it's obvious to everyone what the correct statistical technique is (because they've all been a bit better educated), then such papers won't be able to be published with these errors.
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I would have been surprised and disappointed if Zawinski knew who Arrington was. Why would he? Zawinski is past the valley tech scene.
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when I re-read it I can see that is it more that he doesn't give a fuck. and thanks for clarifying with him.
I can't locate it, and wikipedia fully backs up the idea that electronics could interfere with Nav systems, however, I once read a compelling piece that lead me to believe different.

It had something to do with FCC regulations and how you could somehow bypass some system and get free calls, or calls could not be billed correctly, perhaps it was data, but it certainly was cellular related.

I can't seem to locate the information now.

At any rate, it does seem strange, as they cell towers themselves are not being asked to shut down, and they certainly broadcast much greater signals than the actual cell phone. This signal is rained over the entire aircraft 24/7.
Really? That's what we're down to? Save the publishers because they're the only ones who can find good editors? That's another arrangement that sucks for everyone --- the readers, the writers, and the editors --- except for the publishers.

This strikes me as the same as saying "save the newspapers, they're the only ones who can run classified ads!". Except, the newspapers do other stuff. What else do the publishers do?

The arrangement we have today made a lot more sense when books lived or died on the retail channel, to which access was a scarcity acquired and allocated ("curated", to use their words) by the publishers. But that world is gone. My grandkids will look at bookstores like soda shops: historical curiosities. There's value in curation, too, but when it isn't backed by the scarcity of access to bookstore shelves, it's not enough value to justify the middleman role.
Frankly, I was pretty blown away by how poorly it's understood by physicists (although they are probably better than biologist). Even in experimental particle physics, where statistics are essential, the statistical techniques are all self-taught and seat-of-the-pants. I am confident everything being released by the major particle physics experiments is statistically sound after it goes through the collaboration review process, but there are certainly poor inferences being made at the level of the individual physicist. I listened to at least a couple of confused conversations between smart particle physicists about whether frequentism or Bayesianism was "right".
The link:
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I should have clarified. I was trying to make an observation on "employment" in general, whether you're treated with dignity as an employee or not. Even if you love your job, work <= 40 hours a week, have every weekend and holiday off, see your family every day, and life is going just swell, you're still probably never going to see _profits_ going to you, precisely because you're not considered an owner. You're a cost. And that deal may work out nicely. A six figure salary is nothing to sneeze at. But you're still not an owner. And in all likelyhood, you will never see past 7 figures.

I suppose I think there might be a model out there that better reflects ownership and the concepts of who earned what. More than anything, I don't believe the owner "earns" all of the profits of a company. The [owner + every last other employee in the organization] "earned" the profits. But while every other employee is more or less capped in their earnings, the owner gets the profit.

I understand the concept: take on a big risk, be rewarded for said risk with big gains. I suppose I just don't think anyone should be rewarded for winning a lottery of circumstance. If I owned a company, I don't think I'd see myself as having "earned" tens of millions of dollars and I don't think I'd be OK with taking home millions while the hundreds of staff beneath me did all of the brute work.

But then again, I've never owned a company. Maybe if I did I'd feel a whole lot differently about the whole thing.
Yes, it's a good essay, but here's the thing - it's no longer the future. We have Bush's ideas implemented. It's a vision of the present filtered through the blinkers of the past (even a genius can only be so prescient). Its interest is now purely historical & dead; it can no longer be any call for action or rethinking.

What's a vision of the future? Sad to say, Douglas Engelbart's 1962 "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html still is far beyond anything we have right now.
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PG's described startups as 'compressing working life into a few years' (http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html)

But Arrington and Zawinski aren't talking about founders and their startups. They're talking about working too hard on somebody else's startup. Totally different thing.
No, thank you for writing such a wonderful piece. I just glanced over the first few chapters for the first time in over a year and was delighted. I remember stepping through that bit of assembly in chapter one with a pen and paper, then running the two js versions of the code in my browser. Some commenters have criticized the prose of the book; for me this really helped contextualize certain things that seasoned programmers take for granted. I would argue that this is more approachable for a beginner than Ritchie & Kernighan's book or SICP. But I suppose those aren't necessarily beginner books. For some reason, I like your book quite a lot more than a few introductory Python books I've read. Although Ruby is far more beautiful and useful to me than JS these days, I think it is a very bad idea to force object orientation onto beginners. It is better to let people ask for it when they need it, than to force it onto beginners (I can't help but think of Yegge's Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns). Accordingly, I think JS is a very suitable learning language because it provides a taste of object-oriented and functional programming, while maintaining a familiar C style syntax. Also, it's very powerful for event oriented programming, as demonstrated by node.js. I stopped programming in js because of frustration for lack of lisp-style macros, but perhaps clojurescript can fix this.
Or it just signals that jwz has nothing to gain/lose from Arrington.
Let's hope your views are like those saying the same before open source came into it's own. We live in exciting times...
So, this article is saying that entrepreneurship is hard. Just because something is hard doesn't mean it sucks. Anything worth doing is hard. Living a life of ease is boring as hell.
Depends on what time period we are talking about - if over 4 years, then $1 million is a handsome return for an early stage (non founding, first 10) engineer at a successful startup. If over 8 years, then $1 million equity return works out to be $125K/year - not as exciting. I'd suggest the odds for a $1million equity return over eight years is closer to 1/20. Still lousy odds, but a great engineer can shift them by making the company successful.
He made multiple temporal references.

"I hope this signals the end ..."

"He's no longer..."

Timing was definitely implied.
How so you graduate from a mid-tier school with an undergraduate business degree in 2009, then get into Harvard Business School in a couple years later, without having anything noteworthy as a job in between?
I'm sure any investor, including PG, would prefer entrepreneurs to work smarter though, it's not just about hours, but it may take that to succeed.

But, after reading this, I remembered this PG essay from a few years ago.

"Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four." - http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

Also:
http://paulgraham.com/really.html
I, like many "atheists," am not actually anti-God; I am anti-"having faith in particular answers to questions of fact". I believe OP (and most people who call themselves atheists) hold the same sentiment. This is technically agnosticism, but that carries an inaccurate connotation:

God is possible; that doesn't make it acceptable to accept with all your soul that he most certainly exists and is a good reason to allocate funding, make curriculum decisions, raise your children a certain way, etc. Whereas "agnostics" tend to say any religious belief/practice is acceptable.

Yes, scientists have theories, but these are tentative, with certainty increasing as warranted by evidence, and they're replaced (or expanded upon) when they break down. This is not at all the same thing as faith.
I wouldnt count on it. My experience with outlook is that it doesn't really integrate properly with anything. I'm sure if you're running an exchange server it will sync, but vanilla outlook maybe not.
What is OS/X? Is it based on OS/2?
This one cuts both ways though. With leakage dominating active power, within a given node, the fabrication process will be relatively more important than microarchitecture, which is a point in Intel's favour.

This is kinda nitpicking, but I'm not sure leakage will ever dominate active power. We still have the ability to reduce leakage if we want, we just have to give up frequency for it. In the past we didn't have to play this trade-off but even now I don't think it ever makes sense to run your chip so fast that leakage is more than dynamic power.

I do agree that for any given node, Intel is still going to ahead of the rest. It'll be interesting to see how much this helps them.
To elaborate on what other have said: it's not meant to be taken literally. There will of course be cases (e.g. the LHC) where it's imperative to do precise statistics because it's so expensive to make a measurement and only a few measurements can be reasonably made. But the idea of the quote is that often a researcher is going to be wasting his time if the effect he is looking at is so small as to require heavy duty statistics; the fancy statistical machinery can be a time-sink and distraction from the fact that the underlying effect isn't that interesting.
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I love that this is the top story on HN. I only wish that PG got as much flack for his startup economics hype piece[1] and proposition to compress a lifetime's worth of work effort into four years.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
I am not sure why Requests gets this much press. httplib2 has all the features of Requests and more, and their APIs are not that different.
My understanding is that ASMR and Frisson are similar, but different experiences. As far as I can tell, I can frisson, but not ASMR.

Interestingly, reddit has both a frisson and an ASMR subreddit.

I know that frisson is highly personal. What causes me to frisson won't cause another person to frisson, and I only know a couple people personally who I believe can frisson (but nobody really talks about it, because there's simply no awareness of it).

I don't know if the same is true for ASMR. But the triggers people post in the subreddit are not representative of anything that's ever triggered a frisson in me (soft voices, clicking sounds, etc.).

But that doesn't stop people from trying to share their triggers for each phenomenon!

http://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/comments/g76xg/lets_settle_this...

http://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/

http://www.reddit.com/r/frisson
I wouldn't call it sensationalist. This is an important paper.

And CS is not particularly unique in hiring people who are popular. A lot of being a good professor is getting gathering money, which enables you to do good work, and brings prestige to the university, and the sad fact is that this is easier to do the more famous you are. Also part of the job is convincing people that you have actually done significant work, and the people who are good at that are usually are well-known.

While it's true that things like blog posts and tweets help drive people to realize this, really IMO most of the work is put in around these things; a good blog post will not replace the other factors in most cases.
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At the last startup I worked for, the VCs sold the company for a loss, so I am just as well pleased that I took five years’ worth of salary instead of a commensurate portion of their loss.

Then again, my salary was somewhat below market rates, and the VCs would have collected a management fee in proportion to what they invested, so maybe the VCs did come out ahead.
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Was that subtitle necessary ("good idea, stupid name"), people probably thought Google and Yahoo were stupid names at first too.
I was actually referring to PG's views on that issue that Arrington wrote about.

And the whole discussion definitely applies to founder and their startups too, imo. The issues are the same and so are the trade-offs. Would you give you your life for your startup but not for anyone else'?
Facebook was going to reinvent email, checking, local deals, etc. How many messages do get from facebook.com addresses? How often do you check into Facebook? What was the last coupon you bought from Facebook? Thought so. Until they re-invent something successfully (besides their original innovation), the Facebook phone remains a bad idea.
Still. Why complain? Continuing a back-and-forth over a couple of silly comments certainly doesn't help. It doesn't make people go away or make them change to your liking. I guess the questions to ask are "What can I do?" and "How much is it worth?"

I mean, sure you can offer the odd complaint now and then and hope others are with you or you can organize others around a complaint to see where that gets you. You could go directly to the controllers of the board and complain.

The path of least resistance is always there though. If you don't like where you're at and you have no effective way of dealing with it, the best thing to do is to relocate.

Anyway, I should not have been gruff about it earlier. It could have been said more politely. So I do apologize for that.
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Kinda looks like he leaves that kind of question to be answered by his ebook see here:

http://www.kreci.net/android/make-money-on-android/

http://www.kreci.net/android/make-money-android/

Which just goes to show he can do marketing on more than just android. I guess I'll support it because I really like these income reports but I can't comment on whether the ebook is any good.
In a word, information. I don't need to know exactly what you're building, but I need something besides "there's a job out there using something to build something". I don't need to know all of the pieces to your project, but some information is infinitely better than none. Further, I'm going to want to know the whole deal before I sign on with you - I'm not signing an employment offer if I know nothing about what I'll be doing. Obviously, an NDA is an option at that point, but it still needs to be said.

Are you guys in the Bay Area?
Not all startups take VC. Not all startups that take VC require insane work schedules.

Arrington's article is misleading and destructive – sleeping two hours a night isn't required for success and often leads to outcomes far removed from success. It's rather depressing that it's commonly believed all successful startups are driven by people with a single-minded focus who have no other lives.

JWZ's post is, on the other hand, quite constructive – do what makes you happy. You don't have to fit the mold to be successful.

Yes, a startup will sometimes command your life but that doesn't mean it needs to always command your life. I know many startups who haven't taken VC and let their employees lead fulfilling lives outside of work. I know companies that have taken VC and still encourage their employees to work sane hours.

Working grueling and exhaustive hours doesn't guarantee success.
Ah, I assumed the three startups you mentioned were your own.

jwz talked about working hard and enriching others. That's not an issue if it's your own startup.
"Build a search engine" == "takes on Google" ? Well ... I guess so.
As a long-time resident of San Francisco I'm hoping we have some sort of 2008-esque financial holocaust this summer to offset the damage facebook's ipo will do to the housing market.
I appreciated the final words too. I've noticed an increase in the number of people offering advice about how to do things "right", followed by comment streams about why that's wrong, and "right" would be doing things a different way. But what's right for one person is not for another. I too find myself working super hard on projects that may seem worthless to some, trading off my sleep once in a while. It makes me feel good.

Maybe, rather than give advice, authors should do more of simply describing their experiences, and let the readers make inferences for themselves.

Edit. Deleted the first word (Amen). Another growing practice, and one that I am guilty of in this case, is the overzealous use of showy phrases solely to draw attention.
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Look up cost of revenue.

The billing systems (and customer support) you'd have to put in place for something like this would likely make it prohibitive. It's the flipside of "there's no such thing as a free lunch": there's no such thing as a free lunch payment (or pricing) system. Billing, collections, currency conversion, and end-user hand-holding ... it doesn't hold up. Advertisers are far fewer, find far higher value in the system, and on a per-unit basis are much more economical to tap.

Network effects are another huge factor. A large part of FB's value is that everyone's on it, and everyone's on it because everyone's on it and it's free.

You could conceivably come up with an end run around some of this, but it would take some creative thinking. I don't believe it's feasible to have the end users be the direct customers of such a product directly, though with a concentrating middleman, possibly.
He's honest, I give you that. I wouldn't have written about something like that so candidly - I tried, and deleted many a drafts
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Oh man... same exact issue. Your comment saved me from insanity. Thank you!
This is the comment I left on Uncrunched:

(PS: if you feel inclined to downvote, cool -- but I would like to know the reason. Maybe you can reply and tell me why you seem to disagree.)

LOL Mike. Our company gets things done without having to live like slaves.

There is a reason http://qbix.com/about has pictures of all of us in nature. It’s subtle but it all fits together with our company’s vision. We want to have fun and enjoy LIVING LIFE as we enjoy creating the tools that improve other people’s lives.

Yes, we work hard. And we create things together. But with the internet, 3G, and Wifi we are able to work from anywhere! This is more than can be said for any other industry, and we are lucky to be around in this time when we can travel and still get things done. Not only that, but the geographical constraints are now loosened. Not too long ago you could only choose among engineers that live nearby. Today you can hire engineers that do great work even if they live halfway around the world, and you can connect over the internet, Skype, and a host of other tools that just work.

We are building more of these tools. We believe in liberating people from their computers and focusing on just living their lives and getting things done. We love freedom. We want it for others, and we want it for ourselves.

It takes a careful system and a focus on process, but it can be done. With the right tools, the right guidelines and habits, we can be productive without sleeping under desks.

After all, you have one life, and work is a part of it. We have a motto: people live lives, companies create products.
Actually, great feedback. I'll start scouting different places asking those audiences.
There could be 1000 and one reasons for government to watch a person. I'll give you two:

1) Government may consider to give that person a job, but want to verify first that the person is ok for that.

2) Government may suspect that person is doing something bad, so government may want to find out what's really the case.
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