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It seems a buyout by a large firm with a different outlook would be a loophole. As in Google acquiring a startup.
>> When I was helping some friends to find VC funding in 2008 in Russia, I learnt that most VCs in Russia require kick-backs(!) from startups that they're investing in<<

There are stories on HN all the time about US investors requiring the same. There are fancy meals on the company's tab, first class airplane tickets from all around the world for board meetings and various other abuses that HN founders complain about.

I guess straight-up cash would be a novelty, but that probably comes from the IRS scrutiny it would engender. Is an exacting tax authority part of the root of American exceptionalism?
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We do need to get a little more info on the teaser page, we've been pretty heads down on the actual app for the RockHealth.org incubator. We just finished last week so I'll throw something together soon. My background is actually neuroscience; before this I was doing neuroimaging of meditation research at the Harvard-MIT-MGH Martinos Center in Boston. The whole project kind of started with this crazy trip to India to find monks to put EEG equipment on in 2009.
>Also, even if a company like 3M did start making the stuff (and patents or no patents, they easily could by finding a different variation), do you really think that would put Sugru out of business, given the kind of community they've managed to build?

Absolutely. If not put them out of business, it would completely cripple their future prospects. 3M has MASSIVE distribution. When Suguru finally gets to the store in their town, why would Joe and Jane buy from some brand they've never heard of when they've been using the 3M equivalent for a year and it's been working great?
The only reason they'd notice & care is because they received email they didn't want, right?

I assume you have an obvious 1-click subscribe on all of your emails? If not, I'd gladly mark you as spam over, and over, and over...
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> "Users can also place a finger on the screen and touch another finger to the right of it for a right mouse click. These advanced mouse features eliminate the need to press extra buttons or find scroll bars on the screen."

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i went to best buy the other day and strangely, the two iphones (at their own booth in the cellphone department) were tethered but completely functional. just about every other android phone was tethered the same way but had a dummy screen.

i can't imagine that the vendors requested that the units be fake (why would you not want a working demo?) so it must be best buy that did this. yet the iphones were more expensive and possibly fragile than any of the other android phones there and they were real.
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True, but then there's already a lot of alternative browsers in the App Store (just that all of them tries to replicate desktop browser UI, which doesn't translate to touch quite well) there's a chance Apple might let it pass...
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I doubt it.

3M has invented and discarded more forms of sticky gooey junk than you can imagine. If it's not going to be sold in 50 gallon drums or has the guaranteed demand of adhesive tape, they're not interested.

Read about the guy who invented Post-It notes in 3M and what he had to do internally to get them to actually productize it. It's far more likely that these inventors are infringing 3M's patents than that 3M would be unable to replicate it without the sample.
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Pure fantasy. And not even of the interesting self-consistent kind.

" Individuals may make agreements between them without any involvement of a 3rd party." Sure. But, say there is a disagreement between the parties? What then?

"Enforcing agreements does not necessitate a State enforcing them." The 'State' is a label for a whole host of human activity. One of those activities is to act as arbitrator for agreements between parties. Arbitration would be without meaning without means to enforce the decisions reached.

"To live by rules that I consented to, and not to initiate force on another individual except in self-defense." That sounds exhausting. Do you really want to spend your energy, and everyone else's energy in any interaction whatsoever that you happen to have with them negotiating the rules for that interaction, /then/ getting on with the business at hand? (with the one a priori rule that you seem to agree with is that no one should physically force someone to do anything).

You might not believe this but these rules and laws were not set up to bend people to some terrible overarching will but as a means to lubricate human interaction. Without them almost every thought would have to be directed at confirming that every part in your environment that is human or ever touched or affected by any person living or dead meets your expectation.

For example: Say you want to leave your home to check your mail a half a block away.

First, you would have to get out of your home. Good luck. There were no building codes and the frame (which you could not see when you bought the house) has been built with roofing nails and has rendered your doorway a parallelogram. You were able to rip the door off its hinges and now you step outside. YOu are assailed by the smell of your neighbors new hog farm in their frontyard and the vision of them having sex in full view of your porch (they didn't agree with the vulgar display laws). As you walk down the street that is littered in garbage thrown out by passing motorists you almost fall into a sinkhole caused by another neighbor digging their own tunnel between their house and their meth lab across the street. Just then you notice that the end of the street is blocked off and the mailbox has been torn from its base and lying in the middle of the road on fire surrounded by a group you've never seen before. I guess you won't be getting your mail today.

This would never happen under your 'everybody comes to their own individual agreements' system because the human condition would not advance so far as to have things like houses with frames, sidewalks and farms. It is an impossible burden which is why things like government or the 'State' as you like to like to pejoratively call it came into being.
In fairness, if you replace Russia with India, is it so far off? Remember that there were many years of books with titles like, "The rise and fall of the American programmer" that talked about the educational system in Eastern Europe.

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"if I needed a different parser/interpreter I am pretty sure that is the stage of 'new language' where new syntax and semantics are introduced.

the 'dialect' he is introducing is a arc/clojure inspired syntax for what /already/ exists in python."

No a dialect is another version of the language. For instance python3 is a dialect of python, just as python2 is. They are not 100% compatible.

"as someone who gets paid to maintain shitty code, i'd rather people stuck to the existing idioms of the language, rather than blindly copy paste them from another language."

It is not his problem you see a lot of shitty python. It is also not his problem if you want every one to stay stuck in the poor design choices that were made in the stdlib a long time ago. You can fight evolution of languages or you can embrace them. I don't see you advocating for "thou" in English ;-)

"the 'dialect' he is introducing is a arc/clojure inspired syntax for what /already/ exists in python."

"syntax" --> no thats is what is defined by the grammar of python. This is python syntax.

"a dialect is a style, in linguistic terms, if I speak a dialect of english, I still speak english."

No it is a mutation. But I agree with you if you speak a dialect you still speak the "language." Olde English is still English.

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However my main point remains. You are needlessly combative in this thread. He made a library you attacked him like he insulted the Pope of Python. I am sorry you maintain shitty Python but you don't need to take you anger about that out on some poor guy on hacker news.
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Having "I have a voucher code" on your payment page is just a reminder that I may not be getting an awesome deal and leads to me leaving the page to quickly search, often forgetting about an impulse buy in the process.

Lovely story and marketing of the community though.
"how do you explain the fact that people flock to the stores to buy Apple products at full price when Wal-Mart, Best-Buy, and Target carry most of them, often discounted in various ways"

A little off topic, but I have to say that I have never seen a new, latest release model of any Apple product on sale at any of these stores. Not Wal-Mart, not Target, not even Costco and certainly not Best Buy. Apple products just don't go on sale, so the Apple store is not competing against discounts at other stores.
I think the primary disadvantage of an addition like this is the extra complexity is shifted almost completely into parsing. This means that accidental suffixes on the end of literals always have to be treated as custom literals by the parser, until they can be confirmed as invalid by a much later stage in the compiler.

In essence, an enormous class of syntactically invalid code is now syntactically valid and now just semantically invalid. A much harder bug to classify.
And I'm sure that Heinkel was so puritanical about the jet engine not being used for military purposes that he refused to consider the substantial profits he might make from using them in the multitude of bombers he was already making for the Luftwaffe, nor that he might be able to create a competitive fighter design (given that he'd lost out on that side). I'm sure his research was not at all motivated by the possibility of future government coin.
To be fair, many trading firms and hedge funds don't recruit this way at all. There was the brainteaser phase, but it's pretty quickly falling out of fashion...

I'm not really sure what the use of "Elite" in this context means; these consulting/banking jobs pay pretty well and are reasonably low risk and allow young ambitious people a means towards bigger and better things, but I don't think most people here would think of these as higher EV than what you'd find pursuing competitive positions in a lot of other sectors.
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Pragmatic is the first place I have turned to after deciding to start building my product by myself. They are thankfully short and to the point.

My suggestion would be to start off with their books and then fork to other more in-depth resources available online.
In this case, they were requiring 10%(!) of the investment as a kick-back.

Another interesting feature: there are plenty of 'funding advisors' that can help connecting you to a right VC[1] for a fee, typically a few percent of the funding.

Kick-backs are also typical if you are a mid-size company a need to get a commercial loan.

[1] They all claim to have connections to some government-backed VC funds such as government-backed Rusnano or Russian Venture Company.
Don't see anything interesting here.
A lot of it is already at that point, but its costly for collecting by human-run ships. Robots can work tirelessly, provided they have power. In my mind, that changes the equation, assuming we can devise a robot that can do the job.
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I think some of the other replies don't quite get your do-it-in-secret concept, but I completely understand what you imply, it isn't so much that you're advocating a complete rewrite of a codebase (or at least, not just that).

I think you're talking about entire build out and a conceptualization of an entire system that comes from a single narrative, and is thus, coherent.

I have witnessed this in others and done this myself in various projects, and you could say it was a hack, or maybe it was making a whole bunch of decisions with various scripts or procedures, but without letting anyone know that it could be an issue until you had just went and done all of it because you were simply too tired of all the bitching and other (actually really great) competing suggestions. I think that's perfectly fine if it moves things forward, and can be a great help to a climate of dysfunction, but you can't fuck it up, so it would be like a very very last resort thing possibly.
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I don't know any of the above personally. Maybe they don't do anything exceptional in their private lives -- but I think it's more likely that they do and we don't hear about it.
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To be clear, I love where the modern music industry is moving. It's awesome. The fact that artist control their own destiny and copyright is amazing.

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Awesome, the problem is discovery. Is social media the answer? If so, that doesn't necessarily mean good music -- good music being a relative term, of course -- gets discovered. It means bands and artists that do the most leg work get discovered.

The old guard in the music industry exists to solve a very pressing problem: actually marketing music. We're at a weird point in the industry right now where an artist can certainly "make it" on their own. The cost to sell and promote music as an independent artist is very close to nothing, monetarily speaking, and the technological hurdles of distribution and connection and licensing are no more.

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>Unfortunately, the details are being kept confidential, so I'm not sure what is being counted as "hedge funds".

I wouldn't be surprised if they had simply agreed on a subset of prominent hedge funds from '08 that the two agree represents whatever range of investments they think is important. I'd assume they're unwilling to disclose the methodology simply to avoid any accusations of outside manipulation or something.

Makes sense to me, at least.
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I've pondered the same thing. However, personally from meditation I feel I have greater focus, a clearer mind, and less stress (or a much better handle on stress), which I couldn't imagine being without today. Concerning shower-insights -- I find myself having less mind wandering in the shower, and instead more deliberate focused insights.
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> Bringing the mind to its unmoved state, a state of no-thought, leads to an indescribable bliss.

Do you have evidence to support this claim? I can empty my mind, and it is not blissful. It is nothing.

> A wandering mind is more prone to distraction, which can be fatal. Assuming, of course, we are speaking of survival factors.

Tradeoffs. Personally, I would want to be distracted by an event that might otherwise prove fatal.
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I wonder what your plan is to gainfully employ 7 billion talented people that are freed up. Do you envision a world where 7 billion people come up each with a revolutionary change that improves some aspect of shelter/feed/transport/communicate/socialize/entertain/learn fundamental needs that people have?
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