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Here are the facts.

To have a chance of a successful exit everyone in any startup needs to work real hard. Simple as that.

If you are not interested in that, do not sign up for a startup, whether as a founder or employee. If you want to do startup, the deal is to work hard for a chance of a successful exit. Run your scenarios, estimate the chance of a successful exit, how much you can make realistically and decide if that kind of deal is for you. If not, there are plenty of larger companies hiring or you can bootstrap a slower-paced lifestyle business.

There is no real controversy here.
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The video suggests you have software on your computer and your phone, and that handles tethering circumventing the software built in to iOS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p...

Also, it seems they've targeted it at very non-technical users.
YaCy (while a cool project) is not new and has been around for lots of years now. I think it has quite some potential, but don't expect it to suddenly lift of. It had enough time to do so, but didn't.
I think it's just what you're used to. When I first saw a Mac I thought it was crazy the way all the windows were white and the text was black. All the white burned my eyes and I thought it was a terrible decision. But obviously everyone can cope with it just fine and it became the norm.

The "oh my eyes" hyperbole about green on black is because people aren't used to it and it is in stark contrast to what "normal" is nowadays--but just use it for an hour and you'll be just fine. I personally think it's a little less straining on the eyes because there's less light hitting your eyes. Lately my terminals and emacs always use a black background.
CA's 2011-2012 budget is just under $86B. Cutting parks to save $11M is saying that there's $86B of other spending that CA thinks are more important than those parks.

Note that Zuckerberg will never see the majority of that money. He can't liquidate without taking the price and even if he does, he'll lose a lot to taxes. (CA has no capital gains rate.) Instead, he'll donate a huge fraction to some foundation.
The more important lesson of Hunch is how often bizdev deals lead to acquisition.

Very rarely does a startup directly benefit in a major way from working with a big company. Quite often though, if the big company is smart, they can get a bargain on a team/tech that creates value in ways they couldn't have themselves.

This kind of thing happens all the time. Another example is Reddit. They created a whitelabel version of Reddit for Conde Nast (lipstick.com IIRC), which failed, but lead to them being acquired.
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It's worth pointing out that while Arrington is a VC now, he also started his own company (TechCrunch), worked very hard to grow it for years, and guided it to a nice exit to AOL. So this is not necessarily a case of "do as I say, not as I do." He was famously hard working when he was growing TechCrunch.
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There isn't a good definition. At Dropbox, we try to answer the question: what percentage of signups 56 days ago were active 1-28 days ago? For larger time periods, just look at the sum of each day over the window (sum-of-retained/sum-of-signups. 28/56 day windows are useful to keep the same number of weekends.

This reports the most recent signups for which there is good data, but is lagging. You could look at another action that causes people to be retained that happens earlier in the funnel to run an actionable test in a reasonable period of time.

Looking at cohort analysis historically will get you a good understanding of the percentage of users that are active after N time periods.
Ask HN: When is the next YC application process likely to kick off?
Starting to think about YC next time around, this appears to be the perfect time to start thinking about developing an idea for applying to the next round.
Slightly off topic, but I am really enjoying working with Noir and Clojure in general. It just feels so clean, because I'm working with all of these elegant abstractions. I can just write the code in a way that makes sense, and then use a macro to fill in the details of whatever technologies I'm actually working with.
On the other hand Chrome stores your entire history going back a year with full-text indexes and doesn't give a shit.

For my primary profile that's 2.5 GB on disk (500 MB compressed)
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I tried
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1364221
on my Nexus S 4G.

I'm finding it very slow compared to CM7, though this may just be a bad rom. The UI is a lot better in some apps (gmail, gallery, calendar), though I find in other places it is worse (new task switcher, still find that 2 column market is silly on a small screen, dislike large contact photos on favorites (see less at a time), don't like the swipe randomly to see url bar in browser. Love new widget previews, but wish it was accessible by long press on home screen still. Keyboard and text selection is far better (accurate).

Not sure how much I like installed apps auto adding to my home screen. Makes it a mess on initial setup.

And what the hell happened to text reflow in the browser? I can't even read HN anymore.

The killer is the slowness though. If the real thing for Nexus S is as slow as this ROM, I'm very disappointed.

Panorama is damn cool though.
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Note the pattern: medicine, law, and engineering are 3 industries where the employees carry significant human capital with them (finance is another one, and i-bankers also give up their lives).

I suspect the reason for this is because human capital makes the payoff for additional hours worked non-linear. One cashier working 80 hours a week should be just about as productive as two cashiers working 40 hours a week (a bit more even, because of fatigue). However, one engineer working 80 hours a week is significantly more productive than two engineers working 40 hours a week, because of the overhead required to get the second engineer up to speed and then the communication delays needed to make sure any information makes its way to both engineers.

Note that these professions are paid more as a result, too, because they're not fungible laborers. If that one engineer quits, you are a lot more hosed than if one of your cashiers quits.

The effect of both of this is that professional jobs tend to work longer hours, both because the worker himself is more productive doing so, and because they reap a greater percentage of the rewards for doing so. They have the option of deliberately short-circuiting these incentives, by eg. quitting and traveling the world for a year using savings. I know folks who've done this, and greatly enjoyed it. But it runs counter to societal expectations, so many don't.
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There is no way Apple will keep this up if it snuck through review.
Here though it is not about blaming software or hardware people.

Here is what John Carmack talks about his troubles with the lack of PC performance due to the multitude of APIs to reach the hardware:

John Carmack: ... That's really been driven home by this past project by working at a very low level of the hardware on consoles and comparing that to these PCs that are true orders of magnitude more powerful than the PS3 or something, but struggle in many cases to keep up the same minimum latency. They have tons of bandwidth, they can render at many more multi-samples, multiple megapixels per screen, but to be able to go through the cycle and get feedback... “fence here, update this here, and draw them there...” it struggles to get that done in 16ms, and that is frustrating.

Later in the article John expands on the thick software problem.

The article is here:
http://pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/John-Carmack-Interview-GP...
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Is it bad that half the time I was reading I thought this was a sarcastic post and that eventually the author was going to make the opposite point of the one he actually did end up making?

Then I saw he was from NC State, my Alma mater. And everything made sense again.
> Including creating another government agencies that oversee government agencies that collect information about citizens.

Because the solution to government overstepping is government oversight?

> In any case, legal system should mostly limit government in how much it can restrict citizens, not in how much information government can collect.

I don't understand how you can hold this belief. Do you believe that information holds no value, or that it doesn't give the government power to hold the secrets of its populace? Or do you believe that the government cannot be too strong? I'm seriously confused how you can believe that government snooping has no downside.
This was written 20 years ago! (Byte 7/91) And even truer now than then. We run ad hoc queries against transactional relational databases on our cellphones.
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As another option, you always had the itunes plus option of "upgrading" your tracks to the non-drm versions. I upgraded my last drm purchase about 2 years ago according to the timestamp.

Itunes has been drm free for some time now, drm on music is quite... quaint by now.
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I have been working on a Ternary Search Trie implementation for Python on and off for a while. This is definitely a good read for some other methods for fuzzy string search. The benefits of the TST (versus other Trie formulations) is summarized on my blog.[1] I think I will do a follow up post covering their characteristics in comparison to the methods Nikita covered in this post.

The author mentions at the end that he didn't consider Tries. However, I think they are valuable data structure.

[1] http://blog.hackthology.com/ternary-search-tries-for-fast-fl...
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Yep, I was expecting a Unix-hater rant.
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You're being downvoted because you don't seem to be discussing anything remotely relevant to JWZ's or Arrington's posts. Your father's driving a taxi has absolutely nothing to do with VCs and the startup lottery, the economics aren't even remotely similar. Your father's compensation is tied to the results of his work in a very direct and inseparable way, and it does little to create long-term value for another person -- the cab company (if there really is one, often it's just a dispatch service) can't keep packaging up and selling your father's trips to the airport after he's quit/retired/died/etc..

No one is getting rich off your father's efforts to a massively disproportionate degree. That is not the case for the people JWZ is speaking to.
I think this is a great idea, I can't wait to try it.

Hopefully one of the big carriers doesn't kill ^h^h^h^h acquire them.
> No. I’m saying that working very hard is a necessary ingredient to being successful. Unless you are very, very lucky. But working hard doesn’t mean you’ll get rich.

"Working very hard" is neither necessary nor sufficient.
Not sure what you mean by significant, but typical leakage power numbers are something like 15-30% of total power.

Maybe you're referring to some papers that used to come out a few years ago which suggested that leakage power will dominate total power. As I said above, this is unlikely to happen. It doesn't make sense to operate at a combination of supply voltage (Vdd) and threshold voltage (Vt) where leakage dominates total power. I think these papers misunderstood the fact that threshold voltage and hence leakage itself is a knob that the device manufacturing folks can control.

Active power is the one that's related to the frequency (P ~= CV^2f). Leakage power will "leak" even if the transistor is not switching.

If you're implying that leakage power doesn't affect frequency, you are wrong. Transistor speed depends on the gate overdrive which, for modern velocity-saturated devices is proportional to Vdd-Vt. Leakage power itself is proportional to exp(-Vt). There is a clear trade-off here between how fast you run your chip and how much it will leak.
I see it as an experiment in thinking about leverage. If you minimized all the corporate office bullshit, leveraged your work to the max, AND worked hard on top of that, how much could you earn? The baseline becomes your work earnings WITH corp-bullshit, poor leverage, and lackluster effort, and then he extrapolates from that.

Leverage analogy: think schwerpunkt in blitzkrieg. If you amass all your tanks on one sector of the front and crush the opposing line there, then you will have more of an impact than if you spread the same force out over a wider area.
To add to the excellent summary by anigbrowl about the power of existing interests to make the immigrant ship into a disaster, let's consider the competition.

Vancouver and La Paz (or possibly Ensenada or Los Cabos) offer urban amenities, affordable living, first world infrastructure and quality of life, plenty of space, and -- most importantly -- easy work visas. They're all within two to three hours of SJC and SFO airports in Silicon Valley, probably about as close in total travel time as the offshore ship.

If you really need to import a complete team from Durka-durkastan and can't get all the H1B's you want, just stick 'em in La Paz and spend a day taking in the Baja ocean breezes any time you need to see them in person. Any team the boat would work for, Mexico would work better.

(note: Mexican immigration law is much harsher on the undocumented than US law, but much easier on legal immigrants so get your papers in order when you try this; it's pretty easy.)
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Looks like he is amazed at the performance improvements, not the just fact that it works.
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I agree completely. But the point of working smart is to pick a profession where continuous refinement of your skill-set will put you in both higher demand and rarer company.

This is hard to do as a taxi driver. It's hard to do in IT too when you pick the wrong technology stack to specialize in (eg. Flash or VB6) and have to start again back in the pack at some point.

edit - just to expand a little. In my experience, most people get to a point in their career where they think their 'moat' is wide enough. They stop learning or extending their skillset. Now it's important to note that this doesn't necessarily mean they've stopped working hard. They might be pulling 80+ hour weeks. But if it's the same work they've done before, their career is now a cash-cow. In IT this is especially dangerous because the industry evolves so fast, that you can be overtaken by skilled competitors using more efficient technologies.
>lost a lot of ground to the Athlon 64 before they could come up with a high-performance successor to the Pentium M.

You realize that Intel's EMT-64 is effectively AMD-64, right? Intel, which loathed that cross-patent deal, is now reaping AMD's rewards. Core2 and later series processors are all using AMD's intellectual property (legally).
Yes, but I doubt it's, say, 50 times luckier. I'll wager it's a lot easier to go from 10 million to a billion than from zero to 10 million.
Another area where fuzzy string search is really useful is computational biology. You often have a particular DNA or RNA sequence and you want to figure out what it is. However, the version on file can be different by a few mutations. For this sort of search where the database can be quite large, there are specialized algorithms like BLAST that index by n-grams.

Just thought I'd mention it because if you find it interesting, computational biology is a real growth area right now - the cost of sequencing genomes has been dropping faster than Moore's law, and it's quite possible that within our lifetimes we will be using this sort of technology to genetically engineer people.
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I think it's useful to look at a different industry - cars - to see how this could play out.

Initially it was mostly about figuring out how to make them work. Later, it was making them work better and how to make more of them in a shorter time. These days a car needs to be able to sustain performance for many years with a tiny amount of failures or there's a lawsuit.

Design has clearly become more important. It's probably easy to say that design is the 'most important thing' since engineering is all good, but even now it would be wrong. Some marques need passable engineering and design, and focus on price. Others focus on great engineering with passable design (Volvo? IMHO). Others on great engineering and great design but passable price (Porsche, say, vs Bugatti). Toyota is much more about engineering and price, than design.

This mirrors Porter's 'generic strategies' [1] where different companies can compete in the same overall market, each embodying different principles by which they compete.

Similarly, I suspect that the design/engineering issue won't be 'answered'. Each niche and market will have different requirements. Different solution providers, each with a different design/engineering mix, will succeed based on how that mix and the resulting solution match the specific needs of the customer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_generic_strategies
What are some more... unconventional classes HNers would be interested in taking?

Internet marketing?

Better thinking? Something like this: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3285535

Optimizing communications with the opposite sex if male?

Language hacking? Aka learning languages faster/smarter.

Study hacking? Ie optimizing college, or autodidactic pursuits.

Give me some tips on stuff you would like to learn via an online class.
1) The distinction between keyloggers and wiretaps is nearly moot. Would you allow me to run a wiretap instead?

When the government can wiretap at will, there is basically no privacy. And I agree that the slope is not slippery, because there is no slope at the bottom. Unfettered government snooping as you seem to support is the bottom. There's no way to have less privacy than none.

2) I dispute your distinction because it's meaningless. Do you believe that the government is or should be unable to act on the intelligence it gathers? If so, why would you support such a pointless waste of money? If not, why do you suppose that you could not be the target of such action?

As for suing, that's missing the point. The damage doesn't go away when you sue. Nor does it stop bad people from being bad. Abused of the system will always happen.

Besides, in your world, what grounds would there be for a suit? You said that free flow of information is a good thing. Why would it be good for someone's private info to flow to the government but not the public?
Because our dad was paid for every hour of work he put in. He invested his time by the hour and his risk was minimal. For a startup coder he or she is investing by the month or year, and to walk away from that with not much to show for it can be awful.

These coders arent paid extra for all nighters, they aren't compensated for losing relationships, they aren't covered when they burnout, all for a realistically very slim chance of striking it rich.
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I'm currently using a Patricia trie in an open source project I'm working on, still pretty new to trees / tries but now that I have begun to use them I can see how widely used they are in a lot of modern software products
Sorry, I don't understand the link to 20 under 20. My understanding is that it is purely philanthropic. And I'm not sure I've ever heard of Thiel advocating what Arrington is advocating.

And honestly, is a university education not being worth it such an evil idea? Many of the best and brightest are autodidacts. From Ben Franklin to Thomas Edison to Bill Gates. Is it so horrible for Thiel to subsidize self-teachers?

In fact, my guess is that some people actually learn better on their own or outside of a university environment. Thiel is providing an innovative alternative to elite universities. He's very experimental in his philanthropy, so let's just see where this goes before giving him "flack."
Sometimes, as a web developer, you have no consistent way to diagnose these issues. We found an issue using drag and drop uploads on one of our sites where if you uploaded the same image in chrome, one after another, it would crash. So I wouldn't give all the flak to the developer, as it might be chrome.
You were doing well until that last line. I have no axe to grind one way or another. I'm just not very good at social networks and beyond very basic use I find them confusing to use. The idea of a 'page' talking to me still seems bizarre, but thanks to the posts of yourself and others along with my fumbling around I understand now what to do and why it is that way.
Exploit doesn't always have a negative connotation, and neither does manipulate. Cheating is irrelevant to the discussion. If you think exploitation is only about cheating, then you will be a software developer your whole life, as your father was a cab driver for his.

VCs are exploiting a system. In fact, that is their sole purpose. If they win more than they lose, they continue to be VCs, otherwise they slip into irrelevance and are put out to pasture as a senior executive at some stagnant, but stable company.
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It's been like that since like 1999. And there's always been this comment in the source:

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I think Google gets away in part because the telcos are afraid of Apple. Similarly with how Amazon got DRM-free content at a lower price because the labels wanted to create some competition to iTunes.
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