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"Why is he somehow more "important" than all the other people on the bone marrow transplant list?"

He is not more important in an objective sense. Most people would agree in an abstract sense that all lives are equally valuable, but would readily save their child rather than another if it came down to it. Why? Because they value the life of their child more than the life of another's child, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Amit, as a member of the startup community, is our child, as it were. Due to this commonality, we feel closer to him than 'faceless' people on the list. So your last sentence might read: "His life is more important than everyone else on the transplant list to us."
The fact that you keep jumping in and defending yourself after every negative comment makes you look like you are seriously lacking confidence.

Nobody is questioning that you believe in what you do and are doing well at it, and enjoying your work. What we are questioning is your methods.

Let me put it into perspective (my perspective):

If you want to donate $2000 dollars to heifer.org for each employee, just do it. Don't put it in my name. I have my own charities, and would prefer to make my own choice.

Don't buy me a bike. I am disabled and that perk just slaps me in the face with it.

Don't buy me beer. I do not drink, and find the implication that drinking is required for your culture to be a little creepy.

Don't say that I am getting $2000 for R&D. That is pocket change for true R&D, and makes me worry that not only do you not handle budgets well, but that the companies future innovation funding could get messed up in HR negotiations.

The bottom line is that most of your perks scare me. Not because there is anything wrong with offering them, but because it shows a severe lack of empathy for the diversity of people in this world.
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- Washington DC (willing to relocate)

- Java developer by day up until a few months ago where I am now a misfit Python/Django dev at a major digital media publisher. Lots of personal side projects using Django, and lately the Play! web framework. Getting into Machine Learning. Conceptually my expertise lies in data aggregation, APIs, scaling, databases, etc.

- Looking to work on someone elses ideas, most of my ideas aren't any more than one offs.

- Anything that needs a solid backend. Not much of a UI guy, though I can hack javascript/css especially with bootstrap. Ideally some sort of analytics project with lots of data problems.

- If I need to keep my day job probably 20 hours a week. Though have plenty saved for a few months runway if need be. Remote is fine, though if a partnership does form some sort of commitment to meeting in person sooner than later.
I disagree that logging non-exceptions is ever acceptable in production with consumer products.
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Because every single statement from phone manufacturers have indicated that it was the carriers that demanded this be put on the handsets

Aww. Poor vulnerable and naive billion dollar phone manufacturers! </sarcasm>

How does that exonerate the phone manufacturers? At the very least they should have disclosed this to the people they sold phones to.

Even at that why is the rage not directed at the carriers? In addition, I doubt the carriers can make such modifications without the active participation of the phone manufacturers.
Protect IP is the Senate version of SOPA, which is the House version. SOPA just happens to have more onerous inclusions.
Alternatively, be the first member of a new team (like I did). There are no expectations of what work you will do or how, so it's like being in a startup, except you have a lot more stuff to play with.
Its even worse. BREIN didn't just download it to enjoy it and as a byproduct made it available to others. They intentionally redistributed it with the intent of actually profiting from it financially. I don't usually call music piracy stealing but when the shoe starts to fit...
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If you were facing death and your best hope at survival was crowdsourcing help on the internet you'd... what, politely decline to bother anyone in the internet community you've been a major part of? Skip the chance to raise awareness for something that could save the lives of many others besides yourself? Die alone knowing you saved someone half a second reading an HN headline that wasn't directly relevant to them?
So by trying to silence the issue they stuck their necks out.

Now, that is an entirely different matter. Thanks for bringing this perspective.
Besides any patents there are issues were Nvidia/AMD do not write every piece of their drivers. They can't unilaterally open source pieces of code that they don't even own the copyright on.
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Anyone else see the irony of a community fighting to save a person's life, while ignoring all the other "faceless" sufferers, when the life that they're fighting for probably depends on the good will of a "faceless", anonymous person? Serious question.
Not true! I just saw 'The Napster' in 'The Italian Job' on TV last night. Alive and well!
Better auto-correct would be one idea.
They put a smartphone inside a professional camera body with cine lenses. That's like just switching to a smaller/worse sensor, a poor man's RED. Very far from "shooting on a smartphone", and pointless - just a techno-masturbation exercise.

You could make a film with a Barbie Video Girl, and people wouldn't care less.
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It's bad when a monopoly editorializes. Wikileaks clearly doesn't have the editorial neutrality and respectability of Wikipedia. So you can hope that Wikileaks changes, or hope that other organizations start liberating secret documents.

Wikileaks' execution is less than awesome. You, humble reader, might be able to do better.
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Woah...thats what everyone's worried about? The fact that it doesn't accurately find porn?!

I can't even get past the fact that I'm supposed to allow a website to go through the contents of my disk!

For crying out loud, it doesn't even have SSL or any other third party verfiers!
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At the risk of being flamed... I actually do think the DMCA is a similar example of how we all flipped out, and how it's actually been pretty good for companies in general. I remember writing a paper (college?) about how evil the DMCA seemed to me... but now it seems less sketch than before, especially since a few of my employers have benefited from safe harbors.

I don't think Gucci et al need to be saved from the evils of counterfeiting, but I do think that intellectual property is currently a societal right, and trying to give people a non insane way to fight international infringement isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Could it be door-in-the-face? Maybe, but I feel like if they would have presented an ITC mandated court proceeding, I, for one, wouldn't have flipped out as much.
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Alternately, they could always just SSH into the US. Much easier, faster, cheaper.
Successful high tech CEO here.

I don't know where all of this bad advice came from, but you should never, ever have an equal cofounder.
It must have been the 3 first chapters then. At the time, they were enough for me to understand and "get going" with regex. Various other online resources have filled little gaps here and there over time. This thread makes me want to revisit the book and resume my reading of the next 3 chapters, a long overdue promise to myself. I'm glad that the book will cover the topic of FA then.
Problem is, Silk isn't marketed as just another browser. To see its effects, you have to use it like Amazon intended for it to be used. You don't disconnect the batteries from a Prius then say it's less efficient than a standard car just for the sake of being "fair".
Is the lack of comments for this article because this hypocrisy is so commonplace now most people don't even bat an eye when it happens?

I'm not in the Netherlands so I don't know exactly how big of a firestorm it is over there (according to the article it is pretty big) but it seems like if this happened in the US most people would just roll their eyes, sigh and then go on to the next article.

So if the RIAA did something like this (I recall hearing something similar but can't remember any relevant links), what exactly can musicians since they're essentially running everything?
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"But we’re sort of in wait-and-pray mode because historically, only half of South Asians who are tested actually agree to donate."

Not only is the chance of finding South Asians to get a DNA test very low, but that chance is further sliced by half because a matched donor can get cold feet.

I really hope that those people who were identified as a match come through for Amit (or others in need).
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In reply to daenz:

What makes you say the community is ignoring the faceless sufferers? Registering as a marrow donor isn't exclusive to one person, you could potentially save the life of a stranger decades from now. For the awareness he's raised Amit may potentially be saving many lives besides his own.

To me it's incredible that helping one person evokes so much shrieking about how many others that aren't being helped, what about those who never help anyone?
By getting tested you increase the chances that everyone finds a match, not just Amit.
He says it "underscores the need for congress to act."

No, this incident underscores the need for independent security professionals to keep an eye on what our devices are really doing so we can make informed choices.
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Amit Gupta's influence on bone marrow registration will uncertainly save several lives over the next decades. The role of technology and the associated community is an important part of that story.

It's certainly one of the factors in my decision to sign up with the registry.

[http://marrow.org could use the touch of a UX designer, but the signup process is straightforward enough.]
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Look, if you sign up, you sign up to actually give marrow if there's a match. Period. Unless you're not healthy enough, there's no excuse for welching on a deal that involves someone's life.
All things being equal, there is a 2/3 chance that that next Google won't be happening in the US.

In this case, all things are not equal. Being located in the US and specifically in Silicon Valley makes a lot of venture-backed startup life easier, whether you need cofounders, investors, advisors, or employees. It's not a coincidence that Google, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Zynga, and Yahoo are all in the same area.
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As an avid reader of HN I'm surprised it's the first time I hear of many of these many (LLVM backed) projects. Some that stood out to me:

- The VMKit project is an implementation of a Java Virtual Machine (Java VM or JVM) that uses LLVM for static and just-in-time compilation.

Am I reading this right? A faster Java that doesn't require a virtual machine? Does this mean faster Java, Scala, Clojure, or even Ruby, and deployed anywhere that LLVM can build for (which means pretty much everywhere)? Sounds too good to be true.

- LanguageKit is a framework for implementing dynamic languages sharing an object model with Objective-C.

- Eero is a fully header-and-binary-compatible dialect of Objective-C 2.0

Has anyone tried Eero? It looks interesting (and seems to be compatible with Objective-C code): http://eerolanguage.org/from-objective-c-to-eero. One thing I didn't get from the documentation is does Eero still require header files?
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It says they don't authorise carriers to install it. But do carriers need authorisation? If the consumer never knows it's there, is there any risk to the carrier? To put it another way, what are the consequences if one installs something that is "not authorised"?

They mention the Blackberry Enterprise Server admin. Who would that normally be?
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Don't assume that VMKit is faster than OpenJDK; LLVM is powerful but it's not magic awesome sauce (see Unladen Swallow). Also see GCJ.
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> What makes you say the community is ignoring the faceless sufferers?

I've never seen ONE "help so-and-so (who is not from our community) with money/bone marrow/whatever" thread on here. Only when it effects someone in this community does this community give a shit, and you can't deny that. And the irony, as I pointed out before, is that it's going to take someone most likely not from this community to save Amit. I really can't make it any more clear.
I'm not sure you know what "irony" means.
In addition to the other answers, raising awareness and getting people to sign up to be bone marrow donors can potentially help a lot more people than just Amit.
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Precompilation: by compiling ahead of time a small subset of Java's core library, the startup performance have been highly optimized to the point that running a 'Hello World' program takes less than 30 milliseconds.

Sounds faster than the Java I know.
you ignore extraneous user data?!??! what!?!?! why do you get it in the first place if you're only interested in a subset? bunch of lying rootkit developers
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How wrong it is to flake is irrelevant. You can't really force someone to undergo surgery.
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Cool! I think I'd like for the icons to be in a rising diagonal arrangement. Less work for the first joint of the thumb. Imagine it on the iPhone app...see what I mean?
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Or a toaster oven and reflow controller a la the Sparkfun board (though a bunch of other hobbyist folks have done the same or similar).

Agree on the debugging part though.
> Smalltalk is closer to what I'm talking about.

And in Smalltalk, applications lived in the image and were difficult to extract from it. They didn't work well with code outside the image.

That was a bigger deal when the Desktop was King. It might actually be an advantage for web applications: Everything in the image is trusted in your security model and nothing much from the outside can get in. Run the image in a virtual machine (think Xen) to enhance the iron box effect.

> Code stored like git stores data, with hashes and version control.

I don't... we already have git. What could be more 'like git' than git?

> Once you're about to type those in, though, you should be having a conversation with the computer, as opposed to sending a series of tokens into a black box and wondering if it understood what you meant.

There has been some slight work done towards visual development, where you create 'circuit-diagram software': wire up logical components with visual control flow (or visual data flow, perhaps). It never seems to catch on.
" or do the refactoring that's been bugging you for weeks. "

You mean good engineering isn't the norm at this company?
So if they hire you they'll ... wait for it ... give you money, plus, some other trinkets you could have just bought with money yourself. Hmmmmm. Put me down as preferring to get either just money, or, things I can't get already with money. easily. But don't make purchasing decisions for me. I may have better things I could spend money on.
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VOPs in SideFX:Houdini are the best use of code-with-nodes I've ever used.
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> A faster Java that doesn't require a virtual machine?

I don't know about 'faster', but gcj has been compiling Java to machine code for a while now.

From the homepage:

> GCJ is a portable, optimizing, ahead-of-time compiler for the Java Programming Language. It can compile Java source code to Java bytecode (class files) or directly to native machine code, and Java bytecode to native machine code.

http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
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I appreciate a new employee making suggestions as to how we can streamline processes, make documentation better, get up later and do the same amount of work.. don't underestimate how valuable it is to have a fresh pair of eyes.
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What's not to get? This is clearly the leading free multi-way video conferencing solution. My team recently ditched Skype's paid version; it was flaky as all hell, while hangouts is rock solid. This brings me and 6 other people back to google+ every day. It also got 5 of those 6 people to sign up for google+ at all.

So given:

- "hangouts" is a compelling product with early traction (anecdotal but strong)

- it drives continued engagement to their strategic product

- it accelerates google+ adoption by providing a concrete reason for people to register there, because "that's where the meeting is"

Therefore, the right thing to do is to invest more in hangouts.
agreed. though also "3. don't be a jerk/asshole" should be up there, in order to not pollute the culture and make company less attractive/retentive for coworkers.
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It's not a one-way street through - access to porn also reduces sexual violence.

It also helps people get over the 'shame' of having a body. Some people like the taboo of 'private parts', some people don't, and my personal opinion is that taboos for taboo's sake are pointless and should be squashed.
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This could very easily be adapted http://playground.mobily.pl/jquery/mobily-blocks/demo.html
Yeah I think people are numb by now...

Yes, over and over again, copyright law has been demonstrated to be, in practice, a cudgel used by the big guys against the little guys and not the other way around. This is, like, the fifth or six instance of copyright violation by the "copyright protectors" that been in the news over the past few years and hardly the most flagrant - someone even plagiarized a pro-copyright press release at one point.
Sort of backwards to my company Cattlesoft where we prefer our employees to already have their own cows before coming to work for us.

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So Carrier IQ is still present in some iOS 5 and in all iOS prior to version 5.

That's still an awful lot of places.
... on startup. That doesn't mean it outcompetes Hotspot over the lifetime of the application.
I think you should reduce the price and get feedback to increase the quality of your product. $20 is quite expensive for just some invalid information. Maybe charge somewhere form $1-$5. Get more people to test it and find more ways to better your product.
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It would be interesting to see their agreements with the carriers.

Presumably the carriers could request any data, not simply diagnostics.

It certainly sounds like CIQ is prepared to deliver whatever a carrier might ask for: CIQ's rootkit can capture everything.
Or it's also possible their stats are skewed in the direction of non-US people desperate for a sane payment system.

But yeah, major risk of bias one way or the other.
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I think something like this is already here.

When I'm working with Lisp in Emacs using Paredit, I am not editing text. Instead it is an interface to the expressions directly. I add, remove, transpose, cut, paste, move around, up and down, all with whole expressions at a time.

If someone were to build a new structural editor for programs, I could only hope it is as good as Paredit.
Agreed. This seems like a more accurate representation.
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