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Why people such obsessed with running business like playing poker ? If you're puting your everything on the line, i think you are doing something wrong. What's hard with starting small, taking small risks and growing slow but steady ? Starting a business shouldn't be about going crazy, acting like a fool, putting everthing you have on the line and at the end loosing everything.

People please, while you are at the university ,please, visit some (m)ba lesssons. If you don't have this chance, take advices from someone who you trust and runs a business.
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It's not theft because theft is defined as something completely different. Piracy is Copyright infrigement which was already tried.

I'm not going to say it's not illegal - it is. I have no problem with it being illegal, but I do have problems with how it's redefined as the "big corp publisher" sees fit. At various times "piracy" meant among other things:

- playing purchased media on a different player than designed by the publisher

- playing purchased media in a different country

- making own copy for private use on a different device, or in a different format

- breaking disk protection so you don't have to use publisher's spyware

- buying used media from previous owner

- downloading albums from internet if you already own the cds

- using/printing/copying purchased item more than X times (when this fact is not stated in big red letters on the outer packaging)

- downloading a copy of some album/book/... if they are not legally sold in your country and cannot be obtained easily enough (for example distributor/producer not shipping items from japan to europe, or country-specific "bonus tracks" on albums you otherwise own)

- using abandonware

I remember at least one article claiming each of those to be "piracy" (apart from the last point, which actually is a copyright infrigement now, but i believe shouldn't be). I believe each of those points should be completely legal and are valid use cases, but many publishers claim otherwise.

Also you make the common mistake of "The thing that the musician lost is their revenue". No - they have not lost anything yet. I might actually like the album which is why I'll buy it later. That's what happened with all albums I have. I download it, if it survives a couple of days without deletion, I'm most likely going to buy it. I'm not going to claim it's currently legal, but unless you're into mega mixes of whoever's on top in pop right now, you've got little chance to check if you really want the whole cd. At least in UK with very limitted choice of on-demand streaming.

Re abandonware, availability and country-specific items. I don't care how "illegal" it is. If I can't buy Samla mammas manna albums from '70s then noone's losing anything here. Same with anime which is not dubbed - I'd pay for subbed version, but for whatever reason it's not sold here and I'm allergic to bad dubbing. Bonus tracks are self-explanatory I hope.
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As if PBS News Hour is somehow the standard of impartial journalism....
When my blog hit number 1 on Hacker News earlier this month (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3328619) it never went down. Running Jekyll on GitHub with my own domain julianyap.com.

30,000 hits in 24 hours.

I remember the "move your site off of GoDaddy" post last week going down this week which was run on Tumblr. Elsewhere Tumblr wasn't down so it depends on the resources they allocate to you. I suspect MG Seigler's blog is on a top tier Tumblr resource pool so I wouldnt recommend Tumblr unless you have constant popularity to your blog.
So... They use stock price as an indicator of performance, and stock price goes up when options are awarded to executives.

Brillant deduction.

Why don't they look at other factors like production volume or quality, or at indicators like profit-to-cost or overhead, or at long-term markers like workforce and pay growth? After all, these factors affect the economy. Stock price only indicates investor confidence.

... Or is this study meant to benefit only investors and not the workers?
Don't let investors make business decisions. Keep them informed, but stand your ground when it comes to informed decisions.
Cool. I'll check it out. :)
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Hey guys. I've had this app in the appstore with a fellow friend (Richard Cameron) on the app store. Its a fun app that recognizes your facebook friends from tagged photos via a cool 'Terminator-like' view :) You guys might enjoy playing with it over the holidays. Happy Holidays everyone :)
I have a similar story from back in 2008 (Labmeeting.com). Fortunately, I've had good success since then, but I learned the same lessons as you:

Don't go all out working 90 hour weeks only to burn out, don't get into debt for your company, don't become distracted by the startup scene and Techcrunch and trying to get the millions in vc funding.
For a blog about design. Its awfully hard to read.
Hey guys. I've had this app in the appstore with a fellow friend (Richard Cameron) on the app store. Its a fun app that recognizes your facebook friends from tagged photos via a cool 'Terminator-like' view...enjoy and happy holidays :)
The way Comcast bundles services in their pricing, it's cheaper to get TV + Internet than Internet alone. At least that's the way it is here.
Now this is hacker news (sorry, I've been fed up with some of the other posts recently that have nothing to do with software startups). Thanks for posting.
I get that the background image is the "subject" image in the before and after SOPA/PIPA boxes...but I think for most people, it will look like content failed to load. Especially because the two (low contrast) backgrounds don't appear to be substantially different. I had to look it over twice to even notice a difference.
How much of the stock performance could be accounts from buybacks?
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I have no doubt that many people make a decent living off Adsense. As the basis of a business' main revenue model, it didn't work for us.
Sad. You won't stop running your mouth about how impressive you are, but when asked for some proof or evidence of any kind, you immediately go on the defensive. Why don't we already have the evidence? It's definitely not modesty. And the publicity would only help your projects. The only reason you haven't posted any kind of proof or evidence of your outlandish claims of building an empire is because you're all hot air. All hat, no cattle.

So I'll donate whatever you like to your orphanage, if it exists. As in, if you have an orphanage that you own or created or sponsor at least mostly by yourself. But you don't. You probably have plans for one, but that's all.

Seriously, you're a smart guy with a lot of passion and ideas. But you haven't actually done anything, and every time I read a word of what you've written, I roll my eyes because you're such a blowhard. And with no justification.

The biggest thing in all of this S&S story that makes me think the publishing industry might be on the verge of collapse is that they agreed to publish the first book of a self-described strategist with no track record, no experience, no nothing. But it sounds like you helped them solve that problem.
It has a set of const-correctness rules. They're much simpler than the C++ rules. While they handle the simple cases perfectly well, they forbid some assignments that really can't get you in trouble, and would be quite useful in practice. In particular, while "int const * const * " exists, it can't be assigned from an "int * * ", even though this is sound. This makes it hard to write const-correct functions handling 2-d arrays.[1] kzrdude's link shows how they have to rule out certain constructs that are not obviously wrong. It doesn't explain how the C++ assignment compatibility rules allow more, while still being sound, but that's a bit much to expect from a C FAQ, particularly as the C++ rules are somewhat involved. (I can't find a decent reference that explains the rules well. I found one about six months ago, but didn't save it, as I don't professionally use C++.)

[1]: Preemptive pedanticism: Yes, there are difference between C arrays and pointers, the expression types merely decay in the right contexts. But if I'm using [] to dereference, they're being used as arrays.
I've been full time, self employed for 12+ years, starting when 2 years into university.

In that time I've started up several businesses. Freelancing, contracting, consulting, products. Some have gone further than others. Some had business model limitations (finding people), others had limitations of my interest.

One thing: All made money. Why? I was too young to get credit. The only way I got to do what I loved was to find a way for it to make money, sustainably.

12 years later, what do I have to show? Money made. Money spent. Worked hard. Lived Hard. Partied hard. There was no middle, only extremes.

In getting there, I starved and managed my last x dollars more times than I count. Little by little, I rid myself of desire for almost all material, social and other desires.

What hurts me to say the most is this. This suffering was avoidable in many ways looking back.

Software startups have two main challenges. First learning business in general, and two, learning what they are made of as people.

The only thing I needed to develop in my self is maintaining a high work ethic (avoiding burnout) and developing a focused pursuit of finding and doing the right things.

That doesn't require playing all-in hold em poker with your life.

Here's the thing: The act of building a business that doesn't make money itself, seems to me, to be a violation of what a business is meant to do -- make money.

If we as creative, creating, innovators expect to sustainably create for a long time, we have to do this for the long haul. Right now, the culture seems to be give it your all or get out of the way. The best financial successes rarely have done it like this, though. Apple bootstrapped. Microsoft bootstrapped.

If I have to love what I do, I have to spend time enjoying it and loving it.

Being absorbed to the point where my body, energy, relationships all suffer is akin to saying I'll hold my breath long enough until I reach other side of the pool while under water. How many drown, how many don't?

How much innovative energy and people have been sacrificed to find the fraction of a fraction?

How much innovation has been lost where it's needed?

Here's my challenge, can we lay down our egos, our need for glory and making a success "worth it all", to start solving problems that pay for our time to give us the real freedom to pursue the big ideas without suffering?

For me, the quality of my relationships is my wealth. I became broke because of startups. No time, making, or creating memories.

Now I'm taking it back and launching a few ideas a year as products. They make money, growing slowly. I know the idea that I'm to give my all to will come on my path as long as I keep my work ethic up, keep a focused pursuit of recognizing what I need.

Until then, living for a living is as important as startups.
The generations aren't moving forward, they're moving backward. The middle class has shrunken by 10% since 1970 and poverty has gone up, both worldwide and in America.

TVs are not good things to have, they're brainwashing machines that make people stupid.

Wall street moguls run the government and own the media. They are more powerful than presidents.

We barely have a social safety net anymore.

It's sad that the people who came from poverty often have the least sympathy. What you are missing is that not everyone can be born with above average IQs and work their way out. You got lucky and the social safety net is quickly crumbling behind you.

What you miss about ghetto schools is the school board corruption. The school boards eat all the funding in salaries and perks and corporate pork projects.

I'm not telling you or anyone else to sacrifice their well-being. I'm saying you should take a look at the demographic trends and recognize that for your own sake you need to play a part in bettering the communities of the unfortunate. Because your own livelihood depends on an intact civil society with a functioning non-corrupt government that is not owned by a few corrupt industries.

The society that gave you the opportunity to enjoy wealth did not just spontaneously arrange itself. It was designed and protected by altruistic, honest, competent and intelligent people just like you. Except you aren't playing a civic role in your community but the corporate lobbyists and Christian fascists are, which threatens your lifestyle.

Your social mobility was enabled by the middle class, through hardwon political and social battles with robber barons. You inherited the social traditions that made you more than a serf, but are not passing those traditions on to the next generation. They are quickly going away through corporate owned lawmakers creating a neo-feudalistic corporate fascism.

All I want is for people like you to spend some of your time engaging in community leadership and politics, like my grandfathers did after the war to create and defend the middle class, the social safety net, and social mobility. You came from a poor background, but I come from an upper middle class background whose ancestors played roles in creating those social programs that kept you alive and gave you access to educational resources. They did it for future generations of poor children like you were, and I want you to pay it forward through civic participation. Don't just tell the poor to go wallow. Lend a helping hand.
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I had exactly the same reaction. I had to go back and forth a few times to see the difference. Perhaps making the transition more obvious with a fade or having the connecting paths be different colors?
Not only that. Perkin-Elmer was given the contract for grinding the primary mirror on the Hubble. Yes, the same primary mirror that was misground and required a multimillion dollar Shuttle mission to go fix with a pair of "eyeglasses" (secondary mirrors).

The reason for the screw-up? The same sort of time pressure that these engineers were working under. Working under time pressure like this isn't heroism. It's stupidity, and leads to screw-ups like Hubble.

EDIT: The Hubble mirror was even polished at the same Danbury plant where these spy satellite mirrors were being assembled. I wonder if one of the reasons for the Hubble mirror being misshapen was because personell were being pulled to work on CIA contracts?
Can't agree more. I hear people in the startup world talk about how it's a marathon, not a sprint. And then I find out that they mean you might have to work at this for three or four years!

The founders I admire most have almost all spent decades building their companies. I don't know if anyone in our industry is capable of thinking beyond the next 18 months, let alone 18 years.
Summary: poor abstraction is worse than no abstraction.

In Java, the "DSLs" you tend to get are at the class level, in different files. Like any abstraction, these can be well- or ill-designed. There's some differences to lisp: (1). the abstractions are less flexible/powerful, so there's less to understand; (2). having them in different files makes it harder to grasp the whole than if all in one file (or one screen); (3). the syntax is fixed, so you can at least understand the symbols without understanding anything else.

I think that inventing a new language has the best chance of making something that is a genuinely better solution. But if you want it to be understandable, it's helpful to link it to existing concepts that are already known, understood, and with known modes of use and application, perhaps via metaphor - i.e. adoption through familiarity.

But the general case for adoption seems to be that something must be x10 better (or compelling in some way) for people to go through the pain of adoption, of learning new syntax, new concepts, new ways of working, new infrastructure, new tradeoffs, new gotchas, new shortcuts, new consequences, new policies, new standards, new training, new suppliers, and so on.

If you can reduce the pain of adoption, adoption is more likely.

Put another way: there are two kinds of pain: the pain your solution addresses, and the pain your solution creates. The reason to adopt your solution is to reduce pain, but if the solution itself brings too much pain, it's simply not worth it.

Relational databases are an example of this. The relational concept solved the pain of storage change, but also created pain (difficult to use; x10-x100 slower). As those secondary pains were solved (with SQL; with optimization stategies and Moore's Law), its adoption accelerated.

So, sometimes a fundamental improvement needs to place power and flexibility over ease-of-use - but to be adopted, sufficient ease-of-use is essential. And your abstraction has to be, not just good or better, but x10 better.
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This reads like terrible journalism. "This is one metric used for safety and this one device can't possibly violate that one metric, so the ban is arbitrary." Taking the words of this one test of one device and then jumping to the conclusion that the FAA restriction is arbitrary is deceptive trolling.

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_10/interf...

"Emissions at the operating frequency were as high as 60 dB over the airplane equipment emission limits, but the other emissions were generally within airplane equipment emission limits. One concern about these other emissions from cell phones is that they may interfere with the operation of an airplane communication or navigation system if the levels are high enough."

I would agree that the recommendations are strongly based in paranoia, and I'm completely ok with that. Being based on inertia, and policy vs the latest science is something no one wants to see, but it will take a lot more than a NYT pseudo-test to change it.
There's still a great many legal issues to resolve in regards to online accounts and assets.

You can spend many thousands of dollars accumulating legally purchased iTunes media for your devices but can you will that collection to a friend or a child if you die?

There's no such issue with a vinyl collection or other physically tangible assets.
It's interesting because the best company-related Twitter accounts are the ones that are transparently owned by people who voice their own opinions. The ones that are wholly corporate, where you don't know the name of the person (or people) you are dealing with, are the ones least likely to be worth following, and frequently the least likely to have a substantial following.

I don't think companies can have it both ways: a person who posts in their own voice, at work but also in their own time, that builds up a substantial following, but that must also be a creature of the corporation. Either let people be themselves and take their social media accounts with them, or be a faceless corporation that owns everything, even the voices and opinions of its employees.
Yes sites like tumblr definitely make sense...My argument is against running your self-hosted personal blog with an SQL server!
And of course...my argument is for the technical people only....perhaps someone among us can make a static content generation solution for everyone!
Take a browse through the source code, it's using flash for video.

Also this is directly related: http://geekli.st/chenosaurus/i-built-httpchatio-over-christm...

Or, try OpenTok for absurdly easy video streaming. http://www.tokbox.com.
> So I'll donate whatever you like to your orphanage, if it exists.

How much?

When?

Write that up and sign in your real name.

It's not built yet. I just hired an architect for $17,000. What do you want to wager here, say, $1,000 of your money?

You can write the check directly to her. She's got all those wonderful credentials and degrees that you worship.

Write it up and sign it, man, and it's on. The reason I don't post company names by the way is I'm talking about going to whorehouses, doing videos without my shirt on, etc. If I was working with, say, Goldman Sachs, you think they'd like me publicly posting that on the internet for your sake?

Anyways. Duh. But if you're in for a grand, I'll go get my architect's info for you, and you can have a nice conversation with her. Write it and sign it your own name, put it into escrow contingent on... whatever stage you like of the orphanage getting there. It's for charity. I'll put my money where my mouth is, you do the same.
The guys I know personally who are successful, who have become "overnight" successes recently (like box.net, airbnb, dropbox, and so on) have been at it (on the same company, not to mention the priors) for 4+ years beforehand or longer.

Wow, 18 years, I guess I still haven't learned my lessons!
The study seems to be based on public (i.e. large and mature) companies, which are most likely to have 17 layer deep bureaucracies, and nobody actually listens to suggestions from below the top 2 layers. And top executives tend towards sociopathy.

Conceivably this last characteristic leads to an additional confounding factor - those executives generally have influence over when and how many options to be granted, and would be best positioned to use insider information to put as many of their options in the money as possible. A good example would be the whole options-backdating scandal a while back.

The conclusion seems valid, but just reflects the reality of large public companies.
The problem I have with it is that there are undoubtably young people working in the same systems, upholding the same values. It's easy to write it off as "old farts", when, in reality, it is entrenched power that is problematic. But that isn't a one-sentence comment that writes off a lot of work by older people (fwiw, I'm not yet 40) to make the world a better place for the youngen's.
It doesn't help that they automatically change searches for "Tripl" to "Triple".
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Did they consider that options are pretty complex and for many people, with the amounts offered, they are barely worth the effort. Other than the questionable methodology of the study options are annoying, especially in the small amounts offered to most low-level employees (in the offers that I have received previously and that I've tried to help friends understand). Also, there is the issue that they are only options (usually non-transferable) so you also have to exercise them (that is, pay for them). I've met more than a few people who just haven't had the cash handy to exercise options before they expired. Then there is tax which can take lots of time and money to sort out if you work for a multinational. Perhaps they should have considered that no net gain does not provide an incentive. Unless you work for a company that is going through record growth or you have the personal resources to capitalize on stock (no debts or other things that need cash more urgently) then stock options are practically worthless.
Apparently my sarcasm wasn't totally obvious. Well that's Poe's law for me I guess.
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