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Ask HN: Work at Google or a Startup? 
To the HN community,

I'm at a crossroads in my career and wanted to reach out to the HN community as I value the insights and experience of everyone here. For a little background, I'm 25, spent 3 years at Shell Oil Co. as a Territory Sales Manager, and quit my job about 6 months ago to join a YC startup in SF. I ended up leaving the company for a variety of reasons, and now face a decision to either go work at Google on their inside sales team in Mountain View, or take a business development lead role at a startup in Pittsburgh, PA. The cofounder and I worked together in college and we actually started a company together during our last year in school. I trust him (I toasted at his wedding this summer), and the company has a solid revenue growth curve with a product that I believe has great potential.

I've always wanted to start a company of my own in the next few years or so, and I want to choose the role that will put me in the best position to succeed when that time comes. Of course, there are other factors to consider, like where I want to live (I've always wanted to live and work in the Bay area), relevance of experience, and the credibility that goes along with a company like Google. Also, I'll probably end up putting down some roots and possibly starting a family within the next few years wherever I end up.

I know that this is a decision that only I can make, but I was hoping some of you may have insights to offer based on your experience either starting a company, working at a startup, or working for a company like Google (Facebook, Twitter, etc.). I want to go where I have the best opportunity to develop my skills and work alongside folks who will take my skillset to the next level. This will be one of the more difficult decisions that I make in my life, so I value input from many different perspectives. Thanks in advance for your comments!
Right, but you can always pass the canonical url to the redirector. That lets you avoid maintaining a whitelist/blacklist of query params. This should be trivial for Quora as most of their pages already contain the meta tag specifying the canonical url:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.quora.com/What-are-everyday-apps-that-use-cloud-computing" />

They just need to update their outbound link interceptor to take that version instead of the actual url.
I like. Word splitting is very interesting. Today, 2012, I would be hard pressed to provide a reason to use this technique. Splitting an index is a classic complexity/resource trade off (your index has a very predictable compact footprint). Again, today, memory is cheap, wide, uniform, and predictable. Indexes are now cheap and highly specialized. Complexity can be reduced for simplicity. Index specialization now becomes natural. My point here is that this solves a class of very expensive searches with ease, leading wildcard searches et al. Also, couldnt really tell from your code (you may be doing this), but reverse your trigrams in your generated query. If ordered properly, your search will be a lot more efficient.
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Remember the times when Google didn't have to brag about the small stuff?
Perhaps I misread the article, but I thought that a lot of the Universal Copyright Convention stuff wound up in the Berne Convention.

"This led to the Universal Copyright Convention in 1952 to accommodate the wishes of the United States."
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I see, now I understand.
Nobody had to design or program any of those websites or other online content. It just sprang into existence organically!

Gosh I am behind the times.
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Yet.

Ever. I don't have the original source in front of me, but with enough bits, assuming there isn't some fundamental flaw in the encryption algorithm, you couldn't brute force a key before the heat death of the universe even if you recruited every particle in the visible universe for your computation.
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If you're really attacking the issue, you're not concerned with talking about it.

The whole issue comes down to fear. Fear that the challenges and issues are a negative, and feeling embarrassed by it.

Being bold, attacking the issue, tracking down details, giving updates on status without fear. These are the qualities.

Vs.

Being timid. Hearing the request, and putting it off because you don't know where to start. Not asking for help because you don't want to be thought of as someone who doesn't know something. Working on other tasks that you are good at, but not addressing the tasks you're not good at. The next time you think about it (aside from worry), is you being asked for a status and you have nothing. You put off the email.

That's the difference no? That's what I see working in startups.

There are the types that you hand them something, and they own it, and there are the types that you hand them something, and they fidget with it, and delay it at the first challenge that they don't know.

Perhaps I'm reading it wrong. That's my experience.
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Yes, you should not use it. However, given that this is an odious practice, you should also attempt to raise awareness: the more people know, the fewer will run into it. This is exactly what this post is doing, and it is a good thing.
Sorry about the confusion - didn't mean nginx would have WebSocket support when HTTP/1.1 proxying is supported. It seems like it's a necessary feature before it can happen though.
Dicey indeed. They were playing very fast and loose with 17 USC 512(c)(1)(a)(ii), if not the takedown provisions themselves. The nature of their service makes no distinction between the recipients, regardless of link to the file, and the only difference is which uploader would get points (or whatever reward they had). Its really hard not to give the impression that there weren't just looking the other way. Sites like (IIRC) hotfile.com completly blacklist the md5, even preventing re-upload of files if the get a DMCA takedown.

If a trial goes forward, I expect to see some case law made clarifying this area.
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Content recompressed with a different file format at a different compression level will almost certainly not match, and many pirate sites use encrypted RARs which will all differ from each other almost entirely.

That's why I think the "Megaupload took down only one link rather than all the infringing content" aspect of this indictment is so scary, especially for a site that does perform introspection into its hosted files - it's easy for a judge to go from "you can send only unique differences" to "you can locate every instance of this copyrighted content and remove it or else."
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Sorry, it wasn't so much a reaction to the content of the post as much as the pseudo-"outrage" expressed by some here.
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I think that's what distinguishes street smart from book smart. Running a startup is like fight a war, not pursuit of intellectual truth. Or you can say YC has its own "Kobayashi Maru".
Are you referring to the Split Keyboard available in iOS 5?
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Stuff like this doesn't happen by accident under Obama. Osama Bin Laden was killed basically a week before Obama announced his candidacy.
The MPAA has a clear opinion about uploading your ripped content, even to someone who doesn't give it to somebody else. The MPAA would still say both copies of The Dark Knight are illegal. (Note that this is not exactly what assistantpilot said; I tweaked it on purpose since I can be more definitive, and it's relevant to the original link. You are also free to disagree with their assessment. I do, but I wouldn't care to argue it in court.)

However, the poor choice of example doesn't negate the underlying point. Bits don't have color [1], and in general just because Alice shouldn't have a file in her cloud file store doesn't mean that there is nobody who does have the right to put the exact same file in the cloud store. There's no way to tell.

In some ways that's the worst part of SOPA from a philosophical point of view.... what the law essentially demands isn't even possible. It is not possible for Google to look at a file and tell if it is legal or not. They can make some guesses, but on Internet scale they can't know, yet the law requires them to know, then act, or face the consequences. This is not possible, neither in theory nor in practice. Laws that require the impossible are just obscured tyranny.

[1]: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Copy #1: the installed version of the OS (permitted)

Copy #2 (backup): The .iso file in your local dropbox folder (permitted if on the same computer as #1)

Copy #3: The .iso file on dropbox's primary storage array (not permitted - second backup copy)

Copy #4: The .iso file on dropbox's high availability storage array (not permitted - third backup copy)

Copy #5: The .iso file as copied to any other of your subscribed dropbox clients (not permitted - forth backup copy)

Not to mention the fact that copies #3 and #4 seem to obviously qualify as "available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time"

While I understand that there may be some difference in interpretation about these clauses I think you should reconsider your working definition of the term "clearly".
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I hope he also learned to keep a change of clothes around, or swing home on the way to the airport next time.
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Why? It's quite convenient for my left-hand pinky on nearly every keyboard that I use, and I've picked up the habit of doing periodic `jk` movements as I'm examining some code. I tried the `jk` combination that some people recommend, but it doesn't work for me.
generally extradition treaties, out of common sense, require something to be illegal in both jurisictions.
World powers are pretty much on the same page when it comes to money laundering. Following the money, as they say.
Your dutch coffeeshop owner hasnt committed a crime in the us by any stretch of the imagination, and is operating according to the wishes of his government (even if the weed is technicLly still illegAl, the current setup is ok, and the coffee shop owners are not hiding their profits... so its not mney laundering.

The internet changes the landscape drastically.... and using current laws to deal with real issues involving it is often dificult to useless. That doesnt mean we shold justify things that are wrong, nor should we make bad law.

ignoring the international issues.... just because a site could be used for copyright infringement is noreason tomtake it down. but lets be realistic, there a many sites out there where the owners knew damn well that their primary customer base were copyright infringers, and they catered to it fairly directly. sure some people used it for other things..... but if the primary revenue stream hosting and serving unlicensed work and you darn well know it.... you are asking for trouble.
That's because Universal is in the US. Should filing a lawsuit against a US company subject the plaintiff to US jurisdiction in unrelated matters?
"Actual knowledge" without doing anything about it. YouTube does something about it when they acquire actual knowledge of infringement.
The first one, but with different links. If you uploaded something that is 100% equal to a file that was already on Megaupload servers it would take just a couple of seconds, Heck! If you were premium there was even an option to copy a file to your Megaupload account (with a different link).
Thanks, I didn't understand that before. I'm looking for a hosted service to avoid as many of those things as possible!
Completely ridiculous. Flagged.
Really? "Nerds?" I think the word you're looking for is "experts."
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So what's the difference to files hosted in Gmail? Does this mean that Google also needs to delete all mails containing a certain MP3 (for example)?
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Wow, I didn't even connect the two. That's a great point. Now that I think about it, I see it as proof of two things:

1. It just takes enforcement of current laws, not passing of new ones, to fight piracy.

2. This really proves that SOPA is the result of heavy lobbying by companies that think passing a bill fixes their problems, because if the US government saw piracy as such a problem, there would be way more takedowns of companies like Mega Conspiracy and way less censorship bill-passing.
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Wow, everyone's a cynic. Did you miss the part about the trigram index?

It sounds like you are replying to regexp1.html, not regexp4.html.
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Don't forget bandwidth.com. That's one of the main providers Twilio uses in the US for all their local numbers.
Reasonable or not, that is in fact what they are from a purely legal perspective. There is usually legalese involved with the licensing of the stdlib such that it explicitly disclaims derivative creation in this case.

This is not an uncommon thing to see. IIRC, the gcc compilers have an explicit exception clause that says that programs compiled with gcc (e.g., the output) are not affected by the GNU GPL. A compiler usually does more than just transforms code from a higher-level language to a lower-level language. It can reorganize the code (-O2, -O3, -O4); it can inject standard or custom implementations of common behaviours that the user didn't explicitly write.

From a very real and very strict standpoint, a compiler/code generator does create a derivative work (and there's at least one code generator I've used in the past few years that holds this to be true explicitly; gSOAP) that is a combination of your copyrighted code and the code by the compiler writer (and possibly others involved).
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At the risk of megadownvoting here...

There was a time when you didn't have to write this. :(
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Except is that almost nobody is going to read that. And most of the people who read it will not understand a word which will make them feel stupid.

I think the best error message for 99% of people says something like

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Hence why I wrote "employers" rather than "employees". :-)
> Vim is for coding.

Yes, and a lot more. I use Vim for all my text editing.

I used vim to write my latest blog post. It would have been (and will be) awesome to do that on my iPad instead.
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In the long term, this will be search only over code.google.com projects, as mentioned in the 'discussion' link on codesearch.google.com.
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It is ironic since Kodak itself pioneered the first digital camera technologies. Often rare that the behemoth itself invents the disruptive technology but it certainly happens: For example, IBM, with the PC.
It seems you didn't understand my point. It was the introduction of slaves through foreign trade, and not any native cultural norm, that caused American slavery to begin. It wasn't a native cultural norm.

> The republic is no more or less responsible for slavery than any other form of government, with maybe the exception of Fascism.

We aren't talking about republics, we're talking about federalism. They're completely orthogonal things. It was the directed imposition of federal power over the states that ended slavery, segregation, and black disenfranchisement. That's a historical fact. I don't know why you mention Dr. King; Dr. King himself was standing right next to President Johnson when he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. And he more or less began his "I Have a Dream" speech by referring to Lincoln explicitly as "a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today".
I think this quote by the founder explains it all.

>We have been dealing with doubters for 10 years. One of the problems we have is that the machine does look a little primitive. We are working on a new model that has flashing lights

This is obviously a case of taking advantage of people in a desperate situation. He's selling a product that he knows won't do any good (because it's a scam) and as a result risking lives.

The linked video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r...) shows plenty of proof that it simply doesn't work (instead relying on the subconscious movements of your wrist). It's power supply is supposedly the static electricity of the wearer.

In fact, the supposed "secret" behind the "machine" are the cards that can "detect" certain materials that are suspicious (Dollar Bills, Elephants, and Bombs) (Note that he really tried running the gamut of possible crimes to sell this "product").

When inspected, the card contains of all things an RFID chip (that can't possibly do anything).
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Fortunately trying to limit access to copyrighted material doesn't drive people's money to possibly terrorist organizations, but that's another issue.

Well, not yet at least. But if they continue making the penalties more and more draconian then only the hardened criminals will get into that lucrative space and the money will be going to violent groups.
mpaa.org is using nginx/1.0.5, but the other sites do indeed seem to be Apache servers.
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So I guess their indie music distribution site, MegaBox, isn't going to be released after all.

And what does their choice of license plate have to do with their guilt or innocence, anyway?
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