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Sadly no mention of I2P even though it was working quite well even back then. http://www.i2p2.de/

You can use Bittorrent in it, there is a emule port, gnutella etc. Works quite well. I often have download speeds of ~50Kilobytes/s in Bittorrent. It is a self-contained net with some trackers.
On the other hand, I feel so slow and inefficient when I use a text entry box that DOESN'T have vim bindings.
My bad, poor choice of words. Of course it is not the fact that it is fueled by petroleum that contributes most to the five+ orders of magnitude in difference in power consumption.
1) This post is not about technical skills or competency, it’s about a person-company fit and motivation. If you hire an average developer you expect average results, and if you hire an awesome developer you expect an awesome product. But what if this developer has the skills but not the motivation? What if after he joins your startup he realizes it’s not what he was really looking for? The impact on your team will be huge, if he stays or leaves. Get the cards out on the table before you join forces.

2) Some people on Hacker News are talking about the absurdity of taking a below Market Rate salary. I don’t know where you got that from, but on the post I said startups would pay less than Microsoft. I think some people on HN don’t really know how much Microsoft pays (or Google, Amazon or FB). It’s a lot more than you are thinking. A 10-12 year veteran at Microsoft has a base salary of $140,000-$180,000 and 20% bonus (pretty much guaranteed). That’s between $170K-$220K in comp, excluding Stock Awards, unbeatable health care coverage, and many other perks. Yes, no startup that I know of can afford that.

3) I’m not rejecting “Pete”. I’m asking him to do a self-assessment (a side project) to understand his own interest in building products end-to-end and to “get” what doing code at a startup might be like.

4) For the people attacking me or my startup, you should look yourself in the mirror and try to find the source of so much anger.

5) My post lacks context in the sense of who I am and why do I get so many Microsoft developers that want to talk to me. And just to clarify, I’ve worked at MSFT for 7 years, I left to do a startup, which I did for 4.5 years and I failed and I was very public about it. I set out on a mission to help educate others who were following a similar path, to help them avoid the similar mistakes I’ve made. I founded the Seattle 2.0 organizations to help that mission. Over the last 4 years, I helped approximately 2,000 people who went through some of the events I put together. You can read the full story of my first startup here:

http://blog.calbucci.com/2009/07/anything-and-everything-abo...

You can read the story of Seattle 2.0 here:

http://blog.calbucci.com/2011/12/seattle-20-from-humble-begi...
Has it been hastened considerably? It has been 3 years now since the controversy began...or centuries in internet time.
Counterpoint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_William_Shatner_Changed_the...

"technological advancements and people in the real world that were inspired by the Star Trek phenomenon"
Nice!

I also remember seeing that permissions were reset on reboot, but that might have been some other setup, not CM.
"We don't mine batteries from the ground"

Er...
Upvoted because of the reasons above. Bad choice of words on my part. Should have been "Vehicles (period) are incredibly power consuming".
The fault isn't being placed on the CEO. He is an individual who seeks personal gain primarily, places family interest and other similar motivators ahead of the needs of the organization he leads.

Rather, fingers should be pointed at Boards who agree to ridiculous compensation packages.
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Yeah: I wish speed.pypy.org also compared memory use. Admittedly, that's more complicated.
wow dude, that's quite cynical, and subjective at best. Go look one of these "parasites" in the eye and tell him that you think he's a "psychopathic narcissists ... influence-peddling assholes" and that he's not "selfless, enlightened, pragmatic".

TLDR: if there was any weight to your thesis (which is, what, exactly?), you totally discredited yourself with your cynicism.
You are forgetting that this compensation is then discounted for time. And 20 years would incur a very substantial discount. Every CEO knows how to do that math.

Radically increasing the vesting time means that you would need to grant several times the number of options that you would need to grant for shorter vesting terms, just to maintain parity. The potential dilutive effect for other shareholders (including employees) would be rather large.
No, people need to realize that cars weighing in at 3+ tons with capacity for 5+ passengers to transport a single person to work are not viable. Because the "give us something we can hotswap for oil" attitude is obviously going nowhere.
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Energy density of the batteries has been steadily increasing. There's no reason to believe that it will hit a way, so this argument is misleading in that it assumes the density will be constant.
Your point is completely valid if it were a book about success. It is a personal finance book, and I assume most readers are trying to find out "how do I become rich?".
Ask HN: Built a startup, took a real job, now seeing lots of interest. Now what?
A couple of years ago I built a startup (see previous posts from me.) As, essentially, a one man shop, I saw moderate success and even got to meet one-on-one with Mike Moritz then Bryan Schrier (tho, Sequoia turned me down for funding, but a great experience!).

Then I got a job offer from a bank (the vampire squid variety), I looked at my new wife and our mortgage and made the rational decision. Fast forward a couple of years and I'm seeing a big uptick in interest for my startup. I've kept the site up and am getting several emails daily seeking pricing info and vendor partnership interest. But, I have a job and no time to dedicate in pursuing these opportunities. So, now what?

Probably the best option here is to find a home for my startup. I would let it go for next to nothing to a qualified buyer willing to dedicate the resources it deserves. But how to find such a buyer? The service is a niche medical SAAS that requires some knowledge of the industry, and sites like flippa aren't great avenues for finding niche buyers.

Any other options you see here?

FWIW, have pitched to a few vendors. Direction that goes is: "I want someone else to do this, so I don't have to."
On a side note, how can CNET claim credit on a screenshot of a BBC program?
This is an incredibly important point. There are two stances to take. First, FB can claim they are a “common carrier,” does not censor, and not responsible for what people post (just as the telephone company is not responsible for what people say on the telephone). Second, FB can pick and choose what is allowed but bears responsibility for what it allows to be posted.

Whether you like or dislike their particular choices, the very fact that they censor breastfeeding mothers means that they are accepting moral responsibility for what they decide not to censor.

I do not accept the statement that they “Abhor Nazi ideals and find Holocaust denial repulsive and ignorant. However, we believe people have a right to discuss these ideas and we want Facebook to be a place where ideas, even controversial ideas, can be discussed.” Where was that line of thinking when they censored breastfeeding?
"three-dimensional warfare (not even thinking about the wormhole at this point) in space?"

... well... if you take Star Trek seriously, for some mysterious reason, space battle in their universe isn't actually 3 dimensional. At best it's 2.5, taking place on a two-dimensional plane with a few hundred meters of play in the third. Also, everything takes place at what would, even with modern military hardware, be considered point-blank range. Not only is Star Trek combat modeled on naval warfare, it's modeled on 17th century naval warfare.

To your next paragraph, I would point out that we are following the elite of the elite. Sisko is the officer, out of all the presumably billions-if-not-trillions of people in the Federation, who is considered most suitable to be in charge of an incredibly strategic station. Odds are he's not a typical sample of humanity, nor any other officers there. I suspect our best officers today similarly do not "waste" much time either.

Otherwise... I'm a big fan of taking canon "seriously" and trying to work out how it could actually be working. I particularly enjoy playing this game with Futurama, something you're not "supposed" to do that with. But having spent some time on Star Trek, I find it's really, really hard to square the stated philosophy of the Federation with what seems to be the reality of the Federation. It just doesn't make sense. Even such old chestnuts like "Why did the Enterprise actually carry families?" are old chestnuts precisely because it really, honestly doesn't make sense. Starships are blowing up all the time in Star Trek, usually not even due to hostile action (or at least, conventional hostile military action). And I just find that in the end, there's no practical way to actually put together the pieces into anything like a coherent whole.

Almost as if Star Trek was written over the course of decades by dozens upon dozens of writers mostly focused on how the current episode will turn out.
I'd rather not share on HN because of how often it gets crawled by Google. You can generally find it through my LinkedIn which is easy enough to find from my HN handle.
There's a guy in my deptartment that does stuff like this. The basic idea is to model chemical reactions with DNA. The chemical reactions surprisingly simple (x + y' --> y is essentially an AND gate, for example). In fact, they've even made a C-->chemical reaction compiler!

>the jury is still out on applications

I disagree -- I see huge applications, especially in medicine. There were some people from Caltech that used a DNA-computer to kill cancer cells extremely effectively.

More papers are available here:
http://cctbio.ece.umn.edu/wiki/index.php/Papers,_Theses,_and...

The compiler:
http://cctbio.ece.umn.edu/chem-compiler/chem-compiler.pl

Cancer application:
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~udi/papers/automoleculcomp...
Right. I tried to caveat myself, for I forgot the exact reason I wasn't supposed to like it.

Institutionally, we seem adverse to any sort of intervention that does not go through a banking intermediary.
Sounds like the familiar contrast between continental rationalism and Anglo-American empiricism.
That's odd, they neglect to mention the true cost of gasoline; both in subsidies used to keep it cheap at the pump, as well as the environmental cost associated with cleaning up their profit-generating mess.

ETA: Point out an oil company's dishonesty, get downvoted. Only on HN.
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There is nothing more disappointing than spending time on a site only to have it become an internet ghost town.
Everyone has to start somewhere.
There's also SPDY and WebM, which certainly both have shown to be desirable outside of Google.
Except you can't piss on people in public?
Oddly enough, the top levels of the piracy chain still use FTP and IRC. Even though security improved right after the early 2000 busts, it has remained relatively unchanged since then (even taking into account the RELOADED-related busts ~8-12 months ago). But I guess it all comes down to scale.. it's easier to control the security of 100 users over the security of millions.
SF isn't about predicting the future, it's about predicting our reactions to possible futures.

A book that predicted Facebook would be interesting as a coincidence; a book that predicted Facebook and accurately showed some of the advantages and pitfalls that it presented would have been a worthwhile thing to read.
Created an MVP app to solve this problem based on a similar situation I experienced.
http://app.g2link.com/
I'm not jumping on the hate-train necessarily, I've read the book a few years ago but I honestly didn't really feel anything from it. To me it was just a stack of papers that were confirming what I already knew.

To me the book and its "teachings" can be somewhat helpful to a person who doesn't have any financial history or were not brought up to understand the value of money and investments. For someone that was brought up and taught these lessons like me the book is a circlejerk that goes "look, someone agrees with my views!"

The book doesn't provide a whole lot more than financial common sense. To someone that hasn't had that sort of information before it might be interesting/revealing but to those who have it comes off as really dumb and get the sense of "well, no shit sherlock, I could've written a book like that". Its the same thing for people who look at social networks and go "I thought of that five years ago! I should be rich too!"

Don't get caught up if someone doesn't like the self-help books. I know nothing about you but it really depends on what kind of upbringing you had. To me I learned about money early, to others things like the time value of money are foreign and don't really learn of them until post-high school education. Reading books and learning of these topics isn't bad, it puts you in line with others who share their stories of success and the general principles they followed to achieve it.
That sounds more like an exercise in bias confirmation, to be frank; assume a premise, then look for evidence. Inspiration comes from lots of places, not least culture, fiction, nature, chance, etc. Finding the particular bits of inspiration influenced by a particular niche of fiction is a funny way of arguing that the purpose of a niche of fiction is to generate inspiration.
You could argue that a lot of sci-fi isn't really meant to be a description of events in the future: instead it's often a thinly-disguised morality play set in the then-present.
> What struck me about the arc was the complete lack of mention of the constitution - had it been suspended? why?

I don't want to get too far into this, but eh...in 1996, people would look at legislation like SOPA, NDAA, and the Patriot Act and ask the same question. I think "Past Tense" is being borne out rather than repudiated by recent events, especially depending on your level of pessimism about the economy.

Funny enough though, some of the DS9 writers actually went on the internet to communicate with their fans.
Just a quick note if you're interested, this book is similar and is an absolutely fantastic 'applied beginner' ML book "Programming Collective Intelligence"

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Bu...
You are defending Gaddafi. A dictator who has ruled for 40 years, and threatened to slaughter thousands (recently) when his rule was threatened. That behaviour is not indicative of any kind of major shift from his earlier self. I guess you think Gaddafi bombing his own people would have been preferable?

That the country was rich because of oil is not very comforting given the ruthlessness of the man at the top. Can you imagine that a people might not want to be ruled by such a man? A man that would bomb them to hold on to power indefinitely?

And do you really think that the only possibilities here are dictatorial rule by a power-hungry asshole vs negligent puppet kingdom?

This is not a defense of interventionism. It is amazement at your defense of a tyrant.
>> Pinterest is a new social media infested website
No, it's not. It's been around since 2008.

The "interest" in that site is new, it's seen an increase in traffic lately.
Yeah, serving up two versions simultaneously and split testing them would be more scientific, but I appreciate the number anyway. It was an after the fact observation rather than an original goal, so I wouldn't expect him to go back and deploy the slower version just to test the number.

The hole here is whether or not they unknowingly got a new influx of traffic that was 5% more likely to convert, skewing his final observation, which I would say is unlikely. Your point is good in general, however.
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> Per mass hydrogen is pretty attractive.

A bucket of gasoline contains more hydrogen than a bucket of liquid hydrogen, and you can actually keep the gasoline in the bucket.

Hydrogen is awesome as an energy source if you look at the combustion formula and the per-mass energy density. In all other aspects it's a horrible, horrible, horrible fuel. :-)
I pay less than $7/month for my Usenet connection, which is relatively cheap if you use it frequently. The connection is over SSL so it's completely secure end-to-end. My average download speed is 9 MB/s (saturating my line) which means I can download a 720p HD movie in just under 13 minutes. There's also (like with torrents) the ability to set-up TV show RSS feeds, so my shows automatically download to a folder, ready to watch, as they're released. It comes down to ease of use.
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Ask HN: Genius IQ or using the product you're working on?
I've noticed some feel that "being a genius" is great advantage while other feel that "using the products you're working on" is of more value.
Thoughts??? Let's not just say...both
"The sales would never have been generated in the first place if pinterest never existed."

That's true, the sale would never had been generated if Pinterest never existed. But the key point here is that the sale would still have been generated even if Pinterest was dropped from the affiliate program. The user generated link would still exist.

As a blogger you could say well I'm not going to link to any Amazon products now. Pinterest doesn't have that luxury. They could remove any links that they can't monetize but users would revolt since they are the ones adding the content and links.
I wouldn't say "lost", but I would say "seriously far behind".

You should start marketing the product as soon as you start writing code. Start collecting email addresses, writing blog posts, talking to people, etc etc.

When you launch you should ideally have an email list which are already interested in your product. These people are your lifeblood. They will tell you what sucks about your product and what to change. They will tell you that your product isn't what they need...but they will provide critical information about what they really need.

Code is only 20% of the battle. Marketing is the other 80%.
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> Perhaps Star Trek depicts a humanity that has finally decided to better itself consistently, on a mass and individual level.

That's more or less explicitly the point. I think that's almost word-for-word what Roddenberry wrote in the series bibles, for TNG if not TOS.
A better link is probably: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Smoking_ban_in_wal... as the piece was filmed in Wales, not England.
I've run forums for a long time and bullying surfaces frequently. Most trolls use Tor nowadays.

Only very rarely do I get traceable IP addresses that can be dealt with in any meaningful way, and that's usually when there is an invasion of trolls for a day or two and some drop their guard.

The only time I've ever successfully stopped a troll was about a decade ago when I traced it back to a uni and was able to raise a sysadmin.

By and large, for the majority of forums and social sites out there (which is where most bullying happens) there is very little that the admins can do even if it's reported to us.

About the only thing working is stopforumspam.com , whereby hundreds of forums are blocking IP addresses for a short while across all of the forums. It's made for spam, but I and others submit trolls to it too (when we're absolutely sure there's nothing of worth in the person and it's not just differing views).
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> If you want a vehicle that is large enough to hold a human and can push air out of the way at 60 mph

But do we really need to go 60 mph? Vehicles seem to be optimized for less-common use cases (e.g. 5 people in the car traveling 60 mph) instead of their more common uses (e.g. one person commuting at 30-40 mph). I, for one, would like to see smaller vehicles - NOT SmartCars and the like but an actual rethinking of the car that would be optimized for the single person commute.
Ask HN: equity split (engineer founder == ceo)
Note: despite being a longer post, this is a pick your own ending style post with some clear choices @ the end. Your thoughts/feedback welcome across any of the content here-in...

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I'm the technical founder, and the business guy. I enthusiastically & regularly toil - investing my time almost exclusively on the product. The product and the company are going to be blockbusters.

I feel like I'm making decent progress but could be moving [faster, better, stronger] if there was a way to divide and conquer, and would love a brilliant mind to brainstorm with --- i.e., co-founder.

I don't have any technical hackers in my network, and the guys I'd like to meet probably aren't going to networking events. So I kept the process casual and met with the best people in their respective fields, landed on one recent potential person...

I recently met with a co-founder-worthy (assume true) person, who's a 'business guy'. This person is talented w/marketing, and a good guy - thru separate avenues we both had landed at the same conclusion and were hoping to start companies in the same space. This guy works currently at a company with lots of awesome engineers, and is friends with some of them (as much friends as an engineer and marketer could be) and so his main value add for me was effectively buying access to the engineers in his network.

To take the potential fit further, we filled in Dan Shapiro's equity calculator together (and some others) and that's where I am at now, and looking for some feedback from you guys...

Maybe it's a function of crappy calculators, maybe my expectations are way off, the calculators spit out 55% me, 45% him, including the fact that I'm building the product myself, and we were basically evenly matched on other categories. It left me feeling confused, and the potential co-founder with the sense that it was fair.

The potential co-founder talked to his MBA buddies who think 30% is minimum for being involved. Even if we did Dan's calculator wrong, I still feel like 30% is absurd for a business-only hustler in the early stages (pre product) here. If we need an amazing hustler business person downstream for certain things, what prevents us from hiring that? Is it really worth all this, to just get access to the engineers in his network?

Wanted to get some HN feedback & suggestions on next steps, what are your thoughts?

1. Part ways amicably with potential co-founder
2. Partner up, much lower share for him
3. Partner up, that 55/45 split sounds about right
4. Something different?

For #2 & #3, was thinking about using vesting terms as a way to have him be accountable for bringing the right engineering candidates into the hiring/3rd-founder funnel, know of a better way?

Thank you for taking the time to read this!
This is really cool - prolog and datalog are great for a wide variety of things, but I'd imagine the performance advantages writing a DSL rather than having to go through the whole *log interpreter is a major plus.

Out of interest, what's the performance like at scale (50 000+ nodes)? (In hind-site, I guess I don't actually have anything to compare it to, but a 50 000 node graph seems pretty big!)
We don't mine lithium or nickel for its intrinsic energy.