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Right on, the timeline seems aggressive for a internship that won't start for months. It is understandable that the company would want to get commitments and perhaps it will be a great internship but they should have been more reasonable about the offer.

There is NOTHING wrong with accepting the offer and continuing to interview for other positions. If you find something better just apologize and move on. It happens all the time and if somebody holds a grudge about it, they are being an asshole and you probably wouldn't want anything to do with them anyway. Seriously.

Moreover, it is important to keep in mind that big companies (and sometimes small ones) have no problem whatsoever with abruptly derailing the careers of good employees just for short-term financial considerations. Loyalty goes both ways and sadly big companies have burned that bridge first.
There may be a real reason for the deadline - internal process, internship program schedules, the hiring manager just wants to get it over with, etc, so it's probably wise not to ignore it completely.

But never, ever, ever, ever give anything resembling loyalty to a big company. It is not a person, and cannot appreciate it, no matter how much you want it to. Until they're paying you, you are free to do as you please, ethically, legally and in every other sense of the word.
I think the real value of this type of testing would come from actually talking to people who are interested in your product.

With that goal in mind, I would change the "I'm Interested" button to a single email submission field with a call to action like "Get Started".

Once somebody submits the field, give them a confirmation message to check their inbox. Then in that email, explain that the product is under development and their feedback would be valuable.

Do you have some specific questions in mind that you want these leads to answer for you?
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It doesn't sound harsh at all. :-)

As I (briefly) mentioned in the original post, I'm running a few sites similar to the one I linked to, and only used FrostChat as an example.

What I'm most concerned about is if I'm effectively figuring out which product idea is the most viable using this method (adwords + crappy landing page + comparing which landing pages get the most email addresses). I wonder if zeroing in on one idea to iron out all the kinks (like the language usage issue you brought up) would yield better results.
"I love the community aspect of the site … "

This. 1000 times this. I _so_ often hear geeks saying "It's easy to leave Flickr, just host your photos on S3/Dropbox/your-own-web-hosting! Done!". That misses out on a _lot_ of what keeps people on Flickr. The social/community/discoverability side of it.

I suspect Flickr's successor will either:

1) be a service which provides all that "social/community/discoverability" stuff while letting users choose which of many backends actually do their photo storage (openphoto might be a first contender here),

or 2) one of the existing social networks will steamroller over the entire photo sharing space (Facebook seems to be gaining considerable momentum down this path).
But Apple did do this to their users. They are just as culpable as Path, if not more so. If you are going to provide a platform for app distribution, it is your, and only your responsibility to ensure that private information is not abused if you create the illusion that user information is safe.
Your analogy doesn't hold. San Jose is not a country, and it has no legal right to prevent US citizens from entering its borders. If (eg.) more people enter than its hospitals or roads can comfortably handle, then it can appeal to the Federal government for assistance. The US cannot.

I don't think the original statement is entirely true either - I can think of plenty of countries which don't promote the well-being of their citizens - but I would class those as broken countries, rather than trying to say that the notion of a country is broken. Certainly most western countries exist to benefit their citizens.
Your boss should be fighting to make you recognized. That's a big part of his job. If he isn't making that effort, and if he isn't helping you find opportunities to be noticed, then you should look for a new boss who will.

If course, if you ARE a manager, then you should bang the drum for your best employees if you want them to be happy and continue to contribute.
Let's not guess what he would say. But blaming Linus for that is like the Iranian government blaming a dev because someone used his upload app to upload porn pictures or people blaming gun makers instead of killers. You can do it but it isn't the smartest thing to do to say the least IMO.
Maybe some people just don't have an infinite appetite for self-promotion. I've had a blog for over a decade - nearly 1700 articles worth. I refer to my posts sometimes when it's strictly in context for a particular conversation, but I don't make a habit of posting links on Twitter and Google+ and HN and Reddit and FSM knows where else just because I think a post is so awesome that everyone I know (and even more that I don't) must read it immediately. If they find it in their RSS feed, that's great. If they hear about it from a mutual friend, that's great too. If somebody else wants to repost it, that's fine too; at least it means one person besides the author thought it was worth that. Otherwise, I feel that I'd be demanding too much of my friends' attention by making sure they see links to the same damn thing in a half-dozen places before its quality has been vetted by a single other soul. I'm hardly humble - I do have a blog after all - but I'm not that much of a narcissist.

There is no problem with people who are "too quiet" about their blogs. Au contraire.
One of my kids has special needs. This means he rides a certain bus and goes to a certain school. It would be trivial to uniquely identify him for the rest of his LIFE with only the information contained in my contacts list.

So now, without consent, this "private" "friends and family"-based app I installed on my phone, plus it's company, plus any other company they choose to do business with, or any entity that acquires them in perpetuity, or any data mining, social profiling, credit bureau, can start building far-reaching and long-lasting profiles of a four year old little boy that needs a extra help.

What part of that confuses you?

p.s. this could have been avoided with a dozen lines of code via a dialog box.
I think the email is the first part of building the relationship. Sure the first email is automated, but you can't call it building a relationship unless there's a real human being on that end trying to understand what's going wrong.
But why does that matter? What does anyone gain from knowing that they are using affiliate links? What does anyone lose from not knowing?
Having all that information (school, doctor, lawyer, pest control company, health insurer, employer, credit card company, ...) about one person or a family, together in one place, is a social-engineering / identity-theft cornucopia. Imagine if Path had a data breach resulting in this contacts database floating around the internet.

Now most people's response to that kind of threat is to think "I'm just nobody important, no one would ever go to the trouble of using this information to impersonate me or otherwise make my life difficult." Probably you are underestimating one or more of: (a) your importance, meaning how much money someone stands to gain by impersonating you, (b) the gullibility/apathy of customer service reps at the companies you interact with, or possibly (c) the amount of free time and/or perversity of someone who will fuck with you just for the lulz.
In experimental tasks, parallelizing does not provide the same gain in success probability as accelerating the process of prototyping.

Building prototypes in parallel does not provide the benefit of a feedback loop, as the iterative process does.

Let's say you have a 10% probability of success on the first attempt, which improves by 40% after each experiment (to 14%, 19.6%...), and you have resources for 5 attempts. The chance of getting at least one successful solution is: parallel ~ 40.95%; iterative ~ 72.19%
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At first, I read this and thought to myself -- "charming, but they didn't really pay $5K for the chair, so much as for their lack of proper legal documentation."

Then I thought on it a bit more and realized -- it was the chair that cost them $5K, because if they hadn't established the paper trail via the e-mail chain about giving the chair back, they wouldn't have had the hangup on 'without prejudice'.

Be careful with email, folks. In the end, that is your paper trail.
So, kind of like the GPLv3 or AGPLv3?
To get perspective, actually. Most lawyers are wicked smart and it sucks you aren't in a position to have such a valuable resource available in your own life. HTH.
You generate a lot of data
Even if Path buried this disclosure deep in a TOS page, would anyone read it? I just posted a startup idea I have to generate easy-to-read summaries from website TOS pages: http://clearsignal.posterous.com/do-we-value-our-laundry-mor...
Do you have some specific questions in mind that you want these leads to answer for you?

I guess what I need to figure out is how to incentivize visitors to answer my questions (or if they even need incentives in the first place).

I like this idea (even if it creates more stuff for me to test). :-D
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Because asking for advice from those wiser than oneself clearly makes one a moron.
Of course root cause analysis is common sense, anyone with a couple of braincells to rub together gets it as soon as it is explained to them.

However as I understand it Ries' drive is for it to be a institutional practice, you are right an engineer will get to #3 as you say and there it will end. However if the entire company has taken up the practice it won't stop there. This is especially true if root cause analysis isn't used to assigning blame but fixing issues.

As to management and people issues, he addresses that directly in the video talking about management issues being part of the process. So this aspect isn't ignored and is promoting them being addressed.

I am certainly interested in what misconceptions there are is in "proportional investment at every stage of the problem" as I have used this stuff successfully in the past.
The biggest problem with machine learning occurs when people subscribe to the belief that it's a black-box solution. The truth is that you can't just drag-and-drop your data into a pre-existing solution. The types of algorithms you use depend on the types of problems you're trying to solve (e.g., classification, regression, clustering). The data you collect depends on the algorithms you use.

Sure, prediction APIs could arise that give detailed use cases for each algorithm, but then there's a problem with the fringe cases: you might not know that two pieces of data are so heavily correlated that they completely shatter a conditional independence assumption, for example.

As a hacker who originally subscribed to the belief that a thorough understanding of machine learning was overkill, it is without hesitation that I admit being 100% wrong. The truth of the matter is that when it's done properly, artificial intelligence and machine learning ought to be inextricably linked with your core business processes.
Amazing. This is why I like HN. I just wrote up a quick note with an example image here: http://clearsignal.posterous.com/do-we-value-our-laundry-mor...
When I get back, link to actual example. Thanks!
With social apps, trust is everything. Without it, you've got nothing. I wonder if this increases vanity user base numbers.
I think you're spot on here mash but I have a disconcerting question. How do you intend to handle this situation with every other app you, and presumably your wife, have ever downloaded? Specifically those that may not be as 'transparent' as Path?

I ask because we would be foolish to think the developers of some less then typical quality apps have, or will, certainly exploit this for their own monetary gain.
Making a prediction:
When you wake up tomorrow morning, the front page will be filled with stories like these about every type of app you can think of. It will only get worse from here.
That looks like TOC for "Machine Learning for Email", which is just a portion of the entire "Machine Learning for Hackers" book. The full "Machine Learning for Hackers" doesn't appear to be on Safari yet.
wvoq your account is dead now, so no one can see or reply to any of your new posts.

Anyway, you are getting downmodded for two reasons:

1: because staunch edited his post so your reply no longer makes any sense.

2: Your reply was totally offtopic.
It's sensitive depending on what you're going to do with it. If you're a native app and you want to access it so that you can show me my address book in some unique way, then I don't want to be bothered giving permission. If you're a native app that's just a front end to some social network and you're going to shuttle it off to some big database in the sky, then maybe not.

The problem is that this isn't easily enforceable at the API level without the user having to make decisions. The right level of enforcement is at the app review stage.
This was the turning point for me and emacs. Reading this made me think about emacs in a whole new light. I really wish he would write another one about what he has learned since then.
No, I meant actions intended to actually harm, physically or otherwise. Recission departments exist to intentionally screw people over - you make people pay for a product that you then do you best to squirm your way out of providing. Recission departments are "repulsive by reason of crass disregard of moral or ethical principles"

Given the popularity of porn, I truly think that if you were able to get honest answers out of people (ie no social pressure to answer in a given way), more would have a problem with the existence of recission depts than with the existence of porn.
As someone studying this intensely, it's quite the opposite. Basic ML can (and has) been commodified with good toolkits and APIs. Additionally, much of practical ML is just applications of already invented algorithms to fields that just haven't even seen them yet.

But that said, the deeper message is in interpretation and discovery from data. Large data, small data, highly structured data, or just regularized DB pulls. The heart of it is statistical pattern recognition and it's really just begun to be broached (even academically) in the last 25 years.
I can certainly see a role for somebody that understands the tradeoffs of each of these algorithms and that understands how to properly select and prepare dataasets. But I wonder how many people will really need to be able to actually implement these algorithms.
Wow, congratulations! I wonder if they'll post about how being bought by a public corporation is different from a late-stage private startup.
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I don't think there is an effective way to hide the use of affiliate links, so they may as well disclose it in their FAQ or TOS just to avoid complaints that they're not being genuine towards their users.
I really like this idea and the simple execution of the sharing functionality. Since it's free, how do you plan to make money? And how's your infrastructure if this were added to a high-trafficked site?
Update: olefoo pointed out in the Pinterest thread that this has been tried apparently. Updated post to reflect.
I think the investor's lawyer was being overly cautious. Anyway, small price to pay for peace of mind. Always get a release!
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I think the regress you're talking about is super important---black box AI only goes so far---but I also think there's great benefit to just applying the first layer of broken, incorrectly paired ML to a new field.

My prediction is that even the most black box ML, creatively applied, is and will be an incredible skill. Increasing levels of sophistication will continually kill off the current practices of black box ML, but the willingness to apply statistical pattern recognition to new and interesting areas can't help but be incredible.
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They're brutally simple to implement much of the time. The difficulty comes in two places:

1. Derivation of slight variations on the basic principles
2. Scaling.

Both are very difficult.
The analogy holds precisely for the reason that San Jose does not consider itself beleaguered by the influx of immigrants who want to live there. The fact that you could entertain thought experiments in which the net consequences of immigration are negative (e.g., a giant flashmob of 50 million people immigrates simultaneously) does not suffice to show that San Jose's hospitals and roads are overwhelmed in the actual world.

In the actual world, San Jose is not in fact appealing to the federal government for assistance; it is reaping the benefits that attend a growing metropolitan population and tax base. On average, San Joseans are better off when more people become San Joseans, for all the same reasons that New York is a more desirable place to live (as measured by the demand for housing) than Wichita.

I've never claimed that there are no states who do not take their citizens' interests into account. I claimed that states often take little or no consideration of the interests of non-citizens. In absolute terms, for example, malaria is a much more pressing human affair than corn subsidies. But corn subsidies primarily affect people within the US whereas malaria primarily affects people outside the US, so corn subsidies dominate malaria in contest for the attention of the US government.
Oh, I think I understand now. When you say "anigbrowl has also pointed out some things that are obscene - actions which intentionally injure others" you mean:

'here are some actions which are obscene'

rather than 'obscene means actions which intentionally injure others'
I have little doubt. My only question/interest is - what is the most high-profile and also the most odd-ball app/company that will be found to have done this.
I still miss Etacts and would miss Rapportive in a similar way, I hope the two early exits will inspire a new take.
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Also, Anki 2 is in beta right now and the UI on the desktop end of things is a real improvement.

The dev is super responsive. I've used a lot of flash card apps and have settled on Anki specifically because it's cross platform.

The Android app (third party) is still subpar in my opinion but that might change if it revs with Anki 2.
Thank goodness Apple is scrutinizing all these apps. I definitely like my walled garden well curated.
If you don't mind me asking, what might those purposes be?
I'm looking forward to when this hits high school.
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When I contribute to FOSS software I know that the odds are very good that other people will actually benefit from the work that I do. Having worked for several startups, I know that the code I was paid to write is more likely than not going to end up in the trash can when the company folds, the project is cancelled or (best case so far) the application is re-written from the ground up by another team. My FOSS code, on the other hand, as humble as it may be, is much more likely to be picked up, used and even improved by others. And there is a satisfaction in knowing that I will always be able to use it whenever I want, something that is not the case with code I have written for my employers
Well, you can formalize common sense only so much before it turns into parody.

I've been in these meetings too often where one (or more..) of the managers would follow their formulaic script, repeatedly uttering these catchy phrases without ever grasping the kernel of the issue.

Yes, "proportional investment" sounds awfully catchy. Yet it's simply not applicable in any kind of interesting situation. You can't "proportionally invest" into fixing a cronjob that shouldn't exist in first place but had to be rushed as a bandaid to meet unrealistic requirements.

You can't "train" a manager to make reasonable trade-offs when he has a track-record of doing the opposite.

These are literally the two most common root-causes that I have seen. And it would be great if the "5 why's" were ever executed consequentially, but they are not. In this type of meeting the analysis always ends before it gets to the point of questioning the guy who was calling the shots that went in the foot.

The cases where the formulaic "5 why's" are actually applicable are the uninteresting ones, the easy ones, the no-brainers.

It's the cases where the intern screwed something up - yes we shouldn't give critical stuff to the intern. Or the cases where not enough headroom was planned - yes we should be more conservative. In short: It's the cases where nobody important gets hurt by the conclusion.

I have never seen a people-problem being solved by someone following a catchy formula.

You either have the common sense to identify and the balls to tackle these kind of problems - or you're likely part of the problem in first place.

But in functional teams all of this isn't even something anyone talks about... Which makes videos like the above seem so surreal and detached from reality.
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It's interesting that saying "without prejudice" is a keyword for "I'll sue you later if it's worth my while". It seems like lawyers get a lot of power purely from that fact that our legal system makes no sense and they can just warp it against you at any time.
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This is, of course, happening in a lot of apps and websites. I wrote a quick note about making it easier to understand TOS here: http://clearsignal.posterous.com/do-we-value-our-laundry-mor.... Within minutes, olefoo pointed out that http://khulaproject.com/ has already tried. Seems like something that could help.
Your child's pediatricians phone number will somehow cause inconceivable damage if this number gets out? I bet calling up all of the pediatricians in your town phishing for this info would be much more productive than worrying about it being stolen off of a database from Path.
Interesting story with a lesson to remember. But can anyone comment on how did his or investor's attorney find that email? Is it common practice to give attorneys full access to all your company's email accounts and then have them search through for any land mines as part of due diligence? Seems a little extreme and very labor intensive. And who pays for it?