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It can also make it expedient and more effective to operate in the real world. You can always say "we tried to approach them and work with them nicely" when you start making noise and going nuclear after they don't respond.
I think you misunderstand them. They're poking HN with a stick, just to get a rise out of you. As in: "these guys think they matter, but they really don't, not to us." It's a little petty and mean, but I have a similar pettiness and meanness in me, so I kind of get it.

As to the response to their response, well, nobody likes being ignored or perceived as insignificant, especially those with large egos, and there are a lot of large egos here on HN.
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We buy a lot of Intel 320 SSDs. Not a single failure yet.
Git is a generic management tool for a directed acyclic graph, applied to version control. Once you internalize that, everything falls into place, trivially.
Twitter is the slowest site of all the major sites that I visit (apart from HN). I often open individual twit links, and pretty much every time all I see is the blue cloud background. It easily takes 3 to 5 seconds to load the actual content. (I'm on an 8-Mbit connection, other sites work fine.)
You can see comparison for other European accelerators here http://startupfactories.eu/

And for Eastern European accelerators here http://goaleurope.com/2011/11/23/eastern-europe-innovation-e...
Did you take equity or a promise of equity? If so, flat out ask how things are REALLY going.

If you're just taking $ for hours and you like the work, stay for as long as they keep paying you but still ask if there are any problems. If they punt and don't answer or you don't believe they're being honest with you then start looking at your options for getting out of there.

You have to know that they'll drop you as soon as the cash runs out, so you owe them NOTHING.
Aside from the fact that that comic misrepresents the argument behind 1984, they're not really at odds with one another the way the comic makes it seem.

Orwell was writing within the context of his time - the late 1940s. So if he were writing today, it's not too hard to imagine him writing about banning websites (ie, SOPA), or the similar actions that are going on today.

If Orwell were writing today, I imagine 1984 might look more like Cory Doctrow's 'Scroogled'

> http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html

(The one main difference between the two that Orwell may have gotten 'wrong' is that it is the corporations, not the strictly the government, that serve as Big Brother in Doctrow's case - or rather, a coalition of corporations and the government. Then again, in Neal Stephenson, the corporations eventually become the government, so that's not as significant a difference as it really might seem.)
How do you plan to find a buyer? The price is probably going to be quite different if you put it on eBay and hope for the best, versus if you have some networks where you can market it privately.
You just described Kapow. Or Selenium if you want a cheaper alternative.
I am split. On one hand it is pretty cool that the recognize it.

On the other hand the entire forced 'physical education' just screams revenge of the jocks over the nerds. At least at MIT it should be the other way.
>They created ruby on rails, which a few people use

A few people? Really? Now that's just petty.
Wow, best of luck! It'll be hard to compete with VCs, but if you're a scientist you speak a language that isn't easy to learn. That could be a deciding advantage.
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Adding to the (very long) list of reasons I wish I had considered engineering much earlier in life (or rather, known what AP exams were– small towns, pffft).
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Aside of the lacking availability of stable servers, another issue is that SPDY runs over SSL exclusively. That means that due to XP's lack of support of SNI, it's still not possible to do name-based virtual hosting.

Wasting an ip address for smaller sites is not always opportune or even possible, especially as we are running out of IP addresses.
I have been learning rails and had a similar project idea of developing a blog creator using this framework, but you have bet me to it! Now, I have to look for another idea. :)
We haven't though about that part yet. I think there is a site called Flippa.com but seems like that site is sell site which have ad revenue or customer. So not sure yet.
It's not dissimilar to the legal ramifications of browsing HN, then. Look, encrypted data!

xQq84/+wpysSnUveVUX6592sHzGBptxysvtginJr2OFkDifXYtNCFg==
Compared to java, javascript, c, php etc?
I think the right attitude is "the factory is an extension of RasPi, thus RasPi mucked up".
That's true to some extent, but I think it's worth to throw in a couple personalizations to avoid looking totally cookie-cutter.

I think most readers would be OK seeing something looking bootstrappy, but not with something that is pure unmodified boostrap.
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Haven't been able to find any info on this stock option evaluation question anywhere, so would very much appreciate your advice.

I've been an early engineer at several start-ups now. Some angel funded and some VC funded. Some have done well and others have had nothing happen at. I've always gotten decent stock options and although the specifics are different across the board, the strike price multiplied by the number of shares has always been "affordable" to pay out of pocket, say in the $3-5k range. For example, a $3k options exercise check to the company would be for 30k shares at $.10 for an earlier stage co, or 1k shares at $3 for a later stage co. This made it easy to exercise the options when leaving the company (at any vesting point). I didn't have to wait until the company failed/IPO'd/got bought if I wasn't passionate about working there anymore, but could still walk away with some stock for my hard work.

I'm now presented with a new start-up opportunity. However, unlike in the past, the options offer is a million+ shares at $.05, meaning I'd have to write an exercise check to the company for $50k+, which I deem "unaffordable." I understand that I'd only exercise if the company was worth something, but if I have to leave at, say year 5 and the company hasn't sold yet but is moderately successful, I'd have to, within 90 days, come up with $50k, or a buyer for at least some portion of my shares to offset the $50k check.

To me, the astronomically high number of shares is a huge red flag because it's so unlike any other scenario I've experienced. It seems like it's way worse than the usual 4-year-vesting golden handcuffs. If it takes 8 years to get to an exit, I'd pretty much have to be there until that time if I didn't want to pay $50k out of pocket and also didn't want to walk away with nothing after several years of back-breaking work.

Has anyone experienced a very-high-number-of-shares options scenario like mine before? Is it indeed a red flag? Is the founder using the overall high number of outstanding shares (one hundred million) to take the typical "golden handcuffs" to the next level?
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At the low end of the scale I agree. But once you start scaling it's very difficult to run more than around 40 concurrent sessions with a browser-based scraper.

With a pure Nodejs scraper we can run over 1000 parallel sessions per CPU.
It's misleading to focus only on the direct benefits. The benefits of PR are always mostly indirect.

For example, Y Combinator makes zero direct revenue from hosting HN. But I would feel pretty dishonest if I were to claim on that account that it has no effect on our bottom line.
It's funny, it's just as the world started to become more sane again by storing data centrally now we have a company that will bring us back to storing things locally and share it out on links that at the last mile are not implemented to be full duplex. The economics of this is just wrong, and hopefully it won't take off.
Compared to the deep, space is downright hospitable. The difference from 1atm to 0atm, after all, is vastly less than that to 1000. Your submersible fails at any nontrivial depth, then you’re dead, no two ways about it; but a human could survive for perhaps a minute and a half in the void. If you’re not too shy about opening all your orifices right away, you’ll even remain conscious for ten, fifteen seconds optimistically. I’ll take total decompression over getting crushed by depth any day.
Just curious since I had a hard time doing a simple soldering project.

Would it be difficult even if they had some equipment to precisely maintain temps and suck out the solder? Does such equipment even exist?
No one wants to be the last person on a sinking ship. Yeah, being a rat stinks -- but it beats drowning. And I think most people will understand that.

On the flip side - if you're looking at other startups, they may view that as a potential negative. Things are always darkest before they get better and sometimes you need to stick with it until the end. Just once - to prove you have faith and loyalty; that you have the capability to see it through.

Only you can weigh the two choices but if you're in NYC tech scene there are a million great jobs; either choice and you'll be employed in no time.

Oh, and we're hiring!
The fire department turns up when your house is on fire, sprays water on the house, and goes home when the fire is out. Their work is well defined and self-contained.

Medicine is a completely different situation: As people get sicker, you can dump practically unlimited amounts of money on them to extend their lives by a few more days. If you're not willing or not capable of deciding who is worth treating (aka "government death panels") and don't want unsustainable government spending, the only solution is to not get into the business at all (and let insurance companies take the blame for saying that little Johnny's cancer is too expensive to treat).
People don't pay for healthcare directly, and they don't abuse it

You know, when Aneurin Bevan was setting up the NHS, he said the cost of operating it would go down over time as the population got healthier...
That's true. Also, unlike other criminal organizations, 'ratting out' your hacktivist co-conspirators isn't harmful to your health.
People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect

Last time I went to a startup meetup the people who could code were a very small minority, and they were always surrounded by others trying to poach them for their startups.
They talk about word of mouth and the benefit of all the extra links. And then they discount the value in the next thought.

Word of mouth = great

links = great

hackernews popularity = no value

That's a pretty big hole in their logic.
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No, physical activity is really important. College is (in part) about developing intellectual habits, and exercise is very important if you want to have focus and energy in the other things you do. I think MIT is making a statement that we shouldn't let smart people turn into the "nerd" stereotype. MIT is doing a good job by telling the world that "you can be smart, healthy, and fit too."

It's not a "revenge of the jocks" -- getting a "pirate certificate" is still kinda "nerdy," but it encourages students to be active.

I repeat: You do not need to be physically unfit to be smart, and fitness will often make you more productive!
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Github seems to be slowly working towards that. Their mac app hides a lot of details, and does some things "magically" (stashing uncommitted changes when switching branches, for instance). Doesn't do it well enough for you to forget about Git, but it seems like something they're thinking about.
I don't get it. Where's the evidence that these maps are based on OSM data versus, say, Navteq or TeleAtlas data?

The tiles use terrain data that nobody thinks is from OSM, and when I look at North American cities, the street grids certainly don't seem to match any better than you'd expect.

This post sounds pretty confident but they don't explain why.
I was actually thinking of B2B. $125/user isn't a lot for one person, but it is for 50. And I would imagine most businesses have some (worse) system for sharing files already...
But if you read carefully its like there is some truth in it. Nowadays people are doing crazy things without thinkig about the consequences.
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> But since resources don't get out of Earth, then the total loss of resources is 0.

Soil washed down to the ocean is lost to agriculture, if not lost to the planet itself, for instance. I'm quite sure that the planet will be OK whatever we do; the human race, however, may disappear quite easily.

> Hmm, really? My computer is thinner, so is my TV

Yes, and to build a new computer uses infinitely more than not building it in the first place. Your old computer isn't magically transformed back into a new one, or ore.

Every transformation needs energy. As long as energy is so cheap as it can be considered free and so largely available as it can be considered like infinite, everything's fine.

Just to remind you that a "service economy" relies on large, general availability of masses of almost free energy and resources. However, energy may soon turn more expensive and rarer.

We've been in peak oil for the past few years, and the production will began to drop any time now, probably within 3 to 5 years. There are no credible alternative to cheap fossil fuels, unfortunately, for most of their uses (transport, plastics, chemicals, fertilizers...).

So far, the way the world economy is currently organized cannot survive a massive change in energy availability. Particularly with the current accent put on economic growth. By definition, economic growth must stop at some point, by lack of resources, then go down. In the near future, economic recession will be the normal state of matters. How will we manage it? Without sinking into chaos? I really have no idea.
Well, it's not standardized yet. A draft was just submitted last month.
I've slowly learned to ignore the noise generated by this but not always successfully.

Yeah, the problem is that we're always dropping into the middle of this continuous rehash-posting cycle. When you spot a topic that may be new to you, that could still just be a reaction post.
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Just ignore it and keep going. This happens all the time. To quote a PGism: startups never die of competition. They die of giving up.
If OpenStreetMap ends up like the KHTML -> WebKit ascendancy then things could be very good for their team in the future.
It is pretty amazing, but in a way, Wolfram is also demonstrating how not to do Quantified Self: the point is not stamp-collecting, but data-collecting + experimentation + analysis. Right now, Wolfram has maybe #1 and #3, but he doesn't have any of #2, and he doesn't seem to really appreciate this:

> And as I think about it all, I suppose my greatest regret is that I did not start collecting more data earlier.

Hopefully he can change that. For example, his observation about the 7% use of the backspace key is an obvious one. If he eliminated backspace entirely, he could speed up typing by as much as that much - nontrivial given how much time he apparently spends on email! An experiment would be using some typing tutor program for a few months and seeing whether the keylogging notes a decrease in backspace.
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Tech Talk: Eric Tschetter on Druid - Distributed Exploration of High Dimensional Data

Druid is a distributed system in use at Metamarkets (http://www.metamarkets.com) to facilitate rapid exploration of high dimensional data. They use Druid to expose impression monetization data to internet publishers along any arbitrary combination of demographic, content and sales-based dimensions. One Druid cluster currently exposes a data set of >15 billion rows of data representing >500 billion impressions in hypercubes of varying dimensionality (largest is 28 dimensions) while allowing for exploration using top lists and timeseries in sub-second latencies. The tech talk will be a discussion of the design considerations and architecture of the system.

http://metamarkets.com/2011/druid-part-i-real-time-analytics...

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I'd actually be more concerned about trying to define "junk science" than having a bunch of psychics running experiments.

What is the harm in someone putting their own money into a pseudo-science experiment? It will fail if it's an incorrect hypothesis either way.

In fact, the feedback loop between a "believer", their money, and reality, seems like a feature not a bug.
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The best basketball and football coaches at the professional level are usually not the best players and yet they managed to find a role that leverages their love for the game while pivoting away from their physical disadvantages.

Even players themselves can be in systems that don't work for them and they may not seem like good players until they get into a system that fits them. Minor pivots are a good thing and should be tried.
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This ("the language you use doesn't matter") has never made sense to me. I get that what we produce is of value to others while the tools we use isn't of value & doesn't - directly - matter.

But, I know that certain languages are closer to how I want to think & how I want to be able to solve problems while other languages inhibit that or restrict the ways I think about & am able to express problems.

I only have about a half dozen years of professional experience so perhaps I am simply naive here.
Why does PetriDish worry you? It's literally kickstarter wrapped around one end-goal (science research). Great, but nothing brilliant here. It's a re-targeting of an existing model.
Use a local pwd manager like KeePassX or KeePass2, and back up the database to a secure service like Tarsnap or SpiderOak (or both for redundancy).

That way you avoid storing your passwords in a huge hacking target like LastPass, but still get 90% of the utility (no web form autofill, gotta copy and paste, but that's not too intrusive since most sites keep you logged in indefinitely now).
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I think in this case it's simply a mirror of their tactics. If you're deliberately controversial, you'll divide the world into fans and anti-fans, as e.g. politicians do.
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Or, alternatively and less generously, smart people don't exercise unless forced to.
Don't read between the lines:

"The new iPhoto for iOS, however, uses Apple’s own map tiles – made from OpenStreetMap data (outside the US)."
I didn't know about Kapow, thanks for the pointer! I think selenium could be worked into this, but it is not all the way there just yet...
Maybe they're recognizing that HN isn't their target market. Perhaps this audience is more interested in technical implementation, user interface and gorilla marketing strategies behind a successful SaaS and not in signing up for a CRM?
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Exactly. The problem with health care is that a person's life is worth as much as they're worth. It's easier to say, "I'm sorry ma'am, we can't send anyone into that burning house, otherwise, they'll be killed," than it is to say, "I'm sorry ma'am, but at best, we can do this experimental procedure with a 10% chance of extending his life for a year, but it's prohibitively expensive.

This is, obviously, and extension of the problem of those with the resources (money) not wanting their life to be weighed equally with someone who has little or no monetary value associated with their continuing existence.
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That sentence was there for the benefit of people with safety questions about the scanners. For more information on the medical uncertainties, follow the link labeled "completely safe" to the Archives of Internal Medicine article and look under "Related Article".
The physical education requirement was pretty fun. I mean, if you can take 'pistol' to satisfy it, how much can you really complain.

On the other hand, I didn't understand why we had to pass a swim test.
>Worrying about the above-listed peculiarities of playing the sport professionally and actually playing it professionally are likely, in many cases, mutually exclusive.

There is a fantastic book called, "The Inner Game of Tennis" that helps describe that the ability to reach your max potential is to silence the self-criticizing ego and essentially just do it by seeing and feeling.

Anecdotal? Sure Interesting? Absolutely.
Personally I wouldn't include Coding Horror on that list and I am curious why you would. Almost all the content seems very objective and insightful compared to others on your list who sometimes can come across as Fox/MSNBC political show hosts.
seriously?

I know that's the stereotype, but...
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Exactly , his post is not objective. Front page of hackers news is essentially word of mouth marketing, which the author(Noah) says matters. Based on the data provided Noah does not know if the HN readers who signed up for the free accounts are recommending the paid services to others. So the value is at the very least $300 a month, it could be significantly more than that. Moreover what effect does the HN traffic have on their advertising, their job board, book sales ? He does not measure, so I doubt the accuracy of his conclusion.
Every surgical procedure I've had or seen so far, including my wife's two baby deliveries, has been performed in a hospital or outpatient surgical facility where the anesthesiologists are independent contractors.

You have no idea who will be there and no idea if they will take your insurance. But their bill will be the first one that shows up in your mailbox, guaranteed.
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I disagree.

Once you've broken dictionary attacks I think the next goal should be to increase length as easily a possibly.

Personally I prefer a standard prefix/postfix with with a variable competent generated from the site name or url.

This allows you to use different standard substings for different sites depending on their importance. Since the substring can include the dictionary breaking portion you are free to use less complicated generation patterns for the variable part.

The end result should be longer passwords.
Then we probably need to come to terms with losing our loved ones, because this is intractable. I'd rather have "death panels" than the current situation.
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My wife had a baby a year ago, and it cost us nothing.

I live in the "third" world.