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I'm so glad that the startups I've worked at actually value HR. Apparently it puts us in about the 1% of companeis and that is a lot more unique than what JavaScript framework you are using.

Recruiting is one of the absolute most important things a startup does. Don't make the mistake of conflating Fortune 500 HR (lame training, policies, etc) with startup HR. Startup HR is about finding great people, building a good company culture, and retaining people. Those things matter.

And while the team of 3 great developers can probably recruit and hire developers, can they recruit good marketing people? Good operations people? Good PR people? All those things matter quite a bit.
I doubt YC would be interested in this, and there's no reason to tie such a venture to one news site, like HN. However, the JOBS act will allow for many crowd-funding ventures to get started, and SecondMarket, WeFunder and maybe Kickstarter will join in.

Any company that does this will need to take various safeguards to prevent fraud or unqualified people from raising money. KickStarter and LendingClub seem to have been doing OK managing related issues, but it will be harder with actual investments.

It will also be interesting if crowd-funding expands to crowd-companies, so people also contribute to a startup like they contribute now to open-source software. You will probably still need a core team of people committed full-time to the venture.
Its not about pieces of a single copyrighted work its about numerous pieces of separately copyrighted works that can be part of an overarching copyrighted "collective" an anthology of short stories is a good example. Each short story's copyright can remain the copyright of the individual authors, but the anthology as a whole is the copyright of whoever put the anthology together. In this case Java is the collective work, the APIs are the short stories.

To the point below assuming a mashup is made by licensing samples from other works (avoiding fair use issues for a second) the Mashup would be a copyrightable work. But the authors of the individual samples still retain their own copyright.
I probably phrased it too strongly, but I'm legitimately confused. Something seems...unsettlingly short-term here. I shouldn't have called it a "Ponzi scheme." But perhaps "speculation."
Maybe Amazon should add smart log mining ?

If it requires a lot of effort to productize, Amazon could potentially offer it as a service $0.5/hr to ensure you are not making major goof ups.
Side note, these github templates look beautiful.
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I don't know what's up with the OP's situation, but you present a false dichotomy. My doctor advised weight loss (not like I needed another reason) and CPAP.

Sleeping well is key to fixing other things in your life that may be contributing the weight gain. It's pretty hard to commit to an exercise program if you have no energy. And in my case, I was consuming caffeinated drinks nonstop just to get a few hours of focus at work.

I agree there is a worrisome focus now on managing the downsides rather than fixing the orignal problem. But it's not for lack of trying. Doctors have been hectoring patients to change their lifestyles for decades with little success.

Obesity is a complex issue. I will only note that over the last three decades, all the other vices are way down -- alcohol, tobacco, even the use of illegal drugs. But obesity is way up. To me that suggests it's not all about a desire for 'quick fixes' or some generalized failure in knowledge or willpower. Culprits may include pervasive advertising that makes gluttony acceptable, agricultural subsidies, and maybe even some hitherto unknown toxicities in refined sugar. (Victor Lustig of UCSF is making that case very strongly.)
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Does anybody know if the udacity videos are shot by the instructors wearing Project glass?
Funnily enough, that's what Dan does.
No, I rather not deal with hosting/curating a demo site for something I advertise as being "self-hosted" and work on developing the item itself. Look to wookmark or pinterest websites, it works very similar to them.

You can also clone it and have your own demo up and running very fast.
Dan is a brilliant young dude and a great friend who totally deserves this recognition, whether he takes this offer or -- knowing him -- continues to work on making his own projects amazing.
> Let me assure you that it's totally irrelevant and BS with respect to who I am (or anybody else you judge that way is).

So your outward behavior has nothing to do with who you are? That sounds worse: you sound like an actor. Honestly, you sound more devious than the backstabber you described, because you'd like others to believe that how you act does not describe you, and you sound like you're up to something.

How you act is who you are, to other people. That's just how it is.
I don't know about laws, but a the tales from my one friend trying to go into elementary education weren't too pleasant. The system was very clique-ish, and a number of people seemed to not like his style, so one of them made up some ridiculous sexual-harassment-of-children story involving vampires which was conveniently completely retracted the moment after they were done using it as an excuse to kick him out...
There are a number of issues at play here, but short answer, you are not legally obligated to work at all, you can leave any time.

With that said the issues involved are as such:

1. If you had equity in a company (and sometimes even if you don't) it is not uncommon to sign a non-compete contract as part of the sale that bars you from working for a competitor for about a year.
2. Often, much of the value of the sale for employees is structured as retention payments, i.e. they set up a number of bonuses that are spread out over a few years, and you need to work at the company for that duration to get those bonuses.
There is none and I don't plan on creating one. I understand why you want one but I don't want to bother with hosting a dynamic website that I would have to manage. (Rather spend the time improving the app itself.) I include a screenshot and an example is wookmark or pinterest's websites. It functions like those. If you want a demo of this exact app then clone it and run it. It's free and open source!
Some of those perks I understand are useful and there to help the employees (such as the unlimited vacation, the catch is that typically you have to be able to finish your work on time). Others, are just clever schemes to make employees stay at work longer and be ok with it.

"Doesn't it come off as lack of focus if employees can do whatever they want?"

I know I spend some time hashing something out that is unrelated to my job just because it crossed my mind and it is just too awesome not to work on at the moment. The 20% policy just says, "hey it's ok to do that and why don't you show it to us so we can make even more money off your previously non-work related thoughts".
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I believe that while you cannot sue for monetary damages for infringement of a copyright work unless it is registered, you can sue to halt the infringement and have any infringing work seized/destroyed etc. Otherwise the first part where you say "copyright protection applies automatically as a work is created..." would have no real meaning.
This seems to be a big leap from the current events.

But, indulging the leap :), why would you want it to be a new language? Phones are getting fast - why not python or ruby? (Or Scala, Dart, ...)

However, I don't think Java is a bad language for many programs--and doubt it's headed to a retirement home anytime soon. (I'm frankly thrilled with Java for moving some many developers to a "safe" language/environment rather than C/C++ and its buffer overflows :)
Oh well. Guess not.
Because it's a zero-sum game.
> financial companies that hire a lot of smart people and make them do work that has little value to society

Would you rather I build a photo-sharing site? Chase tenure with esoteric publications?

Do you even know why I do HFT? I do it because it's intellectually stimulating and pays well, plus I work in a small firm of ten smart people and no corporate politics.

As for the value to society you don't believe I'm providing, my arbitraging makes it possible for products like ETFs to exist. Most retail investors would be best served with an index fund, and my work ultimately provides that service.
> They know what they said is offensive but don't care.

I think this might be the crux here: If you simply cannot find humor in such jokes, that's just the way it is and I can spend all day trying to convince you that it is possible - we simply cannot resolve this.

But it's not about whether the person telling the joke does or does not care about whether it is offensive. Actually, a lot of comedians tell joke knowing full well and precisely because the jokes are offensive.

> Instead, we should take it the other way and stop excusing this behavior. It does nothing but alienate women.

I don't think this is a problem that we can "solve" just like there is "solution" to human diseases. The complex moral and emotional minefield that is human interaction is like an immune system: A dirty solution to a truly dirty problem. It often sucks, but there is a reason why it's there: Because it just, sadly, happens to be the best solution to a problem.

I fully agree that the "mild" form of sexism that is often laughed away is terrible and a lot of people do a lot of hurt without even noticing a lot of the time. But I don't think there is really a solution other to just being a human and acting appropriately like one.
This exact logic suggests that all market makers are "parasites", and that any market that has them is Doing It Wrong. Why is it being taken seriously?
Appreciate the honesty, but we don't often hear this except for isolated cases. Would you mind sending me some examples so we can broadly improve?
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Isn't it the same with the software patents they have in the US?
Microsoft was the worst but not the first. Apple acts
this way with Android, and Google has been paranoid for
a few years.

Great quote. It makes me wonder if other companies secretly vied for Instagram besides Twitter.

I'm sure Google and Microsoft would've been interested in them. Maybe Facebook's seemingly outrageous offer was the only way to keep everyone at bay.
I'm not sure how the intellectual properly blogging scene operates, but it doesn't seem necessary to call Florian a "self-described patent expert" unless they have some personal vendetta against him. It shouldn't be relevant to the case anyway, as their legal analysis should be impartial and not about what some random blogger said.
> I have seen a female programmer (co worker) invoke the chauvinist card

Incompetent people will invoke whatever card is convenient for them, whether it's sexism, racism, ageism, what have you.

> But I have only met a handful of women willing to put in the necessary work.

If I were to go by my experience of people in tech (which includes non-startup environments), only a small portion of people are willing to put in the necessary work - male or female.

There's a higher concentration of people of people willing to pay their dues in the smaller companies like startups, but I'm not convinced that percentage-wise, the "handful of women" you talk of is any worse than the percentage of men in tech on the whole, which includes the non-startup world.

Remember, the 501s outnumber the "hardcore" people by a huge margin, and a vast majority of the 501s are men.
Your comments only apply to traffic on a separate layer-2 broadcast domain (uplink). Who has a gigabit uplink anyway?

This statement is absolutely false for LAN traffic: "This is no different from a Ethernet gigabit switch".

Even inexpensive gigabit switches are non-blocking these days. This means that they have enough bandwidth for all devices on the LAN to talk to each other at full throughput. This is where the real value of gigabit ethernet comes in. If you need to transfer large files over your LAN, a wired gigabit switch is going to far outperform gigabit wireless.
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Copyright is all-rights-reserved, but he's willing to let people host this and run it themselves?

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If you file a DMCA notice and the infringing party files a DMCA counter-notice, would you have to register the copyright before you could sue for infringement?
In my experience with recent internet businesses the criteria you outline points to a management deficit. They want self-starters, likely due to a lack of process (as you note, illustrated by the lack of resources available to attract talent at the level they desire).
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I have no opinion on whether more liquidity and "lowering the cost of trading" is a net good or bad. On the one hand it means less profit for market makers and a slightly lower price to buy stocks. On the other it means more volatility when algorithms mess up.

HFT doesn't matter at all to long and medium term investors that actually provide the value in the stock market(which is providing capital to help grow companies).
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Thanks =) I'm honestly not sure if it's original or not.
I have. Gnome 3 refuses to load with three monitors on Xinerama...but I have heard it works ok with two...just as Unity does. It's when you go to three that things get rough.
If we want to really get pedantic, Mosaic was a "first" -- the first WWW browser to support embedding inline images in Web pages. Previous browsers were text-only; you could post images, but they could only be linked to, not displayed directly inside a page. That made the WWW too similar to Gopher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29) to really break out in popularity. Mosaic's support for inline graphics is what caused the Web's first real wave of general interest outside academia.

More here: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/04/0422mosaic-web-br...
I have been getting a error when I attach a new pin
IOError at /pins/new-pin/
/Users/User_Name/Documents/pinry/media/pins/pin exists and is not a directory.
As a 30 year old with a wife, kid, and semi soul-sucking full time data job, this post causes me to feel both inspired and regretful. This guy would NEVER hire me, which I guess I should feel bummed about, but instead I'm just fired up. I will continue to get home, do the dad/husband thing, and then from 8:15 to 11:30, work on my projects. Wake up at 5, do it all over again. I HOPE I will one day be half as good as this Dan Shipper kid (whose posts I really like by the way, particularly his 2016 not 2012 post)

I hope I can get job offers like this one day, so that I can turn them down. Not saying that a company like this isn't awesome (I'm sure it is), but if you're good enough to get hired by them, then you shouldn't be hired by anyone. You should be hiring.
What the hell has Felix Salmon ever done?

Felix Salmon is a journalist. He provides value to the world by reporting or critiquing -- in this case, critiquing the notion that Andreessen and his business practices are worth venerating or emulating.

That he has not built a successful start-up is entirely unrelated to that point, much in the same way the fact Roger Ebert isn't a director is unrelated to his critique of films.
yet another make replacement the world really doesn't need

Didn't it start exactly like that with CMake? Turns out, the world needed it.
> Having 14 gold medals does not prove to anyone that your butterfly stoke technique could not be better.

>> Having 14 gold medals means that though his butterfly stroke might or might not need improvement, a random punk on the internet doesn't have the authority to make a judgement call.

>>> the "random punk" is probably a swimming coach ;)

That's the point. The defense should be valid whether or not the identity of the critic is known.

>>>>> "Michael Phelps sucks. He doesn't know shit about swimming."
This criticism should be valid regardless of my identity and credentials?

>>>>>> That's not what I said. I said that the defense should be valid regardless of the identity of the critic.

I don't know what defense you are talking about, and who are these critics defending themselves from, and why are they talking about things they have no fucking idea about, and why do they think "I sometimes drown in my bathtub but my opinions on swimming are as valid as Phelps' because fuck, you can't appeal to authority Even PG agrees with me about appeal to authority being invalid."

All I am saying is:

Does winning 14 gold medals mean Phelps technique is perfect? NO

Does it mean a random punk on the internet can critic him? YES. Freedom of speech and stuff.

Will the opinion mean anything? FUCK NO.

Will it mean anything if the random punk happens to be a swimming coach? FUCK NO.

Will it mean anything if the random punk happens to be a former olympic champion or an olympic coach? IT MIGHT. There are no rules of thumb. Different things work for different people.
At the very least, ~/Documents is non-standard. I would hope it's configurable.
Sure, I agree. I just feel that experimental features should be in beta or nightly builds until they are ready for production use. The fact these features were available in current releases means developers will start using them whether they are really ready or not.

Like I said before, they are getting better at agreeing on basic syntax at least. I would say don't make it available until the basics have been decided on. If they are still arguing over details that require a prefix then it isn't ready for release.
For another example, part of Android's userspace runtime (Bionic) is a direct copy of the Linux headers made by automated source-scraping tools. If APIs were copyrightable, this would be a GPL violation (as others have asserted [1]).

Moreover, all userspace programs that use this information (by linking against glibc) would be considered derivative of the Linux kernel. All userspace programs that link against Windows' C/C++ runtime would be derivative works of the NT kernel. And so on.

Linus himself has asserted that the copying of such APIs is considered "normal use" and that such programs are not considered derivative works [2].

[1] http://www.fosspatents.com/2011/03/googles-android-faces-ser...

[2] http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20110322014831...
They could use the best photos in a collage or something. Be creative :)
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It's sad to see a comment like this on top of HN in the same way it would be to see a misinformed post about "hacking" rise to the top of a trading forum.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you, and those who upvoted you, have little or no experience in financial markets. Comparing flash orders to front running a trojan is a terrible analogy. For one, the mechanics are not as you described (other commenters have touched on this). But most importantly, where this is still practiced, the market participants have voluntarily decided to do so and the order flow is openly published, unlike a hacked computer where the user is oblivious.

And even if we assume flash orders are evil, I think it's disingenuos to mention all of the SEC drama surrounding them without mentioning that several leading exchanges have voluntarily stopped the practice, and that flash orders make up a tiny percentage of total trading volume.
BTW, I'm a she, and yes, that was my point.
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You may move on, but their backups of your data won't.
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If Google compresses, re-encodes, or encrypts the files, they're creating derivative works. Google needs those rights in order to actually store the data.
I don't want to sound like an ass but from experience I can say that's because the founder read somewhere that X framework is "kwel" and the hottest thing right now so they gotta have it.

But the end-user doesn't cares, case in point: Grooveshark its made with Flash.
Because like the rest of human history, the most interesting details come to light long after everything has been said and done.
As Ray Kurzweil said, "The only second language you should worry about your kids learning is programming."

Yale has a foreign language requirement, but no CS requirement. Liberal arts tries to create leaders, I guess, not tradesmen -- but the best leaders have been tradesmen. I'm reminded of Venkatesh Rao's piece here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/03/09/great-ce...
It seems entirely possible 42 Floors has bigger plans for the future, and would like to get some top talent to help making those plans a reality. There's a lot of companies where you could go to their starting point, and ask the same question, but you'd never ask yourself that question today, when those companies have grown into something way beyond what their initial pitch implied.
Be sure you have a version of PIL that has support for the image type you are trying to save. Also be sure that pins/pin is a directory. As the error says it does not see it as such. I've only tested this under Ubuntu 12.04 though so it may be a bug, please report an Issue on GitHub...
Oracle has already pushed the Harmony and OpenOffice communities away through their greed. So I wouldn't be surprised if the same happens with Java.
I think the point he is trying to make is that trading is cheap enough, and maybe smart people should focus their efforts on something other than making trading even cheaper.
A recent WSJ article uses the same terminology [1]. Also, it's common to refer to things as shadowy in financial markets. Shadow banking system, dark pools of liquidity, etc. Calling something a shadow market is a way to describe a market characterized by asymmetric information, basically.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870389970457620...
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Great analysis of how search signals seem to map back to what is hopefully an anomaly in the way ranking in Google works.
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Anyone has an idea of how this compares to apenwarr's implementation of djb's "redo" concept?

Compared to make, redo is extremely simple, yet more versatile, more robust - and potentially very efficient. djb only released the spec (not working code). apenwarr implemented it in Python, which means it's a lot slower than it could be (which you'd mostly feel on nop builds).
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Se você quiser saber como fazer negócios na internet, estas são as maneiras + simples para você começar.

Primeiro, encontre um mercado “com fome”

Todo mundo usa internet por diferentes razões. No entanto, uma coisa que a maioria dos usuários de internet têm em comum é que eles usam internet para pesquisar informação ou solução.
Age and having a wife and kid has zero effect on our hiring decisions. Our age range right now cover 19 to 32, with one married, and one engaged.