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As Eric's co-founder, I'm encouraged he put this out there. We have regular conversations about staying focused and not letting the "what if" scenarios rule the tasks at hand. I think there is huge value in constrained resources early in the life of your startup and certainly one of the most scarce is time. This external time constraint has to focus our efforts for maximum ROI. Of course this constraint also keeps us agile as we don't have the luxury of excess anything.

An old, wise chicken restaurant founder (Truett Cathy) said in his book, Eat More Chicken, Inspire More People, (paraphrasing terribly) "Growing slowly allows you to grow into your success and your mistakes.". We still dream about success, about trend lines that go up (and they are), but focusing on the resources at hand to make that dream a reality has been our key to date. I'd love for everything to move faster from a growth perspective of course but keeping priorities straight means speed is exchanged for quality of life, agile and lean growth, and the unsung hero in the startup world, sanity.
Absolutely, that title is just baiting. We're in the internet era now - when can we get over the east vs west or valley vs nyc rivalries? There are bad apples and fools in suits everyone in the world.
I find it ironic that a site selling a book about UX/UI/Usability talks would have 100% of the copy written in majuscule. The site hurts to read.
I think a hybrid performance reviewing system would be the best: supervisors, supervised and peers.
It is frustrating that managers do not get evaluated for their management capabilities - why not let those who they manage have a saying? They, better than anyone else, know how good of a leader this person is.
Those interested in lower memory consumption and efficiency should take a look at https://github.com/armon/statsite another statsd "clone". Originally a Python implementation statsite is now rewritten in C.
That's super low. Even for Florida!
That's the point.

Being good at PR, for instance, is a technical skill that can be demonstrated. It requires experience and knowledge. If you're "non-technical", though, and you don't actually have demonstrable skill in PR, it might as well be an engineer on your team working on PR stuff.
My specialist praised me for getting better, scheduled me fewer appointments, commented his time would be best spent on people who needed his services, and expressed zero interest in how I was getting well when that was supposed to be impossible. I did not bother to get a new doctor when I moved elsewhere.
What's really disturbing is that the FDA has flunked Prochymal twice now (if I'm recalling correctly). Which is why Osiris went to Canada to get an approval, hoping to demonstrate safety and push it globally, as it's still an X factor whether the treatment will ever make it past the FDA.

Osiris even has the Pentagon / DoD in their corner (and had Genzyme as their partner for a long time to boot), as Prochymal is being developed under a government contract to treat skin radiation burns and similar. If you can't get a drug through with those boosters.......
The more fundamental flaw is how to drive _on_ a mile per gallon rate.
You inspired me to write a little blog post. http://www.sherrod.im/81/just-give-them-their-money/
hi, i coded this during the last 3 days (in a cabana in bolivia). a 100% client side short voice message service (spoiler: it's not what you think). as the internet connection is not very reliable and not very fast i went for 100% client side code. it uses the emscripten compiled speak.js, some nifty jquery plugins and some client side zip hash logic i saw around the internets. hope you like it / fork it https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lalo.li
Foreign Languages Are A Waste Of Time
I'm thinking about some metal tubing welded a bit like a splayed out capital 'H', that is the width of the bike and hinged along the middle bar of the 'H', which you can push forward with your foot and has a spring on it. Attach rubber ends if you want to make it fancy.
Thank you! I read the first sentence: There was a time when building a cutting edge web app meant wasting hours setting up a Linux server, days installing MySQL and Ruby or PHP, and months slaving away writing backend server code.. Huh? I little over the top wouldn't you say!
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Aggregation in MongoDB (and Python)
Other discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4037837
Why do you think pairing person alpha and person bravo will magically result in person bravo acquiring the skills of person alpha? Among all the possibilites, you might just bring person alpha down without improving person bravo at all. Then, you've made everyone more inefficient.
bzip2 has always been parallelizable. At one point a few years ago I was working on a compressed file format with that included compressed block metadata, because bzip2 is most efficient when it gets about ~900kB to compress at a time. In effect, you split the file up into 900kb chunks, compress them in parallel, and recombine them into one file at the end.
>How easy it is to forget the cold war. In 2012, we cannot look back at scientists of 1976 and say "you should have read and believed this obscure Russian science journal and the argument would have been put to permanent rest". 1976 was a different time in Russian-American relations especially when it came to space.

That makes no sense. Actually BECAUSE of the cold war Americans should have studies Russian scientific results more at the time, even to the point of spying on them, not just reading published journals --after all you don't want the "enemy" to have an advantage over you.
Nah, I'm right there with you, but I'm given to understand, from my iOS-defensive-friends, that the iOS app is even worse. It has the slowness on the Android version with intermittent crashes.
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this part about 50% of the market salary to work at the startup in US was always quite weird to me. Here in Israel I was working at startups my entire career, expect for the first 3 years spent at NetManage. Through out all those years I got above average salary. No established company ever offered me more then I could get at some hot startup needing my skills.

different markets different rules I guess.
I'm GNU tar user (I believe that's the version in most Linux distributions, but I may be wrong), so I tend to use -z for gzip, -j for bzip2 and -J for xz.

That said, I guess using the "alternatives" framework in Linux it would be reasonably easy (and transparent) to support the parallel version of each tool as replacement to the regular one.
Looks worth trying out --

Can I suggest adding installation packages for:
brew
ubuntu (at least through launchpad)
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I'm surprised to see no mention of postrelational/multivalue databases. Postrelational DBs played in the 80's and 90's, and are still widely used in the world of big iron.

It's historically inaccurate to state we went from file-based databases to relational ones and are now slipping back to file-based ones.

Rather, both the relational and non-relational DB worlds have taken many ideas from the post-relational world (even if not intentionally.)

The SQL/NoSQL + ORM + MVC stack of today is much closer to what postrelational DB's were like rather than what SQL apps were like back in the day. Every generation thinks they invented sex, and high level database programming...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiValue
Well, sure, LAMP is easy to set up if you're working in PHP; that's one of the huge advantages PHP has over most other options. You want to set up and deploy to a Rails server, though, that's going to be a bit more effort.
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I seem to recall some people paying people for sterilization. That would seem to solve the problem.

NOTE: The only eugenics I am for are those based on voluntary gene replacement.
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in Turkey startup culture is a little bit different(in terms of giving equity, perks and opportunities etc). But I understand what you meant. thanks a lot!
Do either you or the poster have advice regarding single parenting + full time job + nights/weekends-style startup? Possible? Was unclear if you were saying that spouse + support = okay, or just if spouse, then support = okay. Do you rely on the presence of a spouse who happens to be supporting to be able to even get the part time priority on the list below the rung to family?
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Another benefit... it's fairly easy to find a php contractor for any portion of your project that you want to outsource. The cost for a php contractor is relatively inexpensive compared to contractors for other languages.
Deliberately gloss over it? Second paragraph of the abstract:

> The strong consistency properties of F1 and its storage system come at the cost of higher write latencies compared to MySQL. Having successfully migrated a rich customerfacing application suite at the heart of Google’s ad business to F1, with no downtime, we will describe how we restructured schema and applications to largely hide this increased latency from external users. The distributed nature of F1 also allows it to scale easily and to support signiﬁcantly higher throughput for batch workloads than a traditional RDBMS.
How about switching to Go and using goroutines?
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Uh, yeah, the guy doing suing is the original creator of LSL. He wouldn't sue his own project.
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You're totally right -- did not need to drag that in as prominently. Revised the title.
The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these two images
wha, a SOAP API?
I consume a hell of a lot more content on my desktop than my phone - and I am on both constantly. The reason is the screen on my laptop is large, my phones is small. I constantly have 20+ tabs open - on my phone I average ~4 pages open.

Also, the mobile speed of 3G sucks compared to desktop speeds (even a mobile browser on wifi at home renders slower than my laptop)

There are just so many reasons why I prefer to consume my internet servings via my laptop over my phone(s)
Just to be clear, I don't think they're going to go under as a company (edit: financially). By "collapse," I mean they're going to lose their relevance. The overvaluing of their IPO (and I feel their stock is still overvalued) is just one sign among many that I feel show it's not worth all the hype surrounding it. The problem is, FB doesn't know how to adapt. It's only one in a long line of social network, and it won't be the last. Or best.
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Days/Months of effort?
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If it was only how sucky the car was, I might forgive, but the people my friend had to deal with and their basic philosophy was just beyond the pale. It was like they were drooling every time he brought it in and nothing was warranty work.

My 2008 Cavalier was a POS. The 1994 one we had was amazing, that's why I bought the 2008 model. The dealer service center was awful[1], but I took it to another dealer ship. They were amazing and fixed everything. Car made it to 268,000 miles before I gave it to my uncle. Only problem is that they got closed by GM and the bad dealership stayed.

[1] bring car in for 8:00AM appointment for 4th recall. Told it needed to be there by 7:00AM. Got it there at 6:35AM. Told it would be done at noon. Finally was allowed to pick it up at 11:45PM. GM called for a followup and I told them the whole story. Dealer called me the next day and was very upset that I told GM the truth.
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Who's Hiring? [Remote]
I haven't seen one of these threads for a while, so, who's hiring? And who's hiring for work remote positions?
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I had assumed this "technical cofounder" thing was a West Coast thing anyway :)
bz2, out of all current compression methods, is particularly parallisable, as it has already split the files up into 900k (or smaller) blocks, and compressed each individually (well, run BWT on each seperately at least).
About this and that
It is an interesting argument. I took some Spanish and German in school and college. I don't remember enough of it to be useful, in large part because I had no use for it at the time (living amongst English-speakers). And honestly I still don't.

I'd definitely have some use for Chinese (Mandrin) these days. I haven't spent the time to learn it though, and I don't need it badly enough to make it a high priority.

If we want people to really become more multi-cultural, then we'll really have to immerse them, which means promoting a year abroad for most students.
It's worse. I looked on Ford's website a while ago, the F150 isn't available in diesel anymore. You need the bigger F250.

To be fair, around the rural areas, a lot of farmer's have diesel tanks and buy that in bulk.
Fascinating account, but even more fascinating is the author's consultancy:

http://spencertipping.com/zeroconsulting/

You email me with a problem you'd like me to solve. (Be sure to put "zero" in the subject so that my email filter catches it.) This could be anything: a debugging project, advice about something, a library you need, end-user code, etc. Anything you send me is confidential. I'll then follow up with you with any additional information I need and any initial impressions I have.

I will then try to implement a solution _and will never send you a bill_. I may or may not be able to implement something, depending on a variety of factors including my skill set. If I'm successful, I'll send you what I come up with. You may, at your option, pay me whatever you think my solution is worth. It's fine if this is nothing at all; that's useful information for me (I won't nag you about it, for instance).
What do you think could be an alternative? By backed/service that you interface with?
I actually hacked a Trackpoint into my Kinesis this past weekend - hopefully it won't take me too long to adjust. I still haven't figured out a great solution to clicking - at the moment I have the right control key mapped to a click using mousekeys (linux), but I don't have a good way to right click.

http://i.imgur.com/q6AQG.jpg
Great comment: ... But over time the data will come in and people will then be able to make reasoned choices about what they are willing to pay to be on some potential customer's phone at some given time.

And I like your example using Uber, but I immediately see the difficultly of a car service company supporting that type of interactive technology. (Again, I may be way off base, but I would think a car service company, using your example, would have to invest heavily, relatively, in technology to support your example.)
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Sure, but HN mangles the links. If this was email it might make more sense - or if HN's auto-parsing code were changed.
Actually, it's a "motion", a (strong though non-binding) suggestion from the house to the cabinet that they should change the regulations to accommodate the motion.

The actual law or laws that will be changed or created are not nearly as pretty. (Although judges here are allowed to pass judgement in the "spirit of the law" rather than taking the text literally, so there is less of an incentive to get every little detail nailed down on paper)
I find most of her slides interesting, but she circled the area from around 2002 to 2011 on slide 96 as "the biggest peacetime gap between revenue and expenses in USA history."

I'm not sure Ms. Meeker is aware, but we are _at war_ right now. For most of that period, we were fighting multiple wars at once.

Further, she used the 2010 budget outlook report from the CBO which takes the most pessimistic view that the Bush Tax Cuts are kept indefinitely in the heart of a deep recession. The CBO has released a 2011 budget outlook report (2012 is due next week). Even under the pessimistic alternative fiscal scenario, that 2025 date now doesn't happen until well after 2035 (the last date they try to estimate for)

That's not to say thing aren't out of control, but most of those problems are related to healthcare not "entitlements." Social security has only an extremely modest increase in cost. Healthcare is where the big hit comes from caused by and large by baby boomers aging and the restriction placed on the federal government to really negotiate rates.

If Obama had had support to implement single payer and got rid of the restrictions about negotiating rates, we'd live in a far more fiscally sound place today.
Two classic books that you should read

1. Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill.
2. Sidhhartha by Herman Hesse.

Extra read

3. The millionaire Fast Lane by MJ Demarco.

And so many others...
It could set a nasty precedent where people sue Kickstarter projects that get a sizable enough pot to grab. Knockoff games happen pretty often. I can't really see where the LSL guys are going with this aside from a simple cash grab...though I am being pretty cynical about it.
I've never been sold on a lot of accelerators - especially north of the border. YC and 500 clearly have a great value proposition, but up here a lot of them lack the two things I look for as a founder: meaningful connections to bluechip VCs, and a substantial convertible note. I mean let's face it: I'd rather eat glass than write a business plan for MarsDD.

Founderfuel out of montreal seems to have their shit together. 25k seed and a 150k convertible note are making it sound pretty good to me. Might even apply this time around.
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I'm not sure what you're referring to; Jim Gray's work looks pretty relational to me. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gray/papers/Be... is just one example.
The US constitution isn't too verbose, either. (But you can still see the murky compromises, if you look carefully.)
NoSQL is trading off ACID transactions for scalability/throughput/latency. Both Calvin and Omid can add ACID transactions to any NoSQL for about nx decrease in throughput.

NoSQL is about choice. Period.
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Curious, what would they need to offer for you to consider it for a functioning business? An easier way to get the data out, an SLA, what?
All proprietary APIs. Also not all APIs are as critical and large encompassing as the whole backend code of your business.
I think the current confusion is due to the fact that relational databases are too often thought of as data stores. It is true that these DBs are not always the best solution. Sometimes it is better to store data in various NoSQL databases. Sometimes it is even better to store data in a flat file.

However, relational databases provide unprecedented ability to query information. Imagine one person puts data into a black box. 100 other people can ask it questions which were never intended by the original designer, and the system is able to answer those questions fairly efficiently.

The language used to query is orders of magnitude simpler than 'normal' programming languages.

If you query your database and the answer takes too long, you can add an index and the exact same query will start running more quickly!

Two different people can create two different tables. A third person can come in and 'join' these two tables.

I see nosql being a low level technology, higher than blocks/files/b-trees but lower than relational databases. Another way to say it is that relational algebra is the theoretical model while large parts of modern nosql tools are implementation details.
To be fair, a SIGMOD paper is much more detailed than a white paper. But perhaps you said that because the Google page only links to the presentation from the conference, not the paper itself. You can find that here: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2213954

edit: oddly, it appears that the "full-text" pdf that the ACM has is just the abstract. So I can't get at the full paper, either. Sorry about that.
Yeah I am also constantly annoyed by this, I work out of a coworking space in the lower east side with tons of technical geniuses. It doesn't matter where you live, but who you associate with in that area.
That makes no sense.

If they wanted the money you sue once the money has been raised, you don't have the project taken down.
The point is, if investors are in at $2M, we are assuming $2M is market price. The point of market price is that includes things like "google will compete with us" or "my share will be diluted when the company raises again" as well as "the company might fail".

Now, since you personally are investing in the company (albiet with your labor rather than capital, but it's still an investment since you're paid in equity), you have to decide if it's worth investing in this particular startup. You do that by thinking about whether the startup is going to succeed or fail, since outcomes are pretty much binary.
>You want to set up and deploy to a Rails server, though, that's going to be a bit more effort.

I do that regularly enough. For single server setups, I've got it down to about 60-90 minutes - and that's because I've been too lazy to automate it.
> it was called a mass-market newspaper, and it wasn't all that bad.

I actually doubt that. Sure, there were social advantages to having a smaller body of reading material that most literate people had read. But the Internet allows us to do two different but important things: truly democratize editorship (like reddit), and enable niche editors to easily distribute their content (like slashdot, slashfilm, or techcrunch).
This is mentioned in the article. So why does a company based in Dulles, VA have to go to Canada to get approval? Well, as promising the results are, they no doubt are surprising to some. In 2009 Prochymal suffered a major setback as two separate trials showed that, while the drug was safe, it failed to improve the condition of patients with graft-versus-host disease. This treatment was shown twice to be ineffective, and therefore not worth the risk of injecting yourself with an experimental batch of processed stem cells. Also, even with the failed 2009 trials, the FDA isn’t dragging its feet. Prochymal is currently being tested in trials that will assess, not only its ability to mitigate graft-versus-host disease, but Crohn’s Disease as well.
Blasphemer!
What's an "elder?"
The subreddits I read have plenty of news, about fields I am interested in - both serious technical fields and leisure related activities. Sure, r/pics is full of memes and funny stuff, but I get real information and commentary from the subreddits I follow. I certainly consider it news, even in the sense you present.
Zagat already rates everything from the corner burger joint to a steakhouse. Having the Zagat sticker in the window doesn't mean anything, it's about the rating.
Sublime 2 for programming and coda for web development.

I have recently started using Sublime 2 and like it. It is light weight with tons of features.You can use several plugins used in textmate as well as other text editors.

And Coda I use for real time web development (it synchronizes the file to server in real time and you see the result right away)
>* Politically that may be so, but technically, it's not.*

Actually it's both technically AND scientifically.

Relational algebra is MATH describing the properties of relational data (that is, all kinds of data one would ever care to use), based on set theory.

All the other ways are just ad-hoc BS non-solutions, that happen to have this or that property because they forgot the tradeoffs.