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>What you call trivialities I call attention to detail.

Yes, but at some point what each one calls something stops, and they have to face objective reality.

Now, if you were talking about bad syntax/grammar/spelling, a blinking grey font over a white background, or something like it, yes, we could count that as "attention to detail". But not reading an article because of a mismatch with the title and it's URL (which isn't even targeted at humans) is an attention to useless detail, i.e to a triviality. I don't think there are "ifs and buts" about it.

>And your remark about OCD is offensive.

I'm sorry for that. But it could also be true. And those kinds of things are a sure-fire sign.

In which case, would it be less offensive (because it would then be just an observation) or more (because it would be tactless to point it out)?

Then again, I was trying to defend the article (which I found quite good) from a non warranted attacked over something less than a typo.

(Not that it's a big deal, I have some myself).
It's perfectly accurate if you're British.
Hacktivism: Where it's Been and Where it's Going
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Recreational ketamine use is almost all insufflated (snorted) or intramuscular (IM) injection, right? I'm not sure how different the effects would be for IM vs. IV, except maybe a slightly faster onset and higher peak.

The "rule of halves" for different forms of drugs (pill vs. mucous membrane/sublingual vs. insufflated vs. smoked vs. injected) is interesting, but I'm not sure where IM vs. IV falls.
Tiered pricing isn't simple (my customers tell me this all the time)...

Can you talk more about this?

Overall, pricing is difficult and I'm currently struggling with it for an idea I have developed. So I would like to hear different opinions on pricing.
I don't think so. I also don't think that risk as applied to one's personal life (e.g. riding a motorcycle for fun) has much bearing on risk as applied to one's work.

Riding bikes is my main source of enjoyment in life (both racing and just going for a ride on the road), and I accept that in order to obtain that enjoyment I have to take a risk. That's OK. If I were building artificial lifeforms, sure I'd get a kick out of it, but I would be a lot more careful than when I'm just riding a bike for fun.
If it's costing $10,000, there better be more than just hope of convincing someone the prize will come true. If this really is the case, then they are clearly abusing and using Lowe's name and should be held accountable.
"... we ask that contributed programs not only give the correct result, but also use the same algorithm to calculate that result."

(Except for meteor-contest.)
I actually came on here because I thought the exact same thing. Utopia is always just one more printing press away.
So, they're on attempt #3. Why get them at mad for trying? (it's not like they can get failures 4 and 5 out of the way without going through #3 first).

Their slow "learning curve" on privacy has been on purpose. They're trying to reshape how people view "sharing" and are succeeding in doing that w/ almost a billion people.
> Google TV’s failures and the storied missteps around Google-branded Android smartphones prove this.

Sorry, but what missteps do you mean regarding the Nexus brand?
It is integrated with Google Maps. My android Maps app just updated with this new local integration. The interface in the app looks much better than before. It has a new recommendation thing that will recommend you restaurants based on your own reviews (and differently from usual recommendation websites, this one is actually not terrible). And it points you to places your friends reviewed on the top of the search as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...
I see something wrong with it if everyone is required to keep logs and to "know their customers", just in case someone comes along with a warrant. Such requirements destroy the ability to offer free public wi-fi.
Unless you think you're a better judge of company valuation than the market, the current risk-adjusted value of the company is approximately the valuation set by the recent round of funding.

The fact of future dilution is irrelevant, since this impacts the investors as much as the employee.

This analysis does ignore liquidation preferences. It also ignores the fact that the options have a non-zero strike price (though probably substantially below the preferred stock with those liquidation preferences). But in the end, startup outcomes tend to be binary: very high or nearly zero. In both of those cases, liquidation preferences and strike prices wash out in the noise.

I agree though: equity is almost the definition of a mixed bag. That's why, as an employee taking substantial compensation in equity, you need to take an investor mindset in choosing where to work.
Has the quality of links on HN declined the last months?
Intelligence, self-control, being able to motivate yourself, "productive imagination" etc. ...actually the self control ability has been proven to be better correlated with financial and social success than IQ! Even successful artists do pretty well financially in an "evolved" society (the only context where I would find such a soc-eng strategy applicable anyway).

(and even to become something like a researcher and university professor you need much more than high IQ)
If you're an early employee of a startup, you have better de facto information rights than any investor, even a board member. If not, you're seriously incompetent, or the company is totally dysfunctional. i.e. if things are going really badly, you'll know before the investors do, and could jump ship.

The only thing you might not see is acquisition offers, but you can assume those are constant noise and meaningless until a certain point.
That is what happened in my brain, as well. I had to actually type it on my keyboard in order to understand what it does. Vim is just too coupled to my muscle memory.
Yes. This is obviously link bait, SEO content.
Don't be silly. Money not spent, is very, very different from money in the bank. It's 'virtual' in that sense. If there is a corresponding balance somewhere that isn't debited because you didn't spend it, then yes its sort-of the same.

But startups do not run that way. You might want to familiarize yourself with startup finances. They run on cash flow - and its all negative. When investor dollars run out, everybody goes back to working for the man.

An example might make it clear. If you compare spending $100,000 on a developer's salary vs $50,000 and stock, you might be fooled into thinking you've saved $50,000.

But there never was $100,000, at least not for salary. Its a false comparison. What you can really do is, either hire a guy for $50,000, or don't hire him.

If you hire him, you're getting another man-year of development done in the next year. But your out-of-cash-and-failing condition is brought $50,000 closer. Its a gamble - will that man-year of development get us to another milestone before the now-closer deadline of 'broke' arrives? Who can tell - you just make your best guess and close your eyes, hope you found the right guy and sign the employment papers.

If you don't hire, then you spent $50,000 less, which means you can last longer but now depend upon the founders to get All the development done. While starving, neglecting their health and generally undergoing tremendous stress. IF they can devote say half-time each (2 founders in the example given) then maybe its a wash (except for the suffering and depression part), cash-wise.

But there's also risk associated with being 1 year later to market. Things change, your partner may change, your spouse may get fed up.

So, yes, when your Markov chain of money-events include 'broke' then it makes a very big difference whether you spend money or save it. Its all in the risk, time and stress equation, and involves probabilities that can be hard to estimate.
I think avshalom was commenting that the HN headline implies the car does 96 mpg, whilst travelling at 100 mph. Which would be a truly remarkable feat.
I noted that difference as well. Although at significantly less loaded cost.

Their web site says $128M to LEO, so doing the Lunar shot with it would be two flights (one to put the equivalent of the CSM and LEM into orbit, one to put an engine into orbit that could take them to the moon and back.)

A number of the Lunar prize folks seem to have 'SpaceX' as their answer for how they will get their rover to the moon. It will be fascinating to see how much of that business materializes.
If you go by the default it's got the most mass market appeal

Well, not really "mass market" appeal, just appeal to the incredibly narrow and apparently homogeneous subslice of the world's population that fits into the reddit demographic.

If you're not aged 15-25, college-educated (or college-bound), left-wing, atheist, obsessively interested in every one of the typical geeky pursuits, and already intimately familiar with every one of several hundred reddit memes and running jokes, you're gonna have a bad time.

I'm not sure how many people there are among the world's seven billion people who fit into all those categories, but they all already have reddit accounts.
Care to name those 'pockets' please?
cool rubik site. Thanks!
I had a backup drive die after the main drive failed in a small enough window that I hadn't moved everything over yet. Very bad day.
Let's mine asteroids — for science and profit
Which is why it's $100k of risk-adjusted equity. Some high percentage will fail[1], but that's already accounted for in the price. In the case the equity is worth a non-zero amount, it will probably be worth much more than $100k.

Trying to decide whether the startup will fail is almost the whole game. In the end that has a much larger impact than your exact equity percentage.

[1] though if you apply a simple filter like "only YC startups" it's way less than 90%
how does this compare/contrast with Firebase?
Stupid Things
"Lock-in is of course a concern, but that hasn't prevent some AWS services from taking off big time. Perhaps in the near future one will see an open source project that offers an off-the-shelf backend with a Parse-compatible API, much like what happened to S3 and etc."

I hope so. I agree that user authentication is a redundant piece of any app that needs to be implemented each time. But I don't like the third party lockin.

What if Parse goes out of business next week? Do I have to rewrite all my code that talks to them? I guess I could abstract it enough at the get go to prepare for this.

I think an open source project that isn't tied to a third party would be great.
The past 5 years is a pretty-clear demolition of the idea that we should allow so much concentration of power by the Corporatized State (or anyone, really). Bright? Hardly. They're good at winning popularity contests, certainly. Well-trained? At what? Amassing power? The people most in charge of my life (ie, over a third of my labor) aren't trained in jack. The guy at the top of the pile currently was a "community organizer", whatever the hell that is. The guy in charge of the pile before him was another big government average kind of guy who had his success handed to him by his daddy.

So while I disagree with you as to the particular source of the problem for the last five years, I'm actually going to agree with you that overall human beings are bad at assessing systemic risk. While I really admire Craig Venter, I'm extremely distrustful of someone with grand ideas of releasing designer micro-organisms into the environment.

I'm all for us pursuing designer micro-organisms, but we should clamp down hard on safety protocols. I didn't read every line of the whole article (as someone else mentioned, the writing is pretty pathetic) -- but I didn't see any real text given over to the extraordinary danger of releasing organisms into the environment.

Really, I'd prefer if we restricted our organism construction for now to things that are big and can't really escape into the wild easily... say, that Woolly Mammoth project. It's hard to lose track of a Woolly Mammoth.
I really wish they charged by something other than API requests..as it stands now, I would not even know a reasonable way to pass on the cost to my users.
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I'm friends with founders of many YC startups (and a number of non-YC startups as well).

If you're a smart founder, you will offer a very good deal to your first N employees. They are by far the most important hires you'll make. Even if you could trick someone into taking too little compensation, you'll regret it in a year when they find out they were snookered.
Fedora 17: "Beefy Miracle" released
Meeker: Mobile Monetization Has More Going For It Than Desktop Monetization Had
You know what? YOU are the problem. The reddit type who feeds off drivel. A website might be popular because it is good, but do not ever conflate that something is good because it is popular.

HN still has not fallen into the pit of content for content's sake. The people here complain not because they are hipsters, but because we do not want to be fed drivel, meaningless content that rots the mind rather than feeds it.

I want to put it as harshly as possible, so I have one thing to say: Fuck off. We do not need content that lacks content here.
How does the buyer get 70% of the price? I don't understand.

1. I sell my XBox (~$200 value) on sillytrader for $100.
2. pg puts it up on his site and through referrals gets $20 of the $100 sale price.
3. You see it on paulgraham.com and buy it for $100... and this is where I get confused. Where does the 70% come from?
AFAIU the idea is that by printing money you basically take the money stuffed into matresses and give them to the disposal of the state. The question, of course, is whether the state is able to use them in such a way as to make them flow rather than get stuck once again.
Short video pointing out some features: http://youtu.be/dmWdYJTsKbM
Oh, OK, I now understand.

So you're making two mistakes:

1. you != everyone else

2. 100 keypresses per transaction[1] != 'ideal solution'

There's plenty of room for disruption in this market still. No-one's asking you to become one of those disruptors and we won't be taking away your credit card. You can keep it. Just like all those people who prefer cash to credit cards can keep their cash.

[1] Card number, SSN, expiration date, address, address line 2, City, County, Postcode. Maybe emailaddress, telephone number. Roughly 100 key presses to enter that lot
If Assange's appeal succeeds, doesn't it just mean they can still try to convince a Swedish judge to make a new extradition request? Is that too much to ask for?
His OP did specify surface area.
But this would only prevent the poor from reproducing. It is unclear what genetic makeup you're selecting for. Surely being poor has not so much to do with your genes.
0% placebo effectiveness sounds strange.
The snarkier response is that Venter has apparently accurately gauged his personal risks for 65 years.
The Decline of the (Enterprise) Public Cloud
Picplum Tech Stack - Backbone, Async Uploads, Prints API
Innovation under austerity and ‘a little thug in a hooded sweatshirt’
One day we'll discover that arguing about random crap with complete strangers via our keyboards actually isn't all that interesting, and rediscover the world outside.
This is nice. I might give Vimium another shot. Vimperator / Pentadactyl for Firefox implemented M as bookmarks if I remember correctly.

I see that lots of people are mentioning Pentadactyl. Vimium is a lightweight set of vim-like bindings for navigation in Chrome. Pentadactyl is a fairly major UI re-implementation of Firefox. You have a message window, and a : command area at the bottom of the screen url bar off by default). I think that Pentadactyl does a pretty good job of implementing the vim idiom for firefox, but unfortunately there are lots of places where the vim idiom gets in the way of people who have different navigation idioms for their websites. I found the escape keys to be cumbersome. Vimium implements a lot less of the vim idiom but it is very nice if only to get j/k C-d/C-b navigation. Overall I didn't find Vimium to be useful enough to be worth the work arounds I had to use. Pentadactyl, was useful enough to use full time.

At various points in my computer usage, I've dedicated Firefox to Pentadactyl, and left my Chromium unadorned. Now that you mention it, I'll probably set that up again.
The only reason these companies have such high margins is because these businesses are unbelievably profitable. Being the guy who takes money from someone, puts some of it in his pocket, and hands the rest to another guy is a very very sweet place to be.

I think Facebook could tack on a payments business with relatively little additional hiring or resources, and maintain far higher than 40% margins. Whether they would try to be that efficient or not is another question.

Most tech companies don't bother with being particularly efficient. Google could have stuck to their search engine and advertising and had > 80% margins if they wanted to.
The "cautionary" message appears to be more political than anything else. The extrapolated line for "entitlements and interest" is almost identical to that of Paul Ryan's budget and groups things like Social Security-- which those receiving it PAID for-- as "entitlements".
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"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" is the one I had in mind. Sorry, I should've checked the link.
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It's been a long time since I rode motorcycles, but I believe that, legally speaking, it works like this: In California you can split lanes, but you can't pass on the right in the same lane. In other words, if you pass on the right side of a car in the same lane then you might get a ticket, but it's legal to pass on the left side of a car in the same lane.
I forgot to mention - steel loses its strength at temperatures far below its melting point (which is why blacksmithing works). So anyone who talks about the steel needing to "melt" for the towers to collapse is also a quack.
Harvard prof to chair FCC’s net neutrality advisory committee
Show HN: .Net, Column Oriented, Single DLL database: OuterCube
I am presenting the Picplum Tech stack at the O'Reilly Fluent Conference (Javascript) in SF today. http://fluentconf.com/fluent2012/public/schedule/detail/2538...

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It's a pendulum. If management blows smoke and kissy faces all day at me telling me my poo doesn't stink, that's not helpful. If they only point out what is being done incorrectly, that's not good. A blend between the two plus upward reviews (my opinion) have been best when i've seen them in use.

Unfortunately, most companies and people don't design and execute performance reviews well.
"online banking security starts from 'the client computer is compromised'"

Facebook currently (or did) reset the password by having you identify the names of your friends using their pictures. I could see this as a way to authenticate a transaction.
Facebook browser: Should Facebook buy opera?
Massive Speed Gains via Parallelized BZIP2 Compression
States fight for drone biz
Beat a dead horse much? This has already been slashdotted to death. I like Erik Meijer's take: it should've been named CoSQL (dual to SQL): http://bit.ly/feNxRE
True & Co tries to solve the bra-buying problem with a quiz
Distributed data processing with Hadoop, Part 1: Getting started
You’re probably polluting your statistics more than you think
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Title makes it sound like he's going to delineate the difference between "infographic" and "non-infographic", but it seems to run into the "real Christians" problem where anything he doesn't like "isn't an infographic". Apparently it's categorically impossible for an infographic to be less than fantastic, which is an odd definition of infographic.
Great remind about unsuccessful ideas; as I prefaced my original remark, I am impressed by his accomplishments. And I have no doubt that he (or someone else, eventually) would be able to build engineered organisms that could "work" (in the small sense), and survive and reproduce (and so work, in the larger sense). But that success is pretty distant from being able to predict and control the long-term effects once they're released. [edit: spelling/undo autocorrect]
I read through half of a page, scrolled down and saw that I was going to have to read through nine pages of this drivel, and gave up.
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Actually you will find that Amory Lovins has done a lot of research into the costs of making cars ( http://www.rmi.org/Autos ) which I suspect feeds into the article's analysis.

There are challenges of course, when you collide with something at 70 - 80 MPH and you're in a composite material vehicle without a steel frame the energy gets distributed in harder to control ways. Its not an unsolvable problem [1] but it is another wrench in general acceptance.

Another challenge is of course 'style' points but styles change so its less of an issue. I expect that the continued high cost of oil will keep these sorts of ideas popping up. I hope that some of them get to production so that we can iron out the other problems.

[1] In the forgettable movie "Demolition Man" a collision system which fills the car with foam is presented. That is actually an actually proposed solution but one where false starts are hard to recover from.
> "In fact most complaints of 'Indian IT sucks' generally smells of 'I could not get rich quick'. With no real desire to make a career in software, and waiting to jump to a management role at the earliest is the hallmark of Indian IT"

I'd say that's about the same as the average brazilian graduating from the more obscure (read: easy to get in and out) private universities.

Salary is what attracts those people. And companies fail to screen them out, because they are staffed by the same sort of people. AKA Bozo Explosion.
Science does not "prove" in the technical sense of the word.
Stop asking “But how will they make money?”
I still don't get how I, as a malicious (or curious) user with some form of write permission, would be prevented from doing the equivalent of opening up Firebug console and typing while(true){var p = new Post(); p.save();}
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I just fund out that one of my co-workers raced in the Isle of Man TT last year, so perhaps motorcycles spurred thoughts in me of bug-eyed insanity
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"If you're going to do them, performance reviews should be about identifying the areas where people are great, and working out how to extract more of that..."
I disagree. Performance reviews should be about performance. They should examine what one excels at and what one does poorly. They should then use those results to improve individuals, teams, and the company. Person alpha is great at TDD? Person bravo sucks at it? Pair 'em up.

Similarly the results should influence compensation in a meaningful manner? You blew your results out of the water and only get a 1% raise? That's crap. Management's performance sucks in this case (that's why upward reviews are also key).
I got the 2dr TDI Golf in early December. I'm 50 and this car is the most practical I've ever had.