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I'm not sure the "13 years of average global temperatures have all occurred in the 15 years since 1997" is "normal. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8...]
It seems that most people on the thread skipped most of the post and focused entirely on the firing part, so I'll clarify what I wrote.

First, the post isn't about 1:1s. 1:1s were just our way of doing things at Opsware. Other companies have other ways of doing things. It was about whether or not people who worked at the company received any guidance, context, or feedback.

Second, the point of the conversation was to focus the executive on what the environment was like for employees (as opposed to managers and executives). In general, I believe that is important to optimize for the feelings of the people doing the work rather than the people doing the management. If you optimize for managers, then you get what you get.

Finally, 1:1s were a huge point of emphasis in the company from the initial training through everything that we discussed as a team. Not ever meeting with your people in this context basically meant that you cared nothing about your employees. If you read the entire post, you should get that.

Having said that, for whatever reason I didn't make things clear to every manager in the company (my fault). The point of the conversation was clarity. The firing comment was to emphasize the importance of the employees vs. the executives.

It's fine with me if you hate it, but you should probably try to understand it first. Finally, fwiw, I still talk to Steve every week and he's done extremely well in his career. This did turn out to be clarifying for him and we'd worked together for 7 years at the time of the conversation, so there was quite a bit of context.

Finally, there were 600 people in the company at the time and only one manager that wasn't having regular 1:1s. It's interesting to me that most people on this thread think that it's not a serious matter to let people come to work with zero guidance or feedback. In fact, it's just fine. What's really bad is making clear what's acceptable and unacceptable management. Hmmm.
Do you have any plans to integrate with services that track a users's music listening history, such as last.fm?

I used to list a set of my favorite artists on Facebook, but I stopped doing this after facebook made a number of changes around pages and activity. I can see value in a service that gives me a dedicated place to view aggregated and deduplicated social media updates from artists I like.
That animation is very distracting...
Ah, got it. I didn't realize strip takes that much, but it makes sense given it's a small purchase.

I think it's better to charge $2 instead of ~$1.35.

The even 2 looks like less money at a glance, plus you get to keep some.
>The history of cinema and literature is replete with love story cliches just like that -- a boy being rejected by a girl and eventually winning her over with perseverance and charm.

Fun fact of the day! Literature and movies are, in fact, not the same as real life!
lots more of these sites can pop up with https://github.com/niftylettuce/node-sincerely
Obviously I'm referring to integer operations within a 52-bit or 23-bit range, not outside the ability of floating point representations to represent integers!

> What do you mean by

I mean exactly that sort of thing. Algorithms that, for example, divide a line into intervals, where empty intervals are not needed, or desired, and are generally risky with respect to the probability of having a correct implementation. An example of this would be computations of the area of a union of rectangles. You might make a segment tree -- and avoid having degenerate rectangles in your segment tree.
I'm reading between the lines a bit. The theory of global warming is that the world's average temperatures are rising. The warming has been attributed in part to rising C02 levels.

Because winters consume the most energy of any season (in the article) to heat, we emit the most c02 during that season.

Given that the planet is warming, the winters are milder (quoted above) (see this article on 13 of the hottest years on record have occurred in the last 15). Because winters are milder (because global warming), they require less energy to produce for heating.

The section I'm referring to is: ""However, CO2 emissions during January-March 2012 were low due to a combination of three factors: A mild winter that reduced household heating demand and therefore energy use"
Thanks for reminding me to step back and look at my business (and read the e-myth again). Read the e-myth many years ago but it's time for another read
I would not call your ammonia-treated pink-slime mixed from hundred cows actual "meat". you should try some real food, even organic maybe.
>90% of yc startups come in via the regular process

I feel that it might then be safe to assume that accepted/applied_through_regular_process < accepted/applied_through_other_means ... the game then becomes being part of that 10% :)
Using last.fm is a great idea! We'll add that as an option for users signing up without Facebook and use it to pre-populate the artists you follow based on your most scrobbled artists on Last.fm.
This article would be credible if it had some numbers in it. How many children that attended private school on a voucher did well, compared to those that attended public school?

Another thing: parents who decide to use vouchers are a self-selected group. How about those parents who don't even know how to be involved with their child's education?

Considering that health visitors and community nurses are a program that works well it might be worth trying the same kind of outreach program in public schools. Who knows, a trial might even show that it works better than school vouchers.
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МСТИТЕЛИ / The Avengers - (2012)DVDRip- 2100/1400/700мб
I wouldn't say that it usually means, but rather that it could mean "Yes, but later". Usually, "No" means "No".
Honestly, I love it. I have it running in a window adjacent to my work. It's nice to be able to see other people working while I'm working from home too. I have the sound turned down low though to prevent it from stealing my focus.

For the first time I've figured out the value of hacker spaces. I almost wish that hacker spaces would have cams like this, or more people would do something similar to this.
"I've talked with a lot of startups who got in YC in the past several years, and none of them got a call or an interview without having connection inside or using some kind of a hack."

I'm not sure that is a correct conclusion, at least the first part. The applications are screened by multiple people before it gets to the "interview" stage.

My List of likely factors;

* Team (do they work well together and have long friendship?)

* Tenacity (Can they make it from concept to launch to growth?)

* Technical skills (Do they have what it takes to execute the plan, without outsourcing the core development)

* Growth potential

The "Please tell us something that you (name) most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage?" question is in there for a reason. IMO The partners want to see that you can come up with new and different ways of solving problems.
The case of the OS X filesystem HFS+ and git
Yesterday I stumbled across a problem when renaming files in a git repository by just changing the case of some characters. I did a little research on this problem.
For me it's definitely about the security of my belongings & personal safety. In certain places personal safety is less of a concern, but belongings are still so easy for someone to walk off with.
It felt like a lot to me. $1.90 might be worth testing.
Background: I am a postgresql user and developer. I started with MySQL around '99, used both for a while, and then gave up on mysql and haven't really used it since 2007.

I do agree that injecting postgresql into every discussion without adding anything new is getting excessive. And declaring mysql dead is clearly premature. But let me respond to this particular point:

"Show some solidarity with a fellow open source project!"

I guess I never really saw MySQL as an open project.

* when I first started using mysql it was not under the GPL, it was under some free-for-non-commercial use license
* They pretty much reject the standards completely (introducing nonstandard things like backticks that make migration away from mysql harder for no apparent benefit)
* mysql never fostered an outside developer community (by which I mean people developing mysql itself)
* the code is messy and poorly structured
* the development ecosystem, like revision control and documentation (and now tests) don't seem to be open
* the licensing of the client library is restrictive
* they require copyright assignment (although not all of the forks do)

I hope one of the forks does manage to foster a more open community, but communities aren't built overnight nor are they transplanted easily.
Calm down. I never said you thought design was easy.

"What I'm worried about is that non-technical people will skim this article and think that design is easier than coding."

I didn't skim your comment. Also, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4398788
The low-background steel seems to be a factor of nuclear weapon testing rather than nuclear reactors. Even the most ardent of nuclear power supporters don't argue for detonating more nuclear weapons!

Besides, essentially everything people do at any scale has altered the planet in permanent or semi-permanent ways. It is an issue, but it is not an issue unique to nuclear power.
Yes, I am agreeing with you.

As the Guardian article linked in the Mises article points out:

Grameen's tactics suffer from five fatal assumptions.

First is the idea that poor should be self-employed rather than work for wages. That is contrary to the whole history of successful economic development.

Second is the idea that loans are the main financial service needed by the poor, whereas they really need savings and insurance.

Third is the idea that credit is what builds enterprise, whereas the truth is that entrepreneurship and management are more important.

Fourth is the idea that the non-poor don't need credit, whereas the truth is revealed in market-based banking: higher incomes can handle higher debt.

Fifth is the idea that microcredit institutions can become self-sustaining, whereas all experience shows that new enterprises in poor areas that are built on credit alone rarely emerge from dependency.

Sure, everyone "ultimately chooses" to borrow the money, just as in the most egregious loansharking operation, and they end up living under threats of broken legs after being sucked in. Only now, 1.2 billion people will be trackable forever by Big Legbreaker.

I am serious about Grameen being one of the prime movers here.

From their site:

By 2013, with the help of our commercial partners and philanthropists that support our work, we envision that, 100 million poor people in India will have access to a full range of financial services and technologies that will progress them out of poverty.

India is home to one-third of the world’s poor, who make up 42 percent of the more than 1 billion Indian people.
Out of India's population, 76 percent — 800 million people — live below the poverty line of $2.50 a day.
About 87 percent of poor rural farmers still do not have access to formal credit. Although Indian MFIs reach an impressive 15 million borrowers, total demand estimates are more than 90 million poor.

In line with its commitment to help alleviate poverty, Grameen Foundation established Grameen Foundation India (GFI) in 2010 as a wholly owned subsidiary.

http://www.grameenfoundation.org/asia/india

Be afraid, Indians. Be very afraid!
It would be relatively easy to build a Twitter service on top of email. Participating email providers would give every email account its own listserv account. Followers would be subscribed to the list. Tweet emails would have only a 144-character subject, no body (plus any multimedia attachments). You could still use your email normally, but also access the full Twitter functionality with a special client via the web, phone, or computer. Anyone with a normal email account could follow you, though they would have to have an account with a participating email provider in order to tweet or retweet. If a couple of the big players implemented it, the service would have critical mass overnight.
That snark is not warranted. The point is also not so relevant: we're talking about cultural acceptability, and popular literature/movies are a reflection of that to a large extent.

For the record, that particular love story cliche did actually work out for me personally, as the guy. Maybe it's not common, but it's not ridiculously unrealistic.
everyone's ID has been checked and a lot of video exists, plus there's a pretty high bar to entry (buying a plane ticket)

Depends they might have it outside security, in the public area. Would make more sense to have it there.
You're not annoyed by the repetitive ads? I had to close the tab. Anyway, I'm busy working on my own stuff. Was nice to dip in briefly though...
Undelimited continuations are not functions
Thanks for writing this. I was part of an startup that got acquired, put into a satellite office, and then went through several management changes - and with it a lack of 1:1's.

As an employee formerly in this situation for almost a year, it really sucks. It makes you really less productive, and made me start making my own agenda instead of bothering to collaborate.
I can't see a way for the offending company to fix the problem. A little formality and the recipient email address on the card would add function to fun. Something like "please remove name@example.com from all of your mailing lists. All means anything you are associated with. Remove means I never want to see your emails again. "
Impossible to tell what is really going on in these sorts of posts where someone tries to escalate their anger at a company to posts on HN and probably other boards as well.

From what I just read, the company tried to make accommodations and was reasonable and polite and some of the people in the thread were being troublemakers.
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You're right, there is nothing important we can learn from centuries of art -- they don't reflect "real life", where the aforementioned love stories always end with a woman screaming and being torn into. Keep your propeller hat on and your mouse on the refresh button.
But the biometric part means that scanners/computers/systems can ID you with your consent and/or knowledge. At least with a SSN, you have to consent and give them it.
You are right, Quantcast shows different trend:

http://www.quantcast.com/github.com
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Too true. Perhaps the best answer to "How do get into YC with my start up?" is to just do it. Create a prototype and get feedback. Those things are needed with or without YC acceptance.

Remembering from my YC application, somebody did check the demo URL, so don't assume they wont.
Diaspora was technologically stunted. It was ridiculous to expect extremely junior developers to design and build a distributed messaging system.
related

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2012/06/the_gamification...

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2012/08/categorical_unif...

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf
How about a video camera inside the "box"?

Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
When one (of many) underlings falls far short on one (of many) company edicts and you don't know about it, that's not "completely failing" as a manager.
You can use larger text. GNOME has had this for some time, a common setting for all programs.
To follow up, the title was edited by HN - looked like pg worked his magic :-)
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Fuller was a genius. Geodesic domes are incredibly strong, cost-effective structures that use a tiny amount of materials compared to traditional buildings.
There is no uncertainty. There is a guarantee that a == b (if we ignore the off-by-one error in your post), because IEEE operations are guaranteed to be accurate within half an ulp. You can safely perform addition, subtraction, and multiplication, and truncated or floored division, within the 24-bit integer range for single-precision floats and the 53-bit integer range for doubles. This is why people can safely use integers in Javascript.
Very clever. I disagree that this kind of thing should only be done in javascript. This is a very light-weight solution to various animation problems. In the old man in a room demo, it works perfectly for letting the GPU-accelerated browser handle that very smoothly, while freeing up your javascript thread for other duties.
It does not matter how you twist it, GPL is more restrictive, than MIT or BSD.
And that's without going into you "freedom of usera" FUD.
No offense but the crowd they're targeting is less the HN crowd. Almost all of the people I know (18 - 25) still spend a lot of time on Facebook and most of their time on the internet is spent on Facebook. They have all of their likes on the service so as a launch strategy it makes a lot of sense to target FB rather than just email so the user doesn't have to input hundreds of likes.
Please contrast with the executive management where you work because it would be nice to have some insight into what led up to recent decisions at Joyent.
Only complaint is that it looks blurry on the Retina MBP. All of the text and images, mostly the posts rather than the menu bar. I like the product but would love more discovery features as other users have said.
You can put those in a locker though
There exists an extension protocol for Microblogging over XMPP: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0277.html

Also check out buddycloud (.com / .org)
$1.99, perhaps? There was a pricing article on HN a few days ago that pointed out that the 99 cent thing really works, even if no one really seemed to have pinned down why.
To clarify, the person failing far short was Tim (the manager) not Steve (the manager's manager).
As we move away from coal burning the price will fall, but coal producers within the US will simply export the cheaper fuel to countries like India and China. Unfortunately, the overall picture hasn't changed because the coal that was being burned within the US is merely being burned in other countries without the US environmental restrictions. We might be actually worse off environmentally due to the same amount of coal is being burned globally.
When a man says No, it means No. Yes means Yes, and a man never says Maybe.

When a woman says No, it means Maybe. Maybe means Yes, and a woman never says Yes.

When a politician says Yes, it means Maybe. Maybe means No, and a politician never says No.
I think that is an oversimplification. Winning overcomes a lot of things. Why did people put up with Steve jobs? Why do a lt of winning sports tems have angry shouting head coaches?
And lobsters. And mussels. And locusts, squid, termites, beetles, worms, spiders... no shortage of nutritious meat sources, many of which taste better than the average mammal, just that we "westerners" aren't accustomed to eating them.

Edit: should probably include this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail#Snails_in_cuisine
Wow. Thanks for the kind words. Didn't think my blog would ever make it to the HN home page.
I thought this was HN, not ripoffreport.com.
You might not have seen MySQL as an open project, but I guess we can agree based on the outcome that it turned out to be one? If it hadn't been, open forks would not have been able to form.

Of course when you're talking about community, every project seems to have a different atmosphere. Linus Torvalds is famous for not accepting patches or contributions to the Linux kernel, so is that project really open? From the perspective of a developer using MySQL, the community has always been massive, diverse, and helpful. Maybe it was a different experience on the dev mailing list, I wouldn't know. But I do know that in the end, MySQL was open where it really mattered.

I can understand though that it was probably easier and more rewarding for an outside developer to get into the inner circles of Postgres than it was to essentially join MySQL AB back in the time when they still existed.

> I hope one of the forks does manage to foster a more open community, but communities aren't built overnight nor are they transplanted easily.

I assume you're talking about the actual engine development community, and I'm not certain that's really how a lot of open source projects actually work. It seems in most cases you simply have a core group of developers doing their thing, with occasional discussions and input from the outside. I might be wrong, but that's certainly my perception. The Postgres dev community might be different, again I wouldn't know.

As an app developer, I have different expectations about that. I'm not going to take part in any discussions about implementation details, nor am I likely to submit any patches. What I care about is software quality and proper documentation, those are not necessarily a function of community.
He clearly didn't mean it in a sexual context. Your sarcasm and cynicism is detestable.
Why do people still think compete, quantcast, alexa, etc are accurate when they don't have tracking pixels installed on the sites they're showing traffic for?
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I took your suggestions and fixed those points.
> However sad that may be for the MySQL (or OpenOffice) brand name, the code itself lives on and continues to evolve within a rich open source ecosystem.

Perhaps Oracle's influence was a net positive. It continually reinforces that open-source software is more about contributing positively to the code rather than simply controlling the trademark. Mozilla could be seen as the anti-Oracle in this regard. The community believes their control of the Firefox trademark has been mostly a good thing.
I probably should have worded that better, but what I meant was that the new syntax will cause errors on 5.3.
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The word "irony" is frequently misused and doesn't mean "unintended consequences" or "rain on your wedding day". Irony would mean that those who supported drilling were actively trying to increase CO2 emissions and failed. That was not the intention of the Oil Lobby.
No it's not. I call everybody an idiot who breaks into another server to post spam. No matter what his reasons are it is just an idiots behavior. Script kids - why not calling em like that? Taking scripts from a random website and using them is what I call a script kid.

Anyway, I have already mentioned in my post that I was an idiot to forget about the installation. Sure, and that is what I have learned about: not to forget again.

That said, hacking is non acceptable no matter what mistakes the owner of a website has done. I really have no respect for such people.
It's funny, because _Influence_ was the boy's assigned reading this summer. I'm pretty familiar with reciprocity. I don't think it's that easy to trigger it with a YC partner and a six pack of beer. I don't know, maybe it was Russian River.

Mostly what I'm fixated on here is the difference between trying to prove your commitment to an idea on the Internet v. proving your commitment to an idea in real life. Lots of people are "Internet-determined". Give them a sequence of keys to punch, and they will do it, no matter how long that key sequence is! I can imagine, if my job was filtering through many hundreds of long key sequences from people on the Internet, that any signal of real-life commitment or execution would stand out.