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"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care"

I know you are trying to address a classic problem that excellent networkers solve all the time (e.g. "You should talk to my friend Joe"). However, they are connecting people they already know. Even if you were able to figure out what businesses should connect, you will probably need who at those particular businesses should be connected. I don't think you can remove the human element from networking. LinkedIn succeeds because they are a powerful tool for managing a professional network and a lesser tool for reputation scoring (other startups are addressing that - check out http://anthillz.com). They do have a 'people you might want to add as a connection' but they pretty much remain in the background. LinkedIn is going to be hard to beat - they have the data and have gone beyond critical mass.
I do use Cocoa on the Mac, but sometimes I go, "What if Apple decides to drop this stuff, like what they did with Carbon?", and I shudder.
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For a new code base, that I will be working on
- First read documentation
- On A3 paper, I draw what I understood, to me picture gives more clarity
- Understand the files/directory/toolchain structure etc.
- Use ctags and cscope
- Navigate by functionality

For others, I skim through books/blogs/opensource code
I had asked same question on HN before, and PG advised me that - the best launch day is when you are ready to launch.

Also, I will suggest don't focus on a single launch day. Think every day is a launch day. First launch on forums like HN, then get some feedback, then launch on few mid-size blogs, see if they cover it, see if you can handle traffic, then again launch on bigger blogs, and then keep launching to every single person you meet on each and every day. Once you are ready, every single day is a launch day.
It is possible they were profitable for a time, then stopped being so as they hired more, etc. I've seen it happen at a couple of startups.
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I don't think Yahoo mail or any of the other big mail providers find it necessary to assert ownership rights over content...

I'm no lawyer, but my guess is that email has relatively well-established case law. Email is old tech, and it's substantially similar to paper mail, which is really old tech, older than US law itself.

Whereas there's not a lot of case law about, say, a Facebook app which allows you to superimpose LOLcat-style captions on your friends' photos. Or a Facebook app (which I've just thought up, but which may also already exist) that allows you to ask your friends to sing phrases into their computer's microphone, then helps you construct a techno dance tune out of those phrases. Or any of the hundreds of other Facebook apps that encourage you to use your friends' data in novel ways.
this is how i wish the bank bailout had gone. instead of essentially giving the ceos and other top bosses money, fire those suckers and get some fresh minds in to take responsibility. the government should be investing like an actual investor who wants to get their money back.
I've been using http://icombinator.net on my iPhone. Doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a native app, but works great! You an see the "about" link there to contact the author.

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How is this supported by history? When immigration was freer were living standards not rising in many countries and not rising in others, instead of averaging? It is not true that the only way to increase wealth is to starve others of resources so you can charge higher prices for goods or services. Scarcity is a form of poverty for society.
It doesn't matter that much (the Web has much bigger problems IMO) and there's little you could do about it anyway.
kragen -- Very classy of you to write what you just wrote. My compliments.

>> From your post I think I might have offended you but I am not sure how.

I was reacting to the fact that your original post contained lots of detailed knowledge of recent Chinese educational history, but evidenced no sense of China's recent politics. I took this as a sign of disingeniousness. I'm happy to see that I was wrong.

>> "loyalty to the country" or patriotism

Patriotism is very unpopular among today's bien pensants, partly because it's widely conflated (both by supporters and critics) with nationalism. They're very different, I think. Patriotism is simply love of country. That means wanting the best for it and its people and carries no implication of wanting less for any other country. In fact, since free and wealthy countries are not a burden on others, part of patriotism becomes actively wanting the best for other countries as well, since (via trade and reduction of conflict) our country becomes better off as well.

Nationalism is comparative. It's "we're better than you", or "we will be better than you" or "we will be better than you, even if we have to stomp your brains out". This almost always leads to bad things happening to both countries, the opposite of what any true patriot wants.

>> I'm sorry I missed the distinction between "loyalty to the party" and "loyalty to the country" or patriotism.

Political parties will always, to some extent, put their own interests ahead of those of the country. When there is no representative government (as in Mao's China), the pressure to put the country's interests first (i.e., patriotism) is largely severed.

>> Please accept my apologies.

No need to apologize to me. My suffering has been limited to listening to the stories of my wife and her friends (or more exactly, the friends who survived).
Do you really think 80% of government health care money is wasted? [Citation Needed] Most study's suggest that private inshurance is less efficient than public spending so I am not really sure what your talking about there.

"In 1913 the 16th Amendment was passed, which allowed Congress authority to tax the citizenry on income from whatever source derived." So yes the "income tax" showed up in force, but the government still had plenty of income sources back then. The possibility of free trade is really an outgrowth of the federal government giving up on import taxes for most products.

In 1900 the recorded homicide rate in the US was under 2 per 100,000. 3.7 is about twice that and today Milwaukee has a little over twice the national homicide rate. I would suggest that the statistics under represented the homicide rate back then, but this is just going to go around in circles. Look into the actual numbers and try and come up with an unfiltered view of what that time was like. Hell, read some newspapers from back then. By 1910 the homicide rate had "gone through the roof" which should suggest they where measuring different things. Anyway, have a nice night.
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I understand that the focus is/has been on the personal connections that people have. But my reservation about personal relationships alone is that the impetus to act on these relationships - to develop them into actual institutional connections - is inconsistent.

In the past few months alone, friends/connections have contacted me because they were looking for a job or a way to develop their business and <i>just happened<i> to see my employer on LinkedIn, or incidentally saw that I had a connection-by-degrees with someone at another company they wanted to reach.

These cases tell me that too many connections are purely incidental. I think an objective framework that could capture these potential connections.

That said, what are the typical objective elements of the business-relationship process that can be identified without the need of human proactive declaration of business needs/offerings? What sort of characteristics would you include in an 'institutional profile' that would help other businesses understand the potential for a mutually beneficial connection?
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I'd just post it wherever you already have some credibility (like HN -- it's not a bad place to launch something). If you really do grow exponentially no one will care what the starting seed was. As long as the exponent is greater than one, of course. :)

Ok -- so after all that you really do want publicity but you don't have money. That takes time. Maybe set up a month-long private beta and invite the 500 most influential people you can find contact info for. It'll be good for you (small base of demanding users) and good for them (interesting story).
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Google isn't getting paid for it. This would be like treating a porn search as an automatic AdWords click.

(I have no problem with it either, I just don't see a comparison to it with Google. Google doesn't ban porn, doesn't redirect, etc.)
That is true -- thanks for pointing that out. I generally don't do pushes without first handling all the local changes, one way or another (either committing them or deleting them) so this possibility had not occurred to me. But it is there.

I'm guessing that you could fiddle with git's hooks to discourage or even prevent this problem, if you wanted to. For example, you could refuse to allow "git push" to be run from within a repository that contains uncommitted changes, and also include a requirement that your tests pass before the push commences.
I don't really believe that this is just a coincidence. If they were planning a second location they wouldn't have gone to Boston where there was YC. They would have tried to go some place w/o much competition, like New York.

And if they were indeed planning to take YC on, why Boston and not Silicon Valley?
I thought the same thing - via chat, Aaron said he's coming from his experiences in working on open library, watchdog, and infogami.
Hundreds. My wife and I are both Canadians who started out with H1-Bs.
Blackberry: An email device. (and it makes phone calls). Also at $19.99 a month you might as well just add a data plan to your phone service with a blackberry.
Post it on HN first and ask for feedback before trying to formally launch. That may get you some early users who can also talk about it.
Great. The more funding opportunities out there the better it is for all of us.
This is well-paid well-written text, nothing more.

The goal of open source is that you can avoid any payments to big-shots like RH or MS or Sun because of the really huge community. There are no problems with OSS if you can read and write queries to google search.

It is not about sources, it is about community - free support.

About medical records - it can be easily attached to google's or facebook's profile. =)
I use emacs and its find-tag feature to jump to the definitions of functions I don't understand.
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Why can't we go whole-hog on the "manager as servant" direction, then?

Who is we? I can't do it because I don't have the experience to run a company. If you do, go start one, and run it any way you like! I would hypothesize that given the median developer, such a company will dive right into the ground. What you need are rock-star developers.

Right now, as far as I can tell, rock star developers become well-paid consultants. It's a matter of supply/demand - junior developers who need their jobs more than their jobs need them are stuck in the corporate hierarchy. Great developers get consulting jobs and consistently charge ~$200/hour or ~$1000/day, pick who they work for, and have the chance to jump ship if they disagree with management. Some have recruiters, who act like agents do in acting/sports, to represent them/help them find work.

As the developer community as a whole gets better, I imagine one way the market could move is towards a "label" model (kind of, but not exactly like the music industry), where groups of developers form consulting firms for legal and business issues. Right now, the value-add of consulting firms is mostly brand and marketing. When a development teams start to demonstrate they are good enough to be recognized for their own brand, the social restructuring will follow.

Another direction the development of "enterprise software" market can move is partnerships - like legal or financial firms do. My wife works for PWC - a private LLP with 155k employees (8,280 partners [1]) and ~$30 billion in revenue. If they can outsource their financial and tax work to a finance firm, I don't see why banks should do tech in-house.

1. According to this: http://bigfouralumni.blogspot.com/2007/03/pricewaterhousecoo...
+1 for this book. It starts with diving into simple UNIX tools (echo, wc) and then moves to more complex programs such as Apache. It does not tell you the way to read code, but it has several nifty techniques that any developer diving into a huge codebase might like to know.
Two things.

First, the finserv organizations we've worked with tend not to store plaintext passwords.

Secondly, the difference between sending the password and the reset link in email is that the former compromises every other app the user uses.
Because there's a gap in Boston that needs filling? A lot of start-ups want to go to Boston, or can't make it to California.
I do sometimes.

Usually it's when I do one thing, then start another, then realize that I really should push the old thing first.

So I add the old thing I did, commit, test (when I test. sometimes I'm bad and don't have real tests.) and push, leaving this half-finished method uncommitted.

I guess I really should just git stash.

C does not have nearly as many useful things built in as git.
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Yeah but according to them, they were planning to go to Boston when YC was already filling that gap.

So if you wanted to fill a gap, why not go somewhere that doesn't have an incubator program in the first place?
Strong ties to Boston with the founders of TC. Brad Feld went to MIT and still has a strong and love for the area. David Cohen sold one of his startups there.
Eep, yes :)
Because Boston's an incredibly dense city? I dunno, I'm just guessing.
Great advice. Exactly what I was looking for, just hadn't realized it.
Because YC is supply-constrained. If you believe there are more fundable opportunities than YC can handle then it makes perfect sense to "compete" in Boston.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were all just a story, though.
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Fair enough. I think we agree anyway, I'm just being difficult : )

"Mine doesn't. And yes, if they did, I would not be their customer."

Are you sure about that? However would you know? And how would they do telephone banking?

I wouldn't expect a bank to store plaintext either, I'd expect them to encrypt it and handle decryption at the terminal. But that's a whole different kettle of fish.

"Anyone who has access to the text of the mail at any point in time now has your password."

Yeah, there is no way I want my passwords going through email either. That argument was a bit flaky.

"avoid the well known problems with digest access authentication such as man in the middle attacks"

Your point is valid, but I wanted to respond by saying we're talking mainly about large-scale DB theft, 99 times out of 100 done by an insider. You seem to have experience inside a large organisation so you will know that often, SSL terminates at the load balancer, a password form will pass into the server from the balancer in plaintext. If there's an attacker on the inside, he can sniff that to his heart's content. You could argue Digest is actually more secure in this setting.

Toss up between more security on the user's LAN/WLAN (SSL) and more security inside the DC (Digest).. OK, this is a bit whimsical.

"All of the clusters I have access to only work by virtue of X509 client certificates over SSL"

Me too, actually. But, sadly, that's not appropriate for the public at large.

Anyway, I agree it's a red flag, just trying to make a point that it's not as black and white as it seemed you were suggesting. There can be good reasons to store in plaintext, and if it's carefully implemented I don't have a problem with it. As long as it's an informed choice, and not just a naive default, and that goes the other way as well.
According to the article "Pink (or magenta, to use its official name) simply isn’t there". Since when are pink and magenta the same color?
I'd bet that early web servers, too, did some really weird things when web adoption started to snowball in the 90's. A protocol/paradigm's current state of implementation is not necessarily indicative of future progress and adoption. If anything, the fact that developers like you are building large-scale applications and discovering what breaks it is encouraging for XMPP's future.
Furthermore, the overtone series for a nontonal instrument exists; you can tell which of two blocks is higher pitched. But, the overtone series is not the regular one we expect from (half)?open pipes. So it is not treated in the brain as a tone.
I've heard of amazon, but what is slashdot?
Irrelevant. "So in colour [...]" not "so in sound [...]"
Techcrunch didn't include the comment on the story we sent them, but here it is:

Justin.tv uses a variety of common tools to effectively reduce the amount of inappropriate content on the site including: community-based reporting, community admins, chat moderation and redirecting sex-related search queries.

Lets be clear, this isn't the magical solution for monetizing Web 2.0, these tools exclusively help us to improve the community experience on the site.
Facebook is not listed as a portfolio company of In-Q-Tel:

http://www.iqt.org/technology-portfolio/index-alphabetical.h...

Given how comprehensive it is, I'd be very surprised if In-Q-Tel was all cutesy and shady about an investment in Facebook (a company that doesn't meet their objectives in any way).
I'm pretty sure we only get to hear the ones that complain.
FYI - this isn't a method of monetization. This is a way of policing our community, by preventing people from searching for and finding porn on our site.

Secondly, actual users of our site have not complained, except for a few of our mods who say it makes it harder for them to find bad channels and flag them. So it's likely to last quite a while, since it's very successful in its goal.
You'd think they would, but we've been running this for a long time already and other than this silly kerfluffle, there haven't really been complaints. And believe me, our users love to complain (that's why we love our users!)
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Thanks for sharing the link. The content of the book sounds useful to learn the art of reading code.
As the astute comment in the other thread pointed out, this author doesn't even seem to know what the word "qualia" means. Certainly, the author doesn't even seem to know that the word "qualia" is plural.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/

There are so many better articles on color perception on the Web, whether dealing with physics and physiology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_vision

or with the philosophy of qualia.

http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/colorperception.html

Let's see more quality links submitted to HN.
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So when I click reply to an email, and preserves your entire text at the bottom of my reply, I'm guilty of copyright infringement? How about when I forward the school newsletter to the person the school meant to send it to?
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We didn't leave a void when we left Boston, because we weren't filling one when we were there. No one seems to get this, but seed funding is not a regional business. Startups at that stage can move.

Most of the startups we funded in our Boston cycles didn't come from Boston, and practically all left Boston afterward. We could have been anywhere. Anywhere with decent coffee at least.

Honestly, they'd have done better to just fund 20 startups in Boulder rather than 10 in one place and 10 in another.
According to the comments on that post, building mozilla already required python, so it's not a new dependency.
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Huge processor spikes which we think are caused by too many connections to a single room or user. We're not 100% sure because we can't replicate it in a dev environment and we don't really want to turn on debugging in a production environment, not to mention that debugging mode isn't the most helpful thing ever.

If you start it up in "live" mode (ejabberdclt live), we see "Replacing connection..." sometimes, which then throws a "Broken Pipe" error in our rails app. But again, we can't isolate what's happening there.
"First, the finserv organizations we've worked with tend not to store plaintext passwords."

I am talking about retail banking, specifically those with telephone service. If they don't store in a recoverable form (encrypted or plaintext) then I would love to know how the telephone operators verify passwords.

"Secondly, the difference between sending the password and the reset link in email is that the former compromises every other app the user uses."

Sorry, I don't understand the meaning of this sentence.

Anyway, I wasn't really serious with the "password recovery by email" argument, I was just trying to come up with a list of reasons an org might want to store plaintext, but that was probably a pretty flaky one. Any site that sent me my password in plaintext via unencrypted mail would lose me as a customer pretty damn quickly, too.
The argument that H1-B workers are bad for America is, IMO, completely irrational. Whoever is in support of this argument is implying that people who are smart enough to get jobs in some of the top corporations[1] in America, or have made it to one of the top American universites, are bad for the country. I'll repeat that for effect: smart people are bad for America. WTF?

Let's look at the situation from my POV, just for laughs.

I'm an Indian. I've been playing with technology since I was 13. I've spent hundereds of hours of my life learning how to program and cooking up small scripts and apps for simple tasks. I've spent sleepless nights trying to get a Linux install working. I've ignored school, college and exams because I wanted to be the first one to solve some programming puzzle online. Why? Because I'm passionate about programming. I want get a job doing smart stuff for a smart employer[2], and I don't expect to get that job in India.

The argument that immigrants are hurting America implies that America should just show the finger to me and give that smart job to someone who doesn't really enjoy doing it[3] just because that guy was born in America and I was born in India.

"" Enjoy having your standard of living averaged with the Third World. ""

Reading that statement just makes me sad.

[1] : I mean a really good job at, say, Google. Nobody leaves India thinking, "I'm going to found a Web 2.0 startup in America.".

[2] : ... or start up a company. Not sure about how friendly India is to startups compared to America. There have certainly been many tech startups sprouting up in India in the past few years, but what they had to do to get where they are is still unclear.

[3] : This is not to imply that Americans are stupid. This is just a hypothetical situation.