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In some recent posts, the founder of the german studivz (facebook copy cat) accused the Samwer brothers and other german copy cat incubator leaders of tax fraud and very bad behaviour against their employees e.g. using ~90% interns, make them work 12-14 hrs for near-no-pay, headhunt people from concurrent companies just to fire them 2 weeks later to "burn" them for "both" companies.

In the so called "management" level some people should got fired just right upfront a deal or deadline to rip their bonuses.

While I was not involved personally, I often hear and read about this and it looks to me that competing companies did/do it the exactly same way, not only the Samwers/Rocket.

That's why the "German startup industry" is broken. If you can only clone ideas, twit employees and (as someone claims) rip off dumb billionaires, this should not be a role model of entrepreneurship on HN.
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I am sure Google make less than $10 a year out of my using gmail as it is and they can still offer the service they do.
I'm going to jump in with my own solution. I recently moved over to using a Google Chromebook running Ubuntu, with Amazon EC2 instances that I connect to when needed. I spin the instances up and down as I need them. It works wonderfully, and I can't go back.

Admittedly, the Chromebook does have its limitations compared to a Macbook Air. Ubuntu on it has its quirks, but I'm willing to deal with it and wait for issues to be ironed out. A Macbook Air would definitely not have such issues.

I usually do mobile app development, web development, data crunching in Python for my Masters, and I haven't run into any problems doing what I need to do. I love the portability and simplicity.

I'd seriously recommend it.

http://www.xitijpatel.com/2012/12/16/google-chromebook-and-u...
At home, we have 5 HTC phones and 2 Apple devices (iPhone and an iPad) and a Canon DSLR. We face the same problem too, but then, the solution is really simple, but involves some manual work - Though it will be rewarding in the end. I have a Seagate 1 TB hard disk just for this purpose and I have a folder called "Photos". Inside this folder, there is a naming convention that all of us follow - Each family member has to create a new folder by the norm "Date, Title, Name". As you guessed, the date represents the starting date of the first photo in the album (be it the phone or the DSLR) and the title could be anything, Eg. "Las Vegas" or something. Name represents the (shortcode) name of the family member uploading the photo. this actually makes searching for a particular photo or album easier. Say, I want to find out albums uploaded just by me, so I could just search for "name" and bingo! There you go..

Now, we're a Windows family, so all we do is just share this folder for everyone else from Windows within the home network. So anyone can access the "Photos" folder from any device (Mobile OR PC) and can transfer their photos to this folder. So, there' s no confusion. For mobile devices (android) there are some apps that let you do this - either through FTP, etc. The kids in our home use it, but I personally connect it via USB, drag and drop the photos straight to the "Photos" folder.

This may appear like a complex process, but once you follow this, it's actually not. Also, I make sure I take backups of the 1TB drive and burn them to a dozen DVD's once in a while to make sure everything's safe and we don't lose any data. Probably you could get yourself a dropbox account to make all this easier, but I am still not convinced about the cloud based solutions, mainly because it takes too much time to view these images as a gallery (each image is approx. 10-30 MB depending on the device).

We've been following this procedure for about 3 years now and it sure gets the job done. Maybe there are specific apps to make some intermediate processes easier, but with Android there's the issue of some apps not working as they should in ALL of our devices. So, I never really bother with the apps, I just plug the USB and upload stuff. Oh, I forgot to mention, I have a docking station, so that makes things a bit easier - connecting the DSLR, HTC phone or iPhone, etc.
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I have another problem with the JVM and it's oracle.
Doubtless this poll is capturing the essence of something interesting, but when I look at that list of professions, a host of statistical moderators come to mind. I claim this list isn't measuring what they think it is measuring.

I think the reason "professor" ranks first is that the compensation seems to be proportional to the responsibility, whereas most other jobs appear to under-compensate. People are sensitive to this, but they misattribute it as "lower stress."

Well, the job itself (professor) is really hard, but the lifestyle (everything outside work) is really great. It's a great damn job. That's different from being "stressful."

Where does the stress come from? Well, I bet the HN community knows professors better than most, but between publication and grant writing, there's a ton of professional evaluation that directly impacts your quality of life. Your personal and private lives will blend much more than in other professions, and being rejected professionally (i.e. being denied a major grant) will mess with your personal life as well.

There's no free lunch here.
"When people say they're looking to grow by an order of magnitude they usually mean ten times."

I think this gives "people" too much credit.

In my experience when people say they're looking to grow by an order of magnitude, they don't know that has a very specific meaning and they're just talking about getting bigger by some vague undefined number that could be anything from about two times on up.
Right. Most of the laptops at Best Buy are under $600, $400 below Apple's lowest offering.
Exactly backward IMHO. Use your gut (= your intuition), but don't trust it and use your head (= reason, rational analytical thinking) as much as you can to decide next actions.

Of course, with limited time and resources and incomplete data very often you can't go far on the analytical check and still have to trust your guts a lot. And that's particularly true for a small start-up. But that's not cool or a rule, that's a fact of life, and still worth minimizing as much as practical. Using your guts is a risk, and yes a start-up has to take a lot of risk. It doesn't make useless risk a good thing in itself.
This is simply brilliant!I would be buying this for sure when it comes out.
Just today I decided to move a lot of my self-hosted stuff to Google, via Google Apps (so I will be paying after my free trial). For me it was always a trade off between how much of my free time I was willing to invest.

My self-hosted email was insecure (no SSL), noisy (no spam filtering), and occasionally difficult to use (I didn't set up a web interface, only IMAP). Furthermore, I've lost email due to my own incompetence/corner-cutting, such as bad distribution upgrades and failing to properly restart postfix. These are all things that I could solve, but that's also not free - it takes a large portion of my dwindling free time.

I also have a Nexus 4 and a Nexus 7 - the integration with other Google products on these devices is the lowest friction route to a very enjoyable experience.

I'm not happy with the amount of data Google have about me, but I'm happier with that than losing my free time and having a second job just to manage my own shit.
Here's a really good article on the staged memory technique, and the guy who first popularized it:
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...

It sounds very effective but only if you make time for it every day. Combining this with the "Moonwalking" techniques might be best of all.
Given that his web site is back up with an interesting message, I'd say it's no longer clear that he wants to be left alone.
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> Overlooked Fact: For the remaining 30+ years of your career, you have unbeatable job security, summers without any externally imposed obligations, sabbaticals, and the option to "take a slow year with your research" should you decide to have children, or have a family/personal emergency, or just want to, you know, live life and see the world.

In many (US) universities though, perish or die is still a very valid concern, even when tenured. You get yearly reviews, and if you score a "0" (zero), you can be fired, even from tenure. Futhermore, universities thus value a number of small articles more than a book, because you are supposed to publish continuously all over the place. While you write a book, chances are you don't have time to deal with additional articles (on top of your other obligations).

Add on top of that all the administrative tasks in the department, faculty, university etc. and even a tenured professor doesn't exactly live the easy life.
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That was too easy. Money!

Politicians don't care about small to medium businesses, only big. I guess you know where I'm heading... They only care about big businesses not for the jobs, but for the under the table revenue they provide. They like to talk about jobs in the evening news on tv to make people happily vote for them. Meanwhile, we have to deal with that crook employee on medical leave for six months enjoying his life on Rio de Janeiro beaches while we struggle to pay his salary instead of paying someone who delivers. All that because the law allows him to do it.
Some of it is not really common sense, because people make these mistakes all the time. I suspect the main mistake he has made, and this happens very often, is that in order to get a decent margin on his product he had to order a fairly large quantity. This broke two things, one not being able to test out the product to determine if that is what the market wants, the other is not to get the hang of all the things that can go wrong with importing goods. I think he was particularly lucky to get it through customs so quickly.
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Pre-tenure, it all boils down to just being above average on 3 numbers:

* how many journal articles have you published

* how much grant money are you bringing in

* what is the average rating you get from students

Interestingly, there does not appear to be much validity behind those numbers. Higher student ratings, for example, actually negatively correlate with student learning: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/scarrell/profqual2.pdf
http://listserv.aera.net/scripts/wa.exe?A2=AERA-L;6767f510.1...

And the 'impact' of journal articles has been criticized more ways than I can count: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor#Criticisms
I've seen blog posts with more impact than average journal articles.

Lastly research grant money - I don't know the research on the impact of grant money - but in many fields, when you have an original, new idea, you usually get a smaller grant, maybe even just a seed grant at first (just like how little money startups usually get), or you do it on your own in grad school. The large grants are for large scale collaborations and scaling up of well-trodden ideas. 55% of the grant money doesn't even go to the research project - it goes to the university's administrative overhead.
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Thanks for this! Seems to offer exactly the solution I need to solve my issues with woeking on EC2 instances.
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Still, this story seems much more crazy than any other gc issue I have ever heard of with the jvm.
It depends. If you feel its all about the destination then splitting after 2 years would be less of a waste of time than 4. If its the journey then that doesn't matter and much of the time we spent together was well spend, both because they were good times and because we both learned about ourselves.

Also whilst I understand that my first point plays into what you said, it's only that way if you look at it from an extreme bias. It could be that I am at fault but equally my concerns about my partner could actually be legitimate. Something in the middle perhaps? You just don't know. Its hard enough for friends and family to get the full picture never mind a random person on the Internet.

What I will say is relationships from my experience are heavily bias towards woman. Apparently men are supposed to shower them with gifts, ensure their quality of life (so that the woman can do anything she desires) and essentially jump whenever told. In exchange they will give you sex... sometimes... when they feel like it, which amounts to less than once a month usually. Don't forget though, I woman can do anything that a man can do, so they're not your servants, make your own bloody sandwich and make her one too.

Now I'm not trying to say the typical gender roles are what a relationship is all above, far from it. But its a lot easier to illustrate how it can often be all take and little give from one side on the basis of her not performaing her typical gender role while expecting you to do so.. I'm not going to sit here and say all woman are like that either. I'm sure theres some fantastic woman our there and I hope to one day meet one, but blaming either men or woman exclusively isn't something I buy into.

Finally despite my break up being a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, I still think the likely situation would have been being a divorcee with a bunch of kids I can't see, again, unless I learns to jump on command. Maybe if I was a good little soldier it wouldn't have got that far, but then I'm sure sure I'd have enjoyed life anymore.

Either way at this point I don't care whos fault it was. We all have blank spots we'll unlikely ever be able to see anyway.
Just one point :

> C++ doesn't have this [Tools for writing IDEs quickly]

Well indeed it does, libclang does exactly that, and quite well. As a result, you have plugins for Vim, Sublime Text and others providing autocompletion and in editor compiltation and error reporting.
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What are people so afraid of when Google shows them ads? And Google lets you manage your ad preferences and control your privacy settings. (You can also use adblock to block ads entirely.)
Also, Google doesn't use all the sources of data it has access to, e.g. it doesn't use Site Analytics data to track you.
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> I find it amusing that you realised that only after you wrote the script :-)

At first I thought I'm really up to something and going to invent the image format of the future :)
itanimulli.com is registered by some guy in Utah who redirects it to nsa.gov. It's just someone having a laugh.

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solutions to many of the large, imposing academic challenges of our era might be found in the depths of other such professor's "crank" files.

Interesting, because I feel as time goes on the reverse trend will hold true. It seems to me more and more of the "easy" proofs will be discovered, leaving only those that require more sophisticated mathematical machinery. And to obtain that you will have to, at the very least, have a PhD which will leave some track record of your ability. And the better credentialed you are the less likely you'll end up in a crank file.

I took 18.404 and really enjoyed it. I remember one lecture that Professor Sipser talked about the many years he wasted battling against P vs NP. He seemed pretty cynical about it getting solved without a lot of new groundwork being laid first, and this might contribute to why he so easily tosses proposed proofs into that crank file.
I imagine that the operators have absolutely no connection to the pirate bay. Access by Tor, pay to PRQ with an anonymous method (they even do cash), and there's really very little risk in it for them. The money flow could very well be followed, but one would hope they have planned for that.
I'm working on an coder app that uses SRS.
More like 'Twitter for code, with SRS'. I want to 'follow' people who produce good cards, and get their feedback on the cards I make. This would make it superior to just having a snippets.txt file that I eventually import into Anki. Killer search, with tags, would make it better than github gist (although this will be integrated)...

Oh, and the scheduler is taylor made for code (code chunks usage is different from word usage, which means the equation parameters optimized for word learning won't work).

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You're criticizing TIOBE, but the article is about PYPL, which uses a slightly different methodology (counting searches instead of results).
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"States have various exceptions to this rule, the most prevalent one being the case of a brewpub, which is simultaneously a producer and retailer, and has no requirement to sell to a distributor. Some states allow an entity to have a part in two of the tiers, letting small breweries act as their own distributor, for example. Many states permit wineries to sell bottles of wine on-site to customers."
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A company I own rents virtual servers that run on Hetzner hardware. We had terrible trouble getting Xen or KVM to run correctly on their network and never got the networking to function correctly so we gave up and offered OpenVZ only. This was a year or two ago, perhaps things have changed though.

On the positive side Hetzner are an excellent host, unbeatable value and amazing support.
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he says "usually at Saturdays at 4pm eastern standard time"
I disagree with his point on the Bible remaining in physical form. There are huge advantages to being able to use hyperlinked footnotes to read more of the context of the prose "in-line". In many Catholic study versions, you can find almost half the page devoted to footnotes. It's a cluttered mess that we put up with when there is no alternative, but is much more elegant in electronic form. I also tend to skip around and read related passages as well which is easier and more efficient electronically.
They don't just copy business models - in most cases, they straight-out clone entire sites/products and resort to poaching to force the "competitor" (original product) out of market.
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It feels like Go is the new Fortran.
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OK, I understand. I was under the impression that the purpose of the meta-interpreter was to create a virtual machine outside of the browser, but having re-read your README, I now understand this isn't the case.

Still, I would recommend trying to reuse PyPy's infrastructure, even if only for the short term. An immense amount of time and thought has gone into creating it that you would end up replicating otherwise.

Besides, PyPy doesn't just target C, it also target's JVM and .Net, so in writing a new backend for JS, you wouldn't be working against the grain.
Not just europe - they're in brazil and a couple of asian countries too.

Among the "gems" in Brazil, they have a zappos clone (with an awful customer service), a ZocDoc and a Square clone.
> You get yearly reviews, and if you score a "0" (zero), you can be fired, even from tenure.

I am not aware of such a thing, and if it were offered to me I would say "That's not really tenure.", but I believe you that some schools do it. Similarly, real [1] tenure does not usually include administrative requirements because those requirements are, in my experience, not mandated by your employment contract. They are mandated by social pressure to be a good university citizen.

> even a tenured professor doesn't exactly live the easy life.

I agree that the typical tenured professor is a hard working busy professional; I just mean to say that in principle tenure could be used to merely teach (holding up the formal obligations of your contract), and I have certainly known people who have chosen that path at one point or another in their lives.

[1] I realize it may seem I am defining-away your point, but I take the definition of tenure to be "You cannot be fired as long as you continue to fulfill the formal requirements of your employment contract, and those formal requirements cannot meaningfully restrict your personal research agenda (academic freedom)."
I cannot take seriously

Really, how seriously does one need to take a language popularity index regardless of context?
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I don't get the big deal about publish or perish. Isn't that a core part of the job?

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2495
Nice technological demo, but honestly I think that webOS is dead. Unless some major phone/tablet maker was to adopt it and put the marketing $$ behind to adopt it I don't see it going anywhere except as a technological demo.
There was some good idea in webOS but Palm was never able to build any strong traction around it, and HP... We know what happen there.
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It's a "wall of text". Sprinkle at least some icons and it will liven the appearance up.
Awesome idea! I'd like a bit better browsing by categories and specific areas of betting. Hope it picks up!
I think Assange is right to fear that he would be turned over to US. They would find a way or a loophole or just an excuse to do it.
I still enjoy using WebOS more than iOS. The card system is a joy to use. Palm created a great OS but handled hardware and marketing with almost criminal negligence. Hp did the same.

If I could get the top five apps in every category and decent hardware I would switch back to WebOS.
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"Many of the best part of both C and Python"?
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In our country, there are 80% developers are using .net/C#. They know how to use svn, cut CSS from Photoshop, code a website, do webform, but they don't know what JSON is, what GIT is, what Linux is, what a Message Queue, or Redis is. Hm, i don't know why .net is so popular. What .net can do, the Linux-based technologies can do.
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I feel exactly the same way. It's such a major disappointment that it wasn't more widely adopted, because WebOS is still to this day such a pleasure of an OS to use, and very intuitive feeling.
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