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Pity it's not. I'm unemployed anyway.
You seem to reason like this: we already have internal censorship, why not external? Of course, once you're okay with censorship as a general idea, you can invent all sorts of logical arguments to justify expanding it. But I find this thought process disturbing - don't you?
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> "Today, right now, your contribution is worth 5% of the company and my creation of the company is worth 5%. The other 90% is based on what each of us does over the next 18 months. Here's a list of what has to get done, and what we agree it's worth..."

Otherwise known as vesting (essentially).
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This is rambling link bait for the blog's author to build a reputation and audience. Fair enough, but not enlightening.
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The ioDrive isn't that expensive though... you don't need a million dollars. Their 80gig model is around $2500 so anyone who is building one of those "ultra-fast" gaming rigs probably wouldn't mind dropping $2500 to speed up the slowest part of a computer (usually)
They talk about that and explain why it happens in the article....
I would imagine that any employment contract worth its salt would subject to immediate termination any committing fraud. But you and I have no idea about these particular contracts, do we?

But that's really academic, because the AIG employees did not commit fraud.

And we're talking about investment bankers. Their job is to take calculated risks. These are very finely calculated. In the case of AIG, the problem isn't that their gambles went south. The problem is that somebody changed the rules on them, so the paper value of the investments (said values not having been realized yet) was changed, changing the calculations going into AIG's credit rating and thus making lenders wary.

As was noted elsewhere in this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=522777 ), these executives weren't committing fraud, nor were they even losing actual money.
"best expressed in the BASIC programming language"?!

Come on! Do we still pay attention to this guy? Even if it were best expressed in BASIC, but early 70's BASIC cannot even express 70's BASIC.

Not to dismiss the person on his language choices (or bad taste for jokes), but the rest of the list is also pretty... shallow.

Not to mention the views that security is more like "just don't write the flaws". Argh
Rather than thinking of these steps as a strict sequence, one should think of them as parallel processes with shifting resource allocations.

Ultimately, the development process comes down to the experience and habits of the developer. If you have a lot of experience, your marginal cost of "getting it right" from the beginning is lower, because you already have the necessary domain expertise.

For example, if you're inexperienced, you might build a login system that simply stores plain text with a note to "hash passwords" later. You might then move through unsalted via manually salted hashing to finally arrive at something like bcrypt.
I just say Geddy and Alex of Rush on "That Metal Show". They attributed part of the reason that the band has survived so long to having skipped any nonsense about "who contributed what and its relative value" to simply splitting everything evenly, three ways.
Thanks for the data point. In theory Intel SSDs should fail about as often as a motherboard or stick of RAM, excluding the graceful failure you talk about.

The graceful failing is where there are no free sectors left for wear levelling or bad block remapping. When it fails this way you should still be able to read your data off it.

EDIT: I've just received an anecdotal comment from a friend who works at Intel that high temperatures affect MLC flash life rapidly in an negative way. I can't find any data to back this up.
wouldn't it be easy to verify? just have an external proxy and start comparing html pages from a normal connection. If there are differences in the html dom, then that site should be flagged.
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These attacks are probably automated, and it would be trivial for the spamming software to be updated to get round these restrictions. I don't think it would take long.

The cost would be that HN would be less welcoming to newcomers.

That's a permanent loss for temporary gain, and I don't think it's worth it.

I think your idea can be improved on:

(a) instead of hardcoding conditions that we think indicate spamminess, the server should be keeping track of what characteristics spammers tend to display (sprinkle Bayesian magic pixie fairy dust here)

(b) new threads that are neither clearly spammy (banned) nor clearly unspammy (allowed on as now) should be provisionally allowed on the new page, but then banned should a single reader flag it, without the intervention of a moderator

(c) moderators should be able to unban threads if need be

The important thing is: although we have to play whack-a-mole with the spammers, we must take care to play whack-a-mole at as high a level as possible and not have to worry about the details.
In firefox, the only way to do cross domain xhr was to access a javascript object outside of the browser sandbox, make the call, then send the data back. I'd be pretty confident that google chrome's version would have the same security limitations.
well the cool thing about greasemonkey was that you could do a little more than just inject javascript code... for example, you could make cross domain xhr calls as well, and it did so by jumping out of the security sandbox to do this. I'm not so sure if it will be possible in chrome...
1 & 2) I should hope that a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars and employing a vast army of the greatest programming minds in the world could take the time to wrap their platform specific code in an abstraction layer, a relatively minor task that is now practiced almost universally, or at least use some of the many mature cross-platform libraries available.

3) If Chrome is to be a platform, it's going to need a shell with a rich interface to manage multiple applications and allow them to interact with each other. It's also going to need an ecosystem and the people it needs in that ecosystem use OSX and Linux. Making it inflexible or "hiding" it are the exact wrong things to do.

Firefox Greasemonkey scripts are used by power users to make minor tweaks to specific sites. I don't see how that functionality will further Google's lofty plans for Chrome. This was a quick hack that nominatively fulfilled a very popular feature request.
Wow, cool. I wonder if this will work under vmware? Will have to give it a try.
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Hah. Don't waste your time on any of those... You'll probably meet the wrong kind of "programmers" at those events. I would say stick with the language meetups (Ruby, Python, etc) and attend SuperHappyDevHouse. Also visit coworking facilities, you might find interesting people there as well. I tend to meet some of the brightest hackers at coffee shops, but ymmv.
When you step back, Mongrel is hardly life changing is it. In your particular small tech circle, perhaps.

>> "ad-blocking geek with a huge PC-per-capita ratio and a hefty tech gadget/software monthly budget, how come none of these startups managed to get a single dollar out of me? Am I alone asking myself this question?"

Because it's orders of magnitude easier to get a few average users to click on a few ads.

>> "And how about millions of people screaming in pain who sit in front of their half-dead Windows machines"

The technology in that problem has been solved for a while - use something other than windows. Now it's just a matter of marketing, pricing, etc to get the average user to do it.
or in other words a vesting schedule, which is how almost all funded startups are structured

SG is over-rated, but lets leave that discussion for another time.
That's a tad permanent, though, don't you think?
> If Chrome is to be a platform, it's going to need a shell with a rich interface to manage multiple applications and allow them to interact with each other. It's also going to need an ecosystem and the people it needs in that ecosystem use OSX and Linux. Making it inflexible or "hiding" it are the exact wrong things to do.

I'm certainly not the one in charge of directing Google's vision but it would seem to logical to me that they are not interested in creating a new 'platform' in the sense that xul is a platform.
As far as I can see, the purpose of Chrome is to promote web apps as a reasonable alternative to desktop apps.
Nothing really to say until details are released.
doesn't this solve one of the classic dieting problems of keeping the weight off?
<i>(b) new threads that are neither clearly spammy (banned) nor clearly unspammy (allowed on as now) should be provisionally allowed on the new page, but then banned should a single reader flag it, without the intervention of a moderator</i>

Don't you think that will start flagging wars or egregious flagging without a just cause? I think a score should be maintained by tracking how many users flag an article and based on a combination of Bayesian filtering and user reputation (karma) and perhaps some other factors, the post be killed or let remain.
Why there were only 15 or 16 startups? Was it the initial number or have some companies not made it to the Demo Day?
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Skype is pretty much based on the Kazaa p2p stack. Which was cracked by quite a few people. It was quite an impressive reasonably secure system, but not rocket science.
Ah.. Oh.. Well, logically, I came to that conclusion as well (as indicated by my comment)
You comment indicating otherwise needs more investigation. I wish there was some statistical data to help determine this more conclusively :)
Dude, did you even look at that study you linked to? It is about adult pornography. If you seriously believe it, if you think that porn leads to rape, why aren't you arguing against banning all porn?

Look, I'm not an expert. I'm talking about this topic because I believe in certain general principles of freedom and legal process. I have no special interest in child porn beyond its prohibition's corrosive effects on what I consider to be important aspects of society. I haven't read any studies, nor plan to. I haven't read any studies about violent video games causing violence either, yet I reject any ban on them out of pure principle - same here.

Anyway, I think I'll bow out now before some misguided soul calls the cops on me, or worse. I was just trying to explain why I believe what I do, because you asked. Seems we have irreconcilable differences. C'est la vie.
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That's a nice idea in theory but it ignores the practical fact that contributions will be different, people's commitment will vary over time, and people's expectations will clash.
The problem with same equity is that there is no boss. I am not sure if democracy works too well in start ups.
Did Kaaza support real time packet transfer? I guess the voice part was added on to Kaaza by the Skype Team. Or the team behind the P2P framework. I forget the name. Its owned by a Estonian Company if I'm right.

But you're right. Its definitely breakable. Kind of challenge that tickles those brain cells.
Maybe.

I was thinking that if the server marginally decides a thread isn't spam, it should be easier for readers to overrule it, and so classifying threads into 3 threads is better than into 2.

I think your idea is better.
We aren't being filtered yet.
no! please elaborate! :)
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"or in other words a vesting schedule, which is how almost all funded startups are structured"

FWIW Seth is actually talking about a bootstrapped company and not a venture backed startup. As it stands the software is already complete, and there are maybe ten thousand potential firms who are well-suited to buy licenses. They don't want to grow in any way, so at any given time there are only two things the founders can do that would create value: sell a license, or add a feature / improve UI. Because of this I think some variant of Seth's suggestion actually makes sense in this case, albeit choosing a split upfront and then vesting is normally a much more sensible way to go.
> I don't think the applications for that deep magic could be fully exploited yet.

No, they're not. That's why we applied for Summer 2009 funding. [...mystery song in background...]
Then you should have said "Internet Explorer opening PDFs is a pain point and scribd solves that". Fair enough, although I can argue Chrome is both much better solution to this particular problem :)

Personally I think scribd solves some problem for publishers, while actually degrading the experience for a significant minority of the viewers. Their relationship with publishers have significant negative externalities, and this makes scribd at least somewhat evil.
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Fair enough. Maybe I will do some reading. I've been thinking about collecting my thoughts into an essay anyway, might be able to express them better without enraging people.

Despite what it might sound like, I actually have no interest in child porn beyond its corrosive effects on society. I would mount a similarly impassioned defence of the legal rights of terrorism suspects or against drug prohibition. I do not particularly condone drug use or terrorism either. I just don't want populist fearmongering and government overreaction to tear even more of society's freedoms and legal foundations apart in pursuit of these phantoms.

I'll bow out now before I piss anyone off even more.
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spam isn't just a problem for "the past couple of days." there have been a flood of spam submissions for probably a year now. they all get killed eventually.

pg has the situation under control. if he needs to take further measures to handle the problem, i'm sure he'll do whatever is necessary to keep things running smoothly around here.
I voted his comment back up as while I personally like to read printable versions, it's more socially responsible to link to the regular version so the publisher at least get's a chance at making some money from their ads (which sustains them and brings us kick ass articles like this in the future).
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i don't think you were trying to be malicious or anything, but this type of posting is discouraged. from the submission guidelines: "If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field." that way, we'd all be able to go there directly, without having to cut-and-paste the url.
The basic issue with Security is that it is almost always in contention with Usability.

It's easy to look at something with security blinkers and go "eeks - you n00bs!" but it's ridiculously difficult to put in place any measures without immediately reducing the usability of your solution.
The real question is, is it any good as a video editor? (I don't do video editing, so I'm not qualified to compare it to professional video tools. My fiance does, but doesn't use Emacs.)

All of this "an x, written in (drumroll) [Emacs|Haskell||etc]" should probably be judged on its own merits as a useful program, you know?

(Don't get me wrong - I think putting stuff like rcirc in Emacs makes a lot of sense.)
Indeed it does. I've heard it costs an arm and a leg, though. :)
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Biologists don't necessarily need to be the one writing the high-end software tools, in the same way (as you note) that they don't build their own microscopes.

But re-formatting, filtering and running basic QC on complex data is something a lot of biologists have to do every day; and the types of data, their quality and their format are constantly evolving. Biologists who have to run down the corridor to their local (probably overworked and underpaid) programmer every time their data format changes, then explain the problem in terms the programmer can understand, then wait for the programmer to write something, and then check the script's output for errors, will be at a huge disadvantage compared to those who can quickly whip up and debug a parsing script themselves on the fly.
Maybe I haven't made myself clear. I am not arguing that "using" child porn is not a crime; it plainly is, in my country at least. I don't think it should be, though, as I have said. Its production should continue to be a very serious crime, for obvious reasons. For what it's worth, I see nothing immoral about drug production or use, and consider drug prohibition another pointless and destructive law.

As for your second point, yes, it might. Or it might not. Either way, speculation such as this does not belong in a legal setting. And if you take your thoughts to their logical generalised conclusion, watching anyone do anything bad at all makes you partially responsible. I don't agree with that, of course, and I doubt you do either.

Anyway, I've said all I'm going to say on this - I was just trying to make a point, I'll bow out before things turn any nastier.
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Even if you don't intend to seek funding you should still adopt the same model - there are very good reasons why it is used.

Doing an even-split stock grant amongst founders at the formation of a new company is absolutely the worst thing you can do. Almost all company classes allow you to create a stock pool - even if there are only 100 shares. You can then setup vesting schedules for everybody (including employees). I wouldn't even grant a single share to any founder.

I'm speaking from experience - first two companies I was involved with had co-founders that faded quickly and it took forever to work out the allocations after they eventually left. If you grant somebody stock, it is very hard to get it back.

If you started a thread here on HN about horror stories with stock allocations you would probably hear a thousand stories. Almost every startup has one, even the companies that go on to IPO or big acquisitions.
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" I suppose Google was just another me-too search engine and MS-DOS was just another copy of CP/M "

I think you're wrong on both your assumptions here. Search wasn't a solved problem, even the simplest forms of spam succeeded these days.

Also OS in general aren't a solved problem either, coz the hardware keeps going and people's needs change

These problems were and are hard to solve and rare startup can do it. Even to tackle the problem lots of reseach needed.
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The author's premise is that most people equate work with something unpleasant. Therefore, the 4HWW is a "lie" because most people need to enjoy their work more instead of adult fantasizing about living the retired lifestyle (I didn't get the logical leap).

As a programmer, I think there is some enjoyment from being able to create and weave stuff that people use out of code. Yes, there are parts to the job that I dislike: the downtime, some group apathy, office politics, etc. However, I feel that I am fortunate to be in a profession where I can exercise problem-solving and creativity and have relatively durable metrics for performance vs. Some of the more abstract office jobs my friends have.

As a very smart kid I know said in his valedictory address:

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Remember life balance is not static, it's a dynamic process. Happiness is fleeting because our survival depends on it.
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I wish I could try this out, but it doesn't seem like its worth disabling vimperator and installing a non-tiling WM.
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Mark-to-market applies only where the value of an asset is at issue. If, for instance, you want your insurance company to have a minimum value for its assets, to insure that they can pay out in case they need to, then you don't care what that asset is earning. All you care about is the value of that asset when sold, so that the insurance company can use that money to pay off its obligations to you.

Suppose I offered you $10,000 worth of stock in AIG as collateral for a $10,000 loan. When the value of that collateral goes down, it's fair for you to call the loan, even if AIG is still making money and distributing dividends.

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Arguably VB for Applications could come in handy for almost anyone. Though interestingly most farmers, carpenters, and other handy-workers are more capable of performing arithmetic than the rest of the population. Still the power of a well-tuned spreadsheet is quite amazing.

Farmers are also a bad example these days, agriculture is totally high-tech.