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Sometimes you want to indent more than once. This remap is fine, but the idiomatic way to do this is just to use a period to repeat the last command. It doesn't hurt to get used to that.
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Fair point. It's pretty easy to substitute another font of your choice. Raleway was just my personal preference.
We can be pedantic, but lets not.

"> Stipulate her assertion: We reject qualified candidates based on superficial and unimportant reasons.
Go ask a random person on the street if rejecting a job applicant because they said the word "hoops" is a superficial or unimportant reason. 99 times out of 100 they'll say yes."

Isn't that leaving off a bit of context? Ask them if "Hiring someone who plays hoops on to a team that thinks basketball is a stupid waste of time and recently campaigned against tax payer funding of a local venue for an NBA team." is a smart idea.

You don't walk into a room full of people playing Magic the Gathering and tell them you need three more for a bridge game do you? It's a group of Magic players, not Bridge players.

But the real point is that not being asked to join a community you won't fit in with is a good thing for you and for the community, and it says nothing about your "value" or the communities "value." All it says is that you don't fit there. Further, that "you" the random person, aren't a cultural fit for a group doesn't make that group evil, deceitful, or even wrong.

I understand the point you are making, I don't agree with it. I think 'culture' is a natural outgrowth of 'group' and is not only a reasonable discriminator for choosing to add someone too a group, but also for choosing not to join or to leave a group. That said, I do agree that there are unreasonable discrimination criteria, they are codified by law.

"She's not talking about a cover up. She's not talking about a bunch of evil startup managers sitting in a room thinking about how they can deceive their staff. It doesn't work that way. She's talking about the lies we all tell each other, and how those lies can have negative consequences."

You seem to have a good grasp of what she is thinking which is great, I just don't think she wrote any of what you are asserting as her thoughts, are actually in the text I read.
Lifelogging
Hits the nail right on the head. (Exhibit A right here.)
Very good point. I haven't tried the concept in the context of a deal site, but it absolutely works for a regular business.

I learned early on with my company that when people say things like "give me a deal - I promise I'm going to be your #1 customer if you give me a discount for my first purchase" that the best (for me) possible response is: "How about your pay full price now and the next time you come back I'll give you that 20% off you're asking for." Those that bite actually become loyal customers and appreciate it. Those that don't probably wouldn't have come back anyway.

And, btw, I learned the hard way that 99% of those "future #1 customers" never came back - even when I caved and gave a discount. Hence the revised model.
I was given the advice I repeated above by an accountant a while ago. Admittedly, I don't recall the reasoning as clearly as I did when first told, but I think the basic idea is that it's more tax efficient to reinvest profits into a C corporation than a partnership or other pass-through entity.

Let's puzzle it out. C corporation math:

$1 revenue in
let's assume a 50% operating margin, gross profit on $1 of revenue = $0.50
throw in another 10% for SG&A (sales, general, and administrative -- stuff your company does that isn't cost-accounted to production), we now have $0.40

Delaware has an 8.7% corporate income tax, reducing our $0.40 to 36.52 cents of free cash, which can be paid out to investors as a dividend or retained in the company for future growth.

If paid out, qualifying dividend tax would apply, leaving our investor with about 31 cents of profit. If kept in the company, shareholders would have 36.52 cents to reinvest.

Pass-through math:
$1 revenue in
Net profit: 0.40 (same as above)

Irrespective of whether profit is distributed or retained, and assuming a 28% individual marginal rate for partners, the partnership is left with 28.8 cents of post-tax profit that they can reinvest or distribute (take out for themselves). A few points from this example:

It's basically a wash tax-wise (28.8 cents vs. 31) if the profits are distributed. If profits are reinvested, the C corp has 36.5 cents of the original dollar left vs. 29-31, which will compound very significantly over time. So for a business that pays out most of its profits each year and doesn't reinvest (e.g. typical consulting company), it's likely better and simpler to use a partnership, whereas the C corp is better served for "asset heavy" companies with things that depreciate over time.

Software is tricky because even though it's an "asset" in every sense of the term ("probable future economic benefit", can be sold, etc.) most accounting systems don't recognize it as such. You should really get a CPA's advice on this, but I think the bottom line is, if you're going to (1) earn profit (most startups don't for a long time) and (2) reinvest a lot into the company, you're likely better off with a C corp, otherwise, for a cash business where most profits are paid out right away (law firm, ad agency, medical practice) you're better with a passthrough entity.

Hope this helps
Politically correct way to put it is "well.. it's a slow news day on HN"
Is it HN who scared edw519 off or was it TechCrunch?

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-asking-for-hel...
Since tim cook removed midi support in mt lion, I've been looking for ways to get the midis that play on my professional homepage to work again. I tried this one and it's cool, but as far as I was able to use it, it was limited to just one instrument.
... having a team of investors believe in you, only to let them down is an incredibly difficult thing to deal with.

don't beat yourself up about this. Any investment is a risk, and any mature investor will be well aware of the high failure rate for start-ups.

Most businesses fail. That doesn't reflect negatively on you, it's simply the nature of business.
Sure, but, unless you're a rockstar graduate student, you do R in service of your advisor's grant needs. Unless you're a rockstar post-doc, you do R in service of your PI's grant needs. Unless you're a rockstar PI, you do R in service of your own grant needs. Wherever you end up, someone is writing the checks. That someone gets to determine what you research.

I'd guess that computer science is very different from experimental physical science disciplines: In experimental, you have to have a research advisor with grant money if you want to have vacuum pumps/oscilloscopes/glassware/liquid nitrogen/etc., even if you plan to TA your way through grad school.
Try and disassociate your sense of self from the wellbeing of your company. If your company fails, you continue to be a multifaceted human being with many other successes and failures ahead of you.

Try and let your friends and family know what's going on. Give them a chance to support you in your tough times exactly the same way you would want to support them. Also, it will make it much easier to tell them if the company does fail.
.01% of 150,000 users is 150 idiots. Size brings them out, the bigger the soapbox the more vicious they become. If you want to get depressed read some of the dead ones, very very sad.
Changing the font weight to 300 or 500 seems much superior to me. I like the font, but the 400 weight just has too many obvious jaggies.
Who is edw519?
git show --summary `git merge-base branch master` ?
Can somebody please give me some background to this? Who is edw519?
Real backcompat with cell would be really, really hard. It would either cost a lot because you have to put an useless cell cpu in the box, or cost a lot because you have to expend the engineering resources to redevelop the games you want on a new cpu.

However, the platform is sufficiently close to the PC that shipping the PC versions with slightly tweaked GPU code should be relatively painless. PS4 should have a huge library at release.
If this is really the case, perhaps he does not wish to return to a site that silentbanned him for having a dissenting opinion.
This is not specifically related, but I've always wondered: why does traffic rise and fall periodically on practically every popular website?
Anonymity has made us all very relentless commentators. Perhaps if we were to speak as if everybody were in the room with us we would own our opinions and form conversations to the likes of round-table discussions, rather than ganging up on a person with a different view.

Not everybody has to agree, it is not productive to try and change others' beliefs in a hateful manner. The Internet is written in permanent marker, it's just going to add to the hate out there already, clogging up our mind tubes.

What a shame, for humanity and technological advancement. Aaron would have advocated for his right to post, even if he believed differently. So glad this made the front page.
This confirms Visual Studio as the de-facto standard for game development. It explain's Microsoft's recent embrace of Git.
So the phone lines became extremely hard to hack from an electrical perspective and everything merged with computer security as a whole as most of the calls became voip.

We could run articles with headlines such as "what happened to the BBSes?". They became obsolete and merged with other similar tech cultures.
Are you on Chrome by any chance? I've always had this problem with Chrome; Firefox does much better. Does anyone know how I can improve the font rastering on Chrome? (Windows 7) - http://i.imgur.com/hh3vqFk.jpg
Had you approached the offer cynically, how much of that money could you have gotten out before this collapse?
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"taking half of the deal".
This is the problem. A modest marketing website with less grid and bubble orientation could take 5%, make wonderful profit, and boost it's customers.
I got a kick of reading about how this hack was one of the things that enabled StarCraft to be released. As an eager 12-year-old, it seemed like I couldn't get it soon enough. But as a software engineer now, I can't stop cringing at this story.

So much of the discussion here is focusing on SC and SC2. What about the software development aspect of this story?

What's the moral of Patrick Wyatt's tale? I mean, it's hard to argue that there's some parallel universe where Blizzard did things differently and StarCraft was an even BIGGER success. What would that even look like -- it became the national pastime of several countries, instead of just one? Yet I can't help but think how expensive it must have been for them to have made these poor decisions in design, implementation, and planning, each one compounding on top of all the previous ones, constantly delaying their launch.

So is the moral of the story, "here's why you shouldn't code for 'two months from launch' mode"? Or is it, "when the chips are down, you can take or leave all your fancy MVCs and UMLs, they don't make the difference between a mega-blockbuster and a dud or vaporware"?
Do you think we should be able to exclude gays in the military because of the negative effects on unit cohesion?

If not, then what's the difference between that and our industry, in many cases, systematically excluding certain groups because it negatively effects their internal culture?

> But the real point is that not being asked to join a community you won't fit in

> with is a good thing for you and for the community

Ya, kid. I know you've wanted to work at a top Silicon Valley startup your whole life...but you know...we just don't think you'd fit in here. Your vibe just isn't quite right in a way we can't even really explain. But you should thank us! You really wouldn't have liked it here anyways. We know better.

> That said, I do agree that there are unreasonable discrimination criteria,

> they are codified by law.

And that law, which is very very hard to enforce, is ignored all the time in the name of culture. See stuff like this: http://www.redditlog.com/snapshot/2626/2887

> I just don't think she wrote any of what you are asserting as her thoughts,

> are actually in the text I read.

Maybe I'm seeing things that aren't there. But if so, I'm not the only one:

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=prettylittlestatemachi...

That's an awful lot of praise.
> Unless you're an orca I suppose.

I don't care if you're a big bad orca. If you can kill a freakin Great White Shark by holding it, that's some mf badass Kung-fu shit right there. Orcas are big and strong, but they're just flesh and bone. It's not like they're armor plated, or have electrified dive cages. It's just them, this technique, and a 5000 pound thrashing, efficiently killing, natural flesh sawing machine. Sure, they weigh like 2.5 times as much, but it would still be like me subduing an attack dog with some kind of technique. I outweigh it, but it's still scary. Personally, I'd rather just be far, far away.
> But despite our Current Liabilities being high, they at least are not as frightening as Groupon's Merchant Payables gap, as Groupon pays out usually in 1/3rds (30 days, 60 days, then 90 days), while at LivingSocial, we usually pay 80% of the total daily deal's sales to a merchant within 10 days of the offer ending, and then we owe them the other 20% months later. So yes we owe local merchants a lot of money, more than our Cash, and these Merchant Payables are most of our Current Liabilities as PrivCo surmised, but I will point out thta at least it's not as as great a portion of our Current Liabilities as Groupon's.

What's with the Groupon deflection spin? LS clearly screwed up here. Pointing fingers at Groupon as an even-worse-offender achieves literally nothing.
No, because anyone with showdead turned on would see that.
Does this matter at all?
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'The Best' are expensive and are constantly being poached. You don't need 'The Best' because you're not doing anything particularly innovative - you want "the most effective' which is probably someone 'good' who, with the right resources, can effectively implement the already known solutions to the already known problems you're likely to face.
I bet they'd think it hilarious if you could fart them.
Small business marketing and entertainment are fine endeavors. I'd cut Groupon and Zynga some slack here.
I bombed on my interview there last year. Not feeling so bad about it now.
Wow, LivingSocial has now been funded to the tune of $918 million, and really, what is there to show for it?

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/livingsocial
This sounds a lot like synesthesia. Not the association of colors and sounds, but visual-mathematical synesthesia. There are people, like you, that can do arithmetic simply by looking at number-boards that float in the field of vision, like a visual slide-rule.

While I conceptualize differently than you, I do play the "morphing shapes/structures game," falling asleep, but it's in black and white. Also, I float around objects on all axises, like floating around the exterior of a spaceship...
So... Basically, we have a group of people that is really pissed off at someone who made an insensitive comment to a person who ended up killing themselves.

This same group of people then responds by making an entire series of angry comments towards the same person. A person that is probably pretty fucked up right now by the fact that someone he was recently unkind to ended up committing suicide for a reason that's at most, marginally related to his dickish comment. Congratulations, now you are all edw519.

How many of us have made a comment to someone, whether on the Internet, or in person, that we later regretted? How many of us have entered a conversation with the assumption that we knew the whole story, when in fact we were misinformed? How many of us have ever made fun of anyone, ever? I don't have any extensive data to back me up, but I suspect the number is pretty fucking close to 100 percent for each person on all three counts.

Didn't like edw519's comment about not being willing to comment so soon? Me neither, but I understand that when I seriously fuck something up, it might take me a little while to collect my thoughts.
Google Chrome Silent HTTP Authentication
HostGator doesn't want to fix an issue that a customer shouldn't even see
After more than 5 chats with hostgator staff, I still see this issue:

Unhandled Exception

Message:

PHP Startup: SourceGuardian: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20060613
PHP compiled with module API=20090626
These options need to match
Location:

Unknown on line 0

Why? Because they don't want to. On another domain of mine (without authentication), this was fixed in a matter of minutes, and the one who fixed it said: sourceguardian path is wrong in php.ini for php5.3+ .

The domain which shows this error belongs to a friend of mine, and I can't authenticate with his hostgator details because I don't know them.

Is this even possible? They know it's an issue, but they are just too lazy to fix it.
This is a big concern for me. I think we're really hitting kids/teens too hard for hacking. I'll be chatting a bit about this on Techendo this week. I'm not sure I know what's best, or how to deal with malicious vs. non-malicious hacking. B&E is B&E no matter if they broke in and left, or just broke in and stole things, right?
I think the key here is that these deal sites take most of the money - that's not sustainable or profitable for the sites' customers (restaurants, shops etc). They're being greedy and will pay for it with the hostility of businesses and eventually death as the deals dry up.

If they took less money, and were less agressive in driving prices down, businesses could price deals correctly so that they're not making a loss on each new sale and the deals benefit everyone (site, businesses, customers).
And... yep, it looks like this submission is getting heavily flagged.
So, honest question, who is this for? You? Him? Everyone?

"You scared him away." Okay, why did we scare him away? Why does it matter?

As a reader, I'm left wondering who this person is and why I should feel bad about this. I don't mean they weren't a valuable contributor or whatever, I just mean, why am I being asked to feel guilty/outraged over this?
To be clear, nobody tracks time, even for projects that are managed. The coordination I mentioned is about ensuring the right people are available to work together on the right things at the scale of days and weeks, not individual hours. Most of the hard work is making decisions about what to call 'done' versus where to keep iterating, and managing that over time so everyone experiences steady progress.
The "where is the revenue?" line is tired when talking about Pinterest. Unlike sites like Instagram and Facebook it's pretty obvious they can start making a shitton of money at any time. The biggest question is how sustainable this product is. People focusing on revenue for a product like Pinterest are missing the point: I would want the company to be focused on growing the user base, not toying around with revenue models at this point.
Hmm... Could someone explain the HN rating system to me? It's weird, because my post was at #4, then it jumped down to #17, moved up to #15 and then jumped back to #17. Is there some sort of non-deterministic attribute used when sorting posts, to prevent bots/etc. from posting? Or maybe I'm just misunderstanding how this works. I've also noticed that "text-posts" seem to be ranked less than "submission" posts. Does this actually happen or am I just imagining things?
Can someone please provide a background ? who is edw519?
Sweet! Nice to meet you. :)
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Ha. Is that what they're for? I rarely listen to podcasts or video recordings of lectures precisely because I can't do anything else while I'm listening - not if I want to actually hear what's being said.

Alas, I can read much faster than anyone can speak, so listening to someone talk feels like an exercise in tedium compared to just reading a transcript.

The RSA Animate talks work, though - the video adds enough to keep me from getting bored and wandering off.
> Oh, and culture fit? That's just discrimination - rebranded! What? You don't like what other upper-class white males like? Be gone heathen!

Agreed. It bothers me to see hyper homogenous work cultures celebrated as some kind of ideal [1].

[1] http://blakemasters.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels-cs183-...
I love google glass when it launch.?
Hammm if everyone is afraid to leave a comment because they can be banned , then something is wrong here. (although i am not sure what this topic is all about and who is edw519)
Happy Sixth Birthday!
It's a shame that Linux support at Xamarin is obviously dropped in many places, so no Mono development for me. :(
> I guess I must have seen that announcement posted on Reddit

Yes, you must've:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/15gkq/startup_ne...
A long-time, generally well-regarded, contributor to HN. His account is almost as old as the site itself, and if retaining the culture of HN (as found during its early years) is of value, it's likely that keeping him around is also of value.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edw519
32bit code can sometimes be faster than 64bit code because 32bit pointers are smaller, use less RAM and put less pressure on the cache.

It'd be interesting if Sony choose to run the processor in 32bit mode for that reason, they could also use something like the Linux x32 ABI (i.e. use the AMD64 instruction set but with 32bit pointers).

Of course referring to the processor architecture as "x86" doesn't mean anything in that regard.
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If you don't like reading his comments, obviously it doesn't matter to you. To people who liked reading his comments enough to recognize him (I have no clue who he is), it obviously does matter.

Xcelerate felt as if he was a valued member that would be missed, he made it clear in the OP. If you don't care about him and didn't chase him away, there's no need to feel guilty or stick around in this thread.

EDIT: Sounded kinda dickish myself at first so I edited before I saw your reply. My bad.
Move on to the next thing. You're a pussy if you let this get you down.
It wasn't that bad. Sounds like you never used Altavista, which was far and away the best of the pre-google search engines.
What status?
Seems like you're less likely to have an accident if your GPS directions are right there in your field of vision than if you have to look away from the road at a device on your dashboard or in your hand.
If it's "size", #7 Japan is huge and #26 Russia is monstrous and crumbling and still managed to beat US.

That rating is totally humiliating for a country which invented Internet and they should do something about it.
Well, given that Xamarin doesn't seem to support Linux for their newest IDEs it's especially a shame. I'd prefer .NET/Mono over Java (and i'd prefer python and C over .NET), but it doesn't look like there's support for that..

Last time i tried to get MonoDevelop with those Android tools to check out cross-platform app development with Mono and it's a no-go. Now Xamarin Studio appears to be Mac and Windows only. Very disappointing!
Hey, Ed, whatever's going on, I've appreciated encountering your insightful commentary here, over the years.

For those asking who Ed is, the OP link (albeit unlinkified) to Ed's comment threads (and so, to his profile) is a good place to start.

Ed's average comment score, per his HN profile (so, across his most recent X comments, with outlier(s) discarded), is circa 25.