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An alternative spelling to Cyprus, Ciprus, Chipre, Cipris, etc. It is one of two anglicized versions that I know of, and I can never remember which version is more accepted.

Anyway...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%932013_Cypriot_fina...
This would be the company that was once known tongue-in-cheek as "Lawsuits In Motion".
Quote from the article

"Let me tell you another story: my neighbour in the upper-middle-class area where I live is a man who owns luxury hotels. His house is huge, but no sooner had he moved in than he appropriated about half of the pavement space to the front and side of his house, claiming it for his own. This means less parking for others, less pavement for children, less walking space for everyone. Of the 400-odd houses in this area, at least half have done this. At the same time they have also collectively seen off the only roadside tea stall in the area that served all the service providers – the guards, the drivers, the domestics, the sweepers. "

Both the writer and you are discounting the 200 odd houses in the area that have not claimed an entitlement on the pavement, by doing so you are discrediting the willingness of those who are playing by the rules to further an argument that does no hold scrutiny. Further more as others have stated in comments, there is nothing in the article that is uniquely Indian.

> In India this is quite possible, a middle class person could easily hire 3-4 people and therefore start to create change.

Most people do not have a need to hire 3-4 people. Growing up it was common to have a maid who helped with household chores due to the absence of amenities like a dish washer or washing machine. As these services become available there is no need to hire folks to do such work. Hiring folks and having them laze around only to take home wages is a ridiculous idea, moreover wealth saved by not hiring these folks is spent on other purposes (movies, restaurants etc.) that the so called wealth might consider a good return on investment. These in turn create jobs for services that are required (taxi drivers, ticket vendors, waiters, restaurant managers etc.). The fact that the so called upper class people do not hire folks to do their dishes and laundry is if anything a move towards a society with fewer artificial classes.
Surely there is, or there would be eventually, value to knowing how much BTC is "hoarded" or even possibly just "saved" and how much is actually "lost".
Is this not rendering for anyone else? Latest ubuntu + chrome. All I get is black.
Looking for a front-end guy for a startup project.
I am a developer who is working with a designer and we are looking for a front-end guy to join us.

The designer already has most of the project done in photoshop and I already have the database made. So we need someone that can take the PSD's and build them into a front end.

We already have an Amazon EC2 server setup with a LAMP stack. Our back-end framework is Laravel.

It is up to the front-end guy to choose what framework he wants to use on his end.

The project has had some interest from quite a few people! We have a great domain and are ready to build this quickly and get it out there!

We have beta access to Sqwiggle (http://sqwiggle.com), so working together remotely is great! We don't mind what state you are from, as long as you are willing to get online and work with us. We both have client work that we do during the weekend, but nights and weekends we are committed to this project. We obviously hope to build this into something that we can put all of our time into.

If this sounds like something you are interested in, contact me on Skype: ryHanson72

Thanks!
All of you should know that this was paid with campaign dollars, not government funds. To pretend otherwise is an incredible indictment of our education system and an example of the assault on k-12 civics courses.
WASPs in the US act similarly.
My point was not that he currently has them, it's that if any person were to have them, they'd have been sold a long time ago.
> The challenge is not selling ONCE you have a solid product, it's going from NOTHING to something.

That kind of mentality is exactly how we ended up with the dot-com bubble. For a couple years, everyone who wanted to got from nothing to something. Remind me what happened next?
I think most people will want more info on the project. How else will they know if they're interested or not?
Child labor in vietnam? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20200
(I work at Apcera)

The "15 minutes" part was hyperbole.

The timeframe referenced the length of the discussion of the two, not the knowledge the decision was based on. Several of us had previous experience with Node, and some of the team had prior Go experience.
> To quote Steve Blank himselve, no software ever fails because it can't be build. You can build whatever software you want.

Bullshit. Budget and schedule overruns are endemic to the software industry. There are plenty of companies that fail because they can't deliver on the technology they promised.
> The only difference to them is that you draw less power than you used to.

That is not the only difference; the pattern of your load changes too.

With 100% grid-supplied power, changes in load are driven by slow-moving, predictable systems like sunrise/sunset, weather, and seasons.

If you are running your own solar array, though, you will vary your grid load on much shorter time scales unless you invest in a big battery pack to smooth out the variations in insolation from clouds and storms. And even the normal daily variation will be stronger, since when it gets dark you'll not only be increasing your load (turning on lights, TV, cooking, etc), you'll also be losing your local generation.

The current electric grid is not built to handle such large changes in load on such short timeframes.
Local Services Marketplace Thumbtack Raises $4.5 Million
Brief technical explanation.

The "attack" consists of the following steps:

1) Modify the desktop simulator FMS code to support commands in the data protocols (e.g. ADS-B).
2) Send commands through data link to utilize the newly created control channel.

What FAA is saying that

1) It is hard if not impossible to actually inject un-authorized code into an embedded airplane system (FMS, GPS, ...) due to strict quality controls in place.
2) Even if one succeeds with 1) then you still have limits of what FMS can actually do with the plane because it is a separate unit from other systems with well defined protocols (e.g. FMS doesn't control the lights in the plane).

IMHO, the whole "hack" sounds like a BS/PR action. Yes, you can "fake" GPS, ADS-B, and other communication protocols. However, there are other sources of information for pilots (e.g. the old and true magnetic compass) that can and should be used to validate and cross-reference the data. From a pilot's perspective, a "fake" GPS is no different from a "failed" GPS (yes, this happens). One should be ready to deal with this to qualify as a pilot.
Our experience with Go at Braintree was similar. While the language is great, you still have to reinvent the wheel sometimes. For some companies this might make sense if they get a ton of value out of the language. We ultimately decided we could use Ruby for our purposes, so we switched.
Please tell me that you weren't educated in the United States. I can't understand how else someone could misunderstand such a fundamental concept of our election process.
But isn't the article about sales people starting businesses? Those people would undoubtably have been called programmers, not sales people, when they started (except Ballmer, who didn't start a company at all).
I suppose that listening to a sales person can get you 400k revenue in a year, just rote following what one customer says can do that for you, but is 400k really worth sacrificing more visionary goals? The question that really has to be asked is "if I spend X amount of time on this one feature and that leads to Y amount of revenue, is that worth sacrificing Z revenue down the road on an engineering/product management defined feature that is more strategic? Don't necessarily sacrifice the sale of now for the lost sale of the future.

Real question, is 400k enough for you?
Harper Reed and Scott VanDenPlas did a talk / Q&A at the Chicago AWS meetup group a few months ago. My hazy recollection of the salient points of the talk:

1) This represents a heterogenous set of services where the engineers in charge of each service were more-or-less free to use whatever technology stack they were most comfortable with.

2) Use puppet for provisioning everything. (There is some subtlety Scott went into about being able to bring up a bunch of servers quickly which I have since forgotten).

3) Everything shuts down the day after the election. Not much time spent future-proofing the code when it has a well known expiration date.

4) Testing testing testing. System had serious problems and 2008 and they didn't want to repeat in 2012.

5) Engineers and sysadmins had a lot of latitude to make changes in order to respond to issues as they developed. It sounded like this is essentially Harper Reed's management style (he seems like a cool guy to work for).
Willful infringement triples any judgement against you. Just a note for those who didn't know.
(I work at Apcera)

We didn't write our own HTTP server, but rather a framework that sits on top of it and makes it easier to use.

The logging library is quite unlike anything else we're aware of, and the goals of it were language independent. The author of it is giving a talk about the library and our experiences with Go at GlueCon next month.

The ORM is the one which is more a result of what we wanted not being represented by existing libraries, and the community being still smaller compared to Node.

However, with all those still considered, we've gained a lot of velocity with Go, better concurrency without doing full async development, etc. Personally, I've hated testing async code in the past with both Node and EM+Ruby.
No..you aren't talking about one specific time..or at least your article isn't. If that were the case than you'd be talking about why salespeople aren't STARTING companies rather than asking why they aren't RUNNING companies.

Without a talented engineering team, a product won't be able to change or adapt to customers changing needs and opinions.

Sure you can sell a product that isn't fully developed, and outsource your engineering but in all likelihood you're going to wind up with a clusterfuck of a codebase and so much technical debt that your customers aren't ever going to see anything more than the crappy first iteration of a product.

This is all just so silly. By your logic all that is important is that you have salespeople that can sell anything, including a crap product. Is that really how you want to drive a company? Salespeople would have an easier time selling a well engineered and functioning product no?
(I work at Apcera)

Soon™
Galaxies closer together than stars
- yes, at least for the next 12 months
- probably, and I still have oDesk option :)
- yes, spouse and son

But you decide to quit before your side business generate enough profit? What kind of things did you use to evaluate your decision?
Your 4th point is key here and its something the author just doesn't seem to understand..
Must be a very cryptic one. Way too advanced for us mortal folks.
Declassified ufo design from 1956
It means you're going to get the equivalent of delta dental, bcbs, 'unlimited vacation days' and some sort of snacks in the office, limited 401k matching, and around 100k.

Don't expect the real 'good benefits' where you get a company-paid flex benefits card and if you thought you might see a pension you should have a laugh and go outside & take a walk.
Narcissism, hyperamplified risk aversion, and extreme information asymmetry
Being a co-founder of the internet company I work for? As much as I respect my company, it's no Bitcoin.
Go 1.1 which will be out soon (maybe this month?) addresses a lot of these pain points to varying extents and is completely backwards compatible with 1.0.X code.

Also, I don't know if Erlang would have met their performance needs? http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
Hashing doesn't help you crack private keys. Bitcoin uses ECDSA to sign transactions, which means you need to be able to solve the discrete logarithm problem over an elliptic curve. In any case, even the combined computational resources of the entire planet probably aren't enough to break a 256-bit ECDSA key in a reasonable amount of time.
I just assume that the phrase is completely meaningless. I've never seen a company that didn't claim to have good salary and good benefits.
The FMS does not override those types of sensors. It is more about signaling the path of other aircraft. Broadcast a false danger and a pilot/autopilot will alter the course.
Gandhi and the earlier India National Congress were finance largely by Indian elites. Today, the Indian elites finance much of the orphanages , temples and culture of India. TATAs are essentially run by a charitable institution. The once powerful Birlas built several colleges , schools and temples. My wife was born in a town largely built by a private business. Indian business sustain even the mos leftist publications by advertising. The Indian elites went out and built the whole IT industry of India. Infosys is leading a new way of philatropy in India. Feeding the hungry and poor is an integral a part of our cultural /religious rituals. In North America, check out the Langars at your local Gurudwara or Temples.

But of course, publishing an article that does not conform to the worst stereotyping of India will not get to to HN first page.
Your analysis omits the fact that Erlang and Haskell are mostly functional languages, which is different enough from what most programmers are comfortable with. This is typically a very large barrier to overcome.
But what was the thinking behind hospice in the first place?
We don't want bug fixes with your whining
>> The pendulum is swinging back from technical implementation, back through design, and the power is returning to sales and marketing, IMO.

> !00% Agree.

Disagree 100%. No matter the "pendulum" there are different motivations from sales to marketing to engineering and there is no one answer. Anyone who says "sales is the answer" is either in a very specialized software market or is selling snake oil. Any good sales person knows this. Even average sales people know this. Bad salespeople apparently don't.
Designer Carbon Provides Longer Battery Life
The analogy to the Internet is apt. But it's worth remembering that the Internet backbone was not built on the existing phone network. Instead the Internet backbone was developed as a separate infrastructure, by separate companies, which was then hooked to the existing telephone (and eventually cable) last-mile infrastructures.

I'm not sure the same thing is possible in power generation, because power plants, substations, and power lines are so much more expensive than telecomm switches.

What we need is the power equivalent to the fiber optic cable--a huge breakthrough in line capacity. The only thing that could compare is probably high-temp superconductivity.
Why would he sell real bitcoins for fake fiat? This is Satoshi we're talking about, not your average joe.

To him, USD is riskier than BTC.
i, too, was glad that chicago conveniently falls in the "poor" category, in addition to light pollution. /sarcasm
He tried to study that via old medical records and literature... But didn't try to see an Amish?
Nice, although tmux -S /tmp/pairprog and tmux -S /tmp/pairprog attach isn't that hard to type :-)
Gource, a software version control visualization tool
1. do you work for ninja blocks? 2.Just looked at Ninjablocks do they have microphones?
I'm curious why Java isn't customer neutral. Clojure (and Scala) both seem to be more mature, and concurrency is a core part of clojure (with a rich ecosystem and runtime in the JVM).
As a cloud platform startup, I'm kind of surprised they didn't just go with NodeJS due to it's huge popularity advantage meaning they'd have many more customers. Even investors are asking for it nowadays. If you are writing internal software for your own company, OK, pick what you want. But if you are building a cloud platform that will presumably have customers with their own wants/needs/demands/codebases, I think they would have been better off with a platform written in the same language and engineers steeped in the same language as everyone wants right now.
"We do the tech. You do the rest."

... So, my job is to press the button that says go?

After i pay the 200/800$ off course.
>>You're 100% correct. However, the poor in India are truly trapped, almost like slaves to their own poverty

Sorry I refuse to believe in this victim hood mentality. We seriously need to get out of this 'Somebody needs to do it for me' ideology. Nobody is going to help you and shouldn't. Because frankly no matter whom you can speak to is going through a little battle of their own.

I am working hard here pushing 19 hour schedules to ensure I have a good life. Somebody else is all welcome to do so. I can understand if the person is ill or is physically disabled. But a healthy person who doesn't work hard deserves his condition.

And in a country like India, expecting somebody to come and help is not a unrealistic expectation but a 'unjust' expectation.

>>By comparison those who have acquired sufficient wealth are free to do whatever they please!

You make acquiring wealth sound like somebody just woke up one day and found a sack of gold biscuits at their door step.

>>With that freedom comes a responsibility to acknowledge it and to not act like complete idiots

Exactly.

There by each man for his own and shall deserve net result of his own work.

>>Unfortunately, even the rich to a large extent aren't aware of how rich they truly are.

Because nothing is really enough but that's a totally different discussion altogether.
You're treating these "recollections" as equivalent in weight, but they're not. The earliest email announcing the name of the server in a way that made clear the name depended on the sound ("say it ten times fast"), combined with a confirmation from the author of that email that this is exactly what he meant, is a combination of textual and authorial evidence. "More definitive than the other quotes" is precisely what that is.
What would you do with your entire day working for the company? Coding? Marketing?

So if 10 customers can't pay your costs, could 20? Could 30?

I would focus on getting to the number of customers that can make the business break even, then quit (as it seems you're a little hesitant to jump in right now)

[from here on, I'm assuming the SaaS is related to VetWork]

If you can't quit your day job b/c of financial reasons, have you thought about outsourcing the marketing work to get more customers so you can be profitable?

Or, if outsourcing the marketing work isn't a good fit, have you tried advertising? I'm not sure if that will be a good fit, a quick google search finds the ad marketplace pretty crowded, and your ROI on advertising would be low.

Do your customers love your product? How can you give them incentive them to recommend VetWork to other vets? Or, how can VetWork increase the amount of work that they (the Vets) get?
I think the OpenSSL binding are really only necessary if you follow the train of though that, "its new so it must be broken". I prefer tests and evidence and I would not hesitate to use the Go cypto in many production scenarios. To distrust something with no evidence of being broken seems like magical thinking to me.

Go 1.1 includes a better map implementation, so if they were starting now that probably would not have been needed.

Most large systems always end up performing some customization to standard logging solutions as well.
Many people, right or wrong, do not feel comfortable running the JVM for patent, ideological and/or security reasons.
There are a lot of people and companies worth over 100 million dollars. I only know of one revolutionary crypto-currency.
Gosh darn it. This is exactly what I do research in! (I do computational modeling of these things.) But I can't say anything about it online.

Oh well. I'll just say: this is pretty cool stuff and expect to hear a lot more about it in the future!
Why would he want to read his essays so often? And even if he wanted to read them frequently why would he want them above the fold? Surely he knows where he put them.
Reading this at the top of the comments made me really sad.
I see. I was not aware that this was the case. Thank you.
Erlang is faster than most people give it credit for. I imagine performance might also have made their bullet points, coming from Ruby: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
"Sales Cures All." --Mark Cuban.

http://blogmaverick.com/2008/03/09/my-rules-for-startups/

Edit: I shouldn't have pulled that card. Apologies. I'm not helping matters. There's already way too much vitrol going on in this thread.
"A billion here, a billion there ... pretty soon we're talking about real money." (-my first civil servant boss)
Here's an approach: Put a number and a deadline on everything; this way you have a metric to hit rather than dealing with emotions.

So for example: Can you at least equal your current monthly income in X months? Make that a comfortable number so you don't run out of savings and have enough time to get a new job.

I would also have a metric on the burn rate of the company even if the overhead is low. Keep in mind you'll need to also be spending money on marketing, and the services of an accountant and the like. You don't need a 100 page business plan, but you do need a plan.

Also make sure that your spouse feels good about this, because being in a good emotional state is critical for the both of you.
They charge you for feeding excess power back into the grid?
Your comment adds nothing to the discussion. You could replace Facebook with any company. Apple / Google / Microsoft / Twitter, etc...

Your comment is nothing more than trolling. Please refrain from trolling. Thank you.
If you can plan for a year of no net income from your business in a way that's acceptable to your family, and if you can EITHER plan for a 2nd year of modest income OR you have good contingency options (freelance work, or in the worst case scenario, giving up the startup to take corporate work), you should be sufficiently comfortable to take the plunge -- IFF you believe in the startup.

I generally view the market right now as one where developers will have no trouble finding work if they need it (albeit maybe not the perfect job if you have to do so under pressure).

I also view the market as good for startups right now. This is not always the case -- the market will undoubtedly cycle down, at least for startups trying to raise money and generate revenue.

If you have 10 customers and you can reasonably project your way to break even & profit, and if the upside of the company is substantial if it grows to a reasonable size, you should do it!
I disagree. Facebook is a particularly bad company and people should not be giving their data to them. I also think it is unwise to give lots of data to Google as well.
Missing something like this here on Hacker News. Getting an overview for a longer timeframe. There is a lot of valuable stuff here, that is valuable for a longer time period.
Security reasons? What?