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My grandfather was a first generation American. He was able to attend college by earning admission to The Cooper Union. Tuition would have kept him out.
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I think that's what made the original BitTorrent popular. The open protocol. They really need to do the same here if they want this to take off.
This is a story I've always loved and it's good to hear it with a little more background. I had no idea they had raised so much money already. The smarter thing to do would have probably been to go to one of his investors for a small bridge loan knowing the new round was in the works.

I put myself in some pretty tight personal financial spots for the success of my first company and just seeing my employees happy and at work was enough for me to never regret it. After selling the company they all got an even more stable foundation for their lives and I got the "reward" that comes to those too dumb to give up.

Here's to guys like Fred for giving me the inspiration to do whatever it took for my company!
I agree that studies show that ad hoc, "straight from the hip", and "wild assed guessing" methods don't work to produce accurate estimates.

Not just "plenty of grizzled veterans" report that they don't know how to estimate, but the vast majority of the industry is incompetent and ignorant on estimation, a sign of the deep seated unprofessionalism of the industry.

Neither of these things change the fact that lots of us are able to do accurate estimation and the methods for doing so are well known and have been for decades.
While the founders may not have had to do this, in all likelihood they did self fund at least some of the startup, and/or put in a lot more legwork initially.
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Ask HN: I find many "no men", what are "yes men" like?
I'm used to knocking at a lot of doors and hearing the word "no" or "your idea needs major work". I'm a nobody - that's expected. I use the information they give me to self-improve and figure out what's wrong with the world.

For those successful people out here, what's it like hearing the word "yes" or "your idea is brilliant" all time? Even when you tell them your worst idea, they tell you how great your idea is. What's it like when everyone opens their door for you? How do you self-improve and figure out what's wrong with the world when everyone is saying yes?
Yep, it's a pity they won't. Even so, many of the macros (e.g. log/trace) are the sort of thing that will be super useful even if they never get checked into Version Contrl. I know I spend a lot of time peppering `print "A"` `print "B"` statements throughout code when debugging, and being able to automate that would be awesome.
I know someone who took a salary cut early on in a startup that hit it big. I always heard about the great things coming from the company, not "omg, look how much my shares are worth!" I think it's horrible when startup founders prey on ill-informed employees who they see as gullible, promising the world with no caution. However, what happened to wanting to work for a startup because you care about the mission? People take smaller salaries to become teachers, some become touring musicians, some forego healthy salaries to travel the world more, and some people work at startups. Just because not every situation is ideal (fun startup + high equity + cushy lifestyle), that doesn't mean it's not the right decision for some. Do what will make you happy and fulfilled rather than something to check off on a list for making a successful career.

Edit: Plus you don't have to stick around for four years at a below market salary. If you're pulling your weight and the company gets traction, you should expect a reasonable salary (not $50K below market rate for four years in a row like the article implies).
> 3. A small part of IFLS' success rests on Andrews' eye for picking out good/funny/clever quotes/cartoons/photographs/artwork

This isn't hard, and can be automated... it's the 9gag model. Just view the cream of the crop that bubbles to the top of reddit and randomly pick out a few every day.
Here's a mirror (I think) of the post:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.freeculture.discuss/681...
I am way happier with stock buyback vs. dividend right now, since the stock is so undervalued. There are also tax benefits to buyback.

I would love to see Apple spend billions each (not tens of billions) on:

1) turning iCloud into something amazing -- an individual, small business, or enterprise framework to do device management, sync, etc. Everything Steve Jobs would have wanted as a consumer service, but also available as SAAS or on-premises, like BES, to manage the phones for a company.

2) Don't go into the enterprise software market, but buy a decent enterprise software company or talent just for talent, and get those guys to make Apple the way to develop enterprise software. Basically everything Microsoft does with MSDN, easy hooks to build for the enterprise, etc.

3) Invest in GitHub, either in equity, or just in first-class support. Integrate GitHub and Apple software development and ideally some app development tool like Parse, so it's easy for power users, enterprise IT, and third party developers to build apps for the ecosystem.

4) Use security as a competitive advantage; build platform security like on iOS for OSX, but even better than the best option out there today (ChromeOS). Great management tools for individuals, companies, developers to do MDM, ERM, etc. Make using Apple devices with Apple-blessed apps and Apple-blessed services actually safe.

5) Make i18n/l10n for the Apple ecosystem better and easier than for anything else.

(disclaimer: I have what for me is a fairly huge open call position in apple options over the next 2 years, so I'm pretty "invested" in Apple's success)
How would this be different from the multiple products already in the market?

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This.
often someone will post something that I don't particularly like or I outright disagree with, but I feel the discussion going on in the comments is worth having and will up vote so that more people will see it and comment.
That is always my question. Where is all this money going? Tuition goes up well above inflation, that money doesn't disappear? Are more professors hired, more facilities built? Keep adding middle managers and secretaries?
I'd like to respectfully disagree.

> There is plenty of conflicting research, but I chose to pick the research that supports my point of view.

I'm in the same boat as you here, I've heard arguments from both sides, and eventually you have to pick the one that "feels right". It's hardly a data-driven decision.

> Before that point the only reason they cry is to tell you that they need something. To stop them crying you have to address that need. They're either hungry, or cold, or hot, or have trapped wind, or [are] lonely.

Or, again, you've set up their expectations about what happens next and they're letting you know they're ready for it.

> <snip self-soothing technique>
> It's important to set aside 2 weeks for this process. Usually it doesn't take that long, most children settle in after 2 or 3 nights. But you must be consistent.

See, I don't think this whole technique is substantially different from doing the same thing at 6 weeks. The reason "controlled crying" involves so much in-and-out of the bedroom, is because you are re-training the child's expectations. You've spent 6 months telling the child "If you cry when you don't need anything else, I'll pick you up" and so of course you have to ease them into it, because it's an unexpected change of the routine.

The goal is the same, the result is the same, the effect on the child is the same, the only difference is that Baby-wise says that a child of 6 weeks is capable of learning how to sleep, whereas "controlled crying" is saying a child must be 6 months.
The point is that it is possible, not common. Which is incredible that the brain can go so long without oxygen and then fully recover, and that we may someday have the technology to revive people better or more often.

Think if you somehow had a machine that could revive and keep someone's brain alive regardless of how injured the rest of their body was. And if you had a whole hour or more to get to them. Not that it's likely to come around anytime soon, but still.
Is it just me or are those some expensive engineers?
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One should never deal with the bad guys.
Yes, but at least here in Estonia the limit was more than enough (usually 500gb of bandwidth per month).
Women: stop complaining. Leave that to us.

Read the article. (Or better yet, just its headline.) It doesn't focus on men. It focusses on how bitter angry women are holding females back. An article men can upvote!

We know the power of the Dark Side, and warn you from it. For your own good, naturally. The best advice comes from people who don't take it themselves.

Be a team player. We men never complain. (Except for this one subject.) Can you imagine Larry Ellison complaining? Steve Jobs? Bill Gates? No, of course not. This trait they shared with Jesus, who famously also never complained.

(Now, you may google that and ask, "What about the Pharisees? And a fig tree he cursed to wither and die, because for some reason it didn't give him fruit out of season? Plus, wasn't he always complaining about his Apostles?" The answer is that was the historical brown Jesus, and you know how uppity Middle Easterners are. I'm talking about White Jesus with the soft eyes. Who's all about turning the other cheek and taking it.)
well governments de facto need the banks to lend them money, which is used to finance their welfare policies (and their wars), which in turn gets them elected. So politicians make it easy on the bank and ask everyone to pay up. I am making things sound simple on purpose, but it's not too far from the reality.
> Our girl cat was a killing machine

Very true. The female is the real hunter and the one to get if you are after a mouser. The male likes to lie in the sun, much like its owner.
What? Addicted? Really?
Yeah. It is basically a "think big"-story
For state schools, there are many websites where you can see where all the money goes. There are armies of administrators who make unbelievable salaries. My sister is an academic and her advisor went into administration which bumped his salary up from $90K to $400K+.
Hello everyone co-founder here,

This post was in the top 5 until a few minutes ago and it seems that some people have flagged it. I know it seems very suspicious that the submission could get so many upvotes and very little positive feedback but I'm also puzzled at how that happened in the first place. I understand that a lot of people here think we're breaking mailto links but we're trying to solve a real problem that many people (non-HNers) have. I submitted this because we wanted to get feedback and we did (and we take it all to heart) but I'm shocked that some folks here think there was a voting ring. I think the people voting it up are doing so for either the discussion or to congratulate the fact that we launched. Can someone explain why they flagged it? Thanks!
Congratulations! I hope everything goes well for you!
See below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5599601

DRM by definition implies security and privacy risk. Focusing on minor issue (native plugin) while ignoring the major one (DRM) sounds strange. And in reality this whole EME thing won't even remove native DRM code. It just will hook it into JavaScript. The risk caused by DRM won't get any less than it is already.
Like many animals which hunt in packs (e.g. wolves) humans obey a dominance hierarchy. The leader is at the top of the pyramid and is entitled to most of the spoils of the kill, while those beneath the alpha settle for relative scraps. This has been self-evident though most of human history, but exists even today--witness the modern power law distributions of wealth even in advanced economies.

Founders, in essence, reject the pyramids of established companies and try to create their own (the new company) with themselves at the top.

This is why the myth of the startup was created by founders and investors--they need submissive employees to work at below market wages (initially) at the lower levels of the pyramid in order to support them at the pinnacle. Note that the purported benefits of working at a startup are always intangible and hard to quantify (read: things which don't cost the company any cash)--but the opportunity cost of working as an early employee at a startup is readily quantifiable and quite large: a huge loss in earning power in the short term, with only a lottery ticket's chance of winning in the long term.
The "this will fail social norms" card has been played many times, and it
has come to pass, but it hasn't been the core of a product failure.

Yes it has. The first cell phones, the first PDAs certainly fell into this category and only later when they became less obtrusive did the gain any real traction. Outright failures are less memorable because they tend to not get very far: people realize they are a mistake before they get to market. But a couple examples I can think of off-hand:

WebTv: Not socially ok at all to treat your TV like a computer. Still not, really.

Delorean: Weird car with its gull wing doors, too different, can't be seen in that.
I love this. It's so pleasing to look at.
Hmm, so in some sense all corporations (that at least have advertising and PR) can be considered sociopathic?
> It's not hard to understand, they're not idiots at HBO, they crunched the numbers and figured out how to get the most money.

HBO is owned by Time Warner.
How can the "lazy big media companies" adapt? What's the DRM-free business model that would allow them to produce the blockbuster movies that are apparently still quite popular with the public?
>> For one it's not a plugin framework, it's a DRM plugin framework;

A DRM plugin framework is by definition a plugin framework. I relly don't want DRM in html either, but I have a hard time finding logical arguments against it, and I don't see how this is a good one. If you could further your point, I would love to hear it.

>> Secondly its expressed intent is to take away functionality

Take away what functionality? The ability to download audio/video? Again, playing the devil's advocate, I would imagine a vast majority of the content that would be streamed using the DRM encodes would not be streamed using the video element currently - it would be streamed over flash/silverlight, etc (think netflix, hulu). If that is the case, what is it we are losing?

>> I'm not aware of any other instance where a web API is created to disable features of a user's computer

To be fair, this isn't. EME is just a way for people to create addons that leverage native encryption. The same is true of the current plugin system.

>>I'm sure we can rattle off more ways that it is different, but I'm not sure what you're looking for here.
I am looking for logical reasons to say why adding EME hurts the open web so when I get into arguments I have better reasons other than 'I hate it'
I can't believe that DRM is even on the table. It's ONLY purpose is to prevent third parties from accessing content, which is pretty much the antithesis of the web and open standards.

For me, what it all comes down to is this: HTML5 is supposed to have open standards, so if I implement those standards' specifications in my own web browser, I expect to be able to view and use websites that are HTML5-conformant.

If DRM goes through, this is what will probably happen: Internet Explorer and Google Chrome (two closed source browsers) will definitely implement it. Opera might implement it (who really knows what they'll do?). Chromium and Firefox probably won't implement it. DRM content will likely only be viewable on those two browsers, and only on a supported platform. If you use Firefox on Linux Mint, you're SOL. If you developed your own web browser, you're SOL. Even if you use Firefox on some closed source operating system like OS X, you're SOL.
You're all talking past each other. "Taking a company private" has nothing to do with stock buybacks. Stock buybacks are when the company itself buys its own stock and then cancels the shares, which increases the percentage ownership stake of the remaining stockholders. Taking a company private means that a single large investor (or a cooperating group thereof) buys 100% of the shares and then votes to delist the company from the stock exchange and stop trading the shares publicly.
I guess the real solution is to get society to agree that a minor crime shouldn't be a barrier to employment.
No, it wasn't around when we switched to MongoDB. Still doesn't have PHP drivers either.

Pretty sure at least one of those answers was worth an upvote...
It's simply a matter of statistics. The successful guy probably started a dozen businesses that failed completely. But you don't hear about those.

Nobody succeeds 100% of the time, or even often. Try your best, but try over and over again.
They could start with making maps work or, really, any of their cloud services.
nice! makes sense. I real life 'done is often better than perfect' =)
$200k/year?
That's what they want you to think but the data doesn't support this. Its usually used to offset stock compensation.
The type of content that would be siloed behind DRM does not fit in a free peer to peer network of equitable peers anyway. TV is probably a better medium for that.

The Web is not a one way irrigation medium.
It is about freedom. DRM is the opposite of that.
Freedom is more important than money.
The funny thing is, if it were to have paid off it may have been incorporated into business lore in much the same way as the story of FedEx's founder's Vegas trip has. People would have called Cooper Union's gamble a good thing, and while acknowledging it as reckless (or, more charitably, risky) would have also argued that you can't argue with success!

Then again, where is the line between reckless and calculated risk? A lot of non-entrepreneurial people would call the business of startups a reckless gamble.
- No library to integrate (ie langage independant and you don't have to change your code) whereas actual product requires to use java, .net or python
- easy customization with common technologies (CSS, JSON) whereas you have to use complex XML configuration with actual product
- Per usage pricing instead of expensive license
- Out-of-the-box widget to integrate in your website which adapt itself to the requested data
"[Company] is looking to grow our team with energetic software engineers ready to take on the hardest challenges of their career. Day-to-day responsibilities include challenging and interesting work on algorithms, databases, web technologies, human-computer interaction, scalability and systems architecture."

This position sounds stimulating. Perhaps some ladies are also motivated to pursue careers more for passion than profit?
Most of those things involve communicating and partnering with external folks. Apple has no idea how to do that.
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"So on local issues, young people are at an immediate disadvantage in terms of participation"

I disagree. If it's an issue they're passionate about, young people join the fight just as much as any other age demographic. I've seen a good mix of both young and old in our activism. If anything, it's the young people who protest and older people who fund them.

Here is video I created from the action our organization took on. Atheists United (the org I run) is represented by both young and old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXShZ5ZyYPY

Yes, we're local, but we choose to be. There are organizations that take on national issues and rally people across the nation to change laws and elections.

Yes, the system is deeply flawed (agreed: bribes) but it's not outside our ability to change. We have power in numbers. The more we organize, the more we can change the system. If lulzsec spent time and publicity on organizing, they would be a major force for change.

Edit: by "fund them" I mean, fund the organization with donations. The funding of the organization allows for us to have the resources to organize and protest.
> If you are VP of Engineering from the start [...] If you are brought on as a junior engineer, however, you can't count on getting the promotions you deserve.

Playing devil's advocate: for one early employee who kicks ass and is not rewarded with increased responsibilities, how many expect a VP title served on a silver platter in spite of their inexperience and/or inability to manage, and blame the company instead of themselves when that happens?

Speaking as a founder, when I see someone over-delivering and eager to do more, I sure as hell will double his ration of responsibilities, and then double it some more as long as he's willing and able. And yes, in a good company when responsibilities and value added to the company truly double, so does compensation.
I really want to like Mozilla Persona
Senior IT professional at 24? The seniority standard must be pretty low nowadays.
Hm that sounds way too low... I think it would be more like 0.1%, or $10K. A $10M exit is kind of small for say a 20 person company. It seems like most acqui-hires are more than $1M / employee (which of course doesn't mean the employee gets anywhere close to $1M).
It isn't guaranteed to work even with the memory barrier, because the undefined behavior is not merely an ordering problem. The problem is that merely accessing the object through the wrong kind of pointer breaks the rules and gives the compiler a license to do anything.

There is a time and place to break the rules, but it is a calculated risk. It can only be considered "safe" if you make assumptions about your environment (platform, toolchain, etc). You're vulnerable if any of those assumptions change. The things people considered "safe" 10 years ago aren't "safe" any more. But the people who followed the rules never have to change their approach.

For what it's worth, a cheaper barrier in this case (if you were going to take that route) is just a compiler barrier like __asm__ __volatile__ (""); (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_barrier#Out-of-order_exe...). There's no need to emit an actual CPU barrier.

Thanks about Scribe; it's a labour of love.
There's something I'm not understanding here:

If my spouse and I do the tests and find out there's a 25% chance our child will have a particular health problem, what are we supposed to do about it? Adopt? Roll the dice anyhow?

In the article, there's a couple that did the test then decided to do in vitro fertilization (IVF), but I don't see how that helps. It seems to me that any offspring that arise from IVF are going to have the same probability of having the health problem. What am I missing?
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Have obscure passwords with keywords within them that are memorized in case your password file is stolen or cracked. Record and lockout failed login attempts (those records could be altered anyway.)
When your expenses are greater than your revenue, increasing your risk exposure is not a real solution...
Try Adobe Lightroom [yes, our favorite whipping boy Adobe :)]. It's really really awesome as a photo management tool. IMHO. If you find it slow, try throwing in an SSD. Don't run it with less than 8 GB RAM.
Sorry for the late response; I don't usually check threads. According to someone I asked on IRC, House of Cards apparently airs somewhere offshore (I think it was Germany), but that is where the non-webrip episodes are coming from. It also explains why there are only six different non-webrip episodes released.

BTW, the webrips are the ones that are coming from DVI or from captured + decrypted video streams.