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I'm the one who claimed they seem to have "allyed themselves with the surveillance state," so I guess I'm really the one you're responding to. I wouldn't consider that to be trash talking, exactly, but I don't mind you saying that.

I actually don't know many of the facts on the ground, as you do. I mean, you can cite evidence and provide links, and I can't.

What I do know is that Google is a humongous red target painted on it that is screaming, "I have a huge proportion of all global email and lots of other kind of data! Governments and other malicious actors, come and get it if you can!"

So, I think it's absolutely insane that so many of us trust Google with so much. I think we should all be encrypting everything as a matter of principle and policy, and I don't think we should all be using Google so much.

I mean, how much of China's annual budget is devoted just to hacking Google via technical and social engineering means? Tens of millions of USD? That sounds very reasonable. That's what I'd be doing if I were on their side and had authority.

Also, it's worth noting that individual rights are no longer considered absolutes in the US, and our legal system is currently in a trend of slow erosion. So, eventually, the government authorities are probably going to be able to demand whatever they want of Google. They possibly already have ways of doing this.

As an aside, I don't begrudge you for working there. In fact, once I'm on the job market, I may even try to get a job there (not sure if they'd still have me, though, since I make the above point not infrequently).
I think it's because they have a dream, and know that if they tried to accomplish that dream in a big corporation, they'd have to sell it to people at multiple levels of bureaucracy whose job description often includes killing dreams. Even if it was accepted, it would no longer be their dream, it would be the corporation's dream, under corporate control and ultimately susceptible to being morphed into something totally unrecognizable or killed at the corporate whim.

Entrepreneurs feel to their bones that their dreams are too great a part of themselves to so totally put under other people's control. And they don't believe anybody but themselves can truly understand their dream or pull it off.
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CISPA not only works for sharing of information with the government, but also with security companies.

Your second sentence is a rather weak counterargument. (1) would be fine on its own, it is in the context of (2) and (3) that it is not; the incentives make (2) and (3) extra bad.
Working at big companies sucks for many reasons which have nothing to do with compensation. Many people might prefer to work in a less constraining environment regardless of the pay.

The author appears to have a strange definition of "entrepreneur" which is some kind of personality trait and not a business role. I suppose he must be using the word "entrepreneur" as shorthand for "person with high tolerance for the risks involved in starting a new business", i.e. a potential entrepreneur.
The author of this article should be ashamed of himself. He failed to do basic research about how money is actually distributed. If he did, he would have found out about the Federal Reserve distribution system, the structure of which is based upon population distribution. Then he links this map to cell phone data, and then ignores the fact that cell phone towers are placed where people live — it should not be a surprise that people place local calls far more often then they do long distance calls. Then at the end of the article, he has the nerve to say "These are the first maps that are trying to paint us the way we actually are."
This ignores the fact that there have been several proposals for alternative states for many years. See ‭[1] [2][3][4] (in 3, someone asks the author of one such proposal about the similarity of his plan to Federal Reserve system.)

If he wanted to do some interesting research, he would have asked to man who tracked dollar bills to ignore bills that were spent locally and instead track bills that traveled a considerable distance outside of their Federal Reserve District, because long distance cash transactions have become increasingly rare in the age of credit cards. Furthermore, that are the most likely to use cash are usually the poor, who are the least likely (except for the very rich, who don't carry cash on them at all) to use a computer and spend their time tracking where their cash has been.

[1] http://www.tjc.com/38states/

[2] http://www.rev.net/~aloe/boundary/bibliography.html#16-state

[3] http://www.rev.net/~aloe/region/question.html

[4] http://www.rev.net/~aloe/boundary/

EDIT: Added information about alternative state suggestions.
Umm, .inputrc is readline not bash so technically this can be used in anything linked to readline?
However, and this is key, those rules are completely and utterly arbitrary, meaning that nobody would come up with them on their own, so knowing them meant you were taught them, and having been taught them meant you were of a high enough social class to be Our Sort. Therefore, speaking English in accordance with those rules is a class marker, something that's always useful whenever people may attempt to get Above Themselves.

Hey, it's this or going back to doing it based on skin color and last names.
Found it: http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/central/provo/what-goo...

"Veracity customers' accounts will be transferred to Google Fiber automatically."

Of course, that's still a very vague statement; there's a lot of fiddly details to ask about (like, does the contract actually get changed so I'm not paying a bill every month anymore), but I am encouraged.
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> The market is such that I do not have to be available 24/7 for $100/hour, billable in 15-minute increments, no matter how much startup CEOs wish this wasn't the case.

Agreed.

Think that, in any market, for any talent, this would be a ridiculous arrangement for any manager/CEO to propose of a remote hire.

I think the author of this blog probably mentioned that anecdote as a comedic way to highlight the challenges of having product built remotely.

As someone part of a team who advocates for / tries to enable developers to work remotely (and employers to hire remotely), frankly, I'm happy to hear (and get excited by) stories of such arrangements working out for all parties!
Then how do you go to the previous command without leaving the home row?
I was initially skeptical and thought this would be another pet open source project without direction, a viable target market, or good design sense, but after checking this out I was proved very wrong on all counts.

This is amazing. The people behind this seem to really know what they're doing. The operating system's interface design and that of its default applications are better than anything offered on Linux [0]. I'm also really impressed with the fact that there is One True environment and toolkit which is integrated into the OS, which, compared to the Linux desktop, should decrease development time while increasing the consistency and overall quality of the user experience. And it has bash!

I thought Linux Mint with Cinnamon was great, but I'm strongly considering dropping it and using this as my primary OS.

[0] https://www.haiku-os.org/slideshows/haiku-tour
The rest of the Internet hates /pol/ because the posters there are at once extremely right-wing and highly intelligent (albeit paranoid). According to the liberal world-view, such a phenomenon is impossible.
So let's say I have an iOS or Android app that needs to talk to my REST API. I have my user login in the app, which does Basic Auth over HTTPS.

Once they're authenticated, I generate a token and send it to them. They store it, and use that token from here on out (HTTPS only).

Perhaps I expire it after some time (hours or days, if I don't want my user to have to login all the time).

That's it? :D Seems like I'm missing something...
"This is also why I bristle when many in the Valley - PG included - keep disparaging non-technical people when they want to start a tech company."

"I wish we all, on HN (at the very least), would stop painting with a broad brush and bashing large swathes of people."

Pretty conflicting statements. Asking HN not to disparage people while disparaging people in Silicon valley himself.

If a non-technical founder wants to build a photo-sharing app, how would she/he even build a minimum viable product without learning how to code or getting a technical partner?

It depends on the business. Some ideas like MyClean don't need much technical skills to start.

It's pretty disappointing that this is the top comment on this thread.
> willingness to hold the asset depends on the fact that it has value independent of that willingness. Tobacco can be smoked or chewed, gold can be used to fill teeth or make jewellery, and U.S. dollars can be used to meet obligations to the U.S. government.

Gold has very few industrial uses. If its price was its 'independent' value, it would cost a hell lot less. It's a value store because people believe is safe, even though it's much easier to steal a bar of gold than to fake bitcoins. Gold is also difficult to move around, or to make anonymous transactions with, or to split in small pieces etc. Gold is the old world's bitcoin, and, if anything its more flawed than bitcoins. As digital currencies prove their robustness and reliability, we will probably see a massive move from 'precious' metals to digital value stores.

This professor will be shaking his head in disbelief in a few years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_as_an_investment
This is firmly in the "they weren't doing that already?" file for me.
Who is the reseller?
4chan seems to have found the Boston bombers
I tried fish and went back to zsh when I realized that I was basically setting it up to be exactly like zsh. :P
You're misinterpreting the definition of intrinsic value. The ability to buy things online privately is something entirely extrinsic to BTC. Even people who say that the US dollar has intrinsic value (aside from the paper) are mistaken - value derived by fiat only gives the dollar legal value.

You most certainly can pay taxes with cash. But that's not the point. The point is that you have to pay your taxes in US dollars.
I had some $ and a couple BTC in my account there, I initiated the transfer out, got my BTC right away, hopefully the ACH goes through quickly also.
The content, e.g. quests, map, npcs, dialog, etc are all in proprietary formats (Runescript and various config formats) but this doesn't compile to Java - it's simply loaded by the engine.

The engine, server and client, is 100% hand coded in Java, and the client portion of that is what we manually 'ported' to Javascript. I say 'ported' in quotes, as though lots of the new code performs the same or similar job to the existing Java client (bugs and all!), its implementation is sometimes quite different to that of the original Java version.
Intel has acquired HTML5 tools from AppMobi http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/21/in-a-play-for-more-html5-mu...

This enables them to have a service like PhoneGap build.
You know what they say about poor decisions. They're made every day.
I agree with almost all of this comment of yours (contrasted with the previous one). The NSA should be assumed to be invasive, we don't know how much Google is being forced to play along, there would be little or no public evidence. And critical thinking is good, especially given the circumstances and history.

Your previous comment said that "the likely thesis that Google has decided to ally itself with the US surveillance state" was "seem[ingly] fact at this point". That's a completely different statement, and I strongly disagree with it; I do not think that is Google's decision or allegiance, nor that it's established fact. I think the parent to your comment accused Google of malfeasance, and I think that is neither critical thinking nor fair.

Either way, I'm not personally terrified, but I do think it's worth awareness and resistance, on principle.
Enterprise companies are built in a way that slows the process of getting shit done to an absolute crawl (red tape, politics, approvals, process and god-knows-what other nonsense that somebody in a position of authority has decided they're going to throw at you that afternoon), and that kind of environment is simply noxious to the kind of person that has the audacity to think they can start from nothing and build a company that employs hundred(s) and pulls in millions in just a few years.

It really is that simple. You can even find some small companies that entrepreneurs wouldn't last a second in, because they have this same mindset.

The point at any company where getting things done becomes less important than making sure people (and by induction, the company) follow orders or don't screw up, is the point at which entrepreneurial minded folks can no longer thrive at said company.
Uh, let's combine this with the other 3 articles claiming a 10x more long lasting battery, and we'll have a 1000x longer lasting, 2000x more powerful, 1000x faster recharging battery.

I really love progress, but I've seen too many of these "N times better" articles and no actual consumption products by now.

Same with these memristors, MRAM and feRAM, and 1000x faster internet.
Dude, I don't see why you need to defend Apple so seriously and in all probability, they are no different and just because they haven't got caught yet, doesn't mean you can't rule out the possibility that they aren't into this.

As an example, during the Apple vs Samsung patent wars (after Samsung lost), a handful of publications were writing in support of Apple even when most of them knew that Apple was abusing the patent system to its core. Most of them looked very much like they were paid by Apple to write it. Some even went as far as saying the win for Apple is good for innovation (which obviously it is not)[1]. Another example is once an author from Techcrunch even admitted to getting compensated monetarily by Apple to write a post bashing a competitor.

Apple, Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic, etc. are no different from each other. So let's not get religious, shall we?

[1] http://gizmodo.com/5938193/apple-winning-the-patent-wars-is-...
Don't be ridiculous--vaccines don't cause autism.
I have to disagree strongly with your point 6.

I'm working on a large app at the moment where all hostnames are the same regardless of environment, and the only way to switch envs is via a proxy. It's a massive pain.

Keep environments mostly similar, but always make sure you can configure locations of the app itself and its various external resources separately on staging, test and development platforms.
This is pure speculation but I think it could have something to do with them using CapitalOne's P2P transfer for high volume business transactions. I'm sure they violated the terms of service somewhere.
Proving once again that the economics departments are about as useful as the philosophy departments.

(No offence to those few good academic economists and philosophers.)
> The solution is to provide sufficiently broad set of tightly integrated base system libraries

So... when you find a bug in one, the only thing to do is an OS upgrade?

And what about new APIs that come along? Will third-party libraries exist at all, or will users have to wait for an OS upgrade to have applications that can take advantage of them?
What a tremendously helpful comment. Do you have anything to contribute, instead of just poking the poster?
They had their servers compromised last year:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=105818.0
Well, shit. Time to trash my bitfloor/mtgox arbitrage bot.
I'm totally hoping that they'll finish their port to the Raspberry Pi. It would be a great match.
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Your personal beliefs are irrelevant. You're asserting that we--people who are, you know, not gay-haters--are infringing on them. We are not.
He has a blog[1] that he's linked a couple of times. I'm just amazed by how long the entries are, I can never force myself to write that much.

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/
Live collaboration, one click share, Q&A style community interaction, crowdsourced component databases, crowdsourced modules, forking...
I go there every now and then and still wonder if half the comments are left by bots/shills/etc.
I sure was. It is even styled to look like OKCupid, so I figured it would be matching people like that.
My issue is that content entombed in a desktop-like app, which can't be scraped and repurposed from its stable URL, isn't part of the World-Wide Web, and indeed this is the trend that is going to destroy the Web and replace it with a home screen that is nothing more than a list of client/server silos.
That's an optimist's way of looking at it. Look at how strong the USD is against BTC. Things must be great in America!
You lost me at 'fanboys'.
> So... when you find a bug in one, the only thing to do is an OS upgrade?

Yes. Which, ideally, is cheap and easy to do.

> And what about new APIs that come along? Will third-party libraries exist at all, or will users have to wait for an OS upgrade to have applications that can take advantage of them?

We can see how this works today. Third-party libraries exist, application authors benefit from being able to version them at-will (and not be tied to the same version everybody else uses), and if anything grows sufficiently popular/necessary/duplicated, the functionality can be integrated into the OS (an occurrence of which there are numerous examples).
That depends. Is your business doing so well you can afford to be too lazy to cater to 3-5% of the population?

(And what part of "design" doesn't include usability, anyway?)
As someone in a 'big company', I'm often frustrated (although not surprise) that entrepreneurs seem to see this is a binary problem.

This piece did touch on the real issue startup founders have with big companies - but only touched on it.

The issue is not compensation, the issue is an inability to understand how to traverse the system in order to execute and achieve what you want (and that can include 10x returns).

This ability is about understanding how to identify the problems/opportunities within a business that need to be addressed that nobody is attending to. This ability has nothing to do with office politics.

I've seen several people who have managed this. In fact I've seen 5x more people achieve amazing things in big organisations than I have seen entrepreneurs truly succeed. People within big organisations can also make it a non-binary choice - working with and often working on companies outside their 'big company' (I spend ~1 day a week working/advising some amazing startups as part of my job).

The inability to execute in a big company may not simply be due to oversight by entrepreneurs - it may be that the type of person that is successful at one cannot be successful at the other. But I don't believe that's true all of the time, and I find it shortsighted that so many successful entrepreneurs seem to see it as the truth.
Seems like the author never really understood bitcoins.

Bitcoin is not a bubble. It's a way to move money efficiently on internet.

The speculation around bitcoin was a bubble. Bitcoins will still remain used and useful as long as people use them.
Would you mind expanding on the issues you have with pipeline? I use pipeline at the moment and beyond a couple of small things (mainly working with vendor apps) I'm really happy with it, but I'm open to the idea that it's because of what I don't know than because it solves every problem.
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If you are looking for a full-fledged site, you might find these guys relevant: http://www.cofounderslab.com/

(I haven't used them)
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I suspect that it's more likely that the claim is true, and he was foolish in insufficiently redacting information (in order to better convey the degree of insult).
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Simple implementation of Facebook Home in JavaScript using a jQuery plugin for slideshow, and UI for some effects. Done today just for fun :) (tested on latest chrome).

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This is my new startup and I'd love to get your feedback. It reached 1.2 million members with only viral.

Basically you set up an account for people to chat with you anonymously. As their identities are anonymous your friends can ask everything to you that they normally cannot ask. They can tell their thoughts and criticisms about you.

Moreover, you have an opportunity to chat anonymously with celebrities you admire through Connected2.me. You can tell your problems to specialists such as psychologists by keeping your identity secret and get an instant answer. Companies also use Connected2.me in order to get anonymous feedback about their products and give support to their customers real-time.

Please try and tell me what do you think.
To derail this a little:

There's every chance that donating $8,000 to a cause was not about Gay Anything, and he was supporting a cause of someone he wanted to butter up / chat with / get into the table with.

Trust me: the "tipping culture" goes way beyond DC & lobbyists.

Corruption: for when donating to a cause to get favor gets a LGBT response. Shitty PR, and probably deserves it for currying favor with <subject X> but really not that uncommon.

Boo! Politics is dirty; reeeeal dirty.
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If you are sick of co-founder dating and looking for that perfect match, are ready for something serious, why not consider:

eCofounderHarmony.com

(I just made that up. But perhaps the "eHarmony" approach to cofounder matches makes more sense than OkCupid. Since, ya know, you're "married" to your cofounder.)
rest of the screen unusable? huh? it's just as usuable as it is without the compose window up. I find it useful.
I just spent a few days at the London Book Fair - my headline from that would be 'Publishers are terrified of losing role of curators of the written word, in a world where anyone can publish'.

What publishers currently seem to be missing is that in a world where the barriers to publication are reducing to zero, good curating is going to be the commodity that I, as a consumer, will value most highly. By good, I mean 'feels correct to me.'

The problem is volume. First person to discover a means to curate at high volumes is king.

tldr - you are spot on - be good at high volume curating and there is your fortune.