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Ask HN: Is an Autonomy Fund a viable business model?
Here’s a software business model that helps engineers to retain control of their companies and aim for excellence, instead of having everything they build get hijacked by MBAs. It encourages engineers to build profitable companies rather than “get big or go home” (VC).

It’ll encourage mid-growth companies. See: bit.ly/16guxvy. I want this thing to generate some Real Technology, and focus on hard problems instead of social media bullshit optimized for instant results. It’s for the mid-risk 10-40%/year growth range that’s underserved by existing finance.

An Autonomy Fund’s like so: engineers get a base salary (say $125k) and the investors get a percentage (say 37.5%) of any profits they make. What do they work on? Whatever they want. Their own projects. Consulting. Startups. The fund owns part of it, but they have full autonomy over what they do.

One idea here is self-organization. If two teams decide to work together and pool resources, they can. Since they're collectives of autonomous individuals, they don't need to worry about the (morale-killing) processes of merging HR structures and org charts. They just pull together and work.

Who’d fund it? I think local governments might. (Am I right? Or off the mark?) It creates jobs, supports local businesses, and may build the next Facebook.

I see this as the ultimate symbiosis between cities and tech. They want to make their cities tech hubs instead of having all the action go to star cities. We’d vet programmers, something a non-programmer can't (cf. Design Paradox).

I'd aim for top-5% “10Xers”, with initial class size ~28 and a 2-year initial runway ($7 million). If the pilot succeeded, then similar funds could be launched all over the world, and there might be a business in setting cities up with their own Autonomy Funds.

Is this something that:

(a) local governments would support, and

(b) a substantial number of top-5% people would join, even if it meant moving to a small city (~50-250k inhabitants)?
http://beta.scratch.mit.edu/
Seems like this is extremely wireless carrier friendly. Once you're able to do transparent tcp handoffs your ability to exploit unlicensed spectrum to offload traffic from your saturated licensed bands without a very obvious service interruption gets much easier. If you deploy devices set to auto associate with a whitelisted set of provider and partner hotspots as soon as the connection is up you can offload the bulk of it, letting you serve more customers with the same amount of spectrum. Addressing heavy demand locations with wifi is way cheaper than minicells or DAS systems and wouldn't involve any regulatory approval or backhaul requirements.

I had to laugh when I saw the charts of LTE+wifi beating wifi alone in throughput. Even if the phone os was setup to try to exploit that, any wireless provider able to tie their own shoelaces is going to monitor multipath traffic like that and once they infer your alternate link is reasonably fast they'll start intentionally congesting their side of the path to force the bulk onto the local route.

I wonder what sort of additional profiling this could enable. Right now my phone is on 3g and my dual homed wifi network. It seems possible that being able to see my traffic from wireless, wireline ip4 and via my ip6 tunnel provider at the same time along with each path's latency would leak more data than existing hard handoffs.
It's fairly expensive (processing and storage), but it's well worth it for secure environments. I've worked for companies who have this set up on their Windows Server environment (since they were administered through the remote GUI) and SSH logging for the Unix/Linux servers when running as root.
Ack is wonderful example of tool use evolution.
Before ack, I used grep to find stuff, but each use would frequently require additional options to exclude certain types of files, then coupled with a pipe to filter other stuff, etc, etc. After ack, everything is much simpler; just specify what you want. It has replaced most of my grep invocations. Honestly, if you work on the command line and use grep, you owe it to yourself to try ack. You (probably) won't look back.
How to capture Cisco’s attention: An exclusive interview with Biren Gandhi
As a principal architect at Cisco and the person spearheading web and mobile tech initiatives for WebEx Social, there must be thousands of Silicon Valley startups and VCs trying to get your attention. How do you handle it?
At the time of the previous post, Rendr was not yet open-sourced.
Being that IBM's POWER architecture is also a RISC architecture I would expect them to rally behind that, if anything. I've heard that POWER's performance had improved dramatically recently, so it would not surprise me if they were trying to push POWER.

edit: Yes, I did mean 'rally' - thank you.
Watching that gives me chills:

What is that?
I don't know what that is attached to..

All those strings and cables and ties look like a huge mess.
Delhi's 5 year old rape victim fights for life; accused identified
I haven't used either one, but from reading the descriptions it sounds like ag has fewer features, for examples it doesn't have the --output option to tailor how results of matches are presented. On the other hand, it sounds like it should be faster.
Sounds like a weird and bad situation. Here's a question, you are going into debt over this company... is the CEO also doing the same? Is it shared pain? Or... are you the only one who is under pain? Or under-paid?

I've seen startup situations where the CEO earns > $250k but pays everyone else < $100k. And says there isnt enough money. But the truth is the CEO himself is squeezing the company dry and killing it. Are you in that kind of company?

Another thing to consider, are the founders ethical? Are they good people? Have you considered if they are sociopaths? Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad

The reality for me is that I would never ever ever take a startup job less than break-even cash. That means I am not paying for my day-to-day living out of savings while taking a substandard salary. Because in a properly backed startup, they CAN afford to pay people $120k a year. If you are taking major cash hits, you need to be a founder.

On the founder side, it's a pretty clear cut rule... are you a founder - if the answer isnt "yes" immediately, without a doubt, the answer is in fact NO. First employees arent founders. Employees with stock options (ISO or otherwise) arent founders. "VP of X" or "Director of Y" - not a founder. "But I did the technical due diligence" - not a founder.

Being a founder in major part is also about how the other founders treat you. Are you an equal business partner? Usually if you were hired in substantially after, the answer is NO. They might respect your opinion, but also reserve the right to ignore it. Real founders and partners don't get to ignore the other's opinion without consequences later on. This is true in business and your personal life as well.

In short, if your founders are the Dark Triad type, you may wish to extract yourself. If they are not, you may be able to come clean with them, and come to a negotiated situation. Such as allowing you to find consulting work, or perhaps paying you more, etc.

Good luck!
I am a lousy copywriter
> I started reading Poignant Guide with the aim of improving my Ruby knowledge

Well there's your first problem.
sounds great - thanks! I hadn't heard of this before
Don't seem able to create a new account and sign in to the beta any more. Says only accounts prior to 1/26 :-(

Edit: Ah, luckily I set up an account I can rescue with an old email so she can use that, if she likes scratch, which I've still not really looked at yet.
Excellent. I've added it to the to-do list of articles to put on beyondgrep.com

https://github.com/petdance/beyondgrep/issues/12
I think you are answering your own question.

What's the likely hood of getting the upside on this? Let's say the funding does come through? Is that going to solve the problem? You can only answer this. Based on what you are saying, it's clear to me that you have a strong sense that this company may not survive.

You need to ask yourself why you are still with the startup because based on what you are saying, there is a very high risk that the startup will shut-down in the next weeks, months.

Based on all the information you have given, it looks like you are on a sinking ship. The problem is that you cannot afford to be on this ship. If you had the resources to stick around then it could be different. Being able to take on more debt does not mean you can do this. Don't set yourself back 3-4 years because you feel you owe the startup anything. At this point, they are not keeping up their end of the deal. If this was your startup and you were the founder, its a different dynamic. Why are you taking the same risk as the founders when your upside is so much less?
If I recall correctly, DDG used to solely depend on Bing's Search API but now they use various sources including their own to compile the search result.
Startup founders are usually discussing consumer products which are by neccessity easy to comprehend. Research students usually delve into issues of high complexity for the task of progressing the state of the art. They don't often have to communicate the importance of their work to people like you.
Yeah, usually Ars Technica has pretty good taste when it comes to those things, but I share your sentiment on this one.
Because clearly money and girl-banging are the only reasons to choose a career.
Here's what happens when u reply to scam e-mails.
Well, i've received dozens of scam e-mails like everyone, though at one point i said 'fuck it, i'll reply and take it as far as possible'. And it has been fun... enjoy people! http://beingasmartass.blogspot.co.uk/
You do know it's 2013, correct? :)
Dragons' Den's Bruce Croxon to Kangaride startup: I’m Still Interested
If you're interested in this discussion (autonomy funds) I started it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5578195
How about Las Vegas? I've never been there but:

1) Cheap airfare, international destination

2) A Party Town, probably helps the gender balance in one aspect, people would like to visit you.

3) No Income Tax

4) Still close to the SF Bay Area

5) Never cold, barely rains (good or bad depending on your preferences)

6) Really cheap real estate. Buy a townhouse for under $100k!

7) Many tech conventions are hosted there

8) Driving from one corner to another takes only 30 minutes according to google maps.
Being rad-resistant does not prevent the ISS from having many other communication links which are digital and not analog.
You can install ubuntu on a chromebook, I believe.
Author here, that's it exactly.
Whytheluckystiff.net is now... Something?
Not sure if it's Federal or CA law but you have to be making over a certain amount, though, to be exempt. In my last company that way everyone in the engeering dept. making under 70K (so, all of QA and tech support)
> While his root access gave Gisse access to private data stored on a large number of customer websites, there's no evidence he used it, the Hostgator executive said.

I think the article is quick to jump to the conclusion that he was attempting to be malicious with his actions however this could be a case of Hanlon's razor.

His actions could easily be attributed to a less-than-aware sysadmin developing his own solution to get around often arduous security restrictions. Stupid, yes. Malicious, no.
Price rigidity means the costs of goods does not adapt immediately to fluctuations in money supply (e.g. employment & rent contracts take time to be renegotiated, price changes take time to ripple through the supply chain, etc.), so it's not equivalent.
Verbling (YC S11) announces Courses, 1.5M classes taken
The last picture in this article accurately describes what doing a PhD is all about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1588727

Pushing the envelope of human knowledge, one pixel at a time.
Preview over 200 file formats on your iOS device without installing an app
Smells like a PR stunt to be honest.
how many observations of a 43/100000 phenomena would you need to obtain enough cases to falsify such a theory?
Your supervisor is key. You have to like them, because they’ll be criticising your work for the next 3-4 years.

This sentence resonates with me particularly. I was encouraged to choose my PhD based on love of topic rather than supervisor. I had multiple topics I enjoyed, but ended up going with a worse supervisor and a topic I thought more interesting than a better supervisor and a slightly less enthralling topic.

After a year, I quit my program.

What I learnt: even though a topic might be slightly less interesting, the people you work with (and in particular, your supervisor) can make you love something more.

(NB: Obviously I wouldn't recommend choosing a topic you have no interest in and/or hate just because you get along with the supervisor!)
It is using MPTCP. We are just having right now an extremly high visitor-count. The server is only running on a tiny XEN-VM and thus it becomes overloaded.
> Forgive my sloppiness?

Nothing to forgive, it's just something that needed some qualifiers. Talking in absolutes is always risky. Good to see you back on HN!
you might mean "when Item is a table in a database" instead of "a row in a database". `o` would be the row.
They really wanted to use the gamer term "pwn" and thats the best they could come up with...
It probably isn't exactly wise to post what I assume is your secret TOTP code (the 2d barcode) on your website.
I think the hardest part would be getting the people funding it to agree to it. The plan, as you've stated it, gives them very little control of how their funds are used. I don't think it will be easy to convince the investors to trust the engineers not to just take the salary while producing nothing useful. If you can find a way around that problem, you might be on to something.
Marissa Mayer breaks her silence on Yahoo's telecommuting policy
> I may be rusty on my Keynesian Economics professor's lessons, but shouldn't you reduce government deficits in expansion times, so that you can safely let the stabilizers kick in if you enter a recession?

Exactly my point. There was no expansion in the '00 decade, so debt growth was ok.

> Of course it was unfortunate, because the country (both public and private sector) were incredibly leveraged. Which is completely different than saying that it was the cause.

But the cause is also not a high debt level. Portugal was caught in a fragile state when a much wider crisis exploded.

Your chart is not the right one to observe the economy conversion success. This one is: http://i.imgur.com/ltAX8fe.png
(it's the same data, viewed as YoY variation)
Omg this must be very recent! I checked it last night and there was nothing there!
Early in my career a more senior developer told me you can't do a good job unless you're willing to get fired for it. Coming from a nouveau middle class background, that was pretty shocking to me but over the years I have seen so many situations that have confirmed it to me.
Does cosmology hint at how to build artificial minds? [video]
The Only Positive Effect Of The Cuban Embargo? Weight Loss
Discussed earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570658
MPTCP creates multiple independent TCP subflows and distributes the data among these subflows. The receiver can then reorder the packets thanks to the additonal data-sequence number space.
I think the only thing "obscure" in this list is the "pointer-to-member" syntax. It's conceptually simple but the syntax is pretty bizarre, hard to remember even when you're searching for it, and probably a lot of C++ programmers working professionally will not recognize it.

I remember a few years ago I was writing some code where using pointer-to-struct-member made lots of sense to me. Doing a code review I was asked politely by a peer to rewrite without them. I disagreed but didn't mind doing so, if it made people on the team happier about readability.
you are a genius
Next experiment: what happens when you sneeze in space?
Sometimes Optimizations Cancel Each Other
It is more like int a = int b = int c = 0;
The vast majority of C19 science was created by Christians. Much of what they achieved had already been achieved by Muslim scientists a century earlier. Science does not preclude religion. Religion does not preclude science. Although there have been times and places where questioning the religious hegemony has been a bad idea, that's got nothing to do with religion per se.
Current layer 2 link aggregation is effective for lots of connections with different source/destination pairs because the switches have limited resources and require simple schemes. It works fine for public servers and transit aggregation, but it's very bad at local aggregation to speed up limited connections like trying to bond multiple 1gig ports between san/nas and a server for example.
We just improved our file viewer so that it can preview over 200 file formats on iOS devices; iPhone and iPad. I would love feedback from Hacker News community.
_why is offering you something
One of my coworkers spotted it. Noticed there wasn't anything new on HN, so had to post it. Maybe I was actually the second person to find out. Also, the price of "something" is $20. I'm beyond confused.
Yeah I recently bought an HP Officejet Pro 8600 which supports scanning to a network share without using a computer, very handy.
Some mod... I was quite surprised when I saw it.
and now she's signed up for HN
Yeah - happened on Tuesday and was cleared up the following morning.
It sounds like a lot of what bothers you about VC startups is that they've become a way for megacorps to outsource risky marketing experiments (aka "convex work") and buy the winners while discarding the losers. But through the usual avenues of corruption it's become a rigged game where the sociopaths inside the megacorps are working with their sociopath friends in the VCs and actually picking winners instead of only buying truly viable startups.

So they're closing the circle and turning it into a revolving door for an incestuous aristocracy where the amount of value you capture is a function of who you know and who owes you a favor instead of being a function of how much value you actually create.

How do you stop any market from getting taken over by psychopaths who want to turn it into an incest-fest? This is also a problem in every other industry ever, and also in government. Is there a such thing as a corruption-repellent, paychopath-kryptonite system, and if so, what is it?
There used to be a whole class of Linux vulns involving mmap()ing memory at virtual address 0x0, filling it with fake kernel data structures containing some data value val and some pointer ptr and triggering NULL dereference in kernel code which was known to parse this structure and copy val to address pointed by ptr.

They had to "fix" it by blocking userspace memory mappings at the 0th page.
Show HN: send to dropbox, an explorer extension
What's the stunt then?
Choices & consequences
Well now it's... something, that's for sure. I don't know if it's worth $20. But it seems to be ... something, that's for sure.
This is so awesome. It's great to see programming penetrating the main stream and being recognized as a useful skill on all levels. I hope that we start to see more of our youth study cs and programming languages at earlier stages of high school and elementary school.
Ionic Security gets $9.4M led by KPCB to protect company data in the cloud
Did these 2700 servers play a role in any DDoS attacks as well?

It would be quite a lucrative stance for the employee to sell access to these servers to one or more groups who could potentially make more use of them.
Sure, if you want to spend the money to add (more) redundant links. You want to front a few thousand dollars?

Unless you mean that digital links aren't more vulnerable to radiation, in which case I recommend you read up on large-scale analog circuitry and get back to me.

Wait for SpaceX or somebody else to bring the per-kg cost down and we'll have all the digital video anyone could ever want.
And the next week, and six months after that, again.
Yes, but only for very specific data. If you stored the results, you'd have a lookup table of a tonne of 'salts' that appended to the transaction data. The only real danger is hash collisions I guess - but MD5 is a broken encryption scheme anyway.
> In other words, expected economic growth will be priced in to Bitcoin.

Yeah, that's kind of the point. When economic growth is "priced in to" a currency that is tied to a fixed commodity, it results in value fluctuations of the currency.
I don't disagree. I think in general, there aren't enough professionals given the amount of crime that happens. This is a notable counter-example. The number of people working on this case professionally is/was staggering. Usually, though, it's a town detective that's got 20 cases open, and a few free eyeballs can definitely be of huge benefit.

Some professional processes appear not to work well under this environment, too. For one, professional investigators compile a list of everyone who could be a suspect, and then disqualify them methodically and quickly. The reddit discussions established many potential suspects, but had no real way to disqualify them. The unfortunate result is that news media picked this up and the disqualifications came from public statements -- definitely not the way such a thing should work, and having your name publicly attached to a crime is really terrible. I'm not happy this happened, and I place blame primarily on the people who didn't bother to look at what was happening and instead took a picture with a box around someone as an indication that they were a suspect. Instead, it was just a picture meant to draw attention to something that seems suspicious for discussion, for cross references with other images, and with potential information people have that could be forwarded to the FBI as a tip.

It also definitely showed that there's a very high noise to signal ratio in this, most likely due to the chaotic nature of an open forum like reddit. It's not ideal in this regard, but I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand because it has shown that it can be a valuable resource if used correctly.
I had never heard of The Silver Searcher. Thanks! A test search of a huge codebase (Firefox) took 38 seconds with ack, but only 17 with ag! After my page cache had been warmed up, ack then took 10 seconds and ag only took 3. That said, I am using ack 1.96, not ack 2.0.

$ brew uninstall ack
Why You Should Eavesdrop on Your Customers at Parties
Yeah, my reason for trimming the title on this submission basically precisely mirrors your reaction. I wanted to "whoop whoop" and share that with others, but really just grimaced at the original title.
When it comes to improving Ag's speed, there's not much more to write about. I've used every dirty trick I know: mmap()ed I/O, threads, Boyer-Moore-Horspool strstr(), PCRE-JIT, etc. Now when I profile, Ag spends the majority of its time reading files off disk. On most systems, this is true even if the files have been cached in memory by the OS. The limiting factor is memory bandwidth.

Anyways, I don't really have the time for long analysis posts these days. I'm busy working on something that captures value in addition to creating it. :)
He attempted to access the HostGator from outside computers: Hetzner Data Center in Nuremberg, Germany, and efnet.pe (Peru) are mentioned in the article. The Hetzner access was the day after he was dismissed.

Malicious, yes. Stupid, absolutely.