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The author appears to intend that latter meaning, where SV companies have more egalitarian ownership structures on their own, but that now that we've seen the results, the government should encourage those structures more broadly in the economy.

Actually, the government plays a small part already in how high-tech companies share equity with employees, through preferential tax treatment for Incentive Stock Options. You could imagine many such nudges that could be employed to expand capital ownership short of distributing equity to employees "by force".

Remember in general that the limited-liability corporation as an institutional type is itself a creation of government - the notion of a business as a separate entity with distributed owners such that the business can go bankrupt without allowing creditors to go after the non-business assets of the stockholders is an artificial and relatively modern invention with a large and complicated legal structure buttressing it. C Corporations, LLCs, LLPs, PCs and the like are all creations of government and the way they operate in practice is non-trivially shaped by the ways those laws are structured. Is it so outlandish to imagine an alternative form with a deliberately egalitarian bias (an "E Corp"?). It only takes one state experimenting to make it a reality!
Science fiction writer and/or working in biotech.

My degree was in biochemistry... that's what I thought I'd be doing, but there was no demand for more entry-level biotech workers when I graduated and lots of demand for programmers. That being said, I think I enjoy programming more than biotech.
I guess this is the problem that photographers (and Hollywood) has, thinking to much about what they "could" have had.

Just charge for your time and maybe a reasonable amount for digital copies and be done with it.
I'm wondering if there's a twilio based replacement for google voice. It's got most of the building blocks.
"what most attracts me (and other “math men”) to R&D in a startup is the free flow of creativity across divisions and a culture of innovation"

Creativity begets creativity

Don't forget that customer value trumps hi-tech cool factor when it comes to actually having your new idea see the light of day
Would you mind saying how they won your trust? Have you tried the product?
It depends on how often you deliver value and what costs you have.

If you have recurring costs that increase in size with your user base, then charge a proportionate recurring fee.

If it's a game that someone buys, plays for a week and moves on to the next, a subscription won't work, because there's no continuous value. So you charge up front, deliver all your value up front, and get busy working on your second game.

If you're thinking big applications (e.g. Photoshop) then your question becomes about things like distribution, retention, sales channels, competitors etc.

Bluntly You can take $2k every 2-3 years assuming people upgrade to your latest release, or you can take $50 per month every month assuming people stay. Both work out similar.

The advantage of the $2k model is that you get big money up front which you can re-invest in more customer acquisition (or your next release). The drawback is that $2k isn't a "no-brainer" sale, it needs approval, you need a good brand, and you're limiting your addressable market a good bit.

The advantage of the $49 per month is that it's a zero risk try-out, people will convert far far easier. The disadvantage is retention.

Product to product I'd give different advice, but in general, recurring is easier to plan a business on.
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I think verbal abuse is a subjective x on the number line of criticism and said feedback. Some people can handle getting called shit, and some people think it's the end of the world. To answer your question, no I don't think when putting something out in the world you're consenting to verbal abuse. I think you're consenting to unmitigated feedback (if it's an online forum, perhaps), and sometimes that feedback will come in the form of verbal abuse - whether that's someone's right or not to give said feedback, I can't say.
Well, your reply echos a lot of Occupy sentiment, but I'll side step that, and just say:

> I think some -- many -- of the people making simplistic arguments that "the workforce will adjust" -- and thereupon simply washing their hands of the matter

1) Saying we shouldn't actively avoid technology improvements (which was my point, because it really does pay off in the long run), doesn't mean we can't help those adversely affected in the short run--it just means we should help them directly, vs. trying to indirectly "help" them, and hurt the majority of us, by ignoring technological progress (which is what politicians/commentators, like the comment I was replying to, frequently propose).

2) I believe we (society/tax payers) already do this, what with unemployment/etc. I'm not going to assert it's all roses and puppies, but it's much more than displaced workers would have traditionally got.
Most pet food is made by a few manufacturers. They have a lot of labs testing and refining different recipes.

There are foods for fat pets; foods to clean teeth; food for kidney health.

Pet foods have considerable number of patents. Talk to British people about dog excrement, and there are people of a certain age who remember dog poo being white and furry. People want a food that produces a nice firm stool, that's easy to clean up. Anything too loose and they think the pet is ill (even if it isn't).

There's a lot of money in pet food.

Notice, also, that pet food is often a mix of biscuits and meat, or just meat, or just biscuits. These are solid foods. Water is extra. No-one so far has taken the nutrients a pet needs and blended these into a glop.
I understand - but why are you mad? He never misrepresented the costs, you misinterpreted them.
Before you attack me, maybe you should try owning a Windows Phone.

I am speaking from experience. You are just speaking from things you found on the internet.
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PBS and Science Magazine allegedly got some facts wrong. Regardless, the WHO is talking about three billion indoor fires in primitive homes.

In most of these cases, there is no distinction between a "cooking stove" and "heating stove" and whether these families require heating year round or not, cooking is not a seasonal activity.

Splitting hairs on this point is dumb, though. The point of citing it at all is to illustrate how big they are thinking. They want to solve the entire world's food problem. Isn't that scale of vision why we're all here?
> The Kickstarter itself says: "You're supporting an entirely new type of technology

> No, you are not. Exploiting the pressure difference like this for inflation is not new by a long shot.

Did you watch the REI video? It's certainly not giving the same impression. The REI video is cumbersome and tedious. You're basically netting air, then sealing it into a large bag, then smushing the bag to push the air into the mattress. By contrast, the new process feels like a single elegant action.

Watching the two videos, the process feels utterly different: sealing and squashing a pillow vs inflating with a breath into a funnel.
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Sadly, it's not about what you intended. It's about how things are perceived on the receiving end. That's the only thing that matters.
My favorite green smoothie (lacks protein, I'll have to try the pea protein):

2 large handfuls of fresh spinach or kale, 1 apple or 6 strawberries, 1 banana, 1 tbsp ground flaxseed, 1 large handful of ice, 1-2 cups of water, 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk

I prefer to drink it with a straw.
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If the developed world did not screw over the developing world in international trade agreements and prices...
Well, here are three outlets for $22.

http://www.amazon.com/Etekcity%C2%AE-Wireless-Controlled-Ele...

And here is a project for them:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-GPIO-home-autom...
It seems in NYC at least, the landlord can't refuse to let someone sublet so long as they are properly notified and the sublet is reasonable. The way most leases are written though, it makes it sound as if the landlord has the final say vs it defaulting to permitted (with notification) unless the landlord makes a good case why it should be denied.
amazing. that example explains how it works better than 200 pages of documentation :-)

thx!
You are EVERYthing that is wrong with startups. I would advise you to quit criticising the audacity of a team that is trying to change the world for the better. How many startups can legitimately say that?!
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This is a skill that should be taught to everyone. I'm in neuroscience, and our meetings can be super awkward at times. Thank god for booze :)
It's a shame that people don't speak about this as much though. We have a huge conference every year (~36k people) and yet many of them have no idea how to deal with a conference.
Just an FYI, flying in to give a talk/poster/presentation and then flying out does not = a good conference. Gotta meet people, be persistent, organize your plan of attack, and meet people. Then meet some more people. If you have a hard time not being social awkward, drink. Then meet people:)
Great read. Obviously there's a lot more to pricing -- which is as much science as it is art -- than can be covered in an article. For those interested, I would suggest an approachable, but comprehensive text on pricing theory and analytics. "The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing" by Nagle, Hogan and Zale is a great resource. (And speaking of pricing: buy it used, if possible; like most textbooks, it's fairly expensive).

One word of caution: tiered and freemium models are, once again, all the rage in software. And that's great. It's good to see people actually trying to make a profit, and many of them succeeding. But it's very easy to go overboard on tiering. Too much tiering and too much customization in your pricing model will create two big problems: 1) customer confusion and resentment, 2) hidden operational and opportunity costs in managing the tiers and customization. Segmented pricing is great if you can do it, but it needs to be simple, manageable, and transparent.
Due to the massive amounts of spamming going on right now I think there should be some sort of chat room system on there which allows you to create a room and send the link.

Or you could even follow a similar idea to Omegle by pairing two people together but make it so it pairs two people who speak in different languages?
As mentioned on the hacks post, ever since Firefox 23 the web console is actually working on the same context as the debugger, when execution is paused on a breakpoint or debugger statement. You can use all the familiar tools in there to examine the current state of the page.
Just because it says that doesn't make it true.

It's not. He's wrong.
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Absolutely - if you find yourself having to tier lots & lots , it's a good argument for utility pricing instead.

Re: Pricing, thanks will check it out.
> In the current model I still need to confirm each new email address by clicking on a link

That problem would go away if GishPuppy supported the Persona natively -- do you have contact info for someone at GishPuppy? I'd be happy to work with them to make that happen.

> I don't want to be choosing between 900+ Gishpuppy addresses when signing into a site again.

Persona locally remembers your last-used address, so this shouldn't be a problem, though we could probably improve the UX. We're currently trying to figure out how to sync this data in a way that's opaque to Mozilla.

> The ideal workflow for me would be to [...] have [Persona] auto-generate [...] an email address for that specific domain

I agree, but we're totally in the minority. Since you've already talked about chaining together browser extensions, you could easily do the same thing with Persona. It'd only take a small Greasemonkey script on the login.persona.org origin to make that work.

Thanks for the feedback!
You're not forced to do anything. It's still your choice in the end whether you want to purchase a console or not. You have to weigh the pros and cons of each offering, and then decide if the positives outweigh the negatives.

And a console used to exist to play games. Clearly, the market is moving away from this. Just because that's what it used to do doesn't mean that what it's moving towards doing. Technology is ever-changing and hanging on to outdated beliefs will only result in disappointment.
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Denial? That kind of insults are not welcome on HN.

Anyway, take a look at this.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-21/sony-jumps-on-repor...
There are plenty of paid replacements for Google Voice, so a Twilio one would fit right in.

However, I suspect it's the free aspect that everyone's bemoaning. :-)
I think Xbox compatibility was achieved using an emulator; Wikipedia seems to suggest this is the case [1].

It seems like this would be an ideal opportunity for the QuickTransit [2] stuff Apple used in Rosetta to see some more use, assuming IBM would be willing to license it (and MS sees it as a worthwhile endeavour).

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games_compatible_w...
[2] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit
Yes, exactly. While there are a plenty of hucksters and faux-glamorous hangers-on, there is also an enormous amount of real work being done, both at quiet little startups too busy making something great to bother with publicity, and at large companies, where the engineering talent is sometimes so great that people don’t even notice that it’s there.
If you want to see why this is a terrible idea if you care about your health, with plenty of cites to peer-reviewed science, read "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan.
Why lock himself in to a 4 year deal, then?
Do you have analytics? How is the response?
Ahh, you're right, I'd forgotten about the Xoom. "Google Experience" is the old name, "Nexus Experience" is the new name they're using with the S4.
Was just about to write the same thing.
Xbox has no backwards compatibilty
It's good to see a group actively trying to move PGP into the mainstream. I think that PGP is valuable, and that this work is worthwhile if only because it makes it easier to use PGP on a day-to-day basis.
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If you're actually trying to encrypt email, you probably don't want your mail app building a search index in plain text.
interesting that you mention this topic (quite surprising actually...).
Not long ago, Boris (founder of The Next Web) posted an article explaining why it makes sense to spend so much for conferences http://thenextweb.com/voice/2013/03/19/want-a-free-ticket-fo...

I disagree and make my case http://giacomoballi.com/the-value-of-conferences/
They've been around forever, and I dismissed them back in the internet dark ages because they only had crappy windows software and their obnoxious intrusive ads seemed to be all about "security" cameras pointing at scantily clad women.

/me realizes that I've just dated myself here.
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Why was this flagged? 123pts at 2 hours should not place 39th?
> You're not forced to do anything. It's still your choice in the end whether you want to purchase a console or not.

In my family's neighborhood, if you are a certain age and want to play with the other boys for many hours out of the day, you must have an Xbox Live, Minecraft, and Modern Warfare 3. In an odd way it does, in fact, involve them putting guns to each others' heads.

The OP said "I want a GAMING console."

> a console used to exist to play games. Clearly, the market is moving away from this.

And the OP gets to express his disappointment in the direction of the market. It doesn't make him wrong.
They use the dealership feeds, so they have every transaction of the car, and compare that to other prices of comparable cars in your area, and show you all that data.
> "Liberaltarians," I think, believe that we're better off letting the government provide the social insurance services to everyone, so that citizens' access to them is no longer dependent on employment, which will increase liquidity in the labor market and take some of the risk out of entrepreneurship.

Also, employer-funded health insurance is a drag on US companies that must compete with foreign companies that can rely on government health insurance/services.
Awesome read. Everyone planning to run a SASSy start-up should read this. I would add that when I ran one of my first start-ups, we were sort of scared about whether or not we're charging too much. After our first influx of clients, that fear quickly diluted. (As it turns out, we could have charged a lot more and people were still willing to pay.)

Generally speaking, you ought to charge more than what you think you should. For example, you may think that $25 dollars a month may be too much, but, in reality, you should probably be charging $40 or $50 a month. This isn't a silver-bullet, but, as developers and given the insane ROI (barring development which you most likely did yourself) you get out of running a tech start-up, we heavily tend to undervalue our products.
I understand that, but the claim is "lactose free," not "lactose intolerant people can drink this."

For example, vegans would care about this.
It has been very helpful to me to consider SQL being an approximation of the prolog model. It made the understanding and creation of schemas and queries much easier.
"Randian libertarianism". Bullshit. Rand was NOT a libertarian.

http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ar_libertari...
Thank you, you are too kind good sir!
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I think it's likely that relativity and quantum mechanics will be reconciled by an information-centric theory--which could easily come out of computer science.

We call some patterns of energy "information" (like an algorithm) and other patterns of energy "matter" (like a proton). It seems to me that the recent mathematical study of information could be extended to cover matter as well.

Information theory is also a much younger branch of study than physics, which would seem to indicate a longer runway for fundamental discoveries and applications.
Zoho provides good email, calendar, and many of additional apps for business such as CRM, invoices, etc.

My teammates chose Zoho for a company-wide 500-person setup with email, calendar, wiki, project, etc. and are very pleased with it.
No. The reason is "Sony Weighs Spinoff Of Entertainment Business". Headline came right before the spike.

- guy who works on Market-Moving News at Bloomberg
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To each his own I suppose, but to me the old Blades interface was atrocious. I like the current UI, though the organization could be a little smarter (e.g. frequently used apps should be more accessible)
The apple iOS push service would like to disagree.
OP (as in the site) here.

It's not my certificate, it's your browser, which I assume is Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP? You're using a browser that does not support TLS, a cutting edge new technology that's over 10 years old. Get Firefox or Chromium.
Corporations can still distribute revenue and equity as they please. It's a legal structure for taxation and liability.

The state forcing corporations to distribute their earnings or equity a certain way is a massively more intrusive structure.

If that was done, it would likely be single handily the greatest manipulation of markets and private assets ever done by a government in modern history.

If an egalitarian equity structure legitimately benefits the companies, they will adopt that structure. If they don't then their competitors would do it as a competitive advantage. Unless it really doesn't benefit the companies and therefore requires the state to involuntary make them do it?
Have you even read up on the background of this? He makes a pretty solid argument for what's in Soylent in one of his earliest blog posts: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424

Obviously the guy has a background in chemistry or biology. As we all know, you don't have to go to school in a subject to become an "expert" in it.
The main point was more about how somebody who doesn't watch TV will always let you know that they don't. Not really the reasons why. I think in that case, the satire is still relevant. Plenty of people on reddit/HN/the Internet almost bragging about how they don't use a traditional TV setup.

Basically like the old joke "How can you tell if someone is an atheist? Don't worry, he'll tell you."
I guess I should be thankful 98% of my programming life is in higher-level languages than C, but...am I the only one whose terrified of the magic numbers? In hex? Can anyone provide context about what's so special about 0xfb20 and 0xfb4f?