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It's difficult to respect anybody who publicly takes credit for the success of their team. People in leadership positions should always look to defer.

It's important to remember that you are only a leader if people choose to follow you.

Otherwise, you are just leveraging your position, and that's probably not a good long-term strategy, nor is it the right thing to do.

Credit means much more when it is given, not taken.
I am well aware of the naive sentiment that can be found on *any forum/list" (not just HN) regarding the "guberment." mpyne is on the mental list of usernames that triggers my "read this comment don't merely skim" reaction. If it was a comment by a username I did not recognize I probably would not have responded.
Well venture funding helps you take advantage of a time window really. That is, if we added substantial cash resources to this company could it capture way more market share and be in a much better position in 5 years (vs not taking cash now and growing organically) If yes, great. How big is the market? Needless to say there are a lot of screens out there and they're growing fast. Tech should only matter here in that is it being used well to out execute competitors as a service based business.
It's a tough transition, but I've seen it done in a few ways:

1) Internally apply for a Product Management job. Expect to have put in at least 3 years within the company and make sure you know the business domain better than most other engineers. Play politics successfully and hop on the first open PM position available. You may have to pick a product in pretty bad shape as a proving ground.

2) Build your own product either on the side or quit your day job to focus on it. Make sure it's something a bigger company like Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, etc would be interested in. Make a real go at building a business, and doing the hard PM work. Hire others to do the engineering work so you can focus on the PM skills. This may also take 5 years before you land your dream PM role. If you play your cards right, you may land in a PM role with a nice exit as well.

3) Go get an MBA from a top school that Google, Facebook, and Microsoft actively recruit from. Make sure your program has a focus area on Technical Product Management so you can get into the right recruiting circles. This may be a faster track, but expect to lose 2 years of income and rack up a lot of tuition debt to make it happen.
That doesn't seem like it would be nearly as awkward nor as difficult to prove as is implied here.

I would think secret details of spy programs would almost always harm national security (insofar as you believe spying can aide national security). The whole point of spying on communications depends on the targets not knowing they're being listened to.

(Note: I'm not saying the NSA program is good or justified)
I agree.

Benefits of versioned archives over VCS for deployments: easily checksum and cryptographically sign; easily integrate with existing distribution specific package databases; deploy without requiring a VCS (and all its dependencies, including maintained and accessible VCS repo-hosting deployment infrastructure), probable security and speed benefits of the resulting (ie. minimalist) approach (both at the level of the host and the network).

Personally I use a combination of versioned archives and named and versioned target environments, each of which can be tested both individually and in combination (including regression tests). This works well for me.
I agree. It's understandable that he's annoyed, and by all means he should pursue the matter and get due recompense, but still, his reaction seems a wee bit over the top. If he were to be polite and businesslike, and arrange a mutually agreeable deal, who knows, maybe he could find himself as the go-to guy for game companies that need a transit map....

I wouldn't be surprised if N.D.'s official policies are much stricter, and would normally call for any art to be freely-available/purchased/redrawn/etc, but in this case the artist found a map, had a tight deadline, and thought to himself "oh, all these maps look the same, who's gonna notice"...

[The answer obviously is: "Transit map nerds are gonna notice, that's who...especially the one who drew the map..." :]

I've read the Transit Maps blog for ages, and it's a great blog; over the top or not, the reaction's kinda in character... oO;
I don't oppose it per se, it's just somewhat awkward. It is annoying when the only contribution some user on the site has is to submit their blog entries to it. For folks who are contributing members that annoyance doesn't apply.

And to be perfectly clear this is just my own take on it, I also think it is awkward when someone at a meeting opens the conversation with my by pitching their company or project.

Thinking about it a bit more deeply as I write this I think that is the crux of the issue. Amongst people I know, having them suggest something they have done, or are working on, sort of out of the blue feels like "catching up" whereas for people I don't know that feels more awkward. I don't have a lot of context to evaluate what they are pitching and for me, perhaps for others, it's uncomfortable.
That's pretty much true of any body in the Apple ecosystem though should they take a direct interest.
I did not know that. So it isn't completely dire, but you'll lose a year.
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This is a total aside, but I've always wondered: is the ringing a repeating waveform? If you could discover its structure through trial and error (e.g, cycling through pure tones and looking for beat frequencies), could you create an anti-ringing real waveform that nullifies the tinnitus? In other words make a hearing aide + your ear physiology act like a noise cancelling headphone, at least as far as your auditory nerves are concerned.
So it's just like App companies then.
Please ignore what I said, I was posting something I grabbed of somewhere without verifying first. In-Q-Tel never made any public investment in Facebook. The only connections that exist are the following:

Facebook received $12.7 million in venture capital from Accel, whose manager, James Breyer, now sits on the In-Q-Tel board. He was formerly the chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, whose board included Gilman Louie, then the CEO of In-Q-Tel.

One of the main managers of the facebook investors "Greylock partners", Howard Cox, sits also in the management board of In-Q-Tel. The offices of Greylock and In-Q-Tel are direclty next to each other at Sandhill Road in Menlo Park.
Got it, well then it was probably unintentional. Furthermore, the actual damages in this are, I imagine, nil as long as they replace the texture in a patch.
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Barack Obama on the NSA and privacy
"This is the pot calling the kettle black."

No, it's not. I'm actually quite sympathetic to BitCoin. Skeptical, but sympathetic. I am constitutionally incapable of being "smug" about government power. It is supremely dangerous to think this is the limits of what the government can do. Assuming that I'm "one of them" and using that to discard my warning is also dangerous.

Exactly what you mean by some "complication" in relation to what I said is beyond me. I sure hope you don't think "complication" plays to anyone but the government's advantage.

This is the warning shot. They are coming. Prepare.
There are such things as "one developer shops".

There are no "one PM shops".

Case closed.
I think you have your logic backwards. Do you think the engineering team will implement the feature first for the PM that hogs the spotlight and takes the credit, or for the PM who gives credit to the team that implements her ideas? You need to let the love flow down to all of the team.
FWIW's I think your story and brand is much more powerful if it's the same price no matter where and when. Maybe it's tough to make it comparable between Manhattan and small town USA (where the expectation around the labor cost is dramatically different) but if you could somehow pull it off I think it would be good.
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I agree with everything here. Given a free hand, I'd likely go significantly further. I was simply proposing the simplest, smallest change that I think everyone serious would agree an improvement over what has been implemented. I don't think it's anywhere near enough.
Is there any way to tell if a particular email is spam, without knowing the content or the sender of said email?
I think the point is that you can't stop the amoral nutjobs (awesome term BTW!) by killing them (and their family and friends) either, because that just embitters another generation.
Your examples actually illustrate this perfectly - Timothy McVeigh justified his murdering in revenge for the murdering done at Waco; and both the RAF and Brigate Rosse were driven partly by the injustice of former Nazis (those nutjobs really took their amorality seriously!) returning to power.
I accept that there are psychopaths who murder for no reason, but luckily for our species they are very rare. All the killing discussed above was triggered by severe injustice including murder - revenge. Our civilised societies are practically defined by their rejection of revenge as a reason for anything, replacing it with either rehabilitation or prevention. "An eye for an eye" is the mark of a primitive society (or person) that doesn't understand positive feedback loops.
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I wonder if there's any reasonable way to tell how much interpersonal difference is psychological vs. physical. I feel like it has a large impact on my sense of the world, when you combine a high myopia, a quite large number of floaters always present, and a rather striking version of the "blue field entoptic phenomenon". But is that a feature of my eyes, brain, or both?
Mining pools cannot arbitrarily modify bitcoin's policies (that is, they cannot execute a 50% attack) because each pool is comprised of tens of thousands of individual miners running third-party, open-source mining software. Miners connect to the pool just by passing a username and password on the CLI/config file. You can be connected to multiple pools at once, executing the same binary to produce results for each pool.

Bitcoiners are savvy enough to get raised eyebrows if a major pool started encouraging and/or requiring users to use a proprietary, closed mining software that may attempt to modify the bitcoin network's behavior to do something unsavory.
Very cool stuff. You may want to add a license so others can make use of this appropriately :D
If you're having non-technical product managers owning technical products you're asking for trouble. Since when did any non-technical product person become the domain master go-to-guy for any technical product? I have seen product managers provide great leadership on technical products but they have always been supremely capable and the engineers respected them for it.

Some product person with an inflated ego spinning buzzwords is not going to be respected by engineering and will not succeed in influencing them in any way.

What you may think: I have been around engineers a long time and know the difference between NoSQL and MySQL. And there is no doubt that I would have been a great engineer if I had lerned to program, found it rewarding, and led a ton of open source projects.

Anyone who seriously thinks this way is most likely hated by engineers and probably gets made fun of a lot behind his back.
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-- still, the answer is for "when they hacked computer systems in the USA".

As for if they broke Chinese law "when they hacked computer systems IN CHINA", that's another question.
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Another vote for NameCheap. Also, search for the monthly coupons.
http://www.feynmanlectures.info/docroot/I_35.html

There is a video of Feynman presenting this lecture somewhere, sorry I couldn't find it.
> they can make it exceedingly difficult to spend them in practice

Not really. You can use services that just broadcast transactions. Blockchain.info has a service to do this, I'm sure there are a few other that exists.
Great point - I was just reaching for it when I finished the article.

One general note... Look how many recent news articles you can find when you search for the board firing founders on Google. https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&q=board+firing+founde...

It's not scientific, but it highlights that friendly relationships can go awry.
IANAL, but I really don't think that EO (which is not a law) means that you can unilaterally declassify something which you think conceals a violation of law. Also, I'm not aware of anything Snowden disclosed that shows the NSA broke any laws. The FISA court signed off on this stuff, no?
The People's Republic of California is at it again.
I have two hands to clap with. Does that mean I can fire the PM? :)
Here is what is currently used in Los Angeles metro.

All metro buses (and recently trains) use GPS to record their location. And there is a service nextbus.com that allows you to get the nearly exact prediction on when your bus is coming based on your GPS location. It shows all the closes buses and and the timing in each direction.

Maybe if you want to build something you can start from there.
Before reading Fromm, I never thought about the difference between having and being; but once seen it can hardly be unseen. Like when he talks about idolatry or God, with a point and seriousness and as atheist, or the distinction between necrophilia and love of life -- before Fromm necrophilia was something out of gross jokes to, not anything I could seriously ponder, but now I'm thinking we're just so deep into all that, so deep down the rabbit hole, that the truth hurts too much, but he never exaggerated even one bit.

for example ( from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psVNR51ctdc&t=33m28s ) :

[..] if one is in touch with one's own unconscious reality, I think one would have to admit that in all of us there is a piece of Eichmann, and if you ask why, on what basis do I say this, then I would ask you wether you have lost your appetite when you read that in India people were starving, or wether you have gone on eating. As soon as you have not lost your appetite, when you knew other people were starving, then your heart has hardened, and in principle, you have done the same which Eichmann did.

Nobody wants to hear that. I don't want to hear it either. If I read it in a book which otherwise is telling me many things that are obviously wise and come from a good motivation, I can ponder it. If someone just says that about me, to my face, I defend myself before I fully heard what was said. But it's true.

He goes on:

I don't think, that if we are really in touch with the inner reality of ourselves, that there is any crime, or perhaps any virtue, which we cannot discover in ourselves. We shut ourselves [off] from the awareness of our inner reality, we project the evil to our opponents and enemies, and believe that the good is in ourselves; indidivually, nationally, and group-wise in general.

But if you can really see that every one of us, carries all of humanity, the good and the evil, within himself, then indeed is very hard to be a fanatic, then indeed it's very hard to be a judge, then indeed would follow, a deep understanding, if not love, of your fellow man. Which is part of being truly a person.

Bam. Consider how far this is from the maturity of our so called leaders and us, how far away from even our highest standards. The fact that this stuff comes across as cheesy rhetoric so easily, is just testament to how lost we are.

Sorry for rambling, but I can't deny it, I love that dude, and I honestly think everybody should at least try to read him because they might, too.
Thanks for the thoughts. I wish we had started Aha! (www.aha.io) earlier and were writing on PM topics like this when it would have been useful to you.
Agreed, it would violate the fourth amendment. At the time it was written, though, there was no non-invasive way to search someone's effects. The purpose at the time was to prevent searches as a means of harassment, and they did not guess that there would someday be a mechanism by which you could search without imposing. In any case, there is also a component of the probability of misuse (at least, in the way I judge these sorts of things).

Your example of the first amendment is less compelling. The mere requirement to convey your identity is an imposition.
>Surely never being allowed home for the rest of his life, to a country so great as the USA must be a terrible punishment for an American, no?

Yes, imagine have to flee Nebraska or South Carolina for a place like Amsterdam or Paris or Singapore, etc...
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This is good advice but the reality of it is goddamn depressing. "Proving ground"... "at least 3 years"... "MBA from a top school". We fucking lost our industry. Because we failed, we have to deal with executives.

Product management shouldn't be a special job for high-horse do-nothings with MBAs and connections. It should be a concern for all engineers; something everyone should care about and be able to influence.
There are plenty of weird laws in the US, mainly at state level, but overall the US is free and democratic in ways most other countries (with any real central government) are not. Most of your examples (cheese, kissing girls) are bogus. The ban on cured Italian meats is typical non-tariff agricultural trade BS and Europe is more guilty of that than the US (Australia and New Zealand can point fingers though, and also have liberal drug policies, etc.)

But the US wins big on freedom of speech. Almost no other country protects free speech as well as the US does (flawed as it is) and that's not a stupid measure.
It seems like the purpose of Vagrant is to easily and consistently create VM environment: either multiple VMs for testing, or sharing the same VM setup with others. (based on what I read, no experience here)

Is there a particular use-case for Vagrant where
i) I already setup my VM environment
ii) Not much sharing or duplication of the VM environment is necessary
iii) I actually code within the VM, not just as production/testing environment
Agreed. Thanks for the comments. We actually wrote recently about a "goal first" approach where you start with the strategy and why you are doing something and then clearly articulate the features in a collaborative way. Consider checking it out here - http://blog.aha.io/index.php/goal-first-a-product-roadmappin...
It was more of an ironical statement, however the legality you brought up is definitely interesting. At least in California it's not legal to record conversations without the entire party's consent (except in rare circumstances). A number of other states have the same laws but I'm not sure if it's completely nation wide.

Then of course there is the massive battery drain
This could work.
I met a college senior few weeks ago and he talked to me about how he recently started a small venture with a similar tech background but a different business model, that is, buying broken phones for cheap, repairing them and selling refurbished at much better price.
His volumes made no sense to me then. Now I see the big picture.
basho and hyperlevel should be two easy targets for this gem, this week I'll plan to adapt the code (if necessary)
It is all pretty unified at this point, yes. I guess I hadn't fully realized that, but that doesn't surprise me at all.
There's no shame in admitting that the course is too hard or demanding for you current skill level--I ended up dropping out because I didn't have the time to do the work justice.

However, the somewhat whiny tone of the article seems like the author is trying to justify their own shortcomings by complaining about the code sourcing terms and the lack of regex. It seems kind of childish.

Here, maybe this will help in the future--a simple regex parser in like 30 lines of vanilla C:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/bea...
Maybe in certain sectors, but unless you have something to back that up

Experience.

Larger companies tend not to be that way, though. I saw a ton of that stuff in VC-istan, but none at Google or in the banks.
Yes, but take a step “down” to the elite but not aristocratic schools (berkeley, NYU, georgia tech, etc.), and you'll find the quality of the students go up.
I am the author and I built my career as a "non tech background" PM before I became a CEO. My super secret to success (not really that secret). Be great at explaining the "whys" and "whats" and work closely with engineering on the "hows." Understand what it will take to build something before agreeing on the roadmap. Building great product requires awesome PM and engineering.
Likewise. I think we're all actually in agreement on this.
Theres always time to learn. You can always try experimenting via VMs on your main computer or simply reading. I can't imagine that RasBMC would be too hard to set up considering its more or less GUI based.
It was 'addressbook.html ' from your extended data download, not the normal data download.
Of course there's a reason for the traffic jam, but people make it far far worse by tailgating.

I saw some fantastic traffic jams in China. There'd be some incident on a highway (not the toll highways, but the badly supervised free ones between nearby cities). People would drive on the wrong side of the road to get around it; on both sides. Eventually, there'd be thousands of cars backed up, on both sides of the road, unable to move more than a few feet. It was good news for the nearby shopkeepers, who'd have people leaving their cars to get something for dinner (since they couldn't move anywhere) - this did cause some issues when the traffic started moving again though.

But yes, originally a truck had broken down under an overpass or something, so arguably that was why it all started.
Exactly, all of the "what you might think" points were exaggerated but not intended to be ridiculous. Great PM works and respects the value of what engineers can contribute during the plan AND build efforts.
There's sex shops all around. That's just bullshit FUD.

Check out Yelp or Google, for example.
You're mostly right except for one thing:

The extended data download did not include shadow profile data from just your friends. It included shadow profile data from anyone that matched any of your contacts. If zuck@facebook.com was one of your contacts, you would have retrieved all of his data.

This could have been used as a very targeted malicious data mining tool. It probably was.
How did that work for you? Were the engineers assessing the overall market and competitive landscape and training the rest of the organization how to position and sell the product? Please tell us more about the project and how it went.
But still not hacker news. This type of news was part of the doom of Slashdot. Sure, political news are fine, but a lot of us do not come to Hacker News for political news... we are aware of Reddit, Slashdot and news.google.com
If you are an engineer and don't trust the PM, you probably already have effectively "fired" him/her or at a minimum made life miserable? True?
Where I am (NSW, Australia), the current "best legal advice" about recording your interactions with police is that it's legal to record conversations (even secretly), but it's not legal to play those recordings to anyone else. So you can't bring up your recording of a conversation with a police officer as evidence in court. What you _can_ do though, is if an officer lies about the contents or existence of a conversation, you can tell the court you've got a recording that proves a police officer has told the court something that's not true - and the court can then (legally) ask to hear your recording.

(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer - nor do I play one on youtube. If this matters to you, seek competent legal advice before acting on this information…)
Do you really need to study a full English major to learn to write properly? Seems like one or two classes would do.