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Equal Cofounder Sought
Looking for a 50/50 split technical cofounder.

Now that you've stopped laughing, hear me out:

I know where and how to get capital, deep connections in Silicon Valley, have advisors from top internet companies, biz dev/marketing/sales skills, and the drive to make sure we never have to work for fools in corporate america again.

There are hundreds of people on my list waiting for us to ship. I've done the startup thing before and have the resume to show that I'm a doer and laser focused on revenue.

I can also provide multiple senior and junior technical references to show that engineers love to work with me, and that I'm most decidedly not an asshole.

I could get funding tomorrow and go outsource it, but I know it will suck, and the cofounder I want to have knows they need to be there from the very beginning, because they love to build and want a product customers will pay money for. I also do not buy into this 100 hour work week crap, either. We should be able to do this most weeks in 50 hours. I want you and I to have lives outside of work that give us perspective and meaning and help us build a company that doesn't demean or dehumanize its team. This won't be the next Facebook, but it will be enough to make sure our families and those of the people we're lucky to hire will have everything they need.

So if you're tired of being an oompa-loompa at that corporate job, or think it's time to branch off on your own,and build a company focused on revenue that solves a real problem, drop me a line: B2Bfounder on ye olde Gmail.

San Francisco Bay Area preferred, but not required. We have these things called the internet and airplanes now.
I imagine its at least a couple of months off- probably longer. Signing up for an account with us is probably the best thing for now. We send out updates from time to time.
Perhaps he established both types.
Oddly enough unchecking the social and promotions categories doesn't work with the gmail app (the change is not retained). Guess I'll file a bug...

Thanks.
> The unstated assumption is that these documents would be particularly interesting to foreign governments. That's probably wrong.

They don't need to be. If they'll hurt the US government then they're of benefit to anyone who opposes that government.

Come to think of it, they'd probably be of political benefit to anyone who opposed the NSA, even within the US.
If you are honest and don't want to enter politics, you cannot complain when less honest folks do so.
I think so, but of course we won't know until we build it.
What is a bad egg? How do you identify and purge the bad eggs while laying off the kill switch?
A little ranty. And you are kind of all over the place. Yes, there are some people that actually are lazy and pride themselves on gaming the system and they should be cut loose. As I read, I was actually thinking of an up vote but then you veered off about criminals and such. I'll leave it alone then.
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Ow, that's a bad mistake. Yeah, the Hydrogen fuel will both be used to cool the incoming air and burned for thrust.

Looking back at that comment - how did I make that many typos?!?
Perhaps the assumption is that the people to whom Snowden distributed the information wouldn't release the information (at least immediately) if Snowden were killed by an enemy of the USA. Of course, that's assuming a lot, including the fact that it would even be clear who killed him and why.
Some people use personally identifiable info in their passwords. Even though they shuffled passwords around so they don't match the username, if the user's name or address is in the password... yikes
You didn't just say that it was not relevant (wrong as that might be). You denied intent, denied that it was purposeful.
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I always thought the purpose was to kill off expert's sex change but I appreciate your post and the quotes. I don't really think how its ended up is right or wrong just not what I was hoping it would become.

It's a bit of a shame because the only thing going for expert's sex-change was the communal aspect of helping people (although obviously this process was used to extort $) but SO has lost that a bit.
The issue is that there are now three parties. On mailing lists and IRC channels its typically just two. One seeking help and one-to-many helping. But on SO there is a third one that is seeking to identify whether or not the two parties should be allowed to be exchanging information in the first place.

But that's Jeff's dream and he's achieved it. Maybe its just not for me. That's fine, I'm a bit of a weird one to be fair and don't really expect to be catered for. The only thing that bitterly disappoints me is that save the idealogy through moderation it works almost exactly how I'd want "my perfect Q&A site" to work (I think the format is actually better than a forum). The technology is there but they just chose correctness as their #1 priority.
I think you are missing the fact that's media and money telling most of the people what they should want. It's sad to say but too many don't people think for themselves... that's why public debates are necessary to help people build an opinion. I'm just glad that Snowden stepped forward and exposed this system of ruthless disinformation. I'm optimistic that now is the time where we have a chance to really make a noise about these problems that we see right now and get people to listen to more sides of the story and drive change.
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Maybe I'd know the answer faster if I just tried, but, does this let people pair from, lets say, SublimeText to Vim? From the screenshots it seems to be one-way(sharing from a native editor to Floobits web editor).
Depends on what the meaning of the word hacking is.
My brother, a great guy, is starting his degree in civil engineering and is seriously considering one day working for the government to help develop systems that deliver water to people whom would otherwise not have enough water to survive. Should Anonymous hack his email account and dump his passwords on the internet?
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Yes it does, although we're not happy with our current Vim support. We will probably end up forking Vim.
How were you implementing the Canny edge detector? As a GLSL shader or on the CPU?

I implemented a (simple, not quite Canny) edge detector in GLSL and it runs fast enough not to be distracting (https://github.com/matt-williams/Optometrist).

I've tried using OpenCV (which isn't GPU-accelerated on Glass because I think OpenCV is only accelerated on Tegra) - this _was_ too slow.
Yeah, your characterization of it as an acceleration is more accurate. Some of the folks around during 9/11, Rumsfeld and Cheney, were long-time cold warriors and projects like Main Core precede 9/11.
Love this product and the story!

Another company created out of Startup Weekend, they went on to Launchpad LA and most recently raised $1.1m in March: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/18/web-app-interface-builder-d...
Just curious here -- how would a dead man's switch be created?

I'm thinking something like a python script which is scanning for particular words and phrases on google news, like "Snowden killed", or "Snowden captured"? That seems like something I could build easily -- would a kill switch indeed be something as simple as that?
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248 dB: Hiroshima bomb, blast center.

320 dB: Tambora Volcano. Ejected 36 cubic miles of dirt.

http://www.makeitlouder.com/Decibel%20Level%20Chart.txt
And how would these people be able to ascertain that it was US's enemies and not a black flag operation?
I'm not sure what the state of Bittorrent Live is, and I'm sure 10 years from now we'll scoff and say 'what a trivial problem', but right now it doesn't seem feasible.
It seems like I keep saying this in this thread, and others, but Amazon already meets this demand. I feel I must keep repeating it because it seems so many don't realize this. I don't pay for cable TV but I watch the latest seasons of Breaking Bad and Walking Dead on Amazon. The only catch is I see them a day after broadcast.

$25 for each season? More like $13-$15 per season. And I can watch them again anytime I want. $10 a month for AMC? Screw that, I already get a better deal on their shows I want right now, TODAY.

EDIT: I just looked it up; I paid $13.99 for Season 5 of Breaking Bad on Amazon. Under the $10 a month for AMC idea, assuming I only wanted this one show, it would cost me about $50 based on aired episodes and expected air dates of the final episodes. I did watch the third season of Walking Dead through Amazon as well but it has $0 for my order on that for some reason, but it lists for $26.99 currently. Walking Dead also broadcasted over five months but did not overlap with Breaking Bad. For those two shows alone at $10 a month would have cost me around $100, I got them both for $40.98. Since I do not watch any other AMC shows, even though I could watch some of them on Netflix, I think I came out ahead.

I agree with you, unbundling is not the future the cable companies are fighting. They are fighting on-demand viewing. The only thing I need cable companies for is the bandwidth to watch what I want when I want. Their arguments to the contrary fall on deaf ears.

Are there problems with this? Sure, I can't watch some shows because they aren't available as season passes on Amazon so I may have to wait for them to appear later. If the show never appears as on-demand? Well, too bad for them because my money just went elsewhere. There are enough quality choices out there that I just don't care.

At this point, there's very little cable TV can do to convince me to return to paying subscription fees for a hundred channels I don't want. The only way I see it is if they somehow get Netflix and Amazon Instant to be made illegal.

Engage in the future, cut the cord.
These aren't politicians they're staffers. Many people enter the political realm to affect policy change. Many of these people are driven by a desire to do good. You are painting with too broad a brush and your comment doesn't really add anything to the conversation.

Do some people enter politics because they just want power or they want to polish their ego? Sure! But that doesn't mean everyone in the industry is inherently a bad actor.

Even politicians (as opposed to staffers) sometimes take stands on moral issues - that would hurt them politically (rare but it happens)
Objective Logistics Beats Financing Crunch, Loses Financing Beard
After this story a couple of years ago, I wouldn't bet my life on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6061816
The problem is that drug production is centrally planned. Manufacturers must coordinate with the FDA for everything - when they are going to start production, how much they are going to produce, exactly how they will produce it, and so forth. This is a process that takes a significant amount of time.

Thus, when there is a "shortage", a manufacturer can't simply increase the production run. Nor can others step in and also start producing in the near term.

So people die.

All shortages are, by definition, caused by the government.
I am very surprised the policy of password strength is very weak. Allowing "smith" as a password? It's too weak that makes me suspicious about the origins of these passwords.
Nice. clean and complete example.
Anon has always been counter-productive and juvenile. To expect anything more than that is stretching it.

Anon is occasionally lucky with their targets (ie: they happen to line up to a good cause), but internet vigilantism consistently does crappy things to innocent people.
Once the cable company builds the infrastructure to send 300 channels to houses in your neighborhood, their costs for you are the same whether you want 1 channel or all 300.

That's a prime recipe for bundling. You think you are "paying for all these channels you don't want" but that's not the reality. Just like I'm not paying for the tens of thousands of Netflix shows I will never ever watch but nonetheless get by paying one monthly fee.
Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter call for transparency on NSA spying
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In the screenshot you linked to, the customization changes the URL which is something I would check. With a different URL, I would be suspicious that this is a phishing attempt.
Interview with Robert Thomas, 24 year old inventor of Noteboards
The loudest concert I ever went to was Rush in 1990 at the Charlotte Coliseum (the "Presto" tour with the inflatable rabbit). Even though I wore earplugs, my hearing still rang for 3 days afterwards. No more indoor concerts for me!
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How to acquire users w/Infographics
There's no value. It's basically junk food. Once someone comes up with the chemical/library, it's easy to include them in your product. It's noticeable, users like it, it provides straightforward talking points for any press ("beautiful"), it's an easy sell.

But there's no substance. I don't know about others, but when I read a physical book it's not for the page turn experience.
Nationalization of generic drug manufacturing fixes this.
Curiously, more three people have the password Iconst!tu3nt, and one more that looks like a garbled version thereof. I wonder why five different people are using near-identical passwords - a default of some sort?

Iconst!tu3nt x3

iConstit*09

iConstituent

I feel bad for the people whose passwords were leaked, but I'm happy to see that there's (as far as I've seen so far) terribly embarrassing among the passwords. (Edit: okay, I was wrong on this one. notalentassclown3, Fuckface^1, poopypants1, DallasSucks10! and 1044shit, I'm looking at you)

Also funny: Senatebound2012!
Schmoozing with the people on the front lines creates a pretty big change in how projects are communicated.

Among other things, it means that issues with that manager's jobs get taken directly to him, rather than ran up past another layer of management, with the resulting extra sugar coating.
It's not that we don't believe it, it's that our brains are wired to focus on perceived threats and can't differentiate between hearing about a threat from a friend (with small, local distribution) and hearing about it from the news (with very wide distribution.) So we mentally approach crime news stores that are actually one in a million events (in a large city) like they happened to someone in the 150 or so people we know and communicate with regularly (our "tribe".)
I thought this story had been cleared up awhile ago?

Skype used to use an ecrypted, peer-to-peer protocol that made it very difficult for Skype communications to be wiretapped, causing difficulties for the NSA etc.

As per http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_... and similar coverage years ago, Microsoft then bought out Skype even though it was clear it was non-profitable. The peer-to-peer Skype system was dropped shortly after, and all Skype communications were centralized through Microsoft servers.

Following releases by Snowden, it is now clear that Microsoft is wiretapping all Skype communications at the request of the NSA.
With the passwords on this list like "gibbs", "campbell", "Dominican2009!", and... my personal favorite... "Password12" ... I don't even have sympathy towards this situation.

Such incompetence at security with such importance attached to it should result in prison time and a life-time banishment from office...
My personal bet is that Google Glass is the Newton of wearable hardware. It's directionally correct, but way too early for the available hardware and the existing ecosystem, and too expensive as well.

As a happy owner of a Pebble, I definitely get the value of going beyond the phone screen. And as a sci-fi reader, I fully expect that everybody's going to end up spending 99% of their time intimately connected to tech (and the broader world via that tech). But I don't expect head-mounted UIs to be popular outside of tiny niches for 15 years, if ever.
Thank you. Every one of these articles never explores the third option: not paying for anything. I'm doing just fine thank you very much without access to ESPN or AMC through a cable TV subscription.
I think Musk got out ahead of this one actually.

He called them out after the first incident happend:
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/02/26/elon-...

Boeing probably should have licensed Tesla tech after the first incident.
Thanks for the positive words. We're working through the requests right now. I'll send you an invite shortly.
If this is true, then schools are literally quashing creativity.

When I was in high school my maths teacher insisted on us using algebraic methods to solve geometry problems. (I'm a visual-spatial thinker, go figure.) The reasoning went: laying the steps out that way would guarantee 'process points', even if you got the result wrong. Not possible with a geometric approach. This was in preparation for the Chinese Gaokao, mind, so points were a matter of life and death (or so it felt like).
> "Almost makes me wonder what else is going on that's not in the news so much right now?"

Given that the other big story in the media is somehow a slightly-more-than-pedestrian summer heatwave in the US and UK, it seems rather unlikely anyone needs a story as big as Snowden to bury something else.
Is web scraping illegal?
My apologies, I clearly underestimated how many pedants comment on HN.
It is probably my fault cause I sort of wrote the post as I worked out the concept and that ended up muddying a lot of the writing. And I'm not a physicist so I'm sure I didn't quite state everything in a very traditional way...
As someone who has suffered from Tinnitus for the last ten years, I found this article "disheartening," to say the least. I attribute my Tinnitus to either a Ted Nugent concert in Indianapolis when I was in my teens, or to a firecracker going off near me (again, a stupid teenage incident), or a couple of years mowing lawns to make extra money. In any event, if I had it to do over, I'd avoid all situations in which there could be loud noises and I wouldn't go near one of the cars described in this article, let alone stick my head in the window. Take care of your hearing because once you get Tinnitus, there's no going back. My is so bad that if someone could provide me with a permanent cure, I'd write them a check for $10,000 on the spot just to make this constant ringing go away.
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No, they won't. Cable networks have huge capital costs and minimal marginal costs. In fact, sports and their consistent fans is probably creating the marketplace that allows the other less popular shows to even have a marketplace.
It seems there is a reasonable but incorrect assumption here - that the next thing he did would also be public. As I say, that assumption is perfectly reasonable, but it was still an assumption rather than something he said and it turned out to be incorrect.

If you think he knew for sure that he wouldn't do anything similar again yet said this then you'd be justified in saying that he'd mislead people (which wouldn't make him a hypocrite, rather an outright liar) but there's no evidence that that's the case. The guy worshipped cartoons and had worked for years to become then remain a cartoonist. As stressed as he'd been by it all I suspect he felt there was a chance he'd return to it at some point (and may still do, though that seems unlikely now).

But at the time he quit, like many people ending a long term, all consuming project which has left them financially secure, all he really knew was that he was going to take some time out then do something different without really knowing what.

Sure it would have been great had he felt that he had another great, public venture in him but he didn't and I don't think there's anything at all to criticise in what he did or how he did it. That's not saying he's a saint (I think he unwillingness to speak about almost anything since is slightly off, though it is his right), just that I don't think he's done anything to deserve criticism in the way you're suggesting.
IntelliJ please.. There are plenty of people uses it who loves pair programming
This proposed plan has two major issues:

First, it doesn't solve the underlying root problems for everyone, it just gets someone special attention. It's a workaround, not a solution.

Second, you should strive to have good professional relationships with everyone in your company. The odds are high that even if you work with thousands of people, you really only work with a tribe's worth in any given year. Take the time to get to know all of them. It's much more valuable in terms of building cross-connections and sharing insights than it is in terms of cronyism and special favors.
You are assuming that there are not millions upon millions of people who can't justify flying from Boston to New York due to the fact that the car trip (when you factor in arrival at airport 90 mins ahead of time) isn't drastically slower than flying.

I say this as a seasoned east coast corporate whore. Many, many business travellers are forced to just drive from New York to Boston due to the fact that the trip is 3 and a half hours long in a car. NYC to DC is about 3 hours 44 minutes by car. These are distances which are just short enough to make a company tell an employee to drive instead of fly, but long enough that nobody in their right mind would want to commute this way on a semi-regular basis.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+of+metro+was...

Not counting Baltimore, the East Coast corridor has over 35 million people in the big city's metro area.
If the price of this service is expected to be similar to air travel, then I get it (SF-LA), if this is simply about selling speed for a premium price...... but I think this is really about doing it faster AND cheaper. If its efficient enough, this could lead to a decoupling of workplace from home location, the way telecommuting was supposed to.
How many of your signups came from the Amy Hoy 30x500 empire?

*edit: Not to take away from any of what you've done or the product, just curious as to how big just her network effect is at this point, vs really having 'no following'.
Talk about a let down.

The original plan looks like a Light Rail system on par with New York or London.
Years late and regularly bursts into flames. It sounds like Boeing ran the 787 program like it was a software project.
Hearing damage is cumulative. Between my time in the military (my work-center was near some F-16 hangars) and several years participating in competitive pistol shooting (hearing protection worn), I now sometimes have trouble understanding people.

Just like getting your vision checked, you should get your hearing checked periodically. Age plays a factor. As you get older, the nerves in your ear become less sensitive and the structures in the ear can become less responsive to sound.
450,000 Yahoo passwords just got hacked; find out if you might be affected
My understanding is that's exactly what he's done. He's already distributed the encrypted documents, the kill switch will distribute the key.
Oh, sorry about that -- that's just the difference between our production / staging servers. Pardon me while I sneak off to Photoshop the URL bar...
Crap. I didn't think the link would actually take me to the actual list of emails and passwords. Now I'm probably in the NSA's list. Well, thank god I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE. (I think...)
You can survive without a car if you pick the right place to do that. I lived in AZ for three years before buying a car. I went to school and worked during that period. Sure it sucked needing to ask for rides from friends when I needed to get some place that was too far for my bike and didn't mesh with bus route/schedule. But it is totally possible to do it.
What matters ... Ratings or Rankings?