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> there is little creative way to explain why you left that either doesn't make you sound hard to please

You solve that by not explaining why you left :) but instead focusing on where you want to go, and how the prospective company is the ideal place to achieve that.
That's very misleading, the contribution rate was always dependent on price, not on early hype. Look how quickly the increase fell off when the price went up, and then took off again when the price was dropped, in the first couple of days:

http://ubuntu-edge.info/#total
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To reply to the comment below also.

The substance of the cannabis-schizophrenia claims is largely based on Nordic research (given the extensive surveys carried out as part of Armed Forces programs). Typically (or at least in the study I have read), the association is based on around 10 cases in 10,000. Note that these are only the people who tested positive in their bloodstream, not those who (sensibly) stopped taking drugs a few weeks before joining the army.

After controlling for various factors, they found a significant association between marijuana use and later diagnosis of schizophrenia. I believe they used linear regression, rather than something more appropriate like survival analysis.

The interaction with anxiety disorders I am much less familiar with, can you provide some links (preferably to the original papers, even if they're paywalled)?
As far as I can tell, nothing in the article is factually inaccurate.

Why is it nonsense that Bitcoin _might_ get hacked? It's entirely possible, though perhaps improbable.
Great points on social proof and profit centers and cost centers. If you're pitching top-line growth, then often you want to start at the top (CxO level if you can).

How to run the "air war" could be a whole post. I think PR is the most important component, and you can actually get very far as a founder by just sending a journalist a friendly note and offering to talk. Quality of investors, team, and whether you have a personal connection to the company also matter a lot.
"Only weed is _much_ easier to get hooked onto, because it's much cheaper than alcohol, and you don't need much more than rolling paper (as opposed to refrigerator, soft drinks etc)."

Stop spewing bullshit. You clearly don't know what you're talking about. A gram of marijuana costs $10-20 and that will get 4 people properly stoned with some even left over. Meanwhile, I could go to a liquor store and buy a handle of shitty vodka for under $20. A handle will get you 40+ shots, which will definitely get more than 4 people drunk.
Thanks for the answer, yes we are thinking in Collocation, we offer different kind of services, will start moving the lightest service first, just to see if we can handle the situation and learn from our own experience.
US businesses that exchange Bitcoin are already considered money transmitters and thus subject to regulation. FinCEN issued guidelines earlier this year.
+1. I would love a more detailed "How I built the HN single page app" post.
Not sure if you're being serious or not..

Especially since you profile reads:

I'm on sabbatical.
No, you can sell your site too.
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It doesn't help that all the little thumbnails of the project screenshots are HD PNG files...
I wonder if twin-engined aircraft are less better maintained for the reasons you mentioned. Since you only have one engine to 'push off' with on a single, you better make damn sure it's in good working order.
"With the end of the Iraq and Afghan wars funding is getting massively cut and the sequester has had a very large impact."

AFAIK the US still has military presence && conflict in both of those countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%...
They can't really regulate Bitcoin but they can regulate the people that want to do biz with it in public.
Hmm. I have not experienced that with mine, but than I don't have that many users.
Lately it seems like this work has been more pre-engine research and crunch time follow-up, so I can't say I'm too worried for id.

He has made it pretty clear over the last few years that there really isn't a lot for him to do there, at least on interesting stuff. Writing rendering engines has become more incremental than revolutionary and I get the feeling that, for him, stuff like mega texture was about as interesting as writing a new zip program.
Ok, that is a big deal.

Must add that to velruse.
> Luckily, the browser already knows what timezone the user is currently in

Incorrect (though usually true, I'll grant). I've often seen people with older Windows laptops (newer Windows variants, 7 and 8 certianly Vista maybe, are much better at this) that are set to display UK time but think that they are in UTC-0700. This can be fun when using file synchronisation tools... If the OS doesn't know its timezone then the browser won't either. This is a moot point when you are talking to just one user, until that user fixes their clock settings of course, but becomes a significant issue as soon as you need to coordinate timed actions between users.

Detecting the local time offset from your reference clock isn't always useful either: the machine's clock could be completely wrong so it says 01:23 where the user's wall-clock says 21:00 and your reference time matches neither.

Also some users may wish to fix your interface to a timezone other than the one currently set on the device they are currently using. Someone on holiday or on a business trip might want to keep some things linked to local time back home so they find it easier to coordinate with people there. Conversely someone currently in their home timezone might want to force your interface to match a non-local timezone for coordinating with teams/friends elsewhere in the world. You can't rely on them adjusting their clock in this circumstance as they may not be using their own machine and so might not be able to adjust the time/timezone settings (or may wish to keep them accurate to current local for other reasons).

tl;dr: Dealing with time values when there are any international concerns it harder than we tend to assume.
About two years. Honestly, that was way too late -- if I could do it again, I'd put that person in place about a year into it. As hackers we learned to sell, which gave us valuable insight into the product, but once your product is half-decent, sales becomes a full-time job, and having somebody spend 100% of their time on it is a major "step function" in growth.
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Wow - unlike other commenters, I think you deserve plaudits for not letting your work define you and going after what you are passionate about and believe. Will it make you financially wealthy? Maybe not (altho many articles seem to show chasing passion does have financial reward), but it will provide satisfaction. And that's hard to buy.

In fact, if you're up for some fun and continuous self-motivated challenge, I might have something for you that might be right up your alley. Not a coding thing or startup thing at all. Drop me a note if it interests you.
But you did.
"If you're good at what you do, you'll find a job you love immediately "

Wow, really? Many (not all, though) of the people I know who are really good at some things also don't like the politics of working in companies/jobs at all, so finding a job they 'love' is near impossible. If you're leaving one job because of your own issues, you'll be taking those wherever you go.
Sounds like the correct move in your case. Keep maximizing the value out of this decision.
The reason why I'm not jumping at the Ubuntu Edge is that it's vaporware. Things like "Fastest multi-core CPU" doesn't fill me with much (well, any) confidence. That says to me that they haven't done any of the thermal engineering, or the battery life calculations. And they don't know this information now, 9 months before launch?

If they reach their funding goal, but then miss their delivery date, or the device has a pathetic battery life, or the device overheats in your hand and shuts down the moment you try to use the "fastest CPU", what then? Or if the CPU /GPU ends up being so slow (to prevent thermal meltdown) that you can't run interesting desktop-class applications, as opposed to using an OS and applications optimized for embedded/mobile hardware, as opposed to laptop class hardware, what then?

Call me unconvinced.
That's a fair point, but with this approach one is left with a gap of unemployment in their CV. Unfortunately, even in today's economic climate, a gap in your CV is still seen as a negative to many employers.
You misunderstand. I mean giving money back to people that paid more than $695 is a terrible idea from a fundraising perspective. It does makes sense however since the backlash could be severe.
tl:dr

> The group of developers who came up with Bitcoin did not produce a viable replacement currency, a revolution or even a particularly wise investment opportunity. They invented a very clever peer-to-peer payment system that also happens to enable fraud, tax avoidance, drug dealing and other sordid pursuits that governments won't abide for much longer.

article is basically a smear, little to none informational content
The components may be available, but that doesn't mean they are actually open. Low end phone makers just get their software from the SOC OEM, and they just want to ship a phone, not provide a platform for developers, so they don't need liberal licensing conditions.
I think it's a problem if we think of him as a scientist.

At his previous job, he might have been.

Now? Now he's an entertainer. That's what media figures are.

Like Ann Coulter or Rachel Maddow, or even John Stewart or Matt Drudge, his job is to entertain you with the news.

He's going to write about whatever topic that a lot of people enjoy, and make it seem exciting and new.

It's no different from what Oprah or Katie Couric do. This is the great secret of the news media and the voices for public science.

Their job is to sell ads by entertaining a majority of us. Truth and science are secondary considerations.
I was ready to buy something there until I looked at the prices. £24 (about $36 US) for a pair of novelty shorts? Doesn't that seem a bit high? You could make a pair out of real bacon for that.
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"Bitcoin" encompasses multiple and distinctly separate concepts, namely: a transaction network, a currency, a wallet, and mining operations.

Does the wallet in your pocket get regulated? No, that's silly. It's just a container for currency.

Do the coins in your pocket get regulated? No, that's silly. It's just coins.

Does the generation of money get regulated? Absolutely, it's more tightly controlled than most other activities are in humanity. How will they regulate BTC mining? It's not really possible, but they'll likely engage computer hardware vendors of all stripes and sizes (across the planet) to pool purchase order histories to the government.

Do money transactions get regulated? Absolutely, it's another tightly controlled activity. How will they regulate BTC transactions? It's not really possible, but they'll likely engage BTC exchanges of all stripes and sizes (across the planet) to pool transaction histories to the government.
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And you also presumably have the right to abode in The United States without employment.
> For better or worse, the shareholders are the ones who set the pay of the CEO.

Um, no. At publicly-traded U.S. companies, executive compensation is set in the first instance by the compensation committee of the board of directors [1]. The law requires only that shareholders be allowed to vote on non-binding "say on pay" resolutions at least every three years (or more often if the shareholders so vote) [2].

It's been suggested that executive compensation naturally and inexorably ratchets upward because:

+ Comp committee members don't want to be sued by shareholders for negligence or gross negligence in setting executive comp. (That's just what happened when Disney was required to pay ex-CEO Michael Ovitz a $140 million severance package even though he'd been on the job only a year or so when he was shown the door [3].)

+ So, comp committees rely on survey reports about existing executive compensation levels in the relevant industry, market segment, etc. (They also hire professional consultants to provide documentation and political cover.)

+ Comp-committee members are supposed to be independent, that is, not beholden to management. BUT, board members tend to be supportive of management: They might well have been recruited by management. Business friendships develop among management- and non-management board members as well as with senior executives. The board as a whole feels it's a team; its members naturally want to be perceived as team players (they probably wouldn't be on the board in the first place if that weren't the case).

+ Here's where it gets interesting: Comp-committee members like it when they can tell company executives, your comp is in the top half for our industry. They might also honestly think that their company's executives deserve to be paid at least in the top half of the "comparables," that is, above either the average or the median for the company's industry segment. So consider what happens mathematically to executive compensation across the board when lots of comp committees have this mindset: The mid-range of the compensation band floats upward over time.

+ As the mid-range of the band rises over time, future compensation committees may feel pressure to raise executive compensation to keep up with the Joneses, that is, with the rising mid-range.

[1] http://www.wlrk.com/webdocs/wlrknew/wlrkmemos/wlrk/wlrk.1833...

[2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/78n-1; see also http://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2011/33-9178-secg.htm

[3] http://www.integrogroup.com/data/File/white-papers/exec_comp...
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People who don't know when to say "I don't know" get their 'ignore' flag set by me as well. If he's a genius in field X then makes ludicrous comments about field Y I might set his ignore flag as well. Maybe it's just one of my pet peeves as an engineer, but I really can't stand it when people aren't comfortable saying 'I don't know'. I consider it a character flaw.
The company neutral "I got tired of the commute" is frequently also true and can be useful if the potential new company insists on knowing.
Good logic, very interesting.

I have concern about btc removed "forever" [0] and btc-rich folk draining the funds of poorer folks. Like how megacorps with huge legal budgets can bankrupt the average joe if they attempt court combat. An entity with a massive mining % && btc-income could stockpile for the sake of draining funds in bad trades.

[0] as long as the crypto algorithms remain secure
The article writer describes "the system" getting hacked, but links to malware searching for wallet files. It's deceptive at best, and blatant lying at worst.
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The phrase, "truthful, but evasive of bottom facts" comes to mind. Read it in some throwaway "how to succeed in business" book from the 1960s.
Time savings + environmental savings = I think it'll have an easier time than a new highway.
Also, he won.

The case has cost Singh more than £200,000 that he will never fully recover. "It still staggers me that the British Chiropractic Association and half the chiropractors in the UK were making unsubstantiated claims," he said. "It still baffles me that the BCA then dared to sue me for libel and put me through two years of hell before I was vindicated. And it still makes me angry that our libel laws not only tolerate but also encourage such ludicrous libel suits.
Because shareholders own the company. Employees don't, unless they are shareholders themselves also. A company exists to make money for its owners.

Ideally, stiffing the shareholders would be impossible. In practice bad management actors find plenty of ways to do that every day.
My argument was not that other countries are worse than the U.S. because of things done after slavery.

My argument is mainly that if we're going to go back through the totality of the mists of time, that the U.S.'s hands are not exactly the ones with the most blood dripping off of them.
It sounds like you're equating the 'blessings' of mission service to be 'financial success'. It's important to make the distinction between the spiritual and the temporal. The goals of religion, in generally, are spiritual in nature; for example, learning charity, compassion, forgiveness, kindness, and other non-tangible character attributes.

It's possible that in learning these character attributes (such as through protracted service) can lead to the ability to gain temporal rewards, but it's not a given, nor is it the goal.

If you recall, in the New Testament Jesus makes it clear that temporal gain is often a hindrance to improving one's spirituality and character and thus we should be careful to avoid the pitfalls associated with it, such as pride.

Yes, I served a mission, but the 'blessings' I received from the experience are personal and spiritual in nature, and not material or temporal.
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You've cited kernel 3.1.5 which was literally a couple of years ago. As for the rest of your resources, they are LXC without Docker. Docker is the special sauce that makes MongoDB WebScale.

No really... if Containers are not for security, Namespaces and CGroups are. I won't pretend to know what SElinux does, or exactly how all of this works, docker does not purport to be production ready, but I would think that sharing the box with someone else would be the fastest way to find out if it can be broken.

(Upvote for at least showing some good research.)
Take a look at the latest blog post, which should address the confusion you mention: http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/getting-to-docker-1-0/. The blog addresses the direction that Docker is headed in and who the core audience of the tool should be.
[Citation needed.]

How many instances in a sampling size? How large was the sampling size? How rigorous was the study? Peer reviewed? Publisher?

Offhand, I can immediately tell you the overwhelming evidence is that tobacco (cigarettes) is far more harmful than cannabis. I direct your attention to the myth of cannabis being as harmful as x number of cigarettes[1] and the myth that cannabis harms brain cells[2]. While it does alter the brain, it is up for heavy debate whether it's harmful, especially on long-term use.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misconceptions_about_il...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misconceptions_about_il...
Does anyone have statistics on what percentage of "medical marijuana" is actually used for the treatment of medical conditions? The de facto medical marijuana regime in California seems to be that anyone who wants marijuana goes to a doctor, says they're anxious or have trouble sleeping, and gets a card. I'm sure some people with legitimate medical problems get relief from using marijuana, but it seems to be a distinct minority.

Not that this is necessarily a bad thing. Recreational users having a steady supply has no real social cost, and sick people getting the care they need has real benefit. But as long as we're going to be talking about medical marijuana in the context of science, it seems like we should compile some kind of statistics on this.
That's the case with any job, though. There's no such thing as a 'job for life' now. No matter how much one 'works on it', job security is a myth in industry in the 21st century.

When someone says 'job security', the profession I immediately jump to is a tenured professorship. And those don't exactly come by frequently.
Yes, we have exactly that problem, we will try a pilot project with own server, for a specific service, and see if it works.
They probably didn't leave the country they probably left the area you live in and were sold on the net, via newspaper or in flea markets to someone who justified buying stolen goods in exactly the same way you just did.
What happen in Saudi Arabia and Iran sure is bad, but it's not new (which excuse nothing).

In Russia, there is a big crackdown on everything LGBT-related, by the government and the church, and its getting worse every day.

A bit more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia
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I reached out to the gcloud team by opening a Github issue making them aware of Gophercloud's URL. I'd love to see more contributors to Gophercloud. So far, though, haven't heard anything back.

We're currently ahead of gcloud in that we have working code for server creation and actions. Much yet remains to be finished/implemented, however.
The first paragraph was all it took to convince me to send this to our design team.
You've got it backwards. Decentralized is a distributed network of centralized systems. Distributed is a peer-to-peer network of nodes like GNUNet.

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/unlikeus/resources/articles/...
"How to run the "air war" could be a whole post."

Indeed, and while I realize it's somewhat tangential to your article, I'd love to see your in-depth take on it at some point.
I work for a major broadcast network in Chicago. Our owner owns both a Model S and Roadster.

I too see Model S vehicles everywhere in Chicago.
I've seen a few demos of this. The developer story is great.

Easy to integrate, no need to worry about screwing up storing passwords and you are not abdicating authentication to some evil or possibly evil in the future, company.