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Hacker and non-hacker partnership scenario.  Would you?
Hypothetical scenario:

Non-technical working professional has business idea and wants Hacker co-founder to build a prototype. Non-technical will put up money to develop prototype and compensate Hacker with salary + equity, or any mutually agreeable compensation structure. Non-technical will provide rough cut of what the vision is and then step back and let Hacker work without interference. The only product control Non-technical wants would be editorial/final say. If prototype gets traction and scales, Non-technical would concentrate on business, fundraising and hiring the best people for the business and product ends.

Non-technical's motives: wants to invest in a great idea, company, and team but isn't considered an "accredited" investor, is risk averse to the extent that Non-technical wants to keep their day job in case product doesn't scale (has spouse, kids, etc), and is genuinely fascinated by startups and hackers and using disruptive technologies to punch bloated business models in mouth. And to prove that passion is willing, initially, to use their own funds to launch a minimum viable product.

Is this a scenario that a hacker would be interested in? Why or why not? Are there any holes or issues with the hypothetical? Looking forward to the commentary.

Update #1: Has anybody actually been a part of such a scenario? If so, care to comment on the successes, failures, upsides or pitfalls?
In 1994 there was a court case where some workers who were poisoned working at Groom Lake sued the gov't. [1]

Apparently at one point a government lawyer, in using the state secrets privilege to deny examination of relevant witnesses referred to "The alleged facility, if it indeed exists", at which point the opposing council offered to load up his car and drive everyone to the damn base =).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51#Environmental_lawsuit
A degree that provides the recipient with little foundation for income should not be underwritten with tax dollars. You want a teaching or nursing degree, I'm there. If you want a degree in puppetry, not happening.
This isn't Jimmy Growthtard's useless MVP. It's not a stretch to think that Google and their massive, massive, massive set of training data (i.e. everyone's e-mail) should be able to do better out of the box. Not being able to tell the difference between promotions and bank statements or travel bookings is a pretty huge failure to me.
Except education loans don't get cleared in bankruptcy!
I'm fine if costs stay where they are....as long as there is a mandatory forgiveness 15 or so years past graduation.

Then lenders will discriminate based on major (as it should be) and not fund english degrees and other such things that we have a glut of.
MBA has nothing to do with bad decisions. Bad decision makers make bad decisions.
Seems odd that nobody is mentioning Google's in-house makerspace, hackathons, and 20% weeks (where engineers without 20% projects, or who prefer time-boxed commitments, take a week once a quarter to work on stuff). I ran a 20% week project last year - or maybe the year before? - and there are several really fantastic people working tirelessly on the Garage and other makerspace stuff to ensure that the 20% mindset is alive and kicking.

I totally understand the "management killing freedom of experimentation" comments, but they are only one side of the story, and a side explicitly pulled from disgruntled Xooglers at that.

The Garage is one of the things I miss most about Google - both the makerspace itself, and what it represents. We hosted several internal hackathons there, both within and outside the intern season and had great success.
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Perhaps it helps to clarify that the evil here is not that college loans exist, but how easy it is to get them to pay for any kind of education, how much you can borrow, and how impossible it is to get rid of this debt burden.

The choice between no loans or bad loans is fallacious.
You can just drag any newsletter back to 'primary' and it will no longer end up in promotions.
Where do you get ads in Google Apps email? I don't get them...
I love the NASA study in the 1960's that addressed this, if only for the title:

"THE EFFECT ON THE CHIMPANZEE OF RAPID DECOMPRESSION TO A NEAR VACUUM."

Eight chimpanzees, used in nine separate tests, were
decompressed from 179 mm Hg (100% oxygen) to less than
2mm Hg in 0.8 seconds and remained at this altitude from
5 to 150 seconds.

[...]

All subjects showed slight neutrophilia, increased
transaminase, and facial edema which returned to normal
within 72 hours after decompression. All subjects survived
in good health and no lasting effects of rapid decompression
to a near vacuum could be detected.

Implications for the hyperloop as well.

[1] - http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=ht...
Yeup, i've worked with both and a lot, and with Flex back in the day (I co-authored a big publisher book on the topic).

I'm not saying Angular/Flex is the same beast. I'm saying that one of market segments that is going to find it most useful is the same people who were looking at Flex to solve problems back in 2006/07. Naturally, technology has progressed quite a bit since Flex came out. For a JS library, Angular hits a pretty good sweet spot for those same large dev teams looking to build native browser-based apps.
At least as an outsider, I see lots about H-1B visas especially, so to me it seems like legal immigration is fairly controversial too.
In that case, he'd say "I wish I worked smarter". (or harder, but I don't like that usage)
I really like what these guys are building. Real market, real need, real customers. Great approach to solving the problem too.

I'd definitely bet on this type of product being the future of senior monitoring.
This hits home for me. Working in the man cave eventually gets drab and lonely. The coffee shop for me is a great place to keep things new and exciting. The environment and sense that everyone else is in work mode at the coffee shop forces me to do the same.
It is NOT totally sh compliant. Intentionally.
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That's what aliens want you to think.
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Formalized that behavior into exceptions? Last I checked using exceptions for control flow was a BAD practice.

In c at least, breaking out of an error condition is still best handled with a goto (where you can clean up all matter of memory in an organized fashion without littering your code with if elses).
What about betting against for profit universities which, on the shadier side, seem to be using unqualified students to grab federal loan money? Seems like they could get hit hard if the loan money starts to dry up.
"Personally, I like people"
This is why, until there's some radical, radical change, I'll always vote for the people perpetuating student loans.

Loans for the sake of loans seem to be the key problem here: If students who intended to get a "degree in bullshit" at a gussied up diploma mill faced difficulty finding a loan for that purpose, they might reevaluate their decision.

And besides: Who's seriously advocating for the total elimination of student loans?
I received an email from Avaaz, a social campaigning organisation (www.avaaz.org) where they asked me to reply to avoid their notification emails being classified as promotional. I don't know how accurate that is, but it seemed surprising they were confident that could change the algorithm's mind. It sort of seems vaguely reasonable - you don't reply to promotional emails, but it also seems like something that would cause a lot of false positives. That said, that email ended up in notifications which seems correct, and I haven't seen anything misclassified into promotions yet.
I'm not really sold on the whole idea, but this part is pretty creative

> Demo Limitations

> Cathode is free to use, but the picture will slowly degrade unless you purchase. Effects like static and flicker will increase over time until you relaunch the app.
I suppose the module could safely be hosted on non-US repositories.
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I still look for tactile buttons, but not when it comes to a handset.

For instance: I don't plan to own a car that incorporates an in-dash entertainment/nav system w/ a touch-only interface. (My only notable exception would probably be a Tesla vehicle.)

When picking out an aftermarket head unit: I look for tactile controls that I can operate, _without looking_, using one hand. I've passed up some superior equipment (from an audio standpoint) simply because it has a touch-screen, an unintuitive interface, or poor tactile feedback.

The reason I don't apply these same restrictions to my taste in handsets is simple: I don't use my phone when I'm distracted. The phone itself _is_ a distraction. So long as the interface is responsive and fluid I don't particularly care about feedback, because the phone typically has my undivided attention whenever I'm using it. I only pine for tactile feedback when the device is to be used in conjunction with an activity that requires a concentrated effort.
Ask HN or PG: Is there a list of HN banned domains?
I just submitted a story I ran across yesterday from Valleywag. It was immediately marked as dead, and I assume this is a result of an automatic ban. Is there any list of banned domains to consult when a post is auto-dead? Or is this intentionally not listed?

The post in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6225312
Having a better defined, field-tested procedure is probably a good idea. Roughly A) Confront the aggressor to communicate problems and see if the situation can be resolved. B) Where it can't be resolved, investigate if the aggressor has a pattern of such behaviour, or if there are individuals in a position to be more persuasive that could help. C) If the behavior continues, institute bans, document incidents. D) Where bans are insufficient and repeated warnings have been ignored, escalate to involve relevant law enforcement agencies.
Matthew Stewart's "the management myth" runs with this thesis. Google it - the Atlantic article is a great read. He explicitly links the Tom Peters types with televangelists and self help infomercial pitchmen.
Yes, but from my experience a vast majority of.. email marketers won't figure out how to do it. I would really like the option to only display attached images.
If the solar panels were the only warts, they'd be off of the thing in two seconds. One problem with the oil angle is that if it could be powered by solar, then it won't use enough oil to matter, definitely not enough to replace the oil usage that it could potentially displace.

IMO, the only people in Texas who think that Houstonians need to get to Dallas in an hour and vice-versa, are a few people in Houston and Dallas. Without comprehensive inner-city and metropolitan public transport systems in place, it is just two connected hubs with no spokes.

Also as someone else pointed out, Southwest Airlines will lose their minds.
No, he is the author. And if nothing else, it provided me with the pleasant knowledge that I think he's a terrible writer even when I agree with him.
He was giving genuine advice for himself. Apple did awesome with focus and top-down management because the guy at the top was Steve Jobs, who has an uncanny knack for sensing what the market needs. But companies are different: what was a core competency of Apple is something that Google doesn't have, and Google has various other core competencies that Apple never had. The general rule of business is "play to your strengths", not "emulate the winner".
> In some countries, you don't even have the OPTION to take out a loan to go to school. You either have the money and you go, or you don't and it is that much harder to climb the social ladder.

> I'm not sure which evil is worse, but I'm damn glad I was offered those loans.

You are stacking only two options against each other. There are countries where there are no schools and countries where school is being paid by the community via taxes.

Of course between no school and school with loans the choice is clear (in an (post-)industrialized country, mind you).
Hamm here - after tinkering with Red Hat (5.x I think?) I switched to Debian and I've used it ever since. I still have slink CDs somewhere plus the bumper sticker I got with them, which I laminated and is now attached to my Debian home server. (which you can see here: https://twitter.com/jcurbo/status/368424063422566401/photo/1)
Unless you have the money to cut a deal with a major investment bank (like how paulson worked with GS to short MBS), you could just try to amass as much student loan debt as possible and wait for the government to force lenders to take a haircut. That way, you "win" insofar as the cash you have exceeds how much you have to pay back. But TBH it's a really really bad idea because if there is a 100% federal backstop you will end up losing.

You could also short servicers and lenders like Apollo Group (NASDAQ:APOL) and Nelnet (NYSE:NNI). If you asked me for a compelling short in the space, I would say DeVry (NYSE:DV), but do your own due diligence before entering a trade
A Tesla Model S Crashed Into an Electric Pole and Caused a Blackout
"everyone, except possibly the mentally insane has a bigger safety net than they think they have"

That may be so, but I guess you're from the United States, right?

To be honest, my country has several welfare programs, but they're bureaucratic and marginalizing, I think most people wouldn't like hitting rock bottom like that, and for a dubious chance at a career change - my country does have free university, but I don't think you can do it from the street, and shelter is only available in winter.

I agree you wouldn't starve, at least in the U.S. or here in Uruguay, I can think of several places I wouldn't try it out, but it would be a huge hurdle to overcome (not to mention the difficulty of getting reinserted in society).
>> I need a place without distractions. Drab offices are depressing, sure, but they are better for actually getting work done, at least for me.

The thing about a coffee shop is that it provides just enough noise to not be distracting. Plus it's much easier to tune out the sound of an espresso machine, people coming in and out, and the clatter of dishes than it is a co-worker on speaker phone two cubes over or someone standing behind you talking.

Sure, some people need complete silence and tranquility and work best in a closed door office, but many people can tune out and work well in a busy, noisy coffee shop.
I don't see how an obvious result could be considered a scandal. We beat the drum for 30 years that all HS students must go to college and pursue their dreams of being marine biologists. We offer loans that people are unqualified to repay; allowing costs to balloon without constraining demand.
Take a look at the concept of status quo bias.

What I do is spawn fish at the end of my .zshrc that way I can just exit if I run into something that doesn't work with fish.

The biggest plus for me is that the default auto complete in fish is twice as smart as the other ones.
I wonder why Amazon doesn't offer a bounty, even one that is a token amount.
I think Milton Friedman would disagree.
Cool idea but I'm not sure I understand how putting Developers and Designers in a foreign country like Costa Rica is any more productive than bringing them together somewhere domestically. Last time I checked apps aren't built with sandcastles and lobsters. Although I'd be willing to invest in something that could be built with sandcastles and lobsters.
Not that I disagree with your sentiment, but your own concept of Libertarianism seems to be similarly pre-digested as it reflects, not the core beliefs, but the political movement as portrayed by the linear spectrum of news outlets, not the true circular spectrum of political beliefs.

It also is not an solely American ideology as concepts such as the flat tax and equality before the law can be seen in the Leveller Movement of 17th Century Britain.
http://www.levellers.org/lev.htm
What usually happens is that they've locked in some preferential options or stock grants + bonuses etc.

If the company hits it big despite them, the stock is awesome.

If the company does poorly they might miss a bonus but they'll still get their inflated salary.

If the company ends up on the rocks, they'll get their salary cut "till company performance improves" as their pay is usually tied to the performance of the company as an incentive.

But what invariably happens is that, even with their pay tied to company performance, the moment it gets cut, they high tail it out of there and land a new job with their top-10 MBA and another couple years of job experience...saying "I'm looking for growth opportunities" over and over again in their interviews.

I don't know if it's still true, but Facebook used to filter out these types by making them do a version of an engineering interview. Except instead of regurgitating algorithms you learned in college, MBAs had to regurgitate stuff from MBA school. Like derive the time-value of money, or discuss the TPM or whatever. The ones who coasted through MBA school got filtered out really quickly and the ones who took the subject seriously might pass the gauntlet.
Yes, if all you want is to confirm that a TCP connection has closed and flushed correctly, then AFAIK, that's entirely possible with a [shutdown, select, read] sequence.

I struggle to understand why an RPC system (as detailed in the article) wouldn't want an app-level acknowledgement though...
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As long as nothing's blocked, latency could go up 'a lot' (sub-ms -> ms, maybe 1ms->2ms with batching) without meaningfully impacting overall throughput.

I can definitely see millions of networked memcache calls being a bottleneck, and if the batching adds another ms per req on average, but removes the bottleneck, then they can serve a lot more users at a cost of 1ms per req.

Is there anything in TFA that would support my theory? I don't know. I don't care enough to endure InfoQ. (I did for a Rich Hickey talk once, lo these various months, and yea it were a minor inconvenience).

Edit: whoa jedbergo!
Larry Page had that chat w/ Steve Jobs where Page asked Jobs for advice. Jobs supposedly told him he had to start cleaning shop if he was to avoid becoming the next Microsoft. Page apparently took Jobs' message to heart as he immediately began unifying services and shutting down anything that didn't fit with the new mission. It's easy to see how 20% time was part of the reason things got so messy and it makes sense why they're scaling it back now.
This whole segmentation is really bad. And from outside, it does seem quite simple.

This brings me to my staple question again: "How in the world those intelligent people with all those qualifications fail to understand something, well, dumber than paint?"

Or is it that majority of layers are full of unwilling/stupid people. I can see people being unwilling. During my time in internship, I became quite hesitant to touch any issue that wasn't assigned to me. QA guy didn't know much about programming and assigned features randomly. And there was no incentive for me to develop a feature assigned to someone else(though being curious, I did "snatch" a feature or two and implemented myself)!

I guess one weak point causes the problems and then they get amplified! That's how offices work.
Don't they know what websites you visit, how long you stay on there, what links you click? You bet reading only is dangerous.
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> MBAs are just trained to optimize around the the current maximum in the "energy" landscape. These maxima are all too often not the best in the landscape, or even worse, can vanish over time as the landscape changes.

> MBAs are like a gradient optimization algorithm without any simulated annealing process.

Now that is content-free babble. If you are a bot, more work is needed. If you are a human, you should be ashamed of yourself.
I like to think that, in tech centers at least, coffee shops are like the Parisian cafe scene of the Enlightenment - a hotbed of ideas and innovative thinking.

Though these days it's maybe more of a supplement to the Internet.
In many parts of the English-speaking world, there is such a glut of teachers that a teaching degree doesn't give you a much bigger shot at a career than a puppetry degree. And of course, this all depends on supply/demand, which can change significantly and unpredictably over the course of a new graduate's working life. So how exactly are you going to make this call?
We went from working a slightly dingy, tiny office in a converted duplex to a brand new place with open floor plans and 3 times the space, but the new office was so dang loud, nobody could get anything done. Concrete floors, block walls, no ceiling tiles, it looks really nice but you can hear a ping drop in the front office from the back of the building.
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haha never thought this would get posted to HN. thanks cmalpeli.
Could also be renamed "They're doing it on macs"
I don't think anyone has characterized their own views as "reactionary" unless it was part of a self-deprecating joke, sarcasm, or rhetorical flourish. It's like Chauvinism - implying that you are a thoughtless defender of something.
Well you could always take up a short position in Sallie Mae (SLM), however such an undertaking would be fraught with risk.

They are a GSE, though both Freddie and Fannie were as well.

And don't forget the timeless Kenyes quote: "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." (paraphrased)
The Guardian Blocked By The Army After NSA Stories
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Why a Government That Collects Everyone's Private Data Won't Let Its Employees Access Public Information
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US air force backtracks over WikiLeaks ban
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/08/us-air-force-wi...
I was surprised at that as well. They'll post security for servers, but I guess people are replaceable?
Really, I think he's somewhat wonderful. The way he marshals words in the service of outrage, anger and disenchantment with authority is extremely appealing to me, even when I disagree with him.
People being used to having a "job for life", and society approving of this is a bad thing.
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You'd be surprised how difficult information is to get when it's not explicitly presented. The belief that the "information age" is inherently informative is a false assumption. Plenty of companies have staff directories but they don't explain the roles of each individual member. Jennifer Hepler can be presented as a creative member of Bioware working on something in some capacity.
> An even worse solution is getting rid of loans.

A good solution is making loans optional like in Scandinavia. Universities are pretty much free, but some students take loans to get by.
In some countries, you don't even have the OPTION to take out a loan to go to school.

That's because in some countries you won't be paying more than 5k to go to a decent college.
Useless comment, but I had this exact same idea a while back (was basically GitHub + SoundCloud, used "resample" instead of "re-pull." I eventually lost motivation and never got an MVP going, but I'm glad someone has and hope it takes off, finding people to collab with isn't easy.