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NSA 'spied on Brazil and Mexico' - Brazilian TV report
This doesn't address the real problem, though, which is how exactly pg is supposed to filter out what is bias vs. what is an actual problem. It seems pretty obvious that both are true, so drawing the exact line may not be useful.

If you're starting a company, your communication skills are possibly equally as important as your technical skills -- there are simply so many difficult tasks that you will need really great communication to accomplish.

Not just convincing investors, but also your customers, possible suppliers and/or potential partners, your employees and potential hires... Communication is huge.

If your targets here are NOT English-speaking, then your communication in English is not what matters -- you had damn well better be very fluent in the languages those people speak. This also applies to a native English-speaker trying to break into foreign markets.

Unfortunately, there are all kinds of nasty psychological tricks that can harm you if you even look foreign (I'm thinking of a study where students were given one of two photos of an instructor but the same audio file, and some of the ones shown a Chinese-looking instructor had trouble with her accent, but the ones shown a blond instructor didn't.

Then if you do have a strongly non-local accent... people who grew up in fairly urban areas may have no trouble understanding you, but others may be lost with an accent that's even moderately different from their own. I remember spending a hour on the phone debugging with an IBM DB2 tech based in India, and his accent didn't seem terribly strong to me, but the (upstate-NY born & bred) woman sitting next to me was extremely quiet on the call... I found out afterwards that she'd hardly understood a word he'd said.

It's totally legit to talk about the bias (and I tend to agree pg should make some effort not to make the irrational part worse...), but it's also valid to tell founders that working on their accent can make a huge difference in their success.
OT, but an English translation of that (excellent, btw) book was released last year by Princeton Architectural Press: https://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781...
Why not go with the contractor? You already have a decent working relationship.
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A lot of people seem to be sold on the group of founders theory of start ups. Jeff Bezos hired programmers to develop Amazon. I would argue that start ups are not about exceptions or rules - it's about getting your product in the customers hands by any means necessary.
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I know what the developer probably means, but I think he should be more clear and answer a few questions before somebody commits a weekend to work on his task.
Can someone please explain to me in short what this does?
> "the legal duty to maximize shareholder value" Agree. Companies have numerous stakeholders.

As is implicit in the link you give, there is no legal obligation for executives or other employees to maximize shareholder value (for the directors, there is a fiduciary responsibility). Milton Friedman asserted that there was a _moral_ duty to maximize shareholder value, which is quite different, but this also has become quite controversial recently.
From the description: Sparkey is an extremely simple persistent key-value store. You could think of it as a read-only hashtable on disk and you wouldn't be far off.
Of course. There is also the third solution. With the vast amount of internet resources (think stackoverflow, etc) it possible for a founder to get to a alpha version 100% on his own. It is cheaper and sometimes more effective, because of missing managing overhead and lack of communication errors.

But in the end, yes, you have to deal with the dillema: hire or take someone on board, share the responsability and the earnings.
First of all, I'm a foreigner, English is clearly not my native language and I have problems every day because of it. So yeah, native english speakers have it easier. But so what? Nobody said life was supposed to be easy and that everyone was created with the same skills and weaknesses. Some people are prettier, others are taller, other speak better english. Not acknowledging this is only hypocrisy. What PG said is that if you want to put the chance on your side, learning to speak a better english is a very important skill.

Imagine yourself to be forced to speak Japanese to gain your money, because you have no alternatives.

That's life. Learn it, move on. Or I can, you know, not learn it correctly, gain less money and have it even harder.

I can understand having empathy for some people where English is pushed down their throat. But, for founders applying to YC and going to the Valley? Please. Why would anyone invest any money or take seriously a CEO that doesn't take his/her work seriously. (Yes, communicating well for a CEO is very important. What about a programmer that can't code?)

Imagine a Steve Jobs explaining to the world how Apple is great with a foreign accent that nobody can't understand.

The school you went to matters. Your height matters. Your appearance matters. Your family matters. Where you live matters. The amount of money you have matters. It always been and will always be. Faster you understand it and start putting the chances on your side, the better you will be.
This writer misses one of the most important issue, which would be under his heading "Validation". Validation isn't (just) internal! It's not that you (necessarily) need convincing your 'idea' is any good.

Validation is external. The fact that two people are both working on something makes 'something' 1000x more real than if some guy is working on it.

There's always going to be information asymmetry between internal and external: the fact is, if there are two people on the inside, that is one of the strongest signals (to people on the outside, who have limited exposure to the low-level progress) that there is something there.

If it's just some guy saying, "Hey I've been building x for the past y" that is a very weak signal.

I might even go as far as saying, "The only time you can afford not to have a cofounder is when you can make it all the way to completed product + substantial revenue without having to convince anyone of anything about the future of your business."

Anyone includes but is not limited to: employees, partners, your parents, your spouse, and, of course - Investors!

If you never need to convince anyone of the future of your project, until it's incorporated, profitable, making payroll - then you might do it alone. But for 99% of us, this does not apply, and a cofounder is one of the best signals around for sharing internal state of validation.
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So this is supposed to be a portable browser engine that can be directly embedded into (opengl) video games? This could be great.
Report: NSA spied on Brazilian, Mexican presidents
Ask HN: What was the most important technical invention of humanity?
I'm having a hard time thinking about this, as I struggle to define importance.
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But why should your personal moral dilemma define legislation for all citizens across the country? I have an issue with "it makes ME feel bad, therefore make it law." You can use the same basic argument against gay marriage.

Regardless, the grandma won't be doing in the street without BI, just like she isn't now. I'm not arguing against providing care for the elderly. I'm just saying that if a single individual chooses to spend her life caring for another single individual, maybe that person isn't performing a service to society. Maybe she's performing a service to her grandma, and nobody else.
Also Sparkey seems to work well with bittorrent/rsync distribution. I recall spotify use bittorrent to distribute files to their servers.
From the HN Guidelines [1]:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[1]: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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My opinion is that it really depends on the individual, especially their motivation and focus. Some people are cut out to be solo founders, most aren't. When I tried working on projects alone, I tended to get distracted easily. Partnering with a finisher has helped me get things done.
Actually it's much more than slightly modified. The lowmemkiller (which is still present, and mostly unmodified from what you saw) code runs out of the cache shrinker framework, not on an OOM event. And it chooses processes to kill based on categories that correspond to UI state (e.g. preferentially killing idle apps before background processes before foreground apps, etc...).

But that's not quite what I was saying. The point was that the promise in OS X (that a process "could be killed if necessary") if baked into Android: it's true by default of all processes, and the framework guarantees a set of lifecycle callbacks to allow processes to persist their state robustly. This isn't part of kernel behavior at all.
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I don't think so. It really depends on the leverage that the sole founder has. If he can bootstrap and has very high Return on Equity, he doesn't need capital. I think the point is really that there is very little reason not to give early employees a good chunk of capital, because it is requirement to work hard. The author of the article bootstrapped a business, but that's not necessarily the same as a high growth startup.
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Because welfare did such a great job of ending the poverty cycle...even Clinton felt it needed reform...Im only 45 and and Im seeing the cycle of stupidity.
I would try to google this but I'm afraid this will get logged by NSA-like agencies and I might be subject to harrassement next time I vist the US. The terrorists surely achieved their end goal.
Agree that there were multiple forces driving people into the factories. But there is a period of time between medivial peasants and the industrial revolution, and during that time a lot of things changed, economicaly and social.
I.... what is this trying to accomplish? Is it like a browser without all the features except opengl? I am confused can someone explain?
There are several major problems with theoretical English spelling reform:

1. A purely phonetic approach means that, even within the UK, I would spell everything differently from my colleagues from Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow etc etc. Not good.

2. English spelling tends to represent the "deep" structure of words rather than the ("shallow") representation - your "thesis - antithesis" is an excellent example of this. This is only frustrating for foreign learners learning pronounciation, but otherwise has a lot to commend it.

3. Our historical orthography creates a link with our history and our culture; I can read Shakespeare even though Elizabethan pronounciation was startlingly different to today's.
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I've been objectively successful as a single founder over the past few years, so its definitely possible. I've hired, fired, pivoted, and made more money than I made mistakes but I always felt the lack of a cofounder has been holding me back.

There is only so much emotional weight I can offload onto my amazing wife, and although some of the people I've worked with (contractors, clients) have made amazing contributions - technical, business, ideas, and emotional - at the end of the day I can't shake the fact that I'm alone. I bear all the responsibly for my mistakes and all the rewards of my successes, and even though I've been lucky to have more of the latter the emotional toll of the rollercoaster has been tremendous. When your wife or parent tells you you're doing great or that everything will be OK it helps, but the impact is diminished because of course they are going to support you.

My most successful (although not my most profitable) projects have been collaborations with other talented people both technical and nontechnical, and while the author is certainly correct that a cofounder isn't necessary, I would think long and hard doing anything alone.
good thing i dont have a phone ;)
good point! If it's just one person it is much more likely that he/she is not realistic.
Good point, I missed that. Read the feature list which lists stuff the filesystem does itself.
I really don't get a sense of what NiDIUM actually _does_. Is it a framework? A platform? A library? Where does it run? How am I supposed to deploy it? What use case does it solve that doesn't already have existing solutions?
I know -- my point was not to refute him or make his experience seem implausible. I was just making a witty remark. ;-)
Pithy wisdom only really works when it lands in a mind on the edge of understanding it.
Funny. I thought that was my thing. Typing out a disagreement comment, then read it and think: "How will this discussion end? Will any good conclusion come out of it, or will it be mere sword flailing?".

More often than not, I hit back instead of submit.
I really feel bad that programmers are considered a privileged breed. I think most people leaving Syria or whatever other conflict zone are looking for jobs.
Of note BI is assumed to replace social security so someone making 50-80k may effectively pay significantly less in taxes prior to retirement but receive far fewer benefits in retirement.

This is why I think BI doesn't have a very good chance in the US. The AARP is a very powerful lobby and their members wouldn't go for a reduction in benefits after retirement.
I find it saddening that the primary response from a crowd normally considering themselves visionaries and pushers, seems to be ridiculing other peoples hard work.

I cannot for the life in me understand how introducing a new browser engine deserves this kind of welcoming.
I agree, but this only works if you are damn experienced and really know both worlds: business and technical. Read Bezos' biography ( on wikipedia ) and you will know what I mean.
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And once again our community snipes, takes cheap shots and shows a complete lack of appreciation for the effort in a project such as this.

If you have nothing of value to add, just keep quiet. Otherwise you can come across as a bit of a dick. Thanks.
Here's the well-known rationale from Thomas Jefferson: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch2s23.h...
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Based on the name, I'd say it's a web browser that uses crappy, old, rechargeable batteries?
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Have you tried talking to them, see why they need so much money? Maybe you could find a way of making everyone happy before the situation becomes too hard to handle on both sides. Every time there are money involved it's always hard and it would be better to keep records of everything and make things clear, especially with family and friends. It's not distrust thing. It something for the good of everyone.
I think your example of SAP is spot on. People see all these news about war, US vs. the world, etc and they take sides, become angry, etc while not questioning the obvious: who is going to have a material gain from this all?

I've become quite a cinic about these things and I think economic power / money will usually be behind most of it. Unfortunately I don't believe in countries helping poor people in remote lands, government worried about killings, pride in being the beacon of democracy, etc. It's all about power and money.
The web is weird, it feels like HTML is meant more for documents than for actual social platforms and dynamic content... If you think about it, is the web really sane?
This seems about right, but I'd venture it's 80% 2) and 20% 1).
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doesn't this app already exist for free in the airspace store? I believe it's this (Touchless): https://airspace.leapmotion.com/apps/touchless-for-windows/w...
They are called flash cards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashcard
Yep, you hit the nail on the head.

http://codepreneur.tumblr.com/post/57717923667/why-you-reall...
Yes, still very, very different. Having a job where you don't actually accomplish any work is completely different from not having a job at all. Having a non-productive job wastes your time and saps your energy. I've had them before, and they're soul-crushing. Not having a job at all, on the other hand, frees you to do real work. Creative work, work in line with your passion. That's what we really need people to be spending their time on, not raking all the leaves from one end of Central Park to the other and back.

When J.K. Rowling was on benefits from the UK government, she wrote the first in a series of novels that would go on to become the best-selling novel series of all time and earn her hundreds of millions of pounds, a good portion of which went back to the UK government in tax revenue. If instead she had been forced to do a menial, unproductive job, none of that would have happened. Her words on the subject: “I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. … And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

Buckminster Fuller hit the nail on the head with this quote: “We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
I'm for Europe, specifically Croatia -- and if you go to any party catering for students and generally educated people under 35 you'll find a whole palette of leftist ideas, sometimes expressed quite aggressively.
I don't ridicule the work that's gone into this - I just don't get what it is... A browser engine which doesn't use HTML/CSS and which isn't in competition with Chrome/Firefox/IE...? We would just like a better explaination :)

(Edited to remove JS from the "doesn't use" list - my bad)
File I/O alone is a good enough reason for this kind of projects to exist. I've always wanted to be able to use the power of the browser for standalone, cross-platform desktop applications.

I was shocked when I discovered I couldn't write a simple JS/HTML application and connect it to a local DB like SQLite without going through a server. Each browser has its own hackish way of doing something like that, but they're far from a complete solution. So far I have my eyes on node-webkit[1], which does everything I need it to do, but I welcome every option in this space.

[1] https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
Just some feedback - This video reminded me of the demo scene circa 1990. This might lead some to think that the project has been under development for 20+ years and is still in alpha...
I've thought about your statements and probably you do have enough evidence to back it up. This is an unusual case, and the evidence should be reported more fully when it is stated. i.e. people shouldn't just claim this without reciting the facts in detail.

More generally, I would not try to read that much about people's personality from their writings on the Internet.

I suppose in an exceptional case like this you can. But isn't it enough to say that the guy cannot communicate without derailing himself onto delusional-sounding and off-topic religious interjections?

That would not require a diagnosis and would explain to everyone why the community regards him the way it does.
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This is a wonderful way to examine the key references in a field. I wish someone would do this to biomedical science/medicine.
I think that people here are mostly confused. There is not really a clear explanation of what this does or anything. We are just presented with a video of things that are not exactly revolutionary and said that this is the future. This leave most of the community puzzled I would say.

It is ok to create hype for a product that is not out yet but still we would have to know what we should get hyped on.
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Is this the third time this showed up in a week or Am I having trouble with cache?
I don't think so. I can talk with Italian, Finnish, Chinese, Russian... etc. people, without knowing all and every of their languages (or without them knowing Spanish for that matter.)

The fact that the common language is actually English is not really relevant to me. I don't care if Spanish has more native speakers, or Chinese. The value of English is as a common language.
Depends how strict you want to be with the term "bootstrap itself"

I've recently started using Apt packages from a private apt repo for server/service configuration. The private apt repo itself is created by an apt package, which (once setup) is served by the apt repo, so changes to the apt server are made by importing a newer package into the repo and then doing an `aptitude upgrade`

The setup process is basically, copy two .deb files to blank server, install with dpkg, fix dependencies and then run the setup script that the apt repo also serves up.

regular (non apt repo) servers then simply run the setup script and are on their merry way.
This does not look like a browser.
It's a gui application framework, that happens to be using javascript as the preferred programming language.

A lot like https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
> You are mistaking Adobe for MS. It's certainly not part of their strategy.

Nope, they are following the same brilliant strategy as Adobe.

"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though," Gates told an audience at the University of Washington. "And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." [1]

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/09/business/fi-micropir...
Cockney is relatively easy compared to some other local UK dialects/accents. My wife's family is from Stirlingshire in Scotland and they say stuff like:

'yer wain's greetin' -> 'the baby's crying'.

'I'm away tae get woor messages' -> 'I'm going to the shops for food'

It took my a while before I could understand them :-)