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The article gives valuable insights into raising capital and the art of negotiation in this domain.

Overall, negotiation and funding could almost be expressed as a rule table. Certain heuristics and rules. Rather than flip flopping strategies on how to negotiate and deal with investors, I think it may be good to have a set of rules/heuristics to follow and see if it leads to your goal. If it fails, alter it and see the result. Anyhow, thats what I intend to do for my company, GridCrowd.

For negotiation PG mentions that its may be ok to just admit your a noob or not knowledgeable on certain aspects of funding. I respectfully wonder if there is another stratedgy from what I've learnt in negotiations in the non-funding world?:

Negotiate from a perceived position of strength.

You don't have to say your a noob, miss the detail and expose it if it becomes necessary. This way you may be able to attain more action on behalf of the investor moving through their process. The noob strategy allows them to indicate a process that could be tailored to their advantage. I don't know investors, so its hard for me to understand their objectives and how they behave. I'll re-read PGs advise again, he does have great credibility and wiseness so maybe I need more study on this strategy.
Not, because the this framework is for high-growth potential startups, not regular businesses.

The first decision is "Will it work? Does this team good business here?"

If yes, the expectation for high-growth must be "huge". At that point price is less important because 100X or 50x is still a big yes.

[edit: what he said]
could you send us before and afters - we'll include them
This is a small step into a big open field. Collaboration in the hardware design space is moving slowly. It's not even at the SVN/CVS level now.

Has an architect ever forked an open source building? Has an biomedical engineer ever forked a open source prosthetic hip implant? Has a civil engineer forked an open source bridge? They will.
> As for the enduring value of music lessons, I propose an even simpler test. Go on Facebook and ask your friends to chime in if, when they were children, they took five years or more of a classical instrument. [How many are still playing?]

That definitely hits home with me. I took classical piano for years as a child. Hours and hours of practicing, lessons and recitals. I haven't played piano since grade 5 or 6 I think.
Key point : Hadoop storage is bloody cheap compared with a SAN, as in $1kTB vs $15kTB for enterprise storage, and it costs a pittance per year compared with licensing costs.

Only problem is backing the bugger up.
In the US, there are areas afflicted by various levels of gang activity. Many gang members have grown up in these same areas. Many crimes in these areas go unreported or otherwise unsolved. (Think Brownsville / East New York or something.)

The theory underpinning most of these wishes, insofar as these wishes exist and they have a theoretical rather than emotional underpinning, is that there exist a class of offenders who guilty of crimes far in excess of what they have been convicted for, that they have internalized norms condoning things such as violence and theft, and that if released they would continue to pose an ongoing risk to society.

Assuming their original imprisonment to have been the just consequences of one act for which they have been convicted, then the subsequent fantasy imprisonment would be the just consequences of the other acts of which they are (or are forecast to be) equally guilty but for which they have not been convicted.

N.b. The appropriateness and efficacy of these wishes, specific materializations of these wishes, and the way that they interact with other concerns involving the rule of law, the fundamental dignity and rights of Man, and the greater good of society... all of that is not addressed in this post, because the nature of crime and attitudes towards crime in America is a complicated topic and this post is short.
I have an app that's making money. How do I protect myself from patent trolls?
Linux, the Future of Gaming?
here's what the updated Zillow app that Tim Cook featured looks like http://www.zillowblog.com/2013-09-10/coming-soon-zillow-apps...

disclosure: Z employee
The orquestration software like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef are killing them. You you scripted your server, the cost to move to another server is almost nil.
Glad you brought up the Bay...entirely different animal than anywhere in the country. Oakland does represent a potential bright spot, but I disagree that there needs to be displacement to achieve it.

Oakland, like most cities, suffers from antiquated and restrictive zoning model (among other things). Already a crowded city in most parts (Lake Merrit), it is largely inefficient. Although they are on different scales (3M vs 300K), Chicago is a good model of how to develop a downtown--the one area where Oakland could add 100k--and help the crime issue. You could argue Detroit has a better downtown.
Isn't YARN / Giraffe BSP ?
What PHP Programmers Can Learn from Ruby on Rails
I kind of disagree with this.

A lot of the problem of 'should I have my kid learn an instrument' stems from the lack of quantitative data surrounding the practice. Sure, kids that play instruments tend to do better in math or whatever, but is that because they are playing an instrument, or because they are reaping other, more silent factors that are associated with being of a class of citizen that can afford to play an instrument.

Questions like that are hard to answer.

My personal philosophy is terribly flawed, and based on my own personal experience, but I think it's important to open that particular door for a child. Whether or not they stick with it is up to them, but then the question is, 'at what point can I let my kid make up their own mind.'

For me, this was 11 years. For the first 11 years I studied piano, I wanted to quit. I really liked it the first 3 or so years, then I hated it around year 6, then I warmed up to it again around year 9 and finally, in what could best be described as a revelation, I seemingly overnight saw the value in what I as doing and saw the value in those around me who were truly great, both in the past and the present. That was the moment that I had made a concrete, non-emotional decision.

I would have regretted it if I hadn't been forced to stick with it all through my childhood. I'm really thankful my parents made me stick it out, and for me, it was totally worth it.

For better or worse, every kid is different. What ended up being a blessing for me might be a decade of torture for someone who doesn't 'get' music. It might be 'a waste' as it does require some concentrated mental and physical application to ascend out of 'I can play Coldplay' into 'I can play Chopin'. It is a really demanding practice to become a classical musician.

Today, I don't really have an answer, or even a recommendation. I really think everyone should get the opportunity, but after that, it's a terribly difficult problem with no good answer.
Nevertheless, all three companies he led had engineer-driven management, with the kind of ad-hoc innovation culture typical of engineering companies, before Schmidt, all three became business-focused and narrow-minded after Schmidt. This results in excellent financial returns in the short term, followed by cliff diving.

Is he responsible? One is bad luck, two is coincidence, three is a trend.

P.S. No, I don't think Google will financially collapse. Not while there is no strong competition on the AdWords space. The change in culture is pretty obvious, though.
For maximum modularity, you can combine this with functions like "zoom" and "magnify" of module Control.Lens.Zoom. They let you convert stateful operations that work on a fragment of the global state/environment into operations that work with the whole state/environment (provided that you have the appropriate lenses.) Very useful in complex monad stacks.
"March 2014" WHAT! They should have done that immediately!
These sort of minor patents should either be invalid or only valid for a couple of years at the most.

It's the same as saying one phones corners can't be perfectly round or icons can be on a certain side of the screen.
Compression and out-of-core are not nearly discussed enough in the "big data" circles. The key challenge is efficiently using bandwidth-limited channels, whether it's a network link between nodes, the SATA bus between disk and RAM, or the memory channel between RAM and L3.

It's also why we are both building compression into the native storage format for Blaze, and why Blaze is designed to run out-of-core from the start.

https://github.com/ContinuumIO/blaze/blob/master/docs/source...
I was something of a pain in the ass as a kid. Attempts to punish me would typically embolden me and either make me act even worse in the future or merely work harder to not get caught. My parents found that talking to me (aka, 'reform') was more effective.

At the same time, the reason why I do not currently break the speed limit (to an excessive degree) when I feel that it is safe is that I am not keen on being slapped with a fine. Speeding fines are a punishment that seems effective at discouraging me from speeding.
The AH wasn't really the problem for D3. The problem was the basic stat balance issues created huge lottery items.

At launch for a Monk basically there were a handful of god stats (attack speed, life on hit, dex, all resist, your specific resist, magic find), a handful of ok stats and a large number of garbage stats. Now even a good stat can be worthless because of the large value ranges.

Back of the envelop numbers: say god stats are a 10, ok stats are 4 and dump stats are 2's. Now the MEDIAN item is (roughly) 1% of one with an avg amount of ideal stats (ideal stats with all high end values might be 30 times better).
You'd think that's true, but then again, look at how badly veterans are treated, especially those with deep psychological problems like PTSD.
"The sole purpose of this production is to obtain foreign intelligence information in support of [redacted, a quantity?] individual authorized investigations to protect against international terrorism and concerning various international terrorist organizations."

So collecting records of my mother's (domestic) phone calls serves this?

EDIT:
Also interesting: "no recipient of any section 215 Order has challenged the legality of such an Order, despite the explicit statutory mechanism for doing so." Thanks Verizon, AT&T, et al!
How to ship a product: what iOS 1.0 got right
A good decision terribly too late. The cash cow is dead and they're not going to bring it back and unsoil the franchise.
If github would make import/export a lot easier than it is today it would qualify as an open platform. Right now only the 'git' part of it is open (and git was open all along).
What we need is more research into bacteriophages, viruses that prey exclusively on bacteria, to combat the bacteria we don't want.

The enemy of our enemy is our friend.
So that appears to be how you deal with patent trolls. Ignore them, wait till they file suit, then demand they put up $50,000 surety bond to ensure that if they lose you will be paid your costs.

I wonder if you can demand this before getting legal advise?
Also: "pivoting."
I believe that it is. I don't want the punishment to be extreme, or to be in any form other than the deprivation of liberty, but I do think that the criminal justice system should inflict punishment for its own sake, and not just for the sake of deterrence.

I cannot prove this, and I personally am not inclined to believe in proofs from first principles in these matters, but I can appeal to people's gut sense of what is moral and decent. Who really believes that a person can murder someone else (and let's suppose that they were not raised in a violent or abusive environment that would tend to normalize acts of violence), out of pure malice, and then be allowed to enjoy the same happiness as if they hadn't committed that act?

I'm aware that there are people who don't really believe in "pure malice" and are therefore more sympathetic to murderers. While I'm happy to here their arguments, my own observations and experience suggest that there is tendency in human nature to do what is wrong, and this should be punished. I'm also not arguing against taking into account a person's upbringing and even their "mental health" when sentencing.
As much as I don't like meta comments I'm going to have to make one finally, because I think about it every day and just need to get it out there to at least relieve the pressure in my head.

Why is the top voted comment so often about the title of the story? I guess it's because it's the first thing we interact with and it frames our expectations, but man alive, the title is probably the least interesting thing about any article posted to HN but consistently I see top rated comments talking about the title. Maybe it's just lowest-common-denominator.

And it's not that I think the comments themselves are bad, it's just weird to me that I consistently see them at the top of the page.

Apologies for the meta rant, it won't happen again, at least from me. (In fact the reason we have a lot of meta comments might be the same as the reason we have a lot of title-comments making me a bit hypocritical, but I digress.)
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There's some deterrent in punishment, and there's also the deterring factor of preventing self-justice.

But the most important feature is healing for the victims, the partial return of justice. When someone is murdered or raped (let's not cloud the discussion with morally ambiguous crimes like drugs), the victims and their families have the fabric of their lives completely torn up; they experience immense pain and suffering. Yes, I'm going for pathos, and that's on purpose, pathos is central to the argument. The knowledge that the perpetrator has pain inflicted on him is an important factor in stitching their lives back together. I'd love for a proponent of the "rational" argument to sit down across from a mother whose daughter has been raped and explain that her feelings are irrational.

Yes, this is an irrational argument, but humans are irrational (the rape itself was probably a rather irrational act) - like it or not, that's a fact of how humans work. An order of society that ignores this fact is bound to fail.

There should be strong preventive measures in place, the best policy is the one where the crime isn't committed in the first place. Education and solid ways out of poverty are important factors here. Avoiding recidivism is also important. But once the crime is committed (which is the theme here), a narrow focus on rehabilitation is blind to the "red meat" of the issue.
You're more than welcome
Hey folks, YesGraph cofounder here. If you're working on an enterprise product, I'd love to hear what you think.
Thanks for your analysis. As you mentioned, it's a best-case scenario, too. If the payout comes in cash, at least you have some extra jingle to buy your mom a nice gift. After that, it's back to the office on Monday.
In my misspent youth I got into an altercation that escalated to the point of me being charged with attempted manslaughter[1].

The police picked me up late on a Friday and I spent the weekend in a Nassau county jail. It changed my life...

When I hear people dismiss the power of deterrence it makes me realize they don't have the particular category of cognition that was thrust upon me by my own impulsiveness. Seems like you have a similar context as I -- now may we both never lose it.

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[1]: yes; attempted manslaughter -- in New York Penal Law, "Attempt" is a separate article that can be applied to any crime: "§110.00 -- Attempt to commit a crime. A person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime when, with intent to commit a crime, he engages in conduct which tends to effect the commission of such crime."
Census: Typical Family Makes Less Today Than In 1989
In other words, you can imprison somebody not out of some sort of desire to "get back at them", and not with any hope of correcting their behavior, but merely to make sure they cannot injure people again.

This is the only truly just reason for impeding anyone's freedoms. Rehabilitation is certainly a noble end, but anything else seems to be disastrously misguided, as is evidenced by the modern situation we live in. Deterrence? How do you deter someone who has no other avenue to make a living, as we have done to felons? Retribution is also a truly vulgar line of thinking, appealing to our basest instincts, and we need to grow out of it as soon as possible.
I would add that Novell and Sun also failed through a strategy of focussing on enterprise and government market segements. Google is an open question here, but it's something to watch when a company is under Schmidt-control.
Wait, if the current Linux ZFS module doesn't interface with the Linux VFS, then how does the filesystem even work? Did they write a Solaris VFS -> Linux VFS bridge?
I think that the inconsistency of these designs is important. It reminds me of when the App Store was first opened for the public and the v1.0 of the apps we use today were launching. Apple has, effectively redone their entire ecosystem, design-wise, with iOS7. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out, especially once the designs start to become a bit more consistent.
iOS 7 is less about how it looks and more about how it feels. Hence screenshots are a poor medium for criticism compared to iOS 6.
why "captain" in quotes?
As a new player, I really liked the AH: Every single thing that dropped for me was either completely useless, or orders of magnitude worse than what people were throwing away on the AH for a pittance. (Sub-optimal stats went for cheap.) So, I could basically always find something that would be a significant upgrade every few levels.

If I had actually been seeing drops that were any good (due to a non-depressed drop rate), I'd have not felt the need for it ... but using the AH basically quadrupled my character's effectiveness. Using it was definitely part of "playing the game".

It made leveling great: You can freely vendor/DE almost everything you pick up if you want, and use the cash to buy things on the AH. Profit! At the end game, though, I can absolutely understand why that would kill the fun.
Meanwhile, still no side by side diffs :(
> 3. "Your margin is my opportunity."

Isn't that just Microeconomics 101?
You mean you don't like when pages hang with spinners because they're waiting 40sec for a Comscore (et al) tracker to download?
Seemed relevant to me. The question asked about compilers and the kernel is what compiled the compiler. Ken Thompsons' talk related to hiding code by adding code to a compiler then compile the compiler, remove the code then continue to compile the compiler with the modified version that doesn't have the source code - your modification remains.

Point being: both relate to compiling compilers.
It's better than nothing, but it's severely flawed. There is zero disincentive for filing false claims.
You: Making the documentation readable and easy to parse adds no value to projects! Everyone who disagrees should shut up.

If I'm being kind to you, HN commenters (myself included) should do a better job of commenting politely, and spend more effort making sure their criticism comes off as constructive rather than just whining and aggressive... ...but I think you make it sound like criticism of anything outside of the source code itself is creepy, rude, and disrespectful.
Maybe parent was doing some intertextual joke with Guevara's phrase "Viva la revolución"? Something like:

http://9gag.com/gag/47152
http://www.juicycouture.com/accessories-fragrance-viva-la-ju...
http://www.vivalacake.com/
http://vivalaandroid.spreadshirt.com/
I'd like to offer a counterpoint. I took classical piano lessons, and I didn't like it at the time, but now I'm glad I did. I still play from time to time. I think my appreciation for music in general is much greater because of it.
I don't think speeding fines are really punishment. It is a cost that you are not willing to pay without good reason. If you had sufficient reason to be in a rush, you might decide it was an acceptable cost. But the occasional fine doesn't really have pain and suffering attached, like loss of your license, damage to your reputation, jail time, etc.

Cost benefit analysis makes sense. "I am going to hurt you and make you suffer" rarely does. There are exceptions but it is generally a desperate ploy, not one focused on a goal. It is generally an admission that we don't know how to accomplish a civilized environment. We don't know how to design an effective society. We are too stupid, collectively, as Americans to achieve civil solutions. So we are sfimply going to hurt you.
Panorama thing is a software solution, it doesn't require any additional hardware.
Run upstairs...

"Use difficulty as a guide not just in selecting the overall aim of your company, but also at decision points along the way. At Viaweb one of our rules of thumb was run upstairs. Suppose you are a little, nimble guy being chased by a big, fat, bully. You open a door and find yourself in a staircase. Do you go up or down? I say up. The bully can probably run downstairs as fast as you can. Going upstairs his bulk will be more of a disadvantage. Running upstairs is hard for you but even harder for him." -- PG

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
ATLAS guy here. I agree with @toomuchtodo, we're stuck in the stone age. It's basically just batch processing and lots of copying data around for no reason.
BTW, thanks also for creating 'gocrawl'. We've been trying it out a little bit, it is working good so far!
Mike Skalnik (post author) will be at RobotsConf http://robotsconf.com and available to talk about this and other similar initiatives going on (make-me, etc). Still a few tickets left. Saw a couple comments about conferences and such, figured it would be worth mentioning.
pg also points this out in http://paulgraham.com/convince.html :)
The idea of grinding doesn't make sense period.
I disagree in my case.

My parents introduced me and my sister to piano at a young age. We both hated it. My parents gave up forcing me to play after a year whereas they continuously pushed my sister to play piano.

Now I can't play piano while my sister enjoys playing pop, jazz, classical pieces on piano.
You'd have to hire a team of people that can write good K. Since they're so highly in demand in the niche area of finance, you'll be paying a very pretty penny for them.
I do the same and use an HP ProLiant microserver (it was dirt cheap). ZFSOnLinux just worked out of the box and has kept working ever since.

Word to the wise: Read about the block size of your disks, mine are newer and needed a block size different than the default but I didn't know about it, and now they are slower than they could be. I don't remember details, but you will definitely find it in a cursory search.
I wonder what this means in terms of Microsoft's overall corporate direction... however, the scale isn't large enough to indicate that they intend to stop deploying cash to expand into new markets. (e.g., instead of throwing billions to promote bing, they just return the money to shareholders).

Still, it's a noteworthy change that might mark the beginning of a change towards the post-Ballmer era.
Ask HN: What are some good debuggers you have used, for C/C++
I think gdb sucks as it makes people guess where the bug might be. I would like some help from debugger as to what lines have been executed and where a bug may be...Also, it is line oriented, so it is lot of typing. Visual studio debugger is cool, but its still painful...
Looking at what bills the Prison Guards union gets behind or tries to stop, it is a very big amount of money. Corporations are not the only ones with a profit motive.
Wow, hats off to Blizzard for recognizing that the auction house was undermining the overall experience. Obviously this doesn't stop people from trading in-person, but Diablo 2 had it right and I'm pleased to see they went back to that route.