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"If" is not necessary here - current criminal prosecution system massively (90% of cases) relies on plea bargains which often are achieved by overcharging and making defendant's life as miserable as possible until they accept the deal. Including seizures, forfeitures and other tactics that hinder defendant's ability to hire council and may ruin their entire lives even if the are proven innocent.

So yes, "we've got bigger problems".
... implemented in Jikes RVM which is very far behind Oracle JVM. Herz and Berger (2005) based their experiment on Jikes RVM, too, and incorrectly concluded that GC needs 5x more memory to have acceptable performance comparable to malloc/free. Someone else redid their experiments using Oracle JVM and it turned out that it was not 5x, but 20%.
I guess I shouldn't have left off the <sarcasm> tag.
Coming from working in a publishing company...

It's definitely not the designers fault.

This is purely the result of mixed objectives and committee design. There will be fighting between a publisher, editorial, marketing, sales, designers and tech team.

Each dept. will have a trump card to have there say. Trapped in a false numbers game of milking the most pageviews out of whatever they can. While giving media buyers whatever they need to sell the space to there clients.

The designer will usually have a little or no say in what goes where. fact.
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This has been a long standing problem of my own. I think finding a true co-founder if you don't already have someone immediately present in your pool is extraordinarily difficult. The sub-optimal thing is especially difficult if you've already started (I'm 8 months in myself), and then it doesn't make sense to divide equity equally any more either, so you effectively end up with a "first employee" rather than a true co-founder.

I don't have an obvious solution to this problem. Looks like pushing forward alone (w/ a few odd employees) is the most likely option.

Also, it's not immediately clear to me that I would have been better off with a co-founder. There are so many value and design decisions to make early on that need to be established, and being able to make those fairly quickly and push forward with the bulk of the effort (first development, now sales) I think was a good position to be in.

That said, it is considerably easier to get in a funk as a single founder working longer hours than anyone else, constantly pushing forward without any discernible support. Having a girlfriend helped me with part of this for awhile -- although I had somewhat minimized working hours because of her, I also avoided any major "slump" periods.

Also, tracking all progress (lines of code written, tickets closed, commits, user adoption) has been great since I have weekly metrics that I'm always seeking to achieve. I think that's been the best way to keep me focused, and also to direct my focus at the most important goal at any given moment.

Also I still have lots of equity to give away -- if anyone reading this wants any, please let me know ;)
Messing with the law can improve your reputation, after all.

http://stackoverflow.com/users/1249338/frosty?tab=reputation...
Lavabit defied the initial court order that would give FBI access to all user's data and content as they demanded to install their own equipment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6487778
= falsify evidence against individuals in specific cases to hide their methods of obtaining the real evidence.
First of all, the secrecy pretense has been blown.

As for the rest -- it's hard to prove what secret sources the government used to motivate which actions. But as one example:

Being on the No-Fly List is pretty bad, and a lot of people are on it.
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Civil forfeiture requires only reasonable suspicion (preponderance of evidence) and does not require criminal conviction. So the bar for taking the assets is much lower than the bar for conviction.

>>> It should not in general be in the best interests of the federal court system to allow federal prosecutors to abuse asset seizures to prevent defendants from mounting competent defenses. Among other things, such abuses set judges up for costly appeals.

It is very well in the interest of the prosecutors, in order to extort plea bargain. And appealing the guilty plea would probably have a very low chance for success.
No, the difference this time is that FBI demanded to install their own equipment inside of Lavabit facilities, having access to all users' data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6487852
Information and cooperation is, I imagine, likely to end in your death far faster than death row...
That's what the technology is doing, but the patent covers more than that. Typical immoral assheadery.
I do not want to temp change my password on facebook every time I want to get some work..there must be a better way
I have a suspicion that with the rise of YC, at least for a time, there were people searching for a cargo cult co founder. Not someone who meets all the requirements you describe, but a co-founder for the sake of having one because PG said so.
I think this is true, but wow that article is such an impressive fireworks display of abstract optimistic language and marketing-ese that I have only a shadow of an idea of what they actually do -- as I'm sure was intended.
If a couple produces 50 zygotes togather, and the mother and father test all of them, and pick the one that sounds like it has the most appealing traits that a couple might envision together, and discard the rest, would that count as "design"?

This process sounds like it's half a step away from that. The half-step being that they only mention testing the parents, and then the process permits a degree of hypothesizing about possible children. Meanwhile, how hard would it be to test an embryo in utero, and then make a shallow, superficial decision about the pregnancy?

The process is practical and ethical, when considering it's utility for assessing the risk of inherited, incurable diseases tied to varying combinations of dominant or recessive genes, but it's a flimsy assumption that it will solely be used for only those scenarios.

There will be couples with known risk factors, who will want to roll the dice and try anyway, because they love eachother and want a family, and then they check their pregnancy in utero for things like downs syndrome. But then, if you have the options in front of you, why not check out other characteristics too?

And then, if couple A was allowed to do that, and this is a business, after all... Why not couple B? This couple who has no life threatening conditions or genetic combinations, but has the money, and the confidentialitiy of protected health information laws shrouding their decisions in secrecy.

In 20 years, don't be surprised when a certain cross-section of humanity suddenly looks strikingly different, but without any obvious explanation.
Yeah, but by definition you'd never hear about it - Lodsys would have to insist on complete secrecy.
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I don't this is really a killer feature in this age of always connected devices.
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It would be nice when a company is shuttered or acquired for it to briefly state what it did in the announcement. I saw one business last night that had been acquired by Google with no mention of its purpose.
If you pin a website to the homepage you avoid paying 30% to apple/google on any purchase. I wonder how the numbers are backing out though.
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Yes, so it is relevant to note that democracy does not prove rightness or wrongness of an idea. As many others have pointed out, democracy is the best form of government because of two reasons :

1. It ensures that absolute idiots cannot come to power

2. It reduces conflict ( 'You don't like what the government is doing? Too bad, you voted for it!' ).
It basically catches the new 'little rich' in exchange for bulldozing over the majority of people caught up by the criminal system. The ones who have personal fortunes under $10 million or have little experience with it. Taking 9/11 at face value, it's like how the response to 9/11 cost the USA so much more than the actual effects of 9/11.

After you starting dealing with the 'experienced rich' you find they start becoming skilled in hiding such financial resources. It's even harder when it's an entire multi-national organization and you are not an English speaking country or China. It's the story of marrying a wealthy daughter of some incredibly wealthy family, and finding out in the divorce she only has $5000 to her actual name, and your the one who will be paying alimony to her.

Going to the root of the problem in the first place, how do these large criminal organizations even exist? It's because government law going against technological reality have created large market opportunities to exploit in the first place. Governments have created the fertile land for these creatures to exist.
It basically catches the new 'little rich' in exchange for bulldozing over the majority of people caught up by the criminal system. The ones who have personal fortunes under $10 million or have little experience with it. Taking 9/11 at face value, it's like how the response to 9/11 cost the USA so much more than the actual effects of 9/11.

After you starting dealing with the 'experienced rich' you find they start becoming skilled in hiding such financial resources. It's even harder when it's an entire multi-national organization and you are not an English speaking country or China. It's the story of marrying a wealthy daughter of some incredibly wealthy family, and finding out in the divorce she only has $5000 to her actual name, and your the one who will be paying alimony to her.

Going to the root of the problem in the first place, how do these large criminal organizations even exist? It's because government law going against technological reality have created large market opportunities to exploit in the first place. Governments have created fertile land for these creatures to exist.
You have to weight the pros and cons. Hosting yourself, means you have to get a proper location with power, internet connection, ect. You have to get and pay for this anonymously. You do have a greater control over it.

If it's colocated, you only have one type of payment to do, and I'm fairly sure it's easier to be anonymous. You have less control over this location, and have to worry about their logging of access and the like.
Its really not, designers in publishing companies do not have final say. The publishers do.

These are established companies with existing management structures. The owners / management controlling the brands will have briefed in a designer to implement all of these elements.

There priority will be leverage the audience of esquire, to allow them maximise the sales they can do via media buyers.

Audience development for sites like these, is often only minimally effected by design. Especially considering these are established brands. They already get the numbers, they dont need to earn them.

Web designers are just the people paid to put the designs together options together for management to choose from.
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No it was not different because it was for Edward Snowden, but because even if Snowden was named in the order, the FBI wanted the access to everything by installing their own device on the point where nothing is encrypted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6487778
Well it didn't take long, but it seems it's already been scripted to blast porn image in there. Would it perhaps be a good idea to have a per user pixel throttle?
Well i've decided to donate a little for the good cause BUT i also don't like the "American" word in the title.

It seems to be a typical American thing to state it like this (i read it in many news articles about the mass surveillence topic) and I find it very repulsive because it somehow states "we, the Americans, are superior". That's a disgusting thing to say about oneself in my opinion.

"Let's rally for Lavabit to fight for the privacy rights of the people on the internet"...
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> Does it then make sense to bring on board a sub-optimal co-founder, one whose skill sets may be similar to yours, and who may not share that close a friendship or history with you, and whom you cannot blindly trust?

This is very true. It is really difficult to find someone with all those qualities and also be as passionate as you are on that idea or gets the true vision. I feel it would be best to not rush into getting a co-founder for VCs / incubators' sake but to just keep a door open for when you do find someone. Till then, do not stop or doubt.
If you've ever tried to get a decent connection on a train through England on a particular network, you'd disagree :)
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It wouldn't be exploitative if the money was merely a thank you.

But the money wouldn't be merely a thank you. Not for everyone.

If you were making a standard offering on mechanical turk it's likely* that you would find workers that are in poverty, needing it as income, finding themselves working obscene numbers of hours. As example, a system that tries to get someone to work 90 hour weeks can easily be worse than no income at all.

*based on the GP, no personal research done
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Were you using an old version of svn? Merging has gotten a lot better starting with 1.5.

I don't agree with most of the points in that post. Let's go through them:

1. "It doesn't have merge tracking." That was true at one point: manual merge tracking was indeed a miserable, error-prone experience. But automatic merge tracking was introduced five years ago, so this criticism is no longer relevant.

2. "You have to see everyone's experimental branches." This is not so: you can use any directory hierarchy you like, so you can cordon off experimental branches any way you want. A common workflow is to have a directory per engineer, in which case you don't see their private branches until you go poking around in their directory. And storing private branches on the server (where they get backed up) can only be a good thing.

3. "git better handles sending patches around through uniquely identifiable revisions." Here "uniquely identifiable" means across separate repositories. This is only relevant in a truly distributed system, where there really is no central server containing the truth. For the truly distributed case, git is clearly to be preferred. But most teams really do use a central server. Like github!

Overall, I think the answer is: it doesn't matter much. git and svn in their modern forms are both very powerful and capable tools. There's a few cases where one excels the other: git is better if you have multiple repositories, while svn is better if you have a large quantity of images or binary files. But for most teams, either tool is more than adequate, and it comes down to experience or personal taste.
Where do you read that "only one user"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6487852
This is exactly where I'm at right now. Though you're 6 months ahead of me, our experiences sound identical. I'm able to move very quickly and make decisions on the fly (user today after I pushed an update: "Wow, so fast! Do you ever sleep?"), which has been extremely beneficial thus far.

> That said, it is considerably easier to get in a funk as a single founder working longer hours than anyone else, constantly pushing forward without any discernible support.

Yes. Interestingly enough, I've found that when I get in a 'coding funk', switching to sales mode is a nice way to 'unfunk'. Instead of writing code, I write emails, reach out to existing users, and foster relationships with potential future users. Not only is it nice to interact with people, it is just as important as writing code and something that has to be done at some point. So why not do it while taking a break from coding?
A show like this really needs someone like Mark Cuban in a very strong position as the equivalent of a creative director. The reality TV people could be good at turning whatever goes on into a good episode (or using enough nasty tricks to keep you watching for the next 5 minutes). To be a great show they need great material. In this case, that means the best companies need to want to pitch. The deals need to be envied by other investors. That's hard to manufacture and it probably won't be achieved unless someone like Mark Cuban is making it happen. A TV producer thinking from the perspective of shots & scenes & backstory shouldn't be making any decisions about deal terms.

Exhibitionist fundraising might actually work if the deal terms were acceptable and your intended market happened to watch Shark Tank. Imagine square raised-launched on this kind of show.
In my, limited, experience having a cofounder is great for checks and balances. Sometimes you really need someone you trust to tell you you're being an idiot.
> Most of its best features made it into other languages

No. A few of them have, usually in needlessly restricted and nigh-broken forms (Ruby's blocks are a pale and pitiful shadow of Smalltalk's). I've yet to see message cascading or conditions outside of lisps and smalltalk.
Are you taking offense to the intellectual property issue or the ability to influence the genetics of your offspring?
I'm loving abusing this! The only problem is there are too many people trying their scripts at the same time, but it's really cool you left it completely hackable!

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Edit: Ok, definitely too many people abusing it...
This is a bit true for me. I expended a lot of effort looking for a co-founder, even though it was not obviously true that a co-founder would help me with the particular project I was in. To a certain extent, it was Mark Suster's insistence that a co-founder is not necessary and you can just "go it alone" if you have the cojones/stamina that made me say f' it, I'm just going to do it on my own.

Actually, the breaking point was when the "co-founder" I found told me on the day after I arrived in Berlin to work on the project full time that he wouldn't be able to join in. In this case, he had a totally legit reason (his wife was in the hospital with cancer), but it was probably the case that aligning things as far as a "co-founder" was never necessary from the beginning. Either way, it was a bit catastrophic mentally for me for a couple weeks, toying with merging with a different startup in the same space instead of going full stop ahead on my own. Even now loneliness sometimes takes its toll.

Thankfully, in the end I spent a lot more time on product than worrying about finding a new co-founder, and we have a pretty d* good product now and 30% growth across our KPIs for the last two months. Not really a lot of cash in the bank account, but hell, this is Europe and investors like to sit on their money instead of invest it.
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The comment you're replying to very clearly focused on such a wage as being bad in the US. Sure, if the worker is somewhere that 25 cents an hour is livable, then everything works out okay.
didn't say she just started doing that, just that she's 15 months. she was doing this for at least a couple of months now.

children really grow faster than adults comprehend...
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You're ignoring the problems - you get half the bandwidth, you get zero bandwidth if anything goes wrong, most of the costs aren't halved - tools, servers, services etc still cost the same. Salaries, travel, and so on are, but those aren't very big costs at the start. Buying in marketing or development or whatever is much more expensive than having a founder doing it because founders are really, really cheap.

My first startup was with a co-founder. My current one is as a single founder. Having someone else onboard is definitely better. If there was someone compentent around who shared my vision for Pitcher.io I'd definitely work with them.
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Good points. I tend to do a poor job at context switching. Once I get in a coding mood I become extraordinarily anti-social and vice versa. Also, frankly, I'm not that great at sales, at least compared to watching friends of mine who are professionals. But yeah, I'm going to try this anyways.
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Yes, the US government does have the power to forcibly shut down US based multinationals for violating US law and sending the appropriate people to jail. At worst they could forcibly nationalize Facebook if they felt it was part of critical national infrastructure/upset too many voters. And I don't believe they are less scared of a nuclear Iran than they are of MS.
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Life being finite years is indeed a problem.

But there is hardly any point in long life, when you get weak, sick and lose all the teeth as you age.

Health is the key, not old age. If life were to be infinite, with all the suffering around it would be a curse not a blessing.
I agree with the idea but not the don't be specific. The main thing I'd say about "maintenance agreements" is make it clear what they are and aren't getting.

Does it cover upgrades to work with new versions of another OS/framework/database whatever?
Does it cover new functionality?
Does it cover bug fixes? If so is there an SLA?
Is it limited in some way? X incidents? Y hours of your time?

There are such a range of these things that if you're not careful you end up with disappointed customers when it could easily have been avoided.

That's not to say it has to be comprehensive. Corporate organisations will pay a lot for a small amount of peace of mind, but make it clear.
At least, the Americans should fix their constitution to say that their institutions ain't allowed to spy on any human without proper judical oversight. Otherwise, as you, I don't care about their legal system.
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I think that sort of personality type wouldn't do well in YC selection process anyway. They are unlikely to have many interesting hack stories if they are the sort of person trying to conform. I would guess that such fake co-founders would be spotted and questioned pretty quickly and that this would be a mark against acceptance.

But its still a good idea to encourage founders to have a co-founder. They may not listen, but it might be the extra nudge they need.
Actually, all of the severe bugs there are fixed and/or no longer apply.

Linking to ancient bugs that were fixed a long time ago is pointless, every popular piece of server software would have bugs.

So, care to name five?
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Neither it is in git. See the discussions about how rebased commits are often preferred.
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In the future the opposite sex will not only judge us on look and wealth but also on genetic material. We're leaving DNA traces everywhere. Once the DNA samplers become small enough it's just a matter of time before an "app" that does that exists. Welcome to the future :)
There's another way of thinking about it, that involves no paternalistic behavior. The government forces you to put an accurate price on transactions. For example, say you have a year-old good-condition car. As I understand it, you can sell it for around what it's worth, considering circumstances, or you can give it away, but you can't sell it for $50.