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I've often wondered about the possibility of gaming HN through it's participants. For example, pre-emptively down-voting yourself from a second account early on in a busy article, possibly with a reply using that second account noting you don't know why anyone would feel the need to down-vote that...
I got to Scroogled.com and thought it was some anti-google site cobbled together by a cranky blogger out looking for some corporate interest representing 'the man' to pick on. I can't believe it was assembled by the marketing department of one of the most recognizable brands in the world.

I think the actual ad is at least a bit clever, but this 'scroogled!' catchword and in particular this absurd website they came up with just makes the whole thing nauseating.
You're always welcome. You've got a long road ahead of you, but that's not a bad thing. That means plenty of opportunities. Work hard, take advantage of the awesome opportunities in this thread, and push for others. If you don't ask, you don't get, so don't be shy.

I'd wish you good luck, but you don't need it. It sounds like you've already got a wonderful family. That makes you a pretty lucky guy when you think about it.

Just keep your head up, and know that you've got a lot of people rooting for you.
My parents spent their life savings to have me—a second child in China
It would be interesting if (inplementors of a majority of the client software installed base of) the community declared and anti-hoarders coup, and refused to verify transactions involving the low ID bitcoins.
I don't care with which tech stack a website was built. The really interesting thing for a quick check is more: does the website use SSL for sensitive data?
I have failed on 5 different ventures. Now going to try a 6th.

I am in the Bay Area. If we share a common grocery store. I'd be happy to send you a gift card for some groceries.
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But $1B in nominal marginal priced BTC is faaar less liquid (less order book depth) than most other assets.
My situation is very similar to yours.

(Although if I'd founded a multi-million dollar start-up I don't think I"d be interested in continuing school)
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Somehow I got on an email list which low-tier universities use to spam potential students like this. He's right, they really are desperate for fresh blood.
ow... I tried reading, and largely failed. The only thing I got out of that was "Energy density of universe is conserved. universe is expanding. Therefore, total energy is increasing." But not sure if even that part is correct.
Zed is often misunderstood by those who have never spent time with him in person.

He's a hoot! Funny, insightful, earnestly well-intentioned and full of ideas that are IMHO way ahead of the curve.

Him reaching out to help is not surprising.
Yes, that's true, point to you! I'm not sure I would call it 'popular' though. Maybe 'somewhat common among people with no other possible options outside of death or prison (death).'
Exposing a weakness in the post-journal open access publishing model. Non peer reviewed work getting more attention thannpeer reviewed work. At least on boards like HN, which I guess never respected the academic community as much as bloggers anyway.
I don't personally know Zed outside of his internet persona -- and to me it seems like he's just a guy who doesn't put up with bullshit. I have never seen a time where he's an asshole to anyone who isn't shooting first. He puts his opinions out there and sometimes those cause flame wars so if you catch him in the middle of one those on Twitter then I can definitely see where people might think he's a jerk.

His tweets are comedy gold though -- highly recommend everyone follow him -- @zedshaw

edit: case and point -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6806748
What about the "Internet Exploder"(that term is true). Microsoft has taken it's fare share of insulting and I don't believe calling things "Scroogled" made by Google are far from the truth. It is funny because it is true, they are using some great coding, marketing and anything else under the sun to screw us or at least the competition (we as consumers will pay soon enough). We all know this. They have great products, but that is NOT a typical laptop, it is a glorified Search Engine. I personally have insulted Microsoft products a lot in my time, but you have to admit, they are getting scroogled by many of these hyped up minimalist products, that do not offer half of what a PC, MAC or *nix (Ubuntu/Mint) can give you.
>Would you provide your card details with the same ease you would on a different website?

The only thing I'd look for would be EV SSL. No "green bar", no credit card.
It depends on your price target. I personally think BTC is going to the tens of thousands in the next few years so I see no reason to sell now and even buying at $1k is still relatively cheap.
How are you still eating and have a roof if you failed five times? Did you take gigs on the side, or get back on your feet via work in between ventures?
No. While Bitcoin is still insanely young, it is hardly at the early point by which I would say this is still an early adopter phase anymore.
You're getting a lot of this in this post, but I'd be happy to connect you to my network as well. Email me at mkijewski (gmail).
Actual wrecks from actual accidents. Not fatal ones, but still serious enough that you got to see how the cars were deformed by collision.
> Why? Because the forced deflation is a Dick Move of epic proportions: favoring early adopters for no good reason.

No good reason? Does there have to be one?

If the protocol succeeds despite your assertion that there is no good reason to favor early adopters, will you change your mind that the reason was immaterial?

http://paste.lisp.org/+307S
p.s. I have a fractional child as well. I'm familiar with the stress.
pls put up a paypal acc and we can all chip in..
I agree - I'm not holding my breath.
I replied to the general email, and would love if this post found it's way back to someone in the admissions office.
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RPS and $ are not interconvertible units, unless that 1M RPS is financed by the interest on a $10 investment.
Hey man, sorry to hear. I really hope things work out for you. I really do. But, even if things go south for a long time, I sort of envy you. At least you've tried. I haven't done shit. I keep wanting to try. At least I can say at the end of my life, "You know what? I wasn't a success, but I followed my dreams and passions."

But, I still hope your situation will be better several years from now.
having an mba and getting some job that pays me $250k/year to do basically nothing would be a great plan B in case my company goes belly up.

running your own company makes working a job, any job, even the golden handcuffs elite jobs, look like a fucking cakewalk. no joke.
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This is going to backfire.

All it will take is one Kickstarter campaign to fund an anti-Microsoft ad (and isn't that a tempting target), and a site to aggregate all the entries. The media will do the rest..

I'd bet they would get professional entries from major advertising houses, just because of the media exposure it would be bound to get.
Hey There. 138 comments in, it may seem trite, but if you're in NYC, please shoot me an e-mail (info in my profile). I'm hiring across the board; even if it's just freelance to get you back on your feet, we can work something out. Please e-mail.
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Well, he did call _why a dick (which is just a no in my book), but when all is said and done I think this is irrelevant. He's giving a guy in need a hand, and I think we should all look up to Zed for it.
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> Laws don't keep people from taking tangible items, they only punish afterwards.

So now all laws are "legal fiction"?

> The only thing that stops someone from taking something tangible from you is your ability to stop them. Nothing stops someone from making a copy of information they already have.

And my point is, your ability to stop them, absent the so-called "legal fictions", is about as weak as a creator having their work ripped off. If you doubt this, ask yourself how many people in the world are more than capable of taking stuff away from you.

> This discussion is about intentionally published knowledge.

Actually, it's about control of information. You don't want your private data published because you fear it may harm you. Creators want to publish their works because they hope to profit from it. If you expect your "rights" to be respected even though little stops people (coughNSAcough) from taking it, why should creators not expect respect for theirs?

Essentially, most works are intentionally published with the expectation that something will be given back in exchange. Otherwise you might as well say people are "intentionally publishing" loaves of bread in supermarkets and you could just take them. (And since about 40% of supermarket perishables are wasted on the shelves anyway, hey, they're only about 60% rivalrous anyway!)

> Even during war none of those is the common case. That's why we prosecute people for those crimes in times of war too.

War is an atrocity precisely because this does become the common case. And that we (make feeble attempts to) prosecute for war crimes means that even then it's not OK.

> Yes sir, Mr Valenti!

I guess that means you think non-consensual sex is perfectly fine!

> Again, secret versus public.

What does that have to do with the "human nature to share"?
I was kinda sad when I did a whois and found that it actually was on the Microsoft nameservers [1].
Really expected better out of Redmond.. shame on them.

[1] http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=scroogled.co...
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I think the parent poster meant that the witch hunts in the 21st century related to bitcoin only grow trust in the bitcoin community that witchhunts are destined to fail.

More people see that having financial privacy is a good thing, and trust in bitcoin grows.
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Icelancer, typically when users have any issues we offer a refund if they wish to leave the service, I can say that one was offered in this case as well. I do take issue with our "CSRs lying" though. Reading through the tickets, it is absolutely accurate that our dashboard was misrepresenting the data. It was showing Tedivm's data as still being there (or available), when in reality it was deleted weeks before the license was purchased for the account (after a trial expires we maintain data for 7 days, then remove it, though we do send alert emails stating that the trial is ending and the data will be removed). In Tedivm's case the license was purchased over 20 days after the trial expired.

Our CSR didn't understand the issue that was occurring, because he had not experienced this particular problem before. The CSR was not deliberately trying to mislead anyone, and in truth once the issue was escalated and we realized was going on, we learned that Tedivm had a legitimate complaint, that we had a visual bug that was showing the data as still being there when it was not. Once we realized what was going on, we acknowledged the issue and we've since fixed that glitch as well, so now expired trials with their data deleted show that they have 0 files available online.

I can go in to further into detail, but we try to keep all customer information/support queries private. We did do a bit more training with the CSRs about identifying atypical issues like this one, so hopefully they can be found out earlier in the support process instead of after a bit of back and forth as was the case this time.
I started reading the sequence a while ago. I'm confident I understood everything, up until the dialogue between the aliens who split their brains. There were simply too many streams of consciousness for me to follow. At that point, I decided to quit and come back to it after a few months. I find that sometimes, looking at a problem with a fresh mind is enough to solve it instantly.
Parent doesn't have any degree and the minimal qualification for almost all Google's software engineering is a bachelor. I am sure some people are exceptions.... like the most brilliant people you find probably just too famous to deal with a degree. I guess they just want to ensure most of the people at Google (except the reallly really really top famous talents one) are at least on the same page? I guess? And it might be easier to calculate salary as well. I am not saying parent is not smart - just referencing what is listed on the career page.
Yes indeed. The first time they actually scraped the blockchain.info website, this time they've finally figured out that the blockchain is public and parsed a local blockchain.dat

The New World is built on the results of that generation of cryptographers, but they can't keep up.
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According to my calculator, selling 1000 BTC on Bitstamp would yield $867,833 with a slippage/liquidity cost of $28,958, or around 3% of 'face value.'
I'm sure that would be nice to have. I'm can relate to OP, I'm out of pretty my all of my savings and trying to think of ways to shutter my co. I already have four kids. When a friend of mine said to me, "perhaps we should disect this failure", the zing from that made it all that much worse.

I'm sure there's plenty of lessons to be learned from failed startups, but even 5 years after my first failed startup, I still don't like thinking about it, least of all documenting what went wrong.

Now, fortunately I do have a venture that's been somewhat of a runaway success, in spite of me. The only truth I can relate do what you must and then get lucky. There isn't some secret method to success(despite what your methodical brain tells you).

It may be survivor bias or whatever, but I still don't like harping on my failures. I know the severe guilty feeling that I get knowing that I not only risked my own but my family's well being possibly, but then again, at least I tried. Life's tough, live to fight another day & survive long enough till you get lucky. I for one am not looking to revisit my failure any more than I already do, it's too traumatic to relive.
http://www.scroogled.com/Home says "stop Google reading your email". The same page links to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/microsoft-se..., which says, in part:

we may occasionally use automated means to isolate information from email, chats, or photos in order to help detect and protect against spam and malware, or to improve the services with new features that makes them easier to use. When processing your content, Microsoft takes steps to help preserve your privacy.

That document links to http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/default.mspx, which says:

We use the information we collect to provide the services you request. Our services may include the display of personalized content and advertising.

Pot. Kettle. Black.
I appreciate your kind words to the OP, but... is that really true?

"Whatever you learned during that time should be valuable assets/skills in many startups"

I can not imagine for one moment failing in a business, taking a job at a startup, and having the owner(s) or others say "well... you've tried this before and failed - what's your input on XYZ?" In fact, I essentially went through this years ago, and could not find anyone who ever put any stock or value in my failures.

In one particular case it was very maddening because I watched the owners make several of the same mistakes I'd made just 2 years earlier, which ended up in me folding my company. Less than a year after I joined, they laid off half the workforce, then folded later. Try as I might to help in some way (not to take over, but to keep my job!), my previous experience of failure was not a valuable asset to that company.

Maybe it was just all the situations I was in aren't "the norm", but I just don't see it actually happening.
Yes, Basically it was a condition of my employment. They also offered me much less than any other company in the Valley would have. I didn't take it.

There are a few companies that put a lot of weight on degrees, and some that even restrict to specific degrees. Google often won't let certain positions go to people who aren't CompSci.

And there are a few places in the Valley where if you aren't a Stanford, MIT, or Ivy League grad you won't get an interview.
Update: Not sure if someone actually read my reply, but I just received this from Drexel, unprompted.

http://i.imgur.com/JP8c0i6.png
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Don't feel bad about bringing a story of failure. You're keeping it real and there's nothing more valuable than a dose of reality sometimes.
This is an argument that can be leveled against the vast majority of non-exact science experiments. You can make the same argument against all non-theoretical parts of economics, "large scale" physics, climate theory, and all humanities.

Therefore in most sciences (essentially outside of logic and theoretical mathematics) this argument is considered invalid. It's not wrong, but it's useless and counterproductive : it precludes most scientific progress.

Economics (the practical kind) is the study of a chaotic system that is formed by the intentions and actions of all humans on this planet, and lots of phenomena that don't even originate on this planet (e.g. the distribution of minable materials on our planet is the result of tiny pressure differences in our solar system's previous sun (the one that went nova and eventually re-coalesced into the current one)). Therefore you can obviously say that whatever economics comes up with is inaccurate (limited, and unknown, accuracy), and sometimes has chaotic phenomena (meaning theory and practice diverge a little bit, but the difference blows up quickly over time and prediction versus reality become unrecognizably different).

Even though random large changes are possible, and in fact chaotic phenomena happen regularly outside of economics too (the ejection of rocks from the asteroid belt is one example that is repeated daily), but we happily perform science as if it never does.

Is it correct ? No

Is there any other way ? No
I thought the parent was being sarcastic.
> I got to Scroogled.com and thought it was some anti-google site cobbled together by a cranky blogger out looking for some corporate interest representing 'the man' to pick on.

Funny you should say that ... There used to be a site called scroogle.org which was kind of like that, allowing "anonymous" searches by scraping Google while advertising gold and libertarianism on the side.
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I'll bet - Sounds very exciting. Hopefully someday one of my own projects takes off.
I'm not arguing that the current monetary value of gold is appropriate; I'm simply answering the parent's question as to why gold was "chosen" to be valuable: it has many practical uses.
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TBH, when I first started following Zed on twitter I thought he was an ass, but recently something changed. Now he just seems like a normal dude who kills it.
I pulled out of my dive before going broke, but not by much. Licked my wounds, got a job, built up my savings for three years and now can try again, this time much wiser (and less risky) for the experience. Survival is success, I was told early on, and...yep.
I realize your comment is snark, but the lesson I take is to build your app in Rails, then if you become multi-billion dollar IPO-level success, rewrite...
We do recommend having a 3-2-1 backup (3 total copies, 2 local (1 original, 1 local external), and 1 offsite (where Backblaze comes in). In Tedivm's defense though, he did find an actual glitch in our UI that occurred in edge cases, and we've since fixed it. The unfortunate part is that he lost data when we no longer had a copy, and we're actively working on additional ways to avoid that in the future.
I'm late to the party. But I'm also willing to help you. If you're technical and need a recommendation for a job in the Midwest shoot me an email and maybe in my limited way I can help you. Good luck!
good guy zed shaw. kudos to you sir, and if you ever want to grab a beer/bourbon around SF message me! good deeds need to go rewarded
I'm at a decent MBA program right now and from what I've gathered from the admissions process, I would conjecture that accepting you would "hurt their rankings" too much and thus they would reject you no matter how good you were technically.

IMHO MBA these days is just a pipeline for people to move up in their very rigid career tracks (professional services, just checking off a check box) or shift industries/functions. The focus is not on learning. I would honestly dissuade you from applying regardless of what your GPA was.

edit: If you're interested in hearing the gory details, shoot me a msg. Details are in profile :)
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Really sorry to hear the situation you're in. I've shared my story of failure and entrepreneurial depression here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrUw4S76jFQ

A few people have told me that it helped them in tough times.

I have a small child and another on the way so I can only guess how you feel right now. Entrepreneurship is hard. Ping me at steli@close.io if you ever need someone to listen.
There's a huge difference, though, which is that Apple pulled it off. The "I'm a PC" ads might have been barbed, but they were also funny, and managed to keep it upbeat. Whereas this "Scroogled" campaign just comes across as sullen and petulant.

Scalzi's Law: The failure mode of "clever" is "asshole".
ha, good one.
Here's more nitty-gritty from Oracle: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-Ma...

If I'm following, a Java string used to be a []char and offset/count ints, and this change let them drop those ints. You saved RAM if you had a lot of little strings, but paid for extra copying if you took lots of substrings.

Go slices/strings don't have a pointer to the "original" backing array, just a pointer to the first byte in this (sub)string. It doesn't need extra fields to do substrings by reference.

I think part of the technical reason for the different string headers is that the Java designers didn't want their GC to have to handle "internal pointers" into strings/objects (maybe for performance reasons?), whereas the Go designers decided to support 'em (maybe to support more C-like code in Go?).
"If you use Microsoft, then you're a clueless dork" is just as aggressive as this campaign. It did at least use a bit more whimsy, though.
Can you offer your general location? Might help those of us with connections that might offer employment opportunities you'd be interested in.
Yes. The particular position was related to Video Compression. There are maybe 10 people in the whole world at my level in that space. We each have slightly different skill sets, so I will say "same" level. There are probably 50 in the world that are comparable in that they have enough working knowledge to know where to look something up to do 90% of what the top 10 can do.

Most of those have a PhD but in the top 10, myself and one other have no degree, 2 have art degrees (film stuff).

In the top 50 few have masters, 2 don't even have highschool diplomas.
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