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Would you take the same position if this guy had contributed money to a less socially acceptable cause? Would you defend a CEO with a history of donating to the KKK anti-interracial-marriage fund as the public face of Mozilla?
Steve Jobs wasn't okay with Google hiring anyone who ever applied for a job at Apple. Or really, even people with last names that began with "Mac"
Microsoft Office is broadly used throughout the business world.

Adobe sells to an industry niche of creative professionals. That's a substantially different situation. A lot more computers have Word installed than Photoshop.
Both releases (5.5 and 5.6) since Oracle acquired MySQL have been mostly pain-free and have brought excellent scalability and performance improvements. If you remember the fiasco that Sun gave us with MySQL 5.1, I think you'd find Oracle's stewardship a welcome change.
I think these poaching agreements had more to do with IP than salary escalation. The interaction here makes it clear - the employees were no longer with apple, hence there was no hypothetical counter offer to give.
Just because a person may have a mental health condition that has no bearing on their intelligence. You'd know that if you actually knew what the fuck you were talking about.

It's a bit like saying "This is either made up or the auditor has AIDS". Implying that people with AIDS are retards which as we all know is completely untrue (well they might be but this has no relation to them having AIDS). Please get a clue before posting shit on the web.
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Thanks! (and good luck on your next thing!)
I think that's a great idea, haxe, openfl & FD are all projects that have made my life significantly better - they should get some support!
Using the Laser terminology seems to be completely off.
> Those consequences shouldn't include "losing your job" or "being treated differently at work", else there's no freedom of speech.

Yes, they can. Freedom of speech is a right that you have before the state, not in front of you fellowship.

Everyone is fully entitled to refuse to follow you, on whichever ground they please, including a public or private statement by you.
> I did not hear anything you would not expect to hear from most of the statesman in the west in a similar situation.

What are you talking about?!?

The head of secret service states: "If need be, I'll send 4 lads to Syria. I'll make them fire 8 rockets back to Turkey in order to produce a valid reason to go to war. We can make them attack the Soliman Shah mausoleum"

Is this NORMAL in your opinion? Does that have anything defendable?
>I can’t walk away from these people nor the cause I share with them nor the potential for Mozilla to once again be known as the champion to all but neither can I continue to earn my living from Mozilla while it is seen to exclude and alienate anyone.

Translation: I need the attention and the feeling I'm doing something great for a large cause, so I'm forcing it, even though nothing has been done to any Mozilla employee, just because we elected a CEO whose PERSONAL opinions on some certain civil rights differ than mine.
They have that for the android bundles, although their app is pretty shitty.
I'm a little mystified by his syllogism here. OK, there is no neuronal activity, but what we measure is electrical, yes? Neurons also store information chemically; and Parnia observes that keeping the brain oxygenated is essential to recovery because brain cells enter apoptosis in the absence of oxygen. I can't help feeling that this is like saying there's no electrical activity in a battery when it's not wired up, therefore the electricity must be coming from somewhere else outside the battery.

Mind, I don't necessarily disagree with his thesis; for reasons of my own I think there's something to his notion of brain-as-antenna. It might be that the writer misunderstood him or omitted some necessary context from the money quote due to a lack of scientific insight. I'll look up his book, which sounds quite interesting.
It still dominates overwhelmingly in enterprise, but at homes? People might have a windows box, but lots of older adults (people over 40) just use an iPad in front of the TV instead.

My mum hasn't touched her PC in several months.
Stripe isn't the vendor, they're the payment processor for the vendor; that decision isn't up to Stripe, it's up to the vendor. Your relationship isn't with Stripe, it's with the vendor. Your recourse is with the vendor as well, not Stripe.

The solution to this is block chain escrow through a third party.
The first day in Spanish class in middle school we had to pick a "Spanish name" for ourselves. We were called by that name the entire year by our teacher, and she insisted we call each other by our Spanish name.

In the Northeast United States.
The answer to food poverty does not lie in making foods cheaper
I totally agree with this. I usually turn my monitor brightness down to the lowest setting (my work monitor has been set this way for years). I've done the A/B testing on myself and find that I will develop something like a mild headache (probably eye strain) after a day of working at the default brightness. On my old LCD monitor the brightness would reset if power got disconnected so I did the experiment several times accidentally. My current monitor (Dell U3014) remembers the setting across power resets. I have my brightness control set to zero. It looks dim at first but after a few minutes it looks completely normal and you forget about it.
There is nothing to indicate Google & Apple relationships soured before 2007, when Android was unveiled. Prior to that, by all public accounts they enjoyed a relatively amicable partnership.

Moreover, simply having a mobile ambition isn't that big of a deal in and of itself. Jobs viewed the close imitation of iOS features as being tantamount to theft. I'm thinking of grid layout, multitouch, swipe to unlock, etc. This is, at least by his own account, what lay behind all the "thermonuclear war" hyperbole.
If that quote at the end is accurate, that would be a very disappointing culture to be apart of.
On the other side of things, it provides a nice reason to not hire those people. I've seen managers take it on as a bit of "rationalization debt." If you can't give a good reason for something, find something or someone to blame it on.
I'd be surprised if any CEO was OK with former employees going to an arch competitor.
That would be Trisquel[0], a GNU/Linux distro based on Ubuntu that is completely free (no proprietary software or binary blobs whatsoever).

[0] https://trisquel.info/
Polarized glasses help with reflection at a shallow angle, but the observers will be looking down, not across the surface, and when the sun is low on the horizon, all observers will be looking away from the sun, as it would be a waste of time to try to see anything up-sun, even with polarized glasses.

In addition, using polarized glasses might lead to seeing the colored bands of stress birefringence in the window, depending on what material it is made of.
We first spoke to prospective users about germ.io and everyone "felt" the problem (managing ideas and building on them till they get to execution) - but they thought it was too big a problem to be solved through software. But at that point we were only looking to see if the problem we were trying to solve was real - not fit our solution in.

Once you know you're solving a problem that exists, you can't figure out fit by just talking to people - you need to throw out a (crappy) version and let real people play. We don't have the time/ $$s to spend months and THEN know we don't have a fit. So decided to roll out an MDP in pre-beta cycles called "Omega's" (story: blog.germ.io/wtfs-an-omega/). In the last week, we've had over 800 signups and 200 users we've opened access to, so I guess the challenge is to build -> ship -> iterate.

The family and friends you talk to before you have a prototype are the people who'd tell you they think your stuff is cool, but would never take their wallets out if they weren't doing you a personal favor. Their word and opinion isn't really worth much.
Box's Not So Magic Number
If somebody shows me that 2x2 grid of important and urgent, important but not urgent, not important and urgent and not important but not urgent...I'm going to scream.

Seriously folks, it take more than a few analogies, funny images, memorable anecdotes and catchy business phrases to change fundamentally how I work and how my job/career effects my life.
The trend toward subscription model is generally misguided. When you buy software, you are pre-paying the whole amount upfront. Plus your chance of defecting to competitor in near future (aka subscriptio "churn") is almost zero. Plus when you get new product with new features out, customer has a good justification to repeat the whole cycle again.

Subscriptions are good for utility type services which are stable, has continuous consumption, has very low margins of profit and has much less competition.

Adobe's subscription model is dumb. They are purely thriving on consumer mindshare but these prices are going to start hurting. Adobe's core business is ripe for breaking in.
Ask HN: 100+ people/companies were hiring at ClojureWest?
So almost half the room raised their hands that they were hiring at ClojureWest. Where are these job postings at and/or can you post here if you are hiring?
That's one aspect of this I don't understand. Another is the idea that you can reduce a persons impact to one issue. The irony is that through his involvement in JavaScript and Mozilla, he has likely done more for the LGBT community than I have and I'm part of that community. Should I disregard that incidental impact because of the smaller, intentional impact coming from his personal life?

I admire Mozilla as a profoundly transparent and open culture. The CEO does set the tone so the conversation is completely justified but this isn't so much a conversation as it is picketing and posturing. I wouldn't want my legacy to be reduced to one of the many things I disagree with the world about. I would want people to see the full context of my impact, disagree with me where I went wrong, and respect our differences.
> How would LGBT community liked it they could lose their jobs for being LGBT?

The fact that LGBT people can be fired without recourse is a central issue.
They can. It's legal in most states, ignoring states with "right to work" laws even. It's a known, serious issue in the United States.
>I can think of plenty of examples where I've written up intricate math notes and made them into blog posts that never got any page views because they were so hyper-specific

He's probably talking about a certain set of topics that he knows are of general interest. With that said, if he could make them more interesting to the general public by adding a few lines of context, I'm sure he'd do that too.
> or willing to admit about themselves.

Including myself, probably.
Ah, the goold old ad hominem attack. Clearly you can't review any movies because you're probably not a director?
Having read his biography, I strongly doubt the reason was something anyone else would find defensible. I'm not even sure he felt it was defensible. Pretty sure it's yet another one of his "asshole" moves, the likes of which fill the book.
> floating-point multiplication is commutative.

It's not, except in the special case of one and the same number.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-being-too-busy-ma...
Why is it naive?

Why would they store their cold storage wallets within the reach of the US government, especially after they seized assets previously?

Occam's Razor seems to apply here. In absence of evidence, the simplest explanation is more likely to be the correct one. The simplest explanation is still that Karpeles tried to steal the coins, rather than a government stepping in and stealing them.
If you don't care so much about access to investors, but do want a community of like minded entrepreneurs I'd check out the Startup Chile program. It's not for everyone but it is 40k equity free, and everyone is working on something they are passionate about and it has a really strong community where everyone helps and listens.

Downside is no prestige and of the few investors it does attract, they tend to be low quality by SV standards.
"Modified"?
The ARM plan for CentOS
Amazon reportedly planning free video streaming service
> The reaction is disproportionate to his contribution, though. His donation was quite small, and at no point did he use his status as a public figure to speak out in favor of Prop 8.

What difference does donating 10cents vs $10,000 to a cause make? By donating you are supporting the bill/policy/action.

> What he did was wrong, but it was not enough for us to prop him up as a sacrificial lamb in the name of equality. It would serve no common good, bringing us no closer to repealing the law, but could lead to consequences for Brendan far worse than any well-meaning blogger could conceivably intend.

The law was already struck down as unconstitutional. But it took 5 years to do so.

> Let us instead work to change his moral stance, whether by argument or by example. If tomorrow Brendan Eich were to say - and genuinely believe - that marriage is just as much a right for gays as it is for heterosexuals, then that would be a victory far sweeter than punishing him for having once believed wrongly.

I think there is some anger over how Brendan Eich responded; which is not directly admitting to anything.

I don't know if I would ask for his resignation, but he still hasn't addressed this very well. The problem seems to be that he refuses to address his stance on it. So you can't very well work with him when he doesn't even admit to donating the money, nor admit to believing that gays should not marry.
Great talk, thank you for posting!
Well, people should treat market places as what they are and not as banks or deposits. It's always the lazies who get bitten. Move coins to your own secure wallet, back it up and be suspicious about everything (your and other's hardware and software, market places). Unfortunately, there is no easy way and never will be. Everything comes with trade-offs. Just pick those with the least risk.

I like to see open devices that are built just for managing coins. Bitcoins on your smartphone? Forget it! Maybe, if all the bis players stick their heads together, they can build something, that is certifiable and has nothing more than required on-board, so that it is easier to be kept secure.
When my mom's family immigrated in the 50's from The Netherlands, all of the kids were provided with new names. So my mom went from Antje to Ann, Dinnika to Diana, Greitje to Grace, etc.

So they all learned english, all speak like native speakers, and gave their children English names.

But those kids are now resurrecting the old dutch names. So, these Dutch immigrants, with english names, and english named children, have grandchildren with Dutch names...Willem, Berendt, Jannika, etc.

Sometimes things go full circle.
Back in 1995 I went on a Boy Scout camping trip with a couple of scout leaders who were absolutely addicted to Steven R. Covey and who knows how many other self-help books. One of the leaders was a surgeon; the other, a business leader.

As we listened to them giggling and comparing Covey notes in their tent late into the night, we started to make up our own special set of jokes about synergizing and win-win situations.

Today, I think there really is something to all that Covey stuff. But I try to remember that not everyone around me really gives a care, and they still seem to get things done just fine.
In the history of my last name:

We found records of the origins of my family in the US. Their name was not changed at first, except 10 years later the first letter "I" got inexplicably changed to a "J." Considering how close a capital I can look to a capital J when written hastily, I gotta believe it was a clerical error.
Agree with you in general, however, Hb was established as it was because the NYC ecosystem needed affordable lab space. The equipment made available turnkey through the member fee each month would otherwise be a large capital investment for each company. Thus we are providing considerable concrete value and allowing projects to proceed that otherwise would not be able to. Above and beyond this we provide a community of other life science entrepreneurs and a physical hub for the broader biotech community here in NY that didn't exist yet in the city.

Whether or not our model changes in the future remains to be determined, however, as Dave mentions in his next comment the long timeframe tech risks inherent to investing in many early stage biotechs present some unique challenges to a YC model in biotech.
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> I'd like to point out, however, that there several thriving biotech incubators around the country. Surely the demand must be coming from somewhere when tenants must be found to pay the bills. Indeed, I think the startups that enter an incubator space are well aware of the rent prices, and do so to to take advantage of the certified lab space provided which is impractical to build on one's own.

Yep, I was just about to update my answer with the following:

--[I want to emphasize that there isn't inherently wrong with co-working spaces. They just aren't in the same class as [YC, 500s, Techstars]

Also, I read up on Harlem, they claim that they are providing laboratory space. That's a pretty solid value add. So I can understand why they may be wary of losing their investment in capital.

I didn't consider this, but there is an argument to be made that things are different in more capital intensive industries. Unlike software, the incubator model may be more palatable in these industries.

Still, I think they should hypothetically re-price equity demands compared to software equity demands, not charge per unit. Just demand more equity.

Charging entrepreneurs is still bad signaling and can lead to adverse selection (if you market yourself as being equivalent to [YC 500s Techstars])--

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> A takeway from all this, for me, is that I'm wondering what one could do to make a biotech-focused YC a workable model. Unfortunately, the (comparatively) glacial pace of biotech startups dampens a lot of enthusiasm.

Honestly, I think it's a bit early for the YC model in biotech. Too many subsets of the market are just too capital intensive, time expensive, and subject to regulatory burden.

However, with exciting technologies like CRISPR and high throughput sequencing starting to come on to the scene, genetic engineering and DNA derived technologies may be much more viable as a low capital cost subset of the market. Also, DNA looks suspiciously like software embedded on extremely high density storage tape to me... :)
Nowhere I said Turkey should invade or anything. This is a bit getting out of hand. I just wanted to draw attention giving an example. However creating a temporary buffer zone where a terrorist group already taken control of is not unthinkable either.
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> It's doubtful you'd have a functional chip

I have a couple of fully functional examples on my desk that say otherwise. If you actually want to keep the device usable to the point that you can still solder it to a board, then you normally preserve most of the package, bond wires, and leadframe which requires more care during decap. For this particular specimen we didn't bother because we just wanted the ROM.

Here's an example of a fully functional decapped device soldered back to a board: http://i.imgur.com/UebB3FO.jpg

My lecture notes at http://security.cs.rpi.edu/courses/hwre-spring2014/Lecture3_... go into more detail on various methods, chemical and otherwise, for decapping with and without preserving the leadframe.
Why Brandon Eich should step down
The problem is that even as powerful as Google is, Apple eclipses everyone in the money-and-power department, especially in the late 2000's. Also note that having Google services kicked off of the iPhone in the late 2000's simply was not an option for Google. It's easy to do armchair quarterbacking from behind your keyboard but when there's billions of dollars on the line it's not as simple to give someone the middle finger.

Note I do not condone the behavior and would have liked to see it turn into a thermonuclear bidding war for engineers just like everyone else. But I sure as hell understand why a lot of these people rolled over. I do like that Facebook told Apple to get fucked though. That was nice to see.
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Definitely a good reason why he would be paranoid about his employees doing the same; the wage suppression it seems is a negative side effect
I think your missing a few things here. Yes, of course, it's his right to vote however he wants. It's also perfectly fine for his constituents to take his voting record or other public actions/statements into consideration regarding pretty much anything. There's a big difference between "love us" and "avoid making a symbolic public statement against us".

For a lot of organizations, this wouldn't merit this much discussion. But it's easy to make the case that Mozilla is a bit different. It's mission-based. It's employee and constituent bases probably skew LGBT. The tech industry is one of the biggest supporters of LGBT rights. Mozilla is a fairly flat org. We're talking about the CEO role which requires a sphere of influence both internally, and in this case, to a great extent externally.

The guy made a huge mistake if he ever had an eye on moving into the CEO role. His donation was pretty much insignificant so we can only view it as a symbolic gesture. And the symbolism is very antagonistic towards his constituents.
You forget, US agencies may be working with Japanese agencies on this. It does not require US law to make such a gag order happen...
Downvotes seem to be doing a very good job here. The text is almost completely invisible.
I don't think those 10 million households are going to have their problems solved by bitcoin.
Very good point. I haven't heard anyone mention that facet yet.
Every employee signs an NDA, problem solved.
See my lecture notes: http://security.cs.rpi.edu/courses/hwre-spring2014/Lecture9_...
"What is wrong in the culture / education of engineering that people have to be taught this after they start working?"

I wonder how many universities make their engineers or developers actually build something for an outside or even internal customer.

Strangely, vocational folks deal with customers quite a bit in learning and learn to think in those terms. Nothing like having to redo the doors on a cabinet or rerun some plumping to make you think first.
Actually, we're already there. It's called a visual prosthesis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_prosthesis
"But you can't create an Orwellian police state over night, and those sorts of oppressive regimes tend to be unstable (Libya, East Germany, Romania, etc. all gone now)."

Only if there is an "outside", to force reality in. If you are the emperor, and control everything, the Orwellian state works very nicely..
Always exciting to see a new Kwelia blog post. Real Estate tech is on fire.
Facebook stopped innovating 4 years ago, it's become boring. I only use the Messenger app now.
The fact that his donation was so small makes it much worse in my opinion. That indicates that the primary intent was to make a public, symbolic statement on the matter. Or he completely whiffed at thinking through the implications of his action. Both are pretty bad for someone wanting to be CEO of Mozilla. IMO.
Of course, because money is the only criteria that is important to any business. There couldn't possibly be anything else, like a sense of mission or purpose, that could inform decisions.