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Those are great examples of 'hate' groups that have marginalized themselves just by saying what's on their mind. In the United States where speech is heavily protected by the constitution, those who hate have much less power.

Moreover, lets say that there is a person with a particularly sophisticated hatred of Jews, Muslims, gays or whoever. In fact, so sophisticated that its hard for you or I to counter his argument. This would be a fantastic situation! Why? Because we would either concede that his unfortunate views are correct, or seek a better understanding of the issue, perhaps by seeking someone who is an expert in philosophy, law or whatever and having a discussion/debate

In that circumstance we all win. You and I win because we have a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of the issue, and everyone else wins because they can weigh the arguments themselves and make up their own minds.
It sounded interesting until: Allow www.sharedrop.io to run "Adobe Flash"?

Then:
We're really sorry, but your browser is not supported.
Please use the latest Chrome for Desktop or Android or Opera.
Firefox support is coming soon!

So basically, this is a webkit app, not a HTML5 app?
Is this a real judicial concern or just a philosophical question? I read code on a daily basis with all kinds of different licenses and I also contribute to open and closed source on a daily. Should I go make an appointment with my lawyer tomorrow?
NPS is the de-facto standard for customer loyalty across almost every industry. That itself is a very useful thing. You can come up with a dozen other ways to try to measure customer loyalty on your own, but then you're on your own. No way to compare to others in the space, no easily told story to press, investors, potential partners or high-profile clients etc.
Wouldn't you render the two frames at the same time on separate cards?
Third bullet point in the license you presumably agreed to before downloading the source code:

- You may not distribute or publish the software or Derivative Works.

I'm not saying it's a good license, but if you do not agree with or at least intend to follow it then perhaps you should have not downloaded it to begin with.
It is entirely possible to start a multi-million dollar business and still have a life

Yes, but anyone that knows the author and his business should also know that his post isn't addressed to those looking to make nice profitable businesses. The author has a very specific audience of people seeking funding and wanting to build large companies. His post appropriately addresses them; it isn't written that much for people whose ultimate motivation is to build a self-sufficient profitable million dollar business.

Building a billion dollar enterprise is not the normal outcome for most founders. It is the "odd" scenario.

Being successful at building the billion dollar business is the odd scenario in this case; attempting to build it is the norm. That most fail is just proof of how hard it is.
I had a handheld PC -- the Atari Portfolio -- that ran that version of DOS.
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Certainly an aside, but either everyone in the crowd's scared of cooties and self-segregates by gender or there are few women to be found in YC W14. Innovation! Disruption! Democratization!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing#Histo...

Another fun one. At 8 Teraflops it makes it equivalent to the top supercomputer of 2000. So our desktops (in terms of raw computing capability) are only about 14 years behind supercomputers, and that gap is closing rapidly.
Who are probably the only people it matters to, so I'm not sure it's worth getting too worried about.
Ultrasound at the bedside would be great for internal medicine. Imagine morning rounds without the 5-minute seances required for the team to divine the jugular venous pressure. Determine if that lump is fluid-filled or solid; if fluid filled, determine if it is septated or simple. Etc.

On a daily basis I wonder why we have hallway-installed computers that nobody uses, but we don't have an ultrasound for every floor (much less every physician).
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> They seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding in that they (apparently) believe their problem in the market is price when it's actually something much more basic: trust.

Trust is not the issue. Google wants to sell "management" while AWS (et al) are selling raw resources. To use Google Cloud you have to change or build your system for it, using new APIs, configuration systems, other managed services and even programming languages. Todays announcement was: you can have raw VM control with our management too! I don't see it being any easier now (even MORE options!) but I think they're on the right track. They need to make it simpler rather than cheaper.
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A halo product is something that isn't there to be the real flagship that's driving the revenue, but instead to be the ultra-cool item that people really lust after, associate that with the brand, then buy one of the lower end models.

For example, the Ford Shelby GT500 http://www.ford.com/cars/mustang/trim/shelbygt500/ is probably not even turning a profit for Ford, but when someone picks up an automotive magazine with an article about the car, it makes them more likely to buy the entry level Mustang at 40% of the cost, or any other Ford product.
I'm serious in that:

a) That's what is written in the contract

b) I think you should be able to migrate off the platform within that timeframe, and you shouldn't join our platform if you don't think we're making it easy enough for you to leave again (I deeply believe in initiatives like Google Takeout)

I didn't make any comment, nor will I, on whether I perceive that time frame to be long enough. I think it's smarter to stick to the facts when it's my own job I'm talking about. I would like to continue engaging with the Hacker News community (which, you'll see from my history, began many years prior to my joining Google) and offering context and information. But I can't do that if I don't stick to facts, lest my opinions be bent around to imply something I didn't mean that could put the job (that I enjoy very much) in jeopardy.
I'm not sure what you mean by inventory tax.

If I haven't sold the chairs then I haven't recognized any income. Even if I had to value my inventory then I would value it at the lower of cost or market and in the case of Bitcoin that would be cost which would be computer depreciation and electricity, much less than the market value on the day of mining.
By the same token, are the don't-redefine-marriage people who live in Vegas trying to shut down the Elvis Chapel?

I've given up trying to convince people like chc's friends and family.
Really appreciate the open source software, but I recently had some trust issues with Joyent the service. Cloud servers switched from tiered transfer rates (with a generous free tier) to on-demand pricing, with only a month of notice. It wasn't possible to monitor one's own bandwidth usage before the switch, so we were caught off guard by our bill jumping by nearly 30%. It would have been more trustworthy to grandfather in servers started under the old pricing plan.
I never really understood why databases don't have undo.
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Long term gains apply to assets held over one year. The rate on such gains for an income under $36000 is ... wait for it ... 0%!
a year's notice in enterprise space. That shows one more time how deep Google's [mis]understanding of B2B business is.
Special rules apply to stocks, principally because the IRS thinks you should have really good records for your cost basis. If you had acquired them through a dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP) average market price over time is exactly what you'd use.
Accordingly W3 Tech...http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/operating_system/al...
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Fair enough! Thanks for the information!
The article states support isn't being dropped, rather IE9 users are being shown to a land frozen in time. Not a bad strategy I'd think.
I agree. The problems with your point about taxing the workers start at the asymptotes:

150 million workers have relatively little income compared to the top 1% who obtain a very large share of the income. They also have a lot more "tax events" and derive them not from wages but from capital gains.

We currently have 150 million workers and a middle class. Unemployment is going to have to be embraced when one janitor can clean 100,000 sqft building using a few very efficient machines, or a dozen workers can run a car manufacturing facility that produces a new vehicle every 3 seconds. At this level of productivity, which we are going to approach, the form of capitalism that assumes that those unemployed are a fringe group of people between jobs is not going to work. A new system is going to need to be developed, unless population is going to decrease at the same rate as productivity increases.

So the solutions as I see them are:

1. Make the government more productive so the tax wouldn't have to be quite so high. The government uses money in two ways: to run its internal services and to re-distribute the money. The former should be streamlined (making the IRS simple would be along those lines), while the latter can be reigned in by cutting spending to less needed services (e.g.: excessive military spending, tax loop holes, etc.)

2. Make the sales tax progressive by the type of item being sold. This goes hand in hand with your third point and can get complex, but the states already do this: food, clothing, and everything else are all taxed differently. Let's have a 50% tax on tobacco, and a 0.1% tax on food. Note that this is still more efficient than reviewing every single person's return and looking for exceptions.

3. Since the tax is national, there will be less problems than with the state tax in terms of determining where you have presence. Just charge the tax and that's it.

4. Issuing a refund at the end of the year does a person no good if throughout the year they cannot afford to buy food and shelter. To fix this, we need a minimum wage that actually lets someone support themselves. The amount should be re-evaluated yearly or if inflation jumps more than a regular percentage, and should rise with at least inflation. As we approach the productivity asymptote, basic income is going to need to be implemented as well.
Cool but this isn't really P2P since it uploads the file to the server and then downloads it on the other side.
Your counter-party could decide the IRS bounty is worth turning you in.
Yay for RFID implants
I found a workaround for the Chrome bug that seems to have fixed it:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=336476#c...

Sorry about that.
> I've never seen a case where that choice was important; you can just use ArrayList and LinkedHashSet everywhere

You shouldn't. Sometimes you should be using CopyOnArrayList. that's one example.

> Refactoring is easier in Java because your IDE can tell you what's broken

It's harder because there's more code to sift through and it's easier to have bad design.

> Choice of libraries is important in any languag

It's not really the choices of libraries that's the big killer in Java. It's the freedom of usage of those libraries. Spring is a good example of this.

> Those are choices you make, but you make them once at the start of the project

This is easy to say for veterans. Not so much for newbies.
I'll keep an eye out for an application from not Paul Graham :P
But google reader!
Did they also extend the time? It used to be 1 year and 1 day to qualify for long term capital gains treatment. Or 2 years from the date of the grant of incentive stock options.
But until I tie a wallet address with the physical world (like credit card or such), then they have no way of knowing that I own those coins. Also it will not be possible to determine from the blockchain only which amount of USD was paid for the said bitcoins, only that the transaction was on a particular day and that the bitcoins where worth, on average, a certain amount on that day. Furthermore, btc exchanges are not regulated and many are on foreign soil (out of reach by the IRS) so this average is mostly bollocks
"Net Promoter Score" can only be measured by survey, because that's exactly what it is. It's a 1-question survey with a standardized scoring methodology that is a de-facto standard measure of customer loyalty across industries.

If you want to measure customer loyalty and quantify it for investors, you can use that methodology, or you can find another way but call it something else. I wouldn't recommend doing something else and trying to call it NPS.
Great idea for a startup! I've struggled with this in the past.
I think you have good points, I do think you're introducing a false dichotomy though.

I'd prefer if there were no censorship on TV and there was guaranteed freedom of speech.

I can definitely understand where you're coming from (in as much as any non-German can understand), but I do wonder if it's possible to allow hate speech and to fight it in other ways.

Maybe not, but I do think it's an ideal to strive for.

Also, when it comes to US TV, it depends on the channel and whether it's using public bandwidth. Channels like HBO and Showtime don't have to censor anything. But overall I think you're right, the US does have this strange Puritan culture that seems to be in conflict with its idea of personal freedoms.

You say that you aren't a fan of hate-speech laws in general. May I ask where you think the line is? I feel like it's incredibly difficult to define what's appropriate without leeway for abuse.

I am often envious of how good Germany (as a country/government) is about keeping things within the spirit of the law and being reasonable about how things are implemented. The efficiency of the German bureaucracy is a good example: You tend to see less waste and corruption than in other western countries.

So with that in mind, it's sometimes hard to use Germany as the standard since they set the bar too high for the rest of us!
Alright, so reading it closely, it's kind of like the GPL in that any derivative work is licensed under the same license, but unlike the GPL, Microsoft get full rights to any modifications you make and any comments you make, including if you send them mail marked "confidential", plus you cannot sue anybody using this software for patent infringement if you discovered it via reading the source code.

Basically, if you touch this with a ten-foot-pole, the pole now belongs to Microsoft, along with your arm and anybody standing too close to you. You also lose the right to use your arm to sell things.
> Rooting most likely voids your warranty and is definitely nontrivial to non-technical people.

Sudo is also nontrivial to nontechnical people[1], and it doesn't even have a warranty[2].

[1] As immortalized in the mouseover of a recent xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1343/

[2] http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/license.html
Well in the limit it would tend to an integral, and, assuming you have fixed hash power, approach the time and inverse network difficulty weighted average price.
Halo effect
> the top of the OS heap

Fair, but again to be specific, Linux isn't an OS--it's a kernel. When people talk about "Linux" as an OS, they typically mean some variant of GNU/Linux: RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.

Android (as promoted by Google) is not a member of that club. Maybe ASOP is, but more and more of Google's development effort is shifting to Play Services, and away from ASOP.
Yes, Google Commerce Search
I saw this mentioned in the "Nvidia releases $3000 Titan Z" thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7467763 and found it very interesting.
I would be just as impressed if Adora would have worked half the day as a cleaner to learn the business, then code the other half before getting a good night's sleep and doing it again.
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thanks for letting me know what should I learn beforehand to work at Github!
>For example, I know a major hospital/research center who has said that they will 100% never let anything onto the public Internet, but are about to clear use of a Microsoft private cloud.

until they run a private fiber [which don't also have NSA's splitters attached] directly to the MS datacenter, they are being sold a snow in Antarctic [ie. mutually exclusive dichotomy between "100% never let anything onto the public Internet" and "use of a Microsoft private cloud"].
It seems pretty backwards compared to any other sort of creation. If I build a house, my basis is how much I spent building it, not how much my neighbor's house is worth.
The Dodge Viper is probably a better example, as it's a totally custom chassis, body, etc.

The GT500 still shares a LOT with a production Mustang, and al the economies of scale that imparts. It's also producded in very high quantities, 5000+ yearly. They're making money or they wouldn't buiild that many.
Evil, but smart idea. :)
Why specifically "when the dev tools are open"? That seems like an unusually specific request.
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I had a look at doing this myself recently to do iPhone -> Laptop transfers. Does this work for mobile -> desktop? I didn't think that WebRTC was available on mobile safari and therefore wouldn't work.
> The writer has a very specific audience of people seeking funding and wanting to build large companies.

First, every "large" company was once a "small" company. You don't get to $100 million in revenue without first getting to $1 million in revenue. Focusing on the former milestone before the latter is silly.

Second, while I respect your point, it's important to look at actions, not words. Early-stage investors in Silicon Valley talk a lot about the type of businesses they want to fund, but spend half an hour browsing Crunchbase, AngelList, etc. A ton of the companies with seed funding (perhaps the majority) have very little chance of growing into the types of businesses their investors say they're looking to be involved with.

Finally, in response to your edit that attempting to build billion-dollar businesses is the norm: you can only come to such a belief if you have firmly ensconced yourself in the Silicon Valley startup scene. Countless new businesses are formed around the country each year and the people who create them, most of whom don't have billion-dollar delusions, are just as much "founders" as the broke 20-something making the rounds on Sand Hill Road.
One of the worst things about owning a high-end gaming rig is watching it's inevitable decline to a 'standard desktop'. Bittersweet.
The people who were interested probably bought the AMD-powered Gizmo Sphere already? (www.gizmosphere.org)
Oh, I wasn't saying one was better than the other. Just observing that no matter what one did, someone would be unhappy about it :)
Presumably the process of figuring out the bankruptcy will involve either giving people some of their value back or letting them know they aren't getting anything.
And specifically: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/api
Because it "just works" and no other platform has yet convinced me that it is sufficiently better to justify the investment of time and energy which would be required to switch.

Take Netbeans - I've tried it, and it's nice enough. But it never wowed me as being so much better that I could justify throwing away all the accumulated knowledge and experience of dealing with Eclipse that I've built up over the years.

IntelliJ? For years was purely a closed-source, proprietary program which completely ruled it out from the get-to. Now, they have some kinda open-source'ish "community edition" or something, but I still think of their outfit as being largely a vendor of proprietary crap, which diminishes my interest in investing time there.

And outside of Eclipse, Netbeans, and IntelliJ, what is there in the Java world?

Sure, Eclipse has its flaws, and performance has always been one, but, for my purposes anyway, it remains "good enough".
A 15 person company is in a completely different place than one in which the founder is the only person and is working on building the basic foundation.
Successful founders certainly have an incentive to make it seem like founding their startup was extremely hard so it seems like their success was more due to skill and less due to luck. This isn't to say the ratio of skill/luck is any specific number, just that a founder always has an incentive to tell the history in a way that tilts it more to the "skill" side.

Though I think the whole ecosystem (VCs, founders, the press) feed this notion because attributing success to luck isn't really interesting to people. You don't see a lot of books by lottery winners about how to succeed in life.

Again, this isn't to say these stories aren't true; founding a startup is extremely difficult. But then again, so are a lot of things. If I just selectively picked and exaggerated stories of "normal" programmers, I could make them seem like really special people.

So basically, my advice is to trust a story of a successful startup's founding history with the same grain of salt you would a fisherperson's story of how large of a fish they caught on their last vacation. Some truth, some exaggeration, and without any evidence you have no way to know.
Google understands on some level how B2B works ... for a while, they only made money through B2B channels, especially via sales of the Google Search Appliance.

I think that the people directing the App Engine lack a clear vision. They should know that price isn't what's stopping GAE. It certainly makes a statement about Google's vision for the App Engine if they have all of their good product people working on something else.
And to this day we're still barred from creating files or directories named CON, PRN, NUL ... Damn you, IBM
"No life" as you call it is just a necessary reality for a lot of startup founders if you want a chance at making it, especially in the early days, especially on your own or without funding. You may not hear about it because generally these founders' startups are either not yet well known, don't end up making it or they don't share this information until later. It's not always desirable to share that you're sleeping in your car or making sacrifices others may deem unhealthy or unsustainable. It's more glamorous looking back, after you're a success story, to reminisce about the blood, sweat and tears you poured into your startup to make it what it is today.

It's definitely not the only way but with the number of startups, resources, talent and overall competition today, everything counts in the beginning and can make or break you.

In my own experience as a solo founder without funding, nothing gets done unless you do it yourself. People already have work and school and other commitments so that means making sacrifices, ones that aren't always glamorous, ones that may be scary and overwhelming and at times unhealthy but that people will continue making simply to have a chance to succeed at what they love, and that's their prerogative.