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The author works for the Mozilla Foundation on which Eich has always been a board member.

Eich was promoted to CEO of the Corporation which is a for-profit subsidiary of the Foundation.

As far as I can tell Eich's promotion to CEO doesn't give him any more power or status within the Foundation than he already had. It seems like this person should have quit the Foundation when it was revealed one of their board members donated to Prop 8 years ago.

Does anyone know the political actions of the other Foundation board members? The CEO answers to the corporation's board of directors; does anyone know (or care) about their political actions?
> How would LGBT community liked it they could lose their jobs for being LGBT?

Under the interpretations until recently of federal statutes [1], and under the law of most US states, they can, and largely the same groups fighting against marriage equality have been fighting to preserve and extend that condition, as well.

[1] Though recent EEOC decisions finding that discrimination based on gender identity and/or sex stereotypes are subtypes of discrimination based on sex may significantly limit the degree to which that is in practice true under federal law, but AFAIK those agency interpretations have not yet been tested in the courts.
You can still sell equity for cash as a YC company - many do, in fact!

As an aside, I think your numbers are a bit unrealistic. Even if you were to sell 4% for $1m, that's a $25m valuation. That's definitely higher than what most YC companies are worth prior to entering YC (and even right afterwards).
In terms of volume, yeah. But the per-cup brewing being so fast and easy actually works really well for us. (Large pots tend to get burnt..)
The thing is that GOX may have experienced a major theft via TM prior to 2013, fixed the bug and operated with a BTC deficit. In this case, extrapolation is useless.
The 535s have three drivers, and Shure now has the SE846 if you're interested in quad drivers. But I'll caution that triple and quad drivers don't necessarily make for better sound.
Certainly the accounting and reconciliation was non-existent. However it looks like if some effort was put into looking through of MtGox's records, you might be able to figure out what is going on. I don't trust Mark Karpeles to do that.
A lot of people just never seem to become accustomed to anything in particular, so these changes don't bother them. Nothing wrong with that (it takes all sorts), except that I've a strong suspicion that it is these people who then keep changing the keyboard shortcuts, moving the icons around, poking at everything so it looks totally different, and then removing the macro functionality. Because I guess they just have no idea how traumatic this sort of thing is.
It is possible to reconstruct an image by measuring the activation of V1 (primary visual cortex). The same technique works whether the image is currently on the visual field, the person simply recalls an image from memory.
Yes they do. http://imgur.com/xzNwUTL taken from icegreentea's comment, which was taken from the paper.
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> (Irish for one) was pretty heavy with signs (e.g. "No Irish Allowed").

It is a myth that such signs were ever common.

http://historymyths.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/myth-82-signs-s...

http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/no-irish.htm

http://www.cracked.com/article_18487_6-ridiculous-history-my...
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I know that professional orchestras (a job with a strong interpersonal component) do "blind" auditions behind a screen until the final round and then meet with the auditioners to evaluate the interpersonal component.

As far as I know it works fairly well.
Sacrificial lamb, what are you talking about? What kind of sacrifice would it have been for Eich to not become CEO of Mozilla? I already make that sacrifice every day.

So many commenters want to make it all about what a small donation it was, or about Brendan Eich's right to support the causes of his choice. Of course he has that right, but consider the classic analogy for this issue: if the CTO of a company made a small donation toward banning interracial marriage, how would you feel about that company? How about if that person were then promoted to CEO? I can only speak for myself but my answers are "not great" and "disgusted", respectively.

What's important here is not Brendan Eich's right to hold whatever position he wants and simultaneously whatever job he wants. He came out against equality, and Mozilla knew it, and promoted him, and specifically promoted him to CEO. This is how they weigh their priorities. If you think that marriage equality matters then you should think that this decision matters.
Facebook will even auto-link Office documents that you send via the Messages interface to the online web viewer (from the "See Full Conversation" pane, that is).
LibrePlanet and FSF never use any proprietary software for anything.
Someone should have thought of this sooner!
This is something I've often wished for, but I had no idea it was on the radar of the spec hackers.
> innovative bias-correction strategy.

It might be innovative, but I don't think it's valid. What if having a longer name makes your 30% more likely to change your name and being richer makes you 30% more likely to change your name?

The Scrabble metric would still show that name length is a factor, but it doesn't necessarily serve as evidence that other factors weren't in play as well. Selection bias seems like an obvious suspect here and this Scrabble discussion just seems like hand-waving to me.
Cognitive dissonance at its finest, folks.
Just because there exist other possibilities doesn't make what appears to be the mostly likely extrapolation useless. What evidence suggests such a major malleability theft did occur?
I've read all the released documents, I get the impression that most of this was instigated by Jobs. Sure they played along for this purpose, but the threats and escalation started with the Job's emails in 05.
(I'm in this bundle)
I think it adds a bit of noise to the signal for sure, so I'm not sure if it's better, but without the weekly sale I'm not sure we would have gotten them to accept this bundle idea in the first place.

As for myself, participating in a bundle is something I only like doing after the game has been on sale for a pretty long time (as I did here).
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And more on the SCIP protocol he briefly mentioned:

http://www.scipr-lab.org/
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Zuck is brilliant at many things. But when someone says he's great at product, I raise an eyebrow. Seems to me they A/B tested their way to the top. FB today reminds me of Google 5 years ago. Their 41-shades-of-blue-testing days.

But Google learned to listen to more right-brain arguments so maybe FB can too.
Hard to have a sense of mission or purpose when your company goes out of business and you can't pay the bills.
The insurance company for the Uber driver who hit and killed a little girl refused to pay on his policy arguing that he was engaged in a commercial activity at the time and thus not covered by his personal auto insurance liability coverage, which excludes commercial insurance liability claims.
This seems equivalent to hypothesizing that "their wallets may have been lost due to their harddrives crashing." Sure, it's possible. But it's easy to come up with dozens of possible theories.

What evidence do you have that the US government has done that against Japanese companies in the past?

(Mt. Gox may have had a US division, but they were a Japanese company, not a US company.)

EDIT: Also, if the US had seized most of the coins, why would they suddenly have a change of heart and allow Mt. Gox to release 200,000 BTC?
Everyone is welcome to their opinion but, personally, I switched to Maria because I think they are better stewards of an open source project than Oracle is.

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2012/08/less-open-source.html
etc. etc.

You are free to hold a separate and equally valid opinion. :)
> Credit cards generally verify in seconds, so this is a significant difference

Which is equivalent to a 0 confirmation transaction, so no it's not a difference. Cards can be reversed for months, that's what 6 confirmations is competing with.
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Even if that is true that doesn't contradict the conclusion that having anglicized name helps to earn more. They are inteligent, and they realized the fact their US collegues earn more just because of name, so they changed the name, leaving the gap even bigger for ones that kept up with their original name.
Occam's Razor here is that Karpeles stole the money himself. There is a _very_ rich tradition of Bitcoin service operators absconding with customer funds and blaiming "hackers". Inputs.io, Sheep Marketplace, MyBitcoin, Bitcoin Savings & Trust, and that's just off the top of my head. Most of these services were run by sketchy people who had been into Bitcoin from the earliest days when its only use was buying drugs and gambling on Satoshi Dice.

There's a clear financial incentive to abscond with customer funds, and the obfuscated and irreversible nature of Bitcoin makes stealing BTC the perfect crime. Mark clearly had the opportunity, motivation, and means to steal. This would also be fully consistent with Bitcoin history.

In my view, 90%+ chance Mark stole everything himself. Incompetence or legitimately was stolen from? 8% chance at best. Gag orders? I'll put it at 1%. It just didn't happen.
Can somebody help me - how do you show/project "growth" before actually creating the product? (a SaaS app)
I just want to say, I jumped the gun a little with my original response to Dave earlier. I misunderstood what Harlem actually was. I realized you made a capital investment in lab space after I commented. Please see my second response to Dave for elaboration.

I stand by my original statement about "incubators", but now I'm weaseling out of calling you an "incubator". You definitely add essential early value.

Capital intensive companies definitely have different requirements than consumer internet companies at inception.

I'm really sorry about mis-characterizing you.

If it were up to me, I might consider re-branding as a sort of bio-coworking space or bio-collaborative space. For some reason, the word "incubator" makes me think 1999 Silicon Valley. But that's probably just me.

It would be really cool if you started investing, too.

Best of luck, I genuinely want you to succeed.
>Has he taken any direct action against someone in the LGBT community?

Yes, a thousand dollars of political speech. This was a direct action on his part to try to take away rights people already had at that time. He admits he took this action.
This is going to complicate my last-minute application to Y Combinator...
I'd say governments fight the internet because they are failing.
Since some people get paid to speak for someone else, I'm not sure you could make a blanket right like that. But certain forms of retaliation (like firing people) for certain forms of speech (like voting on ballot issues) should be grounds for a lawsuit.
If by "better deal elsewhere" you mean access to the same high quality advice, mentorship, and support the YC community provides (as expressed in this article and the tons of others like it), the answer is no, you cannot get that elsewhere. It doesn't exist. Most people in the startup world recognise that and that is how YC got it's hype. It is unmatched in the intangibles the YC experience provides and those intangibles have proven better at building successful startups than any alternatives. But keep looking for your better deal...
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Or, in the real world, where people just need to get shit done and do not know how to program, I'll just buy photoshop. Why in the world would I spend more, in time or dollars, to add a feature to Gimp which already exists in Photoshop?
We've had that 3 times a century, so I guess most would rather like this govt to get outvoted than overthrown.
Yes, that is perfectly within your right. You also, however, better be prepared for any backlash that may come from that action.
I hope Apple and Google would get penalized aside from paying penalties.

Both companies have plenty of cash so even a $100 million penalty won't make a difference.

I don't have any idea though on what they could be penalized with aside from money.
I note that it has taken you - so far - two attempts to make your point ;)
The iPhone didn't come out until 2007.
>> "The problem was that they got it very wrong."

I think that's a little unfair. The technology just wasn't ready yet. The one place they got it really wrong was with the OS but we didn't have WiFi yet (well most people didn't), we didn't have the kind of touch displays we have now, flash storage wasn't cost effective so they probably used HDD's. They had the general idea right but were too early. Unfortunately when the tech was ready MS was too slow.
It's perfectly legal for them to not be OK with it. It's not legal to get the competitor to agree not to hire them.
> Freedom of speech without freedom from consequences is meaningless.

What is protected by the Constitution -- freedom (from government restrictions) of speech does guarantee (is, in fact, equivalent to) freedom from (government imposed) consequences of speech -- the former is present exactly to the extent that the latter is provided.

However, the much of the theory behind that guarantee of free speech is the idea that it is best to allow ideas to compete in the marketplace of ideas, and for people to hear the speech from all sides and to decide, individually, which speech to reward and which to punish(within their scope of power as market participants, rather than with the compulsory power of government). It was not about making speech free from private consequences, so long as those consequences were restricted to the kind that are not otherwise criminal.
It baffles me that businesses such as Facebook seem to be driven so heavily by the numbers. If I were the FB product manager given the choice between a News Feed that is pleasant to use, or one that at times feels actively user-hostile but provides better metrics, I would want to have the freedom to pick user happiness over the bottom line, in no small part because I would (I assume) be one of those users.

I can't help but feel that something has gone wrong when Facebook - or any company - will deliver its users a worse product for the sake of few more dollars.
Ben's interview with Sarah Lacy[1] is also just amazing. Some excerpts:

- At http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sqI...:

the people who work at tech companies in SV are like super brilliant and incredibly capable, and the last thing a person like that wants is to not to be able to get in the game and like help fix what is wrong.

...and let me tell you: every company in SV like including Facebook, including Square, including Twitter, including all of them, has got shit horribly wrong, horribly horribly broken and wrong and everybody in the company knows it and the CEO knows it, so it is better to talk about it.
Because that’s how companies are, like stuff just breaks. If you have like 500 or 1000 people trying to do something, it is not all going to be perfect, it is gonna be ugly and you get that out there and you let people work on it. And that is probably the number 1 thing I would say about motivating people when stuff goes wrong.

- At http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sqI...:

If you don’t have winning product, it doesn’t matter how well your company is managed, you are done

- At http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sqI... :

Why even bother with management if that is the case? But the truth is: there are several things that are very important, one is if you get into trouble, and if you have bad management, your company will probably die. Like the people will just quit, they are not bonded to it, the don’t like working there, they never liked working there, and that is that, it is a wrap. ...
if you succeed at building a company that everybody just hates working at, what have you done? You just made a whole lot of people a whole lot more miserable in their lives.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqODNbFz6EY
As I get it, ZFS core (as necessary for GRUB to read the filesystem) is available under GPL. While not enough, this could've been a starting point.

However, the main issue is ZFS is also patent encumbered, so re-implementing (even with clean-room approach) it may mean meeting with Oracle's lawyers.

That's sad, considering btrfs still suffers from internal fragmentation issue, as Edward Shishkin had shown in 2010.
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Many times in history people lie or scheme to go to war. For instance the Gulf of Tonkin incident that prompted US entry into Vietnam, or the sinking of the Lusitania before the US entry into WWII where the German government placed ads in newspapers telling people not to get on the ship as it would be sunk.
Is is just me for whom this site is completely broken?
It's possible they changed their name because they wanted to blend in, but that other things they did to blend in were what caused their success, not the name change.
So, about 15 years ago I took a college course on microprocessor design, and our final project was to implement a simple microprocessor on an FPGA.

At the time, it seemed obvious that, over the next decade, FPGA's would work their way into general-purpose computing, so that (for example) Photoshop filters would simply reconfigure the FPGA to run blazingly fast. Likewise with games, or video codecs, or 3D rendering, or whatever else was processor-intensive.

But that clearly hasn't happened. Instead, GPU's took off as the main computational supplement to CPU's.

Does anyone here have any insight as to why? Is there a technological reason why FPGA's never turned into general-purpose hardware standard on every desktop and laptop? Has it been a chicken-and-egg problem? A standardization problem? Or something else? Do FPGA's still have potential for general-purpose consumer computing? Or are they going to be forever relegated to special-purpose roles?
It's ludicrous to think it'd still be in effect long after the fall of the Silk Road, or that he'd obey such an order living in Japan where the order has no legal effect on him.
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What's really interesting to me is that it seems like some very, very powerful and well-connected player, who either has access to the communication networks or people at the top of the Turkish totem pole is trying to use social media to destabilize/overthrow a government.

I don't know much about what's going on in Turkey and the corruption that's being exposed is definitely hugely damning, but I'm curious if there is any credible idea as to who is behind all this leaking? It definitely isn't a group of your average concerned citizens.
Updated the link. Soluto manages PCs so they collect metrics on that type of thing. There's probably some sample bias, but it shows the general trend (along with the damning evidence that Microsoft is making it easier than ever to avoid Windows8).
same here, looks like this was not release ready yet.. whatever it is.
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> not the wisest move for a startup.

Is Stripe a "startup"? Founded in 2009, they "process billions of dollars a year for thousands of companies of all sizes." and they are a "startup"?
> What is wrong in the culture / education of engineering that people have to be taught this after they start working?

Whatever "customer experience" means is specific to an industry/company, not a universally agreed upon term. For Amazon, which is largely B2C, UX is critical. For other industries, delivery time may be more important. There are such things as tradeoffs, and in some cases, it makes sense to prioritize things other than an awesome UX.
Making something easier to glance at doesn't necessarily mean it's better. I think a better design for something like Facebook is something that's more engaging. This isn't search.
No, but I have a legal right to compel my neighbors not to interfere with my habitation of my own living quarters through nuisance law.

Nuisance law and other private means of address simply aren't available when you're dealing with a constant stream of strangers.
Maybe not you, but many people, never think about the distinction between urgent and important, and for them that grid might be an epiphany.

Of course the people who make a living of giving talks and writing books about productivity manages to do just that by wrap it in some easily digested anecdotes and phrases. That doesn't mean that there isn't anything to learn. E.g. GTD have increased my productivity enormously, and most importantly taught me to not be stressed out about everything I need to do.
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You are probably looking for image similarity tools. I've been playing with the IMGSeek tools [1] for a few months in my spare time. My hobby project is to create a reverse image search engine.

[1] - http://www.imgseek.net/isk-daemon
It's interesting to see a mention of "full stack" startups. I hadn't realized that investors have identified such companies as being members of a distinct category.
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The best test of this would be what the customers (yc founders) think. I'm pretty sure most would happily donate 6% to YC for what they do.

If you were to think rationally, the only question is whether YC would improve your outcomes by more than 6-7%. If that's true, it should be a no-brainer.
Also, if making "the dumbest, most impatient, penny-pinching DICK HEAD out there" fills you with disgust, disdain, rage, sadness, etc. it might be time to reconsider your career choice. As much as we may wish it, the users never go away.
I guess that when Jobs told them, "you'll never work in this business again" he was serious.
Facebook's biggest shortcoming is that it appears to have no ability to roll out a new product. I would be much more impressed if Facebook were able to crush Instagram, Whats App or SnapChat. It certainly has the resources but apparently not the know-how.
So let's make a law that LGBT people can't be fired at all? I personally know one straight person that claimed he is gay and sued the company that fired him for discrimination. And he won.
I do not think that this sort of behavior reflects well on LGBT community as a whole. This is like a devoted Christian employee leaving Microsoft because Satya Nadella is a polytheist pagan and has been donating his money to institutions that support paganism and idolatry. It only goes to show that some people who talk of need for equal treatment for all but themselves are unable to tolerate diversity of thoughts.

Mozilla employees have total right to leave their job for whatever reason they want but if I had to hire them in my company I will think thrice.

This kind of knee jerk reactions would make hiring LGBT people more riskier and hence affect the whole LGBT community. In my opinion it is very irrational for an employee to judge his boss by what he chooses to do with his spare cash and time after office hours. What matters is whether he is a competent leader within organization or not.
Since all you sources point to one article by a "Richard Jensen", I'll just point to the snopes thread[1] and the wikipedia article[2] with the other research. The picture from the New York Times wanted ads is particularly interesting.

I do take it we have forgotten about the "No Nothing Party".

1) http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_to...

2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment