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>Labor has never been in such high supply, and it has never been cheaper.

But qualified labor is in short supply, and it's never been more expensive.

> "There are more technical jobs open than qualified candidates to fill them."

I'm going to be very pedantic here. This statement is in fact true. Had the word "qualified" been taken out, then you are absolutely right, there is no shortage. However, the problem with STEM jobs isn't the lack of "on-paper" qualifications, but rather "off-paper" qualifications. Everyone wants the next Facebook engineer, but they are in limited supply. Case in point? Me. On paper, I've written web apps in Rails, Python, JS, and PHP for 5 years now, but I do not consider myself on par with my technical co-founder. On paper I am 100% qualified to fill a majority of these positions, but in reality, I'm not. Our expectations are offset by the stories we hear daily about Dropbox, Facebook, Google, etc. We are just seeing starting to approach the bend of the hockey stick in the "software is eating the world". It's only until we have a large quantity of qualified engineers when the hockey stick starts shooting upwards.
one would argue that UX and installation are part of the system engineering. Small screw ups like these leave sore impression of the system and make it unusable.
To those who down voted deedubaya, I have a question. Do you disagree with either or both of the following assertions, and if so, why?

Assertion #1: common street and property crime, such as mugging, burglary, robbery, car theft, car jacking, and such is more likely to be committed by people who have limited money and limited advancement prospects than they are to be committed by people who have plenty of money and plenty of advancement opportunity.

Assertion #2: due to slavery followed by almost 100 years of legal and often state enforced discrimination against black people, black people have historically been significantly overrepresented among those with limited money and limited advancement prospects. Although this has been improving since the Civil Rights Act and other protections against discrimination, things have not leveled out yet and blacks are sill very overrepresented at the lower ends of the economic spectrum.

If you agree with both of these assertions, then why did you down vote deedubaya? If both those assertions are true, it necessarily follows that black people will be overrepresented among muggers, burglars, car jackers, and the like. When a group is overrepresented in some activity, good or bad, stereotypes tend to develop about that group and that activity. If we pretend there isn't some reason behind the stereotypes, it is harder to address those conditions that led to the stereotype.
The lists looked far more visually appealing to me, mostly due to the better usage of images alongside the text. The grids, whilst tidy, felt far less inviting.
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1. EDITED: I wouldn't be too sure that the EMBA student doesn't already have rights in the app, etc. The facts aren't entirely clear (and can make a big difference), but she might be a "joint author." If so, she'd likely have the right to do whatever she wanted with the code -- but she'd have to account to the poster for whatever profits she made (usually a 50-50 split if the parties haven't agreed otherwise).

Of course, the reverse is also true: If the OP and the EMBA student are joint authors, then the OP might have to account to the EMBA student for any profits he makes.

For more information, see a presentation I did a couple of years ago: http://www.oncontracts.com/docs/Toedt-IACCM-ATE-intellectual... See in particular the slides about "joint works" (with examples such as Weird Al's parody of Lady Gaga's Born This Way as well as the royalty controversy over the organ solo in A Whiter Shade of Pale).

2. If the individuals qualify as a partnership (sounds like maybe not), then the partnership arguably owns the copyright. Under New York law, "[a] partnership is an association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit ...." http://law.onecle.com/new-york/partnership/PTR010_10.html. In general, a partnership can be de facto even without formal paperwork.

3. The usual disclaimer: The above is only general information; small changes in facts can sometimes make big differences in outcome; don't rely on this as a substitute for legal advice from an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction; I'm not your lawyer; etc., etc.
IANAL, and, maybe I'm being pedantic, but it's not clear to me what the situation is: Your co-creator says that she wanted "100%"- did you agree to that? Did you have any further discussion with her about it? Without knowing her real motivations for wanting "100%" or why she would ask you to sign an NDA (as pointed out, usually something you do before someone reveals information to you) it would be hard to give further advice....

I think what you should be considering first is what YOU want- you seem to be inferring that you want to be acknowledged as "co-creator" and possibly some of the future profits of the app? Is she withholding any of these things from you now? Why?

Given that it's not clear to me that you know what she wants or the motivations for her actions, asking her is the best way to find out. I'm going to read into the subtext of the post and say that the financial business relationship is what's important here, not your title on a form, so if you can come to an agreement on the former then you've solved your problem.

If you do come to an agreement just make sure to get some record of it.
There was a reply that just got deleted. Here's an excerpt that was relevant.

If your interests change over the course of your first couple years in school, Harvard has a very solid program in basically any subject you can think of, and changing your field of concentration is very easy. If you decide what you really love is ancient middle-eastern history, or Russian literature, or whatever, MIT will be less convenient.

To also elaborate on the now-deleted comment...

I'm probably a bit too rough on Harvard's math/science departments. They are much more theoretical, meaning the graduates will work in labs or become professors rather than go into engineering. The commenter cited Math 55, which is indeed an incredible class. Many folks at MIT end up doubling math/CS or math/physics, so the pure math group is smaller there.

The "work your ass off" bit just means to not get soft and coast. When the carrot in front disappears, lots of people are lost. You need to learn to develop your own carrot and push yourself.

Oh, and I stand corrected. Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were only across the hall as freshmen. They were roommates after that. :)
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If you are talking about built-in Defender being the tipping point to compel you to move to Windows 8 from Windows 7...

That is a non-reason, reason. MSE is 100% free and the same damn thing. The phishing filters and other BS is part of IE, which is also present in Windows 7, not Windows 8 specific. The ASLR, et al are in both versions.

There is really nothing tangible which compels an informed PC user to 'upgrade' to Windows 8 from Windows 7.
There certainly is a rule about giving away the property of others, and I don't think we have established who owns what here.
Mate, unless you have prior agreements that you have signed to the contrary, you own the IP. Period. You own it. Turn this around and invite her to 'share' in YOUR IP. The fact that she is 'in charge of the business model' is immaterial.

I've been in the software game for 30 years, and my advise is: never, never, never do anything that will reduce your ownership of IP. IP is your ticket.

P.S. I am not a lawyer.
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You're on a trial at every single company anyway, they just aren't as up front about it.
missing start button

I continue to be surprised that HN consistently upvotes comments with this criticism of Windows 8. The start button has been present since Windows 8.1 was released last October. The analogy would be criticizing Ubunto for a feater missing from 12.04.

Having largely transitioned from Windows to Linux in the past few months, I'd never have made it if I abandoned Linux every time I encountered fifteen minutes of configuration WTF? and compared to figuring out how to remove the installation media from yum's list of repositories learning the charms bar [before the start button and Windows 8.1] was a piece of cake.

Then again, I watched the Windows 8 tutorials.
Que es el embarazo anembrionado
El embarazo anembrionado es un embarazo sin embrión, también se lo conoce como huevo anembrionado, en el caso de este embarazo, se fecunda el óvulo y se adhiere directamente en las paredes del útero.
I love the way you say `can get a chance to prove themselves`.
As a seasoned marketer that spends a lot of time on HN thats hilariously rude.
Super!

I have seen that there is more activity during regular works hours (pacific time) - so I wouldn't necessarily be surprised if you posted it around now and it didn't get any play.
It may mean a re-post at a "better" time.

Cheers!
Actually we have a lot of such editors. For example, JetBrains, MPS (http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/)

I am currently working on a web based version of such an editor at JetBrains. You can take a look at it here: http://jb-proj-demo.appspot.com/ (It's open source and it's available on github here: https://github.com/JetBrains/jetpad-projectional)
"Just needs someone to launch and promote it."
so you have done 5% of the work by building it.
and you just need a marketer to do the other 95%.
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Fairness or improving; pick one.
I didn't go to Rose-Hulman but was recruited to do so. I have a very high opinion of the school and I'm here in the bay. Just a data point from a UofI alum.
It doesn’t, but it appropriates an institution meant to protect childbirth for a different purpose. It denatures something seen as precious.

That can seem meaningless to a liberal, but conservatives have a heighten sense of ‘purity’, and tend to vehemently refuse misappropriations or risk of ‘contamination’, sometimes beyond the scale of the real issue. Examples in the US include: ‘sacred’ money meant for church should not be taxed by secular government, or, benefits meant for people in need should not go to undeserving people; one should not indulge people who commit crimes; young impressionable teens should not frequent lost souls, etc.

And to be clear: yes, that should mean people shouldn’t marry after menopause -- rationalisation of that include continuity, traditions or even direct reference to Abraham and Sarah. Details are probably more individual.

What matters is that you understand there is a consistency to the over-all idea, in spite of the apparent contradictions, and you can’t move forward unless you make sense of it. It‘s the classic exercice in rhetoric of being able to convincingly prove the opposite of your position in order to be able to defend it.
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I know it's a cliche, but really, the answer to nearly every question often is "It's already an emacs macro"
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>A world without Firefox and without Firefox OS and without our approach to putting the user at the center of cloud services instead of having users get pulled into walled gardens -- I think that would be a pretty dark world.

What Eich fails to see that for many people, we are only just moving away from the "dark world" where gay marriage is illegal. I appreciate his work for Mozilla, but it's double-think to advocate "inclusivity" while promoting narrow views of marriage.
Yes, the foundation part is fairly complete. Like I said: if your game/logic is written in Obj-C and it's in OpenGL, it should be ok.

If you have a lot of UIKit-intense parts (semi-complex xibs, anything related to Autolayout or Storyboards), then you might need to rewrite them.

NOTE: my comments are based on what I experienced with a UIKit only app a few months ago.
It depends heavily on where you live.
He wants Mozilla to be inclusive, while also supporting the exclusion of gay people from marriage. The hypocrisy of bigots is astounding.
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Windows 8.1 makes even more sense since Metro apps can run side by side with a desktop full of windows on the same screen at the same time...you could already do this with dual monitors in Windows 8. Metro is not an either or interface and the learning curve is really pretty shallow if anything other than trial and error is used.
OkCupid is not calling out Eich personally, but Mozilla because of Eich’s individual position. There is a gap there that they, as an institution, decided to bridge. If you apply the same brush to OkCupid, their don’t sound so different they can give a lesson they needn’t listen too.

Democracy is not threatened in this debate -- however, consistency might not be on OkCupid’s side.
Stayfocused is my prime choice. Lastpass and Adblock also deserve mention of course.
We are still missing the C64 version.
I didn't see that article the first time around, but I have to agree with the parent post; when I read today's post, I saw the graphs and didn't understand what they were trying to say (with or without xkcd-ification). So I quickly skimmed the December article for context on those graphs, and I still didn't understand what they were actually representing.

Rereading that section, and the code, I slowly decipher it... they are presenting histograms... I see labels "cost_benefit", so presumably that's a ratio... oh wait in the next paragraph he writes "cost - benefits" so I guess it's a scalar... but I still don't see why the side-by-side histograms are presented with varying-width buckets... oh, because he fixed the Y-axis, which constrains the bucket widths....

The problem, as lotyrin implies, isn't that the "lines weren't squiggly enough". It's that it's a graph that's hard to read and understand what it's trying to say, due to a total lack of labels or context.

(I also take issue with a lot of his assumptions and even his definition of Basic Income, but if we take in good faith his claim that his Monte Carlo article wasn't about economics and public policy but about python and using the scipy library, those are not necessarily complaints about the article.)
This was debated here last year:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5874274

The cDNA part baffled me and many molecular biologists I know back then (and still does). I tend to think that either 1) the court didn't understand the science or 2) they did but were unwilling to destroy an industry so they found a loophole.
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If you don't have a touchscreen you can set Windows 8.1 to boot (start) directly in Desktop mode, basically you can bypass the Metro interface.
> Myriad, based in Salt Lake City, argued that the genes in question had been "isolated" by the company, making them products of human ingenuity and therefore patentable.

That's like saying "I chopped off a branch of a tree, therefore I can patent the branch of the tree because I 'isolated' it."
If you haven't signed an IP agreement or employment contract, I think it's pretty obvious that you own the property with at most an unlimited license given to the school.
Recruiters are asking me if I know applicants. If you think I might "know" you through your HN reputation, shoot me an email with your yc username. @fitbit.com I'm blewis, not brlewis.
Maybe because we don't have a general-purpose tree file format?
Definitely check out Mixpanel.

With respect to GA reports being confusing - while that may be the case, I wonder how much of that is an education issue.

If you haven't checked them out yet, Justin Cutroni has quite a few helpful posts on Event tracking: http://cutroni.com/blog/category/event-tracking/

Hope that's helpful.
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I've used Windows 8 for as long as it's been out and it's my 'get things done' OS via bootcamp on my MBP.

I work at a place stuck on 7 and I want 8. Many little things and a few bigger things are just better in 8. Task manager?! Search?! Snapping the metro apps (music/skype/etc) into the little slice along the edge of the screen on one of my monitors?

I've only used it on desktops and laptops and it's better than 7.

What I keep seeing is "serious" computer people who aren't Windows users, fans, or enthusiasts flailing - much the same way I flail with linux or OSX when doing the 3-5% of tasks that are not well-supported. Finder? F#&$#&$ finder? How do you organize your files on OSX?

So I see someone who feels that they should just "get" a new interface because they know how to use a "from-the-corner" menu system, etc. and they don't get it (because they didn't watch Scott Hanselman's Win8 bootstrapping video). So, obviously nobody should be able to get it... psh - LOSER operating system alert!!! Even number FAIL! Check out the penguin tattoo I got. Linux til I die.

Here's the thing. My kids get it. They aren't 10. Their mental plasticity and lack of ego enabled them to be mad functional right quick. They jump in and out of desktop mode without a whine or cry for help.

We've got 20+ years of a model of thought around approaching the machine. Someone disrupts the model, and the champions of disruption crowd roll up in a ball?
I had a similar situation in my startup. Take 50% and continue working on it nights and weekends. Or sell yourcode for $20k or 5% of the company for building the first product.

Too many people here take her request as a personal offense. Its not. It's a business negotiation and she is "anchoring". Now you need to counter offer.

Goodluck.

Be prepared to walk away with the product and bury it.
There's a big distinction between acquiring knowledge and learning how to think.

MIT pushed me to my limits, and taught me how to systematically accomplish what I previously thought were impossible tasks. All while maintaining a principled sense of rigor and focus. A lot of people who are "smart" just ace high school and never are truly challenged. Harvard has insane grade inflation, because the students there are used to getting As. [1]

The world has enough billionaires, but not enough fearless engineers. I've found it surprisingly easy to connect billionaires when you genuinely need it-- not just because you got drunk with them in your 20s.

[1] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/3/grade-inflation-...
Chrome overtake Firefox in Marketshare
There have been 9 aftershocks as of now (around 1 hour 45 minutes after the first quake):

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

Each more than a 5.
I like getting news in my email; when Google Reader died I switched my RSS over to mail and haven't missed a beat.

One thing I would like, though, is a link batcher - whether I'm on the train or just busy I often see something I want to read later, and I use Pinboard to save it like that (and I've used Pocket and Instapaper before), but the backlog just builds up into a bottomless hole. It'd be great to get an email the next day saying "here's your queue" so I can do a second round of pruning.
In a related vein, the idea reminds me of a strain of computer graphics research known as "non-photorealistic rendering"[0], i.e. acknowledging that for some uses, building a full shading model and trying to mimic reality actually makes the image worse rather than better. Once you've made that realisation, you can design renderers that have flat shading or heavier outlines or any number of other features that make it look more "diagrammy". I guess that xkcd graphs (and napkinlaf) are arguably themselves instances of NPR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-photorealistic_rendering
This is another perception issue that I keep encountering. The job description you've written above is for an extremely senior engineer, what some would call a product architect (e.g. your co-founder), not a fresh graduate. In fact, being a new graduate is now, by your own admission, considered to be an unacceptable level of training for a "Facebook engineer".

This is corporate bullshit, and you've fallen for it. If companies want someone who has mastered a technological stack, this is not an "engineer". This is an architect. And this position should be paid significantly more than an engineer. Although you may not consider yourself a competent engineer by the "Facebook standard", not only are you a competent engineer, but a senior engineer by every definition of the word. The fact that your evaluation of your own competence is so warped by corporate PR is extremely worrisome.

What I see here is that the bar for the definition of "competent engineer" keeps going higher and higher, without a commensurate increase in salary. This is a classic symptom of excess supply.
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> It really hurts to know that a person is being ostracized for having political views.

Are you also Super Concerned about LGBT folks being ostracized by oppressive policies? This isn't some abstract fucking debate to them.

> We should be living in world of balance

Fuck that. We should be living in a world of justice.
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> Or we can live in a world where we respect everyone's beliefs.

Why? Some beliefs are stupid and/or harmful. Why should I respect bad ideas?