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Develop content that people would share with one another, and find on other sites.

Videos - develop videos that drive "traffic" to your website ... Vimeo YouTube 5min or your own site

Blogs - have people in your company start writing blogs and sharing their expertise on the web, and others will naturally want to check out your products ... LinkedIn Blogger or your own site

PR - have people cultivate relationships in forums and with publications and post stuff that your bloggers write

there are many ways to get traffic besides relying on one search engine

and by the way, even ON that search engine, you should be creating all kinds of things to "take over" the first page, if you are really trying to vie for traffic

e.g. on GOOGLE:

youtube videos will show up if you make them

google+ profiles will show up if you make them

local listings, images, maps, bla bla bla

which means Google is telling you to upload a lot of content to GOOGLE owned properties in order to promote your site

so if you really want google traffic that badly you should do it!
From what I understand, Delaware is just a corporate tax haven. Around half of all public corporations are incorporated in the state [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/business/how-delaware-thri...
In addition, serious SV firms will offer a fixed-price basic incorporation package. This is great, not only because the fixed fee is low, but because it tells you your company won't be the firm's guinea pig as it learns how startup incorporations and financings work. You might be surprised at how many smaller corporate firms (especially those not based here) don't have this sorted out.
I'm sure Google's efforts to shame ISPs with this new report are well-intentioned, but I really miss the old YouTube speedtest which it seemed almost nobody knew about: http://www.youtube.com/my_speed/

It seemed to show more data – both throughput from your actual cookied sessions and graphs of comparable connections around you. It took months for YouTube/Google to generate these reports when there was existing data out there already. I guess they wanted something that'd be easily digestible for a Netflix-style monthly shame-a-thon.
Quoting from the response:

a 44% wealth share for the top 10% (and a 12.5% wealth share for the top 1%, according to the FT) would mean that Britain is currently one the most egalitarian countries in history in terms of wealth distribution; in particular this would mean that Britain is a lot more equal that Sweden, and in fact a lot more equal than what Sweden as ever been (including in the 1980s). This does not look particularly plausible

Shame on the FT.
to top it all off, Google Maps Mania runs on Blogspot (a Google property).
Ok, good to know. Thanks for the response!
A Delaware incorporation is almost never the correct choice for a business unless it has very specific reasons for incorporating in Delaware rather than the state in which it is actually located. The use of Delaware as the incorporation jurisdiction creates a significant amount of duplicative legal compliance costs, a substantial amount of additional tax compliance costs, and frequently makes a startup business ineligible for various startup incentives offered by the state in which it is actually located.

Incorporating in Delaware is an appropriate choice if you intend to have a lot of investors, operate nationally very early on in the life of the business, or definitely plan to IPO. Otherwise, it's simply not worth it. (And note--reincorporating in Delaware is a tax-free reorganization from a US federal tax perspective, so it's not very expensive to reincorporate later in Delaware if necessary.)
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Even so, when you need it, you'll have a more resources to do it then when you are starting -- so why expend extra resources at the outset?
Off-topic, but considering the sheer amount of stuff on GitHub, I'm not sure it's about free loaders - whether or not it's useful, the fact that so much code is published demonstrates that many people are okay with it being used by others.
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I'd argue that Bayesian probability is more intuitive to the non-statistically trained. Once people know frequentist statistics, it's more difficult to talk to them about Bayesian results. I think you're right that the future could be more Bayesian if tomorrow's statistical wizards weren't inculcated into a frequentist mindset.
The only serious traffic I got to my website RoadPetition.com came from when it was featured on Google Maps Mania.

Does anyone here have any feedback for me on this Google Maps Mashup?

http://www.roadpetition.com/
HN tends to take authorial information out of titles, especially when it's promotional, as part of a general aversion to linkbait.

Anyone who clicks on the post can easily see the credentials as you've highlighted them.
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Nowhere does Raffa claim that a team built entirely of English majors would be better than one built of any other constituency. That's a strawman you erected. QED.
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I can't think of a reason why they'd remove sources for earlier versions from SF. I mean, in this day and age somebody is going to upload them again to the internet.
Their warning about it being insecure is clearly a joke, as their alternate suggestions (particularly for linux and Mac) are ones that no one should ever take seriously. TrueCrypt passed Phase I of the audit, and Phase II of the audit is coming down the pipe soon enough. Also keep in mind that TrueCrypt is one of the most widely-used cross-platform drive encryption tools and has been for some time. It seems far more likely to me that TrueCrypt is secure than that a more obscure competitor, no matter what the developers say in a weird, cryptic message that everyone assumed was their site being hacked.
That's a fairly trivial check to make. I would be fairly shocked to find out that people have discovered multiple sidechannel attacks against Bitlocker to leak keys out (if you have physical access to the machine while the disk is decrypted), and didn't manage to catch the fact that the key was getting sent over the network.

The more plausible potential for Bitlocker being broken is that there is some subtle flaw in their crypto implementation.
Generally, there's no good reason to incorporate in Delaware unless you plan (or need) to take advantage of its unique corporate laws for legal conflicts in which you have the ability to determine jurisdiction. Otherwise, you simply end up subjecting your startup to the laws of Delaware and whatever state the startup is located in.

(Tax-wise, you save little by incorporating in Delaware over a true corporate tax haven like Nevada, and you still owe state income taxes in whatever state the startup is actually located.)
I am just going to note that in five comments you carefully avoid discussing how I motivate that you are a bad troll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7809359

Trying to avoid that is admitting I am correct.

(See my declaration on how to handle trolls in GP.)
Your obviously missing the point he was trying to make. No one was saying that an english major can't make a well thought out argument with a valid point. In fact they can probably do it better than a computer scientist. But, that's not what programming is. Programming is taking the simplest thing and elaborting in mind numbing detail for the computer to execute. way past the point most people get bored and give up. Take a simple form first name great how many characters should we store. middle name same question address how many lines? should we break it out into number and street name? what about suites? State great..list them out... all of them. city..ok..find a database of the cities and tie them to zip code. Oh wait...this is an international ap..great..let's start over...ok now three screens back if they selected this option change the font to one size larger. Programming isn't about making an argument it's closer to mapping out all the arguments and figuring out how they all fit together. but usually for topics that people wouldn't waste their time arguing over. like how to fill out an insurance form. or which document to pick first from a list.
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Another descendent of APL is the K programming language from Arthur Whitney (whose One page APL interpreter inspired the J implementation)

I would say that K:J is like C:C++ in terms of complexity (not of heritage). I personally prefer the K and C to J and C++ but to each their own.
The FT is actually a pretty balanced high quality paper - but their alternative analysis of the Piketty data is shoddy.

I can't imagine any good comeback from them to Pikettys comeback.
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They have done this to others.

What's "this"? Is it "the USG compels vendors to install back doors into their software products they ship to others, under threat of jail time and/or fine and/or vacation at Gitmo"? To whom was this done?

NSLs are nasty in many ways. That doesn't mean they are nasty in any way you can imagine.
The problem with using a tree to try to teach these lessons is trees grow too slowly. I agree they don't teach exactly the same thing, but the end goal is to make kids aware that we need to be aware that our lives are intertwined with the health of the earth. Seeing the growth cycle at a level that kids can comprehend will do more for that than planting something that, once planted, effectively becomes little more than a piece of scenery to them.

The importance of water conservation, how we interact and effect the water cycle, air quality, and many other things can be taught more effectively using the much-faster growing vegetable garden, and, since the kids have a vested interest (they get to eat what they grow), they are more engaged in these lessons.

I'm not saying kids planting trees is a bad idea, I just don't think it would be a very useful teaching tool for internalizing the importance of conservation.
Ask HN: how do you organize your startup research?
Interesting people, competitors, OSS projects, commercial libraries, third-party services, design and marketing ideas, notes on investors, potential future use cases -- what do you use to organize it all?
And they only picked that method for recent years so inequality is declining in Britain? Through Thatcher and Blair years???

Right.
They had good answers?

Everything I ever saw on a content farm looked like it was written by somebody who knew nothing about the topic, but did a quick Google search and extracted some semi-random bullet points from the first few things they saw. Basically, I could get the same value by clicking on the first non-content-farm link and then skimming.
I've got a soft spot for the MC6847, who needs lower case or an glob-star even when you have semigraphics!

http://members.casema.nl/hhaydn/howel/Acorn/Atom/atap/charse...

I even made it a pcf, from my notes:

$ convert charset.png -crop 256x48+0+0 +repage c6847.png
$ convert c6847.png -crop 8x12 +repage +adjoin 'c6847g%02x.png'

Need to make B&W:

$ convert c6847.png -threshold '1%' c6847.gif
$ for p in c6847g??.png; do convert "$p" -threshold '1%' "`basename $p .png`".gif; done

Got gif2bdf

$ curl -O http://czyborra.com/unifont/gif2bdf

Looked at it, decided it was safe, and patched it to hackishly get around some issues.

@@ -5,20 +5,19 @@
# into a handier bitmap distribution format font

$[ = 1; $chars=$#ARGV; undef $/;
-
+$dec = 32;
for (@ARGV)
{
- $dec = hex ($hex) if ($hex) = /([0-9A-F]{4})/ || next;
+ $hex = sprintf("%04x", $dec);
$_ = `giftopnm $_`;
s/^P4\s(\d+)\s(\d+)\s/$wid=$1,$nib=$wid>>2,$ht=$2,''/e;
$_ = unpack ("H*", $_);
s/(.{$nib})/\n$1/g;
$header ||= print "STARTFONT 2.1
-FONT -Unicode-Charts-Medium-R-Normal--$ht-${ht}0-72-72-C-${wid}0-ISO10646-1
+FONT -c6847-fixed-medium-r-normal--$ht-${ht}0-72-72-C-${wid}0-iso8859-1
SIZE $ht 72 72
FONTBOUNDINGBOX $wid $ht 0 0
-STARTPROPERTIES 4
-COPYRIGHT http://www.unicode.org/unicode/copyright.html
+STARTPROPERTIES 3
DEFAULT_CHAR -1
FONT_ASCENT $ht
FONT_DESCENT 0
@@ -33,7 +32,10 @@
BITMAP$_
ENDCHAR
";
-
+ $dec = $dec + 1;
+ if ($dec == 96) {
+ $dec = 192;
+ }
}

print "ENDFONT\n";

Made fonts

$ ./gif2bdf `ls c6847g??.gif | sort` > c6847.bdf
$ bdftopcf c6847.bdf > c6847.pcf
I'd like to stress the point about wrapper types, which can even be usefully employed in C. Note that - in C - this is not typedef (which is mostly cosmetic), but rather wrapping primitives in otherwise empty structs. This has no runtime cost and has the tremendous benefit that you won't mix up the arguments to place_order(price_t, quantity_t) where you might to place_order(int price, int quantity).
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Having lived both in Sweden and in Britain you don't even need data to know this isn't very plausible. That said, Sweden is getting a bigger gap between the highest earners and the lowest at a fast rate. "the most equal country in the world is becoming less so." -The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/21564412
Yeap... They should've read his bio a little better. This guy's from the most hardcore math school of the country. Less than a few hundreds accepted every year for the whole country ( and only based on a contest in which most top science students participate), and he got inside 2 years younger than normal. He isn't the typical economist. Attacking him on raw data analysis was probably the most daring thing to do.
Considering the licensing, its likely that the developers wanted to keep development to themselves, and never turn it over to someone else. If the ragequit theory is correct, its fairly reasonable for them to remove the previous versions to make a fork slightly more difficult, especially since it would be an illegitimate fork.
For completeness of this correction, they are Cetaceans.
There are many reasons close schools would have an advantage. I would be surprised if there aren't adjunct faculty at Stanford from Google (and UW from Microsoft) and interns sometimes prefer local opportunities to those far away.

It might be interesting to look at which colleges they hire from, but just drop Stanford (or control for the number of miles from Mountain View.
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Why Corporations Choose Delaware: http://startuplawjournal.com/2013/04/04/why-corporations-cho...
Kids toys and clothes. Lots of wooden train tracks and K'nex. There's a big second-hand market for kids' stuff as a lot of it is built to be indestructible, but it only gets used for a few years. And parents are cheap. Source: I yam one.
Burden of proof is on you to prove that FT's data is shoddy since you made that claim. What specifically are you referring to and what sources are you citing?
I object to the implicit criticism of the value of the audit here: independent audits drastically increase the value of security systems, because having someone without an existing mental model scrutinize code is a very good way to catch bugs, so users correctly consider an audited system more trustworthy. The audit is not more valuable than the original code, but it is much more valuable than the types of derivative work you mentioned.
You got the power!

It's cool the way you see results arriving at the same time they're being computed!
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Unfortunately, ultimately, the research, data and analysis isn't going to matter much.

Consider the debate on climate change, 98% of climate scientists agree that humans contribute significantly to climate change, but large numbers of Americans (including some of the most powerful politicians and talk-radio hosts) either deny climate change or claim that humans don't do much to cause climate change.

I expect the inequality debate to play out in a similar fashion. Many economists may agree with Piketty. However, the FT has thrown sufficient "doubt" on his findings (it doesn't matter that they compare past tax data with today's "survey" data etc).

This "doubt" provides sufficient ammunition for those who'd like to deny that inequality is on the increase. So the debate will end up as another one of those "he said, he said" topics in the media and people are likely to take sides based on which side of the ideological divide they are one.
I thought that Francis X. Kane was the father of GPS. See http://www.afspc.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100405-049...
In the case of the LLC some friends and I had a few years ago, we got a recommendation for a local firm from the lawyer father-in-law of the co-founders (he was out of state, and the relationship meant he had a conflict of interest and thus couldn't represent us himself). Big name, nice downtown office. Which should have been a warning sign...

We had some questions about IP ownership in our day-job employee agreements and asked the firm for an opinion. Rather than a simple one or two sentence answer/explanation, we ended up with 3 of their people on a conference call, one of whom simply read that portion of the agreement back to us. And then got handed a $2400 bill for services rendered.

Pick your lawyer almost as carefully as you pick a co-founder.
White males, as a group, are fairly intimidating to other groups (and often behave in exclusionary ways).

This is not an issue of "reducing to single characteristics", but of power imbalance. I can't speak for other minorities, but a lot of women are experiencing discrimination from men in some way in some place in their lives. Try looking at #YesAllWomen on twitter if you want more details.

And so it's meaningful to set an example that says "While this profession currently predominantly male, we do accept minorities, and there are many non-white/non-male people in our industry who succeeded". That is what the role model part is about - clearly communicating that it's not a clique. That privilege is at least somewhat addressed.

If there were black privilege in the NBA, yes, it'd be a lot scarier for white athletes to get in there. Looking at the odd fact that by far most quarterbacks are white (75% of them right now, and the fact that it's so low is celebrated), I think we're far from that point.

But even if we leave out the debate around privilege and pretend for the moment that it doesn't exist: Being in a minority leads to a lot of shared experiences. A creative woman interested in CS, but not in the field has more in common with other women than she has with a guy interested in exploring CS.

There are more shared experiences the longer you share that interest, and the differences vanish. But at the point where it's about getting into CS, these differences matter. And seeing somebody who is "just like you" matters, on a psychological level.
For comparison purposes, Netflix has been releasing this data for some time: http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/usa
While I agree that age should be addressed, your post seems to be a very good example of "letting the perfect be the enemy of the good." Here we have a major company apologizing for its poor diversity and providing a confidential report to the EEOC along with visualizations, very publicly on its website. It seems like a great start, with plenty of room to grow. So why "so-called diversity"? There has to be a more constructive way to address this and call on Google to release more demographics - but let's not forget that everyone else is keeping even the "so-called" diversity stats secret.
Google has another game for learning webapp exploits and defenses here: https://google-gruyere.appspot.com/

I tried it a while back and enjoyed it quite a bit. I forget if I completely finished it or not, but it was educational.
Whether that was intended, unintended or the opposite of what was intended seems to be what we are really talking about here.

Let's assume the Rakudo developers acted in good faith per your reasonable default. The effect is still that Parrot is all but abandoned, multiple productive developers with decades of practical experience attempting to implement P6 no longer contribute to either Parrot or Rakudo, and Rakudo isn't obviously more usable than it was three years ago. The effective delivery date of P6 is still "some time in the future". The fourth anniversary of Rakudo Star is approaching and it hasn't met its goals.

Even if Rakudo were released in a stable, 6.0 form today, I still wouldn't use it for anything I care about because I don't trust its developers to deliver usable software reliably.
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I'm a google engineer who is cough well over 40. I haven't experienced any age discrimination. The engineering team for the product I work on, Google Play Music, is roughly 15% older engineers (rough guess, because I don't actually know how old everyone is). And across google, many of the most well regarded engineers (not talking about managers) are also older folks. Should there be more older engineers? Possibly, but the population is skewed because google is growing very fast of late and the vast majority of hires come straight out of college.

Also keep in mind that software engineering is a tough profession, and burnout is a real issue. Many of the people I've worked with over the years have moved on to other careers, in high tech or in something completely unrelated. The luckier ones cashed out on stock options or IPOs, and no longer need to work for a living - they either have their own little companies where they play around or they just retire. I'd say probably 40-50% of the engineers I worked with in my 20s and 30s are no longer doing any coding.

Bottom line: age discrimination is generally not a problem at google. One discrimination suit means nothing - those happen all the time at every successful company, and most of them are from folks angling for a quick settlement. (I don't know the merits of the particular case in question.)
Are you kidding me? This is a great idea and incredibly fair.

Why should non-believers fund churches with their tax money?

Believers should be responsible for funding their churches/temples/holy places without relying on those who don't care.
Interesting...point about using pointers to get nullable JSON values. Especially important for booleans, where false is the default value, and would not show up if "omitempty" is specified on that JSON field. Demo here: http://play.golang.org/p/K3sG6T2wDd
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Is this a joke? The UK's own Office for National Statistics derived that 44% figure, not the FT.

Shame on you.
For example, from the fine article:

>He says the newspaper’s analysis rests on apples-to-oranges comparisons of past data from tax returns mixed with current data from surveys, which makes the conclusions they reach deeply flawed, and contrary to what a wide range of other studies have found.
What I am saying here is anecdotal (but when did that ever stop anyone)...

I have to agree with Bock.

I was an English major at a solid school (Rutgers) and went on to do some grad work in Comp Lit at NYU. Years later I took CS/ Math classes at Stevens - there is no comparison in the difficulty. The only exception were the political theory classes I took which were grounded in Hegel - they were hard.

I have met 10 times as many Science / Tech people who were relatively well versed in Literature and/or Art than the contrary. There tends to be absolute illiteracy in Math and hard Science in the Humanities.

I remember years ago one of my profs got caught up in an embarrassing incident where a faked article which conflated Relativism and Relativity passed muster at a critical theory journal and was published with glaring scientific errors. (The Sokal Affair)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

Now that i am in a tech field I wish I had spent more time studying math instead of so much Englsh and Political Theory as an undergrad.