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I'm sort of in the market for a co-founder, someone with a strong marketing, sales, and biz-dev background most likely.

I'm the nerd looking for the suit, not the other way around, though I do have some business experience myself. I at least know which way is up in the biz domain. :)

But if I don't find such a person who really looks like a great fit (both skills and personality/vision compatibility), I will go it alone. I consider the sole founder path superior to a bad or hasty fit for a co-founder. I do have a partnership and some advisor relationships in the works, so I'm not totally alone. If I raise I'll also have investors to threaten to demote me if the goals aren't m^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H I mean contribute valuable insight.
I agree. If at some point dropinchat.com allowed for messaging between networks XMPP support would be great to add. At this point we only allowing for messaging other drop in chat users so no such protocol is needed. My only point was that we didn't "reinvent the wheel" by not using XMPP. Instead we just don't allow cross network messaging yet.
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I'm with you. Seems like it should be common courtesy to me.
Kinda amusing given the topic of the article.
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You've got me so excited for that plugin, any ETA?
When I wrote my first compiler (really more of a transpiler), I didn't know any theory about it. I just knew how regexes worked, had an intuition that I can't just regex my way out of everything and went at it.

Started with an interpreter. Eventually turned it into a compiler. Really fun project, ran into a bunch of weird issues that would have quickly been solved had I read any theory whatsoever about compilers.

But looking back at it now, after having taken an actual compilers course in college, it did sort of have all the stages. They just happened to all be mushed together and not very cleanly separated or very cleanly defined.

The grammar, for instance, was more like a bunch of if statements and function calls that kinda sorta made the compiler do what I wanted ... but corner cases kept cropping up ...

Fun times.
This should be titled one-founder startups. Spoiler: #1 is Amazon.
> Free certificates tend to result in ugly warning messages in browsers

StartSSL is free, and as long as you correctly bundle the intermediate cert (something you have to do with many, many other CA's anyway) your SSL will look no different than a $100+/year one from an A-list provider.
Hey Richard, thanks for posting this!

That is -definitely- the point I was trying to get across. Instead of looking like a spammer, if someone posts your articles of their own volition, it is an immediate validation that the article has the possibility of making it to the front page.

I'm not saying you can't submit yourself, just taking the more "scientific" approach that if someone else submits, you success will most likely have a higher probability.
Couldn't even think of one woman to put in there?
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It's to develop a systematic way to combine contracts and conditions.

Eg. One this is done, then pay in bitcoin, ... Some clear examples can be found here : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/codius/tOtcG9cZA-Y
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That's almost comical to think about... a one-person startup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOXpKUu6pUg

There are some that grow to large sizes with a pretty small number of employees though.
Poster has not worked very deeply with Win32, is unaware of its conventions. Film at 11.

For example:

> Yes, that’s right, every user of the Event Tracing for Windows API has to do the arithmetic and layout of the packed structure format themselves.

These represent very common idioms in Windows. One common idiom is about binary compatibility. Microsoft can change the length of the structure in a future rev of the SDK. Old callers can still work because they are specifying sizes and offsets - the library can look at these and know what to do. The other common idiom (very common in the NT kernel for example) is similar to what C99 introduced for structures with variable-length members, something C definitely didn't do for you and even today with it standardized still gets pretty clumsy.

The author lost all credibility when he wrote this:

> StringCbCopy((LPSTR)((char * )pSessionProperties + pSessionProperties->LoggerNameOffset),
sizeof(KERNEL_LOGGER_NAME), KERNEL_LOGGER_NAME);

Why on earth would you say (LPSTR)(char * ) ? That is literally saying (char * ) (char * ).

To me a "bad" API enters into questions like:

* How does it handle errors? Consistency is good. Swallowing them to the caller is bad.

* Does it give the caller the right level of detail about what is going on? It's especially common for it to be a black box and completely fail under some condition that the author did not envision. Some kind of escape hook that exposes implementation details makes library maintanence difficult but sometimes it's needed.

I haven't looked too deeply at etw but I don't suspect it fails at these. Maybe it errs too much on one extreme on the 2nd bullet.
Yes, luckily what you quoted has context and he's talking about how you market yourself within an org or to future employers. I didn't take away that those should be your only goals in life and that you should abstain from relationships & leisure. How did you come to that interpretation?
Unfortunately, it looks like all his course materials have disappeared from the web. Haven't had a chance to check the Internet Archive.
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Relativity says the speed of light is the same in all reference frames. Newton's Third Law says any action has an equal and opposite reaction. These two ideas are incompatible. If you shine a light beam from a moving object, it doesn't make a faster moving light beam. The reaction is not equal and opposite. Since light carries momentum, Newton's ideas about conservation of momentum might be wrong too.
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StartSSL is 0 USD/year. There should be more providers like them, and if the barriers to entry ($$$$) weren't so insurmountable, I'd happily start one myself. But they do a good job, and I've used several free certs from them with no issues.

https://www.startssl.com/?app=1

You also don't need "expensive" hosting, it just needs to support SSL which is free from a technical perspective. You no longer need a dedicated IP either.
And emails too then, no ?

Lot of critical information is still transmitted through emails.
Ask HN: Disrupt – Recruiting
I wanted to start a periodic series of brainstorming where we could write down our ideas and views on existing practices of one particular industry which may (or may not) be ripe for Disruption. We could focus on emerging trends and pain points that this community of Technologists can adopt and solve for.

As a start, I wanted to open the conversation on a topic whose current state of play we all find difficult to accept and cope with - Recruiting.

Some questions that I could think of:

* What trends are you seeing that you think should be more widely adopted?
* What practices could promote a better dialogue between recruiters and candidates?
* How can we solve for some of these problems using the technology we have at hand?
* .....

For mutual benefit, lets keep this conversation as constructive as possible. Lets keep the criticism limited to the extent it can be converted to positive motivation for change.
One of the problems with this idea, that we have the physics "perfectly understood", is that even that statement isn't accurate. What we actually have are unbelievably precise models for how things work and people who understand those models at extremely deep levels.

But even something we experience literally every moment of every day, like gravity or magnets, we haven't the foggiest idea of how it actually works. We can describe in great depth anything we wish about our models for these things and experiments can reproduce our theories with exquisite precision.

But these models are merely complex rituals, we don't actually know, at a deep fundamental level, what happens.

The Feynman answer to magnetism, for example, is deeply unsatisfying because he describes all the rituals we've discovered with science about magnetism, but never really answers the question. His answer, in 7.5 minutes are "all the electronics spin in the same direction in iron and that produces a magnified magnetic field large enough we can feel". But why do spinning electrons produce a magnetic field at all? And why does that field work the way it does?

We have built beautiful mathematical tools to describe this force, down to elementary particles, but why it exists at all is a completely mystery.
I wrote about this a long time ago: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/power-of-gratitude.html
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Wouldn't it make sense to prohibit deleting after x comments have been made?
Steven Novella (neurologist, active in the skeptical community) made a similar comparison: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/nasa-tests-em-d...
The $40 renewal fee on a dotcom seems to indicate that the poster was set up with a 'reseller' account and that some price gouging was at play, regardless of the circumstances around the auction. The parent of a reseller account decides the price of domain purchases and collects the difference between the parent account's actual cost for the domain (depending on whatever fees _their_ parent charges them..) and the cost that the reseller paid.

On my eNom reseller account, I pay $9.45 to renew a dotcom domain, and I believe that my parent is taking at least $1 per domain out of that fee (at least, they were 10 years ago when I first received my account).

It's likely that NameJet are the parent company if this account was setup with eNom on the poster's behalf due to an auction with them. It looks like they skim another $30+ off of each sale this way, if this was a 1 year renewal instead of a 4 year..
Agreed, I wish you didn't have to deal with JavaScript's quirks (or script tags even).
Shortest version:

They think it works, but we don't know how. More tests will tell whether or not we have finally discovered the technology required to drive around easily in the solar system and propel skateboarding into the realm of Back to the Future.
I know I've had times when the answer/response made me look dumb, arrogant, etc, and I've been tempted to delete my comment. In those cases, it wouldn't have been the jerk thing to do, but the cowardly thing to do: if you say, own it, regardless of how it makes you look.
What is interesting with MapBox, is that they essentially offer functionality similar to Geoserver + Openlayers, but with a far more focused, nice, modern user experience.

Certainly in terms of government systems, I think companies sell to people who will never use the system. Procurement people who worry about getting locked in by Mapbox just like they were with ESRI. Government IT people who want to host everything locally. Sadly in that kind of a sale, user experience doesn't matter so much as it should.
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I believe its ranked by valuation and/or users/subscribers
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Relativity is self-consistent and incorporates conservation of momentum.

(Photons can carry differing amounts of energy, and therefore momentum. This is exhibited as differing wavelengths. Specifically, light being emitted from a moving object is blue/redshifted depending on the relative motion of the observer.)
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If you used a hash table you'd be doing a lookup for every single search in addition to the search itself. It'd be better to have nodes in the index include an 'extra stuff' pointer that linked to an object containing whatever else is displayed in addition to the results - the sidebar, alternative search suggestions, etc. Any easter egg info would go in there.

(That said, I don't write software to anywhere near Google scale, so there's probably a much better way.)
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Of course you can, if what is revealed is considered more "whistleblower"-worthy (say, secret plan to kill babies).

All whistleblowing is not the same.
Almost all of them US based!
> How are they supposed to run a search engine without prioritizing?

Maybe quality of content? If the best info gets buried because they can't afford a cert or don't have a need for one then this hurts the Internet.
my heart somehow leaps when I see beautiful code like this.

Although I have tried to like clojure in all earnestness, I am somehow put off by the noise from clojure ( PS its not only about the brackets. )

Somehow the python code and also the haskell version looks so succinct yet sparse enough to be read.

maybe I am hardwired that way ...
Why switch to infiniband? Ethernet can go just as fast (not as good of latency) and the cables are cheap and ubiquitous. The only thing stopping higher speeds is cost. I have been watching 10GbE PCI-E cards for the last year or two and they have dramatically dropped in price ($200 from newegg). You can get server motherboards with 2 integrated 10GbE ports for $500 as well. 10GbE does run over cat6 by the way.
Why should the author try to fulfill some sort of gender-quota? The purpose of the article is clearly to collate the top 10 single-founder startups, rather than the top 5 male and top 5 female single-founder startups, etc.
This one comes to mind:

http://www.nastygal.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAVq-sW6LCA

Not sure I'd call it a "tech" startup, but it definitely counts as a startup and a successful one. Apologies to #2 if I'm wrong about it being sole founder. I'd say it's more successful than some of the revenue-free entries on this list.
To be fair -- I am certainly not the only one that opened that page scared of seeing my own name. :-)

>> It’s a great time in the history of computing to be writing an article about bad APIs (which is another way of saying it’s a terrible time to actually have to program for a living).

It is hard to make good APIs. And for complex subjects it is probably impossible without iterating.

But you would think the guys that did the 2nd generation of VMS were smarter and more experienced than me? But OK, there weren't much event driven programming in VMS, I assume.

My vote for worst API I ever read:

I remember reading the "Inside Macintosh" (pre Mac OS X) about simple file IO and it took me multiple readings to realize that you just set some of the parameters to get all the different functionality... (The rewrite of the Inside books were really good.)
I'd never understand how intelligent and educated people lose it completely when it comes to Physics. They've been exposed to some PopSci tales not meant to be accurate at all and then feel entitled to be right when they figure out some nonsensical consequences by themselves -no proper maths involved ever-. It's depressing.

Baez is right, of course. I've been checking the (Word-generated) "papers" from this guy's group at NASA, they're extremely shoddy: There's another report with their unstable calibration for the torsion pendulum which shows their complete lack of undergraduate lab report skills. And a poster from them where they say: "Q-thruster test articles are going to be tested in a vacuum to reduce possibility of air currents polluting the thrust signal during testing, but electrolytic capacitors in signal amplifier are not vacuum compatible"... Awesome.

I've also checked the Chinese Physics B paper. Their device is completely different from this one. It's an open cavity and they only use classical EM. I don't understand very well how their thrust measurement set-up works so I hold my judgement on their claims, but at least they're trying to be legit.

Violation of momentum is an extremely serious claim (in words of D.J. Griffiths, "there is no principle in Physics more sacred than that"). The Universe would look nothing like this if that were true and all the Physics that we've discovered consistent with thousands of experiments would be gone. The way they use the quantum vacuum has nothing to do with the formalism that made it possible. Several detailed QED calculations backed up by experiments to astounding precision would be completely wrong and we know that's not the case.

BTW, the fundamental principle is conservation of momentum, Newton's 3rd law of motion is a consequence that sometimes doesn't hold, for instance forces between charged particles in electrodynamics don't follow the 3rd law (but approximately at low speeds). If you take into account momentum carried by the fields you get conservation of momentum back, quite nicely as well.
Disappointed there's no women on the list. Even more disappointed that fully 7 of the top 10 have no indication of revenue.

Remember: if there's no revenue, it's not a business. It's a hobby.

EDIT: To clarify, (I noted someone else pointing out it's very US-centric, which is ANOTHER problem) I have serious doubts it's really the top 10 in the world. More likely the top 10 this author has heard of.
That is on my queue of books to buy. [Which is below my queue of books to read].

So shouldn't there be a way to balance these requirements?

It seems like we've ignored the ability to batch jobs, do async tasks etc. It sucks... but an API is out of my control.
Since the invention of mass media. most folks in the "creative industry" already work for next to nothing. Automation would only threaten the .1% of artists, musicians, and actors at the top. My band, for instance, barely makes any money, but we're in it for fun. Hatsune Miku won't put us out of work, but after a few more updates, she might replace Katy Perry.
Maybe because it can lead to security theatre ? People feeling safe when there not really safe ?

I think that's what hnha meant.
The top 2 (Amazon & Ebay) where founded in almost a different internet age. It makes wonder if a solo founder could create such a large company today.
Any particular reason behind that choice?
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> tools like Ruby or node.js or the cambrian explosion of javascript frameworks show that

Ruby appeared in 1990, JS in 1994 (iirc?). Saying they got "widely" (that's a relative term) adopted 15-20 years later is not going to convince me that "people aren't as stuck as I think".

Meanwhile we're still waiting for ideas from '60 and '70 to get to the mainstream. No, I really think people are a bit conservative when it comes to tools they use.
One-person startup is doable - moderate SaaS app that generates decent revenue. However, infographics like this are obviously saying that startup=beeeeellleeeon dollar companies
I saw a great quote about this once when someone posted something stupid and after being torn apart, was asked if he wanted his original post deleted and he said "Nah - stupid is supposed to hurt."
I took the time to email someone about a specific problem and didn't hear back - how long does it take to hit reply and type "Thx"? The effects are corrosive: why should I bother to reply next time?
Why is it a fight at all? I enjoyed the paper for a few insights into the implementation of containers, but I didn't find the performance comparisons very relevant. As another commenter noted: it's not surprising that namespaces and cgroups are a crapload less demanding than a full virutalization stack.

I don't much like referring to containers as a virtualization technology, although it seems like that fight is lost. In my view they aren't the same thing, they aren't solving the same problems, so seeing people line up defensively around one or the other is sort of amusing.
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S/he probably did not learn about common courtesy growing up. Society will give this person a lesson one day...
Most of the right in the US prescribe a less powerful government and more choice for individuals. Social conservatives want to force their morals on everyone, but with less government, wanted by fiscal conservatives who and make up the majority of the Tea Party and "the right", that's not possible.

Class warriors believe in zero-sum games. Wealth inequality to them means that if the rich are getting richer, then everyone else must be getting poorer; never mind that living standards have been improving for virtually everyone over the last 50 years (stagnant in closed societies, but those are far and few).

Also, please don't use terms like "far right". It could mean Ayn Rand or Hitler, and they don't have a thing in common.
How is this different from Ethereum?
> hit me on Twitter (@jm)

You win some you lose some, I guess.
How good is development on it (& elementary OS). I've only used Ubuntu/OSX for serious development.

Does the 2GB RAM cause any issues?
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Some people are jerks. Some people are too frazzled to remember good manners. Some people were raised by wolves and aren't even familiar with the concept of manners.

I don't expect people to say thank you when I answer a question. I used to, but that expectation was beaten out of me a long time ago. But I definitely appreciate it — it's a nice surprise — when someone does bother to say thank you, and I try to remember to always say thank you myself.
Actually, the conservation of momentum is local, so the car must emit some particles. The bottom of the tires emits (virtual) photons that are absorbed by the road. When you see it globally, the tires just push the road. (You can't go to the local mechanical shop and talk about virtual photons.)

In the middle of the space, where there is only vacuum around, you can't use the "virtual particle that get absorbed almost immediately" trick. So you need to emit some real particles (like a photon).

To explain this experiment, you can't push against the virtual particles, because they collapse and create some real particle (like a photon) to carry the momentum away and then you get the momentum/energy upper bound. (It's more complicated, particles appear and disappear, but the net effect is the same.)

Most of the "explanations" use virtual particles, but as an alternative explanation it's possible that this is pushing "dark matter". Perhaps this is a neutrino fan. (I'm not sure if neutrinos are technically dark matter, but they are "dark" enough and very abundant). It catches some neutrinos from the sun, change their direction a little, and then the neutrinos exit the chamber unnoticed. The change in the neutrinos direction gives the momentum to the thruster. I think that this doesn't break any theoretical law in an obvious way. The problem is that the dark mater is "dark" because it's very difficult to measure and to interact in any way. It's very difficult to change the direction of neutrinos, but at least it's an engineers' problem, not a physicists' problem. (In particular, neutrinos can travel through the earth.) The easier explanation is a measurement error.
This advice really applies to all walks of life. If you're running a start-up (mine is gopaperbox.com), this is how you should treat your customers. More than likely there is someone that does something similar to you. The best way to win is to treat your customer with the utmost respect and be as fair as possible to them. Cliche advice, yes, but it is absolutely integral to success.
How would Infiniband be so much faster than Ethernet over the same cables? And would a 5x faster Inifiniband be less than 5x as expensive?
Probably the most effective way to get site owners to switch over. I've told clients in the past that SSL could potentially be a positive SEO factor for cheap - it's at that point they begin to change their minds.
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