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>>What does clicking "Let's meet" do? I clicked it to find out and it said "Message sent, thanks! I look forward to meeting you."

> Sorry about that. It's hypocritical of me to implement a system like this instead of just showing my email address. I actually wrote a blog post about why you shouldn't do what I did with this website:

>http://blog.milesokeefe.com/post/56981311556/dont-use-contac....

I disagree. On most computers that I have ever used, clicking an e-mail link will open a setup process for the default email client. Most users I have ever encountered do not know what to do with that prompt.

There's a lot of talk about "fixing" email, but I've yet to see anyone tackling this problem in a serious fashion. Since websites can't expect mailto: links working for their visitors, they have to put up forms.

But more to the point: I think it is quite obvious what is gonna happen when one submit the form on your website: The website owner gets informed about my email address and what time I'm interested in meeting.

Whether this information is conveyed by SMS, Whatsapp, e-mail, some internal e-ticketing system is completely irrelevant to the user.

PS: I don't know how miles.codes is supposed to look, but it looks horrible in Firefox on Ubuntu. Images are jiggling, text is unreadable, links are not clickable where you'd expect to be able to click.
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Wire? It's infiniband and other bufferless network protocols over fiber.
"Those schools that attract students with a wide range of SAT scores generally have higher correlations between the scores and first-year grades." --http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=98373...
Of course in that case, the licensee is

Either a) Using the patent to to produce and sell the invention, in which case it's not a paper patent.

Or b) Using the patent purely to sue other people (which is what most of the big name patent trolls do) and therefore must be stopped.
Real-world Meetup.com meetups.
ICANN would take control and find a new operator. There is a pretty long and tedious process involved with operating a gTLD, including proving that you have the appropriate finances and resources to support the domain.
The true learning experience of college is that it throws you together with people that you would never hang out with by choice, and so forces you to broaden your perspective.

Huh, my take on college is the exact opposite. Public secondary school is where you are together with people who you would never hang out with choice, but are thrown together by accident of birth location. College is where I finally got to live with fellow nerds, have late night bull sessions, join clubs that matched my interests, have crazy dining hall conversations, etc. It was great, I could finally be a normal, fun, social person without having to dumb myself down or hide my intellectual interests. The true value of college, is that you can find groups of similarly ambitious people, and you can feed off of each other and push each other further. Also, you can build lasting bonds that will be helpful over the course of your life.
Wealthfront posted a graph on that. I called them out on it on Twitter which they didn't appreciate.
I wonder if it works only for people in the US...
Yeah, no.

Reading the Sunlight Foundation opposition to the same bill, it's clear that they see benefits in the bill, but think the problems are bigger than the benefits. The EFF goes the other way.

That doesn't make them less credible, it mens their priorities are different.

(And it's completely unclear what Google funding of EFF has to do with anything discussed there)
You misunderstand me.

If a woman is denied a $80k job oppportunity and forced to take a $30k job instead, she has suffered a direct $50k/year financial loss.

If a man is pushed out of one $50k job into another $50k job, he has suffered no direct financial loss.

They both absolutely do suffer a loss in esteem and quality of life, and neither one is okay. But equating a handful of "women only" entry level jobs to an industry-wide glass ceiling that puts an effective cap on certain people's salaries is missing the forest for the trees.
I really resonate with this comment. Like many my college career was mostly 'stuff I already knew' in the sense that I had been playing around with electronics and computers throughout high school. But college gave me an opportunity to hang out with folks who I would not have hung out with were I self selecting the crowd. And that experience allowed me to step outside of my own thinking and see a more nuanced world of alternate views. It also improved my critical thinking skills.
A script to open all the files I need open, on the appropriate workspaces, for each of the projects I'm currently working on. It feels so slow to do that manually, and it's still satisfying watching all those files open themselves on various workspaces.
I think you're missing the point of what a good education provides. No one says it provides real world experience. What it provides is the ability to think thoroughly and rigorously about things you might not have any actual first-hand experience with. Most people lack that ability and the only way I know of acquiring it is to go to an educational institution and bang your head against hard problems. You will not get this kind of opportunity anywhere outside of an educational institution. The problems you face at work and what could be termed as the industry are of a different kind and flavor and don't exercise the same kind of mental muscle.
Exactly my thought. ha!
In case anyone was looking for the actual text of the bill:

https://www.leahy.senate.gov/download/usa-freedom-act_-intro...

I'd honestly say this being said so close to the election is playing politics rather than "lose credibility". Republicans taking control of both houses of Congress. The Freedom Act is likely better than whatever a Republican controlled legislative branch will pass.
What is art to a platform can you remind me?

It is fact artists always present and accept stigma in this age. From the dawn of MP3 players to its platforms like iTunes and Zune there has been a hesitance among content shared not via CD. It is true that Taylor Swift has a point music is art but what is it to say I need a dollar everytime you look at my painting, I need a cent everytime you touch my statue. There seems to be the prophetic aura that exists with all our favorite artists at some point they realize that and need to capitalize on their own terms whether it be disregarding the fact they are getting paid and are being offered an entirely new music platform to share their music.

It is fact most people no longer buy Music. But it is fact they share music, they want to listen to music but will always look for that freemium model. Spotify is paying all contributors in total 2 billion as stated in the article. There more than the 40 million users but 1 in 4 pay for membership. But you know there is that stigma its free. So what if the other 30 million do not pay there is an eventual probability of frustration not being able to play what you want and when you want but that is solved for you pay the membership. Spotify exemplifies the new art form of music is to art as it is to its distribution. With this way of sharing how will it be able to stop them from changing the landscape since right now we are unable to listen to Taylor maybe they will find a replacement.
second disclaimer...

Although I partook very much in my younger years I no longer indulge. Not that I'm against it... I just have too much to remember at this stage.

but to your point... I suspect lots.
For a different perspective, I'm a self-taught developer, designer, and business consultant who left college after a year and didn't even begin learning to program until 21. I'm 29 now, and I pretty much feel that the world is my oyster. Clients who attended Ivy league universities pay me large amounts of money to solve their problems (they never ask where or whether I went to college, just whether I can fix their problems), I have a huge number of valuable connections (including investors and people who know plenty of investors), and I feel generally highly respected for my achievements and skills, which aren't really even that impressive on the HN scale. If I wanted a full time job (I don't), I could have my pick of dozens of great companies.

I honestly believe that straying from The Path, as you put it, is why I'm in a good position now. It's been challenging at times, but it ensured that I didn't just settle for whatever inertia threw my way. If I didn't make something of myself, no one was going to give me a free pass based on the prestige of my degree, so it forced me to make something of myself, and instead of ending up with some safe and boring post along The Path, I've learned skills that allow me to make my own Path and walk it on my own terms. I think I'm a better person for it.
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Notes: http://jonalmeida.com/posts/2014/11/11/htsas-lec15/

It's worth mentioning that Ben's slides are the best I've seen so far. They've very close to what he talks about with the right amount of detail.

I also really liked the Touissaint L'Overture example.
Awful lot of negative comments here. I thoroughly enjoyed the article. Was it biased? Everything is. But it explained a bunch of history that I didn't know in narrative form, which I appreciate.
I don't actually get the impression that #2 is true. Rather, I think people believe that product is all-important, and both finance and management take a back seat to that. At this year's startup school, both Ron Conway and Jim Goetz (Sequoia) drove home the point that the #1 concern of entrepreneurs should be a maniacal focus on product, and it's okay to blow off investors if necessary to achieve it (often, they even like it).

I think that your other points would follow if you assume that there are two primary ways for a venture capitalist to invest in a startup that's achieved product/market fit:

1. Get in before they have product/market fit, spread your bets across many small startups, double-down on your winners, and replace the founders with professional management once the company has taken off. This is much of the current seed investing climate, and the valuation worksheet you saw.

2. Wait until they have product/market fit, but differentiate yourself from other VCs by providing non-financial resources needed for a novice entrepreneur to become an effective CEO. This is the a16z/Sequoia approach. They try to keep a founder as CEO (because they often have knowledge of the market and organization that would be very hard to replicate), but supplement it with generous advice and the VC's own networks.
Don't forget the magical term 'support'. Or 'Fibonacci levels'. Or 'resistance zones'. If I see another blog post by the brokerage firm I'm with about freaking 'supports' I'm going to hurl. Technical analysis puts everything from astrology through religion on to homeopathy to shame in its bullshittery.

The most entertaining part is when they go on about the support levels between the currencies. "NOK-NZD is about to break the 5.30 support level and this chart indicates that NOK-NZD is going to go up." It just leaves me thinking WTF, how do you go from here to there? I think, more honestly, the actual example I saw was CHF to JPY.

'Butterfly patterns'? You sure you're not reading tea leaves?

That said, I'm sure technical analysis works. Something like 0.5+ε of the time. And, if you find the right sort of TA, if it's just RSI or some MACD crossover with specific sets of parameters x or y for that stock you might beat buy and hold or whatever. 50% of the time, if you're lucky, before commissions.

But I'm not even convinced, nor should anyone with half a brain be, that 365 days is somehow a magical interval over which we should compare in the long term or anything.

Just buy and hold and index fund, people. Or something very managed with a very low level of turnover and low fees, keeping in mind an appropriate diversification period. When to buy? Today, or gradually over the next few months with dollar cost averaging. Holding period? Ideally forever. Simple.
I can't seem to find the pricing page for the enterprise offering.
Actually - I'd really like an answer to that as well. A public answer.
> One is about subjugating the weak, and the other is about freeing them.

In 1700's, europeans thought they were raising the natives to their level.
In 1900's, some germans thought they saw jews as having excess privileges and need to be brought down.
In 2000's, feminists think men have an excess of privileges in society, and that they need to tilt the scales in women's favor.

> I would, because the things are completely opposite.

They're all instances of trying to pull society from what it is to what it thinks it ought to be.

Also, of all the ways women may be disadvantaged, I don't think freedom is one of them, at least in developed countries. Also, women were never put in chains. If they thought they were being put down, there were many opportunities for them to have thrown down the metaphorical chains and shackles men have placed on them, and overcome their male masters, in the past thousands of years, just like the various native aboriginals who fought against European invaders, as Jews having the tenacity to form dominant minorities in hostile nations and organising to form their own country, and as slaves had done throughout history in various rebellions since the Ancient Roman Empire as well as participating in the fight against American South in the Civil War. Instead all we have is a relatively benign tweaking of laws in their favour. Many of the new laws are definitely beneficial of course; I'd just thought I'd point out a comparison between todays and historical attempts to bridge the difference between what society is and ought to be.
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> The difference between the two is mostly how they are taxed (share buybacks are generally more efficient)

A long time ago a company (I think it was GM, but I'm not sure) got clever. Instead of declaring a dividend, they did something like an 11 for 10 stock split, then did a buyback of 1/11th of the outstanding shares.

The net result is that each shareholder ends up with same number of shares that they had before, and the same fraction of ownership of the company they had before, and they received money from the company in proportion to their share of ownership. It's just like a dividend--except it could be reported as a stock buyback and get treated as capital gains instead of ordinary income.

Because of this, what was once was a short paragraph in the Tax Code is now a couple pages or so, in order to close that loophole without taking capital gains treatment away from legitimate buybacks.

When you gaze at the ~3000 pages of the Tax Code (the widely reported 70k pages is a gross exaggeration) and wonder how it got so big, a good part if of it is because of things like that split/buyback trick. People will put a lot of effort into finding ways to minimize their taxes (rightly so), and so a lot of things have to be specified in great, nit-picky detail, such as how to decide if a buyback is really a buyback or is some kind of disguised dividend or other payment.
I'm bummed that this is a brand new iOS app with no legacy history but it still doesn't add a button to use extensions at the login page. I use 1Password to store my login information, and it's a much better first-run experience if I can trigger the 1Password extension to login.
I'm not necessarily an introvert, but I didn't gain anything from attending university that helped my career in anyway (besides the CS bachelors degree, which is arguable). I spent 8 years attending school part-time while working in the service-industry. I did very little extracurricular programming, because I was busy with my classes and work. When I graduated (from a mediocre school, with less than a strong GPA), I learned that my degree was not very helpful, and I hadn't learned any of the things that are actually used in the industry.

I've spent the 2 years since graduation teaching myself whatever has caught my interest, and have learned way more applicable to the majority of entry-level/junior-level jobs than I ever did in school.

Did you go to a 'top-tier' school? If so, I'm sure your experience was much different, as the online classes I've taken provided by schools such as Stanford and UC Berkeley have been orders of magnitude better than the ones I took in school.
I worked at an investment bank writing software for traders like the author. I never quite knew how it worked, but it somehow paid my salary. (It seemed a lot like crazy kids doing whatever they wanted. That might not be far from the truth.)

What I always thought was interesting was that when the traders blew up like this, they became the PMs or support for the software :)
run for 30 min to an hour every day. I had all problems and everything is gone now....
Totally agree. Things like that should be discussed in public, not buried in individual emails.
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> (And it's completely unclear what Google funding of EFF has to do with anything discussed there)

"grants broad immunity to corporations that are undercutting our right to privacy"
What distro did you start with? Mostly I had trouble with setting up JACK.

Then, I have to admit, I didn't make it easy for myself; I tried to use SuperCollider, which worked... Somewhat, until I nerded out and tried to speak to it from within Haskell.

I'm really tempted by Renoise, though.
Did you mean the F/A-18 and not the F-15? The F/A-18 was always designed to be a multi-role plane, but the F-15 was originally designed just as a fighter.
[...] just like issuing a dividend. The difference between the two is mostly how they are taxed

Why tax them differently? In Canada, share buybacks create "deemed dividends" to ensure equal treatment.
Exactly. When you can work while driving, in line to get coffee, collecting the kids from school, going to the doctor etc I guess we'll spend more time working. I wonder if implants will let us work while we sleep?
Don't listen to this guy. From personal experience I can tell you that each degree you get will fetch you a positive ROI. A very high multiple over several years. Sure you can skip school and hope to be a startup millionaire. But you can also buy lottery and hope to hit the jackpot. If you are looking for better odds at a successful life, go to school.
Going to college actually works. And yes that start up can wait. Don't expect yourself to remain young forever. People have to make all kinds of decisions in various parts of their life. And 'lets do a start up' isn't always a answer to all those questions.

College education/Degree are a universal filter criteria, trying to prove the whole world wrong isn't going to work, unless you are Einstein. Plus if you are not a US citizen and wish to relocate to US, getting a degree has other added advantages for visa related purposes.

And guess what. The very start ups of today won't be hiring your no-degree, whole night awake dorm room hackers. They will be explicitly looking out for some one with a degree. Heck you would be yourself doing that once your very own start up grows to some size.

Going by the age related discrimination, and how much lottery factor exists in the start up industry.

Getting a degree might be a very good idea.
I considered what would be the opposite effect if you always considered others perspective. Wouldn't this affect the way you make decisions when you're required to put your foot down? Or is not a situation that often happens?
A note if you're not aware of it (though you probably are): processing has an offshoot called processing.js [1].

That version can run most processing apps within the browser with no plugins or setup, thus letting interested users just visit a link to use the app.

[1] http://processingjs.org/
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You're getting downvoted, but I think it's true.
Because your argument makes no sense at all to the majority (me included). A tool is a tool. Its how you use it that makes it good or bad.

I tend to believe that people who see a tool as one that can only be used in one direction, to be the ones most likely to use it in that direction.
"Some people will continue to be paid to sit and think."

The thinking part being more important than sitting.
> It's such a shame that for all its popularity, Git spits in the face of so many of these rules (least surprise, reversibility, failure, silence, predictability, etc.).

Probably an artifact of the fact git was originally designed to be a kit others could use to make a DVCS with a nice interface.

Which might point to another maxim: Always expect that your interfaces will be used widely, even if you don't expect them to be.

An extreme, pathological example of this is the BANCStar programming language:

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

http://reocities.com/ResearchTriangle/station/2266/tarpit/ba...

https://github.com/jloughry/BANCStar
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8591075
I've read this for my distributed systems class a couple weeks ago, it's good stuff
There is an enablement requirement. The patent has to be able to teach a " person skilled in the art" how to use the invention. You can't patent 3d printed food without disclosing how to do.

But the strategy you suggest is sort of used. The patent attorney will keep open an application for years using procedural tactics, and then try to get claims focused on modern products into the patent.
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trust is always a fun topic, as people are still unaware of how much stuff they trust today.

Let's say you trust TOR. Great.

Now you have to trust Mozilla's software if thats what you run.
Let's say you trust Mozilla too, great.

Now you have to trust your whole OS. Lets say you do that. Great.

Now you have to trust the various devices connected to your computer. Lets say you trust that too. Great.

Now you have to trust the various companies that made all the various chips on your main bus, CPU. And the RAM and many other components.
And don't forget the dynamically loadable firmwares running on them.

Good luck with that!

[note: this might have needed to be a reply to the parent post]
The number of shares have no impact, if, simultaneously, you do a cash transaction for fair market value.

Think of the simple case - a company with $100 cash, and 100 shares, with a value of $1/share.

You buy 75 shares for $75. You now have 25 shares outstanding, and $25 cash. Still, $1/share.

Alternatively, you can issue 100 shares @ $1/each. You now have $200 cash, and 200 shares outstanding.

Share Buybacks/Share Issues (not including tax consequences), are neutral transactions.
Fiber is still only about 66% of c.
>Using the patent to to produce and sell the invention, in which case it's not a paper patent.

If they're successful, patent trolls end up with licensees too.

If you're not allowed to sue anyone until you already have licensees, then if you invent and patent something and pitch it to a company, you can't sue them if they rip off the idea.
Reminds me of the messages you get from camgirls on Tinder...
Can we teach computers to write fiction?
this is them actively circumventing protection that you set up, not them failing to provide protection
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since they are on 400+ employees they have restricted stock which will give them less than restricted (i may have the terms wrong) that is reserved for founders and investors.
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