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How do people in these situations deal with the government? Obamacare has mandates and one commenter mentioned a minimal existence with a motor vehicle, which means license, insurance, inspection and registration requirements. All requiring money which means some source of income.

In some places living completely off grid is illegal - you are required to be connected and pay for utilities.
Apple provides a WebView API in iOS 8 with JIT enabled. Any one who uses the new API will see same performance as Mobile Safari.
> and as few regular classes as possible

I enjoyed band so I took it and they didn't have an honors or AP version. So for me to maximize my GPA would mean that I would have to forgo band all four years of my high school existence in order to min-max for GPA.
This is a common misconception about economic growth. Economic growth often means more physical stuff, but there is by no means a fixed link between the two. Higher quality products built out of the same amount of physical stuff have a higher price, for example, so if we somehow transitioned the economy in that direction, there would be economic growth - and a corresponding increase in the standard of living - without pushing environmental concerns, for example.
IME, you're only really going to immediately get why it's a good idea if you've tried or built the less optimal way first. Otherwise they have to explain the bad way too in order to make their point.

Plus, honestly, you shouldn't be taking their advice as a given. Best practices are always contextual. They're -probably- going to be right, but knowing enough to be critical (even if just quietly, to yourself) is a huge plus.
The financial sector does a lot more than play middle man (in fact arbitrage is so quickly found these days its a hard to make much money doing this anymore)

Primarily, they invest. Putting money into places that need capital and will likely grow.
Right, and I meant it as such. Quite a few of our support staff are based in India.
Luckily browser compat is not really an issue any more. If you have customers on ie8, the new fastness does not apply to them.
The finance sector does more than lend/invest capital themselves. Large investment banks provide a wide range of services for companies (e.g. bond issues, IPOs, secondary offerings, working out M&A deals, brokerage services, ...). The biggest problem with the finance sector is that it is extremely opaque and almost no one outside the industry understands what financial institutions actually do. Yet, everyone seems to know that banks are bad.

Which is better: a bright graduate working on making a large web company's advertising algorithms slightly more efficient or the same person working for an investment bank on a bond deal that helps a biotech company raise more money for future R&D?
yeah, what could possibly go wrong with locking a bunch of 8 year old boys in a room, telling them they can't talk to each other, forcing them to do mind-numbing things they don't want to do, and depriving them of nearly all adult male contact?

it's a system that's been hijacked by do-gooders doing anything but good.
that really is all there is to it. if you've read enough that all of this strikes you as obvious, then you don't need to read anymore--get to work! :)

i wrote this because i think it's useful for people thinking about startups for the first time to have an outline of the advice all in one place--the startup class i did last fall is good but long.
How does this compare with Prettify?
Seconded. Good reminder for those of us actually in the trenches to skip over the vast majority of fluff written out there in startup land.
Please don't try to handwave away security like that. It's much, much harder than it sounds and there still aren't great solutions to safe sandboxing.

That said, what you're describing is native applications.
I built an app when that first came out, and it was literally insane. Not in a good way. 100 lines of code to make a 'view' (their version of a div).
Cherry does have clear housing.

http://www.cherry.de/cid/keymodules_CHERRY_MX1A-LxxA_B.htm

And the following claim seems a bit dubious to me.

> The other contact, pictured above, is gold-plated only on the small area that will actually physically touch the other contact. The reason for this is simply that the process of gold plating weakens the metal being plated, which would reduce the longevity of the key switch.
"When I left home for college, I studied other religions and found that all the world's major religions teach giving up possessions and doing not for the sake of reward. If all the separated witnesses are saying the same thing, it must be true."

That's kind of...simplistic.
The rumour is that the next-gen macbook air will have it, and that this is going to happen this quarter. Iff that happens, then other manufacturers are going to hop on board too.

If not, I expect it may take over a year before it's ubiquitous -- Intel isn't including USB 3.1 in Skylake, so it will require an extra chip, something manufacturers are very hesitant to add to laptops.
IANAL, or an accountant for that matter, but something does not add up or you are leaving a lot of detail out. If you invest $100K for 3%, then the investor comes on at $2M for 10% you are going to take a hefty dilution from that. Without knowing all the details of the company or who/what they do, I am skeptical that a company only generating $20-25K monthly from consulting revenues is getting a $20M valuation. That seems a bit high for a consulting company that has been in business for 3 years doing less than $500,000 annual sales.

From the sounds of it, they are only asking you to invest so they can turn around and pay you from your investment.

With that in mind, you may want to consider doing a convertible debt and if/when investors come on you have an option to convert to equity or collect what is owed to you. And if the investor does not come through, the company still has a debt to you.
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yea! thx!
I've got a slightly subtler but similar story. I had a math teacher in high school who would curve her test scores to the lowest top score from any one class. In other words, if she taught three identical 10th grade Trig classes in a semester, for each test she would take the three top scores (one from each class), and curve the test to the lowest of those three scores. It's a reasonable enough idea, I suppose, since different classes will have different questions and thus spend slightly different amounts of time on various parts of the material.

The trouble was that she would not give over 100% to the people who earned a higher score on the test than the curve. Her tests were not weighted, meaning that Test-A curved to 85 points was actually worth less than Test-B curved to 90 points. (Supposedly, the then-new district-wide computer grading system couldn't handle such arithmetic complexities.)

At one point, I received a score above the curve. Let's say I got 90 of 100 points, and the curve was 85. Later, when I saw my grades, I asked why I was only given an 85/85 on that test. She explained that she didn't give "extra credit," and she wouldn't budge. She would say things like "you got 100% of the points, so there's no reason to complain." I asked, then, if I could at least be given a 90/90, and she very confidently explained to me that 100% of the points on the test is the same regardless of the total number of points. She would not entertain the notion that a 90/90 is better than an 85/85, much less that a 10th grader might be able to correct an arithmetic mistake of hers. I even presented the example of changing a 100/100 assignment to 1,000,000/1,000,000 and noting the affect on the total grade, but she would have none of it.

As you can probably tell, I'm still bitter about that test.
I think that assumes that the market is rational. Could it not be an indicator of increasing corruption instead?

A banker gets paid to allocate capital, manage risk, and so on, and gets to share in some profits as an incentive to make the correct decisions. Take the reward and allocate it towards bribing politicians to remove restrictions on banking, accumulate more money, spend more money on "lobbying" or "campaign contributions" (that is, more bribery). Lather, rinse and repeat for 3 decades or so, and suddenly you're not being paid a rational amount for improving market efficiency, you're just bleeding off money from the economy. Become "too big to fail", reap the rewards of risky investments that pay off, dump the cost of failed investments on the public purse, reinvest the money to skew regulations in your favour even more, profit.
Thanks. Of course we don't know if we're looking at representative samples, but I'd say the 5 year old front page was better.

I'd pay for a very well-curated site, with excellent discussion. I wonder if a paywall would increase quality of participation? Owners and members might be less tolerant of low-quality content.
There are also plenty of boys and girls who don't have this problem. I was a bit of a trouble maker in elementary and middle school - enough to get a call home from the teacher once or twice a year - but I always did my work and gave a damn about my performance.

I don't understand this parent. "I let my son play minecraft in the morning before school" - so your son is slacking off in school, but you're still giving him everything he wants? He's your son. He needs to be shown that sometimes, you have to suck it up and work, even when you don't want to. That's a tough lesson to teach an 8 year old, but it's something that parents should enforce early. Eventually, their kid will see that hard work and self control will pay off. Here's a novel idea - don't let your kid play minecraft until he starts doing better in school.

That being said, I do think physical activity should be more common. If it's rainy or cold out, kids should be able to go to their school's gym for an extra PE class - or maybe be able to play minecraft on the school computers. Boys and girls needs to be able to do something like this throughout the day. Article like this will hopefully make schools rethink some things - but until change actually happens, this mom needs to take control instead of just throwing her hands up and telling her son "it's not your fault. now go play minecraft."
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Yes, the Guardian and Telegraph are at war now. I would say it's both journalism and revenge, because the Guardian likes to take the moral high ground on many issues, so its interesting to find out that they are not above accepting money for "native advertising" (corporate fluff disguised as articles). The backdrop of course is the upcoming UK election...

> This newspaper makes no apology for the way in which it has covered the
HSBC group and the allegations of wrongdoing by its Swiss subsidiary,
allegations that have been so enthusiastically promoted by the BBC, the
Guardian and their ideological soulmates in the Labour Party.

...

We will take no lectures about journalism from the likes of the BBC, the
Guardian or the Times. Those media outlets that are this week sniping
about our coverage of HSBC were similarly dismissive in 2009 when we
began to reveal details of MPs’ expenses claims, a fact that speaks
volumes about their judgment and partiality.

Our support for Britain’s financial services has never blinded us to the
failings of the industry. In 2012, we revealed that HSBC was at the
centre of a major HM Revenue and Customs investigation after it opened
offshore accounts in Jersey for criminals living in this country. Many
of the media outlets that are today so excited about HSBC’s conduct
showed remarkably little interest in those revelations at the time.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/11423912/T...
> There's nothing intuitive about programming.

If that was true, than naming constructs in programming languages wouldn't matter at all.

> If that's the biggest hurdle to learning Lisp

Its not, its just one of many small hurdles that keep Lisp as a fairly niche language, despite its strengths when viewed from a 30,000 foot level.

> Try teaching C declaration syntax to someone.

C-family languages declaration syntax is a major factor in the popularity of dynamically typed languages (newer statically typed languages that are starting to take back some ground mostly reduce both the clutter of that syntax and the need for declarations at all.)

So, other than illustrating the a similar (but larger) problem to the car/cdr problem, I'm not sure what the relevance is.
All Google/Apple articles (which used to be MSFT/Apple 20 years ago) Things are easier for Apple because they control everything in their domain. This however creates powerful enemies who are locked out and threatened. This creates a real opportunity for Google. However everything is much harder for Google to do because it doesn't control the entire ecosystem like Apple.

Rinse and repeat
To clarify, I was not speaking of recovery/restore, just clean installs of Windows sans vendor bloat... & h/w drivers.

And... you appear to be absolutely correct.

"Vista and up, there is no such thing as an OEM ISO image. XP had that and it was a great pain for support..."

I was not aware OEM & RETAIL installation media were merged, cannot locate any search results verifying this, but I cannot find any recent issues being discussed either. Site where I buy software still has the categories distinguished & separate, but I never considered the media became one and the same w/ only distinction being the key itself(and all rights afforded Retail over OEM). I had numerous problems installing 7 when it appeared on consumer devices before I did any machine builds w/ 7(and made images of installation media that came with their licenses), hence my subscribing to TechNet(R.I.P.) before Digital River links became ubiquitous... and yeah, I have a dozen+ variants of XP due both to it's OEM/RETAIL duality plus the never-ending sfc /scannow prompt: "please insert original installation media" if XP received any Service Packs since original installation.

I do now recall unlocking Vista & 7 disks to install any flavor now that you mention nLight... another contributor to my lapse. Plus, I did find official MS pages that support your last point on unique disks for each flavor... I thought it was just for Enterprise.

EDIT:

"You have to phone in your activation however, since OEM keys usually do not automatically activate over the internet."

After activation failure, you can opt to insert a different key & retype the same key a 2nd time for online activation. That always irked me, I thought it was a bug.
If it were related to my job: that is my title was "Sr. Java Programmer", I would read it all, and/or maybe some books depending on my current level of familiarity. Given the size of Spring documentation, I would shortcut to my answer as necessary, but make a recurring appointment with myself to spend at least an hour each week reading the rest of the documentation.

If it were not, that is my title was "Web Administrator", I wouldn't read it at all -- it is not important for me to know Spring. I would ask the java developers for help and move on with my day, instead reading the documentation for jBoss or WebSphere or whatever is relevant.

Chosing what to spend your time learning is a critical function of your career. Imagine if you had spent time learning Flash, Delphi, VMS/VAX, Novell Networking, or any other now-legacy languages or technologies. It's a bit of a betting game, really.

Use your intuition.
Good point. But I doubt any of my recent cross-browser web apps you would consider non-trival. I have recently only been doing simple wireframed prototypes for UI experimentation (like this: http://chrisbroski.github.io/sketchpad-calculator/) I did write a fancy web app with graphics and animations a few years ago but it was an intranet app targeted to iPhone only.

I know it is possible because I have done it. Sadly, few others have done it probably more because of the FUD surrounding mobile web than for any real reason (the best one I have heard is that mobile web can't handle animations well.) The truth is mobile browsers are better at handling JavaScript and DOM today more than ever, and continue to improve. Maybe today mobile web isn't ready for prime time, but tomorrow will be here soon.
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I always wonder about this: "Obsess about your growth rate, and never stop. The company will build what the CEO measures. If you ever catch yourself saying “we’re not really focused on growth right now”, think very carefully about the possibility you’re focused on the wrong thing."
There was a point in my current startup where it wasn't prudent to focus so much on growth, as we were transitioning from MVP to v1 product. Being bootstrapped and with a small team, spending money and time on acquiring users for the MVP would've been a bit of a waste. Maybe that's b/c we don't buy into the vision to grow fast and sell faster.
> Which are wilderness regions because the entire population moved to cities.

I was with you on the other parts but this doesn't really make sense. You can blame modernity for many things but creating more wilderness doesn't seem like one of them.
Another neat, releated, thing we can do in Servo is to run all CSS animations off the main thread, even ones that require reflows. I actually think that may be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, wins of Servo's architecture…
You appear to have no disagreement with the author of the post apart from the definition of the word "mumbling"
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>How Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan Created 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'...

...without CGI, thankfully.

It's been more than a decade since Hollywood released a movie with a realistic patina.

For an example, compare the centerpiece truck chase in Crystal Skull with the propeller-dodging fistfight in Raiders. Where's the fullers earth, where's the blood, where's the sweat? Contemporary CGI effects contaminate films with a phony "sheen" which future film historians will no doubt condemn as glaringly phoney.

Likewise, CGI seems to encourage special effects artists to "overload" movie frames, the clutter devolving into little more than a figurative close-up of a child smashing toys together. Was the Tarzan reference really necessary in Crystal Skull's truck chase? Did a kitchen sink really need to float by in Revenge of the Sith?

Further, CGI characters are forgettable. Can filmgoers still see the details of the spheroid attack vehicles from Attack of the Clones in their minds eye? Contrast this with the AT-AT's from Empire Strikes Back. The former CGI props do not ring true to the mind and are thus only imperfectly recalled. The latter physical models are unforgettable. Also see ED209, the stop motion owl from clash of the titans, the terminator skeleton from Terminator 1, etc. Physical models are crude but effective. CGI is nuanced but phoney at a deeper and much more damning level.

The widespread adoption of CGI circa Phantom Menace will likely mark the beginning of a protracted dark age in filmmaking. Who knows when or if there will be a renaissance.
This is an excellent couple of points. A math teacher doesn't just have to be able to know how to do the problem himself; he also has to be able to figure out where the student's misunderstanding is and how to correct it. Not only that, he needs to be able to do this for dozens of different students, all of whom have their own difficulties and misunderstandings.

I'm sure that there are people with only high school math understanding who can do this... but it just seems to me that the kind of personality traits that would make someone learn how to teach math like this would also make that person extremely passionate about learning it to the best of his ability and potential. I can't imagine a passionate history teacher who isn't also passionate about learning more history. Same thing with an English teacher who only reads John Grisham books (not that there's anything wrong with John Grisham).
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swombat is right, and to add one small bit: when we pay late, it is nearly always due to an unforeseen lapse or issue with payment, and that's it. To give you an idea, we have over 8,000 suppliers, where our spend ranges from <$100/yr to $>1,000,000,000/yr. That's a lot of terms and payments to keep track of, and things occasionally break (on our end or the supplier's). For big customers with whom we use standard B2B EDI transactions, we have multiple internal instances of different B2B platforms and work heavily with those suppliers to test an ensure stability, and we coordinate with their engineering teams on upgrades, outages and configuration changes. Ditto that on the bank interfaces.
Obviously you have way more information about this, but judging from what you've disclosed, it's a terrible investment.

Stock in a company is worthless (literally, as in "worth $0") until 2 things happen:
* the company gets sold
* the company does an IPO

Those are hard for all kinds of companies but next to impossible for a consulting company.

Consulting companies don't scale they way product companies do.

Revenue of $20k/month is nothing (this is what Google spends on a good engineer per month). They don't make enough to pay you a market rate.

How is this company going to ever get to multi-million dollar a year profit (a condition necessary but far from sufficient for a sale or IPO) ?

You seem to be so pre-occupied with details of the deal that you seem to be missing the obvious thing: investing in this company looks like a terrible idea because there's no way this company is going to be so successful to warrant a sale or IPO.
There are a lot of reasons telescopes use mirrors over lenses, only some of which this resolves. Also, will Capasso's work scale to the meters wide telescopes that you want so as to collect a lot of light?
Our company is called Obox, you can get the git repo here:

http://GitHub.com/Obox/Layerswp

Enjoy :)
People do have strong opinions and favored suppliers and sports teams, but generally there is a polite way and an impolite way to disagree with something :-) Stating that a given sports franchise "sucks" and anyone who thinks it doesn't is "stupid" is a great way to start a brawl in pretty much any sports bar, and discussion forums like HN are no different.

And like sports teams, companies are constantly changing they are getting new employees and new management and new ideas. So the idea that any company is "good" or "bad" is unsupported on its face, all we can ever say is that "this action" or "this decision" was good or bad and criteria by which we have judged it.

Microsoft's decision to immediately cleanse this injector code as 'malware' was, in my opinion, a "good" decision. Based on the reasoning that it is better for the users and folks like my Dad who doesn't know how to get it off his system is helped by this.
I wouldn't be so quick to cast anyone off, especially someone who undertakes personal initiatives such as this to ensure their own survival. The "economy" might suffer if more people adopted this attitude, but its hardly the end of the world. It is not our position to judge if this person's potential is wasted or not, you can't really be any more subjective.
The bank doesn't invest your money. You lend it to them and receive very little interest in return. They separately create brand new money to provide loans to other people, mainly for purchase of existing assets. At no point is your money given to anyone else.

Update: Having been down-voted below zero... I would encourage everyone to visit the Fed, BoE, ECB, BIS etc. websites and discover how money is created. We would not be in our current economic state if this was better understood.

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
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