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China maybe, Russia so far not really, the reasoning is simply based on what we know about their current offensive cyber operations and capabilities and their commercial market presence as far as general cyber security technology goes, in that regard China is a potential strong contender but Russia is far behind (Putin's intellectual spring cleaning and general crackdowns really doesn't help them to advance).

Israel is currently the 2nd largest exporter of cyber security solutions in the world it's mandatory military service means that virtually every employee of those companies served in their military intelligence or signal corps and since they are in the reserves until their mid 40's continues to do. Israel is in general is largely held as the strongest player at least as far as technical capabilities go after the US/UK coop.
And they also have a very strong humint and general intelligence capabilities which would allow them to penetrate an organization like Juniper (Juniper having an R&D center in Israel also helps).
Won't help. An unsteered parachute slows down the fall so that it's sort-of survivable instead of terminal-velocity; there wouldn't have been any significant effect in this specific case.
> But it is silly, and unhealthy, to solely focus on this narrow definition

So what defines this "startup" thing? How "startup" is different from
a "small company"? Because, you know, not everyone opening a business needs to
be "startup", and that's OK.
The company's name sounds vaguely like "tear anus". What did they expect?
the fundamental disagreement here is:

>I expect information to continue to become more important and more lucrative.

whereas I am arguing for the opposite. I certainly don't know that I'm right or not, but I do think that the valuations of the companies that give away services in exchange for personal data are betting that you are right and I am wrong. Apple... I believe apple is betting my way. I believe (and certainly don't know for sure) that apple is being much more cautious about user's data because they know that, well, this is part of why they are getting my money, and I assume the same can be said for a fairly large group of consumers.

>Apple has had tremendous success with computer hardware, but they don't have a monopoly. I don't think the computer hardware business is as prone to monopolies as software and information.

I believe that apple is best thought of as a software company, like Microsoft. Apple gets involved in hardware because by controlling the hardware, they can make their software better, and charge more for it.

Modern Apple hardware isn't particularly amazing or innovative compared to the competition. I mean, it's not terrible (except the keyboards, but that's just a matter of taste.) - it's not behind the curve in terms of hardware, but it's not really ahead of the curve, either, unless we're talking about fashion (and personally, I think it goes both ways. You'd be embarrassed to use an apple in the '90s because they were kind of terrible. it's possible that they are cool now because they actually work pretty well. It's a "smart" thing to use - It's possible that fashion is following function here.)

It's interesting, because before last year, I had not owned or even seriously used an apple device in the 30+ years I've used computers. I really want to control my own software. I had a n900 for a long time, then one of the keyboarded android phones... and I worked so hard to install my own android build and control my own software for so long, but because the phone hardware market is so fractured, doing so on a phone is way harder than doing so on a laptop, so while I run linux or bsd on all my servers, desktops and laptops (aside from the one game machine) - I have an apple phone, because I have decided that I don't have the time to sysadmin my phone, and apple sysadmins my phone in ways that aren't annoying and offensive.

But yeah... things haven't settled out yet, so it's possible apple will go the 'mine user data route' - but the thing is, I don't think they can do that without significantly hurting the customer experience that their products provide.
Not if you are learning.
If you think that's cruel, what could you possibly be eating?
There was no mention of what his hypothetical company would do, what problem it would solve for people. His goal was business for the sake of business.

I think it's perfectly valid to want to get into business for its own sake, and not because you have a 'passion' for a specific area. It worked for Richard Branson.

The 'find what you love/do what you love' mantra is an invention of our time.
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Right, but I was responding to the viewpoint that not all exploitable holes should be closed. At least with dialogs, a user has the possibility to make an informed choice. With "vulnerable by default", you don't get to make a choice at all.
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Ahh that's embarrassing, my grammar is (obviously) not my strong suit. Thank you for correcting me!
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I see a lot of people having problems with the BSP. Excuse me for the shameless plug but I am developing an open source baremetal firmware for the Samsung SoC S3C2440 ( https://github.com/mindentropy/s3c2440-mdk ) and planning to port this to S3C2451. These are found in HP IPaq etc. It will be basically a tutorial for people trying to develop their own firmware or as reference code for bringing the SoC and the controller's up i.e. Drivers for the controllers and also the ARM board bring up code. It can also be used to test the board by testing individual IP's.

I am planning on supporting Samsung SoC's and will start of with TI AM335x Sitara series and FriendlyARM's NanoPi2 which contains the Samsung SoC S5P4418

I am running behind OEM/ODM's for funding me for development of their SoC's and nobody seems to be interested except FriendlyARM. What do you think I should be doing to get some funding for this?
If a startup insists that it will play by existing rules, it usually does not stand much of a chance, even though there are a few notable exceptions. So, the way to go about things, is to do something that clearly breaks the rules, but that is also virtually impossible to shut down. Something like Napster well done. Young people should even be more willing to do that. Furthermore, there are 200+ countries, most of which are powerless to do anything at all. If nobody is going to be pissed off with your startup, it will probably not be a home run.
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React is still pretty new and doesn't really proscribe anything beyond the view layer. So when people jump into it they go online to try to get an idea of how they should structure their apps they find a lot of buzz around things like Redux and React-Router. Those are both good tools but the combined learning curve for those + ES6 + Webpack + Babel can be pretty steep.

But, like you say, for a lot of apps you can start with a much simpler stack. I did the same thing when I was getting started. My "stores" were just simple JS objects with some subscribe methods. This worked well enough that I was able to focus on building my app and to see first hand how great the React model is for building UIs.
It's a problem to consider these separate. All energy and certainly all carbon fuels are fungible to a degree. Oil is easier to transport and bottle. Gas is more location and infrastructure dependant.

If Gas prices rise or oil prices drop, we'll use oil for electricity generation too.
Why don't you go further and try/catch that to make it usable in a real app? How do you handle async errors?
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Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10800225.
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"Guess what, you start shit, people react, you make enemies."

Since you are now essentially making threats I can no longer in good faith continue this discussion.
Yeah. I guess I'd recommend a patient approach of first making sure to learn what the library itself does, and then being cautious about importing too much stuff up front. Because that does lead to fatigue and confusion.
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Their wiki seems down. Does anybody know a rsync mirror for the files?
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“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”

“The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.”

“Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.”

These talk a little bit about self-improvement, or that knowledge is not understanding. Telling someone that new relationships aren't going to help, that acquiring new stuff won't help, is just giving them your personal knowledge/wisdom but you can't give them understanding.
It's just from what I see at work, we're consultants who do strategic case management for high acuity cases- patients who spend more than $3million per quarter (or whatever levels that specific client establishes with us) get kicked over to us.

I'm working with a guy right now who has a blood clotting disease and his meds alone are $800k yr before all the inpatient stays and procedures.

Generally once the patient starts spending and hits certain level of cost they get assigned a case manager through their insurance to 1. see if they're getting proper treatment 2. try to streamline them to the correct care first (rule out needless and repeat visits) 3. make sure all procedures and drugs are medically necessary. The people that go beyond these case managers sometimes go to a different organization for medical management.

Some states are getting even more strict, in Alaska right now if you have Medicaid and go to the doctor too much for what they view as needless visits you actually get cut off from ALL providers and then can only see certain approved providers for certain approved types of visits, can only get prescribed specific drugs and you have to "graduate" from that program after a year in order to get out of it by keeping ER visits to less than 1 every 6 months. I'll try and find you a link with more info about that program but they're trying to keep it on the dl because obviously all the patients who get put on that program are pretty outraged & they don't want the bad press about it, the perception of denying care etc.

Also everyone in the AK medicaid who is on opiates has to abide by a "pain contract" including random drug testing and med count checks and if they screw up too many times they will get banned from certain doctors/facilities, put on a stricter program (like the above) and can get kicked off Medicaid. Unfortunately this just leads to more homeless heroin addicts, so I can't really say that program has been a success.

Edit: link
http://www.adn.com/article/20140703/state-aims-curb-overuse-...
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> It's kind of sad, but I have no idea how to convince normal people that they can be happier by changing themselves instead of acquiring things or relationships or any other external thing they think will finally make them happy.

Welcome to the club :-)

I'm happy, with a few exceptions, since the late 90ies. Don't know what to do since talking about what sorted it for me seem to scare off people.
Opinionated programming was/is Rails' major contribution to the web world, as far as I'm concerned. By providing a baseline of things you need (directory structure, modules, logic flow, etc.) it made starting a project easy. In fact, it's just a single command.

I think having all of these (ever changing) options is a sign of Javascripts immaturity; it's not bad, it's just growing pains. Hopefully someone will step up with a cookbook of best practices which will be respected and used throughout the community.
So much "slightly more" throughout the article.

Another note:

At one point I noticed "thousands of dollars over the life of the loan" which could be not that much if the loan is 20 years.
Comments here, generally, should contribute to or advance the discussion.

I'm having trouble seeing how pointing out a typo to other HN readers -- who can't fix it -- benefits any of us. If you felt inclined to point it out to someone, you should have pointed it to the author (who conveniently provided a way to contact him).

If we always pointed out every typo or grammatical error in every submission (as users on some other discussion sites tend to do), this comments section would be full of them and the quality of the site would quickly diminish.
Google wants to bring some sanity on the development side with Fletch (https://github.com/dart-lang/fletch , Dart for embedded devices), not sure if this is what you are looking for though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx2iGEAvZRk
You're missing the point. Given your rules, if you file a patent through a shell company spun up for the individual patent, then you can sell that company to the patent trolls just like you'd sell a patent these days. It would leave many existing patents that are not already held by patent trolls off limits to patent trolls, but it would not do anything for patents created after the rule goes into effect (because there is no sufficient reason not to create a shell corp and keep that flexibility, if you're already going through the expense and paperwork of filing a patent).
Sounds like Blue Apron took notes.
Quite often 'small companies' hit a vein that suddenly causes them to scale beyond their wildest dreams (I know this happens, because it happened to me).

Paul is super smart and wildly successful (as is YC) but he doesn't have a monopoly on what certain words in the English language mean. Defining a start-up in such a way that it benefits the YC narrative should be seen as a marketing ploy rather than a statement of fact or an extremely insightful realization.

It's not as if the word 'start-up' originated with Ycombinator, or with Paul Graham.

By other definitions a start-up is a company that is more potential than realization of that potential, an idea packaged in a company that might one day be successful or it might not.

The success element is often still up for grabs long before a start-up fits the PG description of what a start-up is. It's a useful definition within a certain context but don't be surprised if outside of the 'YC bubble' (or more properly the SV bubble) the word has subtly or even widely different interpretations that are just as valid.

I note this trend to creative redefinition or claiming ownership of terms a lot with successful SV entities. It's a 'partial reality distortion field' and I'm sure it is useful to them otherwise it wouldn't be such an often repeating pattern but you should be aware of the fact that the world is a lot bigger than that.
A question to the educated commented:

What is the purpose of selling loans to people who you know will probably default?

Is it to sieze their collateral?

From the article, I noticed this snippet:

Shorts went into the store looking for payments of $300 to $400 a month, she said, something she could afford on her $749 in monthly disability benefits.

The saleswoman, she recalled, later told her that she was lucky to qualify for a loan on a bigger, used mobile home priced at $55,000. Clayton financed it for her with a Vanderbilt loan at a 15.77 annual percentage rate, after a down payment of $7,000.

When she and Leroy returned for the closing, they said that, like many other buyers, they were rushed through it. Agents quickly turned over page after page, saying, “You need to sign right here, sign here, sign here,” recalled Leroy, who said he has been unable to work since he went blind in his right eye.

The monthly payments were $851 — about $100 more than the amount she received from her fixed disability payments. Shorts, who said she didn’t realize how much she would have to pay every month, made just two payments, then defaulted in June 2014. Clayton filed to seize the home that October.

Even when loans go bad quickly, the sale can be profitable for Berkshire Hathaway. Clayton often marks up new homes about 70 percent over invoice, company documents show. After a 20 percent down payment and thousands of dollars in fees added into the loan, Clayton can recoup more than half the wholesale price of the home in a year.

When borrowers stop paying, the company can repossess and resell the home, again with another markup.
First, I can't see this actually working out they way they want especially with open source software designed to thrwart detection from governments using amongst other things a form of encryption.

Second, I'm betting the US Government has enough sway to get special treatment for American companies.
ISTR we had a minimum number of applications we were supposed to process (averaged out over a period of time), but I can't recall what that number was.
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React.createClass if you want mixins, automatic binding of "this.handleWhatever" methods, and Hot Module Replacement.

ES6 Classes if neither of these are a big deal to you, but you prefer classes and still want HMR.

Functional components of you want terse, testable, potentially vdom-agnostic UI components despite losing HMR capabilities (as of yet).
After much googling, still cannot find which "core" devs have left to work on this new coin. Links on the website to Github contributors do not work, and their github itself only shows contributions from https://github.com/cjepson, who is by no means a core developer of Bitcoin.
One would hope so but the evidence (CDs showing up in the mail) didn't tend to support that assumption. In addition, this was nearly 20 years ago so the technology wasn't as great as it is today. If memory serves, our interface was a DOS-based application with our PCs networked using Netware, if that says anything.
Not sure what you mean.

Their product is scientific. It's not just a health app or some nutriment recommendation which can be claimed successful without any scientific claims to back it.

Theranos has a very a scientific product with a binary output and so it's claims will stand up to that (i.e. being approved by passing a number of tests)

My lesson was for those who wanted to change the world via healthcare, not those who wanted to get rich.
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> Anyone whose rights could conceivably be violated under some law has standing to challenge it.

It is extremely difficult for an individual to bring a case before the court to challenge a law _without_ having that law being used against the same individual. You have to commit the crime and be charged using the law. That would give you standing.

The government can pass all the unconstitutional laws they want, which then get applied to people, if someone has the means to fight and win, then the law gets overturned. There is no lower or time limit to which laws can violate the constitution.
Palantir is not making binary claims which can be proven right or wrong. Palantir is making tools which can be used and interpreted different ways. They are much more like vitamins.
Then we have civil war and big chunk of Saudi oil is off the market and prices rise again.
All insults have a similar history - "idiot" is the same kind of thing, just from a little further back in history.
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"I've seen executives file AWS support requests to reboot VMs at 3 am"

Isn't this falls outside amazon's responsibly area?

Atleast the documentation I read and a few aws promotional talks I attended seems to suggest the contrary.

Or I have understood completely wrong and amazon is now also providing managed IT services?
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This response really resonates with me.

There's an experience I had several times when I was growing up and going through school, where I would ask someone for advice and they'd give me some well-reasoned, thoughtful answer, then the advice turned out to be unhelpful. This happened often when I talked to academic advisers. I realized afterwards that my academic advisers were giving me exactly the kind of advice that would have suited them when they were my age, and since I was a different person with different goals, a different background, and different circumstances, their advice was simply ill-suited.

The thing that really struck me, however, is the realization that they truly believed in the advice they gave me, and that they had grounds to believe in it. It wasn't "bad advice" per se, but they talked to hundreds of students every year and couldn't take the time to understand what my goals were. And I realized that I was going along a nontraditional path, I had nontraditional goals, I was deliberately nonconformist, and therefore academic advisers (as extremely conformist individuals, in general) were the least reliable source of advice for me.

I've started recognizing the pattern more and more. Someone will give advice, and they'll be earnest and honest, but it just doesn't apply to everybody. I had a teacher who thought "happiness" was a fool's dream. I met a recovered addict who had a sure-fire plan, with five steps, to beat addiction and improve your life. He wanted to tell everyone that MDMA would ruin your chances for ever living a happy life. I met a divorcé with some advice which women to avoid, or how to treat them. It was advice that he needed, years ago, but I didn't. Same thing over and over again, people claiming to know what would make other people happy. (Or replace "happy" with adjective of your choice.)

And I suppose I am repeating the pattern, right here. "You have to learn to recognize what advice applies to you and what advice doesn't, because you're smart, and there are a great many mistakes you won't make, even though there are many you will."

But that's the advice that I needed, fifteen years ago, it's not the advice you need. And maybe this story won't resonate with you at all, because you thought it was obvious all along. That's the lesson.