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I'm a big fan of PG's essays, his most recent ones in particular, my only quibble is the treatment of education as a silver bullet.

Offer Bill Gates style education to a cross-section of the poorest kids in the country and I don't think you'll get much in the way of improvement.

Inequality is as much a result of fragmenting families and the dissolution of social capital as it is new startups. When 80% of kids don't have a dad in the home, live in chaotic places, and face other setbacks, it'll take more than a high-end pedagogy to set things right. Raise taxes and spend more on education if you'd like, but first lets take a minute to see where that actually works.
Thank you for that. I downloaded the other thing. I haven't had time to look at it yet. Thank you for both.
Would it change the situation, if every time your husband receives a pay check, he gives you half or all of it? What about if both of you are independently wealthy and one of you decided to stay at home to take care of your children? What if the stay at home house wife has a profitable hobby which makes decent income?

Or stay at home house wives can never be adults?
I'm speaking purely from a personal level. Maybe it's cultural. I have grown up in a country where women work, so I never met a housewife. It would really be hard for me to feel independent while asking my husband for the pocket money.

The few housewives I met later in life were quite infantilized compared to working women I know.
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Electricity is much more fragile than people realize. When you flip on a light switch the power to light up your room is being generated instantly. That's the problem. Utilities do not have large batteries. Electricity is generated on demand and the utilities have to estimate exactly how much power they need to generate ALL THE TIME.

When a utility adds wind and solar to their portfolio they also have to hire experts to analyze the weather. These experts need to estimate how much power the wind and solar are going to provide every day. There are times when entire wind farms are shut off because they will be generating too much power! There are other times when they are shut off because of concern that the weather could damage them. This is not easy.

Imagine adding tens of thousands of tiny solar arrays to your grid and then having no knowledge of how well they are going to operate. You can't possibly begin to estimate what the cloud cover is going to be like for all of these installations over your territory. You don't know how well they are maintained. You don't have any clue if they're kept clean. You might not have the infrastructure to accept electricity back into the grid (substation upgrades are not cheap).

The grid would gladly accept your power if they knew it was safe to do so. The fact is that it isn't. If too little power is generated, brownouts or blackouts occur. If too much is generated equipment is damaged and shit starts on fire.

What we need is a SMART grid. It does not exist yet. It will take many years. Large battery installations may be a good stop-gap. But to vilify the utilities is ignorance when you don't really understand how the grid works.

edit: I actually know of a giant private wind farm that was built on the idea that they could sell access to it back to a utility. Unfortunately it has been sitting dormant for a couple years because the cost to get the backhaul to the windfarm was too much, and the private investor had no idea the windfarm couldn't just be hooked up.
There are so many countries in the world, that it doesn't really do much harm to ignore one country when choosing product from international markets.
Then critique finance based upon some theory of justice, rather than using statistics like wealth and income inequality that obscure how the money was made. I'm not claiming the two industries are morally equivalent. I am claiming they are equivalent in their contributions to wealth and income inequality.
YC funds approximately 0% of the new companies started every year, so it's not like there's a shortage of other options :)

As for returns, the average value of YC companies that are more than two years old is over $100M. I'm not aware of any other model that even comes close to that.

If anything, I'd like to find more ways to fund even more extreme moonshots (e.g. http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/14/y-combinator-and-mithril-in...). Funding an actual, literal moonshot would be wonderful.
A project that loses an asset that valuable, because they cannot get their act together until one week before the disaster is going to die sooner or later anyway, even if you disregard that they are indeed already dying.
There's a beautiful illustration of this principle from the NFL, of all places. When quarterback Andrew Luck gets sacked, he enthusiastically compliments his tackler for a great play. It completely messes up the opponent's psyche, at least according to this darkly funny Wall Street Journal story:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/andrew-luck-the-nfls-most-perple...
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If those companies couldn't survive renting real estate at market rates, they deserved to die as they weren't using their capital as well as other businesses.
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This conversation baffles me to some extent - it seems plain that discussing economic inequality is an extremely roundabout and convoluted way to discuss the economic status of the current decade. That particular phrase simply happened to resonate since occupy wall street and similar.

The issue of modern interest is rather one of economic mobility - how feasible is it for someone of lower income to increase their income. When we consider rent extraction by wealthy individuals or disparate allocation of resources by the government we're observing mechanisms that decrease the resources available to lower income individuals, thus inhibiting them from increasing their economic status.

No one would care about economic inequality in an economy with sufficient economic mobility to reach the upper echelons with plausible (though significant) effort - in fact, economic inequality of the degree that we observe would likely not be possible in such a society. Furthermore, I think philosophically if there's anything to be said for any of the American values most people would agree with the sentiment of the "American dream" - that if you work hard you can better your own condition and that of your families.

Additionally, through this perspective Silicon Valley has a clear advantage over Wall Street - skills versus pedigree, bootstrapping versus degrees. I won't belabor that point, as I don't think it's particularly important.

Basically for reasons both of interpretability and of causality I think it's more appropriate to consider our economic state through the lens of economic mobility rather than economic inequality.
Notions of adulthood vary from culture to culture.

In many cultures, after an arbitrary rite of passage, children are considered "adults".

I think, personally, the point at which one becomes an adult is acknowledging the bitter and harsh truth of reality. In some sense, it may be better to remain a child forever, ignorantly blissful.
I truly don't know, I've never met a person who is dependent on others due to medical issues, so I wasn't referring to them.
So ... trying to get my brain in gear, if investors weren't taking the occasional 10,000x opportunities so seriously, pressure on 100x-ers to swing for the fences might lessen ... but it would be much harder to get the money to get to 100x in the first place.
So they're losing it because either they don't care or they're incompetent.

They deserve to lose it either way.
Yep, the bitcoin stuff is one moonshot that I can definitely get behind (and I'm not even that bullish on it currently).
I wasn't sure how many people would find it useful, but I have been working on a feature branch to add streaming. We'll aim to include it with the next release.
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I've often used a similar technique driving, but it has backfired. When someone gets angry, flips me off, etc. I will usually wave exuberantly, with a huge smile. Unfortunately making an angry driver angrier gets scary quick.
Have you had a bad day? If so, then you can empathize with their bad day without knowing their reasons.

Personal note, empathy is SO much easier for me the less I know. If they share their problems, I instinctively start dissecting and analyzing their situation.. It's easier to just recognize suffering and to try not to contribute to it or lessen it.
Heh, reminds me of how someone I know trolled Second Life: you can name objects after other people and have them talk, which lets you "put words in their mouth". The devs apparently thought that they could fix this by making objects speak with green text, while human players had white text.

So what this guy did, was name an object after someone, wait for them to be away from keyboard, and then say: "Hah! Guys, check this out! I made my text green lol. Anyway, [offensive remarks...]"
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> As all of them would now have to pay for legal, accounting, recruiting, HR, customer support and other services

True, but I guess this is true for all startups. And the reality is, for a bunch of guys and gals working out of a garage you don't need a lot of that stuff until you are actually successful.

> how many of these tiny pieces would generate enough cash flow to sustain themselves a few years down the road

Not many, and I guess that is the point. You are giving the worthy parts of Yahoo the freedom to succeed, while letting the dead wood go to dust. It seems the alternative is watching the whole thing die a slow death and there will be nothing left at all (apart from the not-really-Yahoo Alibaba and Yahoo Japan).
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What is Yahoo's main business? What assets come under the web business?

It feels like there is nothing much left outside of the web business unless I am missing something. May be the Baba shares?
It's funny how a company that invested so much in getting a trustworthy brand crumbles down so fast by the mistake of one person; their CEO.
Once you get in the habit of spending too much or god forbid run up a large credit card debt I can see how it might be hard to return to a lifestyle of frugality akin to the difficulty of quitting smoking or a morning coffee habit.

I do agree that discipline is the name of the game though.
Well, all "unnatural" GMO food DNA are going to be broken to pieces inside my intestine anyway: I think I can trust modern science (and common sense) enough to say a different jumble of nucleic acids in my bowel won't do anything "natural" nucleic acids can't do.

I mean, if you come across a dish of quinoa, macadamia nuts, and beef, would you object to eating it because it contains DNAs that never made contact with each other for a hundred million years, and there's just no guarantee what their combined power could do once ingested?

The only credible potential danger of GMO food is what they might do to the ecosystem while they're still alive (that is, before you eat them), but somehow most GMO opponents just gloss over this important distinction.
He used Meccano too. Which didn't go down too well when he tried to take it through in his hand luggage on a recent trip to Spain. Was no trouble in the end but they made him take everything out of his bag and scanned it individually.

In the 1970s he was a computer mechanic, with a spanner and oil and all that kind of stuff. There were only two of those computers in the country, one at Raleigh Cycles and one at Cabdury Chocolate. They used them to do the wages. They had an agreement that if one broke he or his opposite number could jump in a car and drive to the other with a box of cards to run the batch and then fix it later.

He used to take me to work on a Monday night and it's where I got interested in computers. He stopped working in 1978. I wish I had been old enough to understand it more. I was 6-8 at the time.
If I make a mistake in Python, C#, Java, Swift, Go, Ruby, Javascript, Haskell, D, Rust, et al I don't leak arbitrary contents of memory, smash the stack, overrun a buffer, or otherwise provide huge gaping security holes that allow arbitrary code injection.

C is riddled with opportunities to do _just that_ with even the slightest mistake.

Yes, I can make a logic error in any of the above languages that performs some operation a user shouldn't actually be allowed to perform. But I can't accidentally let the user read or write arbitrary memory locations.

With the exception of unsafe blocks or similar mechanisms; being limited to these explicit scopes, most programmer's natural laziness leads to avoiding unsafe behavior whenever possible. It also greatly limits the scope of potential bugs, as well as testing and code review required.
For me, this is the most important bookmark of the year. Dropping back into C after using pre C11 it is tailor made for me. Covers all the areas I needed: Correct non-K&R datatypes, new formatting options, best practices on arrays. Awesome.
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I believe it's the moment when other people come to you for help, be it money, advice, work, etc. When you're a spigot instead of a bucket. I think that's about the simplest definition possible.
Agree with brandon272.

$250/mo is not a viable business plan.

As much as I'd like to say my time is more valuable, honestly I'd rather save my $250/mo and built out a solution that's cheaper.

For the naysayers, my relatively small apps receive over 300k reqs/day and it's hosted on a much, much cheaper infrastructure. Just remember to cache things where appropriate and you'd be surprised how much $30-40 in server costs can take you.
It includes the firmware for a widely-deployed missile system. [How well is military firmware protected, anyway?]

Even if you can't use that to improve your own missile designs, it's possible that it could lead to potential countermeasures.
I'm very surprised no one posted this yet:

http://xkcd.com/1621/
Maybe we shouldn't consider such people adults, then. Often times developmentally disabled children reach "adulthood" but are still considered incompetent and require guardianship.
Do you have a source for this? I'm extremely curious. Random number generation is a fun problem.
Author here.

I'm just now diving into docker. Docker is really about the images. Docker can run on lxc or in kernel namespaces. And there is ongoing work to port Docker to FreeBSD where Docker images will run in jails.

But apparently it took Docker image format and registry to make it popular enough among developers to make contanerization the old new big thing.
Ha! Yes, aren't we all.
YC's IRR outstrips that of all but a tiny handful of venture funds. (Sequoia, maybe?)

There's always room to improve, but it's likely they are making fewer mistakes than you think.
'Pity and sorrow' is one of the definitions of the word sympathy, but that's not the meaning generally implied when used in comparison to empathy.

"Sympathy (from the Greek words syn "together" and pathos "feeling" which means "fellow-feeling") is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another human being."[0]

"When you sympathize with someone, you have compassion for that person, but you don’t necessarily feel her feelings."[1]

Generally the difference between empathy and sympathy is the internal response to the feelings of others. If you personally are feeling the same thing as the person, then that's generally empathy, otherwise it's generally sympathy.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathy

[1] - http://grammarist.com/usage/empathy-sympathy/
Clever :-). Somewhat off topic, I said your sentence aloud to see if it sounded right (it did), and I noticed that I pronounce the two "that"s very differently. The first one is short and staccato-y and has kind of a shwah vowel sound—somewhere between "thuht" and "thit". The second is much more emphasized and has a strong A sound (like "apple").
My guess is that he probably knows actual, bona fide net worth numbers for some of the people on that list, and the Forbes numbers for those people that he knows about are way off.
I can't say if a TRNG has a better chance, but I don't think I'm leaping too far to say a broken, predictable RNG has a _worse_ chance of winning.
Couldn't they file a trademark claim to takeover ownership?
ezjails are not upgradable by design which is a huge problem
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Sell off the parts of Yahoo still worth something to give each team some startup cash, and let them raise more from investors? I am sure many would also just be bought outright by other companies for the talent alone.
Love is selfish, I take care of my loved ones for selfish reasons and it feels good. It makes them feel good as well, to be loved by someone who wants them to feel good, not to please them, not to please my family, not to do what my culture wants or out of guilt but to be loved sincerely, because it make me feel good. Taking care of them is taking care of myself.
If you are independently wealthy you have your own money, no? You don't depend on the other person.

But what you mentioned is interesting. Look at heirs of great fortunes. They either find something productive to do with their lives, or they stay basically children their whole lives and that often means trouble for them (not always though).
> if you don't like the way the company is run, sell your shares.

The activist investors in question believe that changing strategies will return more capital back to them than they can get by selling their shares today.

> when you own 1-millionth or whatever of it

Starboard owns closer to 1/100th than 1/1,000,000th of Yahoo.
Totally understandable -- a lot of this stuff is really new, so we've fallen a bit behind on documentation, partially because we're not exactly sure how some stuff should work, so we don't want to mislead people.

The dotnet-cli stuff is super new so a lot of the tooling is incompatible right now. As things start to settle out more in the next few weeks a plan to write a series of blog posts about how things work, general development approaches, and where you can expect to hit rough edges.

Thanks for the feedback, though! We're definitely a bit new to this style of development.
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Is there a basis for such an assumption?

For an organization requiring the highest available security, the ideal solution would be a privately operated hardware security module kept off the DMZ. However, that, as well as the idea of self hosting (and maintaining) the entire dev, test, deploy, and prod stack suggested by another commenter, isn't always within reach of a small, agile team looking to focus on their core competencies.

One could argue that it's possible for Amazon to have falsified the description of KMS as an HSM, or the certifications[0] they were granted for it, but I'd retort that an organization in a position to seriously question those claims shouldn't be using a remote solution anyway.

So, making the more rational assumption that such claims by Amazon can be trusted, their offering is quite secure: the HSM does not allow the export of any key, and exposes only the ability to load encrypted data into the device and have it produce the decrypted result over a secure channel, and vice versa.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/kms/details/#compliance
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Imagine the press coverage if this had happened under the previous administration.
Modern C by Jens Gustedt: http://icube-icps.unistra.fr/img_auth.php/d/db/ModernC.pdf

It's not exactly 100% complete in the literal sense, but everything covering the language spec and usage is there. I highly suggest working through it, as the book itself is incredible for going from beginner to expert in the short span it does.
Those telltales are reactive, not predictive. If someone is consistently driving over 10 mph then they should be charged higher rates even if they themselves have not had an accident because they are engaging in quantifiably riskier (to themselves, others, and the claims department) behavior. I'm sure there's people out there that drive like maniacs 90%+ of the time and haven't had an accident, but that doesn't mean they aren't significantly more likely to do so in the future.

Knowing people engage in behavior objectively quantifiable as more risky is also strong evidence of increased level of risk for that driver, not an assumption that the given individual will have a given outcome.
99% of people should not buy individual stocks. If you're in the 1%, good for you. Having subject matter expertise can be dangerously misleading because company stock trades on financial performance, not product/technology/etc.

This is a perfect example of fighting the urge to listen to folks like you and instead, just go with the index card.
I learned that I hated a business where there are cycles without positive feedback. Put away christmas displays, put up valentines, cycle through the holidays, never see the benefits (people might enjoy their purchases, but you'll never know it).

I learned that terrible managers can be quite successful. The chain I was part of had 800+ stores, and MY store had the highest turnover rate of them all (because the manager was angry and mean). But we made our numbers, so upper management didn't care.

I learned there is a lot of risk being taken behind the scenes. When our accountant quit (because of manager), he had no one else to do the job so he stuck our newly hired 16 year old on the job (she came on a month after I did and had no more accounting background than I did, but he had no one else). One day I ended up doing an extra shift because it was a holiday sale and our asst manager was brand new. He relied on me a lot, and at the end of the day my register was somehow a few hundred short (honestly no idea how - probably accumulated errors over the 13 hour day, but I was normally dead on) and I never heard a second word about it even though that'd normally be an immediate firing.

I learned my coworkers (mainly 40-50 year old women) wished their husbands did more in the marriage. I also learned I'm a bit of an elitist snob. My favorite line: "Bill and I never go on dates anymore. But the tractor pull is this weekend so I'm hoping!"

The store bought overstock and sold it, and I learned a bit about what the difference between junk, junk with a brand name, and brand name goods that actually had value.

I learned that if you stocked unheard-of brands of condoms, people would still buy them.
there is no proof of this. Several FreeBSD derivatives might (FreeNAS for example), but there is no definitive sign that a systemd-like approach is coming to FreeBSD.

(The FreeBSD core team appears to strongly dislike all the currently proposed options.)
It's all easy with hindsight. It was much less obvious at the time: https://medium.com/@bchesky/7-rejections-7d894cbaa084

AirBnb was almost dead when they got into YC. Nobody would fund them, and Nate had moved to Boston to get a real job.