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A recent example of this is Peach.

Did people want to tell their friends? Yes, but not because they loved the product. Because they wanted to be seen as cutting edge.

Most of the product hunt/tech crunch circle jerk is stuff like this. Lots of fluff with short-term spikes but little long term retention because the product doesn't solve a real need.
I think the exchanges as we know them today, they could change to where there's no 3rd party holding your coins. Maybe some kind of "escrow coin" runs on a "proof of trade" concept where the escrow coin miner gets a small percentage of the trade value when buy and sell orders match up, the fee would discourage fake trades and make the escrow coin worth mining. I had the idea a few nights ago. Would a "proof of trade" escrow coin work? Not sure. But I think it could work to where there's no tempting "cryptsy jar" to reach into.
He can be corrective without having to identify it himself.

Can he? Because the last I looked, he has failed so dramatically in whatever he was trying to do that now that not only has he been vilified, lacerated and destroyed in the press -- but inequality is even more on the radar than it was before.
Thank you, I will correct the typo.
I would imagine it also applied for B2B. Think about apps like Coda, or services like GitHub. I remember using a task tracking system that I completely swore by and told everyone I knew about. All it did was track tasks and is very much B2B, but my obsession with its UI made me more productive and those became a talking point, where I'd always highly recommend it. Slack is another great example of a B2B co that passes that test.
Even if that were true, it still wouldn't be ok to do it here.
> Armed people don't need the police for immediate physical security.

Police don't exist to stop the lone burglar from sneaking into your house. They exist to stop the gang of armed men driving up to your house in a bus.[1] Even small groups of organized and armed criminals can terrorize a large population, armed or not. Police exist to make it unfeasible for such groups to operate in the open.

[1] This actually happened to me, in Bangladesh.
You could do that, but it'd be quite inefficient.

Firstly, let's assume that directories aren't encrypted. Otherwise this would be a real PITA - just to locate /foo/bar/baz.txt you'd have to decrypt each component of 001001/011101/110101.encrypted separately.

More importantly, the decrypting software has no way to encrypt things, only decrypt them. So to read 'secret.txt' you can't just encrypt 'secret.txt' to '111000.encrypted'. Instead, you have to iterate through the entire directory listing and decrypt every single filename, until you find one that decrypts to 'secret.txt'.

Obviously this gets pretty bad with even moderately-sized directories. I assume this is why the project doesn't encrypt filenames.
The author should use a library that provides a simple "encryptWithPublicKey" method, so that any choices about RSA key size, AES mode of operation, etc are all taken care of. NaCl[1] would probably be best, since it's written and audited by prominent cryptographers.

[1] http://nacl.cr.yp.to/
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Here's the link (I meant Chris Blattman, not Tyler Cowen. Sorry for misleading, people!):

https://chrisblattman.com/2015/12/01/this-graph-says-the-wel...
Proper link: http://blog.cryptsy.com/post/137323646202/announcement
I meant Chris Blattman, oops!

Money quote from the link:
Here is Verwimp:

Belgium has a very elaborate welfare state. All citizens have health coverage, schools and universities charge no or few fees, child benefits, unemployment benefits, pensions, are all in place. But this comes at a cost of a closed labour market, meaning a labour system that heavily protects those who are in, but makes entry for newcomers very difficult.

It does not seem to be poverty, but exclusion. Philip wrote to me:

One of my students from African origin, graduating from our MA program, told me (before the Paris attacks) « it is easier to get unemployment benefits in Belgium than to get a job ». He decided to move to Canada. That summarises it. Migrants and their families have full access to the allocations of the welfare state, but face daunting challenges when they want to get ahead in life.

…I am not looking at individual factors to join IS, as young adults across European cities many share similar reasons, but for ‘structural’ factors that make the situation different in some countries compared to others.

Here's the link I saw the other day:

https://chrisblattman.com/2015/12/01/this-graph-says-the-wel...
Interesting that militant opposition to the police is associated with the right-wing; not trying to nitpick or condemn, in Ferguson that was absolutely true. Here in NYC it's still not, though, and generally I feel like resistance to armed government forces has generally been more left-aligned.
Ask HN: Are we heading to a new Black Monday?
Stock markets have tanked since the FED rate hike, slowing/unclear growth in China, oil price collapse ( 5 - 6% a day ) and instability in the Middle East.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/15/investing/stocks-markets-dow-china-oil/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)

Are we heading to a new Black Monday?
Low, sure, but being low isn't evidence that its being suppressed. That's the symptom
Thanks, I've had my ups and downs the past month but contacting the winners and hearing their responses is what keeps me going. I appreciate the comment.

I agree that if I had a business guy that could do a solid pitch that I could get the donations from companies. The website is also very experimental right now, so I think I'm going to keep it up and figure out a good model before introducing people and companies into the mix. The great thing is that the website is currently a hobby project, so I can do whatever I want to it without being forced to do something I disagree with.
One could theoretically perform a citizens arrest? Although, non-lethal force would be preferable here.
The events of the last century have all but proven, in my mind, that the political process can do very little to change the political process.
That's a rather naive way of looking at the outcome. For one, do you really think a someone with the training, experience, and exposure violence of a cop could be outmatched by you?

Second, the statement above didn't say much about requiring a warrant to take people's property - how do you get to USA v2, where that law is in place? Do you shoot enough cops, so they would change the law? What kind of wild-west mentality dwells around there, anyway?
How about writing a petition?
How about sending (e)mails to your congressmen, or whatever people with that kind of authority you have in US?
the gilded age wasn't exactly a time of phenomenal economic growth...

Wasn't it?

n the quarter century following the war, America’s economy grew at the fastest rate ever in the history of the country. In the half century between 1870 and 1920, the number of Americans employed in manufacturing jumped almost 450%, climbing from 2.5 million to 11.2 million. This created a vacuum that encouraged immigration and, during the same period, 27.5 million immigrants came to the United States. In order to support the country’s burgeoning population, farmers increased the number of acres under cultivation by an astonishing 234%

http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/HIST31...
Do users pay for any of those services you mentioned? This changes the dynamic completely by forcing the user to become engaged.

At the core AirBnB and Uber are selling commodities. They appear to be the lowest-cost producer because of their cost structure and scale. The price advantage alone is a high wall to scale.

Could another entrant come and improve the AirBnB or Uber experience 10x? Maybe. I wouldn't bet money on it though.
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I want the bill to pass for this reason. I want to see how the courts interpret it. Just how much pull should local jurisdictions be able to exert on a corporation's business practices? Say the major vendors just decide to pull out of the NY market, yanking devices off of shelves. How exactly does NY think they can enforce the law?
Chris Blattman quotes this really nice research that says that employment by itself does not explain inclusiveness.

Link: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/11/ide...

Here's the money quote (posted elsewhere in the thread too):

>Here is Verwimp:

>Belgium has a very elaborate welfare state. All citizens have health coverage, schools and universities charge no or few fees, child benefits, unemployment benefits, pensions, are all in place. But this comes at a cost of a closed labour market, meaning a labour system that heavily protects those who are in, but makes entry for newcomers very difficult.

>It does not seem to be poverty, but exclusion. Philip wrote to me:

>One of my students from African origin, graduating from our MA program, told me (before the Paris attacks) « it is easier to get unemployment benefits in Belgium than to get a job ». He decided to move to Canada. That summarises it. Migrants and their families have full access to the allocations of the welfare state, but face daunting challenges when they want to get ahead in life.

>…I am not looking at individual factors to join IS, as young adults across European cities many share similar reasons, but for ‘structural’ factors that make the situation different in some countries compared to others.
What sort of software development, and what area of the country?
I don't think the comment parent was arguing that such a distinction is reasonable, but it is the basis of civil forfeiture in the United States. Money has no constitutional rights, so it can be presumed innocent and seized until its owner can argue on behalf of its innocence.
No, he's right. He could be clearer though, Probably adding either "while" to the first or "however" to the second sentence.
It's not illegal to carry cash, no matter how much.
The default best move is to join a young company. I never had the luxury of joining good companies so I started one. Given the choice, I'd join a good company any day. The odds of success (as in actually making more money than working full time) is about 20%.

What I'd suggest is start working on side projects. Scripts that make something easier. A tool. Side projects like todo lists and note taking apps turn into billion dollar companies.
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This is absolutely true. I work for a YC-backed startup and sometimes felt like that "star in the sky" wasn't there, and worried that my lack of faith was disturbing (to quote movies). Thankfully, the founders here are open enough that I was able to voice my concerns, and it turns out that I had a totally incorrect idea of the product/market fit that they were/are aiming for. As a core member of the dev team, this could have been a potentially catastrophic misunderstanding. So yeah, everyone being on the same page and seeing that same goal is really crucial.
The (federal) DOJ can only do so much, it seems.

DoJ wishes they didn't do the little they already do. They are not opposed to cops. They are cops. We need something like NTSB, which is specifically set up not to be friends with FAA.

Your comment about the poor is spot-on. If you're curious and you have some free time, hang around a courthouse or other judicial building for a day on which traffic and other minor violations are being adjudicated. You will be disgusted by the number of people sent to jail because they're not able to pay the fine for not being able to pay the fine for not being able to pay to fix their cars. Then note how many people are begging the clerk for more lenient payment plans on the bill they have for their room and board when they were sent to jail, because if they can't keep up, guess what? More jail! Ferguson wasn't really about Michael Brown.
> The police are breaking the law.

No, they're not breaking the law. They're just taking advantage of laws your elected officials wrote.

So if you want to stop the cops from stealing from you, get your elected official to change the law, or threaten to _vote_ him/her out of office.

That's how it's supposed to be, but citizens keep voting the same politicians into office that vote against their interests.
Oh, look, my crystal ball's on the blink again...
It needs a security clearance, so not yet, but I'm sure they would if they could figure out how to do so.

Funny thing is, if they would offer free lunch, they would get some more work out of me. They don't even offer free coffee; yes that's how fucking pathetic it is. Not even cheap black coffee. They'd improve employee health if they offered free fruit, but nope, that bag of apples from Costco is too fucking expensive. Instead they just fine us $2000 for not participating in biometrics.
> got itself ranked as a "best place to work"

recently learned that a lot of places give employees incentives to leave positive reviews on glassdoor.. hopefully glassdoor doesn't go the same way as yelp
Alternatively, they are informing the market of their perceived value of the company.
Between the police shooting innocent people, tasering and bearing up our kids, does anyone even feel safe around them anymore?

Whenever I see police, I have the same fight or flight response as if I'd see someone in a dark alley. The police have become dangerous, and none of my friends trust them. They would be the last people I'd call if there was something happening. Too much of a risk they would beat you, kill you, or rob you.

Who does that sound like?
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> I really don't want to talk bad about the US,

> has that NSA scandal going on that made KGB and Stasi look like nothing

Yeah, I'm going to say you only want to talk bad about the US.
And Fitbit: from $51 in Aug 2015 to $18
For a start, it's not authenticating ciphertexts: it uses plain hybrid RSA-AES-CFB
AirBnB makes most of its money on non-hosted rentals.
We're working on open source cloud infrastructure at Convox (YC S15).

http://convox.com/

https://github.com/convox/rack

The current technology goal is to build a high quality "batteries included" way to setup and operate AWS for engineering teams. We are working for a low complexity, high reliability system:

* 1 command installer to provision a VPC, container cluster, and other important AWS services

* 1 command to deploy apps to the cluster

* Following best practices for cloud architecture (immutable infrastructure, automated updates and rollbacks)

* Leveraging AWS's reliability and scalability (apps are ELB -> instance, nothing experimental)

I'm heavily biased, but it does feel like important work that could have a huge impact.

Companies could save a tremendous amount of time, energy and money if they don't have to re-invent the wheel and build bespoke tools.

Programmers just getting started deserve a way to learn and use AWS without needing to know the intimate details of 20+ services.

Docker is a great example. We really couldn't build our project without Docker. The amount of expertise that's encoded into the Docker API, documentation and growing ecosystem is amazing. When every computer and server talks the Docker API, we all can focus more on our business and less on the systems that run it.
Having gone through immigration myself (and still working on citizenship 7 years later...) I agree 100%.

The process is extremely long and difficult, and while I persevered, my brother who is an Engineer gave up because it was too much hassle.
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In asset forfeiture you get this kind of asshattery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U...
My dream is to be part of a cooperative that sells cheap everyday goods that aren't purposefully crippled.

Like paint rollers that have the extra 1p worth of plastic in the handle so they don't break after 2 uses; shoes where original replacement soles are available; tin-openers where you can replace the cutting disc; kettles without the over complicated carefully thinned plastic components in the lid release; swing bins with the couple of pence of metal in the lid hinge to make them last for decades instead of years; washing up liquid that has a dosing pump delivering a carefully calibrated dose to avoid wastage.

Very simple cheap goods where the engineering objective isn't profit but instead the goods are designed for longevity balanced with matching market prices as close as possible. Making the goods that companies don't want to make because they would cut in to future sales.

All items sold would be "open source" (schematics available) and bug report systems for feedback from users would be in place to aid in improvements. New designs would change only the parts that were deficient, MTBFs would be used to keep production capacity to meet anticipated parts failures.

Basically attempting to push the value of longevity on to the market. The aim would be to match the prices of low cost goods but make them last longer. The idea is to force companies to match for longevity, and then push again to continually match the base prices as close as possible but always with significant improvement on product engineering.

Not financially doable, far too economical for Western financially systems I suspect ...
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How about noobsolence or nobsolence?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10912905 within the hour
So there may be valid arguments in here, but you're using a bunch of flawed logic in the way you've presented them here:

> I note that any incident that involves a gun is assumed to be caused by the gun, as though no unarmed person ever were assaulted or committed suicide. That tells me everything I need to know about how conscientious the research is.

Yes, they're looking at correlation rather than causation, but looking at real world data that's usually your only option. Dismissing the research on as not 'conscientious' on that basis seems a little weak, perhaps you'd care to support it some?

> If these researchers cared about public health they would have helped us end the damned drug war a decade ago. As if.

This is entirely fallacious... the world doesn't conform to your "if X really cared about Y they would have done Z" narrative. By that same argument no president, no congress, and nobody who approves of the war on drugs, cares about human life.

Edit:

If you prefer not to talk about suicide; how about self-defence... in 2014 (according to FBI data) there were 229 cases (total) where a criminal was justifiably killed by a civilian [1]. To put that in perspective there were 281 mass shootings in 2014... 1,759 people were killed by firearms during arguments [2]... and 1,601 injured in gun-related accidents.

Similarly this study [3] found that carrying a gun increased your chance of being shot by a factor of 4.5.

The whole "armed citizens don't need police" thing may actually be fair... but you're much more likely to need an ambulance.

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/...

[2] https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/...

[3] http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2008.1...
Thank you for your comments. That helps.

I'm putting together a home NAS and am leaning toward FreeNAS. Someone else here mentioned waiting for FreeNAS 10, but it probably won't have any "gotta have it" features above what FreeNAS 9.3 already has.

The FreeNAS Mini (not mentioned in the article) seems a bit underpowered (Atom processor) but it's a turnkey solution for $1000 plus disks. I might go that way rather than trying to screw together a box by myself.
Neat concept you have going! You come off as a genuinely nice person in your videos, which is great for building trust. My one small piece of feedback would be to consider changing the 'About' link to 'How it Works' instead. I went to your site and immediately started scanning for those words, because usually a sweepstakes site has a catch of some sort.

Good luck!
Because it only happens to a very small percentage of the population.
Yeah… liberal license + not in a dynamic language + NaCl crypto instead of RSA+AES please.
This is absolutely ridiculous. National parks are supposed to belong to all us, and the names are something I personally feel a strong emotional connection to. This company's behavior makes me sick.
This is a good point, and that's what I was trying to indicate with the "immediate" qualifier. Armed gangs like that are not invisible in an ordered society, they do not appear overnight, and police are well suited to combat them in that context.

Were there any firearms in the house that was robbed? In that neighborhood, would criminals expect the average resident to be armed?
It's really a shame that this book gets a bad rap. It's mostly because of a chapter it used to have critiquing K&R (which I thought made a good point) and possibly the online persona of the author (again, I don't agree, but I can see why others might have a problem)

In any case -- it's a great book for beginners, freely available online, and you'll know in 5 minutes whether you like the style or not.
> Is it an issue?

Conundrum? Regardless, it's unsolvable, and I do empathize with the people who complain or offer their own (non)solutions.

> If they were just GPU cluster datacenters, despite their scale, they still would not compete with the distributed power of millions of home users desktops to as much a ludicrous degree as modern ASIC miners are in the Bitcoin space.

Do you suggest efficiencies of scale don't apply to GPU clusters in datacenters, or CPU clusters in datacenters?

As it pertains to mining centralization, do you suggest efficiences of scale only apply to sha256 ASICs?

The idea that this can be "solved" with clever code is utterly naive. The bottom line is investors in any cryptocurrency, regardless of its hashing algo, will buy up the majority of the hashing rate with high efficiency rigs in well-connected datacenters with low priced electricity. Tell me how to fix that with code. You can't do it - although I've certainly seen more than my fair share of altcoin investors try in vain to do just that.
The Sanders campaign very quickly withdrew their request: http://boingboing.net/2016/01/15/bernie-sanders-campaign-wit...
What are you talking about? The value to the people is what they will pay for it. If nobody is buying it at a certain price, then there is nobody that feels it has value at or above that price. There is no 'real value' of something vs its market value.
That line about how it's "only possible for the wealthy" to get an education is demonstrably false, even though I wouldn't discount some of your other points. Have you ever heard of federally-guaranteed student loans? The USA has them. Almost everybody in the US who wants to go to college does.
If anything, I think it would be worse outside. Crazy perk culture is mostly associated with bay area companies. Other areas have cheaper costs of living, which may help reduce stress, but bay area companies have better base salaries to compensate, and they tend to provide better stock options/grants than companies based in other areas.
I believe there are import/export restrictions on international flights.
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> free dinner (no lunch interestingly)

Free lunch doesn't get them anything - you already expect to be at work before and after the lunch hour.

Free dinner gets you to stay until it arrives (6:30, I'd bet) and probably afterwards.
Why haven't salaries at tech companies gone up much despite huge increases in demand, profits, and housing costs?

Most programmers make about what they've always made, maybe less (adjusted for inflation). $120k/yr in 2001 is $160k/yr in 2015.
That's a robotics company.