skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like they eventually fell into compliance with certain cities, right? Where do you draw the line? Uber has a record of flagrantly, openly, defiantly breaking US laws - this fine came after they were stonewalling CPUC. If I were an institutional investor, at this point and looking towards the future, I would be furious for risking future business viability by continuing to openly flaunt your unwillingness to follow regulations. I would also probably sell my stake. There are plenty of other companies with room to grow that aren't running US Federal (and state!) government risk.

Let's think of the other companies that tried fucking with CPUC and evaluating their ethics as well. We can start with Enron. Travis is a smart guy but probably not as smart as those guys and even they got fucked. Even with their attachment to the hip to the federal government. Even with their company that was effectively many times bigger and more influential than a ride sharing app.
Well, how could they have written their statement? Maybe this is a bit closer to what I was expecting:

> We're appalled. Apple has stolen our
> wonderful idea, just like they always do,
> so we're calling on the f.lux community
> to boycot apple products. We are also
> in the process of finding a lawyer
> to defend our patent, which Apple
> has blatantly etc etc ...

But what purpose would that serve? It would definitely make some enemies. If the project really is so small, a bitter statement like that probably isn't going to matter much.

Maybe the f.lux folks are hurting inside. Even so, they've decided to put aside their disappointment for a moment. They're calling us not to fight, but to celebrate the fact that millions of people are going to get a good night's sleep, in part because of the research they pioneered, even though they might not reap the spoils of their work. I think it takes a big heart to write it that way.
"But the problem with levying taxes for public schooling is that there is much more to education than just the amount of money you spend on schools."

That, and the fact that you're funding a supposedly benevolent institution by threatening people with jail or death should they choose not to pay for it.
Heroku is expensive when considering you can use similar tools on a vps for a fraction of the cost (or get a whole lot more for your money).

And yeah, when you charge $20 for SSL, you're expensive.
This is all great info. The only thing I shudder at is that there is one huge single point of failure. I've learned one thing when building huge dumb storage devices, build two and mirror them. I've got 32TB of storage mirrored so if one hits the fan I've got an exact copy.
Foursquare has an enterprise business?

"Congrats, you're the Mayor of Conference Room 3C!"
If the entire DO netblock is in the proxy block list, then your headers aren't going to do much.
Why not use Redshift? It's the same thing as f.lux.
> They can boycott github and turn it into a ghost town in a manner of months.

The last paragraph in the OP rhetorically mocks that idea. Boycotting GitHub would negatively impact said projects since there is no competitior as robust, which is a worse outcome.
Zappos's Website Frozen for Two Years as It Integrates with Amazon (Oct. 2015)
Tor has a discussion (2014) of Android security, including baseband processors, https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardenin...
I "just" define it in sketch.

To be clear, I'm sure you didn't mean to put down the role of design in building a successful software product, but I do like to point out unintended microaggressions when I see them.
All of those issues would apply to DVCS as well, I can clone any project and commit whatever crap I want to it, I just can't push to the main repo of the project.

Distributed issue tracking would use a similar pull model, but in reality wouldn't normally need people to be "cloning" it or anything like that; more realistically, a project would have just one place that is the "official" bug tracker just like they do a git repo now. But with "distributed", you can now have read-only mirrors of it elsewhere, you can have alternative GUIs that can push to the "official" repo as long as you have an account on that "official" host (which may as well be github), etc. It's not as important that it's truly "distributed", more that this is a set of issues that as a body of information about a project can and does live in many places, just like the version control does, just like the mailing list does, just like the IRC logs do. Right now issue tracking is like none of these other things.
FYI to readers: a reply to the parent comment was posted but was hidden by the site when a mod decided to ban the account (probably without reading the information and concluding that it was a personal attack and not simply facts being presented).

It included a recommendation to read the information in the original link that was posted, which contains the requested counterarguments here:

http://pastebin.com/TuTdggVe

As well as in the comments and links within the original link: https://lobste.rs/s/82pz7r/curated_links_to_understand_dange...

It would be nice if when the mods decide to ban an account the site could at least make a note that a response in fact was given using a [removed] label or w/e.
Naming is hard, dude. That and cache invalidation ;)
Finding non-copyrighted names doubly so.
Ah, didn't see that or get captured by dupe filter.

Is there a protocol on situations like this? Should I leave the post here or delete it?
> Here's a Bitcoin private key: 5JcgxNrn4WFcA8trEix7ComAyLNEsDEyB...

Notice that it's a private key that's paired with a public key. You give a hash of the public key to accept payment, and revealing your private key is the doomsday event in its security model.

Meanwhile, with most credit cards, the entire interface is that you hand out the secret directly. Maybe they'll even make a carbon copy of it with a click clack machine depending on where you live, and this is acceptable. So acceptable that here in 2016, on-the-fly credit card numbers is a niche service offered by a few companies and you need to install a desktop Adobe Flash app to even use it.
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As opposed to the people who derive their power & influence from traditional currencies?
i would recommend you also do snapshots. mirroring will just replicate a bad fuckup.

as for OP, i share your concerns - i'm skeptical of the reliability of consumer gear in an application like this, especially in the absence of an actual backup solution (maybe he doesn't care).

he calls it a backup server, but it's actively serving files.
> But the universe is a harsh mistress, and there is only so much faith we should be putting in good fortune, in benevolent governments, or in the wonders of modern technology. So, always have a backup plan.

Has Nature been unfaithful to us?(!!) A mother must discipline her children. As far as I've seen, she does it out of love, even when it hurts. She simply wants her children to grow up, far beyond what limits and mistakes they currently make, preferably before getting burned.

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This is exactly what I was thinking about. Some way to tell a goal and the constraints to the computer and then have the computer run multivariate tests on generated UI's to optimize for the goal.
That sounds mostly great. Separate technical leadership from organizational management.

Not sure "requirements" necessarily belong to the BA. They probably belong to whomever can identify best with the customer. That's certainly a BA in many circumstances, but hardly all of them.
I'm no expert, but I read them as saying only that attribution is required, and a link to your SO answer counts as attribution. Presumably the user is also free to provide attribution without an SO link, assuming they satisfy CC-BY-SA.
If you are into this type of thing, check out the storage form on [H]ardForum:
http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=29

Specifically, the showoff thread:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1847026
Lets let the mods worry about it.
Proposed bill in New York state could allow backdoor access for law enforcement
5. People who want to send money online without any restrictions on who they can pay and how much.

6. Online businesses with business models that generate frequent chargebacks, so can benefit from an irreversible payment method.
Be careful what you wish for. Look at what's happening with drones and the FCC.

The smaller the level of government that's responsible the more likely that there's room for local experimentation that others can copy.
I don't see much difference between a comment on Reddit/HN and a response article, except that the response article is platform-agnostic and (sometimes) more thoughtfully assembled.
Indeed. Though it would not take that much convincing to have those people turn gitlab into what they want and host it themselves with a container based image. Plus they could simulate the social aspect of github by using a general index of projects.
You can't actually just buy your way to the raised thresholds. Blocks greater than 1MB are invalid according to the current Bitcoin Core consensus rules, and will be rejected.
Agile, supports prototyping, and design, its just a task, maybe you where being too litteral about things.
Wow what on earth are you doing (at home) that you need that much space backed up with that level of reliability?
The big mining pools are also chosen by individual miners, who can change at any time.
28% marginal tax rate. Maybe 19% effective.
State tax is 10%, not 12%.
The problem with mailing lists is that patches and bug reports get forgotten.
I'd love to agree with the author, I really would... but GitHub put quite a bit of engineering talent and resources behind Atom (and Electron), and last I checked, that hasn't made them a single dollar. It's very clear the company does not simply prioritize resources based on immediate return. If they did, we surely wouldn't have the text editor that I've been addicted to for the past year.
Well, What was the awesome ramen place in the LES? :)
Simple HTTP with Retrofit 2 by Jake Wharton
Unfortunately:

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/javafx/Utils
at org.fxmisc.richtext.StyledTextArea.replaceText(StyledTextArea.java:665)
at cpusim.gui.desktop.DesktopController.addTab(DesktopController.java:1491)
at cpusim.gui.desktop.DesktopController.addDefaultTab(DesktopController.java:2499)
at cpusim.GUIMain.start(GUIMain.java:80)
Yeah, the article is silly. He's dumping on moving to the Bay Area for a tech job, where everyone I know who has done so (including myself) is thriving. And not working 100 hours a week.
Thanks, I haven't knew about it. I'll put some more features and post link to article comparing performance.

My friend helped me with benchmark, but I'm who is writing article.
https://github.com/bartekupartek/benchmark
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1. Cost

SatCom is very expensive. Sure, oil is cheap this quarter, but once it climbs again, airlines will return to their 2% profit margins. Remember, for most of the last 20 years, airlines have struggled to break even. If blackboxes and telemetry must be transmitted via satellite continuously, the bill will be substantial. Remember, Iridium was so expensive the company went under. The cost would be Billions, not a "fraction of a million."

2. Does not prevent MH370

Everything on an airliner must have an emergency shutoff. Fire is the worst threat in the air. Swiss Air 111 crashed due to a fire in the cockpit wiring [1]. The first step if there is smoke in a cockpit is to pull breakers, to isolate the problem. Today the pilots can pull the breakers to the engines, flight computers, and black boxes. If these SatComm trackers were added, they would have been disabled by the same party that disabled all the other communications on MH370. As such, they don't fix the problem of a pilot that doesn't want to be found.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
To me it seems more natural to assume that money would emerge from barter. Barter is only fair to a certain extent. As you (OP) mentioned, in bartering one party will "most likely always lose" while that isn't necessarily always true in pure black and white thinking eventually a barter system would become difficult to maintain in an economy (early or late). Now that would assume that one good or service in the exchange has more worth than the other end of the barter.

I see barter as an early, rugged form of money. Many early civilizations would trade goods such as cows or other animals in exchange for services or other goods. Technically those cows or whatever else WERE a currency. You could give someone 3 cows to help you do X, Y, Z. Replace cow with 300 gold coins and there isn't an enormous difference because each only has as much value as you allow it.

Eventually through barter you'd realize maybe you don't want to give all your cows away or perhaps people begin to realize that sure maybe now they have 3 cows since they did X, Y, Z for you but now the person they need stuff from doesn't need cows because they have 100 cows. Naturally I think currency (coin, paper money... etc) would develop from this to form a more "universal" token for barter so that it could then be more easily used by whoever receives it.
We are moving tne ba/requirements role over to the product managers, the devleads operate virtual teams and pull tesource in on an as needed basis.
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> If issue tracking and code reviews were based on a common, distributed system like git itself

There you go: https://github.com/google/git-appraise
WW3+COMES+TO+USA+DOORSTEP+-+YouTube
Interestingly most of these people are older than the millennial category
GitHub makes plenty of money. Just fix it.
I have seen LAPD park decoys in the lot around big box stores, presumably to deter shoplifting.
OK, if Bitcoin has just about failed, what's the best alternative cryptocurrency?
If you don't trust the admins of whatever server is behind an IP address to represent your domain, then you shouldn't add that IP address to your domain. I don't see a problem here.
Interesting opinion on the subject: http://themodernteam.com/flat-will-kill-you-eventually-why-e...
Well that's a problem with the developers.

Amount of times I've posted a bug on a mailing list and a core developer doesn't care to respond is unbelievable. Here is a recent one:
http://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-user/0042.html
"you can be sure, to within measurement precision"

I'm not sure how readily available are this kind of tools for the average joe, correct me if I'm wrong I do also thing is a destructive process, taking as a basis the Core 2 Duo P8400 that the X200 on the libreboot laptop which as per intel page is built on 45nm fabrication[0] and as Wikipedia mention (I know wikipedia could not be a trusted source of information for this) "This attack is not very common because it requires a large investment in effort and special equipment that is generally only available to large chip manufacturers. " [1] which still sounds logical.

about " but you can at least make sure they are behaving generally as CPUs or modems or RAM might at the boundaries between them" you know this is close to impossible, check for example how the RAM tests are performed where a set of patterns are tested and you have some degree of certainty [2] and for which they last concludes "It should be obvious that this strategy requires an exact knowledge of how the memory cells are laid out on the chip. In addition there is a never ending number of possible chip layouts for different chip types and manufacturers making this strategy impractical. However, there are testing algorithms that can approximate this ideal. " notice approximate to ideal.

"If you build a system with enough small chips doing simple tasks" and this is the path to take, a new set of trust-able cpus... but it's not one of the current options.

[0] http://ark.intel.com/products/35569/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processo...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering#Reverse_en...
[2] http://www.memtest86.com/technical.htm
The Zoosk app on Windows was malware. I had friends who asked me to get rid of it, and it was really, really hard. Good riddance.
Fooled me ;)
When those developers working on open source start using a new product from a different company, then go to their own place of work and ask to use that produce instead of github it will impact their paid customers.

How do you think they got those paid customers in the first place? They came from the free tier. If the free tier isn't nice to use, why would you pay for it?
By that logic, all taxation is inherently morally wrong. I think that should be enough to tell you that your view is unlikely to be correct.

You say the government employs coercion? You are correct; it does. For the greatest part, though, it employs it on those who, in the absence of the government, would themselves use coercion on those weaker than themselves. If you're not the strongest, you want a government to protect you from those stronger than yourself.

If we want a government at all, someone has to pay for it. (If you don't want a government at all, see the previous paragraph. Or see the horrible examples of places that, right now, don't have one.)

Do you want a government paid for entirely by voluntary contributions? Good luck with getting enough money that way. But the free rider problem not only starves the government of enough resources to function correctly, it also leads to citizens who are disengaged because they have no skin in the game.

Short of those unworkable extremes, what you probably really want is a much smaller government (like the one laid out in the Constitution, perhaps). It may not be funding government that bugs you; it may be funding that elephant of a government. If that's your position, I'm with you.

If there's going to be taxation, then, let it be fairly applied. Let there be much fewer loopholes, so that arguments about what the government should fund can be out in the open, in the budget process, rather than arguments about the mind-numbingly complex details of the tax code.
It's almost like PG and his posse is part of the reason for some of the toxic culture in SV. But God help you if you say that...

My open resentment for them aside, I do wonder why he feels qualified to comment on the economics of income inequality. Just cause you were tangentially involved with something does not give you room to run roughshod over well established economic research.

This would be like Alan Greenspan telling you about which technology companies are solid bets. Or an electrician telling the architect that the building is actually designed how the electrician sees it, not the architect. Like wtf?

I would love an official YC response because I know many in the financial and economics community who see SV and PG specifically as kind of a joke would love a debate, rather than PGs masturbatory, illogical, pseudoscientific rants.
That will be extremely challenging. GitHub has a huge community with a lot of heavy weight projects behind it. Sure you can add a few features on top of whatever you build, but GitHub has the ability to copy whatever seems popular very quickly.
When purchasing a camera system in NYC for my mom's shop, the tech at the surveillance shop told me that any camera with a red light on it is a fake.
Maybe they can monitor the trucks with video feeds. Get a union together and demand only one monitor per worker and have laws passed that all trucks must be monitored with video feeds.

I think dock workers used to unload ships and my understanding is, that while not as extreme, they have done something similar. (Not that I see this as the best approach....).
I'm not sure why you think bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency, things like digicash existed since the early 90s. In any case, did you even read the post? The author explicitly describes the failings of bitcoin's political processes. His concerns weren't some hypothetical issues of ideology, they were concrete examples of how those who control bitcoin are preventing it from growing in a very technical sense, and refuse to engage in any sort of compromise because it's not within their (business) interests.

edit: To clarify, I'm not trying to say I agree or disagree with the author, as I don't know anywhere near enough about the bitcoin community to say either way. I'm merely pointing out that the OP was talking past the author's points, not addressing them. (In particular, they built a strawman against governance and political solutions.)
It's always good to question orthodoxy so I support the general idea behind this post, but the word "cult" actually means something specific. You can search for "characteristics of a cult" and get lots of interesting lists, but here are a few that I think are interesting with regards to startups:

1) A leader with a monopoly on "truth". This varies in startups, and certainly there's usually a guy who is the "decider". However it's not usually taken for granted that he's always right just that he's entitled to make the call.

2) Separating members from non-members. Cults often encourage and sometimes force separation, even from family and close friends. I have yet to see this in a startup, a mother who is no longer allowed to make contact with her child because a startup prohibited it.

3) Sexual/financial/life/etc exploitation. This one arguably does happen in startups, to varying degrees. This seems like the central critique of OP. That said, the same happens in regular companies too (migrant farm workers, emotional abuse, exploiting information asymmetries/etc) and I'm not sure the distribution is all that different.

4) Preventing people from leaving, through debt, threats, or conditioning. This actually sometimes happen in startups through offering credit.... They owe you back pay and you want to stay at the top of the payroll. But this is nothing like what Scientology does, maintaining a blackmail file on members.

5) General use of mind control. Progaganda, conditioning, etc. Generally creating an environment where human brains sort of gravitate towards the mainline. This happens everywhere, to differing degrees. I think if you watch the Heaven's Gate exit videos you see the extreme of this. This is a fire we all play with. Probably some startups overdo it.
A team of six and four years and a pile of money is unlikely to stack up favorably against an entire life saying that Local U is as high as they can dream of.

#2 empirically cannot be readily addressed by professionals. A number of schools have already adopted the approach you favor - a team of full-time professionals - and the problem persists.
Complaining about that, and at the same time complaining about the (opt-in) new feature to allow transactions to be changed before inclusion in the block chain, seems hypocritical.
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This post covers everything except the cost.
The cost will vary from region to region and country to country, but it would have been nice to get a ballpark figure for what this cost.
$2,870.15 from Amazon right now which isn't as bad as I expected. That is a great build you've put together. After losing a 3TB drive of thankfully replaceable data I have been eyeing a similar setup but not as intense.

https://amzn.com/w/MHNNS9EDAORX

Side note, I would love to have a list or something on Amazon because the wish list isn't right. A purchase list perhaps? It doesn't include the quantity by default when clicking Add to Cart. I had thought about adding in the Amazon Associates code but I've never actually had that make any money.
Having fun.