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That does make sense. Investor & Founder time is limited, technical due diligence on the investor side takes too much time.

I'm coming more from a founder perspective though, and I think there's some dangers with the mindset as a founder, and I see it with a lot of people in the chinese startup community.

Whilst as an investor, one might get to play a bit fast and loose with technology choices, I believe that as a founder doing so is suicidal. I see startups here struggling to hire PHP programmers because they made the decision to go with PHP because they heard it was easy, and later on realized that that may have been a mistake. They try to smooth it over with funding later. PHP programmers over here have the same reputation. They learn it because they thought it was easy, and that there's a lot of companies desperate for that skill. It's a match made in hell.

Similar boneheaded decisions, preventable with a week of due dilligence reading, are made by founders here all the time. One thing I found interesting is that the people making these kinds of calls are always working on C-list ideas. It's always derivative businesses in markets that just don't care. They need to get their MVP out fast and half baked because what they're working on should have died on the drawing board. They're desperate for investor money because they think it will patch over major errors they've made up to that point.

Some of these ideas are salvageable. It usually requires restructuring on both the business side and the technology side, preferably to the point where they make sense as an integrated system. One guy I was working with, his startup is trying to create a site for farmers and rural Chinese to sell things on that, and that is so interesting, Alibaba jumped into the ring recently. Now he has a dinky site that does not solve anyone's problems. It's a website, which is greatly hindered by the fact that most villages have a single computer, and the people who wanted to trade with each other would sit at that computer, together.

I suggested to him that he change things up a little. Small farmers do suffer from information asymmetry with the people they're selling to. Technology wise, most of them have non-smart phones, but China Unicom is rolling out mobile coverage to rural China, because that's their market tomorrow. So, provide informational and automated brokering services over a website on the buyer end, and an SMS gateway on the seller end. Ship the FAQ on actual paper.
Allow farmers to post their wares with a formatted text message, have offers coming in an hour later, goods shipped the day after. Give them a reason to upgrade to smartphones, pack in more features on the app once data becomes cheap. Do agricultural futures 5 years down the line, in one of the hungriest economies in the world.

The part where technology makes this interesting is that it allows you to reach a market segment that is unreachable over conventional means. Innovation is the edge startups have over large, well funded enterprises. Founders ignoring that side are blindsiding themselves to half their business.
completely custom is a bit of a stretch. It was a very heavily modified FreeBSD. And with 8.x 7-mode, it was straight FreeBSD with "ONTAP" essentially loaded as a bunch of userland process'.
It's a pinnacle of ignorance
online rental platforms such as Airbnb could also be fined if they refuse to turn over addresses of rentals that failed to register.

This is the part where it is going to get funny, and which will pretty much help shaping the future.

So, they are going to fine an online rental platform conveniently located in Argentina that settles all payments in bitcoin?

As you can imagine, it will not make Airbnb any more popular if they "turn over" their users. In a version 2.0 iteration of the concept, the platform will just shut its ears for any of that. Of course, then they will be attacked through the payment method, but that is where bitcoin kicks in.

In order to make online things comply, you need to strangle their cash inflow. However, if you do not kill it, you will only make it stronger. Bitcoin is really the elephant in the room. Goverments are making lots of trade expensive or impossible unless they are setted in bitcoin. That is pushing the value of bitcoin through the roof.

Hence, the final shape of the system, adjusting its shape attack after attack, until it finally has become unassailable.
For the HN crowd passing by, here's why this stuff could be interesting to you.

It's not possible to do extremely small micropayments on bitcoin directly as people use it today. Bitcoin's made a lot of promises around micropayments, but doing it in an economical way has tradeoffs, especially if you're talking about millions to billions of transactions per second. In fact it's not possible to extremely small micropayments on ANY platform. Try sending $0.001 to someone once. It's not possible. The closest you're probably going to get is sending someone an item on Steam (and there's no easy way to price the items). The reason for this is underwriting costs, it's too expensive for Visa to process it since they're assuming some liability. Even Paypal, who ostensibly should be doing this, charges $0.30 for payments for goods and services.

Lightning allows for micropayments to actually happen because custody is still pushed to the edges, so you don't have the same kinds of underwriting risk.

This means that something as simple as paying someone $0.001 over the internet one time will become viable this year. The amount of possible business models and use cases could dramatically shift. Users may not know they're using Bitcoin (your application could hide it and abstract it away), but people are getting paid in a way they could not before (even centralized systems did not exist, let alone decentralized ones). Pay-per-click webpages, massive decentralized CDNs, creating API services without a username/password to make onboarding seamless (you paid? you're done!).

We're working on code here: http://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
It's MIT licenced and will soon have some pretty simple APIs to use. Of course, since this stuff will be in testing for a little while, make sure you only use small amounts/micropayments initially when it's released.
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At least for digital asics, if you can control the temperature and core voltages one strategy to determine if the issue is hardware is to see if the problem changes (either stops or happens more frequently) at high temperature/low core voltage compared to low temperature/high voltage. That's usually a pretty good sign it's not a software/firmware problem. If you can't modify the voltage to the datasheet operating limits, you can try just temperature, but in my experience it's better to do both.
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Previous discussion at hn:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796253

This time the book is "officially" published.
Somewhat circular to see someone attempt to use reason to argue against the use of reason.
As a casual observer and non-user I'm actually quite happy to see them all reach feature parity. I'm hopeful that layman users will start to rue having the community so fragmented and we may start seeing faster progress towards common protocols and interoperability.

Part of me is seeing shades of the browser wars in these social network wars, and even though there were years of pain in the middle, we're all better off nowadays.
Because we're living in a society, which means we trade some of our individual determination for things that society as a whole deems worthwhile. People are free to agree or disagree with individual policies, and make use of various avenues for making their opinions known, but it's pretty silly to feign ignorance of why things like property ownership are not completely unregulated. The concept of property "ownership" only exists at all because of the strong law-abiding society we are fortunate enough to live in.
Too punitive of a fine would result in Citigroup not reporting.
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One of the most impressive programmers I know is blind. So yes,it is possible.

Being dyslexic myself I can say some languages are easier for some people than others. For example I like java verbosity and camel case as it helps with my particular variety of reading problems. This frustrated me because I love python in its philosophy but I can't work in it.
I'm almost going to bed (it is 10:30pm in San Francisco) but I thought it might be interesting to share some deep links:

The marketing team has their OKR embedded in the handbook https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/#okrs

If we meet our sales target everyone in the company gets a free dinner https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#sales-target-dinner

There is a pretty sweet Kramdown SSG guideline https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-relati...

It is always sad to see people go, but it happens and after the decision is made we do have a checklist for the process https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/offboarding/

A recent addition (thanks Eliran) has been our remote coffee break calls https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#coffee-break-calls
Cancelled which service?
You can send someone one Linden in Second Life (the virtual world), i.e. over the Internet. One Linden works out to about 0.004 US dollars. (It depends on the exchange rate, which is determined by an open market.)

This has been possible for many years.
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That is a good point. But without getting too technical (although I'd love too if wanted), there are 2 caveats with your thought:
1. Order does not need heat transfer. Flying birds form a V-shaped pattern (to minimize drag, whatever), fish "order" into a packed school instead of being random, a honeycomb is hexagonal. Those are (near) optional solutions for constraints. There is an analogy with crystal formation but the math is not totally clear.
2. Crystals can have higher entropy than disordered states. Actually, a (crystalline) dense packing of Brownian spheres have higher entropy than a random close packing of spheres.
This same wording could be used against that argument:

If you (partially) own the (community), why does your neighbor have to have (more of) a say in how the community is managed?

It's your (community), you paid to live there, it's yours. If they don't like what you are doing, then they should move.

See, we expand this beyond the individual to a neighborhood wherein rules and boundaries can be set because this collective group that exists beyond the individual can be affected.

People should be held responsible for their actions, right? And you don't trust the individual doing the action's opinion on who they think is actually being affected, right?

This follows the same logic as having boisterous parties with loud music all night or shooting a pornographic movie on my front porch. Although, to be fair, in support of your argument, this was also the same logic which used to forbid black people from moving next door.
There is a school of thought that punitive fines should be a proportion of company value/earnings rather than an absolute dollar figure to exact an equal amount of discomfort.

In the infamous McDonald's coffee lawsuit, this was actually the motivation behind the initial large damage award. The jury attempted to award punitive damages equal to two days' worth of McDonald's coffee revenue.

(obligatory note here for the many people who have heard false information about that case: the coffee spilled in a car, yes, but the car was motionless, in a parking space, and the person who spilled it was not the driver, and was found partially at fault for the spill; she suffered severe burns requiring hospitalization and skin grafts, which is not generally what one expects from coffee; it was found McDonald's served its coffee significantly hotter than other chains, in a temperature range making burns more likely, and was aware of the fact that it could cause severe burns because this wasn't the first case, and in fact McDonald's was aware of hundreds of cases of burns resulting from its coffee; the initial damage award was significantly reduced by the judge; search for Liebeck v. McDonald's for more details)
Question for you.

Say I want to pay Bob $0.001. That's too small for a bitcoin transaction since the fee is higher than that. So from what I understand I would "load" say $10 into the lightning network then create a transaction over the network to Bob for $0.001. Say tons of other people do this and now Bob is sitting on $10. How does he turn that into actual Bitcoin? Like get it out of the lightning network. Doesn't he have to close off all those thousands of channels?
Ah yeah, that's a good point, I totally forgot about them, thanks!

I think the big difference here is that obviously decentralization is nice, but the real issue is that Linden could do it because they simply didn't become big enough to be a target. There were some attacks at the edges, but if you wanted to do what Linden did at Visa-scale, they would quickly put a stop to it with chargebacks.

Adversarial problems are far easier at smaller scale, but it is a good point, thanks for the correction! It may be more accurate to say nobody's done it where it could be conceptually feasible at high-scale/volume with dedicated adversaries (many of the Linden exchanges solved this with high exchange rates to buy in, e.g. Virwox).
Probably Kate Chapman, CTO at the Cadasta Foundation.
Yes they can do things to stop it. They can refuse to update core. They can say that they have 10% of the mining power and threaten to not move over to the hard fork.

Basically, they can scare people into thinking that there is going to be two separate, competing chains. This would cause prices to crash , and crash hard.

Because of this threat to burn the whole thing to the ground, they prevent the community from acting in the first place, even though it has the support to do so.
Increase in noise, especially at odd hours. People on vacation keep wildly different hours than most folks who work 9 to 5. So you have the group who is on vacation basically in a "hotel room" sharing a wall with you on a random Tuesday night and you have to get up in the morning.

Additionally, "guests" have a tendency to do things like leave doors open or let people in they don't know to apartment buildings. And, unlike hotels, there's no one watching over the front door or security systems to make up for the increase in non-residents in most apartment buildings.

There's also the issue that "guests" have a higher tendency to break things. They're on vacation, they don't live there, they don't care is the attitude of a small percentage. If an apartment is rented out on Airbnb, sooner or later you're going to get some of them. And if they break the building's front door or trash the lobby... sorry, but Airbnb's insurance policy doesn't cover that. It only covers things owned by the Airbnb user, not common areas of an apartment building.

So, no thank you, I'd prefer that my apartment building was a proper apartment building where residents live here. As opposed to half apartment building, half unlicensed and unregulated pseudo hotel/hostel.
You just blew my mind.
Total loss for the quarter was $47.6 million.

the company’s litigation costs during the quarter tallied $15.7 million

Therefore the company's loss for the quarter without the legal costs was 47.6 - 15.7 = $31.9 million.
Perhaps you should have taken this opportunity to repeat some of those things he has been saying for the last 20 years so as to contribute to the conversation...
That's a great example of how policies backfire - the 'renter-friendly' laws make it incredibly unattractive to rent places and reduce supply, hurting renters.
+1 for being consistent!
> With respect to white culture, I think it must be hard to celebrate it in isolation. Almost anything that you would want to celebrate, could be given to a specific nation (thus be patriotic, not race pride)

Or in other words, already celebrated everyday here in America.
Rent control is so bad that almost all economists are opposed to it, and they rarely agree so strongly about other topics.
Wow! Very cool to have the infamous Reggie drop in. Perhaps this is a good chance to say thank you for JS Allonge, which was my introduction to writing proper JavaScript. Before it I wrote code to make a feature work; now, it is equal parts getting it to work and crafting something elegant. Thank you!
Is it unique for a sitting president to publish a journal article?
How do you determine what 'bad consequences are'? Isn't some of that determined by more's?
Lightning network is the fix. It essentially makes bitcoin transactions lightning channels rather than recording every transaction that ever existed. Raising the block size won't solve anything, it will only make miners store more data and transfer more data. Lighting network solves all of this, and the concept is actually pretty simple and very secure once you understand it.
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You clearly missed my point.

How would you celebrate white culture?
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The fun part of the Lightning Network is that you're actually exchanging bitcoin transactions. You're just keeping a local cache and electing when to broadcast it. It's flipping the double-spend problem on its head (and using it as a feature) and securing it via time-bonded proofs using programmed Bitcoin scripts native to the blockchain itself.

At any time either party can close out the channel unilaterally by broadcasting the most recent state. The person that broadcasted it gets refunded after a delay (assuming the uncooperative case where the other party in the channel goes off the Antarctica or something -- in a cooperative case, both parties close out immediately with the current balance).

Leaving coins in LN is fully backed on-chain, of course, since these are real bitcoin transactions passed around. The added benefit is you can transact instantly in high volume, so coins in LN will probably have more use than coins off LN when it comes to payments.
>They can refuse to update core.

Doesn't matter the majority of users have moved to the new fork. That becomes the new core.

>They can say that they have 10% of the mining power and threaten to not move over to the hard fork.

Why would this matter? That 10% of miners will move over quickly or lose money by mining on a fork with no value.

>Basically, they can scare people into thinking that there is going to be two separate, competing chains.

There would be but since the majority of users and miners and companies want the one you want theirs would be losing right?

>This would cause prices to crash , and crash hard.

Why? If the vast majority want the change then they will just continue on as normal. It's only the people still using the old fork that will have problems.

None of these problems exist if the majority truely wants the change.
My neighbor was pretty noisy when he first moved in. I had to ask him several times to quiet down and eventually after the landlady heard complaints from several others, he did. This isn't at all an AirBnB-specific issue.

I admit 5% isn't nothing. But if your problem is that rents are rising 25% pa in your town, a one-time decrease of 5% isn't much of a solution.
If every company and mining pool decides to do something, isn't that the end of it? How can the devs prevent something? Maybe their official client might not recognize the changes and cause a fork but if it's true that even most mining pools and some major companies are moving, then why would anyone use the core fork?
That's an option if you want your icon monocolored, but else you'll need the other options. Or, if you want a responsive icon, you'll need the pure CSS approach AFAIK.
Sorry I think you'll have to dumb it down for me.

Say Bob says I want my $10 to stick on OKCoin now. He broadcasts that he wants to close the channels for all those thousands of people now? Doesn't that mean the transactions go through on the actual network costing him ~$0.05 for each $0.01? Or am I understanding settlement completely wrong?
Well, the long-term effect will be that you will only be able to get a decent plumber on an anonymous online platform, at which you will have to escrow a sizable security deposit in bitcoin first. Making that kind of threats to any of the plumbers will just lead to the customer losing his security deposit. Online platforms are several orders of magnitude more efficient at enforcing anything than governments are. So, there you are.
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At least in Germany zoning laws are there to prevent businesses to intrude into residential neighborhoods. That means, I get to live in an area that is not "polluted" by noisy trucks driving up and down the street to deliver or collect goods - and so on.

It also means, I am restricted in what I do with my own property in such, that I cannot build a factory inside my home/on my ground for the same reasons.

Imho this is quite a reasonable policy.

Some other zoning laws in German communities might restrict me from planting some trees while forcing me to plant a hedge from a small list of pre defined plant varieties - just to make sure the neighborhood looks homogenous.

These laws do not make the slightest sense imho. Esp. as the allowed plant varieties oftentimes are not local but some stuff that is easy in handling and not that great for nature (no possibilities for birds to nest and such stuff).
Why can't we compromise a bit here? I don't think many people have issues with folks renting out their place for a few weeks during the year, but buying property and using it to attract vacationers to a residential area is very different. It can change the city by causing businesses to cater towards more tourists and to reduce available housing stock.

What if people could only rent out their primary residence for no more than half the year unless the property is exempt as a vacation home? Perhaps this could be a good compromise for cities to encourage Airbnb while effectively banning the practice of buying homes exclusively for Airbnbers.
Actually no. Shared networking stack code, sure, influenced? possibly as most of the engineers were ex-Sun or ex-SGI, but that was about as far as it went. That changed when Spinnaker was acquired and NetApp ported their Linux stuff to FreeBSD. All Data ONTap code prior to 8 was pretty unique to the NetApp.
Apparently people have no idea how the handyman economy works.
You're an idiot. If you actually understood how lightning network works, you would understand what a HUGE leap this is for bitcoin. This solves the problem of miners downloading and transferring too much data, it solves the zero confirmation problem, it solves the micropayment problems, and it solves the scale-ability problem... All this, just by using bitcoin timelocks and transaction channels. It's a pretty cool trick, that's completely secure.
How would it affect your quality of life if I started processing hazardous waste out in the open on the property next to you?

That is why your neighbour has a say: Because what you do on your property affects those around you.

Yes, I chose an extreme example, on purpose to illustrate the point: there is some level above which almost all of us will agree that what you do on your property is a public concern.

It is then down to a matter of degrees: At which point does what your neighbour do cause sufficient nuisance to give you a say in whether or not they should be allowed to continue doing it.

The notion that those who don't like what you do on your property should move is just incredibly selfish - it implies that you put your rights above theirs, because without regulation what you do on your property can very well make it economically infeasible for your neighbours to choose to move even if they wanted to.