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> Venture capital: From my experience this is mostly true, as there are many people that try to appear as if they have very good connections and money, but in the end they offer pre-seed level investments for double-digit equity. A few of the international VCs have offices in Berlin now though, so my advice would be to stay away from the impostors and go to firms that have actual credibility and a history of funding successful startups.

If you suggested a VC I might be able to tell you what my experience was with them in Berlin. It's entirely possible my startup just was bad. But I'd tell you what their problem was with us and it might help to flush out a bigger picture. Might be interesting. Kind of a delicate subject possibly though.

So, on the other hand maybe I should just speak generally.

All of them wanted to see sales before they would invest. That means they wanted to see market impact, we could show them all the imaginary projections and potential market impacts we wanted and it didn't make any difference. They wanted to see real world income.

That is hard to do if you don't have any capital. You can tell them all day what you'll spend the money on and what you predict will happen and they don't care. Meanwhile your product idea is being copied by the large company down the street who saw you pitch pitifully begging for a VC to pay attention to you.

That large company will make the same thing, worse but with capital. Then they'll sell it to the same people you are trying to convince to jump on board for a equity stake with you.

That is by far the largest hurdle. Before you have income they aren't interested, and if the other company never has income because the idea is too good or too unique or too hard to do. Then they'll pay attention to something easier. There is no attention being paid to innovation.

I've seen for example business loans in Germany which are given out to Flower shops. There are a million flower shops and kebab shops. But those are proven businesses. Real business loans, which means if the business fails the owners can just claim business bankruptcy.

That doesn't exist for tech startups in Germany you do not qualify. They want a tiny bit of income and no risks. Which to me says it isn't a startup hub.
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> - Now people start asking hard stuff - but engineers (I intentionally do not say developers) who know answers on these questions are not interested in answering.

I suspect part of the reason they're not interested in answering is because a difficult question requires a lot more work to likely get less points as a result. Meanwhile, answering a ton of easy questions can be done quickly and gets more points over on Stack Overflow in the same time frame.

That and yeah, lots of people who could answer your question would rather be doing something that pays the bills or helps them instead.
If your absolutely sure u want to do it and it wasn't just
"it seemed like a good idea at the time", send me an email to clamagaslu@throwam.com because...what do i have to lose?
And how do you propose to convince people to buy such crippled phones?
Thank you for the thoughtful reply, I see where you're coming from.

I personally think the line can be drawn, not perfectly, but pretty comfortably at the point where they are taking payment to execute the attack. In this context, they would either be accepting money with intent to commit a crime, or committing fraud by taking payment to not conduct that activity. Either way, it is highly obvious that a crime will be committed there.

I've seen parallels of this approach in hitman-for-hire stings. Payment for the assassination is usually the point where criminal intent to murder is made - they don't wait for someone to actually be killed to determine if it's "the real deal" or not.

Your follow-up will probably note that this involves law enforcement, and I understand why you don't want to go there. I run a service with 90,000 hosted sites and I run into similar issues all the time. But outsourcing this to public law enforcement to go after is a really tall order. They're simply not going to have the resources to approach this problem. And even if they do, they're being expected to focus those resources on the more "critical" issues of our time (terrorism, murder, etc).

There is also, IMHO, a general understanding that (forgetting the illegal NSA dragnets for a moment), as a trade off for government generally leaving their hands off the internet, we police ourselves voluntarily in situations where it's necessary for the network to function. Up until now, we've done a pretty good job at that. After watching DDoS attack capabilities triple within a year, I'm not so sure anymore.

I fear what might happen if we cannot figure out how to come together to take on the DDoS problem (for everyone, not just a few large autonomous organizations), and we start to see more government intervention in this space to address the problem. Any such legal intervention would likely also contain a bunch of wonderful earmarks by the lobbyists-of-the-moment, further constraining our ability to provide people with free speech protections.

Anyways, I'll stop here because I think we've both made our points. I don't think it's as blurry of a line as you do, but I agree that it's a blurry line. Thanks for chiming in.
> For some reason, /tmp/ isn't encrypted by default as far as I can tell.

It does not give any extra benefit because tmpfs only resides in RAM, and disk encryption typically only concerns data at rest.

If you come to a point where you want to have /tmp/ encrypted, you would rather encrypt the whole RAM. (Does anyone actually do that?)
I always laugh thinking that Turbo Pascal was so quick I didn't understand the difference between build and "build then run". And that was statically typed code on Pentium class computer.
Interesting that the article claims they encrypted the codes for legal reasons.

I don't really buy it, though. Listing a numeric offset can't possibly be any kind of legal risk, and anyone with a brain would understand that's how the device worked anyway. And especially, Nintendo could easily disassemble the BIOS and see the grade-school level cipher being used. Plus, Pro Action Replay used raw address:value pairs and never had any issues.

I always figured the point was to make it hard for normal people to tweak the codes, and to bloat out their code lists. You can have "Start with 3 lives; 5 lives; 9 lives", but if the last value is 03,05,09 ... then there's not much point in offering three codes.

I got tired of the shady websites full of ads giving you Game Genie codes for the wrong regions, so I worked with another person (mightymo) who made a list of all known codes. Then I decoded all of them to raw address:value pairs, and I ship all of those codes in a database with my emulator. The downside of this is you can't input your own codes in the weird Game Genie encode format. But so far, no one has complained.

Now moving onto the GBA era, and the devices just got disgusting. Each game would have a "master code" you had to enter first. That was actually an RNG seed value for all subsequent codes. So many people must have wasted so much time hand-keying in those things for zero added value. I'm almost completely certain the purpose of those was for the manufacturers to protect their codes from being stolen by competitors with similar hardware devices.
> Sadly, part of the reason why it's been delayed is due to fearmongering by groups like Greenpeace who are ideologically opposed to genetic engineering.

Some of the delay was calm objection to massive corporations. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/2000/Number%2010/78(10)new...

Golden rice had a bunch of patents from over 20 organisations -- putting farmers at risk of licence violation. Pressure from Greenpeace and WHO (and WHO aren't known as a radical anti-GMO org) helped companies like Monsanto declare that they wouldn't be using terminator genes and would allow farmers to collect and sow some of their crop. (But only farmers who earn less than $10,000 per year).
Thanks for posting this; I live in macOS Terminal.app, which pretends to be an xterm-256colors, and also displays lots of Unicode characters ok.

Amazed that we don't have better text-based UI, given these common capabilities in 2016.
> Capital isn't an object, it's a belief system, with a strong faith-based component. So in a purely rational sense it's impossible to "make capital available."

If I have a bunch of gold in a safe, then that's very much an object. If I decide you have a good project and could use that gold to finance that project, then I can "make capital available" to you.
I'm a near-homeless-boy. He is my hero.
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Perhaps but has little to do with park.io.
It wasn't an argument. I was asking a real question I am curious about.
This is fantastic, very useful stuff. I literally just finished writing a similar post:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-gsm-board/

Conor, can you detail how the assembly is done a bit? I've made a few boards with KiCAD but I have no idea how to go from bare PCB to assembled PCB, especially for such low cost as yours.

I went to PCBcart but counting all the items on my board was a hassle, and I got a cost of $38 per board for a run of ten, which sounds too expensive. Besides that, how do you even export the BOM from KiCAD? It doesn't come with a plugin by default.

A few details or a post on how to go from PCB design to assembled board would be very useful, at least to me.
we've had that stuff for years, the number of personal trainers has dramatically increased in that time and continues to grow

https://blog.gyminsight.com/859-most-current-fitness-industr...
The endgame is the endgame, not the beginning or middle. Ultimately, there is no capitalist mechanism to prevent the sale of the market, or the tragedy of any other commons.
Only because we put a value on gold.
Increasing antibiotic resistance isn't inevitable. Norway has placed strict limits on antibiotic usage, and as a result, effectiveness of drugs like penicillin is coming back [1].

All we have to do to solve our problems is behave sensibly.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/when-drugs-stop-working-norways-...
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he addresses this at 15:30 (we can still censure idlness, but we don't need to throw them onto the street / let them starve). also previously states we need to overturn the narrative that giving to the "undeserved" (the beach bums) is something we should avoid.
...that is seeking to limit how the city can transfer park land to developers to turn into houses

Christ, are they already doing that?
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
It is a bit difficult to understand what you are saying. All packet based networking is dependent on the mathematics of statistical multiplexing and the aggregate behavior of the subscribers.

While there are fixed costs for a connection (i.e. a subscriber with a physical connection via DSL or cable) the total required Internet bandwidth is highly dependent on the aggregate behavior of all the subscribers.

Outliers in a statistical multiplexing situation can push total traffic into an over-subscribed realm. It is certainly possible to simply raise the rate for all subscribers to cover the network build-out required to satisfy the outliers, but it isn't far fetched to think that the outliers should bear most the cost via an alternate rate plan, overage charges, etc.

The bigger problems is that we don't have effective competition for Internet service at the last-mile level. If you are a business in an office building serviced by multiple fiber providers, your Internet costs are going to be quite competitive. Otherwise you are basically beholden to the local telco and/or cable company and the regulatory infrastructure in your state.
I'm aware of a coup in 1979. I'm also aware that a government cannot last 5 years, much less 50, without popular support. The actions of Iran, in 2016, are the responsibility of Iranians.

By all means, join your fellow MEers by blaming the west, blaming everyone except for yourself for your own fate.
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It is facile. You can insert any 2 areas for "Omaha" and "Bay Area" and much if not all of what you says remains true. Denver is also known for nearly everything you mention except valley companies. Our housing is a fraction of bay area prices. Heck, even places like Portland, ME offer all but similar ethnic diversity and their home costs are a small fraction bay area prices.

The difference at play is not culture. The difference is housing market restrictions, median wages and company + worker density. Every city has cultural, food and geographic advantages. To word it that the Bay Area is nearly strictly superior is to frankly confuse the issue entirely.
Sure, but replace the term "gold" above with lumber/steel/concrete/apartment buildings/oil/prepaid employees/automobiles/etc.

If I have a bunch of stuff which I can loan to someone else then I have "capital". That "capital" can just as easily be physical as it can be financial.

edit: placed "gold" in quotes.
Don't discount the hype/brand. The Bay Area isn't the only place with great restaurants and ethnic diversity, but it gets all the attention.
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They are real. The unwillingness or inability to do some basic research or mental flexibility to adjust generic guidelines to their particular case (maybe 1 step out of 5 needs to be skipped!) combined with their persistence makes them quite frustrating and an outsized time consumption.

The guy who only needs a single link to the right tutorial is easy to deal with and makes all sides happy.

The guy who asks a question because he didn't even bother to read the 5-page beginner's tutorial (you know because he comes back after 1-2 minutes) where answer somewhere further down... well... after seeing your 50th or 100th of that kind you just want to yell at them.

Others expect you to fix their pastebinned code for them and do not take prose for an answer. They don't want to understand what's going on and what they did wrong, they just want you to do it for them.
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I think you and the others have missed the point about jobs like personal trainers. We've had plenty of automated fitness stuff for years. What a coach brings you is motivation, empathy, nuance and flexibility, understanding, conversation, the human touch. That's why that particular job sector, far from becoming redundant, is growing fast.
> If we were talking about healthcare and someone brought up that point, I'd stop and think about it for a minute.

Riiiiight, but it'd be germane to a discussion about health care (assuming it actually was and was not a cheap shot). "Stranger danger creeps outside schools with cameras because radio = light and therefore basically the same as having your phone notice SSIDs" is a complete non-sequitur.

> and don't just come away with a haughty sense of victory.

Do you think this website has ever given me any sense of value or return? I'm here because I feel obligated to be. Not because I enjoy it or relish these debates. Our conversation and your predictable downvoting were practically foretold 500 years ago during a seizure by someone who saw a comet... that's how lamentably predictable the whole thing has been.
I think its more than just what we pay for these services, I think there is the variability that is introduced to a market when people invest in that market not for the value of the good or service, but merely as an instrument of financial leverage.

If people bought houses merely to live in, prices would probably be lower and would be subject to much less volatility. Of course, there would be downsides as well (no houses available for rent, etc.) so I'm not suggesting we do away with finance.

In fact, I have no suggestions. I'm just pointing out that finance (treating goods and services as abstract financial instruments) creates opportunities for growth at the expense of added volatility to the markets being abstracted.
Interesting -- I (incorrectly?) assumed this would need to be approved by several regulatory bodies in order to be legal to sell...
The worst I've ever had was Reddit/HN/Hackaday. I wish I had taken pictures of the Google Analytics report; there was a huge spike when it hit Hackaday, like thousands of loads in a few minutes (maybe a bunch of RSS readers?), leveling off to a more reasonable amount and then falling off gradually as it was displaced from the top of the page. I think I usually get most of my immediate traffic from HN. Twitter is probably the most benign; it usually seems to cause a very slow burn, with little flare-ups over days or weeks.
I'm all for free speech, but protecting sites that commit criminal activities is not a "good thing". In fact, they should be partly liable for the damage if they were aware of it and did nothing to stop it.
The first think that comes to mind is if we are going to have homeowners "share" their gain with society, will society "share" any loses with homeowners?

Homeowners carry most (unless the mortgage fails) of the risk around housing prices. If a town goes to crap and a $500K house drops to $250K, will society then help cover that loss?
If someone grabs the code to try to reproduce the error and gets unrelated sytanx errors, that's their time wasted. The comment about the error helps others from wasting their time too... until the problem is fixed.

As there is a taboo of modifying someone else's code, this is best done with a comment and hope the OP will fix it.
Completely missing at this point are (1) the ability to edit stored procedures via the spreadsheet UI and (2) integration with a UI builder to design the application UI.

So they're trying to reinvent Microsoft Access?
So what technology do we need to automate away personal trainer jobs, and when do you think the purge will be complete?
Ask HN: Why join a fund when you can be an angel?
I'm curious what the financial advantages/disadvantages are of joining an established fund (and the costs incurred in doing so), instead of being an Angel. I assume the network opportunity is a big advantage - but is there any financial gain to joining a fund?
Most people in NYC can't live close enough to work to walk - only about 318k. And they walk on average 32min a day.
I was interested in learning Smalltalk and downloaded Squeak a few months ago, but I couldn't really find any up-to-date resources on how to learn my way around the environment and stuff. Am I missing something?
Freenet?
I looked at a house in SF that was listed for $2M (probably go for $2.2M). At 20% down, that's $500K upfront, then ~$9,000 per month all in for mortgage and property taxes.

If you assume you shouldn't spend more than 1/3 of your gross income on a house, that would mean the homeowners should be making $325K/year (and already have $500K saved they can plow into a house).

Wow.
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> But they literally can not at any point ever do it. Video surveillance of public space is a crime, even for the police, government, or security agencies, and it does not happen.

Surveillance of public environments via the private security systems is how your government (and ours really) accomplishes this "legally."

> The law literally makes that a crime. You have to stop collection of PII, not just delete it at any later point.

The law's definition of PII in your country is woefully out of date. Same in mine.
I get passive income from stock dividends. Most people who trade for a living spend a lot of time looking at charts (if into technical analysis) or doing research (if investing based on fundamentals). I wouldn't call stock trading passive unless you have a fully automated system. I've seen plenty of people lose more money doing this through paying transaction fees and regular income tax over and over again, rather than just holding the S&P 500 for a couple decades.
A tech friend just moved there, loving it and sh*tting all over CA.

It's still summer.
Another possibility is the Googles of the world get tired of paying Bay Area wages and start doing their damndest to open shops elsewhere and try to shift the bulk of their workforce out of the Bay.

Yes, they hire in the Bay because there is talent in the Bay. But talent is in the Bay because they hire there.

If they set themselves to it, I'd imagine they could convince a lot of people to work in other locations. "If you move to <city> with half the CoL, we'll pay you 90% of your current salary"
That's exactly my question why does it matter if their government is secular or not in order for the US to have it as a friend or ally?
Lots of regular people already have a lawyer, a stylist/hairdresser, a doctor, accountant, tutor for the kids etc.

I'm pretty sure those workers don't consider themselves servants of anyone.
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Every user that has high karma/reputation/whatever on a site - including this one - should be forced to experience it from a noob's perspective once in a while. It can be a real eye-opener, as the experience for the in-group and the out-group can be almost totally different. How many times have even regular users of a site - not just noobs - pointed out a problem only to be downvoted, harassed, or even banned by the "senior users" who don't see the problem precisely because they are so senior? They're like the "senior architects" on a software project, who no longer contribute actual code (or novel opinions on this side of the analogy) but always sit in judgment of others'. I guess it's a universal human tendency, but the point is that karma systems should be designed to attenuate it instead of reinforcing it.
Marc is probably the only guy on Twitter who could get away with typing up a whole story in parts on that site.
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I wonder if those bots that preserve pmarca's tweets run afoul of twitter policy. Twitter previously shutdown a service that preserved tweets that were deleted by politicians.
The one thing missing from most sites is the meta-evaluating of the mods, the way slashdot had. That was one of the more innovative things about slasdot back in the day.

It would randomly ask users how accurate a mod was for a particular mod that he or she made. I'm supposing that if enough people voted against the mod, their mod would be reversed and privileges removed.

Places like Reddit and SO need this in order to control the mods themselves.
There is zero chance of prop 13 being phased out or repealed. Absolutely zero.
I didn't say it was strictly superior.

Denver has snow. It doesn't have a comparable food scene.

Portland, ME is small and has cold winters. Did you mean Portland, OR? Again, big climate difference.

Again, it's not whether one is better or not. That's personal preference. But the Bay Area has excellent cultural amenities and a pleasant climate. There are many people for whom that is important. There's a reason so many people say that they'd love to live in Chicago if it weren't for the winters.

If that doesn't apply to you, congratulations! You can save money! Personally, I like being in the Bay Area, and the things I like about it aren't available in Omaha or Denver.
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Because he's going to buy it for $20,000. The conglomerate can sell it for $15,000. Who's going to buy it from him.

It's a commodity market (so little "customizing" benefit), crazy IP with feedback loop (Google and Tesla have more street data than anyone else, so they can perfect their algorithms. As their algorithms are better than anyone else's, people buy there hardware, which gives them more data, ad infinitum. Breaking into such a market will be getting harder and harder for that reason), and quite likely some kind of (strict but bureaucratic) safety regulation.