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And yet, despite all of that, they were still referring to the hotel industry when they used the term "the powerful".
> Unfortunately we’re only working with programmers who can be based in the SF Bay Area.

Yeah, there's that too. :-(
Early hires should be solely dictated by the needs of the business.

That said, I hear where he's coming from. It's nearly impossible to build a great sales team if you, yourself, don't know sales. Ditto for ops, product, business development, fundraising, etc.

But you don't have to do it all yourself. One of the valuable things you should look to early investors to bring to the table (besides money) is connections and deep expertise. In my last founding experience, we delegated the hiring of our first top salesperson to an investor, then did the same thing for marketing. It could not have worked out better.
some home appliances use this technology. I have a refrigerator that can you hold your phone next too during a support call whereby the refrigerator emits some tones that the support person can receive presumably into some computer program designed to decipher the tones as some error or diagnostic codes.

I'm old enough to know all about those old school modems. I think this is stuff is cool for those niche type applications.
But I never said that. I just countered an anecdote with a different anecdote. In the absence of contradictory anecdotes, people reading the thread would be left with the false perception that Apple doesn't produce the occasional lemon.

I'm citing a fairly well publicized incident that affected a significant number of Macbook owners - and these models were the top end 15" MBPs with quad core i7s with discrete GPU models - among the most expensive of Apple laptops, I might add - that Apple completely dropped the ball on. And this is coming from someone who recognizes that Apple historically has the best build quality and customer service.

There was a massive thread on the official Apple support forums on this problem that spanned a couple of years and a few hundred pages. Tens of thousands of posts without a single official peep from Apple. There were plenty of articles written about it on Mac sites and other tech sites like Ars Technica. It took Apple over a year to even acknowledge the issue. By the time Apple did issue the Repair Order (recall), a lot of people wrote off or sold their laptops at a loss and had no recourse.

So this is a little different from other laptop manufacturers having issues with a specific model. Before the Repair Order was issued, the official fix was to replace the logic board with a fresh logic board that had the same defect (most of the people who had their logic boards replaced got the same problem within a few months, including myself). Great if you had AppleCare, but a $500+ fix if the AppleCare had lapsed or if you didn't have AppleCare.

Am I bitter? Of course I am. I bought a relatively top end laptop from a company that had a reputation for treating their customers way better than their competitors. And I happily paid the premium (maybe 1K more than a similarly spec'ed Windows laptop at the time) with the expectation that I would be taken care of in the unlikely chance there was something wrong with my MBP. And that didn't happen. I was just lucky that I kept my bricked MBP around so that I could get it fixed when the recall finally came around. At least then I could get some salvage value out of it.
You might also want to consider the long period between (August 2013) where it was announced that Ballmer will leave v/s when he eventually left (February 2014).
It is true that NYC is a popular place to live, but the higher apartment costs are caused by zoning density restrictions and overuse of historic landmark status. These are "economic rents" -- a market failure that creates inefficient markets through use of politics by special interests -- in this case landlords that want to extract higher rents from tenants.
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> "Why those algorithms could be interesting and great worth alternative to foreign ones? Because they are obviously not worse, in some places are much better and have high serious security margin."

Is there a reason these algorithms aren't formally introduced as NIST standards? Are they copyrighted? Couldn't anyone submit them?
It's two sides of the same coin. Tourists and transients displace long term residents, no?
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Yes. We live in a representative democracy, not a direct democracy. I like that.

(I am a current NY resident who was formerly a California resident, and the thing that most actively annoyed me about California politics was the little bits of direct democracy that popped up on the ballot.)
> This release will bundle no less than _eleven_ security advisories and their associated fixes (unless we get more reported in the time we have left).

So if a security advisory gets reported there will be less than 11 fixes?
I think a good case can be made for prioritizing agriculture over population growth for California. California has some of the best soil in the world and some of the best climate for agriculture. It's just a bit short on water.

It's a lot easier to bring water to that soil and climate then to bring that soil and climate to someplace that has enough water.

People, on the other hand, are more flexible. We can thrive pretty much anywhere. So it makes some sense from a resource efficiency perspective to put the big population centers somewhere that doesn't have terrific agricultural potential, and utilize the great agricultural areas for agriculture.
It's a difficult style of 4X to build (I've tried, it's probably my favorite Meier 4X title). In particular, I think it's almost untenable for a multiplayer-focused title, which most 4X games tend to be these days; I don't think the flow of it, that level of micro, really works in a hotseat or concurrent environment. The economics of the game are really cool, but balancing that against other players or modern-quality AIs (the AIs in the original are basically nonfunctional) is a tricky task. I think the focus on making 4X games into multiplayer experiences is kind of suboptimal, but I think that's also what the playerbase seems to want.

Also, the topic itself is kind of messed up for a video game, in that doing it justice is really difficult. Like, in retrospect, while I dearly love the game, Colonization is deeply problematic in the worldview it pushes (while the manual for the game is notable in being pretty up-front about the shitty behaviors of the colonial powers, the game itself plays as straight as "in fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue") and I think, in order to ethically create a similar game, you have to challenge the default assumptions a lot more. And that's a really tough line to walk: on one hand, you do want to make it possible to dispace and wage war on the natives, because that happened, but that comes with its own ethical problems that I don't think a game is very good at exploring (and yet I feel needs to explore in order to treat the historical topic appropriately). The only nod in Col to the general shittiness of European colonial powers in the New World was a score penalty when you burned native villages, and that's not nothing, but it also isn't a lot given the game they were working with.

The best idea I came up with was the synthesis of a fake Wikipedia article after the end of the game, but that's going to be more of a lecture after-the-fact than a conscious exploration of player decisions as they progressed.

It's a really, really hard one to tackle. I'd love to take another crack at it someday.
There are a few of those, but that's cool. One that comes to mind is MeerEdgar. Here's a podcast featuring the founder, Laura Roeder.
https://empireflippers.com/laura/

If I remember correctly she started out as a social media consultant so Edgar was obviously a good fit. How much do you want to make Yala a winner? I think doing so would mean drinking the social media marketing kool aid. If you don't already, you should start by following Gary Vaynerchuk.

You're asking how to market your company in the digital age..considering the company you founded my guess would be you already know the answer.
Your blog is active but I couldn't find a link for it on your home page. Maybe you should consider directing traffic there and hosting it on Medium.

The first thing I noticed while comparing your blog to MeetEdgar's is that theirs seems a lot more targeted.
https://blog.yalabot.com/
http://blog.meetedgar.com/
While it's awesome that you're appealing to the tech crowd, maybe you should center your content around giving social media marketing advice (Gary Vaynerchuk will make this easier). Vaynermedia also has an office at the Transbay WeWork in Sf. I've met the copywriter that works there. I don't think it would hurt to reach out to people like that and ask for advice.

Personally I found out about MeetEdgar from the The TropicalMBA and EmpireFlippers podcasts. I could see you being featured on CodeNewbie. "The Hackathon Startup" - or something - in the theme of how she typically names her episodes.

I'd say you should also try to be featured on Startups For the Rest of Us but after googling I see Laura's already been there. I'd try anyway.

Some random tips on this:

1. When I was listening to Gary Vee's last audiobook I remember him talking about a time a Sony exec or something gave him advice. He said, basically 'don't take a tv interview unless your record is about to come out' (I'm butchering it). Basically, if you decide to content market in the form of being featured on podcasts then wait until you've made some more progress with Kala, when you're excited and rife with ideas.

2. I was watching a Sophia Amoruso interview last night (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4w_v4PCvMg) and she was giving her tips on dealing with media and she basically said to have an assistant send the intro and hinted at using a fake email if you don't really have an assistant.
She's built a successful company and her first book sold 200,000 copies, so take it from her.
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>Book was better but it always is I guess.

One title to prove you wrong: Orlando.
>Most Manhattan buildings are large and have many units. If you rent out your apartment a few times a year, how is this fair to your neighbors, who pay the same rent and never agreed to have a bunch of transient guests in the building?

Do you personally get to vet all your neighbors? No you don't, and the results in pretty much no difference in how things typically play out. If anything, anyone who runs a respectable AirBnB has more information to go on rather than a simple question of will they pay rent.
Yes, but these days, that kind of stuff is only something old or even the poor people might do. You're clearly old, QED! I, however, am a liberty loving rugged individual, so treating me that way is unacceptable.

Can't you just understand: what you're advocating is pretty much legal torture of high-income Americans on a site about Web 2.0 startups?!?!? /s
Selling off my collection of stamps from my home or allowing my child to sell lemonade is also commerce, yet I am allowed to do it.

This is where the original poster went off the rails. Just because there's an exchange of money does not mean these laws do, or should, apply.
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Author here. I didn't mention those things because they were a baseline during my search. Product-market fit, growth potential, and solving a genuine problem are table stakes for me.

The bulleted list was everything to worry about after those foundational goals are met.

I've got an unpublished blog post of 100+ questions to ask before joining a company, and the points you brought up are definitely in there.
People don't want transients living in their apartment buildings for safety and other reasons. Unlike hotels in NYC, we lack the necessary security and also lacking is stringent check-in procedures that hotels have. We have doormen but they are not security guards.
Is anybody aware of a relative security ranking for the vulns / an indication of the maximum level of impact, similar to how OpenSSL grades their alerts before the release?

It's hard to tell for sure if curl is just bundling together several smaller vulns to save people doing 11 individual patch/update cycles, or if the implication is that one or more of the vulns are "critical".
Denver developers have seen the future of parking, and it is no parking at all
DNS was designed so that you can have multiple operators for your authoritative name servers.

Who would have thought adding a spof to your infrastructure would ever be a problem?
> No one will build affordable housing when they can build expensive housing instead.

Its the same problem SF has. I completely agree.
Ah. May make a lot of difference - or would it also partly depend on whether the data (e.g. args sent with the calls) was raster or vector? Think I read recently that some versions of OpenGL do the same or similar. Not an expert here, but interested in the concepts and techniques.
I've had good results with EIFS on commercial buildings. In fact if you look around you'll find most new commercial buildings in USA are EIFS, usually with one or two accent materials like CMUs or steel. I don't really like the look of EIFS on most houses, although it probably works for "southwestern"-style houses that mimic adobe construction, and I'd love to see a medieval half-timbered house using EIFS.

I don't agree with TFA's complaint about what it's calling EIFS "seams". First of all properly-installed EIFS doesn't have seams; in the picture those are simply decorative details. It would have been less work not to include them. If they hadn't been included, the tiny windows would have really menaced the neighborhood with their empty soulless stares. If TFA's favored flavors of "modernism" reject simple details like these, it has to come up with something to replace them, because giant blank walls just doesn't work.

EIFS is not alone in not dealing well with moisture when installed incorrectly. I have seen improperly installed vinyl siding, for instance, result in horrific water damage in a short period of time. If you're going to own the results for any amount of time, you must watch your contractors like a hawk. Reasonably-priced contractors will fuck you every time; the goal is to get fucked in relatively painless fashion. Having to replace entire walls is painful, even if insurance covers it.
Author here.

Nope.

I just genuinely enjoyed my experience with Triplebyte and Gusto enough to write about it.
That was acknowledged in prior response.

Do you have anything substantial to add to this conversation, green account?
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California does a lot to privilege long term homeowners over new buyers, which is the reason that the problem can't be solved simply by building density.

In a very real way, existing, long term homeowners are extracting value from newcomers, as the article points out, in part by pushing more of the tax burden on to new construction, and in part by restriction new construction entirely, which pushes up prices, without significantly increasing the tax burden for existing owners.

Many of these existing homeowners would otherwise been displaced by the boom. I have met many people working in service jobs who live in half million dollar plus houses. The tax scheme makes doing so possible; they are still paying taxes on one tenth of that... That was the intent of prop 13.

People who don't own and live outside of rent control cities have cause to complain, but the situation is set up to benefit existing owners.

The second paragraph of your post is more complex, and I don't have time to address it.
Author here.

I actually built exactly this during some downtime, and you can sign up: https://personal.network
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There is always a gap between someone moving out and the next person moving in; you need time to clean out the older renter and set up for the new. You have to do new paperwork, background check, etc. Every person you rent to has a chance of being a deadbeat; increasing your number of renters per year by 4x increases the deadbeat chance by the same amount.

You basically are multiplying the overhead by 4x.
I think the only thing I'm offended by is MTV denying it was planned. They were trying to generate some controversy and got stupid. Hell, they didn't even do titillation correctly.
After conducting countless interviews at my current small company (< 35 employees) with a structured & data-driven interview process, I'm seeing how acutely of a job seeker's market it is in engineering. Finding quality engineers is difficult, and of the last 5 engineering hires, 3 of them being referred by me was the only way we ended up filling almost all of our hiring needs (I have a very strong developer network through my reputation in the Angular community)...and this is including the fact that we let people work remotely across North America. We would have a lot of prospective candidates cancel interviews due to finding better offers or come to other decisions of their choice, even with the company netting such accolades like being in Fortune's top 50 small companies to work for and top 5 workplaces for flexibility.

While the company isn't as competitive in salaries compared to some other shops in the Bay Area, it is extremely competitive in all other facets including supreme work-life balance, and yet even that hasn't been enough in itself.
There is an accusation in the comment thread of the article that Comodo only disclosed this issue to Mozilla after it was reported publicly by the news media.

> steffen 2016-10-20 08:35:58 PDT

> In fact, the linked incident report refers to the heise article I also linked. So Comodo chose to "publish" this immediately after it was made public by others. That would be quite a coincidence. This raises the question of whether Comodo would've informed Mozilla at all if the media hadn't picked up on it.
There's CVSS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVSS

The utility of such metrics is a topic of debate in the security community.
It's a bit more insidious than preserving the character. Tall residential towers generally require certain amount of parking spaces, which in turn require more expensive structural support for the (usually) underlying garage.

Developers would justify the cost of the parking structure by adding a few residential floors on top of the tower. But that's where height restrictions kick in and price out low-tier and middle-tier apartments, leaving room only for luxury, using SF as an example http://missionlocal.org/2016/10/neighbors-double-down-agains... "Coliver said her team concluded that developers could squeeze a maximum of 13 parking spots in the 12,000 square foot lot— but that would make the building “structurally not feasible,” since it would require removing the columns that support the structure. The cost for the hypothetical scenario? Coliver said $2.25 million — or $180,000 a stall."

So the long-term recipe for opposing any new development is:

1) Require certain minimum parking spaces per square feet built (already done in most cities).

2) Run the numbers for a minimally economically viable structure, calculate the total number of floors it would need with parking garage included.

3) Lobby for regulations that set the maximum height at N-1 floors.

4) Bingo, every tall structure is now economically unfeasible. Saves you a trip to the city hall to protest new development, as most developers come to the conclusion that the numbers don't make sense well before acquiring the land and permits.
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Calling the cops on a noisy neighbor in NYC is pointless unless that neighbor is a business. The cops may pay a visit, but it the person starts making noise again, they can, they will, and the cops will not force the issue. They'll say that's for the landlord/condo association/coop board to sort out. Dealing with those entities can sometimes be extremely difficult, and can take a long time to sort out. A landlord can't evict someone without really good cause, and even then it can take a long time, during which the tenant can keep renting out over and over.
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Yes untrained but more broad to mean people who don't understand the magic, people who are negligent, etc. I kind of got it from Einstein's quote, "Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds."
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This would be great for cross platform zero-config party games. A lot of game genres can get by with surprisingly little bandwidth. Although for a noisy environment like a party you may need to do a little mesh networking in order for everyone in a room to be able to participate.
I see your point but I don't think we have enough data to conclude. SF rents have drastically changed in the last handful of years. Service workers still show up but by forcing them to either pay more for rent in city or forcing them out of the city to cheaper residence their quality of life decreases. Less time with family or less money for family, pick your poison. This is the problem with those service workers in this context.

Someone will always fill the gap though so I suppose my argument doesn't hold much either. If enough service workers leave big cities for cheaper living and shorter commutes these heavily populated areas will have to start paying more to incentivize people to work in downtown areas. So essentially its a supply and demand problem like any other.

Perhaps there is no argument here at all and it just sucks for some people who are less financially well off.
This is disturbing :) Elon is right, AI is evil!
Indeed, the entire ESA budget for this year is €5.2 billion, of which a third is Earth observation satellites.

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/01/ESA_budget_2...
But you have to admit that these "party houses" are the absolute minority. Most offering are very restrictive in this regard.

Anyways, I was being sarcastic by using the tools of a leftie. (declaring the parent to be a xenophobe)
>in SF, collection of any sort of hotel tax (or any attempt at following regulation) on these units is a joke.

This is incorrect. If a user on Airbnb requests a stay that qualifies for a Transient Occupancy Tax, Airbnb collects the tax on the transaction and remits it to the City of San Francisco.
There is no Minimal Viable Product for commercial airliners. Either they fly with as close to 100% reliability as possible or almost no one will buy them. The cost to an airline of even a single crash is way more than they could ever hope to save by buying from some unknown maker. It's also a massively capital-intensive business.

It isn't impossible that new competitors will emerge but it will be a long difficult road.
Wow. I'm really curious to take a look at these once they're disclosed. Considering how extensively curl libraries are used everywhere, this could have pretty big impacts.
Personal referrals are the way to go. I don't think you can really assess a company for pleasant/sane working environment unless you know someone who works there (who you can actually trust to tell you if it's a shitshow).
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