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>> Short-term capital gains are not heavily taxed, for example.

This is not correct, at least in the USA:

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

"Short-term capital gains are taxed at the investor's ordinary income tax rate and are defined as investments held for a year or less before being sold. Long-term capital gains, on dispositions of assets held for more than one year, are taxed at a lower rate."
Also, trying to exclude politics often plays out as the majority promulgating their own "neutral" political positions and traditions unchallenged. It's much harder to create a truly apolitical space than it is to just get people with grievances to shut up or leave.
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That's highly subjective. I don't, for example.
What's your point? Are you suggesting that Detroit Water is some how to blame?
I tried standing, but discovered I have to walk. When standing my feet start to hurt within 5-10 minutes, and it gets unbearable after 20.

Lots of people I know use them though, and report loving them. Most people have a thick mat to stand on, and say they shift their weight a lot. Some of them don't end up standing for long periods because they're in and out of their office so much.

It's also a lot less expensive and lot less bulky to try a standing desk setup than a treadmill, so either way I'd recommend standing first. You can even use a bunch of boxes to prop up your keyboard & monitor -- or bricks under the desk legs -- before you invest in any other equipment.
A lot of people put far too much faith in algorithms, and assume that because it's all math, it's both correct and unbiased.

There are so many, many ways to lie with numbers, and once money and power depend on the outcome of the algorithms, you can never trust that people won't design them to produce the outcomes they want. I suspect the problem here was less 'didn't understand geography' and more 'didn't give a shit about the truth'
This is an interesting read, but just seems like an obvious problem with no obvious solution other than "use the right boundaries for your problem space".

He needed geographic search boundaries that matched where the suspect water was being delivered. It so happens in Flint's case that it matches city boundaries. I suspect that's not the case everywhere...that is water delivery in some places might extend beyond city boundaries. Or perhaps some cities are split, and have more than one water source.

So the overall lesson here doesn't have much to do with zip codes, it has to do with searching the right boundaries. City boundaries wouldn't have been appropriate to search for mosquito borne issues. So that's not a good default either.
Does not address what happened in practice with The DAO: all promises of immutability were broken as soon as the whales were in danger of losing money.
If you changed the roles and cast women/blacks/jews as the oppressors I suspect the condemnation would be absolute. Why is it ok to bash men?
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An authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC,ABAC
Larry Ellison didn't invent this, terminals and "thin computing" have been around for a long time, it's just that browsers are now the best way to interface rich interfaces.

The origins of VNC are an AT&T project where people would wear RFC tags, walk up to any workstation and have their session. This was long before Ellison was talking about Network Computers. There is also John Gage from Sun's motto, "the network is the computer."
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Seems similar to Angel One episode from star trek, but with the genders reversed. It also include the concept of one gender being designated for reproductive use which the dominating gender exclusively decide over, and the idea of executing those individuals that disagree. The only thing it didn't have was the homophobic aspects.
For decades I wanted to create a single malt whisky distillery. Luckily I never quit my job to do it. Now that I am over 50 and realize I would be almost 70 before having my first 18 yr old barrel I see that it is much MUCH cheaper to just buy and drink any bottle of whisky I want.
In general, business to business (B2B) open source can be viable. Perhaps the oldest company is Redhat - it is certainly the most widely known. For SaaS, there are a number of companies in B2B with open source: Docker, Discourse, Wordpress, MongoDB...and many others. So maybe a viable business can be built.

My random internet advice:

1. Listen to your customers. They say they want hosting. Ask for money to see if they really want it. Business's charge money. Viable businesses seek profits and do not rationalize charging less.

2. Read and listen to Patrick "patio11" Mackenzie's back catalog of blogs and podcasts about building SaaS services. His advice is better than mine (the best of mine is mostly parroting him).

3. In terms of investors, read Graham's essays. I'm not saying apply to YC. I am saying that they provide a take on startup landscape and founder friendly investment.

4. Pricing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639712

Good luck.
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Publicity is one of the ways to aware your end audience about the launch of a new app. Releasing a press release can additionally help exceptionally well in this approach. Users will get to know about the launch through an officially framed business letter.
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Back before Facebook, people were using MySpace, and relatively few of my non-techie friends were using LiveJournal and Xanga to create their own independent blogs, though I imagine today's equivalent is Tumblr. Neither of those are particularly "independent". I don't think a lot of normal people would've gotten into Wordpress or Blogger, though AIM was quite popular at the time.
The question is why you need a mailing list, and opt-in collection for a "request report" -> "get report" process.
I don't know why you were downvoted, this is a good question.

Yes. The terms used in BGP are typically Router Information Base (RIB) and Forwarding Information Base (FIB). Generally speaking the FIB is stored in some type of memory that has a fixed lookup time and does not involve a general purpose CPU.
This is a very old (I think > 15 years ago) competition, the results say nothing about the situation today, both language have changed a lot.

It was a PR stunt by the Synopsys guys who a that time wanted to kill VHDL. The VHDL guys had to work with slow & broken VHDL simulators. The the problem was devised by verilog enthusiasts. All VHDL engineers who showed up (in much smaller numbers than verilog engineers) felt like they they didn't have a fair chance.
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Yoga can be great.

Ditto qigong, tai chi, pilates, isometric exercises, physical therapy. I've even done goofy looking breathing exercises that rebalance your diaphragm.

I also know that yoga, chiro, gyms hurts people. Gonzo attitude, ignorance, and bad instruction.

The trick is to find the therapists and teachers who understand the body, your body, and help you mend. Everyone needs something a little different.

Source: I had a lumbar fusion and some other stuff. I've spent a lot of time just remaining functional, managing pain.

Advice: By 30, everyone should be hitting the gym. By 40, everyone should get regular PT tune ups; you'll be surprised how much function you (unknowingly) lost. Like now I can stand on one foot and put on the other shoe, two years ago I couldn't do that.
These kinds of narratives are so appealing, but they are so very difficult to justify.

Harvard has monumental cachet, and 2008 is still an interesting topic. So it makes for a super interesting argument to suggest that Harvard is somehow responsible for 2008. But come on. This is simplistic, to say the very least.

This kind of narrative reminds me of when people "explain" why Apple under Steve Jobs was so successful. It's safe to theorize in that case because we can't rerun history and do experiments. 2008 is the same way.
> Says all there needs to be said, about his ability to have a real conversation on his own platform.

I'm going with "people on Facebook think he needs to go out on a 'listening tour' so he did".
I have some advice on how to keep Blockchain the hell out of your company!

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/business-bafflegab-but-...

Ask the following six questions:

* Are they confusing “might” and “is”? (Almost all business blockchain claims are full of “might” and salespeople talking about “the possibilities.”)

* Do they have present-day working blockchains that do every one of the things they’ve claimed you can get from blockchains? If not, which ones are missing? Will they scale to the size of your data?

* How do they fix human error in their “immutable” blockchain or smart contracts?

* If this is for working with people you trust less than the people you deal with now, how are they assuring the security of the chain – what’s their security threat model? (Get your system administrator along to ask pointed questions.)

* If it’s for working with people you can already trust to that degree, why are you bothering with a blockchain?

* What does this get you that a centralised database can’t?
They actually had a drama, Playmakers. It was axed in the wake of the NFL Monday Night Football deal.
You can do the calculations, certainly. Here's conservation of energy: http://madhadron.com/posts/2009-04-27-conservation-of-energy...

Does that explain Noether's theorem? Not in an abstract setting. And for high school students? I don't know. The calculations require a fairly solid grasp of calculus.
Do these benefits translate to other outdoor activities? Jogging, cycling, etc.?

I seem to achieve this sort of mental clarity when I'm on an open-ended recovery ride. Training days, however, are probably too regimented and my focus is solely on hitting and/or exceeding the targets set by my coach.
http://www.kswichit.com/6502/6502.html (previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11972362 )
Yeah, any time you have a nested function you raise the question of "what can this close over?" Sometimes the answer is "nothing", and that's not a closure... but it's still an answer to the question so it makes some sense to talk about it in the same breath.
Following your passion can also make you blind to your mistakes. I know a guy who failed at an Irish pub. Guy was totally blind to all his mistakes that where extremely obvious to both me and (at least some of) his staff. He was too busy living the dream of meeting patrons, hosting his friends, and singing for strangers to really see where he was going wrong from the business perspective. His business practices were just all over the place - no actual concrete plans. He seemed to have a "fun first, business second" attitude. When he closed he blamed it on "the market," guess he didn't notice that every other place on the same street was busier than ever.
Free speech includes stupid ideas.
Yea it's a weird thing for anyone who was born from 1980-1990.

The pace of change has been too great for the ends of the spectra to have similar life experiences.

If you were born in 1980 you probably didn't have a home computer before you were a teenager. If you were born in 1990 you more than likely did.

Born in 1980 in the US? Sept 11 and the following 15 years of wars probably had a major impact on your job. Born in 1990? You probably only marginally remember 9/11.

Someone born in 1980 probably got wiped out in the 2008 recession. Someone from 1990 just started college.

Etc... So the groups are way too different to fall into the same category.
Copenhagenism is falsifiable. It says that "large" things are classical and can't be put in superpositions. "Large" isn't well defined, but it includes at least humans. So, put a human in a superposition, and you've falsified it.
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Detroit offered a reasonable long term contract before Flint started using the river water.

http://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2016/01/25/new-...
> assumes everyone cares if the cheap tasty food is actually chicken

Doesn't need to be everyone who cares Just someone with an allergy or a moral preference to not eat dog.

> without the government, there would be a dangerous outbreak of cholera

All but the least effective governments have demonstrated an ability to stop cholera. Places with grossly ineffective government and poor education has shown a propensity to have cholera, look at Haiti.

I think these are both good. But if we want another example. There was a Chinese restaurant in Council Bluffs Iowa, a suburb of Omaha Nebraska (The city I am in now) that was serving stray cats. The owner thought it was a cheap alternative to chicken. The FDA shut them down, because stray cats don't get investigated for parasites, disease or poison.

In general it never gets this far because the FDA sets an absolute bottom line and most food businesses strive to be better than as can easy be seen with the whole organic and free range trend recently. But there will always be those trying to drive costs down at the expense of quality and safety.

EDIT - I just realized I skipped examples of value governments can add to business. How about seat belt fabric. Memory Foam, Rocket engine designs and satelite imagining for maps. That is just NASA. NOAA does a huge amount for mariners of all stripes. The SBA gives out loans. There are so many examples.
Per my company policy, if I eat my desk, that time counts toward hours worked, else I have to take a full hour off which doesn't count toward the standard eight hour day. So if I want that extra hour at home with my kid, I'm eating at my desk.
On the topic of small beginnings, does anyone know if PG still reads HN? I recall when I first joined the site which, wow, was a long time ago, it seemed like he was a lot more active on it.
>>> I want a leader who's transparent, open - honest.

You're not gonna find that in the Holywood drama movie of said leader.
It says you must make the source available if you distribute the output of the program itself over a network, e.g. in the case of an open source web application.

Don't you confuse "distribute" and "let users interact with" now?

IIRC AGPL doesn't make a distinction about whether i send the bytes of the program over the network (distribute the program) or let a user send input and receive output to/from it (interact with the program).
That's a very content-light article on blindsight.

Perhaps you'd prefer the [wikipedia article][0]. Or perhaps you'd prefer the [Peter Watts novel][1]?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight

[1]: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
This is an important point. I would personally allow it, because I believe the fundamental premise to be true. In my experience, too much time in the "standard work day" is wasted on looking like you're working, at all levels of the hierarchy of most businesses.

OTOH, I would demand some sort of measurable feedback and/or self evaluation from employees to determine which schedule works best for them.

Maybe that's just too much overhead for a larger team, though. Perhaps at a certain point in size, the productivity gains VS overhead of "managing" more flexible schedules, become minimal.
> I can probably safely say that the decline of ESPN first started with the rise of well-produced TV shows on HBO, AMC, Netflix, etc.

You are remarkably wrong here. In fact, live sports has come to completely dominate TV over the last 20 years. 9 of the top 10 most watched TV shows in 2016 was a sporting event:

http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2016/tops-of-2016...

I would argue the opposite: that "prestige" TV shows are a response to live sports by networks that don't have NFL or NBA rights.
The solution in the article was a simple scatterplot of the data points.

There's no need to use any boundaries when just examining the data. The basically unbelievable thing that happened is that they only looked at one summary of the data.
Data from Star Trek likely nails it every single time.
I have. Facebook became big just around the time I graduated from college. I don't know how it was for people older than me, or the kids afterward, but Facebook let us make the kind of "weak" connections that became strong. I'm talking about high school classmates whom in past generations, would have only re-connected by staying in the same town, or at the 10th-year reunion. During FB's initial worldwide rollout, it was exciting to just "friend" everyone whom you had an acquaintance, because it wasn't yet taboo or uncool to do so. Some of my best friends today are people who I never talked to at all in high school, or even strongly disliked. When Facebook reconnected us all as post-college adults, I realized it was dumb to let past high school cliqueyness get in the way of a good friendship.

Sure, ideally this gets worked out in heartfelt conversations in person. But the thing is that you don't prioritize those kinds of past relationships, because the friction of reconnecting is substantial. Facebook lowered that connection cost, while also making it easier to communicate with close friends.
A link posted in that thread looks pretty interesting. Automated phone bots as a service.

http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/
I've noticed real rye bread is sold under monickers like 'jewish rye' or 'chicago deli rye' - of course theres full seeded rye as well. But i agree, as more people try to eat healthier, the 'healthier' sections of the stores have started seeming a whole lot less healthy
They self heal, slowly, as long as they can. In order for them to self heal, they have to stop getting squished at all, for long periods of time.

I never knew the importance of core exercise until I squished some discs and experienced pinched nerves. Core exercises build up the muscles around the discs and can help prevent them from getting squished. But you have to also find out which activity is squishing them, and stop that too. Exercise alone won't do it.

Pain is the first part of what happens. Pain nerves run along the outside of the spinal column. Motor control nerves run inside the spinal column, so the second part is the pain goes away and your muscles stop working properly. That's the really scary part. Even though the pain can be bad, as long as you feel pain, you're closer to healing than after the pain goes away and you develop a funny walk or can't do pushups anymore.
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Just out of curiosity, where did you receive your MBA & what electives did you take that you found the most value from in regards to starting and growing your service business?
>Because people always act within their own self interest for the most part.

That's not really true. People are, roughly speaking, reinforcement learners. This means that, yes, they respond to rewards by seeking further such rewards, but there are multiple kinds of reward. Financial profit is only one of those, and it actually has a declining marginal happiness once personal income goes over a certain level.

Other major rewards for real humans include being useful to other people, acting with personal autonomy, and exercising mastery (or learning towards mastery) in a domain of skill.

When we talk about economic value, what we really care about is the intersection: good work is useful to others (meets the customer's needs), and it lets the worker autonomously exercise mastery over a skillset (or otherwise, save their energy for domains in which they can do so), and it's profitable or self-sufficient with respect to resources. That's the psychologically real self-interest of the person doing the work, combined with the psychologically real self-interest of the person who needs the work done.

When you start disregarding working conditions and customer needs in the process of maximizing profit, your profit-maximization system has become useless for human purposes.
Because objects are supposed to hide their internal state and the actions you do with them are heavily dependent on that state. This means that an object must have an identity to be sure you're working with the right object.

If you don't have identity it means that you must know yourself what state you're working with. This defeats the definition of objects that says that their state is hidden.
At a more general level, your mailing address indicates how to deliver your mail; it does not indicate what city, if any, the delivery address is in. Neither does your zip code (as illustrated in the article), your phone number area code, or phone number prefix. All of these things indicate the location of the mail or phone facility that services the delivery address -- or that once did, before facility consolidation or expansion.

A related phenomenon is that different agencies have different boundaries, despite often sharing the same geographic name. Cities, water districts, sanitary districts, school districts, community college districts, counties, congressional districts, etc each have their own boundaries, and they are usually not aligned.
Yes, why not. Do it. Here are some suggestions:

1. Put up a landing page asap explaining what commento does. Add 2 Call-to-Action buttons on it. One for "Download Free" which should take them to the github page. Second for "Host it for me" where take them to a signup page and get their credit card but offer a FREE trial for 7-30 days (you can experiment with this). Regardless of whether self hosted or saas, collect email address from everyone.

2. Show a simple table on the landing page explaining the difference between self hosted and SAAS versions including feature differences. Remember that there will be 2 types of audience that you are targeting. One: developers who don't mind self hosting vs the second: non technical bloggers etc who just want a simple commenting system.

3. Have a subscribe form somewhere that is not too intrusive. Manage your email list using this but don't spam please.

4. Start writing blog posts on topics related to the pain points with comments including competitor's horror stories. Don't directly attack them but show why you are better.

5. Go on twitter and type "disqus sucks" or "I hate disqus" etc. From the results, talk to those people and ask them if they are willing to try your free service.

6. Google "disqus alternatives" and visit the top 10 articles that show up. See if there are any discussions on those articles that you can leverage. Find some adopters from there as well.

7. Listen to your users carefully. But don't worry about haters. Ignore them. Only focus on constructive criticism and feedback.

8. Get product hunted if you can (I never really cared about this but heard this can give you a temporary traffic spike)

Don't forget. You built something cool. But to turn it into a SAAS, you will have to do a lot more including the steps I mentioned to turn it into something sustainable and worth. You built it but they won't come unless you make an effort.
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Greater than 3mg caffiene per kg of body weight PER DAY can increase anxiety.