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I've worked for startups for 30+ years. I've seen this industry from before the dotcom era into the cryptocurrency era (and I work in crypto now.)

Here's my perspective-

-- Experience is undervalued by people who don't have it. It is critical for a startup. You don't all have to be experienced, but get someone who has experience. One of the real killers of startups is bad management, and one of the causes of bad management is management by instinct, especially terrible is "type a" CEOs (to pick a stereotype for succinctness sake only) whose management history was being president of a frat in college, telling software engineers how to build product, but he knows nothing about software.

-- Experience as an executive who didn't start out as an individual contributor is not experience. If you cannot do your subordinates jobs, you cannot manage them effectively, unless you have a subordinate who can do the jobs (like a lead) who you manage.

-- Your CEO needs to be proficient in the unique value of the company. EG: If you are a sales organization you need to have a CEO who is a proficient sales person. Apple needed a proficient CEO when it was an engineering / product organization (and Steve Jobs was that- not as a good an engineer as Woz but he knew electronics and software development) ... but now Tim Cook is a proficient supply chain master and that's what Apple needs to thrive now. As a startup your CEO needs to be able to build the product. Or he will make bad decisions.

-- Founders give investors way too much power. They seem to think that investors are an old boys club that decides who wins and loses. In the valley for BS startups that's maybe true- you can get BS money until you make it. But if you're not a Golden Child then you need to get traction and revenue, and you always, always, want to be in the drivers seat for investment. You never want to need it.

I've seen so many VC and even lately angel deals with terrible terms that I'm convinced the reason being a founder is not as remunerative as it should be is founders signing bad deals desperate to keep the company going.

Always keep your burn rate low.

When I was making minimum wage in college I was ecstatic because I could afford to go see a movie in the theater every week. That was "luxury" for me. As my income grew, I kept my definition of "luxury" well below my income. This produced savings. Those savings helped greatly in lean times.

Run your business that way. You may be able to grow to 100 people now, but don't, grow to 70 or whatever, so you have more cushion.

If your hiring is ahead of your traction you're probably not hiring the right people anyway.
Zoning is a self-inflicted problem. Land? Hong Kong hosts a population of 7.3 million in an area 427 square miles. The Bay Area spreads a population of 7.7 million over 6,966 square miles. The Bay Area has room for a fifteen-fold increase in population. All it has to do is remove the zoning straitjacket.
That's what progressive taxation is all about - low tax rates for low income, high rates for high income.
Compared to the original Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales which included such kid-friendly topics as child abuse, incest, murder, and cannibalism this doesn't sound too bad.
In our country we have a law that states a product has to live up to it's reasonably expected life time. So while a manufacturer might give it a warranty and the retailer might give it some special warranty, ultimately, the retailer (which in some cases is the manufacturer if you buy directly) is responsible no matter what. That doesn't go for consumables or software, or if you break it yourself obviously, but a phone or computer for example is of course expected to work for at least 4 or 5 years or so. So if it breaks, you are entitled to support and/or repairs, which also has a limitation on any administrative fees that might apply. It pretty much applies to everything, from cars to washing machines to faucets to electric toothbrushes.
A couch, a bedframe, a mattress, maybe a dresser, and end tables?
PubNub is more of an end-to-end system. Clients knowingly connect to PubNub, and they can even publish messages to each other.

Fanout is primarily server-side tech. Clients don't necessarily have to know they are connecting to a Fanout-powered service, and only the server publishes messages.

Integrating with Fanout is a little more involved than PubNub, due to the need to set up an origin server, but the advantage is you own your API contract and avoid any lock-in. This can be particularly useful if your API is public.
Real estate prices aren't rising everywhere. The problem is that our economy is increasingly based on knowledge workers, who benefit from clustering together in densely-populated areas with certain cultural amenities, jobs, and opportunities to meet people and share knowledge. That drives a great disparity in both housing costs and opportunities by region.
The US is the only relevant example here. We're talking about the American Red Cross operating in a US territory. I'm sure folks from other countries do offer to help, but where do you think most of the volunteers for the American Red Cross helping in a US territory are going to come from?
That is an interesting anecdote, delivered with lots of confidence. However, despite the just-so manner you delivered it, I don't see a compelling argument. For starters, the CPI isn't calculated in an opaque manner; it's explained here: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf.

The costs that are increasing for most Americans are housing, healthcare, and education costs. Yet over 40% of American households own their primary residence. Then you can factor in the lack of rent growth away from urban centers, and you see that this metric isn't as pronounced when it comes to the median American. The costs of many goods are falling. Commodity prices are low despite the fact there is a healthy demand for them. It's strange that you're calling out toilet paper. Its price has fallen [1].

The directors of the Federal Reserve, if they had some secret interest in tricking everyone, wouldn't be flatly admitting they consider why inflation isn't hitting targets a "mystery." [2]

The unemployment numbers being released should be viewed with skepticism, and there are plenty of good articles explaining why the main unemployment rate should be viewed in context with the other unemployment metrics, such as U6. (The idea is that there are many people who want to work who aren't counted in the main unemployment statistic.)

Furthermore, certain localities are experiencing extremely high price increases in housing, such as the Bay Area. Anyone in such a locality is going to feel the squeeze. The problem is that these statistics represent the nation, not individual localities.

1. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf, page 12; table 2: Household paper products.

2. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-26/yellen-kn...
I think it's actually pretty irresponsible to recommend them to other people.

I disagree. It's the old freedom vs. security/safety argument. I have no qualms about recommending motorcycles or even just older and simpler cars, because safety is not the only factor and a lot of the time it's used as an argument to take away freedom. You can be perfectly safe by spending your entire life locked away in a jail cell... and you'll still die.
wordpress.com has a free tier, but not everything.

https://wordpress.com/pricing/

Same thing here.
But by that restriction municipalities wouldn't be able to do any business with corporations because that would benefit the corporations.

This isn't as obvious as you'd like to make it.
Most of the things I've added are for logging and orchestration. The most important unlock for us was the ability for us to enable chaining of Lambdas that worked seamlessly with our orchestration. So Orchestrator kicks off 25 lambdas (A) that are reading files off S3. Each Lambda A reads 100 lines of that file and invokes a Lambda B to parse it. Lambda B parses and filters each line in its batch and sends it to Lambda C to be persisted or Lambda D if it needs to be discarded.

We end up with hundreds or thousands of Lambda invocations and the orchestrator is aware of all of them. If there's a failure in any lambda, I can stop the entire job and retry from scratch. The orchestrator knows exactly when the job is done so I can easily chain it together with some other non-Lambda job in my system.

Been working fine for us for ~200k invocations and 8k CPU minutes per day baseline with the ability to scale up to 10x that just by running more stuff. Our nightly job processes about 50gb of data in 3 min.
Still no Hawaii location...

They could double or triple their prices, and they'd still be much cheaper than the competition. :-(
Wouldn't that be insanely expensive compared to off the shelf solutions and result in a hodge-podge of insecure, half baked solutions?
Ignorant is the correct word, not stupid.
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The trick is deciding, period. The key is recognising that when she says "But restaurant B has X", she is not really suggesting that you go to B. She is offering you a chance to show that you have thought it through, that you have mastery over the situation, or at the very least are prepared to stand up for your opinions. When you shrug your shoulders and immediately defer to her, it's upsetting; it makes her feel as if you believe that she is more competent than you, or that her opinions are worth more.

The correct response to "But restaurant B has X" is "Perhaps, but I'm in the mood for A today." After all, she asked you in the first place. Don't be a pushover.
Theano development to be discontinued after version 1.0
There is a huge variety of minerals that are perfectly fine to leave in drinking water.

You're right that it's regulated to be safe to drink, but safety has nothing to do with taste.
Come for the lower expense ratios, stay for the focus on running low cost indexes mutual funds, as opposed to experimenting with cryptocurrencies.
I was speaking in terms of percentages. In absolute terms, it's almost a meaningless comparison because the highest quintile will almost always experience a larger dollar fluctuation.
mcedit, the editor of the infamous Norton--err, Midnight Commander, was my best friend back in the good old days of writing php via ssh directly on the server of our university's LUG. It even supports block editing!

But please, instead of screaming upon being hit with that bright blue background, run mc, press F9, go to General > Appearance and select the dark or darkfar theme :) (and F10 to save config and exit)

Having said that, it breaks my heart a little to see nano bashed like that. (those of you who upvoted parent, I'm looking at you too!)

nano is 1) designed to be the best editor for slow connections, 2) Its source code is also quite easy to instrument. Eg. if you need a nano that is able to edit just a single file, someone familiar with application programming in C on linux can do it in no time.
Here are more depressing statistics:

https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/funding-d...

tl;dr: States have been cutting back on funding public education even as it's gotten much more expensive every year.
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Please list which housing developments have destroyed existing housing stock. Here's the catch, you can't because all of it in the past 5 years has been on existing commercial property (gas stations, commercial businesses), so your central argument that market rate housing is taking land from income-controlled subsidized housing doesn't hold.

Side note:
>woman who has staked her career on a pro-housing political platform announces that market-rate redevelopment is good for everyone.

What's the point of this statement? Do you equally scoff at groups that delay housing construction to increase subsidized housing units and ludicrous when they advocate that slowing down housing construction benefits certain groups?
Checkout https://github.com/karan/Projects
In both Oakland and SF, there's been significant resistance to projects that propose to replace things that are not housing at all with things that are. If memory serves, the "Monster in the Mission" was proposed for an empty lot. I saw significant resistance to putting a tower in a literal hole in the ground at MacArthut BART.

In SF, the resistance often seems centered on the idea that however much subsidized housing the developer proposes isn't enough for the interest groups fighting it. Often the push is for 100% subsidized, plus assorted "community benefit" donations to non-profits.
>The show is dignified and wholesome.

really? I always found it to be quite creepy. The constant obsession with being a "really useful" engine. The shaming of engines who don't toe the line. Victimisation of engines who misbehave. The show makes me strangely uncomfortable for some reason.
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Spongebob is also pretty dignified and wholesome, so try to make your rant a little less "get off my lawn". You don't need to try to drag something else down to build your preferred show up.
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What phone are you using currently?
No the wealthy don't spend money - that's the problem. They take the money and move it offshore or into a tax shelter and it gets invested and sits.

Compare to someone who's poor - they spend most of their take-home pay on daily needs that spur the economy.

Cutting taxes for the rich only gives them more money - trickle-down theory has been proven to not work, and in fact the biggest net return for governments is to simply hand out cash (qualified as welfare/food stamps or unqualified like universal income) - that gets the government like 1.7x the amount handed out in tax receipts inbound as the cash passes through the economy.
> The researchers [examining the health impact from the 2.6 million affected cars sold in Germany] estimate that 1,200 people in Europe will die early, each losing as much as a decade of their life [edited for brevity]

I have no doubt that the extra pollution is doing health damage. I strongly want more air pollution regulation. I don't trust Volkswagen, and I had one of the super-polluter TDIs, and sold it back to VW.

But this claim of 1,200 premature deaths by up to a decade seems goofy. If VW's 2.6M cars in Germany alone were taking a decade off anyone's life, it seems like we'd all be dead already. The world has over a billion polluting motor vehicles, and we're not even talking about airplanes, fires, factories, natural sources of NOx, or energy production. Car emissions are a minority of the total.

For sure, lots of people are getting sick from pollution in Europe and globally, but I wish the authors had stuck with person-years of life rather than try to state it as a specific number of people affected. Whatever actually happens, assuming it was even possible to pinpoint VW, which it's not, the probability that number of people affected in Europe is near 1,200 is almost zero. So, I guess at least consider calling it what it is: someone's estimate.
What's wrong with experimenting with cryptocurrencies? It's not like they're taking away resources from their main business to blow on bitcoins.

(Though Vanguard is probably still a better choice regardless.)
Almost all the content we've got is representative of "corporate-totalitarian dystopia", because we live in a corporate-totalitarian dystopia. Thomas the Tank Engine isn't some special case.
> fifteen-fold increase in population

That's a fifteen fold increase in garbage. Fifteen fold increase in the number of toilets that flush shit. Probably close to fifteen fold increase in cars; people can't live without those even if the density goes up.

I basically support density if the population remains constant. If we take a sprawled city of two million and make those people cluster together in a region that is 10% of the original area, that is fantastic! We can use the 90% of the area for parks and farmland. Everyone living closer together creates various efficiencies. Cheaper commuting, distribution of goods, HVAC.
I believe this is not meant to replace Ansible, but work like an "engine" that Ansible and other similar tools can run under the hood. This is quite low level code even for an everyday Python developer.
And what happens to engines that are not "really useful"?

I think we all know.
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> nor should they be

lmao get over yourself
Instead of nano what I want is something like microsoft edit. Complete with all the CUA style shortcuts (alt-f for file menu, ctrl-s saves, ctrl-arrow keys for moving, shift arrow keys for highlighting).

Yes, this might be nonstandard for textmode in unix, but it will match all my GUI apps much better - and like most people I use a mix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSq59QmdmC8
I had a similar experience, with my iPhone 6 wifi/bluetooth/GPS antenna. Started seeing degraded connectivity and Googled around till I had it narrowed down to that antenna. Was nervous about ripping it apart so first took it to the Apple store with my diagnosis - they said the only choice was to buy a new phone.

So, I borrowed my buddy's pentalobe driver set and about an hour later had pulled the logic board out, replaced the antenna, and buttoned it all back up. That's been about a year ago and it's still working perfectly. And the new antenna was something like $6 on Amazon...
> If you replaced every low-income unit in SF with twice as many market-rate apartments tomorrow, you would raise those individuals’ rent to some value near market rate.

Assume there are 100,000 rental units in SF and 50,000 of them are low-income units. If overnight you replaced those with 100,000 units that will float to market rates, you are correct that the displaced individuals would now have no units available that are significantly below market rate. However, the market rate will not be the same as what it was previously. It will go down based on a 50% increase in supply. From an economic standpoint, the same thing should happen regardless of what percentage of low-income housing is being replaced. Whether or not this goes down to the artificial price they have in low-income housing depends on how much more supply is being introduced into the market.

> there are hard floors on new construction rent.

If you are saying that the price set for "affordable" housing is so low that new construction couldn't even break even at that price, then there is a whole different set of problems involved in addition to supply and demand.
BuzzFeed's journalism and BuzzFeed's listicle content are entirely different things.
It's better than pretending Javascript is a "bytecode for the web," and transpiling to that. It's better than Flash or Java applets. If we want to consider the long-term archiving of software and keeping it runnable through the web (and I think we really really should consider that), we need something better than what we have, and WebAssembly seems like a step in the right direction.
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He's go to be the most annoying children's show character ever. That's saying a lot, when you consider just how many kids characters have zero redeeming qualities.

He whines, about just about everything, everywhere. Relentlessly. https://youtu.be/cGo60pp_9IM?t=6m30s
It got really annoying when my wife and I watched it with some of my nieces (and saw how the show influenced their behaviour) that when we had kids of our own we agreed that we'd never allow them to watch Caillou.
Subsidized is an accurate description of the financial arrangement surrounding the unit in a way that "affordable" is not. Why not use it?

I know, I know. Politics, right?
You can run the simulation yourself, but the bottom line is if the total number of houses grows, more people get housed in all income groups. That is a tremendously powerful message for city supervisors. They only have to look at one thing "After this change will there be more or fewer houses?" if the answer is 'more' then the change will be positive for people trying to find housing, if it is 'less' then the change will be negative. A very simple and objective proposition.

Say someone proposes to demolish a 100 unit SRO hotel in the Mission and replace with with a high rise luxury condo building with 250 market rate units. There will be a big protest about how gentrification is pushing the people out of their own neighborhood and where will the people in those 100 SRO units move to? etc etc etc.

What this tells you is that after adding an additional 150 houses all income groups will have more housing opportunities period. That might seem non-intuitive but the model works.
Is there any way to reclaim the resources in a "used up" battery to reintroduce them to the production chain?
> here are the amount of calories that some of these foods provide for $1

The glycemic index shows that calories are worth little if they blow your blood sugar through the roof and then send it crashing as flour-derived food stuffs usually do. Roots and tubers contain more complex carbohydrates and have a lower GI, providing energy over a longer period.

That said I agree with the spoilage part - grains do last longer before spoiling.

> The cited expert is also wrong, if I'm not mistaken, about the lack of civilizations born of on a staple other than cereal grains. The New World civilizations (Aztec, Inca, Mayas) did not have access to cereal grains. Their primary staples were potatoes (South America) and corn (Central America).

The author wasn't talking about civilisations, they specifically mentioned states, which I guess could be translated as empire or collection of civilisations taxed by a central authority. That said I have no idea whether their point was correct - I just thought it was interesting.
Whoo boy. If you aren't the owner, expect them to fire you and replace your paycheck with the tiny bit that you managed to mine.
Alternate headline: Levandowski started a tax shelter non-profit in 2015.
The things you learn when you grow up haha. I remember to have watched Caillou when I was a kid but obviously I never noticed Caillou behaving badly.
It doesn't make as much sense for our imminent future state, when robots do all our jobs and we sit around all day, but I like the distinctive "really useful engine" complement.

Obedience, diligence, and selflessness are admirable qualities. All kids and adults should strive to be really useful, in the best sense of the phrase. There's far too much narcissism in the world.
The politics in some parts of SF favor people whose response to the simulations will tend to be "That's nice, but what if all of those units were permanently subsidized?"
My brother’s theory on this show (which my nephew LOVES) is that it’s coal industry propaganda. The worst train is the Diesel, etc.
"How Mitogen Works" is fantastic reading - http://mitogen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howitworks.html - an unbelievable collection of devious hacks.
> Better known as Sir Topham Hatt since the 1950s.

Seemingly only in the US ("the Fat Controller is always referred to by his real name, "Sir Topham Hatt" in the US"[0]). I was born in 1990 (UK), and as I recall he was almost always refered to as "The Fat Controller".

[0] http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Sir_Topham_Hatt#Trivia
That's a pretty funny answer.
>The JavaScript hipsters would probably turn their nose up at it, but being purely objective I found it to be a good solution.

I'd rethink the assumption that you're purely objective and other people are not.