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His example of a company that's built from a toy is Facebook. His example of companies that aren't are all enterprise.

A simpler explanation of the value of a toy is just that being "fun" matters much more for consumer products.
Google enters the streaming game service?
To be completely honest, this kind of counter-argument (not that you are advocating against HTTPS, but bear with we) always reads to me like "people forget passwords, and don't like having to type usernames, so we just rely on the honor system".

Yes, security has downsides, but in my opinion those downsides are well worth it for the benefits.
The EU already has timezone borders, grumbles the Portuguese.
Man, that's a blast from the past. I don't know when YouTube took over as my primary music player, but this makes me miss the good old mp3 days.

Remember when 192kbps sounded so much better than the typical 128kbps tracks? Now 320kbps is just assumed. Yay! for 4G.
I don't think working remote has proven itself fully. Otherwise everyone would be doing it.

> They're probably focused on the fact that productivity is still higher in co-located settings and the best talent pools are in major metro areas.

Exactly this.
"Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".
> Nah, I was just wrong about gamedev.

Sorry, you were pretty much wrong in every claim. None of the options you've mentioned are actually stable with the exception of C#, which you already acknowledged that were wrong to mention.
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> Standard Oil and US Steel postdated the invention of steel and steam engines by centuries.

The first component of what was to become US Steel opened in 1857, only 2 years after the invention of the Bessemer process that made it practical to produce steel in industrial quantities.
wow i can't imagine the awesomeness of that footage...
> What is the future tech entrepreneur's lemonade stand?

Likely Wordpress or Wix... as unfortunate as that is the more interesting question is what form the lemonade will take.
They're gating HTTP/2 (and other new features) to HTTPS.

It "unlocks" them in the sense that the browser vendors don't lock the features on HTTPS like they do on HTTP. :P
I've lived my whole life in Texas and never assigned cardinal directions to out or over. Up and down, sure, but that seems fairly universal.

No one in checking with, regardless of Texas hometown or age had any idea this was a thing, either, and that's hitting people up to 60 years old and from Austin, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.

Maybe it's a rural Texas thing?
Required maintenance for a simple, static https site: Install certbot, press enter a few times, forget about it.

"keep a cron job running" sounds like it you're running the cron job by hand.

>Even the top 100 sites are only at 80% https by default, and they do it for a living!

That's entirely separate from your "simple, static site" example and yes, rolling any sort of large change out to a big site is a big deal, and if there isn't business motivation to do it it likely wont happen. Google is providing everyone a business motivation by threatening to point out to users that insecure sites are insecure.
>The real answer is for cities to be built up so much that even a Google-sized company is a drop in the bucket.

That's a repulsive suggestion to many people who live in Boulder. Living in a city of <250k people is a feature, not a bug. Boulder is not cheap, if people wanted density they could already move to Denver for the same price and climate.
You can schedule Lambda function invocations via CloudWatch Events: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/R.... It can help you replace cron running yourself pretty easily. It even uses cron syntax for the scheduling.
More accurate advice I would say is, just don't tell the bank whether you plan to have tenants. At least in Canada, the bank wants you to lie, closing the deal and banking the commission is all that matters. Risk is offloaded to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, or if a bubble pops, directly to the Bank of Canada who will take any risky mortgages off bank balance sheets, as demonstrated in 2008.
My favorite example for this is Lego.

It started as a small startup making toys and it became a multi-billion, multi national business and one of the worlds most loveable brands.

It can happen to you too!

Q.E.D.

;p
Winamp2-js author here. Just a note, that since that discussion, the playlist window, and thus support for multiple tracks at a time, has been added. As such, the project is only just now "complete".
CloudWatch actually has a few parts: CloudWatch Metrics, Logs, and Events. It's the scheduled component of Events that allows you to do this.
Radiation reaction is related to Compton scattering. In Compton scattering, the interaction is between one electron and one photon producing one photon at a new energy, with the electron changing energy. Non-linear Compton is one electron interacting with many photons to produce an electron and a high energy photon. Radiation reaction is essentially one electron scattering off many photons many times, producing many high energy photons. The paper itself is about the first observation of radiation reaction, there is work showing electrons losing energy in non-linear Compton scattering from the 1990s.
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This is what’s disturbing about the way we contract these projects: we’re weaker because of cost-plus and an emphasis on expense over efficacy.

Compare the tanks of WWII. American Shermans (at first) were something of a death-trap in terms of armor and carried weaker armaments. But you could churn them out quickly and teach someone with a high school degree how to do maintenance. Germans went the opposite: high-tech behemoths that were fast, heavily armored, and big-gunned. They were hell to fight, but they also couldn’t be produced or maintained at anything close to the speed of a Sherman. And as it turns out, modern war is not just about having the best toy but the one the market can produce and replace reliably.

It seems to me that our extreme willingness for expense and new tech fetishism is putting us in the position of the Germans of last century—we’ll win all our short engagements but once we have to start replacing parts and vehicles, we’ll be hamstrung.

EDIT: and so as not to seem like I’m repeating the myth, I’ll link here to a little debunking—the Sherman wasn’t a bad tank, just not a particularly cutting-edge one:

http://knowledgeglue.com/dispelling-myths-surrounding-m4-she...
A lot of amateur endurance athletes will hear about elite coaches or athletes saying things like "quality over quantity" or "less is more" and not realize that the context of those comments is something like: "I was training 40 hours a week but I realized if I did better if I dropped it to 30 hours a week with more specificity or harder hard days". They then use that to justify not doing more than their comparatively tiny workload, which is psychologically natural since you don't want to do more!

But until you get up to the point where more is too much, which is usually more than you imagine, more is usually more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ48AE3TOI
Its removing a hazard to navigation
According to zerodium's faq, there are bonuses for exploits that meet specific lifespan requirements.
They've been considering many things with Excel for well over a decade now.
What do you mean by "Google is taking themselves off the market as a tenant"?
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I've been working on old SQL code written 10 years ago, and the original developer used comments as a way to track his to do list (e.g. --TO DO: fix this procedure). It's safe to say that stuff isn't going to get done.
If you truly have a simple, static site, the required maintenance should most of the time be exactly the same: pay your hosting provider, nowadays they should be providing HTTPS.
I appreciate you trying to make OP's case, and I'm genuinely interested in changing my mind about this. What do you think should be done? Should growing companies be prevented from expanding because it might 'erode the character of the city'?

I'm not in favor of the city subsidizing a company's growth, even if it does stimulate the economy in the long-run, but I just can't get behind any policy that would prevent a growing company due to something as nebulous as the erosion of the city's character.
Surrogate drama. We like drama, but we don't like it in our own lives. It results in anxiety, uncertainty, and other negative feelings. But when we watch it on TV, we can interact with it like real drama, but it stays at a safe distance from our own lives. e.g. "OMG, did you see what Meredith did last night on Grey's? I can't believe she did that, what was she thinking?" We can partake in the drama, but no matter what she did, it doesn't really have any bearing on us.
Additionally, unlike other buildings in NYC with similar floor space, 111 8th Ave is not a skyscraper, which makes it more practical and useful, and much cheaper in maintenance.
It also means it is a great time to be able to produce value and be in control of its distribution (eg. start your startup and control the equity). People with lots of money are hungry for yields and will push your valuation higher and higher.

See: cryptocurrencies (bitcoin etc) or sharing economy startups (uber, airbnb etc)
In the presence of a river, up and down often mean upstream and downstream.

In the presence of hills, up and down generally mean up and down.

I live in Santa Cruz and as far as I'm aware, up and down have no fixed meaning and may be used freely according to the whim of the speaker. My instincts tell me that a trip to Yosemite would be up, because Yosemite is located in the mountains. But I never actually talk about going there.
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If 18F is hiring, do you know why their hiring page states that there are no open positions? I was surprised by the mention of that in the article, especially since I had attended an event during the hiring freeze
In case you are clueless and curious about the May peak like me: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/2013/06/04/wh...
The domain is "carbondoomsday". Expecting reliable objective anything from such a site is naive.
> we used to spend more of our living time as children.

not really, children used to work as soon as they were able to, agriculture or industry from very young ages and get married young. People marry a lot later now. IF for example we assume that ppl married at 18 when life expectancy was 60, and at 32 when life expectancy is 80, they spend a larger fraction of their life unmarried.
An interesting thing to note about tech in NYC is that it's not at all like tech in the west coast where it's tech for tech's sake. In NYC it's always in support of some other industry.

Definitely gives off a different vibe.
It does seem like a huge, diverse state (as the old song goes, Heaven's almost as big as Texas). I don't think I could make many accurate sweeping generalizations about the way people talk in Eastern Massachusetts, let alone a territory the size of France. The "up" or "down" parts don't seem unusual to me, though, as someone who's never even been to Texas.
How do you improve the quality of life for the current residents without bringing in modern jobs? Many of these cities were built around industries that just aren't relevant any more, how does a city continue to thrive without new industries to replace the ones they have lost?
I wouldn't call lamp oil a toy. The defining feature of a toy is that people use it just for the joy of using it, rather than to solve a problem.
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LOL, read and weep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder_stress

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

the round nozzle gets bigger in two dimensions, while the walls do not, so the walls must get thicker as the nozzle gets larger in a square law manner
So Twitter has finally given up on building for the avg person and begun creating more tools to make life easier for advertisers (ie big money) and they're suddenly more profitable. Shocker!!
Any place where its too hot to be outside at 7pm a significant amount of time probably doesn't get a bad winter, so you don't get our sympathy.
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> this is not always enough

Right, I have one 1997 videogame that uses InstallShield 3.0.95.
Cute title but this is actually just an extension of “the rich get richer while the poor get poorer”.

Facebook had TIME to be a toy because Mark Zuckerberg had a rich family, and plenty of skills to get a job if it didn’t work out.

“Making a toy” is only possible with the resources of money and time.

People who need to make money need to focus earlier on making money, which stunts growth in the long run.

This is true not only for startups but for individuals, and in nature as a whole.

It often feels like 99% of “startup wisdom” comes down to “have a rich family that supported you emotionally and then paid for your college, and then let you start a company at their house for free”

YC should give a talk at some underprivileged schools in crime-ridden areas to tell people to “just make toys for like 9 years guys”
That very much depends on the circumstances doesn't it?
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Probability of making onto the Forbes 400, very low for sure. Probability of building an income or capital base whose returns can match a typical salary, over a lifetime of attempts is very high.

Your examples showcase the pitfalls of bad planning and not the probability of business success. Success doesn't absolve one of the responsibility to plan, but being someone who did succeed can open up additional doors and options for the said plan.
Yep. And Rockefeller started refining oil soon after the discovery of subterranean oil.
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Uh? Every code should be reviewed. Decreasing complexity can cause inadvertent bugs, including ones not caught by regression tests.

Unless this was cheeky sarcasm in which case you shouldn't replace the previous point just add this one.
We 'd need a personalresponsibilitymeter for that. However we can consider trends, such as the use of death penalty only for heinous crimes, its abolition in most of the world, and constant increases in government welfare.
I think it's pretty clear that 'without anyone knowing about it' means normally you would expect a debate and news coverage before something like this. It's quite surprising that there appears to have been none.
Sometimes such a plastic parts sole function is to break to avoid major damage to the rest of the machine. If you make it stronger and the same conditions occur something else might break or bend that is a lot harder to replace or repair.

You'll see the same in farming equipment, there are usually one or two sacrificial bolts in there that will be happy to snap if the tool gets wedged, rather than that the tool snaps.
On Prince Edward Island (PEI) phrases like 'Up West' and 'Down East' are the norm which seems pretty weird at first. But once you look at the orientation of the island on a map [1] it starts to make some sense.

Basically people think of the island as being laid out East to West but in reality the island is rotated ~45 degrees on the actual map. So West is really North-West and East is South-East. This leads to people combining the usual North = Up and South = Down with East-West qualifiers.

[1] https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Prince+Edward+Island/@46.64...
They bought the building and thus don't need to rent. What's the confusion?
>it sure is something that offers very little value for very many site owners.

Because it's not meant to offer value for a site owner, it's meant to offer value to the user.

When I type a password on your website, I'm the one that has the most to lose there. When I type my credit card or other personal information into a site, I'm the one that will need to spend time and money getting control of my information if it was stolen.

When I am browsing the web and ads are being injected into the HTTP request, or my ISP is dragnet datamining, or a compromised router is injecting malware into every page, I'm the one that loses, not you.

The argument that an insecure website is easier to maintain than a secure website is like saying "a car without airbags is easier to work on". The extreme vast majority don't care about how easy it is to maintain the site, they care about their privacy and security.

And your counterpoint is needing to download and run some open-source software once a month (or automate the process and never touch it again). A few years ago that would have been a much larger list, but developers were listening to the complaints, and realized that the only way to a fully secure web was to make this process easier, so they did!

It's easier than ever to enable HTTPS on every website, and in the vast majority of cases it's a net improvement for users.
I'm not a doctor, but I know Adeel (the doctor who wrote this post), and can't say enough positive things.

More often than not, doctors use printed pages to give instructions, and those pages subsequently get thrown in my trash can. As an occasional patient, I want my doctors on Medumo.
If you have a simple static site, you can have Google's Firebase hosting thing do the HTTPS for you, without management, for free. Netlify[1] is another one I see recommended around here decently often which has the same service.

[0] https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/

[1] https://www.netlify.com/docs/ssl/
"BAMTech" aka the old live video streaming arm started by MLB. They were bought out by Disney, which will be using the tech as the backbone of their own streaming service which is coming out in 2020 or so
You can have an MVP even in enterprise B2B if the problem is very apparent and easy to define, and the MVP is easy to deploy.

I've created an MVP for a B2B product and have success in selling it by making it as easy as possible to deploy. This reduces the amount of stakeholders required to sign off on the product. The key is to be able to deliver value (solve a problem) without a huge man-hour investment on the customers end. After demonstrating value, I can shift the focus to a deeper integration and have more success because I have more people on my side to push it internally.
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Instead of renting office space they're making huge real estate purchases.
Second the recommendation for Chickenshit Club (also helps interpret the speed and proceedings of other DOJ cases in play).

Equifax is largely embedded in our business/credit infrastructure and there would be collateral consequences for all of the businesses who would have to change as a result of their punishment/demise. This in no way absolves them from responsibility but DOJ pragmatism towards corporations is they way it goes, for now.

If AWS (for example) experienced some significant breach, would the DOJ and/or the public want them punished out of existence? Execs go to jail vs. large corporate fine? Should punitive damages go towards patching the breach or refunding customers? It's a delicate balance and I'm personally undecided on how to scope the fix, even after reading Chickenshit Club.
Go and Rust aren't stable?
> That's a bit disingenuous to use the generational market lows of 2009 as your starting point. It would be like using the all-time highs of 2000 and the 2009 lows as your range. Then the cumulative returns would be negative ( including dividends ).

Right, I did that on purpose, just as a way of showing that luck (in terms of accidental market timing) has a huge impact on returns. As I said in top comment, even 8% is not sustainable, let alone 16.
But under nicky0's proposal, people would still go to bed and get up at the same solar time, it's just that now it would be centered around midnight in clock time.
>, with sufficient investment

But FunnyOrDie isn't a helpless college kid trying to monetize his home recordings of "iPhone unboxing" videos. They're a content business that got at least $18 million of VC money and bringing ~$40 million in revenue.[1] Therefore, the executives should have financial sophistication of how Facebook deals will or won't work in their favor.

>, after most of the revenue had been given to other people.

But why would other freebooters get the ad revenue and not FunnyOrDie? FOD is already paying money to Facebook for $0 ad revenue share just to send videos to users who follow them. If pirates pay nothing to upload and monetize FOD videos, why can't FOD just "pirate" <wink><wink> their own videos and get the same ad revenue?

In 2014, they had 20 million users per month on their own funnyordie.com website and ~5 million "likes" on Facebook. Yet somehow Facebook is the reason they had to lay off people?

Something doesn't add up.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/03/15/how-does-f...
I thought that was universal, for me it's up to Portland, down to Eugene, out to Newport (coast), over (the mountains) to Bend.

My kids, who are just starting to drive, don't know their compass directions that well (and maybe never will, thanks to GPS) so they say wrong things like "up to California".
Yes!! What do you think of that answer? Does it spark any new questions?
Exactly. Therefore switching comment threads while in the tunnels doesn't work with other HN clients.

Maybe this is just old, ingrained behavior of mine but I like to load up a bunch of threads before the train arrives and then read while underway.

Also, trying to fetch new comments at a station that happens to not get LTE usually fails and leaves me reading-material-less.

Maybe I should bring a book.
The Australian police issued a speeding ticket!
I would re-phrase it as the classic lawyer advice - only talk when answering a question, and only answer exactly the question that was asked.

For my case (parent post) this would have manifested as me just not asking about tenants, and if they brought it up as "are you planning to have tenants" I would say "No" (not "maybe" - no plan existed at that point!)
i love low drop shoes for normal day to day wear - i hate feeling padding under my feet (original chucks) but i wore vibrams for 6 months and got to about 6 miles on em before i gave up out of pain on my tarsals and metatarsals. if you're running on cement (which most of us are) you just can't do it in vibrams. i still toe strike but in regular trainers.
I have! Born and bred. I'd agree it seems like its far, far more of a rural, and probably anglo, thing.
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I already planned on adding an option to expand all the comments by default. I recently updated the commenting module [1] to easily allow this. So it will most certainly be shipped with the next update!

Concerning your last thought, I want to keep all the rights on the source code (at least for now, and as long as I'll have the time and the motivation to maintain it), so I won't release it. However, note that several of the components that I used for this project are open source and PRs are welcome on their GitHub pages.

I took note of everything else you said! Thank you for your constructive feedback!

[1] https://github.com/tsucres/SwiftyComments
Being better at running a long way than peers at the same training volume is also easily explained by plain physical talent, which varies enormously.