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Safe unattended means no configuration files are altered and those updates are not adding new functionality in the first place anyway. It's only Package X.Y with security patch applied.

Actually your home desktop box should be much more difficult to upgrade than a simple generic server box with generic virtualized hardware drivers.

There are valid reasons to use service providers or maintained hosting but properly configured (and backed up) VPS running stable (& maintained) software can get you a long way.
I think the saying go.

It's better to be lucky than smart.

I would replace stupid with ignorant.
If you're in it for the money, you won't succeed. That is for certain.

If money motivates you, become a day trader, hedge fund manager, bank executive. Work with money. At the kind of shear stress you get at these levels, you need the edge that comes from doing something you want. Just trudging in day after day for the money just won't cut it.
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Thanks. I just want to make sure I'm being a good steward of the money that was given to us. We obviously don't want to do anything fancy with it since we need to spend it, but I want to do due diligence on what others are doing with their cash when they get it like this.
Whether the number is 40 000 or 768 is irrelevant, even ONE violation should be too much and should be investigated and treated seriously.
One swallow does not make a summer, and one happy entrepreneur does not equal a system which produces a lot of new companies.

Norway is a nice place and the culture and beliefs of the people mean that they have decided as a country to opt for a high social safety net and associated high taxes.

But trying to extract a hypothesis that somehow high taxes and social safety nets are somehow good for starting up a business is, well, stretching it somewhat.

Perhaps one of the reasons this guy found success is that so many of his countrymen can't be bothered because the extra effort isn't worth it. He clearly is motivated by more than money, so high taxation doesn't affect him much. So you could say Norways taxation system encourages people to build family style companies, and only suits entrepreneurs who aren't money-driven. That's an equally valid conclusion to draw from the article if you ask me.
Yeah, I saw this thread and thought "Wow, internet isn't billed on metered usage everywhere else in the world?"
No, I would rather trust the first person accounts from people whom I have zero reasons to disbelieve. If you would look at my post I mentioned rights on traveling on the same street, equal rights on marriage etc etc.

To give an example: between someone who toes the government line in repeating there arent any gay Iranians and an Iraninan who says he is gay, I would trust the latter. More so if I had other conversations with him that seemed genuine.
First one is not knapsack problem (which is about packing largest possible value into available "capacity" without regard to actual geometry of considered objects), but one variant of packing problems.
Minimizing risk should be supreme! It's not worth chasing a few tenths of a percent or spending too much time doing something fancy. Plus doing something fancy usually costs some admin fees. E.g. An extra .1 % on 100,000 is only $100 a year.

I'd toss nearly all of it into an FDIC insured savings account (ING Direct is 1.1%) with the rest in your corp checking account.
Xtranormal on Lean Startup Junkies
"You have to iterate. Are you iterating? You have to iterate, or you will never be a lean startup ninja like me. I know lean startup jujitsu. I can help you iterate. What does your startup do?"
This is old news. I've been doing this for years with my phone's blue-tooth + proximity detection.
Oh ok, gotcha. Growth capital. Sorry if it seemed like I was trolling - just genuinely curious.
"Stupid" is not brilliant. "Don't be stupid" is a heuristic used where an idea does not conform to 'known' patterns. It's about someone else telling you that whatever you came up with does not appear to mesh with their understanding of reality. Those who ignore "don't be stupid" and succeed, not because they were stupid and there's something inherently positive about being stupid. It's because the heuristic was wrong this time. Someone applied it wrong, or maybe their understanding of the world is false.

When the heuristic is correct... well... the -other- saying goes 'if I had a nickle for every fool...".

For example, stupid has hangover. Smart has hangover too. The question is, is the hangover worth it. If it's worth it, then you're not actually stupid. You are in fact smart, and accepted the label 'stupid' that someone else gave you. On the other hand, if I got a hangover, a 5 hour hole in my memory, lost my wallet, and ended up in a hospital... probably actually stupid (happened last year). Cause that really wasn't worth it.
Why use NFS over AFP or SMB? The technique is basically the same but at least AFP and SMB are encrypted...
Norway saves all it oil in a sovereign wealth fund. The only difference "no oil" would make would be a less stuffed bank account.

Much like the case is with Sweden, Denmark, Finland...who run the same system without oil, and gets similar results.
Possibly, it might have a use in some web framework ideas I have (such as designate a series of actions to perform on something like input data).
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Naming problem you are trying to solve does not always solve it. Even more so for problems where common belief is that only way to solve them is essentially brute-force and what counts are various tricks in the actual implementation of solution.
Well also depending on what your business is, there is also the risk that tying up funds might end REALLY badly. For example if you happen to be hosting your own servers or tangible assets and suffer a major breakdown just a few days of not being able to access enough funds could kill or at least very seriously hurt your company.
Norway saves the oil income in an oil fund. The rest of Scandinavia gets the same results with no oil.
I'm a little north in Gainesville.
I think we are both making different default assumptions. My default assumptions seem to be that there is rampant racism in the Middle East stemming for thousands of years of complicated history. You default assumption is that there is no racism in Israel. I don't mind if articles pointing out the racism do not have rigorous statistical studies, but you do, because your default assumption are that there is no racism.
I'm a marketing type guy, so I'm very focused on gathering as much user data possible for anything I create. Sort of the "If you can't measure it, then it doesn't exist." philosophy. By adding a checkout process, I can gauge an approximation on the number of downloads.
Put it in the savings account. No big deal.
Can you provide a demonstration of this? For example, I disagree with the idea of intelligent design. How would I "give it some genuine love", to use your words?
I've already implemented AFP via netatalk. I'll do a write up on the process in a bit.

Personally I don't much care for SMB... but I've implemented it as well for our Windows boxes to backup over.
Am I just being cynical or am I the only one completely unsurprised by this?
Pirate Bay, Decentralised P2P-DNS, ICANN and the law of Unintended Consequences
The documents the EFF obtained are from those investigations.
Maybe I need to rethink it then. It just struck me as a similar risk profile and lifecycle.
Cool! Congrats on finally getting it. :-)
> Kant who famously attacked reason

[citation needed]

Yes, Kant wrote books called "Critique of pure reason" and "Critique of practical reason", but they were not attacking reason.

You needn't take my word for it. Here is an excerpt from the article on Kant in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (which is online but written by experts and very good indeed):

"Kant's main goal is to show that a critique of reason by reason itself, unaided and unrestrained by traditional authorities, establishes a secure and consistent basis for both Newtonian science and traditional morality and religion. In other words, free rational inquiry adequately supports all of these essential human interests and shows them to be mutually consistent. So reason deserves the sovereignty attributed to it by the Enlightenment."

"Famously attacked reason", forsooth!
Solar powered flight is not easy/cheap. The first through the night solar flight was only pulled off this previous summer by Solar Impulse (it was manned). It's a -big- plane (width wise anyways). Its wings are as wide as a jumbo-jet's. You're not going to save much weight making it a UAV either, since I suspect most of the load is actually batteries.

On the side, it's -friggin- cool. Here's the Solar Impulse site: http://www.solarimpulse.com/index.php
Wow, a real Hacker. He is able to setup NFS on Ubuntu. ;)
Not exactly. The basic currency of batteries is the electron. A NiMH battery is a hydride battery, while LiFePO3 has no hydrogen (one of its major advantages in fact, nothing to off-gas and explode), just for two examples.

The problem these people are trying to solve is how to store and release a high density of hydrogen. The micron particle side and plastic coating is all in the service of tweaking the materials properties in favor of rapid, safe hydrogen release and reasonably safe materials handling.

My observation/guess is that this line of research, encapsulating nanoparticles of hydride materials, will be more useful in battery technology than in hydrogen delivery. A lithium aluminum hydride battery would be great, if we could keep it from exploding.
I'm not 100% sure on this, but from what I remember most filesystems now have xattr enabled by default.
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> Metering only makes sense if the costs vary with usage ... in the case of DSL, the vast majority of the cost is the cost of maintaining the copper pair to your house, and that cost largely doesn't change, regardless of usage.

That's a somewhat naive view of things. It only works if all the upstream equipment has infinite capacity. If you (and others like you) use 275GB instead of 10GB then it absolutely does cause more equipment to have to be installed upstream, which I don't think is an insignificant cost.

I'm like the GP - I wish every connection was metered, the problem is not metering, but the rate which invariably seems to be way above what is reasonable. Metering seems to always just be a cynical strategy to exploit naive users who don't know how much bandwidth they consume (bill shock, etc) rather than a rational economic way of sharing a limited resource.
5. You can opt out, and live in the wilderness, not being a part of the economic system, and paying no taxes.

6. You can stop working, and live on the mimimum amount you get off other peoples taxes.

7. You can move to a country with lower taxes.

If all these freedoms seem to much work to you, the only person enslaving you is you.
The next Nokia OS: Android or Windows?
OK, that was my guess though they aren't called that here in AU.

Wonder if the companies cover costs for the chains in exchange for info that they can use in other ways?

Grocery specials and inserts in Australia are nearly always by the stores themselves rather than aggregated. We don't really have grocery coupons either.
What about buying stocks that pays dividends with it?
Microsoft pays quarterly dividends of $0.16/share. The Rate of Return is 2.23%.
Intel's dividend of $0.16/share, has a ROR of 3.01%.
AT&T's dividend of $0.42/share, has a ROR of 5.93%.
Verizon's dividend of $0.49/share, has a ROR of 5.70%.

These are all companies that are going to be around for a while. And even if the stock goes down, you still get paid a dividend for it.
Could he apply to YC?: South Carolina scientist works to grow meat in lab
I think this subject is more nuanced than these studies. A few things that come to mind:

* Do the personalities of the workers have an effect? I would imagine that introverts could handle remote collaboration better than extraverts.

* Does the type of job matter? For instance, I would imagine that it might be a lot more difficult to build a remote team of investment bankers than it might be to build a remote team of programmers.

* Are certain phases of a job easier to handle remotely? For instance, perhaps coming up with an architecture needs to be collocated but the actual process of coding might be more productive if handled remotely. Or perhaps writing a research paper can be handled remotely, but editing it needs to be collocated.

I do find the third of these points the most interesting though. It might be possible that there are certain parts of a project that are bottlenecks unless collocated. Thus, it might be possible to build a remote team, but fly them in for critical parts of a job.

Regardless, I think this study is interesting, but I'd take it with a grain of salt. I don't doubt that this is true for the average person. But that's really not relevant. What's relevant is whether it's true for your team and your job.
Is Time Machine actually practical for anyone on HN? It seems as if for anyone who has a non-trivial amount of changing data on their laptop, Time Machine would be completely ineffective over a Wifi network (or even wired) - it would just be constantly transferring data and thrashing disks; on my desktop, I could barely afford even 1 complete backup, yet most of the data being backed up is cache files / stuff I don't care about losing.

Am I wrong on this? I've never actually tried to get it set up... does it deal with times where the file share isn't connected?
> Anyone got a college deferment

Of course, but back then, it was an indirect way of keeping the children of the wealthy out of harm's way, as manufacturing still had a big presence in the US. Rather than going to college, the children of the middle class/poor went to work in factories after high school, and so they could be sent to war.

> were drafted afterward unless they were in an essential occupation

That's good to know. Were there any other loopholes used by the wealthy (there must have been some)?
Another vote for Square One. They've been extremely helpful and offer great service. They'll be happy to put the money in CDs or in an interest-bearing savings account, and will also be able to advise you on what's common for startups at your stage.
Sarcasm and 14 Karma... original. ;)
Your main concern is the safety of your money. This savings isn't supposed to make money for you, that's what the business is for.

You can put it into a savings account or CDs at an FDIC/NCUA-insured bank or credit union, and that'd work just fine, but make sure that you stay UNDER the insurance limit (currently $250k), otherwise if the bank goes, so does the portion of the deposit beyond the limit.

If you're feeling curious about other options, a money market account[1] would work too, as would short-term treasuries via TreasuryDirect. But it's likely the case that neither of those will be better than a plain old bank account.

As an aside, there are some states which allow banks to buy private deposit insurance (eg ASI), but I don't trust that system; it's already failed many times in the past[2]. Basically, if they don't have a FDIC or NCUA logo at the bottom of their page, skip it. However, I've only seen one place that actually used that crap (SF Fire CU).

[1] I'm referring to actual money market mutual funds (which are NOT insured like a bank deposit, but are regardless considered 'safe money'). Some banks offer "money market" accounts, but they're identical to the normal insured savings accounts with a different label slapped on the front.

[2] https://www.clevelandfed.org/Research/commentary/1994/0501.p... "Lessons from the Collapse of Three State-Chartered Private Deposit Insurance Funds"

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This is probably more info than you really need, so here's the tl;dr version: Yeah, a savings account is fine. Just keep the balance under $250k.
> first time in human history

The black death in the 14th century made the number of people on the planet go down quite dramatically, as did the plague of Justinian in the 6th–7th.

If you’re willing to look at geographic regions smaller than the whole world, populations have been quite frequently ravaged by disease and invasion.
At $79 per year, Amazon Prime is cheaper than Netflix streaming only (12 x $7.99 = $95.88 per year). And you get free 2-day shipping to boot.

It's an incredible value. Almost too good of a value actually. But that is what Amazon might just need to compete with the likes of Netflix. Much like the losses they have been taking on Kindle books, maybe they will start eating it on streaming video rentals, too.
I've read that book already and even have alerts on it for new chapters, but thanks for mentioning it. It's thoroughly entertaining!

Well, in my case, it's not that I make fallacious counter-arguments. My arguments are generally quite sound, and simple logic/rationality serves my need for something fundamental.

My issue is that, when something looks illogical on the face of it, rather than giving it the benefit of the doubt and try to imagine how it might work, I just shoot it down. And I shoot it down quite harshly usually, though almost always with a well-reasoned argument.

I have to be arrogant here and say that most of these arguments/ideas/statements I shoot down seem to really deserve it, which I know because I do sometimes restrain myself and just shut up and listen. However, sometimes my response is really undeserved, and I'd do better if I tried to understand where others may be coming from. Even if it's deserved, I could be much less harsh and argumentative, so as to better foster a good discussion.
Thanks for asking this. I am in a similar situation.

I already have a strong relationship with a local bank that I use for my personal accounts and my other business. After reading the comments here, I guess I will stick with that plan.
I consider this to be a horrendous idea when it comes to funds with a 'burn rate'. Not to mention that I would personally be completely outraged as a VC/Angel if I invested in a start-up and they turned around and speculated on the stock market with the funds they received.
I thought the same. I tested EXT4 on a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 system. My variables wouldn't save till I declared it.
> The number of hours I've spend migrating data between versions,

It seems (from prev. post as well) like you were trying to stay on the cutting edge functionality wise. OTOH I was arguing for running stable and maintained Linux distribution.

I'd certainly agree that the initial investment is pretty big—not only it takes some time, but you need non-trivial specific knowledge about Linux administration—and for that reason alone I'd advocate using maintained hosting. My only beef with your comment was that, in theory (and in my experience), a properly configured VPS running stable software shouldn't require nowhere near the level of maintenance you seem to be suggesting.
http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html

Between the volume of people we judge and the rapid, unequivocal test that's applied to our choices, Y Combinator has been an unprecedented opportunity for learning how to pick winners. One of the most surprising things we've learned is how little it matters where people went to college.
The people who work on PackageKit ( http://www.packagekit.org ) have had some clients working for a while ( I think 2008ish? ). This seems like the next step to creating a main stream, awesome client.
I would like to suggest that folks consider working on git itself. The git mailing list is very friendly and supportive and you will be making a valuable contribution to the git community. You'll also have an opportunity to brush up your C skills with guidance from some excellent C hackers.

If you aren't a C coder, you can help to improve the documentation (really, just pick a man page, there are many that can use improving). Or, look at it as an opportunity to learn C -- some parts of git are quite advanced, but there's also lots of areas that are easy to work on.

See the git wiki for some areas that can use love:

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Janitor

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ToDo

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Wishlist

(Sadly the wiki is down right now, so please paste those links into google and click the cached link.)

So go on, get yourself listed on http://git-scm.com/about

:)
It works out great for me. I work primarily on a Ubuntu Desktop but for my Mac Air, all my files are on other servers, so really I only have locally Xcode and my development tools.

I assume everyones situation is different, I wouldn't be attempting to use TimeCode on a couple TB drives of a MacPro tower.
This is really cool and for the most part the syntax seems to make sense.

One thing I don't understand is why there is special unnatural-looking syntax for dictionaries. It is inconsistent that comma=whitespace everywhere else. Perhaps something like:

(array "a"=>1 "b"=>2)

Note that this currently compiles to array("a", =>1, "b", =>2)
The telecoms will be as rapacious as the rules of the game allow them to be. As with all metered utilities the price needs to be regulated so that the consumer avoids abusive pricing. The question to be answered periodically will be how much does a GB cost for the telecom to provide a customer and what is a fair profit to sustain infrastructure development.

Without a meter system in place the flat rate will penalize small bandwidth users and let high bandwidth users get the bargain.

I agree that if the pricing were completely up to the telecoms they would ravage our wallets until we are eating ramen noodles 7 days a week. However, given their position of power they will have to openly defend their claims to raising unit prices in court.
Speak for yourself, a $50,000 salary would be 4 times what I make now, and I live in San Jose. $50,000/yr would definitely be "fuck you money" from where I'm standing.

I'm planning on applying for YC once I graduate, and I can't imagine a situation in which I would spend a bunch of money on stupid shit when all you really need for a startup is a VPS somewhere, some tables and chairs and the laptop you already have.
I'm not following the (stupid) masses on HN.
So, I'll never reach a "good" Karma...
Holy cow 90mins to 2 hours 3x a week for 2 years.. that is impressive... That explains why I DONT feel like I fully recovered (not even close) after my shoulder surgery...

But awesome work mate. very inspiring for the rest of us!
Doctors are an extremly well-educated, mobile workforce. Few chose to leave the country, there are more coming in.

There is more happiness in being well-off in a rich country, than being rich in a poor or troubled one.

Especially if you have a family.

People don't measure themselves against the superrich of other countries anyway. A doctor in Norway has a high-status job and among the best wages in the country. Changing from being in the top in a rich country to being somewhat further from the top in a more trobled one is not a winning proposition. Even if it does mean more number in the bank.

Also, it is undeniable that there are more freedom under the Norwegian system than the US one. Health care, vacation time, education, personal development....I cannot imagine what freedoms the US could measure up in.
Great set of questions!

Also like your last bit of advice - think about the person's point of view before evaluating what they've said. And by doing this, I see how one could also get to the root of a disagreement, rather than just the surface, and address that instead. Everything becomes philosophical from there I'm guessing.
100% this. The little interest/dividend you might be able to squeeze out of $200k is by no means worth any of the hassle when you should be focusing 24/7 on your business.
It's somewhat ironic that there's no column for "multiracial" in the data. Intermarriage doesn't stop at the first generation.
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Now you can see what I mean^^