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>We need to define risk here.

Agreed.

1. Risk to your savings and time. This is what you are always risking when you start a start-up. A safety net would mean that you'd not starve if the company failed and you couldn't get another job right away, but doesn't mean you'd be living your cushy ideal life even if the business failed.

2. Risk to your LIFE. I submit that, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should starting a business actually put you at risk of DYING. And yet that's exactly what happens if you decide to forego the expense of health insurance (until if & when "no preexisting conditions" takes effect in 2014) and you find out that you have a life-threatening condition.

I think there's plenty of stress and risk in starting a business without worrying about starving or your health. "Failure" is harsh PERIOD. And if you have a family you're trying to support, the above two points will likely prevent you from starting a company if there's no safety net.

So the many people who would be willing to start companies WITH a safety net means more people who would roll the dice. Many would fail, and that's FINE, because the rest would create jobs.
Winning the consumer decision journey
> Do you thing that your HR dept could manage 100 different health care providers? do you think all the providers that you may wish to use are affordable to your company?

Ah, I see where the confusion is coming from. I'm not arguing the the employer should allow you to choose whatever health care provider that you want. I'm saying that I don't understand why they're involved in the process at all.

I don't know if health coverage should be like eating at a restaurant (entirely optional and up to the consumer), like car insurance (required, but you buy it yourself), like the military (you have to pay for it through taxes and have no control over it), like lower education (required and you can go with the government option or pay for a private option out of pocket), like higher education (optional and you can go public or private), etc..., or some sort of combination. At this point, I'd probably lean towards health coverage being required, provided for free for poor people, available through the government(s) for everyone else, and a voucher system for anyone who wants to get it privately (with a regulated level of coverage). All of this would have to be funded through taxes (probably a combination of corporate and personal taxes), but employers wouldn't have to manage it at all.

Based on other comments, I understand why the situation is what it is today (because of tax benefits to both the employer and employee), but I don't understand why it should be this way.

> with ObamaCare, you will still not be able to choose whatever health care provider you want so I don't see how you think that this will help you.

I didn't mention ACA/ObamaCare (maybe you're thinking of someone else?), and don't have much of an opinions on it other than it's so full of compromises that it's unlikely to make anyone happy.
It's an interesting experiment. If it succeeds, it would be ironic that the solution to America's public transportation is coming from Detroit: after all, GM & co are the guys who bought America's trolleys in the 1950's and disassembled them to boost sales of cars.

EDIT: related story on SF's private lines http://stamen.com/zero1/
...also the reason he named his projects "whole earth X"

Like the Whole Earth Catalog, mentioned at the end of Steve Jobs' graduation speech (the source of the "stay hungry, stay foolish" line).

Or the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, better known as The WELL, one of the first "online" communities.
Depending on the favored child
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It makes the connection appear completely lagless, since the Mosh client echos typed characters locally instead of waiting for a round-trip with the server.

It also buffers all command output server-side and doesn't send more output than the network connection allows. This means that even if you have a runaway process dumping lots of output, you can still immediately Ctrl+C it.
oops, I just connected the op back to startup culture and to social media :-/
It's not quite the same to use ssh + screen/tmux. mosh resumes automatically (no need to log in again), and it also will show your keystrokes as you type them, even if the remote machine hasn't yet received them and then sent back to your local machine the updated text. This "buffered" text is displayed with an underline and when your computer receives communication from the server, it gets updated to the correct text. This makes the terminal feel a lot more responsive, in my experience. mosh can also be installed with apt-get, at least in Ubuntu.
At least in France, banks never invest in startups. And I mean absolutely never.
You've got a good looking site - best of luck on your application!
Funny that he started the article seeming like he was going to show using math that the lottery was a good investment idea, when in fact it isn't according to his own estimation.

As to the entertainment value of dreaming that you've won the lottery, obviously nobody should be told they CAN'T enter. But what some call a dream I call self-delusion. We have a pervasive idea in this country that we're all going to become rich eventually and it's simply not true.
I am unaware of led grow lights... Didn't think LEDs output the proper light spectrum.
While you're right that 4/13 is simplistic, 15/49 complicates it without actually making it more accurate. Even if there are no other players, there will always be more than one deck in the shoe (4-8 depending on casino), plus the three cards will never be the first cards out of the shoe - so unless you're counting cards you can't work out the exact odds.
The less Miguel is involved in anything Linux related, the better.
I didn't see anything in either the Wikipedia page or the code, but how do you achieve redundancy? Wikipedia says nodes can die with minimal or no loss of data, but I see everywhere that each message only goes to one node. Which is the case, and how is this achieved?
VC are companies, not people, so what they earn is counted as benefits, not revenue. Moreover, in their P&L, they can subtract the L from their P, and average their money streams over several years.

There are legitimate issues with this law:

* it creates a lot of gratuitous bureaucracy and complexities, where you need to apply to some byzantine exceptions to the exception to the common law to keep a decent share of the wealth you produced; this kind of unproductive BS drives genuine entrepreneurs crazy and disincentivize them, probably more than the tax bracket in which they fall;

* it creates a very legitimate sense of insecurity among small businesses;

* it sends an overall message that France is not a startup-friendly environment, and that if you can help it, you should rather incorporate in another European country.

This last message is, unfortunately, very true: both the corporate and political French elites come from the same few schools, mostly ENA; so politicians have many executive friends in the private sector, but they all only worked in huge companies. They wish that the next Google would appear in France, but they can't realize that Google-like wealth creation never comes from dinosaurs on the scale of AT&T or GM (or Orange, or Peugeot). Moreover, this cluelessness is shared by conservatives and liberals equally.
I think it depends on the faults you're talking about. If those faults in any way impact the business, then it's going to seriously affect how you view him as both a business partner and a friend.

In any case though, you're in a relationship with someone and communication is important. Your co-founder and you should be constantly providing each other feedback in order to be better partners. Be sensitive on how you word it when you bring it up, but if you stress that it's for the good of your friendship AND the business you've started, he should be able to take it in stride.
What do you mean "except Nintendo"? They nearly invented the practice.
I realized this was an old article when it said Zynga's valuation was $8B on page 3.

The next few paragraphs go on to conjecture about whether Color will be successful.
That is after DuckDuckGo's banner with "Google has no `regular` results" has shown up on 4chan.
Yes, I think there's a famous book on Psychology of colors, I don't remember its name, but it explains in great depth about colors affect purchases...
How you dare questioning the sacred idea that an income tax bracket of 70%+ would destroy the economy?
Did Microsoft Just Slip Out The Surface Phone In These Official Photos?
If nobody paid then the botnet operators wouldn't continue to try extorting.
By "nobody" I mean very few people who go on the internet and create uproars. Hotmail is probably mainly used by grandmas and spammers.
In two years 100GB or close to it will likely be the free tier anyway. What is the Moore's law graph on Google Storage?
How does one spread malware through github when the website (and all it's services) are down?
As a European, I don't understand the significance of this. Why is the establishment of a private bus company such a big deal?

Is this not America, bastion of free market capitalism? Surely many cities must have private services.

Here in Ireland we have many private bus services running alongside public companies.
You should do some proof reading. E.g. "probabley", "He states that HE could have done better, had he studied for either exam, but the tradeoff wasn't worth it." (highlighted personal pronoun is missing). It's trivial but on a CV-type page these things tend to stand out.
You may be interested in a little startup called Android that Google bought recently.
would a nonce not work? You could just timestamp your request. And only accept requests in a certain timeframe.

http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/designing-a-secure-rest-api-with...
It was a lame joke, but the amount of "whoosh" in this thread is a bit mind boggling.
The one time we hit a problem with SQL Server and needed a solution, a MS tech support guy did daily teleconferences with us for 10 days after opening a case. I don't know what level of support plan our company had but was amazed by the responsiveness.
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Instead of whining, use your valuable time to make start-ups that solves big pains, bring value to users and customers, with a good UX, which will then make $millions revenues and valuated $billions.
Then your voice will have power and audience to make things change if you want so, and you'll become politician from the do-ers side. I'll even vote for you, but lot of work before...
I'm a french startup entrepreneur and I approve this message. :)
http://contrastrebellion.com/

But seriously, hanging indents, a very minor textual hierarchy, your Masonry layout is messed up, etc.

It all looks very unprofessional. KISS is your friend unless you are a master of making these complex responsive sites. Fix your voice, too. This is your site. Don't write it like a biography if the site itself is an autobiography (unless you're really funny and clever about it, which you aren't).

The purpose of a site like this is to allow people to find out more about you. What you've done mashed your entire professional life into a really, really long document that only looks passable on mobile phones. Figure out what you want to say. Make it CLEAR. Use CONTRAST. Put those pictures on your flickr page and link to it.

Personal pet peeve: don't tell me how experienced you are at a certain language or technology with a percentage--show me some shit you made.
Highly Appreciated. I'm looking over everything again.
France is not (much) different from other comparable countries in Europe on the quoted measure (i.e. Germany, UK and Italy are equally "as poor" as Arkansas and Idaho, using GDP-PPP/inhabitant). So it most likely doesn't have much to do with the original statement, given that Germany has e.g. a much lower unemployment. I am not sure per-state comparison of GDP-PPP per capita are really that meaningful: you would most likely need to adjust parity within the US. This is a weak argument, but I can't really see how France would be significantly poorer than Louisiana.

Describing France as perpetually in recession is rather nonsensical: I can't see any measure by which it would not be true for nearly every country if true for France.
This overlooks ProxyCommand, the single most useful reason for using an ssh config file.

e.g.:

Host internal-*.example.net
ProxyCommand ssh -T external.example.net 'nc %h %p'

Basically, specify as ProxyCommand whatever command needs to be run to give you i/o to the remote sshd - in this case, sshing to a bastion host and running netcat. This allows me to do, for example:

ssh internal-dev.example.net

Which will (in background) ssh to the bastion host external.example.net. I can even do port forwards to internal hosts using -L or LocalForward directives. It's a huuuuge timesaver.

ssh even automatically replaces %h and %p in the ProxyCommand with a host and port, though you can of course replace those tokens with static values if it works better.

(Also, note above that one can use wildcards in Host declarations.)
Wait, seriously? Is this a common thing? I've not heard a lot of noise about ransom demands.
"That is generally the case. Unemployment rates in the 8-12 neighborhood are considered a disaster in the US. In France they are normal."

Except that the way the unemployment rate is calculated is different in both countries, economists say that you should add 3 or 4% to the American unemployment rate to have comparable numbers.
> the values of which cannot be measured in mere terms of probabilities or money.

Sure they can. I'll pay $X for insurance but I won't pay $Y. Peace of mind is worth somewhere between $X and $Y to me. If I offer someone $Z to never play the lottery again, they'll either take it or not. If they take it, they valued those particular dreams less than $Z. (Unless $Z is high enough to fulfill some of those dreams, but I suspect many people would accept a $Z which is not so high.)

There's no simple trade-off where I'll always accept some number of units of money for some number of units of peace of mind; but the same is true of cars.
Showing an ad where a kid drops a laptop in the bathtub (um, maybe not quite that) and life goes on would be cool. Making an ad about a dead mom and playing sapping music to match a video hangout is over the top.
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Auto-reconnect is another advantage.
Hotmail is the market leader even among tech-savvy people in some non-U.S. markets. For example, they're very big in some Spanish-speaking countries.
Very confusing now that parent is deleted but grandparent is not.
What I don't understand is how the Jitney hasn't been allowed by regulation in the US -- they're incredibly convenient, and a fleet of minivans from the key districts to various park n' ride locations would make a ton of sense.
There's a real tension between stability and pace of change and finding that balance isn't easy.

That said, some Internet companies--I'd add eBay in my experience, Facebook also based on lots of stories--use huge amounts of automation and just don't seem to have the processes (and likely the staffing) to resolve problems with competent individual attention when a person has to intervene. It's partly a matter of scale but Amazon, for example, seems to do a much better job overall.
I've also seen Hulu using fansubs for some of their Korean TV [1]. I'm curious what the legal status is of text-only subtitle work. Unlike the translation of a book, translated subtitles are not the complete work. They're also a creative work in their own right.

Ironically, many fansubs are of higher quality than official subs, especially when it comes to idiomatic expressions in the source language.

[1] e.g. http://www.hulu.com/watch/290239#i0,p0,s1,d0 skip to the beginning of the credits to see "Subtitles by HaruHaruSubs", a fansub group.
And the batteries tend to die during sleep if you travel with the device not plugged it.
Everything you have come to know about living in the first world becomes negotiable in Detroit.

There are huge chunks of the city where there is no postal mail delivery. The streets are not plowed or salted. Calling 911 because an ambulance is required can mean hour-plus waits.

America is an insane place, and Detroit is a special microcosm within that insanity.

Another thing to consider is that most major urban centers have huge amounts of regulation prohibiting new business operations like this (or rendering them practically impossible). Detroit is fairly unique in that almost anything you can think up, you're free to just go ahead and do it. (The cops are too busy even to deal with all of the big, real crimes.) It also means you're basically on your own if someone decides to torch your whole bus fleet - the city that would regulate transit stuff is too busy to do that - but also too busy to properly patrol everything and deter crime. It's a mixed bag.

It really is the closest thing to a functioning anarchy that one can find in the first world. I think it's wonderful, but I wouldn't want to live there (again).

(I am a born-and-raised Detroiter living in Berlin by way of Manhattan.)
Related: http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2008/Mungerbus.html
It was actually on Freenode when a botnet operator sent a message to me to pay up or suffer the consequences.

I can't remember, but he asked for an insane amount of Bitcoins (800 I think, ~$8400) which wasn't even remotely close to our operating costs.

No way I would pay, our site was down 2 days but we moved to Heroku afterwards. No problems since, it probably scared him away.

YMMV with bigger botnets.
Indeed I have not tried it. It was just a question because I would have expected him at least to try it.
Office 365? Free versions of the Word and Excel webapps can be tried via SkyDrive[1] and you can try the native app integration using the Office 2013 preview [2].

Other strong alternatives could be Zoho[3] or Zimbra[4], depending on your exact requirements.

[1] https://skydrive.live.com/

[2] http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/

[3] http://www.zoho.com/productivity-apps.html

[4] http://www.zimbra.com/products/
"I'm surprised to hear you mention MS in the same sentence as Google. In my experience MS has a big, well run, very good, support department. There are many other big companies you could have used as examples of poor customer service"
The way I read it, the post primarily advocates a focus on being sustainable and profitable rather than optimizing for a VC raise. You said as much yourself in the recent TC article on Referly's seed round, no?

As the common wisdom goes, the best way to raise money is to not need it. Whether you decide to take funding at that point to accelerate your growth is up to you.

While looking to raise capital and "go big or go home" is perhaps a good barometer of desired impact, I don't think it necessarily correlates to actual impact. From personal experience, there are plenty of companies that go through accelerators or do the "startup" route that are completely optimized for a flashy launch and raising a few $MM. Even if they do eventually prove to be disruptive and earn an exit, the definition of "impact" is a separate discussion, and, I would argue, not solely based on sale price or how many users you've obtained.
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What In The Hell Series
That's great. People trying different things. Hope that makes languages targeting JVM easier.
Like spam, botnet operating costs may be so low that hardly anyone at all may need to succumb to make the operation pay off. Someone's likely to cheat and pay to make the pain go away eventually.
"It works" and "it is compatible" are different. Apple does more former than latter. MS is reverse, on the hardware side, for obvious business model reasons.
So this is what it has come to? Reddit links were not sufficiently nonsensical? Shall we start posting memes now?
If this becomes successful, I wouldn't be surprised if Big Auto did the same thing with the companies behind this.
By anarchy you mean lack of government-enforced order rather than simply lack of order, right?
They both are the case. Well, sort of. The messages can go to any number of nodes as part of the routing, but they're only considered "delivered" at one node. However, nodes can die with minimal loss of data.

The problem is you're confusing the messages for data. As far as Pastry is concerned, your messages are not data that it should retain. They are one-off communications. The only data that Pastry is concerned with storing is the state of the cluster; that is to say, Pastry only considers "data" the information about enough nodes to reliably be able to route a message to any node in the cluster. Your messages, by default, are lost the moment they are sent, forwarded, or delivered. The node stops caring about them at that point.

However, on top of this framework you can build applications that do care about the data in the messages. Before a message is forwarded, it fires off a callback to any application that cares to listen for it. When a message is delivered, it fires off a callback to any application that cares to listen to it. You can register callbacks that store this information, then build your own redundancy frameworks on top of that to store the data you'd like to retain.

If you're interested in this, I'd recommend paper on PAST. It's a high availability storage system built on Pastry: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/antr/PAST/hoto...
I've heard that NYC had an incredible trolley system where you could get anywhere in manhattan in about 10 minutes. Such a shame that cars displaced true public transit solutions.
> Even if there are no other players, there will always be more than one deck in the shoe

I hadn't realised this, thanks.

> the three cards will never be the first cards out of the shoe

Does this matter? I'm using a model of "the dealer's other card is equally likely to be any of the cards except the two I have and his face-up one", and it doesn't matter where those three were originally. The model can be improved by counting cards, but it's still strictly (albiet very slightly) more accurate than the model of "the dealer's other card is equally likely to be any of the cards in the deck/shoe".

But perhaps there's something else about Blackjack that I'm not aware of?
There is no conservative/liberals differenciation in France. All French senior politicians and civil servants have exactly the same life trajectory, are educated in the same school, ENA, and share the same values. There is a lot of opportunist movement from a party to another, showing that party ideology has zero weight.

PS: you may bring Nicolas Sarkozy as a counter-example. He, indeed, did not go to ENA because he failed to graduate from IEP Paris, which is a prerequisite.
Can I downloads a movie to watch later? Edit a document?
Posted a couple issues regarding the phone field on github. Would like to use this on a current project. It's a great start and look forward to it just getting a little further down the road.
How far down the libertarian utopia rabbithole does this go? Could Mr Didorosi hire armed guards to protect his fleet? Where is the line drawn? I knew Detroit was bad, but I did not know it was this semi-anarchy you describe.
This. I love the predictive typing feature when I ssh oversees. For this feature alone it's worth using Mosh.
Maybe the CVS users.
CallCentric is pretty comparable.
Top ten signs you may need to stop spending so much time on HN and thinking about startups, number 9:
Fair judgement.

The reason for the photos being on the same page is because it eliminates a click, a page load and a move offsite.

I'll work to become more knowledgable in the field of design as I clearly have left some issues on the table. (I enjoyed reading through the link btw.)

Thank you.
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