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"Congratulations on coming out..."

Thanks, but I haven't. I've openly talked about it for years.

"...and showing there are survivors of exactly that setup."

What? I haven't 'survived' anything. I don't do my job in either the accelerator or the startup struggling with the relentless torture of it all.

2% of the population suffers from depression. 2% of the population don't kill themselves. So most are 'survivors' or, to use another word, 'normal'.

"Have any of the people in your accelerator program killed themselves?"

Out of 50 founders so far? No. Out of a wider ecosystem in our city of at least as many again? Not to my knowledge.

"Would you reconsider your stance if they did or would you stick with it?"

What's to reconsider? Would you consider closing a bank because somebody couldn't cope with the crushing monotony of their work and killed themselves? No.

"Are you trying to identify people who may have mental issues from the population of founders of your seed stage companies?"

No. I'm not a qualified doctor.

"And if so do you help to get them professionally looked after?"

If somebody shows symptoms of depression of course I'll talk to them and support them. I'll strongly suggest they talk to their doctor because diagnosis is required to managed depression.

"Do you refuse them entry into the program?"

No. That's stupid. Their depression may have nothing whatsoever to do with startups. Chances are it hasn't because they're still early stage. If I feel they're capable of completing the program in a professional and competent manner, then their mental wellbeing isn't a deal-breaker.

Just so we're clear:

- depression and suicide are not necessarily related, and one rarely leads to the other.

- people get depressed about plenty of issues other than startups. I have a friend, a successful entrepreneur who sets an outstanding example to others; his personal life is often a mess because of his depression. His professional life and his depression don't cross paths, and I'd guess that without doing what he loves in his work, his life would be so much harder.

- that there are people who think like you worries me far, far more than people with depression.
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The author lost me here: "Which didn’t even require inheritance, which is not like we know it today".
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Why must it be "feminism"? Why can't it just be "I'm a person too, so I have rights just like other people do"

I wasn't speaking from a feminist prespective at all, just like advocating for disability laws wouldn't make you a "disabitaist". It would just make you a person who realizes people have different needs.
> Macs, while not the first PCs, were the first PCs that mattered

SMH
About six months ago there was a reddit post about a HDR welding mask (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM517kYS6kY). The thread had many interesting comments, including welders claiming that they didn't need such a mask, because they could already weld well with their sense of feeling and limited vision. To me, this is a really good example of what we will be seeing with a lot of these kinds of technology.
Well, I'm not from the US either, but as far as I know, chargebacks are used in other situations too, like dealing with a merchant that ends up not delivering the goods.
Agree with this wholeheartedly, as it jibes with a lot of what I've heard of the Yahoo WFH experience. Don't think it's fair for outsiders to judge, and I think that this was a courageous choice by MM. She had to know she'd come under fire for this
I can think of an example: Currently, abusive husbands who finally beat their long suffering wife to death do less time on average than abused wives who defend themselves with lethal force. Part of why: He probably killed her in a fit of rage with his bare hands. She typically has to use a weapon and premeditated plan to save her life.
I'm not a "power-user", but I'm in the process of building a pretty big product powered by hadoop (more specifically, mrjob and amazon's EMR).

I have a hard time reading this as anything but satire. The author definitely knows a lot about hadoop, yet displays a misunderstanding of such a basic piece of it (conflating hadoop with map-reduce).

Just a few key things I can refute:

Hadoop as wasteful: production systems are built to withstand the expected peaks of traffic (i.e., some website that sees a huge influx when the east coast wakes up on monday morning will design with that load+buffer in mind), which means that ~90% (probably even higher!) of the time resources are underutilized. even personally my own laptop isn't chugging at 100% on all cores all day every day, I don't see how anybody expects any collection of computers to do so. On the flip side, this is being offset by platforms like AWS. When I run map-reduce jobs on hadoop, I spin up an EMR jobflow, run a few tasks and then shut it down. Presumably, somebody else gets to use those machines after I'm done.

Lack of third party support: Honestly, with mrjob and EMR, I've never needed to deal with any hadoop management, setup, maintenance or scaling. Also, all my code is python, I've not had to write a line of Java. And these aren't the only tools built on top of hadoop.

Hadoop as deprecated: there are certainly more big-data crunching platforms coming out nowadays, but hadoop is mature, stable, and still going strong. Also, the basic map-reduce framework it's based on is not going anywhere soon. I mean, I cut my teeth on map-reduce with mongodb, and it seems most other nosql solutions there are going that route for complicated things their standard query engine can't support.
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As well as being thought of as a slut if she's seen meeting a lot guys (whether concurrently or in a row), like she would need to do to screen who's dating material and who's not.
Growing steadily? Bitcoin value is wildly speculative, since it's only backed up by make-work, illegal goods trade, and scams.

100% true, at least for vendors, since they'll be waiting for confirmations. Otherwise they're facing double-spend scams and things like that. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt aren't bullshit, but it's cute that you deflect a real argument with an acronym.

There won't be a time where any intelligent person would have all their holdings in Bitcoin, because it is nothing more than a proposal that got out of hand. The guy who came up with it even said it'd be stupid for someone to use it like a real currency. Furthermore there will still be transaction fees, since those are what's planned to support the network operators after coins are mined.

Regarding chargebacks, having a currency forbid them is not the appropriate answer to fraud that involves them. No consumer would have any faith in the system without some basic protection in case their stuff gets stolen. For all the problems caused by banks, it sure is nice to have someone who is regulated provide some kind of security in case I lose my wallet.

So there you have it. Bitcoins are bad for merchants, as well as consumers.

Edit: I love the quip about how a bad merchant's reputation will suffer. That doesn't work. If you want proof, just look at the bitcoin talk forums. Tons of scammers. If they get a scammer tag, they just come back under a different name. Reputations may matter face to face, but they're worthless here.
I think the author is very intelligent and very bad at compelling narratives. Yeah, the story's complicated, but it's not that complicated. I've seen much more complicated stories written much more clearly. I wish they would stop mentioning all these tangents and asides, and just get to the point of why a strong cryptographic system can't be implemented for money, who is stopping it, and exactly how.
What network protocol did the ARPA network at PARC use?
What has started in the workplace and ended up a common item though? I feel like something that starts off in the workplace immediately loses it's "cool", which is needed for rapid uptake
I (and a great many other humans) already wear an accessory which sits on the face. :)

When spectacles were first invented, they may well have been obtrusive and required some social adjustment. Now they're thoroughly assimulated. They are unobtrusive, and one's choice of frames/style often serves as a fashion statement.
> But those same women might tell me of a night they just "went crazy" and slept with some guy they just met. And you know what, everyone does this.

That second sentence is very false, even if you replace "everyone" with "almost everyone". Just 52% of people surveyed by a Durham University study had had a one-night stand (1,743/3300). Furthermore, this sort of behavior is often regretted; of the women who had reported a one-night stand, only 54% said they had positive feeling about the experience.

> Women predominantly reported "regret at being used," with additional comments including: "I felt cheap," "horrified afterward," and "I felt degraded. Made myself look cheap and easy. Total regret."

Popular summary: http://www.livescience.com/2678-realities-night-stands-revea...

Paywalled academic article: http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12110-008-9036-2?L...

(I predict the results will only change moderately if you restrict the sample pool to whatever particular age range you're interested in.)

I think you're incorrectly generalizing from a very non-representative social circle. I know you're just writing off the cuff, but you don't do anyone any favors when you downplay the very real emotional risks people (especially women) take when behaving promiscuously.
> (Some people think the trouble starts when you consider a piece of paper to be money in the first place instead of, say, gold, but they are wrong. This is another tangent that I may write about some day, but for now suffice it to say that very few people actually seem to understand what money is or how it works, including many people who work in the banking industry. But I'm getting way ahead of myself.)

So sad and so true.

I wish more people could bear down, learn and realize how the money system works; how the Government controls it and what the banks involvement is.

The work that Stephanie Kelton and crew are doing over at http://neweconomicperspectives.org/ is really great if you're interested.
I think there is a lot of confusion recently between an API and a service endpoints providing access via the API.

And this article really isn't about openness of APIs at all (its not even all that much about openness or APIs -- application programming interfaces -- at all.)

Its mostly about accessibility, reliability, and accountability of service endpoints, for which the openness of the APIs provided by those service endpoints is one factor.

But it uses both "open" and "API" as buzzwords divorced from any concrete meaning.
Another favorite geek service that touted as the end of something that regular folks use. Do folks around her realize yet that we're not regular folks and our interest, desires and accommodations are often not connected at all with those of the average non-geek person?
Some nice thoughts but dcurtis missed the point: people do not criticise the concept or idea of Google Glass -- they sneer at the implementation. Once we have mores subtle devices or even contact lenses with embedded screens we'll see a breakthrough of this new medium but until then it's more kind of a R&D thing with a use case for just few niches.
yea, I can see that. But I think MM is sending a message here, and the WFH crowd were among those that cared the least.
Amazon could always just wait for confirmations if the order is large enough. Double-spends cost a lot to pull off. So if you're doing a large transaction, you're going to want it "settled" in the blockchain for about an hour.
If you need reliability, buy a Mac, flat out. There are people who will tell you they have awesomely reliable builds -- and I had one or two relatively-stable builds myself, but people have widely-varying definitions of reliable.

Just buy a Mac. Even a Mac Mini works great. I have last year's HD3000 Mini. The lowest end model with upgraded RAM.
If everyday use cases can be performed without effort, then I think people will find that glass is invaluable. This would drive adoption and eventually acceptance in public.

For the time when I repaired the espresso machine or my laptop computer and ended up with leftover screws.

But analytics and AI is really where Google can make this shine, especially when the HUD reminds you that you need to leave early for the airport because of an accident on the highway.

And the video recording of leaving the house in a hurry so I can eliminate the doubt that I locked the door...
> Apple could have released the iPad first but they waited to teach the market what it was with the iPhone first.

Amazing. They had both products in mind, considered them both, and thought that it would be best to lead with the iPhone, aye? And Steve told you this, did he?
It is kind of difficult to determine the rate at which Bitcoin use is growing from your comment. 5000 merchants, 1500 businesses...and in what period of time? How many are still using Bitcoin today e.g. is the EFF among the thousands of Bitcoin businesses you cite?

If you want to tell people that they need to get a clue, you could at least try to give them a clue in the process.
I don't know actually. You can ask him, he posts his address on the front page: bonus at learnyouahaskell dot com
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A diet we've been eating for 3 million years is a fad? Wow, I'd like to know what you think of Italian food then, a nano fad?
I tried googling "Myo" and "Myo Google Glass" and can't find anything. What is Myo?
Good points. I wasn't thinking of the macroeconomic implications of deflation. You're absolutely right; there's a spectre of unpredictability that I fear will preclude any "real" institutional use of the Bitcoin system.

I honestly wish that Nakamoto had consulted an economist before creating Bitcoin. A system with a modest rate of built-in inflation makes far more sense than Bitcoin's deflationary issue scheme.
Wasn't this a given when working with PHP? You can afterall send the reference so that you are modifying the array as you go, rather than at the end.

$array = array(1,2,3,4,5);
foreach ($array as &value){...}
> You put people together and see what happens, plain and simple.

IMHO, the whole point of online dating is to be able to avoid having to be put together with someone you know you won't like. We all know what our deal breakers are and all those matchmaking algo's are great at letting us filter out people we aren't going to get along with.

You say you don't care about their politics, so don't filter on that or rate it as important to you; for those who do, they do filter on that and rate it important to them. It's not the algo that determines your match, it's you setting up your preferences and saying what you like and don't like that determine what the aglo says matches.

It honestly sounds to me like you've not actually sufficiently used a dating site well enough to have such a strong opinion given that your complaints seem rather made up. I could be wrong, but that's my impression. I met my current girlfriend on a dating site and all those things are exactly what made it work so well and contributed to finding what is IMHO my perfect match.
...and not particularly useful.
This was clearly a lack of oversight and sound engineering practices.

Who cancelled the backups? Why were they cancelled? Was it for non-payment of that service?

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I worked for an absolutely terrible company as Director of IT. The CEO and CTO were clueless douchebags when it came to running a sound production operation.

The CTO would make patches to the production system on a REGULAR basis and break everything, with the statement "that's funny... that shouldn't have happened"

I had been pushing for dev|test|prod instances for a long time - and at first they appeared to be on-board.

When I put the budget and plan together, they scoffed at the cost, and reiterated how we needed to maintain better up-time metrics. Yet they refused to remove Dave's access to the production systems.

After a few more outages, and my very loud complaining to them that they were farking up the system by their inability to control access - I saw that they had been hunting for my replacement.

They were trying to blame me for the outages and ignoring their own operational faults.

I found another job and left - they offered me $5,000s to not disparage them after I left. I refused the money and told them to fark off. I was not going to lose professional credibility to their idiocy.

Worst company I have ever worked for.
FWIW Bitcoin solves the problem of moving money around.
Google Glass solves output. But voice input is still problematic, it's generally only usable when the set of expected words is heavily circumscribed. Though, most people can talk faster than they can type, around 150–160 WPM, so in principle, it's better than a keyboard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Speech_and_lis...

The first-to-market with new category of device doesn't always dominate the category. Consider the PC (Apple was first). Given an ugly version and a cool version of wearable computing, which will people prefer to wear?
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One particular thing I noticed about Diablo is that it was playable long before it actually finished downloading. Most of the maps, video and artwork was downloaded as I played the first few levels. Pretty cool.
Don't patent trolls already create LLCs or other corporate firewalls so that if they are countersued, they don't have assets?
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no mention of tinder?
I agree complaints like this are currently valid in some respects, but the good thing is that feedback loops like this will eventually result in the same efficiency we come to expect from flash games on HTML5.
Interesting, but fundamentally different.

Google Glass = head-mounted display + camera + access to the cloud

The Private Eye was just the first. It's like comparing an exercise bike to an actual ride-around-outdoors bicycle.
It's even less interesting because PHP arrays have value semantics so someFunc($array) and foreach($array..) aren't really that different. The whole thing is pretty intuitive.

The answer to the question is pretty deep though.
Hillis could not have used a better analogy than the Financial Sector. He is reminiscent of all the whistle blowers leading up to the 2008 Financial Crisis, and their were handfuls of such whistle blowers who worked for the Government, banks and investment firms.

Like Hillis these people were screaming to the top of their lungs of the impending catastrophe. What happened to said whistle blowers, the stories I am familiar with anyway, they got fired whether bank or government employees. What is worse those same whistle blowers and their efforts are ignored to this day (can you name a single whistle blower regarding the real estate bubble or financial crisis?), and to this day the government and banking "economic experts" are the ones that get interviewed by the media and they lie through their teeth and represent that none of the "experts" foresaw what occurred. Meanwhile the truth is, everyone from bankers, to government regulators, down to mortgage brokers and mortgage holders knew what was going on and buried their head in the sand, while those courageous enough to speak up where fired and swept under the rug.

It is sad to think this situation might play out the same, and Hillis will have no option but to watch it unfold in front of his face. Even worse, then the "tech experts" will be interviewed and explain how none of the experts could have foresaw such an event.
I have always understood the "limited" liability means that the company is liable, but the shareholders are not.

In the case of the shell companies the owner is the parent company, not the shareholders. Thus the shell companies limit the liability to the parent company. This allows the parent company to sue people without the risk of an adverse ruling.
Mankind did a lot of things for millions of years that we don't do anymore, so I don't see how that's relevant.
This is not GRID.
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It was mentioned in his biography and other places.
Maybe I am an idiot for not understanding this sentiment expressed below

No. You get it.
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AFAIK he drove off a cliff. He would just have quickly died if he had walked off the cliff, or ridden off with a bicycle.

While anything on wheels is more dangerous than walking, it's disingenuous to claim that this particular death is proof of the danger of travelling by Segway.
I cannot even begin to fathom how they functioned without a working development environment for testing, let alone let their backups lapse.

The kind of table manipulations he mentions would be unspeakable in most companies. Someone changing the wrong table would be inevitable. If I were an auditor, I would rake them all over the coals.
> Amazon issues lines of credit to their customers

Really? I've always paid with credit card.

> Questions about how to pay their taxes

A "business as enormous as Amazon" probably has a horde of accountants to answer those questions.

> what taxes should be paid on BTC transactions

The same as on any other transactions in non-USD currency perhaps?
This seems a bit different than what you posted before. The grandparent post talked about equality meaning different things for different groups based on their needs, now you are saying that the rules should be the same thing for everyone.

Which is it?
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This is true about most new technology. HN is full of early adopters. The general public will only be interested once it's socially acceptable and at a consumer price point.
The data per ship in EVE is far more than the couple of data points in this simulation.

I once wrote a ship builder and simulator for EVE and man there's a lot of variables to take into account: the ship, the pilot, modules, implants, boosters, etc.

Still, like you said, very interesting technology and hopefully helpful to CCP!
It's relatively straightforward to implement a strong cryptographic system (relative to the general complexity of dealing with crypto in general). The hard part is getting it deployed. And the reason I can't just get to the point and tell you why it's not being deployed is that I don't know. It's a mystery to me. Part of the reason for telling my story and casting a wide net is the hope that someone who knows will see it and clue me in.

I'm sorry you don't like my narrative style. I'm trying very hard to stick to the facts and not over-dramatize. There's a reason I'm an engineer by trade and not a journalist.
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Why would it help to have Smalltalk on an opaque, proprietary server platform which absolutely locks in every project that is coded for it?
a) Are the men who are "soughing after you" as desirable to you as the ones you are after when you take the initiative?

b) Are you more nervous when you take the initiative yourself?
Why putting your efforts in FreedomBox when there something as Tails? https://tails.boum.org/

Just to know...
You could mount a remote Linux box over SSH using something like ExpanDrive and edit in VS, right? (analogous to sshfs) Not sure why you'd want to do so, but I guess VS does have effective autocomplete.
I dont see the udacity course where the game is built from scratch, was it removed?
That's early adopter price. Final retail price will be much lower.
That's the opinion of the generation trained without the technology. What about a new welder who learns by using the HDR mask? Could that improve their performance and productivity overall given equal time and training?
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