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Can't disagree with your math, and that's after a $100M exit.

We too had a low 9 figure exit. Although the money wasn't life changing for employees, the experience was. Winning feels good, man.

a) startups mostly fail, and aren't for most people
b) don't join to get rich, join for the team
c) remember pmarca's insight that market is more important than team for success.
d) whatever the outcome, don't be bitter, or gloat.
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These sound awesome. Any pointers on how to modify these for Ubuntu machines?
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It seems the existential threat to an airplane remains the same: cockpit access. Note that in some areas, taxis have more security than an airplane, in the sense that there's no way to escalate from passenger to pilot (dividing wall).

Even today, I see pilots open the cockpit during flight to use the toilet. Usually, the FA blocks the passageway with a cart. It seems plausible to me that there's a short period of time that a well-trained ninja-like attacker could leave their first class seat, and obtain cockpit access.

But I guess it'd be too expensive to provide full pilot separation.
I really feel that I meet all the requirements mentioned here, but sadly, I was rejected for the previous batch.

Looking back, I want to believe that I was rejected because I was living abroad and they probably felt I wasn't really sure about moving to The U.S. They also need people who can legally work here as the referrals are their business model.

Well, I came here anyway on a sabbatical year. Been learning iOS programming, attending meet-ups and meeting awesome people. Just finished my first app and it's doing pretty well on the App Store.

I might apply again, trying to convey everything they look for in my application.
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That's what the article says...
Maybe not thinking you're hot shit and being willing to go back to school is a passive filter for non-arrogant people :-)
It's a bit aggressive, yet still feels respectful. I like the tone it balances.
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They still open them on many flights for the pilots to access the toilet.
> And who can blame them? Personal stories are easy to identify with and easy to understand.

The problem with putting a human face on such a story is exactly the problem described, though. I call it "The Gallant Knight effect", though that is a made up term because I don't know the correct one. It's an anti-individualistic effect that occurs when people identify a particular person as exceptional and, in doing so, erase the individual faces of every other relevant actor. This is the same effect that centralizes so much power on the chief executive. It's similar to the Bystander Effect, but I'm talking about a systemic problem rather than a situational one[1]. By shunting responsibility, you also shunt agency.

It's an excuse to carry on with your own life because someone else is doing the real work. Worse, it is an excuse to hide in the tavern, peering out the window, while the gunslingers are out on the street, which is what a decent percentage of HNers are doing by resorting to silver bullet security solutions.

Putting someone in shiny armor and sending him out after the Grail means that the rest of us can continue to be serfs. That's not to say it'd be any different if Snowden hadn't disclosed himself, though: indeed, we'd probably be spending an inordinate amount of effort trying to figure out who it was. Someone would have guessed that it was Satoshi Nakamoto by now.

[1] Clicking around Wikipedia, I notice stuff like "diffusion of responsibility", "social loafing" and "deindividuation" that I would also put down as close but not quite because they are limited to talking about groups smaller than, say, a million.

[2] I talk about it more here: https://plus.google.com/113476531580617567600/posts/btX9T4ku... It's worth pointing out that this post predates the leaks.
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The name calling ("imbecile", "stupid") is unnecessary.
Well you did draw the conclusion that it was a "bold claim" without evidence...

The phrase "bold claim" is usually reserved for cases where the claim seems unlikely.
Because the cost isn't limited to a single merchant, transaction, or customer. Every incident of credit card fraud increases the inconvenience of using credit cards.

That's exactly the opposite of what credit card companies want. They want to make the process of using your credit card as simple and painless as possible.

Ironically, this is also why they've taken none of the obvious technological steps that could virtually eradicate credit card fraud.
As a westerner working a tech job in China this is honestly a bad trend.

How am I possibly going to live without access to Facebook?
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Using a random Wifi hotspot when traveling is an act of insanity without a VPN. There are some bad guys that use VPNs, but so do many affluent, tech-savvy business travelers. This group, which is highly coveted by Visa/MC, will now be introduced to and eventually become comfortable with Bitcoin. It's like Visa had an all-hands meeting to come up with the best way to drive their target customers to alternative payment methods.
I think the huge focus on web development set CS back at least two decades in certain areas. The industry has been so intent on reinventing applications through the browser, it's lost ground in what can happen in areas like Engelbert's or Smalltalk or real hypertext.
Hmm, you're right. Maybe the NSA stuff has scared him offline.
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Anyone knows who was Doug Engelbart's PhD advisor at Berkeley? We have his profile at phdtree:

http://phdtree.org/scholar/engelbart-douglas-carl/

but there is no where to find out info about his PhD advisor.
How can it be a cheap shot without a signed NDA, if it's grounded in reality?
I literally just got into this game. It's amazing. Was it different in previous years?
There are two bills [1][2] of currently proposed law changes, both granting a lot of extra power to the GCSB (New Zealand's equivalent of the UK's GCHQ and to a lesser extent the USA's NSA). You can find much more info and commentary here: http://techliberty.org.nz/tag/gcsb/

[1] http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/1305/wstGovernment_Communi...

[2] http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/1305/Telecommunications_In...
Ammunition is pretty obvious on xrays. It would be just as easy to smuggle in a real metal single shot pistol (designed for the purpose) as it would be to smuggle in a plastic gun.

Any single shot pistol is going to be a useless weapon. Less dangerous than a knife in my opinion. Knives don't need to be reloaded and have unlimited ammunition.
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This is one of those times when I can't be emphatic enough without crudity.

That was a fucking excellent eulogy.
John Woodyard

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/histsci/ssvoral/enge...

More:

http://www.ee.washington.edu/people/alumni/profiles/woodyard...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robert_Woodyard

Its also listed on his wiki page directly.
Apologies, I believe I interpreted the protection for freelancers a bit more broadly. Rarely have I seen/heard of clients who have resorted to blatant theft of the sources without payment. They usually just try to get away with using the sources. That is no different from theft, in my book, but it seemed going so far overboard as to obfuscate/hide it all vs. just getting oneself a proper attorney and initiating legal action would be better. Better yet, get an attorney to draft a contract that you can reuse with [nearly] all clients.

I was speaking more to sensible protection--do not deploy & resolve DNS, do not transfer source code ownership, do not relinquish copyright ownership, etc. until the final invoice is paid. And make sure it is written that way in a contract and that the client signs the contract before work commences.
I pinch my nose when I use a Mac and call it the command key. Sometimes you never can tell.

I think I call it this because it's a de-facto super key for me as an Emacs user and the title of it is inescapable.
> Testing is a cost. It is more code to write, more code to maintain.

I'm not saying you write tests to protect against NPEs. I'm saying that you write tests to ensure correctness of your code, and as a side-effect NPEs are flushed out of your code. This is my theory explaining why NPEs are not a timesink for me.

> They guarantee the correctness of the invariants of the Red Black Tree, and they easily replace hundreds of lines of test code which give no guarantee.

Code with mathematical invariants seem like such a niche area, though. The average type of test that I write is "ensure your service calls service X first checking for values in a cache; ensure that it can handle cache unavailability, service X unavailability, cache timeout, service X timeout". Maybe you could figure out a way to encode that in a typesystem, but I'd wager that it wouldn't be as readable as the equivalent written as a test.

> Scala shuns null - and only has it for Java interop. All Scala developers I've discussed this with program as if null did not exist, and never use it to signify lack of a value.

That's exactly right. Languages with nulls, and mutable shared state are perfectly reasonable to use if programmers do the right thing by convention.

> When "arguing with a compiler"...

I misspoke. I was thinking of the learning process, not the process of writing code.

Although my current focus is backend systems, I have worked across the spectrum in the past. I've worked (not including languages I dabble at home) in JS (for browser UIs), Java (for Android UIs and servers), Obj-C (for iOS UIs), Python (for servers and scripts), Scala (for servers), Ruby (for servers), and C++ (for servers). These languages represent a wide spectrum on the dynamic to static spectrum. I don't find myself writing much safer code when I go from JS to C++. The same for a shift from Ruby to Scala. The same for Python to Java. These shifts are relatively large on the type-system spectrum, as they go from dynamically typed languages to statically typed ones. You claim that a significantly smaller shift, removing nullability from a language would be a big deal for reliability. That doesn't seem likely to me.
The problem is that the only people with data are the Credit Card companies and the VPN providers, and they both have dogs in this fight. We wouldn't believe the numbers they released, if they released numbers, which they probably won't...

So we're left with anecdote and personal opinions to base our decisions on. There's plenty of opinion in this thread - a few anecdotes won't hurt.
Not bad, though I'm a meiosis fellow myself.
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The thing I don't get is how a plastic gun suddenly becomes a problem if it's 3D printed.

You can construct (a very crude) gun barrel for .22LR out of 3/4" plastic bar using nothing more than a 1/4" drill bit. You need a mechanism to fire the round, but since you just need to crush the primer, it doesn't have to be anything fancy. Of course you have no rifling and a poor seal so the bullet tumbles and isn't effective more than 10-20 ft away, but it's deadly up close.

Since plastics became commonly available over 50 years ago, I don't understand why everyone is suddenly concerned about plastic guns from 3D printing. What is a criminal more likely to do, buy a 3D printing machine for several hundred dollars, learn how to use the software correctly and print a gun OR just buy some plastic and make one himself for $10 and a few hours of his time?
Used to be Proggy, but now it is Source Code Pro

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro....
I personally really wish people would put their focus on the IMPORTANT privacy issues instead of hanging onto every time someone mentions sharing data. In my mind it dilutes the message.

I consider important issues to be ones like stories of NSA spying, police accessing phones without warrants, rights of kids in school to not be search without a warrant and probable cause.

AT&T (or anyone else) selling AGGREGATED anonymized data is not really a news story. Say they make a few extra bucks and the people who use this data find their research easier. Big deal.

I don't see this case being different from other anonymized and aggregated data sources. The census comes to mind, it's used by government, researchers and yes advertisers as well.
Examples of other aggregated and anodized data-sets that members of hacker news find interesting include mobile browser usage by geo-area, application usage, map of iphone density, hacker news post analysis, economic analysis (like debt).

So keep on the good fight for privacy, but lets not go tilting windmills.
I believe it's still easier to suborn one of the cleaning staff, delivery vehicle workers, service techs, ground crew, or other trusted person to carry your weapons into the "secure" zone.

Could be at any domestic airport since once you get your badguy stuff inside the wall, you can carry it anywhere inside the system before using it.

There are a lot of potential attack vectors but I do not feel safe to talk about them in detail.
Setup your own VPN.
Off topic, but the choice of port for a Sails app is quite interesting, "1337" [1].

[1] http://sailsjs.org/#getStarted
> Keep in mind that this is about chargeback risk,

First, I do not think this is about chargebacks, at all. I don't know what it is about, but it's not chargebacks. This looks like a blanket revocation of anonymizing/VPN services. That isn't how fraud/risk engines work (note: I wrote several fraud/risk engines for ecommerce/banking/travel industry as well as passive device fingerprinting).

Sure, make this a riskier transaction, flag it for review. Uh oh, CC info is from Ohio, but IP is from Russia? Up the risk. Same device that is trying to conduct this transaction also tried 30 others in the past two days? Flag for review, up the risk (several hundred more etc etc).

Second, I can't think of a single thing that is legal to buy that is blanket revoked by some company like this.

Third, adult sites, online pharmacies, ticket brokers and the others are NOT treated the same way. They are treated as higher risk transactions that A. need more/closer review B. have a more comprehensive/exhaustive/deeper risk rules engine run on them. and/or C. have a special set of rules that apply specifically to that domain. The CC companies don't just turn off buying an entire domain of goods (adult, online pharmacies, ticket brokers....or VPNs), that isn't how they work.

If true, this smells of something different.
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I'm the main developer for RethinkDB Cloud. It's pretty rough at the moment. You can expect 1.7 instances available in the over the weekend, along with smaller shared instances, and lots of various updates. If there are any questions or if anyone wants to be apart of the Heroku add-on testing you can contact me at cam@rethinkdbcloud.com .
Another article with a picture: http://www.decodeunicode.org/u+2318
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He may not do that, but he could go and buy a plastic gun for $10 from someone who does know how to use a 3D printer.

Think about this: a curious kid could accidentally shoot himself now in many fewer steps than before. Download, load it into dad's printer, assemble. Though, I'm assuming these plastic guns still need real bullets.
Just curious if anyone else here has tried Screenhero? I've found it to be quite excellent in a handful of situations where I needed to use it.

It's screen sharing where each person has their own cursor. Works surprisingly well for a small company product.
Yeah, or drug the air marshal, assuming the US still puts armed personnel on flights?
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He lived a life worth living and died accomplishing so much, this should be a motivation to us all to pursue our dreams and goals and make the most of it because this just proves how short life is no matter how great you are, death is the destination we all share.
When writers get on soapboxes, they open themselves up to this category of response. Mere question-asking ("Is there a disparity? If so, why?") on Brad's part would be one thing, but his article is accusatory; he condescends to everyone but himself. And if he were right, again, that would be different, but he's not. He's just being a dick. Fuck him.
> At some point of excess, wouldn't that fall under verbal abuse, harassment, or bullying, depending on whether you're considering laws or school policies, and thus not be considered free speech?

Perhaps. But should that point come the speech will lose protection because it is abusive, harassing, or bullying nature. Not because it describes my medical condition.
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It really doesn't help that Snowden himself keeps asking for attention. He broke the story, gave away the docs, and still checks in every week so we all don't forget about him. I still think his leak was at least in part motivated by selfish reasons.
I just checked - the Play store downloads aren't encrypted (client hits a HTTP URL that 301 redirects to another HTTP url) and all of these were fully visible in a HTTP proxy. There may be some additional hash-checking going on though, I can't say for sure (the actual listings of apps and their details are indeed encrypted). Hopefully they're not relying 100% on the APK signature check for downloads.
Last time I checked Greenwald is not an idiot. The ongoing leaks have come without any interaction by Snowden at all, if I'm understanding him correctly. If anything he keeps stealing the thunder of WaPo, Guardian, Der Spiegel, etc.
> Since plastics became commonly available over 50 years ago, I don't understand why everyone is suddenly concerned about plastic guns from 3D printing.

It's a zeitgeist thing, IMO. 3D printing is hot in the media, so interesting stories about it (good and bad) tend to get more attention than they would if the same thing had been done by conventional means.
Making Yahoo simpler, cleaner and faster would those reasons actually and the add-ons will start showing up.
This seems like a good, small modification to make and send in a pull request for.
Not that I know of (assuming I've understood you correctly), and coming from a common-law country myself I'd be very reluctant to give up that system in favor of a more civil one, warts and all.

It is a real problem though. One book that addresses these problems well is Robert Kagan's Adversarial Legalism. As for the situation in the US, there's a school of thought that argues sufficient resolutions have been lodged with Congress to warrant a Constitutional Convention, and last Spring, Indiana, Georgia, and Kansas passed fresh resolutions in hopes of getting some momentum behind the process. Of course the problem is the mutual suspicion and factional acrimony that would inevitably characterize such an undertaking, but then that was true of the first one as well. I'm with Prof Sanford Levinson of UT in thinking that it would a good idea to give the nation a legal tune-up, but my political views are, ah, eccentric.
I wonder if there are any anecdotes about Steve Jobs that aren't about him busting in somewhere, shouting something.
its a bit annoying since an email address is tied to so many things - if google starts screwing with gmail, i m gonna be screwed hard =(
> Perceptive readers will note that 100 does not actually show up on a d100

This is simply incorrect. For example, a d6 goes from 1 to 6, a d8 from 1 to 8, etc. The bounds are implicit in the notation of dX. A d100 roll is meant to be 1-100; you roll two d10s and each die represents one digit. 00 is taken to be 100.

Now, if you're rolling a percentile, you follow the same procedure except 00 might represent 0%. In that case, 100% is excluded. However this is never called a d100.
The key I have issue with is the weird sort of smiley. Or maybe it is half a bathtub. Or some sort of plumbing diagram. At least the command key can be described to someone else as a clover. What on earth were people supposed to associate the skateboard ramp with? It is the middle one in this image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/MacBook_o...
My first funding round, of my first company was entirely mistake ridden. I will share my experience though as an example of what not to do.

The company that I had started basically thrived on who you knew in terms of manufacturing and processing in a given area. The larger the manufacturer the larger the paycheck, no up front cost to the company, only back end at time of payment.

Basically I had two business owners approach me with a rolodex of large manufacturers, any of which would net a larger amount of revenue than my entire previous year of pavement pounding that I did on my own. I "sold" 50% of my company to these two in hopes that we would all have the same passion and drive that I had (I was a college student so money was a big deal.)

As you have already assumed, they wanted nothing to do with the operations or effort involved, or even introductions to these manufacturers, only profits which came from my efforts.

Long story short, 49% should be the limit no matter what since I was unable to rid my company of the leeches and ended up selling my share to them, just to get out.
I think michaelochurch was pushing for open allocation.
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Agree. Only I would say:

"I presume you founded something. That means you take risks. Don't over-estimate yourself, because you may just be desperate, and therefore more willing to take risks. Or you're a gambler. Either way, founding a company isn't exactly a badge of honor.

If your idea/company isn't getting traction it would do your well to reflect on why. Others have given you clues. You may disagree with them, but you still don't have traction. Why not? Being angry won't help improve your idea or convince people to help you, with talent or advice. Of course, perhaps your idea/company just won't work. The typical case is that no one wants what your startup is trying to sell. Refine, repair, pivot or move on. "
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Yes, exactly. It is the reinventing of his goals that is painful.
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While AGPL certainly is more restrictive (that is the whole point of the AGPL after all) -- it does of course not prevent the use in a hosted service, it just has a requirement that the end user still has access to the source code (while with GPL you could change large parts of the Free code, and never contribute that back to the users, if you so chose).

As long as there is a REST bridge/layer, any service shouldn't be considered a derived work -- only changes to "core" Ansible would be "covered" by the AGPL.

I'm sure you know this, but it is an important point (just like the GPL never dictates that you have to contribute changes upstream, just to "your" users (which of course might include upstream, and most people feel it is more constructive to give back in the more general sense...)).

I've seen some strange (imnho incorrect) interpretations of the AGPL, hence this comment.