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Well, on the topic of current and ex-Google employees, they probably fit into the moderately wealthy tech worker mold, but not necessarily the white label, which I don't think is very relevant. Where I work, I'm the only white guy on my team and the rest are Chinese and have similar views on work.
I think it's a little more complicated than that. Culture plays a major factor, especially when it leads to niche markets. If a product has a niche demand in country A, and high demand in country B, then the cost in country A can easily remain much higher than the cost in country B. In addition to shipping cost being higher in that case (which is why that difference is hard to abstract away), you have to consider the opportunity cost of keeping it in inventory, the risk of spoilage if the product is perishable, the risk of depreciation if it's technology, etc.
I personally think this looks great. I was kinda of burnt out of Bootstrap. I'm gonna give it a shot!
"Economical" is the sum total of the problem with solar.

"Lack of space to put the panels" is not a problem at all - even in densely populated city centers there are rooftops galore; everywhere else, the cost of panels far exceeds the cost of land.

So it's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
I was once SE'd (socially engineered) into providing the caller with my full name, address, DOB, but no financial information.

The caller had spoofed their caller ID to reflect a police agency, albeit out of my jurisdiction, but like the OP it was early on a weekend morning and I was quite well hungover, so I readily supplied the requested info.

It was a valuable learning experience and I admit to being "schooled" by the perpetrator but seeing that no actual harm was done I let the matter drop like the lead it was worth.
Some of the comments there made me despair and never want to build anything, ever. So much entitlement from people who have no idea what someone else's situation is.

It's easy if you're in the US (or the UK) to just throw up a PayPal integration, set up a Ltd company, and start taking payments into a business bank account.

It's not going to be trivial everywhere in the world. Rules for minimum capital and paperwork can vary from 'trivial' to 'traumatic'. Lots of countries have problems getting payment providers, even PayPal - here's an article from earlier in the year about how they're gearing up for their Russian launch sometime this year: http://www.ewdn.com/2013/05/23/paypal-receives-license-from-...

If this was my pet side project, in the UK, yeah I'd take a couple of days to set up a Ltd company and do a PayPal or Stripe or GoCardless integration, but not everyone has it as easy as we do.

These guys have gone above and beyond for a service that they can't easily turn into a business, so now it's pretty much just heartache and woe, and that's just sad.
Not generally. US society has the penalties for failure tuned about right. Each profession's rules are the result of plenty of public policy debate that's much more nuanced than Taleb's.
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1) API for classifying article into topics, or alternatively extracting the entities from a piece of text. Basically NLP as a service.

2) Twitter automation: Sort of like IFTTT. Let me specify rules on when to automatically retweet an user.
Someone capable of enthusiastic consent doesn't have their responsibility invalidated. Where did anyone say that? The important cases are where the consent is marginal -- either temporally separated from the act or given from a person who is borderline comatose. Assuming enthusiastic consent is just assuming away the problem.

Do you acknowledge that there is a level of drunk where you can still sort of walk and talk but all that is really happening is you on autopilot trying to find your bed or just anywhere to sleep? Imagine being in this state among many acquaintances both new and old (which are the typical assailants). Imagine trying to find the safety of a bed and upon half-hearing a friend's offer in a loud place, saying "yes I want to go to bed", and that being misinterpreted? Compare this to being drunk, and seeking out the danger of driving home.

(I deliberately chose The Cure because I only know men who listen to them. Yes, society's norms frame women as passive, but it also makes them actual victims of sexual assault at alarming rates.)
I don't think this argument is very powerful. If two authors come up with exactly the same sentence, no one would dismiss the coincidence on the grounds that "both sentences are built on top of an already existing language".

What matters is how similar the precise combination of visual elements are in the two logos.

Yes, it is possible that they were created independently. However, after looking at the "evidence" provided by Daiz, it seems more likely that an anonymous channer borrowed the design without crediting it.
I disagree with the assertions made by cuttooth.

I have two 12 year old cousins who are very interested to get into video game development. They have some great ideas and are thinking of ways to make games like Minecraft more enjoyable at a base level as well as new gaming modes and/or features. Not only that, but they are thinking about monetization and how and why people would be interested in this. Not only that, they aren't just thinking about Minecraft either. They have ideas for their own games, and games they haven't played yet (not old enough by the ESRB and their parents' standards).

On top of this, they play sports. Outside. Not the EA type. It's only after their homework is done and they don't have any sports activities or friends over playing a board game (remember those?) that they are allowed to play video games. These kids are smart and enjoy the outdoors.

I would definitely say that they are regular kids and extremely engaged as a "regular" human being (whatever that means). At the last family BBQ, when they found out that myself and two friends are making our own video game, let's just say I was bombarded with questions about how to start and what to do and learn ;)

Their dad was also especially happy to hear that there are free versions of Blender, Construct2, and Unity3D.
Wow, I'll make sure never to comment again without reading the article three times over to make sure I didn't miss a sentence...
How is Flynn planning to handle longer lived services such as databases? Do I run the database separate and just use Flynn for app servers?
Partially disagree. The original necessity of corporations was to distribute risk, not to remove it. There was the same total risk, but born across a wider number of people. The financial risk was unchanged, but the consequences were made less catastrophic. Equivalently, a corporation aggregates enough resources for the risk to become rational.

By contrast, one of the functions of modern corporations is that culpability does not pass-through to the decision-makers. This is an actual removal of risk, not re-distribution, as there are consequences that a corporation is not capable of facing.
Capistrano is great. https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano

It's a bit much at first, but once you realize that it's basically just a build file with some handy functionality baked in, it's very useful. Here's an example of a deploy script for deploying a git repo to a single machine:

set :application, "Project Name"
set :repository, "git@github.com:project/project.git"
set :use_sudo, false
set :user, "deploy_user"
set :shared_children, ["list", "of", "directories/to", "symlink/rather/than/copy"]
set :copy_exclude, [".git/*"]
set :scm, :git
set :branch, "master"
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
set :keep_releases, 5
set :deploy_to, "/path/to/deploy/to"

server "1.2.3.4", :app, :web, :db

Then you just run `cap deploy` and you're deploying. `cap rollback` instantly rolls back to the previous revision of your code. That deploy script keeps 5 releases and manages a symlink that points to the current release. The git repo is kept checked out, and then is updated and copied to a release directory, so you have multiple separate snapshots of your application on hand.

It's also extremely extensible; we use it to do asset pre-builds, send deployment notices to Hipchat and NewRelic, flush caches, restart background workers, and the like.
> you probably don't have the technical side fulfilled as an undergrad

I completely disagree. To used an incredibly cliched example - Zuck and Facebook. Let's just theoretically say that Georgia Tech has a Zuck, who has this great idea and the capability to build it. if people are saying "At [an undergrad] level it kind of isn't [an option]", you just killed what could have been an amazing product. Undergrads have the technical skills required, there is absolutely no denying that. And if they don't, they'll go off and learn them. It's 2013, MOOCs are everywhere. You can learn whatever the hell you want with enough dedication.

> This means your first startup was wasted because you weren't even thinking about the most basic aspects. You didn't learn anything other than that you started off clueless, which a mentor would have saved you from.

I never mentioned not having a mentor. I think it's incredibly important to have a mentor, and we're pushing that as hard as we can with Startup Semester

> You'll learn a lot from a failed startup, but I don't think that you'll learn as much as if you worked for a startup instead. Learning by direct experiment is less efficient than learning from someone else's mistakes, which is the whole reason you're at a university to begin with.

Completely agree with this. We're building ties with local ATL startups and hooking up students who want an internship with these startups. Realistically, it's a terrible idea to have everyone start a startup, and I think that's what you think our goal is. It absolutely isn't. We just want to raise awareness around the fact that working for/starting a startup is a valid option for an undergrad.
None of the nefarious services and use cases you list require the presence of exit nodes. Silk Road, for instance, is a hidden service. Obviously I don't know about the rest, but you'd have to pretty stupid to put such things on the public internet.

The only people who suffer from the loss of Tor exit nodes are the 'more genuine' or 'more worthy' users who need to use it to escape oppression, or state monitoring.
Wow, that admittedly had a lot of effort going into it. I'd like to say that I wouldn't have fallen for it, but I'm not so sure. I think I wouldn't have physically given them the card, though. Something about the whole thing just seems really odd they'd go so much out of their way for one victim.

But is this something more common in the UK, perhaps? The only scams I run into are these laughable phone calls I get from time to time - recorded messages like, "This is card services from (fake phone static). Your card has been compromised. Please call us back." I never called the number back but from looking up online it seems that pretty much straight off the bat they ask you for your SSN, and I'm guessing they wouldn't have any personal info about you.
> The difference is in the use, origin and organization of such "capacity". Which makes all the difference in the world.

The use, origin, and organization of power is an expression of human nature, and is substantively the same within all human institutions. Differences in form do little to differentiate the range of potential abuses that concentrated power might enable.

> To put it in another way, "private interests" amount to a dictatorial state

Everything is a "private interest" - even a putative "democratic state" is administered and controlled by a specific set of people at any given time, and the mechanisms that are intended to hold those people accountable to some general public interest are, like all mechanisms, subject to being gamed and manipulated by people pursuing divergent purposes for the use of their power. (And even an ideal "democratic state" is still "dictatorial" in the way it operates - it creates universal top-down rules that everyone is expected to obey, irrespective of divergent particulars.)

In the United States, there are exactly 537 elected officials in the federal government. Do you think there's a viable mechanism in existence that could keep those 537 individuals accountable in equal measure to each of 300,000,000 citizens?

Do you think it even makes sense to regard there as being a single "general public interest" applicable equally to that entire population of 300,000,000?
This means a lot, really appreciate it!
Just verified this is also the case with at least some AWS-hosted servers. Coupled with the fact that many people simply ignore the MITM warning that SSH throws, this is scary stuff.
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I wonder if this really does include VPN?

I tried but failed to sign up for one of their 3 euro/month servers a few days back in response to other HN discussion (their .uk site wont accept Australian addresses, and their .com site doesn't have those inexpensive 1G servers).

The main reason I would have got the would have been to use as a non-US based VPN endpoint. (I'm somewhat less satisfied with my DigitalOcean droplet as a VPN endpoint since Snowden's revelations.)
Feel free to shoot me an email if you'd like some introductions to VCs in ATL or NY :)
Flynn is intended to manage and containerize backing services as well. We'll have a system for specifying hosts and volumes that can be used for persistent storage. In the future we also want to add hooks for provisioning, high availability, and more.
yes, please do!

wah wah wah, I'm entitled to your free resources and work. How dare you take that away from me. You dicks.
That doesn't match what the article said. Also, if they already had his card then there would be no need to send a courier to his place and pick it up, that only increases their exposure and the risk of getting caught.
I don't see how the issues are linked. Do they simply stem from a common philosophy, or does a disbelief in information ownership somehow entail inability to punish for possession?
interesting "mechanical" idea for sure, why can't you use magnetic loop to speed up the object more gradually and fire up afterwards.

Also really interesting references to HARP in this thread: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_High_Altitude_Research_Pr...
It's also not rare in China either. In fact, IE 6 isn't even rare in China.
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Flynn apps are docker containers under the hood, so any docker container can be used to extend your Flynn deployment - including databases and pretty much any long-lived service you can think of. Take a look for http://index.docker.io for examples.
I understand that. It's still a ridiculous claim.
Will one of the new features be search?

I've just imported my OPML file from the Old Reader into Kouio and it looks great! At first glance, you've done a great job with the interface - this could be my new RSS reader. However, I really, really need to be able to search.
What's happening with Dokku since Flynn is also going to be open source? My understanding is Flynn is based on Dokku... since Jeff Lindsay is involved.
Students hijack $80 million luxury yacht with GPS spoofing
In theory you could run an exit node with a locked down exit policy, e.g. limited to web traffic which is routed through an IWF compliant proxy, disallow HTTPS and/or payment processing sites, add an HTTP header for reporting abuse/requesting blocks, etc.
don't put your trust in Harvey Silverglate, he's a total liar and manipulator.

Take the first example on the page you linked to, where he claims a woman was sentenced to two years in prison for cluelessly buying lobsters in plastic bags taht should have been packed in boxes. Bullshit: she was sentenced for conspiracy, mislabeling of produce, and violations of the Lacey act for illegal harvesting of underage/undersize lobster, in defiance of Honduran laws designed to preserve their fisheries, over a 5 year period. The feds didn't set out to prosecute Huang; they were approached by Honduan authorities and asked for help in stopping the illegal fishing activities. See https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/331/331.F3d.1228.0... for the appeal court judgment - and ask yourself why Silverglate doesn't provide his readers with a link to the judgment or even an accurate summary of the indictment.

Every single case I have ever seen Silverglate cite involves a similar level of misrepresentation on his part.
what if you launched two vehiucles, but the first vehicle is more like a bullet that disintegrates and causes a wake in front for the second vehicle to pass thru with less drag?
Lifehacking is when someone thinks of the idea to use a paper binder to keep your cords tidy.

I hereby propose a vote on calling what TFA is talking about as either:

A) Todo Voodoo
B) Efficiency Masturbation

Feel free to use either free of charge. I just open sourced them and now intend to have Tim Ferriss write a book about how you can do all this in only four hours a week!
Did you ever manage to count to 28,800?
>> However, "look at my life and go kill yourself" is much less exaggerated

I believe Fish actually used the full quote too "compare your life to mine and then kill yourself" [1] .

Also, have you seen the abusive rant that Fish was responding to? It was this GameTrailers panel clip, 1min 50 [2]. I was appalled, it was a character assassination.

Beer called Fish a "fucking hipster," a "tosspot," a "wanker", a "fucking arsehole" and was dismissive of his game [2]. For some reason it's fucking hipster that gets my goat the most as that is just a pathetically lazy insult to throw at someone creative.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/27/4563738/fez-ii-abruptly-ca...

[2] http://www.gametrailers.com/full-episodes/roj70m/invisible-w...
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I agree with this. My dad's a surgeon, and he tells me sometimes how he frequently hears many other doctors complaining about their job. He says the only reason they complain about a great job which gets them immense social respect, pays $300k+ in a very cheap rural area, and has rock-solid job security is because they've never known anything worse. It's the only job they've ever had. Most came from well-off families and never worked through high school and college at all.
As long as the majority of americans vote against their own self interest, nothing will change.
I would absolutely not do what they have done. But at the same time, I will probably never be the CEO of a large company. I suspect there is at least a weak causal relationship at work here...
Illicit does not mean unwitting or unwillingly taken.

(Again, no judgement on those that choose to use drugs, I certainly do and I think that drug users are as deserving of protection as anyone else)
a) Move SSH off port 22. (Really limited security gain when implementing the rest of the suggestions, but saves spam in your logs.)

b) Software firewall via e.g. IPtables is generally the first thing I turn on after rebooting SSHd with the new settings.

c) (Optional) Consider using an architecture where you have N boxes and SSH only listens on a local interface on N-1 boxes, with the Nth box running nothing but your VPN. (This is also a good architecture choice for admin consoles, folks. www.example.com resolves to a public IP, admin.example.com resolves to a private IP, so even if they're technically speaking on the same box/boxes you won't lose the admin console if someone unwisely uses the same password for a WordPress blog somewhere.)
I like admitting you are wrong too.
> "Are you saying that it is a normal human instinct to broadcast all your shit to the world?"

To some extent, yes. Death in the family and informing people about an upcoming marriages are things that I frequently see people post on social media. Really any very important event in someone's life often gets posted on social media.

I'm just saying, it's easy to think of people on the internet as abstract things, and not realize that you're saying: "Hey, actual person shut about about that major event in your life, no one cares, get back to work".

Let me ask you this: if your friend posted a message about a death in their family on twitter would your response be "Why can't you STFU, get off twitter, and get back to work"?
It would be reasonable to say users, in general, are unlikely to prove P = NP. So I'd say it doesn't affect the premise at all. :)
Man, this brings up a lot of privacy questions. Especially around who gets to look at what. I mean is this a personal archive that only unlocks after your death? Is it open to anyone? Is it available to law enforcement?

This about this:

Your entire sex life is replayable. This includes being with someone or solo action. Do you want you grandkids watching that?

No longer are we contemplating whether someone committed a crime, we would just watch the replay. Would you even commit a crime if you knew it was being recorded? You wouldn't need witnesses, just their feeds. Heck, you don't need forensic evidence really - if you never find a murder weapon who cares? It's on video! The innocent always have an air-tight alibi. It's on video!

Would not allowing law enforcement to look at your 'life feed' automatically make you a suspect?
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Have we forgotten phone books so quickly?
Not to defend Google, but... set up a guest network.
So it does, my mistake.
To be fair, Fannie Mae changed its practices, engaging in the risky "financial innovations" that caused problems for a lot financial institutions, after Stiglitz' original study of their exposure to risk.

It is not as if Stiglitz was in control of the institution or encouraged that they engage in these more risky behaviors.

It is more like a doctor performing a check-up on a patient, which represents a mere snapshot in time, saying they're in good health. And then the patient decides it's okay to start smoking, eating fastfood for every meal, and giving up exercise. Are you going to blame the doctor for not warning this could happen?

I would say the stronger lesson is that continued checks and oversight are critical to the health of any institution or business. Though I do also agree and think people who make sloppy predictions should also be held accountable for their behavior.
Maybe he was "the first to the finish line." It all goes to show how silly this is. If there was two finished projects with such similar logos, that would be a real problem.
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It's a pretty convincing scam for sure - especially if they get you to think that you called your own bank.

I wouldn't be surprised if they got this information from a receipt or something rather than following him home though. As he said, it would be easier to just mug the guy in that case. Following somebody home seems like a lot of investment and risk for a scam that only works on certain percentages of the victims.
Dunno. To me there's a vast differnce between getting pissed and falling into bed with someone as a mutual "WAHEY! let's go for it!" thing and "if I keep buying her drinks maybe she'll get drunk enough to take her top off". The latter seems little better than spiking them.

--edit-- OK so I've read his other comments and it was clearly a comment on society and meant to be taken at anything but face value. I'll be the first to admit that in discussions like these I can easily suffer from a sense of humour failure, if not a complete lack of sarcasm detection.
I've used Myles' FollowGen tool and I have to say that it's awesome even though the site is broken half the time. Funnily, it didn't really bother me. Reading about his whole philosophy behind this now, puts it all into context. What I cared about was whether it did what it was supposed to, even if the bells and whistles malfunction from time to time.

I think what an entrepreneur is best at, and what makes him or her a true entrepreneur, is carving out your own path and creating value for somebody (who is willing to pay for it in return). Myles is succeeding in both. tip of the hat to you sir.