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PG is in the business of giving business advice and teaching startups how to grow and prosper in the world as it exists. He has stated that he writes publicly in order to scale the process of giving advice. By putting it online, it is precisely where founders who most need the advice are most likely to find it.

It makes you upset that PG is giving this advice. But if it is true advice, then founders will be better off for hearing it, regardless of your feelings.

It is easier for founders to modify their behavior than it is to teach all the VCs of the valley to understand lots of accents, so PG's advice passes the sanity check even though we may wish the contrary were true.
For non-usa IPs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd7P78w8cdA
Slightly OT, but I had a similar reaction to China's "Thunder".

It's a Chinese download manager that has a cache of a large percentage of all bittorrent content available on the net.

It works kind of like a communal seedbox, whenever a person opens a torrent using Thunder, it gets sent to the server which also downloads the same files, unless the server already has it (which it usually does). You'll then be downloading from the normal P2P network in addition to downloading from Thunder's servers. It always manages to max out my bandwidth (2 megabytes/s) so I'm not sure what the max speed you can get is. This also works for old torrents with no seeds and no peers, as long as someone once used Thunder to download the torrent, you can grab it from their servers.

The service costs ￥150 per year ($24.5, €18.56), which seems incredibly cheap for all the storage and bandwidth costs they'd incur
Does the NSA have a fax number? I have a flatbed fax-machine that's easy to sit on and a couple of things I want to fax them...
You don't have to buy a 10TB drive to get 10TB of storage.

A 3TB Seagate Baracuda costs $127 on Amazon, 10TB worth of 3TB drives is $423
You've taken all the meaning out of the word. Founders with thick accents should also be afraid that their speaking abilities or lack thereof will lower the value of the companies that they are founding. Would that make them... "xenophobic"... about themselves?
Dumpert is one hell of a crazy online community. One more reason to learn Dutch :)
I doubt anyone working at the NSA is underpaid...if not overpaid.
To put it another way: both China and the US might read all my mail and then consider me a dissident against their respective regimes. But, if the US wanted to do something with that information, they could just have me arrested; whereas if China wanted to do something with that information, they'd have to start a war.

An analogy: a teenager who sneaks out of the house at night, worries much more about their own parents finding out, than some other random adult. Other adults might be strictly more powerful than their own parents in any sense you'd like to measure, but the teenager isn't living under their rooves.
Football "gratifies my intellectual curiosity". Shall I start spamming hn with football threads then? Retard.
I use AmEx in the US and I have never lost a chargeback once. But then again, I don't abuse it..
It's not really targeted towards non-Chinese.
I wouldn't be surprised if they region-lock it to only Chinese IPs either
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If you only ate wonderbread for all 2k calories of the day, it would mess up your health -- just as eating $0.125 packets of ramen would mess up your health if that was all you ate.
Some of them seem to last much longer than that, or are hypothesized to. If an element has a half-life of a million years, then it probably exists in large quantities throughout the universe. The solar system is a relatively closed system, though, so the elements we see around us have generally been in the solar system for its entire lifetime. So an element would have to last 5+ billion years to exist on earth.
Second that. Think the IBM and Microsoft deal [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#IBM_partnership
It's not like they intentionally "tricked you" into buying something, it was just a bug in a web form. Bugs happen.
Taking your point, I wonder if honestly would be a better policy.

Credit Cards essentially cost paypal more. A more honest solution might be pricing in the cost of credit card transactions fees and chargeback/fraud risk to the customer. I have no doubt this would be bad for conversion rates. It introduces huge friction, going from 0 cost to small percentage costs.

The way they do it now allows users to segment themselves. If you have a strong preference for using credit cards, it's available. If not, well then paypal does. They choose if you don't.

It's like an opt out system. In a lot of cases, thats a good system. For example, I think organ donation should use that system.
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> Right now there are 12 countries that are EU members and who's citizens cannot have Google merchant accounts and therefore cannot sell apps on Google Play.

really?!

Which countries?
Where can I find the list?
In case you don't buy the PR circus, start protecting yourself:

https://prism-break.org/
A note about prices. I'm in need for such a service and thank you to provide it.

But $30/month is more that what I would give. For that price, I would expect to have a human teacher to review my progression from time to time and provide advices.

At $20/month, I would use the service for something like three or four month, until I decide I'm ready enough.

At $10/month, I would probably consider a permanent subscription.
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most everything's a duplicate: mp3's, movie files, etc. the only things are files and photos, files probably average less than a mb, photos can start to get tricky.
Why do you think that they are not used in commercial systems? As far as I remember from leckeres of Geoffrey Hinton they are now used quite extensively in speech recognition systems on smartphones, etc.
Actually, it works fine outside the USA, just not from Canada or the UK.
Tumblr itself was highly fragile, so this could be the case. But the Tumblr users were used to things breaking a lot and understood.

I think the biggest thing was the fact they spent all the time removing Missing E rather than adding a few features people wanted.
Totally agreed. Just a "Can you be less snarky please? and I would have changed the language and redeployed.
I love coding, but if you make me implement a quicksort in the interview I'll probably be too nervous and fuck it up. Have you tried having more interactive interviews, or handing out projects?

I just like doing cool things, honestly. And I know a few people that are just like me.
It seems to be a good idea :)
I'm not making a legal argument. I'm explaining why I think Tumblr's response is within the range of responses I'd expect were I the author of the site and why their response doesn't rise to a level that I think deserves unbridled moral outrage. The mechanics of trademark law are one of a few things which set the bounds of this range.

I'm not saying Tumblr's response was the most productive or the most appropriate, either, and I agree with you that Tumblr made a tactical mistake by alienating (at least) this one customer. Who cares? If Tumblr is being stupid they're being stupid and will pay for it by losing users and brand equity. They're not ruining this guy's life. Their C&D didn't have the force of law. It's a sternly worded letter from a company this fellow was annoying, even if Tumblr "were jerks first."

If he wanted to continue running the service he could've nominally pushed back. He decided he didn't want to and HN has, as usual, turned it into a moral outrage and concluded that Tumblr did what they did "because they are dicks." They might be dicks, but I think it's only tangentially related. Most companies would do something similar.

This is speaking as someone who at one point years ago was in a screaming match on the phone with the head of platform policy at Facebook after they deleted a policy-compliant application of mine with ~10MM monthly active users. Without warning. Protip: turns out screaming is also a tactical mistake, even if you were in the right.
You are arguing that distorting the market to increase pay for developers is a good thing for you.

Some work can be easily moved around the world. Some can't. For instance, workers on your local railway can for up wages because the railway can't move, and local people need it. Software can be written anywhere, so if US wages are high, it will be written elsewhere.

And you do see this. US wages, and Japanese wages, are higher than in Europe for developers. Here in the UK, a lot of engineering is essentially R&D outsourced from the US to a place with cheaper STEM workers.

At the same time, I feel wages can be at current levels because developers don't realize how much they are worth. A big part of this is because it's hard to link revenues, even at a software company, to an individual developers achievement. If profit is a pie(chart) carved up between different workers and the share holders, then the worker who has best visibility how the money gets there, and how they contributed, will do best. Hence sales/marketing, management, and finance, all tend to do better, because they get to see the budget.
Perhaps I feel that Tumblr is meant to be a free place. And after all you can go to <anywebsite>.tumblr.com and to some people who don't know better - that's an official website by Tumblr.

You raise some great points and if they feel the need to protect their brand then I understand. But it was a website to HELP their users.
> But $30/month is more that what I would give. For that price, I would expect to have a human teacher to review my progression from time to time and provide advices.

That's less than half what it'd cost to hire a language tutor for a single hour.
Why do hackers need this simplistic bullet point slides? Encouraging death by bullet point?

I could understand features like code-highlighting for hackers.
Not sure if we should be joking about what could easily be (or become) the thing that ends democracy.
Thank you for the informative reply! I just wanted to add a few points I missed in my earlier post:
* there are schools run by private initiatives (usually non-for profits) that provide different atmosphere and focus For instance, Montessori schools focus more on personal creativity. There is regulation in place though to guarantee that every school teaches a the basic curriculum independent of the individual world view of the people who run it.

* Many schools are morning schools from 8am-1pm. This means that parents do have opportunity to set priorities and provide personal education in addition to the school offering. However, they cannot take away from the standard curriculum.
But you're responsible for your bugs, so it's their job to offer easy refunds in that case.
This is the feedback I was looking for. I basically came up with the prices, and haven't done any pricing research.

I will very likely pull prices down with the next release.
Why not try something revolutionary and ditch slides altogether? Use the beamer for a demo or switch it off. Use your bullet point as presenter notes, but do not show them to the audience.
TextEdit does not listen to you speak and grade your pronunciation.
That's why I don't speak of having time with a dedicated teacher, but simply having him/her review a few items (for example, those failed again and again) and provide a short advice.
That just makes the NY Times sound clueless. Perhaps it shouldn't, but it does.

Then again, I seem to recall some observation about the evolution of language where the less-used irregular words change more frequently, and 'source code' is not something people outside of technology discuss. But that's probably why the usage, which makes them seem like outsiders, sounds bad to me.
Trust is a very delicate thing. I feel sorry[1] for these companies; this whole thing can't have been easy to deal with. We can talk could-have,would-have,should-have all day long. Bottom line is right now we've got what we've got. Does anyone on HN have any idea what could possibly be done at this point to rebuild trust? Or is it just completely wrecked? It seems that to trust big internet companies again we have to believe the USgov is trust-worthy. To be brutally honest that's something I cannot see happening without a very real revolution. I'm curious if there's anything else that could restore trust.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6182651
No matter what price points you choose, someone will always want to pay less. You don't want to undercharge either; a copy of Rosetta Stone runs about $500 for discs or $39/month for their online courses.
Please link to the lies. As far as I can tell, the line has always been "we comply with legal orders", "we do not offer direct access", "no one has our private keys/broken our encryption". The only contradiction is peoples' interpretation of vague "direct access" mention in a PowerPoint deck.

Microsoft reiterated their position, explained that yes, they review every order, they do not just dump data on all customers over some private link, the encryption is sound, but of course they need to hand over data they do have.

If I'm wrong on this, I'd certainly appreciate a correction.
There are many reasons why you might see a disproportionate number of requests from that part of the world. At the very least China is most populous country in the world, and Asia is absolutely flooded with cheap hardware. SSH worms have been commonplace for almost decades now, suggesting SSH attempts from a Chinese IP address are obviously the work of an evil government is a little bit unfounded crazy talk.
I think it is not a big problem. Tencent is a public listed company with $ 100 billion market value。 Same level with facebook and amazon
Always baffled me how much fucked up some chipsets implementations are.

I was expecting way more swearing throughout the Linux code :D
is this not illegal in your country. In South Africa this would amount to a "Bait and Switch"tactic which is illegal in terms of our consumer protection act.
Citation for "the NSA has installed hardware"? Google has explicitly denied this. If they've retracted that statement, I'd love to see it.

The NSA has installed hardware on cables, but that's been known for nearly a decade. Intercepting unencrypted communications isn't much of a feat. It just takes some time and money.
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I feel like this always happens when I'm either done or almost done with my projects as well.
When one of my friends in college landed a math-related internship with the NSA years ago, I was very impressed and proud of her. If a friend were to land a similar job or internship now, my gut reaction would be vert different. As illustrated by this video, the agency's prestige among the public seems to have degraded considerably. I wonder how this has affected its ability to recruit bright young people.
I didn't say I want to pay less. I said I want more for this price, and provided what I expect as my consumer behavior for each price range.
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Why doesn't it work from these countries? Just curious.
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If by team play you mean they obeyed court orders for interception, well, yes. That article is incredibly deceitful in its wording. "Circumvent encryption" aka "hand over unencrytped data on disk". Using "pre-encryption" sounds intriguing, but it's nothing special and most companies are going to obey a court order versus shutting down. If you had to implement a wiretap, I doubt LE is going to accept you sending them the emails after you encrypt them. Pretty sure if you tried such a stunt, a judge would smack you back since it's obvious you're obstructing their order.

It may be that Microsoft really, really, loves to give the NSA everything, but so far, there's no evidence of anything beyond complying with the law. Just speculation and spin.
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Isn't the real problem the whole concept of for-profit textbooks? Without that, we, and our children could read and study these magnificent words.
Pretty cool. No collision detection with other vehicles though :(.
Indeed, but the article doesn't say they refused a refund. The bug seems deeper than just their front end, their back-end is showing the "wrong" (actually right) subscription selected, but their payment provider clearly charged for the wrong one.

So I guess they now need to consolidate their payments received (likely via a payment provider) with their own system to see if this or any other orders are inconsistent.

They should refund the OP, and I suspect we'll see them do just that. But they also need to both fix their front end but also add automated systems to consolidate payments with orders to see if they match.
Not all ramen is $.125 a pack though, most of it in the world is actually not! It is just stupid and shallow that people think "ramen" would just mean the crap that they sell in American grocery stores.

Why not just use the real name of what you are talking about? "Instant noodles," "instant ramen," or "fangbian mian" would be much more accurate and much less bizarre.
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There is also a branch of optimization aimed to produce "bugs" like this. I wouldn't be too surprised if they knew about this and just don't want to fix it as it produces orders.

http://searchengineland.com/evil-conversion-when-optimizatio...
You are joking, right? Government jobs seriously underpay.

On the NSA careers website looks like "Computer Scientists" make between $42,209 to $97,333.

I'm sure most of the pay is in the lower range.
http://www.nsa.gov/careers/opportunities_4_u/professionals/i...
Alternatively: http://xtremisreaction.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/how-to-watch...
Probably because they've licensed the show for broadcast here/there and included online rights. It's on TV in the UK at least.
"Someone's playing a terrible joke on you."

You got that right, sister.
You'll need to jump through some hoops for that. Here in India, the bank's credit card department head didn't even know about chargebacks, and didn't believe me even after I showed him the Visa Regulations on Visa's website. I had to call customer care over 10 times and talk to the supervisors nearly every time before I found a person who was able to send me the chargeback form.
Hell, the bank's local branch didn't believe me even after seeing the chargeback form.

After I got the chargeback form though, dealing with the Chargeback Department was a breeze.
Does seem like an 'honest' bug. I did what the OP did (except I checked the middle option), and when you then look at the source of the page, it includes

<div style="margin:20px 10px 32px 0px;padding:0;background-color:#eeeeee;border-bottom:#cccccc 1px solid; width:220px; height:300px; background:url(images/print-int-2013.png) no-repeat; float:left;"><input name="cds_term_value" type="radio" id="radio" value="1" style="margin-top:138px;margin-left:10px;" /></div>
<div style="margin:20px 10px 32px 0px;padding:0;background-color:#eeeeee;border-bottom:#cccccc 1px solid; width:220px; height:300px; background:url(images/digital-int-2013-v2.png) no-repeat; float:left;"><input name="cds_term_value" type="radio" id="radio" value="2" CHECKED style="margin-top:138px;margin-left:10px;" /></div>
<div style="margin:20px 10px 32px 0px;padding:0;background-color:#eeeeee;border-bottom:#cccccc 1px solid; width:220px; height:300px; background:url(images/bundle-int-2013.png) no-repeat; float:left;"><input name="cds_term_value" type="radio" id="radio" value="3" style="margin-top:138px;margin-left:10px;" checked="" /></div>

The 'div' that you had checked earliers has an empty 'CHECKED' attribute, while the third one has the 'checked=""' that firefox apparently picks up.
The "Have a wonderful" part is not uncommon but the "day" with long drawling "a" sounds super-strange to me.
If you're working as a company representative, either in retail or customer service or answering the NSA hotline, then listening to questions and complaints is exactly what you were hired to do. If you take those complaints personal then you should find another line of work.
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My hometown example: http://www.bluewaterferry.com/

At the same time, isn't crossing the border firmly established as a "privilege"? In the good old days (ie a decade ago) you could just hop across the border pretty freely, but today you are required to have a passport or enhanced driver's license. Even fishing on the other side of the river (something my dad probably did at least four times a week when I was a kid) now has ludicrous reporting requirements, like calling customs via a landline to report you've crossed the border.
I would probably store something private there... After some GPG of course.
> I was expecting way more swearing throughout the Linux code

Agree! The Linux kernel is millions of lines of code, and this was all the fucks in it? :O
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Agreed! I did a quick scan for sh!t: http://pastie.org/pastes/8285970/text & bloody: http://pastie.org/pastes/8285976/text

There's also LOADS of 'crap's in the code.
> Of course, nothing allows to say those attacks are made by government rather than individuals

You have to admit this is hardly suggesting it's the case :)

My point was : I can't know if there's problem with China government, but provided their background, I would rather go elsewhere. I don't see how this could not be perfectly reasonable.
I remember few years ago making the same experiment while downloaded gentoo-sources and found much more at that time. :)
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Oh my god, how I hate forms that reset themselves over an error! It's newsletter subscriptions... or the misc textarea... or something... that gets lost when I enter a Canadian post code with the space in the middle. Or without the space in the middle. Both have triggered errors :(

Why can't you people just use Drupal which has a forms system that I have contributed to a lot and it handles rebuilds like this with ease :) ?
Could be something to report to submissions@darkpatterns.org

http://darkpatterns.org/submit_a_pattern/
I want the tool you're building! It's got huge overlap with a project I was just in the planning phase of, a cloud-ified FreeMind.

However! There's one fatal-for-me flaw in your current implementation: only three layers deep. Deal-breaker. I'd love to hear about it if/when you change that behavior, so that I can start trying this seriously.

I saw your comment about future possible options to self-host, or offline mode, or something like that. That's definitely interesting to me. Self-hosting would be ideal, really. But I also very much like having the option to use your servers.

When you mentioned exporting to Markdown, you mentioned breadth-first. I'm not at all sure that you want breadth-first. The documents I'm imagining writing will make more sense exported depth-first.

I think it would benefit from a little visual cue to see where one card ends and the next begins, even for cards not currently selected. My first attempt would be to let the grey background show through the white cards, but whatever.

I agree that the default text size is a bit too big. Maybe some scaling could be added as an option when configuring a tree.
Groundbreaking research. He must have used tar AND grep!!
There are a lot of other perks that typically come with working a government job - vacations, job security, etc.

No one accepts a lower paying job just because.
Exactly. Calling and being a dick to some low-level person who answers the phones isn't my idea of clever.

She was pretty nice & helpful, all things considered
Because drupal does a lot of other things "interestingly", for example account name and email-validation?