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> From the standpoint of a founder, I know that raising small chunks of money from lots of investors is more likely to be problematic than it is likely to be beneficial. There are numerous logistical and legal downsides to this.

We've fixed this with WeFunds - our LLC fund that bundles many small investors into a single item on a cap table, relieving the logistical and legal downsides.

We also believe in the crowd as a value-add investor. For example, Casetext (YC S13, SV Angel) is raising on Wefunder because they'd love to have lawyers who are outside the Silicon Valley bubble invest in them.
On the subject of definitions, I wish I could set up OS X's 3-finger tap dictionary lookup to give me definitions in other languages. It would be one of the most useful things ever for learning another language. I could start trying to read French or German and triple tap a word and have it give me the translation to English and the dictionary definition in German (which would pop up a window where you could three finger tap again for a word in the definition that you don't yet know)
Part two is up: http://codeascraft.com/2013/09/23/lxc-automating-containers-...

It looks like they're not leveraging LXC via Docker. I wonder if that's because they've been doing it this way pre-Docker, or if there are some technical reasons why it made sense to skip it.
They don't have monopoly, but their job is essentially to take as much of your money as possible and give back as little as they can. When you have a party like this involved you watch your back.
Not if you are the one starting the startup and not if they make it easy for Joe American to invest in startups.
I don't think there is a laptop/convertible/tablet that you can buy with better specs for the price they are offering. Honestly, I think you are just uninformed.
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I'd really love to hear Balaji speak. Counsyl is a very cool company.
2400 dpi is nothing out of ordinary for a half decent scanner or a digital camera at 1:1 reproduction.
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Does list timezone info at bottom of page. It appears that it might display time based on browser's timezone.
2400 DPI is not that hard to achieve. Any DSLR can do it with a macro lens attachment and a flash. Many scanners can do it as well.
Bottom of the page: "All times are shown in your local timezone unless otherwise noted."
My Viewsonic G-Tablet has a 10/100 ethernet port in the dock. It also has space for a miniPCI card if you want to solder something extra on. Either way, it can saturate my crappy internet connection.
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There's still the possibility that companies will choose investment from larger investors, for the other values those investors provide.

That's not to say I feel that way. I love that I will soon be able to invest, without being a high net worth individual. Though I've had it pointed out to me that if I were to have my company valued in some way, either by taking funding at a higher valuation or by getting it appraised, I could probably qualify as a high net worth individual and invest already...that's a process I don't want to go through.

I think this is definitely a democratizing influence on capital. Especially since the public markets have become such a late stage fundraising process....Google was already massive when it went public. Many companies I'd like to be invested in aren't public and show no signs of going public. Dropbox is a multibillion dollar company, and isn't public, for instance.

My concern is that weak companies will flood this channel, making it harder for money to be smart...which hurts the market as a whole. But, a lot of big money isn't very smart, either, so I guess we just have to deal with dumb money, no matter what.
Even then, a lot of us think the feature is absolutely terrible, performance was just one of the worst parts.
In order to attract the type of high-quality companies currently fundraising on Wefunder, we've were forced to figure out how to take away all of the downsides.

The most important thing we do is manage a fund that aggregates all of the smaller investors. These investors are actually Wefunder's investors. Wefunder then makes one investment into the startup.

So the startup doesn't have to deal with dozens of investors on their cap table.

Or, put in other words, all the logistical and legal hurdles are placed on Wefunder, not the startup.
I really, sincerely hope they will get rid of the block that allows only one computer to be signed in at a time. I don't like the idea of having to relogin every time I switch computers (as is the case now).
There are a few things this has that a "much more powerful laptop" lacks at this price and size:

* high-quality wacom digitizer
* high resolution screen (1920x1080 @ 10.6")
* touch screen

With that said, I'd generally agree that if you don't need all of those things, you can do a lot better price-wise. But the hardware itself, assuming it's improved upon the previous generation as claimed, was pretty good last time. They've also finally allowed double the memory and significantly increased the storage.

It's a very compelling, cheaper alternative for digital artists and programmers who want to develop for the Windows 8+ native UI. I didn't buy the first one because I wanted an 8GB+ option at a minimum and I thought the storage options were anemic as well. But the newly announced model is rather tempting.

However, the prices on the different options are still somewhat discouraging: "You can get Surface Pro 2 with a 64GB ($899) or 128GB SSD ($999) and 4GB of RAM, or if you want 8GB of RAM there are 256GB ($1299) and 512GB ($1799) versions as well. Surface Pro 2 retains the old front and rear cameras."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7362/microsoft-announces-surfa...

$1299 for 8GB of ram and a 256GB SSD? Really? Holy profit margins Batman!
I make it a point to make sure the featured items look really yummy. ;)
Juho, great call-out with the "Steam-related carrot", I hadn't really thought down that path but you are absolutely right. Valve could easily offer big discounts in their split with the publishers for the first few years for Linux sales.

My (possibly very incorrect) assumption was that the profit from the Linux sales were so low as to not matter, but maybe they can provide a catalog-wide carrot... something more significant (as you suggested) to motivate the publisher en-masse.
taleb: "New link (Dropbox had too much traffic) "

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/chaptersprobability.pdf
Number one thing you're missing is the fact that you're reading a press release, not the internal business case for the bid. If they put in a solid, well-argued business case for why and how it's actually worth $6bln, there will be a long line of competing bids all the way up to that value, the share price will soar etc. The emotional lines plays very well in the press and distracts people like you from the possibility that they have a rock-solid business case (even if that business case is fire everybody and sell the patents to overseas patent trolls).

Or it might just be purely emotional, you never know :)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if that pattern is sustainably observed, then it almost certainly means the upvote/downvote privileges should be changed, correct?

Elsewise, the pattern will continue like entropy, until the majority of comments are like that.
You're kidding. This is perfect.
The top edition already is $1700, the cost of adding LTE must be a pretty small fraction of total cost at that point.

For business people your arguments 2 and 3 are actually incorrect: I don't want to use my personal data plan for my work. If the device has its separate LTE, it can just all go to my company and I'm done with the costs.
Since they now offer double the memory and increased the storage options, yes!
Latency is a measure of the time it takes for a packet to travel to its destination. No part of ethernet networks cares what the payload in those packets are. You don't magically get more latency because the data in them can be interpreted as frames of video.
Fairfax first invested in RIM back in 2010 and they've been adding to that position ever since. Their 10% stake was purchased at an average price of $17. He's been in the red on this investment for a while. I think this purchase is more about trying to turn the company around and try to recoup whatever they can. What JonFish85 posted is probably what's going to happen here.

> Take it private, do another, more aggressive round of layoffs and get down to a very core group. Then decide whether to chop it up and sell it off (patents alone are probably worth a good chunk of money). As far as I know, Blackberry has no debt, so that makes the math a bit easier.

Watsa is a great investor with a solid track record, but I think this has been a mistake for him.
taleb: "New link (Dropbox had too much traffic) "

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/chaptersprobability.pdf
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The future of sick days post Internet Of Things (comic)
Thanks for feedback.

I would suggest looking at github.com/ansible/ansible-examples for a fair amount of examples.

I think it's generally true of most systems that a lot of the community implemented content is suited to the needs of someone who wrote it.

As for content sharing, we might be working on something :) Stay tuned!
They needed a seed pool of already vetted companies. This is extremely rational on their part, and probably helps their early funders make reasonable decisions.

The biggest concern I think one should have about this is that dumb companies will be paired up with dumb money at a much greater rate than great companies being paired up with lucky (or smart) money, making the whole concept look bad.
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I really doubt an ethernet connection can push a full HD video frame in 1ms. The <1ms is for ping, which uses a really small network packet. Pushing 1080p HD video is a totally different matter.
Looks like a great deal for Tim Ferriss: more leverage with a 20% upside and no downside.
PST is broken too - all my clients are PST and most are effected. About half are paid, others are grandfathered free accounts and I see no appreciable difference.
Visualizing medicare charges/payments (d3.js)
Have a look at Sprinkle. Sprinkle "Installers" are more or less wrappers around shell scripts, so you can write an Installer class that can do just about anything you can do in shell.

https://github.com/sprinkle-tool/sprinkle
Probably the same source Wolfram Alpha uses.
Dennis, maybe you are right... this is a long-game and they are just getting ahead of the inevitable (engines supporting Linux natively, eventually more and more releases for the platform).

I suppose this is the curse of the first-mover, it always seems to be risky/nonsensical until it isn't... then we all see it as an obvious move in hindsight ;)
Total production costs of the famous Atari's E.T. (1982) were $125M according to Wikipedia. It's more than $300M in 2013 dollars.
I suppose that depends on how the question is asked. Taking a question that has a yes or no answer with one of them being correct and changing the parameters so that nearly right is good enough doesn't seem proper to me.
New url for those getting 404 : http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/chaptersprobability.pdf
The way for Valve (if you're reading this) to make SteamOS/Linux the top gaming platform overnight?

Make HL3 Linux-only.

Don't do a Windows/Mac port for 2 years. Watch all of us gamers scramble to dual boot at minimum, if not see the writing on the wall and do a wholesale swapout on our Windows gaming boxes.
That's a big gamble. The stock went from 8.60 to 9.20 on this news.

If this is a gamble and their bluff is called the stock is in for quite a tumble.

This doesn't really fit the risk profile of FairFax capital.
That's very possibly the least important thing about Steam to me. When I want to browse the store, I just launch Firefox...
Same reason Android was announced before the first phone: because surfing the wave of rapidly improving hardware is part of the plan.
Hell, it could be the old Win NT thing of using the network code. That hardly constitutes "using BSD".
If you're keen on using pure Python then you might enjoy using fabric. It's got fewer primitives than ansible, but allows you to write your logic easily.

It runs via SSH and requires no particularly special setup:

http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.8/

If you're a perl lover then my own tool, Slaughter, allows you to install packages, fetch files, and make use of the large CPAN library:

http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/guide/

Both of these tools are more basic than Ansible, but also more flexible, each in their own way.
"The first parts is easy, you just have to learn a new DSL because ansible ignores your .ssh/config."

use "-c ssh" for the native OpenSSH connection and it will read your SSH config. As far as jumphosts and other options, paramiko will not. "-c ssh" is the default on platforms that support ControlPersist (because it's faster), so this means CentOS 6 is still using paramiko as a default at least for now.
On a side story of the same article, I saw this :
BlackBerry bought private jet months before layoffs
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101053908
Set your secondary machines to start in offline mode. That's what I do unless I want to chat.
Startups, this is how design works
If it does it, it doesn't do it very consistently as I was specifically looking for that effect only to be disappointed. That being said, this is still a really cool demo.
You presume that a reader of the word "discounting" in thsi context doesn't infer "legality".

The big questions here are simple.

1. If any organization holds your data, is it still your data, or have you surrendered ownership of it?

2. Is there a concept of ownership for record-oriented data, captured by a third party?

If you store a copy of a screenplay you're writing in the cloud, you haven't surrendered ownership of it. The cloud provider cannot just copy your data and hand it to someone else, who now has ownership of it.

Let's say you are generating a novel by writing short paragraphs, which are then recorded by your cloud provider as records -- time and content. The contents of the fields are created by you. Can the cloud provider simply provide a copy of that data to anyone who asks?

There's not much difference between a phone call record and my time-content example. Most (all?) fields in a call record are generated as a result of the user, who is more or less the author. And as the author of the information in those phone records, do you hold the copyright?

This isn't AT&T's data. It's my data, or your data. When press the dial button, we are creating these fields of data. It is an act of creation. We expect that AT&T will use this data to bill us (and we find that acceptable). We do not, for example, expect AT&T to sell our call records to some company, for marketing purposes. If the data is owned by AT&T, then they would be perfectly free to do that.

There's a pretty simple principle that could be followed: If the cloud provider or telecom company wouldn't grant access to the information to any member of the general public, access shouldn't be granted to law enforcement without a warrant or review of some kind. If the government can convince a judge that access is warranted, then go for it.

To do otherwise creates an environment where it's far too easy to harass or pressure "regular" people.
Sure, but I would argue that one AAA title is worth the entirety of those games that aren't ever making it off of the PC as far as sales go (thinking from a publishers POV).

Absolutely agree with you on the unifying effect of SteamOS being a single target for devs; that by itself, as you are pointing out, will drive more development for the platform. Gives everyone a target to aim at.
AWS is ridiculously expensive. The startup I was in was spending like $100,000 a month on it...
I recently found this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_mass_surveillance_disclosu...
Wasn't directed at you, sorry about the confusion.
I make $300-$500 per month with an online design tool for printable cupcake wrappers. I don't do any advertising. I get 80-100 uniques per day. I have very few quality inbound links. I do rank high for a few keyword combos, but their monthly traffic isn't that big.

I spent quite a bit of time early on writing the website, and lost some hair recently trying unsuccessfully to upgrade the OSS libraries, but for the most part it runs itself, at least when GoDaddy's $60/month VPS isn't flaking out. The only other expenses are the domain, e-junkie, and payment processing fees.

http://www.makecupcakewrappers.com
>however I think that this is far more difficult to do on Linux than Windows

You are mistaken.
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What performance increases in graphics processing are they talking about?

I'm with you thought, I do hope all of their work will be landed in mainline kernel so everyone could enjoy the benefits, and we could play games (through Steam or other methods) on most Linux distros, without much hassle.
Blackberry has $2.8 billion in cash in the bank, so price is $1.9 billion. Not bad for a huge set of patents
Does your anecdote translate to other organizations, though?

In my own case, my company ditched AWS in favour of getting our own rack with about 10 custom servers. We have a full-time sysadmin, so nobody's time was wasted on the transition; whatever stuff the developers (who are also $500-600/hr people) were needed for during that time was valuable, because it forced us to rewrite the deployment system, which would have been required at some point anyway.

What was the "needless BS" you had to do?
>Power failover and HVAC systems are on-going costs that usually exceed server hardware costs (both initial and replacement) by a long margin. Over a three-year period you'll probably get to spend 1% on actual server/networking hardware.

This is true... if you are running on 10 year old servers, and brand-new power/hvac equipment. On a more reasonable replacement schedule, if you pay what I pay for power/cooling/rack and what I pay for hardware, you are closer to half and half.

Now, I pay a lot more than google does for both power and harware- but I suspect that the google discount on datacenter space is vastly greater than the google discount on hardware. If nothing else, california power is like 2x power anywhere else. Also, i'm strictly retail when it comes to datacenter space. I rent 23Kw usable from Coresite... meaning I'm renting like 28Kw capacity... so I'm not a single U customer, but I'm still firmly 'retail'

You can alter this quite a bit just by going from X series to L series CPUs or by replacing your hardware more or less often. (I'm on L and E series xeons.)

But, anyhow, from that? I'd think that google probably spends more on hardware than on power/cooling/etc...
To make it simple: Let's say you invest $1000 in a startup. The startup gets acquired and your stake is worth $10,000. You get your $1000 back, and then get 90% of the rest. So you get $9100, and Wefunder gets $900.
Minix comes with its own unix-compatible userland. It won't be as performant or featureful as the GNU versions, because it's designed for teaching - but I would've thought that would be what you'd want.
You have a point (his style, which you summarized well, grates on me too[1]). But there are not enough people pointing to the consequences of important systems in our society that, from a risk point of view, are accidents waiting to happen. We act like we understand them, but we actually understand them just well enough to be dangerous.

One general casting of the "problem" is -- systems with potentially-large downside risk in which the risk is externalized to society at large, or to the future, but the principal actors are largely insulated from that risk. (Finance, of course, but also biological experimentation, climate change, nuclear technology.)

Taleb doesn't cover all the bases, but I interpret that to mean that we need more voices addressing this problem. It would be smart of Taleb to identify and cite them instead of trying to invent an analysis formalism himself. But, we can't have everything.

([1] I'm familiar with measure-theoretic probability, and one author of the paper he criticizes in the extended footnote on page 6 was on my PhD committee. This is why I'm sympathetic to the problems you've identified in his writing.)
They have a lot of cash, no debt. Qnx finally has a beautifull gui. Still have contracts with chrysler group. Bunch of buildings, patents, and huge upside. If they can license Nokia maps, now that Nokia HW is out of the picture, bb10 will have satisfied my last complaint.
Currently to make it work you have to run it locally after downloading from github: https://github.com/maroslaw/rainyday.js
In Firefox it runs fine at the beginning but then the fps decreases (running in 1920x1200), in Chrome it's "better" because it seems to use both CPU cores fully on a dual core while Firefox uses only one. Anyways it should use the GPU more (using WebGL) and not so much the CPUs, but i understand it's one of the developer's "first contact with JavaScript" and using shaders would be a little harder for him but here are some introductions:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webgl/shaders/
http://aerotwist.com/tutorials/an-introduction-to-shaders-pa...
Excellent, just did the same thing about a month ago (for https://codeable.io). We wanted to use Rails 4 but Active Admin didn't want to play nicely, so I looked around (and checked it's dependencies) and came to the same conclusion. One additional gem I'd recommend with this setup is also Ransack (AA also uses it) that allows you to easily implement searching.

After I was done, I wrote pretty much the same amount of code I used to configure AA.
> Most Steam games require keyboard and mouse. I don't see how that can work in the living room

If the issue is "how do you get control devices that work for that use case", wireless keyboards and mice with suitable range for living room use exist (I've seen them mostly used in large conference rooms, but the requirements aren't very different.)

If the issue is "how do you use control devices in that environment since they call for surfaces", lapdesks, coffee tables, etc., are frequently found in living rooms. If people want to play their existing keyboard-and-mouse focussed Steam games in their living rooms, its not hard to see how they can.

But I think that -- as with other consoles -- the games that are playable with more traditional "gaming controllers" will be more popular for the livingroom role than keyboard-and-mouse driven games. But plenty of PC games have, for years, been very similar to console games and support game controllers (even though they usually had KB/mouse support since that's what you could count on users having on the PC platform), so I don't think this is going to be much of an issue.
I believe the title is even better now than when it was written in the 1930s; the fact that when most people hear it they think of Machiavellian back-stabbing is evidence how important its lessons are today.
Yep, Chef would be an option if you want "infrastructure as code".

Ansible takes a different track because I want to get out of the practice of writing code. (Different strokes, etc -- but it's intended to be faster to write and review)
If you're using an off-the-shelf engine (Unreal engine, say), it's probably somewhat easier, as some of the work would be one-off, at least in theory. But I don't honestly know how that breaks down.
Also MS Office, Adobe Photoshop and a bunch of other Windows-only or Mac-only tools.
Couple of days ago I discovered http://www.rainymood.com/ and posted a link to it on HN. Did you get inspired by that or is it just a concidence? :)