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overused but appropriate.

There are 2 rules to success:

rule 1: Never tell everything you know.

edit: read a bit about Derek Sivers, this guy is either the counter example or his rule no2 is really worth knowing. Almost all my best reads of the past 10 years are on his book list.

He sold his company to a perpetual charitable trust which then sold it to a third party, shielding himself and saving a bundle in capital gains tax and providing residual for his whole life + supports his cause(music education). Kudos Derek. I'll be reading the books on your list; maybe to catch a glimpse of your rule no2?
:-)

Cheers,
I guess down voters don't get the reference.
> So is Snapchat just big enough and hot enough that investors will ignore due diligence red flags?

Maybe! Or more accurately, the investors will just price this into their expected return. Let's assume the third founder wins and gets some number of shares equal to the number of shares owned by one of the other two founders. Let's also assume, for the sake of illustration, the investors collectively hold 100 shares and each of the founders holds 100 shares. In the worst case scenario (for the investors), those newly issued shares dilute all of the current stockholders equally -- e.g. the investors would go from holding 100/300 shares to 100/400 shares.

Well that sucks. But if you bought into Snapchat with the expectation of a 4x return, all that means is that you're now getting something closer to a 3x return. Not as much as you hoped -- but it still might make sense from an investment standpoint to hop on.

If anything, the actual litigation probably made things easier for the investors. It's much easier to price the risk from actual ongoing litigation than potential may-or-may-not happen litigation. Moreover, the litigation probably gave the investors more leverage against the founders -- e.g. it's possible the investors required the founders to bear the brunt of any extra dilution resulting from the lawsuit.
It's probably because Mozilla announced that Thunderbird is now in maintenance mode. They do not plan to add features or make major changes anymore.

To some that may mean Thunderbird is complete and mature, but RedHat must believe that Thunderbird is now a dead end.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/New_Release_and_Governa...
Apple patents system to use phone for unlocking a vehicle
You own the rights to the photo...but that does not necessarily give you the rights to the object(s) photographed, or in the case of a person, to their likeness.
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I've just found a site that covers what I need.

http://www.wavestack.com

It has very interesting fork-like actions. You can upload your projects and ask others for suggestions/collaborations.

I highly recommend it.
Do you literally mean from source, or from a base image?

If I understand correctly, this is only up to the base image. All the docker docs talk about basing images from well known images from the index. I'd very much like to know how "ubuntu" is prepared for example.
From the official Markdown docs[0]:

> "When you do want to insert a <br /> break tag using Markdown, you end a line with two or more spaces, then type return."

I haven't tried this ever, but you should get the desired result by ending a line with 2 spaces.

[0]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#p
The CEO of the company I work at uses Snapchat.
It would still have been illegal, but probably not criminal. (I.e., it would have been a tort rather than a crime.) However, in some states, and in many nations, it would still have been a crime.
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This is no longer true re: credit cards. As part of the consumer protection package that passed a few years back, charging fees became permissible by merchants.
> And if you think that is wrong, then tell insurance companies and courts about limiting damage. "Was you car locked where you left it before it got stolen, sir?"

"Rape Shield" laws are fairly common in the United States and elsewhere which prevents cross-examining rape victims about their past sexual history or submitting such things as evidence at trial.

This is done precisely to combat victim blaming and is much more relevant than your hypothetical "unlocked car" metaphor.
In particular, I'm hopeful that the radeon and intel FOSS drivers will improve (although I guess that nvidia said they will help with nouveau now: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/nvidia...). I gather Valve has given significant feedback to all three vendors (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2049369/amd-nvidia-ramp-up-li... and: http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/08/31/1551230/valve-finds...), and that steam games have, perhaps, stressed the sort of hitherto rarely used code paths that would only show themselves to be broken or unreasonably slow when some compositing DM feature wouldn't work, for example when KDE 4 was famously broken on fglrx for a couple of years, and no one cared enough to fix the driver bug because who plays games on linux, right? Of course that's the closed driver but the same kinds of problems have happened for all the drivers for want of heavy use, and of course they won't be heavily used if they are way broken.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Wayland/Mir support must be added to any driver that will support them, and I believe it's not yet clear that that will be done. Intel has already refused a pull request for XMir support (http://slashdot.org/story/13/09/08/0431242/intel-rejects-sup...), and I think the proprietary drivers have no support for either of the new WM's, nor will will they publicly admit to having any plans to implement it.

KMS was added to the kernel five years ago this month, and the proprietary drivers still don't support it, although the intel driver does. Imagine a similar outcome for the new compositors, where the vendors don't implement support for a long time, or, worse, where there are factions comprised of certain combinations of driver/distro/WM... that would be bad.
Javascript in iOS is not a good idea, unless you are just prototyping/building a basic app.
Thanks for this post. This is exactly the issue. No dystopian future is needed to prove the value of privacy, one only has to look back at history to see that.
Ubuntu also allows you to just install the packages for a different desktop; the differently branded install CDs are mostly for people who come from windows or OSX and thus believe that the desktop == the OS and it's impossible to change once installed :P
Discretion and secrecy are related but not interchangible concepts. Is this author really suggesting discretion be non-existent? That opportunistic manipulation has never occurred? The need for NDAs has never once made sense? What it is disporportionately valuable to you, is more costly to you, once taken away, too.
Lots of awful laws were "the law of the land" for much longer.

Why would a tradeoff from 80 years ago be appropriate for today's wealthier, more informed era? And when the other competing ways that people can lose all their net worth (gambling, real-estate speculation, leveraged/optioned public-security speculation) are so much more available?

It's no longer serving a protective function... but that rationalization is still trotted out, out of habit and status-quo bias.

You implied irrationality among non-accredited investors, with your question, "how can you make a rational decision...?" Well, non-millionaires can be just as rational as millionaires, within these domains.

As a practical matter, firms can't just increase their disclosures and then accept investment from everyone. The costs and legal risks are too high - the regulations preclude non-millionaires from rationally accepting the same level of disclosure and disclaimers as millionaires are allowed. So less-wealthy people get locked out, by regulation-imposed costs.

The means-test is unjust discrimination, just like if a community said, "you may have the cash to pay the asking price for a house here, but we'll need to x-ray your personal finances to determine if you're really suitable for our community".

I would replace the means test with the same test required to buy a state lottery ticket: are you 18 and do you have the cash?

If compromise is required, I'd replace the means test with a means-oblivious competence-evaluation: do you understand the risks and instruments involved? Wealthy people – heirs, lottery winners, successful businesspeople – wouldn't get a free pass, they'd have to pass the same test. (That would help ensure that politically-influential wealthy people also lobby to keep the test from becoming too exclusionary.) Many kinds of certifications – like college degrees in business/economics/law or the standard tests that already exist to qualify people as a banker/lawyer/accountant/investment-adviser – should serve as adequate proof of competence. (For example, pass the 'Series 7' that allows you to recommend and manage investments for others, and we'll assume you can also invest for yourself.)

After all, who's more at risk from a shady private investment: a trustfunder 'accredited investor' or an MBA/CPA/licensed-investment-professional? Current law favors the trustfunder at the expense of the certified expert!

If even more compromise to paternalism is required, private-security investments could be subject to a proportion-of-net-worth test. For example, perhaps only 1/2 to 1/3 of net-worth could be placed in such securities. Or, only an amount that's less that that already saved in tax-advantaged retirement accounts (IRAs/501ks/etc).

Any of those standards make more sense than the "are you already rich?" test.
To play devil's advocate: The comment was poorly worded, but there is a kernel of truth in it.

Being openly gay in the 1940-50's in some places in the US may very well have been a death-sentence. Those people would have been wise to keep their sexuality private (or move somewhere a bit more progressive). Likewise today, you wouldn't have to look too hard to find countries where people have to hide their true beliefs from repressive governments or society out of a justified fear of harm.

What I think the commenter meant to say was that the blog author is a member of (I assume) a privileged class in (again, I assume) a privileged society. The public/open lifestyle he suggests might be a worth-while pursuit for others in a similar position as he, but it may very well be foolish for those less fortunate. Context matters.
That's a variant on 'nothing to hide nothing to fear'. Plenty of average Joes in East Germany under the Stasi may disagree with that notion being even potentially benign in its outcome. I'd imagine you have doors and curtains/blinds in your house - most people do and it's not out of neurosis and paranoia.
Ask HN: What is the relationship between AngelHack and Y Combinator?
Just asking because it seems that posts about AngelHack's CEO going on a rant have gone viral on social media ("Startup CEO Wishes Homeless 'Degenerates' Would Stop Ruining 'The Civilized Part' Of San Francisco ") and it's making the news, but quietly sinking away here on HN.

Of course, perhaps HN folk aren't interested in the story, but given that the Google Bus Protest story made the front page, perhaps there are other reasons. Just enquiring, thanks.
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Business Idea: Make it easy for Joe Schmoe's like myself to take action against issues like this.

I hate the monopoly the cable company has in my area. I hate that my parents were paying AT&T $50/mo. for a 1Mbps connection because we hadn't looked at their bill in a year and because getting cable in their building is a pain in the ass. I hate these new early upgrade programs the wireless carriers are rolling that are a plain rip off (give us your phone and pay full price for your upgrade but in payments). I hate that if my phone miscalculates my usage and I go over by even 1MB, Verizon charges me $15 that month.

I'm all for free market enterprise, but recognize (much like Adam Smith) that it doesn't work for all sectors of the economy.

With that said, I am a busy working professional trying to make it in this dog-eat-dog world. I'm well educated, have the means, but even for me, I haven't a clue as to what to do about all the things I just ranted about.

I don't have the solution, but I hope someone finds a way to make it easy for me to contribute to the democratic process.
Learn more about life in East Germany.
If you're a black person what happens to MLK-type figures matters to you, even if you're not them.

You don't get it: You can't have democracy in a surveillance state.
The sleeping outside (and the actual homelessness) is a separate and unfortunate problem that needs to be solved. Fixing the broken shelter system would be a start. Many of the people exhibiting the behavior I described may, in fact, have homes!

Aside from that, if we're supposed to condone people in our public places making them unsafe and unsanitary, what's the point of having them/paying for them at all?
You should've asked her if you could scan it, OCR it, and upload it to a publicly available, web-crawlable, SEO-optimized website where it would be scooped up and stored on archive.org for all eternity.
By this logic, all killing should be allowed because we merely disagree that some types of killing. All type of sexual activity should be allowed because we merely disagree that some types of acts are non-consensual. Indeed...all types of crimes should be allowed because we merely disagree that some things are crimes.

Absolutism may work wonderfully in a fantasy universe, but it has no place in reality. There is a huge difference between the non-consensual posting of someone else's pictures (i.e., revenge porn) and Anthony Weiner, a politician running for office, posting his own pictures of his own privates to women he had just met or not even met. (Hint: in one situation, the subject of the photo did not consent to the distribution of the photo, and may not even have consented to the photo itself. In the other situation, the utter stupidity of the actions calls into question Weiner's judgment and demonstrates a propensity for making rash decisions, both of which are important to know when electing a representative.)
Some registrars such as Badger have APIs that should let you do this. (http://badger.github.io/account/).

Edit: They allow creating an account and using it programmatically; not sure about the oauth aspect, though.
True scams aren't much slowed by accredited investor laws. Scammers just move into the areas - gambling, real estate, amateur high-frequency-trading, under-the-table offerings - that escape SEC control. And people with poor money-management skills can already put all their money into legal things that go to zero - like lottery tickets or leveraged real-estate or Enron or pre-reorganization GM.

And, 'dumb money' mainly gets smart by trial-and-error, and observing the lessons of peers. Locking all non-millionaires out of private investing prevents that process from even starting.
Poll: Why do you comment?
I've noticed two tendencies with my own comments. I either comment to 1) get up-voted, 2) have my position or thoughts critiqued, or 3) to critique/commend another comment. I very rarely comment with the motivation to further the discussion (which I why I think we should post comments in the first place). Perhaps that's just a commentary on myself; perhaps not.

What is your most common motivation?
Up-votes
Receive critique
Make critique/commendation
Further the discussion
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We have been able to make viruses from scratch for about a dozen years. Synthetic poliovirus, 1918 flu, sars like corona amongst a dozen or so other demonstrations.
I'm not seeing the strawman? Plenty of people are claiming the cost of university is more than its worth. Ariely is offering a counterpoint. Others argue that education is a right, but he isn't addressing that in this case.
There is a secondary life insurance market, which is close :P
I'm really confused by the comments that say the tone of this site is "Hindu nationalist". I see no mention of the word "Hindu" in the entire page. In fact, it's as far from politicized text as possible. Not everything on the web has some hidden meaning or subtext.
The formation of the texts of Confucius and Mencius of course is older than that. The Qin book-burning destroyed a lot of the books that were that old, but bamboo manuscripts and silk manuscripts are still being discovered from archeological sites that are much older than any surviving writings from India. I have personally read in museums bronze inscriptions that are more than just a few sentences long, dating back about three millennia.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol/2010/01/29/rare-bamboo-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawangdui_Silk_Texts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_and_wooden_slips
Why do people make a lot of money when they don't want to pay taxes?
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It's only optimizing for happiness, based on expected outcomes. The only thing that might be crazy are the numeric expectations.
OpenVz was something that required hacked kernels.

A better analogy is LXC = Solaris Zones

KVM and XEN are hypervisors for virtualization.
VirtualBox is a non-hypervisor virtual machine.
That was the number it showed when it ended and that is the number of worldwide participants. Your odds will now be significantly higher at the expense of my odds plummeting to zero :(
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> The two technologies aren't competing as directly as some people seem to think.

I think that was his point.
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His opinions in the interview are much more nuanced than the linkbait title suggests. A better title would be, "Dan Ariely says nice things about College, but in the end he's still doubling down on MOOCs."

http://danariely.com/tag/mooc
I don't think someone fleeing an abusive partner would necessarily benefit as much from knowing the abuser's location as much as the abuser would benefit from the victim's location. The information would be symmetric, but the value from it might not be.

Maybe the abuser has a car and victim is relying on mass transit. Or maybe the victim's best bet is staying with a friend whose residence is unknown to the abuser.
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Sadly it's not very clear, and it wasn't a random representative sampling, but it's the closest thing we have to any actual figures right now (AFAIK)
All I want is your GitHub password.
Nonsense. FastMail's webmail allows you to scroll continuously through (or jump to any section of) your mailbox, even when they have 100,000+ messages in them. (Disclaimer: I work for FastMail). This is not an inherent limitation of the underlying technology, just one of implementation.
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I wonder if these articles would resonate more if they said "People working for the French government..."

We sometimes have a hard time believing in the systematic corruption of an institution, but it's easy to imagine a man in a position of power compromising his values to protect his own self interests. That effect, multiplied, leads to corrupt organizations.
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We'll he's saying that the price is right for a '24-hour-a-day college experience' but seems to imply that that is the only alternative to community colleges.
From (http://startupweekend.org/about/):
"Startup Weekends are weekend-long, hands-on experiences where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable."

I'm not denying that it was a great exercise, but not a great exercise in building a business. It's not a hackathon, you're supposed to be learning how to build the framework for a sustainable business.
Hats off re good promo and topicality - but I'd expect something a bit more broadly reflective and nuanced. Really don't think you've thought this one through. You seem to have taken a line for a walk and inadvertently reinvented the asinine 'nothing to hide' argument here. The whole thing about say, the Stasi, was that they were interested in all the everyday comings and goings, not the James Bond stuff. That's the depressingly mundane and terrifying reality of mass surveillance. That's why it was referred to as the 'boot in the face of humanity' by a smarter and better informed person than any of us.

> It could also mean reevaluating what you've made public, and deciding what should be secret.

aka chilling effect - surely you're not seriously advocating for it?
People buy crappy "game guides" all the time. How easy would it be not to even pay a bad author, but just scrape the internet and use it without attribution?
I've seen Haiku before and my understanding is that it's a BeOS clone on steroids.

Is Google making charitable contributes to open source projects for the sake of fostering open source or do they have some keen interest in Haiku? If it's the latter: I would have thought Google's interests would be served by donating to Linux-based projects.
The overreaction to terrorism isn't a direct cost and its not part of the numbers I cited. Direct costs are insurance losses, medical care for victims, relief to widowers/widows, lost wages, etc. Those costs make up the numbers in my previous comment, which alone justify spending money on preventing terrorism. Indirect costs would be what your talking about and include things like unnecessary wars, wasteful spending on defense, currency/stock market devaluation, etc. Indirect costs are in the trillions but are harder to prove and reason about, which is why I omitted them.

I think Sam's getting at something important but it would be best to first start with estimating the costs as accurately as possible. As it stands Sam's estimates to the cost of terrorism are off by several orders of magnitude, so you can understand why I pointed that out.
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And people in the academic world have implemented live migration for just plain Linux processes as well. But when you migrate at that level you run into issues with things like open files and open sockets that are not easy to solve.

LXC is mainly a way to manage multifunction servers in a clean way, and Docker is a nice tool to help you leverage LXC without having to learn all the details. The nicest thing about Docker is that a developer on Windows could set up a VirtualBox VM with Linux, run all the same Docker Scripts as the production server, and have a reasonable facsimile of production to do testing.
But I think that's completely untrue. I'd rather argue that most people are too oblivious about what they should and shouldn't keep secret.

What in general would you say people keep secret that adds to their stress?

Maybe some people here on HN might be over the top paranoid, but Joe Average? Sure, maybe they shouldn't have that secret affair and hide it from their spouse, but they probably already know that's a bad thing.
I would agree with you. Anyways I hope people were not making such errors and if we were, then at least someone would benefit from reading this!
Based on https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/641193 the root account is disabled but sudo is granted to the uid 'cloud-user'. Basically, it is configured to use cloud-init and be provisioned ssh keys.

If a root password is required, the KB recommends using 'guestfish --rw -a <image>', mounting the filesystem, and running vi against /etc/shadow.
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