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And re-encoded it into low-res PNGs?
You're still promoting 'Diamonds', which is what you want to get away from. I think it is very difficult to get promote and get people to not buy vs. buy. Look at the fur industry as an example. I don't think the anti-fur people have been very successful.

How would you measure diamonds people don't buy? It's difficult as a negative input. What you really want to do, if you really want to do this at all, is figure out what is better than a diamond.

I can't say I really have much thoughts on it. I've never bought a diamond, likely never will (not a new one at least).
Why should these restrictions even exist in the first place?
People claim it's about recourse, but that's what review sites and extensive contracts are for.

The author(s) of this drivel obviously want to paint this man in 50+ shades of dark grey and blood red, but really is there anything wrong, morally, with what he's doing, what is the purpose of the law other than to retroactively add value to the investments of people who could already afford to offer housing like this, and increase the barrier to entry for those who couldn't?
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I hate that quote. It starts fine, but then reaches a stupid conclusion. I wonder how much worse our life would have been without centuries of specialization: in science, in education, in business...
What snooping would they do?
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This has nothing to do with the software itself, but it bothers me: Why do you call a "high-throughput distributed messaging system" Kafka? Kafka's stories essentially describe the polar-opposite: crippled, ineffective, labyrinthine message systems that are exceedingly hierarchical in nature. They are also rather user-unfriendly, i.e. their users usually die horrible, lonely deaths. Am I just missing the in-joke here, and it's called Kafka because it is exactly the opposite of this, or did somebody overdo the hipster naming scheme?
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> If somebody buys 10% of the company for $200M, we infer that the rest of the company is worth $1.8B, even though you couldn't actually sell it for that price.

If I understand correctly, the point is that the latest investor effectively buys between 10% and 100% of the company, depending on what it eventually gets sold for.
Hmm ... it should work that way now. In fact, only admin users can force a page to refresh its cached content.

Though we are getting a spike in traffic with the redesign launch, New Relic still reports app server response times of <600ms. But WebPagetest confirms really slow load times. [1]

If anyone finds some gross offenders of page performance, please file a bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.mdn or better yet - send a pull request: https://github.com/mozilla/kuma !

[1] http://www.webpagetest.org/result/131209_Z0_1Q09/
So? Render statically after each edit.
> I'm maybe too much of an optimist , but I've always felt like we're(Americans) a bit less realpolitik than the rest of the world, and that if it were to come to shooting Americans for political gain, somebody would say something.

Spend some time consuming foreign-language media. You'll find the same hard-nosed realpolitik narrative on foreign governments, mixed with a much more sympathetic treatment of the domestic government.

This has the same effect: "we" are sincere, "they" are nefarious, "we" are straightforward, "they" are untrustworthy, "we" are working for the greater good, "they" are working for their own advantage, etc.
Pretty cool!

I like the concept and think I too don't document my work as often as I should, so a tool like this is super useful.

Quick Notes:
On boarding - after signing up - I am just shown collections, maybe a page to describe 3 things you can do - you already have it on the homepage, but to provide (Click on My Colletion (top nav) then Notes... etc.).

It's a little hard to find/see "My collections" as it's not part of the top nav. Collections show public collections so may want to adjust how.

Just some quick thoughts.

I also think a tool for capturing/storing design/ui elemnts (e.g. https://icebergs.com/site) might be another approach (sample tool, but also useful).

This is also assuming all my "projects" are public facing. It would be nice to be able to run/tunnel/some hack to capture local progress and showcase that.
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I deal with a lot of people external to my company, so LinkedIn is a gold mine for me. Since it also takes a reminder for folks to remember me, I do like typing in some text. I also appreciate it when others return the favor.
I saturate my 10/1Mbit all the time. I've had a 16GB disk image uploading for the past few days, and it will be going for a few more. It would be great if it was done in a few hours, but current consumer connections simply won't do that. If I had cable, I'm sure Time Warner would have throttled the transfer right down and it would have taken a similarly-stymieing amount of time. Either way I have to wait, but this way I'm not also tearing my hair out hating my ISP and wondering when they're going to jack my price or send me a nastygram.

As for entertainment, torrents seem to work for me. If you're looking for a branded service to contribute money to the destruction of the Internet, then I've got to wonder why you'd have any issue with the cable companies besides price.
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Basically at this point it is tax avoidance. By using btc you avoid paying capital gains tax since basically everyone who holds bitcoins right now has seen their investment go up in value. Converting back to usd is not as good as spending the btc.

It is kind of nice having a currency that appreciates in value over time vs slowly getting robbed by inflation or capital gains tax.
About a year ago, Google started having new Nexus devices from the Google Play ship pre-configured to your Google Account before they leave the factory. (It makes the box-opening more magical -- turn it on and GMail works, as opposed to turn it on and then have to type in your email address and password.) So if the new device was one of these, presumably someone or something in China turned it on and did some voodoo magic to pre-install your account on the device before it went into a box to be shipped to you.
It is not the fault of the people seeking the housing.

When gas prices went up a number of years ago due to a surge in demand from China,should we "roll over and die as soon as Chinese start driving more cars?"

Other people's demand for products drive up prices if there is a supply constraint, in what moral code can you blame them for desiring what you have?

In the case of SF, there are people who want to live there. That demand drives up the probability that landlords will want to raise rent, and if they can't because of rent control, arrange an eviction.

What should tech workers do? Realize that the people currently living in SF have some kind of nativist right to live there and new immigrants to the city are persona non grata?

I'm not even sure we should blame landlords for wanting to raise rents. I'm sure if you owned a house in the city, and someone was willing to offer you 10x the current rent controlled price you're collecting, you'd be seriously questioning how 'progressive' you feel towards your tenants.

San Francisco has demand that outstrips supply. Either increase supply, or recognize that the city is going to continue to get more expensive to live in. San Francisco cannot escape the fate of London and other cities in this respect.
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There are so many different reasons that people might (at this exact moment) live 50 miles from their job. To simply say "move closer" ignores so many of them.
They blocked in a bus that was illegally parked. No one forced you to get on the bus that was violating city codes.

What these people are complaining about is a two tiered system, where one set of laws apply to the people who live in the city and another set apply to corporations like Google. Why should that bus get to do something that common citizens are not allowed to, simply because it's owned by a company instead of a person?
In more formal terms, you are trying to minimize the expected risk (generalization error).

The expected risk is the sum of empirical risk (training set error) and the structural risk (model complexity).

In many instances, having low empirical risk comes at the cost of having high structural risk, which is overfitting.
There's some conflicting reports and I read a pretty good analysis a while ago that convinced me, but I don't have it, here's some light reading.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-i...

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-truth-about-the-stem...

http://gizmodo.com/there-may-not-actually-be-a-shortage-of-s...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-the-stem-job-advantage-a-myth...
Wow, that was a lot of strawman arguments. (1) The OP's title calls for every American. (2) "Code" is pretty agnostic as far as paradigms. Many people would be served just fine by learning how to do basic computation, graphing, and scripting in Excel. (3) These folks are not computer scientists, but they don't need to be to advocate tech literacy. (4) It's about life skills (esp. tech literacy) -- more like Thoreau-style self reliance rather than becoming a disposable cog. (5) Cart before the horse... (6) You mean like math, science, reading, and writing? (7) Learning to code basic programs helps you accomplish real tasks. Insight into "software development" be damned. I drive a car, but I'm not a ICE thermodynamics expert.
Yes, that's exactly what we do:

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/blob/master/apps/wiki/models...
"almost no engagement."

I was just recently thinking that I hadn't logged into linkedin since 2012 or 2011, and I've done some things to add to my resume. I assume a less than 1% chance what I do, would interest you.

If you run the math, 10K / (2 x 365) * 0.01 * 7 means your almost no engagement should be quantified to about one interesting thing per week, plus or minus a couple orders of magnitude. So its statistically believable.

"roughly one interesting thing per week" does translate to multiple billions of value in TV and music and movie biz, so its valuation is not entirely outta line.
I'd rather have every American learn how to vote. Far more damage is being done to this country by ignorant voters. Far more benefit could be derived by having an intelligent, well informed voting population. The best way to protect your future and that of your children is to elect representatives that will truly do what's best. The economic implosion of 2008 had nothing to do with not knowing how to code, write, cook or weld. It had everything to do with horrendously misplaced public policy and legislation. Learning how to critically analize issues without the influence of emotion, religion or political indoctrination to then intelligently cast votes is what we need people trained on.

Then again, no politician would want this reality.
I'm not sure about the $1billion, but the $271 fine is what we as regular citizens would get if we tried to pick people up from the bus stop. The complaint is that the two tiered system- one where normal citizens have to follow the rules, while corporations can do whatever they please- and the fine is simply one example of that.
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I still find value within in. Sorry! Specialization is important for society collectively, diversity is important for the individual. Balance is key.

I don't want to die gallantly though, just satisfied with whatever I've accomplished and left behind.
It's convenient to just blame LinkedIn for a friendship you evidently didn't have to start with. Nothing stops you from writing an email to the person first or immediately after you hit the "connect" button. Don't blame your own laziness on a tool.
I don't know about tech 'star', but there was a pretty high profile employee at GroupOn killed a few months ago in Chicago traffic;

- http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/20566657-418/groupon-hono...
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Most people in developed countries need to handle significant amounts of information. Knowing how to code a little (even just simple loops and conditions) allows you to be an order of magnitude more productive.
Yes - people like to win. If the product succeeds, and the start-up is racing upwards, people will forgive a lot of other things.

I think on work/life balance, there are populations who care about this, and populations who don't. And this changes over time. When I was younger I was happy to throw my whole life into tough projects. Now that I have a family it's tougher to go "All in" with projects.
Validation isn't "a trick", or shouldn't be. It's just being responsible. I'm sure there are people getting funded who don't know about it, but they're charlatans if they don't understand the dangers of overfitting (and underfitting).
Anki is well used and well regarded for this:

http://ankisrs.net/

Windows, Mac, free
TLDR; Snapchat is probably worth more to Facebook than it would be to other players in the market or to acquirers simply interested in cash flows to equity.

So it would appear from the comments and from the article that there is a bit of misunderstanding in valuation theory and how it might apply to the valuations in the media. Hopefully this will help clarify some things.

1. FMV of equity is not 100% of the enterprise value of a given company. The enterprise value (EV) of a company is comprised of its equity value plus its net debt (total debt less cash).

2. The FMV of a given share will vary based on (as mentioned) the liquidation preference, any dividends and will also be affected by many other possible factors such as redemption/retraction, cumulative vs non-cumulative, ability to control/vote, etc...

Knowing this, it seems that what the author is trying to say is that it is misleading to suggest that the the value offered for a share of class A can be generalized across all classes of shares to provide a valuation. This is a valid and important point. Now, with respect to the valuation of Snapchat, I haven't seen the details of the offer to be able to question the basis for the valuation. Typically, a potential acquirer will have a valuation in mind when an offer is made. This may or may not be in line with the valuation that the media publishes.

Another issue that I see with what people are saying in the comments here is the confusion of price and value.

In the world of business valuation, the only time when price == value is the time when an acquisition offer is made that eventually closes at substantially the same terms. At any other time, we rely on the concept of fair market value as imagined using a hypothetical buyer and seller (there is a very specific definition). We may rely on past transactions as they given an indication of price/value at a moment in time to try to come up with a value at another date.

Now, none of this talks about the concept of special purchaser premiums, or the additional value that may accrue to a buyer for buyer-specific reasons. It may very well be that Snapchat is worth much less than $3b to most players in the market, however, part of the difinition of FMV is the hist and best price. This means that if Facebook is willing to pay a significant premium over others, then that premium should be considered as an indication of value.
The fact that storage/maintenance is decentralized makes manipulation easier, in fact. For example, take voting machines stored in a school's locker room. Show the low-paid, possibly immigrant, janitor a FBI badge and he'll instantly let you in the room with the machines.

Now, imagine big, centralized storage facilities with proper security. A trained guard would most likely not simply some FBI agent in without a warrant.
I poked around Google quite a bit a few months ago. If you drop any one of my adjectives, you can come up with something, but the full gamut does not appear to exist.
I am not sure you understand just how poor they are.

"In a good month, their combined efforts can bring in a few hundred dollars."

They are in a situation where they cannot afford to save money in most conventional ways.

Spending $100 on a fridge that they can't properly use (because they can't cook in a shelter) isn't a wise appropriation of a significant portion of their monthly income.
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> It is actually incredibly easy to see how smart people tasked with solving complicated societal problems arrive at false flag operations as a viable solution:

The end justifies the means. And we surely shouldn't be naive about it. And if we don't do it first, the opposition will no doubt get ahead. And that's all that matter in the end. It's a pissing contest taking place in a graveyard.
I think that people have unintentionally been conditioned to create posts in order for it to be liked. Instead of just saying their grandparent died, they will instead say what a great person they were and how much they will be missed. The addition of another button only complicates things.

You know, as opposed to: "Me and my baby have been together for 3 months now"... and someone clicking sympathize when they meant like.... and the following shitstorm that would ensue.
>Google declined to comment on the map, but said it has over 100 buses that shuttle 4,500-plus people per day from more than 30 stops across seven Bay Area counties.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044398290...

So Google alone could make up that number. Toss in the other tech companies that are doing this as well and I can see how there are far more than 86 stops a day.
> It would take extensive use of brainwashing and belief in fairy tales about an enlightened government, a city on hill exceptional-ism or what-have-you to think these don't happen.

And the only way a government could pull that off would be to do something drastic, like if it forced all citizens to sit listening to government employees deliver government curricula for 8 hours a day for twelve years during some of the most formative periods of their lives.
Well, this is a good excuse for gaming MI5 analysts, and probably a reason for their recent Russian vacancies, someone has to play Russian MMORPGs (just kidding).
But seriously speaking - do you remember that American spy killed in Tripoli before the Lybian war (if memory serves)? He was a huge authority in EVE Online as it turned out.
For kids (not just American kids) between 9 and 12 I'm working on a book that hopefully can help with that:

https://leanpub.com/programmingforkids

If anyone here wants a review copy, either reply here or I'm @peterarmstrong on Twitter...
I can certainly agree with that. "Specialization is for insects" is needlessly insulting, though...
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It seems like you might be more concerned with people knowing how to communicate well. Knowing how to format their thoughts so that they will be understandable through conversation or text. The ability to adapt this formatting process to fit the audience they are trying to reach.
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Volume, not height. At 4km, 100 L of water would be compressed to 98.2 L. Also, that's at 4km depth, not the compression of everything above that point, but rather the compression of things at that point.
Rent control invariably just increases the evictions and reduces supply and many property owners opt to lease the space for other uses.

San Francisco is unable to build high density housing because many of the same people who don't want the city culture to change also don't want it's skyline to change.

Large parts of SF are suburb-like and could be replaced with high density high-rises, but it would then lose the "SF charm".

Someone else suggested Google shouldn't have built its campus in Mountain View, but Google built the campus there long before the craze of moving back to SF started. In the last .com boom in the 90s, it was Peninsula rents that were sky high. In 1999, I paid $3600 for a 2 bedroom in Foster City.

To suggest Google move its campus close to SF would only make things worse. Most Googlers don't live in SF, so you'd be asking a huge number of people who live in the South Bay to uproot and move up north. That plan won't pass go. I certainly wouldn't, for school district alone.

San Francisco's problems are bigger than Google. It cannot rescue San Francisco.
That's exactly their goal. Get as many people to use it as possible so it will be painful to not use. Then exploit the information they gain as much as possible because the users have no alternative.
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Lessons for VCs from the Oracle
Great article, but I got a really good laugh out of this.

"But very often, the hard technical problems are important to the world (e.g. Google, Palantir, Facebook)."

Let me know when Facebook starts doing something important to the world.
> "Innocent people will die either way."

This is no gray area.