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VC's: Experienced 50 year old with good ideas. Will you talk to me?
For context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932327

I have a ton of business and tech experience. I've launched several garage businesses. One did really well but the economy, circumstances and a perennially under-funded state (hardware is capital intensive) killed it. All were interesting experiences.

I've never raised any money. I self-funded everything I've ever done. The last one to the tune of over half a million dollars of my own money. I am no stranger to being all-in and putting it all on the line for something I believe in.

Circumstances are different now. Either I take my time and bootstrap from small to large projects or look for investors.

Sadly, I will not move to SV and I will not live on noodles. Bummer.

I have identified two opportunities I think have merit.

The first is a pure software web/mobile service. As is often the case, it is a twist on existing product. I believe the twist is what makes it very interesting, gives it wide appeal and could make it huge. It can go global. I have a 70 page deck covering just about every aspect of this venture. No, it's not a new Facebook. It's a B-to-B, C-to-C (and permutations thereof) service.

The second is a novel use of quadcopters. No regulatory issues I am aware of. Sizable world-wide appeal. This is definitely a case of first-mover advantage. With proper funding and support, execution would be fast and painless. This wouldn't be a an R&D project. This is a D project. Define, develop and go to manufacturing. Heard of "live long and prosper"? This one is "move fast and conquer". Probably the Klingon version. I don't have a deck on this one. It's a recent discovery of mine and I've put zero time into developing a deck. With one video I can show anyone this is a good idea.

Looking for a low impedance bank account to help launch either or both of these.
I usually call them staple tables.
>Bitcoin has multiple extensions, like deterministic hierarchical wallets, which are easy to understand and reason about but I know for a fact weren't designed by world class crypto-experts.

He clearly isn't talking about Satoshi when you look at the entire sentance
Or they could build a huge campus in SF and then suffer the wrath of locals decrying how tech cos directly take up valuable real-estate, as well as indirectly by people who move to be closer to campus all driving up prices and driving out the poor from the city.

Attack local zoning laws which made sense in the 50s but don't make sense in a modern metropolis. The peninsula should make El Camino, from SSF to Santa Clara a high density canyon with underground transport. The transit project would lose money the first decade or two, but would set the stage for the following decades for business development, housing and community.

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It's not lost on me that this would require State governance to overcome the hurdles presented by having to manage the needs and input from ten different local governments and agencies.
Another thing that surprised me was how people made themselves available to talk to us. We got quite a few meetings on relatively short notice, and it made it possible to learn a lot in a short amount of time. ... It may also be that they're investing some of their time to discover, before every one else, new stuff that may be useful to them. Or it may be that they're just happy to help out!

No doubt a little of all of these things. But Americans in general try to be helpful. If anything, people in the Bay area are a little more stand-offish, although this is not taken to an extreme. The helpfulness only extends so far for strangers (and even close friends) -- there often comes a point where people start to get a little impatient. This helpfulness is to be contrasted with the superb hospitality shown in some parts of the world. Americans are helpful but not very hospitable. Be prepared to fend for yourself here for anything beyond the basics.
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In fact, why this young mans treatment likely exacerbated his psychopathic acumen, is because it gave him an entirely knrw language to dissimulate with. Why the psychopath is untreatable, is because it is a
"lying" disorder. The essence of psychopathy is profound dishonesty. It is an inversion of meaning, an inversion of the order, where good
becomes bad and bad becomes good. Where kindness is reformulatrd through the process of the ultimate lie, which is a perversion in the thinking processes. Evil triumphs. It is strong and good. The psychopath has only the machinery of perverde reasoning to use to cogitate reality. Thus he lies not only to others but neecessarily lies to himself about himself. Because of this endohenous
> And that's fine, this and only this allows trade beyond immediate barter.

It's a rather open question as to which of these emerged first; it may very well have been the credit systems.
*for very specific types of applications.
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This is an interesting article, taking on a complex subject. That said, I really do not see myself moving to the cities that showed the most growth of 35+ cohort...

Close suburbs of the CA cities are definitely an option, even Seattle is not out of the question (oddly, I love rainy weather...), but it seems like the cohorts need some sort of geographic slicing. Where are people moving from to increase the presence of a cohort? I have a hard time imagining that a lot of tech people from SV will pack up and go to New Orleans or Florida. If this is where you are from or have family at, it makes more sense, but I wouldn't expect a large number of people that never lived in those areas/cities, to suddenly want to move there just because they got older/settled down.

An interesting infographic would be to show migration patterns over time, from where you are born, to where you go to college, work, etc. and then retire. For me, I'm expecting a boomerang-looking flow to where I went to high school.
Hey James, thanks for your feedback. Which part of the US do you think we should have gone to instead? Are there any conferences and professional bodies you could recommend us to check out?
2013 was the year of the coder
> The USD is a fiat currency, it only has value because the US government says it has value.

It has value because it's the only thing the US will take in payment for tax and fee obligations.
Magnitude isn't a meaningful difference?

Sounds like saying "everybody has an army. there is no difference" in response to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...
>> HMAC is very easy to implement, see RFC 2104. Your developers can do it in a day.

I can vouch for this, having just written an (embedded) HMAC implementation in half a day :)
Ha - well said. Employee churnover in startupland is hilarious. This is not always obvious to those diving into this world for the first time.
Proper planning and policy would mean that people wouldn't have to make this decision.

Funding schools based off of local property values creates a rich-get-richer scheme for school quality. It also encourages people to sprawl, which is what we don't want to encourage if we want vibrant, walkable environments. If every student in America had the same funding (cost of living adjusted) we wouldn't have as many failing schools or encourage people to flee the city when they have a kid.
Psychopaths are devious not creative.
His spirit quite certainly does. I would assume that you've never attempted to report a crime in the UK. It's a fruitless endeavour that typically results in the police threatening the reporter, or simply declaring it a civil matter in which they have no interest.
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Why a startup just published all of its employees’ salaries for the world to see
"200% secure".
If I believed in a god, I'd have trouble deciding which news would be more unbearable: finding out there is no god, or finding out that this god wrote the universe in Perl.
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Oh man, good blog post, but I opened VA-Live's website in a new tab and it scared the living daylights out of me with that awful music. I thought we weren't supposed to do things like that anymore...
I really do love my pet. She's awesome.

But I show my pet pictures to people.

That's the fundamental problem here - the point of Pinterest / Instagram / Facebook is that very few people want to look at one kind of thing, but if they want, they can use search.

There isn't a successful domain-specific search engine; the fundamental nature of Facebook is encyclopedic at this point, similar to a search engine.
Amen.

;)
I think about offices a lot, but I don't really agree with this article all that much. Apple isn't the same company as the so called "hot, tech" companies located in San Francisco.

An office for a growing 20-150 employee company, or even 1000+ employee company is entirely different than an office that will hold 15,000 employees, r&d facilities, parking, etc. Apple would literally need to build a skyscraper to achieve that in San Francisco proper.

I also don't agree that Facebook moved from Palo Alto to Menlo Park to be closer to the city in order to attract talent. It was about gathering enough real estate to house their growing company (and probably about who offered higher tax breaks).

EDIT: I guess my comment doesn't really address the idea that they might lose tech talent, but rather more the idea that having an office in SF is actually feasible.
Under-reported volume in AAPL cannot advantage one trader over another. I don't disagree, however, that odd-lots can be used by HFTs/algos for price-discovery. I don't think that this necessarily disadvantages any market participants.

Odd lot pings are just ways for HFTs to reduce their capital outlay. You simply don't want to commit too much capital to "ping" passive dark pool orders. So, in the new odd-lot reporting method, oddlot pings will now be reported to the tape. I would argue, however, that this makes no difference to the HFT. The consolidated tape is so slow, that by the time other HFT participants can digest an odd-lot fill from a darkpool, that remainder of the passive dark order would have already been gone/hit/lifted by the pinger. I view this behaviour purely as proper functioning of the markets...
One of the things that's insane to me is how poorly funded so many of these crucial internet projects are. To my understanding, the majority of gpg is implemented by Werner Koch.. He's amazing, but is only human.

Tech Giants spend more money choosing the color of blue than they ever donate, and they seldom hire people to contribute code back upstream. :/
But there was: the church.
I have a fairly strong aversion to the way they implemented enum for ActiveRecord - choosing to back it with ints and also leaking that implementation detail through using the ordering of the enums as the int is a bad choice. Also the method name collision issues that go along with that are just silly - it would be so much easier to just prefix the methods with the column name, e.g. #status_new?

There's some other interesting stuff in there, though, and this is a good writeup of some interesting features.
Also, if you're going to be taking 2-3 meetings/day in the Peninsula or South Bay, rent a car. Public transit is ok in some cases for a routine daily commute, but it's a huge pain for going from one office to another mid-day. In SF itself it's different, since ~everyone is in SOMA, which is all walking distance.
That's an absurdly low bar for controversy. If they're looking to police innocuous comments like that, this particular comment is just a pretext.
Just to follow my thought pattern.

I start with

(.)(.)\2\1

Now to invert I change it to

(?!(.)(.)\3\2)

As you say, the negation matches an empty string. So I put on anchors:

^(?!(.)(.)\3\2)$

But now it matches nothing. I'm not even sure what that regexp says. The entire string is a negation? Would anything match that regexp?

I see elsewhere on this page that the answer involves putting in an extra dummy character, putting that new negation-and-dummy-character in parens, and then requiring that, between the anchors, there be 0-or-more of negation-and-dummy-character.

^((?!(.)(.)\3\2).)∗$

Two questions:

1. Why are my backrefs still \3 and \2? I added another pair of parens. (I thought ?! might not count, but it counted in my second example above.

2. Why does abba no longer match? It has no matches to the negation-and-dummy character construct, which ∗ should match, right?

NB: I used ∗ as my asterisk to avoid bb-code.
In his talk on currying, he mentioned replying on type system to not be a good thing. Does anyone know the reasons behind his view?
And more than that, if I spent the time required to avoid offending people that I talked to, I wouldn't have any time left over to think about anything else. I'm not willing to do that, for more reasons than just that I value my time highly.
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I don't. Bellard is one of my programming heroes, and I'm of the opinion that he's not a 10X programmer, but the 1000X outlier :)
No.

The employment contract is a business arrangement. Describing it in such value-laden terms does a disservice to all parties.

One is employed presumably because the arrangement is mutually beneficial; if it stops being mutually beneficial the arrangement is renegotiated or terminated.
"How software companies die" by Orson Scott Card?
Not all of us want to live and work in the city.
Are they limiting the definition of "tech talent" to single 25-somethings? I know plenty of engineers with families who dont want to or cannot afford to live in San Francisco and like to live in the south bay/east bay or in the peninsula.
The article assumes that the best people to hire are twenty-somethings that want to live in the city. What about catering to the 30 and 40 something senior engineers? In my experience it's much easier to hire a newly graduated, smart young engineer than it is to hire somebody with 10+ years experience.

Those people may have a family, and would much prefer a suburban home in a good school district.

Apple isn't part of the tech _startup_ scene, it's been around a long time and they know the value of retaining experienced engineers.
Agree. It's a rocky ride to attempt closer contact with a psychopath: there's nobody home, and you discover eventually that you were relating to a 3-D, Technicolour magnified mirror more than to another human being. And, at the same time, the mirror is almost painfully alive. I never saw so well my own strengths and flaws, never had to doubt even the most basic assumptions like when in a 'friendship' with such people.

Those tho, were high functioning, highly educated people. I don't think that psychopathy tells the whole story about anyone - there's more to one's personality than psychopathy or absence of, and that one shouldn't be tempted to generalise such experiences.
From: http://quaxio.com/triple/

^([0369]|[258][0369]*[147]|[147]([0369]|[147][0369]*[258])*[258]|[258][0369]*[258]([0369]|[147][0369]*[258])*[258]|[147]([0369]|[147][0369]*[258])*[147][0369]*[147]|[258][0369]*[258]([0369]|[147][0369]*[258])*[147][0369]*[147])*$
That FAQ is hilarious:

"Secret Chats do not use mandatory authentication via a third-party or pre-shared information. We may later add an option to forbid Secret Chat initialization, unless the user has confirmed the key (using a QR code, NFC, etc.) for advanced users."

"Forward Secrecy is available for Secret Chats, but requires user action at the moment — it can be achieved by deleting secret chats and creating new ones, or logging out periodically (since logging out kills all secret chats)."

Unless I'm missing something, their recommended way of getting forward secrecy opens users up to man in the middle attacks, since if users are setting up new secret chats often enough to protect against an attacker obtaining their keys and decrypting past messages they're not going to be able to confirm the keys match every time.
In the same way, government could ignore the law, fake election results, and whatever - and no one would be wiser, because the only form of mass information distribution, newspapers, are government control.

I suspect the situation had been as bad or worse before radio and television; that throughout history with very minor exceptions, there has not been a functioning democracy anywhere (in the common meaning of the term). I don't find your argument there was one convincing.
> In this global world color, place, race, currency, language, culture, etc. is not a fact.

Utter tosh. Racism is still a thing, people still move to Silicon Valley to start their internet start-ups, racism is still a thing, try not to contradict your own article title, if your article did not read like it had been through babel fish twice I might take it more seriously, O RLY, etc ad nauseum.

If I didn't know better - and I don't - I'd guess that someone copied an eleven month old starry-eyed bitcoin propaganda post, fed it through babel fish a couple of times, and stuck it on the web for the AdSense. Sorely tempted to flag it as spam.
You'd have to be more specific. What does "2D drafting in harmony with openscad" mean?
If a HFT firm makes a profit then they are, by definition, adding value to the economy.

All that technology investment is not a waste; it allows firms to condense money out of information asymmetries with ever greater efficiency.

Edit to add: if you prefer industries that build "real things" then look at the revenue that HFT delivers to companies who make high-speed networking and computer equipment.
I think I've come in to the wrong forum. I thought this was HN.
Snowden revealed NSA hacked into Petrobras ahead of an important oilfield auction.

The only use for that information would be setting bids. It's no small thing. Bids with insider information could cost Brasil tens of billions of dollars.
According to the Github page, Oterm supports SSL: https://github.com/davidmoreno/onion/wiki/Oterm
Artificial worm starts to wriggle
Ask HN: How did Target get my email address?
Received the message below from target last night. Am wondering how they got my contact info if all I did was use my card in a target store?

Dear Guest,
We wanted to make you aware of unauthorized access to Target payment card data. The unauthorized access may impact guests who made credit or debit card purchases in our U.S. stores from Nov. 27 to Dec. 15, 2013. Your trust is a top priority for Target, and we deeply regret the inconvenience this may cause. The privacy and protection of our guests’ information is a matter we take very seriously and we have worked swiftly to resolve the incident.
We began investigating the incident as soon as we learned of it. We have determined that the information involved in this incident included customer name, credit or debit card number, and the card’s expiration date and CVV.
We are partnering with a leading third-party forensics firm to conduct a thorough investigation of the incident and to examine additional measures we can take that would be designed to help prevent incidents of this kind in the future. Additionally, Target alerted authorities and financial institutions immediately after we discovered and confirmed the unauthorized access, and we are putting our full resources behind these efforts.
We recommend that you closely review the information provided in this letter for some steps that you may take to protect yourself against potential misuse of your credit and debit information. You should remain vigilant for incidents of fraud and identity theft by regularly reviewing your account statements and monitoring free credit reports. If you discover any suspicious or unusual activity on your accounts or suspect fraud, be sure to report it immediately to your financial institutions...
Isn't that about the price of a movie + popcorn and drink these days?
I'm sure most of Apple's most valued employees are already near the new campus location. Relocating the office to the city to increase commute time and stress just wasn't going to happen.

Another office in SF like Google might be a good idea, though.
There's nothing wrong with saying this. The problem is when you leave off the "until it's proven otherwise" part.
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Can't believe this story is at the top of the front page. Shame. Shame on you.
According to Google Maps, Menlo Park is about 3 miles from Palo Alto. For those of us not in SV, are we missing some reason why this really rates as closer?
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This.

Graph DBs don't do away with JOINs...

they just do the JOIN on INSERT.
There are two Americas, and one is better than the other.
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It's a good bet that intelligence/surveillance spending is roughly proportional to military spending.
Unfortunately, there are a couple of misunderstandings here.

It is true that libraries call the gpg binary. This is a feature, not a bug. This architecture makes bugs in the applications less likely to affect the gpg code / data. For instance, it's a lot harder to dump the variable containing the secret key if it is in another process.

The wrappers don't scrape the output. There is a well-defined protocol for interacting with the binary.
No it doesn't. It is a common term for tables that are just foreign keys to other tables, generally for expressing many to many relationships.
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Looks great! You are making a big assumption with linear, fixed COGS scaling. I will probably use this, as it's a great document, but I'm going to add some more flexibility for COGS line items.

I wish AWS bills scaled like that :)
Ask HN: Can you use Amazon gift certificates for AWS?
I was just wondering...in case I get a gift cert. for christmas this year :D
No. The author's assertion has no basis in fact.
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I would have backed the comment up further with more comments, but I went to bed. Beyond that, I dont like HFT because I believe it increases volatility, and even if I'm wrong on that point it's also not something the average Joe can participate in, money or not.