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This is true of all investors not just VCs. There is often a misalignment of interest between investors and startups without the founders ever realizing it. I've experienced the situation of raising money where one of the investors had incentives so strongly misaligned that they undermined the investments of the other investors and forced the company down a very destructive path - and though for founders and the other investors all was lost, they were a small investor and actually most likely would consider that they had a net positive outcome when their underlying interests were taken into consideration.

Be very, very careful from whom you take money. There really is such a thing as bad money. No founder thinks they're naive - but we all start out if not naive certainly inexperienced in this regard. Always try to build your company so that you can say no to money if you cannot get the best investors you want in your company, because you aren't so desperate for money you'll take it from any source.

Just my hard earned 2c.
(I'm a Balanced employee)

We certainly could offer cost+ pricing. In fact, that's the status quo in most of the payments industry right now. But as cristinacordova from Stripe points out above:

"We optimize for simplicity though, as we know that many of our users don't want to read an excel spreadsheet detailing the variety of charges we incur from card networks and other parties, which factor into their overall rate. Many of our users have chosen Stripe because we abstract away all the complexity involving pricing."

Balanced chooses to offer blended, simple pricing for similar reasons.
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Quite a few subreddits do this, either permanently or time-delayed (i.e., no comment scores visible for some time t after posting).
I can't argue about a 39" monitor, but having more screen estate boosts productivity for me to the extend that I'm sure that I could use 3 27" over my current 2 24". Avoiding alt+tab means I get my information quicker when I need it from another window, and I get back to the previous context faster. Sometimes I need both but does not have space and is tabbing back and forth.
Not a problem for locals who probably still use 2GIS or Yandex maps.
Are you alright? I ask this because- in my personal experience, I've found that people who use the phrase "no one really cares" tend to be deeply frustrated or bothered about something. Are you feeling powerless about something, or otherwise having some sort of trouble?
Is it time for Twitter to move to the Valley?
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Mmmm. It's not a great piece of engineering because they compromise on the wrong thing: mobility, precisely because of their tendency to eat up the battery in less than a day. When you need to charge a mobile device every single day, it's not meeting the ideal specifications you want to have, so yeah, in that sense it's shitty engineering we have been forced to swallow. And that's not going in the good direction when you keep putting more cores and more watts in in the smartphones' innards, while the battery technology is very slow to evolve.
Why should an aspiring pro athlete be de-facto required / expected to be scholastically proficient? It seems like the crux of the problem is that aspiring athletes in America (except the very tip of the top prospects) need to compete in college to hone their skill set... not that I am the first person to say this of course. I think the universities are at 90% fault- they are the ones who try and maintain the image of equal treatment. They are also the ones who coddle athletes and enable their academic dishonesty. What would happen if schools started offer athletic scholarships where all the "student" does is play sports, and they don't bullshit about it? wouldn't that be better?
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Yep, and check out Cauliflower Vest to do key escrow for FileVault if you're managing a bunch of Macs.

https://code.google.com/p/cauliflowervest/
Awesome. I wish he used an open-source circuit design tool, but at the same time, I understand why he didn't.

I honestly think that might be one of the biggest impediments to open hardware; open-source circuit design software is not good right now. I try to force myself to use KiCad over EAGLE, but it's such a relative pain in the ass.
zende, cristinacordova, I like where this is headed. Created an issue on Balanced's blog repo to discuss the topic further.

This would be a huge win for customers if we could find a way to work together to bring prices down even further!

https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/issues/72
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I think English speaking society in general struggles with the English language.

Social media is where it gets to me the most.

Personally, I think this is appalling.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-sham...
Would you mind blogging about your experiences in an article on http://techendo.co/ ?

I think a lot of entrepreneurs don't realize exactly this:

> There really is such a thing as bad money.
When you issue a buy order to an exchange, you don't get to specify that the seller needs to have the stock; you will only find out when the seller fails to deliver.
> Did Dubai ever have much oil wealth on its own? Dubai is also an overbuilt mess right now, a city can only support so many 7 star hotels (whose guests are mostly rich from oil anyways coming to Dubai to play).

Dubai certainly had a lot less oil to start with, which is why it expanded so aggressively. Definitely overshot the mark there, but the issue isn't catastrophic (they do have a strong tourism base).

> Is Abu Dhabi oil owned by the citizens, or by the royal family like in Saudi? Later down the line, that will be quite an important distinction.

It's owned by the national oil company which manages it for the government. Part of the revenue is diverted into expansion, part into the sovereign wealth fund, and a lot into subsidies and benefits for citizens. Generally speaking the UAE is managed much more equitably than Saudi, with the benefits of oil money used to aid all citizens (for example, universal healthcare).
For an overview of Java, the book resource you cited (Deitel Java - How to Program), is an excellent source. I would suggest that you use it to familiarize yourself with the very basics of Java.

You don't have to go through the entire book cover to cover, but enough of it that you are at least familiar with basic java concepts and syntax. With that, proceed immediately to Android specific programming.

I had suggested some resources for starting out with Android development which you may want to look at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7016067
What most people do not realise is that it does not matter if China or the US or any country bans or criminalises bitcoin. All it takes is for 1 small country (like Singapore) to embrace bitcoin for it to be worth $1,000,000 a coin. The first country that wises up to bitcoin, starts investing in mining and other bitcoin infrastructure in a big way, and legitimises its mainstream usage as a currency, is going to reap tremendous benefits. And it's only a matter of time before this happens.
I once built a community on Facebook titled "\(n_n)/". The idea was to have thoughtful, philosophical discussions, but I didn't want to name it "Philosophy Group" or whatever because that sounded pretentious. We'd call ourselves "n_n'ers" or "nners"- which, of course, can't really be pronounced. In person, we'd say "I met her through 'N'."

I think this is one of those things where something will emerge out of necessity, and it'll just stick, and a bottom-up approach will probably be best. Let people figure out their own "desire paths" to what they want to be called. If communication is necessary, people will find a way.
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S3 is a great building block if you are building your own HIPAA compliant stack. But used alone, you will not be HIPAA compliant. HIPAA requires you to provide emergency data access, detailed audit logging and data integrity control.
OS X and iOS heavily leverage the AES-NI instruction set (and whatever the equivalent is on ARM), so performance degradation is minimal.
True. But we just love the experience of getting emails from AWS telling us we're paying too much and what we can do to bring costs down. Balanced is striving toward that level of transparency and customer focus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Norwar_Exports_Tree_Map_(2...

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Norway#Economic_stru...
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Got PiUi up and running, wow! it's really awesome, saves so much time. The only problem I am having is that I need to hit refresh on the mobile browser every time navigating to a new menu. On Android (chrome), the refresh works. On the iPhone (iOS 7 Safari), even after refreshing, the menu doesn't always come. I found if a clear data and cookies, it does the first time but then not after. Here's a video of the behavior on Android http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0imGi2I7rOg Any advice would be great, thanks.

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"Open source laptop"? Physical objects don't have a source, either open or close. It is rather a laptop capable of running on only "free software" for full functionality.
Yep, Scoop has Rust 0.9 now.
gEDA (gschem and friends) has a fairly steep learning curve, but once you spend a few days getting in the zone it's a very solid schematic capture and PCB layout tool. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to try KiCad for anything serious, so I can't really make a comparison. I'm told it's now the better option vs. gEDA.

http://www.geda-project.org/
Because clearly, men don't get death threats or get investigated by the FBI when they challenge the football establishment or other sports stars.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-team/men-indicted-threat...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337813/Anonymous-ha...

Nor would a man ever get death threads just for the lulz.

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/4chan-bullied-the-og-youtub...

It doesn't take a lot. I write a not very popular blog, most of which is posts like "Scala is slow" or "Analyzing conversion rates with Bayes rule", and I've gotten an email or two expressing hope that harm would come to me [1].

[1] "if u get your wish just wait the cops womt protect you when underclas riot and hurt u". This was in response to a moderately popular blog post advocating that you should do a back of the envelope calculation to see if a public policy proposal makes sense ( http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/basic_income_vs_basic... ).
Why do you believe there must be a line? Eve right-wing libertarians have widely different opinions about the proper role of the State, or even its existence. In any case, I'd say most are not in favor of conscription itself.
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I guess. It's pretty noisy in there and didn't get much out of it. I feel we have a more supportive culture. Maybe it's changed.
True that. But there is also another side to this story, where such nested calls translates naturally to what we are thinking, i.e.

length(unique(text)) comes from the thought "How many(length()) unique (unique()) words are there in this text(text)?"
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They do have design plans they are built from, so why not call it source?
It doesn't only cost money, it will also cost time. In this case the time is the important part, not the extra two dollars you are willing to spend. This could bump up the release date 6 months or more and by then they have lost whatever market there was.
When I'm working on a deadline it's super easy to just grab x, y & z framework and use the bits I need from each. And in the end, I've added what... 150kb of scripts?

Unless I'm targeting users with bad connections, what's the problem?
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Can anyone explain the interrelation between sports players and college for me? We don't really have such a concept in Australia as far as I'm aware. Am I understanding correctly that to play a sport professionally a person must first attend a college and complete some degree? Why does the US even have this system? Do any other countries do this as well?
Thanks,

I'm aware that there is an opt out, but thats not really the point. gmail was pitched as the way webmail should be, and thats how I use it. I put up with google scanning my mail to provide tailored ads for this service. Why do I also need to be vigilant for regular changes that google make that negatively affect my privacy?

Nobody wants to use google+, if google keeps trying to shove it down peoples throats, nobody is going to use google.

I don't understand why so many people defend google on this?
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You mean “wave the GPL”, not “waive the GPL”, which would be quite a different thing. (Words have meanings indeed.)
For some reason, I read your post in Sterling Archer's voice.
It's a great argument against someone who demands no regulations or laws, sure

No, not really. Playing Devil's advocate, if a thief robs a lot of money along the years, and the donates part to charity, must you hate charity to oppose the thief?

That argument is only valid if we assume that ends justify the means.
Sure, but if one were to plot (a) the number of alt-tabs you do in a day, versus (b) screen size in inches...don't you think at some point the delta benefits would start leveling off?
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"Why should an aspiring pro athlete be de-facto required / expected to be scholastically proficient?"

A vast majority will not succeed in their venture and these are schools. Poor career paths aside, the rest of the world expects you to be able to read and comprehend the menu in the food court. This goes doubly so if the aspiring athlete is working the till, which they often are before and after their career path.
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If you're trying to imply that the US isn't completely crazy town about tax, you seem to have missed the enforced citizen tax returns for salaried employees and the fact that citizenship makes you liable for US tax regardless of residence and income origin.
As I said, it does not need to, because it is written in a self-descriptive.

Writing documentation for Haskell programs seems to be needed - especially short Haskell programs written by experts tends to be cryptic.

There was a second Haskell program. 8 hours to write, still far from 3 hours for Lisp.
>Windows is, like it or not, still a very significant platform today.

I agree.

>Poor Windows support will hurt the adoption of Rust.

I agree again.

Where I disagree is that there's any serious hurry for "it just works" Windows support to exist now, when the language is in flux, the core team has tons of other priorities (like, finalizing the design and creating stuff), and we're several releases away from 1.0.

Where I disagree is that people that try to early adopt a compiler and toolchain at pre-beta stage, have a right to whine about it and demand stuff, or even get to blame developers ("who is responsible for the Windows port?").

Where I disagree with is with entitlement.

>* It shouldn't be up to some vague "community" to seamlessly support Windows. That's something that the core Rust developers should work to offer.*

That's what I disagree with.

The core team has schedules, finite time and priorities. And could even be way over their head with some stuff, like finalising some language semantics.

That some other developers are saddled with a non-UNIX/POSIX OS, doesn't mean the core team must automatically bend over and prioritize them over other stuff. Even if it "hurt Rust adoption".

You know what will hurt Rust adoption more? Spending resources to port a half-finished compiler to various systems, instead of getting it done first.

[NOTE: In no way do I speak FOR the core team or are affiliated with it (other than playing with Rust since 0.3 days as a user). I just wanted to respond to this particular attitude].
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I did. Do you know the software license of the original code?

edit: P.S. working deobfuscation, i.e. you can build the executable. Including some minor corrections to the orgininal (e.g. 1MB of RAM allocation instead 2MB, BIOS file size limited to 65536-256 bytes, etc.). It a nice code, minimalistic, e.g. the "rep" prefixed instructions are actually repeated, not unrolled. Really optimized for code size. Even deobfuscated it takes 12-13KB and 22KB of executable (x86-64 Linux, stripped binary). Very cool.
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Also: https://github.com/ghc/packages-base/blob/master/Control/Mon... and https://github.com/ghc/packages-base/blob/master/Control/App...
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I really don't get it. Is the car company responding because it was their vehicle? Is the street costruction company issuing statements because it was their street? Is the driving instructor giving condolences because it was his training? Nobody other than the driver is responsible for this! It's terrible and sad, but this stuff happens.
so i need to think about that - i was asked by one of the incubator runners - and a friend of startups everywhere who doesn't need naming here - to do a write up of my experience and i balked mainly because it's hard to do without specifically naming names, and because investors all talk to each other and are always better friends with each other than with entrepreneurs - meaning i'm weak, they're strong, and if i embarrass them i probably end up suffering...

that being said it's been a few years and i should probably get over myself and relate the story - it's just that i know for a fact the investor in question is a litigious pain in the ass and has sued others over criticism of their behavior before
People play while at college, I thought. The colleges make money off of the media spectacle. Lots of the players are good at sports, but not good at any of the things they are supposed to be in college for.

(But I'm no American, and have only visited once. So take my explanation with a pot of salt.)
Yes, you can get caught by logs. That however still leaves some already existing consequences of said illegal (in terms of player-game interaction) manipulations. For example compensate expensive destroyed ships which were destroyed with use of an exploit. Also, that affects customer satisfaction and support must deal with that too.
From their site:

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> ...But are you telling me that a matte surface would cost more to manufacture than a glossy surface?

Ex TV Product Planner here - yes matte costs more than glossy. If nothing else there is the volume but I think the production techniques for glossy are intrinsically cheaper too.
It's noticeable for sure. My Samsung 830 SSD took a pretty serious hit in transfer rates. New full flash based Mac's like my late '13 retina i7 seems to handle it pretty well, though, there's still a noticeable difference. Worth it? Absolutely. If you do end up doing it - when prompted, I would recommend against saving your encryption key to iCloud.
Are you guessing or do you have any information? Its hard to find good data on this.
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I have no idea what Android has to do with anything? :S
That's not really it. You don't need a degree to play professional sports, and some of the most talented players skip directly into professional leagues without finishing college. But college is where they have the best chance of honing their abilities and getting noticed.

College sports is all about money. Consider this map:

http://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-...

Why are the mostly highly paid "public servants" in most states athletic coaches? Because the public universities make huge amounts of money from sports: the TV licensing deals, the ticket sales, the merchandising.

The players get paid nothing -- at most they get their tuition waived.
Just for reference (these aren't exact, but close enough):

2013 Norway Govt expenditures: $182 billion, per person: $36,000

2013 US Govt expenditures: $3.93 trillion, per person: $13,000 ($22,000 counting local + state; I have no idea how Norway's government spending looks locally)
I'm sure they could do it now, no Moore's law required. The technology and parts are already available.

I think the lack of 60-120Hz has more to do with keeping costs down. Low production costs translate to lower prices for the consumer. By selling these TVs at absolute rock bottom prices, they can sell them by the truck loads and, more importantly, make a name for themselves. These last couple weeks I've seen Seiki's name brought up dozens of times all over the internet whereas a month ago, I don't think I've ever heard their name before.

If this is part of their marketing plan, it's working beautifully.
Yes and no. Ideally it's just a university sports team. But now college sports have gone from university students playing football in their spare time to exceptional athletes who attend classes in their spare time.

Some universities, such as UNC and Virginia Tech, have seen massive profits by selling merchandise thanks to these sports teams, and have made sports a higher priority than the actual academics. Now younger people are choosing to attend universities based on their sports team rather than the academics.

Anyone who disrupts this big business of college sports can expect to feel massive backlash from the university and the crazed fans of the sports teams.