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Hey, hope you don't mind that I posted it here. I came across this on The Morning Brew, and thought that a broader audience might appreciate your efforts.
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C'mon now, kids.

While there is some laudable-if-extremely-conventional wisdom in here, almost every point suffers from either survival bias ("Successful companies succeed by being successful.") or from having obvious counter-examples ("Was Steve Jobs a nice guy?"), or both.
Why does that matter so much? Why is it so important for someone to be able to sell a ringtone from a movie they didn't create? Why is it so important for someone to make money off a derivative work based off of the work of someone else? Besides, there are examples of people making money off of derivatives of popular content they didn't create. It's just a fine line between making a copy and creating a derivative.

I think the thing I've been missing is so far is because Disney is the example, which is a big company, and big companies are evil right?

Let me toss a wrinkle into that logic.

Newly graduated college student makes an animated short. Took months, maybe years, to get it done. Took weeks, maybe months, of hard work to get it visible to the public. Public loves the film and wishes to buy a copy. Someone makes a "derivative" work that copies the characterizations of the original animation. For some reason, derivative work becomes popular. Original creator loses out. Screw the original creator right?

You do realize that the most likely outcome of allowing derivative works to happen too soon is that the big companies with their huge resources will swoop in and wipe out the small guys in no time flat? You think I'm defending big companies with these statements? I'm defending all creators regardless if they are Disney or the dirt-poor artist down the street.

If you have a problem with Disney being able to continue making money from their original characters, despite some of their characters being based off previous stories in the public domain, because copyright laws keep getting changed then you're problem is with the system that allows such things. Attack the system, not creators because you'll almost always come across as unfair to them in some way.
SheepSlapper, your most recent post is showing up as dead. Might want to check to see if you're hellbanned.
but the point is that "ruthless" doesn't mean "great at seeking out waste" but specifically "having no compassion". it applies only where compassion would reasonably be applied by others.
"Realization by who? If you understand the normal distribution you had damn well better know that there are other probability distributions."

See Glyptodon's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7065067

If you hang out with mathematicians, yeah, sure, everybody knows there's a ton of distributions. Try hanging out with, say, biologists. The undergrad statistics education is basically "mumble mumble guassian mumble hideous equations mumble mumble YOU MUST DO THE CHI-SQUARED TEST mumble mumble poisson mumble hideous equations mumble YOU MUST DO THE CHI-SQUARED TEST mumble mumble CHI mumble calculus is hard mumble mumble NULL HYPOTHESIS mumble CHI CHI CHI WE WILL DRUM YOU OUT OF THIS DISCIPLINE IN DISGRACE IF YOU DON'T DO THE CHI-SQUARED TEST".

I'm hardly even exaggerating! I remember being asked by someone in their third semester of using the damn test what it actually meant.

Nominally, yes, the Poisson and probably a couple of others were mentioned, but believe me, the ALL CAPS part of the education does not mention them.
> You don't need to take the post at face value, but if you're claiming this is a result of survivorship bias, then you're arguing that successful companies just happen to have these traits, and they don't actually help the companies succeed. I don't think that's true.

I think this is exactly what he's arguing

If you're of the opinion that startup successes are mostly luck and timing, then this makes perfect sense.

If a team/company had every single positive/beneficial trait on that list, then how much more likely are they to "succeed"?
I'm just starting on my journey with products and Nathan's produced so much content that I can look to for advice. I couldn't imagine the difficulty without having those available.

Congrats Nathan.
Major "thank you" for doing github login without requiring me to hand over my private repositories.
In the dynamic content example; with the previous showing one item and the second screen shot showing two items, what is it about the DOM structure that makes this a passing test? How do you know that the functionality wasn't suppose to update an item?

Wouldn't you at least need three tests; an initial test to show that an item is inserted into the DOM, a second test to demonstrate that the system is inserting, not updating an item, and then finally your third test that demonstrates the functionality continues to insert into the DOM?
Do the phrases "Negative externalities" or "Tragedy of the Commons" mean anythign to you?

The harms from antibiotic overuse don't go to the people doing the overusing.
Using tracking software is insulting. It is usually for the same reason why physical stores are full of cameras -- making sure you do not steal. In the case of software development stealing as in making sure you are not using your time for the benefits of the client.

One can argue that any version control system that is used frequently enough is also a tracking software. In this case as long as your client is not stalking your commit logs to come up with made-up excuses not to pay; and you are actually doing your work (not spending some of the client-paid time for hobby projects) that should be perfectly fine.

Which makes me think that these days tracking software should become much less relevant for honest purposes because git, hg etc distributed VCSs encourage very fast and frequent commits.
Yes, TRESOR can help against cold boot attacks, which are passive and read-only.

Several physical attack vectors can modify the contents of memory, thus compromise the software stack and divulge keys kept in registers or cache.

Our approach at PrivateCore is to fully encrypt main memory with an authenticated cipher mode and keep the software stack pinned in cache. An attacker able to physically modify memory can only conduct a DoS attack by inserting junk data.
They're of type T.
Yup. I've gotten 1 parking ticket in my life: I parked fully within a clearly marked, paid parking spot in downtown Austin. A stop sign nailed to a wooden stand showed up while I was at dinner along with a $100 ticket for parking to close to said sign.
A counter example might just be an outlier, I don't think he was arguing in absolutes.
Now if only there was a service that would auomatically ticket all the police, fire, government, etc. officials that park illegally.
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Because evolution relies on survival of the fittest and genetic mutation. Your Chi-Pom-Poodle-Terrier isn't an evolutionary step for the canine. And most of all I don't want creationists to think that 'hand of god' is a valid evolutionary driver ;)
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nbd, I wouldn't have written it if I'd have known it'd dominate the comments section like this. I probably would like him, and I would probably like Gumroad too if I used it - it looks well conceived and executed.

Don't let me grinch your day.

And if grinch is actually a poorly defined term that's slipped into common usage and I'm applying here incorrectly... irony.
I would add they were also a bit lucky (whether with timing or virality or some other factor) at some point in their lifecycle.
WhatsApp charges something like $1 a year I think. Adding that up among 100 million + (or so I've heard) equals a decent turnover.

They're also great personal data collectors and location trackers, which can help location-driven data (even if they don't advertise but still collect such data).
I rather agree. When my daily commute involved driving through the city centre, it certainly seemed like the general public would be best served by not having things left parked where they shouldn't be! It was a rare day that didn't involve sitting in traffic for 5-10 minutes waiting for a rudely-parked van or lorry to be unloaded.
This is an excellent list. Thank you, Sam, for putting it together.
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Thanks for the feedback! Definitely trying to be reasonable :) Definitely welcome any other suggestions!
This is an awesome article explaining carsongross's point on survivorship bias: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/
For what it is worth, lots of people on HN, and elsewere, struggle to finish a product! That's good news, because it means you might be able to overcome it.

That's where MVPs come in. Ship an MVP. Have you seen how atrocious Reddit was when it first came out? Remember when Facebook didn't even have a wall to post on? Google was called Backrub when it started. Ship an MVP. You also have to consider, that sometimes, the idea wasn't actually that good. You ship the MVP and get no traction, you can pivot and figure out how to make it better or move onto the next idea.
In midtown NYC, there are lots of narrow streets that have small businesses lining both sides of the street and cars parked on both sides of the street. The only way to deliver anything to these businesses would be to double park the truck. Making double parking illegal there is essentially outlawing commerce on these streets.
I would have to assume it was not a loading zone, if it were I find it doubtful they would be ticketed. I guess it depends on local ordinance, but from what I'm hearing this sounds like a justified ticket.
The narrative makes sense. When I was in college, the mindset was that you HAD to be on facebook. Now, I'm not so sure teenagers want to volunteer information and photos that their parents might see, since they're probably already on facebook, especially when there are a million other social apps that crush the facebook experience on mobile.

I think information on usage would be more useful here, since deleting your profile is kind of dramatic, and why burn all the connections you already have, raise red flag to employers etc. and I feel that most who want to abandon facebook simply don't check it or post anything.
I think transport trucks have first right to streets (after emergency vehicles, of course). They pay a lot of taxes and it's the only way to get good delivered in cities. If commuters don't like waiting, they can always take transit or ride a bike.
It's a rule of thumb, not a rule of physics. I'm sure the majority of highly successful startups are generating revenue (and probably even profitable) very early. Relying on viral growth and VC with a promise of revenues later is more likely to fail than succeed.
If your drivers regularly park illegally no one is "taking advantage of your company" by showing up on schedule to issue a ticket. I'll acknowledge that bogus tickets might be a problem (that isn't my experience), but this example is hardly convincing.
Thank you for a very informative comment.

I didn't realize that the normal flu deaths, even when looking at the percentage of people under 65, outnumbered deaths from H1N1 by such a large factor.
"A general science education needs far firmer statistical grounding" doesn't equate to "The standard deviation should be retired."
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I was going to make snarky comment about writing JavaScript in JavaScript until I saw the language extensions section, very useful!
I stopped watching the video at 'Android'.
Violently.

It's funnier.
This is why I challenge every ticket.

They're often time just more taxes for things like parking 19 vs 18 inches from the curb, even in cases where no traffic (including cyclists) are impeded or endangered.
This looks awesome. Scared to put the Javascript on my site though, because it's unclear to me how the embedded Javascript will be able to differentiate me (the site owner) from regular users.

I don't want regular users seeing the "1 test generated" thing on each page. Maybe clarify this a little on the page where you give me the Javascript snippet.
His point has always been to cut off the tails. The MAD actually allows you to cut off the tails sooner, and that moves outside of your chosen confidence interval will be seen as tail risk much sooner than if you use STD. For example, think about the following example of normal returns versus S&P returns:

http://managed-futures-blog.attaincapital.com/wp-content/upl...

A distribution built from MAD will more closely resemble the reality of the S&P returns, and will create more robust models. There are many examples of this.
I think wikis and group chats help to recreate the water cooler feel.

I also want to chime in about sqwiggle: It was switched on all day at my previous job and I absolutely hated it. Might work if you live alone but having a camera pointing at you when you're hugging your wife or playing with your son for 5 minutes is horrible.

Not to mention the fact that you can be in mid-thought and suddenly "bing!" and someone's talking to you.

I did like the chat stream though.
> We already know that when someone says "be there in five minutes" they mean 7-8; if they said "be there in five ki" they would be more accurate.

But then they would actually show up in 7-8 ki, meaning 10-12 minutes!

On the other hand, maybe this is just the cure for high-intensity fast-paced society that we need. ;)
It matters in that you're basically asking us to fund your retirement.

I mean, that is an ace business idea if you convince enough people to just give you two million bucks for no reason, but I don't think quite that many suckers are out there.
bter.com works pretty well in my personal experience.

Otherwise look at the sidebar at http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/ Dogecoin market/exchange for a list of exchanges.
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When I've fought tickets in New York and Connecticut, the first step of fighting a ticket is coming in for your 'court date' and waiting in line to talk to a prosecutor where you get about 5 minutes or less of negotiation. They'll usually offer you a deal, which is less than the original ticket. But even if they don't offer you a deal, you don't have to pay any additional court costs - you're just stuck with the original ticket, or the right to request a trial.

It's only when you request the trial that court costs and higher penalties come into play.
one approach is to look at the progressive diff between the insert tests & verify that the DOM is changing in the same incremental way
Then limit yourself! Or better, your mom.

You can try to limit animal antibiotics use but that industry can fight back.

People, you persuade. Nobody have to preserve your commons for you. If you want that field be green, what are you willing to spend?
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But how many additional teens are there on Instagram now?
What you are describing could be necrotizing fasciitis, and although MRSA is a common cause there are many classes of pathogens responsible. Any of them can constitute a medical emergency, and if not diagnosed and treated quickly a surgeon may need to butcher you to save your life. I've been in the OR for a debridement and you do not want to be that patient.

If you have pain way out of proportion and darkening skin (or any rash for that matter), that's not the time to play House. Call your doctor if you have one, or just go directly to the ER.
Too bad they couldn't get the url blackphone.sh

;)
am looking forward to trying it out... we have a custom internal CDN implemented alreayd - which requires alot of work to add new applications... will keep u posted...
A great combination is Skype + join.me
Let's stop selling cars, PCs and alcohol to people.

Because, you know, people are idiots and you know better.

So make them consult a well-paid and often clueless bureocrat before buying anything listed above. No prescription - no bottle.
And I expect most of these can be compiled via a Grunt task. JavaScript is the Borg.
I was establishing that there are plenty of people who don't really realize there are other distributions.

You seem to be having some trouble reading what I'm writing, rather than what you think I should be writing.
>My photo collection alone is 1TB, so, no luck in backing it up in the cloud.

Amazon glacier would store that for $10/month, though the retrieval costs if you needed to restore the whole thing are a bit more complicated.
I think more flexible is a better word -- it can do more than what you can do when you bake a static image because you also use it to dynamically manage a running system post-boot.

Ansible can deploy all of your dependencies, keep them updated, push out configuration changes, and deploy your main application code.

I don't use AutoScaling, but no reason it couldn't be used with Ansible. The docs have a bit of detail on how to do it. http://docs.ansible.com/guide_aws.html
for some people, not knowing what their friends/ex are up to is painful
There needs to be a service just like this to fight towing companies.

At least where I live they tow people by the truckload from lots that aren't even marked as required by law, and then hold the vehicles hostage for ransom, though so far as I'm aware no law authorizes the theft.
That's a little naive.

Local jurisdictions are heavily incentivized to hand out infractions of any kind -- deserved or not. Why? Because they keep the money.

What do they spend the money on? Things like public employees and their benefits, including pensions. It's clearly a perverse incentive.

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

I've always thought that government shouldn't benefit from fines or seized property. I'm not sure what a good solution is. Perhaps they should take the money from fines and just light it on fire.

There shouldn't be a financial incentive for governments to hand out tickets and fines and seize property - the democratic incentive should be enough.
The threat of lengthy prison sentences is the more 'civilized' version of this.
periodicity refers to (originally) that the trends are cyclical with respect to atomic mass - we now know that it's with respect to atomic number and that the period increases (2 - 8 - 18 - much more) but nonetheless between multiple rows there's an increasing valence. Hence there is a repeating aspect 'period' driven by a connection between row n and n+1 (row n+1 immediately follows row n in atomic number). There's no connection between row n and row n+1 in this table of rust types. The vertical organization is completely arbitrary, there is no ascending value across the table, and therefore it's not periodic.
That sounds like something that the businesses of that street should be addressing with the local government to get that obvious problem resolved. Such as a loading zone that doesn't allow general parking during certain hours. Yes, it's not optimal but it's better than the ticket and causing traffic problems.
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> except perhaps even more entrenched

By a lot. On the plus side, all the specs to create a component in a cellular network(protocols, procedures, network architecture and so on). are open and free.

On the other hand, the specs that cover all the parts of a cellular system is _many_ thousands of documents - and there's patents hidden in quite a lot of them.

> without much hope of a community reverse engineering a solution.

* specs for the chipsets are not available.

* You might get the spec. for the pinouts for the chips if you sign an NDA, but not the specs for being able to run your own code on it.

* But the chipset manufacturers won't talk to you unless you're serious about buying quite a few million of them anyway.

http://bb.osmocom.org/ have managed to reverse engineer an old GSM chipset (with help from leaked documents and source code) and created an open source GSM base band for those old phones. But there's little to suggest doing the same for 3G or 4G will be possible in the near future.
I've been working remotely for 2 years in Barcelona with the main office being in NYC. The 6 hours I have for myself before people wake up in NYC are incredibly focused and productive and I have 3 hours of overlap for meetings and catchup which seems to be working out quite well.

One important thing is to reach out and chat with people on a daily basis to avoid feeling isolated and also of course visit in person once in a while to have a bit of face time.
It's probably for non technical clients who wouldn't know how to read a commit log, but could probably tell the difference between code on the screen and facebook.
oDesk also offers a ton of other stuff from code like data entry,design etc.
Sure, two points is better than one but what's special about two? I'd rather have a graph. We have computers so there's rarely a reason to compress the data so much.
What advantages does it have over http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/Accelerator/ ?
Presumably he meant vitamin supplements as opposed to any/all vitamins ingested through food/drink, though that assumption only makes the analogy marginally better since most contemporary research puts vitamin supplements somewhere on a range between useless and actively harmful.
Arlington,Bethesda, and DC are some of the worst violators of this. Don't even get me started on those machines they use to "enforce" the speeding law.
We've looked into making benefit corp or dual-purpose corp for npm, and it's still on the table.

The tricky thing is that, while there ARE some VCs that back them, most of them are pretty interested in bigger plays than "sharing javascript programs with other javascript programmers".

Disconnect is a pretty revolutionary idea, that will change society in some dramatic ways if it catches on. Most VCs that invest in benefit corps are looking for bigger plays than what we're doing. This is a pretty straightforward technology service that already has loads of adoption and upward-trending engagement graphs. It was just a lot easier to go the more traditional C Corp route first.
You're right that there's no explicit account balance. Words are imperfect; ultimately bitcoin is a new type of scam. But I want a term that emphasises the disproportionate returns given to the early "investors" - an ordinary stock pump-and-dump doesn't have bitcoin's built-in deflation. I think a Ponzi scheme is the closest fit.
I've been running Firefox with Ghostery and NoScript for about four years. I know the consequences.

I only access Facebook from a VM or an old smartphone with no SIM. That's because browsers are designed to circumvent my attempts at privacy and to facilitate the ends of third party cookies.

Using a Git analogy, there is no reason for a single cookie repository. Suppose foo.com injects a third party cookie from bar.com into my data stream. It could sit on the foo.com branch of my cache, so that when I visit baz.com, it does not know about the bar.com cookie, and injects another one [which sits on the baz.com branch of my cache].

When I want to have a single bar.com cookie for foo.com and baz.com, then I merge them and let bar.com sort out any discrepancy. To put it another way, there might be a few websites where I wish to allow a shared persistent Facebook cookie, but I don't want to share that information with every website with a LikeUsOnFacebook widget or share all my browsing with Facebook.

But browsers thwart that process and facilitate tracking. It is by explicit design that browsers break the web when there are attempts at privacy. They are designed to mislead users and be truthful to remote websites rather than vice-versa.

The