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Many years ago in high school, we had to fill out some kind of "drug" survey. It was long and tedious and I was very square. The questionnaire had pages of naive questions that I patiently responded to.....

....but around the 13th of round of questions like "How many PCP-laced cigarettes do you smoke per week? A. One, B. Two, C. Three., D. Four, E. Five, F. Six to Ten G. Eleven to Twenty, H. Twenty-one or more," something switched inside of me and I started filling in the questions as if I were the most depraved abuser of every substance from the kitchen sink to highway overpass.
"You are your startup"
My take is cofounder dispute.

> Maybe in the wake of a failed startup I deluded myself into thinking great teams are predicated on great friendships, a truism that no longer holds absolute truth.

> It was also the acceptance that the startup would never be something I could call my own, not just in stake but in equal say, that cemented my decision to walk away.

> and when you’re grinding away on an early stage venture with no pay, the enjoyment you derive from working with your partners is all you have.
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I don't really understand that. Investors gave you money because they believed in the vision you conveyed (or whatever); aside from some very minimal minority-shareholder protections, and protecting your reputation, investors in early stage companies have very little power over you.

The strongest pressure is probably from cofounders, or from employees/customers (once you have those; you can also fire either), or from yourself.
How are you exempt in the other states?
Looks like a scam
I'm not suggesting the possibility of market failures without government but the inevitability of them, as can be trivially observed by the existence of monopoly regulation. It's strikingly naive to think there is an equivalence between the market and a democratic government - the key difference being one person one vote.
Background on these kinds of attacks: http://blog.cloudflare.com/understanding-and-mitigating-ntp-... http://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-behind-a-400gbp... Or if you prefer audio/video: http://twit.tv/show/security-now/438 (also worth a listen for a few possibly off details on NSA spying kit)

Possibly the implication against CloudFlare is that a service which makes money off DDoS attack prevention (and many other things) shouldn't drum up business by encouraging such attacks. Though in CloudFlare's defense, the attacks wouldn't stop if the sites did. And I'm not sure what else CloudFlare could do to get people to fix NTP servers.
Huh? I think you're confused. A bunch of white guys in a dubstep video is definitely not hip hop.
Presumably this is marketed to get around data sovereignty / Patriot Act issues. Sadly, the fact that LastPass is a US company, trumps these protection measures.
Evidence that I dropped out? Or evidence that I am not on a screen corner?
The quotes don't make the claims that were being disputed.
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I guess I don't know what you mean. They were certainly out of the "we don't know if this experiment is going to work or not" stage, and it was clear that the experiment was working. The number of startups that were being funded was less, but the number of startups in general was less too.
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Is YC fun?

Nothing important in life is easy. That being said, this is also figure of speech. I don't think it's overly enlightening to be literal in reading this. Things don't become fun when they are or become chores; like dirty laundry. {etc}. But who knows.
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Exactly, as is "racist".
Easy solution, setup company name, use company name for all package shipments, wire transfers, checks, etc. Should solve everything but the travel.
I'm on StackExchange, yes. I've also posted to forums that cover my field expertise where I (at least used to) answer a lot a questions.

Honestly I don't know how people find me. I just state my opinions often on the topics I care about. And at least some of the time people respond favorably to those opinions.
> Investors gave you money because they believed in the vision you conveyed (or whatever);

But it isn't just that. They are locked into an exit strategy and they have to protect that interest. This is even true of the investors with the most honesty and integrity.

In other words, one would hope that an investor would not micromanage, but the investor is ultimately in it to make money and has a few small acceptable options to do that, so they are going to protect that interest. Money == power.
You're welcome :) By the way, I've found running things through eg. UserTesting.com will help reveal this kind of info in a way that you won't necessarily get via feedback from friends or HN. Lot's of facepalm moments but it's definitely worth doing to get a new perspective on how people perceive your marketing and product.
countermove: he works it out and blocks your magic query - query needs to be made from somewhere indistinguishable from normal requests. Changing IP would be best... maybe via tor.

A unique sequence of legitimate requests might be more difficult to for the other side to detect and it won't result in 404s. Could randomise the sequence and each can come from a different IP as long as they were synchronised properly.
It's because it sets max-width: 600px on the <video>.

Blink currently doesn't force fullscreen elements to width/height 100%/100%.
Wasn't a major reason they were pissed off by the US presence in Saudi Arabia that some very major holy sites of their religion are there (such as Mecca), and they objected to having infidels near such sites?
> Labeling things as capitalism/communism

It's very important to realize that Karl Marx coined the term "capitalism." Pooling resources to pursue a profitable venture is not an "ism", it's just something that inevitably happens.

It's also not a social system. A free enterprise economy is intimately bound up with cultural values.
C++ is not for scared kids.. C++ is the katana of programming languages: powerful, but you must know how to use it to avoid cut yourself.. and i think the bitcoin core in c++ is being implemented in other softwares as well.. and im pretty sure that this is happening BECAUSE it was created in C++ (only C could also be a fit here)

So kudos to Satoshi whoever he is for this..
He appeared to specifically exclude that possibility by requiring a machine to read it.

This entire discussion is predicated on a mistaken assumption that we have significant levels of fraud – often asserted but never convincingly supported – or that electronic systems reduce those odds. We'd be much better off sticking with a simple optical system which can be reviewed and scored by hand and providing a computer-assisted system to help those who have difficulty to fill in that ballot. As a plus, this system is really cheap and easy to scale rather than requiring a bunch of expensive computers and support staff for an infrequent event.
How is "the consensus opinion of scientific experts" determined? Does that mean majority view, unanimous, or what? Is group voting really a good way to decide such things? But if you aren't talking about a type of vote, what do you mean?

And who decides who qualifies as a "scientific expert"? Isn't that problematic?
If you can look at the paper ballot it produces and confirm your choices are punched, there's no problem.

And people were already looking at their ballots so they could punch the right holes.

Even if only 5% checked their physical ballot to make sure its right, that's enough to detect something fishy.

Just to be clear, the actual physical ballots would still be counted they way they were before 2000. The only thing that needed to be improved was the punching of the holes.

So have a machine punch and have the human visually confirm. Or the phone app or a myriad of other machines confirm. They can't all be controlled by one root kit.
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CloudFlare is great, but will it ever be possible for them to expand the services that they can protect? Obviously short connection http requests work great with their platform, but will it ever be possible for them to say offer their protections on any service that requires some form of connection between client and server? Like a global TCP load balancing and DDOS protection for connections that need to stay open? For say game servers that are constantly being attacked, etc?
It doesn't do anything about thrown exceptions. The correct way to deal with an error in asynchronous code is to pass an object describing the error as the first argument to the callback. Any code that takes a callback is expected to know this and not throw exceptions.

From a practical perspective, it doesn't make sense to try to catch exceptions in asynchronous code, anyway. Once you do something asynchronous, you lose the stack and thus the try block. The way to catch thrown exceptions in asynchronous code is with domains, which something as low level as async would not be expected to handle.
"International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project (ICECAP)"

Clever.
Previous sanctions data analyst here. At my previous bank I worked for they follow a process like this:

1. Screen by name and date of birth (sometimes only year of birth only) for all lists (EU, US, Australia, etc); with some tolerance
2. Manually match against address, sex, etc

Now for some of these lists, depending on the vendor which is used, they may also have information on where the person(s) were last seen (perhaps they're from China and recently visited UK based on public information); not only their country of residence. So this means, if you happen to have a birthday sufficiently close to someone on the list (+-2 yrs) and they happen to be last seen in the country you reside in, then they would have to do the whole manual checking.

Now this seems like a lot of work, but when you consider things like reputation risk of getting caught and the possible fines, banks would rather screw over their own customer (or outright refuse to do certain transactions to certain countries) than doing what is best for their customers.

For the other attributes which are available like sex, it is sometimes used, but often for manual checking. Data is often too messy to have a viable real-time solution for screening. It is often cheaper to get someone from India to do it for you, rather than re-haul a whole database to have it done "properly". This is the unfortunate reality.
acdha, I proposed machines and apps voters could use to confirm their ballot was punched correctly, to make sure the first machine isn't compromised.

These apps could be made by anybody with access to the details of the particular ballot. In other words, those in control of voting can't control a myriad of independent app developers.

People could also do what they did before: put their ballot into the old voting device and look at the holes themselves.

The actual counting of the ballots could be done however it was done before.
He must be blissfully unaware of how badly the oceans are being affected right now by our impact.

This sentence really needs to cite actual data. "The oceans" are a pretty big place. And "localized" and "average" data are not comparable in any relevant sense given the scale.

Even if you could measure the energy in the ocean to that level of precision (unlikely) your time series data would be so limited so as to present caution in its reference, when discussin the context of global climate history.

It wasn't that long ago when John Muir was fighting the academic climate orthoxy over the sources of Yosemite valley. Its not a partisian or intellectual issue, its merely that data talks and bullshit walks. Muir did alot of walking to get his data, and argued alot with people that sat around theorizing talked alot of bullshit.

Its always worth a little bit of perspective.
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The "Wozniak Way" was to do something very smart and ahead of its time, and let someone else do the marketing that was crucial to its success. The "Wozniak Way" may power some great open source projects, but successful great startups.
well, you say that it's no biggie to drop out of YC. It would be interesting to find out how that worked out for you
It's just a technical term in psychology, not meant to sound glamorous.
Seed stage investors have essentially no power. They have convertible notes (i.e. are debtholders) -- this gives them about as much power over you as your credit card company, as long as you stay current on the payments (which are usually deferred in the contract); YC is common-holder (and has 2-10%).

You can literally ignore the investors for at least the duration of the note (and probably longer) with no real repercussions. If you sell the company, they'll be able to get in line for money (and generally get paid first), but until Series A, investors have essentially no control to do anything.

In practice, being a dick to your investors (intentionally or unintentionally) is a bad idea (sorry! was busy!), as they usually will help you a lot more if they know how they can help you, but otherwise, it's pretty much at the bottom of concerns.
Looks like AdBlockPlus blocks it!

Filter in effect '/logger.js'
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You can use https://github.com/ConradIrwin/pry-rescue#rspec pry-rescues rspec integration to automatically fall into pry when a test fails
This is great stuff. Writing markdown is much more rewarding when it pops as you write it like this. I usually write using half of my screen, using another window as a reference, so side-by-side never works for me. This works well!

small suggestion: would be great to have a way to navigate by keyboard between paragraphs (tab / shift-tab?). if that feature exists, I couldn't find the keystrokes.
Oops. Thanks! I'll try to get that fixed :)
Plenty of music not on spotify because their deal is frankly whack.
Well, assuming you're reading little-endian hexdumps. I cut my teeth on OS X back in the PPC days, so to me it is just the opposite.
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Some feedback:

When you say inline, I expect up/down arrows to work.
1. Microsoft is just one of many partners listed on this page.

2. Google has plenty of its own lobbyists and PR staff. It would be interesting to hear the statements from both sides of this issue.

3. Do you have any evidence that the allegations presented in the article are false? If so, please argue against the article rather than casting ad hominem aspersions against its author.

(For the record, I have no affiliations with or financial connection to Microsoft.)
The attacks would be a lot smaller and infrequent if cloudflare did not host them.

The reason why the DDoS market exploded is because you can now sell your services behind cloudflare for very little cost instead of competitors ddosing each other. You can see all the services being sold at hackforums.net.

Without a publicly assessable store front, you will not get funding.

Without funding you will not be able to rent servers to power reflection attacks and to process requests from hosts that turn a blind eye like ecatel.
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Sleep on it.
Thanks for trying it out. We spent some time trying to get arrow keys (and crtl+p crtl+n) to move to the next/previous paragraph when you hit the bottom/top of the current one, but a cursor position bug prevented that from working so we cut it for now. This something we definitely want though, we'll bring it back as soon as we can.
This is why so many people (used to?) get stolen their hot wallets. This was the bog standard way of doing things in the Bitcoin world up to mid-2012 or so.

The things you can do with Bitcoind in real time that are not suicidal to do on a server are very limited.
We do too, but it wasn't working well enough so we cut it out for now. It will come back soon.
That seems like a really odd point to challenge, especially because he set the bar as "not out on the street with glazed-over eyes wondering what could've been." I mean, I kind of regret passing on a Google job in ~2001 to continue with an ultimately-doomed startup. I also regret not spending $10k on AAPL stock back then. I'm still quite happy with my life to date.

If you could get into YC in 2008, you could almost certainly get one of any number of great jobs in the Bay Area, and could easily found a startup again (even with YC; depending on how exactly you left, it might be a positive).
Irrelevant to the article, every business dreams of the brand loyalty that Moleskine enjoys. Look how often the article uses the brand name for a largely commodity product.
Indeed this shit is not easy!

One day your on a huge blog/well known publication and your traffic is going nuts. The next day its all gone.

One day your celebrating your investment/funding win. The next your struggling to find more money and or accept it's not going to happen.

One day your invited to demo your latest tech to one of the big tech firms thinking it's your big win you've worked years for. The next you realize/wonder damn did they just steal our hard work - why did they treat us like garbage?

So many ups and downs. Sometimes you just want to give up, but you don't because this what you love to do and if you stop/give up on one tech idea you'll get restless and do another!
Something that I wish would hit Lucas mind before he made the SW prequels, it's contravariant on the imaginary basis of space.
Not to nitpick, but I don't think that you really mean to say "lifestyle business". When I think of a lifestyle business, I think of a smallish, relatively passive revenue generator.

I think that there might be roughly three types of companies: those financially backed through equity, small passive-ish businesses that allow the owner to go off and live their "lifestyle", and boot-strapped (equity intact) active corporations.

Personally, I want to retain all equity/control and would choose to dominate the market rather than milk the profit margin.

Anyway, maybe I've missed the mark. I'd love to further flesh this out.
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These are very different. There is evidence for the possibility of future catastrophic climate change. There is no evidence for the existence of hell.

There are also arguments against Pascal's wager that do not apply to climate change. For example, you can postulate an anti-Christianity Hell, where only non-Christians are spared. This poses a new Pascal wager. There's no reason to think this wager has any different odds than the original: they have the same prior, hence cancel out in an expected value calculation.
This is really cool, it kind of reminds me of the lifeline in who wants to be a millionare "ask the audience". It would be really cool to see a startup where all the decisions were made with such a format although its understandable why it probably won't happen.
Perhaps this article was brilliant content marketing for Moleskine notebooks. That seemed to be the hero of the article, not the author.
> that doesn't mean racism doesn't exist, and that certainly doesn't mean it's productive to try to remove discussion about racism from an arena so profoundly racist.

wat? i didn't say these things at all. we're on the same page. i agree with you.
First timers should always charge money and judge their success at first entirely based on net revenue. User adoption alone can be good but it's much harder to be sure about.
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The author is a very good writer, but they don't actually say why they dropped out of YC. At best, they say "I'm glad I dropped out, because it wasn't much fun". (Yeah, they say that's the reason, but I believe that's a post-rationalisation).

Apparently, the company was stalling, and there were lots of disputes. It's a startup. I guess the author walked earlier than usual - that's either smart or dumb .... it's hard to know which without knowing more.

But there's not enough meat in the article to have a sane discussion on, other than making wild allegations about the author or YC or starups or Moleskin journals.
Looks good, though I wish it had emacs bindings to search back and forth and move through paragraphs and lines.

I also wish it had support for various markdown extensions like table of contents and in page anchors.

But certainly looks terrific.
That was what stuck out to me most of all, after initially actually thinking it was a pretty good idea. I was totally turned off as a woman, and it make me feel immediately that this service, whatever it was, wasn't targeted at me.
I use these two functions, VNC and NFS, every day on my network. Almost all macs. Had no idea these were unknown...
I particularly liked the approach to automation of the application, even through WINE. Setting the time with LD_PRELOAD is a really neat trick.
I admit to being amused, in that he is implicitly buying into the assumption that there is a mathematical model (which can then be run through a computer) that can describe "how climate works" on Earth.

As if there is some huge Excel spreadsheet in a supercomputer and the jerks just keep on putting in wrong numbers to scare us.

There isn't, and there won't be for (my estimate) at least another century - we don't even understand the Gulf Stream well enough to accurately model and then predict its behavior, much less everything else, including atmospheric dust.
Can you elaborate on "Hosts that turn a blind eye"?
A charitable interpretation of daniel's comment would assume "infinite" meant "very, very, very large", for example: the extinction of humanity. There have been similar events to the extinction of humanity (past mass extinctions), so there is every reason to assign non-zero probability to human extinction from both frequentist and Bayesian perspectives. There are actually a multitude of events that happen in this universe with non-zero probability (from both probability philosophy perspectives) that could eradicate humanity.

Catastrophic climate change may very well be one of them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus#Evolution
Well, the circumstances are very specific, but - I had a flame out with a cofounder and decided that he was not someone with whom it would be worthwhile to continue the startup. The idea was primarily his, and it was going to be his vision that drove the startup. After the flameout, he's had other startups and jobs that were very much in line with the vision of our original startup. Those startups and jobs failed to demonstrate the correctness of his vision, so I think I did the right thing. It's the equivalent of making a decision to not buy Zynga stock back in the day.
Sure, I don't question the fact that you could make a series of horrible decisions, regret them and then still later on in life be quite happy, despite those earlier failures. That doesn't make the original decision to drop out of YC a good idea. I would think, I might be wrong, you should just make it work and not drop out. You should do whatever it takes to make it work.
You might want to be careful about security. Here's a harmless (at the time of writing!) XSS vulnerability: http://writebin.io/d/GTFx9CxV

<img onerror='alert("uh oh")' src=z> ← that there is an example of the sort of security hole (XSS) this has. Remember: Markdown is by default a *horribly* insecure format.
"the fear people have is the vast amounts of power and wealth we are transferring to select groups of people based on political considerations"

Ah, yes, like we do now, with the oil companies.
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