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There's one important question you've forgotten to ask: what exactly are the wealthy investing in the growth of? The answer, of course, is the production and sale of consumption goods, either directly or indirectly - all of their investment returns have to come from there eventually. Take that away and you'd just be left with a bunch of investors trying to make money from selling other investors ways to make money from yet more investors, in a mass of ponzis and swindles producing no real economic output.
Enjoyment of life.

Everything else is secondary.
> Since I can get perhaps 90% of the benefits of Rust
> today using other languages

Incorrect, unless you're one of the rare few using Ada or Cyclone. Bare-metal memory safety is fundamentally impossible in both Go and C++.

> Had Rust been more stable in 2012, maybe it'd be a
> different situation today.

Incorrect. I was there! And trust me when I say that 2012 Rust was very far off the mark. Rust is a language that was designed to be released in 2014, not 2012 or 2006 or 2038.

> Almost all of Mozilla's major projects, from
> Firefox, to Thunderbird, to Firefox for Mobile, to
> Persona, to Firefox OS, and even Rust are suffering
> from some pretty serious detachment from the needs
> of their users.

Citation needed. By any estimate, Firefox still has a fifth of all web traffic, with 500 million users. Firefox for Android has between 50 and 100 million downloads and is the highest-rated browser on the Android app store. Firefox OS continues to find new carriers and launch in new territories, which is more than can be said for Tizen or Meego or Symbian or Ubuntu Touch. And even though Rust hasn't even launched yet we're seeing month-over-month growth in traffic on every outlet.

Your narrative really needs some rethinking!
Thank you for taking my snippiness in the constructive spirit I now rationalize it as being intended in. ;)
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a) It isn't the end of the world if you need to drop a class.

b) If you need therapy because your grades have dropped from 98 on the first try to like 94, you are probably FINE and can quit hyperventilating.
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Let's simplify this even more - risk.

Getting into YC reduces perceived investor risk. Full stop. It doesn't reduce the actual risk that the investment won't fail, but it's much easier on our brains to say "Well these guys are a YC company and YC companies tend to do well. If they don't do well, there is at least a support network of partners/alumni to ease the pain".

There is nothing worse for an investor to speak to someone they don't know, or don't have any connection to.

There are two simple ways to increase your chances of funding: (1) get so much traction without funding that any investor would be dumb to pass you up or (2) be massively connected. Both aren't easy but they are by far the strongest signals right now to investors.

So is any incubator "worth it"? For many early stage startups, the answer is categorically - "yes". If you break down the cost-to-benefit ratio, the cost of doing an incubator is usually very low, while the benefit can be and normally is very high.

Last note - people often neglect the notion of high profile investor's ability to "cast a wider net". This is one of the huge benefits to YC. Getting a good investor on board isn't always just about capital. They can prove to be a huge part of your marketing plan.
I don't think it's quite that bad.

The key here, that the CEO utterly failed in, was creating a nexus in 35 states. That doesn't sound like an example of the I assume special cases listed. But IANAAccountant, am not subject to any of this craziness, so don't take my guess for much of anything, but I'll bet this was a relatively white line mistake.
I call BS.

My understanding is exercise is not that healthy from a physical stand point. (Mental health perhaps)

Continuous long term light strain is what I thought was beneficial. i.e. stand up desk, gardening etc

This PRed article seems to just be taking exercise as a given the extrapolating from there rather than looking at the issue itself.
Adding powerful new APIs to the web platform benefits more than just Angular, no? The set of evolving standards-based technologies behind "web components" (templates, Shadow DOM, HTMLImports, custom elements) can be utilized by any framework. More tools in our toolbox.
The hypothesis here seems to be that Comcast will be charging internet users more than warranted to subsidize TV. Did the author consider that at one point Comcast might realize theres no point in artificially extending the life of technology that has been lapped in the past century?

Of course we all have our fingers crossed that this eureka moment comes before the bumbling kids that make up their leadership team have lobbied or filtered and "traffic shaped" the internet to death.
But sites apparently don't care about this enough to want it, and users apparently don't care enough to demand it.

So how does it solve a problem these sites actually have?
Some small percentage of end users have this problem (the ones demanding a solution to privacy problems), but the rest don't think it's a problem, apparently.

(Surveys up the wazoo that show that people care about whatever mean nothing when people don't actually change their behavior)
Kickstarter hacked, with data stolen for an unknown number of customers
But there isn't going to come a new Facebook or Google out of Berlin

That is, in part, because the kinds of privacy invasion those two organisations routinely conduct would probably have been challenged earlier and more aggressively if they had been within European jurisdiction, and particularly within Germany.

This is a feature, not a bug.
I'm not and have never been a CloudFlare customer. My experience with them stems from hosting game servers and dealing with many DDoS incidents, nearly all of which originated from CloudFlare-"supported" (I would like to use the term "hosting" but I realize they will dispute this, and I'm not interested in a debate on semantics) booters. As part of this, I also have experience dealing with CloudFlare, which I detailed in another comment here.

Publishing research papers about DDoS attacks is one thing. Selling a service that performs them (i.e. DDoS-for-hire) is completely different, IMO.
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Is it possible to upload via sftp for example? Or is it only usable with your hosted service?
The first draft of the Fair Labor Standards Act had a 30 hour workweek, past which you'd get overtime.

Many laws before the FLSA (like the New York law famously struck down as unconstitutional in the later-reversed Lochner v. New York) capped the workweek at 60 hours.

Imagine if either of these laws were the standard for the country ... maybe that would change our perspective on what is healthy and what is unhealthy.
Sadly, security is impossible.
To everyone who jumped in to comment that 60+ hours at work is just fine, because they can do it. I have to say, stop equating work with progress. Busiest time in my life was when I was studying for the California Bar exam. According to the program I was doing, I was expected to study 12 hours a day. Most people I knew did 12+ hours of studying at least, all of them passed the bar. I did about 6 hours a day (+ other stuff for my startup), and still got the same results. The truth is, I actually observed the study habits of my friends. About 7 hours into their study sessions their brains would start to shut down slowly. Questions they would normally take seconds to answer would take them minutes to comprehend.

The point of the article is that working 60+ hours is fine, if you need to, but being proud of it is silly. Be proud of the work you produce, not the amount of time it took you to produce it. And certainly don't be proud putting in 60+ hours for some one else, even if they are buying you with stock options.

To be clear, some of us are lucky enough to make money by doing things we would otherwise do anyway, there is nothing wrong with devoting you life to your hobby and have it bring you a ton of money in the process. But don't kill your self for someone else and feel proud about it because you think it's somehow manly to work 60+ hours.
Yeah, I couldn't shake the feeling that the framing narrative of coord-cutters was worse than useless (except as linkbait). We already know that monopolies can increase their prices until customers are getting nearly 0 utility out of doing business with them. That's why Comcast and TWC merged (how the hell did that get through the FTC?). That's why prices are going up while quality of internet service is going down. The only reason to blame rising internet costs on coord-cutters is to divert attention away from a reality that could land Comcast in legal trouble.
AWS is for startups with venture capital, ephemeral storage and compute, or someone needing to deploy a high traffic website instantly.
But it's relatively unique in how close it is to the US authorities, since it's part of five eyes.
«I am french, and I agree.»

This should be quoted on the internet by the way.
But they're important to protect the US from Nazis! Do I have to go Godwin on you so you realize how vital this is?
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Agreed. Sweeping generalizations about Mozilla and subjective discussions of Firefox's UX have nothing to do with a public dialogue about evaluating Persona's current state.
The list of companies who have meaningful numbers of users and haven't been hacked is growing vanishingly small. You'll also notice that no payment information was breached, substantially better than most other similar events.

Plus, I'm not sure where you possibly got billions in annual revenue? They're incredibly public about their statistics and business model. They take 5% of successfully raised projects. They report $842M successful dollars on the site, for a lifetime revenue of $42 million in the 5 years since they were founded.
That's exactly one good reason to do it.
1. Have you leaked physical addresses that were provided to completed projects for shipping of the rewards?

2. Given the wording - "access to some of our customers' data" - will you provide a way to check if specific account was affected? Or was it "possibly all customer data"?

Thanks
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"Regarding friends/partners/etc. If the amount of hours you want to work isn't compatible with your partner's expectations... get a new partner. Seriously. Your priorities aren't aligned."

I'm going to guess that you're not married or have kids because this is the dumbest and shallowest thing I've heard in a while. Why would anyone want to be with you if at the slightest suggestion that you spend more time with them you would fire/terminate the relationship.
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> What you individually care about as a shareholder is really not as relevant as you may think.

It's 100% relevant to my buy/sell decisions, and the market aggregate of that is what sets the share price, and that's a very strong signal to management.
To many of us who don't own a TV, that doesn't ring true. We find sitting in a dim room to be an inherently a-social activity, therefore count the creation of a temptation to engage in activities that minimize interaction with each other among the disadvantages of having such an appliance in one's home.

Which isn't to say that I have anything against video entertainment. But to me it's personal entertainment, the same as reading a book or playing playing Candy Crush on a phone. So I don't really draw a huge distinction between a room full of people staring at a 40" screen on the wall and a room full of people staring at 4" screens in their hands.
I would say that at least the German government has a better track record in consumer/privacy protection. Far from perfect obviously, but better.
My friends' photo albums weren't online or had low pagerank or were otherwise unlikely to return anything for a search of my name.
that's a cool idea - maybe we'll add that for the pro version - great suggestion. i know i'd prefer that myself.
I'm pretty active on Kickstarter, backing multiple projects.

What's really worrying is that the Kickstarter folk didn't detect the breach themselves. It was law enforcement (I'm assuming FBI) who contacted them about it.

On the security notice, Kickstarter writes they "set a very high bar" on how they serve their community. What a load of crock!. If they had a high bar this would never have happened. I wish they wouldn't rub salt in the wound by publishing such blatant rubbish.

I'm extremely disappointed with Kickstarter right now.
Usually startups that make money the fastest are ones with a revenue model, an understanding of who their customers are and a way to get in front of those customers.

This is a very broad statement, but I think if you can apply this checklist to your ideas you will be on your way.

Example:

Product: Website uptime monitoring with SMS alerts.

Revenue model: Free up to 1 site, $5/mo for 5 sites, $10 for 15 sites.

Target customers: Freelancers, Small web shops, owner operators.

Where they visit: Web Design Blogs, Freelance Blogs, Web Dev Podcasts, Tutorial Sites, Web Design Galleries

How to get in front of them: Banner and sidebar ad's, Reviews from related blogs, Press Release, Free Trials, Guest Blogging, Social media, cold calling, email blasts, podcast sponsorshop.

This is just a random idea I pulled out the air, but it could be executed immediately because it hits all three criteria on the checklist.
The local banks have spent enough money over the years advertising their "automatic bill pay" schemes that somebody must see value in them. Good luck beating them at that game, though. They've been at it for at least a decade.
Does that even make any sense?

Would they force European users to not use GMail? Or force GMail to create a European branch?

I don't think governments prescribing what services to use is a good idea...
There was actually a huge heap of money involved, because we made the CGI and stats software and animations for the worldwide TV broadcast of FIFA World Cup '98. It was a crazily ambitious project, not to be equalled by off-the-shelf software for 8 years, and we had to throw an insane amount of hardware at it: 2 SGI Origin 2000, 30 SGI Octanes and 60 high-end PCs, plus some custom hardware at places to interface with the video mixers. We of course got almost nothing in return :)
Here is the direct URL of the PDF document: http://vidcat.org/user_data/8bb87829c039fa85f30769c96b8e1476...
I haven't been following Meteor too closely lately, but from the start it implemented minimongo on the client side, which is a good subset of the Meteor+MongoDB integration. This allows Meteor apps to mostly be 'offline by default.' Of course, Meteor makes many other decisions for you which you may or may not like, but I think they've been trying to pick out their functionality as libraries, so maybe there's a low hanging fruit there w.r.t. getting it to work offline without adhering to the whole framework.
People have worked more than 60 hours a week for hundreds of years (farmers, soldiers, ...). There's nothing normative about the 40 hour (or 38,5 hour in this country) working weeks we are used to because we grew up with them.

We should worry more about getting our minds occupied with useless information. How healthy is a strict 40 hour week when 20 more hours are spent browsing the web and another 20 or more watching TV? Do we even still know what else we could do with our time? We might as well do some productive work ...
Ad space on the bill for movies and tv shows that are coming soon? Not great, but probably more effective than a billboard on Santa Monica...
We use a dedicated server. It's a fairly basic machine with a single Xeon CPU and 32GB ram and a lot of drive-bays, which I think doesn't cost much. It has at the moment 16 x 3TB drives in it in RAID 50. RAID 50 is not super on performance, but fast enough to saturate gigabit in sequential operations (which backups are). So it has 32 TB of useful storage for a price of around € 700 per month (leased server at a high-end hosting company, so could be much cheaper if you buy it yourself or use a cheaper provider). Per TB that's around € 21.5 per month. Although our reasons for doing this were not based on the prices of storage in the cloud, it was based on having the data on our own machine with disk encryption and only a connection to our internal management network and not the public internet.
I don't see a link to the source code on your page, is it just me ?
Another backup possibility I currently use: ZFS on a backup server (not necessarily ZFS on the system that should be backed up), pull data with rsync on the backup host to a ZFS, after that make a snapshot for an "incremental backup".

So simplified it's like: rsync -avx remote:/etc /backup/ && zfs snapshot backup@`date`

With zfSnap (https://github.com/graudeejs/zfSnap) you can tell how long incremental backups/snapshots are kept, "rsync && zfSnap -d -a 1w backup"

You can take advantage of the /backup/.zfs/snapshot directory to access all snapshots, built-in compression and possible data deduplication.

If you also have ZFS on the remote host, you can use zfs send and zfs receive to transfer the snapshot directly to the backup server, instead of using rsync for the diff.
> Look at it this way. Without Cloudflare providing free DDOS mitigation, the attacks would not be happening as frequently.

I don't see the cost of CloudFlare's service as a problem. In fact, free DDoS mitigation is great. The problem is that they're willing to provide service to booters/DDoS-for-hire services.

Reputable providers prohibit this kind of activity in their AUPs, and there aren't that many companies with their own large networks capable of DDoS mitigation (many are just resellers). If CloudFlare stopped supporting such services, it would immediately put a large dent in the entire booter market because the kids would take care of shutting each other down, and individual booters would find it difficult to find a provider who can mitigate attacks and is willing to provide service to them. (In other words, let them fend for themselves. Screw them.)

> Maybe you'd feel differently if you were the target of some of these attacks.

I agree, and I think this is why a few of us (you and me, in particular) have different views compared to others.

(I have talked to you on WHT recently. Not under this name, but you might have an idea.)
Yeah, but people don't care about this stuff until it happens to inconvenience them.
Actually in a universe where time doesn't necessarily flow forward, evidence could be perfect. They could just delete branches where the simulation is discovered and revert back to the point where the bit leading to the discovery was made. But I see what you are trying to say.
What is extremely false? This was said at British parliament. To quote Cameron: "people had to dring from flower vase, not to die of thirst". There are thousands of deaths because of basic neglect.

As for my personal experience. I only wanted rentgen to see if my hand is broken. I could not just 'walk in' and buy a service, I would had to go through GP referral than booking specialist appointment and finally week latter have xray.

The Emergency Room is used by everyone who needs prescription for flu, so I had to wait 6 hours in bloody line full of coughing people. I should have probably just walk in front of the hospital and call myself ambulance from parking lot.

The healtcare is not free, as visitor from other EU country, my insurance company has to pay. Also local cresidents pay higher taxes. Sure there is no lawyer overhead, but that will only impress someone from US.

As for waiting for non-essential operations, you probably meant non-life threating. Some procedures solve crippling pain, but are rated non-essential.

And on top of that you can not choose hospital where you will go. Some hospitals are better, some are really bad. Obviously the elite lives in areas with better hospitals.

The story about baby was in national Slovak news, and forced embassy to step in. I am too lazy to look for english translation, but there are other similar cases. The time line in this case is this:

1) Slovak couple comes with six months baby in hospital, it cries and has something with hand. They claim it had vaccination one day before at the same hand.

2) Doctor makes xray, finds hand is broken and fixate it.

3) Hospital calls SS and police. Couple is escorted by police to court straight from hospital with baby.

4) They get advocate assigned from court and the hearing starts at the same evening (5 hours after they come into hospital)

5) Their defendant is arrogant, tell them to shut up and does not explain anything. Plus he does not speak slovak and their english is not adequate for this stuff

6) Court postpones decision into other hearing. They are free to leave. At outside police is waiting to seize baby, officers do not believe court did not made decision.

7) At 11 PM they finally arrive home from hospital with baby.

8) At 4 AM they decide to leave country, at 6 AM they are on airplane to continental europe.

9) At 7:30 AM police came at their london door with order to seize baby

10) 2 days latter they contact slovak police, disclose their location and ask for help. They also contact media.

I am really not going into more of those shit. I know several people who fled UK because of fear for their baby. Embassy even recommends to avoid giving birth in UK, since you could say something stupid, which would be held against you.

This was 'majority white' slovak couple. Slovak gypsies have situation much much worse in London. I am sometimes called racist, but what SS is doing to gypsies, is miles behind the line.
I just commented on the same thing. This person is amazing. I can't imagine being his wife or kid.

On the empathy front, I can't agree more. Who the hell would want to work for a person that can't sympathize with going home on time to be with family.
If you think of doing business in the EU, though, rather than just the UK (which is a bit more geographically/population comparable with the U.S.), then you do have the same multi-jurisdiction thing over the large number of VAT rates that differ according to the customer's location. For example if you are a UK bookseller shipping to a customer in the UK, you don't charge VAT (the UK exempts books). But if you are a UK bookseller shipping to a customer in Denmark, you charge 25% VAT (Denmark doesn't exempt books, and its rate is different also).

I think businesses under a certain revenue threshold, though, are exempt from calculating destination-based VAT, so it doesn't hit small businesses.
It's a common misconception that Shadow DOM is required to create a "web component". What it brings to the table is style and dom encapsulation. Not using it means components won't have those benefit (by default), but there's nothing stopping people from creating custom elements that are not encapsulated.

An analogy can be made to requestAnimation. raF isn't required to create animations, but it's highly useful in that context. raF can also be used for other use cases outside of animations (scroll effects, etc). Shadow DOM is the same IMO. It's a useful standalone technology, but when used in the context of web components, it really shines.
Thank you. I'm always confused if encrypted is PR-people speak for hashed, encrypted, or, worse, "we trust our engineers to do the right thing and encrypted sounds like we did the right thing".
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"Automatic bill pay" with my bank does have some value! But they give it to me for free, as a perk to attract my business. Much like free checking, which banks also advertise.
Cool post! Minor typo: Monekyrunner -> monkeyrunner
Why do you care? So what if your face is on an ad? Only idiots would believe you had anything to do with that happening, and why would you care what idiots think?
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