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This is a wonderful effort! I very much hope that either Sandstorm or OwnCloud or both start to gain more features, more power and more popularity at least among the people who care about privacy and like to keep data under their own control.

Let's face it, Linux should not try to win the battle for the desktop. Not only it is already lost, its is pretty much irrelevant. I feel that instead of producing another fork of desktop office package, efforts of open source contributors would be much better spent on creating Open Source counterpart of Google Apps.

I do a lot of things with my linux-based NAS already: it is backup server, git server, hub for online and offsite backup, media storage, and much more. But I wish more apps would be easily available for an easy installation, without fiddling with database settings and ruby versions. I want my own pinboard.in, I want my own RSS reader, I want my own mint.com installable on my NAS with few clicks. I would definitely pay for good commercial apps too! I just want them to run on my server with the data I control.
No, not always.

I already gave the Ives counterexample re: the influence criterion.

As for the pay criterion, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary
Oh that's nice. $5 still might be a barrier for the use case I have in mind, though. I wonder if there's any higher level of identity verification that one could do to reduce it further.
There are a number of companies who have executives who make business decisions that are morally questionable. I have often said its best not to use those companies, but often it's not possible.

Boycotts are effective: I have participated in one against Australia's Kyle Sandilands. You won't always be able to do this, however.
You should publish a paper on the problem you solved with GA. It will be a huge breakthrough, since so far here is only 1 problem known to work better with GAs than hill climbing, and it's a toy problem specifically crafted for this purpose.
Mr Right-Idea: Why do people decide to start-up?
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The initial transaction, yes, but not the final payoffs.

I agree with you on the other issue (though you borrow money elsewhere to simulate a lower margin).
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So, let me get this straight:

Giving money to politicians who are against same-sex marriage: bad.

Actually being a politician who's against same-sex marriage: perfectly fine.

Is that really your thesis here?
Wrong again. http://www.americannaziparty.com
Internal pseudo-schematized data storage and JSON support aren't mutually-exclusive. Nice to have a checkbox feature like this but the implementation isn't particularly exciting for large datasets.
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FYI: You are responding to a troll.
Edit: I understand your comment now. No, I meant that the bootstrap script is running in your browser.

Yes, you're right that it's very far from perfect without browser support for decrypting files, but it reduces the amount of files on the server you need to monitor to one (or a couple) and it would make targeting someone harder (by using appcache). I'm not a security researcher, though.
Hey Chris! I work at Balanced.

We actually just rolled out a new version of our API last week, and put a _significant_ amount of effort into improving the documentation. Check it out: https://docs.balancedpayments.com/1.1/overview/
There's an algorithm to deal with this kind of additive small error, the Kahan Summation algorithm. It keeps a second number to record the residual of an addition so that adding something small to something large doesn't go awry. With modern floating point, it's rarely an issue, but with a mere 24 bits, I guess it was a terrible problem.
Are you saying that Brendan Eich's personal views are that of Mozilla's as an organisation?
Unless you can demonstrate that they acted in a hostile manner towards anyone, you can't fire someone over opinions or speech, no.
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As I said to the other poster, your position appears to be this:

Giving money to politicians who are against same-sex marriage: bad.

Actually being a politician who's against same-sex marriage: perfectly fine.

That's quite a high tolerance for cognitive dissonance you have going on there, dude.
Did you guys already get registered as a designated contract market?
He had the chance. He pointedly didn't take it. https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/
>A company can be spending more than they make, and still be profitable

What?

Anyway, Amazon has razor-thin margins on some products but they're not loss making.
If a Republican wanted to work for a Democrat, and if he were denied employment for that reason alone, that would be illegal, yes.
Well, it helped that the Scuds had a 5% accuracy rate.
I love these "skip ahead w/ referrals" systems, because they're so incredibly easy to cheat - sorry about that!

Am very much looking forward to checking the app out.
Mozilla is a non-profit that takes moral stances. So their CEO has to embody those values as well.
Makes sense, does that in turn mean that SSL is really a 'hopeless' cause and using self-signed just for the image of 'https' showing in the location bar on a browser enough? Seems like a pointless exercise to me knowing that someone somewhere (government or not) could still access it
Edit the kernel entry in grub to boot into single user mode (by appending a 1 to the line), boot, you're now free to change root's password.

This is what we did to a number of machines at this year's SouthWest CCDC we were provided no login information for.
Lobbying is fine. After all, a representative government can't function if talking to your representatives is a crime.

The problem is not the right to deliver petitions. It's the practice of doing so with cash (or check!) included.
My domain registrar (namecheap) offers SSL certificates cheap.

All you need is for your domain to show up with the little special icon in the browser when you use https. Other than that, it doesn't matter. Get the cheapest one that browsers recognize.
> Why would you respect his belief?

Maybe I should be clear.

"Probably not, but will I respect his [right] being a pro-Nazism believer? Yes."

I am not making this up. My revision is actually in the context of the original quote. I will respect his right without endorsing his belief. I can dislike him and may distant from him as much as possible...

Sure we all carry bias. If the whole organization is against Nazi hiring a pro-Nazi would be stupid because that can cause internal tension. But that being said, not aligned with gay right advocates is not in the category as aligning oneself with someone with extreme thoughts. I bet people disagree on abortion and religion and tons of other very controversial issues.
EDIT: Deleted parent claimed there was no mechanism to remove a permanent member of the UNSC

Sure there is: a 2/3 vote of the General Assembly can expel a member-state of the UN (and the General Assembly can, as it did in the case of China -- a permanent member of the Security Council -- also decide to recognize a different government as the legitimate representative of a member-state, which has much the same effect.)
I'd like to pick your brain some more, but I don't have any specific questions at this point. Would you mind continuing to talk more about this space? It's something I'm very interested in, so if you can think of more than those 4 (excellent) points then that would be very helpful. Thank you!

EDIT: That goes for everyone else reading this too, of course. If you have any experience or thoughts in this area, please chime in.
Looks great, but I had some trouble building this (Clang 3.5 threw stack traces all over the place). Would be great if there was a Vagrant box available to try this.
I think that the "very successful launches of Firefox OS" claim is odd.

While justifying it with the "15 countries with 4 operators and 4 device manufacturers"-style claims may sound good, in practice we don't really see much serious adoption.

It isn't even really competing with Microsoft's or BlackBerry's offerings at this point, and even they are significantly far behind Android and iOS when it comes to market share.

If Firefox OS were actively competing against Android and iOS, I could see it being called a "success". But at this point it's, at best, the fifth-place player, and realistically it's further down the list than that. There isn't much to indicate that it'll get much uptake, either. So all in all, that's not really impressive, I'm afraid to say. It surely should not be described as "successful".
What exactly is a "rates market"? Can you provide an example of a market that fulfills this function?
Great. So why can't you do it on a MacBook Pro?
That is not the Nazi Party though, is it?
> I'm referring to the legal distinction between single and married people, and the benefits married people get.

We need to be accurate here, "the legal distinction between married and unmarried couples". The benefits from marriage come from the legal process, so for unmarried couples to get the same benefits another equivalent legal process, or a new and universal process as a replacement would be required.

It seems that another legal process would be the answer, but only if it improves upon the process(es) that it replaces.
As I said, every country has issues. A never-ending flame-war (which continues with someone mentioning Macedonians, you mentioning Cyprus, someone mentioning the massacre of Turkish in Cyprus, you mentioning the massacre of Greeks in Cyprus and so on; you know the drill - and please don't keep commenting on these, everyone can Google them) doesn't help anyone. We as regular citizens just increase tension between ourselves. I have Greek relatives too like a lot of people whose ancestors have been in İstanbul for many centuries. I love Greece like many others. Please stop making these issues a campaign against Turkey and the Turkish people.
> No, as the Z-series is still in the prototype or non-flight phase. The cover layer of a non-flight suit, which is used for ground-based testing, serves as abrasion/snag protection, a cover for technical details, and to a lesser extent, aesthetics. For a flight suit which is actually used for a spacewalk, the cover layer performs many other important functions such as micrometeorite, thermal and radiation protection. These requirements drive selection of specific high-performance materials and design details that would preclude us from using many of the features you see in these options for the Z-2 suit.

Basically this is just them allowing people to have impact on what the next iteration looks like, not what the actual suit will look like.
Hey ericd! I work at Balanced.

The price of ACH debits is 1% + 30¢, _capped_ at $5. So a $10 debit would cost you 40¢. I know you've said you're doing high-dollar transactions, just wanted to make sure that it was super clear, as we try to be with all of our pricing.

https://www.balancedpayments.com/pricing
Without hibernating to disk first?

or via using the Ultrabay as secondary battery? [1]

[1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_use_Ultrabay_batteries#...

[EDIT] Also I'm not in any way affiliated with IBM/Lenovo. But the always-on USB-port feature is also a handy emergency travel phone charger if you can (or have to) prioritize phone usage over computer usage with no power outlets in reach. Since the Ultrabook is off and doesn't have to use any power itself you could theoretically stay connected for weeks given a charged battery pack.
If the governments with a permanent UNSC seat couldn't lose that seat, the (People's Republic of) China wouldn't have a vote at all.
Not really impressed, why would you want to put your marketplace at the whims of Stripe or credit card companies?

I am currently working on a bitcoin marketplace, while it would restrict the ease of use for users, it would also cut out alot of fraud and chargebacks crap

I would rather have a large part of a rapidly growing pie than fighting ebay or amazon on their turf
>This reply does not answer the question.

Yes it does, it in fact gave two answers to the question.

> It's just another attempt at emotional blackmail

I don't agree, but if that's what you think, then move along, I don't care.
That's a very...interesting way of solving that problem. Thanks for the information.
We must be willing to consider another's position even if we perceive their unwillingness to consider ours. To do otherwise is a recipe for ignorance and stalemate.

Do we really think Eich hates all gay people? Do we really think his position is as simple as, "Well, I irrationally hate all gay people, therefore, I voted for Prop 8"?

I propose to you that Eich holds his position for reasons that are sensible to him, and not because he hates all gay people. If we are unable to afford him even that charity, we may in fact be more close-minded than our opponents.
"How exactly did I misrepresent the view?"

oh for the love of words, your example was: "If Eich supported Prop 8 in California, then clearly he's a homophobic tool of the Koch Brothers."

So, you made the association of "homophobic tool" to "Koch Brothers" indicating that they have such tools. Your example directly attributed beliefs to the Koch Brothers that they do not hold and actually oppose with money. This would be misrepresentation.

"Have not the Koch brothers been slandered in the media and in fact on the floor of the Senate? Have they not been made into the Great Conservative Boogeyman?"

Yes, they have been slandered on the Senate floor. That doesn't give you a free pass to commit the same slander. Adding to the pile is not a commendable activity.

"Do you mean to tell me that nobody would ever take such a position as I stated?"

It seems that plenty of people like to attribute to people things they do not actually believe. It is quite common in politics. It is still slander.
It may be primarily symbolic but its message is clear to Russian officials and foreign investors alike. The Russia brand has been stained (they did it to themselves).
He had the chance before, he punted on it: https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diversity/
Okay - Putin plays the long game. Russia is the last standing of the Great Powers of pre WWI and it shows in their thinking.

The noise will be temporary, diamonds and crimea are forever. Putin's bet is that the US-centric world is coming to an end and that the powers that rise are much more like the powers of times past.
>and it wasn't 100% accurate.

The title came from slide 12 of the presentation. Based on the recent posts by the parties involved, it seems that it was accurate with respect to the hurdles encountered in getting funding, but the presentation slides didn't express the context of how this event fit into the history of the company.
I loved having 50GB for free, but couldn't stomach using the product. Their absurd process for selecting a custom location for the Box folder, from their own website, included uninstalling the software and doing some registry magic by hand. With that kind of attention to detail, I couldn't have any trust in their engineering or product teams.

The idea that actual enterprises would entrust their data or operations with a company I wouldn't use for casual syncing of unimportant data is something I'm still trying to stomach.
Because they'll be socially shunned by people who find their views to be embarrassing.
Does the software automatically recognize the stickers? That would be helpful, I suppose.
Not surprising given they raised 11 rounds, including series A-F, and have cumulatively raised over 400M
Interesting! chris.barber@alumni.stanford.edu I'm curious to hear more
Thank you for the answer, I'm looking forward to it.

I strongly suggest you to put the prices immediately visible: while evaluating different products I started with the ones with a clearer pricing. Think about it: you have to check 10 products, 3 of them require you to create a login just to know how much they cost, the others are upfront about it. Which would you evaluate first?

Keep up the good work.
- It had a net loss of $168 million over that period, compared to a loss of $112 million the year before.
- Revenue for the year ended January 31, 2014 was $124 million, which is up 111%.
- Sales and marketing expenses were $171 million. Note that this is higher than its revenue.
- Box has $109 million in cash on hand, and it just raised $100 million in December.
This is great. The flexibility makes checkout a legitimate option for merchants... again.
Basically what I'm saying is that being against State privileged gay marriage doesn't have to be anti-gay. It can be anti-State.

While I think this is a perfectly rational position, I'm dubious that it's a very good basis for opposing gay marriage rights.

I've noticed that libertarians and leftists both tend toward a passionate hatred of compromise and "half-measures," and this reasoning strikes me as one of those cases. If you really don't think the State should be involved in marriage at all, then you don't want the state recognizing gay marriage because you don't want it to recognize any marriage. But on a practical level, that's not going to happen any time soon. Extending gay marriage rights arguably reduces the State's ability to dictate who can and can't be married and thus increases individual freedom. Isn't that clearly preferable from a libertarian standpoint?
You can't mention biology or human nature when it comes to the LGBT community. They're sort of...abstracted away, in the leaky sense.
Are you not forgetting about fall of USSR?
Former enterprise guy here. You're 100% right.

Curious, why doesn't anyone here mention SAP when the topic of enterprise software comes up? SAP is the enterprise software company (bigger than Oracle in business software). That being said:[0]

- SAP has 15,000 s&m employees (second only to it's 17,000 R&D employees)
- Of it's €11B in gross profit, it spends €4B on s&m, or 25% of it's revenue (€16B). It spends roughly the same €4b on software development (Cost of software + R&d)

Here's the funny thing. The argument for why cloud is taking over is that the Cost of Sales is supposed to go down. Ya...... (my thoughts on this: http://www.techdisruptive.com/2012/11/28/how-are-we-going-to...)

[0]http://global.sap.com/corporate-en/investors/pdf/sap-2013-an...
Go go mjg59! :D
Reminds me of that discussion about whether a smart bomb exploding counts as distribution of GPL code.
I don't really have pony in this race, but one thing I'll say is "ease of use for users" is paramount.

Perhaps bitcoin will go mainstream and everyone will be using it sometime in the future. Perhaps. But until then, the marketplace you're building isn't really even competing in the same space as this.
> The article listed the speed of a scud at "1,676 meters/second"

Which looks suspiciously like a rounded "3750 mph to meters per second" conversion. Indeed, "scud 3750 mph" turns up a lot of hits.
I'm not sure what you mean by that.

I mean that the fear of Turkey in the EU is about factors other than ignoring or papering over past misdeeds, and those factors are mostly based around what will happen if Turkey joins the EU. Whether the fears are realistic or not, it's about what will happen, not what has happened.

After all, Belgium killed a great deal many more Congolese than died in the Armenian genocide (and horrifically maimed many more), yet Belgium is the administrative hub of the EU. I don't think that the difference in acceptance between Belgium and Turkey boils down to Belgium recognising that past misdeed (which has seen no reparations, as far as I am aware).
Loca means crazy woman/prostitute in Spanish. :P I can't imagine guys here using this app if it ever reaches this continent.
They don't have a scalable business model when measured annually, that is clear. But enterprise customer LTV accrues over years, not months. It might take $5 to generate $1 of income this year, but then only take $0.25 to maintain that $1 of income for the next 10 years.

I don't know for sure, but I'd say there are probably enough smart people who understand the dynamics of enterprise software involved with Box for this to make sense.
> The principle can't possibly be that useful if, a few decades later, the result of its application is deadlock.

It deadlocked less than a decade in, which is a big part of how we ended up with the current operation where the things in the UN Charter that plainly say they require the approval of all the permanent members of the Security Council are treated as if the permanent members have a veto which they must be present and affirmatively choose to use. (It's also how we ended up with the "Uniting for Peace" [1] framework for an end-run around deadlocked veto powers even if they are present and actively voting.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly...
> they just aren't ready to strip the word "marriage" of the religious associations it holds for them.

They haven't been to Vegas, have they?
It doesn't matter. The street will eat it up. Wall Street is begging tech to produce - even if that means no profit. They will line up to invest. Also, (and probably) because Box is a potential buy-out. Which is probably why they are doing an IPO in the first place.

Look.. look at Amazon. That company has never posted a profit. And yet every trader I know is falling over themselves throwing money at them. It's the belief in investing in something"sexy", and "new".
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I'm curious, is that really as big of a deal as the tech startup makes it out to be? When the team is young, small, and scrappy, I understand that technical skills on the founding team are highly valued, but after growing to nearly 1,000 employees surely the core leadership can hand off the technical day-to-day and platform architecture to a technical SVP.
I don't know why many people are focus on Apple or protable battery. With such tech, the potential could be anywhere need an efficient energy solution. The BatterBox might be the first appliance. Are you willing to buy something cost you 10 bucks while it saves you 20 bucks?
If Persona was really of use to the Internet community at large, I think we would've seen it be rapidly adopted, regardless of how much "marketing" Mozilla engaged in.

While it might be nice to have from an ideological standpoint, in practice it just isn't of much value to enough people. This may not be pleasant to admit, but I do think that it's the reality.

Compare it to Firefox. Firefox proved to be a product that was useful to a lot of people, and it rapidly gained a comparatively large share of the market quite quickly.

Persona has been the opposite of that. Its adoption never took off, and there's nothing to suggest that it ever will. It just wouldn't make sense for Mozilla to waste more resources on a dead-end effort, especially when those resources could be put toward improving a product like Firefox, which is actually used by millions of people today.
We've actually got a private beta in the works. (:

I'm happy to give you access if you'd like to try it out -- just email me at amber@stripe.com.
It varies pretty widely, but Levie's number is on the low side historically for tech companies, particularly for such a relatively young company.

Gates had 45% of Microsoft the day after their IPO. Larry Ellison still owns ~20% of Oracle. Google's founders still have ~10%. David Filo even still has around 9% of Yahoo (Yang & Filo had closer to 20% at the time of the IPO if I recall). Bezos still has around 18% of Amazon. When Dell IPO'd, Michael Dell still owned a huge percentage of the company at IPO, over 40% if I recall (he sold most of it high, which is why before they took Dell private, he was nearly worth more than the company).
Down for me. Cached:

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