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Where do you live? There are plenty of places with expensive parking. Self parking in Sydney hit $50 after 3 hours.
Wouldn't you just get a mobile hotspot? Or are you traveling to places with poor cell reception?
Seems great in theory, but what if the other drive isn't willing to let you in - or - vise versa?
If the person merging late had to stop, then it means they went too far without getting a space (because they didn't take the chance they were given or no one gave them space). This is the problem with zipper merging: if everyone gets it right it's beautiful but the failure mode is near catastrophic (effectively stopping one lane) and easy to get into. One or two bad actors can ruin it.
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I love that "hearing the full story" got downvoted. hah
Downvote all you want, the lady's got some miles on her.
Disagree. I used to reverse-commute through the Golden Gate Bridge and the Caldecott Tunnel, where the freeway went from 4 lanes to 2 in both places. 99% of drivers manage to zipper-merge properly. Likewise, almost everyone zippers at the South 101 Central Freeway merge.

California drivers may or may not be bad, but they're much better than the ones in Minnesota.
What did you find? Can you give me some more info on that?
They had the "IPO" in April.

Just because the same is the same doesn't mean the target is the same (see Ripple being bought out and turned into a pump and dump).
It might be, if you can't remember how many minutes it should be. I have to admit I always have to look it up,
Just because the dedicated server hosting industry hasn't been dealing with the problem, doesn't mean it's not there :)

If I flash the BIOS (or the network card firmware or the LOM device firmware or the disk controller firmware or the individual disk firmware, etc) with malicious firmware, it can lie to you when you try to reflash it later, leaving my malicious code running against later customers.
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On most military bases, and therefore in military heavy towns like San Antonio, the zipper merge is used to great effect. I've even seen it used at T-intersections (where the perpendicular road must stop) - on almost every military base, when traffic is backed up, you'll see drivers immediately implement the zipper - one car from right of way, one from the intersecting road.
Another plane (Swiftair MD83) crashed, this time in Africa
Which, unfortunately, requires Java.
"...They seemed to think that the flaw with Twitter is that it's free. In my opinion, the flaw with Twitter is that it's centralized..."

The flaw that made me leave Twatter for App.net was the ever-increasing amount of stinking advertising [laughingly known as 'Sponsored Tweets' ] littering my stream, combined with the relentless barrage of spam emails from Twitter themselves.

Alpha offered everything Twatter did, as well as double length posts and without spamverts. Unfortunately [and I agree with previous comments on App.net's piss-poor marketting] few people even knew it existed.
Perhaps instead of merging one lane into another, the animosity toward late mergers can be alleviated by making all lanes move.

If no one feels like they are in the free lane, they'll be forced to cooperate.

So, on a two-lane highway, make one center lane and have both lanes funnel into it. then you can move that free-flowing lane wherever you need.
This is overly general. And we need to make a distinction between actual physics (laws of Nature) and our theoretical models of such.

Yes. Our theoretical models of the laws of physics are usually formal and axiomatic systems of logic (basically mathematics).

Yes. We understand and describe it using mathematical constructions we know of.

However, the laws of Nature do govern what kinds of models of computation are realizable (theoretically and physically). Limits on computability influence the design and sophistication of logic and mathematics. A good model of computation that we choose for this is some variant of a Turing machine. If this is true for our brains as well, then there is a limit on how sophisticated and powerful mathematics can be from our perspectives. In other words, the laws of Nature are dictating how good of a system of mathematics we come up with can be from a logical standpoint.
Unless they didn't maintain enough space for the big truck. Then someone has to slow down.
Largely true, but they've also put out Long reports, namely Blackberry recently which they highlighted about a year ago and have reiterated their positive stance, which has played out in the market. I add this not to toot their own but even out the message that although they're known for their shorts, that's not all they research and pick.
How did you build that database?
The thing my grandfather taught me was that you live with all of your decisions for the rest of your life. When you make decisions which put other people at risk, you take on the risk that you are going to make someones life harder, possibly much harder. What is perhaps even more important is that no amount of "I'm so sorry I did that ..." will ever undo it. Sometimes its little things, like taking the last serving because you thought everyone had eaten, sometimes its big things like deciding that home is close enough that and you're sober enough to get there safely. They are all decisions we make every day. And as I've gotten older the weight of ones I wish I had made differently doesn't get any lighter. You can lie to yourself about your choices, rationalize them, but that doesn't change them either.

I didn't understand any of that when I was younger.
Those all sound like armchair Aristotelian arguments to me. In my experience "this policy" or some varient thereof seeks to indicate a management failure and has sparked exoduses from profitable companies. Of course every business and every culture is different.

A business that seeks to rate people at failing at something there were at once determined capable and then later not needs to take a hard look at themselves. Perhaps the individual has mitigating personal issues; maybe the job hasn't grown with the person; maybe the company itself has changed and is less compelling as a person.

At least having given them 6 months of value to prove their worth and then changing your mind indicates something somewhere has changed.

Also what is this definite metric of performing you just invented? Either the individual is doing the job or when they slipped you didn't help put them back on track.

If it is a skilled job I can't imagine the cost of firing then rehiring and retraining someone to do the job in your company simply because you failed to pay attention to an employee at once every couple of weeks to see how they are getting on.

Nonsense, in short.
With 2, are you saying there are situations in nature that can solve NP-hard problems in polynomial time? Because if so, we could just use those to solve our hard problems and therefore P=NP.

P=NP is not just statement about difficult problems or big equations, it's a very particular class of problems.
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I used to work in the hotel industry in everything from Doubletree up to Ritz Carlton. Wifi was one of the most frustrating amenities we offered because it was always terrible! As an avid traveler who probably spends too much time on his computer I got annoyed as a guest as well. Cheers to the people behind this website. I'm sharing it with everyone from my old industry.
Does AeroFS have any particular advantages over Bittorrent Sync? That's what I'm using right now and it seems more flexible.
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>I have made many of these mistakes (taxes! Paperwork! Forms!) and it's not out of innate evil intentions.

The only point that is about "taxes! Paperwork! Forms!" is the first one, and even the OP wasn't attributing that to any "innate evil intentions" like you've stated, just incompetence. There is a difference in degree of messing up tax forms for a few years and not noticing that you are not paying any payroll taxes for over 3.
> What’s interesting about NP-hard problems is that they are mathematically equivalent. So a solution for one automatically implies a solution for them all.

That's a mistake. The author is describing NP-complete problems, which are all roughly equivalent (reducible in polynomial time). NP-hard includes all NP-complete problems, but also includes problems much harder than those in NP-complete, including undecidable problems like the halting problem which aren't even in NP.
As per the guidelines (1), I suggest you crop the leading number, making the title here on HN be, "Ways to Raise Startup Capital".

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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The cat is pulled into the superposition by interacting with the results of the detector and the poison vial. There are two cats from the "outside", but from each cat's perspective it sees only a single "random" outcome. Superpositions aren't destroyed - you are subsumed within them.
Saddam invaded two of his neighbors in ten years with no reasonable casus belli. If you include the Iran-Iraq war his regime caused far more casualties than the US invasion.

> The State Department and the CIA knew this; the neocons insisted on removing Saddam in spite of all the available information.

The CIA believed Saddam had WMD, and he certainly behaved like he did. The State Dept. isn't relevant in this context - they're not an intelligence organization. Given that he'd used chemical weapons against both the Iranians and his own people it was a pretty good bet he would use them in the future.
#2 is somewhat related to #1. It's so slow and inconvenient, the only user base are people who absolutely need the one feature it does deliver: very strong anonymity and censorship protection. Unfortunately that's to protect something gross and abusive to other human beings, not to protect legitimate free speech.

I'm very socially liberal. CP is not like drugs. It's not a victimless crime, unless you want to argue that all those 8yr olds agreed to have their pics posted and fully understand all the implications of that. Then there's the stuff that actually shows sex, nearly all of which is coerced through deception or physical coercion.

This is the problem with naive cyber-anarchism. We really do need both police and intelligence agencies because there are bad people out there who want to do very bad things. There are people who want to rob, kill, rape, con, and generally abuse other people. The problem is when governments and their agencies abuse their power and themselves engage in abusive behavior. That's a political problem, not a technical one, and has mostly political solutions.

I'm not opposed to using crypto, privacy software, etc. Privacy is also very important, as is security. To some extent these things are needed to protect you from bad actors, not just from unwarranted surveillance. They're also needed as a check and balance to limit government intrusion. It should be hard to spy on people, as this discourages overreach by increasing its cost.

All these things come down to questions of balance. How much policing do we want? The answer is "enough but not too much," but where's that line? It's a hard question. There aren't many easy answers. People who like to think in absolute black and white terms don't like that, but that's the real world.
There are situations in nature where our models are NP-hard. Whether or not this is the same as saying that nature itself performs those computations is, I think, tied into the question of whether or not our Universe is a simulation.
SysBench is ok when used properly, but UnixBench?

They provide instructions on how you can patch and run it, using "./Run", but no warnings about what this is actually doing. See http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-02/compilers-love-m... . I'd like to write a lot more about UnixBench, but I really don't have the time. It takes a lot of energy to refute this stuff.

If I were benchmarking OnMetal vs HW virt, I'd be showing a spectrum of micro-benchmarks, from equal performance (CPU) to network I/O. I'd expect some of my results to show a ~10x difference. You would then choose/weight them depending on what matters for your intended application.
I think this all depends if you're really a "startup" or not. As per Paul Graham's definition: http://paulgraham.com/growth.html. Just because you're starting something up doesn't mean you're really swinging for the fences for a big home run. But if you are, your survival depends on deal-making and hardcore talent, so you're at a huge disadvantage by not being in a major tech hub.

But if you're focused on building a 7 or low 8-figure business, bootstrapped, and self-funded, and your goal is financial independence/freedom instead of "changing the world", totally agree, starting up outside of SF is a great way to build up and earn those first stripes.

I live in San Diego and there are lots of internet millionaires here: http://helenchangwriter.com/2009/11/20/millionaire-internet-...
i have dell, will see how it work out. my current card work ok, so i always can go back
This kind of comment is remarkably shitty. Someone performs the extremely unpleasant and stressful task of publicly admitting to his mistakes so the rest of us can learn from them, and xcubed responds by spitting in his face. What's the result going to be if we tolerate this sort of behavior? Well we don't have to guess, it was documented in the original post: most founders are not willing to admit their mistakes in public.

In game theory terminology, xcubed's comment is called responding to cooperation with defection. In plain English, it's called being an asshole.
Assuming your product appeals to the type of consumers or businesses that inhabit San Francisco.
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>There is no evidence that nature can globally solve NP-hard problems.

There is no evidence that nature has NP-hard problems. All the nature is built on local interactions - thus the finite speed of any interactions in the nature.

Note: the only example of non-local optimization (specifically maximizing entropy over time-space existence path of a living object vs. that would be an entropy change associated with the equivalent amount of non-living matter in similar environment) is the life itself.
Option 2 physically walls off the Late Mergers in addition to mentally (in the minds of the Free Laners), making them easier to ignore.

I like option 1 because it forces everyone to move.
This is part of what I referred to in my first post and is usually what I mention when someone is truly interested in the school. Harvard College does its credentialing when you apply. A very low percentage of people who apply to the College get in, but almost everyone who does will walk away with a degree. The Extension School moves that credentialing until after the student enrolls in classes. There are virtually no barriers to take classes and the application process isn't hard to get through, but the amount of students who leave the school with a degree is very low. Therefore the school is more of a meritocracy. Almost anyone who is capable and determined enough to earn a degree is able to regardless of their prior educational history. The last time I saw stats on it, the actual percentage of people who apply to Harvard College that earn a degree was very close to the number of people who take a class at Harvard Extension school that earn a degree.
Early in the bootstrapping process, I think it makes sense to go the Github route...make telecommuting and virtual presence a part of your company DNA and then get the best talent::cost ratio by not limiting yourself to employees in any city or state.

Offices in St Louis might be cheaper than San Francisco, but they're nowhere near as cheap as not having an office at all and possibly flying everyone to a common location on a quarterly basis for company all-hands.
Well, that's depressing. Thanks for the clarification.
It's not just expensive, it's impossible. There isn't enough fuel for all those generators, even if enough of them could be built.
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Agreed that the word startup is highly overused to apply to everything from Pinterest to a new marketing company in town - small business is what usually applies to companies not swinging for the fences trying to quickly acquire millions of users.
Craigslist I believe was bootstrapped and while it's still private I believe it's valuation is north of $1 billion.
I'm part of one, Atlassian, which was last valued at $3.3 billion and started with $10,000 in credit card debt, taking $60 million in venture funding eight years in.

(For more on valuation and the background, http://www.businessinsider.com/atlassian-helps-employees-poc... )
"Without making any value judgements about the operations of this particular company, one valuable lesson from the post is: do not ever use the Bank of America Payroll feature."

There are actually all sorts of gotchas in business that happen as a result of some assumption that you make as far as a process being carried out that never has happened. Using BofA wasn't the sole problem here it was being asleep at the switch and not checking that something had actually happened that didn't.

When I pay my taxes (various real estate, business, personal etc.) I typically will actually look for and printout the cancelled check from the bank showing that the check actually arrived at the destination and was deposited.

The example I would use is the long standing thought in backups that you need to actually test your backups, [1] and not assume that they will work when you need them.

[1] For a certain Mac that I am backing up I just bought, for example, 2 - 3tb hard disks. One will be offsite, one will be onsite. One will be a disk clone (super duper) one will be done by Apple's time machine. Also, the two different 3tb disk were purchased from two different vendors. One is WD and is Seagate. [2] I will periodically test both backups to make sure I can boot from either if needed. This isn't for super critical data but for a large collection of photos and videos. (And there are more than one clone of the data for that matter).

[2] Theory being that buying 2 of the exact same 3 tb's (at the same exact time) could come from the same batch and be defective.
Chief executive Rupert Koch claims using the Ray can increase a parking structure’s capacity by 40 percent.

I'm a bit doubtful about this, since the apparatus is wider than the (typical) driver and would have to leave plenty of space between the cars it drops.
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I think that's a problem with the conversion itself, not the implicits. How can an implicit generate garbage that could be avoided by explicitly calling the conversion?
An interesting point is that limitations on math (i.e., things that would be true regardless of the details of the physical world) would put limitations on any physics simulations - including hypothetical physics simulations done by someone outside of our universe with potentially different physical limitations.

So the point of the article is something like - if phenomenon-X can't be simulated by anyone, no matter how good their computers become; and if our universe is a simulation (which is a possibility), then our universe won't contain phenomenon-X.
I'm sure you guys are on it, but: See apenwarr's 'Blip' for checking latency in the browser: https://github.com/apenwarr/blip
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I see a handful of parallels between Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram--aside from the ability to re-post, of course--so I'm surprised how little work Instagram has put into content discovery.

Aside from the initial load Instagram's explore feature, its difficult to see what images are trending, and hard to organically search photos tagged at a given location unless you navigate to a photo tagged with that given location first.
37Signals (Yes, yes, I know it's called Basecamp now) would be valued north of $1b. Though they did take an investment of $1m from Jeff Bezos at one point.
I wish these guys luck, but I'm becoming increasingly pessimistic about the idea of a 100% edge-only decentralized network that is really robust and useful.

I don't think it's just a matter of putting the engineering effort to bear. I think there are fundamental mathematically-based barriers here. Try this paper for starters:

https://www.zerotier.com/misc/2011__A_Little_Centralization_...

The CAP theorem is also very relevant.
How is $1 salary justified to IRS? There are a bunch of executives who have $1 salary [0], including Mark Zuckerberg. I really doubt it's considered reasonable.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary
> That's the actually movement of time changing. The processes themselves are unchanged

You can interpret things this way, I suppose, but that doesn't change the fact that it applies to all processes; from the viewpoint of someone who sees the processes as moving, all processes are time dilated--the "movement of time changing" applies to all of them. There's no special exception for certain quantum effects, or anything else. They're all the same: they all are unchanged to someone moving with them, and they all are time dilated to someone not moving with them.
SF vs Austin, COL vs salary difference - deciding between the two in the next few weeks - please help me choose!
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Microsoft raised just $1M.

Ok, it's off-topic as this was in 1981, but the valuation is way north of $1bn...
unfortunately I don't think many people would understand what Seth and his team has gone through, and I don't think you could unless you got to a similar stage with a company of your own. what is really awful is that most people only want to hear about mistakes from people who are already wildly successful which is severely limiting your supply of knowledge.
In what sense is pedophilia not a sexual orientation?

It's generally deemed a socially unacceptable orientation, just as homosexuality was in many societies until only recently, but it's an orientation nonetheless. It's a useful metaphor with a lot of parallels to be drawn.

In any case, the parent comment was only using the metaphor to illustrate an important point; that being sexually attracted to a certain group of people, and actually molesting members of that group, are two wholly separate things.

Referring to someone convicted of molesting children using the term for someone who is merely sexually attracted to children is a significant misrepresentation.
Ubiquiti. The founder wrote a retrospective on it: http://www.rjpblog.com/2012/06/11/post-3-bootstrapping-strat...
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> Maybe that's where we're talking past each other.

I think we are :-)

I was referring to legal regulation and oversight, which is there for very good reasons and is the primary reason most banks/cus have someone whose job includes handling international wires. But also, talking with someone who really understands the legal and financial landscape before firing a few grand off to another country is enormously helpful (but not worth the $60 per xfer!).

I agree there's fat that could be trimmed, as well as just unnecessary charges for the sake of making money off of market position. But for me, the best case scenario is getting rid of that without the extra intermediary. But really, I suppose if the crypto currency is mostly used for bank-to-bank, I don't much care about the back end as long as it works and it's cheap.

edit: I'm not sure what got touched, random bits needed improving.
Sorry, we've moved on to the future, we're too cool to have laptops with useful ports anymore.