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I'm sorry, but no, it's not the same thing. (I'm in Toronto, right now, so all messages should start off being polite!) Enterprises DO buy all sorts of crazy stuff but this is not one of them. I know it annoys the critics, but there ARE very real deployments of DNSSEC happening out there. As I cited in another comment, there are 18 million Comcast customers now getting DNSSEC validation. There are millions of users in many European countries that are getting DNSSEC validation.

In Sweden, for example, around 71% of all users are user DNS resolvers that perform DNSSEC validation (scroll down on http://gronggrong.rand.apnic.net/cgi-bin/ccpage?c=XA&x=1&g=0... for the per-country stats)
This identical headline could have been run hundreds of years ago. The process has never stopped. We always need new math.
I object much more to this phenomenon (drivers cancelling booked rides when surge pricing escalates) than the idea of surge pricing itself.

I had 3 Uber drivers cancel on me in a row as a rain storm in New York got rapidly worse over the course of about 20 minutes. Each time I rebooked, the surge multiple had increased. I complained to Uber and they basically shrugged it off.
So is the software you build "a thing"? I guess this depends on what you are working on is making a vision a reality, or a CRUD application that you sell for XXXXXX dollars to a customer.

I find the article is too shallow. Loving people can make you really unhappy, or happy, that depends a lot on you and on the people. Sex with just 1 person can be exactly what you want, but if you are really interested in sex then 1 person might just not be enough.

So no, we don't know how to be happy. Citing statistics and applying them blindly to yourself is a sure recipe for unhappiness. Better to explore yourself and find out what makes you happy. You can then use statistics to execute.
True. Definitely depends on the person.
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Any sources for that, it's hard to find anything googling that, and it sounds like a pretty open and shut case of entrapment on the surface.
>It seems we all want a situation with the regulations, guarantees and protections that are currently provided by the laws AND the convenience and benefits of Uber. Unfortunately they are mutually exclusive. If we allowed taxis to charge more for fares and to skirt the other regulations that they are currently bound to, I'd expect that the taxi landscape would improve immensely

Personally, I don't want that, but that's just me. However, I don't see how they are mutually exclusive. If you want to take a ride from a regulated, "safe" taxi, then you still have the option if Uber is around. The only problem is that people don't care about regulation that much, which is why taxis are hurting from the advent of Uber.

Why did you request a second uber during the price surge (if you didn't realize that Uber was going to pay you back)? Why not just call a taxi?
Instead of trying to fight to make big corporations and governments play nice on the Internet, this project tries to allow individuals & small & medium businesses to be good/model citizens. This is a grass-roots attempt to create a shareable electronic freedom: not only ought you have the right to privacy and expression, but sensibly, you ought have the means to share and spread that right too.
I am doing a startup because it's the only way I could see myself working mostly with the kind of people I like, respect, and admire, and work for (e.g. customers) cut from the same cloth (developers).

When I promised myself that I would never subject myself to corporate political cutthroat contentious BS ever again, this was what I was left with. It's definitely not monetarily optimal for me.
It is the one and same if you had read the link you provided... The Dark Mail Alliance lists Ladar Levison as part of the team who is one of the people mentioned in the article. The same name thing may be a giveaway also...
I like your idea. I expect if they implemented it they would see that the article gets it wrong on a number of levels.

Take any successful company, Google, Intel, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Boeing, any of them. Now compile a list of the first 10 - 100 employees. Now take the net worth for those individuals and compare it to the rest of the world. You'll find it lands north of the 99th percentile.

You can pull out exceptions of course, the sales guy at Sun who was worth several million and lost it all through a series of really poor choices, the Googler who left 6 months in rather than vest that first tranche of stock, the Apple employee who gave up their shares to live a simpler life. But for the most part all of those people have a net worth north of $1M. Ask Charlie Ayers, the original chef at Google if he is mad/bitter/whatever because Larry and Sergey are billionaires and he is just a multimillionaire.

The narrative that founders win and everyone else loses is wrong. You've heard about the abominable failure rate of startups 9 in 10 fail. An employee can get a piece of 10 different startups in 10 years if they move from place to place, vest their 25% of their option and exercise it. A founder is lucky if they get 3 shots at the prize in 10 years. Do the employees who are driving around matching Ferrari's in the Facebook parking lot feel bad that Zuckerberg is worth a lot more than they are? Most of them no, they don't care, they are "rich".

Do founders get the 'fame' ? Sure, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Sometimes it makes you a target. I was amazed at how much Eric Schmidt paid for personal security (its in the 10Q) he can afford it of course but really? You have to hire ex-special forces types because you're too tempting a kidnapping target? I personally would much rather be anonymously wealthy than 'target on your back' wealthy.

One summer I worked at IBM and lost my housing just before my internship was up. I stayed at one of my co-workers places for the last three weeks. He had a computer which he used to monitor the stock market, I helped him enter data into it (which at the time there was no Internet). One evening having just gone through a list of number/value pairs (qty and price) I multiplied them all out in my head and summed them, the result was over $2M. I asked him if that was his savings and he said "yup". I couldn't believe this guy who lived in the same tract house he had been living in for years was a millionaire. Where was the fancy car? the lavish furnishings? None of that. I asked him what it was like, he said, "I worry less about the future than I did before."

My point is that the ecosystem that is Silicon valley creates a lot of those kinds of people. People who don't get caught up in the razmatazz and just save money when they can, diversify when their stock value goes up, and accumulate over time. They are usually "employee" types and not "founder" types though.
The power dynamic between law and technology is strange. In general, it seems that technology wins if can get a foothold and build a user base of people who feel the benefits are worth more than the downsides. It's another form of democracy.

Law always gets the last word though. The thing that's interesting is that the US seems to let things go for a while before clamping down. The whole "present a warning about browser cookies" thing in the EU is a bit of a disaster.
I am not a psychiatrist, but you may be suffering from some form of mental illness. Please consider talking to a mental wellness professional about how you feel emotions. Nobody is going to try and make you change who you are, but almost anyone would benefit from understanding how their own mind works better.
This is wild speculation, but when I read the announcement I figured that they're planning to provide the firmware and software for free, while selling fully-assembled hardware pre-loaded with the stack. Can't always rely on donations alone.

I could quite easily be wrong, but without money in the equation, I feel like it would make more sense for them to work with OpenWRT rather than fork it.
My limited experience with the taxi service in Charleston has been very poor - run-down vehicles, openly racist drivers and general reluctance to use the fare meters.

Uber is the exact opposite each case.
OpenWRT supports a bunch of vpn solutions, including OpenVPN. It's lacking a simple UI to configure though (luci-app-openvpn was broken and removed, although there are updated .ipkg which can be manually installed).
I was in Manhattan the other day, and as a non'New Yorker, I spent 10 minutes trying and failing to catch a cab. Gave up and used uberx. Never going to even attempt to catch a cab again in the city :(
No why would anyone have a problem with it? If you want to charge less or pay the delivery guy more you have the opportunity to start your own competitor. No one is forcing the delivery guy to work there either, if he is qualified for a better paying job he can find other work.
> How does your lookup code change to accommodate the fact that a query can, under DNSSEC, (a) fail (b) despite the fact that there was a response to the query with a usable record?

Hmm... I'm not clear how a failed query could have a "usable" record. If DNSSEC validation fails then the response to the query can't be trusted. So that would not be "usable" to me. Or am I missing something here?
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> It's funny but this article is actually the strongest evidence of cult behaviour. Teaching you how to be "happy" is pretty much the initial selling point of almost every cult out there.

This is nonsense. It's an article posted to a curated community blog by some guy who happens to like reading tons of psychology papers and wanted to do some research into the state of scientific understanding of happiness. Is Wikipedia selling a cult too now[0]?

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness
It is even worst then that. Even big AAA hit games are often loose money projects due to insane development costs. Game studios that produced great games close every month. Big publishers (EA) have track record of destroying brought successful studios within two years. Small developers struggle and close even more often.

Games seems to be extremely hard business these days.
> Uber is possibly one of the most distilled examples of a company of rule-breakers in recent history.

This, by the way, is probably not true. It is just the first internet-popular rule breaker in recent history. It is pretty easy to imagine an alternate universe where commenters on a popular internet forum supported, e.g., large power companies' treating environmental fines as simply a cost of doing business, instead of attempting to comply with them, because they see cheap power for industry and progress as more important than environmental concerns.
Sorry, I just saw your response. It is tough on HN to follow up.

Email me at geekamja@gmail.com. I am not a US citizen though, I just work here on a visa. However, the whole process of Permanent residency is so long and slavish.
>It seems we all want a situation with the regulations, guarantees and protections that are currently provided by the laws AND the convenience

Nope, we don't all want it. Surge pricing is fine by me, if rather get an expensive ride that actually happens, than a cheap ride I can't have. What happened to you was obvious abuse of surge pricing and I think Uber can deal with by adding gradual ramp up for prices and punishing cancellations.

The insurance inadequacy obviously has to be dealt with.
Are there plans to license the posted content similar to stackoverflow so it can be used for the public good?

Having a queryable database of comments on journal articles would certainly be nice. The SO equivalent would be:
http://data.stackexchange.com
The parent simply skipped past the part that a connected peer will send less traffic if they sense packet loss. It's a little problematic, in that there are a lot of clients all sending at once and all looking to see if they can increase their rate of send, but if you ingress limit (drop packets, or via ECN) BitTorrent is controllable.

BitTorrent peers are collorative, because otherwise turning on BitTorrent anywhere would immediately result in the parent's boogeyman showing up: being flooded by way more traffic than can be handled. That's not an overlooked part of designing a client: it's known that when writing UDP protocols one has to do one's own flow control.
> But we are bound even by laws that we think are stupid

According to whom / by what creed? I certainly do not believe that, and it is clear that a large chunk of the country does not either, if you look at the routine flouting, of, for instance, jaywalking laws, underage drinking laws, gambling laws, marijuana laws, and so on.
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So much nonsense in one article. If you think the "bar is so much lower" to becoming a founder then stop whining about being one of the forgotten early employees and get off your ass and start a company for the right reasons: finding a market opportunity and making money from it. If you can't or won't, then you can't expect the rewards.

Early employees are important, and should be given credit and fair payment for their work, but their risk profile is far, far less than the founders and investors. Investors stand to lose their investment (which is an accumulation of work) and the founders can lose money, reputation, and time. In my last business I lost hundreds of thousands of dollars of my own money and five year's 24/7 sweat. Every employee walked away.
I think you are correct about the big companies, but I didn't get the feeling that's who the author was addressing. They seemed to be addressing the new up and comers with founders who are stingy with equity and bad at sharing the limelight with their staff.
Any chance you're "the" Haruki Murakami?! Big, big fan here.
There's so much that's wrong with this post it's hard to know where to begin.

> The secret of Silicon Valley is that the benefits of working at a startup accrues almost entirely to the founders, and that’s why people repeat the advice to just go start a business.

This is simply not true in today's environment. Most startups fail so at a typical startup, there is no upside for employees or founders. Funding, however, is plentiful and most of that funding is directed to employee salaries. So who is benefiting the most at the average startup? The engineers paid well into the six-figures to work on modest CRUD apps regardless of said app's ability to drive sufficient revenue to sustain a real business.

In other parts of the post the author suggests that engineers (and other non-founders) aren't compensated appropriately, but his argument isn't convincing. Lots of early stage startups (perhaps the majority) don't generate enough cash to fund operations and many won't any time soon if ever. Just how much should folks be paid at a company that, without investment dollars, wouldn't be able to make payroll?

> There is a reason it is hard to hire in Silicon Valley today, and it isn’t just that there are a lot of startups. It’s because engineers and other creators are realizing that the cards are stacked against them unless they are the ones in charge.

There are a lot of reasons companies find it hard to hire in Silicon Valley today. They're too picky and/or focused on "culture." They can't pay market salary. Lots of companies are uninspiring and thus unattractive. Many startups fail at retention. Not everyone wants to work at a startup or live in an area with a high cost of living. And so on and so forth.

Absent hard numbers to back up the claim, the author fails to present evidence is there that there isn't enough talent primarily because individuals are leaving the labor force to start their own companies.

> Founders are not normal people in any of the ways that matter of course. For them, the benefits of building a business are many-fold. They can connect with journalists, advisors, mentors, new business partners, and most importantly, investors...

Note how the author left out "customers." Interestingly, the word doesn't appear anywhere in this article, nor do the words "sales", "revenue", "cashflow" or "profit." For a post that does an awful lot of complaining about how the fruits of startup success are divvied up, I think it's telling that the author completely ignored the things that make a company successful.
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Gabriel, I've noticed your posts often attract this criticism - "you can do X in any language, it's not unique to Haskell". The funny thing is I don't think you ever claim that X is unique to Haskell. IMHO this (excellent) post advocates equational reasoning a lot more strongly than it advocates Haskell.

Assuming your aim is to spread awareness of the advantages of pure functional programming, rather than of Haskell specifically, I wonder if your Haskell-specific domain name is muddling your message?
Yeah, I assume that you can just have a non-deterministic expansion which will add some entropy per word to increase the entropy of the passphrase over the abbreviated version, but my point was just that even if there's no increase in security by using the full passphrase, counter-intuitively, using the full phrase would likely be more convenient for me (and probably for many others).
> DANE is even worse than plain-old DNSSEC. For those of you who don't know what it is: DANE allows the DNS to vouch for your certificates. In other words: whoever controls the DNS roots effectively controls your certificates.

Please explain to me HOW the person who controls the DNS roots controls my certicate? I take my TLS certificate (either a CA-signed cert or a self-signed cert) and I load either a fingerprint of the cert or the complete cert into a TLSA record in my DNS zone. I then sign that with my DNSSEC key (create an RRSIG record) and publish it in the zone. It's all under my control.

(NOTE: For those not familiar with the DANE protocol please see RFC 6698 or resources here: https://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/dane/ )
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> internet is becoming less free place every day.

And DNS.watch isn't solving anything. It only moves your dependency from one third-party (your ISP, Google, OpenDNS) to another one (DNS.watch).

If we really want to keep internet the way it was intended, we must run our own resolvers. That will most certainly defeat the cacheability of DNS but it is very much needed.
I'm an undergrad in a lab that focuses on compressed sensing (and we're getting more into sparse machine learning).

Sparsity is a way of saying that most of the data you collect is related in some way. One advantage of sparsity (and there are many more) is sampling at sub-Nyquist rates[0] and still being able reconstruct the signal precisely. Why? Because the signal is sparse in the Fourier domain -- there are only a few frequencies present in the signal.

Reading this article, I had some issues with this quote:

> According to Candes, you could take half the samples (16) and rerun the test. If it is positive, the infected person is in this group; if negative, the culprit is in the other half. You can continue to whittle down the possibilities by once again dividing the group in half and running the test again.

That's just a simple binary search[1]. Instead, why not collect other information? Collect some genetic information, lifestyle habits, living location, etc. Then I believe (that's a strong I believe) you could optimize even further by testing patients that have some of these traits in common -- you'd have groups of unequal sizes based on who you think has the disease. This corresponds to sparsity. Most traits don't matter but a select few do.

To see real-world results of sparsity, we're able to reconstruct precise approximations after we assume our input is sparse in the wavelet basis (corresponding to many areas of the same color). We're able to push this sampling rate down to ~6% for simple images by doing a "sample, compute" method. The reconstructed approximation and sampled locations are shown in this image[2]

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_rate

[2]:http://imgur.com/PmYpze6
Good idea, selling routers with this firmware would be beneficial to router manufacturer(s) as they get a new marketing tool ( Open Wireless Compatible TM -mark), which would skyrocket market adoption. That to happen needs brand value, so lets hope this project catches on.
Not being a devil's advocate and adding on top of what this does, it will be awesome, if we could have a browser extension - in my case Chrome.
The Valley has changed. If you started in the 1990s, you got real equity and housing costs were low. You could get into the low millions just by working hard and living frugally. It was a different time-- more egalitarian and far more engineer-driven.

The question is: if you're 22-25 now and move into the Bay, do you have a good chance of ending up a made man (or woman)? The answer is "no". It's been overrun by MBA culture and has severe founder quality problems and I don't think it's salvageable.
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I feel the need to chime in: working in a language where the assumption is that everyone has agreed on a functional approach makes it much easier to stick to that approach myself. And, of course, reading other people's source code makes that much more sense.
Personally agree that I find work is a lot less stressful than school when working for someone else. Working for yourself however..
> I'm mystified why no one vertically integrates. If "Red Lobster" owned their own fleet of boats and hired men, they would cut out a lot of profit currently going to multiple stages of middlemen.

It would appear that they're trying to do that. Not via fishing, but farming:

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-04-08/business/os-d...
I can't speak for others, but in my case, "difficulty of use" also refers to "you have to go through all these additional steps just to get to the document". I can't remember if that was only for grey-area, restricted-access postings, or if it applied to all Scribd documents, but I was conditioned to assume the latter by the time I saw them on HN.
If you can navigate the politics, personalities, culture, and regulations, there is A LOT of money to be made doing that in China. In general, there is a lot of money to be made in China selling the level of sophistication common in the West but doing it in a way that's culturally acceptable to the Chinese. If you're interested, check out James Fallows' "China Airborne". It's about the nascent airline industry in China but it's a bellwether for other nascent sophisticated industries in China. For example, when Boeing needed to get China to follow the same strict practices that the US airlines do, they had to tell the Chinese that they need to meet the "international" standards. While it is true the standards are international, what Boeing didn't mention is that the US pretty much wrote those standards. The Chinese find it a lot easier to accept that it's an international standard everyone has to follow instead of an American standard.
That's societal bias then. And the university is accomplice to it.
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