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I'm not sure that article attention is necessarily always going to be the limiting factor, otherwise you'd expect there to be piles and piles of fancruft all over Wikipedia, meticulously maintained by obsessive fans.

One argument for not being just a universal repository for any kind of information is that it may make it much harder to navigate to actual information you care about, where encyclopedias are supposed to generally be a digest of the information available about a subject. There's also the issue of proper namespacing for this sort of thing, since if you let there be an article on every single person and every single piece of information, you can imagine that there would be a large number of name collisions, making navigation a bit tricky (The disambiguation page for common names would be insanely long, for one thing).

I think the proper way to build a "repository of all knowledge" on top of Wikipedia would be to spin off daughter Wikis (e.g. wikitionary), where in-depth curated information can exist that break out content from Wiki articles (for example, Wiki has an article about a given album, but WikiMusic has an in-depth article on each song, with curated links to reviews and articles about it, etc). I think we're seeing some of that already with the various sister projects to Wikipedia.
Shoes are a fantastic idea if the hardware does not degrade its quality.

Bad shoes can turn any waking into a nightmare. Much worse than becomming lost and needing to ask for directions.
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This was exactly the reaction I had as well. It's demonstrative of someone so hopelessly stuck in the past and unable to the potential of an electronic medium. Wh we continue to anchor web technologies to print idioms is beyond me. I'm not saying there are no classically useful concepts from print. Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic style does a great job of educating one on the value and thinking of techniques from the print world. There are timeless principles that are directly transferrable to the present unchanged, but there are principles whose entire raison d'etre is tied to constraints and properties exclusive of print. Issues that are no longer necessarily applicable on the web.
Counterfactuals are very hard to know. At CircleCI, being in SF gave numerous advantages early on. We had multiple paying customers in the first two office buildings. We had multiple customers within walking distance, and many more within cycling distance. Being able to talk to real customers using the app was extremely valuable.

Customers aside, there are tons of people willing to help, either through advice or introductions. There's an entire ecosystem who understand startups, and have been there.

My failed started before that was in Austin, Tx, and the startup density just wasn't there at the time (2009).

Not every developer in SF is as mercenary as you make it sound. For your first employee hire, you might find a single person living in an apartment in SF vs. a family man in St. Louis who has to pay for day care and save for college. Their salary requirements might be comparable. [Edit: my point here is not to say that SF people are only single, and STL people only have kids, but that salaries are a distribution, and that there are places where the SF and STL distributions overlap, based on the individual's experience, desires and stage in their life.]
… and yet, I still found the Instapaper implementation (and all other implementations of this that I have ever seen) completely unusable and cumbersome.

Scrolling is not exactly a complicated gesture on smartphones. It’s also precise, direct and quick, three attributes in which all tilt scroll implementations inherently do worse. All they have going for is that you don’t have to move a finger (but you have to move your whole hand precisely) and that you don’t cover the screen with said finger (but I can’t read while scrolling anyway).

I’m really not sure we desperately need a replacement for it. Even if we do (and I’m just not clever enough to see that, which is very possible), I really don’t think tilt scrolling is what we want.
Working on resolving my issues. I know quitting is not a solution, but it will reduce stress. The work really is not my cup of tea. It turned into a copy and paste validation effort instead of development. Will do my best not to burn ze bridges
Founders get bombarded with many corporate taxes they are often unfamiliar with. As a founder, it's not inconceivable to think all the proper taxes are being paid when one slips through the cracks.
Getting into an Ivy League school means you had the foresight and intelligence in high school to create a truly outstanding college application -- you're smart, but also willing to play the game and jump through hoops. That's an immediate qualifier for employers.

Or you're well connected. And even if you weren't well connected going in to an Ivy League school, you will be by the time you leave. You're now friends with people who will hold financial, political, or managerial power in 10-20 years.

This networking effect is compounded because the top consulting firms and investment banks (CEO/CFO factories) target Ivy League grads. As a management consultant, you learn how to give a convincing and engaging Power Point presentation despite the fact that you're 22 years old and know nothing. This is an extremely useful skill.

It's a path. If you're on it, it's risky to step off; once you're off, it's nearly impossible to get back on.

But, in all fairness, entry-level IB or management consulting is probably much better preparation for the skills required of a CEO than sitting at a computer all day writing code.
as long as it's not overpriced like AWS, I dun care.
Otherwise, no, give me back my cheap server.
My startup has been looking to move into the city recently, so this is actually super useful. Is there anything like this for the south bay as well?
-> "I believed Microsoft Windows was only platform worth to develop software."

This sounds like the first line of a Kafka-esque horror story.
I also tried getting into Clojure around that time. I was coming from CL where we have nice things like conditions and restarts, dynamic variables, and CLOS -- being able to hit an error in the debugger, inspect the slot of the instance of some object that caused the error and recompile the class definition to fix the error without restarting the program is really nice (all of the running instances are updated). I was not used to Clojure's unhelpful tracebacks.

I don't understand what age has to do with anything... CL is still a good language.
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The Britney Spears reference is silly: she's 32, closing in on what the U.S. census defines as "middle age" (35-55). It's not that unusual. E.g. Jamie Dimon was President of Travelers at 36.
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It seems to me less that the "rhetoric" has changed, than that the set of people who use bitcoin has simply greatly expanded to individuals with increasingly less revolutionary ways of interpreting the currency. The people in it from 3 years ago still have the same beliefs. The people in it from 3 months ago are digging it because it's more popular among their colleagues, and they have to justify it somehow. "Lower fees" is the only thing they can come up with.
I thought that's what https://programmers.stackexchange.com/ was?
No matter how smart you are, the only way it makes sense to do your own taxes is if your business is taxes. Otherwise, hire the woman who spent years learning this stuff and devotes her entire cognitive load to the task to do it for you.
Have you ever tried to pay someone in another country?
This article isn't in the main namespace, it's in the Wikipedia namespace, which is dedicated for essays and meta discussions about Wikipedia. The rules for deletion of Wikipedia-namespace articles are very different than the rules for deletion of main-namespace articles.

Even if it were deleted, the author could migrate it into his/her personal user-namespace User:username/<article title>, and it would have an even lower standard for inclusion.
That would result in mass unemployment in some sectors of industry.

The problem is that as long as your competitor says 'yes' and you say 'no' the competitor will get the customer.

Customers should be firing companies that provide false information during the lead-up to a sale. Then the sales people can stay employed and everybody comes out ahead.
And payroll taxes certainly need to be paid in US currency. The IRS and state tax departments don't accept Bitcoin.
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...and inside UK hospitals - there's a BK inside the entrance to Southampton General; that really is taking the piss.
I've been a happy AeroFS user at a couple of companies now, and always recommend it to anyone with a group of people sharing files which are at all sensitive.

Other systems like Dropbox are fine for photos or public content to share with people quickly (since it's pretty widely used), but within an organization, or whenever you have security needs (audit trail, meaningful encryption, firewalling, etc.), AeroFS is the easiest choice. (running your own fileservers is the alternative, but outside of an all-Microsoft world, that's actually pretty hard to do well today.)
Here's a German video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuVuEz0S16c of the system in action.
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Emacs still runs on more platforms than VS and Eclipse, using fewer system resources, and is applicable to a larger diversity of programming / work tasks. There are not so many tools that are both that ubiquitous and long-lived.
Like FileCoin, this is very interesting but is any of those networks ready to be used today? Even in some limited capacity? Right now, it sounds like pure hype.
That does not sound like most doctors I have met.

Typical doctor's attitude is: "Look this white coat, that I happen to have and you don't? It means even if I tried to explain to you all the implications you are not smart enough to understand. So shut up and do as I say, I have more important things to do!"

Edit: I originally wrote "black coat" instead of "white coat". There must be some nasty stuff hidden in my brain's crawl spaces.
Maidsafe makes some big claims about their cryptography and verifiable behavior that was panned in this /r/crypto thread [1]. Can anybody add some thoughts to this?

1. http://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/24zext/what_does_rcr...
No. In California, in particular, fast food competition is fierce and very few people seem to choose Burger King.

They're most notable for their advertising campaign featuring the King mascot. It was entertaining in a creepy/surreal way but didn't make me want to eat their hamburgers.
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Interestingly enough: there's countermeasures you can take to prevent oil migration! GM actually had some rather interesting experiments in this area. They tried storing cars vertically for transportation[1] in the late 60s and early 70s.

> ... Chevrolet's goal was to deliver Vegas topped with fluids and ready to drive to the dealership.

> To do this Vega engineers had to design a special engine oil baffle to prevent oil from entering the No. 1 cylinder, ...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorack#Vert-A-Pac_and_Stac-Pa...
Since you are competing against people who will tell you that the feature they want already exists, people who are too honest in this area will quickly get filtered out of the marketplace.

It sucks, but there are lots of markets where the customer says "please lie to me" and gives their business to the person with the most reassuring lie.
“Imagine a distributed denial-of-service attack where the incoming IP addresses are all from Google and Amazon. That becomes a challenge. You can’t blacklist that whole IP range.”

Why exactly not? Amazon and probably Google cloud's IPs are probably available publicly, and you can probably discern Googlebot's IP from the cloud ones (using user agent, or even ip ranges). You can sensibly block IP ranges from any dedicated hosts/cloud providers. Only <1% of them would be valid traffic (ie someone working in AWS going to your site directly)
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It's already possible to execute some algorithms on untrusted computers using homomorphic cryptosystems. I'm not sure what to what extend this will proceed - it might be possible to securely execute arbitrary algorithms on untrusted platforms. This is sort of a holy grail of cryptography - to be able to process secret information efficiently without gaining knowledge of it.
> Once we're all designated terrorists, nobody's a terrorist.

Nope, once we're all designated terrorists then prosecution becomes completely arbitrary and can be carried out with impunity and complete disregard for all rights "bcuz terrorist!".
As a former transactional/commercial litigation attorney I too would see this issue regularly.

One interesting "hack" I would see clients do regularly as owner/employees, they would minimize their own salary to avoid payroll taxes, maximizing their distributions (distributions are not subject to payroll taxes). Unfortunately for them the IRS accounts for this hack, and if an IRS audit finds the salary isn't reasonable then those amounts will be subject to payroll, social security, medicare, potentially higher income tax, and moving forward affordable care act taxes plus penalties and interest. I personally hate this because there is no bright line rule as to what a reasonable salary is subjecting all business owners to the mercy of the IRS.

I am surprised this would happen to a YC company, not that YC is in anyway responsible, but I figured YC would be in a position to offer various business services (payroll, legal, tax, insurance, ect...) at extremely low cost. For example, I personally solicited YC and offered to provide Delaware incorporation/registered agent/annual compliance services to any YC companies at a discount which without the discount is already cheaper than legalzoom.
Except that it didn't.

http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp

The trains where no more on time under fascists than anyone else. Fascist just have better marketing departments.
On the co-founder thing, being a "co-founder" doesn't mean you're also endowed with as much authority as all the othe co-founders. In most circumstances one of the co-founders should be designated as the one in charge, given the responsibility of making the hard decisions.

Being in charge doesn't mean you get to win every argument, as you don't want your co-founders to quit, but it definitely shouldn't be a thing where all the co-founders have equal decision making capabilities because that may lead to never-ending strife. Most decisions shouldn't be arbitrary anyway, a decision should come with a convincing argument. It's those hard decisions when none of the answers seem perfect where you need someone to win out even though it may not feel right.

The leadership structure should be determined when the founding team forms, so there's no ambiguity later and each person needs to decide then and there if they can live with the setup and thereafter stick to it.
Emulating hardware takes tons of processing power. If you think our hardware is up for running games for modern OSen in a VM, you're probably assuming paravirtualization with hardware assistance. This works when you are running current hardware with current software designed to make use of these features. As soon as the implementation or hardware changes, you're likely to be out of luck. I would worry that a Linux from 2014 will not run on a 2024 Linux system without full virtualization. Heck, I don't even know if I'm still running amd64 ten years down the line.

Try boot a 2004 Linux in Qemu without using kvm, kqemu or the like. Play a game in it. For the heck of it, try emulate a machine with a different ISA.
That's a good rule of thumb, but a better rule is probably to just get an accountant on day one. For 1099 consulting businesses, doing your own taxes is probably a false economy.

I think a lot of people assume they can put off getting an accountant until they're sure the business is serious. Which is probably why so many of the stories I've heard (and, to add to that, my own story) are about the tax screwup consequences of those first couple gigs you do before you formalize the company.
Can anyone suggest a better (i.e. more neutral and accurate) title?
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This is a fantastic idea and I could definitely see small businesses finding this useful. Now that I think about it, it would be so cool if there was an IFTTT tie in for VISA cards. Make a purchase, update a google spreadsheet and send me a text message if it's over $50. Basically your own highly customizable version of Mint.
Yes, I agree. Selling a platform is different from selling a product - especially when you're speaking directly to the consumers. Consumers want the product, not the platform.
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Someone finally did this, been thinking about an idea similar to this for services think angie's list mixed with this. Great work guys, waiting for the android version to give this a try.
Maybe you missed that "data being transmitted over MaidSafe’s network is encrypted locally"?
I was thinking about something similar to this the other day for a replacement (or evolution of) wikipedia. If you wanted to store all of human knowledge and history in some sort of archive, it would be enormous - but build it on a p2p basis, everyone having a slice of it and that slice being replicated on everyone's machine. Access would mean that you have to agree to hold on to and serve part of it.

But I don't get how that could work for applications, especially in security sensitive applications.
You could take a look at BaasBox (http://www.baasbox.com/)
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Seems less than official.
edit: TL;DR: I think the only interesting non-technical discussions about Bitcoin start with a specific use case. We should latch on to technological solutions because they solve problems, not because we agree with the dominant ideology of early adopters. Setting aside politics, if the problems Bitcoin solves are easier and cheaper to solve with a simpler solution, then we should use the simpler solution.

> Bitcoin is not necessarily an 'intermediate' currency

I mean, I started my post acknowledging these claims exist.

So, you can interpret my comments as "suppose that the only justification for bitcoin is its utility as a transfer medium..." and leave political discussions in other threads.

edit: also, this is totally appropriate for this thread, because in most states of the US, actually paying employees in bitcoin would not be legal and employees would need to convert back to usd to pay taxes, rent, food/bar tabs in most situations, etc. So, USD -> BTC -> USD is pretty clearly the intended use case for this product...

> if a person receives bitcoin and a store

The problem with foreign currency conversion isn't small amounts of cash for consumer transactions, at least in my experience. I can convert currency by using an ATM without thinking about it at a reasonable exchange rate, and the fees are often lower than what I would pay in the U.S.

Ditto for online services, but even more so.

The problem is larger amounts of cash, or transfers to third parties you won't visit in person. Queue discussion below.

> A person who receives Bitcoin in the US actually already has a huge variety of products and services available, without converting to fiat.

> or a company like Bitwage builds some other part of the ecosystem, bitcoin becomes a little more useful.

I suppose this is all great if you want to use bitcoin because of your political persuasion.

I'm -- and I suspect most people in the world are -- more interested in the actual underlying pain points than broad-stroke discussions which invariably ground-out in political, ideological discussions about monetary policy.

Ostensibly, personal opinion on national and international monetary policy isn't the best of standards for choosing a payroll provider. edit: also, that's where companies are focusing. For the obvious reason that political selling points, aren't.

And more importantly, that's not how this product sells itself. Nor should it.
There are no excuses on payroll taxes. The tax authorities aren't fucking around about them.
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To get the most value from high-quality writing, I need to be able to share and discuss it with others. A paywall stops me from doing that.
I'm not sure I disagree. In practice, though, I certainly encounter comments communicating nonlocal information ("This is used in ..."), and of course these are the least likely to remain accurate. "All comments is local" is something we should start drumming into people - I don't think anyone ever said this to me explicitly.
Just getting back to this.

I wasn't thinking that Filecoin was a filesystem, but that a filesystem could be built on top of filecoin. It turns out that what I'm thinking is probably what MaidSafe[1] is doing.

>high latency should be expected.

Unless you can reward low latency with more coin.

[1] http://maidsafe.net/
Maybe they skipped Google. After all, there is already a better search engine[0] when looking for existing names of brands.

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