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> Right now, companies can insulate themselves from labor laws almost entirely by (a) not providing employees with equipment and (b) using structured customer feedback and expectations in lieu of training and supervision. There are instances where this model can be fair to all parties, but there are also obviously instances where it's abusive.

The problem is that the distinction is silly to begin with. If large companies have to provide various insurance and benefits but sole proprietors don't, the market is going to shift to the entity structure with lower operating costs. You either have to do it everywhere or not at all. But nobody wants to tell legitimate small business owners that they have to buy various insurance for themselves the cost of which would in actual fact make them uncompetitive against larger competitors.

The fundamental cause is that this is what capitalism does in markets where the supply of labor outstrips demand. What did people expect to happen when suddenly you could make $20/hour from unskilled labor? High prices spur an increase in supply and drive down prices. Works for labor the same as it does for bushels of wheat.

This is why the unionization attempts never work. Uber doesn't have a huge barrier to entry in its market. If you can provide an app to source rides which provides lower fares, customers are going to switch. So if Uber's drivers unionized and successfully demanded higher fares, customers would immediately switch to Lyft and Uber would go out of business. If Lyft's drivers then unionized it would create a market opportunity for a new competitor to come in and drive Lyft out of business by offering lower fares with non-union labor.

The problem for these drivers is not Uber, it's that there are many other drivers willing to do the same job for less money.
The great majority of networks out in the world discard UDP DNS packets bigger than 512 bytes. Firewall admins do it, DNS admins do it, application proxies do it, birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it....

As far as the 65535 limit, from RFC 2671:

4.5.5. Due to transaction overhead, it is unwise to advertise an
architectural limit as a maximum UDP payload size. Just because
your stack can reassemble 64KB datagrams, don't assume that you
want to spend more than about 4KB of state memory per ongoing
transaction.
Now in San Francisco, soon in other cities
Portable civilian satellite location services would be another.

Consumer-feasible portable LCD displays might be another.
I wouldn't choose the same words as the author. Perhaps I would say this instead: "... it’s just that the layering of the three is no longer pre-ordained by the framework."

Here's my take. Om's "application state" (only data) corresponds to the data part of the model ("M") in most MVC frameworks. In Om, just like ClojureScript or Clojure, you use functions, organized however you like, to work with data. This means that the "action-oriented" part of a traditional MVC model (e.g. methods in OO) are not necessarily grouped with the model data. Perhaps this is what the author is getting at: you can "layer" (organize) your functions into whatever namespaces you like.

In in my recent experience building Om apps, I've found that organization matters. As an Om app grows in size, it is natural (and important) to find ways of organizing that help. Om does not impose any particular organization scheme. I personally find ClojureScript namespaces to be very easy to work with; I simply split up a codebase as files become larger and harder to summarize.
It would depend on your definition of "succeeded", but Docker (formally dotCloud) made a great transition after releasing docker and just raised a very nice round of funding.

"In 2013, recognizing the need for flexible, PaaS-like environments inside enterprises and across clouds, the company released much of its PaaS container technology as the open source Docker project. Docker is an open source engine for deploying any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. By delivering on the promise “Build Once…Run Anywhere,” Docker has seen explosive growth, and its impact is being seen across devops, PaaS, and hybrid cloud environments.

The success of the Docker project led the company to change its name from "dotCloud, Inc." to "Docker, Inc." in October 2013 in order to reflect its focus on the new product. Docker, Inc. continues to run the dotCloud Platform, supporting thousands of containers running applications for a wide variety of businesses."[0]

[0] https://www.dotcloud.com/about.html
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> In 1980, Reagan got elected and cut a ton of forward-thinking basic research.

I don't think that's a reasonable assessment of the Reagan Administration's policies toward basic research. A more even handed assessment can be found here: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/8224/8224earlygov.html
Say what you will about the other elements, but surely we are not saying there is a technological reason for the TSA grabbing your ass?
I think the realization of what global connectivity can produce is still in its infancy.

IoT is huge. We are on the verge of controlling our entire homes with the wallet-sized computers in our pockets. I say on the verge because it hasn't reached mass adoption levels.

Information/knowledge/education sharing is growing by leaps and bounds. When the education bubble completely bursts, and you don't know have be rich, know someone, or have a 4.0 to get a high-quality education, that will be considered a huge development in hindsight. (EDIT: I realize this is also currently going on but for the next decade or two the ivory towers still have the influence.)

People are quick to dismiss technological advances once they get used to them. It's easy to say, 'we haven't cured X terrible disease' and 'humans aren't living past 100, we're underachieving.'
Well, I don't think the question at hand is simply how to avert human extinction, but how to avert disaster for humankind.
Sorry for the way I put it. The meaning was "argument without a moral stand". If moral is considered logic, they are false. If moral is not considered automatically as logic, then most of us faced, or will face, a situation where their choice will be based on moral, and thus not logic?
Have you thought about FreeBSD for the NAS? It's a pretty common base for home-brew NAS systems. I'm not sure how the ARM support is though.
I think this is exactly Thiel's point though. We're spending lots of time, effort, and money on incrementally improving things like Engines and Personal Computers and Social Media. Instead, we as a society would be better served focusing those resources on big-picture tasks like Nuclear Engineering, Bioengineering, or Material Sciences.

Frankly, I disagree with him because I think we are making these incremental improvements because people want them, they are big enough to be noticeable, and they're easy thanks to all those other incremental improvements. Already we've reached a tipping point with things like mobile computing and social media where there are no big breakthroughs waiting around the corner. Once people accept that they'll start looking to the next sectors that can have big bang-for-your-buck improvements. Whether that's space flight, Nuclear Engineering, Bioengineering or what have you will depend on the incremental advances we are already making.
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Your product is already succeeding. Why do you think open sourcing it will make it more successful? Are you sure you can make an open source project bigger than your company?

Why do you think these competitors matter if their own customers are telling you they're shit and you're great?

Why does HN matter to your startup? Are you sure it matters to theirs? One simple way to tell - do your competitors get on HN with stories about being a startup/engineer, or is their product itself interesting to HN? If HN isn't the best source of your customers then it shouldn't be a factor in any decisions or marketing/pr.

What about these conferences - are they closing deals and making money at these things, or are they just spending on them?

How about leveraging their marketing? Let them find unsatisfied customers and poach them straight from hn/twitter/linkedin/facebook/anything you can find.
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Our society is very irresponsible. Every holiday is a nightmare for the planet. The tons of junk, wrapping, and throwaway stuff we consume will be ridiculed from future generations. Not to mention the time and energy (literary, too) wasted for shopping. I stopped buying birthday decorations and try to educate my kids to stop having these merchant-inspired "festivities". All junk from Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the endless kids' birthdays piles up to a ton per year. Be responsible as we're leaving a huge liability to the future generations and our children and grandchildren, which we care the most about! I'm really disappointed at the Waste Management Recycling Centers who refuse to take anything, but CRV just recently. I invest time and pile up tons of non-CRV recyclables and they do not take it anymore.
> Source trees for the LMI and TI machines are also on the web.

Without usable licenses.
A lot of companies seem to be using this model quite well. DataStax, Couchbase, Cloudera etc.
It recently came to my mind that Math, J, lisp, ml are just anti-marketing artefacts. But on the intellectual/UX they're on point. When you have a good abstractions, and very consistent and orthogonal ones, appearance becomes almost irrelevant. They help you think and that's what matters.
According to wiki: sharing economy is socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical resources. For ridesharing industry, the resources are drivers and their personal resources. Uber/Lyft/... are intent to become the gateway or dispatch or distribution layer to some extent. They are competing to "own" these resources and become monopoly. But for the drivers and the customers, it will always be in their interest to keep it a more "perfect competition" situation. Some third party shall come in to facilitate the conflict of interest -- maybe government, union or others.
Check out the previous HN thread on ZoL:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8303333
I actually think, that auto-driving cabs would be bad for Uber's business model. There model is to shift all risks and hard assets (car) to contractors. With auto-driven cab the contractors could run a lot of cars or even for several companies or Uber had to run them on their own. With the necessity to carry the risks and all the costs.

But I agree, without a union the drivers won't get anything done. I think also the state should see those drivers as what they are, Uber employees. It shouldn't matter what Uber calls them. If someone works full time for one company they are employees of that company.
Several über drivers are also lyft drivers. Über is trying to prevent this by requiring drivers to accept a minimum percent of rides, but a company could get critical mass in a large city using 5% time from a large number of drivers. Growing from there would easily enable full time drivers.

Which means über can only maintain a monopoly with thin margins which is generally considered ok.
The biggest unmentioned thing I'm noticing, is when are these car hailing apps going to start competing in how much of a cut they take? The marginal cost of their software is near %0.

When will amazon-uber come up and say to uber: "Your [20% profit] margin is my opportunity".
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That is also the result of people gushing.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8033503
I've never heard this apologetic argument for mass extinction, it's somewhat disheartening. Do you think domesticated animals and scavengers are going to make up for the lost in biodiversity and ecological damage? Basically whatever can survive in our concrete jungles and farms will be alright, screw the rest?

The other parts of this earth play an essential role in maintaining ecological balance on this planet, and a world with just farms and cities and the animals that can survive within is not going to bode well for us or any other species. Hopefully that's a good enough argument if you still don't think that mass extinction and habitat lose isn't a negative outcome in and of itself.
> This sentence says that consuming the biosphere is natural as gas release. This colours a choice as an unavoidable step, and thus justify it.

You don't even have to see it as a choice. I mean, even if we ignore the present and the future, thus avoiding any kind of moral issues, we can look at the past and see what Homo Sapiens has already done. It did provoke the extinction of a whole bunch of large mammals and insular birds, deforested extremely large areas and many other things. To a large degree, most of the impact of our species on nature is already done, so we should be able to look at it objectively, as if we were talking about an other species (to some extent we are, considering how different we are from say our Mammoth-hunting ancestors). And when we do, we should not let someone say that this was the only extinction to occur because of a biological species, because that is just not true.

You can't pretend to protect nature if you refuse to look at it for what it is.
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Didn't those companies start with the open-source then build a company around it? As opposed to starting out closed then later open-sourcing?
Well, with ZFS you want to avoid hardware RAID controllers completely. The protections from ZFS only work if the filesystem doesn't have anything in between it and the actual disks. Depending on your vendor, it can actually be difficult to get a card that lets you have JBOD access to a large disk array.

The only exception that I can think of is encryption. You could wrap a disk with an encryption layer in software, but then you could still to make a separate virtual device for each disk.
I think makes sense, that programmers are looking on the internet to solve problems. But I think in this informational age that sentiment applies to basically everyone.

Everyone has a certain knowledge base about problems. If they experience a problem they have never seen before they have two options to innovate and create a new way to solve the problem or to do research and see if that problem has been solved before.

I think software development is an obvious example of information searching and usage but I'm sure this the word "programmer" could be swapped out for thousands of other vocations.

Furthermore, there is a lot more to software development than just finding the right answers to problems. Developers need to be able to architect solutions, solve novel problems that are domain specific, and have good understanding of many tools to effectively create and deliver software, plus a lot more stuff.
it seems to me open sourcing means more risks than upsides. Can't you raise funds based on your growth/customers and hire someone who will make the PR you hate?
Sorry for not answering your question :-)
+1 for the Docker example below
> Mazzant held Shavers and his company liable to give up $38.6 million of illegal profits plus $1.8 million in interest. Each defendant was also fined $150,000.

The loss to investors was about $150 million.
> For instance, in NL we have 'thuisbezorgd' which started out very reasonable and is now positively extorting the restaurants they book their deliveries with.

Oh! I did not know that - do you have any good resources on that story? (I'm interested because I'm their customer)
It pretty much was, for the word "extinction" was indeed used.

Would a severe environmental crisis be a disaster for Mankind? Sure, I can totally agree with that. But I will object if you say it would cause its extinction.
> To your first point, aren't most species ocean-dwelling?

Indeed, it part if the joke that most people think of elephants and rhinos as animals under threat before they think about the abundance of life on our oceans.

I believe that the highest concentration if species is found in the rainforest though.
However that discussion is old, so I can't reply
What should a beginner do for learning programming language
I started learning programming for a while from codecademy and khan academy.

But feel like learning repeated stuff.
what can i do more to learn further?
I'm not sure if you would consider it a startup anymore, but:

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo
If you mean you're uncomfortable sending physical documents, we provide the paper service for maximum convenience, and we have tight security on the process[0]. For those uncomfortable with that, or if you do not require that service, there is a digital plan in which you can get the benefits of the organization and sharing features but just do all the uploading yourself.

You raise a valid point, though, about us having to overcome a trust hurdle. So let me ask you – what would theoretically make you feel comfortable about sending in documents?

[0] https://www.papertrailer.com/security
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I'd beg to differ, strictly from a gut instinct, that all of those are under-represented by men. My gut is also telling me this is a troll, though.
Labor organizers ought to use the same tactics to reach Uber drivers as Uber used to reach Lyft drivers.
I think I just found the perfect use for the Intel Edison (a tiny Atom (x86) + BLE + Wi-Fi module by Intel): https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13024
How does it feel to grow up in an organized crime family?
This is just false.

Even Slate, which is hardly a right-wing bastion, concedes that there is an effect (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...)

If we subjected you to a 99% tax rate tomorrow, would you work less than before? A yes answer is all that is needed to concede the point theoretically. Then, we're just arguing about magnitude. And I just don't believe you if you answer no: Who is going to work a full-time $50,000 a year job when they're only taking home $500/year?

For further reading, Paul Graham has argued that redistribution through higher tax rates leas to less entrepreneurship (http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html)
You said "There is no practical improvement here.".

If CloudFlare has not done something wrong, then why did you say that?

Before you answer that question, remember: A hypothetical solution is not a practical solution. A practical solution is always a practical improvement over the case where there was no existing practical solution offered.

And before you say "They should have used HSMs", remember: CloudFlare has made it clear that HSMs being under their control was simply not an option. It was clear in their first blog post, and just for good measure, it was made absolutely explicit in an interview with Ars[0] where CloudFlare's CEO said "there’s no vault we can ever build that they’ll trust us with their SSL keys".

So, how is there no practical improvement?

[0] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/in-dep...
that's because he isn't a developer
As did we at Rainforest! It's a nice little detail and a pretty easy hack: https://blog.rainforestqa.com/2014-04-24-howto-gmail-action-...
"EDIT. Just in case anyone is wondering: for goodness sake I'm not arguing that we shouldn't be concerned about people's needs. But if the above idea is how the world really works, then there is no point in denying it."

No no, I get your point. No need to worry.

I would add a counter-argument here though that there was definitely more time to think in the past. There was more peace of mind because people had a less hurried lifestyle. Also, things had always been bad and were getting much better relative to the past. For example, for new parents today, think of all the various concerns that are constantly hitting them from all sides. This wasn't the case 150 years ago and I think that allowed for people to devote a least some portion of their mental energy towards innovation. And if not innovation, at least towards being socially engaged in the discussion about innovation.
You can pay that 25% back to get increased leg room, snacks, and posher treatment.
NewsBlur[0] is open-source[1] and seems to be doing well.

[0]: http://www.newsblur.com/

[1]: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
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To say that Reagan "ended" the Cold War is a charitable interpretation, to say the least.
Sounds like you should sell the product to someone that wants to do the business side of things, and stay on as the head of product development.

It is doubtful to me that open sourcing it will make it well known unless it is a technical product and your customers are developers. Do your customers care if it is open source? Most people selling Asterisk installations never explained to the customers that technically the software was free. All that will be accomplished is that someone who likes marketing & PR can pickup your work and create competitor D, that has everything you have, but with someone that likes to sell. Better to get that person on your team after they pay you some money.
Are you going to come to new York?
I'm on the same bandwagon as everyone in this thread. Love the long battery life (i've read at least three books while being in the woods for 10 days). Pseudo-disconnect from a internet-alive device (no distractions from social media or websites) that allows me to relax with a book.
I don't see in any way how exposing your IP will make you bigger.

You say that your competitors are better at PR. Have you analyzed your growth and PR strategies?

What is your competitive positioning? Are you cheaper? Are there fundamental technological advances that you have that make you innately better?

Here is a cheat sheet that is sort of the standard when it comes to competitive strategy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_five_forces_analysis
> FreeBSD has recently included a new binary package manager (pkg) which seems to work well enough, but in all honesty it's still feels a few years behind apt / pacman / yum.

You don't expect someone to be able to write a full-featured bug-free package manager equivalent to those that have matured over a decade in under a two years do you? What't they've done so far is beyond impressive and at this pace it will be improved beyond the competition within 3 years.
I'd recommend this book by the way:
'Time to Eat the Dog?: The Real guide to Sustainable Living' by Thames & Hudson - search it up if you want a read.

We essentially need to return to a lifestyle that is described by the 'Lark Rise to Candleford' Trilogy, with comparatively recent local communities in 'developed' countries growing their own food, helping each other, making their own entertainment, travelling little, and generally living within the resources of their immediate environment. Such a way of life could be said to reduce our land needs and potentially allow us to set aside half the planet.

Whilst the solution is arguably obvious, with the advocation of mass-consumerism and with many people having a vested interest in the continuous extraction of fossil fuels - that change will always be thwarted.
coming from a person who made a ton on money on the same things he says are not making our lives better.