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> Your statements reflect fundamental flaws in your understanding of the subject matter.

my opinions are based on my observations. i observe companies being immoral all the time. there are a few notable exceptions - i think google are generally good, tesla, valve, recently (and only recently) microsoft, maybe some others.

bear in mind, throughout my replies, i've given various (uncited, but i believe easily verifiable) examples of why i believe what i believe.

> Expecting people to donate time to teach you the subject is pure entitlement.

no, i expect people who engage in HN comments to engage in discussion. i've expressed my opinion. if you disagree with it, i expect that you explain why, or to say nothing. dismissing me as ignorant because i don't have a background in business ethics is not an explanation.

> Read the SEP article. It's very easy to understand. Section 2.1 - the very first body section

your arrogance is becoming outrageous.

i did read section 2.1, here are some things it said-

> If the corporation is a legal person, is it also a moral person? Anglo-American law takes no explicit position on this...

ok, so no legal position on the "morality" of a company.

> ... Thus, for French, corporations are both legal and moral persons, and hence moral agents in their own right.

ok, French seems to think they are. on the other hand, Velasquez has a different opinion -

> Attributing moral agency to corporations opens the door to the intuitively implausible conclusion that a corporation can be morally responsible for something no natural person connected with it is responsible for.

so, really, you're asserting that corporations are moral, citing this article as proof, when in fact, (at least in the section you have directed me to) the law makes no statement, and there appears to be no general consensus on the matter.

> and should at least give you pause in publicly asserting they are not.

indeed.
I feel like it has less to do with moving somewhere and more todo with moving specifically to Silicon Valley. I'd much rather move somewhere like Austin or Denver and save $10k in living costs for my business than spend it on rent in the Valley for one summer.

I agree that there's value in being face to face for mentoring like this, but I just don't see why it has to be in the most expensive place to live in the U.S., especially considering the fact that you want to be saving money when starting a business.
If anyone is interested, Yanis also guested on the EconTalk podcast in 2013, talking about Valve's corporate structure and plans for solving Greece's financial woes.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/varoufakis_on_v.htm...
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Unless you are never giving the money back. (Or you get the money at below-market rates. Then they are effectively paying you the difference.)
The bit about Econometrics seems a bit out of place and wrongheaded. I know this is a popular criticism of Economics in general, but I've always thought it rather non-nonsensical.
I tried that, but the trackpad didn't work. Buttons were all fine, but I want to be able to be able to kick back and not worry about grabbing a mouse.
My kids went through an intense Fox in Socks stage, to the point where I could blast through the whole thing at double-speed, which made them love it even more.
Buttons all work fine, but the track pad didn't work for me.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
When I use linux (as opposed to BSD), I use Arch Linux.

I don't recommend it to everyone, but it's by far the best linux distribution for me.
The only way Tarsnap could have growth rate + profit margin equal to 40% is if it was losing money. Given that Tarsnap is bootstrapped, that's not an option for me.
> The only danger would be an invading EU/NATO army coming to confiscate their assets.

I'm willing to bet on 50 to 1 odds that there will be no invasion. (Up to, say, 1000 USD exposure on my side.)
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Not only could you publish them in a loop, until 2011 they were not random at all. Rather, the first 3 digits behaved much like an area code - if you know where someone was born, you can pretty easily guess the first 3 digits of their SSN.

Apparently in 2011 they changed this, and now none of the numbers are significant.
I was referring to these kinda moves: http://benswann.com/us-moves-to-classify-afghan-military-ove...

As a creator of this kind of technology, handing it over to agencies that are constantly battling all levels of oversight seems sketchy to me. I would understand why some people would want to ban this technology outright as an overreaction. Instead, maybe we should try and enforce controlled civilian oversight.

But yes, I am not expert on the legalities of oversight or the treatment of captured terrorists
It's called a bubble. Here's a company that sells grilled cheese out of 3 trucks, that has been valued at $100M: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-09/bubble-meet-25-mill...

Now let's watch the words "worth" and "value" be thrown around recklessly. :)
And just today I decided to start following the show again...
I wonder if pedantry were banned, would we see a rise in darknet sites for posts like yours?
we can only change the legal landscape for now. if we do punish IBM for their involvement in apartheid, what will it change for us now? we already recognise it was wrong. we can discourage others from doing similar actions now, but aside from that, i don't believe there is much else to be done.
The world’s largest company by market capitalization got a little bit bigger Tuesday.

Shouldn't that be "..largest PUBLIC company by market cap..."? Isn't Saudi Aramco's value in trillions for example?
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A blog would be absolutely phenomenal. The material you are writing equal if not surpass patio11 in terms of value and readability. There's so much I am learning just by reading these comments alone. You have an exceptional talent.
Filling out the application probably won't hurt, but I'm more curious if there is any chance of actually getting in. I'm not a stanford grad or an ex-googler so I would assume that combined with the fact that I'm solo founder would make my chances more or less 0. The only way I could see actually getting into YC at this point with my situation is to have an already successful company.
They did default. It was the biggest default in history. But it happened 3 whole years ago so I get why people forget about it.

The interest rate on their current debt is extremely low (2.6% of GDP, with a debt/gdp ratio of 175%), and if they ever decide to make some serious structural reforms and start growing again, the debt/gdp ratio can be brought down to very manageable levels. If they reach their pre-cris GDP high their debt/gdp would be ~120%, which is high but reasonable and easily repayable given continued growth.
What is your assessment of BitTorrent Sync?
Reasons to get a dog:

1. Companionship, which will make you happier, less lonely, and less stressed out (assuming you like dogs!)

Reasons not to get a dog:

1. You can't spend at least $3,000/year on care.

2. You haven't researched how much of a commitment it will be.

3. You need an attack/guard dog.

4. You want your baby to be dirtier (see article).
damn, if marketing doesn't prove its worth with these numbers. Yes they make good products but its obvious their margins are so damn high because their marketing has convinced people that it is worth it. (iphone/mac/airport owner.... so yeah)

Honestly though, I would love some other choices but they competition in general just sucks. For awhile android phones almost caught my attention but the pc world hasn't since my first 24 inch iMac. Tablet market is just, Apple.
As far as I can tell that's true, but a lot of the taboo drugs taste awful, too. Psilocybin mushrooms taste like someone mixed stale almonds with household dust and a tiny touch of vomit. MDMA tastes like a mix of baking powder and metal.

The simplest hypothesis I can think of that explains this is that most things taste bad. We usually only eat the exceptions--the things that taste good. But we'll eat something that tastes bad if it gets us high.
In a few years from now it's going to be really interesting to see what lessons from Valve turned out to be helpful in the real world.
> Second, Etcd and Fleet are themselves designed to be modular, so it’s easy to support a variety of other deployment methods as well.

Zookeeper isn't Modular? No mention of HTCondor+Dagman? No mention of Spark?

I've written a general DAG processor/workflow engine/metascheduler/whatever you want to call it. It's used by various physics and astronomy experiments. I've interfaced it with the Grid/DIRAC, Amazon, LSF, Torque, PBS, SGE, and Crays. There's nothing in it that precludes Docker jobs from running. I've implemented a mixed-mode (Streaming+batch processing + more DAG) version of it which just uses job barriers to do the setup and ZeroMQ for inter-job communication. I think something like Spark's resilient distributed dataset would be nice here as well.

We don't use hadoop because, as was said, because it's narrow in scope and it's not a good general purpose DAG/Workflow Engine/Pipeline.

I think this is a small improvement, but I don't really see it being much better than hadoop, or HTCondor, or Spark.

HTCondor is pretty amazing. I think somebody should be building a modern HTCondor, not a modern Hadoop.
Hi, jd @ Pachyderm here.

Long term we don't want to mandate either of these technologies. We'd like to offer users a variety of job formats (docker and rocket come to mind more domain specific things like SQL are interesting as well) and a variety of storage options (zfs, overlayfs, aufs and in-memory to name a few). However we had to be pragmatic early on and pick what we thought were the highest leverage implementations so that we could ship something that worked.

We'll certainly be looking in to getting rid of this mandate in the near future, we like giving people a variety of choices.
Interesting, I will be careful with that as well then, being in a hurry might make you do exactly that and regret it.
This type of story is so motivating to build vertical software, but for people like me who are trying to identify a vertical software opportunity, it's discouraging that these developers needed to spend a couple years in the industry to truly understand the pain point behind FarmLogs.

Does anyone have thoughts / strategies around identifying these opportunities, ideally without the need to spend years in the target industry?
Indeed. Two Stanford CS students could have created Google ... and they did! There's a lot that two programmers can do.
Andrew knows this stuff better than I do but one way to start thinking about this is to look at what the sources of latency are, where your data gets copied, and what controls allocation of storage (disk/RAM/etc). For example mmaped disk IO cedes control of the lifetime of your data in RAM to the OS's paging code. JSON over HTTP over TCP is going to make a whole pile of copies of your data as the TCP payloads get reassembled, copied into user space, then probably again as that gets deserialized (and oh the allocations in most JSON decoders). As for latency you're going to have some context switches in there which is not helpful. One way you might be able to improve performance is to use shared memory to get data in and out of the workers and process it in-place as much as possible. A big ring buffer and one of the fancy in-place serialization formats (capnproto for example) could actually make it pretty pleasant to write clients in a variety of languages.
I like my Kindle Fire HDX quite thoroughly so idk about that last statement.
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Co-founder(s) with domain expertise?
Or legal WoTLK servers, please :-)
I've just reread it for the umpteenth time. One of the very few books I keep coming back to. On the other hand, I convinced my g/f to read it and she... didn't enjoy the experience.

The allusiveness and ambiguity that I find so deeply enjoyable means the book is just a hell of a lot of work to read, and not everyone is in to that.
The problem with VCs is that they understand a lot, but sometimes to ask silly questions in search of intelligence. In the worst cases they verbalize a "no" as the silly question.
"The guys who capable of improving modern Linux desktop are using Mac."

Except the Mac UI is crap. It's uncomfortable and unconfigurable.
Maintaining someone else's code is MUCH HARDER than writing something new.

Any business older than 2 years needs someone to maintain their existing codebase, rather than rewriting it from scratch for each new employee.

Maintenance is seen as lower status, even though it's usually much harder than new development.

For my current job, I'm doing mostly maintenance, even though I thought it was a combination of maintenance and new development when I took it. When I go on interviews, when I say "I'm doing 100% maintenance now and would like to get back to a job where I'm doing new development.", they always respond "Oh, your unqualified to do new development."

So it is kind of a career death spiral. Once you have several bad jobs, people assume you're unqualified for anything better.
It's like paying home insurance. If something breaks down we can point to these support company and say I'm waiting on their reply. Most of the time the support is useless as they say it's your custom code blah we don't support it.

Lot of times Google search is faster than getting an answer from support. Most of the support is outsourced and they're not developers. They take product manual and will instruct things like did you reboot it or did you kill the process and reboot. We pay for these kind of nonsense trouble shooting.
The only thing on the planet Apple doesn't have enough money to buy is itself. We MAY be in a bubble, but this is in no way an indication of that.
I swear by my Nexus tablets and I was one of the backers for the Jolla tablet. Nothing about an ipad or ipad mini is appealing to me, and the draconian lockdown and lack of control of my own hardware guarantees I will never own an Apple product.

And in my daily life I do not see many ipads. Only amongst those so ignorant to think tablets = Apple in the same way they think computers = Windows. There are plenty of Android tablets out there in use, a lot of them are in businesses now due to the significantly lower cost to adopt $100 - $200 tablets over ipad minis, combined with developer fees and the hoops to jump through with xcode licenses and ios developer licenses and all that bullshit.
Hmm, that's one option. Then I can view the data how I want. Thanka
Ask HN: Best books you've read on how to start a startup?
Classics, new books, tech, non-tech... what's helped you grow the most?
No, or at least not yet. :)

You are probably thinking of these guys: http://www.mitls.org.

They have a killer TLS, but it drags the entire CLR in.

We are these guys: http://openmirage.org/blog/introducing-ocaml-tls.
Emdrive experiments have force measurements while the device is in a hard vacuum
This looks good as well. Wondering how many good tools there are out there that I've missed.
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> But it doesn't matter how developers build software today.

It does if you are trying to make choices about how to use management of which features to include or exclude in copyleft software targeted at software developers as a mechanism to promote the goals of an ideology with a specific view of software freedom.

> His principles are an entirely separate matter and he has stated over and over and over again that he doesn't care if his principles are inconvenient or if adherence to his principles causes technology to advance at a slower rate

But he presumably cares about whether his decisions result in a world that reflects his principles less rather than one that reflects his principles more. And that's where knowledge of the present pragmatics are important when it comes to tactical choices to advance his ideology.
You're projecting your emotions on to me. What would it take for me to change your mind?

Oh and good luck exploring the world if your species goes extinct because it got outcompeted.
http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/history.html

"The use of punched cards in the Jacquard loom influenced Charles Babbage, who decided to use punched cards to control the sequence of computations in his proposed analytical engine. Unlike Hollerith's cards of 50 years later, which were handled in decks like playing cards, Babbage's punched cards were to be strung together like Jaquard's. Despite this and the fact that he never actually built an analytical engine, Babbage's proposed use of cards played a crucial role in later years, providing a precident that prevented Hollerith's company (and its successors) from claiming patent rights on the very idea of storing data on punched cards."

http://www.adbranch.com/how-ibm-helped-automate-the-nazi-dea...

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook/History/Art...

"Auschwitz historians were originally convinced that there were no machines at Auschwitz, that all the prisoner documents were processed at a remote location, primarily because they could find no trace of the equipment in the area. They even speculated that the stamped forms from Auschwitz III were actually punched at the massive Hollerith service at Mauthausen concentration camp. Indeed, even the Farben Hollerith documents had been identified some time ago at Auschwitz, but were not understood as IBM printouts. That is, not until the Hollerith Büro itself was discovered. Archivists only found the Büro because it was listed in the I.G. Werk Auschwitz phone book on page 50. The phone extension was 4496. "I was looking for something else," recalls Auschwitz' Setkiewicz, "and there it was." Once the printouts were reexamined in the light of IBM punch card revelations, the connection became clear."

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/census-tabulator...

"And in this day and age of high resolution bitmapped displays with millions of colors, driven by the supercomputer-crushing performance of modern graphics hardware, your xterm window emulates an 80 column VT100 in order to provide some semblance of compatibility with 80 column Hollerith punched cards that date to the 1920s and were common on the IBM 1604."

http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cardint.htm

Windows command prompts and xterm windows have a default width whose lineage traces back to 1801 (or earlier if the loom's history is considered).

It is painful to learn how our industry (software and computational hardware) can and have been abused for such unfathomably despicable, misguided purposes.
I've read Neuromancer about once a year since my late teens. It only took me about 10 years to realize there's actually some pretty good comedy in there...
Folksonomies of the Internet
In recent years, we have seen software companies such as flickr, stumbleupon, 5by, 43things, etc.utilize crowdsourced social tagging to change the way we browse the web. What do you think about the future of "Web 2.0"? Is it likely that there will soon be a platform for "finding things without looking", similar to that of StumbleUpon? Would love to hear your thoughts and opinions!
Brilliant! I agree with Ted. Back to those Thunder cats videos.. They absolutely will not watch themselves!
How do these games enter the public domain?

They can't. They can't be offered to the public domain after the relevant term expires in exchange for the demos protection of the IP by punishment of tortfeasance.

It is not possible for them to be copyright works then as all copyright works must eventually enter the public domain. Unfortunately this was always a truism within publication. It's part of publication itself that mode of reproduction of the work is laid bare; arguably that is what publication meant in the first instance within the purview of those writing copyright laws. Because it is not contemplated that publication could not make the work public, as that would be self-contradictory there is no really strong rendering of this need. It is, I'd argue, there though. Vis:

Berne Convention, Art.3(3)

>"The expression “published works” means works published with the consent of their authors, whatever may be the means of manufacture of the copies, provided that the availability of such copies has been such as to satisfy the reasonable requirements of the public, having regard to the nature of the work. [...]"

This section of Art.3 goes on to list works that are made public but are nonetheless not considered published and so are not protected by copyright. To my mind works that are inhibited with DRM fall in this category. That is, games - as with other works protected by DRM - are _not_ being published. Publication to the mind of those drafting the law means making the work available to be reproduced. In terms of Berne Art.3 with regard to the nature of games they don't meet with the reasonable requirements of the public either, eg continued playability.

[Thoughts/knock-downs/rejections with reasoning happily received!]
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Here's a graph of the change:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fvsTRmORSVI/T5qPyXygwNI/AAAAAAAAEU...

It's not hard to find the facts and the context here, so your comment makes no sense whatsoever.
Experience managing virtual economies.
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Market cap implies public company because by definition private companies are not traded publicly on a market. It's the same way start ups have "valuations" and not "market caps".
dragonwriter pointing out that there are economically substitutable goods to coffee, and that the prohibition would have to be much more generalized, is a straight-up good point, and you're not contributing.
Firstly, https://eff.org/donate

Secondly, from the judgment[1]:

Based on the public record, the Court finds that the Plaintiffs have failed
to establish a sufficient factual basis to find they have standing to sue
under the Fourth Amendment regarding the possible interception of their
Internet communications.

Another day, another ruling that we can't prove we are spied on. Whenever
you can get the authority to rule on the actual program's legality, it's ruled
illegal[2].

Thirdly, from the judgment:

Further, having reviewed the Government Defendants’ classified submissions,
the Court finds that the Claim must be dismissed because even if Plaintiffs
could establish standing, a potential Fourth Amendment Claim would have to
be dismissed on the basis that any possible defenses would require
disclosure of state secret information.

This is the surprising part. How in the hell can a federal law trump the
Constitution? This part of the ruling sets the precedent that the Executive can
violate the Constitutional rights of anyone, including other branches of
government (including the Judiciary itself!), and get away with it if the program
is a state secret, even if you have evidence of the violation. This is very
clear and firm loss of power of the Judiciary and Legislative branches.

Why is the Judiciary rolling over like this? The rule of law is being
systematically shut down all around them, and they are just sitting there making
themselves obsolete. The reason we have three branches of government that are
adversarial is so that when one starts to grab for power, the others shut it
down. Unchallengable Constitutional violations is exactly the kind of power
grab that the Judiciary is supposed to shut down.

Fourthly: https://eff.org/donate

EDIT: Okay, after having read the full judgment, the very strange thing about it is that the can't-sue-even-if-have-standing claim is almost entirely without references. The standing section has tons of references to prior case law. But the state secrets section has very few citations and and is quite a bit of "grave damage to national security" talk without citation.

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[1]: https://ia801403.us.archive.org/22/items/gov.uscourts.cand.2...

[2]: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/world/europe/electronic-su...