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> The teachers make long speeches about how they're here to help.

A lecture I was listening to once mentioned how this was akin to asking how much sugar one should add to turn the ocean sweet.
Yes it's a no-brainer that CloudFlare is in a prime spot to collect a lot of data on the traffic that passes through.

However are they going to turn this into an ad-tracking software, or just sell that data ? That seems quite unlikely. At this point CloudFlare has a proven business model, and becoming sleazy could only hurt them.

They wrote an article a little while ago on the matter : https://blog.cloudflare.com/what-cloudflare-logs/
I doubt that has changed much.

ps. full disclosure, former employee here.
Rahul Yadav donates his Housing.com stake worth ~$30M to employees
I upvoted you. Last time I tried it, using Whatsapp on your computer requires you to have the phone on. I think this is because the app on the phone holds your private key. I imagine this is also the reason why you can't use your whatsapp on a tablet or on multiple phones.
I dunno, the AMBER alert system was a pretty damn good idea.
If you had a large-scale set of data of AirBnB listings that was reasonably accurate, that could be valuable to many people, for all sorts of reasons.

I'm slightly skeptical of some of your specific suggested markets, though. I would guess landlords are not likely to be a big market. The apartment and condo buildings that want to shut down AirBnB in their building already have a fairly easy time looking through nearby listings and identifying the ones in their building. The ones who aren't paying enough attention to do that will probably not be paying enough attention to find out that they can buy a list from you, either, unless you do a lot of marketing. And governments so far are going more the route of just trying to force AirBnB to hand over listings directly, instead of buying from a third party.
Just a general advice. I was in same position few months back and i took more than a month to decide.

Before joining seed stage startups, you should verify that whether the existing team can take the startup 100X or not. 1% of 100M exit is nothing but 0.1% of 10B is big deal.
You should have interviewed with atleast 5 startups before taking the decision. I interviewed at quite a few startups and i had multiple offers and i finally got the best deal i can ever get. I know that this startup founders are impressive and they are nice and they will do well. But you have to move out of your comfort zone and talk with 5 more startups. Then you will come to know about the startup market.

Please use wealth-front chart to find out whether you are getting right deal or not. https://www.wealthfront.com/tools/startup-salary-equity-comp....

Use www.Offerletter.io to validate that your decision is right or not. They have really great people who knows the startup market better than us. It doesn't cost you anything unless you get 20% more equity during negotiation. Of Course, you will get more than 20% if you negotiate in any company. Talking to them was worth it!

Don't join startups whose selling point is that they will get acquired as well.

Also, if you don't know what's Double Trigger Acceleration now, don't just join startup anytime soon. Read about startups and contact lawyers who are expert in stock options. They charge $300 but they save you $300K - $3M.

P.S: I'm not an expert. But I took more time to decide between offers and it gained me 2X stock options and 1.3X salary to me.
better than being called southern redneck. You picked one of the nicer slurs.
So just write in a contract "This residence can not be used as a hotel". Done, problem solved. Why on earth do we need government's involved again?

This is already part of any rental contract. People just choose to ignore it.

My parents rented an AirBnb (in Santa Monica incidentally) and they where instructed to tell the neighbors that they are friends of the owner.
I really doubt it. Remember when you could just send someone a file, because their IM client allowed you to connect to each other directly?

I wonder if there's a good way to do this now, as some plug in somewhere... Even XMPP's file forwarding functionality fails for me.
My 2 cents...

1 - It is due to academic pressure. You can't opt out of academics like you can if you're not good as sports or music. The parents have High IQ jobs, so this is what people aspire for.

2 - It is a shame.

3 - Guards at the train stations, while necessary, attack the symptom.

4 - I think a lot can be done by encouraging choice in high schools. The Palo Alto elementary schools have a lot of choice. Some are academic, some are more progressive play based, some are language immersion... I would like to see the Palo Alto schools offer such choices. Why not have schools or programs for the visual artists? Or musicians? Or people very into computers? Or other languages? Encouraging kids to find excellence in areas other than AP courses will go a long way.
Device theft by a non-technical perpetrator is incredibly common.

Even just to mitigate against this single specific threat, full-disk encryption on a modern PC is completely worth it, for soccer moms, grandparents and hackers alike.
So just write in a contract "This residence can not be used as a hotel".

That's a very standard clause in most leases, and in some agreements that mutually agree on restrictions of use of owner-occupied housing. City zoning regulations also apply to many of these situations. Right now there are many, many, many (but not all) Airbnb rooms that violate multiple legal agreements or applicable laws that apply to the person offering the rooms on Airbnb. It remains to be seen what form of enforcement will work best to make sure those lease agreements or other contracts are honored, and the zoning regulations obeyed.

EDIT: Several comments here mention the legal history of how regulations developed in the first place. As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote, "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr.
Every other site that I've come across that uses a carousel seems to handle not messing with my browser keyboard shortcuts just fine.

Alt + Left-Arrow is not the same key press as 'left and right arrows'.
Regarding the wristwatch, not quite true, but almost (I'm nitpicking, really - I recently spent some time looking into this).

The wristwatch became popular with men shortly before as they were given to soldiers at the very end of 1800s. Previously seen as an accessory only for women, the use of watches in war (as it wasn't practical to pull out a pocket watch) made them eventually become fashionable.

That said, the watch produced for Santos-Dumont by Cartier did become the first widely available watch for men, and is still on sale today, in a more modern form: http://www.cartier.co.uk/collections/watches/mens-watches/sa...
There isn't enough of this information out there. Scaling things is incredibly hard, a lot more difficult than some would think. Not only do you have limitations around the software, but hardware and the problems that come with scaling hardware. Great article, looking forward to some more specifics (load balancing, memory/cpu/disk issues) in future articles.
>Is it really so common and easy to lose the job "just so"?

That very much depends what the market conditions are in your industry. In good times, even bad bosses will try to act professional, and good bosses are often downright humane. In bad times, there's always someone up the org chart to take the blame so the boss doesn't look like a jerk.

But "no reason" firings are comparatively uncommon. That's really more of a legal classification for, "I fired her because I find her tone-of-voice insubordinate."
humble, isn't it
50,000 people chatting + persistence, albeit temporary.
Has anyone actually used Io.js for something?
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They all have serial numbers, and you had to show ID when buying them. So yes they are registered, you just might not be aware of this fact.
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Extremely serious virtual machine bug threatens cloud providers everywhere
It's like the Good Samaritan law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law

If you are a doctor going to save a life, it's OK to violate the speed limit.
At a basic level, it was "Money Idol Exchanger" (an old arcade game my girlfriend really wanted on her iPad) meets 2048.

I have no idea where the link mechanic game from. The game needed more constraints on how pieces could be moved, and that idea just popped into my head one day.
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Wouldn't that require a browser plugin to login with?
I turned amber alerts off on my phone after multiple alerts at 2am for someone over 100 miles away.
Thanks, this looks good, and it is close enough to free, I was just trying to avoid 12 week immersion code schools for $1000s. That may be an option later but just testing the waters first.
Amash is emerging to play a Ron Paul esque role of which both Paul's supporters and detractors made incredible use:

He's the only one who is strangely saying something different than the rest.

At his young age, it's possible to imagine Amash breaking Paul's record for casting the largest number of sole nays.
Wow, there are also 2 females. Is there any technical reason why they don't just use artificial insemination to make some more babies? It would be pretty irresponsible to let the species go extinct because they didn't really try to save it.
Sadly that's what happens when you challenge an existing business model and industry who are afraid and will spare no expense to get legislation passed preventing competition from battering your profits.

I understand that services like Airbnb and Uber are unregulated, but instead of working with these companies to draft legislation that addresses the concerns, you're seeing draconian bills just outright banning them. It doesn't matter what the people want, when there is money involved, you can bet the side who doesn't necessarily make the most noise, but has the most money will win.

Whether or not politicians, corporations and residents afraid of change like it or not, the sharing economy is here to stay and will always find a way around any opposition. Look at Uber, opposed not only in multiple states in the USA, but also in other states in other countries.
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Would it be possible to do what they've done with mosquitoes and engineer male rats that will mate with females but not create viable offspring?
Wow, I had no idea it was still being sold! Thanks for this, that's interesting. Also, good to know what an ideal gift for my friend would be if I ever hit it rich.

That claim about wristwatches not being popular among men until Santos-Dumont surprised me when I originally read it - it seems like attaching an 18th century style pocket watch to a band would've been something that became trendy earlier. Know any good articles on the topic of pre 20th century watches?
valcu.co (I'm the founder) is automating corporate transactions, with startups currently using the Delaware incorporation and setup tools. We are working on some heavier stuff (e.g., equity financing transactions integrated with a cap table). It's not surprising to me how difficult it is to innovate here as there are so many moving pieces. Scripting up the NVCA forms runs about 250 variables per document and requires conditionals and loops, which most merge tools can't handle. Control provisions, amendment provisions, board rights, protective provisions and many other provisions have to be modeled separately. Share numbers and capitalization reps have to either be entered individually (meaning you have to build a separate model), or the tools have to build in a cap table. It's been build, build, build-we're over 100k lines of code.
Making decisions about technical debt is hard. Anybody who tells you otherwise is someone you want to stay away from in a work environment. Every single one of the decisions you make is context dependent, sometimes massively so. You need to know where you are and where you need to get to at every step. Only then can you make good decisions. For what it's worth, here is my list for the places where most people get it wrong.

1) People lie about what is required. Anyone who has been in the industry for more than a token amount of time has experienced the PM who says that they need X+100 when they really need X because "programmers are lazy". Similarly everyone has worked on a team where one or more of the programmers are more interested in building their beloved architecture than solving the problem at hand.

2)People don't listen to the needs of others. Very often they assume problem #1 exists ("They don't actually need that") and blindly forge ahead without paying attention. They play whatever political game that is required to force the other side to follow their approach.

3) People make mistakes. Often this is due to a lack of experience, but sometimes it's just because the problem is hard. Some people make mistakes more often than others. Good management will recognize those that are making good choices, but sometimes you have to let people crash a few projects before you realize that they don't know what they are doing.

4) Choices are made at the wrong level. With all of the other points I've made, it is exceptionally tempting to move all the decision making to someone who acts truthfully, listens well and has a good track record. However, the information required to make a good decision can be at many levels. Sometimes you need 100% test coverage of something and only the programmer will know when this is going to happen. Sometimes you need to deliver tomorrow even if it doesn't work at all. Only the PM will know this.

In order to build a team that executes at the highest possible level, you need to have people who work well together, trust each other and are competent. If you do not have this, then success will likely be a matter of chance. No amount of heroics from a single person can reliably fix the issue -- and often such heroics just make matters worse because they result in the behaviour listed above.
Wow, I'm surprised this actually happened. I haven't been watching developments lately but it seemed like a pipe-dream when I first heard rumblings of the idea. Congrats to everyone involved.
>So just write in a contract "This residence can not be used as a hotel".

Actually, I've never seen a lease that allows subletting as an AirBnB. It's always against the rental agreement. AirBnB are basically just facilitating people violating their signed contracts, and we mostly look the other way because everyone hates landlords anyway.
I remember reading, years ago, a paper which provided an algorithm for converting an IEEE 754 into a string using only a fixed number machine word length scalars—but I certainly can't find it now.
v3 in cpuinfo should do it
What does that say about the EFF marking this a neutral?
Ah, uniform visual identity. See this video from 2005: "Microsoft Redesigns the iPod packaging"[1] That's by Microsoft's own design team, struggling with Microsoft's corporate identity.

Facebook's bigger problem is page clutter. I just counted 227 clickable things on my Facebook home page, and I'm only scrolled half the way down. The Facebook branding icon only appears once. If they left it out, nobody would care, except that it's also the home button.

[1] https://vimeo.com/65449742
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Well, also look closely at the most common failure modes for a front fork: (1) the handle bars wiggle out of alignment, which still allows you to brake and stop safely; (2) the axle nuts are loose, in which case you probably won't even notice unless you hit a bump, as the dropouts for removing the front wheel point toward the ground; (3) the steering locks in a particular direction, in which case you still can brake safely and stop. Catastrophic failure of the welds or metal itself is extremely rare, without some advance warning like wobbling or creaking.

To my knowledge, no commonly sold cars are exclusively drive-by-wire for the braking system. If you lose all control in a car, you can turn off the ignition and forceful application of the brakes allows you to stop, even if you lose the power assistance.

By contrast, the most common failure mode for a drone in the air is... it falls out of the sky. That's pretty much the long and the short of it. There is good reason that flying objects should be held to a higher standard of safety.
Sacred Heart, St. Francis, Menlo-Atherton, are some of the most popular high schools in the area(Palo Alto High School is ghetto).The truth is that there are a lot of spoiled brats at these schools who are entitled and think they are the best things ever. Their parents spoil them and their kids constantly harass and bully other kids. I have friends who have gone to all these high schools and the students there are horrible.
The Linux kernel has unit tests, right
I'm suspicious of some of these reasons though. Why did they have so few taxi medallions in NYC? Why are they allowed to be leased to drivers?
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Housing prices in Santa Monica are out of control (not as much as San Fransisco though), but I don't agree AirBnB is to blame for that. Santa Monica is just a nice place where a lot of (rich) people want to live.

That said, I agree that AirBnB guests should pay hotel tax. Otherwise they have an unfair advantage.
How do you figure 120mph? It's ~1kg and I would guess has a higher surface area relative to mass than a person whose terminal velocity is about 120mph.

In any event, it takes a person 8s to get close to terminal velocity — that's a drop of 300m or so.

The energy involved is certainly non trivial but energy is not the whole story. The densest, heaviest pieces will be the battery and motors.
> There are many transactions in the world where people pay for things they didn't specifically want, e.g. buying a car and getting all the seats and safety features, or ordering a meal and paying the full price even if you ask for some ingredient to be omitted.

The difference is consent. People consent to paying for those meals or the car. But nobody ever consented to taxation. That's all part of the "social contract" we're born into.
It's also why it's such a darling for the libertarian crowd.
Pretty addicting!
That's a dangerous attitude that makes sense for some startups, especially those with high burn rates.

"If we don't get traction/product out the door now, we won't be able to raise our next round, so we have to get this product out the door yesterday to de-risk the whole company falling apart when we run out of money in a few months." Then later you raise your round and do the same thing for the next round. Eventually, of course, it will catch up with you and slow key progress. If you're unlucky that leads to a down round and you're all screwed.

I see that as being a larger risk than competitors moving faster in the sort term (them moving faster short term may mean you move faster long term). Higher burn rates mean you have a clearer deadline for fundraising, means you're racing the clock, means you're incentivized to take on technical debt. I'd love to have a look at what really tends to kill companies more often, but it's just anecdotes and speculation from me today.
Also Cliff Click is doing H2O at 0xdata http://0xdata.com/team/cliff-click/
How machine learning works
A good place for documentation is MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web. They have extensive documentation with regards to web technologies. I suggest he read up about HTML first, getting the first few basic elements on the page. Then he can move on to CSS to style up the page.

At this point, you can practically build basic webpages with just HTML and CSS. From here, you can take 2 paths: A graphics designer or a front-end developer.

A graphics designer leans more to design rather than building apps. This requires a basic of jQuery, but mastery of Photoshop. A good place to learn is reading articles from Smashing Magazine http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

A front-end developer leans more to app-building rather than design. This requires knowledge of JavaScript libraries and best practices. For this, select your basic set of frameworks and master them. Suggestions range from jQuery, Bootstrap, to full-fledged frameworks like Ember and Angular.
I have seen an open router which automatically sends the clients through tor first so the activity of free guests is disassociated from your home ip address.

You can easily limit the bandwidth guests can use so it is not noticeable to you anyway.
If obtained with consent, I for one will find this service valuable and will be willing to pay for it. All the best.
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Competition from hotels is just one side of the issue.

The other side is safety and security. I lived in a building next to a hostel for a year and a half. It was well maintained and the guests were regulated. Never had any complaints about the guests. On the other hand, my next door neighbor rented out his condo AirBnB style for a few months. It was obnoxious, the owner was remote and the guests were never regulated. The common areas were trashed, the guests were loud, and none of it mattered because they only had to deal with the consequences for a short term.

The fact of the matter is: there needs to be a distinction in regulation between short term and long term housing. As much as I am a fan of startups that make life convenient, the unregulated nature of AirBnB makes life difficult for anyone else not in the exchange. That's what hotels are for, to abstract that difficulty so that it only involves those within the boundaries of the exchange: the guests, the owners, and the service.
The updated help pages only mention the scenario of a worker dyno running along a web dyno.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-types#dyno-sleepi...

It's unclear what happens to apps which just have a single worker dyno. Are we meant to use the scheduler to kill workers for 6 hours a day?
Tor would be good, guests wouldn't appear as your own ip, instead as a tor exit node.
Wow. That was interesting :-)

I had no idea that Hersh was so crusty. I have enjoyed his writing for years.

And of course US publications have an Americana bias. I heard the authors of Dollarification talk a few years ago and they said that just a few corporations owned the media outlets that most people in the U.S. get their news from. Of course news will have a pro power slant.
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On what planet was that talk "great?"
I think he is coming from an advertising background where creatives refer to writers and designers. All of these resources are great for creatives at ad agencies.
Extensive prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9540094
More likely, the 3d printed gun fanatics will be evolving themselves out of the gene pool as their printed receivers fail to contain the charge and they all wind up with stumps for hands or worse.
http://3dprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/IMG_1259_zps95...

I'm not sure I'd want an amateur's DIY 3d printer in a 40 story apartment building. These things are usually left running unattended overnight.
There are many, though they all came out of people trying to get away from kiddie porn charges. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/24/unsecured-wifi-chil...
I ended up unemployed for 2 1/2 years - I was not ready for dropping out.

I did not even know what field I wanted to be in - just something that paid a sustainable living wage and could put me on a career track. I ended up teaching myself programming, and have become extraordinarily successful quickly, currently serving as a lead frontend engineer in a rapidly growing startup after 2.5 years in the field (~80 employees)
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