skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That 800,000 sq ft is for an entire district. With a little searching, I found that Saline High School is the single largest school in Michigan at 480,000 sq ft. Most large schools seem to be in the low hundreds of thousands.

So the $100k/mo figure is probably high by a few factors - maybe an order of magnitude at most.
Fair, so swap "they never made any money" to "they never even had a potentially profitable business model"
>pre-idea, pre-team

Assuming this was true for you? do you have an idea & team now? How long were you funded/hired without these two in place? Theoretically how long can one last in the program if you dont find these 2?

How long have you been burning their cash, have you raised other funds? You could be considered an even Riskier (debatable) investment than the alternate of an actual startup with an MVP actively looking for funding, so does their percentage reflect that? Did you pay an entrance fee as well?

Thanks!
Because inflation will be 5% and your real return will be 2%?

Interest rates will rise in response to inflation.
Actually you just need to stay nearby - the phones are used to rarely that anybody who uses one is probably a spy.
For reference: What is love by Haddaway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5G1FmU-ldg
Yeah that is definitely an issue. I think the boundary of acceptable write-offs is necessarily sort of fuzzy. Some things are obviously unacceptable, some things are obviously fine, and lots of stuff in the middle depends on the situation, on the discretion of IRS agents, and of course on the expertise of the CPA one hires to predict IRS decisions.

This particular situation reminds me of that of racehorse owners. Most owners will lose money in racing in any particular year. They hope to make enough in good years to break even over time. If there's never a good year, the IRS might eventually drop the "hobby" ax.

This is probably the biggest problem with the steady defunding of the IRS. They can still catch shameless cheaters like the morons who don't send in their employees' payroll deductions, in no small part because no CPA will touch that shit. CPAs are usually willing to discuss write-offs, however. The expansion of the set of acceptable write-offs is inherent to any income tax system, and since it has been left unchecked it has undermined the system we have.
Don't forget about RPG/II/III/IV/LE/... [1][2].

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

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-midrange
So from now they don't have to worry about viruses.
Sounds like guaranteed minimum income which some developed countries already have. Unconditional basic income is a different concept with somewhat different goals.
There's no way to win this. Include social media signin, the "ZOMG PRIVACY" crowd yells at you. Don't include them, and the "ZOMG EMAIL ADDRESS" crowd yells at you.

Not directed at you specifically, but people waste more time complaining about signin options than actually going through the process. It's kind of funny.
Isn't it cool that they follow their own advice ? Many times shops will advocate for an idea even though they do it differently internally.
So if I understand it, the crown is essentially an investment but different from the fantasy stocks right?

I like the idea, it's basically like a game based on a Ponzi scheme, seeing who can buy it the highest and still get 10% back before the final guy gets stuck holding the bag for 24 hours and it resets.

I remember seeing Bitcoin-based schemes like this, maybe they're still around. People would just openly call them "Ponzis" and it was the same general idea - I think there was some object which would have a name like "The Pig" or something, and everyone would bid on it, and at some point in time, someone would get most of the "money" in the pig - maybe it was that if nobody bid within 24 hours, the 2nd highest bidder got it?

Anyway this looks fun. Maybe if the feature slows down at some point there could be some extra incentive added, like whoever holds the crown for a full 24 hours receives some extra "exchangel cash" or that sort of thing.
Not sure what to think about this: https://github.com/vvk-ehk/evalimine/blob/098ff93f9f159c977d...
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1. "bay area" is not in fact "everyone in america/world" hence, much less bad.

2. I do not think that Apple, Google, and Facebook are significantly competing against many of these startups. Facebook maybe to an extent, by not Apple and Google. None of them are major phone manufacturers or search engines. The only reason a bubble bursting is a problem is for companies without revenue relying solely on VC money to run. Apple is not in fact relying on VC money to run. Apple alone can afford to employ every startup worked in SF (not that they would, but they could)

>3) Real estate values and rents in the bay area will plummet of there is a readjustment in the technology sector.

I can't imagine that as being anything but good news long term. certainly sad for those owners now though, i agree. Yet, still not everyone in america.
You totally missed the point, may be this makes sense for a few people. But a whole majority of people don't find it a very good use of their time to gain knowledge just for its own sake.

If I were writing a OS, I would bury myself in all the OS books in the world, and work atrocious hours to build one. But if you are asking me to do it, because I have to face an hour of interview 6 months from now, I find this a pointless exercise.
We need a consumer robot where Apple, Google, and Microsoft can throw their vast resources into future development.
The 30-year-old with a PhD in neuroscience from Cambridge University plans to set his “media-truth-detector” loose on what he calls Russian propaganda, mostly against his native Ukraine.

Unfeasible and uninvestable, but good if you want to get an EU grant I guess. Who is even the target market? Meanwhile just follow all russian, ukrainian and western media sources and compare them.
What is unique I think to tech bubbles though is that the developers are often fine when the bubble bursts, they just go to companies that are built on better financials, its the executives that pay the price and have a harder time finding a new job.

This is a rare form of corporate justice, since it's the execs responsible for building a business around a lack of business. :-)
>SQL is pretty much Zermelo-Fraenkel on steroids.

I didn't know SQL allows for infinite sets. In fact, most commonly used subset of SQL is non-Turing complete and decidable, while ZF is not decidable.
No kidding, but that's not how the article was written. My second paragraph was a comment on that.

Every budget ever written stuffs things that management thinks can be put off until later into funding for things that absolutely need to be done today.
> The "decent living" of past generations is still available today,

Not if all your resources are sucked by insane rent / housing prices.
I dunno. You could find plenty of people that would make it their full time job to just turn on and off systems for 2M over 20 or maybe 30 years. :)
Actually terrorism is much easier than we think - if nothing else a knife or a car will work - but terrorists are really, really, really rare.
Easier in terms of lack of manual labor perhaps, but white collar work has its own unique challenges. I don't think it's fair to rate difficulty of work on a linear spectrum.

Several years ago I worked on a farm for a few months helping out a relative. It was exhausting work, but I found it much easier than some of the programming work I do as a living.
Policies to defend against these mistakes are trivial to implement. Testing of configs before deploying, live monitoring of newly deployed configs.
why would the public markets crash, and why would the housing market outside of SF crash?

I feel like I made reasonable assumptions as to why those things wouldn't happen. If you think that's not the case, at least provide an argument as to why they would, as opposed to stating it as fact.
I'm not making that point, but I can at least defend it partially. With revenue comes sustainability, even if only partial. That means that if valuations are out of control, it is the investors that lose. Without any revenue, everybody loses, as it was all just a fantasy to begin with.

Of course, if you have revenue but with negative gross margins, as I suspect a lot of current startups(especially delivery oriented) have, then your revenue is an illusion as well.
With the mercurial evolve extension this is simply:

hg commit # "stash" away whatever you had lying around

hg update <rev of older commit>

# make your changes

hg amend

hg evolve -a
Instagram 12 employees, WhatsApp had 55, Tumblr 178

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127343/Facebook-buy...

[2] http://pando.com/2014/02/24/whatsapp-bought-for-19-billion-w...

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-05-22/what-tumblrs...
The Abortion Rate Is Falling Because Fewer Women Are Getting Pregnant
Wow judging by the upvotes, this has obviously been posted at the wrong moment because I thought it was very cool.
Can you provide an example of a startup that you think is overvalued?
I don't think it's unreasonable. If the costs of these accidents are high, then they'll invest in making their processes safer. There is absolutely no excuse for having a machine like that in use.
Calling people shills just because they disagree with you is both a shitty thing to do, and also directly against the rules.
Back when I was in high school, I decided it would be cool to try to hack into the school computer system. I grabbed the white pages, figured out the range of numbers belonging to the school, and fired up my demon dialer.

Sadly, the only system that picked up was an HVAC control computer with no authentication. Apparently they figured that no one would find the number. After some experimentation, I was able to change the temperature in specific buildings where I went to class, which was neat for about a day. Anyway, this article makes me wonder if that system is still online.
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Wouldn't put it past the TSA to fail to catch it.
Do you mind to share what stack are you using to build it?
I'm not sure how the RF interface works, but it it uses a zorro card, the A2000 would be the first computer that could run it. If it used serial, the even a A1000 would be a possible system.
Just as afraid to invest as any other VC/acc/angels in London. This is why it's not a Silicon Valley. I mean how are you even supposed to rent a fancy office in the center of London?
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There are still several forums full of current Amiga users [1] [2] [3] [4] being the most prominent English language ones. The most amazing thing is that there is still new hardware expansion being designed and manufactured for the original machines...

[1] http://www.amiga.org

[2] http://www.amigaworld.net

[3] http://www.amigans.net

[4] http://eab.abime.net/
I don't think anyone is saying that the fact that this CAN happen isn't a huge problem, it most definitely is.

Thing is, everybody knows (and has always known) this can happen. Everybody also knows how to avoid it. Well-intentioned people tend to try to avoid breaking the internet.

That really doesn't make the negligence of Telecom Malaysia any more defensible.

I really don't see what's the point of defending Telecom Malaysia, a plenty of people manage to operate their equipment in a manner that doesn't break the internet.

Just because this was a mistake doesn't mean they should not be held responsible (and no, I'm not saying someone should go to prison.)
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Most theft is fueled by desperation.

Desperate people do desperate things for small, or often no gain.

People are injured or killed all the time over possessions they may or may not have on them.
>>Society is allegedly organised by the people, for the people.

And Citizens United ruling says corporations are people, so what's the problem here? ;)
I see you're very much concerned about liability and financial compensation here. I'm no lawyer so I don't know whether it could be a criminal offence to export prefixes like this either intentionally or by accident. However, we don't know what SLA agreements the financial institutions you speak of had with their providers. If said institution has paid for a 100% reachability guarantee then I would presume they are entitled to financial compensation. Everyone else, not so much.
I should have used Object.freeze(this) in the c'tor.
That's what I would do, and that's what "git inject" seems to be after.
So, in a nutshell, EF is trying to recruit people from different areas who wants to be entrepreneurs, but doesn't have an idea/team, and EF will create suitable teams out of these people and give them money to build some product?

I have a question.
Who exactly will decide what the product would be?Is this something those people would decide among themselves, or the EF would put them on a particular project idea they think is suitable for that team?
MOST accelerators will outright reject, if not make the barrier to acceptance vastly higher for any company that went through a "pre-accelerator". Being in a pre-accelerator makes it far harder to get into an accelerator. So pre-accelerator is really a misleading name.

But change the name of these organizations to "VC firms" or "angel groups" - much better description.
Now please go ahead and translate some of these: http://www.frueh.de/frueh-erleben/werbung/all/ ;-)

More serious: I don't remember anyone but Afri really trying to be 'special'. Not that hard. I'm ignoring all the weirdo energy drinks in cans for now..
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Yes but it's not the whole market it's a sub-set of the market IMHO and it's based on the game that a bunch of VCs in Silicon Valley play with each other.
She has a GoFundMe up, it seems.

http://www.gofundme.com/newhandsforrosa

I sent a comment into the charity to ask if it's legit.

edit: Got a response.

> Thank you so much for your email and for your interest in Ms. Moreno's story. We are extremely pleased to see the outpouring of support from around the world for Rosa. Presenting her with the Illuminating Injustice Award is just a small way for us to help make her life easier, and I am certain she will be very gratified at the encouragement and assistance she receives from kindhearted and outraged folks such as you. That being said, we cannot confirm whether the link you provided is to a legitimate fundraiser for Rosa. We are directing everyone who asks to the link below if they wish to donate to Rosa: Rosa Moreno Fund: www.rosamorenofund.com
Then why do they put people through those extreme paces? If you have the chops to get through the Google interview process, you are not "just another developer." If I were enough of a star to get through the process, got hired, and then was put to work maintaining some internal Java tool, I'd be pretty pissed off.
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I'm afraid most of those jobs made up by the government to increase the employment rate are useless jobs. And useless jobs are worse than freeloaders.

BTW, that's what they did in communist Romania: everybody had a job, but most of the jobs where bullshit. There was even a saying: we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.

We don't need to dig holes and then fill them in order to survive. We need food, water, shelter, medical care and so on. The sooner we get past the mindset that any work, no matter how useless to the society, entitles us to have what we need, the sooner we stop wasting our resources.
Yes but the point is that it's not tech that is overvalued it's a small subset that gets all the attention.
I've seen this tech up close and it is very cool. Works on mobile. My friend's company, find a way to get in touch with me if you're interested.
I was actually kind of surprised by that Uber comment. Sure, it's a completely worthless number, but then the market cap of Ford isn't much more real and it's $61B. So someone thinks Uber is worth a significant chunk of the total value of the industry on which it is built.

[Side note: F is paying ~4% dividends. Hm.]

Anyway, did you see the other evidence presented? Cherry picking:

* Interest rates

* Private valuations not matching public ones

* Tech startups offering stock at a discount (If that's more than a one-off idiocy, well, ew.)
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It's kind of mind blowing that our cheap peripherals are driven by what used to be top-of-the-line processors only a few decades ago. I guess all that firmware has to run on something.
If you go to the Turkish Wikipedia you will see that at the top there is banner. It says that some of the pages, such as vagina and human penis are blocket in Turkey. This is a great move, I mean the SSL. But Turkey will block the entire domain then. Then people will go to buy VPN from foreign countries etc. Bad for Turkey. Fuck those who are ass hairs!
Everything has risk. During bursting of bubbles, there is a "flight to quality." If you run out of cash to fund your business and you cannot secure financing because the rate of return vs the risk is not attractive to investors, you will go out of business. Those businesses who can survive without outside investments will fare better, but even consumers can be affected by a bursting bubble via layoffs, media talking heads, etc. They may be less willing to spend on unnecessary expenses. This means less revenue and likely profit for the businesses.
Many US citizens need be more
afraid of illegal and/or improper
actions by the government we pay to
protect them than of the bad things
government is supposed
to be protecting them from.

That is, for government as a protector,
too often the cure is worse than
the disease.
Michael, what you've just written is a gratuitously negative comment[1] that adds nothing. Guess what, 99.999% of getting funded happened in Earth's prehistory of 4.5 billion years, at any point during which things could have gone differently and precluded humanity and culture. Out of the remaining 0.001% - 45,000 years - scarcely ten thousand consisted of the establishment of western civilization and only the scant past few decades have established an Internet and a culture where literally anyone in the western world with an idea can start making it a reality, on a physical (if not cultural) level - i.e. physically nothing is required that the average person cannot access. Physically you do not need access to anything except knowledge and culture, which are actively working to take away. You are stealing.

The way to expand this opportunity is not to focus on the first 99.99999% of history, but the next ten years. You add nothing and take significant amounts away from that. I'm sick of your negativity. Here's a fact: I'm not asian, but asians are far more likely to get funded. SO WHAT! How does that change whether I'm taking the time to build something?

Michael go build something. Anyone can call people names. People should downvote your negative comments on sight. Besides being policy here, anyone who is downvoting you is literally creating good in the world. Because you are actively preventing the expansion of a culture of building. We might not have the power to get a sixty year old who had to go work early in life and received no formal education funded, regardless of this person's merits or ideas. But we can - and should, are required to - downvote you, and contribute to a positive culture where in five years, when that person is sixty-five, and has spent the past five years building something, he can be.

[1] the definition of which is that it is not new, not useful, not insightful, and adds absolutely nothing while being negative. Similar to if you said to a commenter: "by the way YOU SUCK at every skill, when compared to Mozart at music". This is undeniably true, he started at the age of four and specialized very hard. It is a comment nobody would disagree with on a literal level. It is also an absolutely worthless comment that adds nothing: the only reason anyone would write it is so that they could say the word "YOU SUCK" and then weasel out of it. Of course you should get downvoted, so hard you delete your comments which add nothing. Go build something, Michael.
If there are a lot of them, they can probably pay quite a bit in rent.
Also happens here in the U.S., though not as bad of course. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-much-is-your-arm-wort....

This sort of thing is what frightens me the most about globalization.[1] We have a hard enough time convincing our own scummy businesspeople that someone who is disabled in the course of their work should be taken care of. Globalization forces us to fight that battle against scummy businesspeople all over the world, in places that value human life and dignity a lot less than we do.[2]

Several years ago, I was in Buffalo, NY, a city devastated by deindustrialization. I was chatting with my cab driver, a woman. She was telling me about how her husband got injured at his factory and could no longer work. He gets a small disability benefit, but not enough to get the surgery he needs to be able to get back to work. That sort of thing is such a huge societal loss. We'd rather save a bit of money up front at the expense of keeping this guy on disability the rest of his life.

[1] Even within the U.S. there is a race to the bottom. Alabama pays out only $37,000 for the loss of a hand, not much more than this woman received in Mexico adjusting for purchasing power. In Illinois it's about $280,000 for one hand.

[2] Even if we don't always value it as highly as we should.
Don't put too much faith into it. When the bubbles burst, there are always more developers than chairs at other companies.
My memory of University is that professors are the bottleneck to updating your grades, not the nightly batching system.
> And Citizens United ruling says corporations are people

In the United States.
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Here is an interactive snapshot of this outage:

Capital One uses Level 3 GLBX as a primary ISP: https://oxqyi.share.thousandeyes.com

(Jump to BGP route visualization and you can see AS 3549)

On the routing plane, you can see that the London GLBX monitor had issues to many services and that AS4788 Malaysia Telecom was advertised in the route.

Here is an example from a LinkedIn snapshot: https://wbpkq.share.thousandeyes.com
I get inconsistent results when I triple-click to create the selection. For example, triple-clicking the word "Start" in the first paragraph highlights the entire first line, extending to the right margin; hitting enter to "mark" it results in the entire paragraph being marked. Triple-clicking the first word "Marklib" in the next sentence highlights the remaining three sentences, but only "Marklib" is marked.

Also, any marking in the "code block" or the page title omits the spaces, which looks a little awkward.

Running Chrome 43.0.2357.124 on OS X
Why not jail time? If someone designs an unsafe process, doesn't put guards on the machines to save a buck, or eliminates safety procedures to increase output, that is morally as reprehensible as if that person held the knife. I think it should be treated as an assault.

Edit: I see this situation as more analogous to drunk driving than a simple car accident. We certainly do jail people when they unintentionally injure someone because they were drunk. It would be reasonable jail someone who prioritizes profit over human life and causes an injury as a result.