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One solution that is not being discussed is for VCs to offer office space for start-ups.

VCs have longer time-horizons (a typical VC fund will be spent over 5 or so years) and appear more stable to landlords. In addition, one of the toughest problems for VCs as I understand is dealflow - when it comes to a super-competitive round, Andreessen or Sequoia will often push other VC firms out of the round by throwing their prestige around.

SF Office space could make the difference to a hot start-up looking to raise their Seed or Series A and move to the city, especially coupled with a time horizon of only 12-24 months. It may not be enough to lead a competitive round, but may certainly enough to get a piece of it.
We record on two channels, "high gain" and "low gain", separated by ~50dB. I showed the high gain products in this post, and the surface absolutely does saturate the detectors. The system was designed so that near-surface returns don't saturate the low gain channel.

We transmit 8kW, and the air/ice surface reflection coefficient is ~0.08 (~-11dB). Flying at ~600m above the surface, spreading loss actually contributes more to signal attenuation (1/(2*h)^2 ~= -62dB).

Our instrument is optimized for seeing through the entire ice sheet, mapping deep layers and the bed. Other (also airborne) instruments operate at higher frequencies, trading higher resolution for less penetration. I'm not super familiar with groups using ground-based ice-penetrating radar, but one big tradeoff is $$$. The airplane is hugely expensive to operate, whereas ground-based just needs a snowmobile.
How I resolved my Windows 10 wireless adapter issues
I've installed Elementary and Ubuntu on several older people's machines. They loved it.
Cynicism like this only leads to self imposed amorality. It makes stagnation a self fulfilling prophecy.

You're basically making a bandwagon argument that humans historically have abused power, so this frees anyone in tech from any obligation to try to not abuse power. This is an absurd argument because it precludes progress.

There's a fair criticism of bleeding heart syndrome in the article. It's not the job of "tech" to solve every problem. But this doesn't mean we should just say "fuck it" when confronted with moral ambiguity because millions of people died in the Congo. The only way things improve is by large numbers of people speaking out. Power has no inherent motive to change, people need to push. And if pushing veers into silliness sometimes, who cares.
Scientists have finally discovered massless particles
Of course this is serious. Why do you think there were 240 pence in a Pound Sterling? Divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6...
Just build tall buildings. If Taipei and Hong Kong can do it, so can SF.
That's right, only people in first world countries should get to have Faceboook!
It was just a bad joke.
'kids' used to work and earn money. That used to be a real category. It's not anymore. A lot of people don't learn how to really manage their money until after they've graduated from college and realize that they're going broke and that there are no new loans.

Is that irresponsible of them? Sure! But how were they supposed to learn if they couldn't get a job and make some of their own money?
Erlang is particularly good at distributed concurrency. Erlang loses much of its value when deployed only on a single machine. Also, Erlang's single-minded focus on keeping the application going may be a little overkill for compute.

There are at least two reasons why Erlang for single-machine concurrency is bad:

1: Erlang is slow. It just is. They're working on making it faster, but Erlang has a inherent overhead coming from its focus on responsiveness and uptime. Let-it-crash, actor monitoring and one-GC-per-actor isn't free.

2: Erlang's concurrency model is based on the actor model, which assumes infinite message queue capacity. In case of insufficient memory, messages are simply discarded. While this is something you have to deal with anyway in multi-machine systems (think network buffers) it's an unnecessary worry in single-machine ones.

Now, Erlang is designed to call into native binaries for all of its single-thread high-performance needs, so assuming you only use Erlang to handle inter-thread communication on a grid/supercomputer and that communication isn't a super-frequent event, then I guess Erlang+C/FORTRAN/Julia makes sense. I guess it's the convenience of having a single language that speaks for a pure Julia solution, more than anything else.
That's true, but I can't find an official list of bad words. Fuck is still forbidden as far as I know.
It's a city not a prison.
I think its probably pretty good advice to follow: If you don't want someone posting revenge porn after you break up, don't give them nude photos/videos. Its always a risk you either accept or avoid.
Oh, uh, I thought you were talking about your name.

Microsoft collects your friends' names so it can spell their names correctly when you use speech-to-text or related features. I thought that's what you were objecting to. What kind of data are you talking about?
Same goes for many of the NYC offices. Our space near Empire State seems to have a lot of consulting businesses that would otherwise be renting out something more complicated (need their own receptionist, water bills, internet bills, blah blah blah)
This is not an effort to provide the full internet. See this critique by the EFF for more details: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/internetorg-not-neutra...
> When you have ~unbounded upside and capped downside, lever the fuck up.

I don't get it. Imagine I start a business offering the following opportunity: you pay me $100, I give you a fair coin, and you flip it as many times as you like. If there was no tails, I pay you $1 for every heads you flipped.

Your upside in patronizing my business is unbounded. Your losses are capped at however much you decide to invest. How much leverage is it appropriate for you to invest with?

Now, this isn't a case of capped downside in the sense of "you can lose at most $50, no matter how much you invest", but I doubt that's what you were talking about? Certainly that sort of situation is unlikely to come up in any context.
Backloaded vesting seems like a terrible idea. It puts the employee in a really vulnerable position. As a company grows, the absolute value that a given person generates should decrease relative to everyone else. The function (relative value created this month / stock vested) decreases even more quickly. This may create an incentive to fire (or at least not try to retain) an employee after the first or second years. The founders may not need to increase this person's salary because of the perceived value to come, so this person may end up making less money than later employees.

I would not even think of proposing a backloaded vesting schedule to an employee. There's nothing wrong with an even vesting schedule in terms of employee alignment. If you cannot retain an early employee after year 1 or 2 you have other problems.
When I'm in the terminal, there is no better OS on Earth for writing code than Linux. I delight in it, I consider myself fortunate to be able to so as a living. However, when I'm done for the day and don't have any itch to hack on something, I would rather be in any other operating system than Linux.

I think FOSS is great, but I also don't have any issue paying for something that provides a better experience. Getting paid to make software is how I eat. Regardless, getting a friend to skip Windows 10 is a dick move, as they could miss the free upgrade window unsure of how to restore Windows before the free upgrade window closes. VirtualBox is a pretty good way to introduce someone to Linux without being a dick about it.
This is definitely a thing that happens. Some teams also do a lot of work in hallway conversations, and this sort of accidental interaction is critical. I witness this all the time.

I would much prefer that my company let me work remotely. The Bay Area is full, seriously, and I'd be happy to work from many other places.

But denying reality doesn't help.

I think there are potential technical solutions to this problem (VR office at home), but I suspect it'll take legislation (aimed at getting vehicles off the road) to make remote work a real thing that a lot of people do every day.
In Search of Passion
Conversations (SMS backup), photos (onedrive), email (outlook/office365), calls (skype) etc etc.
How about Coca Cola's Skype machine: http://youtu.be/zlA9tXYxD8g
Mozilla is becoming irrelevant in modern market and their response seems to be to blame others. I had guessed it when they fired their CEO over some ridiculous issue.

Windows is bigger does not mean they have any obligation to give space to others. Does Apple let you install YouPorn App on your iphone ? Does Google let you replace default search with Bing if you want ?

Both Android and iOS are immensely successful and both are on tight leash of Apple and Google. The reality is that, that tight leash has made user experience much much better. My father likes to surf net on his Android phone because his laptop is full of Ask and Conduit toolbars and he has no idea how they go there.

The world of Internet is now enough complex that it pays to let one company keep everything on tight leash and Microsoft's move in that direction makes a lot of sense.
This sound pretty well done (I'm in Australia, so I can't use your service, but Instacart and the like aren't here either). Do you have any plans to make available some sort of API for making orders/deliveries etc?
Show HN: Kibbit helps you learn about hot news by taking quizzes
Can you imagine any downside to remembering all the material you try to learn?
Couldn't agree more. There is no inflation nationally, and we are nowhere near full employment. The only reason to raise rates is to curb asset inflation among the 1%.

The problem is that the American middle class needed the bailout that went to the banks and raising interest rates will hurt an already down and out main st. Frankly, we should have just given a massive tax rebate to the middle class. Of course, it's politically infeasible, but they would have actually spent the money in the real economy rather than using it to drive up asset prices.
LinkedIn's revenue beat fails to connect with investors
> But yeah, the real tragedy is that there's a TLD for an island of 2000 people who are losing their culture. Techies needs to be aware of THAT and stop THAT tragedy. Get real.

So because big bad things happen, we must ignore the small things?

This is nihilistic and selfish.
Cute & impressive, but about as far from application as any research can get. Basically using an entire scanning-tunneling microscope (STM) as the source lead of a single transistor. This does not scale well.
That's actually an interesting question. Aside from problems that are easily observable as difficult because lots of smart people have tried and failed, how can one objectively know whether it was difficult or easy?

Even within "just a web app" one can run into some gnarly issues or odd old code that renders otherwise simple tasks difficult, but since it's only one person working on it you can't really test whether or not it's actually difficult.

This might impact both the dev/manager disconnect as well as imposter syndrome.
If that were true then every business would be a Delaware corporation. Many are, but many aren't. No flowchart will get to every nuance.
i think you are confusing Caltrain and BART. Caltrain doesn't stop at Montgomery or Embarcadero, BART does.
I picture Ron Conways game of life as a view of office space use in SF :)
When designing a new system here's what I usually do (in my team).

1. Open up a Github Pull request with initial pseudo code.

2. All discussion about the architecture of the system goes into that pull request.

3. https://www.draw.io/ is used in order to draw the data flow in the system, how things communicate and wired together.

Often times, we have something we call a "grooming" session where all developers that are involved will meet and discuss the system, brainstorm and iron things out.

Architecting a system is more often than not a communications between people issue not just communication between software moving parts so laying out a foundation where everyone discusses and puts their input is crucial.
Finally someone who talks sense.

Microsoft could as well ban Firefox on their OS if they want to. Reality is that with Google Chrome, Mozilla has become completely irrelevant and will eventually die out.

They can innovate but they chose to fire their CEO over some petty reasons and they are building some phone which has not seen light of the day for years.
And yet your original post was in response to this:

"If you tell me your name, I'm free to repeat that to whoever I want. If you aren't ok with public information being re-broadcasted, don't go outside."

to which you said:

"Actually in the UK it is covered by the Data Protection Act. Interesting times ahead. If you knowingly or unknowningly give personal information away without my consent this is illegal."

What you're saying now and what you said then are two different contexts.
> untenable population density

Visit Hong Kong and see what population density really looks like.
You had me nodding in agreement when I thought you were standing up against slacktivism and outrage-bait. Then I got puzzled when you started railing against consumerism and its consequences. Finally I realized you were just nostalgic for when the internet wasn't mainstream -- as if you are starved for open forums on today's internet. I think your real issue is that regular "lower and middle class Americans" are also on your internet, and as such it reflects society, which you find conformist and boring. Fine, just don't tie it into some nihilistic rant about how we're all complicit in mass murder because we consume electronic devices.
I think it is much more difficult to switch to a different default browser in Windows 10.

With Chrome at least, you used be be able to set it to your default browser when is asked on first launch, with only a click or two.

Now that API is deprecated and removed, and users have to click 11 times through the settings to set the default browser. Much worse. And this is after it sneakily sets Edge as the default browser when upgrading, with only a small blue on blue "customize" link to a unlabeled setting to opt out.
On my desk now I have two MBPs and one windows PC. The macs are for work, the PC is for games (and occasional windows testing). I use the same kb/mouse/monitor for all 3.

After being out of the PC scene for 10+ years -- and as a rabid apple fan -- let me say this: PC gaming is AWESOME. Games I'd only played on Mac before come to new life on a proper gaming PC. That said I would probably go into a different line of work if I had to use Windows as my primary dev box.
LOL. Versus implementing bloom filters in a relational database?
May I ask...to those who are so deeply opposed to sharing your personal data with corporations and their partners:

Let's assume, worst case scenario -- you enable every single data sharing option on your Android phone as well as let's say, Windows desktop. And you use chrome browser, logged in, etc. All the time.

Now, the question is: explain to me, what you expect to be the negative outcome and how it affects your daily life.

I am genuinely curious. Or is this just a fear of the unknown and projecting into the future all of the bad things that may happen (or also may not)?
Amazon definitely will have a fairly decent argument that it wasn't a protected trade secret. Typically using an NDA (nondisclosure agreement) as means of protection is fine. But, millions of users who can sign up pay paying a token amount and then click a button or two? NDA might not be enough.

Indiana's trade secret has to be "the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy." But it doesn't have to "extravagant" effort.

But notice that "under the circumstances" is included. If I were angies list, I'd say that they did all they could.
One easy question: Where does Ironclad go for its legal advice? I mean to say does Ironclad rely wholly on its own services?
I still think Win2k was a great operating system and I wish I could go back to it, but you do eventually have to upgrade. I eventually had to upgrade Win2k to Win7 because of the many performance benefits and the lack of support for the OS.

Even though I personally hate literally almost every new feature of Windows 10 and the design of the entire OS, I'm still running it, simply because I get much better performance out of it than I do on Win7 - and I can generally customize my UX.
Is it at all surprising? Coins don't fit in wallets, represent small denominations, and are therefore not worth the trouble.
My Note 4 also has a 3 day battery life. I just have to turn it off for 2 days and voila! /s
Windows 10 Privacy – automated opt-out script?
Is anyone working on something like this? Ideally something that will just reconfigured your settings to the 'most private' option.
One big advantage I get from my Mac OS over FOSS solutions is that they have an incentive to constantly improve their product. Do you know a single professional designer using a FOSS Illustrator? How about the FOSS version of Keynote? Or the FOSS version of Final Cut and Logic? FOSS isn't the answer to every question. FOSS is like a city bus; reliable enough, cheap enough for everyone and goes mostly where you want to go despite the occasional smell or sleeping vagrant sprawled across the seats. However, it certainly doesn't compare to driving your own Mercedes.

FOSS is certainly great, but it isn't the end all be all, despite utopian hippie delusions to the contrary.
Elasticsearch 1.6.1 and 1.7.0 are Now Available on Qbox
Former Obama Tech Advisor Explains How Bitcoin Could Transform Government
I like the ideas on the comment organization and forum interface (the "more" and "less" is specially nice), but the need to register, the enourmous sign-up form, the lack of explanation, the low appeal of the basic idea (a new forum site?) and the crudeness of the interface will not let this have any success.

The ideas about forum discussion you had should be implemented on top of some other forum platform, maybe, or, better, bundled into a whole new product that is actually usable instead of into a simple forum.

Just thinking.
How do you handle the dropdown menus, combobox components (<select> fields) and the autocomplete controls?
A lot of great suggestions.

I'd consider lack of #1 and #2 as dealbreakers. Any company that doesn't allow early exercise is being unfair to early employees for no reason, and not providing basic cap table information makes stock options numbers impossible to value.

#3 is great, but it is much more progressive. I'd value a company's offer more highly if they offered this, but it wouldn't be a dealbreaker if the company didn't.

As for number #4, I think 10/20/30/40 vesting is way too bottom heavy. The problem is the employer can always fire you if they want, and if the company blows way up in value in 2-3 years, they might prefer to fire you than give you so much stock. This reportedly happened at Zynga so it isn't unheard of. You'd hope to never join a company with this type of leadership, but as an employee you don't have much power so it is good to be defensive about it. Maybe I wouldn't mind a minor tweak like 20%/25%/25%/30%, but I'd prefer 25%/25%/25%/25% with a culture of refresher grants to high performers (which accomplishes the same thing).

The difference between founder stock and employee stock options is already so large, I don't think option holders really need to make any concessions (like bottom heavy vesting) to get some common sense benefits to stock options.

It also is important to educate people about these differences. I hope that companies that do #1, #2 and #3 have a nice guide on their offer letters explaining why this is beneficial to potential employees.
However, Australis for example was a large redesign of the UI. I'm not sure how you can support an opt-out, as that would mean supporting two codebases - two different and separate UIs, at once.

Isn't it frustrating when a major software vendor takes a product you rely on, updates the whole UI in a way that makes the product worse for you and many other people using the desktop version primarily in order to try to make it better for the tiny number of people using the mobile version, and then makes clear that if you don't go for their new version you'll also miss out on critical bug fixes and security updates for the old one within a few months?
I would like to see these used in the US to break the telco monopoly stranglehold.

Of course it's likely the FAA/FCC would make sure not to let that happen.

edit: I mean same tech, but not deployed by Facebook.
What happens if nobody yells their guesses and people only talk to one other person at a time? That's more like what happens with real estate agents.
Algorithmic Citizenship
I've heard from people that work in government that the tools they use are allowed to use are restricted by overly complex procurement rules. The result is that non-technical teams are forced to use ancient software as anything else (even if it's opensource) isn't kosher.
How could this be reformed?
This surprises me, I've never had any issues with booting and installing Ubuntu or variants thereof.
San Francisco weather is not even remotely close to San Diego... It's significantly colder, foggier and windier, particularly in the summer. The high/low in June/July/August is comparable to December/January/February in San Diego.
Well...at least the young are rich in 'youth'.
The Advanced Rust Programming Language Book Draft
Full disclosure here - attorney as well.

You absolutely raised some valid concerns. And I hope, I hope, I hope that startups aren't using these templates as-is (or possibly at all). Each company's business operations, policies, risk tolerance, etc. will be different and their standard contracts need to reflect those positions. They need to have lawyers write the agreements/policies/etc. to make sure they're following all applicable laws.

However, I think that Ironclad (and possibly others) are trying to make the administration of those contracts easier. Real trouble, from a business perspective, comes when the company gets bigger and they don't know the risk on their books because they can't manage their contracts.

I don't think these tools will cut out the lawyers, but instead help the companies manage their contracts and be able to better use us lawyers.
They shouldn't be, they contacted us a Nissan and Infiniti auto and wanted us to sign up. Basically they would take a large percentage off of the top for service items (e.g.: Brake job, Turbo kits install, oil change.) We decided not to because we would have to raise cost to make the same profit.
I think "phased array radar" is the relevant search term.
Would love to poke around sooner than later also. :)
Hardware, perhaps. OS, probably not.

Transparency is a dependency of trust. While many components of OS X are open-source, even more are entirely proprietary and opaque, and therefore untrustworthy. Not to mention that Apple is the king of absurdly-long-and-unreadable EULAs.
This strategy needs a name. Maybe "The SF funding tentacle"?
Future Computers Speak English – UX in science fiction and how to do it better
You also have the opposite problem of teams adopting the "latest" fad in a cargo-cult like manner, whether or not these tools make sense to use. Its hard to get through that just copying the tools/processes used by other successful tech companies is not sufficient for success.