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"As A Man Thinketh" James Allen...About to read "Man's Search For Meaning" next

What a saga...Benchmark to Kalanick: resign....Shareholders to Benchmark: you resign....lol

My guess is they will fund some Startup School founders with a small amount of money like they did with the Fellowship. Then again it's all up in the air. They raised 700M last year or so. They could also be piling up cash for bad times to keep YC companies private for as long as possible.

So 2 spaces only on a typewriter?

Anyone else noticed 2 spaces after a period and 1 space after a comma in the writings? I've always done the same, but for some reason 1 space after a period is correct.

Nice! You're right in that regard.

This is not true for even the best entrepreneurs of our times...many are divorced multiple times so gambling on staying married is a bigger risk. Elon Musk and Sergey Brin are just a couple examples. Your spouse can dump you at any second no matter how secure you think your relationship is.

Why the flame war? This is from my observation and personal life. My wife and I have friends that are a lot older and this is the reality that no one talks about...betrayal in business is a very common thing...it's the nicest and good natured people who get taken advantage of...

You don't think financing your spouse education is a gamble? Who is to say you won't get divorced right after she's done? That's honorable, but at the same time a huge risk.

I like this post. I wish I really started a startup in college or right after. A regular corporate job turns you into a zombie and you become out of touch with reality especially if you're well paid and well fed. A lot of people are unprepared for the hard life.

If anything, you'll learn more about life in 6 months than you will in decades. It's not just the technical stuff. You'll learn who your real friends are. Being broke and thinking you might go homeless will make you sympathize with the homeless. Co-founders will try to screw you. If you're married, you'll soon find out if your spouse really loves you or just the regular income. Fake people pop up everywhere trying to take credit for your hard work.

I think a startup is akin to the street life without the street creds.

If your place seems to be buzzing, it could attract more customers right? If it's empty, then less people will come for sure. Ever walked in an empty coffee shop and thinking what happened? You could print the password on the receipt. Why not just try it out one day/week/month?

>In a lot of places, having a talk with your manager about your salary before going off and actively looking for other offers is going to go down a lot better

Business is business. If they find someone to replace you at a fraction of your salary they will do it at a drop of a hat. Your manager pbly gets a bonus for reducing spending...

Never stay at a job once you've shown your manager you have other offers. Use the current job to up your salary in the next job. Again never stay...you'll be gone in time for sure.

With GV being an investor in Uber, the whole lawsuit seems very weird. Any GV partners on Uber's board? How did they not know?

I'm not sure Google wants to manage a large network of freelancers/drivers without benefits. Would look terrible when the software engineers have all the benefits...then again they could offer benefits for drivers...

I think Facebook or Apple (maybe Amazon) might want a piece of the pie. The integration would be seamless...then again who knows!

...they would have to fold under the Uber brand. Alphabet/Google automatically gives it credibility.

Sounds like a good experiment, but your biggest competition is stores that offer financing. Why wouldn't I finance and then sell or move away with my furniture? What if the furniture is scratched, broken etc...Do I have to pay the full price now?

Akamai handles 15-30% of all web traffic on any given day with 200k-300k servers...does Facebook have that kind of load in a day?

The problem is mostly a CDN one, crunching data and writing to the servers are second to actually serving users fast.

For example, I don't necessarily need to see the latest posts, comments, etc. so you can queue up the writing and sync data later, but when I hit fb.com, I have to see stuff...

"We estimate that Facebook has 830,000 servers in 2017."

No way this can be true. Facebook scaled primarily using CDNs like Akamai. Akamai is the largest CDN in the world and has no more than 300k-350k servers all over the world. It's one of the largest distributed system in the world. I worked there, so I know this for sure.

Facebook has recently been moving their data in house, but they do not have 830,000 servers. That's almost 3 times Akamai. At this point, Facebook would be more profitable letting people use their server infrastructure instead of using it for themselves.

Running Facebook over AWS is a CDN problem that was solved by Akamai!

What?! How am I promoting what you just said?

>but it pretty much sold by itself

It's called execution...

Wow...Travis Kalanick has his flaws, but come on, he will come back bigger just like Steve Jobs. That hurts! A company like Uber needs an aggressive CEO, not a pushover CEO...this is one reason why investors kill companies.

I see this happen so many times, a company takes too much investment, the CEO is replaced, then the company dies within a year...

I like how they make it look so simple, but then you go to do it, you'll keep cursing at this thing...I think debugging problems might be difficult...I wish in something like this they show a real video making this work and how long it really takes...

Haha...the original is 12MB. I reduced it to 1MB...it's hard to keep the details if the image is any smaller...

I use var _this = this

Security hasn't gotten any worse than it's been. It's much more visible now and all systems are practically connected through APIs..

Lack of security knowledge is the problem I think. In fact most companies that are hacked don't know it and don't have the knowledge to detect and mitigate them.

Security was much worse in the beginning of 2000's with dial ups.

Also don't forget about social engineering...that's a bigger concern than physical hacks...

This is the reason we're working on RESTfender https://restfender.co We're in semi stealth mode but more to come soon!

Lol you don't live in the hoods man...Jamaica Plain is one of the surburbs of Boston and one of the best around. I lived in WR and right now these are the most expensive neighborhoods of Boston...you live in paradise trust me!

I worked at a startup where we used machine learning to review legal documents.

When you have 10M+ documents, it takes a long time for a team of lawyers to review them. So a company with AI/ML is at a huge advantage in identifying the documents a lawyer needs to win a case.

To get accurate results, you need a lot of data, but to crunch that data you need a lot of power, not just speed. A lot of the processing is done now with GPUs (thousands of cores)...traditional computers are CPU intensive and have limited number of cores. Think for example a multi-threaded application running on GPUs vs CPUs...the GPU can divide the problem in more tasks and the processing can be done more accurately not just faster.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/what-is-gpu-computing.html

PS: I think people overuse "Artificial intelligence" we're no where close...but it excites people compared to "machine learning" or "deep learning" or "convolutional network" or just statistics...It's just trying to find an equation that fits the data like linear regression.

Thanks! I don't want to hit the web app at all...I want to load all my static files once and then it's all client side...getting data from the rest service when it needs it...

I've used Backbone/Marionette, Angular, and React at this point. I think Backbone/Marionette is the best framework so far maybe because it was the first one I did a big project on. Backboe/Marionette has very clear separation of concerns...the only true MVC framework among the 3. React is great for reusable components, but the tooling around it is so backward...I feel like I'm writing a java application and I need to piece things together.

Btw I'm working on a django/react application and I have yet to figure out how to not duplicate the react routes in django. It defeats the purpose of a single page app because I don't want to reload all the same resources because a small piece of the app changes...how do you fix this?