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I think this is done poorly and misses the biggest issues on demand startups face.

The largest issue is failing to understand the difference between a commodity and a service, and how easy a substitute is to find.

Others vs uber(and uber like companies) are different

Uber solves an extremely hard problem that looks easy, it also has very few alternatives. The other services solve a problem that is less urgent, had many substitutes and is largely less valuable.

Uber provides transportation when and where it is needed. If you simply need (using the most well known detivative business) to borrow a skill saw from your neighbor for a tool sharing site you have many options. This project may be planned in advance, you may be able to purchase a used tool, and you may be able to borrow kne free.

The issue is how variable a service is. Uber can generate transportation for where and when you need it. However it may appear that the commodity is transportation, but that is the variable. Finding a user and providing them transportation from an unknown location, to an unknown location, immeadiately is hard. A ride from Logan Airport to south station is much different than a rake/hammer.

Each ride has a large amount of logistical constraints. Out toolsharing example has to solve all the same problems except a tool is always the same tool. A ride is never the same ride. It makes it much less valuable, and much easier to compete as there are often many substitutes and less expediency. Therefore coverage & on demand has a sup/demand musmatch, is prohibitively expensive and can only take a very small slice if value.

> I bet that happens.

I imagine atleast once a day, some developer is having their worst day ever somewhere, cursing apple.

What would that look like? Just nano, but removing the few shortcuts except key entry & save.

Not familiar with that. Probably not. Its a few MBs of diskspace & works out of the box. Prob be quicker to dl & dump it if you dont like it.

All editors/notes/workflow are highly subjective, i tried macdown, mou, a bunch of similar os x notes clones, notes, evernote, ect.

I like this for notes & simple docs. I would really like it if it had a sidebar with directories but the reason so many of these things exist is that everyone angry enough just builds their own.

I like it. Used it for >several months. If you have used mou before it is similar. You can edit the themes (ive downloaded some from github) and you can configure a couple markdown flavors out of the box iirc.

It renders in place in real time unlike some of the ones that load on half of the screen.

Worth a download. They smoothed out a lot of the issues with updating content & cursor movement.

Best markdown editor ive used, if viewing the rendered markdown matters to you. You can export as a pdf and a couple other doctypes which is nice for sending to non-technical teamenbers who have no markdown reader.

Again, I believe we agree on the facts but draw different conclusions. I think it is likely, probable even, that Russia was involved. However, not familiar with what you sourced so going on the post alone, the only evidence appears circumstantial, and one hacker was decidedly not Romanian.

Simply for rhetoric, I will propose a scenario that I do find possible. Guccifer2 was a fairly talented hacker who found and copied the DNC files and disseminated them. However, immediately the weight of NSA & US Intel closed in hard. Captured him, and are executing the scenario you just proposed but from the American angle.

Blame the Russians/anyone else, leak mostly trivial data, and a few larger but not extremely problematic things to feed the narrative, and then gain credibility. From there, you can use the alias as a hunny pot to attract others, destroy the credibility of guccifer2 hopefully calling into question the next persons legitimate attempts at such a feat, or continue shaping the narrative.

This disclosure seems extremely weird. The pay for play directory and the bro-ish shout out to assange are ridiculous. I can't see the payforplay directory being legit (he said that the photo was from dnc dir) and the whole thing just seems absurd. I haven't been following it enough, but hopefully he has been signing messages, and if not cryptographic proof, something nearly as irrefutable.

> Did you mean to respond to me? I just said that the Russian intelligence services will use..

I am not that poster. However, it seems that many are arguing if the source is legitimate, but tacitly accept it is StateSponsered. Yes, we are actively in a coldwar, however, that does not mean it is Russia.

I am extremely suspect of the sources agenda. I agree with you this has the markings of a manufactured agenda on it. It could certainly be Russian operatives; or some subset of information was handed off from a highlevel RU source, but that is not proveable nor are there a reasonable amount of credible evidence.

The media has spent time discussing "Russian" involvement in near synchronicity-- moreso than the content of the emails.

There has only been limited time to remarks questioning a second Snowden like insider, which on the program I heard (NPR) there was casual speculation they were a Russian plant.

There are many outfits capable of this one might imagine. The "this was so easy"-esqu bit strikes me as utter bullshit. This whole leak seems extremely awkward, and its motivation is unclear.

The lack of real evidence & the unlnowns about the underlying agenda are scary. Clearly, someone who is powerful is behind this, if they are able to evade detenction by the NSA as well as gain entry to one of Americas most powerful correspondence.

Ashton Kutcher--Startup School

I like it because it is the intersection of so many things. He starts slow, is very intimidated by the audience. The audience, obviously super skeptical of the clown from that 70s show giving any useful information, they could learn from. He finds his footing with a great morivational story (albeit laden with a few cliches) about a forgotten entrepreneur and how he built some lasting value.

For me, this is a great talk. The story is extremely motivational and has some interesting bits of history & entrepreneurial genius-- but the entire experience is extremely educational. About bias, drive & success.

I liked it for what it wasnt.

It is however the title of the reddit post. So the poster is keeeping with HN guidelines and being overly pedantic isn't particularly useful here-- the comment amounts to the same thing. I will give the reddit OP the benefit of the doubt that they couldn't decide on an appropriate standards body to cite this paraphrase properly.

Has anyone used keystone.js? I am looking for a developer(node/js) friendly CMS.

Ghost is a good idea, but its a blogging platform...and we all know you shouldn't turn a blog into an ecommerce site.

I want something that has users and authentication, but a non-technical person could maybe have an admin to edit content or drop widgets.

I love rethinkdb. I am about to launch my first ever production thing. Its built on rethink. Rethink is fucking great, I really have no idea what the speculation is (or what basis) but I hope for the best.

If we are throwing out radical theories; i'd say acquis/merger with digital ocean or gitlab. Who knows, but I trust all 3 of those companies.

Again, with similar caveats to the above and extended to Cruise, whether or not there was a strong claim against Cruise, any M&A or IPO activity leaves a company super vulnerable.

I wonder what the scenario was in the SC case. Were they just sharing information in a "friendly" manner, or was it a failed merger or acq.

Edit: It looked like there were some acquisitions-- and SC was initially a suitor; but the IP seems to have moved around a bit making it somewhat murky

One of my frustrations is updating submodule deps. The above link seems interesting, but most projects I work on are small enough that hovering over the dep in pckg.json file in vscode lets me know what is the latest. At the top level, I don't have much trouble managing updatea, however what about deps of deps and so on? It is hard to update these, and sometimes it breaks/is manual. Then it is overwritten when a new npm install ia run.

Just to counterbalance some anecdotes, I-- as well as many friends; have literally no savings and very little in the way of assets. Given trends towards renting, part-time pay, lack of employee benefits and on-demand services; many Americans have little in the way of assets

Pretty interesting & fun story. The article itself was did go a bit over the top beleaguring the heroic super-hero nature of the person, but if you can read around the purple prose & redundant praise there were some cool pieces of info:

- The bike index is an interesting concept, working around the balkanized nature of PD databases.

- The actual narrative was quite funny & interesting.

- How pervasive an issue this is escaped me as a non-biker. I didn't realize how expensive bikes are and how often they get ripped off.

The article makes a halfway decent attempt at the pitfalls of large-scale networks. However, the article doesn't come close (in my opinion) to making a case that this will lead them to "fail".

Facebook has become massively popular and is still growing. While I am not particularly active on it, I recognize this is atypical. Think about how many devs ise FB OAuth for example, as it is insanely prolific.

Networks can fail at any time, but very few have after reaching escape velocity. Probably the most notable was AOL/IM and more recently the significant degradation of reddit. Networks must seriously mess up accross the 3 main identified categories, and not keep any pace with their users changing needs.

I would say the biggest threat to networks at scale, which oddly wasnt really discussed, is a failure to monetize or convert their network into value. Many people find twitter useful, for example, but it is rumored to be shopping itself around. If anything, the danger of networks is expecting data and adrevenue to be a sustainable business at scale. Obviously, it is a good problem to have 500million plus active users, but it is expensive and difficult. It is harder, one might inagine, to have 50m paying users.

Stripe Atlas for retail.

> expecting not to be punished.

I suspect Denton expected to have negative ramifications. I do not believe he expected to be held personally liable for the actions of a corporation he was part of and that both the personal and corporate liabilities would have unprecedented magnitude. Further, the article says that benefactor style lawsuits are fairly novel and thus it is unreasonable to expect someone with a vendetta for publishing a true statement about them would relentlessly pursue and finance litigation until the company was destroyed.

> it only effects[sic] the weak and diseased

I would hope, but would not expect that to be the case. The government and large scale corporations can certainly make headway sueing companies like wikileaks for publishing damaging media they do not control. This is quite a dangerous precedent and how bad things can potentially get is up to the creativity of very powerful companies & lawyers.

Finally. I've been trying to give facebook my number for a while. I've tried:

* Downloading Instagram without reading permissions.

* Downloading whatsapp.

* Downloading facebook chat.

* Having friends upload their entire contacts lists to FB, WA, IG, and chat.

* Using the website on mobile and directly putting in the data.

* Using any of their services to message friends my number which becomes a perfectly formatted tel link.

* tweeting zuck.

Facebook has still managed to not retain my number. I mean, I'm still waiting for them to phone me up. If you see this FB, call me maybe?

The current protocols promote data exchange and since websites are primarily designed to be consumed, there is really no way to stop automated requests. Even companies like distilli[1] networks that parse inflight requests have trouble stopping any sufficiently motivated outfit.

I think data should be disseminated and free info exchange is great. If possible, devs should respect website owners as much as possible; although in my experience people seem to be more willing to rip off large "faceless" sites rather than mom&&pops. Both because that is where valuable data is, and it seems more justifiable even if morally gray.

Regardless, the thing I find most interesting is that Google is most often criticized for selling user data/out their users privacy. However, it is oft not mentioned that Googlebot & the army of chrome browsers are not only permitted, but encouraged to crawl all sites except a scant few that gave achieved escape velocity. Sites that wish to protect their data must disallow and forcibly stop most crawlers except google, otherwise they will be unranked. This creates an odd dichotomy where not only does google retain massive leverage, but another search engine or aggregator has more hurdles and less resources to compete.

[1] They protect crunchbase and many media companies.

That is literally what it says, however, most here seem to be questioning the subtext and authenticity. I have trouble interpreting this as an apologetic introspective look at the evolution of privacy and more as a self serving rant.

Theils crusade against gawker killed what I think was a shitty trade rag focused on gossip, at a very steep price. Too much in my opinion.

I had trouble taking his speech at the RNC seriously.

I deeply respected him, probably naively, and I still do; just in a much more narrow context. His intellect and knowledge of technology and macrotrends is amazing, however I find his philosophy in contrast with some of his actions

Anecdotally, I have been using the pi and arduino to learn. They have the basics for small projects and easy interfaces for getting started.

The communities are large and it makes it very easy to find beginner and intermediate projects. I like them both and recommend them. They may not Be the perfect base for a robust IoT project but one can do a lot of interesting things and learn a lot doing beginner and intermediate level projects

Take a vacation; you are burning out.

If you can take a >1 week you can program for fun after 5-7 days and get a sense for what interests you without work interfering. If you can only take a shorter vacation have fun and do something outside of technology and relax.

Consider working on a side project in the weeks following a break and hack on small projects that interest you. If you want to leave the .net space find local companies working on interesting problems.

Ask to get coffee with anyone in your network (or outside) to get information about other parts of the industry/other companies and methodologies.

All in all take a vacation and then spend 2 months hacking on projects and talking to anyone in any part of the industry around your area (or potential prospect cities).

> I am interested in security, c, go ect...

Talking to people actually coding in a language, securing infrastructure, doing X, will be a lot better then learning Go for 2 months and finding out that it didn't help with your core goals.

Take a break. Expand your professional circle and knowledge base. Format a plan based on that info. Execute

While I hate comcast, they are pretty smart. They essentially ran a kickstarter campaign with American taxpayer money to build out infrastructure, much of which they renegged on and only built out in expensive areas. They then charge the taxpayers (users) for the service of which they secured a monopoly or in the best case a duopoly. They charge cable providers, ask for peering costs and do all sorts of shit with the information they receive while doing business. They are essentially triple charging taxpayers for 1 service while also charging the other side of the market, really getting paid about 4x as much as they should.

They do this consistently.

They do this successfully.

They do this at MASSIVE profit.

And this is why everyone despises them, except their shareholders. Honestly, I wish we could just execute a hostile takeover of the company and then start bidding for broad spectrum. Getting absurd.

I find it worse. Github provides a great service and certainly has provided an incalculable value to os, but at a project level, it doesnt provide nearly enough value to dictate word choice, etiquette or style. Yes, the service is free, but github needs high caliber os projects more than they need it. It dosnt even matter who has an edge, automating spam at a user who says a naughty word is silly.

Idk, i dont understand why they would even care. Unless it reached a very intolerable bar, i dont think this is necessary

I understand this more than most. The solution that fits best with my experience and ideology is probably a combination of a few things. Just to caveat, this is a thought experiment and while a lot has been done, there is so much friction it is absurd.

I would like to see heroin decriminalized with specific designated zones (cities/towns) which fully supply and allow heroin use. If you are caught with heroin outside of a zone you must pay a fine. If you can't pay you are offered rehab or transportation to the administration zone.

Zones provide free narcotics and needles, ect and have adjacent treatment and medical facilities. This experiment has been run and was somewhat successful.

The thought process in my above statement is that broke heroin users can not interact with society. If a user wants to simply do heroin, there can be a designated development/town that allows it. If a user is outside of the zone, they must have the money to pay a fine (stay well) or they need to go to rehab or a place that allows drugs.

That way, normal people can interact and many users can function in society. If they can not they will be supplied with drugs outside of society until they regain financial independence or make the decision to enter treatment.

However, since this is impossible, I do not expect a legit solution to ever be implemented and thus am not sure where I land. So I would support efforts that compromise in a similar way to my above solution, but really not worth thinking much about as the gov (in US) has not even legally recognized recreational marijuana.

That doesn't make any sense. Having seen a fair amount of shit, I go back and forth. Should heroin be legal? It would certainly lower the price, but it would definitely create more addicts. This isn't a headache, that is theft.

Clearly, there is a difference between opportunistically taking a few pills and working your way into someones life to rob them repeatedly. This reflects on the person and while I don't know if I made up my mind, I can certainly intellectually understand why society has banned this.

Before the for loop starts printing out the same beleagured points about Holmes, I think it is important to recognize how many people work hard at Theranos.

The medical indistry has been dodgy as fuck (no excuse) but also technically illiterate. My personal hypothesis is that because America and many other nations require so much education to become a doctor, there is little time to learn about programming/tech.

However, the point is, they made some pretty bad mustakes but this is why we have venture capital. Theranos is 13 years old. It irritates me when outrage manifests as an I told you so. So much has been learned between 03 and now, that to come in at the height of an obvious scandal and pour on like they are building angry birds pisses me off. I hope they succeed.

If Holmes did something horrible and the internals of the company rot out, and the tech fails, that sucks. BUT, I hope VCs still step up and take big bets like this because these are gge ideas that change the world. In fact, if on balance, the company only fails because of bad bysiness and ethical decisions, the outpouring of talent and tech into the space could be great.

tl;dr I would rather try and miss on a big bet, than win on a tiny one.

I said this elsewhere but vscode's strategy won me over atom's. Vscode was faster and more stable with much less features which they gradually added over time. Atom had all the features, more lag, and has been trying to polish them since.

Texteditors must be fast and predictable. Tab support for vscode was it for me. Also, their ide must add overhead and yet still much faster than atom

I don't want to criticise it too much as it is completely free, so I will simply say that it would be hard to convince me to try it for a third time.

Microsoft VSCode is my editor, and it took me a long time to adopt it. They lacked a lot of features, but in the end delivering a few features that worked extremely well and adding the important ones as they could (thanks for tab support) won me over. Shipping a broken kitchen sink just turned me off. It had critical flaws that made either me, or the editor and my sometimes unsaved code, rage quit. I have used it cumulatively about 6 months over thd last 2 years.

Tl;dr at least as far as text editors go, 99% correct with a narrow feature set beats 75% stable witha wide one.