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Not sure why you got downvoted. I think many makers balk at getting customers with an unpolished / unfinished product - "No one will pay for this. We need more features." is the sentiment I have heard often. While I am sure that a product like Stripe might take long to get to stage where people can start using it, in many cases, it is not so hard to create the MVP in 3 - 4 months that solves atleast one pain point for lots of users.

VWO, a bootstrapped A/B testing product, started getting paying customers with a very basic interface and reports[1], and today it is a ~$10M business.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YYNebfuvLc
These are a part of a huge category of algorithms called metaheuristic algorithms. Really interesting area of research.
X.Org.info, the perfect place to find info about a project called X.Org.
The difference is when you exercise NSOs, you also have to pay withholding tax (ordinary income tax rate) to the company who then pays it to the IRS.

For ISOs, you don't have to pay tax at exercise, but you may be subject to Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) especially if you have a large spread between your strike price and the fair market value at the time of exercise. (http://employeestockoptions.com/amttax/ for more information about AMT)
Aside from the free nature of the app, I think what's missing was a consistent growth strategy. In your opinion 1/ how much would be a fair price for such a service 2/ which/who sales/marketing saas/specialists would have helped it attract customers 3/ what would be the next features appealing enought to convice users to try it, use it more frequently, and invite other, should this app continued to live
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They already do in the UK, lots of young drivers can only afford to drive if they have a "black box" fitted to their car by the insurer to track their driving behaviour.
I have an unpublished blog post on this very subject so I've done a bit of research into the matter.

I first thought Pinterst was the first one to extend the exercise period to a great length, but I discovered that it was in fact Quora who was first. They have a 10 year exercise period. Pinterest was followed by Coinbase.

First time founders will have a hard time rocking he boat because of the great fear of not being able to raise capital. Thus it's really on the shoulders of the late stage companies and repeat founders to lead the way.
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No tax at conversion. Only possibility is upon exercise and then eventually at sale.
I am not an OpenWrt developer, but I develop software for OpenWrt based platforms.

In short: on a lot of these devices it would be difficult or impossible to have a stable auto update mechanism. This could be due to flash size (16MB is considered large for consumer devices), or due to the state of the kernel modules responsible for hardware (e.g. wireless drivers).

Also there isn't usually a backup to the kernel in flash, so if your auto update is interrupted by a power failure or the user pulling the cord, you will have a bricked device. Good luck explaining the limitations of SPI EEPROM and compressed filesystems to a pissed off user with a brick. After the update you have to reboot, how do you schedule this on a device which is typically invisible to the user? In networks it's extremely difficult for these embedded devices to guess when someone might not be using it.

Having seen my fair share of ancient OpenWrt devices deployed in the field, the industry as a whole definitely needs to focus more on auto updates to resolve security issues.

However as the author points out, the sheer number of chipsets out there, it would be very difficult to accomplish without extensive testing.

I hope that we can all make meaningful progress toward auto updates of critical issues, but there is a long road ahead to that.
Why I Write Games in C
Good on both of you. What a pleasant, enlightened, and refreshing exchange to read in today's internet of easy outrage. I really mean that :)
As I mentioned I just found the link in the venturebeat article, ask their CEO for more data.

About half of the numbers are redacted, but you can see if it's a single digit or a double digit number. And you can read in the 2015/2016 plan on page 10:

* 3x sales headcount and rapidly race towards distribution
* Reduce sales ramp time by 30-50% via sales enablement
* Double headcount every 6-9 months

It doesn't add up with the "He confirmed to TechCrunch that 18 people were laid off, mostly in sales"
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The perception of scarcity of wealth (for lack of a better term) and things being zero sum between nationals and immigrants is truly regrettable. And SV is not immune to it, considering engineers' general opposition to increasing H1B quotas.
I've just spent a week here in the UK driving with an insurance company's app which tracks your driving. I got 9.3/10 after the mandatory 200 miles of driving, and wild generally consider myself to be a safe driver on the road - I've done a fair amount of rally driving, and ridden motorbikes for nearly 30 years so I'm reasonably aware of the risks and what can go wrong, plus I drive a van as my daily driver.

What I was aware of during the tracking process was how little the app was aware of - if was sensing acceleration and GPS position, but nothing else, and given there were plenty of times that it wasn't aware of the on road situation (such as someone pulling out in front of me, a road blockage, traffic, etc), I was thinking that it really can't tell everything it needs to - or indeed if I put my indicators on when I change lane, etc. Even if you had a system that connected to this CAN bus to sense such things, the picture would be incomplete.

However, I'm sure that it will be useful to a degree, but there will be plenty of outliers in the data where there are safe drivers who are marked as unsafe and vice versa.
I don't know why you were down-voted. Too terse maybe? It's just another label with moving goal posts. A carrot for those who seek identity. Your answer was short and sweet albeit a tad sour.

10/10: Utterly accurate. Perfect signal/noise. Would read again.
I guess you could liken programming to Lego bricks.

When you have the programming language "groked" you do not see a loose pile of bricks, but what you can create from whats in the pile.
And similarly, hopefully anyone applauding this train situation would gladly pay to keep it running themselves, instead of reveling in the incredible human capacity for being generous with other people's money.
So you are saying, all human beings somehow are responsible for the happiness (we didn't define what they are responsible for but I'll assume happiness/well being) of all others? Where do you draw the line? Why are you not giving more of your salary to poor people? Who determines what is enough giving? Can I hold you responsible? Or, who can? Or do you perhaps I agree that you may feel responsible but you can't be held responsible... In which case your are not responsible (claiming one is responsible for others is the statement I originally responded to). One can take responsibility for the well being of other, this can feel good. One does not have this responsibility implicitly. Or at least I strongly believe one should not.

Example: What is a more desirable situation?

A persons taking responsibility for a child out of a deep feeling that it is good of a person feeling forced into taking care of a child because of cultural pressures? (Arguably) The child of person 2 is better off when someone is found that feels natural responsibility for him/her.

Luckily most parents feel strong responsibility for the well being of their offspring. For those that don't, we have adoption agencies and other methods to help. Generally our society believes it to be more moral that people can give their child away than to force them into a responsibility they don't want (or know they can't handle). So we already believe, even for our own children, that responsibility is yours to take, not something you have by default and needs to be forced upon you. Forced responsibility is not love, it is anti-love, it will lead to sick relationships.

So to come back to the original post: Being adults is about taking responsibility, not about complying to some culture enforce role model that is responsible for others. You can not be forced into taking responsibility (meaning you don't somehow have it) but if you don't take it, you'll end up nowhere (you'll be a homeless person or in jail.)
For the first article the "a sink of emotional energy" needs some proof that it's harmful. Without that it's just the author's opinion.

It's very easy to argue that the fantasy helps people de-stress and ends up improving their lives.

Studies have found that depressed people are better at estimating odds. There's decent evidence that too much reality is bad for your emotional well being.

The second article is even easier to dismiss. To generate excitement the buy in has to be high enough that people feel a bit invested, and the result has to be quick enough that people don't loose interest.
LLVM bitcode is version dependent. Some of it is architecture dependent. Emitting C is way way easier.
If it's mostly sales people, it is perfectly reasonable to think they are reassessing their outbound marketing efforts. For example, perhaps their sales channel produced poorer quality leads compared to organic or the type of product they were selling was low enough margin that the sales commission removed any profit they were getting.
I suppose I don't have anything of intelligence to add, but I did want to congratulate all involved, as the results are actually very impressive. Carry on!
"To learn more about my users, I sent a short list of questions to 1222 recipients."

brilliant read, one thing I'd modify is ask some/all these questions on signup or login. Tweak enough questions and techniques to ask [0] so as not to discourage. This way you can gain more info as as people use/try/login.

[0] Must be numerous ways to gain info building it into actions of tool.
Looking through the comment section, it seems you get fuzzies out it, but not the majority of people.
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Someone is going to make a killing on tiny, inexpensive RJ45 60GHz access points and switches that support PoE. Killer use case: stick it into a wall, and everything in the room gets gigabit speeds. No wall warts to deal with.
This solution uses templates, which are C++, not C

But if you're using C++, use C++ strings, you don't need strcpy

There's strlcpy mentioned there, which seems a better C solution
C itself is fairly straight forward.

The complications comes from all the variables and functions that come and go, and may have different meaning within different programs.

Then again you see the same with natural languages, and the existence of dictionaries.
I actually would pay decent money for a device with dual flash to address some of this (like Gigabyte dual BIOS on PC motherboards).
Vala is another example of such a language. It generates C and uses GObject under the hood.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala
You're an adult when you no longer give a shit about doing or saying things that others may think are childish. At some point you come to realize that nobody else can dictate what should or shouldn't make you happy.
Is the solution then to use an x86 PC for home routing? I have been considering doing that. What's a good distro for this particular purpose? As it happens I bought a fanless i3 5005U from aliexpress a week ago mostly as a media player but also as a vague "I need something silent and server-ish" thing.
"Craig Labovitz was a newly hired Merit engineer who had abandoned his PhD studies in artificial intelligence at Michigan because he was so fascinated by his at-first-temporary NSFNET work assignment. “Most people today don’t know that the heart of the Internet was once on North Campus,” says Labovitz. “It was where the operations and on-call center was, and where all the planning and the engineering took place.”"

Found this article trying to find a story (http://blog.deepfield.net/2012/04/18/how-big-is-amazons-clou...) referenced the these stories:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10869338

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10869616

Had no idea the growth rate of networking in this era.
Isn't radix sort o(n) ?

> The algorithm will only work if w ≥ log n.

What does that mean ? It doesn't make sense to me. The algorithm will work regardless of the magnitude of w relative to log(n).

Radix sort will be faster than n log(n) if w < log(n). I would add that it is only worth to use if w << log(n). In fact radix sort process the sorting by groups of bits, so w is usually smaller than the number of bits.
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Well said. A mentor of mine once told that to be a child is to be dependent, to be an adolescent is to reach for independence, and then to be an adult is to recognize our interdependence.
Netflix is the faster, more nimble disrupter, and while HBO is not as stodgy as TWC (or other telco's), it will lose the game of both content creation and the scale required to negotiate attractive content deals.
It would be great to see auto update for ddwrt, openwrt etc.

Kong's build for ddwrt does have command line update

OSMC has done a really nice job of an auto update mechanism and it would be great to have the same functionality for router firmware.

There is also nslug2 and opkg...
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Way to hijack a useless subthread and do something useful with it. Great meta-point. Honestly. This feature alone makes the comments on Reddit bearable for consumption.
Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives (2011)
That's such a warm story and especially this is from the largest Chinese TV press CCTV.

Being as a Chinese, years ago the news of Japan were always about politics, island disputes, refusing to apologize for WWII etc. It is good to have something positive and nice about the neighbor.

Wish the world would become less biased to any country.
If you could figure out a fleshed out version of the interaction loop - "this is skin, no, not like that, a little more like this" - that would probably be useful. The interface between AI and people is always a little weird - how could you tell it to do a small correction and have it be meaningful? What do two to three AI driven actions a second look like?
the lottery is little more an government-sponsored exploration of the economically disadvantaged

You probably meant "exploitation" rather than "exploration".

I've heard it phrased a little differently: The lottery is a voluntary tax on the stupid.

A slightly different phrasing: The lottery is a voluntary tax on the innumerate.

BTW I did purchase two Powerball tickets a few hours ago. Wish me luck!
Okay, but then I presume you're implying that you're a native speaker of a European language and my statement doesn't apply to you.

I expect people who are not native speakers of English or other European languages to be helped by the annotation. My girlfriend and many of my colleagues here in Asia speak natively only East Asian languages. Some of my colleagues are native speakers of both English and one or more East Asian languages, and I don't expect that they would find the grammatical notation to be helpful to them. I also don't expect my colleague who's a native speaker of French and Chinese to be helped by the annotation, even though his English is obviously a second language. But, that's just my intuition based on living and working in East Asia.
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> That's the truly depressing side of this story.

There have always been children living in isolated rural communities. Always. Japan is in no way special in this regard, nor is it special in having a low birth rate nor in it having a declining population. South Korea, for example, has a lower total fertility rate than Japan. But people love to focus on Japan and project their own values and beliefs on it, values which are not necessarily shared by the Japanese people, many of whom feel that their nation's population grew too large.
Adding an unnecessary $200/month to your burn rate is silly, but if it'll kill your business then there isn't a viable business model there in the first place.

He'd only have needed, say, 10 paying customers to cover his expensive hosting. The fact he couldn't get those first 10 customers is why he failed, not the hosting costs.
But they are being "awarded" [1]. So if it expires, maybe they could get it back since they're a non-profit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...
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Not sure, but I think those rules generally exempt (non-executive) employees, so generally speaking it's not a problem.
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As far as the click fraud goes, that's not unique to Yahoo, I constantly see this issue with Facebook, for example http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-advertising-fake-lik...

The infrastructure issues may come down to the fact that scaling up large platforms is not easy and they have trouble attracting top talent to oversee this stuff, but that's just a guess.

I feel a lot of nostalgia for Yahoo, I hope they can turn things around. They have the money and brand to be successful but their margin for (continued) error appears to be very thin these days. I hope their next move is a smart one.
Thou art exaggerating.
I think HNers would also like Velimir Khlebnikov / Igor Severyanin / Vladimir Kamensky / Vladimir Mayakovsky and other Russian futurists of early 20th century.
I expect native speakers of English and other European languages to have less trouble than my girlfriend, who is not a native speaker of English or any other European language.

If (as you suppose) English and other European languages are likely to make large distinctions between nouns and verbs, then native speakers of those languages would more naturally notice the distinction in the sentence without having it pointed out to them, correct? I believe we're in agreement here.

Perhaps I went a bit too far in trying to reduce the wordiness of my statement and should have left it as "those who are not native speakers of English or any other Eurpean languages".
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I suspect this can be quite convenient for various places where you want to limit access to individual rooms etc, but don't want to deal with the tangle of cables and ports that a wired network would require.
Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk you can deploy by zipping a folder of your code and uploading it using a webpage form. The barrier for entry on cloud infrastructure is really low.

That's not the "right way" but arguably nor is using a Heroku box with no idea what's actually running on it.
This is very, very wrong.

The technology is not what drives the stock price of a company. What does drive it? It takes years of studying finance to learn. Your statement is akin to a trader telling another trader that, since they specialize in studying Apple, they could probably be great at being iOS app developers.

"[...] if you know a company well and you know they are doing great and will be doing great in the next year you should buy their stock"

This is an example of a very common fallacy. Even if I tell you that e.g. Apple will be doing great as a company in the next 5 years, that's not a reason to buy their stock. The reason would be if I tell you that their stock is undervalued!

This is one of the first rules you learn in finance - if I can guarantee a future payout stream (e.g. $1000 in 1 year, $2000 in 2, $1500 in 3, $4000 in 4...), I can calculate how much that payout stream is worth now. This is what a companies' stock essentially is - a promise of a future payout stream. So if the stock is trading higher than that stream is worth, then the stock is not a good investment.
A neat documentary film about Tim Jenison, mentioned in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim's_Vermeer
I can confirm similar local measurements with MacBook Pros and a D-Link DAP-2950 across a room with a wood partition blocking line of sight. If the AP is advertised as 600Mbit/s, chances are it only supports 1 or 2 streams (MIMO antennas) per band. Most laptops only have 2, but even so the signal quality will be much better wih a 3- or 4- way MIMO setup on the AP end. (The D-Link has 6 antennas, so 3-way MIMO for both 5GHz and 2.4.) In addition to number of antennas, orientation also makes a big difference.

Finally, wireless access points seem to be one of those things where quality varies a lot. I hated wifi for its unreliability until I bought a decent (professional/small-to-medium-business grade) AP 8 months ago. Not a single connection problem since, even with the notoriously affected Mac hardware and OSX software versions.
An RFID is just a unique serial number no real different to a barcode or a written serial no, just it can be read easier (and generally matched to a UID on a maintenance database or suchlike) Yes the manufacturer can also store encrypted data on one but I honestly cannot figure out how an external party could abuse this system.
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You see this to a lesser degree in other parts of the world to.

Around where i live, the only young people are boys/men that went straight into some low end industrial or service job after school.

most of the women moved on to higher educations that required moving to a city or other, and stayed there after graduating.
If you're willing to pay "decent money" for a router with auto-update, get some PC hardware (even as small as a WRAP or Soekris) and run pfSense. You'll never look back. I love OpenWRT but a $100 Netgear or Linksys device just can't touch a real PC motherboard with Intel NICs.

My preferred pfSense platform at both home and the office is a server-grade chassis running ESXi. My router runs in a VM on this server and I use vSwitches to connect the VM to the various ports on the 4-port Intel NIC.

I just built it like this for convenience (I already had the ESXi server) but I later found a side-benefit: if you've set up a DMZ on pfSense, you can easily attach VMs to the DMZ by associating them with the DMZ vSwitch. So, I have some untrusted VMs sitting in my DMZ and trusted VMs sitting on my LAN...all on the same piece of hardware.

I've been running this way since 2013 and it's been flawless and fast. More details here:

http://output.chrissnell.com/post/39550480075/the-jack-of-al...
Funny that they allow multiple people to pick the same numbers, then.

Why shouldn't they? It's to the lottery's benefit. Two reasons:

1) People are attached to "their" numbers, and would be very upset if you didn't let them pick exactly the ones they want. Alienated players equals lower participation.

2) There are more overlaps when people pick than when the computer picks. Which means that, each drawing, there is a lower probability of someone hitting the jackpot than if all numbers are distinct. Which means the money rolls over and the next drawing has a larger prize. Eventually the prize is $800 million and people get excited and buy even more tickets. It's even being discussed on HN.
tl;dr: I am old and retarded deepshit, so instead of choosing Go, which I like, I stay on plain C.
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