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What a nasty thing to say—as if founders never cared about their business or the people they worked with. Please don't post such malicious things here.

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"(2) not be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, and arbitrary wills of others"

If you want to put it to the test, try creating a legal derivative work of a GPL/LGPL licensed project.

The license has enough grey area that the only guarantee is that the legal system could one day be used to subject you to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, and arbitrary wills of others. Via legal battles initiated by malicious actors and/or as a result of contributions by contributors who don't fully understand the depth of the GPL/LGPL restrictions.

I vote 'no confidence' in the GPL/LGPL license's purported guarantee of freedom. For the same reasons I wouldn't trust an enemy to always speak kindly of me behind my back.

The GPL/LGPL were bourne out of the desire to publicly spite others. They were initially accepted as canon because they were the first copyleft licenses.

I'll never feel safe or protected from legal recourse if I contribute to a GPL/LGPL project because I can never guarantee that the codebase is a completely original work. From a legal standpoint 'good faith' simply isn't good enough.

It's a personal choice. If you feel completely safe contributing under the terms, by all means, I'm not trying to stop you.

"Proprietary licenses and DRM are frameworks that arbitrary limits who can modify the software, who can read it, and who can use and share it."

By all means, I'm not advocating for proprietary licenses or DRM. I'm speaking strictly in terms of OSS (ex MIT) vs FLOSS (GPL/LGPL).

If a company or dev decides to use a proprietary license to protect their invested time/effort, that's their legal right.

DRM is... Well, I'm not going to touch that with a 20ft pole. Hopefully, one day we can find a means to make DRM completely irrelevant and/or unnecessary.
I feel your pain.

Unauditable is a fun accusation: you probably use spreadsheets---and they are notorious for being write-only.

You can form a longer term plan to leave that industry and join the tech-industry.
You're probably not gonna kern by hand anything that isn't an attention grabber in a huge font, or a logo or product label, and the like.
IIRC, it's manual and way up the chain.
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Sorry, but I personally do not know the answer. I'd like to refer you to dmbaggett of Crash Bandi Coot and ITA Software fame who's currently working on fixing email:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10732512
This is not completely passive income, but after 1 ~ 2 months of some committed work, it can become passive income. This is assuming you know what you are doing and you have experience with e-commerce. (I was losing money for the first 3 months)

-Private labeling on Amazon using FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon)

I currently earn some passive income (~$1000/month) by selling products on Amazon. Amazon FBA is great because you just send all the products to Amazon warehouse and they will do the packaging and shipping for you. If you shipped out all the items yourself, it wouldn't be so passive. But since all my items are currently at Amazon warehouse and everything's being shipped by Amazon, I spend little time at the moment.

A summarized process will be
1. Sign-up for Amazon seller account
2. Find an item to sell on Alibaba
3. Purchase the item, receive, check, and send to Amazon.
4. Perform SEO for your product page
5. Repeat 2 - 4
6. After some success, switch to Amazon Seller Merchant Pro.

The most difficult part wasn't finding the right item, but rather promoting the page. Ranking my product will involve tons of keyword research, pinning everything relevant on Pinterest, and revising copy-writing.

Once I start selling about 10 products/day for a single item, I'd move on to a new product. The best time to start probably is NOT at 3rd or 4th quarter. You want to have steady sales by 3rd quarter. Because if you do, you will experience some shockingly crazy sales starting November lasting until early January. If I now sell 10 units/day for product X, I was selling 100 units/day starting late November. I regret not stocking more items, but it was my first year doing this and it's a lesson learned.
Wow, 1000 bounces is huge. 8 bounces is a reasonable setting for a high-performance 3D path tracer. I guess it's that much easier in 2D.
Which city?
I'd look at it this way:

1) If you feel you're funding direct competitors...we're talking about startups. More of a validation of your base idea than a real edge for the competition. It's also not horrible to know your direct competition uses the same infrastructure.

2) Otherwise...this lets DO add more customers from the group of startups, which you're in, and thus gain more experience with their typical problems and needs which should benefit you (ever so slightly).
Of course, property-based testing is richer, and also works without a reference implementation. Eg you can test properties like commutativity

f(x, y) = f(y, x)

without a reference implementation.
> Seriously, Wikipedia is not your friend.

I wish you went on to back that statement, because I'm going to have to use context clues to guess that you've either failed at reading comprehension or basic abstract thought. The article discusses a well known example of the failure of an inflexible monolithic defense system faced with an enemy schooled in asymmetric warfare. The J-35 is to the naval fleet C2 net as the drone swarm is to the armada of small suicide boats.

> Cheap drones are not going to be carrying...

Solid rocket boosters and pointy nose cones? The drones are the missiles. As far as targeting, anti-tank missiles have had a great deal of success without fancy radar arrays - just object recognition in extremely noisy environments. I see no reason why that would be impossible for this application.

> How are your "light comms" going to work at night...

Better

> ...or in inclement weather...

Ask the Navy, they managed to make it work for a long time without computer aided signal processing.

> Think you can see a spotlight in daytime at 20K?

LOL, the Germans managed to get a range of 4KM (13K feet) in WWI, in broad daylight, with handheld light signals [0]. So yeah, I think you can see a spotlight in daylight from 20 thousand feet in the year 2016.

> ...if we decide to truly let them function autonomously...

When you say we, do you mean every nation? Because it will only take one to disrupt the whole game.

> ...it's range will be very small compared to a jet fighter.

What? If you want to park an aircraft on the other side of the Pacific, are you going to choose a fighter jet or a drone?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communicati...
Accelerators remind me of those companies that claim they can help you 'become a model' by paying for crappy head shots and helping you through their connections (and taking a percentage in the process).

Many startup founders treat these accelerators like the end goal and give up when they don't actually make it.

I would argue that accelerators are actually the sign of a more mature market. Everyone smells money and you now have the scammers, con artists, and the mediocre trying to make a buck.
Would you please sneak me a case? And maybe a Darrel Lea SF chocolate bar or two?

But seriously, if it was viable and productizable, somebody would make a mint. Lipo in a syringe?!
The bar is low for art these days.
Bemoaning criticism is noxious to me in a way that armchair commentary is not.

We're shooting the shit here. No one's saying we should give up.
Although the other explanations in this thread are correct, I fear an analogy might be better.

Yes, you can reach mercury quite quickly, but in order to land on it (or get captured into its orbit) you need to match its speed and its direction of travel. (speed and direction together are velocity, remember).

It's like I'm a stuntman jumping from one car to another on the freeway. If one car is going 60mph and one is going 20 mph it's going to end badly.

You'll start with a certain velocity on earth, and end up with a target velocity when you reach your destination. That's the delta-v. The type of rocket and how much propellant you have determine the delta-v.

Once you've made your rocket burn, you just have to wait until your paths cross. So, that's why it can take a long time for these missions. That's why people always talk about a journey time of 235 days to mars.

This is not the only possible way to do it though, it just uses the least fuel. If you're willing to use a lot more fuel, you can speed things up significantly, but generally we don't do that.
Which I guess I am unable to see because I am in Chrome in Ubuntu?
I see that point of view - that makes sense.
The numbers you cite for Offshore wind are US numbers and completely useless as there are no permanent offshore wind farms in the US and only two under construction/planning. The picture for UK/NL/GE/BL etc is very different. The estimated LCOE for recent DK tenders (eg Horns Rev 3) are estimated at 80-90 USD/mwh.
But as far as I know you still age while in a coma. So while you may be in a unconscious sleep - it won't do you any good for long term space travel. Then you might as well be awake and look at the scenery along the way.
> If there's a guy with the king midas touch of shit, it's Pike.

Such personal attacks are a bannable offense on Hacker News. Please don't ever post anything like this again.

Generic programming language flamewar comments are a kind of trolling and also not wanted here.
We had a good discussion going on when this was submitted before.

Zen Photon Garden is always a nice thing to play around with.

I even wrote a patch that made the rays deterministic when you draw extra walls. It reduced the flickering, but I learned that this was part of the aesthetics, so it was less fun to play with.
It's solely about the effort; it's a lot easier to just say redis.set('some_random_name') = value than it is to figure out where something should go in the schema of a RDBMS. If the data needs to persist, it needs to be written to a database that provides good guarantees about data integrity. If someone wants to load the results of a query into Redis, more power to them, but I've come across a lot of people who just stuff things in memory-backed K-V stores with the apparent expectation that nothing could ever happen to that data. Developers have told me "Well, Redis writes to disk on shutdown, right?" and acted like that was good enough for permanent storage of mission-critical data.

I have no fundamental opposition to K-V stores or NoSQL databases, but I do think most developers favor them because it's easier to stuff them with data up front. There are big tradeoffs down the road, though, which companies don't seem to understand well, and which they aren't really equipped to handle.
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If you feel you're funding direct competitors...we're talking about startups. More of a validation of your base idea than a real edge for the competition.

There are startups and there are YC startups. If you've got in to YC you've probably already proven your idea and you're generating revenue - YC is about accelerating rather that actually starting after all. If you're directly competing with a YC company then this does put you at a disadvantage, especially if you're in a space where computational power is a big part of your burn.

Mind you, hasn't AWS given huge blocks of credits away to startups in lots of accelerators since forever? This isn't really a new problem for competitors.
It's not really about good ideas anyway. Ideas are cheap. It's about great teams who can execute and those are much more rare.
Some people seem the think that the gluten that gets added to store-bought bread is an artificial chemical made in a laboratory. This shows that it is quite natural.
This strikes me as extremely valuable advice. Thank you so much.
A testament to the perhaps under-appreciated role of luck in our life outcomes; those with the most success are not necessarily destined to it by intrinsic greatness, but just by capricious random events swinging their way as opposed to others'.
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OVH is a French group, submitted to the new Jan 2015 law about spying. Read this for more information: https://www.ovh.co.uk/news/a1766.ovh-stand-french-surveillan...
It's incredibly large in China (Baidu, Qiniu). I apologize since I haven't looked into countries specifically, but to respond to "anyone else seriously investing in Go?", I'll paste it here for you anyways.

Walmart, Apple, Facebook, eBay, Intel, Google, Mozilla, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, DigitalOcean, Zynga, Yahoo, BBC, VMware, Uber, GitHub, Getty Images, Twitter, Stack Exchange, Docker, SpaceX, Baidu, Qiniu, Imgur, CloudFlare, Bitbucket, Dell, Twitch, Dailymotion, bitly, Cisco, Verizon, Dropbox, Adobe, New York Times, HP, Canonical, Cloud Foundry, 99designs, BuySellAds, CoreOS, MongoDB, Basecamp, Rackspace, Booking, MalwareBytes, Kingsoft, Iron.io, OpenShift, Heroku, Square, Spring, Tumblr, VMWare, Symantec, Comcast, CBS, SendGrid, Digitally Imported, Pivotal, Couchbase, Koding, Shopify, Shutterfly, MaxCDN, Linden Lab, SolarWinds, IMVU, EMC, Teradata, and I'm sure many more which I'm unaware of, are all using Go to some capacity.
Ask HN: Mobile workstation class laptop without full number keypad included
I used to have a ThinkPad W530. It was a glorious machine. Its successor, the W540 has a full number pad on the right side of the keyboard. Because of this, the trackpad isn't centered, but skewed to the left.

This is a horrible design decision, in my opinion, and very common now.

I'd like to get a laptop that'll take 32GB of RAM (preferably 64GB)

The "P" series ThinkPads go to 64, but that number pad. UGH.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

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Assange says to leave Ecuador embassy, accept arrest if loses U.N. case
I consider Google Maps to be far more useful and better than Facebook. The sans/quality of G+ doesn't impact my view of Google Maps. It's just an amazing product, that got even better once it came on those feature phones with pseudo browsers, even if it took a whole minute to load some tiles, it was still amazing for going to appointments in new areas.

I have a lot of childhood memories of my dad in the car messing around in the dark with physical maps only to find a torn page or inaccuracies, heh.
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I recommend you go for data science as Ivan.
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And, when they do, and when he's magically whisked away to some US-run gulag, those of us (including Assange) who saw it coming will get to say "I told you so."

Which won't really be very satisfying.
I was once asked to be in charge of an acquisition. We would let the new group (over 100 people in a building on the East Coast) keep doing the same work with the same management. What they didn't know was that that is code for keeping them isolated from the real company. And we would even assign a multi-talented team to integrate their product with our doc group and engineering groups - in a show of how important their work was to our company. What they didn't know was that that was really done so that I could prepare a list of technology worth saving for the CEO (Let's call him Larry). The plan was to spend perhaps six months understanding their code, another six months taking the parts we want, and then letting them go. There was really nothing they could do about it. We simply wanted to consolidate our position in the market.

Since then I've spoken to other CEOs who were acquired by that company. They boast about how they were allowed to keep working on their projects and how they were important to the company and their great relationship to Larry as part of a Fortune 50 company. But then, over time, they found they weren't being given freedom anymore and they left. They just never really understood what was really happening.
It should be possible, what you want to do is try and draw a parabola with fully reflective surfaces where the focal point is the light source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic_reflector
Can you make this into a movie script? :)
Except that it would cost much more to build even a shed on the moon due to all the other factors involved in building something off planet.
Also checkout https://www.vultr.com/. They let you boot via iPXE and have many locations.
This is 100% the biggest problem with the concept.

Good luck getting a closed tube through a municipality, let alone a major city, let alone across an entire state.
What if they want to check their email to see if they got a job or a place to stay?
Interesting Google search quality meeting: Spelling for Long Queries (annotated)
Amazing engineer, who played a big role in Google search algorithms..
also (and this applies to a very large number of other services too) this excludes anyone not willing to reside in Silicon Valley for their business
This is the "15 minutes of fame for everyone" long envisioned. Only now the tech enabled this very possibility.

While it can be negative experience first few times it happens, the other dangerous side is that it's instantaneously addictive (we people crave attention). And addiction is what everyone in sales and marketing wants, as long as it's still legal. An addict is an ideal consumer.

I terminated my Twitter account about 2 years ago, after I found out that I spent huge amounts of time and psychical energy there. I generated two random UUIDs, used the first one to create one of those one-time emails, and the second to be the new password. I changed my Twitter password and email, and promptly rebooted my computer without storing these UUIDs anywhere.

It worked. Going cold turkey was incredibly hard. I wrote to Twitter support a few times so they could restore my account, but they couldn't establish my identity (just as planned!) Then, after a few months, cravings started to diminish.

Now, instead of being Twitter addict, I became Facebook and HN addict. Sigh. I can repeat my trick, but now I lack the willpower to do that. RescueTime tells me that I spend 3-4 hours every day on Facebook and HN.

Time to generate more UUIDs.
Not true. Roger Goodell made $44 million in 2013. Kind of shocking you can do that and still be considered a non profit.
> Only in this case it was Elon Musk having the thought.

The hyperloop concept has been around at least since George Medhurst wrote about it in 1812.
That was a great video, thanks for sharing! I wish Google would have continued putting out these videos, it's somewhat rare to see a technical discussion outside of a conference/talk setting.
Regarding the first bit of the article, is there an outline anywhere showing a smart way of handling the Twitter example given?
If libraries offer free wifi and/or pc's then some stickers for them might also be a good idea.
Marissa Mayer Accuses Media of Lying About Yahoo Holiday Party
I think its easier to install cygwin than replace all the command line tools I am used to with Javascript equivalents.
Pretty neat. Just need to remember to restore the environment variables afterwards, especially $PATH.
The power outage was only brief, enough to halt the servers but, much less than the 2 hour outage window.
German Chancellor fires hydrogen plasma with the push of a button
Wendelstein 7-X fusion device produces its first hydrogen plasma
I really wish Julian would pull his head out of his ass. I'm fed up with his antics but more importantly I'm disgusted with how his cult of personality has completely ruined what little legitimacy Wikileaks once had. There was so much promise in the service initially, sadly that's all been ruined by his personal transgressions and his attempts to leverage Wikileaks to protect himself from criminal prosecution. It's pretty depressing.
The First Known Photograph (2015)
Made with STDERR I got this one!
Or water even. That would benefit California.
Life's unfair bro. Grow a pair.
Is the course material online? If so could someone who has access share which papers they are referencing?

This would (at least to me) be the next best thing as a non-CMU student ;)
M2M/ IoT Protocols: An Introduction
No CI/test process was in place for critical systems to ensure that they had no external dependencies.

Takeaway: If you run any complex system, ensure that each component is tested for its response to various degrees of failure in peer services, including but not limited to totally unavailable, intermittent connectivity, reduced bandwidth, lossy links, power-cycling peers.

No CI/test process was in place for hardware/firmware combos to ensure they recovered fine from power loss.

Takeaway: If you run a decent-sized cluster, ensure all new hardware ingested is tested through various power state transitions multiple times, and again after firmware updates. With software defined networking now the norm, we have little excuse not to put a machine through its paces on an automated basis before accepting it to run critical infrastructure.

No CI/test process was in place for status advisory processes to ensure they were sufficiently rapid, representative, and automated.

Takeaway: Test your status update processes as you would test any other component service. If humans are involved, drill them regularly.

Infrastructure was too dependent on a single data center.

Takeaway: Analyze worst case failure modes, which are usually entire-site and power, networking or security related. Where possible, never depend on a single site. (At a more abstract level of business, this extends to legal jurisdictions). Don't believe the promises of third party service providers (SLAs).

PS. I am available for consulting, and not expensive.
The noise canceling is amazing, but Bose's quality control could use some improvement: I've had my QC25's replaced twice over the last year, both times due to the same issue: folding them up for storage strains the cable going between the speakers, and at some point it breaks. Two out of three people I know with the same headphones have had exactly the same issue.
Avoiding dupes is simple. The Search feature works fine (pick an uncommon keyword from title, and search). Or, even after submitting, one can click the "Past" link on his/her own submit to check for purely identical title and link and then delete the dupe if they choose. But, as with your dupe of the Fine Brothers story, people choose not to.
Power management is now inherently mixed signal. Need to know both digital and analog (see https://goo.gl/bn5Va4)
Yes, but what I mean is that each JVM has its own list of GC algorithms.

Just as a very basic example, a certified JVM 8 is not required to have G1.

As for high throughput or low latency applications, yeah actually one is dependent on the whole stack, hence why HPFT is already moving into FPGAs.
Coal it is then.
Marathon 0.15: better stability, more metrics and improved web interface
I'm playing with facilethings.com and zendone.com. Previously tried doit.im. But mostly I just work off of Gmail and use Evernote for reference material.
tl;dr: it turns out, all those search, filtering, and threading functions that usenet had were actually useful. Twitter is just a broken version of usenet and the brokenness stresses people out.
True, I really meant more like "capitalism naturally leads to unions" rather than implying that nothing else can do so. But unions don't exist within cooperatives. The bigger point is: Unions are a symptom of bigger systemic problems.