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If anyone was under any misapprehension that your car wasn't a PC with a some wheels stuck to it this should've cleared that up. Doom 2 port when?
Please follow the first link in that post, and take the (super short) survey. It's for helping us gather info to improve PostgreSQL. :)
"fashion social commerce marketplace."*

"Fab" tried that. They were based in NYC, and blew through about $200M in venture capital before tanking. Did the author of this article know that? Did whomever funded him?
> That's the most 1995 thing I've read all year.

Lol true :) the main reason is when I have a big stack of paper that I want to trash but I'm not sure if any of it will be relevant down the road. It's a pain to go through each page and snap a picture, with a sheet feed scanner I just set it on there and push a button. The most relevant example I can think of is hospital bills - we had a baby last year and my wife was also in the hospital for an unrelated surgery for a few days, and all of the bills come on paper mail. It's nice to trash the paper and still have the record.
>It matters that my child is safer than 40 years ago from better playgrounds.

thats so great. we made the playground equipment safer so your kids can play on it, meanwhile, a black child is gunned down by police on that playground.

All of your points of reference only seem to reveal that you have no perspective into the actual big problems that still plague all our societies, problems that consumer problems dont even attempt to solve and probably cant solve. But im glad you have more music in your car.
This post inspired me to give my feeds a public home: http://akkartik.name/feeds.xml. You can see all the ones I stole from OP at the top of the list.

Compared to OP's more curated list, many of my subscriptions post only intermittently, but that doesn't bother me. Instead, if a site posts too frequently I might boot it from my subscriptions. RSS is only for sites that I never want to miss a single story from.
I never mark email as read, nor do I move it out of my inbox. I have something like 800k unread emails in my inbox.

However, I don't need to 'declare email bankruptcy' nor do I need to clear out my inbox.. I just don't pay any attention to the read or unread status. My inbox IS my archive.

My system is this:

When I check my email, I make sure I mark the most recent email as read. Then, I look back until I find the next email marked as read. The emails between those two are the ones that are unseen.

I do a quick glance at the emails in between. If they look important, I read them. If they are important but I don't want to deal with it now, I 'star' it in gmail. If it isn't important, I just don't do anything.

I don't quite get the need to have an empty inbox or to read every email.
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I cheated to get a YC Interview
I'm the founder of a enterprise software startup that got a YC interview.

I applied with a different name, a fake start date (eighteen months later than real), a fake equity split (leaving out a cofounder who is currently exiting messily - he started his MBA this spring, and we haven't actually worked out how the equity is going to work), and exaggerated traction. In other words, it looks like we have explosive growth since day 1 (in November), when really we worked for more than a year to get that.

I'm starting to feel guilty. Am I screwed? Should I proceed with this? Fake it until we make it? How many YC startups do this same thing?
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Saying "No" does help. I answer much mail with "UNSUBSCRIBE", then blacklist the sender in Thunderbird. Almost all spam gets filtered, as do messages mentioning "survey" or "webinar".
Never miss any music news ever again
Last week www.MuzeRoom.com launched - essentially a site with music news tailored for you. By connecting with your Facebook, Spotify, or Lastfm accounts MuzeRoom understands your musical tastes, and then scours the web and returns news - but only for the artists you like and listen to.

My friend and I have launched this because frankly Facebook just doesn't cut it for music these days. I'm more likely to see memes and cat videos these days than I am a music video or music news article in my Facebook feed. Sad but true!

VERY keen to get some feedback so please reply with any thoughts.
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VMWare Fusion does a few extremely useful things that Docker doesn't - for instance it can hook into an existing Boot Camp install and load it as a VM. It may be a bit heavy for the (Linux) applications Docker excels at, but for me it's worth the money just for the Windows VM support.
Seems to me they're much the same as the riprap seawalls, jetties, and groynes you'd find down the shore in parts of the US. They're pretty effective, and USACE seems to approve of them being there.
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This shows the need for basic income. Now the central banks are geared toward giving money to the Have's, the people owning assets, by popping up the asset price one way or the other.

Since the money need to be printed anyway, might as well give it directly to ALL of the people. At least the money will be spent to drive the economy. Printing money to pop up asset price just locks up the money in the asset and won't be used.
would be stoked to be fast-tracked also. Docker ID 'fredoliveira'. Thank you!
I hope there's going to be an easy way to package this with your own docker image in order to have a new way to distribute applications. My usecase is running a server locally so you can use a webapp with local network speed and offline access and lots of local storage.
Aren't most utilities gov't supported monopolies? I think the logic is that for some utilities it doesn't make economic sense to have 5 companies all providing water to a house (5 water lines underground?).

The gov't gives the utility a monopoly in exchange for full coverage to all customers and pricing oversight.
I'm the maintainer who added this. I apologise for the poor communication. I would have responded sooner but I've been on a plane for the last 10 hours. I'd hoped the documentation would have made clear our reasons for doing this but I feel the discomfort so since getting off my flight I've opened and merged three PRs (https://github.com/Homebrew/install/pull/42 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/143 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/146) to better communicate this to our users on installation and `brew update` before any information is sent and ease the opt-out process.
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Or better yet, of a stack of paper. If you can find me that I'll gladly pay for it. Well, at least up to the around half the cost of the sheet-feed scanner/printer.
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"To crush his competitors, Rockefeller would create a shortage of the railroad tank cars that transported oil. He’d then buy up all the barrels on the market so his competitors would have no place to store or ship their oil. He bought up all the available chemicals that were necessary to refine oil."

i thought it's common strategy played in AOE....

this post makes a great companion with another recent post about Uber on Lyft.
I've seen some code from vendors using ZendGuard and kind of wondered how it worked - I'm assuming any dissections of their obfuscation algorithm or code would be served a takedown notice real quick.
That's right, I was, but on further reflection you don't need to do anything special in this case since it's just doing 32 bit math, not 32 bit addressing. EAX/EBX/etc should just work in real mode IIRC.
Most documents are already graphs of sorts. The fact that they are written down as they are is an implementation detail dictated by traditional physical constraints. I would image all authors have a "graph" in their heads before writing down the text. I'm pretty sure information are lost when this happens. I guess this is what the article tries to address.
Actually our eyes evolved to see underwater. There just happened not to be that much different between clear air and clear water.
It all depends upon whether the issue is outside or inside yourself. Moving to a new job only leaves one of them behind.

That said, I quit a bad situation once. Dropped a resignation letter in the boss' box, walked to my car, rolled the windows down and drove slowly around town with the radio on. Serendipitously the song was "Takin care of business" which put a perfect cap on it.

Found a new startup in less than a month, and felt much, much better. So it can work!
This is something I'd at least expect from Tesla, the company who open sourced all of their patents.
Right. His mapping it 1-to-1 implies that most of the time is bound by computer tasks. So there would be almost no viewing/decision/input task time, just some rapid input, then walking away from the computer.
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Is this going to be another article that Hacker News tosses on the pile of "chose not to believe"? Here's hoping this is finally the one that makes people realize that these things are happening irl.
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Did you signup on beta.docker.com?
>By definition, Rovion was in deep undercover mode. How would Bob have gotten a hold of Rovion? Did he know of Rovion's partial penetration? If so, how? If not, then how did they meet up? In any case, how did the two hackers exchange messages?

If the attacker didn't have root or wasn't using a fancy rootkit, it's not surprising at all that his hack could have been discovered. Discovering the hack could be as simple as finding an unfamiliar php file that hosted a reverse shell in some directory. The attacker might've had some scripts in a folder. Communication could be started by editing one of the scripts to print a message instead.

A friend of mine as a student sysadmin once found a server was part of a botnet, figured out the bots communicated via an IRC channel, joined the channel himself, lurked for a while, found the operator connect one day, and talked. The server never had anything worthwhile on it, the server was re-imaged, the school never bothered pursuing legal action as the guy was in Russia, and I'm told they've played counter-strike together sometimes since then.

>Why wouldn't Bob take advantage of the backdoor himself? It's not like he had much to lose. He'd already been ousted from ShapeShift and was already the target of an investigation.

Because he could get a bunch of money now and have someone else do most of the work probably.

>Red Flag #4. Bob demands only 50 BTC for a backdoor. ... Why not split the proceeds in half, for starters?

If Bob has Rovion do all the work with the backdoor access, why would Bob trust Rovion to split the proceeds once he's hit the motherlode? Much easier to get some money up-front and be done with it.

>Red Flag #5. Rovion pays 50 BTC for a backdoor. ... How would Bob, then, demonstrate to Rovion that he wasn't just a scammer, or a honeypot operator, but indeed had a legitimate backdoor to sell?

It probably wasn't a single 50 btc transaction. Start it slow. (Just like how Erik managed to work out some trust with Rovion later.) Bob probably offered to not boot Rovion's original access into the system for a few btc to start with, and they found somewhere to go from there.

>Red Flag #6. Rovion is a moralistic individual who not only is a thief himself, but wants to see Bob, another thief from whom Rovion supposedly obtained credentials, severely punished, for being a thief.

Seriously, this is just grasping for straws. That doesn't seem so strange. Or hell, maybe Rovion just wants to try to throw someone else under the bus morally. People trying to justify themselves is nothing new.
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It helped me. Although occasionally(such as last night), she will keep getting up, walking around my wife in bed, to check on me. Sweet but kept walking me up all night haha. Almost never happens though and my sleep is quite a bit better knowing she is around.
Netscape was best until about version 3. It had some niceties that IE lacked, actually IE was not even acceptable. Netscape 4.7 was "not so nice" and IE 4 was faster so, although terribly unsafe, it dominated market for years.

Oh, and by the time Netscape 4.7 and IE 4.01 were released, Microsoft had already destroyed Netscape's business.
What do people think about using email as an alternative to social networks - i.e. creating lists of email addresses (groups), and sending out photos, jokes, opinions, etc. to those groups (e.g. an "All" group to send life updates, a "Cool" group that can take any joke, etc.)?
What is the use case though? What would be even better is if MS created a "windows container" that could run under Linux, then you could just ditch windows all together.

I don't see big companies using something this hackish for containers that are running on servers anyway. For working on the desktop this might come in handy for devs, but honestly I think MS should focus their energy on something else.
Shrugs, speak for yourself.

I was at a tech talk last week, 40 devs, 1 woman, 39 blokes.

You don't have to be a genius to see there is something off with that ratio.

I've rarely seen more than 1-2 at any of the tech events I've gone to there.

I've also heard the crap some programmers say about women (not all but enough to leave a bad taste).

Prior to working in the tech industry I worked in the retail industry and the gender split was pretty much 50/50.
Yes. And journalists cooperate by publicizing non-GAAP figures. My general position, having run Downside.com, is that you're only a "growth" company for a short period, three years at most after you have a product. After that, you better have good GAAP numbers.

When was the last time you saw an "extraordinary item" in a footnote that was excluded from making the earnings look better? Have you ever seen one?

EBDITA is called "earnings before all the bad stuff" by value-oriented analysts.
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Enough of it's luck that it's unlikely that a team would go undefeated for half of a season, but it's also the fact that it's hard to get a team with only the best players; most teams have a mixture of player ability. If you put the best major league team in the minor leagues they'd probably have a 90%+ winning percentage. (Highest MLB season winning percentage is 76%, longest winning streak is 26 games out of 162, including a tie.)
I'm a recruiter (yeah, yeah, recruiters know nothing) and I'm going to call this as a fail. It's INCREDIBLY hard to get even one person employed. The bar is so high at most employers that almost every applicant gets rejected.

So the likelihood of all members of a given set of X people being employed is almost zero.

What happens to the team dynamic when the employer wants to employ Jenny and Steve but not Bill, Mike and Vivek?

This might sound good but it aint going to work.
>I install node, postgres, and redis natively and it all works fine. What benefits does docker provide to my workflow?

Isn't it obvious?

With docker (or vagrant, or at least a VM etc) you can have the SAME environment as the deployment one. If you run OS X or Windows your direct local installs with differ in numerous ways to your deployment. And same if you run Linux but not the same distro or the same release.

And that's just the start.

Who said you'd be working in only one deployment/app at the time? If you need two different environments -- it could be even while working on version 2.0 of the same web app with new technologies--, e.g. one with Node 4 and one with Node 5, or a different postgres version, etc, you suddenly have to juggle all of these in your desktop OS.

Now you need to add custom ways to switch between them (e.g. can't have 2 postgres running on the same port at the same time), some will be incompatible to install together etc.

Without a vm/docker you also don't have snapshots (stored versions of the whole system installed, configured, and "frozen")...
At 193,622 submissions, I wouldn't say "nobody" opts in to popcon:

http://popcon.debian.org/
I thought that too. Maybe the team should be evaluated as a _team_? I mean, forget the individual resumes altogether. If everyone on the proposed incoming team says they're happy with everyone else on the proposed incoming team, then just accept that at face value and hire the team.

Also, if the conventional wisdom is that hiring excellent tech individuals is difficult, then hiring excellent tech teams -- would that be easier or harder than hiring individuals?
Hahahahaha as an avid AoE player I enjoy this observation. Indeed I do always sell my excess food ASAP to drive down the price.
This is so spot on.
Before were able to automate away all this work we'll augment peoples abilities with really smart tools. This concept will end up not necessarily destroying entire job sectors but their job definition will be dramatically different, in the same way a computer used to be a room full of people doing math.
I don't understand people complaining with lots of unread emails.. If you didn't read an email from X days ago or older, you won't ever do it. Just mark as read all [unread] mail from X days ago till the beginning of Time, and you are set to go.
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It should be opt-in, not opt-out.
Super interesting idea, I'd even try it if I was currently purchasing records. Had to slow down on that habit.

I wonder if they are just using Amazon referrals and what not. It would be super cool if they could actually sell things from say, Discogs.
Soundcloud is a terrible mobile app and a slightly better website. I love that I can access vast troves of undiscovered house music - but you couldn't design a worse UI if you tried.

Soundcloud is lame now that the ads have come. Listening to a taco bell ad come on in the middle of my favorite playlist really kils the vibe.
> IE was much more stable

Until Microsoft stopped keeping up with everyone else. You're reinforcing his point, Microsoft would have put everyone else out of business had it not been for antitrust issues. Competition is vital even when it's sub-par because it won't always be.
Uh, this is also dangerous to your security. The truecrypt docs contain very large warnings about this[1]: someone who can see your disk at multiple versions may be able to drastically weaken your security. If you had keys in those truecrypt files, you should rotate them; if you had secrets, consider them compromised.

Truecrypt uses XTS mode, which is Not Great -- it only exists because someone was trying to hammer ciphers into fitting nicely with fixed sized disk sectors, and it makes a number of serious compromises to do so. [2] has a good discussion of this. You do not want to combine XTS with sharing multiple versions of the ciphertext.

tl;dr you've seen the penguin pictures? As [2] cleverly says, you're pretty much doing that to yourself by sharing multiple versions of the file.

There's also significantly more powerful attacks that can be mounted by an adversary that can feed you corrupted blocks which will allow them to permanently compromise your key, or perform other hijinks like manipulating your content without setting off warning bells. Dropbox, or someone that compromises dropbox, is in that position, by nature of the service they're providing. These issues are rooted in the fact that XTS is not an authenticated cipher -- this leads to such an endemic category of subtle problems that it's been nicknamed "The Cryptographic Doom Principle" [3].

So yeah. If your life depends on it... don't store a truecrypt volume in dropbox.

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[1] I found a mirror at http://andryou.com/truecrypt/docs/how-to-back-up-securely.ph... -- and I'll quote, in case that too vanishes:

> IMPORTANT: If you store the backup volume in any location that
> an adversary can repeatedly access (for example, on a device kept
> in a bank’s safe deposit box), you should repeat all of the above
> steps (including the step 1) each time you want to back up the
> volume

... where "step 1" is "Create a new TrueCrypt volume".

[2] http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/04/30/you-dont-want-xts/

[3] http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-cryptographic-doom-prin...
That's an amazingly elegant solution.
You can "do a startup" while working at an existing company. People do it all the time working nights and weekends on a project.
There seems to be a bit of a gap here. AirBnB and Google don't seem like the target market for Triplebyte.
Cool anecdote from Titan, one of countless:

Rockefeller was relentless in ferreting out ways to cut costs. During an inspection tour of a Standard Oil plant in New York City, for instance, he observed a machine that soldered the lids on five-gallon cans of kerosene destined for export. Upon learning that each lid was sealed with 40 drops of solder, he asked, "Have you ever tried 38?" It turned out that when 38 drops were applied, a small percentage of the cans leaked. None leaked with 39, though. "'That one drop of solder', said Rockefeller,...'saved $2,500 the first year; but the export business kept on increasing after that and doubled, quadrupled--became immensely greater than it was then; and the saving has gone steadily along, one drop on each can, and has amounted since to many hundreds of thousands of dollars"' (Chernow 1998, pp. 180-81). Over the course of his career at the helm of Standard Oil, "Rockefeller cut the unit costs of refined oil almost in half" (Ibid., p. 150).
They said right in the article:

"We addressed the players and laid out our goals for the season: to lead the league in the first half, and in the second half, to go undefeated."
This is by and large how I operate. I don't do Facebook. I use Slack at work, because I have to, but I hate RTC in general.

I personally love email. It fits how I do things. I can take the time to compose carefully, it supports more than a sentence or two but is also fine for "me too!" comments, it is a fine quick-n-dirty file transfer tool (so long as you're not mailing a kernel source tarball or pile of RAW images), and, I think most importantly, sets expectations properly.
"Although Standard Oil was eventually forced to break into multiple companies because it was ruled a monopoly, BP, Exxon, ConocoPhillips and Chevron (among others) are all subsidiaries of Standard Oil."

This is not accurate. BP stands for British Petroleum and has never been part of Standard Oil. BP has bought a couple of companies that used to be part of Standard Oil.
It does- I remember enough from Linear Algebra that vector spaces aren't completely foreign, which helps a lot.

I think the generating-function method[1] is a case of pulling out a powertool (generating functions) to prove a simple thing to demonstrate the power of the tool, whereas your explanation takes the direct route and connects more of the threads about why it's true.

[1] found an instance here: http://austinrochford.com/posts/2013-11-01-generating-functi...
Yes, finally, a company that realizes that bringing a team is much better than bringing one employee at a time.
hype, good job.
Oh sure, there's all sorts of integration possibilities. Docker Applets, ActiveDocker, Docker Web Start... ;)
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Yeah. I think you've hit on another danger: group culture clashes.

It seems like an entire team would be more difficult to beat into submission, I mean, acculturate, than just one single person.
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