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> I'm not aware of any serious use of RFC 6091.

Was it really your intention to dismiss my application¹ as not serious?

① https://www.recompile.se/mandos
Way too hard to scale or leverage. No thanks!
Huh? You mean like section 9 of: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/blob/master/docs/manual.txt ?

Or did you mean for quassel in particular? I guess there's wip for it?

http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/projects/quassel-irc/wiki/GSoC_2...
> Philosophy is the practice of looking into questions without clear-cut answers.

Indeed, or the practice of asking questions about the nature of questions, ie. what questions are meaningful, well-formed, yield knowledge, etc. in any given subject.

When you understand the nature of the questions in a particular subject, then you're no longer practicing philosophy, you're gathering knowledge of that subject, ie. math, physics, chemistry, etc.
There are always two boundaries for exponential growth: the amount of desires that can be catered to (as you mentioned), and also the amount of resources available to us.

The second one is instructive because you can derive a nice asymptotic bound for it: If you were to conquer space and harvest all available resources on all reachable celestial bodies, your civilization could cover a growing spherical volume of space, bound by the speed of light. That gives a maximally polynomial growth of available resources, O(t^3), assuming an even distribution of resources in space (over cosmic scales). Now observe that every exponential curve (c^t for any c > 1) will outgrow this t^3 behavior eventually.

Of course, that still does not solve the question of when this outgrowing eventually happens. But I feel like resource availability (bound also by technological advances in resource mining and recycling) will be a stronger constraint on growth than our ability to sell shiny new things to people.
Market cap is not a decent proxy of the magnitude of the value of the company.

EV in it's simplest form is Mkt Cap less Cash plus Debt. Just b/c a company isn't public doesn't mean the value of the equity is unknown.

If you buy the equity of a $100M company that has $90M in Net cash then you really are only paying $10M for it. Likewise, if the company had $1B in Net debt then you are paying $1.1B for it. Theoretically, DB could issue $10B of debt and buyback $10B of equity tomorrow and that reduces their mkt cap dramatically (their regulators wouldn't be too happy about it, though).

My point is that Banks use leverage so mkt cap is NOT a decent proxy of the value of the bank. When you compare valuation of 2 companies using Market Cap for 1 or the other (or both) is VERY misleading, especially when you have one that has a business model that uses leverage.

also, Snapchat has both an EV and Mkt cap.
One other question for the the solo entrepreneurs: how do you keep momentum?

I have a bucketful of ideas, and I'm endlessly energetic in a team context, but trying to do solo projects wears me down quickly.

Maybe this is just a character difference, but if solo entrepreneurs have tricks or methods for keeping going and keeping focused, I'd love to hear them.
Snapchat is in LA, and you have a bunch of tech companies there.
It looks pretty cool.
I think I might switch from OS X to Windows 10 on my laptop someday, maybe after Surfacebook 2 release.
Just hit $1 million/year in sales :)

About 20 years ago wrote a scratch-my-itch B2B desktop software for Windows. Side project for 10 years which is how long it took to reach about $120K to make the switch to full time. Added features and increased price accordingly.

Hired a few more people. Growth is slow but steady. Yearly renewable support contracts are the secret.

Coding is easy, marketing is hard. Persistence, persistence, persistence. In a very crowded niche. Desktop software is definitely not dead - you can charge a whole lot more for it, and ongoing costs (other than people) is comparable to trendy web apps.

Using throwaway so customers don't find this comment.
Ouch! That is really high for just that. Must have been some really one-off stuff for the transfer.

Edit to add:
I guess it really isn't that high at that rate. It made me curious as to what we paid for similar services at the same rate so I had to go check. Ours came in at just about $4000. The TOS/EULA/privacy policy are what ate into ours.
Some previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065530 (2 hours ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12064984 (7 hours ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12064083 (15 hours ago)

Duplicate submissions are now tolerated[0] provided enough time has passed, and the item didn't get any (or much) attention on a previous submissions. But this is four submissions in less than a day.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11237340
A previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8206982
> but their value is generally a multiple of current earnings, not "a pure function of future earnings".

Not sure what your objection is. The function is something like V = 3 * r, where V is the value of the company and r is the annual revenue. Boom, pure function.
I started https://presskithero.com as a Shopify App ~8 months ago, and it is doing around 1k MRR. A few weeks ago I launched a standalone version, which was well received on ProductHunt (https://www.producthunt.com/tech/presskithero).

The Shopify App is growing about ~100$ each month without me doing much.
Unfortunately, the website isn't up yet. I'm focusing on getting people to participate in a pilot project to get feedback and tests right now. I think the Facebook Page should communicate enough of what the device does for now.
> Would it be possible to do this more like GNU configure does? The software specifies what it needs, and the system looks for a version that works. How about check the Haskell code automatically to see what functions it uses?

This gets often suggested every time the version bounds topic comes up (to some degree, that's the direction backpack is going btw). But unfortunately this does not work:

Because what this argument ignores is that you get a similar problem you have with duck-typing on a different level: You assume that the same name & type-signature provides the same semantics. However, the types usually leave too much degree of freedom to provide a proper contract. And you have to find a way to encode that contract.

The best-bang-for-buck way we currently have to encode this contract is... well... the PVP! Version numbers announce the contract, while version bounds define which contract you rely on.

Unless we have a better way to solve this, there's no alternative to the PVP. Unfortunately, so far I have not heard any workable solution from PVP complainers. So that's that.
One wonders why a project would choose a copyrighted image for its logo in this day and age. Felix currently belongs to NBCUniversal, according to Wikipedia.
Snapchat is not 'worth' 17 billion. Some investors start to make money on the investment iff Snapchat exits or IPOs above 17b, but that's about it. The term 'valuation' is completely misleading when applying it to this 17b number.

In fact, due to liquidation preferences in the term sheets Snapchat's true valuation (i.e. the point at which investors actually lose money) immediately post investment, according to basic math, is $0.
Agreed. I'd encourage HN readers to participate in events like this one: https://www.codeforamerica.org/events/national-day-2016
the only way I can see around this would be to give every affiliate a unique hostname on the target domain. then the site owner would identify the affiliate using the hostname of the incoming request. next step in the arms race would then be for an addon to understand per-domain rules for rewriting hostnames. lather, rinse, repeat.
> It would be like "... because of these logical inconsistencies ... x, y, z quantum mechanics is actually governed by hidden variables, q.e.d"

They already do this. Many philosophers of science pursue realist interpretations of QM though, like de Broglie-Bohm, and so they aren't published very widely. The measurement problem is the serious stumbling block for anti-realist interpretations, and why many such philosophers are realists. The measurement problem just doesn't trouble practicing physicists.
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> The danger with math is that it can prove its own truths based on its own internal rules...

Actually, there's a theorem about that ;) Godel's Incompleteness theorem.

I would describe the problem more like: The new model matches the old model in almost everything (because we've observed a lot). But the math works out quite nicely if itty bitty particles behave this way when exploded at super high temperatures. We have a hard time watching those particles explode, so it's not really tested. Either way it works out, it's not really going to matter for anyone who doesn't explode tiny particles.
What other sites do people here browse for more curated news? Like HackerNews but for non-tech/other topics.
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The weechat android experience is amazing. I actually switched to weechat from irssi and irssi connectbot specifically for it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubergeek42...

Quassel did not have nearly as nice a client for mobile and I really prefer terminal based clients on non-mobile platforms.
Maybe it's me having confirmation bias, but the transpiler "market" seems to favor Haskell heavily. "...in Haskell" almost seems superfluous anymore when talking about implementations.
Perhaps youre a spammer? Who knows. Just because you're on HN doesnt make it all good
> I'm honestly a bit surprised that no one makes this argument in favor of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, as it's the only theory which accounts for all experimental evidence while not forcing us to invent a mechanism that "eliminates" the many realities that we don't want to accept, while in fact they arise naturally out of the theory.

I think you're projecting the existence of these worlds. Certainly you could view the equations that way, or you could view the particles as fundamentally real and obeying a non-classical law of motion, as in de Broglie-Bohm, which was actually the first the interpretation to correctly account for measurement.
I used to think this way, then I spent the last decade watching my friends all get rich working at these kinds of companies.

You need to look at the big picture here. Young people aren't watching TV. Ad spend by the likes of P&G, Nike, and the auto industry is still largely on TV. Also, Silicon Valley largely hasn't been able to capture brand advertising -- the spend on billboards, sports stadium advertising, etc vs. direct-response like Google AdWords. Ask anyone in the industry， they'll tell you direct-response spending is a drop in the bucket compared to spend on brand advertising.

Now, tell me, one the ad industry wakes up and realizes how absurd it is to dump billions of ad spend onto a platform with rapidly declining viewership (linear TV), where is all that ad spend going to go?

Maybe a communications platform that's used heavily by young people (great for advertisers), to send pictures and short videos (ads?) to each other in a playful, unhurried manner?

I don't know whether that's worth $20 billion or whatever its "valuation" is, but these dumb cheap shots against ad supported tech company valuation need to end. These platforms are as big as like, several big TV networks combined in viewership, with about 100x better ad targeting. How isn't that worth billions?
DB is actually one of the less well capitalized major banks in the world:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-12/deutsche-b...

As others have pointed out, the German government would probably be ready to bail them out if they ever ran into trouble, though that would likely be a painful process for existing common shareholders.
I really hope nobody mistakes the sexy title of this book as a reason to learn unsafe rust. If it can be done without this advanced feature, it probably should.
Seems so unfair and unprofitable to me that a VC will spin up a competitor in this niche. Good luck!
> Lets see how the story will unfold

You left it unstated that Facebook is now worth $283bln more than Ford. So, yes, the video looks silly for crying wolf back in 2007.

But I'm at a loss to draw the correct conclusion from this. Is it rational that Facebook is now worth 6x as much as Ford?
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There's enough randian evangelism on this forum without inviting more.
> Math is not reality, sometimes it happens to describe reality, sometimes it doesn't

Conjecture. It seems self-evident that our reality reflects the structure of basic discrete mathematics, ie. if there are two apples, eating one leaves 1 apple. No amount of rationalization will refute this fact. The fact is, the basic structure of our world is mathematical in some way.
My life resolves around Ansible and has for the last year and a half. Ansible is a great tool, unfortunately it has a bunch of short comings. Especially now some of these are becoming a major issue.

- Its dependence on Python 2.X, unfortunately all the newer OS's have Python 3.X installed by default. While i have a role for installing this manually it isn't super nice.

- My main devops project consists of 11 different environments, and it manages nearly 2k servers. Trying to write environment agnostic roles is an absolute nightmare. Furthermore my group_vars, host_vars, and dynamic inventories have turned into spaghetti. Why? Because of how confusing variable precedence becomes, when you get into extremely complex hierarchy of group_vars which can randomly break.

- It is really hard to handle cases where playbooks/roles fail and deal with it cleanly. Blocks have helped a bit, but there is no way to grab the exception that caused the playbook to fail.

- The yaml syntax becomes messy fast, Jinja2 is powerful but there are times i wish you could just shove a single line of python into places to prevent the huge mess of with_items, register, set_fact, etc.

- AWS modules are a very mixed bag. A lot of them are missing features, and there is some very weird issues that apparently boto is the cause of (e.g. they should move to boto3). Even then i need to do a huge amount of boilerplate to launch ec2 instances.

- There is no way to share a common group_vars between inventories (all is specific to inventory). Which leads to a lot of duplication. (Yes the symlink trick does work, but causes a bunch of other issues).

I still love Ansible and i would pick it over Chef/Puppet. Salt is also another decent one that has made a lot of progress lately.
Github is not blocked by the GFW. I've never heard of coding.net before, most people here use github in my experience.
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"This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Felix_the_cat.svg ... although then someone disputed that on the Wikipedia page.
NYC has some pretty brutal work life balance expectations in pretty much every industry I've talked to people from.

Outside of SV startups, many companies in the Bay have reasonable hours. There is definitely a workaholic expectation in NYC.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12044872
It is syscall-level emulation. Emulation in this case doesn't mean it has to be slow. I am curious how they implemented `fork(2)`, though.
Is there a Y Combinator for single founders?
I realize this may be your bread and butter, but what kind of news do you find tradable?
I am so disappointed with our Western media and their complicity in shadowy anti-Russia propaganda. I know that Russia has many faults, but over the last few years we have been drip fed so many negative stories about Russia it is crazy. It really feels like we are being mentally prepared for a war that Russia (and most of our own public!) obviously does not want. I find this terrifying.

Look at the actions of the US and NATO in regard to military drills, troop reinforcement and the number of bases and missiles they have pointed at Russia. What is going on? In the UK every month or so we are given stories about Russian aggression and the existential threat they pose to the West. When you start digging into these stories, this stance is not justified in facts.
Nice congrats!

I often hear the same thing, it doesn't matter what your product is, it's how you market it. I still want to make a nice product of course haha but marketing is new to me.

Any generic software marketing tips? I promised myself I wouldn't be one of those annoying startups that emails you ever day or two
The math examples look interesting, standard math notation and all. Though if I got it right, you get standard math notation with the help of TeX when viewing source code, I'm not sure about editing source code (I sure would rather write Matlab or numpy notation than use TeX in source code.)

Where are other biggish examples?

The "styles" page has the biggest bulk of interesting code that I've found in introductory pages: http://felix-lang.org/share/src/web/advocate/styles.fdoc

I guess one always wants to hear an elevator pitch of what a language does that is special relatively to relevant competition. What does Felix have that languages X and Y, its closest competitors, don't have?
> "Coding is easy, marketing is hard"

It took me over five years in this business to fully internalize this. Programmers (me included) often complain about clueless entrepreneurs in this business, but even more rare than a good programmer is a good entrepreneur, who can sell/market and turn code into money.
OCaml has more runtime requirements. Can someone comment on how invasive those requirements are, and whether that would limit adoption of the OCaml version compared with C or rust?
> resolving the issues that string theory does resolve.

Is there a list of such issues somewhere?
But Snapchat is not public and that makes a world of difference. Its valuation is based on a group of investors that likely have a totally different risk tolerance and time horizon that the market as a whole. The terms of their investment are also likely totally different than the terms you get as a standard shareholder of a public company. E.g. if they have liquidation preference, that's going to distort the valuation calculated based on their investments.
>They let Greece go bust rather than the Landesbank.

It more a case they may have to bail out Greece rather than letting it default and take out the Landesbank.

A lot of the problems could be prevented by the German controlled ECB easing monetary policy and aiming for say 2% inflation rather than the present 0%.
This is the direct URL:

https://www.facebook.com/180316078675503/photos/a.2621240171...

"UPDATE INFORMATION BELOW-This morning at approximately 2 am we responded to the report of an Armed Robbery near the intersection of Highway K and Feise Road. We were able to locate four suspects occupying a black BMW a short time later and recover a handgun. These suspects are suspected of multiple Armed Robberies both in St. Louis and St. Charles Counties. It is believed these suspects targeted their victims through the Pokemon Go smart phone application.

Many of you have heard of Pokemon Go, but for those that have not, it is a type of Geo Caching game where you find and capture Pokemon characters at various locations. If you use this app (or other similar type apps) or have children that do we ask you to please use caution when alerting strangers of your future location.

Many of you have asked how the app was used to rob victims, the way we believe it was used is you can add a beacon to a pokestop to lure more players. Apparently they were using the app to locate ppl standing around in the middle of a parking lot or whatever other location they were in."
MathJax is definitely slower, but KaTeX never got the developer attention it deserves, and so still lags in support of even some basic LaTeX environments that are used fairly frequently in math typesetting. Generally the order for software is 1) make it work, 2) make it fast, 3) clean it up, so starting with MathJax makes a lot of sense.

My absolute favourite still is https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php, which is super fast, and has a nicely big input box so you can see all the text you've written, with all the convenient buttons for picking that function of which you can't for the life of you remember the exact syntax. WYSIWYG kind of falls flat when there is so much syntax you can't reasonably be expected to remember all of it.
I've been running Pangaea Learning (https://www.pangaealearning.com) solo for about 6 years now. I recently found a guy who helps me manage the community around Polly Lingual (https://pollylingu.al), but it's mainly me and a small cadre of freelancers. All of our projects have been bootstrapped. Since you're curious about profitability, I'll be honest and say that the golden years of the App Store are probably behind us (or at least me) and I'm starting to seriously entertain other work possibilities.
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> However if you intend to write unsafe code -- or just want to dig into the guts of the language -- this book contains invaluable information.

Agreed, however I think the latter part of the intro is worthwhile to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of Rust.

I've always found that a in depth understanding of what you use pays off in unforeseen ways.
I thought it was high too, I was expecting ~3k. Apparently the terms alone took them 6 hours haha.. pretty boilerplate stuff I'm sure, oh well, next time I'll try and push for faster results if they want the business
So you can't buy effective decongestant or other medicine that isn't spiked with caffeine or painkillers because you might try and turn it into a meager amount of a controlled substance, or more likely burn yourself in the process.

But nobody is monitoring when a doctor prescribes tons of opioids. Prescribing something seems like a privilege granted by the state, so clearly it should be the DEA monitoring this, but apparently this article is more keen to blame the salespeople at the manufacturer?!
Comparing Snapchat with Deutsche Bank sounds like a (bad) joke. Snapchat could go bankrupt and everyone would laugh at it... DB will never go bankrupt and here's a simple pic that explains why:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbBMXbTWAAAl-PG.png

It's another league. That could cause a x10 times Lehman. Too big to fail. If DB falls, the rest of the world follows suit...

Another pearl from the article:

> If the rot isn't stopped soon, Europe will have found a novel solution to the too-big-to-fail problem -- by allowing its banks to shrink until they're too small to be fit for purpose.

Really? and what about the derivatives exposure?
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It's true. I have a 30k+ LoC project, and it has zero unsafe code blocks.

Though I do have another project that exports a C API, and that requires unsafe, though it's literally only for wrapping/unwrapping pointers.
Yep, this times a ten thousand. It took me years to unlearn all of the "marketing is all bullshit" attitudes I grew up with. Whole different set of skills to learn, and not like, say, imperative->FP. Much harder.
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"How isn't that worth billions?"

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It has been blocked by the GFW a few times. I guess having it go down like that unpredictably would push people towards coding.net? But the l10n is probably a much bigger factor for why anyone would use coding.net?
The title seems to suggest that this due to the Brexit, but in reality the value of Deutsche Bank has been in decline since the financial crisis of 2007-2008.

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-epic-collapse-deutsche...