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For the past 10 months or so I've been part of a 3 person team that is bootstrapping. I can't count how many times I've been looked at like I have two heads when I tell someone that no we don't have funding, and we aren't looking for it, and we aren't planning on looking for it, and we're not entirely sure we even want it. And when I tell someone that we're more worried about building a sustainable business that can stand on its own I might as well be speaking a foreign language.
(EDIT: Didn't notice that the emphasis in parent is a quote from grandparent. So consider the numbers below to further support parent rather than contradict it)

Your numbers doesn't show that at all.

9.7% up in a year is roughly 0.775% average per month compounded. Assuming even growth through the year, which is obviously a simplification, to reach 9.7% at the end of the year you'd want to have appreciated 6.3% by now, so 6.7% doesn't sound all that bad.

85.4% over 5 years is roughly 13%/year compounded. Since 1950, the annualised average return of the S&P500 have fluctuated between -3.6% and 19.3% [1], so both the 1Y and 5Y are well within the norm. If 9.7% were to hold through a full decade, it'd still be far above the median per-decade averages.

[1] http://www.simplestockinvesting.com/SP500-historical-real-to...
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> Google's DNS servers are the most heavily cached and carefully monitored on the Internet

Is your point that we trust Google's DNS too much?

> most batshit aspect of DNSSEC: validation is done on the servers and not on the endpoints (you "can" do endpoint validation, in the same sense as you "can" run your own recursive caching server locally).

You "can" and we "should" be validating this at the client. So why don't we start doing this? We should be beating on the security layer in DNS as heavily as we do with HTTPS and other TLS implementations.

> This is a relic of the early-mid 1990s, when the core DNSSEC design was finalized and any kind of encryption was thought to be too expensive to deploy to end-systems. It's also the reason DNSSEC is signing-only, with no privacy protections.

There are several proposals at this point that resolve the privacy issue, DNSCrypt, DNSCurve, and DNS over TLS.

> But we're still forced to live with that bad decision, because nobody in the IETF wants to admit they were wrong

Given the number of revisions to the DNS RFCs, specifically around DNSSec, I don't think it would be accurate that they didn't admit being wrong, people are constantly working to resolve issues with the system.
I think you mean in the world, not all countries are that big.
True, but at least some of the accusations seem to imply criminal behaviour on part of the founder(s). Manipulating screenshots from the bank and passing them off as real sounds like forgery to me -- but I admit I'm not intimately familiar with the US criminal justice system.

That said, of course there are safe conclusions to draw from this story (especially the ones that hold true in general) but all personal accusations should always be taken with a grain of salt, especially if you have no personal knowledge of any of the people involved.
Is there evidence these things are happening more often? Or are they just getting more exposure recently?
Yes, they included amphetamines in their study.
I've basically stopped using the word startup because at this point it seems to apply primarily to companies that only care about vanity metrics and nothing else. The word has been hijacked by investors and founders who want companies to appear profitable so they can cash out.
Keep shilling. I had never hard about it until now. I love the simplicity.

We need more libraries that just do one thing well instead of kitchen sink frameworks like angular.
I always defined "being happy" as being satisfied. And being satisfied can be defined as "being the way you want to be". So in that sense I think happiness IS a kind of ultimate goal. I may have stretched the definition of happiness a little, though.
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Yahoo is (among other things) a news organization. Of course they are going to publish this, it's clearly newsworthy. Presumably for Yahoo to get ahold of the PDF in the first place, someone else that wasn't supposed to share it did so, but that's not a reason to be mad at Yahoo.
Model 3 will offer supercharger access as a subscription, not a free bundle included with the purchase price http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/06/no-free-superchargers-fo...
The business I'm in is media. It's been around before the internet.
Vouchers are central planning (each person should spend this much money on this particular good). Cash is distributed planning.
The industrial revolution had a much greater impact on labour than anything we are seeing happening today.

Previous to this era - humans and animals did everything.

Can you imagine how many buggies the steam engines put out?

But the factories employed a lot of people who would have been doing other things.

Since then, we've constantly been going through this process.

Moreover - the biggest impact on labour today is not automat ion - it's cheaper labour in the rest of the world.

As factories become a little more automated, it will start at the bottom - with the simplest tasks. Those jobs are already mostly outsourced. 'Automation' is going to hit China harder than it hits the US.

As for 'basic income' - even applied in a normal context without the treat of disastrous unemployment ... 'means tested welfare' is one option. If we adjusted it a little so that people could possibly find work while still on welfare without losing benefits, this would take away some of the limitations.
You can't cast a browser window, but you can cast videos : http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/google-adds-chrome...
You might surprised how spacious half a queen bed can be, and he looks to be fit and trim overall. I don't think he's likely to have much trouble.
> Is increasing scammer activity a sign of the tail-end of a market hype?

Absolutely, it's a leading indicator. Fraud rates skyrocketed prior to the stock market crash in 1929 and then again prior to the 2008 crash.
Aha!

Then you put a tiny corundum crystal inside a tiny padlocked box, and permanently affix it to the ring. (Or perhaps the ring has a lockable box portion.) Now the ring cannot be stolen without also stealing an object that is inside a padlocked box. Safe to mail.
.. exactly - you have done them just fine - but have you tried getting good at any of those activities ? I ski and jump competitively (on the bush league level) and I can honestly say that I did not enjoy either until I devoted a shitload of time and money to get decent .
Although I've been waiting for wireless screen-sharing between TV and PC for a long time, that sounds much more difficult than a simple HDMI cable to my laptop. It's actually one of the reasons I continue to buy laptops.
You can find a bunch of the stuff that was actually developed by Impressions Games (Caesar/Pharoah/Zeus, Lords of the Realm) on GOG. I'm still waiting for a rerelease of Civil War Generals, though... I keep a Windows 98 VM around to play that once in a while...
It is not a question of volume. It just does not play on the TV. Here's the error I get.

http://imgur.com/a/Hpzmb
This but slightly more organized is pretty much the standard answer for anti-hoarding: put all your stuff away, keep track of what you actually use over the next week/month/year, and get rid of anything that hasn't been touched.
A broken clock is right two times a day.
I think the notation is imprecise.

The quantity the author describes is commonly called the working set. His explicit thesis is that the time to process the working set is related to the size of the working set regardless of computational complexity. He spends the entire first part of his discussion belaboring this point with a linked list example. He goes on to do a systems analysis of the results and concludes that time of execution is system dependent not complexity dependent. Again using the same algorithm engaging with a larger and larger memory system.

Generally engineers would experience this important principal in a more binary way, once their program started swapping to disk, its performance would fall through the floor.

If you hold the size of the datum constant (and that is important), then processing fewer of them will take less time than processing more of them.

The argument you make, as I understand it is as follows;
Consider two algorithms that process N and P datums respectively to achieve the same computational result, and where N > P. There exists an algorithm such that P datums takes less per unit time to process than N. Resulting in a violation of my Lemma because Oi(P) > Oi(N) but Ot(P) < Ot(N). And you cite cache obliviousness as the principle that enables that violation.

Would you agree that I have accurately summed up your argument?
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Maybe this event will announce such a thing - programming is on their mind too:

http://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/
The FTSE graph before and after Brexit is incredibly misleading. The reason equities rose is because the Pound depreciated to a historical low. The value of that stock in FTSE in other currencies of course declined.
Since Google Cast has been open-sourced (upstreamed to Chromium), does this make it the de-facto alternative to Miracast? My Roku supports screen mirroring, but the fact that apps and companies are more keen on supporting ChromeCast has been frustrating.
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There comes a point where the latency is high enough that you're very unwilling to pay for random access. And very often that point is "broadcast over a network," where think time really is often dominated by things like the speed of light. So yes, it's still n * sqrt(n) in some abstract sense (where n is the amount of theoretically available memory within a given distance over the network); in practice it's much worse than that because you never come close to saturating all the available space between computers with storage nodes.
So far there haven't been any kind of a Brexit. It is even completely unknown how a Brexit might look like. And if there ever will be a Brexit at all.
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It appears that Google will eliminate Chrome "packaged apps" in the next year; do I understand these to be locally installed apps? (I don't know Chrome). All apps after that must be on (a service?) the web. What could be the reason behind this?
"Looks like a Mac."

Come on now, no it doesn't. Looks like the HP computer remoted into a Mac, maybe.
Sure, although that might be a more complicated work relationship if you aren't working for yourself.
Not sure if it works with desktops/laptops, but there is a guest mode (disabled by default) in the settings (on the Android app) that allows anyone to add thing sto the player queue.

Only app I know for sure it works is Youtube. I'm not sure what other app handles it, maybe GPM and Spotify.
It smells like this is becoming more and more common. Small startups with outsized redults for founders and employees, instead of big startups with small results for founders and miniscule results for employees.

It seems like the trend has been growing for the past 5 to 6 years. Or I've been wrapped in the microconf crowd bubble and have a bonkers read on reality.
This is essentially the same solution I came up with. I'm not sure it needs to be optimized assuming we can set the starting state and the strategy for every prisoner.
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I think you're missing the fact that the OP was responding to "rm -rf /" and saying that stocks have not been stagnating.
Especially since they're using Apple's trademarks ("A fully-functional Mac"). These folks don't have a snowball's chance in hell.
It's still much more efficient than if all of the cars had been running gasoline engines.
HacBook isn't a new computer, but a service that takes the HP EliteBook line and loads Hackintosh onto them before resale.

Claiming equivalent specs as a MacBook Pro is obviously compelling, but that's more of an issue for Apple underspeccing its products per dollar than legitimizing macOS alternatives.
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Latest news show (imho) that Earth's ecosystem tend to be ruined in current century. We'll just fly to Mars then, right?
I'm pretty sure his numbers were intended to show that stock returns are currently very healthy and not stagnating.
That might mean Penny actually meant JobSonic when she called the company name "anti SEO". Amazing they replaced it with one that's almost as bad (1for.one). At least the new one (WrkRiot) is googleable...
Are you serious? This is the original purpose of BitTorrent. It was not invented as a "warez technology", but as a way for service providers to save on bandwidth costs when serving huge files. Back when BitTorrent spec was written hosting a collection of large datasets like this meant paying thousands of bucks in hosting expenses, making it prohibitively expensive for most independent developers.
By similar assumption, every terminating algorithm running on a real computer (having bounded memory) is O(1). This is technically true, but not useful.

Most people assume the average memory access will be reasonably fast (why we have a cache hierarchy in the first place). Sometimes the growth of it matters, sometimes it does not.

Algorithm complexity is not something to be memorized, but analyzed.
Great writeup! Very enjoyable read but, at least for me, the last part "Thoughts on the Van Life" was the best. All the best!
Most disgusting act of 'philanthropy' ever?
Pretty sure the impact of adding nuclear waste to the sun is more or less zilch.
shit, if people pay that much for a 8P8C RJ-45 / copper shielded cable, imagine how much I can sell a $4.50 duplex LC/UPC singlemode fiber cable for if I wrap it in a fancy carbon fiber looking jacket. At least $13,995.
Sure, all the information about those people is out there now, but we don't know the state of information that she had available to her before this.

It's good that you stopped by to point out that you're better than others, though. Looks good on you.
"Take the Star Trek universe (where they got rid of money)"

The Star Trek universe is basically ridiculous on this concept.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with money - moreover, it's basically nutbars to talk about getting rid of it.

Money is a medium of exchange so that when we accumulate 'value creation' we can apply that to things we want, rather than have to barter for them (I'll trade you 2 hours consulting for a new pair of shoes).

Money is extremely useful. Star Trek got rid of it for ideological reasons - Gene Roddenberry was a little bit of a communist. Those ideas used to be popular i.e. 'If we only got rid of money everything would be fair'.

As far as 'division of land' - it's not just land - it's everything. ALL surpluses need to be divided somehow. Unless a centralized state entity steps in and decides all prices (i.e. Soviet Union), well, you let people exchange their services for 'social credit' (i.e. money) and then let them exchange the money for other things and services.

"The more the deep you get into these questions the more artificial the way human society is structured seems. "

There's nothing 'artificial' about it. It's called 'comparative value' and it's a cornerstone of capitalism.
Actually this is how the chromecast works. You never interact with the chromecast directly to configure your Netflix account for example. I assume (hope) they send a URL to the movie it should play with a one-time token to access the movie source.
"I did have the drive train replaced at about 65,000 miles and the battery replaced at about 76,000 miles"

Is that a regular occurrence?
Google Play Music support was one of the main reasons I added a Chromecast to my setup. It's a frustrating gap in the wide variety of content that Roku can handle.
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A different solution to the Box in box problem, with less math:

Consider the square of (length + with + height). The sum of the diagonal terms is the square of the distance between opposite corners, the sum of the off diagonal terms equals half the area of the boxes. We can show that both these terms are smaller for the innermost box.

It’s obvious for the diagonal terms, as the opposite corners of a box are the two points of the box that are furthest apart. So the opposite corners of the inner box must be separated by less than the opposite corners of the outer one.

For the cross diagonal terms: take axes that are aligned with the inner box. Consider the parts of the outer box that would be projected on the inner box if you projected either on the x&y, x&z, or y&z planes (i.e. you project on the faces of the inner box). These six pieces of the outer box don’t intersect, and each of them is larger than the face of the inner box on which they project. So this part of the outer box has an area bigger than the total are of the inner box.
QED
There isn't any doubt about tptacek's credibility.

He points out how dnssec puts control in the hands of whatever government controls the domain, and your counter argument is about the strength of keys used to do so.

It makes your argument seem less like an argument on the merits of the issue and whether or not tptacek is a credible voice in the matter. Further, to call his arguments FUD takes you further down a path that is not increasing your own credibility.
Yes. This is what I came to say. Big-O assumes a model of computation. Typically people assume a random access machine with certain constant time operations like arithmetic. In some models arithmetic might not be O(1) (e.g., in a pure lambda calculus it's O(n)). A random access machine model makes a bunch of simplifying assumptions that don't actually hold in practice. As the article suggests, if you're writing code in industry it's not a bad idea to understand how your specific hardware differs from the model.
I read your story on reddit a little while ago. Its a really interesting choice and I applaud your sense of adventure. What I don't get was the swap to a Mercedes diesel. Your argument for it made sense, but why not a toyota diesel, for example? :)
Up to 8gb of RAM? Sandy Bridge? It's the same specs as 2012 MBP, except it allowed up to 16GB of RAM.
I think it deserves to be slightly more nuanced than that. There is a category of things that are small, used rarely, but very necessary. Medicine & tools always come to mind. For me, if I don't use my screwdrivers for a year that doesn't mean I should get rid of my screwdrivers.
Got sick and tired of prebuilt laptops so I built my own modular laptop system
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Give me a break. The issue is not only that Trump has taken a "soft stand" on Russia, as you put it. It's that the guy running his campaign (Paul Manafort) has very clear ties to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine, and Trump himself appears to have financial ties to Russia. Not to mention that everything the guy is saying publicly about Russia is against even the Republican playbook, so it looks like he is aligning closer to Russia over the United States.

http://www.politifact.com/global-news/article/2016/may/02/pa...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/us/politics/donald-trump-s...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-financ...

http://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/
Place your bets people,

how many nanoseconds till this gets a C&D from apple?
Looks like they've since replaced it with a SHA256 cert. It was issued on the 22nd, so apparently they were already in the process of fixing it when this was posted to HN.
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Intercooler.js is quite cool.
It has been available for quite a while, but only for videos (they added a button in the video player).

If you want to cast a tab, while it's not the optimal solution, you can cast your whole screen using the quick settings tile.
Neat. But please check if a name is taken, so we don't have to tell people that we used Fork to checkout a copy of the Linux source tree, and fix a bug in Fork.
That strategy is working great in Rio and Sao Paolo, perhaps you could visit and report back on their success.
Throw away!

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You always land in "your" cycle, because you start with the box with your name on it.

All sequences of box-opening that use the method described must eventually cycle, because both box-to-name mappings are 1-to-1. Because it's a cycle, the sequence must eventually lead back to the box you started with. Since you start with the box with your name on it, then whatever cycle you landed it, it definitely contains the box with your name on it, because that box is the one that completes the cycle. The only question is whether the cycle is length-50 or less.
Ignoring the many, many reasons this is going to be taken down very shortly, the specifications are a joke.

The "HacBook":

1600x900 display
"Up to" 8 GB RAM
Sandy Bridge i5
"Up to" 1 TB HDD

My factory 2013 MBP, to which this is supposed to be equivalent:

2800x1800 display
16 GB RAM
Sandy Bridge i7
512 GB SSD

Come on [whoever is behind this]. If you're going to distribute hardware prepare a really nice laptop running Ubuntu or Linux Mint and sell it to geeks with hardware support.
I've run into a lot of people who found angular hard to pick up; it's not just you.

One of them now works on the React team, and I found it pretty easy to pick up from the official docs: https://facebook.github.io/react/ . I recommend not bothering with stuff other than the base react library at first (although jsx/babel is nice); you can use react without it and potentially learn that later.

It's also totally valid to just start with basic js/html/jquery. The Mozilla's MDN docs for most html/js things are decent, and jQuery's api docs are pretty good in my experience.
It's the same 37.5 hours with all office jobs where I live, Finland. Blue-collar jobs are 8 hours per day (1 hour unpaid lunch implied), they then accumulate more holiday days so that the annual working time is roughly the same.
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You're right; I was thinking the same after I posted. There certainly is a parallel. I suppose I've never given thought to whichever edition of a book I've read.
Even if it wouldn't have declined, the non reaction could just mean that Mr. Market doesn't believe that Brexit will ever happen.
Instapaper actually does this. You can have it e-mail everything you've added to Instapaper to your Kindle as a kind of personally curated newspaper. It's not well publicized but is relatively easy to configure in your Instapaper account.
> A group of them then read an open letter on Fox News about it, and the reading, while not carried on major networks...

Fox isn't a major network? (Or did you mean "not carried on other major networks?)
What a bummer about that engine blowing up, after all that work :(

But great to see you took that as a character building exercise and kept going!
At the time I thought it made sense... of course hindsight is great.

If I wanted a Toyota diesel, I would have just bought a Toyota, but I didn't want that.

The reason for the merc is that the engine I chose (the OM606) is the most sophisticated non-computer controlled diesel possible - actually it came from the factory with a computer, but by using the injection pump from the earlier OM603 it can be made fully mechanical. This is a boon for repairs, simplicity, and the ability to burn basically anything like kerosene. It also means it's powerful and efficient, and mileage was my number 1 goal.

Also, that Merc engine happens to come from the factory in many cars with exactly the same gearbox as in my Jeep (the NSG370), so things made sense there. Jeep have also used Merc diesels in the past (not in the Wrangler), so that made sense too.

It was an ambitious plan, and I'm glad that I tried, even though it didn't work out in the end.

That aside, I'm in west Africa now, having the time of my life :)