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Don't forget the part where you're told that "it's fine if you want to create a mom-and-pop business"—which is apparently defined as anything that isn't venture-backed.
Just to point out, the 'difficult' step here is really the torrent download. If you already have the file locally, you can send it to your tv in a couple clicks using Videostream. Assuming everything works as you hope, it's more convenient than plugging in a cable for me at least.
Amazing comments in this thread. Just amazing. It's as if the weapon is working right here.
In a LucasFilm game, the inmate would escape and return to where they were hanging out before, and you would have to apprehend them again, as many times as it takes before you remember to secure your weapon before taking the inmate into jail.
That's actually a very important question. Is Google opening up casting in the widest sense to 3rd party clients? I know there was some push in this direction when it was launched ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_and_Launch ) but I seem to recall hearing that there is now more to Google Cast than DIAL. Does anyone know how interoperable this all is?
> If the light is on when F gets to the room, they turn the light off, and they increment their counter.

Who is they???
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I solved it a little differently than the suggested method.

The suggested solution requires a box that is capable of being locked in both the lid and box by two padlocks. It also requires (Spoiler!) the ring to make two pointless transits, which could be expensive if it was large.

What if, instead, the box was capable of admitting only one padlock? Then Jan would padlock it closed. On receiving the locked box, Maria locks her padlock to Jan's, and returns the box (still locked with Jan's padlock, and not necessarily containing anything.) Then, on receiving the box back from Maria, Jan can form a chain that can be broken by either his padlocks (which he can remove) or by Maria's padlock (which she can remove). Then he can attach the chain to any box. Perhaps he should clip one more of his padlocks only to hers, so she can also select a new box.

Of course, this relies on some properties of padlocks that are not necessarily transferrable to cryptography.
Well if you haven't been paid wouldn't that be breech in contract in which case I don't know how the contract would be enforceable.
I guess that's what I'm confused about: when we start, the boxes we map our names to have nothing to do with the name in the box. Just because my cycle includes the box I got assigned to, doesn't mean that cycle includes the box with my name inside it. If my name maps to 89, then sure, I accept 89 is a LT-50 cycle, but why does it mean that that cycle actually contains my name (as opposed to the box we assigned me to)?
In which case the value will reach $0. That's called depreciation...
Do you really need one? Sourcetree is awful. Slow. Bloated. It even fails to dim non-available UI elements all over the place. Doesn't know how to use checkbox widgets correctly.

I love the 5-6 seconds of waiting for its UI to gradually, slooowly, update itself after you do virtually any operation, no matter how simple.
I don't think you can say it'd be due to Silicon Valley when there are so many global factors at play/to blame.
The act of writing a script to validate the data says otherwise.

Also the people who use Excel as a primary tool are not the type that write unit tests in Python generally. Or would even think to do something like that. That is my point. You, as a developer, would think of something like that. It's not that you couldn't write similar tests with excel (you could, in any .NET language). But that you thought of doing so.
The OP hasn't actually said that he turned down funding just that he wasn't looking for it and not sure he (?) wanted it.

This is really similar to someone saying they aren't looking for a job. It's implied I guess that if someone offered them a million dollar job (where they had been making $100k) with complete freedom and great working conditions they'd at least consider it.

Your point is taken though and very possibly might also mean "I take the high road and would turn it down no matter what". (Which doesn't mean they would of course just that they say they would).
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The WSJ had a similarly out of touch cross-section a while back http://www.wsj.com/news/interactive/WEALTH0105
Because I have dyslexia and command lines are torture for me.

Do you really need to justify people making tools more usable? Seriously? Isn't it enough to say, "if there's a quality UI, way more people can comfortably use the tool."
Put.io will do this too and even convert to mp4 for you, but it costs $9/mo.
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A lot of people are pointing out that BigO is a purely theoretical, mathematical model that should be understood and used properly without regard to silly details like physics.

That is theoretically correct. But, the difference between theory and practice is that in practice there exists a large percentage of programmers writing code for the real world without understanding and using BigO properly. Their mental model of performance begins and ends with BigO. As far as they are aware, its model is reality.

Source: I've been giving a large number of programmer job interviews lately. It's a rare day when I encounter an engineer (even a senior one) who is aware of any of the issues brought up in this series. And, I work in games!
Because RVs suck for a lot of things. First, you're restricted where you can drive. You won't be touring the finer dispersed camping sites down some bumpy, rock-strewn forest road in an RV. Or even (for example) Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier NP if your RV is outlandishly large. Second, anything bigger than a camper van and your choices of paid campsites is reduced. For instance, over the U. S. Labor Day holiday I'm camping in a state park spot restricted to vehicles 16 feet or shorter. Our VW Westfalia is fifteen feet long. Lastly, for me personally, I just don't want to drive something that big.

So buy a camper van? Meh, you could. Good luck, because there's a reason we ended up with a 35 year old VW instead of new. Despite having the money for new, we were at a loss to find something that wasn't outlandishly expensive or outlandishly large. Sure, there are the Sprinter conversions...for north of $100K. I'm not throwing dogs in a vehicle that costs more than my first house. There are other options, Campmobile and the like, and when the Westy dies we'll probably go with something like that. But plan ahead, because it's not like they keep those on the showroom floor, and though fairly-priced IMO, still spendy. So in the end, we just got a turn-key Westfalia. But it's 35 years old, so you better be ready to turn a wrench, which the author said he wasn't. That leaves building his own.

What I really want is a brand new VW pop-top van, as are still sold in Europe. But those don't go to the U. S. :-( I imagine that since one can buy a bigger Class C (or a lightly used baby Class A, even) for around $60K, $60K for a small pop-top VW isn't going to be a big hit in the "bigger is better" U. S. Me, I'd pay the $60K because it's smaller, but I'm obviously in the minority.
Pretty off topic, but is Chris O'Neill huge? Or did they choose very small people to flank him in the photo for the article?
2.) Baby diapers?
The author does address this point in part three of the series where he compares access times to a small area of a larger memory region. Even with absolutely sequential access to an array of size K, you first have to find this particular array in your larger memory region of size N, giving you total cost to iterate over the full array as O(sqrt(N) + K).

I am not sure how costly it is to iterate through your entire memory (assuming a no-op), but I would argue that eventually you reach some bottleneck and end up at O(sqrt(N)+N), too.
But they're very useable. Perhaps utilitarian. While I personally use the CLI 90% of the time, these fill in the gaps nicely.
Yes. It used to be neocons. In time, it will be something else.
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That being said, I have been thinking of a DNSSEC2 which would use online signing only to make the protocol simpler for example. And a replacement for DANE that focuses on pinning CAs would also be a good idea.
The best/worst/average issue is orthogonal to the definition of what big-O means. The time it take an algorithm has best/worst/average cases, and each of these is a function and thus is a member of big-O classes.

The definition of big-O has a completely standardized and unambiguous definition, and the author of the article somehow has a four-part blog post on big-O without knowing it.
I am having a hard time with this article. On the one hand, it resonates with me DEEPLY.

"Sure, it's cliché, but it's cliché for a reason -- this subconscious drive for freedom is hard-wired in our DNA. No modern comfort or toy can take the place of true autonomy."

On the other hand, I can't deny certain life comforts. Relationships come to mind when considering a life like this. Sure, living frugally on the road while coding your own project sounds exhilarating. But I wonder how I'd feel without my significant other?

I guess what I want more than a life in a van, is economic freedom with a home.
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I think Angular takes a considerable amount of time to wrap your head around. I think the largest issues that you will most likely run into is an ng-repeat with large collection of objects (which, due to dirty checking, may impact your site), memory leaking, and using multiple controllers or controller as syntax.

I used Mithril for a while and it opened up my eyes as far as thinking "functionally"; it makes your code easier to understand and extend.

If you use filters functionally with Angular, you can get great performance on large collections in a ng-repeat. Likewise, if you understand prototypical inheritance, it will make working with multiple controllers/states a lot easier.

I really enjoy developing Angular, but it took a lot of time to really process. jQuery just works out of the box, but for me, it feels like it is more for little snippets of codes across various pages. It just depends on what you are trying to do.
There are a couple of e-ink readers that run Android eg Onyx BOOX, MIDIA, Icarus. However they're all tiny vendors, often no play store by default, and old versions of android.

I'd love a good quality eink tablet that runs recent stock versions of Android with play store. Ideally I wouldn't have to jailbreak. Surely there is a big market for this - there are hundreds of color screen tablets like - surely a few eink ones are possible? Any suggestions?
I've said this before on HN, and it got kind of laughed off, but I really think the next stepping stone toward autonomous cars is drone cars.

That is, having remote drivers assisted by all the "autopilot" features that improve situational awareness. These features make it easier to drive a car in person, but they could also be used to make it easier to remote a car.

I see many possibilities for this. Designing cars that don't have a driver seat, holding more passengers. Having passengers be able to face each other.

Remote pilots handoffs to other pilots via overlapping handshake. Might be able to figure out a way for multiplexing multiple cars across a smaller group of pilots.

Anyway, I think this is far more achievable than self driving in the near term.
The best ones actually are similar to what you are highlighting, but started by someone with a Phd in physics [1] and/or an MD that they walked away from to get in on the lottery.

[1] Note that I do not know what the job market is for people with Phd's in Physics so pick another advanced degree as an example. I do know the market for MD's though.
> All the KQ games do seem poorly designed in retrospect but I do remember chugging through the first few of them through trial and error. I've wondered if that perseverance is something that is part of the stupid bullheadedness of youth (or the weakness of age), or if at the time, we just accepted that games were supposed to be unfair and cruel.

A) We've come a looong way in terms of game abilities, and design. Designers were learning a lot back then.

B) Games were expensive. I couldn't just go buy another game for ~$20 if I didn't like the one I had, so I stuck with it.

C) Games were logistically harder to come buy. I had to go to a store, then pick up a new one. Now I just download a new one without ever putting on pants.
It's not just homebrew, they're part of most standard git distributions (fully cross platform!)
Wow, this just takes it to a whole new level
> In my opinion AI-powered Sales Assistant, should check old/new customers, get information about their needs, check whether they need to buy product again, find new leads, tell Sales Manager about them, for further decision making and many more things it should capable of doing.

Not to detract from your point, but as an aside I always find it interesting when comments like this are made.

I'll paraphrase a thought from Nick Bostrom in "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" that development in AI for the most part will be a series of small incremental steps, to the extent as to redefine our definition of AI as we solve each seemingly astonishing problem. The redefinition occurs as we understand how these solutions work, label them and let them become as familiar to us as Goal Trees, Rule-Based Expert Systems and Neural Nets are to us now.

Would we be as similarly disappointed at the level of intelligence of "AI" at a time when we do have products capable of doing as tuyguntn indicates?
Startups are companies designed to grow fast. This is not hire fast, but capture the market. The money is the rocket fuel to achieve escape velocity.
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Doesn't capital also come with the expectation/pressure you need some sort of liquidity event in the next X years because the VC's fund depends on it?
Escrow really doesn't exist on a personal level today - why would people suddenly go from the current situation to being perfectly find putting hundreds/thousands of dollars in an escrow account in the future? What do we do about people who can't afford that?
Don't assume that the private votes follow the same pattern as the public votes. When you have an election where there is public shaming of people voting for one side, even exit polls are off.

For example, in the "should Scotland leave Great Britain" referendum, there was a lot of public pressure for voting to leave. Those who voted to remain were much more quiet, but in the end, they were the majority. I was actually in vacation just before the vote. Even as an outsider, I could tell that the leave faction was much more vocal, but the remain faction was quietly solid.
Better yet, is any new business a startup? Having been around business for a long long time I tend to see it as fitting a particular mold in terms of tech type product offering, young staff, desire to get venture funding, talking the talk and walking the walk. I think I know it when I see it but I can't even think of all of the qualifiers.
Everyone is downvoting you because the conversation is about an employee relationship. Quoting atria, "You don't understand the difference between a statutory employee and independent contractor."

There is no special exception for startups where employee salaries are exempt from payroll taxes. It is also illegal for a company to pay you as a contractor when you are really an employee. What you propose sounds exactly like breaking the law.

Also, a company which proposes this arrangement takes on the liability that the 1099 contractor could come back in the future and sue for the taxes and benefits that a W2 employee would have received. That happened to Microsoft a few years ago.

I was giving you a chance to demonstrate that this practice is common and that you know what you are talking about.

However, given your posting history I should have expected continued blustering where you demean others for lack of knowledge. Why, just the other day you said that I, spouse of an Army vet who did two tours in Iraq, didn't have exposure to family members in the military. Now you say that I, employee of two startups and founder of two more, have no startup experience.

No one in this thread says a startup company needs a payroll system. The question is about paystubs for employees, which the employer can even do by hand.
Sweet. Comments and questions.

1. I don't see much information about manufacturing specifics, as people care about everything from the switches in keyboards to how much battery life you get out of each battery, you need loads more details on the site. Do you have any plans of more photos, marketing material, specifics etc?

2. Do you have plans on open sourcing your designs so people can make their own modular ad on things?

3. The configuration wizard is slick, and the options are obviously tailored towards high end, are you thinking the only market for modular custom will be high end, or do you plan on expanding it?
You can write tests for an excel spreadsheet if that is your thing. In fact Excel can be driven and automated by any .NET language. It is quite extensible. But most people don't do that because they are not developers and the word "unit test" is not part of their routine.

Which is why they will not be switching to python or R any time soon and even if they do, it will still have similar issues as the Excel version.

Just because you know how to use git history, diffs, etc.. to spot differences in code doesn't mean that is going to help the layperson.
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if you think this is about terrorism you have not been paying attention. It is to catch money launderers. It has been shown time and time again that people are stupid and post pics of cash, cars, jewelry, etc to social media
> you can buy a house just about anywhere in the country, which means you can find a house for $50k instead of $500k.

Hell, depending on weather you can buy naked land and live in a shack or a tent.
I wouldn't. It's nice to show these effects in practice. In fact, I would have added a part 1.5 that gave theoretical bounds for how much heat can be dissipated from a volume that contains N bits.
That's called an hash chain[1], they've been around for a while. In my country, receipts systems are actually required to implement hash chaining to allow the authorities to detect "missing" receipts (for tax-avoidance control purposes).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_chain
Excellent article with a lot of practical process considerations. I've got a newfound appreciation for colorized polymers.
> If the car comes back undamaged, the video is deleted

Lol
The fact that the entire drivetrain was replaced sounds bad, unless you understand the unique way that Tesla handles service. Their cars are actually designed so the drivetrain can very easily be removed and replaced, so when there's any kind of problem, they just go ahead and replace the whole thing for the sake of expediency. Then they can refurbish the damaged drive unit on their own schedule and use it to repair the next car that comes in with drivetrain problems.

Because of this, they'll sometimes replace the whole drivetrain for something as minor as an odd sound. A drivetrain replacement doesn't mean the same thing that it does with your typical gas car.

Similar deal with the battery pack. It just drops right out of the bottom of the car, so it makes for a better service experience if they can just replace it and give the car straight back rather than leaving the owner without a car while they embark on a potentially lengthy repair process.
A quote I read once: "History works slowly at first, and then all at once."

I still think it's too early to tell what the impact of events like Brexit and Euro crisis will be. As humans, we're wired for immediate feedback loops, but that's not usually how the world works. We (and particularly the media) tend to look for immediate impact, but it's way too early to say that there will be no consequences from all the things that have been happening in 2016.
The cases where I wasn't paid, my employer has a written agreement that I am temporarily taking a salary decrease in exchange for a deferred bonus with no date or time limit on the bonus so it's not quite that clear cut.

I'm not a lawyer though, I'm sure if I want to get dirty I could find a way to bend it to my will but I'm not eager to get in the mud, I just want to build great software and get paid a fair salary for it.
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That's _Seveneves_, not _Anathem_ ;-)
Sprinters, Ducatos, Transits, and NVs (not to mention old school Expresses/Savannas) are already available here, so I'm not sure what a VW California T6 would offer that the others wouldn't.
I think the point being made was, if you don't plan on selling something, does it matter what it's worth?

As in, I'm not going to factor my child's value into my assets since I'm not going to sell it. Or in the OP's case, since his car will never be sold, it's not relevant how much value he's losing by keeping it for x years. Not that the car's value doesn't depreciate, just that the value of the car isn't ever important after the initial cost.
I could care less about the laptop, tell me more about this 1TB SSD for $255. Also, how are they fitting 2 GTX 1080's in a laptop?
I don't think there's even a common model, yet. Some are designed only to benefit the poor, like negative income tax rates.

It's kind of silly to discuss the details when there aren't any. People need to be open to giving cash to the poor to even begin thinking about how best to implement it, and the US at least has been going in the opposite direction since the original Clinton welfare reform, which emphasizes employment assistance over direct monetary assistance, with mixed results.
The comments about taxes are really interesting. There is a perception in the U.S. that the wealthy don't pay enough taxes, but in reality the top 10% carries a much a larger share of the tax burden (relative to their share of income) than in countries like the U.K., France, Germany, and Sweden: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/05/ameri....

So the question is: where does this perception come from? Is it this way in other countries? Do people in Sweden complain that the rich don't pay enough taxes? Or is it something cultural in the U.S.
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Why does the single parent with $260k a year income look so sad? In fact, why does everyone in this look like they're in a Ken Loach film about a miner's strike?
I see, well I've never performed any benchmark but it's quite possible that an ad hoc headless browser performs better for what concerns repeated tests. On the other hand, in this case you're instrumenting a real (really employed by the final user) browser. Possibly things will improve with this new headless mode for Chrome.

In any case this JavaScript module should not introduce any performance degradation, but if it does and you happen to give it a try in the future, feel free to open an issue.