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> When considering any startup, you should always ask to meet the [investors]. If they don’t let you meet or speak candidly with these individuals, then run as far away as possible.

This seems a bit odd to me... Maybe it could work on a place like San Francisco where a lot of VC companies are located. I guess you can just meet them during lunch or for coffee.

But how would you manage that on a european startup where a lot of investors come from different countries with different timezones? Are you saying that every potencial hire should schedule a skype meeting with each investor?

Also, what about crowd-funded companies? Do you still contact every investor, even though some of them might just have chipped in $100 bucks because they saw a video pitch?
I know of Air France 447 in the "fly the airplane" camp. (An inexperienced copilot stalled the aircraft all the way from cruise altitude to impact, and because the sidesticks aren't linked, no one else could tell that was what was wrong.)

What's a good example in the "negotiate with the computer" camp? Perhaps it's merely a tendency on my part, but I don't think I have run across any accident which militates as strongly in favor of Airbus's design as AF 447 seems to militate against it.
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Hopefully they will release a DVD.
Anyone use collectd + rrd for this purpose? Still trying to understand at what level it's worth to move to something else.
I think its now well accepted that there is an 'art' to math/science/code - why should the inverse not be true? Not to say that art should become some sort of an applied math, but is it a crime that a publicly-funded body should have some methods, strategy, and follow up on where its grants end up?
Yeah I think you're losing perspective that outside of startup hipster tech bubbles, Windows is still the most popular desktop computing platform.

Mobile/tablet devices have struggled heavily at overcoming the one thing that's preventing their full adoption: making them great for content creation, not just content consumption.
Last time I checked, which was a few years ago but quite some time after the creation of CSAIL, Switzerland was going strong. Last tidbit was their dismay to discover the very high ceiling of the space they were in was a couple or three inches too short per Cambridge zoning rules to subdivide into 2 levels.

BTW, it's really hard to understate how horrible a building the Strata Center is for the people inside it who are, you know, trying to get work done, in fact, it's akin and often directly an example of the current open office fad.

Or for people trying to get to them, due to it's inherently horrible physical security. In terms of sheer incompetence, though, it's hard to beat creating a loading dock area for mail and freight to replace Building 20's modest facilities that trucks can't actually get into and out of....

After blowing most of almost half a billion on it, MIT has a lot of nerve asking for more money for more buildings.

Disclaimer: big fan of Building 20, which served as an indispensable incubator, and allowed me to set up a student run computer center in 1980, there's no place else in the Institute where that would have been vaguely easy, or probably even possible.

Yeah, it was a nightmare to maintain, and occupied very valuable space on campus, but there's no excuse for not creating another space to serve the same function, modulo the ease of knocking vertical or horizontal holes, and its extremely high load bearing capability (200 lb/sq ft as I recall). MIT simply won't be creating new groups of people in new fields as fast as it used to.
> What % of the company are my shares?

Here is a question for you or anyone else. What if the answer is none?

What is the atypical reaction/response?

I've always worked for companies way out of the start-up zone and thus a salary was my only compensation.

If the answer IS none. Are you expecting a bump in salary? Working on things futuristic or edgy? Promotion in a year?

What is the counter?

Thanks
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>he has some pretty interesting ideas...

Can you list a few? I think only Hyperloop was a truly new idea. And I don't think it is going anywhere. It now feels like something that he did to capture the attention of the geek world.
All of the debt holders will get paid first, which means everyone else will get zero.
> For smaller projects out on GitHub I often see attempts at this that fail. Stuck in "Open" status for years or outright rejected.

This is why you fork.

Some forks even merge branches that were PR'd to the original fork and just start managing their own.

This is why GitHub has a "network" graph where you can see the other forks on the timeline and can choose a newer fork if an older one has either been abandoned or is not being upkept or doesn't work with some newer version of X that you need it to work with.
->ssh daemon doesn't know anything about user password

And neither should it.
auth system creates a one time usable "ticket" which is a one way function of the user password and a nonce.
The server gives the nonce to the user, who creates his own ticket based on the nonce and his password, gives his ticket to the server, which then checks if the two tickets match, if they do -> authenticated. -> at no point is the actual user password transmitted.

Kerberos extends this further (allows authentication across multiple servers with a single login)

But as far as I know the ticketing system is standard ssh protocol.

Looking at the spec however:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4252#page-10

It appears I am not correct.

might be SSHv2
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Always be invested in the market but make sure that when you need the money that you have invested, it is there for you to spend. It doesn't make sense to keep in the money in the market when you know that you will be in loss when you will have to take it out.
Unity's WebGL support has, in my experience, largely been in name only. It's just such a horrifically bad experience that I just can't imagine anyone taking it seriously.
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Haskell's a good choice there.
The i7-6700K is a 91 watt chip. Remove that and they are fairly close, worse the A10 line has been improving much faster than Intel's chips over the last five years.

Also, don't forget it's really the mid range chips that matter and the A10 is very much a mid range chip without the benefit of excessive binning.
They're not the first. The Oktoberfest in Munich, which starts today, sports:

1) Winzerer Zelt: 250m (http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.oktoberfest-winze...)

2) Bräurosl: 240m (http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.wiesn-bier-pipeli...)

3) Hackerzelt: 250m (http://www.oktoberfest-live.de/festzelte/bier-pipeline-fuers...)

I believe that this year the workers installed more beer pipelines (kinda makes sense, given the terrorism threat and the heavy restriction on vehicular traffic), but can't find any numbers.
To expand on this, the government of California requires the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) systems to comply with the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act of 1974 (if you've ever heard of 508 compliance, it's a reference to section 508 of the latter Act). In recent years, both systems have been expanding their efforts to comply with this requirement, especially in regards to technology. (The CSU system includes not only the schools with CSU or Cal State prefixes, but also most of the schools with State or SU suffixes, including SFSU, SJSU, and SDSU.)

For more information:
- UC Policy: http://www.ucop.edu/electronic-accessibility/initiative/poli...
- CSU Policy: http://teachingcommons.cdl.edu/access/
All agreed, except:

UC Berk is a public institution, using public funds to create these resources. This is not a free charitable creation from a private person, to which people respond "well, you should give us MORE or we'll SUE!"

No, this is a public institution using public funds to create a public resource... which it then only makes accessible to a subset of the public. Public buildings, public libraries, public transportation, etc. are all subject to the ADA; I see no reason why this particular public resource should be an exception.
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Last time I checked, PC desktop were dominated by Windows by about 90% market share and that market, while shifting to mobile, isn't tiny either.
If they could come up with a desktop that is as small as Apple TV while providing enough performance of a large box desktop or shaves off 300g off of laptop without compromise or doubles battery power, that would be shocking even to average consumers.
As I have been losing interest on Apple products for the past 5 years not seeing much of innovations, I think it's time they take the risk while they can.
It's a shocking news if x86 drags Intel (and to some extent Windows) to secondary position, if Apple does it right.
Interesting and very useful, until it isn't. The idea of outsourcing business logic to a 3rd party hosted platform is one id consider high risk at the point it can be easily exported and hosted elsewhere. WebTask provides no independent backup - be for an outage or company failure.

It's a shame, as ideally I'm looking for business logic system (mind with database access) that would allow development with Vue.JS
That is technically correct (the best kind of correct ;) but I think for newcomers it gives a better sense of the spirit of relational data.
I don't think Lot 49 is meaningless at all -- it has a lot to say about people who get wrapped up in conspiracy theories and how once you go down that road, everything begins to look like part of it. That's as relevant to politics today as it was in the 1960s when Pynchon wrote it.
Go is pretty much mainstream by now, I don't think it's a stronger filter than say python. Depending on subject area, I'd look at clojure, ocaml, haskell, lua, or rust.
While Daniel is correct that open source projects require upkeep and typically require a community of users and developers giving back to the project in order to succeed or at least continue, I think this could be misused as a reason to back those that erroneously conclude that closed source software that is backed by paid work on software is the best method, and this in my many years of experience is incorrect.

Another correction is that "open source" does not mean free as in beer. Source can be open and not free. To ensure that you are using or offering source with a free license, please read: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html
As for 1millioncoins.com the survey it is to figure out what kind of marketplace to implement first. Not sure if you read my Questions screen but it was about creating a barter site based on these coins. I'm a developer and I need a designer. I work for some coins then I hire a designer for them. I'm giving out coins in the beginning to reward them for getting involved early. And if you want to set up a bot to fill out the survey and give me a million fake email addresses congratulations you are now part of a trade network with no people because you stole all the coins. I can add a captcha petty easy. It's a much more ambitious project and before I try to build a barter website I wanted so see if there was any demand.
Wouldn't be surprised to hear Fabrice Bellard received a letter from Apple Inc.
Some criteria are very easy to quantify. Authors race, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability status. It reflects on quality of art and its culture.

Arts Council is already using this criteria for grants and for hiring. It is only logical to use it on art itself.
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Great article! I've been writing shit code for almost a year now and playing guitar for 2. I've been wanting to do a fun project that involves both of them. Thanks for the inspiration.
Yeah, I replace cables (the AKGs are detachable, which is nice, but for my ATH m50s I just soldered them on myself). But many people can't be bothered
What's the power consumption of the last AX CPUs btw ? I just laughed thinking about the iPhone 7 main "board" that fits under the space key. An A10f laptop would be a the board + 4 batteries and a IO hub... how long would that last ?
They are, and it's why I've vowed never to use them again.

I've contributed to Gang Garrison 2 (GG2), an open-source 2D multiplayer shooter (a "demake" of Team Fortress 2) for several years.

GG2 is built with Game Maker 8.0, an obsolete commercial game engine/RAD IDE product. Why? Because Game Maker 8.1 is buggy and broke things we needed, and its successor, GameMaker: Studio, broke even more (and is also much more expensive). We did try to move to GM8.1, but we had to give up on it.

This is unfortunate, because Game Maker 8.0, being now completely unsupported, does not even have working DRM servers. We literally have to pirate the product in order to continue development.

Game Maker 8.0 also produces executables that crash on recent versions of Windows when too many sounds are played simultaneously. This is probably fixed in newer versions, but we can't use them. So we have to work around it.

And “black box” bugs? This is a consistent theme of development with Game Maker. It's filled with them. There are lots of workarounds in our source code for such bugs. And there are some bugs we have never been able to work around, so sometimes the game crashes with inexplicable (i.e. incorrect) error messages.

Because of these experiences, any game I make in future will use an open-source engine. Proprietary engines are just too much of a risk.
Performance per watt is what matters. Those two chips are completely different in terms of power.
Also, I haven't put a lot of time in most of these because I'm still trying to determine if there is a business there.
More than likely, the material released to the public is not the material used for enrolled students. At the same time, they most likely have funding to make material accessible to enrolled students on an as-needed basis. If a person with a particular disability is enrolled at the University, the University will work with the student to discover their requirements and how they can best meet their needs. At that point, they can go through the list of courses the student has enrolled in for each quarter or semester and ensure that all of the course materials are accessible to that student.

Once they've completed that process, it usually has the side benefit of making those specific materials accessible to all future students with similar needs. The whole process is also getting better over time, especially for textbooks and similar material. However, video and audio are especially problematic areas when they are produced by individuals who don't understand (or aren't aware of) these requirements. If you just setup a camera and/or microphone to capture a lecture, public release and captioning may not be on your mind at the time.
If you're feeling adventurous, there is also noisefunge. As far as I know, it's the only obfuscated language for music livecoding. (Disclaimer: I wrote it)

https://github.com/revnull/noisefunge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW7kg6IL07E
> No, this is a public institution using public funds to create a public resource... which it then only makes accessible to a subset of the public.

I thought about this, and I'm actually not sure what to think. As UCB made clear that the alternative would be to take those resources down, making it completely unavailable to the public. Do we just consider this an acceptable collateral damage from the ADA?
My ZeroMQ components all register themselves in a database when coming and going. This makes it trivially easy to find where stuff is just by running a bog simple database query.

Lots of ways to skin this cat...
Which of these blue sky projects actually has a sign of returning money to investors within 2 years?

There is objective evidence already that today's teenagers prefer Snapchat over Facebook, and think that the platform is boring. I think the question is primarily focused on answering: "what innovative things are they doing to actually keep their their bread and butter going -- which is their main platform?"

I agree with OP. Facebook at its core feels like it hasn't changed in many years now, and to me that indicates a stagnating company that's either too distracted with toy projects, or too paralyzed by existing legacy restraints to do anything of substance that rocks the boat.

You can't say the same about companies like Google or Amazon. They do their core services well, but they have branched out in meaningful ways in other areas that every year get better and better, including in areas with real business potential. We have yet to see that anywhere from Facebook outside of its acquisitions. Like Twitter its product feels stuck in a standstill of design-by-committee analysis. The kind that thinks that changing a star into a heart counts as innovation.
Zenhub is still the better (more full-featured) option if you want to do project management in Github.

Not to mention that it's also free for small teams.
We used to have that in Germany when there was still mandatory military service a few years back.

For historical reasons, refusing to serve with a weapon was very common, and in this case one had to serve an equal time in the civil sector, such as help out in a kindergarten, hospital or old people's home. There was a lot of complaining after the service was abolished due to the missing very cheap labour.
As most, they take what they can get.

Most funding however is not profit oriented. Often it is paying the material, offering a residency (not payed rent anywhere you want) or small financial aid because it's still very hard to make a living as an artist (unless you play/serve the art-market well).

Most any of these grants have a jury, the better ones actually have a small jury and more often than not the influence of a single jury is even enhanced by having some kind of weak positive veto. If a single member of the jury thinks someone is really worth it, than it is made highly likely that he gets funded. This is because democracy makes no sense here, you want to select a few good people for the jury, who then judge the best they can.

This system is still crooked, because most juries have bad taste, are forced to select something likeable or scared to take risks, but in every application artists write exactly what they will do with that money.

edit: I'm tempted to say a good basic income would be a solution, but in e.g. a movie production most of the jobs are not the nice creative ones, so art-house stuff would still need external funding to exist.
Considering how light and fast the 9.7" and 12.7 iPad Pro is having a 2lb 13" Air with similar speeds becomes fairly distinctive. It further separates the Air vs Pro lines and could have ~18 hours of battery life.

Right now the basic MacBook is 1200$ has a larger screen and lower weight than the smallest Air. The 11" Air on the other hand is much cheaper.
How is it going to kill Intel? Apple's percentage of the desktop market is still a rounding error. If you think they're interested in selling CPUs to others, you need only look back to history to see it's VERY unlikely that will ever happen. If they aren't selling to others, they aren't killing Intel.

Not to mention, even if Intel managed to be "defeated" in the processor space (which I consider just about impossible at this point) - they've got better fab production than anyone else in existence. They've also got lots and lots and lots of products that aren't x86 CPUs.
I guess this makes sense. I was pretty miffed at first but what you've said here is logical. UC Berkeley is bound by the ADA to make any and all of its services compliant, and in 2016 I'd imagine the DOJ isn't going to accept a "Well, it's the Wild West of the Web!" to set an undesirable precedent.
> While it is true that many KV stores do not present a fully consistent view over distributed data, there are some that do.

Consistency is always relative to what the DBMS can enforce, which is in turn always relative to what the the DBMS's schema language can express. A KV store can be trivially consistent in that, between writes, it always presents the same view of the data. But it won't be consistent in the sense of presenting a view of the data that's guaranteed not to contradict your business rules. The latter is what users of relational databases expect.
No, these people have their head buried so deeply in the sand I'm amazed they haven't died from asphyxiation.

So far, I've heard they have 100 years to sort it out. The "engineers" will find a "solution". They'll build dikes like the dutch (never mind the dutch took 300 years). My favourite is "we'll build houses on stilts".
This is one reason I quit the whole CPU commentating thing. People kept rewriting the same article (with the same comments thread attached!), and I kept rewriting the same responses.
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Where do you have that information from? I've seen the theory in the comments on troy's website, but no confirmation of it. My kid's after school program got hit and I'm working with them to translate Regpack's obfuscation of what went on and ask some pointed questions.
The new chrome is awful
The urls are so small in the address bar.. anyone else agree
"Both the iPhone 7 and the next next iPad Pro will be significantly faster than the current Macbook (and Macbook Air)"

Source? I don't believe that this is true.
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Even if Apple doesn't pursue this for it's MacBook (I'm assuming they wouldn't for the Pro), I think it's a good indicator for where ARM is headed in general. As these things get faster than low power Intel chips and Google continues to add functionality to Chrome OS, like Android app support, it's likely to have a significant impact on Intels share of the PC market.
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Yes. You can read the issues for what the package will start with.

No plans for more FP packages in the near future, although I do want to add multicore and progress bars to purrr.
I would say OCaml particularly with a potential killer app of MirageOs.

Stat usage wise it makes Haskell look mainstream... but serious real world code is written in OCaml (I would argue maybe even more serious than Haskell :P ).

The users of OCaml almost always know how to parse really hard things to parse which is a pretty descent filter.
> Go

It was specifically design to disallow smart-asses to write ninja-code, so no. Go is for monkey programmer factories which managers want to make sure they will only code a certain way because Go doesn't give the developer choices. It's the anti C++,scala,python,clojure... Go tells you to do this that way, and doesn't give you the constructs or features to make your own choice about coding.