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Investors put money in the craziest places, surely there's a public story stock right now that you think is inflated beyond belief and yet it trades at the price it does. It follows that investors will do crazier things than give you money to keep in the bank if you persuade them.

You tell them point blank, "we're hoping to make it big this year, but we aren't taking any risks and we're gonna keep enough cash in the bank for the 3 next years. If you don't like this plan, fine, you're missing a chance to buy a stock that's gonna shoot up 10x and here's why", and they buy your pitch, they're gonna beg you to take their money.

I'm not saying I can do this, I'm saying people exist who can, and there are markets where things are measured in years, and so you might want more runway because your progress is way slower than that of a YC-backed Internet monopoly wannabe.

By the way, MIPS Technologies was killed by genius investors who said "give us your $100+ million in cash or invest it" and a genius CEO who said "fine, you ain't gettin' nothin', I'm buying Chip Idea." It turned out that they didn't know how to run Chip Idea and ran it into the ground, and now they had neither money in the bank nor anything to show for it. This drove the company value down so much that Imagination bought it for $60 million (the patents were sold to a big CPU cartel for another $500 million, perhaps unfortunately as genius investors did not get quite the punishment they needed to learn anything.)

A CEO capable of persuading the board of directors to keep the money in the bank would have done better.
He's sort of running open source desktops on a Windows 10 kernel. But not really, there's an abstraction layer called WSL in between. There are some interesting effects though: you can touch test.txt in Bash and then open that file in Notepad without setting up any network shares, virtual machines, etc.

In my mind, Microsoft developed WSL to try to keep developers: if you grew up on Linux but are now employed maintaining Windows servers, WSL gives you a way to get to your shell of choice and maybe you won't tell your boss to migrate from Azure to GCP or AWS.

There's a lot of stuff (notably a lot of hardware) that still doesn't work as advertised. Graphics cards being a big one. This fellow got graphical desktops running. Sounds like I/O is an issue, but it works.
The butterfly effect is overrated. There is always divergent behaviour in the long term, but most of the runs will come out very similar. In fact, it is a major problem to introduce enough variation into the parameters of the ensemble run to capture the natural variation which is observed by the data acquisition systems. The US systems use vector breeding and European systems tend to use the singular vector method, which as I understand it is a bit more effective.

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> This isn't too different from the current format, except the URI method is pushing the type into the URI, rather than into the name of the key.

Yup, which I think is good, since URI schemes already exist for many identifiers, and more can be added.

> Would it be useful to be able to specify two different file paths or URIs for the same item?

I think so. Maybe one is one removable medium and the other is on another.

> The problem with multiple file paths is that both have the same weight, so how do you choose?

If they have equal weight, does it matter which you choose?
That's a lot of tweets(5+). Did you get them all at the same time, or did they have some kind of randomized delay? Also uh...what's the benefit of spamming you out of Twitter and into Snapchat? Do people get $$ for views of their snapchat images, or something?
Is there good speech to text for video available in the browser?
I'm glad you are making an effort to be honest, thank you. However that is really too simplistic.

This is not competing retailers, it's people fighting over matters of life and death and they will use any tactic against each other no matter how distasteful because they believe the end justifies the means.

Clearly any media company has to carefully weigh controversial issues from different perspectives. Making money, preserving the integrity and their brand, potential bad press or defecting customers, etc.

Often there is no simple rule. A judgement call has to be made factoring in what's best for company overall and if we're lucky maybe integrity is mentioned by someone along the way.
> and those sizes are not available or are a special order for the shirt/jacket they've chosen?

you get the special order, or get some other style and get the embroidering or whatever, or pick a different thing to get
> right now

NN, as I understand it, is not so much about the current state of things, but about making sure that future "wikipedias" and "facebooks" get the same chances as the current ones. Right now there are no viable alternatives (that you and I know of, at least) - but what about this time next year?

You can't change what NN means on a whim, to account for whether each specific type of internet service has "viable alternatives" or not. And how do you even define what are viable alternatives? What's viable for me, might not be viable for others.
We can start by asking if capitalism is inferior at providing health care, at least. People sometimes assume that capitalism means free markets. In practice it can also mean oligopolies, monopolies, rigged systems, and scams. That may describe the US health system, propped up with government regulations and subsidies.
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Over the past years(as a new grad) I thought that I would've killed to work at Snapchat, Fitbit, Uber, or Twitter. Now, I wouldn't touch any of those companies with a 50 foot pole. I've grown extremely cynical about startups and the extreme hype that surrounds them.

That being said, at Internapalooza this year, the longest line there was for SnapChat and every young person seemed enamored with them. And I remember a time where everyone was screaming that Facebook would fail because of it's lack of profit or that Twitter was the next Facebook/Google.

This is all a long way of saying that no one knows what the hell they are talking about when they discuss these companies. Whether that's posters on HN, financial talking heads, or even successful people in Silicon Valley. If you have some advantage on the market, and can predict the correct valuation of Snapchat, then:

1. Put your money where your mouth is. Buy or short the IPO.

2. It's probably wise to not share your take as it relinquishes the advantage you think you have on the market.

3. Hope you stay solvent longer than the market stays irrational.

Just remember, these same "experts" said that no one needed DropBox when they had wGet.
Rackspace can send 50MB
My take:

The most important thing is the non voting shares. Big money will be staying away from that IPO.
1) I don't believe what you said WRT to Bill Maher, and I don't even like him or watch his show.

2) People who don't like Milo, don't like him because he's a bully who encourages other people to doxx, harass, and otherwise target people who don't look or act the way he supposedly approves of. Also, most of what he does is just posturing for attention. If Milo found a way to make more money and get more attention doing offensive stuff for the other political "team" he would have.

3) Name one incident from the "left" on Twitter or elsewhere that stacks up to GamerGate, or the Leslie Jones harassment. It's not that they couldn't do such things, but it doesn't really fit with the way the Left likes to roll.
Weren't we already the result of someone else doing that?
Editorial is supposed never to communicate with advertising so that the latter can't influence the former.
Article says 1,056,964,609 / 1,056,964,610

Quick Java program says 1,065,353,216 / 1,065,353,217

Which one is right? Or are Java floats just "different"?

static {
float a = 0;
long count = 0;
while (a < 1) {
count++;
a = Math.nextAfter(a, 2);
}
System.out.println("count = " + count);
}
Most important part which triggered all of this:

Q: Why now? Is this related to the DOJ letter?

A: ...The Department of Justice letter indicates [...] Course Capture content [...] is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Later it is mentioned specifically this is due to the videos are not captioned. Thus the solution to this is to remove all older recordings.
"Finally, moving our content behind authentication allows us to better protect instructor intellectual property from “pirates” who have reused content for personal profit without consent."

That sounds like the real reason for the move.
The earnings on developer tools have never been huge but the revenue on Windows server has been huge.
The market is shifting from buying windows server to azure. By having an editor that works seamlessly with Microsoft's azure options it cements Microsoft as a long term player in the hosting market.

Microsoft also spends a lot of resources on documentation which makes it an easy choice for the frustrated developer who can't get something working on another companies offering.
According to the post this was caused by a letter from Department of Justice (pdf link from the post: https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-08...), which states that two representatives from National Association of the Deaf brought a complaint: the videos did not have captions so they the complainants could not use them in their classes.

I don't understand their motivation, did they think Berkeley would spend the money to generate captions? How is the current situation a win for anyone, now nobody can use the videos.

EDIT: Ugh, they even have this in remedial measures: "Pay compensatory damages to aggrieved individuals for injuries caused by UC Berkeley’s failure to comply with title II."
So many more people would just never hear about it or would not have the focused time to succeed at that though.
"The Department of Justice letter indicates that they believe our legacy Course Capture content from webcast.berkeley.edu and located on YouTube and iTunesU is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. "

Unintended consequences of a well intentioned law - everyone loses access to information, even many disabled people who still could have used it.
Its just a fun little project. The idea is to make you question what it means to be a Linux desktop. Here we have very convincing (running authentic binaries!) Linux DEs, but there's no Linux.
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" comes to mind.
That's the beauty of the market. You put your money where you mouth is or shut the f up.
Don't worry, meteorologists are brutally competitive in their own way. They don't say anything, they just put up a chart comparing forecast accuracy.
It makes C# and F# development possible (Without pain) on Linux and Mac, so there is that.
What is the difference between this and Visual Studio Mac?

Is there a reason I would pick one over the other?
Isn't net neutrality bigger issue is things like Netflix paying Comcast to be in their unmetered section - with the very real fear that small websites will get ignored?

I don't put this on the same scale. I'd seriously not mind actual educational websites to be exempt from data charges - and this would include (but not be limited to) Wikipedia. I understand this would have a few flaws and arguements, but it is a start. I'd happily add in direct mostly text-based communication as well (Messenger for facebook but not the pages, hangouts, and the like).
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Right now I'm waiting for a GCC related fix in WSL that is scheduled to get pushed in April. In the meantime I've spun up Ubuntu in VirtualBox that gets the job done.
This looks like a great option to play around with once that GCC fix is pushed
Note, for those of you on Windows (not you, jackhack, your profile betrays you), Notepad++ does a great job at printing code.
Their youtube channel says content posted on Spring 2015 and earlier will remain available via youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeley/playlists
Typically, as licensed members of a regulated profession they could be held liable for any advice they provide.
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We haven't seen a good tech IPO in a while. Given that and the supposed diminishing funding the Snapchat IPO will set a signal. If Snapchat crashes it will reinforce the narrative that tech is in trouble.
You'd think, but have you read the letter from the DoJ?

https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-08...

It seems that the reason is genuinely that they were told that their free video content was in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
> But so if they can only access and reproduce your content through Github, what constitutes use/display/perform, and in what ways could they do that?

IANAL, nor do I have a dog in this fight, since I prefer contracts to copyrights. However...

I think there are at least a few scenarios that require some thinking about, anyway:

Given that the TOS forces allowance of use and performance of content uploaded to Github without regard to any license you might have been bound by otherwise, it seems as though it effectively negates any other such restriction. CC BY-NC doesn't allow commercial use, but now they can just point to the implicit license they got with it because you shared it on Github, right?

The AGPL requires that modified source used to furnish a direct service must be republished. If usage of Github means that you have granted a license, separately from the AGPL, to every user of Github to use your software, then publishing AGPL software via Github seems to negate the license: anyone who has it and who got it using Github may use it to run a server and need not follow the terms of the AGPL to do so.

But this leads to problems with other restrictive licenses as well, such as the GPL, since as long as someone is only distributing your software via Github, they have a license to reproduce it without regard to other terms like modification of source, and other Github users have a license to download and use it.
You could also try searching for jobs in some bigger Polish cities with a large IT job market. If you plan to move somewhere for college, you could try working there throughout the summer to get to know the city before the academic year.

Good luck with the search! (And with your finals in May!)
This is mostly in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13675166
Well then what exactly are you saying? From what I can see, it's either: "what Twitter is doing is useless so they should do nothing" or "banning people is bad because they'll continue to be abusive". Neither of these seems like a good argument to make.
Twitter has all the same data and they still can't make money at scale. It's hard, only two companies have done it.
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> modifying (compressing and indexing)

Is this really modification in terms of copyright law? (Honest question. I'm only passingly familiar with copyright law.)
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Tangential question: How do founders typically retain control of their company? I've specifically been told that it's wise for one person to own 51pct of the company and be CEO. However, with 20 pct of equity for investors and 10 reserved for future employees, this doesn't seem to leave much for cofounders who are potentially putting as much skin in the game as the CEO.
Or SO can watch TV while you kill some Moblins :)
> You're kidding, right? It passed 300 million monthly users almost a year ago.

And not much more since then... Growth fell of a cliff once FB started to focus on copying their features (see Instagram Stories).
There are strong legal protections for the attorney-client relationship, such that lawyers are obligated to act scrupulously in their clients' interests. These rules exist for good reason, but a prudent lawyer will want to make it very clear when such a relationship exists and when it doesn't.
This was in Australia. A senior cardiologist has no motivation other than saving your life, and the symptoms were very clear.
Meanwhile a stent operation is relatively trivial - as was explained later in the piece.
If he'd asked for a second opinion it could very well have added enough time to make things a lot worse.
Do startups ever pre-allocate blocks of equity for investors? I understand it's common to carve out N shares for employee options.

Say pre-raise look like this...

- 30% for founders

- 20% for employees

- 50% for future investors

Then when raising initial funds, you sell 20% the total pie (40% of the investor block) of the company to investors, making the share split look like this...

- 30% for founders

- 20% for employees

- 20% for current investors

- 30% for future investors

When an exit occurs, any unallocated shares get split up among the existing shareholders using whatever formula is used to calculate how the money is distributed.
It might depend on the precise representation. This has become increasingly standardized lately which is why those numbers are really close and not wildly off.
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Yeah well I thought GOOG was a dumb investment since >95% of their revenue came from AdWords and surely MSFT & others would pump billions in and make a real dent.

The vast majority of their revenue is still from AdWords despite those billions being spent, but that GOOG pie's only grown over time.
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It is simply another instance of outrageous government regulation.
But you don't know if that of pain is going to kill you or not
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> This is a little off topic but these comments make me wonder: why are lawyers so reluctant to give informal advice?

Because an attorney-client relationship is created when the client reasonably believes it to have been created. As a result, you have to be really fucking clear that people are not your clients because, when making the determination of whether someone has reasonably determined that someone is their lawyer, courts look to what the average bloke would think - i.e., a total dumdum. So you really have to hit people over the head with the fact that no, you are not their lawyer.

So, the second part of this is that when an attorney-client relationship is created, the attorney has a tremendous amount of duty to the client, and, if the client acts on the advice of the attorney and gets results they do not like, they can sue the attorney for malpractice.

> If someone asks me my opinion about an engineering or management issue they're facing, I'll give it to them knowing that I don't know the complete set of facts and they should take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Are you a licensed Professional Engineer? If so, for the love of Odin's beard, stop giving informal advice, as you are exposing yourself to professional liability.

Licensed professions - accounting, medicine, law, professional engineering - have extremely high duties of care to their clients. They are exposed to malpractice liability when things go wrong. They have ethical obligations. It can be extremely hard to fire delinquent or terrible clients.

To put it a completely different way: lawyers give advice as their job. There is no such thing as "informal advice" from a lawyer, the same where there is no such thing as a "pick up game" with an NBA player. It is their primary occupation. I don't do it for free - I charge a pretty stiff hourly rate. And every time I take on a client, it has impacts on my firm's malpractice insurance. In fact, I cannot take on clients without the explicit approval of the managing partner at my law firm - I get his written approval for every single one. To make it clear, the managing partner is the guy who, if there was a war between all the lawyers, gets to wear the biggest, fanciest hat. So, no, I am not just going to do the thing I do for my day job as a favor to someone else, any more than your computer programmer friend wants to fix your iphone.

Does that go some distance to answering your question?