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Do you think non-lsat experts might want to buy a business like this?

Most business owners are business owners because they enjoy the returns of the asset, not because they are themselves experts at every facet of maximizing those returns. Expertise can be bought; that is a major part of their responsibility. (When I expressed surprise at the existence of non-technical SaaS buyers someone reminded me that there are people who could not cook a burger who nonetheless buy McDonalds franchises.)

There’s also the issue that my personality is in the business. The videos feature me, and the informational materials are written in my own style, using the word “I”, etc.

This isn't ideal but isn't insurmountable. Is your personality in the business or is it the business? People have sold very personal brands before, but it's tricky to arrange at the lower end of the scale. To the extent that you appear in a video, well, someone has to appear in the video, and "founder" remains true regarding you even if it is an entirely emeritus position. Informational materials being written in your style is not a problem; style is one of the things they're buying, and they can either continue consciously adopting it or adjust to the styles of the people doing writing when you aren't, at their option.

For a more detailed opinion, chat up a broker; they'll be happy to tell you their opinion of whether going through the process is worth your time.
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Is that puppeteer is similar to Selenium framework that is used for automation? Am I missing something here?
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Wow, that's an ingenious solution! It's such a shame that this requires jumping through so many hoops (and becoming a Registration Authority... Not sure how difficult or pricy that would be).

And I never heard of Signal K. That is an awesome project, and definitely could benefit from end-to-end encryption for transporting marine data.
"I don't like being negative" That's fine that article was a good read. If you pay attention to how the breakpoint system works it allows your designs to be fluid. What I meant when I mentioned that text wrapping is consistent is that it will be consistent at the breakpoints (I like to think of them more like snapshots of the current layout that is being constrained at a specific width), outside of the breakpoints the text and other elements in the page will adapt accordingly to containers. In that case it will not be perfect outside of the breakpoint lines. Hope that answers your question.
> Re AT&T - I don't see how that indicates private companies are good for getting basic research done in general.

True. But it is evidence against the proposition that basic research can only be done in public institutions. Which organizational form is better at doing it seems to be an open question.

If the basic research in question has applications that potentially meet real human needs and thus is of value, I would presume that private corporations would step forward to meet those needs if public institutions were not doing so.
It would be very interesting to see proposals for public, basic research that is divorced from universities.

However, it's pretty challenging to see how it could work. For one thing, a lot of the best researchers are also the best ones to teach their subject or topic (and relatively fewer talented people want to teach alone without doing any research). For another, the grad school system makes sense because you need training to do research, and that training often comes while you're also learning and taking classes, and it makes sense that you receive that training from the most experienced researchers (currently, professors). Finally, having research sit within a larger university institution makes it less fragile to economic or political shocks.
> Most reporters aren't knowledgeable enough to distinguish between hype and true breakthroughs.

From personal experience I've learned that few reporters are knowledgeable about anything outside how to be a reporter.
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You have to dig a little, but the average cost for the votes against net neutrality cost about 16,000 per US congressman who voted against it.

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=B
Ruby supports braces, they just aren't used as often.

I prefer begin/end so this is a feature to me.
Why would you compile Scala natively itself instead of compiling JVM bytecode?
So attempting to skirt and breaking the law is what is meant by 'donated?'
the CS department also offers a compiler class that has you write a compiler for C0:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/15411-f13/resources.html
Ha, did exactly the same thing, since I noticed nearly no bees or other insects last year. I dedictated around 200 m² of my lawn to nature. I think it helped: This year, there where so much more of them to see.
Maybe after the user declines a permission and the app prompts again, there should be a checkbox on the permissions prompt that makes Android pretend the permission was granted and just spoofs the relevant data.
Small sample size? I believe there are a few private for-profit companies which have discovered a new idea or two.
depends on the sense of the word. In another sense, like irregular, it would simply be a self fulfilling prophecy, ie. it's forbidden to use what can't be used, isn't in the regulation, etc.
It requires a great deal of time and resources to develop blockchain software because everything has to be built up front. Doing an upgrade is not easy because nodes can choose not to upgrade and fork instead. Also, bugs mean people lose money and consequently faith in the project.

Tezos intends to solve the contentious fork problem by incorporating the governing structure into the protocol. Whether this works better than what is currently happening in the Bitcoin community remains to be seen.

Back to your initial question. Ethereum is a good example, but most of the ICO's that raised money recently won't launch until 2018-2019 at the earliest. In fact, some of them have innovation gaps. It's a long road.
It was entirely relevant. In that case the story was about a bearing manufacturer being squeezed by competitors, and then trying to reduce costs by moving to Mexico. Those competitors are almost universally Chinese manufacturers. China has become dominant in steel and ores (raw and processed) of all sorts, and just about every manufactured good. For this submission -- dollar stores -- Chinese goods are the overwhelming bulk of the products.

To put it another way, manufacturers move to Mexico to compete with China, so enjoy those few remaining sales and white collar jobs because the alternative was the company disappearing. If that isn't enough they automate. And now China is automating to ensure they can't be out-automated.
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It's time you wrote a book (aka package your popular blog posts into an ebook) Patrick and made people pay $$ for your advice :-)
The only competing production-capable languages are Haskell, OCaml, and maybe F#
You can think of Scala Native as Go on steroids. We don’t try to compete with Rust at all.
I think if AlphaGo foresaw it was losing by one point, it would start playing reckless moves, as it did against Lee-Sedol in the only match it lost against him.
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That's probably true, but that's very much not what people were saying about Go a couple years ago. There were a lot of people talking about how there isn't a straightforward evaluation function of the quality of a given state of the board, how things need to be planned in advance, how there's much more combinatorial explosion than in chess, etc., to the point where it's a qualitatively different game.

For me, as someone who accepted and believed these claims about Go being qualitatively different, realizing that no, it's not qualitatively different (or that maybe it is, but not in a way that impedes state-of-the-art AI research) is increasing my skepticism in other claims that board games in general are qualitatively different from other tasks that AIs might get good at.

(If you didn't buy into these claims, then I commend you on your reasoning skills, carry on.)
What do you mean by initial promises? Would you accept a list of startups that have met milestones on their roadmap and have a product to demo?
JVM startup is really painful for short to medium time running apps, this is the niche we’re trying to address.
IEEE Spectrum has a special report about blockchains:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/special-report-blockchain-w...

It goes into permissioned ledgers and smart contracts, among other applications.
Some prospects have that understanding of what is reasonable, just like some startups really think they can find experienced engineers in SFBA for $60k and 10 bps, but the actual buyers who successfully consummate transactions definitionally do so at market prices, and market prices for small SaaS apps are 3~3.5X SDE (approximately profit w/ no deduction for taxes or owner salary), with deviations above and below based on individual circumstances like you would expect for any complex sales.

I've done it twice. FEI (the broker I used, linked by others) was very effective at bouncing people with very unreasonable expectations of market prices; I felt like my time was not wasted with non-serious parties (relative to my prior expectations of how many there would be).
(disclaimer: my company does this too)

TLS between users and a proxy protects users from lots of different attacks (including the lovely wpa stuff). It's useful, and the alternative is frequently "no TLS at all", not dyi.

Yes end-to-end is better. But you're still going to have to trust infrastructure providers along the way, whether it's at the proxy level or they can just read your disks.

Also I pretty much agree with everything you said about CF ...
This was similar to the approach I took early last year where I would go in 7 days a week but only spend 3-4 hours (conveniently the length of my charge) programming and sketching solutions. Interviewers wanted to laugh when I brought it up, but I really did find it productive. I'd leave the day stuck on some tasks, go about the rest of my day (outside the 3-4 hours) thinking about it and maybe quickly skimming docs when I wasn't doing anything else. At the start of the next day I easily banged out decent, working solutions in the first 30 minutes.

I guess social pressure won out in the end when even people close to me thought I wasn't doing anything. So finding myself in a similar situation to then, I stay for a few more hours (a little over the length of a charge and recharging to full; I don't take lunch breaks myself). I probably am more productive overall, but there's lots of factors to take into account (hopefully I got more skilled) and I'd say the biggest change is the more creative processes occuring in situ rather than strewn about the day. I also check my e-mails a little more often now ;-).
I think part of that "giving up" comes from there not being a plausible vision to a sustainable future. If all it took was cutting down, even significantly, on daily indulgences, and a clear set of numbers showed that, then I believe we could get people on board. But the main issue is that power brokers, both in policy and in media, refuse to make those sacrifices, and their decisions have several of orders of magnitude more effect than individual actions. And the individuals know it.
Thanks, will watch! I'm interested in learning Blockchain dev myself, and listened to this a couple of days ago on my commute. Found it very good:

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/10/12/blockchain-b...
It's pot-boilerish, a good deal of the science (i.e. why the insects disappear) is bonkers, and the author's reputation is somewhat tarnished these days, but oh boy did it make an impression: I read Charles Pellegrino's Dust almost twenty years ago, and this talk of insect die-off still brings the terrifying plot to the front of my mind.

Also, for a 1998 novel, it had a pretty decent future scenario of people somewhere around now using all-powerfull 'pads' for their web and mail and video chats and general computing.
Nice article. At my company, $9 per year SSL through namecheap means we go with that for the support, which has come in handy. For non-critical things and my personal stuff I am on letsencrypt. If you are looking to go beyond this article, use a free SSL scanner such as https://www.htbridge.com/ssl/ which will dig into cipher suites which comes into play with HIPAA and PCI.
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Everyone is offering this happy path. And people do pay for it, but the market price for "a Lets Encrypt cert on my site" is $0. It's mostly just a great way to get people started on a more valuable service.
I am not really looking to sell, this is just my experience of approaches I have had. My favourite was the offer I got which came with a three year earn out that was half my expected profit over the timeframe. Really.
Well, does a non-malignant HeLa tumor that's been artificially transplanted count? Because if so, we may have both lost our hypotheyical bets. :] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-that-the-HeLa-immortal-...

(I can't find numbers of how many tumor masses lasted, but hundreds of prisoners were injected.)
I'm an avid tmux+neovim user, too, though working with Reason is a lot easier in VS Code. Making the switch from actual vim to fake vim (ie JS emulation) sucks.

Recently, VSCodeVim merged #1725 to add actual neovim as an editor - it's using NeoVim's embedding API so you're using neovim to edit the text file inside of VSCode's chrome, including all of VSCode's type hints and popups. Info here: https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/1735

There's an ongoing rewrite to make neovim also work with your existing .vimrc file: https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/pull/1897

I'm really stoked that we get the best of both - for languages with first-class VSCode support we don't have to decide between a half-baked VIM plugin or using VSCode without vim... you get both!
Switched to i3 a few weeks back and I absolutely love it. Switching between applications and workspaces is incredibly fast, and the _only_ time I need the mouse is for web browsing. It's amazing.
There is a simple solution to the salary problem... Make salaries public. “You can’t make private firms publish salary data,” you may say. True, but local, state, and the federal government can say that any business that does business with them must publish all salaries. The only way to make wages fair is to expose them to the light of day.
Only if the other side knows this :)
I meant, "compile bytecode to machine code." The fact that nobody does it is a sign that it's not a good idea. I guess I was just wondering why.
Outsourcing benefits the consumers by keeping prices and inflation down. This helps the poor and elderly on fixed income the most. The reason so many people want Wal Marts in their town is because elderly people demand it, and they're a strong voting bloc.

And there are far more consumers than there are factory workers, so outsourcing is more of a benefit than a negative in an economy.

Give manufacturing to the cheapest foreign labor. It's a good thing. This is why things like NAFTA are a net benefit to the US economy.

The obvious solution for the secondary problems this creates is to increase local industries for local jobs. What can someone do here that absolutely must be done here, instead of by a person in China?

Things like construction works well, where you need someone local to build something since it can't be outsourced - you need to be here. Other traditionally conservative jobs like farming and mining would also be included, but also things like teaching and retail and other service jobs.

The long-term solution is higher-skill jobs, pushing the state-of-the art since US has the top universities.
What about W or P?
A big part of the issue is the ruling elite are no longer tied to the long term outcome of any singular county. That was the realization at the end of the 20th century. With enough money you can become a citizen of any country, go wherever you want and do whatever. You are a global elite who has more in common with someone of similar social status in another country versus a citizen of birth country.

Once this country declines they'll just move somewhere else laughing all the way to the bank.

So why not pilfer the richest nation on earth for short term gain? Why support politicians that might not act in your interest? When things start going downhill it's off to Europe or Asia.
lol. I love how careful you are with your words. You know the SEC doesn't care how it's phrased, right? It's substance over form. Basically, "if it quacks like a duck, it's a duck".
We will release a new benchmark result soon.
> it is evidence against the proposition that basic research can only be done in public institutions.

I never made that claim.

> If the basic research in question has applications that potentially meet real human needs and thus is of value, I would presume that private corporations would step forward to meet those needs if public institutions were not doing so

That is nonsense. The whole thing about basic research is that it's generally very difficult to predict whether any particular kind of basic research is going to bear fruit and what sorts of applications it will have. You can't predict well, in advance. History shows this pretty clearly. You have to make a lot of diversified bets. There will be rare but massively profitable (long term) payoffs.

Discovering Quantum Mechanics has had huge benefits for society but no one could have predicted them in advance. And think of how much accumulated research was required over the years to lead to it, where it couldn't have been predicted that they'd lead to QM and its applications.
I’m a workaholic, and really like solving problems. This leads to burnout after a few months. I get a bit of a high from solving problems. Also, despite holding a degree from MIT and having worked in software for 10 years, I still have a bit of imposter syndrome. I believe working hard let’s me “prove” my value to others.
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Would they be publishing a post-mortem? If yes, where do I get to read it? Someone be kind enough to enlighten me. Sincerely,
That comment isn't intended to be "chilling"; it's intended to be the opposite.

This is a terrible cryptographic backdoor. If you're going to backdoor cryptography, you do it cryptographically, so that only you and your partners can decrypt it (this is called a "NOBUS" backdoor, for "nobody but us"). The only reason nobody found the Infineon bug already is that nobody seriously looked for it.

The most plausible explanation for the Infineon bug is also the most widespread: there's prime number generation advice for quickly generating primes on low-power devices like smartcards, and that advice was badly flawed.

(This isn't the first time primegen bugs have created factorable public keys in the wild; Henninger has a similar attack relating to p = randomprime(start=0), q =
randomprime(start=p)).
Oh, wow, that is crazy.
Then you just pass the buck over to classes and namespaces. You have the same fundamental problem in Ruby and Python, perhaps even worse for lack of typed function signatures.
Plant _local_ pollinating flowers and other plants that the insects rely upon, and encourage everyone you know that can do so to do the same.
It's estimating the probability of winning from the position based on what it has already seen. So basically it's a giant conditional probability distribution. Is it mistaken to interpret this as a bayesian network?
I had another pane autorunning something when it detected src file changes (inotify). So you just :w, and it happens.

The method in this blog could do this: just add :w to the mapping. The blog method might seem hacky in using up and enter, but this makes it easy to modify the command you want to run.
Pager as in - the electronic device that existed before the cellphone?
This comes down to VC firms saving face.

Early investors look less foolish with each additional round.

If you were one of the VC firms in Round A ($50M), Round B ($542M), or Round C ($793M) would you come out and say, "Yeah, we were hoodwinked." and invite professional blowback?

Or would you help Magic Leap with their next round of investment, until so many big names were on board that nobody could blame you for jumping in?
Not only IMEs for various languages, but also alternative forms of input such as speech recognition.
One of the reasons I feel the governments should look into Facebook acquiring future competitors that it feels will be competitors. In the last few years it has either acquired or copied growing social apps that it see will be a future threat.
See above, there's already 1000s of weak keys on github and other places, significantly more than you'd expect if they were randomly generated.

Problem is that it's hard to tell the difference between poor implementations and sabotaged implementations.
You say "packaging", but more than half of packaging is paper, not plastic. Plastic products are extremely valuable to humanity, the plastic manufacturing industry is merely meeting the demand.

Each moment humanity is without plastic is a moment hundreds of millions of people are suffering beyond contemporary compare. If the waste is unacceptable, we have to find something to do with it, because we won't (and shouldn't) stop producing plastic.

Personally I think more paper could be used, and advancements could certainly be made in paper and metal foil manufacturing to reduce reliance on disposable plastics, but painting plastic manufacturers as simple villains is childish and absurd.
> Maker of artisinal, small-batch simulation models for the discerning infectious disease consumer.

Would love to hear more :)
Sounds cool! Could you share that shortcut please? I'm sure I could work it out, but there's always a bit of trial and error, and looking up docs without knowing the name in vim (for me, anyway).
What does your manager/iteration manager think? Are they feeding you the same feedback? It's only a matter of time until it bubbles up to them so figuring out a plan might be appropriate.
In India, your resume qualifies for interview only if you disclose your previous salary.

I don't think its mandated by law, but thats's how the system works anyway.
> I think most such choices are actually made emotionally.

I would go so far as to suggest most choices are made emotionally. Brand advertising and propaganda are used because they work.

Also, I must complement you for honesty, and I think most people share your views. I can only comment that very rarely is a population a meaningful direct threat rather than at worst a dangerous tool, but those terms will be banded about to leverage our natural responses.
When money flows freely you raise what you can. It's more than just verifiable smart contracts though. With money comes the ability to do a lot of research and lots of independent projects.

Take a look at the stuff Ethereum is researching. Watch one of Vitalik's talks on YouTube.
We're generally able to trace those weak keys back to specific implementation faults. All it takes is one widespread RSA implementation to do primegen badly for us to get hundreds more weak keys on Github.
All salaries for everyone should be public. Come up with whatever excuse you want, and it can be countered. And I am a socialist, not a libertarian. The more data that comes to light, the more we will have equality for equal work.
Thanks, I didn't know about the breakpoint system. I'm glad that "consistent" in this case doesn't mean fixed width, like PDF or bad 90s websites. I'm sorry I over-reacted.