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Ask HN: Typical deal for bootstrap company who raise money after stock vested?
We have a bootstrapped startup we've been working on for 4+ years. We had a 4 year vesting schedule...just 2 founders 50/50 C Corp. If we were to raise money at this point, how would our stock be treated? Probably do 2MM revenue this year.
He wasn't rebutting the code; he was rebutting the claims about following the C standard, which were made separate from the code. You missed this because its' buried in all of Linus' ranting. Linus merged these changes a few minutes later with no further discussion.
> with a de facto maximum of about a 100

100 is the exact maximum by policy from Let's Encrypt, but if you're interested in more details about what CAs can do, there is a great thread on the Let's Encrypt Community Forum about the nature of the limitations:

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/is-there-an-rfc-that-cov...

Two resources mentioned there are

https://1000-sans.badssl.com/

https://10000-sans.badssl.com/

which you can use to experiment with TLS client behavior in the presence of unusually large numbers of SANs.
Google's long history of supporting their paid products, you mean?
So you are saying if I take my AWS infrastructure, which I launch with my terraform config, I can simply use that same config to launch the same infra on GCP or DO? Didn't think so. It's only slightly more agnostic than AWS CloudFormation, in that I can at least use some of the same conventions when I completely rewrite my terraform files.

I think you are confusing "agnostic" with "compatible with lots of different providers", but will require a total rewrite if you want to switch providers.
This is asking nicely.
This article sounds unnecessarily biased. All art has stylistic and thematic influences. Nothing in Van Gogh's experimentation with or usage of Japanese elements looks egregious to me.
I'm not proposing we go back to desktop apps as done in Windows et al. I'm proposing an open-source network-friendly GUI standard be created, or at least experimented with to test the power and limits of.

I suggest it be coordinate-vector based, and any layout and "flow" decisions be done on the server. Yes, if you resize your screen it would be slower than client-side re-flowing, but would simplify the client-side greatly, making it mostly a dumb vector plotter. Fat clients led to fat problems. Shift more to the server so you are using and testing with one render engine instead of the 50+ that browser brand/version combos result in. 1 < 50.
A database of what (if anything) happens after a movie's credits
What you are referring to is an inquisitorial court system, as opposed to an adversarial court system. You might have known that already, but no one in this thread as mentioned those terms so I thought I'd throw them out there. There are pros and cons to both approaches. I'd caution you from basing your opinion on that court system from that case, since it seems the defendant openly admitted to committing the crime. I'd compare what happened there to what would happen in a criminal trial where the defense pleads guilty.

Seeing as how you don't like the idea of jury trials, I'm curious what your opinion is on lay judges.
I always found fascinating how, given enough time, organic matter evolved to the point where it became aware of itself, created mental forms to communicate with itself (language), named and categorized itself (human beings, plants, animals, rocks, etc) to try to understand itself.

The water that I drink has been inside countless beings for eons. My body is composed of elements that have been on this planet for eons. I think I'm separate from the rest of the planet, of the system, but am I, really?

I am like a VM inside an hypervisor. I think I'm separate from the whole, but that's only an illusion.

Our senses are powerful and allow us to navigate the world, but if we train ourselves to go beyond them, beyond the language we collectively created, beyond even our memories and thoughts/feelings associated with them, what will we find? Perhaps consciousness is something that should be studied individually?
Is it possible print URL with auto-removing unneeded content? Such as PrintFriendly.[0]

[0] http://printfriendly.com
DesqView 386 let me run multiple bbs lines my PC didn't have good enough specs to run Windows with multiple dos programs running at the same time.... Good times I feel bbs's were still mostly better then the web today.
The comments are actually great -- even Tog weighs in! It also mentions Frank Lehey, who rewrote the Menu Manager for Mac SE and Mac II.

Jake Smith • 5 years ago
This was first implemented by Apple's HID team back in the 80s, specifically Bruce Tognazzini, I believe.

Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini Jake Smith • 5 years ago
Yes, I did invent it back in 1986 and it is firmly in the public domain. From what I remember, it was Jim Batson who worked out the math and coded it for the Mac OS. The OS X team later failed to copy the algorithm, so I am happy to see that amazon has resurrected it.

Josh Davenport Jake Smith • 5 years ago
I think it was yes. It looks like it was originally implemented by NeXT and then removed by Apple when they bought NeXT. Tog himself talks about what happened here: https://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html in the answer to question 6 - "When I specified the Mac hierarchical menu algorthm in the mid-'80s, I called for a buffer zone shaped like a <, so that users could make an increasingly-greater error as they neared the hierarchical without fear of jumping to an unwanted menu...........Sadly, the NeXT folks, when coming to Apple, copied Windows, rather than the Mac"

markr_7 • 5 years ago
Can't comment on the HID team, Bruce, or possibly the many times it was even implemented at Apple, but as a young developer at Apple in the 80s, I remember stopping by Frank Leahy's office as he was tweaking his code to get menus to "work right." I've often recalled the experience because of the time he was spending to get it right, and how the behavior wasn't simple once you started really trying to meet a users expectations. If I remember right it wasn't just the direction, but also time and therefore velocity. For example, you wouldn't want to stick with the wrong menu if the user wasn't really moving with purpose in the direction of the sub-menu.
I have personally created SaaS solutions for anti-cheat. It is definitely a driving reason to push towards SaaS; publishers only concern themselves with DRM to _delay_ the release on piracy sites, but do concern themselves with DRM to _frustrate_ ongoing efforts.

Obfuscated and protected binaries are moving targets. Targets that can be overcome, absolutely; but they remain in motion so long as they are rebuilt.
These seems like a interesting model for analyzing which population structures are most conducive to the spread of memes or ideas. The obvious population structures are 'highly connected' but this suggests that you can have loosly structured populations as long as 'have certain features (sic), such as hubs and self-loops.'
It's only legal because there is a legitimate reason to pay it. The board members in charge have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders.

So you will see payouts and bonuses to executives to get them to stay with the sinking ship in hopes of eeking out more money before the collapse, but if you were to just pay a bonus to an executive on their way out, you would have a very hard time justifying that and could be sued for breach of your fiduciary duty.
Most people weren't using taxis in London regularly (they're too expensive for that), even prior to Uber; they were using private hires (or "minicabs") which is the exact same regulatory structure that Uber operates under (and have existed for 1960s). Uber's advantages in London came about in three main ways, AFAICT: individual ratings of drivers (massively decreasing variation in quality), tracking from ordering to pickup, and not having any issues with card payments (because they're the only way to pay!). Of course, the other private hire companies haven't stood still…

The most notable difference in regulation from a passenger point of view between a private hire and a taxi is you can hail a taxi, but can't a private hire.
Which is great news; I'm looking forward to the cost of phased array radar dropping for all applications (military, weather, communications, life safety, etc), as well as improved colocation capabilities (for example, the next gen NEXRAD weather network is going to be a combined phased array weather and aircraft transportation surveillance [TSA & FAA] system enabled by solid state phased array hardware [+], which is going to save $5 billion dollars over the system lifetime).

[+] https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/tools/radar/mpar/
Yes, full documentation with lots of videos are available. If you sign up for the free developer account, it will take you to the portal with lots of videos, articles, and docs. You may also want to look at this video that shows you the platform in 10 min:

http://global.zuilder.com/us-en/video_walkthrough

As far as WordPress, just wondering, why does the choice of blogging platform matter? We could probably make it prettier if we built it ourselves, but as a startup, we've decided to focus on our product capabilities and not spend too much time on something like a blog.

Your feedback is much appreciated!

Thank you!

Matt
DSL frequency is usually between .25 and 1 MHz as that's what CAT1 was designed for, while LTE is usually sent over frequencies in the hundreds or low thousands of MHz. Shorter or higher quality runs of DSL lines can have slightly higher frequencies, but it's still not much.
It's not so much sane, as possibly a little more friendly to those who can't - or don't want to do capacity planning.

Visibility in terms of outcomes means savings, or rather, variability means cost.

Ultimately, you're going to bear the cost if you cannot provide visibility because Google is not likely ever going to do it as well as you can for your own business.

Ultimately, if you knew exactly what you needed over the next few years, the cost would be significantly cheaper as there's no need to have slack or wasted capacity. Google effectively forgoes this option entirely and assumes at least some minimum volatility, which means more cost.

I think it would be nice to have Google's offer, but then also a longer term 'lock in' low price option as well, as frankly, this fits a lot of businesses. Most of the economy is not as dynamic as Valley startups.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
Elon Musk is one of our "holy programmers" (http://dailyprog.org/holy/#musk) because he did a nice game when he was 12 (https://blastar-1984.appspot.com/).

Sadly I didn't read the article because of that https://u.sicp.me/gFzaG.png
Zuckerberg has majority voting rights. He doesn’t have to keep the board happy.
The magic of memory. They can't coerce you to divulge your password for your wallet.
Sure, but in certain languages you can reason formally about them, and prove properties of them. It's not completely perfect, but particularly for relatively simple models you can get pretty high confidence in correctness, at least, up to certain invariance assumptions.
On a modern POSIX environment, you can hack together an approximation of an overlay by loading some code to an area of memory, mprotect( ptr, len, PROT_EXEC) the segment, ((int(*)())ptr)() to call the function and if you did everything right, you don't segfault too hard. Later, you can overwrite that area of memory with other code and repeat.

This is similar to what actually goes on under the hood of the dynamic loader.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/dl-libraries.htm...
I used to bookmark these kinds of comments, but the folder got too big.

I wish this was added to the list of comment guidelines of things to avoid – one could argue it is a shallow dismissal.
It wasn't the user flagging that caused this, it happened from one moment to another:
http://hnrankings.info/17399895/

The moderators do not deny being responsible for it.
Whatever GCP has is rock-solid and often superior to AWS.

For example: when AWS encounters non-catastrophic issues with their hypervisor, you are on the hook for moving the instances away (meaning stop-start, or termination and relaunch for instance store). Depending on the instance type, this can cause service disruption.

GCP will transparently migrate the VM while it is running for you. You never see it, you customers don't either.

Same for networking: if you use their "premium" network, you can have anycast IPs to the closest POP, which will route traffic on Google's Network, not the open internet. AWS does not have anything close to this, the closest is multi-region VPC peering, without the fancy routing.

AWS offers more features though, which could be important if you require them.
Anyone know why Facebook moved off HBase? (article doesn't address this)

I get that MyRocks is truly amazing, but I'm wondering what issues they were facing with HBase. I heard HBase was picked over Cassandra (developed at FB) because it was strongly consistent vs Cassandra's eventual consistency.
While there's probably people who'll meaninglessly nitpick about whether those things count as the "I" part of IoT, that's a pointless distraction.

I fly FPV quadcopters, and I remember back when I got my first 5GHz video setup, and put a high gain antenna on the receiver in my workshop at home, and hit the autotune button - it hopped around showing me snippets from a bunch of my neighbour's baby monitors and doorbell cameras. Plain unencrypted 5GHz video, and when I looked on the 2.4GHz band, even more there too. (this was 4-5 years back, and things have changed since then - so I see fewer plain video streams these days, but I still see signals which are almost certainly similar devices, and I'll bet if I cared it'd turn out to be relatively trivial to google up "secret keys" to those probably-homebrew-encrypted streams, and worse I'll bet the Mirai source code probably shows me how to p0wn many of those devices...)

People 100% have been putting technology in their houses with little or zero knowledge of how it works and the consequences on their privacy dictated by the security design, and never considering those possible consequences in the purchase decision and buying based on features and rice only. Connecting those non-security-focused devices to the internet is insane - but it's exactly what vendors are selling everywhere - as evidenced bu the power on the Mirai botnet...
At high frequencies the skin depth of copper decreases and the signal is confined to a small amount of material, which provides a high ohmic resistance to the signal. So for copper there is always a maximum frequency for the signal thus limiting the bandwidth. For air the signal propagates as a free EM wave, essentially in the vacuum, and isn't band limited by the material its traveling through.

This is my understanding at least, I am open to correction/ nuance.
When it's your business, of course these things are easy. It's just part of routine maintenance and overhead. When you're in a different business, you generally want to be focusing on your own core competencies and solving your own specific business challenges, not care and feeding of servers. Classic division of labor problem.
You're in a situation where you are going to loose from a legal perspective, and (IMHO) nothing about your case makes it a particular interesting one to publicly demonstrate injustice or problems with how copyright works, which is why making a stand out of it looks like a waste of time and money.

If your goal is to widely/permanently make something accessible that the rightsholder doesn't want you to share, posting it under a real identity on a platform that'll enforce copyright really isn't the way to go.
Yay... another "technology safari" post that loves to point and laugh at how dated old technology (read: old to the author) was. Why can't people accept things the way they were without constantly disparaging them?
Venmo will no longer let you pay or charge your friends on its website
> Locality is the same as saying causation is limited to speed of light

Nope. When two qbits are entangled, operations on one affect the other instantaneously. This breaks locality. However, it does not break causality - we cannot get any classical information from one qbit's frame to the other. See the No-communication theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

You can have non-locality without time travel, or breaking causality. If I entangle two qbits, give you one, and we both go to opposite ends of the universe, then when I measure my qbit I'll know yours instantly collapsed to the same value. However, all we've done is created a shared random number generator. I can't communicate anything to you.

One might be tempted to think - well, why do we believe entanglement is a non-local phenomenon? Surely the qbits just decided at the time of entanglement how they would collapse, then remembered that? No. That is called hidden variable theory, which has been disproved.

Entanglement breaks locality, but not causality.
Natural-orderby – lightweight+performant natural sorting of arrays/collections
Negative mutations such as chronic pain would normally get selected out of a species but because humans have become quite adept at survival we don't select out these traits as easily as a less intelligent species might.
Amazon poached 30 executives from Microsoft in the past 3 years
No they didn't. Because you are a hosting company. Not all companies have your expertise - most don't.
Does posting under your real name about drugs and bitcoins constitute "trying hard?" :)
I love my IKEA Hesstun. 2 separate sets of coils (I prefer springs to memory foam), a comparable design from the major brands was about twice the price. IKEA offers a transparent profile view (i.e. the inside of the mattress) for every mattress they sell, and you can lie on every one for hours without a single salesperson bothering you. 365-day exchange policy, longer than any of the stores I visited was offering (IKEA allows exchanges, but not refunds on mattresses). People knock IKEA but I do not believe my mattress is inferior in build quality to an assembly-line mattress from Sealy, Simmons, etc.

I know my mattress has low ratings online -- this is meaningless, all the review sites are just commissioned salespeople for the online brands (Casper, Purple, etc), so of course those sites discourage you from buying from IKEA.
> It wasn't the user flagging that caused this, it happened from one moment to another.

How can you tell? Something being flagged by users looks exactly like this. Things rise to the front page, get more attention and age slightly, a few flags come in and push down the ranking.
The article does expain how it fits the semi-arid definition as it gets 250-500mm, nowhere near 2500. Snow doesnt count, which is why antarctica is technically a dessert. Sand isnt part of the standard.
I don't think this is like gambling.

There is a certain amount of clarity or volatility in a system. Volatility will entail cost that will effectively be passed onto the buyer one way or another.

Google can be smart about it and try to do some predictions, but ultimately, the customer should in many cases know much more about what their usage patterns will be. This information reduces volatility and therefore cost ... passed on to the buyer.

If you say "I want to rent 10 cars for a month" vs. "I want the ability to rent from 2 to 20 cars for a month, not sure about what" - what is the intrinsic cost going to be for the provider? Even with demand smoothing over a large client base ... the increased volatility is cost.

I don't think this is related to gambling.

In many ways this is really similar to financial planning and I think the language of this article will make way more sense to financial types than technical types. I might even go so far as saying this is really a problem for financial ops, and not devops.
I think understanding holography is a good way to develop some intuition for this. The basic idea is that our notions of spacetime aren't fundamental, but instead emerge from other structures where locality may not be evident.

The past 20 years of research into quantum gravity have been dominated by the development of toy models where our formulations of physics in 3+1 dimensions are interchangeable with theories in 2+1 dimensions, where a simple calculation in one theory may be translated into a complicated calculation in the other.

If the way we experience local spacetime is an emergent phenomenon of low-energy approximations of structures that don't involve locality, then it becomes possible to imagine that at high energies, locality might no longer be present.
A more descriptive title on HN would have helped - eg "Working on two security holes in git-annex and a new security-focused library", however, the title is what the author decided to name his journal entry and its use as the HN title and is entirely appropriate.
That 1985-01-01 is when .COM itself (TLD) was created.
California Legislative Effort to Avert Privacy Ballot Initiative
A good start towards defining consciousness is to box it in with edge cases: a person in coma? a severely mentally retarded person? a person on hallucinogenic drugs? a dog? The answers to these edge cases can help us separate possibly entangled concepts that seem to come under the umbrella of consciousness.

I would concentrate on collecting empirical evidence, at the expense of developing further theoretical speculation along the lines of "p-zombies". I could see a Darwin-like figure traveling widely and recording detail minutely, and using it to make the case for simple unifying force behind an enormous spectrum of variation.
No, I have never called amazon. It's automatic. And in the rare case where the automatic option doesn't work, I use the live chat help.
Good for self-driving cars as well I assume.
I reserve CashHub™ then ;-P
They have a very strong research arm covering a significant number of research areas.
https://research.fb.com/
It depends on the specifics, but I think you covered the main options. Any of them would prevent the harm to wildlife caused by litter.
I don't think this is the case. If there is only one listing for all sellers, it must be from amazon stock.
> Please don't put words in my mouth. I am capable of speaking for myself.

Quoting someone's reply is a normal part of internet discussions. Deal with it.

> I view "obligated" as meaning a moral duty, or at least a societal "should". That's different from "it would benefit me". Obligations, in fact, are often things that don't benefit you, but that you have to do anyway.

Actually, you know what? You're right... obligation isn't the right phrasing here. Entitlement is. You feel you're entitled to a reply, and will throw a temper tantrum if you don't get one.
Office of Cyberspace Reborn in Bill Approved by Senate Panel
Usually, that kind of venom in C book reviews is reserved for books written by Herbert Schildt ;-)
Βραζιλία, Σερβία και Ελβετία για δύο θέσεις στον όμιλο
Did you finish it? It comes to this conclusion:

> Ultimately, however, the Japan-as-inspiration-narrative collapses under the weight of van Gogh’s staggering range. While many of the portraits from this period incorporate the cropped perspectives and jagged linearity in Japanese woodcuts of aristocrats and courtesans, they just as often borrow heavily from the hyper-individualized, introspective examples of the Dutch Golden Age portraiture of Rembrandt and Vermeer, painters van Gogh had long admired.