skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and it seems an amazingly efficient service: no real infrastructure required (packages are on a shelf behind the counter), last-mile shipping done on the same trucks that restock the stores, uses the existing store computer systems, etc.

The "locker model" might be better for high-value goods and an untrustworthy workforce, but it seems to require a pretty huge investment to get any significant coverage...
Yes, I'm beginning to see the problems with this scheme, particularly with speed and scope. Looking at Tor, I see that it is, essentially, the same concept.
Also, Google ignores capitalization.
Facebook, Google, Amazon, from the top of my head.
What BBM could & should have been if those geniuses at the helm RIMM had any foresight. Apple made an iTunes version for Windows, Microsoft made Office for Mac. if those two could work past their differences for the sake of serving their customers, anyone can.

Early on, when iMessage was a pipe-dream &Gtalk a usability mess victim of Google's "everything must be web" orthodoxy, RIMM could have made a killing selling a robust no-frills honest-to-God messaging app for Android, iOS, Windows Phone & feature phones.What a waste.
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Oh look, you found ONE. Good fucking job. If you look hard enough, you could find one ANYTHING. It appears you really missed the point devbug was trying to make.
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I am lazy.
He's arguing that there's a discontinuity. It's better to join just before a major funding event vs. just after. It becomes steadily better as time passes after the funding event (assuming the company makes progress at the right pace), until the next funding event.

Joining right before the series B is probably better than right after the A, from an equity maximization perspective, weighted for risk. Of course, being an early hire right after the A makes it more likely you'd be in a senior role, or at least get a lot of great work done before the B, but your equity grant is not likely to increase.
3 Powerful Beliefs needed to be a Good Salesman
Did they fix the crucial security exploits pointed out previously?

http://fileperms.org/whatsapp-is-broken-really-broken/

I guess they didn't.

http://fileperms.org/whatsapp-security-fails-again/
I'm disappointed the Dutch Sandwich doesn't get its own native language support, then!
That's a smaller target audience than for any of the other languages they've provided translations for so far, so it makes sense that they haven't done it until now.
“At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data, upgrading the servers that hold all the data and making sure it’s all being logged and collated and sliced and packaged and shipped out… And at the end of the day the result of it all is a slightly different advertising banner in your browser or on your mobile screen. Remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product.” [Koum's emphasis.]

And that is just one reason why a Whatsapp/Facebook acquisition would be a surprise. At other times, Koum has been public about his distaste for startups that sell out quickly. “Totally agree with Vinod Khosla,” he wrote in July. “People starting companies for a quick sale are a disgrace to the valley.” (He’s also, btw, noted that getting on TC shouldn’t be a goal in itself. Too true.)

-- Sounds like another loss for the good side.
> there will be a major "bazaar" going on underground

I thought most people here had heard of The Silk Road onion service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_%28marketplace%29

> An online bank could very well operate in the anonymous network because the traffic is already cryptographically signed, and users can enjoy strong authentication if they wish to or remain a pair of anonymous public/private keys.

Or you can use bitcoins to accomplish the same and you don't even need banks.

As William Gibson said, "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed".
So does Michigan, while places like Nevada have disproportionately smaller subsidy per capita.
This will be interesting. I'm not sure how they make the claim "any spectrum" but if they really can make a full spectrum light that has decent (> 75) lumens per watt then that really will change things.
Actually I think that is unfair to say.

I think that lesser talented folks are more likely to bust their ass to prove themselves based on my limited hiring experience.
It was unfortunate and bone-headed, but they are good enough to be able to recover.

Uber has a great algorithm to help supply meet demand through variable pricing.

They did forget to account for emergencies.

During the NYC blackouts not long after 9/11, not a single supermarket or corner grocer raised their prices.

I'm sure Uber has learned, and will have a plan in place next tme.

I am concerned about Travis' ability to beat the regulators here. He's taking an us vs. them approach.

May be necessary in reality - in fact, I bet it is.

But I wonder if he can get further by being outwardly less combative/aggressive.
A close friend of mine from RIM told me they came pretty close to doing it. But dropped the idea due to certain limitations/challenges 70% in.
Times change. 12 years ago being born Syrian wasn't such a risk.
Fiddle-dee-tax!
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His point is that the drop in equity grants post Series A is not proportional to the drop in risk.

Certainly I get that some people can't handle the risk of joining a company before Series A, or can't handle a subsistence salary. But that's not the point he's trying to make.
Haha. I hope that was a troll, or at least someone who is now unemployed in either the hedge fund industry or startups.
High English fluency in the Netherlands plus a relatively small population makes it less of a priority than other languages.
Marijuana Arrests Not Harbinger of More Violent Criminal Activity
Generally speaking, alarmists ignore the issue of falsification. And I'll probably be downvoted into oblivion for pointing it out: http://guscost.com/2012/11/28/global-whining/
> It has an obligation to actually protect its citizens

Perhaps you can claim agents acting on behalf of the state have a metaphorical obligation to protect citizens. But they do not have a literal, legal, or contractual obligation to do so in the majority of circumstances:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales
>Plenty of people who will later do great things seem to be disappointments early on, when they're trying to find their niche.

Thank you for posting this and thank you PG for saying it.
Adinkras are not Category Diagrams (among other things, if you have A->B and B->C you don't necessarily have A->C). Here's the original paper:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0408004v1.pdf

Urs Schreiber speculated a while ago that there may be a connection between adinkra diagrams and categories

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2007/08/adinkras.html

But to my knowledge, the connection has not been made explicit.
Non technical hires can add tremendous value to an early organization.

A year+ abstaining from non-technical hires is insane of you have traction in the market. Why are you so against the concept?

I agree with outsourcing hr/accounting/compliance early.
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Maybe what you miss is not old facebook but the time in your life when you happened to start using it. Consider the amount of time you spent there versus slashdot; then compare that to the time you spend on facebook now and how much more of your life network, not just social, is reflected there today.
Sounds plausible.They couldn't get email to work on the playbook when it was first released. I still have a hard time wrapping my head about how rigid an architecture must be to tie email to a specific device but it seems to be the way they've designed their systems.
No, I am not saying or implying this. Who am I to say what he should be ashamed of? What I am saying that this is a matter that perceived as private and sensitive by many, and that I would personally prefer for it to stay that way.
I am not an American but I knew it be Texas that must be receiving a lion's share
> No, it's a JVM optimized for "not being something Oracle can demand money for."

We're talking technical here and you're throwing in a legal argument?!? What does this have to do with the implementation of the JVM?

> And it's not just the different-to-be-different bytecode environment that does that, but bad design decisions like a laughably low class limit

Obviously, you are an expert on virtual machines and the Android team should listen to your wisdom.
Well, I'm sure they can still convert to a whole host of other currencies, just not the major sanctioned ones. So, we can say Bitcoin is beating out the minor currencies.
"I suppose that is one way to reduce incarceration rates: reduce the number of laws."

Yes, and legalizing drugs would be one way of doing that.

"I thought drugs were okay?"

Marijuana was found to be non-harmful by medical researchers. Certainly other drugs are not.

"If drug users really cared about the violence in Mexico, they would boycott any drugs grown in Mexico. I haven't even seen this as a suggestion. Why?"

The point I'm making is legalization would raise revenues here and have a positive side effect on Mexico. How would it be a bad thing to help Mexico return to normalcy?

"Why do we need to spend the money we get from drug revenue to rehabilitate addicts? There are plenty of other things that could use that money..like paying down the national debt."

Regardless of what we do with the funds, it's additional revenue. Whether or not we spend it on rehabilitating drug addicts or not is a different discussion.

"I would really like to see some pros and cons. The problem is that all of the pro-drug users only want to talk about the great things (and deny any of the bad ones)."

Pros:

- increased revenue

- less spending on enforcement

- lower incarceration rate, less spending on prisons

Cons:

- greater access, though access isn't difficult right now.

- may result in more drug users (Decriminalization in Portugal did not result in more drug users, but full legalization could have a different effect.)

Criminalizing popular drugs like Marijuana is no different than alcohol prohibiton in the 20's, and we all know how that turned out.

I am not an illegal drug user myself. Read some more on the topic and you will likely be swayed to the side of legalization, which I and many others believe to be the side of reason.

I think many people have a knee-jerk reaction to the idea of decriminalizing or legalizing drugs. It sounds bad on its face, but the actual results are the opposite of what you'd expect.
Although I never said that it was, I would at the same time caution against making broad sweeping statements.
Apple recently got into a lot of trouble in Australia after routing earnings through its Ireland operation.

http://m.smh.com.au/business/tax-office-takes-285m-bite-out-...
Thanks! I'm definitely out of my league here; I found the second blog article and went based on my glancing at that. IIRC the transitivity of the category diagram is of paramount importance, so I wouldn't think the analogy holds if transitivity doesn't.

Category theory is an interest of mine I hope to develop further but there's a lot of preliminary learning I need to do first.
Ministry of Justice of Qatar vulnerable to hackers - Hacker News
Just as a thought experiment, what do you think of an alternative reality in which even more of reality is transparent - including the operations of commercial, political, and other entities? Preferably collated and maintained by the community rather than centralized entities, crucially; somewhat akin to a shared wikipedia.

The thing that worries me about this push towards encryption and anonymity is that it does afford nefarious elements a lot of safe harbor. I imagine it's fairly possible to identify individuals given a few message traces, even in an encrypted anonymous environment, and layfolks simply aren't going to have the skills to cover all their digital tracks - can even expert cypherpunks? Meanwhile, a few malevolent elements in unison could easily co-ordinate and harvest details, with enough cover to be hard to track down (and even harder to prosecute).

An alternative is a world of transparency and openness - with a huge loss of privacy, but also a loss of privacy for those who would push their own causes of power and control, and/or commit crimes.

I honestly don't know what the long-term best path would be - or if there is even a genuine dichotomy between anonymity/privacy at all. I value my privacy, but I also value the opportunity to identify the sources of problems and use the structures of society to deal with them.
This sounds to me like a defensive move against the messaging giants of the east (Wechat, Line, Kakao).

Thoughts on this guys?
You can put any hat (or lens) on it, but the amount of money raised tells me a few things * :

1) If you can't build your product with a few $100k (or less), it is probably not that great of an idea. Google, Facebook, Myspace, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and more were all built on very small initial budgets. And no, these were not edge cases - thousands more successful startups were lean from the start.

2) If your business plan demands millions in financing, its probably because you are buying customers / marketing. I know very well the value of both, but none of the aforementioned companies launched with marketing budgets. Step 1: build prodcut; step 2: scale. You may also be building some magical super computing cluster that will revolutionize search, but we all know how Color turned out.

3) You have raised an excessively large round because VCs benefit from it. Schemes like "2 and 20", "10x exit" and so forth mean that VCs try to overvalue companies from the start. Raising capital is also a good way to dilute founder equity. VCs also have to make investments, or else their capital collects dust. This means they will try to invest as much as they can in promising companies, just so they aren't forced to invest the cash on less promising ones.

TL;DR: it is in a VC's best interest to pump as much cash as they can into your company (assuming they think they can flip it for a profit). Always start small, test for traction, then scale.

*Keep in mind we are talking about software here.
It certainly depends on the use case. However, our results have been great for questions such as "Which image feels more trustworthy?".

When you are creating images or deciding between photos to use in your creative, it's a very effective and quick way to get honest, unbias feedback. Try it for yourself.
My point was, that start-ups differ. As well as technologies they focus on. Not all start-ups are about the Web and frontend tech. Many are about backend, others are about core technologies like mobile operating systems and so on. Numbers are not the point. But significance and impact are.
And for a similar issue, there's the case of Neda Soltani. You may recall the woman whose death by a sniper during a rally in Iran was shared on video with the world in 2009. This is not her story. Rather, Neda Soltani's Facebook photo was mistakenly attributed to Neda Agha-Soltan by media worldwide. In a cosmic dark comedy, both protesters and Iranian government agents attacked Soltani on account of an error she had no part in. Eventually she left the country, though much of her family and many friends remain behind.

http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/nov/30/my-stolen-face/

http://www.amazon.com/My-Stolen-Face-ebook/dp/B009JVQ8QQ
I'd love to read a blog post or paper on this topic.
Strong cryptography can resist an unlimited application of violence. No amount of coercive force will ever solve a math problem.

Not entirely false, but http://xkcd.com/538/
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very platonic, but totally oblivious to "rubber hose cryptanalysis" ...unless you have a group of fanatically loyal people at the core of your "freedom protectors" group and the "engineers" that implement your cryptography systems part of this group, force and bribery will always win.

...and if you have a group of people truly loyal to freedom, then you don't need much crypto anyway ...just spoken words, physical transfer written/printed papers or usb sticks (this is how bin laden supposedly communicated his speaches if I remember well, right?) or other media and a brotherly handshake...
Howto encrypt your Linux home directory and/or USB sticks
Even “those jobs aren’t coming back” is a somewhat polite and euphemistic answer. Those jobs were never even in the USA in the first place. The USA could never support making phones and tablets on the scale on which they are made in China.
YC W13 Likely Less Than 50 Companies
>Why would you prefer a C++ implementation of a crypto library to a C one?

Here's an example from the EVP_Digest* man page from OpenSSL, with some comments added:

EVP_MD_CTX *mdctx;

// forget this part and get undefined behavior (but maybe it seems to work, sometimes)

mdctx = EVP_MD_CTX_create();

// forget this part? more and different runtime errors

EVP_DigestInit_ex(mdctx, md, NULL);

EVP_DigestUpdate(mdctx, mess1, strlen(mess1));

EVP_DigestUpdate(mdctx, mess2, strlen(mess2));

// md_value allocated with malloc()? don't forget to free()

EVP_DigestFinal_ex(mdctx, md_value, &md_len);

// forget this part, or remember it but miss an "if(err) return -1" statement somewhere? memory leak

EVP_MD_CTX_destroy(mdctx);

Comparable C++ implementation:

// RAII, compile error if you don't provide constructor argument instead of runtime error if you don't call init function

EVP_Digest_CTX ctx(md);

ctx.update(msg1, msg1_size);

ctx.update(msg2, msg2_size);

// return simple object: typed dynamic byte array + size with its own destructor, both digest and ctx destructors get called when function returns from anywhere

EVP_Digest digest = ctx.final_result();

And it's 4 lines of code instead of 7.

Can you explain why I would want the C version?
I'm getting a 404 error on that link. Anyone else?
I wonder if federal or statewide legislation could help, prohibiting negative-sum subsidy competitions between smaller jurisdictions.
I don't see any need for a company with 3 founders (who can generally do sales better than any salesperson, due to being founders and very familiar with the industry, even if they're inferior at sales skills), in a highly technical b2b/enterprise product, to hire anything but engineers for the first 5-10 hires. (so far we've only hired one)

Maybe a sales engineer for outbound sales, but even that role needs a fair bit of technical expertise, and will probably just end up being founders, or an engineering/technical hire who also happens to be sales-ok -- maybe a traditional SE who wants to move into sales. Support and client management is also fairly advanced for this, and is essentially a sysadmin or engineer. Inbound sales and on-boarding is essentially the same.

Marketing and inbound sales generation through vendor/partnership. That is probably the first non-technical hire which would make sense. And that I think I can put off for a long time through outsourcing and maybe part-time consulting.
Texting SMS pioneer Matti Makkonen --20 years on
In a world first, on 3 December 1992, an engineer sent the message "Merry Christmas" from a PC to a mobile device using Vodafone's UK network.
Those michigan guys are nuts. Great meeting all of you (in umich's case- seeing you again) this weekend!
This is Cryptome, who isn't associated with Wikileaks. You can donate to Wikileaks using Bitcoin.
The error he's making is that personal risk is different from the company's risk. Just after receiving funding the company isn't any less likely to fail (well, maybe slightly less), but a job with this company now offers a steady income for longer than was guaranteed prior to greater funding.

So, in fact, just after funding might be a great time to join a company.
Le chanteur Lenny Kravitz devrait incarner Marvin Gaye au cinéma 
Un biopic sur Marvin Gaye est en préparation et c’est Lenny Kravitz qui va incarner le chanteur mythique à l’écran. Le film est pour l’heure sans titre, mais la participation de l’artiste confirmée.
I was not aware that Twitter had a $22 subsidy from the State of California. Hope that was a good investment.
The FBI's actions aren't in any way different then Google. Who also crawl the Internet and download every post people make.
I'd just copy the policy from whoever your nearest comparable is. It is fairly specific to your application and needs.

Probably the best thing is to find comparable companies, take their policies, and then go to your lawyers with that info and see what they suggest.
Guys, he's actually right. There are 204 sovereign states (secondary source, can't find the primary [0]), plus a handful of countries that are disputed (Palestine, Kosovo, etc.)

There just simply aren't 250 countries.

0: http://imgur.com/rNDj4

(At the time of posting, parent was below zero)
12.5, or 10 if you are manufacturing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_the_Republic...
How a New Generation of Entrepreneur is Forging the Face of New Japan
What trouble? They just had to pay back taxes, and they even came out ahead since they didn't have to pay interest on those taxes. This lack of any meaningful punishment is why corporate shenanigans are so common.
It may be an "e-paper" display, similar to the one Pebble is using. Looking at the Pebble demo videos, you can see that they do support high framerate. Not so sure about the size though.

[1]http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper...
[2] http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/1-26-inch-memory-lcd.html
Looks to be competition with http://www.uBeam.com should be an interesting space over the coming years.
How Notch's JS Experiment Generates Its Textures in Code [YouTube]
Building a Startup Under Missile Fire
80.4 billion dollars is something like 255 dollars per capita or 700 dollars per tax payer, or 0.6 percent of GDP or 0.5 percent of US total public debt or 0.06 percent of US total unfunded liabilities (too many zeros on my calculator - I don't trust these numbers myself).
Speaking as someone doing a startup in Japan, this is a very enjoyable article.

Richard is one of the few writers focused on the new wave of businesses, entrepreneurs and startup accelerators in Japan.
I think it's important simply to be aware of how things work. I certainly wasn't advocating libertarianism or even any other political position.
How-to: Picking a desktop environment in Linux
I use schemas (in the form of RelaxNG most of the time) almost every time I deal with XML. Together with schematron you can make very complex lint-like scripts to verify your data. Actually I program in XML with a self created programming language (formulated in XML). This together with RelaxNG and a good XML makes it fun writing XML and absolutely (syntax-)error free.
YouTube's API threat to Pandora and Rhapsody? Opinion?
Out of nowhere a single Reddit post made tubalr go viral.

A few weeks ago http://www.fuhshnizzle.com launched a commercial free website using the YouTube and Discogs API to offer a complete streaming music solution in 200 countries.

YouTube's strategy is to encourage developers to build killer apps against the YouTube library.

Do you think this is good for music?
The Aryan Invasion Theory: The Final Nail in it's Coffin
Nokia seeks Linux engineer, Android crowd goes wild