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Like Richard Branson?
Indeed.

Personally, I've always wondered how pen-registers could be legally used without the permission of the registered. It just seems like snooping. Yes, I realize Courts Have Decided, and The Legal Issues Are All Tidily Wrapped Up, but really, how un-American is a pen-register?

On a related note, do US federal law enforcement agencies suffer a significant personnel turnover because people finally have pangs of conscience over what they're required to do?
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Since GNAT became available it seems Ada usage is being on the rise.

At least in Europe there are a few universities now teaching it.
The future of consumer data ownership?
Exactly... YouTube comes to my mind by instance.
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0.97104476 BTC
We're going to have to change the name of this site to Bitcoin News. Sick of it.
In a world of sensationalist headlines, I'm glad that I ended up clicking this. To be honest, I truly thought that this was going to be about getting funding so that a developer could pay rent and eat while they make the next big thing. The world "literally" has been so overused that, to me, it has lost its meaning. Glad I took the time and I really hope she reaches her goal as it would be a shame to have more than enough for the surgery but not enough to meet the goal and then not get funded.
It is the non-committal answer. the other '0' options have an attached attitude (interested, not interested, scam) and I people are choosing "other".

Also, you can own a fraction of a coin so 0-1 does not overlap completely with 1-9.
I would add:
Khosla, who pushed green tech as a VC and with his private money.

ratan TATA , who pushed the low cost indian car , which is a sort of science fiction in his culture.

Idan ofer , who invested in "better place" the electric car company with the swappable batteries.

And BTW , i'm sure bezos see full e-commerce(including groceries and fashio and furniture) as a science fiction.
The issue is that Hetzner passed on personal information. It's a breach of trust.
Not sure if this has been picked up anywhere else in the comments, but I find the Canadian university coop system prepares students there to be entrepreneurs better than anything I've seen in a U.S. university. This requires them to work in an actual JOB. As mentioned, Waterloo grads tend to be stellar, and our best intern to date came out of UBC in a coop (thank you, David Q, for placing him with us!).

Why don't U.S. universities run coop programs? My school fought like hell to keep students on campus. I guess they viewed work as destroying the "art" of liberal arts...
A front page story on "Hacker News" recommends installing minimal versions of Linux to cut down on VM resource usage, and gets votes. What next? Get computers to behave exactly as you want them to by configuring them according to your needs?
0-1 is probably rightly interpreted as 0 < x <= 1. No overlap.
Fuck yes you do.

This is retarded. Ya, you can start relaxing a bit when your company is 50+, but when you startup is just beginning, before profit, then fuck yes.
This is an incredible idea coming from the Creative Market. Very well done. I wonder how long it takes Envato (Theme Forest, Code Canyon, etc.) to make a version of this for their products/sites.
Hey, this is Elli (Co-Founder). Awesome feedback -- really appreciate it. I think you're totally right that we should give you a heads up of what's going to happen before you start. Most people have never done this type of thing before.

Quick q for you: Do you think you would have wanted to know everything from the start (before you even did anything on our site)? Or do you think it's enough to have a modle that explains once you're about to start the interview?

To answer your question:
- You get as many chances as you want to re-record
- You can pause and come back later

Thanks again for your helpful feedback
There are almost certainly lots of “Elon Musks”. Very few of them have been lucky enough to become super-rich and attract public attention.
0.97104476 BTC right now don't know if i should round it up to one.
That's what package managers are for. 'sudo apt-get ...'. Done.
Yes, gone forever.
There should be another option for mining other types of cryptocurrencies. I'm mining ppcoins and litecoins instead of bitcoins.
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While I appreciate that you're going for a Photoshop UI theme in the browser panel there (and I think it's very nice in terms of presentation), I think it's a big mistake to use decorative UI elements that don't actually work. It's impossible for a user to look at that panel and tell what is actual UI, and what is merely decoration, which is disorienting and frustrating.
Yes, they are lost. There are thus less bitcoins in circulation, and so their value goes up (it's deflationary).
The question would be whether global warming would increase (or decrase) the probability of a megaflood, not cause it entirely on its own.
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Not nearly enough. I decided that it's important to let people actually spend their bitcoins. That's why I started http://bitcoinsaresexy.com - Basically selling amazon gift cards and Paypal USD transfer in exchange for bitcoin. Response has been good so far :)

The really important thing right now is widespread bitcoin acceptance. Until that comes around.. sigh we're in the wild west of bubble territory.
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If you took another turn on the 14th June of 1996 you might have found a briefcase full of money. ;)

Bitcoin is gambling to me, it is pure speculation. Don't drop a tear for that. In general society would be better without such schemes.
From the comment guidelines: "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

I accept that natural disasters are frequently politicized; And I love analytic discussions of political machinations. This comment does not seem to be asking for that.
What's the tool you used to get the backlink profile?
I read somewhere (can't remember where) that according to people who measure happiness, one of the most unhappy things that can happen to you is to have a lot of money and then lose it. It seems weird to people who haven't gone through it, but there you go.
I've driven in over 11 different countries, and I find the signage in the UK to still be the strangest but at least I'm used to it. In the denser urban areas the biggest main streets seem to have the least signs naming the street. The alley ways off it will all have signs, but the big street you are just supposed to 'know'. Also what gets me is that when there is an intersection going through a roundabout, there is a sign well before the turn, but not always actually at the turn. Most other places have a sign before and at the turn. It's something to get used to in the UK, otherwise you see some turns and wonder what the sign before the turn said because you didn't read every single big board with multiple turns on it to check if one of them is what you are after.
Didn't see the original post. Nice work, don't let it get bloated.
I keep seeing "boilerplate" being tossed around in these comments, I'm not sure that really serves to identify what Yeoman is.

Yeoman is tooling and workflow concepts, take what you need, leave what you don't. Best of all fill any gaps with your specific needs.

Yeoman pursues package management through Bower. This can be done with our without Yeoman but the reality is front end package management is still a relatively new concept but one all developers should be latching onto sooner than later.

Yeoman pursues workflow tooling through Grunt. Many lack an understanding of what Grunt is and how it impacts your workflow but for me it was revolutionary.

Yeoman generators give you starting points for your front end assets but aren't intended to be more than staring points for concepts within your application (eg. I need a new controller). If these generators fail to meet your needs for a specific project or your overall project workflow, author ones that do. They also pull together tasks you would typically handle manually (eg. I created a new-controller.js now I need to add that script tag to my index and setup some unit tests).

Yeoman is a lot of things but doesn't claim to be a boilerplate for any one thing.

Whether or not you use Yeoman, I encourage everyone to dig through it and get a complete understanding of what it is and how it attempts to improve the efficiency of your workflow and tooling. You can apply these concepts to your own custom workflow or build a custom one based on theirs.
> I can totally understand Hetzner for just forwarding abuse complaints to the client (for root servers, the hoster usually has no "emergency ssh keys"), so the faster the original owner of the server can boot out the hacker, the better.

Removing confidential information from such an email should take ~2min, I think that’s time well-spent, especially given that email per se is not a real-time medium.
Whatsapp has several severe problems. Firstly it's proliferating non interoperable instant messaging networks. While it uses XMPP underneath, it modifies it in an incompatible fashion, and can't communicate with XMPP compliant clients and naturally it's not federated with any XMPP networks, so it reverses the point of XMPP completely, while using it.

Secondly, that it was created to exploit people's laziness - i.e. it skips registration step (one time thing) presenting it as a "convenience feature", but it does it at the cost of sacrificing security (i.e. it offers no way to choose user ID and password, instead of that it uses hardcoded information derived from the phone hardware ID), obviously not letting the user know about this downside. So it's a wicked trick which is used to attract unaware users.
I'm interested in mining. Buying feels too risky. What are the downsides of mining if I already own a decent GPU? Is it as easy as just joining a "pool" and leave my computer on overnight, and basically get paid to do it?
One interesting and important bit about how Firebase works is that all write operations to the data happen locally, and then they are synced back to Firebase (and to other connected clients) on a best-effort basis.

That approach is designed to prevent network lag / connectivity issues from impacting the responsiveness of the application. Advancements like that are starting to make newer web apps feel more and more like their desktop counterparts.
It's a really simple sinatra app at the moment. I got the domain a few months ago thinking I would sell it on. But then I decided I wanted to start up a little project with it. :-)
I had the exact same email last week .-.
Richard Feynman's talk Computers from the Inside Out (titled on Youtube as Computer Heuristics) is a wonderful description of how computers work and what they can and cannot compute using a file clerk metaphor. He gets bonus points for wearing a Thinking Machines t-shirt.
Oppression is a cultural and legal problem, and can only be addressed with cultural and legal solutions. You have to define your preferred reality and then convince other people to agree with you. You have to become politically active to achieve political solutions.

Granted: this is hard for engineers to wrap their heads around. In the engineering mindset, math and physics can be trusted; people and institutions cannot. But math and physics don't have police powers--people and institutions do. The rules that govern our actions matter more than what we know and can prove mathematically.

It doesn't matter how well-built a bridge is, if men with guns can keep you from crossing it.

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act is an example of how it's possible to set limits on the cultural and legal implications of powerful new technologies.

Internet activists looking for a model should look a lot more carefully at the SOPA campaign, than at the latest crypto chat tool or peer to peer software. Internet activists and companies beat that law through better propaganda, not better technology.
Or Iconfinder :-D
It seems the most likely scenario is that she underestimated the legal system and the lawyers took advantage of that. If she had taken the time to hire an attorney, she probably wouldn't be in this situation.

That being said, it is hard to get money when the traditional methods (insurance) fails when there is a somewhat high chance of not surviving the surgery. The institutions capable of giving that kind of money are not doing so out of the kindness of their hearts but to make a buck and if she dies there will be no way to recoup that money.

As a side note, I think it would be interesting to make a crowd funding site dedicated to raising money to cover health costs. Bring the "burden" back to the community rather than the government. But that's just a passing thought and not meant to spark a political debate.
He sort of concedes as much re: static typing

https://twitter.com/laurencetratt/status/321612459741958146
Fuck no, you don't. Or maybe you do. How about we stop making universal rules?

You can bootstrap a startup quite successfully just using a few hours a week. But not all startups. Depends what you're doing.
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I'm sympathetic, although your concern about transferring teams in a short timeframe might be misconstrued. I was hired to lead a certain project. If I tried to transfer to a different project shortly after being hired, that would be considered rude.

When I hire someone, I hire them to work on my project. If they immediately transfer, or get sniped by another project, that's a little rude. As a result, the general tone is that you "pay your dues" on the project you are hired on before you start thinking about transferring. I think a year and a half to two years is a good amount of time.

We're a cooperative, non-competitive development environment, so I can imagine that what is a "little rude" in our environment could be interpreted as highly aggressive in a more competitive environment like Google.
Nice to see efnet retaining some of its old magic :)
Obviously there is the man page, but could you explain that a little more fully? (or link to something that does)

I think I may have been misreading the numbers, but I don't quite follow your recommended approach.
I've always admired people who get more done in less time. We're in hustle mode in our startup right now but I still try to block out time that feels wide open to keep an eye on where we're headed and wind down a little. No use in racing ahead if it's a dead end road.

To continue the vehicular metaphor, it feels like hustle culture advocates burying the needle in the red zone, even though that's the least efficient point on the power curve. And even though that's less a predictor of success than what direction you're headed in.

There are absolutely times when you and your team need to live in the red zone of your tach. But really that's a temporary solution to being caught in the wrong gear. Amazing opportunity, can't upshift = gotta floor it anyways. But curves ahead = can't floor it. All depends.

Hmm. That metaphor actually did OK.
10k bitcoins would be a very large amount at the current price of bitcoins. However, today someone sold around $100k worth of bitcoins and the price stayed steady.. of course 100k isn't much but right now it's a significant portion of the bitcoin economy.
You should add your loss to this list if you haven't already: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7253.0
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WCML is an abomination of a service.

Toilets frequently out of order. Carriages with toilets reeking of urine. Reservations downloaded to the train maybe one time in 5. Empty first class carriages while standard contains double the number of people. Attempting to stop people with open walk-on tickets from getting on valid trains. etc. etc.

Maybe it's just my (and everyone I know's) bad luck that these things happen every single time I (we) use them.
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I'm going to ignore your "fuck"s and "this is retarded", and ask why you chose 50+ as a number?

From your profile, you're working at night attempting to become ramen profitable, which would mean that yes, you need to work your ass off.

But not everyone is in your situation, so please quit the "this is retarded" sentiment. It's childish.

For example, I'm part of a 6-person team at a startup in SF and I do not work 80 hours per week. I get to work at 9 and I leave at 6. And we're doing just fine.
The problem is not the public knowledge of a nick, but the information that the person using that nick made the complaint. It paints a target on a person whose nick is very often publicly associated with a real identity.
I looked into purchasing some bitcoins and found the barriers to entry significant.

I find it hard to believe, at the moment, that bitcoins are generally acquired for non-speculative legal reasons.

Illegal usage seems unlikely to bootstrap the bitcoin economy, speculative usage seems certain to crash unless legitimate usage arrives in tandem to bolster it.

In principle I can see a crypto-currency economy emerging but I can't see how to get there from here without a crash on the way. So I'm not going to take the gamble.

Made the decision at $100, I see it's now at $200, my guess is it will rise considerably further before the crash so good luck to those going into this with their eyes open.
Hey how else are we going to make money with pump-and-dump-coins.
> And they log in every day and confirm the hash of the firmware you're running

If you can modify the firmware you can change it to respond to their query with the "correct" firmware signature, so this doesn't seem useful to me. Source?

Also, is the 802.11n radio connected to an antenna? If not, can't really do any surveys with it. Sounds like a fun box to play with for evil maid attacks, though!
What kind of "stuff"?
Efnet has had chanfix for quite awhile now, which makes taking over channels from a split much harder, if not impossible.
This looks amazing! I have been really impressed with Firebase. Before it building things like this or a chat engine would take weeks if not months.
I don't know. It was one of those comments that started as one thing and by the end I'd basically persuaded myself of quite the opposite. The turning point I think was getting used to the idea of <1500 worldwide billionaires. For some reason I thought there were a lot more than that. I suppose I imagined them all hanging out together, puffing on cigars and saying things like "that Elon eh - what happened to just saving the planet without being on the front page of Hacker News every day?".
I'm sorry I didn't read all the comments, but couldn't it be that the artist was inspired by Alice in Wonderland (1951) movie?
The silhouette resembles to that of Alice: http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110816104841/disney/...

...just saying.
Well, that depends. Right this minute, basically no, but that's because I'm working on the road for my dayjob, and when I fly in for the weekends, I don't get home until around 1:00am Sat. morning, which inhibits me from getting up early enough for what would otherwise be my regularly scheduled mountain bike group ride.

But, yeah, when I'm in town fulltime, I do about a 2 hour MTB ride on Sat. mornings, weather permitting.

And, during football season, I do take out time to go to a sports bar and watch the Dolphins game on Sundays. But even then, I take my laptop so I can work during the breaks, or if the game turns into a blowout.

Beyond that, though, not a whole lot. I'm almost 40 and I'm running out of time to achieve some of my dreams... so it's pretty much "nose to the grindstone" right now.

But like I said... everybody needs a break every now and then. I will infrequently just take a random day off and do no startup work at all,and just kick back and watch movies, or go to the hackerspace and tinker with some Arduino stuff or something. I don't do it very often, and I feel somewhat guilty when I do, but I usually feel a bit recharged after one of those days.
What is "data science"?
That really depends on what the goal is.

Personally I read what it could do and downloaded.
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There are a few bugs to iron out! I didn't anticipate that this submission would really get any views so it's in early development. Thanks for all the comments, I'll certainly take everything on board and work on it ASAP :-)

Just as a note, there's a feature that isn't really obvious yet. If you go to:

http://fry.io/8o/manage

(8o being your particular shortcode) it displays an analytics screen. I'm planning to improve this and add some kind of API.
What an odd response. I generally don't expect trolling on HN, but I suppose it was inevitable.
Why stop at his personal life? Would you like to look at his medical records too?
Thanks very much for the info. Bigelow Aerospace and Stratolaunch Systems are excellent examples. Bigelow is especially interesting because from what I've googled he doesn't seem to have any sort of technical background.

On the other hand, I don't believe John Carmack is a billionaire, and in any case Armadillo Aerospace has only had a few million invested in it. (Whether or not these guys are billionaires is very important. The question is about rarity, and the pool of people under discussion gets much bigger if we consider people with merely 100 million and who are consequently restricted to more modest goals.)

In any case, I think the point may still stand that these people devote much less of their emotional and temporal capital than Musk. I'd love to hear alternative evidence.

EDIT (in reply to jlgreco since I can't do it in the normal way): Yep, according to the side bar on Wikipedia his net worth is 2.3 billion as of March.
> As much as I admire the dreams and accomplishments of Elon Musk, I have trouble getting past the idea that he failed to maintain his marriage

It takes two to tango. Maintaining a marriage is under no one person's control.
u32 using 1.0.3 does, but u32q does not:
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?t...
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I've seen plenty of instances of the same thing - new hires where it was clear he team wasn't a good fit. They had an adult conversation with the current manager and did their best to be productive until they found a team that was a better fit and transferred.

No drama and no hard feelings.
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If you're just testing against IE for web development, Microsoft actually makes available tons of VM images with various IE versions available for free: http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools
I bought 10 for $10. Sold 5 at $19 and lost the other 5 when upgrading my old system :(
The reason this meme exists is that there is a huge economic benefit to (some, not all) founders and VCs to perpetuating it.

It attracts only young impressionable shutins to the startup and they feel like if they aren't working 18 hours a day they are slacking. Plus there is the "Stanford/Google effect" in play where everyone claims to be studying/working all the time but aren't if you factor out the foam dart / BBQ / bro time.
Crash is coming. In less then 30 days.
Uh you shouldn't be surprised by a red light unless you're cresting a hill (and even then there will usually be a flashing sign indicating a red light up ahead). The yellow light indicates you should start slowing down.
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The cost of leaving your computer on all day would exceed the value of mining with your setup.

see : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4120271