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It's not about rendering PDFs. It's about a good software that uses pdf rendering engines to deliver great functionality. Your `wants` reflects features missing in current readers.
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Can you provide any evidence at all to this point? I understand that you're just providing a possible potential benefit of porn, but it seems totally unfounded to me.
It might not be unique, but I imagine the timing of sudden heart-rate increases/decreases could be quite telling. It is probably unlikely that most people would go for a run at 2am for example.
I am an audiophile, and you're sorely mistaken. You can get _really_ good sound quality for very 99% less than what you claim. A 6 figure sound system is a high end system. I don't believe in those expensive cables or directional ethernet cables, or power conditioners. But, like most things there is a sliding scale and diminishing returns. A 6 figure audio system would be a 100% of what you could achieve but for 2-3000$ you can get 90+% of the 6 figure system.

I can't remember what magazine it was, but a couple of years ago competing against very expensive gear, a ~300$ NAD amplifier beat out other 5 figure amps for sound quality. and 2000$ speakers were the runner up up 40.000$ speakers.
typescript is very popular for how young it is. so given that the thing is still a very young, alpha product, saying that they are neglecting feature X is a bit too much. better to just not even mention it.
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Let me tell you a bit about myself.

I dropped out of high school at age 16 because it made me fucking miserable, and self-studied for two years to get myself into college. I had a GED, a 3 in AP Calc AB, and a 5 in AP Computer Science by the end.

They admitted me to the honors college at UMass Amherst. I did my undergrad there BSc Computer Science (with honors), specialized in the Programming Languages and Compilers Track.

Today I'm at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, doing a research-track MSc.

You want to do stuff like compilers, OSes and hardware? Screw high school, get yourself to university as fast as possible, and once you're there double down on all of it. For specialized areas like these, even at a good undergrad institution you're going to have to take grad-level courses to get to the Real Deal.

You can do this! So hurry up and get to work!

EDITED to elide bragging. Stupid me.
The project in question: https://github.com/eholk/harlan
For the price they're offering it - I feel like it might end up going down the same road as a Segway. For 5000$ - why not buy a used car if you really cant get around those distances on foot? I just feel like the speed vs price vs safety vs existence of other much cheaper options - will make this thing a lot less attractive.
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(Some dialects of) Smalltalk had `true become: false`, which not only changed the names of `true` and `false`, but also all references to `true` are replaced with references to `false`
it probably makes sense posting it there - but thats not saying it isnt ironic.
I like the blog post, but I think that it is somewhat unfair against DDG since the argument works against any internet company. The argument rests essentially on two points:

1. Client/Server architecture has a single point of failure, namely the server. ( Or the network equipment directly upstream of the server.) So that whatever nasty surprise is embedded directly at the server, or in the jurisdiction the server is in, affects whoever is using the server.

2. We do not have a treat model for the NSA, they are somewhere between a usual state level attacker and Cthulhu. We do not really know, what the NSA can or can not do, can they crack the discrete log or factor large numbers? Or do they 'just' have a assorted 0day collection? Is it realistic that they can coerce anyone into revealing public keys? And if they can actually break TLS, can they also break all TLS or does this require some not insubstantial effort on their part?

So both of these are real problems and the combination is potentially undermining the trust into the entire internet. But it is not really about DDG.
That's a lot of subjective anecdotes. That reddit group seems to be people wanting to give up masturbation which is not an activity exclusive to porn viewing. I'm not sure if that's even healthy..

A hookup culture is bad if it results in disease and unwanted pregnancy, but with reliable contraception these bad effects can be greatly mitigated.
Is there anything like this guide specific to securing "modern cloud machines" eg. the variety of Amazon AMIs?
Wow, if this is the class of insert you get after paying what I presume are not insignificant amounts of fund, I'd hate to see the budget for a compelling one.

Reading between the lines, he sounds butt hurt to me due to dismissals from the sand hill road set. Well, no shit. Everybody (there) knows that adult content can be cash positive very close to day one, and due to their strong balance sheets they are hardly the likeliest M&A targets.

The rest (bulk) of the article seems to riff on mainstream acceptance nay open discussion. But it's far from jerking off that many people have an aversion to speaking frankly about. Go talk to some random guy on the streets about his bowel movements, or if his daughter is still on anti-psychotics and get back me.

If you want "respect" go do a social/mobile/whatever the new hotness is and go to the big firms hat in hand. They'll probably give you the money assuming you keep the crazy bottled up for the duration. Then you'll have no problem getting those business critical speaking gigs and becoming a go to react quote of some 3rd rate blog like tech crunch. And your friends will all be suitably impressed and jealous (to your face).

But after the money runs out all that goes away. Personally I'd just take the cash positive business for what it is ( a gift) and stop trying to validate yourself through others. Or just take up lying.

(yes, I know this doesn't have a lot to do with the specific points raised, but if you let them frame the conversation tehy've already done 90% of their job)
Except here the company has gone to the media. That is very different. The company wants to share the data , PayPal no ...
You are a fascist then. That's what this word means.
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Sorry, but echoing Casseres, you've demonstrated you know little to nothing about the legal use of lethal force in the US or practical self-defense with a gun. If you own a gun, please get a book like this classic http://www.amazon.com/In-Gravest-Extreme-Personal-Protection... before you end up being convicted of a serious crime.

Extending his remarks, if you hit the femoral artery in someone's upper leg, they're going to quickly bleed out unless they get serious first aid.
Free speech has barriers. Like all freedom, if the freedom of one minimizes the freedom of others; or if one specific freedom minimizes another freedom, a fair balance has to be uphold. In the case of freedom of speech, it is such a fair balance to ban incitement of the people in favor of the other forms of freedoms like the right to exist without being subject to such forms of hatred.

France, Germany and many other seem to agree in that point. Those tweets exactly cross the barrier, and the author has to be prosecuted.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-sunny-s...

Correlation and Causation and all but this one is going to be really hard to prove.

At least everyone can be happy about sex crime rates going down.
While religious groups are likely quite a bit larger and louder (and thus politically relevant) in the US than in europe, there are certainly very strong feminist groups in the picture in the US as well. For reference, see the ongoing debate on the ACA contraception mandate (if feminism held no sway over religious groups, it would be dead and buried long ago) and the fact that abortion is a perennial topic of debate. (Incidentally, most countries in Europe have abortion laws that would be completely unpalatable to US women's groups - on-demand abortion is generally only allowed in the first trimester, while Planned Parenthood fought for the right to partial birth abortion in the US in 2006).
The alternative of unrestricted free speech is better.
Basic Assumptions:

> You have activated Intel vPro technology on the PCs through configuration of the Management Engine
BIOS extension (MEBx).1

http://www.vnc.com/products/viewerplus/ViewerPlusUseCases.pd...
The key thing about Google et al is that they maintain user accounts and try to get you to stay logged in which means (a) they maintain huge data stores that are (b) tracked by user. While DDG can be required to turn over its records, could theoretically hand its unencrypted traffic over to the NSA, and in any event the NSA could simply pluck the packets off the air en route, it would then have to figure out which packet was from whom and join the dots itself. This is essentially no different from what I assume the NSA can do with any damn website, foreign or domestic, it likes.

As a further wrinkle, if you are logged into Google then it can watch your web surfing activity onto any website with embedded google code (analytics, adwords) which is pretty much most websites.

All of this comes down to Google is an advertising company. If DDG becomes an advertising company, watch out.
You are right, of course. I thought the GP just wanted it for his own apps.
You're mistaken, there's virtually no money in the online adult entertainment business. The entire market size is only a few billion in annual revenue and it's primarily long tail, the majority of the larger players (ala Playboy) are losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

It's a small fragmented market which is shrinking every year.
Well, you answered your own question there, it seems.

A good rule of thumb, even if something is "common knowledge" on the Internet (OMG evil corporations profit), there's probably more to it.
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How unreasonable is it that DDG could have their private key taken by the NSA?
Why not Switzerland?

http://m.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-prism-...
That's right, I have remapped j and k. I had it for so long that I forgot it is not the default behavior.
> And how long ago would the idea that the NSA get call logs for every call in the USA have been utter paranoia? Or that they tap and record all international internet traffic?

Before 1988, if you were paying attention. So the idea that the NSA was watching everything you did is almost 30 years old now.
So you get to decide for everyone of us?

By keeping innovative sexual content out of the door you let the worse objectifying non-interactive non-adaptive porn to thrive.
Read "Crypto: how the code rebels beat the government, saving privacy in the digital age" by Steven Levy. He outlines the whole story of public crypto until about 2000. Good read, too.
It does matter and the article has reasoning about why it does. "The NSA could get the DuckDuckGo master cert in one of three ways:

1. Be given the cert

2. Physical access to servers or load-balancers

3. Remote access to servers or load-balancers"
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Well the point raised by the article is that HTTPS doesn't matter much if the certificate is compromised.
Barret Brown wasn't really involved in bug hunting. He is charged with posting a link to an email dump (hacked by someone else) that contained financial data among other things.

You're probably thinking of weev, although what he didn't wasn't exactly "responsible bug hunting either", if you follow the common definition of that term.
So does SendGrid.com
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The article somehow seems to have a misconception that if you bring material lighter than air aboard, you will float up... Then you could as well just take some vacuum with you.

Maybe that would be even more useful than this material: a balloon filled with vacuum! And some support structure to make it keep its shape :)
Sure, if Americans don't want to talk with you about something personal like sex, access to which depends a lot on looks which is a very personal thing, then it must be because they're repressed. And the government corrupted at its inception?

In fact I encounter a lot of people discussing sex ad nauseum in the US, especially women.

ETA: Gender disparity in willingness to discuss sex in the US at least in the workforce may have to do with sexual harassment laws and company policies, which didn't come from the religious establishment.
1. Unable connecting server
2. Too long loading time
3. Ad at startup
Why (not) pay for music?
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The Jawbone UP runs 10 (!) days on a single charge. I charge mine while driving in the car so as not to lose any steps.
Care to elaborate? How is porn an "happiness destroying exploitation of the way the human brain works"? I have yet to hear someone claim porn is making them unhappy except maybe in some extreme case of "porn addiction" (apparently such thing exists). My gut feeling is that lack of porn would make many more people unhappy.
The modern trend in lower-cost laptops is unfortunately to use a 1366x768 screen resolution. Ultrabooks feature higher-resolution displays, but until recently the closest competitor to the MBA (Samsung Series 9) used the same resolution display (900 vertical pixels, though Apple uses a 16:10 aspect ratio while Samsung uses a 16:9). The most recent run of Ultrabooks does exceed the MBA's resolution, though, featuring 1080p displays (XPS 12, Vaio Pro 13, etc). But these are more expensive than the MBA.
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That depends on which side of the whistle you find yourself.
"The added packages are more likely to be unrelated to whatever you are doing, and so become progressively less likely to be useful."

I've not found that to be a problem in actual development. It just gives the search engine extra work with no impact on my productivity. For example, the existence of "CNC::Cog" has no impact on me, although it gives the search engine extra work when I search for "Astro::FITS".

The value of Perl to me, is if its computationally possible, there's probably a module on CPAN to make it easier for me. Therefore its the easiest to use, most powerful language, because I can do the most with the least effort, and time is money. Shrinking CPAN would merely make me move to the currently second most powerful language/library team. Donno, java or ruby or python or something like that.

I do agree that in an academic setting, a homework assignment like "here's a list of 10 random Perl modules, now make something interesting out of them" would be painful. However, the programming equivalent of the "Chopped" TV cooking show might be highly amusing for a youtube video series or some kind of competitive multi-player startup game company.
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I've considered it. Looking around for some other options, or considering doing something organic with streaming api. Have any suggestions?
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Most of the sex seen in media has the purpose of making you buy things. While striking down moral barriers about sex will probably allow healthier discussions to take place, it will be drowned by mindless attention grabbing material without any balance nor legitimacy.
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How is 'example.com#coupon' different from 'example.com/coupon'?

Oh wait, they answered that:

>Anyone who's ever tried to create new or update
existing URLs on their website knows:
Anything with a forward slash requires IT help
and additional programming, or at least someone
tech-savvy. That all changes with Verisign
Domain Hashlink. By using the # symbol in a
shorter, friendlier URL, you can do nearly
everything on your own.

Right.
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Sure, the NSA probably index searches on DDG. Of course.

Well the searches are encrypted so the nsa should have access to the servers themselves right? I dont now if DDG provides forward secrecy though..
I suppose pimps are a target customer. To keep an eye on the workforce and all.
Would anyone here have any idea why "net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0" is recommended as a security enhancement?
I've wondered if we could fill a sealed ballon with thin wires. Then put a large electric charge on all the wires so they repel each other and expand the balloon with vacuum.

Why do you guys think?
GREAT: Christopher Hitchens on Freedom of Speech
I expect the NSA does this as a matter of course, at least for large enough companies.
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"Everything is amazing and nobody is happy"
If not a data dictatorship, why not a data democracy?
Obviously people have a right to create and consume smut, but it doesn't make it right or beneficial or erase the harm it does.
> sit on almost all searches, most of the online add market

At least they don't control subtraction and multiplication.
Why are most law mowers 5 hp?
I took a look at each of the three links you provided. [2] and [3] are discussion boards aimed at people that for whatever reason want to avoid masturbation and/or porn.

[1] is a website by Gary Wilson and Marnia Robinson; Wilson makes a point of stating he worked in an academic environment but I can find no peer reviewed papers of which he is an author or co-author. I am perhaps very cynical but it seems to me that he wants to boost his credibility by association even though he does not really have any expertise in the field of addiction.

The site cites a few studies, a few of which do not even support the thesis of the site. Let alone the fact that so few studies provide very little support for any hypothesis; even short review papers often have in excess of 100 citations to support their points.

To address your final comment: hook-up culture is not the same thing as pornography. Intimate sexual relations is not mutually exclusive with porn consumption.

Speaking for myself (caveat lector: anecdote != data), I consume porn; I have healthy, long-term relationships, I don't expect real-life sex to be anything like porn and I am very satisfied with my sex life.

EDIT: updated reference typos.
EDIT #2: fixed grammar errors.
that can happen also with physical voting. I have personal experience (years ago) that I was sysadmin of voting result calculations machine, and I was asked to change some numbers to fit them to the calculation system, as some vote counters had messed or lost some ballot papers. You can verify individual physical votes, but in the big picture (which matters) you must also just trust some sys admins.
30 year old person stuck in a Russian airport who has appointed himself the ultimate arbiter of what is leakworthy and what is not, what programs are legal and good and which are illegal and evil.

Snowden didn't do that, the USG appointed him to that role by not doing an adequate job of it themselves. Snowden is merely a symptom, not a cause.
Your points are valid. Have you had, or even overhead such conversations in Europe? Compared the amount of nudity you see on prime time TV or in respectable magazines in Europe and the US?
Replace 'porn' with Wall Street, politics, institutionalized religion, professional sports, etc. and the case could be just as strong. There are many fields of human endeavor and modern society which are built around the idea of taking some natural tendency or desire we have, then leveraging it for private profit, even encouraging an unhealthy degree or type of expression of it. It's not limited to porn with regards to sex.
I was intrigued by the reference to Meteor and after a bit of googling "oh yeah okay, those guys who did an unsecure NodeJS realtime framework (last time I used it, every client could call the mongodb database) just got 11M in funding".

When did our jobs become such a joke?
Padre?

http://padre.perlide.org/

I don't use it, too slow compared to just "vi" and a command line. I can type quickly, cannot click a mouse 1000 times quickly to do the same thing. Given that I find it uninteresting so I'm not a sympathetic reviewer, I have played with padre enough to see it works and has quite a few features and is free. I've seen it improve over the years. I'm not sure what specific barriers are reduced by an IDE like padre, as most of the features seem only of benefit to truly immense non-modularized projects which culturally don't "fit" well in Perl. If it can't all fit in your head at once, abstract something out into a separate package complete with unit tests and shrink it until it does fit. And a large full screen editor with no IDE in the way makes it easier to fit in your mind rather than a small postage stamp view of the code. That all said, I liked seeing the integration in padre with perlcritic and perltidy, just not enough to switch away from vi. I need my screen real estate and keyboard more than I need automated perltidy/perlcritic and mouse shortcuts which have an impedance bump with vi anyway.

Perhaps the best "ide" for a newcomer would be multiple machines/monitors with one very large editor for code, one web browser to google for questions/examples/ideas/docs and one large window for interaction either in the debugger or testing your code. So three monitors minimum connected to 1 to 3 computers? I feel cramped when doing "stuff" with less than three. I can't imagine doing anything other than emergency support with a small laptop screen although I've had to do it in the past.
It is only attention grabbing while it's novel, and not commonplace. And yes, sex does sell, no matter where in the world you find yourself.
Right, it doesn't seem likely to succeed, especially if these dynamics prevail: "A currency that quintuples in a month, and then loses two-thirds of its value in the following week, is not a currency that inspires confidence in users."

A currency that behaves that way is a currency that appreciates 67% every five weeks. That will not be sustainable for long without hyperinflation. It will also inspire confidence in people who buy the dips.
I think it's worth evaluating. Increasing their chance for success by 6.4% isn't that high a hurdle. IMO, it's a horse race against all the other next steps OP could take with his business. YC's a pretty strong horse in that race.

(I suspect there's also still room for negotiation, even if YC isn't advertising that fact any more. Three guys and an idea? 6% More than $10MM in revenue? Let's talk.)
You have to take into account two things:

1. the porosity, meaning air fills the cavities. Can you really talk about open structures and say they're really light? Make an aluminum balloon filled with air and it's probably lighter than air as well.

2. the buoyancy, meaning that the fibers displace air. If a light material is weighed in air, the result does not give the mass of the object.

With normal solids, this does not matter since they are heavy compared to air.

For example, you can weigh wood with a volume of 1 liter in normal air pressure, and get a mass result of 0.500 kg. Then weigh it in a vacuum, you should get a 1 gram difference (air density is about 1 gram per liter) - a weight of 0.499 kg.
In practice this is in the noise for normal materials.

Cloced cell extruded foam is about 30 kg per cubic meter. So here the air mass 1 kg per cubic meter already has a 3% effect. I don't know if the weights are usually quoted with buoyancy or not. But this is closed cell, I don't know how well it stands up to a vacuum.

One example of structures that can have a lot of mass but little weight is inflated ones. There have been some human powered aircraft that are really big but light on the scale. Yet they take a lot of time and energy to accelerate since all the air mass inside must be brought up to speed.
Your hiring page is awesome.

I can't comment on how you should proceed going forward, but to echo the other comments, you've obviously been doing something right. Hopefully this post will put you in touch with the right people.