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Startup Name Change – From YouSendIt.com to Hightail.com
Yeah I would be concerned about the Future/Stream dual in Dart, the dualism seems to currently be baked into the API in unfortunate ways - http://api.dartlang.org/docs/releases/latest/dart_async/Stre...
Well must be a slow news day today so I'll say a few things about FuqIt for the high-minded HN crowd:

1. Don't run this at all in anyway that someone can access it. It's ultra hackable. Extra points if people can point out why.

2. I basically am just goofing off. The idea though is this thought: "What if PHP got it right?"

3. There's some little tricks in there you may not have seen before. Take a look at the code if you're new to Python.

4. If I get around to it I may write a web server for this using my various web-server-maker chops and put in some of the Lamson code and then make it talk to ZeroMQ off of a URL similar to how it's doing jinja and python so it can be a full service web+email+messaging system configured off just files in a directory and then probably I'll get bored and do something else.

Enjoy!
how the fuck is this the top link on HN right now?
If you are doing 6 figure monthly revenues, one thing worth considering might be to read some mr money mustache and really contemplate what you want for your life ... You aren't required to grow 10 or 100x ... You also have the option of pocketing profits, living frugally, and retiring young. That's one of the big advantages of bootstrapping.
Black Hole Information as Topological Qubits
We propose that black hole information decomposes into elementary units in the form of topological qubits, and is protected from local sources of decoherence
Yep, works pretty well actually, but not secure yet. It's a hack to test out the idea.
> also made DES more resistent to differential cryptanalysis

Was that the result of the last-minute "black box" change? I never heard the result of that, so any light you shed would be welcome.
This is actually awesome...a simple solution to a problem I only just realized I had.

Hats off to you, sir!
To be honest the parent comment to yours first link reminds me of a rather lot of shell/perl created by people that treat things with the procedural mindset and just keep bashing their heads against a problem until it succeeds.

To my mind, that's a success for Perl: it allows people who wouldn't otherwise be able to write programs to do so. Sure, they make messes--who doesn't at first?--but they get things done.
Well, I guess Rijndael is "easier" to brute force in that it's faster than Twofish. But "easier" to brute force doesn't mean a whole lot; AES-192 is easier to brute force than AES-256, but both are so outside the realm of current-day computation than it doesn't really matter.
There's a niche for something that's as sloppy-easy-to-get-started as PHP, but with a more concise/consistent/powerful language. Perhaps, a "PYP" - Python with PHP characteristics.

This is a little like that.
Sure, but it would be difficult to enforce in practice. Many former prosecutors go on to become defense attorneys, plaintiff's attorneys, etc. However, they retain many of the biases they picked up while working in the prosecutor's office. Thus, composing a neutral ethics board would be very difficult.

They do use a form of adversarial process, with attorneys for both the complainant and the state presenting their sides of the case. But with a biased panel, little justice is served.

From my perspective, many attorneys place too much trust in the notion that a lawyer is a trusted "officer of the court." Because most attorneys believe themselves to be capable of neutrality, they trust others to do the same. In reality, everybody carries their bias with them.

The most effective solution is the one we have painstakingly developed over 900 years of common law jurisprudence: neutral juries composed of citizens chosen by lot.
6 figure revenue means nothing without knowing margin.
thanks for pointing this out, we will surely improve our copy regarding your feedback!

To answer your question meanwhile: mailgun provides an API for developers who want to route incoming emails to their app. mailparser.io however tries to target the tech-savvy businness owner who wants to automate his email workflow, notable who wants to extract data from repetive automated emails. We see mailparser.io more in the corner of zapier and ifttt.
This is kinda life-changing. You have now made the use of numeric count prefixes to line-wise operations actually useful. 20dd for example. Delete groups of lines quickly and with precision, without guessing how many lines are involved.
Wow, this blows my mind just a little bit. Especially since I've been wrong about this for so long even though this study has been out for years. I always thought that table sugar and HFCS were the same. 50/50 glucose to fructose (about). But then there's this:

"...as a result of the manufacturing process for high-fructose corn syrup, the fructose molecules in the sweetener are free and unbound, ready for absorption and utilization. In contrast, every fructose molecule in sucrose that comes from cane sugar or beet sugar is bound to a corresponding glucose molecule and must go through an extra metabolic step before it can be utilized."

So with HFCS you're just free-basing fructose? Amazing. Maybe I have to stop making fun of this trend toward "NO HFCS! PURE CAN SUGAR!" that I've been writing off as nonsense until now...
I highly doubt that the information he has only contains the generics that have been disclosed so far. When you grab a bunch of data, you probably don't pick and choose what you need for whistleblowing, because the collection of the data is the riskiest activity before whistleblowing is actually acted upon. Instead you collect everything that may be of service and you dole out what is necessary to achieve your goal of whistleblowing. With that in mind, it's far more probable that he is heavily editing what is being released to only prompt discussion and oversight and not put specific people in harms way.

AFAIK none of the documents that have included specifics on the people involved and I highly doubt that documents circulate without metadata of the specific people responsible or with awareness of what's going on.

It's the release of specific examples and metadata identifying the people behind this and their actions that can be more easily construed as aiding the enemy. He really hasn't released any of this kind of information.
Hey, iranian coming here, how are you doing?
I'm from the Macintosh generation, but I remember it being Apple-Option-Esc to force quit and Apple-Ctrl-Power to restart.
Yay! Someone gets it!
Ultimately, the judge ruled the text messages inadmissible since they couldn't prove who actually sent them. If necessary, that will most likely be appealed.
A decrease in quality was one of the possible explanations. The other was that he is just pandering to the nerds. That is a great article, but it still does not change the fact that I expect people in the publishing business to have a more informed opinion than "people just read VF for the ads." However if you want to make it a debate about the quality of Alexis' writings all I can say is that he is no Christopher Hitchens or Michael Lewis.
Are you guys open to remote work?
It's almost like I'm famous and people are interested in what I do!
> From the government's perspective, Bitcoin could be the least of very many evils. Don't forget that the protocol logs every single transaction publicly

That's a good point. Would it be possible to have something like Bitcoin but with better anonymity?
Your statement of the incompleteness theorem isn't right, and the general axiom of choice isn't accepted by constructivist mathematicians. So I think your last statement is true.

Some of the greatest mathematicians of the era were working toward what Godel's incompleteness theorems proved was impossible. That alone should make you distrust your "intuition" on the matter.
Spend more time on LRTHW. I need more lessons to get better!! (kidding)
You know you can change the touch screen sensitivity?
Beware of the sharks, a call out like this will bring them on like blood in the water. Best of luck, the golden rule for me has always been that anybody that approaches you is not to be trusted by default.
As a result code maintenance can become a huge headache due to someone not understanding the idioms used by the person who originally wrote the code.

I don't understand this. If this hurts you, wouldn't you have the same problem with domain knowledge, except an order of magnitude worse? Why are your developers not talking to each other?
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I feel exactly the same way.

It makes things seem obscure and that's where guys like Deepak Chopra come in.
> we truly have no one in the company who has been here before, and that is a problem.

I have bad news: Nobody has been there before.

Perhaps they have managed $10M rev companies before, but they haven't managed your $10M company. No matter what, the prescription is going to be the same:

1. Make serious, solid decisions,

2. Get some of the right

3. Get some of them wrong

4. Course-correct the wrong ones.

I'm taking a wild guess here, but is there any chance the real problem is that you are a bunch of friends? ie, that there is no one with final authority? If so, that will not be solved with a hire.

Anyway, good luck. We should all have such high-quality problems. (btw, currently bootstrapped to 1/10th your number. Prior company founded was an $80M VC-funded company.)
It has a ten digit market cap, how is that not prospering?
If the author of the video is reading this: The problem you have with the background color in vim in the beginning of the video can probably be cleared up by making sure your TERM is set correctly.

TERM=screen-256color-s cleared it up for me using tmux/urxvt (with 256 colors).

(Also, great plugin!)
wut? i think one of us has misunderstood the article. sorry if it's me.
Previously submitted under a URL with different top-level domain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6032090

(This is a bug in the duplicate submission detector software here on HN.)
People Buy Based On Emotions... Not Logic
Are you saying you guys are making $10m a year printing Instagram pictures? That is incredible. This company must not have existed a few years ago..

pat yourself on the back and get yourself some local angels on board. they get to wet their beacon and you reap the rewards of a business coach.
Considering they are learning python, and the prompt says to generate the value of Pi, this is a great chance to introduce generators[1], the yield statement, and the itertools[2] module to someone.

Of course, in my version, I'd generate the value of Tau.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102535/what-can-you-use-p...

[2] http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html
Correct. The NSA suggested changes in the DES S-boxes, which led to many questions. Ultimately, what was discovered is that their changes strengthened DES, not weakened it, as some had feared.

You can read more about their involvement here: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/16/how-were-the-de...
That mascot is fucking awesome.
Lovely bit o' philosophy there. no sarcasm
I think it's relevant given how much time the prosecution devoted to painting Trayvon as a child who was merely buying candy and returning from his childish errand back home, when everything occurred.

If prosecutors want to paint a personal portrait of someone for the sympathy of the jurors, stuff like this should absolutely be included by the defense. In fact, I'd say it's their legal obligation to do everything in their power to have it presented.
Brilliant. I am supercharging it with dilithium crystals and replacing all my production Django sites right this second.
just really hard to turn down opportunities which don't even seem that difficult to achieve, and customers asking so much for so many things i want to give them to make THEM happy :-) plus the goal of wanting to actually have some more impact in the space. As an entrepreneur the success of the company quickly blurs so much with having an impact in the world, whether thats true or not... i feel it. Plus, i owe it to my company to keep us growing. We all want to share in on this success. I have actually not even taken a real salary yet, and was never really in this for the money.
Nice job with your first vim script!

That said, VIM patch 7.3.787 provides a 'better' solution by replacing the current line's number with the absolute number (because seeing 0 on the current line provides nothing meaningful) IMHO:

with 'relativenumber' can't see the absolute line number

ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/7.3.787
What does it take to reverse engineer the silicon? I thought I'd seen an project for automating it, but I can't find it.
The grandparent is faster, the parent is perhaps more detailed by default. I'd recommend the grandparent.
thanks, hah, already got a call from a shark! ;-)
He said revenue, not profit
Huh? Now I'm confused. :)
I've never heard of you, but I liked the idea behind a PHP replacement.
Yeah, like when he worked for Transmeta, and that stint in the mid 200x's where a PowerPC64 was his main machine?

He may have a lot of Intel connections, but he doesn't seem to be committed to any specific vendor.
Let me know where they are so I can steal your password files with my uber secure file resolution code.
Of course in many cases, car drivers feel like they have much more control over things than they actually do.

Being in a commercial airliner on the other hand, actually emphasizes the feeling of helplessness: you're strapped in a seat and have little room to move, you cannot effect what's happening, you can't even see who's in control, or often even see your surroundings... it's like being trapped in a box tumbling down the mountainside.

I've found that even just unstrapping my seatbelt and taking a quick walk down the aisle on an airplane actually makes me feel safer, even though of course the reverse is actually true. This makes some sense given that human instincts probably value having the ability to flee or react in a dangerous situation but those instincts still exist even in situations where they make no sense.

Thus the perception many people have that they're "safer" in a car than on an airliner, even though the reality is that the odds are very much reversed. Large disparities between perception and reality can of course lead to people making very poor choices...
I think that the crowd here on this site perhaps has a better ability than most to analyze facts. I have an opinion on the GZ case, but I think I can process this incident independently.
The thing with internet celebs in the programming community is that they mostly are celebrities for a reason and not just because they are the pretty daughter of some billionaire.
"Regarding the data, it is possible that the prosecutor decided the data is not relevant for the case and that there is no need to embarrass the victim who cannot defend himself."

That's a dangerous justification.

First, the prosecutor is not the arbiter of relevance. The evidence should be turned over, and then the judge can make a determination as to its relevance. Allowing prosecutors to decide the relevance of evidence in their care would open the door to myriad abuses.

For example, in a DNA case, what would stop a prosecutor from saying a third or fourth sample found that matched other individuals wasn't "relevant" to the case?

Second, the notion that the "victim... cannot defend himself" is not only factually incorrect but immaterial. The deceased, who has not yet been proven to be a victim of anything, has the power of the state, armed with billions of dollars, a prison system, and a small army of investigators to defend him. The defendant has only his counsel and his wits.

More importantly, damage to that person's reputation is not relevant to the prosecution of another individual. Our justice system is supposed to place a premium on the rights of the defendant, since the harm of incarcerating an innocent person is considered so grave. If the deceased's memory is tarnished by messages regarding previous violent actions, or purchases of deadly weapons, that is a price that must be borne to ensure the accused's right to a fair trial.

Finally, the bar to relevance is extremely low. The rules of evidence state that relevant evidence it is any item which makes a fact in dispute more or less likely to be true. Note that it does not set any minimum bar on how much the evidence would influence the case, only that it affect an issue in dispute, even in the most minute fashion.

In this case, it is the defense's contention that the deceased acted violently and in fact provoked the confrontation, and that the accused acted only in self defense. It is also their contention that the deceased reached for a firearm.

It is certainly relevant that the deceased's conversion indicate that he had knowledge of firearms, that he purchased deadly weapons in the past, and that had an admitted history of violence.
I didn't even realize relative numbering was a built in feature of vim - learned by reading the plugin source. Vim is the gift that keeps on giving.
How does this fall to the judge? (I'm genuinely curious, I have no idea what her role or duties were regarding this.)
Doesnt sound Bad, what are your technical struggles about exactly?
Looks nice. Building web apps doesn't have to be hard and these guys prove it.
Because I can't read moon runes, what is this this about? Its bad enough when people drop technical posts without context, but seriously what is this saying? Perhaps we should actively encourage posts in English so that anybody from Bangkok, Baghdad, Beijing and Boston and could understand these posts.
> A lot of governments intervene in their currency to target an exchange rate (eg: Swiss).

Generally to stabilise their currency, not destroy confidence in it -- only kleptocracies would deliberately damage their own currency in that way.

> Governments also won't care about losing money when taking strategic action to protect their seignorage and inflation tax racket.

Sometimes, even governments find it too expensive to manipulate currencies, e.g. in 1992 the UK government lost £3 billion in an afternoon propping up sterling. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday)

> Maybe the boom/bust wouldn't matter too much. It depends on how people see bitcoin. Are they trying to save in it? Anyone trying to save in bitcoin is delusional given its infancy and volatility. A better description would be some people are trying to speculate in it.

Agreed.

> If people use it as a medium of exchange then volatility won't be of as much concern. If you need to make a trade in BTC then obtain the BTC and trade your item quickly. Given there would be spreads to pay on each trade in and out of BTC

The sprreads make this costly. My main interest in BTC is in the hope that it could be used as a cheap way of transferring money, particularly in small amounts, which obviously isn't going to be possible if there are big costs in exchanging it.

> So say BTC takes off in Russia and Putin decides to smash it

Putin can smash BTC in Russia. It would be harder fro him to do so in the rest of the world.

> Does he need to think of the American's reaction if he does?

If BTC are being heavily used in the USA or other countries, then those countries would be unhappy about Putin's meddling.
Very interesting, and not exactly news, which tells you the last time I looked at this. Obviously, I'm a dinosaur.

Thanks for the pointer.
No, at best you could have a large, diverse group of experts look for potential flaws and fix them. But, I agree being open source is not enough, you need to be open source, and the one implementation that everyone contributes to.
Ben, just want to say - congratulations! This is a FANTASTIC problem to have :-) Great job to you and your team getting this far... I think you realize how special and rare it is. Great job!
These sorts of arguments often come up when people talk about which games deserve to be considered eSport-worthy. Ultimately, a game's legitimacy can be based on whether people are competing against each other and whether it's possible to be significantly better than another person or team.
I agree that obviously they're doing a lot right. But I agree with the OP that revenue scale, organizational scale, and technical scale are all really different. It sounds like they've gone as far as they can with a handful of people. I think they're probably right that if they don't scale, someone will eat their lunch (maybe more likely after this post). I also think asking for help when you feel you are over your head is an excellent sign of some kind of maturity not everyone has.

Have you guys (talking to the OP here) thought about reaching out to 37signals for mentoring/advice? They seem to know or at least think a lot about avoiding VC and bootstrapping. They also seem very plugged in.

Part of what you guys are feeling might be the lack of support/advice/mentoring from investors. For that matter, you might consider looking at a relationship with a VC you think you can trust that doesn't involve financial investment (at least not yet). They may be willing to get involved just for mentoring without any financial obligation on the chance that when and if you do need funding they will be first in line at a shot. Maybe.
I'm having a hard time understanding what exactly it is that you do, from your confusing web site introduction.

Concerning your scaling pains, lots of people probably already do some form of what you're trying to do; you may do better to assimilate/enfranchise them rather than competing.
In fairness a lot of mathematics isn't accepted by constructivist mathematicians god bless their little socks.

I kind of feel that Brouwer showed mathematicians the way forward and none of them took it. Unfortunately I don't have the formal chops for the discipline so I can only look on from the sidelines and cheer for my team.
An empty seat is better than the wrong person.

This. So very, very much this.

A bad hire at the executive level won't merely slow you down. You might lose ground, or possibly even crash and burn. I've seen it happen, and I'm sure I'm not the only person here who can say that.
What If You Could Snapchat a Scent?
Exactly. If you go back 3-4 centuries you'll find that people basically worked 2-3 months per year, tops. Hell, even my grandfather remembers a time when that was the case.

I once researched it for a particular city in Europe in 1856, because information on it was readily available to me. 56 working days.

I think for the large majority of history we were in the situation that there wasn't nearly enough work for all people, and we're simply getting to an actual peak in human employment and seeing the initial effects of labour needs not rising any more. It's a matter of only a little bit of time until the need for labour drops back to what it was since the later days of the Roman Empire until the industrial revolution : 10-15% employment at best (discounting illegal work like prostitution, which, scarily, must have been the second largest "employer" for over a millenium, and of course discounting wars, which employed many more).

I personally think will be back into that situation by the end of the next decade.