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One article I read that always stuck with me was Peter thiel recalling the day Mark Zuckerberg turned down yahoos 1 billion dollar acquistion offer .

Thiel said he remembered saying, "We should probably talk about this. A billion dollars is a lot of money." They hashed out the conversation. Thiel said he and Breyer pointed out: "You own 25 percent. There's so much you could do with the money."

Thiel recalled Zuckerberg said, in a nutshell: "I don't know what I could do with the money. I'd just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have."

This is probably how the SnapChat guys feel there is no different project down the road this is it and if you feel that way you never sell

http://www.inc.com/allison-fass/peter-thiel-mark-zuckerberg-...
On a related note, the BBC has an open source library for building HTML apps on TV called the TV Application Layer (TAL) which looks very promising:

http://fmtvp.github.io/tal/
Question: If you were to have a CS grad from Stanford offer you 50% of all of his income for the rest of his life. How much would you pay in one lump sum? $100? $1 million? Probably more… Point is, you would agree the number is not zero.

He doesn't have a job yet (and never had a job before), but by any measure everyone that knows him says he's extremely talented. And now he's even getting huge job offers from Google and Facebook.

Would you say that you wouldn't make that investment? Is he worthless cause he has an upcoming rent payment due and also has to feed himself?
Uh OK my bad, thanks for the clarification. Still, I'd doubt 4Chan would take down a torrent-friendly VPN provider ;)
How do you buy a company in which their only revenue stream is to seek more funding?

A Social Media Startup's steps to profit:

1. Collect Users
2. ?
3. Profit!
... I just open more tabs and leave them open until I deal with them. SessionBuddy helps if you're using chrome.

Besides, the next day you might find that the articles you wanted to read weren't as useful as you thought.
How could I have forgotten that? I credited you above.
The 'average' guy in the definition of MQ looks like someone who goes to the gym only 4-5 times per week rather than 7-8 times.

I find it slightly offputting to show that as the baseline.
Pretty selective quoting there...

The full text of that sentence explains that he "hadn't really considered" YC because he "thought" he just needed cash. Not sure how you figure that he was desperate for YC; he was accepted through a chance encounter without even submitting an application.

edit: After a re-read I understand more where you're getting the desperation from, but that came after he had been accepted, and was trying to hold on to the gift he had been given. I think it's fair to say that the situation had changed sufficiently by that point.
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> What would you do if you were facing those charges

Are you referring to the six month plea bargain he was offered?
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Sex sells and it does attract more attention (and more clicks and impressions and buys) whether you like it or not.
I understand the non-use of the Enter key in that context as a dramaturgical element in order to illustrate the complexity of the outlined events :)
I used sunray's at university around 2001-2004. I actually remember them quite fondly.
The reason companies do it mostly for advertising and marketing purpose is because for human eye's it is more catching and the basic premise that 'Sex sells' still holds very much true. I do agree that this is not appropriate for every product and is overdone these days.
What is the point of posting this? It says almost nothing.
@biscarch All great questions. Muscle quality (MQ) is a measure of your muscle's strength and definition. Leaner, stronger muscles are characterized by having larger muscle fibers with less fatty tissue infiltrated. MQ correlates strongly to weight-normalized strength and as you exercise and get stronger and leaner, you'll see your MQ go up. At this moment, we can't tease out the differences between different types of muscle fibers, but as we gather more data we believe there is a good chance we will be able to. We think this product will be extremely useful to high-level athletes since it will allow you to optimize your training by quantitatively measuring and tracking the impact of different exercise regiments on your muscles. You'll be able to see when you're plateauing, for example, so you know it's time to incorporate some muscle confusion. We have compared the fat measurements to underwater (hydrostatic) weighing (the gold standard), Bodpods, skinfold calipers and bioimpedance scales and found that our errors were much lower than skinfold calipers and bioimpedance scales by about 3-4x. And on top of that, you get data on individual muscles in a fast, easy, and private way. As far as the availability of "raw" data, we're playing that by ear right now and it will depend on user feedback. We'll certainly consider it if there is a lot of demand. Thanks for all of your interest!
If you are looking for some big around the ear headphones with excellent sound quality then I can't help you, I use these very often while commuting or walking around so I've only tried out the in-ear and on-ear headphones that don't support themselves with a band over the top of your head.

I've gone through a bunch of bluetooth headphones and the only ones I would recommend are these weird looking ones from LG (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009A5204K/). They are comfortable, well made, the battery lasts forever and the form factor is really convenient to use, you can wear them forever with no fatigue at all, there is nothing that gets uncomfortable. If they ever stop making them I am going to buy another one, maybe 2, to make sure I have good headphones until someone makes a decent replacement.

I've also tried the plantronics backbeat line (http://www.amazon.com/Plantronics-BackBeat-903-Headset-Frust...) and they are OK, but they broke often and while they were comfortable for bluetooth headphones thats not saying much. The firmware seemed crappy, they were flaky to pair and to use any buttons but the volume ones.

I have a pair of Jaybird Freedom Sprints for running (http://www.amazon.com/Jaybird-Freedom-Sprint-Bluetooth-Headp...) because they are water resistant and I can run in them. There is literally no other good feature. Uncomfortable, batteries can't hold a charge and iffy buttons. I unplug them from the charger when I go for a run and plug them back in when I get back. If I break that habit then they are guaranteed to be dead when I want to use them.

I had a pair of Motorola S305's or one of the same line, can't remember. I returned them because they were too uncomfortable to wear for more than an hour or so. I find all the ones with that form factor with a solid band that loops over your ear and then down and behind your head along your lower neck to be like that.

If you are looking for wireless "cans" then you have a lot of great options from what I understand, but if you are valuing comfort, portability and battery life over sound quality then, seriously, get the LGs.
- I would love to hear your opinion. Do you have presently own a blog that talks about technology issues?
Images of faces and people aren't neutral placeholders - they will affect how attractive the whole mockup (and the advertised product) will be perceived.

In almost all cases (barring special messaging/targeting), using pictures of attractive people will give better results - if you're using pictures of average people for no good reason, then you're hurting the outcome, putting out suboptimal product; it would be just like using a less-than-readable typeface for your marketing copy - unprofessional.

Gender of the pictures matters - it should be adjusted for target message and audience, but more often than not (2/3?) a picture of a woman will be more effective (attract attention and positive emotion) than a similar picture of a man. Take a look at magazine covers - both men-targeted and women-targeted magazines will prefer to have women on their covers, since that is what will get them more sales.

And that is not an arbitrary bias of publishers, this is a reflection of the true bias of the viewers, and it probably will stay that way until we're not entirely homo sapiens anymore.
If you are at re:Invent, go to the AWS Booth and talk to the team. They might share details on what else is going to come in the next few months.
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huh. Interesting.

The thing is? I have no trouble at all getting freelancing or "contract" work where I'm paid by the hour, and where I'm expected to pretend like I want to be a full time employee.

I mean, other than the pretending, I have no objections; usually the work is easy and the pay is good.

The thing is, I like mercenary work, and I'm good at it (Most of the gigs I've gotten, well, they seem to be looking for someone who wants full-time work but can't get it without contracting for a while first. Generally speaking? I am better than most people who can't get full-time work, and way better than most people who can't get full-time work, but who can pass the contracting interview process.)

I have a business (and a business licence, and a corporation, and employees, and health +workers compensation insurance, and actually rather more revenue from hosting/VPS customers than I could reasonably expect to make from consulting) - but I still don't have whatever it takes to get larger or more monied companies to hire me as a company, rather than as a freelancer.

It's... odd, 'cause generally speaking? I don't hire people who aren't better than me. If you can hire my company, rather than me? even if you are paying rather more, you are getting a significantly better product.

Now, you could say, the primary difference is that when freelancing, often I use a body shop. Which could be the case; but more than once, I've had a manager call me back after I've left and negotiate a new deal (that he then takes to the body shop) so I guess I'm a little unclear on what value the body shop is bringing the client, so I have no idea how to go about replacing them for my corporation. (the body shop is bringing me value in the form of giving me access to clients who won't do business with my small company.)

Edit: note, I /can/ get gigs without a body shop, and flat-rate gigs, too... but... the people I can sell to directly? Generally speaking, they have... much smaller budgets. To the point where I end up making less money. A whole lot less money.

So, that's my problem; it seems that the body shops are only set up to deal with hourly work, and it seems that I lack something that companies with money need in order to do business.

I have been called unprofessional, and eh, I have a hard time arguing... but like I said, I do just fine; generally far above expectations when going through a body shop, and I /do/ have an infrastructure for outsourcing more of the professional bullshit.

To be clear, I'm not saying the body shop isn't bringing value to the customer... just that I don't know what that value is.
Oh yeah, `with` is dangerous.
Very few people invent math or learn programming on their own without any help, but there are huge differences in innate ability.

I don't agree with the author's claim "The difference between good at math and bad at math is hard work."

I have a M. Sc in math, but never worked hard at it. I went to the classes, paid attention to what was told and visited most of the exercise classes, but, except for the first few weeks, never prepared for either of them. That left plenty of time to spend on other things, such as sport and reading the art of computer programming, Compute! Magazine, Byte, etc. (partly because of that, I am not that good at math)

IMO, it is the same with about everything else. For example, there are people who just throw a baseball well, and there are those who can learn to throw a decent one through hard work.
With $20MM in the bank, there is plenty you cannot buy and subsequently maintain for very long: a shiny new Bombardier jet, a motor yacht, more than one vintage racing Ferrari... even blowing $5MM on a substantial estate would be highly ill-advised. But at this point, one becomes acquainted with people who can afford to keep such things, so it might start to seem less like "wealth" and more like "security" depending on one's desires and insecurities.
My first thought was the author didn't understand the point of the video, but reading the next paragraph showed that he absolutely did. He's saying he was extremely uncomfortable watching the video, but this is what women have to deal with all the time. As uncomfortable as that video makes him, the original Robin Thicke video is just as bad for women (editorializing here: it's probably worse for women, because of the rape implications).
I suspect the FM radio has been added to help them to convert feature phone users. It's the sort of feature that's highly prized in countries outside of North America.
I don't get the argument here. Look at a fashion magazine geared towards women, what do you think the ads look like in those magazines?

Marketing copy with attractive people tends to convert better than marketing copy with unattractive people. Are we just supposed to sabotage our own marketing material in order to... what exactly?

If sex sells its not because IT is a male dominated industry, its because sex sells to the population at large. Why don't you go to Hollywood and tell them to start hiring more unattractive actresses in star roles, I'm sure that would have a much larger and more immediate impact than changing the marketing copy on a few landing pages.

You can't honestly expect IT to be the ones that pioneer more 'ethical' marketing practices.
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Consider coffeescript. It does a good job at removing nuisance quirks from Javascript, and adding some python-esque features (sensible looping constructs, list comprehensions, etc.), while maintaining logical equivalence with the javascript it compiles to. (It also mirrors some of the syntactic features of ruby that make that language so appropriate for producing DSLs, which is a feature or a bug depending on your perspective)

You really can think javascript and write coffeescript.
I'm really impressed, this is exactly what Google should be working toward. I remember them saying they're looking toward the next billion phones, and putting products like this and the Nexus 5 in their respective price points definitely looks like a move in the right direction.
First, you're overstating things wildly. Unless you come up with some names (people and companies) I shall continue to believe that you're blowing smoke.

Second, Gates wasn't uniquely bad, and he had plenty of equally ruthless rivals including Jobs, Ellison and Noorda. He was, as mentioned, held to much higher standards.

Third, it still shows a profound lack of humanity to think that what was mostly antitrust-theatre has anything like the same importance as real life and death issues in the wider world.
Big assumption.
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"He was practically murdered by the state."

Let's not get carried away. He was allegedly offered a plea bargain to serve 6 months[1], which he did not take. Why he turned it down, who knows, but that's what he decided to do.

[1] http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/01/14/mit-hacking-case-...
It depends on when he plans to get his next phone.

I would consider buying this if I accidentally dropped my N4 in a lake, so it could be my next phone.
I didn't realize that a male-dominated overly-sexualized culture was ok as long as women aren't physically coerced into participating. Thanks for enlightening me!
This is not for you, it's for an IT department with a nontrivial number of desktops. You pay again because centralizing users on a single machine that you can update/troubleshoot/fix/install software on once is often more cost-efficient than trying to manage 1000 autonomous Windows desktops.
Elon Musk was on the brink of bankruptcy in 2008
Because money?

The price differential between buying the hw/sw & staffing a professional (or team of professionals) to curate and maintain it 24/7/365, or simply off-loading it all to an outside party, could be huge -- I'd dare say huge enough to make or break a company. From an executive POV, why care about data safety, when hosting it yourself makes your business model non-viable?

I realize there are lots of problems with this line of thinking, and I'm not advocating it at all, but I'm willing to bet this has been the case for some.
AFAIK DNSSec has no additional identity requirements compared to normal DNS.
You won't hit the worst case, but the common case is that threads will burst stack usage during task execution. If you have 100k threads your effective stack usage will be the high watermark.

It varies by workload, but for mine that is between 128 and 512 kilobytes per thread.

If you churn all your threads no problem. If you are hosting 100k persistent connections I suspect it would detract from available memory.
You're free to send them some North Korean secrets to publish.
"And although it may not apply to the OP, since we know how YCombinator feels about non-native English speakers, but imagine following all the steps above if English is not your first language."

One can imagine many ending up in Springfield given how BART stands out.

As for the incident area you appear too have - might want to setup a webcam, could even charge subscription as there be some strange people on the internet somewhere. Given rolling news works, then that in itself is proof enough that a market exists.
I do not like the shade of blue.
Though, works like killer. Good stuff!
So, a few things. I'll start with the nit-picky. I think the Blurred Lines parody should be removed.

I've never seen it before, but decided to watch it (discreetly as I could at work), and I don't see the author's issue with it. That paragraph, instead of coming off as "we wouldn't sexualize men, so we shouldn't sexualize women" instead comes off as "I am slightly homophobic and don't like seeing nearly naked men".

Honestly, I dug the video and thought it was pretty clever and funny. If the author has an issue with nearly naked men and their junk, perhaps that's a personal problem the author should address outside of the context of how to treat women.

Now, on to the actual message of the article. I get how sexualizing women in a workplace is bad. But to say "remove sexuality from marketing materials" (mockups are marketing materials, after all) is just dumb. Sex sells. That's all there is to it. It doesn't matter what you're selling. That's why Fruit of the Looms commercials have buff men in underwear (they're marketing to wives/girlfriends who actually do the cloth purchasing) and why beer commercials have women in bikinis (marketing to men who buy beer).

So, sorry, but the sheer economics of it means that there's going to be sexualized materials in marketing (with both men and women being sexualized depending on the target audience).
My Nexus 5 sat at 80% battery remaining after 26 hours off the charger this morning. This with regular checking of emails, a couple of Facebook forays, some quick tests of a web app, and all of the services and background apps such entails. And despite my office/business being in a rural area with very sketchy cell coverage (thus the phone has to work much harder).

Of course if I used much more screen on time my duration would be single digit hours instead. But such is the problem with comparing battery times when we all do different things with our devices, and use them in significantly different conditions.
How many people are ever caught stealing mail though?
Well according to Techcrunch's 'startup unicorn' analysis post, enterprise software startups deliver more value per investment dollar than consumer startups. We just don't hear about them nearly as much because they aren't consumer facing, and are not nearly as controversial as snapchat.

At least snapchat is not psychologically exploitive company, like zynga, the guys who make clash of clans and such.
Might be that Protonet is for you: http://www.protonet.info/de/

Those guys pitched at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna two weeks ago, and there's really something to the idea of a private, plug- and play box in your office which hosts something like a cloud. They are from Germany, too. It's too expensive for our uses, though.
Why not take the $3 billion and go have fun??? I'd quit my job for less!
You clearly see the issue.
Would be nice if Amazon had their own Chromebook equivalent stripped down for this use case. Maybe soon.

Kindle XL HD Flamethrower Lappytop.
The title is slightly misleading. They've only released the IP chapter - presumably because they figure the content will annoy hacktivists. I personally want to know about the whole thing, since agricultural tariffs, labor conditions, visa rules and the like seem to me at least as important as IP matters.
I'm not intending to offend or be sexist here but...

Do women actually have a problem looking at pictures of other women?

Whenever I see some media 'designed' for women, usually a magazine or a newspaper article, it's invariable about another woman. Either about fashion, health or just some celebrity gossip. The men that do appear tend to be unusually good looking.

The only conclusion I'm going to draw from this (and there are many), is that women don't seem to have a problem looking at pictures of other women.
Funny as this sounds it may be in fact exactly perfect for a large subset of Hadoop use-cases. If it works well.
I thought i was bad at math, but compared to people in my high school calculus class, of whom one is an econ prof at a top university, one a MD/PhD, and they weren't even the best student. The best student was so delighted to solve a problem that he would bust out laughing (he was one of the 2 top math students in the whole state, according to competition results). You never forget when you see somebody that's so entertained by studying math.

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As with learning to program or play piano/violin, you can:

- take private lessons

- take group classes

- join some kind of study group or peer teaching. I've seen meetups, google groups for that, and here's a subreddit for Bishop's ML text, which takes a decnet amount of concentration: http://www.reddit.com/r/mlstudy
Was going to post this, agreed, those can really be useful while doing real refactoring.
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