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"very leveraged strategies"

What does that even mean, in this context? "Leveraged" has a specific meaning in physics/engineering, in finance, and negotiation, but I don't know what it would mean in the context of sales. Like go into a lot of debt to spend money on marketing?
You got it. But I didn't do too well communicating that, I think.
Easy-to-use Rails authentication inspired by Devise
One of the signaling effects this may have is that your corporate identity has built up re-usable processes, code libraries, infrastructure, and other IP. This itself can be useful both as a signal and practically. If you can talk about the corporate identity having processes in place -- even something as simple as a repeatable process for escrowing code -- this can be something that a potential client can lock onto versus a "freelancer" with no repeatable process. It may be an irrational bias, but I'd be willing to bet that most prospects would be more willing to ascribe repeatability and predictability (a key point in evaluating service providers, no matter the scale of the job) to a corporate identity than to a personal identity.
Sure, but there's so much differential that it would make sense to buy a 5S on a contract using a payday loan, put it on eBay, and then use the proceeds to pay off the expensive loan, buy the Moto G, and go buy a bunch of groceries for your family with the difference.

The Moto G would be a straight-up ripoff on a traditional contract. I expect it to be a hit in the prepaid market, however.
Enchanting way to put it! I’m also horrified by the mercantilist eulogy of blatant ignorance, these days. But the author of that gruesome piece has a few points: RDF, OWL, XML specs are tl;dr, too cumbersome to be of practical use, developers don’t bother, and founders don’t care. Meanwhile Snapchat turned down a $3-4 bilion offer today. Advances in AI are made because of consumer driven services. The days of CERN’s Internet are long past…
We're running on 4-5yr old hardware... and our maintenance contracts, even though high wouldn't amount the yearly costs to use this service. This is at least a decent option if you're planning on new infrastructure.
No, they do. Collateral for many debts require some percentage of physical (lower risk) assets as opposed to a contract holding that carries ove risk from a third party. Physical assets get moved around all the time.
My experience us the other way around, I have been working for my web dev company for around 10 years, we had a lot of projects, but we also had a lot of expenses, at the end I was working 12+ hours per day and not making that much money. We had to close the company, now I am a freelancer, working less hours from home and making more per hour. It is less stressful and I get to pick the projects I like more. At the end it all depends, you can't generalize for everyone.
Elon Musk: Tesla is planning to make an electric pickup truck
CIA contracts don't come cheap.
★ Is it possible to deliver offline messages in P2P network on iOS/Android?
I’m working on secure and anonymous instant messenger for Android and iOS. I believe that true security and anonymity can’t be achieved in client-server architecture, therefore I’m building up a P2P mobile IM without servers or “super” nodes. I have opted out of XMPP in favor of Torchat. So at this point my team is porting Torchat and OTR to iOS and Android. Source code is open on Github (https://github.com/prive). Torchat and OTR solve my objectives perfectly well — it provide security, lack of central nodes and servers, IP address masking, ease of use, reliable connectivity, encryption and authentication. But neither of them work if recipient of the message is offline. Message is lost and recipient never receives it when becomes online.

My assumption is that messages should be buffered inside P2P network and conveyed to users by mediators, other participants of the network. I looked over the Internet and found a Bitmessage protocol. It’s based on Bitcoin protocol and implements P2P serverless instant messaging. Each node in Bitmessage network receives all messages and attempts to decrypt them using own private key. To solve scalability issues network is split automatically into multiple clusters (called streams). It allows to keep network traffic and CPU consumption within acceptable threshold.

1. Am I using the right protocol to implement P2P offline messaging on iOS/Android?
2. Can I estimate network and CPU load that will occur on mobile device?
3. Is it possible to receive and decrypt Bitmessage data on iOS while application is in background?
Yes, definitely. My personal experience is that it's not always missing appreciation but more practical issues that keep companies from contributing more (money/time/developers).
My clients usually understand the benefits of using free software and express an intention to contribute back, but the process of contributing is not well understood.
If you take some piece of open software and customize the hell out of it for a few months, you can't just expect the upstream project to gratefully merge all your stuff because it's "free features". So it takes time and energy to work with the upstream project to identify useful parts and carefully integrate them into the upstream project, all while the customer is already in "works for me" mode and doesn't care to change already deployed software....
Maybe spambots are a very leveraged strategy.
Amazon are building the CIA a cloud, so they'll at least be talking.
Enums and incremental deployment in distributed systems
Our experience with evolving data schemas in distributed systems has led us to realize there's a class of incompatible changes that often aren't mentioned in the documentation for technologies like Avro, Thrift, and Protocol Buffers. While those tools have good support for evolving schemas without "stop the world" migrations, there's a tricky edge case around enumerated types that can cause problems with incremental rollouts but that may not be obvious or easy to automatically catch and verify before rollout. We wanted to share some of our experiences and alternatives to enums that may be worth considering. Look forward to corrections, comments, and other feedback.
I gotta say, obviously it is not clear how this went actually down. But if this is actually true, then what YC did there was pretty much the opposite of classy. I guess YC sees itself as a startup, too, and this was just one of many pivots...
I've read lots of interesting stories about the founding of this company, and of course I love the product. It's nice to see an entrepreneur that values the quality of their product first, before business considerations.

As for the dispute with the city, it's the city that enticed him to move his operations there, then he invested his money, and now they're trying to shut him down. Very shady business on the part of the city of Irwindale, something that demands a judge's attention...
i've been looking for something like this for a while. Have you tried it? Octane renderer can produce some great results but wondering about the cloud GPU rendering cost
Deedle: Exploratory Data Library for F# and C#
First, let me say that I don't mean this to be offensive, and I'm trying to be helpful to you.

As someone who occasionally hires consultants to solve urgent problems for me, I would be nervous about hiring a company whose point of contact had a communication style like yours.

When I need a problem solved, I want someone who understands exactly what I need and who makes me confident that they will follow through and make sure I'm successful. Those people start building that confidence from day one by communicating clearly and making sure that I can understand them easily.

In contrast, your comment is verbose and uses a lot of non-standard punctuation. That makes it hard to understand you. So my first thought is "wow, I'm going to have to do a lot of extra work to make sure lsc understands what I need."

I have no idea if that is accurate. But if one of your competitors was easier to understand, I would probably pick them because I don't have the extra time required to understand you and make sure you understand me over the course of our whole relationship.
The concept of shutting down data centers by shutting off water at a local level is both amusing and probably more practical than reform by Congress.
The company, directors, ands staff must reside outside of US jurisdiction, not just the equipment.
Your average well-crafted sales page on the internet has a conversion rate of 2.5%. A 0.5% increment is a HUGE difference. You're lucky if you get a 0.2% increment after an extensive A/B test.
Wouldn't you need to add some sort of detergent to get the non-polar oils to dissolve in water? Disposing of that mixture could be tricky.
No spambots here sorry :)

Did you watch a bit of the talk? Would love to hear if you think it's not valuable to founders who have to do sales and close deals.
"I don't understand why manufacturers are still optimizing CPU performance instead of battery life."

Maybe the simple answer is that they do not priorize processor power over battery life. Maybe they invest in both, but make more progress in the former than the latter.
>Facebook purchasing Snapchat is just creepy. They think delete=hide.

You really think Snapchat deletes the images? Lets pretend they did, I bet the NSA keeps a copy.

laughable.
The technology of ClearCommit (NKO 2013)
Hot sauce really is just about the chilis.

My wife makes an amazing Caribbean pepper sauce. The secret? Caribbean peppers...
While impressive in terms of a technical achievement, Excel is a pretty appalling analysis tool generally. I fear for what it will turn into when you throw this much at it. Big Data doesn't let you power through being wrong.
It's great to see things like this about Aaron continue to spring up. He truly was a great guy and his contributions and efforts seem as if they won't ever be forgotten. Regardless of your opinion on what he did with JSTOR, the guy truly, truly cared and believed in what he was doing and I feel anyone can respect that. It's hard to believe it has been almost a year now. RIP.
They make cases that are pretty good with shock resistance, and some phones are actually water resistant -- my last Motorola was.

Other than "find my phone" features, I can't help you with losing it, however.
that is a weird and complicated take.

microsoft had visual basic in the browser, working like php works. that was microsoft's vision, which would have been the web if netscape didn't still have significant market share. IE had to implement javascript to be compatible with pages written for netscape.

simple as that. just microsoft's famous "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy at work.
The FCC already regulates who can broadcast what over the airwaves. And if you're not licensed for that part of the spectrum, the source code will do you a fat lot of good with your radio experimentation.

Nobody is asking for some sort of hacker radio anarchy, here. They're asking to see the source code for machines they own, machines that reside in their pockets, machines that are responsible for storing and communicating their most sensitive personal data.
I freelance by my name and only my name because I think pretending to me more than yourself is selling people BS.

The clients who hire me and have hired me are able to make the distinction between a 'cute' freelancer and a professional who will deliver.
Not quite the same problem as MS officially supports running win7/8 in a virtual machine.
Python in the enterprise: Pros and cons
It is notoriously difficult to get USD out of MtGox. I've heard that often the process will take weeks or even a couple months. The price there reflects that people are less willing to sell Bitcoins on MtGox.
The author should really change that font contrast. It's almost the same color as the background.
There is a perception issue every consumer asks themselves when encountering a purchase decision, "if you're so smart why aren't you rich?"

This applies to every situation.
For investors it's "if you are so good why couldn't you find a way to get someone I trust to vouch for you?"

For a cheap product, it's "if it's so good why is it so cheap?"

If you can't find a way answer the variation of this question in your situation, you will undoubtedly hit a brick wall in selling to that person.

For startup ideas its ," if its such a good idea why doesn't it exist." This is actually why questions like "why now" or "what makes you different" or "how do consumers solve this problem now, without your solution" are commonly asked...

If your so...why aren't you...
Muscle quality. What quality are you aiming to optimize?
Andy Kaufman Still Alive According To Brother, Woman Claiming To Be His Daughter
>highly prized in countries outside of North America

not in some european countries, FM radio means you have to pay ~20 euro/year per device for radio receiving license in some countries. Stupid, but it means this phone is useless for us as a corporate phone.
Terminal Cornucopia
I’m glad, too. Was curious about HN’s position, and hoping for some sensible opinion as regards the ideal of a Web of knowledge — and its future. But my! I’m not the author of that piece. Just submitted it to stir some discussion.
Yeah, YouTube is $2 or $3 per CPM. Adwords can be pennies to $50.
God bless Sriracha. I'm willing to take the dent in my average post score, that's how much I love the dang stuff. Long live Sriracha.

P.S. You haven't smelled a bad factory smell until you've driven past the sugarbeet processing plants in Nampa, Idaho, or the miles upon miles of factory farm dairies in eastern Idaho. Maybe Sriracha could use something like that for their Chewbacca defense.
No idea how this works in other places, but in the USA, messing with someone's mail or mailbox is a federal crime.
Why Humor at Work Can Boost Productivity, Sales & Morale
Now this is what I don't get, because usually, that doesn't work. At all. I know from experience that imdb score is a much better predictor of how good a movie will be than a recommendation of a friend, who might have a completely different taste than me.
Same with electronics - I know I can make a much more informed decision by doing my own research than most - if not all - people I know, but maybe I just don't know the right people?
If you're not paying, you're the product: If you ARE paying, it's no better
In recent visits to Asia, I haven't seen it in restaurants/food stalls in Vietnam, Malaysia, or Taiwan. Haven't looked for it supermarkets.
Creating an online presence
This is aimed at people doing simple analyses on massive sets of data, which can work extremely well. [1] We're not advocating that people without a data science background start doing ML or something.

[1] See "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data", by Peter Norvig, Alon Halevy, and Fernando Pereira at Google.
Wouldn't just regular old soap do it? Soapy water mixed with pepper shouldn't be too nasty, but then again, California....
Wow, I would've never imagined the Sriacha founder to be such a nice, conscientious guy. A Nobel Peace Prize for him:

> Q: What do you think about copy-cat Srirachas? A: “It’s good…[take] a red flower, it looks good but [it’s] not colorful. You need to have green and yellow ... So [in] the market, [if there was] only my hot sauce, [people] cannot compare. More competitors [are] better for consumer [choice].”

> Q: Inflation has more than tripled food prices since you started making the hot sauce, but you have never changed your wholesale price. Why? A: “The price has increased…but we can cover the increased [food] price. We just want to sell more product….[also] if we export to some expensive country, I don’t have two prices. Not domestic price and another country, another price – only one price.”

Q: What do you think Sriracha’s fandom? A: “I enjoy it. I enjoy it because more and more people enjoy my product. I need to say thank you [to] everyone. Help me big or a little bit – I thank you.”
I went through the same thing recently. I have mine boiled down to a single page. When talking to a recruiter they said I should make it longer to match more keywords that HR people are looking for. My response was that I don't want to work for any company with that as a hiring practice. Tailor your resume to whatever company you are looking to work for.

When on the other side of the table I have always preferred a single page. The resume is just an indicator of if you get an interview or not.
The top-level @replies are just a symptom of someone new to the community who doesn't understand how to use this site. The content-free marketing speak is less forgiveable.
It's also 1000 times harder than playing the national anthem on a recorder. But that's not a very useful filter.

To some extent, being able to work a social network (or cold call a contacts friends, and get them to introduce you) is an advantage to a start-up. But it's not really sufficient, and may not even be necessary (since it's something founders will learn as they go).

If it's an enterprise sales company, it's certainly a requirement though.
Dear HN, can we please reduce the frequency of the same inane NSA wits in every single discussion? If there are new informations or interesting opinions I’m glad to read them, but repeating ”NSA! ah-ah!” in every single article doesn’t add anything or help anyone. Awareness is already very good in these quarters, I think any HN user knows the situation and has formed an opinion about whether to assume that every communication is tapped or how much encryption is sufficient for their case.

Thank you.
I don't think there is anything wrong with preferring developers who like programming enough to choose to do it in their free time as well. Especially in a startup environment where a bad hire can be devastating.
If you do not learn the mathematical structure it is going to be hard to do anything further in the field after the course. Why not just bite the bullet and properly learn the pre-reqs?

With a basic course in linear algebra (such as Gilbert Strang's on MIT OpenCourseWare) and potentially some intro calculus you should fly through that course.
I wish my grandparents had left me a few million dollars.
What would you use other than symbols? Describing everything with words? For example:

When given two numbers, if one wishes to find the quantities that give 0 when the second of the numbers is added to the product of the quantity and the first number and the quantity multiplied by itself, one should negate the first number and then either add or subtract the square root of the sum of the square of the first number minus four times the second number, and divide this summation by two.

That's just the quadratic formula in disguise:

Let b and c be real [or complex] numbers, then

x^2 + b x + c = 0

implies

x = (-b +- sqrt(b^2 - 4c)) / 2

Clearly the latter is easier to understand and digest; the same holds for higher mathematics. In fact, there are multiple interpretations of the text (admittedly I just wrote that now, and I'm not the best writer), while the symbolic mathematics itself is essentially entirely non-ambiguous (given some background in symbolic algebra).

(Saying "let's do maths without the symbols" is a little like saying "let's do programming without special languages"... it is very very hard to make it work.)
It's slow as in you're not going to find a 20 megabit connection all to yourself. Normal speed is probably closer to 1 megabit, but you can easily get a bit better than that these days (I'm on 5).
With sriracha it's always worth the pain.
Actually a killer combination is this (or a more-affordable VPS) _plus_ a Chromebook.

You can SSH into your Linux desktop to do programming and heavy computing, and use web apps.

If you need some GUI, you do a web app on your server and connect to it from the browser on your Chromebook. (Instead of a full-on remote desktop VNC.)

This is a really nice way to work. And your Chromebook is disposable/wipe-able. It's basically a terminal. Welcome to 1970, but with the web app twist.

And of course you can SSH/browse into that same server from whatever else, too. Like a tablet, a full laptop, or even a desktop.
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But it will. The "cloud" will eventually replace corporate IT departments. Most companies don't want an IT department, it's a necessary headache and cost center that they only deal with when it gets in the way.

Moving where the problems occur to a single "cloud" company that develops the expertise to solve these problems once for each of their corporate clients is a large improvement.

Companies will simply pay for cloud IT services that manage desktops, provide servers, and most importantly take care of maintenance and updates at a much cheaper total cost.
We have quite a few different brands available in New Zealand. I'm not sure about the US one but there's some that are really good, some not so much. It's cheap.
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Just goes to show how much the far left and the far right has influence over our society
What money? [1]

[1] http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/
Here's an LA Times story that corroborates your comment, and adds some additional insight: http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-1110-sriracha-20131110,0,...

> Inspectors from the South Coast Air Quality Management District have visited the plant several times without issuing a citation. Tran said in court documents that the complaints about the smell originated with an Irwindale city councilman's son.
Google BBS Terminal
I was involved in an investigation and Amazon was the only company involved that downright said "our lawyers reviewed your claims and your warrant is too vague and is unsupported."
Goes to show that judges sign anything these days; it's important to have a company that has your back. Comcast gave me up in a second.
I haven't tried it. I'm mostly interested in how does it (and other GPU renderers) deal with larger scenes due to constrained GPU memory.
Dairy farms are nothing compared to pig farms. Absolutely foul. The smell is so penetrating it feels like you can smell it through your eyeballs. Cow manure you can get use to, but I could never get use to pig shit.

Papermills are also infamously smelly, though you can get use to those pretty quickly.
(I am not a lawyer.)

As I understand it, the real benefit of an LLC for what would otherwise be a sole-proprietorship or partnership is if you do work where there's significant liabilities you need protection from. e.g. you make products which are sold to end consumers, end consumers are frequently dumbasses and hurt themselves, end consumer decides to try to sue you for ridiculous amounts of money.

But to make this actually work, it's a big deal to keep the LLC's finances as separate as possible from your own bank accounts, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil#Fa...
All of you talking about investing in bitcoins, why aren't you trying to earn bitcoins instead? To some extent you'd be able to establish your own exchange rate, or at least not be tossing money in at an inopportune moment, and instead throw time/materials into some project and grow the bitcoin economy. And, by growing the economy, you'll help to ensure that BTC's value might mantain, rather than diminish, when speculators pull out or toy with the market.
I don't think it ensures the funding of well-connected founders. It just makes it easier for them. And how do you get to be well-connected, anyway? In a strong meritocracy, previous success is the best. You can become "well connected" by a previous successful (or even unsuccessful) startup, or to be an early employee at multiple successful startups, or to build a reputation on a popular open source project or book or website or etc.

Someone who is well-connected due to their previous successes and demonstrated hard work and talent is a much safer bet. And I'd argue you don't get well-connected just by showing up. That'll buy you a friend or two, but not a network.