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Heroic how exactly? If the US had not entered the war when it did, the whole of Europe, and perhaps the rest of the world, would have probably ended up under Nazi control.

There are many instances of Allied forces breaking codes but not acting on them, because to do so would have signalled to the enemy that their codes had been broken and the advantage would be lost. This comes back to my post further down, most individuals simply don't know the bigger picture!
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Outsourcing. Rows upon rows of software developers are sitting in Shenzhen right now working on virtual desktops based in the US.
Sunray as a service!
The ecosystem changes: sometimes leads are scarce; sometimes plentiful. That can't explain never, ever investing in cold contacts.

Risk can be mitigated by doing some diligence. It sounds to me like the only diligence VCs do (are capable of?) is "what does some other smart guy think?"

I'm not trying to paint VCs as incapable, but this story makes it so likely. Zero cold contacts invested in? Zero ability to evaluate leads on their own? That's pretty damning.
Put it in a sandboxed iframe, serve it from a separate domain, and use a very restrictive CSP?
Groupon raised "only" $700M from their IPO. Market cap != cash in the bank.
Right now, I would agree. It's just that the reason for using this app (it forgets stuff) is something that is easy to implement, and lock-in doesn't seem to be much of a worry. So it seems like the barriers to entry are very low. I like these people, I'm rooting for them and all, but still.
Depends what they want to bankroll. Sure, it is enough to be sitting on a beach for generations, but they might be looking at sending robots to fetch asteroids, or something equally outlandish. Then betting on an extra few billion might make a lot of sense. Also, there is the possibility that shouldn't be discounted when people refuse to sell, which is that they actually have a plan and want to try and execute it.
CyanogenMod working on its own smartphone
It doesn't look to me like any of the women in those examples were forced to pose a certain way.

It's a problem if you make it a problem.
I have a couple of DBAs when I was marketing my services as a company. At some point, I found it easier to only sell my services to agencies, so I don't usually present myself like that to businesses.

However, it's not really a big deal, depending on where you are. In Texas, a Doing Business As certificate ($12), a bank account, and business cards are usually enough to be a "business".
I've never really thought that much about having a company just for branding purposes. But, I've run my business as an official corporation for about 10 years now, even though I haven't been 100% freelance for all of that time. There's some running costs for the corporation itself, but but it has a lot of benefits, tax deductions being an obvious one.

Also if you don't have a corporate tax ID and bank account, then some clients may insist on withholding taxes and pay you as regular employee, so that they don't look like they're trying to dodge payroll tax. Again this affects your ability to control your own salary and tax filing and you can avoid it by billing them as an officially registered corporation with checks written out to your company, not your personal name.

The corporation also helps if you bring on more people to help because you can pay them properly with tax withholding and everything is legit. It's not really that much work using an online Payroll service.

I definitely recommend it if you are earning more than a few thousand dollars per year.
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>But if we remove the buckets and we have some continuity...

But this is still stack ranking. What you are describing is still an ordinal system where employees had to be ranked in order from 'best' to 'worst'.

As I understand it, Microsoft are proposing to remove any sort of relative ranking between team members and instead reward for actual productivity.
The person that ordered the drone to do what it did is accountable for it. Just like you are accountable for where bullets go when you fire a gun or who a landmine that you place kills.
The main differences between being an individual vs a company are the intentions for which a client hires you.

Being 'Designer John Smith' attracts companies hoping to lure you in as a full time employee eventually. This can be good for finding work when you don't decline the possibility of full time work, but can burn bridges when you decide to leave the client.

Being 'John Smith Design Studio' attracts clients looking to offload development to another company in order to meet deadlines and get stuff done.
Apples and oranges. SnapChat product != Facebook product.
True, I don't think anybody will be printing toaster ovens this way. The plastic/elastic properties of metal does make metal parts printed this way quite different in performance from parts printed in plastic. Not to mention the temp. ratings. Purity stamp for silver PMC after firing is 99.9%
Create a separate ServeMux for your application and let the utilities register to the DefaultServeMux via init (and you can even register your own!). Bind the DefaultServeMux to the debug port (6060) using http.ListenAndServe(debugPort, nil) and bind your app to its port (8080) with http.ListenAndServe(appPort, appMux).
It's a different competency.

The NSA tries to monitor all communication. If it fails to monitor 10% of the communication, or 5%, or 1%, it is still problematic that it monitors the other 90-99%.

If it retains control of the information it has captured at a 90-99% efficacy rate, on the other hand, that still basically means that it leaks information like a sieve.
LTE is available in Africa. look into the mobile industry in Africa in some ways we have leap frogged . theres an entire generation of tweens whos access to the net is via mobile.

I Will never forget my visit to canada in 2009. I get there, purcuase a prepaid sim card, and data does not work. go back to the store, and I am told you have to have a contract for data. wtf? LTE/3g all cost the same here both on prepaid and and contract. As long as you have coverage.
This seems sad to me. You don't have a single neighbor you'd trust with a key to your house?
Anybody want to venture a guess as to what those 350 million daily messages are worth as far as advertising goes? I feel like they would be relatively "low quality" ad impressions but could they be worth a 0.1 cents per? I'm also wondering how much better and more targeted an ad platform it could be by figuring out users' interests based on the social graph data.
If I'm not mistaken: "invisible" really means it's a "symmetry-forbidden" interaction to disperse the energy stored as a qubit in the holmium atom into the platinum matrix. In physics and chemistry "forbidden" means it happens, but has a modest energy barrier to arrange second-sphere stuff in the right way so that conservation (angular momentum, probably in this case) rules aren't violated. In this case, the apparatus is chilled so the likelihood of crossing that energy barrier is low.

not 100% certain; chemist (not a quantum physicist) speaking here.
This is the kind of positive practical advice I wish there was more of on Hacker News.
Hi everyone. I'm the CEO of Skulpt and happy to answer your questions:

@bcbrown The Skulpt Aim is "aimed" at anyone who wants to improve or maintain their fitness. Prior to developing this consumer device, we developed a medical one that uses some of the same core technology and is actually being used at more than 30 of the nation's top hospitals in clinical research. The Skulpt Aim, however, is not intended to diagnose any medical condition. It's the first device on the market that will allow you to measure your fat percentage and muscle quality on any part of your body.

Regarding your second question, muscle quality (MQ) is a measure of strength and definition. There is a high correlation between MQ and normalized strength (i.e. strength over weight), meaning that someone smaller with strong muscles for their size can have a similar MQ to someone larger with stronger muscles, but two people who are about the same size and strength will have similar MQs. Also, similar to your IQ, the average person has an MQ of 100 for each muscle and a pretty fit person will have MQ scores of 120-140 or even higher.
This solution is utilizing PCoIP[1] which is a very mature protocol that can support things like video streaming, adaptive compression, and remote USB device passthrough. It's nothing like VNC or X11, and I have a number of customers running thousands of users with it. VMware also licensed this protocol for their View product and it's been very successful in that space. While I generally prefer the ICA/HDX stack for VDI use, PCoIP is pretty damn nice and it's a great choice for this kind of offering.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teradici#PCoIP_Protocol
I'm curious - isn't 3G the fallback speed when LTE is unavailable or when your phone doesn't have LTE support? Or is LTE a separate band that may exist without 3G at all in some regions?

My wife's Nexus 4 (3G) seems to get internet just as often and approximately as fast as my Galaxy Nexus (LTE). Then again I don't stream videos that often over data networks, because it sucks to hit the limit and get choked back to 2G on T-Mo.
haha, yea sadly we're about as far from bros as it can get. Of our two girls in the office - one of them is far more crass than any of the guys!
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P/Invoke vs JNI is probably the single biggest win for CLR... It's simply much easier to integrate with system libraries in .Net than it is with Java.
Mail slots are typically used in America in all row-homes (aka, very nearly all houses in towns or cities). Apartment buildings almost always have locked mailboxes, unless you are really scraping the bottom or your apartment is in a converted row-home (my old apartment had a single mail slot on the front door, the 3 different apartments just sorted each others mail). Private developments often have locked mailboxes outdoors by the entry gate.

Unlocked mailboxes outside the house really only exist in rural areas or regular suburbs (to be fair, these sort of homes probably make up a plurality of homes in America).

The bigger problem is what happens with packages. Unless you live in an apartment building with a staffed leasing/mail office, chances are your packages get left by the door (usually in plain site), or you need to be home to sign for them.
I wouldn't say Wolfram himself has a large following in the sciences. At least in my area (math and engineering) he is actually widely and heavily criticized. However, some of the things his company makes are widely used. Mathematica is a genuinely wonderful tool (if you have deep pockets) and Alpha is also very popular.
I know, I play poker :)

My point is more that I don't think any information can be gleaned about whether rejecting this offer was a good idea from the fact of the rejection itself. You can look at this and say "Boy, they must know what they're doing to turn down that kinda scratch!" or you can look at it and say "They are crazy idiots."
Facebook acknowledged that when they said last month that they are losing engagement and traction with teens.
Good for you. Didn't work for me at university. We had one lecturer who was great and would adjust his material on his OHP transparencies if questions were asked and explain in detail. Unfortunately questioning others or asking for clarification would result in either being summonsed by your tutor and getting a bollocking or being asked to leave instantly for "not reading the material".

I quit after the first year. Best thing I ever did.
Well, in the US it's a substantial federal offense to steal mail or to read someone else's mail (coughunlessyouarethegovernmentcough), so that acts as a big deterrent, I think.
There have already been experiments, like this one: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100

"Only two segments of Dauphin's labour force worked less as a result of Mincome—new mothers and teenagers. Mothers with newborns stopped working because they wanted to stay at home longer with their babies. And teenagers worked less because they weren't under as much pressure to support their families.

The end result was that they spent more time at school and more teenagers graduated. Those who continued to work were given more opportunities to choose what type of work they did."

Which isn't at all conclusive. One town, in one culture, does not mean very much in the long term. But it's enough for me to think that more experimentation is worthwhile.
I really cannot fathom any investor that would not be absolutely ecstatic over a $3B exit for a product like this. Would any VCs care to comment on this specifically?
Hey Jose, I've already backed your project and I have a few questions.

What does "Muscle Quality" mean and what do you mean by "Muscle Fitness"?

Does MQ give me any information about type 1/2a/2b fibers?

Is this product in any way useful for someone training for high level athletics?

Can you compare the bodyfat accuracy of the product with other methods (such as calipers)?

Will I be able to access the raw data instead of the MQ reading?
GRPN is at ~6.8bn market cap right now.
is dead people my only gripe? Surely you cannot be serious.

Guns in Norway are for hunting and require a license. And far less people own a gun there compared to the US.
> There is also a Safe Harbor scheme that is intended to overcome this problem so working with US businesses is still possible if they provide additional safeguards. However, it's now clear that no business operating in the United States can actually offer the required guarantees, no matter how sincerely they might wish to.

Can you provide more data on that?

I'm 'only' a system administrator, but I'm working for a company that is doing business in the both US and UK.

Real Soon now we're going to be standing up a stack in the UK .. but I'd like to know what safeguards I can't guarantee so when I'm dealing with _two_ data sets and _two_ code bases and squared complexity I know _why_.

It will help at 3 a.m.
Thank you! The FAQ is very informative and indeed answers many questions.
Perhaps, but it's one thing to have your data stolen in secret vs. handing it over voluntarily.
You are worth as much as the problem you solve for the buying party.

Facebook is (rightly or wrongly) perceived by the market as:

1) Losing its cool

2) Suffering from user flight

3) Still not offering significant competition to short-message social networking

For a $116B company, offering 2.8% of its total value to fight off what might be a a future 20%+ loss in value is a no brainer.
You can bind objective-c libraries so that they're usable from a Xamarin app:
http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/ios/advanced_topics/binding_o...

Same goes for Java libs:
docs.xamarin.com/guides/android/advanced_topics/java_integration_overview/binding_a_java_library_(.jar)/
The point was: There is a difference between being broke ($0) and having $20 million in the bank.

That's a huge difference.

At $20 million, there is nothing you can't do. At that point, with some wise long term investments, you wouldn't need to worry about finances.
as a threat to FB it worth much more. FB is just too slow to recognize it. Wrt. feeling of immediacy/in-the-moment/real-time we have progression from "archaic grand-ma long form" style of FB status update, wall posting, etc.. -> TWTR -> Snapchat. FB is $100/user, TWTR is $100/user and the $3bn is about the same valuation for Snapchat.
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$199 for an unlocked (or unlockable), contract-free 16 gig device? That's really outstanding. This may even cut into Nexus 5 sales. This may be the adrenaline shot that Motorola needs to get back into the game.

I hope this leads to a whole slew of similarly priced medium-to-high performing handsets. And assembled in the U.S., too. Congratulations to Motorola!
Cheating a bit since I didn't read the article, but having been in and out of that world for a number of years, there were always certain types of clients who didn't want to hire a company--they only wanted to deal with individuals, for reasons stated or unstated.
No, unfortunately. If a reference isn't found in your context object, it falls through to the ambient namespace. So say you run ...

context = { foo: 1, bar: 2 };

with (context) {
foo = 2;
bar = 3;
}

That will probably do what you expect. But now say you run it where context is just ...

context = { foo: 1 };

with (context) {
foo = 2;
bar = 3;
}

... you might think this would add a 'bar' property to your context object, but in fact it creates a global variable bar. Whoops!

In short, 'with' is pointy on both ends.
Can you really trust the CAs? There have been many cases where a CA was compromised or tricked into signing fraudulent certs, never mind government mandated back doors.
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No, I'm specifically just saying that not everyone's "final product" is the same thing, and depending on the target market and audience, a minimal product may be worthwhile, and the economic value isn't always "close to 0", as the parent I replied to stated.

Also, I don't think that "feature minimalism is a good design philosophy" is always true, even though it may guide you well in most cases.
$6 billion in 2010 adjusted by inflation would be ~$6.4 billion...

Am I missing something? Didn't groupon technically do around $400million better out of not accepting the deal?
Formulas should be used as columnar operations: you can apply one formula to every element of a column (map) or aggregate an entire column (reduce). (This isn't that much of a restriction - you can use If-Statements to make complex expressions here.)

Spreadsheet browsing is limited to a sample of the data (head + tail); you can set the size of the sample before pulling.
Facebook reportedly bids $3 billion for Snapshot
Great idea, hard to execute in the real world. I know, I've done it. I built an app with Xamarin about 3.5 years ago. Released it as an MVP to the App Store. I wrote the Android version as well and released it (but went native android because I knew it).I eventually wanted to upgrade some features on my iOS app (Xamarin). I tried finding contractors to do it, and the lowest I could find at the time were around 90/hr. While I could find great iOS devs for half of that. I ended up having an iOS dev re-write the app in Obj-C for much cheaper than it would have been to add new features to the old Xamarin app.

Moral of the story - The idea is great. But the problem is that no one knows how to use Xamarin and those that do charge a premium. If the app is native you can find many more qualified devs that know how to code for the platform at a much more affordable price. All my apps are native now. No more Xamarin.

I loved the product, but from the business side it didnt make sense financially for me to continue to go down that road. Worked great to prove the MVP though.
If StoreEnvy already had "product, customers, revenue, and whatnot", and "just needed cash to hire a bunch of people", it seems odd that the author was so desperate to get funded by YC since that wouldn't give them the cash to hire anyone.

Joining YC obviously gives you tons of other very valuable benefits, just seems to be some dissonance there in the narrative.
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Whilst I do partly agree with your comment from a very existentialist viewpoint[1]. This has to be the worst comment I've seen on HN.

[1] Yes, there would be a big difference to living under Nazi control or not. Whether we would know, or care, is another matter. Homosexuality and Judaism would surely be non-existent, but would that bother us if everything around us is 'Nazi' and the very idea of Judaism or Homosexuality didn't exist? Much like most peoples attitudes towards witchcraft. We are all a product of our society.
@robertfw thanks for your thoughtful question. My co-founder, Dr. Seward Rutkove, is actually a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School who specializes in neuromuscular disorders and the core technology we use was born out of his frustration that there were no good tools for measuring muscle health and fitness. As I mentioned previously, we have developed a medical version of this technology that is being used in clinical research, but the Skulpt Aim is intended to be used to track your muscle fitness.
My original comment said 4 billion ^ 4 addresses, as in 2^128. There is no second "billion" in that line.
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Don't place your precious information in the cloud. NSA or no NSA, was it ever a good idea to store your deepest secrets inside of a nebulous black box that you don't control? What sane person would do this in real life?
- Im happy for you. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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SEO is dead, long live OAO
http://www.mediashepherd.com/2013/09/seo-is-dead-long-live-oao/
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St. Petersburg lottery[1] has an infinite expected value, but it definitely is not an investment. No actual person would be willing to "invest" more than a very small amount into it.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox
I like your approach. Assuming you are going to focus on existing salsa and not make your own.

I had a very similar idea about a year ago. Except my idea was that user would build their salsa by selecting ingredients and I would make/ship. Of course this allows recipe sharing and such. The thought of food production quickly had me shelf that idea. Your approach seems much easier to execute
Wow, that is fantastic—both BrowserStack.com and the prepackaged virtual machines.
Not to kill the messenger-- OP is right-- but that "only our kind, dear" stance is an arrogant attitude for people who are spending other people's fucking money.

Fuck all of those emasculated half-men who can't bite down on a decision themselves, but must slurp down the pre-chewed, half-digested chyme of social proof.

I could say a lot more but it's already obvious where the good people stand.