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>For me that pdf chapter example was very hard to read.

Huh. Interesting. I often value other people's opinions based on my perception of their skill. Going through your comment history, you do have a very terse, very readable style, so it's probably worth my time to look over that chapter.

The whole thing suffers from the apparent fact that I had been reading a lot of Nietzsche at the time. Man. "The will to power" was very clearly a collection of notes that he did not intend to publish that were organized and published by lesser men. Not something one ought to use to calibrate one's aesthetics.

Hm. I need to read, perhaps, more Churchill. "Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all." Though, if I remember correctly, the context of that quote is a paragraph on the merits of germanic vs. latin derived words, his thesis, if I recall, was that Germanic words are generally better than those derived from Latin. That man could write; His work was a joy to read, but it also effectively communicated his ideas. I like his speaking style, too; Especially in contrast to the 'uncontrolled rage' style that was popular with the other warlords of his day, something my modern sensibilities associate with comical powerlessness.
=alert("No protection in 30 lines of code.")
اسعار الذهب اليوم : الذهب يجتاز أدنى سعر في أربعة أسابيع
اسعار الذهب اليوم : الذهب يجتاز أدنى سعر في أربعة أسابيع - http://www.alhqeqa.com/?p=27530
Was trying to find that FAQ, I think it might have been this one: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/08/the-ultimate-cheat-shee... (the last bullet of #25)
Recently with all the advancements in this space (PCoIP) i started wondering if this is the future of personal computing ? Going back to mainframes and just connecting a thin client to your desktop from wherever you are and whatever device to find your desktop as you left it.
And if wed have this, would Web Applications still make sense ? This would kind of collide with the concept and long term vision of something like ChromeOS for example. Id love to see/have a discussion on this somehow.
Huh? Does a ChromeOS client exist for Workspaces or is it just "good for" it whatever that means?
Github is the great equalizer against bias of almost any sort. I look at github when filtering candidates. At the time I'm deciding to interview them, I probably don't even know their name, race, gender, if they went to college, or anything else of that sort. All I can see is their code.
For the hobby sized quads, it's simple enough to swap a motor. It is definitely easier to maintain since a spare is only 20 bucks and attaches in minutes with zip ties.
> in 5 years it will still be a decent phone at the low end of the market

The original iPhone which started this market was only released 6 years ago. 5 years ago the flagship phone for android was the HTC Dream/T-mobile G1. That was top-end at the time and no way could it be considered "still a decent phone at the low-end" today. I think you're underestimating progress in this industry
Well then I would think about it twice. Depend how the company is promising, are the people you would working with smart and if you are excited about the project? 10% is a good number for a company that has a beta version and seed funding.

Also do you have a cliff and progressively get your 10% or you get it right away?
I'm by no way an expert on this topic. I just skimmed over the wikipedia article[1] where I read the following:

> First, quadcopters do not require mechanical linkages to vary the rotor blade pitch angle as they spin. This simplifies the design and maintenance of the vehicle.

As already mentioned I'm blatantly ignorant about this topic so it would be nice if someone who knows this stuff could chime in :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadcopter
It's easy to decide to avoid the worse. But deciding on the tradeoff for the better vs the perfect is much harder.
Is that point of contact required to be able to be able to handle unconstitutional law enforcement requirements like NSLs? The only person that needs to "disappear" is the person who can satisfy the requirements of an NSL. i.e. the person with the SSL cert and password.
It's called Evernote.
> I always wondered why there are no "real life" sized quadcopters in use for manned flight.

The explanation is simple: quadrotor physics do not scale up. The rotational inertia of the rotors is proportional to the length of the rotor blade to the fifth power. Double the rotor blade length and the inertia of that rotor goes up by a factor of 32.

High inertia rotors are not suitable for quadrocopter because fast changes in the rotation of the rotors required for maneuvering them.

Having one big rotor for lift and three (or more) small ones for control is a very good idea. Another idea that is being researched is having multiple quadrotor copters flying in co-operation.
I find it striking that these people are seemingly willing to spend years negotiating on this, and presumably spend a lot of money in the process, while not having learned anything about the failure of the previous agreement. It seems also clear that the US trade representative is not interested in balancing the interest of the public with business interests.
Agreed! I'm surprised of the number of comments of this ilk, as if it was the main point (or even a point) of this story.

If the OP had walked onto dog poo just before entering YC's offices and had brought an awful smell to the interview (which would belong to the same category of small catastrophes), would people point out that you really should watch your steps??

Besides, isn't it possible (not necessary, just possible) that successful entrepreneurs are the kind of people who don't have time to backup their stuff, make their bed in the morning, store 10 days of food in the fridge and buy stuff in pairs in case one breaks?
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I'm wondering if the warrant was actually about Snowden but they used child porn as cover. If so, would that be grounds to dismiss things in a court of law?
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Yes. It would be called a helicopter. Full sized ones can have fuel engines, which can carry more energy per weight and can go further. On the other hand, they are heavier and not as durable because of that weight. They cannot change directions like this mid flight.
One I've found useful: http://markup.io/
Stupid Go declaration tricks
When I reply to a comment, please leave my browser at the point where I replied (like everything else does) rather than moving me to the top of the comments.
>I'm only commenting because I myself do this quite often. I'll be very verbose and break into parenthesis for almost no reason. I've noticed a trend lately in my writing that may help you: my verbose emails get largely ignored. I can ask for 5 things that are clear as day to me and get barely a response for one. I've often said the same thing in emails multiple times until the other party finally understands.

This is something I have a hard time with; sometimes I want to repeat something that I think the other party is having a difficult time with, but often that just makes the document longer, and they don't read it.
It's under manual control. The tricks are performed by adjusting the trim on the blades to invert lift.
The Josephus Problem: How to avoid being turned into soup
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I'm a physician and I agree. Obtaining data is the easy part, interpreting the data is the hard part. If you want solve interesting problems that's where you should look.
I didn't feel great posting my objection, but really... one of the nicest things about the old terminal days was the silence. Just you and the terminal and some system far away.
Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different: Cultural, Linguistic, Technical Factors
I bet you'll never forget the memory and ironic imagery of walking in with celebratory champagne for a startup that lost one of its founders to a room full of founders.

Also, would love an opportunity for a seat at one of those poker games.
Why sell? After a valuation of $100M it's all just fun and games and a very unique experience that fewer than a 10 people/year or so can have in their lives.

You can't buy that with money.
Yes, but under different names.

Sweden for example has the Right to quote law.
Never would of thought I would see something from the Grantland channel on HN. Yet here we are. For those more into sports, especially BBall. Listen to Jalen Rose's podcast. Real insightful information and fun stories to hear.
Up voted! Excellent explanation. I suppose Pawnshops/Lownsharks use the same 'need-money-right-now' angle.
Jasper that was a fabulous start to the morning. A morsel of hacker news on hacker news. Thanks.

Would be interested in your thoughts about code generation -

I'm writing a VM, playing with ideas. I have wondered at this as an approach to software development: whenever you have a significant task to do, first build a virtual machine. Then create bytecode to satisfy your application.

You can have a rich instruction set to meet your needs - writing performant or hardware-oriented features in C, but getting easy access to them through your upstream high-level language. Highly portable, no library dependencies.

I'm fine at hand-editing bytecode, but code generation from a high-level language is still a mystery to me. I want to find a notation that gives me enough power to deal with high-level concepts, but for which it is easy to write a compiler to bytecode.

Currently options in mind: scheme (lots of resources, but might be too complicated - can tail recursion be done simply? adequate GC?); forth; some subset of C; something fancy with ometa.

Or, could I just write scheme functions to output machine code, and build my application logic in macros that on top of that. This bypasses the need for a conventional compiler.
A collection of images John Rafman found on Google maps.
While Germany may not have an exact equivalent of "fair" use, it does have something similar, in the law. It is named "Schranken des Urheberrechts" (limitation of copyright law), which you can find in §§ 44a to 63a (e.g. [1] and [2]). Part of it is the famous (at least in Germany) "Privatkopie" (private copy) which allows for copying material for private use. [3]

[1] http://dejure.org/gesetze/UrhG/44a.html

[2] http://dejure.org/gesetze/UrhG/63a.html

[3] However, you are not alloweed to break an effective copy protection on that way ... which is kind of contradictory, becase if lots of people manage to create those copies privately, that "copy protection" mechanism wasn't really "effective", was it?
Honest question, what did your team of 3 need that required you to pay $795/year? What were you storing in it?
Morning coffee, this put a big smile on my face.

She (or, probably, her team) has been hacking the entertainment scene for a while.

Dubbing "a dress" what would otherwise be considered a nerd toy is genius. What's not a dress for her?
How about this? http://petehunt.github.io/react-iphone-photos/#glass
There is traceur (https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler) and it can provide most of the features - except proxies.
It's been obvious since before Bismarck introduced the welfare state in the 1840's onwards.

His opposition tried to tarnish his image by claiming he was introducing "state socialism", after which he himself started using the same term about his welfare programs, and explicitly made the point that it was intended to counter the influence of the socialists and calm the masses.

Bismarck, which was an ultra-conservative monarchist, actually went further than the majority of the socialist opposition at the time in anticipation of further demands, in order to quell their support.
Those poor helpless mothers, being "stuck with the bulk of the work". If only they were allowed to choose whether or not to have children, choose the father of their children, and negotiate with the aforementioned father their childcare arrangements before getting pregnant.

Sadly, we are discussing women in rural Pakistan who don't get to make these choices.
I'm a bit unclear how you can use this in business, since it is effectively unencrypted. If you go through the trouble of building your own crypto and key management into every mobile app with a "save to Dropbox" option, you might saw ell run your own storage infrastructure (or outsource it to s3). If you don't, you are storing confidential business data with a consumer file storage company and exposed to insider, compelled disclosure, third party attack, or implementation bugs.
What's cooler than a billion dollars? A trillion.

I'm in my mid 20s, and I already don't get Snapchat. When my friends use it, I almost feel like they're trying to stay attached to being young - like they're sending each other snaps simply because it's "what kids these days do". Isn't that the textbook definition of a fad?

I am not really sure who would offer Snapchat more than $3bn. Maybe Google will buy them out of fury, over all the data they're deleting (can't organize the world's information if it's getting deleted).

Also, there's no way they're actually deleting all of those snaps, right? That's sure to be a scandal at some point, when someone figures out how much of the data they're keeping. Maybe not the images themselves, but I'd love to build a network out of the "who sent snaps to who" data.
Not for a decade or more has this been true. Inflation in the UK is 2.2%. You would be lucky to get that without venturing into equities (which to be fair have done well this year) or property. But energy is up 8%, travel 9%, food 12%, etc. Real inflation is hard to outrun. And markets are prone to bubbles...
It takes (at least) six months to learn to fly a helicopter (or, in the case of the linked video from the article, probably a lifetime).

It takes ten minutes to learn to fly a quadcopter.
This is really neat! Will play around.
The seed funding paid for the development of the application. No one has a salary at the moment. I haven't seen the contract yet, but was told that my ownership of the company would become permanent after a period of time. To prevent me from taking ownership and leaving.
That's a very self-centered rant–"stupid" and "useless" are subjective. I find Instagram extremely useful and would say it improves my life to some degree. I could care less about Facebook and SnapChat. I also think video games are a complete waste of time–YET I would never say Facebook or EA should not be worth some large amount of money.

I also think you don't give enough credit to "dumb luck". Sometimes timing, external forces, chance encounters, and coincidence can make silly things take off and useful things get lost in the mix. The key is to maximize your opportunities as best you can.
But you need the data first, where better to get it than yourself?
If I could just control paredit with my face muscles, I think I'll be happy.

Edit: To be clear, there will be no actual barfing or slurping involved.
Sorry for the miscommunication, I specifically meant the tools created by his company such as Mathematica and Alpha.
MapQuest Updates Its iPhone App To Take On Google And Apple Maps
man, you are out of touch with the reality.

Caste system seeded hatred and rolled-out sadists/savages in India.

You're are naive if you think streets are safe for your women.It's only going to get worse in the future.

Google "jyoti singh pandey".
Exactly this one, thanks
The creators of software, ideas and information do decide the price of their services. The “political goons” decide, however, if the software, ideas and information itself, once created, should possess the status of property.

I am arguing the side that claims that these non-rivalrous goods like software, ideas and information should be changed to no longer be considered property and have owners. I have demonstrated that there are compelling arguments why their status as property has downsides, and why eliminating their being owned should, at least, have no appreciable downsides, and could potentially be a boon to all society. You, however, seem to argue that since software, ideas and information are legally considered property (at least some of them, some of the time, in different forms), they are property. But this would be assuming that the law is correct, and you can’t do that, since this is the question to be resolved.

I would still like to know why and how we will “devolve into Soviet-style bleakness” if software and ideas would no longer be granted property status. As a comparison, you could look at the clothing industry. There are no ownerships of patterns or designs there, but the industry continue to be needed and people are still paid to produce clothes. The odd cases of illegal copies you hear about are about trademark law, i.e. things fraudulently claiming to be a particular brand, but this is an issue of fraud and consumer protection against low-quality knockoffs, not a design or pattern property issue, since the designs of clothes are not property.
Thank you. This appears very obvious now.
Amazon Cloud Competitors Look Foolish At AWS Conference
My first experiences with the net was a local BBS in my city in 1997 when i was 14. They also had a vibrant message board and lots of files. A normal internet ISP was still too expensive for me as a teenager and my parents were not really allowing it, but today i am glad i could still experience BBSes.
Hmm. Like codes in bytes, I guess, as a way to pick low-hanging fruit in an interpreter. It just never occurred to me to think much of the bytecodes themselves as the most salient piece. Perhaps bytecode is the best word to describe anything non-native that runs? I'd normally want to say interpreted, but I suppose that technically would exclude anything running in a JIT. Although, where something happens to be running isn't an intrinsic property of that thing. On the other hand, whether a language compiles to bytecode or gets directly interpreted is not a static feature of that language, either. Maybe bytecode is the best way to split the difference. Is this the birth of a new bit of language? You heard it here first.
I don't consider IP protection regulation.

Medicine is subject to FDA regulation at the manufacturer level, JCHO at the hospital level, various state boards at the provider level, and both state and federal agencies at the payor (insurer) level.

Actually I would argue that the reason for no cancer cure is that it's illegal to offer experimental drugs to people who 1) consent and 2) are going to die anyway. But that's another show.
Choosing a tech stack for your startup
Is this just US? I can't seem to make it show Europe.
orgmode's org-table.el is about 5k lines, including comments, and I never felt it lacked any features. It uses other libraries of course, and is rather dense lisp code.
My fault. I thought they use the approach described in [1], where the prototype used LightScribe DVD optical drive to make a pattern on a disk with graphite oxide film. That prototype didn't require any liquid.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6074/1326
To alleviate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_poverty every https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world nation Currency should be pegged to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opec Oil for 4 years due to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma
Very cool. Reminiscent of express.js, but statically typed and in Go. I may look at this for future projects.
Congratulations, you clearly found your perfect license. Since you clearly hate being given the right to copy, modify and redistribute (as in the GPL), have fun using a license that forbids modification, and only give you max 1 backup copy.

Oh wait, you want to make modifications, and then sue people who then dare to copy, modify or redistribute your version? Pity you can't use that GPL compatible Apache 2 licensed code. Better use that non-compliant free commercial license instead.
Actually Chinese medical regulation is in some ways worse than America! (I work in medical devices.) it's certainly more arbitrary.

But the larger answer to that question is that China is still moving into the first world, a process that would be retarded if they were throwing massive amounts of capital into R&D
And keep in mind the people giving money, respect, and utilization to Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, Youtube, Xbox, Steam, etc are helping to support this continued insanity. These type of services are not the Internet future - they're the past reincarnated to deliver over IP.
Rugby doesn't have the funny clock business so possession is much less important.
Does Daylight Saving Time Change When We Commute?
How Poverty Taxes the Brain

http://m.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/08/how-...
Friday puzzle: 100 passengers on a plane
Less than fifty seats with two resources?

Scale that up to five thousand seats. Five thousand seats is big? Not really.

Every day a piece of hardware dies. Every month someone rolls out a new software package. There are many different user profiles, accounting, sales, warehouse, IT, marketing, executive. Then there's that one guy that needs that program that only runs on XP SP1....

Every IT department has to justify its cost per user. Once you get above 1K seats, a lot of things that seem like overkill start to make sense really quickly.

All Amazon is offering is a managed version of what larger companies have been doing internally for years. Just like their server business, it seems expensive until you actually work out how much it would cost to do it yourself.
java/jsp, JSF framework, Mysql, apache server.
I think you can pull off Bitcoin in 89 lines.
Would be really nice if the demo was in a normal web page instead of a video. (Also, I'd love to know what vim(?) extension provides the interactive completion with the function signatures! That looks really cool.)
right but it doesn't work with rendered text from arbitrary html content, only by applying filters to an image.
Great work Jeremy. Although there are a number of web frameworks similar to Sinatra on go, this feels to me to be the most natural. The care taken to present this well shows this project has promise.

Are you looking to make this more full featured with an ORM/persistence layer (i.e Rails) or keep it small and similar to Sinatra?
Seems to be missing documentation.
The question is, can they get 3B (or more) in another way?

If Instagram's 1B was already excessive what's 3B for Snapchat?

You're mentioning valuation, but the 100M do not exist. Yes, things have the value they are bought/sold for but selling 10% of something ends up skewing those values.

Yes, it's a definitely cool experience. The you can pocket the 3B and go have another fun experience with another company (or even at the same, unless the company is absorbed/shutdown)
The start-up scene that is changing Norway
> Why sell?

They need to be profitable one day.
The value of art for the 99%
Slow and unusable. Cool UI though.
Brilliant hack.
Well you might want to start another business and in that case, the more money you have in the back, the better.
Now this is interesting, how does it work ?
I usually don't like video walk-throughs, but this one was very snappy and a pleasure to watch.

By a happy coincidence, I was just going to start building an API backend in Go today or tomorrow for a side project, and was thinking about doing it with vanilla Go but now I'll probably give Martini a shot (!).
can someone explain what magic is going on inside ".glass::before" with the background image and svg filter?