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I am doing it! Been working on it from the last two years, the job pays the bills so that I can come back home and spend my afternoon coding :D
Great post. I uploaded Salvatore keynote from Redis Conf 2013 today. http://blog.togo.io/redisconf/a-short-term-plan-for-redis-by...
Ask HN: How do you come back from a failed acquisition?
throwaway and anonyous CTO and cofounder here - we have been around for 2 years, and for the last 2 months in serious talks with a major ($6bn t/o) company to sell our startup. the deal would clearly be great for the founders personally - but also provide fantastic strategic assistance to the startup, propelling our user adoption to insane levels and giving us the financial backing to scale.

We were told last week that the VC who backs this large co won't do the deal for internal politics reasons. Bigco (right up to VP level) still want to do it, but can't.

we've broken off talks, have lost months of traction and work - aside from the enormous emotional cost, and i'm personally totally despirited. the thought of leaving product alone again and getting into months of further VC courting to raise the money leaves me cold.

what's more, our current VCs & angel investors - previously delighted to be involved + finance cheaply with the smell of an exit around the corner - are now dropping us like a hot turd, putting us at serious risk of going under in the coming months.

we've built a startup that's so disruptive, we nearly had an exit within 2 years - but now we're about to crash and burn.

just wanted to share the story and hope there are some vague lessons to learn from it.
When their map implementation has union and intersect, I'll shut the hell up. In the mean time people who need this need to implement these operations by themselves, or try to figure out which set implementation on github to use.
I find the C backlash to the excesses of C++ fascinating.

On the flip side, I wonder how people deal with 'programming in the large' with C - other than 'just be really really careful'
I'm 26, they were all between 24 and 30 maybe. Also, no bs, I started working part-time as a coder sometime around 16 and just continued doing it
That's odd, since in Learn Python, he pretty specifically goes out of his way to make sure the student enables line numbers... specifically for these reasons.
I don't think the problem is just top-down (though I agree with all of your factors identified above). On a few occasions managing projects, I've gotten an estimate and said 'OK, I'm going to assume it ends up taking us twice as long due to stuff we haven't discovered yet...' only to have this regarded as a personal insult.
Client side templating would be useful as a default feature in Rails, the framework already makes great use of partials. But to get client side templating to work you have to choose one of the new javascript frameworks and duplicate your partials into its' related js directory.

The Rails way has you transmitting html. That isn't great in cases where there may be thousands of entries, in this case the Rails way isn't the best.
Thanks for the link. I have recently started exploring too much into redis at a source code level and its incredibly fascinating.
It's pretty easy - all you need to do is change the Class of the SMS PDU to 0.
I've written a short tutorial in Python showing how it can be done: http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/06/raspberry-pi-python-and-3g-d...
In this case, I'm using a basic 3G dongle and Raspberry Pi - it should work on any device which allows serial port access.

A few phones have the capability via 3rd party apps - they all seem to be ancient Nokia & BlackBerry devices.

Amusingly, iPhones don't (or didn't) display the sender's number on Flash SMS, so you could text very realistic looking prank messages like "This phone has been recalled - please nearest Apple store" etc.

Flash SMS is a bit like Push To Talk - one of those standards which never quite took off the way it should.
This is Britain, thankfully we have free healthcare already; "benefit" here is used to mean what the US call "welfare".
Lossy images for retina iPad apps - JPEG vs WebP
Students of free tech training co. defend community
Copyright belongs to the photographer, not the subject. So if the ex took the photo, the victim is out of luck.

Likeness rights are a bit weird and vary by state, but generally, they only apply to using a person's likeness to advertise or imply an endorsement of some product or service.

That said, there are more privacy-centric laws in various states that might apply here. But those laws don't really draw clear lines in the way that likeness or copyright laws would. Instead, these privacy laws usually turn on whether the information being disclosed is "newsworthy" -- not exactly a very objective standard.
> When a company espouses a newfound interest in design, but lets a major design issue on the largest platform for their products just sit there (visibly) unaddressed, you get a sense they don't have the right people in the right places to get stuff done yet.

Same for Google Maps. I live in Romania and we have had high-rez satellite and maps of our country, including street view, but for 7+ years we haven't had GPS locations of individual house numbers.

Android being the most popular phone and Google Maps the most popular GPS/maps app in Romania, not to be able to locate a house on a long street makes it almost useless. GMaps simply points to the middle point of the street - if it is miles long, then you might be a long way from your actual destination.

Why can't a multi-billion dollar company get their act together and finish their work? Even small GPS companies sell products that can look up houses on the street, but not Google. Could it be that it is too expensive even for them, or that Romania is worthless for them to spend time to finish the job?

I raised the issue on reddit, send feedback directly to them and at one time I even met a Google Maps employee and described our frustration with the Romanian Maps to him directly, but nothing gets done. It's like we fell off the Google Map™ into "forgotten land". And it's not a minor issue, it's like the most central thing a GPS does.
Romance website Match.com sued for $1.5 billion over 'unauthorized' photos
I can see this as part of one of those electronic kits (http://www.kosmos-shop.de/Elektronik/easy-elektro-start/kosm...) that I got as a kid. Instead of having physical metal rods to connect all the circuit elements, they would supply a couple of these pens and a stack of papers.

It might reduce the obstacles for getting more kids into science and engineering.

For the real stuff, I am not so sure...
100% agree on that. I did a lot of bad estimates and was directly affected by them (fixed rate projects that ended up driving my rate to "below mcdonalds worker" and some even with "lateness discounts" because I just wanted to keep the customer happy), and it took me a lot of time to get better at estimating even if I was paying from my own pocket for all the bad estimates.

Now if I am to hire a developer I will never think that "his estimates are bad because he's not directly affected by missing them"!
IT Recruiting (Part 1): How to attract the best interns and graduates
You can always use online tools to compare size:

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Nokia-515_id8116/size#/phon...
All you need is K&R, honest.

C is a very simple language. I learned it from K&R in the '80s in an office in a building in a corn field on a back road halfway between Rockford, Il and Belvidire, Il. I went on to hire and assist eight others in acquiring it and then employed them to write, along with myself, a successful machine tool controller of serious sophistication employing a three way tightly coupled Mot 68010 MP system (using bus fault recovery to resolve address collisions) of my design. Not bragging, really, just being dramatic about what you can accomplish starting with just K&R.
I might be the square here, but for something as serious as an encrypted P2P platform that is meant to evoke trust and privacy and security, the silliness of that README is an odd match.

And I don't think that's a trivial thing, as this is meant to be a foundational product used to build secure systems, and the marketing of the product (the GitHub README) contributes to how people will see it, whether they decide to use it, and is ultimately is a part of the landscape of the development of secure, encrypted systems.
I undestand (and somewhat agree with) your reaction - but only if the photos/videos are anonymous. I don't like the idea of someone getting off to pictures of me, but so long as it's completely disassociated from my real life I think I'd be generally OK with it.

But if someone sent my parents/employers/friends a video of me and my wife going at it, along with my very googleable name, I think I would feel violated in a whole different way.

That changes the situation in a very important way, don't you think?
Your conclusion indicator is not doing what you think it's doing.

I've already been warned about sharing philosophical jargon with you startup hackers, so I'll be brief.

With Ancient Greece, "metaphysics" meant "after the physics." In concrete cultural terms, it means literally "the stuff we say after we talk about everything that presumably falls under the heading: Physics". It was a way of naming a topic transition.

That said, at this critical point in history, we are wrapping up Newtonian Mechanics as Novel to discuss or explore. Quantum Mechanics is our New Departure. We can do both, but the former is more like a reference point in the history of physics and ideas generally. Experimental Metaphysics involves Quantum Mechanics.

Who says modal predicates cannot apply to leptons, etc.? It is common parlance to discuss properties of necessity, etc. when discussing the features of distributed probability systems.

In any event you're just making uninteresting assertions. I am explaining what testing involves, even if lacking detail. Whereas you apparently shown a clear sign of intellectual authority rather than exploration. How boring.
Firstly congrats on both delivering genuine value to ppl and making a nice living from it :-)

> I don't use Google Analytics or any other fancy third-party application that must be included via JS. I use Piwik that I check occasionally

I'm not trying to be a dick, genuine question, I thought Piwik was a JS include? Or do you feed it web server logs or something?

I ask because I currently run a niche site that is doing very well. I'm currently turning this into a general purpose platform for others to use. For the former site I just went with Google Analytics, but for the latter I'm now trying Piwik and am curious about other peoples experiences.
"Copyright belongs to the photographer, not the subject. So if the ex took the photo, the victim is out of luck."

Only if the subject gave permission (usually by signing a document) to the photographer.

This is a very different situation. A jealous ex posting pictures he took of them all over the net. This girl had the right to expect those pictures to remain private.

If he broke the law is debatable. But there's no denying her ex is a first class punk.
It's like going back to the 17-th century and saying, "surely, if a society could function without slaves, we would've seen an example somewhere"

Ok, good point. The society without any government is possible in theory. It's possible that in the distant future, human civilization will evolve to some kind of government-free organization.

However, you are claiming that it is possible today.
Let's say we completely remove all people from California, restore it to its wild prehistoric state, and declare it a government-free zone. Anyone can move there and do whatever they like. No laws, no infrastructure, no social services, just wild nature. The blank slate.
Let's say a lot of all kinds of people from all over the world will move there and will want to start a new life. Also, for the sake of the argument, let's say no outside influence will be exerted on that land, it will be allowed to develop independently.

Please describe what is going to happen there in the next 100 years? What makes you think it will be different this time around than how it was 200 years ago?
Haven't we all?
Actually, just someone with deep pockets and deep care. That person can hire experts in both the field being taught but also in video production.
I think they're trying to say that they're at a stage that they don't want to evoke trust, they want to evoke scrutiny and perhaps play testing.
I would be very curious to see numbers for udacity competitors.

I know I gave up every time I tried to do something on udacity while I completed most of the classes I took on coursera, and all the original stanford ones.

I blame this on the interaction between class style and myself being terrible at self management without deadlines.

I mean, I took the original Thrun AI class with a coursera-like model and I did it fine, while I don't know if I got to the 3rd lecture of Thrun's Stats 101.
i wish it could send push notifications to my phone.
Here are some examples, some based on personal experience.

- You could set up and configure an email server to send email to your users, or just use a service with an API like Mailgun or Mailchimp.

- You could write your own Wordpress theme and plugins from scratch, or just pay $10 for a slick theme and $50 for a few plugins that meet all your needs.

- You could spend time each week backing up your system with a set of external drives, or just pay a monthly fee to Crashplan or Dropbox.

- You could buy a discount VPS account and spend all your time keeping it patched and running, or just pay for a fully managed server until you outgrow it.

In each case, the former solution is "free," but may require you to spend tons of time getting it working and putting out fires. Often it's better to pay a little money to just remove the problem from your critical path. The reason for this is that you only have a finite amount of time and mental energy each day. Try to use them on the things that matter.
> And if they do, they already have ways to do that.

Disseparate ways that take awhile, with results from multiple sources that need to be manually combined to figure out what information is worthwhile. Some of the random queries I've tossed into WA:

"If the average mailbox size is 57MB, and I've only processed 65% of one in the past half hour, how long is it going to take to proce
ss all 80GB?"
Q: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=30+min+%2F+%2857MB+*+0....
A: ~1.5 months, better come up with an alternative

"How big is a gigasecond?"
Q: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+gigasecond
A: ~1/3rd of a century

"Just how fast are my 5m/s Kerbal Space Program landings?"
Q: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=5m%2Fs+to+mph
A: "I've been rear ended at that speed"

"How much precision will a double give me at the radius of pluto?"
Q: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=orbit+radius+of+pluto+%...
A: "millimeter, perfect"

Or work related;
"I'm having trouble visualizing these 3d points, please plot them so I can get a better mental picture for why this right angle assertion is triggering"
"Divide by b squared? That can't be right..." when canceling out terms in math code for efficiency, rearriving at one of the equations of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_projection#Vector_projec... .
"I can't intuit the behavior of this math without graphing it out, lets see... bounds... period... yeah that makes sense!"

I also use it for simpler calculations:
"How do the prices of gold and platinum stack up against each other?"
"How long until sunset? Thanksgiving?"
"When is 18 KST in my timezone?"
"How much is that in dollars?"
"How big is an acre?"
"What does the compound interest on that look like?"

Some of these could be found through google... probably followed by trolling the results for a specific calculator. Others I could calculate myself. But most would be inconvenient enough without WA I wouldn't ask them. Some of these are idle curiosity, but others have saved me significant time doing my job. It's not a daily sort of thing, but it's a consistent way to answer these oddball questions for myself.

Google was a tool I had to learn to turn to with my problems. It didn't used to be my primary interface to all documentation, for example... slowly but surely I turned to it more and more frequently. And so it is so far with me and Wolfram Alpha.
Why MIT now uses python instead of scheme for its undergraduate CS program
I'd like to add that this was not only before the public Internet but almost before the PC. :-)
This is an old known satire...
I hope this doesn't come out wrong. She is a victim of a horrific crime. There is no doubt about that whatsoever. Anywhere else this guy would have been beaten to a pulp. If someone did this to my daughter...well, let's leave it there.

Having said that, I have to wonder about the mental framework within which a girl thinks it might be a good idea to allow the taking of nude pictures and videos of herself.

Please, someone help me understand this, because I clearly don't. The explanation and justification would be far more powerful if it came from a woman.

For a model or aspiring actress it might very well be par for the course and that's that. That anyone else would think this isn't something that will one day come back to bite you is beyond me. In the case of the OP we are talking about a PhD student which, to me at least, implies a certain degree of intelligence and, hopefully, good judgement.

Never write an email, take pictures or videos you don't want the world to see. Never. Ever.

Then there's the other side of these situations. No honorable man would even propose his girlfriend to engage in taking such pictures or videos. Why? Because if you truly care for her you will always actively protect her.

If drinking and drugs were involved it could be another matter. We could rightfully question the moral and ethical choices made by people willing to compromise their good judgement this way.

Yes, I tend to think in some cases it takes two to tango. The guy is a slimeball who deserves financial consequences and jail time. If the pictures were taken with her consent, she is at fault for not showing good judgement. It was stupid and sometimes you pay for doing dumb things.

What she experienced was extreme and it should be criminal. All I am saying is laws only protect you AFTER a crime was committed, not before. The only way to protect yourself from this kind of crime is to behave in such a way that it is impossible to find yourself in that predicament, ever.

Another way to put it is: Killing is a crime with many laws and case law covering it. This is not going to protect you if you walk into a dark alley in a seedy neighborhood and get killed. Yes, the murderer is likely to go to jail if caught and convicted. What got you killed was your decision to enter that alley in the first place. You can't live life thinking there are no criminals around you. Passing laws does little to change this.

If you are a woman reading this please remember: if you are in a relationship with someone who wants to take nude or compromising pictures or video of you, run away from that man as quickly as you can. He does not respect or protect you. He does not look after your best interests. He is an asshole. If you allow it be prepared for these pictures to end-up anywhere at all. Do not do it. It could come back and ruin your life. And please, don't drink or do drugs to such an extent that you lose the ability to exercise good judgement.

Got to wonder about the girls in those girls gone wild videos. How many of them will look back at what they did and think it was a good idea.
Sounds like an interesting idea. I don't think it is able to execute code in a p2p fashion so it's probably better to call it a web publication/storage platform
I doubt they buried anything, but you'd need a login to read any of it. I have one, but I'm not about to violate these people's privacy just to satisfy a morbid curiosity.
I haven't read any of Zed's book and Amazon doesn't have a decent number of reviews, so I was wondering if someone could provide the shortest "why should I get this book"

thanks
This is a similar commercial design, currently available, using the bitfury chips: http://eligius.st/~gateway/products/hashbuster-micro

Unfortunately the tremendous demand for Bitcoin mining hardware means that although there are several chip vendors now the market is not very competitively priced— the chips are selling a huge multiples of their marginal cost.
Old Nokias can do this too. I know a Nokia 3110 can, for instance.
This is not a black and white case. You need to read Ryan Seay's side of the story to get a better perspective of how things likely went down - http://jacobsvsseay.com
Chennai doctor becomes first Indian to use Google Glass for surgery
Give it a fucking rest, UNIXgod, you're just being a wanker now. A guy gives away something for free that cost him money and you go posting links to other resources and start banging on about "open and free"
Just (extremely curious): what's new about this new build system (except the Node.js dependency)?
I went back to Helvetica/Arial and every day this issue persists a little part of the designer in me dies.

On a similar note, caution is needed when using Helvetica in a web font stack. On Windows PCs, this could easily select a low quality screen font that was installed with a printer driver in preference to Arial. Designers who work on Apple gear, where specifying Helvetica tends to find a standard system font that renders reasonably well, sometimes don't realize this.
And it even has a "satire" label at the top of the post.

And it's been previously posted on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4574629
lets say __ is 0x00101101

then it's ~__+__

so

0x00101101
+0x11010010

You can see how that always works.
The older brother was also requesting most of their parents heritage and the others weren't frilled by that. It seems their mother first realized the possibility but never bothered to check, and the inheritance problem was a good timing for the siblings to go down the rabbit's hole.

Now, should a lack of biological link count if you've been raised the same as the other natural kids is up to debate, but at least the brothers think that this will push further their position, outside of all the more healthy 'we met at last' feelings.
i have a question for you.

i have a software product, and its so informative it would almost assist someone who copies it. any advice on planning 10 years out for a software product with this problem? planning x years out is not my strong suit.

i've thought a bit about removing stuff that would help competitors but that would hurt my customers. i will probably do this though anyway.
Sebastian Thrun calls the MOOC medium "not a good fit" for everyone. Thoughts?
This specific quote from Sebastian Thrun in a Fast Company article deeply concerned me:

"These were students from difficult neighborhoods, without good access
to computers, and with all kinds of challenges in their lives," he
says. "It's a group for which this medium is not a good fit."

I can't be the only one who is disillusioned by this conclusion. I strongly believe that the Internet medium as a whole has the capability of democratizing education, even if MOOCs are not the right answer. A lot of edtech companies are increasing the availability of education, but they're not increasing the motivation surrounding it.

First of all, do you think it's possible to do thing that Thrun backed out of? And if so, who or what has the best chance of doing so?
There's an interactive chart here:

http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html
Has any thought been paid to network attacks like black holes, white holes, gray holes? Attempted network partitioning with sleeper agents? Etc.