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And this is on HN because...? Missing from that (tiny) article, in order of importance:

1) a discussion as to why press releases don't matter anymore

2) tactics about why the first paragraph (after the title) is all most people will read, or even the first sentence of the first paragraph.

3) how to tell a story that people (and journalists) will relate to, instead of a "news" that only makes sense to yourself (Widgets, Inc announces release of Widget 1.5 Pro)

How to get the press to cover your startup is a recurring topic at the startup conference.

I searched through our video archives, we have the videos of 2012 and 2010 (http://thestartupconference.com/video-archives/). Now if only we had transcripts...
No, you can still mutate the array and it will influence the original model.

http://jsbin.com/IvIXUZO/1/edit
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I'm too :)
Distributed systems have been around for a long time.
Yeah, I don't think working on the Tor project is the reason. Tor was originally created by the US government.
"will not find whatever document you want 90% of the time"

Absolute rubbish.
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You can speculate about the motives, the result though is difficult to argue.
Here's my list of tools:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/must-have-windows-programs/

Must Have Windows Programs
Woow. What a great tool for some editing. I didn't knew about before, now I got installed and I'm removing notepad++ in favor of it. Thanks!
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> something you obviously do not

Really? What makes that so obvious?

> You where using a spurious "logical" argument to excuse racist views.

Which racist views am I excusing? Because I don't think I'm excusing a racist view at all. Quite the contrary.

The only thing I've actually said that you could legitimately judge me by is that it important to qualify the statement "if you sound (or look) like you're black then white people won't hire you, or listen to you" because if you don't qualify it then it sounds like you are making a statement about all white people, and this statement is only true of some white people, not all white people. So if you don't qualify it, it's a racist slur, no different from saying, "Moslems are terrorists" or "black people are criminals". Some (but not all) Moslems are terrorists (and so are some non-Moslems), and some (but not all) black people are criminals (and so are some white people), and some (but not all) white people are racists (and so, by the way, are some black people).

Do you actually disagree with any of that?
Just a though
What would happen with NSA`s internet surveillance system, if the trigger words or terms , where found in all Emails worldwide ?
True, it's also interesting to note that for the city to function "the waiters, waitresses, security guards, janitors, etc" are required. The tech employees aren't. We could end up in a situation where 'aspiring entrepreneurs' work those jobs while they try to get their startup off the ground (a bit like people trying to get into acting in Hollywood).
The model I'm currently toying with involves running "model operations" locally on my Backbone models, then sending those requests to the server, which authenticates and validates them, returning canonical model data as a result. This is important to me because I need to verify that the model actions are valid rather than simply allowing arbitrary writes from models.

I'm also looking at well known collections as queries, such that the client can define some, upload the fetch request to the server, and the server will use the underlying database to populate the collection results, subject to privacy and access.

Have you thought about what adding those features to this framework might look like?
My experience with some so-called "gender equality" programs is that the company will try to value my contributions equally, even though I have a vagina.
Amazon is in a rare situation. They have razor thin margins and page load times can be equated to actual money lost. I doubt that can be said for very many websites.

Personally I'd very much like what products I look at while shopping to be private. Some enterprising little daughter or son may be snooping the wifi during christmas shopping season trying to figure out what is being bought for them you know.
I don't agree that whenever someone changes your mind to their way of thinking because of compelling writing, they "manipulated" you. You have the choice of agreeing with them or not. If you agree with them and change your views, you can't just say "they manipulated me".
These guys are crowd-sourcing street views in a way that could someday complement OpenStreetMap: http://mapillary.com/
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My first thought would be that AWS' GovCloud would explode because of all the new instances being started...
Large criminal organizations don't have to stick to the "sneak in and try to be unnoticed" tactic as closely.
IMDisk, a virtual disk driver and disk image mount utility that is lightweight, ad-free, and actually supports Windows 2000 to 8.1 [1]. It's also open-source.

[1] http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/
Nay, not possible, this just means that all property belongs to those with political power.
>> The model I'm currently toying with involves running "model operations" locally on my Backbone models, then sending those requests to the server, which authenticates and validates them, returning canonical model data as a result. This is important to me because I need to verify that the model actions are valid rather than simply allowing arbitrary writes from models.

if i understand correctly, this is exactly what i attempted with Brainy. all validation is run on the client (if they fail they don't send) and again on the server (if they fail they return an error response code). check out the `validate` documentation. [1]

>> I'm also looking at well known collections as queries, such that the client can define some, upload the fetch request to the server, and the server will use the underlying database to populate the collection results, subject to privacy and access.

again, correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is baked into Brainy on top of Backbone's fetch. [2]

[1] http://brainy.io/#resources-validate
[2] http://brainy.io/#resources-fetch
What other algorithms could use this improve their run times? Something with matrices?
Busses are illegal?

Are are you harping on about where the busses are parking? If so, why not direct your irritation at the city government, which could be making a few hundred extra dollars a week writing them parking tickets.
Yes, please get back to us when you have verifiable proof of their security. This is Bitcoin we're talking about. It doesn't matter how "reputable" they appear to be.
I hear this same refrain about Linux distros. Personally, I think there's a lot of merit to the proliferation of languages. Languages don't just change the way we write code, they change the way we think. A programming language monoculture would lead to a thinking monoculture and that would be disastrous for innovation.
Yes, a much better idea for us to be governed by people who solve problems by smashing windows with rocks.
because capitalized section headers are so dated
I run a couple of Street View based sites. Here are a few interesting and lesser known places which they've covered:

Wieliczka Salt Mine:
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2n9vv9z3sayesz1uyzp0z2u

Battleship Island:
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2bp3k8z5ve6kiz4bvzs4z2u

Lava cave in Japan:
http://www.instantstreetview.com/2dcp2cz5x7dgmz15jzohz2u
Of course. What I meant is that if you have a dataset for which you can give an answer by loading it all into memory on a single machine -- it's not a big problem. That isn't to say that every problem which is better solved using a distributed system is a big problem.
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Well, for example: My understanding is that if you bank with dollars (in the US), the FDIC insures your deposit up to a certain amount. A feature of the currency is also a feature of the bank holding that currency. It's hard to pull the two completely apart.
Replying to yourself to take a snipe at someone else, with no data of your own, is pretty weak. Especially when you are wrong. In just 30 seconds of searching, I found a 2011 long term study conducted in Sweden that concluded the "overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher... particularly death from suicide".

I have no stake in this discussion, and if anything, am generally opposed to the topic/lifestyle/whatever. But I have empathy for anyone going through such depression that they ultimately take their own lives. When the primary end goal for many is SRS/GCS, and when the data suggests that leads to higher suicide rates, I find it deplorable that anyone would try to suppress that information.

Some might even say that is good example of cocksure, willful ignorance.
> I've never seen one idling at a muni stop.

Here you go: http://www.sfbg.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/Full_325_...
Really worth a watch: http://vimeo.com/46912551
I disagree. They shouldn't turn off the API access for payments because some people might use it incorrectly. Let's be honest, it takes a special kind of stupid to upload secret keys of any kind to their repos. And if they do, well, they deserve whatever happens to them.
Big data doesn't have to be "big". I'm not going to store statistical information, information that has at most a value and a date and maybe a key or two, and is updated multiple times per second per user in an SQL database. It doesn't fit in the table row column paradigm.

For me at least, big data is more about a form of non-relational data that updates very quickly, doesn't need joins, needs high availability and can be processed later to derive value out of it.
It's pretty unlikely that a person would think of this on the spot, and such a person would be almost indistinguishable from someone who had already seen the question.

On the other hand, easier but more complicated questions tend not to have single right answer, so it's harder to judge the candidate objectively.

At one interview, a lot of questions involved implementing problems that didn't require any trick (at least to people with sufficient knowledge of CS) but were fairly complex (10-20 lines of pseudocode). I think this is the right approach because sufficiently many moderately-hard questions will produce a bell curve, while questions with a "trick" provide little information.
You've taught your kids well :)
Prior to starting work, there should have been a document signed whereby you listed all pre-existing IP. Mingling this code with the employer's app does indeed make it theirs, but not exclusively theirs.

If possible avoid any cut-n-paste mingling, incorporate your IP as a separate re-write, and maintain a github history of your own IP for future reference to prove ownership.
The purpose of FDIC insurance is to protect against bank runs due to the nature of the fractional reserve banking system (not a problem with Bitcoin, at least not yet), not to protect against hackers.

Now, whether Bitcoin services need stricter regulation in terms of security is another question. I don't think Coinbase goes far enough with their security yet (2FA on withdrawals seems like a no-brainer)
From an idealistic point of view you're right, but in practice I disagree as HTTPS doesn't have persistent cache. So even without the encryption overhead, HTTPS can be very costly for popular sites if they don't have user logins (eg news sites).
I'm wondering about the timings on page 36 in the vector.pdf; those can't be seconds or it would be way too slow. (I've written a program[1] to calculate the mandelbrot set on the CPU with SIMD optimizations, and SMT support, on my ageing laptop with a Core 2 duo it calculates the start set in about 0.07 seconds.) It would be interesting if you provided the pure C program that was used for the timings as then I could get a real grasp of the performance of the GPU variant.

[1] https://github.com/pflanze/mandelbrot.git

(BTW, also in the PDF, page 35, you write "computes the number of iterations til convergence for that point", that should be "divergence", right?)

PS. I'm quite impressed by what you achieved in the given time frame.
Maybe not, though he did think it was at one point, and said he wouldn't stop working on Tor because of it (there's some on that in this transcript), but the interest might have been more because of wikileaks and a desire to infiltrate that network, not sure on the exact dates of all the stops, and after the Manning leaks wikileaks would probably be the main interest.

Whatever the reasons, I don't think it's justifiable to stop, question and search someone repeatedly like this without suspicion of a crime. If he's guilty of something, he should be charged, if not they shouldn't be using border agents for fishing expeditions and confiscating laptops/phones etc.
> StartSSL will let you do a multi-domain wildcard cert for $75 for 2-years (with identity verification)

I think that is this product: https://startssl.com/?app=2

A comparison of their features is here: https://startssl.com/?app=40

"multi-domain" is what I'm after, right? I manage many domain names all pointing to a single IP.
Just a couple of things.

uTorrent got iffy once it was bought out. IIRC, you want version 0.6 This was very small, fast and unmolested.

VLC. For years used to be absolutely fantastic. When it came out, a god send. I'd tell anyone listening to use it. Sadly, recently its caused me loads of sync problems, and various other minor niggles. As a result, I have had to reverted to CCCP. When VLC works for me, it is the best, but when it doesn't, CCCP fills the gap. In fairness, maybe a recent VLC update will cure my problems. Dunno.

Foobar2000 needs a mention, especially with Winamp going. My PC is connected to my amp directly via USB, and FLAC files sound incredibly good. (These days, hifi wise, MP3 is, to me, awful. They kinda sound dead. You lose so much detail and depth. But that's a whole new discussion) You can also get a great little app for Android that you can remote control foobar2000 with over your lan.
:) would be nice :)
I mentally read this as "note this approach"
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> "If somebody cannot afford to have [X], then they don’t have [X]."

To be fair, many Americans could take the same lesson.

(And thanks for making me have to agree with the Heritage Foundation. Now I need to go take a shower and read some Paul Krugman columns...)
It's not paranoia when it's actually happening.

He purportedly has video of the bag men. When he was in the US his girlfriend woke up to another bag man watching her through night vision goggles, presumably while his partner installed bugs in the apartment while Appelbaum was out of town.
Agreed. Another irony is that what has happened to SF is basically what every city would like to happen. Just like every startup, they've met their goal -- they're hip, and have traction, and now, basically, they're having problems scaling their success.

If you squint hard enough, you could draw parallels to Twitter's early success -- lots of users, and not enough infrastructure to support it. San Francisco is now looking at a number of fail whales, but, at the same time, housing regulations prevent them from scaling. They've made that as a deliberate choice, and a pretty baffling one.

As I stated elsewhere (so won't bother repeating at length), I believe the market would ultimately correct for this except for the artificially constrained supply being imposed by the building regulations. As an east-coast dweller that only works in SF, it's interesting to watch from afar. I mean, the idea of a class war ensuing as a result is obviously not a great one -- I'd hate to have to navigate SF like I would some war-torn country when I'm there for work, but one assumes the issue will resolve itself, some way or another, well before it ever gets to that.
What kind of person downvotes this comment? It's a valid concern and it resulted in a staff member responding, pretty good value add wouldn't you think?
I agree with what you said. I worked with .net since the 1.0 days and after years of staunch support, I got a job last year working with python/javascript on a unix stack and kissed microsoft technologies goodbye.

You're absolutely right about Microsoft being behind the curve. There's a pattern of denial when it comes to new technologies, and a total ineptitude at spotting new trends and adapting to them. I watched with envy for years as all the rails kids played with their new toys until Microsoft got its shit together and came up with an MVC solution.

The whole world is using flash? Lets come up with a knock-off 5 years too late. Interactivity is a big deal? Let's try to convince them that webforms is MVC until its too late. Who needs javascript anyways? Distrubuted software you say? Let's not jump on the REST bandwagon, lets make WSDL defined web services and make a shitty API on top! Why have an ORM solution when putting all of your business logic in SQL is SO EASY with microsoft? See, I can drag and drop a database connection from Visual Studio!

I love C# as much as the next person. It's a great language. SQL Server is a pretty good relational database. But if you choose to devote all of your energy to Microsoft development and don't learn anything else, you have nobody to blame expect for yourself when you find your skill-set behind the curve.

.Net developers would never agree about the big-data part, because to be honest they haven't invested time into understanding what data science is. There are so many IT shops developing on the Microsoft stack that make less than say 50 million a year that have tons of data (billions of records they say!). Maybe they make CRM software, or school software, or an inventory system for a small grocery store. They have tons of test scores, purchase records, waste numbers, demographic info, yet if you ask them to develop something that gives you insight into what factors influence student performance, or to visualize perchasing trends, or to predict sales numbers so that the company doesn't over purchase perishables, you'll get a blank stare. The idea that data can be transformed into useful information, and that this isn't simply a matter of CRUD hasn't occurred to them. They probably don't even replicate their db for their half ass attempt at reporting, so they wouldn't begin to understand what something like hadoop even does.

You simply CANNOT explain to a .net zealot what big data is. They just don't get it. "It's stored in the database, and its a few terabytes...how big does it need to get? We aren't Google afterall!"
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The talk show mentioned in the last paragraph is here [1]. The quote comes at the end, ~45:30. Pretty terrible moderation - it's hard to watch, though it might at least bring out some of the points from another perspective. The focus seems to be entirely on the diplomatic insult of a pretty woman put in handcuffs over a 'trivial' matter. But combined with the US's (genuine) hypocrisy as noted by their handling of the Raymond Davis issue in Pakistan, there seem to be ulterior tensions leaking into this particular incident.

Diplomatic relations are hard - there is such difficulty knowing how actions will be perceived by another nation/culture.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbHYiOAtFS4
> what harm is coming from "eco-terrorists"? Lesser availability of whale meat?

You know, things like harm to property and people... Eco terrorism isn't just whale protests. Here they bomb pipelines...

> i'm wondering what do you think they did? Do you seriously think that tresspassing and non-violent disturbance of peace - the minor crimes in reasonably civilized countries - are the "2 year in prison" crimes in Russia?

What they did and said qualifies as hate speech here, so yes 2 years would be within the scope of the law.

> That reminds about the most known and indisputable today example when illegal behavior was rightly justified - i.e doing right thing toward Jews for example was illegal in Nazi Germany and doing legal thing was terribly wrong.

Really? I mean really? The laws are hardly unfair in this case...
Again, way to totally miss the point. Whether or not the smashing is justified is a much larger discussion, though largely irrelevant to establishing your repeated evasiveness. So let's say for this point's sake that it absolutely isn't justified, under any circumstances. Does my point not still stand?

Your suggestion to the window smashers was to "get the city to write them a fucking parking ticket". I asked you why you think they would be engaging in the tactics that they are engaging in if that were any sort of viable channel through which to have their grievances addressed. As far as I can tell, you've done nothing to address my question, and your suggestion to the protesters remains invalid and meaningless. I think you should retract your condemnation of them, since so far you've been unable to propose a realistic alternative.
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He previously indicated that he had video. But what do you gain from releasing it?
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Arresting a diplomat will always cause problems but it was absolutely inexcusable for this diplomat to expect to get away with underpaying their housekeeper.

That said, strip-searching someone over a wage dispute is far beyond the pale as well.

And strip-searching an Indian diplomat for no particularly good reason during an arrest, is not just wrong, but also really fucking stupid, as it could have actual security implications for the US in India as we have already seen with some of the embassy's protection being withdrawn.
sometimes the value of X makes a bit of difference.
I here note that one can be sexually active without reproducing. No children doesn't imply celibacy.