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Looking for a business co-founder and/or early investors who can help me take gitsense to another level.

http://gitsense.com

The product is ready, but the marketing isn't. GitSense has always been designed for the enterprise world and I know the sales cycle is hard, which is why I'm looking for a business oriented co-founder(s) and/or early investor(s). Git is taking over the enterprise world and I designed GitSense to fill a gap that management loves, which is metrics and tracking. I also built it for myself, as a developer and it has turned into crack for me.

The co-founder that I'm looking for would be my technical equivalent for the business side. I'm extremely good at what I do and my salary reflected this. I walked away from a 6 figure job, in a region where 6 figures is actually a lot, to pursue my startup. I'm looking for somebody who can walk into a 6 figure job because they are that good at business, but they have no interest in making others money.

If you think GitSense can make a difference and if you think you can help bring it to another level, let me know at terrchen <dot> <at symbol> <dot> sdesoln <dot> com.

Sorry about the email, as I don't want it to be added to some spam list.
Regarding function declarations, it considers function declarations to be an antipattern and advises you to instead use function expressions at all times (https://github.com/shichuan/javascript-patterns/blob/master/...).

I'm really skeptical about this. Using function expressions has some quite subtle consequences (hoisting, accidental/unintended closures) which you automatically avoid when using function declarations. Function declarations are also very useful since they allow you to use the function before it is defined (in the code), which mean you can read the code (and use the function name as an abstraction) without having to scroll past all function implementations.

To expand a bit on the accidental closures part, a variable bound by a closure is an implicit dependency of that function. By breaking function expressions out as function declarations you can be more explicit about what kind of input that piece of code needs from the outside. I just think overuse (nesting etc.) of closures can lead to some quite messy code, it gets harder to reason about when a variable was actually bound and to what.
for most of the 90's the concern was underpopulation

Among a rather select set of those interested in the subject.

Yes, a great deal of fairly short-term (on a civilization/species perspective) issues arise when your birthrate suddenly falls, especially if it had previously been rising markedly. But concerns over the Earth's carrying capacity and how many humans can be supported, sustainably, and at what level of per-capita resource consumption (and hence, at what standard of living) are, without exaggeration, the single biggest challenge of the next 50-100 years.

And all three factors come into play: population, per-capita resource consumption (PCRC), and sustainability.

You can get a large sustainable population at a low level of PCRC. Do you really want a world of 10 billion living in the conditions of Kolkotta, Bombay, Manilla, or a Brazilian favela?

You can get a large population and high PCRC ... but low sustainability. Do you really want modern technological civilization to run into a brick wall / off a cliff in 20, 40, 80 years? A fair number of people reading this can expect to be alive then.

You can get a sustainable but smaller population at a higher PCRC. At which point the questions become, what's the minimal level of consumption you want to support, how many people can it support, and how do you get from n(0) to n(t) where t is the end of the transition period. History shows that periods of depopulation tend not to be particularly tranquil.

For the HN twist: thinking about these sorts of problems seems rather more pertinent then trying to craft the next Uber for windsurfing or video ad pre-roll monetization scheme for Mexican K-Pop tweens.

But the problem's hardly easy. A bit posted a few weeks back on how Kleiner-Perkins has stumbled in trying to pursue a green strategy struck me as immensely sobering. A business whose business is making money hand over fist over commercializing new ideas losing money hand over fist failing to commercialize on new ideas suggests that cracking this nut is going to be really, really fucking hard.

And I sincerely believe John Doerr put his all into it. Watching him brought to tears is hard to watch: http://fixyt.com/watch?v=nuXJFbJNltg
Why do you make the implicit assumption that innate performance gaps (in things like math and editing prose especially) fall along gender lines? A better null hypothesis is that there is no connection between gender and these skills.

By the way, I'm sorry you felt mistreated by teachers because of your gender. That's wrong.
That's not more information. That answer is just making false assumptions (as also pointed out by the OP).
That is not a fair characterisation of the comment. For one thing, it says "could have", not "would have" - this strongly implies that it's a reference to the technical content, and not the existence or style of the report.
Windroid: What if Microsoft forked Android?
John Doerr: Seeking salvation and profit in greentech
Computer technology covers both software and hardware, and in the latter binary arithmetic must be mastered. For others it is good to understand the fundamentals so in that 0.01 percent of cases you know what are you doing. A general CS class in universities includes it, I was though how to multiply floats, but yes it is mostly not used.
And in my world, underscore is more common as a word separator than mixed case. That is, people use 'foo_bar' instead of 'FooBar' or 'fooBar'. (This is more often true in C or Verilog than Python, however.)
Who wonders that, bitch?
Personally, I like all-cotton pants. Stretchy just feels weird to me and no way could I wear something that's got that much polyester and elastane.
A bit posted a few weeks back on how Kleiner-Perkins has stumbled in trying to pursue a green strategy struck me as immensely sobering. A business whose business is making money hand over fist over commercializing new ideas losing money hand over fist failing to commercialize on new ideas suggests that cracking this nut is going to be really, really fucking hard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6906635

And I sincerely believe John Doerr put his all into it. Watching him brought to tears is hard to watch
I hacked my Fritz!Box (yeah, a bad name for a german router) and I'm entirely sure that it has a backdoor integrated too. That's why I wiped and flashed it with an alternative image. That and the Telecom's Speedport router are the most popular routers by far in Germany. And both have backdoors, I know that other router manufacturers also integrate backdoors from a source who works at such a company. A friend can also verify the fact, because a different employee told him the same. Also it's public that the ISP can upgrade, modify, flash and disable features remotely. My friend's router has wifi, but their provider disabled it remotely within the firmware (it even has an antenna) and his ISP wants him to pay 5€/m to re-enable wifi.

I really wonder why nobody complained about that earlier. Also the interesting thing here is that for a very long time, you weren't allowed to use a different router than the one provided by your ISP. Which enforced their surveillance monopoly.

Here's an article about reverse engineering the backdoor in D-Link routers using IDA:

http://www.devttys0.com/2013/10/reverse-engineering-a-d-link...

PoC Available: http://pastebin.com/vbiG42VD
That may be because it was smothered in dumb memes and jokes.
Yes, a grep could locate that.
What? $225 for a pant? No thanks, my 'normal' jeans is comfortable enough, fits good, and has pockets big enough to fit my Nexus 5. :).
Obviously one can also make that same argument for electric cars like the tesla, or SSDs when they were first released. The intel X18-M 80GB SSD was $700 when it was first released in 2008. New tech always starts out with low demand and high price.
There's no two-way binding in React, so right off the bat you get to drop that synchronization code. Check out the examples on the front page; they cover 80% of React's API.

http://facebook.github.io/react/
NB: She, presumably, based on "Jennifer Golbeck".
Google's SCHAFT robot wins Darpa Robotics Challenge Trials 2013
A clear advertisement.
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is this backdoor only served up on the wlan or is it also exposed to the internet?
This seems like a cool idea. What I like about it is the way that it assigns a quantifiable value to mathematical proofs, and incentives their production.

Assuming proofs are valuable (which I believe they are), then by creating a market we can learn an approximation of what they are really worth to people.

Also I like that it is another outlet for mathematicians to profit from their skills. The options for pure math as a career are fairly bleek right now (fuck the nsa, academia maybe, not many research jobs in industry). I could see this market as a way to incentive more pure math research.
And to be fair, so far they've been right, no robotic AI remotely similar to this scenario is visible as even distant blip on the horizon.

Their point is entirely fair that robots would have to do deal with a continuously ambiguous world and would lack anything this fable's "general good purpose" module for resolving the ambiguity problems in a touchy-feely way. Of course, the complexity of human interaction wouldn't appear suddenly in a moment of interaction with one drug addict but that would hit and crush any "real world" AI the moment it tried to get out the door.
Almost all the banks in my area have drive-thru lanes. You can drive in, write a check made out to "Cash", send it through the pneumatic tube with your ID, and get your cash. It's nearly as fast as an ATM.
It couldn't feed people on its own, except by manufacturing goods and trading them for food? That's hardly damning of the USSR (though it certainly is worthy of damnation, for other reasons); other countries do the same thing now, for both agricultural and manufactured goods. The point is, people had enough food to survive, which is the point I was addressing. Similarly, you could avoid state violence by accepting the system without complaint. A terrible way to eke out an existence, but not a difficult one if you have low expectations of human dignity.
I was in Greece a few years back. It wasn't even _slightly_ third world; actually, it was a really nice place!

Get out of your bubble.
Hi; I love your writing! I can't speak for the OP (though I doubt they A/B tested), but most typographic conventions come from the days of typesetting and the subsequent studies of typographers and graphic designers in the 20th century.

If you haven't already, I highly recommend that you read Josef Mueller-Brockmann's Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme fuer die Visuele Gestaltung; the content is really right up your alley. Mueller-Brockmann gives the "rules" of typography, then gives examples of what happens when one deviates from those rules.

You'll also see from his book that the main problem with web design today is the lack of use of columnar text layouts. Blowing the text size up on web pages is just a hack to fill space; if more responsive layouts used multiple columns, that kind of trickery would be unnecessary. (Edit for clarity: I'm talking about multiple columns for a single body of text, much like you'd see in a newspaper or magazine.)
> Really? This is a really strong assumption. So people as a group cant act in an ethical manner?

I'm not sure, but I don't see any evidence that large corporate organizations do. I think at some point distributing responsibility for ethics craves a system for them and the system that ends up depended on is market reaction, and law. Corporations like Starbucks pour enormous amounts of energy manipulating both to serve their interest (profit), so I don't see any evidence of actual ethical behavior except when it lines up conveniently with consumer appreciation. You could argue that's the system working (the ethics of a large enough corporation become a perfect proxy of the ethics of it's consumers) but that argument falls down unless there's complete transparency and an attempt to share truth about company behavior with consumers as opposed using misdirection and marketing, or outright lies to manipulate public opinion.

> * Ethics are a social contract that Starbucks won't participate in. (What proof do you have?)

This isn't a generalization, it's specific to one corporation. I don't have any proof, I have an (admittedly unpopular) model for thinking about companies at this scale that makes it impossible for them to participate in. Per my above corporation, Starbucks' ethics are the ethics of it's consumers (informed beyond Starbucks' interest) and applied through patronage (or lack of it). It's a machine that will behave only if we stop feeding it when it doesn't (which depends on us knowing about it's behavior). I don't think this is as radical an idea as I'm making it sound.

> * But at some point they [ALL corporations] abandon humanity and are literally incapable of making an ethical choice independent of business value.

Fair, yeah. A generalization. One I stand behind unless we turn up any counter examples.

> yes might equals right and the ends always justify the means /s

If you're suggesting that my thoughts lead to this idea then I'm being misunderstood. I certainly don't think either of those things are true. Law != Righteousness (though proponents of existing law love to use this fallacy to demonize critics and offenders), and the idea that money buys law can't possibly be controversial. Hopefully I didn't imply that I think our legal system ought to work that way, I don't.
``Differences in biology'' are consistently cited as justification for sexist beliefs.

And Darwinian evolution has been cited as justification for letting the poor starve. So what?

The findings of the scientific process are not immune from the bigotries of its practitioners and the era in which they live. Science is a process, not an outcome.

So anyone studying differences between men and women is motivated by a desire to oppress women and maintain the patriarchy?
This is intellectually lazy reasoning. The existence of people who believe something does not make what they believe true.

Realize that the two statements:

"Here in the south we [often] use [...] 3000 year old Judean religious texts when writing our [drug] laws."

"...there's nothing in the Bible about throwing people in jail for alcohol"

are not necessarily contradictory. People can claim to justify what they believe based on something that doesn't in fact support their beliefs. My point that the Bible doesn't support drug prohibition/imprisonment stands.

Edit: I remain baffled how Christians supported alcohol prohibition when Jesus himself provided alcohol for a party.
with marketplaces the website is the easy part. getting both sides of the transaction to the party is the hard part. how do people sell in this market now? why would they switch to you? how are you going to reach them? take ebay they spend millions on advertising on google. and everyone know who they are.
Interesting with respect to France (which I know nothing about so I will go with what you are saying).

But I am a landlord in the US and there is no such restriction and in fact it's written into the lease that I can enter. (Can this be written into the lease in France or it can't no matter what?) Actually by what you are saying "permission of the renter" it would seem that a lease could be written with this in advance, correct?

Anyway, it seems, from what you are saying, that the landlord in France is same as the police here. They can't enter without a court order but they can enter if, for example, a crime is being committed or if they suspect someone is in distress inside.

Separately (as far as France) I wonder what the distinction is between things that are illegal and things that are actually prosecuted. After all there are many things that are illegal in the US that are de minimis such that nothing will ever happen if it is "small potatoes".
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The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash (2008 NSA paper)
I haven't read the linked paper yet, but if transactional memory can be used in a feedback loop with the developer to identify sources of resource contention (where, for example, more intricate locking could usefully replace both TM and the GIL) that sounds like a real win.
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It's more a question of if there are any other known inconsistencies in Coq that could be used to trivially generate proofs which are artificial under human scrutiny but OK by an automated proof market.
You are asking a few different questions here. The biggest problem for fusion in general is probably the limited theoretical understanding of plasmas, since simulations are intractable. The biggest practical problem faced by any commercial-scale deuterium-tritium fusion plant is a lack of neutron-resistant materials. Other concepts are built around aneutronic fuels such as pB11, but given the much higher temperatures required, my personal feeling is that this is shooting for Mars when one hasn't even made it to the moon.

As for whether breakeven is even possible (not counting H-bombs), we have to get a little technical. 'Breakeven' is defined as when the input power is equal to output power. However to generate net power, the fusion output power needs to be converted to electricity and fed into the reactor, which means there will be thermodynamic losses. A typical ratio quoted for net power generation, also termed 'ignition', is 1:5. ITER is shooting for 1:10.

The current record holder is the JT-60 tokamak in Japan. It has achieved slightly better than breakeven, with a caveat: these are simulated numbers. You see, for safety and convenience, JT-60 does not use tritium, just deuterium, so the numbers are extrapolated from the D-D case to the D-T case. This does not strike me as a major issue since other tokamaks (JET) have run with tritium, but I am not an expert.

Tokamaks are the furthest along in terms of achieving ignition, but there are still a host of practical issues that need to be solved before the technology can be commercialized.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT-60
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_criterion
$225 for pants and I can't choose the inseam...
Great links. I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say it's a "solved problem" when there are four different behaviours from four separate browsers, but I'm glad each browser is taking homograph attacks seriously. In the first link, I compared Chrome and Firefox and they do work differently.
I also doubt its enforcing of good semicolon habits, considering that semicolons are not needed after many a statement in C-like languages, including Javascript.

This seems more of enforcing one's personal opinion than anything else, to me.
You are not getting it. I am not saying they are right. I am saying that they exist.

To them, their religious text do condemn alcohol. Your personal interpretation of the religious texts cannot be taken as fact.

Whether or not they are right is something for you to argue about with other Christians. They think that they are correct just as much as you think that you are correct. Religious bickering, film at '11.
I actually appreciate the humor, but I'm in the same boat where there's a good portion I'm just not wrapping my head around clearly. I'd love if someone made an annotated version with technical descriptions.
I recently had to do this (padding) as I was using memcpy to load a struct from reading a binary file for a personal project.
That and lint from clothing and upholstery, pet dander, etc. All things that are associated with people living in the place.
They are fued.. I feel sorry for them as a European. Our politicians will rip their economy away. This pact they signed essentially sold their country including their people. It's always the same, the strong countries look for weak countries to join their forces by promising money. When the small countries need the money the most, they will get promises and packages coming with many hooks. Hooks that will cripple and kill the economy of the country, such that at the end the strong countries can suck up all that is there. Their money, their land, their resources, their best engineers and workforces. And what's left at the end is not a country, but a lost fight. A fight that was never fought and silently won. Both governments win and assure their own security in trades and assets, but the people loose.
If you find a hash collision, let us know. As security people, we'd be very, very concerned if you can find even one collision or even engineer a collision in SHA1 or especially SHA256.
2014 will be the explosion of API conferences
worldwide.
> The idea behind this was that the liabilities within the TARGET2 system would cancel each other out. To everybody's utmost surprise, however, this has not happened.

So the eurosystem has been in the making for many decades, developed by many central bankers, and you are now here implying all of those central bankers would assume such a thing (it all cancels out) and could not predict that it would in reality NOT?

Of course, over any given time span --a month, a year-- not all trades will cancel each other out immediately. That's exactly why they have accounts and claims as core of the system. To keep track and balance/settle eventually in a stable "supra-national" unit, rather than one wildly fluctuating or politically-manipulated national or another.

Pretty neat if you ask me. Sucks for "notorious net debtors" of course..
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