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It's not so much a matter of "illegal" as "unwise" (and hence prevented by lawyers).

Securities law is large, well-established, and quite complex. Especially in the early stages of a merger, there are very clear legal restrictions on what you can and can't say, and very high requirements for precision in reporting.

Legal statements of this type (as you can see in the last paragraph) are meant to be very specific, and to say one thing only (and make it almost impossible to interpret it any other way). Casual conversation is designed to be pretty much correct, and leave some details unsaid/to common understanding. The clash comes in that it's hard to say something that's as precise as you need without sounding like a robot.

When you're thinking about things like this, don't think about Tony Hsieh, who seems (by all reports) to be a pretty open and upstanding guy. Think about the most fraudulent and deceptive private CEO you could imagine trying to merge his company with the most fraudulent and deceptive public company you can imagine. They're the people that these laws are designed to regulate - so that they can't say something in "casual English" which one would normally read one way, but could be read (and they would read) in a nefarious way. to disrupt he market.

Law is, in some ways, like an obscure form of math or engineering. We could say "the Fourier transform of a function is equal to the integral of the function times e^-i", which is broadly correct, but not sufficiently precise to understand what is going on and react accordingly. Instead, we specify it exactly and boringly in a domain-specific language, not unlike certain aspects of law.
I'm oftentimes glad that, as a simple nobody, I can express my opinion without worrying about who I offend or projecting the wrong image over a group I'm associated with.
I think the first thing that comes to mind is the amount of needless repetitive motion on the operator's part. The camera shutters should be triggered automatically, shortly after the frame settles down on the book. You could do the job mechanically, optically, or with an accelerometer for that matter. If the operator didn't have to let go of the apparatus to work the camera shutters, it would easily double the throughput.

I'd probably aim for something close to the ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgiPaSOeP2w ) Booksnap digitizer, but without the glass frame to hold down the pages. Given a pair of good high-res cameras, the page curvature can be taken out in software. Further, once you're doing any sort of image postprocessing at all, it wouldn't be hard to sense when the user's hands have been withdrawn after turning each page. As soon as a couple of frames have been taken without any significant motion, the scanner can keep those images and signal the operator to turn the page.

Google, according to http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/03/how-googles-book-sca.ht... , apparently gets their page-curvature feedback from infrared cameras, but I don't think most home users would need to get that fancy.
Ruby was mentioned because once one strips the iPhone from the prize, the part remaining is $2000 worth of time on a cluster of machines that specializes in supporting Ruby.
I know there are a lot of founders, and therefore businesspeople, on this site—but I still find it a little weird that this kind of fratty business talk has so thoroughly permeated hacker culture. This article has absolutely 0 technical content; it's entirely about a business deal, and it could be about any business deal.

I am not of course suggesting that this should be of less concern to hackers, or to the population of this website (or of the Web 2.0 penumbrua in general), so please don't view this as another 'Uh, should this really be on Hacker News?' post. I just am sometimes struck by the tone and focus of much of the chatter on the 'technical' web---by how thoroughly, apparently, so many of its denizens have been totally consumed by concern with how well any given fund made out on a business deal, and bodies of shares; and by the obnoxious Wall Street tone that can be taken, more or less indistinguishable from the smug chatter of the talking heads on cable TV or any of the obnoxious businessmen that I know.
Not bad! :-) A nice mnemonic tool, anyway. See it once and never forget.
Nice, they mentioned my site (simplecountrycodes.com)! I got some awesome feedback from HN on the design of that, so thanks everyone :)
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You had me at "steaming pile of MFC GUI."
When the dot-bust occurred, the going rule with VCs was to rein in their investments, getting cash where they could and deploying their liquidation preferences to cash out where possible.

It was not panic so much as it was an exercise of common sense by the VCs at the time. A lot of startups had been riding on fluff and, when the fluff went away, it was time to cut investment losses.

A crude, but key, indicator is that the liquidation preference in the relatively few fundings that did occur went from a former standard of 1x out to a new one of 3x to 5x. Few deals were done, and those that were done were on terms perceived by founders to be onerous.

In such a climate, it likely would have been deemed reckless conduct by the VC's managing partners not to cash in on the convertible note and to opt instead for an alternative outcome that was highly speculative at best. We can't really know without being privy to inside details, which we are not. In any case, that decision shouldn't be second-guessed by outsiders today.
>Therefore, it is somewhat independent of the man's assessment of his own attractiveness.

The article does mention Guy's evaluation of himself as a candidate. And, intuitively, if Guy considers himself to be extremely attractive, then he should consider p(a) to be accordingly higher.
Word choice counterpoint: keys that are lost still exist.

On the other items, there is a healthy amount of experimental evidence to suggest that Alzheimer's memory loss is reversible - that the memory-encodings still exist. See for example:

http://www.longevitymeme.org/news/view_news_item.cfm?news_id...

Later on in the disease progression is where your points are valid due to widespread neuron death. It's sliding scale.
If you were applying as a single founder, how and when did you meet Arash (or at what point did you get him to be cofounder)?
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Attractiveness should be totally uncorrelated to intelligence - or, if anything, have a very slight positive correlation. Also, he didn't say anything about 99th percentile. A girl who is even the 80th percentile for both looks and intelligence would be pretty desirable.
I actually suffer a lot from misery that's woman-related, sometimes for months and years after something happens. Possibly that's because I'm fairly young, but also possibly it depends on the type of person and you aren't as affected as I am.
I'm going to have to try it out and see if it inspires me, but you win the first test, which is that this is a very, very sexy app.
If stocks are typically overpriced, I think you want to be in the business of IPOing.
Yes. Even outside of the internet, Chris has random people shouting stuff at him.
Why don't you just schedule "Grabbing Coffee" during an open office hours slot?
Reminds me of TASCK. http://tasck.com/
Yes. They are.
Oh yes, Google gives you the answer. It does not pretend to know it, but it reports it. (Results are slightly different in the quoted versus unquoted versions, but still correct.)
Any bundle in which both Guy and someone else approach Carol yields (c) and has reward value 0.

Oh, so that's how it works? No wonder this situation seems out of balance.

Instead, I would suggest that in the p_star case, N is only the number of other guys who (from Guy's perspective) are more interesting (attractive, well-spoken, outgoing) which helps to keep N down for any suitably attractive, confident Guy.

That changes Carol's p_none too. Now she's getting the product across some distribution of p_stars from guys around her, each of which is related to the apparent value of the dating pool and individual confidence.

I haven't worked the math, but it definitely seems like p_none < 1/2 only when none of the guys are very confident in their worth. I don't really think you needed to use game theory to get that result.
i wonder if that's because we're a smaller community, so there's a shame factor in being downvoted?
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Apple is it's own worse enemy here - while there is beautiful software on the Mac and the standard is in general above what I think you find on windows, the software that Apple itself makes for windows is generally awful and this drives the perceptions of a lot of windows users.

For example, iTunes is still the one piece of software that gets me into a flying rage - usually when I want to do something stupidly simple and it refuses to let me due to some preconceived user workflow that I would be violating. It freezes and hangs at weird moments, the UI lacks all kinds of normal Windows niceties like tooltips and hover highlighting, things that are vitally important to click on are rendered as if they are not clickable at all, and in general it looks completely out of place.

The message that Windows users get from this kind of thing is that Macs are foreign and hostile and incomprehensible and the idea of spending your whole life in that environment is repellent. Strangely when I use the same software on the Mac it all makes sense - I can't even really explain why.
So, er, what's the difference between this and just posting the content on their servers to begin with? And what's to keep someone from copying and pasting the decrypted content?
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we don't have more to show from a decade's work by so many brilliant people.

Well said. I use C++ and Perl primarily, and both languages suffer from this.
And without info on Carol's age. It's cruel, I know, but it's the reality...
30 examples is a bit high; many of these are just clones of each other or similarly unremarkable. Alittle selectivity wouldn't hurt... Still, it's better than their list of 105(!) twitter webapps.
I agree, the problem (and the solution) lies with the people who are the interface between makers and managers. The job description for these people varies but you know who they are - project leader type people.

Here's what we try to do: all meetings known to involve lots of people are all scheduled Thursdays. The people who only have to attend one meeting don't care, and the people who have to attend multiple ones just cross off Thursday from being a "real work" day. Yes okay, it's a cost, but at least it is only a 20% cost.

"Emergency" meetings involving senior management (you all know why the sarcasm quotes are there): the interface person should take the hit. In my experience there is rarely a technical issue raised in a senior management context that cannot be adequeately fielded (!= implemented) by a good project lead. Actually, I regard this as one of the major contributions of the leader: take all the crap on so that your guys can be left alone to do their work. I realise this opens a whole different can of worms in discussing what kind of person should be a project leader.

If you have a shop with people working mixed hours (ie when everybody is not on a 9-5 schedule) you should have "core hours" to allow for meetings anyway. This at least stops meetingitis from creeping throughout the day.

IM is a bigger problem I agree, but not necessarily in this category as it is a maker-to-maker disruption source as well as manager-to-maker one.
It's easy to frame the marketplace as a zero sum game. Someone's win equals your loss and vice versa.

The reality is that model is a massive oversimplification, and thinking that way is value destructive.
Why no more than 2 goals? Is this number arbitrary or is there any reason for it?
I didn't say it was zero sum. I like Posterous quite a lot.
I will use this, because the last time I wanted to upload a picture to facebook, I had to use some awful Java applet that crashed my browser (Note: this is not so much anti-Java as anti-today's-implementations-of-things-surrounding Java).
+ve. I really enjoyed how the text area border and shading appear and disappear when you tab between them. And I am not easily amused.

-ve. On a HD monitor, it almost doesn't fit on the screen. Trying in in a smaller window, only the first goal appears - even after closing the instructions.

-ve. When closing the instructions, the text of the goals is not moved (though the headings are). I'm using FF 2.0.0.7, linux.

However, your main focus is the productivity of the app, and any remarks I make on that would uninformed, as I think it would take a trial of at least several days to tell (1) how helpful the "two goals at a time" approach actually is for a specific person; and (2) how helpful this tool is for supporting that approach. But I like the idea, and I like the execution.
How many of you are using Haml/Sass in a production environment?
Just wondering how many people out there use Haml/Sass in a deployed web app, or know of any popular sites that do. Personally, I never really got the idea of replacing html and css, but I know some people can't live without it.
I read Blink. Gladwell need to remember that the plural of anecdote is not data.

He certainly raises some questions about blind tests compared to expert opinion, but as far as repeatable, replicable, methodology goes, my trust is in the blind test.
Any time spent reading hacker news or that article is not used approaching attractive women.

Just saying, its purely a function of our own MOTIVATION, not necessarily our self-image, which we can change.
That makes sense, I might test it sometime.
From the hashlib documentation, yes, it appears so.

Note, though, SHA1 works in 512-bit (64-byte) blocks, so 'snapshotting' after feeding it (for example) 63 bytes hasn't saved any hard work -- the routine was only buffering those 63 waiting for byte #64 (or the digest-finish operation) to do the real crunching.

And, the tiny EngineYard strings don't offer a giant opportunity for precalculation savings. The usual pattern for digesting is:

1 x new()
N x update()
1 x digest()

The copy() lets you snapshot state after M update()s, M<N, to speed future calculations. Obviously if M is a lot -- there is a large shared prefix -- there could be big savings. But with the EngineYard strings, M should never be more than 1 block/update(). (If it is, your 10-word preamble was wastefully long.) So the potential savings are capped relative to the cost of the copy() and the (unavoidable) second update() and digest(). If the second update() and final digest() are roughly as costly as the first update() and original new(), and if the copy() is nearly costless, I suppose the speedup could approach 2x.

But also: I suspect an optimized C SHA1 operation on tiny amounts of data is going to scream compared to your Python loop and calling overheads -- so any improvement from your copy() reuse may be noise compared to what's taking up most of your loop time.
We don't know anywhere near enough about how the brain stores memories to be able to say that.

It's quite possible memories are distributed over the entire brain, and not stored in any one neuron.

For example, if you have a lens projecting a picture, and you cover half the lens, you don't get half a picture, you get a dimmer and fuzzier images, but a whole one.

Perhaps the brain works the same way? We really don't know enough about memory to say.
I prefer Bittman's:

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Those 14 GPUs have a lot more than 14 cores though. A GTX 295 graphics card for example has 240 cores per chip x 2 chips. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_300_Series#Technical_su...
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I have used it in live environment for an internal site and I do have some reservations. Head over to rails irc channel and you can easily start HTML V HAML argument.

It is definitely a cleaner and more logical way of doing things but it is a matter of taste after all. If you like working with regular HTML/CSS...stick to it. No harm in trying once though.
Just picture any hot woman you'd never approach, because you are SURE she must have a boyfriend, and if she doesn't, then there must be something wrong with her.
I made a lot of DK jokes after the Segway came out - I thought it was a solution in search of a problem, and its high price made it an expensive toy more than anything else. But I was impressed with his water purification machine last year, and I share his frustration* with much of our technological effort and spend going towards frivolous things.

* while recognizing that some of this stems from not being able to make even more money :)

Article ended just when it was starting to get interesting though.
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Ah, so there is a mechanism selecting against people who underestimate themselves. I would prescribe she be less shy if she's so attractive. Make the first move, Carol; chat a guy up.
I used gigablast for a couple of searches and it just didn't give me the results I was looking for. I think I will stick with google until I find something that is consistantly more reliable
Really? This sounds like a person? Honestly, it reads like The Letter Every CEO Of An Acquired Company Must Write.

[x] "Nothing will change!" [until we get around to changing it]

[x] "Your jobs are safe" [see point one]

[x] "It's about synergy, not money" (extra credit for using the phrase "high touch")
They cite examples where a robot malfunctioned and hurt someone. I fail to see how that is any different from other machine malfunctions, except semantically.
I lost interest in maths in high school when I realized that the problems we were solving were specifically designed to be solvable with the techniques we were taught. Their generality was specious. This was at an expensive private school, in the so-called advanced maths stream...

I much preferred programming, because things made sense there. You could work things out. Even the instruction set for the Z-80 processing I was coding for was more consistent and general than the maths I was taught. The compound instructions were obviously compound, and - and this is the best part - the aspects that I didn't understand enriched me when I finally did understand them (I realized they had machine code support for structs, before I'd heard of structs - I 'invented' structs because my code needed the concept).

Today, after bachelor, masters and not-yet-submitted doctorate in Computer Science, the maths I see in papers still seems technique-based rather than about the truth. I use set-builder notation, and grammar notation (regular expression and CFG syntax), but only because it is logically consistent, not because it's "mathematics".

It seems to me that there isn't any way to learn the true mathematics - the mathematics that is our heritage as human beings - except by the good fortune of finding someone who does understand it, or long and personal study, using historical sources, because these are the only ones that show the point of the techniques - why they are useful.

There must be good text books out there, but the ones I've seen either dive into obscure notation, or use inadequate metaphors. Disclaimer: The only maths I took at uni were taught by the engineering dept. Maybe maths taught by the maths department might have helped me. Actually, my very best comp sci lecturer was from the maths dept - he took care to make it logical.
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Cool hardware. I want one to detect the genetic makeup of the cold and flu viruses that I acquire.

The physicist thinks it would be great to install in public places to detect the virus. I think it would be better to detect if a person had the virus and not let them in the plane or to work at the hospital.

I have had an idea for a while about making ultraviolet light air filters and installing them in high risk airborne virus transmission prone buildings ( such as airplanes, airports, subways, hospitals, etc. ). The idea is that the air returned to the environment will be airborne virus free ( and perhaps smell minty ).
I can explain it quite easily - "Nobody goes there anymore -- it's too crowded"
Well if you know yourself to be attractive, the problem is even more acute. Why approach another attractive person when you will most likely be approached yourself?
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I like the very last question.
It's depressing when your condescending mystery-meat GUI 'written by 2 Gnome developers' is the least-shitty piece of your project.

The 21 hardware bugs he links to don't even begin to cover all the ridiculousness.

One bug I'm intimately familiar with is the "first open-source SD card implementation" in the custom CaFE chip that turned out to be neither -- Marvell never released the HDL sources, the only documentation is a PDF that lists but doesn't describe registers, and it doesn't really implement SD. Originally if you slept the CPU, on wakeup the SD card would disappear from the bus, which absolutely fucks you if you were booting off of it. The only fix I found was to add a 1s wait to the wakeup process -- the design target for the entire sleep/wake cycle was <100ms!
It's a nightmare for me to lug two laptops and for a meeting just to spend the whole time fighting with others over power outlets and waiting for the last person to get online.

Lately, I do all my "meetings" on GoToMeeting or Skype, and reserve face to face meetings for the beer relay and bonding.
Get yourself a musician next time. Mine is in hackmode more often than I am :-)
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That is what I thought. But not how it is playing out when applying for jobs that put me as the worst one (from my perspective anyway). Perhaps other factors are at play.
Ah yeah, the old work-for-equity scam. Classic sign that the company is going nowhere.
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It never hurts to try. Oh wait, yes it does. A lot.
Carol should put her profile at an online dating site.

Its easier for men to "chat her up" online (Option 1); and not feel too bad when Carol rejects their move (Option 3). Essentially, Option 2 becomes a non-option and Carol would have more men approaching her and to choose from.

Anecdotal: I saw this girl online. I considered her "out of my league". But what the heck, I picked Option 1. Now we are engaged. If I had seen her in the real world, I would have picked Option 2.
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Not arbitrary per se. I like having two goals because then I can directly compare the goals when making a decision on what to try to accomplish. It becomes an either-or decision. If I am in the mood to complete something quickly, I can look at both goals and pick the one with the shorter time investment. I actively try to position goals against each other so that they help me stay balanced (e.g. one goal is fitness related, one goal is work related). Having 3 goals tends to introduce too many points of comparison for me.
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