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"In very brief terms: machine code is much faster, but bytecode is more portable and secure."

Does anyone else have trouble with that statement?

Maybe it should read "bytecode is more portable and is easier to secure." ?

Java is what, 20 years old and based on bytecode and despite Sun/Oracle's efforts still has security problems.
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That's the entire selling point of the Nest, the online smart connectedness thingy. Remote control & machine learning to avoid spending 30 seconds programming a thermostat.
Shipping binaries on Linux is nearly impossible on a long term support basis.

FatELF would of addressed at least some of these problems, but was largely rejected by the larger community of people not shipping proprietary products on Linux:
https://icculus.org/fatelf/
In the bay area, do look at sonic.net; there are real limitations to their last mile connectivity (ADSL line shared including in Remote Terminals, or ADSL2 from Central Offices, and a couple small Fiber installs), but they have very good connectivity once you get in.

I could rant about network neutrality... Comcast may not be (and probably isn't) doing anything to degrade Netflix's ability to stream to you; but they're probably also not making as many upgrades to peering or transit capacity as they could for that traffic.
But asm.js is a bytecode, isn't it? Just with a clever-but-weird encoding that allows a backward compatibility.

In a same manner, one can deliver, for example, an x86 bytecode in JS-encoded form. Just encode opcodes as, say, "eax = 1" instead of "\xB8\x01\0\0\0".
They also hate competition from netflix more than from the others you mention, it's a more complete replacement for their video offerings.

So they've never actually browsed Netflix's offering then, huh? Because it's hardly stellar or offers much in the way big-ticket items that compete with anything Comcast shows in their on-demand or via cable channels.
Stallman advocates for a utopia in which software is developed by the masses for enjoyment and individual utility.

Programmers are expected to work other jobs to subsidize their hobby. IIRC he also suggested that they could sell copies of their software on physical media, but this is irrelevant in the bittorrent era.

He acknowledges that realization of the FSF's goals would most likely end the phenomenon of professional developers and is perfectly okay with this.

It's somewhere on the Philosophy section of the gnu project's website. It's late, but I'll find the specific link later.
You need to wait a bit, just bought a honey bee. Will sell honey and raking in the millions. This is my eco-friendly MVP.
If that does not work we pivot with your herring. And make fish. While listening to your free speech and all.

I think herring is a fish.
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Once a female security officer in Amsterdam airport made loud, snide remarks about how I arranged cables and stuff in my laptop bag. That by itself was very annoying, imagine being called off in front of all people like a criminal for no fault of theirs!
Ask HN: I don't know how to raise money. How should I?
Throwaway.

I don't know how to raise money.

What's a first time entrepreneur with a solid technical & business background, tons of experience, a working product in the hands of soon-to-be-paying B2B customers supposed to do to get started raising money?

I have a MVP plus product, a handful of beta B2B customers--some decent brand names--and some that will probably convert to paying customers in the next few month--talking about a few hundred to a couple thousand dollars a month per customer.

I've read Paul Graham's "How to Raise Money" [0]. I read the same from others' blogs: Don't raise unless you know you need the money. I know I need it to scale and grow quickly.
Still, I don't know how to go about raising it!

I've spent years as a developer and product manager. I have a solid MBA. Something a little different? I'm in my late 30's, have a spouse and kids and am leaving a cushy corporate job.

How do I go about raising money? Cold-call angles/VC's and ask to meet over a coffee? Go to start-up competitions? Apply to an incubator? I thought about applying to YC but think I don't fit the demographic (age and family) and I don't have a co-founder.

How do I start? Are there specific advisers out there that help with this? Some book or blog post I haven't come across yet?

When should I start raising money? I've heard I should give myself a 6-month run-way, but I can't put my business on hold while I do that. BTW, having a co-founder is starting to make sense for this one reason now.

How much should I raise? I've heard an estimate of (monthly need x 18 months) and I've also read that I should just guess [1].

How do I start? And then what do I do next?

0 - bit.ly/1iSAUvB

1 - http://read.bi/1dqtJcD

EDIT: Fixed formatting
Why do you think that you would have to explain to your parents every single link you visit? Surely parents will use their discretion, just as they do with every other decision their child makes.

There is a difference between the government-citizen surveillance and parent-child surveillance.
>Dogecoin has value, like any currency, because a number of people believe it does.

In Doge we trust.
Machine code is over 50 years old and still has security problems.
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Not a 'hacker' judge. Ugh.
It already costs money, it's just that the money is coming from the taxpayer rather than the people that actually use expensive corn products.
Any reasonable measure of transaction volume should be measured in a stable currency like dollars...and BTC is the leader, far and away here...
Good! The people that use corn (even if indirectly) should have to pay for it rather than taxpayers.
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What will humans eat?
None of the ones that have shipped already are installed like browser plug-ins. The ones Netflix deploys (PlayReady on Windows 8.1 with IE11 and Widevine on Chrome OS with Chrome) are bundled with operating systems and work with the browsers (one per OS) bundled with those operating systems.
> However, you can't get away with a lot of ignoring unhappy people if you sell them expensive consumer gadgets that don't work properly. They'll do things like returning the item (substantial overheads for you even if it's in resaleable condition) or charging back the purchase fee if you don't make a return reasonably easy (more immediate overheads, and if you develop a pattern of this happening it's going to hurt your long-term overheads with the card companies as well).

People keep saying that, but is it really true? People buy lots of things from companies famous for terrible customer service all the time. I understand wanting it to be true, for sure...
It's more like gold vs a chocolate coin.
What was DOGE first at?

People love it because it started as a joke that they themselves were in on. And then the joke became real.
No, asm.js is a JS subset. "bytecode" as boosted here would be a non-subset, like JVML to Java source.

Sure, bits is bits. Doesn't matter if you're after gzipped good results. But bytecode hopes spring eternal and the hopers do not want gzipped, minified, Emscripten-produced asm.js. They want a different syntax.
> Richard A. Clarke, an official in the Clinton and Bush administrations who served as one of the five members of the advisory panel, explained the group’s reasoning in an email last week, saying that “it is more important that we defend ourselves than that we attack others.”

Pretty frightening that such things apparently still need to be said.
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>There are clearly effects on everyone who might be nearby when you're smoking.

I don't think this is true. It only applies when indoors and probably for a very long period of time (ie living with the person, not just being at a restaurant.) Furthermore you can ban public smoking indoors as many places do, that's not the same as a tax.

>In the event that you're covered by any sort of public health insurance, which is nearly certain in old age with Medicare and increasingly probable at younger ages, then the effects on your own health become a problem for everyone else.

This is a problem with public healthcare, not smoking.
Nice problem, made me come back to projecteuler! I hadn't solved anything for 3 years.
I've been using the beta since it came out and have loved the way the app has grown. I'm really interested in seeing its potential in conferences or large towns.

It's small and well focused, they've opened some code from it and seem to be doing a good job of being active in chat. Give it a try.
If anyone actually believed the argument we should tax smokers because of externalities, upon hearing this fact they would immediately say "we should tax non-smokers!"
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If I want to chat with people nearby, I would go up, come to them and start chatting with them. In person.

...just kidding, I am an asocial person, I don't speak with other people.
https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/pull/52

That was fixed.
Doesn't seem to get exchanged much though, huh
Agree with this. The best manager I have had (in an engineering consultancy) used to be on the tools, but refused to do any more 'real work'. Instead he spent all of his time managing the team of ~30. Eventually upper management decided he needed to do 'real work', and it didn't work out.

What I've noticed with technical people who come into a management role, is that they're either able to put down the tools, or they aren't. If they aren't able to step away, they're functionally useless as a manager, because they spend all their time down squirrel holes, ignoring the management stuff.

Management is an art, and the benefits a good manager provides often seem intangible, but are nevertheless extremely valuable. I still miss the leadership and people management skills of that good manager today, and it hurts to think we traded everything he provided for the assumption that he should have spent x hours doing technical work, much less efficiently than the people he was managing. Sigh...
If I see a github with 30+ solved Project Euler problems, 99% chance it becomes a hire.
how about percentage? Bitcoin 5%, Dogecoin 110%
>There are some economic/social theories that suggest homelessness is an adequate and necessary deterrent to poverty.

Is the implication here that if homeless didn't exist, it would actually be ok to tax/punish poverty? Otherwise why even bring that up?
We should stockpile modems. It seems we're going to need them...
HTTP Proxys can be transparent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server#Transparent_proxy

The way to get around transparent proxies is to use HTTPS btw.
it's very easy to use. Hmmm, contains many functions. it's a fantastic tool to help organize life
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An unembarrassed Putin is a safe Snowden, which is all that matters at this point :)
I pay myself in Euros.
Whoa, ethereum. What kind of setup do I want to start mining ether from the start?
> Mother. Mother knows everything.

I guess it's "Big mother is watching you" then.
I'm president of local Toastmasters club in SF - I strongly agree with this comment ;).

But seriously, it's a very supportive environment and you get great, actionable feedback on every speech. Really fast way to develop yourself.
Can someone help me out, is Data Science the new term replacing Business Intelligence (BI) or is this just an extension of BI.
when I needed to take some pills the combination of a smartphone reminder prompt to take pills, making part of my morning routine and pillbox divided by day (which mostly helped me remember if I'd already taken them) worked for me.

My grandmother who, like many older people takes many different pills, gets an advanced version of the pillbox direct from the pharmacy, with all her various pills combined into a giant blister pack according to her own schedule for taking them.
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The concern is also about needing to hire two different people all the time. It slows down the workflow so much.. it's way easier to have one person in charge of it and being able to design, hack and tweak it as the projects evolve.
Why not? Why judges are not for the public to pick? This puzzles me a lot lately, there's no democracy where Judges are picked by the population, although it's one of the main 3 powers of the state which should be itself accountable.
Same story here. I was often delayed by 45 minutes or more. Basically, I as a native-born American citizen with no criminal record (and ironically, worked for the DoD at one time), could not board a plane without the express permission of the government such that I was delayed while waiting for that permission. Everyone I was traveling with was allowed to go on, I was stuck behind. It was a real source of difficulty for me for a few years. At some point it went out of sight, though I still received special treatment at the border for a while.

Consequently, I have a pretty negative view of the "no-fly" lists. Anyone sufficiently dangerous to put on the list is sufficiently dangerous to be arrested. Anything short of that is an obvious lack of due process.
Given that you've got some emotional disposition against "feminists" and "liberals" [1], I don't think I'm going to buy your implicit effort to try to represent women. There are plenty of women who believe gender is an issue worth thinking about, whereas you seem to have no problem telling people to just "ignore" it because you're personally comfortable ignoring it.

I don't think marketing tech to women or girls is "the solution" either, but I don't make every effort to steer other men away from thinking about it and slur people for trying. That's intellectually malicious.

A part of me doesn't actually believe you're a woman, given how many men put effort into anonymously impersonating women in political debates, but I lean toward believing you

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7041037
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Stories like this annoy me. I get why it's news, new flu strains are always a possible rerun of 1918. But still.

Tens of thousands of people die every year from flu, mostly elderly people. But now 17 mostly young people have died, it's more newsworthy.

It's kinda like they're suggesting that once you're 65, your life really doesn't matter much any more.
What is "age," practically, other than the accretion of responsibilities?

I don't think any of the people who worry about being impacted by ageism are speaking about age per se. They're more concerned with... let's call it "overtime-ism": a strong bias in favor of people who will be willing to work overtime. The video-game industry, Japanese megacorporation culture, and a large segment of silicon valley are all afflicted with overtime-ists, which seems to have a good overlap with where allegations of "ageism" are aimed.
You seem to think that "the Open Web" doesn't mean the part of the Web that's freely implementable but the part of the Web that uses W3C-specified tech. What makes you think that?

Wouldn't it be more logical to say something like, for the first time in the history of the W3C, the W3C publishes a non-Open Web spec? Or something like that.
This link may be helpful: https://www.hackerrank.com/environment

Also, you can usually find information about that kind of stuff in their IRC or even e-mail. They are usually pretty responsive.
When it all comes crashing down is when they'll be illuminated.
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They would have called this little sister, they would avoid so much of tastelessness surrounding their current branding...that put apart, what it's doing is already 50% doable by current smartphones + an arm band eventually (alarm , podometry, sleep control), and the other things it's trying to solve doesn't seem to be solved in a reliable enough fashion.

You'll have to update your coffee capsule count every time you buy them. Buying new packs when the opening the last set of capsule is ny far the easiest way to manage I think.

You'll have to put the sensor on every bottle you drink.

If you care that much about toothbrushing, buy an electric toothbrush. A timer will be integrated telling you when you pass the 2 pr 3 min mark.

Central temperature management would need a programmable device anyway, you'll basically need a Nest I guess.

At the end, It doesn't seem so easy to use in practice, it will forward every life information to an external server, and half of what it does is better solved an other way.
Haiku actually seems to be trying to be something very different.

The BeFS filesystem's use of metadata / extended attributes for one, very multi-threaded core libraries and GUI for others. The kernel is also different giving the OS a very different feel.

The goals for Haiku have always seemed around desktop performance unlike most *nix derivatives which either balance other workloads or focus on servers.

NodeOS could offer something different, but what they have mentioned so far doesn't seem that interesting (then again I am not a Node or javascript developer).
People will give different reasons but there is really only one true reason once you get to the heart of the matter:

"You don't trust yourself"

All the reasons you see listed in this thread are rationalisations your mind comes up with to trick yourself. When you think of them logically, they are pretty trivial.

Through our upbringing, we are taught to listen to others. That our ideas and opinions must be suppressed because it could make others feel bad. After years of this brainwashing we start to believe it deep down. Watch children. They just say things and do things without thinking. They are acting naturally. They don't worry if something isn't going to work out. They just do it. "Excuse" doesn't exist in their vocabulary.

You used to be like this. And you can train yourself to be like this again.

If you're interested in trying to overcome these obstacles, I've put together a course relating to these topics as it relates to programming. It's available at https://www.programmingspiritually.com
Some routers found to be listening on undocumented port
The 100 Apple employees Google just acquired by buying Nest
Chrome for Linux indeed comes with libwidevinecdm.so, but still, Netflix is not letting the Chrome on desktop Linux play content even though Netflix allows Chrome OS to play content.

So that libwidevinecdm.so isn't particularly useful to Linux users.
I get where you're going with this, but I personally find a grid framework and CodeKit auto-reload to be a better way to do mockups in most cases. It's nicest with two monitors; I make changes on my screen and we can both look together at the changes in the browser.

I don't really care about having a nice color picker when punching in a value into Less is so easy (and if I really want something visual I use either http://colourco.de or http://colorschemedesigner.com/ . I don't care about shapes because I'm working in the grid. I get what I need, faster and cleaner, than screwing around in Photoshop.
I think there are plenty here.
Flickr and Amazon Glacier. Currently looking for a third cloud option (although not trying hard).
What's going on in here? I don't get the negativity. I think the branding is great, and I realized the function of the product immediately. Also I think they presented it in a funny way (programmable mother). It's obvious that it doesn't 'know everything', that was a joke. It has simple sensors and you can collect data from those, there's nothing scary about that. The product is interesting, but however not useful at least for me.
The DHS should rebrand as the “Department of Humiliation as a Service”. And, aliens get this service for free, courtesy of the generous US tax payer.
I guess that changes problem slightly. Different criterions are chosen when taking actions. E.g.:
Can I eat it? No - too big. No - smells bad. Two inputs - one output. Can I mate with it? No - smells bad. No - too weak.

While being human you might have much more sophisticated criterions and first criterion might be "is it human?". Most probably how it smells and how big it is will not be enough.
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Java applets, Java is just a language/VM. Applets as an implementation is the issue.

But yeah, your main point stands.
The reason for the negative reactions is that Nest was marketed strongly to Apple fans (e.g. originally sold exclusively via the Apple store), targets a particularly geeky section of that audience and it was bought by their biggest rival.

It's similar to the reaction when a promising young athlete switches to the big rival sportsteam, and the responses are similarly emotional rather than logical.
There's numerous reasons why this is a bad idea.

There's a difference between a fixed width layout and an absolute positioned layout - the fixed width layout can adapt.

The biggest issue with absolute positioned layouts (as with design for print) is they can only scale, but not adapt to the various resolutions and pixel densities we encounter on clients viewing websites.

Web design is first most the design of a pattern of design in order to achieve consistency via reuse. If everything has fixed dimensions; it wouldn't be very reusable.

On the topic of using JavaScript to perform the layout:

1. JavaScript performance in newer browsers are pretty good, but ranging from extremely to pretty bad on older browsers (don't forget the mobiles!)

2. You'll have to resort to using CSS anyway for specific layouts (ex. keeping an element always visible) as repositioning an element on streaming events using JavaScript tends to be really slow.

3. The amount of reuse you'll get from even writing a decent interface for layout functions will be pretty low.

4. Behavior of CSS using a reset is more consistent than JavaScript implementations. You'll probably need to normalize between different browser versions - that means using something like jQuery, Moo Tools etc. which adds a hefty payload.

5. Waiting for your JavaScript to be downloaded and interpreted to reposition elements (after the DOM has already rendered) will be an ugly sight.

You should invest time in pre-processors such as Stylus, Less or SCSS (you can write reusable mixins that you can include on different projects and use variables to customize them). If you haven't, you should read up on object-oriented CSS: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/12/an-introductio...
If performance was dominated by database IO, why use Pypy at all?
You can't really change package managers (or at least the package format) on a linux distro effectively without installing a new OS.

Yum and apt-get could be replaced as these are front ends, but trying an in place conversion of rpm to dpkg would be extremely difficult.
If Apple wanted to, they could write their own implementation of the non-DRM parts of swf. Mozilla is doing this in Shumway. Apple did this for PDF.

Of course, just like you aren't allowed to interoperate with an EME CDM without permission, you aren't allowed to interoperate with the DRM part of Flash (called Adobe Access) without permission. (Or the DRM part Silverlight called PlayReady, which, unsurprisingly, Moonlight does not clone.)
> Java is what, 20 years old and based on bytecode and despite Sun/Oracle's efforts still has security problems.

Sun/Oracle's implementation has security problems.

There are lots of Java VMs and compilers to choose from.
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This is their way of not taking any responsibility and blaming the customer. This also happened to many others including me. You can check these HN threads.

HN Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6447152
Blog Post: http://serdardogruyol.com/?p=137