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What's the size of the atmospheric gas industry?

What's the size of the global food industry?

To a rough approximation: everyone who eats must pay for food (at least some of it).

To a rough approximation: nobody who breathes pays for oxygen.

I'm not saying there's no market at all for oxygen, nitrogen, CO2, etc. But that the vast amount of use for these gases is done without the mediation of a market, or the imposition of a market cost or fee.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the industrial gases industry shipped products valued at nearly $9.5 billion in 2007

http://business.highbeam.com/industry-reports/chemicals/indu...

For agriculture, wheat alone accounted for $10.6 billion, corn $48.7 billion, soybeans $32.4 billion.
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The total value of U.S. wheat production in 2009 was $10.6 billion.

As was traditionally the case, in 2009 corn far surpassed other U.S. crops in value at nearly $48.7 billion. For comparison, soybean crops, the second leading field crop, were valued at about $32.4 billion.

http://business.highbeam.com/industry-reports/agriculture/wh...

http://business.highbeam.com/industry-reports/agriculture/co...

Total food expenditures? Somewhere north of $600 billion:

http://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2011-september/food-spen...

Your atmospheric gasses industry represents 1.6% of the value of food spending in the US. And again, virtually nobody who uses oxygen directly actually pays for that privilege. Which is to say: there is no market value.
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That's not what happened here. The problem is that the logic of the validation predicate was broken. In fact, this bug happened after the code had determined the cert was invalid; it just signaled the error improperly.
And the fix:

https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/6aa26f78150cc...
It's LSD, it can go one way or the other. My tip, if you're going to do it, do it. Take a full dose or don't do it at all. Doing "just a bit" is always miserable.

Even when it's bad, if you've got decent people around you, you can keep your shit together. But then if you've got decent people around you, you're unlikely to freak out.
This is how many days after the Female Founders conference? I know it's a portfolio company, not a YC corporate decision, but this is really poor message planning.

edit: Valleywag's already got it http://valleywag.gawker.com/startup-flying-dateable-women-to...
> the only thing I can imagine depresses wages is the fact that it is not easy to jump jobs. However, I can't imagine that creates that much of a wage differential.

In my case I got a 40% raise taking a new job after being laid off from the previous one in a company downsizing. For the H1B in particular the visa is issued for a particular role at a particular company with a prescribed salary. If you want the green card you have to stay in that role for that company at that salary. Everything resets (unless you're at the very end of the process) if you switch employers.
It also specifies the license in their blog post announcing the font.
https://01.org/clear-sans/blogs/gailfrederick/2013/clear-san...
Nice presentation, but the need to stop and read the text breaks the experience. It can be improved so that text could fly alongside the viewer for some time. I.e. so one wouldn't have to stop the flight to read it.
Same here. Licenses really concerns me when it comes to things like this.
I agree with you on alcohol, but what's the problem with coffee? I'm curious because I drink it by the gallon.
How is any of that relevant? The discussion is about carrier grade messaging maximizing connection density per server, not connecting a watch to a pair of sunglasses.
In other literatures, there is a notion of diffusion of responsibility; I haven't read the works that you mentioned, but is such a risk risk mentioned in them?
Again, I'm talking about the "goto fail" one, not this one, in which a simple test of the library against an invalid certificate would have caught at least one case that I recall. And I think it's pretty obvious that "you might erroneously validate a bad certificate" is a bug that's, you know, a given.
People are often clueless about the technical and legal difficulties of proprietary fonts on the web.

A cynic might suggest that this is because of greedy foundries insisting on a rental model for web fonts, sometimes one so complicated that you need lawyers to figure out what you're actually paying for if you sign up. If they'd tried that with print fonts, most of those foundries would never have made it this far.

What really surprises me is how readily the web design industry caved and paid up, particularly given the relatively poor quality of most early web fonts even from the commercial services, and how many of them remain poor even today.

I'm hoping that sooner rather than later, the prevalence of good quality and fully specified free-to-use font families will force a change in the industry. Personally, I'd be happy to pay a reasonable amount for some good professional fonts. In fact, I have, from my own pocket and not any business's, on several occasions. However, I have no interest in locking myself, my businesses or my clients into ongoing payments for fonts when essentially no other stock resources work that way, and even less interest in hiring a lawyer to figure out whether someone's web font licence covers a particular not-entirely-standard use case.
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This becomes similar to the "incubators" that existing pre-2005. The companies would fund startups for 80% equity and give a small amount of money, like 100k. Remember, your accelerator should give you much more than just a seed round.
> And in other words, nobody should be writing anything in C. Ever.

And in other words, nobody should be listening to thrownaway2424. Ever.
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The terms for almost any software redundantly state "no warranty".
With any incubator/ accelerator you should perform due diligence. Have they backed/helped build any successful companies? Talk with some of those founders and ask.

Off the cuff, 50% sounds like a bad idea.
The server can only read arbitrary messages if it changes the runtime that it serves. If it were to serve the wrong runtime to more than a narrowly targeted set of users, it could be detected (by, say, a third party running an automated script to check for changes in the served files).

This also means that targets of interest would have to be identified at time of their use of the service (so as to avoid detection as above) by something other than the content they're sending, whereas a malicious service receiving the plaintext could search through all received plaintext for interesting content without detection.

It would make an attacker expend effort and risk per-target. In a world of mass data collection, that seems valuable for those who aren't targets of particular interest but want to avoid the dragnet.
The first link you provided also brings up several interesting implications about continuous surveillance from space. The first is that it is technically possible, but economically difficult. Getting ~5000 high resolution satellites in LEO is not really all that much more difficult than getting 1, it's a matter of scale. But getting funding to put that number up is virtually impossible. Even smallsats and other swarm approaches lack the physical space for the sensors (which is limited by physics, not technology). This is why air breathing drones are becoming so important. Make no mistake, NASA continuous aircraft programs like Helios have ready applications in surveillance. And from those heights, the sensors don't have to be nearly as large as on an LEO bird.

The second is that receiving data from that many birds is problematic. There are only so many receiving stations and only so much EM bandwidth available for communication and recovery of the images. Even switching to drones doesn't solve the problem. Even as of last year bandwidth was a limiting factor for the number of drones up in the air at once. [1] So now we have two problems, getting birds in the air, and we still have the bandwidth problem for downlink.

Finally, analyzing that much imagery is nearly impossible. Automated algorithms help some with certain tasks, but storage, processing, accessing, then analyzing all of that on a continuous basis is pretty much impossible. So even if getting enough sensors deployed is solved, and getting bandwidth is solved, it doesn't mean there's enough people to physically look at and interpret the results anyway. And storing all that for later instantaneous on-demand retrieval is still a problem nobody's really solved.

1 - http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130331/DEFFEAT02/303310...
> but I'm not sure the market is exactly ready.

Eh, the market wasn't ready for a very expensive SSD-only laptop, or a $500 touch-only phone, or a bigger phone called a tablet.

The market "not being ready" didn't hurt any of those things... Skate to where the puck is going, not where it is now.
it should be a 25% markup, as explained in the article and based on their business model, which is to sell you $20 of bitcoin for a $5 flat fee
I have been an entrepreneur my entire life and I have the exact opposite view.

There are tons of problems more common with younger founders, like...

1. Lack of wealth. Funding is glamorous but it sucks to not be able to move forward without convincing someone else to give you money.

2. Lack of industry knowledge. Disrupting a market is hard when you have no first hand experience in it.

3. Lack of relationships. You're more likely to know more people who can help your business, and who will trust and recommend you, as you age.

4. Limited perspective. It's easier to avoid common mistakes once you've already made them.

5. Lack of credibility. Tech startups are a supposedly a young mans game but if you're not doing a consumer internet venture and are selling to businesses you might run into concerns about your credibility. A lot of people will hesitate to buy a service from a 22 year old.

On the other hand some of the assumptions you make about older founders aren't accurate. I'm in my mid 30s, don't have kids and am in a much stronger financial position (6 figures cash in the bank from years of consulting, fiance with 6 figure job) than I was when I was in my 20s. That enables me to invest in my business without having to go begging for investment. If you choose to have a family and run up an expensive lifestyle there's nothing wrong with that but not everyone 30+ has 3 kids, 2 BMW leases and a $800,000 mortgage.

By the way, coding 18 hours per day is not the way to succeed. Any entrepreneur coding 18 hours per day is doing it wrong.
"Tinkercoin will receive the following info: your public profile, friend list, email address, work history, status updates, education history, hometown and current city."

No thanks.
a simple 60 minutes hack of the spritz javascript files and a simulation of their "convert sentences to words + display times" algo
Yes. It would be unwise to assume that space-based optical interferometry is not currently being done.
Yes, but if you continue reading the start of the very next paragraph addresses this.

>The trial was far too small to be conclusive,
>said Dr. Gasser, whose co-authors include Dr. Doblin,
>Dominique Holstein of UniversityHospital Zurich and Rudolf
>Brenneisen of the University of Bern.

they go on to say that

>“It’s a proof of concept,” Dr. Doblin said.
>“It shows that this kind of trial can be done safely, and >that it’s very much worth doing.”
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which is important. This sort of research all but halted in the mid-60s. In fact, the reason LSD even made it into popular culture can be a credited to the fact that many who tried it in clinical trials liked it enough to take it home a share. Of course, that is a bit of a dump down version, but not too far from the truth.
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Oops, of course ! (Unfortunately, the edit allowed timespan on my comment has expired).

The irony here is that with bacula a similar thing happened.
At a minimum, commonly used security packages should be reviewed and OS distribution maintainers commit to updating to latest versions of said packages regardless of the age of the OS.

For example, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS uses an older version of OpenSSH and OpenSSL. There should be no reason why Ubuntu (and others) can't commit to updating to the latest versions so that features in say OpenSSH 6.5p1 are avail. BTW, saying that you can compile and install this yourself is noted beforehand but honestly, how many people do that on a regular basis?

What I'm getting at is that security software can and should be held to a higher and current standard precisely because it affects so many other pieces of software in fundamental ways. It's not a big deal if the latest version of bc is not installed but it sure is if GnuTLS or OpenSSL is broken.
Feature: *Certificate Validation*
In order to *keep NSA from reading my emai*
As a *TLS X.509 validation library*
I want *to never erroneously validate a certificate*

What are the "Scenarios"?

Given: *???*
And: *???*
When: *???*
Then: *the certificate should be rejected*

Remember, if we're switching topics to the "goto fail" bug: that bug didn't affect every instance of certificate validation. You had to be in a particular set of ciphersuites.
This puts my old boss in a new light. It gives a reason as to why he was running two brands of franchises (Hardee's and Quiznos, how ironic), along with owning who knows how many rental houses. It also explains why everything was broken, and if it wasn't, shitty.
It appears they trademarked the word Go?
I only see using imperial units as an advantage

Out of genuine curiosity, what's the advantage from your point of view, other than being able to communicate to other people who use the same system, at the cost of not being understood by everyone else?

(What I heard in the UK during the supermarket transition to metric a decade ago: imperial uses fractions, which is a useful to grasp for learning children, etc. But I'm surely misquoting so don't worry about this argument)

I am asking because I only come across the imperial system when watching Mythbusters or reading a book about the Space Shuttle, or someone tells me their weight in stones, which always leaves me rather puzzled.

This is just out of curiosity, I'm not trying to work anyone up.
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> If it is commercial, be it closed source or not, an end user's recourse is to sue the supplier (or something similar).

Are there examples of doing this successfully? As far as I can tell, software manufacturers have largely been successful at avoiding traditional product liability for damages caused by malfunctioning software, through a mixture of EULAs and courts buying the "but software is different" argument. Here's an article series on that: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115402/sad-state-software...
This really drives home to me how frustrating it is that Chrome has gotten rid of the OS scrollbar widget on Windows and replaced it with some non-native thing. It's one of several annoyances that are making me think of going back to IE.
Does it help to look at the extreme examples?

1. You take the money and startup fails, investors lose 100k, you lose time. You prob won't realize your failing for longer because you have 100k and so lose more time.

2. You are wildly successful, Lightbank control your company and 50% of everything the business earns for life. The 100k is probably a minimal factor in your success can you live with that?
Even fewer know what TLBs do.
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The DOJ didn't want everyone's mail at Lavabit. It wanted Snowden's mail. The DOJ will feed malicious JS to its targets, and innocuous JS to everyone else.
To be fair, most people rallying against fraud, over-regulation, corruption, <insert-pet-issue-here> in the financial industry generally aren't really hoping that they'll replace all of that with poorly written software.
Yes I am fully aware of the sad state of our industry.
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Yes, high compared to the industry. However if you have no track record and no domain experience you probably won't get into the bigger accelerators. I'd suggest apply and consider their offer. At worst, going through their accelerator could be great experience for you and give you a better chance to get accepted to the famous accelerators down the road.
Well, you could start your own tinkercoin, that would work (even more than once) ;0)

[that was supposed to be jovial rather than facetious, hope it worked out]
... then why is it ok for facebook to have all of that same information ?
goto statements are not necessarily a bad practice. Many people have heard the title from a famous letter by Dijkstra, 'Go-to statement considered harmful' (see https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD215.PDF). In it he argues against the unrestricted use of goto statements making control flow hard to follow. The title is catchy and stuck in the collective computer science consciousness. It lead to all kinds of 'X considered harmful' articles.

In response to Dijkstra's letter, Knuth wrote the article 'Structured Programming with go to Statements' (http://cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/CS185C/KnuthStructuredProgrammingGoT...). He defends certain uses of goto, such as error exits.
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Neat concept, I rather enjoy the website design. However when I'm looking for reaction gif, I use the album I've bookmarked on IMGUR which is already hand curated by Reddit.

http://reactiongifsarchive.imgur.com/
Although this clip isn't from Seinfeld, the topic certainly did arise there. In addition to the episode cglace (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341503) mentions, which I don't remember, there was an episode where George showed Jerry that, given any address, he could name the nearest public bathroom.
".. we have to make up mental models and see if they match up to the tiny shreds of hard evidence that actually feel real. The mental models provided by mathematics are extremely helpful when trying to make sense of these vast distances, but still... Abstraction is pretty unsatisfying"

Abstraction is where our imagination lights up, where we make art and fall in love and build things. These empty spaces, it's where we find that these brains that evolved to escape Jaguars and find food, are actually pretty amazing in themselves.
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The most prominent researcher in LSD therapy was Stan Grof. Look up his books - they are the definitive material for psychiatric work using psychedelics. There are experiences in the books that will blow your mind. I believe he was head of the psychiatry department at Johns Hopkins, before this research was shut down.

However, it is interesting that he now appears to be a proponent of meditation and other methods, as far as I know. He teaches an interesting technique called holotropic breathing which aims to replicate the benefits without the risk.

I think a prominent meditation teacher summed it up best when he said that psychedelics can lead to a powerful opening, but they are not a path.
Seems like a terrible deal to me. If your idea is any good, I'm sure you'll find 100K via AngelList or so as a convertible note. Giving up 50% to an incubator is unheard of. Incubators are great, but there is only so much they can help you with. Startups are filled with uncertainty and you may need more funding later on. And if you have already given up 50%, you are gonna find it real difficult to raise more capital.
Did the mushrooms help?
You are carefully omitting that broadcasters are distributing their content over public airwaves, a right that they have only been granted to first and foremost serve the public interest. Relevant regulations forbid them from, for example, encrypting their content (despite proven commercial solutions; we wouldn't be having this discussion if they could).

So we are in the peculiar situation that broadcasters have to simultaneously restrict access to their content to make money from it, while satisfying FCC regulation that forces them to make it available such as to serve the public interest. That's a Rube Goldberg contraption of a business model if I've ever seen one: it requires the government to continue its practice of giving broadcasters a practically free distribution channel, while relying on lobbyism and legal threats to make the government forget about the public mandate.
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"Improved the certificate generation stuff."
Agreed, it's pretty sad to see. Unfortunately, politics is a lot about posturing and little about principles.
of course you could go "the producers" route, sell 50% for 100k then make such a balls up of it that it doesn't go any further than that initial funding. Take your $100k and use it to fund your own startup.
;)
I've run it a zillion times. That's not the point, and that doesn't solve the problem. The point is per goroutine configurable stack sizes.
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I honestly can't think of a less relevant technology sales channel. Out of curiosity I walked into one not all that long ago and honestly didn't see a single thing in there I was interested in buying except for a few oddball radio receivers I really wouldn't have a use for. And everything cost more than I could get online or down the street at another store.

It's a shame because I do remember going there in the 80s to get computer odds and ends and TVs and such. But the RadioShack store format, intended to sell radio parts and other do-it-yourself odds and ends hasn't been able to keep up with the more disposable consumer electronics of today.

Hell, they didn't even have Arduino kits or robotics sets I could have made a case for.
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Testing error handling is sadly uncommon. Lots of programmers simply run the code in the success case and call it good. Even those who write automated tests only write tests for the success case. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the author of this code either didn't test invalid certificates at all, or only tested them briefly in a way that just happened not to trigger the bug.
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