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Sorry if a repost, I could not find original if it exist. I found this interesting, and more startups / companies can use these sort of planning with risk assessment and plans of actions given different scenarios.
If "performance is a consideration", then don't encrypt everything
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Interesting model for software distribution ($xx per month access paywall to source code, leveraging GitHub private repository). It's crossed my mind for smaller-scope projects.

Not sure if this will 'break the spirit' of GitHub and open source, but the next logical feature the GH team could do to accommodate this model more effectively would be to implement a "subscription button" users can click on to instantly get access. The fee is then tacked-on to the user's GH account (some of whom will already have their credit card on file), which is then distributed back to the repo owner less a small commission.
Often times you can get beer delivered from your home if you order pizza delivered as well and tell them to tell the driver that you'll tip him well for some beer. It's not economical so it's really not a good option unless you want the pizza anyway and I think the legality is typically questionable at best (liquor/beer laws vary greatly state to state).

You can also often order delivery from grocery stores (Amazon Fresh and Instacart well known for this, but in my experience most grocery stores run their own delivery businesses that you can ask about.) If the grocery store is permitted to sell beer (they are not in some states, such as Pennsylvania) then they will typically happily deliver you beer if your total order is over a certain dollar amount (typically $50 or so).

Also, just about anywhere that beer is sold in the US, you can get a keg delivered to you. Of course most people don't want a keg unless they're having a party.
Such a great buildup, only to completely miss the point. The adoption of computers at a large-scale didn't happen through some magic invention and science breakthrough right before the "revolution". The magic part was the invention of the transistor, everything after that was diligent and relentless steady work to morph it into an affordable piece of consumer gear.

That's exactly what the battery factory will do. That is what Tesla is doing: they are going the long way, not dismissing the technology while waiting for a black swan to appear at the end of a rainbow that will save them. Because there won't be one.
Other people have probably seen this use before, but this is the first time I've seen rap genius embedded and used for something other than lyrics.

I'm blown away, it's fantastic.
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Sadly, the problem with physical books isn't in the ones that are purchased, but the ones that aren't.

Publishers print massive amounts of books in the hopes that they will sell. The majority of these sit in warehouses and never see daylight, and are then recycled. Some make it out to stores, and then get returned to the publisher, and recycled.

We have a viable alternative to print books, why don't we just find a way to improve those to the point that people don't want the printed material anymore.

I think the opportunity, truly, is in discovery. I still, sadly, go into bookstores to find what I want to buy, and then go buy the digital version. I wish there was something as good as browsing a bookstore, but there isn't. It would be great if I could go to the bookstore, if I download a book from within their location, they get a cut.
Impending ? My local ASDA (Wal-Mart) has had electric car charging points for a year now. There are about 50 such equipped ASDA stores throughout the UK. Looking at the map, they are less than 50 miles apart and many of them open 24hrs.

http://your.asda.com/news-and-blogs/electric-car-drivers-can...

Formula 1 is quite popular in the UK and that sport now has hybrid engine technology with 160 horse power of electric motor waiting at the press of a button, charged by the kinetic harvesting of the vehicle and the turbo powered 1.6 litre petrol engine. They complete the 200 mile race with only 130 litres of fuel.

Electric cars are here and in the public eye.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/25158104
Last time was SSH, not SSL. Still crypto, but different beasts.
There's the Fiat 500e which you can lease pretty reasonably in california - though I think the range is pretty short (more comparable to the leaf). At least it looks a lot better than the leaf though.
O(N) brute force algorithms (almost) never beat hashing. O(log(N)) tree-based algorithms sometimes do, because it’s easier to get good data locality out of them when the queries have some temporal relation.
I would object less to the term "witch hunt" which you're right has become idiomatic. But that's not the term that was used. The term used was "Salem Witch Trials".

Additionally, I still think there is a qualitative difference between "this person is bad because they're a member of a group we don't like" and "this person is bad because they did a real destructive thing."
The image linked in the comment above comes from Konami's Current Gen/Next Gen comparison page for Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes: http://www.konami.jp/mgs5/gz/en/products/compare.php5
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I would browser hacker news or reddit all day. It's quite stimulating
"In 13,000 hours I have had to wrestle with the consequences of O(n) complexity"

then maybe you're not solving very challenging problems.
Sorry it was perhaps a bit abrupt.

Many people often feel that something's wrong with life or something is missing. A little voice in their heads comes up and says "maybe if I had X that'd fix it", or "maybe if I was Y I'd be happy". In fact, I'm coming to realise (as all the books I've read over the years have been saying) that it's the thinking that is the whole problem. In fact it's not a case of just intellectually accepting this idea that's important. We can go deeper.

Where does the voice come from? What is this thing called "I" that is blindly followed? It would appear it is just another thought. The mind is just a stream of thoughts and "I" is just another one. It has no substance, no reality.

It seems that the only thing that does exist is the present, so just ignore the past and future. The more you are able to ignore the voice in your head (and it's much easier when you see it has no reality) the more you start to tingle, literally. You (well I don't know about you, but I) feel amazing. Satisfied and replete.

So to conclude, what I was getting at was that maintaining the belief that you need to "improve" somehow, or be "better" just adds more fuel to the fire and keeps the mind spinning, distracting us from the present and ever experiencing that fulfilling feeling.
My thoughts exactly. I have the book sitting on my desk right now!
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>Florian Weimer dixit:

>Historically, the OpenSSL command line tools have been intended for debugging only.

This seems rather out-of-touch with reality.
Joe who used to work at Ft. Meade – totally stand-up patriot! – is a senior employee in the company's operations department. He is served the compulsory process, and it is implied that under the process, he should not tell anyone else at the company, including superiors and company counsel. In fact, the senior executives may have even tacitly employed Joe for this role for this very purpose: he's been pre-vetted by the security state.

That's not quite a 'black bag' job. Nor is it completely legitimate. It's something in-between, which most of the time lets everyone work under convenient fictions, getting on with the rest of their jobs.
Note that it's not free (as in speech) software, nor is it free to use for commercial projects. Just a PSA, I don't think there's any point in discussing the pros and cons of that; not that I can stop anyone.
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As someone who has used Bloomberg's Terminal for 5 years: Bloomberg's sum of the parts product is far more valuable than the parts sold one by one - add to that the immediate top-knotch customer support 24/7/365 and breadth/depth of the data they have, Bloomberg is a killer product. IMHO, I really doubt any product decoupling will be of value to any of Bloomberg's current customers.
...this is why one uses servers setup by hand on real, dedicated machines instead of five-level-virtualized piles of dung heap. Not unless the dung heap has refined over the course of a couple years.</rant>

Thanks for the link, it'll be a night lecture for me for some weeks, I can tell :)
I see that several people (even in this thread, which you'd expect better of) still expressing the prevalence of incoherent and inconsistent-with-reality beliefs about /dev/random and /dev/urandom.

This quote in particular struck me as very strange.

> From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>

> To: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>

> Cc: 742145@bugs.debian.org

> Subject: Re: openssl: uses only 32 bytes (256 bit) for key generation

> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:33:10 +0100

>

> * Thorsten Glaser:

>

> >>Historically, the OpenSSL command line tools have been intended for

> >>debugging only.

> >

> > I disagree,

>

> It's what I was told by the OpenSSL developers.

>

> > Also, what do other tools (that do not invoke openssl(1)

> > unlike most of these I saw, which were shell wrappers

> > around it) do, entropy-wise?

>

> There are different choices. Some use more bits from /dev/urandom,

> some even block on /dev/random. The latter is quite problematic for

> non-interactive key generation during package isntallation.

1. I would doubt most actually block on /dev/random, but why? /dev/urandom
should be Good Enough For Everyone, except in very narrow circumstances. But why
isn't someone with a firm grasp of crypto setting a safe default? Why are
implementers and consumers of these components making these choices of entropy
size ("some use more bits") and underlying sources ("some even block..."). This
is ridiculous, I don't trust the average developer to make safe choices in this
respect. Why is it okay? This is incoherent. Either OpenSSL has safe defaults,
or it doesn't. Leaving it up to consumers to do it correctly is giving up - and
leads me to believe it's done unsafely by default.

2. The inconsistency alluded to by referring to non-interactive key generation
and "some even block on" startles me. I don't know why developers think blocking
on key generation is generally safer, but if they do, why are other (perhaps the
same?) developers sacrificing that safety when generating keys on package
installation for the sake of user experience? If /dev/random is safer, it should
be used, and if not, it shouldn't be (because of the blocking issue.) The lack
of guidance from crypto-savvy developers is deeply concerning.
re: potholes

You already have millions of internet connected (gps localized) accelerometers on the roads daily. If you could convince enough drivers to record/report that information you'd have a decent map of any rough spots.
I can't help feeling that there's just too much in this RFS and that much of it lies beyond the expertise of YC. The lack of focus means that the only message I can take away is that YC wants fewer frivolous startups. SpaceX and Tesla are fine for inspiration but they have absolutely exceptional funding - no YC company is going to have access to those opportunities. I'm all for ambition but I don't see how this RFS is realistic.
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I wonder if it was in the way you phrased it? Part-time work is commonplace in non-skilled industries, and for consultants in skilled industries. It's not common but certainly present in skilled industries. I imagine it's highly dependent on the type of work you do; part-time work coding for a non-core project would probably be more acceptable than part-time work as a client account manager, for example.
Last I checked, the 60s were more than 20 years ago.
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No, probable is probable. I'm happy to talk about unlikely corner cases, in an appropriate sidebar. I think anyone pushing them as a primary talking point has their priorities misaligned and is tilting at windmills.
At least in the tech community, "crowdfunded" usually means "crowdfunded using voluntary contributions".
Oh, God....
1. Telsa isn't building the Factory themselves. It actually Panasonic, which is currently the sole producer for Telsa Motor's battery, are PLANNING to build a Giant factory in partnership with Telsa.

2.Mass Manufacturing will bring down battery cost? No, Batteries are ALREADY being mass manufactured, and the margin on batteries are thin. very thin.

3.As much as everyone like Telsa and likes to fantasize the idea. Telsa are NO expect in battery technology. Panasonic, Sony are.

4. Batteries, due to the possible explosive nature, require a hell a lot of safety testing before it could be put to use. So basically any new battery invention you read now wont come into consumers hand for at least about 3-4 years. And that is already a unrealistic assumption of everything going straight forward and smoothly.

5. So no new battery tech coming. How about Lithium-ion? Well i can assure you Panasonic has been pushing this tech and incremental improvement are still on the roadmap. Just not the big 2 - 3 x improvement you would expect.

6. Lithium, as it stands today, isn't (yet) a variable solution to EV. A lot of articles will claim it is abundance, but that is the same as Hydrogen. It is the process is getting it. The largest Lithium reserve in the world, in Bolivia, while enough to sustain the EV uses, isn't producing any Lithium simply because the cost of extraction is multiple times higher.

That is why many producers like Toyota, and Nissan, or even GM say EV isn't a variable alternative yet. Not because they are paid by Oil Salesman as much as you want to believe. They love alternative energy as well, be it Hydrogen or Battery Powered Cars. It is the current battery isn't up to it. And even the expert in the battery field dont have anything in sight they could look forward to.
I'm surprised to see that I'm not the only one using the, rather arbitrary, #ccffaa.
If I were in your shoes, I would frame the rest of the time as professional development, which is likely a positive sign that might convince them to give you high rates that at times grow.

"I aim for about 25 hours/week of client work so I have plenty of time for professional development and personal projects where I can focus on learning instead of delivering the best results for my clients."

If phrased right, you can make it sound like you're already an expert at what you're doing for them, which is why you don't necessarily learn as much from it, so it's important to spend time honing your skills in new areas so you can expand your offerings.
It would be nice if you collect email addresses so that you could inform interested individuals(that's me!) when the final version is released.
The hackers referred to in the post and the hackers you're referring to... well, tramps aren't always tramps.
The truth is, no (decent) company will reject you because you asked high but reasonably high. For some people it might mean that 'hey he must be good, if can asks that much and has no problem with employment!'. Social proof goes a loooong way. So don't worry.

Personally, I research what is a 'standard' pay in that geographical area and then add ~15%. Nothing to lose, a few thousands to win :)
How many CEOs view their interests as separate and opposed to their home-country security services? That's who protects them from terrorism, sabotage, blackmail, and kidnapping! A corporate infosec policy that keeps out everyone except a few quasi-official security-state moles may be exactly what they want. Earn brownie points, avoid paper trails, "everyone" wins.

Probably, helping the security-state even makes keeping other security threats out, easier: if you play ball, they want their secret, exclusive access to be unique. They fortify the holes behind them, and can use their many, many vantage points to warn you about other emerging threats. Otherwise, you're on your own.

Do you want to be friends with the best-funded, legally-advantaged infosphere apex predator, or enemies?
Wired, do the right thing and print this one, too.
I am assuming that this

> After the hearing, De said that the same knowledge, and associated legal processes, also apply when the NSA harvests communications data not from companies directly but in transit across the internet, under Section 702 authority.

doesn't imply that Facebook is informed when an "upstream collection" request is made to a telco in relation to a Facebook user, but rather that the telco is. It's pretty unclear though.
Also - isn't 256 bits (32 bytes) enough entropy? Is the post about a lack of bytes or bits? Can anyone weigh in?
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I'd like to think my last startup was a breakthrough technology startup. We were building software, not sending things into space, so weren't nearly so capital intensive, but went through several iterations (discovering breakthroughs is research, and research takes time!), had some near-death experiences, and didn't have a compelling product for 5 or so years. However, fundamental advances are incredibly valuable, and things changed quickly once we got there. I think this is a great model for startups, esp. if you have propensity for technology development. However, it can be hard to fund. I agree, the OP seems unrealistic.
No. If someone runs at me bleeding, saying they were shot, I call 911. I don't particularly need to hear the other side of the story. I would hope the courts listen to both sides, but in day to day life I think it's fine to make judgement calls about when you trust people.

I suspect you trust people all the time, but you don't feel comfortable trusting a person in this specific kind of situation.
I'm praying for a lucky roll on those dice!

That is weird that people couldn't understand that it would be very easy for them to learn a lot about you and how you could work with them, long before any face to face meeting.

In fact I've had several contract projects where I never even met my clients in person - or met them at a conference after the project was finished.

And yes, of course, if there is anything of value in how I approached things, please feel free to lift any ideas. My LinkedIn and other links are in my profile here.

My email is in my profile too - if you'd like to meet up while you're here, or just run any ideas by me, please feel free to give me a shout. Since you have the travel expense, lunch or dinner is on me. And I can't claim any promise of expertise. If nothing else, I can be a pretty good rubber duck:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

Also let me share a personal stereotype. I can't be too far off on this even if it is a stereotype, since I've lived here for over 40 years.

When you say SF, if you mean the city of San Francisco, my feeling is that it is very youth-oriented up there. 20-somethings who work at Google way down here in Mountain View live in SF because that's where the hip culture is. (I don't mean that as a term of disrespect, I think hip culture is cool.)

As you travel down the Peninsula, people get older. By the time you get down to Silicon Valley in the far South Bay, you're in the land of hardware hackers where no one really cares how old you are.

Here in the Menlo Park and Palo Alto area, you've got a real mix. Little hardware/biotech shops where young and old all work together, and of course Facebook down at the end of Willow Road, where a 35-year-old developer would stick out like a sore thumb!

As I said, this is a total stereotype, but I think there's some kernel of truth in it. :-)
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You don't need to be a first time founder to apply to YC. You also can still benefit massively from the connections YC can afford you even if you're an experienced startup founder already.
If you don't like it, there is a simple solution. Stop visiting a YC run website.
I would propose learning what you can about what it's like for people different than you so that you have more opportunities to lend help and compassion.
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Yes actually! One of the first things that the community came back with after Version 1 was that the hard drives vibrated a bit hard for most use-cases. They recommended we use "hard drive vibration dampening sleeves" (rubber bands) to make the drive fit a bit more snug. It worked like a charm! We don't really get much better pricing, though sometimes we get a small discount because we buy some pods/parts in bulk, though not in extreme quantities.
Can i have some money? ;-)
ah, what do we use to determine form factors in radiosity? oh yeah ray tracing.
Heading out to Mountain View for an on-site interview with Matasano next week. So far the process has been great for me too. It has been challenging but they (tptacek and co.) still manage to do a great job of moving things along quickly.

Hopefully I don't scare them off after they've flown me out (and I've spent 16 hours on planes and in airports).
Out of curiosity what open source tools are you currently using?
tptacek is exactly right. Not to put words in his mouth, but "nothing more than" is your characterization of what he said as opposed to what he actually said.
The history tptacek is describing goes back to the 1980s: use your favorite search engine to look for the name "Richard Sanzda" for a poignant example.
I'm actually trying to, but at the last minute I changed the magnet link to a HTTPS PDF link, which appears to open in a new window for most people :-/ Any help from people with frontend chops who could tell me how to fix that (apparently Content-Disposition isn't the answer?) would be much appreciated!
Let me assure you that, having gone through a very major health crisis, stoicism is eminently useful, and practical. I have lost things that are impossible to recover. And I'm doing pretty good, thanks.

There are some things you really cannot change. We can change more than we used to, but not everything. Stoicism helps.

And we also change things we don't need to change. We chase after things that bring us no happiness. By allowing you to be happy with what you have, stoicism lets you seek those things that truly matter.
You're right, it is subjective. But to me there's no real cost to using the broadest possible definition I ogling. And the upside (making a wider range of people comfortable) is huge.
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80 would put it into an almost perfect range, to me. The goal to me is to basically completely break from from gas in one car. 80 miles would meet 99% of my one-way driving needs, rather than around 90% of my driving needs (and that last 10% is recreation, so I'm not going to give up on that).
On potholes, there is more recent technology called "infrared repair" that heats up existing asphalt instead of a cut and replace method. You have to get the government to adopt it.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=infrared%20repai...
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Scrolled down to healthcare, and wow, clearly no domain experience. Spend another year researching and listening first.
Only someone who has not read Taleb's book could say that disruptive innovation is the same as a black swan. The black swan is something believed to be rare or impossible, which turns out to be more common than was previously believed.
>Raster will die in the long run, it's pretty obvious.
I see, so I guess you plan to ray trace your gui and the text on screen too?
The players' union is a bit of a special case because the NFL and its teams have special exemptions from the usual anti-monopoly and anti-trust laws.
knowyourmeme have a pretty low barrier for what is a meme though.
250 according to this:

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#12jan08
I assumed, being a Fiat, it wouldn't be as accessible in the States. I stand corrected.