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If open source is about ideological purity tests than no one can contribute.
I'm not even sure if there is such a thing in japan. In my perception class action lawsuits always have been a us-anomaly.
Fair enough, I can agree with that :) The statement is a bit of a hyperbole, though I do think there is more truth to the statement than most people are able to see or willing to admit about themselves.
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Firing them for this would be extremely stupid and probably illegal.
Both Coinbase and BitPay already do this.
There is not a civil war in Mexico, is it? Mexican government is not bombing Mexican cities with fighter jets either. 120,000 (actually 658,000 if proportioned it to Mexican population) people have not died in Mexico in the last 3 years, and 3 million (12 million) people have not displaced as refugee in bordering countries either. Would you like me to go on?

Mexican government is fully cooperating with US and not acting like an enemy towards US, eh?
Capital isn't the only thing they offer you.
I think highly of Postgres, but this is disappointing. It's well-known now how to implement functional array-like data structures with log-time concatenation. For a good summary see [0].

I think these techniques should be standard practice in programming language implementations.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3271256/implement-an-immu...
To me this makes Mozilla look bad. I wouldn't want to work for a tech company where employees care more about what people do in their own time than what they accomplish at work.
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No, when I purchased my 535's from Headroom, they didn't have any Westone in stock (that I recall, it was several months ago). I tried out similarly priced Sennheiser in-ear headphones (ie80 and ie800) as well as another higher priced JH Audio IEM model (JH13, iirc), but the 535's sounded the best to my ears.

I do see that the Westone's offer 4 drivers to the 535's two drivers, but unfortunately Headroom doesn't have the frequency response graphs for them yet. Otherwise, they seem very similar for features & specs (they both appear to use the same ear tips, which is good for finding the one that fits the best).

Of course, I'm lucky enough to live in Headroom's home town, so that helps these kinds of purchases immensely.
At first sight - I thought the app lets you have someone cover your production environment while you go out with friends.
I believe that posting a link to https://lobste.rs/ causes your comment to go dead.

Edit: Apparently not. If anyone wants to see his post, they need to turn on show dead.
> For some cultures in some time periods women were property that was traded from father to husband, in exchange for goods, and marriage was the contract that finalized the transfer of property.

I wasn't talking about women as property, though that's also a factor in some cases (which undermines the whole "traditional marriage" as a good thing argument.) I was talking about marriage being about property arrangements, not the parties being property.
It is a very rough estimate that mainly serves to give us an idea of the magnitude of possible theft due to TM.
Every driver on the road is a potential uninsured operator. Uber didn't create uninsured drivers. And they require their drivers to be insured. Should we ban all vehicles because they might at some point be uninsured?
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Yes it is, so Uber should be MANDATING with documentation that their drivers maintain insurance that covers them at the appropriate times. They should actively be filtering out drivers who do no have a commercial insurance policy. But Uber doesn't do that because that would restrict the number of drivers they could collect fare fees from.
I love how free speech works only one way. Imagine a different scenario whereas Eich contributed $1000 FOR gay marriage and people were asking him to step down. Oh wait, gay marriage is a human right IN YOUR OPINION. He's a bigot IN YOUR OPINION. So he should be afraid to vote or donate in his conscience. Maybe he simply believes marriage is between a man and a woman, nope, throw him to the wolves, can't havee an unpopular opinion!
In the mid '90s I had a job working in a company doing logistics software. Every Friday about 2:00 my manager would come around and say "We're really behind on our delivery, so the team is coming in tomorrow for a half day. I'll buy everyone pizza for lunch."

On Saturday, of course, things wouldn't go as expected. Many times we were still there at midnight, and he came around asking us to stay for just one more hour so we could help test the latest build. Then there were more problems, so he'd ask us to come in on Sunday. For just a half day.

This happened probably three weekends out of four the first year I was there. It got to the point people were taking Friday off because they figured each hour of vacation was actually worth three hours.

So I came to the realization it was either put my foot down or find another job, so one Friday I went into his office and said "Don't even ask me to come in on a weekend. Ever again." I thought it might cost me my job, but that was the end of it.
What you suggested is a terrible thought. Because in the early stage of a startup, some (small amount of money + great alumni network + access to a pool of notable investor) will propels the growth so much more than the equity you gave up.

"In the general case, if n is the fraction of the company you're giving up, the deal is a good one if it makes the company worth more than 1/(1 - n).

For example, suppose Y Combinator offers to fund you in return for 6% of your company. In this case, n is .06 and 1/(1 - n) is 1.064. So you should take the deal if you believe we can improve your average outcome by more than 6.4%. If we improve your outcome by 10%, you're net ahead, because the remaining .94 you hold is worth .94 x 1.1 = 1.034."

Source: http://paulgraham.com/equity.html
Did Bitcoins just become less fungible?
I guess you released a little too much, generally you want to remove your GA code and replace it with a placeholder like: '<insert GA code here>'...
Interesting. He compares FB buying Oculus to Google buying YouTube. I see his point, but I don't quite agree with the comparison. A search engine company buying a what is ultimately a VIDEO search engine makes total sense.

The rest of his argument focuses on how we should be happy they have all the cash they need now, but then also mentions they raised over $90M prior to that.

Was $90M not enough to build it out themselves? Or did the VCs just want to flip this one quick?
well, you still need an Apple device to sign up for an iCloud account :)
Just when I thought Jobs couldn't be a bigger scumbag! Someone dig up his grave and make an example of him in front of all of Silicon Valley. It's what he would have done.
6% is good for the founder too. You want your investors to have a significant stake in the company so that they actually help build it, and you want to take on investors feeling like they will by definition give you a smaller piece of a larger pie. If you give them too little they wont help you at all.
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Please explain, I don't understand how that would affect you.
It's not about a fear of losing the original, but losing each step in the process (which may be thousands of steps), having flexibility, and maintaining pixel information/quality throughout multiple edits.

Another way to think about it (in terms of programming) would be editing some code in an existing project, compiling it, and then losing the source code for your edits. Sure, you could keep patching the compiled version (not very easy) or use some kind of instrumentation to wrap/modify existing behavior, but if you can't easily modify the source of your past work (or just a single revision along the way), then all you're doing is piling more patches (in compiled form) on top of old work - not very efficient, and you lose flexibility.

In a non-destructive workflow, you may (for example) adjust the color balance of a single object in the scene, keep working, and then realize that the color adjustments are out of place. Since that adjustment is preserved and editable at any time independently of all other edits, then it only requires an adjustment of the parameters - and you don't lose any information.

If you were to do that kind of edit directly to the pixels (even if they're on a separate layer for the object in question), then each time you adjust color/levels/etc, you're losing information that was originally there. Similar to resizing an image very small and then trying to enlarge it to original size, destructive color edits will start producing nasty artifacts like color banding (you'll start seeing a "combing" effect in the histogram when adjusting color even after a single previous color adjustment).
Damn, that is true. If he gets fired, then what does THAT say?
Canary Islands officials sparked worldwide panic
Emergency services in the Canary Islands have been ridiculed after mistaking a shipping vessel in the sea for a crashed plane
"Having a conversation about a piece of code" sounds good, it proves you can read code and not just write it. Everything else you mention should have been taken care of on your resume or you wouldn't be in the interview, BUT plenty of people can talk a good game.

As an employer, do you really want to find out AFTER hiring that the candidate is incapable of understanding a problem based on an oral or written description; incapable of capturing requirements, asking the right questions, and forming an attack plan without thinking about it overnight?

Testing someone's ability to follow along and contribute in real-time is part of the test, IMO. It does penalize "deep thinkers" and still waters, though.

I've had candidates email me a supremely perfect solution the next day, and that's a positive data point too.
"I refuse to be educated about my shitty (and wrong) beliefs, but I want to keep my fancy CEO title"
Back in the 90's I build an API that enabled the owners of adult content (Larry Flint Publications/Playboy) to deliver current and updated content (images) to adult website owners and retain the digital rights of the content. I built one of the original payment gateways and video rendering engines. All for porn.

When I went out on my own. I had to beat the offers off with a stick. I ended up at a High End Management Consulting outfit and finally in the valley doing tech M&A. Adult is on the cutting edge of lots of areas, especially revenue generation.

I'd be upfront about who you worked for and focus on the projects and how you tackled the unique issues of the industry and the solutions you built. Not the industry itself.
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>I think the ideal way to handle it would be to find some way to insure for it

That is absolutely the best way to handle it and Airbnb should require appropriate documentation that hosts are insured appropriately and aren't violating the terms of their leases. But Airbnb wont do that because then they would have fewer hosts and thus less revenue. The answer that the original article tried (and failed) to say is that Airbnb and others should be responsible for ensuring that their operators are within the law but they don't and claim ignorance.
I would like it very much if alternative to '70s era operating systems were to flourish on newer hardware platforms. If Mill hardware backs up the performance claims, it would open an interesting door that's been shut to non Multics-likes for too long.
I agree with this. People ask me all the time what I thought about my experience at YC was like. And my answer usually comes down to being with the people. When everyone around you seems to be smarter, work harder, and be more driven, you really push yourself too. But, it was also a supportive community. Everyone wanted to see everyone else succeed. Basically, it was a good support group for those days (and there were many) where you just felt down in the startup dumps.

The good news is that you don't necessarily need YC to have much of that experience. If you build a good network around you, with lots of hard-working and positive people, it helps a lot.
To expand on that, I think a lot of people confuse the Free Software movement with a movement for "ideological purity". No, it isn't about having the most social justice points, it's about creating and sharing free software, anything else is irrelevant. Even if you're a convicted murderer (ReiserFS), although you can't really commit code from prison.

Of course we want to encourage as many people as possible to contribute and therefore anything that pushes large groups of people away (for no good reason) is bad.
Expand the hiring pool.

Attend any of the thousands job fairs that go on all over the country and at every university and aren't a top-5 metro area and top-10 university.
Do you have anything to back those claims ?
I mean I am at least decently strong chess player and I played tons of games vs Houdini 3 and 4 on modern i7 quad and as you can see at least one other person did as well.

>>Yes. About 150 ELO - equivalent. More than being another pawn up.

You can't quantify it like that. Strong chess player is going to win with bishop odds vs any entity on the other side: 2500GM, elite GM or Houdini on 32 cores. It's just a win starting from certain level and "150ELO" doesn't convey it. On the other hand there are a lot of entities which would beat me (and even some stronger players) with 2 or 3 pawn odds.
> Non-destructive editing is not a "nice to have" feature. It's quite literally a fundamental shift in methodology - and one that apparently the GIMP devs seem to be ignoring.

It's on the http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap , UI designer Peter Sikkings has written a lot about how one might do it http://blog.mmiworks.net/search/label/GIMP%20redux and one of the main selling points of the move to GEGL is non-destructive editing. And all the focus now is on the move to GEGL.
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In my personal life no I would find it reprehensible, but in my professional life that would depend. If an employee wants to go burn crosses on the weekend with the KKK but comes into work every Monday, and keeps his personal life separate and still continues generate revenue for the company then that's their business and not my concern.
Whatever happened to MapJack (http://mapjack.com/)? I remember they came out pretty early and had a commodity solution that delivered better quality photos initially with a low cost solution.
Does this mean Office for linux is in the works? At least for the corporate distros like Redhat, Suse and Ubuntu?
Couldn't the insurance company look at their odometer to see how much they have been driving? I did not realize that was the issue though.
Domino's disrupted the pizza industry with 30 minutes or less, then they got the shit sued out of them. McDonald's disrupted the coffee market by offering super hot coffee through the drive thru then they got the shit sued out of them. As sad as it is sometimes trial lawyers accomplish what the government can't.
Amazon may debut its rumored set-top box next week
You know maybe people wearing foil hats were on to something after all.

In all seriousness this is a great advance in neuroscience that would help understand many things about brain. On the other hand, potential for misuse is enormous. Can you even prove you had been interrogated if such a device is used on you?
Who exactly is being censored here? Eich made his opinion known with his donations, and his employees are making their opinions known on Twitter.
If you need mini projects/apps to build, check out Craigslist, oDesk, Elance and other sites, that post projects by people looking to hire freelance developers, for the projects in your framework/language. Trim the ideas down to the size of mini project. And, then figure out how you can implement a bare bone MVP on your own using the web framework you are learning.

I recently met a guy who put out a micro site for time zone conversion that he built as exercise while learning web development. He was surprised how many visitors started to come and use his micro site. Since then he has developed 100s of micro sites as part of learning and all supported by ads. It generates him nice chunk of change for the amount of effort he put in.
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>You just rewrote the app from C++ to Ruby on Rails

Unless the C++ app was poorly written (and thus some kind of maintenance nightmare) this seems a little backwards... I normally see CPU performance bound Ruby turning into C/C++,Go,C#,Java not the other way around.

Also, I'm trying to understand the moral of this story, is it:

Executing only matters if it furthers your bosses goals; furthermore, sometimes you need to explain how something you have done furthers said goals? (Surely this should happen before not after?)

Seems like common sense, but maybe I am missing something here..
I think Oracle has been a good steward. They haven't been perfect but they have done a great job at paying back technical debt and making the product better for modern hardware.
Internet.org: A Facebook connectivity lab project
Guess what? 10 million American households are unbanked or underbanked.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbanked
> "I've got working asp.net ecommerce solutions"

That sounds to me like a reference to some boxed product running ASP.NET. Possibly aspDotNetStorefront? If so, that competes with PHP platforms for being a mess of code and non-sense design decisions.

I can hear people talking about Scala, Ruby, Node and saying better performance + dev experience (whether I agree or not) -- but Java? Not flaming here, that just doesn't sound like a well informed statement.
makes more sense, thanks.
> There's a huge difference between holding general religious beliefs and contributing financially...

So, you can believe whatever you want, as long as you don't act on your beliefs?

> ... to a political movement specifically pursuing institutional discrimination of a large class of Americans.

Prop 8 was proposed by the voters of California, it would not have had direct ramifications on the rest of the US.

> ... blatantly unconstitutional...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-...

The last big ruling by the SCOTUS on gay marriage came down to a 5-4 vote. The supreme court justices are not amateurs at enforcing the US Constitution. That it was 5-4 is a good sign that the issue is hard to argue one way or the other from the constitution.

EDIT: typo
If HN has already discussed this particular point to death, my apologies, I missed it. But I don't understand how Bitcoin can achieve its apparent aspirations if my tax consequences are different depending on which bitcoins I spend.
Generally flail around, make assumptions, and scramble to fix things after the fact. It rarely works very well, but you get your pay check.
<i>This isn't the 1990s anymore where Windows is the dominant platform.</i>

It's always easy to see who's in the bubble.
It's not just a turn of phrase - your whole comment was saying 'YC is indisputably worth it' and the response was 'no it isn't, not for everyone.
The 90s deal, per Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/03/01/steve-job...

"I called up Bill and said, “I’m going to turn this thing around.” Bill always had a soft spot for Apple. We got him into the application software business. The first Microsoft apps were Excel and Word for the Mac. So I called him and said, “I need help.” Microsoft was walking over Apple’s patents. I said, “If we kept up our lawsuits, a few years from now we could win a billion-dollar patent suit. You know it, and I know it. But Apple’s not going to survive that long if we’re at war. I know that. So let’s figure out how to settle this right away. All I need is a commitment that Microsoft will keep developing for the Mac and an investment by Microsoft in Apple so it has a stake in our success." -- Steve Jobs.

Reading between the lines, a less polite version is that Jobs went to Bill Gates and said, "I need a lifeline. Apple is circling the drain. You are going to throw me that lifeline. We are going to do a deal whereby I drop our patent suits against you, and in return you invest in Apple and support us with Office, and say we're best buddies in public. Or else I wind up Apple as a computer company and spend the remaining billion dollars in our accounts on turning Apple into the biggest, baddest patent troll ever. And I will go kamikaze on your ass, and there will be blood and screaming and absolutely no mercy, because I offered you this deal and you turned it down and I remember my enemies forever. Oh and by the way, the DOJ anti-trust folks will be watching. Deal or no deal?"

(This is quite distinct from the 1983/84 Jobs/Gates deal whereby Steve gave Bill an exclusive to be the first office app vendor on the Mac -- as described in "Fire in the Valley" and elsewhere -- which is how Word for Mac got started.)
My first thought of this would be its use in constructing a image of a wanted criminal, as a way to replace police sketch artists.

They're reconstructing faces the subject is viewing, not remembering. To replace police sketch artists, the criminal would have to be present...
"the deal is a good one if it makes the company worth more than"

Sure, if we assume that other deals are impossible. Which is a false assumption.
While good in theory, the rules are more than likely to be abused to limit or get rid of uber entirely to protect the existing taxi industry. If corruption and incompetence weren't issues we could just trust them to do whatever and not have to worry about it.

I thought gas taxes were the established way of paying for roads anyways. And all drivers should be required to have insurance to begin with - the fact someone else is in the car has nothing to do with it.
> There is an externality, but it's still smaller than the total benefit

Benefit to whom? And how can you say that? Nobody knows yet what the total cost of externalities and benefits are for Airbnb.

You're also thinking about one use case. What about a condo owner that decides to use Airbnb for profit, and just rents the room from afar, hires a cleaning service, and treats it like a hotel? The other residents of that condo end up assuming all of the risk, security breaches, and headaches of an endless supply of tenants. There are many other uses cases with different externalities associated with each. As a society, we have to decide what's acceptable and what's not--and that's where laws come into play.
Too bad the reconstructed faces don't look anything like the presented faces and I'm sure these two example are some of the best results.

I suspect the algorithm always outputs some face generated by a paramaterized face model (neutral net based?). Therefore even random output would generate a face. Then with some "tuning" and a little wishful thinking you might convince yourself this works.

Am I being too skeptical?
My biggest concern is Intel will just buy and bury it.
It may surprise you to find out that lots of people don't think that the ultimate measure of a person is how much they can accomplish in a business setting nor how much money they can make their shareholders.
The faces got into their brains in the first place because we already have write access. Writing to the brain is easy -- it's reading what we've put there that is difficult.
I wonder if in the ongoing process of this 'scandal' any numbers will appear on how many people were rejected because of such agreements. This is such an unfair move towards people who have great talent who might just be better off working for Google instead of Apple or vice versa because of their mindset. I hope for high penalties for the involved companies.
Indeed, and to make things better, Quebec won't allow legal name change in most cases.

Step 1) leave Quebec

Step 2) change your name in the other provice

Step 3) ... (return to Quebec, or wherever)

Step 4) Profit!

Source: I live there.