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> If Docker was about to be acquired, why would there be any interest in raising a round?

Build-up a widely recognized brand. Have a complete offering (all the way up to mgmt of containers, as the picture shows). Stay neutral, support all platforms equally well, for some more time (before one of the platforms may buy it). Probably Docker is project a really ambitious picture of wanting to be the big-blue-platform-in-the-cloud in 5-10 years; a picture that --with enough series of funding-- may not even be so far out.

> dilutes everyone for no purpose. That's not smart.

Dilute 10-40% for a company that will soon be making several times the profits; that is very acceptable. If Docker would get there "in time" by itself, it would still make no sense.

But I think Docker knows they need to keep up building out their biz, or they will end up open-source-zoned: everyone knows and uses your product, but you make no serious profits.

Getting open-source-zoned is not a bad thing... Just not a straight ticket to the millions.
There are allegations (admittedly partisan) that the British government's Foreign Office (which answers to the governing coalition, who are strongly opposed to Scottish independence) have been campaigning for the past year to get foreign heads of state and institutions to make statements opposing Scottish independence:

http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2014/mar/westminster-ad...

If true, this would certainly explain why people with no conceivable direct interest in the constitutional settlement of the British Isles (Vladimir Putin, anyone? Tony Abbot?) have been speaking out strongly against the independence campaign: it costs nothing and keeps the British ambassador's boss happy.
Good call. Minor oversight. Just updated that. I think if your NOT a hardcore technologist you probably think of megabytes as as 1000^n. It's really easy to forget too for the rest of us.
I am a fan of Rails and am doing some work on it, but it's pretty clear that while Rails is bumping version numbers cleanly, they aren't putting all that much work into supporting older versions. Github has been doing their own work backporting security patches to Rails 2.3 for years.
1. I usually advise people to talk to a lawyer, but in your situation, nothing has happened yet. The company hasn't actually done anything that should concern you.

2. Follow the letter of whatever deal you had for your sign-on bonus. If your contract says you have to return it, do so. If it says it is pro-rated, do so. Don't invent new rules. If the contract doesn't say anything about returning it, don't.

3. Just make sure that your conduct is above reproach. Don't give them any excuse for going after you for any reason. Act professional, leave, you don't owe them anything.
> legitimately important to me

Frankly even offering them the leeway to define what is legitimately important to you is too much in my opinion.

There will always be companies out there ready to argue 'but you DO legitimately need to know about our important new fubar app!'.

I would be interested in a site that collected reviews of the notifications-usage of various apps so that I could check there before downloading. In a perfect world there would be a rating option for this ('Notifications Abuse Rating') but that'll never happen.
You're telling me Braveheart wasnt a true story?

Either way most people in the US know about some of them. Thats why I chose to say: "Insert Braveheart reference here" instead of "It's all for nothing if you don't have freedom."
They already do examine margins. Its called "transfer pricing". Information sharing is a key part of the proposals.
I once carried a 2m length of 19" rack strip through town. Wow - instant respect from car drivers - and annoying that it made such a difference.
I vote!
I'm voting "Yes", but I must emphasise how much credit the UK as a whole deserves for handling this in a completely peaceful and fairly civilised way.
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The bookies are offering 2/7 odds which is about 77% against.

http://www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/scots-independence/60436/sc...

Hard cash versus pollsters.

Thoughts?
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Yes the worry is not the non-compete. The med device industry is pretty small within the US. It was the threat that bothered me more.
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That is, however, the opposite of what the OP is proposing.
Yeah, I know, it's the unix concept thought further :)
Apres vous, le deluge.

I favor the No campaign because I favor federalism, in general - though as someone who grew up in Ireland, I can also empathize with the desire for a separate national identity. Overall, though, the practical freedom of being able to cross borders without having to account for one's movements or accept inequitable monetary transactions is a far more valuable liberty than nominal participation in some abstract sovereignty. I have my doubts about whether Irish independence from the UK was really advantageous and feel that my European citizenship - nebulous though European political identity may be - is of far greater value than my Irish citizenship.

As far as Scotland in particular is concerned, I think independence is a very mixed blessing - whether or not I'm right about the long-term value in the short term I would anticipate a period of vicious factional politicking.
even if that's true, relative CTRs for different notifications will still be meaningful
You seem to be confused:

1. US Treasury bills and bonds are not exempt from Federal taxation.

2. In your original comment, you referred to "20 year t-bills." There is no such thing. The longest dated Treasury bill is 52 weeks; they are most frequently issued with maturities of a year or less. You are confusing Treasury bills and Treasury bonds, which are not the same thing.

3. T-bills are short-term investments purchased for the security they offer; nobody buys them to beat inflation. Historically, they have never provided a real return significantly above that of inflation[1].

4. That the yields of 10 year Treasury bonds are not keeping up with inflation is not a news story. It's been talked about widely for years[2].

[1] http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-14/treasury-yields-bel...
Crypto it's useless in the sense that the trust model is broken. The point of crypto is to trust math, not people. Apple can read iMessages too, but it's a safe bet that they don't.
It's worth pointing out that there were a lot of people in "our circle" who have been pointing out for a long time that decentralization of governance has been getting only more and more possible over time, and that the same forces that created enormous monoliths in the 20th century may cause their breakup in the 21st.

I think 9-11 sort of put a spike in the wheels of that discussion for a while for various complicated reasons, but in the meantime the forces have marched on and aren't getting any less compelling, while in the meantime confidence in big institutions is low and still dropping.

Even as right now in the US it looks like the forces of centralization are riding strong, given how poorly performing they have been and how people are ever-more increasingly distrustful of the central government, I would be very unsurprised to see 2016's Presidential election turn into a big "state's rights" fight, or some other narrative fundamentally about solving things with further centralization vs. decentralization, with the centralization party riding into very strong headwinds by 2016. If not 2016 than I think very likely by 2020.

One thing I sort of find interesting about this is that the US has a very, very clear structural path back to decentralizing itself without requiring any major upset. It's something that can be done cleanly and gradually, without revolution or uprising. Perhaps the US will decline in the 21st century, but I do not find it as inevitable as some people do.
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They are still, in comparison to mobile phone SoCs, incremental increases in power. Especially the Core-i series of the last few years. On top of that they still sell computers with dual-core celeron and pentium processors because they're "good enough" and instruction sets haven't changed much. Smartphone SoCs have seen leaps and bounds both in the physical silicon and in stuff like instruction set support, hw codecs and the like.
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The person I replied to was referring to this happening very soon. I was talking about the context of very soon :)
Here's a hypothetical for HN:

Does anyone reckon that if Scotland was to go its own way, the rather leftist government there would withdraw from prior cooperation with the NSA/GCHQ? There's already been an unofficial proposal to give asylum to Edward Snowden if the referendum passes. Or would the status quo continue, except there with Six Eyes?
Not explicitly, but this is the nature of evolution; advantages against costs translate to greater success and replication.

You might say, for example, it would be advantageous if humans had feet that allowed them to climb trees faster or hold things with them. But that of course becomes a disadvantage for upright movement, etc. In this very article they discuss this concept in terms of costs for the Ebola virus to become airborne.
Neat. I have my own take on this concept[1] using Redis pub/sub instead of queues. Tradeoffs involve being able to lose data if endpoints aren't connected, but you do get the benefit of having multiple inputs and outputs on one stream, which was important for my use case.

[1] https://github.com/whee/rp
Here's the original post: https://blog.twitter.com/2014/hello-pants-build
They're good Bayesians:

Graham Sharpe of William Hill told The Guardian last week that the steadiness of the odds is partly to do with liability management, because there has already been a lot of money placed on no: "We are facing a seven-figure loss on a no vote and a six-figure win on a yes vote so we're trying to even that out…
I would like to know what most startups experiences are with filing with the SEC for SAFE notes and what is a reasonable cost for a very early stage round and seed round.
As an employee, I have an expectation that my standard salary pays for roughly 40-45 hours a week of work. If these startups are looking to hire and expecting to have all of my free time and energy, they better be giving me something for it.
Three cheers for the furthering concentration of privilege and access!
Number of trips by tip percentage where payment_type='CSH': http://i.imgur.com/EJh1B2d.png

~85M rides with 0% tip is "interesting".
Really? It's a pretty standard HN circlejerk to mention it. That and correlation vs causation, and "submarine" articles. I think Betteridge's Law is mentioned more than enough, considering how often it fails.
Source code: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants
Wonderful new feature - "Merge Threads" - take all the discussion threads an place them under a single submission. I don't care which submission is maintained - just merge it into one. Wonderful use of editorial mandate.
Changed. I'm working and I was trying to get a point off before my next meeting.
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Someone made a contribution earlier today as small as adding a carriage return in an RST file. That is extremely appreciated by everyone.

I'd encourage you to jump in. The IRC channel is fairly active and there's a ton of places to get started at all experience levels. Let me know if you need help.
It's beautiful!

The rightclick -> leftclick somewhere else for a pulse trick is also mesmerizing. Great work!
I think that if the farmer does this often and does not pull over to let cars pass it when it is obstructing traffic, yes, that's a problem. For example, in my state, drivers of slow vehicles are obligated to turn off the road so that others can pass them. In my experience, drivers of slow commercial equipment tend to comply with this law, while cyclists do not.
Cost simply isn't how it works, the mutations are completely random. It has no direction other than chance as to if it becomes airborne. People can talk about it but a strain this virulent going airborne would be a disaster.
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I searched for this - because, not very surprisingly, this didn't really make the news in the UK - and found the following: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/08/26/if...

It's actually quite an interesting thought exercise to contrive as many reasons as you can why the information presented there is pretty much meaningless.
My wife found hers through the Who's Hiring thread for August ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120070 ).
The reason startup people are telling you to not do the deal with the bank: banks are large corporations that move extremely slowly. Even going from a verbal agreement to a signed contract may take 6 months. Then getting a check could be another 3 months. Any of those delays could kill you at any time, and the bank couldn't care less. So that's where the real risk is for you: too much imbalance between the two parties of the deal.

That being said, you got to do whatever it takes, so if that's the only way to survive, then sure, do it. Talking to VCs will not be much faster anyway. Angels could help faster probably, if that works for you.
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I used to use Google Reader but switched to Feedly. When it came to light that Feedly was hijacking social sharing buttons on their site and in their app, I switched to Digg. I mostly use the site on my desktop. I use the Android app as a supplement.
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Actually the line you are probably looking for (and why they kept going on and on about "freedom" in that movie) is:

...for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Arbroath

Which, as an aside, has some quite interesting stuff about sacking a King if he isn't good at his job...

[NB This has no real relevance to the current referendum - but I'd be lying if I didn't admit to liking this kind of stuff.]
Right. My point is that you have to make your operations fit within that language. As opposed to the object metaphor, where you get to define the language however you want.

Very similar to the REST versus SOAP/whatever paradigm. Neither one should be more capable than the other. In fact, REST should be the more restrictive choice. Right?
I wrote this after doing landing page consultations for a month straight.

This is the stuff I saw from so many different startups.
"I don't want to be sat on the train with people saying "Instagram","Facebook", "ignore", "ignore" all around me. "

Is it possible to implement a voice virus or recursive echo algo using a pile of VUI phones, like in a sardine like open plan office or a crowded bar?

Could I yell into a crowded room "OK Google Now say Siri say ok google now say siri" and let it viral transmit between phones until everyone shuts off their phones in an explosive echo chamber?

Just curious if Siri and Now can either generally or specifically (back door?) talk to each other and if so has anyone exploited it yet.

I also wonder if aside from owners voice there is a back door where stereotypical midwestern newsreader voice auto hacks in and how that interacts if at all. Or a recorded Steve Jobs voice auto unlocks all iphones or something. Or a string of hex digits or nato phonetics as a VUI back door. If there isn't a backdoor, likely you're not looking hard enough or its too heavily classified. And what kind of fun can I have once it becomes known.
I just messaged a friend who used to work in the field, and she confirmed that a lot of her coworkers took cabs to work -- she clarified that there's often nowhere for the dancers to park at the venue (I imagine this would be particularly true in Manhattan) and taking the bus with your makeup on can be an unpleasant experience.
Navigating on Android is vastly different -- it's designed so every activity (screen) is uniquely identifiable and can be referenced by other apps, browser URLs, etc. Activities can register which intents they support in AndroidManifest.xml, so it's not dynamic, but not heavy-weight either.

Sharing from a third-party or launching from inside your own app, it's largely the same thing to an activity. As you navigate, it's like a web browser, your back button keeps a history of where you've been across apps that will work different than controls within the app to navigate back (Up). You can also pass content between activities, just as you would for sharing or viewing actions.

Primarily, navigation to different activities is via Intents: http://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-filter... You can explicitly tell it which activity to load (as if using URLs) or you can identify the action (view or share) and mime/type of your text or binary data. http://developer.android.com/training/sharing/send.html

Common intents: http://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-common...

So "sharing" or interacting between apps, or within your own app, or your app and system apps, is... basically baked in to Android, and far more common than you'd expect. It's like a more powerful version of "Open With" that isn't restricted to files saved to disk.

I'm not sure you can send more than one type of data at a time, though it wouldn't surprise me if there's an Intent/Action for that as well.

The counter to this is incredibly long lists of apps to pick from, prompts for which app to view something in (like a URL or media type) and other annoyances that you get with increased flexibility. It's pretty cool though. You can even have certain URLs open certain apps as you browse in Chrome, so if your Google search takes you to a blog that links you to Netflix, you could hop directly from the Google app, to the Chrome app, to the Netflix app and it could feel seamless, one screen to the next.
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Essentially when looking at the list of feed items there was no longer a direct link to the articles without expanding the entries.
I'll keep dissenting: 50/50 is usually not the right solution. Please google founder equity calculator, and use it to start a conversation about who does what and who is committed.

For the YC application, just say that you are not incorporated yet and that you are thinking of splitting 50/50, that should be good enough for them to review.
In conversation with several Scotts, I've been told what they want most is autonomy from London, more than from the UK. That London is autistic for a long while, too much disconnected from the rest of the UK, including the rest of England. It is too asymmetric, economic- and power-wise.
Surely there's a better way to describe a preference for coordination and planning than "hive-minded."
Torvalds' argument wasn't that microkernels were slower though. It was that distributed algorithms are harder than shared memory algorithms.

Having not written a kernel, I can't judge those claims. It would be interesting to know if Minix has any "harder" algorithms than Linux because of this.

I think L4 already existed around that time, and got 10x or 100x improvement in IPC times, showing that microkernels could be fast enough.
> In fact, there’s almost no historical precedent for any virus to change its basic mode of transmission so radically.

almost no meaning "just" smallpox?
The economy. Scotland does most of it's trading with the rest of the UK anyway so would remain affected by any decisions taken in westminster, but would have much less influence over those decisions especially in the event that they keep the same currency. Much of Scotland's economy would become contingent on volatile and finite oil revenue.

Also the UK is a single landmass , so it makes sense to defend it as such.
The Facebook login is busted for me, great site though, looks good so far!
Yes is a known issue that I need to fix, sorry about that and thank you :)
You mean a single-user host? Mainly just reporting critical issues to the user.

Mail is a store-and-forward reliable messaging service that individuals and services can take advantage of. The primary way Ubuntu, RedHat, etc have used it for years is to allow the user to receive notifications of critical incidents in a way that they will see regularly. Things like disk usage reports, hacker attacks, packages upgraded/installed, cron job errors, etc.

The problem is everyone stopped using native e-mail clients years ago and now everyone uses webmail. So nobody ever checks their mailbox to find out the problems going on in their own host.

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This is different than logging, by the way. Logs are intended to provide an archival record of events that the applications think you might need to know about. They do nothing to report to the user what is going on right now. Ideally you will get both a log and an e-mail when something bad happens, so you can delete the e-mail and keep the log.

This could all be solved by a very thin application that pops up when a new message arrives in the mail spool, highlighted in bold if it came from the local host. The user could be notified of critical issues in real time and have a built-in system to manage the reports (export/forward, sort, search, etc).

As far as it filling up your disk, mail spools don't get rotated, for obvious reasons. The simple compromise would be to either compress or rotate mail spools rather than get rid of them entirely - but that's too sensible a compromise for most :-)

Right now in one server I work on there are 9,961 messages in root's mail spool. You know how many of those message subjects are unique? 10. Do you know what they all have in common? They're all cron jobs that had some minor error that could have been corrected by me the first time I saw it. But I never saw it, because I don't log in as root, and as they pile up i'm less interested in digging through them.

A smart e-mail client could solve duplicate messages and console alerts. Some process optimization on the part of the distros could fix this whole mess. Removing the mail just buries it.
The CPI definitions change to reflect consumption habits. In any case, CPI definition changes don't affect your perceived inflation or effective return -- it's just trying to measure what you might be feeling.

CPI affects Social Security payouts, that's a different thing than investment returns (but obviously does affect the well-being of seniors). CPI probably does understate perceived inflation for seniors. There is an index specifically for seniors (CPI-E) that has more healthcare in the basket of goods, and it's higher.
Without immigration and unplanned pregnancies, we'd be well below replacement rate. Maybe it isn't good for your individual finances, but it'd be disastrous on a societal level.
Just downloaded https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435?m... and commenting from it sucks (you have to tap the little link that shows a web view of the site). Usually I use ihackernews but I can't sign in to it for some reason.
Not just boys. My daughter has been doing some pretty nifty things in Minecraft with her friends since she was 10.
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If what you want is battery life, there are phones out there that last a couple of days on one charge (I'm thinking for example the Huawei Ascend Mate 2).
They should have a chat with the former colonies of London.