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Ask HN: Why is Square raising another $100m?
I'm curious what their strategy is. Are they just buying more time to find a buyer or IPO?
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132-51 CONS
CONUS FSR Support hourly rate. CONUS rates will be billed for Services performed outside the continental U.S. unless in a warzone. Normal business hours are defined as an 8-hour work day (rate is 15% more outside of normal business hours). $ 146.60

132-51 OCONS
OCONUS FSR Support hourly rate. OCONUS rates will be billed for Services performed in a warzone. Normal business hours are defined as a 12-hour work day (rate is 15% more outside of normal business hours). $ 195.47
.But the circumstances are entirely different, in 1959 it a national effort to save face after sputnik, to solely fly men in space and land on the moon, full stop. Thats jt dismantle the program, today Bolden was talking commercial enterprises n.nnabout flying people destinations in low earth orbit other than the international space station (ie Bigelow hotels). Thats the difference imo.
I don't see how that follows, at all.
What makes you feel that the average IQ of Silicon Valley might be higher than say Beijing, Tokyo, Adelaide or Moscow?
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seriouslypleasedropit here, I've commented on your blog.

I've come to the conclusion that it's impossible to completely flatten things. There will always be an in-group.

But new in-groups can be created. That's basically what YC has done in the last 20 years. Further, in-groups can actively help outgroups. Pell grants are a great example of this.

YC wants startups with promise. Build one, join the in-group, and then shape the world according to your will.
Neanderthals at least had bigger brains than modern humans.
I can't wait to see the watches Casio and Nixon release next year.
> Big law firms will often ask for equity in the company.

If that should happen to you, simply refuse. That's not worth it no matter what. You're basically asking for having a conflict of interest just when you need your lawyers most, which means you'll have to bring another set of lawyers in.

And nothing will increase the bills faster than two sets of lawyers haggling over different ways to split the same hair.

I agree with all your advice, this is one of those comments that you should print out and nail to the wall over your desk if you plan on incorporating in the near future.
I think a change like this would best be accompanied with a mandatory dash cam for passenger cars as well.
And yet here we stand on the cusp of creating a whole new breed of pilots who are ready willing and able to follow simple common-sense rules for UAV aviation, creating a new sector of jobs that didn't exist before. Jobs that get the same results without all of the negative safety and environmental externalities of flying giant tin kites with primates stuffed inside.

Just make up your minds and tell us the rules already.
Common cold, also. Rhinoviruses aren't exactly rare.
Antibiotics are not vaccines.

Antibiotics are used to produce larger animals and to avoid the effort and cost of raising animals in sanitary conditions, without much regard for the effects on antibiotic resistance.

Vaccines are another matter. Chickens, for example, are routinely vaccinated against Marek's disease without much controversy.
I'd like to plug George Grellas ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grellas ) in case you're not aware of him, just reading his comment history should give you a lot of food for thought. He's one of HN's secret assets.

See also: http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup.html
It's part of the US Intelligence community, so it depends on your definition of the military. In practical terms, the answer is yes. It's mostly staffed from the Air Force and CIA.
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I appreciate it! We're on the same page regarding the equity, but it's fairly common practice in the valley, so this is a good one to emphasize.
Not sure it's a very good idea. When I'm typing, I want text not to lag. Using e-ink to edit text feels like ssh through a satellite link.
I always told that Emacs was designed with the fear that some day the OS won't be there. This day is coming
The BBC micro had a similar arrangement to the Amiga or EGA, and this was the way a number of games (Repton, Exile, Ravenskull, Uridium, JCB Digger, amongst others) did their full-screen scrolling. (I think the stride was inferred from the displayed total though so when scrolling horizontally some flicker at the sides was pretty much inevitable.)

Double buffering was rare, due to a distinct lack of memory, and games would have had to use dirty lists as a 2MHz CPU just isn't fast enough to redraw the entire screen each time.
And now buildings got a bit cheaper, too.
Does anyone have suggestions for folks that can do a great job "designing" a resume? Email is in my profile.
I think wolves and foxes give us a good picture of what dogs would be like without human intervention.
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The Air Force handles all US government launches except NASA's.
> That's about right; we have a truly extraordinary relationship.

A relationship like this is what I want more than anything else in life, so I hope you don't mind me derailing the conversation a little bit to ask: to what do you credit with getting along so well? My parents also had an extraordinary relationship (before my mother passed away), and I'm always interested in figuring out what exactly it is that makes some couples so happy together.
And for speeding cars, rolling stops for cars, illegal turns, broken lights, using cellphones while driving, parking in bike lanes, etc.

The most frequent complaint I hear about cyclists is the stop sign/red light/yield to pedestrians issue. Changing the law to be more sensible (specifically implementing the Idaho Stop for cyclists) would end the vast majority of those complaints.

Other issues, like taking up an entire lane, are annoying, but only done consistently by assholes...just like only a small portion of drivers are assholes.

It's certainly a pain to have to go slow behind a cyclist when in a car, but it isn't your god given right to go 10 mph over the speed limit at all times...which is the prevailing attitude of basically all drivers everywhere.
Wow, that's too bad. I hope they fix this.
Intelligence and fitness are two very different things. Fitness has a lot to do with make up of muscle fibres in the body, fast twitch (anerobic) vs slow twitch (aerobic).
This is why marathon runners and weight lifters have very different body types , training a lot in one discipline will make you worse at the other. Genetics plays a role in which type of muscle you can most easily develop.

Intelligence simply doesn't work the same way, learning to draw well won't make you worse at computer programming for example.
Appreciate the advice, which we will take to heart. (We have work to do on the marketing front, see https://lawgives.com/jobs)

For context in this thread: we match people up with lawyers, both solo, small and big law, depending on the needs and wishes of the client.
All of the angel dynamics you're talking about here are premised on a trajectory that takes angel-funded companies through VC rounds. If there wasn't a presumption that N out of K portfolio companies would get an A round, angels wouldn't invest this way.
God I hate it when people make excellent points directly underneath my remarks.
I once sent a polite email to an Australian journalist who was reporting on a tech topic, which he got rather wrong.

He sent a very large, very rude and very nasty email back. I was a bit taken aback, and so I never bother anymore.
Penrose tiles are fascinating in that they are a very direct proof that our intuition about geometry can be spectacularly wrong. Who (Roger Penrose excepted) would have guessed that it would be possible to make a set of times so incredibly small and deceptively simple that would have these extraordinary properties.

Every time I read about them or even look at them I'm blown away by this and I end up looking at the patterns (staring, really) for minutes on end to see 'how they work'.

Simply mindblowing, it's like watching an expert juggler make the impossible seem so easy.
Suppose US society was meritocratic, intelligence is highly hereditary, and assortative mating happens. Then you'd expect low social mobility - people will have the same intelligence, and hence the same income, as their parents.
The combination of solid gold and the obsolescence period of wearable electronics is uncharted territory.
An exceedingly simple model, the Galton-Watson process, was introduced in 1875 and exhibits the behaviour of the 'reproduction number'. If the average number of offspring in a Galton-Watson process is less than 1, the population dies off with probability 1, with thin tails on the number of generations before extinction; if it's more than 1, it has a positive chance to survive forever.
+1 one that one. Protip: If you get a chance to meet George, make sure to ask him about 83(b) elections.
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> That’s because most would classify the aircraft Evans and many other tinkerers are flying as a “drone.” Despite this definition being technically incorrect (more on that in a bit)...

This tired old semantic argument again. The word "drone" has been used to refer to unmanned remote controlled (or autonomous) aircraft at least since the 1950s. I'm pretty sure the term was used throughout WWII, but the earliest source I can find right now is from 1951:

http://books.google.com/books?id=cGPJ9fJDJNIC&pg=PA41&dq=%22...
Yes same Scott. Unfortunately my first installation attempt for NuStudio was unsuccessful but I will try again soon. David has been very involved and it is great to see projects like that that make it more accessible.
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You're saying developing human space flight is the least "tech-y" of those industries?
Yeah it kind of depends how you look at it. Is it specialty software that provides some critical function they can't get elsewhere? Or is it Microsoft Office, everybody gets it and it should really be like $150/seat.

I should have also added to my original post, this is their GSA schedule. For these specific line-items, the government considers this the "prenegotiated lowest price". This simplifies purchasing. So if somebody in the government wants buy another core (item 132-33) they just ring up Palantir or their GSA schedule VAR (reseller) and ask for a 132-33 volume:1 and they know that it'll cost $141k and be good for 1 year of O&M.

The downside of being on the GSA schedule is that it means that there are limits on your ability to change prices year to year to reflect a change in business environment. Say next year you want to drop the price by 50%. That's not allowed, since it would basically mean that you weren't selling your software at the lowest possible prenegotiated price. Similarly if you want to increase it, you're limited in that as well. I think the +- variance can't exceed 10% in a single 12 month period, but I might be wrong. The other downside is that this basically provides your prices in public so your competitors can see what you charge, which can be critical information in contract bids.

There's always a loophole. For example, convince your customer to not buy off of the GSA and sell them a "package" at some discount off of GSA. That "package" counts as a different SKU and the GSA doesn't apply. So for example, you could make a Palantir "starter kit" composed of

2 core license (normally $282k)
1 extra year of O&M maintenance for both cores (normally $56k)
500 hours of Ninja Services @ $150/hr (normally $98k)
500 hours of CONUS FSR Service @ $120/hr (normally $73k)

all for the grand total of $350k or some such, instead of the normal price of $510k. A $160k discount.

Any government purchaser would fall over themselves to try to make this happen since it's a >30% discount off of the normal GSA schedule prices (which they can refer to and are governed by various rules). This looks fantastic on their yearly performance eval "-saved government $160k on purchase of Palantir package deal"

This is the crack model. When the O&M runs out in two years and they come asking for more, well, there's no deal anymore, and the GSA schedule prices on O&M and people have gone up 20% in that time.

edit keep in mind that this company has raised almost a billion dollars and is valued at something like $9 billion dollars.
Rape expensive. I can see you have applied the Australia Tax to your pricing.
I don't think the issue is whether mutation might make it work more efficiently, but the probability that this might happen.

To estimate that you need to understand the precise mechanisms of variability, and the likelihood that the genetic elements that create Ebola symptoms could combine with the genetic elements that make influenza and rhinoviruses so infectious.

Obviously there's no teleology in mutation. But as infected populations increase, so does the possibility of dangerous recombination.

How much it increases, and whether we're talking about lottery odds, poker odds, or coin toss odds, is something only virologists know.

But apparently there's a second order health problem. You don't just want to minimise the spread for obvious practical reasons - you also want to minimise it because the bigger the infected population, the bigger the risk of dangerous mutation.
I doubt Zeo was doing any actual EEG. It certainly didn't show it to the user. As to their "smart logic" - my friend fooled it into proclaiming deep sleep by merely sitting still.
Gruber bends over backwards and twists himself in knots trying to explain why he isn't disappointed after considering the expectations he set before the event. I don't see anything different in the AppleWatch functionality compared to what he criticized Android Wear for earlier this year
Come one, surely you see the value in being "coerced" into improving the space program?
>> And now the Stanford -> Funded pipeline is even stronger, which means that everyone else is slightly (imperceptibly) more an outsider fuckhead employee on 0.04%.

>On the contrary, all the material will be made available, so you too can benefit from this.

This is missing his point. The student in the same room as these speakers will have considerably more access to the individuals speaking than someone merely watching the lectures online. In addition, those students also have the stamp of approval that comes with being a Stanford student.

This situation isn't creating this privilege, but it is reinforcing it.

That said, it also creates some lesser opportunities for the clever and determined outsider that didn't exist otherwise.
That was probably his goal. In those cases you should simply publish the conversation and keep moving.
I did that years ago as well. Soon as I read somewhere that Stallman meant Emacs to be his only shell and do everything in it(?), this was my first thought.
Resentment of civilization is unhealthy.
True on a very technical level. MIMO is required to implement spatial streams. It's also the foundation for beamforming and diversity coding. But technically, MIMO itself is not beamforming or spatial streams.

So while not a 100% perfect example, I don't think the original comment is all that terrible.
For the most part yes, but it's not an iron-clad law, I've seen angel funded companies do much larger angel rounds later on bypassing the VCs completely up to an exit.

But that's definitely exceptional.
Living the GoPro Life
I love articles like this. Everyone's quick to brag about the things that go right, but too few tell about the difficulties they encountered along the way. In the long run, warning others about upcoming speedbumps is at least as important.
The article could have done a better job making clear that RNA topology has been extensively studied using computational linguistics, and much of the work by Chomsky applied directly.

Note: "The general problem of predicting lowest free energy structures with pseudoknots has been shown to be NP-complete."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoknot
I am considering the individual's value estimation at the time the decision is being made. I don't feel like the fact that they might revise their values later really matters for something like this.
That Stanford session will be over-subscribed to the point that any access privilege is relatively minor, as well as just a moment in time but the treasure trove of footage resulting from it will last for a lifetime.
Hopefully once Emotiv Insight comes out it'll be able to do both and more...
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AT ZEFR, we are creating a platform and tools for video on YouTube (soon other social media platforms).

Here are a few examples of the complex problems we are trying to solve:

We manage our clients video data....
How do we increase the speed of analyzing the volumes of video data while simultaneously categorizing it and classifying the conversation in the video?
We create video channels for our clients...
How do we create benchmarks that analyze the performance of one video channel over another video channel. How do we make the data actionable for our client?
We develop instruments that a brand uses to evaluate performance on social media video platforms....
How do we develop our analytic tool to get a brand to know what actions it should take to grow the audience on a specific social platform? How do we automate that process?

Can you solve these problems? Are you interested in trying to solve them? If you answer yes to either question, we would enjoy speaking to each other.

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We aim to hire good people who excel in their field.
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Yup. We were doing quite similar things on the Atari 6502-based computers (it helped that there was hardware scrolling, but only to a degree). The PC graphics hardware was just embarrassingly awful (it's like the hardware engineers on the CGA decided to make it insanely hard to do any animation -- WTF, you're doing a color display on a consumer product?)

Ah well, they won, and Atari / Amiga / Commodore lost; better doesn't mean you win.
Being able to interbreed is the very definition of a species.

It isn't, and cannot be. The relation A interbreeds with B is not transitive.

Larus Gulls originated in Finland and spread west, evolving as they moved. Eventually some of them reached England. The Finnish ones breed with the Russian ones, Russian with Canadian, Canadian with English, but the English don't breed with the Finnish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
I'm actually surprised how cheap their OCONUS warzone rates are. Many contractors will pay hazardous bonuses, time in theater bonuses and living condition bonuses on top of the CONUS base pay. Added up it can far exceed this kind of rate.

But this is probably helpful for people getting into consulting to see what hourly rates are for this kind of work. In my experience these rates are actually fairly cheap. I'm used to seeing $170-200 for most things billed to the government.

But I've also heard Palantir has fairly conservative pay caps, that might account for the low rates.
Oh the things Glass can (and can’t) do
Unfortunately for us, it seems that the more 'evolved' we get, the smaller our brains get:

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/02/132591244/our-brains-are-shrin...
And yet it is still square and ugly because of it.
Conversations about it often don't go well.

All to often, people start using it as justification for income disparity, wealth disparity, minority crime rates and sometimes differences in economic development between different countries. Racism and classism aren't too far behind.

I'm reminded that it is no more noble to fool a person out of his money by outwitting him, than it is to bully him out of his money with superior strength. Being smarter isn't necessarily a moral justification for greater rewards.

Similarly, we rely on the economic system using prices as an information signalling mechanism; more valuable labour is priced up, and thus supply should follow. But if the valued labour is intelligent labour, and its supply is not easily increased, then there is less of a moral case for paying its suppliers more, for that attribute alone.
Have you seen pictures of what drone props can do to skin? Even the handheld drones draw blood easily. The $500 phantoms can cause damage requiring stitches... Not sure a baseball is the best analogy.
Federal Intrusion: Too Many Apps for That
Totally disagree. Considering what flimsy pretext the US routinely invades countries since WWII, a local invasion would just make it that much more expedient. Look at how many well-enfranchised groups have made hay on the US war machine.
sounds almost like me :)
I thought he was pretty clear when he said

> If it actually doesn’t do much more, or allow much more, than what they demonstrated on stage last week, I am indeed going to be deeply disappointed, and I’ll be concerned about the entire direction of the company as a whole. But I get the impression that they’ve only shown us the tip of the functional iceberg, simply because they wanted to reveal the hardware — particularly the digital crown — on their own terms. The software they can keep secret longer, because it doesn’t enter the hands of the Asian supply chain.

He thinks Apple is holding some details close to the vest and he has a plausible reason for why. Say what you will about Gruber's Apple partisanship, but he's always been great at reading between the lines of Apple's publicity events.
There are defendants who know that they will be convicted, yet won't be enticed by a plea bargain because their crime is so heinous (or they are already incarcerated for life). These defendants will stand for a full jury trial, hoping for the chance of an acquittal. Every dollar spent on these trials is a dollar that isn't spent on schools. Therefore, we should eliminate the inefficiencies of jury trials and "beyond a reasonable doubt" so that more money can go to schools.
George represented me personally on the Perfect Audience acquisition deal and was immensely helpful and responsive.
How do they get such precise prices? If I was selling something for 140k, I would sell it for 140k. But they sell it for $141,015.42.
Huh. At our end, 8325701 has a trailing slash and this one does not.
I've got a muse, and it works wonderfully (at least, compared to Neurosky sets). The most frustrating bit is that there's no API -- meditation is good and all, but I'd really like a sensor of that quality that one could hack with.
Congrats thinkxl!