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> Twitter has a $25B market capitalization which is not the same as saying that the company is worth $25B.

Tautologically, that's exactly what it means.

> $4B ($3B, actually) cash in the bank are not so cool if they're loaned and you have to pay them back eventually, with interest

$3.6B with $350M in receivables actually. Their debt is convertible debt (which won't impact their cash) at 0.25% and 1%.

> And finally, having revenue does not imply being profitable.

It certainly doesn't but Twitter has positive Operating Cash Flows and the market thinks they'll return $25B in PV to equity, so I think I'll side with the market on this one.
Well, if you never heard that term, and

1) you are a front-end JS developer, perhaps front-end JS development is not for you.

2) you aren't a front-end JS developer, then the post wasn't meant for you, so not much need to explain anything.
Why would a browser want to bundle a polyfill, instead of just implementing the feature in question?
So, I'm a bit confused: it looks like Time4Popcorn (a Popcorn Time fork) has rebranded as Popcorn Time based on the Facebook link on the bottom of the page, and used the original Popcorn Time's website (at popcorntime.io). Despite the fact that the original Popcorn Time project still exists. Is this some sort of weird open source turf war, or what?

EDIT: In case you missed it, scroll to the bottom: http://imgur.com/S6CBHqI
Log in, unsubscribe from all the default front-page subreddits, and put together your own mix based on stuff you're interested in. The Reddit I read by doing this is a pretty genteel and sensible place.
Fascinating, I'll have to look at it more closely when I've got a usable command line available. I would not have thought it was feasible for a useful subset of C -- but then I tend to forget that it is a rather simple language at heart (eg: after running the pre-prosessor).
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They were closed down, but they're back under a new domain name. Hence the promotion here.

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/572006/20141107/popcorn-time-...

Also, trying to do Netflix over Tor isn't going to scale.
>I'm really glad I'm not a JS developer

Yeah, because other languages don't all have their issues...

"as a graphic guy" implies strongly "C++". Hardly the pinnacle of language design...
Is this a sign of what happens when a cloud guy becomes CEO?
>User agent detection sounds great, until you have a user that spoofs their agent.

Yeah, properly serving that 0.01% demographic would be hard...

/s
Most founders work very hard, often to destructive excess as portrayed in the article. And most startups fail. This suggests that hard work is weakly correlated with startup success.

If so, a dearth of examples of successful startups by founders lacking a chronic death-march work ethic doesn't speak at all to whether burnout is a requirement for success.
You might want to look at http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview
Since the original popcorn time shut down there's been numerous forks. I'm curious to know if they're using RootVPN (I think that's the name of it) that was advertised by TPB. Looks like they also touched up on the UI as well compared to the original Popcorn Time (based on the screen-shots).
>I realize that takes a level of strategic thinking the MAFIA aren't known for

i bet they (the existing distribution channels/companies) have thought about it, and have projected that there is less profit to be made that way, due to the fact that their entrenched business model is incompatible (thus require a lot of new investment). If it was more profitable, it would've been done already!
Damn. Not sure what I was expecting, but that sucks. So sad.
I think you need to come up with a coding guideline. After that, you review/discuss it with your team.

Also, you may need to create a "checklist" and encourage your team to follow it as a way of self-check on their work.

In this way, you will be able to concentrate your reviews on important things (such as logic, etc) since the trivial errors were already eliminated.
Good luck to these guys. Its certainly an up and coming area with some overlap with an existing, mature market. Tibco (the information bus company) is a $4b company with relatively dated technology...Informatica is another legacy solution in this area with tons of revenues. Either way, the market is certainly poised for some disruption
I couldn't help noticing that in the first week of school several teachers who do have concealed carry permits managed to accidentally discharge their firearms in school, although I think the only casualty was the one who was injured by flying porcelain when the gun went off in the restroom and destroyed a toilet bowl.
3) you were born knowing everything about your trade, so no point posting articles like these.
It's beyond ridiculous; teachers are being put in charge of classrooms of minors, while being denied the right to carry arms to protect them effectively.

It literally boggles my mind that people make this suggestion with any sincerity.
For other than startups, this provides nice gallery of idiocy:

"Look, this is how many external Saas-dependencies we have and we have no control over our service."

Just saying, because it is one thing to use open source and totally different thing to rely on 3rd party services.
Stats are not supporting your side very much. Random link with source description chosen from "school shootings by country" search - they all say the same:

http://qz.com/37015/how-school-killings-in-the-us-stack-up-a...
Good for you. If the CEO himself is burning out like this, can't help wondering how much worse their engineers are burning out.
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It wasn't 500 years ago, but homesteaders similarly had to make from scratch most of what they wore, and used, and ate. I've been reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder books with my daughter, and Wilder goes into quite a bit of detail about all the very many things her family had to be able to do themselves, using only raw materials.

In general, everyone in the family is absolutely always working, and they all have a wealth of craft knowledge which had been passed down through the family. Extended families and neighbors work together when many hands are needed. They're kid's books, but really interesting nonetheless.
> Something is going wrong (organically, culturally, or both) that depression is the default state for so many.

I'm not convinced that this is any different from the "natural state" of humans (which granted is not completely well-defined). I do not see any reason to expect people to be generally happy. While it's overly reductionist to think of evolution in terms of individual "fitness", it is not clear to me that a general trend of being unhappy (which in slightly more outlying cases becomes depression) decreases fitness. The only obvious effect I can see is suicide, but that's pretty rare statistically speaking, and we have strong self-preservation instincts independent of happiness that are pretty hard to override. Being reliably happy on the other hand is probably ruinous to fitness--what motivation would I have to do anything?
Kafka is a Big Deal, and it's great to see it get first-class support.

In the same way that Hadoop is starting to feel outdated, but HDFS doesn't seem to be going anywhere -- I think we'll see a lot of innovation in stream processing frameworks in the next few years, but Kafka will just keep on going.
I think the blurring of signs is a side effect of trying to blur out the license plates of cars.
Isn't that a clone of the original PopcornTime? Those guys are still alive and kicking right here: https://popcorntime.io

They also have their source-code as a git repo (now self-hosted since they got DMCA'd on GitHub): https://git.popcorntime.io/
And a status page:
http://status.popcorntime.io/
I hate the ad because fundamentally it is created on gender stereotypes. The boy wants to listen to rock music and the girl to dance numbers. The woman is cooking and wants to know tablespoon to teaspoon conversion. The man is waking up to go to work and wants to listen to the news. Argh! We are not in the Mad Men era!!
It has a mic mute button, but not a power switch.
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This is indeed a risky bet from Microsoft. Although they are now starting to understand what the ecosystem/user wants, I wonder how far will they be able to go down this path?
What does a mind look like when it's literally boggling? :)

Seriously though, either:

- school shootings are a statistically significant threat, in which case, arming teachers who wish to be armed seems reasonable

or

- school shootings aren't statistically significant, in which case, enough with the fear-mongering already
>This device is designed to transmit everything it hears. There is no way to tell where that data goes and it may be difficult to determine exactly what it contains. Where it's possible to determine if your phone is sending unauthorized data.

Not necessarily true, a catch phrase programmed on-board is used to activate the device. If the device was constantly transmitting voice data to Amazon I would have to guess that the leakage of data would be picked up and could be exposed. I still don't think the smart phone analogy is dissimilar, if not worse than the Echo in terms of the privacy implications. What if a catch phrase was programmed into your phone (for instance a list of words a 'terrorist' might use), and it only sent recorded/geo/image/contact information for a short time after it was used? I don't think that would be an easy privacy compromise to spot if you didn't know the catch phrase. Not to mention that many people's smartphones are constantly transmitting location data to Google, without complaint.
> they can invest back into new products in the same way Google do but at a larger scale since they don't have the pressure of returning profits to shareholders

Can you elaborate on this? Google tries plenty of "moonshots" that may never return profits to shareholders
Warning: contains generalizations and hyperbole.

When people say America is an oligarchy, this is what they mean. Your congressperson almost always does not represent you, they represent groups like the NRA. Sensible debate is not "quelled," Congress just does not want to have the debate at all. It is totally sensible for Congresspeople to not have what you would consider a real debate on gun control, because doing so would directly affect their chances of reelection. Instead they avoid the topic or engage in a sort of theater debate while the proverbial smoke-filled room dealmaking happens.

On top of this, many people do not grep the 2nd Amendment and truly believe that it protects all gun rights. In a sense it does, because that's how most people today interpret the Constitution: loosely. So public opinion is often with the NRA more than you might think, especially if you live in a blue state.

See also: the exclusion of a public option from Senate healthcare debates as a topic. It's a perfect example of this phenomenon.
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Hm. Couldn't you also adapt Dijkstra's Shunting Yard Algorithm?
Business Development Companies are actually a thing [0]. They're consulting firms that take equity. So... yeah. You're pretty much right on.

That said, YC is a fantastic way for a young company to identify what's really important and to be reminded weekly (if not daily) to ignore everything else.

P.S. Good luck to all those interviewing for the upcoming batch.

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Development_Company
So this one probably is fork of the original PopcornTime with a built-in VPN? Thats all right?
The total known number of civilian firearms in the USA is roughly 1 per person (my guess is the number is actually higher; guns will last ~100 years if not abused). The vast, vast majority of those will never be fired in anger. Unless you plan on a non-miniature civil war to confiscate them, you would be better off addressing the mental health aspects of the problem of spree killers, rather than focusing on the particular implements. As a bonus, the latter approach has a shot in hell, so to speak, of working.

Otherwise it rather looks like, oh, say, screaming about scary terrorists using encryption as an excuse to ensure insecurity for the rest of us.
Weird, that shouldn't be there. I double checked in an incognito and things seemed fine. LinkedIn blog posts are supposed to be visible with or without an account, so this must be a bug of some kind.
'My side' probably isn't the side you think it is.

Your stats actually back my position up quite nicely, which is: if you're going to have an armed society, then probably the worst thing you can do is gather large numbers of children together under the care of people who are themselves unarmed.

Personally, I think that it's reasonable to be allowed to go armed in public; especially for the old, infirm, and physically weak a weapon is a great equaliser.

The problem comes when you have an armed society, with pockets of disarmed (as opposed to unarmed) prospective victims.

It's a have-your-cake-and-eat-it situation. Either you disarm the population (wearing the cost to those incapable of physically defending themselves, and also, best of luck with that) or you arm the teachers who wish to be armed.

Any other position is wishful thinking.
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So Facebook can get a .onion cert, but normal people can't? That's a little annoying.

I wonder whether the same effect could be had by using a self-signed cert - would work especially well with a phone app which could pin whatever cert it wanted.
I try to be polite and respectful when I disagree on HN, but you are honestly an ass. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're just ignorant and not an idiot.

When you asked for a "reason" for depression, you clearly implied a human cause. You may even have implied that he just "felt bad" about something that happened to him. That is wrong to the point of being offensive. You wouldn't say, "Why did he get brain cancer?" or "Why does she have Parkinson's?" Depression is an illness.

It's not considered curable, though it is highly treatable for some people. And the curability of something doesn't dictate a "reason" or lack of one. Illness is often senseless and random, especially something with a genetic factor such as depression.
This was fantastic. Does anyone know good resources for building internal dashboards? (I can't help but think of the Business Model Canvas as a proxy example of the style of resource I mean)
So, here's the "chat" that has happened thus far:

Government: Give me your guns.

The People: No.

By a "serious" "chat" you mean one in which The People surrender the law and their rights to the current government. In fact, that's not serious. That's juvenile.
The real questions that need ask is what motivates someone to undertake in a premeditated fashion the mass murder of young people.

The firearm is just the means, the motivation is the real question.
That sounds pretty awesome -- yeah, once you include some 3rd party that isn't locally hosted, privacy is pretty much out the window....

But, privacy might be irreversibly going the way of dinosaurs in the first place...
And here you buy into the false dichotomy; turns out there is middle ground between "no gun control at all" and "no guns at all".

The fact that a comment like yours always appears is a large part of why we can't ever have discussions about reasonable regulations.

Hell, where I live there are people who literally argue that property owners should not be able to decide whether to permit what are essentially armed trespassers, since that might infringe on someone's "right" to be armed on your property.
Makes sense to me. What's strange about it to you?

Seems like the best plan is to give weapons to those most responsible, rather than only those who would use them for bad.

It's not like all guns are just going to disappear into thin air.
tangentially wrt. "Depending on the country ... need a warrant or court order " - in Ukraine conflict both sides were using cell phone realtime data for tracking opponents. In particular during August incursion at least some Russian paratrooper platoons were tracked and finally hit that way. Young people who grew up having cell phones all around them and they had it with them during the incursion. Gradually both sides have learned at least to turn cell phones off - so far it seems that that is enough, at least no clear indications to the opposite - before entering combat zones.
I wouldn't advocate moving to another state in a location that's 3.5 hours drive and 3 hours by plane (not 45 minutes--airport time on both the front and back end will be an hour).

However, I would recommend checking out the East Bay. Berkeley and Oakland particularly. Cheaper rents, good startup community, 30 minutes to SF by BART.
I could not disagree more with them that the greatest threat to individual liberty is the "government" - that was true back in the day of Paul Revere maybe. But times have changed.

You've got to be kidding. Most of the violations of human rights that occur in the world come from governments. What other entity is powerful enough to take everything you have and thrown you in prison?
It's a 7 mic array. It would be interesting to see the calculations on how much data they expect flowing to the cloud per day per device.
I absolutely disagree with the Amazon Fire phone being terrible. It's not the best in the market, but not terrible at all. Very harsh judgement on the part of the OP. I even suspect a malicious motive behind all the vitriol spewed against Amazon.
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The technical apparatus is designed to watch everyone.

The legal apparatus is designed to watch anyone.
No, the "chat" consists of:

People: Maybe we could figure out something that helps to keep known violent or mentally ill people from being able to go on killing sprees.

The NRA: LIBERAL OBUMMER FARTBONGO WANTS TO CONFISCATE EVERY GUN IN THE WORLD BUY ALL THE AMMO YOU CAN GET COLD DEAD HANDS COLD DEAD HANDS COLD DEAD HANDS

It is unfortunate that the very worst thing I can wish on you is to have to live in the society that results from implementing your views.
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I have sat in this cafe for years, and have listened to some large fraction of the psychology department (and part of the economics department, as well as Robert Reich) discussing "how to get the 'right answer.'" That is a statistically significant sample, particularly considering ... Cal ain't exactly a cow college. Psychology as a field is baloney, as worthy of respect as the astrology column. What the "self esteem expert" in this article was discussing is even more execrable baloney than the usual.
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So we've spent years shouting out the mantra "test for features, not browsers!" and now Mozilla, of all people, tell us that that was basically a bit impractical, and we should just go back to user-agent sniffing like we did 8-10 years ago?
Google is in real trouble if it really works as advertised.
Given that it's relatively simple to craft a gun (3D printing, metalworking, etc.), how would you propose to implement the bans given that there's a relatively large subset of the population hell-bent on staying armed?

Honest question--I've never owned a gun and I don't intend to.
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So I found the shell of a bed bug at home last night, however after researching about them, it seems the only solutions that work are to wash everything at 60 degrees celsius and destroy/incinerate your mattress :(

Is there any advances in technology to help detect and exterminate bed bugs? It seems like a huge problem in every major city...

It's great that we're working on various methods against mosquitos which are far more dangerous than the bed bugs but I assume that with the amount of people living and working in cities, they would surely be willing to spend on bed bug research or products?
If their candidates were underfunded and still won elections, it would disprove their hypothesis: that money strongly influences votes.

With only $10M, you'd obviously expect their candidates to lose. Those candidates aren't pledging to refuse money because they had a lot of it to begin with. There aren't any mainstream, well-funded candidates taking that pledge.
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A .onion cert is pretty useless though, besides being revocable I guess. Access to .onion domains is already secured.
Except for that "reasonable restrictions" are rather like abortion regulations; they're obviously driven by ideologues with no technical expertise, specifically to make the exercise of a right more burdensome, like "waiting periods" for existing gun owners, restricting or permitting models by name, or regulating cosmetic features (oh no, a scary telescoping stock!). If they can be intentionally unclear, so much the better (for instance, what is a "secure container" for the purposes of firearms transport? Is a magazine that fits 10 of one caliber and 11 of another forbidden? Is a magazine "fixed" if it requires a tool to detach, but can be detached in under 5 seconds? What does it mean to be "ballistically similar" to a banned model of bullet?). The lack of good faith by restrictionists and their explicit attempts to de-normalize lawful firearm ownership understandably makes some reluctant to engage with them.
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The Wiki article about Severnaya Zemlya actually has a fairly high resolution picture from NASA of the islands (albeit from 2001):

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Saying, "they can just hire people" is quite flippant. No matter how many people a CEO hires there is always more that they can do. Using a topic he discussed the f.ounders event... he cannot hire someone to go to it -- that event is exclusively for founders. By not attending he's missing out on a BD opportunity. Could he have hired someone to cover the BoFA or other meetings? Maybe? Maybe not -- would BoFA take the meeting with the brand new BD team member? Would that member be as effective? "Luck" is preparation meeting opportunity and as you're rapidly scaling any business scaling a team that is prepared and ready to take on the opportunities in front of you is as hard or harder than any technology scaling problem the business will face.
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