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$300 for something I may not end up using is a bit too much!
He founded xiph.org, created the Ogg container, and helped write Vorbis and Daala. His creds are pretty much the best.

Edit: For a less-snobbish presentation, try watching his Digital Show & Tell video https://www.xiph.org/video/
So the problem is that everyone in government is just dumb? That doesn't seem like a very plausible explanation to me.
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.gitignore isn't a viable option?
Makes sense if you are a very short-term thinker.
Thanks, Patrick! (And thanks for posting Mosh on here and giving us a kick in the butt to really release it...) If Stripe just has one class of preferred stock, you're right that my assumptions are off, and I guess then it would be reasonable to impute the value of the newly-issued preferred shares to all the preferred shares. I would still disagree with imputing it to the common, especially since you presumably have your own appraisal of the common at a different price for tax purposes.

Do you think there's a practical path to getting some more realistic numbers in these announcements? Does it matter? It seems like the people possibly being misled by these "TechCrunch valuations" are the press (which is enthusiastic anyway and loves to report the biggest number that can be attributed to somebody) and prospective/current employees (which could be a lot more serious, since people use these valuations to evaluate their own equity packages).
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Am I the only person who pronounces it as J-SON?
I was e-mailing sales@stripe so maybe that is a different department than their regular customer service. Sorry I did not clarify. I'm sure they're doing a lot of things right, I just had a bad personal experience.
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> There's a certain amount of tech talent at any given technical ability level available worldwide

Surely then wages would be skyrocketing for that limited number of qualified workers, rather than remaining static, which they have. This is what has happened in the past in the tech industry, and it's what happens in other industries. Supply and demand, as you said.

> paying more won't increase the supply quickly enough

So individual companies wont pay more because the national supply wont increase as a result? This doesn't make sense
I don't mean to compare Canada to Mars!

However...it would be completely impossible to sustain a population of 20 million people living at -20deg C for 3 months at a time, without spending significant amount of money on infrastructure specifically dedicated to making sure we don't die from exposure to the elements. We all collectively decided it was worth it a long time ago, and here we are.

Now Canada's a pretty awesome place to be in the winter.
OK, then it would behave as the old heavy reservation.
Most of the places selling these files don't include disclaimers about how the additional quality is only useful in studio conditions -- they use it as a differentiator in the marketplace for end listeners. The article does mention the need for higher quality in production environments:

> Also, there are (and always will be) reasons to use more than 16 bits in recording and production.

> None of that is relevant to playback; here 24 bit audio is as useless as 192kHz sampling. The good news is that at least 24 bit depth doesn't harm fidelity. It just doesn't help, and also wastes space.
I kind of stopped understanding this explanation of inheritance (when I switched to composition of course ;) ). When I look at the world I see a universe of composition, we get molecules by composing atoms, atoms from composing protons, neutrons, etc. little "modules" that come together. More practically, everyday objects seem to follow this too. A motorcycle and car aren't both "refined" from some "wheeled vehicle" that car companies buy, rather they share some similar components that car companies buy. Their similarities are thus either emergent (interface/protocol) or a direct result of their shared components. In unity for example, you don't inherit every hit testable thing from some class (like you would in cocoa), but rather attach a collider to things that can be hit tested. The collider actually worries about one concern, and you can therefor conveniently attach multiple colliders to one object for example (makes it easy to form complex hit regions). Similarly things that are visible have renderers attached. This matches my intuition of working with real objects, where is buy parts and put them together, not think to myself which "master" part my new thing derives from, purchase it, then rip it open and start modifying it as step 1.
I know you didn't, but where is the line between saying individual agencies are inefficient and should be shut down and the administration as a whole? There's certainly a contingent (not necessarily including you) that wants to scale the federal government back to the bare minimum sketched out in the Constitution and devolve everything except national defense and certain enumerated powers back to the States.
Why the title change? It is: "24/192 Music Downloads ...and why they make no sense"
He mentions this specifically in the article several times. He agrees with you. The discussion is end-user listening.
Each president talks about how space is awesome. But lots of other things are awesome and need funding.

The one candidate with any real decent space cred didn't make make it very far in his party's primaries last time he ran.
>Recruit Outside Of Central Casting

Good idea, start by being open to remote developers. I'm not going to relocate to SF, regardless of salary, equity, or how exciting the project is. I've worked remotely successfully for the better part of a decade, so I know it works. Slack, HipChat, Skype, etc. make the lack of physical presence nearly irrelevant.
I feel like the significance of humans going to Mars is largely attributed to movies and pop culture.

It's the Paris Hilton of the astronomical world.

I don't want to be labeled a cynic, but do the benefits of sending humans to Mars outweigh the costs?
> This can be very useful for physical simulations such as games, etc., since the real physical world is actually made of objects.

Actually, OOP breaks down for this case (simulation) too.
Thanks for the feedback!

> Eg. Does Freshbooks have the exact same feature running within it's accounting SaaS product?

Our product does not really fit into the accounting area. If you like, it is more of a CRM-type product. The closest competitors would be specialized agency tools like Revolver or HR tools. And to some degree it is also possible to keep track of your freelancer relationships via oDesk/elance.

So, no, I don't really think our product is just a feature. Although I have to admit that the feature set is not really that large at the moment, basically because we wanted to keep it deliberately simple and not stuffing in tons of functions.

> Place a link on top that says "Demo" so that I can actually see a video/demo of the product

Good idea! We are working on some kind of explainer video.

> Have some type of JS tool that converts prices from US to Euro (instead of saying "this applies to people outside the Eurozone")

Did not think about that, thanks for the tip (-;

> Researching and focusing on 2-3 channels should give you a rough idea of how to approach your marketing.

Thanks for your tips regarding marketing strategies. I guess we'll look a bit further into content marketing/blogging.
He knows what he is talking about. But I think his tone is somewhat snobbish because he is a little tired of the nonsense that is spread about music theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Montgomery
Nice, but I reckon the corner should be a lighter shade than the rest of the note, not darker. Otherwise it looks like the light source is coming from below — which is a bit weird
For public high schools with a GreatSchools' score of 9 or 10, there are $1.5m 3BR home in places like in Fremont, Dublin or Campbell, but would be a bit of a commute to places like SF, Palo Alto or Mountain View where a high concentration of $250k+ per year jobs are.

http://www.greatschools.org/search/search.page?distance=30&g...
>The best option is not screwing up our planet

We're not looking for a lifeboat, humanity is simply looking for another planet to screw up.
Lately on HN there have been a number of threads on people being quite successful with blogs and such. Of course this has left me thinking, "Hey! I know interesting things. I bet I could share them in a blog and be rather successful with it." This, however, if the first post I have read that really explains in step by step detail how to make it really successful! So, thank you.

One additional question: What kind of success have you personally had with following steps like these?
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It's a bad offer for the customer

Not necessarily. Some people won't want to move between server families anyway. It's up to the customer to figure out if what Amazon is offering is good for them or not.
> However, if investors are buying 70M shares at $1 each, it implies that they believe a share of the company is worth that much.

Well, you need to unpack what "worth" means in that above sentence. If you're using some kind of probability distribution over expected future outcomes (say, using some present value future discounted cashflow model with a probability distribution of possible future cashflows), you can see that there are all these possible future worlds that Stripe can inhabit. In some of these, Stripe is making lots of money, and so the stock is "worth" a lot. In some of these, Stripe is crashing and burning. In those worlds, common stock is worthless. But the preferred stock isn't as badly off due to the 1x (or higher) liquidation preference, and the other terms. So the expected value of the preferred stock across all these worlds is higher than that of common, and imputing its value over common doesn't quite make sense.
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I would imagine in most cases the quality of the rip wont matter if the production on the album, or song, isn't very good. A poorly produced and mastered album wont sound good whether it's 128kbps or a full lossless rip.

I think similar to a lot of things there are some people out there who can notice the difference, but the percentage is likely very small. Most probably are telling themselves it sounds better, but as the article points out they're likely guessing when it comes to doing A/B tests.
It's called PayStand and don't have any issues so far. Not sure if you're familiar. It works for what we need, a little higher of a rate we were looking to pay (we don't push the transaction fees to our customers which is an option of theirs), but had to implement something in time for the holidays.
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While the 30/33 kHz inter modulation test is interesting, how would the 30/33 kHz tones get there in the first place? Aren't there low pass filters and shielding on most studio equipment to attenuate EMI? Not to mention, the inter modulation products are 60 dB below the 30/33 kHz tones, I'm sure you wouldn't be able to hear them...
All this means to me is that somebody in the NASA PR department is leading a push to appear competitive with private companies. I imagine very little has changed operationally in the past few months at NASA. This announcement is only meant to conform to the ebb-and-flow of media, a battlefront where private companies have been kicking NASA's ass lately. (Maybe NASA PR wants to capitalize on recent virgin crash, chink-in-armor, lol).

This push is great but it's definitely a case of "fake it till you make it" from NASA vs the private companies, since they're all competing for the same funding. Honestly, I love it. It's great to see competition in the space race again. This time instead of nation states duking it out in orbit, it's private sector vs host nation state. It's great. Hopefully this leads to huge space innovations in the next decade, and we actually do send humans to Mars.

Go space yay. ~= >===|=>
Then kudos to you!
That's fantastic and in some ways awful - why did it take so long to get you glasses? And I shall listen to a tree in the wind on tonight's dog walk just to remember

Cheers
Nitpick here, but I think you mean signal theory or something else? Music theory is an entirely different can of worms.
"Everyone good wants to be a founder" is ludicrous.

1. Most people don't have the connections to become founders without an incredible amount of work (that could be better spent in, say, finance where the long hours bring 20-40% annual pay increases). For every one person who has the connections to deliver Sequoia on an idea, there are 9,999 equally talented people who don't. If you can't find one of those other 9,999, then you're without hope.

2. The problem is that non-founder equity is generally quite pathetic. If the founders each get 20% and the first engineer gets 1%, then you're never going to see a "founder-quality" first engineer. It simply won't happen.

To a large extent, hiring in the Valley is about exploiting the Winner's Curse regarding the unknown value of the equity. As it were, the more talented and seasoned people tend to assign it a low value (perhaps 0.25x price-at-valuation, meaning it'd take $160k of equity on a 4-year-schedule to offset a $10k salary drop) while the clueless and young ones who haven't made their (business and technical) mistakes yet tend to overvalue it (sometimes 1+... which makes no sense because why would one pay a higher price than the VCs are paying?)

Talented people would gladly take non-founder positions if the terms (equity, autonomy, introduction into the investor class) weren't so terrible. It's not like being a founder in the VC-funded world is great; it's that everything else is worse.
Interesting. How are the "Levels" determined?
Telegram bashing aside, this is very wrong. It is always better to have the source code to inspect the entire package. Without the source code, there is no way to fully verify the security of a solution. For Telegram and WhatsApp, the clients and server code should be released if you want to make sure.
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It's well worth watching Neil deGrasse Tyson on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CJ8g8w1huc "The 3 Fears That Drive Us to Accomplish Extraordinary Things" - if you look closely, the actual successful colonization of North America was driven by private enterprise. I gave a talk on this topic at the last Mars Society convention, in case you are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BOOuGUnDek
The public sector is, by definition, more efficient than the private sector.

The main difference is the profit motive. When a government department does something more efficiently, it has to use that efficiency to either reduce cost or improve quality.

When a private company does something more efficiently, it can take the spare money and shove it in the pockets of its shareholders.

It's not a guarantee that a particular public sector project or department will be more efficient than an equivalent private sector one; the Peter Principle may well scupper any efficiency improvements.
Anyone here who has not already seen Xiph's Digital Show and Tell ( http://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml ) should do themselves a favor and sit down for a watch. It makes sense of a lot of mysteries and misconceptions around digital audio.
You didn't specify 'qualified' in the original post. If it was implied and I didn't get it, I'm sorry. I agree that if there is a qualified local, they should get these jobs before bringing in foreign labor. Although, my argument isn't a straw man.
You seem to be very concerned for a giant rock. I'm not quite sure that Mars' feelings are so easily hurt, though.
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It's not what we could do. It's what the universe could do to Earth.
> The only real form of code reuse that OOP addresses is direct object inheritance.

That is incorrect and it's misinformation about OOP. The most important mechanism for code reuse is a function or method, and it's the essential part of OOP. You put code into a function/method that can be used repeatedly. Function exists in most languages and is not the exclusive domain of functional programming.
There is no line to draw, but there is a counter-argument. The (most effective) counter-argument is that the government agencies are capable of achieving objectives that the private organizations can or will not.
I highly recommend that anyone in tech looking to give back either donate or volunteer for StudentRND. As an organizer of CodeDay LA, volunteering and working with participants at the event is one of the most fulfilling things I've done.
This sounds nothing like the experience of where I am at (UCLA) in terms of grant pressure. I don't think the UK has tenured positions though.
Well as you could see in the movie "Interstellar", once you have left the earth you can just zip around everywhere with your little space dinghy :-)
Thanks, joining to the last row is an instructive example.
Right, but you should also include notions of immutability and ownership in your explanation. OOP is partly about managing complexity. If the mutation and sharing in your data is managed by the type system, private data is much less important.

That being said, OOP is also about managing interfaces between the different parts of your code. Adding a little more type info to your variables doesn't help you if you need to drastically change how a variable is accessed and mutated (memoized, retrieved from a service, persistence layer, etc.) while avoiding a running a giant find/replace across your entire project.
They are different tasks, but I'm not seeing any really clear descriptions of what DeepMind can and cannot do. It's possible that their software is only good at a very specific kind of thing that happened to be in line with what Google wants. And for all we know, they could be at a complete loss as to how to progress.

I mean, to what extent did they restrict what it means to be an "arbitrary game"? I highly doubt their software can play Pictionary, for instance, but I haven't found anything that really explains their limitations.

Because of this, I am leaning towards the cynical and assume it's just hype, and not actually that incredible.
Looks like it's mostly a marketing push for the movie.
Really fascinating breakdown and some really good ideas to take away if you are running a startup. The bit about frequency and habit forming was new to me. Now I know how to start regularly flossing. My dentist will be happy.

I also realised I don't get any of these emails. I've completely unsubscribed from all marketing emails long ago. Nice to see that preference is being respected. Of course some of the transactional email semi masquerading as marketing we'll give a pass to for the time being.

The only unwanted emails I do get are from the various Amazon partner/affiliate programs. I signed up to the various programs (US, UK, CA, DE, JP, FR) a number of years ago for a specific idea I had, but it never took off. Now I can't delete those affiliate accounts and I'm not allowed to unsubscribe from all those French, German, etc, emails from Amazon affiliates, so instead they get sent straight to the spam/bin using a Gmail filter.
I've always had a different view about OO vs Functional.

OO is beneficial to the programmer.

Functional provides benefits in performance, footprint and memory utilization.

You can solve any problem with either approach. Microprocessors don't care. I've written genetic evolver code in machine language (don't ask) as well as C, C++, Python and objective C. The OO languages make it easy for the programmer, while the Functional approach requires more thought, planning and perhaps attention to detail.

I tend to prefer The functional approach, probably because I did tons of real work using this model before OO came into my world. However, I certainly appreciate how much easier some things can be in OO. What I object to is this idea that everything today has to be an object, this is wasteful and slow.

Of course, I am biased. When you learned programming starting with machine language, then Forth and then C before touching C++ your view of how to solve problems computationally is bound to be quite different than that of someone who started life with, say, Java.
Sputnik had military implications. Going to Mars doesn't.
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We could likely skip some of that via genetic engineering and other medical methods. But I'm also referring to cultural and technological evolution.

BTW... if we don't transition off fossil fuels in the next 50-ish years we are going to experience some of Ye Olde Tyme Evolution here on Earth. Personally I think Mars would be a better place to be in that scenario. There was a sci-fi film called Alternative Three made about that.
SpaceX sits atop decades of resources in what constitutes sound aerospace engineering practices, and is being helped by the fact that their scope is far, far more limited than NASA's.

Private contractors given good specifications are certainly very effective at what they do, but I really doubt that they'd be as good if they were to go on a purely exploratory , basic research-like mission where objectives are fuzzier.
> I think similar to a lot of things there are some people out there who can notice the difference

Have you considered reading the article? Because it's reasonably clear that you can't "notice the difference" and be a human.
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I really see it as the sound of creaking in the timbers withstanding the force of a gale. (how is that for mixing metaphors!)

Basically the push is on for returning science results to the community, and the institutions that used to thrive on the challenge of getting published are being slowly eroded. In this process, and I've seen it before, the institutions start testing possible compromise solutions to avoid destruction. "What if we make it viewable in our app?" "What if one paper a month is free?" "What if you have to provide personally identifiable information which we can use for any purpose in exchange for us letting your read the paper?" it goes on and on.

We have to continue to keep up the pressure, not accept any compromise, and force these publishers to open up the archives for face dismantling.
That's just life.

Google will always have more money than your startup. But that doesn't mean all the best people work for Google.

Compete asymmetrically.
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1. Where are you?

2. Undelete facebook, don't read the news feed, let people add you and add people you meet and let them invite you to events.

3. Find out what messaging programs people use (Skype, etc.), install them and keep in touch when possible.

4. Go to meetups about things that interest you.

5. Work on your english. Even better, if at all possible, go to language related meetups and get teach someone your first language in exchange for them improving your english.

6. Lower your standards. When you don't know anyone you can't be super choosy. You can raise your standards after knowing more people.
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