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First, I'm not saying there is a right answer.

Second, I'm only trying to point out that often seemingly simple solutions have unintended consequences. In this case the further concentration of art in the largest metropolitan areas. I think one could make a reasonable argument that major metropolitan cities already have a high per capita art quotient - and that there is a public good in ensuring people in Topeka and Wichita can see great art as well.

I guess I'm really just asking the question - "Do we want to create a situation where art does not get donated to small museums in order to spite a couple of billionaires?"
can anyone speak to the non-obvious (like more megapixel) advantages of shooting this on the medium format Mamiya that he mentions? I've always been intrigued by MF cameras, but they cost so much more causing them to be inaccessible (to me anyway).
I wonder if I were to locally encrypt a message using AES and then send it via email to a friend, using a pre-shared key, whether I would be breaking the law or not, in Cameron's Brave New World?

If the answer is yes, then how about the Vigenere cipher? The Caesar Cipher? 1337 speak? Writing my message backwards? Making spelling mistakes?
After great success with Polarcloud's Tomato on the old WRT54G, I really wanted to use tomato on my AC66U, which is on "Tomato by Shibby"'s supported list, but it resolutely refused to run; same story with OpenWRT. Merlin's build seems to be the only reliable choice for Asuswrt, or at least that's my experience.
Here's a video of someone braver than myself experimenting with the effects of magnetism on his brain while he speaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJtNPqCj-iA
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Three things I’d like to comment on after reading the post:

1. The post title confuses me: Looking at the content of the post, I understand that Dark Sky has a new co-owner rather than a new owner.

2. I enjoyed the openness and directness of the last paragraph.

3. I did not enjoy the language at a couple of places. :-)

Congratulations and best wishes for the future of the company, its services and its apps!
This reminds me of this recent popular YouTube mashup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vapt5C3yDeY

6 recent hit country songs combined into one. They blend into each other perfectly.
Earnest: Aren't there other things that corp-dev does, like arrange strategic partnerships and reseller agreements, that can be very valuable for a business?

(My personal experience is that these partnerships never live up to their hype, but my feeling is that one time out of a hundred they give the company a huge boost.)
TY for the correction. American here, so I should have stated that my belief is based on my understanding of that marketplace. The legislation in this arena is admittedly more aggressive in Europe.
This is not a problem with the language but the one programming in the language not having a more in depth understanding of the language. Rushing for results without working out a proper solution or really understanding how to get from point A to B to get those results may end up with a false result. How do you prove and verify your work if you are taking short cuts to get something you hope is the correct answer. How do you know what you just copied and pasted is the most efficient way of solving the problem. When moving to C or C++ there are normally faster ways to accomplish tasks then what is possible with higher level languages due to the built-in limits of the higher level language.

It is similar to learning Calculus, Statistics, Number Theory, etc. you start at the beginning with basic math and move up the later, trying to skip these foundation and using what you find online without the capability to verify is a grave mistake. Those that skip the base foundation will be those that make grave errors in the future that can cost lives, time and or money.

Once you take the required time to learn C and or C++ you will eventually understand the power you have at your fingertips and what you once thought was hard or cumbersome will no longer be that way. A benefit of learning C and or C++ is that you will understand the languages they are built in better. Especially if you want to optimize the higher level code for performance or if you unfortunately find a security hole you will be able to assist with submitting a more detailed security report.

I see you are focused on seeing results as fast as possible, if you learn C and or C++ more in depth you will get the results faster when you run your professional grade code. On your note about having to rewrite a big chunk of the program eventually this is not true if you know what you want to do, design it properly up front and insure it is not heavily coupled with other parts of your code. C++ is a great language to get deep into object oriented programming and C for functional programming, learning both in depth will open your mind up to more battle-tested solutions that you can apply in higher level programming languages.

Just give it time you will see the light and it will help you in both lower and higher level programming languages.
He gloated like this with you in the room? I'm only a little shocked... not that he'd gloat, but that he wouldn't think about the effect this might have on the morale of his new hires.
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Alternately, you could rely exclusively on a TeX export utility and make a clean, less verbose language that compiles to TeX. Then existing packages could be either wrapped similarly or inserted as TeX blocks.
This sort of thing seems a bit like banning Napster. Eliminating the products doesn't eliminate the technology - although I expect the bigger players like Facebook to push back on this so as not to be out competed by smaller companies that care less about adhering to such 'blunt force' laws.
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Warning to users of Asus firmware:

In the Administration > Firmware Upgrade tab, never rely on their [Check] version button. It's consistently inaccurate. It's a long-known (and serious) flaw that's been like this since day one of these products and still to this day. It'll happily report, "The router's current firmware is the latest version.", even if it's months behind in vulnerability fixes. Go to Asus' site for the latest firmware then use the upload option to upgrade. Or, probably better yet, don't use their firmware.
"According to Glenn, it is very hard to figure out what TeX code is doing, mostly due to its terseness and extreme optimization"

This quote surprises me.
The TeX code is extremely well documented compared to just about any other piece of source code I have seen.

The literate programming style never caught on but I think you see the beauty of it in the TeX source code. If its hard to read due to the mix of code and comment it can be turned into a book. Or into a compiled program.

I am also surprised that optimized Pascal from decades ago, that compiles on a wide variety of different hardware and software platforms outperforms a modern re implementation.

The point being that if it was optimized for a specific cpu on a specific OS, making it really fast makes sense. But when writing code for "some" or in reality any (ok that isnt quite true but TeX runs on a lot of different hardware) cpu, and any operating system optimizing code is harder.

It does get compiled by a C backend these days though.
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I think this is good advice, especially considered that corp dev could also be seen as a kind of corporate espionage program.
Why would political terms suddenly change because people are living longer?
Well if you do what to at least have the discussion, one tactic might be to throw an optimistic-but-reasonable valuation at them.

"Yeah, that'll be $50 million..."

Then when they push back or ask for more info, just more or less repeat that and say you're too busy managing your growth to spend more time on it unless they're willing to move forward with an offer on paper. Just turn the whole thing around. If they go away, you're done (which will probably happen 99.9% of the time). If not, maybe you'll actually get it.

You could even pull the exploding term sheet trick backwards on them. "We wouldn't be interested in less than (insert biggish number here), and we'll need a response in two weeks." (Obviously word it more politely.)
Out of a link from the essay[0]:

>Do not enter acquisition talks unless you are ready to sell your company. Negotiating an acquisition is the most distracting thing you can do in a startup: going through M&A is an order of magnitude more distracting than raising money. All of your ability to run the day-to-day operations of your company will grind to a halt. You should only enter an acquisition process if 1) you are certain you want to sell the company and 2) you are likely to get a price you will accept. Don’t talk to potential acquirers “just to see what price you can get.”

[0]http://justinkan.com/the-founders-guide-to-selling-your-comp...
Honestly, why do people think that a terrorist attack like this requires any dramatic changes to society? The fact is that some guys got guns and shot up a building, in the name of a currently popular, violent ideology. When will we ever be able to completely eradicate this? The number of people killed per year in the Western world due to terrorist attacks is incredibly low. Perhaps we don't need a routing of our security apparatus and freedoms to prevent what, without the inclusion of radical Islam, would be seen as an violent crime.

We got two wars in the wake of 9/11, and I don't think there was any actual increased terrorist threat.
Yes, because of his intent for the changed law.
I found that NiCd batteries worked much better in the cold than the stock Li-ion batteries of my DSLR (but they're heavier).
It's not strictly grammatically correct but it's definitely a way people would phrase this in speech.

"Why are you talking to someone from corp dev?"
"That is why."
"What is why?"
"They are the group within companies that buys other companies."
I think you are underestimating just how cold the ground is. Simply building a house on top of it won't thaw it, unless the house is stupidly hot and totally uninsulated. Google permafrost.
Gradient effects in general:

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I had the same thought when I started reading, but didn't see any overt references to this. I am quite curious: has anyone around here experienced a case where it seemed like the objective wasn't to acquire/hire at all but to derail, tar-pit, or gather intel? I can imagine this happening if the approaching company is a direct competitor or is thinking of entering the space.
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You're getting voted down, but this is quite true. Having ancient unpatched devices out there doing things is a menace to anything those devices share a network with.

It's in pretty much everyone's best interests to make those devices as non-functional as possible as fast as possible.
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Does it still depend if finding out what the offer is will derail you for 3 months and almost certainly result in an unsatisfactory answer (or worse)?

I think that's his point: In theory you might like to know the answer, but in practice unless you are in a very strong or very weak position (and know it), you shouldn't let yourself be distracted this way, as it is incredibly unlikely to be worth the time.
For comparison, here is the view from the Empire State at night with 30s exposures.

Not only his pictures are visually stunning, but also incredibly difficult to capture.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/63499655@N02/sets/721576298051...
Amidst all the animosity, an accurate description and summary:

> […] our 2 Minute Hate of the FSF/GPL/RMS […]
He was back at HQ, and we were watching remotely. But the effect was the same.
That is incredibly brave of Bradford Perez. So much on the line, in a position of very little power, and still followed his conscious. Whistleblowers are often very admirable.
Maybe in their head they thought of it like

"oh you all are great I can't believe I just had to paid X for this/you, it was totally a steal!"
I don't anticipate Brits will be hitting the streets in the name of right to privacy and net neutrality as the French have done for right to free speech, though. We are a cowardly, dull bunch, with little regard for our liberty, I'm afraid. We are matched in this only by our leaders' outmoded worldviews.
Sounds like they were "negging" you pretty hard. The parallels with dating seem numerous when I look through the lens of you (in a technical hire context) as "the attractive woman at the bar" and corp dev as "the pick-up artist."
One only needs to watch Boris Johnson (mayor of London) in his top gear appearance several years ago (just the driving part is enough) to understand how utterly stupid this man is.

He is a trained seal that performs for treats.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831521

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822755
Can talking to corporate development be a huge distraction? Sure. But talking to investors can be a huge distraction as well, and a lot of the things that PG writes about corporate development folks are true of investors. Is PG next going to suggest that startups avoid the Sand Hill Road dog and pony show? I don't think so.

Broadly-speaking, investors today are overvauling startups. Seven figure valuations and ridiculous convertible deals are being handed out like candy to early-stage companies with way more potential than proof. It's a hot market and investors want dealflow, so they're not quibbling. There's also a greater fool dynamic at play.

This in turn leads founders to believe that their companies are worth more than they really are. In many cases, the "surprisingly low" acquisition offers these companies might receive are only "surprisingly low" when viewed through the lens of the angel and VC environment. On their own, they might be quite reasonable.

The big challenge for founders is that a high valuation can be a friend made enemy. It's great to raise a bunch of cash on favorable terms, but lots of companies will eventually fail to live up to their valuations. Once your valuation reaches a certain point and the structure of investments is more complex (liquidity preferences, etc.), founders can easily find themselves in a no-win situation even with a moderately successful business.

As they say, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. This post seems intended to get founders to forget this.
i appreciate this as a first approximation of what a founder should do, but it presumes some specific clarity that is somewhat rare (which i'd guess even pg would concede). for example, sometimes you don't know that the person contacting you is corp dev, sometimes founders differ on when they should sell, and sometimes you may have differing feelings from day to day.

in my limited experience, these kinds of discussions usually end in email. they likely wouldn't give you a number, but would it hurt to ask for an offer to see if they're serious before taking a meeting? the "we're focused on growing" answer can always be thrown out to end the discussion if it's not solidly serious.
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I had one of my balloons hit 102k ft. I don't think there is a height regulation.

This [0] is all from 96k ft.

[0] - http://robotrising.org/StratoSphere/collection.html
Two out of three were. The third was polite and professional but the offer just wasn't quite good enough. When I turned it down they just kind of went dark, which I interpret as a no. Interesting the third was a big successful late-stage startup, while the rude ones were early stage startups.

Negging? New to me. Shows how little I know about sleazy dating (and hiring?) tactics.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Negging

Should I now worry about waking up with a headache, being unable to remember what I did the previous night, but with a folded up copy of a signed asset transfer agreement in my pocket? :)
"It's generally accepted that modern day commercial practices are sub optimal."

Modern day agriculture techniques feed billions of people. It's on a scale that's hard to imagine.

"Is there something I'm missing as far as where its clearly deficient to a standard large scale farm?"

* The cost of the land/building/facilities is going to be substantial, and would get much much worse if you try to do this at a scale that would even barley put a dent into the food production system. This gets far worse if you want to put them in urban areas to reduce transportation costs.

* It would take a great many years to achieve a scale that would change anything, even if the costs work out(which as I said earlier, I highly doubt).

* Any business model revolving around this idea will be under dire threat of any cost optimization/wins on the open air large scale farms. For a metaphor, take a look at the multitude of solar start-ups that went into the market thinking X cost-per-watt was competitive only to have chinese panels drop by 30% in a year, immediately putting them under(see solyndra). This technique can't just be competitive, it has to destroy open-air farming in terms of cost in order to be safe enough to place a bet on it big enough to change anything.

* I would like to see some solid research on the affects of artificial light on plants. Nutritional changes, in particular.

Don't get my wrong, I am into technological solutions, I just don't see this panning out. For the record, I am in the automated ag industry, we build robots that perform various tasks on and around the farm.

Solutions that I do see panning out in the near-term future in terms of ag are:

* Autonomous/semi-autonomous farm robots/machines
* Big data analytics, allowing farmers to make better/smatter/faster decisions. Things like smart crop selection based on data from projected weather patters and market conditions, crop cycle planning to better respond to water/market/field conditions, accurate yield prediction allowing better financial planning, etc.
* GMO's that do something else other than allowing a farmer to douse a field in round-up or making a plant produce it's own pesticide.
* The commoditization and expansion of "modern" farming technology to the various 3rd world countries.
If the population collapse wasn't economically devastating than this would be true. But, according to the book, lower fertility rates result in an aging population that becomes an economic liability -- especially if it happens rapidly. In an economic crisis, resources become constrained even if there are technically plenty to go around. I'm sure there are examples of this in America's Great Depression.

I'm not by any means an expert in this area -- just doing the best I can to paraphrase what so far has been a very interesting and paradigm shattering book.
Well, the economy might sustain, but the pension system is surely doomed. Which means some drastic political fluctuations, as major (and active) voters will be stripped from their expected (and promised) wealth. And any political disturbance when you are a 3rd economy in the world with 200% GDP in debt might blow up in World's face easily.

If this debt is ever to be paid, this'll be surely done partly with funds now parked at US treasuries. And, of course, any economic issues in Japan will hit China hard as well - which is another major holder of US's debt. So, top-3 biggest economies in the World might go down in instance, sinking others with them.

Japan might try to compensate that by active foreign workforce infusions (like Europe do), - but they are a really closed society still, and their foreigners count is just under 2 mil (compare with 16 mil for, say, Russia, with comparable, though much younger on average, total population size), which is nothing.
"All 14 other cloud providers combined have 1/5th the aggregate capacity of AWS (estimate by Gartner)", yet the slides say "5X the cloud capacity in use than the aggregate total of the other 14 providers". The "in use" part is very important to include in the sentence as it makes a difference to understand capacity vs just having a lot of customers.
Consider me one of the 10k learning that today :) It certainly makes sense to do so, but I had doubted it simply because of the many times people would argue with me about how "it wouldn't be that bad/cold/rainy". I assumed one should plan for the worst, but many liked to be reminded of bright days ahead.

YMMV and different strokes and all that.
I think it is safe to assume he is aware of 'the wall'.
Worst case is that all publicly accessible routers were rooted en-masse within an hour of this announcement. My solution is an offline factory reset and firmware update.

Is there any risk of persistent root on these devices?
With thunderbolt ports on very Mac why should storage be limited to internal devices?
This, in some part, is due to a large failing in the scientific community, namely the lack of reproduced studies. In the system we currently have, already starved for money, we fail to properly reproduce the findings of others. Most researchers are more concerned with their own findings than that of their colleagues, and when grant money is scarce, perhaps they are right to be.

There is a lot of bad science out there (as well as the outright fraud), but this shouldn't be used for an argument that science should be less funded or what have you. Instead, it should be used as valid argument to better fund and bolster reproducibility initiatives (such as validation.scienceexchange.com and others)
ZFS on OS X was abandoned several years ago. Unless Apple has a new filesystem under development as a skunkworks project, HFS+ is the filesystem on OS X for the foreseeable future.

And even if they did build a new FS, there are some assumptions like case insensitivity that likely couldn't be abandoned without potentially breaking backwards compatibility.
Good point. Of course if they managed to get a hold of a Chinook they could do much more weight:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook

They actually use something like this to hoist HVAC units on roofs (so it's not a total stretch).

I was thinking also more in terms of the "terrorism" value of crashing anything of any size into a building in Manhattan vs. the raw damage. Of course airplanes of all sizes are also possible obviously.
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in practice though, i don't think there's any OEM that uses a non-standard rendering engine, except for the forks like amazon's silk browser.
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The one production compiler I worked on used YACC because we thought it was a good idea, but this was probably correct in that the PhD that did the parser part was a student of Hopcroft. She actually published a paper about error correction based on the work there.

Any compiler I write these days would do what you are saying--recursive descent. There is a nice technique called "chart" that helps with this.
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I guess everything old is new again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier
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