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Maybe this works because they're building apartments so tiny they can be carried on a truck.

There's a more successful concept - prefab bathrooms and modular kitchens. See "ameripod.com" (bathrooms). This reduces on-site labor on the parts of the building that are labor-intensive. It's much cheaper to build a bathroom in a factory, install it as a unit, and plug it in. In a factory, you can hold tolerances and all the parts fit.
Bathrooms are a convenient size for trucking purposes, too. Moving standard-width loads is cheap and routine.

Making the exterior walls part of the module means more exterior seams. Building shells aren't expensive. Steelwork and exterior walls go up fast. Building steel and concrete boxes is a solved problem. Most of the time and money go into interior details.
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I think everyone more or less agrees that Anil Potti is a disgrace to science, and he has been practically blacklisted from mainstream science.

What this article shows though, is that his bosses were directly involved in the cover up - and lied through their teeth about the lack of a whistleblower to the people who went through clinical trials based on made up data.

Now, Potti took the fall - what will happen to those people who tried to silence the whistle blower? I'm not suggesting they are as guilty as Potti, but if you are willing to share in the credit, you must be willing to take a portion of the blame when things turn sour.
I'm 100% in agreement with you that the current ag scene will barely notice these new practices but I've been casually watching the industry for a while and solutions like this one promise to fill some important niches.

The point you make about technology shifts is one that absolutely needs to be acknowledged. I tend to look at big ag as stagnant but I know that's far from the truth.

Really I'm just hopeful for a world where we see better quality produce (in both taste and nutritional content) with less externalized costs. I don't care how we get there as long as we get there. I just can't help but think we need these smaller, more clever solutions to drive up demand for better practices before big ag decides to do anything meaningful in that direction.

I've long thought about getting involved in the sustainable farming niche; if you're interested, I'd love to chat sometime about how you see the industry shifting over time.
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Yes, easier said than done.

Suppose I am a cofounder of WhatsApp. We just booked 10M[0] in revenue and are seeing a lot of success. I'm pretty proud of myself and see big things for WhatsApp.

Though really, my ultimate goal is to compete with Elon Musk putting humans on Mars. I figure I need a few Billion to do that. But that's just a dream.

Facebook "corp dev" comes knocking. I read the news and see they bought Instagram for 1B, which isn't going to get me to Mars, and I'm not sure what they are offering, so I take PGs advice and tell them no thanks. However, if I take that meeting, I end up with several Billion dollars...

[0] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/0001326801140...
Hi there, how does it compare to Amazon's Glacier?
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While not a job-posting board, but rather a once-a-year event, I still can recommend Silicon Milk Roundabout: https://www.siliconmilkroundabout.com/startups

You might browse through current London's startup needs.
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utf-8 is trivial. There aren't major issues with processing code points. Having several libraries is fine.
This seems to be written very much from the perspective of a VC backer and not the company itself. There are lots of reasons to sell a company, many are ignored by this blog article which does little more than make the M&A guys look like a bunch of used car salespeople. Having been on both sides of the arrangement, getting acquired (twice) both times by Fortune 50 tech companies, and then buying companies I really haven't seen the robber-baron tactics. Obviously every M&W guy worth his salary will try to get the best deal for his company and any CEO getting bought out should have the experience to know the way deals go down. If you're worth X to one Fortune 500, odds are you're worth that to another, meaning the acquiring company has leverage to walk away. This either helps set the price, or the price was artificially inflated in the first place.

There are a lot of very naive startup CEOs out there, that's the real problem, from the Fortune 500 side of the table it's like babysitting most of the time.
The mayor calls this fraud proof? Nothing is completely fraud proof. What a silly statement.
Why can't the same people get a state issued ID card?

Will the federal government or business or other states or other countries recognize them?

It will make counterfeiting easier to get way with.

LEOs will see this ID as a sign of not being in the country legally.
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Are you looking to be hired? Whenever a company comes to me with a "great open position you'd be a perfect fit for" I tell them no, I'm working on my startup and I'm not interested. I'm not going to waste my time talking to them.
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There are plenty of examples of raids after phone intercepts. For example: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-18/senior-australian-is-m...
I also live a couple blocks from it and the only upside is that it'll eventually block the rusty looking Barclays Center from view. I'd gladly take the old Freddy's back.
"They used to sell YouTube video soundtracks on big pieces of plastic. I have some in boxes in the attic."
That's frequency extremes. So the high and low ends of the frequency range are rolled off. Also wide stereo in the bass region can cause the needle to jump, so either the bass needs to be reduced in volume or made mono/as-close-to-mono as possible.

Dynamic range is less of a problem.
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Microsoft OneDrive: House search because of one uploaded file (Germany)
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That sounds simplified. Mali, Chad and Niger are inland desert countries whose enormous total land area consists mostly of Sahara. They would still be desperately poor even if their official language were English, Dutch or Danish instead of French.

Conversely we could look at African countries that haven't had to suffer meddling from a colonial parent, and they don't seem to be much better off. Liberia has been independent for a long time. The Democratic Republic of Congo doesn't suffer from Belgian military interventions. Neither is a paradise.
If you replace "the cloud" with "the mainframe" we are heading at full tilt back to the 70s, and that's a good thing.
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By "desktop" I am referring to OS/platform more than form factor.
BigStash is based on Glacier, but offers an abstraction layer over the Glacier technical and pricing complications.
They weren't really clear about their intentions right away. If they were, I'd probably just say no. In two out of three cases it sounded like they were interested in being a customer.
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Unfortunately it was long enough ago that I can't remember the exact speech, but the meaning was very clear at the time. And he never seemed to care much about the company or products, merely about the revenue it was going to add to their bottom line.
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> I'm also not crazy about Jungian psychotherapy, but you don't see me protesting outside the psychiatrist conventions.

Economics is much more political than psychiatry, and most other sciences. As you stated, maybe due to it's lack of hard science. So it doesn't surprise me that there are activists doing this.

Whether it will actually influence the top economists who have politicians ears, and to a lesser extent overall academia, is the big question.
SQL has three parts (at least):

- description of your data (create table basics. This is called Data Description Language or DDL in the standard)

- the queries that is the first thing people think of when they hear 'SQL'

- all kinds of extra info that controls efficiency, resilience, etc. ((partial) indices, choice of storage engine, whether to materialize views, how to grow database files, etc.).

That last part could easily include ways to specify automatic replication (but probably wouldn't be standardized soon)
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That's hilarious, but it sounds like those tunes were pitch shifted into the same key. Nashville producers have more skill than that. Oh, and FL/GA line is frigging awful.
That scenario seems extremely unlikely though. If you talk to FB with the mindset of "just to see what price you can get", I doubt they would have gotten anywhere near the 19B price tag. That was an extremely well negotiation process that leads to the price: they must have at least some idea what's going on.
The output of the previous nano-electronic era might be considered the MEMs accelerometers and rate sensors packed into most smartphones, DLP micro mirrors, etc....
Thinkpad T430, Firefox under Linux — no lag. I don't think that moving a bitmap over the screen should be slow on 2010 hardware (well, even on 2000-ish hardware). Probably it's just so obscure that browser vendors don't notice / test for small performance regressions.
That articles looks bogus. For instance:

It’s such an evil system even denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to move from that colonial system which puts about 500 billions dollars from Africa to its treasury year in year out.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_France, that's pretty much equivalent to the budget of the French government. If that number were true, France finances ought to be in better shape.
HFS+ has been patched with duct tape and pieces of cardboard for 20 years; receiving journaling, support for Unix attributes, extended attributes, 64 bits sizing, multi-processing, multi-users, hard links, etc. over the years. Really it's a sort of monument to kludge. It should have been ditched like 10 years ago.
It can, but I don't think these will. It looks like this dialogue is already framed in "regulation vs no regulation" without much depth. I think that a long drawn-out discussion among professionals would be more effective (if slower than) sound-byte politics.
This is only an issue when it is fake case insensitive. In the sense that it claims it is case insensitive but in fact is case sensitive (and returns case sensitive filenames). NTFS is a perfect example of this, it claims to be case insensitive but in fact stores everything in a case sensitive way (so you wind up doing things like ToUpper() on every filename).

On a legitimately case insensitive filesystem both "etc" and "ETC" would return identical filenames as they would be stored identically in the file system's database (e.g. would return "etc" for both).

So what you're really giving is not an example of why case insensitivity is bad, but why half measures are bad.
In my opinion, it is often useful to take the meetings but most won't be fruititious. You are likely to gain industry knowledge especially from other startups. If you are talking to a big company and you get to a meeting with an hour+ powerpoint, you have to really reconsider whether it is a good use of your time. If the deal is really you selling your SaaS software, it is probably worth it, otherwise probably not. Definitely don't take a sharp turn and sit in startup no-man's land while considering some big new partnership that will likely never work within the scope of your current vision.
Because they want you on iCloud. You can't even install the OS without an Apple ID and an active internet connection anymore.
That's a joke, right? :) I hope that's a joke... I remember RTFM and RTFA from usenet before the web existed.
As I recall, he's personally tutoring at least one other mathematician, doing lectures, etc -- that is, I'm pretty sure he's doing the last two of your suggestions. Writing books, of course, is a multi-year process in addition to his other work.

The problem is that they're disqualifying people who study under him in this manner from verifying his work, which seems like something of a catch-22.
Standardization is, generally, good for maintenance, learning curve and security, not always for retention (fun) though. Too much standardization is like the flip-side of too many one-offs: an extreme that can lead to unintended consequences. It's much easier to accrue technical debt and organizational bifurcation by having too many languages, with a big, painful shake out (technical debt repayment) into just a 2-3 (say Ruby|Python|Node & Go|Scala|Haskell|Erlang|C)... (I've seen this happen at a number of shops go through growing pains at scale).

Overall though, services should expose either a well/self-documented RESTful, zmq or similar API such that they can be rewritten in (your favorite whatever here). Being able to discover the API meta information automagically can be helpful for autogenerating clients.

The other aspect is that services have a risk budget: if the service is conventional and not as crucial, increase the experimentation. If the business/process model is risky/uncertain, use common, stable technologies.

(Gist: Pick from the toolbox, carefully... apply common-sense... Don't get stuck on perfect now or perfect waay later... Anticipate a little now to avoid pain of changing later.)

PS: Enterprise Rails is a great read. It's safe to ignore the Rails bits, because the architecture bits are universal and excellent.

Update: RESTful API metadata formats http://apiux.com/2013/04/09/rest-metadata-formats/ (and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS )
If they are as guilty as the article suggests, they should go to jail too. Just losing your career isn't enough.
Sounds like the CEO mixed up his shareholder speech and his all-company meeting speech.
Funny, because if it was global warming that we were talking about, I'm sure they'd demand we defer to the scientific consensus on the matter. :P

(And no, not everything in economics -- let alone economic policy proposals -- has an overwhelming consensus behind it, but there are definitely some things, like free trade...)
That would be now. The average person owns devices containing billions of components that are tens of nanometers in scale of smaller.
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> theory not matching up with reality has never been a problem for Marxism's adherents, has it?

Theory not matching with reality has been a problem for every ideology. Marxism hardly holds a monopoly on that.
I experienced the same thing when I was at the pre-seed stage.

I got an email from an exec at our competitor trying to hire me. I figured I'd grab dinner with them to see what they had to say, and they ended up being completely transparent with their business and sales strategy, competitive advantage, their opinion on our other competitors, etc. All while I reciprocated very little information about my business.

The cost was a few days of distraction, but it turned out to be tremendously valuable in understanding the market (and this particular competitor).
Have you considered doing matrix decompositions for faster exponentiation?
I guess the floating point handling would be hard to get right though.
The author could refactor them to use ems or percents instead of pixels, that way they would automatically change size depending on their parent.
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The exploit being referenced allows malicious code to be injected into a file that handles git, which is (.git). Now, normally Git does not allow you to overwrite (.git). Since HFS+ is case-insensitive, writing the file as (.Git) will overwrite the (.git) file and break security. Linus is saying that an uppercase and lowercase character are two different things, and not recognizing that can (and did) cause problems with security.
> This is a flawed, Marxist labor theory of value that can't explain why an artisanally-made handbag that takes 120 man-hours to produce still is valued less than a Coach/Prada/LV handbag that was machine-manufactured with no human labor.

Certainly it can explain it. The bespoke handbag has the labor of manufacturing done in one place, the machine-manufactured handbag has the labor of manufacturing done in two places - the place of manufacture and the place where the machine was manufactured.

The "Marxist" labor theory of value was held by Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith and all of the pre-Marxist political economists I know of. It is also a theory you seem to know little about as you're constructing a false, strawman notion of what LTV is and then knocking it down. Not that you're alone in this, I've read Paul Krugman attribute theories to the LTV which its proponents never had, so as to, like you, knock down the strawman theories. I honestly believe he is doing it out of ignorance as opposed to malice.

Actually, like all economic theories, the LTV does have holes which serious critics have pointed out. You don't seem to know what those are though.
The money does not appear on official counts, it mostly sits in offshore accounts and structures. Cf the Clearstream affair.
Nobody is saying that humans are perfect drivers; that is a red herring. The question is whether driver-less technology is ready to subsume humans. Without critically thinking about the state of current technology and its limitations, we might as well be championing Star Trek transporters. Why drive when we can simply beam somewhere?

So far I am hearing a lot of Star Trek and no real discussion of OP's valid concerns.
Europe's answer to 'attack on free speech' is greater Internet censorship
Downside of using this is transform still leaves the box size that's in the flow of the document the same size. Problematic if you have the icons inline, or in elements like buttons.
> This article originally appeared in the March, 2008 edition of Word Magazine.
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why is Sweden put together with the rest of the Eastern European countries? Some of the charts don't make sense at all.
This is completely, 100%, wrong about how YC thinks about things.

If you've not advised a large number of fledgling startups, you wouldn't know, but really truly talking to corpdev is demoralizing and dangerous. If they really want you they'll reach out with an dollar figure (albiet probably a low one). If they haven't done that, they aren't serious. Don't waste your time.

If actually you've raised from a VC, a small acquisition means you'll not clear preferences, which means you get nothing other than retention. The VC/founder conflict only comes up when you have a medium successful company that could be really successful. But in that case you can almost certainly sell secondary stock, lock in your $1 million today, and still go for it.

But more than that, YC (and Paul) truly want to support the founders whatever they want. We celebrate the small sales as well as the big ones. It's simply not true this is selfish advise that you should disregard.
The (unstated) context is that PG is talking to startups. They don't have CorpDev of their own, because they're startups. So the only CorpDev they could be talking to is someone else's.

I'll agree that it could have been clearer. But it was probably clear enough to be workable for the target audience.
Is this vulnerable from the LAN-side only or from the WAN side?
You are mixing the facts.
I stated the 2002-2004 war. The election were held in 2010.

During the civil war[1] 2002-2007 The country was divided in two with the French military separating both side, the French were authorized to act by UN resolution 1528 (very important!)

The elections were held in October 2010, the counting took months and the Electoral commission declared Alassane Ouatarra the winner in December 2010. Laurent Gbagbo refused to stand down, claiming he won. Thus the 2nd civil war began[2]. The stand off continued until April 2011 when the rebel took control of the country including Abidjan and with the help of the French removed Gbagbo.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Ivorian_Civil_War
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Ivorian_Civil_War
and curiously only Francophone Africa is more impacted by colonial meddling ...
In this case, the specific exploit Linus is referring to works by commiting a malicious .git file as .Git to your repo. Then somebody else on OSX clones your branch, and the bad .Git file will overwrite your .git file, causing a security breach.
The prime number-one concern in kernel programming is managing complexity. Well, in most programming really, but in kernel programming unmanaged complexity leads to lost data and sometimes broken hardware instead of "just" crashes.

Case-sensitivity is the easiest thing - you take a bytestring from userspace, you search for it exactly in the filesystem. Difficult to get wrong.

Case-insensitivity for ASCII is slightly more complex - thanks to the clever people who designed ASCII, you can convert lower-case to upper-case by clearing a single bit. You don't want to always clear that bit, or else you'd get weirdness like "`" being the lowercase form of "@", so there's a couple of corner-cases to check.

Case-sensitivity for Unicode is a giant mud-ball by comparison. There's no simple bit flip to apply, just a 66KB table of mappings[1] you have to hard-code. And that's not all! Changing the case of a Unicode string can change its length (ß -> SS), sometimes lower -> upper -> lower is not a round-trip conversion (ß -> SS -> ss), and some case-folding rules depend on locale (In Turkish, uppercase LATIN SMALL LETTER I is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE, not LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I like it is in ASCII). Oh, and since Unicode requires that LATIN SMALL LETTER E + COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT should be treated the same way as LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE, you also need to bring in the Unicode normalisation tables too. And keep them up-to-date with each new release of Unicode.

So the last thing a kernel developer wants is Unicode support in a filesystem.

[1]: http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/CaseFolding.txt
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> 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? :)

If they literally try to wine and dine you... maybe?
The labor theory of value has some relevance in dealing with intrinsic goods.

Your mother knitting you a scarf with her own hands for your birthday instead of an identical one she bought in walmart, and cooking dinner with a sauce she made herself from raw ingredients on Christmas rather than buying the same sauce from the supermarket are two examples.

Modern economic theory assumes all human beings are rational. But they are not rational, all the time, every day, and by optimizing for rationality, something is lost.
Upper/lower case is locale language sensitive. One specific example, the uppercase for "i" varies depending on whether you have a Turkish locale or not. String.toLowerCase() in Java has exceptions coded in for the "tr", "az", and "lt" locale languages. Some of these languages may cause the length of the string to change when upcased or downcased, too.

Additionally, given a utf8 string, OSX will translate it into another, possibly different utf8 string before using it as a filename (the NFD normalization that Linus mentioned).
It sounds like you kid, but I wouldn't put it past them. :) We are talking about millions of dollars for some acquisitions, after all.
I think having a world class JIT is somewhat of a distraction for regular Lua which is a world class language with an excellent interpreter.

Lua literally runs everywhere with implementations that run in or on any platform you are currently using (Java, C#, C/C++, Javascript).