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Is this where math meets emotion in the valuations?

I like the comparison of Box to DropBox because, though the companies are incredibly similar, I think they actually occupy very different space in the public mind. Their revenues seem to be close, but the DropBox brand seems much stronger. Maybe that warrants the higher multiples?
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I meant it had to be different to non-military satellites in some important ways. Otherwise it'd be just a non-military satellite. Imagine buying a consumer-grade computer. It's cheap to get one with 16gb ram, but if you want a 64gb ram one, it would probably vastly more than the 64/16=4 times as expensive. Each step you go out of the non-military satellite capability curve (with multiple dimension including features, reliability), it gets exponentially more expensive. If the a research-grade computer wasn't different from a consumer-grade computer in some aspect (by having a lot of ram, cores, processing speed), it would just be a consumer-grade computer.

A computer that is substantially cheaper would be hobbyist-grade computer.

Of course I'm only talking about traditional military rather than forces like A* Qda which might make do with whatever they can get their hands on, which is probably what you're referring to.

I suppose a very cheap satellite could be terrorist-grade. ;)
I do want to second the sentiment that a visit to Bletchley Park is a very good use of an afternoon!
I didn't know that HTTP2 supports streaming data. How is this done? It is not a websocket connection.

/clockstream streams the current time every second

And why does it require ~1KB of junk to force browsers to start rendering immediately?
Okay, let's suppose a software engineer cannot implement the BM off the top of their head. What would you make of that? How relevant is this kind of testing to the actual work of a software engineer?
> nature has its own "garbage collector."

Ah, no, it doesn't. If you think "survival of the fittest" will somehow magically cull non-functional, non-deleterious DNA out of the genome (except by accident), then you don't understand evolution.

It's kind of hypocritical to call others "arrogant" when you're opining on a topic you clearly don't grasp yourself.
I don't know of a torrent client that will allow me say "download at least these files of the torrent, and the 100mb of anything else that's the most likely to help the swarm".

Downloading the chunks that are the rarest first is different than downloading only rare chunks - although it's good that some of the infrastructure is already in place.
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While I can't provide an accurate basis for this, from the sounds of it, I imagine that Sendy wasn't originally intended for "traditional marketing" emails.
When you buy a VPS you should assume that it's not private.

There have been plenty of POC's of side channel attacks against sharded/virtual infrastructure including retrieval of encryption keys from a co-hosted VM.
On top of that you inherit the risk of potential vulnerabilities within the hypervisor itself which could be potentially exploited to execute code on the host or to compromise co-hosted machines.

There is no mode for any virtual infrastructure to give you neither truly private networking (since at best it's going to be on a virtual switch) or a private host for that matter.
Unless you control everything including the datacenter it self any true sense of privacy should not be considered, especially not in a virtualized multi-tenant environment.
How is the temperature control done? How do you stop it from exceeding that heat, accurately?

Or specifically, is the heating method induction? And how do you determine the temperature from that? (If induction, is it deduced from resistance?)
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But you get to skip those few bites (potentially) very many times.
Yea, I'm super excited that the Angular team has given us ES6!
I was wondering recently what the interface is on my old Nokia N800 tablet, for just this reason, but I'm reluctant to take it apart to find out. And I still have a soft spot for my trusty old N800. I also have an XO-1 OPLC laptop, but it has a funky display. Hmm. I have an old IBM T60 in my junk pile, maybe that could be used...
Buddhists say a loss of identity can lead to the greatest bliss one can experience. I think the future is going to get really weird.
I don't doubt some people in the government have the capability to read people's text messages, but what you're suggesting is way past that.

In the scenario you seem to be proposing, some random border agents are not only privy to top-secret NSA projects, but also have access to the data collected by said top-secret projects, and not only that, but they know everybody who's going to drive across the border on a given day, and not only that, but they pre-screen all of those people's data to see who's planning to marry for a green card so that they can manually screen the people's devices and then pretend it was random search.

Basically, these people are not the NSA, so assuming that they have the capabilities of the NSA seems a bit far-fetched.
Yeah. I was sitting in my PHIL 101 class way back in the day and was like, "Wait, this argument doesn't work because it assumes too low a level of computational complexity." Made for a great paper.

I also took some advanced creative writing courses. I was the only science major in my Novella class. So of course I wrote sci-fi. Had the most original story out of the group.
I experienced a significant connection delay. I assume it's due to the traffic surge from HN.
> overly logical analysis of social situations to the detriment of all

Where do you see that in any of this? It seems to me to be a classic example of what happens when you don't think things through.
This is exactly why I don't use any GNU code in any of my projects. I am just sick of people claiming it is "free" when it's actually a lure to get companies to use the code for free and then get bitten in the ass in the end by having to release proprietary code.
Why is it that whenever I bring up this point, the words "theft" and "stealing" are used by many.

I should point out, that so far you are the only one in this conversation to use the word "theft", and the word "steal[ing]" was only used by one other commenter (who was not replying to you at all). (At least, this is true as of the 178 comment mark).

All software licenses at their core rely on some sort of copyright, including the GPL as well as proprietary licenses. This is at the heart, I believe, of what the parent poster meant by "Why do you feel entitled to use other people's work without adhering to their conditions?".

And as someone who both uses, and creates GPL code - let me assure you, it is most definitely not a "lure" to get companies to use it and then "release proprietary code".

So, it's not about giving and happiness anymore and happiness is it? Giving out software for free and then getting angry and going after someone in court when they don't use it to your liking is not freedom in my mind. I release all of my software under the BSD license. It's true freedom because I don't care what you do with it. It's a true unselfish act.

I don't think the parent post was saying it was all about giving and happiness. Nor do I, at least not directly. People spent time, money, etc.. creating code to release under a specific license. The license is clear, and well-known. It is not unreasonable to request that people respect the license when using the code. The reason why they chose the license isn't all that relevant, to be honest, when it comes to the validity of it.

It is clear that you don't like or respect the GPL very much; that is fine, and the appropriate option is the one you espoused: don't use it. I'm not sure I understand all your hostility, however.
> That's hardly an argument. Netflix, consuming 33% of the nation's bandwidth is a great counterexample.

Actually it isn't.

Can AWS handle the scale of StackOverflow?

Absolutely. Netflix is a GREAT example of the scale AWS can handle.

However, can netflix migrate their entire system off of AWS without careful planning (which the parent of my comment was scoffing at)?

I'm a huge proponent of AWS, but I wouldn't be so naive to say that AWS allows me to be oblivious of hardware and infrastructure costs.

> In terms of scale, GoGuardian (the company I co-founded) has passed Stack Exchange.

How so? StackOverflow is #56 in the world in Internet Traffic Rank (alexa.com).
Although I'm not certain what you're implying by "corrected", I hadn't ever heard that phrase about iron before. Thanks, I like it.
We also have an alternate UI which has a bit more functionality: http://brewerymaster.mybluemix.net
That's for YC to worry about, not you.
I tried to apply for the beta but it requires a FB account, which I obviously don't have since I want to stay anonymous ...
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To try and avoid overly large price differentials between member states.
uh, thanks? I'd prefer they remain ignorant
Also see United States v Ickes

http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/U.S._v._Ickes
True there are hills and valleys but certain addiction game designs will always draw a crowd.

You can look at any top list in grossing, free or paid and still see casino games of all types because the new mobile games like Game of War or Clash of Clans still tap into that PvP or beat the system type competitive behavior.

I prefer games with gameplay but others play games just to compete and it fuels PvP type games and pay to win.

People get hooked on them that are competitive, it is why Clash of Clans had to be banned on the MLB Kansas City Royals (http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24762153/royals...) because the low impact, frequent replay, low action game fit perfectly into their day and fulfilled their competitive spirit, once they got invested they were also paying to win which is an element of competing in the real world and works.
The lack of a package manager is a good thing, since this is the job of the operating system. That Windows and OSX have crappy/nonexisting package managers does not mean every language should roll its own.

If the police in your city are not doing their job, you shouldn't resort to vigilantism, you should stage a protest. Ideally.
A good but limited analogy. It's important to remember one critical detail: DNA is "executed" in a massively parallel and stochastic fashion. Everything happens at once, all the state is analog, and everything interacts liberally.

That being said I think the basic gist of your comment is correct. It's very old spaghetti code... just hyper dimensional massively parallel spaghetti code.
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The stuff about mentorship is gold. I wish there were efficient ways to connect mentors and mentees. The last chance I had to have a mentor was at a big corporation but the focus seemed to be heavily favored towards being successful at that company, not the career I wanted. I didn't have a good way of finding a mentor so I took what was available to me which was still helpful.

Sometimes I feel that the Internet can be a mentor of sorts. There is a whole source of blogs and advice out there. Maybe that could be a substitute if you don't have the connections to find a mentor. The most difficult thing about that by far is separating the wheat from the chaff.
I get the impression that, by his definition, very nearly everything is a spam tool.
Almost perfect, but you left an unmatched close parenthesis before the call operator.
> which means a lot of copy and paste

Again, I don't think Go is perfect but on my list of wants, generics are not in the top 5. Can you qualify "a lot" in a real project you've worked on? Because after writing a good chunk (over 50k lines) of Go code, I haven't felt the sting as much as I hear it complained about.

> the lack of idiomatic way to deal with dependencies(no defacto package manager

Again, is this really a big deal? There's plenty of options, and if you are shipping any-type of commercial product you are going to want to be vendoring your dependencies in-house anyway. In which case, depending on something like NPM/remote maven repos is not a viable options anyway.
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It would be pointless anyway because Europe is too important to US power to be trusted with their own defense.
Reminds me of Peter Watts. Educated as a marine biologist, writes hard sci-fi for a living. Seems to have a very cynical world view to boot. The latter could be in part because he is apparently a trouble magnet.
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Some browsers will try to guess the content type from first few bytes, so they won't start showing anything until enough bytes have been received.

Well behaved browsers should not do that if Content-Type header is set.
It's best to throw out all these value judgements.

Evolution isn't purely random. There's nothing random about what works and what doesn't. Over time, differential selection and other effects (e.g. sexual selection) work to transfer information about the environment into the genome. Evolution is a learning process. It's just that the representation that it generates is difficult for us linear thinkers to interpret.

It only appears irrational from an anthropocentric point of view. It's not rational to us because we, having brains that work in a certain way, are biased toward seeing things as linear chains of cause and effect. That's how we think and that's how we like to build stuff, but obviously that's not the only way stuff can be built.

For all we know elsewhere in the universe there are beings that think in massively parallel super-holistic causality-matrix terms. To them evolution's designs would seem perfectly rational, while a UML block diagram would seem insane. "Nothing has only one cause or one effect," they would mutter... in a language in which every word implies everything to varying degrees and each syllable of a sentence must be parsed in parallel with all others.
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Again, it's different when we do it. Especially when we think we have nothing to hide.

We heard cries about how bad things were on the other side of the Iron Curtain, while we led a witch-hunt on our own people.

When the commies spied on themselves people for The Greater Good, it was evil; but when we spy on ourselves for Freedom and Advertising, it is different.

Honestly, if you have enough money to not be part of some messy and suspective underclass, why would you give a shit? If you actually cared, you have enough money to subvert a dragnet or the consequences that might arise from it.

You can live in the Manhattan/SF superclass bubble or any other bubble around the world. You'll be spied on just as much here as anywhere. At home, you probably know someone in intelligence who can give you some good insider info, though.
Just to back this person up, on Mandrills account page it states:

"Use Mandrill to send automated one-to-one email like password resets and welcome messages, as well as marketing emails and customized newsletters."

Emphasis on the "as well as marketing emails and customized newsletters" section there.

https://mandrill.com/about/

The difference of Mandril is that is doesn't have all the fancy features of Mailchip that people "would expect" to create a newsletter etc so Mandril is aimed at developers/software etc. That does not mean you can not use it for same uses as Mailchimp though.
When people in the 1940s looked into the future they saw flying cars, spaceships and cities in the clouds. When we look into the future today we see AI, a post-labor economy and the end of death itself. I'm not sure if technological progress has increased, but we're definitely dreaming bigger.

I think that predictions from the past can be instructive in two ways. First, most of it didn't come to pass. We still don't have flying cars or cloud cities, and common commercial space travel is still decades away. The second thing that might be of note is how positive the past vision of the future was compared to our current ideas about the future. We're so dystopian and negative in 2015. We'll have self aware supercomputers, but we're worried that they'll kill us. Robots will be able to do anything a human can do, but we're worried that we'll all be unemployed while a few get rich. We'll have the ability to live forever, but we're worried that will only be a privilege for the rich people who control the robots, and then only if the robots don't decide to kill us all.

Putting these two things together, I can only think to quote Packer's QB Aaron Rogers: "R-E-L-A-X" [0]. Odds are that most of these revolutionary technologies are far away, and won't turn out to be as evil as we imagine. The beginning of the 20th century was a time of tumultuous change. The automobile, household electricity, recorded music and movies, communism and the end of aristocracies. Everything was changing and people were optimistic about the future. Now we're on the other end of the pendulum. Outside of communications and the internet, there haven't been a lot of big technological or political changes and people are feeling generally negative about everything. Hopefully the early 21st century will produce big ideas that will have us all feeling inspired again. I wish I had some grand conclusion or takeaway from all of this, but I think the key is that this too shall pass and we should all try to enjoy the journey.

[0] This is a references from sports news that might be out of place here. If you didn't get it, it's ok. Move along, nothing to see here.
I would see more 'primitives' in a language than 'special forms'.

For example Common Lisp provides support for complex numbers and operations for them. These operations are 'primitives' in the language. This is unrelated to 'special forms'.
It just a way for them to justify searching anyone. He looked suspicious so the officer searched him. I'm certain they could say it about anyone.
It's not because Google has offices in France or not, it's because they offer their service in France.
I wonder if Facebook will release an according `Anonymous Mail` feature. A way for site owners to reach their `Anonymous Login` users by sending notifications, newsletters, etc right into their FB inbox.

This would surely attract site-owners by providing them with some kind of communication-channel to their users which is important for acquisition, retention, marketing and all that other stuff programmers usually don't like to do :)

The user can unsubscribe/delete account with a click and never gets spam in his inbox for sharing his contact details. Did Persona give away the email-address to site-owners or were there attempts at something like described above (even if persona were just to act as a proxy to your email via api)?
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How does this compare with "Did you win the Putnam?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
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I thought this has something to do with browsers returning their own internal 404 page if the content was less than 1kb? Something to do with that being the max size of error pages on old webservers, which browsers wanted to replace.
I could understand possibly going through sections. Though, really, that form of algorithm coding is so different from what I typically do day to day, that it just seems irrelevant.

I would probably find it fun, provided the hints/guidance were good. Not sure what to expect of it, though. As the sibling post asks, what would be the takeaway?
Maybe, if there were several official "levels" defined for complex languages (like Scala). So then a team that wants to keep codebases conceptually simple could decide that they are only using features up to e.g. level 3, anything above is forbidden. And the compiler would support this.

A bit like you can select different languages in Dr. Racket
http://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/choose-language.html
just show them the equivalent amount of code that includes the lexer/parser and validation logic that can be summarized by even a simple regex.

aversion to regex is like aversion to SQL. sometimes declarative saves literally hundreds of lines of hard-to-understand, poorly optimized code.
Humbled to have been asked to help organize and participate in what will be an awesome event in Austin. We have a great panel of alumni and a YC partner all attending. Should be a good time! If you're in Austin or Houston/Dallas we hope you'll join.
Didn't they recently realize that huge swaths of "junk" DNA are actually use to regulate RNA expression? So, uh, not junk?

Not the original article I'm thinking of, but related:

https://www.uam.es/personal_pdi/ciencias/genhum/bibliogenoma...
No. I am fairly sure that it all went in one ear and out the other...

(I do this stuff a little too often, maybe twice a year. This probably makes me an asshole, but it gets the testosterone out in a nonviolent manner, so it's the lesser of two evils ,really).
I wish we had a filesystem that was tuned to the peculiarities of flash memory. It should be aware of the large erase blocks and optimize for that.
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There's a mixed approach that I've heard described.

Assume the solution to the problem is simple enough that it can be found in five minutes. Then spend five minutes trying to find the solution.

If you found the solution, congratulate yourself. If you didn't find the solution, do the above procedure for fifteen minutes instead of five.

This approach gives direct, "surgical" solutions for simple problems, and leads you to more creative solutions to more complicated problems.
No, not using induction, just traditional resistive heating plus materials, shape and heater design to get even heating.

Preventing overshoot is a matter of the control method. We have a model of the system and use a predictive control algorithm to cut off heating just when we need to in order to hit the target without overshoot.
Your comment seems to hinge on the nuance of phrases like "modern nations", "the current idea of nations" and "current political organization of people", but I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean and what you're trying to distinguish it from. If you mean that the precise set of nations and territories that exists today is not fundamental or permanent, that's obviously true, but it doesn't seem to have any bearing on anything.
it would be good to get more technical specifics on the operation of your device
(1) how is contact between the grill and the food set? is it a single hinge? is the height adjustable?
(2) is air free to circulate on the sides of the food--is it a closed or open compartment?
(3) how does the power draw of your device compare to a sous vide machine at moderate to low temperatures, e.g. 135f for eight hours?
(4) what is the usable volume of the compartment?

thanks!
Ask HN: Doing consulting, how do you deal with your prospects?
I have a prospect (not yet a customer) asking for a budget for a software project (real state management App), he wants us to fill in every detail, from hardware needed to software tools.
I think there is a limit on the specifications and detail that you have to research for a future project. How do you structure this funnel?
My partner and I would need to be on the same page to move forward with an application which is why I was trying to get a better understanding of how that scenario plays out.
By 'not durable', do you mean 'the concept stretches as far back as we have written records'? Yes, 'nations' meaning 'something that gives you a passport' haven't been around long, but 'nations' meaning 'geopolitical entities' is as old as record-keeping itself.

And what do you mean by 'rule of law'? Do the decisions of tribal elders count? That doesn't suggest consistency, which is the spirit of the term.
I think parent meant that new mutations are random. Or at least look random.