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This article is ridiculous.

He was the founder, and obviously (because he is no longer in the picture) decided to sell or give away enough equity in the company to the point that he no longer held a controlling interest. Thus he no longer plays any part in the company's goings on and rightfully so.

That was his decision, and nobody elses.

One has to assume that he was content with it at the time.

If he still held 51% or more of the company and still wished to be a part of Etsy, he easily could have done so. So could have basically every other founder in history.

If Steve Jobs knew that Apple would go on to become the most valuable company in the world one day, and that Mike Markkula was going to vote him out of his own company a decade later, he probably wouldn't have sold him 30% of the company for $80,000 either.

Hindsight is 20/20.
mirror? this was removed from stackoverflow
I'm curious to know exactly what crimes that you think the US has punished around the world.

Terrorism? Drugs? Copyright?
Yes, nothing is ever too stupid for him, but that's a new low (again).
@brianwski (or any other backblaze volunteer) We still can't visit your website. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8999036 It's been about a month ago we mentioned this issue.
There's actually no issue with chewing gum anywhere in Singapore.

It's just that their sale is forbidden. If you have a pack you chew from your travel to Malaysia nothing will happen to you -- but you better not stick it in any public property or throw it down when you're down...
Depends on the utility function. Assuming it is diminishing (2nd deriv is negative) with respect to the number of other members, the new member will always gain more utility than the network as a whole.
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Good idea. I've seen similar things in China Weibo a few years ago. It is a very popular way to write one long tweet(weibo). It seems like Chinese companies may start from copying but they can gradually come up with innovative ideas. Wechat is another example. I think its platform beats what's app, line.
It actually makes sense. If you think about it, if every external that anyone ever plugged in was backed up and then never seen again, that could be sooo much data. What if that drive was used, wiped, renamed and then used again? You potentially have the same drive on BB twice.

A way to alleviate the issue would be to charge a small fee per drive or per account for persistent external back ups. If it was 1-2$ a month extra for the peace of mind that a drive would always be backed up, I'd gladly pay it.

At the end of the day, you have a choice as a consumer and you went with bitcasa. I'm happy paying $5/m for unlimited backup for my main computer. All said and done it's an amazing deal, even when you consider the external drive issue.
Blackphone unveils a new phone and tablet running secure, encrypted Android
Jail == place of execution? That's not the sort of ideological freight that I care to bring into my IDE. I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but it comes off as gratuitously offensive.
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The fact that this is the top post is, in itself, sufficient justification for it being the top post. Apparently people care about Zach, or find it intriguing that GitHub fired its greatest ambassador.
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> The American lager style is really a Bavarian style beer that is 100+ years old -- and its surprisingly difficult to brew.

The difficult Bavarian lager, sure, is more difficult. American adjunct lager is made of rice (which is flavourless), and precisely pH, temperature, etc controlled. This both removes nuance and increases repeatability
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Didn't expect to see Founders and Magic Hat on there, though they're not InBev/MillerCoors (that really would have surprised me!)

The Boulevard acquisition's fairly recent. Haven't noticed any changes, really. Still producing a range of decent to very good beer marked up about $1-2/bomber higher than it ought to be. Still putting out interesting new stuff pretty regularly.
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If you really want to disable that Guided Access pop-up message, I think there's a way to do it. It's called "Single App Mode". You use Apple's Configurator to enable it through a configuration profile, and it literally locks the iPad into booting directly into that app, and you cannot disable it without connecting the iPad to (presumably the same?) computer and removing the profile.

The downsides are:

1. You have to put the iPad into supervised mode, which requires a full factory reset through the Configurator. This is because it enables a bunch of enterprise controls that they don't want enabled without the user's knowledge, such as the ability to configure a global HTTP proxy, etc.

2. As I mentioned before, there is literally no way out of the app other than removing the configuration profile. This sounds like it interferes with your use case, but maybe it's a worthwhile tradeoff for you?

3. Probably something else I didn't think of.

Here are a couple articles I found that mention how to do this:

[0] and [1] are articles from some app that this feature is useful for, explaining how to do it for that app.

[0]: http://support.kioskproapp.com/knowledgebase/articles/413366...

[1]: http://support.kioskproapp.com/knowledgebase/articles/315259

Disclaimer: I have never tried this myself, I have simply happened to have heard of it. I found the two articles above because I knew the term to Google (not a shot at you, sometimes you just need to know the right search). There may be some unintended consequences because it's an enterprise feature and all.
Not sure where the Singapore bashing comes from on HN. It doesn't sound like most people have been there, yet still comment on how strict it is.. And the bubble gum thing.. geez..
Actually, i never felt safer in any city i have been.
I'm curious how GCM is much better? Granted Google isn't a state actor, but it's still a major corp.
how do you find one of these jobs?
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Register machines have no particular problems with cache due to random access. The typical arrangement is that there are instructions that allocate and deallocate a block of N contiguous slots from a stack, and "registers" refer to storage within the currently allocated block. This isn't any worse than a stack machine.

There is a real issue with instruction density, however, in that the interpreter will touch many cache lines containing instructions in an unpredictable order. An inefficient encoding will result in overhead due to cache lines being taken away from program data to serve the interpreter.
I'm disappointed that TextSecure is moving from one of the last deployed federated platforms (SMS) to their own closed transport. :(
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2 sentences. Hmm.

"The company is called Starfighter. We'll have a little more to say about it next week."

:P
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Not quite, I think. The supernova is more used to study the dark matter lens, which cannot be seen directly. Seeing the supernova being lensed by different parts of the galaxy cluster will allow them to map the dark matter profile of the galaxy and study how it's distributed.
> to be fair probably wouldn't go down well anywhere

Humor me, in which non-middle eastern country would one go to jail for this?
> This article is ridiculous.

Yes, but not for the reasons you list. The article cites Eduardo Saverin, who is not at all forgotten thanks to The Social Network. It lists Noah Glass, who was only involved in Twitter in the early days. It lists Ron Wayne, who was a Co-Founder of Apple for less than two weeks. It lists founders of Pandora, who left long before its IPO. And yet one of Etsy's founders, with the company from 2005 to 2011, is forgotten?

> He was the founder

He was one of three founders [1]

> and [...] decided to sell or give away enough equity in the company to the point that he no longer held a controlling interest. Thus he no longer plays any part in the company's goings on and rightfully so.

So if you don't control 51% of the company, you don't play ANY part in the company's goings on?

> If he still held 51% or more of the company and still wished to be a part of Etsy, he easily could have done so. So could have basically every other founder in history.

How do you 'still' hold 51% of the company with two co-founders?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etsy#History
This post[1] from back in 2012 looks at how different things would have been for all the DJIA-referencing articles if Apple had been included in the average all along, instead of Cisco. (It also points out ridiculousness of the index that makes this possible.)

For a time before computers it made sense, but it's amazing that it's remained relevant this long. These days, there's no real reason to even use the S&P 500 as a market proxy given the existence of more comprehensive indexes, but at least it has a logical basis.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9161242
That's cool. It reminded me of a similar (though simpler) visualization I saw for whisky: http://www.gq.com/life/food/201311/bourbon-whiskey-family-tr...
A listening pattern still has to poll on boot for unprocessed jobs.
I just want to attest to the level of tenacity and dedication needed to accomplish what was done at Level without a significant RF background. PCB design is one thing, but duplicating some of the functionality of expensive software defined radios as part of a commercially viable product is a completely different beast.

Furthermore, Hunter is, without a doubt, one of the most amazing Electrical and Computer engineers I've ever met. Fortunately, he's just as passionate about teaching as he is about engineering, and spent a large amount of his time at Georgia Tech teaching and inspiring other students about electrical engineering. I'm extremely grateful to call him a mentor and a friend, and I definitely encourage HN readers to check out some more of his projects at his website.
More often, when talking about naming/indentation conventions, consistency is more important than who's right. The entire code base should look exactly the same (no exceptions).
Yeah. My cousin works in Qatar and while his salary is around $50,000, he lives in a 4-bedroom condo on the top floor that overlooks the ocean and his company pays for it.
Heads-up: this video begins with loud audio from a smoke alarm.
It might be easier for the hospital to buy one pipe and then do the prioritization in-house.
That wouldn't be hard with the precarity at CERN, aka cheap disposable temp labour w/o healthcare.

http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/suisse-prete-aider-e...
> Because here is the thing about interviews: they are incredibly hostile experiences for candidates.

Minor nitpick from a grad student here: interviews are nowhere near as hostile as academic peer reviews for papers. In an interview, the interviewers aren't actively trying to find any holes in your logic (no matter how small). To me, technical interviews are a walk in the park compared to conference submissions.
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This is not exactly in the same category, but as I was coming back to Australia a few weeks ago I saw a sign stating that Australia considered child abuse committed internationally to be a crime and would prosecute.

With regard to this particular case, it really is your responsibility to know the laws of the place you're going to.
Thank you for the clear, honest answer. So the great-grandparent post is misleading, and those in favor of government-enforced "net neutrality" do want to limit what I am "allowed to pay for as a consumer".
Hi Abraham, could you describe some of the differences between Atomwise's approach and D.E. Shaw research's approach to computational identification of novel pharmaceuticals? Thanks!
Maybe he's working on a car insurance quote comparison startup.
I think Matasano can make up for some of that with a good reputation. (Plus the 80 bucks they pay for books.)
If you visit the Sandlot at Coors Field, you can actually have 'original recipe' Blue Moon. They have a handful of other beers that are only available there, it's a cool spot to check out if you like Blue Moon.
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It would be handy as a starting point for ADR, automated dialog replacement. In films you don't always get what you want in production sound - maybe a plane was flying overhead as the sun was setting on the last day that your Famous Actress was available, so you make the most of the visual opportunities and accept the inadequate sound. Then You bring the actors back to a recording studio later and have them re-read their lines. On large films, a lot of dialog that you hear in the final version is recorded this way, as much as 50% in action movies (because you have all this noisy equipement going on around the set, and getting good quality sound recordings always has a lower priority. On indie films there's more location shooting and smaller post-production budgets, so you aim to minimize adr requirements, to 0% if at all possible.

Actors hate doing ADR and it's time-consuming and annoying for editors. This wouldn't automatically solve the problem because you wouldn't have a good match between dialog recorded in different acoustic environments, but it does have the potential to save a lot of grunt work, especially for background dialog where you can compromise on quality a bit.

Also, in post-production you often find yourself wanting to edit just one or two words in a scene and you'd rather not bring the actor back for such a small problem, so you look for other scenes and other takes of the same scene where the same word or syllable appears, and do a little cut-and-paste and blending, the audio equivalent of photoshop retouching. It would be very useful for that.
Security Issue: TSA is taking RSA tokens now
Sounds like a work sample test to me. Great!
I didn't even know that existed. Agreed.
>1.4PB or 700GB with basic 2-copy redundancy

You mean 700TB.
Heck, you could visit breck brewery.
Because net paths can be congested, there can be many different ways at different costs to deliver the same bits, and different net applications have different sensitivities to lag/loss, the electrons/bits analogy isn't very applicable.

Let ISPs try to abuse their momentary position. They're newish businesses in a rapidly-changing market and technological environment. Not one of them has the same "single provider at any cost" monopoly that phone companies had when the Title II telecom regulatory regime was designed.

Some of the companies they might try to shake down – Google, Apple, and others – have the capital to route around them with better services.
For all the times I grumble to myself about HN losing its hacker focus, it's articles like this that make me nod and recognize all is well.
Did the salaries of the bargain candidates creep up as their value was realized?
So they don't offer a linux client to keep people away from running it on servers? ;)
I applied for an internship at Matasano. I was asked about office preference and VISA sponsorship. Now I feel bad I didn't get an interview.
If such a unequivocal "every protocol ever" warranty is such a good idea, let it be offered by the market, not imposed on every provider, and every consumer, even if they'd prefer another cheaper or more-flexible arrangement.

Here in the US, I had as much neutrality as I wanted or needed before the FCC got involved, from the 3+ wireline and 5+ wireless providers in my area (San Francisco). Can I and my chosen ISP opt out of this new set of constraints from DC lawyers/lobbyists/politicians?
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50k (even cash) is not nearly enough for the tradeoff of life in a regime like UAE to be worth it.
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I think that's a long way of answering my question, "no". Net neutrality advocates do want to restrict what I am "allowed to pay for as a consumer".

(Additionally, if I were to start a competitive ISP somewhere, use non-neutral routing as part of my value proposition, and attract willing customers to my service, the regulators would come and fine me, and then perhaps impound my assets and imprison me, because my service doesn't match their formulas.)
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I think I'd try to pop it into the wheel well of the nearest police car.
Depends how you measure. Writing documentation is dealing with people. And even most code is meant more for people to understand than for the benefit of the computer.
Are you speaking from experience or out of thin air? Because that is not my experience.
By obfuscating its brand name on products like Blue Moon, Coors is violating the consumer’s right to know who he is supporting, and where his beverage comes from.

The money quote on why it matters.
That can't possibly be legal.
SafeScript: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scriptsafe/oiigbmn... - Remove a lot of excess javascript.
Why pay extra if you don't have to? Looks perfectly serviceable to me.
Women might feel safe "walking around" but certain violations of Sharia law just might get them stoned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_Arab_Emirat...
My guess is that they want to use your password manager for Chrome to allow you to login to HN.
It's been interesting to see the decline in GCM performance since the launch of Textsecure v2 in 2013. Dropped and delayed Textsecure messages have gone from rare to routine in the Bay Area. At 31c3, I learned the WispherPush has been near unusable for many Europeans from the get go.

Looking forward to dropping the GCM requirement.

It's cognitively dissonant not to read GCM not as Galois Counter Mode in a crypto discussion.
The unusual thing here is that a man is being prosecuted for a Facebook post. The fact that he is being prosecuted for something he wrote in the US is not at all unusual. The United States routinely prosecutes Americans who engage in actions which are illegal in the United States, even if the actions are legal in the country in which the action takes place. The US government invokes this extraterritorial jurisdiction mainly for two categories of crimes: sex crimes against minors and corruption/bribery.
They wouldn't know where it was after I disconnected the battery.
I always assumed this was because Australia was relatively close to "popular" sex tourism destinations. You don't want to be known for exporting child abusers.
Harrison Ford 'battered but ok' after plane crash in LA
DuckDuckGo keeps impressing me. Just saw this pretty site specific ad on 4chan
The 'goop' could be a reaction product of applied acid to remove the markings on the chips.
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I'm not a lawyer, but why would he admit to it?

> "I just couldn't register it in my head because as an American growing up in the United States, the First Amendment right is just ingrained in my brain," he told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

I think the correct defense is to make them prove that he wrote, then if they prove he did, start saying "well I thought it was OK".
I don't really understand your notion of "career within a company" unless you think getting a promotion every three years is standard fare? I'm not willing to read that book to find out.
The result of an ANY query is cache dependant. Software that relies on ANY queries is likely subtly broken already.
alright, I thought for a moment it was about something else.
Technically this is true for Python as well though, right? You can't import a module without executing it.
This isn't America. They don't have to prove (in a court of law) that he wrote it. Their accusation is sufficient. The facebook page has his name on it, "everybody knows" that he wrote it.
If he were a founder, then his options would have a nominal strike price and it wouldn't have been a financial hit for him to vest them.
That's obviously true, the question was why should you have to cover someone else's mortgage?
It may depend on which state, and sometimes it's a grey area if the car is jointly owned (since you could argue the "owner is consenting" to the tracking). http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/...
Or, even better, if you're sampling from a data set as it's being generated. For example, let's say you want to grab 1,000 random tweets out of the output of Twitter's firehose for the next 2 hours - when you decide whether to keep tweet #1,329, you have no idea how many tweets are going to come in after that one, because they haven't been written yet!
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OFFSET j is O(j) in most RDMSes. You made an o(N/2 * k) algorithm given j is a random number in [0,N).
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This is second time I'm interviewing Google and I felt the difference. They asked me questions more related to my work and less from "Cracking the coding interview" book. Hopefully it would be the same on-site. I'm confident that I'm good at what I'm doing and if Google really wants me to work on things that I'm interested, I would be a good employee. I have zero days of no-commits in my Github strike. I have more open source projects than many 500+ employees companies.

With all of that "Cracking the coding interview" book in my hand anyway! :D

We'll see what happens!
I compared. w3m is better than links2, elinks better than w3m.
One possibility is to make a very simple but non-standard request in the posting - for example, to submit the answer to an extremely straightforward coding question or some such in their cover letter. That would filter out a lot of the 'shotgun approach' applicants immediately.
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/vee05/full_papers/p153-... (2005) is the best stack vs registers comparison I know of (but I am, at best, a hobbyist in this field, so corrections are welcome)

I think there are three options for fast VMs:

- a stack machine that JITs to registers (JVM, C#)

- a register machine whose registers match that of the target architecture (I think Lua is or was an example here)

- a register machine with infinitely many registers that JITs to one whose registers match that of the target architecture (LLVM). I think the call is still out here whether it is possible to make a truly fast JITter here, but I expect that is just a matter of lack of effort.

Problem with the middle approach is that a portable JITter that wants to use the full power of a CPU must handle both the case where the hardware has fewer registers than the VM and the case where it has more. The other two only have to handle one of these cases. That's why they are more popular for multi-platform solutions.

And of course, there is the case of JITting to stack CPUs. For practical purposes, one can mostly ignored that case nowadays.
> the whole fire fast mentality

Zach was there for five years. Why are we talking about "fire fast"?
This article really cemented my opinion that Adria Richards deserved to get fired and should never have a podium from which to shame someone ever again.

She's clearly a hateful person without any kind of empathy stretching beyond that of her womens' struggle in tech. There should be no place in tech for people who just can't relent. I don't know if the comments in this article are cherry picked wildly, but even so, even suggesting that this Hank guy is to blame for her getting fired, when clearly it was her own behaviour.
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USB3 when connected slowly, becomes USB2?