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This is a common, reasonable thought process that often follows from the lack of understanding of what (effective) sales people do. But it's also a big part of what make sales people and almost all non-sales people feel somewhat immiscible - especially at a startup where you're probably a tight-knit group.

the #1 thing an effective salesperson does (in any size company) is this:

-> Focus your company's energy to be as effective as possible at closing deals you'll be able and willing to repeat.

How do they do this?

#1 - Avoid wasting your company's precious time on deals that don't convert to paying customers in a reasonable timeframe.
#2 - Close those deals that do. This requires skills like listening, positioning, negotiating, empathy, technical and also truly understanding the actual reasons someone is compelled to buy your technology.
#3 - Manage a pipeline: fill it with more prospective deals that look like those that do close; qualify and then remove those that don't.
#4 - Build trust with prospective and existing customers.

At b2b startups, sales people are there to help discover, build, and tune the repeatable sale -- this important work at a startup will help you (and your board) learn if/where it even exists!

Unfortunately, if you took 10 companies, good at sales but kinda bad at engineering. Another 10, kinda bad at sales but great at engineering -- yeah you know where I'm going with this.
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"The gestation period of some species of opossum being seven months, the right of the people to speak freely shall not be infringed."

(A silly example, but hopefully effective in showing the trick of language.)

It's pretty clear that the founding fathers thought civilians should be able to own deadly weapons. The purpose for this was defense not only of the state, but of the individual.

But even though I am a gun owner, I think the second amendment is extremely dated and should be ignored. So what if the founding fathers thought civilians should own guns? However intelligent and knowledgable they were, they have been superseded in all dimensions by two centuries of scientific and technological progress. If gun ownership decreases crime, OK. Tweak the laws to increase gun ownership. If it increases crime, OK. Do the opposite. If some middle-ground licensing thing works, do that. I find firearms fun to shoot, and I could see how they could be useful in self-defense, but what I really care about is the well-being of people. It's best to do whatever helps people, not what some centuries-old text says.

Fortunately, if the Talmud and D&D have taught us anything, it's that people can interpret any rule to match their existing view. In the long run, judges will rule in favor of public safety no matter the text of the constitution.
Here is the matrix of "odd events" that you need to be able to detect in a GSM network:

https://opensource.srlabs.de/projects/mobile-network-assessm...

(scroll down to table)

So while these very high level alerts from Pwnie are nice, I want to see what is really happening. Have I gotten any silent SMS or silent calls ? What network am I on and what cellID am I on ? Do I have an encrypted connection ?

I'm fairly certain that Pwnie does not have a baseband that they control and so there is a lot they (and we) cannot do, but there are things that can be done, and that outdated table of suspicious events can probably be expanded (and updated for LTE).

Comments ?

I was at their booth today at RSA and they confirmed that these cellular functions are not available on the PWN Phone, which makes me suspicious that the cell modem they are using is not a USB modem, but rather a minipci module that goes into their box. Would like to know what modem they chose...
Ask HN: My site was hijacked, new to security, how to prevent future attacks?
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So I thought somehow they were able to exploit something on my site or phish my password and gain root. This does not seem to be the case. It is actually more concerning. I remarked in the original post I was unsure what I had hosted, it turns out nothing.

I have the site pointing at ns1.digitalocean etc. but there is no site up. So that means they must have set up their own site on digital ocean. What will happen if I go to host my site and point it at my domain?
I know Tim personally, since he contributed for years to the SageMath software project while he was in high school here in Seattle. He is an extremely sincere person, who care intensely about things (like open source software), and has little interest or motivation related to money. The potential that he could have any impact that could improve the terrible police/people interactions even a little in Seattle is I'm sure all he cares about. I very much wish him the best.
It's actually not that easy to get those events or debug info. There is one class of intel chipset that you can get it from, though:

https://github.com/2b-as/xgoldmon
seriously, 6 foot long catfish is a radioactive freak now?

I lived in Uzbekistan from the time I was born (1976) till about 1990 and six foot catfish was really big but not uncommon. I have a photo of my dad holding 5 feet one by the gills somewhere in my albums (dated before 1976 for sure).

I remember my dad buying smoked catfish slices about 5-7 inches across, those definitely came from pretty damn big specimens. At the time there were no nuclear power stations near Syr Darya or Amu Darya rivers.
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Modders need to be more careful in modding. The difference between AI/robot and humanity is indeed a biological one. I know that giving important to sex is something geek culture frowns upon, but when we are talking about 'creating' a different organism, I don't see why pointing out the blatant difference is such a problem.
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but that's exaclty what they want to show, how the best students performed in different years, whoever they are.. what about if the score of the best student gradually goes from 100 to 80 in within 20 years.. that would still reveal something about the university and the students, further analysis have to be performed, no doubt on that, but that would show some particular trend in how the students are learning / are thaught
Well of course you'd save the babies first, the chimps can stay alive by themselves a bit longer.
In the Netherlands, the public transport card "ov-chipkaart" used Mifare classic too [0]. Even worse, the "defensiepas", for access to military bases, uses it too [1], even as of today.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OV-chipkaart
[1] http://www.computable.nl/artikel/ict_topics/security/2735292...
Why do we think cheap rent is such a factor in making a tech city? Innovating and inventing new tech is expensive. Everyone in the chain knows this, Founders, VC, tech workers. You pay them well (or in the case of Founders sacrifice alot) but, it's worth it in the end because the gains from that initial work are so large.

What makes a great tech city is access to a large pool of highly trained people. SF has this, LA (in theory) has this, Austin, NYC and other places in the US has this. Tech cities also should be places people want to go. Weather is a huge consideration. Detroit is cold. SF and LA are warm. I don't care that my rent is $500/mo if I'm freezing. I'll gladly pay $2,500 for the same place for 75F degree sunny weather year round.

Culture is another big aspect. When I'm not working, I want to find interesting things to do, places to visit, food to eat, people to interact with. I think this is why NYC would be a decent startup city despite it's terrible weather.

Density has a role to play that we don't fully understand. Austin would be a great example that checks all the boxes (and has a low cost of living to boot) but, hasn't exactly exploded as far as startups are concerned. Miami too as it has actually tropical weather and beaches.

Detroit is lacking is so many areas. Density is going to be a problem. Weather is a huge problem; most of the country is warmer and more temperate than Detroit (which is also on the lake so added windchill factor). Detroit is blighted which means unless you are 22 and like warehouse parties or some young hipster and enjoy the early stages of gentrification, Detroit isn't for you. Also, who wants to raise kids in Detroit? Lead in the soil? No thanks, I'd pay the extra money to live someone where my kid's IQ isn't stunted irreversibly.

My question is why are people still in Detroit? If you are going to try to make a new startup city, why not try Miami or Orlando or Austin or Dallas or San Diego? Why freeze your ass off, just so you can brag about it later? What is the city council going to do that's so freeing to your ability to write software?
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It made me smile :)

In case you missed part of the joke: you need to turn your speakers on
> It's done when it's done.

Ha. Ever have a client? "Dear Enterprise Customer, We'll get it done when it's done. Cool? Can we have the gig?" Yeah no. That's not at all how the world works.

We have process because we have deadlines, commitments, responsibilities... and there needs to be an easy way for people to come and go inside of an organization without having to invent the wheel each time.
> In the long run, judges will rule in favor of public safety no matter the text of the constitution.

What about this ruling? Is this in favor "of public safety no matter the text of the constitution"? It sounds like the cop was trying to get meth off the streets, isn't that a matter "of public safety"?

> ..., but what I really care about is the well-being of people. It's best to do whatever helps people, not what some centuries-old text says.

The problem, as you point out, is that not everyone interprets "well-being of people" the same way. For some, it means largely sticking to this centuries-old text.
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Actually you cannot exclude felons and mentally ill people. The constitution is clear cut about it. They are people.
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At what point do we just call Facebook racist? They really don't seem to be taking any action to fix discriminatory policies.

* Salem woman denied use of Facebook because of Native American name - KPTV - FOX 12 || http://www.kptv.com/story/28853494/salem-woman-denied-use-of-facebook-because-of-native-american-name

* Facebook's Name Policy Strikes Again, This Time at Native Americans | Electronic Frontier Foundation || https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/facebooks-name-policy-strikes-again-time-native-americans

* Petition · To Allow Native Americans to use their Native names on their profiles. · Change.org || https://www.change.org/p/facebook-to-allow-native-americans-to-use-their-native-names-on-their-profiles
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Wow, thank you for the clearest response I've ever seen on the 2A puzzle!

Yes, exactly, you got it exactly right: whether the founding documents were ever useful, what governing principles do we want to live with now?

We obviously constrain people's agency in lots of ways that are non-controversial, like requiring that people drive on one side of the street or the other, or requiring that people not dump toxic waste in public parks. How do guns fit into that picture? How does speech, for that matter?

These are good and important questions to think deeply about, and I'm so glad you raised the issue so articulately.

My background, by the way: not a gun owner now, but I've used them enough to have a pretty good familiarity with them (and was once licensed to do armed security work, even). I'd fully endorse gun ownership restrictions, background checks, etc. I have never seen any rational argument against such laws; to me, it just goes to show how the NRA has done an amazing job conning a lot of people into becoming their own private gun lobby army, heh heh.
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Are you running any server management software like Webmin etc on it?

edit: based on what you're saying, I'm a bit unclear as to the problem. I would immediately check the security of your domain / domain account. I would check the Digital Ocean server for anything else that might be now running on it, see if they're running any local cron jobs, etc.

Either way, if you think that instance was compromised, you should destroy it after you examine it thoroughly to see if you can find out what happened.
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I am probably missing something, but I would think that treating each sub-image as its own grid would be more than enough for a decent mosaic generator. It seems to me you would get your edge detection for free this way. I just don't think it would be hard, but, again, I haven't done it myself so I'm sure there are surprises within.
This reminds me of Dr Fuhrman's GBOMBS acronym: https://www.drfuhrman.com/library/gbombs.aspx
If you have DHCP enabled, you can check your router. Or just test your entire network for devices, using nmap 192.168.x.0/24 (replacing 192.168.x by your network address).
That guy is bogus. There have been some real cryogenic computing devices, though. IBM and NSA put huge efforts into that back in the 1950s. ("I want a thousand megacycle computer. I'll get you the money" - NSA director).[1] The first generation technology, cyrotrons, sort of worked, but mainstream technologies pulled ahead, and that technology was abandoned in 1965. IBM kept plugging away at cyrogenic computing through the 1980s, with Josephson junctions being the next technology. Those run at liquid helium temperatures. With great difficulty and at huge cost, they got some experimental electronics (not a full CPU) running at 300MHz. By this time, it was 1982, and while that was about 10x faster than the fastest microprocessors of the period, it looked like the upper limit of the technology was around 1GHz. That, plus high cost, plus all the headaches of working in liquid helium, indicated the Josephson junction was a dead end. Standard CMOS was going to outperform the exotic technology. So, in 1983, IBM pulled the plug on that project.

They're trying again.[2] IBM is working on superconducting quantum computing, and has been busy since 2012. Maybe this time it will be useful. It will definitely be expensive.

[1] http://www.ewh.ieee.org/tc/csc/europe/newsforum/pdf/RN28-1.p...
[2] http://defensesystems.com/Articles/2014/12/04/IARPA-cryogeni...
This was my initial thought too, but I had another!

How feasible is it that the majority of households could have a massive home-battery installed in terms of natural resources? It seems like a lot of rare earth materials to build so many big batteries.
> We can't legislate that you don't spoof - it'll simply be an arms race. If you want to participate in a market without spoofers, simply require a deposit for offers cancelled within a certain period of time.

That's like saying "we can't legislate vendors don't do a bait-and-switch" or "we can't legislate against false advertising". We can, we have, and it made life better for society at large. The false advertising arms race is still on - but the collateral damage to consumers is significantly smaller than it was before those laws were enacted.

We can legislate "don't spoof", and we have (for some proverbial we), but any law is useless without enforcement - and there is no enforcement for these regulations. Additionally, at present the SEC is a part of the spoofing arms race, and is massively (and some say willingly due to regulatory capture) underfunded and incompetent in that race with no intent to win.

You want to legislate it so that it has teeth? Publish pseudonymized order flow six months after the fact (changing identifiers every day, for example), and give someone who can use this data to prove spoofing 10% of the proceeds of any fines levied thanks to their work. (Sure, pseudonymity is hard, and may be impossible. But 6 months after the fact is enough time for that to matter little in case of trades).

You want to stop it without changing enforcement mechanism? Charge for unexecuted orders, or otherwise limit their numbers. In fact, some european exchanges have very stiff penalties if you have >10:1 ratio of orders:fills - and spoofing there is almost nonexistent.

But SEC behaviour indicates that they have no intention of fixing that aspect of the market.

> It's like passing laws making web-scraping for email addresses into hacking. It feels like it'll make us safer, but because "only criminals have guns" it just ends up shooting a few people in the foot and weakening us overall against actual threats.

No, it's not. Exchanges are few and (supposedly) extremely well regulated. The number of "bad actors" (spoofers or otherwise) is also small and under strict regulation.

Your claim that it is is nonsensical. An equivalent claim is "It's like making shooting people in the streets a crime. It feels like it'll make us safer, because only criminals will shoot people but it ends up weakening us overall against actual threats". We have made that a crime, we've done what's needed to enforce those laws, and it has made us stronger, not weaker.
Well 40% is enough volume for properly hearing what comes out of the headphones speakers. But I'm talking about using headphones with their own volume adjustment or external speakers. If you try to watch a movie on most laptops using their native speakers, you will definitely not going to hear a dialogue at 40%. You will want to make it play louder, but once you try to adjust it you'll be interrupted by this notification.
I understand that people might need to realize that loud volume can damage their hearing, but I'm advocating that arbitrary checking of the system volume is not a proper way to do it.
Worth noting, scrolling on that site is completely broken on an iPad. Click an article in landscape and it shows an image that covers all but the bottom 50 px of the screen. It's position:fixed, so the actual article text scrolls under it, giving you that tiny slice in which to view four lines of text at a time.

Switch to portrait and at least the text scrolls past on top of the image. But text and image are the same colour, so you can't actually read it.
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Even if it was powered from the grid, if these were installed everywhere you could have distributed charging mechanisms, which would lower the peak load on the grid, which would mean less peak power required across the board.

There should be savings there as well!
No. You cannot do that because adding/subtracting/multiplying/... two uniformly distributed independent variables does not produce a uniformly distributed variable (see for example http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin–Hall_distribution)

Thats true for other distributions, too. You could use the obvious choice of a normal distribution, if all you did is add and subtract, but that's (about?) as good as it gets.
So you're saying autistic people, veterans, and the disabled should pretty much just stay home?

Not really sure what you're trying to say here, but it sounds very much against therapy animals. With a dog, people who are suffering can take part in "normal" activities. Like a hearing aid, wheelchair, or glasses. Without protection to bring their dog they have to have the conversation, "Hey I'm defective, let's all spend time talking about it before I get in the car..." That's messed up. You shouldn't put people who need a therapy dog on the spot like that -- their lives tend to be hard enough.
LXD sounds like another (rkt also...) promising alternative to Docker for running containerized workflows. A few major differences that I can see between LXD and Docker are: a) the security model and focus, where LXD uses LXC natively for security/isolation and is trying to further enhance with cpu-level isolation of some kind b) it sounds like LXD containers will support running init systems, which will make it much easier to deploy bare-metal and VM workloads in LXD containers versus Docker containers c) live-migration, and d) no 'batteries included' so the equivalent of the docker registry isn't installed and setup by default as is the case with Docker.

It appears that Canonical is positioning LXD as more of a drop-in and simple alternative to VMs. It's also nice to see that LXD containers will support running docker containers within them. So you can have your 'pod' of application containers all running within one big LXD container if you want. Good times.
He's probably poking fun at the "gurls arent creative loool' trope.
We'll have to wait for the numbers. Cost/KWh and lifetime number of charge/discharge cycles are the numbers that matter. For fixed applications, energy density isn't critical, as it is for mobile and cars.

If the big wind power people start buying these, it's real.
Yeah, I thought this was a serious (and awful) lib since I didn't have my headphones plugged in.
The biggest challenge may be powering it up. The brochure says it sucks down 300 kW. I'm guessing it'll need a 440V polyphase feed to run the 400 Hz motor generators...
Michael Pettis presents a (to me) pretty strong-looking argument that the AIIB is not important http://blog.mpettis.com/2015/04/will-the-aiib-one-day-matter... though he does believe that the post-war/post-'71 dollar economy is likely coming to an end, for other reasons. For one thing, it's easy to lend money to the developing world only if you're not careful about making sure you'll get it back. (I am not an expert.)
You get the same behaviour with regular floats:

>>> a=10.0**10
>>> a
10000000000.0
>>> b = 0.1
>>> b+a
10000000000.1
>>> c=b+a
>>> d=c-a
>>> d
0.10000038146972656
>>> d == b
False
>>> a + b - b == b
False
>>>

You could build a variable-tracking system on top of the numbers, or you could just use a symbolic computation package, then simplify the final equations so each variable figures only once.
This is the reason I'm not using AdBlock etc. The risk of ruining legit sites is too big and the problem is you seldom realise it was actually dysfunctional due to AdBlock.
Or better yet, Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers which the film was based on.
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Very valid comment, I would of reached out this morning, but glad it has been sorted.
Given that we have really, really old fossils from tiny creatures that barely leave a trace at all I'd say the likelihood of another species of similar intellect as humans on this planet in its history is very low.
If you watch the video, she says the size of the catfish is most likely due to them having no predators.
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I wonder if these eventually would become be hydrogen based eventually. (or already are..)
No matter whether Tesla is actually working on home batteries, i see a need for anyone invested in green energy. They could do greener than LiPo ofcourse.