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Ask HN: Solo founder, shortlisted for incubator which needs 2 per team. Advice?
1- I live in the middle east.

2- Very slow startup scene here. Only a few incubators.

3- Working on a startup, however I worry that customers from the west will be vary of dealing with a startup in the middle east.

4- However if I've been in an incubator here, that might give me some legitimacy. Plus connections, mentorship, etc.

5- Shortly, a major incubator will be holding an event, where startups will come and pitch ideas to judges.

6- I have been shortlisted from about 1000 candidates, to a pool of 100 startups. These will be further cut down to 10-20 finalists.

7- My interviewer thought my idea was really good. But, they warned that unless I get a 2nd person with me, either an employee or a cofounder, I will get rejected because they have a rule of at least 2 people per team.

8- I really don't want to take on a 2nd person. My project needs deep technical knowledge which is frankly lacking in most people here. If I take on a 2nd developer, I would spend a lot of time babysitting them rather than building my product.

9- I -could- take on a designer, but I don't know any who are interested.

10- This has left me with a dilemma. I really want to get into this incubator, but I also really don't want to take on any other people right now (esp. just for getting into the incubator)

11- My options are:

a) Go in solo. Build a prototype before pitch, and hope they are wowed enough that they choose me.

b) Pick an inferior programmer, tell them that while they will get paid (the incubator pays a stipend but doesn't take equity - government run), they won't work on the project, only I will.

Option b just doesn't sit right with me.

Please, give me some advice on what you would do in my shoes? You guys are practically the only ones in the world who understand my situation.
Regarding #2. Do you choose to pay some amount to the OSS project(s) you use for this? (seriously asking, not meaning to sound like a jerk here)
Could this be plugged into radare fairly easily? Would that be beneficial?
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The full quote was:
"Our concern here is limited to crimes against individual persons. We do not address, for example, crimes defining and punishing treason, espionage, terrorism, and drug kingpin activity, which are offenses against the State."

(emphasis added)
That court opinion describes a list of alleged chats that the Feds planned to introduce as evidence. It does not say the court accepted that evidence as true in the form of a finding of fact. (Put another way, that document does not say what you says it does, and we all know there are two sides to every story.)

It seems to me that if the Feds were confident about their murder-for-hire claim, they would have charged Ulbricht accordingly. That they chose not to do so indicates they were less than confident, and we should draw our conclusions accordingly.

For all I know he may well have been involved in murder for hire; I haven't paid close enough attention to the case to have an opinion. But I've followed too many hacker cases to accept unrebutted DOJ allegations as gospel truth.
What percentage of American high-school students who take their mandatory year of foreign language continue on to speak that language proficiently and competently? What "practical skills"?

The supposed economic value from learning modern national languages is wildly overstated, for English monolinguals. It's better to learn languages because learning languages is valuable for its own sake, and pick the language you learn simply because you like it.

There is a huge disconnect between our implicit goals for language learning in this country and the effort we expend upon it.

I strongly believe in the value of language education, but given the amount of time and money we're willing to spend on it, we'd get as much or more benefit from making them study Latin.

With Latin, all the people who want to learn a Romance language would get a leg up on it, and all the people who want to study biology would get a leg up on that, and people who are fine with just speaking English will get more insight into their own language.
At which point someone uses a botnet to game the system.
How about "sudo npm install -g gittorrent"? It looks like the git-remote-gittorrent binary isn't ending up in your $PATH.
Luigi just had a whole year to himself :)

http://www.mariowiki.com/Year_of_Luigi
I'll never forget when Apple introduced iTunes (before the iPod) with the tagline "Rip, Mix and Burn". Classic Steve Jobs direct assault at an industry his company was about to take over. Looking back, seeing how the iPod was under development at this time puts the entire strategy together.

Apple wasn't the first company to let you rip music, share it and burn CD's, etc but they were the one's who made it accessible to everyone with a seamless, fully integrated user experience. Users ripped all of their and their friends music, got used to the MP3 format and then the ease of buying MP3's from Apples store with iPod integration.
What a waste of tax payer money to send this man to life in prison. I really wish there were programs to reestablish Ross into doing something better with the rest of his life. Not letting it rot away in prison. These blanket laws are not suitable for situations like this. He wasn't running a drug cartel and killing tons of people. It was a website that sold illegal drugs but it did so in a much safer way.
Do you have a source? I couldn't find many people actually running Linpack on iPhones.
I'd say it's an unfair sentence, given that with bitcoin & a decentralized approach, it is unlikely that future versions of this sort of thing will be stoppable by any centralized government. They stopped & sued Napster. Did it stop file sharing? I think the government misplayed their cards -- again. Better to have partnered with Ulbricht -- and had a part in creating whatever future version of the market would be. Better to get some market share in whatever comes next -- then make some big busts that way.
It's worth noting that this article is written by Richard Florida (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Florida), whose 2002 book The Rise of the Creative Class (http://www.creativeclass.com/richard_florida/books/the_rise_...) introduced the idea that struggling cities could find new prosperity by reinventing themselves to become more attractive to the "creative class" -- Florida's term for the mostly young, mostly white, mostly techie types who have risen to wealth and prominence in San Francisco and New York.

And that Florida raked in tens of thousands of dollars in speaking fees per speech and hundreds of thousands in consulting fees per gig from lots of those struggling cities, all on the premise that he could show them the way to convince the members of that "creative class" to upend themselves from SF and NYC and move there. (See http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_curse.html, http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/plank/105746/gay-bars-bike-p...)

And that after all the checks had cleared but those cities failed to turn around, Florida did some turning around of his own and declared that they had really been beyond hope to begin with (see http://prospect.org/article/ruse-creative-class-0, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114013/richard-floridas-d...).

And that after a decade of working this circuit, he eventually admitted that programs to attract the "creative class" -- the programs he'd been selling those struggling cities for all those years -- mostly just ended up making life better for the members of that class without benefiting anyone else (see http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/20/richard-flo..., http://beltmag.com/austin-cleveland-and-the-cost-of-cool/).

So... yeah.
Fascinating. This was a very interesting insight into the world of seismology. Thank you for taking the time to write it up and sharing it!
Uber promotes subprime auto loans to increase driver pool
And of course you are perfectly rational and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong...
For WebODF, we also use GitHub because WebODF is a JavaScript project and there are many JavaScript programmers on GitHub. I'm also a member of the KDE community as is boud with the Krita project. But KDE was traditionally more a C++ community. That is becoming more diverse now.

I agree with all the points in the blog, which is why I posted it. But moving WebODF to a separate server would remove a lot of the easy of accepting contributions, so we're not doing that at the moment.
all you need to do is root your phone, install a new os, and deal with all the downstream issues?

That's just not at all what I want for my phone. Right now, it basically more or less works, and I really like that. I simply don't want to turn it into yet another thing I have to administer, follow security updates for, and deal with when it breaks.

And even if I can do it for myself, the majority of users can't and/or won't.
Oh cool, now this robotic cheetah can make running leaps
"LINPACK" (without qualification) is a double-precision benchmark, and doesn't measure raw compute flops, but what is actually achieved solving a linear system. K1 does double-precision at a rate of 1/24, and good libraries typically achieve ~90% of rpeak on similar hardware, so something around 13.7 gflops is a reasonable estimate.
Harm reduction is a reasonable argument for a Country to make for changing its drug policies, or for a person to make in an effort to advocate for a change to a Country's laws.

It is not a reasonable argument for an individual to make to try to justify their illegal get-rich scheme.
Ok, I can't reply to the one answe saying that this isn't true but accoring to the wired articel "Ulbricht, who the prosecutors have sought to prove is that Dread Pirate Roberts, hasn’t been charged with murder-for-hire in his Southern District of New York case, though he faces charges that include conspiracies to sell narcotics, launder money and more. (He does, however, face murder-for-hire charges in a separate case in Baltimore.) " This is the NY case
> If you spent 8 hours a day pouring soda in to cups would that be progress?

It's not exciting, but proving you can show up on time every day isn't nothing. There are plenty of great jobs that mostly involve being professional, congenial, and available. It's the work history equivalent of building a good credit rating.
https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/

Yeah, for work. Not for my side projects.
It's not very relevant to smartphones as a whole, it's just Apple's take on it.
That most Americans do not have occasion to speak a language other than English day to day is exactly the reason most of them will not learn another language.

The "badly" problem is actually a really huge one.
That's what the patent system is for. You patent something you're required to explain exactly how it works. In exchange you get exclusive use to that work for a period of time. I realize people don't give source code to the patent office, instead it's treated like copyright which I think is inappropriate (since source code is essentially a mathematical formula)
I'm on a team that will be participating in the upcoming qualifier for the finals. I'd be happy to answer any questions about the challenge (that I know the answers to), though not any about our specific techniques ;)
https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/#703 around the 30 minute mark.
Well, I believe the reason is because it is against the law.

On a side note, I do think if a heroin dealer gave away a clean needle, that would be commendable.
That's the basis of the war on drugs. If it were about health soft drinks, cigarettes, junk food, and hard liquor would be treated like narcotics. If it were about preventing addiction, casinos would not be allowed to use cognitive neuroscience to optimize slot machines.

America, for all its prattle about freedom and individualism, is like most other societies an authoritarian collectivist state. Freedom is just a symbol, not a real thing.

You are allowed freedom within certain domains as long as you don't do anything too challenging to the "social fabric." If you do, a whole host both legal and quasi-legal options are deployed against you. Search for "cointelpro" for a good historical example. If you can't be legally prosecuted, you'll be quasi-legally or even illegally harassed and persecuted.

Alcohol is far worse than many illegal drugs, but it's legal because "normal" people use it. You can't make being a hippie illegal, but you can intensely prosecute certain things that hippies do. You can't make being black illegal, but you can do the same there -- crack and cocaine are exactly the same chemical, but crack carries a harsher sentence because minorities use it while rich white people largely use cocaine.

The reason a lot of this coalesced around drugs is that the constitution has nothing to say in that department. You can't ban religions, or speech, or styles of dress, but there's nothing in there about a right to sovereignty over your body, and the regulation of trade is explicitly permitted. So drugs, being something that correlates with certain cultures, serves as a wide open legal vehicle for attacking minority populations.
> Ulbricht was also convicted of hiring a hitman.

This is not quite true. While he was not charged in this trial with the most obvious offense that would flow from that (e.g., attempted murder, etc.), this was specifically charged as one of the overt acts of one of the conspiracy charges he was convicted of. But it wasn't the only overt act charged, and the guilty verdict doesn't include a finding on the individual overt acts charged separately. So, its not accurate to say he was convicted of hiring a hitman.
The “foaminess” of spacetime is a new concept to me. Thanks for sharing!
Doctors, bankers and lawyers are screwed as well. ML will make sure of that. We will still need some people to perform those functions, but not nearly as many as we have now.
Given that he was creating jurisdiction from scratch, it makes sense to compare him to other such entities. USG, for example, will often murder people (overt wars and covert actions) for them simply not wanting to do business.
Except that a TLAB is worse for cache than a stack.

Look at what happens when you call a bunch of small methods that each allocate a couple things. With a stack, everything stays in nice proximity automaticially. With a TLAB, you quickly fill the TLAB, get another one, get another one, and so on.

Effectively: the stack does any garbage collection that can be statically determined for free, keeping data in cache that actually matters, whereas with TLABs you need to wait for it to pass through GC before any of it is reused.
tptacek's comment [1] makes a convincing argument that Ross's attempts to hire a hitman were a legitimate factor in his sentencing. If so, then a life sentence seems quite fair based on what I've read.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9627094
I'm confused about the 'high on the hog thing' from your other post (I just didn't feel like replying to both), because stegosaurus was talking about inability to save during the baseline cost of living, which you went on to suggest was treated very differently in the US.

I think you're equating the US being a rich society compared to others with all the people in the US being rich in absolute terms, disregarding their relative poverty within the US. But you know very well that absolute measures of wealth are pretty meaningless given the fact of geographic dispersion. If you're talking to someone who doesn't know how to get ahead in the US and feels pinched by a lack of disposable income, observing that they're far better off than a peasant in some other country isn't responsive to their problem, notwithstanding the truth of the matter. It's not like this person struggling with poverty in the US can just relocate to the peasant area and start leveraging his capital advantage.
You're linking to a pre-trial motion, which means nothing about what actually happened during the trial.
You'll scream this when that electric sheep comes after you.
The poster is referring to the (often great) disparity between natural and legal rights. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_and_legal_rights
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Every torrent have a hash id that identifies it, even if 2 torrents have the exact same files you are only seeding one of these hashes.
It's actually one of the top-loading NES machines they made for only a couple years before the NES was discontinued.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_%...
So which of the charges is it (from your link): " charging Ulbricht with seven crimes:
Narcotics Trafficking (Count One), Distribution of Narcotics by Means of the Internet (Count Two), Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy (Count Three), Continuing Criminal Enterprise (Count Four), Conspiracy to Commit and Aid and Abet Computer Hacking (Count Five), Conspiracy to Traffic in Fraudulent Identification Documents (Count Six), and Money Laundering Conspiracy (Count Seven). (ECF No. 52.) "
If you are willing to consider murdering your business competition, you are probably a sociopath.
The files only need to be in certain logical locations (like the root of the drive), not physical locations. Fragmentation is not an issue either. See what FreeDOS say about this [0].

[0] http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/attrib.htm
I agree with a lot of your comment, but this bothered me:

> you frankly don't understand the value and purpose of the 1st amendment

The purpose of the 1st amendment is to ensure peoples rights to free speech, even if that speech is biased and not worth listening to. Criticism of particular speech or a particular venue has nothing to do with the first amendment.
Everyone seems to be looking at this as some sort of travesty of justice. However, there is significant evidence that he tried to order hits on people. While there's no (public) evidence that he successfully murdered anyone, he clearly had lost his regard for human life.

We're in a day and age where people can cause tremendous harm to others using their mind alone, without throwing a punch or pulling a trigger. Just because he didn't personally cause physical harm to people doesn't mean he can't cause it to happen!

I think it's important for society to be protected from people with his mindset.
HSBC? You mean Wachovia? Or HSBC is at it too?
So let's get this straight for the justice system:

1. misleading the American public into going to a series of costly wars through lies about WMDs -> not punishable

2. Weakening Glass-Stegal and encouraging questionable and irresponsible risk-taking at major banking institutions -> not punishable

3. Fraudulent evaluation of risk-ratings by trusted agencies for the sake of profit leading to worst financial disaster since great depression -> not punishable, actually, rewarded with billions in bail-out by tax payers

4. setting up and running a website to host underground drug trade with bitcoins -> punishable by life-sentence

Not that what Ulbricht did was right or that he shouldn't be punished... but his biggest problem was that his business didn't generate enough profit at the expense of the public. Justice might be blind, but even she can still smell money.
I'm not. I'm a consultant.
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I think there's some value in knowing that a candidate is refusing to answer a specific question. It becomes especially obvious when that question is voted to the top and is left unanswered.

I also don't see anything wrong with the answers being carefully curated. Although, I assume by curated you mean watered down to the point that they're giving nonanswers. I've never liked how in live debates candidates are given only a few seconds to come up with an answer to what are usually tough and difficult questions. I'd rather them take the time to sit down and think about it.
Sure, but the point is that a superficial literary understanding of Spanish is a stepping stone towards plonking yourself in a Spanish-speaking country and realising just how much Spanish you don't know, not to mention a substantial step towards being able to read a vast and growing quantity of Spanish-only written material.

A superficial literary understanding of Latin gives you middle class bragging rights and a substantial step towards being able to parse the original text of a literature which has been exhaustively translated into English, complete with notes on shades of meaning. (And an even more limited grasp of some of the fundamentals of Spanish, I suppose) And since the source material is all ancient texts, you can't even pep the teaching up with some relevant and modern material or motivate the students by the prospect they can use it to backpack in Peru or do language exchange in Madrid.

I'm not persuaded that the inadequacy of languages teaching is an argument for the same time to be devoted to devoted to something which is even further removed from being useful and the teacher is even less likely to be adequately equipped to teach.
bittorrent sync is actually very much like this. People can offer read only subscriptions to their repositories, and then everyone distributes that repository to everyone else bittorrent style. So you have multiple read-writers who can publish and update the repository and multiple readers who can just subscribe to it and help to distribute.

So an example where this technology could be put to a unique use: Minecraft streamers and lets players sometimes like to distribute the world they are using. So they could make a repository of their world and distribute the read only keys for it to other users. This would allow them to play it, even temporarily make changes because sync kicks in and refreshes it, and the repository would be kept current as the world progresses. That should be viable right now with Sync.

Problem is, I think the bittorrent foundation is doing their damnedest to keep themselves firmly planted in the distribution and ownership of the technology. So we won't see an explosion of third party clients. I don't think it will see much adoption for this reason, and that's a real shame, because it would be a wonderful bit of kit for the internet.
People support keeping drugs (with the exception of marijuana) by 70-80%. Presumably they have their reasons. They vote. It's not the prosecutor's place to justify or explain the law.
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He doesn't seem like a sociopath. More like a power-hungry narcissist. He expressed regret and hesitation multiple times over (what he thought were) the murders, but simply insisted "it had to be done".

Not to detract from your point. I think he deserves life without parole for the attempted hits by themselves, ignoring every other charge. (Despite the fact that's not what he was convicted of.)
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I hope everyone reads this.