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Ask HN: What is the opposite of Y Combinator?
Some people (Group 1) have great ideas, but lack the time and money to work on them. So, they make a napkin sketch or pitch deck, and maybe a prototype, and then they're off to find capital, as a means of executing properly on their product.

Other people (Group 2) have the skills, extra time in the evenings and on weekends (sweat equity to allocate to development), but they don't have a good idea that they're confident about.

For Group 1, there is Y Combinator, et al.

For Group 2, AFAIK, there is just twiddling with useless side projects and scratching itches. Sometimes that's good, because you can learn from side projects. Sometimes (e.g., after you've spent years doing this), it feels wasteful, and you feel like your precious time and expert skills are being put to waste. I feel that for Group 2 the answer is "the opposite of Y Combinator"; a place or website wherein business-minded people (and investors) can pitch ideas to developers, with the intention of starting a company with mostly sweat equity from the development side, and money invested from the business side. I, personally, would be willing to put in 20+ hours a week on a project for equity alone (no salary, ever), as long as I knew somebody from the business side was invested mentally and monetarily in it, and I imagine there are a lot of other folks like me out there.

What do you think?
The answer to the title question seems to be:

> Inside the building, on those top floors, the oscillation is what unnerves us. A forty-story building may sway a foot to the left, a foot to the right. The span of that period might last around four seconds. A hundred-story building, by comparison, may move on the order of two-and-a-half to three feet to each side, cycling through a ten-second period. Typically, the taller the building, the longer the period of its cyclical motion.

And the implicit question of how much movement we feel:

> Acceleration is what causes the body forces that might tip us off our firmly planted feet, or nudge us back into the passenger seat of a car pulling away from a stoplight. Fighter pilots experience acceleration at many times the magnitude of gravity—“4 Gs” or more. The top of our hundred-story skyscraper accelerates through its period, as it sways from one side to the other, at a mere fraction of what a fighter pilot feels: maybe ten milli-g’s, or one hundredth of the force of gravity.
To emphasize, Instavest is not a replacement for a financial advisor nor is it a replacement for a portfolio of index funds.

Rather, Instavest is a supplement to your portfolio and helps you access previously overlooked / out of favor investment opportunities.

Searching for high-returns on a small part of your portfolio is something people do already.

All we are doing is bringing this phenomenon online and aggregating ideas so people can invest easily.
I rather like the visualisation that gitk gives me, though. I'll never use a GUI to manipulate the tree, but to visualise it, it's very useful.
Nope. It's neither inaccurate or oversimplified to say the miners have control, when the forked fix to the issue in the article requires a 51% consensus amongst the miners.

To say that the entire bitcoin userbase will band together to form a concensus to avoid miners is to turn the same blind eye to rational human behavior and tragedy of the commons. It's just as much wishful thinking and hand waving as thinking the miners will act solely out of benevolence for Bitcoin.
>heavily scripted sequences to tell the story of someone else that the player/viewer relates to.

I think one of the strengths of videogames is that you can make your own story. Heavily scripted voiced-acted videogames go against that because they force you to go a certain path.
> Isn't there a theorem that says that no closed-form, analytic solutions to such equations can be found, in general?

'Analytic' has a mathematical meaning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_function) which is probably not what you mean here. Taking it in the more colloquial (Eulerian) sense of "given by a formula", not only are there such general results, but there are even specific functions for which it is known that no elementary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_function) anti-derivative exists (the strong form of "impossible to solve" that I mentioned above), and an algorithm for deciding of a given function whether it has an elementary anti-derivative (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risch_algorithm).
There are methods to solve them. RLC in particular can be approached with Laplace Transforms. However these kinds of equations need certain approximations and simplifications in order to become analytically tractable.
> Mac is by far the worst platform to launch on because you have to buy hardware

Yea, I'm a huge fan of the free hardware they give away when you download open source operating systems.
You can always dual license, and sell the second, commercial-friendly license for a price. You need to be careful that you're the sole copyright holder though, so you need a strong contributor agreement.
Uncynical answer: because finding someone who's actually been harmed is difficult.

Cynical answer: because anyone actually harmed will be told to check their privilege.

Suspicious, realistic answer: because authority figures are always more scared of disruptions to their power than is warranted by actual conditions.
After reading that, the idea behind colinux[1] doesn't seem quite as crazy. Doesn't look like it's been ported to 64bit, though :(

[1] http://www.colinux.org/
You mean incorrectly? Isn't it still single-core?
There is already a git-up (which I really recommend btw):
https://github.com/aanand/git-up (Ruby) and
https://github.com/msiemens/PyGitUp (Python)
So why not do a quick research and choose a completely different name for it?
> a week

ain't nobody got time for that
I had heard about them but never had taken a good look. Now I did and choose not to deal with them. Some quotes from their website:

> certain crypto actions (signing and decrypting) are limited to users who store client-encrypted copies of their private keys on the server

No. Especially combined with the next one:

> On the website, all crypto is performed in JavaScript, in your browser. Some people have strong feelings about this, for good reason.

The second sentence sums it all up.

I think the service has been made with good intentions, but the pavement on the road to Hell...
It's not as snazzy as in the article but this alias in my .gitconfig is an integral part of my git workflow:

gr = !git \
--no-pager \
log -n 16 --graph --date-order --date=short --branches \
--pretty=\
'%C(yellow bold)%h%Creset\
%Creset %C(blue bold)%d%Creset\
%C(white bold blink)%s'

The 'gr' is short for 'graph'. You can tweak the -n to show more history. I actually have several of these, 'gr', 'grr', 'grrr', etc. to show more and more history.
Your information is out of date.

According to http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/business/obama-trade-legis... an agreement has been reached between the administration and Congress which requires, among other things, that,

The bill would make any final trade agreement open to public comment for 60 days before the president signs it, and up to four months before Congress votes. If the agreement, negotiated by the United States trade representative, fails to meet the objectives laid out by Congress — on labor, environmental and human rights standards — a 60-vote majority in the Senate could shut off “fast-track” trade rules and open the deal to amendment.

Of course Congress and the administration do not have a history of being particularly responsive to the public. But it does seem that everyone will be able to know what was agreed on before it is signed into law.
Kubernetes supports 100 nodes with ease, and we expect to handle much more than that very quickly. We just had to pick some target to start with.
I, personally, would be willing to put in 20+ hours a week on a project for equity alone (no salary, ever), as long as I knew somebody from the business side was invested mentally and monetarily in it, and I imagine there are a lot of other folks like me out there.

Without making an express commitment (either in general or to 20 hours weekly), I too would be interested in donating at least some hours of work in exchange for equity, however tiny.

Interesting concept. How might such an equity employment pool be set up? I'm imagining that a part-time equity worker could either be devoted to a single startup, or could select tasks from some sort of cross-company todo list. (E.g., one person might be especially good at Task X, and does that for a bunch of companies.)
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I don't think it was very clear either. If you want to learn more about this I like Arfken, Mathematical Methods for Physicists as a bible of practical mathematics, or Stewart, Calculus for calculus in general.
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How did Twitter get traction and sticking power where the others failed? What was it doing differently?
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I wonder if this comment might not be an example of the point it is trying to make?
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The fact 3 of the top 5 questions of all time on Stack Overflow are for basic Git operations tells you something: http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes.

IMO this all boils down to the Git CLI just being terrible e.g. “git add” to stage versus “git reset HEAD” to unstage. Pretty much everything is like that. And there are always edge cases so that a command works in this case but not in that one. Want to edit a commit message? "git amend". But only if the last one. Otherwise it's "git rebase -i" (even though your intent is not to do a rebase, go figure). Well, not if it's a merge actually, you'd need "git rebase -p" or something... Even if something is conceptually simple, Git CLI manages to make it complicated. And GUI tools don't help much as they just wrap the Git CLI.

Of course it does make sense if you know how Git is built internally, but that's irrelevant to getting the job done :)

Anyway, with GitUp, the idea is to have an interactive live map instead, where operations and UI actually make sense, while still being 100% compatible with Git under the hood.
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For what they are doing, a very strong background in data structures and memory management is required, at least in so far as the code running on the rocket itself.

Very few people learn that on their own, and even fewer learn it to the proficiency level they need.
There's no market for this sort of thing on Windows. The vast majority of development that happens on Windows takes place in either Visual Studio or Eclipse, and those developers prefer tools that integrate with their IDE rather than be standalone.
PGP is still useful for signing and verification of identity which is what Facebook is about (the whole real name fiasco).
Sure, using their own time, not his.
Gaikokujin is indeed the correct word for foreigner.

Gaijin is slang. It's not necessarily used with a derogatory meaning. Also it's important to note that it's mostly used for white people, they'll never call a Chinese or Korean "gaijin" for example.
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SF/VA gave Linus and ESR stock. I believe ESR and several others were on some sort of community advisory committee to them. Part of SF's problem was that they didn't want to pick winners so much as create and facilitate "community" they had multiple choices for different tools they hosted. They had build servers and such as that seemed at the time like problem space (how do you know if your code runs on Itanium?) They made, what at the time was, an unprecedented effort to engage community and not be evil.

Ultimately someone needs to pay some bills though, a few transactions later and this seems remarkably far from their start. It's embarrassing and shocking.
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Google has many services. This diagram means little if it does not specify what services use what parts of the stack.
there are plenty: syntax,type, stack, message, ...
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>In browser world, it's as if you always connected over HTTP and relied on the 301 redirect to switch to HTTPS. An attacker can do a SSL stripping attack where they just answer to your HTTP query. It's also what HSTS is designed to prevent.

This is mixing up two things. If you connect over HTTP, an attacker doesn't need to do any stripping. Sslstrip is a way to turn your https into http, in the hope that you won't notice your browser bar. HSTS does fix both of those.
This is so cool. I can't believe you don't have any tests; I'd be terrified of breaking something in that code.
I needed something like this when I was starting out, and still occasionally do. Obviously once you've had a few dozen commits you get a hang of things, but initially, the visualisation can help a lot.

For my co-founder who's just getting started with software engineering practices like version control, I recommended she use ungit (https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit)
It saves snapshots of you git history. So we have version control... for our version control? Slick.
A professor shared this with me during my graduate studies in statistics. It doesn't seem as if the field of statistics has adapted, as there's an increasing interest in machine learning programs over statistics programs (just from what I've observed).

More and more companies want or require candidates to have data mining / machine learning skills in addition to classic statistics skills.
unknown unknowns. Odd choices for flags and commands. Inability to search for explanations of some commands.

These are all valid commands that do radically different things:
<pre>
git checkout patch
git checkout --patch
git checkout -- patch
</pre>
Yet, googling to find the difference is difficult (because search engines). If, eventually, you decide to search for 'dash dash', you'll start to find good results.

So, if a user had a file named 'patch' that they want to 'revert' back to the last committed version, they might try the first one (after all, it works for 'git checkout somefile.txt'). But IF they have a branch named patch, it would attempt to switch to it. It might succeed, it might fail, depending on the state of the tree, giving a very strange message compared to what the user wanted to do.

Despite it's ubiquity in the man pages, I haven't been able to find 'official' documentation or explanation for it, rather a bunch of blog posts and stack overflow questions. I find it hard to believe that a user who spent their time reading through docs and man pages would be able to work out the meaning on their own.

This is one example, but there are a TON of examples in StackOverflow as to what people find difficult. Most of my git knowledge comes from having to fix something that went awry. It's hard to 'spend a week getting up to speed' on a tool whose sole purpose is to manage other work.
My guess is that the downvotes are because the comment was mostly content-free, expressing only a tangential opinion, with a mildly derogatory tone. That you agree with the opinion doesn't make it a good comment in the general sense.
I was hoping someone else would remember that. It got bought up and shut down by Twitter (they were after another project by the same team I recall).

Sad. It looked like it could have been a game-changer.
> Unimpressive; the worst he has is that someone made a groundless complaint that was handled perfectly well in 2009
> the worst he has is that someone made a groundless complaint that was handled perfectly well in 2009, and he worries that someone will make another one one day

On top of that, also, the groundless complaint that went nowhere in 2009 was from a student accusing the professor of "communistical sympathies" for not validating right-wing talking points on the housing crisis, and the result is that the professor is especially scared of his liberal students.
You're not the only oddball. Some of us work on Windows software and NEED the Windows box -- I also use too many Windows-only tools to make the jump to Mac.

And what they do with Cmd-vs-Alt drives my fingers crazy, so I can't configure a Mac to be sane no matter what I try. And I use keyboard navigation to peruse menus, which OS X still hasn't implemented...the list goes on, and I stick with Windows.
In my experience communications across a socket does not force a separation of concerns. It doesn't even encourage it.

Heck, because asynchronous communication in a non-deterministic environment is so hard to deal with, my experience is that such communications encourage shortcuts to be taken, so yes, I think it encourages tight coupling.

The only thing that somewhat encourages a separation is having different people responsible for different modules and because people are selfish, they'll fight for their components to have less responsibilities, not more. So it becomes a territorial thing. But this happens only if you have seniors that know what they are doing, otherwise rookies or less competent folks end up cooperating to "get things done".
IMHO, Twitter should only act as a digital news platform. I usually search for (the same) specific terms and look at nothing else. If Twitter knew this, they could make the whole experience way more seamless and pleasant for me (saved searches and following is a pretty long work-around).

The problem with such a platform would be how to know if someone in a riot (for ex.) is posting 'news' or not. This seems to be where channels would go a long way to sorting through the hay to find the needle.
The important point here is that he's changing his curriculum to avoid provocative works, so he doesn't get in trouble. If that becomes a widespread practice, we'll have a serious problem in higher education.
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I make an alias for in-terminal viz.

[alias]
hist = log --graph --pretty=format:'%C(auto)%h%d%C(reset) - %s %C(bold blue)(%cr by %an)' --abbrev-commit

Works for me :)
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Serious question people, out of the people here that USE Twitter, how much would you pay a month for Twitter, if anything?

http://directpoll.com/v?XDVhEtRR2EAlaVw2sOrQkWlBcohF0N2Z

I value the service, and am wondering what other people value it at.

I will post the results here after set number of people vote.

UPDATE
Initially I was going to wait a little longer, but after looking at the results from this sample, the trend is pretty be predictable.

RESULTS LINK: (VIEW AFTER VOTING PLEASE)
http://directpoll.com/r?XDVhEtRR2EAlaVw2sOrQkWlBcohFw9na8aNc...

I think the results deserve a discussion on their own...
Probably it's "S/MIME has very little adoption, outside of the corporate / enterprise market.."

Getting keys sign by CA is just as bad (or even worse -- you have to generate and then have that key signed by CA) than generating a key on OpenPGP scheme, and then there's the issue of cost. (Although I've seen some free ones out there.)
> That doesn't seem to contradict anything I said.

It literally contradicts everything you said. Manning would be a criminal, by our existing laws, for not reporting the abuses.

The attempt to report war crimes was ignored before the leaks. He tried, and was rebuffed, but his responsibility didn't end there.

> He was mad at the Army.

Irrelevant. Manning had a legal duty to - more than just refuse the orders - make sure the illegal actions stopped.

Besides, can you imagine a mobster using this defense? "Sure, I kill people, but Bugsy only told you because he was angry I cut him out of some of the payment. If Bugsy wasn't a little bitch you never would have caught me." We'd laugh because it's irrelevant; a crime is a crime and an illegal order is an illegal order.

> [link]
"... Manning flipped a table during counseling ..."

Oh my god! Small emotional outburst cancels importance of illegal conspiracy.

I'm so sorry for the counsellor who had to witness that. It must be almost as traumatic as having your parents taken away and tortured or killed because of politically motivated false arrest. /s

You're only talking about the messenger to distract from the message. What are you afraid of? What are you covering up for?
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I can't imagine ever paying for Twitter—but then, I thought it was a joke when I first heard of it, and I was wrong. ;)
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I suppose if you use a tool frequently enough, you become blind to its warts :-)
>... but the district says Verizon chose not to prosecute him.

The federal government does that. He is just lucky that no one reported him. He can hope that he stays lucky and that no one from the FCC notices the media report(s).
Considering the top 5 questions of all time on SO for most technologies are trivial/basic cases or homework. Yeah, when I first used Git I had to look things up.

Now that I use Git daily a tool like this seems like a terrible plan. I don't even trust basic scripts for git commands I haven't written/read totally, something which I'm not prepared to do for this tool.

>Anyway, with GitUp, the idea is to have an interactive live map instead

I like the idea of a live map, but the "interactive" part seems silly.
I'm sorry that it came off that way. I was trying to point out the fact that there is a fundamental problem with twitter's model which this article completely fails to address: the tension between Twitter the company and its need to make money, and Twitter the communication service which needs to facilitate connection between human beings.
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>Experienced developers already have their workflows all set up and don't try new tools as often.

Speak for yourself. I'm always trying new tools as they come available, and was thinking that GitUp would be a fun one to add to my toolset. And then I saw "Mac Only" and groaned. I don't own a Mac, and though I will likely buy one soon (for iOS dev reasons), it will always remain my ugly-stepchild dev box, that I own only to do Xcode builds, not any serious development work.
How do you resolve 'executable' files in your VM?

I've not been able to run node apps because executables end up getting stored in /node_modules/, but if that is on a windows share, no executable flag is stored.

Resolving the FS differences has always been the biggest pain for me using windows as the core OS.
I just wish they'd give up their domain name to someone worthy. Source Forge. Conjures up Gandalf for me.
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