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by malanj 12y ago
This looks really awesome for managing an office. We're currently automating things using Google scripts and other custom glue to do things like order food, get feedback on lunch and mail people weekly digests activities. Sounds like t
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by malanj 12y ago
Sad but true. I've been part of startup teams who spent an embarrassing amount of time choose, customising or changing project management tools. None of it seemed to have mattered at all in retrospect. Now we start off with a whiteboar
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by malanj 12y ago
His view is that there will be two accelerators left in the world – YC and the few that manage to survive on investing in startups created by the people who didn’t take it into YC. It seems strange that he's focusing on YC if he&#x27
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Ask HN: Can Bitcoin mining fund OpenSSL?
3 points by malanj 13y ago|3 comments
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by malanj 13y ago
Static analysis (and other "expensive" techniques) should really be standard on something as critical as OpenSSL. If I compare the effort we've had to go through building things that are allowed into a banking environment the
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Why does liberal Iceland want to ban online pornography?(economist.com)
1 points by malanj 13y ago|0 comments
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by malanj 13y ago
Wow - this seems really big: It basically means that someone was scanning the Internet for this vulnerability on 23rd March 2014 already. Maybe even before. That's two weeks before the vulnerability was published. edit: I guess I&#x2
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by malanj 13y ago
I see this a closer to something like prostitution laws that are selectively enforced in many countries and lead to large scale police corruption/harassment. Random rant: my limited experience of police treatment of homeless people in
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by malanj 13y ago
If they are stupid but shouldn't be enforced, the place to fix is to have the law removed IMHO. Police judgement shouldn't be the solution to bad laws. It's a band-aid that can cause serious long term damage I think.
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by malanj 13y ago
Officials say these bans aim to prevent nuisances that can be created by those living in cars, and most are enforced only on a complaint basis. Nothing scares me more than comments like that from government officials. A law that is select
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by malanj 13y ago
Unless they drop the price soon we're going to move away from them. It sounds silly to argue over $15/user/month, but in comparison to Google Drive it's just started feeling too expensive. I really like the product, but
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by malanj 13y ago
Really cool that you can reach that kind of valuation with a basket of products, rather than a single run-away network effect fueled win. I find it very inspirational that they do that well by building great software that people love. also:
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by malanj 13y ago
Wow - SODIMM form factor is a game changer. A few years back I built a bunch of robots with the main processing unit a SIMM Java processing module - http://www.systronix.com/tini/tini_simm.htm . Having a standard (and s
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by malanj 13y ago
The idea of turing complete crytocontracts is super exciting, but I understand why Satoshi didn't add a turing complete language in Bitcoin. Turing complete contracts add a whole new level of complexity (e.g. http://en.wikip
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by malanj 13y ago
I agree with this ( http://www.snapily.com/blog/comic-sans-why-all-the-hate/ ) and specifically the comment by the creator of Comic Sans: “If you love it, you don’t know much about typography,” Mr. Connare says. But
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by malanj 13y ago
It is: http://www.tencent.com/
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by malanj 13y ago
As a South African I find the global indifference to Tencent quite strange. They are massive but mostly ignored (compared to e.g. Amazon which has a similar market cap). Tencent are aggressively expanding WeChat into Africa (big billboards
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by malanj 13y ago
Seeing that data overlaid with number of people starting companies would be really valuable. I suspect that the average "cost" of starting a company in your 20s is much lower than later in life (smaller salary to give up, less cha
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by malanj 13y ago
This sounds like a case of crypto nerd's fantasy: http://xkcd.com/538/ In theory... Judge: "The SHA1 hash in the bank transfer dated 1 Jan matches the hash I calculated for the document you supplied me, so yo
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by malanj 13y ago
You could probably get the same effect by just sending an e-mail using Gmail (or equivalent online service that wont let you modify its internals) though? Seems much simpler, and you don't have to explain hashes to anyone....
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by malanj 13y ago
Hypothesis: inexact computations will be required to make strong AI work in the medium term. You can't simulate a brain accurately (and you probably don't need to). Neurons aren't very accurate themselves, and it does the job
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by malanj 13y ago
The idea of inexact computing seems to be gaining a lot of traction over the past few years. The HyperLogLog data structure reminded me of the research at Rice University on inexact processors: http://www.ece.rice.edu/~al4&#
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Web and Computer Systems(wolframalpha.com)
1 points by malanj 13y ago|0 comments
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by malanj 13y ago
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=land+area+of+earth+%2F...
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by malanj 13y ago
I found that to be true applying to YC for the first time now. We spent an hour or two doing a first version of the application. After that we spent 95% of our time talking to potential customers and building things. We just refined our app
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by malanj 13y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1217/
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by malanj 13y ago
Your offer of help for founders applying to YC is great - thanks very much. I'm going to drop you a mail to take you up on the offer :-)
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by malanj 13y ago
Yes - even for a mostly teenager aimed book, I found the dystopian future a bit jarring.
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Ready Player One – what Oculus + FB will look like? (en.wikipedia.org)
31 points by malanj 13y ago|16 comments
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by malanj 13y ago
Winamp's audio visualiser really helped me to understand the idea of time and frequency domains. It was pretty crude, but is was a nice way to see how a piece of music looked in the frequency domain. I kept that mental model in my head

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