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by smanek 15y ago
IIRC, it started as one of the admins at Justin.tv spending a bunch of time arranging food for them, and then deciding that other startups had the same problem and spinning out Zero Cater. The YC connection is a great way to get started (in
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by smanek 15y ago
The halting problem is a specific instance of the type of problems predicted by the incompleteness theorem (IT). The first IT says there within any system of logic that's powerful enough to express arithmetic (and consistent), there are al
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by smanek 15y ago
Our vision is to have google.com/realtime include Google+ information along with other realtime data from a variety of sources. The subtext seems to be about as clear a reason as you can hope for from a giant corporation's PR dept.
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by smanek 15y ago
Did you read the article? They had quotes from both Google and Twitter saying the contract wasn't extended
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by smanek 15y ago
From my understanding, most schools used to have hard copy facebooks. I've read Harvard definitely had a (per house) online facebook back when Zuckerberg was a freshman (and, interestingly, still did as of at least ~2008).
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by smanek 15y ago
You might be right - but you can't logically draw the conclusion that 'lots of people remember the name' based on the evidence presented. The is no correlation between words people end up reaching your site by, and words that they are try
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by smanek 15y ago
I disagree - at the end of the day, it comes down to if I trust the people in charge (board/founders/investors) since there is basically nothing an employee at a startup can do to protect themselves from those people. I could be diluted to
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by smanek 15y ago
Well, without more information, I can't really prove you wrong ;-) But I still contend that Quora has experts in more domains than HN does. Check out the breadth of industries represented on http://www.quoratop.com/ . Of course, it's still
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by smanek 15y ago
I've read the usenix paper, and I'm reasonably sure I'm right. Care to elaborate on what I'm mistaken about? I (and a few other people I've talked to about schemes isomorphic to this about) may learn something new :-D
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by smanek 15y ago
That's just not true. To oversimplify a bit, let's say BCrypt is a function b(data, cost) that returns a hash. Right now, I have b(password, c1) = hash_a stored in my database. To increase the cost to c1+c2, I just replace that with b(hash_
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by smanek 15y ago
HN is definitely a place for experts to interact with 'everyday' folks in tech. But it doesn't even aspire to be that for any other vertical. Quora arguably has a marginally lower caliber of tech experts, but much higher for many other vert
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by smanek 15y ago
quora?
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by smanek 15y ago
I think the ideas behind STM ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory - usually used for concurrency), present some interesting opportunities to automatically 'rewind' state in the case of exceptions. I can imagine syst
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by smanek 15y ago
He was saying the law firm was willing to defer up to $20K in fees until he raised a round. That might include drafting/reviewing things like articles of incorporation, corporate bylaws, vesting agreements, NDAs, IP assignment, contractor
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by smanek 15y ago
"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." That's like hearing about a faster-than-light spaceship and asking about what kind of seats it has.
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by smanek 15y ago
I'm assuming there's a typo for 'Faheem Zaman'. It said he got "5580 points across 5 [SATs]." Even assuming they were all on the 1600 point scale, I had a higher aggregate score across only 4 sittings of the SAT (2 in HS, 2 in Junior High),
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by smanek 15y ago
Just buy a put with a strike at $100. Accomplishes effectively the same thing as the short, but limits your downside.
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by smanek 15y ago
Be careful with this trick. Although it appears to work well for Riak, it can cause lots of problems for BigTable style stores, like HBase, since it bottlenecks all the writes through one node. See: http://ikaisays.com/2011/01/25/app-engin
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by smanek 15y ago
Lucene Revolution is pretty big
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by smanek 15y ago
I'm not convinced that is more of a pain point than: "It allowed people to share their recent purchases pretty much from anywhere at any time with minimum friction"
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by smanek 15y ago
What pain did Twitter address? I can come up with broad, hand-wavy justifications. But those justifications apply just as well to Blippy.
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by smanek 15y ago
Scott Aaronson is an MIT prof and a leading researcher in quantum computing. Here is his take on a recent paper DWave published in Nature: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=639 (And the Nature paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journ
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by smanek 15y ago
Is there a better document that explains how the GC works in the latest Java 6 releases (particularly Hotspot)? I'm doing some GC tuning these days - and there seems to be a lot of false/stale information out there. Something this readable,
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by smanek 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing your answer there ... You just say: Still there is good reason that browsers rub it in the users face when a site tries to use a self-signed certificate but I don't see where you say what that good reason is. If a self
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by smanek 15y ago
Granted, it doesn't provide as much protection as a cert signed by a trusted CA - but it's still far more protection than plain HTTP, right? e.g, Firesheep wouldn't work I don't know if browsers do this, but in principle they could even not
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by smanek 15y ago
Any attack I can think of that exploits that fact would work at least as easily on plain HTTP. And there are a large class of attacks that work on plain HTTP but not with a self signed cert. Can you think of any counter examples? (Note: I'm
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by smanek 15y ago
Off-topic, but does anyone know why browsers go crazy about self signed certs? It's not as good as one signed by an ostensibly trusted CA, but it's strictly better than plain HTTP (no sniffing, harder MITM, etc) - so why not present it to t
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by smanek 15y ago
I've only just glanced at the source, but it seems to be based on the data structure explained on pg 77 of http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf .
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by smanek 15y ago
Tools have been built to help amateurs better share what they want. I guarantee Tumblr + Posterous + Weebly + fanfiction.net + wikia have far more 'amateur' sites and content on any topic you're interested in, than the entire internet in ag
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by smanek 15y ago
Funny to think how 'document based' the web was back then. The concept of webapps must have been completely foreign. I'll bet he really hates URL shorteners. Interestingly, the examples he gave of good URIs (e.g., http://www.nsf.gov/pubs

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