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by srgseg 16y ago
On the basis that he's putting in $250k cash at a post money valuation of $750k: What really determines whether this is fair is down to what a 'home run' would look like. If you are getting some traction towards a possible goal of $xx milli
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by srgseg 16y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html 4. Naughtiness Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting
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by srgseg 16y ago
My guess: Most US radio stations (or at least all CBS stations) now stream live through iTunes. User generated playlist stations will be supported, Apple inserts the ads. Users earn a cut of revenue for promoting such stations and encouragi
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by srgseg 16y ago
Can anyone suggest how to defend against these type of attacks? Is it simply a case of rate limiting by IP? If so, anyone suggest an easy way of doing this (I assume limiting at the web server level is not good enough?)
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by srgseg 16y ago
That explanation is not consistent with the claim You don't need math skills to solve this, only problem solving skills. I'm just saying, it'd be nice if there is a warning when something that looks like a standard lateral thinking brain
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by srgseg 16y ago
To be fair, when the puzzle specifically asks: What are the best odds the prisoners can give themselves? (Hint: it's better than 1/2^100.) that is clearly an impossible ask without advanced mathematics, and anyone without such advanced ma
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by srgseg 16y ago
I'd be very interested if you could explain it properly without using math, natural logarithms and Euler's constant as the linked solution does.
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by srgseg 16y ago
Even the first solution linked to doesn't explain it. It only declares the result that the probabilities work out in a particular way. The second link contains the math, and no way would a non-mathematician have been able to come up with th
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by srgseg 16y ago
I'm just trying to help people that might spend an hour looking for a simple kind of solution to this, when the answer is really quite complicated and the math involved in the linked solutions are way beyond the understanding of most non-ma
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by srgseg 16y ago
Found the solution here: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/7649/title/Puzzli... http://ocfnash.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/pity-the-prisoners/ Warning: Don't spend hours of lateral thinking trying to solve this puzzle unless you h
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by srgseg 16y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Could you post a link to the solution? Or post it as a ROT-13 comment? Otherwise I might never find out the answer!
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by srgseg 16y ago
I've looked up this puzzle elsewhere and it is described as allowing the prisoners to manipulate the contents of the boxes they open to a limited degree.
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by srgseg 16y ago
The idea of allowing HR to post job vacancies without having to involve IT for every update is good. However, this isn't a problem the IT department are likely to search for, and this isn't the type of thing TechCrunch is going to be buzzin
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by srgseg 16y ago
I just discovered this and can't believe no-one has posted the URL for this before. The warm color temperature really helps me control my sleep cycle, which can be pretty bizarre with the amount of time I spend staring at my monitor.
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Change your color temperature to fix your sleep patterns(stereopsis.com)
56 points by srgseg 16y ago|22 comments
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by srgseg 16y ago
I mean, why not use @startupmail.com for your personal addresses and have your app use @startup.com? Because then people might wonder if I really did represent startup.com when I emailed them about a biz dev deal. I agree with you regardi
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by srgseg 16y ago
I looked into SendGrid, and I was a bit concerned that they use IP addresses from EC2 to send out email with. Otherwise they seem pretty good. I wonder if the issues of needing to send out mail from multiple IP addresses and per-ISP rate th
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by srgseg 16y ago
Good point. I could have both notify@notify.startup.com and me@startup.com. That could mean I'd have two separate mail servers. I'm mostly worried about signup/+3 day/+7 day notifications to new users from damaging the spam reputation of me
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Ask HN: Facebook emails as facebookmail.com. Should I?
12 points by srgseg 16y ago|11 comments
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by srgseg 16y ago
Beware that people react very badly to you charging them to 'talk' or 'discuss' things. I remember a senior exec at a telecoms firm that had a high six figure budget to spend on a particular type of solution. He was so offended by the idea
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by srgseg 16y ago
I've heard a VC saying that Pivotal is a great company to build polished software for you if you have raised a big chunk of money. Anyone know how much they actually cost though? Are their rates through the roof because people throw their V
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by srgseg 16y ago
Or maybe you want to loop through a set of files and perform a set of operations on them. If you did start putting clever code into Ant files, they'd get so huge they'd be unmanageable. It's really really easy to just write your own Ant p
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by srgseg 16y ago
Lol that's cockney rhyming slang for those who are confused. Giraffe rhymes with laugh.
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by srgseg 16y ago
Agreed, it's really easy to do it yourself. Two areas of possible confusion: specifying the 'Goods and Services' description and the 'Class', e.g. 'IC 042' for 'Computer services'. Just do some searches at http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/tess/ind
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by srgseg 16y ago
Thanks, can't believe you only got 2 points for this.
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by srgseg 16y ago
Interesting, please could you elaborate on the specific courses/experiences which helped you learn these things (esp no. 3) My experience of a CS degree was being drowned in information but not anything nearly as useful as that which you've
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by srgseg 16y ago
Sure, I'm just pointing out that unless explicitly added to a contract, the default situation is that forfeiting the deposit does not allow you to walk away. So in a simple agreement where you agree to do $10,000 worth of work for someone,
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by srgseg 16y ago
Furthermore, contrary to popular belief, if you sign a contract and put down a deposit for something, that doesn't give you the right to walk away from the full purchase in exchange for forfeiting your deposit. This was discovered the hard
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by srgseg 16y ago
Very interesting - can anyone verify this fact?
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by srgseg 16y ago
Life loves to subject us to the useless positional (numbers) measuring sticks that mean nothing in the long term. It means a lot to me in the long term that I'm living in a nice big house with a nice big garden for my kids to play in, whi

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