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   by throwaway41597 11y ago

   Iliad is a €10B telco started about 20 years ago by a twenty-something. There was Business Objects which sold for some billions circa 2000. Criteo started in the 2000s and is worth billions. In tech, there are also DailyMotion, Deezer, BlaB
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   by throwaway41597 11y ago

   Isn't encryption the bigger issue? Agreed otherwise.
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   by throwaway41597 11y ago

   It's equity-free for this batch http://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/
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   by throwaway41597 11y ago

   YCF offers office hours for 8 weeks, two events with the partners and the alumni network. And the $12k and €42k are not mutually exclusive. How many €10M+ companies got started with ACCRE money? Probably not even as many as there are $1B+ Y
5. 95.▲
   by throwaway41597 11y ago

   1e100000000 would require about 41 MB [0] of storage so that's not as crazy as I thought. No idea what kind of CPU you need for anything other than an addition though. [0]: log(1eN) / log(10) = N ; therefore: bits_required = log2(
6. 96.▲
   by throwaway41597 11y ago

   I believe there is more to it: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2009-9 shows 14 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818157 has 87.
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   by throwaway41597 11y ago

   This is great. It seems that the comment counts are off though: go to [0] and look at the top story. It shows 18 comments but [1] only has 15. [0]: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9 [1]: https://news.ycomb
8. 98.▲
   by throwaway41597 11y ago

   Look for the original Android settings app on the launch screen and do the regular uninstall from the application list.
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   by throwaway41597 11y ago

   Thanks for the explanation. It sounds like the stock is allocated to the entities willing to buy the largest amount though, not everybody has the same chance. If an investor asks for $70B of stock (through shell companies) even if the total
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    I think it's because you'd need a continuous line of magnets over the full tube, as opposed to accelerators at intervals so it's probably orders of magnitudes cheaper. I don't know about the reliability of compressors bu
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    There is room for FirefoxOS: - No performance regressions. Somehow, the blazing fast device I bought a couple of years ago now feels sluggish. Core apps should be timeless: the dialer, the keyboard, task switcher shouldn't be slower tw
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    I also found the examples confusing. What I got is they are all nouns (respect the grammar rule of having nouns for class names) but `PlanEvents` reads like data that is going to be processed (passive) whereas `EventPlanner` and `Scheduler`
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    correction: the C to JS step would be done with Emscripten (asm.js is a subset of JS not a compiler) Thank you for the answers
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    Thanks but to be honest, I'm not proficient in Python, so it's hard to guess if those restrictions would hurt, although they seem fairly small. I was more asking for personnal opinions and projects using it. I wasn't able to
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    Since PyPy compiles RPython to C, couldn't one write a web app in RPython, compile it to C, then to JS (with asm.js) and enjoy a quick page load and smaller file size? By the way, is RPython a nice language to program in?
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    The part about black boxes (L851-4) expires on December 31st, 2018. So if companies complain enough by then, there is also hope that it won't be renewed. But it'd be better for the courts to reject it like you said.
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    Does anyone know what the so-called "black boxes" look like? Do they bring a server into the datacenter and log traffic? Is it software they force companies to run on their servers? Is it only for telcos or also for websites?
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    That's not a claim, it's speculation. Since there is not marginal cost, it's going to happen eventually. You only need one provider to do it and some customers to request it for the others to follow. Many shared hosting provi
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    > it requires you to run special software on your servers It doesn't, they ship a tool only for convenience. An open source tool running on your machine would be reverse-engineerable anyway. Plus, it is expected that shared hosting
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    Say you use React and own patents. If you ever sue someone over patents, it may terminate your React license in the case where the defendant uses React. You may not even know it and keep using React happily after termination. Later, you can
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    Thanks a lot for your answer. The part about loopholes explains a lot. But I don't quite agree about the asymmetry. If you use React, doesn't it basically mean that you de facto license all your patents to Facebook whereas Faceboo
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    So is it reasonably easy for one to step out of the walled garden? I've considered buying one (Kobo) but I've read comments saying it constantly wants to connect to wifi (after a factory reset which sometimes is required because o
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    by throwaway41597 11y ago

    edit: They actually kept a large part of the previous license. The new license will terminate if you initiate: "any Patent Assertion [...] (iii) against any party relating to the Software". So if you sue any React user for infring
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    by throwaway41597 12y ago

    Although he named it the Python paradox and wrote mostly about Python being chosen by Java programmers, he doesn't think of Python too highly. He mentions Perl, Ruby, Icon, Joy, J, Lisp and Smalltalk. He also speaks about esoteric lang
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    by throwaway41597 12y ago

    From a previous story: getting element width/height https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9011767
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    by throwaway41597 12y ago

    I'm not totally sure I understand correctly: 1) a TCP packet from source IP S comes in on side A of your tunnel 2) instead of acknowledging the packet, side A only sends it as data to side B other TCP (ssh) 3) the data may get lost, in
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    by throwaway41597 12y ago

    There was a method to jailbreak the iPhone by exploiting some vulnerabilities some years ago, all you had to do was go to a website from safari if I recall correctly. iOS is mainly OS X without unsandboxed apps, no silver bullet.
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    by throwaway41597 12y ago

    Regarding (b): I think an employee working day to day gets a much better picture than investors. It requires time on the job, but my point is that it's not as one-sided as you make seem.
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    by throwaway41597 12y ago

    Thanks. It still seems a lot considering most people don't view those topics, but I guess visitors coming from long tail search results are desperately determined.
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    by throwaway41597 12y ago

    Do you have so many visitors that this mail is insignificant? or are there that many people who are both clueless and angry enough to look for an email in the footer? It amazes me that an unintentional "contact us" would convert e