Viewing profile — cypherpnks

I'll make an alternative suggestion. Hire management. You want to sit in a box and code. You want someone to handle business, support, etc. People who can do that are a dime a doze…

This video has been making the rounds. I call bullsh*t. 1. People aren't idiots. We get the idea that poor people tend to be dumb in the US because, in many cases, it's true. If yo…

There is a large market. How are you planning to reach it? If you cannot go lower, I'd consider a partnership with an existing brand. You'll have to have an insane marketing budget…

That is a true statement, about Wall St. Less true about C-level, until you hit pretty big companies. A typical C-level or VP-level earns between $200k and $500k, typically towards…

Of course. Compare the market caps of Walmart, J. Crew (which was recently purchased), Brooks Brothers (from a sane P/E ratio), Armani. Heck, try a TJ Max or similar (to avoid comp…

Most people on HN are in the elite. I'd suggest trying any of the wealth calculator apps, and figuring out which percentile you're in. And please post here once you've done that. O…

Amazon is the new socialism. There are basic services which the government ought to provide -- access to unlimited books, movies, music, software, and similar. It's dramatically mo…

Wrong conclusion. There's a difference between bad idea and bad execution. MailChimp is a business site. Twitter and Facebook are personal mediums. There's a mismatch. As a manager…

This contest is a sham. Crypto has to be secure against things like known-plaintext attacks and similar. That's typical in any real-world setting.

All data deleted is a dick move. Google should at least be able to preserve takeout data for eternity.

Keep it in a public github repo. Voila! Instant compliance.

Got screwed this way be Sears. Won't shop there again.

Having used both git and hg, I very strongly agree. I learned hg first. Hg took less time to master than git took learn the basics of. The syntax of git is incredibly cumbersome in…

A few things: * Udacity really tries to learn how to exploit the on-line medium well. Coursera tosses courses not that different from a capture of the normal university course on-l…

Personally, I'm rooting for the open software/open content model of edX, or the very high quality pedagogy of Khan Academy and Udacity. The Coursera courses I've taken were, by and…

Heh. Yeah. Microsoft makes hardware and starts to compete with you. Doesn't seem insane to start backpaddling a little bit.

That wasn't my point. You can do better than theoretically optimal -- indeed, their results, in many cases, do look better than sinc. Theoretically optimal makes assumptions that t…

I claim bullshit. The theoretically optimal algorithm is, and has been known to be for 40+ years, sinc interpolation. Gimp does this (Lanczos approximation). Comparing to bicubic l…

This is kind of a no-duh, sherlock non-story. Fact 1: Sebastian Thrun co-developed Google StreetView Fact 2: Sebastian Thrun is developing the driverless car. A lot more goes into …