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Did you show them to a lawyer too, or did you just plug in your info?

Interesting. Maybe thats another reason why garage-style startups trump their glamorous colleagues with all the press coverage?

Is this idea inspired by the four hour work week book by any chance?

At least the voters are entitled to choose a government and the government should write the laws themselves. Lobbyists have no constitutional basis.

Work for someone else's startup. That's the best way to learn how it works on the inside.

Actually now that I think about it, given the nature of their readership, the marginal value of the ads should be above the $3 they charge.

And just 4 years short of the centennial of the beginning of the war!

Not sure about the decision to charge for the pdf, considering that they're reusing free content.

Isn't the question better posed as was it funded by a government? And how did they choose whom to hire? Maybe the private armies are getting into cyberwarfare...

This reads like a section from a sci-fi novel. Once more reality is catching up with cyberpunk.

I'd love to know what it's supposed to do when it reaches its target. Surely the creator would have had to have some sort of blueprints for the target system to successfully set it up to create more than collateral damage.

Well, not morally wrong or anything. But you can earn a lot more with the same effort elsewhere. For good science to result, you will usually have to be driven primarily by your passion for the research itself. ymmv

Greed for fame, money, power etc.

I'd venture the offender is not really in his line of work for the right reasons if he does that. Just shows what's happened to science since it's founders' times.

I'm surprised China managed to pull that off. Given all the intel budgets the US has, you'd think someone would have noticed before 97% were reached...

Care to give us an example of your last point? I'm not sure what you're getting at.

I've heard about a startup that had to relocate to London after the YC 3 month phase and then wait a substantial time for the INS to work out their papers. That sounds like it could break a company?

Don't forget to provide a location search...

They had some problems of that nature, as an example in India starting in the 17th century and ending 1947. Other examples can be found readily :)

I don't know of any direct competition. Digital printing seems to have become cheep enough to make this feasible.

I've been thinking about the possibility of a EU clone that produces and especially ships locally, and supports other languages etc. If you want to discuss this idea, I'd be happy to hear from any HN users.

Wow, quite a difference. I paid $13 for shipping, a total of $22 for issue number 1 to come to Germany. Do you receive diplomatic mail or something?

Unfortunately, outside of the U.S. the shipping is a bit expensive. Could we lobby MagCloud to ship from Europe too? And btw. does anyone know of a European MagCloud clone? Seems like a good idea...

To use a regular phone you would have to reverse-engineer a significant part of the (low-level) software, est. cost > $1m

Even then you would have to get lucky with the hardware, as it is not designed to sniff all the meta data and pass it up for capture. It might do some of the stuff in hardware that you want done in software.

Care to tell us where we can find info on the ciphers actually in use?

Pretty dodgy economics going on. Wouldn't BPs expenses on cleanup so far already have been taken out of the stock price (re statement at the end of the graphic)?

I expected it to be about the value of the oil lost... that's probably a lot less than 100b.

I guess that depends on the specialisation (see other thread in this post). Maybe something like "software decision help", "scientific research service", "professional math help", "software evaluation", "Matlab debugging"...

True, I'm still working on sharpening the idea. Here's a specific example task, and at the upper end of the size/price spectrum:

Let's say you want to write a Twitter search engine and adopt existing FLOSS software as far as possible (my position a few years back). You could ask us to find, research, evaluate, possibly test components and fit them together according to your requirements. You receive an overview of existing projects, ranked by criteria such as maturity and completeness, all caveats for your project and a draft architecture using the best parts (crawler, indexer, front-end). This you can then hand to the implementation crew to get them started in the right direction.

Or you just want us to find out if anyone knows how to reliably capture all tweets from the system and try and get the information. I knew that back then, but finding it out took a mixture of ingenuity and perseverance - hacker skills :)

Here are a few rough ideas for a more specific service offering:

- software intelligence service: as above, plus similar tasks

- the scientific computing service: fixing bugs, improving display of results/export functions, writing a module, all the way to creating an entire solution (in Matlab, Mathematica, et. al.) In some sense this is an low-end IT consultancy with experience in scientific computing.

- "math-backup" service (for non-mathematicians in science and technology): have us search for a result, apply it to your domain/conventions, check for proper rigour in your work, find "bugs" in reasoning etc.

As RAs do a range of tasks in their positions, so could a VRA.

Care to elaborate? I'm not sure of the size, but there are 100.000+ related monthly searches on Google (under $.20 per click), which is how I hope to reach customers.

According to the quote, the shape of the experiment was changing...

Every guy does that, and pretty transparently to boot. The end.

The awkwardness of your 10s silence is entirely in your head. They might have the same problem, but you wouldn't notice if they didn't. Familiarity is about being able to be in someones presence without it becoming awkward.

A lot of attractive girls are boring because the guys always make the conversation, if you let her take the lead you will bore her by default. Try mentioning something she might be interested in and see if she latches on: then you can take the lead and make yourself interesting.