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Re:China Seeks to Buy Control of Hong Kong Companies on Saturday September 14, 2019 @07:17PM (#20974479)
I see almost all comments on this article are sympathetic to China. I have not dug deeper but I wonder if the accounts making these comments are all real, or could they be part of China’s propaganda apparatus?
Re:Ragic – Editable forms with relational data on Friday February 24, 2017 @11:47PM (#13730109)
AirTable.com is a really great tool in this space - simple and works well
Re:Google Cloud Platform on Sunday September 27, 2015 @04:50PM (#10287909)
I tried both Google Container Engine and Amazon EC2 Container Service recently for a docker deployment. Google was the clear winner: they have support for private registries (Amazon requires you to use a third party or set it all up yourself), Google gives you a preconfigured, Debian-based base image so you don't have to do any setup or maintenance (with keys already exchanged that allow login with the gcloud command, no work required), and Kubernetes itself (which Google Container Engine uses for orchestration) is really nice. Also Google cloud logging (currently free) just works out of the box with their container engine and streams your container's stdout to their logs. Kubernetes itself is open source so you always have the option to move on your own metal if your deployment grows to that size. Would highly recommend Google Container Engine.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best drone for hackers? on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @04:19PM (#6961163)
The DJI Phantom & DJI Phantom 2 vision are both awesome. The Phantom 1 is probably better if you want to put your own board in the air, as it has more payload space. But out of the box the Phantom 2 is unbelievable with its iPhone FPV & telemetry integration

If you have lots of time on your hands, though, you could build your own with ardupilot: http://ardupilot.com

Re:Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes on Friday December 06, 2013 @10:34PM (#6865354)
Yes thanks, so if the articles just authorize the issuance of common stock one needs to amend them before using a SAFE?
Re:Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes on Friday December 06, 2013 @09:58PM (#6865256)
I have a question about using this. In the SAFE Primer it states:

"The table below sets forth a comparison between the Standard Preferred and the SAFE Preferred, as each would be described in the company’s certificate of incorporation:"

Reading the SAFE it mentions "SAFE Preferred Stock" and seems to partially define it. Does this mean you must have "SAFE Preferred stock" defined in your articles of incorporation to use a SAFE, or can the SAFE stand alone?

Re:Warning: Google Authenticator upgrade loses all accounts on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:01PM (#6328864)
I recommend using the Authy app instead, it's much better
Re:Unvalidated Redirect in Google (or How Google Sent Me To Bing) on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @05:37PM (#4912851)
We check for these types of vulnerabilities, and it's free to sign up: https://armorhub.com
Re:Notch trying jsFiddle on Monday December 03, 2012 @12:51AM (#4864141)
well done, thank you
Re:A Warning for Airbnb Hosts on Friday November 30, 2012 @09:18PM (#4856565)
The law here clearly needs to evolve, and probably should have evolved by now. AirBnb wants to keep people safe, as it's in the best interest of their business. Some purposes of the law are also to keep people safe, but we need to revisit protectionist laws that restrict renting out parts of your home to others solely to protect hotels, and the fact that Airbnb has made it much safer to rent out your home (you can see people's reputations online, their social networks and who they know, Airbnb provides insurance, etc) means that some of the old laws aren't needed.

What is clear to me is that this sort of spot enforcement is a waste of taxpayer money and doesn't serve to help anyone. I hope we can work towards real legal reform as companies like Airbnb and Uber drive innovation in our cities.

hey Brad, I responded on TC but we built the scanner to rate limit our requests significantly if it starts to slow down your site. I'm going to investigate this and apologize for any trouble it caused if your site slowed down and we didn't rate limit
Re:Introducing a new data structure, streams, in Javascript on Sunday September 11, 2011 @02:16PM (#2984362)
This comment thread reminds me a bit of "The Emperor's new clothes". I think the code for sieve (even though I understood what it did) is way too unnecessarily confusing and I would not want to see it in a project I'm on.

However, I do appreciate the usefulness of lazy evaluation. Still, I think this documentation could benefit by not making outlandish claims ("it will change the way you think") and just saying the author has implemented lazy evaluation in javascript (and maybe link to the wikipedia article on lazy evaluation and this stack overflow to explain why it's useful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2151226/what-are-the-adva...)

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