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What a $40 Video Has to Do with Becoming a Tech Unicorn
It does.

One LAN, one WAN.
Hard to believe there's a huge market for $199 WiFi routers, no matter how sophisticated.

On the other hand, even a sprinkling of installations is probably pretty valuable if it allows Google to derive more accurate ISP performance numbers. There's got to be some benefit in having thousands of devices directly connected to the ISP's network on the consumer end 24/7.
France -> Canada, moved there when I was 15 years old with my parents and my sister. Did high school and college there.
We applied for perm resisdency (equivalent of green card), got it in ~1 year (my dad was an investor so made it fairly easy).

Canada -> USA, went to SF for a coding bootcamp and got a job once done. Got my Canadian citizenship by then, so came in with a TN, then applied for H1B and now doing green card.
That's the entire basis of Stingray devices.
I migrated from the USA to Canada last year on spousal sponsorship and the process end-to-end took ~7 months. I submitted the application while I still lived in the US and I was told that helps me as far as processing times. I'm sure a lot of factors come in to play, though.
Looks great, good luck!
I'd like to mention that the headline is a bit misleading. It's not about taking pictures of works (or people, for that matter), it's about publishing these pictures without consent of the creators of those works (or the individuals pictured in the photograph).
Even in the production of vegetables and grains many sentient beings are killed. They just happen to be mostly insects or smaller mammals.

Try going into a garden without stepping on anything, or using a thrasher without killing a single thing.

That's why Buddhists don't get too crazy with the whole vegetarian thing, most eat meat (albeit not necessarily in our North American super-size me portions)...
From the specs section:

Networking

2.4 GHz wireless 802.11b/g/n 3x3 with smart antenna
5 GHz wireless 802.11a/n/ac 3x3 with smart antenna
AUX wireless 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 1x1
Ethernet switch QCA8337 Gigabit sw
WAN port 1x 10/100/1000 Mbps
LAN port 1x 10/100/1000 Mbps
Ask HN: Review my task management startup
Rindle is a personal task management app that integrates with the tools you already use. Rindle will integrate with popular platforms like Gmail, Slack, Trello, Basecamp, and Github, allowing you to aggregate your tasks and move them through your own workflow.

We recently put up a landing page describing the product with a launch list signup.

I'm particularly looking for feedback on the product concept and the landing page UI/messaging. I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

https://rindle.io
I have to say it looks like they may have taken some liberties with the product design a la Amazon Echo.

Before I read into the product specifications I was expecting an Echo competitor via Google Now tech.
> Or from a realpolitik stance, if Netscape has more friends with the Clintons than you do (which they did), you're going to have a bad time. A lot of "careers" were made at the DoJ over this asinine case, that changed nothing for the better.

Its kind of amusing that you point to such a "realpolitik" explanation and yet would leave out that the reason it changed almost nothing at all (for better or worse) was that the Bush Administration, which was more MS friendly, came to office at the end of the case, and the Bush Justice Department abandoned any effort toward imposing any significant sanctions.
Hopefully this device actually has the CPU power to run QOS at more than 50mbps... the same can't be said of any other consumer router in the $200 price range.
That's makes it worse. Mozilla integrating Pocket into Firefox for free.
>Kernel developers don't use and IDE for the Linux kernel, and they are arguably some of the best programmers in the world.

Well, even better programmers like Alan Kay designed and used complete image-based GUI environments like Smalltalk.

And Rich Hickey used IntelliJ to write Clojure.

So?

>Great programmers use vim or emacs, because the imagery in their mind is far more powerful than anything an IDE could display.

How do you measure this? Is this Computer SCIENCE or merely metaphysical beliefs?
One way would be to keep forking Firefox's codebase for bug fixes and new features while customizing it to fit the needs of the privacy conscious users. It may not be "ethical" but it will serve the main premises of open source and is also doable as a community. A new name would also be required as Firefox is trademarked by Mozilla (See Iceweasel Browser [1]).

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel
Also absolutely wrong. There is a complete difference between a noisy environment (lots of mobile hotspots / access points) and an environment with an active attacker (device sending out deliberate deauth signals). Try to understand the difference, it's the key to the case.
Right. They can probably let their tentacles drift in and out of their awareness similar to how we let awareness of our breath drift in and out. The buddhist octopus is aware of its tentacles but not controlling of them.
You literally just described the Stingray devices. It is very worrisome.
Oh awesome. I didn't see it in the illustrations so I assumed it just had one internet hookup.
Perhaps a decent analogy is the difference between dining out and running a restaurant. Once the honeymoon is over you realize that you're running a business that has large capex and terrible margins. You also might be in a city (Seattle, SF, DC, etc) where you are competing with well-capitalized juggernauts like WeWork.

And despite your desire to create a community and engender loyalty, most coworking customers care about price, proximity, amenities and community in that order. I realized within 6 months that a small, boutique coworking space in Seattle wasn't creating sufficient added value to the community and was a poor use of real estate, money and my time.
Seems like a very crowded space to be in.
Just interesting to note that the form factor is quite similar to Amazon Echo (slim cylindrical tube), although the function is completely different (router vs "personal assistant device").
I think you misunderstand me. Musk has stated fuel for current type launches is around 0.3%.

If we assume that SpaceX cuts the overall cost of launches to 1/10th mainly by reuse of the first stage, that is indeed a 10x savings, but not on fuel (in fact, SpaceX uses more fuel because they need to be able to slow the first stage).

0.3% of x is the same as 3% of x/10.

So my point was that even with SpaceX numbers, where fuel will (once they sort out reuse) make up substantially more than what it currently does (because they're aiming to massively slashed the non-fuel costs), a 30% cut in fuel costs will "best" case cut launch costs by about 1%.

If these guys are going to achieve substantial cost cuts it will need to be elsewhere unless Musk' has been massively misquoted or is totally wrong about the relative cost of fuel vs. the rest.

(I'm not going to bother being precise as all of these are handwavy estimates from people anyway).
They should sit every government official down and make them watch Mr. Robot to scare the crap out of them on cybersecurity
>"Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data"

"Past results are not indicative of future performance"

We can't compare the last 200 years of human to the past 20,000.

For example 66 million years ago the dinosaurs had already lived around 140 million years. In another million they would be dead because of exceptional conditions. Everyday in which we live in modern society is an exception condition based upon both the rate of change in human knowledge and rate of change in the environment.

As to your first statement. If I own the machines why should I keep you, that are now unnecessary, alive and instead live in super luxury with a few million people on the planet.
I think the whole question shows that people are thinking wrong.

Think of a society/civilization spending people. Oh, we can automate much of agriculture? Great; we don't have to spend 90% of our people on growing food. Now we can spend them on factory jobs, and our society becomes better off. Now we don't have to spend so many people in factories? That's a good thing, too - we can spend those people on more productive things. Again, our society will become better off.

There are a couple of ways this could not work out, though. First, there is the social unrest that can happen in the time of transition. Second, we can lose one kind of jobs before we figure out what the new kind is, and so leave a lot of people idle. Third, we could eventually create jobs that are beyond our ability to train the bulk of people to be able to do them.
Maybe O is for On.
True.

But often I'm concerned with a specific macro, as in, "hey I need 20g more carbs today."

The macro ratios of individual food items doesn't really help when calculating the total day ratios.
Google #OnHub slogan: "Because if we didn't already know most things about you now we'll know exactly everything you do on the internet"
> But doesn't [directly] kill any sentient being. Yay! <milk production still abuses said animals bred for production>

Historically consumption of milk is more about efficiency in turning feed -> nutrients, not necessarily about non-violent principles. Even in the production of vegetables, sentient beings are killed all the time (just incidentally).
Apple doesn't ban web browsers, they couldn't give a rat's arse about that. They ban PROT_EXEC.

Apple's position is essentially that iOS already has a perfectly good JavaScript engine (JavaScriptCore) and the security risks of allowing apps to use mprotect/mmap far outweigh the benefits of allowing other JS engines.
It has a speaker built in. So they'll have that with Google Cast Audio, Google Now, etc.
I am pretty sure they have a taken a leaf or two out of Amazons book.
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Even if you embrace a lower population target, you still have to deal with the billions of people already here.

Enough people want to leave a biological legacy, so halving population each generation seems optimistic. (yes, many people don't want children at all, but many that do also want their child to benefit from having a sibling. I will assume these numbers cancel out.)

So it will take centuries to get down to the "low millions" range, even longer if lifespan extension pans out.

Automation, meanwhile, is already happening, and the current wave is more likely to be felt in a span of decades rather than centuries. Unless you count "starving in the streets" as a "natural die off", redistribution is going to be needed regardless.
Well when Linux came out I was just annoyed that I hadn't been the one to do it. A friend of mine (the author of TinyMush) and I were certainly thinking about it at the time (I had embedded OS design experience, but none with virtual memory so maybe we would not have pulled it off). Also don't forget that the enabling technology was gcc and there was the example of Minix.

We did contribute to the floppy driver. The original driver read a block at a time before incurring a rotational latency. I had had enough of this slowness with SCO Xenix, so added a track buffer to speed it up on Linux. My friend wrote the original generic SCSI driver, to support a film scanner.

I think we may have made one of the earliest products using Linux. We worked for an entrepreneur who started a business selling medical image archiving and teleradiography equipment. In those days, ct-scan machines and MRI machines had no networking. To get images from them you had to capture the image sent to the console screen or use the 3M laser camera parallel interface. (My job was to make cards for this capturing). Image transfer was over phone lines using sz/rz and Telebit Trailblazer modems.

Anyway, at some point one machine did have network (I think it was some proprietary interface, not DICOM). The problem was that Linux did not yet have a networking stack. The solution? Use "KA9Q", the amateur radio TCP/IP stack in userspace for this.

At some point Pat Volkerding (Slackware) also worked with us. I remember he was a big deadhead at the time, wrote Slackware while living in parent's basement. We were half installing / half developing a teleradiography system after hours in Eastern Long Island Hospital.
Since marketing and selling jamming devices is illegal, I would like to know what the FCC is going to do about the supply chain. We know these are all using well known advertised features of enterprise wireless gear. Are they working on a consent decree with Cisco/Aruba/etc to stop including this feature? Or are they going to play whack-a-mole with end users for the next decade?
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France -> USA

Contracted for a US company in France, went to the US for the 2 weeks to train the American team on the project I was working on, stayed 2 more months because of the work needed, the American team ended up hiring me and payed for my green card.
>Instead of taking wealth from the smaller number of humans who are creating that wealth and giving it to those who are not, why don't we just accept that we don't need so many of us any more? Let the extras die off naturally (note to angry skimmers: I SAID NATURALLY) and migrate to a new lower-population equilibrium.

Because we value people's lives and happiness, so "You're unemployed now, please die quietly" is actually only slightly less unacceptable than "You're unemployed now, we'll take you out behind the chemical sheds and shoot you." It's the misery and death we take chief issue with, and only a little the violence.

> And that's even before we consider the fundamental unfairness of redistribution

You mean the fundamental unfairness of forcibly giving over the vast majority of the Earth's spoils to a tiny minority who don't care about anyone but themselves? Because if you don't, we disagree on the definition of "unfairness".

> If (and it's a big if) automation is really going to put billions of people out of productive work, then the only sustainable answer to that is fewer people. Embrace it.

We can stabilize the population for ecological purposes just fine while keeping the non-parents happy and healthy for their entire natural lives (or even well beyond that).
>Live programming goes way beyond smalltalk fix and continue, morphic directness, or a LISP REPL. We've caught up to that past

Actually we didn't. The vast majority of programmers doesn't have access even to those -- and even those that do don't have it in any much advanced way compared to those older environments.
You can blame IBM for that. The fact that they haven't made it easy for security researchers (or anyone really) to tinker hurts the platform.

Up until a few years ago, there was no legal way to run z/OS on hardware that wasn't a million dollar hunk of iron from IBM. IBM has since made a product called Rational Developer and Test Suite [0] available. With it, you get an emulator and a licensed copy of z/OS that you can run on x86. Except it's $9,500 / year.

The only saving grace is an open source project called Hercules [1] which emulates the z/Architecture. If you don't mind breaking some copyright laws, there is no technical reason why you can't download a copy of z/OS and run it under Hercules. But good luck finding the latest version. Want to test your research against the latest maintenance levels? Good luck.

[0]: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/ratideveandtesten...

[1]: http://www.hercules-390.eu/

[2]: http://mainframed767.tumblr.com/post/40836059586/instruction...
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With optical scanning at least, ballot stubs are linked directly to the signature book (once the stubs are separated from the ballot, matching the ballot back to the stub is extremely difficult if at all possible--perhaps by looking at fiber patterns at the perforation).

At the end of the election day each site's poll workers manually count the number of signatures, the number of stubs, the number of ballots within the scanner's tub, the number of soiled or defaced ballots, the number of provisional ballots etc and numbers reported by the scanner. (whenever actual ballots are handled, at least one Democrat and Republican poll worker must be present). Tracking the number of ballots read in this situation doesn't concern me much. We also sign and post the end of day tapes printed by the scanner on the doors for the public to see.

The biggest questions left really is whether the optical scanner actually reports the tally correctly. The board of elections also rescans all the ballots centrally with different machines in the weeks after the election before it is certified. I don't know the procedures for evaluating the scanners, but in theory the scanner can't tell the difference between real ballots and control ballots so some sort of randomized batch testing where the real ballots are run with control batches should be pretty straightforward.

It's also true with the electronic voting booths that you can match the number of tallied votes at the end of the day against the number of signatures on the books. But I don't think there's any mechanism I'm aware of for performing an actual recount. (Yes, you can re-sum the individual machine totals, but that doesn't go back to raw responses).

I personally don't trust the purely electronic voting at all yet because there's no way I know of to verify or test the accuracy of the machine. I recently moved to a different State and don't do election work anymore. Here we vote using some bullshit touchscreen using some PCMCIA card that the poll worker hands me and that I stick into the computer. Not even a paper receipt is printed. WTF. No, thanks. I think I'll just vote absentee.
It seems that with AC being more mainstream that prices north of $250 are becoming a thing. I was surprised it was only $199.
Why do you need a "ptrdiff_t" type, why isn't "size_t" sufficient?
For me, as Linux on the desktop got more and more mainstream, I started to feel more and more left out. I moved from Debian to Ubuntu because I thought "I just want my computer to work without having to mess with it". Over time, Ubuntu made many decisions that I disagreed with and I spent huge amounts of effort trying to figure out how to uninstall things (which is quite difficult for a Debian based distro since the configuration often assumes you want everything integrated).

I finally ended up with an Arch system running xmonad and huge numbers of terminal based apps. I'm finally happy with my system again. What I realized is that I specifically don't want a Mac-like/Windows-like/shinkwrapped experience. I want choice and freedom, because what I like is not necessarily what the masses (or Mark Shuttleworth or Redhat or Gnome developers) want.

I kind of picked on your post because even though it is kind of negative, I think there are quite a lot of people who think the same way. It's a valid opinion, but a bit unfortunate. The advantage of a (dare I say Gnu/) Linux system or a BSD system is the freedom from being told how you are going to use your computer. It's not having to put up with some stupid design decision just because it was pushed by a popular company and now the masses are used to it. It the ability to explore, experiment and create with absolutely no boundaries.

It is popular enough and gives me more of everything I want than OSes that are more visible to the masses.
Gentoo, /sigh. That was a great part of my linux learning experience. I bought into the hype a friend told me about "you have so much control!", and effectively shot myself in the foot because compilation time was so slow (and I didn't yet know enough to use it well).

The slow manual install process? I can't remember any of it, and would have to read a howto again if I had to do it -- but I think it went a LONG way towards demystifying things: everything was just user-editable config files and sources. There's no magic, and almost everything is something I can change with compiler flags.

Of course, I now heart ubuntu and debian, because I tend to agree with the choices of most package maintainers as far as compilation options, and my computer is fast enough that I don't think I'd notice if my office binary were maximally optimized or not. ;) However, I might not have gotten here had I not been exposed to Gentoo and Slackware long ago.
I've seen them tied to the side of existing buildings, and even masquerading as a tree :) Something I've noticed is that it seems the denser the population, the lower the towers are.
You don't even need a tower per se -- you just need smaller antennas covering the terminal building connected to a fiber backhaul.
We submitted my wife's spousal sponsorship application April 2015. She got her PR status in 4 months.
I agree with what you're saying.

Related, you might enjoy http://iconicmath.com/ ;-)
Can anyone explain why a Router needs 4GB of storage ?

What do they mean by "OnHub has 4GB of storage space, so there’s plenty of room for auto-updates and the latest software features." ? Is software for a router that large ?
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OnHub looks nice, but honestly the Apple AirPort Time Capsule is a great device, and also gives you Time Machine backups. The only feature I've found missing, is VPN site-to-site and VPN client connections.
I think calling Ubuntu on par with OS X is a stretch. Not that it's that far, but I've had many more stability issues with the LTS versions of Ubuntu than with Mavericks or even Yosemite.

I agree, though, that sticking to Ubuntu or Fedora for new users is a great idea. They are both excellent operating systems with regard to simplicity.
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Coolest thing I see is on the NewEgg page where it says it's "weave" ready, and you can see the Zigbee/Bluetooth radios. It's a router, and it's the smart home hub.
Also, they make an argument about density and interference that IMO shouldn't be dismissed out of hand.

The point isn't worthless in general, but it's worthless in the context of the text and principle of 44 US Code 333. In that case, I will dismiss it out of hand.

it's worth keeping in mind that mobile hotspots can fall afoul of the very same principle and law behind that fine

What mobile hotspots maliciously interfere with eachother's operation?
"As a side note, I'm surprised this isn't marketed alongside the Nest branch. It really has the look and feel of Nest products with the LEDs and the speaker aesthetic. Also surprised this isn't an "Alphabet" product."

It pretty much is... it's their way of sneaking the 'home automation' core/aggregation box into people's homes masked as a wireless router (for now).

I'm sure the capability you mention will come heading into the future. The only question will be : execution/security and will a competitor come up w/ a more secure/well executed product which won't serve as a data vacuum hose to google.

This kind of product launch on the heels of their massive alphabet re-org with no understanding where it came from (division wise) or what its goal is leads me to question whether the re-org is really going to move google beyond its former execution flaws ...
"Optimal human population of zero" seems like a contradiction-in-terms. For whom is it optimal to have a human population of zero? Surely not for the humans, and since we're the ones who exist, we draw up the criteria.
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Complacency. It's not like there's a risk of a competing government coming in with a better website and taking over.
Storage is that cheap.