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>More than two years have passed since the 2013 WWDC when iOS 7's flattened and utterly illegible software keyboard first saw the light of day.

Sometimes I think I'm the only person who feels flat is a dream come true. I've been waiting for this style to be mainstream for almost a decade.
Pentesterlab Tutorial – SQL injection to web admin console to getting a shell
Our dev team use Sentry (getsentry.com). We had the hosted plan, and we also have one installed in a local server.

You can check out their github repo as well https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
I'm not sure what your definition of a "trick" is. The quality of the results varies greatly depending on the algorithm used, which is maybe why you don't have a good impression of it. This one aligns the exposures and detects motion which is not something you can easily do by hand. In practice, I find my nexus 5 with HDR+ often takes superior pictures to my consumer grade DLSR, so much so that it's hard to justify taking the DSLR on trips anymore.

For instance, compare these two pictures taken at the same spot with a nexus 5 and Canon EOS Rebel T2i. https://goo.gl/photos/8ZrXoEC283oJ3NmC9 The nexus 5 one is just way better. The conventional camera struggles to keep even the foreground and midground properly exposed. The nexus 5 gets everything from the foreground to the sky, exactly as I saw it.
At Sidecar we're doing white label 40 minute delivery for a wide variety of merchants with a mix of cars, bikers and walkers.

https://www.side.cr/under-the-hood-a-look-at-sidecars-on-dem...
When reinstalling your system, try to install Drive into existing folder with the data. Nope, you have to choose a new folder and redownload everything[1]. While this is tolerable for small data accounts, I wouldn't trust them with couple hundred GBs.

While installing Dropbox it just syncs the difference and done.

[1]There is a workaround but you need to think about it before reinstalling the OS (saving some user data or something).
If I could find something that did image and PDF OCR as well as Evernote, I'd probably migrate, but for now, I'll risk the data loss for the ability to search everything so easily. I certainly welcome recommendations though.
Nice thing is that the desktop app can sync/save copies locally and does private backups, but you can also save/sync and store data in OneDrive, private server, or corporate internet via a samaba share (Free version only syncs to OneDrive, but IIRC does local backup in desktop app).

Architecturally it's a very impressive product and makes some pretty creative uses of the windows folder hierarchy to get it's job done.

I think OneNote was built with a crashfirst mentality - It is very hard to lose data w/ it. Their QA team is damn impressive too, I've been a follower of theirs for a while.

My only complaint is the lack of true real-time sharing ala google docs's Operational Transform (they didn't exist when it was made), but it does come close. Opening a shared notebook in class and having everyone collaborate on the note was an awesome experience.

It's inking support blows everything out of the water IMHO. It also has a lot of the advanced automation features you can access by integrating OneTastic.

Only real issue I've ran into is that it gets to be a pain to print with as it has some wonky scaling features and the page layout feels like an after thought.

It is also hard to get groups of people to use it effectively because it is basically a WIKI and needs to have the same kind of discipline / habits to make it usable.

If they can do inking support with Operational Transforms, they may be able to have a replay feature without even trying - something that many teachers seem to really want out of the product.

My friend and I love the product so much we've been trying to make our own online version with inking support w/ paper.js share.js, github, and localstorage.
empressplay 5 minutes ago [dead]

I think the algorithm for story ranking is a bit more complicated than that...
Very quality guide to how hacking you can
> Proportional representation is far from a panacea.

Among modern, established democracies, proportionality of representation is pretty closely linked to public satisfaction with government, and public participation with government. Its as close to a panacea for effective democracy as you could have -- which isn't surprising, proportionality of representation is a pretty direct measure of the extent to which a government is democratic.

> It tends to lead to a fragmented government (which is usually bad).

Any government in a system with a diversity of viewpoints is either going to be minoritarian or coalition based; winner take all tends to majority-of-a-majority -- which can be minoritarian -- and, whether it is that or not, tends also to involve non-overt coalition building in structuring big-tent parties. PR systems tend to be more likely to be actually majoritarian, and tend to feature explicit -- and thus more accountable -- coalition building. It doesn't lead to "fragmented" government by any meaningful measures.

Itssometimes portrayed as leading to less stable government, because in parliamentary systems its associated with more rapid turnover of government administrations/cabinets, but by another measure, it leads to more stable government, as while there is more frequent turnover of cabinets, there is more continuity between successive governments/cabinets, and more continuity in governments/cabinets over time.

> It also privileges party over individual candidates (which can be good or bad, but those who dislike partisanship would certainly disapprove).

Certain methods of achieving proportionality (e.g., party list systems) may do so; candidate-centered election methods with rules that produce proportional results (like single transferrable vote in small multimember districts) do not. In fact, such systems would do the opposite compared to the status quo system in the US, emphasizing individual candidates over party by offering more competition, even in general elections, between individual candidates even in districts with a clear majority for a single party.

> Most (in)famously, the Weimar Republic used PR. That didn't end well.

Constitutional provisions for Presidential rule-by-decree had a lot to do with that, PR -- or even the particular form of PR used by the Weimar Republic -- well, if you want to argue that that was responsible for something, then go ahead and make that argument.
Late as usual. If any Tesla event ever starts on time, I'm going to miss the beginning because I won't tune in for 30 minutes.
As voltagex_ pointed out you will have no problem with open-source packages, but I imagine you could try QEMU for running proprietary x86 bits in a pinch.
People-networking, not computer-networking. (It wasn't clear to me from the title.)
America. Far right is monarchism/fascism.
Don't be asinine.
Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure
The only thing I've seen people use it for is casting Netflix to the TV.
Parking spaces affects Housing
I look forward to electric (and autonomous) cars for air quality alone. As a dedicated pedestrian fewer cars on the street will directly translate into an improved quality of life. It would be amazing if heavily urban areas would dedicate even larger spaces as car free.
This!

All the above are requirements, yes (CPU, Screen, RAM, Storage, Battery, Camera). I'd add one more requirement: manufacturers should be required to supply as a part of an extended warranty the latest release of Android. No more orphaning year-old phones.

Once that's squared away, then I imagine manufacturers could compete on features -- things that customers want. Here are some examples:

* Battery life. User-serviceable battery.

* Removable storage

* Wireless charging

* Multiple SIM slots (popular in Japan)

* FM Radio (popular in Japan)

As you can imagine, a phone with all the above would be pretty large, but it turns out customers like a large phone. Sadly, no such phone exists today.
The real problem is that the same Visa quota is being used for both highly-skilled workers who _don't_ displace American workers (e.g. Silicon Valley or high-tech manufacturing), and "body-shopped" workers who are _intended_ to displace American workers (the example in this article, and the previous example of Disney).
Direct link to paper (article is a decent summary, though): https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/898.pdf
Fck.u.boi
The Hacker's Manifesto
First time trying to watch one of their events for me, figured I already missed it and wondered why their stream was still running.
Ask HN: What's stopping you from starting up?
Dear Hacker,
As an active user of HN, there is a high probability that you are excited about starting up. So, what is it that is preventing you from starting up?

Maybe you already started up. So, what is it that's stopping you from making it as successful as you want to be?

Do share your pain point and we will try our best to help you solve it.
Interesting, looks like a few generations of Toughbooks are available cheap on ebay. Looks like a nice platform overall: unbreakable titanium chassis, touch screen, pretty standard hardware (for running OSs with limited hw support). And a few (of the newer, but still cheap) versions even come with SSD disk.

Looks like a great toy for making all sorts of single-purpose devices/terminals -- not just testing OS kernels.
> Since Julia is about speed

Is it ? At least that's not the part that excites me most, although its a nice by product to have. Its a nice flexible language with good syntax and a good set of features. I still dislike 1 based indexing though.
This is a great point. There's an analagous situation in finance: would you rather have a single mutual fund own all your investment money, or do you want a brokerage account with some active management? The latter is definitely more complicated but gives the user more control, accountability, visibility, etc. While it makes sense for a Whole Product to want to hide this complexity and liquidity from the user, any long-term user will very likely want it after they've learned to use the product.
What do we think about the charges for deleting on b2?
The formally-verified Odd Order Theorem[0] using Coq was quite an acomplishment (though probably not what you had in mind).

[0] https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00816699/file/main.pdf
that explains it. I feel like a lot of these startup companies cater to SV because outside of SV people are completely unaware or unappreciative (doesn't see any disruption in note taking move along).

Makes me wonder how many SV unicorns will flop next year. My prediction is Twitter and Hoosuite.
Ask HN: Is it OK to have a part-time cofounder?
Our team has a part-time member.

The part-timer has a strong pedigree and strong technical skills. He's an honest, hardworking individual that puts in work when he's with the startup.

The rest of the team wants the part-timer to go all in like everyone else, but he has been adamant that he wants to work on his side project as well. This does effect the speed the team moves as well as raises a few additional questions:

1.) Provided the part-timer remains part-time and given how important he is to the team, is it "fair" to still split equity equally?

2.) Would potential investors be worried about a part-time arrangement among the founding team?
Did the exact same thing, 40 mins in and nada...
I really hope not. For anyone not above average looking, Tinder, et al, are a bunch of apps that basically show you everyone in your area that would never talk to you. I'm fairly positive that at least in my area, anyone who even matches with me is a robot.
Been waiting 45 minutes now. Some updates are available on

http://fortune.com/2015/09/29/live-tesla-model-x-event/
The lack of bracket keys [ and ] is most serious.
8pm PACIFIC

it's now 8:42pm PACIFIC.
Fully Agree.

Google Music makes it easy to pin music to the device for the occasional time when you are on a flight and have no wifi.

There is simply no need to cache more than 2-3 GB of music on the device.
Google notebook was amazing! But at the very least, they did export all notebook notes to Google docs, so it wasn't like they completely binned all user data.
fuck man, wish you'd upload this to a website or dropbox, now NSA is all up in my bugger. I feel violated just by visiting the domain
You know a lot about modern dance choreography and tap?
Net cafe refugee
I used to question this, too, but then again, I also sincerely appreciate having a Chromebook that boots in about 5 seconds ... compared to my phone that takes about a minute to go from off to "useful".

I know it doesn't matter for consumers as much, but it's far easier to centrally administer ChromeOS devices than Android devices, too.
How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make Public College Tuition-Free
What if you've resolved to only use free software? That means _Google Music_ is not an option.
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Tesla events always start late. Powerwall event started 40 minutes late.
The only thing I use Evernote for is for indexing research that I do for work. I got burned early with their tool for writing, but it was still compelling for that use case. The tagging & search is fast, their web clipper is best in class and annotation capability works great.

But there's a cost. I don't like having years of information stuck in an app that makes it very difficult to extract.

My guess is if the new corporate direction is to monetize/nickel&dime, I'll take on the lift to moving. I can get 90% of the functionality that I need in the native OS X filesystem with spotlight comments and little helper apps, and I have a work Mac now.
That's really necessary with pentile displays, which amounts to about 2/3 of an RGB subpixel scheme. 345 equivalent PPI isn't that crazy.
The funny thing about that is that my MacBook Pro boots in a few seconds to a full desktop OS, just as my Windows 10 machine does. The cold-boot time of Android is pretty terrible. Admittedly the devices are pretty slow that it boots on, but still.
I found a Periscope stream on Twitter, keeping an eye on that to know when the event starts.

Hitting play on the live stream logs a 403 forbidden from Akamai on the official stream, I'm not confident it'll work when there's actually some content.
Firp
I think I haven't started up yet because I don't have enough knowledge about startup or business' legislation in my country (México), and actually that's the reason why I'm looking for a good business cofounder. As you may guess, I haven't found him yet.
We do have prisons where we keep people without trial.

We don't, as far as I know, have entire prisons where we hold people without trial because they 'know secrets' and we are afraid they might tell them. In fact, I don't know of a single instance of this, outside of people who agreed to keep some secret but then changed their mind (snowden).
I love what OneNote can do, the ability to record meeting video or capture a whiteboard talk with a smart board is magical. But I can't use it day to day.

Managing notebooks, tabs and pages is a real pain. I end up with a sprawling OneNote notebook that gets lost in the sprawl of OneDrive/SharePoint.
Anyone know a link that doesn't require Flash?
Ethereum: Bitcoin Price Decline Created $9M Funding Shortfall
How ZIRX will end up just like Homejoy
I've been playing around with GraphQL and Relay recently. Initially I was using PostgreSQL, but I was using an ORM which made implementing pagination annoying.

Previously I had played around with RethinkDB, so I decided to give it a shot with GraphQL. It actually works out really nicely, you can do an almost 1:1 copy of the cursor helpers available in graphql-relay-js using ReQL.

I think the biggest pain-point for me has been having to dig in through all the source code, since there's not much documentation and examples available. Although, there's a ton of inline comments and type definition which has made it palatable.

As a related aside, I was researching what people had done and found a discussion surrounding GraphQL and ArangoDB [0], which may be of interest to other readers.

[0] https://github.com/arangodb/arangodb/issues/1468
It's 8:52 now, wtf is going on?
I do wish they had used YouTube for live stream, instead of livestream.com, like SpaceX. Less janky.
Given it may be another 30 minutes until it starts, you might have time to snapshot one of your VMs, install Flash in that VM, watch the event, and then rollback to your snapshot.

Oh wait, it's starting right now.
Starting now!
I just launched a bitcoin & litecoin mining pool at https://crypto.space. I believe aside from other pools with zero pool fees, I have the lowest pool fee I can possibly afford, at 0.56%.

I'm having an awful time getting the first users to sign up to contribute their hashing power to the pool, as there's no incentive for someone to join when there's no one else using the pool & no hashing power to share at the beginning.

I'd gladly pay ~$30/month for users with a good amount of hash power to sign up.
It's important to note - these events happen on MST, not PST. That's 'Musk' Standard Time.
Emacs is awesome, and I totally love it. I've used it for more than 20 years. But, it's too complicated even for most programmers, and it's way too complicated for the majority of non-programmers. I can't handle maintaining my .emacs file anymore, and for me sublime is easier to use, even if it is less "powerful".

As much as I still love emacs, it's not a reason to be discouraged. I might even suggest it's a reason to be encouraged. I would absolutely love to see something that actually competes with emacs on functionality and generality, while also being modern and usable, and without having to be a programmer.
Limited in two respects:

1. The lack of a pointing device
2. Missing keys on the keyboard: escape, tilde, brackets.

Are there Linux distros that work well under those constraints? Honest question.
All of these optimizations for microkernels would accelerate monolithic kernels as well. What seems to be very much missing from presentations like this is a reason that these would accelerate microkernels more then they would accelerate monolithic kernels.

I do wonder if we could do the opposite of microkernels. A microkernel would be free if it was running a (pre/recompiled ?) VM and things like memory mapping/protection/... would be compiled into user programs before execution. After this these could run without any actual user/kernel space isolation and just eliminate things system call overhead entirely.
For those looking for an Evernote-to-OneNote migration utility, see my comment in this thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10301284 --- it seems to work fine.
Finally it starts, 52 minutes late.
What's tautological about it?

Here's the same sentiment expressed in image form: http://i.imgur.com/bRPcQ7O.jpg
Well I'm not going to argue about it, but I agree with OP, they're just asserts used in an idiomatic way.
I made the switch to Simplenote

I have a problem committing to a program/site that says:

it’s all completely free

How can they stay in business? Is their business nothing more than data mining my files? Is that something I want to allow? Is that a long term strategy for viability?
> It tends to lead to a fragmented government (which is usually bad)

The stalemate of the past two terms in the US doesn't say much for winner-takes-all.

> It also privileges party over individual candidates

Only depending on the proportional rep type. But again, in the US, there are only two parties. Very rarely you might glimpse an independent, but they mean nothing in the overall political landscape. There is no functional way for another party to rise in the current political system in the US - so party is inherently privileged over individuals.

> Most (in)famously, the Weimar Republic used PR. That didn't end well.

Ah, you're just trolling.
See also https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2935
Amen.

OneDrive for Business is a great example of screwed up sync. Whomever made the call to release that steaming pile should be flogged. Rumor has it they are finally fixing the broken sync client.

When the MS product guys were pretending that our network/workstation image was the reason that OneDrive sync broke, I took a laptop out of the box, put Windows 8 on it, streamed down Office ProPlus and signed in a dummy user with a small file tree. Then we wrote a script that created a text file and saved it to a directory every 3 hours. Than we left it. The client broke itself after 2-3 days with no user activity.

With Dropbox, I had a laptop in my basement that I forgot about for 3 years. I turned it on, signed into Dropbox, and it magically just worked. So sync issues. No conflicts.
We Drove Tesla’s Crazy Fast Model X SUV
Startup – Mobilizing Dental Care in Nicaragua
A great thing about Uber is the lack of expectation of tip, compared to taxi drivers who can be surly if you don't tip 25%.
Hey Arjun this is Irvin, Chacko's friend from UT, cool seeing your comment here. To be somewhat on topic :-) I went to LSMSA the Louisiana equivalent and am also appreciative of the school and the community it created. It definitely introduced me to computer science much earlier than I would have otherwise...
Well I think the terrifying part is that a computer might be able to generate an identity / artist(s) for the music it creates that we would also feel a stronger relationship to than the real thing.

On a purely musical level, there are already some artists that I really enjoy, who I suspect use algorithmic composition heavily in their music. I was wondering about this one the other day, since it's sort of similar to algorithmically mashed-up sample pieces that I've made (but better):

https://inpuj.bandcamp.com/album/anthill
He's claiming 6% possibility of injury during high speed collision. Imagine any other CEO saying something similar for their product - Elon is the man!

Any other suit would say "Five star" over and over.
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Unlike the House, which represents the people, the Senate represents the states. That's why each state has 2 senators regardless of its size and population: I think the idea was to prevent oppression by large states.
If you assume the usual primitives (memory, arithmetic) are O(1), can't you still get an amoratized, expected performance of hashtables.

Given O(1) arithmatic, you should be able to use an O(1) hash function. At that point, you only have to deal with realocation as your tables grows without bound. You can solve that problem by using the 2n allocation method that gives us O(1) amortized appending to vectors.

Of course, you still need to make messy assumptions about randomness.
If the crowd keeps cheering every time Musk takes a breath, it's going to be a long night. Imagine if they did this at the board meetings.
Are You Still Sending Direct Mail Like It’s 1999?
In the short term you're absolutely correct.

In the long term everything suffers from "data decay". It's just too hard to keep old files around forever.

E.g. there were comments I made on Usenet many years ago. Google has previously attempted to preserve those, but they seem to be fading away into the ether. That's okay by me.
Diffs! Ability to see, track, and rollback a document's changes. With a nice side by side interface, of course, not raw display of a diff format.
Why the Model X is so important for Tesla