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I would be very excited to receive items from one of these robots. However, I don't know if I could bring myself to send anything of import. The risk of en route damage/theft seems really high. The trapping or taunting of them seems like a surefire activity for children. Their contribution to already congested pedestrian routes in urban areas seems like a perfect catalyst for sidewalk rage induced kicks. If they were to commonly transport high value goods, theft would be a huge issue. A few hours to build a serviceable faraday cage and you have a drop and lift job that nets significant gains. Not advocated theft, but it seems a rather obvious risk.

Also, dogs rejoice! You finally have a catchable, chewable mail courier.

Edit: There also seems to be some potential security risks here. Some cities may not be keen on unmanned, arbitrary payload carrying robots driving through throngs of pedestrians. They are going to have vet the store operators and detect if a recipient fills a unit with unexpected items. Maybe that is just paranoia.
Smarkets, London, UK. On-site only.

We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. A small, agile, and fast-growing team, who early this broke £1 billion in lifetime trades on our platform. We're not far from the £2B milestone either.

Smarkets develops a reliable, low-latency, highly concurrent betting exchange based on trading exchange designs. We're also building a fast, modern web interface to allow for a smoother experience. Servicing our users is top priority.

The Smarkets platform is written predominantly on Python and Erlang, and relies heavily on asynchronous programming techniques. We use REST where we can. Life at Smarkets circles around people, version control, configuration management and automated testing. We can - and do - deploy to production several times a day.

If you like the idea of flat structure and practical engineering approach, see our jobs at https://smarkets.com/about/jobs/
Why is hi-tech Japan using cassette tapes and faxes?
It definitely looks like infrared to me. The paper mentions that they use a pair of Point Grey Firefly MV cameras, and the reference manual for those cameras[1] says that "in monochrome models, the IR filter is replaced with a transparent piece of glass."

[1]: http://www.ptgrey.com/support/downloads/10116/
tl;dr: Super conservative business culture, arguably not news but :

>"Japanese companies generally lag foreign companies by roughly five-to-10 years in adoption of modern IT practices, particularly those specific to the software industry," says Patrick McKenzie, boss of Starfighter, a software company with operations in Tokyo and Chicago.

Didn't know it was quite that much lag.
It would be interesting if it was possible to have an order shipped to the store for you to pick up. Like the existing Amazon Locker service, but with a retail outlet folded in.
In what ways is this different from Yik Yak?
I posted this because it's interesting, but also because I think the article's analysis seems very flawed and would like to hear HN's opinions. If "10 year old software" works, why upgrade it? If SMEs are conservative about software practices, the solution would be education of business owners, not trying to create more massive companies.
A business model that has been overtaken by technology changes isn't a bubble.
What about stairs/raised sidewalks?
Good to know they can see what I'm storing in my OneDrive account, and that they'll do so whenever they want to.
Also - his argument that earlier stage rounds are not in a bubble gets watered down with every late-stage round that accepts a liquidation preference because those inherently make the earlier stages less valuable (except of course if whatever the company does with the late-stage financing adds enough value to the company to offset the dilution, but with 2x or 3x liquidation preference at late stage it's hard to imagine that being the case).
what country?
Not all criticisms of Slack are "Use IRC instead!". Albright suggested HipChat as a better example.

I do care what Slack looks like though - the chat window has so much wasted whitespace that it doesn't show a lot of comms; add in a space-guzzling integration or two and it gets really hard to follow a conversation. Hipchat uses space a lot more efficiently.
May I suggest that the government raid the ECU engine control unit supplier Bosch and examine their email servers which of their customers has cheated.

"But even so, Bosch still supplied the “defeat” code EDC 16 engine management system at the heart of the #Dieselgate scandal"
yeah I mean don't they presume anyone reading that wants to know what happened?
Indeed. It's ironic how the new generation forgets that their grandparents and their grandparents' grandparents fought and bled so that we may enjoy somewhat stable and abuse-free employment today. Entrepreneurs will always complain about government intervention and will always spin dreams of better future "if only we could get that pesky government out of the way", but the truth is this future will be delivered only to few, and the rest will pay in blood and tears. We've been there. Be careful what you wish for - you may actually get it.
Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual salary?
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Don't forget to upvote the poll to get more data.

A similar poll from June 1, 2013 can be found at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804134
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A gambling addicts story
Interview with a professional online slots player
I'm pretty skeptical as well. Can't say I know a lot about going rates for 0days like these, but something tells me 1M isn't even that much. If this "anonymous hacker collective" doesn't mind selling to the highest bidder, why not take it to the market themselves?
Pakistan.
I'd be interested in guides related to setting up a RFC-compliant email server with free software. Any suggestions?
That's not quite what I meant - the ad network provides abc.com with a js file, hosted on the abc.com servers. That js file creates an ID from browser fingerprinting, which is saved in a separate cookie, or an additional data point within whatever abc.com sets.

The ad cookie/ID is then sent from the abc.com server to the ad network (along with whatever data they need to determine what ads were seen/clicked), who collate all the data from wherever their js file is running, thusly allowing them to track you, without any requests from your browser being sent to any other domains other than the ones you directly visit.
With that quote Microsoft basically admitted that they're browsing around in their users' files.
Funny, mostly because these three exhibits (and I'm pretty sure there's plenty others) are a blatant proof of the issue with hiring young programmers (read "no one over 30")...

The evidence here is three times "If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough." which is the route chosen by uncultivated people in any domain. (myself included)

Among which I often hear:
- "Just add more RAM, it doesn't cost much nowadays!"
- "Just push it to <insert well-known hosting plaform, preferably A.z.n> using <insert overhyped virtualisation platform>"
- "Just use to NoSQL, it's faster!"
(sigh)
> If they were to commonly transport high value goods, theft would be a huge issue.

That was my first thought as well. Get a van and a sledgehammer and wait a few blocks away from their depot in the morning. Sure they could phone home, but what is the cost of maintaining a staff to protect the robots vs. just having the staff deliver things.

Reminds me of a friend who was a Marine Biologist. Their lab spent a lot of money to get an underwater probe that could go around and take automated readings based on a map. But the probe cost so much money that they had to follow it the whole time in a boat to make sure it didn't get lost.
Shout look cool better
Pot, meet kettle:

http://junkscience.com/2012/10/new-documents-prove-falsifica...

They were experimenting on human subjects without informed consent and using the data to overstate results that favored the regulations they wanted to impose.

These regulations set the particulate limits diesel powered vehicles must meet.
I'm the opposite. As a callow youth I favoured functional brutalism in UI. After a lifetime of interacting with actual users, a bunch of HCI classes and having watched those kinds of legacy systems become productivity vampires in too many settings I have no sympathy with my former viewpoint.
JavaOne: Thinking Fast and Slow with Software Development
Turns out that voting against your own economic interests for a few decades has consequences.
Analyze, Decide and Stick to Your Decision
Show HN: Spotinst, a cost effective way of managing cloud clusters
Does anyone know how this compares to WebIRC [0]?

[0] https://github.com/pavben/WebIRC
Unsure if this is sarcasm or not :/
My first thought also - I wonder what kind 'self-defense' mechanisms would be legal and/or effective.

It says on the website that the robots are monitored by humans , I think a human voice beaming from the thing saying "Hey, we're recording you messing with our robot" would be enough to deter 95% of potential attackers.

What about the other 5%?
I looked into building a similar robot, but couldn't overcome the challenges of crossing the street. You need some pretty advanced computer vision to follow stoplights, or worse, roads without stoplights. Stairs are also a problem. I hope they'll give a blog post detailing how they overcame some of these obstacles.
In the SF event we'll hand out TI dev kits, Launchpad + CC1120 boosterpack (~ http://www.ti.com/tool/boostxl-cc1120-90)

The Akeru board is still quite expensive (€100), as it's a full Arduino/Genuino board + sigfox module + subscription. And the guy is producing them himself, with small batches.
This one is not FCC-ready yet anyway.

Keep in touch for future US-based events !
So you want security researchers to have to get the equivalent of Federal Firearms License? I see no reason to relive the Crypto Wars again. Anyway I thought Vupen was a French company?
>> If they were to commonly transport high value goods, theft would be a huge issue.

The first thing I thought.

> ...they had to follow it the whole time in a boat to make sure it didn't get lost.

This should be a great input for this company making these, actually solves the issue of theft. One robot, one person to follow it from a distance and make sure it does not get lost or, ehem stolen.
Also see "Next Stop Execution" by Oleg Gordievsky, who was a KGB colonel secretly working for the UK at this time. The Soviet leadership was certain that the West was planning a pre-emptive nuclear strike and put pressure on the KGB via Project Ryan to find out all it could. Of course this pressure meant that some KGB front-line people started inventing stuff because that was clearly a way to promotion.

So project Ryan appeared to confirm the worst suspicions of the Soviet leadership. And then NATO starts deploying in exactly the way you would expect if the strike were imminent...
Can you elaborate on the Prison Island thing? What is that?
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Dunno too : why would you pay for Dropbox when you have OneDrive if you're on MS ecosystem, iCloud when you're on Apple ecosystem and GDrive when you're on Google ecosystem. They all offer more than Dropbox (better integration, Office suite etc).
I usually don't go in for snark but this is the hard truth that bears repeating. The same group that consistently derided the poor for being lazy and completely ignored their circumstances is now on the receiving end. The sad part is, I'm not sure this same group (which certainly includes my parents) will ever be cognizant of that irony. Essentially we've made the poor poorer so the middle class can feel superior to someone and ignore the fleecing they've been getting from the "job creators" who seem only to make jobs for overseas workers.
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It's really interesting to see the kinds of numbers you need to get to the top of the paid lists.

I really wasn't sure what to expect from the Apple TV and despite being initially disappointed with the lack of app discovery - it seems that people are actually finding and installing app which is a start

I made a general knowledge trivia app - 60 second quiz - and seem to be getting a couple of downloads a day. It's nice to know that hard work and a few downloads a day can mean you end up as #3 in the top charts!!
I was hoping for a push to 10-bit monitors for awhile. First step would be for nvidia to unlock 10-bit output on their geforce series and then for monitor manufacturers to lower the prices / introduce 10-bit panels... Not to mention standardize on a port for 10-bits.
> They're buying King because they know how to make Candy Crush.

A coworker was under the impression that King had trouble duplicating the success of Candy Crush. No idea if that's true, but if it is, it could be that it was a lucky hit, and King actually had no idea how to make these games successful.

Perhaps Supercell would have been a better target; they seem to have a number of reasonably successful games. More minor successes might be better than a single smash hit if you're more interested in the underlying knowledge.
There's some similarities to Japan here, their economy is a disaster but they live long, have excellent health, decent purchasing power, low tuitions and incredibly low crime rates.
Billion laughs attack
Does sending a fax have to be so much trouble?
Hmm... We don't seem to be connecting here. When I said "there is no better way to do it", I meant that interacting with tools through the command line (or shell scripts) is the best way we have of doing these kinds of tasks. I didn't say so explicitly, but my intention was to include all of the usual tools that one would use (grep, awk, make, whatever).

Though it was several decades ago, I also suffered greatly from having to deal with poorly built academic projects. It's not even confined to academia. A friend of mine often tells a tale of a start up who spent 3 years building software only to discover that they had built such a mess that they couldn't deploy (never having done it in 3 years... :-P). The company ran out of money before they solved the issue.

I may be wrong, but I don't think that's what the original article was complaining about. I think he was frustrated that while the tools were very good, they were hard to teach to his students. He wishes there were easier to learn systems for doing this work.

Personally, I don't think it will ever happen because the problem space is quite complicated. You can make it easier to learn by restricting what it can do, but eventually you butt up against that ceiling, making it extremely difficult to use. That's why we are all still using these same tools decades years later (although, I'm quite happy to ditch make in favour of more modern equivalents [1])

I can't tell you the number of times I've wandered into a new project and spent every spare second writing README files, fixing the build systems, removing dead code, etc. I've even worked on projects where there wasn't a single person who knew how to build the entire project -- all they could do was compile individual files and link it to pre-built libraries. They thought me crazy for even wanting to know how to build it. We do our industry a grave disservice by not teaching this stuff somewhere in our education system.

[1] Says the guy who just wrote a new make file a couple of weeks ago <whistling>
This is a laughable takeaway. These white rural voters haven't voted themselves any government benefits, they've voted to dismantle the welfare state, destroy collective bargaining, increase the middle class tax burden, drastically increase mandatory prison sentences for non-violent drug crimes, a parade of trojan horse giveaways to the rich, etc. Now those chickens are increasingly coming home to roost at their doorstep.
Linux workstations have been the preferred platform for high-end finishing applications like NUKE, Flame and Baselight for years.

Generally it's NVIDIA hardware on Red Hat.
10-bit color. Retina-level DPI. 120 Hz refresh rate. External display. Pick... two?
I've played with Defold it's pretty impressive (apart from Lua ;-), has most things a 2d engine and editor needs, but even gives you access to the lower stuff that I wouldn't know what to do with anyway.
> Keep in mind there are architectures where the BEAM VM runs without a traditional OS below it.

That's really interesting - where can I read more?

> Why introduce yet another name?

I've already explained my own perspective, but I'm happy to disagree.
If there's one problem this thread makes me want to solve it's the undiscoverability of the unknown. 99.9+% of software is stuff most of us have never heard of, but we don't know what to search for because we don't know how to know what we don't already know. 99% of business opportunities we might have are invisible to us because we don't know how or where to look. 99+% of the dating population is out of reach of each other because of path dependence problems -- their lives simply won't ever intersect.

If I had my own startup accelerator, tonight (and only tonight ;-) ) this would be my RFS#1. Solve the knowledge bootstrapping problem. Google clearly failed to link 30-bit to VFX.
I'm not necessarily convinced oil investment leaving Canada is a major blow after all. It will leave some unemployed, but most of that oil from what I've read was being exported abroad and the profits pretty much exclusively went to private businesses and the elite. The employment benefits locally were a drop in the bucket.

It wasn't like Canada was living in a golden age during this 'boom', in fact housing prices across most of Canada and costs in general have skyrocketed. If there was a 'boom', it wasn't being felt in most of the country.

With globalization I just fail to see how it helps the average person, it just seems to mainly help the extremely wealthy. The rest of us are just left in a race to the bottom.
Some DNS stuff would be baddass, e.g. to what does something resolve, what are the nameservers
This is really confusing.

ARG8888 and it says Pixel depth: 32-bit Color

ARG2101010 and it says Pixel depth: 30-bit Color
Very Star Wars.

Seems perfect for deliveries around a large office campus where theft, maps, and smooth sidewalks are all very manageable. Though I don't know how much profit is in that market.
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Very impressive. I wonder if this is the beginning of the end of FPV racing as a sport?

If you're unsure what FPV racing is, see http://fpvracing.tv
I suppose the next obvious question is, Anyone in the community that would be willing to take this on?
"I wonder what kind 'self-defense' mechanisms would be legal and/or effective."

Maybe this thing will be followed by a weaponized drone (they tell me is legal in Pakistan).
The "average person" helped by globalization doesn't live in North America.
As long as the items are low value like groceries, the other 5% probably wouldn't bother. They might be wise to impose a value or insurable limit, at least initially.
In the uk there's a service called collect plus offered by lots of retailers online. You get your order delivered to a retail store (usually a small corner shop that holds a western union counter and a handful of cheap breads and things) and pick it up from there.
what MS missed on the whole blog is Unlimited was a bad idea to begin with, especially on storage no matter what!, ppl would start hoarding.
Nice idea.
This is the advantage of having a huge fanbase. You can count on the fans to plug all the plot holes and patch up whatever poor writing the studio throws out.
>You cannot offer unlimited storage when you offer a cloud storage product

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html
It's not 1995 when your windows was shinning everywhere.
psst!!! they don't get cloud and and trends, too bad they didn't learn it from Gmail either.
Basically all popular smtp servers will get you an RFC-compliant setup. Still doesn't help you get your mail delivered to parties like google and microsoft.

First pointer would be to make sure you have your DNS setup correctly including reverse-dns. But the problem is, as described in the article, that too many commercial parties have their own (undocumented/unpublished) blacklists and aren't too forthcoming with removing entries from them.

If you have an IP with a good (spam) reputation... hold onto it, it's getting more and more important.
King has had many top hits in the same vein as CCS. Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue etc. None as enduring as CCS, but profitable hits just the same. They have a good formula: get it up cheaply on their web portal, iterate, and launch the winners on mobile.

They know what they are doing.
Your statements are such a massive oversimplification of a system that is so endlessly complex and full of exploitation that I'm beginning to suspect it's a well formed parody. Only a person with little experience "on the ground" in the formerly middle class America could produce such a piece without a derisive snicker. I won't bore the audience with anecdata but sufficed to say: The idea that hard work is both necessary and suffient to shape one's own life meaningfully is six feet under everywhere between the coasts. The people are fooled no longer and we shall see next election if they're willing to vote that way.
Thanks for the feedback. I have the SOP and policies defined, but product team are questioning why we need to take so long to notify customers (i.e. the product is ready, why can't we deploy to production yet). So I was hoping to find some ammo to say "Hey, Salesforce and Workday are doing xyz, this is industry standard". But it seems like I will need to make my SOPs more robust and add justification at each level. Perhaps over time I can gain some reference info.
Agreed about the system architecture, but this is SaaS not PaaS
> I'm not sure this same group (which certainly includes my parents) will ever be cognizant of that irony.

Sadly you may be right, Exhibit A being the reelection of Sam Brownback, destroyer of worlds. The plutocrats behind the GOP curtain seem to have an unending stream of reactionary social issues to mobilize these votes.
I am all for using an open source alternative to Slack. But IRC is not it. What we need is a modern, open standard for persistent group chat ala Slack, with security features. I am not saying sit down and draft papers, writing code that can become a standard is fine. Maybe Mattermost is it, I don't know.
Very thought-provoking.

Summary: Ancient protocol (SMTP) gets overwhelmed by modern requirements (spam prevention). Instead of updating the protocol (it's too entrenched), we hack around it (blacklists). But the hack is outside the standard, and it's more social than technical, so our software doesn't address it.

Could we standardize the blacklists so that we can address them with open/free software? (Assuming we don't replace SMTP itself.) Is there general interest in doing so (or conversely, is it against the interests of current service providers)?
As always, the people of HN have found the weaknesses in this product that the founders haven't thought of at all, and they will surely shut the whole thing down now.
Great! Did not know that, thought that only the DEC version could do it.
Yup, only way is through experience.
"Free OneDrive storage will decrease from 15 GB to 5 GB for all users, current and new. The 15 GB camera roll storage bonus will also be discontinued. These changes will start rolling out in early 2016."

They should secure these pages better, crackers get in and write absurdly suicidal stuff.

(The 'unlimited storage' did not exist either, AFAIK.)
Well, I know the first thing I'm checking when I get to work in the morning.