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NASA and Small Business Funding Initiatives [pdf]
Minimum Wage Artists
Yep. If you need an unknown number of things put them in an array. The arguments object is just too complicated for perf critical code.
Very excited about this! We definitely have been waiting for it.
???

I know who you are based on a cookie I drop on your browser (or just from your IP address) and I can share that information from my back-end to other sites.
I'd rather they just gave me a better search of what's been on my timeline.
15 days until DefCamp 2015
What does one actually build with this course?

I have some experience with building a small React app but I can't determine from your site whether or not this course will refine my skills at all.
According to the WP article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa it's close enough that various Spanish-language editions of Gulliver's Travels have altered the word to something else (though a citation is lacking). (It's almost certain that Swift was fully aware of the meaning, by the way, especially since we can be sure that he'd read the Apocalypse of John.)
Hello hackernews, I'm Jean and I founded Heap Seven few months ago on a side project. I've finally be able to release something solid to the public. It's a simple task management system.

I will be hanging around here today. If you have any question, I'm here!
> This is like saying we'll give matches to children but build more fire stations.

This is an awful analogy unless you're looking to prove my point.

You can't possibly outlaw matches- they have too many common-good uses, and regulating their use and trade would be impossible even if you somehow made the first person guaranteed to be qualified to have one.

Prescription drugs are exactly the same way- and furthermore, short of actually inspecting every inch of every person/vehicle that comes in the country(and keeping vigilant watch of everything else), there's no way to seriously crack down on it(which btw, this entirely violates America's constitution, and I bet several other countries would have similar problems).

And even then, it wouldn't work, because how do we keep someone from giving it to a family member, or a friend? And how do we keep them from giving it to someone else? After all, even if the pain clinics are gone, that doesn't mean the abuse isn't happening. In my parent's case, they didn't go to a pain clinic- they had a dedicated physician prescribing it, one they had seen for years beforehand.

So we've got something that so far hasn't worked to the tune of billions and billions of dollars, would cost exponentially more money to do significantly better while also eroding basic human rights, then finally still won't completely solve the problem.

Or we just spend less money, not completely screw up the very concept of human rights, and clean up the mess leftover from the fact that people are human.

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And hell, this is all assuming we even know of every drug that'll ever be created, which is obviously not true. So what happens when the next "crushing cold medication together in a bowl to get high" happens? Somehow do a check on all of those things, or simply let them go to the already set-up facility that exists to handle said problem?
You can't lie to them but they can lie to you.
Vincent Kosuga – The onion king
LAP: A Framework for Large-Scale Natural Language Processing
Is this part of the "you must hate slack!" series we're currently all enjoying so much?
The fact that it took a German to identify that is alarming.
It's like waking up next to a large window. At first you would sort of notice the low level amber light and over the period of half an hour to an hour, you would become more awake gradually. It is a nice way to wake up since your body adjusts to the light over a period of time, unlike the sudden ringing from an alarm clock.
I can understand somebody deciding to focus on the users with Google Play Services, but I find very hard to trust a 'Secure' application which writes sensitive in the logs.

If the app runs in an android version < 4.1, logs are readable by any application.
A few Bivens lawsuits isn't going to deter one whit an FBI that's already doing things that illegal. All it will do is get the judiciary to burn institutional capital on what is fundamentally a political issue.

There is a big difference between saying that the courts are not the right way to fix the problem and saying that what the FBI is doing is not a problem at all. Getting the courts involved in these foreign national security issues undermines the institutional capital of the judiciary. It makes it more likely that the government will get used to ignoring court authority when it comes to core domestic functions.
Right, but since the context hasn't changed, they haven't increased the range of things you can convey in a given context, they've just changed what it conveys.
In terms of privacy tools, I work for a company that makes one aimed for the general internet user (i.e. someone who doesn't know what DNS is). Do you have any comments on our extension? https://redmorph.com

We aimed to put adblock/ublock/donottrack all in one extension and coupled it with vpn and proxy paid services.
Jekyll and Middleman have already been mentioned but another is nanoc [http://nanoc.ws/] which I like because it is not so blog-centric. You can get a good overview of how it works relative to what you want just by reading the Rules doc page [http://nanoc.ws/docs/reference/rules/], but essentially it does nothing by default except dump your HTML input into the body of the default layout. I use it for moderately complex as well as dumb I-just-want-a-few-variables-to-stay-updated things, the only downside being multisecond compilation times with many pages.
Vigilante justice is usually about the people choosing to enforce laws that they feel the government is choosing to not enforce. Vengeance usually has nothing to do with the law or its enforcement.

Say a heinous murder is committed and the perpetrator has been discovered. Vigilante justice is a person, or group, taking the perpetrator into custody and punishing them because they don't like that the government refuses to do so for some reason. Vengeance is a person, or group, taking the perpetrator into custody and punishing them even if the government wishes to do the same.
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Moving Beyond Microcredit
Cool. Do you have a writeup of your setup somewhere? Maybe I'll investigate this more over Christmas break.
Ask HN: Where did you find your finance employees for your startup?
I am a recent grad with finance and tech experience and would be interested in working for smaller startups, especially helping them with finance or financial systems. What are the best ways to get into this field?

What has been your experience hiring finance employees?
What did they think would happen?
Linux has matured into a robust desktop operating system
Teardown: Refactoring Search from Monolith to Microservice
50 Years of Data Science: An In-Depth Look Back [pdf]
I get a similar feeling, but I think it's more just pro-status quo.
Location: New York

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Technologies: C#, Python, Javascript, Jasmine, Specflow, Gherkin, Coypu, Selenium, git, Jenkins, BurpSuite

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Email: admin@clickthisnick.com

Interested in Quality Assurance positions. I previously was a developer who now loves to break and wreak havoc on software.
Very experienced with automation including starting a companies ui automation from scratch. Experienced with all sorts of testing techniques like mocking for unit tests, hooking up integration tests to databases, ui testing with selenium web driver.

Also interested in security testing. Found 3 bugs and collected bounty on major websites through bugcrowd, https://bugcrowd.com/clickthisnick. Experienced with using scanning tools such as BurpSuite to scan for vulnerabilities and also ad hoc security testing with said tool.

Recently finished writing and testing rules for a rules engine in InRule that processes over 10 million records of data per week.

If you are looking for someone with the skills of a Developer but the patience and drive to break your software then I would be a perfect match.
Would you say you're just "burying your head in the sand" on this issue?
I think if they stopped accepting donations and spent remaining funds carefully, there would be no penalty for losing that status (it's largely an exemption from income taxes).
CLAs on their own aren't bad. All Apache projects use a CLA to ensure that the contributer has he right to contribute the code under the Apache license.
Apart from the pricing plans --makes it difficult to invest in uploading all our company secrets if I don't get a clear return--, what about Linux based desktops? Will this be only Mac/Windows centric?

Are there single-sign-on options for Google Apps for Work?
Plus it still leaves people open to metadata analysis. The phone number has to be verified, meaning a text message is sent from Signal HQ to your device, clearly marking you as a Signal user.
Simply more proof that the laws have become illegitimate tools of power for the elite and corrupt. American is no longer a democracy in any meaningful sense of the word, but a tiered society of those inside the halls of power, given extraordinary and unaccountable powers to detain, torture, murder others and the meek who suffer such atrocities.

It's laughable and sad anyone appeals to the court system for a remedy when they simply are a rubber stamp, but what do people expect when secret courts and NSLs abound?

Voting won't help, legal redress won't help, what then can you do?
Don't lie?

FBI would need to prove a lie anyway. Not the easiest thing.

Edit: Some of these responses seem to be assuming "Don't lie" is the logical complement of "tell the truth". That is not the case.

Anyway, "tell the truth" is not a real strategy. That is: the sentence is essentially meaningless. We already know that actual truth is impossible to capture.
Signal for Android is effectively TextSecure v3+, with a new label. So it's TextSecure repo that holds Signal's code.
Before today, did you know those links were your favorite before reading them?
>Yes, I realise that this is part of Android's broken security model.

Well, with Marshmallow, they have no excuse. The permission model is now very similar to iOS's one and any app can start with 0 critical permissions (basically anything related to personal info) and ask the permissions at runtime.

For either Android or iOS, you still have to trust that an app won't abuse the permissions you give it though.
This is pretty awesome. Super excited to try it out.

What's not awesome though is how long they've been working on the refresh of the Android app with fingerprint support. Demoed in May, it's now November and they aren't even ready to launch it on their beta channel.
It is still called TextSecure on there.
Keynesian economics creates market failures. Government "stimulus" does not create natural demand and any "stimulus" has front-loaded costs that are paid for by future generations.

Central "Planners" should be fired and our economic systems need to move to a more decentralized economic model,
à la Austrian Economic Theory[1] if we ever want to see natural growth again.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School
What happened with the Chef mailing list migration
Resisting Arrest, or Assaulting a Police Officer. In many cities, (I believe DC, for example, is promenantly know for this), many people are charge solely with assaulting an officer. One would be led to believe that there are thousands of wreckless citezens wantonly assaulting the police, if one did not realize that this was a euphemism for declining to censent to be searched, or "getting lippy".

EDIT: Why the downvote? Can't handle the truth? Here's some evidence that, at least in DC, the law is used to effectively arrest people for resiting arrest, with no other charge:

"Nearly two-thirds of those arrested [in the District of Columbia] for assaulting an officer weren’t charged with any other crime, raising questions about whether police had legal justification to stop the person."[1]

"In Coghill v. United States, 982 A.2d 802 (D.C. 2009), the court upheld a conviction for misdemeanor APO. Mr. Coghill was stopped by police while driving a car, and refused to let police search his car. He then got out of the car at their instruction, but at some point got back in the car. Officers tried to drag him out of the car, but he braced himself against the floorboards and gripped the steering wheel."[2]

"On Tuesday, Ward 3 DC Councilmember Mary Cheh introduced a bill to reform some elements of criminal justice procedure. It would change the law around "assaulting a police officer," strengthen prosecutors' duty to turn over evidence to defendants" [3]

[1] http://wamu.org/projects/assault-on-justice/
[2] http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/10619/assaulting-a-...
[3] http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/26688/mary-cheh-wan...
Except in your case users and "traders or producers" would end up being the same people. If you can't buy x drug but can google how to make it, its not a short step to cooking the drug and selling your excess to others. When you're an addict you're probably not holding down a real job so selling becomes very tempting.

I believe most dealers are users/addicts themselves now with our current policies, so going after the supply chain will only make this worse.

>and that includes alcohol by the way

We already tried making the production of alcohol illegal and it led to a lot of poisonings and blindness.

I think my approach is still superior. If we legalize the LEAST harmful of illegal recreation drugs, then there will be a harm reduction option for people who would otherwise do harder drugs. You can hunt down meth in the ghetto or go to the store and get high on pot. I imagine most will do the latter. The serious drug users in my life actually never got off drugs. They just got on safer drugs like pot.

The "legalize everything" crowd still makes no sense.
Interesting idea: Assemble your favorite coworkers and pitch the group of you as a team to employers.

Sounds like a great way to build a team that works well together. OTOH, if I were a company, I'd worry that they'd all leave en masse as they came, which could be a huge loss.
The website is called React for Beginners, not React for Experienced Javascript programmers.

And aside from that, react is very different from what a lot of experienced javascript developers may have worked with. My team works with CanJs, it would be a big leap to go from that to React, experience be damned.
indeed, all those Chicago cops using their blacksite didn't seem to have any trouble doing what they please to their victims, including murdering them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10496579
I doubt they're going to kill RoboVM. I don't think they care much about which language, just that you get your tools from them.
which is silly. that should be fine for people already advertising their contact list for facebook, wasapp, etc. but there should have been a isolated account setup for people not doing so
Take a look at the discussion of "Crypto in the Browser" in the draft white paper for a discussion of WebCrypto.

[Disclosure: I work for AgileBits]
That is a complete non sequitor, but never mind.
How to Pick Your First Programming Language
It's a really long article explaining and justifying what "Product" is.

TBH, I didn't think the article was justifying the role so much as justifying the ambiguity that surrounds it.

The fact that PM touches so many areas without specializing in any one, and ultimately involves mostly leadership and coordination, means it can be really tough to put a finger on what, exactly, someone with that title is doing.

* But I think in the end, someone ends up filling that need, whether they have a formal title or not.*

And that really is the key.

In small organizations, it's not unusual for the lead of the technical group to own these functions. That can be good, or it can be very very bad, depending on the person and the market the company is operating in.

But as the organization scales, the complexity of the work grows substantially. Often that means a few folks help pick up the ball in an ad hoc fashion until someone realizes that maybe one person should own the responsibility, and voila, a product manager is born.
You're commenting on Hacker News. Safe to say you're in at least some sort of information bubble that's very atypical to the average American.
Honestly, your job is to get yourself into a product management role where you'll be properly mentored by someone more experienced. I'd persuade your company that they need to hire someone senior for you to learn from or move to another company where there's already a bigger PM organization.
15 years ago we spent $250K for an off-the-shelf CMS that was a static site generator with workflow. Worked perfectly fine even if it was way overengineered.
> The only problem with this is how this is impossible to scale to proper levels in the US.

I've yet to see a coherent argument for this claim.

> This works great in smaller economies (like you're advocating) like Scandinavian countries where you have a much smaller population and it's easy to support a few million people.

Why would this work better in a smaller economy? Why would it be easier for an economy of 30 million people to support N needy people than for an economy of 300 million people to support 10N?

> When you have over 300 million? As we've seen in recent years, when you institute measures like this it actually creates more dependency and self reliance on the government

How have we seen this? I don't see any evidence that "measures like this" have actually been instituted, much less that they have been instituted and observed to produce the results you suggest.
I agree that Russia is a very extreme case, but it would be difficult to find any place in the world where privatization was not done in the benefit of a few friends of the people in power.

Mexico and Carlos Slim comes to mind for instance.
This is true for almost[1] all cloud storage providers.

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[1] Except maybe SpiderOak, or anything you encrypt yourself before upload.
If it only were hardware that worked for me and not for Apple if I bought it.
Is Amazon down for anyone else? Error loading products
And Nokia.
Straight from the website:

"Together, we will build “Catch of the Day” — a real-time app for a trendy seafood market where price and quantity available are variable and can change at a moments notice. We will build a menu, an order form, and an inventory management area where authorized users can immediately update product details."

Did you even read it?
Stop with this "you're the product" nonsense. Please.
The Illustrated Guide to Product Development (Part 3: Engineering)
Because there was no Stack Overflow in the 80s, and game programmers usually enjoy the challenge of making stuff faster.
> Usability problems like what?

Understanding of the command line, delayed WYSIWYG feedback loop, FTPing/synchronizing files. Some generators don't even tackle "pretty, easy to install templates a la Wordpress" either.

All surmountable, but I haven't seen an "all in one, easy to use" fix yet.

I'd love if I could recommend a single client-side app for people to use that did it all. Something like Coda but tailored for beginners?
Nice. Just bought the Master Package using your coupon. React has always been on my to-learn list.
1 of those shows is still on TV. Sopranos ended all the way back in 2007.

Anyway, from a business standpoint only having 2 or 3 good shows mean people get out of the habit. Fox fed viewers from Simpsons into American Dad and Family guy, but when most channels are filled with junk people got out of the habit. When The walking Dead has a bad season there is nothing keeping people tuning into AMC.

Think filler B TV like Roseanne or Home Improvement the kind of show where the mass of humanity don't just turn them off even if nobody is lining up for a new episode.

PS: It's also all the same formulas and if you like it that's great for you. But, we are missing a lot of the off the wall TV like the twilight zone or MST3k.
Assuming it is, it's a bit amusing to see so many people continue to miss the point. The market for Slack and HipChat is not organizations looking to work harder to maintain their own solutions that ultimately provide less to them.
Think of it as getting the band back together. A lot of the teams on the platform used to all work together and are now in different places.
Does "To help teach systems how to plan, Facebook's AI research team has created an AI bot to play the board game Go. " actually teach AI how to "plan" at anything beyond board games?
If arbitration proceedings grounded in superstition and other tomfoolery (i.e., Scientology) hold up, it seems like anything will.

I think there needs to be an 'arbitration by combat' service.
Retweets are great.

If you think the people you follow retweet bad stuff, you need to follow better people.

edit: I think the converse might be more accurate - if the people you follow retweet bad stuff, then the regular tweets probably aren't good either.
Ask HN: How to start a career with poor references/publications?
In a few months I will be getting my PhD in applied math, from a well known program. My relationship with my adviser and co-authors has not been great, and I suspect I will get poor references from them. The two publications I have in sub-par journals don't help either. There is really no excuse, I was lazy and unproductive, but now I wish to turn this around and find a position in the industry where I can be useful. Is there any hope of getting a job with bad references? How do I make prospective employers overlook these shortcomings?
Thank you
Well, from my non-physicist's understanding of the matter: the fine structure constant is associated with the strength of electromagnetic interactions. The value we call the "fine structure constant" that's about ~1/137 in the equations is the lower bound of that strength, the strength of the interaction when you're dealing with energies about the same size as the electron mass. However, when you're dealing with higher energies, the interaction is stronger.

The interesting question as far as I can tell isn't related to how electromagnetism's strength varies over different energy scales, but whether the strength of electromagnetism at a given energy scale varies over time or space.