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Xamarin actually works quite well. Microsoft will definitely bring in more quality as they have huge amounts of resources not only in cash but in talented people.

This news is important because it solidifies the future of the .Net ecosystem in iOS, OSX, Android, Linux and Windows.

The Xamarin team has been doing a great job, but I am pretty sure that with Microsoft backing them they'll do a way better job.
The link to the video by LinusTechTips for anyone interested[0]. He actually had a heck of a time getting it working fully with all 7 graphics cards, as shutting a VM down wouldn't correctly release the card's resources (apparently an AMD-specific issue, but they denied it[1]), causing him to have to do a full reboot of the whole system every time one VM needed a restart[1].

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXOaCkbt4lI (14:57)

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lThX7UovKCc (1:35:15 - really long stream of him disassembling it live, so forgive me for not finding exactly where he said each thing).
> I want everything online sold through amazon

I don't think this is a good goal. We could want everything available through Amazon, but not sold through Amazon. Monopolies almost always trend towards anti-consumer.
We're a Captain401 user at Seneca Systems and it is fantastic.

We can offer a 401k program despite being a small company plus they integrate with Gusto so I have to do nothing to actively maintain it.

#TheDream

As a founder, this goes beyond just another benefit. Supporting your employees' long-term financial future is really important. Maybe early employees make a few hundred million, but far more likely your company will fail. In that case, they shouldn't have lost years of savings potential.
Yes, I'm sure we would all love to go back to the days where our access to the internet was limited by a gatekeeper who insisted we only need their services, and told us wanting a billion websites was madness.
Apple is quite protective with its app store.
Thats my plan. I got the GTX 980 for free, so I'm using until the next gen AMD cards are released.
Helium Dreams
But then how is that different from a new boss coming in, having a strong, but different, vision than you?

I don't disagree, but now you seem to claim something else. Originally you just wanted a strong vision with goals, regardless whether the employees agree. Now you want buy-in too.

And there is also principle of subsidiarity. If people strongly disagree on the vision, they can come to some compromise where they realize each vision in their own domains. (As John Carmack put it: "if you are not sure, explore both solutions".)
I use android; I'm not really sure how different that is...
Apple requested sealed request. FBI made it public
Now we need a list of overbudget customized COTS software projects.

With all these companies running on Excel macros, years old SAP R/2 or 3 (just two common examples) and so on, the list will be extensive.

(COTS = commercial off-the-shelf)
Cool, thanks. Ah yes, the startpage is pretty dynamic as it mostly relies on the users position.

But hey, that might be an interesting idea: to be able to "share searches/discoveries", which is basically sharing the settings used at the moment, with others. Hmm... ;)
Oh look, another 'software as a service' platform offering what would have once been a normal script for a 'per month' payment model. Why even often this for a monthly fee instead of say, a single one off purchase price with optional renewals? Is the new trend 'don't host anything yourself any more'?

Honestly, as decent as the pictures look, I think this is the kind of thing you could do with a free script and a few theme changes, not a service.
Not if I read fast enough. Which can be done by looking at 1/3X of the Line N, then looking at 2/3X of the line, then recurring with Line N+1.

This has >10x sped up my reading speed and improved comprehension as my brain takes in the whole picture (gestalt of the paragraph) more times total and more times per second. Try it!
I am glad he never go[t] that job at Microsoft. The alternative was way better. Look at all he has accomplished. Pretty awesome.
That's terrible. How long until its not an option.
No, it isn't short-sighted. On the contrary it is a matter of letting Microsoft earn their trust again at a reasonable pace after almost two decades of systematic abuse. The Halloween documents where published 1998 and it is only the last year or so since they've begun dipping their toes in open source waters. They've thoroughly earned their shame.

Besides, even if everyone at Microsoft has changed attitude that's no excuse. Microsoft has had five years since the acquisition of Skype in 2011. Isn't it, by now, time to stop blaming their predecessors and own up to the current state of affairs?
This website is doubtlessly one of the best introductions to higher math available online. I've gained a lot by both finding and reading the website posts. A weekly email with some sort of order would be great and I would sign up immediately. Keep it up!!!!
70 Malicious Tor Exit Nodes Exposed by Siganit.org
>Even if you just consider it a business card holder -- there's actual value there

Yes, but how much? $30BB, where it was last month? What about the $16BB it sits at today?

I think both figures overestimate the value.
'.io' is fine if you're a tech start up I think. Avoid .net and .co since they are sometimes associated with spam by some webmails.
While I don't believe its a whole new Microsoft, the idea of embrace, extend, extinguish in this context is knee jerk nay-saying. What are they going to extinguish: iOS or Android?
The Windows Phone guys must just be hating this news. #WindowsPhone is Dead.
> Jones claimed that IP addresses, and even those of Tor users, are public, and that Tor users lack a reasonable expectation of privacy.

This is an interesting judgment. Tor's purpose is to provide privacy. The fact that it may have vulnerabilities (as all software does) doesn't mean that a person using Tor doesn't expect that it will provide them with privacy.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/update-history...
You nailed it. A large fraction of the work effort which was traditionally branded as web-design has been repackaged into additional roles and/or automated and streamlined via tools.

In reality, 60% of my time is spent on web design, but this effort is repackaged into two broader job descriptions: UX developer (requires heavy Javascript code) and web marketer (requires knowledge of analytics, SEO technique, conversion optimization, and a dozen other skills). Plus my frameworks pick up a lot of the lower level details of setting up and managing a web-page.

Not seeing a shortage of work in those two spaces....
Except for Microsoft's lawyers who are still using patents against Linux. Same old Microsoft.

Is it even possible for you guys to kill the undead SCO monster now? At any rate, it's still working away.
>Asynchronous messaging depends on a server to hold your messages for delivery when you go offline.

You can get 90% of the benefit by having other clients in the chat act as relays for that chat. No centralization required. You'd only need a bouncer for specific situations, like mobile<->mobile chat with all desktop clients shut off.

>Would you be upset if I said "IRC does that" if you asked for messaging?

If I asked for just messaging, I would accept "IRC". But if I ask for video chat, and a tiny fraction of IRC clients did video chat, I would not accept "IRC" as an answer. If you want to name a protocol, the implementations need to have widespread support for the entire list of features. Theoretical support is not good enough. I agree that universal support is unnecessary, but widespread support is a must.

It looks like "XMPP+Jingle" is a pretty good answer, but I'd have to look into it more.
Did the need for programmers dry up when off the shelf operating systems became mainstream, or when most of us started writing in higher level languages instead of assembly?

Software just get more complex and expands in scope when we can build on top of new abstractions.
Tor Is Less Anonymous Than You Think
The moment I realized I wasn’t an “artist”…
Thank you! Thus is exactly what I've been looking for.
I do, I update it a few times a year (then its not a chore), but i can go back and look at what i was thinking about certain topics in the past (job, rel, etc).
When the integration is done, we'll have Dotnet Core targeting Windows, OSX, Linux, Android and iOS. There will be frameworks for serverside and clientside applications.

I think it can become the best alternative to the javascript world, which already can target all these, but needs all kinds of native support and is much less solid as a language.
JavaProxyEnterpriseBeanConnectorAbstractInterfaceFactoryImplementationMockup

or something.
"VCs" is not some catch-all well-defined term. To say that all venture capitalists "require" you to be a C Corp is incorrect and further reinforces the very issue I'm trying to address here. There are lots of different types of venture capitalists. From large funds, to institutional investors, to individuals, and everything in between.

Some of them require C Corps. Some of them require S Corps. Some of them require a specific C Corp like one in Delaware. Some of them are just fine and dandy for LLCs. Some prefer LLCs. For all cases[1]: there are appropriate methods and paperwork to ensure parties can come to agreements.

Continuing to add comments to this site with phrases that characterize VCs as being a single entity is confusing and not helpful.

New founders have a lot to worry about. Whether they created the right type of company or not, is so far removed from initial worries and so often easily taken care of at later dates. I don't think it's helpful at all to continue to try and convince them that there is a wrong or right way to do things.

[1] - I dont have any examples where a business owner and an investor couldn't come to an agreement when both parties wanted to work together.
CEO email scam costs companies $2bn
Yes w/ a basic user account you can do that via the position page - but currently only up to 30km or ~20mi or something. Maybe we can increase the radius span a bit ;)
You can get a few months free to dev esssentials right now.
Visual Studio doesn't run on Mac OS to make iOS apps, VS Code is still only an editor not an IDE. So Xamarin could be very useful for MS.
Not exactly "proportional", because you have that pesky e in the denominator. But that's the right idea. Basically, to get n! you're multiplying together n things that are sort of n-ish, so you'd expect n! ~ n^n. (When the numbers get really big, like in statistical mechanics, I've seen the approximation log n! ~ n log n.) The next step is to figure that you're multiplying together n things that are on average n/2, so n! ~ (n/2)^n. But then it really turns out that you should have been using a geometric average (since you're multiplying), not an arithmetic one, so n! must be smaller yet. (I don't know a way to get (n/e)^n without doing an integral, though.)
>We had thousands of astrology and magic practicioners. It didn't make astrology or magic true in any way.

No, but a large chunk of the US population believes in this stuff even today.

And they vote.

That's why we're doomed.
Why do they specifically mention the fact that the Tor Project warns about possible vulnerabilities?

There's a reasonable expectation of privacy in a hotel room, for example[1]. To me this argument reads like: "The hotel owner cannot guarantee that a previous patron hasn't left a listening device in your room, so there's no reasonable expectation of privacy."

[1]: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1718669
SQL Server has Always Encrypted - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt163865.aspx
I had a Sony Ericsson for 3 or 4 years; for the first year or two it could go almost a week without charging (it was always on but I rarely used it). I'm still not a huge mobile user, but now that I have a smart phone it's nice to have Google search and maps when I need them. On the other hand, while I don't think my phone has much pull in my life, I can certainly see why a heavier user would want to get away from it. Sometimes it seems like all people do is stare at their phones.
In large scale I'd agree that only using vegetable oil for car fuel seems like bad idea, because we seem to be running out of food at that point. But using electricity conversed to hydrogen with relatively bad efficiency (70%) we are soon running out of electricity too. Combine that with hopefully shift from fossil fuels to renewable, and the shit we are in deepens.

Now if you could use batteries and electric cars for short trips you would have very high efficiency. Then shift to refueling capable system for long range needs. This is only possible if the "long range" system has very low infra needs.

Optimally we would have some kind of standard that would allow you to swap battery to fuel tank + fuel cell unit in your electric car. I've ranted about that previously.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10942912
Drug case in Ireland has CMU's fingerprints exposing TOR users
Rather integrate it in visual studio.
Really what he's saying isn't that web design work is drying up, it's that freelance or external contractor web design work is drying up because more work is being done in house. That doesn't sound like its bad in any way.

> put as much time and effort into helping our community

What is this community? The community of web designers? Aren't the in-house web designers at Toyota or Google still part of this same community?
You're assuming this won't be the "before" post in a post on ourincrediblejourney.
They can't make a living because Wix, Squarespace, Facebook pages, and Amazon shops are now considered "good enough" by most of the middle market (small and medium businesses), so there is not much need now for custom work in that segment.

This was not the case even 5 years ago. The tools are now out there to make a reasonable-looking website with minimal training or experience. Sure, it looks very much like the other sites made with that tool, but (apparently) most businesses don't care.

Custom web dev will continue to exist only at the low and high ends -- hobbyist websites made by people who enjoy the process, and a few large, complex specialist sites.
It was democratically rejected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitu...
> You can't get any morality or moral arguments out of nature.

Specifically, you can't use pure existence of some acts in the nature as an excuse or confirmation for validity of any human acts.

Still studying the nature and the dynamics of living beings can actually help us humans more understanding our own actions, it gives us a good context as we're also animals, even if that thought isn't pleasing to everybody.
Some observations:

First, it's odd that the author claims that their ethnicity is not the point or not an issue, and then several times says that VCs and folks are not willing to put money on an ethnic founder. Like, pick one: either they're racist shitheads, or it doesn't matter. I know at least one local startup CEO here in Houston who is of color, and I've seen nothing but respect and success for him--mostly because he's a brilliant businessman.

Second, the author is grumpy that consumer plays aren't getting funding. This could be because consumer plays are not worth funding, especially in the current wave of (finally) conservatism. It's a space filled with stillborn and decaying unicorns.

Third, the author's project Localeur (http://www.localeur.com/) is kinda jank. It doesn't recognize locations outside of Austin, it seems to rely on Facebook for signing in (which while boneheaded is unfortunately SOP in that space), the location bar doesn't even take keyboard focus/input, the "How this works" thing pops down a tab that covers half the screen but has no obvious hint on how to close it...it's just not super compelling.

Fourth, the product seems to be "report on cool stuff nearby and vote on it and get internet points"--this, without an obvious way to pay them money. They're in, incidentally, a niche already covered well by such little-known startups as Yelp, Foursquare, and Google Maps. It does not take Marc Andreesen to figure out that the space might be pretty competitive and without great returns.

~

I'm from Houston, and we all wish we lived in the magical circlejerk of entrepreneurship and hip tech culture that everyone else seems to believe Austin is. Yet, we still find ways of building good businesses and raising funding if needed.

If the author can't hack it there, maybe moving to the land of even more farcical business is the answer: that said, they shouldn't blame Austin.
What I'm seeing in mobile developer meetups is a shift toward freelancing. Basically, web development is shifting from freelancers towards tools & in-house maintenance programmers. Mobile development is shifting from startup founders to freelancers. The startup scene is shifting from mobile to IoT (hardware), VR, and wearables.

In other words, the technology cycle is coming around again. We went through the same thing in the early 2000s, as it became nearly impossible to get a non-maintenance job as a desktop software developer and the web freelance market took off (just on the heels of the dot-com bubble bursting). Also, just as the shift in web-development from well-funded dot-coms to individual freelancers and small startups led to the "Web 2.0" renaissance, we might see a "Mobile 2.0" renaissance with a new generation of technologies (Swift, MBaaS, Dagger, RxJava/RxCocoa) that changes how we do mobile development.

(I'm not sure we'll see a "Web 3.0" renaissance - "Desktop 1.0" was the PC, CP/M, MS-DOS, Apple Basic, etc., and "Desktop 2.0" was Macintosh and Win32 development, but what was supposed to be "Desktop 3.0" - OS X, desktop Linux, and .NET on the client - remained fairly niche specialties. I wonder if React/Polymer will go the same way.)
I live hundreds of miles away from my bank's brick and mortar, and when I call, I think I'm still a bit of a novelty to them. "This customer doesn't actually walk into the building ever? Fun, I want to talk to the mystery person on the phone!"
Agreed. It misses out on the most obvious opportunity by not doing this.
(Sorry for replying to your points out of order.)

> is there a solar disaster on that scale that I'm not aware of?

And that's exactly the problem! Solar (and coal, etc) kill people slowly, here and there. No big disasters. Nuclear is always a big very public disaster.

Yet the other energies kill in total way more people, but the perception is less. As evidenced by what you wrote.

That makes people think incorrectly about the pros and cons. You have to force yourself to use the numbers, not the perception, if you want to logically make a decision.

> I'm actually struggling with your assertion that nuclear power has killed more people than solar.

You have to calculate deaths per Watt. Solar just hasn't made much energy, yet had a disproportionate amount of deaths (relative to nuclear), roof falls mostly. Nuclear has generated something like half the power on this planet, so proportionally is not as much.

> (counting the problems of fossil fuel pollution and the environmental problems / lives lost due to the extraction process).

Actually, nuclear is better even without counting the environmental problems!! (But yes counting extraction.) If you count pollution, even ignoring global warming, youch, it's not even close.

> Even a hydro disaster won't necessarily make 1000 square miles of land uninhabitable

You'd be surprised at how much land is uninhabitable because of open face coal mining - it's way more than nuclear. And river acidification, and entire areas of land poisoned and basically useless because of 75 year old mines?

Don't forget Chernobyl still has forests and lots of animals. It's just useless for people. It's the same with coal mining - there are plants and animals, but the whole area is useless for people.

Even by this metric nuclear still wins over coal.
We're more interested in your original statement, that you want it that way. I think most people educated on monopolies would probably not think that way. We're hoping you have some interesting insight here.

But I'm starting to suspect what you really mean is: "Oops, I didn't meant I want it that way. I mean it is that way, and if it's going to be that way, why not take it to its logical extreme?"

Which, if correct, is still an unusual sentiment.

EDIT: I mis-read the comment tree and am conflating two commenters.
The Loop Problem
> I'm simply writing about my experience of what I'm hearing ...

That is the definition of "anecdotal."
Thoughts on Investing in Chinese Start-Ups from a Big Foreign VC Fund
Interestingly enough, this has renewed my interest to move to Austin. There are more opportunities in the States than here (Canada) and Austin looks like an appealing spot to relocate to.
> Yeah, but you get the benefit of paying a discounted price for Windows 10 with the free upgrade.

I think this is somewhat less intrusive than the Kindle Special Offers, which is already not very intrusive, but both are still advertising.
Mandrill's Heroku add-on is being shut down
I really love the C# language and I'll be really excited if this means that C# is a better choice for non-Windows platforms down the road.
I've been having problems with the OSX client as well. Skype is garbageware
In other words, it's basically like this XenForo plugin, except applied to Facebook posts:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/post-ratings-taking-...

It's not a bad idea, the concepts worked pretty well on the forums I've used it on. It's gonna be quite handy for anything news related, like illnesses, crimes, etc.
https://captain401.com/pricing

How do these financial services justify charging a percentage of the funds managed? Is there more work involved in handling an account with a larger balance?
I don't understand why they are so hideous. The colouring doesn't match Facebook's branding at all, the rounded pop-up box isn't used anywhere else, and the magnification stretches outside of it.

It looks atrocious. Like they didn't even care to make it look seamless—it's just a cobbled together add-on.

Or perhaps it speaks to a big UI-style refresh that they're going to roll out?
> while a very small percentage of the population accumulates an increasing chunk of the resources...without any work.

FTFY
This is really, really awesome. I have a long train ride coming up, so I just put together a quick wget script to get all the pages for when I have zero internet. :)
So exchange $510 for $15,000 in AWS credits. I wonder if the credits go away, or if they would even know.
That'd need a whole Wikipedia just for it.
One important point when doing this: you must do payroll.

Depending on if you have no money coming in, or a small amount of money, it may not be worth it to do payroll... but that's only for the smallest of businesses.
Mostly CSC actually. They have contract for systems that should have been part of licensing rounds, which would have allowed other to take over support, but no other where ever allowed to bid. The reason: CSC documented the systems so poorly that no one else will be able to handle the support.

The government knows that it's illegal, yet CSCs contracts have automatically been renewed, multiple times.

But yes, IBM have a large number of contracts as well. CSC just seems to be behind the worst projects. I suspect they bid for project and just focus on delivering exactly what's in the contract, knowing that it will never work. Either that or they are even more incompetent that anyone could imagine.
Astronaut Scott Kelly's Photos from the International Space Station
TOR danger – plaintext exit nodes.  Assume Exit Nodes are Monitored
We're already at zero sum when GDP is growing at near zero, a.k.a not growing.
What's your blog url?
Don't users already get to see the article's headlines in Google search results before clicking into the site?