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Why does Raspberry Pi not need to conform to the new "standards" of the FCC that require locking down firmware in routers? If it has onboard wifi, and you can turn it into a router... what's the difference between someone installing OpenWRT on a raspi vs. installing OpenWRT on a TPLink?

edit: This is a legitimate question, not an opinion.
We're taking about whether to negotiate vs. just taking first offer from company. Even if money isn't your TOP priority (vs flexible hours, etc) and you love the work opportunity being offered to you, you should still negotiate up front and try to get the company to come up higher. It's MUCH easier than asking for a raise or promotion later -- something as simple as saying "can you come up a bit higher?" on a phone call --those seven little words-- could pay for your summer vacation!
Right -- that's why they should put some muscle into it.
That's right. Your customers are the businesses who will adopt this. The people who send feedback are also important, but they're not your direct customers, and you have to start with businesses before you get them.

I see some businesses on your site. Are these all actual customers? How are they using it, and what do they think of it so far?
Global electronic cash is a zero sum game. Money is pure network effect and only one unit of account can have 90% global market share at a time. I want that to be BTC. You want that to be ETH. Let's just agree to disagree?
I had considered a much longer criticism of this article, but I soon realized that there was no sense in complaining about a service which is no longer "ours." The internet of today (Internet 2.x), is little more than an advertising space, a vehicle through which users mistakenly approach as an encyclopedia housing the world's information, while in actuality, the user is product.

So I'll just touch on one point instead: Humor

> "But Mrgan insists it hasn’t led to sterile, sanitised comments. “People are still making jokes, being a little bit snarky, getting really opinionated,” she says. “The personal attacks, name-calling and abuse have gone, but the same feel has really stayed.”"

Has Mrgan ever been to Reddit, the site so bold as to deem itself "The Front Page of the Internet" before? I absolutely disagree with her insistence.
While the information is often great in some specialty areas, the humor is completely dry, overly snarky, and most users appear (caveat: IMO) to be treading on eggshells in avoidance of "Being downvoted" and having their comment hidden from the world.

If you were to go to a standup comedy show, you would see a _plethora_ of philosophically different types of humor. Deprecating humor, Self-deprecating humor, sarcasm, parody, allegorical comedy, etc. etc.

The "new internet" is in the process of filtering out most of this. To repeat my caveat, this is all my opinion, but a sterile Internet very quickly only reduces itself to plain sarcasm and snark, and honestly, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

Back in the "good old days" During the 90's and the 00's, the onus was on the user his-or-herself to ignore and filter out toxic behavior. And it's a shame I'm saying this in my 20s.
An equivalent to iterate/loop where each compound form need be replaced by an anonymous function and each binding is replaced by a dictionary entry could be implemented completely as a function. Is this also new syntax?

If not, how is the macro different other than implicitly changing the evaluation?

for a more simple example, why is the idiom CALL-WITH-FOO (implemented as a function) not syntax while WITH-FOO (implemented as a macro) is? What precisely is syntax is somewhat nebulous (if I use a regex library in C, have I added syntax to the language? Regexes certainly are syntax, despite being wrapped in a C string).
I guess you've never interviewed for DOD jobs then (Strict budget limits)
That sounds like a lot of stuff to take on for a first product. Because existing players already have long feature lists, you can't compete at first by having a longer list. It'd be better to start with one single, simple, useful thing and expand from there.

Cross-platform is interesting. Are there large installations that need to migrate between Intel and ARM boxes seamlessly? That's the sort of feature that might make someone switch distros.
here is the a basic example. https://ethereum.org/greeter

more in depth tutorials exist on ethereum.org
>"But unless an exception is given to researchers, Ward adds, they will face having to use their own funds to do anything that could be considered lobbying or influencing policy."

What is the problem? It makes no sense for the government to give money to someone who uses it to lobby the government. It doesn't make sense if a charity does it, a church does it, or a researcher does it. What am I missing? Grant money should be spent on research, not lobbying...
This is one of the biggest problems for Genius.

Ex. http://genius.it/www.nytimes.com breaks vs. http://genius.it/www.wikipedia.org works fine.
I am curious of your application for USB 3? Care to elaborate?
F5 Friday: Top 5 VROps Dashboards to Monitor Your BIG-IP Environment
I think the title conclusion is a bit off mark. This goes back to the simple maxim that you should never say "no" without providing an alternative. Don't say "i can't do this" without saying what you could do instead. Don't say "you can't do this" without saying what they could do instead.

There's also an inaccuracy in the replacement for the "timeout" message. It doesn't only look like the user isn't on the internet. It may also be that their server is down, in which case directing the user to their status page would be a good idea.

Making error messages too vague is not the best of ideas.
That and Hammock Driven Development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

Both of these talks are in my top 5.

Edit (okay, here are the other 3):

* All the Little Things by Sandi Metz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE

* Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c

* Some talk I saw by Dan McKinley on making Data-Driven decisions. I can't find the original video, but here's a really similar one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZOeV-S-2co
Caterpillar started a research project to reduce warranty claims on their starter batteries, which did not last long in the cold. Their team eventually realized they could replace the lead plates with a graphite foam. This gave their batteries the energy density of NiMH, for the cost of lead. They spun off the venture into Firefly Energy [1]. This company was tooling up for release, then the 2008 financial crisis hit. Eventually an Indian company bought the IP. I don't know if they are working towards commercialization or not...

tl/dr: a better battery (probably) already exists, but is not fancy enough to get attention.

http://fireflyenergy.com
>That's the kind underhanded, unconscious sexism that we're trying to avoid here

I'm interested in facts, not political correctness. Were admission rates loosened to accomplish the goals, or were they not?

>It sounds like you've lost sight of the forest for the trees.

Or have you? To me, the forest is graduating the best CS students, regardless of colour, race or gender.
i agree with you, although i think you are forgetting to add (and maybe it is implied here and i missed it) that learning mobile development requires you to not only learn new language APIs in objC/swift, but you also have to learn some new design patterns (delegation, etc.) and most importantly the SDKs (CocoaTouch)

if you can use react native and avoid learning a lot of this it is a big win - I havnt used it yet, and I have a hard time believing it a mobile only company would use it to build their mobile app, but i am excited where it is going.
You're fairly limited in terms of antenna size/placement when you use a tiny dongle. If it's built into the Pi, they could have the antennae wrap around the edge (similar to how the iPhone does it) to allow for a much higher quality connection.

At least, that's what I hope they're doing with it.
Or just a clone.
Hi Trevor, thanks for the reply.

We had that thought as well but we're from Southeast Asia with most of our traffic originating from here. Only some of the products related to our site actually ship here from Amazon and incurs international shipping costs so it might hinder orders. We'll still give it a shot since it can give us an idea of how the conversions do.

Would you happen to have any further insights on if affiliate marketing really works especially when it comes to visual content?
Generic IT guy here. No matter how good the new machine is people always assume it's the same or worse than the old one. I'm not sure what drives this general feeling, but it has been a consistent theme. Despite every metric improving, people feel as if progress is stagnant.

> When was the last time you used a product and said “this is vastly better?”

Mid 2011 when I put a high dollar SSD in my laptop for the first time.
So unics, how would you rate your own comment in terms of civility? Say 1..5, least to most.

I'd rate it 4 for civility, 1 for quality of argument, then downvote you since you haven't read the article.
Comparing the photos to my Pi 2, it doesn't seem very different. There's an extra IC near the microsd card, a connector beneath the HDMI port, and a few other small changes.

But nothing that looks like an antenna. Any idea where that might be?

Edit: as lovelearning pointed out, there is a small ceramic-looking piece in the upper-left of the top side, near the GPIO pins and LVDS display connector. That might be it.
In some ways, it's the fear of facing that guilt that makes the "chain method" work so well. The tricky part, when you miss a day, is figuring out a way to cope with that guilt and frustration without letting it undermine your efforts in general. Especially if you miss multiple days in a row, for instance. Which is hard, because that requires a lot of motivation--which is one of the things the "chain method" is meant to enforce. So in some ways, it's a chicken and egg sort of problem. You just have to hope that you've done it enough that, when you wind up facing a missed day, you've built up your motivation for the task enough to get back into it.
No, you're completely wrong. There's a valid warrant. The owner of the phone also consents to the search. Apple's refusal has nothing to do with any of that.

What's happening here is that Apple is claiming that it can't comply with the warrant, because encryption. The FBI is invoking the All Writs Act to try to compel Apple to brute force the weak password on the phone.

http://fortune.com/2016/02/18/fbi-iphone/
I suspect the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive will be spurring on novelties and developments.
My app is a way for sneakerheads to follow, discover, and ultimately purchase new sneakers online from first announcement until they're available for purchase with minimal interaction. Today everyone does this by following blogs that make hundreds of posts per week with tons of repetition and very low signal to noise.

I've built a prototype for myself, but would like to now connect with the right industry people to help guide the product and be trusted early users. In another reply you mentioned finding users to serve as product advisors similarly (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11183572) . I'm having a hard time discovering who the "right" people are and reaching them in a compelling way. If I were further along [read: post private beta] I would reach out to someone like Phin Barnes @ First Round, but I feel at this stage it's too early for him to really give interest.
I can be found here https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinlaing
I'm at NextSpace most days. I have an office in the back with "Crank Logic" on the door.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see this was stopped, but how long until the DEA is simply drinking from the same firehose the NSA is? We've already heard all about parallel construction, and now there's talk about sharing the information the NSA sucks up. Why isn't any of this going through Congress or being given proper oversight?
You keep using Banks as an analogy. It fails because Banks are used to drilling out locks on flimsy safe-deposit boxes, Apple is not used to hacking old phones via firmware updates.

Nobody is saying the government can't attempt to unlock the phone - or even compel Apple to provide technical information. But that's not what the FBI wants. They want to force Apple to take all the risk.
the video compression patent is part of a standards package (if I remember right) and those have only minimal value. They have to be licensed to anyone on a "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" basis which means it's not that valuable. The slide-to-unlock was Apple's novelty and not part of a standard. Hence the claim that it was more valuable.

Of course now that the patent's been invalidated it's worth zero. Not several millions.
You skipped over cheap portable supercomputer...all the worlds information

The internet may be a few decades old but we're just getting started using it, and portable computing using the Internet has accelerated rapidly in the last decade along with virtual assistants, AI, bioinformatics, autonomous cars, robotics, drones etc etc. Lots of things are changing very rapidly right now.
By 2100 maybe we are robots. Or back to the stone age.
It would be really nice if instead of downvoting, someone could provide a counterargument, or comment on parts the disagree.
Ask HN: Feedback on my event planning app idea
Hi everyone,
I am working on an app that aims to take the stress out of event planning. It would essentially allow one to do everything one needs to plan an event, from finding a venue to sending out invitations, from one platform.

When you create an event, you input the budget, location, and type of event (wedding, birthday, etc.). You can then add various aspects of the event, such as venue, music, food, photography etc. Once you click "add venue" for example, the app finds venues suited to you based on your budget, location, and type of event, and you can search for characteristics such as "church" or "hotel." The platform would provide the contact information of the venue, and you can either add them to a short list or confirm them as your venue. Once your finished, the app would create a template to send out invitations based on your event's information.
Is this something you would use? Why or why not? Would this app be useful if it encompasses all events as I described or if it would cover a niche such as birthdays/weddings. Please let me know, I appreciate you taking the time to read this.
The Raspberry Pi website says they're unlikely to have a new version in the next few years. Do they have FCC now? Maybe they just want to add on the radio modules.

From the FAQ:
> there are no immediate plans to release any more new models. A further new model may be released in 2-3 years, but this is not a firm schedule.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/help/faqs/#generalFuture
Fast I/O, for example ? Check the Pi 2 cluster vs Xeon quad core
The WSJ and Forbes ones were too short (Forbes one was OK, quality-wise, but too ad-laden.) This was the best of the bunch, and if it describes a real phenomenon (the multiple articles convinced me it did) then it's worth sharing, even if it's a bit pitchy.

Edit: I was under the impression the NYT flags its sponsored content in any case.
I'm a little disappointed that (from a brief glance at the documents) it doesn't appear to support the 5 Ghz Wi-Fi band. I wonder if it's a power issue, or just limited space on the PCB. The 2.4 Ghz band gets kind of crowded in dense urban environments.
Which is exactly why it doesn't work.
This is so awful and you a rent-seeking bad person.
Thanks! The blog and gift concierge suggestions are interesting. Most of the technical people I know don't like spending their time looking into sparkly, girly things.
I don't think there's a general answer: different services are very different. The lawn industry is very different from other home services, and we've seen different things work in those two businesses.

Usually, marketplaces get started around the margins. Today, eBay sells everything but at first it was obscure collectibles. For lawn care, weather and seasonality drive the short-term market dynamics. So when there's rain or drought, the supply-demand curve shifts rapidly and that's when lawn care providers might look for work to fill up their schedules. You should look into how your marketplace might work on different kinds of days, to see if will be a useful part of the ecosystem.
If you've ever tried to get wifi working (esp on earlier RPis) you'll understand it is not that simple. Especially for newbies. Having said that its a good baptism of fire.

Raspberry Pi with built in wireless comms means it uses a standard piece of hardware so the software stack can be configured to work out of the box. That can't happen with the existing arrangement. Also the power supply problems with original Pis are frustrating to say the least. These are most evident when plugging in USB wifi devices. Again having a standard integrated piece of hardware will (hopefully) avoid this.
> If there's enough customer adoption where there's a need to handle that kind of volume you can rest assured there will be infrastructure to support it and instead of a loose group of "core devs" there will be an official salaried department (at visa? :) ) working on this full time.

But since we're talking about "decentralized systems", the question is who owns the blockchain infrastructure. Is the blockchain going to be serviceable on home desktop PCs, or are you going to need a datacenter?

To really drive this example home, could you please quote me a price on building out a Tier 1 datacenter with gigabit fiber? Because last I checked most people don't have that kind of money in their sofa cushion. And it isn't even remotely feasible to acquire that sort of infrastructure anonymously.

Yet that's what it's going to take to hit 56,000 tps on a blockchain any time this decade or perhaps even after [1]:

> Next month, the worldwide semiconductor industry will formally acknowledge what has become increasingly obvious to everyone involved: Moore's law, the principle that has powered the information-technology revolution since the 1960s, is nearing its end.

A common mistake is confusing "popularity" with decentralization. BitTorrent is both popular and decentralized. It doesn't take a datacenter and a 10-machine cluster to participate in a BT swarm as a full-on peer. As an aside, it's no surprise the creator of BitTorrent is staunchly against scaling Bitcoin in datacenters [2].

[1]: http://www.nature.com/news/the-chips-are-down-for-moore-s-la...

[1]: http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=417

[2]: https://medium.com/@bramcohen/bitcoin-s-ironic-crisis-32226a...
Firearms vs. Intentional Homicide
I thank you for the time it took to write this! I'm looking at it from the perspective of already irrigated land though.

Recently I've taken up urban harvesting. There's a loquat tree at a local gas station. Out by the river there's an orange and lemon tree. Near my office there's an avocado tree.

We have mostly ornamental horticulture in urban environments. I'm suggesting it will tend to be more functional overtime as resources are strapped and people turn to more fresh, natural, and regional foods.

The other aspect is that it's good for the psyche: urban harvesting is meditative and calming. There's been a large rise in community gardens and a number of schools have set aside plots of land for it.

In a way, you need to categorize it with physical recreation. Put it in the same group as say, jogging, yoga, martial arts, pickup soccer.

Every trajectory in rich-people's food culture is going exactly this way. When I introduce the idea to my peers in the 100k+ income group, something clicks and now they are mapping out where the trees are and some have started planting their own.

I routinely engage with teenagers (through aikido) and when I've told them about this, the reaction has been almost universal: "Oh you just started doing that? Do you know about the pomegranate tree over yonder, or the kumquat tree near this fence?"

Those are the people that will be running the world in 2050.

And what about the low-income people who have succumbed to food deserts after the corporate supermarkets exited the market? Recently, in south LA, cooperative farming initiatives have been popping up. There's one I saw in Lynwood and two in South Gate. I've heard about a budding one in Compton. This is the communities response to the corporate exit.

The change will and has always come from the people - not their possessions.
I think that it's often hit or miss with HN stories about more mainstream technology. I was sort of surprised about how well the Pi2 did versus more substantial hardware and the cloud...anyway, benchmarks have historically tended to evoke strong opinions. About the only one's I can think of that achieve widespread acceptance are Backblazes hard drive reviews and places like Anand's hardware reviews. It's probably because they're backed by significant data.

Hopefully, your next review will also get widely read.
Breached Credit Union Comes Out of Its Shell
My guess is that it's simply because it's specifically not sold as a router. Just like I could turn my laptop into a router, but it's my decision, the device is not sold as a router.
Did companies do this before the media glamorized Google's job application process? I had to do some of those stupid riddles when I was starting out but hopefully I won't have to ever again (I'm working on a side business too).
This can work in the opposite direction too: the salary they will offer is below what you want, so you waste a ton of time going through all the interviews etc only to find out that there is no way you'll take what they offer. I don't know what the best solution to this problem is though.
I couldn't spot the typical wavy PCB antenna pattern anywhere.
Is that small cube in the upper left corner of external top view a ceramic antenna? Looks to me like the 2 LEDs have been shifted further down towards lower left and replaced with something new.

Update: Just noticed the radio testing report says single PCB mounted chip ceramic. I still can't spot it with certainty.
In learning about IB funnel, I've noticed that almost everyone KNOWS these stats yet everyone thinks he'll be the exception.

To your points and for anyone interested about IB, here's a lecture[1] (part 3/5) by Anton Kreil -- a trader and TV personality in the UK. He walks through the IB funnel on the secondary markets side, including the org chart, the "catches" in compensation, cost of living trade-offs, etc. The shoulder videos are worth watching as he discusses the structural decline at IB (secondary markets side) due to regulation and offers suggestions like learning programming if you want to survive as a trader ;-).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OReolQm34TQ
I think you may want to rethink your soundbite. Heh.

But yeah, remember the scandal about school admins potentially being able to use the laptop's anti-theft programs to spy on children? Imagine that for all children worldwide.
That being said, I've always found that black ethnocentrism has a similar effect to white ethnocentrism: it causes further division and worsens the problem it claims to try to solve.

Or, it can be something you just don't have to worry about. I think I'd leave it up to the constituency in question as to whether their position is too "ethnocentric" or is otherwise less than ideal for them in some way.

The statement "Black Lives Matter" offends me, because it makes the assumption that because I'm not black, I don't think black lives matter, and therefore have to be told that they do.

Words are imperfect, in general. In this case, it's just saying, born out of a need to address a very serious problem. The bottom line is that it isn't about you. So you don't have to think about it, let alone get offended by it, if you don't want to.
Wouldn't that apply to any motherboard that has a wifi antenna on it?