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I'm about to release an app (will probably publish a beta today - https://invotes.com), and it actually works quite well.

The compile times are probably a bit slower than a standard java project, but not bad - something like 5-30 seconds depending on if it's a full rebuild.

I use android-sdk-plugin with SBT along with Scaloid. Wrestling with proguard to hide appropriate warnings can be a little bit of a pain, but even with no prior Android knowledge I was able to figure everything out.

Everything works as expected. There are a few minor issues where Java expects null and that's not normal Scala style, but other than that, nothing important to speak of. My binary builds to 4-5mb.
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And the basic double write HA architecture doesn't work in the short term? It's free and we'll have the code out and OSS with the 0.12 release.

And when it comes time to scale out you still won't be able to afford the commercial version?

Or you could write your own sharding proxy or layer in your application.
> putting plastic bottles in a recycling bin so they can be melted down to make new ones

This can't be done with the type of plastic used to make bottles. Plastic bottles are either reused as-is, or "downcycled" to lower grade plastic used for different products, like fleece clothing or fiberboards.

http://www.greenhome.com/blog/what-is-downcycling
As a host, I typically rent out an entire house at 50-70% the price of 2 rooms at the Hilton.

The SF numbers are way off. First, you need to consider size/number of beds. One home may be equal to 2 or 3 hotel rooms. Second, there is no consideration for quality. The only way those SF hotel numbers are that low is by including the rather unsavory single room hotels. Third, there is no consideration for amenities. AirBnB's will often give away a lot of amenities, where as hotels charge for everything. It's common to charge $30/night/room for Wifi in SF, those fees must be considered as well.
The problem is we want a lot of things to be in geostationary orbit, which is only possible at a specific altitude. That effectively transforms the "space" from three dimensions to two because the third relative coordinate for all of those things has to be the same.

Which is when relative motion becomes a problem. The Empire State Building and the Trump Building are at approximately the same altitude (i.e. sea level) but you don't have to worry about them crashing into each other because their relative position doesn't change. In space everything is in relative motion which effectively costs you another dimension.

Then you no longer have "space" you just have "a line" and if two things are at the same point on the line, they eventually crash into each other.
"If you build it, they will come" might apply here. Just to play devils advocate.
I think you should expand point 3. At the very least, consider "where" you'd leave to. I came to the conclusion that pretty much everywhere on the globe, you'll find the same problem you're trying to escape.
This is awesome. Its very similar to one of my favorite games Majesty The Fantasy Kindom Sim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majesty:_The_Fantasy_Kingdom_S...

I've been craving a new game in this genre for a while. I love the 'idle' game play where the world evolves. Point me to the crowdfunding page!
In the industrial space, no one ever got fired for buying Rockwell Automation.

Even if FactoryTalk is absolutely horrid.
I should have read the comments first. That's the article in understandable.
I just bought one of the affected TPLink models. Personally I hope this means more vendors ship a good quality copy of OpenWRT a la Buffalo (though I ended up sticking with their modified version) as an officially supported firmware. People who buy premium routers are aware enough of the benefits that it is worth it for Buffalo to ship it on their devices. I can't see it not being a value add for others.
This was a cool problem. What would be even more interesting is generating puzzles like these.
I would love to see the document model for the same board games, compared to relational.
To be pedantic - he was born in 1997 so he is 18 or 19 years old.
Horizontal gene transfer is one of the issues brought up by researchers who discovered the plastic eating fungus Pestalotiopsis Microspora
Thank you for this input. May you please point me in the right direction to start learning?

I am pretty senior role in my tech career and have not too much time - so even if its just a youtube channel that could start me learning by watching, I would appreciate it.
Well, one major problem that I see is that, we aren't required to learn about any of this stuff before we buy it and most of the people who's job it is to set this up would gladly do it for less than someone who knows what they're doing even though they know nothing about it. The entire world is set up incorrectly for something like IoT. We try to get as cheap as we possibly can with everything and we try to skimp on any labor cost but set everything up fancy as hell. That's always going to leave you with security holes because security doesn't make money. Not unless someone starts getting punished for the bullshit security they are putting into these things.
I would argue don't limit your search to SV(There other cities and 49 other states). Finding an opportunity to work in another country while your young would be an awesome experience you might not get another chance to pursue.
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[Hola desde Argetina.]

This is an English speaking forum, so most of the articles in other languages are ignored or flagged. It's better to submit the English version if available: https://kids.kaspersky.com/story-agnes/

Anyway, I'm not sure if this is a good story for this site, because it looks more like a fairytale with a happy ending than a real use case.

https://kids.kaspersky.com/story-agnes/
Appears that TP-Link's heart is not in this -- they're doing the minimum to comply with FCC rules.

Will be interesting to watch the arms race between OpenWRT and the reluctant ODMs.
Yeah, I get it. I should be honored to pay a server bill to display content that you want to see, and not get anything out of it.

You should be honored I had the content you wanted to see and agree to what I require in exchange to view said content.

So many people claim they'd rather pay a fee to view a site than have an ads shown to them.. But in practice, I highly doubt anyone would pay for the amount of sites they visit daily that display ads in exchange for delivering the content they want to see.
If you try using your browser's scrollbar their js fights back too...
Yes, but the simple website is very scarce in details. The project is in pre-alpha. I was just writing code for the API like an hour ago. I dont want to publicize it here at the moment, but if you send me an email (check profile) I will gladly talk to you about it.

Btw, I went to the demo of enerscore (which looks pretty interesting) and it wasn't working for me. I'm on Firefox last build and OSX if that helps. :)
Yup. There was some great discussion this week at a higher level. Attorney General Loretta Lynch was questioned quite extensively [1] [2] [3]. The only one above her is the President, who has yet to comment, though the issue is sometimes discussed during the daily White House Press Secretary briefings [4]

Lindsey Graham

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk4hYAwCdhU

Mike Lee

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOZLEhTlr6E

Dianne Feinstein - 51:00

[3] http://www.c-span.org/video/?406201-1/attorney-general-loret...

[4] https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=site:https://www.wh...
If someone else wanted to contact you how would they do that?
>The parents are not.

True. Some parents see those problems and deal with them by, for example, homeschooling their children.

Homeschooling doesn't strike as a thing an 'incapable' parent would choose to do. It takes deliberate thought and lots of work.
Ask for two card keys and leave one in the room.
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I don't think that Sam is Baghdad Bob, but Medium is the exact opposite - it's "American tanks are going to roll through Baghdad tomorrow! Run for the hills!"

Doomsaying is only interesting when you get it right.

I think that Sam is saying, "If you have a good idea, you'll succeed regardless of whether the economy is good or shitty." If you have a bad idea, you'll fail regardless.

The ones who really benefit from the strong economy are the marginal ideas - ideas that normally would not get funded, but people have the spare money to throw at lottery tickets on the off-chance that they're missing something. Cue Pets.com and other 90s Internet startups.
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Cummingtonite.

(There is a long tradition, among earth scientists, of geological dirty puns.)
No, because it's textbook obstruction of justice.
What would you consider a good IOT company?
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I feel like my experience is quite a bit different. I chose play framework for my web frontend and REST API, and it's quite easy to get started and ship something quickly.

Play framework itself is pretty straightforward with not much in the way of advanced Scala concepts (implicits are probably the most you have to understand). Testing is baked right in and they even handle setting up the application for you in your fixtures.

Coming from the .NET world, it was a huge relief to see that I could just use activator/sbt to compile and publish my artifacts on a build server, just as it works on my local machine. Setting up continuous integration was super easy in comparison to what Microsoft has historically offered (but looks like they're improving with .NET Core).

As for other frameworks and libraries, you may be right on a number of them, but I wouldn't say that all or even most Scala libs are designed to be pure. I have a number of dependencies that are very easy to reason about even if you aren't aware of advanced features.
The vertabelo.com spam on reddit.com/r/database can now be found on hackernews...it's a cool product and all but seriously...spam is spam...
The height's probably specified by building code re: disabled people, whether or not it's compliant
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11262848 and marked it off-topic.
To take an example at the far end of the spectrum: in 1989 WPP (the world's largest owner of advertising agencies) bought The Ogilvy Group (a very large ad agency) for $864 million ($1.7 billion in today's dollars.) Ogilvy was nothing but people...there was no other value (except, maybe, the brand, but that's debatable.) At the time people criticized the deal, saying "all of their assets go down the elevator every night." But it turned out to be a great acquisition for WPP.

While the founders and first few employees may leave after an acquisition, preferring to work for themselves, everyone after that is an employee and, as long as they are managed and compensated well, will generally not care so much who the company's owner is.
Yes, in that context it makes sense. Thanks for sharing a viable use case.
http://advo.ninja

I have seen even large companies with big marketing budgets have difficulty getting eyeballs on their social content. Short lived sponsored ads fail them with lack of virality, personal touch and being expensive. Why not utilize employees’ social networks to spread the word. But, it’s painful to share company posts regularly. So, I created Advo.Ninja to make it extremely effortless to share content by ZERO-CLICK (auto posting) of company posts on multiple social networks instantly. Set up and forget! or choose to share every time.

This is proving to be a win-win situation - employees get to improve their thought leadership and help companies ace branding by their best advocates - employees!

Startups and mid-size companies are realizing the highest value with their small marketing teams spending just a few mins every week and proud employees sharing content.
Why are you so hung up on the server bill? The costs of distributing information are next to '0'. The cost of the creation is an entirely different matter.
>with democratic process of the people who currently use that land

Why only the people who currently use that land? Why don't the other 3000 people who could be living there have a say?
We connect storage nodes via infiniband for lower latency and higher throughput. Think RDS type service where you can have significantly larger instances like say up 40TB DB running on
4 way box (soon 8 way) box.
It's amazing to me that instead of seeking out and prosecuting the handful of people causing problems near airports, the FCC wants to prevent everyone in the United States from running open source router firmware.
Agreed on the C# front. Outside of implicits, I feel like there was just the occasional google search to find what the equivalent LINQ method was in Scala. It took a couple of days to get it sorted out in my head, but I was able to jump in with Play Framework very quickly since everything was so similar to MVC/C#.
Whisper systems releases source code. BMW runs whisper systems OS. Where is the rub!?
In free markets, client is always right, right? Like in... the client is 16 y.o., loaded with hormones, and more interested in the current gossip than in the skills that will change his/her life a decade from now. The client is also interested in not having his/her parents nagging about bad grades those old bookworms like to give because they hate youth and freedom...

I am extremely sure that would work OK.
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I've got some nostalgia for Yahoo Games. Here's an anecdote I've posted elsewhere:

I was on a phone interview to be a software engineer for a web game company in ~2013. The interview went very well. At the end I asked what I'd be working on, and they said blackjack.

I said, "Didn't Yahoo solve that problem in the 90s?"

I didn't get a call back.
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...and now Nobody will buy TP-Link routers, once the Amazon reviews are filled with 1 stars.

The market will likely sort this out for itself.
At some point the FCC and the open source community are going to clash violently with some reluctant vendor caught in the middle.
Cost of creation is one aspect, a server bill is the most tangible way to show cost. Take your post for example. Did it cost you a lot to write it? No. But I bet the cost in resources on your server for it making the front page of HN did go up.
The problem is overall pollution of exit trajectories... Imagine how much more difficult it will be in 100 years to launch anything without hitting something on the way out. It should be a requirement of any satellite manufacturer to have a decomm plan. A plan which will eject the thing from orbit, or let it burn up on re-entry.

Tell me why you might think thats a bad idea?
Is proxmark3 still the device to get?
Not quite. A Federal Reserve Note is a debt instrument issued by the Federal Reserve Bank, which is as much "government" as the Post Office, Fannie Mae, or Amtrak--a tiny bit government, but mostly independent.

In theory, a Federal Reserve Note should be redeemable in United States Notes or in coins stamped by the U.S. Mint, but thanks to legal tender laws, the note is a debt instrument, which means it may be discharged by tendering Federal Reserve Notes in place of whatever the debt actually calls for.

So you go to the Fed and ask to redeem a $100 bill, and they will hand it right back to you. Technically speaking, they should give you a different $100 bill, other than the one you are trying to redeem, but really, if you get that far, you're already lucky they aren't physically throwing you out of the building.

This is one of those "laws and sausages" things. You're far better off not looking at it too closely if you want to continue to enjoy the benefits unburdened by unnecessary knowledge.
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Absolutely. I wasn't talking about getting adoption for a new solution.

I meant identifying the problem and coming up with a solution in the first place.

Go to market is another level of complexity.
I think ultimately it stems from lack of source code ownership / use of open platforms / clearly defined interfaces.

Best case, with clearly documented and defined interfaces, you can rewrite or swap out an entire component. Worst case, you have no source, no standard technologies, and no interface barriers, in which case your choices are leave as-is (no additional features) or replace everything (impractical due to size of codebase / legacy functionality coverage).
Regulating the proper use of a shared public resource (RF spectrum) is sort of the FCC's thing. Tragedy of the commons, your rights end where the next person's begin, that sort of jazz.

This will probably evolve into the baseband firmware being closed, and the higher abstractions being open (with an API to interface to the baseband). Just like cellphones. Which is acceptable unless you're unrealistic about necessary regulations.

EDIT: If you don't believe regulation is required, think about tens or hundreds of thousands of wireless devices in the wild that can cause RF interference with no ability to get them recalled.

That time Netgear negligently hardcoded the address of University of Wisconsin's NTP server comes to mind: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
But not the Linux port, according to Ryan Gordon (icculus).

Somewhat hoping it's an oversight and not some legal hangup.
The article I read said Cruise took $18mm in funding and still had $10mm in the bank.

Just from a back-of-the-envelope perspective, something seems strange here. If you asked me how much money autonomous cars would take to create and perfect, I'd guess maybe $10 billion.

What could Cruise have built that justifies this price? Why wouldnt GM just put $100mm or even $500mm into their own funded startup?

Time will tell, but I suspect GM got swindled here.
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So sad. I find the mechanics here really challenging to overcome. The hotel management no doubt wants "really cool tech" for their hotel to show they are up to date etc. And they send out an RFQ which someone bids on, really cheaply. Knowing that by only doing the things the hotel asks for, they can throw something together quickly and cheaply for a big payday.

This is exactly the mechanism that gets people in trouble going to China for manufacturing. They say "I want you to build widgets" and they get a good price quote, and say "Wow, this is awesome!" because they have in their mind that "making things in China is cheap" but in reality its that if you cut a lot of corners you can make things really cheap, and since the contract doesn't say you can't cut corners, it is all "perfectly" legal. But the manufacturer knows what the buyer doesn't, and exploits that information asymmetry to make money at the buyer's expense without the buyer having any true recourse.

The hotel in question could have said in the RFQ, "System will be impervious to network traffic snooping and at no time will systems or a guest supplied computer be able to access the controls in another room."

Had they said that, the price quotes would have gone up and had the system the author speaks of been delivered, the Hotel could recover the costs of installing it from the vendor. But they hotel didn't even know they needed to ask for that since they no doubt would assume, "nobody would make something that shoddy would they?"

I learned about this when I saw one of the rules in a NetApp hardware contract that said "Manufacturer will install all components shown on the schematic on the final units in their designated locations." That seemed really odd. I learned that before that clause had been part of the standard contract, there had been a manufacturer who decided unilaterally that half of the noise suppression capacitors in the schematic were "unneeded." Units from that manufacturer started failing in odd ways in the lab.
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Lesson learned - don't touch GPLed software even with a long stick. Time to make FreeBSD gain mindshare instead of accepting GPLed linux which does the same thing!
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This is the worst part:

>Cisco argues that open source software could be consistent with the FCC's goals. "There is nothing in the Commission's existing or proposed rules that would limit or eliminate the ability of a developer to use Open Source software, including software that controls radio emissions," Cisco said in an FCC filing in November.

>But this would require a more locked-down approach than one in which users can modify the firmware, Cisco said. "The ability to review source code is not inherently incompatible with the notion of locking the integrity of a product against modification or tampering," Cisco wrote. "It is perfectly possible for a product to have source code that is capable of review by the public while that same code is secured inside the device against change by the end-users."

That misses many of the important goals of open source (and points back to the "open source" vs "free software" debate). It's not just about being able to view the existing software, it's about being able to control the systems that process your data.

For example, what if the manufacturer stops supporting the hardware? Today, you can just keep updating openwrt and avoid any security issues. After 2016, that won't be possible.
Surely many people appreciate the extra daylight as I do.
Jeff Goldblum has something to say.

"Life, uh, always finds a way"

The danger of humans is whether we give life enough time.
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And it's much, much harder to process (harder than most metals, highest melt point). The effort alone would make it at least as valuable as gold in the 19th century.
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None of whom are producing well-supported public code / documentation / conference talks.

Edit: And to clarify. I think part of this is because there's a serious case of imposter syndrome among Scala developers. I feel like much Scala code I've written would make legitimately useful open source projects, but I'm not really happy with the interface, and I feel the innards could be a bit cleaner, so I don't release it, because it feels just hackish enough that I trust it myself, but don't want the outside world depending on it. I'm probably not the only one here.
You can't revoke/update the RSA public key in the mask bootrom.
Anyone complaining when google shuts down bum projects need to remember this. Yahoo let divisions fester along leaching resources from the company with no clear path to anything. When google cuts a project, even if you super seriously love it, they prevent an announcement like this.
Java has a slow startup time. By breaking out modules, they will significantly be able to reduce the overhead.
well in that case, somebody rejecting something is a sign of improvement..
It's about time it got an update.
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> I have yet to find a society with wealth that looks at gold with no more than amusement.

The Aztec Empire (and most other New World cultures) knew and used gold, and fits your definition perfectly. They used cacao beans as storage of value. The Spaniards — who threw cacao beans in the water but were ready to kill for the gold — were quite a surprise for them.
I absolutely agree with this actually. Rails is a bit of a unicorn I think in that respect. You can create wildly amazing things without knowing much actual ruby at all, which is beautiful.
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