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Findima: The first Iranian “crowdfunded” gadget
By lifting the sanctions against Iran, this question came to the minds of the technology lovers that what is going on the Iranian technology market? Which kind of facilities exists that could provide a good groundwork for cooperation/investment?
Hearing this news that a creative project has managed to provide his required capital in Kickstarter may not look so bizarre. But in a country like Iran that crowdfunding is only a three-year-old subject and has started from donation and charity projects, the fact that a project on the domain of Internet of things absorbs his capital in this way and thinks about mass production simultaneously is a big achievement. Findima is a gadget that helps people to not lose their belongings simply by sending alarms to their cell phones. The young generation in Iran is remarkably creative. Nowadays, the disappearing of the borders as a result of the global village has enabled few Iranian to stand out at management level among tech giants. Due to the imposed economic sanctions on Iran, the young generation inside Iran faced with many restrictions which did not give the opportunity to mobilize their ideas.
Along all these years, only a few projects from Iran had this opportunity to be supported by gigantic companies. Findima is one of these pioneer projects with a restrictive access to devices and foreign platforms, which the completion of their entire project is their own work; however, their access may seem so simple for you. What distinguishes Findima from similar projects in Iran is providing its required budget through an Iranian platform called 2nate by crowdfunding (http://2n8.ir/Zd). The story of Findima, has inspired this hope in Iranian technology market that not only their creativeness, knowledge and expertise of the Iranian young generation in international firms can be used but also if they would be given a chance, they are capable of presenting their products with remarkable qualities to compete in international markets.
Is Humor the Final Barrier for Artificial Intelligence?
No, it's those things called "opportunity cost", "pragmatism" and "ecosystem"...
U can see Findima fundraising page here:
http://2n8.ir/Zd

or visit 2nate.com (The crowdfunding platform)
Compered to the previous method of carpet bombing?
corporate culture/environment are the hardest to adjust too.
>Imprecise use of jargon is one of the main ways how technical discussions get derailed.

Yes. And the other main way is insistence on pointless pedantic distinctions.
Great idea, and nicely implemented.

One suggestion: one field in the "add new company" form asks to list the tools in our stack. How about in addition to that, you optionally link to a company's StackShare? We keep track of all of our tools there to give a comprehensive overview of what we use, so that will stay more up to date over time I think.

Here's an example, from my company: http://stackshare.io/third-iron/third-iron
Interesting. Wiki has an article about that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French_profanity
The True Story of Medical Books Bound in Human Skin
The Walgreens Boots Alliance group have been in the news recently because of accusations of charging for unnecessary drug reviews for customers by the Boots part.
Who is comparing what to carpet bombing?

My comment is directly referring to the fact that american targets are something that worries the parent, but foreign targets (civilians) seem to not worry him/her that much.

What do carpet bombs have to do with all this?
The very words you quote authorise "incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects" as long as it's not "excessive", and the treating of a "place of worship, a house or other dwelling or school" as a military target as long as you're fairly sure it's being used for military purposes.

Obviously you can argue about what is "excessive" and what is a "case of doubt" but whoever wrote these lines was clearly anticipating blowing churches and civilians up and it being within the rules.

I don't say this to make drone killing seem more humane, but to make war in general seem like the everyday insanity that it is.
My counter argument would be that if objects are implemented at the language level it makes it easier for developers for the following reasons:

- there is exactly one way to do it

- objects can be transported between codebases without wrappers

- beginners know where to look and everybody can understand everybody's codebase

- the compiler can optimise them better

- generally the syntax is nicer, looking at some object implementations in lua I must say that they are hideous, very similar to object implementations in javascript before ES6
Stanford rape treated like drunk driving by court
Tab (YC W15) is hiring a full-stack developer in London
Tab is a young startup that mixes travel & fintech, backed by Y Combinator.

Tab powers bookings and payments for tourist businesses (like hostels, dive schools and surf lodges) in emerging countries. We like doing the hard stuff – that’s why we’re already working with 60+ currencies, across countries like Guatemala, Argentina and Peru. Our goal is to boost local tourism, while helping backpackers and independent travellers make the most of their precious time abroad.

We're looking for a full-stack developer to work across our entire platform, from public-facing web apps, to internal tools, APIs, third-party systems & services, and our mobile apps.

We mostly write Python but also do Java, Swift and JavaScript with React & React Native, on mobile and on the web.

Tab is based in London, and you'll have the opportunity to travel to exciting places to experience the product and meet users.

To read more, visit https://tab.recruitee.com/

(We're also hiring for the Growth Team.)
Although it requires a prior additional authentication step with OAuth 2.0. Cyberduck just added interoperability for in version 5.0.1.
No if that ever happens i would just think karma is a bitch.

I'm not a US citizen and I don't agree with the use of drones if even one civilian get hurt by it. What's the point of precision strikes if you're still get innocent people involved.
I have the same thoughts. Would love to use it for my business, but I just doesn't feel safe using it, when it can close with no notice at all.

It happened to Parse, but thankfully they open sourced most of it do you can use it as a stand-alone.
ZenTasktic: Collaborative Task Management – With a Dash of Zen
Here's a backgammon bot implemented in practise https://github.com/alexhanh/Botting-Library for anybody interested.

It also contains highly optimised Blackjack bot. PartyPoker had a beatable blackjack due to bonus incentives they gave out (they've fixed it since).
Show HN: Get nice, large favicons by API
kill-it-with-fire kind of downvote, not a HN smug just-because-I-can kinda downvote.
Uber and Lyft drivers in Austin sue the companies
In Finnish the origin for "curse word" comes from incantation / casting a spell. At least nowadays the root word means purely a hostile spell, or a hex. I'd say in modern use basically equivalent to "a curse" in English, as the magical aspect isn't really present in the society any more. I can't say if it has originally also included benevolent spells.
Glassdoor reviews are still helpful - you just have to take the averages with a grain of salt, and filter any that seem to have been written by a PR flack.
No it's not. They came up with the interpretation that the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution
allows them to engage into limited armed conflicts without Congress authorization. Which is dearly needed, because that's what they are doing since decades, with the CIA and friends. And several such CIA wars happened even without the President's authorization, but usually the just lie to the president to able to engage in such armed conflicts.

What this War Powers Resolution does not authorize is a formal declaration of war (Clinton did not care) and any engagement voiding the Geneva conventions. All those drone killings are of course war crimes.
This is one of the reasons the US does not recognize international law.
Didn't 17bit run a PD library as well as a disk magazine? Back in the day, if you wanted free software or shareware you ordered it by post from a Public Domain library. They used to advertise in the Amiga magazines.

I was a Blitz Basic programmer myself (still do a bit now and again). The other big Blitz Basic game was Skidmarks, a really cool isometric racing game from Acid Software. I used to carry my Amiga and TV set a few hundred yards to my friends house for multiplayer games over a null modem cable!

I was a huge fan of Alien Breed, Team17's first self-published release. It was a gauntlet style top-down shooter with an "Aliens" theme. Rico Holmes's pixel art was fantastic and it had great sound. I had to buy an extra 512k for my A500 for £25 in order to play it.

I think it was also one of the earliest games to have a pre-rendered animation sequence in the intro. It was made by Tobias Richter, who was well known on the Amiga scene for his 3d renders.
The reason for a bitcount was to check DNA sequences very quickly. Using a loop rather than a single CUP operation slowed it down a fair bit.
just make a heavy enuff drone and stick glass/shrapnel on it with lighter fluid in it. fly it into the person you want dead and ignite.
being near drones freaks me out
I really don't see how this is 'optimising' over stirring up fury. What are your metrics?
Have you noticed any trouble sleeping since the new lights, due to all the extra blue wavelength light?
It's about time. I'd be very surprised if Walgreens doesn't have a legal liability as a result of taking so long to cancel the partnership.
It seems an order of magnitude slower to me:

$ time grep -r some_token .
real	0m0.467s
user	0m0.252s
sys	0m0.215s

$ time ag some_token
real	0m2.948s
user	0m0.112s
sys	0m3.083s

(Both run twice to ensure the disk cache was warm).

Am I doing something wrong?
Google backs the TPP
Here is another example of the exact same: a SoundCloud client written in React+Redux https://github.com/andrewngu/sound-redux http://soundredux.io
https://github.com/lunet-io/markdig in case you were wondering :)

I'm mentioning it because of the plugin architecture it implemented.. Which is usefull :)
Atheism makes no hypothesis, though some atheists go the extra length and begin to mirror theists.
> No if that ever happens i would just think karma is a bitch.

Don't follow you.

> I'm not a US citizen ...

You still seem to be specially worried that drones will target "US persons of interest", which is what my comment was highlighting.

I do not care a little bit more about drones targeting "US persons of interest" than they targeting innocent civilians. Actually, I might care less, since "innocent civilian" by definition is a person with no responsibility whatsoever in a conflict, and that connotation is not lexically present in the phrase "US person of interest".
> The right line of code isn't "return usize::MAX", but "abort()".

No, it's not. Assertions and aborts at the library level make a library completely unusable for embedded systems. The caller checks the result for plausibility and then decides to restart or simply not to perform the guarded action.
I found flights to Munich on flychecker at € 99
Unfortunately, I think that's true; dedicated testers at startups, especially early stage, are quite rare.

Given that, what kind of background do you have? Please reach out to me on Twitter or elsewhere!
Yes, they are. What do you think about trying to change a bit organisation’s culture to make a better workplace? In some cases (but not all!) a game elements can give good results.
If you like this, you might also like http://www.win.tue.nl/mcrl2/release/user_manual/index.html
> * Technically not any, due to Gödel's incompleteness theorem

Sorry, but it's not true, see Gödel's completeness theorem. It basically states that any "true" statement is provable. So you can verify any correct code as correct. There are problems if you try to verify a not correct code as correct though.
Funny you mentioned ARM! I have some inside stories to tell about that!

At the time it happened, many had already looked into the architecture and realized that to them there were no real benefits: 32-bit ARM could already address 1TB of memory, you could get the accelerated crypto instructions with an architecture extension and 64-bit ARM implementations were not very power efficient (a problem just recently solved by the latest A7x devices).

But when Apple switched to 64-bit ARM everyone else just had to follow along. This resulted in weaker Android phones for about a year. The funny thing is, the reason Apple switched so early is because they needed some head start since they use native apps. They didn't really needed the 64-bit ARM at that time yet.
In this case I believe that the contract was very tilted towards Theranos. The execs in charge were forced out previously. [0] I don't know any specifics on indemnification though, but if Theranos goes under, they can't indemnify much.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/business/a-once-avid-ally-...
TRAVEL BLOGGING THROUGH SCENIER
By then we'll have anti-drone drones.
I have always found it immensely irritating that a certain portion of the left of center camp adopted blacks, homosexuals and native americans as being members by default. It is kind of creepy. Imagine if I went about assuming all white people agreed with the ideals of Christianity or private property ownership.
I don't see what degree of difference there is in your first 4 examples: They're all armed people in a situation of war.

Of course the last 3 are murders (although we know that the Allied erased most of German and Japanese cities, including the civilian neighbourhoods, for morale and retaliation) and the 4th before the end (killing military workers) is debatable.

Last point, concerning French nationals who went to Syria twice to train in military camps and came back to lead the terrorist attacks with actual killings: Can we please extend the Geneva convention to consider them ennemy military corps (and thus, prisonners of war)? I have zero tolerance for police investigating innocents or listening to everyone, but once we know what they've done, I wonder why they just face some penal law (a few years in jail, max, like a driver in a car accident).
How bad is rent control when housing supply is artificially restricted by law?
hey! Thanks for pointing this out. As you say, I do normally try to audit my writing for feigned suprise like this!!

I'll fix it when I get home.
They don't need to improvise mortars, ISIS is riding on captured M1A1's and has access to pretty decent soviet and western arms including ATGM's and AA.

Both AQ and ISIS and virtually any other terrorist organization in the world has access to pretty much "state of the art" arms the limit is usually lies in logistical operation not inaccessibility, look at the arm shipments that the Israelis have captures at sea over the years those included radar guided anti-ship missiles, terminally guided rockets, and Strela GTAM's.

Compared to that getting good explosive is easy, you can buy military grade explosive on the civilian market for demolition C4, PETN and RDX are commonly used for suicide vests and IEDs nothing ever stopped anyone from stuffing an RC plane with them and run it into the white house other than intelligence and perimeter security.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
I finished watching "13 Hours" last night, a movie about the Benghazi events. The use of drones to kill indirect threats is ubiquitous and yet when it came to saving Americans citizens, drones suddenly weren't in use? dafuq.
I don't even know what to say, what was the role of the UN in the first place ...
Is Bootstrap dies?
> The shared Last Level Cache (LLC) now enables true cross-core attacks [44, 8, 29] where the attacker and the victim share the CPU, but not necessarily the CPU core. Most recent LLC Prime and Probe attacks no longer rely on de-duplication [14, 25] or core sharing, making them more widely applicable.
Are you looking beyond your company's numbers?
For the improvised mortars, I think it's more of a question of strategic priorities (carpet bombing Belfast was never on the table in a way ditto for Raqqa probably is) than capabilities (although the PIRA and UDF did benefit from having a nearby staging area).

That said, it's not like they're lacking in creativity: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2169909...
It was? I still can't see it...

AFAIR the problem with WriterT was the use of mappend within is always lazy, regardless of the strictness of the w in WriterT w m a.
VLC can stream to ChromeCast
Looks like it was also brutalist in the use of slave laborers...
The first time I encountered a highway that was fully lit (I-287, maybe), I thought it was the weirdest thing. Cars have headlights, right?

For three or four days around the full moon, you can drive at midnight with no lights on - especially in the winter when there's snow to increase the contrast. These are things you do when the nearest entertainment is the WalMart 15 miles away, haha.
A lot of comments with similar sentiments, so I'll reply just to yours, because it's on top.

Basically, you're making my point for me: there's nothing inherently wrong with remote strikes or drones in particular. It's just a tool; and as a tool, it can be used rightly and wrongly. So, the fact that Clinton used that tool doesn't make her bad. But if you would have information about her using that tool to authorize a strike which she would've known would cause significant collateral damage, and which wouldn't save as many innocent lives as it would take — this would. But the article presents no such information, so all emptional reaction you can have to such a headline is not really justified.
Black and white decisions are a luxury that not all people are afforded. Yes it's terrible that innocent lives are lost but it's at least equally terrible, many would argue even more so, that innocent lives of your clan are lost. For many decisions outside the obvious, it is often the case that you're selecting from a pool of bad choices.
Apple was a very successful company selling Macs, with their low market share, I personally feel the same can be said with iOS too. Apple has proven you don't need majority market share to still have a controlling position in the market.
This looks like a preparation for society to dismiss anyone who will be actually targeted as insane. Technique widely used during Soviet regime times. Asylums were for nonconforming opinions. This looks ripe for abuse for just that.
Making sense of the GHC API
Hi all,

First time posting here.
I just wrote a smallish blog post on how to use the GHC API.
It is my first time blogging so any comments/feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
I've coincidentally just ordered an Altera SoCKit to play with this more over the summer. There's a nice tutorial on getting started with HardCaml and the SoCKit at https://ocaml.io/w/HardCaml
Blitz wasn't your grandfather's BASIC, though. Structs and pointers and inline asm, oh my.
I'm sorry — what point, exactly, are you trying to prove right now, and how do you think this point contradicts my original comment?
Droneder! Swipe left and you'll never hear from them again.
The Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning Company of London
The US had some "bad luck" with drone strikes during her tenure. There's been no evidence released to prove it (and it may well not exist), but for people still questioning why this email setup matters: Given that it's abundantly clear any state-sponsored hacker would have no difficulty hacking her server, it isn't exactly a stretch for our enemies to move the targets of drone strikes and put innocent civilians in their place to win the propaganda war. A former State Department aide attached his name to claims that her sloppy comms may have foiled multiple counterterrorism operations. [1]

That said, this isn't "just what it is that the FBI is looking to" as this article says. The FBI director originally said they expected to wrap this up by October 2015. If we were talking about a few emails sent over the holidays, this would've been wrapped up a long time ago. In a separate civil suit, the FBI filed a motion to prevent the release of documents, or even the number of documents, for which a FOIA request had been issued. [2] Even the number of documents would tip their hand? The only explanation that really makes sense there is that they're building a RICO case against the Clinton Foundation - and thus a ton more documents than would otherwise be relevant are in play. The fact that they started investigating VA governor McAuliffe's time at the Clinton Foundation shortly after receiving the backups of Clinton's server from their third-party data backup service makes this kind of obvious. Yes, the backups that Clinton's associates attempted to have destroyed even after the State Department asked them to turn over her emails. [3]

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-email-terrorism-slop...

[2] "disclosure of these records [his immunity agreement] could reasonably be expected to reveal the nature, scope, and focus of the FBI’s activities in the investigation.”
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/new-fbi-filings-reveal-pendi...

[3]Despite Boian’s statement that Platte River set up a 30-day revolving retention policy for Clinton’s emails, Johnson’s letter noted that Platte River employees were directed to reduce the amount of email data being stored with each backup. Late this summer, Johnson wrote, a Platte River employee took note of this change and inquired whether the company could search its archives for an email from Clinton Executive Service Corp. directing such a reduction in October or November 2014 and then again around February, advising Platte River to save only emails sent during the most recent 30 days.

Those reductions would have occurred after the State Department requested that Clinton turn over her emails.

It was here that a Platte River employee voiced suspicions about a cover-up and sought to protect the company. “If we have it in writing that they told us to cut the backups,” the employee wrote, “and that we can go public with our statement saying we have had backups since day one, then we were told to trim to 30 days, it would make us look a WHOLE LOT better,” according to the email cited by Johnson.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/articl...
It just goes to show that cloud prices are somewhat of a ripoff if you have the knowhow to use CDNs and setup a single server in a colocation center. That machine can be built for less than 5k.
First Public Working Drafts Published by the CSS WG and TAG
tdy721 has been downvoted, but as far as I'm aware he's got the right idea. Viruses don't die. When outside a host, they basically just crystallize. If a plant can be viable after 30k years, a virus can definitely also be viable after the same 30k years.