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ActFramework: Java MVC Framework Inspired by Play1
Do not think so. 20 hours after the SEC decision and BTC continues to climb... $1200 now.
This is only tangentially related, but VizWiz[1] is an app developed by researchers to help blind people "see" objects around them.

The user takes a picture of the object with their phone and asks a query, and it is uploaded to a crowdsourcing platform (Mechanical Turk, I think) where workers answer the query, e.g. "What are the ingredients in this can of food?"

[1] http://www.vizwiz.org/
Smith is a great expositor. I had the joy of participating in a category theory reading group with him; he really knows his stuff. It's refreshing to be taught by a mathematician/philosopher rather than simply a mathematician.
A common theme I'm noticing in these comments is that the MAS provides value by 1.) allowing easy reinstallation of all apps on a fresh system, and 2.) mitigating malware risk. I'm very surprised by these opinions, to be honest. Reinstallation of applications on a fresh OS is such an infrequent event that it makes no sense to optimize for it. And malware? Really? Was it such a problem before the MAS? I agree these things have value, but not enough to give away so much power to Apple.
Hi. I sleep 8.5h a night and I need coffee. Nice to meet you.
Are the "analog" clocks actually analog? Seems like they just transition between discrete states based on the current (digital) time.

Still, mesmerizing visualization.
I think that was in reference to public key cryptography, not in reference to hashing, but I'll leave it to the OP to clarify, that's at least how I interpreted it.
>And in France it's not like in US where the first thing they ask you is the name of your insurance company, even if you're bleeding to death.

I was talking about a scenario where a tourist to the US goes to a US hospital and racks up a lot of medical bills.
Has happened in USA too in at least one civil case, with a contract denominated in Bitcoin
Nice trick, you're only using six hours to show the time: four corners, horizontal and vertical. The rest is just random movement to make it look like a complex machine.

Kudos.
Though note that HoTT is not the only approach to type theory; there are many others.
I'd love to see a version of this that didn't go through a "random" phase every few seconds. I'd love to see the actual transitions between the times. I think it would be more subtle, but more elegant. (You might be able to add seconds display to the clock if you wanted it to be more active.)
To be honest I have no experience in pricing anything but myself (as an employee) but I would recommend to not put too much effort into it. Thinking about pricing often amounts to zero-sum thinking which drives you to fight about the breadcrumbs instead of focusing on the creation of value (for everyone). I mean I get that pricing is a necessary means of coordination but please don't succumb to the fallacy that it is a game that needs to be won AGAINST someone. If you create value, simply have an open discourse with your customers and you will find a viable strategy.
>> perpetually listed as 50% off of $8

>Isn't that quite dishonest? I'm fairly sure this is illegal in at least the UK, so I'd assume in plenty other EU countries too. Are you in the US? Is this practice legal there?

That's weird, are people in the UK not able to see through marketing gimmicks?
Hey, Apple did it. And they didn't start with "infinite time and money." They started in a garage.

Or you can sit in the dark like RMS.
You are a programmer.
Amusingly, the forensic accounting consultancy and the content marketing are just elements of another, longer con.

https://www.deepcapture.com/tag/sam-antar/

https://www.deepcapture.com/2011/03/judge-gill-freeman-throw...
No assumption is needed, just look at the record. Apple has been putting accessibility technology into its phones and desktop machines for over 20 years, long before it was ever mandated.

Apple has guided developers into using this technology in apps they write. As an example, Apple's VoiceOver screen reader technology uses widgets that are tagged with information about what kind of control they are. Developers can use this same tagging information when writing automated tests for their apps, which is a great way to enable developers to add assistive technology to their apps without making it difficult.
4 years of consulting experience here with a similar situation to yours.

Step 5 is elusive and almost impossible. Lost 2 products to the services mindset with further strain by partners to bring in capital by doing services. The chicken-egg issue becomes much harder when you are working hand to mouth.

The problem roots from 2 main things, services/consultation mindset and in-consistent projects.

The people who outsource or consult other teams to build their solutions start with a bidding process which inherently means that the cheaper and faster the better. This sole focus on cheap/fast is fun at the start as you become creative to work with tight deadlines and I atleast started doing more automation than ever before but can be useless considering how varying the projects are in nature and how the clients sole motivation is to be cheap & fast. This results in repetitive unchallenging work which is highly demotivating.

Inconsistent Projects. Our first year we landed a huge chain of projects from a massive global brand giving us enough capital to last a couple of years. But with clients there is no guarantee, we couldn't display most projects we did in the first 2 years cause their launches were delayed and NDAs were signed which means nothing to show as portfolio of big names. Finally when we could, most of our project contacts were going dry meaning more inconsistency.

For your question of sales, we had business developers who would get commission for each project who would spam companies to get us in the door. Mainly marketing agencies or contractors who would sub-contract us projects. The only reason we could get a lot of projects was because one of our business dev was an industry veteran wanting to do exactly what we were doing and we worked together though giving up high margins.

If your end goal is to build products, i would recommend go straight with a product. Find something you love to build, take out weekends for it with your team and try to get it into an accelerator for more advice/exposure.
The thing you're missing is project and product management and sales. Those parts can be really hard. You're coding skills are worthless if you can't deliver the right thing on budget.
I'm doing this right now in the Bay Area. Most of my early clients came through me reaching out to a lot of people in my network.

I also had a lot of luck on angellist. My strategy there was to apply to jobs and then ask to meet the head of engineering for coffee. I got one of my best customers through that method.

If you don't have a strong network you need to be going to a lot of meetups or other events where hiring managers are present.
You are correct, from the start page of https://whitecollarfraud.com/ :

Sam Antar is a convicted felon and a former CPA. As the CFO of Crazy Eddie, Mr. Antar helped mastermind one of the largest securities frauds uncovered during the 1980s.

Today, Sam Antar is a forensic accountant. His primary work focuses on identifying and investigating public companies engaged in securities fraud by performing an in-depth (deep-dive) forensic analysis. (...)
My father, brother and I all only need about 5 or 6 hours of sleep. We all just wake up, no matter when we go to bed or how light or dark the room is at night or in the morning. I strongly suspect we have that gene that lets you sleep less, but NYT is indicating that they think I'm depressed based on the embedded interactive.

I don't feel depressed.

Short of a genomic test, how can one differentiate?
Encryption in transit defeats dragnet surveillance. Forcing the NSA et al to actually break into the phones they're interested in substantially reduces the amount of information they can actually collect. They can't just tap internet backbones and read everything, like they do with plaintext communication.
Classic bot-programming game Robo Rally has not aged well
Do you have experience with NPM and Yarn (javascript/node) and if so, how do the package managers and ecosystem compare?

I'm asking because I'm primarily a js dev with a bit of Ruby and Ruby on Rails experience, and I'm wondering if Python/Ruby are worth investing in at this point and if perhaps instead it makes more sense to stick with js (Yarn in particular for package management) and explore more fundamental (C/C#/C++/Swift/Objective-C) or exotic (Haskell, Clojure) communities/languages/environments at this point.
Damn! I've just bought it a few months ago at a flea market and haven't got around to actually playing it.

I still hope the reviewer is wrong.
Agree. I was initially expecting the "analog" clocks to show the time and he arranged in a way that they formed the digital time. I do think it's cool to look at though
Received this mail in the morning by known and respected PlayFramework 1 contributor Gelin Luo:

It's been 5 years since the community break with the appearance of Play2. I am unfortunately on the side against Play2 and never come back to PlayFramework since 2013. Though I've contributed a set of modules/plugins including play-morphia, play-excel, play-rythm etc.

However I still keep my vision on Play 1 and that inspired me to start my own project (http://actframework.org) at the end of 2015. Now I've get the first release published to Maven central repository. Feel like it is the time to tell other people who share the common feeling with me on Play1. I guess you might want to take a look:

* Official website: http://actframework.org
* Github repo: https://github.com/actframework/actframework
* TodoBackend Impl: https://github.com/greenlaw110/todomvc-act
* Play's zencontact sample port to act: https://github.com/greenlaw110/act-zencontact
* Video collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Nmeir_4QLJGinjAh8Hj...

Looking forward to seeing your response.

Cheers,
Green
Your post is a joke. Let me clarify, the phones were not directly from the OEM. And if you look at the list a lot of them aren't even manufactured anymore. So what happened? These phones were acquired by some third party, modified and then resold to these 2 companies.

If I were to acquire 38 iPhones that were not upgraded to the latest version of the OS and then proceeded to jailbreak them and install malware would you suddenly be saying iOS security is a joke?
I saw that strongSwan had already supported two post-quantum key exchange algorithms (NTRU and NewHope) for IPSec IKEv2. Good.

https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/IKEv2Ci...
Show HN: Object Store Manipulator – curl for cloud storage
Isometrics: How to Build Strength Without Even Moving
Stream Processing in pysparkling
I work for a reasonably high end software consulting firm. We find most of the work through word of mouth or in-bound responses due to projects we've put on the web.

Two suggestions:

1. Patrick McKenzie (http://www.kalzumeus.com/; patio11 on HN) has a lot of brilliant work up talking about his consulting work, consulting work in general. Give him a read.

2. Focus on solving business problems, not technical problems, and start approaching people that you think would make a lot of money if you solved one of their problems. Customers rarely push back if you make them more money than you cost them (to an absurd degree- it's shocking how much you can charge for a recent grad's time).

Regarding your plan:

- I don't know if you need to prepare a portfolio site. If you have a strong portfolio & can offer references/testimonials, that's probably sufficient.

- I don't even know if you need to make the workflow stable as long as it's profitable. If you have the product people working as contractors, then you can get by with instability. Also, charging large amounts helps substantially as you can spread out the cash over time rather than having to constantly search for work.

Regarding your questions:

- As mentioned above, you want to find people who have business problems that you can solve. The best way to do that is to meet lots of people and ask them about their business problems. Lecture 19 of "How to Start a Startup" has a good discussion of this [1, 2]. I would start looking at large organizations in your area who aren't tech companies. Governments will often have public bid processes that you can start applying for.

I would not prioritize online sales channels over local ones. I think consulting really only works when it's enterprise focused, as that's when you can charge the large rates to justify your time & overhead. That's going to necessarily be in person due to the way that enterprise sales works (unfortunately). However, internet marketing can work well. We've had a lot of success attracting in-bound interest from viral posts on social media (visualizations, projects, etc.).

- I wouldn't partner up with firms like yours. I would partner up with firms that lack the expertise. e.g. large management consultancies like Deloitte (easier said than done).

I'm happy to provide more specific advice over email. My email's in my profile.

[1]: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/
[2]: Transcript: https://genius.com/Tyler-bosmeny-lecture-19-sales-and-market...
>The later search of Rettenmaier's home turned up child pornography on 5 separate device. Those facts lead me to stand where I do on this issue.

As abhorrent as CP is, the more important question here is whether the FBI's investigative tactics comply with our civil rights. It sounds exactly like the FBI set the Geek Squad on a fishing expedition. None of the stuff you added refutes that. Just because they found child pornography evidence independent of that discovered by the Geek Squad does not mean that we should be satisfied with their investigative tactics. You need to weigh this against the possibility that the FBI's "lists of targeted citizens" is obviously problematic. There are almost certainly people on that list who are in fact innocent of a crime. What if this list had been made public by a Best Buy employee? Simply having one's name on the list with [person recently prosecuted] for [abhorrent crime] could ruin a person's reputation.
Why high-flying Singapore wants more than grades
It's a shame opening an issue can so easily be used as a frustration outlet, yet there's no equivalent feature to show that you love a project without burdening a maintainer with an issue.

I personally enjoy being on both the sending and receiving end of message of thanks.

Projects like this recognize this and can perhaps help break that silence of the majority https://github.com/kennethreitz/saythanks.io
> The App store took the classic package management idea from the Linux/OSS world and butchered it.

The UNIX world already had package management before them.
Incumbents tend to spend the rest of their lives raising prices.
Again, you're missing the root cause. If the problem is not enough doctors to meet patients' needs then why don't MDs and NPs work a little more so the burden doesn't fall entirely on med students? Or conversely, extend med school another year so that everyone gets the same number of hours but it's spread out over more time. Worst case, I would still prefer to be seen by a resident working 6x16 hour shifts rather than 4x24 hour shifts.

Basically what you're saying is that the system is so broken that the best care relies on young adults fresh out of college working in a condition that has been shown to be just as bad as being legally drunk. I'm saying that, if that is the case today, we need to fix the system.
Just to expand on the point: there's two models of currency: fiat and commodity. Commodity money is obviously linked to an existing commodity, and suffers from massive swings since there's no way to insulate it from "news". BitCoin, of course, isn't backed by a commodity, so the natural thing is to assume it's a commodity in an of itself. The "mining" terminology supports this view, obviously. As a commodity, it most closely resembles Gold, in that its value doesn't seem closely correlated to the value one can extract from it through industrial use.

Fiat money has its plusses, though. Directly related to the fact that governments _can_ manipulate them is the possibility of reputational currencies. Here, a state has managed its fluctuations and taken actions when prompted for sufficiently often that "news" affects them much less than commodities, since the markets assume the state will act well before it becomes an issue (this also damps good news, since to a certain effect the good news was "expected").

A good study in this phenomenon, and how to break it, is what's happened to Britain since the referendum. It has lost a lot of value, obviously, but also its volatility has gone sky-high.

Going back to OP's point, a well-managed fiat currency can be a better store of value than any commodity. Entertainingly, Sterling has lost a similar amount of value to BitCoin, but it took much longer and is regarded as a disaster. Although, like BitCoin, you'll be able to find fans swearing the exact opposite.
Humanitarian OSM Team: Open Source and Open Data for Humanitarian
http://www.averageweather.io - get average weather data, fast. Great for planning vacations, weddings, which marathon to pick etc.

I shared on r/weddingplanning and it shot to the top which was exciting. Made $20 in Adsense and had 2k visits in one day.

I've also had some tweets from people with 100k+ following, so for around a week now I am averaging like 300 uniques a day.

So, now I ask, how can I make some real side cash? All ears.

https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingplanning/comments/5y8dwp/web...
> Python has all sorts of sharp corners

Could you elaborate on that? I've used more Ruby than Python, and I'm aware of the fact that it's often more 'pleasant', but I'm very curious what you can tell me about Python's sharp corners, because even without using it I've been very attracted to the 'explicit over implicit' mantra after being bitten quite a few times by Ruby's ease (quote unquote, perhaps?).

(As in, so far Ruby feels like a good choice in general, but especially to someone new to programming, but I've grown to love explicit over implicit, not to mention functional over non-functional, and so but even without using Python I'm positive I might prefer it. I'd really love to hear what the gotcha's are in that particular ecosystem)
It depends on how much more than 8 hours we're talking about. Consistently oversleeping, especially 10+ hours a night, can be indicative of some potentially serious problems that either already exist or may in the future. Rather than making someone feel well-rested, it often has the opposite effect: confusion, lack of energy, sluggishness, etc. due to a poorer quality of sleep in general.

I'd imagine that self-medicating with lots of caffeine is a pretty natural response for most people in that situation even though it doesn't actually solve the problem.
If you look at the list of phones you'll quickly notice that 1/2 of the phones aren't even manufactured anymore. There is even a Nexus 5 in that list. What does this tell us? These 2 companies purchased these phones from a re-seller that clearly modified the phones by installing malware on them.
Developer.
Don't work for cheap unless you have to. Word of mouth matters and cheaper customers are in a totally different market segment.

It is very tempting, and easy to do as a one man shop, but it dramatically undervalues what you produce and you can end up trapped in that lower tier of work and pricing model and have a hard time escaping. (opportunity cost, etc)

patio11 has written openly about his efforts here and I think it is well worth it to review as well.

Experience: partner at a small, but growing infosec consulting shop.
I believe Medium is the next Wordpress because not only allows you to publish but also to consume in an elegant and productive way. The recommendation engine is quite good and the daily newsletter sent by email is good enough to make me want to check the stories right away. They make an extensive use of images that really adds to the user experience.

I used to be a Wordpress fan but now Medium has caught my attention.

So in essence it is not about the technical platform, it is about effective production and consumption, and Medium hits the nail on both.
You mean to tell me that I can go buy a brand-new shrink-wrapped name-brand (Samsung) Android phone and it has malware pre-installed? How? Who puts it there?
There are a lot of American citizens in Guantanamo? Yes

Really? You can bet on it. Around 33 soldiers or civilians for each captive human toy.

Since when?

Since bush created this shame and you are naively paying huge amounts of public money for it. After Miamigerald, only in 2015, the White House burned $445 million of the american citizens in this hole. Big sweet bussiness.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/...

Ironically Guantanamo is helping a lot of people to be much more successful as terrorists than when they were free. Each one of the prisoners is creating damages to USA economy for $7.29 million/year. Since 2011 and without throwing a single bomb.
Death of truth: when propaganda and 'alternative facts' first gripped the world
Without any strong feelings for or against a particular language, I suspect Ruby is hurt more by this than Python, at least in the future, on account of being more web-focused. Can people in both communities confirm or deny this (and as I said I'll happily use Ruby in many of my use cases)?

As for JS; what with TypeScript and ES6 (despite the worry of clutter) I can't help but wonder if it's the best non-choice we could have hoped for.
I think the author assumes that all wordpress sites are simple blogs. Woocommerce alone powers 30% of e-commerce sites.
Fossil SCM 2.1 released with SHA3-256 support and graceful upgrading
No they weren't. Do you really think a Nexus 5 or Nexus 5X would contain those malware apps? The Nexus 5 isn't even being manufactured anymore. In fact, half of those phones aren't even made anymore.
Honestly a floppy drive that you only connect to the raspi to transfer stuff is the only secure-ish way I can think of transferring data to your non-networked computer. Floppies are nice and dumb.

If you want a persistent, networked connection then just use a serial cable, but then... you're not airgapped anymore.
> Tübingen who was hospitalized for depression and claimed that she normally kept her symptoms in check by taking all-night bike rides. He subsequently demonstrated in a group of depressed patients that a night of complete sleep deprivation produced an immediate, significant improvement in mood in about 60 percent of the group.

I thought this bit was neat. I'd heard that sleep deprivation can bring on a feeling of euphoria, and anecdotally, it has worked for me
I think that's part of a near-universal fallacy that conflates good health with strength of character. In the situation you described, having the ability to shrug off lack of sleep is a source of pride, as if it was entirely about willpower; in fact it is more likely related to health.
WHen I started grad school in Biophysics (1995), a microscope professor mentioned adaptive optics and asked the incoming students if they thought similar processes could be done in microscopy. If you said yes, he let you join his lab (they were already working on this).
The career crisis that sparked a 'LinkedIn for women'
I wish we would all go on DST and be done with it forever. The extra hour of usable daylight after work is a net win for societies mental health. We have farming machines that do the heavy lifting and are mostly automated now anyway. Unlike when it was enacted, there simply are much fewer farmers.
Can't link resources. Can't spider it. It's going to look like native app silos. Truly, Flash 2.0. As long as wasm has no GC, and JS requires GC, I'm not sure how well this will work though.