skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only effective "anti-jamming" technology is a radar/EM homing missile or some sort of artillery fired smart-shell acting on the same principle. There are technologies which work around specific functions of electronic warfare equipment but they are only effective in specific scenarios. There is no way to defeat a nearby spark gap generator without disabling the source itself.
> It seems to me like reviews and word-of-mouth can and already do a good job of all this.

They do now, as part of a society that includes advertising. That word of mouth comes as a result of people being aware of things. Reviewers focus on reviewing things people are interested in reading about. All of these benefit from advertising.

> Talk shows, trailers (which you let people organically share, rather than paying to put it in front of people), movie/book reviewers.

We're going to get in pretty deep if people appearing on talk shows to promote something doesn't count as an advertisement.

Even trailers have to be promoted somehow. They run the trailers in ads because they're effective! They're effective because a significant chunk of people wouldn't have seen the movie, who otherwise would have if they had known about it. They would have known about it if the general word of mouth and close friends on social networks were enough. But it isn't. Clearly reviews and word of mouth are not sufficient.

> I feel like you're countering your own point here. Buying a new razor when you're already happy with the one you're using is exactly the kind of consumerism that advertising encourages.

Me continuing to drive to a Target to pay $7 for a four-blade razor with special proprietary blade cartridges because I assume better options don't exist due to not spending time researching the purchase is not reduced materialism or consumerism. It's just protecting the status quo.

> I disagree. Imagine if advertising didn't exist, and the only way to get the word out about new movies was through movie reviews, and so studios were actually encouraged to make good movies. I think we would have a lot less riding on established IP.

Putting aside that movie reviews are not as inherently separate from advertising as you're suggesting, I totally disagree. Only a small subset of moviegoers actually read reviews ahead of time and use that to influence a decision. We'd only see more people showing up to see brands they already know well (e.g. Star Wars, Transformers) and less likely to attend movies they've heard / seen nothing about. The people who don't value reviews won't suddenly start valuing them, and the gap between "things movie critics like" and "thing general moviegoers like" won't close.

Same with buying a soda from a company other than Coke/Pepsi. Same with buying an unknown shampoo brand, or an unknown car brand, etc. Except it's really even worse in other industries because people aren't looking for or expecting a new shampoo. And so we just stick to whatever we've been buying, even if it's some huge megacorp milking their brand because competitors have no platform to make the case that they're better.
> I ski and snowboard and I'm not planning on stopping, I think the benefits outweigh the risks. I'd say that about most sports but I'm not about to let either of my kids play football or box.

That's interesting because the accidental insurance (that I took out during the football years) had separate premiums for skiers and snowboarders. The most serious concussion that I ever got was from snowboarding.

> There's a difference between "you might die right in the middle of this very fun activity" and "you might die slowly and horribly years from now when you're retired and in the midst of raising a family."

It's kinda arbitrary to draw these lines of "my dangerous sport is superior to your dangerous sport." It's all risks and benefits. Skiing/snowboarding is pretty dangerous for catastrophic accidents AND it still has a high concussion rate.

0.37 = American football concussion rate per 1,000 athletic exposures

0.2 = Skiing/snowboarding closed head injury rate per 1,000 mountain visits

You're not incredibly far behind football in terms of risk, my friend.
1 and 3 can also be the same depending on what time actually turns out to be. It's not like there was someone who did the predetermination after all.
> All these regulations do is drive up the cost of directly accessing public capital markets (at last count, $6 million to do an IPO), and contribute to growing income disparity

There's a fair argument in weighing the upsides and the downsides of registration requirements. But saying the downsides are "all these regulations do" is intellectually dishonest. Lots of scams get stopped, or at least quarantined, by these regulations. The speed with which the ICO market went from zero to bullshit only seems to re-inforce the prudence of these rules.

> $6 million to do an IPO

Having watched private companies spend much more than that to raise private capital, I think it's safe to say filing fees aren't the primary problem the public markets have.
The flash crash on GDAX? That was the non-decentralized code of a single exchange executing.
The battery argument was not weak. It was actually one of the strongest arguments. Flash was a battery hog. Disabling flash on a laptop could double your battery life.
It's funny I got down voted for that comment. I'm not sure why they'd take offense with my opinions above. I didn't say they were wrong, I just whined and complained about why I didn't use it.

And whining and complaining can have merit. For example, you can whine and complain to your landlord about your A/C not working and they may not want to hear it, or pay to fix it, but it won't get fixed until you do.

If you ask me, I'll tell you this has been fixed.
I'm not sure what a "non-securities investments" in the US securities scheme would look like. An "investment contract" is sort of the catch all category for everything that tries not to look like a security, but actually is one. If something is an investment, I can't imagine that it's not a security.
So...

1. Be an absolute beginner ("noob gains")

2. Make sure you're diet is spot on

I don't understand the purpose of this article.
I find that when my social media usage is under control, the short down times which aren't long enough to engage in something are spent just being me, in my own head. It's rarely a transcendental experience, but I usually feel more relaxed afterwards, and occasionally I have insights on what's going on in my internal life or observations of my surroundings. Each of these moments is inconsequential, but the cumulative effect of all these moments over weeks is huge. I notice the rich life full of people and experiences that I have. I am more focused and creative. I notice problems sooner and address them. I'm more attuned with my own goals and less swayed by manufactured desires or social pressures.

My control over my social media engagement ebbs and flows. I haven't achieved nirvana. But I've at least disengaged long enough and enough times that I can see the value in the time you are talking about.
We used a shop exactly like you described: http://www.e3embedded.com/

We used them to design and build a custom board for our Sumo robots that had our V1 built from an Arduino board and a custom board that plugged into the Arduino. We couldn't really afford to pay them a big chunk up front, but we negotiated a pretty pleasant royalty deal that comes out to a few dollars per board (which we get manufactured for less than $10/board).

They did excellent work and I highly recommend them for that type of "prototype -> production" path.
Cross-platform done right is a unicorn that doesn't exist.
Let me just plug this into my defibrolyzer
Beautiful job.

There might be some people posting "why didn't you just..." but I used this to show my kids their family tree and they really liked it.

Freeloaded though, so you need a way to compell people to pay (say extra large posters of the tree).
I've had a look, it's pretty great stuff. The gamification is a nice plus (the quizz at least, i'm not sure about the "coins" thing ^^). I guess generating content is for this is quite time consuming, but it's a nice goal. I'm not sure if there's a lot of similar websites on the internet, do you have some serious concurrence ? You could post it on the photography stackexchange site (probably in the meta) to ask for some help. I once made a small answer on the role of a beauty dish (https://is.gd/VHkS7t) and could help you on the lighting topic.

I'd suggest avoiding the "before / after" js thingy for the zoom pictures. Everybody knows what zoom does, and the sliding system only makes sense to me when showing variations of the same image.

Make sure to make it ready for internationalization also :)
You're already making a ton of assumptions about the entire possible solution space (specifically that it requires an active effort to unlock the gun that necessitates "fumbling").

How is that rational?
https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58465.pdf
The only people touting "smart guns" as a solution are people who seem to think that firearms are the actual problem.
Let that sink in for a moment.
It does use Stellar directly. The real question is why use Stripe at all, and the reason being because for now Stellar doesn't have enough connected Federation servers that can translate coins directly to native fiat currencies. Or in other words I can't get the Stellar currencies out of Stellar and into your bank accounts without Stripe. This is hopefully only temporary though. Once more banks become federation endpoints and are issuing native fiat currencies on the platform the need for Stripe will go away.
For me ambitious side project require lot more money, time and focus which I could never afford while working at some company. That's was my primary motivation behind starting my own company. Don't shy away from business opportunities.
It's not intellectually dishonest, because I'm commenting on the net effect. If people are getting scammed just as much, but from other sources, then "all they do" is the net effect on the negative side.

But fair enough: if you constrain this new internet sector, then you could conceivably reduce scams, just by virtue of forcing people into higher-friction areas of the economy, where less can practically be transacted. I'm sure Cuba has pretty low scam volumes by the same virtue.

>Having watched private companies spend much more than that to raise private capital, I think it's safe to say filing fees aren't the primary problem the public markets have.

Many private companies spend FAR less than that to raise private capital. To claim that a $6 million fee for entry is not going to disenfranchise a huge subset of the population is intellectually dishonest.
I wasn't trying to suggest breaking out the sputtering chamber, but anyone with a decent background in physics and basic algebra could learn and build something similar.

My only argument for doing so is that everything is now extendable, whereas a "thingsquare' locks you into some particular engineer's design decisions that made sense then, but won't make sense for every use case now. Arduino sits right in the sweet spot of "easy to get off the ground" and extendable enough to use for all kinds of things", and that's largely why it is successful as a platform. This product sits so far off into "easy to get off the ground" territory that it misses too many use cases.

A board like this could be spun up for $25, shipping, parts, software, all in. I would be amazed (and very interested) if you could get an aluminum smelter up and running for $20.
Interesting insights from 13,000 Ionic developers
Alternative software that does the same: https://fbb-git.github.io/gpg-remailer/
The internet used to be less "flat". Every website was interactive, animated, had sound, had dimensions to it.

You have just described what I profoundly loathed about practically every restaurant website in the early 2000s.
I just want to take a second and complain about the twitchy monstrosity that is the floating nav bar. I scroll up to read text above and it covers up the text I'm currently reading so I have to scroll up twice and then down once to get rid of it. It's obnoxious and ugly and I wish it wasn't so popular. /rant
The same argument could be made for child safety caps on bottles of Tylenol or bleach.

That's not a rational argument. It's an appeal to emotion, and a bit of a dog whistle.
On that note I wish tslint would stop trying to do code formatting rules. prettier nowadays does code formatting far better than tslint ever did.
The business case may have been questionable, but the DAO was not prima facie a scam. It lost value and mission due to poor technical implementation.
AKA spark gap generators. Take $50 worth of parts, connect it to a lightweight motorcycle battery, throw it in a backpack, and you've jammed all useful frequencies within several hundred yards of your transmitter. You can even jam military satellite communications with a surprisingly reasonable budget (sub-$10,000). The only defense is the fact that the signal source's location is incredibly conspicuous, thus easy for the military to blow up but civilians can't exactly rely on EM-homing missiles to keep their lines of communication open.
https://auptix.com has a platform that optimizes LTL. They've been up and running for a while and have good volume.
Just checked both apps in the iOS store and Android Store.

On the iOS Store, 4 stars out of 5 based on 31 reviews for all versions. Not enough reviews for current version. Only 4 are 1-star reviews. That's 12.9%, not 33%.

On the Android Store, 3.4 stars out of 5 based on 139 reviews. 53 are 1-star reviews, so 38%. Many of the 1-star reviews were Uber haters and people complaining about low rates. The latter I expect to become the norm once technology streamlines the industry, whether its Uber, Convoy or some other company that does it. Only a few 1-star reviews actually report a bad experience with the app that isn't related to rates.

Based on both stores, 30% are 1-star ratings, so it's about 1/3 1-star reviews across both stores. I really wish the app stores made an effort to cull obvious haters and fanboys so that only legitimate reviews were left. People gaming app store reviews are just hurting the people who would derive the most utility from choosing the best application for them.

For comparison, Convoy Driver in the Android store has 4.1 stars based on 51 reviews. In the iOS store it has 4.5 stars based on 12 ratings. Several of its 1-star reviews make the same complaint about the same low rates.

Both Uber Freight and Cargo Driver each have 10,000-50,000 installs in the Android Store, and the fact that Uber Freight has 2.6x the number of Android and iOS reviews based on only 1-month of operations versus almost 2 years seems very solid to me. Convoy's first review in the Android store is from all the way back in October 2015.
If this is a common problem, why isn't there an industry of consulting firms helping startups with that transition?
PS3 Emulator RPCS3 Binaries Now Available for Linux
We came here to bury Flash, not to praise it.
Our OpenTRV hardware (AVR ATMega328p) can easily do a year on a pair of AAs, sending one secure stats frame every 4 minutes, eg our REV2 design:

https://github.com/opentrv/OpenTRV-Arduino-V0p2/tree/master/...

The processor is down to typically a couple of uA waking every couple of seconds to see what needs doing.

See the log at the end of this as I was originally driving the power down:

https://github.com/opentrv/OTRadioLink/blob/master/content/O...

Our target is in fact 2 years life, including driving the valve, off a pair of AA NiMH hybrids.

Slightly longer term our aim is to get off batteries entirely:

https://github.com/opentrv/OTWiki/wiki/Energy-Harvesting-Fea...

which is why I spent Tuesday at this meeting:

http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Energy-Harvesting-Disseminat...
I've seen companies still distributing software updates on floppies, for that $25k spin-a-ma-thingy in the corner with the proprietary interface to the Win98 PC, that keeps on working and delivering useful results.

A famous example from the car industry is McLaren having a stack of 25-year-old Compaq LTE 5280 laptops, running DOS, because that's the only machine that will run the proprietary CA card module for the diagnostic software for the McLaren F1 (106 cars produced '92-'98, 100 left today, each valued north of $10 million).
I am not an expert in some of these, but I CAN tell you that both GBA and DS can do much better than the author has done here.
You realize that's not in the slightest bit true, don't you?

For example: Under contract law, there are certain rights that _you are legally not permitted to give away_. You can't actually sell yourself into slavery. You can't contractually disclaim gross negligence on your part. You can't have a contract that unilaterally benefits one party without consideration provided for the other. You can't accept a contract while intoxicated. You can't contractually agree to something that is a crime. ... the list goes on.
Maybe if they had a few of those 55year olds with kids who know how to write a goddamn language interpreter without it being a train wreck, the DAO wouldn't have been the crisis that it became.

This veneration of the church of conspicuous effort is not a new idea. It's lead many people astray. Be careful.
I don't see this taking off for companies whose bottom line is directly tied into advertising (Facebook, Google etc).

Apple could lead here and build some tools directly into the OS that let people easily set some custom boundaries around addictive use.
OpenGL has a ton of implicit state. This makes the code look simple, but it's actually very hard to work with, as you always have to be aware of what the current state is. Other APIs are require explicit handling of state (Vulkan takes this to an extreme) which is more verbose, but actually easier to work with.
>"After watching a man almost wander into the street while browsing his phone, my wandered a bit; will social media become the new smoking?"

The opening sentence is about not paying attention and yet it contains two glaring errors, spelling and grammatical.

Did this individual really not even bother to proof read their opening sentence? Maybe the author might be better asking "is blogging the new fast food?"
There is also the symmetrical problem of not reacting strongly to a story that deserves it. Plenty of people, it seemed, were quite non-reactive about the Snowden disclosures. It just wasn't an exciting news story, whether you were for or against him.

(This, I think, is the real lesson of computing in the modern era, that subjects will not object to being surveilled if they don't notice it. The abstract argument against it is predicated on possible future action, and the inability to stop it.)
The Howey Test defines an investment contract more narrowly than you imply. People lose absolutely staggering amounts of money each year on bad investments. Money is like water. It flows around these regulations. The detours just add friction that slows innovation, and diverts capital to fees for legal/accounting professionals.
Vacation home pricing engine Beyond Pricing picks up a startup for nearby comps
For one-off boards bigger than a few square inches I like 4PCB.com. $33+shipping for a 2-layer board, 5 day turnaround, up to 60 square inches for the fixed price. Minimum quantity 1. For contrast Seeed charges $4.90/sq inch for 2-layer and 5-day turn, minimum quantity 5. $66 for their 4-layer boards, though "only" 30 square inches. And they have a 1-day turnaround bare-bones prototyping service: those boards have no solder mask, but they credit the price of the bare-bones boards to your production order, so it ends up being a fast PCB prototyping service that only costs shipping). They're in the US too, so shipping is faster than the Chinese companies.
I'll grant you BTLE and/or something more open ascending over Z-Wave or Zigbee, but I've got to imagine that's years out. If I was picking something for the next 5 years I'd still pick Z-Wave over the WiFi IoT horror show.
He puts out some interesting ideas, but he forgot that genome sequencing requires some occasionally toxic regeants that are incompatible with bolting DNA sensors all across town.

He's spot on about the data firehose problem, though. IoT data usage patterns break all kinds of assumptions that network and storage engineers have about how computers do stuff. The packet sizes are really small, so routers have to work way harder, and all those tiny I/Os blow through IOPS way more than a typical web app does.

And then there's the data formatting issues, like how searching this pile of stuff makes you want to put it in columnar formats but time-series type displays want row oriented formats. Oh, and the indexers. Ugh. A lot of good indexing code has trouble keeping their internal trees balanced with all the I/O going on at the same time the big data reporting stuff is going on a spelunking expedition through your storage. There's probably some group at Amazon going insane trying to come up with solutions to keep up with even the limited IoT deployments out there already. I wouldn't be surprised if their storage solutions are operating in a constant state of imminent capacity breakdown of some kind.
Most comments already get to the point. You can not hire a junior with senior or intermediate level skills.

It seems like you are in the same shoes as me at the moment. What I suggest you to do is to prepare a small test tasks they can do at home. This saves up time for you going through unnecessary extra interview processes and also shows some of their dedication and skills. I am not saying you should not have interviews, but it is hard to filter candidates just by resumes (and you can not have 400+ interviews).

Answering your question, I usually look out for the following:

1. After I sent the candidates the test task, but before they finish it (NOTE: I don't know they progress on it):

- Do they let me know when they have time to do the task (in case they are not able to it immediately) or do they just let time pass by.

- Do they come back with questions if they hit a wall somewhere.

- Do they let me know if they are not able to do the task (for whatever reason). At this point they are obviously out of the process, but they might re-apply at a later time.

- Communication is key at this level of the application process.

2. After I received the results of the test task

- Obviously did they finish the task in a reasonable quality. There are most likely mistakes in it, but this is irrelevant in case the general quality of the result is ok and the solution works as expected.

- The quality also reflects on how much time they spent testing their own solution.

- Did they finish all the sub-tasks (usually I also ask for documentation and tests) or did they just skip those.

- Did they try to find quick and dirty solutions or did they try to implement things properly (and most likely spent more time on it).

The best developer you can hire is somebody who does communicate pro-actively, is dedicated and develops maintainable solutions over "easy" ones. How much time they spent on the task and how proficient they were with the tools at hand (programming languages/frameworks) is not relevant in my opinion. If they were unfamiliar with the programming language for example and they spent the time during that task to learn part of it and delivered a proper solution with it, they got all my respect and I would be very likely to hire them.

You will also have to spent time reviewing the test task results, but I think this is less time-consuming than interviews. More than half of the candidates will probably jump off before you even see the results. For the other half you will learn how to distinguish a good from a bad solution quickly.
True, but that hardly seems material. I'm an investor in Sia, I like the project. Whether or not it's implemented as an Ethereum token is nearly meaningless. To be quite honest, it'd probably be better if it was, that way it could focus more on its core competencies.