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Seeking a sales person for my finished product
I have developed a product (http://www.skyclearsystems.com) along with a business partner, who designed the product and is a pilot. We have documentation for the product as well as sales materials.

Unfortunately we both work full time, and neither I nor my partner can put in the requisite time during the work day to make the sales.

I am prepared to spend as much time as necessary to bring somebody else up to speed on the product, and take part in any (preferably phone or virtual) meetings that might arise.

Is anybody here interested in taking on the sales activities, or could you suggest a good way of finding somebody who would be willing to work for a percentage of the revenue or company?

Thanks for reading this.
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Here's our tech stack and right now it's in Postgres as a table with a key/value column.

https://accthub.com/developers/technology-stack
Why is this NSFW?

Did you not see the word Porn in large, bold white letters against a black background with three young women just underneath it showing ample cleavage in suggestive poses?

There's a time and place for that, work is not one of them. And reading blogs (that are work related) is fine and even encouraged, but visiting sites with graphics like that is not.
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If there are people who can't solve fizzbuzz that are getting programming jobs, what do they do at work?

Much of the programming work out there is little more than connecting libraries together into an easy to use package. I've worked with some people that I'm not sure could pass the fizzbuzz test, but they were still really good at what they could do and provided value to the organization that way.

Those people probably aren't going to be hired by Google to optimize their search algorithms, but software development is many-faceted. You don't always need someone with those skills to still create something of value.
And while it looks like this has been flagged or moderated into exile, I'm (the conference chair) always around to answer questions
I'll check that out after work today. I was hoping I wouldn't have to ditch CM to get ICS
I'm planning on doing a Reddit AMA for reversing in general -- as well as this work -- in the next hour or two, but if anyone has any questions I'll do my best to answer here. All I ask is no protocol details (paper and full code will be out tomorrow immediately following my talk) and no legal questions. Go wild.

Edit: Since this thread has blown up a bit, we may as well just do it here for real. If you have any reversing questions or background questions or whatnot, feel free.
CM9 RC1 is supposed to be running 4.0.4, right? Shouldn't that have been patched already? Though it also appears they have some bigger issues, like everything you type going out to the debug logs, passwords included.

You should report this on their issue tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/list
Diesel generators and massive arrays of toxic lead acid batteries, which have a lifespan of at most 5 years, are not "green energy" and I'm a bit tired of all these articles in the press by persons claiming to be "alternative energy editors" and such who are promoting them as if they are because it's very clear they are not really advocating for truly sustainable energy. Even adding in the solar panels, they have a lifespan of 25 years due to eventual UV breakdown of the components, and the vast energy required to refine and purify the silicon wafers and extract the rare earth elements used in the construction eliminates the advantage of the technology as either sustainable or green.

The wind turbines are good, but have widely variable output, are only sensible in a small number of areas with a lot of wind, and again, require batteries for 24/7 secure energy such as at this jail facility, again eliminating the advantages that would enable it to be reasonably classified as green or sustainable.

With this particular jail, there is less than average wind and more than average overcast days in Dublin California where the jail is located, making these poorly matched alternative energy choices for this area, and which only ensure these systems are even less effective, and making clear that during power outages the diesel generator and batteries are going to be the real source of power.

The mention of air conditioning being powered by solar cells is particularly evidence of the bizarre reasoning of the article, which I leave to the reader to ponder why this is so. One may wish to start by asking how many residential installations are able to power air conditioners directly from photovoltaic cell arrays.

This is a boondoggle to be sure, but does not mean energy reduction shouldn't be pursued. For some prisons in desert areas such as Arizona, much energy could be saved by switching from air conditioners (if they use them; not all prisons do) to passive evaporation towers such as have been used in the middle east and africa for hundreds of years. Dublin California is not a candidate for this technology with average daily humidity of 76.24%, close to the national average of 77.52%, but many prisons, schools, offices and houses are.
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Rather than force people to do an extra step, why not just use a secure method of generating reset IDs?
Historically, novelists. Even now there are evergreen hits.
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If I understand correctly, these are addressing two different issues. Namebench seems to be interested in finding out which DNS server will return a look up request the fastest. The OP though is saying that because global DNS providers don't currently pass along information about my local IP address, I'll get a suboptimal response that points to an IP address that may not be the fastest for me.

Or does namebench actually test the IP addresses you get in response to test their response time?
I wouldn't go that far. I used Redis two years ago, when it still had the "virtual memory" feature that allowed it to spill cold data to disk.

I had ~60GB of data in my database, and I once re-started Redis because it was locking the machine up with such heavy disk I/O. It took 45 minutes to come back up and start serving queries.

The VM feature has since been deprecated.
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>mostly because the image is not necessary to prove the points being made

That's not totally true. The screenshot fits perfectly well, because it not only shows the effect of a now know-to-be-known email, it also shows in which context this might be an issue.
Average humans are capable of fine manipulation and fast visual recognition at low prices.
Some people will be more convinced that they are correct when you present more information to challenge their views.

It's a tricky problem - how do you convince someone that something is a useful, valid, thing to do if they think you're trying to harm them?
Sadly, both the GPA and the school are so me. I actually ended up with a 3.0 but same deal.

Which is why I am making 17/hr and no benefits (no health/dental, no paid time off at all). Also probably why I spent a year looking for any job at all before I landed this one.
Why Code Ownership is Detrimental to your Startup
Does anyone know of any US based consumer electronics factories set up to take small-medium sized orders from small companies...say for kickstart campaign funded products like the Ouya?
Amazon to open global digital media innovation hub in London
> The only 'vloggers' who would benefit from anonymity are the ones who have something to say that could be consider 'controversial' by someone else.

You don't think there's a large group to which that applies?

Given how easy it is to turn online harassment into real-life harassment with a little internet research, I will not begrudge anyone their separate identities. Your "controversial" opinion could be as benign as "I don't owe my youtube stalkers any attention" before someone is subjected to threats have the potential to seriously affect their life.

I don't have a problem using my real name either (this handle is easily traceable to my full address, I believe), but I'm a white guy, moderately well off and my political opinions are the mainstream, etc. I enjoy a degree of safety and social support that I take for granted, but that's not a luxury available to many who also deserve to participate in internet communities and cultural life.

That Google (and others) are not only not accomodating them but going out of their way to make it harder for them to have an online presence is really surprising to me. I'd have thought Google "gets" it, and I don't see what they're gaining from moves like this.
http://hover.com is very straightforward, simple, and doesn't upsell you.
We'd love to be able to publish it in the Play Store, but we were informed by Google that the terms of service disallow any apps that check for vulnerabilities, despite X-Ray's good intentions.

It's a weird distinction that they allow AV-like apps, but not vulnerability assessment apps.
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Oh, I see where the disconnect was. You thought I was saying that the rock gardens were Zen Buddhism. I was saying that the rock gardens are Zen Buddhist, in the same way that the Gothic cathedrals are Christian or the Alhambra is Islamic.

Of course Zen does not consist of composing haiku, building rock gardens, or reading koans.
I'm convinced the average Internet user doesn't care. It doesn't matter who it convinces, because it's still a weak charade.
It won't be a surprise to learn that these types of locks are vulnerable, but I'll be fascinated to learn the details especially since it sounds like you can get access to an internal bus easily.

The assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_al-Mab...) allegedly by Mossad involved attacking an electronic hotel lock to get access to his room:

"A readout of activity that took place on the hotel room's electronic door lock indicated that an attempt was made to reprogram al-Mabhouh’s electronic door lock at this time. The investigators believe that the electronic lock on al-Mabhouh’s door may have been reprogrammed and that the killers gained entry to his room this way. The locks in question, VingCard Locklink brand (Dubai police video, 21:42), can be accessed and reprogrammed directly at the hotel room door."
Ask HN: Review my startup, This & That
http://getthisthat.com/explore

We're trying to organize social media around a web of topics (think semantic web). As a user you would sign in, connect your social networks, and we'd pull the links/media you're sharing/liking into a single feed organized around our web. Shares also get put into a general "explore" feed for public perusal.

Later possibilities include creating your own custom feed with topics and topic combinations. For example, you could add "iPhone 5", "Obama & Funny", or "Astronomy & Politics" to your feed.

We have not launched yet and organize half of the app is not yet ready, but thoughts on the general concept are welcome!
The company that I'm working for bridges the gap between research and production.

You can see some of our stuff here: http://rec.ri.cmu.edu/
Wow. That's a mighty impression tin foil hat you wear.

I'm sure the government can already tie people's names to their browsing history (including youtube) via the dns lookups and project echelon. I doubt they'd need anyone's assistance beyond the isp wiretaps, which they already have, for something as simple as this.
Hmmm... I think most people don't do this because they quickly find out they'll never hear the last of it if they say they don't like it ;)

(Also, Automator isn't the easiest thing in the world to figure out - Apple Script isn't terribly well documented, and I've never once seen the Record option record anything useful.)

Fortunately, ShiftIt fixes the problem nicely, and for free. (There are also programs you can pay for, which are probably a bit slicker.) So, no problem.
REST API so utterly not-REST I'm surprised the authors have heard of the term
> UPDATE: A YouTube representative got back to us and said: YouTube users with existing Google+ profiles see this option when they comment or upload a video.

I am glad that I decided to delete my G+ account when news started to float that Google was forcing everyone to use real name in G+ and was closing accounts in cases of un-cooperation, which unintentionally affected someone's gmail account.
Clickable: http://www.trustrecs.com (Note: this is not a recommendation)
Why does the IT industry continue to listen to Gartner? (Ed Bott)
Any time I have heard anyone ever quote a piracy number on any non-console platform it has been 90%. On the iPhone (http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/FingerKicks/news.asp?c=3...), across platforms (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/13/world-of-goo-has-90-piracy... and http://www.geek.com/articles/games/machinarium-amnesty-sale-...)

These people say 9:1 as though that were weird or abnormal. It isn't; that is the world developers have been living in. Even the Humble Bundle, where you could buy DRM-free games for a penny, had a 25% piracy rate (http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Saving-a-penny----pirating-t...)
4.1 is definitely the most secure Android you can be running currently.

We posted about some of the security improvements in Jelly Bean 4.1 last week:

https://blog.duosecurity.com/2012/07/exploit-mitigations-in-...
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I realize that ZD Net is often the lowest common denominator of journalism, but Ed has a very good point. What props up "analyst" firms like Gartner? How do they stay in business while being so wrong so often?
It's also really great that they had mentors there to help out beginners. There are a lot of people who want to learn but are too scared of being left behind or not being competent enough to make the most out of their time. If more people helped out those who are driven to learn, we'd have more people on their ways to becoming good developers. Male & Female
Almost no tax breaks for startups, and healthcare and employee taxes are regulated very closely to normal German laws.
Shockingly, recently the govt seems to have decided that angel investors and even founders will not be eligible for certain tax breaks, and instead will be taxed on income tax level for capital gains.
That should be natural for any very poor country. Real reason is that per capita GDP of India is barely 3% of American. So anyone with money to spend can hire a lot of 'servants' and will not be used to self-service. Probably most of internet users belong to this caste (which quite well may be a direct rather than indirect meaning of the word).
You are confusing two issues. The first is that you don't need double opt in. This is simply the reality, you don't. There is no such German law. The only law like that is that you need to prove people opted in if you send them commercial email.

The second is the usability question. Sites where you can't login until you have received and clicked the activation link are throwing away signups. The usability of "wait a half hour before you can do anything" is really, really poor. You can certainly argue that having fewer signups is a worthwhile trade-off to gain some privacy, and in some cases I might even agree. But I don't think that is true in most cases. As others have pointed out, you get thousands of emails about signup/login/reset related issues when you try not to leak this info. You get zero emails about leaking it.
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Why Predictive Analytics Are Overrated
The icebreaker is genius. It's awkward enough for normal people, much less some of us who are less socially adept.
Samsung S2 here (running latest update to ICS). All patched, no vulns. I'm actually a little disappointed in a way :-P
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How a biologist was hired by a tech startup
The key phrase there being "out of the box". Guice does great transaction management, just pull in guice-persist. It integrates with servlets cleanly, just pull in guice-servlet.

The difference is mainly that Guice tries to be a library and Spring tries to be a framework. I, for one, like knowing that I'm not pulling in "the world" just to get dependency injection.

Guice at its core does one thing, and one thing well: dependency injection (and by extension, AOP). It does dependency injection far better than any Spring version I've used (see: constructor injection).
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For the same reason that they should make sure every tech has a functioning screwdriver? Everything that adds 5 minutes to an appointment adds up.

The success of e.g. Apple is because they wake a product that works, not because of some nerdy argument about settings. If your product is getting a tech to show up within an N-hour timeframe, you need to find ways to engineer that.

Of course, as has been pointed out up thread, most cable companies don't have to care if their appointments are reliable, so they don't, and whichever department made that web form probably wasn't accountable either.
That's nice for you. But since no-one is trying to stop you from using your real name I'm not sure what your point is.

There are plenty of people that I know on YouTube by their fake names. I have no idea what benefits I get from them using a real name.

One problem that YouTube needs to sort out is "replygirls"; another is the appalling quality of comments.

(A last one is the unfortunate placing of ads. I keep seeing an ad about being a father (and backing up photos?) - there's no way to tell youtube that you never want to see that ad again. I imagine that there are many people who find that ad unbearable because they have recently lost a child. I would be happy to rate ads, and for YouTube to give that data back to advertisers. I tend to watch the ads to pay for the content I'm using. I only skip if it's infuriating.)
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I work at Seedcamp.

We don't force anyone to move their startup to London. We do suggest the new teams spend some time with us here, as it's valuable to them to be part of what is going on here - a lot of the teams come from eastern Europe where there is much less of a tech (and investment) scene. Being in London for some time enables them to take part in that, make the right connections, and then move back, here, or on - often to the US.
Ask HN: Anyone making living writing Linux desktop applications?
I'm an indie developer who has developed several desktop applications for Windows. I'm thinking to port them (or develop something) for Linux. Anyone here making a living(or even close) writing desktop applications for Linux?
While I understand the point being made, Breivig apparently acted alone, and his actions were most similar to Timothy McVeigh. The proper comparison would be to compare changes in policy following Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing.

After the bombing of Khobar Towers, the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the first World Trade Center bombing, the bombing of the USS Cole, and finally the acts of 9/11, it would seem that US anti-terrorism policies in place at that time were not particularly effective.

On the other hand, if we're just speaking of mass-murderers rather than terrorists, I don't think anyone has expressed an interest in increased police powers or surveillance, but rather implementing some rational gun laws.
This is a simplification, but many of the same people "screaming" for resources -- and for making public resources private -- in order to "expand" their business, are actually in control of a vast sum of resources (not just "cash", but the control that that cash and ownership represent) that they refuse to use.

It really becomes about risk. Despite all their advantage, they don't want to take the risk.

Or, looked at another way, these are not the so-called risk takers and innovators -- the "job creators" -- they sometimes claim to be.

When they do this latter, I simply experience another round of disgust over the pervasive hypocrisy -- turned into outright lying -- in today's society.
>Even as someone who feels we should be rid of software patents, I cannot for the life of me understand this statement. I can believe, philosophically, that relatively high tax rates will benefit a society. That doesn't mean that, even in so believing, I wouldn't do my utmost to minimize the tax that I pay within the rules provided by the law. The question before me when I make such decisions is what makes sense for me as an economic actor, not what the broader policy for society should be. And there is no reason I should "feel bad" for acting in my own self-interest in that case even if I believe the rules should be otherwise.

Well, I can understand your position, but this is the very definition of selfishness and hypocrisy that you describe.
Yep, bus is clearly accessible on the bottom of the lock.

As for Ving, I think they're going to be next up; spent years honing my skills in reversing this sort of thing, seems like a shame to stop now.
So the difference between V8 and LJ2 is more in what kinds of optimization they prioritize, than in overall superior performance by LJ2? Yes, I am surprised to hear that, in a good way. The interesting thing about LJ2 (as distinct from Lua the language) is that it broke such impressive new ground for what is possible in optimizing dynamic languages.
Motorola Droid Bionic, running latest official carrier update, vulnerable to Gingerbreak :-\
I do find it rather worrying that people around the world seem absolutely fine with all the various initiatives introduced, all in the name of preventing terrorism.

I've had friends consider me crazy for complaining - way after the time, I hasten to add - that I'd had a small deodorant can taken off me in airport security, which I'd then had to purchase in the duty free shop.

My wife's now tired of me complaining - again, after suffering through it in silent, stony-faced contemplation - that in any other context, I've just suffered sexual assault. I won't apologise for it; I find it extremely distressing to have my dick groped by a stranger. All because a machine went "beep" and one two many green bars lit up.

And then you look at the London olympics; where the army will be frisking people who've dared to pay money to watch events. (NB: the army presence was guaranteed regardless of G4S's cockup). The army! And in this instance, it's not like the UK hasn't decades of experience of dealing with terrorism from the IRA.

How well does all this work? Who knows, nobody's telling. I'd argue if there was anyone caught or something prevented by one of these systems, the government concerned would be singing from the rooftops. But no - it's "a deterrent." Gah.
What is the rationale of such demand ?

This reminds me Schneir's objection to biometric identification. What do we do if it's compromized ? There is no way we could change it.

One should obviously be able to publish a video that we made without disclosing our identity. Supose I film my cat in my living room showing also the nice HiFi installation behind it. If it is published under my name, it would be like publishing my address on the HiFi.

If as a teenager I film and publish a party where I wouldn't be at my advantage, I don't want that my name is associate to it forever.

I must be able to reset my Internet image and reputation. Especially for young people. Google is already very reluctant to remove references on demand.

At least this now gives something competitors can differentiate with.

We need a place where we can create a virtual identity we can throw away. An identity that we can use as signature for publishing comments, articles and videos.
I think you're right: There's a real shift now in newsrooms as they realize the value of having developers involved in the editorial process and the power in creating web-native news experiences.
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