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WikiLeaks releases hacked US military detention policies
Django Unchained
Not what you think
How can we all know if Stamped was failing? Care to share?
Sorry to burst your bubble but no. I just happened across this by accident. I'm a GIS Developer and was checking out this site. http://onemilliontweetmap.com/ I noticed there were a lot of single tweets floating out in the ocean.
As far as the linux graphics stack goes, its hard to find someone with more experience than arlied. I think you may have misjudged the author.
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/085309.html
Surprisingly, I agree with my co-founder. "Hacking" the yc application process implies that the poster was able to put much less work into the application than others did through cleverness on the poster's part. The post sounds like he thoughtfully filled out the application in a way that highlighted his strengths and minimized his weaknesses, as everyone else does. He also put a lot more work and thought into it than we, and the other yc founders that I know, did.

Instead of building that application for a whole month, he should have been building his product and landing customers.
What surprises me the most about this is that it seems like it involved Facebook and Mozilla working together, which seems like a curious relationship given their differing stances on privacy.
Lisp is not just some implementation, it is a well-balanced set of ideas and trade-offs, which together produced a natural programming language with several dialects.

Clojure, on the other hand, is just an implementation of a bunch of features.

All I'm trying to say is that Lisp is incomparable more harmonized and much more elegant creation that Clojure, which compared to Scheme or Arc, is, excuse me, an ugliness.)
In 1 year, Android malware up 580%, 23 of top 500 apps deemed 'high risk'
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Way to add to the conversation.

Hiring your "buddies" is WAY lower risk that acqui-hiring strangers. They are a known quantity AND they have enough loyalty that they probably won't bolt the instant they are able. They'll also probably work harder for you than the average acquihire.

This is how the world works-- and it makes sense. It isn't just bullshit "who you know rather than what you know". Moral of the story is that you should kick ass, work hard, and make friends with executives-- it'll give you an alternative to startup-death when YOUR startup fails.
Right, which is FTDI's USB interface chips are so popular. Everyone has used USB-serial but there's also some USB host controllers with MCU-friendly interfaces.
It really depends on how much knowledge you have about programming and if you enjoy programming. Of course django or rails let you develop a web application relatively fast but if you don't know anything about programming, the learning curve could be time consuming because different languages (client side/server side) are required . I would say if your only aim is to have an extra income then don't go for it because you can get that easier doing other stuff.
you can find the exact profiles mentioned on demo day on piratebay.
I think you'd need more granularity than SOS websites provide. They tend to be county by county, and you really need precinct by precinct.
All I'm saying is that whoever is offering a service be honest upfront and say the fees they charge. I hate it with a passion when these guys hide their fees in multiple places and layers.
or Valve.

See: Portal
Comparing those things on a cost/hour basis is ridiculous. They are not comparable on that scale since it doesn't account for the quality of amusement you're getting.

That aside, where are you getting those arbitrary hours? 20 hours on a video game is extremely rare these days, especially if you're not one that goes for the torturous achievements or sports/multiplayer FPS.

Most (high budget, modern) games will run you about 8-10 hours. If my estimate is accurate whatsoever, that would run the cost/hour down to $5.00 - $6.25/hour -- the same 'value' as a movie ticket and amusement park.
I'd normally say "yes, absolutely," but then again, "compared to what?"

Have to seen what passes for Enterprise Software Development tools? Netron Fusion uses Bassett Frame Technology to factor COBOL programs using techniques originally devised for representing knowledge ontologies in LISP-based AI systems.

COBOL + Lisp = $$$.
Yup - there are some other names to it too.

The conjecture is also known as the 3n + 1 conjecture, the Ulam conjecture (after Stanisław Ulam), Kakutani's problem (after Shizuo Kakutani), the Thwaites conjecture (after Sir Bryan Thwaites), Hasse's algorithm (after Helmut Hasse), or the Syracuse problem; the sequence of numbers involved is referred to as the hailstone sequence or hailstone numbers,or as wondrous numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
Bloomberg is proprietary and not sure if there is any publicly available training materials for it.
Sure.

If I'd meant that to be in response to all of your points, I'd have quoted them all.
I love to do sports, they are a great way to keep the mind out of everything. It really creates a barrier that blocks out everything. In the last year I have been training Kickboxing, and there for real, if you are not focused you will hurt yourself. I also really like gymnastics and tennis. I like gymnastics because there is really a proper way to do everything and is quite rigid with the rules.

Other than that not much, I tried playing guitar... got bored pretty quickly. I used to draw, a long time ago. I'm not an artist.

I like reading fantasy books. The Malazan Book of the Fallen.
>Piet programs are represented by a patented and revolutionary
arrangement of codels

Since when is being patented a virtue in programming language design?
You don't buy a lot of software by the seat and/or CPU, do you?

;-)
Yahoo planning a front assault on its superior enemy
I should start a service that gives people a thorough review of their app or web site and I make a list of trouble things and recommendations on how to make it better. Consulting on a smaller scale.
The first thing I thought of while opening this article was Qi / Shen, an optionally typed Lisp which takes inspiration from the ML family of languages. http://www.shenlanguage.org/

Shen's dedication to providing functional concepts such as partial application really interests me, but I find Clojure's practical nature even more enticing. Perhaps Typed Racket and this type system for Clojure will provide the best of both worlds!
By "backed by" I think you mean operated as a managed-float with these things as a basis.

RMB has lots of influence in Asia because many countries in the region are exporters to the US and Europe and in direct competition with China there. Countries like Malaysia have a managed-floating currency based largely on the value of the RMB to make sure that they can compete effectively with China on a day-to-day basis when dealing in foreign exchange. I believe this is part of the reason analysts tend to give the RMB too much credit, once China grows to the point of higher internal consumption and less export dependency we will see many Asian currencies reforumlate their floats to reduce the emphasis on China.
Ask HN: Seriously Frustrated. Encouragement, Advice, Bitch Slap Needed.
I'm frustrated and am reaching out to you guys for some inspiration, motivation, etc.

I want more than anything to build something that I can charge for. I'd love to be able to say that I've build something that generates even a hundred dollars a month. I find though that I fall victim to getting excited about an idea, starting down the path of building said idea, finding a reason to give up and then quitting. Sound familiar to anyone else?

Obviously the idea thing isn't working out. What I need to do is find actual problems to solve.

Here are a few questions.

1) How do you find problems to work on? I've been browsing forums of potential audiences but they all seem to have solutions already.

2) I've been mostly focusing on building some kind of software product. Maybe that's too much of a step from nothing?

3) Any advice, motivation or what ever you have? I'm sure there are lots of other readers on here that feel how I do.

I'm positive there must be lots of other people in the community that feel the same way. Hopefully we can spur some discussion to help others out as well!
Hacking the President's DNA
Thanks for doing this. I saw something similar for Python and kept meaning to do a Rails version.
This is the former Larry, I think?
TLDR - Tyrannosaurus tore the head off armoured prey to reach the tender neck meat.
The updated wording would have been to replace the word 'positive' with 'constructive'.

I'm curious, if you look back at your original comment, do you not think that it is rude / insulting as opposed to constructive?
This is nice, but it would be even better if we could provision a follower in another AWS Region or at least another AZ.
"How we got into YC: by storming the building with assault rifles and smoke grenades!"
Name one provider who offers similar content that doesn't have this issue. With all the legal and localization issues this is a difficult problem to solve.
They could make a warning/inquiry first, allowing a dialogue to explain a murky case before damage is done by a 'unilateral' enforcement action. (Pretty sure that's what grandparent post meant.)
To respond seriously, the "Being written in seven days" is not a benefit to me as a reader unless the book devotes some portion of itself to discussing how the authors wrote a book in seven days.
That is absolutely not what I'm suggesting at all.

I'm not talking about the size of the government, but about the attitude towards it and other large organizations, and to one's role in society.

I'm also not blaming "darned libertarians" (I do have a lot to say about "them", but HN isn't quite the place for such discussion) for anything. I'm simply saying that some axioms of the libertarian ideology have permeated throughout American society. This leads to a changing culture, and different cultures have different accomplishments.

Which type of accomplishment is "better" or more "important" is, again, subject to personal preference, and I'm not going to debate that. All I was suggesting is that the US hasn't accomplished recently the same kind of things it had accomplished in the past, may be in part due to a shift in attitude.
I found this useful. Even if the terms are being abused, it always helps to have others perspectives on how they succeeded. Regardless if it doesn't apply to your system/experience, it is still a valid (and successful) method of getting in. Do you need to work for 1 month to submit the YC application? Nope. Did it work for them: Yep. So, as with anything, YMMV but getting as many different perspectives as possible can only help.
Hack a bootstrap to get kickstarted.
That was purely an invention of the courts. They haven't invented the freedom of speech to remain silent. Not yet, at least.
Windows 8 Arrives
I collected the last 3244 tweets (a limit of the Twitter API) and posted them here in JSON for your enjoyment:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7huqe8
Q: Is there any evidence of strong growing companies after a Kickstarter?
I know in the technology and product group some project and companies have received great reception for their idea and work. Having backed up some project I received some nice products as promised.
I am still looking for any evidence that some companies have gone into the next stage of scaling their product and company beyond the initial Kickstarter success?
Question is also interesting to companies who have not made the cut on KS, but still were able to create a viable company around the product.
Any thoughts are welcome.
5 Bizarre Ways Brain Scans Can Predict the Future
Reflecting about all this, I find the rpi design curious. Most of the SoC is wasted and impose heavy side effects (lan over capricious usb). The graphical applications (video processing, etc) seems to be limited by what is already in the GPU blob.

Honest question, isn't there more simple SoC (armv6 + basic 2d gpu) with sane default and i/o chipsets ?

How much of the closed source binary is due to the GPU ?

With a simpler and open source system, I think it would have provided a better learning substrate than what it is now.
> He did not use pure gold or silver. The coins had less gold or silver than their respective face value.

Putting in an amount of gold equal to its supposed monetary value would have been a losing business proposition. He'd have been losing money every single time he traded a Liberty dollar for US dollars. If the Liberty dollar is worth exactly the amount of gold that's in it, then the only way he could even break even is if the cost of minting coins were zero. He'd essentially be turning himself into an easy way for currency speculators to avoid brokerage fees, and losing his shirt in the process. (This is assuming he weren't using gold that he had previously stockpiled when it was at a lower price.)

Putting only a little precious metal in the coins is a much better business decision. Having some precious metal in there would be reassuring to members of his target demographic. Having less than the coin's stated value in there means that he had some shot at maintaining control over the market and having a viable business plan.

That, and I suspect that keeping the actual value of gold at arm's length would be an absolute necessity. Just look at what the price of gold was doing over the time that Liberty dollars were being issued. A currency that's constantly strengthening against all others at a double-digit rate is not a currency on which one could base a stable economy. cf.) Dutch disease.
My co-founder agrees with me? It's a miracle.
Oh man I'm psyched about this. I love game jams, and GitHub's event will surely draw people new to the concept. The more the merrier!

I'm honestly a little turned off by the prize though. I'd rather there be no prize at all but instead some internet recognition maybe (like Ludum Dare). Perhaps they'll introduce some alternative prizes later on?
It seems like you really have a great model going there, nice job! You think there is any chance of open sourcing what you're doing with Code Club so it could be used elsewhere?
Keen IO Will Make Your (Analytics) Dreams Come True
I don't know if it is because this is a design-based project and not a development project, but I don't understand why people are complaining about the complainers. Just as many people ask why someone did something a certain way - or why they'd do something at all - in threads based on programming projects and I think it is just as valid here.

In my experience on HN, there aren't enough quality posts on design. In fact, a lot of the most upvoted ones promote poor practices. I've stopped basing whether or not I go into a design threads on the upvotes, because some of the most beautiful projects I've seen have collected dust here, while others thrive despite their rampant shortcomings.

This is basic UI design in the form of basic CSS. You would be seriously hardpressed to find a more generic branding standard than one that relies on simple solid blocks and white text, something that can be pulled off in decades-old browsers, and here we have a website that a) illustrates a lack of understanding of the UI itself and b) a lack of understanding CSS, which makes up the framework.

Honestly if I worked in a studio that was doing work for Microsoft and asked a designer to create these web assets, I would send them back to the drawing board if this is what they presented to me. I think that's why you're seeing a lot of these "negative" comments. It looks and works like a last-minute homework assignment, especially for something where everything is already defined for you in public branding documentation and on Microsoft's own websites.

How am I supposed to say that without coming off as a jerk?
How Sosh Is Able To Hack Mobile Distribution
Try to compare with a box of Chess or some other good board game. Or a ball.
Doesn't apply.
She had a baby just a few weeks ago.
Ask HN: Outsourced call center?
We're a small company that produces consumer technology products. As sales and incoming call volume pick up, we're thinking about adding to our capacity by engaging the services of a domestic call center for handling inquiries and consumer sales. Most of what I've read about this in the past says it doesn't work out very well, which is understandable. Is anyone using an outsourced call center that they're happy with? Thanks.
still there is "our backend", nevertheless it sounds very cool:)
Not got anything to contribute aside from this post could quite easily be me ... exactly the same boat, exactly the same feeling ... chin up
You only play video games one run through?

I tend to use the metric of "$1 per hour of play" with a small caveot where AAA games are allowed to breach that by some appreciable amount, usually putting them up to $2 or $3 an hour. Any more and I don't really see the point in owning it.

Then again, I don't buy most "high budget, modern games". I buy a few of them, and from companies I trust. Dishonored should last me 20 or 30 hours at least. I'll probably see 40 or 50 from Forza Horizon.
Well, Apple cares about its competition, but I think it cares more about making a profit and they do that by build great products that they can charge a lot for.

Selling a product with a high margin is actually easier in some ways than with a low margin because with a high margin you can afford to advertise, market, and push harder to sell a product.

Amazon can sell the Kindle Fire at break even because it owns its own sales and marketing channel at Amazon.com. Google sells the Nexus 7 with no margin because that is the only way for them to gain a foothold against the Kindle Fire.

A $329 iPad Mini with say a $129 margin means Apple can spend $129 per sale in advertising and marketing and still be as profitable as the Kindle Fire or Nexus 7. We all know it doesn't cost Apple $129 to make a sale, so there's a nice profit left over.

Ultimately, Apple's goal is to be a profitable, sustainable company and they do that by turning a profit on hardware sales. That's their model. Amazon and Google have a different business model.
Thanks. I'm sure there are quite a few that feel the same. Hopefully this will be up voted a bit and get some attention.
You were rejected three times for the same company?
If you have a lot of demand, raise your prices. Don't price gouge, but people often really underestimate how much big companies are willing to pay. Especially for quality work that isn't a pain for them to manage.
Tax Issues Create Headaches for Entrepreneurs - Sorry MBAs
Good board games are even less cost effective.

Eclipse is like $100 and I've only played it once for 6ish hours. Dominant Species also pushes a high price and I've played it 3 times. Ascencion was something like $40.

Good board games are EXPENSIVE; and so far the price-per-hour for me is still very high.
>But some undertakings are simply too big for private corporations, and require government funding and control.

Not only. The government is (at least supposed too) work for the benefit of society. You can expect the government to allocate billions for a project like the LHC if the science committee foresees that it's a viable scientific undertaking. You can't expect the same of corporations. Corporations are there to make increasing profits for their shareholders, period.

This is the reason why some people were upset with the vision of private enterprises replacing NASA. Sure private enterprises will bring competition, but only where private enterprises can make profit.
>Grand juries typically sit for several months at a time and issue indictments on whatever happens to come before them.

That's true, but grand juries can be convened for a specific issue as well.
We no longer have leaders with the vision to collaborate on a level large enough to impress scientists today.

Going to the moon - everyone can see the moon, it's a very achievable goal, we put a person on that big rock up there. It's easy to understand, but challenging enough that we still marvel at it. This was fueled by a desire to win against our competitors. The competition against another superpower created the desire to win. Net benefit to humanity: A cool line to write on a resume.

Nuclear fusion (not the best example, as we have stuff like NREL, but it will work) - a little bit more challenging. Closest example: We made a sun right here! It's much more difficult to get people to understand the impact that nuclear fusion would have. And, it has the 'nuclear' word attached to it. Politicians don't understand it (and wouldn't get any money from it). The general population doesn't care about it, because to them, the outlet will always be magical. Net benefit to humanity: The possibility to reverse global warming, unlimited clean water, free power, and solving a 'real' problem.

This makes me think of the superconducting super collider[1]. I know we still do amazing science and amazing things, but we choose to do them in the military, behind closed doors for the benefit of ourselves, rather than the benefit of humanity.

The 'golden ages' of history have generally occurred when society turned towards mathematicians, engineers, and scientists and basically said 'we don't know what you're doing, but we know it's important'. The trouble today is that everyone has an equal say on all issues (by having one vote, you are mapping a column of varying stances into one single value), regardless of how much they understand what they're talking about.

It makes me kind of wonder why an angel wouldn't come in and just fund some of the projects the government should be funding.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider
This is hilarious, of course, but it also points to some really interesting languages. Turns out that fungeoid is an actual category of fascinating experimental / toy / joke languages. Obviously Piet is not particularly useful in the real world, but thinking about languages like this has got to be good for a programmer's mind.

For example, try thinking about what kinds of things this language would be useful for. Or if a similar visualization for an existing language would be useful. Unlock your mind and let it roam...

In case you didn't click the link in the article [1], here's part of what Wikipedia has to say:

"A funge is an esoteric programming language which models its programs as metric spaces with coordinate systems (often, but not necessarily, Cartesian) and which execute instructions located at points in their program space by moving an instruction pointer (a position vector which indicates the currently executing instruction) through that space."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funge#Funges
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Inside Googles Datacenter
May be; but there are other companies in latin america that offer a decent G4 connection now; one of them being "Claro", a big one owned by Carlos Slim (Telmex/richest man in the world according to Forbes)
How I learned to quit worrying and love video transcoding APIs
Also on the Playstation Plus, you can get games for FREE after paying a $50 yearly fee. Personally, I love that service. It's how I've gotten to play Infamous 2; which is a ... really good game.