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Help save kids, feature request for all navigation app developers.
Over the past few weeks there have been more and more reports of children being forgotten, and dying, in the back seats of cars. Being the father of several young children and a busy CEO, I find these reports both disturbing and frightening. I couldn't even imagine the grief of a parent who realised that his/her preoccupation with the hectic schedule/job/startup caused the death of their child.

I am an app developer,so I started kicking around some ideas of how I could build something to help solve, or at least reduce the occurrence of, this problem. While I try to think of a way that I can have an impact using my skills, I thought it may be worth starting a discussion about the issue and sending out a general feature request to all app developers that create navigation/car related apps.

The feature would be one (or both) of the following:

1. Upon arrival to destination, in addition to the "You have arrived!" message, also speak a reminder to check for backseat passengers/babies.

2. Send a "push notification" message between 5 to 10 minutes after arriving at destination, with a polite reminder about potential backseat passengers.

I just sent an email to Waze asking them to add this in, not sure how far that will get, but had to try.

I welcome any discussion, suggestions, ideas or collaboration on building something that would save even one child.

And for all you parents with startups, check the backseat every time you leave the car. Every time.
>Twenty-five-year-old Khalid Raza lives in Shakargarh but is taking "The Challenges of Global Poverty," a course taught by a former adviser to the World Bank and a professor of international economics at MIT.

Great. Now the whole world can get indoctrinated into neo-liberal economics and the like, and the educated in all countries can adopt the ideology of the ruiling empire. /s

Now, while this is indeed great for hard sciences, medicine and technology, it's very problematic for ideological and soft courses, from History to Economics to Sociology etc.

It might not be clear, but imagine the inverse: American students getting their sociology knowledge from Pakistani scholars -- with the whole ideological baggage that will carry with respect to the treatment of women, issues of personal freedom, etc.

The same harm works both ways.
> Dunno why you picked an old example when we have a current one

Sorry, I used to live in the UK but now live in Belgium, so my knowledge of UK politics is somewhat outdated.

In Belgium we had a new minister of finance appointed in March, who as far as I know has never even been up for election for anything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koen_Geens
Snowden asylum still under review, stays in airport for now
A Rundown of Best Online Web Development Courses
>Kids now live online with few exceptions, and a technical understanding of the world will hopefully become second nature to most people, eventually.

No. I've been enough debates with peers my age (17-18) who practically live online but their world consists of Facebook and YouTube. They assume content can be taken offline simply by hitting "delete". Their ignorance will shock you.

What we need is better education of how the internet works, but of course, you only learn if your interested.
I learned more from the clubs I joined and/or formed in university than I did from the lectures.

However, it's great for schizoid people who may not have the same options that you had.
I consider this to be one of the highest compliments one can pay to a newsletter so I just signed up for it on this basis (also your landing page was pretty good).
Agreed; the PDF is absolutely beautiful, and a joy to read on my laptop, which is not something I can say of many of the ebooks I have bought.
OK, thanks for the detail.

I've suffered from having designed bad/limited APIs before and watching as people dig into bits I didn't want them to dig into, limiting what I can do in the future.

Not sure on the best way to avoid it, but I guess it's a 'nice problem to have' since at least people are using your API.
Can a person get the same quality of education from online courses as traditional courses? Can those courses be graded and accredited in a way which means something to employers?

What about the overall success of http://www.open.ac.uk ? Apparently, distance learning is acknowleged by employers.
Designing a hypothetical persons's schtick ahead of time will never work. It would only be sustainable if it's genuine.

If not genuine, something would have to motivate them to — every day for over a decade — wake up, make fussy coffee and sit down at their clicky keyboard to produce something in character.

I don't think this character idea is fertile enough to inspire a Colbert.
The developer portal is written in WebObjects/Java.

And whilst I am sure they are using Project Wonder which wraps up a lot of the old WebObjects code there is still the fact that it is a deprecated technology.

And it's never just write some code and deploy in these situations. It will involve testers signing it off, performance testing, security testing, deployment etc. So all those parts add up. Plus there's no "Steve Jobs will fire you" threat breathing down your neck.
I'd recommend using Mocha for all unit testing (client and server side).
http://visionmedia.github.io/mocha/
IIRC kickstarted doesn't, but there is plenty of places that do.
True, but Apple ships phones and tablets with the lowest specs it can get away with, as this maximizes profits. Edge is deliberately over-specced.
I think the fundamental question is whether you have the self discipline to do the work by yourself. If you are highly self disciplined, and a self starter, then there are a lot of good quality, free options, like Coursera, Udacity, MIT's OpenCourseware, etc.

If you need an external push, like knowing that you've spent a lot of money on a course, then this may be for you, although it seems like a lot of money to me.
With XorShift as the PRNG, Rust is now almost on par with C and beating the DMD and GDC D implementations. If the syntax were stable, and the standard library and documentation improved, then we'd seriously consider it as an alternative to C++ for parts of our current project.
They certainly aren't using WebObjects for everything, so I can't imagine they are particularly happy with it. Little bits of it are PHP for example, like the file search on the main page:

https://developer.apple.com/search/index.php?q=HN
While your points are good, The adviser isn't part of government, Mandelson was. There is an important difference, a minister is a much more powerful position.
This is hilarious. Not only is MSPaint awful by today's standards, it was awful when it shipped. It was grossly inferior to paint software written for the Mac, Amiga, and DOS.
First malicious apps to exploit critical Android bug found in the wild
It's not about money, it's about power. And I mean 'power' in the full sense of the word: the autonomy, money and status/connections to do what you want - whether that's changing the world, giving your family a good life (relative to their peers), or dating a supermodel.

Money is just a proxy.

Power is also just a proxy to happiness [0]. The power to make yourself happy.

Concrete actions combine to give us access to abstract values which we position towards our purpose of reaching our favourite abstract concept "happiness."

We often seek happiness as an end. But good advice might be to "Invest in lines, not dots."

[0] We assume that if we can change things quickly we will be able to keep up with our hedonic treadmills. (The reality is that this won't work without control over our minds, since our desires can also upgrade quickly.)
Budget your time, design your life
Deluxe Paint was an obvious extension of MacPaint for color work, but the ultimate version of it (written by the same people) was Studio/32 for the Mac (which also predates MSPaint). Let's not forget Photoshop and Fractal Painter predate MSPaint.
"I don't want to be black listed"

Not everybody is Edward Snowden...
well then. I missed it anyways.
It's not in the post, it was in the company.
Several reasons, I guess. OpenGL ES 2.0 (which WebGL 1.x is based on) is a subset of OpenGL 2.x, without a lot of legacy stuff that made sense in 1997 but not so much in 2012.

In a way, using GLES2.0 is much nicer and more streamlined than "desktop GL 2.x".

Also, until very recently GLES2.0 had a "conformance tests" suite to check implementations for conformance, whereas desktop GL did not. Desktop GL only got the conformance suite about right now (siggraph 2013), starting with OpenGL 4.4.
I should have made it clearer; when I said "Lazy evaluation often tricked me up", I meant that I made the stupid mistake of thinking Haskell could somehow magically evaluate the shortest branch first via lazy evaluation. I.e. lazy evaluation tricked led me to make mistakes due to expecting too much from it, not because of any inherent fault in lazy evaluation.
I think the interesting comparison will be between something like Tegra 5/Exynos 5 and this. Most scientific computing these days is CUDA, and getting something like cuBLAS onto this chip will be a struggle. The Exynos/Android combo has already lowered it's ability to interest me by not even accepting OpenCL as a first class citizen.

EDIT: Hopefully NVidia will give me CUDAndroid, so I have fun.
What the earth would look like if it wasn’t spinning
QMachine – a supercomputer made out of crowdsourced Web browsers
> Why should a company make it easy for people to do exactly what it doesn't want them to do?

I'm reminded of Star Wars, light side versus dark side. Neither side is stronger, and which side is "better" really depends on your POV. We do know that the dark side is "easier". Companies similarly can choose to go light side or dark side and end up with the same bottom line, but light side takes more up-front effort.

Now, let me apply the same question: if the dark side is easier and is as likely to get you results, why isn't it a perfectly valid choice?
HN submissions can't have both text and a link.
They've missed their target, I don't think a single kickstarter has been successful having only reached 20% on day 1. (Most successful drives have well over 50% done day 1.)

Here they haven't even reached that after a few days.

Unless shuttleworth decides to stick the money in himself this won't be happening.
Horses for courses, I suppose. "Changing the world" is just what some people want to do, even at the risk of poverty and misery.

Maslow's hierarchy was never supposed to be a prescriptive account of how we ought to live.
Even if you want to sustain for your family now, a start up could possibly make it better for them in the future. That's a big problem with the Maslow's hierarchy, as it doesn't account for planning into the future.
I am not a designer and I'm not sure about how to choose fonts for any particular usage, but I've enjoyed a little book by Robin Williams, "The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice".

The author lays out four basic principles: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity (CRAP - I love it; it's very memorable). The idea is that if you follow these principles, regardless of the types/fonts you choose, you'll have a better looking, easier to read document.
> There will come a point in life where you have enough money, hopefully.

But if you're like most of my friends you'll also have two kids and a mortgage. At that point your appetite to take risks is reduced because it's not just about you any more.

On the whole though I'd agree. The risk/reward profile of startups is pretty different to that of employment in a high paying industry. And I would be willing to bet that on average employment returns are higher than startup returns.
"Harm"? Seems to me that learning about other cultures is very seldom harmful -- in either direction. In any event, I fail to see how exposing people in pakistan to our ideological baggage would be a bad thing overall -- they're already getting ideological baggage from hellfire missiles.
Do people actually say that "A startup's purpose should be to change the world for the better in a meaningful way"?

That's ridiculous, and symbolizes what's wrong with the current startup culture. Fine, go ahead and change the world for the better, but a startup is a business and the primary goal of a business is to turn a profit. If you can combine profit and world-changing, that's great, but don't forget the priorities. If that doesn't fit you, start a charity instead.
This is mentioned a lot in this great talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqkU1y0AYc

The thing is, politicians are able to reasonably regulate almost anything with zero knowledge. The example given is you can reasonably ban the use of mobile phones inside cars without causing cars to become less useful.

"Make me an internet that doesn't run BitTorrent".

Well, that's not possible. But, it should be, right? Politicians don't understand general purpose computers and general purpose networks (the Internet) are so flexible they can do anything and trying to limit a particular activity does more harm than good.
As a father of a young child I'm quite keen on being able to provide him with a clean connection to the internet. I want him to be able to explore without having to watch over him.

We should have solutions to this problem, at the router level, where we can be in charge of the blacklist, and the times various items on it are ok or not ok.

Politicians cannot be blamed for trying to do what is popular, and because we as a community have failed to solve the problem for less technical parents than I, an imperfect solution has been proposed. We should not be surprised.

We are the ones best suited to find the optimal solutions to such problems, and carping on about politicians doing something when we have done far too little is pointless.
I totally agree. I always was clear that OK, I want to TRY changing the world but also I want to make some money to support my daily needs and the team working with me. When I was visiting SV for the first time I was feeling strange talking that we're in it also for the money, kinda silly :-)
Excellent, that was just the kind of thing I was looking for, thank you. It would be great to this documented in the Rust Tutorial section on vectors.
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"Bad fonts"?
Idea 1: ignorant politicking; Idea 2: mass conspiracy. Is there evidence for either side?
Except the people who apparently now have the jurisdiction to 'regulate' the internet seem to wholly lack the working knowledge to do so effectively.
Aaaaand ... the other shoe has just dropped:

http://order-order.com/2013/07/24/poll-result-86-of-readers-...

Guido Fawkes is talking to his lawyers about Libel. (Which under English law -- the reforms haven't gone through yet -- places the burden of proving that she didn't damage his reputation squarely on Claire Petty's shoulders.)

I'm just astonished that an MP appears to have been so ignorant of the law of her own land (and how it applies to twitter) that she left herself wide open to this.
Do you have to read a tech blog? HN, RSS, Twitter and Techmeme should enable you to find the best stories, though you'll inevitably miss a few....

Otherwise it depends on your interests. I'm most likely to check out Anandtech, Ars Technica, Wired, and some ZDNet bloggers.
I think it's hard to quantify amount learned from X vs. Y, speaking as a student who goofed off almost all the time I was in college, there's still stuff from classes I took nearly thirty years ago that gives me fresh insights.
You don't have to learn or understand anything to circumvent these filters

All the skills you need is to be able to mindlessly follow a guide

Just like with the blocking of the pirate bay, most people will know someone who can help them circumvent it
I'm not 100% sure I agree with me either. :)

I agree with your point. Being a mass publishing medium is what has kept the internet in anarchy thus far. In some cases, I think it will be possible to regulate publishers with some success. If you can get 10-20 companies to comply, you're covering most of the web.

For porn, that's not going to work. But, a filter probably will.

Censorship and contend restrictions don't need to be airtight. They never are. It's enough to just move things from mainstream to marginal. Seeing breasts, arses & fleeting (preferably comical) glimpses of balls is normal and OK, but unadvisable for young children. Genitalia in non sexual contexts is new, but now OK too (thank you embarrassing bodies). You can watch that with your friends or teenage kids. Genitalia in a sexual context is not OK. You look at that alone with a laptop in shame. You have to buy it from licensed sex shops with darkened windows.

Regulations & mainstream public opinion cross influence each other but actual line is more or less defined by TV standards and practices.

All internet porn (or political opinion or any subject of cencorship) filtering has to do is reclaim the control of that line. If you have to call up and ask for porn access or use tor to get it, it might let them do that.
GUIdebook
You clearly haven't read the specs: Fastest multi-core CPU

/s
I'd prefer to think that it's not driven by the dehumanising worship of the great God market, but instead by not wanting to treat humans as fungible cattle.

Unlikely, but if we don't dream we won't rise.
Facebook takes steps to let you say why you hide ads, stories in Newsfeed
My apologies, I was in a hurry; I'll try to put more effort into presentation in future. Are there prominent guidelines for good-looking code in Rust?
They can be found under the heading "Technical specifications" toward the bottom of their Indiegogo project page.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge
I think this was the right thing to do on his part. Things like this are unacceptable.
Snowden 'allowed to leave airport'
What do you think of my social app?
I created a simple web app to allow you to like your facebook friends that are crushes and see which crushes like you back. If your crush likes you back, then you both get notified. And if your crush doesn't like you back your crush will not find out that you like them.
And even if the software sucks, it's got a screen made of synthetic sapphire and a body made of an alloy so hard that when civilization collapses around you, you can use it as a hand-axe!

(I ordered one yesterday: I am a sucker for this sort of shiny.)
What does "one space" even mean? Does it mean only one character's width? No, because that varies. Does it mean the same width as all other spaces? No, because as explained above typesetting systems often make the space longer, and many traditional typographers did likewise. Does it mean only pressing the spacebar once? No, because that won't make a difference in many systems like TeX, HTML.

It's just a typographical shibboleth, nothing more.
Seems it is picking up speed again. If they could keep the price below 700$ for everyone, I think it might even go through, but then they'd probably go bankrupt.

As a side-note, it's insane that raising $32 million with crowdfunding actually does not seem that impossible anymore.
I think that if you had an incredibly bright kid in a first world country you probably would have more interesting things for that kid to do than get a Microsoft Certification. (And it totally sucks she died at 16.)
Will it be possible to use device as a phone with Ubuntu as Os or will it have to be running Android to use the device as a phone ?
I can honestly say I didn't expect this to happen. Hopefully Snowden can rebuild his life in Russia.
well a huge number of things are already banned/illegal: CP being one of them. do you have a problem with that? Note sure why making hardcore porn opt-in is such a big deal.
Understand your point and shipping on Kickstarters is often ill-considered.

But, please bear in mind that this is one way that the UK is not very well joined up with the rest of the EU:

International shipping from the UK is awkward and expensive compared to domestic shipping (at least in small volumes) - for example, it's unlikely the local Post Office in Abergavenny would even handle an international parcel of this size and weight.

The ultimate difference in cost is probably >10GBP from the quotes I can find on parcels of an appropriate size and weight, although it's difficult to say.
And as a proxy to happiness, the buying power of the dollar varies from one person to the next.

I agree with the author's advice, accepting that it was directed towards entrepreneurs. However, it's also perfectly fine to not desire more money than you already have.
Mobile Malware Targeting Android 'Master Key Vulnerability' Found in the Wild
I created a simple web app to allow you to like your facebook friends that are crushes and see which crushes like you back. If your crush likes you back, then you both get notified. And if your crush doesn't like you back your crush will not find out that you like them.
No, really, the debt to depositors was owed in bitcoins. Don't know why I'm getting downvoted. It is a fact.
> In Belgium we had a new minister of finance appointed in March, who as far as I know has never even been up for election

Amateurs :) Italy has had a wholly-unelected Prime Minister for two years: he was nominated Life Senator by the President and sworn in as PM a day later. In every other parliamentary democracy, this would have been called a coup d'état, but Italy works more like South-American banana republics.

And the best thing is, he was drafted exactly on the basis of domain knowledge (he was a banker and euro-bureaucrat) for a country still in the grip of wide-scale economic crisis, and all his ministers were appointed on the same basis: lots of academics, high-profile intellectuals, bankers and industrialists. Results were underwhelming to say the least, and last Spring voters basically disposed of this group in a general election. But the President all but re-elected himself (to another 7-year term, which is unprecedented) and again hand-picked a PM who's basically forced to follow the same political platform of his "golpist" predecessor.

So yeah, domain knowledge won't save your ass. Political problems are always political, not technical, and require political solutions, i.e. people shouting that this will not do, do that instead.
I think you're looking at this as too much of a conspiracy.

This is just attempting to gain the control they had before and have now over every other media. They can prevent hard porn on TV or in the window displays of high street video rental shops. Why not the internet?

From their perspective the internet is a loophole they are trying to shut down.

Internet freedom happened incidentally as a side effect of how the technology worked. It wasn't brought around by ideology like traditional "free press" was.
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