skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a documentary on the BBC a while back about the liberation of Auschwitz, and the doctor that had to find a method of re-feeding the survivors safely. IIRC quite a few died when being put back on "normal" food.
I think the problem is that the Edge campaign flattened out so early. The link you provided seems to go flat at about the 50% funding mark. The Edge (appears to have) stalled at 20%. Unless it's just a transient bump, that seems far too soon.
Maybe have a list of charities and send the funds to a random one?
> if nothing changes, the Ubuntu Edge will fail. Let’s hope something changes

At the very least, time will change.
You could try to address "non-dev people" with this kind of tool.

"Alerts when your shop breaks"
Basically CI but on the live system (with a testuser) and daily report emails and instant alerts.
I do wonder about the sense in the enterprise bundle being $10,000 more for 100 phones than it is to order 50 of the $1400 2 phone deal.
No they don't, so it doesn't show anything more than theoretical potential. Potential that is not available to customers. So it's a form a fraud really.
That flat line is a lot closer to 100% than they are though, I wonder whether flatlining around 20% and then funding would be precedented, I suspect not.
Do Not Track is silly.

For example: You come on to my site, I want to know how you're using it, I don't want your personal details, I just want to see how you're interacting with the site I've made for you. Why do I want to know? Well it depends on the purpose of the site, but for the most part it is so that I can optimise and improve what my site offers to you and others.

But you've politely requested that I don't track you. For starters this should only ever be a polite request, not a forced rejection of any tracking scripts. I have a right to track how people use my site. You have a right to privacy, but that's got bugger all to do with you coming on to my site, once you've made that choice you are within my domain, under my roof, living by my rules. Until you leave of course.

Some sites may respect that request, but they're the kind of site who have no need to track behaviour anyhow, and are likely not tracking to begin with. kind of makes the request moot.

People get way too offended by analytics tracking when it's there for their benefit. The internet would be one ugly place if webmasters and designers had no clue how people were interacting with it. If you want to go back to the dark ages then feel free to try. But you won't benefit from the advances we've made or are yet to make because of large scale, anonymous tracking across the web.

I've no respect for Do Not Track. It is a silly, backwards, progress-endangering concept that should be burnt on a pyre.

Think of a scenario where a site is maliciously tracking you, where a forced browser level request could to not track be sent, and maybe we'll talk. But then again I'll probably just retort that any malicious tracking will have a way around such a forced request, and so it's pointless.

Do Not Track is snake oil for the conscientious objector.
May I ask exactly why this needs to be on here? All you've posted is a picture of an alert box. No description as to how exactly you accomplished this.
I would assume the steep end of the typical Kickstarter curve occurs because projects start to approach their funding goals, drawing in a lot of new backers because they believe the project will actually get off the ground. If the Ubuntu Edge fundraising already stalls $20M before they reach their funding goal, I yet have to see if they are able to create a spike in their backing just before their deadline...
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In that case we should also have iOS 6, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.1.4. Suddenly there are a lot more versions of iOS.

Also many of those ROMs might only run on a dozen devices, trimming the long tail, remove say any ROM used by < 100 people, might be a good idea.
This is senior high school analytics and stating failure as a certainty with this simple model is over-reaching, not to mention, Mark Shuttleworth's money.
This work is amazing! Neoberg you are the best about css-only jobs :)
The enterprise bundle includes a workshop and added support.
I have no idea if it'll hit the mark, I just think the analysis doesn't hold water because it doesn't acknowledge the real dynamics of these types of campaigns.

This campaign could go so many different ways. The safest bet is that it won't succeed, simply because it is so groundbreakingly large. However, how many times have crowdfunding campaigns surprised you with their level of success? For me, the answer to that question is "tons of times". So I'm not taking a guess on whether it'll succeed. I'm just saying, "Good luck!".
> Architecture is doing the right thing when growth can be handled by adding more of the same stuff. You want to be able to scale by throwing money at a problem which means throwing more boxes at a problem as you need them. If your architecture can do that, then you’re golden.

Source:
http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/4/15/scaling-pinterest-...
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The poster you responded to said:

> I don't understand why people keep buying this company's god damn products. I mean, holy shit.

And you responeded that the SG4 had some better metrics than it's competition, but did no consider what made a better phone. Benchmark apps are one of those metrics that people consider, and has now shown to be misleading.

Even the higher CPU freq doesn't mean app performance is better, or even that general user experience is better.

Stop it with the metrics!
Am I going to be able to download editable documents for use in other word processors? Or am I limited to just PDF?
Would it not be greatly dependant on how far the project gets in that initial funding. The projects that overshoot in the final days are generally ones that are 60-80% funded.
I've even seen people with wing-mirrors attached to the monitor!

That said, I tend to get over it and browse what I feel like, even if my screen can be seen. Accusations of timewasting have rarely been forthcoming because I'm still very productive.
With the filastruder project (DIY plastic filament extruder) that should be possible. However, 3D printers don't like too much recycled material (at least not for ABS) so you would have to add it along with new ABS pellets.
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You make two good points, but only the first one is structural. How do you keep information secure if it's meant to be semi-public? That's a rather fundamental question, and I don't have an answer to it. There must be a better way than storing everything in plain text in a centralized database, though.

Just think about it: the current communication tools store all the world's communication in plain text databases on American soil. No wonder the NSA engineered access to it - it is a prize too good to be true. I think we can and should at least try to change that.

Regarding the availability and use of PGP key pairs and related technology: you're right. Almost no one uses them, save for security enthusiasts. They're difficult to use, overly technical, make you feel like a paranoid conspiracy theorist and are frankly a pain. Those are all issues that could be overcome, though. There are no real, actual, structural reasons why good security has to be difficult to use.

But what I'm really wondering about is the best way forward. Like I said, I would strongly prefer a political solution, but I'm skeptical if that will ever pan out. I've been mulling this for a while, and if we would really want decentralized, encrypted, open source means of communications, shouldn't we take a structural approach to this?
Working in Hospital QI, and having had access to the University Health Consortium data for a while (a level of detail and transparency that consumers and researchers only wish they could get their hands on), I can honestly tell you that:

a) The "top" hospitals really do tend to rank well (though not perhaps in the general order you would suspect), and

b) Even at that level of transparency, they game the system so f'n hard I'm not sure the results mean anything. Any study with data less thorough than the UHC is even less meaningful.

To quote the CQO at my old job, "I have more data than any quality officer has ever had before, and I didn't know where to send my wife [for her delivery]."
In response to the couple of people who commented, "But that graph was close to 100% before it spiked" look at this one: http://flippfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/FinalFundingC...

Basically, these things always spike at the end (if they have any traction), and I'd be willing to bet all the money in my bank account that this will spike at the end. The only real question is whether that spike will get them to their goal.
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They targeted it wrong, the early adopter bonus shouldn't have been a cheaper phone it should have been a more expensive but exclusive colourway.
> Encryption can be circumvented. It's hard, but doable for a state, when it targets one high-value suspect. But if everything is encrypted, they can't go "big data" on it and collect everything about everyone

That's what they (NSA) actually are doing/trying to do right now, collecting everything about everyone and decrypting it later when/if needed.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-ns...
I believe walls made of glass also have a legal purpose. If 2 coworkers (say a male boss and a female subordinate) can go completely isolated in a room, the female risks actual harassment while the male risks a false accusation on harassment.

The wall made of glass removes this liability. It can still have a phonic isolation.
Sure but smartcards and HSMs are slow and in a properly managed environment are much safer than memory.

Whether or not the OP has an HSM is moot. The OP said, "I want to design and implement a solution as secure as it can be" ... and that means (among many other things) keys on HSM.
But that's not the first port of call. For instance, I've worked with a few companies that were perplexed why their site was going slow when they had invested heavily in great servers. It turns out the code was terrible.
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I worked at a major semiconductor company in Silicon Valley for many years. I interviewed thousands of candidates, many of who were older than me.

I noticed that older engineers seemed to bifurcate into two groups: the ones who were curious about everything, and the ones who stayed in their box.

The ones who were curious about everything remained great engineers. They tinkered with new technologies, read books about software project management, wrote cool little programs in unusual languages like Haskell or Scheme, etc. These guys were invariably great engineers, and their experience was just icing on the cake.

The ones who stayed in their niche of writing x86 assembly, COBOL applications for mainframes or writing the same class of network drivers for Linux for fifteen years were usually awful.

I don't doubt that there is actual ageism out there. However, when I did interviews I never cared. However, I also noticed that the "lazy engineers" hadn't really done anything in their career to expand their skill set beyond the minimum their employers required them to do, and I could see why they were not employable. The older "curious, passionate" engineers I hired worked out awesome.
> enterprise bundle being $10,000

$80,000
What I'd like to see is a very basic cheap open mobile device.

It might even have to shun making calls because of the proprietary hardware/software stack. Is it possible to make an open/free mobile phone right now?

Alternatively you could use wifi, wireless and peer to peer. A very cheap instant grid/alt internet would be nice.

Interesting the way that Google have opted for their HDMI dongles. I'm surprised we haven't seen a similar offering from the Ubuntu camp. Do we really need the display?
Cheaper, but also worse for employee health and morale, is not necessarily cheaper in the long-term.

Movable glass walls and partitions address most of your other concerns, I think.
I usually work out in a fasted state. I dont really mess around with supplements. Full Disclosure: I was fat, and now I am skinny. My bf is at 14%, so I am not ripped like hollywood, but I have made some good gains with this protocol and also feel better than ever. I am not a bodybuilder, just a dude trying to be relatively fit.

I eat all my food in a 4 hour window, 6-10 at night. Usually I workout from 3-4. I like lean gains, but I mainly follow the Warrior Diet put out by Ori Hoffmekler. He is waaaay ahead of his time.

In my opinion there is no 'right' diet for everyone, but definitely worth trying different things to see what works for you.
You didn't answer the question. You were asked what features would make a Google Doc user switch, and instead of naming those you went full PR and named the features (at least two out of three) Google Docs have.

This kind of dishonesty and bullshit will stain your image. Please don't treat us like morons.
God is perfectly just. Joseph was imprisoned for 7 years. That's how he earned his blessing. No pain, no blessing.

God says...
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the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go
in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.

46:11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall
be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as
he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

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>> I have a right to track how people use my site.

But you don't have a right to say what runs on my computer, or make it tell you what I'm doing. This is where our perceived rights collide.

>> once you've made that choice you are within my domain, under my roof, living by my rules.

No, my computer, my browser, my roof, my rules.

>> People get way too offended by analytics tracking when it's there for their benefit.

No, people get offended when you try to turn their computer into a device that spies on them. And we get more offended that this sort of stuff happens without most people even being aware its going on. They may or may not object to it, but right now they don't even know.

And it's so lovely of you to have made the decision for me that it's to my benefit, so I don't have to worry about pesky things like privacy concerns, or having control over my own computing.

>> Do Not Track is snake oil for the conscientious objector.

This is about the only thing we agree on. It's pointless and it was never going to achieve anything.
Some cheap NAT devices rewrites stuff that "looks like" the internal IP addresses inside the TCP payload, in a hackish attempt to "fix" things like FTP and other protocols that send addresses in the payload. A really stupid and dangerous way to do things, but it's been known to happen.
I surmised something similar on day 1, i.e. the interested audience will mostly be highly internet-connected early-adopter geeks. They will have heard about it very quickly, so it's not going to "go viral" and reach a much wider audience later on in the campaign.

The enthusiastic early adopters are more likely to pledge in the first few days and so a steeper than usual drop-off is likely. It's also a very ambitious target amount.
The discussion is good and also a great example for Mozilla caring (especially that it is discussed in the open for all to see).
> the enterprise bundle being $10,000 more for 100 phones than it is to order 50

Try reading to the end of the sentence.
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Well, I don't agree with your premise, that I haven't addressed any of their criticisms.

A main theme underlying their complaint is that there's "numerous examples of substantial and fundamental innovation happening all the time."

But Bret Victor clearly knows this. Obviously, he does not think every-single-person-in-the-world has failed to pursue other computational models. The question is, how does the mainstream programming culture react to them? With hostility? Aggressive ignorance? Is it politically hard for you to use these ideas at work, even when they appear to provide natural solutions?

Do we live in a programming culture where people choose the technologies they do, after an openminded survey of different models? Does someone critique the complectedness of the actor model, when explaining why they decided to use PHP or Python? Do they justify the von Neumann paradigm, using the Connection Machine as a negative case study?

There are other shaky points on these HN threads. For instance, inferring that visual programming languages were debunked, based on a few instances. (Particularly when the poster doesn't, say, evaluate what was wrong with the instances they have in mind, nor wonder if they really have exhausted the space of potential visual languages.)
Do you think that with new marketing, they can reach lots of potential backers who haven't already been reached? Bear in mind that the target market is highly geeky and highly connected. And so are likely to have seen the articles on HN and reddit already.
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This is definitely not representative of all Java shops, but I'd agree that some (many) are as you describe. I think the perspective that I get from JUG, where I have interacted regularly with hundreds of Java pros over a 10+ year period, gives me a sense of the morale of the Java community and their feelings about Java.

I wrote an article about this last year (http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2012/07/11/advice-from-a-jug-lead...) that goes into the sudden spike in interest for topics that were not Java language specific, and our transition into a group focused more around the JVM than just the language. This transition was driven by what I generally considered the unofficial though leadership of the group, who were gravitating away from the language. This is just around the time of the Sun acquisition when this became most obvious, which may have precipitated some of the changes.
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Every iPhone release is a sea of specs: Number of GPU cores, pixel density, thinnest, lightest, made of raw holistic unobtanium, number of apps in the App Store, display metrics, etc.

Despite the truly ridiculous claims to the contrary, the iPhone has always been about specs, where in many cases it is the leader (such as having the perennial market leading GPUs)
They are using 16,777,214 IP addresses? I think that's quite a stretch. I work at a company that has 19,000 employees with locations all over the world. We couldn't make a dent in 16.7MM routeable IP addresses.
This is why I eat only at night. I sleep better with some food in me and cant sleep while hungry. Try fasting during the day if the night time fast doesnt work for you.
Now that was sick use of CSS.
> People get way too offended by analytics tracking when it's there for their benefit.

Strong disagree. Whether a user finds benefit from tracking is the opinion of the user, not the opinion of the site doing the tracking.

It's very arrogant for a site to say "I'm doing this to you for your benefit", especially if it's not made clear what this is. If you find yourself having to tell someone that what you are doing is for their benefit, without explaining exactly what you are doing and why, you can safely assume it's not genuinely for their benefit.

I can agree that malicious tracking cannot be prevented - but this does not mean that benign sites are implicitly permitted to maliciously track people. That is totally unethical.
You are trolling or joking, right? Or where do you live?
On the upside - there's a possibility that a few 3D printed components could save a lot of 99.5% "working" manufactured assemblies from ending up in landfill.
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"once you've made that choice you are within my domain"

Often, I haven't made that decision; an ad/tracking/analytic company has made the decision for me and often not for my benefit.

If I'm visiting a site that talks about rocketry and I'm suddenly being served ads for fishing lures and rods because 10 minutes prior, I was searching for fishing reels, it feels creepy. And it's entirely your opinion that feeling creepy about being served ads for something I'm not currently looking at is wanting "to go back to the dark ages".

Take it in another way. If I'm visiting a flea market on Saturday morning and going by some stalls that sell home made cookies and such, I'm fine getting a flyer for pastries, donuts and cakes. I'm not fine getting a flyer for an 18 pack of socks at the cookie stall because Friday night after work, I went shopping for boxers at a completely different place.

Since many advertisers seem to have the Zuckerberg mindset when it comes to privacy and the mere notion of wanting to remain "un-caterered to" no matter how helpful and in my benefit you think it is, we're forced to take measures into our own hands.

BTW... Mozilla.org not respecting Do Not Track is exactly what I expected since they've decided that my request is needless considering what they produce.
You're completely right - to me the phone is worth $600-650 because that's what I could have bought it for early on.

There's no way they'll get me to shell out +$200 now. The reward system feels like penalising those who back late, rather than rewarding those who back early.
^^that's Marc Andreessen FYI, those of you downvoting him.
> What I'd like to see is a very basic cheap open mobile device

Raspberry Pi and a battery?

> It might even have to shun making calls because of the proprietary hardware/software stack.

The cellular side can be on a separate baseband processor that talks to the outside world using good old fashioned AT commands[1] pretending to be a serial device. At that point you don't care how proprietary it is since any kernel and userspace can work with it. The current proprietary problem area is graphics (binary blobs abound) and often some other pieces (eg bluetooth, system initialization and bootloaders)

OpenMoko[2] did do open phones, although IIRC there was one proprietary piece.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko
I agree and I've seen that; however, the point of the article is that ideally you have rock-solid code and the only sane way to scale is just to add more of the same resources as the codebase is already optimized.

The reason I posted the quote was to answer your on your remark that it isn't a solution - it is close to an ideal solution actually, but not applicable everywhere and at any time (e.g. sloppy/non-optimized code as you pointed out).

Hope this makes sense.
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When I owned an ISP in 1996 I paid a larger ISP money to suballocate a range of a couple /24s to me. This happens all the time - look up any random netblock on arin.net.