skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$0.1/month from ads in a free iPhone app.
Stripe is about as good as Braintree in my experience (at least in terms of online payments processing and powering a shopping cart), and has fantastic customer service. But if Braintree is working, why switch now? Stripe is really easy to integrate if you have to later.

Braintree kills its competitors in P2P payments though. Venmo has been a huge improvement in my life.
$12, smaller http://www.femtoduino.com/spex/femtoduino
Not the case for Pyramid for example...
They're posting in reference to [1] I believe. It's supposed to be a funny comment. They are pretty damn well covered in this department, I agree.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6398650
Awesome! Running $tput colors will tell you if you have 256 or not (mine shows 8). I am on ubuntu and found a tutorial to upgrade - will give it a try just so I can run this.

Slightly off-topic, I had some fun with tput about a month ago here: http://max.io/bash.html ...but it only supports 8 colors. Maybe I can upgrade with this new knowledge. Thank you!
It is possible to run Ubuntu on a Surface Pro, so I don't see why you can't dual boot the Surface Pro 2 as well.
I was on the same boat until Ansible. It's so simple to use. If you have a couple of days to spare, you will pretty much know almost everything you need to. It also doesn't require setting up any infrastructure so you don't have to worry about spinning up some master server.
I don't understand. You want to do a non-GNU/Linux OS or what? Or "just another GNU/Linux distro"?
The new keyboard covers have a proximity sensor. The backlight is only on when your hands are near it.
No, I don't believe it ever did. It had several classified missions, but I don't think any of them could have plausibly been used for stealing spy satellites.
disclaimer: author of project here.

Achieving a middle ground was one of the points of creating the project -- making configuration tools more accessible to everybody, that you can forget and come back to in six months and still know how to work with.

I definitely would be interested in your feedback after your trying things, but I think that's exactly the point Matt was trying to make in the article.
That seems bizarre in the UK. I pay $24/mo and get truly unlimited data, with tethering included, as well as 2000 minutes and 5000 texts (and receiving doesn't come out of your allowance in the UK, the caller pays that fee).

It's absolutely cheaper to buy devices outright here.

Example of Three's One Plan for a 32GB 5s (£):

24 mo contract
Device 99
Plan 46
24 mo total = 1203

12 month contract + BYOD
Device 629
Plan 15
24 mo total = 989
I make about $300/mo with https://broker.mapthatpad.com. Not even close to what I originally was intending (and the amount of time I've spent building it) but to be honest, I have not been doing a whole lot in terms of marketing and selling it at the moment.

I hope to do more selling/marketing in the future and get this monthly number higher.
I totally understand where you're coming from. That's actually why I wrote this. Many of the existing tools just don't have the ROI for smaller systems. The exciting thing is that there are new tools to choose from that have dramatically lower barrier to entry. I'd encourage you to check them out when you have a chance. Also, would love to hear if you ultimately use one, please feel free to email me.
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That was entirely readable even for those without coffeescript experience. It's just nested objects.
Can you supply more details - maybe I am missing something. My EC2 instance has been up for 249 days now and my node.js webserver instance seems very responsive. I still think it's a reasonable trade-off in terms of cost. My time is expensive, and to be honest even a few hundred dollars a month extra in server cost is not important. This is a research project, not a commercial website, so my needs may be different than most.
If you're in public, you have no expectation of privacy. So as cameras and facial recognition roll out further, you won't be able to go to another person's house to do that face-to-face without the metadata being created anyway.
I get their fraud protection focus. A huge reason they stay around is that you can use them without a merchant ID, which banks are a lot more hesitant to hand out these days. However, Stripe, and more recently, Shopify Payments, offer the same advantage without the PayPal-ness.
How much traffic do you receive a day?
Charlatan hijacks iPhone 5S fingerprint hack contest, fools press
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Whats wrong with FreeBSD?
:-)

Well I do have a number of decades of experience dealing with hr/ir issues and I am sure that any HR professional would agree with me that 4 interviews is two to many - I might allow a phone interview plus two FTF.
>> PayPal is one of the worst run companies I can think of aside from eBay.

Probably related.
usually they record everything... Here are the links to previous years: http://cufp.org/videos
scaffolding doesn't require class based views ...
So, at the 2012 I/O conference Google announced there were 425million gmail users. I'll tack an extra 75million to make things an even 500mil for growth over the last year. That's 12million affected users.
Giving iPhone5s to complete stranger
https://www.facebook.com/avinash.s.tomar
Braintree is much better.
Yes. In fact, I'm not aware of a failsafe method to guard against digital surveillance at any price save not using computers.
Publicly traded companies even if they do "charity", they do it expecting good PR in return. Any other kind of charity (i.e. done without publicity, only to make the world a better place) would be against their duty to the shareholders.
Ooh lovely!
[1] In my opinion, privacy is obsolete in a world where people voluntarily give over to third parties every detail about their lives, but reasonable minds can differ on that point.

A free society can only accept the obsolescence of privacy if there's a suitable replacement that affords the same level of independence of thought and action.
https://angel.co/help/syndicates

It could be used for larger rounds, but there's understandable fear about "lead-less" rounds.
I don't have before and after shots, but I've been on a similar journey for the last 4 months (since my wife and I found out that she was pregnant). Over the previous 3 years I'd been packing on more and more weight and decided that I wanted to be fitter and healthier by the time the baby comes.

I do the 7 minute work out every week day morning. I've also started running up and down the 7 flights of stairs at work once a day. I try not to eat before 2pm. I eat smaller portions than previously.

I feel excellent. I haven't lost much weight if any (I don't regularly weigh myself). My gut is smaller (down 2 holes in my belt). My muscles larger.

In the beginning I struggled to do 5 pushups. I can bang out 30 with out much effort now. Similar for all the other exercises in the 7 min set.

I've started extending each exercise from 30 seconds to 45 seconds. Which is an option on the android app I've switched to using: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manatlan.a...
Iptables is easy. You just need the following ports open:
3306, 4567, 4444, 4568.

I can say that getting it working with selinux is a pain. I have a TE file available if someone needs to get it working which I can upload somewhere.
Interview with John Graham-Cumming at OSCON
If there's any confusion, that's absolutely what I plan on doing - but I firmly believe that if it's kept simple/lightweight that it's more than doable. The GUI portions slightly worry me, but they're not happening until much later down the line
The resources of the Russian space program had to be prioritized, and the Buran didn't make the grade. Had shuttles actually been as great as everybody claimed, it would have.

From wikipedia:

Commenting on the discontinuation of the program in his interview to New Scientist, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov confirms their accounts: "We had no civilian tasks for Buran and the military ones were no longer needed. It was originally designed as a military system for weapon delivery, maybe even nuclear weapons. The American shuttle also has military uses.[5]"

Its not like everything stopped in the early 90s; they continued to run Progress and Soyuz missions.
That's exactly why I actively discourage the use of names. I'd much rather see "apt: pkg=foo" than "Ensure foo is installed" in my logs. Especially when I have a large number of hosts.
Invest in Startups
Not really. Since both run different apps then they should be distinctly separate products, and tacking "RT" or "Pro" or any other moniker does a disservice to everybody involved -- both developers and consumers.
1) The hardware would cost more

2) It would cost money to add the device to your Mobile account

3) You can just use the mobile hotspot feature on your phone and connect through that. Its easy on my Nokia 928.

Hell, half the time I have my wife's iphone connected to my phone via WIFI because she has AT&T (for work reasons) and they suck most places we go.
What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About the Change in General Solicitation Law
Okay, I'll bite. My budget is more than $4 a month, but not thousands. Is there any way to keep myself secure from the NSA/CIA/FBI/DEA/etc in a simple VPN-way?
Yes, but also about Blok-D - the fifth stage of N1-L3 stack - being used on Proton and Zenit today for launching telecom sats to GEO, and also about Soyuz spacecraft - which got a lot of development in preparation for Moon flights.
When the doctor doesn't always know best
Sounds great. What kind of plugins? Where do you sell them?
Have a look at this [0][1], Chapter 6 should give you a some idea.

0: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35290.html

1: http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdfplus/10.2200/S00193ED1V... [PDF]
They do have 100% uptime, right?
Why does Apple get a pass on this? They have just taken the alternative approach of fracturing their OS and hardware. It's natural because of where they started (iPod -> iPhone -> iPad), so this isn't a criticism.

As a consequence, this is one area where MS is ahead of Apple (even if MS is having difficulties reconciling the tablet vs. desktop experience). MS has touch on the desktop. When is Apple going to have touch on Mac Books?

I know SJ said vertical touch screens don't work. They will continue to say so until they add touch. Undoubtedly, they'll do it well, and it will be well integrated with the OS. But they'll continue to say it doesn't work...until it does. Similar to the movement to flat with nary a mention of Metro.

So Apple has the challenge of bringing their user-level of their OS offerings closer together (along with the hardware), whereas MS has the challenge of dealing with the Metro/Desktop schism and the x86/ARM dichotomy. Same coin, different sides.
You've misread the problem.

Apple DOES have an X86 ecosystem AND an ARM ecosystem. They do not cross streams and customers are not confused, and Apple can successfully grow application ecosystems across two very different architectures.

So what is Microsoft doing wrong?

It's very simple, and I cannot believe they haven't already done this. I'm thinking that the naming scheme for their ARM platform is why they're balking, since they've stupidly named their ARM ecosystem "Windows Phone".

Apple succeeds by maintaining separation between the ecosystems, and that's where MS is failing.

MS needs to realign:

Surface means x86 tablet. Period. End of story. It's a high end tablet for those who need more than an iDevice, who want a full laptop in a tablet shell. Surface means quality. Surface means x86, and it means desktop compatible.

Windows Phone, including Windows Phone Tablet (Surface RT) means ARM. Period. The WP8 ecosystem and it's tablet arm should be the branding covering the ARM ecosystem.

I'm thinking that the name "Windows Phone" for the ecosystem is what dissuaded them from trying to attach the tablet to that ecosystem.
Apparently "SME" means "Small & Medium Enterprises".
Relax.

They have clearly made some sort of a bet on ARM, if it doesn't pan out they will drop it soon enough.
You're probably right about the apple brand stores. My personal network didn't relay it that way though. Time will tell if these are sustainable sales figures. They are certainly impressive no matter what. But with a year between phones, I don't think a weekend hit sales model is the best way to do things.
What if you were trying to start Google today (assuming it didn't exist), and you had to bootstrap with maybe only $500 available to spent per month? How would you guys do it?
> According to wikipedia the processors that PA Semi make are not used in any of Apple's current devices.

This is misleading. PA Semi used to make Power chips. Apple uses only ARM and x86 now, so of course anything from PA Semi isn't in any apple products. But, we won't hear any announcements about PA semi's work anymore since PA Semi has stopped its Power business and its 150 employees were subsumed into Apple. Apple claims to have designed the custom ARM chips in their iDevices. You think they are lying about that? They certainly have the engineering power to do it...

> I was referring to the Nexus 4 in my price comparison. A phone which is in the process of being replaced with a new version very soon. It's a good phone.

Yes, the Nexus 4 is a good phone. It's not a "great" phone. The camera quality is terrible; when you put it face down on a table the ringer is mostly inaudible; the battery life leaves much to be desired; speaker quality is bad; no LTE; etc. It doesn't compete with the high end smartphones, and it's priced accordingly.

> Are my criticisms really that unreasonable?

I believe your criticisms are based upon inaccurate assumptions. Please check your facts.
OWS’s Rolling Jubilee Has Yet to Explain What They’ve Done With $590,000
You need an income of $200k/yr ($300k/yr if married) for at least two years, or a wealth of over $1m (excluding the value of your primary residence).
I considered Ruby and have worked heavily with it in the past, but it's simply too slow/heavy for this type of programming.

I can't believe I left this out of the post, but all/most new code will be written in Go - I'll explain why more clearly in my next post
In public, people instinctively have an expectation of privacy. If you started following people around with a video camera and microphone (or even just started staring at every passerby in the eye without breaking eye contact), you'd get a lot of unhappy reactions.

Having ubiquitous automated surveillance is effectively the same as having someone follow everybody around with a camera and microphone, so the public's reaction to the latter should be used to determine policy with regard to the former.
Seven bitcoin startups pitch for funding at Boost VC demo day
Haskell does indeed look not at all like a language that one "gets" right off the bat, although statically typed monadic operations are, for me, a must have now -- transitioned from Groovy, a poor man's Ruby (as far as MOP is concerned), to Scala a couple of years ago.

Crystal looks pretty interesting, statically typed Ruby with extreme type inference. Of course that begs the question, why not JRuby?

As for JS/CS, I love me some coffeescript, just a drag to debug the fat fingered typos, indentation mishaps, etc. wtf is going on moments.

A TypeScript/Coffeescript hybrid would be truly awesome.
That was my point that some start ups seem to think people should walk over burning coals to work for them - to much watching of sirallen of the "apprentice"/dragons den type of programs.

Its a market if you load costs (time or money) on to potential employees they are going to mark you down.
Patents, Lawsuits, and the Future of Yoga
I believe the JOBS act is supposed to eliminate this requirement but it hasn't been implemented by the SEC yet unfortunately.
About 400 - 500 visitors a day. CPM is ok compared to other sites I've run adsense on. People seem to like the site.
Lawrence Krauss talks about the physics of the curvature of space and why the current consensus is that it's flat. I found this Youtube to be really helpful in understanding something of the subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0HqZxXZK7c
Improvely reached $10,000/mo RR recently, less than a year from launch (https://www.improvely.com).

I also run W3Counter (freemium) and a couple smaller services and paid plugins for Shopify stores.
Or a net worth >$1mil

At least, that's what it's always been. I'm not sure if the new law changes this; it was pretty ambiguous about that (at least to me as I skimmed over it). This is the first I've heard that they changed the laws for being a VC
> Same with OS X

OS X is BSD with a fresh coat of paint. It really depends if you want to consider the whole experience (which I consider less stellar than most people would care to admit) or the internals (which are the same old unix stuff).
;)
http://codecanyon.net/user/nCrafts
I set up a mailing list right at the beginning (there's a signup link way at the bottom of the landing page, need to make that more prominent) that generated quite a bit of interest. My website by itself generates a decent amount of traffic as well. It's also been featured in a few podcasts and email newsletters which generate traffic and sales.
The paper makes more modest claims -

* Although HICT can be an efficient means by which to improve health and decrease body fat, it may be inferior to creating absolute strength and power, specific endurance, and other specific performance variables (3). If these are the goals of a program, as with competitive athletes, traditional programs may elicit greater absolute gains.

[...]

HICT seems to be an efficient means of exercise to help decrease body fat, improve insulin sensitivity, and improve V˙O2max and muscular fitness.*

http://journals.lww.com/acsm-healthfitness/Fulltext/2013/050...

Personally, I think the guy gets much more attractive as time goes on. Much less fat and better defined muscles.

Granted he's not completely stacked or anything, but I don't think that's what the program was designed to do - and some guys look silly with huge muscles anyway.
Fitocracy introduces Group Fitness to open professional training to the masses
Widowspeak
> Can you imagine Apple, or anyone else, deliberately releasing two different tablets, with the same name, which can not run each others' software?

Apple actually managed two very smooth transition/coexistence periods, from 68K to PPC and from PPC to x86, when it was easy to build binaries that ran on both platforms.
In my opinion, ansible only beats puppet here in ease of initial setup. I even find the equivalent puppet script for this task to be a tad bit clearer. But we're talking just syntax now. I only see now just how similar puppet and ansible (and perhaps chef too) are. What with the ensure'ing and all.

Puppet is a bit difficult to setup (not too much, mind you, it does its own key generating and being a PKI on first setup just fine, and you can run it from its own internal webserver until you have to go all "webscale"), but after that it hums along nicely. Haven't had too much complaining to do.

Except that they changed the string escaping rules somewhere in the 2.7.x branch, which debian of course pushed because it's in the same point release. That was fun.
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Counterpoint on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1mycoe/the_average...
Right. Once upon a time, the physical control over our bodies and our personal property was an adequate definition of privacy. Yes, there were many corner cases, even two centuries ago, but it was "good enough" approximately always. Why make messy legislation over small problems? The Constitution never even tried to touch these issues.

Over time the importance of all those corner cases has expanded, and the increased rate of growth of that importance is downright dizzying in the last decade or two.

In today's world we have our old fashioned physical privacy (for the most part), and HIPAA to cover some narrow issues. That is it.

In our brave new world, we do not really own our financial transaction records. For the most part those are privately owned records in the hands of various profit-driven corporations, and some of them happen to send us a copy of a subset of those records every month.

rayiner (above) discusses this topic rather well. But I want to emphasize a different point: we can have privacy but we need to recognize we are basically starting from scratch. Trying to bemoan that the laws have been broken is counterproductive -- the spies have good lawyers and they have correctly identified gigantic legal loopholes. Even if privacy advocates win a few battles, the spies are still going to win the war, until we change the basic rules of the game with new legislation.
Their push into headless Window Server deployment has certainly driven Microsoft to shore up PowerShell. Recently they're taking on declarative server configurations (ie: puppet) with their own brand of it -- Desired State Configuration.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/08/30/i...
In the meantime, it's terribly confusing to consumers and could well result in a lot of ill-will.
I don't see why people should be complaining about this. After all, in return they get so many great products, services, and... beautiful architecture to look at while driving to the nearest mall.
Oracle promises 100x faster queries with new in-memory option for databases
I always loved Shawn Hargeaves' blog post about the weather effects he did in MotoGP: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2009/04/01/motogp-w...

The interesting takeaway for me was that making something look rainy has so little to do with actual rain drops, and everything to do with the secondary effects of bad weather.
I have a friend who is a dj and has been struggling to get his music apps to work properly on his Surface; he ended up having to disable to a bunch of stuff to get it to work glitch free. So I would definitely wait to see how other people get on with the new models before jumping in.

Also, Traktor DJ and a Kontrol S2 is definitely a pro level setup for iPad...
No fortnight support?
This logic is flawed. Using this kind of math, I could determine that the average U.S. family pays: (US Govt annual revenue) / (# taxpayer families) - which would most certainly be far more money than the average family pays in taxes. This is because a large fraction of govt revenue comes from a smaller fraction of tax payers. Not saying I condone these sorts of uses of taxpayer dollars.
To address just the package concern, it's worth noting that Ansible can pin packages to a particular version, by naming the version you want installed.

Then, even if a new package is pushed to the repo, you will not receive it (and will be notified by an error by subsequent runs if it's been manually updated) until you update the inventory file.

Many things in Ansible can be pinned in similar ways.

http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/modules.html#yum
Thanks for making that subtle but important distinction, and for calling Schneier on the straw man attack.

I've been feeling a bit jaded with the Schneier posts on HN lately. Between the reposts of his columns from other newspapers (sometimes a couple of weeks later) and generic meta summary posts with a dozen links to what others are saying, I'm finding it a bit hard to pin down the really insightful Schenier pieces.

Maybe it's impossible for him to keep posting superb stuff all so often. Or maybe many of us expect each of his posts to be superb nonetheless. Or maybe both :)
The title of this article is really tilting. Does anyone defend shell scripts anymore?
In FF 26.0a1 (2013-09-23)I get the contextual menu when I right click. This sort of ruins the whole experience -- though I suppose it's nice that you're not jacking my normal mouse behavoir.