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It looks more like Apple will likely partner with a couple of satellite or cable companies and offer to recreate their TV/settop experience for them. Basically, replace Cisco and TiVO, and change the whole customer experience model to be on the set top box, no more calling in to add channels, deal with PPV issues, etc.

I would also bet they're going to try to find a way to make 4K video distribution work to have a reason to switch, perhaps building a dedicated high-speed VPN from the iTunes Store through the cable company's network where they get a cut of the price - since there's no way you could stream 4K over a wide area without dedicated QoS,.

The question is who will bite. Clearly the wireless carriers have benefitted a lot from Apple's presence - more data usage == more dollars. If Apple can do this with cable companies, they'll have a massive and eager channel to sell shiny 4K TVs and boxes through (and more iTunes content), and Cable companies will have incentive to experiment with a new a-la-carte vs. subscription content pricing model for 4K.
I wish you the best of luck with this. It's really well designed.

I launched a very similar service named Accthub about 18 months ago and unfortunately it didn't fare well. Now, there's Mozilla Persona, Stormpath, Userapp, and probably several other in the same space.

Hope you can turn it into a legit business, but the general issue developers had was:

1) This is not a legit issue I have, my framework can handle this in the matter of a few minutes, maybe an hour or two if I want something really complex.
2) Privacy concerns.
3) High availability issues.

Best of luck, I will be monitoring your service closely because I want it to do well.
You do know that the Gilette company basically INVENTED the disposable blade razor, and the concept of "loss leader" manufacturing and marketing, yes? [0] Making average guys feel that they could handle the chore of shaving themselves was always the goal. Creating tools for a service industry would have gone against 100+ years of corporate strategy. Not saying it's a GOOD thing, mind you, but your argument is kind of like taking a hog farmer to task because he's not growing potatoes.

[0] - http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/j/j/jjr5001/razor/
Not sure I understand your position.

In the spectrum of what robotics could do for society I see a wide range of truly paradigm shifting applications. These are applications that can change the lives of millions of people. They all require massive improvements in the areas I mentioned in my post. The mechanics are almost academic as is evidenced by the GE walker from 1965 [0]. In terms of mechanical engineering we could do an insanely complex machine back in 1965.

I see no point in creating something as clumsy as Wildcat when what we need are significant improvements in AI. Think of what would be required for a quadruped to be able to climb a rocky terrain like a goat. We can do the mechanics. We could do the mechanics in 1965. What we can't do yet is the reasoning, control and path planning required to complete such a task. We don't need to continue to build a bunch of useless contraptions to advance these fields. We are throwing money at the wrong problems.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGCFLEYakM
OP here.

I totally agree. Don't know how we could miss putting it up there. I will see to it that this gets the attention it needs on the front page. Thanks! :)
This pretty much sums it up:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/21/melbourne-racis...

There are some disgusting people here, I'd like to think they are the minority.
>By US standards, this actually seems to be a good salary: significantly better than working full time at minimum wage.

The cost of living in Switzerland is among the highest in the world.
And yet 19% of the GDP (by PPP) on Earth.
Apple employees let out secrets about original iPhone presentation
Today, years after the original iPhone presentation on Jan. 8 2007, Andy Grignon, and other Apple insiders share the details behind one of the best demos in the history of technology.

Turns out that the original iPhone (presented 6 months before release) was so buggy, and unstable that the perfect demo was almost an accident.
Ask HN: Hiring managers, what are your feelings on graduates of code bootcamps?
I ask because I've got a friend in one right now and was wondering how hiring managers look at applicants who come from these 8-16 week immersive code bootcamps?<p>Is there a stigma attached to them? Are they viewed as self-starters who are eager to learn? How are they judged for say entry level positions versus someone who is self taught, or someone with a formal education? Are they judged based on something they've built? Their perceived aptitude to learn?
I feel like Microsoft approached the console market this way, with a big, ugly box that only a hard core gamer could love. There are differences of course but generally, I think it's smart they're focusing on a single demographic. You can't focus on multiple demographics simultaneously since that's not really focus. Hopefully this will allow them to iterate quickly.
Ask HN: Going back to programming
I'd like to get opinions on whether going back to programming as a career in my late 30s is a good idea or not.

I was a web programmer in the first four years of my career; however then I thought I could make more money doing things like project management and spent the next ten years pushing paper.

I've done a couple of side projects in the meantime as the thought of going back to programming has kept coming back. I even attempted to do a SaaS startup but failed to get any traction.

Anyways, at this point I'm sick of pushing paper and want to go programming full-time. A few things are holding me back though:
* I can't leverage the last 10 years of my career; it would basically become a lost decade for me
* my technical skills are rusty; I'd have to most likely get a huge pay cut and start at a junior-level position
* I think recruiters are going to give me a weird look, meaning I'd most likely have to overcome additional barriers when seeking a job

So far all of the above is speculation on my part as I really don't know what I would be getting into. I'd appreciate honest opinions going either way as I have to choose my moves wisely, having a family and all.
The CPU is probably not the important thing. I am still happily gaming on a Q6600 from (I think?) 2007.
There we go. Somebody commented on my post itself saying I should try Mint!
Honestly HA doesn't really tell anyone anything about what would be my bigger concern... security of the platform.

What kinds of IDS solution do you currently have in place for starters? Are you using a software or hardware IDS? How are you doing monitoring of the IDS logs and reporting?

Have you done penetration tests beyond some sort of SaaS utility and hired a third party company to run them with a skilled analyst? How are you sanitizing input from external applications as you have to assume the incoming requests are suspect, etc.
Yes, you could.

If it's apart of my service, I want it on my servers.
In the US it has been happening, and is a fascinating anomaly. Apple has grown to 40.7% of all US mobile subscribers - and that was before the new launch.

That's massive, and completely different from the rest of the world.

http://9to5mac.com/2013/10/04/comscore-apple-gains-on-androi...
I don't understand any of your arguments! How is a single tax on land value taxing on income? Can you put an example?

I understand the tax would be on the value of the land, not on its size (from your comment I'm not sure if you understood in the same way). The tax only "forces" you to sell assets/property that you don't need or use to generate your income. I don't think this is bad.

I don't see how taxing (land) property you are taxing liquid income too. The tax amount that you will have to pay doesn't depend on your income, so it doesn't penalize your productivity (which typical tax systems do, as they require you to pay more when you earn more).
What's so striking to me is that the barriers to prototyping these peripherals for general purpose use has been lowered significantly. It was not long ago where it took days of hacking to connect a Wiimote to your PC, and even then you probably wouldn't get full functionality.

Good work and thanks for sharing!

(also, obligatory "now the NSA can estimate if they can chase you on foot")
Cars can explode after a terrible impact, it's been recorded before. I don't think a gas tank puncture would cause it unless it was some how ventilated, the gas vaporized, and then ignited.

But I know what you mean. You mean the hollywood explosion. That's not real life.
I think i read somewhere that money isn't the best motivator to get people to do the best work they can. And in general even with children they say positive enforcement should be preferred to punishment. So maybe someone doing a job cause they want to, to make more money and have a better standard of living, will get the job done better than someone being forced to do it cause otherwise he will be living on the streets. In my experience the main predictor of the quality of a job is weather the person wants to do it, or has to. The job is the same, it's the perception that's different.
Good luck. I have been using http://dailycred.com/ for an year now and very happy with it. They have free account available too which is definitely needed to try a product such as yours.
any opinion ?
Replace state over push state for this kind of history twiddling please.
That's obviously false.

For most of the companies that HNers talk about, whether they use Python or Rails or Scala or Node is only relevant in so far as it helps them iterate quickly and gain traction, and that's what investors care about.

Unless your strategy is dependent on choosing a particular technology (which, in the context of the web, usually means "build around the JVM"), your tech stack is not remarkably relevant to investors as long as it's part of an active ecosystem.
If you don't make it, others will. Creating weapons is the strongest innovation driving force, if there would be no violence we would still be picking up berries.
I've blogged a fun writeup of the math in the (unimportant and actually against Tesla) formal bias in evaluating a failure rate right after the first failure: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2013/10/estimating-rates-from...
How much bias is there in scoring Tesla after first fire?
Prices and coverage of these plans is public information. For anything involving personal data they'd do the same thing they do now.

You'd want to adjust prices to account for subsidy but that's a simple function and you could do it clientside with javascript.
I ran Ubuntu 12 or so on a 2GB C2D MacBook with lion and an SSD. Not too bad.
Great job guys! I have a feature request: is it possible to also save private keys through your service?

I would like to run Javascript on the client that gets a user's private key from you, and decrypts their data on the client.

Do you have thoughts for something like this?
Because we need can spend that energy on product development. Once your product takes off, we can migrate. But a service such as this (I use dailycred.com ) is very useful for MVPs.
Nice but I was wondering why would you develop anything on top of a deprecated (Google news) API ?
Agda!
An interesting job add
Is there really fit with this job?
Please , in every languages there are a tons of libraries dealing with these stuffs, Starter projects with these functionalities ...

At this point you are supposed to be working on the core
Presumably, people would adjust their way of living to incorporate the extra income from their job so losing the job would affect their way of life. Many people today can't "afford" to change to a lower paying job because their use to the lifestyle their current job affords them. For example, leaving industry to do a PhD can be difficult, even though the pay for a PhD student should cover basic expenses.
It's a bit misleading to say that $45 is half the price of $99 when talking about phones, because the actual price of the phone is more like $500. It's just hidden in the contract.
These are research milestones to get the next round of funding from DARPA. They are probably still many years from the goal product.
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Some similar expression is "not your dad's rock music", implying that your dad listens to rock music. In this case, the headline implies that your mom uses some kind of Bitcoin daemon, ergo she is a nerdy mom.
What were the costs and schedules of PRISM. Did it and other NSA projects run over budget? Over schedule? Did they have any deployment or scaling issues? How about usability, efficacy and support?

I would argue that collecting and data mining all the worlds data is an easier problem than integrating (U.S.) healthcare systems.

Finally, the NSA projects have suffered a most spectacular project management failure. They were revealed.
Because you will still have to compete for desirable jobs.

For menial labor, most of it can/will be automated.

For undesirable jobs that can't be automated away, employers will have to make the jobs desirable. One way to do that will be to increase the pay, but, that is not the only means for doing so. There are many things employers can do to make employment more desirable that have a low or zero net cost. I'd even argue that some of those things would save money/resources in varying amounts even absent the pressure to do so.

One very good and interesting effect that I predict is that individuals whose employment places them in ethical dilemmas will no longer have as much pressure for compliance with potentially unethical demands, since the entirety of their livelihood no longer depends upon compliance.
Are the webhooks the only integration points? Is it possible to inject some JavaScript code into the form or whatever message is shown after it's submitted for analytics?
It's something a little like this:

"We are altering the deal, pray we do not alter it any further".

Closed source, closed negotiating position.

When you buy one of these cards, you are already assuming the position to get kicked, you are just hoping not to get kicked too hard or too many times in a row. Doesn't seem like a sensible thing to do really.
no it obviously implies your mom is using an outdated bitcoind because she is a woman and knows nothing about computers; your father isn't clueless about tech. Sexist!
But the workers that don't move will still have a basic income.

Unless/until the money runs out, which might happen more quickly than you think if, indeed companies and wealthy individuals start packing up and leaving the country.
Invoicing, Price Plans and Payment. These are not normally built in. Basic user management is, but not those things.
I think more telling than this disclosure is a reader's reaction to to it:

> Why is the WaPo obsessed to publish every secret it can?
> If we are going to be kept safe from terrorists, then
> some techniques need to stay secret. However, I expect
> the WaPo would be the first to run articles wondering
> why something gets blown up, after those who would kill
> us, now can plot and organize without fear of being
> caught. Shame on you.

The fact that endpoint attacks are occurring should be obvious to anyone understanding the motivations and capabilities of the agencies. What is not obvious is that the general public fail to understand where this trend leads. They also don't understand how far it has already progressed.
Thanks, and good luck with UserApp!
I didn't mean to imply any more than what you've described, but the key point was that you could avoid practically any obstacle by gaining altitude. Drones are often controlled by human pilots while in friendly airspace and during take-offs and landings, but who'd want to fly a series of way-points when the plane can do that itself ... Instead you switch that fancy console into game mode (just kidding).
Current batteries appear to be inadequate because walking robots are so inefficient. Mine took 3000 watts to walk. ASIMO is similar. But humans require only 200 watts to run. Delivering 200 watts for 12 hours (Ironman-level endurance) takes 25 lbs of lithium batteries, which is the same ballpark as the weight of the human cardiovascular + digestive system.
How are privacy laws in Sweden?
Love it, I just redrew it into this:
http://www.julianpulgarin.com/canvaslife/

And it is a glider, effortlessly walking across my digital screen.
> why the robot's front legs are so close together

Hypothesis: The amount of force required to effect motion changes when you form a small, tightly focused fulcrum, using two legs.

I'm thinking there's some kind of efficiency gained, where, to us, it looks precarious and awkward, but to the machine-calculated algorithms, a trend is detected, where it's easier to stay continuously balanced on a small point while in motion, because it can use it's own inertia and apply smaller amounts of torque and pressure to it's actuators, and use smaller movements, when attempting to stay on it's feet.

When it's at rest, a wide stance is probably safest, but in motion, maybe it's a different story. Given that it's a somewhat rigid machine, with appendages that have alimited range of motion, maybe it targets, the smallest most effective movements?

I would also wonder: What is the net energy consumed from it's power source, to cycle one limb, moving it from fully contracted to fully extended and back again? You would need to test this unloaded in free air, and completely loaded under the weight of the entire robot at rest. And that test would not account for the amount of work it would take to safely absorb the full weight ofthe robot, while it's moving at 20MPH, to bring it to a full stop, with a single limb.

I'm not sure if those sorts of efficiencies are anything more than a simple practical concern in a prototype, given that the only goal is to run some quick, untethered tests in a parking lot, but it might be relevant to a small degree.

This is just my amateur guesswork, though.
Remember, the basic income is taxable. Giving the basic income to someone earning, say, the equivalent of 100k USD doesn't actually mean giving them $33600, because it will all be taxed at the higher tax bracket. People will also buy things with the basic income, incurring VAT, and if they buy Swiss things, then the companies making them will also pay corporate tax on that.

So, yes, this programme would cost _something_, but it wouldn't cost 34% GDP.
Hey, this looks like a nice time-saver for those of us starting up side projects. Not everybody wants to build out this stuff over and over, and working with OAuth is a pain. So, thanks!

Now, I know it's on your roadmap, but I would really like to see sample code integrating with one or more payment providers or recurring billing management services. Stripe and Recurly would be top of my list. Would love it if you could get that up soon.

Would also like more docs about the differences between permissions and features. I mean, I think I get it, but more specific text would make me feel more sure.

Minor bug: in my own account information, when I went to go edit it, you have separate fields for given/first name and surname, but you refer to both in the info/help text as a surname or last name.

Anyway, nice job!
It mainly runs a hydraulic pump.
And get suspicious looks from strangers :) ? I used to shave once every 3 weeks but these days I try to do it at least weekly.
Maybe the should make user cookies HTTPS only, and use HSTS. Sites with "private" information shouldn't allow plain http access at all, afaik.

Anyway, isn't it just the classic way of doing it. "Big note on front page saying, that we're having trouble with out SSL cert and then saying that it's ok to login without." ;) Yet another reason why SQRLs "domain name" site authentication isn't a good idea.

Btw. I have heard even from credit card processors the same story. Oh, our API SSL cert expired, it's totally ok to to change settings that it's ignored. (duh!)
Double Edged Razors are definitely a win in terms of shave quality and cost. I bought a year supply of blades on Amazon for under $20.
Most welfare systems in developed countries don't specify what the recipient has to spend payments on, anyway.
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:: Take them one by one: one or two is probably enough.

Or carry and use a handkerchief.
This would be cool as an extension of the Mixpanel API. So instead of just tracking users you’d have all these features as well. I’ll agree with the criticism of this being a point of failure too big for mission critical systems, but if it gets proof of concepts off the ground sooner, who knows? Could be a great way to save time. I would suggest thinking carefully how you would eventually grow out of each component. That’d be my main concern. I want to be able to switch out components one at a time.
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Yes, use DEFLATE[1] before you B64. Also, it does not hurt to up-vote all of these useful comments!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE
Judging by the comments below the article the friendliness index for Macedonia needs to be adjusted down a bit for Greeks. The contrast between results and discussion gave me a good laugh.
Dictators are almost always radical.

As a rule they tear down, or kill all of the people who oppose them. Which leads to a radical shifting of institutions in a country, to such a degree that post dictator, the places almost never revert to a state that resembles what they were like pre-dictator.

Dictators consistently alter the course of history for the places they rule.

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I understand that you are saying that as we know the results, these things are not radical. I disagree, known results can be very radical.
>but instead of making the costly trip abroad, they had Indian students at nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology test the razor.

This is one of the hard things about being a tiny startup like P&G with very little capital to spare: you sometimes have to cut costs on little things that turn out to be more important than you thought. A few thousand dollars to fly your employees to India might not seem like much, but when you've only got $140B in assets, you have to make some tough calls, and you can't be right 100% of the time.
"Ser Jonathan", technically. :)
This is a great example of innovation at work. And I really like the fact that he removed several dependencies from the existing solutions. You have to love that :)
That's a very interesting question given that 90% of US manufacturing happens in China and probably even more of the eletronics.
People complain, but they still buy them.
How exactly are human pilots usually avoiding crashing into terrain/objects other than by gaining altitude?
> Sounds like communism to me...

Yes, this is exactly what happened in communist countries. That's why everyone hated Stalin so much; he kept giving people money for free.

In real life, basic income has mostly been a popular idea with liberal socialists and with libertarians; Bertrand Russell suggested it, but so did Milton Friedman. It very much isn't popular amongst communists, however.
All I know about gcc flags is from testing a lot of combinations of them. I don't really know how -flto works but maybe it does something for functions from included files ?