skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their market is SMBs. The worst case is that you group your updates into (say) 5 minute batch jobs, using only 288 of the available 1000 API calls.
One of the really surprising things about Microsoft is that despite all the caustic internal politics, CEO antics, missteps, misfires, a business model designed to extract maximum money from everybody, and even questionable development and design practices, on occasion really great software (and hardware) comes out of there.

World class, amazing, top of the industry with no true peers.

For example, despite all of the good ideas and theory and philosophy, open source, after 13 years of effort, (while there's definitely been good work done in the area) has yet to produce an office suite that's at least as good as MS-Office is in all areas.

I'm sure the MS-Office codebase is a horrible mess, but the end user bits are good enough for nearly all of the weird edge-cases that 99% of users want and 99% of users can learn to use it to some level of effectiveness in a couple afternoons.

That's amazing.
That is why this sort of thing requires the sort of anonymity that modern cryptography can provide. An anonymous payment sent via an anonymity system, from some publicly accessible location, would be very hard to track.
explanation for the overzealous mods: better out than in is the title of banksy's residency in new york, not of this specific piece. you've changed an accurate title to an inaccurate one.
I'm not really sure the government is interested. But Schneier seems to think they are though.
Raft isn't for "decentralized" exactly, because it relies on knowing the number and identities of participants (and deliberately stops being able to commit updates when the number falls below a quorum). It's "no single point of failure" but the algorithm implies a sysadmin in control.
I like this article.

The takeaways are the takeaways, including how fast one can learn and adapt.

The especially salient point is that book learning and planning are all well and good, the reality of trying something in the real world is a practical teacher.
We still have huge user experience issues with decentralized systems which make it more awkward for the average person. It's sad, because I (like most programmers) want a distributed system, but it's rather hard to get it right.
Interesting, I strongly suggest that the City change its taxing strategy. Seriously. If you get proper property taxes and you don't need the services because the people don't actually live there, then that just accrues to the benefit of the less well off. It also mitigates the challenge of finding housing since the taxes will balance out with quality of life improvements.

Its also an exceptionally straight forward way to "tax the rich" as it were.
The "any new project" generality is getting closer to an absolute truth every day. Many Cortex chips use much less power than an AtMega or AtTiny in sleep modes, and use very little power in active modes. All are fast enough that they can spend the majority of their time in deep sleep modes. NXP is making significant inroads in producing low pin-count devices, and there are many chips available for under $2.50 in single quantities.

I mean, at the end of the day, the tool you know is the tool you should use, but it's more difficult to quibble about the technicalities of it all the time.

I would argue that the biggest barrier to Cortex M0/M3/M4 adoption in the hobbyist/maker/startup community is the lack of coherent open tool chains. Many of the cheap programmers will only program a subset of chips, many pre-canned compilers don't include various features (Many lack support for the M0+, or the FPU on the M4F chips), it's almost impossible to get code working on a chip without delving into a vicious hellscape of linker scripts, and many manufacturers license their peripheral libraries under onerous non-free/non-open licenses.

I could program an AVR with one hand tied behind my back using an entirely open toolchain. Until I can do that with even a single manufacturer's Cortex Mx offerings, the AtTinys and AtMegas will be sticking around. I want to work on my project damn it, not debugging my toolchain.
this kind of interface is totally made for a touchpad or touch screen. on anything else, it's weird. or even weirder, anyway.
He is educating himself about security? This may actually be a tautology. :)

By the way, how many of you guys have read his books? Having actually read Applied Cryptography, I felt his contribution to this field was very little.
> The bottom 50% pay nothing at all

I've definitely spent significant portions of my life in the bottom 50% and I definitely paid taxes.
Well that's intuitive...
Further down some asked "is anything from the Smalltalk OO model that hadn't made its way into Ruby?" Well I don't know about OO model, but to extend my example above, at step 5 when the debugger appears, <Save & Quit> the image. Then copy the folder to another PC, open up the Pharo image, and continue with steps 6. and 7.

In days past with the predominance of the desktop, 'perhaps' the 'live image' concept central to Smalltalk had some logistic issues (for some) but I think in this day of applications running on remote web based systems, being able to store/download/restart the execution context that caused an exception is a great advantage.

Now if you don't want to download the size of whole image, you can download the debugging context only, and continue.
See http://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/moving-contexts-....

The other interesting this is that VNC can connect directly into the image, so you can be directly using the GUI IDE Smalltalk tools on a remote server.
Perhaps they could have given some people liquid smoothies and others more solid smoothies with chunks of fruit.
Sure, that's one possibility, but I'm not sure I'd take that poll's sample as being even remotely representative. At this point it's people on both sides pointing to weak evidence to support conclusisions they've already drawn.

To be clear, I have no dog in this fight, but I don't think that any information I have seen so far has a hope of being accurate.
I'm a fan of Ember.JS - easy to get started with, good docs, great community, really powerful.
That's revenue. Those large canvases he's selling his 'spray art' on aren't exactly cheap, especially for the larger ones. Also you're going to be paying NYC prices for your food and transportation. But yeah overall, he didn't do too badly.
Anyone who finds the concept potentially appealing really needs to read up on pre-WWII Japanese politics, where a culture of political assassination, plus a major flaw in their constitutions, couldn't form a government without the Army and Navy's assent/membership, pretty much made the following ugliness inevitable. You really, really don't want to let such a culture develop.

Paul Johnson's Modern Times devotes a chapter to this: http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Times-Revised-Edition-Perennial...
I use libraries as other use coworking spaces - especially university libraries and especially in Europe. Libraries offer a quiet place to get stuff done.

That's not going to change. In fact, a refocus on libraries as common work/study areas is probably what will happen or is it already happening?
I use Elementary OS .. Easiest transition from Mac (atleast in look and feel)
Everyone who bought a piece is featured in that video. If you're going to buy one of these, you should probably make sure it's from one of those people.
Your claim is that people would rather destroy their wealth in an asset crash, over giving a piece of it up?
On being the right size (1928)
I once read a post (that I can't seem to find now) talking about how startups need a "hacker, a hustler, and a hipster" to succeed.
The Precise Art Of Mobile Push Notifications
The article woefully misunderstands the web security model :

> Lavabit’s own privacy policy at the time that Snowden was believed to have been using it stated that “premium users” would benefit from having their e-mail secured with “an asymmetric encryption process that guarantees that it can’t be accessed by anyone except the holder of the account password. For these accounts, only the encrypted version of the message is ever saved to disk.”

Except, of course, that lavabit is still the only party that controls the code that reads and writes your password, and has the power to replace that code without telling you. Furthermore it doesn't work at all unlesss it's connected to the internet. Updating lavabit's servers to send the password to your mails the first time you access them would be trivial, and well within the powers of the NSA/FBI/...
We don't know the situation, but, if the entire family moved to Oregon, and, he sold his 6 bedroom house in KY, there may have been a decent amount of equity transferred into either a new house, or, turned into cash; so for all we know, he let her have the mostly-paid-off house and walked away.

Remember, he doesn't tell you what he makes a year, just what he needs to make to survive.
I agree with the author. The reading part is only secondary to the doing part. Especially there are so many articles out there and when you read too much, their ideas start conflicting with each other.

As Micael (the author) says "So nowadays I don't read books and articles about entrepreneurship because I think I need the knowledge to succeed, but merely for inspiration or because I sometimes feel curious about some company or person."

This paragraph really resonates with me "The knowledge you need to have for your startup to succeed is in general not written in books or articles. The knowledge you need will be so specific to your particular company, with your particular employees, in your particular industry, in this particular time, with your particular product, with your particular goal and vision – that you need to generate that knowledge yourself by trying stuff out and iterating."
The trick is to learn that when you fall off the wagon, it's ok if you get back on the wagon. What matters is most-of-the-time compliance, not 100.00% compliance
Here is another project in the same spirit: https://register.blib.us
Clearly this is totally subjective, but I just absolutely hate them. I hate the way they look, I hate sitting in them, and I feel so lame when I'm driving one. I would drive almost any other car before I would drive a PT Cruiser.

If you like them more power to you! I won't throw eggs at it or anything, promise. :) I would just never choose one for myself.

To reserve a car you like only to be given the car you despise is... disappointing.
Right. That's the point I was trying to make. Even if this little poll has a margin of error of 10% that still would leave more than 10% of people with a problem, but not talking about it yet.
There was a post a while back talking about the myth of the 10x developer. It mentioned that there aren't 10x developers, but there are 10x teams. In these teams you have the developers who are productive and churn out a lot of code. Then you have the developers who can stand back and be more thoughtful about the whole. Together they can be productive while still producing quality code.

In your example, someone has already written the code, possibly shipped it and if it's not a complete disaster, created value. The "10x developer" comes along and is able to take the time to refactor and clean things up (or direct someone to do so.)

As you mentioned, there are pros and cons for each role. The "10x" developer might think too much. The grinder might not create the prettiest code, but he might be great at moving the chains.

I think we can all place ourselves in either role. To get something out the door to meet a deadline sometimes requires the quick and dirty way. And sometimes shipping quick and dirty is far more important. To move from one role to the other is sometimes as difficult as switching between projects, so it's great to be able to have one person who can go in with one mind and another person to go in with a different mind.

As I'm usually the sole developer on my projects, I don't know if this is how things work in practice. I imagine in a cash strapped start-up all developers might be the type to shove out as much code as possible.

Perhaps all other things being equal, a 10x developer in that environment (a cash strapped start-up as opposed to a mature Twitter) might be the person who understands that shipping is more important when resources are short. The "other type" might not realize that things will probably work out in the end as long as the team is shipping. Things are never perfect, the stack will always be a house of cards, but the cash must keep flowing be it from investments, from clients or from customers all of whom are expecting progress.

Personally, I seem to switch back and forth. Sometimes I get on a roll and I'm knocking stuff out at a pace where I surprise myself. Sometimes I get locked up trying to over-think a problem. Sometimes I can go back through my code and see obvious problems and refactor the code with the same momentum as I had when I originally wrote it. I think the tricky part is finding the right balance and knowing what you need to be doing within your particular environment.

ETA: Changed things around for clarity.
Reading the Feynman Lectures on Physics is a lot to ask of anyone, even many physicists. But if you'd like to appreciate a gem, crack open Volume I and read Chapter 22 - "Algebra". He starts with the ability to count integers, and then proceeds to derive Euler's Formula. Not rigorous mathematics to be sure, but easily my favorite piece of writing (fiction or non-fiction).
This stood out, "the preponderance of evidence is that people participate in terrorist organizations for the social solidarity, not for their political return."

There was a foreign policy brief which basically said "People want to feel like they can make a difference." The more involved people are with running their community, the less likely they are to be involved in terrorizing it.

I don't know if there a good way to test that correlation though.
+1 for angular.js
There's both an "About" link (text) and a list of alternative internet projects:

http://redecentralize.org/about/

What's this all about?
Over the last few years, we've noticed quite a few people trying to spread the Internet out again. Back to the edges, like it used to be.

Sometimes they do it for privacy. Sometimes they do it for resilience against disaster. Sometimes they do it just to bring playfulness back to computers and how we use them.

We've a list of the kind of projects we mean (any missing? send a pull request). On this site, we interview one of those projects each month.

https://github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet
As always, I wish I'd bought when it first floated (same with Pipe Networks). Any hints? I'm currently looking at CBA's MyWealth platform to start investing.
I'd be interested to hear what your other examples are, but that doesn't surprise me at all.

If OpenOffice (etc) ever had comparable staffing (quantity and variety, not even questioning quality) that MSOffice has had for 15-20 years, I'd expect more comparable results.
But at least there are no 2 year contracts...

The usa was 5 years behind the eu in forcing contracts, so yes this is just another marketing gimmick. classic bait & switch tactic. all of the carriers forced contracts after they bought out the regional mobile providers during the decade 1995-2005.
I mis-understood who the 'their' was in your comment. I agree with you on this point.

There is an argument that allowing companies these tax breaks brings jobs to your country instead of somewhere else, and this brings prosperity. Certainly Ireland worked this way in the 90s to get their tech scene started. Locally, cities do this too - X year tax breaks to put your factory here instead of there is a common thing.

Is the social contract satisfied by just the generation of good paying jobs where there were none previously?
I haven't any trouble with Touch ID, modulo when my fingers are wet or I do something dumb like use a part of my finger that I haven't scanned (like the first joint on my thumb).

That said, it takes way too long to work. I want it to be instantaneous and instead there's a noticeable delay in between when the screen flicks on and when I end up back on Springboard.
Banksy is just the remainder of an unbalanced equation in the matrix. Marketing has triumphed over Art. The rebel artist is an anomaly, but it is not unexpected. Which has led you, inexorably, here.
My own personal experience is that it works great as log as I'm not too hot. The moment my hands get a little sweaty, it just fails nonstop. The reader gets so confused that I can't even program a new fingerprint in this state. Unfortunately, this happens with some frequency for me.
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The only dog I have in this fight is my iPhone 5S! My big question is whether the problem is hardware or software. The necessity to press the fingers just so and the UI validation giving, in effect, a false positive makes it seem like software. For Apple's sake I hope so. Software updates are a lot easier and cheaper than hardware recalls.
I use my University library similarly, I only wish the public libraries were so accommodating, here you have to reserve meeting rooms and those are only available to you twice a month (for like 2 hour periods).

Thankfully the University offers Alumni access to libraries, internet, and computer facilities.
I read mostly because I find it enjoyable. I would consider a voracious desire to read and soak up knowledge a core tenant to being a hacker. Sure, we all need to get our hands dirty by doing things, but working in technology requires a nearly insane breadth of knowledge, and I just cannot imagine someone improving without lots and lots of research.
I've discovered that resting your thumb on the home button before waking your phone speeds up the process. When I do that I barely even see the lock screen. It's like the sensor eagerly scans upon contact.
The point is deeper than this -- with such a system in place, one must never even attach their real name or address to controversial ideas.

This would allow thought to proceed on pure merit, rather than social proof.
Entrapped When Craigslist predator stings go too far
Why don't you make it a business model and monetize laymanizing/summarizing papers by request? Just thinking, you could, you don't need to. If you consider that, you could invite colleagues to do the same on a distributed platform/blog. So that every new scientist can just connect and add value, without getting vendor-locked. Who knows, maybe there is a market for selling the results of "peer-review" ;)

You know what? I wish that you get rich with that! Everbody would benefit from more openness in Science. I hate that many many publishers squeeze scientists out like parasitic worms and also cash on us and other scientist who just want to read the paper. They rip us off in the range of $5-$300 per paper and do that with mostly keeping 100% of the profit.

Their industry damaging business model: A←parasite-publisher→B

Breaking Bad: With an open business model: A←→B←→C←→D …
Why Am I Forbidden From Using My iPhone In US Immigration Areas?
Touch ID works great for me and seems like its getting faster. Sometimes I don't even get a chance to look at the lock screen before it unlocks. It's pretty awesome.
It solves simple dependency problems. It does nothing for your interdependent "decentralized" services which are talking to each other. That's where the real hard work is.
See also: http://exiledonline.com/malcolm-gladwell-unmasked-a-look-int...
I do the same at my college. During my college's ongoing remodel of the library, they're increasing the coworking space and decreasing the shelving space. I think this is the future, and some libraries already realize that.

We only need a few large libraries to store books, and that is well-served by Archive.org on the digital layer, and the Library Of Congress in the physical layer.
need for speed most wanter 2005
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When this originally hit HN last night, I didn't get paranoid.

You see, if you read the backwards name, you'd realize it was some programmer who did it, not the NSA.

Stop being paranoid, guys. It was just an idiot who got this through code review.
Unofficial Github Cards
This is the unofficial GitHub Cards. It has cards for your GitHub profile and cards for your repositories.
In addition, lack of any text makes it seem like vaporware.
This is kind of big if true, DI-524 and DI-604 were commonly used a few a years ago, hope Linksys' don't provide this backdoor
> Can't really go to a nightclub without drinking, can't really go to the movies without eating.

I just want to point out here that this seems to be an American thing. Having experienced movie theaters in the US and in France, I'm still shocked at the number of people who eat in theaters here (in the US). When I pay my ticket $20+, I don't really feel like adding $10 for a Coke and some popcorn. In France, you may have something like 5 to 10% of the audience eating or drinking (the seats don't even have cup holders).

I might be seeing this backwards though, and maybe France is the exception here.
This is the biggest issue with AP. Where down the line you stop, in assassinating leaders? With what criteria?
It's become pretty standard on HN that publishing on Github gets you flamed.
I can see the argument for pattern matching, but algebraic data types seem entirely out of place. The primary benefit would be type checking and exhaustivity checks: neither of which fit with the dynamic nature of Python.

Functional != Strongly Typed
so one day you spend 15 mins and just read over the previous day's work, and the next day you spend 2 hrs. the point is you're sitting down in front of your screen play. i had a friend who said he went to the gym every day even if on some days all he did was putter around for 20 mins. the point is that you show up every day.
USB 3.0 RF Interference on 2.4Ghz Devices [pdf]
Thanks for pointing that out. If the mods had used the post title, this link would be:

"Central Park"

Which is worse than useless.
"We will never go away and leave you without an e-mail account."

"We would rather pull the plug than submit to repressive surveillance by our government"

Processing, processing, processing... Warning! Internal consistency error detected.
I think the people who say Microsoft has been a huge failure for the last decade should take a better look at the numbers that matter. The stock price doesn't matter. In 2000, we were at the top of the tech bubble. Bubble means valuations were stupid.

The story talks about 2000 report with 19.3 billion from windows and 23 billion total revenue. On the other hand, Microsoft made 19.9 billion in revenue just last quarter, with 5 Billion in net profit. 6 Billion operating income because of the surface writeoff.

Are other companies doing better? Yes. Could Microsoft have done better? Yes. Have they done badly? Not at all. They have grown revenues and profits at huge and absurd levels over several different divisions. They are also not going to die any time soon, and I don't think there are too many options to take a company this big private.
Can't speak for the author, but the US is hostile to all business.
Awesome!! It can embed in blog posts to show project info. I hope github should release a official widget.
The big question of course: does this reading, mean that there will be an increase in radiation levels until Fukushima is capped/entombed/whatever? Or is the increase a one-time occurrence?
No. But if everyone worth a billion had to liquidate even 5% of it, it would cause huge dip in the market, and in turn funds and retail investors would sell off shares, people would hoard cash overseas, and a crash would be the end result.

We saw in France a huge uproar over the threat of a 75% tax, thankfully the courts declared it illegal...
Too bad Lavabit didn't think to call itself a political organization for the privacy minded.