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> the open source one is now going to bitrot

There's something deeply hypocritical about complaining Android is not open source on the basis that Google is not working on the components themselves anymore, giving you free updates. If you actually sincerely care about open source your concern is exactly the opposite of that: the community must be able to take the source and build upon it. Google has brought us light years, billions of dollars of investment along the road to where we have a beautiful, highly optimized, slick operating system available completely for free, even to Google's direct competitors. And your complaint is now that you're not getting fed free updates to all the exact components of the OS at the rate you want? And therefore all that was given to you is worthless, "rotten", not even worthy of the name open source?

This just sounds so entitled to me.
Cold emails have worked well for me for customer development and interviews (problem/solution interview. I'm following Ash Maurya's Running Lean approach.)

You can find tons of blog posts about cold emails with different techniques, etc. For me, I had some key takeaways. (FYI, I don't have any hard data to back my claims, only my experience and feelings.)

- If the market sees value in the problems or solutions that you're pitching, the market will respond.

- When I start my emails being open and giving about myself and background, I seem to get more responses. I usually open up with "Hi, my name is Minto. I'm a software engineer in Austin, TX, developing X."

- I'm very specific about the person's niche. ie. "I'm developing X for <Y niche>."

- My emails are very laid back and unpolished. I try to come off as informal as possible, as if I was writing to an old friend.

- I approach from a place of learning instead of selling. I think people, myself included, don't like being sold to, but like to help a fellow human being out. The fun and exciting thing is that if you hit on the interview with the right problems and solutions, you've pretty much sold them.

- I put a timeframe on my ask, "30 minute coffee", etc.

- Adding your social identity seems to help. I add a link to my LinkedIn profile in my signature. I can only imagine that this adds credibility and many people I email will ask to connect with me on LinkedIn.

- Referrals get high responses. Not really a cold email, but the technique of having a subject line of "Referred by X", gets a high response rate. I only do this if I was really given a referral by someone.

- Be short and sweet. I'm not a very verbose person as it is, but I think people will tend to read your emails if they're short.

I haven't done any cold calls yet, when I do, I would approach it in a similar way. I am pleasantly surprised at the responses I've gotten and the willingness of people to help.
>I just worry that prison labor could easily cross over from being rehabilitative to being exploitative.

I think we've already crossed that line. As far as I know, they don't do it directly, but prison lobbying groups have worked hard to increase the use of mandatory minimum sentences, make sentencing harsher, and keep the war on drugs going.

To me the line is where prisons go from making use of a labor pool that already exists, to actively trying to increase the size of that labor pool.
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Like you said , this ship has sailed.

Maybe there's an open market in memchached acceleration(basically computing hashes). Convey does this with FPGA's[1], and offers 3x performance/$.

Or maybe other cloud compute acceleration stuff.

I wonder though: if we're talking about using someone like easic.com( so scaling a business would be less risky and more investor friendly, since they can do low and mid volumes) ,How would the investment costs would look like(for 45nm/28nm) ?

[1]http://www.enterprisetech.com/2013/09/24/convey-revs-memcach...
android includes an open source music player, dialer, home screen, and messaging app. just because google has replaced them with closed-source alternatives on the nexus devices, doesn't mean they don't exist.
Not necessarily. There are some who go into non-profits or governments, and others who take even more nonconventional paths (additional degrees). They aren't losers. That's hard to pull off given MBA debt, though.

The ones who end up at typical startup management jobs are the bottom of the class, though. They weren't good enough for stat-arb hedge funds or billion-dollar deals, so they got stuck managing nerds.

If someone 10 years out of an MBA program with some success to his name said that he wanted to run a tech startup, I'd be inclined to support him. On the other hand, if he was a fresh Stanford grad and couldn't do better than a VP-level position at a Series A or B startup, I'd be inclined to think he was a third-stringer.
you weren't joking when you said GIANT. Couldn't he have made it the size of an ipod/fitbit or something.
I wish I lived in the idyllic world which your sentence describes.

It always puzzles me when people presume that governments or public offices act more virtuously, free from vested interests, agendas, prejudices, etc. I would understand it if governments imported their staff from angels. In reality, they have to hire the same human beings that private corporations hire.
+1 I love ElementaryOS, specially the Gala Window Manager. It is so fast and full-featured compared to Unity or Gnome3 Shell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shXSV-9PJaU
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I must disagree with you in turn, in most particulars. Arch's wiki is an information source par excellence, and I find that the information contained therein is often just what I need to get my Debian system working correctly. The init systems will likely diverge at some point, but as far as I know that decision is not final yet, and I prefer systemd anyway. Are there some particulars you can divulge?
Sorry if you find it obnoxious - I was trying to avoid picky, semantic arguments about individual sentences by explaining what was happening at a higher level.

For the record, I'm specifically not accusing DannyBee of dishonesty. The reason I mentioned Moral Mazes as a book is because it explains what happens from the point of view of the managers, and why it comes across to outsiders as dishonest.

This stuff is subtle and systemic.

Fair point about speaking for the site.
Perhaps he had anal sex with his wife.
My girlfriend and sister are both going through surgical training in the US. Here's what I gather:

1. 4 year medical school during which one learns about the panoply of human medicine. You come out of med school with an MD.

2. 4-5+ year general surgery residency (depends on program and optional steps one might take such as research years) during which one learns general surgical procedures through observation, assistance, and practice in the operating room under the supervision of experienced attending surgeons. Generally, residents will rotate through different surgical departments in order to gain broad exposure to the various fields and techniques. Residents take a yearly standardized exam called the ABSITE and are also evaluated by the attending surgeons they have worked with. More senior residents are given more responsibility in patient care and will be given more opportunity to assist and perform in the OR.

3. After residency, one can further specialize by taking on a fellowship (2-3 years, but could be more depending on specialty). During fellowship, one focuses even further on a specific field. Fellowship is an additional layer of practical hands-on training.

4. Practice - after fellowship, one would go on the join a surgical group or create a private practice to perform surgery commercially.

Throughout all of this is a series of examinations that are given which, in total, will allow a surgeon to practice unsupervised on patients.

Edit: to point out where the MD is earned and vague mention of licensure
Don't know if you've already chosen the underlying search engine; but you should give a try to Algolia, especially for its relevance+popularity+geosearch capabilities.
Yes. Whether your mic is picking up background noise, your own voice, or a legitimate modulated covert channel, wireshark is incapable of even attempting to pretend it's a network interface. At no point could this ever show up in wireshark.
I wrote 'NetStash'. An iOS app for offline browsing of entire websites.
Choose Arch. Pick any desktop environment and learn how easy it is to switch if you don't like Unity/Gnome/etc
Presumably the fun part comes from the Final Fantasy aspects of it, and not from the football aspects of it. Min-maxing can be very fun by itself, regardless of the subject at hand.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/top-60-quick...
eASIC is who the mining company Active Mining I mentioned below partnered with.

http://thegenesisblock.com/easic-announces-24-ths-hash-fast-...
OK, thanks for confirming that this discussion is completely over your head. I won't be responding any further.
I am not put off by the DIY surgery or the size of the computer. But I was astonished by this line: 'the chip can record Cannon's body temperature and transfer it in real time via Bluetooth.' If I would attempt such a thing like this I would make sure it could do a lot more!

Direct link to the article: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-diy-cyborg

Spoiler: there are no pictures of the biohack surgery
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Well, that arm is going to basically be unusable.
About $350 in the first month of Double Dynamo (http://doubledynamo.com/), a memory and rhythm game for iOS. I haven't put significant work into viral features, which could probably substantially increase installs, but at this point I've put the project on the back burner.
BTW last time I took the rail from Jamaica to Atlantic terminal (this summer) I bought a ticket from one of the machines without much complication. Did they somehow break it?
Thanks for this comment - it's much better and clearer than the grandparent at explaining what Google are doing.

All the hard work on Android is much appreciated - I'm really glad Apple didn't gain a monopoly.
This system has been used in Minneapolis for a while already, and you can view the maps of local gunshots detected by the system.[1] Once in a while, the police have to test the system with police gunshots to calibrate the microphone network.[2] ShotSpotter appears, based on the experience of Minneapolis, to have rather limited usefulness for deterring or prosecuting gunshot crimes. But maybe it aids prevention of crime if police respond to where the gunshots are usually fired with preventive patrols.

[1] http://www.minneapolismn.gov/police/statistics/crime-statist...

[2] http://www.startribune.com/local/blogs/224931852.html
This is my first year of Fantasy Football.

My family did a league this year...to be honest I've always felt left out whenever Football season came around, I just couldn't get into it because I didn't have "My team" like everyone else in my family.

I think it's brought me closer to my family, since I always felt like an outsider whenever I did watch a football game, I had no clue who the good players were and what teams were doing.

Now not only do I enjoy watching the games but I went from an 0-3 record to 4-3 (soon to be 5-3, fingers crossed, 2nd place).

It definitely makes the games more interesting to watch and has a healthy side effect of building better relationships with those you care about.
You're quite right. UX was never a factor with Linux, and OSS (in the large, excluding things like Basecamp, sorry) has never succeeded to create good, consumer UX. Unfortunately UX is absolutely critical with mobile.

Here's a talk by Aral Balkan (that I couldn't recommend more) that covers this topic amazingly (jump to about 32m30s for the meat):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1QCBzQ0aNc&t=00h32m30s
Is this reason medically valid whatsoever?

I mean, AFAIK it really is more prevalent, however heterosexual monogamous people anyway tend to have HIV, hepatitis/etc, so blood needs to be tested anyway - and if it's tested, who cares if you have to throw out an extra bag of blood if you gain ten extra bags by allowing them to donate?
I'm making zero dollars right now with http://togspots.com. It's a SaaS where photographers can add and find photography locations. I'm working on setting up a subscription that would allow users to save private spots and a few other features. The biggest issue is getting more locations. Currently I require users to add 1 location before they can search which is working well so far.
Do you think ShotSpotter paid a PR agency to get this article published?

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

(Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. I'm just curious.)
Is there a way to filter notifications by location?
I don't want to get notified of openings in Berlin and Amsterdam when I'm in Toronto
I lose about $15 from http://selfstream.io . I havent't launched yet as I have been waiting for Paymill to activate my payments processing account for over a month now.
Unfortunately, Guile is both larger, and less portable than Lua. It's also licensed under the LGPL, which is harder (or impossible) to use in some environments than Lua's MIT-like license.
It would be much more informative to hear from people who use Debian for things that require 3D acceleration -- Minecraft, running Windows games under Wine, Blender.

I have a laptop with nVidia Optimus, so I use Bumblebee. Ah, I see this is in the Debian repos [1] -- maybe I should give Debian a try!

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee
I heard rumors this year that these are installed in my neighborhood in Berkeley, but that they don't work at all on July 4th due to all the fireworks false positives.
It really depends on the FCC's definition, but yeah, I concede the point that they are only just independent enough to make the FCC happy.
> The idea that women deliberately take advantage of "dorks" sounds vaguely bitter and misogynistic.

And human.

It happens enough that it's a (probably undeserved) stereotype.

People are no damn good, regardless of gender. Or at least, enough of them are no good to give a bad name to the rest of us. We suck.
Duuuude, do a Kickstarter campaign or something to cut that down to size!
First of all, it's based on the current price of bitcoin.

Second, if you have access to free electricity (e.g. solar), it is profitable at almost any price.
ChibiScheme (https://code.google.com/p/chibi-scheme/) tries to be that. I've considered using it but have avoided it due to its relative newness and a few portability issues.
This looks cool, but doesn't appear to be open hardware.
I have never heard of a Marketing API. What do you mean?
Freemium (http://StockPhotos.io) photo sharing site. Earns probably around $15/mo from Google Adsense and was made to use as a free image bookmark manager.
I am running http://www.versioneye.com. Currently don't earn much with it. Most people are using it for open source projects. Still thinking about how to monetise it right. Any ideas?
Do you have any reliable sources on that? It doesn't make much sense to back both sides in a zero-sum game and both candidates would know that. It seems much more likely that the usual sources who report "Google contributed $X to Candidate A and $Y to Candidate B" are counting employee contributions, either as an honest mistake or as a propaganda tactic to make their point. In reality, Google pays thousands of people a generous salary and each of those people have their own opinions about various issues, and so they're contributing their money, but not on Google's behalf.

In fact, this explains a lot of things. Back in the day when people got long distance telephone service from a different company than their local service, there used to be a pro-life phone company that advertised that all the other long distance companies like AT&T and MCI donated a ton of money to pro-choice organizations so you'd better switch to the pro-life phone company. But why the hell would a phone company care about abortion? They didn't, they just employed a lot of people and some of them happened to make political donations to pro-choice causes.
No, you'll burn out fast.
Ditto, definitely makes the site feel less "legitimate".
Just like good lawyers like to sue people in their spare time, and good doctors try a little home surgery?

I strongly suspect this sort of thing is HR-compliant code for "we'd like someone in their 20s with no family who won't mind doing unpaid overtime".
Yeah, and upgrades... I'm quite sure an intuitive requirement of cyborgitzation involves the capacity to "expand" or viably upgrade added Enhancements. This looks like a grueling effort for a Terminal Enhancement.

Does it really even need to be under the skin to accomplish its feature-set? I mean, if the margin of error is increased only slightly, stay above. The cost of going under the skin just does not seem worth it.

This seems like a romantic thrust toward "looking" cyborg, regardless of the actual scope of the feature-set.
Provisioned IOPS is just a method for other large corporations to donate to AWS without C-level approval.
I have hopes for the Tanglu project delivering on the promise of rolling releases based on Debian Testing for desktop use. But they aren't quite there yet unfortunately.

http://www.tanglu.org/
The Seattle monorail was a victim of the hand-wringing, consensus-seeking, do-nothing Seattle process. It came up for a vote four times and won three. If you want that kind of stagnation, Murray's your man.
I have read that Non-compete agreements are void in California[1]. However, I'm not sure whether there are exceptions applicable when execs are involved.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California
I certainly agree with that, it seems the only two functions of the implant are measuring the temperature and making light up his arm a little bit.

I am however curious to see how this project will advance, will he be able to use his arm like he did before, won't it affect his health in any way... how about heath generated by the device itself...

But being honest about it, this is cool! I always imagined with the current technologies (think google glass, thalmic's myo, current smartphones) we will come very soon to a time where wearable computers will make our live much easier, the only bottleneck seems to be we haven't got batteries that could last longer than a day and power such a device.
I would never invest in one of these companies. It seems like the ultimate bad business -- the difficulty will keep increasing while the payout will keep decreasing until it all ends some time in the non-too-distant future.
> in the same proportions as men

Women are actually smarter than men on average, or so IQ tests tell us.
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Individualistic; leader; visionary... but possibly (guessing on reasons for this shift) getting too old to have the constant energy to execute directly on that himself.

Maybe he'll become a VC?
Makes sense, I suppose. I was wondering if there was more to it (E.g. a cultural artefact), but I suppose not then.
I'm only guessing, but I think the reason it's soo big is because they want it to be "DIY" and a bluetooth-module and wireless-recharging module cannot be made much smaller, not to forget that thing also needs to have a battery that can hold out long enough!
but unfortunately many enterprise applications still run as Java applets or JNLPs.

It's not unfortunate that applets or JNLP are used, it's unfortunate that Oracle have a pretty spotty track-record with JVM security lately. But applets and JNLP are actually pretty cool and useful technology, in and of themselves. I just wish Oracle would get their act together...
> stupid as women thinking sex will get them a commitment/favor/gifts

You can't be serious? This happens a lot, I can't imagine how one cannot see it.
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Implied portability in what way?
I myself have been thinking of starting a business selling pickaxes, gold panning sluices, and tulip bulb display cases. Am I too late?
This story comes around every year or so. Here is the original - http://www.pacifict.com/Story/
The Oakland police dept have been using ShotSpotter for 5+ years.
German police find £860m worth of Art looted by Nazis in apartment
All tests passed - ship it
I strongly suggest you try using a packet sniffer before you stubbornly engage in arguments about what they can and can't see.

I will send you $100 if you can configure wireshark to do what you describe. Using any of the tools in this thread, or any of your own, go ahead and try capturing even 1 packet from an audio interface in wireshark and post the pcap file.

It's not over anyone's head - we have interns who understand why this doesn't work. I have no idea why you might think it would.
Oh, I hope he never falls on it.
Which already exists.
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Things like this about some developers just piss me off. I'm a freelancer, and really like the idea of a platform like Elance that could easily connect me to clients, but all the good clients stay away becuase of people like that.
He's probably not in a real "non-compete" and more likely is still an employee getting paid for a year to do nothing.
Yes, if you're marketing something specifically targeted at people with an "eating disorder, drug addiction, depression, impulse control disorder, poor memory, etc." than you have moral considerations above and beyond products targeted at regular adults.
I see where you're coming from, but I disagree that the degree to which prisons campaign to increase the size of the prisoner labor pool is indicative of exploitation.

Imagine an hypothetical situation in which a prison teaches its occupants to code, pays them market wages, and turns a profit. If demand for programmers was high, this prison would be heavily incentivized to lobby for more prisoners, but you'd be hard-pressed to call the nature of the work "exploitative".