skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.ti.com/product/cc2540

12-bit ADC onboard. Also two serial (SPI/UART) and an AES module.

Microcontrollers pack so much in these days.
This is what made Kaczynski (the Unabomber) so difficult to track. IIRC, he would travel for a few hours (by bus) to a town and deposit his packages in a mailbox there [citation needed]. This made it difficult to track him, since the origin of the package didn't leak any information about the sender.

For sellers, proper OPSec requires that they do not leave fingerprints in/on the package, that mailing locations are reasonably random and not isolated to a small geographic area, and that the sender masks his identity (veiled face, no cellphone, no car) when dropping off the packages. Additionally, a seller should use a variety of packaging types for shipments to make detecting the illicit shipments harder.

Given these precautions, it would likely be infeasible for law enforcement agencies to identify a given seller. However, they would also reduce profits for the vendor.
Ditto, great book. Rob's blog is also full of interesting stuff. (softwarebyrob.com)
I see your point.

I guess it would feel more fair if the deal explicitly contained a note like "and if you move elsewhere for whichever reason, we'll adjust the salary so that you have at least as good a standard of living as you do now".
I was trying to point out that the drug war doesn't begin or end at the border.
Unfortunately, the "mighty" USA is utterly incapable of functioning economically without wars, so this will never happen.
Well this guy is described as particularly tall and lean. I don't know about your build, but by that logic you'd have a negative mass after a few years.
I was assuming conventional propulsion at 95% c. An Alcubierre warp field would be ideal, assuming the problems can be overcome:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive#Difficulties

http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4960

http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5708

I'd enjoy seeing your calculation of the number of years that would have passed on Earth for a round-trip of 100 light-years out.
I'm alright with people buying and selling drugs, as long as they risk their own lives.

But that is just low. What kind of psychopath do you have to be to ruin some innocent persons's life just because you want to check some theory.
NOTE: I live in Austin and am acquaintances with a few people who knew him a bit while he was here.

From what I understand, at the time of Silk Road's creation, he was not nearly technically capable of creating a site like it. He seems to have learned enough to administer and update the site, but the initial construction was done by another.
Well, if you think there's a demand for it just do a mobile html version. It's not a super complicated app to implement with html.
The fundamental problem is not the media (for all the problems the media has and produces), it is the electoral system, as is demonstrated by the comparison with the greater number of competitive parties in all the democracies that also have profit-oriented corporate media but do not a national legislature elected by plurality or majority/runoff elections.
Definitely WindowLicker by Aphex Twin
That was a great read, the clear thinking about needing to know "why" before "how" is very insightful.

I would be curious to hear any views on taking a purely javascript approach to this same process.

I ask because I love python but often think it may be silly to take the time to get really good at it.

Ever since node.js became a real option it has been possible to do full stack development using javascript. Why not take that approach, thereby only learning one language, reducing the number of new things you have to assimilate all at once?
You're being downvoted because based on a single, arguably marginal, use case ("I only ever want to know the exact temperature right this very second and everything else is useless to me") you're a claiming that there's no need for anybody to consider the much more important and larger use case of "I need my phone not to instantly become a dumb brick when it loses reception"

I saw elsewhere that you think mobile apps are already doing the right thing here. The reaction to you - and the point of the OP - is that they're not. Proper offline support is often a poor second in application design, if it's considered at all. We should change that.
> in the way that a native speaker does

You are aware that native speakers can have (sometimes wildly) varying accents, right?

There are inarguably millions upon millions L1 English speakers in India. The fact that the English they speak isn't identical to the one you speak doesn't really change that fact.
That's because the system is setup so that the payouts go from a pool of money that would otherwise be "profit" for the company. If the company's "profit" is independent of the payouts, maybe this would help. Probably have a separate pool of the money from where to settle claims. You could split up the premium into two parts:

1) The money for the payout pool. No profit should be extracted from here.

2) Money that you will invest and thus earn profit from.

You could use actuarial science to make sure that you have enough collections to statistically be able to pay out every claim. And in this model, the company would have no incentive to NOT payout
But dead people can't leave negative reviews.
What are the best options for backing up DO externally?
CDN.net offers the Subject Alternate Name option for $199/year. I've been doing research but we haven't tried them yet.

Edit: Just recalled they use Subject Alternate Name, not SNI. This is where they add your domain to their SSL certificate.
Were you doing this as an IT consultant? Where you double billing for your time? Were you changing rates without warning?
Half of these are unethical (i.e., they violate actual, binding rules of professional ethics with actual consequences).

The other half should be spelled out in the engagement letter. If you don't like it, tell your lawyer -- we really will negotiate on these issues.
Well, sort of. If you have a wav file and an mp3 file, both of which have a sample rate of 44kHz, they will both be able to represent the same maximal frequency of 22kHz. The mp3 wouldn't necessarily discard the high frequency information, but it may do so when it is deemed that the sound wouldn't be perceivable.
Wow. Thank you. Seriously, great response - very much appreciated.
Any song off of the album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts by M83.
I won't say that this post is devoid of useful information, although there are some questionable claims (such as the notion that an attorney is double billing for travel-related work). More importantly, however, I think it misses a more fundamental mistake that startups make: they don't know how to choose a lawyer.

If you're working with a firm that has summer associates (referred to as "law students" in the post), and they are being billed out at $200/hour, you are almost certainly working with a large, full-service law firm. And large, full-service law firms are expensive.

Working with a large, full-service law firm is overkill for the vast majority of early-stage startups. Even when it comes to securities-related work, you can find reasonably-priced experienced, competent practitioners with BigLaw backgrounds who work solo or at smaller firms.
Mhm, indeed! The more you know! :)
It is worse than that in states that decided not to expand Medicaid. Subsidies are available for people who make 100% to 400% of the federal poverty level. The Medicaid expansion was supposed to cover people up 138% the federal poverty level, but In states without Medicaid expansion, there are people who aren't eligible for Medicaid under old rules and aren't eligible for subsidy because they make less than 100% of poverty level.
Well put. I have worked closely with latinos when I was working in restaurants and it was very easy to communicate back and forth even if one of us didnt speak the same language. They never sounded like they were talking out of a 1920s dictionary, words no one uses in normal conversations.
You can use digital black markets like the silk road as an analogue for legalization though. Forget how the vendors obtain the drugs for a second and just analyze the differences in distribution and consumption between offline and online drug trade.

Offline there is:
- competition via violence
- political narcoterrorism
- profit maximization by product dilution
- profit maximization by product deception (most street MDMA is amphetamine+nBOME mixture)

Online there is:
- competition via quality, price (violence impossible in anonymous marketplace)
- political separation via anonymity
- drastically reduced product dilution (people do reviews with sources like ecstasydata.org)
- drastically reduced product deception (see "The LSD Avengers" for example)

When you contrast these aspects you see that the online marketplaces do operate like a free market with the biggest difference being the incentives associated with deceptive vending. I think thats valuable just because it provides a real world simulation for what variables of legalization would look like without forcing any one country to take the initial plunge by themselves.
Normal tap water has a pretty low sodium content anyways (4.8 ppm in SF), so why would distilled water be that much worse? Blood is typically 3.3g/L or 3.3 ppt.

Your kidneys are pretty dam good at reabsorbing essential ions.

I'm sure an electrolyte imbalance would be an issue eventually, I'm just not sure distilled water would make that much of a difference.
> Do you ever buy anything at grocery store, drug store, restaurant that you put in your body?

These are all inspected by governments. You can argue that this is imperfect, does not happen frequently enough, leaves something to be desired, won't catch everything, etc., but speaking personally, I do take those inspection scores seriously when I see them posted on the walls of places.
Yesterday my cousin was found dead. He had committed suicide. It was the end of a long battle he had been waging against himself. Drugs have destroyed this small part of my family, but i'm really glad to see something like the silk road revitalized.

I think the sooner we realize how fleeting a battle it is to fight them, the sooner we can place the money where it belongs.

My cousin is dead now, but I think my tax money would be better spent helping him kick his habit, than locking him up.
Why does this need access to my Twitter account to run? Can't it just get the publicly-facing information from the Twitter API?
could you plz specify why not? I mean if I apply and get interviewed and do a trial project only to be told at the end that I am not young enough, I'd be very disappointed. Isn't it better to mention upfront that they need someone young and energetic? (I don't have much experience hiring, so may be someone can fill me why it is considered to be a bad practice.)
Never heard 'em. Added to my list of new music, thanks!
There is an automated backup system that you have to enable for a droplet, that creates a snapshot every few days. It's a clear part of a droplet's control panel. They began charging for it in July 2013. The price is 20% of the droplet's monthly cost. Sounds like they need to update their pricing page.

This is pertaining to a droplet feature though, and not some low-level backup system. Meaning, it's not as if they're lying about the infrastructure below what a normal customer can see. They just have an erroneous pricing page.
If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. But it is achievable. Especially if you put enough effort into the business/marketing side.
SR was just a glorified rails app, and my understanding was that it was initially pretty buggy. It's within reason that someone could pick up the knowledge they need within a few months to build such a thing, at least enough to get it rolling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukataa#Arafat.27s_compound
Pebble releases SDK 2.0 with accelerometer and JavaScript APIs
I wonder how much of a perception you have of this trip though... if you're just radiation floating through space you might just was well think you just "instantly jumped" as soon as you arrive and "assemble" (whatever that process may consist of)
> Tons of counterfeit cigarettes cross the border between Paraguay and Brazil, and that funds crime syndicates. A legal and regulated product.

Yep, that's true (or maybe it's some illegal drug, but statistics on those aren't very reliable). Now just imagine what would happen if the entire brazilian tobaco market consisted of trafficked products. How big a mafia could you sustain with 10000 times more money?

Anyway, that question nowadays is completely academical, as Brazil currently hosts a single big mafia, that takes it's toll whatever economical activity happens here.
I read it as "I don't know what they are talking about and I'm going to make it their fault".
Yokum's personal site startupcompanylawyer.com has a ton of useful "self-help" information too. It's a great resource.
If this is a honeypot, couldn't they conceivably deanonymize users based on timing, using either ISP data or data from honeypotted Tor relays?
Yeah good point. I'm fortunate to know people from both Ruby and Python who would help. And each one has their own bias as to which one to learn. But you make a great point, a real life friend you can pester with questions is very helpful.
The main repository is currently SVN. When Chromium switches over to Git, we will probably follow suit. At some point there was a clone on Github, but I don't know by heart if it still exists.

Syntax is almost like a religion. You can't make everyone happy. So yes: although we changed the syntax in some areas, we kept the C-like syntax.

Fwiw you can't satisfy every feedback. There are always people that want to make Dart look and behave like their favorite language (be it Java, C#, JS, CS, Python or Ruby), then there are others that just want to boycott Dart, and finally there are simply conflicting views.

While we listened to every feedback we got, we found that feedback from people that had actually tried and used Dart to be the most helpful. They weren't always the loudest, but helped to make Dart a better language.
It's to the manufacturers advantage to make their equipment aesthetically and ergonomically incompatible with their competitors.

Hide them away.
Yes, but that is where most of the enforcement is and therefore most of the violence.
I'm sure there are other examples, but this method of monitoring mailboxes was used more than a decade ago to catch the person behind the Tesco letterbomb campaign:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco_bomb_campaign
"And you can cancel the contract at any time." -> this is wrong. unless you're selling a saas project, you shouldn't do that. it makes you look less serious and would make the customer think twice, because cancelling goes both ways.

also, I would put the full name in the "team" page, and maybe a link to the linkedin profile.

good luck with projects!
I've done something like this myself. A few observations from the article:

> our bodies are designed for scarcity

This is something that's been forgotten in many countries where life is now comfortable all the time. Skipping one meal is not the terrible thing that most people imagine it is.

> the Terrible, Insufferable Six-Day Water Fast

The first few days are difficult. After day 3 or so, hunger disappears.

> vicious headaches, dizziness, and a sad, hollow feeling

These are surprisingly similar to an addiction withdrawal process.

> On my final day without food, I wake up at 5 A.M. I slept in! And all of a sudden, I feel tremendous. Light, energetic, unreasonably cheerful.

Exactly.

So, the first 3 days or so are tough. After that, hunger disappears. You get a sense of amazing energy, powerful but calm. Your body is relaxed all the time. There's an amazing mental clarity. You do everything consciously and purposefully. Negative thoughts are gone or greatly diminished.

I can definitely see why fasting was used in most if not all traditions where meditation and prayer were practiced.

BTW, the longer the fast, the trickier the coming out of it. Restarting suddenly on a high-calorie solid food diet may cause problems.
Don't set the bar too high at first. Just aim to make "some money, greater than zero". If it's money you no longer actively have to work for, then congrats, you've got an income stream!

Do it again, and again, and you'll find that 1. You're getting closer to supporting yourself from it 2. You get a better idea of how to do it again, faster, cheaper
The author of the original article was a guest on the bootsrapped.fm podcast - great episode.
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian Physicist (Birthday)
"So let’s say a lawyer’s fee is $600 per hour (which is $10 per minute). He speaks to you on the phone for 2 minutes. That just cost you $60. Not $20. That’s a $40 rounding charge. Wow. Another way to think of it is a 200% markup."

So what we have is that the base cost of a phone call with your lawyer is always going to be $60. I don't have a problem with that other than obviously it would be nice if the cost were zero.

As far as $60? A conversation of 2 minutes and a conversation for 10 minutes is still interuptive and takes your attention from whatever you are doing. As anyone who has been in a zone doing work will attest to.
I have been doing a lot of fasts during the years:

It rarely works for permanent weight reduction - mostly because when you are off the fast you don't have proper new eating habits ingrained.

It takes 3 days to forget about the hunger. After that you have a lot of energy for the next 2-3 days.

Your senses become extremely sharp - you see better, hear better, smell better.

The moment you have acetone in your breath is a good time to stop.

When you start eating - your digestive tract is really fast to evacuate for the first few times. Be at home. Avoid hard foods.

After the first week you may have problems with the blood pressure - stand slowly, take your time waking up - if the world becomes more colorful - lay down on the ground ASAP - you are on the way of passing out.

Sex during the fast is awesome - see the senses thing above - the orgasm is multiple times more intensive than usual.
I blame Blockbuster's management. It's funny as all the other video stores have died off, Family Video continues to add stores and is doing fine.
Basically what I want is Unity's task switcher (I know, everyone hates it, but for me it is almost exactly how I like it), KDE's system settings, and xfce's everything else (except Thunar; but using Nautilus under xfce is easy enough).
At this point I think a big reason prohibition is kept alive is to save face. To end it, they'd have to admit they were wrong.
Around the World - Daft Punk
This is just an example of the massive waste of resources used up by the drug war (assuming this is what it claims to be, point stands regardless). So the Silk Road was shut down, but all that did was reduce the available supply of the drugs. It did nothing to address the demand side of drugs, which is really what drives everything. All attacking the supply does is make it more lucrative for those who are able to evade law enforcement.

There is some role for law enforcement to play in discouraging the supply of drugs (if the society we live in remains one where drug use is considered negative). However, the vast majority of resources should go towards addressing the demand (making people want them less, treatment, etc., I don't mean just arrest all the buyers).
Titan is a good existence proof that moons can retain dense atmospheres, but the exact reasons for it are complicated. Why don't any of Jupiter's large moons have dense atmospheres? Maybe radiation around Jupiter causes more atmosphere loss. Maybe it's just random. There's actually an argument that gas giant moons might be more capable of retaining atmospheres, all other things being equal, than equivalent free bodies, because gas molecules they lose will remain in orbit about the gas giant and eventually re-join the moon.

So, moons with atmospheres are clearly possible, but it's very unclear how frequent they might be, or how their prospects compare to those of regular planets.
it uses your oauth to do the twitter search. It only looks at public facing info, but due to the amount of traffic we are getting each user needs to use their twitter account to get tweets. Once you grab the info though we cache it so you can share it freely without having to login. Check out mine for example http://fingerprint.leadsift.com/?username=pykler
Is redbox a national thing? Interesting how the article blamed solely the internet and not redbox. Some parts of the city, I think there are more redbox machines than soda machines.
How much? apparently not too much from the account I've tested
Good point.

On second thought, I think the more important issue is the one 7Figures2Commas raised: If you have a lawyer who does the worst of this stuff, you have the wrong lawyer.

With that said, my blood pressure would definitely climb if a client challenged a 6-minute incremental bill for a phone call that was only 2 minutes.
Yes, but those systems don't exist yet, and the cost of setting up a Rails app hidden inside Tor is much lower.
I used to bring this out in people. Some things I felt were truly nasty were said. As 'yesimahuman' says, mainly by people very personally, and/or financially invested in the startup scene.

Since I’ve stopped hanging out so much IRL with startup guys, and instead with wider circle of folk, and networking more with "offline" entrepreneurs this has completely stopped happening.

Additionally using non-startup terms like "business owner" (vs say "founder") to describe myself and my company, seems to reduce the friction even when hanging out with the most agro startup guys.
Well, I know you can inject jQuery into any web page using the “jQuerify” button in FireQuery (http://firequery.binaryage.com/). But I’ve never even heard of XQuery before now. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuery, it seems to be a standard language, rather than a JavaScript library. What library do you use? http://www.xqib.org/ ?
Private prisons are a small minority. However, we do pay an ENORMOUS AMOUNT of money to support our INSANE prison population, and a lot of that money does indeed go to private hands through contracting.

The money argument is not stupid. It's big business, even in public prisons.
Extending Minitest 5: Assertions
We had the same experience: CloudFront to Fastly.

Fastly has a great CDN service, beutiful origin hosting for a Rails or Python app, and customizable output filters (gzip? yes, please) and customizable cache config.

Can't recommend them enough.
Stereo amps in Raspberry Pi format ? Even with the latest technology, an amplifier still require a large and heavy power supply and a no less large and heavy radiator for the big transistors...
It knew all the basics about me: Male, Married, Car Owner, Pet Owner, etc.
Here are some ideas:
https://medium.com/design-startups/49acac7c3405
http://blog.anujkumar.com/post/27913522655/please-steal-my-s...
Origami Labs (YC) Acquired By eFamily
Yes, unless you manage to do a form post in an iframe or something like that... which every web developer does to "make it work" in safari

http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/16/google.alleged...
This is something that should have happened around 2005.
Wikipedia research hackathon: San Francisco, November 9
It will be extremely kind if someone can explain the major differences or features that Presto offers that are different then Impala or other similar products.
No one wants to put a micro sd card in their phone, they just don't want to pay $100 for another 16GB storage