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Hopefully they make a product to make exchanging currencies through bitcoin easier.

International bank transfers are both slow and expensive. I'd like to transfer my money into bitcoins in one country, then exchange those bitcoins for another currency in another. The current challenge being that the amounts it seems I'm able to trade for in Australia are quite small, a few hundred dollars here and there.
It's situations like Matt's that I find myself wishing I studied CompSci in undergrad, if simply for the connections to other hackers.

Goodluck Matt. Let's grab coffee sometime.
Who decides what's legitimate and what's not?
I donate to the Sierra Club, support unions (sometimes), and yes, I am still with you! I don't think any non-human entity (even if it's "made up of people") should have any sort of say in the democratic process.

Corporations don't represent the best interest of their stakeholders (employees etc), but the narrow interest of their shareholders in a competitive marketplace where shareholders are only looking for one thing. In other words, it is not the job of a company to do what its employees find most pleasing.
Gospel Artist Poses Nude WTF??
GOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE!

Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies" and "It Is Time" happens to be two of the titles. She even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. How can this so called "Gospel Artist" be a role model is she's posing news? For more on this story.....Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail.
Seems like it would be far easier to wage a brief naval campaign (using contractors, UAVs, and a naval quarantine) than to either continue suffering losses from piracy (both the ships lost and decreased trade), or to fix Somalia. Going after the money would probably cripple trade with Somalia even more than a board/search/execute policy on any ship leaving a 12nm exclusion zone with weapons.
Holy crap. He's exactly the type the government could recruit inside a company like Google.
What evidence do you have that the administration had anything to do with shutting down monuments?

You have to really be taking big gulps of the Kool Aid to have missed all the stories about how far park services went to deliberately shut down monuments. There were even reported stories of government officials showing up at some independent park operators who were utilizing government land. They ordered those parks shut down. So they didn't have money to operate parks but they had money to send people to shut down parks the government doesn't even operate?

If you start questioning the official line from the Administration, you might ask why the President and his spokespeople kept threatening default on national debts when the servicing of the debt is mandated by the 14th Amendment and easily accomplished with one tenth of the incoming federal revenues. It was all a big house of cards once you started looking at it.
I also can't count the number of girls (all the way back to high school) that I saw lay eyes on a male teacher they found attractive and fully cognizant of the consequences pursue them like an animal... not justifying or condoning it in any manner, but in some arenas, women can be far more predatory than men, regardless of the social or political structure of the relationship. Of course it also goes the other way, and in every combination of sexes, but there's a truth to the age old saying "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Male professors, indeed everyone should do well to take heed heed of that. Even if the relationship seems genuine and it's really about feelings and not about power, what are the consequences should the wheels fall off? and are they worth it?
A blog post which writes about someone who interviewed with the NSA: http://mathbabe.org/2012/08/25/nsa-mathematicians/

Choice quote: ‘Out of the 6 or 7 people I met, everyone but one person responded along the lines, “I believe everything the United States Government does is good.”’
I don't buy this line of argument. I'll accept that the flawless yield goes down, but a few dead pixels amongst millions isn't the end of the world, especially if they're very small pixels. We have pretty perfect small panels (the Nexus 7 has the same resolution as the 24" on my desk).

If the yield y is high enough on those small panels to make them as cheap as they are, and on the slightly bigger panels that go into laptops, why would the yield on a display n times larger be lower than y^n? Because they would need to be lower than that IMO to justify 5 figure prices.

I think the TV industry has made 1080p panels so cheap from mass manufacturing that they've created a big price / performance gap, and manufacturers have believed that consumers don't want the higher quality enough to pay the premium considering this competition.

It doesn't help that most of the software ecosystem hasn't been ready for scaling.
I doubt Google has anything to do with the hardware for this. Qualcomm has been pushing movement tracking and user context recognition using sensors with their chips without using a lot of power at conferences for over a year now. This is probably just Google throwing in a cut down version of their Pivot functionality. It's basically a chipset feature, just like how the chipsets are who pushes the OpenGL ES drivers and demos each version.
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The idea that someone would refuse to help get more people insured in a country where health care financing will for at least the next 10 years depend entirely on insurance because of something the NSA did is emblematic of how annoying nerds like us are when it comes to public policy.

That'll show 'em! All 10-15 people in the government who might get fired over Obamacare, along with the 10 MILLION people who will spend even more time uninsured. You get 'em!
And that's why they have captured 80% of the smartphone market of the world ... oh wait ...
The groups he sent to are quite likely to actually use and enjoy the app.
I think that's what he meant... it shows how much code quality contributes to success: not much at all.
Just a note, but not all areas in the country have monopoly utilities. There are in fact quite a few with required competition, much like the throttled pipe for internet argument.

Ex: In Georgia if you have a gas line to your house you can purchase gas from any gas provider in the state. This style of legislation is probably more inline with what the constituents want than the municipally owned solution or the single provider solution.
"... the future doesn’t look so bright for Apple, who are currently sitting on an enormous amount of unsold stock"

What unsold stock are they referring to?
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I'm not sure he's a HOF'er. He's definitely a star, but not a superstar, to be a super-star you have to be a top 5 player, and known by most non-sports fans. Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Dwight Howard, Kevin Durant, all meet that criteria.
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Keep in mind that users are logging on and off all the time, so it has to be an online algorithm.
I am a long-time HNer who created a throwaway account to answer your question.

I have firsthand knowledge of engineers who work at the NSA, although I have no affiliation with any government agency.

What I can tell you is that these engineers believe that the NSA does not intentionally spy on Americans. This is something that the NSA constantly tells itself. They have various controls and procedures to minimize the data of US persons. They go to meetings about how not to spy on US persons.

I am not saying that these controls are effective. I am just saying that they exist, and they are very visible to NSA personnel. This creates the impression that the NSA takes the matter seriously.

As for non-US persons--they tend to view the US in some kind of infowar with various other countries. What you do in wars is things that aren't very nice. Since they are all adversaries, they act adversarially. So it is A-OK to spy on Germany or whatever, since everybody spies on everybody. The US is just better at it than most.

As for being "just a paycheck"--I think some of them feel very patriotic about it. In their mind, they are assisting their country in a warzone. They are under the impression that their actions save lives.

I gather that the whole thing is very compartmentalized and there are many who found out about PRISM and all these other programs at the same time as the rest of us. However there is a tendency to give your coworkers the benefit of the doubt when potentially harmful allegations come to light.
well, that's true but you only get ~30% to 50% of the salary (amount in EURO) compared to SV and you have to pay around 48% taxes on your income.
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>If it isn't in defense of incidents of domestic terror, what the fuck is it for?

Terrorism is a small subset of what the intelligence community supports. The majority of intelligence collection is used for strategic military planning and political decision making. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Comm...
Given that they have at least 3,000 people working in Ireland, I think it's disingenuous dismiss it entirely as for tax purposes.
Yes, this! "Good code" and a CI box and deployment automation and some chef recipies don't spell ultimate success.

It drives me nuts when people tell me off for saying 'yeah yeah, no, automating our entire infrastructure of 5 servers isn't really worth it right now', like I'm some unprofessional bozo.

I pretty much have experience with all but one or two of your suggested scenarios, and by now I have no patience for annoying software developers who think that using chef or puppet somehow sufficiently embiggens them to run ops on their own (of course dev ops is almost a political assault on existsing ops guys, not merely a nice new solution to existing problems).

Sigh. This is why I don't work on teams these days (if I can help it).

EDIT: Though I also agree with the sub-parent, that deploying on 5pm is fine in certain teams and certain projects, the most important thing is are the guys pushing to do the deploy going to own the deployment? Are they going to hang around for another 60 minutes to check everything is OK? Are they going to be available at 10pm or on Saturday if something goes wrong and are they going to own it? If the answer is no, then nope, don't do it.
Metro billboard advocating jury nullification concerns local prosecutors
Being CIO at Tesla
Yes, this might not crush Apple, the article itself doesn't make much sense. The App store, however is number one in the revenue not because it's "better", it's mainly because Apple users are rich (and more likely girls) [1][2][3], and most Apple users buy their iPhones as a 'show off' device than a thing they want to use to its extent. Of course, rich people buy more. They don't buy because they need, they buy because they want. Rich girls will continue to exist.

[1]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20092784-71/study-android-...

[2]: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/06/ma...

[3]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/06/iphone_owners_high_i...
An encyclopedia? Is that like a wiki?

I kid, I kid
I use Firefox on Android for its proxy settings, so I can SSH tunnel out of China.
What do you mean? Is that considered too deep nesting? (I'm not trying to be sarcastic.)
You really can't discern between someone who can imagine NSA employees who believe in what they're doing, and someone who supports the NSA?

Oh, wait. This is an Internet message board. Of course you can't.
This was a fascinating read for me, made me think. I would love to hear some thoughts on this from the HN community.

My own reflections: http://meriksson.net/an-alternative-view-on-snowden
Yeah, but chancellor Merkel must be really pissed off with all the latest shenanigans [1] by her friends across the pond...

And everybody else must be really pissed off with the latest documents. Here's the punch line:

> Intercepting communications overseas has clear advantages for the NSA, with looser restrictions and less oversight. NSA documents about the effort refer directly to “full take,” “bulk access” and “high volume” operations on Yahoo and Google networks. Such large-scale collection of Internet content would be illegal in the United States, but the operations take place overseas, where the NSA is allowed to presume that anyone using a foreign data link is a foreigner.

[1] http://electrospaces.blogspot.nl/2013/10/how-nsa-targeted-ch...

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-in...
Connections to hackers aren't hard to find. However, proving to hackers that they should bring you onto their startup, idea or project is the hard part.

Few tips / ideas

Post on http://startupers.com under "talent"

Go on angel.co, create a profile. Go here: https://angel.co/jobs >> sort jobs by your field and start connecting with startups. Follow people on there and start building relationships.

http://www.cofounderslab.com another site for finding cofounders

http://startupweekend.org - find a startupweekend event in your area ... amazing place to meet hackers, entrepreneurs and smart people. Network, network, network.

http://foundershookup.com/ - another founder matching site

http://www.reddit.com/r/forhire/ -- post here info about you and what your looking for

http://www.indeed.com/ - search for keywords + your area..example cofounder, nyc or partner nyc, or biz dev nyc and reach out to job posts. I've used this method for making connections to startups and the founders

https://angel.co/people - forgot this one...great way to find people with any skills, interests, location etc.

Ill add to this as I can think of more
I'm giving myself a much-deserved break and spending time with friends and family.
The Nexus 5 is actually physically smaller in all dimensions than the Nexus 4.
fwiw I've never even heard of anything like this.
And that's exactly what I didn't mean. It's a sample of one, and offers no information whatsoever about how much code quality can contribute to success, except that rubbish code doesn't totally preclude the hope that a product might be successful.

Let's say things had turned out a little differently, and someone had used one of those SQL injections to irreversibly erase all of early Facebook's data. We'd probably never have heard of it again.

Code quality is a good thing - like scalability, and security. Ultimately, you might succeed without it. But it'll probably be easier if you do.
You could look it up by yourself, but here's the gist of it: the flight attendant's top priority is your safety, not your happiness or comfort. They are trained in emergency procedures and if at all possible they will be the ones who make sure you get out of a cabin full of smoke after a crash. To cite a recent example: http://jezebel.com/no-ones-talking-about-the-flight-attendan...
Are smartphones a menace to society?
I can't comment on the 30" Korean screens, but I got a 27" QHD Yamakasi Catleap and it's been wonderful. No quality problems at all. And I had an expensive 1920x1200 HP before.
I travel all around the valley, and rarely ever have any signal issues with T-Mobile, in the places I do have issues Verizon phones are the only ones with signals.

Where I live(Sun Dance) Verizon phones have little to no signal while I have 3-4 bars.
Absolutely. This app is going to completely rely on network effects. Just like Facebook, once there are a few area "spheres" with a lot of active and concurrent users, this can start to take off.

I predict this may end up being the next big Snapchat-like app within a year. I may be totally wrong, and/or I may just be biased because I've always wanted an app like this (in part because I always enjoyed the local small-region chatting in MMO games, and this is the same thing applied to real life), but I think this has a ton of potential.

Right now it needs to be aggressively marketed and spread around.
Programming in the dark, eating all the chocolate. Our street has no lights so we never get trick or treaters :(
You can monitor people based on water and electricity usage; it's less detailed, but you can get some information from it. Marijuana grow houses are commonly found through power usage signatures. In fact, they commonly steal power not just because they use a lot of it, but so they're not instantly detected.

The new "smart meters", which provide much finer grained usage, will be even better for surveillance.
So I agree with the article and I agree that NSA has gone too far. But your comment feels like you have bought a jump to conclusions mat from "office space". If, for example, during the process of obtaining clearance, you were to receive certain information that you don't have now, perhaps that would change your opinion of legitimacy of these programs from a binary 0 or 1 to a more nuanced probability distribution
But Silicon Valley !== AdTech.
2 errors (at least). I meant 2025 for patent expiry and defacto rather than dejure.
To get more users, have you tried approaching bloggers in different niches with different article ideas? The use cases for your app are different for different sets of people. Just write a one paragraph abstract about your app and email bloggers and editors to see if they'll cover your just released app.

Some headline and abstract ideas when you approach bloggers:

1) Tech/Business -- Popcorn: The hot new app to network at tech conferences

2) Student Websites/Newspapers -- The messaging app you need when a zombie apocalypse happens at SDSU (insert campus here)

3) Dating Blogs -- The newest app for singles: Popcorn lets you chat with others in high density bar areas

4) General -- When disasters strike, Popcorn lets you talk to others in your vicinity

5) Social media bloggers -- What are young teens using if not Facebook? Apps like Popcorn: hyper-local and addictive

6) Music -- Perfect for Coachella and SXSW: Popcorn lets you chat with others at music festivals

7) City Websites/Local -- New app "Popcorn" lets neighbors stay connected on what's happening on the block

8) Gaming -- Popcorn, the app you need to coordinate your next LAN party

If you get a bunch of these articles and blog posts up in the next week or two, it can help push that 1,000 number up higher.
Interesting that Java is about to outpace Ruby - although it looks like the rate of change of the rate of change (can't remember what that's called, it's been a long time since college) has slowed for Java. Ruby's negative rate of change doesn't seem to be slowing as much as Java's positive one though.
A lesson to developers here: Don't include a feature before it's ready, even if you think it's really cool.
Poorly now that Bitcoin ASICs exist.
Ask HN: Would you pay $4 for not being tracked by a content provider?
As the author notes, the fact that he finally did get a bunch of upvotes sort of proves that his posting wasn't spam to begin with. It was relevant to the community. What it shows more than anything else is that the system for achieving the coveted front page status is broken. I'm not sure what a good solution would be though.
Right, because the States are just vassals of the Federal government. They must meekly go along with poorly written and executed laws of the Feds.
If the govt. will spend $600M+ on the steaming pile of dog poo that is healthcare.gov, I am sure they are successful in finding able-bodied hackers worth their salt that can build data mining infrastructure and router firmware hacks that lead to this mess we are in.
That would be what their flagging is set up to catch...
Watching no one come to my well lit, pumpkin marked and candy laden apartment, and listening to my Screamin' Jay Hawkins channel on Pandora.
Lovely idea.

Seems like twitter has already suspended the account.
Building my next startup.
Xilinx hasn't said much about their next generation so it's impossible to tell who's ahead, but I would expect the next Zynq to get plenty of design wins just based on familiarity. http://www.xilinx.com/about/generation-ahead-20nm/index.htm
Are you really required to buy the books?
I've only bought CLRS and never really needed it.
And there's always the library, bur unless you want to go more in-depth than the lecture, your* lecture notes and the slides would suffice to get through the test.

[*] fortunately I had a friend who was dedicated to producing beautiful lecture notes in LaTeX
I don't doubt your intentions, but the original really is better, stylistically. Try restoring the conversational deletion[1]:

So then there come a lot of people, [who] just put in 2 euros, demand their ice and soda, and as soon as they eat the ice, they vanish.

Now you don't have to wallow in all those awkward participles, which are almost without exception weaker than direct constructions. (You might want to omit the second 'they', but conversationally it adds a nice flavor, and certainly isn't wrong.)

1. http://english.stackexchange.com/a/66994
> Theoretically the free market says that another hospital would pop up to compete on price, but theory ain't practice

It is illegal to start a new hospital to compete on price with the existing ones. To open a new hospital, you need permission from the current existing hospitals. If they don't agree that the community you want to do business in is "underserved", you can't get licensed.

And yes, that policy is insane, moronic, a source of monopoly rents and probably one of the many reasons health care costs are so out of control. But it's the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need
It means nikatwork is not going to like the aesthetics of lisp.
Anyone who can deal with airline passengers, day in and day out without perpetrating a horrific massacre when they see their paycheck is far from 'lowest common denominator'
Stripe adds metadata to API
They have this seemingly new sensor called "Hall Effect". Anyone knows what does it do?
If by some horrible miracle --- a "horribilicle" --- we had upon us a series of public referenda on a Constitutional amendment enabling foreign intelligence services to ignore the 4th Amendment in the service of any reasonable pursuit of Islamic terrorists, how do you think "WE" would vote on it?

I know how I'd vote ("fuck no"), but I don't think I could predict whether the amendment would pass.

It's worth keeping in mind that the government exists to serve all of us, not just us noisy nerds on Hacker News, and that we don't all agree on things that everyone on Hacker News believes we agree about.
*Perhaps 1 or 2. Perhaps not.
Just a tip: Make sure you are logged into your Google account. Until I logged in it was showing as "Out of Stock".

32gb black was available when only the 16gb white was available previously.

edit: Also note that mine is a Google Play Dev Account, which may or not affect availability.
I agree, and it's a growing trend.
But can we still trust Certificate Authorities at this point? If HTTPS was widely adopted, that would just give the NSA a new point of attack. CAs have already been compromised, and there are probably plenty that have handed over keys to the NSA that we don't know about.
Do these rules have limits on the percentage of the company you own or anything? I feel like there are some publicly traded GmbH or AG companies but I can't think of any off the top of my head. Would owning a few shares in any of those disqualify you?
> Why mandate how the benchmark is implemented?

Otherwise you won't be able to compare the results.

For example, the Benchmarks Game [1] specifies how the algorithms in those benchmarks should work. For some of the benchmarks, there are faster algorithms. However, it's not about comparing algorithms, it's about comparing language implementations.

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/