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> Only someone looking to scrap is going to ask for a source for someone saying that our country is loosing access to quality education.

I am being completely serious here: I don't know what you're talking about when you make your claim of "violently increasing numbers of uneducated people". Here, from Wikipedia, is a plot of educational attainment levels in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Educational_Attainment_in...

And here is a recent relevant NYT article titled "U.S. Bachelor Degree Rate Passes Milestone":

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/education/census-finds-bac...

Clearly, people have been graduating high school and graduating college in record numbers. For as long as I've been alive people have always been complaining that schools aren't great and "kids these days aren't learning like they used to" but most of that is nostalgic nonsense. There will always be poor schools somewhere.

So when you lead off with a claim about "uneducated people", what do you mean? People who don't graduate high school? People who don't graduate college? People who do so but (by your unstated standards) somehow aren't considered "educated"?

Nobody would doubt the claim if you had said we had more uneducated people in the 1950s than we do today - THAT claim reflects common sense wisdom. Claiming that it's gotten worse recently is something that needs a clear definition and some supporting evidence.
I find this... useful. But I'm not sure why. I spent the $3.99, and it sort of feels like a novelty app... but I can see myself actually using it for it's intended purpose, so.. is it really a novelty at that point?

I don't know, but I like how well it works.
Wow. What an interesting example of what's wrong with the venture capital model. A great product dies because the founders "spent too much time on the product".

I hope a 9th inning miracle saves the day. If not, thanks for the great product.
4000 files(?) must be crazy to manage. Is there any kind of templating system at all with them?

Now I come to think of it I guess there may also be a need to keep it in place due to links from other parts of the site.
Love the idea, been using iA Writer for MAC to work on my book. But since I'm co-authoring with somebody else this would be the best tool to use. Too bad you didn't get into YC (just like me and many others), but you got a user (an possibly many more after getting on HN)!

Just apply again next time when you're able to show some traction!
I installed a full application to do this the last time I needed annotated screenshots that didn't look like they were made by a child. I used Jing fwiw.
I tried them for about 3 months, was not a bad service. I had some issues with the methods in which they allowed for navigation of photos and how easy (or hard) it was to find a specific photo in a large collection. I ended up going back to Flickr. That being said, the display UI was great and I had hoped to see them pressuring other sites in the same space. Good luck to the team in whatever they decide to work on next.
Apple Patents Home Automation Technology That Adjusts Based On Device Location
Even with the brute protection provided by scrypt, it's very worrying that you can assume the encrypted private key will A) Be available to authorities via (secret) court order B) Captured and stored by NSA types. The security of the key could only be assumed to be as high as the weakest passphrase ever used by the user. With what we know about most user's password security (especially the type not already capable of using GPG, which would seem the target market of this) this seems like a very bad idea.

Why go through all the trouble of attempting strong client side crypto, only to store the private key secured only by a passphrase on the server?
I'm not surprised, AWS is expensive as hell.
Users of this service may want to consider setting up an installation of Trovebox (formerly OpenPhoto). You can grab the sources from https://github.com/photo and host it yourself, or sign up for a paid hosted account at https://trovebox.com/.
500k for consulting???????
He had pretty good reasons for bringing this up since in other phones like my Galaxy S3 , I was able to replace my broken screen for $80 instead of replacing the entire display which would have been pretty expensive.
The security implications of requiring users to install Firefox add-ons are not any better than requiring them to install ActiveX plug-ins. (Other than pure vendor politics.) You still have the artificial requirement of some Win32 blob, which is the real issue.
How does this not drain the iPhone battery?
One way to do statistics less wrong is to move from statistical testing to statistical modelling. This is what we are trying to support with BayesHive at https://bayeshive.com

Other ways of doing this include JAGS (http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/) and Stan (http://mc-stan.org/)

The advantage of statistical modelling is that it makes your assumptions very explicit, and there is more of an emphasis on effect size estimation and less on reaching arbitrary significance thresholds.
I find these comments interesting. I see them all the time, yet I have never had any battery issues with my iPhone. (that being said, my wife does tend to run hers down sometimes)

Perhaps I just don't look at facebook and instagram enough on my phone, but I never have issues under normal conditions. I'd say I usually have > 50% left at the end of the day, and I very rarely get under 20%.
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Dear Google, Thanks For Copying My Startup But You’re Doing It All Wrong
It's quite similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)

The process of getting a compiler to compile itself is not unlike your process of using Rainforest as part of the build process for Rainforest.
Shave. All of you with beards. Shave. For the love of all things holy, after the BoSox - it's jumped the shark... shave.

As for the app, etc. I'd like to see this grow into some multi-part thing that could optionally include voice, fingerprint, code, etc.
I'm just wondering how much biased their decisions are based on the age of the applicants. Because I found it odd that they asked for this piece of information.
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yup. we got our first iphone in 2009. I guess Samsung had been blocking apple.
Thank you. I came here to say the same.

If you're company is < 10 people, you're not a CTO or CEO. Putting it down as your title only makes sense in the bay area. Outside of the bubble, it looks ridiculous.

Even _if_ CTO is "technically" your title, it comes across as pompus and immature. Have some humility. A better description is tech founder, tech lead, principal engineer, lead developer, etc.
I understand the attraction. You want to solve this problem as if it was just a straightforward hack. I spent a few days looking at this same problem (harpomail.com) and abandoned it because, in then end, It seemed like I could only provide a false sense of security to people who could conceivably lose their lives because they trusted me.

If it had just been a technical risk or a financial risk to myself I would have pursued it, but some risks are heavier than others.
Its in my gut. For some reason I dont trust them. They have weird paid vs free rules. They control the data(You can get it out).

OpenNote is designed to be a simple alternative. You control the data. You can see the code. Your information in your control.

EverNote is not bad. However, in my gut I dont trust them.

Plus it was time for an open source third alternative.
It's a thinness issue.

If you want a removable battery you have to build a clip or latch system to allow the battery to be removable as well as a component shielding so that grubby little fingers don't go in there gumming up the works. Finally, a removable battery will have different receptors on it to allow it to be more easily swapped by laymen as opposed to a ribbon cable which takes a bit more finesse.

You CAN replace the battery in these units..you just have to be better at your job than your grandmother replacing her cordless phone battery.
New game finds 1M players in first 22 hours… on Kik
Open-Source Routing Machine - a completely open source Google Maps competitor
How does the Mac authenticate a phone with Knock? Does it use HMAC-based One-Time Passwords (HOTPs) like Google Authenticator?
The median outcome is low, but the expected value is pretty high for starting a startup.

Mark Zuckerberg is worth $20 billion after 7 years

This is such a fallacy, though. And not just on the maths. Financial incentives don't drive artists and hackers.[1] Your one empirical datapoint even demonstrates that. Financial incentives drive the second or thrid generation of followers, sure. But the creators and the momentum players are often cut from different cloth.

[1] because as pointed out, they are on average flawed.
I am a bit rusty, but isn't it always better to individually parenthesize macro variables in the expression?

#define CHECK(X, Y) \
do { printf("Performing Assertion\n"); assert((X - Y) != 0); \
printf("Assertion passed\n"); } while (0)

Here, assert((X - Y) != 0) should be assert(((X) - (Y)) != 0)

It's OK when you are doing subtraction, but if you were doing something like division or multiplication, you could screw with the order of operations if you don't do this.
The iPhone 5S M7 coprocessor can be used all the time in background without draining the battery.

[quote]

The new M7 coprocessor is like a sidekick to the A7 chip. It’s designed specifically to measure motion data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass — a task that would normally fall to the A7 chip. But M7 is much more efficient at it. Now fitness apps that track physical activity can access that data from the M7 coprocessor without constantly engaging the A7 chip. So they require less battery power.

M7 knows when you’re walking, running, or even driving. For example, Maps switches from driving to walking turn-by-turn navigation if, say, you park and continue on foot. And if your phone hasn’t moved for a while, like when you’re asleep, M7 reduces network pinging to spare your battery.
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> So, if an individual socialist person in a capitalist economy is corrupt, that's not as big a problem as a capitalist being corrupt?

In GP, "capitalist" -- and I would have thought this was crystal clear from context -- was used in the sense of "member of the class deriving sustenance principally through ownership of capital" (e.g., as would be opposed to "labor") not in the sense of "proponent of the economic system known as capitalism" (e.g., as would be opposed to "socialist".)
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Hi! These are good questions.

1. We could require the signatures to be recent, and if there are any certificates that need to be revoked, we could require that all signers include that information in the data signed. What do you think?

2. If other hostile browser extensions can hijack the validation process, then the only solution is to not have other browser extensions. Paranoid users who need strong security should boot from a fixed image that has a vetted browser with only one browser extension already installed.
Part of the problem is also in the way that Google kills things. They generally don't attempt to sell it, open it up, or spin it off, etc. You just wake up one day and it's dead (or announced as soon-to-be so).

Another example is their Google Affiliate Network, a product they acquired as part of their ValueClick acquisition. There were tons of businesses using it on both the advertiser and affiliate sides. This usage included heavy integrations, reporting, API access, product catalogs, etc. They suddenly announced that they were killing it within a couple of months.

There was no attempt to sell it, assist customers with migration, or otherwise provide some continuity for customers. Google seems to have no sense of responsibility that people and businesses are depending on their services. Their M.O. is to just get people to "invest" in Google products/services and entrust their own businesses to Google, then pull the rug from under them when it no longer suits Google.

It's a problem, and the reputation they are receiving is well-earned.
Ok, I said this in another post, but don't call yourself CTO then. Outside of the tech bubble, it comes across as self-aggrandizing even if you don't mean it to. Have some humility and use the title tech-founder or tech lead or something like that.
We're building out that portion right now. There will be a web interface for managing the cluster. We'll benchmark it on cloud configs on different sizes with regular spinning disks, EBS, and SSDs.

The goal with the cluster stuff is that it should be possible to add nodes to the cluster, but the storage part of it isn't highly elastic. Meaning, you won't be adding and removing instances from it frequently. So adding nodes will require you to go into the admin interface, activate them, then wait up to half a day for rebalancing to be complete (but the cluster will be available for reads and writes during this time). However, we will be optimizing for the case of replacing a failed or soon to be shut down node.

If you're serious about giving it a try when we have the clustered version available, shoot me an email: paul@pauldix.net. Would definitely like to hear more about your use case.
Dammit. That sucks. I am (well, was) a paying member of Everpix and I loved it. It was very great. It surprises me that this is how I found out about the closing. They haven't sent out the notifications to members yet, it seems.

Guess I now have to look for another similarly seamless remote backup of my photo library. Any suggestions?
My 'dumb' phone lasts 25 days on battery.
I've been on XFCE on Debian since KDE 4 came out. Recently I had a fresh install and checked gnome out of curiosity and it turns out I'm too old-fashioned for this.
I do see your point, but wouldn't dropping your car keys also allow someone to steal your car?
Because they are write-once (more secure).
Another takeaway: Notch didn't just create a good game; He got lucky with his marketing. Infiniminer came first, did a lot of things better, but ultimately failed due to fragmentation.
"Strong-typing vs weak-typing" is actually irrelevant. It's still an error at run-time, and unless your quality control tools and practices actually run the code (like unit tests do), you're not going to know about them.

As you move beyond native types, duck-typing (like in python) completely subverts the strong type-checks anyway.
I think that would be the real winner - locks when you walk away, unlocks when you return. So simple I'm surprised it doesn't already exist.
I remember both. I was active from '99 to about 2002, and was a City Councilor/Colony Leader at one point. Nice to run into someone else with a similar background, the internet just isn't the same as it used to be in those days.
> A payment processor has a fiduciary duty for its customers.

Oh? This time the fiduciary duty is towards customers and not shareholders? :p

Funny how most times it's trotted out as an excuse for some scumbaggery by a corporation, but now it's a reason to "protect" customers.
Yeah, my Nexus is coming today and while I'm not thrilled to hear stories about battery life, I'd be fine carrying around a backup battery.

Something like this: http://amzn.com/B005X1Y7I2 seems to be small enough to be pocketable while having enough juice to help you out if you need it.

The only problem I would have is remembering to keep the thing charged.
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I can imagine this being useful in certain Indian cities (where water is relatively expensive). The self-powered part makes it super awesome!
Unfortunately the massive social problems of India (or any society for that matter) are not fixable by technology for the most part. For the part that are susceptible to a technological (and managerial) solution, there's plenty of interesting work going on.. e.g.
http://www.infowars.com/cashless-society-india-implements-fi...
Thanks PNR. We got our invitation letters.
Because storage fails and most of the tech world is tired of trying to recover your data when it breaks.

In my opinion, the less you store on your phone the better off you will be. I've seen the look on the faces of people who don't backup regularly and using your phone as a USB drive for your life is a "Bad Idea"
Debian's jessie GNOME packages were also woefully out of date until the past 2 weeks. You can finally run GNOME 3.8 which was released over 7 months ago. At this rate they'll always been at least 1 stable version behind and probably end up at 2 behind by the time jessie is frozen next year.
I'm using loom (loom.com) and its nice--very similar I think. hope it doesn't go the same way. Yes I am paying :)
This reminds me of a comment I made a week or two ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6540827 I made a similar comment about hiding the price on your launch page and got a response from the creator who was very helpful.
so, you want to send someone a message. you don't care if someone sees you sending it. but you don't want anyone to know whom you sent it to, or what the message contains.

requirement 1. message integrity and security

1a. use public-key cryptography
- step 1. Person A writes a letter to Person B.
- step 2. Person A encrypts a message using Person B's public key.
- step 3. Person A sends encrypted message to Person B.
- step 4. Person B receives and decrypts the message using Person B's private key.

requirement 2. clandestine recipients

1a. coded messages
- con: coded messages are usually broken after enough messages pass

1b. steganography
- not difficult to detect if messages sent often

1c. dead drops
- pro/con: MITM has to monitor the drop box to determine recipient

1d. peer-to-peer message passing
- can still determine recipient using statistical analysys

i think if you took the tor model for private services and removed the open circuits, and added a more evenly-distributed constant stream of garbage messages sent to random peer addresses, it would be much less likely that any one message could be linked to any two nodes with certainty. this would hinge on the premise that all nodes are constantly receiving messages (mostly garbage) at random. this would probably be a horrible thing for network bandwidth, but luckily most e-mails are very small.
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IMO it really doesn't matter what University you go to as long as you finish. The degree is just a way to show employers you can endure a taxing 4+ years.

Waterloo has co-op, 4 months school, 4 months work. This is really good for getting a feel for where you want to work. But the amount of time at the company isn't all that much. Depending on the company they may be reluctant to give you anything big to work on as you will be gone soon.

U of T has PEY, professional experience year, 12-16 months of internship. I really enjoyed my year off, made what I learnt at school make sense. When I came back to school after a year I was much more committed. The downfall is that for a few summers you maybe doing odd jobs to get by.

In terms of education, I think it really depends on the student. But talking to my buddies that went to Waterloo, the classes are smaller and it sounds like they actually care that you pass.

At U of T you get so much thrown at you that you have to learn what is important and only focus on those things. Pass or fail is up to you as it is super competitive.

Best of luck!
Well, either the Remains of the Day anecdote is true or false... it's one thing to pick and choose the facts you think are important in the context of the narrative you think is important, another if the facts are incorrect, which is what Mrs. Bezos is alleging.
I think Loom does.
Been working with SymmetricDS (open-source Java database syncer over HTTP). Works on Java desktop, Android, Java web servers. An IOS version in the works.

Anyone else using it?

Would be nice to see a pure AJAX / IndexedDB plugin.

Since a local database would write directly to a central database, you really want row-level security and good triggers, so a user can only screw up their own stuff.
Perhaps you meant to respond to a different comment? There is no discernible correlation between the 1.5 relatively simple points I made, and whatever it is you've written here. (Hint: I outlined a short history of Ma Bell, and then had a small throwaway dig about Somalia. That's it.)
Debian's CD images are actually hybrid CD/DVD/USB images: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en

It's been a feature of isolinux for a while now: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc/isolinux#HYBRID_C...
Wanna buy my startup Buddy Beers?
I've been enjoying PictureLife. Allows you to use your own S3 bucket too
I thought they re-wrote it when Photosphere came out and I seem to remember there being some sort of animated-gif/parallax gif feature being added that I can't seem to find.

I totally agree...time to get a decently functioning camera in there.
I suspect that this kind of delight, even though it becomes routine, actually enhances user experience in the long run.

For example, I have compiz set to use the "Burn" effect when closing windows. This is delightful and unobtrusive, and completely pointless. But man is it a stress reliever when I decide to close all of my windows in frustration.
We opted for the bastardized SQL because we thought it would be easier to understand. Of course, that may not be the case which is why we'd like to hear what people think of it. We based our decision on people using our API in Errplane and not understanding some parts of it without a lot of additional explanation. One of our users said about one part of it "oh, that's just like group by".

I'm curious, did you find the SQL dialect readable and understandable?
If they do this for many users, then those who don't have a secure environment (including the browser extension) are vulnerable, but it would be easy to detect that this is happening on a large scale -- those running the extension would be notified. If they don't do this for every user, then it wouldn't be effective dragnet surveillance, and Scramble would have a made a dent in dragnet ability.
Bluetooth Low Energy. Unlike old bluetooth, this new service shuts down all the time to save power. In fact, apple recommends geofencing any bluetooth beacons you know will stay put, so it only starts scanning for nearby devices over bluetooth once you're within a certain radius. In this case, the app only looks for devices when you launch the app, though if you were willing to put up with a delay, you could do so on-knock. Haven't looked at the app yet. One more alternative: it could send the message and have your mac constantly looking for messages when locked. Third alternative, it pairs in the background and only once iOS notices the new device does it start actively opening communication channels. Apparently connect times are a few ms? http://www.connectblue.com/technologies/bluetooth-low-energy...
Google bots follow SQL-injected URLs from third party sites
We're sending out emails in batches. We will also be in touch about refunds and downloads.
On most build systems, it's enough to change a default in one place, and not the same default in two different places.
What exactly is the new open source component here? Can you provide a github link as well?
Haha, I love the story about getting the job at Shoptiques! It's brilliant. Just show up and meet the CEO...Nice.
What lag are you talking about? Even critics of Android have offered up that the Nexus 5 is smoother and silkier than even the iPhone 5s.

The single and only lag complaint I've seen was an utterly ridiculous "scroll up and down quickly in Chrome" video preview on the Verge. Not only does it have zero association with actual use, iOS displays exactly the same so-called "lag" on premium devices with complex websites like the Verge.

The lag beast has been slayed. Perhaps mostly through just enormous computational horsepower, but it is a non-complaint.