skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although the older Roku's are not initial targets for deployment, the timing nonetheless seems to roughly correspond with when my Roku XD started rebooting every hour or two while playing Netflix.

If there's some correspondence on the back end, I hope Netflix will sort it out, as the reboot takes a good couple of minutes; additionally, the glitch strikes suddenly and hard enough that the current location in the playing stream is not saved.
You can always tell an article is going to be subpar by its use of weasel words in the title.
I know they're two separate companies, but Elon likes to move technology from one company to another: I would hope that some of the same software QC procedures apply between Tesla and SpaceX.
Civic Information API: now connecting US users with their representatives
> as people are not motivated to spend it or invest it in means of production

It also hits credit hard, because lending money is less attractive as you say, but also because taking on credit becomes a riskier proposition; your debt grows even if you pay the interest and some of the capital! It's extremely difficult to see how a modern capitalist economy could function under these constraints.
It really does, but these founders end up only hurting themselves - people talk, morale dips, and no one will trust them again.
I was very disappointed with the Jot Script. It frequently skips. See this video of a replacement "non-lemon" writing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBEGJJNVAjw#t=68

Anyone use a Galaxy Note day to day to take notes in meetings? Half my notes are diagrams and sketches; I don't understand why reviewers always gloss over the stylus as unnecessary and quote (a wrong) Steve Jobs.
It has KVM support, but zones ie containers use the sam ekernel so cannot run Linux.
This is what will happen. If Apple hasn’t done it already, they will apply to the court for a temporary injunction preventing Samsung from delivering more coins, or they will ask the court to enter an order charging Samsung with the costs of counting and depositing the coins.

As an aside, I wonder what effect a billion dollars in coinage will have on seignorage in the Federal Reserve district for California.
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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".
Bluetooth but no pressure sensitivity? Pressure sensitive stylus is the closest thing that emulates drawing on "paper".

It's a beautiful stylus, but not a very practical one.
There are also examples of post-fiat currencies. Immediately following the toppling of Saddam Hussein there was still economic activity denominated in the old Iraqi currency, most probably on the assumption that it would be convertible at some rate with whatever came next.
We are working on that paper right now. If you're interested, feel free to provide us your email on the site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis

I don't think it's a misuse of the word.
The article is unclear about what exactly needs to be enabled in order for the app to work, but I don't think they are saying they can hijack wifi even when it's disabled. An important quote from the article on this note is

"So while PDQ doesn’t require existing connections, it uses the existing wireless chips to send data across short distances, which could be useful during power outages or natural disasters. That means you can’t have your iPhone in airplane mode while using PDQ, for example, because then it wouldn’t be able to tap into its wireless chips."
And a keyboard with integrated touchpad and software and a pretty decent team behind the project…
Alternatives to Google Helpouts?
Google Helpouts looks promising, but the community does not look very developed or specifically focused on what I am looking for.

Are any startups tackling the hire-an-expert/tutor-by-the-hour space?

I would like to find a list of experts/teachers/mentors that can jump on skype or a hangout to tackle problems like: teaching the basics of bitcoin or going over a programming problem in python or explaining how to best harden OS X.
Why listen to it when it's a layman's finance podcast if you already have a decent grasp of ACH and it's shortcomings? Did you really expect them to be giving an in-depth look at ACH for their 3million+ audience?
Meta suggestion... Before submitting to Show HN, sites in general should get their friends/family to preload many theoretical examples, otherwise the Show HN is going to be grammar errors and lots of "what is it for".
It's not just the evaluation model; you have to know whether the compiler will perform transformations behind your back that increase space usage. If you were to impose a space semantics on the compiler and require that it preserve the semantics, a lot of optimizations would have to be disabled for lazy expressions.

It's not surprising that people manage to produce lots of working programs despite this, though. Almost all life-critical software is written in completely unsafe languages.
Agreed! The other thing to consider here is that for a lot of people in the startup world, we already have equity. I already have equity in my current company. And not only that, but my current equity has started to vest! I'm actively making money from my equity right now. If you offer me X equity that's (theoretically) worth slightly more than my current equity but doesn't pay out for a year, you need to do something to incentivize me to give up my remaining, currently vesting equity to join your company.

I.e., if my current salary is 100K and I have 50K in equity vesting between now and next November, and you offer me 90K and 250K in total equity, then I have to decide whether it's worth taking a 10K salary cut AND giving up 50K over the next year. The fact that you're offering me 250K in equity is actually going to wind up being equal to what I'm making now (250K - 50K = 200K, 200K / 4 = 50K/year), and the salary is actually lower! It's a net loss for me! So unless I really believe in your company and I really want to leave my current job, it's just probably not enough. And it's your job to either convince me that it's worth the loss or offer me more.

And that's assuming your equity is actually worth anything. Given the number of startups that fail, it's a huge risk to take for something that's only theoretically equal to what I currently actually earn.

So like I said, equity should be a bonus, not a replacement for salary. But to be fair, like nairteashop said, some people have different appetite for risk and are at different stages in life, so maybe the excitement of moving to a new company is enough to justify that.

Anyway, I agree. You either need to beat my salary or beat the equity, but you can't offer me a lower salary and then offer equity and call it comparable, because you're not only offering me something, but you're asking me to give up stuff I already earned. You're asking me to walk away from free money. It's your job to convince me to do that, not to tell me I'm a moron for doing something completely logical.
Yes, equity should be calculated as EV.

Since the EV of most startup equity is zero they should be treated as such. Doing a good job is irrelevant to the EV of your equity.
A few weeks ago it was still possible to sniff traffic from other instances.

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Aug/53
This is common as most places do this anyways. Ever get a you can't use your last X passwords?
This could be useful as long as you treat the storage as essentially public, and don't rely on it being there in the long term.
I do photography for friends and often need to share multi GB photosets. I use mega.co.nz (the megaupload spinoff) instead of dropbox because they give 50GB free. Once I've shared the files I don't really care if the service stays around, and I'm not worried about anyone stealing this content.
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Is a XAML file created in the Designer not a source file?

Your distinction is convenient and meaningless.
You say that "This seems harder — making apps is more time-consuming". Which is true, making apps is harder.

Because of that, it's probably easier to generate income from apps because the market is not as saturated as niche-wordpress-blogs.
And there have been a couple newer cars on the market that will automatically brake if it detects a possible collision, not to mention radar cruise control that adapts to the driver in front of you.
Quote: “And then we’ve built a whole new layer on top of that that is standardized in our software — so an iPhone and a Windows Phone are going to know how to discover each other and communicate, because they’re using our standardized layer, as opposed to the incompatible standards that are out there today.”

Yes -- a whole new incompatible layer.

I cannot tell you how many times I've heard this exact pitch during my long career in this business. "Our method breaks through the morass of incompatible, adversarial protocols" ... by creating yet another incompatible, adversarial protocol that refuses to work with any existing ones.

The only difference between this and Microsoft's classic "Embrace, Extend and Engulf" strategy is that small companies can only create a new niche protocol, hopefully soon to be forgotten.

Zeroconf was more than good enough. UpNp was more than good enough. And so forth. But no one is willing to adopt anyone else's universal, flexible, foolproof communications protocol.
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70% of oil use is directed for use in transportation. If we can cut down oil use by 70% by switching to fully electric cars, we have no "oil" crisis. I agree that the "energy crisis" is broader in that it also involves climate change, but specifically I find our numerous wars in the middle east more of an immediate concern for US welfare and much more easily addressable (all you have to do is buy a Tesla).
> I don't know that bitcoin can be used as a store of value, especially for future adopters.

All else being equal, it seems to be designed to be a perfect store of value because it is deflationary by design. Obviously it is far more volatile and risky than something backed by major world governments at this stage, however it does come with certain guarantees that no central bank could credibly make (if the crypto holds). For people who have had their wealth stolen by governments this could prove a very attractive pull.
It would be nice if implementing something like Amazon Marketplace was in their roadmap but it isn't right now.
That's so very simplistic though. You by no means kept your head low in 1905, and 1917 since those were years of revolutions, the later two pretty successful, which brought freedoms unmatched in that time. In what other army was an order compared to Order #1 of 1917 in act? What other nation decriminalized homosexuality in 1917? There were select few to allow women to vote as early as 1917 and none at all to admit women to general workforce as equals. In what other nation had organs directly elected by workers and soldiers (eg peasants) ruled the country at least for one day? Of course it was all very short-lived (not without involvement of armies of certain 'freedom loving' nations), but this one event so utterly debunks this theory of 'keeping your head low'. And even then, 'in 1800's and earlier' were very different times, when people 'kept their head low' pretty much anywhere in the world.
> but at an individual level that is certainly a positive.

It could arguably be a good thing for an individual provided that (a) they are relatively wealthy, and thus have significant amounts of money sitting around to benefit from deflation and (b) that their wealth doesn't come from industry, which is fueled by investment and credit, both of which can be expected to suffer severely in a deflationary economy, and (c) that their wealth doesn't come from employment, where wages would be expected to drop, and which is of course also fueled by investment and credit.

Basically, it might make sense if you were a member of the pre-19th century landed gentry, but probably not otherwise.
I don't see anything magical in there? Looks like a good set of useful/powerful operators to me.
I collect equity bi-weekly when I use a portion of my earnings to invest in various companies (most of whom make actual... you know, money):

I come from the fuck you pay me school of equity.

Now the startups's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with the bill? He can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now the guy's gotta come up with Paulie's money every week, no matter what. Business bad? "Fuck you, pay me." Oh, you had a fire? "Fuck you, pay me." Place got hit by lightning, huh? "Fuck you, pay me."

That said, I also don't care about business strategy, blah blah blah, that's up to the founders, I'm happy to add my 2cents but as a professional my job is to implement their vision. Not play venture capitalist with my time rather than my money.

Think about it, HN gets 5% for 20K, if you make $100 an hour, that's 200 hours. Imagine the typical first employee, 1-2% with a 4 year vest, that's over 8000 hours (assuming an 8 hour day, let alone the typical death march), and it's doubtful you'd come even close to $100 an hour. If you're working for equity you're paying close to 100 times the price for a much shittier class of shares.

Now on the otherhand if you take a convertible note at $20K and the founders can't raise anymore, just call your loan and grab the IP, or break even on the aquihire.
No doubt. It seems each "channel" is a complete music video in and of itself, and the channel buttons switch between synchronized streams. And, like my TV, it feels like it takes too long to switch channels. ;)
Yup, that too!
The implication in the article is that it turns on the Bluetooth or WiFi chip and sends the data. The radios are off to begin with, but the software turns them on.
There are several accelerator programs that focus on social impact. (Full disclosure: I work for Impact Engine.) You could check these out. Many of these startups are looking for talent:

Impact Engine - http://theimpactengine.com/
Greenstart - http://greenstart.com/
Hub Ventures - http://hub-ventures.com/

Hope this helps!
Given:

* nginx sits in universe rather than main

* There is no mention of a patch for this CVE in the changelogs

* No bug exists in either the Debian bug tracking system nor Launchpad for this particular bug

I'd recommend you download the source (easy: apt-get source nginx), add the patch to quilt and then build it (preferably using pbuilder if you're building a binary package locally).

EDIT: Or use the nginx repository from http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html
When they said completely offline I was expecting all radios to be completely off.
That's a good point, but I don't think the point is that its dividing the whole population into one group or the other.

Instead, I think the point is that the volume of doubters and supporters still seems to be about equal; whereas many technologies appear to shift proportion of support vs. doubt more significantly over time.
It's very naive and silly to make blanket statements like this.

Charging immediately just because you're "supposed to" is just as bad a strategy as not charging because you're "supposed to."

Some business models are "get as many users as possible, get acquired, and live as a loss leader for a larger organization" and that's perfectly fine.
Javascript is ubiquitous on the web. That is a huge advantage it has over other languages. People started using it to do cool things on the web, which is great. "Hey, Javascript is not so bad" is the correct sentiment.

But, I also agree with you. Are people only using it everywhere because it's what they know, or am I missing something that proves it's actually the right tool for all these jobs?

I like Javascript, but every time I see people go gaga over some choppy implementation of 1995 technology in Javascript, I have to laugh.
When I was reading that page I wasn't sure whether they just misspell paper, misspell it on purpose to make a parody of these marketing websites, or whether that should be something else. Only the HN thread told me that apparently it's an iPad App (for sketching I purpose). Especially when the app has such a common word as a name at least a link or something wouldn't hurt...
From what I can tell it adds to the $35 pi:

- a case w/integrated speaker

- a keyboard/trackpad combo

- a wifi dongle

- nice manual

That's not too bad for the added $65. The mini keyboard looks nicer than the ~$20 FAVI ones[1] I usually use.

At first I thought they'd figured out a way to add a screen. That would be great. But it looks like you need to supply your own.

I work with students in Uganda and it's hard to beat what you get from a $200 netbook. Much faster processor than a pi, plus the screen is integrated. You can't do GPIO stuff like you can with a pi though, so there are trade-offs. Twice the price of this, too.

Looks like a great project to me!

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/FE01-BL-Wireless-Keyboard-Mouse-Touchp...
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> I mean if JavaScript is so wonderful then why haven't all the important things which could and should have been accomplished with it been done by now? This madness must end.

Well, almost.

* Web - check
* Mobile - Appcelerator Titanium - check
* Servers - NodeJS - check
* Hardware - TesselIO - check
* Desktop - Windows 8 - check

Did I miss anything?
It's actually really quite well priced. Look at the other starter kits on the market - I don't think you'll find others offering the pi + keyboard/mouse + usb power supply + wifi + hdmi cable + speaker + sd card at that price point.
I use smallest Digital Ocean package (Amsterdam) to run a play 2.x scala app. It is not a visited site (yet, heh) but I am very happy with it. And they gave me a coupon when I couldnt tinker with the project and cancelled, so I am back again :)

The sucks part fortunately havent affected me yet. I could use a little more ram but when I am there it could be changed with a click (and a reboot if I remember correctly).
It's a cute idea but the contents of the box isn't really that much different from what you'd find inside the box of an iPad or....Microsoft Surface or any other piece of consumer electronics.

All this seems to be doing is taking most of the burden of having to source a keyboard, mouse and monitor if you want to use the Pi as a dedicated machine.

I'm not knocking that, it's just calling it "building a computer" seems wrong.

EDIT: I was probably being a bit harsh, it does seem like it's aimed at children. It looks like the booklets that come with it explain aspects of the Pi in a language children can warm to.
I was trying recently trying to estimate write-ahead log performance for my 2GB droplet, and for random sized (2-8k, 4.3k avg) sequential writes, my droplet is able to throw out 230MB/sec or ~60k 4k writes/second. I haven't actually done database benchmarks yet, but it looks pretty promising.
You can't know what to optimize without taking into account how the application is going to be used. And even knowing that, profiling and cost/benefit analyses are the ultimate guide. I think the best rule of thumb is to not worry too much about optimizing everything on the first pass, but be careful not to cut off future optimizations and prematurely lock in poor performance. I always like having my options open.
I'd really like to see additional storage available for a node. I'd like to add an additional 100gb to my 20$ per month node.
Wouldn't "class of bugs prevented by tooling" not be quite as good as "class of bugs disallowed by programming language"?
Anyone got some good links to the algebra/geometry behind raytracing?
The meaning of a backed currency is that it's backed by the issuer with a specific commodity (or service). You can go to the issuer and exchange the money ("symbol of value") into the real thing ("value").

With BTC you can't go to some miner (=issuer) and exchange it back into the electricity that was used to produce it.
This is very cool. TileMill (https://github.com/mapbox/tilemill) is also one of the most amazing open source web apps I've seen for a while.
Glass Development Kit
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I dunno, armoured trucks and vaults are pretty hard to get into.

one critical bug in the main bitcoin client and the value will become zero (or close to it).

whilst I like the idea of bitcoin, I'm not betting my retirement on being able to draw out my BTC balance in 40 years
I think this is good advice. I researched this very subject some months ago, and came across an interesting article by an Aussie guy named Yaro Starak, where he discusses his ideas about selling blog ad-space directly, and his pricing model for it.

http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/10201/how-much-should-y...

(Not spam, I'm not affiliated with this guy, I was just reminded of it so I pulled the URL from my history to share it, I promise!)
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I like your first point, but your second point makes no sense. Products are not currency, and talking about inflation/deflation in products does not make sense, unless people buy them as a long-term value-store in which case "assets" might be more appropriate. Except they're still not fungible so they can appreciate or depreciate, but that's not inflation or deflation.
Consider setting up a new "search engine" in chrome. You could alias https://www.google.com.br/search?q=%s+site%3Astackoverflow.c... to 'so', and type:
so<tab>fast string search algorithm

And chrome would do the right thing.
I like DigitalOcean and these problems are annoying. I'd really like to run coreos. DO claimed they were near deploying a custom image feature months ago. But it has never materialized.

The lack of IPv6 is a pain but I can deal with it. And the screw up with the NY2 network going down for a day kind of soured things as well.

What I'd really like is for DO to be a bit faster with feature development and more transparent on their progress.
Just because a harmful activity is widespread, doesn't mean it's okay to do it.
Being "Linus's father" doesn't mean they are telepathically linked. He was referencing the comments in that video, not privileged insider knowledge.
> If so then whoever is increasing the supply is also going to significantly affect the economy

Of course. This allows _control_. For instance, the UK currently has a rate of inflation that's a bit higher than optimum, and there are methods for the BoE to influence that downwards. The Eurozone has an uncomfortably low rate of inflation, and it's likely that there'll be intervention there (there has already been some in the recent surprise rate cut).

In a system where nobody controls the money supply (or in, say, Milton Friedman's automatic money printing system), if severe deflation or inflation threatens, there is very little that the authorities can do. This seems like a bad thing.

> And from an individual perspective, having slightly more money in your pocket or bank account everyday is definitely a good thing.

But that wouldn't actually happen for most people. Normal people would be paid less, and might lose their jobs as lack of investment and credit hit industry. Rich people would make less as their holdings in companies and so on performed worse (your modern rich person typically doesn't just have a big stack of money in the living room; it's mostly in use). It's hard to see who would actually benefit.