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Hi HN. This is an application I've been working on for the past few weeks. It's open-source (MIT), the repo is at https://github.com/grimwire/syncmail

The WebRTC network it runs on is Grimwire, which some folks may remember as a Browser OS announced a few months back that runs servers in Web Worker threads. It still does that, actually, but it has been reworked to be WebRTC-focused, so that 3rd-party applications can be hosted on their own domains. It's also open-source (MIT) at https://grimwire.com, and I'm running a free public relay at https://grimwire.net.

The software is alpha version, so beware of bugs.
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Yes, that's what I meant, thanks for the clarification!

I'm receiving messages from HN, this is awesome! I guess if people want to keep using my address to test it, I don't mind.

[edit]: Judging from the success, I should have put a bitcoin address as well: 12CM3uBur4wxsj46BoMgoLqMMyUHqcPEWH :-)
The point I'm trying to make is that copyright rules are severely inconsistent. It serves no other purpose than to give people new tools to oppress eachother within the legal system. You know there's a problem when the gray area is so large it requires courts to make decisions like what art is "transformative" and what is not. That is not a court's decision, but because we have things like copyright infringment of media, it is.

Other industries could follow the fashion industry's lead and drop copyright infringment altogether. Somehow they manage survive and innovate without it using just social pressures, not legal pressures.
Really? In all of my perusing of various tutorials online, I never encountered it explained in this intuitive fashion, that neurons are just a generalization of logic gates.
I actually agree with the linked pledge for the most part. That said, to answer your question, item #12 is:

12. I believe that all people are created equal. I also believe that all people make choices. Some choose to be lazy. Some choose to sleep in. I choose to work my butt off.
> The educational system we have now is largely a scam, it promises that if you spend tens of thousands (or more) dollars on a 4 year degree, you'd have a good job waiting on the other side, and its largely BS.

So I didn't grow up in the United States so I am not aware of what high school counsellors teach kids, but are there people really selling the idea that if you go to Podunk university and study Asian comparative literature, you will end up with a good job?

The other thing that surprises me about blanket statements like this is why is personal responsibility missing? Especially in a country with such vast free flow of information? I am not knocking on the idea of going to college learn in a structured way anything you like. However, surely complaining you can't get a job at the end because the market can hire only so many English majors or Philosophy majors is rather silly?
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who really cares what else is on their website? That kind of offtopic posting can explain some of the downvotes.
I wonder if that makes you more conscious of them.

I'm thinking about a study cited in Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow[1] where the participants did better on a test when the questions where in a blurry font. I believe it was suggested that being forced to exert mental effort to read the questions forced their brain into "actual thinking mode" as opposed to "pattern recognition" mode.

ie. If we know it's probably not an ad, but it looks like an ad, is it a more effective bit of non-ad? (well, it is an ad, but it's an ad we want to see.)

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...
Currently, I don't think there's a fully working HAMMER implementation for Linux - there may be a read only one floating around though, IIRC
My breif life as an anti Internet Explorer Jihadist.
then couldn't we just use the Bitcoin protocol for sending messages?
In 2007 I launched a campaign (anonymously at the time) against IE, it went viral.

I doubt it had much impact,but happened to coincide with the emergence of mobile devices (iPhone) with modern browsers
and services with advances web features that may have forced users to make the switch.

Quite a difference in a few short years. The web is IE-Free and Microsoft is struggling for relevance.
Not to detract from the point of the article but I believe Carbyne is stronger
>> there's always something worse, but that doesn't really help, does it

No, it doesn't. It's really quite sad that the best the people of any nation can hope for, is that their government doesn't rape them too hard. The US is quite a police state already, but hey, at least it's not North-Korea.. yet. It could be in a few years though.

Tyrannical regimes come and go, but that's just business as usual, especially as long as it "can't happen here".. It's almost as if mankind could do better than this.. It's almost as if something was wrong on a global scale.
This title is confusing.. "From Android" ?
Thanks! I completely agree with you on making the analysis reproducible. IPython Notebook is a wonderful tool, and I use it a lot myself. (You can even run shell commands from IPython.) However, using the command-line doesn't necessarily mean that the analysis will be difficult to follow or maintain. On the contrary, because you're making use of existing tools (and perhaps even create new ones), you are processing data on a higher level, which can actually make it easier to read and maintain.
I don't use certain OSS libs because of the people writing/maintaing it. I'd rather spent some nights and weekends writing my own. Of course this is if it's feasible.

Sometimes I got no choice.
Exactly. One thing that always gets me annoyed about immigration debates is about how there exist so many jobs that Americans are "unwilling to do". Why? Why is there a stigma against certain jobs? If it is a question of a living wage, surely, those immigrants who are taking up those jobs are making a "living" with those wages.
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Ask HN: Senior dev, no degree – which countries may accept me?
I have a decade plus experience in dev, traditional windows desktop, SQL server, .net, c#, asp, as well as open source mysql, php, python, bash on linux and aix. I am skilled in systems design, requirements gathering and have led a small team. I am a good communicator and able to interact with stakeholders at all levels.

I have a family and want to immigrate for their sake.

I do not have a degree and most likely will not get one at this point in time. Are there any countries where I can apply for jobs without a degree that will provide me and mine permanent residence?
The reason this works is that there happens to be a protein on the outside of leukemias that allows you to uniquely target only the cancerous cells, leaving everything else alone. Provided a similar molecular signature could be found in other cancers, it might be possible to do this elsewhere.
What company sells insurance against bitcoin being stolen?

Its so easy to steal your own bitcoin from yourself. How could a company profit from insuring against that?
I think each of the people who comment on github should have to do it in Dutch (and try to get the pronouns correct).
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release36/ last week if you utterly need it
How is the web "IE free"?
But I must say that I got a little bit disappointed when I found out that the first brazilian company to get in YC was a "Yelp for Brazil". No misconception here, as this is not an analogy, but a description that is a copy focused at another country.
Peter Kirn at CDM recently wrote an overview[0] of an 808 clone kit called Yocto[1], though it seems there aren't any available at the moment.

[0] http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/11/tr-808-diy-379e-lets-b...

[1] http://www.e-licktronic.com/en/27-yocto-complet-kit-tr-808-c...
It looks like a late 10 years birthday. Your not wrong for bringing it up so don't worry for being /that guy/
developers aren't building sites with the aim of catering to IE anymore...I don't mean people aren't using IE.
For the third time, I specifically addressed resources that are not controlled by the operating system.
Why the US Launched a Spy Rocket With an Earth-Sucking Octopus On It
Ruby script that checks and deletes merged Git branches
To be precise, each block contains the hash of its previous block.
Or the Java market is in the process of undergoing systemic changes and you're not yet a Java programmer, just someone with some technical skill who could spend time and money to becoming proficient.
Largely yes. It's the message I was given in High School - I graduated in 2001. We we're also expected to know what we wanted to do (ideally) for the rest of our lives.
Carnivore (a.k.a. DCS3000 and DCS6000) isn't exactly "malware" - it's the system that resides in phone company/ISP machine rooms to do CALEA "lawful intercepts" of email headers. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCSNet

There have been rumors to the effect that the DCS systems run on Solaris, and have been hacked and cracked so that other than FBI can monitor things using it (http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a2003dcs...).

Also, calling a business that sells malware to Law Enforcement is something of a stretch. If you mean "legitmate" as "lawful", then you're strictly correct. If you want "legitimate" to also encompass "ethical", or "upstanding" or something of that sort, then I don't see it.
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For a leftist like Piers Morgan, it was a complete embarrassment to have a low-information voter asking ignorant questions when Mike Rowe just completely schooled her.

I think your typical university is in panic mode right now. In 10-15 years, online will be the norm and these exorbitant tuitions will be a thing of the past.
The "real" costs of making ordinary drugs are small in terms of manufacturing. It is very inexpensive to synthesize the chemicals that make up most drugs. You're paying for the R&D of the drug as well as all the ones that failed along the way. In the days when software used to be sold in cardboard boxes and came on CD's, nobody was making the argument that someone like Microsoft should charge a few dollars since CD's and cardboard are cheap.

All that said, in this specific case, the therapy is enormously complex, time consuming, and expensive. It's not a simple chemical compound that can be manufactured in bulk. Furthermore, it has to be tailor-made in a lab under highly controlled conditions for each individual receiving the treatment. As a result, it is likely to be extremely costly when it finally makes it out of the experimental phase.
Never used any BSD, but probably used in some form through various entertainment devices (playstation, maybe others).

So can anyone point what is are the most negative things about BSD, and DragonFlyBSD in compared to Linux, OSX and Windows.

I'm really curious, and I would like to try it out - possibly on my Chromebook C7100 if it allows it so, or maybe my very old MBP (6 years), it's time to get rid of the dual booted Windows XP there.
> but are there people really selling the idea that if you go to Podunk university and study Asian comparative literature, you will end up with a good job?

Unfortunately, yes.
Maybe with fuse. No one has ported it too FreeBSD either which is to bad because having choices is a good thing™
Exactly, the question I ask when we talk about sending people back to wherever is "Who's going to pick my lettuce?" Americans don't want these jobs.
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Kyle Thompson became interested in photography and started to experiment with the medium as a young adult. His anxiety prevented him from speaking to other people so the emerging photographer experimented with shooting self-portraits on his own. His self-portraits are surreal narratives including scenes of miniatures, dreamlike moments of floating, and high-speed captured emotion in the midst of flying dust.
The entire premise of the article is incorrect. What these startups are doing is copying the business model.

Copying the startup would be similar to what the Samwer brothers are doing in Europe where they clone a startup down to the individual pixel.

I don't think there's a thing wrong with appropriating the business model of say an Uber and applying it to an entirely different business. Its done successfully all the time.
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Would that I could upvote this more than once, this is clever and cool and functional.

A nicely scratched itch. +many.
Dueling Nanowire Lasers Promise Big Changes to Optoelectronics
It's worth noting that any one of the 5 programs can reproduce the source code of ANY of the 5 programs including itself.
There will never be a cure for cancer.

My wife was diagnosed in September with stage 1 breast cancer. She has triple negative breast cancer which is the most aggressive kind to get. She is on week 6 of a 16 week Chemotherapy regimen. Then she has 8 weeks of radiation.

Insurance has already spent over 100k on her lumpectomy and chemo drugs and doctor appointments since September.

Every week when we go to her oncologist office, the waiting room is always full with patients we have never seen before. More than half of them are new patients filling out their new patient paperwork. And they are getting younger and younger in age. We have seen teenagers in his office with breast cancer.

There is just too much money (doctors, surgery, drugs) to be made from treating this disease. What are all of these trained oncologist surgeons/doctors going to do if cancer gets cured? What are the drug companies that make these expensive chemo drugs going to do if cancer gets cured?

There is no way they are going to cure this horrible disease. There is no money to be made in the cure.
Even the visual design was pretty close to Yelp.
This has such tremendous potential. So much of our lives are ruled by habits, and who here doesn't have habits they want to break or new, better habits they want to develop?

Imagine if this could notice your boredom behaviors and prompt you to work out or study, if it gave you a solid reminder when you were watching more TV than you thought was useful, etc. Even if it noticed when you'd been sitting for more than an hour and prompted you to get up and stretch.

That would be fucking awesome.
The best way to get into the US, IMHO, is to contract with a US firm via one of the coder-for-hire sites for a year or so, and then apply to the company and ask them to sponsor you as an H1B visa.

Experience is everything, and companies like to hold on to talent as it costs 2x to 3x more to find talent outside than to develop it from within.
Unlike infectious diseases there will always be new cancer patents so you really can make a lot of money from a cure.
Thanks. I was a bit confused.

In my country college is almost free.. I feel for you guys.
Here's maybe a simple solution: Why can't it be made illegal to list 'college degree' as a requirement for a job? Everyone knows of jobs that any moron can do, but a college degree is required. Especially for white collar jobs in large corporations, you can't make it past the first layer of HR without a degree.
Then why was smallpox eradicated? Why can't anyone make money off of smallpox patients anymore?
I don't feel that way. I see all the money that is being made from the ongoing treatment of Cancer. Drugs, surgery, scans, follow up appointments, radiation, and then the cycle repeats when the cancer returns or comes out of remission.
Uli Kusterer has a really good, very graphical, description in his "Masters of the Void" series, too:

http://masters-of-the-void.com/book5.htm
In medicine, patents are a government-granted benefit to inventors that sort of counteracts the government-imposed penalty of having to go through FDA approval. There's a nice symmetry here.

If we look at industries with less regulation, like software, the necessity for a patent system is a lot less clear.
Meet the Nate Silver of Education
> ... and said "I represent a concerned group of local small business people and programmers, and software patents are destroying our ability to make a living and causing us to lose jobs", that software patents would have been a solved problems years ago.

That is very true, but my very strong hunch is that this hasn't happened because software patents are not really a problem -- at least not anymore. As I've said elsewhere, the vast majority of programmers barely even know what a patent is, and tons more consider them a good thing. Those are also overwhelmingly the people that don't spend time posting on places like this.

Another indirect piece of evidence is the current uproar in Congress about patent trolls: A handful of trolls (that I'm aware of) -- like the WiFi guys, the scan-to-email guys, the vehicle-tracking guys -- send out demand letters to mom & pop businesses, and suddenly Congress is up in arms. It's possible, but I find it unlikely that, if there are so many companies involved in software patent litigation, there are not even a few that would reach out to their representatives.
Can't agree with pg's advice about "A for B" construct. Maybe it does help faster communication (if accurate) in certain cases. But it's useless to pretend that a reasonably disinterested observer (i.e., not an investor trying to ride the boom-train to a quick exit without a profitable business) will not immediately mark you down for an unoriginal fast-follower.
It's interesting that a similar technique for pitching movies (e.g. Terminator meets Titanic) is strongly discouraged while for startups it is encouraged. I wonder what makes the same approach elicit different reactions across industry lines.
I've encountered the use of this narrative technique before, using loose and wholly inconsequential connections to link together the points of a logical argument. I'm not sure where it originated but it's defiantly more popular in GB than the US. The late 70s BBC series Connections with James Burke used this narrative technique for all of its episodes.
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I don't see him as touting anything right-wing, IMO - he is touting the 'Don't demonize the opposition' idea, a worthy one at that. He also advocates market solutions, which in many cases solve problems with a whole lot less effort and in a 'cleaner' (read less complex) way - for example, the CAFE standards versus just raising the taxes on gas, both would accomplish the same goals of increasing fuel economy for cars sold. One does it with a bunch of complex regulation, the other does it thru a market mechanism.

Sometimes market mechanisms are really hard to apply, things like roads, healthcare, public safety, and so on. But when you can use a market based mechanism in a market economy its almost always the least complex and most efficient way to solve problems.
Surely the server hosting this is running.. DragonFly BSD? Then it is quite ironic that the page called "performance" doesn't even load :-)
Yeah, I'm with you. I just wish it wasn't portrayed as such a partisan, negative thing. Which is frustrating because that's how he leads.

I wish he could have just said "we have an untapped well of jobs which sit between unskilled jobs and highly skilled tech jobs. Someone has to run all these new computers. If you go to a trade school, you can get a good job in less time and with no debt."

Heck, liberals and Democrats should be psyched for this message. Because:
1) people who graduate from trade schools join unions
2) green energy production needs these skills more than older oil companies do. Sun doesn't turn itself into electricity.
3) this sort of training is usually close to urban centers, which means more business for blue-leaning cities
Why is this better than /r/bitcoinserious, /r/bitcoinmarkets, or
creating a new subreddit for bitcoin?
I was officially entertained. http://i.imgur.com/sJUuWdc.png
Cmon people, this is pretty sad. Humans are not robots and shouldn't be treated as such. What's next? A pair of underwear to stop men from impulsive sex? We have a soul, a spirit. Find the real reason why you harm yourself and emancipate that in a spiritual way .. not an electronic bra.
Syntax size pop quiz by Martin Odersky
I haven't really noticed a coastal difference in that respect. The LA Review of Books, not to mention any number of lesser outlets, has been holding down the fort for anti-tech west coast media. :)
Hi Guys, I am the founder of this company and i welcome any comments, suggestions, reviews, criticism etc. send me a mail at info@patterbuzz.com or comment here..

a bit of description of the project :
Patterbuzz enables users to read premium content on their mobile devices and pay for only what they wish to read. So, If you wish to read only a cover story of a magazine, you do not need to buy a magazine for Rs 100/. Instead, you can pay Rs 5/ for only the cover story and read it on your iPAD in an rich and interactive way. this means Patterbuzz wants to unbundle content packaging and let users buy what they wish to. Patterbuzz introduces a digital wallet for the users to make purchases easier and in a pre-paid pay as you go model. In short, we want to be iTunes of publishing industry. This is a unique business model and we are the first ones in India (probably the world) to create this kind of platform for premium content publishing on mobile devices.

Our facebook page is https://facebook.com/patterbuzz and twitter handle is @patterbuzz
This relied on being able to send lots of messages, and having the user visit a link contained in them. The first issue can be fixed by upping the proof of work required to send a message, although this will not stop a determined attacker who has lots of cycles to throw at the problem. As for the second issue, users should not be visiting links from addresses they do not trust. As with most anonymity systems, it is only as good as you treat it.
500 offers $50k at $1M or $100k at $2M (~5% regardless of check size).

Source:
http://readwrite.com/2011/02/10/dave-mcclures-500-startups-a...

I added Kima15 to this investor database:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AszA0J0G-ptCdG1...
Site is down or it's only my problem? (I can't open it)
It's time for a special regulatory zone (for Silicon Valley)
It's an important point to make that even "free" healthcare is not actually free - the money has to come from somewhere, and most of it comes from forcefully confiscating it from people.

Not only that, but if you're using money, it's much easier to use someone else's money instead of your own, you just won't be too careful about how you spend it. In fact, if you've got a "limitless" supply of other people's money, you just won't give a fuck about what you do with it. This is one reason why public healthcare (and public anything) turns to shit sooner or later.
> It's very telling how Rowe comments on how workers wanting more for less is the human condition, but then never considers the same about employers.

Of course its true about employers. They are just humans, too. When they both agree on an acceptable level of compensation for a given task, you end up with a job. Just markets and no amount of high-minded legislation will ever change that.
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