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Hmm... That's very startup focused. While I'd market to startups as well, any business would work. Plus, I am really gearing for the subscription model, which I see they do, but for other company's swag. That's not really the business I'd be in.

thanks

Edit: By that I mean I just want to cater to small business and startups that would like some swag every month for a relatively low price.
Still restricted to automating a task, I think.
I was thinking more along the lines of a per-county twitter feed:

SUSPECTED DRUNK DRIVER HEADING EASTBOUND I-29 LICENSE WVY-3455

Or just generally knowing where everyone is at all times. I know you're out of your home currently, so I could go rob it. But then you'd see I was in your home without permission, so I'd be easily caught. But then I guess I wouldn't have to lock my door, because everyone is accountable.

Besides, those kids are operating under the false assumption that privacy still exists. Once you know you're being watched, you behave differently.
Such code could also install a separate malware binary, overwriting the Firefox binary is only one possibility. If you really want to prevent malicious writes, use SELinux (or AppArmor, I guess).
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I would guess that, no, the president can't just use them any way he wants. There would be/is lots of politics involved.
will the linux version still show the window frame on top of the tabs?

Update:
seems so
http://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/blog-images/australis-...

why didnt they take this chance to fix this, chromium does it>
Since you're on Debian and are already putting it in /opt, try the Debian Alternatives tool [1], it's great for managing multiple versions of software you don't install from Deb repos.

It lets you put multiple versions of the same program in /opt or anywhere else (say, /opt/firefox/25, /opt/firefox/26, etc) and config one of them to be the system version (soft links all the bins and man into /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/share/man, etc), then swap between versions, rollback if there's a problem, etc as necessary with a single command: `update-alternatives --config firefox`.

It works very similarly to those Ruby version managers, RVM and RBENV, by holding multiple versions somewhere out of the way and soft-linking the chosen one into the system folders. So similar in fact, that the Debian repo RBENV package has been rewritten to use Debian Alternatives instead of its home-brewed linker code.

Takes some upfront setup but that's scriptable and reusable for all subsequent versions [2], and is well worth it, especially for programs where you don't want to use the Debian repo version, don't want to install a 3rd party .deb, and don't want to compile directly to your system folders.

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives

[2]: https://github.com/byrongibson/scripts/tree/master/install/h..., https://github.com/byrongibson/scripts/tree/master/install/j..., https://github.com/byrongibson/scripts/tree/master/install/s...
well, as long as your thermonuclear nuke's seismic wave signature looks like tremor(s) of an earthquake, planting/burying it near continental plate dividers deep in the ocean should do the trick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale#Example...
Can you explain how the device works? What does my phone do when it picks up this iBeacon?
I have donated to them indirectly many times over the years but this Xmas going to become an official EFF member. F*ck you NSA!
> Walking everywhere is nice as long as you know exactly where you want to live, you don't care about space, and can afford high rent.

Taking this piece by piece:

> can afford high rent

From the article: "The average working adult in Atlanta’s suburbs now drives 44 miles a day."

The IRS estimates that the average automobile cost about 55 cents per mile. At Atlantian levels of driving, that's almost $700 a month. That's a huge amount of rent money--but I think driving expenses are spread out, less visible, and less predictable, which leads people to underestimate them.

> you don't care about space

Yeah, this is a tougher one, although you can get a surprising amount of space in walkable and transit-able areas--for example, neighborhoods in Portland manage to combine great walkability with quite a bit of space and single-family homes. (It's worth mentioning that these residential streets are laid out in a grid pattern without many cul de sacs.) But yeah, commuting does allow us to live where land is cheap, so if you really need a lot of private space, you might need to live further out.

> you know exactly where you want to live

Well, it depends, doesn't it--the denser your area, the more options you'll have within walking distance. I very much doubt that I have more options within a 15-minute drive of my Orange County apartment than I would within a 15-minute drive in a typical urban center. On the other hand, without a car, my options in Orange County are extremely limited. A city like Boston, where other modes of transport preceded and then occasionally took precedence over the car, has great amenities (including Fortune 500 companies, startup communities, and global research universities). You just don't need to drive to them.

Lastly, the article isn't about "walking everywhere." It's about being able to walk to a grocery store safely and conveniently. It's perfectly possible to walk to the corner store every few days, but hop in the car when you need to travel longer distances.
People in Atlanta drive because the urban planning is a disaster.

In my view it's more complicated than that.

Actually let people live right next to the rail and retail, instead of surrounding it all with enormous, pedestrian unfriendly parking lots.

Yup, that's what people are trying to do[1]. It's unpopular with commercial developers, so local government has to convince them to accept higher costs without causing a lawsuit or driving them away entirely[2].

[1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Beltline]

[2 http://atlanta.curbed.com/archives/2013/09/04/at-glenwood-sc...]
do local police have access to this data though? Maybe I've missed something, but the cell phone data has been through PRISM, and that local police doesn't have access to this sort of information.
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I think you make a valid point but may have picked the wrong hill to fight for here, because there is no way to evaluate an equity grant without knowing the percentage associated with the grant. Even if you don't care much about equity, if you care about it at all you should be able to get that information.
There's a browser add-on for both firefox and chrome to quickly check what's powering a site: http://wappalyzer.com/download
Crimes are escalating because bagatelles are being treated as crime. Besides that, overpolicing will not save you from terrorism, it will only lead to people being more afraid of the police and thus creating terror itself.
Somehow cities all over the world manage to offer that kind of facility without oceans of parking lots. Parking takes up space, which pushes things further apart, which makes it impossibly to serve with transit, which demands cars, which requires more parking. Skip the parking and build up and you find that you can have a nice back yard and a bus-stop at the end of the street that will take you to a subway or train-line that will take you to work.

There is nothing magical about big, vertical cities that demands they be horribly expensive. They're expensive because they're rare. They're rare because of city planners who don't push back on developers that want to build sprawl.
The recent iBeacon update to the Apple Store iOS app may hint at how Apple wants apps to behave. Basically, it's strictly opt-in, with copious information about the benefits, and obviously, possibility to turn the in-store notification off. I suppose in the future, as the customers get acquainted with the technology, there won't be the need to spell out the benefits, but the opt-in and strict user control are here to stay.
There should be validations preventing that. Please file a bug if you're able to get around them.
We were talking about card-based GPUs, but sure: http://www.amazon.com/ASICMiner-Block-Erupter-336MH-Sapphire...

There are far better things to do with a Parallela than mining, and far better things that work better for mining. I'd make a miner out of a Parallela system because I am curious about the tech and want practice at writing software for it not because I want a competitive miner.
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Ok then so how many "tinfoil-hat type rantings" have not come true?

A safe bet would be: many, many more.

But does that make the ones that have any less troubling?
Since you want to learn python and web development here is an awesome tutorial for Flask: http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-...
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Interesting that some who didnt get job done at Apple is now teaching startups
> Use landlines, never cellphones, for conversations about sensitive or private work-related matters.

Why? Who can listen in besides the NSA and the carrier?
> judge whether or not the law is reasonable

I am trying to make that judgment and help others to do so.

> and the second says that you're not trying to comment on what the law ought to be.

If I am trying to make a judgment, if I am in the process of reasoning through something I do not know what something ought to be.

Good analogies are those that help people reason through a problem and come to the correct conclusion, not a tool to sway people to your opinion.
The earliest talk I ever saw on automated binary reverse engineering was this one: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/win-usa-04/bh-win-04-f...

I actually didn't see the BH talk, but I saw a similar talk that Halvar gave at CanSecWest shortly after.

The gist of it is, imagine that you have a binary that you are looking to find vulnerabilities in to exploit. You can go through all the trouble of discovering a vulnerability, and then hope it doesn't get patched; or you can sit and wait for a patch for said binary. There's reams of data out there about how long it takes for systems to apply patches, but in general, you can find vulnerable versions of patched software long after the patch has been released.

Using binary differential analysis you are basically zeroing in on the parts that were changed (which you can imagine is a much smaller subset of the overall binary) and find the vulnerability much more quickly.

There are tools (there is/was a product called Bindiff that I don't know if Zynamics still sells after they got bought by Google), which help you do this in a more automated fashion.

That means that with much less work, you can write up a working exploit that will still work on some decent percentage of the install base for the application (until everyone patches it).

Additionally, you can imagine that a lot of times when vulnerabilities get fixed, they aren't necessarily fixed with the utmost rigor. There's a lot of cases where an individual vulnerability might be fixed, but if you look at what was done, you can find other parts of the binary that are vulnerable to the same underlying flaw. Knowing what gets changed in the patch can tell you a lot about underlying issues.
There is one clue: Sepia (AFAIK) is a process applied to silver-based prints, but the National Archives record for the photo lists its media type as a slide. If that's right, it's not sepia. And since the brown color wouldn't be from a black-and-white slide either, I think the most likely explanation is that it's a color photo.
Could? The government may know you better than you know yourself; and perhaps the only reaction to be had upstairs is when you change a habit; i.e. quite unexpectedly break the prediction model for your life.
I think this comes from the fact that Bitcoin transactions cant be refunded, but PayPal ones can be.
So buyer could cancel the purchase and keep bitcoin with merchant being unable to do anything.
Thanks to you + all who responded about Satoshis.
That can be useful but it doesn't solve my problem of more automatic updating really. What I need is something close to native pacakge updating - i.e. replace old files with new ones when update is available with minimal hassle.
In retrospect I know several people who probably would serve their website in MATLAB.
Would be cool to be able to tap to pay instead of scan to pay.
Will do - just seems odd from a UI point of view - that's all :)

(looking forward to seeing where this goes!)
See, now you are arguing there are ways to do it better, and I agree. But that doesn't prove sprawling suburbs were designed under the influence of classism. That's really the key thing I disagree with. Are you ceding that part?

As for "a little less walkable", that was me hedging my speech because I don't know exactly how walkable the worst offenders are, and I consider "how much less walkable" to be tangential to the point I was trying to make anyway. I was not trying to argue that "the tradeoffs are balanced" or anything like that.
Are you serious? Do you not understand the implications of arming a local police force as if they were the military? That's terrifying.
I was not actually, I was talking about how expensive it is to be a bank.

A bank account of course solves all those things, but because of the nature of bitcoin it's rather hard if not impossible to realize the financial system we know as banking using Bitcoin instead of government controlled currencies.

So if he was indeed talking about a bank account, then it was a sneer towards Bitcoin itself, and he'd be quite right, the banking system solves this problem very well.

I still think the three party transaction system would be preferable even to banking, if it can be done.
The fine article does not describe indeterminate platform-specific behavior within LevelDB. I assume you are talking about Mac corruption fix which Robert Escriva put in. This problem was with the behavior of munmap on Darwin, and did not result in the leveldb database being in a usable platform-specific state.
Good stuff, I discounted Heap before because of the lack of a free tier and the lack of Android support, but it might be time to take another look.
This article, like most about pricing, misses the cardinal rule: price what the market will bear.

But they actually ended up in roughly the right place: free for unfunded services, a healthy monthly for lightly funded and a large monthly for well-funded.

They also get right that all substantive features should be offered in the free/lower-priced tiers. The trick is to put "enterprise-y" features in the more expensive tiers. Best example is multi-user logins. This is not a core feature of the product but is a good proxy for a customer who has ability and desire to pay more.
This is of the argument style where Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on the desktop because OSX does have about six to seven percent market share... I'm not buying it.

Now gas stations, theres no monopoly on gas stations. Or banks. Or news websites. But I don't think you'll sell many people, or at least not as many people, on the idea that Amazon isn't the monopoly provider of ebooks. Lets discuss the marketplace with joe6pack ... there's the Kindle, and the "huh?".
If you've implemented the location callbacks for a specific region (defined by a UUID), then you'll receive messages with that detail how far you are from the device (within about 70m, depending on your device). Depending on the device, the power settings, etc, this can be very accurate.. to < 1m. The IOS api's also support background processing so the app doesn't necessarily need to be in the foreground to process. You will get called back when you enter and exit regions.
Quebec is the worst. People who live in Hull (across the river from Ottawa) come over, pay, and then expense it to their province.
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Does anyone have any UK specific advice considering stock options? ..and how does it affect things if these are offered to a contractor and not a FT employee, is that even possible?
I was referring to the assumption that all of HN's reader base is located in coastal cities.
The post-911 federal gov has been directing resources towards building a domestic counter-insurgency apparatus and promoting a culture in law enforcement conducive to their inclusion in it. You don't spend over a decade building something without a reason. So what's the reason? Needless to say, if the founding fathers were around today they'd be pondering a strategy to resist it.
I think that if you ignore libs, Julia is a better general-purpose language than other dynamic languages like Python or Ruby. Which is definitely not true for MATLAB :)

This is an ultra simple web app, that does some calculations on the backend that would be slow in Python (or I would have to preprocess the data).
Thanks! We definitely should add some Javascript validations too :-)
Speaking as an Atlantan, you've nailed it. People living OTP (outside the perimeter of I-285) are largely conservative, whereas those ITP are much more liberal.

You wouldn't imagine that such a finely delineated categorical segmentation would occur, but it's very visible. Take, for instance, the fighting between Fulton County and the metro/MSA: last year's SPLOST vote [1], the Braves Stadium move [2], etc. all serve to exemplify how polar these two populations are.

Those in the city want regional tax money to improve transportation in and around the city, those outside the city want to be left alone (yet still be able to commute to the city); Atlantans bemoan urban sprawl, suburbanites loathe city spending. It's interesting to watch nothing get done.

[1] http://southernspaces.org/sites/southernspaces.org/files/ima...

[2] http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/baseball/braves-plan-to-build...
Fair enough, that's an interesting device. How does it compare with a Parallela? Are there anything as available as say, the Raspberry Pi? Or compared to the Parallela after coming into general availability? Would this chip necessarily run things like computer vision or deep learning better in the embedded space? How about if you were a hobbyist or a maker? That is, what if you weren't looking at industrial embedded application and instead, you're looking more at DIY?
Lots of people have picked up on your thesis statement : This argument can only hold on water by having a complete lack of faith in the rule of law.

We aren't talking about 'law' here, we're talking about 'people.' That gets lost some times.

Someone with access to these tools might decide the shake down Jack with a bit of blackmail. They might decide to sell union organizing 'alerts' to business. These are not legal but there are many people who work in an organization with these tools available who could justify abusing them.

Consider another hotbed subject which gets argued the other way all the time, gun ownership.

Now we can all agree that someone owning a gun who follows all of the safety precautions, and doesn't wave it about irresponsibly Etc is no threat to society. And yet the argument is put forward that the capability is the threat and people other than the owner may exploit that capability (a thief steals the gun, a spouse grabs it in a fit of rage, Etc.) and that it is "better" to not allow the person to own a gun because the risk of that gun falling into the wrong hands and doing something bad are non-zero enough.

This is the same argument we should make on surveillance technology, which is that the potential for its abuse and damaging the lives of innocent civilians, out weighs the 'benefit' the law enforcement agency gets from having it. There are other ways for the agency to do its job, just as there are other ways for our homeowner to protect their property, that don't require this capability.
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1 & 2 agree with my experience, and I am very sedentary during work hours.
mass surveillance =/= authoritarianism

This is a false equivalence that keeps being brought up on HN. Yes, authoritarian government have mass surveillance, but the converse isn't necessarily true.

The only very clear example of the government getting more authoritarian is in the TSA. (where they now are fondling our balls for our "safety") and to a smaller extent the DHS, prison authorities, and NSLs - smaller in the sense that it has a smaller impact on society.

We're still a nation of laws, and just because the government knows more, doesn't mean it can actually do more.

Imagine for a minute that the president himself personally hated your guts and wanted to make your life miserable. Now imagine he also knows everything about you. What advantage does that really give him? Okay, if you didn't pay your taxes or something, then he could screw you over. But assuming you're law abiding, other than making your traveling an absolutely nightmare there isn't a whole lot he can do.

You can go into fantasy land and say he'll send the CIA to go blackmail you with information about all the tranny midget porn you watch - but lets stay within the framework of what is legal for the government to do.

People aren't afraid of surveillance because it has no impact on our lives. The government isn't actually misusing the data on a large scale. That's why we didn't know about all this NSA stuff for so long.

Ironically, now that the surveillance is out in the open "they" can try to become authoritarian. And my bet is that if they start trying people will go ape-shit. They'll all get voted out and everything would get rolled back.
If they gave you shares you'd have to pay income taxes on those shares for something that may never make you any money. Most people wouldn't choose to do that.
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You are right. But it is not a salary, it is just a tip. If developer spent time to make even a tiny useful commit - that is good. Probably with time it will become harder to find tiny commits. And donations will probably keep accumulating thus creating higher incentive for more complex commits.
But not in the Matrix sense, as I was lead to believe from the title.
You know whether it's probable that you'll get more equity, and what it takes to get there.

Most engineers who join startups think that the 0.03% allocated when they join will be increased later on, and that the initial grant is just a "teaser". I mean, it has to improve, just because it's so ridiculously low, right? (Well, no. In fact, it usually won't.)

Perhaps 5 percent of the engineers who join VC-funded startups would still join if they knew that (a) their equity allotments wouldn't improve, and (b) the founders wouldn't take a personal interest in furnishing them with the connections/credibility to be founders in their next gig. That number becomes closer to 1-2 percent when you're talking about good engineers.
My town of 2,000+ people now has a humvee... for a police department that has 3 officers.
They are like lotto tickets, mostly worthless, some are worth a lot.
Finance fads are called bubbles, as far as I understand, and yes, there is a Bitcoin bubble. I don't think anyone's going to argue that point.

But I think it's a bad idea to dismiss Bitcoin because of the bubble. The specific value of a bitcoin is kind of irrelevant to the things you can do with bitcoin. Obviously you have to care how much a bitcoin is worth, and the fluctuations make it hard to take seriously as a currency, but the utility of bitcoin isn't really tied to its value.