skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this mean the matasano crypto challenges are over/no longer available?

I sent an email last week to join, but haven't heard back yet.
I can't help but hearing Frank Zappa while reading this news. Strangely this music really helps me concentrate on coding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukbu9dmmzJg
How to get a satellite to geostationary orbit
I have the exact same situation but I have spoken to Nest Customer Service and other "smart" thermostat CS and all have told me that they will not work with the wiring for electric heaters commonly controlled by a single dedicated mechanical thermostat. I was out of luck so if you find an working "smart" thermostat I would love to get one.
All of you are giving good advice but I just have to chuckle at how quickly you all proved OPs point.
I imported a car from Japan and it would get audio from TV stations as the radio went down to lower frequencies =)
diddnt know such gigs existed
> shed its reputation as a web-only

What? It is web-only. That's the entire point behind it. It's not a reputation, it's the goal of the project.
I also have an i5, and my Firefox was only using about half of one CPU, but stuttering like crazy. The UI froze up constantly and would barely scroll. FF 29.0a1 (2014-01-16) on Win7.

Edit: This is with crummy AMD FirePro 2270 graphics. Chrome 34.0.1789.0 canary was very smooth on the same box!
If the executive really wanted this stuff to be closed, it would be closed.
I'm with ya... there are a LOT of choices. A couple of days ago I was looking for a dropdown menu library. A simple Google search quickly turned up about 300 options. But to make it worse... the other library I was using for drag and drop layout (Gridster) was somehow munging the attributes of <li> elements such that a dropdown menu using either of the first two choices I picked (Bootstrap and some JQuery plugin) both failed to work inside the draggable widget. And figuring out how to make Gridster work using <div> elements instead of <ul> and <li> was a PITA.

But in the end, I now have a way to build a nice draggable widget that can contain a menu in the draghandle. Now, to embed a Google Gadget in that (the menu is for setting UserPrefs) and make the OpenSocial API work... Oh joy.
"What's wrong with TED talks?" Benjamin Bratton
You should have a story to tell. a story worth sharing makes the basis of growth hacking(without paying anyone)
Oh no, I thought for sure he would fix everything after he found out about the spying. The NSA must be blackmailing him! Maybe the Supreme Court will swoop in and rescue us. Or maybe Hillary in 2016. Someone has to! I am on the verge of tears right now!!

Let's start a Facebook group - Gmail me!
A safer classifieds website. My new startup's first promo vid
Balls of steel: playing pinball on an Android tablet
Obama's NSA Reform Scorecard
A question to get an answer to from your new professional advisor, is, can you reasonably and legitimately treat those payments as personal loans or advances (if paid to you and not paid to third parties), pay these loans back at this point to the Canadian entity, and belatedly contract between Canadian/US entities for services rendered.

You're a couple of years late on getting good advice on business entity structures and relationships...since you've been operating for a while now.
I've found it's almost impossible to find good work using cold calls or responding to ads. Try to find people you know. Getting the first job is the hardest, but if you do a good job -- the referrals will start to roll in.

This has been inadvertent, however I've also gotten a lot of work through various projects[1][2] I've done that have gotten big on HN. Write it off mentally as a marketing expense, and spend a few days making something awesome.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395463
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6586867
> Mounting a forceful defence of the NSA, Obama said: "They’re not abusing authorities in order to listen to your private phone calls, or read your emails."

Yes, they are. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/27/nsa-employee-sp...
Sorry, I'm a java/ruby/js developer. I can learn fast and would be happy to become .net/c# though.
He may not be the "enemy of the people", but is his the enemy of the government. Being for the people doesn't always make you right either, Robespierre believed strong in the Revolution but he and his fellow Jacobins of The Mountain were responsible for the "Reign of Terror" intended to root out counter-revolutionary sentiment "for the good of the people". As only one example, a woman was guillotined for exclaiming "a fig to the nation!".

So let's not pretend that being for the people automatically makes all of your subsequent actions right or moral.

On the other hand, the USG is the one entity chartered by "We the People of the United States", which makes me always at least initially suspicious of people whose plan is to hurt the government (which must almost invariably hurt the people, as long as the government stands).

But independent of whether Snowden is fighting the people or the government, the bigger question is whether his actions have hurt the people. In many cases they have.

Leaking details of NSA attacks on Chinese networks doesn't help the American people. Nor does leaking details about "targeted access operations" (which, since they must be targeted, cannot be used for mass surveillance essentially by definition).

I could go on and on, but the point is simply that Snowden has indeed thrown a few bones with civil liberty implications. But that's not all that he has leaked, and given that he claimed from the beginning that he was very careful in what he selected, it is proper to hold him accountable for his actions, insofar as they do end up being against the American people.
Erlang, it is being used by a few game companies.

http://de.slideshare.net/wooga/erlang-the-big-switch-in-soci...

http://de.slideshare.net/eonblast/an-erlang-game-stack

http://vimeo.com/26307654
Because you never know how often the AP will broadcast it's SSID so the passive listener doesn't know how long to listen on any particular channel. In the case where the AP doesn't broadcast the SSID it's even worse, the passive listener relies on other clients actively scanning and the AP responding with its SSID.
When I compared people that take on big goals later in life with those who simply simulate them in their mind, then decide their projected end results are 'predictable and uninteresting', I saw something interesting.

Those who take on big goals are seen as naive and almost childlike, because the 'experienced' believe they already know the end results.

Those who don't take on big goals get to be in the audience and throw stones, but never really amount to anything other than gloating at a possible failure.

I think the experience works against you at a certain age. The projections are a lie, or possibly inaccurate at best. I've come to believe you don't know what will happen until you do it -- what your mind simulates is often only correct in the broadest sense, but way way off when it comes to the important details and compound ramifications.

In otherwords, keep taking on big goals and press on to finish them, while ignoring that pesky voice which thinks it already knows how this will all turn out. And ignore the people who do the same, their words are rarely helpful.
"… because nothing in that initial review, and nothing i have learned since, indicated that our intelligence community has sought to violate the law or be cavalier about the civil liberties of their fellow citizens." - Obama

I had a very hard time getting past this line he fed at ~11 minutes in. If that is the presumed mindset, you can draw some very broad (and i fear accurate) assumptions about the changes going forward.
Thanks for the great resources. I still wonder to what extent is it at all possible to do cache-friendly data structures on the JVM. Besides the somewhat abstract data structure considerations of the kind posted, there is still the issue of whether in the end references are stored in the collections memory or the values themselves. On the surface level it looks like Java collections generally use references for everything, except perhaps for arrays and (maybe) ArrayLists of primitive types. See for example:

http://java.dzone.com/articles/slab-guaranteed-heap-alignmen...
This is what I am getting on my machine.

Backbone: 16.5ms
Ember + HTMLbars: 5.9ms
React: 9.5ms
Plain JS: 3.5ms
If this trend continues, the implication will be that venture capital will cease to exist as we know it, but instead will resemble traditional private equity where capital is mostly allocated to established viable businesses.
"You can see that other than the top-line metric of total signups, the other metrics are quite solid."

Try as you might, I don't think it's possible to downplay that statistic. The overall numbers of signups need to be higher than they were in 2003, but anecdotally it seems like the percentage of the market you need to capture (and percentages of the market the startup will reasonably capture) haven't changed drastically. 1,000,000 users used to be almost the entire iOS App Store market - now it's a small sliver. Everpix was the rare scenario in which there's a solid product, solid team, and traction that seems like great traction, but casts too much doubt on its ability to grow to where it needs to to justify investment.

After the exception (that will always exist), your seed round says, "Alright, I think this could have potential. Let's try an experiment." Your Series A says, "Experiment successful. Let's grow this thing." There are more experiments being tried, but if you take those same ratios into 2003 (user adoption would be much slower, and the numbers would be lower), and Everpix would still be a failed experiment. It's harder to hit x users than x/2 users, surely, but it's easier than ever to get x users. I would argue easier than it used to be to get x/2 users.

The ratios of companies not getting a Series A is different, but that's largely because more experiments (seed rounds) are tried than ever. It seems like you can raise a seed round (<$50K) on almost nothing. Raising a Series A is still hard.

The target is moving, but so is the consumer. Comparing numbers today vs. numbers 5 years ago isn't a testament to the investment scenario changing, it's a testament to the Internet and the world changing.
Somebody start a company that integrates all these services in to an API for perks and let's employees choose what they want and then the company pays for them. That's what I was doing before a stronger passion called me, but the problem was real and getting beta customers lined up was as easy as I'd ever had it.
Your situation is exactly what I'm looking for. Being hired by a company but only working part time. Consulting is difficult (for me) because it is a huge time investment.
Show HN: SmiteCamp.com - Smite fansite I made during the weekends.
I use a combination of Remember the Milk for recurring tasks with Trello for managing tasks and projects. I try to apply a GTD methodology on Trello boards and I like the results thus far. Trello is really flexible, has a simple basic interface, but also a lot of (optional) depth for power users.
well yes, and there is "isolate" from the Moe project. But systemd is teh new shineyyyy.
> Any particular reason?

I'm only involved in manufacturing as a hobby for my custom keyboard projects. But my bet would be that it's about injection molding [0].

Once you got the molds machined you can mass produce plastic parts extremely cheaply. Need more plastic parts? Get a few more molds made. It scales pretty well because one mold can produce multiple parts at once and the injection molding presses itself are relatively inexpensive and pretty much fully automated.

Wood while being great for prototyping doesn't scale that well in mass production. You would machine it using CNC routers and if you need more produced you need new expensive CNC routers which can only produce one part at a time. Also the CNC routers I know you have to baby sit.

Again: That's only from my limited experience with limited runs (a few thousand pieces at most). Maybe someone who knows more about real mass production can elaborate a little more on this.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injection_molding
It takes just one bad apple to spoil the entire team.

I've been in this situation three times. Reporting that your teammate is dragging the entire project down is a horrible feeling - but it's the only responsible thing to do. If you don't, you buy one person's peace of mind at the cost of the whole team's well-being.

PS. Dr Glover was right: nice guys are not nice. They just try to cover their asses and stay quiet.
repledit to mention that this only works for open routers.
I reached out a few months ago with no response. I'm a SF Ruby/Java/JS developer.
Stack: Ruby on Rails 4 / DigitalOcean / PostgreSQL / Golang backend scraper for streams, devtracker posts, etc.

I had a lot of fun building this website and learning new things along the way. Plus, it's 100% responsive! Oh yeah! :D
The spotify bit is the least interesting thing to me.
But Internet data is still fair game?
Yes, I was referring to the second link there, based on the more recent data:

"The number of employed software developers, the largest IT occupation segment, increased by only 1.75%, to 1.1 million, a gain of 19,000. The unemployment rate for developers last year was 2.7%, which is still elevated, according to Hira."

Software developers are doing well, especially compared with some other STEM professions, it's just not huge in absolute terms because there's only about 1.1 million software developer jobs overall. Good for us programmers, but not for STEM careers in general.
I have these, and they are indeed good for a month. To be honest, I sometimes dont even notice and wear them longer.
I've just built something very similar to this last weekend -- For around $43/sensor (Raspberry Pi Model B, DigiSpark, and 1-Wire Temperature Sensor) I made 20 of these for my home, farm, and hackerspace for temperature logging. I did this because we're getting another 'polar vortex' next week and the cows don't like it if it's colder than 20 degrees out.

This allows me to measure the temperature inside, outside, and get the relative humidity (not nearly as accurate as the $20 honeywell sensor that they're using, but, it's close enough for my needs). I then built a simple website using mrtg (for temperature trending) and a ruby script that checks the temperatures versus what the set points are and mounted the raspberry pi's in various locations around my places.

My "Controller" nodes are a beagleboard with a 4 or 8 channel relay board attached that allow me to turn on or off the individual controls on the furnace. It works well with my two stage heat pump and fan at my home, but, I need some work to get it 100% at the hackerspace and at the farm.

I mainly did this because I needed something that allowed me to cover more rooms than the Nest (and I'm adding duct dampers and fans to my heating system, so I can selectively heat and cool more rooms to better temperatures).
He boldly took no action to confront a problem he didn't want to confront at a time not of his choosing because of a person he doesn't like.
I'd like to see this with a car vs. a tree (models from the same years).
On words that have "st" there is a ligature between the s and t. It looks like this: http://typophile.com/files/Letter_st_6439.jpg

There is also one on "ct".
If data like this requires a bureaucracy to generate, you might be able to protect it with a bureaucracy. If it's collected automatically and stored in one place, it is considerably harder to protect.
> I'm not really sure why Canonical doesn't just GPL like everyone else and leave it at that.

Because they want to be able to have the benefits of proprietary code for themselves (being able to provide their own software under a proprietary license to other parties), without allowing anybody else that same ability.

If it were under the GPL and each contributor retained their copyright over their submission (as is the case with the Linux codebase), this wouldn't be an issue. But by having complete ownership over all the code in the codebase, Canonical is free to change the license at any time they choose.
I just clicked on the link posted here, that is https://developer.mepin.com/.
I've never actually changed my approach since 25. I don't have much interest in doing something I've done before, so everything I try is always new, which means I can't even begin to estimate what's involved in completing it. I just approach it with the attitude "Well, how hard can it be?"

There are two necessary factors to great feats: The foolhardiness to start, and the stubbornness to finish.
I don't know why Obama didn't take the recommendation, but as someone in the military I can tell you it's probably because the downsides outweigh the gains.

From the perspective of civil liberties NSA is the threat because of its extensive capabilities.

But it is exactly that suite of capabilities that makes it useful for USCYBERCOM. You wouldn't expect to see USSTRATCOM without its collection of silos, bombers, and SSBNs, would you?

Splitting up CYBERCOM and NSA would leave the capabilities substantially still in the hands of NSA, so they'd still need to coordinate often (but now it would be much more difficult, reducing military readiness for CYBERCOM). But it wouldn't eliminate the threat to civil liberties from NSA (since those come substantially from the NSA's capabilities).

If you instead give CYBERCOM equivalent capability to NSA (at great expense, mind you), you'd simply have two large octopi that are civil liberties risks, instead of one. And only one of those would be substantially overseen by FISC and Congress, since the President would have direct military control over CYBERCOM's actions. Does this sound better?

Leaving CYBERCOM dependent on NSA for its ability to conduct overseas cyberattack actually makes it easier to ensure civil liberties oversight is implemented and performed, and that NSA can't evade those oversight controls by pawning off an illegal search on their friendly neighborhood CYBERCOM with equivalent (or better) cyber capability.
Meta-comment: I read this article with the real title on HN, and it mentioned almost nothing about Facebook. I assume the mods changed the title, which steered the early conversation about the piece. Therefore, due to "title activism" taken too long after the post, I was thoroughly confused for a while.
The recent discussion on lwn.net is also interesting:

Positions forming in the Debian init system decision: http://lwn.net/Articles/578208/
> But is it really so bad?

I don't know. It's not like "Gimp", which is viewed by some as insulting to handicapped people. But it wasn't clear to me that the Nimrod developers were even aware of the US connotations, so I brought it up.

Perhaps the "Git" comparison is apt; as far as the US is concerned, that's the sort of name that's been picked.
The tricky bit is the learning; the first few weeks or so with it I was adjusting it all the time, now I don't need to do that, it knows I prefer to go to bed warm and wake up cool and just sets the right temperature.

I thought the phone app would be gimmicky, but it's nice to be able to get off the plane and un-autoaway the thing so by the time you get home it's comfortable.
It's not RHEL-specific. Ubuntu and pretty much everything that includes cgroups tools has it.
Email me. I can forward your resume around the company. I'm pretty sure we have some room for Junior devs. Awesome small/medium sized startup in NYC & DC. hpowers@jibe.com
Think of any film about any successful company that has ever been made and you'll realize the 'idea' and the 'success' get all the screen time. All of the hard work, sacrifice and, arguably, the best parts of starting a company get rolled up into a 60 second montage. Nobody wants to watch the nitty gritty stuff, let alone do it, but that's what separates founders from everyone else.
I think that's what Uncover is doing: https://www.uncover.com/
> By the way, where the hell are inmates getting $320 a month to spend?

People from the outside can add money to the account.
A few trees don't make a forest.
California drought: Jerry Brown declares emergency, asks public to ration water
>where the hell are inmates getting $320 a month to spend?

Family. They probably don't send that much, I know someone who sends his brother in prison about $100 a month.
Hardly an obscure game, or an obscure word. At least not in the UK.
Fahrenheit is not intuitive, you just think so because you grew up with it. People who grew up with Celcius have no problem relating to how cold 30 C or 100 C or -20 C are.
> I see auto being used inside the lambda. Was that not allowed in C++11?

It wasn't:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/7709970/39622
Wait, there's power there? Where from?
Raise some coin for the WordPress Cystic Fibrosis community
Or a digging laser. Dig out a small area with a laser and wait for the other side to cave in. We have digging lasers, right???
It's the "doing things" that I have least trouble with. It's the other things, the things that he does first, that I have trouble with.
When you get a chance, would you be kind to write a "how to" blog post about how to build and wire one yourself, so others without any clue about how to do this can have a shot at learning and doing it themselves?
Nest Protect Review
At some point many entrepreneurs need to ask themselves WTF they need the venture money for anyway. If you are going to have to go ahead and build a viable product to get any money... why not just keep on keepin' on, and keep the upside? You can scale costs with the success of your business anyway, and, if you aren't insane, you are billing recurring, so you've got a pretty good idea where minimal revs will be for the next year.

Sure, there are perpetually money-losing ideas, like twitter, that still need the old model, but most startups I see these days don't have to be built that way.

> A modern startup’s costs are all people costs

Very true. And one of the things that startup founders can arbitrage.

And, let me say again, thank you everpix team. You've done the startup community a huge service by being so open about things.
Real-time Streaming and Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka
NSA overall has certainly been successful in stopping attacks.

The major question was the effectiveness of 215 phone metadata surveillance in particular, which is the thing that was hotly debated. But even leaving out 215 metadata there were still about least a dozen plots with actual planning/action taken for them and probably 35-ish more that were detected and either stopped before they reached that point, or verified to have trailed off on their own.
I struggle with this too, my github/bitbucket is a barren wasteland of half finished products. I believe that its fully a mindset thing and realize that success is not an accident nor some ephemeral spark of genius. Success is a a choice, every day.

I find this YT video on Steph Curry to be an amazing story of how success is built by they choices we make every day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riy59ubGJiU

'Are the habits you have for today on par with the dreams you have for tomorrow?' Not yet... but its getting there.
Or maybe we're just getting better at identifying viable businesses from earlier metrics.
VR Best Practices - Oculus Rift
So, the most interesting thing is that this is a Sparc V8 32-bit arch, with floating-point support.

It can run a real operating system, I think.

Jolly good show!
I don't really think that's what it's modeled on. More likely it's a descendant of the New York Times format for multimodal stories à la "Snow Fall": http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/
Why not make an interface called iCompare that has a single function: compare, which takes an object of type interface{}. You can then implement that single compare function, attached to your type of choice. Problem solved.