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Thank you for posting this. I think they may have launched a bit too early.

On a side note: Did you notice that as you scroll down, the dinosaur starts to lose more and more articles of clothing?
Esurance Telegraphed their $1.5million Winner
Prey project is semi open-source, freemium and works on ios, android and most desktop OSes too.

https://preyproject.com/
There's actually a company exactly trying to fill that niche called Recon

http://www.fastcompany.com/3018645/fast-feed/this-google-gla...

http://www.reconinstruments.com/products/jet/
It wasn't Microsoft providing the software. It was software running on Windows. The actual software was an in-house developed matching engine called Tradelect. LSE eventually switched away to a 3rd party matching engine with their acquisition of MilleniumIT.
Works nice. I got a ping of 1ms for my server, so you must be in Amsterdam / Haarlem? Or is there some multi region distributed magic going on?
Washington Dispensary Now Takes Bitcoin for Cannabis
> The purpose of government is to preserve your freedom to do something.

That's maybe what you think the purpose of government should be, but it doesn't really match reality. Consider the whole section of labor laws, for instance.
Show HN: To show our fan media aggregator, here's the Olympic Opening Ceremony
3rd way: Kill-switch is OS-based. e.g. you tell Apple that your iPhone has been stolen. You give them the serial/IMEI, (or they can match up the device based upon your itunes account). If someone wipes the phone through an exploit or jailbreak, the device is still practically useless as whenever it needs to communicate with an apple service, apple sends back a 'you are stolen' message and the phone locks up again.

End result: either the phone stays blocked or you end up with a crippled, limited-usage device that can't use many of the services that you'd expect it to (app store, etc). Re-sale value would plummet.

It would work with Android too. Stolen phones (that are reported to Google) could refuse to use the play store or accept a gmail account.
Let’s Just Forget Everything
1. I heard somewhere that GoPro hasn't produced any video for it's own marketing material - they just leverage user generated content. (genius)

2. This company is going to get really interesting when it starts to compete with YT/Vimeo in specific verticals for video publishing. (http://gopro.com/channel)
Something I don't really understand is why people use github in the first place when it's so easy to set up your own git repos with gitolite.

I understand using github for large open source projects that you want people to freely branch, but it seems the vast majority of accounts are small personal projects and even some small companies.
> It's a system in which you climb a hierarchy by scoring well in some externally defined "unbiased" evaluation process.

Getting deeply into evolutionary theory and learning theory destroyed my belief in naive meritocracy, and not for the typical reasons either. What you learn is that defining merit in any complex system is often as difficult as actually achieving it. If the fitness landscape is non computable then defining merit globally IS precisely as difficult as achieving it. The two reduce to the same problem!

... and of course any real world problem domain that is worth doing and profitable to solve is almost definitely non computable, complex, shifting, chaotic, all those nasty things ...

Moreover, if you define merit via any "merit function" that does not properly model your problem domain then the system will optimize to your merit definition rather than for actual merit. I watched this happen over and over again with genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, and other learning algorithms. Sometimes it's comical... I watched a damn genetic programming system evolve to predict the behavior of my operating system's kernel thread scheduler to predict whether they would receive an "A" or "B" category item (I had a multithreaded fitness function) instead of classifying the item for example. Nature always prefers the lowest-complexity solution for fundamental second law of thermodynamics type reasons.

I think this is why things like stack ranking, etc., result in superficial short-term improvements to company performance followed by long-term collapses in creativity and deep performance over ensuing years. When you implement stack ranking then your company's culture optimizes itself for stack ranking, not for the market. Stack ranking captures a small aspect of the overall fitness function of the market -- namely tenacity and work ethic -- but fails to capture anything more than that. So you get gerbils, not engineers.

It's a hard problem. Be suspicious of sound-bite answers, fads, and simple ideologies in these waters.
Each cloud has its own semantics. Unless you want to unify the semantics, you'll either end up with lowest-common denominator APIs, or cloud specific methods.

What is needed is a standard for discoverable RESTful interfaces. With that, there could be a single client library for each platform/programming language to access any compliant API.

The metaphor is here that i don't need a different browser to connect to Citibank's and Bank of America's online banking services. A single browser works just fine. This is the deeper meaning of RESTful, something which is overlooked by many people.
I had a similar experience with a very basic Android app I did for a Coursera class. It took me about an hour to finish it, and then 3-4 hours to figure out that the test cases would only run successfully using one particular Android virtual device at a particular API version. It didn't work on any other AVD's or on my phone. This was an exercise designed by a compsci professor at a major university. Who knows how many additional hours would be necessary to determine the exact reason for the error?
Does it use the STL? The STL will throw. Does it use the new operator? new will throw unless you specifically tell it not to.
Some time ago, I cloned the ESN of my SPH-A680 onto an identical model (using QPST). When they were both on and next to one another, calling me made them both ring, and simultaneously answering both let me hear audio out of both.

I doubt basebands have really changed - it's a culture of security through obscurity, with people unaware of the details assuming they actually provide their purported security guarantees.
9/11 was the catalyst for all of this. We've been on a slippery slope ever since.
I saw a demo of this a week ago, and it looked really neat. Kudos for launching!
In the title, I'd avoid "feedback appreciated". Show HN makes it implicit, as well as you thank the community for that.
$3 560 000 divided by 2, 12 times :-)

The effect of Moore's "law" is that processing power doubles approximately every 2 years, while the cost halves.

If 1 "unit" of processing currently costs $1; in 2 years time, 2 units will cost $1. Or that 1 unit costs 0.50.
Apparently there's a key patent that's just expired[1] that some claim will have a big impact on the market. I'm not in a position to comment but, if true, this could be a very exciting time when 3D-printing moves out of the 'Rapid Application Prototyping' stage and becomes a realistic proposition to manufacture durable, high-quality items.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175562-major-patent-expir...
I'm personally excited to be able to hold my breath underwater for 3 hours: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirocyte.
Start-up idea: let Hacker News users pay to berate you for x minutes.

There's a clearly huge market.
I had the chance of seeing a demo of this yesterday; it went really, really great. Brad is a great guy with a ton of passion.

Drone combined with some of the features upcoming on docker.io will be an incredibly compelling usecase for Continuous Integration going forward.
Not sure why you're viewing my comment with such hostility. I was mistakenly under the impression that most of his work is contracted / bounty. He's already clarified his reason for accepting donations below, and I understand. I just think the placement/wording was less than ideal.
Software was many orders of magnitude more efficient in 1991 than now, so if you're trying to make a functional equivalent (which I'm assuming because the example equivalences are 1000x the size of a phone) rather than a copy, it's important to remember that you wouldn't need either the same processing power or same storage capacity.

An equivalent excluding media, rather. A few copies of peanut butter jelly time would fill up a functionally equivalent iPhone's disk.

edit: MIDI Peanut Butter Jelly Time?
I offer this notational suggestion, just to avoid either a floating-point or fractional constant:

3,560,000 * 2 ^ -12 ≈ 869.14

Based on: 1/2 ^ 12 = 2 ^ -12
That's pretty typical, in my experience, actually. This is true even when 1-1 meetings are scheduled more regularly. Management has a vested interest in making sure that their department budgets are large, but that their payroll budgets aren't, and protecting the company (for small-ish companies) or their managers (in larger corporations, where 'departments' are better thought of as companies-within-the-company, and managers' managers are the 'owners'). With the possible (and infrequent) exception of front-line managers, an employee is going to do better for himself if he assumes the relationship with management is more adversarial than collegial.
That will sort it out in short order, and phones will no longer be accepted by pawn shops.

The interesting side effect will be that people will won't consider stealing a phone and pawning it as a viable way of getting some quick cash.
Darkleech + Bitly.com = Insightful Statistics
I think it's the immediate reward aspect of coding that draws me in. The more important tasks don't necessarily give a tangible result right away. With code, I can fix a bug and have something to point to and say 'success!'.
But they'd have to pay those $3200 without knowing if there were results. They might have to pay dozens of such consultants before one of them found bugs like this. Bug bounties, paid only on successful discoveries, are much cheaper.
Nice Article..
They've been unable to mind their own business for decades now. They legislated the forced use of fire-proofing chemicals in mattresses, couches, & cushions in all furniture sold in California and years later scientists discovered those chemicals are harmful hormone disruptors and don't even realistically prevent fire in real world situations. Furniture companies can't create 2 different SKUs of furniture (one without the chemicals and one with) so they just included fire retardants into all their furniture by default. All the USA has now been affected with hormone disrupting fire retardants all because one state's puppet master legislators want to enforce their enlightenment on everyone.
> 2. Stop all withdrawals and then process all those that were already made - manually.

Apparently they have done just that: https://www.mtgox.com/press_release_20140207.html
One thing I'm also guilty of is fixing code that I'm not currently touching. I like consistency and having a project with code from old me (and old others) mixed in with code from new me (and new others) really bothers my OCDness. The problem is that changing working old code in lieu of fixing bugs or adding features is just another form of procrastination.

There is a time and place for code cleaning. If the code isn't something you are already working in, then leave it. If you are tasked to fix a problem or add something to existing code then cleaning it up is acceptable. Keep mind, I'm assuming there are tests written. Nothing pisses off your co-workers more than cleaning up working code and breaking inadvertently breaking something.
No - it will only get killed is someone identifies or guesses the YC company or founder.
Mollie Bess Laughing SO CUTE (3 months old)
This is my 3 month old laughing when we were shopping. So funny.
Perhaps the recommended action is to write a blog post, perhaps with some more substantive evidence, and then to link to it.
Although this is sarcastic you do bring up a good point. GoPro is a maker of a single product - the GoPro POV camera - just as RedBull is the maker of a single product - the wing-inducing energy drink. How much longer will GoPro be able to survive in the increasing competitive market of solely POV cameras, especially with opportunities for mobile to eat up a share of the market.

By filing for an IPO Nick Woodman must believe that the GoPro brand is worth as much as the product they make itself. That is the only justification I can think of for filing. How many iterations of the camera can they make and for how much longer is this sustainable without some sort of a pivot?
Rugged SODIMM-style COM runs Linux on i.MX6
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Only by those who have nothing better to do than get "offended" by cartoons.
$.data is tightly bound to the DOM however - much of jQuery is, in order to reduce developer friction - so this is just more jQuery api asymmetry IMO.

To your point, performance is noble goal. Having some asymmetry is no big deal.
At the risk of stating the obvious, putting pricing on a dedicated page rather than on the home page is a much better way of testing whether it's the presentation of the product or the pricing that's putting people off...
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Thanks! The server is in Amsterdam yes! I do plan to add more regions to ping from, though.
The open source edition is meant for teams that want to run CI on their own trusted infrastructure.

That being said, we are definitely making a long term bet on Docker and containers, and are confident security will improve over time.
These are the tweets that got Harrison Rund arrested for terroristic threats
Interesting article, but guess what the point is, coming from the AEI. It's actually about gutting social security. If you take their view of incredible deflation in tech products, it cancels out the inflation in everything else. That means the inflation adjustment in social security is less, and in the long run, social security becomes insignificant. This type of messaging is true mastery of the long game.
As suggested by one of the comments on the article, I think it would be much more productive to engage in criminal justice reform before even starting to worry about 'bro culture'.

50% of black men and 44% of hispanic men are arrested by the age of 23 (not to mention 38% of white men). These numbers are just way too high. Once you get into the system, it's hard to get out. And children of incarcerated or formerly incarcerated persons have a much higher chance of going to prison. See the vicious cycle here? The only thing this article got right was:

> But many people of color can't even find that ladder

This is the most pressing issue. Minorities can't find the ladder because they don't even know it exists. We're disproportionately locking them up and perpetuating criminal activity and poverty. If we want to fix underrepresentation of minorities at schools and in tech, we should start attacking the root cause, not a red herring.
Interesing that no one mentions cgit,[0] even though Linus and kernel developers moved away from the default (it comes with git itself) Gitweb Perl CGI Library a while ago.[1]

Cgit is pretty impressive stuff as a frontend. I am sure it is a mess[2] (since people here constantly gawk and harp on people bold enough to do the following), but it is merely a giant C program handling CGI with built-in caching, and it is pretty damn efficient. It is crazy fast. I used to run it on a shared host, and boy was I impressed.

Give it a look when you have a chance. You would be surprised how many large FOSS groups (if I recall correctly, I see the UI at OpenOffice, GNOME, KDE, and FreeDesktop umbrella groups).

[0] http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/

[1] https://www.kernel.org/pelican.html

[2] http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/667176-cgit-...
That's a pretty silly comment.

They're selling a somewhat specialized camera to a huge potential market, making billions of dollars.

It's a far more promising business plan than 99% of the startups I see mentioned on HN.
Wow. Much Cool! Sigh. Big Crash. But there in spirit.
1) They do. I have friends that work for GoPro. They fly all around the world shooting video for ads. I am extremely jealous of their jobs.
You can't run untrusted code as root in a docker container.
Linked article is rather blog-spammy, but it was the only one I could find with the full tweets linked. Here is another article with a police statement: http://www.startribune.com/local/south/244023881.html
> I would expect an asshole to say something along those lines.

An asshole doesn't care if they offend, irritate or otherwise cause problems.
I thought this was a fairly good explanation of Bitcoins broken down into simple terms so that non-technical people can easily grasp the concepts. The Hawala parallel only helps.

That said, it's not really news and doesn't bring any new information to the Bitcoin discussion on Hacker News.
I was under the impression that the IMEI was burned into the baseband ROM at the lowest level, seems I was mistaken :)
Activation of the OS requiring network check-in similar to Apple's iOS would potentially be able to disable devices by blacklisting serial number / imei / meid.

It's worth noting that most carriers DO NOT blacklist all types of serial numbers burned into a device with a single serial number. There should be a requirement for a blacklist of one to also blacklist all others and that a carrier should be able to search by any of the serial type number.

Further if a device is legitimately recovered by the original owner, they should be able to unblacklist it.

Finally, carriers should cover return shipping and reactivate found blacklisted devices. There are many worthless blacklisted iOS devices on eBay, but neither Apple nor carriers will activate them nor return them to their owners.
No more IF statements
That's much less clear if someone isn't aware of how negative exponents are defined. That's why I chose this notation, and why I put into words "cut in half 12 times."
Assessing Cryptocurrency Use Cases
It's silly human bias. David Cope's program composed music which people claimed was great. As soon as they were told it was made by a computer they suddenly thought it was terrible. In a test between an actual composer and his algorithm, the audience thought the generated music was composed by a human.

It's true today's algorithms might not be completely original, but then again neither are most humans. And this isn't a strict limitation, computers could learn to experiment with new patterns, or generalize further than mere imitation.
BitCoin Users Upset With Apple Destroy Their iPhones [video]
Unless they were lying about their competitors or spreading malicious rumors I would say this is fine. Welcome to business, people are going to claw their way to the top with whatever legal means they can. I would think that, if anything, 500 startups should do more diligence on the people attending their pitch day to prevent this from happening.
Intro for iPhone – No Longer Supported
I was wondering, are 3D-printed objects more fragile compared to similar objects being created with classical methods? For example, some metallic parts, or say, the foundations of a house.
I don't see in any part of his statement that they're profitable and that they won't rise the prices once they have established dominance in the storage market.

It's only by being so cheap that they can carve themselves a place in this saturated market.
On the smaller scale (e.g. not billion dollar drug cartels), the primary mechanisms remain cash-based service business fronts and casinos.

The more novel vehicles that took off in the 1990s was through insurance, where reporting was significantly more lax and the payouts were less tied to to the inputs. Enormous new regulations as a reuslt of 9/11 (and anti-terrorism financing) put dramatic new controls, such that large, third-party payments, or irregular situations will always get flagged and submitted to the government(s) for review.
The article mentions that they use them for aerospace components, including landing gear. I wonder what the strength of these parts are compared to traditional manufacturing techniques. Can these parts be used for actual structural elements?
I think programming is easy. When I sit down to code something, it feels deterministic, and everything falls into place. I attribute this to: 1) IQ 3 standard deviations above. If I hadn't been this way when I started, I probably wouldn't have started. 2) I've been practicing hard, 25 years. That's a lot of time to try a lot of ways to do a lot of things, and find what works.

Here's what's difficult for me, and what only gets more difficult as my own time grows shorter and I'm less agreeable to wasting it: Working on teams, under managers, within organisations. Sitting in the third meta-meeting that week, listening to posturers quibble over what Agile means, rolling my eyes thinking obviously it's anything but agile. Performance reviews and arbitrary subjectivity-based rewards dressed in time-consuming process they swear will make it more objective. Perennial "Strategic Roadmap Shifts", listening to yet another CEO spout boilerplate bullshit about how this is the one way to glory, never shall we mention that one from just six months ago - that never happened. And that means another project cancellation. Then one by one the coworkers you like the most get fed up and leave, until the day it's your turn to get fed up and leave. On to greener pastures to enjoy a few months of a semblance of accomplishment before the whole cycle starts to repeat again. All that is what never gets any easier for me. Like everybody always says, "It's the people!"
"Art is never finished, only abandoned." -Leonardo da Vinci
They were popular. Cisco bought them at their height. Shortly after the purchase Cisco saw the cliff.
It wouldn't have had the amount of engineering time put into it that it has. Google employs a bunch of people to work on it full time.
> Infosec is hard.

In computer security, you have to get it right every single time. The bad guys only need to get it right once.
Lets boil this down. The only thing this competitor did was;

The competitor then bought ads online for anything related to 500 Startups, to leverage the increased press surrounding Demo Day and the latest 500 Startups batch of companies.

This is marketing 101. Go where the action is. I find nothing dirty or underhanded about this and its a far cry from what Uber was doing which was directly impacting their competitors.
Not reported here, but they recently (i.e. a few months ago) brought their software consultants (General Things: http://generalthings.com/) in-house. General Things did all the work behind the GoPro website, and I always thought it was a bit odd that a company so big had almost completely outsourced web dev. Once they acquired General Things, an IPO seemed a foregone conclusion. Congrats all!
I liked my Lumix a lot (it got stolen in Canada, of all places) and even went swimming in the Mediterranean with it, but it was still a general purpose point-and-shoot. GoPros generally have wide-angle lenses and I don't doubt they're even more durable. It makes sense to me to make a product that's as tough as possible, just to make sure they're not going head-to-head with Panasonic et al.
Beyond the fact that they have an amazing product, a good chunk of their success is due to phenomenal user-generated content. I can't think of any other recent company that has better user-generated marketing than GoPro.
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People shouldn't trust the cloud for important source storage. Always self-host anything you want to keep private.
It's a shame the device manufacturers apparently dragged their feet on this and couldn't avoid legislation.