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> Send the remote shutdown instruction over a suitably designed radio link and jamming becomes utterly impractical.

Unless the radio link must be always-on for the vehicle to move, I think you've underestimated what is required to construct an RF link that is impervious to interference.

We still have problems with shmucks using GPS jammers to prevent employers from tracking them halting traffic at major airports: http://www.insidegnss.com/node/3676

"It took the FAA and FCC from March 2009 until April 2011 to locate a GPS jammer operated by another trucker on the New Jersey Turnpike, according to a presentation by John Merrill, Department of Homeland Security program manager for position, timing, and navigation, at the 2012 Telcordia-NIST-ATIS Workshop on Synchronization in Telecommunication Systems."
slight typo @ "...you're intereseted in."
Using segfaults to interrupt jit code
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I'm using, and highly recommend, apt-cacher-ng:
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/
>>We can recast the claim as follows: devaluation is good because it encourages spending and discourages saving.

No, you can't. In fact, it is interesting that you blamed me for attempting to short-circuit critical thinking, and then turned around and suggested something so asinine as this.

The reason it is asinine is because not all forms of saving are equal. A grandma stashing cash under the mattress does not help anyone else but the grandma, which is why it makes sense to discourage it using devaluation mechanics built into the economy. But if she invested that cash into a value-generating asset (e.g. a company, a piece of real estate, a public project, etc.), both her and the asset developer/owner would benefit: it would be possible to develop and maintain the asset, and she would reap greater returns. And just so we're clear, it's not like we're forcing grandma to take insane risks. Government bonds have historically been incredibly safe. So devaluation exists as a mechanic to say to grandma, "instead of mindlessly hoarding your money under the mattress, buy bonds with it. As a result, we (the government) will be able to fund public projects and you will be shielded from devaluation."

It is difficult to argue that this configuration is less optimal than one in which money never loses value.
Seems like a gutsy move considering King's only really breakout hit was Candy Crush a game that will undoubtedly not be nearly as popular as it was in 2013, in 12 months time.

This is a smart move though, cash in while they still can and then jump out of the ship before it hits the financial iceberg and sinks. Unless they can release another popular game, I can't see King being a worthwhile investment for anyone and the only people coming out on top will be a select few.

I don't mean to sound cynical, but seems filing for IPO is the new trendy thing to do nowadays. Companies with serious flaws, King's being they have one single product they can't really iterate upon to keep relevant. For all we know though, this makes King stronger and they'll release more popular games, seems they have the chops to pull off another hit again. Halfbrick did it like 3 times over, it's not impossible.
You're making a bunch of good points. All of them show that there's still a lot to try, learn and discover in this space.

And keep in mind: I was thinking of this as being an additional mode to whatever the more "standard" interface would be. You could always have your standard AC controls (on a tactile-feedback-less screen though) but this quick input mode could be invoked when you know what you're doing.
> I still recognize intelligence, etc. as a property they possess, but I don’t define them by it.

Why not? I think that what you mean by "define" is that something matters to you. Why wouldn't intelligence matter? Whether intelligence means knowledge, aptitude, or rationality, Don't those things make someone more pleasant to be around? (sorry if I misunderstood what you're saying)
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Can somebody outline how society would benefit if this company received "public" money?

This is not meant as a flame, I am generally curious.
This seems like a terrible idea for all concerned. The price of bitcoin is anything but stable.

You'd pretty much want to pay the whole term up front to avoid regret on either side.
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Loyalty programs are very similar psychologically to what King and other game makers do in their games to get you to buy from them. Give someone a reason to spend money and they will and without realising it, you've spent more than it cost you to give away that free coffee are purchasing 5 coffees.
>>Usually, calling something a "flop" means that it was wildly unsuccessful.

To me, "flop" means it failed to meet the rather ambitious expectations, and instead performed only moderately well.
Thank you, and I appreciate learning. But I think I'm reading something else on wikipedia. The article there says you can only set cookies on "the top domain and its subdomains" [1] and that third party cookies are those set by page assets (like images within a page) that are served from a different domain. [2]

What do you think?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Domain_and_Path

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Third-party_cookie
My favorite quote:

> If trolls have absolute power, they will use it and they will use it without mercy.
Your post seems to employ circular logic. You're asking for evidence of one of your assumptions:

> Failing one or two interviews isn't really indicative of anything.
Presumably, "intelligence, prestige, and beauty" are things people are born into.

Meanwhile, "ambitions, creativity, drive, perspective, attitude, [and] aspirations"... are things people are frequently still be born into, but society doesn't think about it that way. (My riches for a world where "drive" is viewed as biological, rather than a matter of "character"...)
Excellent read. Perhaps "Intelligence is a commodity" would be a better title for it.
I had one like that close to a decade ago (cheap ZyXEL, /syscmd.asp). However, I treated it as a feature; I think it was my first Linux-based router. That, and I only found it by exploring the filesystem base on the ping prompt that (IIRC) was passed to the shell without escaping semicolons...

I _think_ that page was behind auth; either way, anybody who had gotten on my home router could just have stepped over and unplugged it, so it wasn't an issue in my case.
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Is it supposed to benefit society? The benefit is that their shareholders will make money - they're a corporation.
So that the company can invest in future products and sell them to customers. If successful the investors make money, the company pays developers and customers enjoy whatever games the company makes.

The money is not 'public' in the sense of belonging to the government, but public in the sense that anyone can invest through the share market.
The end result of this will be a fantastic shareholder lawsuit.
They don't just "receive" money they sell things for it. People vote with their money. That's capitalism.
That sounds like every startup, ever.
an app like this, but for finding a date / relationship would be amazing.
Seems like a reasonable[1] approach would be to have a custom handshake using pre-generated pre-shared secrets (using eg AES-GCM ?). You'd probably want separate keys pr vm though -- which I suppose defeats the point (If you can do that, just give each vm its ssh/ssl-key(s) from "outside"...).

Perhaps it is possible to do something along these lines with TLS-PSK? If we assume a goal of no random session keys for the setup, I guess it would still be possible to a) sniff the "seed", record it for all N vms sharing a PSK b) (later) break into one out of any N vms, thus c) derive the state of all N vms entropy pool at the state of keygeneration.

The more I think about this, it seems the easiest fix is to a) make sure the host has a reasonable entropy pool b) have the host supply entropy seed to the vm when it boots. Maybe some new standard virtual entropy-seed device (might be specified as a blocking source of entropy as opposed to an unlimited tap into the hosts /dev/urandom).

At least there are things in place (like Kerberos/LDAP or AD) for managing shared secrets for the host(s) (which might not be used for managing the VMs) -- so having a service like this on all the hosts (only) should be easier than demanding all VMs have it.

Then just do a cat /dev/special_random_init_random > /dev/urandom on (vm) boot.

[1] As reasonable as it is to have a big list of per-machine shared secrets...
BURNS

This is a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters. Soon, they'll have written the greatest novel known to mankind. (reads one of the typewriters) "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times"?! you stupid monkey! (monkey screeches)
I've seen this called badtime. Outagelet seems too cute, when I think of downtime as serious business.

(TBF, that is when I am a paying consumer or a paid developer. I'm upset about neither the HN badtime nor the phrase outagelet.)
Does anyone else thinks that IPOs these days are just a sophisticated form of fraud?
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On binary sizes:

> Linking a stripped hello world program with glibc results in 600kb. Linking it with uclibc in about 7kb.

That's nice for uclibc, but we're typically linking dynamically. The comparison should be between dynamically and statically linked binaries. A stripped and dynamically linked hello world results in a 6kb program on my machine (glibc).

There's also a lot of handwaving on memory usage in the FAQ.
Becoming a publicly-traded company would only increase the odds of something like that happening, too, as they desperately try to increase revenue all the time.
apt-cacher-ng is great as well, they both do the job, squid-deb-proxy just requires a little less configuration since it automatically broadcasts itself to clients on the LAN.
I think you got it right. My proposal was definitely not meant to be the end of the conversation. Much rather the beginning.
I'm sure there are huge opportunities in exploring a more diverse set of input mechanisms (and their combination).

In this case, I'm simply trying to make a point that touch screens can be more control panels with buttons and sliders on them.
Why not use oDesk and overseas developers? Today's teams communicate using remote tools even when in cubicles next door. Why severely limit yourself geographically in your search?
The article doesn't mention it, but here's the Penny Arcade[1] comic (from back in May) titled "Glasshole", which illustrates why many people are uncomfortable about Google Glass users:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/14

I don't think this list (never mind the tech-crunch article, the real list from Google is here[2]) really mitigates this fundamental issue.

> Be patient and explain that Glass has a lot of the same features as a mobile phone (camera, maps, email, etc.)

The problem remains that a person who holds a mobile phone up to their face (potentially recording what's straight ahead) is just called an asshole.

I imagine the majority of people think it is rude to hold up a video camera all of the time while in public/starbucks/supermarket, even if the camera is off (Importantly: It does not matter if the camera is on or cannot possibly be on. As if the median person could tell or know). People are uncomfortable being potentially recorded in their daily interactions. Nobody wants to feel stared down by a camera or recorded.

So I think "don't be rude" (from Google's list) isn't a very helpful tip. Wearing Google Glass in public is rude.

~~~

[1] Gabe from Penny Arcade recounts his experience:

> As I was walking in today I heard the front door open and I quickly slid my Glass down off my head and slung it around my neck. A woman passed me by and I gave her a polite smile. As I got inside the building I moved the Glass back up to my head but I realised the reason I took it off was because I didn’t want to be rude.

> I was not embarrassed or worried she would think I was a dork. I AM a dork! What I was worried about was being rude. I feel like walking around with a camera pointed at people even if it’s not recording is just not polite. It’s a very strange feeling that I’m only just now trying to get my head around. I think the technology is incredibly cool but I wonder if socially we are ready for Glass. I’m starting to think the Google Glass Explorer program might be less about testing hardware, and more about testing people.

from: http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2013/06/12/google-glas...

[2] https://sites.google.com/site/glasscomms/glass-explorers
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To extend and correct your analogy: it'd be like if Googlers and Facebookers, and 20 other companies had to create and continuously improve software that unintentionally drove up real estate prices, in order to engage in a highly competitive market.

Their actions, writing the software, aren't necessarily malicious or risky. To their mind they're just doing what everyone else is doing and trying to create the best system.

Then they have an awards ceremony to celebrate the best software. Maybe in poor taste, but they're not even really considering the real estate market. Their game is software, and the financiers game is profit.

Like we don't generally think about the lives of people who make our clothes or computers, because our game is fashion or programming.

It's groupthink that caused the financial crisis (and most other problems), not necessarily malice.
Isn't "come in, set up, do their job" most viable though if you're local to the project? I imagine a lot of the movie industry work takes place in LA, whereas game development work is spread out all over.

You could imagine that remote work might help in this situation, but I've heard stories about the difficulty of communicating artistic vision across geographically disperse teams.
I'm afraid this oversimplifies job hunting. Or am i overthinking it?
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Ok, that JavaScript under Pressure is a lot of fun and it would make a great ice-breaker.
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I'm puzzled by the idea of a system being leaner/faster with n copies of a library in physical RAM rather than 1 copy mapped via VMM into whatever process wants it. IIRC this was the main point of shared libraries, not pluggability or changing code during runtime. Am I missing something?
that would be the "tinder" part
Use OpenWRT people. Modern kernel. Good security. Can be configured with devops tools like Ansible (assuming you have the flash to load Python).

https://openwrt.org
I love that rant.
Previous discussion here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7079547
You could say Tinder oversimplifies marriage hunting.

Just like first dates, initial job interviews are relatively low-commitment.
Sometimes, we just create our own problem. I fell into that trap before, and my toolbox is more minimal now.
And btw, gulp is a better replacement for Gunt. But still, consider adding too many plugins into it before it's too late.
Performance (for any system) is really going to be dependent on your particular hardware, your database schema, and the sorts of queries you'll likely be running.

Somebody else's benchmarks numbers may not mean very much for your own real-world use case.

So in short - you should be running your own tests/benchmarks.

Nonetheless, ServerDensity has some of their numbers here:

https://blog.serverdensity.com/mongodb-benchmarks/

Also, MongoDB (the company) dogfoods MongoDB (the product) to run their online monitoring/backup service, MMS (http://mms.mongodb.com/).

The scale on that thing (in terms of writes/updates) is huge.

There are also several other well-known very-large installations of MongoDB:

* Trello
* FourSquare
* Craigslist
* Server Density
* Trello
* Bit.ly
* Chartbeat

Most of these DB products are reasonably mature (for a given value of mature) by now - so any of them could probably scale to your workload. So you also need to look at other features as well - developer ease-of-use, ecosystem/tooling, support etc.

Put it this way - needing to scale is usually a good problem you want to be having =) - and as the above shows, MongoDB is more than capable of doing it.

If you have specific questions - the MongoDB Google Group is a fantastically friendly place to ask:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mongodb-user

and the answers they give are pretty detailed.
I clicked the link expecting not to understand what was happening.. but wow.. thats insane
Downloaded the iOS app, but nothing ever displays. There's no contact info to get support either!
This is very old pseudoscience with a recycled thin veneer of freshness. The idea that "quantum vibrations" in neuronal "microtubules" lead to decidedly macroscopic effects like detectable EEG signals is absurd on many levels, including spatial and temporal scope. There's also the small problem of neuron behavior modeling. Our existing biochemical and information-theoretical models are a very good match for the behavior of neurons.

The urge of tacking on some unneeded extra mystery baggage to distort a set of models that were already both well rooted in empirical data and accessible to rational analysis is an act of religiosity. It comes from, and speaks to people who share, a deep instinctive bias towards a metaphysical theory of consciousness - presumably because a purely physical model would be considered too mundane. The mere wish for a literal metaphysical transcendence does not make it true though, and in my opinion it also trivializes the amazing hardware that allows us to experience life.
Downloaded this. Got the landing screen with the loading circle for ~4 minutes. Closed the app.
The beauty about touch screens as input mechanisms is that they can obviously show an infinite number of interfaces. I absolutely agree that there's a right time for the right interface. My proposal is just one possible way to use a touch screen for input.
[sarcasm] Quantum vibrations in 'microcircuits' in the CPU supports theory of computativiness. [/sarcasm]
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What about 'browntime'?
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Here is the video of ABBBBBBK( and JLVWNNOOOO being released by trolls: http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon/c/3738870
I don't agree that he is making good points. He is making points that are of the current mindset. I can see myself and others like me easily transition to that type of interaction until the next generation of customers, aka, kids grows up knowing and feeling comfortable interacting in that or a similarly smart manner.

I do think that the gestures could be broken out into additional interactions, e.g., gestures towards the top do a different thing than the same gestures at the bottom or even have four quadrants that initiate different interactions.

I would think that it would require a type of introduction and practice mode that progressively teaches how to interact and also allows a demo mode like display that can be engaged for those who are not versed in that type of interaction. If not being intuitive was really an impediment there would be no keyboard shortcuts. If you can't take a second to memorize some keyboard shortcuts that will quadruple your effectiveness and efficiency then you cannot be helped.
We were experiencing a load balancer problem, should be fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The problem Google has is that there a significant overlap between those willing to wear those glasses and those with poor social skills.

For me personally companies like Apple and Pebble are going to be infinitely more successful with smart watches.
Maybe if we didn't have gigabytes of RAM these days. I quite like the idea of static linking. It makes software packaging and distribution very very easy and it has some security benefits. Go's build system is a good example of this. This project seems to be dead.
If video thing is so uncomfortable/confusing, a simple solution could be to add a simple LED indicating if camera is on or off. Apart from that I don't think there is anything else major that would annoy people around you.
Sorry guys, this should be fixed now. There was an issue with the load balancer sending people to a down server.
I like your audio equalizer analogy.

If you look closely in the beginning of the video, you'll see that I'm proposing for this to be a special mode that would only be invoked from time to time. So as you are suggesting: It's all about showing the right controls at the right time.
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> A stripped and dynamically linked hello world results in a 6kb program on my machine (glibc).

Is that the proportional size (binary size + glibc size / number of things using glibc), or just the size of the binary?
Yeah, almost all words for meat in English come from the word for the same animal in French.

* Beef from Boeuf
* Mutton from Mouton
* Pork from porc
* etc...
> [...] unlike things like sorts, doesn't really have a good library to fall back on in practice.

Depends on your language. Some are better able to abstract and express this `pattern' as a library.
HTC offers to replace cracked phone screens
What about 'em?
The other side of the "Good Samaritan" story from last week
Dropbox can see your files.

If you want more privacy you can try
http://www.nimbusvid.com which uses mega.co.nz plays encrypted video in the browser. Content is never sent to nimbusvid.com so you can watch your videos in privacy.
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No. Why would you say that? Nobody is forcing anyone to buy any share from this IPO.
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The thing is though: What if in the future, every car primarily has touch interfaces? Touch screens certainly took over a lot of other product categories by storm. I'd rather be on the side of exploring out-there concepts now, and hopefully have some cool solutions in the future.
Comparing Rails to Go doesn't make any sense.

Rails regularly has security vulnerabilities reported because it's popular, mature, deployed in a lot of places, and thus gets a lot of attention. When something like Play or whatever is equivalent in the Go world is similarly exposed I would expect to see security vulnerabilities reported there, too.

Software only _gets_ widely reported CVEs if it's popular. The lack of these reports for smaller, less popular frameworks does not indicate the lack of security flaws.
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I dont think you deserved the downvotes. longaccess indeed seems an important endeavor to undertake. All the best.
It seems that all router/home networking device firmware is universally shitty and full of holes.

Example: http://securityevaluators.com/knowledge/case_studies/routers...
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What kind of "serious" frameworks are you thinking about? Every large framework I can think of has similar issues as Rails, while minimalist frameworks avoid security holes by encouraging users to implement their own.
This is a much too deep a question to adequately address in this medium. A better starting question might be:

Do capital markets have a natural or a constructed social utility?

If their social utility is natural, then finding out what benefit they might have to society is a sort of empirical question. But if their utility is a purely political construction, then their perceived benefit can be moulded to fit a desired outcome.
> There's also a lot of handwaving on memory usage in the FAQ.

Totally. Reading the FAQ reminded me of https://xkcd.com/386/
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