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Is there any market for node extension writers (as in the v8 stuff)?
So they are hoping people will make medical decisions based on advice from an anonymous doctor whose credentials you cannot verify and who does not have prescribing ability? Is this serious?
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There's still plenty of learning involved (having trained non-Node JS developers), especially learning "the Node way". I guess those companies are the types that needs someone last week, they're probably doing you a favor by not considering you.

There's also JavaScript developers who are only interested in front-end development, and for them it's a good way to let them know what to expect.

In reality it's not different from asking for Swing developers vs. general Java skills.
That's likely why Google and Dropbox both offer "Sync"-style functionality, as do iCloud and OneDrive. It's on your disk plus in the cloud.
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Probably because most people who know JS only as a front-end developer have never had to work on the back-end. If a developer knew JS and something like python, java or ruby then sure... that's a good candidate.
Enough with these PR stunts, Mark. Put your money where your mouth is. Put your company where your mouth is. Add end to end encryption for your users chats, and encrypt everything as much as possible, to the highest security standards, and end-to-end wherever possible (like for FB chat and Whatsapp, where you could use the TextSecure ratchet).

Until then, all of your "calls for privacy" are not worth the digital paper they are being written on.
Who Can Know How Much Randi Zuckerberg Is Worth?
In the data-cleaning portion of the course, I hope they make use of OpenRefine, which was formerly Google Refine, when Google bought it as GridWorks...years later, it's still the best highly-specific, GUI-driven data tool I've ever used, such that I'll gladly hop out of my normal programmatic-workflow to scout datasets with:

http://openrefine.org/

I'm interested in the portion teaching Fusion Tables, as the official documentation is still catching up to the recent redesign and API changes. I put together a basic guide for a class I taught last fall, but relied on my vague experience with the older version of FT and was unaware of any new features they may have added: http://www.smalldatajournalism.com/projects/one-offs/mapping...
Is that actually the case? Who do you see making up each of those groups?
Dumb question: what do you use IPv6 for? What am I missing by not having it?
Then send me an email, my address is in my profile. I have two invites left.
Does it offer anything over a Tek (https://www.trulyergonomic.com/store/index.php)?

The answer appears to be "yes:" I'm typing on one right now, and the large separation between the key wells makes for a MUCH better experience.

I haven't used a Tek and so can't speak directly to it, but I"m guessing that the key well separation is the Kinesis advantage.

(I wrote more about it here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/further-thoughts-on...).
Probably the release of .NET 4.5, Windows 8, Server 2012, and Visual Studio 2012.
"The original intent of the 4th was just to prevent customs searches of your home."

How did you reach that conclusion? I would have thought that if the Founders intended to limit the 4th to "just customs searches" they would have said so?

Given that at the time, there was no electronic communication, it isn't really surprising that the 4th doesn't mention it explicitly, and only mentions "papers".
OK, I'll bite: been doing frontend development with plenty of node.js for the tooling side for a year.

What is "the Node way"?
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That someone is arguing this gives you an idea of the power of dogma.

Medical services are the place where in-person attention is pretty much generally needed, where consumers tend to be bad judges of their needs and so-forth. It's pretty much the point where the "disruption" paradigm breaks down.

Unfortunately, this paradigm seems to be the hammer that everyone applies to every problem today. Every scheme to make medical more efficient today, not just those of "crypto-anarchists", seems to hinge on giving consumer more choice when medical care is exactly where consumers are incompetent to make choices alone.
>"we've done a side project or two using Node.js"

realistically, unless you're part of a startup where the primary technology stack has yet to be defined,
finding paid work in node isn't all that common.
I would of course do that before I migrated. I did have munin running, but without alerts. The problem is that is crashed at all. My production server has been up for 668 days, and the temporary DO server didn't last 30.

On the production server, I do ping the server every five minutes, but the customer complaints always reach me before that system.
I have noticed this for the past few weeks. I guess I am in their test group. It's definitely a step backward from the previous version. At first I thought it was a change to the spacing. It's hard to really see the delineation between results, it all just merges together. It makes it harder to scan the results for the desired one.
Will Verizon be allowed to break it's Fios promise to NJ?
Google Drive's web interface is already vastly superior to Dropbox. They also support direct linking from drive file to custom file types for web apps.

If anything, it's their desktop interface that is not as good as Dropbox.
Do you mean amongst the cables at the side of the desk or the thing that looks like a makerbot mounted on a turtle/robo-vacuum at the front to the left of the rucksack?

I liked the avocado best.
Unnaturally early? If we really want to go that route we should consider that our ancestors, until very recent times, were generally well awake before 8:00 AM on any given day. Also they generally didn't stay up late by our current standards, generally in bed an hour or two after sundown. So the issue isn't 8:00 am is unnaturally early, it is most likely staying up unnaturally late that is the culprit.
Machine intelligence based neural ecommerce search engine
I use InSync (https://www.insynchq.com/) as a linux GDrive client and although I'm very happy with it I do expect Google to release a native Linux client if I ever pay for their storage.
I stayed at a town in Turkey, Trabzon I think, where the whole town seemed to run on a related concept - the "taxibus". It was very low tech, based purely on flagging down a taxibus that looked like it was going the right way, but it worked extremely well. Price was reasonable, the town was full of them so it was easy to get a ride, and you got exactly where you were going unlike with a bus. I've been wanting to see a higher tech version for larger towns / cities ever since.
In the post it says they instrument the $.get callback, but that's a jQuery function. So are they instrumenting actual AJAX methods or just jQuery's? Can you get timing data for JSONP requests, which don't actually use AJAX (but jQuery hides that for you)?
Another interesting thing to do is having a high quality medical expert system(Watson), running outside the u.s.(say africa[1]) with people who we're taught how to use it(even doctors), with access to video communication with the patient, with access to his test results - administer advice to him.

Assuming good , mostly automated process and a good expert system - this could be a way to offer highly accurate second opinion.

And it would be a perfectly legal service from the provider side.

[1]This could be used locally in the country, which is a nice way to augment/start a country medical system
A first world education system should not prioritize the employability of minors in manual labor over their health and education.
Does iTerm2 support the old bookmark system from iTerm yet? I'd love to upgrade but that's essential to my workflow.
Grouplet: Pay together always and everywhere
This is still not practical for my use.
It is a bit like Lease vs Buy for automobiles IMO.

I recently bought 2x2tb drives for $75 each and a 2 bay Synology NAS for $150. Now I have redundancy (mirroring), online access, much faster access to my data, faster backups, And it was dead simple to setup and configure (web based configuration tool, and tool-less hardware).

Best of all the data is not subject to surveillance and pilfering.

It will take around 15 months before I will break even for my investment (vs Google drive prices), but I believe that it was worth the small amount of extra time spent and the up front spending.

Thoughts anyone?
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You're confusing the NSA and the CIA. They are, actually, different entities.
> which isn't really possible if you're rendering html in the server.

You can have a front-end web server that is also a client of the API server and keep the separation as if it were any other API client. This is the approach I'm taking in my current project since I have to support some obsolete browsers, but more generally it lends itself to a cleaner decoupled architecture
Ask HN: Machine Learning Startups?
What are some startups that are primarily doing Machine Learning? Say, anything including deep learning, visualization, "data science," computer vision, and general AI?

Alternatively, does anyone have (or know of) a list of startups doing machine learning?

I've already asked /r/machinelearning and received a somewhat discouraging response there (I'm already aware that there are "hundreds" of them). Someone said I might do better asking here. Also, I'm not looking for a job, just trying to get an idea of what is out there.

Thanks!
That's a perfectly valid way to decide what is right and wrong. A couple hundred years ago they would call it an "appeal to God."
Nearly Free Speech (nearlyfreespeech.net) is a great choice for hosting a blog. I've been using them for ages. Fees are based on actual usage (network traffic, CPU, storage, etc.) and they take legal rights seriously.

Only downside is that they're a bit limited in what kinds of platforms they support.
Run your Minecraft server in AWS with CraftBukkit and Bitnami
Yes, but it is a symptom of the medical system being badly broken or a symptom of how we think about these kinds of problems being badly broken...?

Come to think of it, it's both!
I find it very interesting how when you are young and developing you require more sleep than when you are older. But the schedule is set by adults so they aren't given that latitude. Same for the "early risers" who seem to set the schedule for everyone in the adult world. I feel like I could more naturally live my life if work started at 10am but I'm not afforded that latitude either for arbitrary reasons (I'm not in the service industry).
Small use case to address your first question, but that I used all the time in school (and occasionally now at work): because everyone had the Dropbox client installed we would just create a shared folder that we'd all contribute to. Maybe only a couple of people ever had the Google sync client installed, and it was a lot more friction to upload/download files all the time.

On the converse, whenever we collaborated on an actual text document or presentation, we'd turn to Google Docs to do it, then when finished convert it into Word/PPT and stick it in Dropbox.
I think that's actually part of the problem, I think of Google Drive as where I put attachments from email, not files and folder on my computer.

I can't put my finger on it but Drive just seems clunky, especially with the GMail / Docs integration.
Me being an outlier doesn't make the lol-tests approach any brighter.
Troll fail.

Also: Arguing by ad hominem.
This is the GPL argument applied to data; and while for GPL there's a certain tinfoil-hat logic that has been unfortunately proven right by the NSA, I don't know that it holds for OSM since one data set plus another dataset just makes a superset. That benefits everyone.

There are companies out there that go to great expense to create their own maps: Google is one of them, but others exist as well. I don't think OSM is trying to be the One True Map (tm). In that sense, I see no problem with Google using OSM's data and not sharing back: it still fulfills OSMs mission of making mapping better for everyone. Yeah, OSM alone isn't as high quality as OSM+Google, but who cares? Eventually, many companies will likely decide that the cost of maintaining their own mapping databases is just too high and start committing to OSM instead. Probably never Google, but there are other, smaller companies out there without the resources and self-driving cars that Google has.

Tl;dr: OSM is not hurt by allowing other parties to maintain their own datasets at their own expense. Inevitably some will choose to just contribute to OSM, which is good for everyone.
re: Linux users complaining of lack of clients, check out insynchq.com. I've been a happy user for the last few months.
the assumption that share-alike encourages contribution is a myth

OpenWRT is the biggest counterexample I know of. Linksys would not have released this if they had been using a BSD licensed operating system.

If you want to work on an open source project, but your employer has a restrictive intellectual property agreement, then a share-alike clause can be the only thing allowing your work to get out at all. You can show your employer there's no way they can subvert the license agreement, and if they distribute it at all, they must use the same copyleft license.

I don't want to see my hard work sold large-scale in consumer electronics, just to enrich others, without contributing back at all.
If you kept reading, you'd see them answer this question directly:

If we dropped share-alike, nothing would stop players like Google or Apple from mixing OpenStreetMap data extensively into their mobile maps. And this is a good thing. OpenStreetMap's opportunity is not to compete and win against the Google Maps of the world, but to say what's on their maps.
Maybe worse, studies have become a bludgeon to justify government policy.
> You could certainly offer general "advice", but this will never be a substitute for seeing a doctor.

No, and I don't think anyone is arguing that. But surely its better than doing nothing, which is the alternative for people who can't afford to visit a doctor?
The Evolution Of Webcam Engagement
Callback hell. ;)

I love node, btw!
DigitalOcean is cheap enough to be really great as a stand-alone offering period. That includes their $80 or $160 type plans. They're definitely not just great for $5 dev servers.
Because a good night sleep is crucial to better performance in school, workplace and life in general.

For dangerous jobs, the stake are much higher. It can mean the difference between death or a really a close dangerous incident.
I thought i would let you guys know about a cognitive, deep learning machine intelligence based ecommerce search engine i created.

With a tight budget and no knowledge of computing or linux or anything really, i spent the last 5 years creating this technology on my own from scratch and in the process also built a small 10 TFlops supercomputer to run it.

Everyone is desperately trying to create Artificial Intelligence, and i can proudly say i failed. It cannot be done. What can be done is advanced machine intelligence and that i have partially achieved with this cognitive, neural network.

someone had to challenge google and bing in technology. Thousands of engineers and all we got is cats."
He already gets all the freedom he wants. Yes, I'm questioning not only his effectiveness, but his motivations.

He consequently simply may not be personally capable of having a freedom-oriented effect here. Said another say, he's a new-money kid, how much power can he really have?
Amazing program, the best idea for content marketing
Can't speak for Java but built in bundling and minification was added to ASP.NET in version 4.5 (early 2012ish?)

http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-4/bundling-and-minifica...
I felt the same way for a while, but eventually, while working on a large cloud-based project, I had an epiphany: the GUI is basically the phpMyAdmin interface of AWS.

phpMyAdmin is great when you're first learning to work with the LAMP stack; it lets you fiddle with values, manually create databases, munge columns, etc.

But.

If there are multiple instances of your system running "in the wild" (even just within your own company), and their versions will ever have even the slightest chance of getting out-of-sync? You really want the entire change-history of your modifications to the database checked into git. You want to be able to take any previous sorta-known database state, and move it toward the current well-known database state. To do that, you need programmatic migrations.

And as soon as your software ships a "db/migrate" folder, (non-readonly) phpMyAdmin access becomes anathema to proper configuration management.

AWS can be thought of as a big database that contains your EC2 instances and snapshots, your S3 buckets, etc. At scale, you only want to interact with this database programmatically.

So: if this was the correct hypothesis for why the GUI sucks, what would be an expected prediction? That the programmatic APIs for manipulating AWS would be great.

And they are! All the HTTP APIs for AWS--the ones you would use in any automated provisioning script--are simple, clear, and pain-free. They're definitely the "first-class" road to AWS, documented to heck, and it's clear that Amazon itself dogfoods them directly.
> They are offering a product at 1/10th of the price of their competitors. That comes at a cost.

Not really. I don't understand at all what makes it so expensive. As a student with no experience nor money I'm very hesitant, but I've actually gone over the costs of building my own online backup company. Even with harddives that never go offline (thus always consume power) and using consumer-priced hardware (no hardware at manufacturing costs), I think I can do it cheaper than Google does right now. The only requirement is having customers pay for at least ~15TB of storage space before it becomes profitable to host. At this "profitable" point I'm still not even making enough to feed myself, but it's a start.

Plus, Google can oversell their drives (and probably by a lot because there are only a few subscription types available), something which is not possible with pay-as-you-consume services like Amazon S3.
The Node Way is best described as:
Forget Design
Architecture is old
Testing is forgotten
JS is the only code
Node today is shiny
So here we stay
Pretending to be developers
Blagging all the pay
Google will not drop Drive because it goes along with their almost web only OS, Chrome OS. And many other services are leaning on drive, +, picasa, gmail, android apps, etc...
I really enjoy Brackets, but it is mainly targeting HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Atom seems to be more of a general editor.
their choice or their parents forcing bedtimes

I would let my kids stay up much later (and they would gladly take me up on the offer) if I didn't have to get them up at 6AM. They aren't newborns who need to go to bed at 5PM, they would bounce of the walls until 10 or 11 if I could let them. This isn't logical, it's the result of the decisions made regarding school start time.
> "Unreal Engine 4" is marketing buzzspeak. WebGL is modelled after OpenGL ES 2. Its GLSL support is massively outdated. It lacks features like multiple render targets (used by any deferred renderer in the XB360 era, e.g. Unreal Engine 3), geometry shaders, multisampled reads (for HDR MSAA and hybrid spatial/temporal AA techniques), and tons of other common techniques.

WebGL 2.0 has many of the extensions and is in Editor's Draft status: http://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/specs/latest/2.0/ It has a prototype implementation already: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebGL2

> Asm.js is limited by having no 32-bit float type, no 64-bit int type, no SIMD, no dynamic memory allocation and the fact that they had to extend the language from day 1 just to be able to multiply a 32-bit integer by another quickly.

asm.js has 32-bit floats already: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/gap-between-asm-js-and-nat...

64-bit ints and SIMD are being discussed on TC39 right now. Dynamic memory allocation (assuming you mean growing the typed array) isn't that important and we have ways to do it if we need to.

> You may want to actually inform yourself.

This kind of comment is emblematic of HN's evaporative cooling, especially when it's inaccurate. :(
Surely it's more convenient for the manager to 'batch' up expense approvals to a single list that she can tackle once a month? I'm not sure receiving constant notifications - that require attention and imply she's going to action them somewhat immediately - is helping her?

(I say the above somewhat with a snarky/contrarian tone but presumably it is the manager or their boss/executive/CFO who is the decision maker to implement this app, and indeed this change to the accounting process? While I can see the benefit for the individual contributor, I'm not sure how this helps the decision maker)
Show HN: An app to tweet text as an image
Hi HN. PG recently tweeted and said there should be an app to tweet text as an image. I made a quick version of this a while back. However, unfortunately pics posted from the API don't automatically display inline. There are some tweaks on this version to be done (some stuff are hardcoded). Go crazy if you want to.

http://www.tweetimg.com/
This Book of Homemade D&D Modules Is Better Than Anything Built in Minecraft
Gift of tongues. 1 Cor 14:1-40 KJV
yup. that and exercising your back and shoulder muscles a bit now and then actually helps your body from getting RSI symptoms in the first place...
My experience is that there are more .NET jobs out there than Java. So maybe even Java suffers from some overlap in that search result. Does Java include JavaScript?
linode has load balancing available.

I'd think round robin DNS has nothing inherently to do with the infrastructure - that's a function of the DNS server, right?

Yes, there are some things AWS has that other services don't. My own experiences have been that people default to thinking AWS==cloud and that's the 'best' option, and this thinking was prevalent years ago, well before SES, SQS, RDS, etc were extra reasons for integration. They've got good services, but have done a hell of a branding job over the years as well.
Theres another serious problem with blindly throwing in data and looking at what correlations come out. If you have a 100 variables and test for 100*99 correlations, you will very likely find one. Looking for patterns without a specific hypothesis to test (as a lot of pop-science studies do) is a dangerous approach.
Here's a thought experiment: what damage would be done if Facebook up and disappeared tomorrow? To society, to business, to the economy, whatever.

I'll take the "almost none" position, comparable to the season finale of "Friends."
Human brains 'hard-wired' to link what we see with what we do
I'm running a service optimizing deliveries (https://fleetnavi.com, Bulgarian language only although it's fully usable when auto-translated with Chrome). I've been thinking of using the engine to do public transit like this, or a courier service (airbnb for couriers), or a transportation services exchange. Contact me if you think we could work together on something similar.
Whenever I hear the word "capitalism", I interpret it as "private ownership" by default. I have to remind myself they probably mean the "Laissez Faire" flavor of capitalism. It screws with me sometimes.
Delaware corporations are not required for venture financing, as more than a few major venture people have said publically and on their blogs.

Just use your own state's corporation laws (if you're in the U.S.), until you're a many-multi-million dollar size entity, and avoid the headaches of being a foreign corporation within your own state (meaning out-of-state, but within the U.S.). You've got bigger fish to fry, if you're starting out.