skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
=> Low barrier to entry means anyone who used to animate jumping monkeys on webpages and now write distributed back-end systems (all web-scale of course).

There is nothing distributed about Node. It has IO concurrency, that is all.
Children are not mechanisms, and you cannot engineer them into shape with your 'highly valuable technical knowledge'.

(implied insult redacted - sorry about that.)
ErlangCentral Wiki HowTos
I'm not sure it's any better to have to manufacture and dispose of dozens of little modules. In fact, I think it's probably worse.
It's pretty difficult. E-Filing isn't as simple as a web service.

I believe that if it were to actually do the e-filing, the people who ran the e-filing would have to submit to federal background and clearance checks at those people's expense and the servers it ran on would have to probably get FISMA High certification, provided it actually posted to the Efiling API.

That's just my speculation, fwiw. But I think that's true.
I believe that if you buy in tax-free (Salem) New Hamsphire but bring the goods back into Massachusetts, you are supposed to fill out a MA tax form. Assuming you are a Mass resident
There is a market, or should I say: there are markets:
* people who often broke their screens (my current boss is at 3 screens in 2 years, and counting)
* enthusiast, early adopters, developpers,...
* There is probably a good way to market it in developing countries too.

I would love having that phone, even more with a firefoxOS running on it. Having that plateform with open hardware specifications would be a huge boon for it to become a viable ecosystem. I could see firefoxOS and windows phone boarding it quite easily if it take.

PS: whereas specifications are open or not, IDK at the moment, not a lot of reliable information being available. Wishful thinking on my part I suppose. Still hoping.
Weather apps seem to be the new todo list or note-taking apps. There seems to be a huge abundance of them, and all of them are "unique" in some respect.

Kudos for making it free, but until it's clear why that app is considerably better than the existing free app I have on my phone built by Apple, I'm not sure I'm going to bother. Gradients are nice, but Apple's built-in app gives me a visual indication of weather already.

And I'm not being mean: I think it's great people want to ship utility apps, I just think the unique value has to be pretty clear and obvious from the very first words I read, and it has to be pretty overwhelming.

Good luck with it, and your future apps!
You have a statement like "user aquisition is build in" roughly in the middle of the presentation but you don't explain that point. Which has a quite puzzling effect, since I had up to that point apparently completely misunderstood what you are doing. (I had essentially a local application in my mind.) So either you should emphasize more that one can drag to twitter, facebook etc. in the first part, or you talk at that point about web integration, in a one more thing kind of twist.
Hold the torches and pitchforks there.
Don't post articles with paywalls here.
Apparently these systems (dwarf-n-habitables) are hard to record correctly:
http://www.stefanom.org/2000000-systems-played

I just observed the same result (89m 336y).
The price is showing $1.99 for me (in the US store).
I don't think Google expects this to be a massive consumer product, but it sounds like it can be great fun for techies. In this case, Gruber's opinion hardly matters.
I wonder who the intended audience of this review is. The book is clearly geared toward beginners. It would seem a review of such a book should be geared toward those who might read it to learn about cryptography. This review is obviously geared toward some other audience, however. Otherwise a criticism like
The book writes its own Diffie-Hellman implementation and recommends it to readers
would be backed up and explained, instead of being expected to stand on its own.

Is the audience for this review intended to be cryptography experts, who would not read such a book except to praise or trash it? If that's the case, it seems rather mean spirited. More "wow check this loser out" than "I don't recommend this book to beginners or anyone and here's why."
I am really pleased with this upgrade. The OS feels very polished now. My favorite small upgrade is quiet hours. I like just flipping that one when I am sleeping or writing code. Very useful.
Who will pay $ 1495 for a desk?!

I don't completely get the concept of it has to be dirt cheap no matter what. People are paying $500+ for a TV which is next to worthless after a couple of years, but don't want to pay more than a couple of bucks for a solid table which will most probably outlife them.
Yet another reason to not use GoDaddy!.

I highly recommend Hover as a domain Registrar. Tried them with a few new domains, and loved it so much I migrated everything there.
A bit off-topic, but this is one BBC Horizon documentary I enjoyed, "Do you know what time is?"

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18wcfo_horizon-2008-do-you...

Basically, we, the human race, still have no clue at all what time is and why it only moves forward.
A musing about the aesthetic of modular:

My first 21st century "gadget" (for some obviously arbitrary definition of the term) was an ipod nano. I'm not very sensitive to the niceness of things in general so I was pretty surprised at how much I liked how it looked and felt in my hands.

It was, cold metallic, small, sleek and completely solid. It had no give in it at all and felt like a magic rock. The solidness of it made it feel futuristic. I find that I like my SSD laptop a lot more than the old HDD one for similar reasons. I think it has to do with it not revealing anything about how it works.

I imagine artifacts of the future continuing along these lines. Impenetrable to analysis by the naked A solid mass of synthetic minerals arranged in a very precise way so that electrons are precisely directed this way or that way. But to the naked eye, there is no cause and effect beyond the minimal input and output.

On the opposite side, I can get a lot of enjoyment from messing around with something like a foot-treadle loom or 18th century brass navigation instruments. Even just looking at them is fun. They are complicated enough to be very clever and interesting. Too clever to invent yourself. But, they are still simple enough to understand using your eyes. You can get an "aha!" from seeing the flying shuttle work on a loom. The objects themselves being so common in mythology also adds to the flavor. You can see the incredible potential of adding more gears and levers.

It's an accessible cleverness that you can experience pretty directly. I find it fascinating that space cowboy fiction & steampunk exist. First, future tense nostalgia is an interesting concept. Second, I think it shows a kind of longing for objects that are both futuristic but understandable.

The loom is obviously a human artifact. The ipod is something we intellectually understand to be an artifact, but emotionally it doesn't feel like human one. A magic object doesn't hint at its workings.

Beyond the practical advantages of a modular device, I think there is a steampunk-esque appeal to the idea. We could weld together a brass spaceship using an energy crystal to power the electron sail (both naturally obtained by barter or pilage ).
Overspecialization is the source of a organizational smells in a lot of medium-sized engineering companies - a lot of times it's better to have generalist engineers with some specializations in what you need to do than a bunch of specialists for a bunch of reasons, among them:

- (pure) Specialists often don't understand how their decisions affect other systems (and middle management or communication isn't always a solution)

- (pure) Specialists tie you to a particular technology when in reality you may need to evolve to use other technologies.

- If you need a bunch of different specialists to get something simple done (perhaps something you don't do all the time so don't have a process in place), just because they are siloed, it's a lot more complex and usually ends up badly designed (because it's harder to be iterative across teams). Generalists can get simple things done that require different skill sets to accomplish.
I suppose someone has said that about the PC clones in the middle of the 1980s in some hardware vendor central.

If it is properly though out and with the ability to get high end performance on BOM + change prices ... they may have a winner.
I don't know if it is faster, but 8.1 is feels much faster on my 925. Every update on my iPad just seems to slow it down.
Solution: People leave out the extra information that a part was replaced, an error which becomes obvious at this edge case.
Shuffle Sharding: massive and magical fault isolation
There has been a cultural shift in recent years. None of tptacek's observations are adhominem. But there is now an expectation that one tone down the description of one's own reaction. I suspect this is often a conflict between the expectations of the children of helicopter parents and my generation. (1)

Sorry, but I have a right to an emotional reaction to your content and a right to describe it, especially if the reaction is grounded in objective technical reality. I suspect that younger people have this idea that online descriptions of emotional reactions are fictional and purposely crafted for effect -- mostly having to do with emotional aggression. It's true that sometimes "passion" over a subject is used as a pretext for such aggression. That doesn't mean that it's always true, however. In some cases, it's honesty.

That said, "arrrgh" reactions in a technical discipline often indicate a frustrating failure of outreach, education, or communication. I learned things from reading tptacek's review. Maybe he could supervise the ghost-writing of his own undoubtedly excellent book?

(1) - I was riding the bus and this young man had his sneakers tied to the back of his backpack, the soles of which he was pressing into my chest. I tried discretely hinting to him by pressing back, but he was oblivious, so I brought this to his attention.

I was amazed that his first priority wasn't to apologize or help me out, rather it was that I recognize that he didn't mean any harm. Be correct first, then worry about your own ego second.
The earnings don't support your anecdotal hypothesis. Blackberry had explosive growth in South America and Southeast Asia after the US market stagnated around 2009. Blackberry's ONLY growth has been in emerging markets for the past 5 years, however even that is slowing down, but I think you'd be hard pressed to prove that's due to any sort of connection to US Intelligence.
Maybe you could sell it to a smaller/medium player who does mostly corporate work as a way of undercutting his larger competitors who do consumer and corporate taxes. Plus it'd be a heck of a branding opportunity.
I understand totally. Unfortunately steel and reclaimed lumber is not cheap. Each desk is made entirely by hand, so there’s a lot of labor that goes into each one.

There are others out there that do offer a more affordable solution. I even started out just modifying my existing desk to accommodate a standing position. But I wanted something that was much more durable and didn’t look like it necessarily came from Ikea.
Parasitics
I don't understand. I asked them specifically not to do this in my survey after completing my return.
It doesn't have the "most important feature" that you mention, but you still find it awesome?
Mine has figured out how to climb the dog to get at the cat's tail; something that the toddler seems to view as a nutritious and delicious food item.

I fear the dog may have been the mastermind in this plan.
Being forbidden from discriminating based on people's race, gender, sexual orientation, etc does not restrict you from rejecting candidates with poor credentials.

I really don't see your point here.
I interpreted it as "one of the biggest corporate disasters of the last 14 years," and would give the author the benefit of the doubt that that is what she meant.
Use noScript - works wonders. I have no idea what you are talking about. :)
The startup from Ipanema
Pretty much this. You've got a backbone and some modules, but within a year the second generation of the same backbone and modules will be released, probably sized differently, different i/o, etc, because time simply won't stand still when it comes to devices.

It'd be more marketable as a device with easily replaceable components, as mentioned above; easily replacing a screen or battery would be convenient for the more clumsy amongst us.
it's bigger than an iPhone, but smaller than the bulk of recent phones (unless you look at crappy low-end phones). I think it's just the right size, the iPhone is too small.
many people play 5000 for a live edge slab desk without a second thought
I understand where you're coming from, but the author is the one who put this out in public. Publishing a book like this sends a strong message of "I am an expert, take what is written here as fact".

Maybe the tone could have been a little softer, but this should not have been done privately. The criticism of the work needs to be just as public as the work itself, so that people who might have been misled have a chance to see why.
Can Facebook Innovate? A Conversation With Mark Zuckerberg
And gamers ...

http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/ and with the influx of new people in PC gaming with self build rigs - the custom PC market is quite healthy right now.
I'd argue tablets and phones are different products from desktop computers which continue to be modular.
The London Fintech Boom
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Open data hackathon tackles cultural preservation
I can speak from immediate experience that it is frequently not that easy. There are a lot of places with very few jobs, and plenty of people tied down geographically for other reasons. I'm not saying you can't change your employment situation, but we shouldn't hand wave that away as easy. As I said, it can be a hard problem to solve, that doesn't mean the solution can't be straightforward.
It's different. With computers, you pick your own motherboard, CPU, GPU, memory config and so on. These things look funny and technical and most people don't even touch them. But even casual users regularly replace/expand their displays, storage (I'm counting external hard drives) and laptop batteries.

With this project, your SoC - which is your CPU, motherboard, networking, memory and baseband chip all in one - is still just one package. Yet you can easily supplement other varieties of packages for displays, storage, batteries, cameras. Each of these things are quite well understood by many casual users.
Big Data is the new Artificial Intelligence
Even after reading this list, I'm comfortable forgetting everything (with maybe one exception) because these surprises really only come up when you use horrible coding practices. But it's nice to know it really takes some serious effort to find these kinds of things in Python.
Shame that it's so huge!

I would love to have a small form factor real atomic clock wristwatch.

Then I could impress people like "your watch may have a touch screen and smartphone integration, but, mine is ATOMIC!"
Slovenia as well - full article (in Slovenian): [1]. In 2010, information commissionaire first rejected Google's request for recording [2], but it was finally approved in 2013 [3].

[1] http://lendavainfo.com/google-street-view-za-slovenijo-je-ko...

[2] https://www.ip-rs.si/varstvo-osebnih-podatkov/iskalnik-po-od...

[3] https://www.ip-rs.si/novice/detajl/snemanje-ulic-za-storitev...
It's a neat tool !
But the pricing is a bit steep. Considering that for a bootstrapped startup the alternative is free (google and some rapportive hacking).
maybe a plan with a limited quantity of "reachouts"?
> Dart for MacBook costs us an additional $79

Apple sure doesn't like to make it easy for third parties to be physically compatible with them.
Great tool, we will try to get more buzz for www.pesome.com
Bye Bye, Moto Google Gets Back to Basics Today in Q1 Report
My thought exactly. As an end-goal, space elevators are still science fiction even if you have the materials because the construction would still require a bunch of other technologies.

While better physical materials can be immediately applied to terrestrial problems.
Cringley's article is a lighter treatment of the recent "debate" between Noam Chompsky and Peter Norvig.
You're forgetting the first wave of PC's - Apple II, TRS-80, TI-99, C64, etc. These machines had very little modularity compared to the wave of beige boxes that followed the IBM PC standard. I think Christensen even uses that as an example.
Twitter Shares Surge on Product VP Hire, Data Startup Acquisition
The assumption would be that the registrant acts in a professional manner and only uses the list to verify the complainant's claims.
China's Growth Slows to 7.4 Percent in 1Q, a 24-Year Low
If you’re working on something that users love,
you like working on it, and
you have a plan for how to build a business around it

Even with the mad hiring of new partners, there still aren't enough to take on all the applicants they'd like to (I assume that's the key resource bottleneck, not funding or space etc) - and the number and quality of applicants are increasing. It sounds like the YC we know so far may have just been the beginning.

A great release, both in facts and vibe; Elon standard.
"you are helping to program the most complex computer ever created."

I get the basic idea of what you're saying, but that sounds like a lovely way to raise a serial murderer. Sometimes, engineering doesn't translate well to other parts of life.
Yes, using PATH for determining bash location is quite vulnerable to all kinds of security exploits.
hashes my friend, hashes
GoDaddy: "We have received complaints that you've been spamming. Give us a list of SHA-1 hashes of addresses of the people that opted in and show us how they opted in."

Considering that the spammer has the email addresses already, it would be as simple as forging a letter. Even fake a handwritten sign up form should "prove" it. No one is going to do a handwriting check to make sure it's actually correct.
Hmm, battery without CPU or storage won't lead you far.
tptacek makes a number of good points but I find it hard to agree with this one:

> there is concern that the NIST curves are backdoored and should be disfavored and replaced with Curve25519 and curves of similar construction.

Of course, "there is concern" is pretty vague, but it should be made clear that such concerns are in the realm of pure speculation at this point. There is simply no known way of constructing a "backdoored" elliptic curve of prime order over a prime field (in particular, the closest thing resembling such a backdoor, namely Teske's key escrow technique based on isogenies from GHS-weak curves, cannot work over a prime field). Scientifically speaking, I don't see more reasons to believe the assertion that "NIST parameters are backdoored because they aren't rigid" than the (equally unfounded) speculation that "Curve25519 may be weak because it has small parameters/a special base field/composite order/etc.".

Moreover, to say that the NSA has backdoored the NIST curve parameters is to assume that they have known, for quite a long time now, a serious weakness affecting a significant fraction of all elliptic curves of prime order over a given base field that has so far escaped the scrutiny of all mathematicians and cryptographers not working for a TLA. Being leaps and bounds ahead of the academic community in an advanced, pure mathematical subject doesn't quite align with what we know about NSA capabilities.

Don't take this the wrong way: there are good reasons to favor Curve25519 and other implementation-friendly elliptic curves (namely, they are faster, and they are fewer ways of shooting yourself in the foot if you implement them), but "NIST curves are backdoored" is not a very serious one.
My mother owns a Moto X, bought on my recommendation. It is much closer in width to my Nexus 5 than it is to the iPhone and barely more comfortable for me to use one-handed than my Nexus 5. The difference in width is apparent in the photograph you linked.

I commend Motorola for an excellent job eliminating non-screen area on the front of the Moto X. It's a very space-efficient device in that regard, but my complaint is about reaching all areas of a touchscreen with my thumb while holding it in one hand, and nothing fixes that like a smaller touchscreen.
hootsuite?
Was watching the live stream of the Ara conference yesterday and they explicitly talked about PhoneBloks a bit and even acknowledged that it has more public recognition. They also link to them - projectara.com/more.
One thing I've liked is throwing ${PIPESTATUS[*]} at the front of my PS1.
I always thought the purpose of the /bin directory was for the basic unix commands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_directory_structure#Conve...
> it really seems to me like praising a kid for being smart is going to be better than praising a kid for working hard.

This does not line up with research in the matter.

>This sort of gets coupled with the idea of 'work smarter, not harder.' When a child is praised more substantially for trying hard, you get things like staying up all night studying for a test.

No. Not if you teach balance.

>When you emphasize being smart and not needing to study, the child is more likely to push themselves such that they can land good grades without needing to study.

This is just so ridiculous I can't even comment.
There were a couple of updates that were supposed to have fixed that problem. Of course AT&T sat on the updates for months, and the get-warm-and-die issue was never truly fixed. The feedback loop is on the order of six months, if not longer.

The carrier is clueless about how to deal with firmware issues other than doing lots of up-front testing before releasing updates (and it's really unclear how effective that testing actually is). If you're in warranty they'll offer to replace the phone (gee, thanks) but of course they are powerless to truly fix anything.

So my experience with a showstopper bug was (a) over a year to a non-fix, (b) utterly useless support from the carrier, and (c) no indication that MS even knew about the issue, other than rumors from my friends in the WinPhone division that the next patch would fix it (and it never worked).

Is there a way to get support from MS on this? I have to admit that I never checked. (The issue is moot for me, but shortening the feedback loop would help WinPhone quality a lot).
I don't have experience with BPMN/BPML but I'd still be interested in helping out if you get something started.

I'd recommend targeting the folks with relatively simple taxes (salaried/wage employees with limited and structured investments, nothing super fancy) who make more than the Free-File cutoff, and then work your way out from there. The "I own 4 businesses and have 17 different investments all structured differently with various business expenses that are different degrees of write-off-able" group isn't your target, and there's already FreeFile options for folks making poverty-level wages.

The toughest part here business-wise is probably the liability - TurboTax and HR Block and whoever have armies of lawyers and PR and insurance to handle cases like a user getting audited and blaming them or catching flak for clients over-paying. Those armies are there to protect Intuit, not the end user, but they're fairly important nonetheless.
Seriously. I think the global oil companies will have something to show us about corporate disaster before the century is up.

In any case, 86 years is a lot of years remaining for someone to do a worse job than BlackBerry.
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Forwarding the complaint itself is normal, forwarding the identity of the complainer?
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