skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problems extant in home entertainment products are only reflected throughout the rest of the "Internet of Things" ecosystem. Or as I prefer to think of it: security threat vector channel.

Consider: You've got a slew of products for which rapid iteration and obsolescence is a key attribute, profit margins are slim, cost pressures are immense, talent is limited (and not attracted by time and cost pressures), parts availability is arbitrary, capricious, and liable to change with little notice or reason (we've seen in the GM ignition switch recall what the implications of even a minor parts change can be, in a slightly different space).

A few years back I had the distinct pleasure of attempting to configure and deploy a major enterprise vendor's storage product on what the sales team promised, but the support team denied at pain of abuse to my firm, was supported under our OS. The company shall remain nameless, but rhymes with "hell".

What I eventually established was:

• The vendor itself had little or no real understanding of the equipment or its configuration.

• The documentation for the underlying technologies (all, as it happens, open source free software), ranged from quite good to abysmal. One README file consisted entirely of the text "Good things to read here.". We were less than gruntled.

• True support was actually a pass-through to the OS vendor, who, it turned out, wasn't in fact the source of our OS. We'd been sold something which didn't in fact exist (real support).

And that was for high-end enterprise-grade hardware.

The situation for the consumer-grade stuff, especially the cheap consumer-grade stuff, is far, far worse.

Which is why I want the products I buy to have the absolute minimal amount of technology in them as possible or necessary. It's fewer opportunities to foul up.
>Amazon everyone used to have a Door with saw horse legs for a desk.

No, door desks are still present at Amazon. Ironically, Amazon is large enough now that outfitting every employee with a door desk is in fact more expensive than ordering conventional desks in bulk. But they stick with the door desks because it's a good way of transmitting the frugal culture.
Agreed. That's what I was thinking as I was reading through his diatribe. Asking me to live and breathe the job is all good but if I'm not getting to share in the rewards the same as you then you're really just asking me to be your slave and make you rich. I wonder what their compensation/equity structure is.
Not to mention the fact that it makes a lot of sense. Statistics is not the only evidence supporting this theory.
The other problem is that credit cards are set to go to chip-and-PIN in the USA (finally!) later next year. All the current readers won't be useful (at least if you don't want to shoulder the liability!)
Or to say the introduction of violent video games in the mid to late 90s and the rise in gun violence in schools in the last few years?

Oh, you must mean this ( http://www.theesa.com/policy/scotus_chart.gif ) rise in violence.
It is really terrible software if it does hijack the DNS queries. That messes with all kinds of clients that cache DNS records.

A good system will allow DNS instead of poisoning the clients with thresholds to block DNS tunneling.
For road trips, rent a suitable car. The idea that you should modify your purchase of a daily driver to accommodate an activity you do once or twice a year is common, but strange.
Apple and Google are reportedly wooing mobile game makers as they seek exclusivity
Hi, I'm currently in the researching & prototyping phase of what's the best and will-be-the-most-community supported distributed real time distributed framework based on the reactor pattern?

So far, I've got:

Queuing Framework (rolling your own streams):

1) ZeroMQ (language agnostic, so have to roll your own serialization and services, seems like Google Protocol Buffer is the best way to go)

2) RabbitMQ (relies on a central message broker, with lots of built-in bindings)

Event-Based Frameworks:

2) Akka (JVM)

3) RxExtensions (.net) but have RxCpp and RxJava ports

4) Reactor (JVM)

Stream-Based Frameworks

4) Twitter Storm (Java-ish, but suppose to be language agnostic?)

5) S4 (Java-ish, but suppose to have bindings?)

Can any peeps help me out on your opinion what is the best or give me a better one? Currently, I'm having fun multiplexing sockets, dereferencing C pointers and seg-faulting, so any suggestion is welcome.
PayPal, Apple, and Amazon are precisely the companies who would have the cash to acquire the company and the desire to do so.

I see Square going to Apple so that they can jump start whatever payments technology they're planning to unleash in the next year. Buying Square's merchants would be an excellent way to do that.
There was a good bit of uncritical, emotion driven thinking as well. Corn == bio == green != oil thus must be good.
Well considering the "culture" needs to be laid down in a document, I am surprised that AirBnB, while putting so much emphasis on culture, has not exactly told the team what it is that the heads want preserved?
Came here and read your comment immediately after seeing the link I've left. A (perceived?) weak press in the US has a way to fall before it get to the level seen today in Russia.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/20/russian-politician-ord...
Snowden email service Lavabit loses contempt appeal
But Haskell is also based on some type system, and yet Learn You a Haskell teaches Haskell without formally teaching this type system.

I've been learning Idris and reading the HoTT book at the same time. I'm not sure what it would have been like learning Idris without any formal type theory, but I believe it would be possible.
Well, we also didn't have the Cold War go hot. Win some, loose some.
There is plenty of money to be made in curing mental illnesses. A prison is a lot less profitable than a drug.
> I expected Apple TV to come in and crush it, rather like they did to the smartphone industry.

Good luck unlocking/hacking an Apple device.
The world of finance and credit card processing is one of the most ensconced and deep-rooted industries there is. It's one of those that can only be penetrated by a company with deep-pocketed backers, experienced executives, and ambitious entrepreneurs. You're literally going up against a global market of banks and institutions that control the transfer of money throughout the world. And they're going to do all that is in their power to keep the status quo. On top of that, anywhere there's transactions of money, you're going to have throngs of fraudster and hackers trying to game your system (refer to the history of Paypal for more on this). It's certainly a massive undertaking that also requires you to hire top-notch talent; hence, you also can't cut costs on things like expansive offices and recruiting perks.
Square And Google Were Not In Acquisition Talks
Okay, would you mind pointing out to me just when during this timeline you believe video games made a big impact...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the...
The basic Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite don't use Android. It's only the higher end models like Kindle Fire that use the Android fork.
The company he worked for was his - from what I understood of the post he was freshly self employed:

(I was just starting a fledgling business)
Presumably there is little overlap between individuals or organizations that can provide mental care and those that can provide prisons.
Cooperation of competitors is not necessary — that's an excuse for inaction. As with 'Safe Browsing' (or CRLSet), one browser could lead the way, letting the others follow the same model or improve later.

Similarly, CA buy-in is not a blocking prerequisite for a better approach — it's just another excuse for inaction. Exactly as with CRLSet, the browser vendor can say, "we'll scrape your revocations where we can find them, or you can provide them this way". Then, if an incompetent or recalcitrant CA hides their revocations, it's an issue between the CA and their harmed customers.

It's great you, me, and Adam Langley all agree that revocation is broken, including Google's stopgap proprietary solution. But hasn't everyone understood that for 15+ years? Why isn't there a fix?

The browser makers absolutely own responsibility for this, because they're the ones that show end-users a security indicator. They're shipping the software that creates a risk, they can unilaterally fix this on their own initiative, and they're not so poor or stupid that fixing it should be beyond their capabilities.

Yes, Google has done a lot for security. Their 'web security karma' is very net-positive. They still deserve a demerit, along with Mozilla and Microsoft, on this particular issue.

Referring this to the IETF for standardization is just another way of excusing more inaction and delay.
I said for months and years that Square was absolutely myopic and slow-moving when it came to online transactions and developing and releasing an API (which still does NOT exist).

Stripe came in and absolutely crushed them.

Square deserves it. They had huge first-mover advantage and massive popularity early. I will do mid six figures through Stripe in the next 12 months and all of it - 100% of it - could have gone through Square had they simply spent a few weeks exposing and documenting an API.

Embarrassing.
See comments elsewhere about the effects observed when lead was removed from gasoline in different geographical areas at different times. The correlation is strong enough to be suggestive of a causal link -- so strong, in fact, that the burden of proof lies on those (e.g., yourself) who claim that there is no causal link.
> Mobile wallet apps have not gained traction

"more than 11 percent of transactions a week now happening with a mobile device in our stores, and nearly 10 million customers currently using our mobile app"

http://news.starbucks.com/news/starbucks-accelerates-mobile-...

Seems to be all about proper implementation on both consumer and merchant side.
Try dconf-editor, each of these settings have detailed descriptions unlike disasteredit.
Those sort of arguments are broad generalizations.

It's impossible to say anything's impossible given determination, but the level of difficulty varies and it's context-dependent.

It's harder to become wealthy if your car is a POS and you miss a crucial client meeting, or live in a rough neighborhood and have your laptop & cell stolen because your apartment was robbed. None of those sort of things individually are fatal, but the likelihood of i) not being taken seriously (lacking friends, intros, pedigree, previous exits, paying customers per my previous comment) or ii) more set-backs as mentioned here make it HARDER to "get ahead." When someone is really broke, doesn't have a car and is living on the street, it's much hard for them to claw their way back to "normal..." it's an uphill battle that only slightly flattens out into more "normal" everyday challenges. (Life's challenges never go away, no matter which end of the spectrum, the challenges just become different.)

Unless someone has been homeless, their ability to appreciate and empathize with the set of challenges they face would be a stretch.

(I've done client-facing AWS technical consulting in the mobile industry while living out of the back of my car, and bested the competition and expanded the "beach-head" as it were. So I've little patience for laziness or people that can't hustle to bring home the bacon.)
Wow.. you should be banned for a retarded quote like that, dickwad.
Weak vs. Strong AI
Actually, it is, but I get your point. To quote Wikepedia: As a result of the public backlash it received from the United States for naming the Khomeini as Man of the Year in 1979, Time has shied away from using figures that are controversial in the United States due to commercial reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year
Got a source on that? Cards with chips are still somewhat rare, so it's going to be a while before they become required...
Plug for my dns tunnel not nearly complete as iodine, but it works and is very easy to setup.

https://github.com/callesg/dns-tunnler
I was thinking this exact same thing while traveling. Location based wikitravel essentially.
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/02/06/octob...
> have hired multiple students from the university I attend, I heard they've moved into a new expansive office this year

It was their choice. They could've kept the company barebone-minimal and reached profitability at some point.

They chose to pursue a bigger story, and so far looks like their investors are on board with that.
I thought Chesky's letter was great on first reading, but I can't shake this satire from mind now. Cynical, but accurate. Well done.
Many people still drive around cars that spew toxins into the atmosphere.

Air pollution from cars kills 50,000 a year in the UK [0]. Apparently closer to 200,000 a year in the US.

But it's even worse than that. 1.24 million each year are killed directly by motorists.[1] There are more young people killed directly by motorists than malaria or aids.

And yet many people are happy to continue driving around.

It's not like this is unavoidable. Electric cars are here, we could move the pollution out of cities. We could design our cities to be safer for walking and cycling. We could invest in public transport and pass on the cost of some of the externalities of cars to motorists.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/mar/22/air-pollu...
[1] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs358/en/
The irrational behavior that Increases conversion Instantly
A musician will have his skill decline, but his appreciation and understanding of music probably wont. I think this is the key point. Yes, after 10 years, the manager won't be as able to code something in the project (nor should he) but he won't just magically forget what O notation or graph theory is all about.

I think a better analogy maybe coaching. Some coaches were players before coaching, while others weren't, but their understanding of the sport isn't linked to them actually playing the sport.
Looks like Uber adds $1 to all rides now if you want to update your fare calculations http://blog.uber.com/saferides
The EMV liability shift will move the liability for non-chip transactions to merchants on Oct 2015.

You will see all your cards get issued with chip in the next year.
Off hours interviews are not uncommon in other industries. In fact, when it comes to headhunters, the better ones I worked with when job hunting generally scheduled all their contact outside of office hours and initial interviews with their clients with the fact that I had a job in mind.

The full team followup on Fridays seems to also be a technique that's available. It lets candidates travel out on Saturday or Saturday afternoon if the window for meeting staff needs to be larger.

Scheduling interviews during normal work hours as policy suggests that there's a either just a need for a warm body and not careful selection driving the process or there's a not much respect for the idea that people have lives outside of working for them. Seriously, what kind of person thinks getting interviewed is how people want to use their vacation time? The clueless and the callous - of course.
Good plan!

I made an electric tenor violin once (twice as big as a regular violin). The only difficult part of it was the fingerboard - very complex because it's curved in all three dimensions. It can take a luthier who knows what they're doing a couple of hours: certainly beyond my woodworking skills.

Ended up writing a python script that figured out the geometry and dumped out STL, which I then sent to a small CNC shop. Turned out perfectly, and left me with the impression that electric instruments are especially strong candidates for this kind of manufacturing.
There's a big difference and scale of problem for open loop mobile wallets and the one that Starbucks has.

Maybe the problem with an universal mobile wallet is that the problem is too hard to solve given the current environment (and dependency on the credit card rails).
I recently bought a Panasonic camera - in the compact travel zoom class. One feature is wifi support, where for example it can upload pictures to your computer. There are several places the camera lets you enter text such as names in face recognition, and in SSIDs. But for some unfathomable reason a Panasonic engineer added extra code so that spaces are disabled for wifi passwords. This was actual extra effort, and completely and utterly wrong. Spaces are allowed, every domestic access point I use has them, and everything else is perfectly happy with them including iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, Mac, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, and Roku. Oh and Panasonic TVs and bluray players (the "smart" ones).

It is impossible for Panasonic to find out about this or do anything about it, because like many companies they value interaction with their customers so little that it is outsourced to the lowest bidder. Those companies business model is to give out the same answers to the same questions over and over again. They cannot cope with an answer they don't already have. The one Panasonic uses in the US is even worse, refusing to tell Panasonic about the issue. They also have a cunning system where links to surveys after chats don't work, and the phone survey won't recognise giving them low scores!

If anyone is curious I wrote about the whole saga at http://www.rogerbinns.com/blog/support-tale.html
It's also good that their Square register is built on top of an iPad.
>some people do, but they're a tiny minority

Do you have any citations for that? I do a trip once a year or so of about 1000 miles and it never really surprises anyone when I tell them that so it must not be that uncommon.
I think there are still places that are within the 20 year window of the abolishment of lead, but they'd be disappearing pretty fast. Since we can probably assume that there is no place in the world that will or would indefinitely allow the use of lead in gasoline (and if they would, obtaining meaningful crime reporting numbers out of them might be tricky), comparing the time lag across jurisdictions is the best control we'll probably get.
Strictly speaking, you'd be off by ~10%, because circles don't tile the plane, and you'd be counting the area between the hairs.
The E-Go Cruiser can do 18 miles or 30km and you can see plenty of videos at www.youtube.com/YuneecEGO We have nothing to hide and can reassure you that 12.5 mph or 20km/hr is fast enough and you can 'run out' a fall at that speed. At faster speeds you can't. This satisfies 90% of people, 90% of the time.
Disclaimer: I have not read the book either.

One thing I don't understand about the r and g thing is how it makes sense to compare these two values at all. Isn't capital a measure of accumulated wealth, while GDP is a measure of wealth produced in a certain unit of time? For example, what if we just maintained a perfectly steady GDP that exceeded our consumption needs; wouldn't that yield a positive r and explain r > g? Does someone who read the book have a better understanding of exactly what these two numbers mean?

P.S. I find it implausible that Piketty would make such an elementary mistake as the arithmetic mean vs. geometric mean issue discussed in the article. But again someone who has actually read the book should weigh in.
"Sony Vegas? ACID? Sound Forge?"

They bought every single one of those, from Vegas and from Sonic Foundry, Sony was not responsible for their design or creation. The UIs were AFAIK fully in place before Sony ever owned them, though I am sure some changes have been made.
I too have had less than stellar experiences on both eBay and Craigslist. The last time I tried selling on Craigslist I listed a brand new lamp, unopened in box. I included all the manufacturer's pictures and details (dimensions, weight, ect...). I received an email the next day from a lady interesting in purchasing it. She asked if we could make the exchange in a Walmart parking lot (in retrospect, that should have a warning sign). 5 minutes after the agreed upon meeting time I received a text that she was running late but would be there any minute. 15 minutes later she arrived and instead of apologizing for wasting my time by running late she insisted on opening the box before purchasing it. I refused since I was worried this would lower the value if she chose not to purchase it. She was being stubborn though so I eventually acquiesced. At this point I really just wanted to offload the lamp and go home. Upon inspection she said that she was sorry but wouldn't be buying it because it was smaller than she thought it would be, never mind the fact that I included the dimensions in the listing. As I was about to drive away, she offered me half of the agreed upon price. Why she suddenly wanted it again despite it being too small I'll never know as I immediately sped away.

Like you, I have a lot of stuff I'd like to sell. What I want: a company to send me pre-labeled and pre-paid shipping containers that I then fill with my stuff and leave on my front porch (safe, rural neighborhood) to be picked up. Every week or so they pay me until everything is sold - minus a commission so that our interests are aligned to get as much as possible for each item. I can't seem to find a service that makes it that easy though.

Oh, and that lamp? Amusingly, I took the lamp back to Home Depot where I had bought it new 3 years earlier. I had no receipt and I told them honestly how long ago it was originally purchased. None the less they offered me a full store credit. The catch was that they no longer carried that brand of lamp and hadn't for over 2 years. In fact, it had been so long since they last sold the lamp that they didn't have pricing information on it in their database. Since they couldn't determine how much I paid, they instead gave me store credit equal to that of a lamp they currently had in stock that we agreed was comparable. I was so impressed by their generous return policy that I promised to one day spread the word of how awesome they are.