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This is my proposal for EUR 6,000 in project funding from the European Union's CHEST/FP7 programm. Call 1 "will support projects that seek to explore the technical feasibility, social impact potential or commercial viability of an idea." [1]

The work is going to be not-for-profit, and the idea is described in very broad terms because I simply don't know yet which particular social group I wanna work with in the beginning. I don't even want that name, but I had to name the project in order to apply. It's very likely that I'll collaborate with the Freifunk Berlin and Project Meshnet communities.

What I do know, though, is which software/hardware combination I wanna explore: cjdns for routing on an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network, Smallest Federated Wiki as an example of a federated web app, local file sharing as an example of local services, as well as something for Voice-over-IP.

Right now I'm preparing two small TP-Link TL-MR3020 routers (25 euros each) that won't provide internet access directly, but instead serve a splash page with instructions and packages for the installation of cjdns on Linux and Android devices. The MR3020s run cjdns as well, and the devices will automatically peer on the Ethernet layer, without the need for traditional DHCP/IPv4. The routers have one USB port each, one will get a 3G stick for peering into cjdns' test network Hyperboria (via the Internet), and one will get a harddisk for file storage.

I also got my hands on a Medion Life NAS drive [2] which now runs OpenWRT and provides 2 TB of storage to any cjdns network that it gets plugged into.

I'd appreciate feedback regarding the application. For this call, the number of characters was strictly limited, but Call 3 (for 60,000 euros) will have a couple more detailed questions. I'm sure I can find good answers to them but this application is what I already wrote and of course I'd like to know what people think about it.

Also, please do vote for it, so that I actually have a chance of getting this money ;) After logging in with email or FB/Tw, a little voting form appears below the applications. Your data is subject to european data protection laws.

1: http://www.chest-project.eu/calls-for-proposals/

2: http://zyxel.nas-central.org/wiki/Category:NSA-212
I'm looking to partner with an iOS developer to launch a startup
Hi there

I've been making apps for the past 2 years.

And crossed more than 1 million app downloads.

Now I'm looking to partner with a solid iOS developer to launch a self-funded mobile startup.

.......

Since I've already had reasonable downloads and profits - my goals are a lot wilder now.

I want to make apps that..

- Reach the top 10 free apps in the US.

- Are featured by Apple.

- Loved & used by people daily.

- Are highly profitable.

......

I'll be bringing a lot to the table..

- Ideas based on my experience & observation.

- ASO (App Store Optimization). My expertise.

- Monetizing apps with the right ads and iaps.

- Marketing & promotion (paid and free).

- Hiring contractors like designers & more.

- Managing the whole project and the team.

.........

I'm looking for an experienced iOS developer that..

- Gives attention to detail.

- Is good at communication.

- Has a sense of urgency.

- Is naturally creative.

And wants to..

- Make a better living.

- Create unique apps.

- Get recognized for taking on challenging work.

- Do something meaningful that makes an impact.

........

If that describes you - lets talk.

I'm sure you've some questions. So do I.

So lets meetup on Skype for a chat and get to know each other.

Add me on skype: shariqhere - and we'll go from there.

Thanks!

Muhammad
Is there access to historical data or only live data?
For those saying that the parent comment is crazy, or not applicable to "real businesses" - nearly every production push at Google is done during the normal workday hours of the respective development team (which means most of them happen between 9am-5pm PST).

The benefit of having the engineering team around to troubleshoot smaller-scale issues before they turn into large-scale outages vastly outweighs the small benefit of potentially moving the extremely rare massive outage to a less busy time of day.
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Because for all the tech progression in the last 20 years, a javascript heavy page is still really slow to load and use if you have more than a few tabs open.
What every freelancer should know about Ui/Ux
LIFX Gets $12M Series A From Sequoia
No cost for private registration, that would save me some bucks.
They must be assuming that most people won't actually use all 100 GB since the $1.99 is way below the cost of the physical drive (on a $/GB basis).
ketamine is my escape :(
I have to agree: XML and J2EE are the fucking devil. I say this as someone who LIKES Java.
I have to agree. Co-founders suck. Everyone wants to talk and to have people look up to you. To imagine that one day you will rule the world.

The truth is that creating anything new in this world is a bag of hammers. Glory comes from the stupid, respect from the learned.
Watch the global hacking war in real time, mapped
That page doesn't load for me but I take it on face value that what you say is there.

I personally feel it's more likely that Elizabeth is universally a girl's name and data from the 1890's is not inputted into electronic systems with 100% accuracy.
-Be notified when someone updates their information.

... then ...

-Don't feel obliged to post updates, or worry about privacy.

Does not compute? Maybe there is just too much missing info - definitely isn't clear what this is, how it works, and what information is "out there".
I think the #1 reason was military-logistical: Easy to manufacture lots of them from domestic factories, stockpile at airfields, and replace by hand. Some sources suggest resistance to temperature-fluctuations and EMP were also factors.
I find that as incredible as a FPL not containing an implementation of OOP
Even if the technology is old, the article itself is very much an introductory one. That may be what they meant.
Its not like it went from de Medici to Enron to Lehman without a little assistance.

There's a much more interesting story about the rise and fall of 'the prefession', hyper-specialization, commodification, diversification, conflicts of interest and the (predictable) things that ensue.

The fundamental innovation has long been commoditized. Yet there are also interesting lessons about the status that accrues to innovation, and the sociology of commoditized professionals. There are reasons why ethics have receded from public view and otherwise minimized.

But the seem to escape the author's intellectual grasp or go beyond the depth of his curiosity.
So I remember hearing about 99dresses in the Australian press, and this write up does leave me wondering the same thing I was wondering at the time:

Was the product ever successful in Australia?

Fully 20% of Australia's entire population is concentrated in Sydney alone - what was the expected total market (for a product heavily invested in shipping physical items) that didn't work here that there was a need to, apparently, move so quickly and wholly into the US?
Does anyone (taliesinb?) know if there is any additional benefit to the Desktop version over Mathematica?
Wouldn't it just be simpler to fuse off the part of your linker that handles vtables? IIRC That'll kill every C++ feature that's objectionable to someone who likes the idea of 'C with templates'

Unless you want a truly simple C template system, in which case aren't the C11 type sensitive macros sufficient?
> I'm not sure if this is a positive or negative comment

Very much positive, for exactly the reasons you specified.
Your correction will probably also start if interest rates ever come back up, and many of the owners need to actually spend some money on the mortgages. Interest rates have been low so long now that we have a whole generation that believes that borrowing money will be free, forever.
Pangu untethered iOS 7.1.X jailbreak released, but proceed with caution
I wonder if there are kits you can buy in the store to measure water quality like bacterial hard/soft etc. Would be nice if there was a built in mechanism to upload tap water data with GPS coords which would then show on an online map
Brain-controlled zen flower for a desk
The addition of a whole host of features in C++11 makes the language more consistent and easier to comprehend. The talk gives examples of this (auto variables, range for loops, etc.)
> Do you even live on this planet?

Sure, and I don't drive farther than it is to outer space every day, like people putting in 60+ miles to commute to an office because reasons.

(Can't have the kids go to school with the black folk is my guess.)
> Seeing through "developer bullshitting" is a dark art that is hard to master without spending a bit of time as a developer.

Or figure out how to get a technical co-founder you trust.

Developer Bullshit is a people problem, and if you have that problem, no amount of dark-art mastery will help your company survive.
HTTP should be secure. A programmer should have to go out of their way if they want something designed to be secure to act in some other way.
Might be a dumb question ("have you tried restarting your computer?") but does the ISO come up through the web browser at onedrive.com? You only mentioned checking the sync folders.
The A4 absolutely offers "active lane assist" (steering) as well as "adaptive cruise control with stop and go" (automatic throttle and braking, all the way down to stopping in traffic).

http://www.audiusanews.com/newsrelease.do?id=2747

I don't think it's quite as autonomous as Cruise - as noted by others in the thread, Cruise seems to be trying to reach a somewhat scary "good enough that you could read a book but please pay attention because it doesn't work just right yet" plateau, while the Audi system is simply supposed to be a gentle helper of sorts.

But the Audi system also works on any highway rather than just pre-mapped areas, and is (for better or for worse) integrated with OEM brake and steering actuators and the car's throttle-by-wire system rather than relying on retrofitted physical systems.
> So, which specific problems requires you to both optimize the hell out of your CPU and memory, and mostly work at a higher level of abstraction than C?

My sibling here already mentioned AAA game development. Finance is another area where top performance is often required.

Performance is the requirement. Being able to work at an abstraction level higher than C is highly desirable. C++ gives you both of those.

> I'll go even further: C + <high-level language of choice> already competes on that front (abstraction + performance). On which specific problems are they not enough, and C++ is required?

You get a boundary between the "high level" and "performance oriented" parts of the code that is arbitrary and only exists because the high level language performs poorly. There are definite costs to that approach.

> I'll go even further: there has been a number of C pre-processors spouting up recently.

Cute hacks that are probably not suitable for production use.

Let's be honest here. You're asking for problems that require the use of C++ now. The situation is surely going to be different in, say, five years from now - though I don't think it'll be a "C with classes".
Patreon Raises $15 Million Series A
Sounds like a great time to live in studio condos. What cities are the most vulnerable right now in that regard? Getting a good deal on housing can offset thousands a year in income loss from relocating.
I don't really have an opinion on the conclusion, but it seems like some of the supporting charts are weak. For example, new housing per capita doesn't indicate shortage, and in fact I would expect this metric to fall to zero in case of a housing glut. What you really want is new construction per new households, ideally, or at least per new population. You don't need to build new houses for your existing population.
Everyone updates their own cards, and it focuses on social networks and usernames of the future versus traditional email and telephone.

With that said, it also notifies you when your contacts' email and telephone numbers change... which is great.
XBet.io uses Counterparty, a protocol build on top of Bitcoin, to match and settle all bets: XBet never holds your funds (only you do).
The rising “creative middle class” – Patreon makes sure those artists get paid
Yes. Namely templating.
Star Fleet Battles Zeppelin Cruiser SSD
THE FLOATER UTOPIA for Star Fleet Battles is comprised of balloon-like creatures that use jets of air to move about. The Floaters are extremely intelligent, patient, and slow to anger. They are a voice of reason in a galaxy of turmoil.
I've always thought this would be nice, but whenever I actually design the theoretical code that would use this, the savings is much less than I would have thought. Real world actualities like security and privacy can either remove many of your gains or, if you ignore them, leave you with what I'd consider a buggy website.
I think C++ is a fine choice right now for a whole lot of things, though in most cases I think C is also a reasonable choice and there are tradeoffs between the two depending on the goals of the specific project (rather than the type of project).

So here's my list: A compression library, a crypto library, a numerical library, a video game, high frequency trading system, a high performance application server, a webserver, a database, a storage or caching system, an operating system, device drivers, a web browser, a VM, a programming language.
The last startup I was involved in had almost this exact business model, great work by Patreon is making it work.
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Yes, in the past when they were more centralized with only a few IRC/C&C's this was an easy solution.

However now, a botmaster is able to generate thousands of C&C centers's from hacked boxes, via hidden TOR or I2P nodes, or shared hosting, as well as hundreds of thousands of varying infected malware almost instantly. The only thing that requires effort from the botmaster now is spreading and constantly updating their slaves so they can keep them in control longer.

The actual implementation is the easy part of it.
I keep reading that OneDrive lets users upload adult porn either through here, or reddit AMAs, etc.

However, the terms that are linked to me at the bottom of OneDrive.com specifically tell me that uploading porn is not allowed and presumably (haven;t double checked) tell me that if I do my MSA will be deactivated.

It's nice to have you and co. tell me that you allow porn, but the fact that the terms I legally agree to contradict what you say sort of puts me in an uncomfortable position.

Have you thought about changing the terms of use to accurately reflect your policies?
You have probably been lucky to live in either Stalinkas or buildings built before the revolution. Buildings built before the revolution were mostly constructed for nobility therefore of a very good quality. Building build during the Stalin era(stalinkas) were also of the superior quality(and still are highly valued at Russia's housing market). Stalin's idea was that working class is a new nobility and therefore should live as the nobility. However construction rates were so slow, that by the time Kruschev came to power people were still living in wooden barracks sharing them between multiple families. Kruschevkas were never intended to be permanent housing, but rather temporary solution for the housing problem. It was intended to replace them with better quality housing once all Soviets had roof over their head. Which unfortunately never happened
Event info at a glance 22-23 06 2014 
Event info at a glance 22-23 06 2014
Cool! But I still prefer driving myself..
This is how C++ started. See cfront. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront
Uhm... my contact list supports social networks, even integrates with snapchat, twitter, instagram, etc...

Maybe it's apple that is lacking in this notion, but it's something android has been doing for years?
What's the deal? This is the same cutting edge technology that drives AWS.
Do you ever close an MSA after X amount of takedowns? Whether it be for DMCA notices or otherwise?
I don't want to be notified when my contacts change their telephone number, I just want it to be up to date. And my phone does that already. Also, you don't go into a lot of detail on what a "card" is... I assume it's like a profile on your service? Who updates this?
Flipside, if she started 99dresses at age 32, would it have failed for the same reasons?
The volcano that burns blue
The amount of money you have to grow your business is directly proportional to the cost overheads of running your app minus the revenue it generates. We are assuming that the larger your internet service is the more money you will make.

Of course that has yet to be empirically proved.
Nest Labs buys Dropcam, gains Linux-based cams
My last startup had almost the same business model, it's great to see Patreon succeed in this difficult space.

Just posted the Pando link seconds after you posted. :)
Wolfram Desktop has built-in integration with the cloud -- it can save and load straight from your cloud files.

It also sheds a lot of the historical computer algebra baggage of Mathematica -- palettes for entering equations and so on are gone.

And although it doesn't support this yet, Wolfram Desktop will soon let you connect straight to a cloud kernel. It'll be really cool: you'll write ParallelMap, and (say) 32 kernels in the cloud will be summoned for you.
I don't think people's reaction to the water sommelier is derision — maybe more "what kind of idiot do you take me for?"
It is illegal to drive on the shoulder, so they need to handle this case for a lot of reasons (another being that substantial debris from collisions usually ends up on the shoulder). I do wonder how much space this thing will give cyclists when it passes them if they are near the white line, or if it understands to stay behind sometimes.

Making the computer react to a cyclist ahead who is indicating a lane change or turn with his arm will be extra tricky.
Aks HN: Would you invest in a founding team that is part time comitted?
I've got a pretty straightforward question: would you invest in a company that would have a core building team (full time) and a senior, experienced part of the team but that's only part time comitted, while recieving the same amount of equity equity as the ones that commit full time?
Your story is mostly about you not getting a VISA, getting back-stabbed by people, spending 2 months fund-raising, media coverage, personal issues, your age, your gender. There is hardly anything about why the startup failed.

But maybe the article isn't about the startup - it's about the emotional ride. Maybe that's why a lot of startups fail - they get so involved with other things, it's not about the startup anymore.
Right. Let's keep the rest of the world illiterate, as long as we keep making nice salaries.

The "baffling" obsession might come from the fact that many programmers realize that basic programming knowledge is the coming equivalent of literacy. And that they'd never be in the position they're in now if generations of CS people hadn't freely shared what they learned.
19 projects win Knight News Challenge on strengthening the Internet
You can have 5x the voltage without changing the power consumption if you reduce the capacitance. If you keep the transistors at the same size, a computer working with 5x mode voltage will use 5x more power if operating at the same frequency. (But you can probably make it run faster...)

That said, except for very few embedded applications, computers today operate on a voltage that's much bigger than the silicon band gap. I'm not convinced it'd be a problem.
anecdotally, yes, i've noticed very little correlation betweeen people's personalities and their tastes in music. why would you even expect there to be one?
In Moscow Today, Entrepreneurs not Oligarchs
Deis is for software teams who need to operate their own servers (for a variety of reasons). If you're a "regular developer with little real world Ops experience", I personally recommend sticking with Heroku or equivalent hosted services despite the occasional outages.
And should they give you the tera- or petabytes of data sets that constitute the actual value proposition of the Wolfram language? The data sets they keep current so when you ask for the flag of the largest country that says "good afternoon", you know you are getting the current largest country.

It seems to me that other people shouldn't demand the results of somebody else's efforts be released in any way other than the creator desires. Feel free to gather the data yourself, build a platform of your own, and then give it away, but the arrogance of expecting somebody else to do that for you is nothing short of shocking to me.
Check out this blog post I wrote: http://benguild.com/2014/05/18/announcing-accounts/
The goal is to turn it into a system of connections without strings attached, and ultimately reduce the reliance on specific or multiple networks for retaining long term contact with people.

Does that seem valuable to you? The big push for consumers is relationship portability between services
Advertisements are more manipulative than informative. But the bigger point was that they are far less of a benefit to humanity than other things, yet they get far more resources allocated to them.
The point is that sometimes you need the added complexity to solve complex problems. Torque wrenches are more complicated than a socket wrench, which is itself more complicated than a simple $5 wrench.

But when you need to be able to precisely measure running torque or torque a fitting to known value, you can't avoid picking up the complexity of a torque wrench.
Reaching consumers is hard, even if you have the superior product. Facilitating such a transaction should make one proud.

It's entirely an accident if an advertizing service facilitates that transaction. They're not consumer reports, they're boosters for whoever pays.
Microsoft to MacBook Air owners: We’ll pay you $650 to switch to a Surface Pro 3