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The simple answer is, it's in the contract. Your contract with your developer, which you both negotiate and sign, says that you pay for them to develop your app, and perhaps would have a non-compete clause to prevent them from self-publishing a similar app within, say, a year.

If they violate the terms of the contract, your lawyer sues them.

Now, this is tricky in general, because app store submission processes are developer-oriented, and there will inevitably be bugs, which your developer will have to fix. There are a lot of details to hammer out on how to arrange all of that. But it's not a trust issue, it's just a paperwork one, as long as you can afford to enforce it.

Now, if you can't afford to enforce it, then you do need trust. And one way to have that trust is to have respect. A developer will respect you more if you bring something tangible to the table. That is, more than just an idea. This is the long answer.

If all you have is an idea, then a developer (or designer, for that matter) is going to have to figure out a lot on their own. They're going to have to figure out what you mean, who the users are going to be, what the users want, how the marketing will promote the app, what it should cost, how many users at one time the app will have to handle, on and on, every detail. There will be so many details that you haven't thought of yet, that the developer will have to figure out, that it will basically be the developer's app.

Any developer (or designer) worth their salt is going to ask for at least 51% equity in your company to build your idea, because they will basically be doing all the work.

The only way to retain control, and to earn enough respect to deserve it, is to do all of that work up front, yourself.

That's the role of the businessperson in a startup. You do all the market research to figure out that people will definitely buy this kind app. You do all customer development to figure out what problem this app will solve for them. You do all the user research to figure out exactly how the app will solve that problem. You do the competitive analysis to figure out the price and positioning of your app relative to other solutions in the market. You do all the sales channel development to figure out how to tell people about the app. You do all the projections to figure out how much money you might make. And then you put that all in a Powerpoint to convince a developer that "all" they need to do is build it, they can focus on code and not have to worry about all that business stuff, you've got it covered.

That's your job. An idea isn't good enough. There's a lot more than just programming that goes into an app, and you have to have covered everything else if all you want is a programmer to build you something.

Good luck!
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Wouldn't the target notice if you flew a drone close enough to them to hear them?
I wonder what the current percentage of the electorate who are dissatisfied with their own Congressional representative is? Last I heard, with national dissatisfaction at Congress as a whole about 90%, that number was at its high point ever, about 35%.
There are so many different variants of ARM assembler, it is difficult to keep track of them all. Somehow ARM managed to get away with it.

I have been hacking Assembler level on many different architectures. Cortex M0 is the first one where I actively try to avoid it. It's just no fun.
Very interesting! It has been a while since I worked in weather and as far as I was concerned there was the U.S. 'free' data and the British 'paid for' data. ECMWF does ring a bell though, I think we did have selected access to some of their forecast products but it has been a while. The centre is very much based in the UK, more specifically Reading, which is the place where anyone with a meteorology degree studies.

I think that a history of weather forecasting would be quite fascinating as it is tied in to the growth of the British Empire, the needs of Britain 'ruling the waves', the development of the telegraph, the development of aviation and, of course, satellites and supercomputing. For many decades meteorology has been in complete denial about climate change, this too would make an interesting chapter to the story.
Can Uber be required to make a comparable disclosure?

This is transport network packet "metadata".
That depends on what you mean by "blob free"; this code doesn't use the GPU other than to setup the frame buffer. From then on it's software 3D.
That would be the same part of the public that demands that "everything possible" be done to address terrorism or carry out the War On Some Drugs.

If it's possible, then they'd expect it to be done.
Thanks for the kind words!

Whether or not I'll carry on with this project depends to a large degree upon how well it is received within the community and how many master hackers I can get to collaborate with. Though I have to say, it has been the most fun project to date, that's for sure.

With regards to extensions, yes, I agree that's silly, but it's their game, so ... I could still install the extension manually on my Chrome for Mac though. I think the limitation is Windows only? Anyway, I'll work on getting this ready for the Chrome web store, so as to remove any barriers that currently exist.

Before I launch on the store, I'd like to be reasonably sure that I'm not breaking any laws and that it works like it should. :)
Around the turn of the century I knew a South African who'd spent some years in the UK. She said that in the UK, they'd predict 'rain tomorrow at 3, for 15 minutes', and the next day there'd be rain tomorrow at 3 for 15 minutes. In comparison, in Capetown you could actually see the inbound thunderstorms across the sea and they'd still get the forecast wrong.
Why are they paying below your normal rate? It is a fixed price contract, you are taking on all the risk, so if anything the rate should be higher. I've hired on Elance this way (i.e., audition project) and based on the hours worked, I paid 4X their posted rate. Happy to do it, because I found someone who worked very fast!

Don't forget that the client might not know what the budget should be, and on most sites, you can simply bid above their max and explain in the proposal why their budget was too low. Likely you will stand out if you brought up something they forgot to include or didn't consider.

Question: what if they said there will be an audition project at your specified rate? Not fixed bid, but you would be expected to provide an estimate. That is how I am doing it for my next project and would love to hear feedback.
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> Right but that only works when people don't have a realistic ability to understand their future earning potential.

Any program whose funding prospects rely on people being unable to game it without predicting the next 20 years of their personal economic history will do pretty damn well.
Would they tell anybody if they did?
Does anyone besides the government actually use someone's handwriting as an identification tool?
The Bayes Model is certainly a nice way to combine old and new information in an optimal sort of way.

But is it really a good model of what goes on inside the brain? Where? How? It seems too clean, too pat, too optimal. Biology is messy.

The paper says, "Bayesian models are not intended to provide mechanistic or process accounts of cognition." We deserve better.
Thanks for the feedback!

Even though the game does not need an operating system, it still requires bootcode.bin and start.elf.

The fixed point version of Bresenham's algorithm looks really nice on x86, but it uses integer division, so implementing it on an ARMv6 (no div instruction) would be quite painful.
Forgive me if I'm missing something, it just looks like a single page Tumblr account with a quick blurb about being a "Drone VC", with no details about the people or firm behind it. Does anyone know who's behind "Drone VC" or have any more information on it?
Cool to see Cryptech mentioned on HN. If you have any questions about the project, post them here and I'll try to explain.
I remember having to go home and tell my mum I now worked for freshmeat.net, looking at her face, then realising ... "NO! It's not a porn site!!!"
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In fact, I would NOT expect the post office to spend millions in technology to track letters. They shouldn't have any INTEREST in doing that - it isn't important to their main function of delivering mail.

It's certainly of fundamental importance to any kind of registered mail. And outside of registered mail, tracking mail helps internal processes - ensuring that mail isn't lost or forgotten. Tracking mail can help identify mail theives and other issues affecting timely delivery.

The problem comes when they share that information with outside agencies, or use it for reasons other than improving the timely and accurate delivery of mail
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I think much of the skepticism is that they will never reach a point where their reinvestment is "done" and they begin taking profits.
How can he be so wrong when comparing compiled languages and scripted languages:
"Every step up the ladder increases the human readability factor and portability, at the cost of runtime speed and program size."

Just think about readibility of Ada and Perl. What increases with higher abstraction levels is mainly the development speed.
I'm not a native speaker too and I often experienced what you described. Interestingly the "The Constitution Center is at the next stop." sample didn't work for me at all. Sounds like gibberish no matter how often I hear it.
> What I don't think is practical is identifying everyone who may or may not have left a particular bar.

This is weaker than your original claim which was that deducing passenger identities is "practically impossible". You've now conceded that the barista scenario is plausible and left open several others I mentioned.

But let's examine this one, just bars. The basis of your criticism is that some bars are located in residential buildings. First off this still leaves quite a number of bars that aren't. But even for those that are, the time of day and direction of travel is a pretty fair indicator of people who are bar patrons vs. residents. I.e. trips departing the building after 1am and arriving at a residential location are probably a lot more likely to be bar patrons than residents.

And don't forget that this public data set is also potentially privacy-violating when combined with other data about the destination, such as information that other residents of that location may know. So even if the general public couldn't determine much from a trip from a gay bar to a home residence one night, a live-in parent could.
What do you want, a signal decoder from the brain into an oscilloscope? We're just matching what we know best; Kalman filtering is a pretty good proxy for a lot of what we observe the brain doing as is Bayesian logic.
I think there are very few conspiracies, just confluences of self-interests. Newspapers are dying, but their original need - to publish what was originally hidden, to shine a light on government, still exists and seems to be well served by the Wikileaks core of true anonymity - and so faced with destruction I would expect some newspapers to morph into Wikileaks with a two hundred year track record.

I am seeing this in WaPo and Guardian and maybe al-jazera
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I see my previous post twice, as regular comment and as dead comment. Does that mean I'm shadow banned?
> “I’m no terrorist,” he said. “I’m an activist.”

Same treatment the "Occupy" people got (i.e. raids before they had even done anything). This is a pattern now.
Hoping to read in detail later, but very interesting at first glance thanks!

Have thought for awhile that many systems would benefit from one or more "guard" components for which we have formal proofs that no bad things can happen - e.g. you write an equity trading application in Python, but route all the trades through a checker that ensures you aren't trading too much or too often [1].

[1] See Knight Capital 2012, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group#2012_stock...
> if it rains, say 30% of the days in a specific area, you could forecast a 30% chance of rain every day and have good "accuracy". And yet that would be of no practical value.

That's not exactly true. There is practical value to knowing the long-term probability of rain. Assuming that carrying an umbrella itself imposes a "cost" (such that it's not acceptable to simply carry one every single day), you're statistically better off randomly carrying an umbrella 30% of the time than carrying an umbrella any other percent of the time (including 0 or 100).
It means you double-posted and the second post was killed.
Sadly, this is old news. This article is a year old and I've read of other cases that go back 4-5 years.
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> Why isn't this data used to do something for good

Maybe because that would expose this program to the public, thereby raising opposition (as might happen now).
There should be a game jam with this system as the theme
Links to David E. Weekly's syndicate page on Angel List (https://angel.co/dweekly/syndicate/) who appears to be @dweekyl (https://twitter.com/dweekly).
Ok, thanks. I have no idea how I managed to double post but that is the most likely explanation.
Thanks for your nit. I always wrongly associated rainbow tables with the Rainbow Codes the British used to name their military projects.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rainbow_Codes
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
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However these are rushed through is mere days, without any time for public review.
Agreed. But, the issue is transparency. Now that I know what is happening with my Google data, I can at least make a decision to not use that service. Both the data collection and the act of keeping that data collection a secret are issues.
It makes for a more elegant (imho) recursive definition of the sum. Instead of:

a + S(b) = S(a) + b
a + 0 = a

you would have:

a + S(b) = S(a) + b
a + 1 = S(a)

And also you would not be able to express 1 as a sum of two numbers.
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You long term idea looks pretty much like our long term concept of Askemos. Please contact me for brainstorming http://askemos.org/Adc5dd0c30f6e63932811ed60e019bb2d/
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I would assume the downvotes are because most of your post is about how you were privileged enough to work with some people you idolized and found out they are normal. It adds no relevant information to the discussion.
The U.S. constitution was written in secrecy for much the same reason.
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What about http://commoncrawl.org/? Why not use it?
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Child support needs to be abolished wholesale.

If a woman wants a mans support, then she either needs to be married to him or convince him to do so of his own free will.

This simple change would inject much needed sanity into this entire process.
This isn't really a problem particular to drones. Most audio applications have noise issues - room reverb, wind noise, background chatter, preamp noise etc.

A couple of options spring to mind:

1) Get a noise fingerprint from the rotors and clean the audio with DSP. Hard because the noise of the rotors is constantly changing, but you could potentially place several contact mics next to the rotors and then subtract that from the main mic to get a cleaner signal

2) super directional audio with parabolic reflectors which reject audio outside the narrow beam

3) Don't record audio from the drone! Use wireless mics on the ground instead

Disclaimer: Used to be an audio engineer in past life and have been running a drone company for 3 years. We specialise in high end video (RED Epic), but are also working on some non-cinematography applications at the moment. We have both hardware and software teams. Any investors interested in hearing more, you can get in touch at info@londonhelicam.co.uk
>I think its amazing that only 5,000 years ago it was much warmer than it is now, as this area not only supported grazing herbivores but a human hunting population which was eating them.

It's not really that amazing if you consider the known external climate forcings like Milankovitch cycles. Also, you are extrapolating global climate from the local climate at a single location. Local change does not necessarily correlate with global changes. In this case the data we have indicates that the 'Mid-Holocene Warm Period' was only warmer in the Northern Hemisphere, and only during summer.

>What that reinforces in me is that regardless of cause, climate change happens

You are missing an important factor which is the rate of change. Faster changes have much greater potential to disrupt economies and ecosystems. To put that into some perspective: http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/shakun_marcott_had...

>conversely even when human carbon footprint on the planet was nearly zero, the planet was warmer than it is today. And that suggests to me that human impact is irrelevant to the challenge of surviving in a changing climate.

Come on now, I don't believe you are really this ignorant. The problem with climate change isn't conditions today, which are not that much different to the past and don't yet pose many significant challenges to human activity. The problem is that continued emissions is going to result in global temperature probably at least several degrees warmer within 100 years (which means much bigger changes than that in some places), and that kind of change over such a short period of time will pose a lot of serious problems to humans (and the biosphere in general).
It's the draft that will be secret, not the final agreement.

I don't understand why this is so confusing: It's much easier for negotiators to propose a series of concessions and trade-offs in private, knowing that they'll only face political heat for those that actually make it into the final agreement.
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It's very unlikely that commoncrawl.org will have access to full text papers, which is mostly based on expensive library/university subscriptions.

Before Scholar Ninja reaches maturity of version 1.0 though, we will be seeding the network with as many sources as we legally and technically can, with a strong focus on properly licensed open access content.
I haven't been involved in the website itself, sorry!
That's the genius though. They are the ultimate Walmart, and that is one of the best things to be. Even better, they are Walmart with the option to expand into anything, because they don't have the stigma of being cheap. They can sell luxury goods (at small margins), highly complex technical solutions (at small margins) etc etc. What Amazon have managed to do is essentially to brand a bunch of things that were highly commoditized before. The potential in that is amazing, and almost scary.
I take issue with the method posed in the article when they discuss the method using a gaussian distribution to sometimes guess a number between the higher and the lower. The reason I take issue is because the ability to generate a useful distribution requires knowledge of what numbers I pick. A gaussian distribution is generated via a mean and standard deviation. To defeat this system, all a knowledgeable person would need to do is randomly select a mean and a small standard deviation and choose his two numbers from there. Then the probability that the guesser will choose his number R to be within the mean and standard deviation of the one you picked will be essentially zero.

To illustrate in a slightly simpler way, in order to choose your two numbers choose a random integer and the same random integer + 2 (2 to at least give the guy a chance). I could choose 1 billion and 1 billion + 2, or one and three. The chance that you would choose R to be 1 billion +1 or two, respectively, is nearly zero.

In order to get above 50% you need some sort of extra knowledge. In this case that knowledge comes from the gaussian distribution. Knowledge often affects probabilities even though they dont seem like they should. Another example of this is the Tuesday Birthday Problem [1].

[1] http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2011/11/08/the-tuesday...
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Forgot password asks you to type a password, in which it instantly emails back to you in plaintext.

Doesn't mean it stores it in plaintext.
> What's the difference between distributing open-source with a known vulnerability and distributing open-data that knowingly violates the privacy of many people?

The difference is that software is something people choose to use and update while data is something other people have. The only use of a properly amonymised version of this dataset would be for whitehats who would not do malicious things with the current version either.
Seems like you're pining a lot on a model either being 100% correct or 100% incorrect. That's not really how models, especially statistical ones, work.
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There are some scientists who argue for it. See https://probmods.org/. I personally am not sure, as I haven't gone through these. But I am inclined to think Bayes Models might be the most useful models we currently have of what goes on inside the brain.
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When has Paul Ryan made that claim?