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> Extreme example (IANAL): a person who uses Facebook heavily and is part of the "more negative stories" group commits suicide. Is Facebook exposed to any legal risk because of this?

IANAL either, but a) I'm guessing not, but b) not really the ethical question here either way (e.g. it might be legal but unethical or vice versa, or both, or neither). So I'll focus instead on the ethical question raised by the suicide: I guess I don't see how this is any different from some editor in a newsroom saying, "let's publish more gory crime stories and see what happens". Someone reads a bunch of it and commits suicide. Tragic, obviously, but not really the victim of an unethical experiment. Worse, the paper doesn't even know, since it can't monitor the response. Or: let's say FB never runs this experiment and they never find out that their current algorithm is especially depressing and all sorts of people kill themselves. What are the ethics of that?
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Yes, that's what I thought. Many people seem to ignore gas turbine option, even if those are very reliable and efficient power sources.
If there's interest towards different engine designs, it might be a good idea to check this out too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_disk_engine and another interesting design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing-piston_engine There surely isn't shortage of engine designs, most of these designs are from 1800's. So nothing new.
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api. all good questions.

1) The IPv6 ends at helium's routing network. So, to and from the bridge can be ipv6 or ipv4. The devices ipv6 addresses live on the helium edge routers themselves. I think on our website it's a graphic that says "platform".

2) You are close. The devices are a custom protocol (no tcp/ip or udp at the device). 802.15.4 frames.

3) replace cloud-db with a distributed system that your programs and helium's programs can subscribe to, and send and receive data to helium devices or groups of device.. You will be able to communicate to the helium network, the same way our fusion application does.
paper + pen. After that balsamiq, kuler, and I make a moodboard in illustrator.
It's also almost certainly a scam.
Not using 6low. All frequencies we use are unlicensed spectrum.
I've recently defined and implemented a new backup scheme for my personal stuff, and ssss plays a role in it:

Aside from my regular backups on Blu-ray (unencrypted), I've got two hard disks that hold the same data (and will be updated infrequently, once a year at most).

This is my disaster fallback: house burning down, me awakening from a coma without remembering any passwords or whatever.

Those hard disks are stored in the houses of two friends. And they are encrypted (BTW, that's not only for my peace of mind, but also for theirs: I wouldn't be comfortable holding personal information of my friends unencrypted).

The password to the encryption is split into n parts, such that very close family and friends get more parts and more remote friends get fewer parts. But noone can recover it without cooperation of at least one other.

Printed onto a sheet of paper, together with a clear description (including actual command line invocations) how those shares were generated and how they can be combined). Distributed to a lot of friends. That description is important and must be abundantly clear. Not necessarily to your grandma, but if she shows it to someone who knows at least a bit about computers, he must be able to make sense of it.
> The cheapest install of this machine would not include a solar component nor battery, each of which might be very expensive in addition to this machine. Who could afford all that? Certainly not everyone.

I've seen German stirling engines that use a fresnel lens focusing sunlight to supply the heat - and the most expensive part is the sun-tracking software and equipment.
Please know this is the first exposure this project has ever had. I really did try, in my spare time, to get this thing perfect before soliciting feedback from this wondrous community but -- alas! -- there be bugs. It's this kind of feedback that I was seeking and I intend to incorporate as I drive towards a broader release.

Part of what I'm trying to validate is exactly the point you raised: will people generally be too freaked out to store their browsing history "in the cloud"?

The next thing I'm hoping to determine is if it'll be enough to encrypt this content is such a way that people are OK with it being stored externally or if only a locally installed version will do. Security aside, there's a great deal of advantage to offer this service hosted.

Thanks for your feedback!
Makes total sense. This is an important point for many of our customers so I appreciate you calling it out. Thanks!
That is a different sense. Totally different timescales, and dinosaurs were many species.
You can run them off any heat source - the sun, hot water (e.g., geothermal bores), your log fire etc. etc.
Really? At whatever company I work for, a simple typo of sending mail to a completely different domain despite warnings from Outlook will let me send various trade secrets & confidential info.
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Thanks! Looks like a good plugin for quick notes.
> I am right now working on a UI-driven app that will be deployed to Android and on the desktop. I am using C++, Qt and platform code where necessary.

This doesn't seem very performance-critical. I doubt the best tool for the job is C++/Rust/C.
>>In any case, why not wait for the verdict of the court?

Since the evidence is so overwhelming, it is very unlikely that it will come to a courtroom battle. The most probable outcome at this point is a settlement out of court.
But it does get a bit suffocating,

Doesn't Seoul have a huge belt of mountains to go skiing and hiking in just a couple miles outside the outer subway stations? Maybe even closer around places like Seouldae? That's a pretty good option for open space.

I agree that US suburbia is stifling in its own way and hostile to transit and dollar vans. Still, LA, SF, Chicago, and NYC have plenty of places they could work.

Those density figures are misleading. You've chosen San Francisco County, LA county, and the five central NY counties, but included only the populated part of Seoul and most of the Kaanto for Tokyo. The populated parts of Tokyo and Seoul are of similar density (as is Mexico City), around 40k/mi^2, fairly consistently through their metro areas. New York varies from 110k in central Manhattan to miles low density 4k sprawl on the outskirts. SF tops out around 17k and then sprawls. LA is similar but slightly more consistent. The pretty parts of Paris are at 80k but everyone finds them liberating and exciting rather than stifling -- maybe because it's done without high rises.
Yeah, they will only suffer reputation loss if that email gets out further, you see!
People might be downvoting this because of it's tone, but it's correct. If you're putting up radio shows, DJ sets or anything that uses other people's music you need to clear each track in it. Owning a piece of music doesn't entitle you to broadcast it, it merely entitles you to listen to it.
How would you fix this problem? Because something similar happened to me.

Someone pasted in a bunch of confidential info into an email that was for discussion, with a few replies back and forth. After a hallway discussion with another colleague, I sat down to forward the latest email to him, but Outlook autocompleted the email address to an external vendor. Before I knew it, the email was away. I quickly sent the vendor rep asking him to delete the email I just sent, and he agreed. I assume he was professional about it.

What can be done? Confidential discussions via email is a must. Trying to get the entire company into a secure web/app-based platform only is a non-starter. You can't take away the ability to send email out. A custom "Internal Distribution Only" flag in Exchange might work, but I can already hear the complaints already of having to set/unset it with every email.
Honestly, I've been taken a bit by surprise that the back button bug has been such a big issue. I did some testing among friends (with a group of five or so startup, programmer types) and, believe it or not, it never came up.. That said, it'll be fixed in short order.

To the other comments, the service is considerably more complex (and yes, built on Meteor, MongoDB and ElasticSearch) as it serves up search results and updates in real time. Though the UI is simple, it does take a fair bit of effort to organize all the browsing information and index such that search results are relevant.
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It's not quite the same thing, but Palo Alto (suburban San Francisco) has been turning side streets into 'bike boulevards' that are inconvenient to drive on, and therefore safer to bike on. Roundabouts, signage and even bollards to block car through-traffic all serve to make these side streets quite pleasant bike corridors.
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I'm currently visiting Russia where Marshrutka's (minibuses) are commonplace. Coming from the US where one has to drive everywhere, it's quite convenient to pay a dollar or so and get anywhere you need to be. It's a very low-capital and safe way to solve transportation issues and requires no major infrastructure overalls.

It makes you wonder if the US national and local political situation is actually interested in the needs of the people or simply protecting their benefactors (taxi unions, etc). After seeing the efficiency of private transit, I'd be willing to accept gray markets then an overbearing police state if it means reasonable solutions.
Depends on their motivation. Facebook wanted to make me depressed if I was part of the selected group.
That's what we used to do when I worked in the medical industry. It works, but at least once a day I had to field phone calls asking me what the password to a file I sent 3 weeks ago was. Eventually we just had to switch to using just one file, which obviously reduces security significantly.
If you look at the image at the bottom of the "tech" page, there's a picture of a device + a tag that reads "802.15.4"
The media is exempt from having to censor their own stories, but search engines are not exempt from removing links to media stories.

The whole ruling was about forcing google to remove links to news stories about Costeja González.
I've always wondered - what do you do when you lose that much money? What happens next?
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...teaching people not to be prejudiced?

It's a better solution.

(You could've replaced "data security" with "lawless minority" a few decades ago, and made the same--repugnant--point.)
correlations between RSI and editor choice is the goal of the poll, so sure: at any time.
If we remove children -- use contraceptives -- and marriage / divorce -- just fuck around -- from the equation, it's no longer promiscuity -- slutty?
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Helium Protocol is based on 802.15.4. You are correct.
Same thing happened to us, but with a couple of official remixes released on a sub-label of universal. The issue is that the content gets removed before you're able to verify it's yours.

I feel like they would have avoided a lot of negativity if they gave users a time window to verify before removal.
None taken! I looked at lunarjs (and a few other options) but felt that the more sophisticated features of ElasticSearch were worth it (at least to me).

I'm curious, would you be more comfortable if all your content were encrypted such that not even the app developer (me) could read it? Or would only a local index do?
I'm curious what kind of eavesdropping is feasible on this band. It's not clear if there's encryption built in, especially if low power, and the long distances make for some attractive triangulation opportunities too.
Embedded and embeddable are different things. Embeddable refers to the ability to call code written in your library from any other environment (and these days, over a C FFI).
How on earth are any of the things you listed "gray hat"? Asking Gmail to delete an email you have sent by mistake may be a little unethical, but entirely legal. ALL of the ideas you have posted are blatantly illegal.
Maintaining control of your launch is important as well.

I recall seeing discussion on Product Hunt recently where founders were worried about their product being submitted without their knowledge, effectively launching them before they're ready in a beta/soft launch state.

Obviously that would be bad, but it's potentially even worse, because (as far as I know) you only get one shot at Product Hunt.

If this has actually happened or not, I'm not sure. There were a lot of founders worried about it though.

Per the discussion, I believe rrhoover said they're looking into ways to address that, and the prevailing consensus was to lock down your beta. Some other ideas were additional provisions in beta tester NDAs, and Product Hunt implementing some type of blacklist system to prevent premature submissions.

Personally I would just have a bare minimum public-facing website during beta, though it seems that this would inhibit your ability to get beta users unless you're either well connected or your product is hyped.

Of course, this same phenomenon has been happening with HN for years now, the difference being it's much more rare because HN isn't laser-focused on new products, and its submission volume is massive.
That's a very lazy inference on your part. It's uncontroversial, even within academia, that there is a large amount of statusmongering going on that is orthogonal to "real work". It doesn't imply they don't care at all about the underlying research, but academia is an industry like any other with its own priorities and incentives, and the people who rise to the top are the sort of people who are good at sussing those out.

In particular you can view IRBs and the like as a form of entry-restriction by entrenched actors that tries to keep disruptive research from competing.
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It's tricky, right?

The problem is that hospitals seem to be very (overly) protective of their enterprise IT, and are way undercompetent in terms of staffing and expertise. They are unable to develop useful software and enterprise solutions, and unwilling to just cave and allow proper enterprise software/remote support to happen.

Anyways, shoot me an email through my profile--it'd be great to have a chat with somebody who is on the other side of things from what we deal with. :)
That's exactly right. The indexed content is stored (as an inserted index) but not the plain text.
The article doesn't mention the email contained an attachment. I've sent and received a lot of emails with confidential data in the form of people chatting, parts of a spreadsheet pasted in, or an entire HTML automated report.
Ok, and what about if the officer tries to initiate pleasantries? What should a good Turing robot do then?
>>I slowly explained that I’m a social entrepreneur promoting global change through the concept of ‘hackathons’ where attendees work together and find solutions to community issues within a tight time constraint. They were dismissive and didn’t seem to want to hear an explanation.

> If even a hint of this attitude got through, you would be denied.

Even without the attitude, I'd be dismissive of that too. It's buzzwords and puffery. Oh! You're in the Global Change industry? Silly me, I didn't realise. Come on in, they just opened a big Change The World By Writing An iPhone App In A Weekend factory in San Diego so we'll need all the skilled global change promoters we can get.
"Emergency relief is necessary to avoid the risk of inflicting a needless and massive privacy violation upon Goldman Sachs' clients, and to avoid the risk of unnecessary reputational damage to Goldman Sachs," the bank said.

"By contrast, Google faces little more than the minor inconvenience of intercepting a single email - an email that was indisputably sent in error," it added.

"Emergency relief is necessary"

"We are a big powerful bank, we are going to ask you nicely to do us a favor. Our employees fucked up. Please help us hide the fact that our employees fucked up, so we don't get a reputation for having employees that fuck up." the bank said.

"What we are asking them to do is technically speaking very simple. Whether or not it would open them up to many more such requests, we don't really care(unless one of our employees fucks up again,) fuck you we're goldman sachs." it added.
This is a great point and not one I'd ever even considered. You are right, the page you see first -- before signing up -- really doesn't need much. I am, in fact, using the Meteor stack for the entire thing, even the informational pages. But that was mostly a convenience.
Side projects can be a problem from a patent perspective. Some companies will want rights to anything that you think up during the time of your employ with them, whether it is directly work related or not.

The blue LED was invented by a Japanese engineer (Shuji Nakamura) on his own time, but his company claimed the rights, cue a long court battle.
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Well, there's no perfect solution. Either it's a modal system like vi, or you have to use modifier keys whenever you want to do something that isn't enter text.

That said, there are tricks to make modal editing less annoying. For example, mapping your CAPS LOCK key to ESC makes switching out of insert mode much easier.

Some commands perform actions and then switch modes all at once for you. To extend the grandparent comment's example, you can use the substitute command, s, instead of the delete command, d, to perform the "delete and switch into insert mode" action with sfx (rather than dfx).
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Partially off topic, but page layouts like the one you linked to really come off as unnatural to me. Specifically the way the margin for annotations is used in the centering of the main content is distracting. It's like you are giving equal relevance to sporadic notes as to the main article. I'm surprised to see it in a typography book.
Hey dotBen. Messages are aes-256 encrypted. Every single device on helium has its own unique secret. We will be writing about this on the blog very soon.

You can further encrypt your own payloads to keep them extra secret from us too.
Glad you liked it :)

I don't typically do design either but got hit with a string of marketing-microsite gigs of late and have a sort of formula down. (basically things my designers yelled at me to fix - spacing, font weight, font size)

Best of luck with your startup! And if at all possible consider Google Drive integration? This is actually something I would use (would love to be able to easily scan receipts and chuck'em ), except dropbox is $10.99/month for 100G, while GDrive is $1.99/month for 100G, kind of a no brainer as a cheapskate :P
Mac only, Photoshop CC only. Nope.
You do realize that Rust isn't a stable language yet right? Now is precisely the right time for Rust to experiment with what features are useful and what features are not.
a bit of a pedantic note: If you want to control 50% of the servers by adding servers, you actually have to double the total server count... ie, 8k servers now, if you want to control 50% you have to add 8k of your own servers for 16k total servers ...
While at one time, the bank's proprietors may have been clever, I suspect that these days they are much more accustomed to getting what they want by throwing their weight around.
I assure you, I only used Dropbox as an example. Clearly a system like this should be implemented by the company it self. If it's important, you should store it on your own servers, and make sure that those servers are safe.
The field receives a pretty scathing review in The Cult of Statistical Significance. The summaries offered there are pretty damning: http://www.amazon.com/The-Cult-Statistical-Significance-Econ...
One thing to note is that many of the companies that run EMR software actually are constrained by someone within to stay on 80s unix servers.

I do not know about the security and network walling that happens, though I know a lot use windows servers to run the client code in a likely secured environment over citrix sessions.
I'm curious, what kind of a solution are you looking for with that problem? The trivial solution of concatenating the lists and then using a library sort (or cobbling together quicksort) is about as good as it gets for small lists.

For large lists, the best you can do is copy the lists into an array, use a parallel n * log n array sort, then fix the pointers.

The problem doesn't seem to require any real thought. It is difficult to make optimizations because the problem isn't especially well defined and the optimal asymptotic performance is obvious the moment the word "sorted" is uttered.
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IIRC Tails helps you by encouraging you to turn off the JS to avoid the exploit.
That's a bit of a tangled mess, there. For starters, the unalienable rights are "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". Not the right to a lawyer.
What kind of gameplay covers the "touching story"? Who do you play? How do you interact with others, mechanically? Do you have any real say in the outcome of the story?

I mean, if you had cited Deus Ex or Witcher, you might have something, but... what you described doesn't sound like anything more than a slightly non-linear book to read.
Sounds cool (and right up our alley)! Reach me at michelle at keen.io!
What about the free pass for institutions of higher learning? The Eolas invention was invented by a Univeristy of California team http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas
Or she could just take her entrepreneurial creativity elsewhere, a place where she is welcomed.
LOL the beta signup doesn't submit? I guess they don't want anyone to sign up...
We had similar numbers with Planleaf, minus TC. Except our conversion rates were quite high, but that lends itself to the product more than anything. Great job with Front App. 7 months is a long time. I think StatusPage.io waited a long time before doing their Show HN as well.
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Designing The Nothing App I really wanted to put emphasis on a minimal user interface. I wanted to go back to the roots of what it meant to do nothing. I used the newest technology, Swift programming language, to make sure I was pushing the boundaries of what we can do with nothing. I think you're really going to love this. - Jake Chapman (lead designer / engineer)
How can one bridge handle tens and thousands of devices and cover 50 square miles per the tech page? That doesn't make sense.
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If a bridge covers 50 square miles, it means that a device must cover 50 square miles to reach a bridge. How does it do that on such low power usage?

Receive-only technology that covers 50 square miles is old hat: radio, TV, ...
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kator. Checked and it seems to work. Just make sure you fill out all of the fields and the submit button will light up or you can email me. sean@helium.co

thanks for your interest.
Interesting, but probably not going to happen, mainly because the buyer and seller both need bitcoins for the transaction. Both pay their bills in USD or a real currency.
That challenge looks harder than most crackmes or ARGs, really cool.
A big clue about the technology is the dropped hints that it's related to Zigbee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigBee