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I'm the author / creator of this. Saw this link in my web referer list and was happy... I submitted it to HN long ago and it stayed at the infernal "1".

If anyone's got any questions ask me. I'll watch this thread.

One of the challenges I'm having is letting this be a p2p VPN for people who want that, but also conveying that it's a bit more than that. It's sort of like a cross between VXLAN and Skype. It also includes encryption and authentication for use over the open Internet, something VXLAN does not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VXLAN

The intent is to -- for users -- make creating and joining virtual LANs as easy as doing a Skype conference call or a Google hangout. I think it's almost there, but needs a bit of work from a UI perspective.

Beyond that there's the enterprise and the potential of going into the SDN market, but I'm focusing on consumer and small business for now since it's the shortest path to revenue.

I'm bootstrapping for now but exploring some possible partners / co-founders, a possible KickStarter/IndieGoGo for a hardware dongle later this year, and a bit after that seeking angel/seed type funding if things look good enough to merit that step. So far I'm picking up users at an accelerating rate, which is a good sign.

Everything except the web admin panel UI is open source. Here's the repo: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
tl;dr: Because that's what Bill Gates was used to.
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Is the Comcast guy going to get a fabulous raise because of his efforts?

I just can't imagine how a regular employee would be this pushy if there's minimal personal gains in it for him.
Err, are you sure about that? It touches at one point, so that makes it a tangent, so it's perpendicular to the circle. I think it it a right angle.

(This is the internet, so I'm sure there will shortly be lots of posts of: Yes it is, no it isn't, and we'll find out for sure).
Are the computers smarter than us?
Isn't the main competitor to this drones and not the F35?
No, I'm thinking more of stable governments which have reasonable defense budgets. That was meant to be captured by "Medium sized countries", but I guess not.

Think South America, larger SE Asian economies, etc. This is all speculation, so meh.
A date is when a man and a woman get together in meatspace to gauge potential for bumping uglies.

What's the difference between a date and an actual date? You seem to imply there is.
We're an entrepreneurial community and here is a case of demand.

Why not meet the demand to cut off internet services?

One idea: create a phone service where I call a third-party (you, the entrepreneur) that connects me to the best number to cancel my service. The third party determines if recording the call is legal and records if so, posting the recording online, along with metadata: date, duration, agent name, locale, etc. If recording call is not legal, still post metadata, or also get all parties' permission to record.

Possibly create script through trial and error to counter their script. Can compile data on agents and supervisors names, can follow up with complaints for agents or supervisors to customer service, etc. Can file complaints with elected representatives, FCC, etc... stuff individuals don't have time for but want to.

Another idea: create a web site that takes subscriber information and mails effective letter, registered if necessary, to best address for service provider, using language to set up legal case if necessary.

In both cases, the company could, over time, compile statistics on each service provider's difficulties, giving some accountability. It could also discover their weaknesses and overcome what individuals might not be able to.

You can probably think of many other ways to attack the problem and satisfy the unmet need.

Might not make huge money, but could create great visibility for the entrepreneur. Then again, it might make huge money too, since so many companies play hardball retaining customers.
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Wrong.

The angle ADE is a right angle, as AD is tangential to the sphere. Hence, Δ ADE is a right triangle.

I'm assuming your mistake was thinking that it was AED that was the right angle, not ADE.
Both my companies hired me, so yes and yes.
Thanks all for your replies. Makes sense!
How does SMS verification help ? You can just buy a prepaid phone.
All true. But this would be an alternative, the same that Mirage's were a popular alternative for MiGs. At some point, those soviet planes become so expensive to maintain that it's worth it to purchase new ones. Of course, to properly manage that scenario, you need a competent accountant...
This is really cool -- now when people ask me how hard it is to build their own PC I can show them this site... Usually my answer is "it's just as easy as picking the right things, and putting round pegs into round holes"
Mass starvation? Technological stagnation? Which success are you referring to?
Perhaps a better question to ask is why Outlook maps "alt+s" to send, which is how the "ś" diacritic in Polish is typed (also "ß" in German) resulting in all kinds of funny/awkward situations in which incomplete e-mails are sent.
Introducing Raspberry Pi Model B+
Microjs: Tiny frameworks and libraries
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Kara Swisher: Tech's Most Powerful Snoop
My impression was that the banks made a lot more money from the spread than they did from the commission, so I kind of find that surprising. In Canada it's easy to find commission-free cards. The spread is a hidden fee though, so the banks have hiked that up several times.
Exactly. It’s not unheard of for “intern” to just be HR’s shorthand for “someone who is working here for a fixed timespan before returning to a university”. I know of a 40 year old professor who spent a summer as an “intern” at Apple circa 1990.
> Security is a top priority for Google

Can't take this seriously any more. Used to like Google, not any more.

Remember this was a company co-operating with the NSA.
Promoting modern websites for modern devices in Google search results
I don't think a WW2 style air battle will be seen again in our lifetimes; it'll be skirmishes and deniable warfare (eg Ukraine), one-sided obliterations of a weaker tech force on the ground (eg Iraq, Six Days War), counterinsurgency (no opposing air force at all, minor AA), or nuclear exchanges.

The nearest thing in recent history might be the Falklands war, in which some Argentine aircraft were shot down by missiles launched from British Sea Harriers.
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Floppy Bird: A Flappy Bird clone in 16-bit x86 assembly
Nice. A Watt is a Joule/second, or rate of transfer of energy. So W/hr is unit-equivalent to Joule/(second * second) or acceleration of transfer of energy.

What they probably mean is Watt * hour which is a unit of energy (Joule / second * second or just Joule). 15 Watt*hours is enough to power a 15 Watt bulb for one hour. Or move a hamster on a trike across a living room for about the same amount of time.
Because Bill Gates doesn't speak Polish or German.
Does the US really export anything at all if the money is really 'aid' from the US (military aid)?
> rough estimate shows that if all our current electric energy demand would be satisfied with Uranium, the reserves would run out in roughly 10 years.

While strictly correct, this is extremely misleading. Current resources would be exhausted in a decade, but resources are defined as the known deposits extractable under current market prices. Should we actually start using a lot of uranium, the price would spike, which would lead to a lot more deposits becoming economically available. This has almost no effect on the cost of nuclear power, as the cost of the raw uranium isn't a large part of the cost of producing power.

The end game there is when the price rises sufficiently for extraction from seawater becoming profitable. The world's seas have ~1000 times more uranium than conventional ground-based resources.

Nuclear fuels will not run out in this millennium.
> Mobile-First, Cloud-First

I dunno. I see this as "devices and services" rephrased.
The app store is certainly starting to move in a different direction. A lot of new games with new models are finding success in the App Store recently. See Fates Forever, wayword souls, leo's fortune, Threes!, Civ Rev 2, Monster Hunter 4, and monument valley. All are either paid apps or an "ethical" Free to play model. Vainglory and Revolution 60 are example's of games in the pipeline also.
How To Build A Competitive Advantage in the New Video World
A lot of talk about the A-10 Vs. Scorpion. I just wanted to throw a little bit of interesting data into the mix...

Cost per hour:

* Scorpion (3K/hour)
* F-35 (18K/hour)
* A-10 (17.7K/hour)
* AC-130U gunship (45.9K/hour)
* B-1B "Lancer" (57.8K/hour)
* B-2A "Stealth bomber" (169K/hour)
* B-52H Stratofortress (69K/hour)
* C-17 Globemaster (23K/hour)
* CV-22B Osprey (83K/hour)
* F-16C (22.5K/hour)
* MQ-1B Predator Drone (3.6K/hour)
* RQ-4B Global Hawk Drone (49K/hour)

To me that really puts things into perspective. If the 3K figure is true, they're competing against drones not against the A-10 which cost almost as much as the F-35.
You don't get into the arms business if you worry about how they'll be used.
Seems like the lesson is that software QA should be well-separated from development, and that IBM had, for a while, a spectacular success with that approach.
Bots could be concatenating two or threes different sets to create one stub per butterfly.

Or bots could be taking something in a weird set of scans, OCRing that, and then putting it in a stub. This would be troubling unless there was a human checking the quality of the OCR.

There is plenty of stuff that is public domain and not online in a useful form.
Interesting. I had not seen that before. Thanks.
I agree with you. I do not think immutability is good just because of concurrency; in fact that is never my motivation for taking advantage of immutability. I do it because then I have fewer bugs than if I used mutable memory cells.
Design is really about solving problems
I think they had my debit card details rather than credit (foolish) on the third occasion I wanted to make sure they left me alone and it seems I was at least successful in getting them to delete my card details from their system.

After that they just sent demands, as they had no card to charge.

But yes, should have just called HSBC and told them the charges were fraudulent, I know better now!
I don't use a debit card much but I heard that you don't get as many consumer protects with debit cards as you do with credit cards. If you're going to pay bills, for many reasons, use a credit card instead of debit cards.
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hey I tried to send you a message on your site but it says error occurred when I click send.
If by "a while" you mean less than a month: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/announcing-ipv6-su....

I am a customer of DO's but I am not a happy one since I have to muck around with 6in4 tunnels just to get this basic stuff working.
And this is why Microsoft customers can't have nice things.
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> Can't take this seriously any more. Used to like Google, not any more.

> Remember this was a company co-operating with the NSA.

I don't have the same suspicions you do, and I don't know of any evidence of Google willingly co-operating with the NSA beyond their legal obligation to, but it might make more sense for Google to spin off this team into a non-profit organization that they fund. Project Zero would get more credibility and independence, and maybe more publicity and contributions from the community. Maybe there's some kind of financial benefit for Google separating it out of it's org, but I don't understand corporate structures or finance even a little.
Outlook is pretty good at everything else but email
But this job has much better service, guaranteed! You've been with us for a long time, why leave now?
Ask HN: Good looking traditional height adjusting desks
My wife and I are looking at redoing our home office, and I have some interest in looking at an adjustable standing desk. The problem that I have run into is that none of them fit with our normal design tastes, which are pretty traditional. It seems like most of the adjustable desks are simply essentially tables with, possibly, a couple of extra features, cable management, keyboard tray.
Is anyone on HN familiar with any adjustable height desks that are more traditional in appearance?
I wonder if there's a possibility, using langsec(language based security) soomething similar to build a generic tool to solve this stuff once and for all ?
we, at streak.com, are working hard in this space. sending you an email now...
I was expecting a lot more direct comparisons based on the link name. Would probably have been nice to see some of the numbers around the origin, specifically. "we could build the application (Google Feedback) much faster than we could build it in GWT" only goes so far to say that Angular can be faster to develop in.
G.fast: 1 Gigabit per second DSL
Kotlin: Statically typed programming language targeting the JVM and JS
I cancelled my Comcast on Friday. It was incredibly easy. I didn't have to stay on hold, and they even offered to mail a postage-paid box for me to return my modem.

I was pleasantly surprised.
"ß" on the German keyboard is on the right to the "0" key and doesn't need any modifier.
Good to see Google doing this!

Let's hope the bugs found are published in a timely and open fashion. Yes they say it will, but the proof is in the pudding :)
Thanks!
I'm the owner, so here's a brief overview of the available features:

- Build configuration starting from user's preferred budget. The suggested components are always safe to be used in the same build and it's also possible to add optional parts like peripherals.
- Automatic build creation starting from user's preferred component.
- Sharing: once the build is completed it's possible to share it on the most popular social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit), on forums (BBCode) o by Email.
- Build guidelines: for every component type we provide general guidelines and best practices for the picking, also suggesting the highest rated products currently available on the market.
- Product reviews: our rating, pros and cons, q&a, price history, suggested PC builds for the selected component and compatibility.
- Price analysis and trends.
- Multilanguage and multicurrency.
- Responsive design: the website provides an optimal viewing experience on all devices (desktops, tablets and smartphones).
Yep top tip, always say it's because I'm moving country, only way not to get passed to the customer retention department and it's usually processed immediately with no hassle.
This doesn't seem very different from PcPartPicker.com or the LogicalIncrements.com guide. Nearly every hardware review site will also have a running list of recommended builds.[0]

[0]http://www.pcper.com/hwlb
For C++, I highly recommend getting YouCompleteMe [https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe] combined with SuperTab[https://github.com/ervandew/supertab]. This will make the transition from IDEs to be easier.
In my case, Chromium 35.0.1916.153 .
An APC is more survivable in a threat environment than a truck, but it doesn't imply that it makes sense to use APCs for all military transportation, or that truck drivers can put a veto on using trucks - they're soldiers, and military planning is all about deaths-to-deaths tradeoffs.

If having more planes and weaker planes (which both mean more pilot casualties) is required to preserve more lives on the ground and/or achieve the campaign goals, then it's a good decision and the pilots can either shut up and do their job, of which risking their life is a natural part; or switch over to piloting UAVs if they can't take it.
Of course they are. They always have been
Not entirely sure what that says about the due diligence or common sense of any of the hundreds/thousands of people surely involved
Ebglish WP has more people a ailable to give him a hard time for what he's doing.

Bots sometimes have trouble on EN.Wikipedia - see for example the megabytes of discussion generated by the fair-use image bot which was following existing WP rules and helping WP follow the law.
How I Created My Own Virtual Currency
Not only are computers smarter than us but in all honesty computer probably should be replacing us. This article is spot on.
Outlook shortcuts are a complete bastard.

You have Ctrl-F as discussed which is completely different to the rest of windows.

You have alt-S for send as well which is used in some language for special characters.

And the most annoying is shift+enter. When you want a single line break in an HTMl email it sends it instead. This has a warning now.

No end of grief those have given me.
As someone who writes a plugin for Outlook as his day job, I can think of many, many better questions than this.

For example, at the moment it's, "why is Outlook ruining my life?"
'“Genius” is the term you should add to your Google searches whenever you’re looking for deeper meaning and context' - I wonder if this is partially a response to the negative press they had due to the whole Rap Genius SEO disaster.
>> We named our map themes after the tribes found during their journey

> For the NYC "Sioux" map you mean that there were Sioux tribes in the NYC area?

I don't think Louis & Clark did much exploring in the NYC area...
Why is a gym allowed to demand such documentation in the first place?
Something to think about is a miniboard (a possibly trademarked cheap small board supplier of great reliability, fast speed, and excellent reputation) sells boards for $17 each shipped the next business day, so printing 250 boards yourself costs 3500 + 250*2= $4000 vs $4250 for professionally made boards. Hmm I donno.

250 boards is a lot of work. I don't think "most" hobbyists are into the hobby that long. For the sake of argument, we'll assume I've ordered that many PCBs as a hobbyist since 1980. How many computers from 1980 are still supported with software updates etc? I could eventually make 250 PCBs in a couple decades, but whats the realistic "clock time" lifespan of this thing?

Note that if you're going into serious production rather than the prototype market, you can get a hundred small boards much cheaper than $17 a piece.

Another interesting thing to think about is this is a printer... you need a substrate. First thing I thought of it using polished flat marble tiles from home depot. So there are other costs.

Also its an ink emitter. Much like ink jet printers which could theoretically print at 5 cents per page IF you use the ink up within 3 months of opening, reality is you try to print a report, realize your cartridge is dead / dried out, install a new $50 cartridge, print your report, and repeat six months later. So ink jets actually cost like $10 per page as a real world on the ground cost.

Given the above, its quite possible you could pay $50 for a cartridge and a board every six months in a couple hours, plus $3500 capital cost, or pay maybe $40 for a pro shop to overnight airmail a prototype PCB to you every six months.

The TLDR is the financials only work over an extremely narrow range of production rates under very peculiar requirements.

Its interesting in the marketplace there are no serious efforts at a full kit for traditional hands on mfgr. There are numerous partial kits that don't quite contain everything.

You need a B/W laser printer that is stably calibrated to precise dimensions thats really good at transparencies, a box of transparencies, whatever gear you use to verify calibration (A machinists $5 class 1-2-3 block and some software?). A UV box (basically a giant eprom eraser). Some photo trays and etchants and other chemicals.

Some "maker" cultural groups have an intense aversion to hands on, however weird that sounds, and will pay anything or put up with anything, to avoid using their hands, and that's probably the ideal customer for this product given that you can get better results cheaper and faster if you use a traditional PCB process.

There is probably a market for someone to sell a complete, vetted, verified photosensitive PCB etching kit.
I was wondering where the Freelancing thread was for this month, I missed the bus on it I guess.

It's a shame that I can't logon stackoverflow via OpenId because my account was connected through there. I was very active on it.
The runtime really isn't mandatory, though. It's entirely feasible to have an embedded system where the only code that runs is your own.

I'll agree that glibc is a much larger iceberg than people think, though.
The book 'Not All in the Mind'[1], published in 1976, is definitely worth a read. It's been a while since I picked it up and my copy is in another state while I'm away from work, but I remember it being very pertinent to this conversation. (I'd write more about, but it's 01:00 where I am and I'm falling asleep at the keyboard).

1. http://www.amazon.com/Not-All-Mind-Richard-Mackarness/dp/033...
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Its shit at those things as well. Months of VSTO and Outlook forms will make you realise it's a pile of crap.
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I thought about it, but there's all the paperwork and the taxes and such, you know.
> There are literally thousands of articles here that read "X is a species of grass. It got its name from Y and is described in Z catalog." The only people who would need this information are botanists, and they already have their own specialized sources.

Except that those articles seem to have good infoboxes. Such structured informations are very useful for many purpose. For instance it is used to build ontologies based on the data on dbpedia/wikidata. These datasets help constructing better semantic tools (like translators etc.). So it's still pretty useful.
An illustrated guide to Email metadata
The developers seem to really be promoting their deeper support for tmux integration. I'm probably what you'd call a tmux noob, but after a few months of using it on its own with minimal key remappings, I feel like my efficiency with the keyboard-only UI has already surpassed any gains I might get from sticking tmux integration with mouse support and tmux shortcuts. It's not that I'm opposed to this integration, but that I don't think it goes deep enough.

Ideally, I think tmux would be inseparably integrated with the terminal emulator, with no shims to add complexity to the UI. For instance, it irks me that the workflow for integrating iTerm with tmux is running `tmux -CC` and then leaving that window open in the background for as long as it runs. I'm bothered by the fact that I have to run a command to begin the integration in the first place. Wouldn't it be better to check a box in preferences that says "Integrate with tmux if tmux is installed" and then from then on make sure that the tmux concepts of sessions, windows, and panes deeply align with corresponding concepts with iTerm?
I think you might need this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs