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Apologies, I am not sure which one of these you are talking about.
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Good reporting, though I wish the author wouldn't bury the most important paragraph at the end of a longish piece.

This is not a purely local issue. It's a coordinated Federal surveillance program masquerading as a local initiative.

If federally funded, locally built surveillance systems with
little to no oversight can dump their information in a fusion
center—think of it as a gun show for surveillance, where agencies
freely swap information with little restriction or
oversight—that could allow federal agencies such as the FBI and
the NSA to do an end-run around any limitations set by Congress
or the FISA court.
I used MetaPost for a few years. It's a very quirky program and a very quirky language, like TeX itself. You can do very nice things with it but the learning curve is steep.
Google should follow Apple's lead and spoof the phone's mac address while wifi scanning to prevent this kind of tracking.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ios-8-mac-address-randomization,...
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Reminds me of ctOS from Watch_Dogs.

In the game, the fictional Blume Industries sets up a massive, city-wide network, connecting almost everything to the central ctOS supercomputer. One of the ways they build public support for this system is by first providing free wifi to the public in and around Chicago.

I know this isn't perfectly analogous, but wifi networks popping up for ostensibly benevolent purposes and then being used to track people seems close enough to warrant a mention.
In my opinion, it's much like a photographer's style rather than photograph technique. Say, I'm more interested in colorful object and crowded object. How can crowded is minimal?
>wouldn't it be cheaper to just give them all a GPS device and a mobile hotspot?

That's not really how public safety people think. How useful would a mobile hotspot be during, say, the Boston marathon bombings, when cell service was inoperable? Most likely they'll have multiple systems with different capabilities.
The situation about having young children and being in a time crunch couldn't be more right.

There's nothing like walking out the door to "Daddy, I miss you!".

The you feel bad for laying the long day on your spouse so you can "crush it".
Marc Andreessen’s first six months on Twitter were unbelievably epic
Kickstarter is a platform where normal people can back those people have dream and great idea. As to the creators company can not acheieve their goas, kickstarter can not guarantee it. But it has already list all those rules to protect backers right.
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As you may have realized, any adult older than forty went through college back when it was lots cheaper and students routinely graduated with job offers in hand. You may be wise to discount our advice.

I wouldn't spend fifty or a hundred thousand dollars slogging through a major that you hate, in exchange for a reward that you can't see yet. Take a break for a while and get that full-time iOS developer job that you crave. Work for a while, save every penny you can, and await future developments.

When circumstances change, and iOS developers become as commonplace as Java developers are today, or the economy cools off for a while, or you find yourself jammed against a career ceiling, or you become bored out of your mind in your little cubicle, or you grow a little older and suddenly realize that your dream is to become a computational molecular biologist with an art studio: College will still be there. Believe me, even when you're forty and fifty colleges will still happily take your money. (Although I was once warned that medical schools don't admit students older than thirty-five, so don't wait too long to become a heart surgeon.)
It depends on how you give it away.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8018383.
Ruckus Wireless can do this as well and works a bit better IMO than Aruba.
It seems discrimination is a loaded term. Price Discrimination isn't a bad thing. It refers to the practice of getting a customer to pay exactly what they can for a good. A common example of price discrimination is airline tickets. If you buy a ticket 3 months in advance vs 3 days in advance you essentially pay more for the same product.

What DropBox needs/should/could figure out is a way to sell subscriptions at $10 to those who are comfortable for paying $10 (which seems to me is completely unlikely, when you get competitors, cost tends to go down)
I wonder if it's fair to question whether further treatment during that time could have aided in destroying the virus. It strikes me as a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. If you do, it could be seen as overkill (and potentially harmful), and may not provide you critical data on what worked or didn't work; if you don't, you get questioned regarding if you could have done more, or if it would have made any difference.
> When time gets tough and Craigslist job postings start saying "BSCS required", an e-mail from you saying that you have "kept up with individuals that have over 15 years of experience in the field with degrees" is not going to mean much. They'll be knee-deep in resumes of people who have a BSCS. Yours will go right to the waste bin, in many cases.

You're only as good as your last record. Who cares what anyone was doing 15 years ago? The degree you got when you were 22 is the same as the trophy won by the school's quarterback: an old nostalgic story at best. It's not who you are today, and I hope you've done far more interesting things since then. I only look at the past couple of positions a person had on their resume anyway.

Even if HR does operate the way you say, I hope we can all agree it's pretty stupid.
Is a pity they didn't show. Perhaps they need louder trumpets.
Could XUL/JS be used to customize FF for an enhanced view of "related pages"? E.g. the user interface is separated into 2 portrait-sized frames. One XUL frame shows the destination web page. The other shows related information, which could be links, images, thumbnails of other pages, etc. Does something like this exist?
The real world companies I've worked for in the past have good reason to use abbreviated host names, sorry this is so offensive, but that's...real life?
Python and Pascal are awesome. Dataflow is awesome. Not having to specify types is nice. Not having to deal with databases is awesome. Not having to deal with deployment is awesome. Keeping data in memory is fast.

Sounds like something I hope will be imitated and become popular in open source tools.
I'm 24 & had to make a similar decision to you. I had a full-time job offer in a startup when I was 19, 2 years through my CS degree. I decided to stop university & work.

I rarely think about going back, my work experience & portfolio of actually building products has entirely outweighed the "piece of paper". I'm in a SF startup now, on a very good salary for my age & I have years of experience now. It has never been a deciding-factor in landing jobs.

That said, if you want to work at the big corporates (Google, Apple etc etc), I would imagine this is where you would need it. Also, if you are not from the US, having a degree is pretty much essential to getting a work visa.

Devs are in such demand, particularly in SF/The Valley, that I truly believe a degree would always be overlooked for actual experience. As other posters mentioned, there are CS degrees on Coursera etc now that you could still continue to study for free in your spare time.
Google's open source investment hugely astonishes me but as far as desktop is concerned they are also hugely oblivious and ignorant (Yes, I am talking about Drive for Linux).
No, I'm saying that its not possible for non-developer employees to see developers as their peers and that your idea of pretending its your own business is not going to make it happen either.
Should be "Elon Musk" (not plural) up there in the title.
More explanation: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19073535/one_problem.png
A MAC address is NOT a 'fingerprint'. Anyone could broadcast any MAC address, so I can't imagine it holding up in court as evidence.
And I would take all the downvotes for doing so, too, that you may be spared. :)
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Sure but that not the most useful aspect of this. If you are out past curfew and underage you've committed a crime. The police officer has a specific and arcticuble reason to perform a terry stop and search you. If they find something illegal on you that's a bonus but now you're trapped. Its an easy way to establish probable cause and gain compliance.

Even better is looking young and driving past curfew. Again this is the kind of thing officer will use for a PC stop. Sure you're 20 but the officer doesn't know than until you've been stopped and provided license, registration, and proof of insurance.
Isn't everything? I don't think we've completely eradicated ANYTHING other than smallpox.
Oh, interesting. However, I'm disappointed to not find a comment on timing critical systems. IMO, these systems favour imperative programming models with explicit or ownership-based (C, rust, C++) memory management.

> This conﬁrms the importance
of functional programming and message passing as important defaults

What is 'this'? Is it the result of cherry picking or is it an accurate sampling of today's application domains?
My landmark book on gamification in the enterprise was just published and I am talking extensively about intrinsic/extrinsic motivations, the problem with rewards and competition, and how to tackle blue collar workers. Exactly all those questions that you raise. And with tons of examples.

Enterprise Gamification by Mario Herger http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LO5W6L6/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_oO1Vtb...
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Does any other jurisdiction ban one's company from leaving? None that I'm aware of.

Just losing that future option value is sufficient to deem such a move insane regardless of original jurisdiction - unless for some reason there is zero other option.
I can totally relate to the instinct to plan things, and "do it right" the first time. Life is short; your 20s are shorter; don't waste them!

At the 'wise old' age of 26, though, after changing paths twice (PhD dropout->job 1->current job) and swallowing many earlier words, I've started to accept that we just can't know everything in advance, and it's OK to be wrong and "waste" time. And furthermore that it's not really a waste, because it teaches you.

Journey rather than destination, and all that.

I guess what I'm saying is, yes, be introspective, know yourself, do things for the 'right' reasons (because you want to do them and are passionate, not because others expect you to do so) BUT give yourself permission to change your mind, and to try different things! If your standard is "live life perfectly the first time", you're bound to have regrets. If your standard is "let's see what happens" then you'll be fine :-)
No, as women weren't deployed to direct combat missions when the laws were looked over in the 1980s. [1]

[1]http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/453/57
Well, my personal machine runs Windows, and at work we're a heavy C#/SQL Server shop, so .Net is fine with me.
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Yeah presumably people doing kickstarters are at a minimum using an LLC, in which case if the project fails and the company goes bankrupt, nobody is getting anything from the dead entity.
After short revival, Google service disruptions in China return
If anyone has any questions or needs help on any puzzles, I'd be happy to answer them in this thread.
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68.4% of Japan is forests. (Just look at some aerial maps). The issue is japan is not flat not that it's overcrowded. Even still they have enough room for 1.2 million cows which is horribly inefficient use of farm land.

PS: They have had rice subsidies over 700% and it's still not cost effective to convert more forests to farmland. Growing food in doors works due to subsides but it's hardly necessary.
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Ask HN: What kind of data would you like to see on a map?
and are the data publicly available?

I've built a new web mapping API and I'm looking for data that I can use to make interesting examples with. Disclaimer: I want to use these examples to attract people's attention to the API and hopefully convert them into paying customers.

I can only make choropleth maps (shaded polygons, election maps, etc) that overlay on Google Maps (or others soon). However, I can render in realtime hundreds of thousands of polygons client side with bring the browser to a crawl.

So any map ideas that are interactive or leverage streaming data would be cool. Or perhaps no one likes maps?
There is one particularly well-correlated explanation for the higher rates of violent crime in roughly that time window: Ethyl (tetraethyl lead).

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...

edit: as noted in neighboring posts, "arrest" != "crime"
A lot of us "young" devs grew up on windows and remember what a hostile place it was to learn. My disdain for Microsoft is anything but lazy, I have worked very hard not to have to develop for Windows.
I think if you pull your head out of the sand you'll find many serious projects that don't depend on Microsoft. 99% of Web servers run *nix and any project done for the web doesn't need windows. How many billions of dollars are being made on Android and iOS?

As far as I'm concerned Microsoft has squandered any goodwill they may have been due, if they deserve any credit it is for driving me to open source.
We've gotten smallpox and rinderpest, and we are getting close (a few hundred cases per year) on others, including Polio and Dracunculiasis.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_disea...
Ask HN: Where to save passwords and api keys
Hey guys,
I have several email accounts related to all projects and also several server root passwords, database passwords, api keys and secrets from many services, and those passwords are stored in the config files of it's respective projects.
I want/need to save those passwords in some place safe and with easy access. Any suggestions?
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Any similar resource for other functional languages, that go deep into justifying language features, explaining their implementations and the underlying runtime? I come across way too many tutorials or books that only show how to use the syntax, with occasionally a neat syntatic sugar or two.
The solution above would suit my needs and work for where I live.

It most likely wouldn't be able to scale to cable company levels, but it would be a great small to mid-size local business. One that could be replicated in cities across the nation.
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Do you have a fair use right to publish World Cup goals?
True, but that assumes a degree of technical fluency, which American courts have repeatedly failed to demonstrate.
In many ways this reminds me of the L4 project [1] - very lightweight "shared nothing" processes, semi-cooperatively scheduled [2] and with attention paid to minimising the context switch overhead. And this was before "shared nothing" was a thing. It's a real shame that so few of Jochen Liedtke's ideas have percolated into mainstream OSses.

[1] http://www.l4ka.org/

[2] IIRC, a source process sending a message would 'donate' the rest of its time-slice to the destination process, meaning short "RPC" calls could be done without invoking the scheduler while keeping many of the benefits of pre-emptive scheduling.
This has to be one of the clearest academic papers I have ever read. Aside from the content, the author does a really good job explaining his thesis. I wish more academic papers were written this way.
Numbers matter.

45% of the light is in the photosynthetic active wavelength range in a normal farm vs
~20% solar panels w/ transmission conversion losses etc + 40% LED = ~8% of the incoming light is now useful for photosynthesis.

So, you need a huge increase in efficiency ~400+% just to break even.

PS: Not that their using solar power, but it's still worth considering.
Thanks for posting this, the whole thread was a learning experience and congrats for having the guts to "Ask HN".

I won't really comment on the code but I think that the company could have come back with something like: "Hey, can you make this much smaller? with only minimal use of frameworks?"

An explanation like "Falling far short of senior developer standards" sounds like an absolutely pointless comment and I feel someone had a bit of a childish reaction when seeing the code (their comment could fit them just as well).
Ask HN: Why is there no Search function on HN?
To search for articles on HN, I have to google for the keywords and "site:news.ycombinator.com" Why doesn't HN have a search box?
It's very very possible, although may need some changes to wpa_supplicant to happen.

Anyone know if Apple patented this?
The definition of government is a monopoly on violence/force. Furthermore, no monopoly can be sustained without the force of government.

Absent the government I'm not even certain there would be weapons of mass destruction. It is the state who demands these weapons to maintain its monopoly on force.

A business, on the other hand, is interested in making a profit. Absent government coercion, a business must provide a worthwhile good/service to make a profit, all while competing in the marketplace.

Anything an "$EVIL_CORP" might do pales in comparison to actions we know governments have done. One must only tally up the hundreds of millions of lives lost during the 20th century in senseless wars, democide, etc.
It has a search box at the bottom: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rc1rm83cae5g65x/Screenshot%202014-...
So much specialized hardware and software has been designed to take advantage of the protocol. REST is really just an architectural guide for using HTTP as it was intended so that those tools can, ideally, provide some efficiency. The entity being transferred isn't really what matters. It's the metadata included about the entity, it's related resources, the client and server capabilities, the explicit expression of intent and result, and all the other header info that allows those tools to do their thing.

HTTPs ubiquity, for better or worse, makes it about the only option for any web based tool where control from end-to-end isn't a practical option. Better protocols can be made, better hardware and software can be made to utilize them, and some have, but their reach is very limited for now. Understanding the thing we're stuck with is pretty important. Luckily, countless man hours have gone into studying the protocol and building the tools that take advantage of it. Much of that information has been shared openly. I think that's a pretty big advantage over anything else.
This is Detective Monty Moss.
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If you see him at a restaurant or shopping or out with the family, politely approach him and politely let him know that you don't appreciate his efforts.
It's a different problem, though. The solution to polio is known, and has been for decades. It's just ("just") a problem with implementation. Given sufficient resources, not all that much really, and polio could be gone in a year.

HIV, on the other hand, still has no cure nor vaccine. Even given, say, the entire GDP of the United States put towards solving it, there's no guarantee it could be wiped out.
How would one go about FOI requesting the location of all these devices?
Whoops! Nicely placed! I have not noticed it in 100+ hours of usage. Thank you :)

It's way at the bottom and the front page as well as most posts are too long so I don't think I rarely scroll all the way to the bottom. It would be much more accessible in the orange bar at top.
I've run an IRC bouncer and SSH reverse tunnels over Tor for years. Not for the privacy but just for the ease of use. Also it reduces concerns with maintaining up to date linux hosting. While the risk of my .onion being discovered through the cat-and-mouse game that is de-anonymizing .onion's may permit some 3 letter agency to discover and root my host I at least reduce the attack service drastically by completely removing internet script kiddies from the threat model. So their is a security benefit in addition to the NAT transversal. The NAT transversal really makes a different and very easy reverse workflow possible. With some simple haggling with scripts and SSH you can reverse almost anything that is low bandwidth. I totally agree there is something to the ease of use provided that services have not fully explored yet.

And since most single-peer to home services never require an exit node bandwidth is never an issue. File transfer, remote mail, even a reverse tunnel to use a home IP as your exit node, all work with little to no bandwidth constraints. I really believe there are services to be built on this ease of use. Things that utilise these features without requiring one understand SSH reverse tunnels and the likes.

Finally, somehow I think the more services built on such a model the better we will understand how to fix some of the major flaws of the internet as a whole. Namely discrimination based on GeoIP comes to mind. If the internet were built in this manner instead of addressing a service I could have it address me through my own .onion reverse I think location discrimination would become a much more complex task. GeoIP is becoming much more fundamental. as the xkeyscorerules100.txt shows GeoIP is no longer just something used by media companies to prevent someone watching TV out of country and is today used to determine citizenship and basic civil liberties.
I care about coming back precisely where I was. That's how it works on a normal website, that's how it should work here.

And it's very wonky, on Safari OSX. Broke it immediately. Command clicked an image to open in new tab and it did not open a new tab, but loaded it in the same tab. Then going back, it hung or something and I had to refresh the page. When I refresh, it goes back to the beginning. It should go to where I was, at the very least. And yes, opening in tabs should work too.

And it doesn't update the URL to say where I am, can't bookmark my position in the browse view. I want to. If it works on a normal page, it must work in this infinite scroll. Breaks basic user expectations.

Is this new? I remember liking the Artsy site quite a bit. It's still nice and pretty but I cannot depend on that infinite scroll. It is exactly like that xkcd. I remember seeing infinite scrolling done right somewhere, goes back to place, updates URL.
I really don't know much about crypto, but should you be sending your private key over HTTP GET requests?
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Conflicted copies?

I don't understand how that is never mentioned when talking about collaborating on documents.

Comments are worthless without track changes.

Someone make word obsolete by making track changes better.
That is what we call a y2k bug
Second this, I've been letting domains just expire in my registrar(s). Feels quite good once it fell below 100. I'm not even trying to sell them.
Airbnb "growth hacked" by taking advantage of craigslist in a gray way.

I think viral is a loaded word.
Yep, I'd draw the parallel too. Why do you think it's ridiculous?
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Won't that just drive down the pay of programmers?