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Ask HN: Is medium.com gaming HN
I've noticed more and more articles from medium.com appearing on Hacker News lately. Now, there are 5 on the first three pages of HN (90 items). Seems very high to me. The articles are targeted towards the HN crowd, but are usually very shallow. In other words, link bait. Has anyone else noticed this?
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Exactly. All the concern trolling above is about boxed product retail, where you're "competing" with stuff Amazon already sells. The majority of local transactions are and have always been in the service economy where Amazon has nothing to offer.

This isn't an Evil Plot, it's just an attempt to leverage their existing payment processing abilities to get themselves a piece of Square's pi, much in the same way that AWS leveraged their existing IT infrastructure.

Could they mistreat retailers who are trying to make a living reselling boxed products? Yeah. But those retailers have mostly been killed off already by Big Box stores. This ship sailed long ago.
If you're looking for a more fully featured version of this product, check out CoderPad (https://coderpad.io). We've got live code execution coverage across pretty much every programming language you'd be interested in, and live REPLs for programming languages that support them (Ruby, Python et al).

It's really exciting what we can do in the browser these days. I can't wait for WebRTC to get better, too.
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The range of explosive concentrations of hydrogen gas means that either oxygen in low concentration or hydrogen in low concentration are highly explosive.

If you've a leak, pretty much by definition, oxygen is getting in.
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The way I was imagining how you would do this is that you would take the 32 bit IP address, shift it left by two, adding it to the base address of your 16GB of memory block and reading the 32 bits that were there. Those 32 bits being the IP address of the next hop.

I used a similar 'the address is an operand' trick to create a very fast 8x8 multiply on an 8 bit Z80, arg 0 was the upper 8 bits arg 1 was the lower 8 bits which was applied to A0-15 of a 64K x 16 EPROM, the contents of the eprom at any given location was the product of arg0 and arg1. That allowed me to save enough time to respond to packets coming in at 38400 baud over an FM side band at the time.
They also don't have the resources to implement effective quarantines.
This article defines spam as any automated reading of tweets plus people not viewing ads in the official twitter site and app, and then concludes spam has benefits for twitter and its users like broadcasting information to people who explicitly want that information.

It's like an Onion article. The numbers even directly contradict themselves ... Twitter says they have 20m such accounts, but further analysis shows it may only be 30m not 40m.
It is not safe to go into an area in Africa with an ebola outbreak and try to treat it. Medical workers are not properly adhering to safety protocols. The numbers of medical personnel infected during this outbreak demonstrate that. You can't ask medical personnel to take major risks with their lives to help a few people with ebola. If they and their organizations want to continue to render aid, that's their choice, but if there aren't enough foreign aid resources to set up proper treatment centers with proper quarantine, and when the locals for whatever reason are violating quarantines and putting everyone, other locals and medical staff at risk, then it's simply not safe enough. The only remaining option is to quarantine the afflicted areas.

It's also only a death warrant if the people in the quarantine zones don't observe proper safety. If my city (in the U.S.) had an outbreak of ebola, I'd stay home, and barring someone purposely trying to infect me, I'd be safe. Ebola is not an evil spirit that infects everyone in the quarantine area who doesn't flee. Even if it were a more easily transmissible strain of ebola, if you're not in a housing unit sharing air with people who are infected, you're pretty safe.
That's very helpful, thanks. The company I work for doesn't do any 3D graphics, so I should be able to open-source my implementation (if and when it gets done).
Hey - you're absolutely right about the video quality. Thanks for pointing it out.

The cube looks like a great product, but I was wondering if it will be pro quality. Your post helps.

GoPro actually does produce usable pro-quality HD video. Amazing for such a compact and simple device. Great colour balance, great lens, very little CA, etc., etc.

Cube is clearly not competing with that. It looks like a great fun product, and I reckon I'll buy one... but I won't be able to justify that purchase professionally!
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Well then one business day would be an improvement on cash flow vs a typical bank... or am I an idiot?

Obviously it's hard to compete with Amazon on commodity products, but it seems like they are lowering the barriers to entry for many unique retailers and small businesses.
I love the sentiment and inspiration. I think this is great for fighting burnout and getting back in the game. The design of the app is really clean and it looks great.

That being said, I feel like the replies here are a bit of a hugbox. As far as the app's value itself goes, I don't see any benefit of this compared to an accomplished.txt file. In fact, a txt file is better because it covers more use cases and has a simpler interface(just start typing).

Why should I use this rather than a notepad? Look for features you can add that would be useful for manipulating data about accomplishments. Find ways to set the app apart.

Accomplishment ranking could be one useful feature. Then you could list even the tiny accomplishments, but if you want to just look at the big accomplishments you can always sort based on ranking to clear out the noise.
Awesome. Application submitted. Anyone know what the typical acceptance rate is for this?
Indeed. This is one of the most unreadable pages I came across in a while. The sidebar also creates a ton of problems. It interferes with my navigation habbits. When I use the cursor keys to move around, suddenly some other page loads.
Espionage and intelligence are vital if you want to do anything like the current relief operation in Iraq.

In Syria there was an ongoing international effort to stop the use of, and then secure, chemical weapons. You need effective intelligence in order to do that.

A 10 minute internet outage is an awful lot less bad than what happens when a human intelligence asset gets caught by the kind of actors involved in Syria.
UI usage of cluster of virtual machines built with pure JavaScript
If you do create and android version let us know. I would be interested in using this on android.
Its not just the commute, but its a bonus! Quality of life I would say is how much time you get to spend at home, with friends, having to work evenings and weekends etc. Its all relative.

If you're happy and don't mind doing some work in the evenings that's good - its not forced, its a choice.

But if you are expected to do things out of hours, it starts to fall apart - others in the team are doin tuttig it so why aren't you? That's not good.

At the end of the day, if youths are happy and social and work life coexist happily, then that's a good quality of life. (For me anyway)

Edit. I'm in the pub after work (good quality of life ;)) so apologies for my rubbish explanation!

Edit 2. Hours are standard 9:00-5:30, but I have the freedom to work from home if I need to - which I've had for the last 6 years, its a definate plus!
Jeroen, I'm just reading your [1] for the first time now. Are you aware of Dirk Eddelbuettel's `littler`? I believe that might overlap with your Rio tool to some degree.
Nice! But is it secure? As the customer already have the source code, what stops him to change the license code? I mean, if the source code is available, I can install it by myself without using the installer.
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Great concept and great name, good luck with it.

How about a Windows Phone version (Hey stop laughing! I am too being serious)
120 points in 1 hour is a nice start. I think you can add a self-referencing entry to your achievement list: "Launched Remember Win App"
Not being integrated with Facebook is a good thing too. :)
Entangld, this is a great app. I hope you will find some time for healing.

Stress burns the mind in the same way as physical activity burns the muscle. At some point you need to give your mind a rest. I suggest this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Full-Catastrophe-Living-Wisdom-Illness...

or this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Wherever-You-Go-There-Are/dp/140130778...

This should help you keep your strengths intact regardless of your current situations ... who is to say that next endeavor will be better than the previous one.
"Gainesville Police Department detective Matt Goeckel said the flashlight on Bravo’s phone had also been used on nine occasions that night, for a total of 48 minutes"

How can they get this information? I would definitely like to see what my phone has stored about me.
Mmmh, doesn't Postgres have support for IP addresses built in (inet and cidr)?

Am I missing something?
Possibly a log of system events?
So nice to read this the day after I had a chest CT done using the iodine contrast agent. Interesting sensation when they start pumping it in, though.
Interestingly that link re-directs me to the original article.
TBH I couldn't figure out which of the variants was the "right" one to use, I'm not part of whatever community might surround those tools. I forget what swayed me to Edge; I might have just flipped the fuckit bit and tried something.

Whichever one works is probably good enough.
Actually, he probably didn't. He has an iPhone 4 which doesn't even support Siri. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/murder-suspect-asked...
I've never seen a technical person rejected.
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PGP is only trustworthy if both parties treat key management with the utmost severity, and if everyone in the conversation maintains the integrity of a given thread (in the email case).

There are a precious few individuals for whom I have that level of trust in their management of their private key. I could not even trust my wife to manage a hardware key that I gave her, it would fall apart immediately; "I cannot use this key on my chrome book? I cannot use this key on my Galaxy? I cannot use this key on my iPad? Give me a soft key that I can use, or a cloud service..."

Therefore, PGP is not mainstream. There is a large population of people doing it incorrectly, and they must because they have no other real choice.
Or it was part of the effort to stop Syria using chemical weapons, and deny their use to rebels (imagine ISIS with them). That is literally saving thousands of lives, not your hypothetical "I can't live without the internet" scenario.

The US was and is directly involved in the Syrian civil war. It may not be dropping bombs (though it was considering it, and that requires intelligence to plan) but it is trying to stop the violence - and guess what, that requires effective intelligence.
Polling the community: Should I attend?

I've watched videos of past events, and they seem to follow the TED model of being amusing and inspirational but not particularly informative; I'm too cynical to be interested in "inspirational". On the other hand, I get the feeling that the hallway track might be good.
> As the hiring manager I’m going to judge the book by it’s cover.

I am constantly surprised by the people involved in hiring who seem to want to leave themselves open to legal action.

The rest of it is mostly common sense advice. But I hate the bit of advice ab0out being creative with subject lines.

> Sure, you can put the job title as the subject line. It’s not HORRIBLE to do that, but it also earns you zero points. Think creatively! Most technical jobs require creativity,

Holy crap, if I advertise a job I want you to put the fucking job title in the subject line to give me some chance of finding it. Please don't get "creative" with subject lines.
You don't need to use the same language to use the same serialization library, however. If the latency of HTTP/JSON is truly too high, there's Protocol Buffers, Thrift, and a host of others in that space.

HTTP/JSON is nice, however, for the wealth of tooling that already exists and the relative ease of standardizing API design with REST.
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Both of these statements can't possibly be true:

* PGP is only trustworthy if both parties treat key management with the utmost severity.

* Transparent key management systems that rely entirely on heuristics and click-through warnings are trustworthy.
And here's what hydrogen does.

Note the comparison is of a pure H₂ vs. 2 χ H₂ + O₂ mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTgeeTB_kA
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Almost -- I think he used "touch" to show all the documents he could take, but did something else to the ones he actually did take (maybe flipping a permission bit, granting full access to a "leakyleaky" group or something like that). Hence, authorities reporting only "the total number of documents he touched" is a failure from Snowden's point of view, because they didn't see the whole scheme.

In that sense, I think he's being slightly naive there -- it's clear that, once the story got huge, Clapper and Alexander had an interest in exaggerating the number as much as possible; so for all we know, they might have actually understood Snowden's scheme but willfully chosen to ignore it.
This is really awesome. Just needed this. 3 years ago. Sometimes I really think why things are so obvious but takes so long before someone realises and take action.

Thanks a lot for the resource!
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See, for example, "De-Anonymizing alt.anonymous.messages" for an example of people doing crypto -including PGP- wrong.
For the HN crowd, the buried lede is that the flashlight stores location information when in-use.
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Neat tool and i like the permalink feature.
Also unreadable without JS.

The mobile version works though.
I suppose it is a testament to Apple's ability to design for usability that people so profoundly stupid are able to use their products..
There are also cautionary tales that were handed down in Europe from plague affected areas, about how a single person violating quarantine caused the death of large portion of a town.
The vast majority of the documents that Snowden took are related not to NSA snooping, but to military order of battle (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/dia-di...). The only entities that would have an interest in that kind of information would be foreign governments. I'm not sure what positive value would result from that kind of leak.
If Twitter could use common standard like microdata (proposed by w3c), it would probably be a better approach.

The big problem with Twitter product cards is the lack of real time information (ie the data shown to user is crawler dependent). So, e-commerce vendors with dynamic pricing needs (like hotels, airlines) wont use it much. E-Commerce vendors (like Etsy) where users are little less price sensitive have a better shot at using these cards.
> If some people can identify with your goals and interests, this may help them find a job they love.

There's a solid, recent book on this very subject by Robert Kaplan. Here's his presentation from Talks @ Google, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sY-qwEYjs0
Don't worry. Amazon isn't even the biggest middleman:

"Last year, combined total volume of merchandise handled by Taobao and Tmall surpassed 1 trillion yuan, or about $160 billion, according to Alibaba. That figure was larger than Amazon’s $86 billion, according to RetailNet Group, or eBay’s 67.8 billion"
try looking for it here: http://hn.algolia.com/
Attending Startup School last year was one of the few identifiable events that led me to starting Bayes Impact and joining YC with a nonprofit. Listening to Chase Adams talk about his experience with Watsi was incredibly inspiring, and similarly the other speakers instill in you a sense of urgency and possibility. I wouldn't measure the value of going in information -- in fact much of the information can be found in PG's essays and generally online. The value is in lighting a fire under your ass to get started and meet others that feel the same way -- that in itself can change the course of your life.
Yeah, you are right. They have done some substantial pieces and may not go as far as I would like, but certainly are beyond where most sports sites would venture.

I mostly follow Basketball pretty well. Zach does a great job.
I run an online game, and I think I'm going to try this as a notice for players of positive achievements in the past. Perhaps it makes them all feel like they are doing better than they feel they are.

Great concept.
good to know for when...

http://unethicalhacks.com/63/
Damn... how did I mess that up? My bad.
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I think the argument is that PGP is so difficult to use that by and large people just won't bother.

Yes, transparent key systems would likely be less secure than PGP. If the usability were significantly better and people used them, that is better than the alternative of using nothing. For many of these solutions, there is a window of vulnerability surrounding the key exchange that closes if you aren't snooping traffic at that moment, so it's not like they're completely insecure options; just that their attack vectors that may be considered acceptable risks in many situations.
Yep, I came to the "Ask" section to see if anyone else noticed it.
I call this the "steadfast captain paradox". Your engineer is like the captain of a ship who detours around storm and arrives in harbour two days late uneventfully.

Unlike the captain who lost a mast passing through the storm and limps to harbour a hero who saved the ship, our engineer goes unsung.

I hope your Collegue has been able to capture for himself the money his employers did not spend on crash rebuilds, massive emergency development programs and lost productivity of the main Dev teams ....

No?

Like our captain friend ... Only work for admirals who have sufficient ships that outliers stand out.
It's nice but Pragmata Pro is teh_one
Can you (or anyone else) point me and others to a good text on properly handling keys? Thanks!
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If you have an android and enabled some kind of feature by mistake (like me, I always say no for these but it has my location, even when I was abroad) you can see the log here:

https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0
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Hacks are sexy?

Man, some of my most functional hacks have been FUG-ly.

Either I've documented them in nauseating detail, carefully explaining why I did something so rude, so nasty, to save myself posthumous embarrassment and my heirs embarrassment by association on the off chance posterity should notice, or I've carefully hid them (Siri, how do I hide this fugly mess?) to prevent any and all returns.

This one is pretty cool, though. Pretty cool indeed.
I do the same thing. But as MichaelOChurch said, losers and sociopaths are actually quite similar. It is possible to be either a safe loser or a sociopath using this method.

It is possible to live a very good life as a loser if you manage it correctly.
Love this guy
I attended in 2010, the year that Zuckerberg answered a few questions about "The Social Network" movie.

The talks are more inspirational than informative, but seeing them live was a great experience. What really made it great for me was the chance to be around hundreds of like-minded individuals and have a few conversations about startups that I'd not have gotten in my home city (I live outside SV). There are also pre and post parties to attend and meet more people. There's just an atmosphere there that can't be created easily.

If airfare wasn't an issue, I'd not hesitate to go again. I am assuming it is still free. It was well worth the day I invested.
An irreconcilable difference between you and I on this point: you think it's a good thing if people use bad crypto instead of no crypto, and I don't.

I don't think bad crypto makes the global adversary go "aw, shit, we better target someone else". I think it makes them go "excellent, something else we can get a secret appropriation to go break".
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and they still haven't removed that cursed gears intro whenever I visit the page. Hello Flash homepage intros!
Thanks a lot! I think it is going to be a grind to get it to where there is a good community around it but hopefully it will work out in the end.
see https://github.com/petere/ip4r-cvs/blob/master/README.ip4r
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It's nice to hear from others who share the desire to go the PM route.

I've only recently joined HN, but so far I've found it a valuable source of information and discussion. I've been working at a small startup on the product team (not as the PM) for 3 years. We were acquired in April and now I'm really interested in moving on and getting into a product management role, but I'm unsure of how to break into that "market."

My current location (Greensboro, NC) is probably part of the problem I'm having (I am open to moving). I joined HN to try to glean some intel on where to find PM opportunities and figure out what companies (especially the ones on HN) look for when hiring for those roles (programming ability? MBA required? etc.)

If you have found any good info to share, I'd love to hear.
I've always found E.T. Jayne's treatment of the topic to be good. Randomness is in the mind of the experimenter, it does not represent an intrinsic characteristic of the system but the ignorance of the experimenter. This is, in my mind, the most satisfactory answer to Gibbs paradox.

Born rule on the other hand, I can't wrap my mind around. Absent wave function collapse (for which there is zero evidence), what exactly are Borne probabilities probability off :(
He didn't sell anything to any government. If you can prove otherwise, please do; but I note that not even the almighty US intelligence apparatus going into overdrive like a wounded animal could point to anything indicating any of Snowden's statements were false at any point in time. If you have better sources at your disposal than the US President, by all means feel free to share them with us.

He's stuck in Russia because no other government wants to compromise their relationship with the US, to our eternal shame (as in "us citizens of non-US countries"); and because if he had remained in the US, he would have been renditioned in Guantanamo on day 1.
Can you tell us something about technologies used for the app?
Running a WoW guild is pretty good preparation for having to manage a fairly large group of employees with wildly varying levels of skill, attention to detail, ability to follow-through on commitments, intrapersonal conflict resolution ability, and the like.

That said: it is almost crazy to have on a resume, 99.54% of the time. It doesn't by itself persuasively say "I'm going to make you more money" and unless you have a very good read of the cultural background of the person reading your essay has a high risk of reading "I have low status hobbies. Please judge me for them!"