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Disclaimer: I haven't applied yet, so only talking from the perspective of another would-be applicant having done an amount of research.

Every professional opinion about the O-1 I have been given was "the more the merrier", so basically I'm trying to gather everything I have done in the last 6-7 years that could be relevant. Depend on the lawyer to help filter it.

Everyone says the success of the O-1 app is heavily dependent on the skill of your lawyer. And they will cost a bit too.

An unfortunate thing is I'm told articles about or awards won by my startup or projects do not count for much, unless I worked on them alone and it is clear in the article/award that it is to me rather than the project =/

Things I'm working on/looking at:

- I have put efforts to have articles written about me in the local newspapers back home.

- Reach out into my network to find people in the highest places (CEOs/cofounders/VCs of successful companies) who might be willing to endorse me for the "recommendation letters from experts in the field"

- Dig out data about the academic papers I co-authored in undergrad, to determine how much they're referenced/cited to measure "impactful academic publications". Google Scholar has been helpful here.

- Try to give talks about my field (health+technology, mobile development, entrepreneurship), although it's vague how applicable this is. So I'm only doing the ones where I don't have to pay to be given a speaker position (so no commercial expo type deals).

- As far as awards, so far can only mention my full tuition scholarship for college, everything else is fairly small-time or won by our company's projects and not me individually. Hoping that claiming I had a critical role to play in that works.

- Some easy checkboxes: letter from my employer (a cofounder) that I'm critical to the team. Articles published about our company to show that we're reputable, hence making me critical in a reputable company.

- Our company is still picking up, but if we can raise funding, and get some additional traction on our product, those numbers will contribute to showing that I "have made a significant business-related contribution" by stating I had a critical role in building the product responsible for our revenue.

The amount of money involved in moving a risky thing like the O-1 is the main thing keeping me from applying till we're a little more stable. I estimate it's approx 3-4 months of my runway (while I'm working from Asia) to go through this process, with no guarantee or even estimate of success :/
What happens if your competitors also use the same service, would the algos recursively spiral downward?
Is the Internet still relevant?
This is only accurate within the perpetually-expanding conception of "human rights" that many seem to assume is static.
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That's actually the reason there's no cleaning fee; its more or less the same amount of work per day, regardless of turnover. If it only gets cleaned once at the end of each stay (typical of AirBnB), then it costs more per day for a 1-night guest than a 7-night guest. Adding fixed fees in additional to the daily rate allows the price to match the cost better.
The scariest thing mentioned here is when Team Email switches from a Service Object to a Micro Service. Actually, it's not that scary as part of email where the user of that object always anticipates potential failure (and probably has next to no recourse if failure occurs).

So instead we could pretend that it's something like MachineLearningProvider. When this converts to a Micro Service its failure space increases by an order of magnitude without expressing it in the interface.

That was the primary problem with RPC—you really don't want to confuse local function calls from remote ones.
I too was disappointed that the blog post doesn't go into any detail about unibuild.

One of the best and only explanations of isobuild is in this talk by Geoff Schmidt, one of the founders of meteor: http://youtu.be/EZUfQ1zA_NM?t=11m33s

[iso]build
Like 'make' or 'scons' but for distributed systems.

One source tree
One package system
Multiple languages
Multiple targets
Multiple architectures
That is for sure. But it is also assuming that stores know how to generate demand for their restaurant. The way they have out-executed Postmates is really crazy.
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Look at it this way: the web browser is probably the most resource intensive application run on most smartphones, and it's not a smartphone without a browser.

Therefore total required resources is the OS+WM+browser+background apps (phone etc). In Firefox OS, the OS+WM+browser heavily share resources, allowing significant resource saving.
Very cool, thanks. Is server side rendering coming soon as well?
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> go there

I don't have money to throw away at a round trip to Norway, not to mention a place to stay for 1 week or two. What do you mean "show off your skills" ? I'm not an entertainer... I have no skills in PR and selling myself.

> hackerspace

Is a hackerspace going to get me a job ?

> Sometimes life involves tasks that are very slightly unpleasant, like paperwork.

The task of getting a job in norway is going to be paved with a lot of obstacles. I'm ready to move out, go there and do interviews, but if nobody can promise me to hire me before I actually have a place to stay, I won't move there to not find a job and come back with debt.

How do I really promote my project of seeking work in norway all by myself, while I live in france ? I already speak english, so that's a plus...

note: I have no job experience.
256GB machines are the sweet spot right now.
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Glad to see that they went with Atmosphere. Meteor has done an incredible job at adopting 3rd party implementations as their official packages.
There is nothing to hear anyway. It is just background music.
There's no reason for a stack that is (linux kernel + android hal + web runtime) to require more resources than (linux kernel + android hal + dalvik and a java toolkit).

Android is barely usable on these devices. Firefox OS run really well.

But of course I'm biaised, I spent a bit too much time on this project ;)
There's a cybersecurity shortage, in part, because Universities don't want to teach students to hack. So folks who want to enter the field are going to Defcon for real-world training
That boot up sound brought back some dreadful memories.
It's worth noting that even if all you have is a bunch of SOs floating around in the same "monolith" you still have a "distributed system" of a kind. You (probably) will never have to worry about partitions, but your state space is still going to be the multiple of all of your independent stateful threads.

Obviously the solution would be to ensure that most SOs don't actually maintain much internal state to the greatest degree they can. This can be partially solved by abstracting out certain stateful primitives into other service objects—achieve this with dependency injection, perhaps.
Ok, as I am an emacs user, I somewhat see your point. But the counterpoint is that most hackers spend a good part of their day on text editors and ide's, so it's not unreasonable to spend some time learning it for greater productivity gains later. Yes, there is a greater learning curve with emacs, but it seems to be more extensible than any other editors out there. The ctrl-c/v/x/z/f shortcuts can easily be remapped, the minimap module is available, as well as multiple cursors. That's the great thign about emacs, it can be extended to do just about anything.

It reminds me of a quote from the great Marvin Minsky: “A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying ﬁrst a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t ﬂexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.”
Which is why you never see it on HN.
Their economics are close to liberals (not the american definition). I don't think there is an equivalent for the religious right. At least not in Germany
The first step to understanding politics is understanding that speech is a type of action.
This is hindsight bias. You can compare this to racism: back in the 18th and 19th centuries, racist and antisemitic people were in the overwhelming majority, and this only changed recently.

And yet, applying 21st century moral values to the 18th century is completely meaningless, as every historian who studied these time periods will tell you.
This is a cool concept, but one note - typically if a retained employee is involuntarily removed from the company, their financial benefits accelerate (other than in cases of "for cause" termination).

This is generally good for the employee, as it removes the risk that the acquirer will "push out" an employee and save on some money (or at least mitigates the pain of being pushed out by an acquirer who doesn't care about the money)
Sorry, I meant one to three orders of magnitude. The most expensive computer I know of is the Japanese K computer at ~ 1.25 billion and 10 something Petaflops. This was mostly politically motivated (Japanese chips) and too costly for what it does IMO. A typical new supercomputer in the Top 500 today is in the order of 100 million.
I was tempted to ignore this but my desire to combat this canard won out.

There were more than two sides to the Proposition 8 fight.

I happen to be neutral on the issue of whether or not same sex unions should be recognized by the government but I too supported Proposition 8. Not because I want to deny anyone anything but because the way to go about doing it should be legislative and not by having a judicial activist issue a fiat.

Some other states moved to legally recognize same sex unions via the legislative process and in those states, once the law passed, the fight was over.

Why is this distinction important? Because once we set the precedent that it's a "human rights issue" to be able to marry whomever you wish, what is to stop the FLDS church from suing because we don't recognize their polygamous marriages?

Once you accept the premise that marrying whomever you wish is a "human rights issue", there's no argument in favor of same sex marriage that doesn't equally apply to three or five person marriage.
> The issue is that a Ruby object goes out of scope, while a low-level pointer to its internals continues to be used (in the middle of code that allocates and can trigger GC). How that problem translates to code generation on amd64 is secondary.

"Out of scope" as defined how? Not by the C code, it can be in-scope in C but optimized away by the compiler... which seems best illustrated by dissecting the compiler's output.

> The fix in the patch is not very good; the real fix is to get rid of the nasty macro zstream_append_input2, and make it a real function.

That "real fix" doesn't actually fix anything, though. Don't get me wrong, macros are ugly (especially lowercase ones) and that's a fine refactoring to suggest, but it's not a fix.

> In other words, don't write macros that break apart garbage-collected objects into low-level C pointers to their internals that are invisible to the collector. The macros spread dangerous code everywhere they are used.

In this context, there's extremely little difference between a macro and a function that the compiler decides to inline.
Except that all the preloaded apps and many that you get from the marketplace work offline: all the resources are cached locally and evicted only when you uninstall the app.

This misconception that "using web technologies" == "you need network access" is hard to correct unfortunately.
You're missing my point. You are using your personal experience to paint huge populations of people ("Indians, Arabs and a few other Middle Eastern cultures") with a very broad (and probably inaccurate) brush. It's speculative at best, offensive stereotyping at worst.
HOLY SHIT WHERE'S THAT MUSIC COMING FROM?!? [hits close button]
> you just want someone to call you and say 'you're brilliant! Come over we got everything sorted out!'

Where did you read I said that ? getting hired doesn't mean I'm a genius. I means they need me and are ready to hire me and maybe help me move there. stop with the misconceptions, I'm not narcissistic. I'm just saying I don't have savings, so I can't put myself in debt and risk going there and not getting a job.
Yes, the arbitrary number guideline should be reworded. I've added that to my todo list.

We'll change the title to your suggestion. Thanks!

All: the best way to complain about a bad title is to suggest a better one. We see hundreds of articles and titles a day—the idea of getting all of those perfect is cruel. Therefore we're delighted to get help, as long as the principles are clear: an HN title should be accurate and neutral while staying as close to the article's own words as possible.
Planet Money did a story on Norway and the oil curse: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/09/06/140110346/how-to-a...
In fact, it was explain in the post but was removed a few hours later (perhaps too much info on one news).

It was about the fact that you can code the same way on server, browser, mobile.

Example was that you can use Http package everywhere with the same function and have the same result.

And the other example was the Cordova integration. The build system can generate the code for the whole distributed system (not just the browser).
Yeah, why would we ever legalize physically addictive drugs like cigarettes or alcohol? Oh wait.

I'm not saying anything about the legalization of Heroin, just that the potential for physical addiction maybe isn't the best marker for legalization.
Just to clarify to "constant connectivity to the internet"

That specifically refers to the Everything.me powered web search, all the core functionality of the phone works and behaves as you would expect it to offline

And in the current versions of firefox OS, the Everything.me integration has been reworked to provide a better offline experience.
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Does this have any algorithmic defense against astroturfing?
And I upvoted his still-grayed-out original post. This is what figuring things out looks like. It was a reasonable thing to bring up when examining something this bizarre.
The twist to the story is Prop 8 was voted into law by majority (slim for sure) of the state. Not saying I agree with or not (haha censoring myself there again), but he basically took a stand on a piece of law that was being debated. So I can't even compare this with the witch hunt against alleged communists in Hollywood in 50s.

Afaik, he did not force others under him to agree. Nor force the idea onto Firefox. It was guilty by association.
When can I play Gorillas[1] on it?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)
Obviously not. The political opinions are objectively different even outside the bubble of current political correctness. One is about the form of government and the other is about human rights.
I just made a switch to Input (http://input.fontbureau.com). Before that, I used Source Code Pro.
should I care about voters ? I don't want to go there for a vacation, if there are job offers which are not filled, maybe they might want to get people from other countries.
"Everything" in the English-speaking world is still definitely the US. There are roughly 400 million English speakers in the US/Canada/Caribbean, 23 million in Australia and 65 million in the UK. The USA is still definitely the center of the English-speaking world; both from a population and cultural influence standpoint.
Stack looks cool, but I can't use it to repair a broken configuration. A commit log recording which commands have already run doesn't verify that the system is in the correct state.
Since the cameras and the sensors, and the APIs for them, are pale imitations of the camera and sensor hardware and software in the iPhone and iOS, I wouldn't expect a decent version of this app for Android, ever. Maybe, at a stretch, they could get it to work on specific handsets, but I'd be surprised if they bothered.
About a year ago, I got to play with a UBR-1 prototype. It seemed to be very well-designed. It was smaller and lighter and the PR2 and had some design improvements. For example, the base was more maneuverable, and the torso and grippers were much faster. The main appeal of the UBR-1 was its low cost -- 50k for the UBR1 vs 400k for the PR2, or thereabouts.

Some of the most technically innovative robotics startups were acquired by Google last summer. Unbounded seemed like the only company left in the realm of mobile manipulator robots, who could continue Willow Garage's legacy of providing technology that runs on open-source software (ROS), is open to tinkering, and benefits robotics researchers. (And plenty more research is required before robots are intelligent enough for the vast majority of menial tasks.) I hope that Google will give back to the research community, but I won't get my hopes up, since they've been extremely secretive so far.

So I'm quite sad to hear the recent news that Unbounded is shutting down, and I'm hoping that the excellent work of Melanie et al. won't be buried due to the legal issues they're facing. (I have no inside info about what is going on.)
Nice to see some Swift wrappers. I don't like Core Data so this looks like an option when writing iOS apps. For more portable code, here is my C++ wrapper for SQLite: https://github.com/catnapgames/NLDatabase
The claim that wordpress.com-hosted blog makes isn't sourced. To further stretch its credibility, it also goes on to describe how Google was actually funded by secret CIA seed money and implies a Bilderberg Group controlling interest of Google.

So it is news, to those of us who haven't read this blog that makes an unsourced claim.

Besides, from the Greenwald docs, we've seen that Intelipedia is simply a giant Wikimedia instance, nothing fancy.
Exploring Dart and Polymer
I stumbled on this after commenting recently about Stellar. Sqitch was mentioned, so I decided to search for similar tools. I plan on trying them out as soon as I have time, but would be interested to hear some pros and cons from those who've used either or both.
Wow - people have so much positivity in sharing their experience with RethinkDB. Congrats to the team for building something great, that others find utility in and enjoy working with.
Ohio lawmakers want to limit the teaching of the scientific process
I think all cars are hatchback in Italy (Europe too I would say, but I'm totally not into cars so I tend not to pay attention to them when I travel).

I drove one way and back so it's not that much road; plus I was in a countryside area that doesn't have many lights.
Actually as one of the people I think you're talking about (though as someone else noted I don't know if your description of radical free-market types is perfectly accurate, it's really about net benefit) this concerns me. In principle it seems to be banning fraud, and if that's all it does then I can't really complain. But to say "you can't structure your site in such a way" I think it's rather heavy handed. I guess it comes down to how it's enforced. Given the way governments generally are, there's going to be some sort of government agency with an official review process for websites, it's going to bog everything down, things will get developed much more slowly. This is a hidden cost. The web is a very agile industry, so this would be particularly painful. So until you can quantify this cost, you can't argue that this is unquestionably a beneficial regulation.

I think a better way (though maybe with lesser hidden costs) to deal with it would be to declare that such dark patterns constitute fraud. That way, a customer is free to sue a company for committing it. Then the incentives are placed on the company not to set up these patterns. If there's a grey area, it's not the job of a bureaucrat to prescribe, it's the job of a consumer to decide if they've been defrauded, then judge to agree or not, and also the company to make a risk trade off, and so forth. Much less rigid that way.
I have mixed views on this. On the one hand, I completely support model aircraft hobbyists and I also support private drone operations (like real estate photography or search and rescue, or just recreational use).

However, there has to be a line where a remote control operation could interact with the national airspace system and the regulated operators therein. Not more than 500 feet and away from airports sounds like a good limit to me, adding on that the drone operator must maintain clearance from any aircraft that may exist in that area, such as helicopters.

I think the key change that is spooking the FAA is that drones may be operated (from a technical perspective) outside of direct view of the operator. "Traditional" model aircraft weren't generally taken far from the field they launched from; but a drone with a camera and transmitter can go much further.

Probably everyone has seen the video of the drone that was flown through a fireworks display. A very cool video indeed, but, also a good example of the FAA's concerns: if the drone is outside of view of the operator, and running at altitude, and not carrying a transponder, lights, or other equipment mandated to certified aircraft, then how is clearance from other aircraft ensured?
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government's done "small claims process as a service" already: https://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/

fill in website, the letters go out automatically.

if the person you're suing admits fault (or doesn't respond): the cheque normally turns up in a few weeks.

otherwise will give you a court date.
Part of a Defcon talk a few years ago included something similar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU8hg4FTm0g&t=38m43s
It can also spill to disk if needed, which is what Hadoop always does.
Of course I added it to my resume! All the companies I interviewed at (all small companies of <10 people though) thought it was a huge bonus for me. Even though I'm only a medior developer I have proven that I can work independently and responsibly. It also gave me a lot of cool projects to show.

That's how I did it; I just demo'd them the coolest apps I built and explained why they were cool (google tweeted about it, won the imagine cup with it, got covered by major news sites, etc.).
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This caught my eye too. Also the phone doesn't have 3G. I can't imagine an always-connected phone performing well on Edge.
1.) The ability to deliver from any restaurant, not just those participating or offering their own delivery service.
2.) Drivers in a large number of locations, likely closer to the intended restaurant than any "pick it up for you and deliver" service could ever be.
The roadmap of Meteor includes "Server-side rendering" planned after 1.0. https://trello.com/c/Lz07fBAm/7-server-side-rendering

In my opinion, server-side rendering is a bit overrated since Google knows how to crawl ajaxy apps. SEO is a big concern but you can always render your pages with phantomjs (also a popular approach in the Angular world) or rely on Google being smart.

For rendering the page to the end-user, Facebook is not rendering everything server-side, nor does Twitter. I don't have enough knowledge why, but one of the FB engineers told me that it is not really faster: you need to render it twice, send the same data possibly twice, it is hard to correctly chip into the events made on the page, etc.