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Show HN: Structr - Next-Generation Data CMS Based on Neo4j
I find it weird when press call what are basically kids playing toy helicopters 'drone operators'[1]. They are definitely playing on the negative connotations have with the word 'drone' which, as you point out, is closely associated with the military.

1: http://onforb.es/1matUzZ
SpaceX is severely behind schedule on actually delivering and launching Falcon 9s, however. This may well get sorted out, but given its performance to date I'm not surprised that NASA wants another option.
Oh man the memories. Games are just too complicated these days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Caves

"On October 24, 2005, 3D Realms (formerly Apogee) released a maintenance patch to fix a bug in the game which set the player's computer's clock backwards 100 years after playing on Windows XP." lol.
As opposed to Objective-C, or C++?

Languages for writing client side apps have always sucked. They sucked in the 90's when targeting Windows (ok Delphi wasn't too bad), they sucked in the 2000's when targeting MacOS X and they suck now when targeting mobile. Of all the languages that mainstream operating systems have used, Java is by far the least worst. Especially because you can use any JVM-compatible language and are not really restricted to Java. For example Kotlin is looking like it's going to be pretty nice, pretty soon.

Go would be nowhere near a useful upgrade on the status quo.
Loving many aspects of this. Couple of bugs filed, but really promising work :D Glad I helped kickstart this.
I do see your point. The advancement is: You don't need to make/test your engine, and we have a lot more graphics cards and platforms, too.
> That is not a gift.

Yes, it is a gift. The loan was priced way below market, considering the level of risk and other conditions attached. The difference between the interest rate Tesla paid, and the market interest rate for the same amount of money, is a subsidy (or 'gift', if you prefer) from the taxpayer to Tesla.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/05/tesl...
I'm surprised this isn't getting higher on the HN.

It's a really neat product.

There are _definitely_ false positives, and it could use some more context information on the positives it does report. (For vulnerabilities based on gem specs, identify what version of the dependency it considers okay (not always easily identifiable from the CVE alone), and quote the Gemfile/gemspec line that it didn't like).

It definitely does more than just identify gem specs allowing versions of dependencies with known vulnerabilities. It's also doing some code analysis (like models missing attr_accessible in rails 3.x), and told me about one such vulnerability in my code that I think is legit and I need to fixed (also another couple I think are false positives; there is a 'mark false positive' button to remove them from your report).

It looks like free level account can get reports on open source (public not private) github repos. Great.

This is also potentially a source of information for attackers to identify vulnerable apps, even hypothetically identify and exploit in a totally automated way, especially for public github repos. Security will keep getting harder, that much we can be sure.
Chris here, the CTO of Lexoo.

Thanks for the recommendation! Just out of curiosity - how did you hear about us? (Feel free to email me at chris@lexoo.co.uk)
Reconstruction of planetary gearwork in the Antikythera Mechanism (2012)
I was in the same boat. I had the top PBA (parts, batteries, and accessories) sales in my district by 3x over #2. Even though PBA was the stuff with the highest profit margin, I still had to go to those cell phone meetings because I only sold about one phone a month, on average. Nobody else in my store would go near the parts section, so that was essentially my job. And we had enough business in that area that it was my /full time/ job. So I had two choices: help those customers, or don't because I'm too busy trying to sell cell phones. As anyone who's ever bought or sold a cellphone knows, it's a long process to get everything set up and see the customer out. When a cellphone transaction is happening, everything else stops, so customers looking for help finding a fuse or battery are SOL and end up leaving.

In my (anecdotal) experience working at 2 different Radio Shacks in different parts of the country with vastly different demographics, RS didn't need cellphones (or laptops, or TVs). I would claim that the cellphone business drove away more customers than it brought in. If RS was a simple, no-hassle PBA retailer, I am convinced that it wouldn't be in the shape it is in now.
Activity state is persisted to disk (by the ActivityManager). That's why your process can be killed to free memory then woken up again when the user task switches back to it.
Ticket prices for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games [pdf]
Iron Man-like Exosuit to Expand Ocean Exploration
Don’t Fear the Shrinking Budget for Outsourcing
There are leases and investors have already nixed a plan for RS to do a massive dump of retail locations.

The DIY/Maker ideas are certainly interesting to me; I'd probably frequent such a store. Though I doubt the business model as a retail operation at scale. But converting Radio Shack to this? Existing store design/location would often not be suitable. Many employees wouldn't be suitable. The company is in financial trouble. If it's a viable business plan, why bring in the legacy that is Radio Shack?
Similar results here.

#1 is a close friend

#2 is some random that I should probably not be friends on Facebook with added a week or two back. Acquaintance at best

#3 is someone I've not spoke to in years

#4 is the SO

#5 is another person I've not spoke to in years who is friends with #3 if that means anything to anyone scouring comments for bugs

#7-11 are randoms that I've spoken to a couple of times "keep in touch!"

#12 is in my reality #2 spot after the SO, very close friend we speak pretty much daily and all that
How to Smartly Sort the iPhone App Chaos?
"No crazy markup either."

Possibly, the only thing in the store fitting that claim.

Not even sure its true. Went to the website and I can burn a gallon of gas and an hour of time and pay local sales tax for $89.99. We'll round that up to $100 for expenses and annoyance. I'd pay someone $5 to fetch it for me to avoid the wasted time and having to wait in line and hear all about the great deal they could offer on a cell phone, so I feel rounding up to $100 is fair.

Or UPS can drop one off tomorrow (well, worst case, Friday) for only $67.99 and ordering it takes less than a minute compared to the agony of going to RS.

So sure, I'll pay about 1/3 less to get it from Amazon.

If I have plenty of shipping time adafruit sells then for $55 (plus shipping, they hide their shipping costs deep in the checkout process so I donno and I won't shop there because I can't compare)

Digikey will match the price $55 and they're honest about shipping estimates which would be $3.22 USPS first class (maybe), or $10 if I want UPS (eh, just use amazon) And living nearby I'll get it tomorrow or Friday at worst.

Lets be realistic, I have a busy-ish day today and I can't get out to RS anyway until maybe saturday, so Prime is not only cheaper but faster, and if I had to squeeze every penny I could save another $5 or so by ordering from digikey.
It's just a buddypress installation.
Jack Dorsey Believes in Profit: For Merchants, Cities, and Square
No. My understanding is that with an AMOLED screen it uses substantially more power when displaying a range of colours.

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/180110-how-samsung-galaxy-...
Had this article posted anywhere else, given Steve Blanc's air, it would have started defining new rules.

At HN, you don't BS, not even, when you are @sgblank.
You've not provided enough information for anyone to form a meaningful answer to your question. Maybe this is why you see your questions deleted from StackOverflow.

In any case, for the one bit of information you've provided, you do not even need CSS to accomplish:

<h1>Site Title</h1>
<p>Line of small text</p>
<p>Line of small text</p>
<p>Line of small text</p>

Will accomplish the task of "top of page, big bit of text", and "next to it, multiple rows of small text".
I don't think startups or small companies should be looking specifically for "Android developers", or "X developers" for any language or platform value of X. Instead, they should be looking for generalist developers who can learn whatever platform they need to work on.
IBM Offers a Data Tool for the Mainstream, with Watson’s Help
Fixing Healthcare.gov: How Engineering Is Critical to Our Society
There was recently an online mini-conference mostly about the MinIon (involving the CTO of Oxford Nanopore and a few of the researchers involved in the MinIon Access Program).

People may be specifically interested in the first and second talks with the corollary of both being likely biased towards the MinIon:

- 1st is by Clive Brown (ONP CTO) and discusses the MinIon platform, background to the Nanopore technology, analysis platforms and the future PromethIon expansions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ut...

- 2nd has Nick Loman (one of the MAP researchers but admitted 'fanboy') discussing the performance on the MinIon in his lab in 'real world' conditions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ut...
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Writers Have a Serious Advantage Over the Rest of Us
RMS would never let practicality get in the way of ideology.

The GNU/RMS is best because you're free! (As long as your computing needs are a text editor, compiler, and some unix system utils)
Middle-School Dropout Codes Clever Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying
Just put a smart card chip and the pin code entering mechanism on the card (or authentication token. It doesn't necessarily need to be a "card"). This way you don't have to trust the ATMs. (Or any other device you don't control. How many times do you buy stuff using your credit card?)
If he made the opposite call, and adopted CLisp, you'd be complaining about him anyway, in a thread about some unexpected compatibility problem or whatever.

It gets tiresome even to watch.
How to Send Encrypted Email Through Swiss Servers?
No mention of Mount and Blade either.

Kudos to the grassroots enthusiasts that are the chaos butterfly's wings that produce the waves big publishers try to surf...

The most enthusiastic are still moving around bits of lead and plastic on scaled terrain trying to simulate the past.

It can be exciting to watch, but I'd prefer peaceful times to live in though.
I agree with the pain points, for me they are unknown and that's also why it feels like I could sit down and write another communications app, but couldn't contribute to the energy sector. The utility bills sounds part sounds insane, I hope you are successful, good luck!
How to Achieve Big Success from Big Data
Here’s How to Purge Your iTunes of That Horrid U2 Album
F# and OCaml uses this forward pipe operator as well. It's very useful and makes the flow much more apparent, in other words, it increases readability, a lot.
Make sure you have tons of honey I read somewhere that it never goes bad and it is an excellent source of energy.
When you invoke Pants, you pass in "goals" (roughly, the verbs/actions you want to take) and "targets" (roughly, the things you want to act upon, often piles of source code).

If you usually invoke './pants goal test bundle src/my/awesome/project tests/my/awesome/project' (to run tests and bundle up an app), to skip testing instead invoke './pants goal bundle my/awesome/project'.
hmm... from reading this I feel like I'm in the minority but I think I'd prefer scheme to CL (I have to emphatically agree that thinking of a javascript-emacs makes me shudder).

Something about the macros not being hygienic in CL bothers me. I know it's alright as long as you don't redefine anything you shouldn't be redefining but it seems less elegant, and since we're using lisps anyway I feel we should search for the most elegant implementation.

Full disclosure, I don't know too much about Common Lisp so if anyone wants to point out some ways in which it is more elegant than scheme it'd be much appreciated.
I am seeing the opposite--701 has no trailing slash, 34 does have a trailing slash.
Far Manager is the only thing I miss after switching to OSX 6 years ago. Tried Midnight Commander and other alternatives, but not nearly as good imo. File search is the killer feature, so much better than any other alternative.
Show HN: Specipic lets you specify what's in a picture
Deep Dive into Thailand's Tech Industry
Yup. They don't even seem to be trying to hide it much either https://netropolitan.club/ - blatantly the standard WordPress login page with custom login icon or similar plugin installed

> As for security, Touchi-Peters claims the site was coded tightly.

Not a bash against WordPress but it's a bit cheeky to make it look like he hand coded the thing himself
Really impressive, and I really liked it.

The search narrowed down pretty quickly to working out that I liked Kandinsky and Klimt. This is awesome accurate on the one hand, but annoying on the other hand. If I wanted to know which artists I like I'd just remember it. :-)

That's just me being "funny". It did bring up some nice pictures that I didn't know.
"cagey" is the perfect one word description for Palantir.

I am not quite sure if even this community quite understands what Palantir is and does. Things aren't quite what they appear to be.
Space Tourism Is an Advertisement Scheme
The title and content of this post seem to address vastly different subjects. Nowhere in the article does it attempt to address the task of "finding the right co-founders." I must admit, I was a bit let down...
A Brief History of Social Networks for Millionaires
Kun je gezond en snel vermageren met zemelen? – Leef Nu Gezonder
Democracy = voting if you take away propaganda, campaign funding, educate voters and design a fraud-proof voting system -- like maybe a 'blockchain' voting software?
It's not a bad thing, but it's not something that's supposed to be on the top of a thread either. A downvote to make it stick to the bottom is proper in my opinion, I doubt anyone would downvote it to oblivion.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11 GA Available
I believe this kind of thinking is what led to the massive success that is emacs in the first place.
How long has money been cheap in Japan? 30 years? we have some of the same factors at work in the U.S. not the same situation obviously, but fundamentally, we have a relatively slow growing economy which does not generate a lot of inflationary pressures and my guess, the Fed will keep rates relatively low for a long time.
Yep, the converters do their best to translate your save at the end of one game's timeline into a new save at the beginning of the next game's timeline. It's really cool. I say 'do their best' because different games sometimes define regions along different borders, stuff like that. Crusader Kings II might split the Iberian Peninsula up into 14 regions (just making up numbers here), while Europa Universalis IV might consolidate them a little, into 12 regions, so the converter has to recognize that. I haven't looked into it much myself, just reading the paradoxplaza subreddit and seeing people discussing it.

And yeah, it's gotta take a long time to go from 769 to 1948, but can you imagine doing that, then being able to look back at your 1100-year history and see how far you came, from a tiny barony to a modern power, fighting tooth-and-nail the entire time for survival?
With this being a rigid suit with normal air gas mixture, are divers still susceptible to decompression sickness? Is the pressure inside the suit the same as sea-level ambient, or is it higher to reduce the strain on the suit?

On a different note: can we please, pretty please, stop calling every form of suit 'Iron Man-like'? Aside from being made of metal, this bears almost no resemblance.
'Probably a lot of pot-smoking' at Twitter: Thiel
Elite Interval Training App for Windows Phone 8
Thanks for your comments.

We try to respect the uncertainty in the calculation of preferences. For instance, if you click a blue Elvis poster, we don't know if it because you like blue or Elvis, hence we end up showing some items that may be far from what you are looking for.

That being said, there is without doubt room for improvement and we got a lot of data to help with that today. In the Bayesian lingo, this is all about fine-tuning the priors.

One of this things we are excited about is the use case where the user knows what they want, but don't know the word for it. For instance it may turn out that I may like Expressionism (this is in fact true) but I don't know the word for that.

If you know that you want an Elvis poster, there isn't much point in using Findmelike right now. I think it would be very cool to have both a text search box where you could enter what you know, and then get the Findmelike visual choice search on the matching items to narrow those down aesthetically.
Meet the 2014 MacArthur Fellows
I'm wondering roughly how old you are?

Curious question: As a blind programmer - has the 'JavaScript everything' approach to the web made your personal content consumption easier or harder?

I briefly crossed paths with some blind users back in the late 1980's back when there was no heavily established GUI for the sighted masses (i.e. Windows 3.11). I'd be interested to know, compare and contrast how easily 'consumable' present cyberspace is versus the command-line era.
This is an ok idea, but go look at the API for iPhoto, Contacts or iTunes and you'll realize it is irrelevant what scripting language is used. Really sucks that Apple doesn't open up their apps to scripting better.
Writing used a different part of your brain. Maybe this helps people break one and endless loop by creating a states change.
This seems to be aimed at VPN & Tor users inside the US.

> The proposed amendment addresses a jurisdictional limitation in the current version of Rule 41(b)(1) that prevents a judge from issuing a warrant unless the target is known to be located within her district.
Next big thing is ride sharing on 3D-printed self-driving super-sized drones)
Fine grained dependency management for large projects that large teams work on.
++ We have a Hobby Town USA near by, I went in looking for arduinos and stepper motors for robotics projects. Big fat NOPE. I don't imagine the market for these is very large at the moment, there's a lot of STEM knowledge required to buy the components and build from scratch. Pre fabbed kits suffer the problem of high price tags making them a difficult or impossible purchase for most families of young children who would benefit. So we have Lego Mindstorms for the foreseeable future.
Elixir has the same syntax for the same operator.
When the Power's Out, Solar Panels May Not Keep the Lights On
Yeah, play as the Orkney Islands and take over the world :)
Maybe, maybe not. As your codebase grows, it's likely to turn into separate parts with some common code. Pants can get you faster incremental builds: quickly figuring out what needs building, building just that. If sbt is quick for you, you might not have hit the point where Pants helps.

If you reach a point where sbt gets slow and you're looking at other build tools, that's a good time to look at Pants.
I worked at RadioShack one summer about 5 years ago during college, and it is frankly not surprising to me that the business is failing.

RadioShack was never able to offer competitive pricing on anything besides cell phones while I worked there, and would frequently employ somewhat dubious business tactics when it came to pricing (permanent "sales" on many things like batteries, "sales" where the sale price was the same as the normal retail price which was only disclosed in small type on the bottom of the pricing label).

RadioShack had an employee compensation system which STRONGLY incentivized cell phone sales resulting in the infamous aggressive phone pushing. At RadioShack you were (and maybe still are?) paid minimum wage plus you received a percentage of the gross store revenue each day if it exceeded the daily sales target (a few thousand iirc), a fixed amount for each extended warranty sold ($1-2 iirc), and an amount for each phone sold (something like $20-50). At our store we never had the customer volume to hit our sales targets, and so the only way we could make money was to sell phones.

The employee turnover at my store was insanely high, and none of the employees knew anything about electronics (including myself at the time), computers, or AV equipment. This was generally OK though, as most of our customers were also not tech savvy and couldn't tell the difference. Customers overwhelmingly came in to buy AV cabling, batteries, digital TV antennas, and analog to digital set top boxes. We never sold a TV or any other high value item while I was there.

Perhaps RadioShack will be able to pivot, but if not, I don't think the world will be that worse off.

As an aside, I felt bad pushing phones and worse charging ignorant people $30 for an HDMI cable that could be had from eforcity for under a dollar, and would therefore frequently steer customers away towards Amazon for such items. This practice somewhat perversely earned me regular customers, and by the end of the summer I was running what amounted to an off the books IT support desk out of the store where people would bring in their laptops and phones and I would troubleshoot their problems for 50-100 bucks. Thanks for providing me with retail space for my small business RadioShack!
Oh, and I've predicted it a week ago)) https://www.facebook.com/Rocking.IT/posts/760010057395213 while sharing another link http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/10/forget-the-apple-watch-thin...
Common wisdom is that cofounders should be sought early on. However, this is not the only approach. The ideal cofounder is a socially awkward genius, a proverbial Wozniak. He is capable of long hours, engineering feats and brilliant work. Such a man is hard to seduce, by traditional means.

So, finding your Woz is one problem. An even trickier problem is ensnaring him. This requires some craftiness. One thing to avoid is ideas. Ideas just introduce the possibility of boring the Woz with a job he doesn't want to be doing. Instead, go straight to recruiting interns. I am really hesitant to say this, considering the moral implications but this is unavoidable: young attractive, impressionable interns. Female will usually work best, but you can't be certain. Some days an unusual bait will outfish everything so don't discount young men or other non traditional choices. Avoid over the top and extroverted beauty. An understated, geeky 23 year old brunette with a tendency to wide eyed admiration is a good, safe choice. Interns are available at affordable prices at your nearest University.

Once you've baited your hook, approach slowly. Ask questions. Advice. Try to use pose interesting challenges. This is a game of seduction. Her job is to bring him to you. You're job is to be hapless, but good hearted. Egalitarianism tendencies can be overpowering, Your Woz will not let this beautiful young woman (or man, do I have to keep doing this?) set herself up for failure. You must encourage an inescapable desire to be helpful, fueled by poorly understood romantic desires and a touch of fatherly care.

Step 2 underpants.

Step 3 profit

EDIT: I see this comment has been poorly received. Would anyone like to join me as junior cofounder of an internship startup?
So what are they "really" doing?
Todo:  Talk Openly, Develop Openly
What's a "time in theater" bonus? Never heard of the term & can't find it on Google either.
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> it is imagination what separates losers from winners! :)

Imagination and lucrative government contracts.
What the fuck am I reading?