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Looking to HIRE Objective C Independent Contractor
Looking for someone to make iOS changes within an existing well-structured and well-documented code, it is built with native iOS development in Objective C.

Minor changes include changes to the GUI and a conversion to accept data via Bluetooth connectivity.

Exciting project.

Interested parties should send an email to: jh@bacus.co
Yeah.

It should be noted that I'm glued to my laptop most of the time, so I mostly think of my phone as a computer with a small screen and crappy input method.
Incognito is useful for testing sites with cookies.
> If you genuinely can't hit a price being shown, ever; I'd call that market a fraud.

Which is exactly what many are complaining about; welcome to the conversation.

> Spread width n millis before execution. Spread at execution. IF the latter is consistently wider it's not a market it's a con, take your business elsewhere.

Again, that's the complaint they have, see, you do understand the debate.
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MyMozaic Giving Students the opportunity to showcase their accomplishments
Lusers to quote the BOFH :-)
I have taken that specific course, and yes, it is very good. But I don't think it's always the case that professors at top schools are always better than TAs at small colleges. Top professors are almost always research-oriented and some let their teaching skills suffer.

My counter example would be the Algorithms course from Princeton with Robert Sedgewick. I would rate that as basically "just ok."
I was doing something late at night (probably working on a hobby project, but I don't remember). I was just going to bed, when I got a warning notification that someone is attacking a portal near my flat. It was a player I came to recognize by nickname because she was constantly retaking the few portals that are next to my home. I decided it's an opportunity to finally meet her, to connect the nickname to a face, so I dressed up and run down to the park.

Upon arrival I met someone with a phone hiding in the shadows near a fence. I just stood there, countering her actions and waiting to be noticed. A kid yelled, "mom! are you coming?", to whom she replied "yes, just wait one minute". After that she noticed me standing there, so she told her kid to go and bring his dad. Moments later I was surrounded by three Ingress players and had to accept those portals are to be theirs that night.

We talked for about half an hour, exchanging stories about the city and Ingress community in it, all in completely friendly atmosphere. I haven't met them IRL again since then, but they take my portals over every now and then :).
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Hi, the biggest differences between us and Bento/Filemaker/MSAccess (and even older products like Ashton Tate's dBase, Lotus Approach, etc) are:

1) Airtable is seamlessly realtime and instantly shareable with collaborators (which we believe is highly important for most use cases).

All those other products required desktop software installation, and sharing a DB with multiple users required involved setting up a networked shared drive with a file that was concurrently accessed by multiple users.

2) Airtable supports a full fledged mobile, simple-to-use interface. Mobile access is increasingly important, and none of those products provided a mobile interface (with the exception of Bento). Our mobile app instantly syncs all your changes with the web interface, or other shared collaborators.

3) Airtable supports the speed of data entry of a grid based interface on the web, while maintaining database structure (typed columns, 1 row = 1 record) which means we can alternately display records as cards (on mobile) or in the future, points on a map, events on a calendar, etc. Many of the other products forced you to use a form-based interface for record creation/editing, rather than allowing grid-based editing.

4) More modern paradigm. We support features like @mentions, row comments, direct file uploads from dropbox/box/google drive, etc, that add a useful collaboration layer on top of just the raw data.
I think it depends on your objective. Do you want to learn something on your own time, in the order you choose, with the media types you want? That is more of what we're going for with https://curiosity.com vs a directed approach. More choice and less structure and force. But then again, some people need and want that depending on their goal.
Are there any plans to make this scriptable with say Javascript?
Hi Kolev! We do have plans to release an API (by end of this year or early next). If you're interested in getting early access and providing feedback on the features you would need, please fill out this form: https://getforma.wufoo.com/forms/q1ijurhh1cp2kfu/
Or, reach out to me directly at howie@airtable.com
I have been bitten at least once for forgetting that Linux and Windows disagree on the case sensitivity of filenames and directories when dealing with namespacing in PHP...
> So are there really only two types of people, Hackers and Hustlers, or is there another category people could fall into?

The speaker was mistaken, but there really are two kinds of people -- those who invent bogus categories of people, and those who give them credence.
All that is fine and dandy, but the RAM. These days RAM is so much more expensive! 4GB DDR3 is around $8-$10/GB. So his 24GB memory alone would cost around $200 at least.
It would be interesting to review the full list of creative translations:

“Crash” became hookii (a cow falling over but not dying)

“timeout” became a honaama (your fish has got away)

“Aspect ratio” became jeendondiral, a rebuke from elders when a fishing net is wrongly woven.
For US market, a scale is a Class 1 medical device.
Show HN: Pagerbot, a chat bot for managing PagerDuty on-call schedules
It's me always trying to learn everything with minimum amount of tutorials required. Orbiter and KSP have beaten me in the same way - I had to read up a bit before being able have any kind of a meaningful gameplay.
I'm confused, I've never heard this term before. I was commenting on how adults require income to survive. If you are wealthy enough to support yourself without work I wouldn't call you unemployed. I mean, it's technically true but messes up the data.
Y Combinator purchases common stock - approximately 6%. Y Combinator has a fund, called YCVC Fund I, that purchases a safe equal to 1% of the company (at the time of issuance of the safe). The safe is typically convertible into shares of the issuer's preferred stock (but could convert to common stock in a merger, for example). So between the two YC entities, that's 6% in common stock and 1% in a convertible security that will most likely turn into preferred stock. Hope that helps clarify!
Ask HN: Are there any hackathons for non-students and non-graduate-students?
Thom Yorke Releases New Album Tomorrow's Modern Boxes via BitTorrent
I get your point and agree to some extent, however I still think the externalities of the patent system are so bad/terrible that it should be abolished. This company does not make me think otherwise (in a meaningful way). If it took the world a few years longer to have a spinning toothbrush or paint can that pours, I'm okay with that. So yes, abolishing patents would have negatives but I'd look at the system on the aggregate.
re: linux I find that's less true than it used to be, at least on x86; I run a few pieces of non-free software, binary software (Xilinx tools, Renoise) and it's problem free. Huge statically linked blobs though.
Nixie lets you wear a selfie-taking drone on your wrist
I think it is better to say that glass DOES flow, but it is a solid! For example, it would take several universe lifetimes to observe any appreciable flow (or more quantifiably, the viscosity is circa 10^19 Pa-s). Similarly, lead flows and to a much lesser degree, steel too.
Does anyone know if there are options to use GPUs on AWS to do calculations using Python for Deep Learning?
Since the app is intended to be used while sleeping, it would be pretty easy to include a preprogrammed address in the 911 message (perhaps with a geolocation 'sanity check' just in case the wearer is traveling).

I think notifying a friend or family member is probably the most important thing. They can follow up from there.

Text-to-911 is growing in availability (in the US, anyway), but it's far from universal:

http://transition.fcc.gov/pshs/911/Text_911_Deployments.pdf
Fantastic article, even better than the first. This is exactly what I enjoy discovering on HN.

I hope he suffers no repercussions with respect to his trespassing, although it seems the worker who left the tower open and unattended might have some explaining to do. You think since another tower had been attacked earlier this year they might have installed security cameras. I wonder why these towers seem to lack security given their importance to their owners.
I decided not to go the University because I'd rather be paid to learn, than pay to learn.

I'm 33 now, and have 15 years of experience in my field. I have a professional network that is incredible. I learned everything I know from online courses, or online documentation.

People who graduated college are years behind, and in debt for it.

So my argument is that a university is a poor place to build a professional network in comparison to your actual profession. Especially upwards where you will have contacts several places higher than you developed over years.

A professional environment introduces you to new developments in your field.
That's true in theory. In practice, a not insignificant number of popular Android apps (mostly, but not limited to, games) are written in non-Java languages. That limits those apps to ARM unless the developers bother to provide versions for other ISAs, which practically nobody does.
If you're able to set arbitrary environment variables, then you could also emulate the prefix and suffix. e.g. this works even on patched F20:

$ env 'BASH_FUNC_ls()=() { echo myls; }' bash -c ls
myls

But as others mention, this is not really a bash issue anymore, rather a general problem of sanitizing environments.
Private company in possession of tax records of 5M Greeks; fined 100,000€
No plans to automate. I would have emailed the OP but couldn't see any contact details in their profile.

Detected via a Firefox extension [1] (there are several on AMO). Given the nature and severity of the vulnerability, and how widespread it still is (I get an alert every few days), I'm surprised everyone doesn't use one.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxbleed/
It may work better for pictures of sunsets, but definitely it's much better to enjoy a concert/gig than trying to record it for youtube.

However, it's great to see a good recording of it afterwards, with emphasis on good. Not shaky, not blurry, professionally done.
JIBO the Worlds First Personal Assistant Robot
A Pair of Android Tech Talks
When I started university, the first thing that they told us, at the beginning of the first class, was to form groups and try to meet people.

You just made the best argument in favour of the much ridiculed student success centers, deans of diversity &c. You can put someone from an educated family into a university and they will do just fine; if they aren't they will get advice from their parents, and then they will do fine. But access to university is less exclusive nowadays, and first-generation students will need some boost or prodding that their upbringing just couldn't provide to take all possible advantage of their environment (and it isn't their fault).
We're going to release an API in the near future ( https://airtable.com/api ), but that would be used for server-side integrations (ie you must deploy your own server to host your own code talk to Airtable's servers).

We do want to support some form of scripting that would be hosted on OUR servers, but that's further out on the roadmap. We also have plans to support external integrations and triggers via Zapier/IFTTT.
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Very impressed.

Spreadsheets have never quite "clicked" with me, but this did. It exposes a lot of functionality that your average person would want out of a spreadsheet in a much friendlier way.

I am really curious on the "database" side though, can this handle a couple of tables with 10k rows linking to one another? Maybe an API that allows me to return JSON with some query language? If so, would be a great tool for CRM like tools and any small/medium data set where a nice UI for editing would come in handy
You could try http://apifox.com to create a simple JSON api instead of spreadsheet
It doesn't matter a lot, no. But you do have to pick one for your platform, and decide if you want to be tied to, say, Intel's specific offerings, or (in principle) anyone with an ARM license. If RISC-V gets off the ground, you'll be able to pick a completely open standard.
I was expecting something a bit more complicated, but simplicity usually is the best way to go...
Thanks a lot for your feedback, these are definitely things we're looking to tackle.

We're planning on improving scrolling performance soon, it's definitely a priority for us to improve our performance for large datasets.

As for the linking, we definitely want to do more to help you normalize your data. We can also infer column types to help with the import process. Doing this type of thing on paste is an interesting idea.

We have some ideas for how to make it so that you don't need a primary column. One thing that you can do now is make the primary column a formula, and then reference other columns to generate a key.
"Plus the Xeon E5410 is a 2007 chip (7 years old!) and gets it butt kicked by even a low end i3 from 2012"

Yes, but in an age of ZFS, can a non-xeon support ECC RAM ?

I think a rackmount home server is a good choice if you already have other rackmount equipment in place, such as switches and routers.

If that server is the only rackmount device you're going to get, then I think it's probably unnecessary.
In spite of all the good advice I've got about this vuln having come from HN, I feel like all of the time people are spending trying to produce the best snippet and correct each other (ourselves) to check for vulnerability is like one big circlejerk.

I'm not sure who downvoted you, but I don't think you earned it. Every short piece of advice in each of these threads is likely to be part wrong, especially whenever taken out of context.
You can reach me at howie @ airtable.com
It's fixed now if you try again
The new Maxwell 970/980 kit is very interesting from a compute perspective.

970: $329 for 3494 SP / 109 DP GFLOPS @ 145W TDP

980: $549 for 4612 SP / 144 DP GFLOPS @ 165W TDP
Could that last step be considered a kind of Levenshtein distance measurement?
Agreed!

Also, given the successful character extraction, and the knowledge that (1) the font doesn't change, and (2) they're just translated and rotated, I think performing those operations on the individual characters could've yielded a pretty perfect success. Simply try a whole bunch of shifts and rotations on a given character until it matches a reference, almost exactly.
For the record, the US Constitution says absolutely nothing about a legal right to pursue happiness.
These all have patents issued, so this is good idea of the state of the art at NSA 4 to 6 years ago.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a poster of your code?
I'm building a side project that takes your Github/Bitbucket repo, lets you pick some source files and create a 24x36 poster that is mailed to you(perhaps to mark the first release of your code). Font would be monospaced to fit evenly on the poster and perhaps some columns of code? The cost with rough estimates should be $50. I think it would be damn cool to have the first release of a project I worked on or an open source project I work on. What do you think?

edit: Something like http://imgur.com/wgDRIyL
In my experience, networking requires one strong interaction. Drinking once with someone especially helps.

After that strong interaction, proximity is irrelevant.
I hear ya. I actually hate listening to pointless debates about vim vs emacs too – especially if it's among coworkers or some situation I can't just ignore.
Reminds me a lot of Calvin's 'Dad Polls' - http://calvinethobbes.free.fr/images/polls2.gif

Is also an instructive example of why it is so hard to predict the markets. Sometimes the markets are dependent on pissed-off ten year olds.
Gorgeous work — and from poking around in the console a bit, it looks as though you're using the latest version of Backbone.js.

Any interest in having Airtable featured on the list of example apps on the Backbone homepage? If yes, drop me a line...
The "instantly syncs updates with all users" bit caught my eye. I always wonder how people go about implementing that.

Asana works that way, and they have their own framework named Luna that does some functional reactive magic. Meteor, which I've been working with a lot lately and have really enjoyed using, was also created by some ex-Asana people, and enables the same type of real-time synced updates.

I was just wondering if you could share anything about your technology stack or how you accomplish the real-time updates. Are you using Meteor?
"If the first rule of making money selling products is to actually have a product, then the second is to have a price."

I read and paid for Practical Ty­pog­ra­phy, and I'm familiar with the fact that having no specific price, like Butterick's "$5-$10", is a disincentive to paying anything for a product. And I still had a hard time deciding how much to pay and completing the payment.

I wonder if the followthrough would have been different if he had set a specific price, say $5 or $7.
As the other commentators mention this would almost certainly be illegal, and would fall under computer-misuse laws.

That said the more likely reason is that a lot of the time you couldn't - because the bash-you're exploiting wouldn't have root privileges and would thus be unable to fix the issue.
BitTorrent's Bundle is coming to iOS
Companies vying to turn asteroids into filling stations
Depends if you want compute heavy HPC/Big data the dual xenon's with 128GB memory and 30-40 TB of DASD are the way to go.

And a lot of the consumer boards cant handle that many of the Tesla cards they run out of PCI lanes
Then you need to write to the state universities (and even private universities) in your state, as well, as they do the same thing with both state-funded and federally-funded research. It has been going on for decades.
I was under the impression that Ingress data would be used to augment/improve google's maps and location information.
If they give it away for free, that benefits a relatively few people who can make use of it.
If they sell it, they can put that revenue back into their program in place of (or in addition to) more taxpayer money.
This lets them do more with less taxpayer money going forward, so it sounds like a win for the average Joe taxpayer. (In theory.)
Thank you for sharing that. It's very hard having someone you love and feeling powerless to help them at some moments. Sharing this really meant alot :) thank you
What would it look like, do you have an example?
The story below really helps this amazing point.
I'm confused. Al Capone wasn't a freedom fighter that was looking out for your freedoms during the time of an unjust law. He was a gangster that capitalized an opportunity created by poorly thought out government policies. Just because the government created the situation that made him rich, doesn't mean he gets some sort of 'free pass' on being a kingpin that killed people. Do you feel that Al Capone would have just been an honest businessman if only Prohibition didn't exist?

If people inside financial institutions are, as common practice / policy, picking the winners/losers and hiding conflicts of interest, do you think that going after such people is a 'witch hunt?' Do you feel that when regulators meet with the people that they are regulating that they should have a "he looks honest, I'll just trust whatever he says" attitude?
Couldn't find your email listed (PS your site ashkenas.com seems to be down right now). Can you email me at howie @ airtable.com?
Startups and the Death of Do-It-Yourself
I found that programming for Windows is a pain in the ass compared to GNU/Linux. If I need a library, I only need to do a apt-get install XXX or download the source ode and it will compile with usually zero problems.

I can't say anything about OS X
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The germany website copy machine
How awful... I wonder where the thinks he learned this myth. Sad to see such misplaced confidence in a scientist.
> If you are wealthy enough to support yourself without work I wouldn't call you unemployed.

If you're neither working nor contributing to the Social Security system, the SSA regards you as unemployed. If you're neither working nor seeking work, many states regard you as unemployed regardless of your income from other sources.

> I mean, it's technically true but messes up the data.

Not at all. It depends on the uses to which the data are put. If someone wants to know how many people are going to be driving to work, then why someone isn't working is irrelevant.

As far as I am concerned, the data should be as rich as possible without breaking privacy requirements, and the database's users should figure out what the data actually mean.
Precisely, you get it.

This RAM was _insanely_ cheap :-)
I don't think a benefit of a MOOC is democratized access to the world's top educators. I think that the same level of education is available online, and it is already democratized.

The critical component is someone putting together the order in which you learn it. Perhaps that requires top educators, but I don't think it really does. What MOOCs do that really benefits me is removes the wasted time of discovery with an ordered process that makes sense.

My daughter does Khan Academy. The information she is learning isn't particularly novel, however the order and structure is. That's the key.

Google searching for the same topics will get you great information as well, but you need to know what to search for. You need to include that search time through each part. You need to filter out bad material.

That's my view at least.
Not that I know of. The dabbawala organization sticks to their business of delivering lunchboxes and I imagine are pretty happy with doing an exemplary job of it.
$10 a month for one certificate seems kind of expensive, considering a script with openssl can do the same thing for free.

And only 25 for enterprise? Our midsize business is currently using 416 certs.
Something like: http://imgur.com/wgDRIyL

Also a physical example: http://imgur.com/mI0ETBu
But still fiddling with fonts and line spacing and
spacing between columns.

I did this manually and tested physical print, which came out really nice. and you can read the code!
HP NonStop Systems – Previously Tandem Computers
Ah... Thanks for the explanation... I haven't done a lot of research on it yet, just worked on updating bash to fix it.
AI in Forza Horizon 2 Learns from Player Driving Style, Creates “Driveatars”
You're missing the fact that (IIRC) prior to that DeskStar were considered some of the best drives on the market.
I really hope they don't.

That page loaded in a few seconds for me. Most pages take much longer but do not have much more information or functionality.

This page is a press release. It serves a special purpose. Other parts of the NASA website are less plain.