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Could you make it faster still by compiling to asm.js? I'm not sure how it would apply to you, but I know Mozilla has been bragging about how WebGL games are faster with asm.js.
It is common on third-party sites, but not on the same domain. It's often just PR and marketing people who don't know they have better options for tracking. Some do know better, but can't get access to the data they need (for various bad reasons).
Sorry! The site has been getting hammered with people so it keeps crashing. Trying to scale it up now. It has to make a separate API calls for each of your comments (max 50) so it takes a while and since there are so many people using it sometimes it times out...
Thanks! Almost exactly what I described. Appreciate the direction.
I think if you're older than 12 there are an infinite amount of better options that teach a LOT more than any Head First book.

I didn't understand programming concepts until I got out of the usual "type this in and the console does this!" nonsense and got into understanding how these things work in the context of real world work.
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Yup that was the case. Though, I believe it was also a long weekend -- I think it might have been Veteran's day because I remember putting the finishing touches on it around Thanksgiving.
All hand held, shot from 1/35th of a second to 1/1000th of a second. HDR Pro does some basic auto aligning and ghost removal, AFAIK.
I actually thought the name was sort of clever.
The digital payment dam is about to burst open. These companies are plugging holes in the dam with their fingers. There's no stopping the digital payment river.
The list is sorta useful but I'd much rather see a shorter, more curated list, perhaps with some commentary.
Fair enough.

We've built a real-time API for monitoring building systems in commercial high-rise "smart" properties. These systems are all IP-connected, and we aggregate the data and controls into a single API. We've built a web-based dashboard for property managers to use on a daily basis to keep tabs on the building. It lets them see how the HVAC, building automation, security, lighting, even the network itself, is operating, so they can see issues as they arise. We're deployed in 1 building in the downtown Toronto core, with 2 more being added at the year's end, and 5 more next year.

The API provides us a lot of capabilities, and one area we're going to leverage that is building tools and services for the property manager to make their job easier, allowing them to focus on providing better service to their tenants. We aim to actually make the building "smart" by allowing the property managers to offload many aspects of management to us. In essence, we aim to be the YourMechanic of smart buildings. We've signed up our current customer for this.

This space is dominated by big players like Honeywell, Siemens, Johnson Controls, etc. However, they focus on delivering large equipment and installs to properties. While they do make an appreciable amount of revenue from services, software isn't typically a large part of this equation. Our aim is to utilize our software expertise to provide better service in areas not touched by their systems (i.e. they focus on HVAC, whereas we can do it all).

Suffice it to say, there are plenty of "seasoned" engineers in this space. Enticing them to work for our company instead of their current ones is something I'm struggling with.

Many of the other commenters have provided great pointers, some of which I plan to incorporate. But before I can attempt to recruit these people, I need to get to them first.

How?
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They joined the Nazi party. Thats unethical.

BTW, anyone that build weapons or be part of experiments to break and destroy too, nazi or not.
There's nothing technical that's stopping them from doing it. I expect third party apps to do something similar once Lollipop has a higher market share.
That's basically a sprint retro, no?
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Yep, I'm with you.

I'm more or less fine with the nexus 5's camera (usually if an event is important to capture with great quality, someone else has a better camera already there), so I'd much rather the nexuses stick to the price point than go up in quality for a disproportionately larger increase in price.
> So the CurrentC people are trying to assure CurrentC's future by pissing off the very same companies that they need to authorise their app?

And also the very people who are most likely to be first-adopters for a new payment platform...
> However, I doubt that it's that accurate.

It's not that it's not accurate. In comparisons of two products (Samsung Gear Fit and an as-of-yet-unannounced product) with my Polar and Garmin straps, it seems to be close enough...when it works. And that's the trick, because if I can't consistently get it to work, then it effectively doesn't work at all. But if the strap isn't tight, forget it. And during exercise it just won't reliably give you HR regardless. Either it just gives up, or it tries to pretend that it worked when conditions were not optimal to get an accurate reading.

> The moment I see serious fitness nerds jumping from Polar to FitBit, I'll join them. Until then, I remain skeptical.

Serious fitness nerd here (well, just an obsessive runner, really) with a shelf full of Garmin and Polar devices. I doubt FitBit will ever even try to grab that market. If they do, they appear to lack the experience (and chops, for that matter) to pull off grabbing the 70 mile/week marathoner market (or serious triathlete, et. al.). It's a big jump from "inactive person who needs motivation to get off their ass" to "serious athlete who wants accurate telemetry presented in a useful manner". Even Garmin and Polar struggle with that, and they've been at it for years.
Yeah I think that post dates from a time where you still heard people refer to them as "weblogs".

Edit: Found it. It was the 14th post on our blog a time, but definitely light on the implementation details. http://www.redditblog.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html
My e-mail should be visible in my profile, right?

xpatel at pulsecode [ca]

If calgaryeng = living in Calgary, e-mail me, I might have work for you in the near future.
Also, I think a tower (real or bogus) can instruct your phone to downgrade to no-encryption, in which case the cipher won't matter.

If they really wanted to be "progressive" they would allow the phone to display a cipher icon for proper encryption with the tower, which was always part of the GSM spec, but was abandoned very early on. I think your SIM card needs to support that as well, IIRC ...
Ok, time to shop at Walgreens.
It's using very heavy CSS3 transition for the homepage that causes the frame drop. Will detect that and avoid that from happening.
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Author here. Would love to get some feedback.
Just wait til the millenials figure out that if they don't build the medical hardware they get to inherit the wealth to make more cat sharing apps.

Actually, instead of cat picture sharing, imagine cat sharing, UberCats? CatBNB? ZipCat?
One can always take inspiration from audio software and audio plugins, some of those have quite slick UI ideas.
All of these centralized solutions require a massive amount of trust in order to work. It's fairly obvious that any pull-based route is encumbered by so much counterparty risk that it simply cannot scale without a fairly massive amount of insurance to support the product.
I don't think the issue is that customers don't like competition, its the fact that they are being hostile towards the ones trying to give them money, restricting consumer choice and forcing a sub-par solution that is not as convenient at best and downright insecure at worst.

I think you'd see a similar backlash if CVS decided to take cash only because they wanted to cut out the credit card middleman.
Installed the App. Honestly love it, its a fun game :)

The color scheme is almost too vibrant. It feels like it should be slightly toned down/masked a touch. I feel like I'm stuck in the barbie toy isle if anyone remembers physical toy stores from the 90's.

The UI is very nice and clean other then the color complaint. The fact that there are tips also seems slightly amiss. I found myself annoyed by the tips since I could just pick up and run with the app. But I understand why they are there.

The fact the name is dead center and always un-click-able seems to be a waste. Put all the icons in a single bar at the top or bottom (piggy bank, x, stats, etc.) Saves more screen real estate.
Expertise is seriously overvalued when prognosticating.
We switched to python about 4 months into the startup and a full year before getting acquired.
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I cannot believe that things like this still happen in today's world, although I'd be surprised if it wasn't a little bit embellished. This piece reminds me a little bit of the documentary about the Russian mafia, Thieves By Law (I'm pretty sure it's on youtube, go watch it). Aging master criminals who want their stories to be told to a world that they know is eager to hear about them. How fortunate that we have such an accessible medium to distribute their tales.
I enjoy Hackerrank very much. Although I've been away for awhile from their site. The coding platform was language-choice-flexible and I did a number of challenges in Clojure as a learning experience - very similar to the challenges from your old company, although I only played with round 1 of the security challenge.

I am not a fan of the mathematical challenges on Hackerrank, mainly because I haven't done much interesting math in years and if I get all ambitious on math stuff, I'm going to dive into functional analysis and stats modeling and probably not from a coding viewpoint. Algorithmic challenges are much more engaging to me.

Hackerrank has a very interesting option for hiring companies to sponsor a challenge or set of challenges. Based on what I read here, if I was a hiring company I would be doubling down on this approach (eg coding challenges as a feed for potential hires like you guys were doing as well). Heck, companies would probably pay five to six figures just for a curated list of candidates from these sites, right?

One specific gripe - sometimes I had the vague feeling that the programmatic challenges encourage non-idiomatic language usage. I did a very fun challenge that involved range-minimum-queries there and to ultimately to have runtime under the JVM cutoff and pass all the testcases, I kind of optimized away from the way Clojure normally looks like. I think my point is code that works well for a programming challenge may not look much like code you would want in production.

I can probably spout off more opinions but this is probably already more than you were looking for for someone who didn't use the site for actually finding a job.
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Of course, fascist regimes need to hold together. http://www.globalresearch.ca/is-the-us-a-fascist-society-exa...
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Yes, it's a valid URI but //robots.txt is different resource to /robots.txt. It seems thttpd is probay doing the right thing.
I'm getting an error message. Stupid app!

...So did my rating just go up?
Let me guess. You are 15 years old and just ditched school to screw around on HN. Right?

The difference, in case you did not understand that. Is that my earlier comment was purely constructive in nature.

Your comment was a juvenile "I'll show him. I'll rip his writing apart and put him to shame".

One is an adult constructive post. The other is what I would not allow from my eight year old kid.
I just started playing with this library, and then I had the same realization. I scanned through the readme for any mention of authentication and then put the brakes on.
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It varies state by state but in general you first register to vote by submitting a snail mail or an online application; and then just show up at the voting place, find yourself in a long list of names, and vote. Personally, I never had to show any kind of ID during the process.
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Same story here. Have had T-Mo for ~3 years, wouldn't ever switch to one of the other big carriers (I would move to Republic Wireless if I was going to change). My wife moved from Verizon -> T-Mobile last year after finally getting tired of the ridiculous prices from Verizon, and is also very happy.

Coverage is fine. Sometimes on road trips to the beach here in North Carolina we will lose service for say 5-10 miles when we are really in the middle of nowhere (the sprawling metropolis of Elizabeth City, NC in particular gives me trouble). This is acceptable in return for nearly 50% savings and not having to do business with AT&T/Verizon.
It'd be nice to know in exactly what capacity this was discussed.

The article just says that "architects, developers, real estate experts and business owners were brought together in May to discuss ways of preserving the city's buildings in this watery cityscape of the future".

Who set this up? Were canals a serious suggestion with a reasonable amount of support, or just thrown out as a possibility during a brainstorming-type exercise?
Much research in corpus linguistics or computational linguistics occurs on data that naturally occurred. It's part of the traditions in psychology to manipulate your subjects because that's the only way you can get more direct observation of suspected cause/effect relations, especially when those are subtle enough to go under in the noise in "in the wild" data.

Given a big enough sample size and a multi-factorial model (i.e. a model that models all confounding factors as well as the variable you're interested in), the importance of manipulation should decrease, and many astronomers, economists, or computational linguists would be able to draw meaningful inferences in such a study. Psychologists may have gotten too used to the idea of "get experimental subjects, present with manipulated input, do comparison statistics" to consider a purely observational study as the default.

tl;dr: It's not just astronomers, many fields do empirical studies without manipulating their subjects in a Skinner-ian fashion.
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To be fair, it's a lot easier to harden the equipment they own vs the equipment your customers own. I'm not sure such a cipher icon is even possible in iOS without Apple's help. It certainly wouldn't be easy.
To add to that, university endowments are also a big component of VCs, in addition to pension funds.

I think a couple years ago a judge ordered Berekely to release the fund performance figures for the VCs they had money in, and most of them don't even do well (measured in terms of IRR).
I would say this project alone seems harmless enough, but this regarding this comment from the author's blog post I have to say I agree with you on:

> *Side Note: Eventually I would love to turn this into a Chrome App that will just real-time analyze any user on a page when you visit hacker news and put a score right next to them so the world can see if they hate or love. I’m also going to build versions of this for Twitter, reddit, Instagram, Facebook, and maybe even dating apps. If you want to help, reach out!

http://kevinmcalear.com/thoughts/building-hater-news/
Thanks, don't know how I missed that.
There are multiple ways to analyze computations; condition number is one of them. It is relevant when inputs are assumed to be approximations to some hidden "correct" value. However, this assumption is not always warranted when dealing with floating-point numbers; sometimes, we would instead like to analyze errors under the assumption that the inputs are exact values. When this is the case, fma(x,x,-1) produces a correctly rounded result, whereas (x-1)(x+1) does not, and the ill-conditioning of the function x^2 - 1 does not enter into the analysis anywhere.

If you are used to working with complex computations (most of what is usually referred to as numerical analysis, for example), you likely do not find yourself in the latter situation very often. However, for those of us who work on low-level details of floating-point on a regular basis, the latter analysis is often critical.
When I worked in Emeryville I signed up on the parking waitlist for Concord BART (I lived in Pleasant Hill). 3 years later I've moved to Gilroy and I still haven't made it to the top of the list yet. The East Bay BART situation is bad.

Now I work in SJ and on the days I go in to the office I drive to Caltrain --> Diridon --> company shuttle. It's not terrible, except for the waiting. About 1:30 total commute time each way. With no traffic it's about 0:35 up 101 driving. Even with traffic it's only about 0:45 to drive back to Gilroy from SJ, but the morning commute is so ghastly it's better to take Caltrain.

I think the OP was saying that if you have options, Caltrain is probably low on your list. I would agree. It's not like NYC where you're essentially no more than 5 blocks from the nearest subway station.
I got a score of 3.27%.

That said, the methodology here is totally broken. I expected my worst comment to be related to one of the many gender debates on HN, but no.

Apparently, it's this:

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You can try "Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace".

It's a fictionalized retelling of the stories of the two prominent BBS hacker/phreaker groups during the 80s and early 90s.

It's not really brain food or anything like that, but it's a quick and decent read if you have free time.

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Truly this is the pinnacle of vitriol. I then looked at some of the other darker hues in the periodic table. More mundane stuff.
Right? I'm also curious about the fix. The vulnerability he describes is most obviously that they fail to associate the token you get after login with an actual account, so you can re-use that token to bind an arbitrary account, but binding to a device ID is also problematic, because that information isn't inherently private. Another app could harvest it and be compromised which then leaks the info, or it could be exposed in some other way because it's not unique to their application.
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> But this could be because they simply die and no one understands why.

No.

Israel, a first world country, has the world's lowest incidence of peanut allergy. It has been shown that this is not genetic, but environmental.

It is postulated that this is because peanut products are introduced early into the diet of virtually all Israeli kids - usually before 1 year - through a popular snack called "Bamba" [0].

You may find this surprising, but the ubiquitous advice to delay introducing allergen into children's diets is NOT based on any study, and actually contradicts some known findings.

The reason nut allergies are unheard of is almost surely note because kids die very quickly.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamba_%28snack%29#Peanut_allerg...
In Texas they just added a voter ID law, and my experience was essentially the same as it used to be in Massachusetts - show up, you're on a long list of names, etc, but now you have to show a government-issued ID to vote.

I'm not sure how it works if you vote by mail or do early voting.
Indeed, the mind bounds ahead with such endeavors approaching - what don't we just send a hundred micro-bots designed to harvest raw materials sufficiently well enough to construct on-sight new micro-bots, designed to harvest raw materials, and so on. Seems real easy, the more I think of it, to capture a comet and do something with it. Like, within the next 100 years or so, 'easy', that is - as in, well .. maybe getting easier and easier. Rockets and robots, babies, its all we'll need to get there and do stuff.
Condition number only matters if you assume that the inputs are perturbed by some error. Under the assumption that inputs are exact (which is appropriate to make for some uses), it does not enter into the analysis.
Yes, I guess that's what I mean. For me, the Polar strap works 99% of the time. The times it stops working just need to wet it. I try to clean it well, and use the electrode gel to keep it working. It's messy, but worth knowing that my HRM is actually recording my workout. If Polar or Garmin had access to technology to make this messiness go away, I think they'd pounce on it. I don't think FitBit is big enough to innovate on something like that.
Before I over post here (really got me thinking on the journey home though) one more thing ...

The description of wanting to go back to coding is laced with guilt and uncertainty - and we have all felt it. But it reminds me of Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage - if coding is what you are best at, you should code even if you can do other things (like recruitment) better than some others.

So yes, go back to coding, get a feel for the boat thrumming over the waves again, listen to people's problems in the only way that matters - by sharing them. Your authority is useful but it is not what makes a good CTO else every idiot would be a good one. You aren't supposed to know the answers - enjoy the journey of discovery and speak not because you think you the CTO should weigh in, but because you the hacker feels it.

Ok, Time to stop pontificating, that's enough posts on one thread:-)
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You raise an interesting point - that there is a tension between respecting the privacy of a user and making ads most useful to them.

That said, I don't think the rest of your post is well supported. Surely they are using the info to try and target ads, but what prevents them from using it in other ways (including selling it to other people who want to use it in other ways) if they think it can make them more money? Probably, most of these companies aren't going to knowingly sell it to anyone who will use it illegally because they could be culpable... but there are probably things I don't want done to me that don't involve actual illegality. An example off the top of my head might be feeding embarrassing info to a tabloid. And even that stays out of the realm of "what if things really went bad?"
> Count Vecteriztor

took me a bit to understand that was a weird typo and not a really cool CS concept.