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How about we stop being so condescending, educate people to make an informed choice, and stop asking Google, Mozilla and anyone with a smartphone to think for them?
Seems like CurrentC have a great product on their hands. Effectively they are cutting out the middle man and tying in a rewards program, not groundbreaking, but still a better deal than Apple's offering. If all else fails for them in the payments space, they have a great name that would allow them to pivot into the bottled juice market as well.

The fact this thing has not even launched fully just yet, worries me they have already been hacked. Just wait until CurrentC is rolled out to more vendors and adoption increases (if it happens), it will just make them a bigger target. To some of those vendors supporting CurrentC, I bet Apple Payments is looking more appealing right about now.

Pretty rookie error, lets hope they get their act together before a more widespread launch.
I have more trust in Apple Pay and hope that wins.
I was also quite confused about why they would choose a projector over a second screen, actually it was the most nagging question until, watching the intro video, someone projects a graphic onto a physical sheet of paper, so I suppose the immediate interaction between projection and physical objects is the main reasoning behind it.

In a two screen scenario, I suppose the user would have to image the paper, then composite it digitally. It's an interesting approach although I wonder how often it would be used.
I absolutely should, but I haven't figured out a system for blogging that doesn't take too much time.
off topic: wired is lame and the site hijacks you. can go back. open in a new tab if on mobile
I think YOU missed the point.

If Debian were subjected to the wishes of the authors of every piece of software they distribute, there would be no Debian.
To consumers who don't create content - as the comment you're replying to clearly states.
After watching the video on their landing page, I can't help but be reminded of the Generic Brand Video on Vimeo[1].

[1] http://vimeo.com/89527215
Moreover, many people who have been choosing AngularJS have been doing so because they believe that by coming from Google it stands a much better chance than numerous competing solutions of surviving and being updated for years to come. That is still probably true, but if it turns out to be true in the sense that you can keep using AngularJS but need to substantially rewrite your project every couple of years to keep up with radical changes, the value proposition is lessened considerably.
I wasn't suggesting you choice was illogical, I was expressing that the ability of a phablet, say, to process data and run computing operations has a logical equivalence (in the processing sense) in a "desktop"; and then mentioning that whilst the processing power may generally differ there is substantial overlap (eg phones having more processing power and RAM than some desktops, etc.). The "logical" part was to contrast the physical differences.

You can use a smartphone with a bluetooth keyboard to write business docs with wordprocessing apps or construct spreadsheets (you could use the on-screen keyboard if you're a masochist). Different physical interfaces target different use cases as we've both noted but the distinction is more about marketing than ability of a system.

Going back to where this all came from I doubt this discussion is fruitful.
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Wow, this is really a neat product. I see so much potential here! It might be an uphill battle. Heck, a lot of good ideas are an uphill battle. Keep going!

Now, as for monetization. AdSense is simple and certainly ubiquitous but it is not the only game in town. There are a lot of advertising networks that pay very well. I would imagine that if you got your user base up you could have some very direct advertising areas.

One thing I would push for quickly is a way to ingrain the advertising a bit closer to the content. If you can do so in a elegant way, I think you'll be onto something. I imagine a "story" at the top of each reddit feed actually being a paid advertisement. You can even mark it as paid, no need to try to trick people into clicking on things. If you can find a way to target the "lists" with content specific ads, I think you'll have a big win. It's not as hard as it seems.

I, for one, will be using your service.
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Thank you for your feedback. I have already made a few adjustments on the page based on the overall feedback I received. The page is a teaser for the upcoming uPanel project. Eventually, a full landing page with all the features along with a live preview will follow once it is ready :-)
It's probably better stated:

cannot effectively develop a mobile app on a mobile device.

Productivity largely correlates with screensize.

https://www.google.com/#q=productivity+screen+size
Good riddance. Leave the difficult problems to capable companies and let this be a lesson.
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"the best designs and products by the community"

That's pretty non-t-shirt-y language. They'll have to tighten that.
No I don't, the codec issues are enough.
Yep. Our 128 GB hypervisor wasn't enough. We redirected traffic to a static HTML prototype, so - at least - you guys have a chance to see the design and planned features. https://demo.virtkick.io/
yeah, didn't see that when I commented.
How's the in-state tuition for students who can't maintain a GPA in high school because they worked through it?
Interestingly enough, at the open house last night they talked about how they want to shift focus a bit and make it easier for people to do exactly that. They've gotten really good at storing things, and at digitizing them, and now they need to be better at letting people curate and organize collections.

Of course, as it stands anyone can make a website of their own that links to and/or embeds anything stored in the archive, but I gather that hasn't happened often.
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I actually bought a few books at B&N just now. I enjoy the experience of browsing and being able to flip through a book before actually buying it. Is it worth paying 50% (in this case) more than Amazon? I don't know, but I would prefer that real bookstores exist for at least a little longer.

Of course, while paying, I had to say no three separate times to joining whatever club or credit card they try to pressure you into, thus completely ruining an otherwise pleasant experience and making me question why I ever go there anymore.
Adding and changing things does not necessarily precipitate passing off the work as one's own. I could be wrong, but I don't think there's a big problem with that with the truly free licenses like MIT...so I'm wondering - what's the point?

Node.js has been super popular for the past few years and it's built from mostly MIT style licenses. It's so hot that Microsoft has made a big effort to make it usable and provide tools to work with it on Windows. Nobody that I know of has come along and taken this product, re-branded it and then pawned it as their own creation.

I understand that the point of the Affero license is to prevent "Tivoization" of a product, but it seems to come at the cost of not being able to attract a large base of developers to contribute to the project, since everyone would rather be working with more liberal licenses.
> of you go to any state school (better than most schools in the rest of the world) and you dont have enough income you pretty much get a full ride + stipend.

My state school is like $300M in debt. If you don't have enough income, you take out student loans and hope the in-state tuition makes it bearable.
it's actually in the front of the device as you see on the website (https://getpoynt.com/) and the button to open the printer door is on the side. The door opens forward and you can load the paper from the front (no need to turn it upside down). We will try to post videos of the paper loading as soon as we can.
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Yeah for 1800 they need to be doing a lot better job marketing their video wouldn't even play, their page is way too vague, 1800 is not starving artist friendly and their target are high end Mac users, this would be a bigger win if it was under $1000 and was a set of accessories to pimp out the Mac mini, this functionality + macosx. Get creative and make a deal with apple trying to sell creatives on windows 8 is going to lose
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Installed. Looks cool.
Why is 'compactness' valued? If a district should be people of a similar background/interests, then the geography is messier- the NC 12th district is basically the I-85 corridor, which may make more sense than a square of arbitrary size. If a district is just supposed to be a random container of voters to apportion representation, then base it on a voters' SSN or something and remove geography entirely.
While I fully agree that mass communication is inflating our perception, it also goes both ways. A person that get constantly bombarded that their profession is corrupt is more likely to yield to corruption themselves.
poynt employee here. you can open the device and insert a new roll of paper without flipping it over or turning off the device.
So a tuition-free Masters in Mathematics in Germany sounds pretty intriguing. Has anyone here studied in the German system as an expat? What was your experience? Is it feasible?
Am I the only one that sees this as somewhat promising? They've become a massive target because of all the recent news with apple pay and whatnot, so it's not that surprising that there are people attacking them and all that was stolen (so far) was email addresses, but no actual important data. This is a pre-release system, it wouldn't be surprising to me if they just stole some logs off an under-protected email server that is being used to testing or something. Plus they're actually being open about it rather than just sweeping it under the rug like so many try.

Yes, it's never good when any amount of personal info is stolen, but it's just email addresses and if you're not already getting spam, you just haven't been using that address long enough.
> This part, I just don't buy.

And yet it's the one that Hanlon's razor explains very well. Goes to show that being terse in my original comment was the right move and you just can't wrap your head around the idea that, around the world, people do stuff without considering the consequences.

The people in charge of your country, of your internet, of your health and your whole life, they're all humans and don't have weird superpowers, omniscience or anything like that. They make mistakes, and a lot of them are going to do stupid stuff. Consequences may vary.
This looks really cool.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBnf_lHxPdE)
(co-founder here) Of course your perspective on DigigalOcean is valid but we think of it simply as a good philosophy to deliver a VM to a user in a seamless, straightforward way - that's the part that we want achieve and let users to self-host. Essentially, you could build your own DigitalOcean using VirtKick. Does it make sense for you? Doesn't mean you should rush and start your own business .. you can run it privately for your own needs or for your company's needs.
So, if the classes are online, how long until the material leaks ? I for one would love to look and try my hand at it.
Any reason why there is no information on the projector's resolution anywhere on the website or in the datasheet?
I got my Nexus 5 from tmobile and it had nothing of the sort.
This is exactly what motivated us to start Hired. The entire industry is rife-full of dodgy players, grey-hat tactics, and bait & switch games.

I agree 100% that everybody should demand full transparency, about salary, company name, benefits, signing bonus, company culture, tech stack, etc. before they even waste 30 minutes on a phone call.

It's absolutely INSANE in this competitive market to expect someone to jump on a 30 minute phone call to learn basic details about the company & the position.
Compensation - ultimately the company has a budget for hiring for a role, which would include any fees required to bring you on board. In many (not all) cases the recruiter's fee subtracts from your own salary negotiations.

Also, a lot of recruiters are not retained but work on contingency, so they're at best arms-length from the companies they "work" for - it's questionable how "inside" they are. Going with them may not confer as much of an advantage to getting the job as one might think.

In any case, I feel like tech recruiting is a poor solution that encompasses two problems: job discovery, and candidate discovery. Recruiting is effective at the latter, but oftentimes is used to fulfill the former.
It's a risk but implementers can take the sting out of it. Browsers aren't currently smart enough to do things like unload decoded <img> memory for things which aren't visible but you can avoid the worst of it if you use a CSS background-image (which browsers do unload) and a visibility test on scroll to avoid loading things which aren't visible or soon to be visible. This works as far back as IE8 so it might be worth the hassle.
That is pretty much an impossibility as it's a Powershell cmdlet which follows a verb-noun rule for naming things.
I and another Core Dev Justin SB worked on the Redis support for a month: https://atmospherejs.com/slava/redis-livedata

It has seamless support for hashes and strings, miniredis, latency compensation, user input validations - similar features to MongoDB integration.

Right now you need to start the Redis server and set up the KV observations manually once for every Redis server you intend to use.

This support was experimental and we didn't develop it further from there. We told our community about it on a Meteor Devshop but there wasn't much interest. If there will be more interest, we will continue developing it.
Where I work, we have people doing the same job, some making 150K, some making 330K+. And if someone applied and was really good and we needed to give them 350K to get them in the door, we'd do that.

Would you want to see the range as 150-350K+? I mean I guess it at least tells you something, but at the same time, we don't want to scare off someone who's looking for 350 who would assume they either won't get it or won't like the people they are working with just because they might make 150, or maybe think the role is beneath them because it could pay as low as 150.

Basically, we want to have a chance to have a discussion with them about what they are looking for in a job and how much they are looking for. Putting a range in there squelches that discussion, whether justified or not.

ps. To head off the obvious question, it's the same job role but the expectations and criteria for success are obviously different for the 150 vs. the 350.
So if I'm trying to use this in my proprietary product, I can either a) use it and open up all my code, or b) use a better-licensed, MIT/BSD/APSL2-compatible code.

I also might point out, as a person working on a proprietary service, it's in our interest to contribute upstream. Who wants to maintain compatibility patches? It's in EVERYONE's best interest to have solid, open infrastructure used by everyone (yes, even evil closed companies like google)
You already know this but University and Community College are not the same thing, and they don't offer the same things.

Even throwing that out as a valid alternative simply continues the position of only those who have money are worthy of getting knowledge.
Community college isn't equivalent to the schools being discussed here though. The point of the article is big, 4-year institutions, and the comment I was replying to specifically mentioned the state schools as being better than international universities.
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You don't ask for your message back, you ask for the message Snowden sent again. The MITM-party can't have that, assuming that Snowden started with your correct public key.
CurrentC hacked
I wrote a thing about that.
I'm self taught. Coming from a theatre background.
I now make almost 100k after 1 year. I started learning last september. April I got an internship, and in September I got hired full time.
Hmm..It should be there, if not, it will be on the developer guide.
link to the thing I wrote: https://medium.com/@twidx/so-how-did-you-learn-how-to-progra...
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What happened with antirez, though, is that he did express himself fully in one tweet, but it was misread by some people.
The machine could spit out different values when the same input was fed in different times.
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Did some quick googling. Seems like research so far supports the claim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_cancer_detection

Is there any research, with different results, missing from the Wikipedia page?
I have a similar problem but unfortunately the conventional wisdom to long-duration tests is that we're just doing it wrong. I'd love to say there is a good system available for having a pile of infrastructure in a corner somewhere running tests, but I haven't found anything with out of the box support for a more complicated execution model than running latest tests on latest build artifact.

The best I've been able to accomplish is a set of parametrized Jenkins jobs that default to running latest tests on latest code, and report results to a custom external application. The test monitor has a status console and can automatically schedule more Jenkins jobs using build parameters to run the tests with specific versions of application and tests to bisect failures. It's ugly, but is tolerable for what we need.
But then those retailers disabled NFC at their registers,
ending their unofficial support for Apple Pay. The
problem, apparently, stemmed from the fact that
retailers’ contracts with MCX states they’re not
supposed to accept rival mobile payment products.

Interesting example of applied public relations here - you want to do foo but you don't want to be blamed for doing foo, so you create a scapegoat organisation and have them take the blame.
The entire cellphone based NFC payment system is retarded. Money needs to be free from electricity and endure the elements.

I don't get it why they are not using proven NFC payment card systems like in japan...
They've become a massive target because of all the recent news with apple pay and whatnot

They're a payments platform, they should expect to ALWAYS be a HUGE target no matter WHAT the news is. If it's not the Apple & Google fans it will be the Chinese & Russians.

This is a pre-release system, it wouldn't be surprising to me if they just stole some logs off an under-protected email server that is being used to testing or something

Why would a pre-prod system even be accessible to the outside world? It shows a lack of judgement and experience in security that they either made an known insecure pre-production system accessible by the outside world OR they were not competent enough to secure the server properly. They are either ignorant or incompetent, neither of which are good when talking about a payment processor.
Just a side note, there's a software called "Unchecky" that will automatically uncheck most "Free Toolbar!" installs.

But you're right, it's kind of staggering going from "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" to Windows'... whatever.

Heck, even most programs in OSX will autoupdate, not to mention Homebrew and Homebrew-cask.
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Modular phones (and computers) is a powerful concept that worked really well with hobbyists (and gamers) so far. It seems to be a healthy duopoly with all-in-one computing devices we're seeing lately.
Well at least this system is open with saying that it exists for the retailers to mine customer data. Looking at the technology, it seems it would just be faster to pay with a card than rely on my phones camera to make a payment.
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I'm guessing that most of the time a recruiter won't tell you the company name the reasoning is less about trying to keep the company's business a secret out of fear of some moral objection by a candidate and more about misplaced fear (that you'll go to the company directly instead of through them) or marginal ethics (e.g. the recruiter's company basically lifted the job description from the employer's job ad and re-branded it with the recruiter's info to make it look like they've got a contact--in which case the fear mentioned above isn't misplaced, I suppose).
I'm not sure that lowers the bar out of "incredibly difficult".

For instance, how would you feel if you heard the SEC invested in a bespoke technology for doing this just to mitigate a document timing issue only interesting to a very small number of market participants? I'd be upset about the waste of my tax dollars personally.
Yes, but it takes you the rest of the day to edit and test the 30 minutes of typing you are ready to ship. Presumably, most of this testing or editing would involve a fair amount of keyboard interaction.
I think it can hinder it quite a bit, especially for something like this. The UX design for blending physical and virtual environments has to be nearly perfect. HP's track record with consumer facing software does not instill me with confidence that they can pull this off. I hope to be surprised.
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Hacking as retribution for personal data mining? Not likely. Sounds like an opportunity to get details from a financial transaction application while it's still green.
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Just to clarify, the Mozilla Stumbler apps looks at SSIDs (to filter out "_nomap" and known mobile phone and transportation networks), but the SSIDs are not reported to the Mozilla Location Service. The BSSID/MAC addresses are, though.
The AGPL prevents no such thing, they are free to do so provided they follow the license the creators published the code with.
You're looking at low end parts for the price, particularly the inclusion of a "Hybrid HDD". Hybrid HDDs do almost nothing for for Windows, but putting an SSD into a Windows machine makes it dramatically more responsive. If you want people to experience a new thing in computing that is tactile you can't make people wait for a disc to spin up, ever.
> But please work with the hiring manager on understanding their requirement more. I blame hiring managers more on this one.

True. Recruiting Failure starts with disengaged, inattentive leadership hoping a 3rd party will magically fill their empty seats.
Awesome! I've wanted something like this for awhile.
The article has a bad link to the research, here is the actual link: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/11/101/201408...
Bear in mind that positions in international rankings mean almost nothing, as most of them are calculated by looking at the number of cross-linked papers from a university to judge its final score. That immediately puts non-English speaking universities at a huge disadvantage, and I would argue that top-level universities of each country are at pretty much same level despite their ranking positions.