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Co-founder wanted for a BaaS startup
Hello geeks, nerds, developers and co-founders around the globe, i hope its appropriate to post to this list.

My name is marc manthey from cologne germany and i spend most of my life in music studios
before i started to become interested in the world wide web. I learned that code change the world not music and the web has become a part of our daily live and technologie evolved rapidly in the past years.

In august i came across an interesting peer 2 peer project called bem.tv on github and after i digged a bit deeper i found out, its all made with javascript, therefore Nodejs , Angularjs and WebRTC are the new canditates for the realtime (mobile) web and APIs become the currency in an opensource world.

I found one of the most sophisticated WebRTC APIs out there, which obviously disapeard shortly after i decidet to use it and now i am looking for a co-founder , partner for a new startup to reestablish it as a fremium BaaS.

What i dont want - grow quick and exit

My goal is to find a dedicated team and boostrap everything from startup, without any money involved to create a product that people love. Remote work is possible.

What you need to have - You need to be able to reproduce complex structures and authentification with JWT, angularjs and rest APIs.

What i can offer - 100% commitment and passion to learn whats required,i have HTML skills and a great network and a vision.

Currently i am learning angularjs and play around with tools to create APIs, like strongloop, swagger and apigee.

If you feel appealed with the discription and want to be part of a new beginning, feel free to contact me.

Mail: marc@let.de phone: +4915773329231 Some example backend screenshots and API description at http://macbroadcast.org all code is available on github.

Thanks for you attention

Looking forward to hear from you
Having lived in Brazilian slums, it really is just a matter of memorizing one's way through the mazes of sidestreets, alleys, etc. It's very hard for me to imagine maps taking hold with the residents themselves, though with the gentrification that's happening in "famous" favelas, maybe maps will be useful after all for the foreigners moving in.

What slightly worries me are recent efforts like those of Google and Microsoft [1] in some of Rio's favelas where these tech giants have the population do the work for them, via local NGOs and community associations, in order to later serve advertisements.

There's a quote that basically says that "only intellectuals are interested in poverty; the poor, however, just want to consume." One problem I saw firsthand just after the favela pacification process in Rio was how many services and businesses were entering these areas, hungry for new clientele while getting them all used to the idea of credit (and, later, debt). Not to mention, the government coming in with the offer of national IDs (read: "the better to start taxing you with!")

Slum politics and culture are never simple to explain as there are always many ways to effectively discuss them.

1 - http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/09/google-and-microsoft-put...
The NASA website seems to imply that it's done manually: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/rover/brains/

Presumably there's some basic functions in the radio stack they use where they can trigger operations like shutdown, startup, reboot, switch boards etc.
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In line with the whole unikernel news-flow I missed this talk.
It's appalling that in the science/tech community there is so little understanding for these issues. In a perfectly equal world, yes, such a shirt would be just completely inappropriate instead of demeaning.

But science does have a sexual abuse problem. Some established male scientists do choose their female collaborators according to taste. Sexual violence does have a tendency of being initiated by men against women.

All this "it's not a big deal" talk is a symptom of not understanding this issue, lacking information and empathy. And this lack of empathy does have an impact.
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do you mean the 64k method limit ?
It does no longer exist (solved in 21, and a multi dex format has been introduced for earlier releases).
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The BBC video also has interview with the creator - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA

EDIT - Also shows creatures with propellers, wings ..
Wouldn't work for all applications, tough, if I'm not mistaken, as you specifically need Silicon for imaging chips (CCD/CMOS). Or is that nonsense?
I think I wasn't clear. I'm not trying to call this one person out for failing here… The tech reporter part wasn't my point. Even physicists don't have very good metaphors to use. My point is that any analogy I've heard fails to convey the strangeness inherit in the underlying math.
From the article:

I think that It's very unlikely that Parallels will
release any significant fixes or improvements for
described mechanisms, because any reasonable fix will
break the easy way of opening Windows documents on Mac.

Why not a new checkbox: "Trust the VM to open documents and execute code on the host"?

If you don't check it, the ability of the guest to execute code on the host is disabled.
Culture is not about esthetics (2011)
They got there, landed and carried out the primary science mission. They didn't even start on the secondary work (AFAICT), but that's called secondary for a reason.

At a guess, the primary science mission was done so quickly because that's what they did. They might have spent more watts on locating the lander, for instance, or on taking pretty pictures.
> Can you tell us a bit more about the history of the project?

I wrote an outline of my wishes for a graphics API in a README at the end of last year, then pushed it to an empty Github repo. Nothing really happened for eight months as I worked on other projects in the Rust ecosystem. Out of the blue kvark contacted me wishing to collaborate. He has similar gripes to me with respect to graphics APIs, but unlike me he has had a large amount of experience in professional game development. It is thanks to him that we are where we are today.

We still have a long way to go towards making gfx-rs a polished and production ready. A great deal of the ugliness stems from us lacking a few key language features. Thankfully those are slated to be finished by Rust 1.0, so things will get better soon!

> Are you a game developer?

No, I'm a CS student who is interested in computer graphics and procedural generation. I come from an art and illustration background and my original goal for Rust was to generate my art[0] algorithmically in real-time. Unfortunately most of my time over the last couple of years has been spent helping to build up the Rust ecosystem to a stage where it is a viable choice for game developers.

> Why did you put so much work in such a huge project?

I could sit around battling with clunky tools like C++, but if everyone did that then nothing would change. Instead I have chosen to sacrifice some of my 'project time' towards helping to make Rust look like a viable choice for my peers. I may struggle to ever finish my actual project, but if I can help other people create wonderful stuff in the future then I will consider my time well spent.

- [0]: http://voyager3.tumblr.com/
Poe's Law strikes again. That argument was intentionally twisted to be maximally confusing and deceptive. The fact that it's working so well in this thread that people feel like they have to respond to it makes me think it'll work on Fox News just as well.
How do you map a city?
It is interesting that not more satellite areas around SF are rising centres of startups. Even Sacramento, which is quite near, does not seem to much activity. Anyone know why?
The only source of your claim that "Israel is the number-one allied country spying in America" is a single Newsweek article from 2014, citing anonymous sources. Yet you treat it as an absolute fact. I don't remember anybody doing the same when Newsweek "exposed" Satoshi Nakamoto.

You claim that "any allegation of spying by whistleblowers is reacted by extreme retaliations", yet none of your source ([3], [4], [5]) support any of that. So what reasonable allegations of spying were in fact reacted by "extreme retaliations", considering that the above allegations were all reported by big and reputable news agencies in the US, gained quite a large exposure, and are remembered by many to this day?

It's quite common among people with anti-Israeli sentiments to make wild accusations and then explain away their unpopularity by appealing to some government pro-Israeli conspiracy. An alternative hypothesis, worth considering, is that the accusations are in fact baseless, and are unpopular exactly because of that.

I seriously doubt that it makes much sense for Israel - a tiny country surrounded by enemies, with a rather limited budget that is never enough for anything - to devote any significant part of its intelligence efforts to developing sources in the US, instead of - say - in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, etc'.
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Having seen video interviews with Calder, and attended public lectures by Jansen, they definitely share a childlike sense of wonder in their reasoning.
Judging from at least the implementing code, "using static classes" in C# and "opening modules" F# are the same operations.

But we're talking about C# here, not F#. F# is a fine language, but not pertinent to any project I'm working on right now.
Please tell us exactly "how much" does Israel spy on America relative to other countries, based on what information, why is this "amazing", and provide some proof that "if you dare to say it publicly then your reputation and career are destroyed".

It's amazing how HNs usual standards of logical discourse seem to disappear once the argument becomes political.
Oops. Nevermind then.
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No, you're right - it was snide and I should have reconsidered it.
I don't see anything at all in your comment that doesn't contribute to the discussion. The fact that you are downvoted on HN for just for stating an uncommon opinion is disgusting and extremely disappointing.
I'm not sure which come directly from the LHC, and which predate it (but probably still benefit from the research) but a lot of medical techniques rely on particle interactions and acceleration which benefit from the research such as PET-scans, and particle-therapy.

There is also research being performed at cern into new superconductors and new ways of coating various materials with thin layers.(as a direct resut of building the LHC).
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the problem is that the role of booksellers, to select interesting books and guide you in your choice, is lost.

Are booksellers in France really prepared to do that kind of guidance? To me that sounds like a romantic but unrealistic view, since it requires them to be both very well read and good judges of character. I've met people like that, but they're usually not interested in burning their life savings and losing their salaries to spend their days selling copies of Twilight.
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http://rust-ci.org/projects/#audio Here's a list of audio libraries which have travis integration. This includes bindings to SDL_mixer, portaudio, OpenAL, alsa and libao.
Ask HN: Hot Reloading Apps (Similar to Trigger.io)?
Hi,

Is there a similar service to Trigger.io (http://trigger.io) which allows for "Hot reloading" of HTML/PhoneGap based apps to the app store?
Thanks for the information, seems like facebook is a big data source for social experiment but there is some doubts about the legality of collecting and analyzing the data for psychological experiments. Being a lisper, by hobby, I see great opportunities for Lisp to become a very useful tool for sentiment analysis.
There is definitely a strong biological/primitive element at work with regards to the universal hatred of Glass.
If the current "complaint" from ISPs is that a few single sources are hogging all the bandwidth (and their response is to both throttle those services and offer upload speed match promotions[1]), why isn't there a Netflix / YouTube torrent app, where we end users all pass around encrypted traffic to each other that's hard to signature?[2]

Nails that stick up get hammered down. If our favorite services are getting pounded, why don't we all just work together to offer cryptographically obscured asylum?

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2014/08/25/verizon-fios-speed-match...

[2] Acknowledging that "hard to signature" means there's a cat and mouse game in store. It'd be worth it.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/9873757f97/porn-star-net-ne...
The slum mapping projects are not really "crowdsourcing", although there are elements of it.

They are primarily participatory mapping exercises, the visible digital output at the end is the map. The participants are primarily those who live in the slums. Public participatory mapping projects have happened for decades now, often happening without computers and more tied into the planning side of things. The article is quite correct, for these types of mapping projects, the map is a visible end result, not the intended object. The planning part of the process is required and needed.

What the confusion with "crowdsourcing", humanitarian mapping and public participation mapping is with OpenStreetMap - anyone can contribute from anywhere to anyplace, therefore it's crowdsourcing. And with the recent Ebola humanitarian mapping, anyone can trace aerial imagery and add in whole towns that were never mapped before ever to a map for use by aid organisations primarily. So they both use the same stack, they both are in developing countries, but the people doing the mapping are different. local people mapping their own area and it being used not mainly by aid organisations for humanitarian purposes, and international (the true, faceless crowd) people mapping crises areas and it not being used by the local people for local planning.

All this doesn't contradict what the article states. It's even more important that these mapping projects are being used for local planning. But it's important to see that OpenStreetMap mapping in developing countries is not all crowdsourced mapping.
I've missed it 5 times already in the 2 last hours.

And I'm feeling stupid about not having an updated local copy. That said, as long as it comes back up again I'll continue to use it.
The issue is with instantaneous. What does that mean in a relativistic context? Depending on the speed of the observer, "instantaneous" changes. This is fine in reconciling some story in the future, but if there is an action happening instantaneously with something else, then we need a notion of same instant. This is easy to add to have something working, but it is extremely hard to add it in a principled way.
> The Navy can start with "dazzle"

Best not.

The use of blinding weapons is prohibited by Protocol 4 of the 1980 Geneva Accords.

https://www.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/States.xsp?xp_viewSt...

It is prohibited to employ laser weapons specifically designed, as their sole combat function or as one of their combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision, that is to the naked eye or to the eye with corrective eyesight devices.
I find it pretty deep in the uncanny valley.
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>where the X and Y are either slight italics or underlined or colored to indicate they mean X and Y the variable not X and Y the letters. The IDE would let you just toggle the state between 'variable' and 'literal' with the keyboard.

A big nope from me.

Nicer visual representation is OK.

Changing syntax based on visual attributes it's not.
Funny.

The curly braces of the other language in the examples look in place to me. But seeing all the ends and loops I feel it would be cleaner if they had been left away and the dev had opted for indentation based blocks.
Source: https://twitter.com/swardley/status/526054482333802497/photo...
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Ubuntu on a MacBookPro 8,2 running Yosemite
You might want to read this:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billi...
Well, effectively that checkbox is already there, it just has the wrong name. So they don't need a new checkbox they just need to make it perfectly clear that the current checkbox makes some major changes to the security model that may not be entirely obvious to a naive user.

I think given the fact that Parallels is aimed at single users trying to get some interop going that the issue is not that serious but if anybody wants to use Parallels in a more hostile environment they'd be very happy to see this announcement in case they missed the implications of that checkbox.

Can you enable both the 'isolate windows from mac' and 'access windows folders from mac'? (You shouldn't be able to but it's not clear from the article if those options are mutually exclusive or not, it says 'in theory').
What I didn't really get:

Isn't this menu item (Open on Mac) defined as a (shell?) function somewhere in Windows registry? Wouldn't it be easier to invoke it through this very function instead of interacting with the driver via IOCTL?
Do you think changing the mission target of a 12 year mission on the day of landing has a scientific or bureaucratic / political motive? I'm inclined to believe it is the latter.

Until 12 November the FAQ [1] stated:

During the first week – the minimum mission target – a first run of the most important scientific measurements will be completed. During this phase the lander can operate on primary battery power, should this be necessary. In a second phase that is meant to last up to three months, a secondary set of observations will be conducted, using backup batteries that will be recharged by the energy from the solar cells on the lander. However, no one knows precisely how long the lander will survive on the comet.

Editing to omit the minimum mission target on 12 November [2] indicates something was already wrong at that stage, which would presumably relate to the two batteries that were to power the lander over more than a week, but no public announcement of any issue like that was made. So we should instead assume the batteries were fully operational.

Instead we have ESA announcements and news articles asserting that the reason for the very short period of operation was a lack of solar power, but solar was never planned to be required for over a week at least.

It seems obvious that they had a battery failure. That would not be surprising, but why not openly announce it?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140805030451/http://www.esa.in...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20141112043243/http://www.esa.in...
>While all of the changes look nice in terms of writing less code, they are the kind of syntactic sugar I learned to hate in CoffeeScript. Mostly because the code was so much denser and harder to read. Especially when reading other people's code.

Syntactic sugar can be that, but not THIS syntactic sugar they propose here.

Here it makes the code easier to read and the intent more clear.
As far as gender oppression goes... that shirt ranks pretty low. Lets solve, pay disparity and workplace harrassment before we deciding whether to worry about shirts.

Feminism is not about being precious, it's about equality (which shirts have very little to do with).
As someone who has some experience providing tech support for this, isolate windows from mac disables all kinds of host-guest interactions at once (if I remember correctly).
On the other hand, Steve Yegge and people like him (ESR for one) always suggest that whetever they like is "a factor of skill".
You made me look up that poem. I hold you responsible for the tears it brought.
I think the intention was to show a more general approach.

For example, he detailed how he went through the debugger step by step, other integrations besides this shell visible one could be identified and exploited based on this writeup.
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> even though German publishers can't easily sell to the much bigger international English language market.

Yeah, we Germans unfortunately seem to need to get everything translated or dubbed - games, tv shows and books :/
> No source is given for the claim that "The French government has declared books an 'essential good.'", I have been unable to find any French source about this, and I am entirely unaware of such a declaration. I would be interested if anyone could point me to more information about this.

VAT for books in France is 5,5%[0] which is also called the "reduced rate for first necessity products"[1].

It is the same rate as for food and water. Other cultural goods, transportation, fast-food and other products have a 10% rate, and the regular rate for all other non-special products is 20%.

[0] http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/professionnels-entreprise...

[1] http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxe_sur_la_valeur_ajout%C3%A9e...
The first (failed) mission to Mars was attempted as early as 1960 by the USSR, continuing with 1964, 1965 Mariner by the US. Rovers came after a lot of previous work done, including a lot of unsuccessful attempts. And the rover weights 900 kg, probably 40 kg of it is the nuclear power generator. Philae is only 100 kg and the first on the comet.

It's certainly not "fear" of the nuclear technology in Europe that prevented something. See for example:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

It's that the engineering tradeoffs have to be considered.
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Because if data-viz is actually your goal, and not a secondary aspect of your work, then you SHOULD read tons of tutorials and learn the low level workings.

The advice the parent gave is meant for people working on projects where visualization is important. Not for those just needing to show a few plots quikcly in some other kind of project.

If you work is heavy on data-viz then you very much should read into all this. The same way we wouldn't consider someone a programmer if he just bought some shrinked wrapped software and installed it.

Plus the "needlessly complex" accusation is total BS. In fact it's considered one of the best designed APIs by most experienced developers -- check the interwebs for references to that, and is amazingly coherent, giving you only what you need for any specific problem, instead of forcing you to tons of boilerplate or irrelevant trivia.
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The DVD sold on his website is absolutely fantastic. You can also buy small DIY wind-propelled tabletop creatures. I bought all of them :)
Waking up the morning after an eCommerce launch and seeing that real orders were placed overnight. No feeling like it. Pure joy.
It it's for bandwidth then they should use miliseconds since start of mission. Maybe they do, BTW, maybe it's just display format.
You can actually support his work by ordering mini version of Theo Jansens work at Shapeways:

http://www.shapeways.com/shops/theojansen
You'd not even need a sentencing reform to improve the chances of getting a job.

Cash incentives (e.g. state pays 50% of the income of the employee for a year or two) for employers can be a much better starting point. Or educating prisoners e.g. to become licensed electricians, plumbers, ... like in Germany and then helping them to start their own business when out of jail.

But the US system seems like focused 100% on punishment and generating revenue for private prisons, so I highly doubt this will ever be introduced - there's simply too much money at stake when former inmates actually rehabilitate.