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We're the first "smart" earplugs in the modern understanding of the word "smart" as a connected device! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_device
As much as I like competition, I hate entering my bank info into a lot of different places. I've been successfully ignoring venmo (in favor of paypal) for a while for the sole reason I don't want my info on more sites than necessary.

Seems like a lot of companies are trying to solve the "I hate entering my bank info into a lot of different places" problem, but it is only making the problem worse when half of my friends use one system and the other half use the other.

Someone needs to come up with a meta solution to sending money that doesn't involve me giving more companies direct access to my bank info.

(cue crypto-currency advocates)
If you're considering using it, keep in mind the limitations: https://github.com/bup/bup/blob/master/README.md#things-that...

The one most likely to be a showstopper seems to be: "bup currently has no way to prune old backups."
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Looks like a crazy rant to me. This is the same process they used to sell a related stash of Bitcoin earlier this year. The winner of that auction was Tim Draper.
That was the sale of the Silk Road 1 server's bitcoins - the bitcoins SR1 users had actually in the site, either deposited because they intended to buy something, locked up in escrow as part of an in-flight order, or not yet withdrawn by a seller.

This is Ross Ulbricht's personal bitcoins on his laptop and backup drives.
Neat concept, Uber for kids. But what happens when a kid with a bad attitude creates problem for the driver? What happens when the kids start fighting?

Finally, what happens when nefarious individuals realize it's super easy to pick up rich people's children by pretending to be a Boost driver?

This is going to be a fun liability experience.
Those sound distinctly non-technical.
Yes, CoffeeScript syntax is often ambiguous, but you learn a few simple rules [1] and ignore darker corners.

And I think slightly ambiguous transpiler is okay when the resulting language is not ambiguous. You can always check the output (which is very readable).

[1]: For example, "[t]he implicit call wraps forward to the end of the line…"
Well, I have the exact opposite experience. I've always had pleasant trips with shrooms (over 10 trips) but at my first DMT trip I experienced some anxiety (didn't break through)... nothing traumatic but I could imagine it going much worse. Because of that I went on to read "The Psychedelic Experience" as it contains lots of advice on ego death trips, and if you read it you'll realize bad trips on DMT are just normal.
The point is really that this experience isn't shared by other people in other industries. I'd feel silly explaining how many unsolicited recruiting emails I get to the folks I know in entertainment, fashion, marketing, or whatever. They have to hustle just to get interviews. They get laid off. They're unemployed for long stretches. They have to suffer through horrifying unpaid internships.

Sure, you're being spammed at the top end of the recruiter's funnel here. But the funnel doesn't even exist for a lot of non-tech job descriptions.
Your site is down at the moment, so let me ask - as a musician, what do these get me over Etymotic's earplugs? I have a $160 pair of custom-molded plugs with replaceable filters that go from -5 to -20dB attenuation.
Was active noise cancellation technically infeasible for this product?
Yeah, it is the sum of the passive attenuation of the earplug and the noise masking. We don't have the test equipment yet to make a dB calculation of NRR for the foam component, but from subjective tests when comparing with other earplugs, the foam seems to block out about ~30dB!
From another comment in a thread last week about the same subject:

"I'm currently working in the industry in the Permian Basin area (Texas/New Mexico) and can say that my main concern is environmental. With the fracking operations, you get a huge load of oil, saltwater, and sand/crud/junk/chemicals. They truck them to a SWD disposal facility (my company does PLC's and controls etc for these) which then separate the oil out. The problem is that, at most of the SWD disposal places I have been too, disposal consists of pumping the junk/crud/chemical water straight back into the ground.
They say they drill below the Ogallalah aquifer, but what if they don't? Having actually been a contractor for one of the bigger public oil companies, I can just say I don't really trust them to do things like that properly, and my guess is that within a few years we will find out, oh shit,
"Someone poisoned the water hole".
That's when T. Boone Pickens will unleash his high-priced water. I don't thing people realize how close the south is to major water shortages and is vulnerable to a drought. Hopefully this upcoming winter will help offset some of that."
Well the winner of the first auction came forward voluntarily so it isn't like it was a mystery.
See my other comment on the details of the coordination law's restrictions; at first glance, the Democratic example seems to at minimum violate the restriction on content.

This sounds like it falls on the right side of the (very bad) law.
The more general name for this approach is structural typing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_type_system
Maybe you should've read down further to the part where it addresses the ability of the opposing side to get court orders for such data in the future, and precedent.
Indeed. The PS4 OS is also FreeBSD based.
I believe Gentoo is able to run with a BSD kernel.
We're using JOS lab assignments in the master's OS class at University of Washington this quarter. I think the labs are quite good at illustrating basic OS principles through having you implement the core functionality (paging, interrupts/exceptions, user mode environments, scheduling and context switching, etc.). Some of the hairy x86 scaffolding C and assembly code is provided - you concentrate on the core OS functionality. The downside is you don't learn how to write an OS completely from scratch, and more reading of x86 manuals would be required.

I disagree that you completely wasted your time in college - sounds like you enjoyed yourself!
Doesn't Kickstarter have a policy against using renders?

https://www.kickstarter.com/rules

"we prohibit photorealistic renderings."
Yes it is but it is also used for acquisitions where the money is so big that the person suddenly never has to worry about anything ever again related to money, a golden parachute. Typically though most acquisitions founders/co-founders will leave after their couple years of vesting as with new money they have more opportunities, doesn't always happen but usually. The recent Facebook buys of Oculus and WhatsApp may be different and more like Amazon's Zappos and Twitch acquisitions.

Here I was using it more as a game item that you get so much money from a successful product that you don't really have to worry about anything again. I usually hear it with technology acquisitions and founders leaving later after the money than with termination as there are only golden parachutes for failure in the financial industry.

I should have said funding or freedom, as the funding from WhatsApp sale now gives Jan Koum the freedom to work on many ideas and support important projects like BSD.
This looks very interesting as a replacement for rdiff-backup. Hopefully the missing parts aren't too far away (expire old backups, restore from remote).
I've actually found the word "multicopter" is used in it's place a lot. There's even a subreddit /r/multicopter for it. RC planes is equally common as well.
Yeah, golden parachute makes no sense in this context.
I think the big risk there is graphics support on $BSD, right? What is the state of things like GL, nvidia or AMD drivers, etc.?
So basically, putting structured comments in the API output would have the same effect? Instagram does that. They don't update their API docs, and instead put comments in the results so you might stumble on them while debugging
But specifically to hyperlinks, I don't see the point. For instance, a search API might want to return s next link. So they can do that with a URL. Or they can just include a next token I pass to the search API. The latter is somewhat easier to program against since you often abstract the HTTP/URL parts.
Netapp, Google, Juniper, Netflix, VMware, EMC, Tarsnap, and many others are listed (usually ever year) on the Foundation's donors list [0].

Others (e.g. HP) choose to donate hardware to the Project and most of its infrastructure is hosted (gratis, IIRC) by Yahoo!, ISC, NYI, and Sentex.

Side note: Tarsnap is listed at the same level as Juniper (2013) and VMware (2014); I have mixed feelings about that.

[0]: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors
We've done a lot of tests with the ergonomics of it - even delaying our launch for a month so that we could iterate more because the side-sleeper comfort wasn't up to par. it's smaller and rounder than what you see in the video as we filmed the first half of the video before our final design. ~70% of the people we had sleep with it for an entire night noted that it was comfortable. that number will get even better as we implement the inner silicone layer.

the main difference between using in-ear headphones with comply tips is wires. I've had to used wired for a long time and it was terrible. They'd tangle and get pulled out of my ear. They'd pull my phone out of the charger. I've even had my phone run out of battery in the middle of the night because it got disconnected. When you roll around, wires in bed are not a pleasant experience. :(

Also, the software built in is very different. Normal earphones don't have our user-friendly software that has features designed for sleep. I.e. when an alert sounds on your phone with normal earphones, it sounds in both your headphones and your phone's speaker - waking up others around you. There might be some hacked homebrew way of getting some of Hush's software features on normal earphones but our software makes it easy. :)
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Some people here are probably listening to the Serial podcast, which investigates the evidence in a 15-year-old murder case in which the convicted killer still proclaims his innocence, and in which no physical evidence tying him to the scene was found.

The convicted killer has no alibi and claims he can't remember what happened that day (he was arrested several weeks after the murder)...he thinks he might have been in the library at the time of the murder to check his email, but that was either never checked or either logged...there weren't as many cameras around his high school back then, and cell phones didn't have GPS nor were the towers conclusive in their pings (in terms of locating where a phone call took place).

Listening to that podcast is like listening to a time capsule, and I wonder if a muddled-up murder story like that could ever happen again? We carry around too many location-enabled devices out of habit and we log in and communicate across too many online systems to not leave a trace of what we do on any given day. If you were intent on committing murder, and fabricating a foggy alibi...leaving your Fitbit or phone behind, even for a few hours, might be used as circumstantial evidence against you.
I'll bite.

Core FreeBSD has 272,082 commits [1]

Of those, only 9,244 commits [2] have the word "Sponsored" in their commit message; however, 3,486 were sponsored by "The FreeBSD Foundation" [3]. So only a net total of 5,758 commits were company sponsored.

Said another way, that means just 2.1% of all commits ever made to FreeBSD, in it's 21 year existence, were companies sponsoring and submitting patches.

So no, I think it's safe to say that FreeBSD is primarily run and operated by lone individuals who do it because they personally love FreeBSD.

Edit: typo, fixed stats.

[1] https://secure.freshbsd.org/search?q=

[2] https://secure.freshbsd.org/search?q=Sponsored

[3] https://secure.freshbsd.org/search?q=%22The+FreeBSD+Foundati...
this is wrong. you publish this stuff online, its fair game. many fitness apps are basically trackers. For example, popular cross-country running and mtb routes? very often these are in contested use sights. runners/hikers/bikers/horse rider hate each other (at least in CA) and private landowners loath them all too (as tresspassers) meanwhile state and federal agents have a vested interest in protecting their access/permit monopolies. You can be assured that at some stage litigants in these disputes will bring any and all evidence like this forward-- if/when it suits a litigation brief.
Probably better off submitting the referenced article.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/11/16/fitbit-dat...
Those data can be used for good. We have had a user of my app telling us once that they were robbed had sleep voice recording from the app on and it recorded the whole robbery (with the robber threatening and the victim yelling, crying, and being scared. (The victim later shared the recording with us) The recording was used for police investigation and evidence for voice matching.
The industry is already regulated, and companies are ignoring the regulations. This isn't even an approximation to a free market, let alone some ideal. Adding more regulations isn't going to help if they're not enforced.
Religion is a classifying term for a variety of cultural languages in which the vast majority of spirituality has been framed throughout history. Saying they have little to do with one another is, at best, uninformed.

One does not necessitate the other, but that does not mean they are anywhere near as dissociated as you suggest.
I didn't complain about the amount of typing. Programming involves so little typing in general that bringing it up is always a red herring. I often don't mind verbosity in a programming language, but not never. The distinction is basically verbosity that makes common patterns noisy to read. The `function` keyword is that sort of verbosity in javascript. I think explicit returns are also that sort of verbosity in javascript. The language lends itself to using lots of anonymous functions, but because of the `function` keyword and implicit return, anonymous functions are very noisy. It doesn't help readability, it just results in long lines or stacks of lines to express simple concepts.

I find this type of syntax discussion pretty superficial, but, for better or worse, syntax has a big impact on how programs are written in a language.
You're certainly right in the subjective use of "bad trip". I think the term has been applied to maybe too wide a spectrum of psychedelic experience, I've usually seen it manifest itself as one of these two:

A. An unpleasant experience where the user is forced to confront uncomfortable realities about themselves and the "world". This is usually a feature of most trips, it could last a few minutes or hours. This can often be a net-positive experience as the user navigates their way out of it and realize the baselessness of some of their more troubling assumptions.

B. An experience where the user entirely loses touch with "reality". Sometimes this resembles the symptoms of a very strong panic-attack. It includes feelings of imminent death or the feeling that the user has permanently altered their psychology forever or has gone irreparably insane. This can last for the entire duration of the trip and have permanent, lasting effects long after the drug has worn off.

As someone mentioned further up the thread, "A" can sometimes spiral out of control into "B".
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Permissive licenses are good for commercial purposes too in embedding them into proprietary software which is freedom for commercial purposes. That is why legal departments love the freedom given by permissive licenses.
Ironic that their solution to reduced quality time with family is to put them on a bus with a Mercedes employee instead of driving them to x practice.

I don't know what to think about this app in general. They've identified the problem that parents don't have time to drive their kids to all of their activities. However I think they are missing the other problem that kids don't have time to take a "school bus" to all of their activities.

I imagine once you hop on that you will make many stops along the way picking up other kids and dropping some off. So instead of a 15 minute drive to the soccer field, it is now a 35 minute ride. I think that if kids have so many activities that parents can't drive them around, that the kids themselves may not be able to squeeze in these extended trips either.
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They are removable and can be washed under the sink. You can also replace them when they wear down! We'll keep our foam pieces pretty affordable!
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The video says that each Boost van has a driver and a concierge. So I assume the concierge is responsible for keeping kids in line.
Overview?
I don't know, I wouldn't judge a decompiled code.

Can you give a few examples why is it so bad?
I keep checking my calendar and it says November 17, not April 1... hmmm is it broken?
I can see how this would be theoretically possible in the same way I could see using `git filter-branch` to remove one or more commits from a code repository. But as it requires walking back up the tree to recalculate all of the commit hashes based on the new state of your files, I suspect it would be an extremely slow/expensive operation in bup's case. Someone who knows more about bup's internals can correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes, OpenSSL. Sorry. Long day :)
Ah classic Wired. I read this one on paper, yikes dating myself!
It wouldn't be if it were a keyword! More seriously, there's plenty of precedent for using `fn` and people get by just fine. (I don't think `func` is a bad choice either, my preference for `fn` was just a completely irrelevant aside.)
This is categorically different from such data being used against the user in a criminal case. This is instead the user using data generated by her own device to substantiate her own tort claim.
Not unless the fact that organizations have recurring annual funding requirements is funny.
When I spoke with someone from Kickstarter, they said that it's a safeguard against 'vaporware.' As long as you show evidence of your actual prototype (boards, CAD models, etc) and that real engineering is complete, it's fine!
I can't speak on GL or AMD drivers but both Intel and Nvidia (graphics hardware) work great on FreeBSD and have native drivers. I don't run X on any of the other BSDs so I can't comment on those either (although I believe Nvidia is also well-supported on OpenBSD).
I just haven't read much NetBSD code. Can't speak to it personally.
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Actually, if you had been the kind of person who read/studied a lot (like I did), you would probably regret not chasing women (like I do) :).

In the end, you only get one life and there will always be things you wish you had done.
Deleting old backups and the lack of encryption is what stopped me from using bup.
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I'm really excited to see the community gain more traction, especially financially right now.
I don't think thats entirely fair, I don't think anyone obliges you to add "Sponsored" and I would expect the figure is higher than that.
They're meant more for sleep! Musician earplugs offer a completely different value proposition in keeping the frequency response the same while reducing dB. Our earplugs' purpose is to get maximum dB isolation so that your sleep isn't disturbed!
That strikes me as absolutely insane, to be frank. I work in a different segment of the industry now (SET) but to my knowledge I've never been at a reputable company that gave a coding assignment that extensive, especially if they haven't talked to you yet.

So here's the question: is the code being asked to be production-ready, or otherwise real-world useful?

Because one possible thing that's happening is that they're mechanical-turking their codebase by doling out assignments to hopeful applicants.
> That means just 3.4% of all commits ever made to FreeBSD, in it's 21 year existence, were companies sponsoring and submitting patches.

I understand your point, but all commits are not created equal. Some commits could be immensely 'more important' than others.
OSX is not based on it in the typical use of the word. Darwin is a hybrid that incorporates a lot from *BSD courtesy of its NeXtStep lineage. It doesn't use the FreeBSD kernel and it has a lot of Apple specific enhancements.

It's more like a sibling of FreeBSD.
Battery limitations :( And cost. It's also not the best at blocking out the sudden transient sounds that are responsible for jarring people out of sleep. Passive noise reduction + noise masking are much more effective for that!
Long before Deepwater, BP was known for its shoddy safety standards by the other supermajors. They were the butt of many jokes within the industry.
I'm watching the keynote.
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No, they're right. Linux systems don't panic because of broken drivers after an update, they keep running properly.

FreeBSD sometimes completely stops booting on your hardware or turns unstable for no good reason. (search on google for posts from people who can't boot FreeBSD 8.x on hardware which was running 6.x or 7.x without the slightest bug)

FreeBSD can crash your system because of an unstable driver after a major upgrade like 9.2 to 9.3.

You can see they're right, "FreeBSD doesn't take your system down like Linux", it's much worse.
fwiw paypal owns venmo.
You could always dive in to a Coursera course over the holidays.

Alternatively for those who studied too much in university/didn't enjoy the rigors of studying engineering much (me), I recommend taking a few months off to study at a language university abroad.
What a thorough and interesting review. I was wondering why all the attention is placed on the locks and have been thinking that, a la many apartment buildings in cities with their buzz-in door locks, why not approach the "smart lock" problem by using electric strikes? A drawback would be you would need to supply power to the door frame, but then you wouldn't have to deal with worrying about when the batteries run out of juice.

To put it another way, suppose that, planning ahead, I install an electric strike that allows me to "buzz in" people. Then what I would like to do is be able to "buzz in" using a smartphone app, say.
Yeah you can! A lot of the people I interviewed actually did that - they'd wear earplugs and have a sound generator going... Haha. Kind of counterintuitive since they'd be blocking out the noise masking as well, ha!

That is a good workaround though to get a similar effect! Funny how you tried to digitally equalize the earplugs low-pass filter, haha
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