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In all seriousness, civilizations, dumb or not, are natural processes. There is very likely something we don't know about advanced civilizations.
Why not adopt the Eclipse Public License (EPL), which is the license used for Clojure/Script and the majority of open source Clojure libraries?

http://opensource.org/licenses/EPL-1.0
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There is essentially no language specific documentation in well made APIs. There is a common type system so there is very little that's different. Mainly if you need a semicolon and how you prefer your parentheses.

There are some poorly made APIs, like ASP.NET MVC that exploit C#-specific side effects to compensate for C#'s verbosity. These APIs ignore the common type system and just pass object everywhere, breaking tooling and type safety.

But as long as Xamarin didn't come up with terrible designs, you're all set. And, even if they do rely on something strange, F# is such a better language, that the small setback of dealing with interop (which doesn't require learning C#) is totally worth it.
Craft command-line masterpieces in Node
Are the pixels themselves perfectly square? Just from looking at it (on my screen), it seems a bit taller than it is wide.
This article is not about the ad platform... It talks about reach from the normal page posts of brands.
I'd guess it's referring to Einstein's "spooky action at a distance"
That would be my guess as well, a compromise, no sapphire and a fudged screen. That said, my take away from this article was that once your screen resolutions gets above 300 ppi the resolution available is not nearly as important as it is otherwise.
New subatomic particles predicted by Canadians found at CERN
Yes, that is the best example I've seen. But, by the same token (pun intended this time), it is only SQL-ish. It isn't SQL, which of course they are up-front about by calling it something else. Careful study and some practice usage of CQL can provide a practical object lesson in why "give me SQL!" is not always a reasonable demand to make of a datastore unconstrained by preconceived notions about semantics. SQL presupposes/affords more than meets the eye.
Any traditional and fringe physicists here can verify the validity of this prediction?
US customs officers can, upon attempted border entry, search and seize any baggage of any US or foreign citizen without a warrant or probable cause.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
How is C# at all "programmable"? Even all the neat C# features, like async or duck typing are hard-coded into the language and not extensible or generic.
Ask HN: What career advice would you give your younger self?
What were your biggest wastes of time? What do you wish you spent more time on?
Amnesty International program can spot spying software used by governments
Man, you just have to ignore the downvotes. They really are inconsistent and meaningless.
That is what I thought to, but I do not see anything in this article that hint as some sort of spooky action at a distance.
These guys are the new x86. On that note I was surprised they actually get custom chips from Intel, but I guess it makes sense. At the AWS summit in SF earlier this year the only AWS supplier with a booth was Intel.
A simple web search shows that that isn't true.

http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/travel-to-the-usa/g...

http://www.imore.com/tsa-will-require-devices-be-charged-int...

http://traveltips.usatoday.com/tsa-rules-international-trave...
> otherwise BT wouldn't be able to hijack the request and redirect you to the login page.

They do capture and redirect SSL traffic on first connection, resulting in a security warning on Firefox. So it's not a technical limitation.

Prior to login, all DNS requests for the new MAC are spoofed to direct to the login service regardless of protocol.
It would be cool to see some videos of the current LightTable, since it was the demo videos of the original prototype that made its name originally.

FWIW I remember trying LT once post-open sourcing and ran out of enthusiasm before I could figure out how to see any of the "cool stuff from the video".
Sorry about the formatting there sucking. :-(
My apologies, I should've just said "banned" or "dead" or some other word. I've seen other people use the "hellbanned" word before and figured it was the right phrase.

Out of interest, I did look up the user and saw that he/she seemed not to have done anything that I felt deserving of any form of ban - how should I have communicated this back to you? Am I even encouraged to do so?
See how pixel-perfect you can draw boxes
SSL/TLS for the Pragmatic
I like pam_shield, personally.

https://github.com/jtniehof/pam_shield

Back in the day, disabling password auth but leaving keyboard_interactive on would stop a lot of these things, but I don't think that's true any more.
This is pretty much the conclusion I came to. Fortunately, I got many replies to my original ad so there are many others to chose from.
It isn't quite done: https://github.com/colah/ImplicitCAD/issues

I found that it works for most thing but can produce broken STLs occasionally.
Found the answer. Those who mentioned that it was state of the art for the time were correct.

The main camera, OSIRIS, is only 4 megapixels. Also, the camera cost $100MM, which is a significant percentage of the overall mission. So, it's not as if they were skimping.
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They would recommend it because public wifi is unencrypted and open to sniffing.
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When I concluded what they had to be doing and then read the actual confirmation of what they were doing I was somewhat shocked. Why on Earth would you want to programatically recreate the routes in an express app?!?!? It would be really interesting to see a write up on what/why they think this kind of behavior is needed in the first place ....
The last paragraph is especially creepy. You can be treated as an animal, whenever they please.
"I'd also restrict their use in some way, too."

It seems like once you start actually doing business with the logo, trademark should do the most important restricting. It may or may not still be a good idea to restrict it further.
SETI exists for that tiny, tiny chance that in the few years (very, very, very few) we look at data, the Earth is receiving transmissions from a remote part of the universe. Voyager's messages are far more likely to make contact with an alien species, since they'll be around effectively forever. It's just a matter of whether that happens while we're still in existence.
One thing to keep in mind is that a number of businesses incorporate in Delaware because Delaware law is very protective of owners and their privacy. The corporate veil, as it is called, is very strong in Delaware. For example, in Delaware you are not required to disclose who your corporate officers and directors are. They believe in litigating in front of a judge instead of a jury. They also believe corporate law should follow precedence over litigation.

My point being, you probably won't actually find a lawyer who will take your case. My non-legal, just a guy on HN, opinion is to cut your loss and move on. I'm sorry to hear about this level of dishonesty in a business, but don't throw good money after bad.
> The dependency on Google had started to annoy me.

Either Chrome or Firefox or something else. Choose your poison. One's life has to be depended on something.
Really good animations and info on the Rosetta project in general. Helps to visualize a lot of the stuff we've been reading. Also gives a good sense of scale.

Summary, trailer and link to video can be found at the URL posted in this HN submission. Direct link to video is here:

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365367186/
Could you please go through your whitepaper document and change all the possessive "it's" to the proper "its"?

(Mnemonic: possessive its uses the same number of apostrophes as his and hers and theirs do.)
Designer here. I'm Robin; I've started this project last June to record thoughts and perspective of old folks I meet. I live in Singapore which gives me access to pretty different profiles. It's easy to go abroad from here so I'm trying to meet people from different country. I do everything alone which makes the update not as regular as I wish. I'm trying to make people contribute now with videos of their own grand-parents that they would record with their smartphone. I'm considering enabling an upload feature.

Any feedback is welcome in terms of design, videography, or anything that could help me to improve the site, the videos, or make the "Your Videos" section more appealing.

Cheers,
Robin
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The LIDAR that Google uses costs $100.000, and is the most expensive part. The car itself cost (less than) half of that.
I would caution against making broad sweeping generalizations (most installs from FB mobile ads never even open the app once) from one incident where this one person had an issue.

Companies like King and others have VERY competent teams of digital media and analytics experts, as well as the engineering resources to implement VERY advanced tracking.

They would most definitely not be spending the large sums they are if they were not very confident in the return it gave them.
"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

-- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Actually, all of what you just mentioned is considered "economies of scope" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scope)

Here, economies of scope make product diversification efficient if they are based on the common and recurrent use of proprietary know-how or on an indivisible physical asset.
Not everybody maximizes their windows, though.
But then you need to seduce the JS runtime into actually performing your optimizations. Maybe time for C/C++ extensions to become more prevalent a la Python?
top execs have brashly threatened to spend millions investigating journalists' personal lives

Nope. ONE exec went on a rant at a party about what HE would hypothetically like to do to a self-declared enemy of the company. Have you ever been really frustrated with someone and said "Ugh sometimes I'd like to ring his/her neck" or similar? Now imagine someone overheard you, took it literally, and called the person you were frustrated with. Sensing an opportunity to exploit the situation, they call the police, contact Senators about you, and write a blog post about how you threatened to eradicate him/her and everyone they've ever spoken to from the planet in the most violent possible way - all in an effort to get clicks on ads on your blog. That is basically what happened here.

You're right about one thing, it is disgusting.
Pretty good ROI it seems like. Thanks for sharing!
> My feeling also. If this isn't a case of the pot calling the kettle black I don't know what is. The Federal government is one of the worst offenders at being careless with personal data

So all federal government is responsible for all other arms of federal government, Al Franken is a member of the federal government, therefore guilt by association?

Just a question, but are you ok with your movements being tracked by Uber? Are you ok with any corporation spying on your movements and potentially using that information against you? So because the NSA spies on you, it's not ok for Al Franken to stand up to corporate privacy issues? Just saying ...

Yes, I would like to see anyone stand up for privacy issues, corporate or federal. As has been pointed out in other threads on this post, Al Franken actually does stand against both.

So let's agree that "the pot calling the kettle black" is a bad analogy because not all federal government necessarily agrees with other arms of the federal governments' actions. Yeah?
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Hi Robin,

I love this idea. Wish I could have a video like this from my grandfathers. One thing that leapt out to me was wondering what the questions were that kicked off the video -- if I wanted to make, could there be a list of questions that gets the topics and wisdom flowing?

Also, if you're looking to implement direct upload, something like red5 would be able to give you the ability if you wanted to run it yourself, otherwise there's always youtube which everyone can use the app.
They also clearly label their circuit boards and leave solder pads for mods under the hood. Really cool that they think of the hackers and modders.
This resonates. We raised just under $2m through a seed round and then were fortunate enough to be able to raise a bridge that deferred any crunch. But then we did 2 other things: we focused our sales, marketing, and product design on the greatest pain within a single industry (instead of 3) and we reduced expenses. Now growth is great and we are very close to being able to say that raising money is completely optional indefinitely, and no matter what investors do or don't decide, we will be fine. A wonderful feeling but the challenge to get to that next level has also been nearly inexplicable. Great post-mortem.
How do these compare to https://www.wisebanyan.com?

It seems to be roughly the same idea, but without any fees at all (I haven't used any of them, so I'm likely missing something)
At first glance it seems so, but afterwards it still seems like nothing has changed for the space travellers. Maybe the picture gives an illusion of a 2D birds eye view hence looking simpler than the reality.
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THX for your efforts in bringing up the next generation of hackers and penetration testers!
hm, I didn't mean infrastructure, I mean, did you buy proxy nodes from someone like sslprivateproxy and slap HAProxy in front...
Most ecommerce sites wise up to bots crawling them and have a robots.txt that suggests you might not want to...
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SoMix is a social playlist maker where you can create a playlist by searching for a song on Youtube (Or paste in a video link). After the playlist is seeded with your initial song, you can share your link to people for them to contribute.
genwin is talking about actual measurements, not speculation. Why are you throwing out a strawman?
easy one: dont work so hard, its not a wise way to spend your youth anyway. also try to get big enough time frames to actually finish the project, estimates can be off by 400% all the time. dont ask for more money ask for understanding on a some days i cant make it in and some im late. work for big name companies, getting future jobs will be easier. never flake, having one job on ur resume where u cant use them as a reference really sucks. date chicks at work but not the hottest 2 they wont put out.
I've entered the US through SeaTac, MSP, ATL, and SFO. In each of those, I never encountered TSA checkpoints until a connecting flight. If it is the final destination of your flight, you do not interact with TSA at all (unless you scream bomb in the airport or something).
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Ask HN: Would a oDesk/99designs co-op work?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative

Sorta like Vanguard funds, if you're familiar with them.

Fees on these freelancer platforms are very high. In some cases, 99designs takes a 40% commission, for very little work.

I remember awhile back there was Scriptlance, which only cost $5 to post a job.

Now you might say this would only benefit freelancers. But if you think about it, the job providers would benefit too. If oDesk's commission on a contract is $500, that's $500 that could have gone to increase the payout. You'd be able to attract a better candidate or have the freelancer spend more time.

This wouldn't be for the money of course. And taking on the entrenched competition (with their network effects) would be hard.
Fat finger effect? http://www.businessinsider.com/error-rate-for-mobile-ad-fat-...

There was also a post a while back here on HN about ridiculous Facebook click-through rates with the same kind of 1-second time-on-site stats. I forgot what the cause was.
Kind of sucks if you're trying to design something that's usable with a mouse and with touch though. Plenty of interfaces out there that don't take into account that there's no hover state for a finger.
It uses the Bing index, but there are at least some differences in how it retrieves and prioritizes results. (If you run the same search on yahoo and bing, even with fresh cookies, you won't normally get identical results.)

Yahoo may do some spidering of their own as well, although not to my knowledge. I know at least the above is true though. Also as an aside the Yahoo BOSS API is significantly more powerful than the comparable Azure Bing web search API. Unfortunately, they also just doubled the access price this month.
But that's only 1440x1440 if you divide it by two.
Another expose, this time it's a two for one on bitcoin thieves...
Agreed. I don't know the world where investors are throwing $1.5M at you, and you somehow had the option to raise twice that. Most of us can't even raise the first $1.5M. These are first world problems.
No, because the quasars weren't aligned with each other globally (cosmologically), it appears they are aligned with whatever structure they are embedded in at large scales. I think the term is a filament, but I'm not sure.

If every quasar wherever we looked was aligned such that their axes of rotation were parallal, that would be a huge blow to the cosmological principal. Or more spookily, suppose all of the quasars studied were oriented with their poles lining up to some point in the universe. A good hint that some God created the universe for us, for example, would be for every single quasar's axis of rotation to be pointing at the earth.

But those things do not seem to be the case, and the cosmological principal appears to hold. Look at any corner of the universe, and quasars point in an arbitrary direction. Look at another corner, and they point in a different arbitrary direction. Zoom out, and now there is no cohesive direction. Homogeneity is preserved at scales much smaller than the largest structures we've observed, because the chains of quasars are themselves much smaller than the filaments and other super-structures that snake through the observable universe.
A power user is someone that will go through the effort of learning a wide array of keyboard shortcuts to gain maximum efficiency when using your product.

What op described for 3 clicks is simply for rarely used use cases. Not power users.
Of course it's possible. Dead code stripping is pretty easy to do provided that you're also doing static linking. Proguard does this for Android apps and GWT does it when outputting JavaScript.

Server-side programmers haven't had to care as much but maybe we should.
We don't have fully async computers. Something somewhere will block, be it in the CPU, fetching blocks from a disk, kernel context switches, etc. You will hit fundamental limits. Heck, I've hit network card limits before and was none the wiser. There is actually a really good question you can ask yourself when designing a system: do you want it to go very fast at times, or do you want it to have very predictable speed? I learned to choose the latter: better fire up 16 processes and delegate work to them from a master process than to fire up one async loop that may get bogged down at some point.

At the same time, having a good mental model of what your code is waiting on or is blocked by is very important. Years ago I read advice on building multi-threaded systems. It went something like "when asked what's the hardest thing about coding up multi-threaded systems, beginners say things like deadlocks, but real pros say 'avoiding doing nothing'". So if your application does some large bit of work and in the middle of it it's blocked, why not go do something else.

Here's the hitch, and what the article alludes to: a system where you have 16 worker processes and they are either handling a client request or are waiting, your max users is 16. That's it, it's a hard limit. By design you can't process 17 requests at once. If you however go with an async system, let's say based on Node.js, you don't have this control. You have a crude "how many connections can we accept" thing, but you generally can't introduce limits you can actually reason about. If you simply set your max connections wide open, and then connect it all to MongoDB, you'll quickly find that MongoDB has a global write lock that will start rearing its ugly head. You can't overcome this limit, but you also don't know where this limit is. Systems with set internal limits that propagate back pressure to the edge, on the other hand, have very predictable behavior.
Could this be hosted somewhere else? It's blocked as a suspicious site for a few of us corporate readers.
That makes sense only if you're trying to look at your entire monitor at once, rather than just a portion of it at a time and moving your eyes to context switch.
Thanks, will send across my resume for review.
For a moment I decided to move on. Now I got know that some team members now face same issue.

Company still operates and continues "product development" with rest of dedicated team.
Absolutely! Email us at hn@ycombinator.com. We're more than happy to fix stuff like this.

We intend to build ways for the community to regulate these things without going through us, but it's going to take a while to get there.
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wouldn't this be more appropriate?
I believe they can be very easily used if they are CommonJS modules? I'm not sure, but I'm almost positive the amazing Purescript Book[0] has an answer for you.

0: https://leanpub.com/purescript/read
Thanks for your message. Generally, it all start with a casual conversation around the idea of transmitting a message to new generations. I feel that people are very encline to share when they're listened to. Once the valve is open, the flow does not stop :) John for instance kept talking for 45min without me asking any questions.

You have a point though: people need to have references in terms of questions to be able to do interviews on their own. I will think about how to integrate this in the site. Thanks for the idea and for the red5, I will look into it.

Robin
Considering it's almost 2015, I'm surprised Twitter got away this long without this.
That's a lot of money for a product that's still in Alpha. This seems like a complex problem with many use cases. Are you concerned about product-market fit or have you already done enough beta testing to know you're on the right track?
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"I'll wait for the regular Google fanboy down votes" is baiting other users into downvoting you, and that is against the HN guidelines. Please stay on topic.

Also, phrases like "about as much as I would trust a priest to give me a colonoscopy" and "the usual Google fanboy response" are inflammatory and inappropriate for substantive discussion, which is what HN calls for. Please edit such flamebait out of your comments. It's understandable that it sneaks in there—we're all susceptible to it—but that's what the edit button is for. Not only will excising it not hurt your argument, it will help it considerably, and display good manners to your fellow users to boot.