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Ask HN: Please help me to review the viability of this idea
Guys,

This is my idea, please help to define better as I plan on to work it until reaches a viable state.

First, in many houses, commerces, farms, many places they have cameras with a DVR system publishing to the internet.

Bear with me as we live in a Latin American city called Bogotá where the local government and the police has been uncooperative together in the period of our latest Mayor, so in many levels we are in our own when talking about personal security. They don't give a shit most of the time, but they respond timely when called directly to their mobile numbers of local sub groups called "cuadrantes".

What I want to create is a software where the output of the videos is centralized and then being watched by another set of people trained to watch for anomalies and ready to call the police, and to offer this vigilance service to the interested houses. If this works then start to develop a more automated operation where the software could anticipate the bad guys,although a the moment I rely better at trained people instead.

I have identified gray areas on terms of privacy concerns and trust to us, I don't know what to do in this regard.

What are your thoughts and where you come from, as it's important to me when assessing the advice as maybe you don't have as many robberies, muggers, homicides as we unfortunately do have and could not see is worth and instead see more potential for a huge stalker network, but indeed there have been robberies where if the cameras were used for real time vigilance then better actions could been done. Currently are only used, most of the time, as a for the record element, in future police and judge "deep investigations to the last consequences" and nothing happens as after.

Thanks for any input.
How much would you kill for a barista style formula dispenser? :-) First world problem, I know, but I always imagined, 'click-click' and getting exactly the right amount. New fridges have water dispensers where you can set the ounces on the door, and they dispense exactly that amount. I wonder if they can set the temperature precisely too? I guess just another way our kids will not face the same set of challenges. (Not necessarily 'have it better' just applying their energy differently with a whole different set of expectations to go along with it)
So, do you not have kids or has it just been a really long time since you've had young kids? My kids are ten, seven and two-and-a-half; when you have one kid, you can fool yourself into thinking that nurture is playing a large role -- but when you have two (and certainly when you have three) you begin to realize how much of our nature is, um, nature. I think nurture is important (obviously), but much more for emotional well-being (that whole unconditional love thing), for character (that whole right-from-wrong thing) and for values than for the essence of their person. I also don't think that "you'll win to start with" -- in most cases when I've seen kids pushed into things that are fundamentally not in their disposition, the effort doesn't clear the end of the runway. If you had better luck, that's awesome for you and for your kids -- but my experience has been that it's easier to change me to match my kids dispositions than vice versa.
Ask HN: What's left for early startup engineers when the company scales up?
Howdy

I joined a startup ~2 years ago as employee #2 (software engineer), and thus I've had the responsibility of essentially building every technical aspect of the company from the ground up, which I loved. Now, the company scaled up (about 45 people) but, instead of being happy, I feel like everything's been taken away from me:

- Technical strategy: I strongly shaped the technical direction of the company defining a lot of critical points, and now they brought in a VP of engineering

- Management: I managed an entire team of 10 people without ever missing a deadline of the whole team, and now they brought in an engineering manager

- Customer facing roles: I was having a lot of customer interaction and support, now they brought in a support engineer and I don't even know who our users are anymore

- Infrastructure management: I took care of building a state-of-the-art scalable and fully automated infrastructure in the public cloud, and now they brought in an operation guy

- Developer: This is the only thing I still do, full time

Essentially, and I understand it's just my ego speaking, I just became a replaceable unit and I feel like there has not been any career advancement for me. The only benefit has been the gazillion things I learned in this ~2 years journey by doing the above roles.

The official feedback has been that now, since I don't have to worry about the other things, I can focus on what I'm able to do best (which I agree, all the tasks I did were less challenging than some critical parts of the code base I wrote from scratch), but still in the "about us" web page of startups just the management is going to be listed and take the credits. So how can one do any career advancement?

I understand this is a first world rant and and I should just "be happy" it has been a success so far, but still I find it hard and I would very much appreciate the opinion of other people who went through something similar.

Thank you
I've been waiting for that to happen for the last 15 years, ever since Gnutella came out in 2000.

If you're going to claim that's the future, you ought to understand why distributed content-addressable P2P networks like Chord (created by YC's own Robert T. Morris), Kademlia, Alpine, and JavaSpaces all failed, and P2P sharing networks like Napster, Gnutella, Audiogalaxy, and Kazaa were unable to break out of their illegal-music-sharing niche. And then explain why it's different this time. If anything, the forces that made distributed hash tables unworkable in 2001 are stronger now, as Ethernet bandwidth, file size, and disk space have increased much faster than consumer Internet bandwidth.
Statements of preference are different than assertions about the world. The comic is funny, but it does have an antiphilosophical spirit, especially if you think it relates to the present conversation.

I'm sorry. I care. (sorry (sorry)) ((((((sorry))))))
It is quite niche, but of all the Government data that is made open, anecdotally I believe transit data gets used more than any other data.

I believe this site can bring a lot of value to certain organizations, especially once I get more feed normalizers up and running other than the one for Muni.
"Rick Rubin's recordings of Johnny Cash are extraordinarily intimate and affecting. But they don't sound anything like Johnny Cash sitting in your living room playing some songs. They sound like you're perched on Johnny Cash's lap with one ear in his mouth and a stethoscope on his guitar."
One million metric tons of CO2 stored underground
The time I would spend would be the time writing management code, putting the APIs through their paces, really finding the limits (I do that in some areas of AWS today). Unfortunately, I'd have to be doing that at my day job to really invest the quality time.

I will probably shake out an account and see what it's like for a cookie cutter user. I'm sure the experience is vastly different for a power user.
Agreed, I'm a happy modern human that isn't particularly worried about potential harms from chemicals or GMOs. I do though use baking soda and vinegar for my hair and its so much better than using shampoo and conditioner. Aggressively stripping oil from your hair and then putting it back didn't make sense once I learned about it.

I'm curious about this http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/magazine/my-no-soap-no-sha... but not nearly brave enough.
Pinegrow Year in Review 2014 – From 0 to $100K
This is a really great initiative. But it must be coupled with on-ground initiatives as well to monitor these activities. Illegal logging cannot be done in just a day and show a big chunk of the forest already deforested to appear on google earth...
Sure -- that too, of course. But would you agree that both the similarities and the differences are surprising -- and that the degree that those things (or some of those things, anyway) seem to be uncorrelated to nurture is also surprising?
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Just to be clear i'm talking about the "Purist" bottles made by Specialized the company which use a proprietary coating that seems to work well, not bike bottles in general. See for example [this review](http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/product-review-specializ...). I only recently discovered the bottles so can't give a long term review, the manufacture does recommend against scrubbing them.

Uncoated stainless and glass are great options as well but not practical for some uses.
Same Codebase for mobile app and responsive desktop/mobile website
Is it realistic to expect form the current html5 javascript frameworks environment to have a toolset that enables a developer write one codebase for both mobile app, to be generated by cordova, and for website that will be visited from desktop and mobile browsers?
His feeling that his thoughts were too precious to let go of might be more important to examine than whatever he wrote down.
How can you possibly offer that assurance?
That's true, but aluminum cookware is not as pervasive as it is in 3rd world countries, also, I'm willing to bet, the aluminum in US cookware does not have as much in terms of impurities --not guarantees on cheap imported cookware though.
It also lets them know that they can't just bullshit you for several months while they gather confidential information about your product for their own development teams to copy later.
A friend on mine used to tell me I have a way of worshiping my phone when I told him once that I couldnt live without it. I think this article shows a little truth to that. And I am not the only one
Something not mentioned but which is very important is the price anchoring that happens once you get a serious figure out of corpdev.

Future talks will be anchored on the initial figure regardless of your success in the meantime.
> So I left. I went to Thailand where 1 months rent alone buys you 2-4 months of decent living.

Should have gone to Laos, where you can live in a beautiful house for $10 a day. It is also quieter, has great internet, no roads and cars.

And London may pay well, but not as well as Australia for the last few years.
That link you provide is an awful lot of anecdotes and ascribes a lot of things to 'stereotypes'. In other words, while the reasons for the different experiences he relates could have been myriad, he always ascribes them to a (positive?) stereotype.

If that's how I'm going to analyze my life, I had better be well prepared for weird things. It's silly to view my life trough the lens of stereotypes. Why did my parents not send me to private school? Stereotype. Why did that person turn me down for a date? Stereotype. Why was I encouraged to do X? Stereotype.
Ask HN: Would you use this? (Self-Hosted Pasetbin/Gist Application)
In trying to come up with a fun side project with a small enough scope, the idea I'm currently settled on is essentially a self-hosted, open source Pastebin/Gist application. I feel as though something like this would be very useful for development teams (especially remote teams?) who want to share snippets of code/text/etc., but need to do so in a closed, secure environment.

If this is something you would use, what features would you care about the most?

I feel as though a project like this needs to have a very streamlined deployment mechanism and a small footprint for external dependencies. Backing each gist/paste with a Git repository like Gist does would prevent the application from being installed in environments such as Heroku. When you use Gist, do you generally go back and edit your gists or care about the version history? Personally I don't very often. Is the fork feature of Gist or the ability to easily download and update them by cloning them as Git repositories an important feature to you? These are the main questions I'd like to answer for myself before I really start to work on the project, because of the obvious impact the answer will have on the basic architecture and deployment options.

A slightly related tangent to this idea was to have a portion of the client-side part of the application be something like Mailvelope (https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope) that manages a client-side GPG keyring and allows you to encrypt/decrypt the contents of each gist/paste before it goes to the server (you would be able to choose among any other user in the application who has their public key uploaded as a recipient, and your private key would be importable to an encrypted client-only store of some sort in the browser). I'm not sure how much use this particular feature would be for the main use case I envisioned above, but it would be fun to implement :)

Looking forward to anyone's feedback!
Your logic doesn't work. Of those people who simply participated in the lottery, the ones who won it and went to charter school did better than the ones who weren't selected and didn't. This means the groups being compared - the winners and losers - both "had active parents"; this factor does not constitute a difference between the two groups.
>yet kind of efficient

I dispute the efficiency of London public transport. On paper it looks great but it has some major reliability problems. I don't know if "signal failure" is some sort of catch all error code but it seems to happen an awful lot.

My wife and I have spent years traveling and spent significant blocks of time in a lot of big cities (most admittedly not as large as London). Tokyo, Bangkok, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur etc and have had a combined 0 delays on public transport within any of those cities. Not saying they never occur, maybe we have just been lucky, but we have had 3+ years of regular use and 0 delays.

We recently spent a month in London and had at least half a dozen delays on the tube. Actually, more than that. On our way to the airport the tube was delayed 3 separate times on that single journey due to congestion.
It sounds like a good idea to me. I'm from Australia and we have something here called 'Neighbourhood Watch' which isn't dissimilar to what you're suggesting. Detailed information on how it works can be found here: http://www.nhw.com.au/faq.

We also have a crime hotline called Crime Stoppers (https://crimestoppers.com.au/) which anybody can call to report a suspicious person or crime that they may have witnessed. These are both in addition to our normal emergency services hotline.

So I would suggest that your idea is sound in its intent and I hope you have not too difficult a time trying to put forward an implementation in your community.
These are good rules to begin with. The problem with it is that some bad guys would also find a way to hack into the system. If there brillant men doing good, unfortunately there are brilliant men who use their skills for not so good things.	8859177
How are people so naive?

I'm always curious what people really are thinking when they see stuff like this and assume it's magical and works for all scale before even trying to imagine how it might conceivably work.
Charter school grad here. From a school which often came out as the top school in the state on standardized tests, in a high income suburb in a state with an already strong public education system (MN).

Anecdotal observations:

From what I could tell, the success of the school was due to three things:

1. Parents who had available time, money, and energy to devote to the school. This would likely be less true in a lower income area, but as has been mentioned elsewhere, could account for higher average performance of schools that parents actively chose to put their kids in, regardless of location.

2. Excellent staffing, mostly due to the attractiveness of working in an environment with more freedom to innovate.

3. That the environment was different enough from the huge suburban public schools nearby that some students would perform better in that kind of environment.

One other thing I noticed that I haven't heard mentioned before, which is a situation that is unique to looking at the upper end of public schools and income brackets rather than the lower: the school I went to was not good at playing the college prep game. All the courses were difficult, so nobody had any "honors" courses on their transcript. GPAs were generally lower. Fewer extracurricular activities were available because of the size of the school. These facts resulted in a lower number of students going on to prestigious post-secondary institutions than you would expect from an otherwise high performing school.

ALL of these observations point to the conclusion that Charter schools are really just an "alternative", and naturally some alternatives will be an improvement and some will be a failure.

I like this article because it indicates that charter schools specifically help marginalized groups (black, poor), which fits nicely with the idea that having alternative environments in general is good for some students, and also matches my personal experience. (I promise this is the only time I will ever claim "white male nerd" as a marginalized group.)
Ignorance doesn't annoy me--if anything, it's exciting, because there's so much people can learn. What annoys me is that people buy into so much hype around languages that are mediocre at best.
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FYI, the PC and XT shipped with the 8253, the AT shipped with the 8254. And the 8254 is actually in the southbridge nowadays. I wonder whether the cheap Win8.1 tablets still have the speaker connection to 8254.
I don't know why, but I absolute adore these stories of "Why does this obscure thing operate in the obscure way it does?" answered by the primary source. They're fascinating glimpses into the never-ending sea of trade-offs that is professional engineering!
Been using > https://code.google.com/p/rt-n56u/ on Asus RT-N56U for more then a year now. No issues at all. This firmware is maintained by "Andy Padavan" Changelog here > http://rt-n56u.googlecode.com/git/changes.eng.txt Latest update was yesterday. You can use Entware package manager to install any of this packages here > http://entware.wl500g.info/binaries/entware/Packages.html
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Ask HN: Early startup engineer scaling down as the company is scaling up?
Howdy

I joined a startup ~2 years ago as employee #2 (software engineer), and thus I've had the responsibility of essentially building every technical aspect of the company from the ground up, which I loved. Now, the company scaled up (about 45 people) but, instead of being happy, I feel like everything's been taken away from me:

- Technical strategy: I strongly shaped the technical direction of the company defining a lot of critical points, and now they brought in a VP of engineering

- Management: I managed a team of 10 people without ever missing a deadline of the whole team, and now they brought in an engineering manager

- Customer facing roles: I was having a lot of customer interaction and support, now they brought in a support engineer and I don't even know who our users are anymore

- Infrastructure management: I took care of building a state-of-the-art scalable and fully automated infrastructure in the public cloud, and now they brought in an operation guy

- Developer: This is the only thing I still do, full time

Essentially, and I understand it's just my ego speaking, I just became a replaceable unit and I feel like there has not been any career advancement for me. The only benefit has been the gazillion things I learned in this ~2 years journey by doing the above roles.

The official feedback has been that, since I don't have to worry about the other things, I can focus on what I'm able to do best, just writing code (which I agree, all the tasks I did were less challenging than some critical parts of the code base I wrote from scratch), but still in the "about us" web page of startups just the management is going to be listed and take the credits. Where did I fail to claim my part when the company was growing?

I understand this is a rant and I should just "be happy" it has been a success so far, but still I find it hard and I would very much appreciate the opinion of other people who went through something similar.

Thank you
How to get better at joining a software project?
what things can I read or habits can I adopt that will make me better at joining projects and getting to where I can usefully contribute? I found I was never really able to do this at the computer club at uni and have found it really hard to do at work unless I already knew the framework. Is there any practice that will lead me to be more effective at learning a new framework+toolchain+codebase? Any questions I can ask myself or approaches I can take that will enable me to take less than two months to start being useful to an open-source project?
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In this particular case, I can almost guarantee that the reason the deal ended up this huge is that the founders absolutely, positively didn't want to sell, and especially not to facebook. And facebook had to literally make them an offer they could not refuse (in the sense of the amount of money for every employee... not as in the Corleone sense).

You can glean some idea of why that was from this public information https://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads. This is in direct voice of Jan Koum, the founder and CEO of whatsapp. That gives you some idea of his personality and it's an entirely accurate one. I'll be willing to bet large amounts of money that the Zuckerberg himself had to engage in a full court press before getting a response at all.
Genuine question, didn't we have NodeJS for that? I haven't looked into this properly, but I what is the angle here exactly? Thanks in advance.
>how does coming to the aide and support of a group that was brutally attacked mean that they are in turn attacking the group that did the attacking?

It's in the same way an abusive parent will see a child defending the abused parent as attacking the abusive parent --when what the child is doing is defending the other parent.
The HPs display symbolic expressions as pretty-printed standard math notation even when the input method is RPN. That's why I'm wondering if the nSpire has any improvement to offer, since HP already has the combination of efficient input and good readability.