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>Jobs' decision to own the entire tech stack paid off for them handsomely.

Sure. But to be fair, Microsoft's four decades of returning non stop profits is more remarkable than Apple's relatively recent success and it's chequered record overall. No technology company is likely to wield the kind of power that Microsoft had in the 90's. So the advantage in doing software or the entire stack is very time period sensitive.
Totally off-topic but we'd love better coverage down-under (as would our customers!) if you'd be interested in potentially distributing some of our range. :-)

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Intel, Google Team Up with TAG Heuer for Luxury Smartwatch
Show HN: Visual Resume
Blast Furnace Explosions
The idea that robots are on the cusp of subsuming all human labor is itself a tool of rentiers:

https://pandodaily.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/imag0016.jpg?...

(advert by California's restaurant association in protest against minimum wage hikes that will likely deplete their profit margins)

Of course, the idea doesn't necessarily have to be true in order to serve its purpose.
I've always wondered this myself. The claim of "we're open source so you can trust us" has always seemed a bit off to me for the exact reasons you give - sure, you publish this codebase, but who says that's what you're actually on your servers?

And from the answers so far, it's disheartening to hear that there doesn't seem to be any great way to guarantee fair play. But I suppose it generalizes - we don't have any way to guarantee that the people we interact with on a daily basis have our best interests at heart, and we do a lot of trusting just because it makes life easier.
This is an experimental approach of writing a resume or CV. This site allows creation of easy readable resume. There you can put as much information as you like without flooding the initial page. This site is more intended for software engineers. For example, there is a nice way to add code samples.
Secondary or for someone maybe even primary value of this site is for self development, as there you can easily see you knowledge status.
A Look Back at 75 Years of Kodachrome
The US was just not ready to be a Super Power, I don't think. It's not "grown up" enough to act responsibly. It lacks a lot of subtlety and tact, it's like a fat, loud obnoxious 12-year old bullying all other kids on the playground.

It's a shame, too, because it can be a true leader that is followed out of respect and not fear. It just chooses the other path, time and time again, since it's easier.
When Social Design Turns into Action in the Amazon Rainforest
That was their original plans for the shuttle. Not saying they won't be able to save money this time, but it's never that simple.
From a technical point of view it's all irrelevant, but I find APNG to be very interesting from a historical point of view. It's both a technical and a political compromise, and all things considered, not a bad standard.
What I like about the PP is p2p power not vertical power structures. No more falsely heroic leaders acting as a CEO of the country or party whips to enforce the leader's decisions by threatening to backbench party dissenters and throwing away the entire idea of representative democracy by replacing it with a command structure.
Essentially anti cheat software in reverse. Instead of the client proving it is unmodified to the server, the server must prove itself unmodified to the client. You may be able to get somewhere by studying how open source network games prove they aren't modified to the server if they do that sort of thing.
> with that huge military the US could pretty much take whatever we want from whomever we want

It's exactly this attitude that is gradually turning the world against them.
Yeah, I think the idea here is it would just be a nightmare for everyone. Also, dealer's employ lobbyists.
what I think needs to be taken away from this is that to fix areas were we think there is little competition which causes the conditions he sees is that we need to remove regulation which acts as a barrier to entry.

far too many business are protected by heavy regulatory burdens to the point that to enter into such the costs of compliance eat up any slack which reduces your ability to react.
Except make pissed off assertions on Hacker News :P
That's a good clarification. I think it's better for the data migration to error out when acquiring the lock on rows and then retry, rather than waiting indefinitely, but YMMV (your mileage may vary).
DotScale 2015 Update
Family makes $1M from YouTube videos of their kids playing with toys
This is the goal of CloudProxy: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-13...

which is open source: https://github.com/jlmucb/cloudproxy

It relies on TPMs (trusted platform modules, a hardware root of trust).

What confused me about the naming is that CloudProxy is an OS, not a proxy server. It's a distributed OS that provides attestation of the identity of remote code. To do this you need secure boot and key management.

If anyone dives further into it, let me know :) I'm curious how deployable it is from the Github repo. I guess you can run it on Linux, but I'm not sure how the kernel is involved in the chain of trust. I would have thought you needed your own OS.

The CloudProxy Tao (henceforth, “the Tao”) is a recipe for creating secure, distributed, cloud-based services by
combining ingredients that are already available in many cloud data centers. The Tao is realized as an interface that
can be implemented at any layer of a system. CloudProxy implements multiple layers of the Tao and provides means
for

- protecting the confidentiality and integrity of information stored or transmitted by some hosted program,

- establishing that the code executed as a hosted program in a cloud is the expected code and is being run in the
expected environment, and

- authenticating requests to the hosted program to check that they come from a client executing some expected
program in an expected environment, either remotely or locally in the cloud.

CloudProxy is the first implemented, fully fleshed-out system providing these properties along with key management
and an appropriate trust model for all principals.
This isn't an article about software. You're hijacking the discussion.
Getting Started with Event Data and Keen.io
No problem mizerable! Glad you enjoyed it.
14 months working 100+ hours a week... Why would people in this field subject themselves to that? I frankly don't understand. What kept them on?
This is awesome, really want to see more of gmail become a platform.
It wouldn't be competing "fairly" if they had to compete with the guys they buy their product from.
My first thought when I saw this posted was "huh...kinda like The Last Starfighter".

And sure enough, they named their company Starfighter. Xur and the Ko-dan armada don't stand a chance.
It is interesting that Vice Chancellor tells us this now.

Germany has been forced by the US to make war to Ukraine and Russia and they don't want to follow this path farther.

Europe just wants to preserve the status quo, preserve peace and commerce relationships with Russia that benefit both sides.

US is desperate to break further Euro-Asian integration because it means the facto end to American hegemony in the world, including the petrodollar.

The US does not care about war in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan or Ukraine because it is so far from home, but it is the Europeans who are suffering from avalanches of refugees and instability by war.

So finally they are saying "enough is enough" and showing a little common sense.
I agree that the changes will be revolutionary, and drastically reduce launch costs; but SpaceX is only prepared to recover the first stage in the near term, and the second stage is still quite costly. In the long term, launch costs will go down as much as you say, but SpaceX is not quite there yet.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_reusable_launch_system_d...
Intel to “investigate hardware capabilities that advance decentralized ledgers”
Patrick gave an interview to The New Scientist when we announced last week. We're a little worried about Starfighter Fatigue and are definitely trying not to get too much onto the front page (Erin's diligently writing the game details post, which we want to be the next thing people see from us).

In the meantime though, if any of you have questions, we're watching and will answer.
Try this:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/apngasm/
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Only if its easy to migrate. Now that Elasticsearch has come a long way, I could see someone writing something similar to Graylog (which sits on top of ES, for app/ops logging data), but for email (frontend interface, ingester for mail through SMTP and new REST mail protocols).
A crazy (or maybe not so much) theory: Bacteria.
Some bacteria could cause sleep disorders (e.g. Tropheryma whipplei [1]) and this place could be favorable to this bacteria (or another) thanks to the uranium mine.

Just speculating here, but... why not.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20658941
Yes. I didn't realize they were links till I got to the ones labeled "here". If those hadn't been on the page I would have likely finished reading and left completely oblivious to the links.
Part of the Shuttle's reusability problems stemmed from Congress (and other decision-makers) forcing NASA to use facilities in ~40-50 different states and multiple subcontractors. And, full & rapid reusability was never in the Shuttle plans. They aimed for moderate reusability and then failed spectacularly at that. SpaceX is much more centralized and much more efficient.

There are certainly comparisons to me made, and lessons to be learned, but I think that SpaceX has already met/surpassed all levels of success that NASA achieved in reusability, the only caveat being that they haven't technically done it in a production environment yet.
You can't. When someone else hosts the program the remote system effectively becomes a black box. The only way would be to give the code to the user so they can inspect, compile, and run for themselves. Even allowing the user to inspect the code on remote machine isn't good enough. The methods in which the user inspects the data can be hijacked and make it look like the user is looking at legitimate data.
I expected that. But I don't stop to say what needs to be said.

Its another topic in how far down-votes are a good idea. Somehow, its a populist regulation of communicating non-conform thoughts.
“You may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business”
I agree, but people are warned about unlicenced cabs and many cab companies in UK will send an SMS with details of the car - make, colour, licence plate number - when you book because there was a problem of unlicensed cabs with radio scanners taking passengers before the real cab got there.
Also, I bet having Phil Haack working at Github changed the mindset of a lot of people, either way, even from the days from Novel and Mono, Microsoft was always cool with opensource.
This is not a technical solution, but you could release your code under AGPL and take code contributions.

By doing this, you are essentially telling the world that not only do they need to trust you, but that you are willing to make yourself legally culpable if you surreptitiously run different code on your servers (ie., you would be violating the copyright terms of your contributors whose code is licensed under AGPL and of which your application is a derivative).

It would be nice to have a technical solution as well, I'm not discounting any of the other suggestions here. Just saying that adding a legal dimension could help counterbalance the possibility that a technical protection could be defeated.
> We’re going to go out on a limb here and guesstimate that the remaining “maybe” answers can, given enough time and effort, be turned into “yes” or “no” answers, and that these will be distributed similarly to the 20:17 ratio of the fully answered headlines.

The OP does admit to going out on a limb, but I don't think this is a justified assumption. Without having seen the headlines in question, I would guess they are in the maybe category because they are dubious at best.
Just posted another blog about gettting started with Keen.io. I didn't really find any good basic writeups from anyone online, so just wanted to give a brief overview of the Keen service and event data. Hope it's useful!
https://www.airpair.com/keen-io/posts/getting-started-with-e...
Garden: Platform-neutral API for containerization
Pro-tip: if you're calling them, they don't have a $100 / month plan to sell you. There aren't many companies that sell most of their business at $5,000 / month through the website. And for those that do, talking to a sales rep gets you a discount just for picking up the phone.

Also, having moved from programming to sales/marketing, I'm a bit more sympathetic towards the "call me" model of selling. There's a lot of companies (like mine) that aren't deliberately withholding information, but instead are training and enabling reps to walk you through a process that can't be navigated with blog posts and product pages alone. We do monitoring, and most of our customers treat our sales reps and pre-sales engineers as free consultants. Nothing magical about it, but talking to a human is valuable for problems like "how to a unify monitoring for my 1,000 servers are 24 teams which runs apps that are a result of 17 acquisitions".
I actually just did this. Started a new job in June last year, ended up moving across the country in Dec, but really liked my job and wanted to keep it and work remote full time.

Here's what I did:

1) In the months leading up to my move I worked my ass off and always volunteered to help out wherever my boss needed me most. This gave me experience on a lot of our different projects and made me less replaceable.

2) I told my employer one month before my move, and made sure they knew how much I enjoyed working for the company and how I really wanted to continue working for them remotely. However, I also made it clear that I was fully committed to moving with or without my job (in fact the following weekend I was flying out to find an apt).

It seems somewhat selfish and counter intuitive, but I believe that it's better to give less notice time than more. This creates more of a sense of urgency for your employer. A friend of mine tried the same thing but gave five months notice and was told that he couldn't work remote, but "come talk to us in five months before doing anything drastic (aka quitting)".

However, regardless of when you tell your employer, the most important thing is that you must be 100% committed to your move and willing to lose your job and start over in your new location.

To answer your other two questions:
Working remotely has it's pros and cons, which I won't go into detail on, since this post is already getting rather long :) But you can find lots of info in other places about this. Overall though, it has worked out very well for both me and my employer.

So far in four months of working remote I haven't been back to the office yet (it's a four hour flight). But from what we've discussed I'll probably be back in the office for one week per year.

Best of luck to you!
There are likely more assaults in normal cabs then Uber.

1. You know the driver in uber. It's registered before they pick you up and send to your phone. Not so with a taxi

2. Uber tracks your GPS and the drivers. They know who's in the car (driver and passenger). Not so with Taxi

3. Drivers are rated on uber. A couple of bad ratings and they're out. Not so with taxi.

4. Uber requires no cash. Many taxi drivers don't except cards or will pressure for cash. No cash on you = less reason for assault.

So no, there is no proof that Uber has more assaults than normal taxis. So far there is only proof there are some assaults in uber and no records are kept about taxi assaults so we don't know. Searching for "cab driver assault" though brings up many many hits
This is an absurdly broad comment. The US has been a super power for over half a century. You've distilled decades of complex foreign policy involving every nation on earth down to a five sentence blanket condemnation.
I was trying to figure something like this out myself a while ago. The best solution I could come up with was a transparent Platform as a Service provider that had an option for the person(s) with access to allow anyone who wants to inspect the slug and application settings (minus any secret tokens) to do so. Essentially, it would be verifiable for any users of the application that the DNS resolves to the servers of the PaaS provider, and then from there they could look up the code deployed to the application, the Procfile, etc.

This would still require placing trust in a centralized entity though, and allow for administrators to manipulate or dump db info without the users knowing.
Seems somewhat similar. Though seems like they use deterministic encryption (like AES with same IV), we don't have to do that.
I agree those barriers should be removed in the majority of cases, as in the majority they seem to be purely protection for already existing businesses.

However it is important to note that some of the areas with the least competition, most regulations, and highest compliance costs exist in such a state due at least in large part to honest safety concern. Aerospace and Medical are the two broad areas that have many facets that immediately come to my mind as falling into this category.

Just saying it is important to remember our goal is safely bettering the world, not simply being able to stand atop a burning pile of rubble and yell Anarchy. Although I believe that sounds like a lot of fun too.
Right, but adding both 'white' and 'brown' numbers (their terminology, not mine) you still get ~170 million people, which is ~85% of the population being 'somewhat white'. That's roughly the same relative number as Argentina.

The difference is the distribution on the 'white scale' if you will. Brazil has a higher influence of fairer-skinned Europeans (vast majority Portuguese, but with substantial German/Polish/Scandinavian) compared to Argentina (mostly Italian/Spanish, with tiny pockets of German, Swiss and British here and there.)

tl; dr: the chances of meeting a 'fair skinned' (defined as "European descendant) person are roughly the same in Argentina and Brazil. The chances of that person being blonde and have very fair skin are higher in Brazil.

(p.s. from my own anecdata: I consider myself to be smack in the middle of the darkness scale for Argentina, not too fair, not too dark. When I first moved to the South of Brazil I was surprised by how much I stood out in a group for being 'tan'.)
I found the matching git commits for each vulnerability: http://www.solitr.com/blog/2015/03/openssl-vulnerability-bre...
Why Are Some Lives Worth More Than Others?
So you saw the news, how even major dark markets are unreliable, and figure, hey, apparently anyone can get in on that action? Basically want to run a dark market, but are aware of the trust implications? I'd imagine just being open source would be a good start.

The closest to actually trusted computing is, well, trusted computing. Remote attestation allows you to verify you're executing specific bits of code. But I don't know if the tech is exposed in a useful enough way. With DRM apps, the idea is that the hardware will be able to verify it's running known code. Then you provide encrypted input to that processor, knowing the only way to decrypt is to be in the trusted code. Still many remaining issues, such as extending the trusted code to cover all access to data storage and wallets.

You might look at other aspects, such as somehow creating community signatures. Like, I dunno, if main wallets needed sign off from 10% of the user population to do major changes. But that is rife with problems.

And really, users don't seem sophisticated enough to bother with this stuff anyways. You could just paste some JavaScript "verification" code and I'd guess you'd get loyal defenders that don't know the difference. The market that just went down did multisig, right? But since it's too difficult, people just ignored the option, no?

Forgive me if my main assumption about the motive being incorrect.
What Thomas said. In particular, while we're really glad that many HNers like Starfighter, we were members of this community far before we were co-founders. We're keenly aware that a) HN is a community, not a marketing channel and b) the community frowns on saying the same thing over and over.

I'm CEO of a company and am pot committed to spending the next several years of my life repeating close variations of the same three things to anyone who will listen. ("How is that different from the last eight years, Patrick?" Answer: Previously I only had two things!) We would prefer people exercise their discretion in posting them to HN, to avoid boring anyone here.
Fukuyama's "end of history" theory is, in many respects, apologetics for rentier capitalism.
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> which is certainly an amazing feat of lobbying.

It's like I heard a collective "bitch please" come from the banks, food wholesalers, defense contractors, insurance companies, immigration lawyers, patent attorneys, entertainment industry, telcos, etc. etc.
Currently they have to throw away the rockets used for GTO missions (around half of them) and can only attempt landings on LEO missions such as the ISS resupplies. Given their last few landing attempts, it's pretty likely that they'll be able to land a rocket sometime this year, which means that starting next year they might be able to reuse all of their F9 Rockets.

A lot of customers may not want to fly on a used rocket though (no one knows the risks), so SpaceX may end up with quite a large number of rockets, which they'll have to fly to establish costs/risks/etc.

It looks like at least a some part of their satellite internet plan was meant to take advantage of this large launch capacity. I'm also very curious to see what the prices for a used rocket launch are. Rockets are obviously expensive, but so are the operational costs in setting them up.

Anyway, these are probably the most exciting times in spaceflight since the 60s!
Meanwhile here in West Virginia, our legislature just banned Tesla and Uber from operating in-state. This is the same legislature that changed the motto of the state from "Wild and Wonderful" to "Open for Business" only to have the constituents petition and vote to change it back.

Our policymakers make no sense at all, I'd like to replace most of them.
Tangent: I wonder how interesting (or useful/useless) it would be to train an image classifier using http://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/ and then start looking at a bunch of random pictures.

Could it be a repeatable way to find things like the face on mars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars)#.22Fac... except... a giraffe on mars?

Who knows, there could be giraffes everywhere, we're just not seeing them.
Possibly pertinent-- Quark : A Web Browser with a Formally Verified Kernel. The page says, "the specification implies several security properties..."

http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/