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Awesome! At least the worksheet isn't biased. I get Flask on the worksheet btw.
>> "So this app seems like it would basically do nothing."

For you. Today I had to email someone. I looked through my address book and because I'd previously add their name/number Facebook had retrieved their email (which I didn't yet have) through their profile and put it right in my address book. This happens quite often for me.
as much as i dislike GPL, i think that the success of LLVM/Clang comes from being a much superior platform to GCC. having built languages targetting both GCC was frought with "Who on earth implements this like this" moments. LLVM was painless, everything was obvious and the level of obfuscation is minimal... the documentation was helpful occasionally, rather than vitally necessary.
> I never asked questions; never used any tutors or talked to a professor;

I am a professor (albeit at a non-elite university). How do I persuade students such as yourself to ask questions, to use tutors, to show up to office hours, and to talk to me?
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Incidentally I feel like my admin "skills" have never improved faster than since I started working with docker.

Docker lets me iterate on system configuration faster than ever, and that means learning the details and quirks of certain software faster. Then again, I usually don't use prebuilt VMs and containers, but have to prepare them for people who don't want to pay for good sysadmins..
I can confirm, that's the exact plan I have.

There are some cheaper pay-as-you-go plans, but those are actually Walmart's plans using T-Mobile's towers—similar to what Google is doing here.
So we only have a pattern of behavior and any communications about said behavior to determine intent.
>I order pizza, call my mechanic, etc. all via the phone

By choice, or by necessity?
> For a poor person to become wealthy requires them to discard their baggage.

Yes! Thank you for using the perfect word for how I feel. I'm sure rich people have "rich people baggage" but I believe they are either a) not a deal blocker or b) mitigated by their advantages.

Edit: I have a few 1% friends. As far as I can tell, rich people baggage is usually complaining about money.
Correct, though I think almost all the plans they sell now are unlimited minutes, so the billing is irrelevant
Android support != Nexus hardware support. It seems like you're much better off support-wise if your phone's screen is shattered than if you are having any sort of issue with the software...
Why was this submitted at all? There are affiliate links to Amazon, for the "recommended" products.
That wouldn't prevent spoofing. Lots of spoofers put orders in over the course of a long time. Its when/why they pull them out in coordinated fashion that the intention becomes clear.
I'm from east Europe, so the problem could not concern me as it has been written, as nobody here really flashes their money around like a clown. But I remember the feeling of being excluded as a student not coming from a top notch high school. The majority of the other people had nice groups of friends from day zero. But guess what - I graduated with a really good diploma, easily landed a job at a major tech company, and most of these people are now my friends or colleagues.

What matters in the end is your results, and your results only.
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Thx for the feedback.

One word or more, water science is well represented in many languages, no doubt about that.

Temperatures like inflammation and congestion may serve a purpose to a point, beyond which they are counter productive and destructive.

Data does not show our planet temperature in a state of balance nor entering an ice age.
The next step would be to replace the printf() call by a call to write() and remove the dependency to libc.
Please, for the love of God and all that is holy:

Bring this to Canada.
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This is great. I use a simple IFTTT recipe to blink my hue's at the start of the Yankees games but the ESPN api hook is always off by 10 minutes or more.
Why does no one think it odd that there are several large tech companies with 100k+ employees each, but think something is wrong if there are thousands of small five person companies? Tech workers don't need the resources of large tech companies anymore and they certainly can't pay for huge management overhead.
Seems like a reasonable assumption to me. I doubt they pay a flat rate to all providers they borrow from with Google charging by the 100 MB.
Spark is a good replacement for MapReduce. MapReduce != Hadoop.
You're first example allows for:

* Using checkinstall to create a local deb/rpm which can be easily installed/removed later instead of "make install".
* What if installer.sh says "rm -rf /tmp/PACKAGE-build" and the connection is interrupted just after the first "/", you now have "rm -rf /". Oops.
* configure will tell you what files it needs, and apt-file will tell you want dependencies to install.
* I know what make install does. I know make. Who wrote installer.sh? Do they know anything about writing good software? Steam wiped out home directories, who knows what these people do
Got my Pi 2 recently, and it's awesome how much snappier it runs. I've only used them to spin up game console emulator appliances so far. Would love to hear about projects among the HN crowd. I'd really like to use one for something more interesting!
There might not be a startup in the First Round portfolio that fulfills that particular use case.
I am quite upset about this. Yubikey totally downplays the scale of the vulnerability. They say "your PIN will be stolen anyways" but I'm worried about losing my key and people using my key (bypassing the PIN). They say "revoke your key" but that doesn't stop someone from using my key before I realize it was stolen.
What is it with search engines and self-driving cars?
Placing and immediately canceling an order is fine and allowed (though doing that too much is penalized for other reasons).

Spoofing is pulling them out in a coordinated fashion before they can be put at risk with no intention of them ever trading.

The problem is that an api that prevented that would also prevent legitimate cancels that would have side effects that could be bad (ie making it riskier to make markets and therefore increase the bid/ask spread).

Spoofing is about intention. Intention cannot be determined by algorithm (yet).

Also to your point about a big HFT not being subject to this. Allston trading is a large HFT market maker that is currently in arbitration over spoofing.
If only the language had algebraic data types.
do you realise i develop for these platforms amongst others?

i don't just pull my opinion out of my arse, at least not entirely... :)

your source of figures is very dodgy. you need to account for the devices that aren't brand new, and especially third world and the millions and millions of cheap androids and desktop pcs. looking at america or limiting to new purchases is very special and has nothing to do with the wider market (its not uncommon for people to have a "who buys these things new? what a bunch of idiots" mentality in poorer parts of the world). Apple do much better in the US than anywhere else, and new purchases are not the majority of devices in use in the wild.

try a google search like this:

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1...

and pick from many many sources of more useful figures

as you can see from very many sources, aside from OS X - which is not really a linux, gnu/linux may as well not exist.
I think the limiting factor is hardware.

Software video decoding is slow and causes devices' fans to spin up, which is why people use workarounds (such as visiting YouTube in Safari) to force hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding instead of using software VP9 decoding, despite VP9 using less bandwidth.

By the time VP9 and H.265 hardware video decoding is cheap and ubiquitous, I suspect the rest of the factors will fall into place.

The last TV buying guide I read was still suggesting 720p TVs at certain screen sizes ("it's a better value"), with 1080p for the remainder. But 1080p is starting to see wider adoption; even a Raspberry Pi can do hardware H.264 decode/encode these days.
Exactly my thoughts... except this app is exactly in Facebook's wheelhouse. Who else could do this?

When Facebook introduced their phone (well, just their android launcher) a couple of years ago, I thought this kind of feature would be a major selling point.

While I would never use it, I know many many people who would be thrilled for something like this.

I wonder if the WhatsApp acquisition price just got validated.
Then I'm glad to stand corrected - I suppose I'm horribly out of date from the days they tried other "solutions". I'm less surprised about AT&T and Verizon, more surprised about Google.

My own personal experience with LDAP in general (and some with OpenLDAP in particular) dates back to 2000 or so -- and at some point I just gave up on the complex and unreliable beast that it was (for whatever reason, BDB would occasionally lock up or get corrupted) - but I know a lot has changed since, LMDB is amazing -- I guess it is time for another look.
I have a similar project I'm working on, and have thought about going after crowdfunding, but decided not to. It came down to a) not having any mentionable competitors in the space and b) not wanting to be one of those people who takes other people's money and ends up wasting it. So I am still working on it, as a side project, a few years later. Sometimes I wish I could devote myself full-time, but providing an open-source privacy app for the fun of it and for its own utility without thinking about paying the bills has made the project a lot more inspiring for me. I don't have to think about the bottom line, just "what would be useful to build next?"

This is what people did before crowdfunding. Maybe we all don't need $100K just to start and publish something useful.
How does one handle portable power for a RPi2? Does a normal USB Power brick (as increasingly used to top up phones) suffice?
I think the complaint was that it's difficult figuring out how to build Hadoop from source. That page you linked is how to install pre-built binaries, which you rightly point out is fairly trivial.
Semi-Curious about the "seed-stage" investments being 1-3m as that seems rather large even by post demo day YC standards. Unless the expectation is that there has been a friends/family/angel round prior to this with existing growth/traction from said investments? I think some additional clarification on what traction/stage First Round is looking for would save some time on their end and also for companies applying that might not fit into that mold not to waste their time.
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Ditto, it is a great but not very well known option.
Dr Edgar Choueiri at Princeton University is similarly developing 3d audio presentations over two audio channels. [1]

He has initially targeted audiophiles [2], and he has teamed with David Chesky (HDtracks.com) on a number of "binaural+" recordings. [3]

His video lecture and demo is nicely done (demo at 6 minute mark). [4]

[1] http://www.princeton.edu/3D3A/PureStereo/Pure_Stereo.html
[2] http://www.stereophile.com/content/bacch-sp-3d-sound-experie...
[3] http://www.hdtracks.com/binaural
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQmQD27uCt0
No way would I give this to my Grandma.
No, the GPL inhibits the power to make use of software. Its not really the same...

Freedom is something we are born with, and I am free to do what I want with any software. The GPL asserts rights based on societal understanding to the contrary. Most nice licenses just ask for credit if its appropriate.

This idea that having priority in solving a problem entitles you to something is harmful for the whole of society for the whole of the future.
Well this looks fun. I'd be interested to hear about how they go about sand-boxing the server (perhaps for the previous games so as not to ruin the fun).
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>For a poor person to become wealthy requires them to discard their baggage. Change the accent, the clothes, the pop culture references, the 'back home...' stories. Avoid the discussions about parents. The list goes on.

This sounds like a perfect summary of Dick Whitman's transition into Don Draper.
I can answer this, just wrote an answer then deleted it.

Bottom line: If you are poor and can figure out this loophole, just do it. On the balance I'm very, very glad I did.
YC has had the field to themselves for a decade because no other firm actually believes the best people are outside their personal networks.

Other VCs want to believe in "proprietary deal flow" and their own ability to worm into hot companies. Probably because it seems more a sure thing than, gasp, actually judging startups on their merits, like YC at least tries to do.
Hard. I would have evaded your attempts to talk to me. Anything to avoid standing out from the rest. Maybe if everyone had a regular TA one-on-one or something? So they could identify, in private, who needed help and get that scheduled.
> There are affiliate links to Amazon, for the "recommended" products.

And? Is that bad or something?
Ahhh soooo annoying that it requires a Nexus 6. This sounds so awesome but I do not want a 6" phone. I'm hoping the next Nexus phone will have a smaller variant (and it will undoubtedly support Project Fi)
Next time you return a graded paper to them, write a note asking them to come to your next office hour or make a separate appointment to see you.
I wonder what keeps the American sports leagues (and/or ESPN) from charging more for public-performance licenses? I can't imagine they're doing it out of goodwill, so they must feel like they can't get UK-level fees out of bars. Maybe carrying a particular league (or even sports at all) is not as much of a "necessity" for American bars, so if they push it too much, bars will just say no thanks? In much of the UK a pub really has to have football, and usually not just any football, but the local club's games (plus "big" games).
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The problem is not a rise in encryption but the government not being able to read encrypted communications.

How is this the problem? As far as anyone knows publicly, breaking encrypted communications has resulted in zero terrorism arrests. Given that US citizens are supposed to not be under general suspicion all the time, how is encrypted communication a big deal? How is breaking that encryption the problem?
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Yeah, although they probably invest the float, the main reasoning for the decision is likely consumer psychology as described by richardoughtery
I wondered about 'volatile'. Its not really meant for that - but maybe its enough to trigger 'hands off'.
I think they just matched it with the messenger color and it somewhat became a very close match to the Local Businesses UI.
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Scoreboards will take a bit longer to react than the announcers and goal horn.
perpetually and irrevocably as well. I haven't used that garbage for several years.
Chaebol are a whole 'nother level of diversified. Samsung sells smartphones and theme parks and ships and insurance and ...
OK, recent simple example:

Google query: git display file at revision. Immediate answer (without even having to click any links, it's in the result description): `git show revision:file`

Total time: 5 seconds

Trying to reproduce with man and help:

man git

search for display, finds nothing

start scrolling down

notice git-show (show various types of objects); sounds like a likely candidate

git show <revision> <file>

..no output

git show -h

usage: git log [<options>] [<since>..<until>] [[--] <path>...]
or: git show [options] <object>...

.. useful

man git show
man git-show

OPTIONS
<object>...
The names of objects to show. For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in git-rev-parse(1).

man git-rev-parse

a lot about specifying revisions, nothing about how actually specify a file

Give up. Google it.
This (metered data) seems anti-thetical to google

Google wants you to use the internet as much as possible.

They want you to use google search, watch youtube videos, check gmail, write google documents.

Now you're discouraged from doing all those things due to metered data.

The Business Model of Google Fi seems extremely short sighted,

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For context: I'm using metroPCS with a nexus 5. I get Unlimited 4G on T-Mobile's network for $60/month.

They Offer lower amounts of data (ex: 5 GB) for $50 per month but after 5 GB you just get 3G data.
I too also grew up poor, but find myself in a position where I have a very nice job, and I also have a hard time articulating to other's how warped I feel about money/status/etc.

The best I've ever found is John Cheese's Cracked articles on the topic which I felt were almost like he was writing from inside of my head.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-devel...

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-devel...

If someone reads these, please understand that this is how I actually feel/act to this day, even though I make 100k+ a year. For example, I only own two pairs of shoes. My work sneakers, and my "nice" shoes. And I replace my sneakers only when they are completely busted, and I get the cheapest ones on sale I can find. Three pairs of shoes is literally crazy to me, and I feel bad about having 2 pairs of shoes since I never wear the "nice" ones.
Don't confuse the very privileged western society that I'd guess you have direct experience of, with the whole world. Its not the same.

America and new purchases are the tip of the iceberg of the market... maybe those kinds of statistics will be accurate in 15 years time when everything trickles down. Nobody has a mobile phone with a fancy OS to a reasonable approximation, and if they do they are all androids (which you can call it linux all you want, but Google did a whole pile of work to make it viable and has locked up and made it difficult to work with the usual tools people associate with that environment)
I dunno. I went to a state uni and worked my way thru school. Yeah I get it, there were times your feel out of place. People able to go to nice places during holidays, etc. But my god, I didn't feel inferior just because I could not afford those things. Sure there were times dates consisted of taking a trip on mass transit somewhere you have never been just to see what's there.

But hell, you're going to school so you can make a better living in the future and afford some comfort later. I think the issue is you have to feel sure of yourself and not let peer envy infiltrate your thinking.

I also had no misgivings about asking for professor time --that's what they were there for.

I think you feel out of place if you somehow believe you must conform to the in crowd. I never liked joining formal groups etc. It's antithetical to me, even when I agree or have commonality with a group because ultimately it's you against the world and no ones going to help.
In Germany, almost no one uses Sky, and those who do, almost completely run patched boxes. It’s even easy to use one single subscription on thousands of boxes at the same time.

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What's that? When I click on "Get Started", it brings me to accounts.google.com.
I use my 1st gen Pi to monitor the temperature in my BBQ smoker and host a single page web application to display the data over wifi.

I haven't touched the project in a while, but with summer quickly approaching I think it's time.

I don't think I'll see much improvement using the Pi 2, but hey, it can't hurt to upgragde :)
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xnull2guest and others make good points. Most of the information our government can't get from us; they get from other governments on us. This needs to stop. Support the EFF and more importantly, help our elected representatives understand that they need to stop this and comply with the constitution. Vote them out if they don't.
Their roaming cost for data, is actually less then I would pay for data with a Canadian company. If it wasn't for the voice (and only 3g), I would totally sign up.
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>or find the video incredibly unhelpful

Watched the video via reddit...NICE smooth style...still not idea wtf they're on about though. Oh well...hn comments will know. Sure enough...top comment is a comment expecting people to arrive here confused. So much for clear google marketing.
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> Should everyone apply to First Round through the OpenApp?
> No. The best way to reach us is still through a referral.

I'm curious why even an "open application" has big bold lettering saying that referrals are favored over the application itself. Is spam really such a huge problem, or is this some sort of signaling mechanism?
25 years ago, at my university, the first thing in the first lecture the professor said was to form study groups. Those who didn't would feel the loneliness and pressure too overwhelming and would drop out. This was over on the old continent, not in America.

This is asking the students to show initiative, I don't know how well that would work with contemporary American kids.
I'd love to see a version of this done using the linux amd64 syscall abi. I've written similar programs for 32bit linux (I know the syscall instruction by heart: int 0x80), but I understand 64bit is more complex.
Agreed; most programmers I know who write a lot of x86 Asm tend to stick with the Intel syntax. I've never found the "it's easier to parse" argument for AT&T syntax particularly convincing, especially as GAS is written in C while some of the Intel syntax assemblers existing at the time were themselves written in x86 Asm. Neither is the "it makes it more consistent with the other arch's assemblers" - just look at GAS' syntax for MIPS and ARM. It seems to me like someone was really obsessed with the SPARC syntax (which I find roughly as horrendous.)

http://x86asm.net/articles/what-i-dislike-about-gas/
Anecdotes are not all one has. We have researchers, and it seems you might have missed yesterday's https://aphyr.com/posts/322-call-me-maybe-mongodb-stale-read... (or previous posts on the matter). This link debunks the value of RTFM for Mongo or misunderstanding the API or the rarity of the bug being the DB.
I have this plan because I don't use a lot of voice service. I try to use Google Voice through Hangouts to avoid going over the limit anyway. IME call quality is garbage on both a good wifi or good a LTE signal.
Yup, if it charges a phone it should power a Pi.

http://www.adafruit.com/products/1566 is sold specifically for this purpose, and it has some interesting notes about how it behaves (like output fluctuation when the battery is simultaneously charging and providing power) that might be worth noting. If all you do is run off a battery, then unhook the battery to charge it, you shouldn't have those sorts of issues.
Is there a C-like language that's sane by default?

One where, for example, uninitialized values are defined as though they are set to some arbitrary value?
That's because Evan usually write about Erlang. I love his article on Erlang.
Am I the only one who thinks this could work as an early-warning system for drone strikes?
Instead, take 5 minutes and write a letter to your congresspeople telling them to vote against all surveillance legislation (including reauthorizations) that don't comply with a constitutional constraint. Demand warrants from real (not FISA) courts for surveillance and capture of data, not just review. Tell them you will work to get them unelected if they vote for more surveillance. Use a site like this [1] to send the letter if you don't want to print and stamp - https://www.google.com/search?q=send+letter+on+internet&oq=s...