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Ask HN: Would you pay $1500 for 2 week startup/hack in a Cabin?
I love the idea of Startup Weekends and Hackathons to launch businesses. I know someone with a lodge that they rent out and I think it would be super cool to actually build startups in 2 weeks working around the clock--since everyone would be staying in the same place. Amenities include full kitchen, beautiful views of Utah, Pool, Bar, Fireplaces, etc... It sleeps upto 60.

We'd need to sell 50 spots for it to launch.

Also could use some of the money as a reward to the winning teams, and bring in a couple accelerators to see if they'd like to go all in and take the teams to the next level.
Well-compensated, talented, and trusted in-house developers committed to making the framework the best it can be for all their client's use cases.

Either that or they're a part of their huge open source community which will still work tirelessly to make the framework better, even if Meteor isn't commercial viable and people move on to the next best thing.

I'm sure the truth is based more on who's in the room at the time than anything else.
To belabor the point generally speaking all western and Latin powers of the era employed slave labor and stole from each other.

Today lots of emerging countries still rely on what is in practice servitude labor. They don't outright own the people, but they practically do since they have little chance of escaping their situation. Migrants in se Asia. Rural folks working in Eastern china, etc., where employers withhold passports, international and national "passports".
Vita brevis, amigo.
Agreed.

More conspiratorially, one comment on the article pointed out how easily this distracts from things like zero indictments of bankers for 2008, any administration officials for Iraq, NSA domestic spying and monitoring, holding Manning in solitary while Petraeus gets a slap on the wrist and a pension, and so on, and so on.

It's hard to take it as very conspiratorial, though, because all of the things listed are absolute atrocities.
Using a new laser process to custom shape optical fibers
LWN got an article about it...
https://lwn.net/Articles/644675/
i wonder if it builds with icc? seems like a matter of pride they should get that working.
Ha. If data is an asset then bankruptcy court gets to decide if the owner of the data is bankrupt. FTC has no standing.
You were spamming and rightly banned for it. https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette
Show HN: Hack Camp – a nonprofit two-week summer camp for high school students
Do "agencies" of the type referred to in parent (i.e., aidos's comment) exist in California?
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Nether cases are applicable.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frbp
Or the airport bathrooms. Which are more often than not kind of filthy and do not have a process for washing and drying your hands w/ paper towels that is completely touch-free.
If I may go into a slightly related tangent for game devs.

Some game devs spend a lot of time and money trying to prevent people from modding their games. Some game devs make it easier to mod their games or even encourage it.

If a mod gets popular and gets a community growing around the game - is it doing good or is it doing harm? Assuming that a large amount of the community growth is from people pirating the game to play the modded version (and assuming none of the above server issues)

There are 2 sides with difficult-to-measure metrics.

1) Is the mod and the pirates playing it bringing enough attention to the game and free publicity/advertisement as to onboard new paying customers?

2) Is the time and money spent on preventing such a mod community from growing going to cost more than potential "lost sales" of pirated copies of the game? In addition, what is a "lost sale" and how are they measured?

To expand upon the issue of "lost sales" a bit:

Plenty of pirates argue that if they could not pirate a game - they would not purchase it either. I fall into this crowd. Outside of the stupid amount of money I've spent on League of Legends, I've only spent money on games I originally pirated. I purchased the game, purchased DLC, or purchased merchandise related to the game. If I could not pirate the game - I would not bother playing it, telling my friends to buy it, or buying merchandise from it (since I wouldn't know I liked it!)

By allowing people like me to pirate you actually win an otherwise lost sale. This is what makes these metrics so hard to quantify. Too many game studios consider all piracy to be a lost sale when people like me are the exact opposite. Without piracy we would have been a lost sale.

So it comes down to "which game studio/game dev do you want to take their word for?" Many of them attribute their success to piracy of their games. Some of them say piracy killed their game.

Without quantifiable metrics... how do we know the "killed games" didn't die simply because they were bad games that, piracy aside, nobody wanted to purchase?

From a business perspective, that's the far more likely scenario than the good games that the game devs claimed piracy helped selling well regardless of piracy because ???

TL;DR

My argument is that piracy doesn't kill bad games due to lost sales. They don't get any sales because their game is bad and few people are willing to pay for it. On the contrary, popular pirated games still do amazingly well because they are good games that people are willing to pay for even with the availability of pirating. To myself, makes more sense from an economic perspective for gaming media.
What they bring back is knowledge and expertise. China is pursuing a strategy with two forks. Theft to catch up, and education to secure a future.

It's unwise to treat so large a country as only capable of doing one thing at a time. Similarly, it's unwise to assume that only western values can produce useful innovative outcomes. Cuba is nobody's idea of a free society, but they've done a huge amount of groundbreaking medical research and development.
For Android developers who don't want to get locked into Automatic as a platform I recommend the Torque app. It has the same basic functionality, costs less, supports a variety of third-party Bluetooth OBD2 readers, and provides a plugin development API.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq...
http://torque-bhp.com/
Beam coherence and illumination aren't issues at the distance and power levels used.
No, the reverse; the implication is that, since you can't tell the difference, you should be charitable and assume it's just some random people with a coincidental feature of X, rather than an X-ist conspiriacy. A lack of this kind of charity is what creates ideas like "the jews control the banks" or "the gay agenda."
A lot of the comments here are more apt to the China of 10 years ago. Things have changed folks. China is now making huge investments in innovation science and engineering. Not yet on par with US in terms of quantity, and certainly not quality. But great progress is being made. We should take IP theft very seriously, but we should likewise recognize those Chinese researchers who are working diligently to improve things.
Kudos for the library design - it looks quite nice. We're looking for a safe, cross-platform, C string library at my work now - I'll do an evaluation of libsrt.

As for ANSI C, maybe someday this will get folded into the standard and we can pass around ss_t* 's rather than char* 's whenever we use third-party libraries.
http://ifidie.org/
Overstock and Patrick Byrne are the poster children for how lack of focus leads to leads to inferior performance. OSTK is only up marginally from its IPO 12 years ago. I guess that's better than down. Not sure whatever happened to Byrne's anti-short-selling crusade.
If only Java and NT would get the message...
These points have been debunked dozens of times. SSL is EASILY affordable. Not only are there free options, but many sites provide widely-trusted certs for around $7/yr.

There is little legitimacy behind the claims that the US has backdoored encryption via the actual algorithm. Cryptography professionals have pointed to a few specific ECC curves that may have issues but there is nothing conslusive.

Im assuming by "self made encryption" you mean self-signed certs. These will never work - first off they do nothing to compensate for algorithmic flaws which you purport exist. They also provide no identity assurance, which makes it impossible to determine the difference between a legitimate/illegitimate key change.
Number 0 is: evaluate the character of the founders and the people you're working with.

I had a contract to build a website - the general idea seemed sound and I was lead it would serve as a calling card to attract more investment; it was just one building block of a larger picture. But I didn't do any background checks on the founders and the guy who recommended me to them I had known and worked with for a decade.

Fast forward 4 years later - I'm still quasi-employee #1 (and the only one, the 2 other part time contractors quit because as I learned later, they were tired of getting paid late), the company is now selling data to enterprise level customers (instead of to 'consumers' in this market) so the workload has increased... and I'm working on weekends trying to keep up with the IT needs... while constantly being paid late.

I finally wised up / burnt out when it became apparent the CEO had 'negotiated in bad faith' with a enterprise customer and they were threatening to sue unless they got exactly the data they'd paid for. Yes, I made a ton of mistakes and I hope no one else ever does what I did! I ignored all the warnings signs over the years because I got so caught up in the work due to various personal stuff. The whole company (me and 2 salesguys) quit in the space of 2 months and had to go thru months of hell trying to get what we were owed.

The guy who introduced me to them finally decided he should have told me of the fraud the CEO pulled 30 years ago, the other founder (who has a criminal record as I recently found out) told me of the CEO's fraud in his other business, one salesguy told me of the multiple identities the CEO was managing to make it seem like there were more employees... the list goes on.

Character matters. Contracts are worthless in comparison unless you have the resources (i.e. enough lawyers and money) to tangle with the other side - and bad actors know this fact, and how to twist contracts into balloon animals. Business ethics may be an oxymoron in the real world, but ... my story is a perfect example of why they should be fundamental / mandatory and the inherent flaws of capitalism.

Now the CEO has divorced his wife, who funded most of the company, and is trying to walk off with it having it valued at $350k, while a real estimate is that it's worth a few million.
Ask HN: How much do you sleep at night?
How many hours of sleep do you average a night? How do you feel it affects your work plus non-work life?
Going in not knowing who Automattic is (although I know of WooThemes)... I still don't know who Automattic is.

That seems like basic information I'd expect to see.
> Soda and drones are not likely to be confused in the marketplace

This drone does look like a 2-liter [Sprite] bottle though :)
Michael works with other companies to encourage better integration, like payment gateways and shipping tools. It's a new position, but a sure exciting time to be there :)
While I agree that it's probably not legally binding (I beleive even the standard "Click and connect" contracts have been thrown out of courts in the past), do you have any references to share?
This application might not need that much lateral performance, and the cg as is gives you nice static stability margin where you can relax all sorts of other requirements (control loop can be slower, the nav sensors can be lower performance, it's less sensitive to wind gusts, etc).
UTF-8 is not well suited for a general purpose string implementation because it is a variable length encoding and therefore addressing a character becomes a linear time operation. UTF-16 would probably be a better choice in most cases.
Why does it matter what approach he took to solve the problem?

What relevance does it have that someone else without domain expertise or post-graduate education is capable of solving this?

I'm not an expert in this field, nor do I think this is "black magic", but it does seem like this kid applied a good amount of ingenuity in attacking this problem.
Primaries are generally far more meaningful in a two party system than a one party system. So people often get meaningful choice in a two party system.

Also of note, in some multi party systems like Britton a minority party’s can end up with vastly outstated control. EX: The largest party got < 37% of the vote but they are a clear majority right now. One party got 3.8% of the vote and got 1 seat another got 4.7% of the vote and 56 seats. http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/05/britain...

PS: You really can't design a voting system without clear downsides, but zero voting is clearly worse.
Interesting. Automattic are the makers of WordPress.
Partner with a popular show?
How they purport to do packaging is interesting, but I'm not sure it will work well in the end. Having "bundles" that contain immutable sets of packages sounds good from a stability point of view, but unless they are entirely self contained, you'll undoubtedly run into a library that you need to updated for one bundle that then forces you to update another entire bundle. If each bundle is entirely self contained (allowing it to have it's own set of libraries), you're essentially recreating what's a static binary through package semantics. This comes with the usual downsides of static binaries.

I'm interested in seeing it tried though. The learning is in the doing.
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I guess the author of the post, seeing someone defending what Symantec's doing, seems to have mistakenly assumed they are a Symantec employee. Perhaps they jumped to conclusions to quickly.
Automattic is the company that maintains WordPress core.
WordPress.com, to be exact. :) We contribute and volunteer a lot for core WordPress.
Okay, iframes then ;P
Size, noise, maintenance, predictability, simplicity, cost. Haven't seen a power/weight trade study of batteries vs engine+generator+fuel, but it may be closer than you think. There's a lot involved in a ICE power plant, and even if it did win, it'd have to be a pretty big machine compared to your average multirotor due to minimum scale on gasoline engine components.

There might be a market for large endurance multirotors, but apparently it's not obviously attractive.
Automattic is the company behind Wordpress (and Gravatar and a few other things).
Hell, you could have a small buffer ultra capacitor or battery providing the motors with electricity while a gas engine at constant RPM recharges it. The whole system would have to have a very high conversion efficiency though...
Raspberry Preserve – BitTorrent Sync in a Mason Jar
It's hard to answer this question without some idea of what your goals are. What is it you feel you're missing out on? The chance to work with great people? To make a lot of money? To eat a decent burrito?
"The grass is always greener" right? :)

I work in the eye of Silicon Valley and sometimes I wonder if I might be happier with more distance between me and the madness. They pay well to keep me here but it's just human nature to wonder what's on the other side of the fence, I think.
6 - 7hours usually. I wish I got a full 8hours.
CRISPR Ending: Scientists develop a self-destruct button for DNA
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There are many degrees of freedom in chip design: speed, power, real estate, slew rate, clock rate, etc. The core can have more moderate power density (trading off real estate and speed) if that's what is needed in the application. Probably the figure of merit that is most important is energy/hash, not circuit density or speed.
In the place where I am, about 44% of the income is taken in form of taxes (Northern Germany, assuming an income of 50k€ a year, assuming non-married, assuming no children)

And most people are actually happy, because they still get free college, free child daycare, etc.
Are you sure that Ada compilers are verified correct?

I'm pretty sure that the only industrial formally verified compiler is CompCert (for C), though I could be wrong. The motivation for CompCert was certainly that Airbus wanted such a compiler.

Ada wouldn't be a better choice simply because it's designed for security. It'd be a better choice if it turned out better in practice. I've read some of the studies that have been done, and I haven't found them convincing.

Requiring additional tools just isn't a problem, if it works well. Don't criticise the process, criticise the result.
Gas engines could be coupled with one or several CVT transmissions?
I think that the burritos in LA are better.
Show HN: Work Clocker – Program to keep track of your time worked
That's alllmost the plot of Mystery Science Theater 3000
Can you explain why your website requires JS?
There's an MIT spinoff called Top Flight that was working on a hybrid quadcopter, IIRC. I think the main reason you don't see them in the hobbyist space is size floor (you need a pretty big machine to make the weight overhead of the motor, generator, and charge circuitry work out) and money.
Have you been to HRD?
I know I submitted this, but the author is hilarious:

"We all love cool tech. The blocking and tackling of everyday sales relationships? Probably less so. But having the sales infrastructure to go big? Safe to say we can check that box. What made the deal such a target of the Mocking Class was that AOL and Mapquest are so strongly associated with Web 1.0 (Mapquest is almost 50 years old, actually). But you know who doesn’t mind so much dealing with recognizable entities that have been around for decades? Other companies that have been around for decades and are not immediately stoked to cut huge checks to three year old companies missing syllables from their names."
Why do PhD students take up software engineering jobs?
If the culture is such that "couthness" inhibits discussing the basic element of the employee/employer relationship, compensation, and a critical issue for long term personal financial stability, access to affordable health care; then the workplace culture is bad.

There's no need to mention or even solicit other offers. Market rate benefits and compensation are something that should be reasonable to discuss with your boss. There's no reason you should have to leverage. Just have the discussion. Keep the offer in your back pocket, and if the discussion doesn't happen in a reasonable way, then you still have the option of disclosure or just taking the other job or sticking it out with your current employer and no one is the wiser.

The fact that all this is coming around the one year mark, may be a symptom that the boss hasn't been paying attention to the need to re-evaluate compensation as circumstances evolve...your actually having a job offer in hand, shows how long this has been festering.

If it comes down to playing hardball and you're willing to walk, both sides are probably better off if you just take the other job. If you're not willing to walk, then you're not playing hardball. This is why couching it as a discussion about reviewing your situation rather than an ultimatum is so critical. It deescalates the conversation and gives your boss time to recognize and acknowledge and mitigate the issue on their own if they are so inclined.

Good luck.
Uber gutted Carnegie Mellon’s top robotics lab to build self-driving cars
Your comment ignores the existance of primaries and other democratic institutions that encourage political change. The US's constant shifting political winds is evidence that it does work and works well considering we are the sole superpower and saved "enlightened" nations like the various countries in Europe from killing themselves 70 years ago and keep aggressive autocratic powers like Russia and China from completely taking over their neighbors or starting WWIII.
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It would put me in a better position to know had I either not obscured my keyboard or had not placed my keys in a new position.

By switching from QWERTY->Dvorak->Colemak my keys had switched positions in each transition. I purchased a 'keyless' keyboard to avoid confusion if I happened to look at the keyboard. For example why did I just press "S" but type "R"? It would be very confusing for my brain.

When staying with a familiar layout - I would still recommend hiding the keys from sight as it forces you to internalize where the keys are rather than looking at them to find them. The idea behind touch typing is you know the distance between each character and can type it accordingly from memory instead of having to look for each key. :)
That's unfortunately not a good assumption to make.
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"Decision-makers hate it."
What are you down voting, chumps? That's the truth.
I think your point is interesting but the article refers to company secrets mostly.
A docker container is basically statically linking your binary one level higher. Rather than just including the libraries, you include all the support files and other processes. A VM is then like the next level above that.
Isn't everyone doing this in some form?
I'm going to get hate for this, but here it goes anyway: no, you're not.

There are a lot of compelling reasons to be in Silicon Valley, but there are (IMO) many more for staying away. You've hit on most of them: the laid back lifestyle and the cost of living being the big ones.

There are a lot of companies that want you to be in Silicon Valley to work for them, but there are quite a few who embrace remote employees (Etsy and 37Signals come to mind). Does it limit your job options? Probably somewhat. Can you still do really interesting work but live in a place that isn't insanely expensive? Absolutely.

If you're happy where you are, stay there and find companies that embrace that. They're likely to be better companies to work for anyway.
I think you can build a great life and career anywhere. There are upsides to being in the valley, but there are many other upsides to living somewhere else that you love.

Ultimately it's up to you to slam dunk your business.

I moved out of Toronto a year ago to a city (Hamilton) about an hour away where houses were affordable and the city was seeing renewal. My mortgage is much cheaper than a 2 bedroom rental in Toronto and I feel because I have such low overhead, it makes me a much better entrepreneur. I'm willing to take many more risks because I can make my mortgage pretty easily.

So - my quality of life is very high outside a major tech hub and because we work on the internet, I'm still very involved.

I recommend you watch this video about Chris Coyier / CSS Tricks. He runs one of the biggest web development websites around, two podcasts and CodePen from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRmbVOI6oIM
Also on product hunt: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/sprite
Explore alternative cities outside of Silicon Valley. I just graduated college and I didn't want to be in the Valley because I didn't want to live and breathe tech. I'm currently living in Austin, TX, working for a bigger tech company and I love it. Its still a huge tech city and I have plenty of opportunities for growth. But you have other cities such as Boston, Chicago, Denver, Portland (?), and Los Angeles that are up and coming tech cities. Also don't forget about NYC. Don't just limit yourself to one area.
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