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Uh, that post includes some doxxing.

From an observer's view, after fully reading it and seeing how hostile their response is, I can only applaud the player. To me it seems fair game. She exploited a weakness in the game, something that in meatspace is often hailed as genius. In bitcoin online gambling, race conditions are a part of the game that has to be expected to be attacked.

With their doxxing they lost any bit of sympathy I had.
Yeah, since C11 only.

However very few compilers, specially in the embedded and real time OS space do offer C11 compliance.

Gcc and clang aren't the only game in town. If one aims to write compliant C code much more compilers come into the picture.
> RLSD is an extremely minimalistic, small, lightweight and security-hardened

> The user always runs as root

'Kay.
I ride a bike to work sometimes and I'll slow down, then go through stop signs on a small street if there's nobody nearby. Stop lights, I'll only go through them after coming to a stop and checking for traffic. It's nuts to just go through a red light at full speed, you're bound to get hit at some point.

There's an intersection near me with heavy biker commuter traffic and they blow through the light all the time, I keep expecting to witness a death one of these days.
Testing is important, but I don't think that's enough for this sort of problem. What this needs is in-depth code review. Tests are only as good as the tests you write, and if there was no test to account for this particular issue nothing would have been caught.

For concurrency issues someone thinking real hard is as important as testing.
Neither does, making Dropbox itself, "trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software." [1] :)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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It isn't strictly worse, but intersections are the most dangerous part of navigating roads. You think the intersection is quiet and then bam you get T-boned by a car you didn't see--game over.

I don't personally care if bikers run reds, but be safe about it. I see plenty of them weaving between pedestrians or weaving around moving cars. That behavior is just dangerous as can be, and not just for you.

At the end of the day, it's not my spine that will get crushed if you run the light.
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How easy/hard would it be to sell this service to companies like yours? Would love to chat more about it offline (mdolon at gmail)
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A long time ago Mailchimp had a great post on the free pricing plan. One of the most important observations they made was "Wait until you have a full blown support team in place before offering a free plan" So they were basically saying wait 2 - 3 years in at least until you could layer on the additional free support for these plans before offering them.
This article makes no promises. It merely states the possibility of having some functionality. Can you find somewhere that provides a fully OSS build for Raspberry Pi?
And most countries with a sense of free-speech try to(pretend to, would ideally, take your pick depending on your view of how successful free-speech is) respect the law biding citizen's freedom to hold whatever views they want even if they are ridiculous.

I feel like unless you are trying to troll, it is best to avoid all analogies that compare current events to what would be deemed by many as 'historical evil doers'.
Anybody who does a hit and run is a scum-bag, bike or car. Unfortunately there are some thoughtless and selfish people in this world.
Seconded Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. It is awesome. He is an amazing storyteller and makes history come to life in a way that is fascinating and very approachable.

I've walked many, many miles with Dan Carlin in my ear.
What you are looking for is simply called very expensive hotels :)
I think Clojure owes much of its success to the acceptance of using multiple languages in the same project.

Maybe breaking off a small piece of functionality in a Java project to try implementing in Clojure.

Maybe implementing a service with a REST API in Clojure accessed from clients written in other languages.

So I find it a little ironic, and maybe short sighted, to hear "write everything in one language" used as an argument for using Clojurescript.
WTF do those acronyms mean? #ALM #PTC #FLOSS
With YouTube, Google isn't just an alternative, they're a direct competitor. YouTube Fan Funding is built-in to the platform:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6052077?hl=en
...and on top of the actual collisions there are near-misses, which cause significant stress to pedestrians (I assume most of this is just through thoughtlessness rather than wanting to buzz the tower).

To be clear, I've been cycling on the streets of London since I was about 6; this comment isn't coming from a place of cycle-hatred.
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I suppose there's some parallels to be drawn to software. I've often heard things like targeting 80% of memory / CPU / networking so that you have some slack for unexpected events. It seems like Southwest focuses on running as close to 100% asset utilization as possible. It's not necessarily optimal when there are issues, but I find it hard to fault them for what I consider to be a pretty legitimate business choice.
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Related to this, I was listening to an NPR program recently that tackled the question: If your pet's doctor can give you a list of pricing options before you decide on treatment, why can't your own doctor do that for you?

The answer was that our doctors are disconnected from the costs of treatment because they can't be expected to know every possible charge for every different insurance plan (what the patient would have to pay for procedures, medicine, support staff [anesthesiologists who are out of network, for example], devices [pacemakers, wrist splints, artificial hips, etc.], lab fees, etc.). So why not something that can bring that information to them?

This would be a benefit not just to consumers but to insurance companies as well, and that's where the money would be.

Feel free to cut me in on the action.
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we're having similar issues in aerospace. time series data out the wazoo.
Yeah, we thought these were pretty cute. Almost a social engineering attack.
> If you find any justification for this you're just a selfish idiot.

Sorry to hear of your accident, but the anecdote isn't statistically significant. (nor has the OP in any way causally linked his own quoted statistics on accidents to his examples of red light running).

- Some accidents are definitely caused by road users (including cyclists) running reds

- Many! cyclists do behave (extremely!) dangerously in different ways on the road

- Many accidents are caused by dangerous behaviour of road users

- Many accidents are also caused by unfortunate chance

One cyclist running a red and causing an accident doesn't translate to any conclusion whatsoever about the behaviour of all cyclists, nor is it an analysis running reds in general.
The above may have been tongue in cheek, alluding to the many startups seeking to classify software as malicious or benign. At the theoretical limit, it is difficult to say what a program will do. But that has not prevented many from selling products to that effect, some of which have been successful to a degree. If the comment was in fact serious, then the problem is "securing computation". Can you tell by looking at a program in its binary format whether it would do you harm to run it or not? Can you ensure that a given program has not been taken over by malicious input? How can you detect malicious activity by software? How do you create a baseline for "normal"?
LOL. I just paid for an all inclusive which came out to be an additional $25/day/person over the hotel room rate. The food was shit but the drinks were okay and unlimlite. And thus we found out that all-inclusive can mean different things.

I would say the Atlantis, Bahamas resort does a good all-inclusive. It has activities for kids and adults. The resort I stayed in Malta was clearly for young adults. The kid and I were practically chased out the pool once the sun set.
The product is the easy part. With the payment platforms available today, a fan funding platform could be a weekend hackathon project. I'm sure you've put more effort into it than that, but if the weekend project has users and yours doesn't, then it doesn't matter how good the code is. Getting the users onboard is the hard part. If you don't know how to get users, throwing money at you isn't going to change that, and isn't going to be a good investment. You won't be handed a million dollars.

If so many YouTubers say they love the idea, then you need to get them to adopt it. Saying they'd use it and actually using it are different things -- people like to tell you what you want to hear. This isn't a chicken-and-egg problem. You only need to convince _one_ high profile YouTube personality to use your platform, and you have a user base. You don't have to convince anyone else to join: they'll do that for you by using your platform instead of FanFunding/Patreon/etc to ask their fans for support. If you haven't already done this, then no investor is going to believe you have the hustle to build this into a billion dollar business that'll give them the return they're looking for. They'll also wonder how you know you built a product anyone wants without doing customer development.

Reach out personally to your potential early users, those popular vloggers and bloggers and game casters that already ask their fans for micro-donations, and convince them to try you instead. Send some info to their house along with a box of muffins. Show up at a convention they're going to be at and talk to them. Just figure out how to make contact and get their attention. Offer them perks like foregoing fees they're paying their current donation platform, and promoting their channel on your site. The foregone fees are your marketing expense. Once they're onboard, their supporters will become your first set of users on that side of the marketplace. Move on to the next personality again and again until you have enough people on board that other creators are signing on without you having to recruit them.

Facebook didn't start with the world, they started with one school. Only after they had established a social network in that school did they open up to the next, and build one there. You don't start with the world.
This was London as well. Farringdon in particular.

I'm was also a cyclist but I wont get on the things now.
I totally get what the op is saying. I get a ridiculous number of adds in my email. I never click on them. But I don't actually mind knowing about deals and product offerings. I wouldn't mind having an app where all these offerings are sorted intelligently in some easy to see manner.
As far as I know it's still true. Even if you're using those open source graphics drivers you still need the binary GPU blob in order to actually boot the Pi. The Pi's initial bootloader has to run on the VPU and those open source drivers don't - indeed, they're from a related chip that doesn't even have a VPU. Last time I looked there was no documentation for the VPU, no open-source version of the bootloader code, no compiler that targets the VPU, and the only assembler was based on unofficial reverse engineering.
No, the whole point of C is to abstract away one's system architecture. C is a higher level language in this sense.
How exactly is the rumored iPad pro a Surface clone? Additionally, without the optional and expensive keyboard, could you not call the Surface an iPad clone by your definition?
The "quiet street" scenario is almost certainly not the one that's being addressed by people who get irked by red-light runners.
A person who runs a company is no more a job creator than a consumer who pays for services is a job creator.

If "I have money, and I have a thing I am willing to exchange it for that requires someone else to do work" makes you a job creator, everyone who purchases anything in the economy is a job creator.
I think you have to squint pretty hard to say that JavaScript, Python, or Ruby are "extremely" similar to Perl. It's really its own, bizarre world.
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Well the biggest problem seems to be that the billing from the health provider doesn't sync up with insurance. So you'll get a bill like "you owe $1,295" but there's absolutely no way to reconcile this with the services you received. You can call your provider and they'll try to provide you with a detailed invoice (maybe if you're lucky). If you argue long enough with both then eventually you might get somebody to make some type of adjustment but even still it's random. At the end of the day you might wind up paying $500 just because you figure that's as good as it's going to get!

This is probably a difficult problem to solve, but one thing that might be possible is just a way to look up the bill and translate the insurance "codes" that are meaningless to normal people and require looking up in various medical or insurance sites. Like code 123456 means you had your blood drawn. Or code 67890 means they ran some test, etc. It takes forever to look this stuff up.
I think he's referring to the continuing SourceForge fiasco.
I've been using Swiss Post Box for years for this. Does exactly what you asked for and gives me an address in Switzerland, Germany and Italy.
Yeah. I'd like to see us all set our hardware clocks to TAI and everything else comes from the time zone files. It won't solve everything because lots of protocols have broken notions of time, but at least we could all agree on what the hardware time is supposed to mean and there would be no worry about leap seconds at that level.
The quick boarding and exiting times are important not because they provide a customer service advantage through convenience, but because they reduce the amount of time the aircraft spend on the ground. Time spent on the ground is basically waste from the perspective of the airline, and this is especially critical for short-haul routes where these delays add up to a significant portion of the aircraft's day.

If the aircraft is flying 1 hour trips, and you can reduce turn time from 20 mins to 10, that means that the whole trip is reduced from 1hr20min to 1hr10min, which works out to a 12.5% shorter trip time for the given route. This means you can either transport 12.5% more people on this route with a given number of aircraft, service 12.5% more equivalent routes with these aircraft, or reduce your fleet size (and marginal costs) by 12.5%.
Perhaps.

An article currently trending on the front page about "C in practice" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799069) helps make my point (that we barely understand the dark corners of our tools, so perhaps venturing into other territory is a bit premature.)

(Also - the extent to which almost every real-life programming language makes simple things unbelievably complicated sounds like a good example of "impenetrable silos of epistemology"... "language lawyer" is an idiom for a reason. And BTW we have waaaaay less excuses for the huge barriers to understanding that we continuously erect around our work since our subject matter is not nearly as inherently fuzzy as the stuff lawyers, lawmakers and judges deal with.)
That's because they're all getting the target audience wrong.

"Personal email server" - right there is the mistake.

If the consumer market is small, 8 times out of 10 you can bet that if you adapt the technology appropriately - change the pitch, make a few feature adjustments etc - there is an enterprise market willing to pay for the solution instead.
It is a shameless plug for the non-existent startup that creates computers with ternary architectures for the benefit of all beings...and of course would render malicious binaries obsolete.
The criticisms of tracked hand motion are spot on, at least with regards to the Leap Motion device. But even if the controller were to work well, having no feedback makes actually interacting with the environment extremely difficult.

So I hacked together a haptic glove out of an Arduino, a few vibrating motors, and a WebSocket-to-Serial-Port bridging program in a weekend. Took it to National Maker Faire and demoed it to a few hundred people. There were only a handful of skeptics, and of them, only two of them walked away unconvinced. Even basic haptics has a huge impact on the believability of the motion interaction.
Kevin: Thanks much for the excellent advice! My fears were finding serious bugs in the app or problems with the recommendation engine that would come to light with more users. But in retrospect my fears seem to have been launch anxiety: The response so far has primarily been folks saying: It's good, it's fast, and please can I have these additional features too!

Again, thanks for the advice, and I plan to follow it as quickly as possible.
Aha, but of course, these services and time wasters will just adapt to have no ads. Essentially, I fear that all apps will take the approach of being excellent time wasters or services (because that's what they're being paid for), and killing all the truly great apps that that have around 20 people using them, yet cost around $7. And are not as addictive as these time wasters. Some apps try to minimize the time spent in their apps (a losing strategy in this new economy) because people pay them for a fast, frictionless service (think Drafts), but put less time into them than a browser or addictive game.
There are usually local companies that do IT services if you live in or near any major city. Check with other people you know or check Yelp for references and reviews.
I appreciate your idea, but what is the problem you think this would solve?
I think the author is perfectly entitled to use "we" for the phenomena he is both experimenting first hand and observing around his environment. I can say his experience seems uncomfortably familiar to me, and have talked with more people (both online and face to face) that see the same things and share the same concerns. So, there is a non trivial number of people inside that "we". If you don't experiment this problem in person, you might as well count your blessings.

Your point about there being a balance... it might be correct on the individual level. However, you cannot deny the problem at the society level. A large number of people (maybe the majority) never learn how to focus, because they grow up in environments that do not promote formation of discipline - either they are left to do as they see fit, or they are told what to do all the time, but only rarely are held accountable to own up the consequences of their own actions until very late in their upbreeding.
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Today said, "The secret of God".

Well, obviously what God wants, God gets.

I am high priest and carry-on.

God is perfectly just.

ROFLMAO -- nigger Obama just fucking up real bad against God. ROFLMAO

Bill Gates said, "Life's not fair. Get used to it." That's fucken hilarious.
Both the lender and the borrower have responsibilities when it comes to loans. I rarely hear people complain about irresponsible lending and the need for lenders to suffer too. In the case of Greece the suffering has all been one-sided. The so called bailout have been nothing more than a way to prop up French and German banks. The Greeks alone are suffering.
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SCTP is very much alive and kicking. In fact I have just been debugging an issue with it before reading this post. It's used between Mobile Network Elements, especially in the 4G Space, as the transport that DIAMETER sit on top of.

So I agree it's niche, but it's far from a failure.
I once worked at a non-tech startup. It was a startup, it was less than 50 people, it catered to film industry rather than tech. What I learned was this -- giving your software away for free will probably give you bad rep with businesses.

In that company, the head of the digital team "understood" tech, obviously. But it took us insane amount of work to convince management to use a free product. They thought of it as a toy, which would cost company time (and hence money) to implement and get used to, and it won't work. And because it's free, probably nobody would come fix it. They were always worried of a 2-person ramen hogging company running away with their data.

I also learnt that they paid in name of support, even if we did not need the product. We bought highly expensive Ooyala licenses just to upload videos to Youtube (Ooyala offers a lot more, but we didn't care for that). Yes, I know we can directly upload them, but as Youtube was free, they didn't trust the upload system in case of crisis. With Ooyala, they had someone to call if shit hits the fan during critical and timely upload.

Free plans are weird. I would rather try offering companies a demo or pilot. And offer a reasonable money back guarantee. At least with making the customer contact you first for demo, you're in conversation with them. You can gauge if they will ever buy the product. If yes, you have a shot at selling.

Automation of demo is awfully lazy for a SaaS startup that's just starting out. Outreach, talk, connect. The lazy free automated trial only helps in case you have a me-too product where the customer is jumping from product to product trying to figure out which one to use. If that's the case, you either don't have a USP or don't know how to use it. Either way, you end up in a spiral to the bottom.
Can someone please build a good IoT solution for the home. For example, my sump pump backup battery beeps incessantly when it runs out of distilled water, sometimes in the middle of the night. I just want to have an app on my phone or laptop, showing me status/integrity of all my home devices, turn them on/off, etc.
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| Modern estimates place the annual amount consumed by the colonists somewhere in the range of five to six gallons of pure alcohol (by comparison, per capita consumption in the United States in 2007 came in around 2.3 gallons).

It would be interesting to know the distribution of this. I wonder how much of it is individual people drinking more vs more people drinking. Take away video games and TV and I bet a lot more people would end up at the bar.
Im Bootstrapping a start up this summer and it seems like in the long term it will be better to stay with just a JS code base and not having to worry about the Typescript Angular 2 transition.

This is my first serious app so I'm new to a lot of the backend architecture options. I have no experience with Devops so I was thinking about creating the first version with a parse backend then moving to a docker container on AWS when it would start saving me some money.

I guess the question I would put out to Hacker News is how would you suggest I estimate the technical debt this would shoulder me with later on and would it be better to integrate with AWS now? I have a small amount of funding, about 2500$ and 100% free time before I go back to college this September.