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Okay. I'm pointing these out because it says Full-stack in the title.

Nginx servers can run SPDY until HTTP/2 is stable, or use an HTTP/2 capable proxy.

This guide is a comprehensive explanation of Chrome's Network timeline, but the optimisation recommendations are quite skewed towards the front-end. There's a missing piece on server configuration, no mention of CDNs or asset/domain sharding for connection concurrency, server-side or client-side caching. It also doesn't take into account HTTP/1 vs. SPDY & HTTP/2. For example, loading JavaScript modules as individual files can improve performance for SPDY & HTTP/2, because changes in individual files don't expire the entire concatenated bundle. Here's a slide deck called "Yesterday's best practices are HTTP/2 anti-patterns", that re-examines some of Nate's advice: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r7QXGYOLCh4fcUq0jDdD...

Nice to see some new features! I hope it's not rude to ask if there's a special reason the URLs in Ask HN submission text aren't hyperlinks?

We occasionally revisit the interview prep tool (http://ycinterview.com/), and that's definitely 15 minutes well spent. Communicating these things in writing takes longer by default though, and can take as much as you're willing to spend on it. It's hard to notice that you reached the point of diminishing returns.

I'd like to clarify that we try not to make business decisions based on speculation. Just wanted to reassure myself that we're not wasting time filling out the application. Thanks for the reply.

Dreamless and The Root 42 felt sort of like a gateway to a future part of the internet.

Some trivia: Joshua Davis was part of the Kioken design studio and founder of the Dreamless forum. He gained significant recognition as a generative design artist, creating online artworks such as Praystation & Once Upon A Forest. He is also a really inspiring and heartwarming person, sharing his knowledge in workshops and conference talks worldwide.

The HYPE Framework was initially made in Flash and co-authored with Branden Hall, but is now resurrected on top of Processing with James Cruz.

Here is a 2007 profile on him: https://vimeo.com/5950300

And his more recent online class on generative art: https://www.skillshare.com/classes/design/Programming-Graphi...

We've had geeks uncover vulnerabilities of GSM and SS7 in Slovenia since 2012: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

Last year a student discovered that Slovenian military and police communications system TETRA isn't configured to encrypt: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

The official response was to terrorize and prosecute, even in cases of responsible disclosure. Of course, it's impossible for them to fix issues that arise from insecure design, but they also seem to be ignorant of the Streisand effect.

As somebody else commented, we have yet to reach the tipping point, when general public becomes concerned with the privacy of mobile networks. Mainstream TV shows like this one might bring that moment closer. I just hope they do enough fear-mongering before deadly crime happens, or people gradually accept lack of privacy as the norm. The former is tragic, and the latter paves the way for oppression.

What a clever title. I would even go as far as calling it icon rendering.

A good icon, just like a good logo, causes a small visual play in the back of one's mind. For that to happen, a lot of design time is spent in exploration, sketching perceptual cons, cross-pollenations and optimizations.

I respect Eli, but I'd hate to see this part of icon design survive, while genuine creativity vanes.

They didn't mention bo-shuriken[1], which is a spear-shaped throwable metal "dart". The throwing technique is in some ways similar to the way a katana is swung. A circular motion, taking the hand behind the wielders shoulder and unrolling straight in the opponents direction. As there is no rotating motion involved, these are short range projectiles. The ones I saw were top-heavy and had tail feathers. Checking the YouTube videos, some users instruct a more knife throwing grip. However, the technique explained to me was leading with the back hand side, releasing the dart from the palm[2] towards the end of the motion.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=bo-shuriken&safe=off&hl=en&b...

[2]: http://cl.ly/image/012R0D1W0t3T

Our smart devices seem to mandate syncing to the cloud, treating data as valuable, hardware as expendable.

However smart or self aware our household bot becomes, their brain should probably be stored on Dropbox or S3. Their thoughts might as well run in Lambda or Ethereum.

Hm. I renamed the blog to HELLO WORL.. to make the pun a bit more obvious instead.

The first layer only contains basic features, which are shared among different sets of images[1]. It seems that the ImageNet photos themselves are indeed very protected[2], so I should probably use another dataset as input. Plugging in my iPhone camera roll should result in very similar filters. It will be very interesting to see how much they differ.

Update: The author of Caffe just got back to me with word that the filters are in public domain, therefore safe to use as design elements.

[1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Hl2H6.png

[2]: http://www.princeton.edu/main/administration/legal_complianc...

The price is steep because charity. I used output from Caffe[1] which is open source software. You can get a similar output yourself, just by running their Python notebook[2]. The festival website is linked within the post[3]. I am using Tumblr to see if it's a viable medium for mini fundraisers.

Thanks for the feedback though, I will set up a landing page instead.

[1]: http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/

[2]: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/BVLC/caffe/blob/master/ex...

[3]: http://kudplac.si/portfolio/tknp/

You are referring to high-intensity LED lights. E-ink does not shine, therefore it requires significantly less power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink

You do know that the Kindle is subsidized by book sales, right? That and the fact that Amazon has both economies of scale and a zero-profit/market-domination strategy.

The Visionect kit is cheaper, more capable and better supported than comparable dev kits.

It was water-proof and washed in the dish-washer at the end of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2hv7iGNKLY

The company seems to have pivoted to a more lucrative business model though (Slovenian population is 2MM, with GDP per capita somewhere around 17000 EUR).

Very uninformed speculation. Visionect's previous products came with a water-tight, tamper-proof enclosure & a number of software based security measures, because one of their tablets interfaced with Point of Sale systems.

This is a bit more complex than a regular micro-controlled LCD. There are a number of ways you can drive an e-ink display. Then there are a number of ways you can choose to control such a display remotely. Last but not least, a sizeable chunk of the stack powering these displays is proprietary technology, and has been in development for more than 3 years.

Almost everything is hackable when you have physical access to the system. That's why such systems should detect and report tampering. Something regular traffic signs never did in the first place.

The company that provided these (Visionect) also sells affordable e-ink developer kits [1]. The best part is that you can build apps in plain HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

Disclosure: I worked with Visionect a few years ago to develop an e-ink restaurant menu.

[1] https://www.visionect.com/development_kits

> I think the chance for remote execution would be far less if they used unix based systems.

OSX is a *nix based system and has had far worse security than Windows for ages (lagging with basic things like address space randomization). Just because Unix is not considered a primary attack surface area for viruses and alike, it does not make it inherently more secure. That kind of attitude is indeed even more dangerous than having a well secured Windows computer.

(Disclaimer, Mac user myself)

"This will be extended to support operations in the other direction as well, namely for external systems to take action based on events within Layer."

I was hoping it will refer to how being poor and in debt can impact your cognitive abilies: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/29/us-poverty-brain-i...

Word abut the surveillance programs (dubbed Echelon) was common-sense on #phrack as far as 2002. We have had American and German Intelligence agencies capture traffic at the Slovenian Internet Exchange at least since 2007. When the affair broke out, Germans stated that they will cease cooperation with the Slovenian Intelligence Agency, and the entire thing was swept under the rug.

Unfortunately, whistleblowing really takes substantial evidence, and that's what Snowden provided.

  “As a matter of policy, we don’t comment on legal matters,” says Defense Department spokeswoman Lt. Col. Valerie Henderson.

This is very confusing. What was the question?

As an aside: Would "sub judice" policy still make sense if we treated all speech the same? (under & not under oath)

This is really an awesome business model for them. They get to print a million shirts and sell them through brick and mortar retailers without paying any royalties to the artist.

Using flash to deliver video on web was a chore and nobody was doing it right.

Eric Schmidt obviously has nothing to hide, because maybe he shouldn't be doing anything [..] in the first place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew

Tangential question: Is it possible to parallelize constraint-based layouts?

Update: There is paper[1] describing layout parallelization with 80x performance increases. However, I'm not sure it works on constraint-based layouts, such as GSS[2].

[1] https://lmeyerov.github.io/projects/pbrowser/pubfiles/paper....

[2] http://gridstylesheets.org/guides/ccss/

"Consider cleaning your Mac from junk"

-- MacKeeper campaign, 2013

Exactly. Most of these companies are in great shape. But there will be a few where investors with preferred stock will pull out, resulting in stifled growth and agility. For highly competitive and Thielesque-monopoly situations that might spell defeat, resulting in loss of faith from common stock holders as well. Lots of value will be lost in one place, but that's more a result of scale, not artificial inflation. Moreover, it will not signal a bubble burst for the rest of the industry. I wish it could even promote less speculative behavior.