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Which is exactly why I ended with "You would need some detailed knowledge of the exact material and laser cutter, and thus some expertise."; cutting any kind of polycarbonate sounds like a bad idea if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
Polycarbonate doesn't have any chlorine at all in its chemical formula. Maybe the usual types of Lexan contain plasticizers/flame retardants/other additives that contain chlorine?
How does writing it down make any difference, unless there was a corroborating witness during the conversation? It seems like it would still be he said she said. Is it just a case of writing it down being more unlikely for the memory of the words to be distorted by time passing?
Okay, okay; more source code releases and demos, and less talking now, please.
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If your landlord's bounced check fee is larger than $35, you'd have been better off with overdraft protection.

Incidentally, there is a great way to reduce this risk; manually pay your bills. I don't have any automatic charges larger than $10. You chose higher risk for higher convenience. It's a little silly to claim that the choice you made is not rationally justifiable - how do we know you were irrational then rather than now?
Could happen from anything. I've also been poor, and one thing that sent me over the edge was a check that someone waited months to cash. Thought I had $200 in my account, and made a payment with debit card, only to go under $0. What's worse, I wasn't notified, and made a couple more charges, all at exorbitant rates, until I realized what had happen.

As always, it's best to interpret others' comments in the most generous way possible, rather than jumping to the conclusion that the poor person must have been spending too much money to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Hardware fulfillment has improved considerably since kickstarter became a preorder store for established companies[1] with lots of money[2], rather than a place to support individuals with project ideas at the prototype stage.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-time-a...

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/technology?r...
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Pre crisis overdrafts used to be cheap. There was just a monthly interest amount (fairly low - IIRC mine was about 12%).

Post crisis, many banks in the UK "simplified" overdraft fees by charging rediculous daily/monthly usage charges and increased interest rates. It really is a massive swindle when being £100 overdrawn for one day can cost between £5 and £40 [1]. You used to just have a monthly interest rate like a credit card, often paying a few pence for going overdrawn for a day.

Of course being British, we just rolled over and took this (I did close all my Natwest accounts after being charged £5 for being £1 overdrawn for one day, but most banks are the same now). The people with the power have large amounts of money in the bank and had no need to complain.

With blllions in PPI being reclaimed (Lloyds alone supposedly have a bill of £13 bn [2]), this isn't a surprise. The banks always win.

[1] http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/bank-charges-compar...

[2] http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/reclaim/2015/07/lloyds...
This echoes the way unums work in "The End of Error". (Recommended read by the way.) Good way of thinking about ranges.
FYI, Wikipedia for Chinese languages has been inaccessible for months in China.
Challenge accepted. I am going to regulate this problem away. New proposed regulation:

1. Banks must make rejection of a charge, rather than overdrafting, the default.

2. When overdrafting is enabled, cap the fees at some amount (say, $5), and also cap the amount the account can be overdrafted at, say, $50.

Looks like a pretty disgusting scheme to me. /sarcasm
Same here, I really want to scream at them, fast product delivery is really not a thing for sole developer.
Not sure which angle you're taking on this. I could respond if you'd clarify. I'll take a guess though. If you are saying the bar is too high and such treatments will never get enough money to be sufficiently proven, well, then I'd point to the over 2 billion dollars we've poured down the drain funding alternative medicine studies via the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (formerly NCCAM).

AFAIK Tom Harkin is the main guy who pushed through the creation of the agency and in the past has expressed disappointment (around 2009/2010?) that they haven't been able to demonstrate alternative medicine modalities as being effective. That hasn't led to any defunding of the agency though. It keeps trucking along, spending over $120 million dollars annually demonstrating that things we already have a good idea don't work...still don't work.

> involves years, millions of dollars, and an insane amount of bureaucracy.
Think about it--20 years, over $2 billion dollars. That's a lot of time and money. They should have results to show for it.

Alternative medicine has this image of being "the little guy," and given it is less than 1% of dollars spent on healthcare in the US, it kind of is. However, that small percent is a small percent of a giant, giant, pool of money. While alternative medicine is small compared to medicine, that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of money put towards it.
He'd mop the floor with them. Systems, languages, environments, etc., etc., were trivial then compared to today. I worked back then in a few "labs" that looked a lot like that.
sadly, ams6110, HN is allergic to sarcasm.
I had seen occasions where a trailing slash treats URL differently, who is very trivial to handle. While as mentioned in sister thread, mobile because of the dom might be little difficult to handle.
Yup, it is amazing how quickly a few $10k tools, $3k tooling modifications, and sample shipping costs quickly adds up.

I laugh at most hardware Kickstarters because what they are trying to do is impossible with the funding levels you are going to get, so if it is going to be successful they should already have investors in which case they Kickstarter is just a cheap marketing campaign.
Online banks like Capital One 360 don't charge overdraft fees and have fast check settlement. I can't comment on transaction ordering or anything - also, it might be hard to find an ATM that will do cash deposits.

And not only is there no account fee, but the checking account pays a pitiable amount of interest.
Another technology for those who have not yet realised that what they really need in their lives is some Lisp.
Silver and gold both seem to be dropping lower than they've been in years. Legend has it that when stocks go down, precious metals should go up. But what if gold, silver, and stocks were all in a bubble at once? They all kind of look bubbly by the long-term charts. Would that signify that we're finally reaching the end of the recession, or that we're beginning a new one?
When the article said their approach might work best on a tablet, it reminded me of Microsoft Research's "TouchDevelop"

https://www.touchdevelop.com
You would be better served asking "what did it look like in the crash of 2000".

Today twitter, etsy, hell even zynga are looking a LOT like the bubble companies, the fact that pets.com sock puppet could be a product on etsy today should not be lost on you (or any one for that matter). In 2000 the questions were "do you know html, and can you fog a mirror" today we would ask "have you been through boot camp and can you fog a mirror". IN 2000 we had lavish launch parties, today we have free lunches (if that isn't telling). In 2000 you bled money to SUN to have servers, today you bleed money to a landlord for office space. Back then VC's were handing out money to any one with an idea, today they are pretty much handing out money to any one with an idea.

Honestly, 2000 was a complete shit show. Most people checked fuckedcompnay in the morning to find out if they were going to get laid off. Some showed up to work and were "locked out". The market tore up any maginal company that was listed and the money flowing into the valley STOPPED. If you weren't profitable, if you could not control your burn rate, you were dead. How did we (developers) survive 2000? A lot of folks didn't. If you were here, and you managed to stay, it was because you wanted to be here, because you had some passion for what you were doing, and were willing to eat shit for it. A lot of folks who made it through 2000 were the same ones who endured the smaller wind down of 2008. In 2008 people who were good knew each other, we had networked by then, and a job was just a "phone call away".

What you probably want to know is how do you survive the coming storm? The reality is that you probably don't/won't. A lot of folks I know who survived 2000 built war chests, we have "fuck you" money, and a network. We aren't paying $3000 or $4000 a month for rent. Even if your splitting that 2 or 3 ways what happens to YOU when you have to eat that cost cause your "housemate" bails cause he's unemployed and has ZERO prospects after 3 months? The reality is that it will be more of an enema of mediocre talent and companies, rents will go down, engineering costs will go down, and a few years later money will flow back in for us to start the cycle all over again.
Nice clickbait title for advertising their own product concealed as a 3 sentence "retrospective", good thing HN allows submitters to change titles to something more descriptive and less clickbaity than the original...

On the postitive side, the product itself looks quite sleek. I could use some of the features myself to limit my own time on HN, or the time my wife spends on facebook.
The aforementioned QPython includes Kivy libraries. Kivy is cross-platform across Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, Android, and IOS. Its a Python library but seems mostly oriented towards games/graphics. That's a drawback for me, but some might be interested.

As far as cross-platform across desktop and mobile, that's a difficult challenge. Java used to be the go-to if you want to be platform agnostic but that obviously won't cut it if you want to support mobile. You can check out Qt. I only use it on Linux but it apparently supports Windows, Mac OSX, Android, IOS, and Windows Phone (maybe even more).
I was hoping the author would provide further elaboration on why he thinks China's economy is doing ok when I read the title. However, there does not seem to be much substantiation for why he thinks China is doing ok. It would be ironic if he had based it on China's release of GDP growth figures.

"For all the frenzy, the economy is still growing, if somewhat sluggishly by Chinese standards, and most ordinary citizens are not invested in the market. What's at stake is the government's credibility."
I've been a researcher for 8 years now, and definitely feel that. The freedom is great, but I'm not sure I could ever transition into a SDE role.
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Please enable and use application specific passwords. Then this mess would turn into "hackers can grab your gmail credential used only by your fridge, which you revoked quickly and without needing to change anything else".
Barbells = Good.

Cult of Work Past Exhaustion = Injuries.
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I know what you mean. Around the time of our campaign these guys [1] were on every major news website in Australia (paid ads, not stories). Their marketing budget must have been huge. I've heard Sony launches stuff under different names too just to test the market.

It does have one positive side effect though - more people come to the platform.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nonda/get-your-macbook-...
I was the one on the other side of that bet (not under this name.) It was multiprocessing. I said OS/2 would be there first and he said NT would. I'm not sure who won but we were pissed off at each other enough by the end of it, with some weird threats having been made, that dinner was pretty much out of the question.

Odd that you would remember that. I thought I was probably the only one who did.
Rihanna? Justin?  My data was confusing at first
In 2012, while travelling on plane from Edmonton, Canada to Vancouver, BC, a thought crossed my mind ... who is the most popular music artist in the world. By popularity, I meant, the one whose songs was the most shared on popular sites such as FB, Twitter and Youtube.

When I got to Vancouver, I set up a crawler and gathered over 39000 artist names and over 400,000 song titles. Then for each artist + song name, I check the social sites for the most shares / comments / recommendations / tweets etc., as a proxy for popularity or social engagement.

Prior to adding up the numbers I was expecting Rihanna or Justin Bieber to be on the top of the list. I was also mindful of problems with the data, such as songs released prior to the popularity of social networks, growth rate of social networks vs. accumulated likes / shares and many more.

Anyways, considering the rough data I had, when I added up the #s, Eminem was on top. I was confused by the data. Why Eminem ...

So anyways, I decided to dig further and to my surprise, Eminem I found out that he is very smart in how he markets his songs. Basically, he generates multiple waves of popularity for his music ..

First the song comes out .. which is cool. Then when it cools off, the same song gets used for a movie sound track ... and eventually, it gets used as a sound track for a video game.

So there u go ... when I run my data, Eminem was the King of social networks in 2012 :)

Thanks for reading.
Routine political stories are off-topic here. There needs to be something unusually intellectually interesting about them. Elections being called is not that.
1) It's not my nationality for what I'm charging less. I'm charging less because my living cost is less than the people in the US. I would've charged the same as US developers if I lived in San Francisco. Why do you think Apple manufactured their products in China instead of US? It's the same reason people outsource software development to other countries. It's a win win situation for both.

2) Consider that, my salary is x in my country and my living cost is y. And one of my colleague who lives in the bay area and works onsite has a salary of 4x with a living cost 4y. Now if I start to charge 4x, my savings would be (4x-y) when at the same time his savings would be 4x-4y. Do you think that's fare? And why on Earth people will hire a remote developer of same quality if he has to pay the same to get a onsite developer in the same time zone?

Footnote: I'm not even nearly sure why you're trying to convince me that they are exploiting me! They takes the hassle to hire great developers and manage great clients with quality jobs and money which I won't be able to do on my own. I'm getting way more than my friends are making in local companies and getting the opportunity to work on great projects. I am not seeing any reason not to be delighted.
ARM did that with L1 cache in the '90s and it was terrible for targeting a VM OS to. Cache aliasing is a nightmare and a never-ending source of bugs for e.g. shared memory.
Xi is trying to save the system by eradicating corrupt parts of the bureaucracy and suppressing his enemies in the party, however, the cost of these actions are not cheap.

The bureaucracy once took the responsibility of helping finance and invest in local economy in the past decades. The anti-corruption campaign had already hurt the incentives of the cadres of various levels. Many of them are just waiting until the end of this movement, contributing negatively to the situation.
The flies add up. There's not a harassment noise floor beneath which we should ask the harassed to just shrug off harassment by their coworkers.
Sorry man, but that's not even close to what happened.
I'm not ignoring anything, you're just wildly jumping to conclusions.
Yeah, Rhabdo is really serious. A family friend of mine got it and was just going to 'wait it out" until I told him to get to the hospital immediately. Seriously people, if you do a workout and start pissing blood, get to the hospital: Rhabdomyolysis is a serious syndrome due to a direct or indirect muscle injury. It results from the death of muscle fibers and release of their contents into the bloodstream. This can lead to complications such as renal (kidney) failure. This occurs when the kidneys cannot remove waste and concentrated urine.
Absolutely true. Gym rats and Joes have been ridiculously complicating their diets over the decades to squeeze out an at-best theoretical 1% boost or something. Also being 15 helps with a natural abundance of virtually-side-effect-free ridiculous testosterone and growth hormone leveles. But hard work paired with good genes still trumps all other considerations by a wide margin.
Uh, fine? 2008 was banks and people with money sweating. I remember seeing a report that the company's 401k accounts had lost two thirds of their value. Oops. Developers are the plant matter of the business world. Developers create value if given a little bit of sunlight. 2008 was a forest fire that didn't burn down the entire forest. If you were at the right kind of company you just kept on coding. I bought some puts on Lehman Brothers but was about a month or two too early to really cash out on their collapse.
Actually my wife is from that area but sure I quoted links instead of anecdote so I'm obviously making it up. What's your data from that time period?
I am not sure about Intel's compiler, but OpenBLAS is pretty much on par with Intel MKL in most benchmarks I have seen recently, e.g. [1][2].

The thing that I like with Armadillo is that you can just pick the BLAS implementation that is the fastest on your platform and run with it, while still being high-level compared to BLAS.

[1] http://gcdart.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/fast-matrix-multiply-an...

[2] https://github.com/tmolteno/necpp/issues/18
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I think 'OK' is being used very loosely. And I believe a bad government will help lead to a bad economy (although some may debate that with a government closer to home)
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Lisps haven't been popular in the last 60 years, they won't be popular in the next 60 years.
We're always happy to change baity titles if someone suggests a better one.

The post is a bit lightweight, but that's made up for by the substantive discussion. The author clearly struck a nerve. It's ok for that to be rewarded with a top spot on HN, even if the post is promoting something.
I'm surprised that nirvana's smell like teen spirit wasn't a bigger hit. However, Nirvana was insanely big at the time, so they don't really fit the hypothesis of underground sleeper hits.

I'm sure Nirvana has many #1 hits, but why did Smell like teen spirit become the poster song for Nirvana?

The same can be said about Oasis, who at the time was insanely big and held several spots on top 10 lists for months. But maybe they were bigger in Europe than the U.S. And maybe European fans are driving the spotify listens?
Well they're definitely not going to be incorruptible if you don't pay anyone to do the research necessary to make them that way. There is a huge market for corruptible AI. The way we are doing it now is no worse than completely unregulated voting machines.

I am only suggesting that there is a different approach.
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Is there an Uncanny Valley for hardware projects?
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Poor or low population town != food desert

Also 90% of people in the US live within 15 minutes of a Walmart.

http://www.statisticbrain.com/wal-mart-company-statistics/
I can't wait to get home from work to try this, looks awesome!!

I've been looking for something that gives a modern, live-coding-ish experience similar to how you used to program in BASIC on the Commodore 64. No clutter, a fullscreen immediate editor/REPL in one window, nice big text, etc.

The closest I've found to what I'm after (until now that is) is (fluxus) (http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/). Would really really love to hear of any others.
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Rebound or no rebound, stop losses are phenomenal tools to limit the damage. Most often it would crater and annihilate, than rebound. I once got caught on the wrong side of the trade and couldn't get out. Luckily for the 'stop loss', it helped get me out of the market.

The assistant call system (described in the article) might prove to be too slow to respond to cratering black swans that could wipe out a portfolio.
Computers making moral choices? No, thank you.
You should take a look at Minetest: http://minetest.net

It's a bit less polished, but far, far better when it comes to hacking. I found it significantly easier to create a mod for Minetest than to use a mod in Minecraft. Once my kids grasped the idea that they could add whatever items and behavior they could dream up, they really took a shine to it. The Lua coding used is very approachable.
Tyler Cowen had a great post on the government's incentives in this stage of China's development, it's worth a read. [1]

> But recall that the “citizen trust contract” with policymakers is ultimately a fragile one and based on a series of quite short-term evaluations. When the tailwinds are less positive, the policymakers must take on a much shorter time horizon. They will prop up stock prices now, or try to, even if that is foolish.

…

> The same leadership structure can perform either very well or very poorly, with both the same leaders and the same citizens. And the switch can come fairly quickly, and be occasioned by events which are significant but not transformative on a world-historic or even a country-historic scale.

[1] http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/07/a-v...
The AI Risk has recently gotten quite a bit of media attention from the book _Superintelligence_. As well as some comments from notable people who read the book, like Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, and Sam Altman.

There is also a lot of recent progress in AI that's bringing attention to the issue. Computer vision most notably. It seemed a basically impossible problem with very slow progress. Then within a few years we went past human accuracy on some tasks. Very open ended tasks like identifying 1000 different objects from real world images scraped from the internet.
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The Rideye looks great. Is that based off the keychain cams widely used in R/C video? Like the 808 #16 or the Möbius?
Later in the thread he says his son is working through Algebra II, so I imagine it will be useful, but not quite in the way you've described.
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