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60km long sender antenna (or rather just its feedline) with its own powerplant, transmission speed of a few bits per minute, Earth-wide coverage - that's just the exact opposite of the everyday miniaturized low-powered short-range high-tech gadgetry... incredible stuff.
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> Funny - you could say the same about physics. For example, knowing that the coming car may kill a person causes the human behaviour to change, namely the driver will stop the car. Does that invalidate Newton's laws?

The difference is that whether a person will try to move out of the way of an oncoming car is not considered within the domain of physics (so them using their knowledge of physics to predict that a car is a danger may change their behavior, but not the accuracy of what physics predicts within its domain), but whether or not a person will try to move their money out of the path of a predicted stock market collapse is within the domain of economics.

This doesn't actually make empiricism any less applicable to economics, but it does compound problems in the empirical study of economics.
Looks like a great car but not sure it belongs to the future. I think the future is mostly in rented car services à la Uber/Lyft, most people live in big cities where the cost of owning a car is getting closer to just taking a cab, not to mention the hassle. And this will accelerate once self driving cars become more common. So yeah, buying cars especially $35k ones doesn't seem like a business I'd invest in but I may be totally wrong here. The battery part of it is great though.
This is why the largest animals in the world live in the sea: it's a better cooling system!

Also, for those interested to know more, I recommend looking up Geoffrey B. West's stuff on complexity. It mentions the same things as this article and puts them in a wider context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFVSvAr7Wc
No particular reason. But I always wanted to push messages even when I am not logged in. So from any computer I can send myself the link/text. I can push to my friends too as long as I know their Phone Name.
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I happen to know a fair bit about a particular fairly popular content site. Ads make up a minority of their overall revenue, though it's still a significant chunk. They would survive quite easily without ads.

The main advantage of ads is that they are potentially brain-dead easy to enable profitability if you have lots of traffic. But even then that's not necessarily an objectively good thing.

Also, I wouldn't say that "people want to leach ... with out paying" is accurate whatsoever. Between merch, events, crowd funding, and patronage (patreon et al) there is a massive and rapidly growing amount of money that has been going to content creators direct from content consumers. It's easier than it's been in a long time, perhaps ever, for a creator to support themselves, aside from ads, and it's only getting easier.
I worked with RS232 earlier this year, and I hope to return to it in some capacity. Sometimes, the old stuff isn't even all that bad.
Happy to see such uptake in TS, and it's great that big frameworks such as Dojo 2.0 and Angular 2.0 are adopting it, but I can't help but feel a bit weird and slightly disappointed that JSX found its way in.

Anyways, great work by the TypeScript team as always! Looking forward to putting 1.6 to work.
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This: http://jonathandub.in/cognizance/ will always be easier to do in the relatively constrained environment of the web.
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Rocket Fuel is opening a new Center of Excellence in Pittsburgh, PA. We have really challenging problems to tackle at petabyte scale. I'm the site leader and ramping up recruiting. We haven't selected office space yet, but are looking in the hot CMU - Bakery Square tech corridor. I personally just moved from San Francisco to Pittsburgh and love it so far. It's a vibrant city, with an up and coming tech scene and a great quality of life (not to mention lower cost of living). This is a great opportunity to help build out our brand new office.

We are looking for a variety of positions:

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Only the first one has a posting on our site (http://rocketfuel.com/careers?jvi=ojXb1fwc), but it has a good overview of the company and type of work we do.

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London City is probably smaller.
Mention must be made of the nemesis: Anti-Adblock Killer[0], which can be enabled with just one check in uBlock Origin's preferences

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"Listen To Elon Musk’s Awkward Silence After A Question About Tesla’s Self-Driving Fleet"

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/06/listen-to-elon-musks-awkwar...

TL;DR Based on Elon's response, they're considering released an Uber competitor with their own self-driving electric cars.

EDIT: Uber has an app and drivers. Tesla is going to have enough manufacturing capacity to build 100K cars/year. Numbers I've found indicate that 90-95% of the time, cars are in a garage or parked. That's a lot of idle capacity society doesn't need out there.

What does that mean? Tesla doesn't need to churn out enough cars to replace existing cars being sold; they just need enough that can replace current miles traveled by people.
Why don't you find a financial advisor and ask them.
you mean the RDS and VPS from AWS? yes, this is one of the options, I was just curious about how those DO/Linode users host their database
Ah, but assume you are an Uber/Lyft driver/owner ('owner' if the car is autonomous), who drives 6+ hours a day. Now assume oil prices don't stay where they are right now and taxes for oil start going up as alternatives become viable. Then, wouldn't it make a lot of sense to drive a $35k electric car that will cost you less over 3-4 years of ownership than a $20k hybrid car or even a $12k gas car?
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The first thing that comes to mind are help tooltips (a.k.a. balloons). There are a few third-party libraries, but none of them that I'm aware of get it quite right (especially for tooltips on menu items).

There are couple of other common widgets as well, but I'm having trouble thinking of them at the moment.

At any rate, there aren't too many (and ttk helps immensely in this regard), but it's something you miss coming from Qt.

On the other hand, being able to put a minimal, but very usable gui together with just a few lines of code is a real strength of Tcl/Tk. (Though I usually use Python+Tkinter as I tend to write scientific applications.) There's a lot to be said for the right level simplicity vs batteries-included.
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How does that equate to ad auction abuse?
I never said it was a good idea it just seems fair to be able to choose not "waste" bandwidth. Although the argument that hosting is becoming so cheap it doesn't matters could be made.

The biggest issue with being able to detect ad blockers is that you could do something nefarious, so I understand why the blockers don't want to be detected. I could just imagine my someone going to an innocent site with an adblocker enable and getting goatse'd for example.
Racer is great at synchronizing objects, and more flexible than Derby. One key difference between Racer and Telepat is that the Racer client needs to run within a JS container, while Telepat offloads native functionality to native clients. I'd say we're more mobile and user-access oriented than Racer, basically, but we're more architecturally apart as well.
If you are very paranoid about people seeing content but not ads then just render the content and the ad into the same pre-baked image. You don't even need to bake all the content with the ads, just enough to make the content useless without the ad+content bits.

It will be bad for bandwidth, bad for readability, bad for layout. But it'll likely make no one see content without ads.
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Will there be an API for this for digital-only, high resolution pics?

Some feedback too:

1) when submitting it was a bit weird that I have to upload pics in order vs explicitly 'this is my pic', 'this is my art pic'

2) a lot of people won't have a catalog of digital art to upload as their reference pic, some samples to select from would be nice

3) after uploading my source + reference pics and clicking 'submit artwork' it takes me to a login/signup page for AMANUFACTORY.COM. That button really stands out as what-you-should-do to finish the process!

4) would be nice if instead of selecting one painting it generated lots of different styles
I like what OkCupid does. If you have an ad blocker enabled, they explain in the space where an ad would normally be that while OkCupid is free, it runs on ad revenue, with a link to their donation page.
Thanks, I appreciate the perspective! I definitely agree with the real killer being thinking about working while not working. The concept is simple like you said, but actually sticking to it...quite hard. Also, keeping one day a week for yourself seems like a good place to start as well.
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Roof load is a question we get a lot, and it turns out not to be a dealbreaker if you can distribute weight on the building's columns effectively. Our next greenhouse will be ~ 110 lbs/s.f., which is heavy but nothing a little dunnage can't deal with. On a side note, a research team at Columbia conducted this awesome study showing there's over 5,000 acres of rooftop space feasible for urban farming in NYC (also recommended for any ArcGIS fans): http://urbandesignlab.columbia.edu/files/2015/04/4_urban_agr...

Regarding grains and legumes, you're right and I wouldn't recommend rooftop aquaponics for it - you simply need too much land. I do believe however that urban aquaponics can play a bigger role in supporting a growing, global middle class, which is consuming more vegetables and protein and is especially sensitive to food safety in some regions.
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Let's call it X, shall we?
Microsoft's Software is to generic.

Does that include the MIT licenced software made by MS too, the Apache licensed?

Like the extremist they are GNU are using absolutes.
This reminds me a lot of the works of David Macaulay, the art style and writing style are very similar. He wrote some great books, amazing for curious kids.
Someone with a very similar profile asked a very similar question 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9117728

Maybe someone should start a business aimed at actors starting SaaS companies.
Given the high cost of every pound when launching things into space this seems at first glance to be a pretty lousy idea. It seems to me solving this problem through diplomatic channels would be a much better plan given the fairly low probability of this event.
Depends on your definition of huge. On my computer, vim takes about a second to load a 100MB text file, 1.4 million lines - not as fast as less (although less's search feature is slower). Vy's slower but it appears to load the file asynchronously, so at least you can start browsing while it's doing that. But 100MB is fifty times the sibling comment's 2MB for Atom...

For the record, while Python's pure interpreter is always going to be slow at this type of thing, JS's overhead factor compared to C is small enough that it's certainly possible to write an editor in it that feels just as fast as vim - maybe faster in some cases, e.g. since JavaScript engines JIT compile regexes and C regex libraries generally don't, or by making relatively slow operations asynchronous/multithreaded (while vim is highly synchronous). Atom seems to be just badly designed.
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I love Pocket. I'm a paying customer. But… I'm also super annoyed by its bugs and will be happy to switch to a payed alternative, that:

1. has a decent HTML parser that doesn't omit images from articles all the bloody time

2. implements a proper state restoration mechanism for its iOS app. It's exhausting having to scroll through my entire article list trying to find the one I was reading (and then finding the original position) every time I switch to Safari to look something up and then back

3. has a highlights & notes feature as a bonus

Please?
Neat, but it would be nice if it could zoom out a little more or adjust to the browser window size. I have 2560x1600 display split into four equally sized panes, and it's difficult to use and view in a single pane.
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Apple page here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/malware-apple.html
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Another thing to consider is that the problem might not be you, it might be that the situation sucks.
Don't do it! Shady recruiters ask this so they can edit your resume without telling you. Only send PDFs to recruiters, the shady ones won't bother with those.
The web is, by and large, a distracting, surveilling mess with ads. At least ads in the real world are just distracting (the surveillance comes from elsewhere). So no, I'll keep my ad blocker thanks.
I work at Instapaper, which competes with Pocket. We have #2 and #3, #1 is a difficult problem and we face the same challenges as Pocket and others.
> "Looks like a great car"

You've seen the Model 3?
Anyone remember the program that would let you input an mp3 and it would flash your CRT a certain way that you could pick up the song on an AM radio close by? I believe it was called tempest like the codename.
Can we start getting a label/tag for sites that hijack scrolling? The way we label pdfs and articles from previous years?
I found that financial advisors help you ask yourself questions - they don't give answers. It's almost like psychotherapy.

"Do you think Social Security will exist? We can model your retirement both ways..."

"How much risk do you want to take?"

"How much do you think you'll want to spend in retirement?"

"How much do you want to help your kids go to college, and how much do you think that will cost?"

Yeah, great, thanks for costing me money and just asking me fairly obvious questions - that are almost impossible to answer.
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This just came to mind when you mentioned "ad tax".

Google Adsense recommends you stuff as many ads on to your page as possible. They even alert tell you when you are missing out on revenue by not including the maximum number of ad units.

At the same time Google Search announces a penalty for overly ad heavy sites.

Ultimately, I believe most of Google's "search penalties" actually serve the purpose of driving any site that makes money to paid search. They disguise them as "UX enhancements" but they really just want you to pay for traffic. They are even trying to compete with Amazon in the Google Shopping product.
You seem like a great candidate for a coding bootcamp.

Take a look at Dev Bootcamp or Hack Reactor.
Your money, properly invested, should grow, even if you invest conservatively.

So you don't need to draw down your principal to pay your living costs.

Let's say you spend $100K per year, and you can earn 10 percent per year, then you need $1 million.

But you don't even need that much, because there's no reason to die with $1 million in the bank.

So it's probably some kind of calculus problem, an integral or a derivative, or something.

And maybe you can do better than 10 percent! ;-)
Yeah, I am not sure how multiple queries will co-exist in this strategy. Especially, if you have two queries which are not commutative (say, one which increments a column and the other one which replaces the column with its square root).

Also, how does this work in the presence of replicas? Does every replica go through the strategy? What if one or more replicas go down during a transaction?
most people live in big cities

Do you mean the U.S or the whole world. Either ways, cars are embraced a lot in the U.S (and the rest of the world too) to make sense of what you are saving.

Global car sales are expected to grow 2.5% world-wide this year: http://www.statista.com/statistics/200002/international-car-...
This is the post hoc fallacy though isn't it? It also neglects the many ways that advertising on the internet caused a LOT of serious problems, especially in the early days around the first dot-com bust.

For some reason you seem to fall into the trap of thinking that ads vs "begging" are the only options, though that's not going to be true, isn't true now, and hasn't been true for literally decades. There are tons of ways to make money with a non-paywalled content site on the internet, as witnessed by... the many ways that people have been making money on such things for going on two decades.
Found it: http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
Think about the products you see announced on this very site. Most of those people are writing helpful blog posts and using them to promote an ebook or some type of product. Technically those posts are advertisements or marketing materials. How would you ban those? Would you even want to ban those if they are actually useful to people?

HN itself is one big advertising platform to promote Y Combinator Startups.
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Actually, now that I read that original comment from 6 months ago, I believe you may be the same person. Both posts use the word disinterest(ed) in a way that used to be considered incorrect. Disinterested ~= unbiased. Uninterested = 'not interested'.
Why would you go to a tech conference?

If that fits your travel dates: The Oktoberfest in Munich is Sept/15th - Oct/4th this year (despite the name it always ends beginning of October).
- I would move to absolutely close to work as possible, even if that means renting a closet from someone on craigslist.

- Consider the day job a sidejob (but of course, be professional). Always look for a better gig.

- Be frank, say you need a vacation right now/nearly immediately because you're unable to keep working at this pace. If they make up flimsy excuses, stay firm and say something like "I feel like I'm not performing at my top level because I'm headed in the direction of burning out. I would like you to help me be recharge my productivity and engagement by finding a way to get some time off very soon because this will save you from having to fire me and hire somebody else and me from having to quit because I really want your help to allow me to get back to firing on all cylinders so we can get X done."

- Build a paper clock

- Visit a massage/sauna/spa place

- Do some random hobby meetups or local community center activities

- Volunteer at church/nonprofit to help the needy

- Donate blood
Personally, I think you should try to have a lot of fun. Do your dates coincide with Oktoberfest?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest
> it's a better cooling system!

Anti-gravity support system too.
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You are thinking like someone who lives in a major metro.

Sure, for SF/LA/NYC/Chicago/DC this will happen. However, pretty much anywhere that doesn't charge you for parking you are simply not accurately portraying the costs.

If I need to drive 6-7 hours a week, a rented car service is not going to be cost effective outside of a handful of metros. I've run the numbers for my life and Uber/Lyft is the TCO for my car in 6 months.
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I thought this article was interesting:

http://awealthofcommonsense.com/worlds-worst-market-timer/
I've never said anything about anyone being racist, so forget the playing the victim card a la "bunch of racist pigs."

Being afraid of outsiders is pretty much the definition of "xenophobia," so yes, you are seemingly a xenophobe. [1] And, self-describedly, an Islamophobe. ("So, you really shouldn't have to ask why are we afraid of letting them in in such big numbers")

I've never claimed perfect integration, I'm claiming that I don't think that letting Muslims into Western countries is going to cause the social fabric to crumble as you seem to think. I would hope that both sides could be a little more accommodating: Western countries allowing disadvantaged refugees safe harbor, and Muslim immigrant communities willing to adapt somewhat to Western standards. There is actual research done on integration in these communities, above and beyond this single poll that you've been hanging on to. [2] Despite what you insist on believing, immigrants do actually adapt to their environments.

Lastly, you seem to want to paint the issue as cut and dry: put special restrictions on entry for Muslims, and social conflict won't arise between people who have differing values. That doesn't solve any issues! What do you do about disaffected Muslim communities already in Western countries? What is the best way to ensure a harmonious society? I think the answer lies somewhere between your claims of "don't let them in" and "let them all in and Sharia law will come to the West." Instead of castigating existing Islamic communities and placing restrictions on them, why not give them a fair shake and see what happens? A "fair shake" meaning one that doesn't single them out for their religious beliefs. (Hey, isn't that one of those "social freedom values" you were talking about?)

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xenophobia

[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012....
"Pre-orders". This isn't a Kickstarter. Why should customers finance a billion-dollar business? Tesla can borrow at better rates than individuals.
Great work - looks really cool, esp for ppl using the Node stack. Really excited by the progress in the space, with products like this, JAWS (https://github.com/jaws-stack/JAWS), hook.io and more.

At StackHut (www.stackhut.com) we're working on something similar, a micro-services based system that's provides a scalable, typed, JSON interface into JS/Python classes wrapped up in containers.

Can't wait to see where this microservices-based path ends up...
Go to an ad company and see how many people are running an ad blocker. It was essentially 100% when I was working for one. The exception was a guy doing testing on the live web.

It's not really a contradiction. You're just like a drug dealer who knows better than using the product yourself.
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