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The past month I realized (wish it was earlier), the arbitrage that existed between the same book between Amazon USA (I am a Amazon prime member) and India - India is cheaper but ~60%. Once I realised it I have ordered one book a day :)

Having said that Amazon India, charged me twice for an Iphone ordered and I just happen to catch it. I chalk this up to process tightening and not malice.
Nope. Self driving cars are gonna be a huge problem. I don't think many people realize that nearly 9% of the US Employed workforce has no skill other then driving a vehicle.
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reading w/o subvocalization as a goal seems really weird to me!

i feel like for stuff like novels the vocalization & imagined richness of the world is kind of part of the point, and for technical material, grasping the ideas is by far going to be the limiting factor. (e.g., easy to spend an hour on 1 page of a math text.)
I think you're looking through the wrong end of the telescope, here.

We currently have ~50 servers in 8 cities, across Linode, Digital Ocean, and Vultr. It took me two weeks to craft a ~400 line script that abstracted the server creation APIs for each. Once spun up, they're each bootstrapped with a script that builds each server from scratch identically regardless of the provider (with a couple one-offs for Vultr), because they're all running the same distro.

A whole data center can go down, and there's no reason for me to get out of bed.
Fusion was invented by the sun (at least in this solar system -- there are theories that it was independently invented elsewhere too)!
I mostly agree with you.

However part of it's effort is directed into producing tutorials/book material for the educational etc use.

It's obviously up to 100% to them how and where are they going.

From the educational perspective it's _imo_ something worth considering at some point. E.g. combining this collective know-how into some sort of book. I know I would buy it.
Feedback: this is Not good. I'm pro choice and don't believe we need stronger gun control... Which candidate you say I should vote for depends on the order the questions are asked but it currently is.

Your data seems off as well as trump has (historically at least) been ambivalent about abortion and sanders has been ambivalent about gun control.
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Not bad, especically for the EE, Physics people. But most of these abstractions are pretty intuitively modelable in ones head. There are better Fourier transform visual models, which I'd argue is in the top five of least intuitive concepts one would encounter in the standard courses up to 200 level. I can imagine this being helpful for kids taking AP classes, but there's a real dearth of resources for visualizing higher-level course material. Like, amplitude, phase, the standard electrical engineering constructs made with passives (RLC, RC tau, cap charge and discharge), heat distribution, these are all fairly intuitive, no? All resources are considered a net positive in my book, but there are better resources out there, e.g., I think BetterExplained has a way better intuitive way of approaching linear algebra that even "non-math people" can 'get'.
> Imagine an alien race with the cognitive faculties to reason about individual electron trajectories. Would those aliens fall back to the same abstraction?

How am I to answer that if the assumption there are individual electrons is wrong?
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Yes. It is.
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It's a career devoted to helping a very large enterprise with diverse interests comply with a very complicated, fact-intensive, and generally multinational set of regulations in the same manner as every tax professional since Learned Hand: diligently paying the lowest amount consistent with the law.

Substantially every business owner you know -- the ones with top line revenues of $100k, $1 million, $10 million, and $100 million -- employ 0.05 to 100+ full-time accountant equivalents for the same purpose.

I am on uncomfortably good terms with my friendly local tax office and they're all but begging me "Mr. McKenzie, it will be easier for all of us if you just get a pro to do it for you this time." (Tax agencies essentially delegate surveillance duties to CPAs; a Japanese CPA signing off on my return means the Meguro tax office doesn't have to trouble their heads about how Japanese tax law interacts with an American LLC owned by a Japan-resident American covered by a really complicated treaty.)
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It probably does; you really should work on that. (I say that as a fellow introvert.) Eye contact is one of those things where moderation is definitely key; too little and people think you're shifty or withdrawn, too much and they think you're a psychopath or something. A good amount shows confidence, but too much is intimidating. The way you act is going to severely limit your ability to socialize and get good employment, a girlfriend, etc.

As for animals and babies, that makes perfect sense too: those things aren't usually a threat to you in any way, either physically or socially, except maybe for large and aggressive dogs in which case strong eye contact is useful because it shows the dog that you're the "alpha dog".
Didn't they launch this last year?

http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/cloud-storage/amazon-pr...
The problem with amazon cloud drive is that they dont offer a synt client like the rest.

So no desktop sync, only manual uploads and downloads.
I find this ironic because about 2 years ago I had a couple VMs with them that suffered CHRONIC DDoS attacks, all the time. I had to move my clients to a whole other platform. Linode, on the other hand, simply blamed us for supposedly causing the repeat DDoS attacks - one after another for months on end. They even got rather flippant with me exclaiming how "dumb" I was to not understand that is was MY problem apparently, not theirs, even though the target of the DDoS was several addresses in their IP block and not tied to a single client domain, server or anything else. They continued to blame us personally, and even tried to get us to foot the $3,000+ traffic bill.

Well, the tables have turned. Looks like it IS a Linode problem after all. And not a one-time issue, either. This has been happening to them for YEARS.
Admittedly, many of the things on this list are pretty egregiously sexist or classist, or the like, but anything that advises, "Measure yourself only against your previous self," kind of axiomatically can't be "disgusting".
So is the US, France, Spain, Austria, Portugal, Greece, Italy and Eastern Europe are more corrupt than the US.

As for the Nordic states I haven't argued that they are not, I would say that they are potentially corrupt in other means as nepotism plays more than money but again it doesn't matter.

The US is still one of the least corrupt nations on the planet.
Maybe this could be an alternative to Flickr for me. Unfortunately there is no Linux client, I hope there is an API.
I wasn't saying game developers never use GC's, I was saying they don't want the platform to make that decision for them. I'm not against GC at a language level, but I am against it in something that's supposed to be "assembly". It's just the wrong layer to place a GC in.

Anyway people are getting caught up in games, I'm just using that as one example of many where a GC may not be wanted.
What a pity
This got rate limited by github's API...
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The second link to the docs really degrades poorly on mobile. Almost impossible to read.
I used the haxor python wrapper for the API https://github.com/avinassh/haxor. It was nice and easy to use :).
It seems to me like 2FA would've certainly affected the outcome in this particular case, and probably many other scenarios.
Electronic items are India's third largest import (after crude oil and gold). The duties are generally around 30%, and generally electronic products, like smartphones, tablets, computers and others, do cost a lot more in India when compared to the U.S. There are some exceptions, like hard drives, that cost almost the same. Maybe it's also a matter of how the manufacturers price things in different markets.
That’s a great point. Still leaves you open for a lot of abuse though.
Thanks for doing the math. We can nit-pick over assumptions but that puts it into better perspective. Perhaps the N in "Top-N" needs to be greater, but then you're no longer "focusing" on a particular income level as I initially argued for.
it's an amazing tool, used by many many companies. the author is actually working on spinning it into a standalone company (with no connection to EverythingMe)
>does your average Joe even care when you get 15GB for free from Google?

Not sure what you mean there, but for me, 15G is plenty (but then, it's mostly just going to email storage).
im sure there's a big market for ppl who want to get over someone.

maybe the solution is to get someone new..or maybe we need an app to tell us that, and marketed towards ppl who broke up recently
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I meant the repeal of it.
It's probably far too late in the game. If it has Croma (the electronic store arm of Tata) like prices, which are comparatively higher than other stores, then there's absolutely no hope at all.
Favorite advice: "Find a Times New Roman in the streets and a Wingdings in the sheets. She exists."
I guess nobody paid attention last time. It's a classic trick to launch over and over again until someone cares to give two cents.
I recently got started working with Rust and even though I have pretty decent programming experience in statically typed languages Rust has been quite a challenge. The borrow checker learning curve is very high. Even if you understand the basics you won't always know what macros and functions will be moving things until you run into an error. Lifetime management also requires a bit of time to grok. Some things that are simple in almost any other language can be frustrating in Rust, like someone wrote a book for how to write a linked list in Rust.[0]

My advice is that when you're getting started with Rust, compile often. Don't write a tome of code only to find out later it has no chance of compiling. It gets easier the more you do it, so don't give up, but move in small steps.

[0] http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/
I was going to say... we were launching it just after I left the team last year!
> scrap representative democracy

What would you like to see it replaced with?
I wouldn't want 'experts' in psychology, sociology, criminology, or other -ology to be deciding anything for me.
That's what I was thinking, too. If someone wants to apply this test on their own, they have to choose the partner. So in my opinion, they're already half-way there since there is some sort of attraction.
Slightly off topic: Zakir Hussain is a household name in India, especially back in the 80s/90s, due to very popular TV commercial of a tea brand[1][2] :)

[1] http://www.tajmahaltea.com/taj-story/our-history.aspx

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vV92WYS2Mk
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Crazy idea: Supercharge math literacy by migrating civilization to binary?
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Your question was anwsered.
We originally thought of the good cop bad cop scenario as well, but in reality it didn't pan out like that .

Once the salesperson saw that one of us wanted the car they were more hesitant to negotiate because in the end they knew one of us wanted the vehicle. Since we were in a relationship they new that carried some weight.

In addition we also discovered that many dealers were less willing to negotiate with a female than a male as they assumed the female would be a more impulsive buyer.

No matter how wrong they were to assume that they still believed and negotiated with that mentality.

Hence what we concluded our best method to purchase a car was:

1. Select the car ahead that we BOTH wanted or my WIFE wanted: via online methods or car shopping late night when nobody is at the dealer.

2. Goto to the dealer by myself and negotiate directly with them without my wife being present. Hence they knew if I walked away there was nobody else there to talk me back into buying the car. Hence they took me more serious.
What exactly is to stop them from learning a new trade?
I'm changing jobs and finally getting to switch to postgres for my day job from mssql for years and years - things like array_agg, jsonb and range types have me salivating.
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Is it not prime you are thinking about?

I am pretty sure cloud drive is available outside the US.
Probably doing something that violates TOS or something borderline illegal. I see cases like his all the time on various forums and they seems to be missing some important details...
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That's one I could easily have included but didn't think to add. That is one that should be clear, but sometimes is violated. I'd encourage people who don't want to be contacted to display that prominently - if you list that directive as the last line of your profile, don't expect readers to get that far.
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No-one cares if you are offended, so stop it.
"Pretty women who are unaccompanied want you to talk to them."

Or, you know, you could treat pretty women as human beings with their own ideas about whom they want to talk to. But that's so much harder!
Representative democracy is terrible. Italy's current prime minister was elected directly by the people only as mayor of Florence. From there he went on being nominated and elected by various representatives.

The problem is that representation in politics is not transitive. B might represent A and C might represent B, but this does not mean that C represents A.
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> Presumptions: at this point I'm presuming that the reader has a basic knowledge of Bitcoin and the concepts in the Blockchain technology.

At this point I presumed that the author had a basic knowledge of Bitcoin, but we all know what happens when you presume.
I think some (most?) of these mathlets are used in conjunction with MIT courses [0], for example it's used in [1] with an assignment so that it develops the intuition of the student solving that assignment.

[0] http://mathlets.org/courses/

[1] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01sc-single-variab...
I keep trying to repeat that the monetary economics of MMT are not that objectionable, but that the MMT banner encompasses a host of other unrelated conclusions that must be examined separately, and moreover that MMTers do not take public choice seriously. This isn't some shit-flinging that you can address in a blog post. You seem to be completely unable to differentiate across several taxonomies.

(FWIW, I do intend on eventually writing a criticism of Post-Keynesianism in book form, but I'm still in earlier research phases.)
I've spent more than that amount of time casually trying to make sense of monetary policy, simply out of interest.

I do not feel competent to take part in a decision about the reserve requirement.

I guess you could set up a system where you delegate your vote to a third party on an issue-by-issue basis. An interesting thought experiment, but quite a few things to work out. My guess is, at the end, it would be similar to the system we have.
There's always more than one way to skin a cat in these things, we're talking about choices much deeper than where one puts their curly braces. For projects I work on I can guess with a high degree of certainty who wrote what just based on general patterns, naming conventions, phrasing in comments, etc. Most of these could be called "plain and unsurprising and reproducible" but people tend to leave little fingerprints here and there.
I use it for basic stuff, mainly for testing node apps, no high throughput. It's got a nice, simple management console. I don't like the fact that apt-get operations to set up your VM can blow your monthly quota pretty fast if you're not careful, but other than that, it's been fine. Periodically, they double everyone's bandwidth and storage for free; it's something to look forward to in another year or two... I hope.... if these DDOS idiots don't ruin it for everyone.
Nothing except time and money, but that's a lot of people. Even occurring over a decade or more it's going to cause the wages of a lot of those trades to plummet.
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I don't think that's true. Depending on the air/gas mix at the point of the proposed ignition it might require a very deliberate and difficult effort to light it.
I saw him in Boulder recently, playing with a Celtic band. Very impressive. There was an interview of him recently on NPR: http://www.npr.org/2015/01/08/375637915/the-tabla-master-who...
Some are, some aren't. Some I tend to agree with:

"There’s always another level. Just be content knowing that you are still better off than most who have ever lived."

"It’s ok to trade the possibility of your 80s and 90s for more guaranteed fun in your 20s and 30s."

"Measure yourself only against your previous self."

"Staying angry is a waste of energy."

"If she expects the person you are 20% of the time, 100% of the time, then she doesn’t want you."

That said, many are, to me anyway, superficial or pointless. A few I find borderline offensive.
While I think the amount of government waste is vastly overstated, I do understand what you're saying. But I was specifically addressing people who take so much income that they bother with these complicated tax-avoidance schemes. At that level of wealth, the difference between $40MM and $49.5MM of income is not appreciable. I was just griping that it'd be nice if they didn't try so hard to keep every cent of their massive income, so we could simplify the tax code and possibly improve our public services given the increased revenue.

(To be ultra-clear, I know this is in the realm of fantasy-land and I understand why.)
My previous employer wasn't profitable for a day in its 10-year life, until it finally decided this past spring that further business wasn't worthwhile.

A nontrivial part of the money coming in came from investment capital; the remainder came from enterprise sales. In neither case did the decision to give us money have a basis of a rigorous technical analysis of our engineering output, and especially for the VCs it was based on a perception that we were a good investment.

What fuels that perception? Get some founders from famous schools. File some patents because patents look good, not because you particularly need to protect these inventions. Engage in thought leadership. Land a customer because you care about their name more than about how much they'll pay you. Convince some Gartner analyst who'll never use your product that you're innovative. Bring in a management team with connections. Design products for what journalists want more than what end users want. Hire some kids from famous schools.

(I should note that I believe my previous employer was nonetheless steadily solving actual problems, that they were paying me to solve actual problems, and that they were well-managed. But in order to keep doing that they had to make it to profitability, and the path there involved the above pressures.)

Business people don't care about privilege directly, but if these pressures are around -- which they are in practice -- privilege ends up being correlated with having positive leverage on profits.
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Another vote for Racket. I used it in an after school program [0] I once taught and it was quite easy for the kids to pick up.

[0] http://bootstrapworld.org
You're right, the LA Weekly article is superior. Its author has been reporting around LA for a long time.

Porter Ranch is an interesting place for this to happen. It is a cluster of gated communities with $1M+ homes. People generally move there to be left alone, and watch their property values increase -- this gas leak is deflating both of those dreams.
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I'm not advocating anything personally, I'm saying the GP's proposal might as well go further into decentralized direct democracy, which is clearly the intention.
Seriously, how is this even relevant to hacker news? It fosters no discussion, and is full of horrific sexist advice.
> It's effectively impossible to make the top few hundred taxpayers pay an effective rate much higher than 15%.

This is a problem that could be solved with sufficient political will. But, since our politicians are owned by these top few, and the government provides the framework under which these top few stay at the top, there is effectively zero chance that this political will could ever materialize.
>you have to be 100% totally damn sure that there is a problem in a first place and that you're not inventing it

Sounds a lot like a 'no true Scotsman' fallacy.

Everything from apartments to restaurants to taxi and semi drivers have ratings or a feedback system and it hasn't brought any of those systems to a grinding halt.
If she's as successful as the article implies, the cost of rent probably isn't that big a deal to her. It's more important that she be in a place where she can forge local connections, especially with places to do manufacturing. That's why SanFran is a good choice: there's lots of tech manufacturing there. NYC, not so much.

NYC keeps trying to push its "Silicon Alley" and various tech stuff, but it seems to fall flat. It's a shame too because there's tons of old factories and stuff there that aren't really being used well, and could be converted to low/mid-volume flexible manufacturing using modern automated equipment. I imagine there's a few factors working against this: 1) the very high rent costs make it hard to attract new people to the area (unlike the Bay Area where the tech people and tech companies are already there, and have been for decades), 2) the public transit isn't that great unless you're in or close to Manhattan (a lot of those old factories and such are in other boroughs or on the NJ side; anything in a decent place in Manhattan has likely already been renovated and converted into something else by now), and 3) the taxes and regulation probably stifle things too much (Silicon Valley certainly has its taxes and regulation too, but the local government has decades of experience in taxing and regulating in a way that mostly supports the tech economy and not driving it out). In a nutshell, inertia is a very, very hard thing to overcome.
Yea, throw money at Netcraft and you can be batman of the internet. The numbers being provided to the public are not accurate in any way.
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Yes, that's called bourgeois propaganda.
Should the title be changed as well? The current title "Naukratis: ancient Egypt’s version of Hong Kong, now underwater" implies that something just happened to cause Naukratis to be "now underwater".

The article title "Naukratis: ancient Egypt’s version of Hong Kong unearthed by British team" seems like a much more accurate description of what is going on.
What would be an effective alternative?
Then you must lack of sense of humor and live in a bubble.

@gselevator is quite funny
Amazon's desktop app supports batch uploads and downloads, but not sync to/from Amazon Cloud Drive.

However, there are 3rd-party options for this:

• Arq: https://www.arqbackup.com/

• odrive: https://www.odrive.com/amazon

• Synology Cloud Sync: http://www.macdrifter.com/2015/06/synology-cloud-sync-adds-a...
Or how to burn a bunch of money on inconsequential vanities and bullshit.