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Wow...this definitely helps. I have been cold-emailing, but I am thinking I should probably pick up the phone and call some of these agencies.

Thanks a lot.
For perspective and comparison, MSFT paid a $32 billion dividend to shareholders in 2004. With their cash on hand, they could have bought 4 AAPLs. They currently pay out around $5-6 billion in dividends per year. AAPL pays out $0.

http://luhman.org/blog/2004/07/23/dividend-capture-and-micro...
What do you say to the fact that Skype just sold for $8.5 billion when it's income is only about $400 million? And there is Color that is valued at $100 million even though its product is in almost-beta? Anyone who has watched the tech. industry for the past few years could notice that the way valuation of tech. companies are going up, it is alarming and exude "exuberance".

(Figures mentioned above are from the original article).
PBS documentary on Paul Tudor Jones from 1986:

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/XH5W4vffBbY

Sorry that the first 10 seconds are shady japanese yogurt commercials, last time I looked the videos were $300 on ebay reportedly because PTJ had gone around buying up all the tapes (maybe the glasses?)
QtWebKit:
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKit

WebKitGtk:
http://live.gnome.org/WebKitGtk

I have no personal experience with either. It would be rather bleeding edge on both ends to use either of these to interface with nodejs for a desktop application. And then once you realize the complexities you might wonder why bother making it a desktop application at all.
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Anyone pondering Zed's comment on eliminating rape in prison should consider a donation to Just Detention International, formerly Stop Prisoner Rape: http://justdetention.org/

There are prisons in the United States where a significant percentage of the population are raped, and there are prisons in the United States where no inmates are raped. Prisoner sexual abuse isn't an inevitable consequence of incarceration, and we need to stop assuming it is.
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Great advice. Never thought about that.

Thanks for that tip.
The implication is absolutely that the institutions of the U.S. are not nearly as deserving of public outrage as those of NK. I simply don't understand how you could come to any other conclusion. Death camps and executions for those who speak out against leaders are aren't worse than three strikes laws? Come on.

I thoroughly agree with the first sentence of your second point. I would go further to say that, since almost all of America is wealthy and privileged (compared to the rest of the world), and add in the fact that only ~22% of our citizens have passports, most of us have no fucking clue how horrible things are in much of the world. That's why I think exposing this kind of stuff, and shaming those responsible, is worthwhile.

The gains to be had in America are, relatively, minor compared to the gains that could be achieved for hundreds of millions around the world. Look at the recent events in the middle east. How much of the was precipitated by worldwide outrage over human rights issues for the last 30 years? I don't know, but I can't imagine they didn't bolster the protestors' resolve to some degree.

That's not to say we should ignore the problems here, and obviously people aren't. There's a thousand different versions of the Innocence Project run by people trying to right the perceived wrongs in all segments of American society. But there's enough outrage to spread around. To say we don't, as individuals, have the time or energy to focus a miniscule amount of attention on the worst off of those around the world is ridiculous.
even though technical analysis may not have any merit, many people do use it in their trading decisions. thus, sometimes it is worth paying attention to.
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It seems this idea might not work with the latest edition but on the previous generation you could do the the same and then run smcfancontrol. A handy free tool that lets you set the minimum RPM of any fan in the system - works a treat. The article seems to suggest this might not work in the newer ones, alas, but I haven't got one to try it on.
That's an awful broad brush you're painting with, there. While as a man I can laugh at ads obviously targeted at the reptilian portion of my brain, that doesn't mean they're not necessarily effective. I mean, I don't buy any Axe-brand deodorant or anything, but that doesn't mean I find it easy to turn away from their commercials (I'd argue that as a 28 year-old married man I'm not their target demographic, anyway).
I think you should look at DSLs. Seriously.

You can code a domain specific options parser in scala so that your final code actually looks like this -

"@ $20 spot, price 5 calls, @ $25 strike, 59 days to expiry"

This is as simple as it can get. In fact, the senior quants literally say the above line word for word. So its practically English. Can't get any simpler than that.

Reference: http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1403
Noone will care in 1 week. Billions of ppl will continue to use Facebook, and 90% of them will not even know about this news. Nothing to see here, just tech boys making a huge commotion over very little
Heh, me too--how long did it take you to write up your post? It would've been useful, ah, 8 hours ago. :)

I've tested a revision 1 SparkFun USB Host shield and UNO/Duo with pin define fixes and a Nexus One with Android 2.3.4 and the DemoKit app.

It "works" but seems a bit flakey needing multiple resets to move from detecting to data transfer. I'm suspecting possible power related reset issues.

Unfortunately my usual laptop is in the shop so I haven't documented this as I'd normally like.

Will take a look at what you've patched but first need to get some sleep. :)

Edit: Actually, it seems much more reliable when the Arduino is connected only to a 9V battery and not USB as well.
Well, Apple probably wants to push Thunderbolt to external hub manufacturers and storage companies as the new I/O channels. In that case, Macsales.com's custom mod external e-SATA port will be an inferior solution. (10 Gbps vs 3 Gbps).

Probably in mid 2012 we will see all new Thunderbolt based external drives and hubs for storage expansion of iMacs and MacBook Pros.

But I agree, it is still a pain in ass for DIYers to replace hard drives when the disk is broken. And Apple will sell more Apple Care for iMacs and Macbook Pros.

EDIT -

It seems Macsales.com's custom iMac e-SATA is not in product page anymore. I remember they had the service before that you can send your iMac and they will drill a hole on case and put a SATA port to the unused SATA port on the motherboard.
The funny thing - you would use mesh enabled device yourself. Actually if there were such cheap devices they would find their way to North Korea somehow. I remember reading article about North Koreans living on border and using mobile phones with Chinese operators' accounts.
Artificial Intelligences warring with each other on stock markets?

Witness the birth of Skynet, it's not going to be a military machine but a predatory corporate AI. Originally designed to devour competing AIs on the capital markets only to turn on its masters when the funds run out.

Woah. Spooky. Someone tell WIlliam Gibson and Vernor Vinge. Hell, I'd write that story if I had the time!

EDIT

oh no! It's a predatory Corporate AI that has built in new monitoring functions. The news monitoring subprocess has discovered that there's a predictable correlation between WAR and stock market fluctuation.

What does it do, suddenly places a whole stack of extremem long shot PUTS and SHORTS then hacks into the military computers to instigate a war between two nations.

We've got a grizzled reporter or plucky young cop (maybe an SEC investigator?) who's doing routine investigations into this and that and uncovers a series of small time conflicts in bananna republics. (these were A/B split testing 'dry runs' the damned AI was reading the visual website optimizer's blog posts!)

Just as he (or she's) connecting the dots on the small time stuff there's a major tunabout and the AI has put a bunch of shorts ON US SOIL.... !!! (oh noes! all of america is at risk!)

Boom! Race around trying to uncover the source... but now the AI is on to him (or her) and has started hacking public records to declare him (or her) as public enemy number one.

Then ... ROBOT ATTACK!! Just as he or she is on the final sprint to disconnect the AI's network cables - military robots spring out of their boxes and start shooting. PEW PEW PEW.

ALso - after the cable gets unplugged of course we learn that it's already made it out into the CLOUD!

I love this story :) Just the right balance of total cheese and hard Sci Fi.
SMART hard drives have existed for more than 10 years, close to 15 years, and they have all had temperature measurement.

The temperatures measurement is very easy to get using SMART, there is absolutely no reason Apple needs to get the data in some proprietary method on extra wires.

hddtemp uses SMART to get the data, and it uses the regular SATA data cable to do it.
The password security checker at http://estatis.coders.fm/password-security-checker/ is also good - check the Terms and Conditions
We're currently in hiring mode and finding talent is super tough. You need people who are not only a good fit (hard enough) but are willing to leave their cush jobs, join a startup no one has heard of and believe in your vision.

Some things we've tried:

- Scouring Dribble for Designers: I built a system that allows me to search Dribble by location, then pull up all the relevant shots of people from the locations I type in. A bit of scraping work, but so much more efficient now.

- Pinging people on Forrst. I've met with a bunch of people off of Forrst. You can hack some URLs to find all people from a particular location.

- LinkedIn. I've never once used or enjoyed LinkedIn until I've had to hire people. Their search is actually pretty awesome for recruiting. Actually getting people to respond is harder.

- Emailing local universities. Finding fresh talent out of school. Sending emails to CS listservs.

Finding people is so tough. Its the hardest part of a startup I've had to do so far.

Obligatory shameless plug: Let me know if you're interested in an early employee gig in Palo Alto doing Ruby development + a bunch of awesome statistical graphing / information mining.
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Justified text always looks weird, irregular spacing, it's just wrong. I can't think of a reason to ever use it.
That depends entirely on whether you think prison is about "retribution" or about "rehabilitation". This is a very big debate in criminology, but I think rehabilitation is winning out.

Personally, I think that prisons need to be both retribution and rehabilitation at the same time, and base their mode of operation on the Military, but that's my personal opinion. Based on that I'd say the Japanese probably come the closest, with the actual Military being second. I say this not because I don't care about prisoners, but because I know first hand that the way bootcamp operates is a fast efficient way to retrain people who are unwilling to be trained. It also doesn't do this with violence (anymore) so it would be humane without being "soft".

If however you think prisons should be about rehabilitation then, I believe Denmark or Sweden have the best. They also have a highly homogeneous society with only one main race to deal with, so that's why that works for them. In other words, it's easier to retrain people to fit into society if everyone is already from that same society.

Other than that, they just suck everywhere.
Maybe projects could be classified as $2K, $5k, $10k, +?
Yes - but you could have just repeated the Fourth mistake four times. Facebook is the last organization that should be pointing out privacy issues at other companies.
Please suggest where I can find reliable facts and statistics regarding the conditions in US prisons including violence and rape. Thank you.
Umm... long term, no original content authors = no original content. No content = search volume goes down. Search volume down = holy crap for Google. I'm just saying.
I agree with the pragmatic answer while still saying that clearly user serviceability is not a priority for Apple, and that they can be criticized for that.
I have an Mbed, and it's definitely awesome, but it's only programmable in C. I'd prefer something I can program in Python or Ruby.
I was gonna say, didn't Microsoft buy into Apple in order to avoid becoming a monopoly at some point along the way?
Especially odd considering his recent posts where he contemplates whether you really need a Mac Pro given how good a iMac is. And now just a HDD upgrade requires a Mac Pro, and that is swell.
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I think it's been pretty clear for several months that Amazon is in the best position to take on the iPad with a tablet of its own. It's the only company that can rival Apple in the media distribution market, and it has tremendous momentum given the popularity of the Kindle.

I predict that we'll see a $299-399 tablet about the size of the Kindle DX along side a revamped $99 Kindle. Then it's game on.
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I had a completely different experience. Code is very readable, because it describes what it does and not how.
Hi HN,

I work at LeafLabs, we are responsible for a 72MHz, open/libre licensed, ARM microcontroller platform called Maple.

The header spacing issue on Arduino was really a gaff! We actually provide a 1/10" compatible secondary header as a rough-fix on Maple. We get tons of use out of this!

Maple line boards are based on the 32-bit ARM Cortex M3 processor core. These low power procs don't have MMUs, so unlike ARM9, there is no hard linux (there is uClinux though).

Maple originally forked the Arduino IDE, and ported most of the Arduino libraries over to ARM. Our build environment also works from the command line via make, arm-gcc, etc. Check everything codewise out at github.com/leaflabs

mBed is another great Cortex M3 platform, here are some differences between mBed and Maple:
- mBed is a bit faster at 96MHz, and uses a processor from NXP, leaflabs uses a 72MHz processor from ST (stm32 series) that can actually be overclocked to 120MHz (not recommended ;)

- the LeafLabs build environment runs on your local machine, everything is MIT/LGPL licensed, and can be used with an Arduino-like IDE. The hardware is all creative commons licensed. mBed has a great development IDE, but it is a webapp and compilation happens remotely. I dont know how much of toolchain/libs/hardware on mBed is libre or even open source.

- Maple comes in 3 form factors, Arduino compatible, bread-board sized (maple-mini), and a beefier version (Maple Native).

- mBed has a secondary microcontroller onboard to handle programming, meaning user programs have 100% control of the main MCU (no bootloader or anything else running in the background). Maple has an onboard bootloader and a USB->serial driver running in the background.

(note, mBed has a 60MHz arm 7 board available now too)
Ah, I hadn't seen that board. It looks good. No MMU, which means you have to run a bastardized version of Linux, but for $45, it's impressive.
The problem is that a lot of those people belong in prison. I mean release the pot dealer serving 25-to-life, fine...but you'll still be left with a lot of 'real' criminals out there. And sure there are a lot of unique systemic failures in America that led to this situation, but they can't all be fixed by a few shifts in gov't policy.
+1, ha ha. And I like that (sarcastic, I presume) use of "codes". Seen many people say/write that instead of "code".
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they want 95% classification done using 16KHz sampling of "passive electromagnetic emission" (i.e. basically noise).

Good luck classifying between me and Pavarotti only by listening to our breath over the phone.
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Ask HN: How do you define an early adopter? 
In Steve Blank's post http://steveblank.com/2010/03/04/perfection-by-subtraction-the-minimum-feature-set/ He talks about a minimum feature set, and validating customers based on their willingness to purchase it. Early adopters.

Do you think of an early adopter as a "novelty seeking person" or as an individual that may identify with certain new products and want to use them before they're popular?
Ever since the unibody revamp, the MacBook Pro hard drives have become incredibly easy to upgrade.

For those with a removal battery, the whole process takes no more than fifteen minutes. For those with an integrated battery, it should a little longer, around thirty minutes.
Could you provide some numbers about this claim?
As mentioned in another comment, start here: http://justdetention.org/

Then start reading literature from Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org/

Despite what people think, AI isn't about any kind of "liberal agenda", they're just about wrongful imprisonment, torture, and basic human rights.

That'll get you started in statistics, and then you can start looking for the various Dept. of Correction websites in each state to see what initiatives they have, and you might even be able to get at their stats (although usually you have to ask or FOIA to get them).
Hah, I got it working yesterday but I had other stuff to do and I wanted to patch their code to work on both 168/328p and 1280/2560 before doing a proper write up.

Can you test my patch and get back to me whether it works for you? That way I can update my post.
People here need to lighten up. It was a joke...
It's funny because it's true (in the Falso axiomatic system). It's sad because I get it.
Much more importantly the least harmful thing to come from this would be FB account deletion. Chances are for most people that FB password is used somewhere else and more harm could come from it since everything an attacker needs to know about their victim is in their FB profile. I was going to mention that in my initial comment but it seemed obvious.
How about just not interfering?

Edit: To all downvoters: Perhaps this statement is at a wrong place, but yes, these countries (in the Middle East or Africa) might be much better off if the developed countries and China would not be after their natural resources.
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I am a little confused-- why does the theme come with PHP files? Isn't it just a front-end?
The Bureau of Justice collects statistics annually thanks to the Prison Rape Elimination Act. Here's a link to a relatively recent study based off of a survey of over 80,000 inmates:

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2202
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Spoiler: It's not today.
MySQLdb also works: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/compatibility/wiki/mysql-python

I just compiled it today and it works.
eHarmony for programmers and employers, nice! :)
There is a bubble of tech bubble articles. No?

Edit: What I mean here is that we seem to like to read about "the new tech bubble". It still is largely a speculation, no matter what arguments are presented. The present time may, just may be a golden period for tech innovation, rather than a bubble.
A few points: I just replaced a HD in an iMac and saw that sensor cable. What do you think the chance is that I put it back in the right spot (on the new, different drive)?

The failure mode for a temp controlled fan should always be full on.

Macs from #1, Plus, SE all the way to the current models have been unique and required some special tools. Anyone who takes apart Mac has a full set of Torqx bits. I don't see much difference between a case splitter and a suction cup.

My guess as to the new sensor is that it is better than the ones inside the drive. Or measures what matters, like external drive temp (just guessing). Apple has had their own firmware on drives forever. This has only precluded upgrades, etc. In a few cases and usually for good reason.

So, I think this is like any advance. I hope I'm right.
I actually have this debate with myself every time I think that I am close to the point of deploying my work (heh, that's another story). But every time I do the calculation, I just don't get how AWS would be more beneficial to me vs sticking with Linode. AWS' pricing would be much more than Linode's model. So for a while, I think I am set on this resolve:

Using Linode for my app and host static files on S3 and maybe another cloud provider like Rackspace for failover in case the clouds go down.

I am hoping that I would have a luxury problem once my app is doing well. When I have that kind of traction, it's a different story. But until then, it's more logical to stick with a VPS.

By the way, are you making updates to your production site frequently? Your carousel isn't working correctly yet.

I know you use django (from another post I think). Have you thought about using social network login? I used django-allauth and it has been working very well for me. Good luck!
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I would assume since they've already logged lots of hours driving around CA that the various sensors and cameras can already detect traffic lights. On that same line of thought I'd love to know how they adjust for speed in construction zones with non standard speed limit signs, the randomness of other drivers etc.
Hi Tony,

isn't #963 more or less fixed? (It crashes the compiler, but doesn't fail at runtime anymore ...)

Could you post a new example of it if it isn't?
Audi/VW are actively investing in driverless car technology including the lab at Stanford.
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"They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."
This seems to follow the bikeshedding line of thought (i.e. the more approachable something is, the more you involve yourself)?

Since this site seems to be an international offer I see the following counter points:

* Getting $2000 per day is ridiculously high for lots of people. Just think of eastern Europe & India, to name some obvious samples

* Paying $2000 might be a lot as well: Again, thinking on an international. If you live in a "poorer" place investing $2000 to get someone to create your idea might be more close to the $500,000 for your guys (those with $2000 per day have to work 250 days to get there. $2000 can be close to a yearly income depending on your place of work).

And in the end I don't understand that people want to offer remote jobs/telecommuting, but still want to talk face to face. But I understand that this is something a quite personal decision or preference, so maybe this is just to be expected for some people/clients.
I can't help myself trying to figure out what 140K-employee company has a moviestar CEO. Nevermind.
As somebody that programmed VB for 4 years. I say move away from it if you ever ever want to work productivly. The language is shit.
You're conflating the legal system with the penal system. It's a common mistake, but the "3-strikes laws" are part of the laws and how they're enforced, which is the legal system. The penal system is about carrying out sentences and imprisonment. In some case the penal system is actually an advocate for the prisoners against the legal system. For example, prisons force law enforcement to get warrants before they'll let them listen to prisoner phone calls if they haven't been convicted yet, or sometimes just in general.

That's not to say what you mention about the legal system isn't screwed up, it's just to fix the penal system you have to focus on things the penal system can change. They can't change the 3-strikes laws, but they can change early release programs, surveillance, oversight, IT budgets, conditions, training programs, guard training, etc.