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why isn't it viable to sell your (polished) prototypes?

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Certification with the FCC can cost around 10 to 20K. In the US, all products containing electronics that oscillate above 9 kHz must be certified.
And at this point in the app stores evolution, that ranking is worth at least 500 sales a day and that's going on older sales-to-rank data.
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There is a big difference between a Cortex-M3 and whatever is powering the Raspberry Pi. It's intended as an 8-bit microcontroller replacement. I've recently switched from TI MSP430 processors to this same Cortex-M3 from Atmel and performance has increased while per unit cost has gone down.
It is a little buried in the github wiki, but this 'Rationale' page is a good overview of the project - https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Rationale
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My newspaper ran a front page of the observation with a crude drawing for me Worse the Winston Salem North Carolina newspaper picked it up and printed,
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I took it as saying there were two types of apps - Win32 x86 apps and Metro apps, and that ARM would only run one of them.

If he'd said "ARM will not run x86 apps, so you'll need to recompile" then that would have been different, but without any kind of assurance there it sounded very much like they were ruling out running any existing apps on ARM tablets.
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Steam has massive discounts on games quite frequently, so it will often be cheaper to buy as long as it's not a super-recent release.
It's a company that pretty much owns the education market, despite their products being nearly universally considered to be harmful^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hhorrible.

For more information, see wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc

Edit: I should point out that my knowledge of blackboard is near non-existant, I haven't had to use it in any of my schooling (university in central florida, public education in silicon valley), so I don't have a useful opinion of it.
I'm working out of PSU on a humanitarian engineering and social entrepreneurship venture based in India. I have to say that Moodle is light years ahead of the competition. I'm speaking not just from a users perspective, but as a system administrator, it's an absolute dream to work with.
Which operating system would you like to run your LAMP server from? OSX? Not my first choice, but it works fantastically all the same.
This guy seems to be missing the point somewhat and dragging the argument further into the ether.
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Sure, before we raised money I was working for nothing for a bit over a year and we dropped some 20 grand on servers, equipment and conferences and whatnot.

But you can't rely on free labor past yourselves and even amongst yourselves there's a limit.
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Am I misreading this, or is what you said the opposite of true?

http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=120251473037...

(It is very likely I'm misreading it).
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My impression is that even though the article refers to gamers, these players are unlike most gamers in that they may have extensive knowledge of organic chemistry. The article may be over-simplifying the amount of expertise required to come up with the solution.
Fair question.

We had a few video stores that really specialized in the long tail. They sat right across the street from Blockbusters or Hollywood Videos. Stuck around a few decades, thrived on the indie image (sorted movies by director, that sort of thing). They made it through BB's reign, and passed away only recently.

But eh, that's my limited experience. I'd welcome more data. Call it a hunch for now, and an open question.
My school used blackboard and it was horrible. Instructure (http://www.instructure.com/) is a start-up that is competing with Blackboard. Their product, Canvas, is available as open source and their CEO, Josh Coates, was founder of Mozy (which was pretty darn successful).
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Specialization often pays well because there aren't enough skilled practitioners of the specialty.

There are two types: legacy specialties (like COBOL and C++), and cutting edge specialties (Java in 1998, Ruby in 2005, Objective-C in 2008).

Even though the cutting edge is a lot less stable, it's by far the better investment, since the technology's lifespan is longer. Plus, generally a lot more pleasant to deal with.
Something like this exists in Germany, too for parties:
www.wahl-o-mat.de

A possible solution, to the problem you describe might be Liquid Democracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy
You practically have to be clairvoyant to foresee all the possible problems.

Which is also the point of the original laws.
By their very nature, decentralized processing systems have exponential complexity, so this is very welcome to see released. But oh how I hate having to go back into Java :)
It doesn't know that you once searched for "Flight Sims" and that a couple of your emails are in Arabic.
"Few of these players had any kind of background in biochemistry."
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Agreed. Right now it is a performance arms race - IOPS trumps everything.

However, bigger and bigger enterprise vendors are doing rigorous qualification tests on SSDs for white-labeling purposes and demanding that the firmware be bulletproof. Admittedly the enterprise workload is a bit different from a laptop (servers never go to sleep) but they are the ones accumulating the most runtime given 24 hour uptimes.
It's generally easier to manage a proper resume tailored to each company with a well-structured LaTeX file than with Word. If you want to specifically draw attention to the fact, just toss \LaTeX into skills, though, honestly, most of us familiar with LaTEx can recognise a lot of distinguishing characteristics that few people bother to change.

If the person receiving the resume doesn't know what LaTeX is, they still have a relatively portable format and you expended less effort getting it to them. Win/Win.
Xinerama disables acceleration. There's been a decade of discussion on this, but no good solutions have been discovered yet. If you want accelerated multi-card X, use one screen per card; this means that you can't move windows between cards. If you want accelerated multi-monitor X on one card, use Xrandr instead of Xinerama.
Yes but, whole /systems/ aren't composable - it can't scale forever.
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I suppose that depends on your sense of urgency.
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I'm guessing this particular font is unhinted assuming Cleartype, or was hinted with Cleartype in mind.

I've no idea what is actually possible or not; that's just a guess. But that page looks awful with Cleartype switched off, and kind of OK (or maybe Cleartype fans would think it looks good?) with it switched on.
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So, slightly less time until you get fucked? Not exactly a compelling problem.
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If I can't figure out a indecipherable glyph it's usually the word they need help with and if it's not a word I usually type in "NotAWord_<random text>" for it, you only need to get the one that google knows as well right. As long as everyone doesn't type in the same thing for the indecipherable portion it won't end up in ebooks.
Why would you have to go back to Java? It looks like the only requirement here is a JVM.

At least in Rubyland, JVM dependencies have tended to be a win.
All of the official Arduino hardware designs have used an AVR to the best of my knowledge. Netduino [1] is a related project that runs a stripped down .NET framework on an ARM7 core. However, that's not what Google used. It may be the reference for Windows Phone add-ons.

[1] http://netduino.com/
Nope you don't need knowledge in organic chemistry. You basically run through a tutorial on the "rules" and then you fiddle with 3D models trying to get them as packed together as possible to achieve a % which increases your score.
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You could also put it as: if consumers demonstrate an appetite for it on iOS, then Microsoft will give it to them too.
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For now, I think microsoft is trying to one up Apple but Apple probably won't sit still and do worse soon.
thanks. given that, can anyone answer the following?

- if there's no intermediate queuing, how are "overloads" handled? what if the system can't handle a transient load? is there some kind of flow control signalling back up the path to control the rate (i assume not!)?

- what happens if a bolt accepts data then crashes before processing. is that data resent? if so, how does the system handle bolts that are not idempotent? (the problem is that if you assume that data is not handled until the handling process terminates then you may send duplicates; if you assume that data are handled if they are received then you lose data on crashes).

- how can "fields grouping" scale? surely if you add more bolts they won't receive any messages unless a new field appears.

- is there some kind of automatic restarting? how are failures handled? [ok, this is handled by supervisor nodes and is described in the link above. although it's difficult to understand how they can be stateless. what happens to the managed processes if a supervisor dies?]

thanks again! [edit: thanks for the great answers; should have guessed the consistent hashing one ;o]
It's frustrating how this blogspam post, and the news articles it references, won't just simply link to the actual game's homepage:
http://fold.it/portal/
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Adding SSD is not linear scaling. SSD has entirely different characteristics from rotational drives which in itself brings 1-3 orders of magnitude I/O performance improvement.

Trying to fit high I/O workloads on spinning disks is a lot like spending your efforts to make your program run on 64K RAM. An interesting challenge, that would surely exercise your coding skills, but would not deliver the optimal performance.
Children learn most of their behavior from their parents, 58% of poor children performing better than their parents sounds like a good number when you look at it that way.

I only said there was a 58% chance they'd rise out of poverty, by which I meant they'd rise out of the bottom quintile. I think that being born dirt poor, and moving into not dirt poor is a very good goal for the majority of people.

Also 6% of people born into poverty eventually make it to the top quintile, that's higher than I would have expected.

We shouldn't pretend that wealth doesn't give huge natural advantages, but we also shouldn't pretend that we are going to be able to eliminate those advantages without eliminating wealth.
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That looks really clean and nice. I'll definitely use this as a web template for future resumes.
They are also about transparency of the whole political process and just being an alternative to the lobby-ridden decision making. Especially the German pirate party also has a strong position on privacy. I think they are still doing a good job on those things, especially when looking at the other parties.
Couldn't they make an adapter?
It is a host it yourself website for Universities. It provides a way for teachers to provide lecture notes, give assignments, accept submissions, post grades, have a message board. All of the features are access controlled so only students in the class can see assignments, you only see your grades, etc.

Only it isn't done very well, and the company has a patent on using a website to manage a classroom or some such BS. So they sue rather than fix it.
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Actually, there are a number of online shops that you can ask to manufacture and/or sell your design, e.g. [1,2].

However, manufacturing electronics in low quantities is quite expensive. Additionally, in order to legally sell this stuff in the EU, you need to get a WEEE certificate (i.e. someone needs to take care of recycling or disposing of your product) and a CE certificate (compliance to all regulations).
And you cannot easily fix a bug in your board design or even the firmware, once the product has been shipped to the customer. You have to get it right on the first try.

I agree that it has become relatively easy to start a hardware company. However, compared to a software startup, you need to invest a lot of money upfront. And so much more can go wrong that you have little control over.

I don't know a lot about startup economics but I have closely followed the fates of a number of hardware startups. For example, the Pandora guys got screwed over by different manufacturers, costing them a lot of time, money, and goodwill. WakeMate shipped dangerously defective USB chargers they had to replace. OpenMoko just did not find enough potential buyers for their phones (and screwed up in other ways).

Hardware startups do not fail because of a lack of prototyping tools.

[1] http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/
[2] http://www.sparkfun.com/
Right — if you're that sure what the next step is, why not take it automatically, or make the entire screen clickable? I guess I miss the "point."
Wouldn't more context mean that less people trip their algorithms, since then they'll be more accurate? Of course, it could be that if 10,000 trip their algorithms they won't do anything but if only 100 do they'll investigate each of them. I think that's still a different sort of thing, though.
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That is also not a complete list.
Thank you (sincerely!) for the clarification as well as taking the time to check for a response and reply!
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Nathan Marz is a Clojurian, large chunks of Storm are written in Clojure. I think the examples are in Java just to not scare off potential users.
Right. I was thinking of this being one on the service provider's behalf, but re-reading that wasn't actually what the intent was.
> I'll bet people's streaming preferences are rather different than their DVD preferences.

I'll bet they're virtually identical. Think of all their customers that have both streaming and DVD plans. What movies are going to be on their DVD queues? The ones that aren't available for streaming. Nobody puts a movie into their DVD queue because they want to wait two days before they watch it.
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Gameification - just another example.
There are two things here: business and technology.

AT&T and Verizon are both using "700MHz" spectrum. However, Verizon is using the upper-700MHz band and AT&T is using the lower 700MHz band. It is possible (clearly) to support multiple frequency bands, but it isn't free. Plus, AT&T is shipping 700/AWS devices. While Verizon has AWS spectrum, their current crop of devices are 700-only. So, it would mean AT&T supporting three bands 700L, 700U, and AWS.

Beyond that, carriers generally don't do roaming where they have service already. AT&T already has data service everywhere Verizon has LTE. It's slower data service, but it's still service. Voice works the same way. A company might have very low signal in an area, but as long as the phone can get any signal, it will prefer its home carrier. If they had the same policy with LTE, it wouldn't help customers. Heck, Sprint users are allowed to roam onto Verizon for data, but are restricted to 1xRTT (2G) when roaming on Verizon (save for legacy Alltel areas). It might be that Verizon's data roaming rates are so high for newer technologies that it would be unreasonable to offer roaming like that.
rather than sharing, we've used customized check-ins: http://qrpon.linkstore.ru
But yes, I also think "content" should be "visible" before sharing. That is why we go to "check-ins". It is simply more honestly - "I am here", nothing more
Has a schematic or block diagram been released for the Arduino Due? I haven't found one with a quick search. I'd also be very interested to take a look at the bootloader source code if that is available.
Does anyone else see ISPs putting caps on bandwidth restrictions in the future and thus hampering Netflix (and other streaming companies) effors? I thought some residential internet plans already have caps in place.
It's this basically the Roku http://www.roku.com/ box? Netflix, Hulu, plus whatever channels you want.

Maybe just needs a little multi-channel integration.
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You'd be surprised. I work at Rackspace and when we've had issues you'll see comments or posts from our leadership (CEO, Chairman, GMs of our businesses, etc.) -- and those come directly from the person, not from them giving approval to a comment put out by PR.

It is times like this when a company needs leadership and that isn't an executive team afraid to share their vision and apologize when needed directly to customers themselves.

Could they be "using their time better"? I firmly believe, no they can't. Having real interaction with customers on their terms keeps them grounded. Many executive teams end up drinking Kool-aid(tm) by only taking customer meetings hand picked to show "how good we're doing" by their teams -- every business has at least one happy customer.
"So, again, the exploit was that a telnet session was exporting environment variables."

No, this was a feature. It had been safe in the days of static libraries, it became a problem when the LD_something family of variables was introduced. Besides, the telnet was just a single vector of introducing the LD_. Other examples concern local privilege escalation by calling suid apps:

http://xorl.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/freebsd-ld_preload-secu...

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/686403

So there definitely exists a family of exploits that rely on bypassing the usual checks on LD_PRELOAD (and other similar variables) to inject malicious lib into protected code.
This move is simply idiotic. It doesn't matter what netflix wants, it matters what the customers want. Now I have to go somewhere else to manage DVD's by mail? With a horrible name like kwikster?! Are you serious? Why do I need netflix again? They don't have the budget to get the best movies and now they are making my life harder. They are like the opposite of Apple. I didn't mind the price increase from a couple moths back at all, I know it costs money to have a good selection. But now they have basically said "Oh hey we made a really stupid decision before so we're gonna make things better by making a worse decision."

I now hate netflix, I can cancel everything and move to amazon's streaming service. I think it's hilarious that an employee of netflix on HN said that netflix excels by being very focused. That makes no sense. You can't just treat your customers like crap and expect them to love you. I shorted their stock before the 20% and I can't wait to watch it go down further.
Interesting anecdote. I would argue that your always-on machines are not similar to an average PC/laptop.

Perhaps your situation is more analogous to servers (most mid-high end servers come with redundant power supplies).
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I'm an entrepreneur and inventor. I want to make a record here that I have no fucking idea whether publishing my invention is enough to have Prior Art, or whether I need to state the use of the invention in my business case, or whether I need to file a patent.
Does Netflix operate its mail DVD service outside of the US?
I think everyone deserved a fair change. That's why I picked blindly.
I could see it being useful in a html/javascript based game or something.
Only allowing signed drivers to run in ring 0 by default makes a lot of sense though. The average user is way less likely to need ext2fsd and much more likely to install randommalwared.
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Please stop posting articles with link bait titles. Even the abstract of the original article has more information [1].

[1] http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nsmb.2...
You do not even need to go that far. What happens if another group of people become in charge of Google. The data is already with them.

No single entity should be made so powerful, the temptation to abuse it is just too high.
For anyone interested in games incentivizing people to engage in research like this, I just saw a talk this morning that mentioned PhotoCity: www.photocitygame.com. It's a game to encourage picture taking of landmarks; the researchers then collate these into a 3d model.
There have been endless articles written debating which platform is more popular with developers, Android or iOS. Some have claimed that iOS is more developer friendly, while the other side claims that Android is bound to win and so developers should focus on that. After analyzing all our data, the verdict is: Android is now more popular than iOS with developers.

It seems to me that previous Stackoverflow statistics posts have made similar errors with the way they state things that they've learned based on traffic to their site - the statement "Android is more popular than iOS with developers" should be followed by the phrase "for visiting www.stackoverflow.com".

I'm not sure how you can extrapolate something as broad as "popular" from what OS is used to visit their website. Popular in what way - what mobile OS they target when building apps? What OS they like to use on their personal devices? Etc.
That meme was featured in "The Last Starfighter" in 1984. I read the book (apparently, the movie was first).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Starfighter
i did something similar[1] as an excuse to try out nanoc[2].

[1] https://github.com/sxtxixtxcxh/resume
[2] http://nanoc.stoneship.org/
Prior to Netflix offering any streaming, there was no 28-day window. The window came out of negotiations for streaming rights. So, not only is it true, the streaming piece of the business impacted the DVD-by-mail business.
I would say that there are strong parallels between programming and math as well as programming and grammar. Programming structures and syntax are just a form of 'grammar' for different languages. Learning these skills at a young age would, in my opinion, strengthen the conceptual understanding of the material. Programming is also rhythmic and ordered, much like thought processes when tackling long or complex math problems. I would like programming to be seen as one of those basic/core curricula by the time that I have children in the school system, but I will teach him/her anyway.

I am an idealist though, and what may work for some kids would probably hinder others.
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I used to spend hours working on my resume in LaTeX, under the belief that it would buy me geek cred from employers who could recognize the typesetting. Not one person ever noticed it and the hassle from recruiters that wanted a Word doc finally motivated me to switch to Word. Sad but that's the way it goes.
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Certainly putting the swap not as a partition but as a file on the filesystem will help with TRIM and maybe even wear leveling.