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Know any good list/reference of (potential) startup risks?
I know that every startup has its own risks (market, technology, financial, ...), but I am curious if you know any good reference of almost all potential risks, as it would be a great checklist to test/consider-against (and find missed risks) - when building a (technology) startup.
1) was my first thought since it was such a small time difference, but at C speeds the physical distance they would have to be off by is something like 20 meters. Off the shelf GPS units you can get for your car are accurate to around 3 meters, and the high end models are accurate to under 30 centimeters. It would have taken a major screw up for them to be off by 20 meters.
As a User, I absolutely want to see the value proposition for the Company. Who am I marketing to? What filter will they have? etc. I liked having it all on one page.

Somebody pushing resume's is motivated to figure out each site. Not the usual driveby broswer conversion.
Point 1 just isn't right. I have 2FA on my gmail and am reading it with the default mail client just fine. "yr doing it wrong."
I've seen some poorly implemented rules engines in my day. I've often thought there must be a programming language out there build specifically for rules and workflows, like how Erlang is designed for concurrency.

I know there is the Windows Workflow Foundation, but I want something which doesn't necessarily have to be compiled, but that I can translate user input directly into a new rule set.
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And here is an example how it actually runs. I did some renames to make more obvious what's where:

something = [ x for loop ]

Means

something = []
for loop:
something.append[ x ]

so I'll use x for the current element of the resulting list (I'll rename st to x).

Second, the 'letter' is not relevant for analysis, I'll assume a constant.

Third, there are variables 'state' and 'states' so naming again can confusingly suggest that there is some deep connection between them. I'll rename 'states' to 'moves'. So instead of:

state = [st for s in state for st in states[(s,letter)]]

I'll start from:

state = [x for s in state for x in moves[s]]

Now to show exactly what's going on, I'll rewrite it to print partial results:

state=[0,1,2]
moves=[[11,12],[21,22],[31,32]]
t = []
for s in state:
a = moves[ s ]
print "s, a:",s, a
for x in a:
print "x:", x
t.append( x )
print t
state = t

The output is:

s, a: 0 [11, 12]
x: 11
x: 12
s, a: 1 [21, 22]
x: 21
x: 22
s, a: 2 [31, 32]
x: 31
x: 32
[11, 12, 21, 22, 31, 32]
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EDIT: Please disregard the below. I was wrong as pointed out by fpgeek.

The poor performance is probably mostly due to the fact that the version of android on the fire is version 2.2.

Version 2.3 is the one that got all the performance improvements. There's a very big difference between the responsiveness of a phone on 2.2 and the same phone upgraded to 2.3.
I'm a professional web designer. I spend 95% of my working time typing in Vim and refreshing Chrome. =)

Wacom tablets are generally for illustrators, not web designers. Freehand drawings do not map well to the rectangular web.
well, i guess the best is to be insanely fast, cause the "big player" have mostly the issue that their inner bureaucracy takes time. Second is the already mentioned thing that you'll be to small to notice in first, so you can polish your service before the Battle begins. Last but not least before they try to copy you, they'll try to buy you ^^
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Are you sure Protect-IP wasnt the bill to be shot down, and SOPA is the replacement?
Are there any other similar tools like the "Brain Workshop" you mentioned?
How does this compare against RaspberryPi? I've been waiting for that for months, has this beaten it to the punch?
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It's hard to practise when I feel what takes me 8 hours could be done in 1 with better tools. Like hammering a nail with a spoon. Yes, you can say practise more, but I am using a spoon. I should be using a hammer since that is what a person skilled in hammering would use.

So, I guess the question is, what "hammers" do designers use? Frontpage? Dreamweaver?
It's odd to me that everyone is talking about the user experience for downloading files created with this. The real awesome use case with a library like this (and what I'm currently using this for in a new project) is providing a user a multi-select to upload files, and zipping then up into a single compressed file before uploading to the server.
On the offchance that it turns out to be really true, it will certainly point us in the direction of some interesting new physics, so it'll be a step in the right direction.

I'm still trying to keep my expectations down for now, though.
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Out of curiosity, is it very different from the ordinary Kindle buying experience on Android (which I find very pleasant, especially the Honeycomb iteration)?
Health care is something that has been an issue in this country for a long time - so everybody already knows a lot of the arguments, has a firmly held position, and people's positions correspond to party lines which means there's more for politicians to gain by fighting over it.

IP stuff, by contrast, isn't something that legislators have strong pre-existing opinions on and its not a partisan issue. And because it doesn't really spend any new money there it can be neatly separated from the overwhelming complexity of the US federal budget and people's intense partisan positions on things like taxation.
> You don't need hard quantitative data

If you make an absolute, quantitative statement, you kinda do. If you read what I said below, it's perfectly fine to feel that in your environment there is a shift happening, and I can't judge that. What I'm saying is that you can't extrapolate from that to everybody. And I'm also saying that my and many others opinions differ. All I'm asking for is the minimum respect to not basically call us liars or delusional by implying we just make this stuff up, or are too invested to see the truth.

In my (limited) experience, it is more the anti-crowd that is usually quite invested. Not monetary though, but emotionally invested. Some people in here find it very important that the world hates the things they hate at least as much.
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You mean something like the World Wide Web? ;-)

If you know the results and applications beforehand, it is more engineering then research.
Indeed, naming this the "strangest line of python" is a hopeless exaggeration.

For a really strange line of Python, have a look at the solutions to the pyContest 2005:

http://www.pycontest.net/ranking

(HN entry: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3251805)
Greece makes up a small percentage of the overall European economy. If it sets a bad precedent by defaulting, it will indicate a much worse scenario for the Euro when heavyweights like Italy and Spain end up in a similar position.
I'm currently using this in a site, I fan post my feature detection line for it when I get back to the office.
Thanks for pointing that out. That was clearly the only _strange_ part.
The militarization of fact-checking. I like it.

Of course, facts alone can't talk anyone out of being a nutty extremist, as anyone who has browsed reddit will attest.
Who cares is the OPs point. The general populace doesn't think or care where a server is located. The message needs to be framed in a way that mainstream people understand.
We are developing our own apps, but right now we're highlighting the best ones out there according to our own educators.
You're missing a step -

This new format produces smaller files, and is therefore faster on the internet.

You can choose a benefit that you derive from that - less bandwidth cost per user, more users per bandwidth cost, faster page load times for users.

Faster page load times for users has measurable impact on user behavior - people like faster pages better.

If you don't speed your page up, and your competitor does, all else being equal, customers will prefer your competitor.

There are costs of supporting multiple formats, but if the benefits outweigh the costs, people will put in the effort. It's not a chicken and egg problem at all.

> Very few designers will be willing to maintain two versions of all their images just because one of the formats is a bit smaller.

I disagree. I think you're seeing Mobile versions of sites, already.

Also, in stating that PNG was the last successful new format, I think you're forgetting SVG, CSS, and HTML5 Canvas, all of which can be used to produce images on browsers.

> No web designer I know of is going to muck about in the commandline with imagemagick.

Not even if there's a measurable financial impact? I think you're overstating their future unwillingness. The burden, of course, is evidence.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it is not the same hardware as the playbook. Playbook doesn't lack two cameras and a microphone and an ingenious functioning bezel.

Also if all the software quirks are true, then playbook has none of them, it being extremely responsive. I can bet you have never used a playbook.
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I think Luminosity.com offers them - also http://www.soakyourhead.com/ seems to do it as well.
Really strange lines of Python [2005]
So a guy who's anti-wiretapping and anti-snooping snuck into a building, snuck into a wire closet, installed a computer, and sucked data down onto it.

No, nothing contradictory about that. Move along.
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Untrue. That is the one point that is currently making me swing towards the iPhone.. My current point&shoot produces worse pictures than either (in fairness, it's 3 1/2 years old). Two years of better pictures is an issue to me..
I just want to note that I would answer, if the question would seem in any way sincere. But I don't think I could say anything that would bring you to consider that other people might have other opinions, and that they're not simply invalid because you don't share them.
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I thought this was for the game Prey.
"The best X's are curious and entrepreneurial."

a) well okay, sure, for large swaths of X

b) ...and so are the worst X's. And when X is "data science" we should be interested in telling those stories too

The leaked HBGary emails provide a pretty clear example of entrepreneurship destroying one particular curious mind's capacity for doing hard science. Money isn't evil, but it's a filter on perspective that in many, many people turns their capacity for skeptical research to absolute shit.
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This is what the Accept-header is for, but unfortunately browsers do not really give helpful values in this header.

I've also heard from people working with web browsers that the Accept-header wouldn't work well for the real web anyway. Sigh. :(
I would suggest a clearer example to be long division or euclid's method. Or that software is like stating the Pythagorean theorem and then proving it constructively. This way the process of what goes on when writing code is better captured in how it relates to math.
100% concur here. I have an i7 w/ 8GB RAM and the site is very jerky FF7. Everytime i switch to it's tab FF hangs for at least a few seconds. The design is also very bus, way too much going on.

That said, if the content is good enough, i can deal with that. Maybe I'll just block JS for this site since i suspect that's the primary issue here.
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My only explanation is differing versions of software. I entered and re-entered both passwords to no avail, and for the app-specific password I did so with and without spaces (which they say doesn't matter). I'm quite sure I did it correctly, and that it didn't work.
To be fair, there's a big difference in constraint between $200 and $25...
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Considering RaspberryPi is building this for $25, for these guys' sake it better not cost $350!!!
Explanation for one of the strangest lines of Python
Thank you for suggesting those two reddits, I've heard quite some success stories particularly from /r/loseit. Gonna give it a try.
> Make a constitutional amendment saying no bill can be more than 15 pages and I guarantee you countless problems will go away.

Then no bill would pass.

The default for a congress man/woman is to say no. The reason bills are so long is that if you want me to vote yes to your bill then I get to write 2 pages into your bill giving me what I want.

Take a 10 page bill get 100 votes and you've got a 210 page bill that has a chance of passing.

With a law that says no bill can be more than 15 pages you'd never get it passed unless everyone agreed to vote for everyone else's pet bill, then instead of one monster bill, you've got 100 small bills which is arguably worse off as it means you've got to kill many smaller bills rather than being able to kill one larger bill.
I may be misconstruing what you're saying (please correct me if I am), but I don't see how MIT's and JSTOR's dismissing of the case makes them any less "primary witness material", should the authorities decide to continue prosecuting.
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The thing is though, as I'm sure you're aware, the algorithm in abstract is utterly irrelevant. The algorithm as released is never actually executed, it is the implementation that gets executed.

One "trivial" detail in the implementation, one tiny little floating point rounding error, can throw the entire thing. We all know this. So why is the scientific community so unwilling to face this elephant in the room? And why is nobody else confronting them about it? Of course there's jgc, with his admirable record of confronting people about things, but that's the only example I can think of.

You would've thought the "Al Gore made up AGW to devalue my exxon shares" angst-brigade would've jumped on this, but they seem more concerned with digging through departmental email gossip.
Nope apparently they used http://www.mobilecommons.com/

Although you could probably swap that with Tropo / Twillio etc
Please, stop trying to make your specialty some special voodoo that only gifted, special people will know about. It's a commodity.
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Biology researchers don't get to reuse the other guy's mice, why should they reuse their code? As long as the paper describes the algorithms used, anyone should be able to duplicate the work using their own preferred implementation.

Also, a lot of the code may well be specific to the apparatus used, which may be unique to a lab, consisting of custom-built hardware.
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Yep. We hide the company name if you mark this as "Yes".
It cuts both ways.
I'm sorry to hear that. I certainly don't want to go around hurting people, but I don't see how to work with him on this. I don't know him, UseTheSource is a sideline and not my main focus.
This is not about fact checking this is about propaganda and anti-propaganda.
This is not just a risk to the U.S. Europe, Australia and especially the U.K. look to the U.S. for precedent. If this passes it is likely that they would use it as a basis to extend this nonsense to their respective jurisdictions while justifying it as necessary for protective or economic reasons.

Then these countries will have less of a leg to stand on when criticizing less open countries; who will be able to say: actually you are no different to us, the only difference is that we are more honest about the fact that we prioritize other things above freedom and cultural advancement.
If you want a free and open source operating system, you have all kinds of options, including some very polished distributions of GNU/Linux. I moved away from Windows a few years ago, and I've never looked back.
Interesting how the antivirus software companies are so on board (I mean, AVG gives it stuff away for free). Any thoughts as to why this is?
Exactly. It shouldn't matter if Lab A implemented the algorithm in Matlab and Lab B implemented the algorithm in NumPy.

Take the data, apply the described algorithms, get the same result. If Lab B doesn't get the same result, and Lab B has confidence in their implementation, then there's probably something funny with Lab A's code or data.

Reusing Lab A's code on Lab A's data just reproduces Lab A's errors, if any.
> Is the value for the owners, or for the use that the "infringer" gets from them?

I believe it's neither, but rather the value that the owner asserts (and can get a court to agree with). A single copy of a single song isn't worth $1,000, but I believe recent RIAA suits have valued songs as such. Who's to say a few short clips of local news broadcasts aren't worth as much?
I would just start collecting S-1 reports and cataloging the risks identified in them. The recent Yelp! S-1 had a bunch listed, for example.
If you want to think about quantum state faster-than-light action-at-a-distance spooky entanglement, look at it this way...

There are two gloves (a right and a left hand glove) and two lockboxes (box 1 and box 2).

Each lockbox contains one of the gloves. Someone other than you has placed the golves in.

You open box #1 and discover that it contains the right hand glove. You now know that box #2 contains the left hand glove (this is amazing to some).

The rational theory is that the states already existed before you looked into either box.

The irrational theory is that neither of the states existed as "well-defined" until after you looked into one of the boxes.

Quantum physics is just a way of abstracting the underlining reality. And it's gone so far that it has completely de-materialized everything and replaces it with math no one can understand.

Can anyone explain the proof to the irrational theory without more baseless conjecture?
Target for this is end of next year so afaik the raspberry pi will beat it to retail. This device is significantly more powerful, smaller (if that image is accurate), and as mentioned, 8 times the price.
Actually, the Kindle Fire is Gingerbread (2.3) based. They make this clear in their developer guidelines. That being said, there's something odd going on here because B&N (among others) has been able to do better with the same baseline.
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It's still heavy compared to helium gas. Air is 1.2 kg/m^3 helium is 0.164 kg/m^3 and this stuff is .9kg/m^3
Perhaps the exercise is a bit pro forma, but it may serve as a good way to point out their hypocrisy.

"Petition us! ((Unless it fits our PR agenda,) We'll be sure to ignore it.)"
All custom TLDs are monopolies and you can blame any of price gouging.

Why one TLD would cost more than the next one?
There is a downvote button?

Seriously, I've never seen the downvote button on this site.
Search LifeHacker.Com. They've had lots of articles over the past two years or so.
I'm not criticizing the review because of the author's Apple bias. I just don't think it's a quality review. He made no attempt to broaden his perspective widely and consider many types of potential users of the device, and then assess it against those different use cases. Instead it was basically: "It's complete crap and here's 30 things I don't like. The End."

I can imagine perhaps some real piece of $79 Walmart faux-tablet junk getting such treatment, but the Fire isn't that. It does have a lot of flaws, but it has a lot of good points too, which he made no attempt to discuss.

A much more useful review came from fellow Apple devotee Andy Ihnatko (http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/8816567-452/revie...)
Looks great but loads terribly slow.
"The algorithm as released is never actually executed, it is the implementation that gets executed."

If you use a different implementation of the algorithm, on the same data, and get a different result, you will find that there was an error. That's a lot easier than combing through someone else's code base.

A simple example: If Lab A says they took the square root of 16, you don't need their source code to know there's a problem, if their result is 5 and your result is 4. If you use their code, you might not notice that it's borked.
There is no such thing as a 'vegetable'. Some are leaves, roots, tubers, gourds, stalks. Vegetables have always been an essentially tautological group.
Other fruits considered vegetables include peppers, beans and squash.
I don't blame him either. Random British guy writes to you in French and ask for your source code. Sure I'd be skeptical too (although personally I err on the side of releasing all my code).

The problem is that suppose it is a bug and suppose the code is being kept behind so they can find the bug themselves. A huge amount of time and money is wasted whereas a programmer could look at the code and compare with the paper pretty quickly.

Also in the case of high-energy physics its not exactly easy to duplicate experiments because of the eye-watering cost of the equipment.
What do you use for images? Take your own or source somewhere?

What software do you use to lay things out correctly?

As a programmer, how do I best prepare a html page for a designer? Is putting everything in a div with a unique id enough?
Looks like the EU has already come out against SOPA. https://torrentfreak.com/eu-adopts-resolution-against-us-dom...
* flashes the DarkShikari signal *

:)

I wonder if just adding LZMA or PPMd compression to PNG (instead of deflate) would have the same size improvements, with the benefit of keeping PNG's very nice binary format.
This is very true.

However if I can just look at Lab A's code and spot an error in it, that will allow me to discount their results without having to redo their experiment, potentially saving years of work and millions of dollars.

Maybe that's what researchers are really afraid of?
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I would say cost (referring to license fees) is more relevant in deciding whether or not to choose the .NET stack in the first place. You're not going to avoid license fees by avoiding the cloud.

Their culture argument is a funny one. But I have no beef with it. If owning and tinkering with the hardware makes them happy, more power to them.

As an aside, I've been using Azure lately for my .NET projects. MSFT has done a nice job with that platform and don't get enough credit for it IMHO. I especially like SQL Azure.
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I was going to argue that Compass has :compressed output, but halfway thru, I realized you're right.

However, the beauty of Compass is that it doesn't rely on being intrinsically tied to the HTML it affects, whereas Closure stylesheets do.

All things considered, I'll stick to Compass/SASS.
I feel like people got soft as soon as they saw Apple on the BSA.

A few people I work with were dead-set against SOPA and all it stood for - suddenly, after seeing Apple here, had a completely different, sympathetic opinion towards it. Are you fucking kidding me?

This is what is wrong with movements like these - they are easily bent on self-fulfilling, cognitive dissonance. It's disgusting.
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Besides there being no such thing as anti-propaganda, sure, this is Americans promoting the American interest - through open exchanges and posting of factual material.
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Too bad HDMI seems to only spec 5V @ 55mA.

I had dreams of just plugging this stick into an HDMI port (TV, monitor, whatever) and having an instant PC. Sadly, it needs external power.