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The CS team circumvented the launch area problem by going out in international sea. Getting permission to launch on land was just too much work.
To make it just a bit more awesome, they use a home build submarine to transport the rocket to the launch area.
I don't get the "happier" part, it's very subjective. I take it daily, as the doctor prescribed, and it has made my life noticeably better.

If you use the medication only once in a while, do you have ADHD or do you only think that you do?
The company I work for does print on demand. Copy count of 1, for all book types. Perfect, case, stitched, BW, halftone, color. The world of printing books is dying, and POD is there to pick up the slack... until even POD dies because eBooks won.
These are obviously uploaded in error. Look, multiple header images.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/summer/images/summer-movi...

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/images/fall-movie-he...
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/images/fall-movie-he...
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/images/fall-movie-he...
That's broadly true. Do you agree with the general attributes of companies that breed longevity though? I've summed them up correctly or incorrectly as passion, leadership positon and business model.

I guess the Amundsen-Scott South Pole and others are often repeated but still, they are well worth remembering and can be applied to business.
i work for a POD manufacturer and I have to tell you, for a very large segment of the printing industry, the last 12-24 months have seen a shift where POD may have higher quality standards than traditional offset. inclusion of full color full bleed printing, etc... and the quality is there. are all POD providers doing this? no. but the standard is being set very high.
I would be very interested in hearing more about that project, as it sounds very similar to what I am working on for my cancer research.

The two problems I keep running into are that run length encoding means you have to read the entirety of the bitmap to get to the value you want, and looking up a particular value for a particular row (where you have to scan all the bitmaps for that column) - which as you state makes high cardinality columns slow. I would be very interested in learning about ways to overcome these issues.

Hit me up at terence [at] siganakis [dot] com if you would like to talk more, or on twitter at @siganakis (since I can't find any contact information in your profile).

Cheers
I believe that to be the Espresso Book Machine?
I've worked in a "tech" department with mostly older folks as the youngest person. It was frustrating. I can't tell you how many times I heard "nobody knows how to do that." There were plenty of older COBOL programs, in 10 years they'll be called Java programmers. The COBOL programmers maintained a legacy business application, which was a mammoth beast of obscure rules and uncharted/unknown results. But the system worked and made the company money. Point is, there are still opportunities for older developers although they might not be ideal. Frankly, it was a soul crushing job and I can't believe I'm defending it even in this context.

That's good about your dad tho. I don't know if I'd be able to make that kind of change if I'm ever in his position.
I wouldn't be surprised if there is a correlation between children's transition from asset to expense in the typical urban household.

As a child I would've been the perfect ADD candidate, but with plenty of stimulation in the form of work on my parent's farm, I winded up learning how to create outlets for my restless nature. There's nothing more boring or repetitive than driving a tractor around a very large field. My mind constantly wandered and in a few occasions led to damaged equipment because of it. Lesson learned and relearned. Another example would be pacing back and forth waiting to switch the milkers on the cows during the bi-daily 1-2 hr chores. Cleaning equipment, feeding, manure removal, stacking hay bales by hand. Repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, grueling.

School was fun by comparison. Even mundane lessons had their silver lining (at least it wasn't manual labor). And when I wasn't occupied with chores or school I found other stimulation; building a large purple martin bird house, flying model rockets, helping with mechanical repair, drawing, reading, shooting guns, exploring, painting ceramics, playing trumpet, and eventually, playing with our computer. The avenues of stimulation were not forced, but open. Most importantly: I could use the things I was learning in school to see how they had purpose, if not for my own satisfaction.

Why do these kids fidget and lack focus? In my non expert opinion it's because they lack both the perspective and a positive feedback loop to stimulate their own minds. It's not a disorder of the brain by any means, but a lack of purpose. Children reject the situations because they're contrived hoops with no meaning. The constant question in any child's mind is "HOW AM I GOING TO USE THIS?!" If they can't see the purpose of the lesson they haven't gained anything more than a useless set of facts.
Thanks. Very interesting feedback, that's something I didn't think of. You know, a cat's body temperature runs a couple of degrees hotter than humans. I don't think our sensor is quite that narrow in its tuning range to discriminate between humans and pets, but maybe we could do that on a future version or slightly more advanced technology. Just a thought, I'm not guaranteeing that we will do it, or that it's even possible without extremely expensive thermal sensors. Hopefully, the issue you described is not common enough to be a problem for most people.
Very few things are really "going out of print." Almost everything is going POD.
To get around this in Australia I've been using unblock-us.com. I can now get Hulu & Netflix.

However buying music is another story. Songs in iTunes are around 50% more expensive in the Australian store. That's pretty disgusting.

The best alternative would be Amazon - but they don't sell to anyone outside of the US.
Or they'll send it to a print-on-demand provider who does just in time inventory / drop shipping.
There are ways to misuse this general kind of technology. You are seeing it as a cheap doodad that will stimulate a brain area that, when stimulated, improves learning. That's a good thing.

But consider that as research continues, they will probably find that other effects can be achieved by stimulating other brain areas in other ways. Perhaps they will find an area that enhances reading comprehension, or musical ability, or objectivity.

So imagine we reach a state where we have general purpose brain stimulators in most schools, that can be programmed to stimulate the appropriate part of the brain in the appropriate way for a given lesson.

Great, right?

Now consider this. One researcher has already reported that he can induce by brain stimulation a mystical or religious state, where subjects often report feeling they are in the presence of God. If the school stimulators could be programmed for this kind of stimulation, they could turn into a powerful tool for religious indoctrination.

I would not at all be surprised, if the religious inducement turns out to be true (I believe it has not been replicated yet) that they will find other deep emotional things can be induced, such as feeling of national pride and patriotism. I'm sure I don't need to say anything about the potential abuse of that if every public school has a programmable brain stimulator.

This is why we don't throw ethics out the door--we need a way to make the good aspects of this available (boosting memory and math) WITHOUT just blindly getting the bad parts.
From an engineering perspective, the device is simple enough that it should be universally available in the US, and probably the world.

People have built DIY models for under $50. With full scale production you could build a basic model for a few dollars.
You've defined the number of permutations if each number can be picked more than once not the number of combinations. Unless the numbers need to be picked in order:

49 * 48 * 47 * 46 * 45 * 44 (each time you pick, there is one fewer item in the pool)

But, since the order in which the items are picked isn't important:

10068347520 (product above) / (6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1)

or

1:13983816

Your odds for winning five out of six would be calculated the same way:

49 * 48 * 47 * 46 * 45 / (5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1)

or

1:1906884 - roughly 1 in 2 million.

However, since she picked those numbers and won, do you know what the odds are that those numbers will win again?

1:1906884 - roughly 1 in 2 million. Like a coin toss, yesterday's results have no influence on today's results.

I consider those wins to be lucky, but, I certainly wouldn't start throwing cash at the lottery expecting similar wins.
The actual quote is:

"Android tablet options abound, and Google’s operating system is as open as you’re going to find on a retail shelf. At the end of the day, though, you’re passing profit along to the Android device makers."

Isn't that more of a swipe at Google/Android than at device makers in particular? Ie, presumably he feels that Android and their makers don't contribute back to the software community, whereas this device does?

(Personally, I think he's wrong in that assertion, but I still don't think this is a swipe at hardware guys at all)
One is a participatory republic - where we can change the rules if we ask for it. And the rules are set by society to benefit - presumably - itself.

One is a corporation whose purpose is to extract value in any means possible - even were it to the detriment of society and its members.
I signed up with XS4ALL last week. It wasn't the cheapest ISP in Amsterdam, but they have managed to stay true to their original "hacker culture". It's good to see that their owner KPN also tries to challenge this blockage.
Putting the phone on the bed is kludgy, I agree. It's also superbly cheap, though. Anyway, thanks for the explanation. I was just wondering if there might be other advantages to this approach I might have missed. I can certainly see a niche for this version and I hope you find success.
Consistency and durability are two different things.
So, in effect, you should work all the time. Half of the time you should work for free, so you can get hired again after you get laid off, and half of the time you should work for pay at your current job.

What a wonderful industry we work in.
If we get to really high volumes, we can probably reduce the price. Remember, we're just a small operation working on a launch. Tooling for injection molded parts is pretty expensive. If we ever get up to many thousands of pieces, we may be able to get the cost down to that of any charging dock...which again is where most of our costs lie. The motion sensor and lens are very advanced, but they are pretty cheap due to their very widespread use in other products.
Ask HN: local "Show HN"
I like HN a lot, and I always get excited when I see “Show HN:” on the front page. But there is one thing that bothers me a bit. I think I’ve never seen any local projects.

I would like to be able to search for projects from Germany, France or even Austria (that’s where I am from). This could also be a great way to network with people near you.

So what do you think is there a need for such a site?
Let me guess: you're a morning person? I'm not at all convinced that this statement is true for everybody.
Talk by LoveFilm's CEO Simon Calver
Would you consider explaining how to build one?
Ever since the 1Q earnings calls its seems like people have been rushing to praise AAPL and rushing to bash GOOG. Google has fundamentally changed how we use the web, how we look at E-mail ( no more 100MB limits ), how the smart phone market looks, and how corporations do business. All this while having the best data transparency policy in the market ( lets see you get your data out of Facebook ). They may not be the city on a hill that they once were, but they are a lot closer to it then their biggest rivals, and I still think they will make it back up there.
Considering anyone who knows which end of a soldering iron is hot could build one of these with access to the schematic, it's going to be impossible to enforce any limits on its use.
Bringing up a Linux kernel on a Raspberry Pi is not a relevant skill. Facebook, Zynga, and LinkedIn do not need kernel engineers.
Incredible what they did after the fire, from nothing back to operations in 48h
If you can meditate, or sit still in one place without any stimulus for that matter, you’re quite lucky. It’s an impossible task for most people with ADHD.

> Now I've come to realize that "lack of attentiveness" is part of the human condition.

No. ADHD is a hereditary neurological disorder. One of the first things that you’ll see on Wikipedia’s page on ADHD is a PET scan comparing dopamine transporter availability in a healthy brain and one of a person diagnosed with ADHD.

In children, the biological differences are real, and can by no means be explained by “experience.” E.g.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21757514/ns/health-mental_health...
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Thanks.

How are these sites overcoming the chicken and egg issue of attracting interesting activities from locals? Gathering enough visitors to the site to make transactions meaningful?
AFAIK crypt(3) should not be using "plain" md5, it uses both a salt and variations of md5, plus the hash function is run many times so that bruteforce attacks are mitigated (it takes much more time to compute the hashes)

googling..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt_(Unix)#MD5-based_scheme
How Google+ Can Win: Make Publishing Universal
Thanks again for the comments. I guess the other major selling point is that it's a charging dock. My girlfriend loses and breaks the charging cables so often that I almost wanted to switch phones so she couldn't use my charger any more. With this, I have at least one dedicated charger and charging location that she won't take away in a hurry when she's late for work and can't find hers.
In other words, the average salary of a Bay Area engineer is something like $20k, if you consider the fact that you'll work for 10 years at $80-100k and then get laid off and will be unable to find a job for the next 50 years until you hit retirement age.

What a wonderful industry we work in.
What's funny to me is, this looks like the AVERAGE degree of design quality you see in any given widget or feature in Windows 8. All over the place, there are places where you can barely read text in basic features because they chose to put light-colored text on a light-colored background, with both colors being rather ugly. All over the place, there are massive, five or ten-square-inch wastes of screen space for no reason.

I think I can forgive Apple for this one page that nobody will ever see. At least it's not their core OS.
True. Although, when I was at Dreamworks, they had a dedicated pipe between their two office locations and one to a offsite rendering center in New Mexico. I know they were having trouble still (even with a private dedicated pipe) transferring all their assets and render data. This got even more problematic as they switched to 3D-Stereo renders. Then again, that was a couple of years ago.
As far as deleting your past, my sister does it all the time. I haven't asked her how, but every couple weeks she wipes out her entire wall without anything else changing. There must be tools for it.
Why?

It's not great, it's decent, but it's certainly not awful.
Sounds like a job for an outside developer using their API...
Last year I started thinking I might one day go freelancing, so started attending relevant meetups and trying to figure out who to connect with locally. It was partly that which lead me to build the http://jobstractor.com (shameless plug) to try and find who was hiring near me so I could connect with them on twitter and start getting myself known. I've not made the leap to freelancing as of yet but networking has I think got me in a far better position should I want to in future.

To the OP, I did find that a lot of people in the local freelancing community were strongly connected with each other. A little bit of networking could go a long way and in my experience there has always been people looking for good developers.
a quick search brought me to this: http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/ (don't do it!)
The problem is, those primitives don't work in all cases. Believing otherwise would violate CAP. Avout is extremely impressive and I imagine I'll use it one day, but sooner or later you're probably going to want something like Rust's semantics _in addition_ to STM.

Clojure is brilliant because it even thinks about these problems, but even in the global mutable state arena where it excels there's things like concurrent hash tables where the advice is to use Java's existing solution.
1. http://github.com
Mashable writes for pageviews. TechCrunch for drama. TNW writes for its readers.
None of those people are employable, except as vanity hires at companies like Google. Think about it -- why would it be in a company's best interests to hire Linus Torvalds? They can get the kernel for free.
"he world is dynamic and the Indians, the Chinese, the South Americans, the Koreans, the Russians, pick your own example -- all of them -- understand this as a simple fact of life. From the moment they wake in the morning to the second their head hits the dirt floor at night, they are mentally and emotionally pounded with the relentless concept that they are NOT in first place."

a) Isn't this a couple of billion people to make a sweeping generalization about? b) 'stratosphere of "advancement" that Westernized nations have taken for granted the past 100 years' is a very curious notion. Is South Korea really not at the industrial level of Pittsburgh, 1912? Has Russia, which has continuously been one of the great powers since about 1750, regressed that thoroughly?
These are really good..and thought provoking

A couple of mine are:

- Repurpose the top floors of parking garages to incorporate green space in urban centers

- Black Hole Taxi: Marketplace for on demand user video (eg - I pay you a fee to walk around the grand canyon)

- Open spaces that are free co-working CS learning centers for middle and high schoolers (I'm working on one in Los Angeles)

- Mixergy for the rest of business (eg. the BUSINESS of yoga, the BUSINESS of real estate brokerage, the BUSINESS of photography) not just how to do 5 new poses, hold a better open house, craft a better photo
Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s licensing restrictions on JavaME
I'm sure the 1,200 people who viewed this page were really turned off by that banner as they swiftly clicked through to the industry-leading selection and quality movie trailer links below.
With this device in particular I don't think that it works well enough to prompt a corporate oligarchy artificially inflating prices.

What you are talking about could indeed be a problem if there are significant developments in nano human augmentation. I personally would love it if cognitive boosters were treated as a health issue and made widely available.
> there is no rack space to compete for (there is competition for attention, that that is the same for every sellable thing).

So, how much is the front page of Amazon worth or the featured section of the iBooks store, since that is the digital equivalent of the front of store in B&N?
Definitely should be consider as a way to show your work. Although I really fancy canonical's launchpad as well.
Improve your sales pitch. Do some initial work for a lower rate, then you'll have a portfolio of actual work.
Devil's advocate: brain boosters wouldn't widen the gap significantly because socioeconomic status is not primarily determined by intelligence. That's the entire point of lack of socioeconomic mobility. Instead, the benefits of brain boosters would primarily be to raise the overall quality of life. Brain boosters have the greatest effect when used by scientists and engineers, and the resulting improvements in infrastructure, medicine, and technology serve everybody.
The very reason why even I'll miss big bookstores is because of their nonchalance towards what they're selling. You can stay in the store for hours, look at anything, bring a book to the cafe or any number of seats in the corner and read, etc. I give tons of business to small booksellers but when I'm not looking for specialty subjects I like the non-atmosphere. And when Borders was around, their coupons made Amazon the best back-up. Over the years, both Borders and B&N selection has gotten worse and worse, but B&N @ Union Square currently has the best architecture section in the city (Rizzoli could be argued first, but its selection is at times over-curated and certainly saves no pennies).
I don't think that's what Chuck meant. I think you need to have a passion for the industry and show it in some way. If you're not passionate about tech then maybe you should switch to some other industry.

BTW Chuck I remember NIS+!
I think they were trying to set up a mindset. Imagine you're a staunch supporter of FOSS. You want your money to help open-source developers. Android is open source, but the money spent on the tablet goes to the hardware makers (who are not open source developers). Instead, you could get this tablet which has its profits sent directly to KDE to continue developing software.

You're picking on the point of "hardware makers gain a profit" and missing out the point of "that money could be going to KDE instead". It's not meant to be as offensive as you're making it out to be.

To rephrase, giving money to the Red Cross is a good way to go if you want to donate, but if you want they majority of the money going to causes you actually believe in you can pick a more direct charity.
I'm an unhealthy person when I'm unhealthy and a healthy person when I'm healthy. I've had all sorts of hours during my life so far.

My comment was more about getting enough sleep than a specific schedule.
No.

Conflating is a combining, which may be positive or negative.

Confounding is a combining with the result that the parts combined cannot be distinguished, and such that the result confuses the combined parts.
Listen to this man. This is the fate of everyone on this site. If you think you're exempt because you're awesome, I'm talking most of all to you.

Get out of the tech industry while you still can. There are no jobs in this industry for anyone, even the skilled.
That's my opinion. I'm a huge fan of The Next Web for a reason. They're not always chasing after pageviews or meddled in ridiculous drama. I want good content, a nice design and an amazing team on the blog that I read, and that's The Next Web...
If you are trying to protect against transmission errors then md5 is a poor choice; it is expensive, it gives no guarantees as to how accurate it is, and has no ability to correct errors. If you want to protect against transmission errors, and possibly correct them, use CRCs; apart from the fact that they provide all three of the above, that's what they were designed for.
> With full scale production you could build a basic model for a few dollars.

Plus the cost of patent licenses, of course.
Which is what ... other than self-serving viral spam?
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Wrong. Listen to all these stories. Everyone on this site will end up either unemployed and unable to find work if they don't win the startup lottery or die before reaching 40.
I'd like to see this list but your site seems to be down.
If you don't want your past on the timeline, remove it. It's that simple. This isn't adding any new functionality to Facebook, it's just presenting it differently.

Personally, I love how easy the timeline makes it to jump back to my freshman year of college. I can see how much I've changed as a person for better or worse. It's like an excellent scrapbook of my life and I'm happy to have it.
Related to this topic, be on the lookout for the episode "The Entire History of You" from "Black Mirror".
Nope. In fact, many VCs (Khosla, etc) are quite open about the fact that they are unlikely to fund you if you are over 25.