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There is an interest rate on the financing, a cost for payment insurance, and almost certainly a margin on top of both, but they've both been built into the price of the car.

It's very likely you could have gotten additional savings for paying cash up-front. It's usually cheaper to pass up these offers and negotiate the price down.
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Are there any questions?
And I'm pretty sure the O register isn't supposed to be set in all cases. And what was lit[] supposed to be for?
An RTOS won't be of much use without interrupts. You could implement coroutines, but preemptive scheduling is not possible.
Chris Esposito at Boeing in the early 1990's worked on such a project: aircraft maintenance augmented using "VR glasses" concurrently developed at the Human Interface Technology Lab in Seattle.

I suspect that this is his profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-esposito/5/673/785
I did the same, prior to reading the comments. These struck me as odd as well. I've submitted a request for information on mint.ca
I'm sure pull requests would be graciously considered. :)
Yes, bitcoin is exactly "men with guns entering your house or server location and taking your drive" proof."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/03/12/brainwalle...
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Thank you for the advice, I really appreciate it.
To address one point, it is becoming clear that the reason so many weapons were entering Mexico was because of an ill-guided US government program to allow the weapons to leave the country.

As for the second point, since the primary sources of weapons for criminal acts are legal then we should make weapons themselves illegal? All that does is punish law-abiding citizens since all criminals have one thing in common, they break the law. How about we consider increasing the punishment for using a weapon in the course of committing a crime instead?

One thing to keep in mind, the original intention for having US citizens to be armed is not to protect against criminals. Though this is useful since the police do not have an obligation to protect you from criminals. The original intention was to have an armed populace to protect against a tyrannical government.
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This is a problem with your job or possibly your work ethic, not your phone.
what if someone puts html in a plain old text field?

your db should never contain xss material. some jackass will forget to escape it on display.
Just how big are porn sites?
I don't know whether to be encouraged or disturbed by the notion of having wearable cameras become socially acceptable. On one hand, I would think this could be a major crime deterrent - the idea of a "witness" could become quaint as any crime could easily be captured with a time/location stamp.

But it could also be a major altering of norms. Are women comfortable with the idea that any guy looking at them on the street can capture their image?
I have a terrible feeling I'm missing something here
Interesting reads on the Reddit thread—most of them feel grounded and authentic.

It's pleasent to get some new views on this topic if you are used to the typical screaming self-help books or blogs post about getting rich and success (where you never know wether the author is really rich or just a good writer).
Can I test out Google's new glasses?
It sounds more like a clone of Mondex from the 90s. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.08/eword.html
Isn't the usual advice to keep software as the subject of the sentence but rewrite the verb? Like: "Our software manages your source code revisions" rather than "Our software is used to manage source code revisions?".

(I totally agree that the "no passive voice" rule is oversubscribed btw.)
Yep. In other words, using more memory in user space is a sure way of slowding down the system. Specifically PostgreSQL is easily impacted by that as it keeps as little memory for itself as possible and delegates everything it can to the OS.
I haven't read the book but my wife and I started investing in our mid twenties and were blessed with generous matched contributions from our employer. We both maxed out the 401k contributions and (she) still does. We also do ROTH's as much as we can. She is into finance and 'manages' it by logging into the accounts 2x per year, looking at performance and making adjustments as needed.

The growth in the past few years is cool to watch now that we are ten years in and the curve is accelerating; even with the stock market crash in '08.

We are sensible on how we spend but not spend thrifty. We take at least on nice vacation a year and are able to visit family in other parts of the country for holiday's etc. When we invest in equipment for hobbies etc - I tend to buy things that last: Burton snowboards, Patagonia gear (I have a winter coat that is almost 10 years old, etc ...)

There was a monkey wrench thrown into the mix about four years ago but as she gets older her costs seem to be coming down. I'll know more how this affect the long term savings plan when she gets closer to being a teenager.
Google and Apple have fundamentally different business models. One sells hardware and one sells advertising. I would imagine Google's goal will be to put these glasses on as many people as they can, as cheaply as they can and then they have a direct advertising connection to a lot of eyeballs.
I've always felt the difference in attitudes towards guns in Canada versus the US is more about culture then it is about laws.
I remember seeing this ad (or one similar) in the Draw Something game a few days ago.

The context here helps immensely, I think. Draw Something is a game that's about crude drawing, showing an ad that's a crude drawing is the ultimate targeted ad.
usually one of beaver, Queen, moose, or Avro Arrow
"Abuse of language"? You suggested that HMAC was an alternative to DSA. That's not a semantic nit. Signatures, by the way, are not the same thing as message authentication codes. And like I said: nobody should be using RSA or DSA for SSO tokens.

Offering solutions on how to implement a secure single signon scheme with RSA or DSA on Hacker News is like explaining how to perform an appendectomy in Youtube comments.

Sorry, not interested in hurting people.

I know I sound super snippy here, and I'm sorry about that, but this problem comes up a lot. We keep finding applications that get almost everything right; locked down database layer, bulletproof authorization, reliable output filtering to stop Javascript injection... and then they go build single signon, and 3 days after we see that we can turn a guest account into the sitewide admin.

People would be a lot better off if they did not try to build this particular feature themselves. (We don't build SSO systems for people, in case you think this is a sales pitch.)
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While not exactly a Barista, our bootstrapped startup invested in a DeLonghi EC702 15-Bar-Pump Espresso Maker for approx $175 USD on Amazon.com. We'd usually make Starbucks runs and spend $2.50/trip once or twice a day, so it didn't take long to pay itself back.

But more importantly, it's been a fun for us developers to try and hack our little entry-level espresso maker into pulling the best cup possible. Toying with the variables that go in to pulling a tasty espresso (quality of grinds, grind fineness, tamping, duration of pull, etc.) has become an on-going project here, and our espresso rituals are now baked in to our culture.

So yeah, definitely recommend "hiring a barista", even if it's just a DeLonghi EC702 15-Bar-Pump Espresso Maker.
> It's the same as banning gmail.com if some user sent a SPAM mail.

Very many sites get blocked because of the actions of their users.

A quick websearch found this:-

(http://www.419scam.org/419-cabanova-com.htm)

I don't know anything about how Facebook works, but that's enough to have you in some email blocklists for some time.\

> I know there are probably many support requests but this is unacceptable behavior.

No. It is frustrating for you, but it is not unacceptable. They've had malware / spam / phishing coming from your domain. They've blocked your domain. That's good behaviour.
They are extremely expensive reflecting the cost of borrowing the stock. If the weren't you could buy the stock, lend it out and then buy a put and sell call to make a 'synthetic short' and pocket a risk free profit. No free lunches.
The HUD is very difficult to photograph. I have one in 5 series and you can see it only from a direct angle. Only the driver sees the HUD. These promotional photos are completely fabricated.

From my experience BMW's HUD is the greatest feature of all. Very useful. The speedometer helps drastically, you don't need to shift eyes from the road. Much safer driving.
From a marketing perspective, it's a greater blunder still: asking people to think about what they'd want Glass to do it will quickly set expectations well beyond what's technologically feasible for an initial product. That and the wishful concept video almost guarantee the initial product will be a disappointment. And that's a damn shame, because given Google's talent, it'll nevertheless be a engineering feat of epic proportion.

That said, perhaps Google doesn't care about releasing perfectly marketed hit products a la Apple. If wearable computers catch on that make it easier to check-in to the places you go and +1 the stuff you like, they'll make tons more money from useful targeted ads than units of hardware shipped, just as they do now.
Compatibility with unicode is strictly the font? If the font is installed it doesn't matter the machine, doctype or browser?
I know it has been said a thousand times, but Google could really take a cue from Apple on how to launch a new product. The "closed beta" approach generates a good deal of hype, but prevents early adopters from buying or using your product, which is insane! Google is tipping their hand to the competition. It may seem far-fetched that anyone else is working on a wearable computer like this, but I guarantee Google is not alone. If Google is slow to bringing this to market (which wouldn't surprise anyone), then this announcement gives Samsung/Apple/lots of others a chance to catch up in a potentially new market.

Ugh. Google, you have so many cool ideas and so little business acumen.
Zynga's business model is like any other gaming publisher (such as EA, Blizzard, etc.). To succeed in gaming you MUST have a pipeline of games that continue revenue growth. If you cannot create your own, then you must acquire indie developers (OMGPOP recently). In time Zynga stock will be no different than any other gaming publisher stock. Look at Blizzard: other than Diablo, Starcraft and WoW, it has created nothing in the last 4 years beyond sequels. Homegrown innovation is nearly impossible.

Rovio was in the business for 5 years before Angry Birds, and I doubt they'll have another hit like Angry Birds ever again.

Id fell apart when it couldn't come up with something better than the Doom franchise.

OMGPOP was very smart to sell out to Zynga, because there is no way it would have come up with something even close to Draw Something in another 5 years.

Unlike rock stars and pop singers, creating a string of gaming hits is so much harder because it requires the perfect storm of so many variables each and every time, whereas a single person like Adele, Amy Winehouse, etc. can rely on their genius alone to create a hit.
Its not that Google's automated cars haven't been in an fatal crash, its that they haven't been in a crash at all. The US _crash rate_ is a bit over 5 per million miles traveled, you you would expect about one crash in the 200k miles already covered if it was a human driver. The circumstances probably aren't identical, but what evidence we have suggests that these automated vehicles are at least comparably safe to a human driver.
And once again, economics suppresses technology.
Exactly. Remember the 64kb video demos from 2004?

http://www.theproduct.de/
That's another good example! But 300 ms is nearly four times the limit of human perception. So I do wonder if - as network and service costs diminish - simply using many connections for the same thing won't seem so "wasteful".
I miss the Google run by Eric Schmidt. What Larry Page is doing to Google reeks of what Ballmer did to Microsoft. It is no doubt a profitable strategy, at the cost of "coolness" that Google has always been known for. History books might remember Google Plus having displaced Facebook similar to how IE displaced Netscape.
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I've never gotten a chance to look at it. Presumably someone has reviewed it; Atlassian's a decently big company. You could probably ask them.

(Note also that if we had reviewed them, we probably wouldn't be able to talk about it here. But: we haven't.)
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That's got to be bogus. How likely is it that Hegel said anything so succinct?
> Seems to me that this sort of thing would save at least as many lives as the incessant beeping that new cars activate when you turn on the ignition without fastening your seatbelt.

I wonder what the net effect would be, considering the potential of drivers to be distracted by annoying beeping noises, or to condition themselves not to look out windows or in mirrors when doing so is more important than looking out the windshield.

> Then again, maybe this is a terrible idea, bound to plague millions of drivers the way the seatbelt beeping does. I dunno. I'm just really sick of near-misses with idiots who are texting while driving.

I'm not convinced that it's generally a good idea to outsource responsibility for safety to external devices, but if you're going to do it, in this case, it may be more reasonable to put the constraint in the phone rather than the car. It should be relatively trivial to restrict text entry when moving at high speeds on a phone with embedded GPS, and doing so would alter the behavior of the thing causing the distraction rather than the thing you want drivers to pay attention to.
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They didn't create an alternative, they just built the "last mile" for Bitcoin usage. A government backed anonymous currency that will most likely be accepted throughout canada and hopefully the world, that can be freely exchanged with bitcoin in a short amount of time. Anyone will be able to build an exchange.

MintChip = checking account, Bitcoin = savings account
Perhaps. However the standard deviation for a Bernoulli trial is sqrt(Npq) where p = 0.00049 and q = 1 - p.

The two trials are not significantly different.
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What was I downvoted for? I had a legitimate question.

Anyway.

I see what you're saying now and I would have to tend to agree if that is your definition.
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The only time not having a degree seems to matter is with academic institutions (and some companies founded by PhDs)
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It worked on the novelty effect and it was doomed to fail.

A little premature to write an obituary of a company that finished 2011 with 1.6B in revenue.
> If you've no chance of getting 10x+ growth (within 3-5 years) then from a portfolio point of view you're a failure before you start, it makes no sense to invest in you.

Who do you go to if your company is not likely to grow 10x, but is very likely to become profitable? For example, your project fills a defined need, you demonstrate the ability to pull it off competently, but you don't anticipate exponential growth.

I am not very familiar with investment models. Is there a non-VC model that is more appropriate for this kind of startup?
Mr Eich's personal beliefs are of no consequence; when his personal beliefs and his employer's name are connected, then there is a problem. I occasionally have used Firefox for searches. Mr Eich's proud display of hatred, using the Mozilla name on his contribution to Prop H8, contributes to my not using Mozilla again!
I am really intrigued by the little minigame. I read the whole article before playing, but the way it interacts iwth the webpage is amazing!
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Well, I just lost one coworker and my boss, both of whom were good people and good workers. I think this seals my decision to move on; I only really came to work here because I did internships and felt like I owed it to my boss to put in a year or two... but if she's gone, then I've got no reason to stay.

Anyone looking to hire in the Bay?

edit: make that two coworkers
Especially because it works in exactly the way you specify even when there’s only one sentence in a paragraph. So the paragraph:

That was too much for the water district’s attorney.

And:

They were torn apart by angry ducks.

Will both hash to “TwtTwt”. One-sentence paragraphs are probably deprecated in the NYT’s style guide anyway, but I imagine it might still come up.
Zinc boils at just over 900 degrees centigrade. I guess that might make this a bit risky as a device. If, as you say, Zinc in gas form is toxic, that might be a problem.

Two by three feet and 10000 suns translates to "on a perfectly sunny day, needs a 200 by 300 feet solar collector" to produce the required heat. Actual numbers for a machine operating throughout the year will be quite a bit higher.
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I remember using a Hercules graphics card exactly like this...
I don't know why this was downmodded. It's trenchant. Nobody on HN seems to like Groupon, but that doesn't make this kind of ridiculous hearsay more valid.
We use that memory because we do more things faster. Of course we could page to disk whenever we want to use more than 1GB of memory, or render from CPU instead of keeping uncompressed versions in memory to lower footprint... Or we could have faster computers. Consumers prefer the faster computer option.
Why not use both? Competition in this space can only be a good thing.
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Imagine if the United States begins issuing electronic US Dollars that can be emailed from one person to another or sent via an attachment.

Imagine if this currency is backed by the Fed and the Central Bank.

Imagine if you could go to any US Bank and convert the electronic currency to the real US Dollars.

Imagine if anyone could buy something for 1 cent simply by sending, texting or emailing the funds, without paying a transaction cost.

Imagine how this will transform the global commerce.

The 20th Century was an American Century because the United States, namely the US Dollar, became the bedrock of the global commerce. It enabled the US to ship dollars by the trillions (costing pennies to print) oversees in exchange for wealth from other countries, which was used to build our economic might. And, in exchange for those dollars the US shipped, it received tremendous amount of wealth for ZERO INTEREST. There is no cheaper way for a country to finance its growth than to print currency and ship it abroad, because those who hold the currency are not expecting a return for their "investment".

Now, the 21st century is clearly becoming the century of electronic commerce, however we are still using the currency of the previous generation. If the Federal Reserve issued an electronic US Dollar that could be traded like BitCoin, but backed by the Fed and exchanged for real US dollars, it would become the bedrock of the electronic commerce overnight. People all over the world would be able to trade it, exchange it electronically, and settle with their bank in exchange for the printed equivalent. I can imagine the sheer volume of wealth that will flow into the US in exchange for the US-backed electronic currency.

It will not only result in more efficiency in the online commerce at home and oversees, but also create new industries overnight. This one step has the potential of taking the US out of the current recession overnight, and substantially offsetting the national debt.

Of course, many issues would have to be ironed out, particularly around security. But, considering how secure BitCoin is without central governance, I am convinced that none of the technical challenges will be insurmountable, because all transactions will have to be verified.

I think sooner or alter one country's currency will become the defacto electronic currency for global commerce. The question is will it be the US, Canada, or some other country?

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As someone who became mother due to the lack of active prevention of pregnancy (call it a pleasant surprise), I am of course of a different opinion than yours.

There is nothing stopping either Alice or Barbara from lying about their procreation plans. Outside of abstinence, which cannot be proved or disproved by anyone other than the female in question (and it is not even something she has 100% control on -- unwanted sex do happen in this world), there is no foolproof birth control method. As such, and without trampling on employees' privacy, there's no point for an employer to inquiring about procreation plan.

I don't believe the clauses contingent on pregnancy is appropriate on employment contracts neither. If maternity leave is such a big loss on productivity that a company needs compensation for, one can argue either the market should already have a product for it (e.g. some form of "maternity insurance" provided to employers), or the government should subsidize the employer.

In Canada, where @raganwald and I currently reside, employers are not legally required to provide compensation for persons on maternity or parental leave. (Maternity leave is for mothers giving birth only; parental leave can be split between parents of either birth or adoption.) Instead, the government provides partial compensation. It's up to the employer to decide whether to provide additional compensation on top of government benefits. I don't know where you are located nor your local laws regarding maternity leave. In your opinion, would a policy similar to Canada's be suffice, or do you still want more protection for the employers?

I suppose you are opposed to Arizona's new birth control pill bill HB2625 then? [tongue in cheek]
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notch, creator of Minecraft, has announced a new space-themed MMO, with people being able to write code against a 16-bit machine architecture, which will be executed to fly your ship around, even while you're not connected to the game.

This is a c implementation of that machine architecture.

I don't think we have any info on sensors or actuators for the ships though, yet...
In very carefully controlled conditions with carefully controlled equipment. Supervised by experts. That's different than a bunch of people modding their Civics and having them roam the streets.
Ask  HN: What's your favorite travel info resource?
Finding good information about a place is cumbersome.

Know of any good websites?

Let's say I just want to go somewhere for a few days that has nice weather.

Where's the best place to find information on (and compares/contrasts) Hawaii, Arizona, Florida, California, etc.?