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Hi guys. Yes this product already exists at www.lunasee.com and we have several patents around this technology. We have not produced an aftermarket version for bicycles yet primarily due to many of the complications addressed in this string. We do have aftermarket versions on the drawing board though.

We have tried to contact Nori Lights with no response so far. We have invested time and money to protect this -- and hope Nori Lights and interested consumers will respect this.

We appreciate all feedback.

Lunasee Team
I'm so very sorry. It was a silly joke which got out of hand.
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I'm a Junior CS major looking for an internship for the upcoming spring/summer. Most job searching sites are terrible for finding internships. Anyone you know hiring?
I hate to say this but I just feel Microsoft's behavior is self defeating at times. Somebody, who had put his love into making this device (which still may turn out to be wonderful) would have flaunted all the great things you can do with it. It really is a hideous ad made by people who just scratched the Surface (pun intended).

Even in there first introductory video here http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx it looked too superficial. They seem to be a most excited about snap on multi-colored keyboards then anything else.

Makes me sad.
Tough economics questions: To what extent would these people still be willing to work for cheap if we let them immigrate and become legitimate Americans with a simple, easy process? Are they just willing to work for less in general, or is there a pattern of monopsonistic exploitation or other similar exploitation due to the legal process surrounding the H1-B process and how it is attached to an employer sponsor? If the latter, how can we procure evidence and measure the effect?
Yes, the entire topic of this thread is that by spending more RAM on GC, you can save CPU for memory management.
One huge disadvantage also is that many Africans don't have access or the ability to get credit cards and so it locks them out of the ability to pay for hosting and cloud services. If someone can figure out how to connect the local SMS payment infrastructures that most countries have to Amazon AWS, then there could be some serious dough gained from the developer community. I learned this the hard way when I did a presentation on deploying Python Apps to Amazon at klab.rw in Rwanda. Everyone loved it but no one could actually try it out because even for the Free Tier AWS requires a CC.
The oceans are already absorbed enormous amounts of atmospheric CO2, and it's messing up marine ecosystems by changing pH levels, among other things. It's a major cause of coral loss and possibly of jellyfish population growth. The reason IMO, for fighting things tooth and nail is that the systems we are dealing with are complex and interconnected, sort of like the world economy - which has billions of dollars of modeling yet still can't predict effects of simple changes. Major changes in any ocean system will have unpredictable effects in others.
I used to use Googles DNS but when I started to move away from Google products for privacy reasons (I still use some, can't help it) this one was one of the easier decisions.
Of course he doesn't, the claim barely makes sense.
Amazon did this for years to work around memory leaks.
Yep, it is helping!

When you talk about maintaining relationships further from the first meeting, how would you generally advice?

I mean people are genuinely busy, so to keep in touch sending random mails is not the key, nor will anyone meet you every time you ask for it.

So how do you look at taking things further after the first meeting?
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Hi fellow readers,

I need your criticism on my startup http://tribegarden.com/.

Is not about owning is about using, tribegarden will help you and your community purchase stuff that you will later on use together.

Thank you,
No they shouldn't.

Apart from the normal reasons you don't hire thieves to guard your stuff[1], he is too mentally unstable to be trusted with anything. Remember, it was his mental instability that probably saved him from extradition.

[1] Yeah, it makes for great Hollywood stuff, but that's Hollywood.
The trouble could come from numerous angles.

As others note, not all plankton is created equal; just as in human bodies a balance between bacteria and fungi create healthy conditions, getting a dramatic boost to one kind of plankton may throw things out of whack far down the road.

Perhaps an iron-hungry form of plankton (or algae) suddenly gains a foothold in the region, depleting other nutrients and sunlight from the existing balance of critters. As the iron levels go back to baseline and the opportunistic plankton gets absorbed into the food chain, now the existing food base is gone, just as a huge population spike of higher-on-the-food-chain species is ready to chow down.

You see this sort of effect in gulf "dead zones" where fertilizer (iron sulfate is definitely fertilizer in this case) has killed the existing balance and will take many years to reverse.

That said, perhaps some good could come of this type of practice. It's too bad this sort of vigilante experimentation is the only kind that can go on- if scientific bodies would endorse more research on limited scales, we'd have a lot more data for the potential damage.
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I heard a stat that US IT unemployment is -3% (note the negative) so perhaps a step back from the idea this is outright deliberate fraud it's perhaps more a symptom of this long running state of the pool of available candidates?
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Ask HN: Would love your advice, critique and ideas
Hi everyone,

I would like to seek your advice and feedback on a social media platform that we launched a week ago. We are in the process of courting the media (press releases, connecting with reporters, etc). Before going too far into the process, I wanted to reach out to you to see if we could get your collective suggestions, critiques or ideas on the site (UI, navigation, message, etc).

Although the site is designed for stock investors, we felt it would be great to get feedback from this group based on your collective technical and development experience.

Any feedback is highly appreciated. Here is the link: http://www.marketconsensus.com/

Thanks and looking forward to your thoughts.

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I don't know how you can say that knowing functional programming inherently makes you a better programmer than another. A bad programmer is a bad programmer regardless of domain.

I have seen some ninja FP artists that have written some really terse solutions in a FP style which are completely unreadable to the uninitiated.

Also, I do not think that there is anything intrinsically difficult about FP. Knowing it proves that you are ambitious and that you have mental plasticity but not necessarily that you are a good developer.

You're just as likely to become that weird dude that writes code no one understands as you are to become Mr Wizard.
That's not what I said at all and I suspect you know it.

What I'm saying is that taking what often gets said between English and Scots and drawing a parallel to how they might be seen if directed towards the minority groups you mention isn't a valid comparison.

A history of discrimination can give certain remarks a very different meaning. Context is everything and centuries of oppression is quite some context and doesn't exist between the English and Scots (at least not in a way that the English can have any issue with).
Some "official" lists are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
* because he was for free trade, signed DoMA, passed welfare reform and substantially cut the growth of discretionary spending*

Obama's actually for all of those except for DoMa, and it took him until this year to finally come out in support of gay marriage. Obama has signed free trade agreements, cut the growth of discretionary spending, and hasn't attempted to touch Clinton's welfare reform (aside from granting states waivers that republican governors had been asking for).
You might have better luck at a local college. A friend learned welding at community college (after earning a four year university degree)
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The argument made is not unique to software or computer algorithms. Chemical process patents are identical to computer algorithm patents in this respect, just replace bits with molecules, and are among the oldest patentable subject matters. Long, complex sequential algorithms are a feature of many engineering disciplines.

Chemical engineering, to use that example, designs elaborate and complex dynamic systems by chaining together abstract chemical algorithms. Each one of those little algorithms is subject to both patent and copyright. Like with software most of the commonly used algorithms and clever hacks were either never patented or the patents have long expired. It is only on the bleeding edge that some chemical algorithms are under patent; as with computer algorithms there are an unbounded number of potential algorithms but some are more efficient than others. Specific implementations are still covered by copyright and are widely licensed (as libraries).

Most of the nominal specialness attributed to software as a domain for intellectual property does not really exist. Yet the rarely questioned assertion that computer software is special in some way has created a dearth of comparative studies that would likely be valuable from both a theoretical standpoint as well as a practical policy standpoint. Either these other areas, like chemical processes, are equally broken at a fundamental level and the scope should be extended beyond software, or there are differences in implementation across otherwise equivalent domains and we should borrowing from the better implementation. It seems like an oversight that no one is attempting to do either.
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A very simple solution used here in Europe is that the VISA does not tie you up with the employer! This was the employer has all the expenses and work to bring you but if your wage is not competitive you can just leave the company and enter in another one who pays you the market price. The problem in USA is that the foreigners are totally under the control of the hiring company, so sure you create an artificial lower-wage group.
Yes. We probably need a brand new category for software; something that grants protection faster, expires sooner, makes it easy to other people to implement after expiration, and has independent invention as a positive defense.
Just a small suggestion. Change "Why to join SillyTrader?" to just "Why join SillyTrader?". It's better english.
the biggest flaw in this articles - which mind you isn`t backed up with any sort of proof that serves to validate his allegations of IBM being the number one "misuser" nor can we be really sure this email exchange is for real.. Is the assumption that Landed Resources come on H1B - thats plain wrong. The difference between H1B & landed resources is that H1B employees can work in the US and get paid above a certain level. Landed resources are those who get visas for projects through their companies and head to the US to work on these projects while still getting their salary at home. Its important to understand and acknowledge this difference since H1B is a way for good people who are needed to get employed - and mixing it up with a loophole that allows easy intra company transfers or extended project visits only serves to tarnish its image.
Nice work!

Some other iOS forms libs:

- QuickDialog / https://github.com/escoz/quickdialog

- ELCTextFieldCell / https://github.com/elc/ELCTextFieldCell

- IBAForms / https://github.com/ittybittydude/IBAForms

- FormKit.m / https://github.com/brunow/FormKit.m

I suggest you submit it to http://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/new as well.
With all the recent hubbub over printing firearm components, I wonder how quickly legislators will demand the equivalent of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography for tracking specific maker-level printers.
I totally understand and do agree! This wasn't meant to be posted on HN as is (although the app is up and running since July at least, with people using it daily).

The splash page is a placeholder I put in place a long while back and it does not explain at all what you'll get inside the app (and what you won't get).

A proper home page (with detailing benefits, features, privacy policy, pricing, and a screencast) is on its way.

Thanks for taking the time to underline this :)
This looks well designed and useful, but whenever I see a new project like this my first question is "What makes this different?"

There are a number of existing form libraries for iOS* that have been around for a while at differing levels of complexity. Could you give a brief summary of why you wrote a new library instead of using one of the existing ones? Putting an explanation like that in the readme would be a great way to explain why you did all this work.

*:
https://github.com/chrismiles/EZForm
https://github.com/escoz/QuickDialog
https://github.com/ittybittydude/IBAForms
"Government jobs". There are fewer total people employed in government, because the states have been put through the ringer and the stimulus contained no state aid (price of getting the Maine senators on board).

Anwyays, you're smart enough to know that flatlining is effectively a cut, relative to population and inflation. Certainly relative to every other recent president, Reagan and Bush very much included. And relative to Romney's plan to increase military spending (guess how many of those 2.8M are military or homeland security employees).
Most likely an L1 visa then?
Thanks for pointing this out ken, and i would like to add that we have several patents around this in US and Canada, and several pending in other countries.

We would also like to do a battery aftermarket version, but it does come with complications (rim, battery life, etc).

Thanks for your comments...
Lunasee team
Can we have code please?
Yes, it was useful. I actually found an opening somewhere. What would make it better? A couple of suggestions:

- It defaults to Milwaukee. Maybe ask for a zip code?
- I like that it loads more as you scroll down, but it also loads the same things so there are lots of repetitions.
- No filter for android/ios/mobile
- Highlight the words that I filter for; ex: If I choose Android, color the word Android in the page yellow.

Best of luck to you!
a chinese scientist who made his/her PhD and research work in the USA should be called "an american researcher"?

Maybe America is a bad example, since we're all about accepting immigrants as Americans. :)
These are mostly "personal intuitions" and should be take only as inspiration and with a big grain of salt, as I gravitated towards this subject mainly from a selfish interest for self improvement, I must admit. If I were a sociologist I would've probably kept this ideas to myself, formulated a proper theory or set of theories and designed experiments to prove or select the best theory... but I'm not in the field so it's probably better to just pass the ball and let someone with more skill in the field put it in the basket :)

The base of the ideas are Muraven's idea of "willpower as a muscle" and "not as a skill" (google for his articles starting from '98 http://scholar.google.ro/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=... ), but I think (more like "my intuition says") he only got half of the problem right: there's a "muscle" type of willpower (the "make yourself do smth" willpower) and a "skill" type of willpower (the "make yourself want to do something" type) and maybe his experiments just created the conditions that favored people exerting the first type (I'll really have to reread his articles to arrive at a "based" conclusion about this... like in... read more than the abstracts and conclusions for some, shame on me :| ).

And the other source of the intuition is my recent very unstructured approach to try and understand some aspects of buddhist philosophy and meditation...

(But again, I'm not in the field of sociology and the only contact with academic research I had is a past "involvement" with clinical medical research (surgery and oncology...) and some aspects of biomedical statistics, so this really is not my field...)
>> based on the benchmarks game <<

fwiw 8g seems to produce slower programs than 6g, so to be charitable --

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/compare.php?lang=go
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You need low corruption, rule of law, contract enforcement, and property rights.

There's probably a very wide gap between the best and the worst countries in Africa in terms of this -- it's not one homogeneous region.
Pretty cool. I'm using mongo and python in one of my projects, might take a look at this.
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I do not think I will use it but the design is absolutely great nice job!
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How does this work? Is there a public API for these settings or does it require jailbreaking/sideloading?
If your job is to put butts in seats so you can bill for them, yeah.

If your job is to deliver products, you'll find you get what you pay for, I work with some guys who maybe make 10k less than they could because of their immigration status but it's not a difference between 150k and 60k or something.
I thought about doing that, but then I couldn't find any advantages. I can move there, change my Linkedin location to San Francisco, and that would bring more recruiters. I can try going to meetups in the area and try to network. Aside from those, what do you think I could do? I have a very limited amount of time to find a job.
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Absolutely horrible state of affairs, I understand that because of the economic incentive that this will and does happen all the time.

I feel that the only way to stop this is to take away the economic incentive to hire foreign workers. If there was a tax that required the difference between market for the position to be paid to state and federal government we would solve this problem overnight.

I also think part of this problem is the general attitude that business has that everyone is generally a replaceable cog in a machine. Don't get me wrong I have meet and worked with H1-B holders that were superstars, but many of them are not perfect candidates and end up costing more in productivity and efficiency then a Grade A local engineer. A ninja developer can be 20x more productive then someone who is not if you believe the hype, I think companies should focus on getting the right people then just thinking about the people who are cheap. While the ninja might still be an H1-B, we should have a level playing field where the best guy wins. Its better for the company overall, but unfortunately many people are too shortsighted to see that.
Or, you know, we could just get rid of software patents entirely. Less paperwork for all, and we can get back to shipping code without worrying.
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FWIW Googles blog sites load the content in JS.
I do not see why we cannot blame the law. The argument seems pretty trivial to make. If a company does not overreact they have a low chance of being hit with a very large penalty (loss of safe haven and lawsuit), whereas if they overreact they have a high chance of facing a small penalty (loss of some customers and some bad publicity). The logical decision for any business would be to take a high chance of a small penalty over a low chance of a high penalty, to maintain stability. So the law here is systematically encouraging businesses to overreact, which seems like a bad law to me.
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The implication from the article is that this is part of a new way to keep employees from jumping ship. By making an example of this one, regardless of whether or not they did anything wrong, Zynga makes it less likely other employees would want to jump to another game house. Only Zynga would think of that strategy...
Cool, how high up the gaussian integers do you go to get that sort of detail?
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It's also one of the least impactful things you can do for your privacy.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
What's the licensing situation with such models? I seem to remember Lucasfilm (http://www.lucasfilm.com/divisions/licensing/) being pretty active ($3 billion in licensing revenue in 2011), but presumably they're not interested if there's no money involved?
Yes, but then you have basically ARM laptop, just with more standalone parts and with worse usability as a real laptop.
Not sure what your definition of "that much money" is :-)

The margins are estimated to be ~37% - ~50% depending on the model. http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/New-iPad-32-GB-4...

Those estimated margins aren't as high as iPhone (http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/iPhone5-Carries-...) but are still pretty damn good :-)
> Its like the XBOX. Its a nice system but its middle of range in terms of cost, design and specs.

Out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say the Xbox is middle of the road in terms of specs? I believe the original Xbox was far more powerful than the PS2 and GameCube, and ditto for the Xbox 360 vs PS3 and (obviously) Wii. I guess cost of the XBox 360 was middle of the road, but only because the PS3 was so crazy expensive at launch (I bought one as a Blu-Ray player well after launch and it was still crazy expensive).
>Each time you ask for the next row of results it has to resume from where it last left off and calculate that next row. The virtual machine is a way of saving state between those calls for the next row (amongst other things).

They could have achieved the same effect by implementing it in a language with continuations or coroutines, or maybe just iterator functions. That might be viable today if the language is fast enough and callable from C.

C# and LuaJIT spring to mind.
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Different color from, they mean?

Creator: add a bit to default to a randomly chosen color, or even blacklist your special colors, to reduce duplication by the laziest.
Speaking of there being a lot of talent contrary to much belief, I recall seeing a TED talk that mentioned how people in many African cultures excelled at binary arithmetic when it was introduced to them because it was actually much more similar to their mode of thinking (as evident in binary-tree patterns in their art, IIRC) than the decimal system predominant in Western culture.

As someone who grew up in southern Africa, I'd love to put some time and resources towards efforts to help the start-up scene in Africa.
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I wonder what the costs are like. Just looking at the S3 page, it seems this would actually be rather cheap, which makes it an attractive option (especially for a student like me :P). However, I'm not entirely certain on how much resources a small blog like this would use, so I don't know exactly how expensive it would be.
So if I, as an American use the footage for parody, will they try to extradite me to the UK?