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The time is effectively the time to find 4 signals.

> 4, given that you're locating in 4 dimensions --- 3 spacial and 1 time.

I think your understanding is a little flawed. The time is necessary to determine the precise distance, since both you and the satellite are in motion. After the correction for that, the problem becomes locating a body in 3 dimensions based on its distance from N points. A single point gives you a sphere, and you may be located anywhere on that sphere. Two points gives you two spheres. You might be located anywhere at the intersection of those spheres (a circle.) Three points gives you three spheres. I haven't studied the geometry extensively, but Wikipedia says three spheres usually narrows it down to two points you might be at. Knowing your altitude allows you to rule out one of those two points.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS#Basic_concept_of_GPS
It does not have a removable battery? I consider this as an important feature me that I spend lots of hours outside the office. Also ejecting some mass when the phone drops is always a good thing. Two broken Iphones on my drawer say so.
Very exciting - and needed.
This was indeed frustrating; in my attempt to buy a Nexus 10 this morning I inadvertently bought two - I definitely only saw one purchase confirmation screen, though. I'd have expected better from Google.
Have you heard of the LVS? (http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/). We are using it for load balance before Tengine. It's steady and high performance, even better than the commercial load balancer.
People look at successful dropouts and think "not having a degree MUST be the key to success". People are judged better by their lack of formal education than those having attended post-secondary.
Why not release a standalone Linux app, a la Android/iOS/Boxee/Roku/etc? Seems that would be possible.

Honestly I'd prefer it to using my browser anyway.
Sorry. I only linked that because it is the first thing that came up in my google results and offers a fairly credible level of "proof" (since it has her name, photo, and the company's name).

If she had something more professional I would have linked that and will happily edit my post with something like a LinkedIn profile or similar. I wasn't trying to embarrass or show up their spokesman, she just Tweeted from a non-company twitter account and frankly she could have been "anyone." So I wanted to verify that this person could speak for that company and share my findings.
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Mark Cuban is a primary investor in the patent troll Vringo. Why are we pretending he's some kind of tech trendsetter?
Good for you, I guess?
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That sounds good, as long as you don't go on the internet and talk shit about the user if it is detected.

Popping a message like this would be good: "Sorry, this section of the app is incompatible with IAPCracker. Please contact support if you have received this message in error."
Well the beans never actually go to Switzerland, and the bean dealership seems to be there specifically as a tax dodge so... again, morally (as we're talking about here) I'm not sure what the issue is.

It comes down to this - Starbucks operate a chain of coffee shops in the UK. They report to their shareholders that their UK division is a profitable enterprise, they report to the HMRC that it's a loss-maker. Somewhere in between there is probably the truth, and it's that truth the UK should be taxing on.

Why should Starbuck, simply because it is a multinational, enjoy tax breaks that a local/national business does not get?

--edit-- I realise that that isn't a moral question for starbucks, but one for the res of us. The question for Starbucks is 'What is the limit of reasonable behaviour?' and many people consider they've gone far beyond that.

I know you think the limit of reasonable behaviour for a corporation is the same as the limit of the law, so I'll pose the same question to you I posed to someone else downthread -

If it's not (yet) illegal to dump industrial byproducts into the water supply in the country you're operating in, is it moral to do so?
He was being honest about his own perceptions, and willing to admit they may not be correct. By all means let's have less honesty and less self awareness.
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I was especially interested in this comment given the OP's choice of target market. Is the UK secondary market big enough... do you think you can take the business off the auction houses? My understanding of them is that a big part of their service, and why they might be able to justify larger fees, is the cellar valuation, all-in-one service e.g. for clearing out a dead relative's estate.

I definitely think there's something in the individual's secondary market and the competition that exists, e.g. B4W and also the online forums, prove this. It would also be nice to arrange selling of smaller quantities than cases. Just wasn't sure if that would reach the numbers in the OP's point.
Sounds like future HN meetups need poetry readings now.
I was actually surprised I didn't see more of Anand's jabs at Android or maybe too many comparisons with his conclusions with devices from other companies...and then I saw the article was actually written by Brian Klug. So good job Brian on this one.
The hardware Softlayer is offering looks ancient, Xeons from 2006, only a paltry 5GB/mo bandwidth tier as initial offering -- this page looks stuck in time, like what you could get maybe three~four years ago in dedicated hosting.

Even Cari.net, which I think prices a bit higher than others is offering more for the money. I've had several dozen machines with them since 2006 without issue, top notch support. I also use the really cheap and no-frills folks like Ubservers for when I want a bunch of disposable cheap dedicated machines. Their support is absolutely shit, but by god are they cheap and the bandwidth real. I've been through probably dozen and some change of these guys and that's really all that matters is cheap solid bandwidth and a vague sense of support.
Morality and unmitigated self interest are not always totally aligned.

WEIRD HUH?
A friend of mine just finished a programme to semi-automatically trawl through European wide (mostly government) invitations for tender. Paid less than his usual gigs, but he liked the AI aspect of it.

Yes, subsidize go mostly to the people who can afford the lawyers / clerks to trawl through them.
He has a great point. It takes resources to build up an audience anywhere, and then the assumption is generally that once you have that audience you've gained the right to speak to it. Facebook expects you to pay to build your audience (via ads) and then again to speak to it (via "reach"). This makes it a pretty bad idea to spend resources on building an audience there.

Will Twitter do something like this? I don't think so. But it's also a crapshoot whether your tweet will actually be seen or too far down your tweet stream for someone to actually see it. I still believe that email marketing is The. Best. place to build an audience because you have permission to send a message to someone that is almost guaranteed to at least have its headline read.

Of course the rules of the road apply wherever you build an audience, meaning you can't spam or abuse the privilege to talk to them. But all things being equal, owning the channel has some HUGE advantages.
You clearly are not a dog walker. Us dog walkers get pretty tired of getting wet all the time, and trying to dry off a wet dog insistent on shaking his soggy hair all over you is extra motivation to make that last 100 yard sprint home when you see a downpour coming...
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Hi Matt,

You just haven't found the right MBA :)

Some quick background: I'm attending school part-time for my MBA (Richard Ivey, case-based). I've also been with a successful YC startup from the the ground floor as a technical hire, and am currently the co-founder of a very early stage startup.

Your article raises some really good points - most of which I agree with completely. Execution is key, and becoming a PM at an early stage startup is misguided if you're not able to implement your ideas.

That said, should a startup outright ignore applicants with MBAs? Like most things...it depends. The leadership, communication and (yes) strategic skills that a good MBA provides are important. Coupling these strengths with a technical background is a pretty powerful combination.
I don't think it's punishment, it's a deterrent. The point isn't whether the government knows it. The wife didn't know it. The blackmail wouldn't be "we'll tell the government you're having an affair", it's "we'll tell your wife".

It's only "no longer any security threat" because he got caught. The punishment is to dissuade anyone else from having an affair, which a foreign government could use to make their lives difficult by telling their spouse.
They claim "complete offline use - no internet connection is required" - but that doesn't seem accurate when compared to the article.
Just because you don't like one of his companies doesn't mean he's not a very smart businessman.
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The comments in this thread are oozing the same arrogance.
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I had started a moderately successful company during dot com 1.0 when I was still in high school, my biggest issue was dealing with the downs, the rejection, the "no" from customers. One thing I found amazingly beneficial was to become a car salesman for a while. It's one of the toughest type of sales there is, everyone just hates you(even your co-workers/managers) and even good car salesmen will only sell a car to about 1 in 5 people they talk to, and on a weekend you might talk with 10-15+ people.

This obviously isn't a solution that'll work for everyone, but if you had just a year early in life to spend on a car dealership selling cars it'd be an amazing experience for learning. Now when I hear a no, or experience failure it just doesn't even phase me, I've already heard no tens of thousands of times. I'm sure there are other types of sales where this could be learned, but if you want to be a founder I sure think there'd be a huge amount of benefit gained from a car sales type experience.
It's not a "removable" batter, but it is easy to replace with the correct Torx screwdriver. That doesn't help in your two scenarios, but it will be useful if you want to keep your phone significantly longer than the 3 year half-life of lithium batteries.
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Torvalds has a masters in CS. "Never" is a strong word, but the rest of the paragraph you're harpooning makes a different point than the one you're refuting.
A bit late for what? Out of the major OS's MS is the largest, I'm writing this on a mac, and would loathe to have to use a PC but you have to appreciate that for most consumers when MS delivers something it is right on time.

They (the consumers) are unintentionally blind to the landscape, this will be new to a ton of people and/or right under their noses for the first time. This is the time.
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Which is odd, because he's been quite vocal in his opposition to software patents.
I'm not sure what it was. If it was an advert, it didn't mention one of the biggest selling points: multiple channels.

If you want to buy a fast USB 3.0 stick, make sure it's 4/8/12 channel, and of course check hardware review sites for benchmarks.
It seems there are two different "Facebooks" - one for people, a real "scoial' network, the other for commercial entities and their customers. And this unacknowledged duality seems to be slowly coming apart.

There might be a huge opening here for a "companies only" facebook clone, where you can only get updates from your favorite brands and service providers, not socialize with friends.
How should we price our startup?
Hello Hacker News,

We need some help! We launched our startup Redline, http://www.redline.cc, into private beta a few months back. We are about ready to make it public and as part of that we want to introduce a pricing model. We have had some lively discussions about what to price it and how to determine if that is the right price but all our solutions feel like we are just guessing. The only thing we can agree on is that we have a free tier, a qa tier and a production tier. Beyond that, what should we set as the initial prices and how should we run pricing tests after that?
Personally, Saturday; looks like there aren't too many others reading this now :-(
This is good to know. I had assumed up until this point that it was merely behind the curve (I've been using WebKit nightlies since they're labelled as Safari...)
"Luger", originally, meant the Luger P08 pistol. You'd probably recognize it as the sidearm you see the Nazis carrying in WWII movies. It was the first pistol to take the cartridge which today most people just call "9mm".

Today, "9mm Luger", "9mm Parabellum", and "9x19mm" are all synonyms for this same cartridge. Usually when "9mm" is said without qualification, this is what it means. However, there are other much rarer 9mm cartridges such as the 9x18mm Makarov, and also "9mm short" and "9x17mm" are rarely-used synonyms for the (common) cartridge usually called .380ACP.
I believe you can do this quite easily with Django request processors, though I've never tried it.

This could work: https://gist.github.com/4066816
This is incredibly well written and 100% on-point with my own personal experiences. This paragraph stood out the most to me:

"As a techie individual contributor in a larger company, I could go to work everyday and execute 99% predictably. As a founder, I had to find ways to plead your case over and over — to employees, investors, candidates, advertisers, users — and I got rejected a lot. For an introvert, the amount of pleading and subsequent rejection came as quite a shock."

That's probably one of the most difficult adjustments I've had to make moving from 16 years of plain-old-coding into being a founder.
Very, very unlikely.

You are much more likely an investor in a unit fund that itself holds shares. As a result you have no say over anything, and pretty much no alternative but to join one of these schemes.
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Why not use all social networking avenues? I use Instragram, Tumblr, and Twitter alongside Facebook, but even without paying anything on Facebook, I get views and interaction from users that I wouldn't get if I said "fuck it" about Facebook.
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I wasn't aware the Web Audio API had rolled out in iOS 6; that's pretty nice. I still consider it a toy, though, given that it literally works nowhere else - not even in Chrome on Android. Unless you are building for specific browsers, it is little more than an annoyance you have to put up with to get audio that works across all browsers (because <audio> STILL doesn't work right in WebKit browsers).

Canvas and WebGL are fundamentally not the same thing. The Canvas API specifies a bunch of behaviors (some of them very expensive to implement) and it also specifies an API that is inherently inefficient and poorly suited to what most 2D games do.

If you were to benchmark a WebGL implementation of the Canvas API (to spec) against Canvas, that would be realistic. You can do that, there are a couple out there - but you might find that they don't really perform much better. WebGL2D certainly doesn't; it's slower than Canvas in many cases.
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I don't have this particular app, but I have Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English (5th ed.), also by Enfour, Inc. that I bought last year for, I don't remember, $50 I think (at the time, now they've dropped the price).

The latest version displays "I'm a software thief" as a notification, says to run the app in safe mode and then crashes.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/longman-dictionary-contempor...

Oh, and I'm not jailbroken.
The reason it works for companies right now too is because everyone and their mom already on Facebook. I doubt a new "companies only" Facebook would really do well.
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Facebook certainly has a challenge on their hands with this issue but this move is surely going to be difficult for smaller businesses to absorb. Many small businesses have flocked to the giant to build their followings and connect with them but the exorbitant fees are already proving to be prohibitive.
Is their truth to the same kind of changes in reach in personal (non-business) accounts and feed as well?
A twitter user in the UK was arrested for sending a racist tweet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-18694505

While racism is deplorable, and should be discouraged, it's a scary violation of human rights and free speech to arrest a person for expressing such views.
I'll do that, thanks for the hint.
Wow -- this is the first time I have encountered somebody asking to be paid in Tweets. I think I will pass.
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Nah. Can only imagine the "sell-out!!" out-cries... ;)
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A more correct headline might have said, "Previously considered vegetative patient shows apparent consciousness"
Given the number of pogo pins, they must be for both power & USB, so a keyboard dock is quite possible. (If it is just power, the dock could use bluetooth.

If the Nexus 10 is successful, somebody will make a keyboard dock for it. I'm almost confident enough of that to buy a Nexus 10 today and use my bluetooth keyboard for the time being.

While I'm confident somebody will make a keyboard dock, I'm not as confident that it will be a GOOD dock. So I'm going to wait for a bit.
I also highly recommend Christensen's 2010 followup HBS article, "Integrating Around the Job to be Done." http://hbr.org/product/integrating-around-the-job-to-be-done...
Because they get all the devices for free?
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Is anyone else slightly concerned about the glass back? Several reviews including The Verge had their back crack while testing it.

For me that is the biggest concern. The nice thing about plastic is that it absorbs some of the energy from a drop or shock. Glass gets cracks and then shatters.

I would have liked to have seen the same "rubber" back the Nexus 7 (by Asus) has. I would have alternatively taken Samsung's "cheap" feeling plastic backs.
You can compare a preview build of IE10 from 6 months ago with a Windows Safari nightly from today and IE10 will still win. I have.
Ken (and later Marc) even offered to take down all his posts and stop trying to get the jokers sent to prison. They just needed to close up shop, taking down all the photos and keep them down.

The brain surgeons gave back a big middle finger.
Core CPI includes housing, but not food or fuel (since they are volatile).

The difference between core CPI and exponentially smoothed CPI (which removes volatility but includes long term changes in food and fuel) is negligable:

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr236.pdf

There may be gaming in CPI, but excluding volatile components is not it.

Another way to see it: CPI and Core CPI track each other pretty closely, and until recently Core CPI was actually higher than CPI: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=cMs
T-Mobile has discounted post-paid plans again if you bring your own device: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Packages/ValuePackages.aspx

I'm on the $30/mo "walmart" prepaid plan, but I'm considering switching back to post paid because you can't use any data roaming at all on T-Mobile prepaid.
The real question is whether 4 (or 5, etc.) years of running your own business gives you more business skill than 2 years of MBA education and 2 (or 3, etc.) years of running your own business.
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In the European Union this sort of site would almost certainly be illegal. The EU has "data protection law" which basically say personal information is protected and one needs the consent of the person to process and do things with it. You also must store in a legal protected way. You don't even need to get into complicated "does this or does this not count as extortion" malarky.
If the Publisher ( Website Owner ) is selling directly ( No Middle Men / Network ) to the Advertiser and hes transparent , he will use a way to track "real" impressions. Ads that aren't shown to the visitors won't count. ( This is only for CPM based ads ) Publishers know that people use adblocker and can easily detect it , it's not uncommon to replace the blocked ads by an internal image / message asking you to disable it on their website.

But yes , if you buy advertising on some websites , you may pay for impressions that never happened.

Feel free to ask more questions on the subject.
According to Wikipedia, Linux was developed around his second year in university. That would suggest that he did not have a degree during its development and had a formal education, at that time, roughly equivalent to the average university dropout. I think that still supports the parent's claim, even if it is a little misleading as written.
I am nine hours ahead in London, I was actually getting quite nervous, this is tense. Good luck everyone!
They are going to need that money for rectal reconstruction when they get out of the clink.
A genius inside all of us?
He's not pretending to be a tech trendsetter, he's being an investor, and hedging his bets, as all good investors do

This is a hedge against the unlimited patent exposure all the companies I have investments in face. Patent risk is impossible to quantify. It's unrealistic for most small to medium businesses to have any clue which patents they are at risk over. Vringo's IP from the merger is the flip side of that risk and offers an imperfect hedge. So, I made the investment.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/04/17/cuban-says...
I actually think the interface is a cool and creative use of their app's interface.
You are really gambling with your feature because the way I get is I'll use my money this way if I win I will get the biggest cut possible, I do not see other reasons of doing it apart from that is easier. But is it worth it? If you had received some founds you could be safe, lose and try again maybe. But you might also had not the opportunity to rise some founds, which would mean that some people do not believe you can have so much success as you believe. They can be wrong, you can be wrong, but it's usually better to have more views on your idea than only yours because it just works better.

That said, I wish you the best of lucks.

You also might want to check your font, on chrome windows 7 looks really bad http://i.imgur.com/vz8cZ.png
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More like so little demand for advertising.

FB has a massive supply of impressions which has bottomed-out remnant/auction CPM rates industry wide.

I see this as a move to try and introduce a (somewhat) premium ad product. Users have already indicated interest in the brand -- now they will have to pay to reach these intenders.
You don't realize how nice it is to save those 5 seconds, plus the mental effort of grabing the cable, finding the port, and plugging it in the right orientation until you get wireless charging.
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