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> Off topic, but my sister worked in a place where they put the magnets into wind turbines. There was a loud crash one day, someone had a magnet on a pallet, lifted it with a forklift and drove it out to a van. Half way the magnet got sucked by another magnet (in one of the factories) and burst through the wall and the two clamped together. They never got them apart and had to take the remaining bits of the turbine apart from around them.

What city was this in? Which manufacturer?
MLK and Gandhi were real people once too

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/mlking.asp

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-gandhi-nobody-...

http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/02/gandhi-and-the-dalit-co...
I'd love constructive feedback about how it could be better structured or revised for tone to make it more approachable, as well as what areas would be helpful to go into in more detail.
Excellent - thanks for sharing! It's a great model and I'm excited to see it grow.

Of course, the nice thing about Kiva is that it is a loan, rather than a donation, which allows you to use the same initial investment to help lots of people again and again.
I have been using OpenBSD as a desktop for past 3 years, and i am sure many do.
I really like what they've built here, but...

> DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) such as <%=foo%> or {{foo}} reduce portability

I would argue, well documented template DSLs increase portability among developers, which is often more important than portability among frameworks.
You are not helping by unjustly calling him a rapist. In fact, even if he did what's he's being accused of, in most countries wouldn't be considered rape.

If you only read the headlines you are better off not reading news at all.
By using the Accessibility APIs. I imagine the core is implemented pretty similarly to Slate as I think there are only a couple ways to implement window management features.

It is pretty hacky in parts. For example, some windows have an absolute minimum size that they can't be resized beyond, so I have some logic that figures that out and deals with it. The hiding/showing of windows is also not as robust as I would like, but it works.

There are a lot of other examples where I have added things based on observation, rather than documentation.
Someone else commented that they had written one in macruby.

I looked into implementing macruby for configuration but unfortunately the embedding api is not very good. I am possibly going to implement lua configuration though.
Is there any way to evaluate without signing-up and and without writing any code. I mean some kind of web interface using which I can do the file format conversion and can see how does that work
touché, I do think Slate deserves a better features overview though.
I confess to be slightly disappointed at this. Although there was speculation that this was indeed iceberg related, there was also speculation that possibly a living creature could be the source of this. Sad to say this but it appears that the age of discovering large animals is long past us.
I thought that would happen, it's kind of intuitive.
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so i guess it depends on what your goal is. Is it to make money? To be a highly trafficked site? To be a resource for a niche?

Money sounds rough unless you can get to some form of productization. I'm don't know the size of the potential user base for what you are offering, so I don't know how realistic a high number of users is or isn't. It sounds like you're already a resource for a niche, and if you like that, then take the burden off of yourself and automate as much as possible.
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What if the entire loop was in motion? Picture a maglev train 1200km long. There is no "front" to the train, it's a loop, so air is not being compressed as it whizzes along at 1200kmph. Most of the space inside the train could be void, which could be filled with passenger cars as needed.

Would that eliminate enough of the air resistance to be feasible? Is a 1200km long contiguous structure feasible?
It's great to see so many NoVA people here on HN. It gives lots of hope that NoVA is a great place for the kind of audience that HN caters to. There's actually a fair amount of startups here...but for whatever reason they don't seem to rate high enough with the SV/NYC scene to get lots of coverage.

I think with the pretty good schools, something like the highest per-capita population with college degrees in the country, a very large government, biotech, commercial and publishing market and significant investment in fairly decently priced office space, stable housing prices (relatively) and hopefully improving public transit and being just on the southern end of the NoVA<->Boston corridor, one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse populations in the world it's surprising that it's not more prominent. D.C.'s also a great cultural scene, ridiculous museums, and the ring right outside of the city is a fantastic place for young single folks to live with the city center developing in a great way.

But yeah, once you get too far south or south west you end up in confederate flag waiving anti-intellectual redneck country pretty fast.

Strangely, there's a ton of West Coast companies with fairly large office presences here, but a deeper dive into them and you'll find they are almost exclusively sales offices -- sometimes with a services and integration team, but almost no serious development.
Is the software open source?
This doesn't qualify as issues caused by less free licenses, but because of strong copy-left (GPL in this case), I have access to the source code for devices such as my television. The point in a GPL heavy world would be that it is cheaper for companies to release their software under GPL because of the network of other GPL software they can then use. This likely won't help (much) with software companies, but for many companies the software is just a component to make their product work.
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A key ingredient in this transition and being successful in it is trusting in your team.

We've gone from 3 to 10 in last year and realizing everything might not happen my way but will still be done well required some mental adjustment for me. But the ability to do this was purely a function of trust in the people on the team and their instincts, judgement, skills, etc. (note: the mental adjustment remains a work in progress. Maker tendencies are not easy to lose)
It's a good read, and one of my starting points, but I had already seen some official archival material that contradicted several of the article's claims. There aren't too many references given that can be chased down either.
Do you have a growth story?
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For some reason that reminded me of the climatic (pun?) scene where the bad guys' undersea under ice lair blows up and the ice falls down to the ocean floor facepalm
Why Jakob Nielsen's Windows 8 critique is old-school thinking
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You should. I'm still going to stick with Slate though because I use it as so much more than a window manager.
How about the BBC?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15856116#TWEET33746

It's not an explicit "email is dead" but he was definitely suggesting email would lose in favor of messaging systems on social platforms (like Facebook).

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg echoed this in this talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8NdNy4wOM
I think the cheapest was $7,500 for economy, and business class for $16,000.

That is still amazing consider when I book business class flights on my own, it's usually $3-4k per round trip.
1. Get good clients.

2. Get a deposit (ideally one month's pay) up front. If your client doesn't want to put down a deposit, find another client

3. If client doesn't pay you for more than a month, ALL WORK STOPS until you have their money in your bank account.

Problem solved. If your clients are in town and aren't paying, feel free to drop by their office and remind them that you aren't working until you get paid. An in-person reminder is a lot more influential than a piece of paper with a number on it.
Sorry, not going there. Suffice to say, he burned a bridge.
Don't be so sure - the first pictures of a live giant squid are only around a decade old. The ocean is deep and dark.
Think of all the millions of people looking for jobs in this country, there might actually be some slightly more intelligent folks to replace that 120k or so.

But I guess the only good side of this is THEY WILL NEVER HAVE TO USE THEM, it's theater.

$430000000/123000 = $3,500 per radio, which is also insane.
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I did a coding interview problem once where the company gave me an API endpoint that spat out JSON representing products, and told me to build a page that displays those objects onto a page with infinite scroll. As you scrolled down to the bottom of the page it would load more products.
It's not so easy to tell. In the early '90s I did a lot of x86 assembly. I haven't done any assembly in at least 15 years or so. Looking back I can't really tell if it's good or not. And if I tried to do any assembly at this point I'm sure it would be awful. On the flip side, back then I didn't know any javascript so I supposed I've improved 100% in that area.
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Are you opposed in general to people earning money by providing you streaming content you're interested in, or would you prefer to pay for it directly rather than have ads?
Cancer Survivor or Victim of Overdiagnosis?
Sure, and I bet you buy your food with stock options.
I was more fascinated by the original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCw16_Yxid0). Interesting part starts at 45s.
How is this similar to getting a quote? The flightfox agent has done all the work either he/she wins or not. This is nothing like plumber quotes.
BitTorrent is associated almost exclusively with piracy, and the protocol is actively blocked on many networks.
Really slow on an iMac too.
Ah American democracy - freedom and knowledge for all, who can afford it.
It's not stupid. The job of any CTO is to minimize risk and the talent pool of a niche language drying up is definitely a risk. Every startup I have worked at has thought carefully about talent pool and language choice.
And yet, if given the chance, I'm sure google would love to scan and distribute any and every document the government gave them access to.
I have always had difficulty with people quoting Jakob Nielsen on usability. His website is practically illegible with the blinding color scheme and odd layout structure.
It's the same reason that federally funded scientific research is only available in for-profit journals. Someone has to pay for the costs associated with publishing things, and the scientists/FCC don't want it coming out of their budget.

Of course, the money being paid to access papers in for-profit journals is also coming from the government, just in a less efficient way.
What he said... That's what I've been doing since the 90s. It works well.

And, to answer the question what steps to do when they don't pay: not much you can do other than asking. There aren't any worthwhile legal resources for businesses or freelancers to be paid.

However, to not get there, make sure the payment schedule covers your work hours including profit and if they don't respect the schedule, stop working and mention there will be a delay in delivery. As he said, choosing well your client by avoiding people who are too difficult from the start usually avoids the worst kind of clients. As soon as your guts sees a red flag, don't ignore it and walk away. Your instinct is rarely wrong when sizing trustworthiness.
https://www.virustotal.com/file/854dac8b4616c1b4174dc0179617...
I hadn't even thought of using a css based answer to fizzbuzz, but I guess it is possible now.
Interesting post, except the part about pain not being rational.

Both emotions and specifically pain can absolutely be rational. There's no inherent separation between the rational and the emotional.

Crying when your loved ones die is, for one example, a very rational thing for a person to do; that is a rational emotional response to pain.
The link is for the demo, but the webcam won't show unless you allow it in the browser. I'm using Chrome and a yellow permissions bar pops down for me.
Unfortunately, the longer you freelance the greater the odds that you'll find one who doesn't pay you.

In general, I think that being nice to people, having fair billing practices, and doing good work are the best ways to make sure your clients pay on time. As well, when I'm preparing an invoice, I like to email a client and say that I'm preparing an invoice...I usually do net 30 but I wanted to know if there was anything I could do to make things more convenient.
OP here, I am writing this book to document what people have done in the past when faced with the 'growth' of their startups. My list only goes up to 17 so far, and I need another 13 great stories to include in the book.

If you have a growth story, send me an email (in profile). It doesn't have to be a million-dollar story. If you grew from the garage/ side project into a profitable business, I want to share your story as long as you employed an original idea to grow. If you have two or more stories, be a co-author.
My question is, what do these people think they are going to do when they get the job? Or do they actually think they can program, and then realize that they can't?
The National Archives should have jurisdiction for storing the documents of all federal agencies, departments and commissions. Just like the NSA has jurisdiction to secure every federal computer network.
document archive is sitting behind a paywall-esque system. Is there a good reason for this?

Traditionally the reason is it requires somebody to go find the physical copy, scan it, and send it to you.

I would imagine that they could instead scan and index them, and then put them up online

Physical archival, once archived, is pretty low-maintenance. They could scan and index them, but that costs something. Yes, the information in the documents has already been paid for, but transferring that information has not.

<sarcasm>Yes, what a boon for the public.</sarcasm>

Well, at least you can get access if you need it. Compared to zero access, I'd say that's a boon. Also a good first step.
https://github.com/mikedewar/d3py
Very cool. I like what you've done. Nice and minimalist.
The cost of publishing - especially written documents - has dropped to essentially free in the last two decades, though. I hear your argument from time to time, but it's a really hard sell these days.
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I'd be very interested to see/try it. The lack of a decent WM in OSX is one of the main things that keeps ArchLinux on my MBA.
"How do we know the government wasn't behind John F Kennedy's assassination? Because he's actually dead."
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Very true. Apparently we've only explored 5%, leaving 95% for a giant something to be living. It would be a sad day to realize there is nothing left to be discovered. Even at an older age I still find it fascinating and exciting to think there is something unknown, mystical and possibly magical in this world.

[1]http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html
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In the famous words of Ben Affleck's character in Good Will Hunting, "RETAIIIINER!"

(for levity) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hWIr9_noRo

Just as with other professional services (Law, Advertising, Accounting), I use a retainer model.

This works for me and filters out the clients who I feel value my work.

For example:

* $10000 put into an account that draws down against hours worked / daily / weekly output.
* Invoiced weekly through freshbooks
* As retainer moves below threshold in retainer it gets replenished.

This keeps all of us honest, and it keeps me in a cashflow positive situation (usually).

Also, read up on patio11's posts here on HN. He's a smart guy and offers a lot of insights into what it is like to consult for a living.
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Mine work well with that link. Thank you for your suggestions but the website I created is just a preview. Will work on it though. I'll keep you posted when I made some changes.

They are out of context because they (we) are basically just doing extraction. In which we just extract the most important sentences, arrange them in order, and present it in a paragraph / list. I prefer presenting the top sentences in a list though. In my opinion, presenting it as a paragraph will make an effect that it's out of context rather than in a list.

If the summaries was done through abstraction, like how humans are doing it, it will obviously produce better summaries. But why we are not doing it? I believe abstraction summaries are holy grail of automatic summarization.
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Well, there's always more space to discover.
I don't know the answer to why the 2.4GHz ISM band is at 2.4GHz, but I do know the answer as to why the 2.4GHz band was chosen over others. (I also know why the 61.5 GHZ ISM bad was chosen to be 61.5GHz.)

The choice of the 2.4GHz band needs to be seen in the context of 1995, when the first WLAN prototypes were built.

The lower limit was set by the desire to have the smallest antennas possible, to allow WLAN equipped devices to be portable. The higher the frequency, the smaller the wavelength, the smaller the antenna.

The upper limit was set by what was technically possible in 1995. The desire was to use cheap CMOS technology to build WLANs. In 1995, it was just possible to build a 2.4GHz radio in CMOS and research was in progress to build a 5GHz radio.

Consequently the first WLANs came out at 2.4GHz. Since then, WLANs have remained at that frequency for compatibility reasons (Metcalfe's law). 802.11a was defined to be 5GHz, because 802.11a came out after 802.11b and by then a 5GHz radio was possible in CMOS. Due to the dominance of 2.4GHz, 802.11g was later defined to be 802.11a at 2.4GHz, to take advantage of readily available 2.4GHz RF components, and allow 802.11a rates without having to have a dual-band radio.

61.5GHz was chosen for ISM because it is heavily attenuated by oxygen the atmosphere. This makes it unsuitable for long-range communications, but great for short range, since the high attenuation provides a degree of isolation between networks.
Current company or the one I'm referring to when in the post above (which was prior startup)?
Good luck with your search!

Out of interest, have you tried approaching the University to see if they have funds available to help you out? That would be my first port of call - $500USD isn't much to them.
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Most of that sound is caused by artifacts of slowing the bloop down but keeping it in audible frequencies.

Here's a more realistic version of the sound and a rationale of how it was made (needs a sub-woofer or some decent headphones to actually hear it):
http://porkrind.org/missives/the-bloop/
"The $430 million paid for radio infrastructure and maintenance as well as the actual radios."

It's not $3500 per radio.
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Well you talk to the CTO about reasonableness or get a new job, because if the CTO doesn't value that, the company is headed for the trash can.
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I wonder if you could buy your own encrypted mini-cellphone network for $430M

- given government markup, I have to assume the answer is "yes".
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Good to see these guys are from Perth, Western Australia. We need more startups here!
I may be wrong, but I feel like (Christian) religion is at the forefront of the anti-intellectual 'movement.' The more fundamentalist you are about your religion, the more likely you are to vote Republican as they pander to the religious crowd. I can see how "Voting Democrat" could be seen as a barometer for intellectualism, but I agree that it's a flawed metric.
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> Most programmers spend precious little time using floating point and don't need to worry about computational error.

I think this is true of experienced programmers, but I see inexperienced programmers tripping over floating point misunderstandings quite often. In almost every case they shouldn't have been using floating point at all.
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My (anecdotal) understanding was that it is due to the technologies available around the time the oven was introduced. In particular, the size of the horn was directly proportional to the wavelength employed. For purely practical reasons, the wavelength was naturally restricted to the range for which an efficient and practically sized horn could be produced: i.e. something a typical person could carry and install in their home, with a low enough draw that it didn't require three-phase power.
it's not impossible the problem is that the real wm is just a stub and the main windowmanager is written into one of the core libraries.

Last I remember you could compile code and link it to an existing library, or increase one of the sections and add loader code for your own binary, but I don't however know if this is still possible with code signing in the newer osx's.

The main problem is that you'd have to disassemble everything since it's completely undocumented terrain. Although on the otherhand if it's objc assembly you might just be lucky, since that reads pretty much like a text book.
The point is that this line of reasoning can be applied to whatever painful event suffered by anybody who's better than "most people" and especially gasp "most Americans."

Where do you draw the line and why there and not elsewhere? What's "proper pain"?

To be honest, I'm somewhat on your side and tend to take the "shut up and grow up already" mentality regarding people whining (suffering) about painful life events, but that view does not answer the above question reasonably, it just ends up denouncing whatever you personally cannot withstand or are annoyed with.
I think there are no points in [0] what so ever to support the claim than one should not use black (#000). The author does not argue at all. All he does is present a photo he has taken which does not have black pixels. What the hell is that supposed to prove?
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Good grief. Which have not been exploited? All unix derivatives came from the same set of (originally open) base code, they shared nothing. They all died (to first approximation). All TCP implementations in the early days were copies of the BSD code. They shared nothing. Does Apple contribute back to Mach or BSD the stuff they do with Darwin for iOS? Does Microsoft publish their modifications to their BSD-derived networking stack?

Can I get a buildable kernel tree for my Android phone? Yup.
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