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without sly ad homonym attacks this will be boring. the basic intent is to say that there is nothing but ego that requires the original officer to make the stop. radio to air pursuit and other police should generally be safer than creating a chase scenario.
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Just wait until PC World finds out what some game developers are making these days using C++, a language from 1983!
ok I really am not getting this it says:

"the technical challenges were daunting because the raw information does not allow speed calculations,'' Maines said. "We came up with some neat tricks to overcome that, and it's great that the judges recognized our hard work.""

I am crazy to think that the raw data would be something like:
account#, toll location, time
And this would be the bare minimum. How would determining the length between tolls and using the times to determine the average speed required be "neat tricks"? Am I really off?

I am not saying it wasn't hard work, but please tell me the real technical challenges, that I really would love to hear.
I'm sure the stock options at apple are far from the label "paid relatively poorly".

"And there's a lot of good product to work on"

It's hard to tell from the outside if the place you are going is a well functioning organization that will satisfy a long term career.
To insulate those sellers against Bitcoin fluctuations, the eBay-like drug site also offers a hedging service. Sales are held in escrow until buyers receive their orders via mail, and vendors are given the choice to turn on a setting that pegs the escrow’s value to the dollar, with Silk Road itself covering any losses or taking any gains from Bitcoin’s swings in value that occur while the drugs are in transit.

I was wondering exactly how vendors could have withstood a > 50% loss of value while their Bitcoins were in escrow. Silk Road is a remarkable service and provides an experience that will keep the value of Bitcoin alive at some level for a long time.
A friend of mine also made a 3d engine with QBasic that was a racing game when we were in 9th or 10th grade. I remember as he was developing it he was referring to a trigonometry book for a class that he hadn't yet taken. It was totally ridiculous and awesome.
I signed up to get an email notification when they launched their services in Singapore, but I haven't received any email, so I thought I'd share this.
Wow. Very impressive site.
If they understand the, and they are right, and they are thinking about the company's best long term interests, then why do they need to scream?
Yea, it feels more like when you start noticing the same make of car after you buy one yourself
My personal website for a long time was just a full-page resume, with a link to a pdf version of it. I also post free textbooks for my classmates sometimes.
these things work well-enough in very small development teams.
Sorry for the late reply, but I think you should contract someone to to marketing/sales. I would first take a look at the market, and then develop some lead generation ideas (ad words is good, getting a booth at one of these vet conferences is another) and work the the person you contact to generate leads. The the marketing person could take over and close the sale.
I think Gorrila's was the ultimate Qbasic game. It was "Scorched Earth" before Scorched Earth was a game.

I learned programming by turning Gorrila's in to a game with buildings that moved every turn, and changing the graphics.
So while Bitcoin’s crash last week from $237 to less than $100 means that the Dread Pirate Roberts was likely forced to pay out much of the extra gains Silk Road made from Bitcoin’s rise, most of his sellers were protected from those price changes and continued to trade their drugs for Bitcoins despite the currency’s plummeting value.

Is that a good assumption that most sellers would have taken this protection? Given how Bitcoin was rising I would have thought at least some would have taken the gamble (and lost), but no idea how many.
I'm studying computer science at the moment it definitely helps to have money saved up so 70k sounds good enough. It's hard to do computer science and be completely broke trust me I would know I am broke. is difficult. Sometimes I wonder if the best thing to do is work for a few years make enough money save up and come to it.
Funny how NIH projects could have a 20% cut when the $44 Billion reduction this year as a result of sequestration is 1% of the actual budget. Where did that other 19% come from?

That is a complete non-sequitur. The amount a grant from one federal entity is reduced is not limited to the same percentage as the total federal budget.
It's a hypothesis - namely, that the entities running the simulation are trying to simulate their own universe to make deductions and discoveries about it.

Therefore, our universe would be a reasonable facsimile of there's in most respects.

Which has the implication that their may be limitations on their computational substrates which required workarounds or optimizations, or as the lattice QCD case points out - which require representing phenomenoma as discrete computational steps, rather then continuous analytical functions. It's a well known problem in all the computational disciplines, that changing the time-step of your simulation frequently leads to wildly different results then you expect.

Think about the speed of light and tell me how it makes _any_ sense that time slows down due to velocity. Yet that's exactly what EVE Online does to stop nodes crashing during heavy gameplay.
“If I spend $100 on drugs now and the price of [Bitcoin] doubles in a week, then I’ve effectively spent $200 on those drugs by next week.”

Even if you're buying drugs with hard cash on a street corner, the fact remains that you would probably be financially better off by investing that money rather than trading it for drugs - hell, you could buy some Bitcoins with it as your (somewhat risky) investment if you so wish!

From the same person: "Addicts. People who need their drugs and will pay for them, despite knowing that they could buy twice as much for the same money in a week."

I don't get why he is ignoring the fact that Bitcoin could also halve in value in a week's time (errr, like it just has!), or why Forbes are quoting someone who seems to think that investing in Bitcoin is guaranteed to make you money. Or why that person is a user on Silk Road if he thinks that every week he doesn't spend on there he can double his money.
When I was in high school I was invited to a youth science symposium. After a fancy dinner after a day-long event I asked the speaker, a woman from NASA, if a non-returning mission to Mars was on NASA's list of possibilities ( as the difficulty of the return trip is the primary prohibitive part of a manned mission to Mars ). She took this opportunity to try to humiliate me for even thinking such a crazy plan was worth considering, stating that "we would never send anyone to Mars if we could not return them home" as if it was some kind of militaristic "leave no man behind" moral code. I was very disappointed that she didn't even take the time to consider it and argue against it from a reasoned position. I am happy to see that others are not so closed minded these days and that space and planetary exploration will most likely continue with more open-minded people finding ways to reach out push on the edge of our envelope.
However, the original question is interesting even from a descriptive point of view. Essentially, the descriptive version of the question would ask what is a simple set of rules that accurately model the ordering of adjectives in English (or perhaps in a specific dialect/register of English).
You mean like all the developers competing with bundled apps?
Schedule a meeting in the AA Admiral's Club. The agents will give you a pass to get through security without a ticket.
I really wish people would stop using Javascript benchmarks as a CPU benchmark, especially across architectures. The amount by which they vary between browsers on the same device should make it obvious they aren't a good general-purpose benchmark.

I mean, Kraken for one says my laptop is 60% faster than itself.
There is absolutely nothing new in tech advances that makes it easier to enforce speeding laws. In the 80s I read some book about beating speeding tickets, and they did the math about the profit margin on a radar gun. It turned out that the average radar gun generated a net profit on the order of $1000/day/gun. The obvious question is why aren't there radar guns on every police car? The answer is obvious: local politicians don't like to get tickets, either.
A reddit image viewer I hacked together over the weekend
So, I was annoyed with clicking back and forth between reddit and things like imgur and quickmeme, so I hacked this together in about a day.

Its built on a couple of php scripts on a free heroku instance, backed by a mecachier cache (also free) and still maintaining reasonable response times despite increasing traffic.
Just an idea: qualified applicants could preffer to work for themself.
I think the perfect thing to do is use a tool when it's necessary to use that tool, and no more/no less. Sometimes it's unnecessary and a pain in the ass to use .xibs or storyboards and other times it makes iterating through designs magnitudes faster (why not select all objects in a .xib and press up twice for a 2 pixel shift instead of editing 20+ cgrect calls).
It's Bitcoin's distributed ledger which is the interesting technology from a central bank's point of view. Notes aren't necessarily supply-limited; a possible model would be that the central bank issues and signs new notes, which are then tracked on distributed ledgers.
I want to build something cool/useful and also enjoy the process of building. Your argument makes it sound like do something useful just for the sake of it. You ruined the whole argument buddy
Look into LKB, if you haven't already. I used it extensively in my master's (computational linguistics) and though I've forgotten most of what I knew, you might find it an interesting rabbit hole in terms of sentence representation formats. Especially if you dig Lisp.
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> Hell, that's probably what make them join the force in the first place.

This. If we believe that people will tend to behave in accordance with their incentives (and we all do, because we're all good capitalists here) then this is a virtual certainty.

Cops get paid X per year. So, all things being equal, some number of people who think it is worthwhile to do the job for X per year will sign up. A few will take the job because they want to help people, so they are willing to work for less than they would at some other job. At the same time, and in the same vein, a few will take the job because it allows them "perks" like hurting people and generally breaking the law without consequence. This is why it is so, so important to hold police to a higher standard, because in the long run we want more of the "want to help people" type and fewer of the "want to break the law" type.
This may seem like a 1st world problem. But I think going from a comfortable life of making 100-120k a year to living on 70K for three years as a student (that money has to pay for room, board, food, books, tuition, etc) will not be that easy. I hear you on being a broke student being hard though. For part of my time when I was still in school, I was as broke as one could possibly be, and it was awful.
Very well put! Nice! :)
He's probably talking about ARC for Objective-C, that automatically releases references and allocations when it's impossible for those allocations to be used again in scope.
Sorry, I missed that specific point in amongst your others; the main argument you made seemed to specifically ignore this, so I guess I just edited it out when I read it. :)

Women do plenty of obsessive hobbies. I know women who can spend an entire day (12+ hours) baking, for example. Sure, our brains are wired differently, but I think the idea that you have to be obsessive to present at a conference (and that females might not be as obsessive for whatever reason) doesn't quite hold up. There are plenty of conference-worthy subjects which might not be deeply meticulous coding topics, for example.
OP here. I personally had a lot of trouble when trying to learn category theory on my own. Part of the reason for this is that the need for category theory comes from a lot of other abstract mathematics being unified under the category theoretic lens. I didn't have much of that background my first few times, and I think that was one of the major reasons I didn't succeed in understanding it.

After a few years of graduate school, with lots of colleagues working on the same material as me, it has gradually become much easier. The best text I've seen so far is Paolo Aluffi's "Algebra: Chapter 0". It's an algebra textbook meant for first year graduate students in pure mathematics, but it was the major factor in clarifying category theory for me. Of course, the book also contains pretty much all topics in abstract algebra from basic groups to abelian categories. So if you're not pegging to be a research mathematician, chances are the book is not worth your time.

Part of my goal with this series is to demystify the subject as it was demystified for me, and to incorporate as many concrete applications to programming concepts as I can.

I hope you find some value in what I produce :)
"the fact remains that you would probably be finanically better of by investing that money rather than trading it for drugs..."

No shit?

Truly you are one of the great minds of our times.
The gender infers the audience whether it in fact exists or not.
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I think many were taking the gamble. What ended up happening is that a bunch of vendors who did not take the hedging canceled the orders. Since hedging doesn't protect buyers, the buyers just get their original btc back; this made a lot of people upset and their are multiple threads on reddit and the silk road forums calling out these vendors who essentially cheated the escrow/hedging system.

I wonder if it will have an effect with buyers demanding hedging as well.
where did he suggest that rejection = failure?
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Okay, last update. I made it to LAX, picked up my rental car then received an email from American notifying me that my flight was on time - the same flight I just got off of that landed over 4 hours after it should have. I had to laugh at that one.
I find it interesting how people often cite determinism as incompatible with free will. Our minds don't violate the laws of physics, but they still make decisions. Similarly, a car can still be described as "driving", even if the physics behind it are deterministic.
You've missed my point entirely. To restate it more bluntly, being a presenting female at a conference can cause a mental impediment. Would I prefer to listen to a female speaker than a stutterer? Not if she were so paralysed by self-doubt that she gave a halting, unconfident, impossible to listen to talk.
Since the current non-strop trend started in 1983 (click the graph), yes I would attribute some of the current performance to him and the Chicago School, with however great respect too for the presidents elected ever since 1990, who have keep the economy in working order, and by behaving properly, kept the democracy working as well : it's a country of laws (Allende gross disregards for that were reproached to him by the supremes) Anyway it's all past history. Let's wonder more about the bright future.
The fact that it is obvious was exactly my point and the reason I was dismissive of that part of the article, so not only have you missed what I was commenting about, you've also acted like a bit of a dick in doing so. Not really necessary.
Hmm, this is ridiculous. Every person who goes through a serious education in economics knows of the fallacies that you can arrive at by only "thinking" with complete, dry rationality. In fact we have two terms for it:

Positive Economics: "What is"

Normative Economics: "What ought to be"

The majority of focus stays inside of positive economics because the "What is" analysis leads to a much higher amount objective results. It keeps the fucking "opinion" out of it (or at least attempts to at a much greater degree).

Case and points:

1. All economists are aware of going down the dead-dry rational rabbit hole; In fact, he points this out in the last paragraph by quoting one of the greatest ones.

2. Most fields lack the level of objectivity and mathematical proofing that economics contains; Bringing that power over to other fields is beneficial.

3. Making a blanket statement that all economists approach things in a blanket statement manner, in and of itself makes this article ridiculous.

Someone start a blog called "Learning Economics." The only people who oppose it so heavily are often the ones who don't understand it enough.
"I'm really disappointed about how shallow the discussions about Adapteva are, and have been, on HN. To remind everyone, the H = hacker."

Thank You for saying this, i wanted to write about this but never found the time. I have started reading HN less and less because there is no longer substance in the comments and they usually focus on something that makes up 10% of the article, i actually find it weird at times. I am depending more and more on the weekly newsletters but still miss the old comments which were optimistic, on point and taught me something about the subject central to the article.

Back on topic. "What Adapteva has done is create a credit-card sized parallel-processing board" This is so cool,as a linux user I hope to get my hands on one of these asap! Take a look at the kickstarter video http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-su...
All in due time, my friend.

That list is a list of examples of universal properties being used to define things. As such, it's a testament to how mindbogglingly convenient universal properties are.
I think I would want to know who else was signing up to be on the ship with me.
I can definitely see how .xibs and storyboards might be useful for prototyping or quickly mocking up and iterating on a design that is changing rapidly. Whether or not you ship the app with the .xibs intact I think depends on whether you can tolerate the problems I mentioned, or whether your app is simple enough that it's NBD.

Btw, for rapidly prototyping iOS apps I highly recommend Balsamiq - it's amazing what you can do with that tool :)
I believe I read somewhere that in his first YC application (the one that was rejected), Drew Houston applied not with Dropbox but with the SAT prep company he used to run before making Dropbox.
Ask HN: Why doesn't PG do a responsive version of HN?
Reading front page on phone devices and reading long comments on laptops are fairly inconvenient. Doesn't PG himself use his phone to visit HN and see this pain?
IMO one other motivation would be a safe way to create a strong AI, for both predictive purposes, development of new technologies, and medical advancements.
It is ridiculous to talk about the Bitcoin "bust" when it is still trading at $60-70 which was the all-time high as of March 20, a mere 4 weeks ago ?!

"Bust" means "a complete failure". Bitcoin, so far, is an incredible success. Let's not let the temporary bubble of the past week blind us from the big picture.

Edit: the only failure are the buyers who lost money because they failed to realize it was stupidly dangerous to buy during a price bubble.
I'm saying that "brick _" is more restrictive on the phrases that can plausibly follow it than is "modern _". By choosing to place brick first, you narrow the possibilities so much that the following word has little work to do and seems out of place.
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I appreciate this effort. But isn't integrating Stripe fairly easy with Stripe Connect button (https://stripe.com/connect) without any effort on backend, or even integrating any backend code?
I think you're overselling the old screens. They were bad TN screens with a crappy resolution (1024x768, 1280x800). At least the x220 and x230 have a very nice IPS screen, even if it's still with the crappy resolution.

Unless you mean the SXGA+ X61 with the gorgeous 1400x1050 IPS screen with just the right aspect ratio. But those only existed officially in the crappy tablet form factor. It's possible to mod one of them to a normal X61, but it's highly non-trivial and takes a lot of time and money.
I built this little Web game with Node.js, Three.js, Socket.io and various other libs. I wrote an overview of the tech used here: http://sparklinlabs.com/2013/04/craftstudio-beta-release-dat...

If you have any particular questions about how anything was built, I'd be happy to detail it.

EDIT: By request, I just made the repository public. It's not open source but feel free to check it out if you want to see how it was made - https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/sparklinwars/
After the tragedies of 9/11 I had to return to my downtown office, just a few blocks from the towers. It was one thing to be there the day of (and quite similarly being in a situation of things being quite different had I been a little earlier that day) - but seeing the aftermath was quite tough. It gets better - and while the day and events has not been forgotten, the scene just doesn't bring that fear anymore - not for a long time now.

You'll be fine. Talk to your friends and family when you feel like you aren't. In the end, you will be fine.
Yes, but no one (here or in the article) was trying to make the point that buying drugs is a good investment.
This is inconsequential.
While I agree that it doesn't seem to be an adequate response (the whole -0.1 to 2.2 difference looks problematic enough), they claim that their 2012 paper addresses the weighting mechanism.

So we'd need to read that paper too to then argue if it somewhat clarifies their findings.
> the fact remains that you would probably be financially better off by investing that money rather than trading it for drugs

False. Investment is risky, the higher the return the riskier. Dealing drugs has potentially a lower rate of return but also a lower financial risk, typically.
Agnosticism has nothing meaningful to say about this situation, because it claims to give equal weight to totally unfounded claims ("it's definitely yahweh").

Atheists would rightly consider the evidence, conclude there was a creator, but give it no due reverence because they would conclude (rightly) that none is morally due.
It's both good and bad. It seems no matter how many people complain or companies like Google come forward and try and change things by kicking their feet around and causing a scene, nothing changes. The fact the system is such a mess and changing even the slightest part of the entire patent process would undoubtedly spawn more legal action than you could imagine from big and small companies alike who make their money off of obscure patents. When it comes to politics money talks, maybe someone should start a lobbyist website where people can crowd-source funds to lobby Government to get things changed? A Kickstarter for government lobbying to benefit the people.
No, but he (in the article) was trying to make the argument that it is better financially to not by drugs because of Bitcoin rising in value, my point was that this is generally true regardless of whether Bitcoin is involved.