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I'm not much past the newbie stage myself...

The RCModelReviews youtube channel has a number of good videos on basic RC concepts (not multirotor specific, but the RC stuff still applies).

One tip I'll give you is to look into getting a Eurgle/FlySky/Imax/Turnigy 9x Transmitter (different brand names, same basic Chinese knockoff..). It's a solid radio with a lousy stock firmware, but there are a number of good open soruce firmwares out there that are very easy to flash onto the controller (especially if you use something like the SmartieParts programming board). For ~$100 (for the radio plus the programmer) you end up with something that rivals radios costing an order of magnitude more (or so I've heard... I've never touched a high end radio).

I'm approaching the hobby in stages:

1) Buy a Blade mQX (which comes with a cheap transmitter) and learn the basics of flying a multirotor

2) Get a 9x transmitter, mod it, and learn how it works

3) Get a 'JR compatible' OrangeRX DSM2/DSMX module for the 9x, so you can bind it with the mQX and get used to flying with the full size 'real' tranmsmitter

4) Get an 'ARF' (almost ready to fly) kit (this should include the frame, ESCs, motors, props, etc), and a flight control board (I'll probably start with something cheap like the Kk 2.0). This is a good time to learn things like "What is an ESC?".

5) Start modding your ARF quad (replace the ESCs, add a camera, get a more capable flight controller (like the Arducopter), etc)

6) Build something from scratch

I'm currently on step 3, researching step 4.
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Rude? Maybe in a broken world. It's all of our business. Do push back, but don't argue that the concerns shouldn't be aired.
> Problem is that my business is in VA, and I'm now subject to complying with taxing authorities in, say, California, where I don't have representation or a physical presence. It is unconstitutional in principle.

It is not "unconstitutional in principle" for Congress to regulate interstate commerce in general, nor is it "unconstitutional in principle" for it to do so in a way which permits States to tax foreign businesses selling into the State the same way as local businesses selling in the State in particular.

Unless "unconstitutional in principle" is just a fancy way of saying "something newbie12 doesn't like".
I think you completely missed the point. What's good enough for the kids may not be good enough for the parents. It's the parents that are yearning to spend more time with their kids and to say yes more to the "play with me." Even more so than the begging child.

It's about identifying the costs and benefits and it is different for everyone because the benefits are not measurable. If your immigrant family invested in a security system and hired an employee to manage the store so they could spend fewer hours there, that cost is measurable. Their added well being or happiness from spending that time with their children instead of at their business is not easily quantifiable and is more of a feeling. The point of the article is that for many people the trade is worth it and they're better off spending more time with family than at work.

Besides, the excessive hours running your business is the e-myth anyhow. They're better off learning how to leverage the work of others.

All that being said, some people want to have kids but they really don't enjoy spending a lot of time with kids (even their own). Those people are definitely better served by focusing on their work and outsourcing childcare.
ProxTube to the rescue.
There have been stories on a few of these 'unlimited sync' services in the past few months. While it's a good idea, I really would prefer to have a little space available on a central server.

For me to consider switching to this service from Dropbox, it would have to be able to temporarily store some of my files from my work computer so that they could be transferred to my home computer later on when that computer was started up (for example). That is the feature that needs to be implemented for this to truly become a Dropbox-killer.
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AMD's advantage in Bitcoin mining was purely due to an architectural quirk: their shader cores supported bitwise rotation, but Nvidia's didn't. Bitwise rotation is a rare instruction outside of certain crypto algorithms (like SHA256!), so this really means very little for general-purpose performance.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/153467-amd-destroys-nvi...
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You can create your own type of iterator that when dereferenced spits out the next number/item, So long as your "end" iterator never matches your "current" iterator it will continue going on. Your "done" function is when "current" and "end" match. "next()" is "++current".
"What on Earth does he propose to do that we haven't already done, anyway? Strip search stations on every street corner?"

Don't give him any more ideas. Be it sodium, sugar, tobacco, or terrorists, Mr. Bloomberg's first response is always the same: limit freedom.
Hi Saejox,
- the name came from the domain, since its a GL UI it fits well enough imho.
- tried to make it 'as simple as possible to buy' using the same way Stripe does it (i dont touch CC's)
- can't solve international wage/price discrepancies, unfortunately.
- i tried to pick a payment solution that didnt' suck too much to integrate, paymill is 'the stripe competitor in europe' and its a pretty clean process compared to paypal. And then there is bitcoin too.
- As its not a trivial product i decided to make a video demo to show what it can do.

Thanks for your feedback.
The Model files are storing state, essentially. In this case they are following a pattern from Robotlegs (as3). I wrote it up here http://joelhooks.com/2011/03/12/an-introduction-to-robotlegs...

These are then injected as "services" in your controllers.
The Soyouz lands 'somewhere' in a fairly large target area. The recovery overhead is still non-trivial.

Something as big and 'light' as the F9 first stage will be slowed down tremendously by the atmosphere. No need to add all the extra complexity and weight of parachutes.
The trick is to treat quant trading AS a business. You are essentially running a capitalised startup when you begin quant trading. There is a period of R&D, building the product (execution system), and then iterating - just like creating a mobile/web app.

The main difference is that if you're not interested in raising external capital, then you don't need to do any marketing - all of your focus can be on the product.

I have made it clear in the article that it is NOT easy, nor a get-rich-quick scheme which many seem to think it is. It takes a significant amount of work to generate consistently profitable strategies.
Dear DataDial: Paragraphs. They're a thing. Please learn how to use them. Your content is all but unreadable right now.
This is because the hashing algorithm is highly dependent on integer rotate right instruction. AMD's implements it in 1 clock cycle, Nvidia in 3. So it's a special case.
That page shows 20-minute problems that affected "0.634% of the Google Calendar user base", which were able to access Calendar, but saw some error messages. For me, I could not access the calendar for hours yesterday.
So, what's better currently available alternative to GAE in terms of free quota?
"You may be surprised to learn that current touchscreens sense only the geometric center of a user’s contact patch, or its centroid, rather than its entire area, as shown in Figure 2."

Not true. This depends very much on the API and the capacitive touch IC in use. The MacBook multi-touch trackpads send out basic shape data (approximated as an oval).
Kill messages are so easy to get in as it is that I doubt internet access would have a huge impact. Even so, there are ways to mitigate it. Graduated access due to good behavior seems like an obvious one. The point is, we treat all inmates as if they're potential murderous drug kingpins. And this is exactly why the recidivism rate is so high. There are much better ways to rehabilitate than what we are doing today.
When a gun is used to kill people he wants to ban guns. Strangely, he's not proposing a ban on pressure cookers.

Government will use fear to slowly strip us of our rights. Why? Because it works really well.

He has already made the leap to assume we "Interpret" the US Constitution. It's a pretty clear document that needs little interpretation. We're supposed to amend it, not change are mind on what they really meant.
I'm against showing banners in my app ;)
A big part of your Asian immigrant model is centered upon grandparents and relatives helping raise the children during their early years while the parents are out working.

In a second generation Asian (or in my case Indian) family, the grandparents are still working full time, they live in a different city, and there's no family owned business which can provide a flexible schedule and avoid tax/labor laws for the immigrant model to work. Parents have to step up or pay for round the clock childcare.
The new generation of mining hardware uses a lot less electricity then the GPU-based ones of before.
Why would the value of BTC plummet if you reach 51% of the network?
We have a product for TV stations that helps them take social media (instagram, fb, twitter text and images) and show it as a part of their broadcasts. One of the most difficult parts is getting the custom design from the station into our system, because there's a huge learning hurdle if the station designer has to learn our software. So rather than build software that will a) be shitty at first, and b) create new roadblocks, we instead chose a different route which is described here: Manual scaling.

They send us a PSD, since they'd already use photoshop to create the look. We then manually convert it into our system.

It sucks because it's definitely going to become a weak point of scaling out our system, but till we hit that weak point, we keep going. We've slowly started to build out the design system just to make our lives simpler, and we imagine outsourcing this task to other people outside our company, which means hopefully once we expose it to users, the interface will be simple enough.

Just wanted to add our perspective of this. I think a lot of people don't realize what you can do by hand. The only reason why I thought of doing this is because of Aardvark.

http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262666394

I happened to have been working for Justin.TV and was lucky enough to record that. Otherwise, I bet I'd have been going down the "build it all first!" route.

All the other videos: http://lanyrd.com/coverage/?domain=justin.tv&page=2&...
Can someone give me a quick rundown on how this works, vs security of files? If it's using the bittorrent protocol, wouldn't that mean that all your files, even though encrypted, are easily gathered by a third party?

Or does this simply make direct connections between PCs you own and people you have authorized to share your files?
You don't mention the endemic camera network in NYC. Or the asine soda ban....
> And generally their kids come out great.

pardon my french, but you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

this is not even remotely true, this is a trope, an outdated stereotype. oftentimes these kids come out socially maladjusted, suicidal and/or homicidal, or somewhere else on the human spectrum other than 'great'. this 'model minority' viewpoint is harmful in the extreme.

and for the past 20 or so years the 'restaurant' or 'dry cleaner' is more likely to be 'software company' or 'biotech company'. or even something mundane like "works for the port authority" or "imports couches from malaysia."

things have changed slightly since the 1960s, okay?

go to a University of California campus and ask how many of the thousands of asian kids you see if their parents owned a dry cleaner or a restaurant. you're going to either get laughed at, or punched in the face for asking offensive questions.

this is hackernews, i would expect a little bit more depth of thought than "asian immigrants own dry cleaners and their kids are so well behaved." are you SERIOUS?
Genome Compiler's software rock!!
> It's not clear to me if this is just extending already existing state sales taxes to the Internet, or if these are new, additional taxes.

It is Congress allowing states the option to extend, under certain conditions designed to ease compliance burdens, existing sales and use taxes to be collected as sales taxes from internet-based vendors selling into the state.
Great work! I just managed to create a godly looking "lolcat" - http://www.bit.ly/ZKtfnS ;)

If create any closed shape (using lines set at 100% reflective) around the light source, it seems to stop working so nicely. Are the rays just being reflected around in an infinite loop?
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Hold on, so you did you bruteforce all-all possible solutions and then just picked the best one out of them?
How many products you had? Was it close to what I have?
In my case there are just too many possible solution. I waited for an hour on my current one and it didn't finish :)
What was your strategy with regards of how much each bag type you select? Try all possible from current_max downto 7,500?
Well...on the upside at least we're not making more mice glow in the dark
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The Soyuz does not "soft land" anywhere. It basically crash lands at a speed which doesn't cause any injury. For a first stage rocket the advantages of coming down on land via just parachutes are pretty much non-existent to negative.

First off, if the goal is to save fuel from having to do a propulsive return to the launch site then that's not going to happen (except for the 2nd stage and capsule). The US has a lot of sparsely inhabited land but it doesn't have the same huge swathes of uncared for steppe that Russia/Kazakhstan have where they can just dump spent rocket stages everywhere with nary a care. There are range safety issues there that can't easily be avoided. Second, a giant rocket stage coming down on just parachutes is going to be damaged more on land than at sea. If you're trying to avoid the weight of landing gear you're just going to end up with the rocket engines crunching into the ground, which isn't going to be good at any speed. OK, so you can't save RTLS fuel, and you can't avoid having landing gear, at that point the only difference is a tiny little dribble of fuel to bring the stage in for a controlled powered landing. So you might as well just do that and be done with it.
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I can't seem to get it to work -- after the "Secure Payment" steps, my screen refreshes with no confirmation or receipt.
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Creating an AMI wired to s3 seems like an obvious next step.
Thanks, this is the first ever synthetic biology kickstarter campaign! A sign of things to come I hope
Sorry, I was replying about different URLs, you're focused on the caching question. Yes, most browsers would retrieve again. That's the price you pay for having the same file be able to be viewed or able to force a download.

As a VDN (video delivery network) we're focused on 100MB - 8GB video files, so our clients' primary goal is to avoid ever having the file attempt to display in the browser unless as a media URL purposely supplied to an embedded player. In general a raw video file URL would be for a download, and forcing Content Disposition saves having to explain the "Right-click, Save As..." dance regardless of browser.
I don't know, personally I think I would have benefitted from being able to see a father-figure-type-person doing their thing, even if that meant having to check his phone during the big game, etc. Hopefully a good parent would do so in a balanced way, and the kid would pick up good habits and expectations about what it really means to be a polite and functioning person of the time. IOW, my vote would be for my father (or any theoretical parent) to have been present and leading by example, even if part of that leading is about the necessary evil of being "online and accessible" all the time.
It is much harder in practice than in theory to be disciplined enough to do this! I always remember this great quote (paraphrased):

"A quantitative hedge fund only needs two members in order to be successful. A quant trader and a dog. The quant trader is there to feed the dog. The dog is there to make sure the quant trader doesn't touch anything."
Statements such as Bloomberg's always remind me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75oun5gvDAU#t=6m19s
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So how many did they setup for themselves in the 6 month delay period?
I'm excited that they support ARM so that we can install it on raspberries, routers, etc.
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NVidia cards do not efficiently implement bit rotation, while AMD cards do, and it happens to be the core part of the SHA algorithm used for bitcoin. In general for an arbitrary task they're fairly close in performance.
I would love to have an option in the right click menu to IGNORE the HTTP headers. For example, sometimes there is a link to an image like a jpg or a png that then forces you to download it. It REFUSES to ever render it in your browser. A right click option to ignore all MIME types and show it based on extention or magic bytes in the file would be AWESOME. Why do no browsers have that?
It's an interesting idea and can make for educational games, but I don't think it will see much traction as a means of doing useful work. The vast majority of bugs exist in the gulf between a programmer's characterization of a problem (or a problem's requirements) and the actual use case. And of course, if your puzzle generator can understand what is meant by a piece of code sufficiently well to identify a bug, it can fix the problem without human involvement.
Interpretation of the American constitution should have changed a long time before. The US way of choosing a president for example still presupposes people travelling up and down the east cost with horses...
Very helpful, thanks for link. I'm working on my own web app "framework" and had rolled my own URL/URI router. This will reduce my reinvention quotient.
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> Ebay is one of the few large entities fighting it, I think they are trying to get a small sales exemption.

There is already small sellers exemption: "-A State is authorized to require a remote seller to collect sales and use taxes under this Act only if the remote seller has gross annual receipts in total remote sales in the United States in the preceding calendar year exceeding $1,000,000. For purposes of determining whether the threshold in this sub­section is met". From Section 2(c) of the act: http://www.marketplacefairness.org/bill-text/
An Internet tax will just make everyone a tax evader...everyone knows it won't help the economy!
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Ask HN: Accepting Bitcoin for freelance work
I'm a web developer, just starting my freelance career, and I want to know if there are any legal or tax reasons that would prevent me from accepting bitcoin as a form of payment.
If the browser presented both choices, it wouldn't be able to distinguish by situation, so either it would hide downloading inappropriately, or it would present it inappropriately.

If the server was in charge, then most websites would screw it up through incompetence or malice.

Two links for every link, or have the server (an entity who doesn't necessarily have the users interest in mind) having more control over what the user can do with the content it sends.

Both options suck.

To be fair? I got responses in favor of both options.
It may make sense for some, and if your accounting of life only measures money/assets than it may universally make sense, but there are a lot of benefits to having kids earlier. I've met people in their early forties with kids who were fully grown and out of their house. They are able to live as a couple without small children while they are still young and healthy. Also, they can more easily contribute to their grandchildren's childcare because they will be younger and healthier. There's definitely something to be said for that. I had kids at 31 and 33 and I find it really hard and tiring to care for them now at 37. I can't even imagine what it would feel like if I was over 50.

Personally I think younger is better, but it's different for everyone.
That might very well rule Sync out for personal use by the general public. The benefit of Dropbox (and similar server backed services) is that the most up-to-date version of a file is simply there as soon as you are connected to the Internet. Most people who have two computers won’t be using them both at the same time. For example, a common use case for these services is syncing files while you are traveling. Requiring a user who edits files on a laptop to turn their laptop on when they get back to the home/office in order for the changes to be recognize on their desktop seems like a big step backwards. In that use case Sync would just be a glorified USB thumb drive.
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It's over folks, they won.
Unfortunately there aren't any reassurances I can give you. Several code sections in CA prohibit insurance against "willful acts, wrongful acts and criminal acts." However, Comeback's goal with custodial insurance isn't to make the consequences of being convicted of crimes less severe, it's to reduce the likelihood of recidivism upon release.

In a state where the recidivism rate is a staggering 65%, at a cost of tens of millions of dollars to taxpayers, we need something radical to turn things around. Over 40% of the prison population is incarcerated for violating the terms of their probation or parole. Custodial insurance is just crazy and disruptive enough of a concept to make a difference in reducing these obscene numbers.

We're working diligently to garner support amongst community activists, religious leaders, and most importantly politicians in hopes of easing any potential restrictions in offering custodial insurance.

Sadly there's a very real possibility that despite our noble intentions, Comeback may ultimately lead to a failed business and some very heavy fines...possibly even jail time.
I was thinking more along the lines of, "if he hadn't gone to prison, what would he have achieved."

I haven't read much about him, but if he was a dealer and trafficker in cocaine, I think there is a high probability that he would either be dead or not have accomplished much.
Wish the source was made available, I have an OpenIndiana server with several 1 TB drives running ZFS and I would love to use something like this... but only binaries are available.
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Looking at some of the examples, I'm starting to see a future where people trade entirely in hashes - send some amount of bitcoins to address X, receive access to read-only access to bittorrent folder Y which is automatically populated with the latest TV episodes for a series, etc. Any idea how to apply that sort of anonymity and convenience to the real world though? Scanning QR codes with a phone seems to be the best so far, still more fiddly than cash though...
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> Yes, it definitely does level the playing field between brick & mortar business and online businesses, and to a certain extent amongst states.

Which is the source of much of the opposition: Reps from sales tax-free states oppose it because the current regime encourages internet-based retailers to locate operations in those states, an incentive which will be removed if states with sales taxes can apply them to sales from vendors in sales-tax-free states.
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And here I am, just 4 points shy of being able to downvote this.
But how can you turn it off?