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>> Perhaps the driver already did everything Qualcomm needed it to do

Wouldn't Qualcomm spec something out and have a contractor do it, and once the requirements are met that's it? No fine-tuning or extra work involved.
I find China a particularly fascinating country in this regard, very little true visibility into their capabilities and a very different culture.

When they said they would put a man on the moon, I believed they would do everything they could to make that happen. A friend of mine disagreed saying it was "too expensive", except expense doesn't really work at the nation state level except in terms of understanding allocation of GDP. So what percentage of GDP is being allocated to space ? Hard to say, there is that whole transparency issue.

Sounding like a broken record here, the folks who put on-orbit refueling stations up are going to rule space for a while. That is because the use of space today is constrained by pre-planning a mission and pre-loading all your fuel on the ground. Can't change plans, can't change the mission. If you can refuel while in orbit then a single ship can do multiple missions, with only orbital fuel costs, and that would be exceptionally more efficient. Basically anyone who can do that can out build, maneuver, and occupy orbit and the Moon, any other competitor. People who can't get gas on site are forced to bring it up from the ground with them. Sending up fuel tankers for on-orbit refueling stations can have only a 90% success rate and still be very effective. Bottom line, the owner of the gas station will be king.

Now once that happens. And it will. The music stops on other folks getting into space. It will just be so cheap for the gas station owner to put things up and move them around that no one will be able to economically compete. So the country that does that is the next super power in the third age.

Given the stakes, China has to try to be 'that country'.
11) Slideshows.
...stop making inaccurate predictions about what is going to happen.

Really?

You link to an article specifically about snowfall in Britain and then dismiss it with the counter evidence of record snowfall else where.

You need to try harder.

...losing the war of public opinion.

FUD. Good job. Please. Continue.
Very nice, and to see it in action, this is also really cool: http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/?demo
http://jsperf.com/nooptest
Only in the new hangout window. Not where it matters most - the list of your active hangouts.
For a given weight/volume surely a gas canister works out as more energy than a backup battery?
Git is simpler than any other VCS, but VCS itself is not simple concept to understand. That's what he's saying, and I agree. I use git all the time, but it's not easy to understand the whole version control thing as a beginner. Also Git is not just about DAG, you need to be able to understand the decentralized nature, etc. In that sense, some people may find SVN easier to understand.
Curiously, a SIM can enforce bookmarks and contacts on a new iPhone- but they're certainly deletable.
Ummm I didn't develop it with my own fair fingers. Can we stop with the MBA-insults please?

The code is good. Enough people have looked at it for me to know that. Unless we change language it is something to be built upon, not razed.
Are C/C++ important? Oh yes they are!
> At the scale the US is doing it? Absolutely.

This sounds more like ability rather than choice. It seems odd to demonize the U.S. because practically all Internet data flows through their territories.

> So just stop, stop making excuses for the US or the NSA

I'm not making excuses, and of course it's a Bad Thing. But don't pretend that avoiding one actor is really a solution, any more than rebooting your computer is going to solve deeper issues.
With over 100 votes I was hoping I was about to get some helpful advice on contributing to open-source projects. I don't know what I was thinking.
tell that to a 14 year old when all her friends are on example.com, the hip new place that just needs your real name to log in.
That's a dynamic language problem. In a static language they are trivial to maintain.
This exactly the result you'd expect from randomization. There will always be some sequences that are in their original order. It sounds like you want some kind of pseudo-random playlist with no artists next to each other. That is not random.
Doing Enough
This seems to be the real forward. The old distribution model for books has changed forever. While it makes it much harder for traditional independent publishers to print physical books, the barrier to entry as a publisher has been reduced so much that it really represents a step change in the industry. Anyone can publish an ebook, or release Kindle singles as a marketing strategy (or to create new forms of books closer to the old serials that Dickens and the like wrote). Guy Kawasaki, Tim Ferris, Tucker Max, Ryan Holiday (just the people I know off the top of my head) have written extensively about how they have self-published their way to best seller lists. Asking people to pay you to keep your outdated business model working doesn't strike me as the best plan.
Are you by any chance a former Inktomi developer?
That is the difficulty. When your conclusions are based on models which seem to be infinitely malleable or at least have many "estimated" parameters, the models become unfalsifiable.

If you've got a conclusion which is invariant under all possible evidence, it stops being science.
Market manipulation in Intrade's 2012 Presidential election
> We're all better off.

No, we're all more comfortable, while the economy is going to shit.

> People just need to now get used to the fact that there isn't a job for everyone

Please think about what you're saying.
1 year of expenses including rent,healthcare, food ,etc.

When doing financial planning you should always try to save up to 6 months of all expenses. This is hard to achieve but the recommended number even if you are staying at your industry job. You never know what can happen.
Let me add that we're prepared to do a little handholding for those who feel daunted by the prospect of moving to Berlin for three months. Berlin is a really laid-back city (where they turned the airport into a public garden and forgot to build a new one ...), and short-term integration is pretty straightforward.
What is this "are creating"? We've had one for decades. We've refined it tremendously over the last 50+ years, by taking advantage of new technological achievements, but the fundamentals have been in place a lot longer than the article's author seems to think.
I'm interested but am working through https://weka.waikato.ac.nz/dataminingwithweka/course at the moment which I like because it's very practical (I also have the book which covers all the theory)
Wait I'm confused, where does fuel come into this? All you need to start a campfire is a bit of flint and kindling.
>Margins.

Bullshit.

>A netbook that gets better every year for $250-350 will have a razor-thin profit margin. If it has to have Microsoft Windows Special Edition on it, 10-30% of the price tag goes to MS.

And if you count all of the payments they get for preinstalling crap, I think it cancels out most if not all of the windows license.

Or they could just install linux. Some did (not enough though).

>Joe Average wouldn't buy a computer that doesn't run whatever brand name he recognizes, so Windows is a requirement.

The entire netbook industry was kicked off by the linux brand name. So that makes little sense.

>A tablet isn't a "computer", so it doesn't need to run Windows in order to sell

Android or iOS are as much brands as windows or linux are.

>A Google Nexus 7 now has everything except a keyboard in terms of netbook hardware, but it gives up no margin to MS and has a market big enough for economies of scale.

Netbooks also had a market big enough for economies of scale too.
Quantitative Economic Modeling in Python
On the theoretical background of the rest of the paper: http://rajivsethi.blogspot.com/2013/09/information-beliefs-a...
I respectfully beg to differ with your first statement. I TDD in embedded and low level code, well, always. There is a great work on this by Grenning, worth reading by anyone who wants to understand TDD better, whether it is for embedded C or any other type of application.

Test-Driven Development for Embedded C
http://pragprog.com/book/jgade/test-driven-development-for-e...
It might be too early for a kickstarter, but looks like it hasn't stopped someone from donating pi bitcoins - https://twitter.com/FarmBotProject
Technically there isn't a single version of Git either, though (thankfully) they can all operate on the same repositories (whereas in UNIX land, you'll find different file systems that the others do not support). They do however have some different capabilities. jGit for instance can push to S3, which is pretty neat.
I agree with the model being great. The git command itself is abominably baroque in its user interface (inconsistencies and strange defaults abound), but I've gotten over that with more effort than I'd like to admit.

I love Git's plumbing; I just hate its porcelain.
> THIS is what I don't understand. Why do people call it "subsidized" when you're locked in to a 2 year contract with an early termination fee.

The cost of early termination + subsidized price is still quite a bit cheaper than the full price of the phone.
another similiar project: http://www.biolitestove.com/
Since you mentioned crappy provider, I would like to add that there is an illusion of choice when it comes to SSL certificates. When I was purchasing an SSL certificate, I researched many and after speaking to the same sales rep on multiple sites, I realized they are all the same company. To quote-

Symantec’s family of dominant SSL brands includes VeriSign, GeoTrust, Thawte, RapidSSL and TC Trust Center.

They own about 70% of the certificates, all priced differently to give you an illusion of choice. So if one provider is crappy, their support is the same; and thus they are all crappy.
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This is a good example for a small scale isolated project with a small amount of complexity. If however you are writing an enterprise level, scalable application, with many business objects and tons of complexity, things get way harder.

For example:
What do you do if your function has a call to a 3rd party webservice? You do a mock.

What do you do if you have 37 levels of state that are dependent on the objects you are receiving from the mock? Create 37 different business objects and verify that the output for each is correct.

This problem builds and gets bigger, harder, and more conceptually complex. So while it can be easy to get started, it is not by definition intrinsically easy.

However, it is well worth every minute spent. It makes refactoring and building up much much easier. It also leads a bread crumb of clues to figure out what the code is doing. It leads to better code stability, and far less regression.
It's actually slightly annoying that Github sorts the commits by commit date instead of the author date.
When you rebase your branch a few times to clean up the history, you may end up with a PR commit overview that does not chronologically reflect what happened during development.

Makes PR reviews a bit confusing at times.
Pretty awesome! Great work guys!
Current search pages still use <b> tags (e.g. when part of the green <cite> portion is bolded)
I quit my job two months ago with close to $10k saved up. It's too early to claim success, though. I think location is really relevant. In Pittsburgh, rent is quite cheap, but I'm sure the situation is different elsewhere in the country.
Braintree vs Stripe
Really?! That's crazy to hear especially since we list the Chinese astronauts when they fly just like everyone else!

I'd love to have a screenshot of what the site being blocked looks like.
How To Make Russian River Pinot Noir
I do like to see people trying new things, and agree that people love useless gadgets (myself included). I didn't notice the idea of double folding versions, but it definitely makes sense for mathematica and photoshop, you need the standard alphanumeric keys pretty often, and the keyboard is about as cramped as you woudld want it to be already, so they would need to be bigger to really offer extra utility.

I think they could have generated more interest and more money just selling them with more designs and sports team branding (The Surface is already used by the NFL, so some sort of relationship between them and MS already exists).

As for the knobs and sliders, I agree it would look 'cool' to see real LEDs light up for your fader or the active loops on your sequencer or whatever, but the reason actual musicians like physical knobs and sliders is because of the tactile response they provide. Thats why Serato's vynil controllers are still popular with a lot of people (http://serato.com/controlvinyl). With a touch keyboard like the one that the surface has you get the worst of both worlds. The (lack of) flexibilty of a hardware device and the (lack of) tactile response of a touchscreen.
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i actually have something like this already made (with guides and all) that i've been dragging my feet (no pun intended) to open source since it's a bit rough around the edges. i'll put it up in the next week or so. feel free to watch the repo in the likely case it'll not make it to the front page.

https://github.com/leeoniya/snapDOM.js
Amazon's business model could start working essentially overnight if they moved out of land grab mode into monetization mode. Increase the price of Kindle books by 10% across the board, increase the Prime subscription rate (or tier out Prime levels), and increase their fees for fulfillment and transaction processing. You are correct that their runway lets them operate in perpetual land grab (as well as allowed them to get to the point that they could increase all these prices and not lose all their customers), but that doesn't mean if Wall Street started seriously complaining they wouldn't be able to massively increase profits.
I prefer not to use this argument. It's not really all that interesting. You can't prove or disprove the existence of a deity-like figure, because you can't nail down specifically what they actually are.

If a God did exist, it could easily skirt our evidence-based process simply by leaving none. Science is of no help. But we could argue against particular ways that a God might act because action without intent is nonsensical, and a God without sense isn't God.
I was linking the article not for showing that they're selling but because it's the first (most recent?) article I found in 2 minutes on Google stating their valuation (one article from 2012 talks about 1bln valuation, btw we're in the same league of Braintree)
What about the best chat services? In something like 18 years of chatting on the internet from IRC to ICQ, AIM, Skype, even Facebook messages, I have never seen a message go out to an incorrect recipient that wasn't the fault of my own negligence.
>Are you saying that global temperatures aren't rising?

They haven't for the last 15 years, so that may be exactly what he is saying.

>Is the arctic icecap not rapidly getting smaller?

It is, but is the antarctic icecap not rapidly getting larger?
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> We don't claim to be able to model temperature over periods of time that short.

Right, that's why we get graphs with confidence intervals, right? From my understanding, the previous warming was still within the alleged confidence intervals. However, instead of accelerating as expected, it's about to fall out of the projected intervals completely[1]

[1]http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2157446...
California Law Lets Minors Erase Online ‘Overshares’
Agreed, one is incompetence (remember, the stock Android browser had to be specifically patched by Samsung to enable the feature) and the others are simply not caring that much about customers. I don't feel it's unfair though.
> However, I've used Royal Mail (postal service in UK) all my life without thinking that I needed to worry about what I said

This is true for the United States Postal Service as well. I've always thought it'd be interesting to look at what historically brought about the strong privacy expectations to postal mail when it's technically so easy to intercept.
> With no payment also comes no expectation of service

As a general rule, this is not true according to the law. If I feed someone a free meal, and they get food poisoning because I didn't maintain proper hygiene in my kitchen, I am at fault.
Former SpaceX director signs on to crowdfunded hyperloop project
> maybe you only have so much willpower to work with

That's one of the reasons why simply denying yourself won't work. Hence the trick.

It takes no willpower to do pushups for someone who does pushups. That's just who he is. Now, go be that person. Or, pretend you are. I'm sure you've seen some movie where the guy works out every morning? Ocean's Twelve, Fracture, whatever. Pretend to be him.

> It's a lot easier to not be nose-deep in your phone when other people are engaging with you.

You have no control over what other people do. But you have a nearly total control over what you do. Then go engage with someone nose-deep in their phone.

Here's the thing, whatever crazy app they have, it's not that interesting. In fact, the interaction with their phone brings so little value that you don't even need to chat them up, just looking at someone for three seconds will likely grab their attention.
Two major accelerator announcements in one week! Huge for Kansas City.
Having done exactly that, would recommend first coming up with a business plan, recognizing that you have to pay yourself, recognizing the pitfalls of selling your own panels (there are many that aren't obvious), and figuring out how you can make money enough to grow the business and support yourself better than you could by just getting a job.

This is a very tough business to do well in these days, particularly if you go it alone. That's why I no longer am in it. Feel free to message me if you want specific questions answered.
Yeah. I think most people in HN don't view automation as a bad force. But we do have to note there's no guarantee that jobs will come back for EVERYONE and that over time the demand for human labor won't decrease. Most people already don't concern themselves with growing/hunting food, obtaining water, warming/cooling themselves, etc. We've moved on to other things, freed up by advances in technology. Perhaps the current "busywork" of blogging, accountants, lawyers etc. is the future. But ultimately, outside the engineers that build and take care of the technology, there are tons of people whose jobs are being disrupted. There should be a way to make sure these people remain consumers and don't starve.
Biolite does this. Traditional stoves produce a huge amount of smoke which is bad for people breathing it. BioLite reduces the smoke, but they found that men were usually in charge of purchasing decisions and weren't around when cooking was being done, so had no incentive to invest in the smokeless stoves. Adding electricity to the stove meant that men were more likely to buy, thus helping their family's health.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24116000
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Eh, I guess I just sort of see hating the porcelain like hating the parens in Lisp.
Luckily for Amazon, matching their distribution and logistics power is a billion dollar investment that will take someone like Bezos (willing to spend whatever it takes to hit his goal).
Could that be a business model for the US Postal Service?
I am familiar with that approach, but it's really not how I work. If I'm not done with a feature, I don't check in. And I've never needed to work on two features at the same time.
If you plan on quitting your job, don't just follow what people comment here. The actual amount you need should be calculated yourself, based on your plans.

1) How much money do you need to get round per month.

2) Add a chunk ontop of that for unforseen expenses, broken fridge for example...

3) How long do you estimate you'll be working on your project?

4) Add a large percentage to that estimate for unexpected issues

5) Will you need to make investments? Hardware? Designers? Calculate these figures.

6) Add a month (or 2) to the above, if your project fails to start making revenue, you'll need to find yourself a job - well, depending on how easy it is for you to find a good job...

It's an amount you need to calculate. Don't underestimate.

Then you're ready to roll.
I had about $11,000 USD after working for 20 months at IBM, lasted for about year and a half. Best decision ever. =)
Planning on quitting with 6-9 months of burn (assuming I don't make another dollar). But I'm also planning on putting a startup before freelance/consulting so it might be a while before I start breaking even.
But lowering wages for a grocery clerk and then lowering prices on groceries transfers the wealth from the less efficient smaller grocer to the people who now shop at Wal-Mart. And because Wal-Mart can put price pressure on manufacturers like P&G like no other company can, it squeezes the wealth out of those companies and transfers it to the people who shop there. This makes the town wealthier, enabling them to save more, buy larger houses, newer cars, better health care. One major cost center becomes less costly and in the process improves the quality of life for a lot of people. I'm certainly not saying there are no losers, but any time incumbents are pushed out there are going to be unfortunate souls who have to adjust.
Shadow IT: Lessons from the front line
Out of all the things that one can claim is wrong with windows, ctrl+alt+delete to login isnt one I have a problem with.
Having had some experience fiddling with consumer grade routers, I am convinced that nothing could have produced the resulting mess that is supposed to be the software, other than sheer unadulterated apathy.

After hundreds of different router models, it's vexing that so many of these companies are/were unable to come up with software as decent as ddwrt/openwrt to work on their OWN hardware. It's not even standardized across models. Why the hell would you use completely different stuff on two different but ultimately similar products you have? Why not just license one of the existing opensource solutions and call it a day?

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here is the HTML and JS:

https://github.com/JohnMunsch/airquotes/blob/master/app/index.html
https://github.com/JohnMunsch/airquotes/blob/master/app/scripts/main.js
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9950516/Worst-Marc...
This is just what the lamestream media wants you to think! Wake up sheeple!!!
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