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If you're getting enough false alarms that removing the battery is a common occurrence, yes, you should get one fire alarm moved probably a couple feet. Which is not saying to get your house rewired in the slightest.

A good use of an override is for when something goes wrong. For instance, when you burn something in the oven and smoke comes through to the living room. You find the source of the problem, you turn off the alarm, and you deal with airing out your house. Something went wrong, you told the smoke alarm to be quiet because you're dealing with it, and you dealt with it.

The problem with your situation is that the smoke alarm is placed in a manner that makes your normal way of life be detectable as something going wrong. That isn't what overriding is meant for.
It's emitting alpha particles, but the energies are pretty low.
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> I hate hearing friends tell me that they don't squat because their knees hurt. Dude, your knees hurt because you don't squat!

This is not strictly true. What works for you does not necessarily work for others, and hassling them for not doing something that hurts them isn't going to help.

I've been lifting for almost three years (started Dec 2010). I have very good form which I learned from a friend who was very experienced in lifting (and corroborated by several trainers and random dudes at the gym saying "wow, nice form!"). Before I started lifting I had been running for about 10 years (started running in middle school, didn't start lifting until after college). Everything was going great. Lifting three days a week, running another three days a week, and resting completely one day.

Then one day I took a weird step while running and my right knee started hurting. It's never stopped hurting. Two X-Rays, an MRI, two physical therapists later and they don't have any idea why I'm in constant pain (literally constant pain, I'm constantly aware of my knee hurting). I still lift, still with good form, still moving lots of weight around, but my knee still hurts. I can't run anymore, though, as that aggravates the injury.

And before you say it, I hurt my knee after I had been running in vibrams for three years. I was running 6-7 miles 3x a week in vibrams and all it took was one weird step to totally ruin that.

After the injury, on a PT's advice, I tried switching back to "normal" running shoes. They didn't help at all. I played around with my gait, trying to run with a wider stance since they were guessing my narrow gait was putting stress on the bad point in my knee; that didn't help. Stretching doesn't help, drugs don't really help (the most effective drug so far is Aleve). Lifting seems to have no effect on my knee. I tried not lifting or running for three months and my knee still hurt. I picked lifting back up and it made no difference to my pain levels.

Anyway, I'm just trying to say that we all have different physical ailments that cannot necessarily be solved by general advice. Maybe your friends' knees hurt because there's something wrong with them and lifting will make it worse.
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Can't we just do that in a computer and pretend that things were destroyed and killed? Maybe calculate the transfer of wealth that would have occurred as a consequence of inferior algorithms leading to the destruction of your virtual societies?
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You'd have to be one hell of a shot to hit a small, fast moving quadcopter. A shotgun would be a much better bet than a rifle.

Not that I think the GP's idea is remotely plausible...
Well.... not really.

Parimutuel betting, not sure - but there is always a house fee - that's how the house makes money.

A traditional bookie would have at least 5 to 10 % built into his odds as well (like if you were betting on even odds, liek a coin toss, it would be bet $110 to win $100 for either side (so the bookie has a 5% hold if he can keep the betting balanced, no matter who wins)

etc etc.
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It's 2013 and still no IMAP access in Yahoo Mail. Heck, it's only been around for 27 years.
Right, but it's not an either-or thing.
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I am in the process of building this idea into a semi-automated web app:

http://customerdevlabs.com/2013/09/24/google-news-api-mturk-press/

I am looking for founders that would benefit from the SEO juice, or PR or leads that the cold emails may be able to generate (would also like to know if you have a press kit/would like one made). It is completely free to you (ie, we will pay for the mturk jobs), in exchange for feedback. Just shoot us an email info@growthomatic.com if you are interested.
I did read that, but I mean is there a reason it should exist at all? Is there anything Firebug does that Chrome/FF dev tools don't do?
Quadcopters have terrible speed and maneuverability against free falling bomblets and would require a lot of expensive GNC, precision tracking in each (disposable) unit. Basically you have a lighter version of the "hit a bullet with a bullet" problem as in ABM.

Something with lasers might be feasible though.
actually, big projects often have to be maintained because otherwise, huge numbers of highly paid scientists are let go. It's easier to shut down short-term, small-employee projects (like annually funded grants).
I agree that a lot of this stuff is surprisingly affordable and doable with low-cost equipment. That said, it's worth noting that in the case of the Raspberry Pi the BGA package of the BCM2835, even were it available in small quantities makes it infeasible to work with at home. For instance to break out the pins from the BGA you're going to need blind vias (OSHpark doesn't support this, plus the pi needs a 6-layer PCB). The RAM is soldered on top of the BCM2835 in a package on package configuration. I found oshstencils just yesterday, it looks great! As you can say, you can make some seriously impressive circuits at low cost with vendors like these.
What I really need is more ads in my life!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Tech_Rampage
"If he merely puts his savings in a stocking, like the proverbial French peasant, it is obvious that they do not give employment."

What is "obvious" to Bertrand Russell is bad economics.

When the peasant puts his money in a stocking, he causes a slight deflation, so prices decrease, which increases the value of everyone else's money. So everyone else effectively has more to spend, if they want to.

However, everyone else would be prudent to assume that the peasant will eventually spend his money, which will correspondingly cause prices to rise again.

It might seem that an earlier gain is offset by a later loss.

But, those who benefit from the slight deflation can choose to invest the increased value of their monetary holdings into industry. At a later time, when the peasant decides to spend his money, the products of that industry will be ready for purchase.

Thus, with nothing more than surplus cash and a stocking, the peasant has driven investment in industry, productive employment, and long-term growth in the wealth of society, the benefits of which he has foregone since he chose not to seek a return of interest on his savings.
I was more so curious if a lawyer might try to categorize this site under currency trading or some other type of derivatives trading rather than straight gambling.

(IANAL)
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Then you'd need a real army to enforce the victory.
I think that is probably the safer way to go with this. That is to say, don't make it __actually__ betting, but rather make it be a short-brokering-service. Match people wanting to short bitcoin values with those who expect it to go higher, and it seems that this would no longer be betting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html
> Is this legal in America?

Not in the US and probably any other county unless he has a license.
It's a long-shot but the sugary bullshit crusade has affected every other source of food and water -- sweeteners are added to every possible thing. Real honey, for example, is difficult to find because most honey sold in grocery stores is just honey-flavored corn syrup.

Trying to avoid the sweet-foods avalanche is very difficult because it's everywhere.
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Wasn't this already answered in an episode of Star Trek from the 1960s?
Just because it's called "City of London Corporation" does not mean it's the same as a public limited company with shareholders. It's basically a local authority with an unusual name and history(+). Of course it's very pro-establishment, but that's a function of its electorate.

PIPCU is new and a little unusual, although there's plenty of precedent for having special police units for complicated crime and they sit next to the Fraud bureau in City police units. It's a bit of an escalation - previously it was local Trading Standards who would handle piracy (e.g. people selling copied DVDs at the local market)

(+) How old? Over 1000 years, its origin is unclear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_corporation

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-the-city/who-we-are/Pag...
The assumption from the author and pg, and many others, myself included, is that software excellence is something in the DNA of SV startup culture, and is going to deliver outsized, orders of magnitude advantages over companies that do not have software in their DNA.

my favourite analogy is at some point after Gutenberg and 1451, there were companies who had hired almost entirely these new literate citizens, and companies who had hired maybe a few to work in the "ink department".

Those with literacy in their DNA had outsized advantages. It often came up against Royal monopolies and state interests, which may be one reason the Industrial revolution took a while to arrive.

However it is worth noting that the first wave of electrification of factories in the late 1890s did not see productivity rise much till the 20's - a generation had to retire before factories were reorganised away from steam engine layouts. A similar effect seems to be happening here - the first generation of managers with computers in workplace is retiring, leaving behind the tired Microsoft metaphors for Desktops and filing cabinets. And it is being replaced with ... well we don't know yet, but I have not had a copy of word or PowerPoint or excel for years. And I have not had OpenOffice either, and only use google docs for CVs.

Software will deliver outsized advantages for companies with it in their DNA for at least a generation.
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Never said anything was offensive, I was merely pointing out examples of ways that one could remind themselves to change the batteries.

However if you insist on focusing one a singular viewpoint then I will remove myself from the conversation.
Is it possible to use something like Socket.io that falls back to long-polling on older browsers?

The biggest problem I've had with Socket.io on PaaS's is it pretty much expects every request from a particular client to be routed to the same backend (i.e. sticky sessions), which works ok with a single backend but obviously doesn't scale.

Given Heroku's stateless routing architecture, I'd guess no, but maybe there's something I'm missing?
Check your arches, you might be standing with a wrong posture. I used to get tired really quickly if I stand for longer than 10 minutes and with the first steps in the morning [0]. A physiotherapist helped me fix it with exercises and stretching.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_fasciitis
Or you actually blow up their jets during the airstrike, so that they can't use them ever.

Seriously, "harass" the pilots? A gentler, more playful war I suppose.
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Right. An analogy would be saying "people who eat over 6000 calories a day are, as a rule, overweight". It's a logical fallacy to turn around and say "Michael eats over 6000 calories a day, therefore he is overweight". It's statistically very likely, but in this case Michael is a olympic swimmer with 10 gold medals. It's been a long time since my logic class in college, but the rule of 'statistics are great until you try to apply them to an individual' has always stuck in my mind. Probably because statistics are often one step removed from 'stereotypes'.
Great article, although it probably should be titled something like, "How to build a company solving hard problems".

Very inspirational for my side project, AutoMicroFarm (http://automicrofarm.com). One thing my co-founder and I will do this week is break down the problem we're solving into known unknowns, and figure out a way to get them into the "known" category quickly and efficiently, so we can "grind and innovate" faster/cheaper.
There was something similar with JavaScript called 140byt.es [1]

[1] http://140byt.es/
And the wealth and power of the people your parents are friendly with.
The other implication is that control will become unbundled from money and advice. An investor who offered money without requiring founders to give up control--board seats, rights to block acquisitions, etc.--would gain a competitive advantage when trying to get into the best startups.

Angel investors are already doing this at the seed stage. Crowdfunding will push it up to series A.
Kudo's my friend, this is really cool idea, and it's also really well done. I think this would still be fun even if it were just for internet brownie points, but actually being able to bet btc is awesome - maybe I'll take the btc fortune (.3 btc) and let it ride :)
Only if it connects to the internet and orders them off Amazon for me.
One interesting thing in this article is the statement that a billion dollar company leaves the founders with $300,000 each.

Am I the only one surprised by this?
Actually they address that as well, albeit from a philosophical standpoint -- Firebug is supposed to provide useful web development features that aren't already served by the browser. There isn't supposed to be competition.

I suppose, in the near future, some redundant features will be cut from Firebug.
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A cluster bomb delivered in that same container would be cheaper, more effective and with less risk to fail.

In military applications, it is almost always easier to permanently incapacitate people. Tech for temporary incapacitation is needed only in those very rare cases where we really, really need someone alive; where the capture is so vital that it's worth risking and often spending our troop lives to achieve that.
This article turned out to be a lot more than I expected. From the headline, I was expecting more of a "buzzkill" article, full of negativity and basically saying "don't bother trying". But it is actually more of "Yeah, the odds are very against you, but, nonetheless, here are some ways you can optimize things to favour you as much as possible".

The part about "The Grind" reminds me a bit of the classic pg essay: "How Not To Die".[1] (My personal favourite, out of all the pg essays I've read).

I love this pg quote, as it's full of inspiration and is about as motivating a quote as I know:

"If you can just avoid dying, you get rich. That sounds like a joke, but it's actually a pretty good description of what happens in a typical startup. It certainly describes what happened in Viaweb. We avoided dying till we got rich."

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
Remember, there are no stupid users.

This is common behavior. Yes, it's not "ideal" when considered along a single "safety" dimension. But when you're having a dinner party and you have a really annoying beep because you burned the main dish and you're already anxious, etc., it's a hell of a let easier to just disable the alarm.

Nest lets you "hush" the alarm without disabling. /Huge/ improvement.
i agree. sounds like something emp #300 should walk away with.
Firebug can be really slow, but I just can't change it to Chrome dev tools, which seem unintuitive for me in many places (and which stop me on non-existing breakpoints randomly, no, I don't have "break on exceptions" enabled or anything like this).

Regarding Fx dev tools, they e.g. do not show evaled scripts at all in the JS panel. Also I don't see a way (yet) to have debugger and console visible at the same time. And there are many other tiny Firebug goodies not implemented yet here and there. Firebug will be still essential for me for many months.
Not enough thought has gone into some of these features. Take this:

"If Nest Protect’s carbon monoxide alarm goes off, your Nest Thermostat automatically turns off your gas furnace"

In a winter vacation scenario this could be disastrous. Nest decides to turn off the furnace, but the homeowner is away and unreachable. It doesn't take long for the temperature to plummet, causing water to freeze and burst pipes.
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Maybe everyone here is just dancing around the point. A fire alarm that saves your life isn't annoying, it's awesome. A fire alarm that goes off cus you suck at making grilled cheese is annoying and has to be ignored and have it's batteries pulled until you can clear out the crappy cooking.

So the point is that smoke detectors today aren't "annoying," they're inaccurate. Their inaccuracy is a liability.

Nest's alarm doesn't seem to solve that dangerous inaccuracy.
A) Law enforcement doesn't need to decrypt previously-captured traffic; they either want to fish for criminal activity or they'll allow their target to build up new incriminating evidence. B) Who pays attention?
I assume you meant emitting. Omitting alpha particles isn't a problem.
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I suspect some of SockJS's fallback transports won't work, see my other comment on Socket.io: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6517138

Hopefully I'll be proven wrong.
Ahh yes, I didn't think about that. I wonder if it would be possible to build the best possible solution from this data in some way?
One of my favorite examples of this is Instapaper. The app on iOS registers itself as a handler for ihttp:// links so all you have to do is stuff an "i" in front of a URL in Safari and the link opens up in the Instapaper app. Super clever.
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Thanks for sharing that link. I couldn't find that talk last time the question of emergency data destruction came up.
You have stumbled across an idea older than nuclear weapons. Heinlen's "Solution Unsatisfactory" was written with a very similar solution in mind ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_Unsatisfactory ).

That said, that is perhaps the silliest way of using drones if one meant business.
When I give money on kickstarter, I give it on a "cound and forget" basis. Usually they are not products, but projects, like the human powered helicopter and such, also my amounts are small, 5 or 10 euros. So I don't mind if I don't see results.
Sorry, but machines do not make decisions, never will. Humans that create machines make decisions.
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Firefox was started when Mozilla (Communicator) grew too large. Let's put everything in plugins they said! Do even 5% of users need dev tools? History repeating itself.
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Soda is probably the worst thing you can do for your health. At least cigarettes don't make you fat.
If it does require sticky sessions, it will not work with more than one dyno: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-labs-websockets...
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Well, if your house is burning down, and you're not in it, there's not anything you can do anyway, and you finding out before you get home doesn't change anything, so that's not that useful.
My probability theory is a bit weak so correct me if I'm wrong. Since each company you start is an "independent event" doesn't your probability still stay at 6e-5?
For many people, that luck already happened based on who their parents are and what sort of upbringing they had. Someone born to middle-class American parents has a whole lot better shot at being a billionaire than someone born in the inner-city ghetto, or, for that matter, in rural China.

Much of the remaining "luck" comes from our choices. Think of it this way: how many people choose to work a steady job for all of their life. They will never be a billionaire, regardless of how lucky they get, and so their contribution to the average is zero. Actually, I suspect this invalidates your math: more than 1 in 2 people have probability zero of being a billionaire simply by virtue of not taking the chance of being one, and therefore of the people who take the chance, the odds are significantly better than 0.0001%.
There are already 200+ people on the group that are coordinate rides from airport to the venue, submitting their twitter handles, sharing Linkedin's profiles etc.
Another cool thing about the Sierpinski gasket is that it's possible to more or less do calculus on it. You can even define a Laplacian operator. There's actually a whole class of fractal-like sets on which this is possible, but SG has always been the prototypical one.
Is there anything inherently wrong with intelligent objective "vigilante justice", especially in minor cases? Just because a judge won't look at a case doesn't mean it's inherently wrong to take action.
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I thought Yahoo Mail didn't limit storage - they advertised it as "unlimited storage" a few years ago.

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(CTO here) Thanks for the feedback! We didn't actually skip demo day, we did indeed present and vet our pitch with investors - just figured we didn't need the press at that point.

Besides "you are X", the other feedback we've gotten is that some people read it as "irks".

However, in a space full of not-subtly-named companies such as Tap{Stream, Joy, Jump} and App{Salar, sFlyer, etc}, we'd prefer to stand out with something that sounds like it might be more than your average DSP.

We also think it could be a cool acronym, but we're keeping that to ourselves for now :)
No, I'm not saying that "the internet archive completely solves this problem", what I'm saying is "there exists no legal barrier to making something like this a reality, since things like the internet archive already exist".
And apparently, this is the website of its author:

http://solarbot.net/
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Note for Americans: there's no equivalent of "federal" police, it's handled by the local or regional authority. The "Met" end up with most of the national-level jobs like anti-terrorism.

PIPCU is a bit odd and new, and clearly looking to make a mark. They might reasonably complain that London police have no authority over them, and they'd be right; this is really a problem for ICANN who are ultimately threatening the registrars.
"The premise was that if you want to date a supermodel, you have to move to a city where there are lots of supermodels, and hang out at the places where supermodels shop, work out, dine, etc., and you have to start conversations with supermodels, blah, blah.."

Likewise, if you don't want to date anyone at all, you move to silicon valley and work on a startup!

(Kidding! sort of...)
In this case, there is 0% fee if you bet when the round opens.