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There is no reason why the Fed's actions would particularly benefit the stock price of Amazon, Netflix and Tesla.

Providing easy money should give a boost to all stock prices, and in fact the Feds actions should give the biggest boost to low risk investments since they are the closest substitutes for what the Fed is buying.
No, that's simply not true. A 128 - 256 bit key is already infeasible to brute-force, so long as the algorithm uses the key appropriately.
On Amazon they're $23. Am I looking at the wrong ones? Moleskine $17.
I always suspected that anyone who fails fizzbuzz does it because they are unfamiliar with divisibility mathematics. I am always amazed at CS students who have no grasp on relatively simple math.

I remember trying to explain binary addition to people in a circuits class when we were implementing ripple-carry adders. I was explaining how binary addition is the exact same as decimal addition except you carry at 2 rather than 10. The guy I was explaining it to asked "What is carrying?". He hadn't done addition by hand in so long he had entirely forgotten. And this is a guy who can code up a functional, decent looking PHP based website in a matter of minutes. I suppose it's even more believable that people would forget long division, remainders, and modulus.
I don't know much about the space but I think the biggest thing you can do is to both make it easy and convince me that it's easy before I sign up to do the manual entry of data.

Assuming this is a real problem (I imagine it would be) then I think easing the data entry will make/break your retention.
iOS are more closed than Android? sure. But at least they dont lie about it; they dont market themselves as open-source heroes.. Is this misleading speech that is at stake here;

There's a lot of people buying android devices, thinking they are supporting the open-source movement..

So its better not compare the worst(iOS) with the bad(Android) when it comes to openness; lets compare it to how it should be, according to Android PR; what they are saying and what they are practicing are very distant things; and thats the most pure example of hypocrisy
I kind of wish each section was a little longer. This would make for a great book :)
Awesome, will send you a note to chat!
Ah. It was not on the front page earlier, ad I did not see this.
"As an aside, when younger people say older people don't get technology, I think its usually a proxy for social disagreements"

Could be, but I think to a large extent it is that older people tend to assume things that are just not true. Example: my mom asked if I would be able to communicate with her during my upcoming trip to Europe, because she was concerned that there might be "international rates" for the Internet. This is the same woman who is able to use Fedora for daily tasks and who has been using command-line ffmpeg to transcode personal videos for her various devices.

To "get technology" can mean a lot of things. It could mean knowing how to use a terminal. It could just as easily mean understanding that a desktop computer can do all the things that a TiVO can do, or that the Internet does not have any long distance fees, or that the intended use a computer is irrelevant in a conversation about the possible uses of a computer. I would not discount such poor assumptions -- hackers are repeatedly bitten in the ass by law enforcement agencies and judges who have such misconceptions.
I think screenshots would help here.

What do I actually get that I don't get out of the box with Excel? I imagine the trends and the charts but seeing it visually would go a long way for me to solidify it in my mind.
Are you really claiming that investors are implicitly assuming that the current interest rates will continue forever when they value companies which promise high future cash flows?
Agreed.

Transitively-resolved, platform-independent binaries are the big win coming from maven. Only once have I worked with a project where I required new system-level dependencies to compile & run a maven project; and I have never had a cross-platform issue when carrying projects across Mac & Linux.

To be fair, the import-compiled-transitive-dependencies-as-binaries pattern that Maven likes to employ is probably less easily adapted to natively compiled languages like C/C++ than it is to managed runtime languages (Java/Erlang) or scripting languages (Ruby/Python).

As much as it's a pain to work with "maven plugin spaghetti", it's at least deterministic and keeps things easy to figure out.

There are those dependencies that you learn to remain wary of (asm/cglib/antlr/jline/etc), but at the end of the day I'm happy to work in an ecosystem where I don't have to compile every single line of third-party code myself.
Artists' sketch books can take a beating as well and have thicker paper (Moleskine make sketchbooks as well of course), but sketchbooks by Daler, Rowney et al tend to be in A series sizes here in Europe and that shape is fatter than the Moleskine.

'The Alwych Book' notebooks have really thick creamy paper and heavy blue lines, and the smaller ones will fit in a pocket easily. They are your white-van driver's notebook, basically indestructible.

Both are a good percentage cheaper than Moleskines.
If it is then a $500 refrigerator would have the same value to an Inuit as a $500 heater.
I came to this comment thread just to find this comment and downvote it, because I KNEW it would be here.
I got a root shell on a Firefox OS phone, just started 'adb' and got 'root@android'.

We should call it by it's proper name "Android/FirefoxOS"
If only potential shareholders (at the time of the IPO) were equally in love with this idea.
I'm interested that "Heroin" was the song that made you feel like that. I've always felt that "European Son" (YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igWyYA_r06Y) was the most experimental and noisy song on the album, and I always experience a real visceral thrill when listening to it (especially that part with the roar-ish thing and then the glass shattering). The guitar parts are absurd, the band sometimes plays straight screeching noise, and the song barely holds together. "Heroin" feels contained by comparison.

In a similar vein, considering your appreciation for "the clash of consonance and dissonance," I hope you're getting a chance to see My Bloody Valentine during their short tour in the next few weeks.
That's exactly what I said. Doctors don't understand AI and its place in medical practice, so they don't see how it could save them time for more valuable work. Instead they are afraid...
I agree. Most larger restaurants are sold massive POS systems which aren't easy to extract data from. We're obviously looking into this too.
>> "So, when he's praising the horns line, the piano line, or the complex electronic effects, it's not Kanye who's responsible for all of that, it's Daft Punk, it's Mike Dean, or Mohawke."

To bring this round to tech I guess it's similar to Steve Jobs getting credit for the iPhone when a lot of the work was done by the engineers. In other words Kanye had to bring those people together and guide the creation of the music or it wouldn't have happened.
Not true. My mom (otherwise heavily into classical music and, through the influence of her older brothers, somewhat interested in singer songwriters like Bob Dylan and - gasp - Donovan) bought a copy - and went to a concert. She didn't start a band - but did instill a love of very noisy, very nasty rock'n'roll in her children.
I would say: "great artists; made beautiful music; some masterpieces". Not sure how anyone can get more successful than that.
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I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience from the previous (and this) hn discussion, and I really appreciate you taking the time to comment here [edit: in spite of having a bad experience -- frequently it can be tempting to just walk away, as most of these kinds of debates only ever seem to spiral downwards into a pretty dark place, no matter how many well-intentioned participants there are].

I too find it a little disturbing that comments on this second instalment seem to revolve around the introduction to the previous one -- even if I too had some comments on that[1]. As for why people comment on it, one of the reasons might be that the "Who is it for section" was quite long compared to the rest of the post (which is fine, but it isn't surprising that it then becomes the subject of discussion).

The one-line introduction on this post doesn't seem to warrant a lot of discussion, however...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6620568
But at the end of the day, I pay 10 euro for 3 backpocket moleskines and it lasts me a year. That's cheap enough for me considering it works perfectly and I have never been disappointed.
of all the things, you had to pick the kernel :). the kernel in use for both iOS and OS X is xnu for which the OS X sources are available on opensource. apple.com ( mavericks source at http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-2422.1.72/ ). While the iOS version isn't released, it likely to be exactly the same with the only differences being in the ARM architecture specific code.

If you would like to make changes and build your own OS X kernel, instructions to do that are at

http://shantonu.blogspot.com/2013/10/building-xnu-for-os-x-1...
> Within 5-10 years the cost of battery technology should have fallen to where the cost of the battery is marginal.

The problem with batteries isn't so much the cost as their weight. There is a limit to the power density of current battery technology and nothing really in the pipeline to greatly improve on this.

So installing a higher-capacity battery also means having a heavier car, which in turn requires more power to keep it moving.
I just found out about python-fuse, and it seems that I can use a lot of the code from encbup to write a simple EncFS clone that will accept a list of directories and produce a mountpoint that will expose them encrypted. Then you can just rdiff-backup that and you're done.

What does everyone think?
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Does anyone else get envious for not having the artistic ability to make cool stuff like they show in Paper and the ads around it?
The Volt's prices has dropped 5K.. I think / hope it will sell a lot more now.

I've had my Volt for about 10K miles and I love it.
Show HN: Sweet Donut. A very simple donut chart generator, as a jQuery plugin.
Topic previously posted with lots of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6622621 (174 points, 40 comments)
Free cash flow is falling in the last couple of years.

http://i.imgur.com/sJWam5L.png
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Fermat's little theorem is Euler's theorem in the special case that m is prime. The condition on Euler's theorem is that x and m must be relatively prime... which is certainly true if m is prime.
lacking regulation you have no idea if such claims in their marketing material are even true
This is why I don't run third party AV.

I'm fairly good at distinguishing between what's a virus and what's not a virus. 99% of things are in the latter category care of fairly non-dubious web surfing habits.

The last time I got a virus was sometime back when Vista was the new kid on the block. I was searching high and low for a keygen for a really obscure program and I thought I'd finally found one.

Windows Defender was all up in my face like "don't run this, it's a virus!" and I was like "damnit Windows Defender, I want this key" so I ran it.

Lesson learned. Viruses don't infect PCs. People infect PCs.
I'd love to have a gentleman's bet on this :) I bet you a beverage of your choice (I know we're not all craft beer aficionados) that within 10 years, the cost of batteries will have halved, and their capacity will have doubled.

I try to put my money where my mouth is; when Tesla went IPO, I bought several thousand shares of stock. I'm holding for the long term, as I think they're not just going to revolutionize mobility, but also battery technology.
What's frustrating is finding the right (i.e. pleases James) combination of features. Good-quality paper, unlined, white or slightly off-white, flexible cover, fits in back pocket.

I'd heard good things about Clairefontaine, and the 1917 line in particular.

http://www.gouletpens.com/Leuchtturm1917_Jottbook_s/1324.htm

But, sadly for me, there's no option for unlined. Indeed, the dropdown for "Find by paper ruling" has no such choice.

I've been pretty happy with these: http://www.amazon.com/Pen-Ink-Notebook-5-5X3-5Ls-Blank/dp/B0...

though I have assorted other brands and forms I've been trying out.
"> 2. CGI may very well have raised multiple red flags, and CMS and HHS could have promptly ignored them.

Of course, with basic project management 101, these things are duly noted so that when you're hauled in front of Congress, you've documented the situation. Based on CGI's responses the other day, they surely didn't do that -- otherwise, they would have raised it. Unless government IT work of this nature is classified?"

Depends on the stakes. At the moment, they're kind of low, I doubt sufficient to piss of your monopsony customer. I mean, when CGI's VP was handed this straight line (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-panel-grills-co...):

"Later, Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.) asked the contractors whether they could conceive of “a more incompetent administrator” than CMS."

And replied:

"“I have no opinion on that,” Campbell replied."

Yeah, I'll bet she has no opinion on the clowns that put her front and center before the nation's Grand Inquisitor (the US Congress).
being forced into reliance on a substance is never good

I find this wording problematic. I'm skeptical that any significant number of people in the developed world today start using nicotine without knowing that it's addictive or that a significant fraction of nicotine addicts developed that addiction through involuntary exposure.
I don't know anything about sound waves, but would it be possible to dynamically produce waves that create destructive interference? Would that eliminate the noise pollution?
He didn't say implementing those functions in the same code, but using the "same language". To me, PHP's use in templates is pretty much its core idea. I think it's a good idea, and basically defines what a ruby/python version would be like.

Unfortunately it also makes possible the abuse you note - hopefully there's better solutions than requiring a different language in those 3 places.
I think you're too readily writing off the role of the producer in the case of 'Yeezus.' Classics like Steely Dan's 'Aja', Quincy Jones' 'The Dude', and, in hip-hop, Dr. Dre's 'The Chronic' were crafted in much the same way, a collaboration between producers with a grand vision and a cast of musicians who could see it to realization.
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I tried version 2.2.5 and it worked, but I had to change the permission in the security preferences of OS X. Apparently Mavericks changed the permissions to only allow approved apps to run.
Music appreciation and hacking go hand-in-hand. When I have a ten hour project to do, I put on my Quiet Comforts, queue up some good tunes, and get to coding.
People need to get out of the false notion that the government is desperate to increase tax revenue by any means, and will foist us with an extra tax at every opportunity.

There are two main drivers of tax policy. The bad, is that there is political gain to be made by making taxes less salient. If people don't notice they are being taxed, they will complain less. The article claims gasoline taxes are more salient than the proposed new technlology.

The good, is that the government wants to tax negative externalities, and give tax breaks for positive externalities, and possibly tax luxury items to make taxes more progressive (the last one isn't always good policy). The proposed policy may or may not achieve this - as mentioned, it does allow for congestion taxation.

So whether you are saying what the government should do, or what the government does do, the paradigm of a government desperate to obtain more revenue is a poor one.
Oh, the founders you'll meet
Whoever signed for the internet.
My (paper) note book (a cheap $0.50 mead spiral bound model) can be thrown in my bag without any concern over it being damaged, or remembering to charge it, and it will remain functional. It has no obvious value to thieves, and leaving it lay visible in the car does not appreciably increase my risk of the car being broken into. It is also lighter, and quicker to use than any tablet I've used.
It'll use standard algorithms, although the MVP will only have one available (using pearson currently). My goal is to make various alogrithms eventually available, and perhaps some mechanism to select the best automatically (e.g., selecting the best method based on how sparse or dense the graph is).

As for bulk export, yes in the sense of "download all the calculated recommendations" (perhaps you want to dump that to a local db to access that data directly, rather than rely on hitting my api every time you need something), but not "download all the data exactly as I put it in". For the most part, the data you put into my service should already exist in your own database (what products your users have purchased, what products your users elected as liking). In addition, you'll likely want to use a one-way hash to hash sources (especially if you use usernames or email addresses to uniquely identify users).

I probably won't launch with the ability to add weights to edges, although that's probably one of the first post MVP features on my todo list.
As an aside: See papers like "RockStock", "FibreStone", "Parax", etc, which are "made from stone" (80% Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) and 20% non-toxic HDPE.)

EDIT: Here's a wired article (http://www.wired.com/design/2013/02/stone-paper-notebook/)
Amazon primarily passes value to customers, and squeezes its lower employees and suppliers.
These are pretty good: http://www.amazon.com/Pen-Ink-Notebook-5-5X3-5Ls-Blank/dp/B0...
In principle, they last longer than a paper notebook.

In practice...
Do POS systems already calculate analytics? I was under the impression that they did.
Your first paragraph makes an excellent point. No one is going to type all that in each day. And more importantly - you'd have to type in every ingredient and the quantity for each menu item in order to get the 'better inventory control' that the website suggests.
So what are we suppose to evaluate exactly?
The two links "Try now for free" and "Plans and pricing" are making promises about what waits on the other side. You should always keep promises.

I see no reason why "Plans and pricing" is an image.
Most do, but POS systems are a huge purchase for small independent restaurants.
He put 500K into EFF. And 2M+ in Vringo. Well, he's putting money and seems it's more where his mouth isn't.
I haven't read it yet. So they are going to get rid of the fuel tax right?
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Perhaps Firefox OS in the future? http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/
I am on Win 8 Laptop with not much resolution and using Chrome, here the font is even thinner and has aliasing artifacts.
Can't this be solved by spoofing the user agent (or equivalent) of a white-listed client?
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Good for you. I take it those are the 'cahier' style notebooks with the stitching along the back spine and one fold? Like this...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cahier-Plain-Pocket-Journal-Brown/dp...
There's always good old fashioned drive by Java exploits served up by ad networks.
I'm wondering if the launch will still entail the problems that encountered before. Can't handle the traffic, not much stock, problems with shipping, etc. It is because I'm looking forward to get one, but I'll be staying here in SF till Nov. 8. So if the launch still has those problems, I might not manage to get a Nexus 5.
> As others have said in this thread, just raise taxation on fuel.

This is one of those "uniquely American" problems.

You simply can't get any meaningfully-large group of US citizens to agree to raise taxes. On anything.

Even if it's in their own interest. Even if there is zero drawbacks of any kind. Americans will fight tooth-and-nail against anything that looks or feels like a "tax" of any kind.

In addition, many Americans already feel like the gasoline prices are "high" here. (Even though, factually, we live with very low subsidized prices: they're around $3.25 per US gallon here today).

Raising tax on fuel is not even fathomable.
We're looking at integrating with POS systems but that isn't very easy. It will only require to enter the quantity of sales for menu items. Most POS systems will produce an overall daily count but won't be able to provide smarter analytics.
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And in these days of network printers that can also scan an email a PDF back to you, backups are easy.
I forget that in most "well known companies" they are much larger in size and people can easily hide behind others in such a place. That's where my ignorance comes in. I've been only part of smaller shops where if you aren't producing, you absolutely do not last.

Yet I easily forgot the person with a masters degree that could not pass, was hired anyway, and subsequently fired 3 days later for not improving an iota. I think my frustration is that people like this exist, forcing companies to give the same test to weed them out with no way to skip the question if you can faithfully prove you're not that person.
You get 10 points for describing my last managing editor. he was the most incompetent worker i've ever met. The news editor was second most.
Sorry. This was bad late night judgement on my part. Will change this.
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Actually, I have found the opposite--at least as far as the grid pocket notebooks go, Moleskine paper and build quality has been inconsistent-bordering-on-bad [1]. In addition, I find dot paper superior to grid paper as it is more unobtrusive, but Moleskine has no dot configuration whatsoever in its product line.

The two notebooks I tend to rely on are the Rhodia Webnotebook and the Leuchtturm1917, which are both much higher build quality than Moleskine in every respect (although the Leuchtturm has a bit of a smearing issue with G2 pens). But if you think a Moleskine is overpriced, you are in for a rude surprise with either of those.

It does seem like there should be, out there somewhere, a cheap and high-quality engineer's pocket notebook. But if there is such a thing I have yet to find it, and I have tried probably 10 or so contenders.

[1] Other reports: http://www.notebookstories.com/2011/10/17/moleskine-monday-h...
You'd think that McAfee developers would be smart enough to hard-code a list of essential system files into their AV such that it will at least prompt you to get an install disk so it can replace them instead of just deleting them if it suspects they're infected.

For bonus points, make the software realize that even if the file on the CD looks infected, it isn't actually infected, so make that file's SHA-256 sum a 'known good' profile. (If the file on the actual install CD really is infected, that falls into the category of "Problems The AV Can't Solve". At that point, the OS itself is controlled by Malign Forces Working To Destroy You and the game is over.)

For extra special bonus points, code compressed copies of those essential files into the AV software itself, so they can be replaced on the fly without prompting anyone. They can be updated along with the malware profile data, if they ever need to be.
I can't imagine what I'd have to change in my technical writing in order for women to understand it, because I already assume that women are equally capable of understanding it.
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