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Good stuff, @javery. But you know I'm always down to hear your advice, or stories, or whatever!

That said, the biggest thing I agree with here is this: You can't really gain a proper appreciation of someone's problems, their thought processes, and the full context of what they've already tried, thought of, discarded, considered, reconsidered, etc., in a few minutes. Of the "annoying" advice I've gotten, it's usually been the kind that leaves me going "Dude, that totally has nothing to do with the business we're in" OR "Yeah, yeah, we already tried that and it doesn't work" or whatever.

That's why I like your (current) approach. I pretty much never mind hearing somebody relate a story, and if it isn't helpful, well, whatever. But at least it doesn't present the air of presumptuousness and arrogance that just blasting into "oh, do this" and "oh, do that" does.
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The spirit should be more like 'This repo is a fork of'; The language you chose suggests that his project was derived from yours. Also, I think you need to do slightly different things to comply with the license. It says:

"You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use."

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Even if you could handle the end product strength (and they can ... sort of), there are a lot more problems dealing with metal than plastic.

First, metal is a LOT heavier to throw around than plastic. So, your control systems have to be dramatically bigger.

Second, the melting points of metals are way higher than plastic, so the energy required to be right at a critical point of flow/melt is a lot bigger. Not to mention the percentage difference between melted and not melted is a lot smaller.

Third, a lot of the metal techniques are about melting metal in place. That means that the part is buried in a block of powdered metal. That block of powdered metal is a significant fraction of the weight and cost of a plain old hunk of whatever the metal is. Try imagining fabricating even a small gold part out of a powdered block of 6"x6"x6" of gold--now think about how many metals are WAY more expensive than that.

Finally, powdered metal is explosive. Most machines working with powdered metal require nitrogen atmosphere pump down and if there is a leak ... KABOOM.
> I think they understand the process of re-inventing themselves better than any other tech company.

Google has never successfully reinvented themselves. They were founded as a search engine, and that's still what most people associate them with.

I would give the crown to Apple. Since Google was founded, Apple has been best known for the Mac, iPod, and iPhone at varying points, each product eclipsing the prior one in popularity, mindshare, and profit.
Fear of their own mortality is the answer...
Reading the paper, they make a lot of assertions that are a bit too confident like this plant is most definitely X and this is obviously Y. This is an interesting idea but just because they resemble some plants doesn't make them those plants all things considered.

Original article http://cms.herbalgram.org/herbalgram/issue100/hg100-feat-voy...
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The market didn't see much upside to AAPL in 2000 either. Boy was it wrong.
This is a false generalization.
MQTT indeed is nice!

http://www.infoq.com/articles/practical-mqtt-with-paho
At least it is more playable with a mouse.
Very good article, essentially ompaing US & Indian economy. it boils down to essential comodities and how bigger internet user base is there in US & India. Alsoothr avenues of marketing decides overall CPC.
Sorry, I thought you was conflating worrying with paying attention. My bad!
Interesting quote, but I have to completely disagree with your conclusion that it's about technology. In fact, even your quote itself from Mr. Church is clearly stating that only our laws can restrain our technology and maintain our freedom. You've missed his point entirely.

There have always been examples of government overreach, whether by technological means or otherwise. But, what we are witnessing today is a near complete rewriting and reinterpretation of the laws that protect us from such overreach. The pace of technological innovation has simply served as the vehicle for implementing this overreach.

Starting with the PATRIOT act and Bush's legal team's loose interpretation of existing protections, we have seen this country veer dangerously into dissolution of fundamental rights, torture, extra-judicial killings, wars of choice, a vastly expanded surveillance state and more. It is not the technology that has enabled this. It is the laws. And only behind the shock of 9/11 could the collective psyche of the American public be rendered so unbalanced and so fearful as to allow such fundamental and drastic change to our country's beliefs, ethos, and laws.

>...technologists hold the key to hope in what would otherwise be a hopeless situation. The hackers here can create technology that can subvert the Government's tyranny"

That is a dangerous fantasy and a technologists' pipe dream. It is completely misguided and follows from the common belief that you have articulated above. As I mentioned, it is the laws, not the technology that pose the foundational threat. From a technology standpoint, we control nothing. Engaging in a game of cat-and-mouse with a government whose resources are effectively limitless and one who is unbounded by any laws would be disastrous. We will lose. We are losing. Again, from Mr. Church's quote above, "the most careful effort to resist...is within the reach of the government to know".

So, as much as we like to dream about freedom-fighting hackers saving the day, it's utter nonsense. If not for whistle-blowers like Snowden, we wouldn't even know where the battlefield was, let alone how to fight.

The laws need to be clear and they need to protect whistleblowers, so there is no doubt that they are heroes. We need to restore our protections and return to our principles. That is what will save us, if anything will.
I've disputed a $6000 "card present" transaction at a physical store about 20 miles away from me. AmEx determined the card must have been cloned and sent a new one out immediately. There was no hassle involved: "Nope I haven't been to that town." And done.
No, the choice was between benefits and profit. They chose profits.
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Agreed I've been sitting here trying to figure out what relevancy frequencies, bandwidth and power have to the primary issue which is cost. The article described the problem and why there isn't a solution quite clearly to me.
Anyone interested in the original print ad, here it's https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bf3U1C7IMAE_MkJ.jpg:large
People in the console video game modding community sometimes release Windows-only small computer programs that help you with one step of modifying your console. If the program doesn’t require complicated interaction, it’s easier for me to open it in Wine than to exit OS X and boot into Windows just to use it.

One Windows-only modding program is Lunar IPS (http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/240/), which patches ROM files using a custom patch format for GameBoy Advance games. Another program was Wii Code Manager (which now has a cross-platform replacement in Java), which let you select a subset of cheats from a database in a text file, then compiled those cheats into a GCT file so they could be applied to a game.

I’ve also used Wine to try out very small games, such those created in game jams. I wouldn’t want to play a game permanently like that, because the game saves might be locked into the Wine version and Wine might turn out to be too slow, but Wine is fine for trying out the game to figure out if I want to play it, or playing a simple game that doesn’t save.
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Unless you leave on Jan 1st you will be "screwed over" even if you worked there for [long time]. Knowing that before you even start when you leave you will be taking a hit stinks.
Uber says they require proof of livery insurance. So in theory the driver should already be paying that $$$ a month and be covered.
It's not uncommon for NASA to include a list of TV satellites and frequencies that stream their video releases in a press release, so why not for research satellites as well?
...or Atlanta, in John's case :)
I was wondering if someone that knows much about 3D printing on a larger scale could chime in here:
http://ideas.techendo.co/ideas/2
Krita was started in 1999, only four years after GIMP. For most of their existence, these two programs have been developed in parallel.

http://slangkamp.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/10-years-of-krita/

http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/kde/krita_10_years.h...

Part of the reason Krita development has accelerated massively in the last couple of years is that its team decided on a clear mission statement at some point, one very different from GIMP: Krita is a painting app first. The main use cases are painting, illustration and texture-making. That it's also quite useful for cases GIMP traditionally aims at (photo editing, web graphics) are down to toolset overlap between the use cases and a robust, modern tech foundation (colorspace-independent implementation strategies, etc.), but Krita isn't actually trying to compete with GIMP and ventures into territory GIMP doesn't really serve.
Given that there's not a publicly-available simulator or compiler for the Mill, I hope they washed their hands after retrieving those figures. The GI tract is not a friendly place... ;)
Can I ask why so many?? Or how many will you never look at again, but just didn't bother to close?
Trying (and failing) to get my own mp3s playing consistently on the radio in the mac appstore version of GTA SA, I had occasion to peek in the installed directory structure.

I was pretty surprised to see a familiar-looking wine style layout there.

I didn't really look into it, so I don't know what the exact situation is, but looks like the future might have already happened in that case.
As a student, I've gotten a lot of mileage out of it for e-book readers. My university library has a bunch of books available on Adobe Digital Editions, and Amazon lets you rent Kindle books for a user-specified amount of time. Both Digital Editions and Kindle for PC work very well on WINE.
You're absolutely right, and what I forgot to say in my earlier comment was "thank you!"
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Nice. I've wanted a tiling tool like that for ages.
Thanks for finding that. Apparently the receive antenna has a gain of 0dbi. The use of PCM/FSK for the modulation schemes means you need to achieve a high signal-to-noise ratio on the receiver for the message to be coherent to the spacecraft. I don't know the spectral power density of a PCM/FSK, but this most likely describes everything you'd want to know about the scheme: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=109174... . The abstract specifically mentions NASA.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7108472
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Totally agreed. I also think Uber should be slightly more explicit in their ratings screen (e.g. Bad Experience, Good Experience, Exceptional Experience)

If someone has a problem with a ride, the only thing they really care about is letting Uber know that the ride was terrible (I bet the rating distribution clusters heavily around 1, 4 and 5 stars).

Looking at passenger rating histories should also play a role in how these are interpreted (if someone is an asshole and rates tons of drivers poorly even if they're well liked, that should be discounted)

By doing something like this, you have a way of weeding out bad drivers, rewarding great drivers, and leaving everyone in the middle alone.
Your assumptions may be incorrect. Here is an article that was on HN a couple months ago: http://brent-noorda.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-much-does-lyft-...

According to Consumer Reports (see linked article), the median car costs about $9k per year for the first 5 years (including the sticker price). That comes out to $0.75 per mile--not an insignificant amount. Driving 30 miles per hour, that's $22.50 in costs.
... So there is just a never ending supply of raw material also sitting in this high street shop?
Flip was cancelled just ahead of nearly every smartphone having capability to record comparable quality video. It was a smart move by Cisco.

It seems less likely that phones will be able to supercede GoPro in the same way, since you'd never want to subject such an important device to the physical situations that you would a GoPro.

The lens issue is also non-trivial. For a general purpose camera (i.e. smartphone), you wouldn't want a wide angle lens like you would for PoV video, and making a smartphone's camera lens interchangeable for a small segment of its customers probably isn't happening broadly if ever.
didnt know about the stackoverflow...thanks
What if this is caused by consuming too much sugar? After all it seems to target sugar field workers.

Of course it could also be pesticide residues but what if consuming too much sugar makes things worse? What if sugar is actually POISONOUS?

That would explain why my field medecine guide suggests putting sugar in a wound to prevent infection. Sugar kills the bacteria. Sugar kills?
Paul Buchheit said something similar at startup school years ago and I watch the video every once in a while to remind myself not to be similarly prescriptive when I meet new people.

His key takeaway slide was a simple equation:

Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization = Advice

The full video has more info on how to get past the advice you hear and actually process feedback:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZxP0i9ah8E
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This is at work. I have four threads of enquiry ongoing, one tab group for each. The nature of my work is that I have to do a good part of my research in the spaces between tasks.

Two of those threads/groups have become the same thread.

Normally I'll find what I'm looking for, but leave the tab up for awhile and let it simmer. Once a week or so I'll pare down a group to just the tabs that I'll want to refer to later, bookmark what remains and clear everything out.

Works for me.
An open source project I contribute to uses wine in a pretty cool way I think. Actually it's mentioned in these wine release notes - LMMS.

It's a music production studio, and one of the features that it offers is to use a VST instrument. A VST instrument is a .dll file which provides a virtual instrument for the user to use in their music project. So here we have this native linux app but it is able to take advantage of .dll plugins using wine.
It isn't just 'print whatever the consumer needs'. It's

- Dig it out of the ground

- process it

- Fabricate the unprintable bits

- Store all of this

- Print whatever the consumer needs in less time than it takes to drink a coffee.

So unless this make believe "shop" is fronted onto a processing/fabrication plant, which is itself, fronted on a magical mine that you can dig up any resource you like. Your scenario can never happen.*

* Or we could invent teleportation.
And that it's impossible for the people who place stock in them to distinguish earnest buzzword-laden self promotion from mockery, so have fun with it.
oh, please: http://www.skepticblog.org/2011/02/10/chinas-ghost-cities/

Edit: Note people said the EXACT same thing about china "building roads no body needs" in the early nineties. Now china are running license plate lotteries in order to keep traffic bearable. Just have a sense of scale, when you are trying to migrate 350 million people into urban centres, you need to build a lot of houses.
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The Voynich manuscript is one of my favorite mysteries. In a lot of ways, I hope it's never really solved.
It's also missing basic information about orbital approach.

Just how far away is it going to be on this 'return'? What would be the dV to an Earth capture?

edit: It will apparently "enter the earth-moon system" in August of 2014.

edit2: After its second or third serendipitous mission, it was deliberately put into an orbit that would put it on a Lunar flyby-capable trajectory with closest approach August 10, 2014.
So, nobody commented on this..

"Once a year, managers make adjustments in employee compensation".

Performance reviews are supposed to be a two way street. We talk about if the employee is adding value to the company, how both parties could improve to create more more value, then negotiate how much the company will pay to have the employee stay.

Sure give feedback early and often. You really should be talking every day with your manager in the daily standups.

But lets be honest, if you are still only doing annual pay reviews there is still just one meeting a year that matters.
ugh another project that required I download all of Node.js just to use...

Note - if you are going to write a nifty little utility for use on the side, don't require all of an entire packaging framework like Node.js to run it.

Hey guys, check out this cool java utility i wrote...Oh you'll need to download Maven and let it install all of the various dependencies.
I should have thought of that. Much of the work to build this (which honestly was a few days spread over a month) was building the list management for subdirectories and files...
No, it's simple: Google is not payed by people for search. They are payed to display ads, whether it is alongside search, or as part of AdWords.

Seriously, are you really arguing that Google's revenues are not primarily from ad revenue? With the sale of Motorola, it'll be back above 90%—just like it was before Motorola.
Thanks -- and good point. From an RPG perspective, the (virtual) filesystem was the environment to explore, with non-directory files being the objects and enemies that you'll encounter. Shell commands are the actions over those directories and objects. I had fun with it, but it may not be fun for everyone...
If the support for the retirees is their children (as it has been in most times and places), what other choice is there?

It's worth noting that Aristotle (who wrote quite a bit about the merits and limitations of male-male sexual relationships) articulated marriage for the Greek world as a purely heterosexual institution for that reason (and therefore same-sex relationships were relegated to being in parallel to reproductive marriage and subject to certain productive limits).
Sounds like a good idea. Finding that distance heuristic will be a challenge though!
You can load your own OS on Android, so this would be pretty easy to bypass. The baseband firmware isn't immutable either, just harder to modify.
It may have changed since you last tried, but isn't it just turn on wifi, join wifi on your phone, open app?
Yeah because china only exists to service the U.S so how could this possibly benefit them!?

I reckon pretty soon the U.S will be able to automate China into obsolescence, then I guess we can just turn the chinese people into a protein pulp to feed the (U.S) poor or something.
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Congratz guys, this is a big improvement from 0.2.0. Keep up good work!
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I dont see anything really strange about that.

If the issue is that all of the existing gear is wideband and you need to send something narrowband - build a narrowband exciter, use an upconverter to drive the wideband amp.

PCM/FSK-AM/PM doesnt seem to be really a complicated thing. Its a pretty easy way to send data, and should be build-able.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=109174...

I wish I knew more about what the specific difficulty was.
Thanks. Yes, the algorithm only works for English (as it currently stands). If you have interest or ideas for making it work in other languages I would love to hear from you.
How would you do payment processing in the background without temporarily storing the payment details?
Regardless of age, I'd much rather take the developer with experience using one or more relational database systems. It's much easier and effective for them to downgrade their knowledge and experience to the MongoDB level than it is for somebody with only MongoDB experience to upgrade to a proper understanding of database systems.
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You could always drive a cheaper car. Whoops...some customers don't like your car. 4.3 star rating. Out you go ;)

This sounds like a poor deal to me.
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Dividends are not actually the only way to return money to shareholders.

Due to the tax situation in the US, it's more efficient to just buy back your own stock (something Apple's been doing a lot lately). Those function more-or-less-the-same as dividends in terms of returning the profit the company has made back to its owners (so they can invest somewhere else, presumably).
> ...it is also the logical and moral equivalent of a defense of slavery on the grounds that it would be extremely disruptive to abolish it in a society that is organised around its existence.

If slavery is structured such that the interests are aligned well enough to politically constrain abuses, yes, and I would argue it would be a defence for the sorts of slavery that existed in the ancient world.

However, regarding the American experience and the intercontinental slave trade, this wasn't the case. You can't take a group of people, subject them to total oppression with nobody to stand up for them, and even insist that if they are freed, their children, born in freedom can never be citizens.

The difference is that in Rome, slavery served a vital social function and the abuses could be constrained because slaves very often had citizen family. In the US, it served merely an economic function and had no alignment of interests.

Livy talks about the controversy concerning the rule in the Twelve Tables that a father could not sell a son into slavery more than three times. Such a non-permanent slavery is not at all comparable to what we saw in American history.

I think the key thing is, one important aspect of retirement with the kids is that it is an important way by which interests are aligned across generations. Parents are far more invested in their children's success, for example. Taking that away due to a notion that it is unfair to some people is a problem.
> (Yes, I know there are no frozen lakes in Sochi, it's an example)

I'm sure he can find a frozen lake in Moscow to jump on.

After all, the reporter was in Moscow -- not Sochi -- for the hacking story.
Here you go. Same person, same profits, same amounts, different laws. Why? Because.
This is the kind of guy you want to be your CEO. Someone who doesn't spend their time shopping for the best suit or glad handing unnecessarily.

For those in the hunt for a CEO, take note here. Curiosity, exploration, not afraid to get dirty, a desire to understand and learn. Well done.