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I hated that question when I was dating also. I usually answered "many things". I also do not think my work defines me.

It also brings to mind the movie "Sabrina" with Audrey Hepburn, who father in the movie was a chauffeur so that he could spend his days reading books while between driving stints.
I learned BASIC, Forth and 6809 assembly on one of these. Fond memories.
And I thought a company policy limiting two employees to a flight was silly.
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"The fermentation chamber in the machine turns water, grape concentrate, yeast and a finishing powder into wine."
> Could some well-placed solar cell on the watch do the trick (think calculators).

My Casio watch has two tiny solar panels built into its face. According to the manual, 5 minutes of sunlight each day (or a few hours of indoor lighting) is enough to compensate for normal use, and the battery will last 6 months even without any sunlight.

I've had the Casio for 9 years now. It still works fine, and I've never had to manually charge or replace the battery. The battery does get a bit low in the winter when the watch spends a lot of time covered by thick clothing, but that problem is easily fixed by leaving the watch in the sunlight for a few hours when spring comes.

Sure, it's not "smart", but it can display the time in several different timezones, act as a stopwatch, and even has a button that lights up the display at night (which will probably drain the battery faster). All running off of two solar panels the size of the nail on your pinky.
What color shall the bike shed be?
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Yeah, I think in Denmark the media mainly notices American and Danish business, and not as much those from rest of Europe, unless they do something that really impacts people. People definitely care about what Danish businesses are doing. It's true that monetary success isn't the only measure people care about, e.g. Copenhagen Suborbitals, a nonprofit, gets a ton of startup-like tech press. But people also care about monetary success of Danish businesses. If ONO were a Danish company, it'd be on front pages of newspapers. But it's a Spanish telephone company nobody's heard of, so people aren't really interested.

I think part of the WhatsApp news wasn't only the location but the "lightweight" aspect. There was a lot of, "wow a company sold for $16b just by making a phone app?!" By contrast people aren't surprised that classic capital-intensive, "heavyweight" infrastructure companies like telcos can be worth billions. Plus, nobody cares about infrastructure unless it's their own infrastructure. DONG Energy recently sold a minority stake to Goldman Sachs for $2 billion, which made huge news in Denmark, but did anyone else read about it?
Check out claudesteiner.com.

Theory, history, and examples are here.

Website is older but the concepts and items you are requesting are free there.

Good researching ... well phrased and well formed question.
Beliefs are at the core and their formation and motivation are key considerations. Change requires becoming aware of which beliefs are required to achieve your life's goals, plus a system of correcting them as they are discovered. Emotion is part of the difficulty since we are basically emotional beings, with a recently added rational cortex. So being able to become emotionally literate is a requirement of solving these kinds of issues in our childhood programming.
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Its not that its hard to convince Americans its worth the money. Its that its politically difficult to concentrate the money only in places it would yield the most bang for the buck.

The best strategy would be to take all the HSR money and funnel it to upgrading the Northeast Corridor as quickly as possible. Its easier because Amtrak owns the track and rights of way, and will yield the most bang for buck because its Amtrak's sole profitable line. A success there could create a lot of political pressure for further investment. But its politically impossible to support a project that doesn't piss away its money over a dozen states.
Slices make sense when you realize that [n:n] is always empty, and [:n] + [n:] is always the whole list. From these two identities, all else follows.
Do have a source for that, because it would make very little sense and seems highly unenforceable.
A link to the actual site is more useful: http://themiraclemachine.net/
Thanks. Good advice on getting intros.
I guess Van Gogh wasn't a 'real' artist since he didn't earn any money then.
You did not factor in a few important aspects into your analysis:

a. A law was passed in India called the "Foreign Exchange Regulation Act" in 1973 with the aim of regulating payments and foreign exchange. It contained language that was extremely restrictive for any foreign investments, by all foreign entities including Indian citizens living abroad.

b. This was not initially a concern, but became a huge problem during a 21 month period between 1975-77 when a state of emergency was declared in India [[following the assassination of the then Prime Minister]] edit: incorrect attribution, emergency was declared, but the prime minister was assassinated a few years later.

c. The law was fixed/made more flexible in 1993, and foreign investments immediately started returning.

d. The act was repealed in its entirety in 1998.

e. The issue mentioned in the article revolves around a complaint being made to CCI and as "a complaint filed with CCI cannot be withdrawn" there is no choice but to investigate.

f. The $5B amount is baseless and pure conjecture with no source/comment from either the Competition Commission of India, Lawmakers or Google.

Strangely there are very few to no parallels over here. It definitely does not warrant a statement as broad as India is just not a good place for anyone (other than its citizens perhaps) to do business.
I've got three:

* Textbooks Please: a textbook search engine for college students. It's grossed ~$20k, almost all of which has been reinvested, and not paying myself that much.
* dbinbox: an inbox for your dropbox for receiving files too large to email. It's got ~25k users, but has made less than $1k in donations. I need to give this one a reboot soon.
* Email Tip Bot: send bitcoin with email. Launched two weeks ago and I've already got my first 200 users :D

I really enjoy the process of making these kinds of things, but I find it enormously exhausting to do the other half of marketing, SEO, publicity, etc. I'm working on getting better at SEO, but would love to find someone that likes the marketing side.

PS: http://solo.im/
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The post is very negative. If you take away from someone what you think of as false, don't run way without providing a better alternative. Even if that is just thinking for yourself and not to follow anybody.

Yes, most blog posts go on to follow the same path as that of so called self-help books. But once in a while a sincere anecdote can make you think of fresh perspective on how to handle a situation in which you did not do better.

I think we as a generation should feel lucky to be living when Experimental Psychology is blossoming. Books from authors like Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Daniel Gilbert have had a life changing impact on my thinking. To really understand that our brains are not perfect - but are infact a kludge - makes you think about taking necessary precautions about these limitations.

And for productivity, number one thing that we need to outsmart is our impulsiveness.
I am not sure we should be making light of the situation — we are talking about a potential World War III here.
You have this thing called "The American Dream" and you have an entire cultural history tied to self-motivation, entrepreneurship and "pushing the frontier"...

Clearly every single american isnt subject to the same cultural pre-occupations, that's absurd.

But there are only certain cultural phenomena possible in one place or another. A right-wing party in the UK could not even begin to use any of the ideas or rhetoric of the republican party - they'd be widespread revulsion. We dont sing our national anthem in the UK, we dont "pleg" anything, we dont consider our country "Exceptional" (hence American Exceptionalism). There hasnt been the suggestion that our prime minister is impotent for not interfering in Ukraine, at least, nothing like the inferiority-complex about Obama's lack of big-dickery.

The idea that the west is culturally homogenous is "Bullshit". As compared to anywhere in europe, americans are vastly more market-oriented, mistrustful of government, approving of business success, etc.

It is simply the case, insofar as I can see, that "business" isnt really a dream of any kind in europe. People dont grow up wanting to run/own/be in business in anyway, we dont really have an "explorer"/inventor dreams either.

A considerable amount has been written by the european experience of america and an almost ubquitious theme in the accounts is "the feeling of unlimited possibility", an ostentatiousness and pre-occupation with wealth, etc.
When you choose the side that everyone else ends up choosing as well, you end up profiting from the block reward and also collecting the transaction fees. If you mined the side that ended up being shorter, then your block rewards are part of a transaction that the network considers to be invalid, as in, it never occurred. So there is incentive to try to figure out which side of a fork is the most beneficial and also which side is going to be preferred by other miners based on their affiliations with the addresses in the transactions for either side of the fork.

Also consider what has been risked - electrical energy, a small amount of bandwidth, and the ever-present risk of hardware failure. The return is in units of a deflationary currency. In practice the number of wasted blocks is quite low since the network ends up being in consensus most of the time. In the past it has been quite profitable to mine using GPUs and FPGAs.
Google's self-driving car platform is based on sensor fusion - it does use GPS, but if the GPS network goes down, it still has mountains of lidar, photographic (Street View cars aren't just for the heck of it), and even regular old street maps for dead-reckoning navigation.

Your $20 evil genius GPS blocking gadget is far more likely to cause the regular human beings in their cars to lose track of where they are going than the robot that has been designed with this exact constraint taken into consideration.

Furthermore, as of right now and the near and mid-term future, it's not legal for the car to drive itself without a human at the wheel. Which means the self-driving car still has to function as a human-drivable car. The final nail in your mustache twirling GPS-blocking evildoer's coffin.

Before we go to a complete driverless system, it's likely we'll need lots more sensor assistance, such as "active highways" with mile marker and lane-keeping RFIDs paved into the roads, and other similar technologies. But we're probably at least 30 years off from even having that conversation given the conservative climate and the love for personal driving in this country.
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Regarding the discussions of American dominance / influence / power:

Fortran, LISP, COBOL, PL/I, C, VB, Java.
Readers may be familiar with the TI-83 programmable graphing calculator's assembly language functionality (especially those who took high school math classes in the mid-to-late 1990's). The TI-83's only user-writable storage was 32K of RAM (there was a small lithium battery to keep it powered when you changed the AAA's; also some of the RAM was used for system stuff so somewhat less than 32K was actually available for user purposes).

You could write hex values in the program text editor, then you could tell the calculator to execute the hex codes as machine code. I understand the previous models, TI-82 and TI-85, were hacked / backdoored to run user-supplied assembly language, so TI responded by including an official entry point and developer documentation for the TI-83.

People later wrote loaders which allowed programs to be stored as binary instead of text (using half the space). Some loaders also had the capability to run binary programs by swapping them into the target address rather than copying them (theoretically a third option would be possible, running programs in-place if they weren't written to depend on their load address, but this wasn't a direction the community went in. gcc users may be familiar with -fPIC which produces code which can run from any address, and this flag is necessary when compiling code for shared libraries.)

This allowed people to create massive 20K+ applications (an RPG called Joltima comes to mind), that used most of the available RAM.

The fact that this loading scheme made static variables permanent was also quite convenient. (And most variables were static; stack-based addressing would be tough because the Z80 only has two index registers, one of which is used -- or perhaps I should say "utterly wasted" -- by the TI-83 OS.)

The next generation, the TI-83+, included I think 256K of flash ROM, and a special silver edition was released which contained 2 MB.
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Of course you can not violate the terms of the Apache license. Similar to BSD code in a MIT project, you need to follow the original license in order to be in compliance.

David Wheeler arrows indicate that two licenses may be combined, and that the combined work can effectively be treated as having the license at the end of the arrow. If you pull BSD licensed code into MIT, you have to follow the BSD license and include a BSD copyright notice.

more:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10903720/new-bsd-license...
http://www.epractice.eu/files/11-04-07_PhL_FLOSS_Licences_Co...
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If you talking about Vodafone case:

While retroactive applicability of Income Tax act is questionable, it is hard to argue for Vodafone or Hutchinson when they tried to avoid Tax by doing the transaction through a Cayman Island registered entity. To me, while it may be legal at that time, it sounds like pure corporate greed which Indian government is trying to fix. But that is not very different from other countries such as UK, Countries in EU trying to clamp down on Tax Haven exploits by Google etc.
Heck, I have a machine, quite inexpensive
that will turn nothing into some of the
world's best wine instantly! Don't have
to add water, grape concentrate, etc.
Instead, starting with a clean machine,
just add some really good wine!!!!!
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>Bullshit. What is crass is the perspective that Americans are unreflectingly capitalistic and pre-occupied with monetary success. Most business owners I know started their business because they saw a need for something and they wanted to deliver what was needed.

Well, most of the business people I know of, only see a need in areas that they thing are profitable. How many try to actual affect people's lives in substancial ways, instead of building the next Instagram (and now WhatsApp)?

>Financial success is important because it allows their organization to continue functioning

Preoccupation with financial success (that idea of continuous enlargment) is what has killed a lot of companies from functioning. They had good product X, people loved, it sold in droves, and then some BS managers just have to expand to field Y, and ruin all the qualities that made X and the company good in the first place.

>I will concede that there are a fair percentage of businesses that are unreflectingly capitalistic and pre-occupied with monetary success. However, to paint an entire nation with a broad stroke is ignorance at it's worst.

Well, that's how generalisations work -- and they are a valuable compass, it's not all prejudice. It doesn't take everybody being pre-occupied with monetary success to call a nation as "pre-occupied with monetary success". It just takes a more-than-usual number of such people, or a culture more open to it. If in a country X there are 1% preoccupied with such things and in country Y there are 10%, then the general sentiment that Y nation is far more preoccupied with such things is valid.
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I didn't call him ignorant, I believe he thinks it of others.
I'm wondering how hard it would be to reverse engineer this, reading the "we're keeping the exact science under wraps".

It's an "Arduino microcontroller" -I wonder who came up with this expression, since the Arduino is the board-.

How can someone customize it to make a different kind of liquor.. Or connect two of which functions are inverse: Water into wine, and then into water again..
I think it is highly likely that the licensing process for self driving systems will require them to be environmentally aware and function without gps signal. What I mean by environmentally aware is that things like passing through an intersection and lane keeping will be fully guided by immediate sensor data, not from reference data looked up by position.

Maps and dead reckoning fall more under navigation than they do driving and that part of the problem is reasonably solved.
> Are you implying that the sort of people who assume the degree .... are merely "self-aggrandizing money-chasers?"

Yes. That's very often the mentality, however you'd like to dress it up.

There's a distinction between small-businesses that arent pre-occupied with growth and "success" and those which are. Sure, if you have your own bakery/etc. then you're probably doing that because youre interested in the craft of baking. The fact that you own the company is kinda incidental to your passion for a craft.

I'm saying that these kind of people who build up multi-million/billion-dollar companies are basically interchangable money managers. You can take a telecoms business-genuis and put him in insurance, or manufacture, or anywhere: and people routinely do! Because the "skill" at that level is merely business as such.

All I got from this article is "people should aspire to be successful in business", which I think is kinda stupid and dangerous. People should be passionate about, eg., giving people healthcare, creating amazing art or music, writing the best novels, finding out how the world works...

that we have businesses and that they make money is something which is meant to facilitate our dreams not become them.

Capitalism abstractly is not meant as an end in itself, but almost everywhere we look today it has become one. Growth, expansion, money, "success" for its own sake - not for the sake of beauty/truth/skill/knowledge/love/etc.
It's not inherently slower. It's a question of economics. How much are people willing to spend to get a CPU to make it be fast? With IEEE 754 math, there's a lot of monetary incentive because a lot of code uses 754. With a new decimal class, there is much less inventive.
Yet somehow, when you get into the tech industry, you discover the bullying, derision and such like are all there. In the community you'd like to call home.

If you're not doing it in Ruby/Clojure/Java/Python/Javascript/Erlang on AWS/OpenStack/Dedicated/iPhone/Android etc. you're an idiot and deserve derision at best.

What that says about the human psyche is more than a little depressing. We should be better than this.
FYI HN is not indexed by google :)
As I said, self-aggrandizing. People read this trumped-up BS every day in silicon valley and have started to believe it.
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Why are people doxxing the journalist who uncovered the founder of bitcoin? Sounds like she is damned good at her job to me
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon hard at work.

Corollary: Nominalism hard at work...
It's not automatic, its a reduction or increase in compensation. You still need to prove the thing. And that takes time & money.
Sure: It's easy to have no false alarms; just
turn off the detector! It's easy to have no
missed detections of real problems; just sound
the alarm all the time.

Then it's easy to have whatever false alarm rate
want; just 'interpolate' between these two detectors.

Such detectors are known as 'trivial' with good
justification.

If some monitoring software claims a low false
alarm rate, then, sure, that's easy to get --
just use a trivial detector!

And for being useful, if have two detectors
that actually are good and want to 'interpolate'
between them, then a trivial detector can do that
and be 'useful'.
Chrome Version 33.0.1750.117 m on Win 8.1 doesn't show text either.
Do you have lots of users for W3Counter? How much users do you need for offering free content and making a profit from advertising? I'm interested.
$500 seems rather excessive to me for something that is mainly presumably a peltier, H-Bridge and MCU along with a bluetooth chip.

I currently make beer, but if I was going to make wine, I'd instead look at sourcing good quality grapes, and just fermenting reasonably cool in a fridge rigged up to a PID.

On the topic of artificially aging wine this article is rather fascinating http://people.math.aau.dk/~cornean/index.html/ACwine.pdf where they use HV AC to apparently decrease the harshness of un-aged wine. Additionally if you did want to age wine you can get small oak barrels from ebay relatively cheaply.
"The American Dream", self-motivation, entrepreneurship and "pushing the frontier" are all good things IMHO.

However, they aren't the same as "unreflectingly capitalistic" and "pre-occupied with monetary success".

I'm not going to address the rest of your America bashing because the response requires a nuanced answer that I don't have the time to write today. I'll leave that to others.
Coca-Cola is harmful for your health, so maybe they did the right thing after all. You're not supposed to choose things just based on how much money it can make you.
What is being forgotten by the author of this post is that we are all different. Each of these posts, regardless of the main theme (in this case productivity) are coming from different life experiences and different approaches. Some of these posts provide a specific set of insights with instructions, others just some morsels of wisdom on the subject.

Reading these types of posts will resonate differently to me versus to someone else. Having these posts out there is a nice repetition of the main ideas and at some point when the person is ready, it can come together. At that point, all the different posts on the subject that the person has read will have started to come together with bits and pieces from each.

We do only really change when we are ready. I see these posts as the accumulation of knowledge to be there for us once we are ready to take the steps. I guess these thoughts can be true for other areas.

For me personally, I have been reading about setting up a home gym, kettle bells, paleo diets, low carb diets, dangers of grains (a la Wheat Belly) for the past few years and yet wasn't in a position to do anything to act on all these knowledge either through lack of motivation and life circumstances. Recently, within the last 2-3 months, it's all coming together. I'm tightening up the diet, working out from home, starting to use kettle bells, removing a lot of the unnecessary carbs and all the knowledge for all of this has been ingrained in my brain from reading and learning about all these over all this time. My personal map of knowledge in this area allows me to dig deeper in the right places since I've visited these places before causally.

So to the authors point, no, not one article is going to make anybody jump up and start to make drastic changes to their life. Perhaps not even a hundred. But when that person is ready, all those articles will play a part in helping them make these changes.
C'mon. There's a little of extra news that wasn't published before. It wasn't known who got the virus on board and that part about Kaspersky knowing about it is new to me.