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Relevant reddit discussion on r/hwstartups:
http://www.reddit.com/23mshg/

tl;dr

- Uses the Electric Imp platform for wireless communication

- cannot be used without smartphone/tablet/computer/internet connection

- heats in about 10 minutes

- not to be used for cook -> chill
Before scuffing at Russia as a dictatorship, let's get real here. Which domestically-based, major internet businesses holding vast swathes of social network data are run by foreigners in any of two other key national markets: China and the US?

Well, can anyone name a single one? No? Aside from AMDOCS, which seems to have jumped ship to the US to spruce up its image, or perhaps to a limited extent (versus China Unipay's domestic, now regional, and increasingly global settlement network) Mastercard/Visa and SWIFT (for international settlements only) in China, I can't. Don't forget what happened to Google in China, and how Schmidt and his political buddy then turned around and visited that great bastion of human rights, North Korea, in a transparent snub to China. Don't forget how Microsoft's Skype hands over surveillance keys for its users' private communications to the Chinese government as a market entry strategy.

Politics (control) and business (profit) really have self-organized in to a transnational network of mutual back-scratching oligopolies the world over. Here in China, domestic alternatives to global networks are encouraged (largely by limiting international bandwidth, more rarely by outright censorship) to maximise state opportunities for control and surveillance. Russia seems the same. Perhaps it's time to re-read the preface to Cypherpunks... http://cryptome.org/2012/12/assange-crypto-arms.htm

The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of national security circles. It has been hidden by secrecy, complexity and scale. The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.

These transformations have come about silently, because those who know what is going on work in the global surveillance industry and have no incentives to speak out. Left to its own trajectory, within a few years, global civilization will be a postmodern surveillance dystopia, from which escape for all but the most skilled individuals will be impossible. In fact, we may already be there.

Recall that states are the systems which determine where and how coercive force is consistently applied.

The question of how much coercive force can seep into the platonic realm of the internet from the physical world is answered by cryptography and the cypherpunks’ ideals.

As states merge with the internet and the future of our civilization becomes the future of the internet, we must redefine force relations.

If we do not, the universality of the internet will merge global humanity into one giant grid of mass surveillance and mass control.

The sad thing is, as hyperbolic as this can sound to the uninitiated, it's reality.
Too true! The most we can do is auto-retrograde starches and cool baths that are cooking at 60C upwards down to 54C to a sort of "holding temperature". Very fun to play with.
I wouldn't call LTO "really dumb"
Help me understand how the unsealed bag thing works, again? What kinds of bags are we talking about for what kinds of prep?

(Sorry that I sound ready to debate; I shouldn't be. This is a neat looking device and you should be commended for bringing it to market.)
Android not covered?
What exactly are these "irrational beliefs"? Please enumerate them.
That quote was part of a longer conversation, it was asking why we saw the need for this. The idea of even students studying CS not having access and opportunities point out the opportunity to open this up to other people in these communities
They no longer award credit for that, after a high profile incident involving a couple of poets out of jersey who were caught gaming the system with single-sentence sagas.
Hey mapt,

The water bath's double-walled, so that power consumption isn't heinous. We're looking at nonofficial steady-state heat losses/gains of 15-30 Watt at the most common temperatures.
"Who’s making money off the food stamps program?"

What a bizarre question. The retailers are just selling food, they are not making any special profit here - it's the exact same stuff they sell to everyone, and at the exact same price.

If anything it's the recipients of the benefit that are profiting.

It would be one things if this was about administrative expenses or something like that, but just sales to a retailer?

What's next, WalMart makes too much from SNAP so poor people should not be allowed to shop there?
To much passion is a bad sign; such people can develop emotional attachments to their code that aren't very professional.

Passionate but professional is a better indicator.
IANAchef but the video has the user selecting a "medium rare chicken breast". Is that a thing? =D
Rebates to attract liquidity, about time this came to bitcoin trading.. So assuming your adding all the time your fees are at +0.05%. Compared to stocks it seems in the US you're stuck about net flat for fees after the ECN rebate and it doesn't get much better than that - unless you're doing alot of volume.

I don't think people realize when you get better than flat on fees, its somewhat like going from -1% house edge to no house edge in a casino (if you're a market maker type at least..) Gotta have a decent strategy too of course :).. I would imagine in btc quick sharp trends though and in that case you're better off taking - mktmaking can be dangerous.
It's right in the title: recycling. They get the materials out of pennies that nobody can use anymore.
Hey andrew,

It fits! I think defining robot as an anthropomorphic thing that moves around is too constricting. Mellow is an electromechanical machine that performs complex actions, based on natural language requests, taking into account its environment and context.

I think that's pretty robotic, but I welcome the debate. Didn't mean to be at all misleading, sorry if it seemed so.
I deeply respect Ken Perlin and what he's done for Computer Graphics. Perlin Noise is as ubiquitous as it is fascinating. He basically "gave" it to the world - and eventually received much recognition (in certain circles), including an Oscar for advancements in computer graphics (IIRC).

Perlin Noise embodies the best of "open source" in my mind; a simple, elegant solution with virtually no patent/copyright/trademark baggage. Source freely available - just google it.

While the algorithm Ken Perlin produced doesn't make a motion picture or a computer game - the contribution is not only "mentionable" - it is admirable and down-right important for these media.

I hope the original creator of this VR tech gets some attention for what they helped spark.
Expanding on this. If target release is September 2014. I can't see how there is not functional prototypes that could be released for people paying. Considering the target market, why not release it. I'd be willing to pay for the early access. Not so sure I'd pay for a pre-order.
The binaries are kind of the easy part. Will it work with my laptop's #$^@ wifi card? That's the hard part.
Smartphone milestone : half of Americans ages 55+ own smartphone
Ask HN: Crowd sourced lobbying for public interest start ups?
Are there any reputable crowd-sourced lobbying for public interests (rather than corporate) start ups worth looking at? I see "we the lobby" and "amplifyd" thoughts anyone?
I think this would work well with repeat clients who know exactly what they want. However, many clients' attitude is I'll know it when I see it, but I couldn't tell you what 'it' is. Your product will accelerate the 'back and forth' but won't eliminate it all together, even with the detailed proposal generator.
There is a nonsense propaganda behind these critique on standardized testing.

Test scores will always always always always always always always always always always reflect socioeconomic disparities, because there is and will always always always always always always always always always always be socioeconomic difference in student abilities. It is insane to say standardized tests "punish disadvantaged students and minorities". Tests are tests, they do not and should not care about students' socioeconomic background. Whether universities should account for socioeconomic status of applicants or not, that's their consideration, not test makers' consideration.

Of course standardized tests do not measure all aspects of a student, but they never claim they do. This critique is also silly. The problem is, it is extremely difficult to measure "traits such as optimism, curiosity, resilience" of a person, especially when you want to use the results in college admission. Current psychological instruments for those traits are not developed for that purpose. No serious psychologist will suggest colleges to use those psychological instruments in college admission.

Do no blame standardized testing for those silly reasons!
Yes. Longer consistent cook times allow you to pasteurize at lower temperatures, so you can serve chicken at a lower temperature than you would in a conventional oven. (I'm not saying you'd want to do that; I don't like pink chicken.)

Chicken is unfortunately one of the less effective things to cook this way. At the times/temps I'm comfortable with, breasts get mushy. Legs, on the other hand, "pink out"; the proteins from inside the bones leach into the flesh and give a bloody appearance which I can't get past.
Makes sense. I doubt their AirPort devices run anything like OSX internally.
Hey matt,

I knew other smart people out there had the same idea, great to meet you. Mellow comes out of the frustrations of having the knowledge and equipment to cook great food, and never using it because of lack of energy. We started with the problem and ended up with this technology.

Feel free to reach out to ze@fnvlabs.com, or even preorder a unit and join the gang. (shameless)
Thank you! We have a great web designer, I'll pass it along.
Sure, if the dealer/pit agrees, that'd be the best way... it just seems even more blatant, and the idea the casino would comply even more outlandish.

Whereas, making requests during the game, that seem a bit erratic (or triggered by in-round results, like "let's flip that one so it doesn't burn me again!"), seem like they might escape scrutiny longer.
Does NYPD think that they're well liked?
Well, cross-platform compatibility is one thing - but cross-hardware compatibility?

> Technically, FenOS is an Exo Core Intelligent Operating System that runs on any common Hardware architecture such as “x86”, ”x86-64”, “POWER-PC” and “ARM

dafuq? x86/-64 are common enough, but how will they run 64-bit apps on a 32-bit system without a shitload of translation? Same for PPC (who uses this arch anymore) and ARM (x64)?

I'm really interested in how they're planning to solve this challenge. Just look at ReactOS and how incomplete it is after years and years of development...
Crap, that's happened for some people and we can't find out why. Could I ask you to try out the direct link? Sorry about that:

https://www.trycelery.com/shop/mellow
10 years ago Whirlpool introduced the Polara, a range that could also refrigerate the oven cavity until a timer expired or it was commanded to cook over the internet. It was a huge flop.

http://insights-2-ignite.com/2013/05/06/3-appliance-flops/

Obviously a refrigerated oven is a pretty complicated device - more than a cooled/heated water bath. The Polara had it's share of technical problems, but Whirlpool thought they were on to a new trend with this "smart" oven.

I'm a sous-vide enthusiast myself (Dorkfood DSV FTW), but by no means do I consider SV cooking a time saver. It's not going to make my day any more easy by kicking off a cook cycle from the office before I head home. In fact, part of the point of SV prep is that you can hold the cooked food for hours before finishing. Why do I need to precisely time the start if the end doesn't matter? Okay, perhaps eggs ready when I wake would be nice. But I could also kick it off before I go to bed and they would still be at a creamy 144F when morning comes.

The other problem is that you still need to prep ahead of time. Is a busy family going to handle breakfast and dinner prep before going off to work and school? American families barely make it through breakfast as it is.

It's a nice looking product and I wish them well. But the use cases escape me a little.
Canada passes US in middle-class wealth
Yup, there's no simple way to recover depth from blur: there will be featureless regions where you can't tell if there was any blur -- in other words, there is no universal way to tell if a region has gone through a low-pass filter or if it is natively low frequency.

Would heuristics work well? I can think of a handful, but none really good.
Indeed! Visual tools makes the approach more "human". Simplified tools don't mean dummy tools. It's actually the total opposite: a developer forced to do deal with Ops is less likely to do some mistakes using a simpler tool, than trying to deal that things that he doesn't (and doesn't want to) understand. I understand the other point of view, that we better start by learning the most complicated things (I've started to learn programming with C and ASM, although I'm a 90s guy), and the whole challenge we have with VisualOps is to make the learning and usage easier, without breaking the knowledge.
Hey Alex,

I'd encourage you to! Can I help in any way? (Mellow's designer)
Because they can make money off the pennies by recycling them, it costs them the metal worth of the pennies they choose not to recycle. There are also productivity benefits if people don't have to count pennies during transactions. And it's a highly visible action the federal government can take to show it still exists to people who don't read newspapers (like me). I'm sure there are other reasons, but pinning the penny as a "drag on the economy," probably tops the list after the obvious, "I pay taxes to keep the penny in circulation? Why didn't they recycle it?"
In the United States, at least, the poor often have marginal tax rates nearing or beyond 100%, once you include loss of means-tested benefits.

If high tax rates affect work ethic, it is most pronounced among the working poor in the United States.

See, for example, http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2012/07/effective-marginal-ta...
Just saw it. I like the landing page but the company page seems to be a bit off. One thing I did like in the older version is there was a table with key dates from when the company was founded, VC round, ect.. (also when key people were hired) -- a temporal progression of a company.
what a shame :(. it is not available in Asia & Pacific region.
"Twice a silly price is not twice as silly" – Einhorn's short basket
It sounds like some kind of marketplaces since its both insurance and healthcare providers. your going to need to talk with the people charge of making the decisions a those companies. Break the system down in the the smallest possible parts that could work. setup a pitch deck and pitch it some potential customers. be prepared for a long slow process. It took the insurance company I worked at about 6 years after basically everyone knew they wanted new claims software for us to buy it. The included 2 rounds of full RFPs with onsite demos etc. also, bringing on a top tier consulting company just to help us buy the stuff. we used another one as a systems integrator.
I really don't think that's the case. Plenty of CS majors at CUNYs have no idea how much programmers make. Most come in not knowing what to major in, end up taking an intro programming class to meet some basic requirement and end up liking it enough to continue learning it. They go through the program doing well enough to pass and hope that what they learn in class will help them get a job once they're done. None of them read hackernews, so they have no idea that living and breathing computers is prereq for becoming an employable programmer.
Being able to come home from work with a protein ready to sear (Polyscience and hopefully soon Searzall represent) is definitely helpful. Also, have you held an egg overnight at 144f? That works well?
I guess I missed the "strict dynamic range" argument. You can't adjust amplitude at all without affecting dynamic range, of course.
Vitriolic propaganda on social media is far worse than aggressive NYPD officers.
IMHO 0.3% is too expensive. If I buy at $100 I need to sell at $100.60 to break even?
Fair enough, good answer :)
See (or read) Colossus: The Forbin Project. In my opinion it is the definitive fictional work on the subject. The monologue at the end is the bees-knees.
FYI, here is an Ars Technica article that talks about the break-in into the Linux Kernel, and Git's role in revealing the tampering[1].

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/who-rooted-kernel-or...
This has some similarities to recent high-profile "hacking" cases:

"Other claims are interrelated, which is to say that certain claims depend on the success of others to survive. And, at core, most of these lose all oxygen if a court finds, as I suspect it will, that 1) there is no contract between a player and a casino; 2) a casino deviates from its own well-oiled protocols at its own risk; and 3) exploiting house vulnerabilities is not a form of “swindling and cheating” any more than an automatic shuffler is a “cheating device” (please cast aside memories of one particularly memorable scene in Ocean’s Thirteen, and appreciate that no one is alleging Ivey or Sun to have planted a corrupt shuffler in the Borgata)."

So what if we compare this case with, say, accessing a website (e.g. the Weev or Aaron Swartz cases)? Do you have an implied contract with sites you access over the internet, are online resources published "at your own risk" and is 'exploiting house vulnerabilities' (e.g. disclosing information publicly that you intended to be private) a swindle?

On all three counts, it seems clear that the same principles apply.
Does a 60% approval rating count as well liked?

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-univers...
Probably to avoid people diff'ing the updates.
It's a dream compared to x86...
There only seems to be one person working on the OS.
I liked Crunchbase 1.0 better. It was easier to browse and find new companies with. Now you can only look up companies you already know about.
C macros are a cute but dangerous hack. But this software implements Lisp macros for C. Lisp-style macros are safe and nonhacky. The main feature that allows this is `gensym`, which lets you store values in variables that are guaranteed to not name-clash.

Also, the “goto fail” issue had nothing to do with macros. So people might hate C’s block syntax while loving other features such as macros. People can hate parts of a language and like other parts. Like the author of the book JavaScript: The Good Parts, who likes JavaScript, but recommends against using certain features of it.
I suspect that the only aspect of undergraduate education that requires the reputation, commercialism, or exclusivity of "traditional" universities is testing. Scoring well on an electrical engineering test administered by MIT might be just as good as taking the course there.
It's a song/chant marginally popular in Australia apparently? http://theroarforum.com/index.php?topic=2868.0

People sing it to Camptown Races. It's stuck in my head now. A variant answer is "dirty copper".
For super quick character creation, use one of the seven iconics included; "just photocopy the page and off you go."

I sure hope it includes PDF/image versions of the iconic characters to just print out. Much easier than dealing with the copier functionality that mayor may not exist for many people.

Other than that, the world can never have too much Conan.
Thanks! I think most people equate "medium rare chicken" with food poisoning, so it was interesting to see that used in the video. Never knew that you could actually cook it safely that way.
Is it just me or are a lot of the comments on this post getting greyed out? I thought that was only for flagged/sufficiently downvoted comments? What the heck is going on here..
I expect a "robotic sous-chef" to clean and chop ingredients for me, then prepare the food. This is much better described as a smart sous-vide cooker.
Just have to point out that the population density is hard thing to talk about in the U.S. because the reality is that NYC is far more dense that any other city. We talk about a few cities as though they are equals when in reality it's NYC and then a giant dropoff to everyone else.

Also there's a perception of a few places as being the "big cities" even though population has changed a lot over the years. Perception hasn't changed. So even though SF is definitely dense, there are other places that are equally dense, like Miami, Philadelphia, and Louisville that people don't really think of that way. And then there are emerging big cities (but not necessarily dense) like San Antonio that people perceive as being small.
Yeah, bad example. Eggs may not work that well at that duration.

(and the Searzall is pretty damn sexy)
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NYPD stations 2 cops on every block of my neighborhood. They're the only reason I can get chinese food at 2am. They are very well liked here.
For the curious, the request was to share pictures under the hashtag #MyNYPD [1]. The hashtag now mostly consists of meta discussion and news coverage, but there have been a lot of police brutality pictures with that tag.

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MyNYPD
Pretty sure it will be hidden in the EULA or TOS.
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generics please?

contains no language changes
But it's a special kind of nefarious behaviour that really only affects other market participants who can react quickly enough to the information - i.e. it's mostly HFTs taking money from other HFTs.

This kind of behaviour that undermines the integrity of markets should not get a pass based on who it does or does not hurt, tho. If nothing else its bad PR that keeps people out of the markets or creates other "absences" or dark patterns from people not showing up to trade, fro whatever reason.
The problem is that many engines can't be retrofitted to work on (premium autogas) unleaded gasoline.

Most normally aspirated engines will work fine (in some cases, better) on a high grade unleaded auto gas.

Most turbo-charged engines lack sufficient detonation margin when run with that "premium" auto fuel, and need some form of octane boost to provide adequate detonation margins for a high-temp, max performance takeoff run. Several groups, including Swift, GAMI, and Shell, are working on drop-in zero-lead replacements for 100LL. All are flying the fuel in experimental applications as I understand it. None appear "close" to certification.

The real problem is that the bulk of gallons burned are burned by airplanes that are turbo-charged. So, even if 75% of the engines can be readily converted (in many cases, a paperwork-only STC), those 75% of airplanes likely represent fewer than 25% of the gallons burned.

I've been to GAMI in Ada, OK and seen them run their no-lead fuel in a lab setup. It's impressive and looks like it would work. They still face a steep and long uphill battle with the FAA, as do Swift, Shell and the others...
I found the book straightforward about how unproven the science is, and thought it did a good job of being clear about how speculative the theories are. Were there areas where you thought the book's claims were stronger than what is warranted?