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Hi there,

If you liked this article perhaps you'll be interested in a project I've been working on. My wife has a Hedgehog (yeah, like Sonic) and he's pretty shy. He also has a wheel and runs ALL night.

To feel that he interacts a little more I connected a wireless node with a magnetic switch so I could count how many laps he runs every night, and therefore the equivalent distance. Every morning he tweets how much he ran, just like RunKeeper :)

Check out his twitter account here: https://twitter.com/runhedgie

And, of course, the code is hosted on github: https://github.com/jlhonora/iot

I just finished this project yesterday, but I have many more ideas to add. I'd like to correlate running activity with temperature (hedgies are pretty sensitive to cold weather) and ambient light. I'd also like to make a public API so that anyone can analyze his activity patterns.

So, stay tuned and follow!
Pug watches Homeward Bound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnstd0ASQHg
I've gotten to work with a lot of amazing silicon valley engineers who are
here on H1B visas. As as I understand, losing your job does not normally
mean being sent back to your country since you can transfer the H1B visa
to your new employer.

The tough part is just getting the H1B visa since you must have a company
here sponsor you to get it. This is why the monthly "Who's Hiring" submission
here on HN requests that posters declare whether H1B's are welcome.
I was arguing against the "grandparents and language" argument, not the general education argument. It's easy to argue against because I'm a counterexample myself. (...and my Italian still sucks after 30 years)
Exactly - when I did a CS degree in the 1980s we did a fair amount of functional programming (from Lambda Calculus and combinators up to "real" programming) which had almost no real world application at the time (I did apply to a specialized CPU manufacturer who wanted people who knew about functional programming, but they changed their mind about that approach while sitting on my application form).

NB The hardware manufacturer in question was Linn Products - the high end audio/AV manufacturer who had a notion to turn their eccentric hand to CPU design in the shape of the Recursiv:

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

Now functional programming is pretty mainstream.
Wouldn't two people pulling in opposite directions generate more tension than one person pulling a rope with the end anchored? (Assuming all people are equal)
Just my experience. The systems you are referring to are most-likely residential heating systems, and not full-blown HVAC system that are based on a heat pump.

Asia: I have traveled for months in China, India and Japan and don't recall seeing any thermostats, aside from hotels and commercial spaces.

Europe: no A/C in most countries (aside from commercial projects). They make extensive use of residential heating using liquid pipes that pass through the building. In southern europe split ductless A/C systems are common.

South america: I believe they have both central air and split systems.

USA: central air everywhere!

Africa: no money for A/C. ;-)

The split systems are much more energy efficient, so they should be gaining ground.
Some random thoughts:

- The most important thing for me: EU states are social states and US is not.

- You are not going to get a free health insurance or cheap but quality education for your daughter like in Europe. (Not saying she won't get quality education, just saying it won't be cheap as we are used to in Europe.)

- US is not a developer's paradise but it's a paradise of possibilities and opportunities.

- http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/CA/house,condo,mobile,l... In that link there is a list of houses with a garden that you can buy to give you the idea. For the places that you would think you could afford, there is a possibility of living without a job. (Find remote work and it all works out?) But I think they are better houses than houses in most of the Europe.

- You can think of Austin, Boston or Chicago instead of California cities.

- Wait, there's another possibility: You can move to Berlin, Vienna, Istanbul, Mugla, Izmir or Aydin. You'd work remotely most of the time except for Istanbul, Berlin and Vienna.

- Food in Europe is a lot better than in the US and by food I mean real food, not the cereals, cookies or things they eat thinking they're having breakfast. :) (At least in SF)

- I tend to think that startups are not for people that are married and with children. They are demanding and consuming. Unless it's your own because only then it'd be worth to your efforts and time. We all know that.

Wish you all the luck for whatever you decide and let me tell you one more thing. You should absolutely be grateful for the wife of yours. Mine is not moving a centimetre..
The article said "a bathroom devoid of hygiene products". I took that literally.
The fact is that I was a co-author on a book that wasn't good. It didn't hang together, and it wasn't coherently targeted at an audience.

After that, it got better.
DJB will probably be quite excited about this.
I wonder if someone has patented the idea of sue for patents that you never actually use...

Would love to see patent trolls sued for trying to sue for patents they don't use.
Plus, the United Kingdom aren't eligible for the lottery anyway. So I guess it depends where OP is from.
This matches the experience of the people I know that emigrated :-/
He is acknowledged here:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

You have to scroll down to the heading that says "Acknowledgements".

Setting aside that your statement is not especially precise, the style of your argument here is pretty gross. If you want to find something a dead person actually said on a matter that is one thing; arguing that they surely would have agreed with your position is quite another.
I like the idea of hosting my own web-accessible repository, but am most familiar with Mercurial. Does GitLab support non-Git repositories, or is there an alternative that does?
>"As I said above, here on HN, mere truth is not enough to make us consider a comment to be a positive contribution."

It sounds like you'd like to think your community-of-choice is unique, but get over it. There is no "we" here, nor is there some amazing comment quality optimization going on. This place goes hive-mind like any other forum on the internet. "We're" not special.
You nailed it! I am a typographer by profession, and I know exactly what you mean. The trouble with most light-markup languages is indeed their very limited document model and set of node types — basically an html subset, just good enough for blog posts, and, at best, source code documentation.

I’d rather take inspiration from something like the Chicago Manual of Style: we need many types of lists; more levels of headings/sections and control over their formatting; plates and figures; there are many types of “blockquotes”, etc. Poetry and drama are just some of the more difficult cases. How far must one go, or what, for example, should we do with things like Apollinaire’s [calligrames](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligrammes)?

As for your use cases: Besides AsciiDoc’s “verse” and Skriv’s support for literal line breaks, z.m.l. too takes these into account. For drama, there is Fountain.io’s domain-specific light-markup for screenwriting.

Very interested in your research and software. Do have a look at my (premature draft) light-markup [concordance}(https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources/blob/master/l...), and feel free to add.
You really are pushing your own version of events there aren't you? He was offered a lawyer and he refused, confirmed by him in his own appeal and gosh, not 9 whole hours - oh the horror!

Schedule 7 Anti-Terrorism has been now been improved (at the request of the Home Secretary ironically) to reduce the maximum time and provide for legal counsel as standard. Yes. We are so illiberal we voluntarily reduce our legislative powers.

Are you seriously suggesting that the United Kingdom should not stop and detain foreign nationals who are carrying our Top Secret data and then relieve them of that data?

:-) Good one.

I find it satisfying that a Brazilian civilian travelling through the UK was stop, detained and relieved of British property and then allowed to go freely on his way without further incident. I find that an absolute masterpiece of Government restraint in a highly charged situation.

To sum up -

>>Law enforcement is always executed with a degree of discretionality.

That's an interesting word. I assume you mean discretion or one of it's derived terms.

>> Afaik, he was not given any chance to contact a lawyer

You know nothing Jon Snow. <joke> But seriously, he was offered a lawyer and he felt so threatened that he refused one.

>> Foreign national <snip> no right to seize property etc

The High Court ruled the authorities could examine the seized material for the defence of national security.. It was perfectly within the law according to UK judges. If you don't want your items seized, don't transit UK classified material.
So I'm only talking about 3 couples. Education was one of the main factors for all 3. One of the couples didn't even move close to relatives - they moved to Switzerland even though one parent is Finnish and the other Spanish. They still may move to Finland but not to be by relatives but instead to be in the country with the best education system in the world - for now Switzerland is 'good enough'.

Their complaints about the u.s. - poor quality teachers, poor funding even in wealthy areas, and a generally poor culture/attitude toward learning. Their complaint/worry about Europe is making sure that their child gets into the University track of education which isn't guaranteed here.
Nuremberg - really? We are already moving towards comparing the destruction of laptops with the widespread genocide of ethnic minorities and Jews?

They are not following orders. They are following the law.

Intelligence Services are not the military and as such do not fall under the Armed Forces Act 2011 (Military Law) therefore your assertion of "orders" is incorrect.

Even if they did fall under it, any order not compatible with UK legislation would be legally bound to be ignored.

The were not following orders. They were following the our legal guidelines for the security of classified information in the UK.

If it is a HRA violation, feel free to raise it in court and state your case.
That page is commercial spam (or "veiled spam"). It serves no other purpose than to get a link to his own product site, no discussion, no nothing. Just: For the special price of 999 Euro you can get your own. How is that quality content?

It is also spammy in that it doesn't nofollow external links on comments. Those links should have been nofollowed like 6 years ago. That they still aren't, is telling about MetaFilter's knowledge on SEO. You know that Google sees your site linking to bad sites, and what do you do? Complain about it? Fire people due to an update 2 years ago? Or do you simply take action to fix it?

MetaFilter doesn't have to be (and isn't) excluded from the internet. It just doesn't have to rank well for terms like "Gomboc".

It became alright to derank "inane babble" the moment it increased the satisfaction of search engine users. Which is pretty much from the beginning of search engines. It is user metrics that count. Statistics don't lie.

It does not matter that you are uncomfortable with an algorithm. I think I don't get your "judged as an attack"-part. The alternative is not using a search engine that relies on algorithms.

I did a casual investigation of MetaFilter. It has not changed much over the years. The pages I did look at were all of the level of "inane babble". One line comments. Puns. Not adding much to an already thin topic. Perfectly alright to have a place on the internet to debate how to get your friend to take Viagra. But not much need to rank that for men's health topics, relationship advice or even Viagra.

http://ask.metafilter.com/57406/Bright-light-flashes-in-my-r...

Now would you want to find that page when you are searching for those symptoms? Or would you want credible medical advice?

If it is moving the goalposts, it is moving the goalposts to better quality content. Those visitors not going to MetaFilter are not gone, they are catered to by other sites. Every tag on MetaFilter has a specialist site now. Ranking MetaFilter so high before 2012 was a present. MetaFilter doesn't deserve to be deranked any further, but it doesn't deserve huge pre-2012 rankings either. In my experience, todays SERPS are much better than ever before, and the complaints are biased, reminiscing good old times or influenced by the fact that some paid to post on that site (You'll defend it, as you don't want to back a losing horse, and your experiences with the site are probably good).
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Is there even enough room in the marketplace for all of these upstart satellite imagers?
The assets were owned by the Government. The minute they were used to store and/or transport classified information.

Exactly the same way a bank account becomes the property of the state if it is used to launder money or an item becomes the property of the state if it is seized for illegality.

As per the High Court ruling. Unless you know of a different High Court?...
ICANN doesn't block your domain. That landing page/DNS hijack is a Namecheap-specific "feature".
I'm lucky to work for a Boston shop where work/life balance is good relative to my perception of the average American software company, specifically, close to 40 hour work weeks, "death marches" strongly discouraged by upper management because they get how bad they are for turnover, 3 weeks vacation at start, then one more week after every 3 years.

One thing about vacations in US is that no matter how much time one gets on paper, I found the company cultures to look down on taking time off. It's almost like people are ashamed to take their vacation time.
Though I don't think the point of academia vs. vocational training is to teach things that are used in future vs. things that are currently applicable. Isn't it more of learn to think analytically and to become better suited to grasp new things that might need theoretical understanding, and apply those in new contexts. But it's rational to emphasize real world solutions, or fundamental paradigms.
> this should be transported into criminal charges brought against the make-believe CEOs behind the shell companies

Ah, but the original proposal was for individuals to file lawsuits. Individuals cannot press criminal charges -- only the state (in the form of the prosecutor's office) can do that. And the state can not (and SHOULD NOT) use that power to go after individuals because we don't like those people, or because we don't like who they work for, or because we don't like what the companies they work for do.

THAT would be abuse of power.
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As the article for this topic, and Cringely's current 2nd and subsequently articles in that search point out, the previous CEO made a promise to massively increase earnings by 2015. In the face of declining sales/revenue, there aren't that many ways to accomplish that, and of course few aren't actively harmful to its future.
In a Suburb of Detroit.
or this which includes good backgrounders on lin.alg, probability and stat,

http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/mach...

Or http://www.electronicsforu.com/newelectronics/articles/hitsc...

this is an excellent review (but doesn't cover books by Mohri, Rostamizadeh, Talwalkar and Abu-Mostafa , Magdon-Ismail, Lin: http://www.amazon.com/review/R32N9EIEOMIPQU/ref=cm_cr_pr_per...
IANAL: The trial court had found for Newegg on the infringement case, but had not taken the additional step of awarding attorney's fees to Newegg. The appeals court has now recommended that the trial court take that additional step. The appeals court doesn't have time to wade through reams of legal invoices. Actually the trial court may have been trying to avoid that as well, but now it has no choice.

It's my impression that courts don't want to award attorney's fees to civil defendants very often, because that would discourage litigation. I think it's reserved for obviously "frivolous" cases. Therefore the need to appeal doesn't seem like a problem.
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With summer right around the corner, it is important to remind students and parents the importance of reading 30 minutes a day
Or, even better: I bet namecheap could do that search pretty easily themselves and let their customers know.
We are waiting for the would-be Shockley, Brattain and Bardeens.
Ask HN: What do you do when your entire being opposes the task at hand?
It seems I am fighting with myself. This has happened multiple times and seriously affects the quality of my life.

I am assigned a feature to implement, usually vague and something that I feel adds unnecessary complexity to the codebase. I try to reason with my managers, but usually their minds are already made up. I then struggle with finishing this feature, logging hours upon hours against it...not because it takes so long to code, but because I can't make myself do it and waste hours motivating myself to do it. Also I waste considerable amount of time trying to do things in the most readable, maintainable and simple way possible. This means weighing merits of different solutions and choosing one. I am a really hesitant decision maker, resulting in more wasted hours.

The haranguing part is that my managers don't fire me. They don't see how many hours I have wasted, how unmotivated I am. Instead they treat me as one of their most valued employees (oh the irony!).
(I am not in a position to change jobs at the moment. I am helping my BF's startup by doing this job.)

Have you been in such situations? How do you get in the zone and get it done when your entire being is revolting against the task?
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I agree that would be ideal, but having been through a kind of similar search myself recently, I didn't see many java remote jobs available (a lot of ruby ones), and getting one is hard (unless you are an outstanding well-known candidate, you are competing with the whole world for a remote job, and in most cases, you will get someone from eastern europe or phillipines that is as talented as you, but requiring half of what you require (living in Belgium or event Portugal or Spain).
TBH, it seems like eBay just hasn't moved along with the times; as the article points out, their landing pages have very little content and a ton of old-fashioned 'SEO techinques' with keywords and internal links pointing everywhere.

They now have a reason to rework their website, improve sales listings with the user in mind, clean up their pages and make them nice and lean, etc. I hope Amazon gets the same treatment, their product pages are a mess too IMO.
Perhaps. I associate Adam Smith with the recognition of the supply/demand curve and its implications, but that may be inaccurate. "cold, hard-hearted" was colorful hyperbole used intentionally for humorous effect.
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Don't think so. I think it'd be the same force as it would be anchored, just distributed along more of the rope.
Namecheap swapped my contact info with theirs too (I just checked).

Seems to me Namecheap have been sketchy lately. Time to move to Gandi.
I would much rather Amazon spend sometime fixing their terrible terrible search.
Press release from the university:

http://actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-researchers-crack-unassailable...

Paper abstract:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3668
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So if I understand correctly, the plan is eventually to become the "marketplace for food"? We have one here in the high-tech sector around Tel-Aviv (mainly for lunches), this is indeed very defensible. You might be interested to know they apparently built their customer base by saving the employers the hassle of accounting for the lunches for tax purposes - the employer is simply informed of a sum at the end of each month and that's it; they also have a way to limit the expenditure of employees to something reasonable each month.

BTW, this marketplace take wasn't the impression I got from the TC article.
Yup: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/01/157743897/can-you-...
What it's resulting in is a 'news-stand' effect in which articles from the mainstream press will rank higher than anyone else on a given query if the match is close enough. Although I'm not a huge fan of the press as it is today, it could be worse.

You can actually identify opportunities by finding valuable queries that are being squatted on by the content mills. Lots of nice things in stuff like home improvement, insurance, and finance.
Patent reform hits dead end in Senate
Yeah, that's why one of the major target reforms is being able to track the ownership chain up to the actual patent owner. This would allow courts to reward damages directly from the actual perpetrator to the victims of patent trolling, rather than this shell game nonsense.
You look for sunshine, sea, jobs and an european location? Have you considered Sophia Antipolis, on the French cote d'Azur? I live and work there and it's quite nice, and you'll surly find a lot of java jobs.
I don't usually enjoy articles in the SEO category, but I skimmed this out of idle curiosity and was rewarded by the amusing example showing how ebay paid for ads saying

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This is why it happened. Mystery over. 99% of the time, "we didn't do nuffin" means that the site's moderation was not as tight as once thought.

Ignorance isn't really an excuse on this, because it takes five minutes to explain to people nofollow vs. followed links. However, when you explain it to people, 99% of the time, they will continue breaking the rules because they have time preference issues: they know that they benefit from their site passing rank in the present, and the penalty is an unknown quantity in the future.
I hope for the patent trolls the same that happens to SCO
Mostly I'm curious to see what kind of bottom-line impact Google is capable of inflicting upon eBay, given eBay's immense scale. Just how dependent upon Google organic traffic are they at this point.

Nothing will rev up regulator interest like a $65 billion company willing to cry to D.C. as they lose a billion in sales due to algorithm changes.
For a dollar, you can get a ton of chaff social shares. All of these systems are thoroughly pwned.
The phys.org article includes the link to the original paper.

How is the GrrlScientist blog better than the phys.org article? Based on a quick scan, it seems more or less equivalent to me in terms of basic journalism standards. It just looks like a different style and perspective.

What, specifically, is problematic about phys.org?
Not related to the article posted here, but yes, move to Gandi.

Gandi is expensive but Gandi is the best registrar you will ever find (if you do not have to deal with DNS records every day but only seldomly).

Gandi support is great. And they did never advertise: <http://www.gandibar.net/post/2014/03/26/Why-Gandi-doesn-t-ad....
Thanks for the response. How 'good' to you have to be to get a H1B? Aren't there restrictions along the lines of 'there must be no American available who can do the job'? I guess my question really is: Is the H1B for really talented programmers or anyone who does a good job?
Also, Gitblit[0] if you want to run on your own machine.

Full installation instructions: Unzip, run.

0 http://gitblit.org/