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Ducts around the fans might be prohibitive from a drag in forward-flight point of view, even if they are desirable from a static hovering efficiency point of view.

I don't actually have the numbers on that, but it's probably something to look out for.
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It's important to get terminology right: It's "win" as in "win/win" situation, not "victorious forever". It means "better than the best alternative", not "best".

Is spending $8 on a milky Starbucks coffee a better value for the customer than the immediate alternatives to spending it, including not spending it? In that case, he "wins".

Is keeping the capital invested in the assets that make up Starbucks a better value for the investors than not? Then the owners "win".

And is taking a job at Starbucks a better deal than taking any alternative job available? It seems a whole lot more pleasant to me than most other low-paid, low-skilled jobs I can think of. If so, the employee "wins".

This education effort will likely make a Starbucks job even more attractive than the alternatives, for rather little money, making working at Starbucks a "win" for more people.
I'd imagine that you're selecting for gamers (often young people with little money) playing a nearly-free game (further selecting for "little money") that they usually keep playing for a long time (so even if they had money, they're not looking to spend it).
Do you regret not doing it?
Don't forget this classic Carlos goal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnXA0PoEE6Y
We're talking ten year old children, in my experience. I'm slightly amazed at how much they love playing Minecraft.

With home WiFi they can run their own servers in their touch devices, and run around in each others play areas.

P.S. I greatly appreciate Markus Persson's integrity, and consider this game one of my best purchases ever.
Why don't you try contacting Gabe directly and get a few contact emails off him, might well be worthwhile!
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Interestingly, AMZN bought Kiva and will deploy 10,000 robots soon. Very cool video here: http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/22/technology/amazon-robots/
How would I monitor SSD drives SMART values? I'd like to know when the SSD is about to brick...

These are the values for a Samsung 830 SSD:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct PO--CK 100 100 010 - 0
9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 097 097 000 - 13779
12 Power_Cycle_Count -O--CK 099 099 000 - 68
177 Wear_Leveling_Count PO--C- 096 096 000 - 118
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot PO--C- 100 100 010 - 0
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total -O--CK 100 100 010 - 0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total -O--CK 100 100 010 - 0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block PO--C- 100 100 010 - 0
187 Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt -O--CK 100 100 000 - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel -O--CK 074 058 000 - 26
195 ECC_Rate -O-RC- 200 200 000 - 0
199 CRC_Error_Count -OSRCK 253 253 000 - 0
235 POR_Recovery_Count -O--C- 099 099 000 - 62
241 Total_LBAs_Written -O--CK 099 099 000 - 10945325283

Monitor all? Or just the wearlevel-count? Or watch only for the program or runtime error counts? What do these even mean?
Well, for one thing, litigation (like virtually all goods) would be a lot cheaper. But I think a better rhetorical way to answer your question is by proposing another: how does a small property owner currently fund decade-long litigation against a giant corporation, or a government?
Internalizing costs is certainly a part of what I meant by "effectively aggregate our desires."
Yes, but you say that as if it was a bad thing. For me it was a really hard experience when doing science, that I could not "be smart about it", and do things "in smart ways", because that would require me to be able to predict which experiments would work out etc. Any high uncertainty environments are "throwing shit on the wall". You can't be smart about the throwing part, only what you do when something sticks. This is very hard for smart people to accept. See also: http://www.ted.com/talks/uri_alon_why_truly_innovative_scien...
There are no standard CSV files. There's even no "Excel standard": Excel uses different delimiters in different locales. It's a huge pain.
I was not allowed to buy more than two. This would have been in either Jersey, Maryland, Delaware or Pennsylvania. I am going back 20 years or so.
The 3,000 IOPS figure for General Purpose SSDs comes with two caveats - it is available only in bursts for up to 30 minutes and it comes out of a capped reserve which is slowly refilled over time based on the size of the drive. In other words, it is not Provisioned IOPS.

If you wanted it to be true PIOPS, the cost of a 1TB 3K PIOPS SSD is $425 (1,000GB * $0.125 for storage plus 3,000 PIOPS * $0.1 for operations). (EDIT: this figures are wrong; please see responses below for the right math).

EDIT: My understanding was incomplete - General Purpose SSDs can burst up to 3k IOPS, but they also provide provisioned IOPS at a rate of 3 IOPS per GB. Effectively, 1TB drive then does provide 3k PIOPS (3 * 1,000GB) and bursting limits are only a factor for smaller drives.
What about functionality added by mods which are not directly made for Minecraft?

Spout used that loophole (where Spout was a voxel mod API and SpoutCraft was a Minecraft implementation of it) to allow selling mods.
> How would a Free (as opposed to 'free' with regulations attached) market limit industrial pollution (some contaminations of which aren't discovered until almost a century after the original contamination[0])?

That's hardly a fair question, because if the contamination so aren't even discovered for a century, there's very little any society ("free" or governed) can do.
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"...Netflix doesn't need...ten years of drafting standards..."

When do you think standards work started on HEVC? When do you think NHK were first demonstrating UHDTV?

They were both being worked on by 2004 and much of the research work will have preceeded that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_High_Definition_Televisi...
By that logic noone can ever be rewarded for his work outside of his field. Of course he can be rewarded for his work on RPi, which had more impact on mankind then some video game from 30 years ago.
I didn't know that. Do you have a source for this information?
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Can you explain how a government, particularly a modern republic that is at least ostensibly formed through consent of the governed, elections, etc., can solve these problems? I'm looking for a specific mechanism by which the people, who you claim are incapable of making correct decisions in a market, can make correct decisions when it comes to electing a government.
No, I was too young back then.
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Maybe this is a little off-topic, and I don't want to sound like an ungrateful player of minecraft. I actually really love the game and have put more hours into it than just about any other game but a few key titles like the Diablo, Elder Scrolls, and Fallout series. But, can someone explain to me how a game that has grossed roughly half a billion dollars (based on estimates I've read for all platforms) is still so feature bare compared to other games in its financial ballpark? I am honestly curious, because it doesn't sound like Notch is cruising the Caribbean in a 175' yacht or anything.
Wait, only on select smart TVs? So I can't watch this on netflix.com with my 4k monitor? (not that I have the connection to stream it anyway)
My week old bike was stolen from secure locked shed. Unfortunately I learned that not every shop keeps serial numbers on the record the hard way. Now hoping for impossible that police might find the culprit. This time around I'm recording serial number, doing multiple customizations to the bike and just received specialized GPS device to be hidden in the bike itself. And the insurance of course.
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It looks like 3 IOPS per GB guaranteed, even when throttled, and much higher when bursting. That's still 3000 IOPS (3 X 1000) worst case for a 1TB volume.
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From Jeff Barr's blog post (http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ssd-backed-elastic-block...):

* A bucket is associated with each General Purpose (SSD) volume, and can hold up to 5.4 million tokens.

* Tokens accumulate at a rate of 3 per configured GB per second, up to the capacity of the bucket

I take this to mean that a 1TB GP SSD gets 3K tokens/sec = consistent 3K PIOPS. Can you explain where you disagree?
Not only OCR, i'm unable to read the thing, unless with extreme strain to the eye.
If you want it for (hopefully) christmas, there is also the Papilio Duo Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13588168/papilio-duo-dr...
Is downloading the mobi/epub OK?
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But note that the baseline performance for the new General Purpose SSD is listed as the size (in GB) times 3 IOPS (so 3K/3072 IOPS for your 1000GB/1TB example). So large volumes will have a baseline that basically matches the listed "burst" IOPS speed, and at less than 1/2 the cost of the PIOPS version.
Weird, the old MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard I'm using with old Safari 5.1.x didn't even rev up the fans or anything. Which OS version and browser are you using?
Their doc site doesn't scroll in Chrome for Android, which seems a bit embarrassing if you're Google.
I actually like this, great tip.
0day always has meant one thing , release of software on the same release date i.e. 0 day.
> I could see some of them shaking their heads and looking at each other. They were very obviously bothered that they had not seen this before.

Why I can't imagine Apple being in such a situation?
Things could be better, but I don't feel anything's completely broken. As a user, it's awesome having a built-in package repository. Sure, ELPA by itself is pretty useless, but everything feels pretty good. package.el is also still relatively new, as far as emacs is concerned.
The problem with such cases is that -- as far as I'm aware (IANAL) -- concepts like characters, inventions (e.g. hyperdrive) etc are not covered by any of the existing laws that handle creative monopolies (i.e. what is generally known, incorrectly, as "intellectual property"). Copyright covers the specific fixed representations (e.g. words on paper) and not ideas and concepts, while other laws like patents or trademarks also seem unfit here.
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The Problem:

We know running your own business is hard work, and keeping track of leads and more importantly following them up is something a lot of us don’t get round to. We think about investing in a CRM, but they are very complex and usually too large to fit with small business.

Our Solution:

Our solution was to create a simple lead tracking web application, which will allow a business owner, or freelancer exposure to how much money they have out in quotes and work in progress. The system keeps a list of contacts and you can generate a sales order from a quote with a branded link to send to a customer so they can accept it online, and looks better than jotting notes in an email.

Got a handful of people using it so far, but would love some feedback on what people think and whether they think it would be genuinely useful.
Notice how the ball in Pirlo's free kick is barely spinning, goes very fast and the path is very unpredictable. It's called a "Folha seca" and it exploits the turbulences to make the ball drop at the last moment. Very spectacular, but hard to score consistently.
I've been doing digital design for Xilinx FPGAs, as well as IC design, for a few years now and never had any trouble with the Linux toolchain. I can't even imagine switching to Windows and trying to automate the build (not saying it's not possible, it just seems a lot more convoluted).

It's true that smaller vendors like Lattice seldom provide Linux software, but it's also rare to find bigger shops (as opposed to hobbyists) who don't use Xilinx or Altera exclusively, and Linux at that.
All I have to say is "Wow". I just switched our boot drives in us-west-2 over, and our initialization time was cut in half (~7 minutes to ~3 minutes).

As someone who launches a lot of instances based on user demand, I'm very excited EC2 has finally addressed the glaring speed issues with EBS volumes. This brings boot times in line with the original GCE boot times, which were stellar.

Of course, time will tell if the new General Purpose volumes can hold up as more users come onto the system, but for now I'm impressed.
The paper referred to is here: The aerodynamics of the beautiful game by J.W.M. Bush

http://math.mit.edu/~bush/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/...

one can only be puzzled to note that striking a smooth
beach ball or an old, worn volleyball with spin has just
the opposite effect

I'm having great difficulty believing this. I've spun many beach balls and struck man old, worn volleyballs and have never seen a ball curve the wrong way. I've also dealt with many smooth ping-pong balls, and have even sanded off the dimples on golf balls to see the aerodynamic effect.

I'm not saying it's mathematically impossible, just that I didn't think it would be possible to find this effect in the real world. Maybe I've just never tried something smooth enough. Is there some reasonable home demonstration of this that I can try to prove it to myself? They say they did it with a latex band around a soccer ball?
Sorry if it sounded like I am complaining, the fact that I still use FF even though it cripples my VM from time to time shows that I am a fan. ;) It is a bit annoying though.

> But people always ask "why is the browser using so much memory", not "why is this site using so much memory". Maybe because per-site memory measurements aren't prominent enough.

Do you mean to say these measurements exist? I couldn't find them in about:memory (per-site, that is).
That would be an awesome feature! I could easily kill the tabs which are eating up my RAM if only I knew which ones were doing it. Better yet, I could see if I am being reckless with memory in my own webapps.

The issue I am having is not that browser uses too much RAM. The issue is that I (as a user) am not aware of high memory usage until it is too late. Even worse, I have no clue what caused this state and have no option to learn from previous "mistakes" (if some site is using too much RAM, I could avoid it or close it when not needed anymore). So yes, per-site (per-tab?) memory usage indicators would solve my issue completely.

Thanks again for taking your time to answer, and keep up the good work! You have a great product there.
> Every entrepreneur is now a psychologist by trade. The ONLY thing that matters to success in our anything-is-buildable Internet world is psychology. How does the customer perceive this product? What causes someone to share? What makes virality happen? What makes something sticky?

That sounds like marketing, not psychology. Of course, marketing is heavily relying on psychology, but still.
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> Ask people in social situations personal questions that aren't too personal. So what do you do? How long have you worked here / gone to school here / known Jim / lived here?

Great questions, except for the first one. It can be a way more personal thing to ask about than you might expect from such a simple (but very open) question. I personally dislike when people ask me that, because it makes me feel judged. I don't always want to talk about "what it is that I do".

Instead, try to find out about it in a more roundabout way, asking sideways questions (which lead to the most interesting side-topics anyhow), so people can decide to volunteer sharing what they are passionate about.
> A claim is just a list of "AND" conditions, i.e. all the conditions must be met for the claim to be asserted. To defeat a patent claim, it's a matter of adding enough variance in your code to defeat ONE of the conditions.

That's not true. Thanks to the doctrine of equivalents you can still infringe on a patent even if your invention differs from what the claim describes. (Now, if you want your invention to count as prior art, it does have to exactly match the claim - whether two inventions are considered the same for prior art purposes is different from whether they're considered the same for infringement purposes.)
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Comparing one 80's language to another 80's language hardly demonstrates how great it is in 2014 ;)
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Prediction.io needs a server to run on, and it focuses on recommendation problems, so it doesn't seem to do classification and regression for instance.
Think Lego.

I think estimates are that notch personally pulled in about $100m a year during the initial boom. I guess he just doesn't like boats. Which is understandable for a guy who grew up in front of a keyboard
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity, at least that's what Seneca said.
I recently finished reading the book mentioned in the article and in the book, they have a chapter focused on ways to improve the situation for people living in poverty. What I got from it was that programs to help poor people need to be tweaked to not tax their bandwidth as much and there is no real one size fits all solution.

One example in the book is the computer skills programs that are often offered by employment services offices. These programs are usually several weeks long and build on knowledge from previous weeks. For someone who is struggling financially, attending these classes weekly could be difficult. You miss one class, and the next class makes no sense and you feel like you're wasting your time. The authors' suggestion is to restructure these classes to be more modular and allow people to attend these classes based on their schedules.

I think it's not so much that people don't want the poor to solve their problems. It's that they don't want to make it easier for them. People feel that they themselves did just fine without all the benefits that the poor get, so why should we make it easier for them?
The previous generation had a small instance (m1.small). There is no comparable offering in the current generation (at least, not yet). The smallest m3 instance is the m3.medium. You can still provision an m1.small, though, right? You just miss out on the hardware upgrade.

GCE, Digital Ocean, etc may be a better fit than AWS for these kinds of instances.
Not necessarily. I had my bike stolen in Germany and reported the serial # to the police. A few years later they called me to return me my bike. So they obviously have some sort of database. I don't know if it's just for the town or country wide...
I wonder what will be the gold standard for something like oculus rift?
It sounds like the effect depends on whether the surrounding airflow is turbulent or laminar. I believe that making an object smaller biases the airflow more to turbulence, so ping pong balls and golf balls may be too small to show the negative effect at their respective game-relevant velocities.

Also, just having a rough surface texture can be enough to cause turbulence, since it causes the air to stick more to the surface. In my experience, ping pong balls have a definite texture to them, and unless you polished that sanded-down golf ball to a mirror finish, it probably has a non-smooth texture too.
No offence but you sound pretty boring.
http://www.fpga4fun.com has some nice projects for starting out with FPGAs.
I agree with you on many points. Trying to keep my messages short, I made them too ambiguous. I'm not a Luddite. My only worry is that Thomas Piketty may be right. I don't know where you live, but where I come from, there is a very small percent of shareholders/capital owners/producers and a very large number of consumers/labor owners. The consumers have less and less money and the producers need less and less labor. Are you sure a system like this is stable ? Technology and innovation is great if it works for you and useless if it's someone else's and he has no incentives to share it with you.
Thoughts on running Postgres with provisioned IOPS on EBS SSDs with this latest change? Still pretty far from running on dedicated hardware?
It doesn't even have namespaces. ARC basically made "struct" obsolete (goodbye easy literal data instatiatons), and it doesn't have a lot of the things programmers have come to expect even in compiled languages these days. Now don't get me wrong, for a 30 year old language, it's pretty good, but calling it great may be a little over stated.

I don't mind the syntax, but I don't think it's the nicest language out there feature wise.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJIQm9qH-w (for people that don't know IT Crowd, go watch it, it's excellent, and not that many episodes were made)
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It's great to see different solutions to tackling vision loss/blindness. It doesn't seem like it will be too long before people using these types of glasses will have better vision (thinking Geordie!).

The trouble is the prototypes are often very clunky, but with things like Google Glasses I see the prototypes getting to be near 'invisible' like modern hearing aids.
The parent comment is really a good advice. I really think that doing an activity in a group helps: when you get too shy you can comfortably hide in the group, when you want to talk you will have people with similar interests that will be keen to listen.

Now I am in my 30s, but when I was 24 I left my home country in Europe to work for an year and a half in the US, then moved again to another foreign country (UK).
Work was great, but it was really difficult to meet new people, not to mention girls. My English wasn't good and I didn't know anybody apart from my colleagues. So I learned it the hard way: I enjoy photography and I got into a local flickr group. Doing photo walks allowed me to get in touch with different people with the same passion as me, without having to think too much as the way I used to speak. The "walks" allowed me also to walk by with one person at the time, avoiding the awkward moments when you are supposed to talk in a table where all the other people can talk easier than you. I also met a good bro who I still see quite often! And when bored, I could ask him if he wanted to go to the cinema, to have a beer or to see an art exhibition. Few years later we even got into talking to some girls in bars. That didn't go too far most of the time, but it helped the self esteem and I could feel better when talking to random people.
I also started rowing (but you could try another team sport). It was a beginners' team, and even if I left it in the end I really think it boosted my confidence to hear the other guys support.

Also, I really think you can improve your English by watching TV and films. And learning to drive/having a car might inspire you to join interesting activities (my experience says that the US can be a difficult country to live in without a car).