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Certainly interesting idea. The writeup seems odd though.

one: Title is off.
Second: "The shoes sync up with the Google maps smartphone app and vibrate to tell users when and where to turn to reach their destination."

Unless they worked with Google its not possible as out side Google Maps you have no way to notify your shoe about the turn (Through bluetooth).
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Given that his blog is about web design, I would think he's talking about markup-validation, rather than unit-tests or static analysis
What I hate about the developers is that they live in their tiny little closed source Windows cave. They develop so many cool things but you can probably never use most of it outside of DF. Like how many cool games would we have if the world generator would be an open source C library? How many languages would have been added by other people who actually study language related science if they knew how to. How many people would have developed 3D graphics engines and usable mouse+keyboard menus if there would have been a publicly defined interface to interact with DF.

There are actually many cool tools but as far as I know a lot of the time of these developers is drained by having to find out about the API themselves (which might change) and most of them are naturally only working on Windows as well.

Think of Minecraft style community + DF on all available operating systems. How cool would that be.
Remember when the HN consensus was that fb would never make money or be profitable? (And that mobile was unmonetizable)

:)
Heh, this would be torturous. I translated Peter Norvig's python lisp interpreter to PHP as a little get-me-started, the end result was not pleasant.
According to this article in the Economist, large firms are more efficient.

"Big firms are generally more productive, offer higher wages and pay more taxes than small ones. Economies dominated by small firms are often sluggish."

"A recent study of American businesses found that the link between company size and jobs growth disappears once the age of firms is controlled for."

http://www.economist.com/node/21548945
I am not sure how is it an answer to google glass !! It navigates and counts the number of steps and roughly the number of calories the wearer burns. Now if we consider it as an answer to google glass then is it an answer to smart watch and astronaut's suits(I consider them wearables as they are expensive and loaded with tech).
End of the day, title's a bit too misleading I would say but none the less a good invention and I might even go back home and buy it.
Elon Musk often gets things right because, among other talents, he has impeccable taste in engineering problems. What I mean by that is that he works on things which are hard enough to be very lucrative to get right but not so hard that he'll run out of resources part way through without having produced anything salable.

You'll notice that he said that it was "probably" not as hard and that he "might" work on it "someday". That's because he's smart enough to pick problems that he can make progress on that others aren't making. SpaceX does something that lots of people speculated might be possible but no-one was actually working on at the right scale and actually did it.
I didn't say anything about Swift: rather, I was responding to the parent's overly general assertion.
I never got around to really learn to play it, but here and there I gen a world just to see that kind of thing happening :D
terrifyingly awesome you mean
Possibly click bait. I think India's Answer to Wearable Computing would have been a little more fitting.
Awesome, did not know about them. Thanks!
Well, there's this:

For years, the prevailing assumption was simply that modules evolved because entities that were modular could respond to change more quickly, and therefore had an adaptive advantage over their non-modular competitors. But that may not be enough to explain the origin of the phenomena.

The team discovered that evolution produces modules not because they produce more adaptable designs, but because modular designs have fewer and shorter network connections, which are costly to build and maintain. As it turned out, it was enough to include a "cost of wiring" to make evolution favor modular architectures.

http://www.astrobio.net/topic/exploration/robotics-a-i/evolv...
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It can be done using openssl (the documentation is a bit opaque but it's not hard to do). As Robin_Message says, I'm not becoming an intermediate CA — I'm generating my own root CA, which no one except me and my apps trust. In turn, my apps contain only my own CA as a trust root. There really isn't an advantage to using a commercial CA here, beyond the fact that their web portal is probably easier to use than the openssl command line.
Ask her what, in her mind, is fair. If she says "we should do 50% 50%" and she won't give you the credit for starting the venture, you should think twice if you want to establish the partnership with this person. If she says "you did most of the work. 20% is fair" you should do 50/50 with IOUs and vesting.*

*Partners are working full time on this.

Here is a good summary of how to pick a cofounder http://venturehacks.com/articles/pick-cofounder
Multithreading is a last ditch effort since you can only get your speedup from it once and it will add a whole new level of hard bugs and will dramatically complicate everything forever. For something like df it is much better to work on smarter code first.
I believe the idea was to have those people as heroes replace, say the Kardashian and the Jersey Shore characters in the attention of a large part of the population.

The argument in having them known rather than Nobel Prize laureate is usually is that its easier to make strong emotional connexion with drama queens than nerds scratching theory; in that case, the strong emotional connexion seems far easier to get and we could use medical role models.

Remembering names is hard, even as little as for -- but most people don't seem to remember the names of, say each Kardashian sister, or even Top Gear hosts: they can still point at "the smaller one". Having quotes, biopics, decumentary, rewards... the usual pagentry would allow people to have attitudes towards adversity that are humane, constructive and varied. One of those nurse could be spinned as the Alpha, controlling, head-strong, devil-may-care head nurse; be known widely for that, and still have a first name that most people can't spell. And another nurse could be more fearful, and go through acceptance of her fate, etc.: nothing really new to the ethico-cultural complex.

Someone mentionned Mother Theresa earlier: I doubt anyone can spell her civil name; people still know how loving she was, how opinionated, how indifferent to medical cure she surprisingly proved herself to be and have a complex image of her moral stance. Her influence on reconsidering extensive medical treatment as opposed to simple care at the end of a life is a interesting recent development in medecine.
I'll try to answer your questions and clear some fear about Ebola that I read in this topic.

Ebola is unlikely to become a massive pandemic mostly because it isn't airborne. To contract it, you need to touch the victim's fluid (alive or dead)[1]. Some funeral practices in Africa involve the family cleaning the defunct body and washing their hands in the same bowl. As this is the first serious outbreak in West Africa, people have a hard time understanding they can't touch their loved ones bodies after they're gone. Besides, Ebola kills too fast to become a world-spread pandemic, probably even if it was airborne.

Surviving Ebola is possible - this epidemic so far kills between 60 and 70 % - but because of the numerous haemorrhages you endure you may suffer consequences, such as eye or liver damage. Apparently most people don't have sequelae but it's hard to find relevant sources for this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease#Transmissi...

See also http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/faq-ebola/en/
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good point. Except... all new laptops are coming without a middle mouse button.

This is the trend in all the latest Thinkpads as well a lot of other computers (I know of Asus and Acer as well).
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I don't know what definition of "clone" you use, but in my eyes you are using the word too liberally here. Was there any stage of Minecraft development that was even remotely similar to Dwarf Fortress in concept? When I started playing it it lacked, say, crafting, and the only concept it really shared with Dwarf Fortress was the idea of generating terrain procedurally; a concept shared by many games, and one that makes Minecraft compare to Dwarf Fortress like a propeller beanie compares to a wind turbine.
So, Bittorrent ?

It _would_ be a perfect setup (much much better than sending the same stream through the same lines just because 2 persons are watching the same show)

The problem here is not technical (Bittorrent solves that) the problem is societal: for most of the content that is of interest to population, you are not allowed to redistribute it. So Netflix has to DRM-protect the content for everyone, meaning that the actual content that transits on the line has to be different, meaning that you can't redistribute it (since it's targeted to you, no one else could decode it).

If you want to see how much the technical side works, take a look at PopcornTime.
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Yes, apt ignoring standard HTTP_PROXY settings by default is a shame!
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This has a great application for travelers in certain areas. The article glosses over it with "even tourists can plug in their destinations and not have to stop to check their phones" but this could be a big deal for people who spend a lot of time walking in unfamiliar areas where pickpockets roam.

It's really not a good idea to take out your fancy smartphone there to check at each corner, but imagine walking around like you actually know where to go. This even applies to places like London, where there have been multiple cases of motorcyclists riding next to the sidewalk (er, pavement) to snatch smartphones from pedestrians.
Makes a little more sense now, thanks :)
Yeah, those were the times! Columbia's computer history pages (links at the end of the document) are also very enlightening.

I don't write self-modifying code any more, but I can relate to the times when that was a sheer necessity. I find it important that documents like these help us keep those times alive so we don't forget where we came from.
Your logic is correct, but this would require real-long term regulatory change. Remember it's still the NSA. People are slowing changing sentiment to policy more accepting of personal choices toward those that don't infringe upon to others. The NSA in scope is still an ideologically healthy organization. Until a fundamental shift in scope we should champion their organization. Over time you are correct but I posit that is a socially healthy operation where you feel the counter. Do we not as society want to do away with those who wish us harm? That is really all they are doing here. That's the balance. You're right the people will have a direct say who and who does not belong. That is a good thing and the purpose of why we were formed nation. For this exact power. Protection.

People don't care what you do so long as it doesn't harm them. Sentiment is changing towards that. It's reflected in the data. Expenditure will just be greater with any the counter.
Maybe you are thinking of the "popular" DOS fraeeware, Mario? That was indeed an unauthorized programmer just having fun. http://www.wieringsoftware.nl/mario/

Does this look familiar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_GeVKAZT4I
I wrote about how it is like C [0] the other day. I should update the post with links to the Apple blog and some of things said on the forum. Maybe tonight.

[0] http://blog.human-friendly.com/swift-access-controls-are-lik...
Technically, it actually works the other way around from vesting. Instead of you having 0% of your shares and working your way up to 100%, you start with 100% of your shares but the company has a Repurchase Right to buy back shares from you for (effectively) nothing. They incrementally lose this right until they have the right to repurchase 0% of your shares, which is when you are "fully vested".
There are never great risk-free ways to invest your money that earns you good return - whether its 2009 or 2014. If you have resources to keep track of micro and macro economic indicators you can probably do specific investment but otherwise you probably want to just diversify as much as possible that your level of capital allows.

For example, there are growing indicators that home rental business is going in the boom. You can see Berkshire Hathway grabbing tons of rental properties in anticipation for that with additional benefit that when rental boom dies down, housing would be in rise again (meaning that you can milk rental properties for next few years followed by selling them off as housing units).

However to do things like above you really need significant market research and may be even a team of economist processing away all data. Next best thing for regular folks is investing in index funds which allows you to diversity while still retaining liquidity.
Ask your lawyer if you need clarification, but my understanding is that vesting is typically actually instantiated as a contractual term which describes the company as having a right to repurchase shares at par value or either repurchase or cancel options.

For example, my LLCs have 10 million shares issued at par value 1/100th of a cent each. I own them outright. If for some reason I wanted to do a vesting agreement, I'd agree to the company having the option to purchase up to XYZ shares from me at par, with XYZ being any number up to and including the number defined by $VESTING_FORMULA_GOES_HERE.

With regards to documentation of loans to company and things like that is having it recorded as a company liability (to the named entrepreneur) in the accounts sufficient or was it more formal than that?

I figure as long as you're going to write it in the books of the company you might as well write a piece of paper saying

"$COMPANY agrees to, at a date of its choosing within 10 years of the inception of this agreement, repay to $FOUNDER the sum of $SUM plus 5.0% annualized interest." Sign twice (once in personal capacity, once as authorized representative of company), date, file for later.
here's the comment thread from when the topic last surfaced 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8051533
Peter Naur is actually The Unterminator: a robot from the future, in which machines running non-recursive programming languages ruled the world. SkyNet had hit the wall of complexity because it consisted of so much legacy code written in non-recursive FORTRAN. Its only means of recursion was to build a robot and send it back into the past to change the course of history, and introduce recursion into Algol, against the wishes of the wiser committee members who suspiciously and correctly viewed recursion as a means by which computers could take over the world.
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I REALLY hope he survives. And not only because he is a hero and I hope not a single person has to die from that horrible disease anymore. The other reason is that one of the reasons for the long lasting epidemia is distrust for foreign doctors and as a native, he has a much better chance of reaching and educating people.
I am not experienced in these matters, but my intuition is that an IOU as you described isn't really fair in all situations. As an extreme example, if you invented and quickly prototyped a genuinely new technology that no one else knew about, then I would say your contribution is much more than whatever it cost you to make the prototype.

It's commonly asserted that ideas are worth next to nothing, the difficulty is all in the execution, etc. I don't think that's entirely true. If your idea is just a vague one-liner like "facebook for pets", then sure, it's not worth much. But as you start building out a prototype, you're forced to be more specific and refine the idea, and it becomes more valuable. If you've got a handful of users and you've gotten some feedback, that's yet a bit more value. And if you've thought about the problem for a long time, you will probably have a good sense of what are the main challenges and what approaches won't work. That's valuable too.

I don't think there is a well-defined line between refining your idea and "executing" on it. Obviously there is a limit to how much you can accomplish in the planning and prototyping stage. However, I suspect it is a lot higher than is commonly believed. Working for 3 months may sound like not very much on the scale of a startup's lifetime (let's say 2-5 years before it either fails or grows big), but consider this: maybe the OP did 4 or 5 failed 3-month projects before he or she got to this one, which seems somewhat promising. Suddenly that looks a lot more significant than 3 months.

For this specific case, we don't have enough details to assess whether the OP has really hit on something big, or if there is still a lot of uncertainty about whether the idea will pan out. So unfortunately, after all that discussion, I don't really have an answer to the original question. I think what I would do in your situation is to make my best guess as to the "fair split" based on what I've contributed and the expected future value (let's say I decide it's 70/30), offer the friend that split, and if he/she accepts, I would immediately change it to 65/35. That way, they should be happy, but things are still close to fair from my perspective.
I'm going to go have myself a nice peanut butter and jelly sandwich now.
Are you really sure? Data is supposed to have been collected by some method, not just randomly waiting in forums for complains about something.
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+1, in general. To adda bit of content:

1) Power Hungry, the total power envelope of a rack position is the limiting issue. You can fit 16-20 disks per RU no problem. The constraint on total density is your 5kVa or 10kVa power budget. Watts matter.

3) sensitive to vibration, be very very quiet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

4) Density, actually 4TB is hitting the sweet spot for $ per byte last time I looked. If you need absolute density look for 5 & 6TB Real Soon Now. If you can tolerate some loss variable density disks around 5TB look quite a bit more cost effective.

5) Read ahead, you only need to read ahead by a couple of chunks. For video ball park it at 2MB. You don't really need lots of RAM, think 32-64GB per chassis. Additionally each 8GB dimm costs about the same power as a disk. By going with 32GB instead of 64 I can fit another 2-3 disks in the power budget per chassis.
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Win8.1 is even better, we had some colleagues change their simple DSL modems versus routers (which is better anyway, but...) because it's just not possible to use a DSL modem reliably with Win8.1!
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A part of me is annoyed that Firefox has spent so long trying to build a set of dev tools when Firebug was already an established tool for them.

I agree that the dev tools are a lot better, and I've recently removed Firebug as well, but I've spent many months annoyed at Firefox dev tools appearing when I've wanted to inspect an element using Firebug. Firebug has been a resource hog for a long time now, but I feel that I stuck with it for longer than I should have because the Firefox dev tools were an annoyance.

Is there a specific reason why Mozilla didn't just ask the creator of Firebug if they could merge his work into the Firefox source, and build on the creators already good work.
Also, Facebook was founded 6 years after Google. I think Facebook is following the same trajectory if not doing better than Google at the time.
I'm sure they meant "The shoes sync up with the Google maps SERVICE VIA A smartphone app" and the extra words were probably edited out for brevity. Most people wouldn't understand the difference.
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Unnecessarily complex daemon; three lines in /etc/network/interfaces and a few shell scripts will suffice, thank you very much.
Indeed but we have computers now. Transaction costs are vastly different. The firm has changed remarkably little. Coase is not very predictive in these circumstances.
I'm pretty sure they count every single minor interaction as a log-in. You receive a notification on your phone and then swipe it away? That's an interaction.
Are we full cycle yet? Is this the new HTML table layout, it took what, 14 years?
I like, a lot, the Grunt Fund idea of Slicing Pie (no affiliation): http://www.slicingpie.com/

The point is: why split the pie before it gets done or after? why not dynamically split based on the actual resources (money, time, equipment, whatever) people put in in the early days?
I started working when proprietary overlords was the only option available, so it doesn't matter me that much.
Sorry but you're simply wrong here about the conditions of the shutdown. These are not planned months ahead shutdowns they are near instantaneous emergency shutdowns and it takes a while to recover from those. After the 2003 blackouts the nuclear plants took the longest to be brought back on-line.
I do this with my Nexus tablet and a cheap bluetooth headset, and just listen to Google Maps' turn-by-turn directions. No need for some gimmicky shoes.
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Mmmm, I'm the only one that I don't get this thing? I'm redirected to a page in Wikipedia where it says that nothing exist about this
One significant detail that has been mentioned in these discussions has been the provisioning of new transformers. Apparently power companies don't keep a huge backup supply of them, and they take a lot to build. If every transformer in a metropolitan area exploded all at once, then we'd be in quite the pickle. Add that up with every transformer on a single hemisphere exploding at once, and it becomes a little more grim.
Can someone please explain to me under what situations "protected" is not just a variant of "public"? Any time you can inherit from the class, if you want access to its members you simply create a new subclass and access anything protected. If you can't inherit from the class (because it's package-private, for example) protected members serve no clear purpose. I've always felt that a language could get away with just package-private and public, so it's been nice to see so many modern languages embracing that.
No, if you cant pay for worthfull feature provide by sublime text then use any open source, that was my personal opinion
Related HN post from a number of years ago, covering a similar idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3192304
The Open Pandora can pretty much do the same thing (and much more): http://openpandora.org/ (It can emulate everything up to PSX, N64 and is nicely pocketable, not like the Nvidia Shield).
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> Carrington storm of 1859

Isn't this storm supposed to have set telegraph wires on fire? Why would the magnetic field involved here not do the same to our electric grid? Wouldn't most transformers be overloaded / damaged by the additional electricity induced on the grid?

Or is this less likely to happen everywhere? It's been a while since I studied electro-magnetism, but IIRC a magnetic field induced a current orthogonal to it's direction. Does this mean that not all transmission lines would be equally affected?