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It's not a hyperbole but it's hard to say what Google would do in that situation, but I've read some stories of people getting banned.

For example, this story: https://medium.com/@sgehrman/banned-for-life-c62f2404f66

Relevant excerpts:

One day I saw my son watching Khan Academy videos on YouTube and I wondered if I could make the experience easier for kids. [...] Wouldn’t it be cool if the could just click an app and instantly watch? So this was the initial inspiration and I wrote a simple YouTube client app using the latest YouTube APIs to watch Khan Academy videos. [...] The good thing about this app idea is that I can take any YouTube channel id, plug it into and now I’ve got another new app. So, one day I posted 10 apps to the play store with a few of my favorite YouTube channels and the Khan Academy channel and it was kind of exciting. [...] A few weeks went by and I got an email stating one of my apps had been suspended. [...] The suspension email stated that I was trying to impersonate another company, and that this was forbidden. [...] After a few more weeks another app was suspended. And again I thought: “OK, 2 down 8 more to go, that’s cool.” I was planning on taking all these apps down in a few weeks anyway. Another few weeks go by and a third app was suspended and also my entire Google play account was terminated for life.

3 apps suspensions and you're banned for life. Different rules apply for different violations, for copying someone's else code I think they would ban for life.
The Russian government will enforce a contract made in Russia.
I have no stake in coconut water but I've tried them all.

Here's my breakdown:

Goya and those other cheap canned brands usually have sugar added and are heavily pasteurized to preserve.

Out of O.N.E, Vita, and Zico, O.N.E. is the best. Often times Vita has the sour potassium taste from overaging, and Zico is somewhat bland.

Now, here's the deal breaker, all of the above coconut waters are total trash compared to RAW coconut water. When coconut water is heated, it destroys the delicious taste. Coconut water naturally should look glowing pink.

There are two brands of raw coconut water. Copra and Harmless Harvest. I couldn't put my finger on it but Harmless Harvest had a slightly weird aftertaste. ( I bought a case so it wasn't just a mishap with a single carton.) Copra consistently delivered and I found myself drinking way too many because they're so tasty.

Until you try Copra or indigenous fresh Thai coconut water you're missing out. And I know this sounds like an ad, but I seriously have tried every coconut water and I'm just spreading the information. Cheers
nikic and Anthony are some of my favourite PHP developers. The stuff that people have been doing in PHP, what with HHVM and Hack and the PSR standards and Composer/Packagist, etc etc. is just amazing!
Azure and Google are good enough in the eyes of a lot of people to compete, and Amazon believes this to be true, otherwise they wouldn't match price cuts the other two make. They have.

The problem for Amazon is that Microsoft and Google don't need to profit on Azure and Google Compute the way Amazon does. Microsoft can sell Azure services at low margin and make the rest of their money selling Visual Studio and MSDN subscriptions and whatever else to developers working on sites hosted on Azure, and selling Office 365 and whatnot to companies shifting their in-house resources towards the cloud. Microsoft sells a lot of complements that mean it can get away with selling services on Azure at close to cost and still make money. Google's in a similar position, in that it has other complements (AdWords, services like Maps, Android, etc.) for developers working on its stack, and it has enterprise products like Google Docs as well. Amazon meanwhile is selling AWS products but no strong complements. So being dragged into a pricewar with Google and Azure means a very real chance that they continue to not make a lot of profit on AWS, even if they beat Microsoft and Google.
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I'd like to see those as absolute numbers, and preferably un-smoothed. The corresponding "dip" seems to be in post-docs.

I got my physics PhD in the late 90's. Anecdotally during that time period, morale about employment was pretty low. As I recall a handful of activist students got the American Physical Society to acknowledge the issue. Physics Today was starting to print articles about non-academic employment, though mostly speculative.

Possibly as a result, I saw what seemed like a real push among physics students to pursue industry options, including programming. Many of us were good programmers. My thesis project ran on thousands of lines of code that I wrote for hardware that I designed. And those years seemed pretty good for engineering employment.

My impression is that interest in joining the post doc cadre evaporated, and students with any sort of engineering ability grabbed whatever industry jobs they could get.
I'm from the US, born in California, and I definitely enjoy the comments :)
But people who just want a job "in the industry", whether it is journalism or academics, are going to have a bad time

Don't look down on those "just want a job" people. When you don't have an income, the need to get one consumes you. Working "for passion" is a luxury of trust-fund kids and people who pulled off their exits before the Valley became a scam.

The idea that it's dishonorable to work for money is classism. Most people have no other choice.

But more and more research will happen outside of the Academy, because research is useful.

Sadly, we see the opposite trend. Research inside and outside of academia is melting down. Companies use the results of R&D (open-source software is an R&D effort) and buy "innovation" out of a rigged R&D-ish system (the VC-funded Valley) but no one is paying for it, which means that very little of quality is being built at scale.

Something will bring it back, but it will probably start outside of the US. It will probably involve competition at an international level. I'd love to see it take a friendly form: an all-information-shared (the objective being prestige, not dominance over others) 21st-century moon-shot race between North America, Europe, and Asia on curing cancer. Sadly, history shows that it's just as likely to involve war, because humans are perilously stupid.

Until that happens, I feel like technical excellence is such a nonpriority in this country that it shouldn't surprise anyone that Stanford threw its weight behind Clinkle and Snapchat.

The prestige competition between universities may have had that effect at one time, but now they compete on stupid shit like pampering rich douchebags, overpaying top administrators, and funding idiotic startups like Clinkle as a way of selling "the experience" (your kid might be made founder of the next Snapchat!)
It quite easy in fact: before going asynchronous, people should learn datastructures and algorithms adapted to what they want to do.

It's wiser to limit the work your CPU has to do rather than hide this work behind high-level non-deterministic structures like WebWorkers like no work is done.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that WebWorker are useless. I just say that really costly operations are rare if you know your DS and complexities.

Oh, by the way, you usually don't have to implement theses datastructures yourself. Even javascripts have [collections](http://www.collectionsjs.com/).
Hmm. Is there actually any doubt that Russia is tacitly providing support to Novorossiya?
PHP has to be one of the most transpiled languages.

C++ (well Hack->C++), .NET, Java, Python and now Go (probably others).

All in various states of incompleteness, though HHVM isn't going away anytime soon.
I don't think it's really all that avoidable. If you can outsource high tech work for less, why wouldn't you?

That being said, I've heard that wages for PhDs in China and India have gone up from 30% of that in the US to 70-80%. Combine that with the hassle of outsourcing (knowledge transfer, etc) it's become less advantageous than it was 10 years ago.
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And the videos were awesome: https://archive.org/details/sims_evolved_virtual_creatures_1...
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Most contracts have "through no fault of the undersigned" waivers in them. i.e. acts of god or government are often covered in some way within the contract language, making parties not liable for hurricanes and changes in law that cause contracts to become null. There's probably some kind of responsibility in these kinds of cases, but it's not going to fall under the usual termination of contract terms. And, whatever responsibilities that exist can be difficult to enforce without the state backing up the wronged party.

Edit: Which is why investors often choose not to invest in companies based in countries that have a history of economic or political instability. It can be difficult to hold someone to their obligations after investing if the state itself isn't going to consistently side with the rule of law. Russian and Chinese investors, for example, were they not already dealing with an even more unpredictable state, would possibly choose not to invest in the US because of unpredictable relations. But, most international investors consider US law to be predictable and stable and safe for investors.
The majority of the downvotes you received almost certainly came from atheists, given the demographics of HN. You got downvoted because you wrote an uncivil and unproductive comment of a form the guidelines for "Show HN" explicitly ask you not to write; in other words, you got downvoted for writing like a jerk. Don't do that.
Starting a tech company in the US is looking like a less and less attractive prospect. This is doubly true if the company focuses on security/privacy of its users.
Because with a half-decent sorting algorithm you wouldn't need to use multithreading for this?

On my machine with that particular 50k length array it takes 7ms if I just do "a.sort();".
The only nonsense here is your belief that a hiring process can accurately predict future results. Hiring is incredibly difficult: Vast volumes of literature have been written on the subject. Mistakes are common; your idea that business ought not correct for mistakes is pure fantasy.
> Do you see it?

Apparently not. I missed it in part because it's completely at odds with my experience. Interesting, may be some codebase difference. On a codebase I work on daily -O0 gcc 4.8.2 is about 5x faster than -O0 clang (3.5-198803), 6.078 seconds vs 33.069 seconds, no cacche or anything obviously in the way.
And to do so, had to refactor all their code to avoid any dynamic code, which is a bit painful. Moving over to a JIT with HHVM was a much better idea.
Hey ! Bubble sort can be a descent algorithm when you know when and how to use it !

After all, it is the fastest sorting algorithm when your collection is already sorted ! Moreover, it has very nice properties which make it suitable for a lot of concurrent operations.
Don Quichot spinning effect (level 29) is too much for my eyes...
As mentioned above, if the game detects touch capable browser (which new Chrome versions do if you're on Win8 I believe) it'll block mouse input.
Well, the enemy of my enemy must be my ally... right?

Right?
To expand on what avoid3d said:

You can make a plot of entropy vs. energy of a system. Further, you can calculate the derivative (slope) of that plot and give it a name. You could also calculate the quantity 1/slope and give that a name, too--and the name we give it is "temperature." So, the temperature of the system is negative any time the slope of entropy vs. energy is negative.

How do we get a negative slope? We need to find a place where entropy decreases when energy is added to the system. Entropy is proportional to the natural log of something called the "partition function (see below)." That means we need to find a place where partition function has a negative slope.

The partition function tells us essentially "how many distinct ways can we arrange (store) a given amount of energy in this system?" For almost all macroscopic systems, there are a greater number of ways to rearrange the system each time a unit of energy is added. However, it is possible to construct a system where adding a unit of energy actually restricts the number of ways you can arrange the system. And that is the basis for negative temperature.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12566306/how-to-test-for-...
Some people talk about "dropping it into the sun", but the energy required is approximately more like "lifting it all the way up there". It takes a lot of kW to push a dump truck full of nuclear waste up to six or seven miles a second, and if something goes wrong, all that energy tends to go into spreading everything around the landscape.

The explosion of a Delta II rocket in 1997 shows the amount of energy released:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_aHEit-SqA
In my field (life sciences), postdocs get paid about 40% more than grad students, and are required to pay into their benefits as they become official "employees" and not students. This, at least initially, puts them back close to the graduate salary.

Yes, it does increase over time, to about 2x salary. It also plateaus there quickly.

My question to you: assuming you are in this "certain subset of people," do you think that a string of postdocs is healthy for your career path? Of the dozen or so hiring managers and recruiters I've chatted with over the last year, any more than 2 podstdocs is a serious red flag.
thanks for the tips! i've also sampled all the coconut waters i can find. 2 things i've come to notice...

- coconut water from thailand has a better (sweeter?) taste than from brazil.

- drinking out of steel/aluminum vs plastic containers somehow makes a difference. that could just be in my head though.

Amy & Brian's is the brand i get around here that satisfies my criteria.

will have to checkout the raw stuff though :)
I have read both Western and Russian sources on the conflict.

Let's just say that I find the Western sources on the matter much, much more trustworthy. It's very clear that Russia is running a propaganda campaign, which is apparently reasonably effective within Russia but less convincing when you have access to other sources of information.

The Russian propaganda campaign was even fairly effective at spreading the rumor on Western social media that the Ukrainian opposition movement consisted mostly of fascists, when in reality there was a fascist group that was associated with it but a relatively small percentage overall of the opposition to Yanukovych.

After Russia snuck unmarked Russian soldiers into Crimea, which comes dangerously close to counting as perfidy, it was pretty clear that Russia and Russian sources could not be trusted on this matter.

Now, are you trying to claim that Russia did not send troops onto Ukrainian soil to annex Crimea, and is not supporting the separatists in the east with at least arms and training? Or are you trying to claim that doing so is somehow justified, and if so, under what justification?
The fact that their net income imploded so dramatically rather proves the lack of stability.

You'll forgive me if I don't trust in the judgment of a business plan built on losing money for two or three decades.

They can be a good company, grow to X hundred billion in sales, struggle to ever make money, and that's all perfectly fine - but it doesn't mean they deserve a hyper valuation. Target trades at a mere $38b valuation, and they only generated $8b in net income the past three years.
Google plays by their own rules and likely suspends only if someone files a DCMA claim or receives multiple reports from users. It's likely an automated system if it's from users. Getting your app. reinstated is unheard of, even if you weren't in the wrong. You will have to provide undeniable evidence to have any chance at re-instatement. The three strikes and-you're-out is not a hard-and-fast rule.
Javascript has it's fair share of transpiledness.
Does that machine have to correct for the rocking of the ship?

Edit: To be more specific - do you have a quiet/stabilized optical platform onboard to perform this?
Different incubators have different focuses. If you need something one of these incubators focuses on, it can be extremely helpful. If you don't need it, then it is a waste of time and your company's equity.

Some incubators focus on teaching you how to market your product (TechStars, 500 startups).

Some incubators focus more on just hooking you up with top advice while giving you no structured program (Y Combinator).

Many really only provide an investor network.

Some startups need an incubator because they need help with one of the above things. Some startups are just fine without it.

If you're having fun just bootstrapping scrape.ly, then just continue with that! If at some point you're thinking "damn I wish I had some people that really knew how early startups worked and could give me advice on _____" then an incubator is helpful.

tl;dr - they don't magically make you grow and you don't always need one. Incubators can provide advice on specific topics due to their experience, and often get you in contact investors.

BTW, is scrape.ly different from kimonolabs's product? Either way, good luck and keep at it!!
Yes, here's a great list of turing completeness where you might not expect it (even Minecraft): http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet...
The idea is that your heart and lungs (probably specifically heart in my case) are getting a workout. In this case we aren't concerned with abs, legs, biceps or any other muscles except the ones involved with cardio. We want to isolate and push these in intervals the same way a body builder might his triceps with isolation and reps.

(The lungs and heart are muscles too... sometimes people forget this).

My version goes something like this.... I jog on the treadmill for 5 or 6 minutes as a warm up. Just a slow jog, nothing too strenuous. Then, I take a break for about a minute while walking around.

Then, for three (or four depending on day and mood) iterations I do the following.... get on the treadmill and increase the speed until I can just barely keep up. I try to stay at plateau speed as long as I can... from start until exhaustion usually around 1.5- 2 minutes. Then, I take a break for around 3 minutes. I test my heart rate until it drops back to a bit above baseline... that's how I know it's time for next cycle.

I finish with another slow warm-down jog for 5 or 6 minutes.

The whole workout takes around 20 minutes and it really has improved my well being and general health. Sex life is better and I have in general much more energy. I attribute this to a stronger heart. For the record, I'm not a stranger to exercise. I ran track in high school, and have jogged and worked out periodically throughout my life... sometimes rather intensely. I'm 43 years old. I just haven't found a system that improves general feeling of health and vigor like high intensity training does. Maybe it's just me. YMMV.
Brazil's native search engine got bought by Google many years ago.
Also cool that they are investing their $100MM+ windfall (from the Windows 8 start button!) into a fund to improve distribution for indie ISVs. Let's hope they can introduce new discovery mechanisms for quality software.
"Today, he’s not just nostalgic for the old days of the coconut water wars. He wishes that Zico was still a serious threat. He wants a competitor, throwing elbows, playing Monster to his Red Bull, a melee that goosed energy-drink consumption to new highs."

This. A lot of startup founders (myself included) freak out when we find someone else doing the exact same thing we are. But competition can also be great for kicking your butt into action and working to expand the market.
Really? Is there even a single ACM conference where a non-academic would be welcome submitting a paper or talk (and yes, dedicated researchers at corporations count as academics, if one of the qualifications is a PhD)
I´ve been reading the negative temperature link, I understand that you reduce entropy reducing energy, till a point, where you start "holding" the molecules down adding energy (I don´t know if that makes sense).

But still is there a way that you could start affecting the forces inside the atom this way?. Or then we are talking about something different?.
In the article it advises about filing for patents. I strongly agree with not filing patents on software. However, my company is currently in the fundraising process and basically the first question every investor seems to be asking is: "Do you have any patents for your technology?"

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Same thing. I find coconut water, even directly from the coconut, to be absolutely disgusting and almost vomit inducing.
I could go to MBA school, become a McKinsey-type douchebag, and join the top VC firms at high levels. I'm 40 IQ points smarter than them.

But I don't. Instead, I'm studying Haskell. On a Sunday night. Including all the random stuff I read just because I'm passionate about technology, I probably work 70 hours per week. (Much of that's self-directed and career-oriented; working more than 30-40 without a career payoff is a chump's game.)

Why is this? Why do I side with the team (technologists, as opposed to douchebags) that seems to be losing? Because I think the good guys are going to win, and that actual technical knowledge is going to become an important asset again. It might be 10 or 20 years from now, but I think it will happen.
This doesn't involve the quantified self component but:

CoconutBattery Online (http://online.coconut-flavour.com/) has massively aggregated Coconut Battery data ("over 150,000" data points) from the last five or eight years of Apple laptop models.

It helps give a sense of laptop cohort's battery longevity.
The Amazon profitability figures are a bit misleading. Amazon adds a very big revenue generating chunk of company every year that has enormous value. That's effectively their profit. One day, they could decide to keep money in their pockets, instead of investing it, but share holders would only demand that if they thought they could do a better job at investing than Amazon. The market has had enough confidence in AMZN for it to go up by 275% in the past 5 years, compared to 125% for the NASDAQ. It's not clear whether this shows that Jeff Bezos is a better investor than the market, or that the market currently believes that he is and this will eventually correct itself, but momentum definitely seems in Bezos' favour.
A valid contract can't compel one of the parties to engage in illegal activity, can it?
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How is that not an accurate statement? VMWare did $5.2 billion in sales last year (with a billion in profit to boot), it's definitely comparable in size to AWS.
The presence of a SSID isn't indicative that you went to said business. If I lived above a McDonalds, Pizza Hut, and Subway, all with their respective SSIDs, that doesn't mean I am at any of the businesses. So sure, Google could know that there's a Pizza Hut near you, but they have no way of knowing whether you're actually at the Pizza Hut, or, say, the Tesco next door.
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The article is wrong on a key point. Stingrays don't "force" your cell phone to do anything. Your cell phone reaches out and connects to it of its own accord. The Stingray doesn't reach out and collect private data from your phone. Your phone transmits your private data into the aether at the user's direction.

I think this fact has major Constitutional implications. The police should not need a warrant to access information that you carelessly broadcast onto the public airwaves. I don't think there is any privacy expectation there, any more than there would be if I took my "papers" out of my desk drawer and threw them out my car window. They're fair game at that point. Though the 11th Circuit disagrees (another example of judges not understanding technology?).