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The part about keeping the goods seems unbelievable. I've skimmed the act, but I can't find a reference to keeping the goods.

It's very easy to link to sections in acts, so I don't know why the author did not add references.
This doesnt seem to work for me in Chrome 36.0.1985.143!

But I opened up FireFox and it looks really cool. I love the search ability. That could be awesome for video tutorials. "Ok I already know how to do X, Y, Z, but I want to jump to Step C"
Ah, you're right. I knew that was suspicious :)
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Actually I doubt there is anything left from the Mozilla that brought the initial Firefox in todays Mozilla. All the good things did happen a decade and more ago.
And if organisation does not take dare deciding whom to put in the top position it is ok to bear consequences.
Thanks for that. Maybe I will try again some time.

I'm not saying it is impossible, rather that it is hard work compared to e.g. python. I recall looking through a few promising google results and finding e.g. that the library is no longer maintained, has bits missing etc. With python, when I use e.g. beautiful soup, it just works - I lose almost no time getting setup. When doing a project that needs many external libraries, that makes a big difference.

e.g. the first item on http://www.cliki.net/GUI has its last news item from 2007, and the mailing list gives 'not found'. But there is a new(er) github page with the comment "I cleaned up the library just in case I needed GUI in Lisp, but it turned out that I did not. Hence, the primary extent of my testing is running test-gtk:gtk-demo application. Bug reports and/or patches are welcome."

Since the parent was talking about ecosystems etc, I thought my experiences were worth mentioning - "Python novice uses python to get stuff done" but "CL novice gets lost in old/unmaintained libraries, gives up and sticks with c++ & python".

I mean no disrespect to the people who write these libraries etc., I am just describing what I found as a novice in CL.
Don't forget they also just launched an API. The goal of that may be that restaurants can put "get this delivered via Uber" buttons in their apps.
It's equivalised. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalisation
Currently, the O-1 is popular among entrepreneurs. It is difficult, not because the requirements are too high or they are limited, but because it is very subjective -- depending on the personnel going through the application you can get accepted or rejected for the same package.

Especially with the crippled H-1B system (which has over 150k applicants for a pool of 60k visas), 12.5k O-1s going out is actually pretty promising.

Because it was originally designed for performers/athletes/artists, it has the best-in-field requirements. However entrepreneurship doesn't really have such rigid rules. Get a more official understanding for samples of what could be useful here:

http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/o-1a-extraordinary-abili...

Of course national level awards, etc are useful, but also academic work is highly valued (research papers, talks, judging panel, etc).

Disclosure: I am working on filling out as many requirements of the O-1 as I possibly can right now so I can reunite with my team in the US.
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This seems like a tactic that would be completely ineffective - it has nothing to do with salary. High-cost employees are hired because they're valuable, not cheap. If someone asked about my personal finances, I would simply say:

"I ask for 95,000$ because I'll easily provide that value to your company. Pay has nothing to do with my personal finances - it's how much my work is worth. Are you looking to hire someone valuable? Because that's what I bring to the table."

I kept trying to avoid adding "If you want cheap, go hire some college interns and let me know so I can go short on your stock."
I really enjoyed reading "The holographic universe" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062014102) some time ago but how can an experiment which is entirely based on science, physical laws, empirical evidences and so on, prove something which would make all these means... meaningless. This looks like a paradox to me.
Do you have any links to writings on this (Anarcho-collectivism from a complexity perspective or vice-versa)? Did both a quick journal search and a Google search and didn't find much.
Extending HTML5 video is actually really interesting. For an old project I wrote a subtitle player for HTML5 videos as a plugin. [1] You pass in a standard SRT file and it automatically parses out the times and changes the subtitle text.

[1] https://github.com/Accentivize/srt-player
Funnily enough Google was really onto something with the concept of Circles. We do not, and should not, want to share everything with everyone a la Twitter and Facebook.

The execution of G+ was bungled disastrously, and ass-backwards policies like Real Names ran directly contrary to the original notion of having multiple identities/profiles to present to different people.

But I do wish someone would run with this idea again.

... But maybe we don't need to. Social networks with segmented audiences/identities have existed since forever, they're called BBSes and Forums.
Filing a small courts claim in the UK is really, really easy, doesn't require a lawyer, and actually favours the little guy. I don't think we really need a SCSAAS system.

Historically, legislating this kind of behaviour has had a very big effect in the UK. We have strict trading and advertising standards and by and large people adhere to them. Companies that frequently flout the rules tend to get in more trouble once a journalist or watchdog gets wind of it and makes a big stink.
Yes, but it's not like Firefox exists in a closed company vacuum or anything.
Sure but isn't life a great deal more boring out there? It depends on a person's priorities.
I'm using the 3059 build and it doesn't change permissions of pre-existing files. And this build is supposed to solve that for the dev builds (I have to check it).
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The vibration is still going to kill you, though. You don't get pinpoint stars like that in a 30 sec exposure on a tripod on a vibrating surface. Unless it's doing active image correction, I find it implausible.
London has done a selective shut down in the past after 7/7 to stop mobile triggered devices

The way it works is that important people not "subs" have phones with two sims so that the emergency services etc can talk with out.
ConnectA2, a WhatsApp client, comes bundled with the phone.
Very different.

Microsoft Research was manually computing a motion map using heavy image-processing techniques that they then used to decide which frames to use and how to align them. Their work can do things like throw away a series of 'noisy' frames that wouldn't fit the overall scene motion. For instance, if you had a head mounted camera and were riding around on your bike, it could throw away the moments where you look both ways before crossing the street.

Instagram's technology utilizes extra sensor data to make their frame corrections. As far as I can tell from the brief article, the technology doesn't do much besides stabilization. That's not to belittle it, as it's a really neat application demonstrating the benefits of mobile sensor integration. And you might be able to create a similar motion map using the gyroscope data that the folks at Microsoft create through their image processing techniques!
Exactly the angle I'm coming from.
Would you mind to share which requirements you are trying to fulfil in particular?
Fantastic! I've been meaning to do this myself, but glad to see that it exists.

I believe that this kind of single-purpose OS can be even easily created using an unikernel such as mirage, but that removes part of the fun of course.
Thanks for the feedback - we understand the need for a demo page or similar, so we'll get onto that.

I definitely agree. It appears that all of the problems, from a buyers side at least, stem from estate agents themselves. Given that London especially is a seller's market, we feel improving the buyers experience a good entry into solving the problem as a whole, especially for busy professionals who usually have money but not time.

Websites like MoveBubble (www.movebubble.com) are quite interesting. They essentially remove the estate agent all together (or perhaps became one in essence). I feel it may be difficult to create simply another market and expect both sides to comply.
What do you mean by z-axis scaling?
OSGi is good in theory but too much ado for most real-world projects.
That made me wonder why Mozilla is even entering this field. I must say I find their "mission"[1] quite noble:

We’re out to make a difference, not a profit. When you choose Firefox OS, you’re helping build a brighter future for the Web and users everywhere.

And elsewhere...

Built entirely using HTML5 and other open Web standards, Firefox OS is free from the rules and restrictions of existing proprietary platforms.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/#mission
Twitter seems to have a strategy for monetizing their data that is at odds with your company's strategy. This is not about "data democracy", its just a business dispute. You're making it sound like its ideological but its not. You want something from them and they said no. That's all.
Yes, it wouldn't work with western cultures. Things like rent of the shop, mouths to feed, etc get used a lot in bazaars. I reckon it's a form of appeal to fairness.
From the top of my head: less animations, no autocorrect on the keyboard, quicker killing of applications, memory pressure events integrated in the built-in applications so they clear out stuff when needed.

More information can be found on the Tarako[1] info page at MDN. I saw the finished device (I have a dev version here with an old build) last week in Oslo and was surprised that it worked that well. Panning the homescreen had no jank and opening and closing apps was fairly fast.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/Tarako
> If I disagree with you, I'll challenge your ideas. I'll challenge your thinking. I'll debate you. I will not attempt to silence you.

The fact that fewer and fewer people online think this way is what makes me think twice about saying anything. Once you say anything slightly outside the accepted progressive viewpoint on Touchy Subject X, here comes the downvote and "you're a horrible human being" brigade. Online debate is effectively dead, and it's a shame.
$100k for 5% implies a valuation of $2M. Is the business (with no customers and no product) worth $2M RIGHT NOW?

But it isn't 5%. If it's typical 4 year vesting 1 year cliff, you can be fired after 11 months or 2 years.

You will be diluted when they raise money. As a minority shareholder, there are too many ways to be diluted. For example, your shares have no liquidation preference, but shares from investors usually have a liquidation preference. So you're in a worse spot than a typical angel investing $100k cash.
So... what does it do? I don't wanna sign up to figure out, in more specific language, what exactly it tracks. Users? News? API calls?
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I actually think this illustrates an interesting evolution in our attitudes towards anonymity on the Internet.

It was only quite recently in the grand scheme of things that, particularly in school computer labs, one of the major things that we ingrained in children's heads was basic web safety etiquette: never reveal your real name, street address, phone number, etc.

With the advent of popular social media, holy shit has that completely turned around in the opposite direction. Now such things have been completely normalized, and we've started to talk about the "nymwars". There's also a reasonably influential segment that thinks all online communications should be done using personally identifiable information, lest someone gets trolled and has their sensibilities hurt.
Here's my Amazon challenge: Find a phone charger on Amazon that:

* Isn't one of Amazon's own
* Doesn't have a single review saying it caught fire or exploded

Amazon is completely happy selling poor quality or even counterfeit goods, phone chargers are a particularly bad area of the site but others exist as well. There is no way Amazon could claim ignorance of this - there are 100s of reviews on some products such as "Samsung" chargers saying they are fake. Amazon cares more about their bottom line than 1) complying with British law when it comes to product descriptions 2) complying with EU safety laws 3) the safety of their customers.
The differences between Vim's windows and Sublime's drawer are big enough that it really is useful to differentiate between the two in this context. Vim's window splits are specific to the tabs that they appear in, while Sublime's drawer and (presumably) Slap's sidebar both cut across all tabs.

Plugins like NERDtree attempt to emulate Sublime's behavior using Vim-style windows. But although things are improving on that front, there are still some visible cracks in the implementation of the concept. The vi-like editors simply took a different evolutionary path, and this is one of the points where that shows.
At that price it's nearly disposable. I'd LOVE a phone like that; I have a hard time paying a lot for something that I carry and can easily break, especially since I'm not welded to my phone like most people seem to be.
Sure we can. I imagine first we'll need the ISO to create a project to begin the standardization of software management. Then there'll probably be a few years of research to identify all the kinds of software, platforms they run on, interoperability issues, levels of interdependencies, release methodologies, configuration & deployment models, maintenance cycles, and expected use cases. Then the ISO can create an overly-complex standard that nobody wants to implement. Finally somebody will decide it's easier to just create smaller package managers for each kind of software and intended use case and write layers of glue to make them work together.

So now that we know what to do, the big question is: who's going to spend the next 5-10 years of their life on that project?
I think this jump makes sense and you already have these drivers available it gives them another way to use these people. I don't know of any services like this in my area but Uber doesn't have a huge presence yet either..
Easyjet have an upsell but at least the price you see on the homepage is the price you pay at the end, unless you go for the upsell. It's predictable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA
My main beef with the Eich case wasn't the fact that people protested his decision, it was how they did it.

Causing indiscriminate collateral damage (and using various arguments to deflect blame onto your enemies) until people submit to your whims is a long and time-honored tradition (for example, terrorists).

Vicious attacks against those who (appear to be about to) "leave the fold" are also long and time-honored tradition (for example, apostasy in religious-ruled countries).

Given that They (the people doing the protesting) decided that Eich's political actions made him a "them", and that They considered Mozilla to be an "us", it was perfectly reasonable for Them to (1) attack Mozilla for associating with Eich, and (2) attack anyone associated with Eich until Eich was forced to submit to Them (in this case, to Go Away).

So no, the problem is that people decided to suddenly target one individual for protest over a years-old used-to-be-majority political opinion.
I have a preview phone here that is based on a chipset from the same manufacturer (although it has one 3G SIM slot and one 2G SIM slot) and both SIMs are active at the same time (internet only at one). So I guess that's the case for this phone as well.
I think someone in Uber has some dream of creating a system where drivers are constantly kept busy and completing jobs (small deliveries, driving people, food deliveries) in an efficient, algorithmic flow that keeps downtime at a minimum, while drivers earn money and Uber earns even more money.
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My company has a fairly large Business Intelligence install already but licensing costs are high. Most of our users just need "pretty" standard reports.

Looking for a tool/API that will help me present data only with the usual charts and drill-down capabilities you would expect from a business intelligence tool but without all the processing and logic capabilities or overhead.

Could be something like Crystal but could also be a development library or a cloud based tool. Most of what I can find online is trying to be a full BI / Analytics engine where we just need the presentation layer. Appreciate any insight or recommendations HN users might have, thanks!
My experience is that Internet connections are price competitive with the US (and perhaps cheaper).

You can get 100/50 with 80GB of traffic for NZ$110/month, which is US$91.64. You can go full unlimited at USD$115. Amazingly, this is the same price as Comcast Extreme 105 which is only 105/20.

One thing to understand about the NZ market. Since carriers charge per byte, I was generally able to get full speed out of my links during prime time - barring TCP RTT throttling.
Great job MediaGoblin team!

As a side note, this looks like this project could use a little love from the community:

https://github.com/vky/docker-mediagoblin
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Has there been work after RSS to improve pub/sub protocols for websites to notify customers of changes/deltas, without the need for wholesale scraping?
The Cray brochure for this system has more information, including detailed specs: http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/products/cs/CrayCS-Storm.pdf

A few fun points from the brochure:

- The internal network ("interconnect") is Infiniband in either a torus or fat tree topology

- Up to 512 GB RAM per node

- Power usage is up to 63 kW per rack

- You have the option of including liquid-cooled rear door heat exchangers, if your datacenter air cooling isn't up to the task ;-)

- Compute nodes can have disks installed, but the system supports diskless booting

- Each compute node weighs 88 lbs

One thing to remember about these machines is that the internal high-bandwidth, low-latency network is a big part of why they get such good performance. Most applications that run on these machines are long-running computations consisting of many processes spread across the entire machine, with lots of inter-process communication throughout the lifetime of the job. Think weather prediction, simulations of fluid dynamics, or complex mechanical systems.

(I work on similar systems to these every day. Huge amounts of fun, but quite different needs than your typical web service, or even most Hadoop-ish data analysis problems.)
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If a company that formerly would have existed will now not spring into existence because it breaks these new regulations, then I say good riddance. One less scam merchant looking to make a fast buck by ripping off their customers. That's an area we really don't need any more innovation in.
The front page has an explanatory video. It looks like you can select a part of a webpage and it will produce alerts whenever that section changes by repeatedly polling the website (e.g., the price of a product on Amazon, like the video shows).
Click baiting click bait
Awesome! How do you boot up the processor, do you still have to use the GPU firmware blob to get the processor to do anything?

edit: Looking at the source, yeah you have to use Broadcom's firmware.
We've all been learning about writing since kindergarten. All of those book reports and short stories are good practice for the fundamentals of grammar, imagery, etc.

I did blog for a couple of years before I started on the book. But, honestly, the most helpful thing was spending several years on reddit commenting very heavily. I wrote thousands of comments, and those are like writing bootcamp.

But there's definitely no dividing line between being able to "write" enough to write a book versus being able to write a comment here on HN. It's all just prose. The trick is just putting the time into writing and revising a lot of it.
That's the right context but I think we need to eventually go to a higher level with some type of common bidrectional knowledge representation (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_representation_and_...) scheme that can underpin not only interfaces but all information system layers and representations.
I found the 57s video on the front page to be quite instructive:

it's a bookmarklet that identifies some portion of the screen to scrape (a numerical value in the example), and tracks it over time, allowing you to set alerts at thresholds (presumably so you can buy at a favourable price)
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well, for anything delivery within hours from amazon we just need to connect the dots from here:

http://danilnagy.dreamstudionyc.com/index.php?/research/get-...

to

https://www.uber.com/cities

using $200/hr aircraft
The Wikipedia table is apparently median household equivalent adult income. This is the somewhat obscure way the OECD accounts for varying household sizes amongst compared nations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalisation

You're right that the U.S. median household income is north of $50K.
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> "people are using the down arrow as a "I disagree" button.."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 "I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness." - pg, 2382 days ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347 "Downvoting has always been used to express disagreement." - pg, 2085 days ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658691 "IIRC we first had this conversation about a month after launch. Downvotes have always been used to express disagreement. Or more precisely, a negative score has: users seem not to downvote something they disagree with if it already has a sufficiently negative score." - pg, 1898 days ago

(If you were not aware: pg is Paul Graham, the founder of YCombinator and Hacker News.)

FWIW I did not downvote you in this thread (I actually upvoted you.) I'm just informing you of the principle -- downvote for disagreement is totally cool on HN.
Last time I looked at Meteor I decided I wouldn't use it until there was support for server side rendering and the live updates were implemented more efficiently with triggers instead of polling. Are those implemented yet?
> However, the current situation is mostly at odds with making a career out of education.

Yes, this is the part that really bothers me. I'm fine with people doing creative work like writing and music without much financial reward.

The shitty part is that they still have to spend so much of their precious time doing other stuff to get the financial reward needed to pay their bills.

It's not a tragedy in my mind that writing doesn't pay, it's that we require something that does pay.