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Agreed. Food science is an amazing field that has been making huge advances in recent decades. But where can you find anything written about the actual research, outside of highly technical journals?
I agree with this one. We used to get high quality responses from technical team members. Recent communications haven't been so great. For an example, take a peek at Ticket #154458

In July we identified an issue where Mailgun -> ELB webhook communications are broken under ticket #65535. This has been pending action by Mailgun's team for 4 months now.
You do know that insider trading rules don't apply to commodities, right?

Furthermore, BP produces the commodity they sell... They're going to make money no matter what. But of course they're going to sell for the most they can.
Localized apps mostly. Many countries have their own social networks, search engines, ecommerce sites, etc...
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The GNU licenses are arguably the definition of free software. More permissive licensing just gives you the freedom to make software non-free. That's also offered for this project, but as a paid privilege.
> Because I know when a place is likely safe to eat at, I spend more money in restaurants and I'm more willing to try new places.

And the inverse of this, is that if a restaurant listed food safety scores irrespective of state mandate, you would visit those restaurants more, and if most people agreed, those restaurants would prosper and those not adopting food safety scores would suffer.

Except in that situation there was no violence of the state to compel the individual restaurants to do something - the market naturally lead to that conclusion. It is not like there is any limit on your ability to learn information about a restaurant - I would say I am surprised that there is not some popular national database of website safety ratings made up of user reviews, but considering I have never searched for such a service - I just go by general user reviews, under the assumption that an unsafe food service locale would get trashed in criticism - I guess it makes sense not to exist.

> That increases the effectiveness of the market because newer restaurants compete on a more even footing with established ones.

Or it would be a competitive advantage if the markets truly benefited from food safety scores for newer restaurants to advertise them where their entrenched competition does no such thing.
Parallel tracks is very tough for a 3 person team and not sacrifice the product.
Ask HN: What can I to jump to high level rather climbing ladder step by step?
I am tired of being rotten in lower class and going step by step slowly for achieving financial success. After 6-7 years tired of being Sr. Developer.
I also want to enjoy life. Travel to Europe, South Asia , party sometime but neither finances nor my mental block allow me to do so.

Starting a startup and then enjoying is just out of question at this point.

I'm not graduate of MIT,Stanford, Harvard or any Ivy League. Sports, what's that really ?
Technically, good. Business knowledge is limited.

What can one do to jump through hoops and just reach next level to achieve wealth of at least $1 million to $2 million in next three years or so ?

PS - In US but not citizen.
For anyone else looking - Halo 2 is hard to get legitimately now. eBay copies are looking like upwards of $90AUD!
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Xiaomi just overtook Samsung's market share in China. It sells cheaper priced phones with similar specs. Samsung's margin was hurt because of that. Xiaomi is expanding internationally. Samsung's margin will be further eroded.

It's like the war of the clones back in the PC days, where Compaq the clone leader was cobbled by other better priced clones when all the clones had essentially the same feature.
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> when the power and wired networking infrastructure is no more.

There is a plethora of point to point networking protocols, and solar panels exist. If it looked like there was a chance of USD collapse, I'd go buy some, and move somewhere without anyone around to riot and destroy my stuff and stab me. Preferably somewhere that is not the US, if I could get away with it at that point.

But honestly, that won't happen, at least any time soon to even fathom worrying about it. The US economy is too entrenched in global politics and economics to just fall over because of bad fiscal policy. I mean, we have already had bad fiscal policy for forty years! What is another few decades?
As somebody who did tech work for traders who dealt with a number of exchanges, I am hugely skeptical that an exchange can be fully automated.

A real exchange has an enormous team of well-paid people whose job it is to make sure things run smoothly. They also have incredible power: they can freeze the exchange, limit price movements, undo transactions, kick people out of the market, and who knows what else. They use this power rarely, but when they do market participants are generally glad they did.

I'm sure somebody can automate 90% of the cases, or 99%, or even 99.9%. Most trading is routine. But will this work when there's a war? A financial panic? A major fraud or theft? An exploitation of a previously unsuspected bug?

The New York Stock Exchange has been working this stuff out since 1817 (or 1792 depending on how you count). And we still have things like Black Monday [1] and the 2010 Flash Crash [2].

This will be an interesting experiment, but I will not be surprised at all if it's something most investors avoid for decades because it's a) novel and therefore risky, and b) lacking a lot of the regulatory protections of a real exchange.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_%281987%29

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
It's because of comments like this that it's almost impossible to have a critical conversation about culture.

The parent comment is describing a cultural trope that frames the way people behave in that part of the world. There is a lot of pressure to work towards making money. That doesn't mean 100% of people are necessarily following the priorities set out by their society but it does mean that it makes a maker culture much more difficult there. It's inherently counter-cultural.
Or, the inverse, they were first to market (and the S series kind of was as the staple Android competitor to the iPhone for quite a while after Motorola and the Droid line dried up) and saw huge returns on that for a while, until competitors caught up.
http://mandrill.com/ is a good alternative to Mailgun
A veritable explosion of innovation is coming our way. This decentralized stock exchange is just a hint of what is to come. Technologies using bitcoin, and technologies built on bitcoin, are the next thing that will change the world. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy we're also democratizing taxi services, but democratizing finance makes me so much more excited.
Yes, Saturdays are not "required" work days for white collar workers, but overtime is the norm and often approaches 60 hours. For blue collar workers I've seen 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Yep, not a single day off despite having national mandatory vacation days.
Ok as the gp pointed out. Where are the thousands of open source projects on Github written by Chinese?

> China has 1.35 billion people, and it seems incredibly unimaginative and frankly egotistic

Surely, by your own suggestion, there should be countless examples of open source projects driven from there. Otherwise, their point (even in its generalized form) still stands.
I'm usually the last person to regard information as out-of-scope, but can you explain how this is relevant to hackernews?
Selenelion means "moon sun".

From selene (moon) and helion (sun).
Not so much if you work a normal 40 hour workweek. That leaves some productive energy for evenings and weekends.
Reddit opening themselves up to legal discovery would be a bad, bad move.
To the people who said that Bitcoin is a failure because it can't scale, reading this must be beautiful. Bitcoin will scale to "Visa network" levels in no time.
I'm looking forward to the solar eclipse of 2017. It will be visible thru out all of the USA. My house is almost directly on the arc of total eclipse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_201...
You can't really reasonably expect people to tell you a solution that will work.

My advice to you is that you don't need to be rich to enjoy yourself and travel, but you need to make other sacrifices.
The motion capture shown is kind of limited. The wheels are tracked, but not the CG of the rider. Also, the video doesn't show the beginning of the ollie. It looks like, in this one, the rider did this entirely by loading up the springs in the trucks to get a bounce, rather than dragging the tail of the board.

It's a good physical simulation problem. Now that Gazebo has a real physics engine (by Mike Sherman from Stanford) rather than ones from video games, it should be possible to do an ollie in a robot simulation. (The game-type physics engines use an impulse/constraint model for contacts, which is unrealistic when you have a collision followed by sliding.)
Can you upload those sprites?
In the case of social networks where a network is only as useful as the other people on it, it might not necessitate that there is no alternative but practically there isn't.
That's a fine hypothetical, but a) I know of no city where restaurants voluntarily put together such a system, and b) if each restaurant gets to pick who evaluates it, there's no particular reason for customers to trust the scores.

I also don't buy your view that the magic sparkle ponies of the market will always take care of everything. I think your approach works in theory, with infinitely smart and well informed humans. But given that we're dealing with a bunch of hairless monkeys, I think cognitive limits make it relatively easy for bad actors to push market solutions away from optimum.
The section on Coroutines links to itself; perhaps you meant it to link to your other article on Coroutines? (http://tia.mat.br/blog/html/2012/09/29/asynchronous_i_o_in_c...)
I highly recommend this book [1] on Licklider's life, because it's also one of the best books on the computing movement from the creation of the early machines through the Xerox PARC years and slightly beyond. It's also the only one recommended by Alan Kay[2].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution...

[2] http://www.mail-archive.com/fonc@vpri.org/msg04144.html
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That must be an Australian issue because on eBay and in local stores, it is still $10ish.
People make mistake, we all understand. (actually quite surprising as Yahoo does not have a mechanism to scan/monitor expired SSL certs).

This is not the real issue here, the thing is their engineers think expired SSL cert is okay and no action being done. I told them you are now training your users to `feel` comfortable with browser warnings when they edit their Yahoo profile and risk your users in future's phishing attacks. I asked them why you are not using a self-signed cert if you think expired SSL cert is okay (of coz they didn't reply)

Util I raise this up in another hackernews' thread on their product's announcement and maybe this time it really made them feel embarrassing and finally they fixed it with a day.

The real problem here is actually not on the expired SSL cert, it is their mindset - you should treat every little reports seriously and it is your responsibility, because you are running one of the world's largest web sites.
I guess the two tiles are really unused, aren't they? If they are, that's great stuff for the The Cutting Room Floor wiki (http://tcrf.net)! Don't get lost on there as it's somewhat like TV Tropes.
This made me respect the Monit team more. Very good apology.
All the best... Was super excited to read the news about watsi, and Y decided to accept for the program. Happy to see that more and more nonprofits to join the program.
This fundamental problem is almost identical to the problems PC manufacturers constantly ran into as the market and its margins were in constant turmoil over the late 1980s - mid 2000's. One minute a company would be booming, the next it would be hard times and weak margins. With the understood history being that only a few PC makers survived at all, despite the extreme sales scale of the market.
I have a pair of Heathkit robots and robot arms in the garage in mint condition, new, in the box, unassembled. Waiting for the right time to bring them out and use them to inspire the kids.
It's a bit different when it comes to business travel. I'd use and pay for travel planning for business where my schedule can take me to out of the way places and the schedule can change frequently. There is a tier of business traveler in small businesses or who are self employed and need an economical itinerary with specific attributes for flights and hotels, but who don't want to stay in crappy places. I've spent far more time on HipMunk and on the phone with hotels.com and re-booking flights than I should have to. Maybe start a manual service, learn how this stuff works and then automate it.
There is a company trying to bring Heathkit back. A member of their board did an AMA At the end of 2013: http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/1tdf45/table_iama_me...
It's pretty silly that although a common (and fallacious) argument against women as software engineers has something to do with math ability when a casual look at the wikipedia list on Women in computing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing) mostly lists women with theory and systems programming, which are arguably a lot more mathy than most work in tech. The ACM even had it's first female president in 1974!
I wasn't aware FOSS projects were compelled to accept code contributions...
The author also created SpaceChem, which is one of the best programming/engineering games out there. For just programming games, I'd call it my second all time favorite just behind Robot Odyssey, an ancient Apple ][ game.

This gives some great context to where SpaceChem came from. Thanks Zach!
>The insider trading seems much the same. The sheer volume of those trades, coming less than a week before significant announcements of previously-secret information, was bound to throw up red flags. Did they have to short the stocks as well?

It really was clever of Cohen to generate this reputation of having a 6th sense for stock movement. It turns obvious insider trading into "gee that Cohen is a genius, I wish my intuition was half as good as his"

I bet a lot of his great trades involved some kind of insider knowledge but were put down to him having an uncanny ability to intuit the market.

I guess he didn't have such a great intuition for how far he can push a ruse before the authorities caught on.
> by loading up the springs in the trucks to get a bounce

There are no springs in skateboard trucks. The force comes from pushing down on the tail and then shifting your front foot up the nose.
AirBnB is a solid exception to the "must be daily users - 20% retention" statistic. No way is their average user base a daily user.
> Because, you know, in your workplace, you are in an actual inferiority position. Your boss is the one that says how much are you going to be paid next month (or IF your are going to be paid), or whether you are going to work in a nice project or maintaining a 20 years old codebase. If he bullies you, verbally or otherwise, facing up or quitting might have dire consequences.

Even between two coworkers of equal status, this behaviour would not be tolerated by a good employer.
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Based on the comments to the article, this is a year old (still valid, just a bit old)
That is such an incredibly naive view, it's hard to know what to begin with.

Voluntary food safety postings are useless, because they allow fraudulent posting. Sure, it'll come out pretty soon - but by that time people are ill or dead due to food poisoning, and the person in question is likely long gone.

"The market" doesn't give a shit if actors are fraudulent or working with good intentions, and it has no way to prevent turning an iterated situation into a one-off situation. "The market" has no idea which reviews are genuine. If you'd like to see unregulated reviews in action, look at the direction yelp is turning lately. "The market" does not guarantee that consumers are fully (or even somewhat) informed, a condition that is necessary to a market actually working properly.

> Or it would be a competitive advantage if the markets truly benefited from food safety scores for newer restaurants to advertise them where their entrenched competition does no such thing.

No, it wouldn't, because you'd have no idea if you could trust the reviews. So you'd wait a while. Sooner or later, you have a bunch of restaurants that post reviews. And then new restaurants pop up, also posting their reviews. Do you still know which ones are trustworthy and which ones aren't?

Sure, you could ask your friends. Until you travel. At which point you're at the mercy of complete strangers.

"The market" is not an almighty force for good. It allows efficient exchange of goods. If a cost is externalized - say, the hospital bill of people eating at restaurants - the market does exactly nothing about it. Because the cost is externalized.

That's the whole point of regulations. Not to be a pain in the neck, but to ensure costs are not externalized. The only way to achieve that without enforcement is a society of entirely benevolent actors. That does not exist.
Samsung sell a range of devices, from cheap low margin product to the high margin Galaxy's. If they have started selling less Galaxy's and more cheap devices, this will have a big impact on their profits.
As someone who is working on this idea currently, this post has really got me down.
No daily usage, not enough trips and also it is impossible to build a multi-billion corporation out of an SEO play. Too bad TripAdvisor won't work. /S
Who named “shellshock”?
It is a race to the bottom.

Which is strange, since Samsung top of the line are almost as expensive as Apples.
Samsung is destroying everyone in terms of market share. However companies like LG and HTC tend to intentionally just make the high price point phones where there is a lot more profit margin.
I'm not sure - http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/Video-Games-Consoles-/1249/i.html...

Amazon has a (used?) copy for ~$17 - AFAICT it requires online activation so this may not work well.
Plenty of other exceptions: a large % of eBay users probably don't use the site every other day.

Selling on eBay or renting a property are highly intentional decisions: trip planning is something that will happen. The trip itself is intentional, but the exact itinerary will vary, and the lack thereof won't prevent the trip from occurring.
Doom's WAD format is very well documented but still a fun binary format to write a parser to read. I remember writing a parser for it in QBASIC when I was a teen!
Don't forget that there's a distribution around the mean. You'll probably find plenty of outliers. It'd be interesting to see the graph MixPanel's guy is basing his estimate off of.
Are you working on the idea, or working on validating the idea?
There are many techniques that can be used to eliminate soft errors. These techniques used to be quite common in the '60s and '70s when hardware was much less reliable overall.[1] There were companies like Tandem Computers [2] whose rai·son d'être was fault tolerance.

But then two things happened. First, chips themselves became much more reliable. Second, semiconductor vendors began adding fault tolerance to standard ICs. E.g. Intel adds ECC to their internal caches.

So, IIRC from reading Dark Pools[3], cheap Linux boxes became so reliable that upstart stock exchanges were just running on random white box server hardware located in people's offices. No need to buy million dollar computers any more. No need to buy the highly fault tolerant Itanium.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault_tolerant
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Patterson_%28author%29#Da...
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$21 million for HTC isn't much, and doesn't help after the big losses after the last few years. LG looks like it is doing well.

Overall, this is much better for Android, rather than having one big company.
An interesting remark on user interfaces: "Laboratory experiments have indicated repeatedly that informal, parallel arrangements of operators, coordinating their activities through reference to a large situation display, have important advantages over the arrangement, more widely used, that locates the operators at individual consoles and attempts to correlate their actions through the agency of a computer." This remains surprisingly rare outside the military. Few systems support a working environment where each user has a small screen, and there's a big screen available to the whole group. Our user interfaces are still designed for a single user.

One common feature of military command centers is a display switching system, so that anybody in the room can look at anybody else's screen. NASA also does this. When something important is happening at one station, others can look at it without people running around standing behind someone else.

Today we could easily do more of this. Meeting rooms should be set up for this. But they're not, even when they have a big screen.
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No, it doesn't make sense to track the center of mass of the skateboarder here. If you're interested specifically in the forces on skateboard, you want to track the center of mass on the skateboard. If you include the skateboarder in your system and track the new modified center of mass, you will only see the effect of gravity, being the only remaining external force.
Well, even without opening a history book (sadly, "leftist teachers" did not get rid of Allende all by themselves), one would think that the US military adventurism of the last decade would have equipped US citizens (I'll go out on a limb and assume you are one) with a healthy dose of skepticism.

Governments have most often been waving various pretenses to make their actions look good. Manifest destiny, the white man's burden, the necessity to bring the socialist paradise... "Championing liberty" is just one of them. But you don't "champion liberty" by setting up something like the School of the Americas[1], or selling arms to Iran to fund Contras terrorists[2]. This is a different concept, which is "protecting your interests by whatever means available".

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_fo...

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras
There's no such thing as "soon to be invalidated" in DMCA, in practice anyway. It would have stretched on and on, and the takedown-issuer definitely has the advantage.

They probably did realize their legal case wasn't entirely clear, but that's not stopped plenty of companies before. They probably also realized it was really bad PR. They probably also realized it was just plain jerky behavior. And wasn't necessary for the success of their project.
It's surprising how naive can Nobel laureates be ;) .
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