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spectruino's ADC isn't fast enough to capture all the data from a CCD data frame, thus to get an entire spectrum one needs to sample multiple times and shift the ADC sample clock... or deal with not having all the pixels. This method would be fine if your samples aren't changing, but for something like enzyme kinetics this non-simultaneous method will likely yield poor results. For applications that can use a monochromator, this method should be fine (albeit with lower spectral resolution since monochromators usually have quite high spectral resolution)
> For us (at Clearbit), it made sense to build our own infrastructure for cost reasons, especially since we're using EC2's spot instances.

> * Postgres is also supported by Dokku, but I personally go with AWS RDS.

That's funny - I've costed it, and it's cheaper to run equal sized instances of a DB node than to run RDS, plus you get way more control over the tuning and implementation of your database layer.
6% industrial automation hasn't been resulting in 6% productivity gains because most work is not industrial.
Another monolithic framework that will likely catch some unsuspecting CTO or director and ultimately be his demise, or someone who doesn't want to learn javascript (such people still exist, sadly).
A lot fewer...
This is the title essay to an excellent book by DFW (RIP)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_the_Lobster
Yeah, looks kinda expensive. And not too fast, too: 1.3 GHz quad core CPU's in an age where there are at least twice faster CPU's in smartphones already? Even 1.8 GHz octa-core Exynos 5420-based ARM Chromebooks are laggy, judging by reviews.

Of course, I understand: doing hardware is hard, and there is an acute shortage of open source ARM SoC's. Still, I wish they could figure out a way to provide more hardware for a smaller price. If nothing else, it would help the adoption of an open hardware laptop greatly: it's kinda weird that all this work is so that only some 1,000 people would get their laptops.
While on Naltrexone I felt a create decline in cravings, although for Marijuana and not alcohol. The noticeable side effects to me was irritated stomach and feeling very tired and fatigued, which was a plus, sleeping on cannabis withdrawal is a major bitch.
there is quite a lot of research on purely camera-based localization of drones. have a look at this video for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mNY9-DSUDk
If you do destroy their drone while it is on your property what will they do, call the police?
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Yeahhhhhh that is not an effective strategy at all. Rockets upon rockets. It sounds like an idea hatched in Kerbal Space Program.

The best "ground powered" structure would be the space fountain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
AngelList weirdly doesn't let you list a job that offers zero equity, so any jobs in the minimum range might actually be pure salary.
The drones you buy at RC shops, yes.
Do a YouTube search for jet powered RC planes and you'll find several that exceed the takeoff speed of a commercial airliner.
From the README: Copyright 2006, Palmsource, Inc., an ACCESS company.

I wonder if this has anything to do with when PalmOS got a 'filesystem' even though the OS originally only gave programs a database to interface with, way back when...
The reported signature goes back to a backdoor found in 2009: http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=...

Looks like you have to install an unsigned app plus give it admin permissions, so not a worm.
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This was indeed a productivity improvement, and a lifestyle improvement for her.

If that's the state of affairs, good for her. But talk to my previous boss, who recently elebrated his 80th birthday. He knows the times when he would write a manuscript, hand it to his secretary, who would type a fair copy, and then it would go off to the publisher, where it would go to the typesetter (a union man), and then the plates would go to the printer (printing press operated by a union man, too).

A couple of years back he was invited to write a review, and he was absolutely livid for several days. The publisher had requested camera-ready copy; they gave him formatting instructions, he had to deal with the minutiae, and what he handed in did not conform to specifications, so he had to do more formatting. At the end of the day, all the labour-saving devices did not save him time, although they certainly made Springer/Elsevier/Pergamon/whatnot plenty extra bucks. Some progress.
Perhaps you'd be happier with the term "obfuscation." But the code does meet the textbook definition of "encryption." Maybe not strong encryption...
That doesn't look good. It is mentioned near the start about potential issues:

> rogue containment usually introduces legal issues that can put the infrastructure provider in an uncomfortable position if left to operate automatically.

The FCC also says selling these things is illegal:

> Federal law prohibits the operation, marketing, or sale of any type of jamming equipment

There might be a legal workaround in the case of unauthorized devices, as I doubt Cisco's legal team would allow such a feature if there was not something to base it off of. It is concerning though...
I feel like i'm missing part of the story. You reported a stolen license plate and it got translated to a stolen car?
It is worth noting that 18 trips != 18 segments.

If your trip is from Seattle to LA to Dallas, that's actually 2 segments for 1 trip.
While the situation is serious - it will be contained eventually in my view.

As cynical as it sounds I think there are many positive effects being overlooked here. People need a good wake-up every now and again.

We suddenly realized that there is zero global coordination. There is just no global immediate response mechanism in place to deal with this type of stuff. In the Hollywood movies you see the American tanks roll in as a show of force to contain an area...but where are the American tanks in Nigeria?

Sure eventually UN & US mechanisms kicked in (which is great) but I still feel it was subpar. Not in the sense of the people under-performed (they're great) but rather that the structures in place under-performed / don't exist.

Personally I think there should be a global response team. i.e. one group that has the ability to declare an emergency (Ebola) and then specific governments can buy in or not (and delegate power & funding). Based on that buy-in the team either has power or it does not. In this case, with EU and US buy-in such a team would have vast of power over many nations - and many other nations will follow a US/UN/EU alliance blindly (imagine finding yourself on the wrong side of that). With THAT kind of response you can counter an epidemic.

Thats a bit of a pipe dream sure, but it illustrates what I mean by saying we lack a global immediate response team. Now I'm not suggesting the above should be implemented - its more of a thought experiment...the fact remains that the current model is not capable of deal with Ebola let alone other stuff (that shall remain unnamed in the interest of keeping things on track)
Nearly all infosec experts can agree that DPR was awful at OPSEC, and expert testimony is a real legal thing. :)
This line of reasoning still works even if it's only a few people buying things (think excessively rich people buying ever increasing numbers of luxury goods).

In reality the marginal propensity to consume is greater the less money you make, so there's an argument to be made that increases in wealth disparity might in and of themselves cause a decrease in consumption. It gets complicated though, as when people don't consume with dollars they invest them, and invested dollars are ultimately spent on something too.
I don't really think requiring commercial licensing for closed source projects is really a con. Seems like a logical way to make money, yet still allow open source projects to benefit.
Unreal Intro – WebGL reimplementation
DMGs still have the advantage that you can customise the Finder windows that opens when you double click one [1].

So, from an UX standpoint, they still make a lot of sense to distribute application bundles since it compels users to "install" the application by dragging the bundle icon to the appropriate directory, which is conveniently symlinked in that Finder window. It's also easier to produce than a self-installing package.

With a .zip or .tar.gz users would be left with an app bundle and no idea of where to put it. Generally they would just throw it somewhere random across the filesystem. At least, that's what non-technical Mac users I know happen to do.

[1]: https://support.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/gallery/images...
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The same can be said about almost any terrorist action. They're not generally limited by what is possible to do, but mostly by what people are willing to do. That something like this hasn't happened just shows that there just aren't that many crazy people out there.
The UK has (essentially) one PSAP for the whole country (it's not actually — there's a number spread across the country for reasons of redundancy, but call allocations are done across the whole network).

It has a few interesting results — most notably, when giving a location, they likely know nothing about it. If you say you're in "Central Park, Fakesville", and it's a small park where you can see the whole thing from the entrance, they will still ask you where about in the park you are — because they don't know. People in high-stress situations can end up wasting time trying to describe in gratuitous detail where they are, instead of just giving an answer like, "it's small; they'll see".

I'm surprised that the situation wasn't handled better by the phones, though. At least here, if a mobile can contact any tower (regardless of network), an emergency call can be placed through it without charge. I suppose if the emergency line is already stagnated, trying again on a different network would just make it worse. Hmm…
US universities ban wireless access points from dorms.

They want to know who is using the network and wireless access points remove some of that control.
Back of an envelope calculations seem to indicate that a 200km one is possibly feasible using normal petrol, tho I wouldn't like to bet on geostationary. The space fountain has it's own issues, such as engineering the deflector and making the giant electromagnetic tube. What I am suggesting is far simpler.

edit - and the I had the idea before Kerbal came out, so if it is total madness, I promise you they are not to blame.
He found it and put it on the car, it sounds like.
Ask HN: I'm bored, want exposure to new things but I don't want a job
I consider myself an entrepreneur, I taught myself programming over the last 2.5 years. I have some iOS apps which make me enough money to survive but have enough money banked to survive otherwise.

I feel I don't have good or new ideas anymore. I think its because I work alone in isolation. I feel like good ideas comes from life experiences and exposure. I think I need to experience new and different problems in my life. I'm still looking for something I can really build a startup out of.

I don't think I would last at a job though. I don't have a CS degree so its unlikely I can get an engineering position. I could probably land something in marketing/support/whatever. This may mean I get less time to program and thus improve less at programming. I feel like ditching a job after 4 months would be a bad thing to do. But, maybe I'd end up enjoying the job.

So yeah, anyone ever been in the same boat or have ideas on what I should do?

TDLR: I need more problems in my life.
Hacker News comments with greatest number of upvotes, by month of posting
For Ford that would be a very smart move, as the current Ford dash UI's are usually trashed for bad design in every review. I don't see Ford mentioned but its logo is among those shown at the bottom of the carplay page (https://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/).
I went through HtDP and loved it, it helped me gain a data-centric view on programming, and the lessons carried very well into my later Ruby career. I looked at Arc and liked the idea.

I like Ruby better than Lisp. It's hard to explain why. One of the reasons why I like to argue about this sort of thing on the Internet is because it helps me isolate the subtler qualities of different styles of programming.

I like Ruby because you can build a community around it, in a way that I don't think you can build one around Lisp, at least not like the one you find in Ruby, with the massive quantities of libraries and such.

Lisp is too free-form. You almost never need the power it gives you, and it encourages people to build their own language features where the problem being solved could probably do with a more conventional approach.

Ruby hits a sweet spot, enough dynamism to where you don't feel constrained, not so much that you can't easily reason about code. Code as data is a neat idea, but code needs to be read by humans and that's the harder task.
So you want to build a Git Server?
Psychopaths have a wide range of traits, but I believe those who would consider doing something like this, also tend to have poor impulse control that may interfere with their plans ahead. What makes it a terrifying possibility is that terrorists, who I don't think are all psychopathic, may have a better chance of pulling it off.
I am currently working on a blog post detailing an analysis of all 5.6 milion HN comments, so I figured I'd get an exploratory perusal of the comments first to see if there are any trends.

The reason I'm posting it is because it is very interesting to see the difference between a highly-rated comment in 2006-2010 and in 2012-2014. The former are mostly Reddit quality, and it shows just how much HN has changed over the years.
The owner of a supposed stolen vehicle having a concealed carry license shouldn't change the cop's attitude and behavior, and we're of course taught not to do stupid things in situations like this. Cops deal with legal concealed carriers all the time (> 8 million licences nation wide, some states don't require one), with a paucity of horror stories.
When you say "non-supportive", do you mean (1) that your parents think it's a bad idea, or do you mean that (2) your parents refuse to support you financially (housing, food and other expenses) while you're building this business?
"Shipping Out" [1] is another wonderful DFW essay, describing a week spent on a cruise ship in the Caribbean.

[1]: http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazin...
You're right, no smuggling. I'm not sure that suing the guy isn't a bad idea...if you're a brand that doesn't franchise and controls experience, why let international stories out about how some peeps are just "gray-area-ing" your products and name, and getting away with it? In the article it even said the guy was looking for places to open up a new store.

Trader Joe's not wanting to open up in Canada doesn't validate anything about what he's doing. Perhaps TD has a longer-term strategy, that doesn't involve anyone who can live near the Canadian border selling their stuff at a marked-up price.

We're not talking about importing fruits and vegetables to save money for people at "the Safeway across the street," which the author didn't bother to justify. How anyone would go to this length to sell chocolate-covered almonds, or peppermint cookies, and pretend that selling more snacks is just doing everyone a political/ethical justice is beyond me.
Here's the most precise clock in the world:

2014-10-03 00:00:00.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

It's just not very accurate.
You got it. Stall, sell. Excellent plan.
This was exactly how I thought it might be interesting too.
> I suspect this is a small demographic - chances are startups don't want to hire people that wouldn't make it through a Google/MSFT/Facebook tech-screen.

Considering how little Google and Facebook care about false negatives, even seemingly priding themselves on having candidates interview for the same job two, three, or four times over years, I doubt that demographic is really that small.
Logistics is only part of the costs. All those electronics are even more expensive in China, where they are often actually made! Taxes, retail overhead, and competition play a much bigger role in the actual price you pay.
Since H1-B arrive in USA in Oct first week
I wrote a series of blog posts titled "Relocating to California for internationals", would be useful for international immigrants.

http://ashishb.net/misc/a-guide-to-relocating-to-california-for-internationals-part-1/

Note: I finished exactly 4 years in California today.
I'd be curious as to what the growth of rail freight is like in the US — I know it's been increasing year-after-year in the EU, ever since the rail freight market was opened up to competition.
I've found that establishing a habit of exercise first thing after climbing out of bed really works.

The important thing is to not "break the chain". Even if you can only exercise a little on a particular day, do that little bit.

I decided to do burpees every day last April and have only missed it 2 days while on vacation.

Based on this article though, I'm going to change it to something more aerobic. I think burpees are so intense I can't do them for long enough to get the aerobic benefit.
I have been thinking the same. It seems that America desperately needs an enemy sometimes. If there isn't one available, it kind of makes them up to keep busy. This is a golden opportunity for the USA to bring the world together and fight a real enemy worth defeating and perhaps regain some of it's lost luster. Well I'm hoping anyway.
Stopping on the freeway to drag people out of their overturned cars is also incredibly dangerous. Should he have sat there for 20 minutes waiting for the fire department? They're trained for that, he's not.

I wasn't looking for trouble. I actively avoid danger. I stumbled across a scene where I was 10 feet away from a guy violently assaulting some very terrified and very gentle people. It looked like a bear mauling children. I didn't weigh the options beforehand I just responded to the situation, by getting the bear's attention.

I am obviously not blaming the police for arriving in "3 minutes flat". That's about as fast as is possible. I was trying to illustrate a real-world example of how things play out even under ideal circumstances.
I think the proper solution to that, if there's actually a problem with "somewhere random", is to have apps that move themselves on first launch. It's pretty easy to do, and IMO easier than creating a consistent build process for a good-looking dmg.
Also a great essay and, I believe, retitled for the collection it later was a part of called "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". A title which perfectly captured how I thought about the first (and last) cruise I ever took.
It sounds like you're doing great! Just tell them you're "interviewing" while you go to a coffee shop, work on your business.

What is your focus/niche for your SaaS? no need to give the site away, just curious.
Oh, from an job-seeker's standpoint--and I've been there--I don't blame you at all. :)
> If you're thinking of a European trip, do it right now - Deutsche Bahn are withdrawing many of the sleeper trains in December as they're unprofitable.

The same is true across Europe — HSR has helped kill sleepers in recent years.
> Considering stapling this to the face of the next person in Houston that bitches about not being able to find engineering talent.

What kind of work do you do? I work for a non-enterprise Java shop (NLP) up in Dallas. We have trouble finding people worth interviewing, but since I started 2.5 years ago have only had one offer extended and rejected.

EDIT: On the flip side, I have had major trouble trying to get places in Dallas, Austin, and Houston to even talk to me when I have been looking. It took me two years to get what I have now, and my testing of the market recently has been met with silence.
You don't have to work at any of those places to earn a better deal than what these startups offer. I certainly don't work at those places, and it's unlikely I ever will for a variety of reasons, and I'd be taking a steep (> 15%) pay cut to work for $130K/yr. Compared with my current salary, any equity would have to be worth at least approximately $25K/yr (before any discounts against the lost income are applied, so it's a low figure). At 1.5% equity, that's a valuation of about $2M/yr for the startup. That's not a lot compared to the exits these companies may make, but it's not insubstantial, either, and is probably an aggressively optimistic estimate given the preference for investors, dilution, etc.
I'd read this essay before but I had no idea it was David foster Wallace.
Imagine if this had like some type of MP3/Youtube support; that'd be awesome.
I almost didn't read this when I bought the book as I have little-to-no interest in Maine, lobsters or lobster festivals. The first few pages give you the indication that that's all it's about.

Then, about mid-way through, it morphs into a marvelous meditation on the nature of consciousness and the ethics of killing and eating animals.

God, I miss that guy.
Researchers discover Mac botnet
I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure the fact that Trader Joe's don't have a legal presence in Canada would make legal action against them a bit tricky.
The point is that it is unlikely that machine would exist in your house. You'll still get clothing from the same company, shipped or in store, they'll just manufacture it differently. This is a big deal, but again, it's unlikely that the means of production will distribute because of simple efficiency gains through specialization.

Even if you go full science fiction and have a machine that perfectly rearranges the atoms and you can buy specific atoms (a la Diamond Age), the guy who has a deal on bulk atoms needed to make a shirt will make it cheaper than you will make it in your kitchen on your maker.
Why would there be one in the first place? Nobody has infinite time.
I can understand your parents perspective . . .

Would 15 subscribers (@ $100 +/-) replace your developer salary . . . that seems a little low

If you like development . . . but not the office . . . think about a remote developer position . . . maybe focus your applications in that direction . . .

If 15 signups would replace your developer salary and you have 3 right now . . . think about hustling using cold calls and cold emails to potential signups and see if you can get that up to 15 or 20 signups . . .

If the SaaS business isn't taking up too much of your time you could consider a remote developer position to make ends meet until your SaaS scales up.

If your parents are giving you a place to live/financial help I would try to obtain a remote position . . . or hustle and scale things up to 15 to 20 signups . . . to show them it's meeting your financial needs. I can understand your parents are a little old school and probably don't understand that SaaS can exceed a traditional income . . . so show them it's working. (That said typically scaling SaaS takes a while so you might need a J O B in the mean time.

Take a listen to . . .

StartupsForTheRestOfUs.com

and read listen to everything by Patio11

If you aren't already.

Good luck . . .