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It seems like all this would do is push rental prices higher, as investors push the burden of the tax onto the purchaser of the unit, who pushes the burden onto individual renters. As an investor or owner, I don't really care about increased taxes as long as I can float the difference and demand is high enough that I can make it up in the sale price/rent.
Do some short term contract work.
They're alleging a trademark violation in his use of the name "Pirate Joe's" to sell Trader Joe's products, not that reselling them is itself illegal.

The case that went to the Supreme Court is unrelated to either Trader Joe's or this guy; the article is just juxtaposing it because it was also a case about international resale. But it was about someone importing international editions of textbooks for resale in the U.S., and the main arguments in the case turned on interpretation of a totally different area of law, copyright (so it's not really all that relevant here).
Exactly. How do you know the price they acquired Tumblr for wasn't its "insolvent" price? There was probably competition for the deal - passing in the hope of getting a lower price is dangerous if you know other players might snap up Tumblr.
The fact that you _weren't_ in the middle of nowhere likely contributed to the delay. In densely populate areas, served by multiple PSAPs, it's not uncommon for cell phones to connect to the 'wrong' PSAP, since it's based on where the tower is located, not where the phone is.

I'm a firefighter/paramedic. Our district is on the edge of the county (PSAPs in this area are county-wide). It's not uncommon for a caller in our district to get connected to the 911 center in the neighboring county, if their phone happens to grab a tower there. This adds several minutes to the response time, as the call has to get transferred (which seems to be about as reliable as transferring calls in any generic call center...).

While I would never discourage someone from improving their ability to help themselves in an emergency, I think it's a stretch to say "911 is not there to help you." I'm sure the countless folks helped every day by a 911 response would disagree with you.

The truth is, there are _extremely_ few situations where a few minutes are going to make the difference between life and death. If someone is going to die within the next few minutes, they are probably going to die no matter who shows up...

I would absolutely recommend everyone take a CPR class every few years. It will cover the few situations where you really can make a difference by taking action right away (opening an airway, performing chest compressions, etc).
No, you spent that time ticking check boxes.
Sure you could use an entirely different storage medium for backups, that's not my point. I'm saying that if someone happens to drop the disc on a carpet, that could be enough to erase big portions of data. It's not about losing whats on the disc, it's about the fragility of the media itself. I don't know much about the tech being used, but I could see it bordering on volatile if they're embedding that much information, and volatile storage isn't very useful unless its extremely fast.

Who's going to store data on something that will erase portions of itself when dropped? Consumers won't, because they won't know what to do when their 50,000 movies suddenly start skipping ten minute chunks. Scientists won't use it because they want strong guarantees on retrievability, and won't want to bother with stringent protocols on handling the media when other options exist. Logging systems might have a use for it, if they can stand potentially losing big chunks of data.
I had two plates, and I guess one fell off or got stolen or something. So I still had my back plate on. Since the PD never confirmed anything after the online report, I figured I would have to go down and do it in person some time. But apparently not.

Since there was zero confirmation, this means you can just do the same to anyone. If the person is particularly jumpy, disabled, has mental issues, etc. it could easily get serious.
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That sounds vaguely like the normal intrado bullshit.
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Ask HN: Swift language (iOS): What tools do you wish  it had?
I can think of code-refactoring tools and a linter where I can make custom rules..

Also, I want a tool which does simple transformations, like replace prefixes on all varaible names.

What tools do you wish someone builds for iOS? Would you pay for it?
Yes, you are correct

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/26/priceonomics-data-services/
Soon most athletic training will be virtual, the number of virtual reps someone can take far outpaces the number on can physically take, moreover you don't overtrain or get injured

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/technology/03game.html?_r=...

http://www.wired.com/2010/01/ff_gamechanger/all/
Microsoft semi-(in)famously had a strategy of paying 70% of market salary.
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Usually, such companies have quite high price for such contracts and I think it's not worth is. While technically it might be superior, it has small user base, smaller talent pool to hire from, less books/documentation. All this happens because people want to make money in an old fashioned way.

The better option is to use, the most popular open source tool which in this area is GWT or TypeScript.
Something to keep in mind is that Fremont is extremely spread out (source: I live there). In thick traffic it could take a while to respond.
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It's a F#-to-JS compiler, a UI framework, and an RPC system all built into one. Script# is similar, for C#, but I don't think it got that far? MS did start "Project Volta" IIRC but then gave up on it. There's also FunScript: http://funscript.info/ but that seems more focused only on the JS generation part.

I don't know why Micrsoft doesn't buy these guys and deliver this as a core solution. I'd guess it's because it's not on C#, and MS marketing doesn't know what to do with F#. They want to pigeonhole it as "F# is a special language for like, scientists and stuff. Don't worry, it ain't got nothing on C#." And hey, with enough time and resources, C# may catch up on some of the things. With Rosyln, I think it'd be easier to make a C# WebSharper thing.
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Thanks, but I feel like that wouldn't really expose me to new problems or experiences. I don't really need the money.
2600 programming is an exercise in crazy.

- The parallel port chip has direction bits that control whether a line is an input or an output. This register is read/write, so you can use it as temporary memory when you don't care about reading or writing I/O (which is most of the time).

- Lots of code doesn't need a stack; it doesn't call anything, and it can just jump to where it needs to be at the end. Now we can use the S register for something else.

Many, many other tricks. I used some of them a few years ago on an embedded system that needed to fit into 1920 bytes. I enlisted a cow-orker into the effort and we were both cackling away. [Later, the hardware guys offered us a different chip with twice the memory, but at that point we were too close to shipping to make any changes, and besides, it wouldn't have been as fun... :-) ]
Where are you based? If you know how to build webservices, I can share a few of my ideas. I am more interested in seeing them come to life rather than be able to make money from them. I am in SF bay area. Mail me. Email in profile.
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Alright, now how does this spread? How would I get this piece of malware onto my computer? Do I need to browse the web? Do I need to install a piece of software that is vulnerable?

That's what I care about, how can I protect myself against this, and saying "Buy Anti Virus software" is NOT the right answer.

All I see so far from other reports is that you would have had to install software, bypass the signing requirement and that software had to come from a less than legitimate location to carry with it the malware ...
Roaring Twenties comes from standard use of the word roaring in British English http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/roaring
Did you read any of the research quoted by the Atlantic article, or just the Atlantic article?

And did you bother to read the link I posted? Because it says

> The reviewers recommend that future research should look in more detail at what types of exercise could most benefit people with depression, and the number and duration of sessions which are of most benefit. Further larger trials are needed to find out whether exercise is as effective as antidepressants or psychological treatments
Is this figure including bonus and stock? In either case, even if you are decent engineer, I think getting in is troublesome...although not tough.

I believe lots of times, interviewers are not judging the candidates right...so getting in becomes tough.
Island nations thrive on this kind of economy: it's called "parallel imports" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_import. Australia and New Zealand would feel like 3rd world nations without this (no or expensive opportunity to buy foreign goods that have no local distribution). Amusing to see this on a land border.
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I didn't compare the specs but you can get a quadcopter for $38 shipping included http://www.amazon.com/my-first-quad/dp/B00IZC6C8E/
You're totally right to complain about hardware failures and component deficiencies. Maybe I am just lucky in this regard.

Of course, I've just noticed that there is an option for a 1TB PCIe drive (compared to the 750GB SATA SSD I have now). If I could double my RAM to 32GB as well then I wouldn't hesitate to upgrade. As it is, I'll still probably end up going for it before too long, unless an alternative presents itself.
Check out smacss [0] and codepen.io[1]

[0] https://smacss.com/

[1] http://codepen.io
We can use sparrows to import them from the tropics
First, even if so, so what? That's neither illegal nor immoral.

Second, while we associate the word "smuggling" with illegal activities in which the smuggler receives compensation for engaging in highly risky activities, he's not going to get any sort of that in this situation. If he's even remotely competitive with the Safeway across the street, as he claims, then there is absolutely no way this is some sort of "rake in the dough" operation. He may be making a modest living but there's no good path to wealth here.

So, if as I think your message implies you think he's really raking it in and covering over that with some good PR moves, I'd suggest reconsidering. I do not see an economic solution in which he could possibly making very much money. To be honest I'm surprised he can run this at a profit at all.
See my post above. These tricks are still alive in many areas; cost-constrained embedded systems (where people have knife-fights over penny resistors) and very well trafficked code in operating systems or network code (think software TLB refill on the Xbox 360, or fast path TCP). Runtime systems for languages like Java. Oh, lots of places.

I'll bet that many high-end routers pay very close attention to instruction clocks on their main datapaths.

Optimization is not dead. Pointless optimization should be dead, but isn't.
>Spartan-6 CSG324-packaged FPGA — has several interfaces to the CPU, including a 2Gbit/s

It's a hacker toy/tool.
I don't know, but I hope you have enough money to pay a lawyer. Personally, I would just call the police.
Read carefully. It was originally "Transylvania..." but after he moved locations he changed the name of the store to "Pirate Joe's" (a decision influenced by what WAS the nickname).
He calls it "Pirate Joes" and resells their products. If nothing else your legally required to defend your trademark or you lose it. They also lose out on quality control issues which could be a major issue.

Now their unlikely to win, but by suing and losing they gain some protection. If nothing else if someone get's sick they can say look we tried to stop him but we don't have a choice. On the other hand if they say it's ok that's going to open them to liability.
I think the reason entrepreneurs and businesses are looked at this way is because they're a filter between good and bad ideas. "Ideas are easy, execution is hard."

Yes, businesses just make money. If executing an idea isn't profitable, then it is a bad idea.

Money shouldn't be the only metric, but it's the most fair one. Look at all of the discussion about measuring the effectiveness of education, teachers, and charities.
You're comparing a very basic microquad that will easily fit in the palm of your hand with a quad with a 550mm frame, 20 minute flight time, and autonomous flight capability.
It's been around for a few years. I was able to use it to quickly whip up some sorta-complicated UIs for some internal tools. I despise JS, and have spent hours of time fixing simple casing errors or other things that static typing would fix. Plus F# the language is quite superior to JS, so I don't feel icky while working on it.

The other benefit is that I can use all the same type definitions, so I don't need to write some generator or wrapper around my XHR functions - it just works.

It's quite easy to just drop out into pure JS if you feel the need. And defining wrappers is actually very very simple. For example:

[<Direct "foo($a, $b)">]
let foo (a: string) (b: int) = ()

Doesn't Google use a Java-based system to do essentially the same thing (GWT)?

But you're right that if you are already happy with JS then there's a lot less reason to pick it up.
I've done Amtrak twice. Central NY to Chicago was actually no problem as far as Amtrak goes, just a couple hours of delays each way.

Central NY to Columbus in November, nightmare. Maybe an hour in, notice a) the car is getting pretty cold b) the car is not very full. Turns out the door to the car is broken, either recently or was the whole time. There are no seats I can find on other cars. Amtrak guy says nothing he can do about it. Make the rest of the trip in the freezing cold, good thing I had warm clothes.

On the way back, get to the train station (in Cleveland, I think - no service to Columbus so they bus you - bus was 100% timely) to find out that the train isn't there and the train is not going to be there. That train is completely cancelled. Get to spend the night on a bench in the shut down, freezing Cleveland station until another train arrives going the same way ~12 hours later. Amtrak refuses to compensate me in any way for either issue. Should have just bussed it the whole way, if I was going to experiment with not flying.

End up a week after with the worst cold in my life, probably difficult to blame on Amtrak but I still do.
> I also think the founders know better where the time needs to be spend and at what stage they should focus on PR.

If that were the case then accelerators wouldn't exist and the "national rate of failure for startups" wouldn't be 75 to 90%.
With a kernel based rootkit, git would never see the hidden files or would see a pristine version of the file.

I've encountered this before on pentests. Not only was it easy to subvert, when I popped the version control server I got access to the data of a dozen or so other servers.
They came out and told me they didn't think I had the skill level for the senior position I had applied to, but, they had a junior-level position open at that salary. It's more than I make now, but, I turned it down because it wasn't more enough to count for extra hours they expected, the higher cost of living (or commute), and the possibility of getting eaten by the performance evaluation system (at that time, was still the stack ranking and all the horrors it entailed).
In general, when talking about a class of measuring device, the expected accuracy of the measure cannot exceed its expected precision (the converse is not true, however.)

That is, the expected difference between two randomly selected devices in the class attempting to measure the same true value is a lower bound on the expected difference between the measurement of one device in the class and the true value.

Or, looked at a different way, if you can't shoot a tight grouping (independent of where on the target it clusters), you can't shoot a tight grouping around the bullseye.
I fail to understand the grey area that grey imports exist in, but I wish I could.

I live in Russia and e.g. Apple products are notoriously over-priced here, so lots of local resellers make profit by doing grey imports. iPhones and iPads imported from practically any other contry turn out to be cheaper, even from nearby Finland, which, being Euro-zone country, is not cheap by American standards at all. Note that mobile operators in Russia are not in a position to subsidize phones, so all iPhones are being bought at full price. Mobile operators tried to sell iPhones, too, but could not compete and all balked out, taking great losses. At the same time, prices for most PC hardware seem to be at about Amazon US level. Bizzare? Sure.

On the other hand, I am a brony and got interested in My Little Pony Collectible Card Game http://mlpccg.wikia.com/wiki/My_Little_Pony_Collectible_Card... (apparently, it doesn't suck? I was at a con in Finland and played with some enthusiastic fans there). No local stores carry the game here, and the developer (EnterPLAY) is very reluctantly replying my persistent inquiries. The best I got from them was:

It’s difficult for me to officially support an event
when I can’t officially sell the game into that country.

Exactly what is stopping them from selling the game officially in Russia? Is it is the lack of interest from the retailers, or some sort of embargo, or legal obstacle? Maybe I will have better luck 1) buying a couple dozen of decks on Amazon, 2) organizing an impromptu unofficial tournament in a friendly board game club 3) convincing a club to start buying the game themselves and maybe then the developers will take interest and maybe support this all officially, or just talk to me?

As a fan, the worst I can lose so far is the cost of a couple dozen decks, am I right?
For those that dislike paginating through a longform (especially not for DFW whose copious endnotes is part of his literary form), here is a single-page URL: http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_l...
Pretty much anyone who uses a computer at my workplace has VPN access. No special approval is required. The same ID that gives you access to local network resources (printers, file servers, intranet sites, etc.) gets you on the VPN. The company has several hundred employees, and the VPN can support hundreds of users.

Aside from people whose jobs require a lot of travel (sales, etc.), only a few people work remotely on a regular basis, and some others work remotely a few days a month. But having the infrastructure to have many employees work remotely gives us the ability to keep the business going if there are transportation disruptions like blizzards, hurricanes or transit strikes.
"Lawyer" -> Founder of TJ's. No shit he's doing it for the money: everyone tends to do their job, at least in part, for the money. But I think it's very presumptuous of you to assume he has no loyalty or respect for the brand.

You also seem to think that he's "getting what he deserves", as if what he's doing is wrong. It isn't.
Agreed, it would be unreasonable to hold a business responsible for what someone else does with their product. I mean, Windows has been crashing PCs for years and I don't see people suing Dell as a result. That would cause so many loophole issues. For example, why sue Dell in that scenario, why not sue IBM for creating the platform in the first place? Or Edison and Tesla's intellectual estates for making electrical devices possible.
China's hardly small, but is pretty dense in the east.

Trans-continental travel is nowadays without question the purview of air travel (though I was surprised when I looked up the classes of air travel across the US — a flight from the EU to the north east of the US gets you so much more than a trans-continental flight, despite the lengths of the flights being near identical!). That said, a quite look at a population map it look like a fairly comprehensive network as far west as Chicago should be viable, extending down to Virginia on the coast. Otherwise, Houston–Austin–San Antonio seems doable (possibly with a spur off that from Austin to Dallas and Fort Worth), as well as most of California (and probably Phoenix from there).

That said, don't take this as carte blanche support for any proposals for HSR in those areas — I know at least the Californian proposal is pretty ridiculous.

There are other challenges, but ones that likely aren't insurmountable. Most notably, you almost certainly want for many travellers the destination to be the central business district, but in many cities this makes it hard to have large car rental places — necessary given most of these cities don't have good, comprehensive transport networks.
No, the store would be liable, in Canada.
same here. Probably not under attack, but it is interesting timing
Safety protocols are fantastic, why do so few people follow them?
1.3 GHz is not bad at all for an ARM. It's not trying to compete with x86 for the performance crown. It's decently fast and runs linux apps like a web browser just fine.
move out of the US and make apps for a different market

challenge yourself
The most successful entrepreneurs are the ones who live in this territory. See Peter Thiel's book regarding monopolies vs. perfect competition. If you invent something new, you will have a monopoly on it.
Novel idea? Make money marketing / advertising a startup?
Hello,

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Sound too good to be true??? Yeah, there is a part of me that is thinking the same thing, but I decided it was going to give it a 90 day challenge.

But think about it, how many times did you get paid for bring people to Facebook, Twitter, whatever social media network? Probably not a dime, right? At least I have gotten a little money in my pocket for my efforts.

Check it out.

Google Play:
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iTunes:
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You will need an access code: 72088

Any questions? Email me, Geoff, iheartpaid2save@gmail.com.

Good luck startup owners! The race is on. I'm trying to beat your pants off in 90-180 days. My statup cost is <$1000. I will report back.
Better, but still not going to be overly helpful. Call came from 1000ft, first responder is standing at 750ft - there are 250ft of floors in between.
Which configuration parameters should I be looking at?
Viruses and the like are often named after words or snippets researchers find while doing an investigation. It is possible the original developer called the project "iWorm" and so that is how they named it.
Thanks, however your email isn't actually in your bio :O