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The Forever War is one of those books I keep having to buy new copies of, because I lend it out and it never comes back.

I'm okay with that.
I'd add that a website can assist with the 'pull' aspect of the business, in planning and being as forward looking as possible through the entire supply chain, rather than responding, 'push' like, to requests.

But agree, keep it super simple. Perhaps review some online classes in operations management, LEAN or similar.

Good luck to the OP. The business can be brutal, but it sounds like some initial hurdles are cleared. :)
I enjoyed Berkeley's CS162 because its from the perspective of an operating system. http://bit.ly/11rTdEw
I never heard that used as profanity, is it a regional or an obsolete thing?
I find meditation and strong exercise help quite a bit.
I also took classes with a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He had pretty good insights into how the mind works.
Not sure if that can be generalized though.
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This is good news !
If it already supports CSV then hacking in a working MySQL backend might not be too difficult. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of `ssh dbserver mysql -b -e \'select * from pants where ...\'` in nagios and munin scripts.
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There really is no documentation on how to use your own database as a data source.

Am I misunderstanding what FnordMetric is meant to do? Is it meant to allow me to generate charts from my existing postgres database or is it something where I have to feed data into it?
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Well, to be honest maglevs aren't common because they are expensive to build. The technology really isn't new. The maglev to the Shanghai airport is already 10 years old.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train

It goes 268mph(431km/h).

China seems to be building low-speed maglev trains too.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_S1,_BCR

110 km/h (68 mph)

These types of maglevs would be great in or near cities. You could travel the length of Manhattan to get to JFK in 15 minutes.

I think there's a low-speed maglev almost ready for use in South Korea.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev#Incheon_Airport_maglev
Perhaps I should add that the maglev train I've ride at Shanghai was already that fast, and it was in commercial operation since 2004. That was 10 years ago. So no, I don't see how this is news.
Project manager, front end designer, QA, or DBA maybe? Depends on your background and passion.
> That the sender can probably crash the receiver with a malformed offset in a message.

Errr, that would be a major bug in capnproto. While it's definitely possible the software has bugs, it's certainly a design constraint that the sender absolutely cannot crash the receiver.

http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/faq.html#arent-messages-t...
dang killed it because he didn't like it. (I'll go look for the source)

edit: source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693262

> Ok, when people start racing to post these at midnight, and beg for upvotes on top of it, this experiment has officially jumped the shark. I'm going to bury this post and ask you all not to post any more of them.
Only one account (whoishiring) is allowed to make regular feature posts that we don't kill as duplicates. (That's for the obvious reason of preventing karma sweepstakes and race conditions.) Should we make this "Idea" thread a regular feature? I've thought about it quite a bit. I think the answer is no.
Experiments are worth trying, but this one has gone on for a month now and I don't think it has cleared the bar [1]. Something about having all these ideas in one place makes the whole less than the sum of its parts. The threads seem to me to have gotten less interesting as they've become more regular.
I'm sorry to disappoint those of you who disagree. But our job is to optimize HN for quality and I don't think the quality is high enough here. Ideas are better in the wild. Let's discuss them as they come up organically, rather than try to organize an idea-fest.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682938
You mean 200mph(320km/h)? 200km/h probably isn't offically a high-speed train.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV
The Shanghai maglev is quite useless since you have to take a slow subway to catch it. Better/faster to just grab a cab and go direct for just 2x more.
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TL;DR: It threatened YC's business model.
I think the proposal is to tunnel under the Japan Alps from the outskirts of the Kanto (where Tokyo is) to the outskirts of the Kansai and Osaka. The tunnel is mostly required because Japan's mountainous geography is not friendly to straight corridors, but it means fewer birds and sticks will be a benefit.
No, you didn't go that fast. It's 50mph slower. Japan is going into production with this train in 10 years. I wouldn't simply right off this as not being progress. Most passenger trains in America probably don't even average 50mph. It would turn Boston to NYC, or NYC to DC into a 45 minute commute.
I came here to say that. The orbital levels in Osmos are excellent.
It's been a long time since I've had a decent Käse- or Butterbrezel. Good on you for knowing what you want out of your business and sticking to it. You remind me of the German fisher and tourist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekdote_zur_Senkung_der_Arbeit...
The fact that the president even recognizes it as a problem is the result of an incredible amount of work and millions of dollars in lobbying efforts.

I can tell you right now you're not going to get the libretarian paradise that everyone wants, but you're not going to get a Verizon 5% ecommerce tax either.
Take a look at https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox It's not production ready yet, but it aims to be suitable for cheap VPS (current requirement is 1G of RAM, IIRC).
I don't understand. President Obama seems to be a great friend to the NSA, and I understand the NSA has greatly expanded powers under his administration. President Obama threatened openly in a press conference to punish whistleblowers after the Snowden fiasco blew up.

Why should we put any faith in President Obama and lobby him to do the right thing now? The opacity, doublespeak and contempt shown to the people by this administration ranks it at the bottom in my book.
Agree on hot oil. Not only non-stick, it also keeps meats moist and vegetables fresh (actually fried, not fry-boiled).

A few things I do:

Use wire mesh to clean, quickly, immediately after cooking.

Only use tap water to clean it. No detergents. This allows the pan to develop a literal taste of its own after a few months or years.

Heat the pan after cleaning, evaporating all water.
Another problem,is that they need to have a 3D model ready of whatever it is you're trying to manipulate. Have a slightly different chair or different car make? Tough cookies.
Ok, I see your point of how a violin can be used to "search" a solution space for the transform. I still think it would be a bit of a stretch to say the violin performs the Fourier analysis here, as the human brain is required to do computation as part of that process.

As for the bridge, I doubt that soldiers were informed by anything other than trial and error, so I don't think they are an example of an 18th-century Fourier transform. Even when engineering on bridge resonance began it was probably focused on simpler classical standing wave calculations.
Well, I am glad Vic Gundotra was fired for example.
> ..production with this train in 10 years

Another 10 years? That means it goes into operation in 2024? That's 20 years after the Chinese built one.
The American people just went to the polls to demonstrate that NSA surveillance is not something they particularly care about. If you're an anti-surveillance civil liberties type, you might be better served backing the companies that have dollars at stake in opposing surveillance than wait for the voting public to come around to caring about the issue.
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Progress on open access is slow. 6 or 7 years ago I wanted to read a couple of papers by Cayley, who died in 1895. These were published in the Transactions of the Royal Society--and paywalled. (Google Books had a few volumes of his collected papers available, but not the one I needed.)
A few years ago, the Royal Society finally made papers published before the mid-20th century available for free, which is progress, but considering the public funding for the Royal Society, it's hard to understand why anything they publish is still paywalled for 70 years.
You should have explained the politics that crippled it. There were lots of protests and the maglev couldn't be built farther into the city.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/12/us-china-maglev-pr...
/nitpick:

Nerve impulses are not electricity. There is a moving charge gradient which is not the same as an electric current.
Chart.io was too expensive and we bailed on it, but not before we tried to negotiate a discount to no avail. Chart.io pricing model would benefit from more flexibility and options.
The answer depends on what you mean by "for a while". If its a few months or a year or two, it does not matter what the alternative career path is, as long as you do land a job that pays enough for you to support your family. If you are looking for alternate career paths for more than a couple of years, why think of this as temporary? Just switch to a different path and reevaluate when you stop having fun. Check this list to see which of the following helps:

1. Take a week or two off. Go on vacation. Maybe you just need a short break.

2. Find a new job as a developer. The change in environment (people and/or technologies that you work with) may do the trick.

3. Switch to a PM role for a while.

4. If you think being a developer is no longer fun, consider a career change.

Whatever you do, do not wait too long for the problem to fix itself. Do something now, before you start to drain out and find yourself unable to muster the energy and enthusiasm to come up with a solution.
I always enjoy playing with these kinds of simulations, but this one seems to be pretty bad at respecting conservation of energy. The closer you are to the sun, the more rapidly your spacecraft mysteriously gains energy from nowhere, causing it to spiral outward instead of maintaining a stable orbit. I'm not sure yet whether it's a consequence of using naive Euler integration or some other bug.
I think you mean Manhattan, the other boroughs have a few more options like Waldbaums and Key Food, etc.

Manhattan sucks for decent affordable groceries because there's a substantial culture of frequently eating out and those that eat in normally do so because they want the gourmet experience at home, so they're looking for high-end stuff. That and everything costs more in Manhattan.

Go across the river to NJ and right away you'll see Wholefoods is obscenely expensive when compared to Trader Joe's, H Mart, Pathmark, Shop Rite, and local farmers markets.
Ruby is a general purpose programming language. The fact that Rails made it popular for web dev is another thing. Also anyone who uses a language should be not tied to what the majority of coders do with that language or to the conception of what a "modern coder" is. A language is a tool, and I am happy when it is easily available to anyone under any condition to make of it whatever they want.
No thanks; that'd be worse. Then you'd have to test every release of your program with every allocator in combination with every other configuration change that could be made.

Besides, different applications work best with different allocators so it's definitely a choice the author of a program needs to make.
So how would the requests for information be routed up to the satellite? It's not like it can continuously beam down ALL the information all the time.
Really? The NSA was a ballot issue? It was a wedge issue during the congressional elections?

I wanted to vote against collect-by-default programs. But I didn't see the checkbox.

The parties defined the issues for the voters. The Democratic Party ran on the usual 'get out the vote' and The Republican Party ran on equating officials with the Obama administration and discouraged voting except from their base where they could. Both promised financial change but neither advanced anything concrete enough to be a platform.

And did we want a big item like widespread surveillance to be on the ballot during the national elections most famous for poor voter turnout?

Or maybe you're talking about a different ballot?

> If you're an anti-surveillance civil liberties type, you might be better served backing the companies that have dollars at stake in opposing surveillance than wait for the voting public to come around to caring about the issue.

A philosophical equivalent to tactical/dishonest voting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_voting).

You're suggesting that I accept the (presumed) assistance of these corporate leaders. I do, actually. But I also do not accept the fact that this class has the power that it does.

These two things are not actually mutually exclusive.
This is rather amazing. I applaud the idea of extending SQL for this, but honestly how hard is it to implement the middleware?
Yes, I'm not sure where you're going with that. Japan already has a bullet train. Here's what Wikipedia has:

"JR Central aims to begin commercial maglev service between Tokyo and Nagoya in the year 2025 with the full track between Tokyo and Osaka finalized in 2045."
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev#Japan
Does Trader Joes cost less than Whole Foods in Manhattan?
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As a counterpoint my home mail server has no spam filtering at all, and I receive at most 10 items of spam per year.

Instead I spend time tweaking fun stuff on my mail server, like setting-up X.509 user certificate-based authentication instead of IDs and passwords. And transparent on-server S/MIME [ de|en ]cryption using Anubis. Stuff that the big mass-market providers won't implement.
Nice interview. He's a terrific guy (a bunch of us spent an evening with him in Sydney after a "writer's workshop" he gave at the Powerhouse Museum). Another great book of his is Worlds.

One thing I observed about his SF novels is that the futuristic weapons are invariably practical and brutally efficient, rather than pew pew weapons that are ultimately no more useful, and often rather less, than modern firearms.
Since this: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/princeton-scholar-demise-of-...
I guess people could try doing it in /r/startups where (I think) the mods are more laissez-faire.
http://www.halfbakery.com/ is a better replacement for Idea Sunday.
I came across the site this is on through this article on Grothendieck, however, the whole site is excellent. This page (http://inference-review.com/introduction) gives an overview of what it is about.
The Gilens and Page study is a must read.
That's because /r/startups doesn't optimize for quality.

Look at the front page (http://www.reddit.com/r/startups). Most of the ideas ("Apps like Quora but in real time?") are not particularly insightful. And no, these are not ideas with the people-thought-Twitter-was-a-bad-idea defense.
Because of the nature of FRP, you can't do much except for Euler integration.
I upvoted you because I don't like that criticism of YC seems to get an instant downvote on HN, however, I disagree with you and think that the reasons put forward for stopping the ideas threads are fair and valid, even if one can hold a different opinion.
> You mean something like mailpile?

Looks good as a client but they have some issues with / absence of STARTTLS support ( for both IMAP and SMTP ) at the beta stage, so I would advise people against using it outside a controlled or test environment right now

https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/issues/1092
https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/issues/868

And here are the beta notes:

https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/wiki/Release-Notes-2014...

"Does not yet recognize whether messages are "new" or already read"

So not quite ready as a drop-in replacement.
Nothing like hitting a pigeon or catching a flying bit of branch at 300MPH, hurricanes put 2 x 4s through houses 2/3rds that speed so that would be a challenge.

At 250 mph, the TransRapid TR-08 simply vaporized any biological object it hame across little-to-no-damage to the vehicle (but there was a mess to clean up). A large object can be an issue, but small objects will likely be pushed aside by the pressure wave ahead of the vehicle.

That said the only other remarkable thing was how shaky the video was at 500km/h

The vehicle is still undergoing testing, the facility may not have figured out or implemented the ride-quality algorithms yet.
Ugh! With all these down voting, it makes it hard for low karma people to voice opinion. I'll just shut up >:(
Nothing congress is going to pass will become law without POTUS signature.

The premise of this article is>>> that OBAMA will sign {#INSERT_LAW_HERE}.

So why not just sign an (new) executive order? eg.

NSA's mission, as set forth in Executive Order 12333, is to collect information that constitutes "foreign intelligence or counterintelligence" while not "acquiring information concerning the domestic activities of United States persons". NSA has declared that it relies on the FBI to collect information on foreign intelligence activities within the borders of the United States, while confining its own activities within the United States to the embassies and missions of foreign nations

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/meet-executive-order-...
According to your link the maglev at Shanghai also achieved 500km/h on a test run...

I think what's more interesting is that the Chinese have achieved 302mph (only ~9mph less than the maglev) with wheeled trains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRH380A#Test
Sure, it wasn't meant as a dig at HN moderation, just a helpful suggestion.
There's a difference between a criticism of YC and a kneejerk YC-is-a-conspiracy comment.

One could argue that the Idea Sunday threads would be good for YC: good ideas would lead to good startups which YC could later fund. But there weren't any good ideas.
Hum. All that I'm looking for is a kind of large backlog that I could filter to find ideas that will improve the world that demands people, development, etc. These ideas could just come up with a description, motivation and expected results - when someone could help, he subscribes and notify the watchers.

Maybe a recurring thread (Idea Sunday) is not the best option for that as dang said (please, who disagree make your point). It seems that the better idea is to come up with a platform to bring these ideas to life, but a faster way than building from scratch would be nicer. Again, if you (who is reading it now) have any ideas, them will be appreciated.

I'll check out the links you sent below. Thanks for answering.
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Then you understand wrong. According to Snowden's documents, the NSA has diminished its powers under the Obama administration (e.g., bulk collection of email headers for feeding their social graph and proposing to end bulk collection of call log data).
I wasn't arguing that new art shouldn't exist, simply explaining why I think the linked article suggests that people would be perfectly happy if no new art were made.
I too wasted lots of time playing with these simulations. The feyman lecture on physics have a great chapter on this stuff. The orbit does tend to pick up energy due to errors coming from euler's method. A relatively simple way to make your orbits a bit more stable is to normalize your velocity vectors using conservation of energy.
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But not just supply of food, supply of time as well. A poor person is probably working...

This is a myth. Poor people mostly don't work at all, and those that do typically work only part time.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2012.pdf

Some don't even know fast food is unhealthy.

Some evidence and context for this is sorely needed. Note: if lack of information were really the cause, then you'd expect plastering healthy eating information all over the NYC subway would fix the problem. Did it?

The best explanation I can come up with is the following. People with low self discipline become poor. People with low self discipline become fat and eat badly. They also don't exercise much and engage in other fun but harmful behaviors (unprotected sex, drug use, drinking to excess). But that's a naughty explanation, even if it fits the data quite well.
Recent Netflix problems were caused by ISPs behaviour that otherwise could be prohibited.

Other examples of ISPs violating net neutrality is charging different rates for different traffic on mobile networks. For instance, T-Mobile says your plan is unlimited as long as traffic goes to / from the primary device (such as your handset). But if you connect secondary device through it (for example through WiFi hotspot), your traffic will be treated differently and you'll have a monthly cap.

Discriminating traffic is exactly the problem that net neutrality rules are supposed to prevent.
The NSA relies on executive orders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12333

Executive orders don't need congress to fix.

Nor are they on mid-term election ballots.

Executive Order 12333 has been regarded by the American intelligence community as a fundamental document authorizing the expansion of data collection activities.[9] The document has been employed by the National Security Agency as legal authorization for its secret systematic collection of unencrypted information flowing through the data centers of internet communications giants Google and Yahoo.[9]

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/execut...
Doesn't seems to be very safe (http://www.halfbakery.com/?username=123&password=456&login=l...), but sure has some ideas. Thanks.
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Caltrain passenger trains reach top speeds of 79mph:

http://www.caltrain.com/riderinfo/safety_security/Safety_Tip....
html

Now, I know you said "average speed", and that's probably a lot less depending on which train is running (limited stop, express, "bullet", local).

The BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) "trains" also top out at about 80mph but average only 33mph:

http://www.bart.gov/about/history/facts
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I would be more happy to accept the idea that depression was usually a result of a chemical imbalance in your brain if this was able to be reliably diagnosed by measuring the balance of chemicals in your brain, rather than the current method of divining the supposed chemical imbalance by filling in a short questionnaire.
Is it really that much of a burden not to be sexist or racist? The obliviousness I see in this supposedly enlightened industry astounds me.
> Find what you are yearning to do, and incorporate it.

Maybe that's where I've been failing. Nothing I've done lately has been inherently meaningful. May I ask what you ended up doing?
I sometimes get severe insomnia. After the third day, the most productive thing I could do is menace in a deranged and hallucinatory fashion anybody who dares hand out this kind of advice.
Upon second look I believe I misunderstood the purpose of the project.

I initially thought the project was a subtitute for chart.io. However, it seems like the project is about "collect and visualize data".

It is not to visual data by connecting to your own database. Rather it allows you to import data from an mysql database