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> the only reason everyone's not trying to do it must be some misguided faith in humanity.

Or an inability to keep a straight face through an entire sales pitch. I doubt the effect works if the sales person or market copy actively mocks the buyers' intelligence.
The problem IMO that the chip in question doesn't have a plastic cover,
look how shiny it is in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7p2OcQ7G58

A laser (no EMP!) shone on that chip will also crash the Pi.
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Saw a report like that for the UK

"Tech Nation was compiled using data from DueDil, Adzuna, Crunchbase, AngelList and F6s, and analysed 47,200 digital technology companies across the UK"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/11390230/Bou...

Anyway, Crunchbase and Angelist might be potential sources.
It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation. I suspect variations on the co-op model, more 'holistically' extended to include more parts of life perhaps, might be preferable to many people over the current approach, whatever it's called. But without experiencing it, and with the mindset that more money = more happiness, most people wouldn't give it a shot. And I understand that.
This is hilarious. You are sold the idea of a "pipe", through which something flows -- of course, having a "smoother" directional pipe would be better! But then again, we are talking about electrons -- alternating currents -- flowing one way _and_ the other for a short while. Having knowledge about how currents move in leads, typically on the surface of the lead, explains why quality cables consists of a multitude of small leads.

On these leads, electrons are flowing a little bit in one direction and then as the polarity of the source shifts, a little bit in the other. The whole idea of having a "direction" in a cable is just...

At one time we really had analog equipment "all the way down", so it kind of made sense to minimise distortion and loss in every individual link. Nowadays, we use digital systems where the music information is conveyed as "symbols". In this realm, a lot of the concepts from analog systems (or even the "pipe" system mentioned above) just makes no sense.

It is true that the digital information is still run over analog cables, in this case I assume we are talking about an Ethernet layer, but it has very little resemblance with the idea of a loudspeaker cable as information is packaged and translated in various ways before actually appearing on the cable.

Do you remember that funny marker pen that you could use to paint the edge of CDs to minimise effects of laser light running back and forth in the CD. That was a try att connecting a common understanding of the turntable with the new CD medium -- the idea of having a pickup that could be disturbed. I wonder onto what common understanding the idea of these cables are trying to connect, the water pipe idea is visual and easily taken but jumps a generation or two of reality.

I choose to see this as a taxation of... less gifted but wondrously more wealthy people. Actually a tax that kind of makes sense.
“Gigs 2 Go is a low cost, tear-away USB.” Good or Bad?
What a waste of silver!
31 attacks on Swiss hydropower plants (honeypot) [German]
Stolen from http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650...
If Le Pen can make it to the second round in France, it will be in Hollande's place. Sarko will be Le Pen's opponent and will win 70+% of the vote, most of Sarko's support coming from socialist voters.

And remember NSDAP could do what it did only because of the Communists; NSDAP alone never had the support of even a quarter of DE voters. There are no more Communists around. Well, hardly any.
The thing where you "hang" your "coat" on: https://www.google.com/search?q=coat+hanger&tbm=isch
looks nice, but forgot to mention i'm a mac user and have a KBC Poker II with Cherry MX blues, do you have any mechanical equivalent ?
I've heard (no source sorry) that in early testing in a simulator flying an F-16 over the international date line resulted in a 180 degree roll that was fast enough to render unconscious or kill the pilot, as the software got confused about teh orientation needed to keep the plane flying level.

There was also a flight of F-22s (real, not simulated) that lost all computer and communication systems and had to follow another plane to get home because of a software bug when crossing the international date line: http://www.dailytech.com/Lockheeds+F22+Raptor+Gets+Zapped+by...
>Like other many other apps, Odysee was built around a freemium model: free for the first year, and then $5/year thereafter. The founders had at one point estimated that they could keep the business sustainable if they reached 3 million users.

How hard would it be to get 3 million people to sign up for something at $5 a year? I imagine that at that point you might as well charge $5 a month or something, since the fixed cost of getting a person to pull out their credit card is so high
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Certain subreddits are set up for specific political or social causes. Should a subreddit set up (say) for "Catholicism" should accept discussion about whether the Pope is the Anti-Christ?
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unfortunately it doesn't work 100% under mac :(, right now i use moom !
but my problem was about the screens themselves, not how to tile windows in them, but what way to actually setup screens to make best use of them
Next question: how much energy can it store, until the capacitance breaks down?
Black boxes {are|should be} a good thing.

"Leaky Black Boxes" however (like angular), are awful.

I quite like having a black box with two sockets on it, that I can plug cables into and have it just do whatever it's supposed to.

However, if the sockets are a weird shape, or there 39 of them, or they leak a strange green ooze, then I get upset.
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> Are you kidding? PSA, Fiat Group, and Renault also had the Euro and hence should be benefiting from exactly the same enlarged market that you claim is the reason for Volkswagen's success.

The point is that without the Euro, these groups were shielded from Volkswagen through the ability of other governments of using devaluation as a means of improving their competitive position.

He's not claiming they were as efficient competitors as Volkswagen, but that the Euro was a benefit to Germany to consolidate existing competitive advantages that they had due to the strength of their industry, because it prevented other European countries from shielding themselves through currency policy, and thus allowed German companies to extend their already powerful positions.

To reiterate: The claim is not that the Euro in itself created a competitive advantage for Germany, but that it allowed them to take full advantage of their economic strength.
Reading comments in this thread reminds me how talented people are and how much superfluous engery there is in them.
The new wave of single board computers really exposed me to the amount of failure that can happen at the electrical level. Growing up with large ATX boxes I'd never expect so many things to go wrong.

btw: anyone tried to light-freeze other devices (banana, orange, cubie, etc) ?
For example, whether you invest in your government or not, your government will still be able to find funds for the war chest, by printing money if nothing else

That's a bit of a simplistic view of "government" as well, though. I mean, Greece's would certainly like to print some money right now :)
YouTube could do so, but I would argue, that not the user but YouTube behaves as a bad net-citizen then.
BTRFS is being developped as a full-featured filesystem and the only true competitor to ZFS. Somewhat we can read also articles as that: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-LC...

The reality is that, while BTRFS feature list is impressive, ZFS is second to none here. Moreover, ZFS is _way_ faster.

The real problem is what while BTRFS has good features, its incredible slowness with rewrite/append heavy scenarios make it almost irrilevant in the enterprise space (unless you plan to use it for something as a fileserver, with lots of small files to manage).

Surprisingly, that don't stop some companies (as Netgear) to produce BTRFS-based NAS appliance and to sell them as "virtualization-ready". I can only imagine their slowness in VM handling...
LOL, and I was wondering what kind of cable it was supposed to be, of course I know coat hangers but didn't get it in the context. Thank you! :)
Luxury isn't necessarily crazy, it can be rational economic signaling:
http://www.joshuakennon.com/mental-model-veblen-goods/
So, I'm not particularly worried about a Pizza Hut conspiracy. Initially, I thought it would be pretty dumb of pizza but to play a game like this (I can imagine some negative PR at the very least). But was was far more amusing was this while this looked like a case of cyber squatting, it was far more sophisticated and anything I've come across before.

Whoever is running is the show is obviously monetizing these sites is a very interesting way. What I now think is that they may be running some type of Ad Network & I am curious as hell to find out how that business works.

While direct cyber squatting might be hoping that papa johns pays them a lot of money some day. These people might actually be taking advance of people's perceptions and. Creating a business out of it. The level of tracking they're doing means they've got some smart people behind the scenes & I wonder what type of algorithms might be in place deciding which ad to show which person
Nope. Chapters from 2015 (last three) are not included.
I so would like a quote for warranty extension.
The source is listed at the end of the joke so at least there was some attribution.
> If I can mine 1 bitcoin for $300 worth of electricity or buy one for $200, I should just buy instead of mine. The question of how many dollars I have is irrelevant for that.

That's a fair point.

I guess the only real difference between mining and buying is that electricity is usually paid for retrospectively, whereas buying requires you to have the money up front.
>Making stuff that people use exclusively to show off is such a great business that the only reason everyone's not trying to do it must be some misguided faith in humanity.

This must also be the reason why this kind of manufacturing is prominent in Italy, where any faith in humanity is long gone.
LEDs can also be used for narrow band detection. It's called the Mims effect since Forrest Mims was the first to publish about it.
Or the "MEGA SATA". http://www.coconut-audio.com/megasata.html
That's true, but it's a fallacy to imagine that India's science and rocketry programs somehow take resources away from sanitation efforts. In fact India's space program actually brings in revenue, as this story shows. More importantly, it provides inspiration to Indians, showing them what they are capable of doing. That, more than anything, is what is truly necessary to allow India to tackle the fundamental problems it faces.
That one kind of sticks out as being rather disconnected from the rest.

I think his point is that most people don't work for fancy holidays or trinkets or whatever.

Most people work to put a roof over their head and eat. Everything else is secondary - both trivial in terms of desire (it's less important), and trivial in terms of cost (a new 24" LCD might cost 3 days rent in some areas)
I supposedly have the updated version (according to Box's about screen) and I still see values for api_key and client_secret in these files.

I can't say what they do or if it's a real issue, but it's troubling to still see values there. There are also a few other keys that don't look like they should be there...
> And the idea economists and banks didn't realize ever increasing amounts of debt would be a problem just isn't credible.

So you agree the creditors have a big part of the responsibility then?

Because that is what you are effectively saying in the line I quoted.

Either the creditor banks failed to realize the problem, in which case why do you expect Greek voters to? Or they were irresponsibly speculating on a bailout.

In either scenario, it is to me ridiculous to expect the average Greek to bear the burden. The only reason they were, were because EU government basically strongarmed them into it in order to shield the creditors from taking the consequence of the risk that should be baked into their interest payments in the first place.
That is unfortunate. I think from a technical point of view, my interpretation of the "laws of the web" are true. What courts decide is an other story.

It is part of the bigger problem, that courts do not understand every aspect of our complex society and have to listen to experts, which just defers to problem to the election of these experts. You do not want to give them the power either, because they are easier to lobby than justices.

I just hope, that a generation of justices and politician arises, that understands basic principles the web is built on. Like links, that give the web its name, and how they work, who can control them and so on.
I have read this before, and I see the source is attributed. If so, why is this link on HN and not the original. Seems a way to gather some page hits.
OneNote is great especially in a shared environment.
Love it :) Sad thing is that it hit the nail on the head so accurately (pardon the pun)
The stories vary in quality and details, but as far as we can tell the 40 hour week was implemented by Henry Ford in 1926, after careful record keeping and analysis revealed that the ratio of worker output per week to wages paid per week peaked at about 40 hours per week of work.

Now, that's fine for factory work, but as far as I know, relatively little effort has been put into testing that theory in knowledge jobs.
You can click on the map and at least the type of "attack" is in english. I see most of the accesses are port scans, SMNP scans and something called "TCP - Crash tentative".

Wouldn't any computer connected to the internet see the same after a couple of weeks?
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The silver oxide tells you when the cable is worn out and you need to buy a new one.
I've done this, in the Intro to Computer Architecture class at UC Davis during Summer Session 1981, while I was still in high school.

What I was expecting was to learn how to build a computer out of transistors, you know, with a soldering iron, as I wasn't having much luck finding paying work when I was in high school.

What the course actually taught was how to write device drivers for the LSI-11 - a PDP-11 compatible minicomputer - in assembly code, hand-assembling it into octal, then entering with a keypad using ODT, the Octal Debugging Technique.

It was my only college course for which I receive a C. :-(
Gold causes problems with the wibblefrozits in the audio due to the harkenfarf effect and a low bunfloading, as anyone with any experience in this area knows.
Including the address to your page would help ;)
They're not really selling technology. They're selling consumer narcissism and status display.

This kind of thing is extreme, but it's no different to any other positional good.

And it is full of crooks.

I know someone who made a fortune from 'special' cables.

Did they know they were scamming people? Of course they did.
I feel like widely distributed teams have a whole different set of problems than remote in the same time zone.
I can give you 30yrs warranty for half the price.
A couple of months ago, I met a brilliant scientist[1][2] who runs a space startup in India that specializes in brokering deals to launch non Indian space payload on ISRO's launch vehicles.
Her company is called Earth2Orbit[3], although I am not sure whether this deal was brokered by them.

[1] http://travel.cnn.com/mumbai/susmita-mohanty-indias-own-moon...

[2] http://www.earth2orbit.com/people/people.html

[3] http://www.earth2orbit.com/index.html
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I would be curious to have some examples.

Number crunching is almost always parallelizable. Computing is not always calculation. As long as you can simplify your program as a set of input/output models, OpenCL/CUDA will help a lot. Of course it's not a silver bullet, so often one might have to reorganize the problem to have a better performing solution.

The more you can tweak an algorithm to fit inside a set of stricter constraint, the better it will perform on a GPU.

Of course, if you have a hard problem, it's always better to be able to build hardware which targets a particular problem for optimal performance. Maybe I'd be more interested in multithreading when CPU will have at least 16 or 32 cores. 4 or 8 cores is not a lot.
You mean it could become as awesome as the HotSpot JVM, which was originally based on the StrongTalk VM for SmallTalk, which was in turn based on the Self implementation from Sun Labs? (hint: Lars Bak worked on all of the above)

http://www.strongtalk.org/
http://www.selflanguage.org/
I am not saying that India should take all its money from education and sanitation and put it in rockets and r&d. I am not speaking against welfare programs either. I am saying that the whole attitude that "India shouldnt have a space program until everyone has toilets" is self-defeating and means that India will never have a space program, and probably never have enough toilets either.

The core of my point is that a small percentage of the budget should be kept aside for r&d in science and technology (and also to encourage entrepreneurship) because the returns from such endeavours can be tremendous. If you put x dollars to buy a toilet you will only ever get 1 toilet but if you invest x dollars wisely you could in time pay for a hundred toilets.
Were you actually productive the entire time?
Some of the food-price stories I've heard from Iceland are crazy.

I had a friend who went to Iceland regularly back in the early 2000's and he once paid 60 usd for a regular pizza.
Might as well make it 20 or 50 per month. Or, scrap the idea of trying to get 3 million at 5/year (after a year's cliff, which is wishful thinking that your app will even be relevant in the market of next year). Instead, get 2500 at 500 in a slice of the market that's actually willing to pay for value (like enterprise). Cut your expenditures to a third by shedding the people who don't live and breathe this thing and you only need a thousand customers to be sustainable. That's within the ballpark of sanity. But no. Instead it's "freemium".

Honestly, these days when I hear "freemium" I mentally translate it to "aquihire resume with a lottery ticket". Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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The Google Chrome extension, called Fengel, which has been developed over the worldly known social network site Facebook finds the answer to the questions whether someone has blocked you or not on Facebook. This extension, which could be downloaded for free, offers solutions to some problems that occurs while using Facebook.

Viewing photos without signing up!

The first benefit of the extension is that it finds the subject person’s page while normally you would see the page which would says “Sorry, this page can not be viewed” when it is searched on google. Once you are on the page, you will click on the F icon which will appear on upper right corner of the page and then click on “Fotografi Ac”, then you will have access to the up-to-date profile picture of the subject.

Viewing the picture of one who has blocked you!

This extension, at the same time, will help you view the profile picture of the subject person when you get to their page and see “Sorry, this page can not be viewed”. This way, you could also discover that the owner of profile has blocked you.
Why learn and not hire someone? Sure, you want some basic knowledge but wouldn't your time be best spent focusing on turning out products rather than trying to learn something you may or may not be good at?

Also be careful with marketing. Many people mistake ability for confidence as often the view on marketing is its an opinion and anyone can do it with common sense. There is real science mixed with art. Ive seen exec's hurt a companies advertising simply because they have the power to push their opinion and believe in them-self, beyond their skills.

I mod over at the reddit marketing sub. Here is a wiki we have compiled on useful reading: http://www.reddit.com/r/marketing/wiki/index
I'm happy for the team but somewhat sad for the users. I wonder why they sold so quick? Google is the antithesis of using edge devices to their maximal advantage, and this was clearly not a product acquisition.
The article specifically talks about controlled flight into terrain, which, by definition excludes malfunctions.
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I feel very uncomfortable that I cannot see what is so brilliant about this book that Bill Gates goes on and on about it. I tried to read it and was bored and stopped half way through it.
Anybody can shed some light? Share what you've learned, please.
There are lots of reasons not to eat McDonalds. The hamburger not rotting is not one of them.

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/11/the-burger-lab-r...
Well then obviously your company should let him go. If not, then maybe he is as productive as you seem not to think.
As a marketing guy, I'm glad you made that point. Often people assume they are completely transferable. It is more like Sys admin is to a developer.
I will attach this to my resume.
The dishonesty is inextricably linked, though. Otherwise, those products just don't sell.

Asking otherwise would be like saying, "Oh, I don't mind all that water; it's the wetness that often comes with it that I mind..."
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Excellent. I wasn't aware of SPARK.

It could have been useful for Toyota, rather than the ad-hoc mess they wound up with controlling their cars.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8905718
That's a cool one, definitely
Interesting that the Finnish version of this story is about Nokia, GSM base stations and EPROM memory. The version from 1990 from The Devouring Fungus which I quoted in a separate comment is about the IBM 701 and CRT memory.
Then it means that you are applying to a wrong company (already consumed by bureaucracy, with little tech value or understanding)...

I remember my programming interviews as the most meritocratic ones (much more than e.g. in academia, where there is a problem that one is have too low high, or different official credentials).
Their leave actually looks pretty generous:

18 days (or 4.5 weeks) paid time off

1 week off for the holidays (in addition to paid time off)

https://teamtreehouse.com/jobs/at-treehouse-3b0b0839-71a0-4f...
I don't know how much hacks he had to use for the JVM and V8 that could be left out in the CLR.

AFAIK he didn't create those things from scratch, he had to use the Java, SmallTalk, Self and JavaScript specs that were already out in the wild.
I have always wanted to ask this but never found the right place to do so.

Why, in the world of Digital Audio with ones and zeros, would any cable, be it silver or gold or what ever super conducting cores make any difference to sound quality?

Yes it would properly make 0.0001% ( Wild Guess Only ) speed difference due to better conductivity and less Error correction. But if everything gets decoded at the Chip level, then the cable should in theory makes absolutely NO difference in sound quality what so ever.

Please correct me if i am wrong.