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> I asked if an investor with so much couldn't move the market.

Well yeah. Start to buy Apple shares, and the price rises, and you pay more than a smaller investor would. Try to sell them again, and the price crashes, and you receive less than a smaller investor would. As I already explained, you've got it backwards.

> One guy bought 15% of the world's cocoa

Yes, years ago. And it was 7%, not 15%. And like pretty much every cornering scheme, it didn't work. Armajaro ended up in trouble when cocoa prices dropped while they were still holding a large inventory, and they had to sell their commodities trading division off just to cover their losses, because of the same dynamics: The only way they could buy 7% of the worlds yearly cocoa production was by paying a premium—and the only way they could get rid of it was by offering it as a discount.

> If you had control of that sort of money it just seems you could be invisible.

The exact opposite of invisible, actually.

> The cost of the entire coffee production of the world is only billions, buy any significant percentage and there's going to be companies who'll either pay or collapse?

Not a good plan. :)
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I'm pretty sure my marginal rate for power is 35c/kWh here in the bay area. I think PG&E may have special rate plans for EV charging though.

Edit: Oh, this is handy: http://www.pge.com/cgi-bin/pevcalculator/PEV/
Much agree - those are the big conceptual holes in smart contracts. The concept still has a lot of merit, in the very long term. It's a bit like trying to imagine Google in 1993. Most of the things one can assume are most likely going to be wrong, including even the usages of these systems. I'd personally start with extending the Bitcoin script and thinking about better ways for multiple users to use it.
If the response was innovation, as most engineers or product people would focus on, then many of these giants would be in a better place.

If you aren't going to disrupt your own model regularly then others will.

Good leaders know this and are constantly investing in R&D and innovating to stay ahead. Non-innovation is a stale path that will set the market leader back if they don't recognize it and react.

For the workers the only way to minimize the pain is inform them well ahead and cheaper education not just focused fresh out of high school but all working ages to get them into new industries. Robotics will remove many jobs but create lots of work, new work we can't imagine yet, just like computing and the internet did.
Was fun obsessively refreshing this board today. :) My company got rejected too, which I just blogged about:

http://blog.youmewho.com/rejection-is-my-hunger-pill/
Woah.... Such a deep comment.
Actually i think you can: (if you have rights to it ofc)

http://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtools/
The population of this fish hasn't fallen to 6. This is about 6 instances of a particular fish, not the final 6 instances. I am interested in the outrage over wind power in California. The Condor is killed by windmills, yet the environmentalists keep demanding windmills. Environmental groups like the Sierra Club would bulldoze a city to save a endangered rat but say nothing about the danger of windmills.
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>bailouts as a failure of capitalism

It's not bailouts that are the failure of capitalism. It's the conditions that bailouts ameliorate that are the failure. Namely that the process of destruction that takes down "losers" can, in some cases, destroy "winners" as well.

The best example of this is the "banking panic" (which is what we had in 2008):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_run

Because all fractional-reserve banks require customer confidence in order to operate, if customers lose confidence in the banking system as a whole, that loss of confidence will destroy even healthy banks.
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"Even though some might say this is just a teenage prank, who knows what this teenager might have done."

Who knows. The implications are scary:
http://www.homelandsecureit.com/blog/2012/10/hackers-turn-co...
Some of the functionality is builtin into VS - not always exactly the same, but sometimes close enough. So if you're afraid it will crush VS performance (the proper way would be to try it of course) check these. Just metioning this because not everybody knows these and when VS2013 came out I decided to try it with a minimum of extensions and see it it's doable. For C#, I'm too spoiled by Resharper so it's unbearable. For C++ however I really like it: super snappy IDE with just enough builtin navigation etc functionality. Startup time alone for the VS2013 install is 5 to 10 times faster than the VS2012 one (Resharper and Visual Assist X).
So:

- go to everything (except folders): Edit.NavigateTo and don't forget to turn on the Show Details checkbox

- go to file or folder: Window.SolutionExplorerSearch

- switch between header and source files: EditorContextMenus.CodeWindow.ToggleHeaderCodeFile

- find usage and the likes: Edit.FindAllReferences or EditorContextMenus.CodeWindow.ViewCallHierarchy - doesn't always work properly though and can be slow

- go to file member: built-in dropdown at top of file, not sure if there is a keyboard shortcut for it though

- live static_assert evaluation: built-in

- rename and the likes: I once forced myself to learn at least some of the regular expression syntax and combined with builtin Find/Replace it served me pretty well for this

In general I'd advise people to check all VS has to offer (list it via command window or in keyboard customisation): if you haven't ever done so I bet you'll find commands you'll come to like and use but never heard of before. Last one I discovered (after many, many years of using VS, shame on me): Ctrl-Shift-] when the cursor is on a brace, it will select everything between the brace and the matching one.
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Exactly. But since golf is a rich person's sport, it plays into the class warfare rhetoric so enjoyed by leftist political groups. It's imagery and grandstanding rather than rational reasoning. How about uprooting the marijuana crop? Same for almonds? How about deporting the several million illegal immigrants? Certainly they're using a lot more water than would be required to save some fish. The environmental impact of millions of additional people certainly has more impact than the golf courses. We can't say that though can we? Doesn't fit the approved politics. So instead we'll revert to rich people are bad with their pesky golf courses and showering habits.
Relay cool that one can actually order the thing online :)
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This reminds me that with git sometimes you don't have anything to push to.

Example 1: a repository is local by definition and if you work alone you can back it up to your USB disk and never push it to any remote.

Example 2: there are many ways to send diffs to other developers. Push is one of them but you can also use git-format-patch and git-send-email together to mail them to your team.

http://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch
http://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email
I would suggest that a .rocks type domain would be redundant because the official .com or whatever is usually where all the positivity is. Often the owners of the .com try to manage negativity, and ensure their domain is a positive place, so another place is needed for free criticism. Im not sure many would trust a .rocks as independent.

Also, I can imagine something like an fabproduct.rocks would be a magnet for troll types and quickly descend in to a general bun fight arena.
can you please also provide filter of Technology?
.info got that reputation because Afilias has constant "promotional" pricing of $2-$3 for the first year. Very attractive to fraudsters who know the domain won't be around for that long.
Did they move the date on the X again :-(

http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx

If I am going to have a fantasy tesla, I want the X
The calculation seems a bit dubious. They apparently assume a linear relationship between carbon emitted and temperature change. "Following the National Academy of Sciences (2011), we take 1.75°C per 1,000 GtC emitted as the central best estimate."

However doubling CO2 does not double the amount of radiation it absorbs. CO2 absorbs at certain particular wavelengths and even if you make the atmosphere 100% CO2 it can only absorb all the light at those wavelengths and remain clear at others. In fact replacing everything in the atmosphere, including water vapour with CO2 would probably make the Earth cooler as the biggest green house effect is from water vapour.

There's some discussion here, admittedly from a skeptical source without full citations suggesting far lower warming from increases in CO2.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/08/the-effectiveness-of-c...
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Using the same metrics, it would cost about $3.70 in water to produce a lb of beef which is more than that same beef would sell for wholesale.
It boils down the point that you don't actually want to be doing computation at that level anyway. There's a very good reason that Bitcoin Script should be simplistic, why the hell would you want to be doing any sort of detailed computation at that level? With n nodes on the network you amplify the load n times, why not do it on an oracle where it's practically free? There's already comments by the Ethereum developers that it will be incredibly hard for a client to ever bootstrap from genesis once they launch, just due to the insane amount of script execution time.

If you're taking input from an oracle (you almost always are), you have the same level of trust in it anyway, you just moved computation into the stupidly expensive and massively redundant portion of the system. The 'solutions' for distributed oracles with ShellingCoin and related garbage is just hand wavy nonsense with so little basis in reality that it's not worth talking about.
Reading this has me imagining just how fast programs would run nowadays if they they were designed within the specifications of 80's hardware.
Yep, when I got hired, 4 years ago. And I liked the experience so I keep using it today. When completing an imperative solution (with a little guidance, due to nervousness) I went on and made a recursive one, just to try to show off. And it got me the job.
Thank goodness 60mph+ baseballs don't annihilate matter when they impact baseball bats!
Ask HN: How much does Amazon contribute to the open source community?
Amazon seems a big consumer of open source technology.

Does it give much cash in support to open source projects?

Does it contribute much in other ways?
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It is, yes, but if the checks-and-balances that the visa system relies on and are implemented by the legal system can be sidestepped so easily, then abuses are far more likely, wouldn't you agree?
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Some specific stretching routines finally helped me fix my back pain from years of sitting:

http://www.foundationtraining.com (I recommend the DVD, not the book)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBlM5in2IQA

I do some of these routines everyday and my back has remained pain-free.

Also the classic book on stretching by the Andersons is quite fun to take out now and then:
http://www.amazon.com/Stretching-Anniversary-Edition-Bob-And...
My good luck to you comes in the form of this statement:

Scale supply.
Couldn't it be "contained" (it would break out eventually, as it would slowly suck in the container, but it could at least be contained for a period of time) and launched on a solar escape trajectory? Very, very expensive, but better than destroying the Earth in a few thousand years.
Without all the background info, in paragraph 15 (after 644 words) they answer the initial question from the post's title.

TL;DR: anyone can register easydns-sucks.com or anything like it anyway. No need to "protect" yourself by buying [yourdomain].sucks at exorbitant prices.
AFAICS the nominal reason was that TLDs like .com were/are getting crowded and country based one's (e.g. .io) were being mis-used as generic TLDs

So as a reaction to that ICANN allow new generic TLDs to be registered. In and of itself, I don't think that's a bad idea. However the $180,000 registration fee seems a bit like a money grab, the lack of restrictions on the allowed names (e.g. .sucks) and the land-grabbing by large companies on a wide range of generic names (mainly from what I've seen Google and Amazon) have made the process a bit of a mess.
Aww good for you Omar. I got rejected too (solo founder, also very early stage). I blogged about it and now I'm over it. Good luck with everything!
> Alef, Limbo, libthread.

Also Newsqueak.
The point of make is to avoid doing what does not need to be done. Don't recompile binary whose sources didn't change, don't copy file which is already there, and so on. Because those operations add up to hours as the project grows.

If we didn't mind waiting for hours each time we build, then of course, a shell script that does `rm -rf target` then assembles everything from scratch would be significantly more straightforward and readable.
I just tracked down MODEdit at http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50179 . The documentation claims it needs a 10MHz CPU. I tried it on DOSBox and it was able to play through the PC Speaker, but when slowed down to 4.77MHz-equivalent speed it just failed to make any noises at all. If you have a link to another program (or different version of MODEdit) that can play on PC Speaker at 4.77MHz I'd love to check it out and see their techniques.
But that's only because Microsoft made it so damn hard to find anything related to Office 365.
In fact low latency and high-throughput are usually best friends. You cannot maintain high throughput if your operations are taking longer. Also have a look to this picture. Using G1, doing few hundred MB/s.

http://postimg.org/image/gms25ibnl/
The simplest Makefile is ... no Makefile at all!

e.g. if you create C program your-program.c with a main(), all you have to do is invoke

make your-program

and it is done.

Not exactly production quality (no clean target) but can't beat it for simplicity :-)
And that is why Chrome did away with the bookmark pane. What people do today is largely determined by their choice of browser. I use FF and bookmark my login urls. We are discussing the problems of domain names--part of the basic infrastructure of modern communication for the entire world--in light of the fallout from what was nothing but a calculated decision to increase market share by a single company, which given the history of ICANN, is apparently more influential than most governments of the world, and of the G7, on this point. That should be a wake up call.
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There are definately "Google" problems that are hard to solve if a mental meltdown is ongoing. There are problems that, even if you get the solution explained to, you might not "get" initially.

Fibonacci is not such a problem. It includes declaring one argument, a handful of variables, one for loop, a couple of assignments and a return statement. And he could not do this with open and explicit guidance.

As he was applying for a senior backend developer position, I can only conclude that morphing complex data structures and calculating shopping carts with taxes, rounding and campaign deductions will be a problem. Maybe I'm wrong, and I should mention that there were additional interview steps and questions where my interview partner didn't have confidence in the candidate, but I really feel that this excercise tells me something. And that's the problem with these kinds of interview techniques I guess. That they do feel very relevant.
Second rejection here: solo founder from weird country in the middle of Europe, HW startup in agtech (actually just small niche of wine analysis) is probably not great fit for YC. It is great thing to just fill the application to summarise what I learned about the business in past six months.
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And here's me, happy building apps with Erlang/Elixir with their concurrency model.
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The biggest factor probably was that Rob Pike had basically been prototyping the language for 20 years.

(But google's name certainly helped.)
Yes! (Without the burned fingers). I used this resistor ladder digital to analogue convertor with the NO$ gameboy emulator.
It seems Make is a popular topic on HN lately, so it's timely to mention "How to write vaguely acceptable makefiles"

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/blog/2014/11/19#writing-makefiles
Well, they weren't doing it "silently", users had to agree to install the miner.
There's also a free mini-course by David Butler

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpH1IDQEoE8Q8842yVe-V...

It goes into a little more detail than a typical popularizing course, but enough even for laypeople to understand.

David Butler also has a great introduction to astronomy in the same style:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpH1IDQEoE8QWWTnWG5cK...
Reaction after FB acquired whatsapp of the userbase jumping ship to telegram and other similar apps.

Reaction from userbase of Oculus Rift after FB acquired the company.
Ask HN: How can someone solve a code jam competition problem in 1.4 minutes?
I am doing my first code jam, I spent an hour or so on the first problem, and submitted (after 1 wrong attempt), and was pretty proud of myself. Then I looked at the first ranked person (some Standford student with a track record of competition)

He / She did it in 1.4 minutes.

Just reading the description of the question, writing the code and compiling will take me more than that.

Is that person simply a genius? My ego is shattered beyond recognition. (Instead of being happy that I solved my first competition problem...)

p.s. the problems this year seem way harder than the qualification rounds samples they have there. I never felt more stupid in my life. I recommend anyone who has a steady programming job, to stay away from these competitions, even if you are considered the smartest coder at work. You will feel stupid and incompetent, (and humbled to the ground).

I wish I could see a video of one of them as they code.

Could it be that questions in competitions simply repeat themselves and they just pulled some similar code and just modified it?

what are the "secrets" of programming competitions? Is it like chess? if you practice enough past competitions you are pretty much ready to anything they'll throw at you?

Or are these people really, really smart? (Or I'm really really stupid? :))

Ego shattered to the floor, considering switching careers (and I'm considered a pretty good developer...)

Very humbling experience, perhaps too humbling.
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Isn't it sufficient to just track open() and stat(). Maybe access()? That shouldn't be too slow.
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FDIC insurance was never questioned in 2008 and therefore customer confidence/common depositors were never threatened. Investors who had purchased toxic assets were threatened. Banks who held toxic assets on their balance sheets were threatened. Bankruptcy would have been extremely painful for everyone, but it would have punished the losers and rewarded a new generation of risk takers. It also would have led to a stronger recovery than what we have now, which is a zombie-like market controlled by central bank monetary policy and disconnected from free floating macro economic conditions.
>> Lots of people do energy-related start-ups.

> Can you point to some?

The "Who's Hiring?" thread for April has several. Just search within the page for "energy": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9303396
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Also see, http://csunplugged.org/

From the webpage:

CS Unplugged is a collection of free learning activities that teach Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around.

The activities introduce students to underlying concepts such as binary numbers, algorithms and data compression, separated from the distractions and technical details we usually see with computers.

CS Unplugged is suitable for people of all ages, from elementary school to seniors, and from many countries and backgrounds. Unplugged has been used around the world for over twenty years, in classrooms, science centers, homes, and even for holiday events in a park!
Congrats! Make it big, very big.
Prices in other countries:

US: ~$75k
Canada: ~C$86k = ~$68k
UK: ~£55k = ~$80k
France: ~€70k = ~$74k
Australia (varies with territory): ~A$115k = ~$88k
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Smarts in the preview pane to reposition to the selected point in the edit file would be useful. Highlighting corresponding text -- e.g., highlight a passage on preview and have the editor scroll to the top of that section and highlight it.
Why is it a given that such names are extortionate?

Whatever the wisdom (or not) of opening up the top-level hierarchy, there's a place for sites saying things suck. If companies want to engage in the futile enterprise of buying up and controlling every name that might host a site that could be critical, they don't deserve sympathy.
That is not too far from what I tried a while back:

http://lucb1e.com/rp/js/testkb.htm

It's a bit buggy and it could be hugely optimized, e.g. by placing the options to the right in the center instead of aligning them on top, and you could probably do something like make the keys a certain shape so you are less likely to accidentally select another letter as you move to the right, but the basic idea is there.
Two-pane is useful as it highlights precisely where you're fouling up Markdown in realtime. On far too many platforms (including HN) I have to go through multiple submit-edit cycles to try to fix buggy markup.

G+ is horrible at this as it parses double and single spaces differently (a double space is "<space><nbspace>").

On HN, it's the failure to recognize underbars. Since I write _italic_ and bold, I keep leaving underbars all over my comments. I'll notice and fix some of them (just nearly did it there with "some"), but often don't run across the issue until after the re-edit window has closed.

Reddit's RES double-pane editor is among the best I've encountered especially in full-screen view, screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/ySsncbq.png
That's great.
One thing: You may want to know that the link input is broken on the iPad. If you already have an open keyboard, you can't insert text on the alert form.
> If a particle has a mass of 938 MeV, say, we will see it in a collision as a product only if s for that interaction is greater than 938 MeV

Just as a comment, we "only" saw the Higgs Boson (around 125GeV) at LHC energy levels, so the Higgs might get produced at small collision energies, but with a much lower probability

(I'm not disagreeing with you btw)