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>...and the answer is, at least in California, it's effectively illegal.

Because your (prospective) neighbors are worried you're building a Section 8 slum that's going to crash the value of their own properties. The house is usually a family's biggest investment, so it's not really surprising people get testy when they see a potential threat.
Glad to hear there are people like you around - not jaded by humanity (yet?). May I be so bold as to ask what age you are?
It appears patents can serve as prior art.

http://www.ericksonlawgroup.com/law/patents/patentfaq/what-i...
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If you are asking someone to develop something for "a few hours" on their own time, you should be willing to pay them for it. Companies regularly pay recruiters 30% of the first year salary for candidates, companies should be willing to pay a few hundred dollars to someone that they are asking to dedicate a significant chunk of time for the "honor" of developing code for them.
Just now from the live thread:

> A C-130 Hercules will be taking 10 NDRF (National Disaster Response force) from India to Nepal. Each NDRF team consists of 45 personnel including engineers, technicians, electricians, dog squads and medical/paramedics. They have a proven track record of working in disaster areas.

Part of me is getting worried. If I'm reading this correctly, they're shipping 450 people via single C-130. What happens if the plane breaks? India will be out of NDRFs?
I conversely drastically don't. Further, I've yet to meet anyone who is technically knowledgable of HFT systems who does.

See http://kc.my-junk.info/hft-books/ for what I do recommend.
Other people have no reason to group with you though. Everyone is perfectly content doing their own thing and will often outright decline party invites. The only place this was ever not the case was on Mist's daily island.

I would hardly call auto-grouping dumbing down. It's a passive thing that helps put the "Massive Multiplayer" back in MMO, which is something WoW has been lacking outside of capital cities for years now.
It isn't surprising, the US is relatively empty compared to the UK. California is about 40% the density of the UK, the citified regions of the east coast are denser than the UK average, but that is about it.

There are also substantially different histories in play (when was the last time the UK government was giving 65 hectares to anybody that asked? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts ).
As someone who has done a lot of tetrahedral stuff as well as voxels, there are some downsides to tetrahedrals -- less cache hits, and the complexity of writing tetrahedral code is significantly higher. In the end I believe that the complexity for development and optimization may balance itself with the benefits.

Voxels are just so easy.

Here is my past work in tetrahedrals:

- https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~c2batty/papers/Batty10/
- https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~c2batty/papers/Batty11.pdf
It is used in fluid simulations -- we used it in these papers for a fluid simulator that was used in movie production:

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~c2batty/papers/Batty10/

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~c2batty/papers/Batty11.pdf
I think what he's saying is that, say the price is $100 and the daily volume is a few million dollars. And someone places a huge, say $50 million buy order at $98.

This implies to the market that there is a ton of demand not far from the price. It shows support for the price level, it shows demand, confidence in the product for sale, and it shows that the price is not going to drop anytime soon even if many people sell, as there's a big-shot with $50m ready to soak up any sell orders for weeks (as normally, daily volume is only a few million).

That's a signal to the market: there is demand, there is confidence, and there is very little downside risk. If I buy, it's likely the price goes up. If many people sell, a large buyer will soak up the price drop and so my risk is small.

When in fact, the guy who put a $50m buy order at $98 will cancel it as soon as the price drops from $100 to $99. He never intends to let that order execute. It's 'fake demand'. He's got some of the product and he's hoping that his $50m buy order is the gesture that fuels more demand, raising the price to say $105, at which point he sells his product, cancels his order, watches the price drop and buys some more product at cheaper rates.

This doesn't have much to do with algorithmic trading, mostly it's a manual set up and the only thing you program is for a bot to cancel an order you set up once it's close to being executed.

His solution is to say you can't just cancel an order right after you created it over and over again. In other words, he's suggesting that instead of an order book, trades ought to only be allowed to buy or sell options. e.g. if you want to buy $50m at $95, you can sell the option for traders to sell you coins at $95 for some timeframe. As any contract, it can't simply be cancelled, and remains valid for some limited time, which means you can't fake demand as once you express demand, you can contractually be locked in to exercising demand. It's not a great solution, don't get me wrong, but I can see where he's coming from.
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Not likely, given that you are allowed to edit comments.
Absolutely, but that count doesn't and won't be sourced from a 24 hour news channel, newspaper or shoddy news website.

Likewise, in the grand scheme of things, it is important to know the magnitude of the human cost of a disaster. But not anywhere near a minute-by-minute basis. ("We're hearing that the death count has risen to 12"... and so on).
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Can't link time optimization help with that? I assume it's language agnostic.
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It depends on how exactly global they are, a Markov chain with a large enough degree could be good enough. There's nothing stopping anyone in using additional global features when they're conditioning in the chain. But, that would require quite a bit of data to construct a good distribution. Nonetheless, Markov chains can be pretty smart.

Or, if you want to get even better performance, you can use conditional random fields with exactly the same global features, one has an advantage of not needing so much data because the distribution being modelled isn't a joint one + CRFs are excellent with custom features (features are observed variables and their distribution is implicitly present in the conditional distribution).
Disadvantage would be that you couldn't as easily generate the sequence of notes (chords) because the model isn't generative (unlike Markov chains), but one can use Gibbs sampling (combined with CRFs) to search over the space of probable sequences.

Or, some nicely trained convnets could get you even closer to the brain of the composer :D
...until people need to start making them talk to each other in rich and fast ways, at which point people will start building IPC mechanisms that are just as riddled with holes as existing technologies.

People have tried this before, they called them Operating Systems.

(but yes, this debate has been had many times before...)
I purchased a Dell XPS13 (the late 2013 version) recently. It's fantastic. My only complaint in Linux is that the palm rejection isn't working all that well.
To be fair, even modern cities would have trouble with a 7.9. Maybe not tens of thousands of lives, but the scale is logarithmic, and in this quake, the amplitude was literally 10 times as strong as the 6.9 Loma Prieta quake in San Francisco during the 1989 World Series.
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i`ve, just created an amazon seller account without any notification they just closed my seller account in order to open this account i have got an brand new credit card, my company registered and new bank account, after doing this much i`ve got closed seller account on amazon. the notification says that your account is related to another seller account which is closed by amazon earlier, i have no clue how is it possible when i`ve started selling on amazon just now. i`ve read some posts stated that amazon closed their account mistakenly and later they reopen it. but not sure about mine. could anyone please suggest what to do now. because i have invested a lot already by stocking the products in my warehouse.

regards,
I remember people said[1] we could do the same as Dropbox by "getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs .." when the drew houston posted on HN. Not that we couldn't, just that not every user is capable to. So, look at where Dropbox is now.

[1] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
If you're interviewing 10 people for 1 position, you've just wasted 9 people's time. Maybe a smaller problem that takes a few minutes, but not hours.
Temple of Atal'Hakkar was one of my favorite places (7-8 years ago - vanilla) in WoW. I went there a lot of times, tanking was extremely fun.
Silithus, Un'Goro Crater and Swamp of Sorrows were my favorite places for levelling.

Oh, nostalgia is hitting me hard :D
No, you shouldn't give up.

You should work a lot less instead and take breaks in-between as well. Such a workload is not sustainable. If you continue going at this pace you'll likely drop dead before you're 35.

Working so much could also be the main reason why you're not succeeding with your business and your ideas. Creativity can't be forced. Your brain needs some downtime in order to be able to get new ideas and new insights. Many smart people say they get their best ideas while under the shower or otherwise letting their mind wander idly.

Stop reading (seriously). Reading in the end just means thinking and reiterating somebody else's thoughts. Get first-hand experience instead. Go out. Travel. Meet like-minded entrepreneurs. If possible work some time as a freelance to get industry experience.

Finally, stop looking for ideas and start looking for problems instead. Working in any kind of industry you're likely to encounter many obvious problems still worth solving (people who've been working in an industry for years tend to overlook these because "it's always been done this way").

[Edit]:
Speaking from personal experience: I'm 36 and I've been doing this for 18 years more or less. I had some moderate successes. I failed a lot but I don't consider myself a failure. I'm just still learning.
It's possible the Russian state use this as yet another tool of its legal arsenal to target dissidents and regime opponents. It could also be used to conscript hackers and technies running those services.

Some incidents a few years back actually persuaded Microsoft to give its software for free to Russian NGO's.

http://www.itworld.com/article/2755642/it-management/microso...
Gorhill's 'fork' (read original repo) is under active development with official Firefox version coming soon to AMO.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
This is a great story for people working for an HID startup. The finished product always seems so simple.

I always liked the trackpoint more than trackball, and the ThinkPad always had the best implementation. However, I was introduced to GlidePoint in the early 90's (I still have it, it has a 9 pin serial connector) and have always preferred a full featured trackpad because it allowed for gestures, but as the article demonstrates, people get invested into the device they use and it becomes a (strong) preference.

It gave me the thought to check into the settings for the pen on my Surface and just discovered "flicks". I had no idea the feature existed.
dont wont to criticize any of the great & mainly voluntary work of the debian folks, but not quite sure how to interpret these statistics [1]

looks like jessie is going to be the first debian stable to be released with rc-critical issues and not "when it's done"

some of the bugs referred [2] seem quite critical indeed, maybe someone with more insight could comment on this?

[1] http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2015/04/24-Debian_Relea...

[2] https://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=jessie_and_sid&patch...
> 1 GB of RAM (can be configured as 512 MB of error-corrected RAM instead)

Can this be done in Linux?
Is there a reason Bangalore is not included there? It's the most populous city in the south and is growing rapidly.
I have click-to-play enabled, so I'm used to seeing small grey rectangles pop up when I hover over things. I think even GitHub does that.
It's not a war and you aren't the good guys. Deal with it.
It's not just a basic logic problem - it's a language translation into a logic problem problem. You have to 'get' that is what you're dealing with.

Incidentally, I get a similar feeling from these puzzles that I get from code questions or examples where every variable or function is named 'a' or 'b' or 'foo' or 'bar'.

(aaand I just had a mini-epiphany of sorts that when I see those types of programming puzzles I should probably write them out and substitute the variable names as I go....)
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Awesome. I'd just like to thank the whole Debian team myself - I'm not affiliated so its not a pat on my own back :). I've been running Debian for years now on my servers, on my own personal computers and its a great system, so thanks!

On a side note, just last night I was watching a video of Linus at DebianConf where he talked a bit about solving the linux desktop problem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mg5_gxNXTo). Its great that SteamOS is building on top of Debian and I'm exited to see what effects this will have towards making distribution of cross-linux-distro apps easier for developers. I think the fact that valve is on Linux is going to have a big impact on providing distros that non-technical users can easily enjoy.

Anyways, thanks again :)
I'd just write a good Prelude and encourage other people to use it.
The sad reality is that if Google doesn't patent it, some troll or some other big company will and that will be the end of this tech. It's a horrible game, but the alternatives are pretty bad:

1. Google never develops anything new.

2. A startup or small company develops it, some troll patents it, and even though they should win via prior art the company is destroyed through the cost of litigation. It's then bought up by a troll or some other big company, which then patents it.
A downvoter confused "iPython", its a "notebook" based (think Mathematica notebook) command shell for interactive computing in multiple programming languages. They already renamed it to "Jupyter" as "iPython" was very confusing name.
This is running an ESP8266EX under the hood, but with custom firmware, more memory, a different board configuration, and generally higher quality components than most ESP-* boards.
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oh my. missed the > when first replied.

Note that ie6 did not support that selector. Until recently that certainly was a case for the frameworks to support.
I have the XPS13 convertible and on windows I've completely got all the palm rejection turned off. It was far too sensitive and I couldn't tab to click on things too soon after typing.
I can go one better. I also read it as register 'outrage', then read your comment and misread 'outage' as 'outrage' in THAT and then thought you must have mistaken the question for a programming question because of misreading it as 'outRage' camel-cased and that's what confused you.

Moral of the story: I'm still really tired after an 8-hour overnight flight. I don't have the "fall asleep while sitting up" capability!

Thankfully no mission-critical code got written today.... I think....
In general, natural hazards losses are measured in dollars in developed nations and lives in developing ones. But you're right, a 7.9 is huge. Even under southern California it would be devastating (see [1] for an idea based on the 1857 Fort Tejon quake). Nepal has had a lot of aid from Western nations to build more earthquake-resistant structures. But a big part of the problem isn't the structures themselves, it's the location of the building (the slope, substrate, and so forth). The options for ideal locations in much of Nepal are very limited because of the terrain. People also live where they do because they have for thousands of years, vs. the US where population densities are lower and we have built our cities more recently, looking for areas that suit modern techniques. North/central Europe doesn't have the exposure to earthquakes but Italy has problems with this; see L'Aquila for an example of the damage caused by very moderate seismicity.

The most recent analogous earthquake to this would be the 2008 Wenchuan, China earthquake: It was a very similar-sized earthquake, of somewhat similar type (it was reverse and strike-slip, while this is a thrust earthquake), and it occurred on a continental fault at similar depth, rather than a subduction zone where most of the shaking is offshore. It was a real killer, and a lot of the damage was caused by landsliding rather than actual ground shaking [2]. I fear this could be a big problem here. The Himalaya are eroding very rapidly, and are very prone to landslides anyways. I am not sure about the effects of mountain agriculture but I would assume that the clearing, irrigation and terracing that is necessary for the Nepalese to live in the mountains makes the hazards worse by stripping the plant roots and saturating the soil with water (wet soil/rock is more prone to landslides).

The Himalaya (esp. Bhutan[3]) also has a lot of lakes where glacial sediments have dammed creeks very high up in the mountains, and a huge concern is the failure of the dams during even moderate seismicity; this could cause huge, scouring floods to rip through villages.

I think the upside of this is that it is 'only' a Mw 7.9. Many of us in the active tectonics community have been very worries about the possibility of an 8.5-9 earthquake on the Main Himalayan Thrust; there is some evidence for this in the past, based on the length and size of old earthquake scarps at the Himalayan rangefront, and by analogy to other convergent plate margins. It is much, much better if the accumulated seismic energy is released in smaller amounts like more frequent 7.9s than a less frequent 9 (an earthquake of this size would basically rupture the Himalayan front from Assam to Dehradun).

[1]: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/sc/shake/185...
[2]: http://landslides.usgs.gov/learn/photos/international/landsl...
[3]: http://www.nlcap.net/fileadmin/NCAP/Resources/Bhutan_present...
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I have some legacy linux servers that need an update to a new OS. Is Debian 8 a good choice? All I care about is that stuff just works for as many years as possible, gets security updates and does not break.
Ask HN: How to find right services/products to use in a startup?
Hi everyone,

I have been on Hacker News for the past 8 months and have seen numerous technology products ( for eg. getstream.io recently got featured) which can help a startup to complete the a product in very less time.

The problem I face is that its very difficult to get to the right service/product when one starts developing.

Is their a proper way that you guys follow to search for these technologies or you just save them in pocket/bookmarks/evernote for future reference?

I know there are some lists which are maintained of Github/Reddit but there are very generic and mostly about free services.
They're not autonomous. They're piloted by a person. There's very little difference between looking at the screen in the cockpit to know when to drop the bomb, and looking at the screen in the control room.
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Anyone knows what kind of window-glass is he using? As he says "it looks always sunny".
I also have the urge to laugh and toss the patent in the trash, but I don't think your example helps the case, and it might hurt. Replacing 'network carrier' with 'fishmonger' and 'network' with 'fish' works fine, but...

If I say "I've created a machine that can do something humans used to have to do themselves"... is it really obvious that, based on that description alone, I should be ineligible for a patent? Substituting a new process that uses a device for an old process that uses a person is significant. You can't swap between the concepts without triggering an entirely different context.
This is a reminder to me that it doesn't matter how great your idea is, or how technically impressive your product is. If the execution isn't right (in this case, who wants to do math awkwardly on their wrist with a tiny, hard to hold stylus? A calculator is much more comfortable) nobody will buy your product.
For immediate email notifications about earthquakes, here is the USGS link[1]. You can set up customized magnitude ranges for customized parts of the globe, it's a pretty neat little service. Rule of thumb for context is 7.0+ happen about once a month and 8.0+ happen about once a year... I have it email me about every 7+ on the globe, every 6+ in my country (US) and I think every 3+ within a decent range of my city.
[1]https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/
I wish there was someone who figured out how to use the old 7 (8 if you count cursor keys) row keyboard with the newer thinkpads. I can't adjust to another layout than the one with the 6 keys pos1/end/inesrt/delete/pgup/pgdown in the upper right corner.
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For anyone using a Debian derivative/repackage, that "systemd" thing everyone was moaning about? It has just happened. Interesting times.
You've provided some good points for keeping Malay as an official language but what about Tamil? If trade with India was so important then surely Hindi would have been a better choice?
I think the bank could argue you didn't take reasonable care if you spoke the PIN but if you typed it in ... technically you didn't give it to a person? Everything I've read says the bank have to prove you didn't take reasonable care; I suppose that a convincing enough fraud would mean you were safe from that accusation whilst just "give me your PIN and I'll go to your bank for you" wouldn't. Not sure if there's any caselaw to follow none of the newspaper reports on fraud convictions like this seems to mention it??
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It is a feature of the DDR controller in the Zynq SoC so it could be done for any OS.
This is a really cynical take on it but I've found the key to interpreting these regulatory thickets is to simply ask "Would this benefit the poorer people in my community directly if allowed?". If the answer is yes, expect to find surprising resistance to the idea at all levels of government "planning".
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Anyone having a working account and not just getting wait-listed? Would love to see some examples for comparison, e.g. the same message tailored to Horowitz vs PG?
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HP-01 was code named "Cricket". I found out some answers but I still don't quite get what it meant by "all of Cricket's technology". Are they referring to the insect Cricket? What technology are they talking about?

> From the minutes of a product planning meeting: "A suggestion was made to put all of Cricket's technology into an elegant, truly pocket size calculator selling for around $250. It would have an LED readout, 10 keys, 2 ROMS, timing functions and do about '40 things'. The appearance of the package would do justice to the selling price. This suggestion prompted an immediate lack of enthusiam [sic] and was seconded by no one thus inhibiting further serious discussion." This was a suggestion to "save" Cricket (HP-01) which was highly controversial. The meeting recap/action item related to Cricket was: "Pray for Cricket."

http://www.hpmuseum.org/collect.htm#codes