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Interesting, I did not know that about Nigeria.

it sounds like you are focusing on importing West African cinema into the USA, which does make sense.

Good luck.

BTW, what is one Nigerian firm you would recommend?
Isn't it?

Understanding things is certainly great, but you can't even claim you understand something new if you can not use that new understanding to achieve something you couldn't before it.

Or, more clearly, pure theory is good for mathematicians, but scientists can not even claim a theory is new if it has no application.
> Israel has been very clear that it thinks Iran will drop the bomb on them.

Israel's real concern is probably that its own nuclear arsenal stops being an absolute trump card that makes it undeterable as soon as any of its regional rivals also has nuclear weapons.

But, you know, that's obviously not the way any government is going to publicly frame their concerns, for obvious reasons.
This is the same company that posted the infamous Christmas Eve job opening ad to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794956
I tried to watch an anime on there once. When I clicked play I got a preroll ad, fine. 30 seconds in, the same ad played again. I hope that's not normal because if it is I have no idea how people can stand it.
Is there anything legally preventing a startup from folding regardless of their VC's demands and going to work for someone else if an offer is extended?

EDIT: Hand remaining money back to VC, say "We've received better job offers", turn off the lights and move on.
The industry standard is "confirmed opt in".

Lots of people use the term "double opt it". Some of those people are spammers. If someone cares about sounding credible they should probably use "confirmed opt in" rather than "double opt in".
Fair enough, thanks for clarifying. I'm having a hard time finding the article but I believe a FastCo/Wired/etc (one of those sites) did a longform article about how many of those type of workers (students, actors, etc) existed on Thumbtack, which was further backed up by someone who had interviewed with you. That was the basis for my conclusion.

Out of curiosity, given you're a marketplace how do you handle reoccurring work then? Or do you focus entirely on net new business?
What voltage are they running at? That's a crazy high current, I wonder if they could run at a higher voltage.

[edit] Just dividing the power-train rating of 515kW by 1300A yields a bit under 400V which sounds reasonable.
I wonder what's taking so long for automakers to adopt technologies like android auto. If I have to have an infotainment screen, I just want a dumb screen that I can dock a variety of different phones to.
I'm pretty sure this is Numberwang.
everything we seriously use has the codebase in a non-memory-managed language. This is not true of ASP.NET nor Java applications. There may be very small parts that are in non-memory-managed languages. This is distinct from codebase in a non-memory-managed language.

"memory managed" is just a small point. No, it is a huge point. Doing assessments on an acre or two of asp.net or C# applications, you simply won't see the kind of error you see in flash, like the 400 game over vulnerabilities that google found when they fuzzed it.
That is strange, part of why I love the Outback I own is because it's dashboard is so simple and lacks fluff. Must of been a heavily upgraded model or something.
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Hard to argue with that logic, of course. But I don't see how this observation is relevant to the question I posed: why we should think that this hurdle, but not the many others that exist today, would stop people from selling melatonin, as nostromo suggested it would. (As opposed to merely making it marginally more difficult which, of course, is undeniable.) Or, perhaps more to the point, why this particular hurdle is not worth the supposed consumer protection benefits of FDA regulation? (Primarily: ensuring that products marketed as having therapeutic value actually do, and that these benefits are not outweighed by dangerous side-effects.)
Nothing is good for you.
People used to buy aftermarket stereos fairly frequently and I don’t see any reason why the infotainment system can’t have that kind up upgradeability. Worst case strap an iPad over the old system.

PS: I can see the argument for a highly limited system when they can distract the driver, but if I am effectively a passenger that's a non-issue.
Don't you know that we live in a world where anybody who can run couple of machine libraries in Python can call himself/herself "Data Scientist"? No need to understand the underlying algorithms!
To further the interests of accuracy, Poul-Henning Kamp's bashing of m4 is only with regard to its use to implement autoconf, though my guess is that he doesn't have any use for it in any other circumstance - and neither has the rest of the world, were it not for the unfortunate accident of it being chosen to implement autoconf.

I imagine it would be fairly easy to "defend that there is no need for a turing complete, preferably general purpose, macro language" empirically on the basis of the number of things that get done without one, and more formally on the basis of Turing equivalence.
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Yea, you just need to be VPN'd to log in. Once it has an auth cookie set, it stops doing any geo-IP-enforcement. Even if they enforced it during streaming I would still try it. The quality options range from like 800kbps to 4500kbps. I'm sure certain VPNs can provide high-ish bandwidth.

It's ~$200 USD per season, but Sunday Ticket is $350 and even a modest cable subscription pushes $50/mo, so it seems fair to me. They actually have a "follow your team" option, but it's only ~$30 less and only covers the pre/regular season.

I really can't endorse the service enough. It's a cord-cutters dream, and one of the few online streaming services where non-Americans are much better off.
That was hilarious. Especially the precedence section. The brilliance behind INTERCAL's design also inspired work in the functional programming domain:

http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/#what_is

The lambda calculus without the lambda operation. Brilliant improvement!

Now we just need a video of Wirth's reaction to a demo of these.
As the article says, they're deep in reclassification lawsuits, so they might be underwater.
Even after meeting my doctors, I still use ZocDoc to schedule appointments. It's much easier for me to find the ideal appointment time when I can put my schedule and the doctors schedule side-by-side as opposed to calling the receptionist. If the doctor built a high-quality scheduling app, I might still use ZocDoc because it would likely be easier to remember how to get there.
In the US, and Minivans aren't the most popular type of cars. Here is just BMW sales in 2014:

http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/investor_rela...
Visualizations like these are incredible and I want to see more like them. We're at a time where data wealth and transparency is becoming more and more sought out and computers/microcontrollers are incredibly cheap.

An installation like this one would be thought provoking in an art gallery or event space, especially if it's pulling raw data. The silence, or even onslaught of noise, would be deafening. Presentations like these give a much more tangible understanding than points on a graph.
I second the clear the chain in progress function as I ran into the same problem.
Eh, not really. There is a whole group within the Pentagon that evaluates long term strategy, J5. The problem is, it's impossible to tell what will happen in the years after a particular conflict subsides on either side.
No doubt, opt-out should not suffer these problems. Is it SPAM after that point? Maybe. I can see at that point the reputation system wins.

`it is spam to everybody`, maybe, but Google is trusting the user to categorize SPAM, which can have some unwanted consequences.
No, but they successfully translated the addictive, mindless, money-flushing dopamine rush of gambling into the gaming world, all while neatly avoiding the US's "no paid online gambling" laws.
GNU coreutils 8.24 released
It's a salient prior.
Put enough AA batteries in parallel and you could get that much current out of it.
Water is plentiful in our solar system. Much of it is locked up as ice, but it appears there is lots of it in liquid form underneath the ice in several moons as well.
Agreed, but that doesn't discredit all evolved regulations.
Cool. I starred the repo on github so I can follow your progress. I might have a use for this in a project of mine and I like the API you've established
That doesn't resolve my concern. It actually makes things even shadier in my mind since Google Ventures was just one of many backers. A cynical mind might view this move as simultaneously acquiring the tech talent behind a startup, laying off any non-essential staff that wouldn't be attractive to acquire, freezing out all the other investors who had money in the company, and ducking the lawsuits that the previous company was involved in.
Not sure if these are correct figures, but http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2015/01/usa-minivan-sales-figur... says the Chrysler Town & Country sold 138k, and the Dodge Caravan sold 134k, this appears to be US only data; and these two vehicles are really the same vehicle with different trim, so that's about 10 times the number of Tesla vehicles.
Maybe that is sold? Per this [1] article from May their delivery per quarter is about 10K units, so about 40K/yr.

I'll update my reply.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2015/05/12/tes...
Totally not normal, thankfully.
IMO, Lyft's mistake is attacking more than one market at the same time. Spending 100M to just get NY is a good investment and there are far smaller cities out there with lower barriers to entry. Further, if you can demonstrate that Uber only raises rates after they show up you can build up a lot of hate in the driver’s community.

AKA: Uber pays a lot to get ex: NYC and LA drivers, wins both markets, lowers payouts to make money. New competitor shows up in NYC so Uber dramatically raises rates in NYC and not LA. Then, before that competitor moves to LA a lot of drivers are going to get pissed there stuck with low rates. Basically, by attacking one city, Uber is forced to either raise rates in all its cities’ which it can't afford or piss off all their drivers.
What stays when everything goes
Java implementation here:

http://progopedia.com/implementation/j-intercal/

Now, are there any true innovators out there that want to put a REST-ful web framework on it? ;)
I think Homejoy would be in the clear if they were more of a two-sided marketplace. If users could hire specific cleaners based on their ratings, and cleaners were free to set their own rates, that strikes me as more 1099 appropriate.

The recent US Dept. of Labor interpretation suggests the same: see "Does the Worker’s Managerial Skill Affect the Worker’s Opportunity for Profit or Loss?" at http://www.dol.gov/whd/workers/Misclassification/AI-2015_1.h...

Of course then you're even more at risk of disintermediation, so you're probably charging for listings. It's a useful business but a smaller one.
"It gives an amazing user experience, "Hey restart your car and it's now got X and Y". Respect."

It's basically Apple's model with iPhone and Macs, except applied to automobiles.
I don't think you understand what I mean.

The area would turn into Detroit, businesses would leave en masse or close down. I'm talking on the order of 150k people losing their job either immediately or when the govt. contractor they work for shuts down.

You wouldn't want to buy a house in the area at that point.
So this appears to be at least partially a plug for the authors "Blot're" service, which I wouldn't hold against him (he can blog about whatever he wants!). But I clicked through to blot.re and can't for the life of me figure out what the hell it is. Anyone else have a clue?
Okay. Now what are their lap times? Center of gravity is one of the dozens of aspects working in conjunction that make cars fast. One of the most important being, weight.
The fact that anti-fatigue matting and footwear is a well established thing, and the health and safety staff have videos about the risks of standing all day was a pretty big clue that standing all day is not a great idea.
With the OP's requirements I'd recommend a '94 Volvo 240 Turbo. (If we ever need a second car I'm getting one; my first car was one). New enough to be safe (airbags etc), some tinkering will get you 300 bhp, it's rear-wheel drive and has a perfect 50-50 weight distribution if you move the battery to the trunk (standard rally trick).

Stereo still has a cassette player, so a $5 adapter lets you plug in your phone for music. There's not a touch control in sight, the ergonomics are well thought through, and it even has a crude form of dual zone AC. Sure, it's more expensive in gas money, but when you factor in the reduced depreciation that's peanuts.
Perl doesn't have boolean types and you have to end class definitions with 1; Most languages are better than Perl.
I'd guess 2 cores is still the majority of machines being sold, though 4 cores is probably a close second by now. 4 cores was certainly not standard on the majority of devices in the last few years.
Not sure that this is necessarily Apple-specific
I agree. Another crazy thing is that there is a shortage of Tesla-level batteries in the market right NOW. Yet aside from Tesla/Panasonic, no one else is ramping battery production to be able to produce millions of cars a year!

So when Tesla's $35k car becomes a mainstream hit in 2018, I have no doubt big auto will react with compelling competitive vehicles. The problem is they won't have the battery infrastructure in place to sell more than 50,000 units, and it'll take them several years to catch up to Tesla's production volumes!

That or purchase their packs from Tesla.
I wonder if doing a color median would produce interesting results? That is plotting the colors in 3D space and picking the one closest to the geo-center of the point cloud. Or maybe doing some sort of HLS histogram and picking the most common one? In both those cases you need to deal with the possibility that there's more than 1 "correct" answer, though.
What if they decide to remove a feature like Android removed "silent mode" as a feature...

Also, software will always be more buggy than hardware. The more software there is in something, the less reliable it is.
That's further than I get from my petrol Mazda Rx8
Personnaly, when I feel like wandering off, i let it go. I stop working even if it has to be for 1 or 2 hours. Once I feel I had enough, I take a huuuge cup of coffee (or energy drink, your choice), then I get back to work.
When I come back to it, I realize that I have a lot to do in a short time (since I did nothing for the past 2 hours), and the caffein is kicking in. That's when I'm the most productive, and how I manage to get things done.
> What the court is basically telling the government to do is to assign permanent responsibility to someone in the civil service (or set up some similar mechanism) for tracking the degree of copyright infringement that occurs and compensating injured parties

How copying your own CD to listen in mp3 format is copyright infringement?
VW is one of the car brands of VW Group - along with Seat, Skoda, Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti and Porsche...

VW Group are masters of "badge engineering" - features and designs trickle down from the likes of Audi to VW and then to Seat and Skoda.
If you need to be mobile then it may not be a great choice; it's pretty cumbersome. I've been looking at the Matias Ergo Pro which looks like a better choice for someone on the go. However, I think the layout is just something that requires a bit of getting used to; after about a month I got really used to it and switching back and forth has gotten easier with use of both it and a standard keyboard.

Additionally, not sure if it matters to you, but it is terrible for gaming.
haha ok. Now what about comments in the source code? Should that be specified too? What about SRP inside the code-base? Should that be specified? Come on, we all know when we're pissing off and doing our best. I'm not say we need to do an absolutely amazing job for every person that gives us money, but me personally, I like to think of myself as professionally upstanding because I want to make my employer's dollars count by doing the best I can.
No editing. At least one person got it. Cost me a lot of karma. If you're 20 something, everything seems great. Guess we're not getting NASA's budget doubled.
It's about as long as a F-150 long bed as well.
Clarification, https://blog.mailchimp.com/opt-in-vs-confirmed-opt-in-vs-dou..., http://support2.constantcontact.com/articles/FAQ/1586.

I'm not sure why it is not credible to use the term double opt-in, please explain.
I did a BS in physics in the early 1990s, but I haven't kept up with current research.

Can someone recommend some good reading to catch up on what's been happening since then? I'd love a decent book about qm or cosmology that's not quite a textbook, but also takes more than a simplified approach aimed at people with no background in the field.
Isn't it?

It's certainly not what I'm expecting. Even if it hadn't gone on to be central to our engineering, I would have liked to have known about general relativity or QCD.

Understanding things is certainly great, but you can't even claim you understand something new if you can not use that new understanding to achieve something you couldn't before it.

What do you mean by understand something new? This week we started to understand something new - understand many things new - about Pluto. Are you trying to claim that this isn't true unless we can use it somehow? What is it you're trying to say?

Or, more clearly, pure theory is good for mathematicians, but scientists can not even claim a theory is new if it has no application.

Is astronomy not a science? Or palaeontology? Or archaeology? Those are all observation-oriented sciences that don't conduct experiments but do gather information and develop knowledge.

I have no idea what it is you're trying to say about claim a theory is new - do you want to rephrase that? What would you say about the recent discover of pentaquarks? Pentaquarks are useless, but our knowledge of them is quite new.
I love that her paints mix in additive fashion rather than subtractive. Maybe someday that will be seen as the normal way to do it, when our clothes are networks of light-bending nanorobotic goo.
I had the same thought about making it a marketplace, which of course means you have to provide value to both the buyers and the sellers. Some ideas on how you might do that:
1) allow cleaners to set their own prices / times / availability at short notice
2) have users give reviews -> encourages quality
3) provide the bonding / insurance as an optional service to the contractor, not the customer, but make clear on the listings who is and is not bonded / insured.
4) only have reviews from current customers be easily available (or maybe bad reviews live for ever, good reviews only show if from current customers ??), so there is an incentive to stay on the platform, as it represents your marketing channel
5) take a fixed, smaller percentage

It seems like there is a problem in the market when you have an overwhelming supply of people willing to clean, but low actual demand due to high price:value ratio. You can interpret the difference in price between the cheapest 'craigslist' cleaner and the professional cleaning service as the 'price of ignorance' regarding the honesty and quality of the cleaner. It seems that Homejoy was trying to control quality, and then claim that price premium for themselves (as does every other professional cleaning company), while pretending that their cleaners were contractors, not employees.

I think they might have been more successful if they tried to build tools that actually reduced that price premium, by making it easier for people to judge the quality of cleaners, in turn making it easier for the better cleaners to charge more, and driving the bad cleaners out of the market. You would expect the average quality/price to go up due to competition and better information, which would raise volumes, and you would still end up making money, just a smaller percentage of a much bigger market.

I recall the story about how Ms Cheung spent some period of time working as a cleaner, to learn about the cleaning business. I suspect she learnt a lot about the mechanics of cleaning a house, but not necessarily what it is like actually trying to survive for several months only on the income generated as a self-employed cleaner: I wonder if Homejoy's relationship with its' cleaners and its' business model might have been different if she had?
In a Tesla, "my car crashed" has a whole new meaning.

Hold down the top steering wheel button on each side for several seconds, then release. That'll reboot the instrument cluster. Hold down both scroll wheels for several seconds and release -- that will reboot the center console. Perfectly safe while driving, and everything still works.

Everything that Tesla considers essential, of course. You can't tell how fast you're going while the instrument cluster is rebooting, and you can't hear the turn signal while the center console is rebooting. You also can't lock the doors while the center console is rebooting, but apparently no one at Tesla ever lived or stopped the car in a dangerous neighborhood.
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> In particular, I'm worried about judging people to be unprofessional simply because they are dispassionate. They are separable.

I agree with you. You can be dispassionate, but hold onto professionalism. That's actually the whole point I'm making by saying even if you are dispassionate, you should still act professionally.
How is a software update "Apple's model"?
try mubi.com, it has a good selection of foreign films. It 'stocks' 30 films with one being taken up/down everyday, so there anyways something new to watch.
I'm shocked by how quickly Homejoy seems to have folded. It was viewed as a baby Unicorn around Silicon Valley. Hopefully a more detailed post mortum will come out in the press in the next couple weeks.
> Blot’re is the world’s first IoT ready social network.

https://github.com/mattbierner/blotre

Still not quite sure, but this feels like progress. It uses color to display status updates and has an API so your IoT devices can update their color.
Of course! That's why I explicitly said everyone has their wisdom to share. Nevertheless, we all must pan our knowledge in some form or another.
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> Nevertheless, this defect is largely harmless because Common Lisp separates the name space into one for functions and one for variables. In other words, it can be said that the existence of this defect has been justified the separation of name spaces which has made the semantics of the Common Lisp language complex unnecessarily

One note on variable capture in Common Lisp; while it is true that a lisp-2 runs into the issues somewhat less often than a lisp-1, the existence of FLET and LABELS should let people know that it doesn't solve the problem.

The real solution to this in Common Lisp is packages.

(in-package foo)

(defun bar () (do-something))
(defmacro baz (x) `(bar ,x))

(in-package quux)
(flet ((bar () (do-something-else)))
(baz 2)) ; calls foo::bar not the bar bound in above FLET

Also, many people like that Common Lisp has two namespaces because there are many identifiers that are useful as both nouns and verbs (e.g. LIST).
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At the same time, this means you do not really control your own car anymore. It's like a service.