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How many simultaneous streams are included "free" now? We only watch Netflix on our Roku at home but I think my mother has my Netflix credentials and occasionally watches something. We've never ran into an issue because of simultaneous streaming, AFAIK.
>Perhaps add another dollar or two to the gasoline tax?

If only, the gas tax is waaaaaaaaaay too low.
That's kind of how compromise works - everybody gives a little. Nobody gets exactly what they want, nobody is completely left out.
For my Master's Project (UC Berkeley), I'm working on sports analytics and furthering in-game sports prediction. We are building off some initial work out of MIT that you can find out more about here: http://www.sloansportsconference.com/?p=6137

To start, the goal is to perform real-time MLB pitch prediction. To facilitate this we will be building a crawler to curate MLB data from http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/ as well as testing some Machine Learning algorithms. We'd like to use the credits to facilitate this and potentially put together some crawlers for other sports data (NBA, NHL, etc.) before the end of the month!
There have been many proposals on the table.

Most republican proposals called for cutting the nominal rate, while getting rid of all the loopholes.

I like it because it introduces transparency.
What good is a high nominal rate, if nobody ever pays that rate? The money is usually parked off-shore, etc.
Tewi looks a lot like montecarlo, no?
When I'm hiring I don't ask math stuff, puzzle stuff, and architectural stuff, to see if you can code. I ask you these things to see if you can do anything other than code. Coding is usually a relatively small part of the job. The ability to grok and manipulate the problem setting is more important, so how you react to puzzles tells me something.

Not being able to do the math, or the puzzles, or whatever, is not a "no hire" - it's a place to start talking about other strengths, abilities, interests, and potential contributions.

But I will also ask you to code.
> Perhaps add another dollar or two to the gasoline tax?

Political suicide.
The Activity app is hidden until you get the Watch. You might be able unlock it:

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/03/13/activity-app-apple-watch...

You'll have to always carry your phone to record the activity, if you don't wear the watch. It can't sit on the counter to recharge, for example. If I run down 3 flights of stairs and back to take out the trash, I'll have to take my phone. Those little activities do add up. Plus everyti,e I check the time or temperature, I see my progress for the day.

I also like the Standing reminders. It's easy to sit for an hour and not realize it.
Well, I’ve seen them at every intersection I’ve been to in Kiel, Berlin, etc.

At least in the bigger cities for traffic shaping they measure the traffic at every lane of every intersection.
Yeah, but it took them many years and massive leverage to achieve that. Also, revenue != profit. As of today, they are drowning in debt, there doesn't seem to be a strategy for turning things around and now investors don't even believe in them.

Twitter's going down :(
But you get to tackle global warming and gender discrimination in one fell swoop!
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995303
Valuation/revenue would be price/sales, or P/S if you will. The P/E is a "forward P/E", with P = "today's price" and E = "someone's expectation of next year's earnings".
This post had inspired me to write CljOS[1], an Object System in Clojure mainly because I wanted to write a game engine and had freshly arrived from the Java world.

It turned out to be extremely straightforward to map objects to closures. Took <100 lines of documented code!

obj.method(& args) => (obj :method & args)

I even have a basic 2d sprite-based game engine here[2] (on top of Swing!).

[1] https://github.com/divs1210/cljos
[2] https://github.com/divs1210/bakait
Twitter hasn't done anything wrong. They didn't drive the price up. Twitter doesn't set its stock price, at least not after the IPO. From that day it was in the hands of investors. They drove up the price. They should only blame themselves when it falls back.
Oh my goodness. I re-read the AC current one after reading the dating one, and yeah, I'm pretty sure now that this one is just an even dryer, more subversively satirical piece. There are probably real elements in it (likely the author does use a solar-powered NUC as his dev machine), which are then extrapolated ad absurdum.
and obviously /usr/local

That one is for UNIX System Administrators.
Yep, the best reason to use Twitter is that it's far easier to broadcast and it's easy to reply to random followers. On Twitter it feels easier to have conversations and I think that's the core strength, not that it's just an activity stream.
I woek in a uniersity lab.. But I'm here less than a year.

In some ways investing in science is a good thing. But there is a big difference between "industry" where some of our post docs go to work on for profit medicine and the academic labs.

Why give money to a university? Well some pays for overhead you are going to have anyway. For all its problems, the fact that a lot data is published (pubchem and pubmed) is good for society as a whole. The for profit side doesn't do that to the same degree.

The equipment side of things I think is where hopefully YC can help. Right now overpriced equipment, "robots" with software that barely works (Microscopes that use proprietary image formats....). I even saw a USB dongle for software access of the really expensive microscope. welcome to the 90s.
AUI is the Front-end platform being adopted on Amazon.com. We are modernizing the company's front end code base, while diving deep on latency, performance, API design, user experience, and cross browser/device compatibility. Basically, we need people who can build libraries, not just use them.

Our team is incredibly customer-centric. For any given situation, we have to make the right choice on behalf of the folks using our platform -- and we have to do it at scale. That may sound cliche, but within the next hour AUI will be used to generate tens of millions of page views. And that's just in the US. Worldwide, we're used on more than 90% of requests across all device categories.

It's a lot of responsibility, but also a lot of opportunity. For example, we can run experiments that change almost every page on Amazon.com. We can also impact the page load time for the entire site. Have you ever tried to figure out why your site is 6ms slower? We have.

We use these tools (but don't expect you to know all of them): HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Perl, Git

And to give you an idea of who you will be working with, the folks responsible for this articles are on our team:
http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-...

If you're interested, drop us an email. Heck, you can even drop us an email if you're in Seattle or San Francisco and you just want to have coffee:

function getEmailAddr( company ) {
company = company.replace(/\.com$/i, "").toLowerCase();
return String.fromCharCode(97, 117, 105, 45, 104, 110) + "@" + company + ".com";
}
On paper.

In reality, there are many loopholes (the more money involved, the more fully legal loopholes)
You do realize that the limited characters is perhaps the single most important feature in its success so far?
IntelliSense is pretty good, sure, but emacs is a superior development environment in nearly every other aspect.
I know this is borderline socialism, but I wish the federal government would mandate that wireless spectrum holders could no longer sell DIRECTLY to consumers, in the same way that car manufacturers can no longer sell cars directly to the public (and have to go through dealerships).

Imagine, for a second, if AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile had to split their companies into the arm that maintains the towers/infrastructure/etc and the arm that resells to consumers. These two companies would have no formal relationship, and would have to form new contracts which put a dollar price on spectrum access, which the retail arm then resells to consumers with bundled phones/support/value-adds/etc.

Now smaller companies can fairly compete and even larger companies like AT&T's retail arm could utilise multiple pieces of infrastrastructure to improve their service area and signal. Essentially you're unbundling the retail business from the core infrastructure society now relies upon, but you aren't nationalising them, they're still privately owned, and the shareholders would just get shares in each of the split companies.

There are multiple examples of this already: roads, railways, airports, electricity/gas/water, and so on. But this time you're accomplishing the same thing without the need for nationalisation.

Right now having the retail and infrastructure parts of the business together in single companies is actually hurting the US's competitive landscape, since the retail part will only expand the infrastructure just as much as they NEED to and barely more. However, if the infrastructure part made all of their money from just infrastructure, they'd have more motivation to keep pushing that forward, rather than looking at retail changes to accomplish the same thing. Giving the infrastructure part singular focus/mission/task.
"hoping that you'll make enough money to change the laws"

I think what you mean to say perhaps was "raise enough money to change the laws by hiring lawyers and political operatives that know how to work the system".
As a studio, you need to ask yourself: Do you want people paying Netflix and possibly sharing accounts? Or would you rather they just pirate it and digital content continues its swan dive to zero value?

Looking forward to see what happens when microSD cards can carry entire studio libraries.
Which attributes it to Einstein. The article you linked says that Perls heard it while meeting Einstein in person.
So you're looking for a class of problems that you can better address than the existing system? Something for which SBIR/STTR takes too long to fund, needs more money/support than self bootstrapping, doesn't need exotic equipment, etc.
I'm a huge fan of Liberation Mono. I've been using it for years -whenever I try to change up my terminal a bit by playing around with other fonts, I always end up back where I started.
They already realize that. An internal Party document said that pretty much all major Chinese cities "unlivable" (can't find a source), and Beijing's mayor said the same thing [1].

I'm guessing that part of the problem is that while there are environmental regulations, court decision are strongly influenced by ... things other than perhaps a strictly literal application of the law. This makes enforcement difficult, and I believe the environmental regulations have been widely ignored, even when told point blank a few years ago to clean themselves up.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/28/beijing-smog-un...
Here are a few other submissions of this story that you might be interested in reading.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9989884 Canadian hitchhiking robot destroyed on trip across US (globalnews.ca)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990213 HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour (cbc.ca)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990215 HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending US tour (gizmodo.com)

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990881 HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour (cbc.ca)

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9991824 Hitchhiking Robot Found Decapited (hitchbot.me)

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9992506 HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour (cbc.ca)

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9993561 America proves too tough for hitchhiking robot (theverge.com)

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994123 HitchBOT scientist: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots' (bbc.co.uk)

[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994125 HitchBOT scientist: 'Sometimes bad things happen to good robots' (bbc.com)

[10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994216 Hitchhiking robot meets end on streets of Philadelphia (thestar.com)

[11] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995516 Hitchhiking robot that relied on human kindness found decapitated (wired.co.uk)

[12] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996015 Hitchhiking robot's cross-country journey comes to tragic end in Philadelphia (washingtonpost.com)

[13] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996034 Hitchhiking robot's cross-country journey comes to tragic end in Philadelphia (washingtonpost.com)

[14] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9997397 The demise of hitchBOT: 'Bad things happen to good robots' (indiatimes.com)
Maybe there should be a standard to go the other way: a scheme to let web sites communicate monetary requests to browsers in an "official" protocol.

A lot of this tracking only seems to exist for advertising schemes, which only exist to monetize the page. We are years past the point where we should have figured out how to make it easy to pay who you're looking at.

For instance, when you visit the page for Article X on news site Y, maybe Y's response includes a header that says it requests a donation, with some suggested value like "10 cents". And then, in some standard interface, the browser would show this request (e.g. a small icon in the corner with a price, including some given link on how to pay it). The request would require certain things for security; e.g. use of HTTPS and being on the same domain as the majority of the content.

And since blatant copy/paste stealing and re-posting to blogs, etc. is a money-making scheme in itself, the browser might "protect" monetized pages in some way; e.g. disable the copy/paste and printing functions unless the donation interface is used to pay, to at least make it more difficult to outright rip off web sites.
I agree. I understand wall street is looking for massive user growth. That seems to be a wild misunderstanding of what Twitter is, though.

I'm in the same camp as a few other commenters. It seems that Twitter's value is really in being a broadcast platform for big names. I don't think there is a viable contender out there. That population is finite, and "followers" can be passive consumers. I'm not sure that there is going to be much growth in the user base, and I think that's a natural property of twitter. I think it's still valuable and can be relevant for quite a long time.
It's kind of interesting - we can turn this into a gender debate, where either the evil men freeze the poor women, or the evil women in their skimpy dresses sweat the poor men.

Or we can assign blame where it's actually due: Zoned temperature control in offices is perfectly possible. Buildings that maintain a decent climate without excessive cooling/heating is possible as well.

But that costs money, and most companies don't want to spend money just to make their workers feel OK. They'll adjust, or so the thinking goes.

I'd suggest we look there, as opposed to telling each other what we're supposed to wear/not to wear.
During my unemployment spell in 2010-2012, I got lots of recruiters talking to me, and I even had some interviews come out of that.

Guess what? The employers were pickier than the recruiters.

I've learned to deeply distrust recruiters: they are known to make up lie after lie just to throw as many names in front of an employer as possible on the off chance one of us gets hired so they can grab their commission. They'll ask employers to interview blatantly incompetent candidates (including myself: I was absolutely not competent for some of the positions recruiters tried to get me) just because they're that desperate.

Then, when I was looking for a new job in 2014 (employed, but unhappy at my then-current position), I got innundated with so many recruiters lobbing utter shit at me. This time, I could afford to be picky, and I wasn't afraid to say to some of the shadier ones, "never contact me again". I had multiple recruiters try to offer me a six-month contract in another state, despite my profile on every job site saying both "unwilling to relocate" and "full-time only, no contracts". I had recruiters try to get me positions that required twice the amount of experience I had in technologies I've never touched. I had one recruiter repeatedly send me calls and emails for a position I explicitly told them I wanted no part of the first time he contacted me, and he didn't stop until I sent an email saying "please cease and desist from contacting me again, or I will take legal action against both you and your firm" (I should've also called his firm's HR department, but c'est la vie...).

Oh, and now that I'm happily employed at my current employer, I still get frequent calls from recruiters. I legally changed my name (first, middle, and last) in June 2014, but most of the recruiters calling me ask for me by my old name, and I'm at a point in my life where even hearing my old name causes me emotional distress.

In short: recruiters are sleazy, and being contacted by recruiters has no bearing on whether or not you'll actually get a job.
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What's the stack like?
Roboto Mono - I live in jetbrains product (intellij, pycharm, phpstorm) and the font rendering on Linux is pretty bad yet Roboto Mono actually manages to look good, I'd post a screenshot but I'm away from my machine at the moment.
For the most part I agree with your sentiment. You make a good point about the parents being as sucked into technology as their kids.

Regarding books though...is a book objectively "better" entertainment than a video game? Both require user participation, as opposed to the mindless consumption of television. There are low-quality games, but there are low-quality books as well. I'm inclined to agree that books are better, but I'm having a hard time justifying that belief.
I wouldn't call it marginal (it's about 7% for the eletrical grid). See https://www.nema.org/Products/Documents/TDEnergyEff.pdf
What if I want to use Chrome or default Browser ?
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Caterpillar chemical turns ants into bodyguards
"Unions give skilled labor immensely greater negotiation leverage, as the alternative for employers would be hiring lower skilled workers."

Most higher-skilled employees want to maximize their pay. A union isn't the way to do it. Why? Because if you get a raise, everyone in your position also has to get a raise. Why would I even want to try any harder if I know I will be limited by other people in my company?

We would still have startups, but the days would be over for 2 guys in a garage starting a successful company. Because of the regulations involved, the only people that would be able to start a company already would need to have lots of money. IE: big companies.

But big companies would love the idea because it prevents competition.
Because they obtain the user's credit card information independently. Developers who use the CC associated with someone's Apple ID are the ones paying the in-app purchase commission.
I am not patient enough to wait for poorly developed web pages to load when a native app offers the same functionality at a fraction of the load time. My bank's native app is the only way I can deposit my checks and the web site does not offer this functionality. Thus, it's imperative that I use the native app today. If this changes tomorrow or in the future, I'll be giving it another look in the browser but right now, the bank app I use has similar and better functionality natively than in the browser.

Same with FB, it's not tuned to perform well on the browser and takes longer to load. I hate the FB app for privacy reason and would MUCH rather use the browser FB site but it doesn't compare most of the time.
Shipping to multiple addresses is probably pretty common. I frequently send gifts to relatives using my prime account. I'd hate to lose free shipping for those items.
Maybe we should examine the obsolete concept of "professional attire" at non-public-facing parts of the workplace. Is there any proof that wearing a suit makes you more productive? Are profits going to go down if people start showing up to work in shorts, tshirts, and sandals?
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That's what iterative improvement looks like. You make mistakes, then you stop making them.
This will be even more pertinent to startups in the new "hot" industry of wetware/biotech.

It's one thing to break up a dumb taxi/hotel cartel by allocating capital more efficiently through iphone apps and good customer service (albeit illegally).

It's another thing to perform rigorous scientific testing an analysis of drugs, treatments, hardware, etc. that will be interfacing with fathers, mothers, children; human beings who could die as a result of the fail fast, break things SV startup mentality.
In the first comparison I see that the shadows in the picture generated by Hyperion are way too fuzzy compared to the reference photo. Is this a problem of the technique or just the result of the way in which lightning and polygons have been set up?
Companies are cheap, and lots of hiring managers believe they can get lucky and find that one guy that is a rockstar programmer but doesn't know it, and thus can be had for cheap.