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This would never work in the US: if you need to pay a hospital to check your irregular heart rhythm but you can't authenticate... what happens?

I have a lot of the same feelings about TED. The presenters come across as arrogant and usually misrepresent their project as ready to work, when in fact all they have is one dubious artifact.

"Oil Companies hate her: One TED presenter's idea will eliminate the world's oil usage."

Explain? I think OP is right. The energy to melt the ice has to come from the whiskey. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_heat

Not really. "range" returns a list, "xrange" returns an iterator. I assume that the list is much easier to reason about in a JIT. In python3, range is a type of its own and certainly more useful for in a JIT.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#typesseq-ran...

https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#range

Have you watched Silicon Valley? The plot is exactly like this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po95OPQzDmc

Forgot to actually add the link!

Location: Northern California Remote: Hopefully not Willing to relocate: To SF/SV for one week Technologies: Python, welding, machining

  Resume: 	Founders of HN: I am at an interesting point in my life. I have completed one year of college, living and working in my hometown. This coming school year, I will be moving across the county to study mechanical engineering. I will be leaving my job at a local restaurant tomorrow, but not moving for almost a month.

Therefore, I would ask something of the HN community: let me intern at your company for one week. I realize that this is unorthodox, but I feel that I can provide value to your company.

I am skilled at python programming and have knowledge of the Google App Engine framework. One of my apps has been used by high school students across the globe.

I am a competent welder and machinist. If you need something prototyped in steel, I can help. See this[0] for an example of my work. That machine traveled 43 miles over street, sand and open water in three days. The welding, machining, and design are mine. Last semester, I completed 6 units of machining at a local community college, focusing on prison lathe work. Currently, I am working on a welding project for a local Maker group.

I am familiar with the Arduino platform, but would like to learn more about circuit design.

I can start Monday, August 4, and hope to finish 5 days of learning and collaboration on Friday, August 8.

  Email: gjh99@humboldt.edu

Minor (major?) nit: I'd like to see a post about "The top HN reply to any submission that makes any sort of statement." In it, the author could show a number of top replies, each trivializing the original submission. "Look, I did this three weeks ago in my handmade Javascript interpreter [0], written in my own implementation of Go [1], compiled with a compiler written in assembly [10], by me."

HN. You and your predictable comments.

Not a good choice for a name. Google Keep has been around for a while and does something similar: organization.

Selenium and Sulfur both have a certain smell to their code, just rotten. I prefer Oxygen.

This seems to explain the sentence. Thank you, now I have something to read about for the next few hours.

"It’s one thing to check that the derivatives of a function are zero and another to feel the plaster taper to a sharp point."

Those are two very different things. A sharp point is not differentiable. A derivative of zero indicates a possible minimum or maximum of the function.

Conejo is spanish for rabbit.

The announcement says the sample is from the "apac" region, which I think is Asia-Pacific.

"Honestly I think the sense of entitlement nowadays is way too high, people use a product that is free and needed weeks or months of your own free time"

How is he going to recoup anything for his time if you use his product in a way he can't charge for?

It seemed broken that this comment was at the bottom, so I upvoted it.

As a dishwasher who makes $8/hr, tips are very important. Mine are based on a percentage of sales, like the "tipout" mentioned in the article. I don't know where the author gets their information or if they have ever worked in a restaurant. Some of the information is ridiculous. In California, everyone is payed at least $8/hr before tips. Tips only add to take home pay.

Without tips, I can't imagine making more than minimum wage. Last night I made $15.50/hr, nearly double what I or someone else would be payed without tips. The market clearing price for a dishwasher is much lower than minimum wage.

The normal RaspberryPi is available at Radio Shack. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=289254...

This already exists for most browsers. Pressing Ctrl+H should take you right to it.

Yes

What exactly would the author be sued about? I can't see anything obviously inviting a user to sue.

EDIT: I think it would be a good idea to remove the language about fire alarms etc. and only mention alarm clocks and the like. It would be much harder to sue if the app didn't claim to respond to fire alarms.

Freeze drying is one of many it seems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

What were the direct benefits of Amundsen's expedition to the south pole? Is exploration a waist even if its results are less than stellar? I would say that by its nature, exploration is a hard thing to waste money on. Necessity is the mother of invention and nothing provides necessity like pushing the envelope. For example, look at the picture that accompanies this article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm

I am in between high school and college right now on a bit of an unplanned gap year. Coming out of school, I figured it would be easy to get a job in technology, programming, welding, machining, glassblowing, or some other hobby of mine. It wasn't.

I turned in applications to many different businesses, telling each one that I would "add value" to their company. I was laughed out of a computer repair shop, told that in my rural area, it is impossible to find tech jobs.

The first place that called me back was McDonald's. I told them that I would take the job, but then Taco Bell also responded. Taco Bell was closer to my house, so I called McDonald's and told them sorry, but I had a better offer.

I worked two shifts at Taco Bell, proud in my uniform, making tacos and burritos as fast as I could, before a local hardware store invited me in for an interview. After passing a drug test, I was working in retail. Hardware, building real things and the like is a passion of mine. I started at $8.50/hr, better than minimum wage. The hours piled up fast, and before I knew what was going on, my bank account had 4 digit numbers on the statements.

My mom also helped me get another job at the restaurant where she works. I washed dishes. Me, with a 4.9 GPA, selected as "Super Student of the County" or some award I can't even remember, was elbows deep in dirty water for 8 hours a night after a 6 hour shift selling nuts, bolts, and brooms. It was hard work, I could barely stand after unloading the dishwasher for the last time, mopping the floors, taking out the trash, polishing the glasses and silverware, locking up, and driving home.

This may sound like it's beneath you because "you can code". So can I. But working for minimum wage at one job and barely above at the other, I made about $100/day, not counting tips from the restaurant (which have since payed for a new laptop) and before taxes.

I met some great people at the hardware store, and although I had to give it up when I took a few math and language classes at the local college, I loved it. I still work at the restaurant and I am typing this after a shift. My arms smell like funky dishwater and my feet still hurt. But I worked six hours today for $48, and probably $40 in tips. I don't know about you, but $14/hr is good pay for unskilled labor, even though I can hack or code. I could give freelancing a try, but I am pretty sure it would end in the failure this echo chamber loves so much. Instead, every other Saturday I take home a paycheck and deposit it on Sunday. If I decide to pick up my floor where I throw my tips at the end of the night, I am rewarded with a few hundred dollars. This will easily pay for gas and other expenses. A large portion goes to savings for my next 4 year which will be largely income-free. The leftovers go wherever I want. I decided to learn electronics, so I bought an arduino and some components for about $100. 6 months ago I couldn't have imagined going to Radio Shack and laying 5 Jackson's on the counter to walk out with something that fits in the palm of my hand and will let out the "magic smoke" if I mix up GND and RAW.

The majority of comments have told you to build your portfolio and find pain points of businesses around you. Instead, I urge you to find a job, be it at a McDonald's or a 5-star cafe. Perhaps at a Walmart. You are young and you don't need to work for a living wage.

I used to think that the only thing I would have to do with my hands after school was type. Now, I scrub dishes. But I also have 35 hours a week where I am forced to be away from HN, Facebook, and Reddit. I get to shoot the shit with my coworkers or daydream about how we are all machines behind an elastic load balancer and if anyone of us were to cut our hand off, the kitchen would experience a cascading failure and it would be a very long night.

My job provides structure to my life, something I am terrified I will lose next year when I go across the country to be a freshman again. It also has a guaranteed income of $8/hr. Tips are good. The meal at the end of each night is great.

Instead of spending hours hounding LinkedIn, Fiverr, or ODesk, I drive 12 miles and put on nonslip shoes. It's easy, it pays well, but most of all, its fun.

My advice: bootstrap your career with the MVP of jobs: anything with regular hours. Pay doesn't matter as the hours will melt away. I would stay away from programming or IT for minimum wage, as that will probably poison your passion for computers.

What's the first sale doctrine like outside of the US? It seems like the seller was right about this one.

Anyone who describes graphene as "paper thin" has no idea what they are talking about.

You could boot from a liveCD or some other read-only media. Your files could live on a server you trust, accessed only by encrypted means that you trust haven't been modified because your machine is read only.

You have to trust something.

If you did that you would have a huge relative velocity to the Lagrange point. You'd shoot right past it unless you could kill all your relative velocity, which would mean you would have enough delta-v to achieve orbit anyway.

Does this even matter? Transmission to the end user is not the weak point in Google's data privacy policies.

Mr. Musk seems to have a habit of publicizing his back-of-the-napkin calculations. "Based on the Model S track record so far, you have a zero percent chance of being hurt in an accident resulting in a battery fire."

It seems to have worked well for him. Maybe I should pick it up.