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The frequent Yosemite beachballs seem to only occur on systems with old-school hard drives. It's nowhere near as bad on SSD systems. It's crazy frustrating on my iMac, but my macbook pro is fine.

So I suspect the changes and additional daemons in Yosemite added a bunch of disk I/O, and the engineers never noticed because they're all on SSD systems.
>In the case of Cecil the Lion it's "stop shooting endangered species you stupid rich Americans"

Except offering controlled hunts can be used to the benefit of the endangered species. Direct benefits such as removing the male in charge once they have become too old to the indirect benefit such as the sale of such hunting rights providing funds to help the species in question.
Michael Stonebraker's Turing Award Lecture
Work their way through college, as in paying all their books and tuition without assistance? No they don't.
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And they do this when the "them" is an unarmed 8 year old child. http://motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/kentucky-school-cop-...
My upload is uncapped, so I PERSONALLY have no issue with this.
I think Amplitude gives you access to the RedShift cluster which is hosting your data. You can then connect it to any custom vizualization tool and analyze it to your satisfaction.
I'm not saying these are perfect solutions but they are doable. Also comparing India to China, economically, is a bit tough. China wasn't occupied by the British Empire for 100 plus years. The history of colonialism can't be dismissed overnight. Ironically, India's many communist parties and communist-influenced legislation is still hurting it, notable the law that companies larger than x size are more or less nationally controlled in a de facto sense - for example it is illegal to fire anyone, you actually need to ask the government to fire them which involves trials and years of work. Companies in India try to stay under that size, thus a lack of proper economic growth due to lack of scale. The new guy in charge is up for liberalization, so lets see how that works out.
Consistently delivering high quality software features is impossible. Even great teams mess up every once in a while. The way apple used to get around that was to throw things away, or to send them back to the drawing board. There was someone at the top who detected when things weren't ready, and prevented them from getting released or dared teams to do better, even at great cost. In the jobs era there were many things which were rumored to ship and cut at the last moment. Apple has stopped not shipping things, and it's what will turn them into just another software company.
That's psychology for you though, it doesn't require you to get philosophical about it. It's just fundamentally how your brain works.
Jeffrey, you undersell yourself! (The best engineers always do...)

Jeffrey's the VP of Engineering at Amplitude who built the core of our current infrastructure.
Thanks for the article, which suggests the debate is centuries old:

"Bellheads use phrases like "rate control" or "traffic shaping" when talking about ATM. Traffic is something to be tamed, sorted, and organized. Even though hundreds of different connections end up multiplexed on a single fiber-optic pipe, every ATM connection is treated as if it has its own, narrower pipe..

Netheads, on the other hand, cheerfully admit they have no idea what traffic will look like next month. It is easier, they say, to have the packets fight it out among themselves than to try to force some kind of order on them. Traffic is unpredictable, spontaneous, liable to jump up in strange patterns..

This philosophical divide should sound familiar. It's the difference between 19th-century scientists who believed in a clockwork universe, mechanistic and predictable, and those contemporary scientists who see everything as an ecosystem, riddled with complexity. It's the difference between central and distributed control, between mainframes and workstations."
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All software has bugs. Apple software has a giant audience and the Internet can magnify an issue that affects a small number of users to make it seem as though it's a giant problem.

If a problem affects 5,000 users it's easy for it to appear as if it's a huge issue when it in fact is affecting a tiny % of the user base. Not that bugs should be ignored, but an active forum posting is not evidence that there is a major issue.
Security is one reason why the bitcoin 'language' is intentionally restricted, I wonder in ethereum (which also uses a blockchain, but is turing complete) what kind of integrity guarantees can be proven when executing a transaction.
I think the very term "indexed fund" is an artifact. Indexed funds need not be tied to an index. They can still be "passive investing" without the index.

"Antitrust" is a similar linguistic artifact as you can violate antitrust rules without any mention of trusts,
No, I think it's just that some cities have insane bureaucracies that make it a nightmare to get anything done, and others don't.

That's true of New York, but I'll also note that NYC has reasonably good Internet speeds in much of the city right now. For example, RCN sells 330 Mbs / down and ~25 Mbs /up for $~60/month right now: http://rcn.com/330. Verizon FiOS is more expensive and probably worse (unless you need high upload speeds for some reason), but it is widely available.

Google Fiber is probably not targeting places that are "pretty good, but could be better;" they're probably targeting places that are a combination of "really bad," along with reasonable regulatory climates.
It's a good feature for building big programs that have lots of layering. It's not really at the core of the Lisp essence; Lisp dialects other than Common Lisp and some of its ancestors do not have this feature.

> I wish more languages had stolen this feature from Lisp

The terminology and some of the semantics of CL's condition may have been derived derived from concepts in IBM's PL/I programming language!

Similarities:

* PL/I's xceptions are called "conditions" in PL/I.

* Conditions are "signaled" (by a construct called SIGNAL).

* The "on unit" construct (ON statement) resembles condition handling and restarts (functionality of handler-bind and restart-bind rolled into one). On units are dynamically scoped, and when a condition is raised they are searched without discarding the stack ("the whole stack is there", in your words). On units can return to the source of the signal, or execute a GO to the surrounding procedure, which then triggers unwinding: exactly like a (go ..) in Lisp jumping out of a restart lambda.

* Conditions in PL/I are used not only for errors but for giving advice to low level code on what to do. For instance the printing system signals an "endpage" condition, and the higher level code can provide an on unit to do what it wants at the end of a page. This on unit returns to the lower level code.

I've never written code in PL/I, but I studied the condition system.
Under "Bars" there is a typo:

>Recommeneded Threads

Should be "Recommended"

In the footer:

>Poundly hosted by Krypt and accelerated by Cloudflare.

I assume you mean "proudly" not "poundly". In the bottom right of this footer you have an <img src> with no src, leaving a blank image.

I can explore "V-Users", what does that mean? What are "V-users"? (I assume Verified Users, but that's just confusing for most end users...)

Your "Intro" page is down: https://www.hubive.com/intro ; so I can't actually learn about hubive.

Suggestion for improvement:

Buckets should have their own image backdrop per-category. Currently they're all a US-patriot hot air balloon.

E:

I also had to take a double take between your logo and the Picasa logo. That could be bad for brand recognition.

E2:

>Password limited to 6-15 characters

Why?

E3:

>We will inform you the Beta prograss via Email.

After signing up, typo and poor grammar.

>Please check your mailbox for further information.

Nothing has been sent in 10-15~ minutes.

>If you have any questions, please CUSTOMER SERVICE.

Missing the word "contact"

>Congratulations. You have signed up for Hubive Closed Beta.

Would sound more natural with "the" before "Hubive".

>New Password and Confirm Password do not match

It's not a new password, it's my first password?

>Password us too short. At least {sum} characters

May want to fix that error message.

E4:

After signing in, I can no longer access the stream/buckets/recommendation pages like I can when signed out? Why?
In which case, what if the sale of 1 human can provide funding to help many lions? How many lions need to be saved to justify the sale of 1 person?
The exact opposite is true[1].

HFT affect and take advantage of minor price swings[2], and their arbitrage is based on this. Long-term investments are the primary driver of (hence) long-term price movements. After all, HFT, by definition, have no long term interests in issues, so they are (usually) equally weighted in either (long or short) direction, thus cancelling their long-term effects out, even in a situation where there are no long-term investors.

1. This pertains your comment regarding HFT. Activist investors, which you also mentioned, are just long-term investors with a marketing strategy (put your money into something and then go tell everyone), and in some cases a lobbying strategy (e.g., Bill Ackman's notable short of HLF), and they have no place being compared with HFT.

2. It is true that, sometimes, minor price swings can cause a crossing of a tipping point (e.g., below a prior price support level, etc.), but even in these cases the long-term price will adjust for these swings based on intrinsic value.
Did Android get a case of Stagefright?
>>>> People expect Apple to be innovative and reliable;

This is because your investment in their hardware is at a premium price. People expect when they drop 2-3K for a PC that both of things are going to be a given. Obviously, in the last few years, this hasn't been the case.
> you can’t just pipe one database into another, even if they have the same data model

> awk doesn’t know about the format of nginx logs

So the complexity of the implementation is a direct function of the dimension and heterogeneity of the data[-], but it still reduces to:

pgsql notify | client daemon | process | search engine

[-] high throughput is another matter
While joesoap's comment on the article page is hilarious, it made me think - are there any technological issues to providing (nearly) real-time low-res video feed? It would be scientifically useless, so this is more of a theoretical question about the tech/physics involved.
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It wants its profits to grow bigger though, regardless of consumer benefit, which is a lot like creating a cartel.
I am intrigued by your more broadly diversified stomach-based ETF and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

(Or, in other words, hypothetically as a high-level investors, you'd want indices that track needs, not particular fulfillment thereof.)
Cockpit simulators have a leg up in this department - not much movement expected in driving / flying / spaceships.
I work on BigQuery.

Whoever owns Storage, NYC TLC in this case, pays a minimal fee of 2 cents per GB per month for storage. This includes multiple factors of replication/durability.

Whoever is doing the querying - this can be you - pays 5 dollars per TB queried. First 1TB per month is free.
Tuition and books? Definitely can be done, but if you have to pay for room and board, and other things, then that's where it gets difficult. In some cases it can still be done though.

Edit: Especially with community college.
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I agree we should get away from the term "index fund", but for better or worse, investors are hung up on indices. Why do we talk about the S&P 500? Why not 1k? etc.

Don't get me started on the price-weighted Dow...
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Your theory directly contradicts the Efficient Market Hypothesis. If "dumb money" is flowing in to large cap funds, institutional investors should be able to take advantage.
This trend has been very apparent to me, starting a couple years after Steve Jobs passed. I waited until July 2015 to upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite because of all the bugs I kept hearing about.
Most of what was speculatively written about the Android Stagefright vulnerability it turns out was wrong. Google challenges Drake's assertion that 950 million Android devices are at risk from the exploit of the Stagefright vulnerability.
The article's title is "London arts and theatre scene most googled in the world"

"The research was carried out by London & Partners, the London mayor's official promotional company." Hardly independent and I wouldn't be surprised if they just kept looking until the data confirmed their assumption.
The discoveryd fiasco was the biggest let down for me. Every single Macbook in the office suffered connectivity issues and it took them too long to go back to the old, perfectly fine state.

It's almost 20 years of internet ferociously consuming and producing digital music and pictures and no one has been able to improve upon what Winamp and Foobar2000 or a minimally organized photo folder delivered - Picasa worked quite well, but I guess, as google reader, being stable and functional is not enough.

How can a 600B dollar company sustain a buggy software like iTunes for so many years? Dreadful experiences include podcasts, album art, and even simple music organization! Apple Music... what makes you, the biggest digital music store in the world, release a cloud based product that thinks that a live version of a song is the same one as the album version?

It seems Apple is trying to make its user base - that helped it become the most world's most valuable company - user their version of every digital service/product possible but at the cost of lacking in the areas that made it thrive in the first place. Heck, even my last MBP had hardware issue (staingate)...
Admittedly I have no idea whether that is true via the app... but if so, then yes... it's a bigger issue.
I found this presentation really interesting, in no small part because I've been doing a lot of reading on JTAG for work lately.

One idea I'd like to add: using EXTEST to identify the pins. If I understand the command correctly, it seems as if one could utilize the BSDL file to generate a series of EXTEST patterns that would each set one I/O pin high and the rest of them low. Then, you could just probe the IC pins until you found the high one. This is more or less the reverse of what he describes- he's applying a voltage and using the SAMPLE command to detect it.

To my understanding, this EXTEST method could also be used instead of the suggestion on slide 90 to write some VHDL/Verilog to copy a known input to an unknown output.

Doing any of this in an automated/programmatic way would probably take a better software suite than 20-day one mentioned, or at least a lower-level tool of some sort, I suppose.
I'm all for replacing java bloat with a little bit of go, but it seems like the cause of the bloat becoming a real problem was hopping on the docker bandwagon, for a collection of services that always run together in an appliance and really benefited from being hosted in a shared JVM?

Isn't the JVM + servlet container thing supposed to be able to isolate the different services? They get their own bunch of threads, and their faults probably shouldn't crash other servlets?
>Of course such comparison ignores transaction costs, administrative costs, risk, diversification across asset classes, et al.

That's exactly why mutual funds underperform. Given the EMH, it makes more sense not to spend so much time on 'asset management' like that.

If you believe the S&P is overvalued because too many people index to it, you can invest in broader index funds and, if you're correct, yield a higher return.
Exciting news for me here in SA. Just moved here from CT ~9 months ago!

I'd rather pay evil Google over evil Time Warner.
Big data lessons from a summer at Red Hat
Index funds and ETFs will work until they don't anymore.

It always happens...
The BCPL Reference Manual (1973) [pdf]
I switched to mac when when MS lost its mind and came up with Vista--it was unusable, so much so that switching cost to mac was lower than trying to get Windows to work. Nowadays the only reason I stay with Mac is because I make iOS apps and realize it will be annoying if I abandon Mac. Apple is no more in a "just works" business. It's in a lock-in business. I used to be delighted to download their new OS's, and I'm sure everyone used to too, but nowadays I NEVER download their new versions and try not to upgrade as much as possible, I've been burned too many times and lost so many hours of productivity because the upgrade fucked me up
They absolutely should be doing that, but this market inefficiency is strangely persistent. In the bond world at least, I have watched hundreds of billions under management by sleepy fund managers in Europe who operate like bureaucrats for years: all they want is to be fed the index rebalancing weights each month and they don't take much notice of the value being left on the table by not anticipating changes efficiently. Perhaps its because the industry is biased towards fees rather than performance that this persists, but I don't have a great explanation for it.

I know for sure though that there are fast-money guys who obsess daily about weighting momentum and turning points and they do well quite consistently.
I believe you have to install Ruby as well -- don't you?
Wow that pun in the title is painful.
I've suggested ChromeOS to family members that use facebook, email, and limited spreadsheets. Ultimately, I backtracked when they asked about printing. Telling them they have to buy a new printer that's Cloud Print compatible is a tough sell, especially if they've purchased one within the last year.

I have found that Chrome Boxes are excellent machines for demoing web products at tradeshows. Cheap, relatively hardened, fast enough, and sync bookmarks and settings.
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You act as if these are inherently different. Things necessary for survival sometimes became pleasurable to do. This seems like just labeling behavior/desires one doesn't like as a mental illness.
Thanks for the kind words! Hearing that makes me really glad that we decided to invest in making a solid API so people could roll their own dashboards.
That's not what I was saying at all. I'm saying it's easy to misjudge the potential of very early technologies by looking at the wrong criteria.
Ask HN: Working within constraints of hospital IT?
Although I have extensive experience working on medical devices, most of the those have had little to no network connectivity functionality. Certainly none that venture outside of the internal hospital network.

I am currently planning a project that would involve a centralized cloud database, which gathers data from several hospitals. I know from experience that every hospital is different and that their IT departments range from strict to extremely strict (and we have to assume the worst here). With my little knowledge/experience in this area, my gut tells me the application will actually need a local database in each center, within the hospital network, which periodically replicates up to central cloud database. There is no immediate need for those databases to be consistent over a short period of time. We may also anonymise the data as it moves outside of the hospital. I am also aware of the HIPAA-compliant PAAS services out there and we may end up using one of those.

There's been a lot of talk about healthcare moving to the cloud, that I'm hoping there are some HN'ers with experience in this area. Am I right to assume that it's nearly impossible to set up a cloud database that is accessed directly from, say, the OR of a hospital? Please provide any personal experience or resources that may help me make more informed decisions. Thanks in advance.
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I understand what you meant, but wealth being created at the top is a bit charitable. Let's call it like it is: it's reallocated from consumers (vs. a more competitive market) and from shareholders (vs. a more competitive management landscape).

Regulatory capture should have a management capture analog. ;)
Cannabis smokers are surely happy to hear this. This is so high-tech!
There are no cars on the road that have brake lines that are tamper proof, so I'm not sure you are setting the bar at the correct level.

It will be interesting to watch the ongoing situation with Chrysler:

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/chrysler-harman-hit-class-actio...

If the class action goes forward there will be a legal examination of whether a security flaw that allows remote tampering is a safety defect or not (of course it is, but I mean in the context of liability).
"Code size was reduced by almost half, from 175 lines down to 96."

Hm, I how can we take a 175 LOC project as something relevant in any way?
If you look at the Raleigh/Durham area, Google Fiber is coming here and it makes logical sense for a huge number of reasons. Here are a few:

1) they can deal independently with multiple, local bureaucracies, each of which is easier to deal with than a consolidated large city's.

2) there's a ton of high tech / biotech here already, and demand for fiber.

3) The population is highly educated and there are several very good universities (UNC, Duke, NCSU) and smaller schools (Shaw, Peace, Meredith, NCCU, ...) in the area.

4) With the exception of older parts of Raleigh & Durham, all of the cities are pretty well planned and have layouts that make running fiber pretty straightforward, and all of the municipalities agreed to accommodate all of Google's requirements.

Coincidentally, we had 0 fiber ISPs a year ago and now we have 3 (plus TWC is updating all their "extreme" customers to 300mbps). AT&T has been laying fiber like crazy and Centurylink is here, too.
That's true, but the S3 bucket limit, just like the VPC security group limit, is fixed at 100, even if you are Netflix.
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Edit: Wow, what a difference a day makes.
Can someone explain what it takes for Google Fiber to come to a city ?

Do they buy an existing fiber company in the city ?
Do they buy dark fiber ?
Do they lay new fiber ?

I'm trying to understand how the process works.

Side note : Is anyone laying new fiber anymore ? I was reading this ( http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/verizon-nears-the-en... )
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crema/tests/fail/ includes several tests relating to recursion, including the obvious mutual recursion workaround attempt. Given that they're in the fail subdirectory, I conclude that it's testing that they're rejected.
For non-scientists, what does this mean? Is SHA-2 not good anymore? What should I do?
yes i had the same issue. I highly recommend not buying System76 unless they have improved significantly in last 12 months. I was bitten so bad by their keyboard issue that I wrote a whole post on it. http://yashchandra.com/2014/05/06/do-not-buy-system76-develo...
However those "other drinks and foods" are also owned by Kraft, Altria, Nestle, and FritoLay, which are in turned owned by the same index investors, so we've just pushed our antitrust argument up one level of metaness.

Yes, I know some of these have probably bought others of these, I'm not up on food industry M&A
Staring SaaS website with django
More and more I hear about Go, I feel more convinced that it would be worth giving it a shot.

Can you share what the microservices are doing? What are they for?
"Keep your old Windows laptop around in a drawer; when you want to print something, just boot it up to print."