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Slightly related, one day after the Demonsaw release party with John McAfee: http://gawker.com/john-mcafee-arrested-while-armed-and-high-...

> The shootout with the police was highly exaggerated and in fact no one was even hit by a bullet, let alone harmed by one. The Police knew me and I don’t believe their hearts were truly in the shootout, as it is not included in the official report. When I ran out of ammunition, I surrendered quietly and the officers and my self had a cigarette together and joked about my bad aim.
There's also a lot of sites that package adware without the developer's consent. See for example the semi-recent Sourceforge controversy: SF approached devs asking if they'd be interested in using their new download manager that would automatically install third-party 'offers' (unless the user declined the EULA the first 2 times and accepted on the third try). The GIMP team not only declined, but abandoned SF altogether - so now SF's version of GIMP includes adware, and the devs don't see a single dime from it.
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Went to green again and it seems to be resolved.
There are a number of reasons this is not openly available. Just a few:
- It may lock the programmer into a specific CPU
- The CPU cache/pipeline is less generic than you might think. Making setting a standard way to change it from within a program problematic.
- Multiple programs may be running at the same time. Having the a program dictate cache behaviour would effect all running applications.
- Arbitrary changes to behaviour would have performance implications when the change is made. In a multiple application situation that could mean flipflopping behaviour.

Generally though the benefit of the manual control wouldn't be worth the cost/risk/loss of platform support for most applications as CPU behaviour is very good and it would probably be cheaper to just upgrade to a more expensive CPU than to spend the time on developing improvements to the algorithm.

In the rare case where you do need specific behaviour and it is worth while it would be worth speaking to the vendors rather than doing it yourself.
"Also, Switzerland is not a member of the E.U." You're saying this as if it would be a bad thing...

Also, paying 300-500 CHF per month for health insurance out of pocket might sound not to bad considering the fact that your net-salary is probably 3000 CHF higher here. (In Switzerland you pay 16-22% as income-taxes compared to 60% in Sweden).
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Cory Doctorow's When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth touches on this - what happens to the internet activity during a global crisis?

http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked...
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Should be back to normal now. The latest update is:

3:46 AM PDT Between 12:08 AM and 3:40 AM PDT, Amazon S3 experienced elevated error rates and latencies. We identified the root cause and pursued multiple paths to recovery. The error has been corrected and the service is operating normally.
17 lbs, wow! :D

Interesting, thanks for the input!
Some condoms contain casein, a by-product of milk which by definition makes it non-vegan friendly.
" There's no other place in the world where such a feat would be possible."

Oh? Based on your extensive research into immigration outcomes for all of the countries in the world? I happen to know for a fact, that many very poor Greek and Italian families migrated to Australia after World War II, and their families are doing very nicely now, thank you very much. The same story repeated a quarter of a century later as Australia dealt with a large Vietnamese intake during the Vietnam war and it's immediate aftermath - their community has also integrated well and is doing just fine economically.

I'm sure this is equally true of many countries in Europe. There is nothing exceptional about the US in this regard.
They didn't mention bo-shuriken[1], which is a spear-shaped throwable metal "dart". The throwing technique is in some ways similar to the way a katana is swung. A circular motion, taking the hand behind the wielders shoulder and unrolling straight in the opponents direction. As there is no rotating motion involved, these are short range projectiles. The ones I saw were top-heavy and had tail feathers. Checking the YouTube videos, some users instruct a more knife throwing grip. However, the technique explained to me was leading with the back hand side, releasing the dart from the palm[2] towards the end of the motion.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=bo-shuriken&safe=off&hl=en&b...

[2]: http://cl.ly/image/012R0D1W0t3T
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"This is the big mistake that the left makes in their thinking about poverty. They believe it's a fundamentally material problem."

While I'm sure the left is different in the US, that seems backwards on a global level. It's generally the left that emphasizes immaterial things like education, maternity leave, kindergarten etc. while the right focuses on economic measures like lower taxes.

"you can't break the cycle by just throwing money at people"

Throwing money at people seems like a very effective way to limit the bad effects of poor people. Drug addicts with money tend to do drugs, while drug addicts without money tend to do robberies, burglaries, go to prison etc.

"believe that he is master of his own destiny"

The mindset that you should fend for yourself and don't be a burden is much more prevalent among the poor. More prosperous families tend to try to give their kids all the advantages they can. If anything the poor needs to adopt a culture of entitlement.
Actually, at the end of the OP you can find the author's name, email address, and photograph. Doxxing is obnoxious, but in this case it's not a matter of exposing the identity of someone who was trying to remain anonymous.
Creationism is prevalent across the US.

http://ncse.com/creationism/general/my-backyard-creationism-...
Damn, too much confusion was made. I didn't pay enough attention to these things, my bad. Got rid of it.
The "Peter Gregory" character on Silicon Valley is Paul Graham, so surely it's already had a pretty big shout out, lampooning the complete idiocy of the startup culture.

The Mark Cuban character in season 2 was also pretty funny.
I see that you have proven the nonviability of FedEx, UPS and all other package carriers that compete with government postal services.

I also note that you have proven the nonexistence of private security companies, since they compete with the police and are much more restricted, by law, in what they can do.

And there can't be any private shuttle bus services, because there are municipal bus services.

I think you need to modify your claim.

All of these companies do reasonably well by competing with government-run services by offering things that the government isn't providing and is unlikely to provide because it unreasonably benefits a single user: on-demand pickups and guaranteed delivery times; full-time guards in a particular location; a bus that runs directly to your campus.
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It's the ghost.io blogging platform. It had in past such issues. And obviously has it now...
That you quoted the percentage of total population rather than the percentage of total workers suggests that you're trying to spin-doctor. The same link calls $9.50 "well over" the minimum wage of $7.25... conveniently ignoring that $9.50/hour is still a shit wage. That link clings to the literal minimum wage like a limpet - notice how it never tells us the numbers of people barely above minimum wage? Earn $7.50/hour? Well you're too well off to be part of those statistics...

The author then has the gall to accuse others of using selective statistics to make their argument, and even throws out the 'class warfare' canard.
Where is the cognitive dissonance here? What's the background (like family, health, personal circumstances) for the cases you're proposing?
ESTA is not a tourist visa. It's is a visa waiver program with somewhat limited business related entitlements.

They didn't apply for a tourist visa. I repeat, they didn't apply for a tourist visa.
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Writing the code in a way not to be dependent on the most advanced hardware solution in existence is better choice unless you target only the specific hardware or the solution is of the "use once then throw away" kind.
The katana making techniques (pattern welding, differential HT) were not unique. So is the performance. Claiming otherwise is perpetuating the myth. The Japanese sword got its "world renown sharpness" the same way magnum .44 become the "world's most powerful handgun" after Dirty Harry. Also swords are not very sharp even with highly polished edge. Too high angle. If you want to see something really sharp - take a walk to some of the better restaurants.
Wow, that's a bit depressing. I haven't thought my written English that bad.
Bit pricy I guess compared to offshore?
Yes, I went through because I wanted to know the details. It's nice, you were amused.
I agree with your points, but one small nitpick: the US is almost as big as the whole EU - 300M vs. 500M citizens. So it's not much larger area of opportunity, just a little bit larger.
I've always viewed Schibsted as a owner of media companies, VG, Blokket etc. Not a company that is producing software. That at least how I read your views. From the little I've viewed they don't do anything special on IT operations, quite boring. So it might make sense, and what I've heard is that the quality of the operations (at least in Norway) haven't been to good.

Random ramblings ends here <-
Yep, as you acknowledge, your reasoning is irrational. Replacing regular milk with coconut milk is more environmentally friendly, medium-chain fatty acids are better for the liver and heart.

Still, veganism is much more than just a diet and this meaning is what was meant by the vegan-friendly natural latex.

I do assume that people who have never googled "veganism" might have negative opinion of these condoms, but I guess they also won't be aware of the struggles of third world countries and won't care about the goal of this company.

Not that I don't find the fact that veganism had to be mention entertaining.
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I'll put this comment here as a response to sibling and child comments about Paint.NET and to defend the author (Rick Brewster) regarding misleading installers.

Rick has had numerous problems over time with scammers wrapping Paint.NET with scumbag installers and with "backspaceware" distributions. He's documented these issues in his blog:

http://blog.getpaint.net/2009/11/06/a-new-license-for-paintn...

http://blog.getpaint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware-...

http://blog.getpaint.net/2011/10/03/paint-net-v3-5-9-and-dow...

http://blog.getpaint.net/2010/12/22/photoshop-filters-and-mo...

For as long as I've used Paint.NET (since v1) his home page and download page have never obfuscated or tried to lure users into downloading and installing crapware.

EDIT: Just turned off my adblocker and see I'm sadly very wrong about the crapware download ads. My other points still stand though.
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As a Dutch person I have to disagree with the suggestions to move to NL, I've assisted quite a few people with moving here and the situation with the IND is dreadful. I'd suggest Germany instead which seems to be on the whole a lot more welcoming to skilled people.
I work in Germany, had the option to work in the US but decided against it, I find the visa regime too strict, and unless you land a great job in a great company in a good city(you don't want to live in the middle of nowhere) it's not worth the trouble.

There are plenty of Jobs which you can get without knowing German, and many employers provide free classes where you can learn some basic German. IMO knowing a new language is also a very marketable skill depending on where you are from. Depending on the company you may get 25-30 paid day offs in a year.

You can get paid well if you are qualified/experienced.
Living costs are low as well, I live in Berlin in a spacious 3 room apartment in a great area (http://i.imgur.com/qLqzqN7.jpg). The infrastructure is amazing. My daily commute is 20 mins door to door (subway or cycle) and I don't need a car at all. My daughter goes to daycare for free, and the healthcare system though it has its quirks, works quite well.

Getting a blue card is easy and with your qualifications you should be able to get it quickly, with the blue card you can travel outside the EU and come back within 12 months, no questions asked.I just took a 3-week vacation back home and plan to take another one this year.

If you wanna explore some options I would be more than happy to help, drop me an email at winash@outlook.com
Yes and no. Sure, Amazon has administrative personnel. Sure, some of those administrative personnel would probably be happy to get paid extra to carry a pager and be summoned to work at 3AM to update a status page.

But the last thing you want to do is put inaccurate information onto a status page; so mere administrative personnel isn't enough -- you'd need people who understand enough about the system to be able to write about it without introducing errors.

I'm guessing that the intersection of "administrative personnel", "willing to carry pagers" and "understand the internals of AWS services" is a very small set.
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when you read about other accelerators , you realize that they are more region specific. For ex there are tons in the philly - pittsburgh area that continuously talk about being the best in that particular region as opposed to a massive global force. I've realized by inference that they prioritize their community goals (create more jobs , attract smart people) over founder priorities as Sam mentions here. I think what differentiates YC is that they understand that the community goals are a by-product of supporting great founder driven missionary companies and not vice-versa.
That would be true, if we were speaking of using this optimization instead of that optimisation.

We're not. Here, they're saying that in this particular architecture, a number of optimisations are effectively useless. They're saying that naive code is almost as fast. They're saying that some "optimizations" have even become counter-productive.

The lesson I get from this? Unless I know a fair bit about the target platforms, the naive approach is better, because any performance model I have in mind might be invalidated anyway.
You're essentially saying that people won't be able to survive and that's the reason Free Market Water is a bad idea.

People will pay a premium to keep their lawns green and if you can't afford to hydrate or bathe, tough.

People will die so people like this can continue living like they aren't in a desert: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-washpost-bc-calif-...

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I use it for just about everything work-related, but given that my day job is literally "connect to sets of remote servers and bang out code" it'd be insane not to. Some of my coworkers still use screen, but tmux + wemux having the automatic "scale to the smallest attached screen" + "automatically follow the driver in pair mode" means there's a lot less "can you shrink your window"/"which window are you in now?" types of interruptions.

Apart from that, I've got a perpetual tmux running on my linode for irssi, and I've also got tmux running locally-- being able to set up multiple sessions connected to the same tmux server means that I can have a different tmux session per physical monitor, which means both a shared tmux copy/paste buffer and the ability to easily flip from window to window depending on what I want on which monitor. Ctrl+B for the local tmux, Ctrl+A for remote tmux means that there's no weird double-control-characters necessary. Add in some sneaky scripts to symlink login SSH agents to a known location that's exported to all tmux sessions for ease of git and you end up with a really clean overall workflow.
This history sounds weird for me as he was in a relationship for 5 years and haven't even tried to marry with the girl to fix his status. The only safe way to stay in US is by getting married, what give to the skilled workers the same level of opportunity given to illegals. An immigration policy that encourages the fraud.
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So do you still write code for 386 and 486 generations? There is a point where previous CPUs drop off as a concern. All bets are off if you do cutting edge CUDA work, then you only care about the GPU you are running on today because the one you were using yesterday is already outdated, anyways.
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The writer is very excited about all the possibilities.

Like: 'Connecting data from the online shop + offline activities gives you enormous possibilities to target the user and maybe even predict his next behaviours to be at the right place and the right time with your product.'

And: 'you can not ignore the technology, because it will surrounds you anyway. What you can do, is to adapt and make it useful for your needs.'

But it does not make me happy. I am nothing but a wallet that is profiled continuously online and offline - to be triggered to spend as much money as possible.
While interesting that they do this, it does not appear they are doing anything difficult. The linked PDFs have images embedded, as opposed to say being scanned and then automatically recognizing image borders and such.
Then I will be wrong. But they don't and I'm not.
> According to whom?

Most good and considerate people who aren't complete shitheads
This is such a non-product. Look at those publicity shots, everything about this company screams, look at me, we're a startup! The donations to Africa, in hour delivery, the model-level attractive female founder. This is a bad idea. It doesn't seem like it was tested at all.

Even if I'm wrong and they take off, condom delivery as a service isn't much of a service in itself. Anyone of the multiple alcohol delivery services would just add this as an item. How do people like this make it into Y-Combinator? Are the VCs trying to get laid? Or is this one of those uncomfortable risks that they keep talking about? Either way, I expect this to run out of runway soon or pivot to something completely different. The founder is a photo-journalist so I don't expect much.
Unlikely. But how likely is it that some investors didn't ask, or didn't like the answer?
From an OSDev thread: http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?p=249616#p249616
I just re-ran the test and got an error rate of 1.23% (vs. 41.98%): https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/55c88a0fecbe400bf800073...

edit: S3 seems to be back up and running according to the AWS status page.
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I don't understand why would anyone choose to have STD's testing performed while having sex... If they really invented an affordable STD testing kit, why not simply sell it as-is? I don't get it.
SELinux can certainly work, even without using the great sandbox command. Your SELinux profile only grants Firefox read access to your files because you might want to use it to upload some of them; revoke that permission and leave it only the ability to read your browser profile and the problem is solved. Of course, the exploit would still expose things in your browser profile (bookmarks, history, saved passwords).

The sandbox command mitigates that by showing the browser an empty home directory, so that each time you launch it it will create a new profile with no such data in it. Note that a long-running sandboxed Firefox could still have a decent amount of history to expose. Best to start a new one for each site you visit, if you can stomach it.

Security always involves tradeoffs.
To me the "quantum level" distinction is the issue. This is like saying you need to use Newtonian calculations for one set of speeds and Einstein's for another as if reality "switched gears" like a race car. The quantum level is the only level, all distinctions are purely in the mind.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/pc/quantum_explanations/
Seems incompatible to me. You don't fetch data inside the components when you're using Flux.
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Well educated as they are, skilled people usually don't prefer to live illegally. And that's why you will most likely see ex-illegals and unskilled people receiving green cards or citizenship in US.
Haven't people already called digital vegetarian because it doesn't use gelatin film?
Ah yes, the Japanese weapons.

A pet theory of mine is that they get so much attention because the Japanese held onto feudalism far longer than the colonial powers. As such, the colonial representatives attached some romanticism to Japan and the Samurai.

Something similar laid the foundation for the troubles Iraq has faced to this day, if Adam Curtis is to be trusted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/2989a78a-ee94-...
Even with the conservation, LV is still looking at augmenting its water supply by grabbing it from others.

http://lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jun/22/not-water/

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/john-l-smith/repo...
I don't think your comparison was unfair. It's impressive that LV has managed to manage\recycle their water as much as they have but to me it is shocking that they still somehow consume 5-6 times as much per capita as Oslo (and, according to some basic searching, much of the EU). Not wanting to turn this into the usual EU\US back-and-forth, but ... man how is it possible to use that much water?
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It's basically my window manager. I've one terminal that most stuff gets done in, which runs full screen.

I also use it remotely on a server, but it's just as important locally.
Can you give an example of a pendulum swinging upwards? Is that an inverted pendulum? [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oGYCxkgnHQ
Yes i know its not cool ... but it irks me the most when i find things like this ... the big reason I stopped using google products also ..
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I did believe I was accounting for spin doctoring by increasing the 0.8% to 20% when I acknowledged different definitions and said "most".
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I also agree with the right to be forgotten principle.

However regarding its current implementation, I don't necessarily agree with the fact that private entities are the one judging the requests (and they never asked for it!). If it is some sort of legal requirement, in my opinion, it should be reviewed by some kind of judge, administrative body or peers, that would apply consistently the rules.

Finally regarding the EU vs Global application of the rule, I have to side with Google : you can't comply globally with every specific request from every country or sensibility, because it would mean banning a lot of things (from blasphemy, homosexuality to various disputed historical events, or territories...). I can't see that working practically.
I agree, however if the lib is indeed open source (which I'm not sure of), then it should be easier to create a fully open source clone.
I work mostly locally, but I still use tmux. I've found it much easier to use than multiple tabs or windows of iterm, and it's nice to have power line right there on the screen at all times. As others have said, the clipboard functionality is nice as well.
Any U.S. pilot caught pulling such maneuvers would be pwned by the FAA. Any Boeing-employed pilot would be summarily fired as well.
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