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Part 10 [1] of his prototypes series also features incredibly impressive precision. He starts off with a $10 piece of aluminum that took maybe an hour or two to make, and is completely accurate down to nanometers. I worked in a nanotech lab with an electron microscope, and the idea that you could make a mechanical device that could accurately move a few pixels on my screen blew my mind. I thought I was hot shit with all my electrons and magnets... nope.

Dan's flexure is so sensitive that radiative heat from his hand moves the end stage 100x more than mechanical input. You could move it by shining a laser pointer at it. Insane.

The final part [2] is also very neat, and starts with a really remarkable demonstration of stiffness.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaypcVFPs48

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtxA20Q-Uss
eghad recommended glasswire to me yesterday as a "solid" alternative.
Genuine question : why is this on HP's website ? Are they a Postgres contributor or use it massively internally ?
Should be 1 long string, then if something fails use bsection
I think your are mixing “English, the lingua franca”, with “English, the language spoken in the US”.

Why would using the lingua franca that everyone agrees on be imperialism?
I would be interested to see if any other manufacturers are doing this as well.

You can easily check: if a file called wpbbin.exe is in your windows\system32 directory, that means Windows found and executed code that was in your firmware.

Or, see if your autochk.exe hash isn't from Microsoft (paste the hash into virustotal) If OK, virustotal would say, "Trusted source! This file belongs to the Microsoft Corporation software catalogue."

I ask because last month, when I searched for "wpbbin.exe" I found lots of people who thought they had viruses, posting scan logs to various sites, and the scan logs mentioned this file as well as things that looked like Dell and HP stuff. "Wpbbin.exe" is a file that would only exist in your system32 if Windows found it in your firmware.
At least a single core and most of your memory.
IANAL, but it seems unlikely. The Alphabet move doesn't appear to be splitting out the components the EU regulators appear to care about (search, ads, maps) from each other. If regulators are concerned about the effects of personal information consolidation, that's not changing.
> I'd like to be able to do the same work on my laptop that I do on my workstation

I'm afraid you will never get what you want as long as you keep upgrading both your laptop and your workstation.
I understand the issue of users being tricked into downloading and installing malicious extensions. If you let someone program, they will be able to paste malicious code. I just don’t think that taking away users’ ability to modify their own browsers is an acceptable solution to that.

I think it's just another battle in The War on General Purpose Computing. I like to keep this quote in mind: "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
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What's wrong with reversing for fun? It's how progress of technology happens.
Ad-blockers have finally reached a point that the financiers of the major browsers are setting the groundwork for tightening the screws on them. Not right now, but in a couple years when earnings start trending down. Google and Yahoo -- driven by ads -- fund Chrome and Firefox, over half the browser market.

Nobody innately wants to be evil; these are still * mostly * engineer driven companies. But when it comes to an extensential crisis of revenue vs freedom, there is no real choice.

So thanks guys. We had a good run with open browsers, but it is quickly drawing closed because you just couldn't stand the ANNOYANCE of seeing ads next to your content. It's been fun, and now back to the darkness we go.
I've had people show up with Word and Excel on their resumes when I was advertising hiring C# programmers...
The only difference beteween evil dystopian sci-fi megacorporations and successful life-enhancing megacorporations is that the former are doing it wrong.

And you don't see the latter too often in sci-fi these days; I blame the fashion of the time. ;)
They also charge a lot more and sometimes never show.
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I was actually making fun of this way of producing "art" (such as music.) Obviously since the algorithm has no human 'state of mind' or emotion, it cannot include any in the art whatsoever. My comment was completely satirical.
It's not short sighted. It's called not prematurely optimising.

There is a world of difference between the issues Facebook, Google, LinkedIn etc are dealing with and the rest of us. Nobody is worrying whether 10% of their CPU/Memory/Network capacity is going unused if we only have a handful of servers. Or overly worrying about interconnect bandwidth beyond a certain point.

It is fascinating and useful to see how to scale but we aren't all in the dark ages simply because we don't follow their architectural approaches.
The place where I work, regret a decision to use Oracle, our application build with Oracle Form Builder, which is awfully hard to use, broken easily. But I must admit, their pre-sales really good at describing their product, my boss really hooked up by them. "Oh, for that problem we have this, it will cost this much, but for now, you can just use it for free" then some wild invoice came to our office.
The ODbL license is not compatible with the Creative Commons license. (1) I know about their goal, and I also know that they are eager to collaborate with OpenStreeMap. So they would the sue. (2) I think it is the Database Directive of the EU which protects the databases, even if it is made of factual information.

To be more specific about my case, I wanted to import into OpenStreetMap the latin names ("romaji") of places from Wikipédia. But I had to check if it was allowed around the world. I read that in Australia it is not a problem, but it is hard to know about the rest of the world.
What's the easiest way to try out an alpha version of postgres? I can't find a ubuntu or homebrew pacakged build of it... easiest to build it from source?

edit: seems like the alpha release is available on the downloads page now: http://www.postgresql.org/download/
I have been looking at https://input.mozilla.org/ now and then for a long time, and I am still astounded at how it's typically around 90% unhappy, 10% happy.

I know that some Mozilla supporters will justify that huge difference by saying, "but unhappy people will always complain and happy people won't say anything", but I don't think that's necessarily the case. Here we have Mozilla's own stats saying that a lot of their users are extremely unhappy with Firefox.

Clearly something is very wrong for the disapproval rating to be so high, and the satisfaction rating to be so low. In other situations, such a high disapproval rating would be met with extreme concern, immediate retrospection, and panic.

Even in the case of US presidents, where people don't have an immediate alternative like they do with web browsers, and where people's emotions run rampant, it's very rare to see an approval rating under 40%. The very worst approval ratings still are around 25%.

So something is seriously wrong for Mozilla's products to consistently have an approval rating of only 10%, or even 20% if we're being generous.
> I wonder if the more popular desktop OSes are ever going to change their monolithic architectures into something similar and adopt these ideas.

Windows graphics stack from Win7 (or maybe already Vista?) can recover from driver crashes. I experienced it a couple of times (VERY rarely though), and it worked. The screen blinked, all applications survived and I could just continue doing whatever I was doing. No need to reboot or even log out.
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I don't get it - how does the author of the piece not know this? He seems to reflect an excellent understanding, and it's bizarre that he would would miss this.
It seems to have been removed, here's a pastebin of the original post: http://pastebin.com/bbMshdU1
Look at the second comment from the article (from Matt) :

"[...]and you use this computer algorithm to predict betrayal, the computer will predict that you'll be betrayed 4 times during those 10 turns. That's a lot of false positives[...]"
> The new business model, starting with giving Windows 10 away for free

There isn't a new business model, and Microsoft is not giving Windows 10 away for free. What it is offering is a free upgrade to Windows 10 to people who have paid for Windows 7 or 8. This isn't really any different from iOS and Android users getting free upgrades on devices they have also paid for. It's what people expect.

> Finally, for most users, updates are now automatic and can't be turned off. That means any workarounds that are contrary to Microsoft's new business model can simply be turned off remotely by Microsoft.

You can't turn off updates to Gmail or Facebook either. Same goes for most mobile apps. Or your Chromebook.

What has changed is that Microsoft is building a cross-platform mobile ecosystem in which Windows 10 is a mobile operating system. Think: cloud-first, mobile-first, and Software as a Service. (Windows 10 will run on phones.)

Now, I'm not saying that the permissions required in Windows 10 are right. What I am saying is that the permissions suitable for a cloud-based cross-platform ecosystem* with a built-in intelligent agent and deep learning (AI) capabilities are not the same as the ones required by an old-fashioned standalone operating system, and should be evaluated in that context.

* Windows 10 devices (phones, tablets, PCs, games consoles), OneDrive, Azure, Office 365 (PCs, Macs, tablets, smartphones), Windows Store, Bing, and dozens of apps on Windows 10, iOS and Android etc. This is comparable to the iOS and Android ecosystems, not to standalone Linux.
I became a quant finance guy on Wall St.

I was a developer and eventually software engineer / architect for 6 years. It was nice, but did not pay enough to support a family with kids + home. Sure, I could buy a home in TX or FL or somewhere inexpensive, but then there were not as many software engineering / architect roles. This was all well in my early 20s but did not cut it when I got married, had kids, etc.

Wall Street paid commensurate wages for living in job-rich areas. Unfortunately there have been a flood (literally, tens of thousands) of PhDs, mostly from China, who flooded the field and drove wages down. Average wages are now about half of what they were 8 years ago, though you will always hear of outliers.

So I switched, AGAIN after being a quant for 7 years. I'm back to being a software-engineer outside Wall St, except as an owner. So I call the shots now, but i'm also exposed to the whims of sales, revenues, profits, and potential bankruptcy.
Unsurprisingly, that 57% is almost meaningless.

It looks like they took all the betrayals they had, then matched each betrayal with a similar friendship that didn't end in betrayal, and somehow ended up with a data set that was about 52% lasting friendships and 48% betrayals. I think that "somehow" is that each friendship added a data point per season, and lasting friendships lasted longer than eventual-betrayal friendships.

Within that dataset, they got 57% accuracy on the question "will this friendship end in a betrayal?" That doesn't mean they can look at an arbitrary existing friendship and predict betrayal with 57% accuracy, because the base rates will be different. And in any case, it's important to distinguish between false positives and false negatives, which the accuracy score completely fails to do.

But they also looked at eventual-betrayal friendships, and attempted to predict when the betrayal would happen. (Or at least "will it happen this turn?") The base rate for that was 14% and they got an F1 score (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_score) of 0.31, which I think is decent but not fantastic.
beat me to it
They have big enterprise software and consulting businesses.
I got this idea from the YCombinator RFS list :

http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html

There's also a new updated list : http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

I am just fishing for ideas and suggestions because I want to get to work on one of these ideas by building a prototype and getting users to test it.

Just wanted to post these ideas here to get some feedback and discussion so I can settle down on 1 idea to work on ...

I suffer from chronic indecisiveness and find it hard to decide alone, so I am posting these ideas here to get some feedback and discussion on what might be the best one to work on that can potentially get many users to love it ...
I'm mixed on the general issue – an option to turn it off is an option which is certain to be used to social engineer millions of people – but this is somewhat different from HSTS:

HSTS allows a site owner to set a security policy for access their own servers. There's no downside to using it, it doesn't affect anyone else, and in any case if you choose to use a service you're subject to their security policies. The fundamental choice is unaffected: use their service or go somewhere else.

In contrast, this is more controversial because it involves telling the user that they cannot do something they want to do. I think there's a strong argument that this is a pragmatic choice in the current security environment but it really does undercut user choice unless you reach the point of saying that the users who want to do this should know how to compile Mozilla.
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There's a pair of stock tickers that disagree with your assessment of the value of selling shares in that company. It seems to have worked out pretty well for everyone involved.
Oracle pulled the original post - here it is on pastebin http://pastebin.com/wkk8b7FJ
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Aren't the Class B shares the major voting shares, with 10x as many votes per share as Class A (10 vs 1)?
I would be surprised as well, but then i moved to the middle east. Want to buy a closet rod...fly to Dubai to get it, or pay $30 to have a $4 item shipped internationally. Want to buy a particular brand of children's clothing, pay a 150% premium.

You dont realize how good you have it until you lose it!
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I see a few objections in this HN thread to the tone, but the primary objection (and my objection) is to the content.
You can be authentic and speak your mind without being arrogant, insulting, and condescending

If you are by nature arrogant, insulting, and condescending, then no, you can't.
Apparently for me it is a myth that XMPP teams can make anything that works. And their site is logically down.

I am gonna make my grumpy old man. It still takes 1 day for an apprentice coder to :

- make an irc bot;
- program a rs232 port;
- to draw a pitcure accessing a framebuffer;
- to make hello world in Tcl/Tk that is centered horizontally and vertically in a bigger canvas.

But seasoned devs cannot easily do the same with:

- xmpp;
- usb;
- css/js...

Either the quality of the devs is going down, or some progresses are not.

ADDENDUM technical issues in jabber: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yGdLTF4...
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Meh. None of these are claims I really see particularly often. The claims I do see are:

1. XMPP is not battery-friendly on mobile devices (this primarily has/had to do with the absence of push notifications, it seems).

2. XML is unnecessarily complex for this kind of usecase, and too hard and time-consuming to work with (and I agree). That is most likely what 'slow' refers to - not slow in parsing it, but in developing for it.

Neither of these are addressed.

I also don't really understand the comparison with "JSON over HTTP" - why would you ever use that for a realtime application?

The correct technology is JSON-over-WebSockets, and it doesn't really make sense to compare XMPP to a known-bad implementation and say "see? XMPP isn't that bad!"

Another issue with XMPP is the strange implementation of both resources and the existing options for sending to all resources (especially when taking into account tools like OTR). People want device synchronization, and it just isn't viable with XMPP right now.
Just in case a robot.txt kills that

http://pastebin.com/rcPSyRnR
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I think the Chinese billionaire effect might be real, but really the chief reason housing prices are so high is because we make it difficult to build housing. This is especially true in the most economically productive metro areas, such as New York and the Bay Area.

Even smaller cities such as DC are facing housing affordability crises. DC gained ~90K residents from 2005 to the present, but only gained ~12.5k new housing units in that time. If DC continues to grow, in the next 30 years DC will actually reach full buildout as allowed under current zoning and height restrictions. No additional units will be allowed.
You can purchase an SSL certificate individually and install it manually on your Heroku server. I bought my comodo certificate from ssl2buy.com only at $10, they provide free installation support.
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You might enjoy this talk by Bryan Cantrill, where he describes the Oracle acquisition of Sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=34m7s

> "what you think of Oracle is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle"

> "this company is about one man and his alter ego and what he wants to inflict upon humanity"

Edit:

And how could I forget this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fvDDPaIoY&t=24m

> "and then, the Nazis invaded"

> "for a while I tried to not go to Nazi allegory when talking about Oracle but I actually think that it does a dis-service to not go to Nazi allegory because if I don't use Nazi allegory when referring to Oracle there's some critical understanding that I have left on the table"
The only host i expected to see is not even there...

time.windows.com
I don't see what would prevent folks from switching to a fork if that happened.
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> I'll swap the internal SSD to 1 or 2 TB model once they become available.

I'd personally only do this if the 1/2 TB models were also SSD. OSX is so IO heavy now that any machine without an SSD feels like it's wading through molasses to get anything done.
I hope it works with 2 factor auth (like TOTP) for applications too. Perhaps it's a bit outside of the protocol scope, but a "best practice" suggestion would be great.
Most of the stuff complained about in Windows 10 was already in Windows 8 (except Cortana), but "the pop-privacy crowd" has only just discovered it, apparently ;-)
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I fully believe the capital outflow link to the rise in western real estate prices. As someone unlucky enough to be caught without any property, I am perplexed by the reasonable response. Friends have responded by taking insane loans (since property prices went up after said loans, these were really prudent financial decisions). I am at a loss. Will I be buying at the top? :(
Are there any other implementations of JMAP, especially for calendar/contacts? Also, android sync service for the same?
I agree that XML is only slightly more verbose than JSON but they should still make a JSON version of the spec or it will die. It should be pretty straight forward to mechanically change the XML into JSON.
You have just stated that there isn't a new business model, and then immediately described in considerable detail a dramatic change where lots of people get a free new version of the OS (which has not happened before) and that new version is no longer a traditional desktop OS like previous versions of Windows but instead a new kind of thing that is about being cross-platform, cloud-friendly, mobile-first, service-driven, and generally more like what Google or Apple would offer. You also glossed over all the spyware and the ads that you can pay^Wsubscribe to remove even running basic software locally on your own system, though you did mention some of the other paid services that Microsoft have made pretty clear they will be promoting via Windows 10. If that isn't a fundamental (and user-hostile) change in business model, I don't know what is.
This is so true. XMPP is quite complex. Complex to the point that bringing up a possible bug on either GTalk generating XML or Mcabber parsing it will leave some seasoned XMPP developers scratching their heads for a while, till they find the source of the problem.

It's sad, because we don't have that many decentralized multiplatform protocols. I had high hopes for Signal, but so far there is just one closed server.
omfg how much crack did you smoke before you wrote that piece of .. text

"Let’s end the hamburger era" -- this kind of recommendation/ motivational stuff is what is wrong with the world. You don't like something, YOU don't do it. Don't force your ideas upon others, no matter how good you think they are.

Waste of internet space blog.
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The PDF viewer is rather important if only for security.
Consider Toronto as a counter example. That city tore down parks to build condos. That didn't rein in prices. Now, the affluent foreigners have 3-4 condos to go along with that Maserati.
I don't think what chrome does is relevant in this discussion at least not in the context of defining what is the the correct way for mozilla to go forward.
There are really two notions of proof here [and hence truths and facts]. The article uses proof in a scientific sense, where P!=NP is accepted as empirical fact by the community of computer scientists in the same manner that biologists take natural selection as empirical fact.

To put it another way, representing the world as if P!=NP is no less reasonable than representing the world as if Newtonian physics are applicable.
The dept I used to work at was mostly ex-B4 people and I later did enterprise consulting later: What happens is that sales people talk to people high enough up on the food chain that they get the run of the place, and so it's nearly impossible to kick them out or refuse their requests without a substantial political cost/justification. It's called "building a beachhead" and involves the engagement team worming their way up to a client's CTO or even CEO, if possible. I've been deployed as a client-facing "technical"# consultant, and I got really good at it (if I do say so myself): creating additional staff roles, developing opportunities and frenimizing other consulting shops... without inventing things that didn't need doing or creating bullsh!t jobs.

# My mind was more on how to grow the business while simultaneously helping the client fix their deployments. Seriously, the sales guy was dead weight and dumb as a bag of broken rocks but looked good in suit and could talk in nonstop sports metaphors and bizease clichés.

The measure of how a software company values its customers is in the post-sales support... just asking some users how it's going is better than hiding out or DKing them. (About '03/'04, Dell took us out to see the server factory in Round Rock, but went radio silent after a significant purchase.)
> absence of push

If you are connected and your buddy sends a message you get it right away.
I do wonder if some lawyer will argue that a take down notice for an extension should include revocation of its signing?