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Still an improvement to the Von Braun approach, I'd guess.
If you request on the sandstorm-dev list (it's a Google Group) an app, someone might want to port it, or add it to the app voting list. If you're developer-inclined, you can even package apps yourself, Sandstorm has pretty decent dev tools.

Though, depending on what you want to monitor, the ideal drivers to let the app talk to things outside of Sandstorm may not be ready yet.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "soft retire"?
Not being a member of the target audience doesn't mean the speaker is doing something wrong.
If the middle class didn't lose so much of its income on taxes, it would be a lot easier to save money for them to start businesses. The tighter you get squeezed, the longer it takes to save money and the more the actual risk increases based on sheer time value.

The unfortunate result of that is that in order to start a business that requires more than an investment of spare time and professional skill (programming or a service based business) everything else is left to the mercy of investors.

It's an unfortunate reality.
A person gains some $N in financial gains and personal fulfillment for going to college. Regardless if tuition comes from the individual or the taxpayers, the society as a whole is still paying some $M for a person to go to college. Society gains some additional $R through the person going to college.

I posit that for some individuals, sending that individual to college is beneficial to society (N + R > M), and for others, it is not (N + R <= M).

If the government decides everyone goes to college at its expense, then some individuals for whom college would not be socially beneficial will go to college. This will be a societal loss.

Alternatively, the government could try to figure our who would be beneficial to send to college, and pay only for them. This would maximize societal gain if done correctly. However, I for one would not trust the government to make this decision impartially or correctly.

But when the market decides who goes to college, it is up to each individual to decide whether or not college will be beneficial for them. Hopefully, informed individuals can make that decision correctly. (Of course, when an individual decides, they do not consider the societal benefit R, only the personal benefit N. This could be solved by a government subsidy worth R, either in a grant or in favorable interest rates on a loan.)

I do not see a reasonable way in which a controlled economy for higher education could maximize societal gains.
Key word: Material quality of life. So we're saving money on plastic deck chairs and pringles cans. But the cost of health insurance, real estate, and higher education has gone up.
FYI, Intel tried that with the aborted "Larrabee" project, so not a stupid question at all. It ended up being a too hard problem to solve. They reused the technology to make the Xeon Phi coprocessors which are basically PCIE computing "accelerators"; for a class of workload, and if you're willing to rewrite your code, they are faster and more power efficient than GPUs.

Although there are many companies trying to crack this many-core problem (Kalray, AppliedMicro, Adapteva, Cavium, Tilera), I'm not aware of any "successful" solution.
The other side to the upgrade to the Falcon 9 is chilling down the fuel more than normal so that it shrinks and they can fit more of it in the rocket's tanks.
Netflix has an extremely limited selection. Pirate Bay has much better coverage. seer's point is that there's plenty of room for improvement in the legal streaming business. There's no reason it has to be this hard for the user to give studios money.

(edit) Here's a concrete example: a list of movies I have wanted to see. Only 3 of the movies on my list are available via streaming, and they are each on a different service! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1atQ1ZHAoI6SC9a4Qk9MF...
I could be wrong but I'm 99% sure you can't just search an individual by logging in.
It would help if OpenCL eco-system was half as good as CUDA, specially in Fortran, C++, alternative languages support and debuggers.
No, I was never going to belittle the student. It was more along the lines of "Don't deal with the actual problem. Just encourage her -- that's all she needs." Essentially the student needed a cheering squad rather than honest feedback. In that environment the teachers have to tiptoe around both the students and the parents.
Take a closer look. Let's pick 2014 since it's a full year's data but any year will do

Safari:

61 DOS
64 Code Execution
52 Overflow
61 Memory Corruption

Chrome

86 DOS
5 Code Execution
28 Overflow
9 Memory Corruption

Of those only Code Execution matters AFAICT. That the one where someone owned your machine or at least read everything in ~/.ssh and ~/Application Support. On that Safari is ~13 times worse than Chrome.

PS: The numbers don't add up to the total because a single vulnerability can be tagged as causing more than 1 of the issues.
What I have found is that the subconscious will resist taking action on something perceived to be important until it's worked out an appropriate approach. As a result one can avoid doing things like planning and preparing and simply query the subconscious as to whether you're ready to work on something.

Yes has me start on it and either complete it or hit a snag. If it's a snag, then I'll analyze it briefly and then go back to procrastinating until the subconscious has worked out another approach.

No is perceived this as a feeling of "Nope." I've attuned myself to this feeling and have learned to listen carefully to it. Many, many times, especially with work tasks the reason for doing that particular task will have evaporated by the time I'm ready to do it.

Other times I find I needed to clear my mind before the subconscious can present to me the right way to go about it. So I'll read articles so as to purge my mind of the attachment (in the Buddhist sense) I'm feeling to the task.

Sometimes it takes days / weeks / months for this attachment to clear up. I have a task I've been wanting to do sit in my reminders for 2 months now. It will stay until I'm either comfortable removing it or actually doing it.
So what you're saying is to use Amazon Prime and Netflix for the older content but torrent the newer stuff? ;-)
Seems to be a good example of https://xkcd.com/1138/
If you're a real victim, then you have encountered a force unreasonable to overcome on your own, or you've been the victim of a crime, or both, and then it works to have help from something more powerful, like the Law, or the State. And if the State has made you a real victim? Go to another state.

And if there is no higher force to help you -- spiritual victory is one possibility: "Your life is what your thoughts make of it."
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Well, this is the point of nacl (and successors). You don't need to know that it's using a stream cipher. You only need to know you want to send a secret, and this is the function that does that.
I don't think your math is right there. You can check that by plugging in the values of a much simpler lottery.

Imagine a lottery where instead of 2^256 there are only 100 possible outcomes and there are 3 players.

The odds are 34/100, 33/100, and 33/100 respectively. The bias is around 1/33.

But if I plug that scenario into your equation, I get:

2/(4+100%3) - (1/3) which is 2/5-1/3 which is 1/15.
Being able to delete and rename grains and stuff from the list is something I've been nudging them about. :)

Yesterday in particular Oasis was under heavy load from HN, if you clicked on New Wekan a bunch of times before it did it, it might have made a bunch. Usually it's near instant so this sort of thing doesn't happen.

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Boo hoo.

Why do I feel like they're gas station owners crying about how they can't charge $50/gallon for gasoline now that the hurricane won't make landfall?
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Sigh. This is just becoming the same as Cable TV.

In Cable TV days you had numerous premium channels you had to subscribe to which gave you access to movies/shows. You needed multiple subscriptions to get access to "all" the latest movies/content.

Today, you need numerous premium streaming subscriptions to get access to movies/shows. You need multiple subscriptions to get access to "all" the latest movies/content.

Nothing has changed. We now have "on-demand" instead of waiting for the station to play the movie/show we want to see. However, that is now available on Cable. So there is no differentiation that I can see between going on-line vs Cable.

The main winner will again be piracy, one place to access anything and everything. No commercials.
Responding to an earnest post with sarcasm is never a useful way to have a conversation, regardless how misguided the first post was.
Right, now measure on a per-capita basis or on the basis of percentage of GDP. At least it's adjusted for bloody inflation.
Indeed, the problem is more with the bureaucratic paperwork more than anything else, it takes 6 months to just have the legal paperwork to start a company there.
I was at GDCE when Larrabee was presented in the technical session about programming for it.

Of course, it was mostly slideware but we were given the promises that it would change computing as we know it, yeah right.

They really need to improve their GPU skills.
Seeing a mob coming up with non-completely-idiotic solutions to problems on a regular basis would. I doubt it's possible in principle though, even without negative (with various degrees of malice) influence of the media. It's funny how the tool that's supposed to guarantee accountability in a democracy is also the thing that dumbs it down.
I already cannot get certain brands of milk at my local grocery store due to distribution agreements that in some ways resemble the distribution agreements that surround digital media.

I actually have had to visit 3 different major grocery stores to get the ingredients for one meal.

As for the advertisement? Well there are the ones on my receipt, the "coupon" that pops out, and possibly ads plastered on the side of the product I just purchased.
I think this is the most obvious conclusion to gather, I had never heard of the service until the hack. While it's true that most people don't think as much about security as they should; the media has done a fairly good job at convening everyone that this hack could ruin the lives of anyone on the site. I'd say their service is dead, unless they do some major rebranding.
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I had a twitter username say X. I renamed username to Y. I have lot of references of X on twitter/blogs because of mentions and replies.
Is there a way I can redirect all those old twitter usernames to new twitter account?
No, that's if you take home $100k and 'only' spend half of it (which already represents the median household income in the US)
Shouldn't people who want to learn web development use the workflow and tools of professional web developers? And since these tools are free, I don't see the case for Thimble.
tldr: use Haskell because it solves all problems, but actually don't use Haskell use Go/Rust instead because they are more suited to the mainstream programmer, but Haskell is more powerful.

What.
That is the entire point of the article. The convenience and value of Netflix was astonishing. But with half the content going away is it still?

Especially with Netflix saying the solution is to repurchase what you just got rid of (cable) in order to get that newly missing content back.
Yegge has always been worth reading, which makes it sad that he's been basically silent ever since 2012 (about a year after the infamous "Platform" rant).

Earth to Major Yegge, Earth to Major Yegge, do you copy? Come back, we miss you.
Being privately held doesn't mean you can defraud customers.
> I'd be surprised if most if not all snipes were't automated. I don't think people sit round their PC with their finger on the buy button as the auction counts down.

Most non-technical people, heck, even most technical people I know who use eBay regularly, don't use snipers. (Too bad for them.)

> Another idea is: why doesn't eBay write their own bots for users to use, and call it a "bidding strategy"?

eBay takes a percentual share of the selling price, so they have an interest in high selling prices. Making sniping easier would lower selling prices. When all (or most) bidders will make bids shortly before the auction, and - which is the important part - see each others bids and respond to them, that drives up the selling price "nicely".
Another thing to factor in is being from a lower income area will distort your perception of what a large number is. I come from a town where the per capita income is 20k. My first "real" job was doing tech support at $16/hr. It felt like A LOT of money to me. I thought I was getting overpaid, that sentiment followed me for years. Today making 125k I still feel overpaid, though when I look at the value I produce for the company, and the numbers of my peers I know it's not. It took me many years to get to 125k because each step up the ladder felt pretty big to me even though it probably wasn't compared to my peers.

Pay is very relative. I look at my old high school buddies, they range from 25k-40k. The first time I asked for 100k, I thought it was craziness. Like no human being deserves that amount of money. So it took me several years to build up to that number.
The problem is, they were making noise about going public. In doing so, presumably people are looking very deeply into their books & numbers.
Agreed. The trade-off is difficult. We're having to consider it for my (almost) 10yo daughter. Her teachers consistently tell us that she's exceptionally smart, but she can't stay focused long enough to complete her work. (She has been formally diagnosed as ADHD.) ADHD kids are prone to self-esteem issues arising from not meeting their own expectations for achievement: "Darn it, I know I'm smarter than a C." We don't want her getting to that point, so medications are on the table as a possibility. But, we want to explore other options as well.
Do you have any resources for phone/mail based user onboarding?
I'm working on a product for users who often don't have a smartphone or daily internet access. Are there any good strategies/services to help automate placement of phone calls/letters for enrollment?
They added "87,596 women". Now, if you look at that number, does anything feel unnatural and made up about it? 56789.
What I'm trying to get at, though, is that it may be worthwhile to try to make some high-profile connections which can increase the userbase. Building the paying userbase is the important part right now.

Making it easier/better for people to get their papers on the arxiv would be fantastic, and bring in more users. If the arxiv is bought into the effort, it gets SMC more visibility, bringing in more users than just making the features available. Now, the arxiv is extremely conservative by design, so this isn't an easy partnership to make, but it's a pretty obvious one to try in terms of getting a bigger SMC userbase.

But really, the important part is trying to bring in as large a flock of paying users as possible, for a minimum amount of effort. Maybe this is undergraduate students, maybe it's individual researchers (like me) signing up for subscriptions, and maybe it's university math/cs/physics departments signing up for big subscriptions. I know a couple departments that are running their own servers which might be able to save a decent chunk of money by moving to SMC, for example. But it requires some outreach work to get in touch with them, and some bargaining to get them to switch models.
There is an open request to add a posix_random (basically arc4random) to posix http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=859
Maybe it was just me but I couldn't find any juice on this essay.. The best I essay I ever read on procrastination was from mark Manson [1].

[1] http://markmanson.net/procrastination
Article updated - VS wasn't the issue. He had installed a 3rd party github extension (from github themselves) that overrides the built-in Git support in visual studio... bug was found, confirmed and fixed yesterday though, so a quick turnaround.
No I want a library like I had 2-3 years ago instead of a shrinking shell that it is today...
They don't "reimburse" anything. They only cancel the due amount. The only thing they lose is their wasted computing power (and some support costs) and I think the RAW computing power is very cheap to them, especially considering their scale. The cost in terms of support for the victims is probably bigger but still not significant.
You've heard a Marxist slogan and thought it was timely huh?

Cause it's either evil monolithic collectivism or saintly and righteous fantasy individualistic libertarianism, those are the two options.

It's not like we can't recognize that most individual success is predicated on a healthy and functional society, one that is inclusive and takes care of its members, rather than one that caters solely to individuals fortunate enough to be born into families that have existing wealth.
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They've been working on the Falcon 9 1.2 for a long time. It wouldn't make sense to go back to 1.1 to fix a known problem with a strut.
Your description of being an employee resonates with me, and thank you for giving some insight into how you've approached your career and what you see in the future. Though I came from a financially supportive environment, I was (wisely) cautioned against being a risk-taker with my career due to medical issues that I can't afford to manage without good company sponsored health insurance. My parents urged me to get good skills so that I could be a valuable employee, obtain a nice standard of living, and have some security in the sense that if I had to change jobs, then I would have skills and a good background in order to get hired and retained.

Here's where the correlative kicks in: I always wanted to be a full-time musician, and I still do...but I view success in music a lot like being involved with a start-up. There's the product/service angle (quality and innovation matter, unless they don't), the investor relationship (labels), the marketing budget, and absolutely no guarantees of success. Actually, it's an offhand joke, but being a full-time musician writing originals (e.g. not in a wedding/corporate party cover band) is a lot like choosing poverty up front for a potential windfall later.

Being an employee has been a choice, and one that I'm glad to have made because with patience and investing in myself, I've been able to acquire lots of equipment and spent hundreds - if not thousands - of hours playing, writing and recording music. Because I didn't seek out the 'traditional' channel of label investment and signing away certain rights, I've been able to build a library of my own content which I consider like a savings of sorts. Maybe it's a worthless legacy in dollar terms, or maybe when an opportunity finally arises to do some business with my material, I won't be caught empty handed. The trade-off in security and health isn't glamorous, but it's certainly something I'm proud of choosing and accomplishing thus far.

TL,DR; If your goal is to get a Nolan Ryan rookie card and the guy won't trade it unless you offer the entire roster of the 1989 Oakland As Championship team in trade, then get to work building up what you need to get what you want.
You might mean what you say so I'll just point out that your comment seems to be a bit obscure and doesn't really make it seem like you've read the article.
Why use money instead of equally allocated vote-points? You get 1000 vote-points a year, use them as you wish. Vote for 1000 different things, or 1 thing 1000^.5 times, etc.
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I tend to find the overhead of the JVM appears to contribute the most. If I have -Xmx 128MB for example, around 200MB will often be shown in Windows task manager, or whatever.

Maybe this is addressed in the talk, any my "overhead" is actually my own mis-used data space which I am not aware of.
> If it was that simple, everyone would just do that.

It's not that simple; but it's also why not everyone is uber-successful.
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IIRC docker (or any other virtual machine filesystem) in a single image file and hashing filesystems mix really, really badly.

Docker could use BTRFS / ZFS snapshots instead of using whole filesystem image files though, so this ought to get better.
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Entrepreneurs in other industries may need family money. Software Entrepreneurs can use their own.

Working in an industry where $120k/year is considered a starting salary, and where you know for a certainty that you are roughly one Twitter post away from having your pick of three companies that will fight to get you, you can feel free to pursue any goofy idea you like without fearing much for your financial safety should things go wrong.

Yet another reason this is the best industry to be in right now.
This is such a strange article. It starts out describing how Haskell was well-suited to their problem (or at least tries to) and then suddenly says:

The thing is: Biilmann no longer uses Haskell. It’s not entirely practical. Not enough people know how to use it, and this is unlikely to change. “Haskell is like a programming language from an alternate future that is never going to happen,” he says. “It solves all these problems it promises to solve. But it’s so different that there is no chance it will become common.”
As someone who has taught JavaScript workshops in which 10% of the class wasted half the class trying to install Node & NPM just to set up a development server that could reliably serve static assets (the last thing I expected to be a problem), I can attest to the value of this.

Granted, plnkr.co probably would have worked just as well, but giving everybody a consistent (and persistent, and reasonably performant) dev environment in an educational setting makes a huge difference.
well that's... discouraging... depressing...
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The maps are difficult to read. IIUC, most of the dark spots are nuclear reactors (they re highlighted in the small map at the bottom right). What is the diffuse dark area in China?
Or you could just stop buying the milk.
> Game 2: If you guess correctly then you get $10 by the end of the experiment.

The question is clear you get a reward each time you awaken, not at the end of the game.

The reward is correctness (Humans like being correct = reward, else things like 'should believe' becomes meaningless hence the question becomes meaningless Q.E.D. it's not meaningless and correctness is a reward)

"When you are awakened, to what degree should you believe that the outcome of the coin toss was Heads?"
I tried pomodoro but never sat well with me. I can focus for 1-2 hours happily once I'm into something. I worked in a team where it was pushed as a mantra for working. The issue with that being is that everyone was on a different schedule. I actually considered it a way to attempt to kill social interaction within the team, say going for coffee together.

If it works for you, go for it, but I do not work in 25 minute chunks.