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Right, I think it works because it's arbitrary. It just happens to be in a sometimes realistic timeframe for a fix, so you can make a game out of it. If somebody else is setting/influencing the benchmarks, suddenly it stops being fun. You'd complain about "This is terribly balanced. Timer should be at least 30 minutes. Nerf wattage next patch!"

For a naturally occurring timer, you just work within the constraints you're given. That's what they are and there's nobody to blame or change it. (I mean, you could easily put a lower wattage bulb in, but that won't occur to most people)

Or maybe it's like the placebo effect where you know what's going on but somebody could control the timer and it works anyway. Who knows?
This is not true for their Pokemon IP. They have DMCA'd fansites and fan-made Pokemon MMOs aggressively in the past.
Literally addresses NONE of the issues presented in the piece he's responding to. No one questioned the upvote system and how much each vote counted, though I'd say that's still dubious. When insiders exist to get your product on the home page and no one who doesn't use that method gets on the home page, and you have coordinated launches using SPECIFIC TIMES that it will be on the front page, you don't get to come out in a medium post with a cute cat and go "But, we didn't do that!"

As I've said previously on here I'm a capitalist and I respect greed, but I don't tolerate liars. If you going to build and insiders promotion site, then do it, and own it. Don't backpedal when someone calls you out.
You're speculating no fees paid to Oracle?

"J2EE" does not suggest Oracle in any way?

My understanding is that companies that license proprietary software are heavily involved in writing these open standards. Incorrect?

Please forgive my ignorance re: Java.

I think Moore was writing about drivers written in C.

Is the GP's story about programmers at a hardware company?

Does it matter that most of the comments are about high-level programming, not writing drivers?

Just wondering...
Photovoltaic power is actually less efficient where it's warmer. The ideal for photovoltaic generation is somewhere cold but sunny. And I'm not aware of too many solar thermal plants that are online and profitable versus other generating methods.
You're wrong. Even without any mining, running a full node requires 2GB of RAM. Even if you do less than a full node, you'll find it hard to fully process 100x transactions on less than 2GB.

Also, you don't seem to understand the point of PoW.
The dangers that befell things like the Gosling Emacs code, which informed GPL and FSF, haven't gone away. Companies like Apple are actively working to erode any progress that has been made on this front because of their intense levels of investment in proprietary lockin.
If you were to create an application that relies heavily on a time series database, what would you recommend?

I'm writing an application of this sorts, and my requirements won't be too bad (about 1000-4000 metrics on a per second basis). I will also rely heavily on predefined queries (rollups to 10s, 1m, 10m, 1h, etc.).

I'm hesitant to use OpenTSDB because the community "buy-in" seems to be going down.

EDIT: I can't lose data to downsampling. I will need to store this for both troubleshooting and regulatory purposes.
Can you talk a little bit about how many nodes it takes to maintain that write rate? We have our own system that's currently handling around 1% of that on a single node, with decent headroom but I've been looking for ways to distribute it. Certainly word on the street is that OpenTSDB performance is not good, at least relative to the resources you throw at it; however since it's based on HBase you can keep scaling even if it's expensive.
Hey reagan83, sorry, just saw this comment. I've seen some hate on HN for quora due to their walled services, you need to login (with your real name).
I also wrote an article [1] about PH, prompted by Ben Wheeler's original, noting that I was afraid to speak out earlier because I believed it would hurt my chances of getting funded. That's probably true, but whatever.

Hoover's response is weak. He's basically saying that they have improved their FAQ. Woo, that's really reassuring. Anyway, I'll take my chances with Open Hunt, or anywhere else that values an open community for that matter.

[1]http://newslines.org/blog/the-new-gatekeeper/
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That's circular logic thogh. If you built a data center capable of staging a 51% attack, you haven't made the network harder overall. You've already gained enough power to do an attack.

It might encourage others to compete, and the arms race continues. But if too much of the network is controlled by a minority, then it's not automatically more secure.
Morality is a hard thing to pin down. See the trolley problem if anyone reading this things morals are black and white.

It's much easier to compare them philosophically.

Commercial/ Proprietary - unrestricted free market capitalism

Copyleft licenses - socialist (not communist, there's a difference people, learn it) / commercial cooperative (think farmers cooperatives and anyone who might use a .coop domain)

Permissive licenses - various anarchistic philosophical positions

Market anarchism is much more compatible with existing corporate dynamics so it's pretty easy to see why it's trending this way.
At a video game studio I worked at a while ago I hooked up some (real) traffic lights to talk to our CruiseControl.NET server to report breakages. But actually it was just for fun and didn't make any difference - the main thing was that we managed to instil into the culture a desire to always have a working build. Pretty much all the programmers were very proactive about fixing breakages, even when it wasn't a programming problem. It was sometimes possible for artists and level designers to break the build, and the programmers would always be pretty quick to respond and help them figure out the problem and to fix it or build in safeguards and tests to ensure they couldn't check in broken stuff.
I wish every single person that is upset about ProductHunt's ethics internalizes this comment.

The only people that should really care about PH's ethics are makers. But if you're a maker, you shouldn't care at all about PH. You should be busy talking to users and building product. If you're not seeing traction by doing those two things, then it is nigh impossible that getting on PH will do anything for you. And if you do have traction then getting on PH won't matter!
No, it's proportional to the value of the coins used as reward. If there's high turnover, that might lead to bitcoin's price increasing and therefore higher energy costs. Also, high turnover may lead to higher fees, increasing the reward.

If the high turnover is done between trusted parties, or with settlement time, then it doesn't matter to security. It needs to be people accepting large amounts from strangers/untrusted counter-parties and giving stuff for it immediately. But usually, if I send someone $1000, they can wait 3 hours for security.

>Also, when a bank charges me 1% for a wire transfer, they pay salaries from that money and some people buy food.

When a bank has lights on, burns fuel to send an armored truck around, etc, that's also wasted.
No doubt city centres are walkable but this comment begs the question though - why are city centres 2x as expensive as suburbs? If the density and land scarcity is the reason then why do developers want to build on more expensive ground in the city than in the suburbs? Why are people willing to pay 2x to live in cities than in suburbs? I think the real reason is that walkability (and hence city centres) are desirable which makes them cost more, and not because city centres are ipso facto expensive.
Yeah I have no clue what that is.
I don't think you understand the big picture. Musk = Good, Everyone Else = Bad. The Musk sycophants are peeing their pants in excitement over this achievement, and you are just not allowed to question any part of it.
If it's just a few streams at high frequency, my take would be to bucket it (eg every second or something) and stick it on your favorite database. You could use postgres arrays, the json columntype, or frankly just a blob in those rows containing all the data for a second.

You can then write some simple postgres queries to create the views your talking about and won't have to mess with any of the "look what I wrote last week" "databases".
Elon Musk drops his prediction of full autonomous driving from 3 years to just 2
My big takeaway from the original post was that "early insiders" controlled the frontpage of ProductHunt. This post confirms that "early insiders" can still post straight to the frontpage. I see data from this blog post that is presenting an argument that the "early insiders" are a small percentage of the currently upvotes, but I don't understand why someone would opt for viral effects if you could just have an "early insider" post it directly.

When I view the Product Hunt frontpage, I see nothing to indicate that a submission has been 'boosted' and that seems to be an area that could be improved if "early insiders" will continue to have the boosting ability.
The FAA did have to approve this. I'm assuming approval was much smoother since they demonstrated on the two barge attempts that they could successfully steer the rocket to a precise landing.
So, I've lived within earshot of the Cape since 1985, and I'm pretty used to hearing launches. Tonight, I had a new experience.

I was working on a signal distortion problem with a colleague when I heard the rumble of the launch. "Rocket just launched", I said. He was on Google chat with me and said, "It did?". He lives a few miles south of me and so he gets the sound waves a few seconds later ;).

A couple of minutes later I did a double-take. "THAT's a new sound!". I've heard rockets blow before, but I've never heard one come back to land.

Then I checked the internet to confirm what my ears had already told me.

Congrats to SpaceX and thank you for not landing it on my house!
Are they planning on using this recovered first stage for a reusability test, or are they going to destructively examine it to see how all the components held up?
Parent's point is that if BitFury did that, then nobody would trust Bitcoin anymore, thus crashing the price.
Whatever the second stage's inertia was, it was more or less identical to that of the satellites' (outside of the minimal thrust to separate the payload from the second stage).

I too am confused about the utility of launching 11 satellites into virtually the same orbit.
Ask Buckley. There's still kind of a libertarian wing to American conservatism, but libertarianism is the kind of thing that can easily be taken to extremes, as we've seen with the Tea Party lately. Rothbard in particular was an anarcho-capitalist, which is a fairly fringe position.
I sort of felt this was in poor taste. I get that Bezos feels that Elon gets more than his fair share of publicity but it's Bezos' fault for being so damn secretive that nobody knows what Blue Origin is doing or why. I really lost a lot of respect for Jeff today.
Extended Validation. Usually implies the certificate authority has gone through extra steps to verify the identity of the domain owner.
"People enjoy things that I find substandard so they must be of lower intelligence."

I'll answer my own question: Users aren't stupid, they just have priorities that differ than those of technology bloggers.

Dismissing your users is an excellent way to ship a frustrating product. Apple has done the opposite, but the use-cases between the masses and the tech elite have drifted far enough that those who don't work on Apple's UX team can drive clicks using smug elitism -- the yin to the 'Apple Fanboy' yang.
web2py is quite good. Still runs stuff from many years ago, almost no security issues, does a lot out of the box. Bit of a job to make it work with websockets I'll give you.
> If his product perpetuates the power structures

All successful social software is going to perpetuate the existing power structures at the expense of outgroups in some areas, and empower outgroups at the expense of the mainstream and the insiders in other areas. As it should.
Huh? How does this "diversifying risk" idea let you do any of the major bitcoin applications? (For example, how would your idea that has the "same net effect" as bitcoin allow anonymous markets?)
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>I'm still trying to live in an urban area -- it's been a goal of mine for my entire life. But it feels like all of society is working against me for trying to do this.

Do this. Even if temporarily. I've lived in the suburbs all of my life (and currently still do). The year I spent in a real city gave me great perspective. I quite enjoyed some parts and hated other parts. If anything it made me really understand myself more (and appreciate the suburbs!)
Scientific proof that the germans on twitter are retarded!
My point was, just because there exists one (perfectly valid) objection to Tor, it doesn't mean the project as a whole is negative and should be shut down (what the parent seems to be implying about this email provider).
http://i.imgur.com/g2VIKVC.jpg
Indeed. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
I'm not sure there was a prior "31" but here's the code with the "32":

https://rpw.sh/blog/2015/12/21/the-backdoored-backdoor/
It might be possible to deconstruct it to examine it, then put it back together and reuse what's reusable.
http://blog.fictiv.com/posts/

Fictiv's Hardware Weekly is usually a good place to start. They're a prototyping shop in Oakland.
Yes they were so actively working to erode progress that they offered to license LLVM under the GPL. But because RMS uses an e-mail client written in the last century he missed the offer.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...
Quick question, what sequencer are they using? Nanpore MinION (since the article refers to "laptop" sequencing) or Illumina?
Nothing matters more than the programmers ability to understand what is happening, and how to do what they want.

If you write something that does absolute magic, it doesn't matter if no one can use it.

Make sure that everything is simple, easy to understand, and as basic as it can be. If you do that than it will not only be a good framework, but will also have very source code. Simplicity makes everything better.
I think you've succinctly described "how good forums die".
Because Falcon9 is a big launcher taking a serious payload into orbit. This means that the first stage has to have very large engines - so large that they can't be throttled down to hover, they have to kill velocity at the point of touchdown.

It's the difference between slowing your car down gently to stop at a red light, and having your car going at max speed and slamming on the brakes as hard as you can at exactly the right moment so that you will eventually stop at the lights. One is easy to do, the other will most likely get you killed.
Could educated Germans have read enough about the Stasi?
I agree 100% with your POV
Without reading the study I can't be sure, but it should be relatively easy to screen for that bias by factoring into their analysis the ratio of patients presenting with an awareness of their anxiety as distinct from the patients who presented with other reasons than anxiety since this kind of information should be available and makes sense to consider.
> LLVM's permissive license means that contributions don't flow back unless it's favourable to the entity contributing it (such as good PR).

There are multiple reasons to push code up the chain to the wider world beyond fuzzy feelings regarding your corporation.

Never underestimate the benefits of outsourcing your code maintenance and integration costs. ;)
According to someone who was on a press call, Musk says he's going to keep this one on the ground[1]. They'll disassemble and examine it, but it'll probably go in a museum afterwards.

1. https://twitter.com/NASAWatch/status/679129749105459200
They have stated that the plan is to take it apart and learn. All previous large rockets boosters that have been recovered, have been recovered after either crashing, or crashing and then being immersed in sea water. Both of these do a lot of damage.
Elon should thank the American people. This achievement was financed by us and wouldn't be possible without the forward looking NASA program.

So before we all thank Elon for taking our money, let's pat our selves on the back.

Really we should thank the amazing spacex engineers, who worked tirelessly. Not just Elon. Sure he worked hard too, but not much more than anyone else at spacex

I'm just tired of the Elon worship. Nobody acknowledges the amazing people who actually made this happen. As an engineer it pisses me off. Sorry if this is an unpopular opinion.
From the founder's perspective, ProductHunt is mainly good for developing your internal quality benchmarks. Build an MVP you know is good enough to get highly upvoted if it were promoted in the right way, and then try not to care whether or not it actually gets any upvotes when it gets submitted.
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The guy is a politician. So many smokey words and mirrors, so little straight talk.
(All images were of brightly colored plastic pieces of crap)
This is so epically awesome that I feel like we orbited a human for the first time or something. Bezos whining aside, its a huge deal to return 9 engines from a workhorse booster back to the pad to be refurbed and re-used. If the $5M each costs are correct, that is $45M in cost savings right there.

But perhaps more importantly its the first "first" for SpaceX which has not been done by NASA or anyone else. Launch a payload in to orbit and recover the booster back to the launch site. The SRBs from the shuttle were essentially shell refurbs, SpaceShip 1 and Blue Origin sub-orbital hops. This was, in my estimation, the real deal. It has to be an amazing feeling being on the team that made this possible. Congratulations, that is one way to write yourself into the history books.

Edit: I was so excited I couldn't even multiply 9 by 5!
What kind of actions? Response handlers (edit: should have said request handlers)?
The mechanisms necessary for a removable battery that doesn't fall out accidentally cost extra weight and bulk. It's an engineering tradeoff, and swappable batteries aren't worth it for many users. This is also why many laptops have fewer interchangeable parts- for many people, being lighter and thinner is better, and a 3-5 year lifespan is plenty.
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Fellow YNAB user... how often do you reconcile? I try to do it at the end of the month and it can get a little overwhelming.
What? This is the least understandable gripe. Every time I launch a new version of ANYTHING you listed above, it comes in the form of a brand new server that swaps into the load balancer. Broken Ops isn't someone else's fault.
"Simple, Fast, and Practical Non-Blocking and Blocking Concurrent Queue Algorithmms" (1996)
Maged M. Michael, Michael L. Scott

https://www.cs.rochester.edu/research/synchronization/pseudo...
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=248106
https://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/michael/podc-1996.pdf

also see the Concurrent Data Structures (CDS) library https://github.com/khizmax/libcds
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Product Hunt's rigged system affects everyone in the startup community. Some of those insider's products had ZERO traction before being on Product Hunt. The insider relationship gave them the boost they needed to get attention from the media and VCs, while denying other startups who were spending their time doing what you say: "talking to users and building product".
@usmeteora great comments here.

"I was the perfect target so sociopathic men and there were alot of them around me. It's not surprising in RETROSPECT that a year ago I got out of a long term relationship with a verifiable sociopath for all the reasons I just said."

Read "Dangerous Personalities", Navarro.J. [0],[1]

Navarro details a forensic checklist to identify personalities like this. I've got this book and it gives you a numerical score to ID said personalities, along personality types you've listed, and a few more.

Forewarned is forearmed.

[0] http://www.jnforensics.com/#!books/cnec

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Personalities-Profiler-Ident...
Putting aside the question of "should we break encryption" to look at the Manhattan analogy. We did not get atomic bombs because the government asked physicists to invent a method of building bombs orders of magnitude larger than what we had before.

Instead, physicists hypothesized that atoms might undergo fission, which would lead to a release of energy and neutrons. Then they did further research into this matter and observed fission occur. Once this foundational research happened, not before, Openheimer drew a picture of a bomb.

It was only later, that the US spent about 0.2% of GDP on the research and development necessary to construct an atomic bomb.[0]

At this point in time, we have no hypotheses that are analogies to fission from which we can build the type of system that Clinton is suggesting. In fact, a solution to this problem would also be a solution to many of the problems that cryptographers have been researching for decades. Consider that under the proposed system, the Government has legitimate access to the encrypted data[1]. Additionally, we would like the system to prevent access to people without legitimate access. It will be a good day for crypto when we solve this weakened version of the problem at scale.

At the moment, the best solution to this problem we have is to decentralize all key material, so that any breach is localized. However, this solution is fundamentally contradictory to the proposed system.

Additionally, when we say that the Government is an honest actor, we really mean that the Government computer systems are honest actors. We know that this is not the case, because we have seen these systems be compromised by malicious actors.

[0] Total cost of the Manhatten project was about 2% of GDP but about ~90% went to construction, which would likely be far more expensive for a bomb than for crypto.

[1] With judicial approval, which I will ignore. For the purposes of this security definition, assume that the Government is an honest actor.
You've touched a nerve. Apparently HN is full of people who need very desperately to believe that they are purely rugged individualists.
It takes me 10 minutes to figure out what amazon order resulted in 3 separate charges, none of the numbers ever being mentioned in my Amazon order history (just the sum).
If your model fits everything, it fits nothing. If you've stretched until compilers are "MVC", you haven't got MVC anymore. Something has to be meaningfully a good design that is not MVC for MVC to exist as a distinct solution.

MVC is not simply "things should be abstracted from each other". That just, well, abstraction. (Or, better, indirected: http://zedshaw.com/archive/indirection-is-not-abstraction/ )

I've been anti-MVC (unless you are in the rare situations where it really works) for a while, and this is precisely why. It clouds people's thought. It convinces people they're doing "design" when they are often just complexifying things by rote application of badly misunderstood ideas.
Overall a pretty nice document, although the spelling mistakes do put you off.
I wouldn't worry too much about what the community thinks. TSDB fits the bill and works great. That being said, I've also heard wonderful things about druid.io (http://druid.io/), however I've yet to personally try it. We're going to start testing and throwing data at druid early next year though.