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Why isn't anyone talking about how the hardware for their ultra tablet is literally the Surface 2? Did they get a bunch of unsold inventory or did they just have manufacturing rights to the design?
>they simply logged the real ip addresses that visited the website once they had access to the server.

Not so: one of the primary purposes of TOR is to hide the user's IP address.
Statistically, doesn't a sample size of 2000 get you pretty close to +/- a 5% margin of error?
Cell magics are exactly what I was looking for. Much easier to do some data cleanup stuff in Python and move stats heavy stuff to R.
Cf https://twitter.com/ircmaxell/status/685207462992035841 & ff
You mean you tried to peddle your startup (for acquisition likely) to them and you couldn't get your foot in the door? And that could have made them a "contender"? Please
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It's not clear that dissolving DuPont would help millions of people.
The sharing objects thing seems like it would be fraught with errors and mismatches. R has a fundamentally different structuring than Python. From factors to numerics, and vectors.
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Let me ask you a question. When you don't know how to proceed in your job what do you do?
Relevant: http://www.citylab.com/politics/2013/09/two-words-olympics-i...
R is still great. Just don't try and write anything production worthy in R.
If I'm not mistaken parent is talking about 'working for a startup' that IMHO isn't as risky as 'co-founding' the startup, which of-course has its whistle bells. Why would a 10th employee join a startup for the risk and not for the money ?
That's actually up for philosophical debate. For instance, if I were to tell you there might be a fly in your house somewhere, you wouldn't consider it unlikely even in the absence of evidence, whereas if I said there was a kangaroo, it would be quite agreeable to accept the null hypothesis because the alternative is very unlikely.

IOW, if we accepted absence of evidence as evidence of absence, there'd be no scientific research. Just because most research thus far has been crappy doesn't mean learning styles are bullshit. It intuitively seems, at least, that some people are more visual than others, and some are more capable of abstract thought than others, etc.
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My startup circa 2009 failed, my best takeaway was to bank-fund rather than self-fund. What have you learned the hard way, from your failed startup?
It would probably be best to not get into specific cases, but try to find a way that could be more general - say let a current copyright holder extend the copyright of an item for 10 years for a nominal fee (say $100). The money could go to fund a website that would list which old works were still copyright protected.

Mickey would be safe from entering the public domain and everything else would automatic become public domain.
I'm disappointed there is no download available. This news seems a little premature.
Cheers, hope it's useful :-)
You missed by far the biggest one: wood cook fires / hearths (or animal dung, or whatever).

The vast majority of all people who ever lived (including a great number still today across the developing world) dealt with much worse air pollution, in the form of wood smoke, than the worst cigarette cloud you’ll ever find in a bar, or the worst smog you’ll ever find in a coal-powered city.
Utilities generally consider your account to be in good standing so long as you don't fall more than two or three payments behind. They may use a late fee and/or a deposit return agreement to incentivize on-time payments, but they're not going to go after you (such as disconnecting service) until usually the 3rd month that you fail to pay, sometimes (especially for municipal utilities) much longer.

Essentially, accounts paid late just aren't a big deal for them. They almost always get the money anyway.
You are just like more to drown in self pity then do something for yourself. It's much more convenient. Much easier. I grew up same as you. Probably much worse. Hard work, perseverance and a lot of reflection helped me overcome the shortcomings you deem insurmountable.
Dilution is a solution (in a figurative sense) if you know you won't want the substance later on.

In some ways, though, pollution is a materials technology problem, in that we don't know enough about materials technology to either use the pollutant directly or cheaply reprocess it into something we can use.
I feel like there should be a big effort for investigating health effects of chemicals before they even get tested in the lab, basically going back to first principles. Couldn't we build an inventory of every damn molecule occuring naturally in human bodies, tagged by the subsystems they are associated with (blood circulation, cell cores, digestion etc.) and then run simulations that tell you for a new chemical what they can bond with and what exposure is safe? Even just a molecular bonding database that you can query like this could be very powerful, maybe full scale simulation isn't even needed to get a qualitative view on health effects. Am I naive about what this could do or the feasibility of the implementation? Is it being done since a long time and chemical enterprises just keep it for themselves?
What does "top performing currency" mean? Best for consumers? Best for investors? Best for economies?
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I think the author is making a mistake by characterising all libertarian islamic thought as being 'Murjiite'. The Murjiites were a specific historical religious and political movement and we really don't know all that much about what they believed and how they put that into practice. Furthermore since a Murjiite assassinated Ali, calling modern Muslims Murjiites associates them with that act in a way that's wholly counterproductive. Other than that I enjoyed the article and found much to agree with.
> There are two main versions of Argon2, Argon2i and Argon2d. Argon2i is the safest against side-channel attacks, while Argon2d provides the highest resistance against GPU cracking attacks.

Does this mean that one has to choose between protection against side-channel attacks and protection against GPU cracking? While not the "safest", how safe is Argon2d against side-channel attacks, and vice-versa? Any advice on making this choice?

(It's late here so I haven't read the paper yet. Apologies if this is all covered in there.)
People are simply wary about ceding too much societal control to a powerful external entity, whether it's big government or big corp.
However unlike the Paypal-branded product, Venmo peer-to-peer payments are free.
> The issue is that once we allow a state agency to trample the 4th amendment for an admittedly noble cause

Can you expand on how they broke the 4th? There's nothing that indicates they broke the 4th from what I can see.
The really disgusting thing is that the U.S. then turns around and tries to force it's insane copyright laws on other countries under the guise of trade agreements like TPP. It seems inevitable that, eventually, the birth of Mikey Mouse will divide what is public domain from what is not around the entire globe for all time.

Of course, the U.S. could instead do something sensible like create a "Mickey Mouse law". e.g. For ongoing fees of a fairly large size, companies can retain a copyright indefinitely. Set the fees to a little less than the amount Disney spends on lobbyists and graft and everybody wins. Disney keeps the rights to Mickey and saves money. Things not named Mickey Mouse start entering the public domain again.
It's value vs. other currencies.

Which is a really braindead metric for comparing bitcoin to anything.
Saying that the Chinese company is producing a knockoff has yet to be proved. Given the hoverboard craze I am not surprised if the Chinese company has produced something by coincidence that the US company _happens_ to have a patent on.
Speaking as a user with 37,000+ karma, no, not that I am aware of.
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Golden parachutes are pretty common. It's a way of aligning company leadership financial interests with stockholders. The legality is highly dependent on specifics. If there is a lot of money at stake, I'd talk to a lawyer.
> I still serve on program committees and review articles for journals and the like.

Judging academia from your experience on program committees is like judging the entertainment industry from watching Britain's Got Talent.
These are my own hazy opinions, but I suspect it starts at "Wallet vaporizes from shock" and goes up from there.

I remember reading about how old IBM mainframes used to have a couple ThinkPads (literally two, for redundancy) bolted just inside the cabinet door, just to change low-level configuration settings. It seems to me that these POWER8 boxen are aimed toward that end of the market.

YouTube's history interface is terrible, but I managed to dig this out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOzPTopt7HE - which shows the different discrete components in a POWER8 system and how they're put together. I should probably do a bit more research on this, that video is quite basic (and 2 years old now).

POWER8 systems seem to necessarily take up a lot of space, and not does this contributes to the raw material cost, it's also a factor in renting, considering that you can pack a basic but decent punch with 1U or 2U of x86. My guess is that IBM isn't trying to be competitive here, but aim for a specific market. That'll influence the price too.

It's thanks to market factors and the state of education (which sometimes produces wins like these!) that places like PTOpenLab exist, I think (again, this is an [un]educated guess), and I'm super appreciative that they do. I haven't figured out how the "blue points" system works yet though (you get 500, and use 10/day for running a VM); I can at least say that the number doesn't increase each day. I vaguely recall reading something to the effect of creating HDD images for the platform would give you points based on how many other people downloaded them (there's somewhere you can upload to), but I can't find that documentation now.

Another fun tidbit: the dashboard UI is based on SmartAdmin (a premium jQuery plugin, apparently), which comes with Chrome-compatible voice control (note the mic button at the top-right). The voice command list doesn't show because of a 404, but you can find the list in app.config.js (F12 -> Network -> reload page) - scroll to the pile of "show"s. Useless, and horribly flaky, but extremely cool. :D
You could just make it more and more expensive to extend copyright.

Ie first twenty years are free, the n-th year after will cost you some multiple of n USD. (Or make it grow quadratic or exponential.)

Or you can get a fair valuation pretty easily: let Disney post a value for Mickey Mouse they'd want to be taxed on. Lower value means less tax. But the self-declared value comes with the obligation to sell to any comer who offers that much in cash.
Red was the highest performing color in Vegas in 2015.
How much inequality is too much?
Oh HN and unsolicited startup advice. A blog post and 2 minutes and you've pattern matched your way to a solution. Bravo.

Dear OP, please ignore all this sage advice from people in cushy tech jobs telling you what you should do with your baby. Life is hard. We never know if we're making the right decisions. But it sounds like you have a clear vision that is driving you - that is priceless. Don't sell it away for the smart "business" move, when you already know what you should be doing.
I don't think the bigger ones will in the short to medium term.

At some point, in the distant future, it's likely that movie distribution will be radically changed. PPV and streaming from day 1 but that's highly unlikely.

For that to happen, alternate means of distribution would need to be more profitable for the studios than the status quo. If movie attendance drops enough that it will bring in more money to partner with Netflix, Hulu or some as of yet uninvented streaming service; then and only then will it happen.

We already have the straight to video model for small budget films and Mockbusters. For those, it makes sense. They are made on limited budgets because the producers know that there's never going to be a theatrical release and the target market is very narrow.

There's also the wrinkle that digital projectors have lowered the cost of releasing a film. There are no longer film prints to produce, quality control, deliver, track and pickup.

It might happen one day but no time soon.

A similar analogy that works in my favour is Steam as a distribution channel, undercutting physical disk distributors. Games became a lot cheaper, but the AAA titles still ask for and receive quite a high price comparatively.

I can't help but notice that GOG came along and started selling classic games at even lower prices than Steam and ever since, I have seen some excellent Steam sales.
Argon2 is an improvement over bcrypt, scrypt, etc.

For typical needs, such as passwords and keys, you'll want to use the Argon2i variant, which is slower and provides more protections.

For atypical needs, when you're certain there are no side-channel risks, you may want to use the Argon2d variant, which is faster.

Argon2 has introduction slides here: https://www.cryptolux.org/images/c/c5/Rwc-slides.pdf
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Can't say I'm shocked. Everything I've been interested in buying from Gilt I could find cheaper elsewhere just by googling.
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> And then your problem becomes infinite profit for finite work. If you want to talk about things that break economics, its a perpetual money machine.

Have you heard of discounting and present value calculations?

Even an infinite stream of (say constant) income is worth only a finite amount in the present.
How do you define one work vs two works?
It's the difference between systems
run according to the rule of law which
have some corruption, versus systems run
by corruption which have some laws.

This is so well articulated. If you don't already, you should write essays.
Who needs restricted user permissions, you can just review the machine code of all your executables before running them ;)
The patent covers pretty much every conceivable self-balancing device you can think of. They covered their bases with the patent, and I was shocked that all the current 'hoverboard' designs didn't get immediately sued to oblivion.
If you aimed to land on a job in a big company, "Padding your resume with buzzwords" is not that bad, because HR people filter CV's from the pile using these same keywords. Not that I say it's a good practice..
I wouldn't strictly blame the package managers. Last I checked, it's not straight-forward to link against any library version other than what the versionless .so symlink points to (-llibname will always use liblibname.so). The lame workaround is to move a portion of the version into the basename, and that's where you get libname2.so, so you can explicitly ask for it with -llibname2). You can specify the path of the library file to link against, but this doesn't get you the same dynamic linking semantics (and you really want to let the linker search the cache for the exact file rather than having to specify the path yourself).

It's actually pretty straight forward to build multiple packages with the same name and different versions that can be installed side-by-side: it's like a single line in an RPM spec file, as long as the files list doesn't conflict. A lot of the required effort is in building the software that uses the library. The library's header files are not often in versioned paths, so the -devel package for multiple versions has conflicts. It's easier to specify the option to configure that installs all the files with a version suffix and just be done with it. It is, unfortunately, not in the interest of the person doing the packaging to significantly diverge from how upstream suggests it be installed in their docs. That is, what should happen is entirely doable but, as part of the larger ecosystem of software and packaging and distributions, it's complicated and has little payoff.
> That blatantly isn't a warrant.

You're telling me your opinion. I would like to know how you don't think it's a warrant by the definition of the law.
I like the "less time" element.

I'd played with a doubling of costs, but that fails to get sufficiently expensive without being reasonably painful, fast enough. Shortening renewal periods might help.

Another option would be to provide some limited revenue-based protections (similar to music's mechanical copyright), but otherwise allow general use.
Especially if one "shorts" the Chinese economy by buying and holding leveraged inverse ETFs! A sure way to lose your bet, no matter the outcome.

(Background for non-investors: leveraged ETFs are intended to replicate intraday performance, and a long-term buy-and-hold strategy is always expected to trend toward 0)
But it must be illegal in those countries as well, right? Don't they have an obligation to tell the local law enforcement? An what about the victims of this abuse? How is that right, even if there's a legal loophole?
I have something similiar with my G3, i actually bought a mp3 player to even be able to listen to music again.
Another interesting approach that can simplify things is to track calories when you buy them rather than when you eat them.

For instance, suppose that on Monday you go to the grocery store and buy a 3 pound ham (100 calories per 85 g serving), 1 half gallon of whole milk (8 servings at 160 calories per serving), a loaf of sliced bread (20 slices at 100 calories per slice), and a bottle of ketchup (33 servings of 20 calories each).

You record in your food log 5541 calories for Monday.

Tuesday you buy no food or drink, just consuming stuff you previously bought. So you record 0 calories for Tuesday.

Wednesday, you eat breakfast at home, and then for lunch you buy a Son of Baconator from Wendy's (650 calories), and a 20 oz Pepsi (250 calories) from the vending machine at work. Dinner comes out of your fridge. So Wednesday you log 900 calories.

...and so on.

This kind of log is useless for determining exactly what or how much you ate on a particular day, but over time your average daily calorie purchase will be very close to your average daily calorie consumption.

This is probably not a good approach when you are trying to make a change in your eating habits and need to know exactly what is going on day to day, but once you've gotten settled in your new eating habits and just need to make sure you aren't drifting off track this can be a good approach.
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I think it's time to never stop trying.
I dont know why, but everytime i mentioned SSL in the past weeks somebody came up and mentioned letsencrypt. Usually rather irrelevant.

No, they dont offer Wirdcard certs.
Fuck off. You don't know anything about me or the horrors I grew up with, how hard I've worked, or a single thing about me. You and your kind are why it's so hard to go through life. You can't relate because you were not so unlucky.

This is the first and last time I have ever spoken to an HN member like this, and I say that not out of pretense, but to illustrate both the gravity and the finality of my background that no one will believe.

I sincerely hope it was all a fluke, and that I was really the only one in the world to go through all of that. It's not even worth trying to understand.

I'm glad you were able to have a happy life. Please enjoy it, and hug whoever makes it all worthwhile.
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Ive been using ubuntu nearly 10 years as my primary os on every my servers and desktops, they really came a long way. We hated eachother bigtime, however if you decide to get on well with each other somethings may be unseen. However ubuntu is a great os and still my number one, and i love unity(really). Also the ubuntu comunity definitely rocks. You can find nearly everything's .deb packages, you'll have apt which is one of the main reason why i still use this os. It's dead simple. But if you really need low hardware and high performance i think you really take a look BSDs. However you need an os that runs well, is sufficient for doing internet tasks, can handle your scripting things, can do developping stuff, etc... go debian derivatives (ubuntu, mint,...)
Drup:

Also, if it wasn't abundantly clear (to you or others) - I believe js_of_ocaml to be perhaps the best systems language compile-to-js toolchain that I've ever discovered (and I've looked extensively for others) - so I hope you can fully appreciate just how valuable it continues to be, to me personally and many others.

I have a question about your comment: "It's probably pretty easy to improve js_of_ocaml on that though, given the current state."

Would this also require patching the compiler to preserve record field names and avoid name mangling in general?

And I have a question about your comment on reddit which implies that maintaining a backend would be difficult to sustain: Do you believe that a seamlessly debuggable JavaScript backend, could generate the necessary amount of attention required to sustain such a backend, given how much more widely accessible end-end OCaml development would become as a result of its existence?
I honestly cannot tell if you're trolling.

I don't see anyone appealing to a moral high-ground. You're the only one talking about ethics.

Let me distill the OP's comment for you:
1) A lot people seem to be complaining about Snapchat being confusing and saying there's something wrong with it, etc.
2) Yet Snapchat is extremely popular with certain groups.
3) If you want to understand why it's popular, try to understand the groups that are using it.
4) In general, that type of empathy (or the ability to understand and share another person's experiences and emotions) can be useful in helping you create things for other people who are dissimilar to you.

You're the only one talking about people being bad or good in relation to their understanding of Snapchat... unless comments have been edited or something.

And mgalka isn't saying you said it was stupid. He was paraphrasing the original argument, because he thought you didn't understand it. Bleh, this type of bickering is pointless, hence my troll suspicion.
you're being down voted because your response does not contribute to the discussion; we all get it, people can feel offended from almost any statement - that is the point of this article.
Looks like you're right, the author responded saying exactly the same thing :)

I tried killing webGL, which technically worked - I see a card deck! - but it didn't practically work: said card deck interacted at about 0.75-0.9fps. XD
I was discussing copyright last night and proposed this exact same idea -- declare intellectual property to be, well, property, and subject it to a property tax. Require disclosure of what percentage of your revenue was due to that IP (or what percent of your total worth, or similar) and use that to determine the value of the IP. Then tax that value just like we tax real estate.