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It's evident that this was not only an isolated incident but one that seems to have more than a decent amount of justification. How so many people have managed to extrapolate this into tech robber barons taking over the galaxy is hyperbole at best. I think there is a part of this that admittedly has an ick-factor to it in general and people aren't sure how to articulate that. (Full disclosure, I utterly despise Gawker, have for years and have made prior vitriolic comments - quite proudly - about how awful Gawker and its associates are)

As for the financing specifically, is it really materially different than lawyers taking cases on contingency? They are in effect self-financing cases on behalf of their clients...same basic thing is going on here, the plaintiff has a "backer" to float the case for them.
I follow a bunch of GNU/Linux developers on it. They seem to have moved to G+ instead of personal blogs:

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds

https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman

https://plus.google.com/+AlanCoxLinux

etc.
always... lots chinese friend there
I sympathize, but good luck with that :)
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My employer uses it as an internal company wide message board for cross-functionality cross-discipline communications (company composed of several subsidiaries and offices across the continents, headcount just under 10K, workforce composed mostly of engineers and B2B sales)..
> Now a lot of people will realize that their passwords are not as safe as KeePass claims they are and will switch to a different product.

Not really.

Just check the package you download is signed by the developer and you're safe. Authenticode signatures are present on all KeePass releases on Windows and most Linux users probably get it from a distro package manager anyways.
I hope there can be an updateable packet in Debian again with this fork.
Following that rabbit hole, the author seems to be this person: http://www.startegix.com/about.html

The first five things in the list of things his company does are: "Public Relations, Media Relations, Press Material Creation, Marketing Communications, Brand Positioning".

It appears that Reuters is running unmarked advertising for Gawker or some other client with similar interests. Lovely.
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Two points to keep in mind:

- It's a deck with 200+ slides, so it's going to probably have decent content in there somewhere.

- A document / paper would have been better for you, but you're not really the intended audience.

The whole idea behind these syndicated reports is to drive business to their firm either by being consumed by 'suits' who commission those reports, or by being cited in presentations delivered to other 'suits' who might go on to commission a report from them.
I just use a gpg-encrypted org-mode file (I can transparently decrypt it with emacs). It's remarkably convenient, and I don't have to worry about software going out of support.
Or being part of a culture where "sleep is for the weak".

Certainly folks at the bottom of the economic ladder are sleep deprived due to needing to work multiple jobs and take care of kids. But there are a lot of high-status communities that put a positive value on sleep deprivation. I hear from multiple sources that this is true in medicine. I know from experience that this is true at MIT.

Those cultures need to change. There is no good reason for an introductory computer architecture class to make its assignments due at 6am.
The most common ones are the Unity and Unreal Engine 4 game engines. If you exclude those you'll get into my-own-engine territory pretty quick.

With the two aforementioned engines it is just a matter of connecting the HMD to your computer, making sure it works, starting up an example scene in the engine and clicking "view in VR".

For a lot of things you can just use the 3D scene as projected on your monitor, you don't need to wear the HMD all the time.

On VR gatherings I see even more GearVR's than desktop PCs with HMDs since the GearVR is just so easy to carry around and demo something to people. The disadvantage is that it doesn't have positional tracking (which adds a lot to the immersion for most applications).

I'm not familiar with the GearVR workflow though. I guess mostly the same as the PC workflow except pushing the application to your phone has a longer iteration time.
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Ritalin is a phenethylamine, not an amphetamine.

You are correct about the comedown from an amphetamine binge being awful. Thankfully, most business professionals and working people aren't dosing like they're at TomorrowLand.
I do. A fair number of Linux kernel and systemd folks like to post on G+. Sometimes they gripe at each other. I wouldn't say they post often, but it's usually interesting when they do.
So if you have an ASG of 4 nodes and one goes down, how do you know that the traffic will land on the right node? What if that node is really busy? When the new machine comes up automatically does the system migrate queue ownership to it? Is there a time when the system can be partially unavailable?

Possibly most importantly would be, how are you routing queues to hosts and how is the platform load balanced. Using ELB and a tcp listener is a great way to throw away performance with clustered rabbit, not to mention adding a ceiling as to how wide the cluster can get.
I never did audio beyond simple midi beepboops in QBasic, so I wouldn't know. I always imagined it to be some kind of specialisation. Like you need a special mindset to be able to build a 3D engine, you'd need a certain set of talents to be able to manipulate sound in awesome ways and not get lost in tech minutiae.

Re: multiple account breaches: keybase.io aims to make that harder. Have you heard about that? (I know, I digress, sorry.)
It'd be interesting if we genetically engineered or something, a way to sleep half our brain kind of like dolphins. 8 hours of half brainpower. Though honestly, if you are doing things that take a lot of thinking, your brain is often doing some work still while you sleep.
A friction-feed daisy wheel printer can end up with crooked sheet from feeding irregularities, much like a typewriter.
Did it take so long to get it up again because nobody noticed for the first 3 hours?

(Actually what is Amazon search used for?)
After moving here, I was quite surprised to see a significant number of my buddies had divorced parents and were totally against marriage.
I don't like using things when I'm forced and unfortunately for google+ - you could not use youtube withoud signing up for google+, that was the tipping point for me to decide I will never use this platform.
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> Although given the relative performance,

AFAICT the benchmarks seem to focus on traditional use cases like CPU-bound/memory-bound computation. But the ever-growing use case is the physical hardware that underlies the commercial "cloud computing" focus. IMO much of that market is running I/O-bound code and if I were sourcing hardware for one of those providers I would want to offer a tier which could serve enormous numbers of clients on a single node.

Power consumption is another huge element of data center costs and scaling up ARM-based servers is likely to reap a big savings.
What you've described is taxes.

so under your definition, all nations are today already globalist/communist/socialist.
Other people who post interesting things in the Algorithms and Math areas: David Eppstein, David Roberts, Terrence Tao.

I quite like reading people like those on G+ without all the noise and distractions on Facebook and Twitter.
Can confirm that doing a search from the homepage search bar (before 9AM EST) threw a 500, seems to be back up.
I do. I think it's great for providing public support / community for consumer software, specially after their latest revamp, which undid the confusing multi-column layout.
> "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." [1]

I think his intentions for funding the Gawker lawsuit, and now endorsing Trump are clear.

[1] http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education...
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Or, alternatively, if there is no likelihood of future cash flow or profit, each issue of the dividend evaporates a bit more of the stock value, until either dividends are canceled, or the company delists.
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3D printing is not currently a technology that gets significantly cheaper with mass production. The assembly process would get cheaper with volume, but I suspect a lot of the cost is in that huge metallic frame component they printed.

The usual trick is to 3D print large components folded up and unfold them afterwards - I don't think that would be very feasible for a bike frame that needs to be stiff, but you never know.
This is why I find myself firmly on Team Thiel.

Gawker are using the historical precedent of freedom of the press in order to exploit the private lives of people, illegally, for profit. It is this corrupted pursuit of salacious gossip which led to the hacking of thousands and thousands of voicemails in the United Kingdom by News International. Not just celebrities but political figures and most chillingly, victims of crime. Parents whose children had been abducted and/or murdered had their private lives hacked by an international news agency to churn out sordid headlines.

So yeh, I am Team Thiel until the press learn to wield their authority with respect and deference.
If Thiel's action was vigilantism, the use of private combat or violence to punish perceived injustice, then maybe the real problem is that our legal system has become a form of trial by financial combat.
I think the world needs the equivalent of OpenStreetMap but for speech data, so that the data is under a copyleft license that legally enforces reciprocation when the corpus is used or modified.
I can only imagine the hell some team must be experiencing right now.

Godspeed, Amazon site reliability team...
Not everyone arrives from Google.
DDG dug up these:

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http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/28/5458610/fake-google-maps-l...
I see some people still there, most of the content seems to be the one replicated by some social tools that post it everywhere

(Most of my connections there are tech oriented so sometimes I post a one-off thing that I found interesting)
Why does that matter?
This is how motorcycles began; strapping motors to bicycles. It's fun to see them circling back to their roots once more.
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Cannot agree.

Legal precedent is legal precedent regardless of who brings the case or their stature. Thiel going in via the Hogan case is still public interest.
I use Amazon search every time I'm on their site (which is very frequently).
Subprime lending == bad

Extending credit to lower-income borrowers == good

Are we just talking about price (interest) here? You may not like the price, but prices exist for a reason and cannot be changed by diktat. Who gets prime vs a subprime lease isn't determined by some ethnicity or the religious sect someone belongs in. It's determined by the risk and size of the loan. Smaller loans have relatively higher fixed costs, driving up the up front fees or interest rate. They are also harder to recover and may have a lower residual value, all factors that go into determining the risk. People with little or bad credit history are also more likely to default. This isn't controversial.

What's the alternative? Stop extending credit to risky borrowers? Force lenders to lend to risky borrowers at subsidized rates funded by tax dollars or through coercion?

[Edit]
What I particularly don't like about these articles is the obfuscation of financial matters. For instance,

> After dropping $250 up front for her lease of a 2015 Honda Civic, she pays $160 a week to Xchange. If she keeps the car for the full three-year term, she’ll end up paying Uber $25,210. The Kelley Blue Book fair purchase price for a new 2015 Honda Civic SE in Los Angeles is $18,142.

> Schmitt said she’ll need to pay Uber $5,000 or so more to buy the car if she wants to keep it at the end of her lease.

So basically, she's getting a $18,142 (PV) car paying $160 (PMT) a week for 156 weeks (N) and have to pay 5,000 at the end to keep the car (-FV).

PV: 18,142

PMT: -160

N: 160

FV: -5000

I (weekly) -> 0.1942% (weekly)

I (annual) -> 1.001942^52 - 1 ->10.615%

So basically she got a loan at 10%. Also, you have to factor in that she has an option to purchase which she can choose to exercise. I don't know why they don't just say as much.
Yes it does, you can create albums and give them a public link to that album

I think Google Photos call it "Share to social media" but they give you a link when you do that
This sounds like a nice idea, but can I also have a pony? http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/01/13/

Why stop there? You could teleport, postpone eating indefinitely, never have to expel wastes, never age, be invulnerable, and think faster!
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It's great for nerdy niche interests, like retrocomputing.
to search for things that you want to purchase....
Yes, and the thing that bothers me most is that there are no RSS feeds available. Having these would be even less noise/distraction. I understand why they don't provide RSS feeds, but I don't like it.
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I bet it would be way less controversial if it came out that Thiel was openly funding an independent group that was focused on ethics in web journalism.
It's used to search their site for products. If you want to buy a "571B Banana Slicer" the easiest way to find it on amazon's site is to use their search.

The search feature being broken translates to sales being close to zero for that time period.
Indeed it is. Also probably because tech is a risky field and companies feel that calls for larger reserves.
I do daily. And there are many people who do more than I.
I still use it fo follow Googlers who share stuff only on G+ (e.g. François Beaufort).
Both google and facebook are basically branches of the NSA that take and store everything they can.

It's amazing how some people will praise google for their privacy stance and put down facebook in the same sentence.

"Facebook doesn't respect your privacy" --Sent from google chrome on windows 10

And while I'm naming names Microsoft is the worst software company of them all when it comes to privacy. I'm not even going to waste my time looking up sources for my claims because we all know it to be true and anyone who considers them selves some kind of intellectual hacker is deluding themselves if they disagree.
I do. It has enough users to be a good place to follow specialized communities and topics of interest. I think of it as a long form version of Twitter.

Neither Twitter nor G+ have the ubiquity serve Facebook's purpose of collecting every random person you know. I keep up with the people I actually care about in real life, so personally find G+ and Twitter useful on a daily basis, and Facebook as a once a month supplemental sort of thing.
You've answered the question "why live in a stable, long term relationship" which is a subtly different question from "why get married".
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Some background: I work mostly on middle-tier web applications. Usually micro-services. Either REST APIs (internal and external), blockchains, or event bus systems.

My bottlenecks are typically IO (usually disk, raw TCP, database, or HTTP/S) and memory (usually caching and filters to limit IO).

I use Javascript primarily so that the whole team can understand (or at least read) the full stack and because it help me manage blocking IO. I also know C, C++, Ruby, PHP, Java, C#, R and AWK well. I have passing knowledge in a few Scheme based languages.

So my question is, if I want to learn another language should it be Go, Rust, or something else?
I use it for tracking Tech communities. I use Hangouts and Photos a lot, although they're no longer a part of Google+.

I am pretty sure Google will phase out G+ in a year or two. Like Allo and Duo, they will bring something new.
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Just like how it's philanthropic if I tape bum fights and make them freely available on YouTube.
Are you talking about Heroes of Might and Magic III?
I've had the same though about their initial business plan leveraging latent capital and also can't understand the need for all of this funding but I tend to think that it is in fact being used to keep fares artificially low for the time being. Back in January I believe of this year they dropped fares ~ 15%. There's not many business that can sustain that type of cut overnight. So my guess the cash is needed to sustain them until most of the existing monopolies(local taxi) are out of business.

The other reason I see is China. I've heard estimates that and seen probably at least one story here on HN about Uber spending 1 Billions a year to try to compete in China and it's largely not working.

So the question is how sustainable is this valuation? It's too big for anyone to step in and acquire at this point at least in terms of its current model - cars with drivers, since the long term future is likely driverless cars.
I ran both: https://gist.github.com/nlothian/e22ee30c6ccb8d473058d9e0864...

Read is a lot (LOT) faster than writes. Enough to make me thing I might have something misconfigurated there(?), although I'm not familiar enough with this benchmark to know for sure.
And this would explain why the CEO supports a Basic Income. He is already thinking about what will happen to him once he is obsolete...
Yeah, I went from Java --> Scala --> Ruby. The change in mindset has been huge!
Gawker was allowed to say whatever they wanted about the sex tape. No one has ever questioned that. They were not allowed to publish it. That is what they were sued over. I'm pretty absolutionist about free speech myself, which is why it's pretty disappointing that a lot of people are missing this key point.
Yup, will update the title to avoid confusion.
She's largely unknown. A few million people knowing who you are doesn't make you notably popular.
...if your premise is true then it is a damning indictment of Gawker. Not Thiel.

This issue has been covered in detail. Hogan did not have the financial resources to combat the Gawker legal machine, funded from the company coffers.

It took Thiel and his larger coffers to come along and upset their apple cart.

So, if a rich person did buy the legal precedent, it was only until a richer person came along and restored sanity and parity to the system.
No. I wanted to, but it's never been a compelling platform.
I have a similar anecdote. I have no appetite for coffee anymore. I've also got very little appetite for alcohol. I think in someways I was self-medicating with coffee/tea, which in turn, was causing me to self-medicate with alcohol/marijuana to sleep.

In my opinion, anyone claiming that it's a "personality trait" or a made up condition is a moron. It's absolutely turned my life around. After getting my dosage lined up correctly I feel as if I'm finally living normal.
I've tried this a few days ago (not sure if is the same version) and I liked it a lot, the problem is that when I click in a function or variable name it doesn't take me to the code where that function is defined on GitHub, but instead to a Sourcegraph page.

I imagine this is done on purpose, that you want people to use Sourcegraph and all its features, but I'm not familiar with Sourcegraph and do not want to use it now, thus I'm complaining like an ungrateful asshole.
So why do you want to learn a new language ? To fix your bottlenecks ?
I would actually like to know if you had dosed this morning. This is a rather lengthy narrative! If you had(not) dosed this morning, how would you have written this differently?

Thanks for giving your two-cents and personal experience. Most of my friends, myself included, use amphetamines for recreational purposes. There's been a vague understanding that it works differently for people with ADHD, though I've never personally heard such a detailed testimony.

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www.scratchapixel.com was exactly designed/created for that: teaching cg programming from the ground up with simple words assuming readers have 0 mathematical bg (well you still need to know what a + and - are and a few more things).
Why not both? "Which language is better" is mostly opinion based, so invest two or three weeks in each language and decide for yourself.
Working fine for me (~6:30am Pacific Time).
Honestly, the APR looks totally reasonable (by bad credit standards).

They cite a $96 average weekly payment for all Americans, and compare it to a $130 weekly payment for Xchange. The article's tone implies that I'm supposed to go "30% markup, shocking!", but it's comparing all borrowers to bad-credit borrowers. Knowing how other loans are priced, that seems like a pretty standard adjustment (especially for the easy-use terms of the lease).

I honestly had a lot of trouble finding the malice here. Yes, the cars are expensive, but it's like complaining about on the level payday loans as 'extortion' - the prices are set by a high default rate, not by some inexplicable market failure.
Exactly what happened.
Seems like you can't use a lot of things with that philosophy? Isn't all technology forcing you to change all the time?

To be fair to Google it had to unify the sign in process instead of internal walls between YouTube, GMail and etc..
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Would love to see the outage writeup and RCA for this, if/when it's published.
Honestly, I see one~three of these simple, responsive, lightweight CSS frameworks every week on HN. I wonder how many people actually get to use these new shiny frameworks over the reputable ones. I personally use bootstrap, and will try foundation next, but none of these new ones.
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rarely
Using hangout can be considered as using G+?
I already have it on my computer. Will "online" bring anything new/different ?
That is just plain wrong. The project was delayed multiple times and cost a few billions more than estimated. It was on time and budget because the time and budget were adjusted constantly.