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I understand what you're saying but IMHO a two year old episode of Top Gear is has literally no effect on any sales problems Tesla may or may not be having.
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This in no way compares to the Sony Rootkit fiasco. Even if the keylogger is still there I'll hardly doubt that Samsung installed it on purpose.
I wonder if there will be any more acquisitions in the social media monitoring. I think the best candidate is Visible Technologies.
I'm Mexican, actually.

Guilty as charged. I should have put a disclaimer saying "Speaking on USA terms..."

Everything I said does not apply to Mexican newspapers either.
Sure online banking has risks. But do you imagine the cash in the vault at your local bank branch has anything whatever to do with your deposits at that bank? Regular banks use computers too. Police and guns (physical security) have nothing whatsoever to do with security differences between bricks-and-mortar banks and online ones.
>It also means that if you drive your car 55 miles away from home in track like conditions you'll be pushing your car home.

In the UK you'd probably have been stopped by the police and have several speeding tickets if you were lucky enough to do the 55 miles on public roads at track speeds (0-60mph in 3.7s, limiter hits at 125mph) without killing anyone or wrecking the car.
You raise a great point, but as far as I know, there hasn't been an Android device playing in the digital music players category. In the iPod market, it seems that the rest of the tech world just conceded to Apple.

From a pure economics perspective, what is called today 'open' and what was called 'IBM compatible' in the 80's, would always win a greater market share in the long term. It's a simple matter of supply & demand.
Well, if this turns out to be true, no more Samsung in my family.
However, a scan result does not mean much, a full proof would be if he found the keystrokes actually logged in some file and/or being sent to somewhere.

Btw, I am typing this from a Samsung R510 laptop. Fortunetaly I don't use crappy windows. I run Gentoo Linux.
While I find it difficult to believe you don't actually understand what I was saying, I will clarify.

The basic difference is that if someone manages to steal $1000USD from my bank account, the overwhelming odds are that I'll get it back, if for no other reason than my bank will cover it. If someone steals 1000BTC from my wallet, the odds are vanishingly small that I'll ever recover it.

Clearly the CIA isn't acting directly on behalf of your grandmother if someone steals her credit card, but then again local law enforcement isn't acting to derail sophisticated electronic attacks against the international banking system. Never the less, they both have their roles that they play in protecting the financial system over all.
I think a lot of it comes from people reading certain luminaries - our own beloved Paul Graham comes to mind - who have good points, but not exercising critical judgement about whether said points apply to one's own situation.
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I first ran an apparel business that sold streetwear and skateboarding clothing to shops in Illinois called Kerosin (http://kerosinclothing.com ) and then we bought screen printing equipment to mass produce printed apparel and we printed for the University of Illinois departments, frats, clubs, etc. It was called Wooden Cotton http://woodencotton.net and we had a physical location aka rent and all that other good stuff. Just sold that business and now we're onto software to manage screen printers http://printavo.com
It's unfortunate that these products aren't better integrated. YQL is more reliable (especially lately) and can do more things, but Yahoo Pipes is very nice for what it does, and some simple things in Pipes require some work in YQL. Why are these completely separate products anyway?
I feel like I've worked with people like Paul Allen (programmers). They tend to over value their own contributions and have "revisionist histories" when considering their relationship with their manager, but really it comes down to how much recognition they received.

The quote about Paul wanting significantly more shares for his contributions to SoftCard specifically ring true. SoftCard might have been a sales success, but comparing it's impact on Microsoft to Basic itself is a little off.
He should have analyzed the SL configuration to see where the logged keystrokes are sent. That'd have been interesting to see. Now it's just guesswork.
I wonder where it stores all this logged information. Despite a lot of references to the Sony rootkit, the author doesn't specifically call this a rootkit other than to say it's "completely undetectable" (not really). There's also mention of traces of the program being found in c:\windows\SL, which means its not very well hidden. More information is required.
Perhaps you're a workaholic. If so, I wouldn't be surprised that the idea of just unwinding for a while seems strange and alien. If you don't want to do it more power to you, but to those that do - they tend to think of it as an investment in their health.
I know all too well what they feel like.. been through years of hell.

What really helped me was learning that what is now labeled as 'panic disorder', used to be called 'hyperventilation syndrome'.

Cutting some corners here b/c lack of time:

Chronic Hyperventilation is very often connected to panic disorder. Breathing too much causes some chemical changes in your blood and the rest of the body, including changing thresholds in your nervous system which makes things more easily excitable, changes the way electrical signals are working in the body, etc..

During a period of stress, you can be breathing faster then you used to, lowering the amount of C02 in your body. If this period is long enough, your breathing center can be retraining itself so that this 'lower amount' becomes the 'new normal'. This might keep one hyperventilating, even after the original stressor(s) is/are gone!

When dealing with many complaints (lack of energy and focus, very tired, panic, anxiety, stress, body odors, heart palpitations/pounding, headaches, cold limbs, pressure on chest, gasping for air/yawning, bouts of agoraphobia and dozens of unpleasant other things) while all blood tests like thyroid, blood sugar etc came back "Ok", my GP suggested possible hyperventilation.

Well, I was breathing about 15 times/min. at the moment.. which is pretty much in the 'normal' region as mentioned on Wikipedia (not that this is THE source for medical advice, but I guess the point is clear)

Later I discovered that I was sometimes breathing 20-25 times/min. at rest.. but not always.. and later that day I stumbled upon a book in a store which mentioned that "at rest, breathing about 6-8 times/min. is enough"

Ok, 15-16 vs 20 can be a counting error... 20-25 vs 6..well, there's something odd there.

Took me some months to 'retrain' my breathing and well on my way to recovering; currently breathing about 8-12 times/min. at rest. And I'm not using heavy ANY medicines prescribed by the GP. Have only used some very mild tranquilizing stuff, think natural Valerian based stuff used e.g. by students for exams.

Very useful for me was the 'Control pause test' of the 'Buteyko approach:

http://www.normalbreathing.com/index-measure-CP.php

Check and compare e.g. these two

http://www.normalbreathing.com/index-CP-normals.php
http://www.normalbreathing.com/index-CP-sick-complete.php

"Take a good deep breath and relax" might sometimes work very well.. but don't do it too often. ;)

DISCLAIMER:

I apologize to all medical professionals and students for cutting some serious corners.

What you are reading in this message might actually be wrong. Do your own due diligence and always discuss things with your doctor/GP/specialist. Especially if you're also suffering from lung- and/or heart problems.

But I do hope that some people are helped by this message. :)
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Isn't pypy pretty fast and feature comple? Im not up to date.
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I live in China right now, Shenzhen. It's amazing to see how many real estate agencies there are here. Every single street corner has one, they're more prevalent than any fast food chain. Inside each agency, there are maybe four to a dozen people working. All trying to sell apartments.

One of my friends is a real estate agent. She told me recently that she and a friend had purchased a condo.

Me: Oh, so you're going to move in there soon?

Her: No, no.

Me: Oh, you're renting it out to tenants?

Her: No, no. If someone lives in it, then the value goes down. So we're going to keep it empty and then sell it next year or in a couple of years.

This cannot end well.
From what I recall of Top Gear this is pretty standard practice. It also presumably factors in filming issues.
The problem is that a high-bandwidth link overruns the CPU with thousands of interrupts per second. It can paralyse the system, where the CPU is so busy handling I/O that it doesn't get around to actually scheduling processes.

Disclaimer: I sometimes consult for HFTs but we don't use FPGAs (yet).
"they should have the nerve to stand behind it"

So summarise, are you saying Jeremy Clarkson doesn't stand behind his political statements? That's simply not true, have you never seen his columns in the Times? Clarkson gets a terribly hard time for his views and he doesn't waver a bit, whether you agree with him or not, you have to give him some credit.
Well it is in closed beta but it is a decision making site. I agree the splash lacks. Its more of a gateway. Video and all that jazz coming very soon. Good point about the slogan. I'll have to change that.
Interesting read for sure. And certainly nice to see Go being subjected to some real-world use.

About the need to represent the CKAN ORM in Go, in order to get some useful JSON deserialization going; I have found this be to useful myself in a few cases. mainly when wrapping RESTful services exposed as JSON.

You mentioned it was 'unexpected', but would you also qualify it as a downside to the way python handled this?

With a large object model, I can see how maintenance becomes a little tricky. Specially since Go has no notion of object relations.
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My summary concluded that the best way to find a partner is to expand your network and insert yourself into the right community. I also don't condone going out and "shopping for a partner", yet very often a first time entrepreneur may think that way. By phrasing the title the way I did I was hoping that people new to startups or those thinking of expanding their business by adding a partner would read it looking for practical tips and reach that conclusion.
Yeah they can go all out on how it's got a far better range than Top Gear presented it having and how it can be charge under best conditions in 4 hours. Tesla will cry all the way to the bank ...
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Not only that, but there are legit reasons to include a keylogger as part of a laptop build out. Every computer has, or should have, this kind of auditing capacity. The question is a) whether it's turned on by default and b) whether any information is being transmitted on the sly. In all likelihood, this was either some sort of mistake, or the keylogger is intended for use by the computer's owner -- not by Samsung.

EDIT: Sorry for scaring people. Listen, I HATE keyloggers and other invasive software. Here:

http://bit.ly/2U3iAH

My point was that I can see a legit need for low-level auditing by whoever owns the PC. Including such a package that's turned off by default, might be better than forcing a worried parent to sift through 12 keyloggers on Google, half of which are malware, a quarter of which don't work, in order to find out if her 12-year-old is composing YouTube dances and uploading them to 4chan.
I would write clojure and drop back to java for speed. Only in a extrem case I would then use C, but its possible. I haven't done it but read that its not all that bad. (there is a clojure wrapper.
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There are plenty of prop shops that would let you trade with a very modest (low 5-figure or even 4-figure) dollar amount. Some will leverage your money, some will flat-out stake you in addition to your input. These places have the benefit of offering you relatively low costs -- minuscule compared to the cost of a retail trade at your average discount broker -- but they do not necessarily have the sort of investment in supercharged hardware.

It is a good thing that your actual trading costs are not anywhere near those at the retail brokers you have in mind. 2%/day is an outrageously huge return. $1,000 at 2% compounded 250 times (approximate number of trading days in a earth year) is over $140k; you would return 14,000% annually.

The bottom line is that it is harder than it looks.
I would have expected this to show up from many different sources. The fact that only one person is reporting this makes the story somewhat suspect. Surely he's not the only Samsung owner to run a malware scan.
Unrelated to your copy, but you probably want to center your background image and set your background color to black, because above 1280x1024 it looks broken (I'm at 1680x1050).
Proposal:

1. When a link is submitted, it doesn't actually appear on HN until a certain (fixed?) time T has elapsed after its first submission.

2. Everyone who submits it within that time is noted.

3. Karma from article upvotes is shared equally between all those users. (Or perhaps unequally in a way that weights earlier submitters slightly more highly -- but not winner-takes-all as at present.)

4. If the same link has been submitted N times before time T elapses, the delay is truncated at that point.

Effects:

1. There's very little incentive to submit something super-quickly. Therefore, there's more incentive to read it carefully first. (Good.)

2. Super-quick submitters don't hurt slower submitters' karma so much. (Good.)

3. Submissions no longer have hugely higher potential karma gain than comments, as they do at present. (Good.)

4. "Obvious" submissions probably no longer give anyone very much karma. (Good.)

5. Breaking news doesn't appear on HN as quickly as it does now; but if lots of people are submitting it, it still gets in pretty fast. (Maybe good, maybe bad.)

I think that with suitable choices of T and N -- perhaps 1 hour and 20, or thereabouts -- this would be a considerable improvement on what we have now.
Oh and I forgot to mention:

- I also learned that I was frequently hyperventilating in my sleep. My girlfriend noticed it a few times when she couldn't sleep. This very well explained why I woke up more tired than how I went to bed, frequently unable to find the energy to e.g.turn my pillow around.

- I also read the paraphrased quote somewhere that:

"Breathing 20-25 times/min. is what you do when you're cycling with 15-25KM/h. No body in the world is strong enough to do that 24/7, day after day, month after month"
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In general I would say the more experience in programming you gain the less it matters what language you are using. Learn the basics first. And learn language types like OOP and functional programming. As a professional web developer you should try to learn several frameworks as well (Zend Framework, RoR, Django, etc.). But I would say that's the second step and not the most important one. Frameworks and API come and go, they change all the time. Try to get the big picture.

I'm currently using PHP and Python. I like Python more because of it's simple style and it's clean APIs. But still most of my professional projects are done in PHP because my customers want it that way.
When I grow up, I want to have as much free time as to be able to do these kind of projects...
...or your work at Tesla!
>the govt can contact the bank and ask for acct details

And the bank, being a website(quite possibly based outside the government in questions reach) can ignore them. And that's if the "banks" really have any information about you besides your username and password.

>they are worse than regular banks, being uninsured, unregulated, and unsecured.

Why would a website(aka, the bitcoin bank) that stores a few bits, information(which is what bitcoins are, information) need to be insured, or secured(apart from backups). And being unregulated is a good thing, it allows the "bank" to provide the services their customers want.

You do know that the reasons real banks have all these things is because they don't have all the money their depositors think they have right?

> Also, real banks have men with guns (not to mention the capability to summon heavily-armed police officers on very short notice) to protect them.

Because the criminals will "break" into your bitcoin "bank" with guns and steal your bitcoins... at gunpoint? What? Have you even read what you wrote?

Encrypt the hardrive, and not even the might of the Soviet Army can get those bitcoins. Are you truely that stupid? Really?

I don't know what else to say.
I think that the title is misleading in the sense that you do not find a business partner. It should something like: Who could be your business partner.
Its such a PR flop. The thing I can't understand is why they'd want to draw attention to the fact a very well read/watched/trusted program wrote a very poor review of your product.

Why on earth would you give it a second life?
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Funny as it may sound, are we producing a culture of people that are annoyed by everyone else? Granted this survey used a very limited sample, but I think it speaks to a bigger picture. We want to be more connected and social media gave us that. Now we are annoyed by this interconnectedness.

You can be best friends with someone, then when you start living together things can go terribly wrong. I think that is part of what is happening here. You and 600 of your closest friends are all living together in giant online dorm. I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing. The more we share about ourselves, the greater the tendency to piss someone off. Human nature is emerging now more than ever.
As a previous PHP developer for years, I'm now moving over to Python. I agree with Marco if that was the statement he made. PHP can get the job done but Python overall is just a more powerful and cleaner syntax language.

There are lots of companies that are built in Python big and small. Some examples are Dropbox, Slide, Youtube, Quora, Yelp, etc... It's definitely a scalable language and something I'd highly recommend.

As a disclaimer, I don't have any knowledge in Ruby/Rails but I'd definitely still recommend Python. You'll come across between choosing 2 and 3 if this is the path you're heading down, stick with 2 and move onto 3 later. This will make much more senes once you look into Python.
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Funny as it may sound, are we producing a culture of people that are annoyed by everyone else? Granted this survey used a very limited sample, but I think it speaks to a bigger picture. We want to be more connected and social media gave us that. Now we are annoyed by this interconnectedness.

You can be best friends with someone, then when you start living together things can go terribly wrong. I think that is part of what is happening here. You and 600 of your closest friends are all living together in giant online dorm. I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing. The more we share about ourselves, the greater the tendency to piss someone off. Human nature is emerging now more than ever.
The point of a Lotus Elise is that it has excellent handling, you don't buy it for straight line speed.
i live in fredericton. i was amused and delighted to see my hometown mentioned in a tech crunch article. a disconnect i never thought i'd see.

congrats to the radian6 guys, and here's to hoping q1 labs is the next big canadian tech success!
Yeah, this is what makes no sense to me. In a f2f transaction, I exchange money for goods. In a virtual transaction, it creates a fundamental asymmetry if the money transfer can't be reversed, since you have no way of verifying the other part of the transaction, i.e., that the goods were actually shipped.

The bitcoin proponents make a big deal that transactions can't be reversed. But if you continue reading the FAQ, they also make a big deal about the fact that you shouldn't deal with people you don't trust and that it's your responsibility. I'm sorry, but that doesn't make sense to me. If transactions were only done between trusted parties, there wouldn't be a need for chargebacks either. You want to put the responsibility entirely on the customer, who has no practical ability to judge trustworthiness of an online retailer.

An escrow service doesn't make sense either. Then I have to trust that service. Maybe if some well-known non-bitcoin entity offered such a service, I would be inclined to trust it. But for now, it doesn't seem to me that any of the bitcoin entities have enough to lose to convince me that they're not front ends for scamming operations. I mean, Bernard Madoff and Enron were scams, how in the world could I judge that these operations aren't?

It's true I don't have much trust in the government to go find my money when my wallet's picked out of my pocket. But I do have some trust in that if a store front just took customers' money without giving anything back, they would be shut down pretty soon.

No, what's needed is a scheme which not only ensures the currency transaction, but the entire transaction. It seems that, at least for digital goods, one should be able to design a system where the good is encrypted, and the use of your key to decrypt it simultaneously effects the currency transaction. Still doesn't ensure the content is what they said it would be, though...
I think the charitable interpretation is: Groupon employs over 3000 sales reps; you don't pay 3000+ sales reps to dial manually, you use an autodialer: therefore, each rep is making 250-300 raw calls per day, and 50 or so live contacts.

I think for most purposes though, it's the 50 live contacts that's worth concentrating on, since in my call center monkey experience, typically numbers are re-queued until you hit a live body.
True! ...but if they could tell me that they had already tried X, Y and Z classes of rot cypher, then I'd at least know I wasn't going down a path that's already been examined.
I'm not sure what's wrong with this really. Top Gear (pretends to be) is a car reviewer, and they made false claims in a car review. They are surely a comedy show but that segment was just astonishing.
Thanks so much, I appreciate the insight!
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Adding layers of abstraction, on any platform, is generally guaranteed to be slower. Ruby and PHP are 10x slower than compiled C# and Java, for example.

The "performance" is transferred to the developer by creating higher level frameworks. Because these frameworks have to be general, they can't optimize for every use case.
The problem with this is what it will do to the comments on the article. There have been many times where I have an idea for a comment that I know will get me karma, but I don't think that it really belongs on HN, so I don't submit it. Since I don't have that much karma, if this system was in place I very possibly submit the comment so I could submit more articles later.
Why should my computer have auditing capability, without my explicit knowledge or me making the decision to put it there? Who is it good for?
Most solutions of this type are an order of magnitude higher than that. It's very easy to spend $20k/mo.

To give an idea of scale / endpoint, a top-tier HFT infrastructure costs on the order of $100k/day. There are probably only a half dozen total of those in the world, though.
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