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That's probably true, but the potential for a severe, un-recoverable issue is about as high. An aircraft is composed of hundreds of individually tracked components with associated information about how old the component is, how much it has flown, etc. Most of these parts have a mandatory expiration date at which point it is swapped out or sent for repair. A failure in the system which tracks all this data (which is what I work on) isn't quite as directly dangerous as, say, a bug in the on-board navigational software. But you can still end up flying around with an engine way past its intended expiration date far too easily.
I went to see if I could load one up with more than 8GB of memory, and alas, one still cannot get this for any amount of money.

I may be the fringe, but a 16GB MBP would be very hard to beat.
You really think that is an argument against what I said?
I'm personally hoping they redesign the MBP such that it loses the optical drive, keeps the 2.5" drive bay, and adds the flash storage from the Air (or something equivalent). A HDD+SSD combo in a laptop would be ideal. They should at least do this in the larger 17" model, if not the others.

If that never happens, I'm just going to get an Optibay or equivalent.
Are we reading the same article?

He has an ordered, referenced critique that explains exactly why java's fork/join doesn't belong in the JDK.

I don't think it's really appropriate to call this a conflict of interest; industry professionals do this all the time. Java should be under special scrutiny from the smartest people we have, now that it's owned by Oracle.

I don't know where you get the impression that this is badly written, but in my opinion this outshines much of the writing we see on HN.
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Please don't use link shorteners. Many people here, me included, will not click the link.
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Some people just don't like working for others, even if it's Apple. And that's amplified when you've got millions of dollars in the bank and have no need for a pay cheque to pay the bills.

Do you think Steve Jobs would have stuck with Apple after it acquired NeXT, if he wasn't CEO? I highly doubt he would, he would have moved on as soon as his contract ended.
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the biggest fraud in the history of a european country (> 100 million USD) was committed by a broker who had no qualifications whatsoever, didn't even graduate from high school but was the vice president of one of the largest banks in the country and knew all the top political and legal figures.
I'm getting mixed content errors on the checkout page for the file:

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Games are anything but narrow.

Your average top-tier game needs to do (just off the top of my head) -

- security

- database access (in real time)

- effective storage management, both in RAM and on disk, of gigabytes of data

- hard-deadline scheduling (every 60th or 30th of a second)

- some serious algorithmic work for physics simulations, rendering, AI and so forth

- networking

- asset management

- build systems

- scripting and customization

- user support, updates, in-game sales

... I could go on and on. Games span the entire stack of modern computing, from bare metal (worrying about how flash wear leveling works, or interrupt latency) to global-scale networking and how politics affects your ability to encrypt voice data.

Games are anything but "narrow".
Key INsulated Signature Scheme:

PDF: (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.63.7...)

>Abstract. In key-insulated cryptography, there are many private keys with different indexes and a single, fixed public key. When the trust model includes multiple Certification Authorities (CAs), it can be used to shorten the verification path and mitigate the damage caused by the compromise of a CA’s private key.

Really, people will want more information to give better responses.
I'm not familiar with .NET at all, but isn't there some way that you can move a group of objects outside of the GC system and manually manage their allocation and deallocation?

Seems like doing that would be far cleaner than what they actually did and it directly addresses the problem.
Does anyone have any updates on his search?
Actually this gives me an idea. Could you use carbon dating to compare a bills age with the serial number or date minted to prevent counterfiets?

Or perhaps the treasury could start embedding carbon 14 into bills?

(wow I really need to start patentng this stuff!)
Interestingly he even appears to have predicted Google Wallet.

"He believes fervently that we will soon be swiping our mobile phones at till points, even for small transactions. "
Maybe it's founding a company is a good rehearsal for parenthood? Having done the former, I'm terrified of the latter!
This is why the Khan Academy is investing in exercises as well as videos. You should be able to watch a video, try the exercises, and only move on if you actually understand, as opposed to merely thinking you understand.
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That article doesn't argue that bank bailouts were the big problem. It argues that bank influence, specifically Goldman Sachs, is the big problem. There is a difference.

As I wrote, the bank bailouts weren't a huge money-suck and the subprime crisis wouldn't have happened without govt intervention. (We can argue about why govt intervened, but that doesn't change the fact that it did.)

You can't say either about the other govt bailouts.

Note, I'm excluding the GSE's (like Fannie Mae) bailout from "made money" - that is still losing money.
OS X doesn’t have resolution independence. That’s why the resolution is what it is.

Apple tried (for years) and it was working – more or less – but with Lion they just dropped that. What they have now is a HiDPI mode which quadruples the size of UI elements. It’s not yet completely done (some bitmaps still have to be updated). They are following the lead of iOS in that respect.

What this hints at is a 2880×1800 screen in some future 15" MBP. To figure out when a MBP like that will arrive you only have to find out when it becomes feasible to sell it for around $2000 (while also keeping the performance and battery life at least constant).

I’m not sure whether it’s currently even possible to buy 2880×1800 panels for any price, not sure where screen technology is standing in that respect. By the way, a 2880×1800 15" panel merely (well …) has 230 PPI. Apple couldn’t even call it a Retina display.
cause glossy causes reflections and sucks.
non glossy is for people who actually work on their laptops
glossy are for people who wanna show off. the latter generally dont need a high resolution, and people dont notice its of lower rez when they're showing off. only by using it.

thats how the glossy trend started, too

sorta sad if you ask me
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See also users of MacBookPros who have a slightly more complex install than "Use unetbootin to burn the image to a USB stick, boot from that USB stick, install".
Not only that, but IIRC Apple uses their size to bankroll plant manufacture in the far east in exchange for exclusive access to the first product run for a period followed by guaranteed sweetheart pricing deals thereafter (or at least so an article I read somewhere like TechCrunch claimed: I don't have a link handy unfortunately). Unsurprisingly, this gives Apple a huge commercial advantage: they are able to maintain profit margins whilst undercutting their competitors thanks to the clever use of their strong cash position. Apple's competitors seem to be completely incapable of taking the longer term view of product development that leads to these kind of dividends down the road.

(Whether doing these deals was down to Tim Cook, Jobs or some other Apple exec I've no idea, but I'm guessing Cook.)
$0 would mean PLoS would be like reddit. It's good to have a price point, although i do think it's high.

I would argue the cost of having walled-garden publications is much higher than anyone thinks, considering that currently we can't build any data mining tool to facilitate research. It's such a bad situation that, if i was a creationist, that's the argument i would use against science. Incidentally, i was just trying to download an article. The journal said my chrome browser wasn't supported , then when i tried Firefox, it insisted that i needed to update my version of java (??) to use their freaking downloader to download the paper. Result: paper ignored. [Edit: here it is http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?eid=2-s2.0-00339652... ]
Yeah, I got the mid-2009 13-inch MBP, with the NVIDIA Graphics. Still waiting on newer 13-inch MBPs with NVIDIAs / ATIs, though. Very sad they decided to switch back to Intel... :/
On the other hand, the Rails community also loves their snippets. And a sufficiently advanced snippet is indistinguishable from copy-and-paste.
I miss DJGPP. When I was first learning C back in the days when DOS ruled my world, DJGPP is almost invariably what I used. I clicked the "by DJ Delorie" link on his page and saw that he now works for Redhat working on GCC. Strange or not, that continuity brought a smile to my face.

Also found this quote on the History of DJGPP page: DJGPP was born around 1989 (originally called djgcc), when Richard Stallman spoke at a meeting of the Northern New England Unix Users Group (NNEUUG) at Data General, where I then worked. I asked if the FSF ever planned on porting gcc to MS-DOS (I wanted to use it to write a 32-bit operating system for PCs), and he said it couldn't be done because gcc was too big and MS-DOS was a 16-bit operating system. Challenge in hand, I began.

I like his moxie.
Yes there is, and yes they did to some extent. He addresses this in the comments.
This is actually the perfect analogy, you just didn't realize it. The iPod came in to a world where there were already mp3 players, but they were all pretty lousy from a design/user standpoint. Apple won the mp3 player market because they built a better looking and easier to use version. Google search and maps won significant market share because they were technologically superior to the competition.

One isn't "better" than the other, but they are clearly successful for different reasons.
Then you have to manage their lifetimes 'manually'. Iterate, ultimately you remove GC altogether.

If GC is the future (and it seems it is) of language runtime, then some kind of control will be needed for situations like this. Different pools, explicit tagging of 'long-lived' or 'cache value' or some such during allocation?
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This is one of the funniest comments I've ever read! You should write short stories / books (or maybe you do?)
This sounds like a rule-of-thumb for making sure bugs get fixed in one place but not another. :)

Seriously though, this article got me to thinking and I realized that why would one live with the smell of copy-and-paste when it's just so darn easy to write a singly reusable function?

I agree with what you in the sense that there's no need to go from what might be a few lines of copied code to a full-blown library or subsystem. But for a small bit of common code not refactoring that out immediately seems to me a really bad practice.
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Things would be more expensive without a profit motive driving efficiency, but maybe a change be a net gain. Pointing at the profit someone makes and saying "we could be keeping all that money!" is oversimplifying.
Yes. Thunderbolt bandwidth falls between a PCI-E 2.0 1x slot and 4x slot.

Tests that have been done comparing the performance of relatively high end desktop cards on 1x, 4x, 8x and 16x slots have established that while there is a performance penalty, such a solution would still out perform most mobile GPUs.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_S...

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GTX_480_PCI-Expres...
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This is not Parenting Magazine. I am a parent, but I came here to read about startups, technology and etc.. What happened?
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Lovely pictures, but I was disappointed not to see huge panoramas of hundreds of the same model of plane lined up in a row!
Agreed. I know a fair bit about what keeps my single-engine piston aircraft in the sky, and many of the possible faults are routinely checked/confirmed OK during pre-flight inspection and/or run-up.

Still, I don't want to inadvertantly miss a 500-hr magneto IRAN, a wing spar or bolt NDT inspection interval, run my dry vacuum pump twice as long as I planned, or several other possible faults that aren't easily testable by other than maintenance technicians.
Useful beats pretty. Look at where we are. Look at Wikipedia. These anti-engineers, pro-pretty design rants on HN are becoming really annoying. Look at pg website and tell me if it is "pretty". Shh...
Not fond of ridiculously-expensive journals. But you can extend any number of economic-pressure arguments to the conclusion 'X makes people die!' It sounds like alarmism and its not very convincing.

If you want Bangladesh to have access to journals/articles, start a fund to pay for it - that would be effective now. Its going to take time to change the system - you could even say "Advocating politically makes people die!"
The reason why AAPL is so expensive is because of the TAF (a tax assessed by the SEC). Currently its 19$ / million dollars sold. Note that this fee is proportional to dollars sold, not per share (other transaction costs are per-share).

Let's say you received $.0020/sh for adding liquidity and paid a commission of $.0001/sh. The tax would be, assuming aapl is $400/sh, $.0076/sh. This is much larger than the rebates, which means you need to buy at least one cent below your sell price on every trade.

Now look at bank of america. It's been hovering around 6.50 for the past week. The tax there is .000114, so in fact it's possible to buy and sell BAC at the same price and make money!

But getting back to your question, blind market making loses money when the tax exceeds the returns. For the larger players, they make .00295/sh before commissions (and ostensibly they are free because larger shops have their own clearing divisions), so X would have to be close to .29. For alpha-based (generating a predictive signal) trading, most HF signals have an amortized edge of .2 cents per share after fees, so I would say something like X=.2 would wipe out HFT
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> It's no longer about teaching kids a good education.

Do you really think that the system worked before statewide tests?

The tests aren't perfect, but "the kids can pass the test" is a huge improvement over before.

If you've got a better way, great, but if it doesn't have an objective way to verify performance, we already know that it will work out very badly.
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Euro notes already have small amounts of the element Europium within them as an anti-forgery mechanism - which might be prior art :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europium
The melodrama comes out of a fear of losing them. Would you "throw yourself under a bus" to save them? When I think about why the answer is always yes, it does my head in. Puts my priorities in check.
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Your position does not match reality, at least in the USA. There is an enormous amount of untested modification of engine ECU firmware going on in the real world over here, and I'm only peripherally involved in that "scene". (My interests are 60s Mustangs, but that means I see a little bit of the import enthusiast world as well.)
Even though you probably take reasonable precautions to avoid germs anyway, you'd be much more careful if it cost $5000 to treat a cold.

I find the idea to screw up your health because you're "insured anyway", well, disturbing.

Which is not at all what he's saying.
Economics is a subject I regrettably evaded throughout school. Now I find it interesting, but I'm curious about how much of its edifice is built upon the dubious notion of a "rational actor". That is: how much of economics would remain if that assumption were swept away?
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One thing that surprised me immensely was the unexpected new perspective and sense of respect for my own parents who had obviously been through it all themselves.
At the moment, (22 people), >50% are pulling 200+k, >25% are half a million and up.

There seems to be information asymmetry in programming that doesn't exist in law, medicine, or banking. Everyone knows what you can make with a career in Big Law, or IBanking.

Compare this with programming - if you grew up in an uneducated household/poor highshool, you're told programming jobs are getting outsourced - be a doctor or lawyer. One level up, if you're at a semi-decent state school, you can go through your entire college career as a super star CS student and never hear the words 'quantitative hedge fund' uttered in your university's career center.

So what are these careers where people are making these large comps programming? Are they all quants and/or entrepreneurs?

Is there a strategic way to earn this much income, or is it predicated on having credentials/skills only .01% of all programmers have - that give you access to the .01% of jobs that pay this much? What are the risk profile needed for these outcomes? (Are we just seeing strong survivor bias?) I'd appreciate any anonymous perspective from "the other side".
It wasn't common in areas like systems until recently. However, it has gotten common in the past 3 years. In "Theory", I thought most people did post-docs after their PhDs.
"The author wants to work on his health for money reasons?"

Why should that surprise you? If you're uninsured, you'll pay a small fortune for any medical expenses you might incur. (Hell, you'll likely pay a small fortune even if you are insured).

Hence, someone who's uninsured should take a pretty keen interest in maintaining and improving his health. I mean, obviously we all should. But for the uninsured, a health problem is also a potentially catastrophic financial problem.

"I find the idea to screw up your health because you're "insured anyway", well, disturbing"

I think that's a misinterpretation of the article.
You can get 16GB upgrades from OWC... And as a related point maxing out memory directly from Apple has always been more expensive.
Sure, I loved him from the start, but he really wasn't very interactive in the beginning and definitely a lot of work. For me the true bond really came when the little guy started following me everywhere, crawling with great effort, just not to lose sight of me.

Yes, it is a burden when I am trying to fix a cup of coffee and he's standing there holding my leg making it difficult to walk from the counter to the sink, but the joyous expression he gets when I instead bend down on my knees and tickle him or blow on his stomach is pure happiness worth all the work we've put in so far :)
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If they misbehave, that's another story to discuss.

But the manner in which you publicly talk about your own family is just disgusting.

I have only higher words even about my dog even with the headaches she causes sometimes.
To be fair, grandfathering doesn't mean putting off a price raise for a limited amount of time, it means not changing the terms/policies/pricing for the duration of the account because they signed up with those and should keep them. You're simply giving them 90 days notice.
Completely unnecessary comment.

But as an anecdotal counterpoint I love glossy screens. The colours are more vibrant and there is less of the "soft fuzz" that matt screen surfaces cause to the image.

I use my laptop as a workhorse for hours at a time without an issue.

Different people like different things. Who knew?
There are some greate advice however its impractical in the real world. (I am not defending copy and paste, the DRY principle should be your number one rule.) Most (good) contractors work in this way however its impossible to lay out your solution to its entirety and build a beautiful solution. Without specs being changed on you or you realizing that what you are building is not something the clint wants.
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