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EX 5 has a lower setup fee. Some people want to save once and pay more... (I don't understand those folks)

The EX5 is the last one with the old-gen CPU and was kept because in the early days of the i7-2600 it was too expensive to offer high-ram servers like the 4S (which was introduced months later)
I'm guessing via gravity, but I think drawing something big enough to attract space junk close enough to attract space junk will be too dangerous for earth.
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It sounds like your [X] is sed and lex.
Is it Opera Browser logos you're supposed to shoot?
Ask HN: How to keep our readers safe and anonymous?
We run a politically sensitive website. Users can submit complaints anonymously. We have done things like

- No logging of ip in our app
- No access log on apache
- No 3rd party javascript
- No third party flash embeds

I am still not very sure. What else can I do keep my users really safe and anonymous.
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> in the real world most managers of publically traded companies try to increase the price these are traded at.

Because they own some stock and/or because that's what in their formal/informal job description.

When I said "casino" and "tokens" I had in mind randomness of the game and that value of the stock is virtual value that humans assign to it in context of the game they play.

Apart from that rules are completely different from any game played at the casinos.

I don't think that anyone who makes decisions at Google actually does anything to increase their share price. And in my opinion that's because they get that in stock market there's a "funding part" and "gambling part" and what they were interested in was the funding (it's basically free money plus some transparency that builds up the trust of your customers). Gambling does not concern them.

> One of them is that in the real world real money is being spent trying to get real customers, to get real innovations, and so on.

Yes. But that real money comes only from the moment when company introduced its tokens into the casino. What gamblers do between themselves after that should not concern company in any practical way. Unless they did something stupid like putting more than 51% of their stock on the market.

Can company even take part in gambling of their own stocks? Isn't that insider trading?

> I mean, to take nothing else, just remember that when a company's "token" price gets too low, its investors will vote for an acquisition in cash by a bigger company in the same industry at a premium over its "token price". That would have a very real effect in the real world.

Yes. There are some points of contact between "funding part" and "gambling part" but they are in place just to spice up the game. I don't think they are healthy for the companies because running company is about physics and increasing market price is about fooling people into thinking that you do more than you actually do.
I don't know:

1. having nullable references by default strikes me as a bigger issue

2. I don't see any reason I'd want to subclass String, actually (though I could see wanting to create an alternate implementation e.g. ropes-based). So String being a final class makes perfect sense as far as I'm concerned (unless it were an interface or some sort of "proxy" class as is often done in Cocoa). On the other hand, I'd give a phalange to easily create an unrelated type (typesystem-wise) with the same implementation. What `newtype` provides in Haskell.
It's impressive to see people working and productive as they near 100, or even surpass it. It makes we wonder how much better off we would be if we could solve a handful of difficult problems so people like Steve Jobs and Randy Pausch could have survived 2-4 more decades.
I think it's also referring to the phenomenon as it exists today in every single online multi-player game that features open PVP as well as closed battleground type PVP, not just StarCraft.

The "zerg", as it was commonly known to all players, presented itself to me in the beginning of 2002 in a well-known and still active MMORPG called Dark Age of Camelot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_age_of_camelot). DAoC-players refer to a mass of ungrouped, uncoordinated players joining in on the large battles between the realms of the game as a "zerg", and to individual players making up the "zerg" as "randoms" (random players; ungrouped) and sometimes as "zergers". The term certainly sprung from the first StarCraft game, but the phenomenon is today embodied not just by NPC units in this or that game, but by actual groups of players, and is seen in practically every MMORPG with PVP.
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I need to do some more digging on this to figure out the thermal/insulation properties.
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The problem with your first command is the "cut" - works great for a while. Then you deal with other_vhosts_combined.log, and there's a leading hostname and port, so you want -f2 instead. After that, you start working with the user-agent field, and after remembering that the date and request fields have internal spaces, settle for something like -f13, which works until someone puts a space in their faked-up referer, and you can't use cut any more.

I love plain-text logs, but that apache logformat is a bad example of "neatly delimited records", given the unstable mixture of spaces between and within fields (some of which are quoted, some not, and one even quoted with square brackets!).
Skype Video and Voice calling app for PlayStationVita released
Skype has decreased distances among the people with its voice, video, and instant messaging services over the Internet and now Skype has launched its video calling app for PlayStationVita.
You can use PhantomJS with Node e.g. with child_process and messages via stdout. Works pretty well. Running this in its own process context might actually be a benefit e.g. when you spawn multiple phantomjs browsers

There is a project on github where this was taken a step further via dnode ( https://github.com/sgentle/phantomjs-node ) - you get access to the phantomjs objects, get/set properties and access the phantomjs api methods.

Will certainly have a deeper look into ghost.py
This looks very promising! I am a big Snoop fan!
Funny that searching bing for any of the articles pertaining to this attempted sale comes up with nothing. Prove me wrong?
this is not about first generation space exploration, but this series may explain its conclusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gap_Cycle

this book series is without a doubt my favourite.
The only way to win the politics game on HN is not to play it.
No, I'm pretty sure Google would need to move the entire Android team to Search if it wanted to compete with a Facebook-owned Bing.
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From the TFA: "hooking Yahoo, Bing, and Facebook"

I can't possibly see what good can come out of that for Facebook.

Bing could be matched with Facebook, in the same way Google+ is now linked with Google's search results. However the problem is that Google's Search is a near monopoly and it would be bad for Facebook to invest too much into this ... you don't defeat a company like Google by attacking it head on (Microsoft style), instead you are better off making it obsolete. Such a union would distract Facebook from improving things that actually matter, giving Google+ time to catch up.

And hooking Yahoo with Facebook would not be in Facebook's best interests. Facebook needs to popularize its own distribution channels for news, its own online email service, its own instant messanger, its own photo sharing services. At this stage they are powerful enough to pass on cooperation and instead prefer to lock-in their existing user base, which is growing like crazy anyway.

What Facebook must really do to survive Google is to do something about that shitty mobile app. Google is winning the distribution channels on mobiles because of Android, their search engine is the default on all smartphones, Google Maps too, Gmail is more and more popular ... so Facebook can't afford to not be in this game, because I don't have trouble seeing Google+ as the default on smartphones.
Absolutely true. Though it would be very nice of them to let me upgrade my server while keeping my old subnet for free (which they don't). I can understand their rational.
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I find it odd how people think of businesses as one big entity that knows all, when in reality its loads of small teams, contractors, freelancers etc. sort-of working together. You get that complaint a lot from people who criticize broadcasters in particular.
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What I hate most is that when typing an email it is contained in a fixed size box. I can't fill my screen with my email, I have to scroll inside the box to move up and down.
NY: ~100ms

CA: just under 200ms

Asia: even +300ms

didn't check Southern hemisphere
While the plugin is quite nice, what really impresses me is the example page.

All to often projects do not have examples, only have screenshots of examples or have a tiny selection. Raty's example page seems to cover every thing, I have no doubt what this tool can do, or how to do it. It acts as both documentation and a sales pitch. I really wish that other open source projects took the time to demonstrate their awesomeness.
As someone who has been working on clustering map markers on top of Google Maps, I have to say that doing it with a quadtree algorithm is extremely simple.
This seems like a good idea, with decent gmail integration. It's certainly one of the best approaches to the meeting 'time slot suggestion' problem I've seen so far. I developed a product (meetingShed http://www.meetingshed.com) which aims to solve the meeting scheduling problem from another angle - using people's Google calendar data by a sharing mechanism so you don't have to send messages back and forth between people. There's advantages and disadvantages of both approaches, but this is definately an interesting implementation.
Why is that surprising?

Haskell is a compiled language with a very clever optimizing compiler, so it tends to be pretty fast by any standard. On top of this, it has recently had some improvements to its IO manager which is particularly important for web servers.

Ruby, on the other hand, is notoriously slow.
You're missing his point entirely. If there's no real market for zero-gravity metals and pharmaceuticals, the whole venture will fail fast because it can't make money.

If all you can do is build more space stuff but the stuff is more expensive than earth stuff then it's not going to work.
Google backs 'social network' for former violent extremists
Not a fair comparison. MPAA has been losing sales for years already. This may never even happen.
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Bing (search engine) + Facebook's demographic targeting sounds formidable to me actually.
Women have better options than sitting in front of computer screens in badly lit environments all day.
Kuler is a great tool for this sort of thing.

http://kuler.adobe.com/
This is wrong. The minimalism of the front page was, in the early days, a point of pride and something that engineers fought for (note: I worked for Google for 3 years on a team with a fair number of old-timers).

I'm failing to come up with a link at the moment, but I remember a widely circulated bit of folklore about how an unnamed engineer within Google set up a cronjob that anonymously e-mailed the entire team a single number every day. After a while people figured out that the number was the byte count of the front page, the implication was that it was a metric that needed to be watched carefully.
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Yes, it says a lot. For example that I can take a joke, that I don't agree with the PC hysteria, that I am not a prude, that I like free speech to remain so even if its my opponent that's doing the talking, etc.

It also says that I don't like progressive squares and prudes as much as I don't like far-right nuts and prudes.

It also says that I'm not for censorship and hypocrisy.
I can't get it to work. What gives?
I like the pipes idea. It probably can be done with rules and separate mailboxes already, but if it's in the package right from the get-go ... nice. Combine this with Gmail 'conversations' to group email threads.

What I really would like to see in an email program/tool is an aggregation tool for compacting email conversations/threads into a single piece of text. Kind of like curating an email discussion. Not an easy thing. :)

It occurs quite frequently I need to delve into email history to get a gist or overview of things discussed a while ago and it would be so much nicer to generate a semi-intelligent overview of the entire email 'thread'.
Android is the smartest things they did for their future since their platform for targeted ads.

With Android they can exert control over the mobile platforms. Google Search, GMaps, GMail are the default on all Android devices and beyond.

Now think of Apple. At some point they wanted to switch to Bing, but they didn't. Don't really know the details about why they didn't, but it's quite easy to make a guess ...

I'm pretty sure Apple stayed with Google's Search, because otherwise Android phones would've had (at least) a branding advantage (Google is a synonym for search), not to mention that Google Search is still more potent than Bing. Without GSearch, they probably would have lost GMaps too. Then the argument for Android would have been: ooh, but it comes with GSearch, GMaps and GMail. Apple is not stupid, they couldn't put iOS at a disadvantage, in a world where every other phone comes with Google built-in.

So you see, Android is the platform that keeps them relevant in a mobile world that's tightly controlled by carriers and walled app stores.
I don't think hiding the labels on the buttons and making them stand out less helps casual users at all.
Ah, let the kids have their fun playing 'Company' with their Daddy's money.

Stick with doing productive work, society needs you, and those of us who know what you do day in day out to keep the machines running, we thank you.
This is nice, but unfortunately doesn't degrade gracefully at all. This is understandable with full-page javascript apps, but getting something as small as this right is easy.

Other plugins that do it well: http://www.radioactivethinking.com/rateit/example/example.ht... http://www.fyneworks.com/jquery/star-rating
Why do your team use this approach?

Does it improve your performance? If yes, why and how? What do you do better in the actual pitch?
Great examples. If anything it feels like there are far too many options, but I can't remember if that's the way people like their jqueries these days!

Haven't checked out the code yet but looks like it's definitely an elegant solution with just the basic options.

Having said that... must be at least a year since YouTube switched from 5-star ratings to positive/negative ratings. Maybe it's not totally relevant here, but I'm interested in what effect the switch has on ratings..
> Try to match their tempo (as you should when talking to anyone).

That's stupid advice. Why should I always match my tempo to somebody else?

I'm not going to adapt to your talking speed for the same reason that you're probably not going to try to match mine. I'm not your monkey.
I think the world record in questionable speculation was broken here.
You can go too far with A/B tests, and maybe the Google execs realised that. You just end up with a fragment of your user base who like everything and convert well, and likely a majority who don't (to varying degrees, of course.)

To make a 'good' product, you've got to make some tough design and feature choices on your users' behalf. Case in point: Microsoft vs. Apple. Microsoft are well known to test extensively with "real" users, and Apple, well…don't!
How is this possible? With the HW and operational costs they have to be in deep minus.. Eg linode.com is considered good and they seem to be more expensive by an order of magnitude. Can somebody tell me what the catch is?
>So your outward behavior has nothing to do with who you are?

No, SUPERFICIAL sings of outward behavior have nothing to do with who we are.

And pop psychology BS interpretations of them, have even less.
Platinum is about $1500 usd per troy ounce.

There are 32 troy ounces in a kg.

People are estimating £1000 per kg to get stuff into LEO. It costs less to get stuff back to Earth.

Surely they only have to beat $50,000 per kg to get the mining equipment up there and get the stuff back and they're in profit.

And they amortise the cost of getting the mining equipment up there over all the kg they mine and return. Since they're talking about 16000000000 kg of asteroid that's a lot of amortising.

And even if it doesn't have direct commercial value it has many other benefits - it is inspiring. Perhaps some children are seeing this and wanting to get into science. That's great.

But maybe I'm wrong, and I really welcome better information.
Question: If I host the domain for my UK business on one of these (and say it is a generic .com - not a .co.uk domain), will it influence my google.co.uk SERP ranking massively ?

How would Google know my .com site is UK based?
That mozilla one is especially great and covers some things I've worried about with work culture. Especially great are the give people credit and laugh rules.
It's actually a more subtle problem: if you test a radical redesign, there's a higher likelihood it will fail even if a subsequent series of small changes to it would have produced something better, just because the incumbent is so well optimized.
The Business Potential with Ads and Ecommerce is huge on Pinterest and with the current trends of acquisition, $2B is more or less the right price of Pinterest. But that would bring it to $100 / user ( if you take the 2M users number from this TC article http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/11/pinterest-stats/ )
Trivially solved by compression. In those five million referrers you’re probably also repeating “Firefox” and similar strings over and over, so compressing logs is already standard practice.
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OT, but I really like the way you expressed this: "could easily be a deal breaker". Too many comments on HN instead say "This would never work because of the increase in size" instead. Your comment recognizes the nuance without getting bogged down in what-ifs and disclaimers. Very well put.
> 6. If you get a massive quantity of some valuable material it'll change the economics. That $20 trillion won't be $20 trillion with the added supply.

True, but who says they have to sell it? The way I see it, if they bring that platinum back to earth, they might be better off just using it themselves. That way, yes, they are not making the market value of it in cash - instead, they are saving the market value of it in cash.

Platinum is so expensive because it is rare and you can build awesome stuff with it. If you take rare out of the equation, you can still build awesome stuff - and awesome stuff will surely always sell at a good price.
Insurance companies don't have to screw up for people to benefit from having insurance.

How does insurance benefit someone who's car doesn't crash? It's a couple of hundred bucks a month for nothing.

What value does the HFT add in this case?

None. If Fry doesn't want to cross the spread and pay for liquidity, he doesn't have to.

Similarly, Arthur's Steakhouse doesn't benefit me because I'm a vegetarian and don't want to buy what they are selling.

Don't HFTs only work with stocks that have high volume? How is adding liquidity when there's already high volume a value?

First of all, many HFTs do work with the long tail of US securities. Second, adding liquidity via price improvement (i.e., narrowing the spread) is useful even if volume is high.
I wonder if all of the challenges you've just listed aren't what makes this an attractive problem for highly speculative investment. The rock has value, but solving the problems of economically acquiring, transporting, and selling the materials will produce innovations that can be applied in more mundane terrestrial businesses. You may never mine the rock but you might end up with stronger and lighter materials, more efficient fuel, automated manufacturing, automated transportation, or even just economic models for maximizing profits when you have enough supply of a resource to devalue an entire market.

If using Python used to be a way for entrepreneurs to find top programmers, perhaps being conversant in some or part of this kind of space problem is a way for entrepreneurs and investors to find people with breakthrough ideas.
Until it has produced as many sites, I consider any such statements as anecdotal.

That is, I'd rather measure a system's productivity with actual production in the wild than with any of the systems "inherent" capabilities.

It might be productive for the author, but I don't see the general web programming public finding it more productive. People have learned Ruby to use Rails, but not many have ventured to learn Haskell to use its frameworks.
So do you disagree with the questions or technique/method?

If the questions were better or more relevant would it help you?

what are your feelings on this method of reversal?
And a couple of finished products, well, web-apps or web-sites in this case, even more.
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So, so right.

What I was trying to say was that the problem isn't with A/B testing - it's with overly simplistic usage and interpretation of A/B testing.
FWIW

Being a marketing guy myself I found it hard to sale my skills ( how ironic ) as a freelancer. The main reason is that many young entrepreneur think that marketing is simple and they will just "do it themselves" ( And fail ). They don't understand marketing is a skill on its own, like writing code for example. So the first thing you should do is educate them on that and then sale your service to them :)
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Teach them how to use Tor.

https://www.torproject.org/
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They all have revenues. Whether they make profits is another question, but that's not relevant to the point. If HFTs didn't at least have positive revenues from their trades, then no, they wouldn't be buying expensive servers and hiring expensive talent. Money extracted from the market is the issue here, not whether the amount extracted is sufficient to cover costs.