skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting, thanks--did not know that. Based on that, the idea of a regulatory action does not seem unwarranted.

The issue, like all regulations, would be the balance between the problem and the remedy. Is it necessary to completely ban a product to keep it away from children? I'm thinking of things like cigarettes and alcohol, and wondering why they can be less restrictively regulated than little magnetic toys.
He's still right in a very technical, strict sense. I'm too lazy to look up numbers and do the math, but I expect there's a window near the Martian sunrise/sunset when the sun isn't visible over the horizon and we have line of sight.

I expect that window is small to the point where no one actually cares. It would be an interesting applied-math problem for a grade-schooler, though.
Probably not. The overarching security concern with WebGL is that much of the complexity in e.g. compiling shaders or loading data into GPUs is happening in kernel code. A lot of it is driver dependent, so even if userland code gets everything right, there's a good chance that a sizable chunk of people are using drivers that aren't resilient against attacks. Finally, it is a lot easier to update a browser than it is to update a kernel video driver, and a decent chunk of the browser security model depends on browsers being automatically updated when vulnerabilities are discovered.
Better yet, just set your history to 10k-20k+ items and use reverse-search (ie. Ctrl+r in bash) to recall your old commands. Navigation aside, about 80-90% of commands I use regularly are already in the shell history.
Not as much as you would expect. The natural way you build systems in Erlang is across erlang-processes (micro processes). Even if you are building an application running on a single core, you use erlang-processes extensively. This means for a little TCP-IP server, you use one erlang-process per incoming connection on one core or 32 -- the only difference is how they are schedule, when you are on 32 cores the Erlang VM starts up more threads and then schedules the erlang-processes across the VM threads and those threads are scheduled across physical processors.

The trick is -- when you build software in Erlang -- you start up new processes for the true concurrency (in a web application, the true concurrency is number of connections, so they get there own processes). This means that Erlang applications routinely have hundreds of thousands of processes -- which makes it easy to schedule across a mere 32 or 64 or 128 physical cores.
Yes, you would be burning with such a power source in a consumer electronic device.
Or maybe the debate is whether an "adult's toy" is the same thing as a "kids toy"....and therefore deserves the same regulation.

Or rather, how does one treat the sale of adult toys.
On the other hand, SPDY never tried to address those issues: the aim was to create a more efficient over-the-wire transport layer for HTTP/1.1 semantics.
Looks like you work for Panopta. Why are you guys charging up to $250/month for your product[1]? It should be free shouldn't it? I've decided $250 is too expensive and demand use of that tier for $3/month. I'm in the right aren't I?

http://www.panopta.com/pricing/
It's more than just Visa -- this is the marketing arrangement for (AFAIK) ALL Olympic sponsors.

The marketing agreement with the IOS is:

- You get your brand prominently featured across venues, media feeds, and collateral.

- All competitors are iced out.

I'm OK with the first.

I'm not OK with the latter.

Particularly in light of the Orwellian trademark and copyright enforcement (including significant changes to corresponding statutes) the IOC is granted.

That and the fact that Olympic athletes are no longer amateurs, but professionals. It's a charade. An impressive one at times, but a charade all the same.
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It's hard to avoid Visa now in the UK. I don't think any banks issue new Maestro debit cards any more - they're all VISA.
Maybe it is a unique marker of those who are technically minded to be especially aggrieved by an arbitrary restriction such as this? Going through the London2012 ticket website today I noticed the requirement to pay by Visa and even though I was intending on using my Visa I clicked on the "What if I don't have Visa?" link to see what alternatives were on offer:

If you do not have a Visa card, your bank will be able to help you select and apply for the Visa product that best suits your needs. For more information on how to obtain a Visa product, please visit the Visa website.

Do they seriously think I'm going to organise a new card just to buy Olympic products? A better piece of advice might be:

If you do not have a Visa card, find a friend who does and get them to buy the tickets for you. Then settle with cash and buy them a beer for their trouble.
Since we're all piling on the current YT app here's my all time favorite: your video ended, let's immediately cut to summary screen; oh you want to watch it again? It's still in memory but let me start buffering it again and randomly hang or crash. Back in the EDGE days, ehrmagahd/rageface/first world problems!1
Interesting, what makes you so sure we are going to become a planned economy when it was partially the governments corruption in the first place that helped lead to this mess.

I know you mean USA. I wonder if the USA would force my country (Australia) to follow suit to? Hard to imagine.

Also isn't China meant to be growing at a unstable rate and is now ready for its own property market collapse. And isn't China the only real example of a working centrally planned economy?

I'm just really interested how you are so sure we are heading towards a planned economy as a system.
It seems to me that, regardless of what blogpost author is going (or not going) to do, we can draw a lesson or two here for our own products/services: take away freedom of choice from your customer, and he may quickly become a pissed off and lost customer to you. You have to be very careful in estimations of potential profits and losses of your marketing efforts. Customers may not care (nor should they, actually) about your business or marketing strategies. (Though I'm absolutely sure that Visa is benefiting a lot right now and will not suffer any long-term losses because of this campaign.)
"$700 million worth of charges" Visa only gets 2-5% of the charge. Lets assume on the high end at 5% we are talking about only 35 million in income. Even doubling that for the second week we get 70 million (before costs). How is that the quickest ROI ever? Sounds like a bad marketing move backed up by a loss of profits. Maybe the real winners were the olympic committee or the other credit card companies that bid up the price against Visa.
I'll defend this position.

I'd rather someone be deep that shallow. In my career I've found that people who have unique talents tend to rise to the top because they offer that unique something that others dont.

Now, that unique talent can also be something broad like being a general, or being the the guy whose best at code reviews.

My point is that you've got to be really good at something, not just kinda good at a lot of things.
I think this is a valid complaint, but it's nothing new.

Same thing happened to me when I tried to buy Tickets for the NFL. They also only accepted Visa at that time (not sure if it changed since then). I wasn't able to buy Tickets online because of that reason so I looked up the next brick & mortar store which sold these tickets and found that Macy's sells them (at a special counter).

So I drove to Macy's thinking that at least they should accept any credit card - but nope, they rejected my Mastercard so I first had to get cash at an ATM.

I think Visa's point is that you feel limited by not having a Visa card and so are more willing to get a Visa. In my opinion that's kind of similar to how advertisement works in general. You don't see a commercial and immediately go to buy it, but they try to build the sense in you that you actually need the product.
Hipache is built on top of node-http-proxy [1], a nodejs library which implements a lot of the actual websocket logic. Most of the tests you have in mind are in that library. Hipache implements a management and automation layer on top of it, and although more tests are always good, in my experience full-stack integration tests are more important in that context. I am not the author, but I work at dotCloud and can tell you that Hipache was submitted to massive amounts of integration testing and load testing before even touching its first production deployment. Obviously there's a long way to go before being as battle-tested as squid or nginx, but we're not talking about a week-end hack project either.

[1] http://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy
Thanks. The relevant bits:

Like previous generations of this type of electrical- power generator, the MMRTG is built with several layers of protective material designed to contain its plutonium dioxide fuel in a wide range of po- tential accidents, verified through impact testing. Each MMRTG carries eight individually shielded general purpose heat source modules (compared to 18 modules in the previous generation). The thickness of the protective graphite material in the center of the modules and between the shells of each module in the MMRTG has been increased by 20 percent over previous modules.

However, the same report says there is about a 3% chance of an accident with no release, and a .4% chance of an accident "with release".
It won't go bad after this day.. (but theft is a valid point)
Compared to some European countries, the UK is far behind. Many of the smaller retailers and pubs/bars still don't accept card or require minimum spends (£5 or £10) to be able to use cards.

In Finland it seems that absolutely everywhere accepts card and cash is very rare. I'd guess at least 95% of the in-person transactions that I see are made with card. Even for the smallest amounts.
>It's not about copyright, it's about respect for other human beings, respect
for the people that create the content you consume.

I respect the people that create content I consume. That does neither imply
that I am forced to pay for the distribution of their works nor that my right
to share information of whatever kind should be limited.

>If someone prices something at $100,000 either you pay for it or you don't
get it.

Of course I cannot force someone to give me something. However, someone who has
acquired something cannot be forbidden from sharing it. In other words: your
rights end where mine begin, and it is my good right to share what I have.

So, in your hypothetic scenario, a wealthy supporter or a bunch of fans
pooling money could pay the $100k, then share the work with the world. I see no
problem with this.
These are awesome updates. A few days ago I was complaining about not being able to direct organization repos to specific emails.

Great update Github!
I worked in sales and customer service a few years back and totally hated it, it just wasn't for me. It really got me down and affected my home life. So I gave it up, went back into education and created my own startup.

Now I'm half way through my degree, on summer break, working at home in a pair of shorts every day.

Don't continue doing something that is making you unhappy. If your work or workplace is making you unhappy, find something else. Life is too short!
It seems like you and the author are assuming that everyone has some sort of right or reasonable expectation to be able to buy products with any payment method they choose. But that's rarely the case. There are tons of places that simply don't accept MasterCard or American Express, for example. Almost no place will accept barter. The only way this was a bad decision by Visa and the Olympics is if the sponsorship payment wasn't enough to cover the lost sales, which is unlikely to be the case.
According to the page you linked to, in economics and finance marginal cost is the change in total cost that arises when the quantity produced changes by one unit.

When production of Scarface movie tickets increases from zero units to one unit the film has to be made, increasing the total costs from zero to $25,000,000.

Hence, the ∆Q is 1 unit and the ∆TC is $25,000,000 giving a marginal cost of ∆TC/∆Q = $25000000/1 = $25,000,000

Could you be more specific about why I need to go to college? Is there some error in my calculation?
What happened to the post? It's gone.
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How much better really, if the current one wasn't working well you would find out real quick.
The simple truth is that Visa largely is marketing.

It's also a huge transaction processing system, but the larger part of the organization is in fact responsible for managing the brand.

Think about that next time you're looking at your interest rate and/or merchant fees associated with your credit/debit card.
>> The Curiosity Rover Nuclear Battery will supply the system with constant power, allowing it to work as much as needed, all year long for as long as 14 years.

Very cool. Massive improvement over the solar panels that only worked during the day and non-winter times.
"(A customer had — I kid you not — a lightning strike hit her computer during checkout, and as a consequence the JS callback fired 36 times. This resulted in 36 transactions, which Stripe processed without complaint. Oops."

I can't believe the good old 'computer was hit by a lightning bolt' wasn't in one of your test cases, Patrick! I mean it's so obvious :P

More seriously, that is one of the wildest reasons for a bug I think I've ever heard.
Wheels need friction to develop acceleration. So its a negative not a positive.
BOOOO

I'd even be willing to login with a linkedin account - but not having facebook myself... boooo

Plus, you're teaching kids to make games. You should teach them that there is digital life OUTSIDE of facebook!

Seriously, kids will be born into a Facebook hegemony unless we do something about it now.
Amazon plans textbook rentals as cheaper option for students
Don't forget a lot of people are going to use Visa anyway.
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I'll often use Up/^p/^r(i-reverse-search) to find a previous command and edit it's argument, which is where the tree nature of this tool would come in handy. If I 'type' the first n terms of a command enough times, it might be better to alias that part of the command rather than navigate my history and then edit the rest of the command repeatedly.
a 'thank you' note, a generic one means nothing... but a follow up is a very good idea, if you can convey you are excited about the job. (but you have to be excited about /that/ job for some reason; not excited about a job in general.)

I mean, a follow up until you get a firm 'no' is standard in most sales, and make no mistake about it, interviewing for a job is sales.
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At least we have Chip and PIN!
Don't forget more compact. A sterling engine would require a generator, which in turn means a regulator and a rectifier. Plus, R&R's aren't very reliable either. When the alternator in your car dies, it's usually the R&R that failed.

The main disadvantages of thermocouples are cost and efficiency, but cost isn't a big deal for mega government projects and efficiency isn't a big deal when the goals are modest (i.e. not flying about like a helicopter) and the power source is amazing (i.e. nuclear decay)
I thought jobs was right to slam the stylus and still is because stylus (at least in my mind) isn't the same thing as a digitizer pen like a wacom.

When i hear stylus I think of a tiny plastic pen that exists because interface designers didn't want to know how to make finger friendly ui and hardware. At the time there had been many devices (anyone remember the ipaq?) where users were stuck in tap the tiny menu options with a plastic stick hell and I think that's what jobs was rightly slamming.

But a true pressure and tilt sensitive pen in addition to touch is a fantastic idea. Browsing, viewing, navigating are much better done with touch but writing and drawing can be better with a pen. There's a reason the masterworks of art aren't all finger paintings. Sometimes an intermediate tool is best but only in the right context.
What an impractical thing to say. We could have no laws at all if we followed that philosophy to its logical conclusion. We can't forbid theft, because that impinges on our natural freedom to obtain the things we want. We can't forbid public urination, because that means giving up our freedom to relieve ourselves wherever we like. And so on and so forth.

Living in civilization is all about giving up our freedom to do certain things in exchange for the protection and comfort that society offers.
Wouldn't you say that there is more digital consumer AS WELL AS production these days?

I don't see a shift. I see a dramatic growth in both.

I'm sure a number of people wouldn't be motivated to produce if there was not a large number of "consumers". Right?
Sigh; I might have to switch back to FreeBSD for development. The only things tying my into my mac right now are tax software and word processing. Word processing I can just convert to TeX, but the tax software is an annoyance.

So, UNIX development is still there, but I'm worried that in the future I'll need to pay a developer license to run unsigned code (or something equally ludicrous). The interfaces are going down the tube - look at Notes, or iCal. If iOS keeps influencing OSX, we'll see tape reels and bookshelves in XCode.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Windows 8's Metro actually looks better designed than modern Apple software.
It's a slight difference, but it's more about getting 500 people (unique or recurring) to give you (an average of) $30 per month.

This could be automated recurring revenue (like SaaS), or building products that are one-time or intermittent purchases with many customers. Or, you can try to get fewer customers at a higher price, or more customers at a lower price for some things (but that's almost always harder to make it work).

It's also about building products that aren't full-time jobs in and of themselves, so you can have several products over time, that cover a range of concepts and audiences. This has the added benefit of providing you with diversified income, so you aren't SOL if a single product starts to lose customers.

Ebooks are a common initial product, because they have a little less initial risk and are a little easier to start as a side project than a full-fledged SaaS product.
Preempting disappointment over the new iPhone
The same safety implications as launching 10 pounds of anything twenty miles in the air, over an ocean, and subjecting it to an explosion. 10 pounds divided by any realistic footprint is negligible.

Plutonium is dangerous stuff, sure, but it isn't 10 orders of magnitude more dangerous than anything else the way some people act like it is. It's just dangerous, not imbued with an evil malevolent spirit that wants to irradiate your soul.

Bear in mind the Earth is covered in radioactives; it doesn't take all that much division before you've got less radioactivity per acre than already exists naturally, which contrary to apparently popular belief is not 0.
Loved the email:

"Hi friend,

We've made some REALLY BIG changes to the way that notifications work at GitHub.

We're sending you this email because we love you. Also, the amount of email you receive from GitHub notifications is going to change and we want to make sure you don't miss anything important. First, check out the new notification settings:

https://github.com/settings/notifications

..."
Absolutely, if you were pushing a block along the ground. Fortunately modern "wheel" technology reduces the bearing friction so much that it is no longer a factor. The only friction left is the friction holding the wheel to the ground. This is reduced in reduced gravity, such that wheels are more likely to slip.
Don't hate Visa, hate/dislike the venue host that agreed to such terms (thus subjecting you to said terms). Since the article talked about McDonalds - do you hate Coca Cola for striking up an exclusivity deal with McDonalds? If you must place blame, direct it toward the correct entity.
I don't see the faux in it. It seemed pretty sincere to me, and I'm pretty cynical.

GitHub is one of the companies that take deliberate effort to make me really them, from their clever 404 page, to little details such as this. Zappos is another.

I'm wondering. Do lots of other people find this off-putting?
Introducing Amazon Game Studios
I believe it is dependent on funding and you are doing space exploration harm by abstracting it down to percentages of budgets vaguely spent, as if it's a progress bar in a Zynga game that only needs to be filled.

There are many things you can do to help with space exploration. Get others excited about physics/astronomy/engineering, conduct your own rocket research and involve your family/neighbors, run/participate in distributed projects to quantify and discover items in space. Right now you are not able to see the connection between how you spend your time and what happens at NASA; this is a path to understanding how the collective individual actions of real people make these things happen, happen more often and in a better way.

Certainly also write to your representatives, but please make it personal and not abstract and give it as much weight of experience and knowledge as possible.
This seems like a misstep to me. Amazon is a conduit for content to be bought and sold - it shouldn't create content itself. Now, a game platform I could totally understand.
It's good to have one of both, I've decided, unless you are big on cash.
You might be trolling, but custom $NODE_PATH configurations are a slippery slope and can reintroduce dependency hell f you're not careful. You're voluntarily disabling one of npm's finest features. This sentiment is even in the manual:

"[$NODE PATH exists] mostly for historic reasons. You are highly encouraged to place your dependencies locally in node_modules folders. They will be loaded faster, and more reliably."

http://nodejs.org/api/modules.html#modules_loading_from_the_...
I agree, though I would think the ratio is the opposite. The thing is, having multiple cards might be a sign of wealth, but it's also a consequence of local culture. In some countries, everyone has a gazillion of cards. In some countries, having two cards is sort of an exception. In some countries, half the shops usually don't take VISA (Belgium is like that iirc, but I might be mistaken).

So, by taking a decision like that, you're alienating quite a few people, based on non-relevant criteria (not wealth related ones).
Also won't be compatible with Windows.
Thanks for the feedback. We have just updated the app that should fix the crash on login.
We will try to incorporate as much of the features as possible.
As Curiosity touches down on Mars, video is taken down from YouTube