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I definitely will. This past weekend I took some time to go through a few intro tutorials on nettuts. I'm blown away by the awesomeness of rails and how easy it makes TDD.
The difficult issue would be bonding of some kind right? Prevent people from just keeping the product which is worth more than the fee, but you could work that out with credit card holdings maybe.
I had fun writing that paragraph. :-)
In New Jersey the casino is not allowed to ask you to leave for counting cards. They can only force you to bet the same amount and/or shuffle every hand.
To S3 it's like you just deleted the file; to Glacier it's like you just created the file.
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It is widely accepted that hippocampal replay occurs during sleep and is an important part of memory consolidation.

It is not widely accepted that this activation is, or even leads to, the subjective experience that we call dreaming.

The article gets it right in the second paragraph, but most of the rest of the paper makes incorrect reference to dreams. Don't expect to program your dreams any time soon.

The actual result here is very interesting in its own right; it suggests that the consolidation process can be directed, and if the replay system plays the role in learning that many people suspect it does, then we might be able to focus our learning on particular experiences. The idea of learning something while you sleep by playing a tape might not be as ridiculous as I always thought it was.
"Liability." If Joe Schmoe picks up his sixpack, plus agrees to bring you your iSomething, then forgets to deliver it and/or drops it and/or his dog eats it, who's liable? Especially in sue-happy countries (hint hint), the cost of insurance will make this infeasible. (Perhaps a "trusted customer" program might alleviate this issue?)
> The evidence for or against TDD is, admittedly, inconclusive, but it's more recent and of a better academic caliber. There have been a lot of studies. Most of these studies aren't any good - but at least someone is trying.

Can you point me to some of those studies? Every time I look I only find the same 2 studies everyone quotes from (and aren't very good).
Well, I think you can view it as fair based on the idea of asymmetric preferences among investors. One investor's decision to sell after a short term period may offer an advantageous buy to another investor who wishes to hold the stock for a longer time, etc. So one need not assume that one party has an information disadvantage.
Part of Franklin's success was his ability to focus on big problems instead of using his energies gambling, drinking, or wenching. Franklin's moral principles had nothing to do with being holier-than-thou. He wanted a life of meaning, and his moral code was the means to the end: a life as a world-famous scientist, businessman, author, and diplomat.

His autobiography explains his motivations (a wonderful book): http://www.gutenberg.org/files/148/148.txt

Edit: Men like Franklin see their moral code as a tool to get from point A (a humdrum life) to point B (a life of significance.) Today we see a moral code as some kind of legal document and look for violations. Aha! I see that you violated Section B Paragraph 5 "No wenching during business hours."
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"But if the cost of storage is much much smaller than the retrieval cost, then your design methodology would be different."

If you read between the lines a bit on how the second-to-last paragraph would manifest in code, I think that's what he's already getting at. A Glaiciated machine would probably not get global de-duping, but merely a machine-level de-duping, if even that. (The retrieval cost structure is quite bizarre.)
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Back up and running now, it seems.

EDIT

This is what I saw, and am still seeing: http://cl.ly/image/431J1p1g1A2f

From Comcast in Illinois.
It's a no win situation for them. Hand the info over and you're on msnbc for giving it up, don't hand it over and you're on fox news for helping the terrorists...

Plus for certain kinds of investigations, it would go against the court order to go public. I don't want to defend apple here but this is an American law enforcement problem, I'm certain ms, google and others have provided info to the government that would anger many and there are probably a lot of companies that do it without a court order... Trying to be good citizens.

Why the hell was that info on a laptop?
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I think if you read the article you'll find that that's unfair. His argument is that there are many studies that support it and none that contradict it, and that such consistency is unusual in the literature. That may be wrong but it's not trivially stupid as you make it sound.
I'd have to kill ya if I told you. :)

No I'm kidding of course. Obviously, I did work in that area, ages ago.

And it's been like this for a long time, by the way. Even back in ancient times when we all used dials.

The president lives in the ultimate bubble. Nothing gets in or out without being vetted.
AllClear ID App partners with NCFTA, proceeds to give UDIDs to FBI?
My point is that it's usually down to the ISP or whoever provides to router to make it secure. From what I have observed WEP routers are very rare in the wild so it would seem that they are doing their diligence here.

I'm also not sure how far ignorance goes as an excuse although this could well depend on whether we are talking about civil or criminal law. For example in pretty much any country there are literally thousands of laws that you are expected not to break. I doubt even veteran lawyers know all of these down to the letter , yet if I am charged with one of them that I have no knowledge of I cannot get away with saying that I didn't know it existed. In theory I guess it could be argued that you should never do anything without first consulting a legal professional.

Possibly a lawyer could say to grandma "If you didn't know anything about routers or Java updates, why didn't you hire an IT expert to configure your computer for you?"
Well, to use your same line of reasoning...Not all coders are necessarily "hackers", right? Hacking connotes a certain ability to work from outside a system, to improvise, and to "break things" for good or bad, which is why various groups of non-programmers are considered "hackers", at least by HN's upvotes.

Aren't these qualities needed by everyone? So why even have the term "hacker"? Why doesn't Lifehacker just call itself the "Life" blog?

So to answer your question, I don't know when are where we should draw the line when assigning titles. I don't think there are any obvious rules, and in the case of growth hackers, I think there is a specific combination of skills and insight that isn't adequately covered by just marketers or by just coders.
I wonder if the goal is not to create programmers? Much like teaching geometry isn't to prepare students for a career of proving the congruency of pairs of triangles.

The mental skills one uses to give unambiguous instruction to an computer may be valuable in communicating unambiguously with humans or decomposing seeming intractable problems.
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I don't believe the broken window fallacy has anything to do with this. Their system, since the massive mid-eighties crash, has deliberately focused more on maintaining employment than on growth. They have been demonstrably successful by that measurement. It's not the system I would design, but still.

Much like the faxes you were making fun of, it's a question of differing priorities.
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I think people will take this way too far. They'll turn on the autopilot and take a nap while blasting through a school zone or something.

If the car can't handle those situations, then it's not going to be a very useful intelligent car.
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Read the article. The whole article. It doesn't say what you think it says.
"The second problem, and the one that in my opinion I’ve let down my readers the most by not catching, is that the table is completely false."
right i did not know that, thanks for clearing that up.
If the car is autonomous, I imagine it could be configured (or default) to avoid school zones when possible, and maintain speeds that would allow for safely stopping easily in case of kids.
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Also: There have been a number of high-profile suicides mentioned on HN over the last few years. Likely there have been countless lower-profile suicides never mentioned.
Well, it's possible to make the deduplication work with Glacier, though. Colin's right that you want to phase versions of the whole tar into slower and cheaper storage, but the technical problem of whether blocks are used in newer versions doesn't actually seem to be too much of a problem. You can compute it in a batch for extant tars, and track it for new ones. (And you can keep blocks-of-references always in S3 rather than Glacier, say.) The problem he identifies as most troublesome is what if you see a case where you would want to deduplicate, but the similar block is in Glacier, and so would be a bottleneck for the whole deduplication process. In this case, you could always treat it as a non-match, right? And optionally have some way to track it and then when it gets moved to Glacier either determine whether it was actually a match all along, or just have some duplicate data.

Of course, I don't know how tarsnap names its blocks or stores them, so I don't know how feasible it is to have two blocks with the same name because they had the same hash but there was a byte-by-byte mismatch, or if that's even a problem.

I mean, blocks that have been moved to Glacier because there are no references to them from indices on S3 can be assumed to be less likely to show up in new archives. It's a trade-off, but my experience with deduplication is that it's often not much of a trade-off to get rid of old things even though the magical thinker in me is tempted to think "but what if that chunk happens to show up again somewhere else!?"
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Wouldn't you want the clock to start at the second of grant so that appreciation would be long-term capital gains sooner? Although I can see how it would cause a cashflow problem in the short term.
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"The second problem, and the one that in my opinion I’ve let down my readers the most by not catching, is that the table is completely false."

There is a big difference between "unsupported by hard data" and "completely false", especially when the author later admits to not being willing to pay to see the first paper cited in support.

It also seems, (from this post: http://lesswrong.com/lw/9sv/diseased_disciplines_the_strange...) that in fact the first line is supported by data, if only in aggregate. The author of that blog posts makes much of the phrase "this study didn't accurately record" while glossing over the next part of the sentence that states "so we will use average rates summarized from several other studies." It is common practice to aggregate data, and provided it is done properly, the aggregation can reduce error, not increase it.

The claim that "a bug introduced in Requirements, costs more to fix the later it is discovered" is claimed to be supported by data. Well done for demanding to see that data. But epic fail for creating controversy by claiming that the opposite is true.
Isn't the historical problem 100% of feasible capacity will be used?
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Congratulations Neal and Mike. You're helping people make their lives better in a tangible way. I'm really impressed that you found a way to scale up and grow the company within Chicago through a route I doubt many other entrepreneurs there would have considered!
"Consumers may not be happy with the yearly paid update cycles,"

That is one of the complain i heard most about.

"But the fierce competition between Parallels and Fusion has led the market to a mature and capable state and consumers of both products will likely be satisfied with their performance."

I think there is so much truth in it. Without bunch of consumers playing every year, there will be no incentive to make gaming performance and other improvement. This is likely the first time in history Virtualisation has catered Gaming market. And their performance are now, more then enough for most of our usage.
This is pretty gorgeous.
> They have been demonstrably successful by that measurement.

That's debatable. They were able to coast on their post-war success for a while, but things certainly aren't looking up in Japan. High levels of youth unemployment and dissatisfaction has led to astonishing levels of apathy. South Korea is expected to surpass Japan in terms of GDP PPP per capita within the next year, and Taiwan already has.

Japanese advantages in consumer electronics have been largely eroded by more nimble South Korean and Taiwanese rivals, and there are no signs of the Japanese fighting back in an effective manner. A great example of this is the smartphone - a quintessential consumer electronics product market in which the Japanese are nowhere to be found. Sony is flailing around a little with its Xperia phones, but they don't even register on the global level. Samsung and HTC have all the attention, and mainland Chinese competitors, like Huawei and ZTE, are starting to enter the market as well. There were some signs of success in the HDTV industry, but again, rivals like Vizio and Samsung have taken over a large portion of the market.

One of Japan's last remaining strengths in consumer electronics is the camera - companies like Canon and Nikon still reign supreme. But how long will that last? Samsung is continuing its relentless march into the future with the Galaxy Camera, a point-and-shoot which runs a full copy of Jelly Bean with wifi and 3G capabilities. Unless the Japanese firms start changing their ways, they're going to become also-rans (if they haven't already).

Give it time, and I bet Korean car makers like Hyundai and Kia will displace Toyota/Honda as well. The so-called "monozukuri" culture of Japan has turned out to be nothing more than a farce.
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That would depend on which court the order came from. If it was from the FISA court, for example, then publicizing it would send people to jail.

But again, if that were the case then it would be related to anti-terrorism efforts. Well I hope it would be. The FISA court exists for that reason (mostly).

I guess my paranoia depends on how much I trust the government :)
Someone needs to defend McConnell here. I'll do it. He's one of the most meticulous people to work with this material. That comes through pretty clearly in the post you linked to. The problem is not McConnell, it's – and this is the dirty secret of software engineering – that the research literature itself is so weak and spotty. Most studies consist of arbitrary metrics on small data sets with no replication, rarely (ever?) making the actual data available. Massive assumptions and confounding factors are typically obvious and ignored (things like: how familiar were the programmers with the tools they were using). The overwhelming factor is the interpretive preferences of the authors, who knit their conclusions out of this dodgy material. As science, it not only does not hold up, it's a joke.

On the other hand, what they are trying to study is incredibly complex - not just people, not just software, but people working on software, and even social systems of people working on software. How do you even begin to reliably measure that? Psychology looks like physics by comparison. Yet the resources available to do these studies are a drop in the bucket. This is not something society values – it's not even something our own industry values. So it's unsurprising that what we have so far is at best a smattering. You can argue that these toy studies ought not to be dressed up in formal scientific wear, and I don't disagree – it gives an altogether misleading impression of how solid their conclusions are. But no doubt that's true of a lot of papers.

(Oh and on top of all that, much of the literature is hard to track down. Didn't anyone notice that the OP wasn't able to even find half of the citations he was trying to check? Based on that alone he shouldn't be claiming that "the table is completely false", only that he was unable to rebuild it from data.)

The real question is whether we should throw it all out as junk or try to make something of it. I think there's a good argument for junking. But it's also reasonable to say: hold on, for all their weaknesses these studies are all we have and they're not nothing. At least someone is trying to work with actual data. So let's consider them, but carefully. Like walking on a swamp.

McConnell is one of the few people who have made serious efforts to walk the swamp and filter it somewhat and convey its findings to professional programmers. Of all these people (that I've read), he actually stands out as the most meticulous. To fire cowboy accusations of dishonesty at him personally is likely unfair and misses the point. I do think McConnell overestimates how solid the swamp is, but he's not ignorant about it (read that whole post) and the claim that he outright falsifies citations, or anything like that, demands a high burden of proof. I haven't read Bossavit's critique (should I?) but anyone taking that position had better first make sure he's not standing on a swamp too. That's harder than it sounds.
Does anyone know of products that already incoorperate Glacier. Basically, I am looking for a solution to back up my photo library. It's one big file with a "Write Once, Read hopefully never" Access Policy. I guess I could go and push it to Glacier by myself, but I'd rather have a library/product do it for me
Not on the same scale, but I've found having screwed up badly in the past helps me keep my calm in the present. My favorite example: about twenty years ago I accidentally played a note during a grand pause (the entire orchestra silent) in the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth. In concert, at Hill Auditorium. That's one of the worst musical mistakes possible, in the one piece of classical music almost everyone knows, in what is almost certainly the nicest concert hall I will ever get to play in.

Ever since then when getting ready for a concert where I'm not the soloist, I can just tell myself "What can I possibly do wrong that would be worse than that?" and the tension goes away.
I'm curious about how virtual box compares to either of these.
6th iPhone, arguably the 4th generation (iPhone 1, iPhone 3G and 3GS as one generation, iPhone 4 and 4S as one generation).

Naming it iPhone 6 would be extremely confusing for consumers (Where did the 5 go?!), as would 4G. The only workable alternative is iPhone 5. Anything else would be a horrible idea from a marketing point of view.

Yeah, it’s slightly inconsistent, but that’s just how it is. (Apple used the 4 both as an iPhone number – with the iPhone 4 – and like a generation number – with the iPhone 4S. That’s how they already introduced the inconsistency they now have to work around.)

Your homework: Why did Apple count iPhones and not generations when they introduced the iPhone 4? There is a pretty simple answer to that.
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Could you add the ability to hide/ignore particular users, and the threads they spawn?
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I believe you may have missed some sarcasm.
Apologies, I based my comment on atop's README:

For interactive use it is sufficient to install ATOP with the command (as root):

make install

I wouldn't have guessed the reference to root was optional! Thanks for the pointer.
> 5 comes after 4.

Does 5 come after 4s?
I think the most important part is separating the de-dup metadata from the data. I assume the de-dup is done via either digest or HMAC -- if you keep the digests (and the blocks of digests, et al.) and pointers to the data location in Glacier in S3, couldn't you do the de-dup using S3 but actual data storage using Glacier?
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See, nobody really cares that you got it wrong initially. What's annoying everybody, or at least me, is the extremely un-gracious way you handled being corrected. Instead of just looking it up, finding the answer, and saying thanks, you basically go nuts at everyone.
There would be no way for you to know if you got matched without possibly disclosing other matches as well...
I'll start.

Currently my strategy for discovering apps depends mostly on how much research I've done on the space. For apps I know by name (Facebook, Amazon Kindle) I have no use for anything outside the native app stores (This accounts for probably 50% of the apps I download). Other times I have a problem that I'm sure someone has created a software based solution for but don't know which is best and will use a combination of app store keyword searches, Google and asking friends (Mostly utilities. 25%). There is also a third case of "apps I didn't know I wanted" that are almost exclusively discovered through word of mouth (Mostly games. 25%).
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"They saw a pattern and didn't know how long it would last," said Feldman, whose clients are Asian and speak little or no English.

Ha- they must speak "Asian" :p
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I'm guessing a VR headset.
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Language evolves with the users.
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I've never bought a deck of cards that was pre-shuffled. I thought casinos had machines that did that for them.
I wonder if this has anything to do with CLANG [0] (the recently kickstarted sword-fighting simulator). In some of the videos they hinted that a custom controller is coming down the line.

[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang
> 6th iPhone, arguably the 4th generation (iPhone 1, iPhone 3G and 3GS as one generation, iPhone 4 and 4S as one generation).

Are you still going to think that when the new iPhone still looks like the 4/4s model?

> Naming it iPhone 6 would be extremely confusing for consumers (Where did the 5 go?!), as would 4G. The only workable alternative is iPhone 5. Anything else would be a horrible idea from a marketing point of view.

Or drop the number altogether and leave the math to the nerds who care.
Probably a coincidence. Keep in mind that "273% more" actually means a multiplication factor of 3.73, not 2.73.