skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You may prove that 3 cycles will bring an even input to a lower output, but that output may be odd, in which case the next 3 cycles will not necessarily produce a lower output."

Your observation about long "worst-case" strings of "odd even odd even, ..." which grow the input arbitrarily doesn't change the property of evens as I have described to be decreasing. I'm not negating what you said, I follow your reasoning, but it's not clear to me how/if you are negating my claim for evens (and it's just a claim).

I said:

f(f(f(n:even):odd):even)=(3(n/2)+1)/2=(3/4)n+1/2

is less than the initial (n:even) for n>4 (actually 2 is sufficient)

This would still occur in your strings. The fact that you can come up with strings that abitrarily begin with (or contain within them) these "worst case" alternations does not necessarily mean that it can cycle from it:

Let's change one of the cases in my original comment (diff-style):

< f(f(f(n:even):even):odd)=3((n/2)/2)+1=(3/4)n+1

< is less than the initial (n:even) for n>4

---

> f(f(f(f(n:even):even):odd):even)=(3((n/2)/2)+1)/2=((3/4)n+1)/2=(3/8)n+1/2

> is less than the initial (n:even) for n>4/5... so every valid input

You cannot have two odds in a row so that's the only thing that CAN happen to that case, and it is now clearly anchored on an even, requiring that even to still be decreasing with respect to the initial even (now no more than 5 numbers prior) in every case. We can walk down these decreasing even steps until we are back in known territory (n<=8).

Of course, I'm happy to hear counter arguments./thoughts.
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I think county by county results would be enough to do a reasonable prediction but I don't think SOS websites are updated with those results in anything close to real time on election night.
I like assumption 3:
How efficient is spamming, mailing, tweeting, posting and otherwise contacting friends, fools, families, bloggers and journos?

Result: Abysmal.

If you stay in stealth mode for long periods of time prior to launch, the "amount of righteousness" in your vision/future-product and the conviction with which you believe this, will not help you overcome the impedance barrier of becoming part of the Internet zeitgeist.

Sometimes, you do not appreciate how deep the water is (nor how fast it flows) until you step into it.
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Why would I want to buy this when the Exynos 5-based Chromebook is the same price and has most of the same functionality and ports?
Seems bogus. The Ashburn router is pingable (at least from near Ashburn) even though it's listed as down:

Pinging 67.215.65.132 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 67.215.65.132: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=56
Reply from 67.215.65.132: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=56
Reply from 67.215.65.132: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=56
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My friend summarized this, tl;dr;

"in the 2012 GOP Primaries Romney consistently outperformed expectations as precinct size increased, regardless of structural makeup of the precinct. The larger the precinct, the larger the out-performance. Similarly, GOP candidates have outperformed against democratic candidates."
Asia is affected as well. This feels more like a firmware upgrade gone awry or smoke for a targeted network attack like 'Moonlight Maze'.
But I believe that most Bloomberg terminal subscribers would argue that capitalist-style money accumulation (free markets, etc) is a good thing for an overall population, and that corruption-style money accumulation (which is the implication of the article) is a huge negative for a country.
As a phone user though, I WANT you to be vetted, because I don't want your "stock quote app" to suddenly brick my phone unless I send you $59.99 to get the "fix".

I don't trust you. I trust apple. Deal with it.
Big numbers are bad and I don't see any.
Link to the books? Ebook or paperback?
Google AppEngine Down
LevelDB in Go:
http://code.google.com/p/leveldb-go/

It provides in-memory and file-backed implementations.
Although I have not submitted any apps to the WP store recently, my apps used to go through the certification process in about 3-4 days. Things might be different now though...
I'm disappointed by all the folks calling mail fraud a 'loophole'. Mail and wire fraud are the ways people prosecute domestic 419 (Nigerian prince) scams and other confidence games.

This case shouldn't be given a free pass just because the party intended to be deceived is the judicial system rather than the mail recipient.
This is noticeable on a number of the social media sites like reddit or digg. For reddit, most of the links are Pro-Obama and anti-Romney. Factoring in that people know good ranges of when to post to reddit, social manipulation on the site should be easy.
The problem is this is all one-use until failure ideas. If the socially manipulated realm gives the appearance of not being reality individuals will search for truth or further bury themselves in a chamber. Those seeking truth will then need to be found in the new media and a new program developed.
If the Obama Administration started regularly deleting tweets and removing things from Google search results, a pretty big chunk of the American people would be really pissed off about that - including the Supreme Court and most Attorneys General. And people would vigorously hunt down the information that was being hidden from them. Generally speaking, this is not the case in China. The people know this is being done, don't really care and don't go out of their way to learn the truth.

Ultimately I guess thats why they can get away with it. If this were something the average Chinese person got really angry about, it would never work. They'd have another revolution on their hands.
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Censored manual for the Exynos 5 SoC: http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/downloads/supports/Samsung_...
This one: http://opendata.paris.fr/opendata/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?docume...
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A Facebook like modal photo library
Doubtful - last I checked they were trying to shift the financial center from Hong Kong to Shanghai.
Yes, that is strange. It looks more like the mid-term of the linear algebra class that I took at MIT: i.e., 18.700. And I have to say that 18.700 was one of the easiest classes that I ever took at MIT.

It's kind of a bummer that they gave me a C, in it though. I found it so easy that I never bothered to do the homework and just showed up for the exams and got A's on them all. For non-lab classes at MIT, they'd usually give you an A -- or at least a B -- if you got an A on all of the exams, even if you neglected the homework.
>That's not true at all. Not only are westerners rather proprietary about their freedoms, but most of the more politically engaged people I know read AlJazeera.

Lets be realistic. Only a small portion of Americans follow AlJ. Just like I'm sure there are small proportion of Chinese that follow western news stories about china closely. The parent post was talking about average citizens not political engaged people.
The reason why I believe there's an interest in this product is 1. The amount of people who has contacted us because they want this product even after the campaign ended 2. The amount of private investors and potential partners that have contacted us after the campaign closed. If people want to pay for the creation of an iPhone app in a time were we're used to get them for free or next to nothing is another separate issue.
This reminds me of the advice I got right out of college into the competitive NYC publishing world. "Be nice to everybody.... And keep shaking that tree. Something's bound to fall out!"

Part of the message was to practice determination and stamina in general, but it also referred to the need to do so while "networking" and building relationships.

It's easy to take meetings and mingle when you're the prettiest girl in the room. But when you're mister average just trying to start something in life, it's seems more of a test of resilience than a pleasant conversation.
C requires a level of unassisted perfection that we spent forty years demonstrating nobody can attain. Every programmer is sloppy and naive in comparison. Tools that fail in human hands, shouldn't be.
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If you are working for me, my expectation is that you will treat everybody (both on my team and not) with professionalism and respect, even if you feel you aren't getting enough respect from others[1].

Even if you are doing that, if you are continually negative and surely (e.g. not quite grouchy, but certainly not pleasant), your tenure on my team will be short[2]. Negativity spreads like a cancer until it destroys morale on a team, and I won't let somebody on my team be the carcinogen, no matter how "amazing" you are at coding.

I take these things very seriously because I've been on teams that self-destructed over them. Even if you are a "10x" developer, if you are making the rest of the team "0.1x" developers, you are not providing me with value. If you are being grouchy, negative, surely or rude because you see yourself as a 10x developer so you are justified in acting however you want, you are welcome to go back to pre-school where that behavior is expected.

1. I also expect others to treat my team with respect and will fight to the death for my team to be respected as such, but, in the end, I have less direct control over that.

2. Of course I will try to resolve the issue through communication and managing (you know, my job if you are on my team). Some people are receptive; some people are not.
Seems to work for me. Might save me a couple of hundred pounds unless I decide to go for the Mini anyway.
Or perhaps they are older than the affected infrastructure and just haven't been rewritten. Or perhaps they happen to not use the affected resource.
In fact, affected services include developers.google.com and code.google.com, and to a lesser extent youtube.com.
Let's try to put this discussion on the right track. (There doesn't seem to be any posts here from people who actually design analog circuits.) The SO post reduces to comparing two versions of noise: One from (A) software control of the DAC and the other (B) from hardware.

(A) Pretend that everything except the DAC was noiseless: The noise would be due to the nonlinearities and quantization in the DAC.

(B) Pretend that the DAC was perfect: The noise would be dominated by the noise-equivalent input-power introduced by the resistance present in the components (including the transistors used for amps).

In short: (A) is a function of how wide the range of bitcodes that you use. The smaller the range, the larger the noise component relative to the signal.

OTOH: (B) is a function of temperature: All of the noise power before the final dial to your amp is passed through as is the signal, so the ratio stays constant. There is also a constant noise power introduced after that final amp, but I would guess it is negligible compared to the amplified noise power.

So tl;dr = For a decent sound card, maximize the software volume and then use the analog dial.
I look at it like this: [this] looks a bit like a button you might press (or a link you might click). It looks like what it does.

(this) looks like something you'd whisper off to the side --- to add to the conversation. For example, "That picture is nice (but it needs more trees).".

So links go like: [this is the thing you click](and btw, this is where it leads).
Having several friends and relatives who are either attending or alumni... no, AFAIK it's pretty isolated for students without a car. Not that you can't get away, just that for most people leaving the campus isn't a daily activity. Also, I would be surprised if many of the nearby businesses had public wifi, unless there's a Starbucks I've missed.
Are things broken right now? No matter the browser, when I try to upload one of my small PowerDot created presentations (90k), it just pops a banner up that says "Thanks for signing up" and nothing happens.
I think that we would have fared better if we had waited for some more traction (amount raised and already published in some places) before ramping up the spamming effort. But hindsight has perfect vision and the truth is we'll never know.
> assume that the volume control on your operating system controls the DAC rather than doing the stupid thing of digital volume reduction

Is this a safe assumption though? As much as I consider myself knowledgeable in this area, this is way off my radar.

Even if this assumption does hold, the answer does make a good point when it comes to per-application volume controls, which are certainly performed digitally.

Your point on SNR is a very good one, particularly on the low-end, but I would question whether any computer at max volume would produce a signal strong enough to cause distortion. I generally run my computer at around 90% volume but that's merely a habit carried over from having an analog hifi stack.
Ops team? We're a two man operation with occasional contractors.
Assuming -dbg implies versions of the frameworks with at least symbols, if not full debug information (file, line, type info, etc).

Even something trivial like
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char argv)
{
printf("Hello world\n");
return 0;
}

Is around 4-5% larger with debug info, and that's a single trivial C program with a single call, and only build in types.

WebKit is largely C++, so a fairly trivial C++ program (that has no function):
template <typename T> struct MyFoo {
T m_field;
template <typename U> void add(MyFoo<U> rhs)
{
m_field += rhs.m_field;
}
};

int main(int argc, char argv)
{
MyFoo<float> f;
f.m_field = 1.5;
MyFoo<int> i;
i.m_field = 1;
MyFoo<double> d;
d.m_field = 0;
d.add(i);
d.add(f);
}

Has a 10% size difference in size between deployment style builds and builds with debug info.

As the code size increases that amount of information needed in debug builds starts getting very large, as the description of classes and functions starts getting even larger than pure C versions.

The size of a debug build can vary quite a lot, as there are different forms of debug info, most commonly stabs or DWARF (and DWARF2). But even these are fairly bad in terms of space efficiency (stabs is evil), mostly as there isn't any real reason for focusing on that - fairly "trivial" space optimizations aren't implemented at all which means there are huge amounts of duplicated information, and the debug formats aren't really C++ aware, so each instantiation of a template results in a complete duplication of all the data describing it.

It would be nice if these problems could be fixed (eg. debug info that's aware of templates is the biggest problem in webkit), but other places where information is duplicated needlessly is also fairly crappy. But there's stuff pushing back against such optimizations:

Debug symbols are primarily used in _debug_ builds, while debugging. When you're debugging you want the build to be as fast as possible, and any work the compiler+linker do to reduce debug data size is going to add to compilation time, which everyone will then complain about.

(Of course without SSDs we'd have probably reached the point we're writing such large amounts of data out would be taking longer than reducing the size and writing less data in the first place...)
I think sitting at a desk all day, diverting most of your focus on problem solving instead of self-regulation has a lot to do with it.
Does the fact that we have to use techniques to make ourselves focus mean that we do not like what we do?
There's no doubt about correlation on them being 'down' and all these issues we're seeing with other services. DDoS I bet.
Often in the minds of people who are not involved in an area, that area become epitomized by a person. For science it is Albert Einstein. In the US Civil Rights movement it is Martin Luther King. In computers it is becoming Turing.

Turing is pretty good, I think.
If you are going to get snotty about spelling (you are wrong by the way, "judgement" is acceptable in the UK, a less common spelling than "judgment" certainly but not incorrect), then it is best not to end with a spelling mistake of your own. The word is "suit" not "suite", in this case the words are not interchangeable.
How so? Because they're old, rich, white "Republicans" rather than poor, young "anarchists"?

Is it the very word "anarchist" that causes the difficulty, because that's what it looks like to me.
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Some may not have had the best luck. China has been actively trying to block VPN providers as well, and even StrongVPN was apparently affected earlier in the year. Actually I'm a little surprised that they haven't gone after them harder, even if it seems pointless (since I assume the vast majority of people using them are other expats).
Burden of proof is on Google to show that they are using it seriously which, to me, means an external user-facing application that has importance to Google the company's bottom line. If they aren't taking the same risks that a startup that decides to build with Go is going to be taking, it says a lot about Google the organization.
God's mercy on anyone making dubious use of the US Postal Service. An attack on the purity of the mail is an attack on us all and will be prosecuted with deliberate severity.
You really want to eat chowmein but it'll be 2 hours before they are ready. But you're hungry now and so you fill up with chips, cola, donuts, and pizza.

Two hours pass and the chowmein is finally ready. But now, you're not. Your hunger is gone but you have yet to full-fill your desire for chowmein.
No problems, I left at lot of the details out because I didn't think it was relative to the posts. The contract was a fixed price to deliver the system and only gave me 18 months of income. This was the first large contract for both of us, so the language was not as crisp as it code of been. Finally 2 months before our release date they switched almost the entire executive management team and everyone I had spent the last 17 months building relationships with. The new team wanted additional capabilities and looked to build out an internal team. I then got a small retainer from them for 3 months worth of support why they transitioned support and enhancements to inside developers. After that I struggled for the next year of so picking up the odd client here and there. The loss of money came during the last couple of months when I tried bootstrapping my own idea (which ultimately failed) and increased advertising to find new clients. So it was a little of both.

Thanks for the question.. I would love to know if you have any other feedback for me. As you can tell I am somewhat new to blogging.
You should package an app out of that. iTrashcan? :)
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The Chromebook has serial and JTAG?

(honest question)
Using php is a statement of ignorance
The deletion of this Wikipedia article isn't a verdict on the notability of Tom Preston-Werner.

It's a verdict on the quality of the Wikipedia article. In this case, the deletion says, "the article that was here did not explain why Tom Preston-Werner was an appropriate subject for a Wikipedia article". Wikipedia articles about living people that don't even say why the subject is notable are subject to automatic deletion, for reasons I explained to 'tzs downthread.

This is a problem with a straightforward solution. Create a new draft of a Tom Preston-Werner article, with a clear (but dry, factual, and assiduously cited) explanation in 2 sentences or less in the first graf of the article for why Tom Preston-Werner is notable. Use the "new article wizard" to do this.

A slightly more aggressive way to respond to this deletion would be to take the deletion itself to Wikipedia Deletion Review (DRV); the DRV page has extensive details about how to do that.

Be aware before you do this that many of Tom Preston-Werner's best-known accomplishments are already the subjects of Wikipedia articles, and that the editors of Wikipedia might reasonably reject a new article about him if it adds no notable facts to Wikipedia's preexisting coverage of his work.

The downside to writing a new draft is that the draft might be wasted effort if it merely recapitulates Wikipedia's coverage of Gravatar and Github.

The downside to taking the deletion to DRV is that you might end up litigating the decision to delete the article, which, if the original article was really bad (unsourced, no claim to notability) is probably a losing argument.
Do you know how routing works?
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Point well made. We operate our tonido relay server across the world using linode, softlayer, herztner and it currently supports couple of million devices and half a million users.In the last 2 years our downtime is less than 30 minutes. It is nil for end users since they migrate to the nearest relay server hosted offered by a different provider.

SPOF,security and control are the major issues with Iaas and pass offerings.

SPOF, security and control are the major problems for the Iaas and pass.
We shifted from services that fail often independently, to services failing rarely all at once. Clearly the former is going to be more noticeable and has greater societal impact, but as a business I'll take the latter any day.
This is a great use of search analytics. At Swiftype, we're using the feature to improve our own developer documentation.
I had network issues with my two virtual machines on RackspaceCloud about a year or so ago (something was wrong with their routing). They were resolved quickly, though.
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GreenArrays are intriguing, but a completely different animal from this computer. The GreenArrays compute nodes are microscopic by comparison. Think 256 bytes of storage, shared with instructions and data. If you can map your problem on to them they seem very efficient.
At about 7:30am US/Pacific time this morning, Google began experiencing slow performance and dropped connections from one of the components of App Engine. Many App Engine applications are experiencing slow responses and an inability to connect to services. We currently show that a majority of App Engine users and services are affected. We are actively working on restoring service as quickly as possible.

We are posting regular updates to our downtime-notify list here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-a...

Thanks,
Christina, Google App Engine Product Manager
I am starting to think that this is not just about a programming language to you.

1) They don't owe you anything.

2) "Internal projects aren't serious shit." is absurdly overreaching. That is all I was saying in response to you.
another client side option is canvg http://code.google.com/p/canvg/ which is more wrapping around a dataURL.
I think it's disingenuous to make assumptions about what anyone may have done in an imagined future.
If dl.google.com fails, Chrome installs halt. By what definition is that not shit hitting the fan?
But that's likely 2 or 3 nodes, not a meaningful sample
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I didn't look at the domain name or the author name when I first read it. Ricky Robinett was my boss 2 summers ago. He's really awesome and I've never seen him grumpy before.
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Hm. I somewhat doubt that.

However, in credit to the man, he did do a great job with the Olympics.
Women influence on economy and business is growing
Please, please, please include a specification for table creation
Could only upvote once. Well said. There are lot of people who still do not understand the importance of team work and personally for me, it is never cliched. Your line "Even if you are a "10x" developer, if you are making the rest of the team "0.1x" developers, you are not providing me with value" hit the nail on the head.