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"Praise Publicly, Criticize Privately"

This point got me thinking. Public criticism of specific individuals is not something I ever to publicly, but I have been all too quick to compose tweets about things like "wishing that Internet Explorer had a face so I could punch it", or how terrible healthcare is in the US, etc.

It seems obvious in hindsight, but refraining from putting too much negativity in my public streams of information lately has probably not only improved the impression others have of me, but more importantly, made me feel a lot less grumpy myself.

In my efforts to focus on the positive and/or interesting things in my public speech, I find that I'm looking at these things more often in my private time as well. It's a rewarding exercise.
There does happen to be at least one operating system that supports this: Windows. ^___^
It's fine, because they're at 100% availability. Just totally down: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/64201bd8-5392-49fc-a47c-...
Liberty is a private university, and its students choose to attend knowing full-well its policies. (And it blocks a lot more than WaPo.)

FIRE and the Virginia ACLU both agree with Liberty's right to do so: http://thefire.org/article/10717.html

You are, of course, free to criticize LU for its policies.
Probably their testing tool crashed with your applications :-)
I'm surprised that their status system seems to run off the main infrastructure too. Everyone else gets slated for making that mistake.
Not well known but there are some interesting videos on Videolectures http://videolectures.net/site/search/?q=machine+learning
> Jerry Falwell's conservative Liberty University did a very similar thing

That's like a coffee shop blocking some domain on their WiFi -- not even remotely similar to state censorship.
App Engine down
Hasn't Amazon already done this with EC2?

(Edit: Written in response to the title.)
It's not so much that it's a powerful computer, but a computer architecture that can scale up to be a very powerful system. The version they're trying to fund is a cost reduced version including their 16 core chip. They also have a 64 core chip, and plan to scale it much higher.

It's differentiated from GPU's in that each core is a simple but fully independent CPU core, with direct access to main system memory AND to the memory of the other cores.

This current project is most interesting as a means for people to start playing with the architecture rather than for the raw performance.
Koko the Gorilla once ripped a sink off a wall. When asked about it, she signed the cat did it. To me this shows a certain amount of thought and understanding, maybe as much as a three or four year old human.
Yes, we'll delete files and links after 24 hours. That's not implemented yet, but will be happening by the end of the weekend.

We're also planning some pro features like account-level permissions, and we could serve the PDF file dynamically from our servers instead of storing it on S3.

I'd love to know if you have any precise security requirements, feel free to email me: alex@heeton.me
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I think they'll make it easily, sort of like what happened to Dalton Caldwell's App.net ... they got a ton of support in the last 12-24 hours.
Steam on linux doesn't necessarily mean (all) games on linux.

You'll still want to keep a windows computer around if you want to play a wide range of games.

It's the same with steam for mac. Only a handful of games worth playing.
A market solution is a human solution. People decide how to structure their societies, of which economies are a part. They also decide how to structure their markets, when they choose to create them.

I should point out that when I say "markets", I mean as they generally exist in developed countries. There are plenty of markets in other parts of the world that most of us view as undesirable. The Soviet Union, for instance had a fully-functioning underground market economy that relied on smuggling and moonlighting. Most people prefer formalized markets, where participants have some sort of official (read: government and its monopoly on violence) recourse in cases of fraud and abuse.

The idea that markets are naturally occurring and "spring forth" out of a vacuum really isn't well-supported. Russia certainly didn't end up with anything even approaching a theoretical free market despite the best efforts of American and European economists (laissez faire may apply to markets themselves, but not to building them and training people to use them).

In reality, markets are constructed and managed by people (hence the discussion around "creating" a market for water). Therefore, they can (and do) possess all the flaws and failures that go along with humanity in general (not speaking theoretically here, but practically).

The reality is that when you create an actual, existing market you introduce all sorts of inefficiencies and problems. These problems are not theoretical and their existence doesn't necessarily undermine the theory of markets. The problems are practical, in the same way that the problems associated with representative democracy or even Marxism (which would work swimmingly if only human psychology would cooperate) are practical.

I am comfortable with the theoretical performance of markets. I am extremely uncomfortable with many markets as they exist and are created and managed by deeply flawed humans.
Nearly $618k as of 16 minutes after your post...

EDIT: $624,602 44 minutes after your post.... I'm getting more optimistic.
Maybe I want to listen to Youtube in the background while listening to something else at the same time? Per-application sound controls can be important at times.

Or if some Youtube video has obnoxious sound and I want to mute it, but want to keep my music playing from Spotify.
> That's easily another $2500/mo (amortized).

I'd be doing this myself, so I'll charge myself $0.

> Secondly you don't really want to store 80T on the cheapest components you can possibly get without a lot of testing and planning. This $22 PSU, trust me, it will come back to haunt you.

Sure. Of course. Bump that to $45. Ok, another $200. Not huge.

> Thirdly, "decent redundancy" starts at factor 2.5, not 1.25.

If you are serving it to the internet at large. But for personal use, 1.25 is fine unless you are saying the proper RAID setup is Number of disks * 2.5; which would be something new to me, for sure.

> And finally: If you want to put this stuff online and have people actually download it then you'll soon notice that redundancy is not only needed for availability but also for performance.

I don't. The presumption is that it's a copy (my copy, actually), not the original.

> A reasonable ballpark figure for low-end networked storage nowadays is $0.05/GB per month (it gets much cheaper above 500T). Thus hosting those 80T should cost roughly $4000/mo, give or take a few.

You might be getting ripped off :-(.

I can get a half-rack (that's 22U) for $900/month. Even at 2.5 redundancy and if I had to pay for the patch and the switch, it's still way under $4000/month.

Besides, the thought experiment was to run it from somewhere like my entry-way, near my coat-hanger: "What's this? Oh, it's just the internet; the Whole Internet. No no, just a copy."
This article reminds me of the "Be Nice to Programmers" post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4631607) a little while back.

To me it highlights a rationale for why this grumpiness may exist in the first place.
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> Sometimes work with existing code sucks

In my experience, working with legacy code has always sucked, and always for the same reasons.

1) No documentation around! No up-to-date specifications (what's this code supposed to do?), no up-to-date test results (does it do what it's supposed to do?).

2) Always the same request: add some features, but do not change anything in its current behaviour, not even the smallest detail (a.k.a.: we've got to love its bugs, and anyway we can't tell any more the bugs from the right thing).

For example, had I ever had the luck to take over a project from a colleague who had quit the company less than six months earlier, I'd have loved it!
I think there's a clash between lifehacker/Tim Ferriss and '[wanting] to share the results, maybe even give back to the "productivity community"', rather than an affinity as you seem to suggest. The former are profit-generating enterprises whose business is selling productivity techniques. Lifehacker is fairly authentic, but a Gawker-owned for-profit nonetheless while I don't personally place Tim Ferriss far from Tony Robbins et al. Whether that's overly harsh or not, I don't think either are comparable to independent folk posting their productivity systems on their personal blogs when their businesses are not related to selling books of those techniques, or making money from ad revenue their productivity tips attract.

I'm cynical, but '[wanting] to share the results, maybe even give back to the "productivity community"' doesn't seem like a complete answer to me. And I'm not trying to get anyone to admit secret motives, I just think there are subconscious things going on when people post their productivity solutions, and I'm trying hard to figure out what they are.
Well put. On my way to read it now. More on the topic though, censorship at the pressure by the government is a slippery slope we've been on for some time. There is almost
no country( citation needed ) that can vouch to be free from it.
Yes, and it isn't working very well. That's part of the objection. We have plenty of agricultural capacity, and yet food prices are volatile (which markets are supposed to help prevent) and generally rising quickly.
I downloaded the RTM through Dreamspark, because Dreamspark students get a free Windows Store account (I have some asp.net and WP7 apps I wanted to port over to Win 8). Turns out, you still have to submit a credit card even if you have a Dreamspark account, which instantly turned me off.
Immersion: if you have to go use the OS UI for volume rather than part of the player UI, that makes it more likely that you'll stop using the player and do something else.

That doesn't make it a good reason...
Great demo! I'd make the "You see this" "They see this" images larger. And add a favicon, if only so it's more clear that the "<>" at top left is a logo (and when the user clicks on the logo, go home).
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It slowed down for a long time, but it's sped up again the last few days, and in less than the last 20 minutes they've gotten another $6k. It's going to be close either way it seems.
Just to follow up on this, if you'd like a visual representation the funding pattern over the duration of the project, the graph found here will be of interest: http://canhekick.it/project/5064d31d8f647c24e5ad60d0
Can you update with a location? I think that matters a lot.

In Georgia, my friends and I were getting from $16-$25 an hour. My first internship paid only $14 an hour, but I got a 401k match of 3%, health insurance (if I wanted it), bereavement leave, paid vacation and holidays. My co-op paid more but didn't have any of those perks.
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My "opposition" (not the right word) to Go is that the company which created it doesn't use it on anything that is serious enough to cause a "shit hits the fan" moment were it to fail. Other than it works badly on Windows, I don't have any reason to think Go is inadequate, but if Google hasn't bought in yet, why should I.
In theory yes, but our ears can't hear below ca. 0 db, so the bits lost below 0 db were wasted anyway.

So if you use a 24-bit DAC, those bits doesn't matter...
Even once Steam is on Linux, most games won't be. Much like Steam is on Mac but the vast majority of games don't support it.

However:
1. You should install Steam for Linux anyway! (Once it's public.)
2. I read games in virtual machines actually work reasonably well these days. (Not with VirtualBox though, sadly.)

(And I will never understand why people love Visual Studio so much. Oh well.)
Go and the go std lib are licensed under a bsd license, which is a more liberal license than java and the jdk and would avoid things like the oracle lawsuit against android.

So yes, just because it's open source doesn't mean much, but it's open source with a very liberal license, which does mean something.
That's a completely illogical conclusion to make. Whether it is true or not, blocking a page does not imply admission of guilt. If the article was complete bullshit, they still would have blocked it.

B (Admission of guilt) -> A (Truth) is not the same as A -> B.
I think they will succeed.

They're selling something that's really cool and a lot of people want to see succeed, but for which there aren't any software applications to take advantage of yet.

That's the type of project where a lot of people could donate at the end so that it succeeds. Opposed to say, a game, where there's a ton at the beginning and than it slowly trails off.
What do you mean by skip? You cannot test out of the lower level courses here, though you can just skip lectures and classes, do the required projects/homeworks and show up only on exam, which is what I usually did with easy courses or the ones I didn't care about. Frequently I couldn't even attend these, because other more advanced/difficult courses I took were at the same time.
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Huh? How does this have anything to do with EC2?

Parallella is an dual core ARM board with an FPGA and a 16 core Epiphany CPU (full general purpose CPU cores with 32k static RAM built into each core - all the cores can access the memory of all other cores as well as system RAM). 1GB RAM total. Expected size around a credit card or so.

The main purpose is the Epiphany CPU, which they also have a 64 core version of. Their problem is that their current CPU's are produced using a process that gives them very low yields and very high per-CPU cost. The main goal of the bounty is to enable them to switch to a much higher yield process and bring the per-chip cost of the 16 core version down to a few dollars per chip.

Their long term roadmap is boards with 1000+ cores.
Put Alan Turing on the next £10 note
The title suggests they get nothing if they don't raise the $750,000 target, which is true.
I'm surprised no one has discussed battery life yet.

One of my 'weird unverified theories of life' is that turning the volume on portable device down (laptop/phone/mp3 player) and the volume on the speakers up saves the battery of the device itself. (For example when you're in a car.)
Initial goal of desktop linux was to provide a 'free as in free speech' desktop

Linux has been my free as in speech OS for many years. I love it! I don't give a shit about the "Desktop". Sorry, KDE contributor, KDE is a very impressive product, I just don't need it. The command line is how I use Linux, because it is a far better way to deal with a computer. If you are a power user.

Linux, from, by, and for, power users has always worked spectacularly well using the command line.

The desktop? That's always been something our pride and ambition wanted, but we never needed it.
China is a private country, the whole fucking nation owns debt to the greate Communist Party.
Great graph! So, through linear extrapolation, if the current funding rate is maintained the project should just reach its funding goal.
Maybe this is cynical, but there seems to be little reason for them to not borrow enough from friends and family to collect from Kickstarter, and pay them back immediately after. Unless the gifts are ridiculously expensive?
How is it different from Tilera and Intel's Xeon Phi?
I think the market is telling these guys: We don't care about computing power. People are getting by with iPads and Chromebooks powered by ARM cores with 1/8 the computing power of an Intel processor.
Don't get me wrong if you want to play around with parallel computing you should love this, and support it. Just don't be surprised when it doesn't reach Pebble funding levels.
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For the Javascript part, you would need a programmable function block. One option would be not to support Javascript (OK in certain parts of the world). You could organize your chip so that there are several fixed function blocks for things like image decoding, video decoding, text rendering and graphic composition coupled with a programmable function block for the Javascript. The point here being instead of doing all your computation through a program, do only as much as you absolutely have to. The parts that you can hardcode, hardcode to make you chip more green. Web browsing has been given as an example because its a commonly used function and on its own it can justify building a gadget like the Chromebook. So, if you have a narrow function that the gadget is going to be used for, you're better of going full custom than programmable function. I'm doing a more complete analysis of what it would take to build such a chip. I'll publish it when its ready.
I think Microsoft insist on making users run the upgrade assistant to make sure people can run the OS. They ran into a major lawsuit once, because they advertised laptops as Windows-ready, when in fact they weren't.

I believe this is the lawsuit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_Vista#Vist....
Can someone post a mirror or the content of the article? I'm in China.
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Wonder how these guys compare with Runa.
We recently added Markdown as an option in our hosted reseller CMS (YikeSite) in hopes that some of our customers would choose it over the WYSIWYG editor.

You can play with it here: http://www.markdowncms.com

If there was a standardized Markdown, we would implement that for sure.
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How are people going to consume all this shared content? It seems like automatic curation of your friend's shared content is going to become a very necessary feature.

I don't have time enough to live my own life let alone comb through 1920 photos a day from every one of my friends.
Yeah, even the status page is down. Boooo
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Overloading is a feature of natural language though, and therefore completely unavoidable in writing a spec.
I dont think its that slow. Its got fall hardware floating point and a newish CPU. Depends on what you compare against....
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anecdotally, I've seen more ladies use the white trim apple devices. If there is anything to my observation. I wonder if there is a gender gap in iPad mini. Do women prefer it more than men? Does the size make it easier to carry around?
Could someone explain how this is different from GPU computing and regular multi-core CPU computing?

I realize there is a difference...but I'm not quite sure I grasp it yet. GPU computing is a lot of parallel math computations with limited shared memory. I'm assuming the Epiphany CPU is more capable than the simple GPU math units?

How's it different from multi-core CPUs? Just the sheer quantity of cores they have packed in there?
We are talking about the same thing. I meant operations as part of legal/financial -- the business side of things. As Paul put it in an interview at Mixergy.com, she brought the knowledge required to actually put YCombinator together. I certainly meant no knock on the other partners' experience other than what they claimed to lack themselves.
Yeah, I would be okay with saying that.

We have laws against murder/assault, and we also have laws against making threats and reckless endangerment which I think should cover the other cases of bad things done with guns.

I'll go further and say that DUI laws are also redundant. Of course we don't want people driving drunk, but all we really need is some case law that establishes drunk driving as endangerment.
> I truly believe that we are entering an age where human labor will become obsolete. It may take a while but, its going to happen.

I think you're correct.

For me, what's difficult is to understand what happens to us at that point...and I guess what happens to us on the way to that point. I can't tell if it will be good or bad (or a mixed-bag) for us/humans.
> "When you have a camera that automatically takes pictures every 30 seconds with GPS location data..."

Who would honestly ever want a device that does something like this? Do these types of cameras already exist?

I understand the idea of the article is probably more to promote imagination of the ideas of how to share, but at the same time I just can't imagine a world where everyone is sharing that much quantum aspects of their lives.

Personally, I imagine it going towards that direction then seeing some sort of "privacy disaster events" that shake up how people see privacy. Then, after those events, people really rethink their usage and change how/what they share. I'm not sure what those events would be, but I imagine them being even bigger than some of the privacy issues we have already seen as of late.

I also hope that IS what happens (it doesn't get to that much sharing), because at the end of the day, I honestly don't care what everyone is doing (literally) every second of the day. Or as Sambdala said in another comment, who has time to go through all of that?
It's a shame they're not making something useless like a video game. Then they'd have millions.
This one: http://pastebin.com/mT0e2uFH

Original: http://pastebin.com/Vaani5BE
Another with high votes http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4702392
Yup, all of the HRD apps are down. But the M/S apps are working.
Exactly. Consoles will continue to evolve; the idea of not having to hook up some kind of device to my TV is not on the horizon.

iTunes, Netflix, Steam, xBox Live, Playstaion Network, Hulu...these are the new distribution channels, but they all still require a device in the living room, hooked to the TV, to run them. Consoles will become that, if they aren't already.
It depends on what kind of curve the volume control uses but assuming 50% volume is half the amplitude (-6dB) you will only lose 1-bit of resolution. To lose half the bit depth you'd have to turn it down by 48dB!

It's worth noting that perceptually, half the volume is actually closer to 3dB (a halving of energy), which is only half a bit of loss.

If a floating point audio pipeline correctly dithers the signal going into the DAC it's unlikely anybody will notice any quality loss by using a digital volume control (even at 16-bit). You might hear the hiss of the dithering if you turn up the analogue portion of the chain, although you'd have to turn it up quite a lot.
I agree with you - but I've read in several places that Apple were ordered to apologise. Their feelings (or not) don't come into it.

[BTW - the linked text kind of implies that they do have feelings; the article comes off as surly, resentful and not a little childish...]

[EDIT: Seems like they were never actually ordered to apologise, only to clarify that Samsung did not, in the judgment of the court, infringe on anything.]
The Intels of the world are trying to reduce the power consumption of their microprocessor based solutions and therefore claim greenness. The point of this write up is to highlight the fact that fundamentally, the microprocessor based architecture is a more general but less green way of achieving a given function. If you can pre-determine what functions your gadget is going to need, you can always build a greener solution by going fixed function.
But this is only relevant if they plan to expand to Russia.

The Chevy "Nova" was a good name in English speaking countries, they should have checked what the name sounds like in Spanish. So basically the point here is translate your product before entering new language markets.
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Well, my one M/S app is also down.