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For "normal" servers it's only 5 coins / min is only while the sever is running. If you only play for a few hours on Friday evenings it works out to be really good :)
Thank you. That explains why my quick test (the obvious one) did not reveal anything in the older versions, I did not trigger the defensive behavior in my casually-chosen keys.
Right, which I think is the point of the article. The "after series A" point is sorta in no-man's-land, where if you're optimizing for potential returns it sucks, and if you're optimizing for stability it sucks.
I don't know that much about Java world, however what I can say about Windows + .NET is you are less productive. Why ?
1. Linux > Windows ( For .NET )
2. Python + Django/Flask are really powerful. Ruby & Rails as well.
3. You're basically writing and reading more code. Most of them is unnecessary. .NET is designed for enterprises.
4. Especially for startups, time & speed matters a lot.
I also think some of the above reasons applies for the Java world as well. Fantastic OS projects though in Java world.
Apple has always been pretty much rigid about results of their tests during repairs or replacements.

To be fair, I got almost every single part of my Macbook replaced after a surge incident that was caused internally - but I have never been able to negotiate even a repair of something trivial in cases where Apple tests fail.

They do bend over backwards for helping us out - but their tests could be very unrealistic some times.
Social Engineering adapted for Paypal scamming. This is yet another proof of that Paypal Seller Protection is basically worthless.
Looking forward to his discussion of marital infidelity in the future.
A friend booked an Uber car I rode in recently whose driver informed me that he drove Uber because license suspensions prevented him from driving for any normal black car service.

Jason Fried recently said that he had made a point of talking to every Uber driver he rode with, and that he had gotten uniformly glowing assessments from those drivers about Uber. I'm running the same experiment later than he is, and getting very different results.
"Ok, may I humbly ask..."

"with great respect, may I ask you.."

"With all due respect PG..."

"While I don't want to second-guess your judgement..."

And these are the comments disagreeing with pg ! Wow. Either internet ain't what it used to be or there's a lot of hero worship going on here.

Come on my fearless conquerors of the Internet. Stand up for yourselves. Show some spine. You're not going to create the next billion dollar business with that sort of genuflecting attitude.
That punishes users of Google search who want to find these titles.
This just seems like a crazy decision from Intel's point of view. Won't it make them incredibly beholden to motherboard makers? The explanation that they're jealous of, and trying to take over, a low-markup commodity market strikes me as weird.

Right now, most computer users grab the cheapest motherboard that will work for them, and one of the places they spend extra cash is splurging on more CPU than they need. Now, motherboard makers will be able to pair the faster-stepping CPUs with 'markup' motherboards and capture a lot of that windfall to themselves, no? Doesn't this price-insensitive enthusiast market send a lot of cash Intel's way?

Maybe Intel is worried about the health of x64 white box component makers and is intentionally sending them a windfall?
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Thank you for the reply. I think some (most?) of the issues that you raise could fall into the purview of book #6 "Software Development Management" -- although what you mention would require a better word on my part than "Management".
"if they'd just dropped the video without commentary it would have been much more defensible."

Have you seen the video? It has no commentary. It has subtitles. It has title screens. No commentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0

And how does that video have an anti-US agenda? It's recorded by US soldiers, it's illuminating a particular act on a particular day.

I think the public has a right to know, history has a right to know what goes on in Iraq.
I can't help but think that Michels missed one strategy which can defeat "power corrupts". The solution is to structure the organization such that each agent has identical power. And better yet, organize the agents into small groups (and those groups into groups of the same size) which require consensus among the members. Perhaps even consensus at each subsequent level of groupings.

In other words, a fractal (self-repeating) organization.
hmmm... your comparison is not equal. Having a patent on freedom would be Oxymoronic. A patent that frees the user from a current limitation, is not oxymoronic. It's simply unfortunate.
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I very much doubt that that actually happened. It seems more likely to be a story created to scare people.

But it seems that the problem here is that google accepts DMCA requests that are not signed by an individiual but mass produced by a computer. That really shouldn't be allowed and I don't know why it is (what other legal documents are mass produced by a computer with no human oversight? Deeds? wills? power of atterny? Didn't think so).
I take exception to your implication that the US lags behind other countries in terms of Infrastructure.

There are two classes of Internet access in the US: Residential/SMB and Enterprise.

We have a second world Residential/SMB bandwidth economy, but I would argue that the US has the only true first world Enterprise Bandwidth Economy. If you think of laid capacity in terms of terabits, the US is the clear winner.

The ISPs built massive highways but they didn't build the community roads necessary for normal people to tap into all this capacity. The bottlenecks for residential bandwidth are at the DSLAMs at the bottom of your street and not in the core routing systems for the biggest carriers.

It's tragic, but the US has a super stratified system. Enterprise users get amazing cheap bandwidth and everyone else is second class.
When dealing with a corporation, I can dump their services and go with a competitor. When dealing with a government, there are no competitors. You are automatically in their jurisdiction.
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This looks great. The big deal breaker (or maker) for me and my team is... is it encrypted on the client side?
If I knew the answer (of at least thought I did) then I could probably finish that post. ;-)
Don't know why you're getting down voted, it's very possible that his effect is still being felt.
> Your browser doesn't seem to support Pointer Lock API

Not supported on Chrome (up to date as far as I know) on Ubuntu.
BGA sockets are only used for prototyping; they're expensive compared to other kinds of sockets.
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you can absolutely socket BGA chips

Eh, not really. Well, you can, but it's ugly, expensive, and usually only done for test fixtures and such.
At first I thought you were talking about John McAfee's exploits. McAfee is really screwing up the brand he created. :)
You've had four different products that have either melted, caught fire, or suffered hardware failures? Are you sure it's not an issue with the power coming out of your outlets? Perhaps the Lenovos have better power filtering, but by the sound of it, you're pretty paranoid about those failing, too.
Breaking through layers of abstraction and learning more about what actually happens with the code you write is a generally useful thing, in my opinion. As a long-time Java developer, I've spent a fair amount of time learning about JVM internals, despite having never committed a line of code to OpenJDK or any other JVM project, and there have been times where having that extra knowledge has been incredibly useful.

Plus, these things tend to be fairly interesting, and learning about them is just plain fun.
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fyi wiwillia, your account here has been hellbanned so nobody is seeing your replies.
how exactly is this "A reverse kickstarter" No money changes hands in either direction, and nothing actually happens if enough people request something.

It's like saying "Come! Shout into this hole." We've placed a microphone in front of it to record your shout for all time...
"Yes but... I'm just shouting into a hole right?"

"No no. it's a special hole. It's got a "reverse kickstarter" microphone!" ...

"You'll pay me when enough people shout into it about the same thing?"

"Er... no"

"So.... I'll have to build something if enough people shout?"

"No no."

"So, what you're really saying is. You've set up a microphone in front of a hole and have added the word 'Kickstarter' above it in in hopes that, despite the fact that you're not actually charging for a product you will make money? Or is it that you think that the current abundance of holes to shout in simply wasn't abundant enough and that by adding a brand new hole everything would be different?"

"Er... YES!"
>People wanting cheap PCs win.

Bullshit. People wanting cheap PCs don't buy Intel systems in the first place.
Are they expensive because of some inherent property, or because they're only used for prototyping and are thus done in small runs? Having spent several hundred dollars on a little plastic BGA socket that could be made for pennies, I'm inclined to say that it's the insanely small production runs right now.
The difference now is that consumers aren't driving PC sales -- Enterprises are. Consumers are buying tablets.
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Holy. Fucking. Shit. :)
> Though as far as I'm aware there's no inherent reason for this - apart from cost.

Cost and size. The bread-and-butter market for ARM is consumer electronic devices, where size really matters. Other chip packaging that's easier for hobbyists to work with would be a huge waste of space by comparison.

There are some ARM chips available in DIP packages, but I suspect that selection will always be relatively limited, since demand will always be relatively limited.
Came here to say something along these lines - if Intel steps out of the ring then it's basically handing AMD a monopoly on CPUs for the modding/custom-built community is it not?
Does anyone else get stuck after level1 because the UI freezes? Firefox aurora.
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Ask HN: Disqus or something else for site comments?
I'm reviving my moribund personal website, an information and resource-linking site mostly about education reform and homeschooling, and I think as I bring the site into the HTML5 generation I should revive commenting on the site. The last time I tried allowing commenting, I got a lot of drive-bys from people griping about the point of view expressed on some pages of the site, but never LEARNED anything new from the comments. I enjoy intellectually vital online communities (like HN, of course), so I'm thinking of giving a second go to accepting public comments on my website.

What's the best technology framework for website comments that tends to build a good, civil, informative community? I've heard friends recommend Disqus, but I visit surprisingly few sites with Disqus comments enabled, so I don't know much about Disqus. As I visited the Disqus website yesterday using Chrome with Ghostery installed, I couldn't even read the site's home page (!), so then I viewed it with IE to see what is going on there. Do you like Disqus? Do you like something else better? What is a good set of software features and administrative practices to maximize the chance of civil, informative discussion on a website that starts off with a controversial, minority point of view?

Thanks for all of your suggestions.
> The Viaweb crew took an exit - a good exit, in my opinion - but their business model was sound, profitable, and strong.

Seems that way to me too. But they opted for an exit, rather than deciding to work at it long term.

I think the world is better off with YCombinator, rather than some evolved form of Viaweb, myself, but the point was merely that for them, not doing something "long term" is not a failure.
The pricing looks a bit confusing now (the straightforward $x/person before was much better imo), but I look forward to the CS:GO servers :)
I really don't see why they have to be ugly or expensive. They're absolutely expensive now, but that has a lot to do with the way in which they're used (test equipment is crazy expensive) and very little to do with what they actually are. As for ugly, well, ZIF sockets aren't exactly lovely, they're just really effective.
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> First, after a few years, a new motherboard will probably require a new type of RAM, which can be quite expensive to fully populate.

Since memory controllers are now embedded in the CPU, not on the motherboard, ram support depends on the CPU, not the motherboard.

> It's also possible that the new motherboard will not have the same type of peripheral slots as the old motherboard did, requiring you to buy all new peripherals when you upgrade.

Peripherals are going PCI-e-only, which is designed for infinite future compatibility. It won't be replaced in a decade, if ever.
It did happen. I was there (Laurentian University in Sudbury Ontario), teaching in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and my former colleague, N.I. Robb now retired - and an extremely well liked prof btw-, did just what I described.
But they're going to need that money to pay the lawyer/settlement...
Thank you for that blatant advertisement for your site! Am I the only person who downvotes the most blatant self-promotion on sight?
This is just a whole other level of stupid that I would have never even thought possible.
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Commentary on the most recently published study of this treatment, previously submitted to HN and discussed here:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/ecstasy-for-pt...
Either way bears discussion about the smell, like pg pointed out and has allowed on this post. It seems to me like a lot of the comments are more focused on how to improve rather than jumping on the end is nigh train.
My wife and I both own retina Macbook Pros and, luck would have it, I got one with a Samsung display and she got one with an LG display which exhibits the ghosting issue. She had mentioned it to me in passing before, but after reading this post I talked to her about it again and low and behold, the ghosting effect was very visible in her open Emacs buffers!

So, irrationally empowered with the spirit of a wronged consumer thanks to this post, I immediately called Apple up and told them the issue.

They're sending a box in the mail next day for us to send the laptop in for a screen replacement, free of charge of course because it's under warranty.

All in all, it was a pretty painless customer service experience. I think it took all of five minutes, no exaggeration. There weren't really any questions asked, aside from "Where do you want us to send the box?". We've already ordered a temporary replacement computer for her while it's out for repair so she won't miss out on any work.
you need a better editor

I think you misunderstand the concept of "configuration file". These are not intended for programmers but for users of the program you write.

White complaints about Pythons' meaningful white are still common, programmers can get over that by, indeed, getting a better editor or otherwise wrapping their head around the situation.

But end-users can't be expected to have this kind of sophistication. Explaining to someone while things they can't see have made their program usable is no fun.
I thought this http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2011/01/maybe-monads-might-not-m... was a fantastic comment.

Sending a message on a channel usually costs at least a compare-and-swap or memory fence. This limits their applicability to things above a certain granularity [...] even in Erlang or Scala actors, you wind up passing around lists and other concrete data structures, because it isn't worth constructing those queues _everywhere_.

So when is a distributed program's internal communication and IO the right level of granularity?

Network IO would seem to be a familiar instance of an Actor model and should map directly.

Interestingly, Intel's new Xeon Phi chip http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/12/a-look-at-the-xeon-phi-ca... "looks like a cluster of x86 servers that are on a TCP/IP network, and takes almost no programming expertise to port to."
If you aren't currently offering support and training with your software, that might actually be a reason why companies are reluctant to start using your product.
I've been a solo co-founder for nearly 2 years and will tell you it's definitely not for the meek.

There's definitely a very prevalent stigma against solo founders for good reason. Most people can't get a company off the ground alone. They lack the psychological, techical and marketing skills.

The average person looks at what you're trying to do and often will say "you can't do that" but what they mean is "I couldn't do it."

My take is to understand whether you need a co-founder? Can you do business development and product development. Do you have a rich network? How high-touch is your sales/customer development process.

Whatever you decide, don't give up and good luck!
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Why the piping into more?
4/6 of my previous coworkers played Minecraft, as do both of my brothers. There is a huge unmet demand for reliable game servers that dont'cost a fortune.
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BGA balls are made of solder, and they'll cold-flow under pressure. So any socket meant for durable use in production equipment (as opposed to prototype or test purposes) is going to require a lot of small, delicate, and expensive spring contacts that provide a secure connection with very little force.

Also, sockets in general are perennial problem areas for signal integrity and EMC.

It is probably best to think of the motherboard as a monolithic hunk of material, going forward. Too many reasons for the trend to go in that direction.
Not only is it anecdotal, these sorts of discussions seem to bring all the outliers out of the woodwork. There are always going to be some people who have many bad experiences with a company, even if overall reliability is good. Here is the relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/882/
The precedent is in place. Prior to the release of C&C4 EA release the original games for free online. Many different sites have hosted the files, everyone I have seen has had ads.
It may not be the best article on the subject, but, well...let's be honest: Microsoft is in trouble. Not, as in, "going out of business" trouble. But, definitely in the Innovator's Dilemma sort of trouble, and a price hike is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect from a company that isn't going to figure it out in time.

The hard fact is that Windows device sales are down 21% from last year (desktops only 9% down, but desktops are not where the market is going). Devices with a shiny new Windows version are selling significantly worse than devices with several year old Windows 7 was last year. We can't blame the sluggish economy; it was sluggish last year. (http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/29/npd-u-s-windows-device-sale...)

I wouldn't necessarily want to bet against Microsoft, as they've managed to correct major trajectory errors in the past (Internet, though one could argue their early mistakes resonate through the industry today in the form of almost no major website running on Windows tech), but I'm not seeing an immediate way forward for Microsoft that doesn't end in their utter irrelevancy in a few more years. No one wants their phones, or their tablets, compared to Apple and Android (both of which are outselling Windows devices by an order or magnitude or two). The desktop is in a long slow decline. Even laptops are transforming into the thin clients long ago envisaged by Sun (even running a variant of Java in many cases), via tablets and hybrids, and Windows has no foothold there and less and less value proposition for end users.

So, if you were to waste your time "debunking this crap", you'd have to put forth some kind of compelling argument for why those scary facts about Microsoft's future aren't going to be a big deal in the long run. It'd require some pretty imaginative fortune telling about what Microsoft will do over the next couple of years to turn the tide back their way.
I skimmed it at +5 and didn't see anything like that, care to be more specific?
I think I can live with that. I like building my own PCs, but choosing a motherboard is perhaps my least favorite part of the process. There are just too many choices out there, and the number of variables to consider is downright unholy. I might welcome anything that helps me cut down the list of options more quickly, including being able to toss out every model that doesn't have a CPU I'm interested in.

Alternatively, if there's serious demand for it I'm sure the market will come up with a solution. Motherboards with BGA-compatible sockets, perhaps. Or PGA sockets designed to accept adapters you can solder a BGA CPU into.
The one thing that concerns me about using the database as a queue is that MVCC doesn't really lend itself to writing threading primitives like locks. I'm curious how one would go about writing a queue in an MVCC architecture--off the top of my head, I guess you could have a job assignments table to link processors and jobs, make the job FK unique and interpret forced rollbacks as indicating that another thread grabbed the job before you did. Then again, if your queue is only running idempotent functions it wouldn't matter if you had more than one thread doing the same work, it would just be a waste of time.
Intel has methodically integrated more of the system on the CPU package. With the memory controllers, integrated gpu and pci-e controllers already on the CPU, and VRM and rest of the north bridge following in Haswell, there will be nothing of value left on the motherboard. Broadwell-era motherboards will be dumb connector boards worth $50 at most. That's why they can be sold integrated.
This is great. I submitted by gmail account address to be notified when the beta is available. I'll be joining a great company, NGP VAN, that has recently undergone a merger and now has large teams in both DC and Boston. This tool seems like it'd be a great way to help the two dev offices work more closely together. Any ETA on when we could get access?
wiwillia (of Teespring) appears to be hell-banned, but not sure why.
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This looks like an interesting product. However, the marketing copy is in severe need of an editor. There are Bushisms like "honing in on" and paragraphs that end with rhetorical questions. If I were the founders, I would find someone less familiar with the product to hone and polish the copy.
Your product isn't clearly defined and the very last two sentences have a hint at what the product might be. What are you actually offering?

Also, a lot of people are fed up with this end-of-the-world thing and might be somewhat turned off that you are using it as a theme for your product description.