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> Taleb is a very intelligent man, but AFAICT he does often reinvent existing concepts with much cooler names. "Antifragile" sounds awesome. "Robust" sounds boring.

Antifragile != robust: "The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better." (http://www.randomhouse.com/book/176227/antifragile-things-th...)
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> And he's the guy who calls the shots.

When a child grows into a teenager it becomes harder to blame the father for their actions.
I remember when we bought our first flatscreen full HD TV (I think full HD - honestly I lost track of what means what, I guess it has a somewhat higher resolution than the old tube). Everything looked shocking at first, too - like HFR is described here, suddenly lighting and makeup were painfully obvious.

After a while we didn't really notice that anymore, so I could imagine we will adjust to HFR, too. Also I suppose film making will have to adjust (lighting, makeup and so on).

A problem could be that we get to watch a lot of TV, but not that much HFR movies in the cinema. The Hobbit will be the second movie I'll watch in the cinema in two years...

Anyways, I will watch it in HFR 3d in the cinema because I don't have the opportunity to watch it like that at home.
>>The problem is that many people apply a watered down version of 'follow your dream' that really is nothing more than 'do what you like'

In many cases passion simply refers to a person's, least area of incompetence.
Facebook didn't create that but it did allow for the elites to use a greater degree of surveillance against humans then ever before.
The immersion was amazing. I was flinching every time something flew at the screen. I can't say I ever did that for Avatar.

Furthermore, the audience and myself were all gasping and laughing etc unlike what the author states with his anecdotal 'proof,' clouded by preconceived notions and order bias.
I had the same problem, though not to the point of safety shutdown.

Fiddling with vgaswitcheroo and acpi settings mitigated the problem. My laptop is much cooler and silent now.

This has been the biggest pain point in Linux for me so far. I am wondering why these problems persists. They have a huge impact on the (non-)adoption of Linux/Ubuntu.

I'm considering making a donation to ubuntu to improve this situation. What do you think?
I wonder about this sometimes. Every laptop I've owned in the last ten years has had this problem to some extent with Linux. It's not just a heat issue, either. Using enough energy to generate all that heat means the battery never lasts very long either.

Occasionally something like this pops up and I wonder if this isn't a widespread problem.
Threaded page loading. Mosaic needed to download all text and graphics before displaying any part of a web page. This was painfully slow over modems. Netscape's huge innovation was to partially render pages while resources (mainly images) were downloading, giving the appearance of a faster web.
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It's actually Wizard of Oz I had in mind when I was saying that. I appreciate for its time it was a huge advance, but I always thought it looked considerably less beautiful than black and white films of the same era, but perhaps this was as much because people didn't really understand how to use colour properly then as much as the technology itself. Anyway, thanks for the info :) I consider myself enlightened.
What is the work that you want doing?
What is it other than money which motivates people?

Saying "please shovel all of my trash, because I'm too lazy" probably won't get many volunteers.
Saying "our homes were devastated by a hurricane, please help us clean away our rubbish - we just can't cope" will (hopefully) attract more people.

Some will do it because it feels like the right thing to do - or they may be expecting some nebulous spiritual reward. Others will work for free if they can get something tangible out of it - like work experience to help them get a job.
text to speech engines do not work like this. They built the pronunciations of any words on the fly using their phonetic sound library. so 90M is for the sound library I think
I imagine that in 5-10 years all films will be higher resolution and 48fps. The youth of tomorrow will look back at the low-res, fuzzy films of today the same way we look at black and white flicks from the past, "Did people really like this crud?!".

The Hobbit - good or bad, it doesn't matter - is really just the first of the next generation. It means makeup artists and prop creators have to step up the quality based on complaints like those in TFA, but that's technology for you.
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4937917

Looks like andreiursan just cut off a couple characters from the permalink slug, which the 37s blog ignores, to get around the duplicate submission detection.
The point of drawing attention to black swans is to make it clear that you can't plan your way into a situation where you've avoided all risks. So, you're right. It doesn't help much past that.

This is obvious in many areas - nobody believes we can avoid all fires, for example (or we'd defund fire departments and cancel our fire insurance).

Yet in other areas there tends to be a view that we should be able to perfectly avoid risks.

This is dangerous, because a lot of black swan events that might be impossible to avoid, can still be substantially reduced in magnitude if you apply the other main forms of risk management to a greater degree to supplement avoidance.

Even when we don't mean to, it is easy to get thrown into this pattern of reacting to a specific risk that is in our face right now rather than to address broader methods of mitigating classes of risks.

Consider if prior to 9/11, past experience with dozens of hijackings over decades had been used to consider how to reduce the potential impact of a hijacking, and there'd been locks on the cockpit doors.

It seems far more feasible that effort into investigating risk mitigation by considering possible wide catching responses to known risks (past hijackings, mentally unstable passengers, illness) could have stopped 9/11 this way, than that more effort into risk avoidance by pouring money into intelligence agencies would have led to forever preventing someone from pulling off a 9/11 type plot, for example.

This is why this idea is important. But you're right: It is just a reminder of what ought to be obvious, that we can't avoid all risks because we can't possibly predict them all.
If you have a trademark on the domain, you can file a complaint with the Domain Resolution Service. They'll look at the trademarks and if they deem you to be the valid owner for the domain, will transfer the domain to you.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you want to understand more about this (especially economically), Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow spells it out really well:

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...
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I agree, a good post. AWS has stated that they are working on the link between EBS and ELB: https://aws.amazon.com/message/680342/

The point in the post that the AWS management console runs on EBS is fishy...
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I had the same problem with my old Acer timelineX. CPU could hit 95oC quite happily and shut down. To be honest I just ran Linux in a virtual machine on it in the end. It made the difference between 10h and 2h of battery life as well.

This is not really linux's fault though. It has to fight with a hack job of an architecture, the mess that is ACPI and BIOS written by drunk monkeys. They really need to just fix PC architecture or get rid of it.
The Wizard of Oz did this with black and white / color.
Sure.

Comment should be "why I did this", and code should be "how I did this", some people just write in "what did I do" and walk away thought they have comment

Code took from a project I'm working with:

#End of package
Not to go TLDR on Hacker news, but if 48fps was too much for the author, he did in noway attempt to limit his own output to get down to the core of the matters, or "magic of telling a story" if you like.

I'm seeing this in 3D HFR tomorrow (and incidentally my first 3D movie as well). Will be interesting to see if I share his sentiment.
it's 75% after 1M euros (before it is 45% maximum). and I believe there is a lot of ways to prevent from paying this (eg if you do an investment in french island)
Thanks for the answer. Just to clarify, we do not have a trademark on the domain, but only on the company name i.e. on "our_company_name" and not "our_company_name.com". I assume we need a lawyer to file a proper complaint. Do you have any experience in how much the whole process costs?
I think you might rather donate to Debian, the distribution Ubuntu is based on. As far as I know, Ubuntu (and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu) does not commit a lot for upstream problems, so I do not know if it will be very efficient donating to them for this particular issue. By the way, I might encourage you to read this: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do
The market is a solution to a problem (or perhaps a set of problems). In the example of in the grandparent's post, that solution does not adequately deal with the problem at hand. This makes it a bad solution.

Even if we can't think of a better solution right now, we shouldn't stick our collective heads in the sand when we notice errors in our current approach. Highlighting errors is important, because even if we can't fix them right now, we may be able to in the future. If we don't know about the flaws in our current approach, it it impossible to even attempt to think of ways to improve them.
it was simple - I tried all the major engines on the market and take the best one for iOS. All companies almost offer the same license (20 to 30% of your income).
Great! I've just bookmarked it.
I think people overestimate the effect of bundling. As you note, in 1997 and earlier browser software was sold like spreadsheet or word processor software. By 1997, IE was clearly the better browser technically. It was far less buggy, and it implemented much more of Netscape's proprietary HTML than Netscape implemented of IE's proprietary HTML.

The sales numbers of the retail boxes for both from CompUSA, Egghead, Computer City, and so on reflected this. IE was massively outselling Netscape. Sure, when bundling came alone later, it didn't help Netscape, but I think by that point they were already past the tipping point.
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> A standing army is a group of people who are in the army as an occupation.

It's not the occupation. They're normal citizens that periodically do military training and are expected to be ready at all times should an attack happen. That means having weapons and ammo at home.
FWIW, the most important conclusions from exploring the research that I’ve drawn personally are:

1. Establishing familiar patterns is good, and being able to identify deviations from patterns (intentional or otherwise) is probably far more important than we usually assume.

2. You’re going to need to figure out the data flow for some code you’re reading anyway, and a lot of the time the control flow is just noise/accidental complexity, so why not put the data flow front and centre if possible?

Applying these to the example code we’ve been discussing, I might prefer to write it something like this:

x = [2, 8, 7, 9, -5, 0, 2]
y = [1, -3, 10, 0, 8, 9, 1]

print filter ( 2 < _ < 10) x
print filter (-2 < _ < 9) y
print intersection x y

with the proviso that the previous common() function doesn't quite do what an intersection() usually would, which in itself might prompt us to think about whether the previous common() function that is asymmetric in its parameters is actually what we wanted. (Maybe it was, or maybe it was an unintentional error but no-one noticed because the results are the same with this set of sample data.)

I have a theory that part of the attraction/intrigue of functional programming for a lot of working programmers comes from the way it inherently emphasizes these ideas, particularly making data flow almost the default form of presentation.

I also have a theory that maybe there's another mental model to be found/learned/created, somewhere above control flow and data flow but below the general domain model, capturing the flow of observable interactions with the outside world: side effects, interactions/dependencies between concurrent operations, and so on. I suspect that part of the reason we find functional programming more difficult for some things (see the “awkward squad” paper) is that when you remove the implicit control flow, you also remove the implicit ordering of events/effects that you get with imperative programming, and there is a cost to that if you don’t replace it (or at least the parts of it that matter for that higher-level view of what your code is doing) with something else.
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Yes, good point. But I cringe when people say that "10k connections is a magic"! There are three things which make Node.js popular:
- ease of starting (especially with things like Meteor)
- one language for server-side and client-side
- npm

But in terms of scalability, robustness and network performance it is inferior
All the laptops I'm currently owning run fine and cool, except the one with ATI graphics. The open source radeon driver has broken power management and ATI stopped support for the GPU in it with the Catalyst driver.
> I am wondering why these problems persists.

Because hardware manufacturers do not care about linux compatibility or standards. They seemingly only care about windows compatibility. ACPI/DSDT woes are one reason I'm slightly interested in UEFI, which possibly could bring some clarity to the situation. Or at least less buggy implementations.
I think there is a place for high frame-rate: stories that are aiming for fly-on-the-wall realism (I'm thinking particularly of The Wire, or Paranormal Activity). I could also see new film-making styles built around the tech. Unfortunately, epic fantasy is exactly the wrong type of film for the HFR effect.

In addition to looking lifeless and flat, everything seemed to move too quickly, and human movement looked cartoonishly fluid (curiously, CGI creatures looked more real, and people looked like CGI creatures). I found the scenes that looked best were the ones in slow-motion, and I can't help but feel the whole movie would have been improved through using effects to slow down everything.
By far the easiest way to run desktop/laptop linux and to not loose your mental health is to pick your hardware carefully. Make sure that the components have solid drivers in the mainline kernel and you will be happier in the long run.
I found Facebook useful for finding my roommates and classmates during college. They took away the classmate finding feature, but then it became more accessible and my grandparents could use it. I just used it a moment ago to get my cousin's birthday.

That's a lot of value to me. When I share something there, it has the broadest reach of real-world friends on any social network, but that's my personal experience.

Facebook is not a weapon. It's a product, definitely, and a medium to some degree. A corporate and focused vision of the internet, sure.

A weapon? No.
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"I love my Windows 8, mind you. The boot time of 15 seconds is a life-saver."

If the 15 seconds boot time had saved my life, I wouldn't be mucking about with linux...
I've never had that problem until I bought my current laptop about 2 years ago.

Gnome 3 seems to make things worse because of the 3D effects (switching between vim and Firefox seems enough to turn the fan on). I'm Ardour user and almost in every recording session I get at lest one safety shutdown because of the temperature. It's very frustrating!

I've never used Windows on that laptop, so I can't compare, but I always thought the hardware was to blame.

Yesterday I was preparing a external disk and during Debian Squeeze installation the laptop had to shutdown twice because of temperature, so now I'm not sure it's just a hw issue. Looks like something is definitely wrong.

EDIT: well, surprisingly I never tried to google the problem (I know, I know), and apparently there are lots of reports of that laptop model overheating with no reason. Great :(
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Quoting from another thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847971

<quote>

If you are planning to run linux, seriously re-consider buying laptops with hybrid graphics. The graphic card might or might not run, the card switching will most likely not work, but you can ignore it since you can work with the intel card, right? Well, no. Most of the AGP, whether used or not, will eat up power, the fan will run at full speed and your laptop's behind will be hot enough to stir fry some veggies.
If you have a laptop with hybrid graphics, and you can't make it work, just switch off your discrete card.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HybridGraphics
Laptops in general, and linux laptops tend to run hot. However, don't mess with power settings a lot. Putting harddisks on powersaving mode(refer hdparm) so that they become idle puts unnecessary strain on the disk. You can try out experimenting with cpu frequency(cpufreq-set).

</quote>

If you want your "discrete card off" to persist through restarts, you will have to add this to your rc.local

modprobe radeon # Assuming ati card
echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch

For suspend/resume, you will have to add a new file /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00radeon-switch

#!/bin/sh

case "$1" in
hibernate|suspend)
echo ON > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
;;
thaw|resume)
echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
;;
*)
;;
esac
exit 0

I have discovered putting the cpu policy to ondemand causes problems with pulseaudio(your volume icon will always be on mute and ps will show a pulseaudio process in D). I stopped fiddling with cpufreq, set it to performance, uninstalled cpufreq and was good to go.

And as I commented earlier, I will strongly advice against putting the hard disk in power saving mode.
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http://foundrs.com/ is interesting. I appreciate these types of tools are to be taken with a grain of salt but I wonder how accurate the likes of PG would consider it to be.
Right. That is indeed a more difficult and nuanced judgement than holding a corporation's CEO responsible for its major business decisions.
I think this is one of those "problems" where the only rational response is to deal with it and get over it. If movies had always been shown at 48 FPS and somebody came along in 2012 arguing that they should instead be projected at 24 for a more "cinematic" look, they'd be laughed out of town.
My stackoverflow profile is a sad list of questions like "what's wrong with this library?" which have an answer 2 days later, often by me, saying "it was in this bit of the code."

On several occasions I've actually left the bugged lines out of my initial submission, because I thought they weren't important...
What's interesting to me (for background, before I ended up programming I trained in traditional film/animation) is that a lot of the 24/48fps discussion on HN tends to be around technical concerns, whereas a lot of film developments come out of artistic needs.

HFR is really interesting when contextualized in the history of cinema: frame rate was never a problem until directors started changing how they shot action scenes in the 1980s. It was realised that if you made the action fast and blurry you could get away with a lot more: what from a wide shot would look like a slow moving car chase could become a very dramatic action scene.

I think this is being reflected in a lot of the reviews coming out for The Hobbit (I haven't seen it yet): it seems a lot of people don't mind it during action sequences, but it becomes distracting during dialog and less frenetic moments. And this makes sense: why should dialog scenes be in 48fps? There's no technical or artistic reason for them to be.

I'd be really interested in watching a cut of The Hobbit which moves between 24 and 48 fps for dialog/action: people are happy to accept aspect ratio shifts (like moving from full-frame IMAX to CinemaScope in the Dark Knight, etc, and more artistically moving to Academy for a particular scene in Life of Pi), perhaps they'd be willing to accept frame rate shifts too?
There's a clear distinction between games and film here and that's the interactive element. Games react to player input and a lower framerate results in a pretty poor experience for players (especially in fast paced games like first person shooters). Add to this the fact that games have only recently been adding motion blur, a much higher framerate than film's rate of 24 is important for maintaining a fluid image.

As someone who primarily plays first person shooters (TF2 and Quake Live), anything less than 60FPS looks awful to me, I play on a 120hz LCD.
Please don't stop.
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> Should I, or anyone else, be fined for that?

If you had been made aware, in advance, that there was a fine, then sure, you should be fined for being tardy.

Are you pattern-matching on "VC", "lateness", "fine", and your own negative feelings regarding having been late to a VC meeting?

Your reaction to this story (VC firm trying to show that it values potential investment targets' time) is like someone worrying that, since a pizzeria has a policy of not charging customers for a pizza if it's delivered late, you're going to have to provide the delivery person with a free sandwich if you don't get to the door quickly enough after he rings the bell.
I would take pretty much anything with a temporal axis over these pie-charts.
Also I would favor stacked bars with optional trend lines over area charts in the case of countable annual data like this.

After which amount of data points is it considered recommended to switch to interpolated line/area charts?
Not sure I follow. Could you elaborate how SNS would require an SSH tunnel to work? I've never encountered this issue in environments I have worked in.
> Like..?

It's actions that define an individual or an organisation, and not words. Better would've been an unambiguous policy update that clearly quells people's concerns, without the feel-good corporate messaging.

Trust is easily given, sometimes earned. It is also easily lost, and very hard to re-earn.

Their app is symptomatic of an immature industry in which trivial/fun apps far outnumber and precede useful business/productivity apps. An app in the former category with a cavalier attitude to its users will be dropped first, given the arrival of a worthwhile replacement.
If your laptop can't stand 100% CPU (and GPU) load for an indefinite time, you should consider it broken (or just very clogged up with dust). Anyway, it's very unlikely that Linux was persistently loading your system while it's supposed to be idle, so it's probably even more broken.
I have a similar experience but running Linux on a VM. There was a background process (related to X Windows) using more than 10% of the CPU all the time.
I can't decide if it's a success that Opera is still on the market, or a failure that after 10 years they still have so minor share. Sure, 1.71% is a lot of users given the size of market, but if you look at the charts they had 0.78% in 2002 so they gained 1% in 10 years.. I don't get it, couldn't they find a way to interest more people in such long time?