skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anandtechs recent article on SSD IOPS consistency touches on this topic, and has some links for further info:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6489/playing-with-op
You really should put powerful commands like macros on easier keys. I think I used something like this (although not on F1): http://emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyboardMacros#toc6
Any one cotton gin is a physical thing, yes. It should be illegal to take or damage another person's cotton gin, but that's just normal physical property rights. A patent on the cotton gin, however, has nothing to do with protecting your cotton gins from theft or vandalism. A patent prohibits you from shaping and arranging your metal into a shape that allows you to remove seeds from cotton, even if you're not even aware that someone else has patented this arrangement of metal.
Then don't host hackathons! :D
There is also http://www.reddit.com/r/somebodymakethis which from reading these has at least some overlap.
No, because consumption taxes don't reach profits that aren't spent on goods and services. They are massively regressive. It over-incentivizes "investing" money. There are three assumptions by economists in this regard that don't reflect reality: 1) the world is open, resources are unlimited, and growth is always possible; 2) that investment is always good; 3) distribution doesn't matter. None of those assumptions are true.
1. No distractions [people, internet] with clear objectives, later in the day 3pm-7pm. I also require an actual workspace, not the couch in front of the TV.

2. While I have the option of starting my workday early or not, I generally still arrive at the same time every morning and put in my required hours. However I dont believe its efficient. I'm not a morning person. My work in the morning hours is more frantic than planned. But I also dont want my work day to bleed into my personal hours - its a struggle.

3. Despite having various filters before I'm even involved [help desk, jr. devs], everyone considers everything an emergency and will bypass the 'system.' Verbally communicating with people freaking out is key. Everything is a queue with some preemption. And generally any user related emergencies are preempting my actual projects. Its annoying but necessary balancing act.

4. I'm definitely more of the hacker type. I'm not satisfied at just fixing something. I want to know what it does, why its breaking, how can it actually be resolved for good. Usually this surpasses the business desire of just getting things working and patch it later. Sometimes going beyond that is seen as good and other times its a 'wasted' effort.

5. I love IM. But information gets quickly lost. And at some point we decided to start using two IM clients at work (one for dev, one for support) WTF? I find its very efficient for get that quick yes/no answer from devs, but not for users. And email is a much better medium for multiple long questions or answers.

6. Away from people - but still accessible
You might say it's useless (in your blog post) but would it surprise you to know that there's a venture funded startup doing pretty much what your weekend project does (with extra bells and whistles perhaps).

http://mightytext.net/ <--- This one
The article overlooks the fact that the demand for an item like a book varies over time. Typically, there is an initial high demand period shortly after publication, and then a very long tail of low demand.

Libraries generally don't significantly undercut sales because the bulk of sales occur during the early high demand period, when the library's limited number of copies force waiting lists so that those who want the item sooner rather than later buy it.

This was the basis of an interesting law review article published by Justice Breyer back in his academic days, called "The Uneasy Case for Copyright", where he argued that because such a high fraction of the profits from a work occurred from sales shortly after publication, before copiers had time to typeset and get into print unauthorized copies, there might not be a need for copyright law.

Since then, copying technology has gotten much better, and so Breyer's argument is no longer plausible.
The Saturn V rockets used in the moon missions were largely designed by von Braun and Arthur Rudolph, who were both Nazis to some degree or another.
http://www.reddit.com/r/somebodymakethis is something close that is a little more active.
But with current SSD speed/size ratio this vulnerability window can be only a few minutes, also this can be minimized with mixing batches and vendors of drives.
I don't think so. I think they'll still offer the vanilla boards, but they just noticed a pattern in what their users were trying to do, and this gives them a bit of a head start.
You can change into a repo by using its name:

pcd RepoName

instead of the path.

People might keep their repos - for work, pet projects etc in different locations.

Also, I am hoping to add more feature to Pit. For example, gc git:\repo will out the README for the project. I want to use standard Powershell cmdlers to set git config properties etc.
I was just countering the idea that all property is artificial. And when did I say I was fully behind real estate? Maybe it's not a good idea for someone to own ten thousand acres they aren't using in any way...

Also I am actively against software patents. Poor time to make assumptions.
My tech career came out of the mainframe world, so I'm tickled but really not too shocked at seeing a 3390 teardown. I've replaced enough parts in IBM DASD frames to be a bit jaded I guess. But there's nothing better to make you feel old than some of the eevblog comments about "I work with a guy that's old enough to remember these things..." :-(

1989 wasn't THAT long ago... was it?
Firstly it's your data so the better question is really why don't I have a web page with my medical records encrypted on them and key sign my local doctors when he wants to update them

This is a much much better way round, but two things hold it back - well three.

1. Key sign? PKi? Wtf?

2. Doctors actually don't want many records to be available to the patient - it frankly compromises medical care (heard the phrase GOMER - Get Out Of My ER. Much diagnosis is still hunch and guesswork - and needs to be carefully phrased If patient will read it

3. We still think something centralised should track all our medical care when really something decentralised is much much better
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"These are educated, knowledgeable people"

Who are speaking way above their level of understanding. This is not unique to untrained professionals, either. In academia plenty of tenured professors use their position to spread pseudoscience. Just because they associate their care with their childrens' improvements, does not mean that their care and specific choices for self-treatment were the cause of their childrens' improvements.
Were they Playing Demon Souls? I get pretty violent playing that game. Granted, I can easily kill every person in a far more violent game and frolic down the street. So I think the quality of the game, the users experience with games, the users desire to die 800 time in 12 seconds, etc... may also have an impact.
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I do not. Feel free to offer disclosures of your own though.
I bet you could setup your drives to fail in a set pattern. Lets say you had 4 drives in a RAID-10. If they were all fresh, swap out the first 2 drives when they are at 50% wear... then on you could swap them out back and forth as they approach 100% wear.

Since they lifespan of some of the drives (Intel and Samsung I believe) is reported in the SMART data, you could easily do this.

SSD drives with SLC memory (enterprise SSD) have 100,000 P/E cycles, so they should last a while unless you are writing just a massive amount of data. Anandtech had a nice little writeup about SLC vs MLC vs TLC memory a little bit ago:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6459/samsung-ssd-840-testing-t...
You might like TA Spring (a full 3D remake of Total Anihilation). It features fully deformable terrain, some of the games on top of the engine even let you terraform! Elevation plays a part in combat mechanics - high ground makes a difference. You can also block enemy shots by terraforming the land since everything runs on a physics engine.

http://springrts.com/
Duo Security has a tested module for OS X: https://www.duosecurity.com/docs/duounix

This doesn't help at all for Apple ID, though.
Maybe I don't know how to use Google very well, because I can't find the one you seem to have in mind.

https://www.google.com/search?q=media%20storage%20service%20...

Let me know if this service actually exists
I have just started using Codemirror in a project and it is superb, and easy to use with an excellent API. And thank you thank you thank you for not requiring me to use jQuery to interact with it!

Looking forward to using the inline widgets, those will be very useful.
Avoiding being chronically late for work
While it is generally a good idea to be open to the idea of taking responsibility rather than fobbing it off on someone else... I can't say I agree in this case.

You had terrible, awful expectations. You expected your employees to be dedicated to the benefit of your clients rather than themselves? This is capitalism. People have jobs because those jobs provide THEM a benefit. Especially today, where you as an employer make ABSURD margins of profit off of everything your employees do (as worker productivity is astronomically high thanks to computers and such - just ask yourself how productive your company would be if you banned any technology produced after 1980. Couldn't survive, could you? Yet, companies did. And they paid their employees the same average wages you are paying now. You're just getting far more benefit.)

Pick up a book on capitalism. It's likely not what you think it is. It is not workers making as little as possible sacrificing everything for corporate praying that one day they'll win the lottery and become CEO. That's not capitalism. Capitalism is based on free exchange to mutual benefit of both parties. Your clients use your business because it benefits them. You tend to your clients because it benefits you. Win-win. Your employees work for you exclusively and only because it provides them substantial benefit, and you provide them that benefit because you make profit off of them. Win-win.

Expecting a worker to be dedicated to your company above their own interests is disgusting. You would not in a thousand years consider cutting your projected profits in order to improve their salaries, so there is no reason whatever for them to display any loyalty to you. Workers do not exist to work. They are human beings who exist to seek their own enjoyment, and if you as an employer fail to provide adequate pay/benefits/etc they will leave you to fail on your own. That is how it should be.

There is an escape. If you really do want to build an organization with invested, loyal coworkers, you can. The first step is to read a book on capitalism. Understand what a persons compensation is supposed to be based upon. It is not supposed to be based upon market average rates. It is supposed to be based upon the value of the work being done. If one employee earns a million dollars for the organization, that employee deserves most of it. If you want people to be invested, you have to actually make it in their best interests to do so. Right now, it is explicitly AGAINST their interests to be productive for you. It can't help them, and can only cost them. You'll cap them out at what they can make based on 'market rates'. And the chance of them rising to senior management is an invitation to self destruction with no payoff.

Employees are not going to be dedicated to the poisonous cesspit modern business has become. Just not going to happen. It's not your fault, and it's not theirs. And you cannot fix it while maintaining the kind of absurd growth figures and profit margins that modern businesses are taught to expect.
Yes. But if Balanced is not forcing a reserve on the marketplace owner, then either balance is accepting a huge amount of risk in the transactions, or the marketplace owner is (and might not be totally aware of that risk until she gets bitten by a charge back).
Services like this concern me because I don't know the credibility of the person on the other end, nor do I know if the effort I put into someone else's review is going to guarantee that I get an equally verbose one. In the same vein, the function of a site defines the design and someone telling me that my content portal "is way too busy" isn't going to help me when I wasn't going for some sort of minimalistic trend the reviewer may be more likely to rate higher.

I'm not sure if you're changing things right now or A/B testing, but when I initially went to your link there were examples of what I could expect. Now there's no way of knowing what the process looks like and how these viewers see my site. Is it a screengrab of the homepage, do they get the link and surf around?

Also, is there anything stopping someone from writing a bunch of useless one-liner reviews just to get their site seen?
Holiday Gifts for Clients?
We're tired of sending out the usual stuff for holiday gifts. Any cool ideas for clients you've done or bee sent lately? Do people just want to get brownies every year?

We've tossed around ideas like sending a food truck to a media agency, custom mugs with quotes from their customers.
I don't know how reasonable it would be, but it would be a great time to start a car company that didn't do that.
I don't find the the difference between Emacs and Vim too big, but this is because I rebinded most of Emacs' default keybindings. Vim is faster for most things but not all, having to switch back to normal mode gets in the way sometimes.

However, Vim's '.' command is just so convenient! Emacs does have some packages to imitate it but they never worked quite alright for me.

Now that I am using evil-mode (Vim keybindings) in Emacs I am in a happy place.
This is very cool-- send text messages easily without ever leaving your laptop or having to deal with the phone's keys. For anyone over 30, texting from a real keyboard makes a lot of sense.
I'm not so sure about this idea. If you have trouble remembering one password, you're definitely not going to remember two.
Every one of these comments is about the xxx TDL. GG OP.
I know we've pretty much made our points by now, but my argument is that brute forcing at this level might be more feasible than what you suggest here (if we assume the sentence is correctly using a particular language).

Say we choose one word from the 200,000 and it's a noun. Then we can make assumptions about the next word (eg it's likely a verb) and immediately the number of options for the next word collapses from 200,000 to a subset of some smaller cardinality. In fact we can use our knowledge of common English to restrict the next options down further -- to only verbs that make sense to this particular noun and that agree with the noun's plurality.

So unlike current password brute forcing, where every character is independent of the others -- thus having exponential complexity -- brute forcing a sentence using current NLP methods could be much less expensive. Perhaps a hierarchical method exists that would scale at O(n log n).

Anyway, this is just fun thinking. You're right that current password strategies are a long way away from making this type of cracking worthwhile.
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Babbage's writings? Ada's are much better, and arguably why Babbage is even remembered.
Another video from the event: Rich Hickey - The Language of the System

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/the-language-of-the-sy...
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So the Dear Leader always gets his own hardcoded span element. Hilarious.
Damn! Its quite similar. Thanks for the link :)
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I would imagine what Google does is less "evil", while also being totally legal, than how California government would actually chose to spend those taxed dollars. Maybe if Google holds off a little longer then California may actually get more competent people handling their debt obligations and future expenditures. Overspending at a local level needs to be reigned in for any tax revenue to be truly effective.
I work at Treyarch as software engineer. A lot of the QA people are located near to my office. I haven't seen even a bit of bad behavior from them, in fact they are one of the friendliest folk around. They have played, and still play (test) our game (Call of Duty: Black Ops 2) hours and hours, every day.
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For future reference, your GP post would have made a lot more sense if you had included that little fact.
How well did putting pictures of missing children on milk cartons work?
In retrospect, we probably should have changed our name to something else entirely. I wonder how many people have accidentally downloaded the wrong game already.

Going forward, we have two choices: we can still change the game's name or we can do a hard marketing push to get our game to be the first result for Trifecta. So far the latter has been our game plan. When Trifecta Blocks Challenge first launched, it was 14/14 for the term Trifecta. It's now 6/14 so it's definitely on the rise.
Since NAND flash is being price fixed, and likely will be for several more years to come (we're just now starting to see LCD prices drop to reasonable levels after years and years of price fixing, I expect it'll take a similar amount of time for the NAND fixing to get busted and the market to respond), I don't think a 10% premium will be at all possible for a very long time. NAND storage SHOULD be significantly cheaper than rotational storage since it is cheaper to produce, requires fewer exotic materials, has a far wider market, etc. And eventually it will be. But for now, there is a huge premium on NAND storage. I am sure Amazon, EMC, and the others have done the math and simply don't think there is a significant market of people willing to pay for such a service, at least not at the steep rates they would have to charge to meet their growth projections.
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How much do people want it? For people to use your new service, they would have to:

- find you online, shop around to find the best service

- trust an unknown startup with their data

- pay a fair price

- put their media in a box, put stamps on it, put it in the mail

- keep track of an account & password

Although you say you want it yourself, I gather you haven't even done step 1 (there are several such services already). So find out how many people really want this thing so badly that they'll do all the steps. If those people exist, they'll be doing some painful version of it today.
A couple of questions:

1) Is this a subset of Haskell, or a brand new language inspired by Haskell?

2) It appears that FRP (which by the way is a cool idea) isn't necessarily language-specific, is this true? My guess is that Elm just brings FRP to the forefront in the same way Lisp brings FP to the forefront?
This echoes my usage patterns as well, and I'm 37; the only difference is I had a reasonable CD collection (~250 discs) before I met Napster and AudioGalaxy back in the late 90s.

I only ever rented VHS/DVDs and I buy blu-ray used and only if I want to own a re-watchable experience (Dark Knight, The 300, Pulp Fiction, etc.) First-run blu-ray movies are RedBoxed or downloaded in 720p x264 from usenet (RIP NZBmatrix) and deleted after viewing.

Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Pandora/Spotify round out content. I watch more stuff now that I don't have cable (around 2hrs/day) than when I did (30min. or less/day).
Sure to be a hit present. My recipient really loved it.
I'll talk to Ran and see how she wants to proceed regarding music. That ties in closely with design which was more her than me.
Existing discussion from today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4899236
I don't think it's intended to -just- be a controller, but rather a game console unto itself(hence the socket for color TFT screen) . It certainly could be used as just an input device, though.
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I always viewed Arduino as a prototyping platform. Once you finalize your design, you'd buy a $2 AVR and stick it on its own circuit board with its own components, freeing up the Arduino and any shields you have for your next project.

That is quite different to the Raspberry Pi, which just appears to be a small, cheap, general purpose computer that comes without a case.

There is certainly some overlap, but I'm not sure they are directly competing with each other.
Hopefully. . . though speaking of speed, there's another pitfall to be aware of: At present, very few RAID controllers support the TRIM command. On one that doesn't any SSDs plugged into it will slow down over time, perhaps becoming slower than magnetic disks.
> and have the AI deal with that accordingly.

Yeah, that's kind of the problem I alluded to, isn't it?

But you're right, I don't know the state-of-the-art in pathfinding...as I admitted, the most recent RTS I played was Warcraft 3. It just seems to me to be a very common complaint in most modern games. I still play Team Fortress 2, and even though they've implemented AI, the AI only works on certain pre-designed levels. Yes, I know that a FPS is generally more path-computational than a RTS, but if you're proposing that an RTS have 3D terrain then, well, that makes it a 3D game, no?

And it's been awhile since I've designed a game but I think you're underestimating the computational power it would take for an AI to dynamically generate efficient paths with every change to the terrain. IIRC, a lot of early AI compensated by having pre-calculated paths for each level (and I think virtually all of them only pretended to be encumbered by a fog of war).

My point still stands though...these aren't really innovations...again, I'm not in game development, but I'm guessing that some of these are ideas that teams consider and then drop in lieu of their difficulty of implementation. In other words, the innovation would be the actual implementation of the idea, not the idea itself.
> One British MP recently chided a top Google official for the practice, calling it “immoral.”

Some would call lying to the British public about a certain country's WMD capability, forcefully collecting taxes (you get thrown in a cage if you dissent) and making them pay for it all immoral. But who's to judge, eh?
Also http://haxe.org/ which was originally inspired by OCaml (iirc) and complies to JavaScript, Flash, NekoVM, PHP, C++ and C#.

It's pretty cool.
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Ah yes, that's ringing a bell (I think from the whole Assange debacle). Makes the reporting in torrentfreak guilty of some rather dishonest spin doesn't it?
The password isn't just about accessing your account information (making a purchase), it's about authorization to use your hardware.

OSX does the same thing: want to install something? Enter a password.

I agree that there should be a better form of authorization than password, though.
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In 14 years of customer support, it was always frustrating to me how many customers would be more than happy to help provide better information to track down an issue, but can't because the process is just too difficult for them to understand. I love hearing about tools that make that process much easer. It's like a win win win (win).
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Actually, sounds like exactly the sort of hackathon I'd like to attend...
That's talking about hard drives. The comment you quoted is talking about SSDs.