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>The best way to get rid of things you don’t want to do is to begin.

I think I'm going to print this out and put it on my wall. Old concept but this says it in a very simple way.
I was disappointed when I tried a fractal simulator on my Nexus 7 recently, and it couldn't zoom smoothly. Perhaps not the most common task in the world, but I think there is still demand for more computing power out there...
This is exactly how they determine species distributions in ecology as well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_distribution

Uniform dispersion would suggest some territoriality aspect of the species, and clumped dispersion would suggest a heterogeneity of resources (or any other hypothesis that could then be tested).
I'm not sure there's strong enough alignment among tech enterprise for a generic group to make sense.

For example when it comes to funding incumbent players may want the exact opposite from startups.
It's been a long day. Good thing nothing happened... yet. We might need your services again if something does! :D
>Why afraid to just say that it's true?

On Internet forums accusations of "copying" are generally used the same as "stealing" with a morality payload attached. For example, when something is copied and slightly modified people say "fork" to make sure it is read positively. shrug
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte

It's becoming more common. By the way, if you use OS X, your utilities output megabytes (1000 bytes), not mebibytes. GNU utilities switched to KiB, MiB, etc. (1024 bytes).
Captchas?
It was just a lit review - nothing original. I did it as a final for an upper level Personality Psych course in college; the paper itself focused mostly on the autotelic personality and the tDCS 'artificial flow' stuff.
SHA-3 competition is over, Keccak won, so no.
I consider HN to not be a US only website. When I see the word "national" it applies by default to my own country. When I saw the pop-up, I felt I was not invited.
I agree that it looks odd. However, especially in applications like cryptography, I think that removing the ambiguity of "megabyte" (i.e. do we mean 10^6 or 2^20 bytes?) is worth the introduction of a new term.
Electronic toys from holidays long past...
But performance per TDP is what matters. Battery technology is getting better much slower than CPU technology. We're already at the point where CPU speed is "good enough," but we're not at the point where battery life is "good enough."

I've downsized from a Core 2 MBP to an iPad. It has 1/4 the RAM and runs at half the clock speed. Do I care? No! Web browsing is fast and fluid, photos load plenty fast, editing documents in pages is plenty fast. And it lasts through my whole 12+ hour workday, letting me leave the charger at home and often not even bothering to charge it every night. That's huge and much more important to me, and I'd imagine most people, than whether it can be imperceptibly faster.
There is already a way to buy a prospect's attention and it's to give a $50-100 gift card or Amazon gift certificate. Facebook doesn't take a cut. At lower ends there are small iTunes gift cards, Starbucks and so on. Qualifying prospects is difficult because of the preference to approach without paying, and because people who estimate their time loss worth less than the gift will sometimes lie about their suitability in order to receive it. Because of all these considerations, it's always going to be a narrow market, and Facebook needs to focus on huge markets to make enough for their investors.
Well, I think this is assumed, yes. But Facebook would never admit that "Yes, we liked this idea, so we developed our own" - and because of this it shows a feeling of guilt, or at minimum not being honest. But that fits with Facebook's character, and many who are dishonest in fact.
Did anyone end up buying them from you?
I'd love it if Clang could accept decently-compliant C++11 source and emit something that MSVC could compile. Like the old Comeau C++ did.
Some interesting ideas in this thread... couple of points re: the above:

- clients are all over, not just SF. Like I said all it takes is just a simple online store for the trolls to come after you, i.e. it's not just software developers getting sued. It's also their clients.

- don't hold your breath about the law changing. The goal here should really be invalidating software patents lock, stock, and barrel - that's not something likely to happen anytime soon.

- the non-profit idea is a good one. If enough companies contributed 1% of revenue/profit/funds raised to an effort like this one, it could probably get going... I personally wish I had the time to organize something like this.
I have a friend who bills by the day, because it gives _more_ flexibility and not less. His explanation: sometimes you have days where you only put in 2 hours, other times you have days where you put in 12. He chops a project up into how many "days" he thinks it will take and runs with it.

Really the "days" becomes an arbitrary unit of measurement at that point, which is really what "hours" are too but it's hard to sell that to clients sometimes.
Fine, correction: he traded away control over the dignity of techcrunch...
We are not on AWS @ US-East-1 so you can count on us being up should the need arise ;)
I agree that the main difference at the moment is how companies manage the conversation, and I'm not a maximalist -- I use tons of cloud services myself -- I just don't think the issues they raise can forever be swept under the carpet. Unless the industry gets its shit together, more and more companies will abuse their position and try to "pull a Facebook" or "pull an Instagram", leading to an inevitable backlash at the legislative level (certainly from Europe, if not the US).

In the meantime, users should be educated on the risks of cloud platforms as much as their benefits, and in this sense I think the strip is very useful.
He is allegedly one of the most savvy people in the tech industry, the idea that selling his company to AOL had completely unpredictable results is, frankly, patently ridiculous.
Back in the day I was in a raiding guild in World of Warcraft. And back then, each boss monster in a raid dungeon had a loot table, and when you killed it, your raid got a few pieces of random loot.

And I don't know how many times I, and the other guy in the guild who understood statistics, had to explain to the others that random doesn't mean uniform. If a certain piece of armour has a 1/X chance to drop from a boss, what people think should happen is that if they kill that boss X times, they should see it drop once.

But the reality was of course that loot was very non-uniform. Some pieces we saw lots of times, and other pieces very rarely, despite them having the same drop chance. And the players who wanted those pieces that happened to be rare for our guild, got very, very angry.

We saw the same things on the official message boards, players were furious after having spent a year killing the same raid boss once a week, and never seeing a certain piece drop for them. But simple math shows that with million of players, tens of thousands of raiding guilds, some of those will see very streaky results.

These days in World of Warcraft, boss monsters drop tokens instead, and when you have X tokens, you can exchange that for a piece of armour, or a weapon, guaranteed. And noone complains about the random loot anymore.
Luckily we had not done the refunds yet. That would have really sucked...
Why even have footers in the age of endless scrolling?
Like snapchat, it's not for sexting
But snapchat is hugely popular.

I think it's a good move to copy snapchat, as it gives fb users a way to be "sure" they don't leave any crappy content online
We more then asked Apple we had submitted the project to them through the MFI process. Apple changed their policy and I have to think it is because of the incredible response this story got.
The thing about a one-time pad is that the size in bits of the pad is the same as the size in bits of the message (before and after encryption). So given an encrypted message, the number of possible one-time pads is equal to the number of possible corresponding cleartext messages. There's no way to brute force that -- if you tried every single possible one-time pad to decrypt the ciphertext, you'd end up with every single possible cleartext message, with no way to distinguish which was the original cleartext.
That is not surprising, because it isn't a new feature of facebook, it is just a UI skin which facilitates certain operations.
Looks good! Prettier than the Syncdocs (http://syncdocs.com) plugin I use for Google Drive
Welp, now I had better go update jllvm to 3.2.
This is what bit me when compiling g++ on Ubuntu: http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch

There seemed to be some special magic in the gcc build for Debian-derived distros. It wasn't all controllable with command-line options.

You and Clang may be encountering similar fun.
That doesn't really apply to memory use on the order of a single kilobyte. You're not going to be hashing many different streams at once.
<trololol>apple maps</trololol>. but seriously, apple always has been a software company. sony is a typical electronics producer and all their approaches to writing software are just a symptom of NIH syndrome.
In there any electrical customer anywhere who wants the utility to say what they can and plug into the wall sockets based on whether or not the utility also sells competing products? ("Sorry, but your fancy new toaster doesn't come from Pacific Gas & Electric. Here, buy our crappy overpriced version instead.")

By the same token, is there any data provider model that (a) customers want and (b) works the same way? The idea that buying a phone from Verizon makes it "their" phone, which they can then control in whatever way benefits them the most is just anathema. It's like an ISP saying you can't use your Mac because they have a deal with Microsoft, and if you want to get online, you need to buy Windows 8. On a machine bought from them.

Virtually EVERYBODY wants a dumb pipe delivering commodified data. People will pay for bandwidth (high or low) and latency (short or long). The market can price each according to demand and the constraints of available technology. And providers, being utilities, should be able to count on a low but rock solid margin of profit.

And if you're in the data access business, you should absolutely barred from any other line of commerce on the grounds that it will represent a conflict of interest. To the extent that data service (esp. wireless) depends on a public resource (spectrum), there should be no question here.

I mean, data is a utility. Like water, like gas, like electricity. Just add a meter, deliver the goods, and get the hell out of the way.
One of the things I love about node.js is that it forces you to come up with a style and stick with it for things like this. At http://ratchet.io our API servers are written in node.js and we chose the foo(err, callback) method.

I personally love this style even though it makes you write more boiler-plate code, it forces you to write exception-safe code from the start. Also, it forces a structure on all of your code that you can instantly recognize as missing if someone forgets to check for err in the callback.

If you can stick with the style, it's fairly difficult to write code that doesn't deal with errors gracefully.
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Thanks for the reply.

I don't think I'm at a place where I can return to university. I don't have the time to slog through arbitrary course requirements, I'm still pretty burnt out from schooling given I graduated fairly recently.

I've considered Coursera and the like, but my main concern is whether completing these courses then putting them on my resume would get me a job in a relevant field. Does anyone have any insight into this?

Either way that course looks interesting and I'm going to sign up.
Think about RSA. Harder Encryption (computationally) is achieved with a high e. Too bad that Wiener in 1990 proved that if d (private key) is small enough we can easily crack it using continued fractions.
I agree as well, it definitely matches my experience. GTD will only work on a certain type of work.

In startup environments there are often significant tasks that go out of your comfort zone (if you're an engineer, you may have to write a tutorial or a script for a video). Those don't typically go on my "pending" list although they are very important to the business, sometimes even more so than dealing with whatever technical situation that might have come up in the last few days.

This is why I have stopped feeling guilty about what I used to call "procrastination". Sometimes you have to avoid your task list and work on the complex things.

This said, the Service Desk / Issue tracking system we develop adopted a GTD-like philosophy in its latest iteration (a pretty significant UX change) and the feedback from our internal and external customers has been outstanding. It helps you keep your head level.
as other people pointed out, Mebibyte is the correct form.
You can't just make the wrong version right by means of usage.
The patents don't count as assets?
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>If Apple's marketing were not key to its business why would they have spent over $1 billion on iPhone and iPad marketing since launching the devices (Google it)?

HP and Microsoft outspend Apple in Advertising every year. They should be doing much better than Apple if that is really the "key".
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If you want to do some sort of worth calculation on the TSA using cost of a terrorist attack, then you have to break it down by attack type. Damage done by the attack and probability of success both must be considered. Binary liquid bomb attacks are extraordinarily unlikely, extraordinarily hard to do successfully, and cause relatively little damage.

Terrorists are interested in airplanes for two reasons: they can be hijacked to great effectiveness (not anymore), and they know we react irrationally to threats to airplanes (this is what we should seek to fix). With both of these fixed, the threat terrorists pose to airplanes would be no more notable than the threat they pose to any other modestly sized group of people.

Re: a dozen terrorists with sufficient weapons/tools

Even assuming they could get these weapons/tools past pre-9/11 security, which is very doubtful, the chances of it working out the way they wanted are still absurdly small. What pilot would not fly the plane straight into the ground if the locked cockpit door was actually being breached? People know that hijackings are not survivable anymore. You are either killed or someone sits on a terrorists for a few hours, there aren't any other outcomes.

A dozen men with weapons sufficient to hold off an entire plane can do plenty of damage on the ground, and they don't even need to walk through a metal detector to do it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks Why bother having a chance to kill a few hundred people on a plane when you can do the same on the ground?

Yet we don't see either being attempted...

Frankly, all of these threat scenarios are fantasies.
Do you mean an additional new term to mean millionbyte? Because the existence of mebibyte only makes 'mega' even more ambiguous. You used to be able to know from context.
Who's making that $740 PC without crapware right now? I know I can buy a Mac and have a usable machine out of the box, but who is doing this in the Windows PC world?
Funny enough, I searched the Wikipedia entry on the Nook and there's no mention of "format" so I figured it was proprietary.

Thanks.
The Poisson distribution is just one random number distribution; there are several others for situations where the events are correlated, or have other properties. Half the fun of probability is figuring out which distribution is the right one to apply to the question at hand. So if your measurements don't match up to Poisson, it doesn't mean they're not random - they could just be interdependent.

So yes, for a Poisson process, the spread (standard deviation) is equal to the square root of the mean; as the number of events gets large, the Poisson distribution approaches the normal distribution, but the relationship between the standard deviation and the mean continues to hold.
How does Nancy (which I had never heard) compare to something like ServiceStack?
If they can just switch the design back to the old, I would start reading again. They can take the design back from tcfast.com
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I hope your product ends up in the Apple store someday. (I'd join the kickstarter, but it's closed; if you re-open at some point, great, otherwise I'll just buy it at retail.)
The bizarre thing about static site generators is they are nothing new. Online API docs have done this for years (Java, Python, etc.)
Great to see them listening to feedback there!
God likes soap operas. The Bible is one big soap opera. I like that God is that way.

God says...

1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the
fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the
rocks are thrown down by him.

1:7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he
knoweth them that trust in him.

1:8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the
place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

1:9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end:
affliction shall not rise up the second time.

1:10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are
drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

1:11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the
LORD, a wicked counsellor.

----

Oops. The guy should be commended. Ideally, one could resist. God said a "prince" can not be moved. One false move, however, can be catastrophic.

Sorry -- I'm just laughing at this particular trial this guy faces. God gives all of us trials. Seriously.

Can't I laugh? Yeah, it's serious. At least I'm not saying God likes war.

God says...

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tomenting cries advised mutually depressing cubits awakest
opinion father sits pluckest wickedness degrees * respected
Greek_to_me buckler comedy fasting Permit were sending
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The last system where I used SHA-256 had 16KiB of RAM (and 128KiB of direct-mapped flash). Yes, memory use for security algorithms is important.
He left a good team behind him and was given reassurances, etc. It can't be entirely bad (at least not for him) since he's been able to go back.
Food gets its energy from the Sun, so we may as well just call this device solar powered?
If Apple's marketing were not key to its business why would they have spent over $1 billion on iPhone and iPad marketing since launching the devices (Google it)?

Is this remarkable to you because it seems like a big number? Or is it because this is actually a lot less than what their competitors spend? Samsung alone spent a lot more than Apple did last year on marketing and advertising. What do you think of that?
There is a big different between a $10 - $100 gift card and $1 per targeted message
Regarding the bomb plot at the very bottom. Examining the number of bombs dropped in each square and comparing it to the Poisson distribution, it appears that the distribution of the bombs is random.

But looking at the plot on the map, it appears that the higher incidence of bombs is focused on a specific region. The Poisson distribution doesn't account for the fact that a lot of the squares with a high incidence of bombs are adjacent to each other. From my layman's understanding, it appears that the bombs were in fact targeted on a specific area, but that there was a random offset from this area regarding where the bombs actually landed. Because of this, you'd see randomness in the distribution. But the distribution of bombs wasn't really perfectly random.

Is the author deliberately avoiding this point, or is there something I've misunderstood?
I agree. One of the advantages of the (err, result) style is that it puts error handling directly in your face. The `result typeof Error` style does not.

In any case all I care about is that we choose one, and (err, result) is gaining traction, which is fine. While many are excited about domains, I am not. From my perspective, in practice, it will just add another incompatible style onto the pile.
This is actually an important lesson for game designers. Real randomness is very frustrating for players! Games should be designed to not be random. For example, there's an expansion to The Settlers of Catan that lets you use cards instead of dice to ensure a nice smooth distribution of resources... I think it's a lot more fun!
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Ask HN: alternatives to Clutch.io?
HN,

now that Clutch.io is no longer accepting customers, what do you do to get your fix of mobile A/B testing?

Are you hosting their server code yourselves? Did you find another SaaS offering that does something analogous? I'd love to know, as I haven't been able to find an alternative just yet.

Thank you!
Yeah,

And you know, it is always possible in those situations that there is a broken pseudo-random number generator involved. But of course, that's really hard to tell too because real randomness is so unrandom seeming.
I successfully verified my new Verizon number last month
also, if you can modify chrome to this effect and you noticed the chrome team pushing live updates that make your silent update fail, you fix your silent update and you break chrome's update feature and win. only solution is application level isolation as others have said on this thread...
Ad bigbangeum.
How do you deal with code where the author forgot to handle all of the failure cases and invoke the callback?
There are a lot of MVNOs in US too. Also GiffGaff is owned by Telefonica (O2).
The people who would be interested in this are the VCs themselves, as their portfolio companies are at risk in aggregate. Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if there are ad hoc anti-troll legal teams associated with the major VCs already. But the key is reducing the cost to fight, and the cost will only go down with scale, and no VC has a large enough portfolio, I'd imagine, to really get the cost down
if they would just produce enough

But that's why this is so hard. Google and LG completely fucked up the Nexus 4. They so completely misjudged market demand for the N4 that they didn't have their supply chain in line to produce enough. That's why even now you can't get one. It takes a while to get all of the downstream suppliers in line and they're probably scrambling to do that now.

That's why this business is so hard. It's not that they just didn't produce enough - they didn't produce enough and they're not very good with contingency planning and supply chain management and so the Nexus 4 isn't an option for most consumers who would want one. Don't underestimate just how good Apple and Samsung are at this.
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Amazon fulfillment,