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Good narrative. I saw a bit of the inside of this at a meeting a month after 9/11. From what I saw, I would give importance to your statement: "But it was also partly due to traditional DC power politics -- these congresspeople were on the hawkish, national-security-oriented end of the spectrum, and pulling together all the little agencies that tended to their pet issues into One Big Agency would give that agency more budgetary and bureaucratic clout, making their views more prominent."

I would emphasize in your statement the term "budgetary" and follow the money.

The meeting I was in at a "front company" in the D.C. area ended a day of brainstorming with a guy I had just met that day slapping me on the knee, saying "We're gonna make a lot of money off this!". Several at the meeting claimed to have spent the prior evening swilling whiskey with the then Governor of Pennsylvania, saying he was to be the head of this yet to be announced DHS and its our job to cook up multi-billion dollar projects for private gain. And cook up they did. Every idea discussed that day eventually became a reality and Tom Ridge did become the first head of DHS.

I would say more, but these guys spook me. I had zero experience with D.C. prior to that day. I was the accidental tech guy that should have never been in the room. I left and never went back.
The joco version is properly an arrangement. Also, parodies are certainly protected, but in what way is glee's version a parody of joco's arrangement?
The equivalent `plus2` OCaml function compiles to:

camlAdd__plus2_1030:
.L100:
addq	$4, %rax
ret

(It's using 4 instead of 2, because ints are boxed; a 0 in the last bit denotes an int, a 1 denotes an address).
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Sales 101 - the price is whatever someone is willing to pay for it at one point in time ... no more, no less. Selling real estate is exactly the same.
Hard to imagine how it wouldn't cure Aids if the virus can't replicate.
And thus the shakey underpinnings of a marketplace that overvalues certain companies come about.
His eulogy at Aaron's funeral was utterly heartbreaking. His post underscored it for me.
The thing about poker (versus chess), is the notion of complete versus incomplete information. In chess, you know the location of every piece. This means you can compute possible positions (theoretically) until every possible game ends. Even better, you can play the algorithm against itself, since it can see everything either player knows. This makes chess computationally expensive - there are many positions, and you can do fairly meaningful analysis on every possible move. The best chess algorithms know how to aggressively cull paths which won't work well early on.

In Texas Hold'em, you only know ( initially ) your pocket cards, then as the rest come up you gain a bit more information. But compare this to the number of cards you can't see as a player. Those overlays they show on TV are effectively the best you can do; there's just no more data to work with. It's not like chess where throwing more computing power at it helps anything.
James Boyle: The Prosecution of Aaron Swartz: A Reply to Orin Kerr
> They are effectively saying they have invented strong AI using people pushing bits of paper as their computing model.

And thats exactly what big corporations are doing or dream about doing (depending on their competence) with their workforce. reading their employees handbooks or HR guides would make you feel they are 100% successful. Of course reality makes it much less deterministic, yet it is their ideal - having employees as wetware AIs repeatable and predictably implementing corporate policies. (In case of Foxconn that seems to be becoming a reality without all the inconvenience of wetware.) corporations are working that way since thats the way it maximizes their returns. Just showing the natural duality between free form exploration of new "true yet unprovable" statements and rigid late stage formalization that has to be understood by startup founders.
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In a group setting, computers can beat humans. They just keep track of more stuff.

And if you get 2 computers communicating, sitting at the same table, well, HUGE advantage.
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Welcome to HN seadog33.

"Ommageo is a combination of Google Earth and YouTube"
-I did not intend to be arrogant I just do not believe there is a better way to describe my start-up than this simple sentence. It is self-explanatory and should not leave readers wondering what Ommageo is or thinking this is some "abstract idea" (especially when I posted the link and anyone can go there now and find videos in Google Earth and watch them, use the search functions, and visit watch the "trending video page" - all without registering).

>Instead of brushing off this person's valid point, why not try and convince us about how "fun and interesting" your product is? What about more specific use cases? Not just "here's my product. Try it."

I am not here to promote my website, sell anything, explain my strategy to monetize the product, or convince anyone. I simply asked people who are interested in being part of my beta to email me or offer advice on finding additional beta testers. So its not like I am brushing anyone off, its just that some people are interested in testing Ommageo because I described it as combining Google Earth and Youtube, two products that people know and use, while others find Ommageo abstract and think it will be made more clear by answering business related questions. In my opinion there is nothing wrong with saying that the Ommageo Beta might not be right for that second group.

>Those who have posted so far haven't a clue the benefit they are getting out of it.

I cannot disagree with you on this point, but the qualifier is "Those who have posted", because I have received emails from the people interested in the Ommageo Beta, another HN member was even kind enough to share one of his projects which is similar to mine but instead of video it was photo oriented. So trust me people see the inherent benefit of combining Google Earth and YouTube and more generally the benefit of location based media sharing and discovery.
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This project is all about workflow. The workflow provided by 'git sync' normally takes five commands:

$ git stash
$ git fetch
$ git merge origin/$current-branch
$ git push origin $current-branch
$ git unstash

It's actually slightly fancier than that, the push actually reduces merge commits but doesn't rewrite your merges. Same as GitHub for Mac.
Dreamliner customers got a choice of GE or Rolls Royce for the engines.

Would there be anything unreasonable about Boeing also giving their customers a choice of Thales/Yuasa or Tesla/Panasonic?

If a Boeing customer has been informally talking with both Tesla, and their Boeing sales rep, and the Boeing sales rep thinks it's unlikely Tesla would be willing to help out, is it possible that a tweet like this would help the Boeing customer to get useful conversations going within Boeing?
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This project is not intended to be an additional porcelain layer on top of Git, but a simple workflow tool.

> Legit is a complementary command-line interface for Git, optimized for workflow simplicity. It is heavily inspired by GitHub for Mac.
I imagine the real issue with a setup like that would be how quickly and smoothly the robotic camera could match your head movement. Did you experience any difficulty to that effect?
Allegedly JP Morgan estimates $275.5M, and this analyst describes that as "tepid".

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1072761-the-true-genius-of-t...

In fact, even the articles you link all point to a plan that involves $400M revenue for the year, and each article indicates that they're on-plan. Of course, the plan COULD be wrong, and it could be deceitfully wrong, but it seems utterly plausible, and apparently all analysts agree (within say 10%).

And also you're being needlessly rude.
http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-h...

any chance it's this?
Your NxM problem is generally tackled by RAM Mounts; the common interface is a ball / clamp joint.
That's silly. You have an opponent whose previous actions you can analyze with an eye to the possible cards to come and the moves you can make. Add more players and the calculations are more complex. There's plenty of data for a computer to crunch on.
Interesting, how much did you try to optimize this code? Some of it is a bit fishy.
Because Windows 8 is kind of a hot mess?

If they could jettison all of the holdovers from Windows XP and replace things like the file browser and command console with "Metro Native" apps, it would still be pretty to look at, but painful to live with.

If you want to talk about leading edge, look to webOS which was ahead of its time in significant ways.
WikiLeaks: Aaron Swartz assisted WikiLeaks, may have been a source
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It's a pity this got posted in the middle of the night when it will receive very few votes. It's a really long piece, it is fairly balanced and makes a few excellent points.
But isn't that the basis of the stock market? Analysts estimate and the CEO executes to meet or exceed those expectations. Are you just skeptical of Tesla meeting those expectations or all companies that are public? Do you have information that the Analysts don't have access to as the basis of your skepticism?
Very interesting way to look at the os universe
"Due to the investigation into the Secret Service involvement with #AaronSwartz we have decided to disclose the following facts (1-3) "

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/292503580135538688

"1. Aaron Swartz assisted WikiLeaks #aaronwartz (1/3)"

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/292503892569239552

"2. Aaron Swartz was in communication with Julian Assange, including during 2010 and 2011"

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/292504484016439296

"3. We have strong reasons to believe, but cannot prove, that Aaron Swartz was a WikiLeaks source. #aaronswartz"

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/292504975865692160
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Hey, if you Googled it and somehow ended up with the impression that Cornyn might have supported granting Habeas Corpus rights and opposed the Bush Administration's wiretapping, that would definitely be worth a post raising the issue. But that wouldn't happen, because this isn't a fuzzy or subjective matter.

A Senator's stances on issues like these are simple, objective, easily falsifiable facts. This is one or two steps away from demanding a citation for "Barack Obama is a Democrat." Like, if you can't easily figure out for yourself whether it's true or false, the only possible reason is that you didn't care enough to try.
There's a group at the University of Alberta that does research in poker strategy. They have a program that plays heads-up poker (2 players) as well as the best in the world. Adding more players into the mix significantly complicates things though, so it will be a little while yet.

There are people that run bots on online poker sites, to varying degrees of success.
Thanks. If there's a more detailed writeup you can point me to that'd be great. I would like to make sure then that all these issues are addressed in the current versions.

0.94+ has MSLAB by default, with HFileV2 (0.92+) we can support much larger regions (20G or bigger).
Curious about the 512M HBlocks, did you have scan-heavy read-load?

14k TX peak per regionserver? x 2k that's 28M/s (56M with WAL). Should be doable now even with WAL (definitely with deferred flush). Well, maybe not with concurrent very heavy read load, depending on disk configuration.

Probably on top of Hadoop 0.20-append?
Hadoop-2.x.x should be far better too.
That's cool and OCaml is an interesting language. However I'm sure you know it would not be difficult to come up with a different example where C lets you express "bare metal" idioms that are not as "bare metal" when expressed in OCaml.
This is one of the best tutorials around. Found it very useful and I can't even think of going to windows after reading this!
Typically the publisher retains copyright, they make the author(s) sign it away as a condition of publication. There are some exceptions.

By inserting themselves into the somewhat "broken" system of scientific publishing, the large publishers have been making a killing. (It's broken from an economic point of view because too much work is done for free.)
You might think many HN visitors are "foolishly naive," and I would respond no: HN is instead full of too many people who believe that they're somehow less naive than everyone else.

I'm not an experienced trader, but I know about the efficient-markets hypothesis and that analyses such as this one are often "priced-in" to a certain extent. But when the market opens on Tuesday, AAPL is going to go up or down. "Underpriced" is a measure that can only be fully assessed in retrospect -- if AAPL goes up on Tuesday, it was underpriced tonight.

You're right that there are tens of thousands of large players with billions, all trying to screw each other over. I believe that 100%. But there's still room in there for Joe Normal to buy some AAPL stock. If his hunch is correct, the stock will go up in value and he'll make money. Individual people still make money trading stocks, and it's "naive" to think it's solely based on luck.
I was responding to a comment that said that "C is no closer to the metal than other high level languages", without qualifying which high level languages.

But even Haskell is not as "bare metal" as C. Just because a language can compile to machine code doesn't mean it fills the same role that C does.
It's all about the tradeoffs you are taking. Cassandra favors availability over consistency. For many workloads that is desired for others it is not.

HBase for example is always consistent, but if you lose a node unexpectedly some data is not available for some time.
I have a question from another angle: would society be better or worse if Prada/Tiffany's/Rolex etc. could no longer block copy-cat products? The way I see it, trademark law is being used to promote social stratification by inflating the prices of luxury goods. Artificially inflating prices via government monopoly is inherently anti-capitalist and anti-consumer.
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Look at the "jobs" tab, that's for YC partners to advertise positions.
Semi-related:

I like reading the Volokh Conspiracy. I disagree with them on at least half of what I read, but their posts and the comments almost always teach me something about the law, and interacting with lawyers, especially when they are wrong, helps take away the halo I seem to hold for them.

And many of them were former hackers, certainly Eugene Volokh got his start that way.

I write this now, because when I have submitted links to HN from the VC, the links seem to go dead pretty quickly, and I think that's a shame, because often what they write about certainly seems well targeted to the hacker community.

That said, regarding Professor Kerr, while I find his posts very informative, I have often detected a weird skew to his analyses.

I am not a lawyer and pretty ignorant and I am certain his analyses are just a zillion times better than anything I could say, but for example, in the Jones GPS case, Professor Kerr was very attached to the raw search and seizure aspects of the case, and seemed to ignore what the implications of his analyses would be in a world of very cheap government installed ALPR devices.
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Because the assumption is it's a valid charge but the user simply mistyped their CVC (or don't understand what that number is and put in the wrong thing entirely). If these purchases are rejected, the user may never complete the sale.
As far as I know they still store all critical data in Oracle.
(That is actually true for many user for NoSQL data bases, not just Cassandra or Netflix).

My information is a bit dated, so that might no longer be the case.
Clearly, you should be skeptical of anyone offering a "surefire deal" on anything. Skepticism is healthy and good.

But suppose the founders of Airbnb came to you when they were raising angel money. I'm sure they were convinced at that time (maybe objectively irrationally) that investing in their company was a "surefire deal." They were passed on by Fred Wilson (the equivalent of your "rich person with hundreds of staff"), among countless others I'm sure.

By this point, their returns are certainly far more than 12-15%.
It can, of course, if you put in the work to make it do so. Presto already has had that work done. I'm not sure doing the work for Webkit would be worth the reward, especially considering they wouldn't be in control of iOS Webkit (controlled exclusively by Apple) including their changes. But that's just idle guesswork based on a subjective view of costs and benefits involved.
Thanks. So does each job listing just slowly fall down the front page?
Wow wow wow.
This whole "prices are pinned around a strike" story does not make any sense.

First, a quick search on bloomberg reveals that stocks belonging to the S&P 500 (with liquid options) do not tend to close at exactly the most liquid option strike price on expiry dates, so a close at 500.00 is not "expected" for AAPL, or any other stock, today.

Second, if you'd take 30 seconds to look up what an option is, you'd discover that option can be either calls or puts (options to buy or sell, respectively) so when the spot (market) price of AAPL is 495 at expiry, the 500 call is worthless, but not the 500 put is not.
Third, the market for options is not the only one responsible for the spot price, if only because a lot of people actually trade AAPL stocks independently of AAPL options.

Finally, most people who trade options do not give a damn about the spot price, instead they care about the (implied) volatility. Roughly, it means your profit/loss on an option position is largely immune to the moves in the underlying stock price (just look at people hedging variance swaps).
Right -- good call. Thanks for the advice.
Ah nice, thanks.
This won't convince you (and in fact I never try to convince anyone), but if you're curious where someone with a scientific mind who also believes in God is coming from, perhaps this can at least give you a little insight into why we think what we do. I wrote this a few days ago:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/16icpq/only_6_of_s...
If you have that secret smile from your vipassana practice, I want to share another practice that complements it. It is written in a book called, "Feeding Your Demons", authored by Tsultrim Allione.

In some ways, this method works well to prepare people for vipassana. Yes, yes, I know, you can always note any experience out; but some people are so habituated to their trauma and were never put into a situation where they dedicate themselves to doing nothing and observing everything. They will stare at you incredulously as we babble on how awesome vipassana is.
Obama has the power of veto and executive order, does he not?

Every power grubbing slimeball in D.C. is responsible. My only point was that just because Senator X doesn't share your values, don't think opposing him or her is going to make much difference right now.
Be sure to post it as a HN submission when you finish!
Ask HN: Can Vipassana meditation help me concentrate better?
I'm looking for a tool that can help me concentrate on a singular task for extended periods of time. Those experienced in Vipassana meditation: do you think attending a 10-day meditation camp can help my cause?
Safra Ethics Centre, Harvard blacks out website in memory of Swartz
I wouldn't be in a hurry to be so dismissive. Attachment to bad ideas is the same as attachment to better ideas: they arise, they pass.

Sit long enough, and you will encounter all the interesting attachment surrounding the notion of rationality.
And there risk is higher than 'surefire' :-) I've invested in, been part of, and advised startups so I understand those risks. And, for example when FB stock dropped to 17 I bought a chunk and put a limit order to sell it at $28 (I ended up getting it at 18 and my limit order was purchase + $10) But again, it was a lot riskier than "surefire". When people guarantee results without risk, that is when I say "oh really? and just how do you do that?"

There are lots of ideas, but the tried and true one is 'Ponzi Scheme' :-)
It's not about how much Voxer was paying, it's about how much users were paying.

How much is a Facebook user's personal information worth?

Users provide facebook a certain amount of information in return for access to the Facebook service and platform. (That includes apps like Voxer that can integrate with it.)

By denying Voxer access, Facebook is effectively making their service less valuable to its users. One day, they'll shut off access to a service enough Facebook users value that users will no longer value Facebook.

Twitter is going to learn this lesson the hard way too.
Hmm... Where to start.

First, kindly point at an Cassandra installation, which supports the size that HBase supports in this setting.

Can I assume you have first hand information about this decision from someone at Facebook? I was stating a fact... not a jab.

Re: Google. Nothing at Google is driven by an eventually consistent store. They got that part right from beginning. It's too hard to manage from the an application point of view (unless you store immutable data, in which eventual consistency is pretty awesome).
Checkout BigTable, Megastore, Percolator, Spanner. Except for the latter these are all based on BigTable. Note that BigTable is always consistent like HBase (and unlike Cassandra).

Are you saying the MySQL is better than PostgreSQL (or vice versa?) because one is easier to setup than the other. That is a terrible way to pick a technology.

Out of the box functioning is nice, easy to get started, makes the product look good in benchmarks, etc, but it just hides the complexity until you deploy into a production setting.

Lastly, I agree that if you store the odd few TB here or there, you certainly do not need to bother with the complexity of HBase.
We've told them multiple times their country is sliding downhill. If Americans want laws "protecting" them from terrorists, let them have it. The ones who get clued in can emigrate to an actually free country.
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The number of times I have come across this video in whatever store or whatever other legal form is effectively zero. This is the first time I have the opportunity to see it. So, I expect profits to be extremely small, and thus resulting in good works getting basically nothing and the video being virtually lost to mankind's current culture, save for events like this one.
What ?!? I can't believe the amount a bullshit about options I see here.

If, at expiry, the spot is 'x', puts with strikes > x are worthless and calls with strike < x are worthless too. This is true for any x, indepently of HN's belief that x is somewhow magical.
> It is harmful to have within your semantic environment both "spiritual" factors… and scientific factors such as the notion of "space-time" (which currently shape our civilisation). This is because the two belong to inconsistent sets, so they conflict.

Harmful to what? Prove it—and not from first principles, because the human mind seems to have no trouble at all with combining arbitrary and contradictory concepts into one big mushy whole. Ask any non-programmer for software requirements, or really anybody why they did anything and not something else.

The only tangible harm is that it annoys people who attempt to apply logical reasoning to every situation and interaction, even where other human faculties are obviously more appropriate.
I missed that :)