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Yeah built on QNX OS which is by all accounts rock solid and super fast...
Considering I just spend the last month putting in 80+ hour weeks along with all of my co-workers, might I humbly suggest you put "n=1" after your post? Then again, I work in video games. Long hours are the industry standard.
Are you in Europe or something? In Silicon Valley, 50 hours is a fairly typical week most places I've worked and in some companies much higher numbers are the norm. (edit: and all forms of leave are decreasing rather than increasing)
Serious question here. How is this a startup? I thought "startups" were some form of business that has just been started. This seems to me just like any other little website.
>Why teach a man how to fish when you can keep selling him the fish?

If you think someone is going to come along to teach fishing anyway.
If this works Netflix will buy what's left of HBO in a few years.
The term is a generic one, not specific to Mormonism. According to the Wikipedia article[1] (albeit from an uncited source), there are references to it from the year 567.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe
Somewhat? Moreover, I caught your "in journalistic context[sic]" and I still thought your hyperbole was comical. It was almost as if you were attempting some sort of existential/postmodern parody of the original sentence by writing something that was even more absurd and irrelevant. Fluff journalism is all around us; a sentence that brings up the poorly understood economics of an expensive TV serial produced by a dotcom is hardly the most irrelevant sentence written in the last week, let alone ever.
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The replay protection is intended to prevent clients from tricking the server into sending more than permitted by TCP congestion control. I.e., it protects the network and other clients from DoS.

Protecting TCP congestion control prevents a couple of attacks:
* a selfish client may consume more than its fair share of the bandwidth
* a malicious client may use the server to amplify a DoS attack. E.g., in the absence of replay protection, an attacker limited to only 1 Mb/s of bandwidth could cause the server to consume 10-20 Mb/s (other examples of amplification include smurf attacks; some TCP implementations from the 1990s could also be tricked). With replay protection, the attacker would actually have to have the full 10-20Mb/s of bandwidth to cause that level of damage.

Note that the HMAC protects against related attacks that are based on spoofing the client IP.

The amount of state stored at the server is proportional to the bandwidth. E.g., a server with a fatter pipe will need larger bloom filters to handle the higher packet rate. In Trickles, the amount of bandwidth-proportional state is mathematically clean to compute -- typical Bloom filter collision equations. By comparison, TCP will hold some fixed overhead per connection, consisting of TCB (TCP control block, for congestion control state) and socket/fd structs. Every TCP connection also buffers a variable amount of sent but unacknowledged data (proportional to window size).

The fixed per-connection overhead of TCP alone requires asymptotically more server-side state than Trickles. Since the size of TCP send buffers varies according to window size, which is determined by protocol dynamics, it’s tricky to construct a model of how much server state will be consumed by socket buffers. In our experiments, the socket buffers dominated server-side memory consumption.

- Alan Shieh
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Dish Network starts at $50/mo plus $18 for HBO. Once you start adding up streaming subscriptions and season passes to fill in the gaps, you're looking at a similar price.
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I wonder if that sweet sweet karma was worth it.
That's an interesting idea. One of the things we are
building is a "reddit like system"[1], and so I could
see building a feature like that. Our current focus is
on enterprise usage, though, not building something for the
public web. But the code is all Open Source, ALv2 licensed and it's done in Groovy and Grails. If anyone is interested on hacking on something like that with us, just shout.

[1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick
netflix has a row with popular shows called "popular on netflix", if it shows up in the row it's a hit on netflix.
Mormons are the best known example of it, but many Baptist, Pentecostal and Brethren churches do the same thing. In all of those cases, where it happens, I believe that 10% is the standard figure.
I think he'll fit right in there.

http://www.theverge.com/ethics-statement
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For those who are interested in more than the cursory description offered in the article, I also came across this:

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13339-the-25-hour-work-
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The person who wrote the note came across an article about it, called the Applebee’s location, and demanded everyone be fired — me, the server who allowed me to take the picture, the manager on duty at the time, the manager not on duty at the time, everyone. It seems I was fired not because Applebee’s was represented poorly, not because I did anything illegal or against company policy, but because I embarrassed this person.

Incredible. How much money does this customer want to stiff this waitress out of? Isn't paying nothing on a mandatory tip bad enough?
> In most proposed treatments the discussion is not if they are more or less "effective", the problem is that they don't work, and some of them even have side effects.

Well, in this context, whether treatments work or "don't work" is the definition of effectiveness, and whether or not they have deleterious side effects is the definition of safety. But apart from that, I'll again point out that whether or not a treatment works is determined by what results the patient considers satisfactory, and whether or not something is safe depends on what risks the patient is willing to bear; generalizations simply don't suffice here.

If the unlikeliness of a procedure's success and the nature of the possible side-effects are known, then they can be communicated to the patient so that he can decide whether the higher probability of side effects is justified by the lower probability of relief according to his own hierarchy of values. If how well the treatment works and the nature of its side effects aren't known, then no one has the relevant knowledge to make an informed decision, and it still remains up to the patient to weigh the unquantifiable possibility of relief against the equally unquantifiable risk of a bad outcome.

There's simply no way around the fact that the question always boils down to a deeply personal value judgement that no third party has the right to usurp.

> Terminal ill people are often desperate and would try whatever is trendy

Right. They're desperate because they're terminally ill. They're going to die if they don't get cured, so their risk calculation is probably entirely skewed to the "reward" side of the equation, no matter how remote it is. They've literally got nothing to lose, so it's unconscionable to forcibly deny them the right to "lose" it, third parties' objections to "trendiness" being entirely immaterial.

> http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/the-rise-and-fal...

Perhaps this was an ineffective treatment, but the question of whether it should be paid for by insurance is entirely unrelated to the question of whether people should be forbidden from choosing to undergo the procedure at all. The FDA has nothing to do with the former question, and everything to do with the latter; in the article itself, there's no indication that anyone actually tried to forcibly prohibit the ABMT procedure. Doctors simply stopped recommending it after it was demonstrated not to be of much value. If, in some specific case in the future, patient and doctor agree that the ABMT procedure might be worth trying, no third party is going to actively overrule their judgment. But, unfortunately, this isn't the case for certain other procedures.
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Apparently it turned into a social media fracas: http://rlstollar.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/applebees-overnigh...
This implies that we can say/understand/dictate as humans what is just and not just.
Technically, that's not a "full time job". It's nearly two full time jobs.
> Treat input handling computational power as a privilege, and reduce it whenever possible.

A great example of this was Google's Code Search product, before it was canceled. Since full backtracking search was blowing out the tiny thread stacks in servers, they had to reduce what they allowed to actually regular expressions - expressions generating a regular language. Queries could be turned into DFAs of linear size with respect to input, making arbitrary public regex searches over code indices feasible.

Ross Cox's regular expressions write-ups are quite a fascinating deep-dive: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/
Maybe people should be more careful about what to post online, especially things that could reveal personal identities without the person's permission.

In this case the customer's signature is partially visible, which is not only considered personal but can potentially also be forged to sign for credit card receipts and legal documents.

Sure the life of a waitress is not easy but from the perspective of the restaurant owner, I think the firing was justified. If she disagrees, she can always sue for wrongful termination and let the court decide (which will cost her money that potentially cannot be recovered should she lose).
> this wouldn't imply the power to declare what is good or true by fiat

There are volumes upon volumes of philosophical work spent discussing this one idea. I wouldn't think less of someone simply for having a different point of view, especially if it might be supported by more than a back-of-the-envelope argument.
The prototype did not use AES to encrypt continuations. As you said, the details are tricky. For instance, CTR mode may well be insecure. In a stateless environment, it's quite likely that the client could trick the server into encrypting multiple plaintexts with the same counter value.

The prototype did use AES to compute and check nonces -- AES is faster than HMAC for such small input sizes.

Since the server is effectively sending encrypted data and MACs to itself, there is no need for key distribution. Only the server holds keys; the client treats the encrypted data and MACs as opaque data.
It would be interesting if people were paid on some measure of productivity rather than just raw hours. Then we could get paid based on our contribution to economic output. Of course, the problem with that is how to do you measure productivity?
Indeed. They have the 21st century equivalent of Nielsen ratings.
Have any foreign companies successfully applied? How do they handle visas, company location etc.?
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So let me get this straight, you say you've got a problem with ad hominem attacks, but that doesn't stop you from personally attacking others. And when you do, the term of abuse you employ is...(wait for it)...hypocrite.

Unbelievable.

Just out of curiosity, do even know what the words you're using mean? Specifically can you define "hypocrite" and use it properly in a sentence?
How did Mormons come into this discussion? To tithe means to pay one tenth and always has. A "tithe" comes from the saxon "teoþa" which means "tenth". Plenty of sects tithe.
No, the gravitational force would still be there, he might just overcome it with a different force.
It's hard to construct a working business model where programming isn't funded according to its popularity.
While I wholeheartedly agree that the actions of the customer are absurd, I would like to point out that in the US, courts have held that a tip is not "mandatory."
Both of your points are valid objections to MOOCs.

Not sure whether you are correct. If you are, I believe that MOOC model can be modified to fix them. (ex: local meetups for teaching how to learn, google hangouts for in-person discussions).

What is interesting is that your single paragraph contains more valid objections to MOOCs than the original 4500 word essay. It was a collection of anecdotes, emotional appeals. Which is really lame, considering that MOOCs are just getting off the ground, early alpha, there are tons of real serious flaws.

I heart the idea of MOOCs. I enjoyed my grad school. I've recently taken two online classes. Loved Ng's Machine Intelligence, dropped out of Startup Owner Manual (but got a few good pointers). When MOOCs take off, they will change education as much as self-driving car will change the car industry.
Never stop improving your design.
the customer's signature is partially visible

You're kidding, right? How could anyone possibly get any identifying information from a few squiggles at the edge of a photo--much less enough to perpetrate identity theft?
Are you referring to the obtuse names?
Brooks' was at IBM, they adhere to a 37.5 hours per week work schedule. Programmers who can produce 3-4 hours of real work per day are considered productive. Any more and you will start to burn them out.
Most Protestant denominations I'm familiar with encourage tithing, all at 10%.
There absolutely can be a feedback loop. Look no further than the many self taught programmers that frequent HN. Effective learning can and does happen without high paid PHD level professors, large marble floored auditoriums, and football stadiums.
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>Two programmers working 20 hours a week, for example, are way less productive than one programmer working 40 hours a week. And the one programmer will learn faster because she's putting in an extra 20 hours a week.

From where did you pull out that data ? It is always possible that one programmer working 20 hours is more productive than two programmers working 40 hours. It depends what they are actually doing.
I've always thought that the idea of a gratuity as a requirement is just a scapegoat for employers not wanting to pay their employees for the effort they put in.

I've never understood why I have to tip a waiter, a pizza delivery guy, or a grocery bagger, but not the guy that changes my oil.

When I lived in Mexico, grocery stores had bag boys and they were all under 12 years old. Those kids weren't employed by the store, they were allowed to work there for tips only. That's the only pay they received. I always tipped those boys well, but it shows how the gratuity can be abused.
Nobody's arguing this on legal grounds. Even if it's technically okay to leave without tipping, it's a shitty thing to do.
The reason there are not a lot of scammers is because the feedback / reputation system works.
There are many problems with the current crop of MOOCs, I'll be the first to admit that. In their current state they are not an alternative.

That said, the argument advanced against them in this article and numerous times on this and other boards is elitist and out of touch. "These lectures do not compare to the ones I sat in at UC Berkeley/Stanford/MIT! people watching them are not getting a REAL education!" Not only is it a classic "no true Scotsman", it also neglects to note that increasingly all large courses at large state universities are adopting a model not unlike the MOOC model. Lectures are increasingly posted online, and coursework is now almost always a blackboard quiz. Projects are submitted online, no paper copies are ever even created. Office hours are available, true, but often they are with a TA who is only slightly more than a glorified Tutor. All of these are transparent time and money saving moves on the part of the departments and professors.

Students rarely object as online classes give them more flexibility to work (something rarely mentioned in these kind of articles). Everyone wins on one level and loses on another. The quality of education drops as a consequence, but we're talking second and third tier schools here so it doesn't exactly make the news. All things considered, I might as well be taking MOOC at this point. I personally prefer Coursera to blackboard. More variety and no nagging advisors telling me I don't have the prereq. The tools and ui are better too! And its free!
Restraunts should just charge the amount that is needed to pay their waitstaff properly, instead of relying on a tip and make their prices look cheaper! A tip is supposed to be extra money given the the waitstaff for services above and beyond the call of duty.
Yes I am. I've heard it's like that with tech in Silicon Valley.
The 18% tip was already billed to the customer, so they ended up paying the automatic 18% tip (even though they crossed it out) in addition to a $6 cash tip they left on the table. The receipt was for about $40, if I recall correctly.
What in the hell is a mandatory tip?

I don't know how wait staff came to be so ungrateful and self-entitled. But please, if it's such a chore, I will walk the 10 feet to pick up my plate.
Bizarre posting. This appears to be a high-school page (authored either by very-good students or not-so-good teachers) and last updated, according to the page, in 2000! I lean towards thinking this is a student project since some of the other articles on this site aren't very well researched. However, this would have been a fairly spiffy result from a group of students in 2000!

But... Why post this? I am not sure I understand.
Mormons are only unique in this respect in just how seriously they take tithing and the lengths that they go to in order to ensure that it is being done properly. In most other Christian-based religions tithing is a more personal matter.
The waitress's own accounting of the incident is exceptionally self serving and false. The signature as originally posted was quite legible. Her original accounting of the incident was completely fabricated because she didn't actually serve the table, though she represented herself as if she did.

For example, the customer's name, Alois, is a man's name, but the customer was actually a female with a male's first name. The waitress asserted that the customer was a man. When she later found out she was wrong she backpeddled and claimed she knew that but that she was protecting the customer's identity. However she publicly posted the customer's name and location, enabling people to track down the customer and begin threatening her.

Another detail she got wrong was claiming the customer left no tip. The customer left the tip as cash on the table, as most people in the US do, and something that most servers prefer, rather than pay it as part of the bill. The restaurant also though double charged the customer for the tip, meaning the customer ended up paying 36% rather than 18% on the bill as tip. Because the waitress had not served the table she assumed that the strike out of the tip line meant the customer left no tip at all.

In short, the waitress violated a customer's privacy, lied about the customer publicly defaming her, publicly ridiculed her religious beliefs, and instigated an internet mob riot against the customer which continues to this day in the form of threats and harassment and has caused the customer severe mental anguish. If I was an attorney in the area I would be preparing a large lawsuit against the restaurant at this time, and I would certainly prevail in court.

Her firing was completely justified and her complaining about being fired in the media and claiming herself as victim when she was the bully is absolutely outrageous.
GNI is just a grand total divided by population; people would be making more if the money was divided up evenly but it's not, particularly in the U.S.
The tip in question was really a service charge for serving larger groups. While leaving a tip is not mandatory, businesses have a lot more leeway in adding on extra fees and whatnot, especially if it is already outlined somewhere (e.g. on the menu).

That being said, making it a mandatory charge usually means that it's separate from being considered a tip for tax purposes.
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> what they'll be getting is something else that shouldn't even be called by that name.

Tell me you wore a monocle while typing that
I think he would say now that this letter was rather short sighted. It seems the theft of basic by hobbyists may have lead to the catalyst needed for his software to dominate the commercial PC market some years later. Clearly it wasn't just him developing software for these computers. I wonder how they attributed licensing to it. Or if there even was such a thing at that time.

Funny how some things change, yet stay the same. Glad the OP posted this.
I'm not sure why you felt the need for that "[sic]".
That may be the case, but refusing to tip is only going to hurt the people who are not making that call. Not the employer, but the underpaid employees. When you fail to tip a waitress, you are not making a social statement that is heard by anybody.
The clay shouldn't waste its time thinking about the potter. The potter will either put the finished product on his mantle or not, at his whim. Either that or he won't exist to do anything with it.

Ergo, what the clay should do is life a full, enjoyable and productive life, and pay little attention to that which is out of its hands.
I am surprised that everyone saw this from one side. I was making an argument that the "pastor" has received a lot of undue criticism all because she made ONE comment on a receipt after ONE meal. Now, her small 15 person church is receiving a bunch of scrutiny and being mocked...from papers across the globe. If the "waitress" did not POST the picture on the Internet then the pastor would have been left alone. Is it possible the waitress overreacted to the customer's one comment on tips?

It has been a while since I waited tables but we were always happy and respectable to all guests, we didn't worry about a person NOT giving tips. We were just glad for the visit. Did it ever matter? It is all about the averages, you may get a good tip at one table and a bad tip at another. You never disrespect the customer by trying to insult them online.

On religion and her being a pastor (of a 15 member church). Why should we expect rational, conscientious behavior from some random pastor? The world is shocked that she didn't want to give a tip and then made a reference a God while doing so. It is religion, I don't expect thought-out, kind behavior from religious people. Why should we? They are just people and are going to make these kind of snide comments just like anyone else.

"In light of the situation, I would like to make a statement on behalf of wait staff everywhere: We make $3.50 an hour. Most of my paychecks are less than pocket change because I have to pay taxes on the tips I make."

She knows that if you make less than the non-server minimum wage then the company is supposed to pay you the rest of the wages to meet the minimum wage rate. So, they don't entirely make less than the federal minimum wage rate. And I was a waiter, a lot of people didn't report ALL the tips that they earned to avoid the taxes. Should we make sure she is being accurate in her tax reporting?
She originally posted the full image of the receipt and the signature was completely visible.