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If we take the ML estimate, I would say that the 1/9th chance distributes evenly. So it is 1/9th loss for both cases.

I have found that large corporations are able to capitalize better on incremental improvements and responsibilities are more narrow: hence they can tolerate less overall employee productivity.

Also, they might be more experienced at managing people and understand that advantages that working from home bring. For example, taking care of your children so that you live in constant fear of loosing your job :-)
Thanks, can't wait to try it out.

Must look into Qt then sometime. :)
AFAICT, you can do the same with newer versions of HAProxy and nginx. Is there any advantage of using this over those well tested and proven alternatives?
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What do you mean by 0.9 offices?
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While I admire your principled stand - you are in a dwindling minority so there isn't much reason to factor in people such as yourself when making technical decisions.

The SEO issue is a stronger argument but Googlebot now seems to be executing javascript in some cases so even that might cease to be an issue.
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We're working on a new tool at the minute that helps address some of these problems, by having a persistent visual channel with remote people you can tell if they are really away much more easily, it actually solves a lot of frustrations.
I did my own undergrad project on JPEG steganography, and I was surprised that section 2.6 accurately represents popular algorithms being implemented today. At the time it seemed to me that you got significantly better results than the naive algorithm when measuring visible differences and statistical anomalies in two ways...

1) Consider the unquantised DCT coefficients. If the unquantised coefficient is 12, and the quantisation factor is 5, then the quantised value is round(12/5) = round(2.4) = 2. If you need to flip the LSB, then the F5 algorithm would change this to 1. My algorithm would have changed this to 3 instead as this was much closer to the unrounded 2.4.

2) Encode one bit into multiple quantised co-efficients. For example: If you only need to hide one bit in a block, xor together the LSB of all 64 quantised co-efficients and use that; if you need to flip it, then carefully choose the single co-efficient which produces the best result for your visual/statistical models. (I might have excluded the DC co-efficient, don't remember.) If you need to hide two bits, use half of the co-efficients for one bit, and half for the other, and so on. Conversely, this method could also be extended to so that one bit is encoded into multiple blocks.

Rather than a keyed shuffle, I simply required the secret message to be strongly encrypted. This appears to have the added advantage of a message with predictable statistical properties.

Note also that robustness was not one of my criteria at the time.

Hope this is of some value (or at least interest). And my apologies if I have some of the terminology wrong - this was nearly twenty years ago and I don't have the work in front of me right now!
>Surveillance is necessary for personalized marketing

Say that to yourself a few times. It's newspeak. Personalized marketing is creepy in the same way a robot that looks human is creepy. The more accurate it is the creepier it becomes.
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No problem :) There are actually more than three of us working on Hoodie, one (actually two by now) of them an Irish national. The about section just lists the core team, if you will.
What was it specifically that made you angry? I enjoy chiptune music and listened to some of the linked samples thinking they were pretty good, but I still found the level of boldness in his "assessment of Kind of Bloop and the chiptune scene in general" quite refreshing and rather entertaining, even though I don't exactly agree with his opinion.

I enjoy a good articulate rant from someone who is making it in good faith, as I believe the author was. That "most of them have the good sense not to say so in public under their true identity" only makes it all the better - the argument is usually of such passion and ferocity that it must be confronted rather than sidestepped. If your reaction is one of anger then perhaps something he said was a little close to true and you're defaulting to an emotional response in defense.
Is that what the bankers said? Is there some collective banker mafia who chose to destroy the economy because we didn't hand over protection money when they came calling? No.

They were greedy and incompetent and we let them do it. No holding hostage. No extortion. No protection rackets. Greed and incompetence and lack of oversight and deregulation.
What people do in their local groups is up to them.

But when you post code to an international audience your intention doesn't matter. Bob may use the word nigger all day every day and none of Bob's friends care; but if Bob goes to Hackney he better be careful about who he calls nigger or he's going to get stabbed.

And I don't care if people are trying to be offensive by using such language in their code. Go ahead. Freedom of speech and stuff. (It's perfectly possible to be horribly racist and not use any of that language, and that's perhaps a bigger problem.)

But some people might just not be aware of the consequences of this language; how it might affect their future job prospects; how other people will view them.

There's a kerfuffle in the UK at the moment. A young person was employed by Kent Police Force to be a 'Youth Adviser' - she got opinions from local youth and passed them back to the Police Force. Unfortunately, no-one checked her twitter account. After she got the job a bunch of journalists had a look and she'd made some unfortunate posts. (She's young; young people are stupid. They should be allowed to make mistakes.) Many people are now calling for her to lose her job, and the force that employed her is investigating whether a criminal offence has been committed.

Intent is important when you're on the receiving end, but it is not at all important when you're on the giving end. Unless you are trying to cause offence you should avoid certain language choices.
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Haven't heard real complaints from the users about broken things. Probably anecdotal but it saves quite some complexity
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The Linux support is good news. What are your timelines on that?
What is the Real Googlers Line? This is the first I'm hearing of it. I don't work at Google though, so maybe this is well known.
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I don't think hackers would do that... Even if Windows was open-sourced, many consider it an inferior operating system not worth their time and effort.
I just don't understand your analogy. What exactly is it, do you think, that makes government valuable?
The Vancouver scene is small but close-knit and growing. The core of it is based in Gastown, within about a 3 block radius of GrowLabs, one of the bigger incubators there. There is great talent without Silicon Valley salaries and a few active angels, but I think its harder to raise bigger rounds, at least locally. This will improve when Hootsuite or another local company has a big exit or IPO, and the government is trying to inject money into venture capital.

The good news is SFO is only a two hour flight, and Seattle about that far by car. I think raise in the USA, build in Canada is a great strategy, and quite a few of the successful start-ups raise from both Canada and the US.

There is starting to be a bigger start-up culture. Its not like SF and area where it seems like everyone is doing a start-up, but it is now something that a lot of young people are thinking about and is seen as a respectable way to spend your time.

There are good government programs in Canada, but my limited experience is they aren't what you want to bank on if you are a small, vulnerable start-up. I think where they do come into benefit is in growing from a 5->50+ person outfit.

Vancouver also has a good brand for the right kind of company. Its definitely a lifestyle city (great place to live, but lots of distractions from 24/7 work) - and would be a great place for health/fitness/outdoor activity start-ups because of that. There is a kinda cool video about the Vancouver tech scene from a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLQQ3w12Juc
I don't know about "widely adopted", but we do have a common language for expressing how to build/install/test software across Linux, Unix, Windows and OS X:

http://0install.net/interface-spec.html

The tools to read this are in most Linux distribution repositories already (usually under the name "zeroinstall-injector"), and do dependency resolution, conflict resolution (via a SAT solver), GPG signature checking, etc. And each package unpacks to its own directory, so they don't interfere with system packages.
> IO is the same speed for all languages, so it cancels out.

That's not true, particularly in concurrent systems. Recent improvements to Go's scheduler (that make it more aware of various I/O concerns) have made it 2x faster under some workloads. You don't just optimize the compiler to produce the tightest code, you must also finesse its integration with the rest of the world.

> Not really a common use case.

If you say so.

> I don't think command-line-tools are Go's or Java's niche.

There are a lot of Go command-line tools out there. I think Go is a superb language for this area.
This is disgusting. Apparently taping animal cruelty in order to influence economic behavior is now terrorism.

This reminds me of how much of the press sat on the wiretapping scandals of 2004 because "it might be political" (meaning it might affect the election, since Bush was directly responsible). As long as the information is truthful, that's the press's fucking job!

Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery, and Truth is Terrorism.
Nginx has the Push Stream Module, which is similar but not quite as versatile. I don't think you could implement the "incremental counter" API described in the Pushpin article, for example. Whether or not this matters to you comes down to how much control you need.

I'm not aware of such functionality in HAProxy but would love to hear about it (I'm an HAProxy fan :)).
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Harassment and discrimination are nothing compared to actually abusing the worker through lack of vacations, imposed overtime, laughable minimum wages (specially for the "mandatory tip" jobs) and no safety nets.
> I would guess he was hired at Senior SWE (which is respectable; unlike the title-inflated startups out there, it actually is fairly senior) or Staff SWE. The Real Googler Line is somewhere within those two tiers. It's not just about title, but location and project play a role. Most Staff are Real Googlers, some Senior are, SWE 2-3 are not unless they're hired as proteges (which is rare).

I didn't know the term either but he answered it in a post below.
Agreed. Many, many people will never even consider the sorts of connections that Schneier makes. Simply getting a few people to think more deeply about the role of technology in our lives is progress.
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Wasn't it like $130 a few days ago? This kind of inflation is really cool for the people invested in bitcoins but this is the point where I would panic sell, but perhaps I'm a coward.

EDIT: Link's down, it was $203 at 12.06 GMT.
Honestly, I just don't understand any of it. What are retransmission fees? Who's paying them to whom? And what's wrong with receiving broadcast TV on antennas? Isn't that what something like 30% of US population still doing (no cable)?

Anyone feels like supplying some broad context?
He was spot-on with some of the issues (too bad he acted so tragically...). Writer Derrick Jensen makes this point as well. The problem is that none of these anti-technologists really come up with a solution, except maybe to live in a hut in the forest and avoid all technology after 1800. That's not really a sustainable thing that all people on the world could (or would) start doing.
It still has just $2 bln "market cap". If it was a payment processing company, you would call it a slow democratic IPO, not a bubble about to burst.
There's some more info here:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1378/did-disneys-em...

I wanted to link to another article, but can't find it right now, but it had a comparison of specific shots that were alleged to have been plagiarised. I remember it being quite striking, but these things are usually in the eye of the beholder.

Regardless, on the general point, for those who believe in "remix" culture there's nothing ethically wrong with this kind of direct inspiration provided credit is given where it is due.
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Is it safe for me to express my belief that Bitcoin value is being manipulated by forces who intend to crash it? I've stayed away from it simply because of that. I fear some people are in for a very rude awakening. Don't count your money just yet -- and, for god's sake, don't try to use it as the basis for any paper money loans! None of you knew about Stuxnet. The story of Bitcoin's infiltration and manipulation is years away from being revealed.
If you look at my HN submissions over the last half decade, you'll see
I'm a huge fan of Bruce Schneier, I tend to follow his work closely.
My criticism is quite mild and fair; he really does ask great questions
and does a fantastic job of illuminating difficult problems, but he does
so without proposing his own solutions or citing the proposed solutions
of others.

I believe part of the reason for his approach is for the sake of
maintaining a strong defensive posture. For example, as the person who
coined the phrase "Security Theater" in regards to the DHS airport
screening, he did a great job of illuminating the problems. On the other
hand, if he had proposed a solution, then he would have left himself
open to criticism from political pundits. If he had stood up and said,
"Abolish the DHS," then many would portray him as a kook and many would
have written off his views.

What he does is clever, but I'm uncertain how effective it is. Citing
the research/proposals of others, without endorsement, would allow
people to also see potential/proposed solutions, as well as see the
problems.
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that the Lion King is basically just an adaptation of Hamlet...
You're suggesting there is some sort of equality between her own actions and Disney's, but they are not equal. Disney is making money from of her effort and she is not making money from her effort.
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Akamai has quite a few endpoints in China. We've had a few problems with the great firewall but those appear to be transient

That said, I'd love to know what the usage stats look like from the perspective of ChinaCache.
The problem with bitcoin is 1 or 2 events that give the public a 'scare' have the potential to nearly floor the usd value.

All it takes is one headline on CNN like "Joe Blow selling Anthrax and Cyanide on Silkroad/Craigslist for Bitcoins" for the general public go to fucking apeshit and cause some real 3 letter organizations to shutter most bitcoin exchanges with secret subpoenas and such.

Realistically, there is so much dependency on mtgox, once it went down I believe the price of bitcoins would likely be 10x less than it is currently.
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That's correct. You just have an abstraction layer that represents the cube as a specific star schema on a vanilla SQL database.

Other than the way you load data in, what's the difference, though? It's just an implementation detail.
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I'm confused by why you say that?

For a start of your talking retail banking rather than trading banking?

All deposits were guaranteed up to £25k which is now £100k. Why the hell would a high street bank profit from cutting of ATM or chip and pin? Do you know how much merchant fees are!

Quite the opposite they do everything they can to make people spend more. Granted they aren't lending money as easily as they used too, but that was what created the mess we were in before.
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Almost everyone new to Bitcoin already has heard every scare story about drugs, money laundering, tax evasion, viruses, hackers, conspiracy etc. The news about DDoS or stolen money will not be a huge surprise (unless ALL money is stolen at once :-)
> It certainly does in cluster environments where you regularly spin up new server instances. It's also important for command-line tools.

This is certainly true, however not because of the startup time per se which is entirely negligible, especially compared to the time it takes to boot the whole freaking OS, but rather because of the warmup time of the JVM ... for high-volume apps, cold JVMs don't provide a good throughput and so you need a smart load-balancer that knows to not route as many requests as it can to cold machines.

To alleviate that, when the auto-scaling feature kicks in to add new machines on Amazon's EC2 (using their load balancer called ELB), it ads 3 machines instead of one.

Then the auto-scaling feature kicks in again when the latency levels are lower than a threshold for 30 mins, removing machines from the cluster and so it stabilizes itself to the optimal number of machines required.

Compared to Go however, I would still go with Java, because you can do a lot more with a Java server. Our app is both CPU bound and I/O bound and is able to process about 4000 requests per second per server in under 30ms per served request on c1.medium instances. And this is for a real world app that needs to do logging and requests to Memcached/DynamoDB and make predictions in real time.

In my experience, the only way we could have better bang for the buck would be to build the app in C/C++.
Does anyone have a link or justification in anyway for the rise in the conversion rate? I like the idea of an independent (non-government), secure currency - but I can't see this as anything other than a speculation driven investment vehicle. Seems like tulip mania to me [1].

Also, is there any management of Bitcoin to prevent excessive currency fluctuations? Not having this would seem to be a flaw to me - you can't have an exchange-based economic system without some expected stability in the value of the exchange.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
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Really? Should we talk about $$$ manipulation?

We all know about the world finance industry. We all know how corrupt it is and how fucked-up things really are. Yet discounting Occupy - which was violently suppressed anyhow - I don't see people in on the streets demanding to burn down Wall Street to ashes.
In my opinion, you should speak with the management to understand their stance and/or concerns. This can be done formally or informally but I would prefer informally just so they won't have their guard up, preparing to say 'no' to you. After you've understood their needs and concerns, as someone else has already mentioned, clearly defined your value proposition to the management team. Provide some structure/insight into the plan on how it may work, get some research supporting remote working and how it has made a tremendous impact on organizations in terms of creativity and boosting the bottom line. Offer to do a small pilot test if the situation allows for it.

It's a negotiation situation and when you're clear about the other party's interests and concerns, you'll know what's stopping to other party from saying yes. Good luck! I for one enjoyed remote work in the past but probably because I live far out and don't have kids, I find that going into office to see some faces and talking about tech stuff is more fulfilling. That said, who knows how I would feel further down the road.
No..I don't think they have that option on their platform yet. It's on google blogger though. And not very popular either I might add.
Who do you have in mind? I don't see anyone who wants Bitcoin to crash desperately enough to spend millions on inflating a bubble and then pop it - which is a very risky and costly plan. More likley would be a scenario in which someone who holds a lot of Bitcoins pushes MtGox prices upwards in order to be able to sell OTC at inflated prices. However, given that Bitcoin on MtGox has a volume of USD 20 million daily, this takes a lot of resources. It is much easier to manipulate a low-volume stock on the stock market.
From a search for the phrase, it looks like he's the only one who has ever used it, so I assume it's being used in a pejorative sense.
If everyone's intention is just to buy low and sell high, then it's a tulip mania. But if there are people who would be satisfied with a stable price, or price above their investment amount, or ability to buy stuff for it, then it is not just a tulip mania.

Bitcoin price was pretty stable during 2012. Some people used it as a "store of wealth". Now, you still can use it for the same purpose, but you have to bid up the price a little to take a piece of it.
You're absolutely right that historically, it wouldn't have worked. But the web has since moved beyond plain old static documents. What was good for a 1989 web isn't what's good for a 2013 web.

The design by committee of the W3C has resulted in overcomplicated yet at the same time underpowered designs. The model where an ivory tower mandates new things from the top down rarely works well. How many man years does it take to implement a new browser? It's basically an impossible task unless you have mullions of dollars to spend. A much better model for innovation is one where multiple competing technologies get implemented, and the best one wins organically. The web as a VM would have enabled that. You no longer need a committee that mandates HTML5. It can be implemented as a library, and if people like it they will use it. The W3C has a chicken and egg problem: before it standardizes something, there is not much experience with the features it standardizes, so it's hard to do good designs. On the other hand once you standardize something, you're stuck with it. It can (practically) never die. If you have multiple "HTML5 libraries" then it's not a problem to try something out, and pick the best thing. The best solution can win, and the others can slowly fall out of use.
What I am suggesting is a league above the things you mention. The US generally does not fuck around when it comes to those sorts of things and has much broader power to do crazy shit (seize domains, secret subpoenas, etc..) when it involves national security vs generic anti-drug and weapon agenda.
People who are that easily scared normally don't have Bitcoins to sell.
Yes and a few days before that it was $100. I was watching it out of curiosity yesterday and it went up about $20-$30 I believe just while I was at work. Hopefully it crashes, stables out and then gains use as a currency rather than an investment.