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Thanks! Are there any 1.1 beta 1 results for Go with quad core rather than one core?
"Most billionaires are into preservation of capital in a big way."

Depending on how you define "are into", this could be argued as empirically wrong. A study done by the editor of the updated edition of Graham's "The Intelligent Investor" shows that the Forbes 400 (400 Richest Americans) only had 68 members who stayed on the list from some time in the 1980 to the early 2000s. The author calculated the return required to stay on the list and it was approximately 4.8% annually, which is very reasonable with their level of resources.

Due to these results (only 68 out of 400 richest people staying in that position), you could say that billionaires are NOT into preservation of capital, when making 4% annually is not even accomplished.

The hypothesized reason for these results is that most billionaire's fortunes are tied to one or two major companies/investments. Fluctuations in business over time eventually devalue their investment in the single entity. If they really cared about "preservation of capital", they would liquidate more of their stakes when one company made them rich then diversify their holdings.

Apologies for the vague dates. I am at work and do not have the book handy, but just read that passage 48 hours ago. If someone replies that they want more specific numbers and references, I can update this post in 10 hours.

Reference: http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Book-Practical-Co...
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Yeah, I'm really interested if anyone who used to have like 10k bitcoins actually managed to sell it with rate more than 100$/btc
The comment about the last 20 years also makes me twitch a bit. That sort of thing always makes me wonder if it's supposed to be about the state of actual usable programming languages or of recent PL research. Either way, the first two things I think of when asked about recent advances are substructural types (maybe stretching the 20-year limit) and higher-order contracts, and these are both available in things intended as general-purpose languages (Rust and Racket).
Way to keep things in perspective. So much respect for you. Keep going!
Thats sounds like a good plan to self destruction. No Social activities at all ? No other hobbies?
I am. I know it's not such a big deal but I would have liked to just have a list of my users and their configuration, I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to get and we would have been much happier doing the migration.
Ada is not widely used in OSS, but it remains widely used in industry. It is generally not chosen for new projects because of the lack of developers, but I always ear positive feedback on Ada. The latest ones were about migration (from redhat 5.8 to redhat 6.0 and from Ada95 to Ada2005). 90% of the migration workload was in C++, almost nothing for Ada and Java. Ada is more than 50% of the application (many 10s of million lines).

When multitasking and/or reliability are required, Ada is present in most legacy systems.
Yep.

And then the red light cameras start magically getting bullet holes in them.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/dec/12/police-man-shot-cam...

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/shoot_out_the_red_l...
I don't buy that. MIT and Stanford are the undisputed best in the world. Waterloo would be closer to "University of Texas-Austin" which is still excellent.
Sorry, just used to find md pretty everywhere to the point I forget HN does not support it!

Well, then, _pardon my markdown_ :)
Very useful info, if it's accurate. Mostly nullPtr exceptions, signs of sloppy programming. One pitfall IMO of Android is how easy it is to push apps to the market.
Go does has known issues and does poorly on 32-bit x86. I would not draw any meaningful conclusions from it about Go in general.
Definitely thought some about that. Mostly the point of the article was to say that to grow as a UI/UX dev you need to shock yourself out of being numb. So in that regard, it would work with anyone driving in a country they don't live in. They are all so different. Trying to kill comfort zone.
I know the Android app is free (at least in the first year). Is it also ad-free?
"What do they have that Google can't build themselves?"

Your argument contradicts every acquisition\acquihires
made by google so far
It's staggering how many of these are NullPointerExceptions. Java needs nullable types.
Ah, thanks, totaly overlooked that. :)
I think there may be some confusion by some as to just what Yeoman is and it's usefulness. My opinion is that Yeoman strives to improve your workflow and tooling in front end development.

The core team has engaged the dev community and identified how people are working, what tooling they use and what pain points they experience. Yeoman serves to centralize workflow and tooling and ease those pain points. The generators are very useful as well and extensible.

Again, Yeoman may not be right for everyone but I would be interested to know more about your workflow and tooling and contrast it to some of the concepts pursued. This feedback would be useful to those considering Yeoman.
This isn't an issue with the IRC RFC.

This is a deliberate choice by EFnet, it's part of it's culture and bravado.

You won't see this on Freenode.
Sure. If you have questions, please email me at michael.o.church at gmail.

I have a general policy of not disclosing employers or personal clients to the Internet but one of my front-runners is in TX. I'd be working in NYC 75+ percent of the time, but probably visiting.

I'd prefer to stay in NYC because my wife's job is here, and I have yet to visit Austin but I've heard it's great. I spent a year in Madison, which is probably like a smaller Austin with opposite weather (mild summers, harsh winters).
If you're their kids, I'm pretty sure the marriage comes out on top.
Robert Griesemer

http://research.google.com/pubs/author96.html
A disproportionate share of billionaires are engineers.

Of course part of that is because the petro-chemical industry mints a lot of billionaires. E.g. Charles and David Koch both have bachelors and masters degrees (mechanical and chemical engineering) from MIT.
No. A million times no.

As you said traffic lights in Europe are on the leading edge of an intersection. This may in fact be the simplest and most foundational bit of usability and user experience innovation the US could learn from Europe in intersection design.

1) Placing the signals on the leading edge means that the stop line is ~10 feet back from the intersection. If you decide to ignore the stop line, you can't see the signals. BAM instant conformance to proper road use.

2) Following on that, sitting 10 feet back from the intersection you can see everything in the intersection. You can see pedestrians crossing in front of you and to the right of you. You can see cyclists entering into the intersection and passing you far before you enter the intersection. As a ped or cyclist this makes intersections much, much safer.

3) As you approach an intersection, and the light switches to yellow and then red, there can be no doubt about the state of the light as you enter the intersection. You can't enter or pass through the intersection on a red light as you might in the US, because it will be red before you even get to the intersection. This seriously reduces running lights or flying through the intersection, making intersections much, much safter for motorists.
If you don't intentionally give it a god, repeated experimental evidence is it'll invent (at least) one for itself, so you'd best keep in the loop, unless you really trust evolution or don't really care what happens.
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I've been kicking myself lately. I toyed with Bitcoin pretty early on and had a wallet containing roughly 200 BTC. I'm pretty sure that wallet was wiped just before turning in the work owned machine it sat on.
> Many regions of Michigan, for example, do not have left turn lanes. You're expected to make a right and then a U-turn.

More about the Michigan Left: http://www.michiganhighways.org/indepth/michigan_left.html
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SpaceX
Blue Orgin
Scaled Composites/Virgin Galactic
Armadillo Aerospace
Bigelow Aerospace
Stratolaunch Systems

I think that counts as "several"
I would definitely add Bezos to this list. However, Musk is very good at getting one thing going and turning to the next, while people like Bezos, Gates, Jobs have a narrower vision and pursue it without straying aside (actually jobs did with Pixar). Or perhaps it only looks that way because IT is such a broad field (and the iphone is as close to apple tv as tesla cars are to spacex rockets?).

OTOH, do you really need to be a billionaire to do "cool sci-fi shit"? Arguably, Musk didn't get rich with amazingly cool stuff, he just got a bit luckier than most people with the valuation of Zip2 and early PayPal.
Well, as long as they have a warrant. Oh...

"The government has long asserted that it doesn’t need to obtain a probable-cause warrant to use the devices because they don’t collect the content of phone calls and text messages and operate like pen-registers and trap-and-traces, collecting the equivalent of header information."

Fuck you.
"One of our EFnet operators located a server that a client was using, the server was most likely hacked and/or used for illegal activities." -- so they contacted the ISP and the ISP sent their request to whoever owns the box.

That sounds entirely reasonable to me. Hetzner has no idea whether or not the box owner is the suspected hacker (even EFnet assumed the server was hacked) in the same way that EFnet has no idea about whether an Hetzner employee was the suspected hacker. So three possible outcomes:
(a) the box was hacked, so sending said info to the box owner was not a bad idea,
(b) the box wasn't hacked, it was the box owner himself doing bad things, in which case Hetzner just gave the box owner personal information about his victim, or
(c) the box wasn't hacked, and it's a Hetzner employee doing bad things, in which case EFnet just gave the employee personal information about the victim.

So, exactly why are they blaming Hetzner?
So I guess you didn't read the full article before blasting off...he specifically pointed out self-driving cars, as well as numerous other non-Musk sci-fi initiatives.

His point is less about a dearth of cool sci-fi shit than a lack of extremely wealthy individuals wielding their fortunes to aggressively push these things.

Edit: And not just "a space company." A space company, an electric car company, a renewable energy company, and the crazy passion to make these things work. What results has BlueOrigin produced? SpaceX is actually Getting Shit Done.
TL;DR: not if you work for Groove, a pre-profitable startup that's received $1.25M in seed funding[1]

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/groove
I'm sure they will be getting an awkward call from their client very soon..
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I sympathize with the author, and I think a lot of the comments here are missing at least part of the point of the post.

Maybe its 12 years of catholic school plus a philosophy degree talking, but in times of peace my brain likes to hold everyone guilty of all the good they didn't do. This applies to me, you, congress, billionaires, and so on. The author swaps my "good" for "awesome stuff", but I think the feeling is probably similar.

In other words, I think that being a billionaire and doing nothing ambitious with their money is much less impressive than not being a billionaire. I think the author is remarking upon that in a similar way.

I think the author is slightly incorrect in thinking Musk is the only one, but that doesn't really detract from his general point.

(Of course, billionaires don't "owe" us/society anything, though some might be able to argue that society allowing one person to accumulate such wealth ought to have some kind of obligation, but as it stands they don't, and that's probably a topic for another time)
At my peak I had 150. I'd gotten rid of 90% before it hit $40.
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Almost all mainstream languages have support for contracts, even if in external libraries, people just tend not to use them.

If there was more responsibility in software development, like in other industries, developers would take a more responsible attitude towards software validation.
Is that your actual experience on a Google hiring committee, or are you guessing (can't tell from your comment)?
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Better to say many roads though, even areas where they are prevalent will also have stop lights with left turn lanes.
I agree, this is another example of tech giving people a platform they never had, regardless of why or why not we should donate.
I don't mean private in the sense that we shouldn't discuss them, I mean private in the sense that the actual details of the relationship occur in private and that we don't know them.

It is very hard to judge a relationship from the outside because a lot of what goes on in a relationship is private: private conversations and communication, the way a person expresses love or likes to be shown that they are loved, the way romantic conflicts are handled, what initially attracted a couple to each other, minor quirks and eccentricities, pet peeves, sexual compatibility, changes in personality and values, and so on.

I don't think we really know most of these things about Elon Musk's marriage, and I would be hesitant to draw broad conclusions without them.
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This is just a hack to show the power of firebase. Not that you should start using it as docs replacement but more of get an idea on what all you can do with firebase.
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Is it just me, or are all these latency numbers terrible? For a local echo server I would expect mean latency at or below 1ms.
What exactly would you require of whom? Everyone who takes a photo, scrapes a website? To what, register their activities in some centralized database? There are lots of approaches that sound like easy solutions until you start thinking about the details of how they would work.
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While there are few billionaires, which is a big part of the story, I would argue that there are plenty of Elon Musks out there, but only a finite capacity of humans and media to idolize. There is only so much attention to go around. Therefore, there is only one or two Elon Musks at a time. He has filled the role Steve Jobs once had in the eyes of the technorati.
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Yes, it does.

"Firepad has no server dependencies and instead relies on Firebase [hosted service] for real-time data synchronization."

So the front-end editor portion of it is open source, but the data sync between connected clients happens via Firebase.

You can find more info at the bottom of this page: http://www.firepad.io/
This is a really neat idea! It would be nice to see the editor widget be re-sizable (like an HTML text area) so that you don't have to deal with scroll bars for larger portions of text.

Pretty impressive though!
As an academic, often I'm running experiments and have to wait for them to finish. Worse still, sometimes I can't touch my machine whilst they're running.

For a long time, I tried the "don't switch" mentality. But you just waste a lot of time.

Solutions are:

1. Avoid it by running shorter experiments - requires intellectual effort and is much like the advice in the article.

2. Do something else, but something related to what you're doing. That way, it's not a total cognitive switch. Classic example is working out ideas for how you might best present data whilst an experiment is running, or how you might further automate the process etc.

3. If you have to switch, then do something that can easily be dropped. Usually I read a (scientific) paper whilst I wait - this could be vaguely related to the experiments I'm waiting on.
Of course it is. If someone cost you time and money and severely harassed users of a service you're offering by illegally attacking your servers, then I bet you'd be all for reporting them as well.

The problem with script kiddies is that they're too lazy to create anything of their own and thus cannot emphasis with how hard it is to set up and maintain a free public service. So they don't have any second thought about destroying other peoples hard work. Plus the pseudo-anonymity of being online and the ability to not look your victims in the eye make such crimes easy for even some of the more ethical kids to shrug off.

The only way to have an open internet where everyone is free to create and contribute is to rat out those who seek to destroy it. People like the aforementioned might enjoy all the perks of an open internet, but their actions have the opposite effect.

So I'm not only in favour of reporting abusers, but have actually reported attacks on my own servers to their respective ISPs.
That is a good idea. I'll bring it up at the next meeting.

We are also hoping to do a design contest soon for people to play with the data and come up with new useful visualizations.
This may have much more to do with the install process than how much memory an installed system needs. For example, old RHEL install images required at least 512MB or more to install, because it would uncompress a gigantic bootstrap/initrd into memory instead of running cloop'd or off the disk.

An installed system only needs enough memory for the kernel and whatever apps you need to run. Install it with a lot of memory, then reduce the memory footprint to fit your application.
Yeoman makes it quicker and easier to generate boilerplate code, but I think the goal should be to eliminate boilerplate and abstract it away. Yeoman keeps spaghetti organized, but it's still spaghetti.
Can someone explain to me why someone needs to raise money to get shrapnel out of their body? I mean isn't there some safety net at all?

I'm seriously confused here. I'm Canadian and this seems so bizarre to me.
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The funny thing is that someone else will look at Musk and see him as wasting his money on useless space stuff rather than helping out the poor and downtrodden. Cool is in the eye of the beholder.
Adding features to languages happens all the time. Closures were added to C++. Generics to Java. Classes to php. Many other features were added to various languages over time.

I don't understand your objection.
Before everyone gets too excited about trading bitcoins. This quote from my father always had an impact on me - "Don't ever think making money is easy". Trading now is about as high risk as it gets.
Seconded, I have no idea where my colleagues went to University, and I don't really care either.

The only things that gets you credibility within Google in my experience is delivering good stuff and being helpful/knowledgeable in conversations with your peers.
I am already using gruntjs for js/sass/images compression & combining, template compilation, and a whole lot of other build related stuff. Can somebody please convince me why I would want to switch to yeomen?
For sure. I'm used to having them both before and after the intersection, so then you can clearly see which part it is for, and you can see it wherever you are, and you can see it well from a long distance. Some countries in Europe have some additional lights at car window level close to the intersection, this helps a lot, but still not ideal.
I don't understand the point of the '0-1' option because it completely overlaps with other options. But it's one of the most popular choices so far with 17 votes.
Yes, he does mention self-driving cars, conveniently leaving out that it's Google, a company controlled by 2 billionaires.
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> That isn't what they said.

How not? The forum seems to be down now but the announcement heavily implied that all that was "leaked" was the nick name of an operator, which they claimed could somehow be used to deduce the real name and address.
To be fair a lot more people have figured out how to have a good marriage than how to put rockets into space.
As I understood it, the arguments against using an unbounded length field is that it makes the language recognizing it context-sensative. When processing some inner payload of a data packet you need to carry around the state of outer context-sensative protocol layers to make sure your inputs are well formed.

The fact that it is trivial to maliciously craft the length field makes it cheap for the attacker to try to exhaust receiver memory, overflow buffers or make DDoS attack more effective. If you use a delimiter, the attacker has to at least spend the required bandwidth to try to exhaust resources.

I suspect that if your protocol specification bounds the length field to some finite amount, then your language can be classified as a regular language for verification purposes, just with a FSM branch for each possible value of the length field.
This is one of the more annoyingly shortsighted posts I've read on HN in a long while. It reflects the attitude of someone too spoonfed by blockbuster movie culture: if shit ain't being blown up, then who cares?

When Norman Borlaug died a few years back, there were a lot of people who thought, "Who?" And when they learned that this farm-raised Iowan is credited with saving a billion human lives, they said, "Well why wasn't he celebrated more?"

And the mindset of the OP, well, there's your answer.
I don't know, as a child of divorce, I think having a dad who pioneered flight to Mars would be better then my parents staying in an unhappy relationship.
I'm not an expert, but isn't it more accurate to say that freenodes and other networks have "patched" the flaw via chanserv and nickserv bots to mitigate the problems with the network model? I know efnet doesn't want formalized chan/nick ownership, but they clearly dont like being the world's #1 ddos sink. Why not just include a master network quorum function and a grace period under which reattached networks don't get to merge their mode changes.
Google better buy it, and convert it into normal XMPP service. Otherwise this sickness will just grow more.

>At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That’s our product and that’s our passion.

There is such thing - XMPP. Just create a reliable federated (and standard compliant!) service, and give people a decent client with audio/video XMPP/Jingle calling capabilities. Why their passion has to revolve around gutting security in the process of creating a non compliant walled IM abomination is really puzzling.

> Your data isn’t even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.

What about your identity being in the picture? Shouldn't they warn their users that they offer an insecure and identity leak / theft prone service?
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You can own partial BTC, so 0-1 really means >0 && <1.
Think of it like:
0 < your bitcoins <= 1
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Interesting, does that mean that those Bitcoins are lost forever? Regular currency, coin and bills, are replaced at a steady pace. If Bitcoins are not replaced when lost, then it would be possible to lose all Bitcoins a some point, or am I wrong?

The idea is that there can only be 21 million Bitcoins, or something like that, but in the end there could be a lot less because they are lost.
Perhaps. But I'd argue they are very different entrepreneurs- Bill Gates was successful young and stuck with his original success. Musk has darted all over the place looking for further successes. That must have an effect on your life stability.
I currently hold 0.02429599. Does that answer your question?