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It's perfectly reasonable. Yes, it may seem that Windows 8 isn't "that bad", but it does have a very real impact on the market. I've seen it with my own eyes. Of all of the people I know across all levels of technical sophistication very, very few of them are enthused about Windows 8 and many of them are actively turned off by it.

More so, while PC sales in general are also under assault from competing devices (like tablets and smartphones), that actually raises the importance of the desirability of the current version of Windows. It's when sales are weak and competition is strong that the effects of an undesirable OS are most pronounced.

Also, PCs certainly aren't going to "disappear" but the rate at which new PCs are purchased, especially in the near term, and the total size of the PC market is still up in the air, by a huge margin and perhaps even by an order of magnitude.
Ronnie Coleman is the greatest bodybuilder of all time and arguably one of the greatest athletes of all time. He won Mr Olympia eight times and, for better or worse, permanently redefined the limits of human muscular development.

Coleman never had any particular desire to compete as a bodybuilder. He started strength training while working as a police officer, at the suggestion of a colleague. He entered his first contest only because the gym owner Brian Dobson offered him free membership to do so. It simply never occurred to Coleman that he was a natural-born champion - he didn't know enough about bodybuilding to realise that he had truly exceptional talent.
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bit.ly isn't an option as it's a side project haha. In terms of spam filtering, I haven't had any problems as of yet touch wood but I'll look out :-)
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> your development shouldn't suffer, just become more annoying maybe

Right, that's why I wrote "has been delayed a bit", not "has been delayed indefinitely." If you run a distributed OSS project, where your main point of contact with your collaborators is through Github--and your workflow relies on using Github's collaboration features (its wiki and issue tracking, its pull requests, etc.) then Github going down can greatly impede (though not halt) that workflow. (In fact, I might say that if your workflow doesn't rely on the collaboration features, you're not really "using" Github--you're just using git, and syncing with Github, like any project which has a Subversion repo with a Github mirror.)

A more major problem with Github going down, though, would be needing to pull an update from a third-party library to fix a bug, when that library's canonical repo is stored on Github. (A problem with any centralzied repo host, really.) If you have any git:// URL dependencies in your Gemfile, or you use Bower at all, you might have a problem deploying your updates...
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> Define "soon"

My specific prediction less than a day before this crash was "At this rate, the crash is a single-digit number of days away".

The market can NOT stay irrational for long when an asset's price doubles every few days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5517460
"However we don't have the split land/house purchasing like in the UK"

Of course you do [1], and it's even very common. My cursory Google search shows that in Victory, the state with the most private ownership, 40% of all land is lease hold. Other states even more! The whole city of Canberra is leasehold. That said, it's mostly leases of Crown land, so the economic incentives are a bit different from leasing land from a private owner.

[1] http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/topics/property_purchases/lease...
Great suggestion re. YoY numbers, Boris. I didn't include it in the template because I've entered only a few months of sample data, but in real-life this should definitely be added and I will keep it in mind for the next version.
"If a cohort of students fail to reach their expected target then the teacher is usually considered responsible."

Or at least the alarm bells start ringing and there is a conversation (UK based myself). A 'cohort' is the word I usually use for a whole set of classes, e.g. a year group. More than one teacher is usually involved. We also have independent information on teaching through QA observations and OFSTED. Your picture is fundamentally accurate but it is a tad more complex in my experience.
Some days, we don't bother to research our articles at all...
The key is I distinguish between an API which IS the business - something like a Twilio for example - and an API which lets you leverage a business's other assets in a way that might one day be cut off - like a Twitter.

You are safe to build on top of something like Twilio because the service is the API and API consumers are the customers. Consumers of Twitter's API are not customers of Twitter and should not be surprised Teotter does not treat them as such.

You are either the customer or the product. If you are neither you are in a precarious position.
Not only that, it's hard to find a decent high-performance laptop that has a decent screen. If I were to upgrade now I might think of going with the Lenovo T430u, except it has a 720p 16:9 TN screen. How long until it's possible to buy an ultrabook with a 1080p or higher resolution IPS display? And hoping for a 16:10 aspect ratio is probably out of the question.
I think there's a big difference between demonstrating that something is not viable in the long term, and some company killing off a business because it suits their particular business goals and they have the money to do it.

Are you saying that Google created Reader eight years ago, with the only purpose of now killing it to somehow feed Google+? If they actually did so, then I'm in impressed by their long-term thinking, but I don't see how you can derive that conclusion. (And I'm further not convinced at all that killing Reader suits their business goals in any way, except for not having to waste manpower maintaining it)
Bitstamp is no better. If anything, the (comparatively) low trade volume makes it very dangerous. Yesterday, I put in an instant (market) order at about 5pm. It was fulfilled in about 2 hours, for $50 dollars less than the price was when I put it in. I would expect for market orders to be either fulfilled or canceled immediately, not linger pending for 2 hours.
Agree - which is why I called it "A simple KPI sheet for early-stage SaaS startups with a low-touch sales model". I would argue that one can create a sexy dashboard for an enterprise sales based model too though. :)
They are already using prolexic (check DNS to verify) and it sure looks like DDoS to me.
From comments:

> My terminal is already flat.
That would depend on the bank and country. In the UK, for example, you can set up a direct debit and withdraw funds directly, using just the bank details. But you would need to have a UK bank account to do so, and they would presumably not just allow anyone to start running direct debits.
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Quantification: "An asset whose price has doubled several times, with the time between doublings growing shorter and having reached less than a week, will see an abrupt correction to less than 50% of the peak value within 10 days.

I think you'll find that I'm empirically right.
I've played in an orchestra from 8 to 18, performed live, etc. In my peak I was also a proficient trumpet, guitar and drum player.

My opinion:

* It is very nice to see someone trying to improve something that's hundreds of years old. This is an excellent teaching tool. Words cannot express how better it is!

* It is a poor tool for the live performer. When performing live, you already know the piece. What you need is visually clear, bold, guidelines. You also want to answer "I'm playing this now, what's next?" very fast; and to do that you need a clear visual relativity. I don't think Hummingbird does that well with the collection of small nuances and decorations.
Yeah, imagine world where slavery did not exist, so that if you did not paid taxes you would not go to prison.
Blasphemy, good that Google is working to avert that!
> the patentability of modifications to existing drugs under Indian law

A key point here is that the original drug itself was patented, and has expired. The issue that the Indian court had with Gleevec patent application is that it only rearranged the molecule in a new crystal pattern, ie Polymorphism. The Indian court consider polymorphism to be a well known technique when working with drugs, and just applying polymorphism to a old drug and record what it did do not fulfill the requirement for patentable.
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There is no such thing as Job Security. If Job security is an argument why you're not quitting to freelance or do your own thing. Then... I am not sure what to say.
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Maybe sooner than you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp89tTDxXuI&feature=playe...
Almost the first thing I did with my new Win8 work laptop was to put Start Is Back on it. Gives you a Win7-style start button on up to two machines for $3.

[1] http://startisback.com/
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I know it's nitpicky, but the error makes it painful to read the article. Obviously I'm blaming nobody, and to judge from his name the author is probably fluent in more languages than me. But it's a user-friendliness thing. It would help.
There is no direct connection between being a landlord and being a Lord - you don't become a Lord by selling someone a leasehold neither are you required to be a Lord to do this (it's just a contract).

Of course, a number of famous landowners are Lords - notably the Duke of Westminster who owns vast amounts of London:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Westminster
The example picture you provide is a great example of how horribly, horribly flawed the current notation is for annotating rhythm.

I mean, many people have gotten used to that language, but there obviously can be a far simpler way to represent the same timing information than the first line of that pic.

And the example you give is not THAT complex - try to represent any interesting polyrhythm drum pattern in traditional notation, now that will be an excercise in futility.

The hummingbird is not a good enough solution - it's a step in the right direction and another step sideways; but we need to go much further to improve both ease of reading and ease of learning music.

To use a programming analogy, the current music notation is like if everybody had to learn programming through COBOL - it works, it's usable and widely used... but still, using a better, cleaner language for the same concepts would obviously bring benefits to all new users; even if it's of no benefit to all the current experts who already know the current notation by heart.
Great piece of writing, well done.

I particularly liked this section:

I was tired of thinking about the possibility of skateboarding to Wollongong ... But this was it, this time was different. I didn't even think about it. ... I just got up and started pushing my skateboard.

I know what you mean, and have had similar feelings and experiences psyching up for (climbing) missions as well. In a way, sometimes the most difficult part is committing to the task beforehand. Good on you for doing that, following through - and for doing it for yourself.

You've given me a little inspiration, a spark, to do things that I thought would be possible.
Thanks, I'll fix those.

Ok, fixed. Have an upvote :) & thanks again!
The latest data from Shodan shows that there are at least 10,610 vulnerable systems (189,680 public PostgreSQL database instances were tested).
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I disagree: the number of cabs in circulation is a complex function of the market, but the ideal number of cabs is straightforward to calculate but won't be found by the market.

Why not? Given the choice between an optimal number of cabs (fully utilized) making a larger profit and an excessive number of cabs (underutilized) making a tinier profit, the market will always choose the latter. Markets will tend to attract competitors and thus supply until profit margins drop to near zero. In both cases prices are the same, revenue is the same, but in the latter case the pie has more slices, increasing congestion. There is less profit per taxi in the latter case, especially if prices drop with increased competition, but as long as there is at least an iota of profit, the number of cabs will not decrease to the most efficient level.

Taxing congestion itself is a good idea generally, and helps increase road efficiency, but this won't result in the optimal number of cabs, either. It will result in increased prices which will cut demand and thus supply, but given this new demand, it won't magically remove competion such that fewer cabs are servicing more passengers, relatively speaking. The number of cabs will still remain at the maximum number possible while still remaining profitable. For any given cab, the amount of time spent idling is still the same--too high.
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Not true. I can think of many cases where they're wrong, but I can also think of many where they're right. With cameras and suchlike you're running limitations of physics, as far as image acquisition is concerned; the other issue is that there's a huge body of knowledge on how to move a camera properly, whereas a head-mounted camera is kind of painful to watch because you don't have the kinetic cues to go with it, and every little twitch or movement of the head becomes a distraction for the viewer who has to filter out the irrelevant movements in their visual cortex. Look at all those videos on youtube where people don't know how to hold a camcorder and it is just waving all over the place even when they're aiming it at a static object in front of them.

The musical instrument world is abuzz with new analog synthesizers right now, because over the last couple of years several major manufacturers have just gone back to manufacturing it because SMT and FPGA/FPAAs have made it affordable to do so again. They're still making DSP synths because DSP still offers many advaantages (not as noisy, fewer limits on polyphony, vastly cheaper at scale), but analog synths are huge again because they simply sound more interesting to most musicians than their digital equivalents. I'm about to sell one of my DSP boxes for this very reason, in fact.
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That'll be because of three reasons I think, only one of which is mentioned:

1) The last generation of computers that people already own (Intel i3/5/7 with Windows 7) is actually pretty damn good and covers most requirements perfectly well. In fact my 5 year old Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz ThinkPad T61 with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD is really fast to the point I have no plans to upgrade any time soon. I see people hanging on to these sorts of PCs now because they are the first generation to work pretty flawlessly, ever. People hang on to stuff that works and I don't blame them for doing that. Businesses do the same and to be honest, with some heel dragging, they're good until Windows 7 EOL in 2020.

2) Windows 8 is just horrible. I've tried it several times at different points of time on different machines ranging from laptop to desktop to touchscreen desktop and the usability has just completely gone out of the window. It doesn't work on a laptop and doesn't work on a desktop in any adequate way. It physically hurts you if you have to use it on a touch screen desktop either through mouse hoop jumping or aching arms. New device paradigms are being pushed but they all feel awkward and a bit Heath Robinson. I do think they got Windows Phone pretty spot on but that experience doesn't scale up to larger devices well.

3) Consumers used to drive a big chunk of sales, but this has been relatively scuppered by other vendor's consumption devices such as tablets and smart phones.
There's nothing like that already? When you say "need" do you know it doesn't exist already? I'm genuinely curious and hoping you know the answer.
This actually seems like a large flaw in their fee structure. Every traditional online brokerage/trading service that I have looked at in the past has used a flat fee. This incentives individuals to reduce their number of transactions in order to limit the overall fee's paid.
Microsoft cutting support for XP will barely change anything, companies will upgrade to win7/win8 but the average home user wont coz he expects someone to do it for him and also doesn't like using things he is not familiar with.
I think the "Google finances Mozilla out of kindness of their hearts" meme is dealt with here - they have millions and soon to be billions of eyeballs on that google default page. Whatever Google pays is a market rate.

As for the rest, yes illiteracy does count against the illiterate - I think that is a public policy issue. The company vs the state? Historically speaking the one with the army tends to win. Yes regulation is important to ensure companies deliver social value - we have seen that in finance, but that is not a programming issue - back to public policy

As for being open and doing good - yes laudable aims, and I suspect that like now, companies that are more open, more socially beneficial will have the edge of goodwill - but right now the force multiplier of code literacy trumps all.

Edit: I guess I am saying, the force multiplier is so big, that relying on normal market operations to deliver an optimal social good (ie utopia) is a little foolish - we need enlightened governments with perfect regulatory touch to be in tune globally with all the challenges facing the human race.

We're boned.
Job Security is savings in your bank account allowing you to find another job. :)
I just watched it and thought it was great. She is well spoken and clear.

But I sort of thought this was common knowledge. I made a related comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4677998 (and before the Ruby Gems YAML exploit, which maybe was kind of prescient)

Incidentally, I felt she sort of brushed off computational complexity when once person brought it up. Complexity is just as important as computability/decidability, and it fits very well with her formal language perspective (e.g. regular languages can be recognized in linear time and constant space).

Another thing was that she didn't give that many concrete examples. The x.509 certificates was one that seemed really good (didn't look into the details). But I would have liked to see an instance of a protocol that was not meant to be turing complete, but IS.

She gave the example of HTML5 + CSS which was a good one. But I don't think people have accidentally written Turing complete HTTP parsers or anything like that. How big a problem is it in practice? She's making the claim that most security bugs fall in the category of being caused by language errors?

And, like another comment, I'm not sure I agree with disavowal of the length field. I'll have to think about that. I believe delimiting and escaping is more complex and thus more fragile. I also believe it's slower, despite what she says in the talk. We have to consider the tools we have now; maybe in some future world we'll get better formal language tools.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs -- Related link to a design flaw in XML that is related to computational complexity, but not computability.
what rural telco is building their own network?

in canada, the taxpayers built the network, then a corrupt government signed it over to a private cartel so they could charge rent.

it sounds like you're making some kind of Ayn Rand free market allusion. free markets dont apply when Dagne Taggart owns the government and closes all barriers to entry so that her railroads will never have meaningful competition.
Magic The Gathering Online eXchange (MtGOX) refitted to trade a virtual currency which then had to scale massively in a short period of time.

Yeah, I'd say there are serious architectural problems. This is not a software "design" problem though, it's the inevitable real-world result of software "evolution". It happens.

I read they're working on a new platform built from scratch. I bet it's going to kick ass as they've got some real world experience now about what works, what does not and what needs to be hardened.
Agree entirely. The recent purchase of a 128Gb Samsung 840 Pro was a game changer for me.
Couldn't have put it better.
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I do vaguely try to avoid buying food from China, but some things are hard to find from anywhere else (ginger, for example).
Sitting on the train on the way back (for the parts I was awake), I could hardly believe I had just skateboarded the distance.
Why can't notation be shown "on the fly"?

I mean, any notation editor knows the pitches/timing/etc encoded in the score, and it should be able to trivially show it to the musician in a customized way - transposed to the instrument, if neccessary; with or without fingering information where applicable; and in custom/wierd notations like this one.

Of course, printed/photocopied scores can't do that, but we're not in stone&paper age anymore and can fix things to improve functionality.
Just an example: removing certain sites from their autocomplete feature was not forced upon them. They are not required to do this, and they are not transparent about it.

Their transparency is also limited to what is forced upon them, not what they do themselves, quietly and secretly. Also note that other properties, like the massively censored YouTube, are completely omitted from their transparency report (unless it ironically enough involves removing links to YouTube...).

The little bit Google is transparent about when it comes to what they omit from "organizing the world's information and make it universally accessible" (Google's mission statement) is only what suits them.

It's a marketing tool to sell the message "it's not our fault". Transparency and openness are not part of Google's DNA, that bit is just marketing.

It's not the flaws in the system that bother me, this is stuff is hard. It's the marketing-driven pretense of caring and at the same time arrogantly telling us "suckers" to go f* ourselves.
I remember during college in Rochester, NY I would drive by this unassuming house on Clinton Ave. Ambrosia Software said the sign out front. I recognized the name from some games about 10 years prior. I remember wondering what they were doing in a sleepy town like Rochester, when most important stuff seemed to happen out west or within a 5 hour drive south of there. But here was a place that had stuck with the home of Kodak and Xerox (yes, Xerox, and not that cool Palo Alto office). Offshoot of one of the nearby colleges?
Yay!

BTW, I live in SF and I REALLY want one of those octo-nyan-cat stickers for my laptop. Just sayin...
This is why evaluation is so important.

Also, I think there is an analogy in how startups talk about number of users, instead of dollars earned.

People need to use the correct metrics for success.
But saying that's what it was is a great way to keep the bubble going.
For now. Once mining becomes slow enough (and it has to slow down over time), exchanges will have to charge transaction fees to make the "proof of work" worth their while.
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Looks to be a sponsored article from Novartis and the likes.
When I was kid I spent countless hours on the demoes of each of the Escape Velocity games... I guess I should've tried harder to convince my parents to buy it for me...

Publisher of a unique genre at the time. An inspiration for many, including naev (http://naev.org), starsector (http://starsector.com), and more.

When I was 6 or 7, I watched my parents play Apeiron and Maelstrom on their PowerMac.

Multiwinia is fun too, and I actually own a copy. :)