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Jarrett,

Just got the email from your blog post. What's the preferred method of printing first class labels/postage generated via your API?
You're not really paying for the RAM, you're paying for the RAM plus installation. It's cheaper to produce 2, 4 models on an assembly line and if you wan't to have 4x RAM just charge you a lot.

I just buy the model with the less RAM and upgrade myself, in some models it's covered in the instructions and are not too hard to upgrade.
Do you really think that reinvent the wheel is better than using technology that a vendor gives you? Do you really think that folks at Apple make all their interfaces in code? Tip: Probably every feature that was added in Xcode was added because Apple engineers benefited from it.
Build Your Own SaaS Using Docker (cs50x project)
> In a new paper, "Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff," Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst successfully replicate the results. After trying to replicate the Reinhart-Rogoff results and failing, they reached out to Reinhart and Rogoff and they were willing to share their data spreadhseet. This allowed Herndon et al. to see how how Reinhart and Rogoff's data was constructed.

What's amazing to me is that no one, until the researchers spotlighted here, apparently thought to ask to see the data? Isn't this part of peer-review?

Things like this is why I love being part of the open-source community. People may brag about and diss each other's code performance to an unnecessary degree of hostility, but at least we can all check the code and run it for ourselves.
But that's it. Back in the day, it would have been "here it is because it is better". It worked. Be careful changing a winning formula.

And yes that's rose tinted glasses perhaps.
I was indeed wrong, glad my wife gave me the evil eye when I started talking about buying ~5 BTC at around $190 because I was starting to get confident that it'd climb to ~$500 before it crashed. Wives hey.
any recs on family friendly cities/towns in the east bay for those looking to move out to bay area soon? my wife and i plan on working in SF proper. her firms SF office is located near embarcadero BART, and i'm still looking for a gig.
Not a good example. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy, the above conclusion was itself discredited and finally:

"The test in science is whether findings can be replicated using different data and methods. More than two dozen reconstructions, using various statistical methods and combinations of proxy records, have supported the broad consensus shown in the original 1998 hockey-stick graph"
the use of the term "pressure cooker" seems somewhat unfortunate after i just finished reading this: http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/
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Coding matters - excel error warps austerity debate
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/16/gops_go_to_economics_study_debunked_partner/

"... one of the core empirical points providing the intellectual foundation for the global move to austerity in the early 2010s was based on someone accidentally not updating a row formula in Excel."
I dunno, it's been nearly as long since I learned Perl (or used it much) but the stuff I've seen out of the "modern Perl" movement (http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html) looks a lot cleaner and more, well, modern than the Perl I used to live with. You can still write "crufty and ancient" Perl, in other words, but you don't have to.
Isn't it more plausible that public debt is caused by government deficit spending, which causes economic growth, but a temporary kind of growth that is only as good as the government's ability to continue spending?
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C++: Custom memory allocation
What exactly makes you think there aren't?

The fact that every time I have ever had this discussion, the person taking your position comes back with a question like that instead of just listing counterexamples.

Can you name a few major projects, preferably on the same kind of scale as the examples that have been mentioned in other posts in this discussion, that were built using TDD? Not just projects that use some form of automated testing, or projects that use unit tests, or projects that use a test-first approach to unit tests, or anything else related to but not implying TDD, but projects where they really follow the TDD process?

The development processes for major open source projects tend to be public by their nature, and there are also plenty of people who have written about their experiences working for major software companies on well-known closed source projects, so telling a few TDD success stories shouldn't be a difficult challenge at all.
Why? I've used nibs/IB pretty extensively since I started doing iOS development full time (about 2 years), maybe I'm still a novice and don't realize it but anytime I need to do anything complicated within a layout I can manipulate it programmatically.

The only objectively bad thing about IB is that the generated files are impossible to merge. It would be much nicer if they were more like Android's human readable xmls.
You've obviously never gotten a bug report from a user like this: http://imgur.com/a/2lt4r
> Isn't this part of peer-review?

iirc, the paper wasn't published, let alone peer-reviewed. it was "discovered" and used as a justification by people who may or may not understand the deeper issues involved.
The license generator is a fantastic resource! And so far as I can tell one can use it however they like (they need not sign up with binpress to use them). I'd much prefer to offer software under the GPL, but also offer a proprietary license for sale for those who cannot release their source code and are happy to pay for the privilege.
Publishing data and source code is the exact problem we are trying to solve at my startup, http://banyan.co
I think a point that the authors of a lot of these "Bitcoin is doomed/not a currency/etc." articles miss is that they're trying to compare a brand-new thing that's still trying to find its place in the world to the dollar, for example, which has been around for hundreds of years. Plus, don't forget, the dollar has undergone fluctuations in value; these fluctuations though are the results of the decisions of a central body. Finally, Forbes seems to be sidestepping the fact that the term "currency speculation" exists for a reason.

Ultimately, Bitcoin's utility rests on whether its value settles down at some point, which I think it will[1]. Then people can actually use it as a currency instead of an investment, as it was intended.

[1] please note that I have no background in economics!
Hello!

This website is a proof of concept with a simple Memcached SaaS. It is my final project for cs50x that ended this sunday. Please tell me what you think :)

+ You can read the how-to on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/julienbarbier42/building-a-saas-us...

+ You can see the source on GitHub: https://github.com/jbarbier/SaaS_Memcached
simple but nice, looks very useful and it's even free :)
Kensington, Alameda, Albany.
The Soviet comrade tours Washington, D.C.
Nice job, damn docker is nice!
If you're a a programmer in a typical imperative language, sure. If your familiarity is with data flow or functional languages, you work backwards all the time (or rather, you work top down, from the highest level of generality to the lowest level of detail).
Money is being printed depending upon your definition of money. When the treasury spends in excess of tax revenues which is essentially all the time, by law they must issue a treasury security and "sell" it. This security gets sold to the primary dealer ( think big Wall Street firms). Treasury then gets account credited at Fed in the amount of security sale. Treasury then spends the money back into the economy. This "money" is called reserve balance ( federal funds/vertical money/high powered money). Since the Fed's job is to execute monetary policy ( i.e. price of money) by directly manipulating the federal funds rate, they often buy back that treasury bond from the primary dealer and remove the excess reserves else they lose grasp of the federal funds rate. Would be nice to get rid of this obfuscated gymnastics between Fed, Treasury, and Wall Street, and simply have direct printing of money as per congressional budgets passed by Congress. The current system causes mucho confusion and the illusion that the government is self funded. How can issuer of a fiat currency be involuntarily insolvent?

edit: With direct printing, the fed funds rate would go to zero. No need for Treasury Bonds or "borrowing" per se.
I haven't looked much at label printers for that size -- I usually just print on paper and tape on. You doing a lot of these?
It's not a contradiction, because 1) the webserver would not have login credentials to the hardened machine and 2) the interface would be much smaller than "everything in SQL".

A typical example of such an interface would expose about four operations:

// Return true if the given user/password pair is valid.
bool PasswordValid(string user, string password)

// Return true if the password was changed successfully.
bool ChangePassword(string user, string old_password, string new_password)

// Returns a reset token.
string RequestPasswordReset(string user)

// Returns true if the password was reset successfully.
bool CompletePasswordReset(string user, string token, string new_password)

With reasonable changes to support two-factor, if needed.

Credit card data would have a similar interface -- add card, remove card, list user's cards without full cc#, charge card.

The advantages of this over the sort of "hashed passwords in MySQL" design are obvious. Not only is sensitive data protected against "SELECT *", but it's now possible to apply security policies to password management. For example, the password service might enforce rate limiting on how often a particular user's password can be checked -- that way, even if the web server is compromised, the attacker will be unable to compromise passwords any faster than they could via the standard login screen.

The password machine would typically be configured to have only the password service and SSH running, with SSH access limited to a key that's stored in a safe somewhere and used only for emergencies.

If a developer doesn't feel comfortable building such a system themselves (reasonable), then there are many commercial products available. They're expensive for a home user or ramen-budget startup, but a company like Linode would be able to afford one easily.
The price also includes great service. In Manhattan there are 5 Apple stores -- one is 10 minutes away from me and one is open 24/7/365 just in case I need some Genius Bar help or some Apple accessory.

For an extra $100 per year (30 cents per day) you can purchase the One-to-One service that allows you to schedule one hour appointments for one-to-one help as frequently as you like.

No other PC firm offers that kind of service.

Also, Running Parallels with Windows and Office 2013 gives you what most people use a Windows laptop for Office.
That XKCD is creative, I guess, but you don't have to get creative for a steam boiler to be dangerous. This just happened 10 days ago http://www.wmur.com/news/nh-news/3-UNH-students-burned-from-...
> I get that serious emulators invest effort in making dispatch fast, and that a naive for/switch loop is not the fastest way to dispatch instructions

If you're the kind of masochist that enjoys optimizing dispatch loops (hi, you're not alone), check this out: http://www.emulators.com/docs/nx25_nostradamus.htm One of the best resources out there for this sort of stuff.
A single click - point taken. Do you find yourself referring much to what you save? Do you search through them much or have the need to categorise them? Just trying to work out the different customer needs! Thanks!
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Can the generated licenses be used without signing up for binpress?
I tried using Auto-layout on an app when it was first released, but for anything beyond simple cases it's incredibly buggy and unpredictable. It's now the first thing I turn off in any nib.
This is fascinating indeed, can we break down some actual rules from that example?

"Writing table" is idiomatic, you need to understand that the table's purpose is for a writer, not that "writing" is a verb meaning the table is authoring something. As an idiom, it's very close to an atomic construct to reason about, so that places "writing" last and closest to the noun.

One of those adjectives (Canadian) modifies another (Wood) rather than the ultimate noun, so they go together.

(Maybe that adjective could be forming "Canadian writing"? That's silly, but why is it silly? You need contextual knowledge, to know that a table's characteristics are invariant for any kind of writing, to eliminate the parsing of "Canadian writing" as nonsensical. The syntax alone can't establish that. Context is required. If the noun were "anthologies" instead of "tables", then "Canadian" could modify "writing".)

Similarly, another adjective (Long) implicitly modifies both the ultimate noun and the wood that it's made of. It would be nonsensical to have a long table made of not-long wood. So "Long" goes outside (before) "Canadian Wood". Context is necessary again here, to know that wood is a material for making tables.

"Four" goes outside everything else, as it's multiplying the entire final construct.

"Attractive" remains, and I'd argue that there isn't a single answer for it, as two other child comments already illustrate. It could go either before or after "Long", and could even convey meaning by that placement, indicating whether the length contributes to the attractiveness ("Attractive Long") or is just an incidental quality ("Long Attractive"). "Attractive" could even come after "Canadian Wood" if the speaker wanted to indicate that the material is not part of the attractiveness. That construct feels slightly unnatural, but it should because so is the thought.
So, yay Keynesianism?
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I'm not familiar with medina county, ohio motions practice :)

However, let's assume this will end up in federal court because ebay/et al will remove it there (there is complete diversity, ).

Past that, I won't claim it's not common federal motion practice to combine 12(b)(6) and rule 56 motions, or 12(b)(6) and 12(c) motions.

Yes, a 12(b)(6) and rule 56 motion can be filed at the same time, not one instead of the other.

However, in the 12(b)(6) and 12(c) case, often one is clearly instead of the other, because 12(c) is only used after pleadings are closed, and 12(b)(6) would have to be made before a responsive pleading if one is required (if no responsive pleading is required, yes, you can make it whenever, including at trial)

Just because you can combine them into the same motion out of simplicity doesn't make them not "instead" of each other.
All American Airlines Flights Grounded, Experiencing Nationwide Computer Outage
The voice acting in The Dig was really good. It also didn't have the verbs. The graphics were great as well but the plot was lacking...
Key provisions expected in immigration legislation proposal
Study: Coffee Associated With Glaucoma
Also, good luck getting your short code approved. I watched my co-workers struggle for many months trying to get a short code approved, and there was cycle after cycle of stupid arbitrary demands from different carriers. (It's been a while and I wasn't working directly on it, so the details are a bit hazy, but it was a giant mess and made me feel like we were back in the AT&T monopoly days, where you're a supplicant before the phone company.)
For me, it's only really going to get interesting when one of the Amazon competitors launches a spot market. To my (non-expert) knowledge, EC2's spot market is still the only one.
Not yet, just took a look again at your site because of the email campaign. I do have some prospective users though; I plan on exploring more tonight.
It was about a year ago when their customer service portal was breached that I mentally moved Linode off my list of VPS with a "good" reputation (http://status.linode.com/2012/03/manager-security-incident.h...).

Still, people seem surprised that they've been breached again. There are other VPS providers, why would one choose this one? How can you rely on their security self-assessment?

I think the only credible response to their situation is to hire an external IT security firm for an extensive audit and then publish the results. Like something on the scale of the Fox-IT report on the breach of DigiNotar: http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ministeries/bzk/documenten-en-pu... .

EDIT: this was also discussed 3 days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5541915
Is handwriting still important? The digital generation skips penmanship [video]
How are Uber and Lyft not "world domination disruptive ideas"? The others I can see maybe, but completely revamping the automobile part of urban travel is a pretty big deal as far as I can tell.
Stakeholder Engagement: Simple Steps to Better Public Consultation
Cool, if you reply to the email I'll let you know what I find wrt label printers (can't find your email)
Some examples here for Excel 2007:

http://blog.meteorit.co.uk/2007/10/02/excel-2007-bug-shows-w...

one example from the post: 425 * 154.2 was displayed as 100,000 and treated as 100000 for some calculations but not others.

I remember older versions of Excel having similar (but not exactly the same) problems in basic mathematical operations too, but can't remember exactly what they were.
Speaking of which, they're about to announce the results for YC S13. Good luck all!
Could be prettier as an app, but serves the purpose very well IMO. Reminded me to brush up on my pitch too.
I was in Minneapolis in the spring a few years ago and it was a very attractive city. The winters are harsh and long, though. I actually mind it most in the fall, because I'm used to November still being somewhat warm (northeast's "Indian summer").

Portland, according to Wikipedia, has an average January high of 47, an average July high of 81-- some seasonality but not too much-- and with 40+ percent sunshine in most of the year, doesn't seem to have the overbearing cloudiness of Seattle's winters.
I don't think it even matters what study we're talking about. A publicly-funded scientist who withholds "proprietary" source code used in a result of this magnitude is not doing good science.
Also a fun fact: Stanford University in their CS 193p classes teaches how to utilize Storyboards. And Auto Layout. And everything else that Apple provides for the devs.
I've lived in the two largest cities in the US. I'm very familiar with urban living. In NYC everyone takes cabs and don't own cars. In LA everyone drives and can hire very cheap cars to lax or shared shuttles. Its hardly a problem in either of the biggest urban centers in the US.
That would never fly in the sciences.

It's pretty common in medical research.
Yes. Actually, I really liked The Dig's plot [spoilers ahead!] until they brought forth the magical alien ghosts. It was basically Rendezvous with Rama reworked with some subpar new-age nonsense.

Another excellent voice acting game: Tim Schafer's Full Throttle.
Motorola Plans Stock Android Phones, Sized 'Just Right'
R509 (Ruby Certificate Authority API) v0.9 Released
Here's the writeup from seclists.org: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q2/3

It looks like seclists.org and nmap.org are hosted on different IP addresses, but both route to linode, and both have the same WHOIS information, so I think it's safe to say the writeup applies to both.
I have a pro; that I'm selling so I can buy an air. Unless you work extensively with photoshop you should be happier with the air (I would be).
Well, that assumes the non-existence of "multipliers". The concept of a multiplier is that if a government debt-spends on something, some of the effects will be able to continue on their own power and contribute to economic growth after the government spending stops. That would be economic growth that wouldn't happen if the debt-spending didn't happen.

It's also sort of the heart of Keynesianism. The counterpoint is the more intuitive certainty that if times are tough, everyone should tighten their belts, including the government. That's sort of what drives the austerity efforts.
Not any of those points is justified, "a nightmare", "the worst". You need to provide something to support all those affirmations.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that before. My go-to point for all this stuff has always been the papers by Ertl and others http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/threaded-code.html
That in addition to the Excel error, this is just stupidity. I can't believe it got as far as it did, except that certain groups really wanted to believe its conclusions, even though they were false.
The interesting question to me is whether any government policy was decided on this before it was debunked. I can't see any evidence of that necessarily, but would love a confirmation. Otherwise, isn't this exactly the type of thing that people are upset about regarding Reinhart-Rogoff?
Absolutely! Yes. Didn't Simpson-Bowels ( the bi-partisan deficit reduction committee) cite the Reinhart-Rogoff 90% limit as part of the justification for long run austerity policies.

I'd go further. Lets lay down the gauntlet here and proclaim: there is no long term deficit problem in the USA.
> a city with high salaries and low rent vs. purchase prices

This is not easy to find and the market typically corrects itself over the course of a few months to a year, unless there is rent control.
Are they "completely revamping the automobile part of urban travel?" Tesla and even ZipCar seem more world-dominate-y in that regard.
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New immigration proposals revealed - More H1-B Visas, but also start-up Visa
Good luck to those who applied. I guess it's a bit early to know if you're in yet. Do the emails again go out around the end of the working day Pacific time?
That's not true, it was published in the American Economic Review, which is apparently a very well-respected journal.

http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?hs=1&fnd=s&doi=10...
You can also use `$ npm install -g easypostjs && easypost --help` -- this will let you print postage via CLI with inputs, see https://github.com/EasyPost/easypost-node#easypostjs-
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> What you are actually doing when negging a seller is deciding "This seller made me so mad that I am going to cost them large amounts of reputation, raise their fees, restrict their ability to list, and possibly help drive them out of business"

What you are actually doing is noting dissatisfaction with the buyer through the system eBay has set up. The consequences you describe are a result of the system, not the willful action of the buyer. Savvy and unscrupulous buyers might hope that those are the consequences, but one neg doesn't directly translate into that quoted intent.
Businesses exist to make money, and cease to exist if they don't. We all get that.

On the other hand, I'd rather not work next to a guy who'd stab his grandmother in the heart to get a small promotion because he feels that he has to make VP/Eng by 30.
My biggest question is what do I need to know to use this? How can I write things that take advantage of this massive parallelization? Is there any reading anyone would recommend? Or maybe some basic examples for writing GPU based parallel software?

How can we get started with this?
Complementary validation - proofs, programs, and prose
As a side-effect can your service be used for address normalization?
Dataflow is really the way to go to lower energy consumption dramatically.

Could you expand on this for a layperson? I'm terribly interested.