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You start off with the same baseVM (I used to use Precise32, switched to Precise64 for the first time yesterday). You specify the boxes which is based off your base VM.

From there, the path of evolution for each box will take place individually. If you have a Vagrantfile that specify for one project to use Ruby2.0beta and another Vagrantfile for another project to use Ruby1.9, you essentially have two boxes, two execution environments, but you still code on the same machine.
Go uses a growable stack so that each goroutine's stack consumes less memory,not less address space.
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"But I read an outsourced rebranding that came in nicely wrapped up, even with legalese in appendix A."

I can assure you, your read is wrong. This work was done by GitHubbers collaboratively and painstakingly.
Because people like being pedantic in the worst possible way.

The fragility angle was obvious in his post, but people clearly just needed to be butthurt over something.
>if you can borrow at 5% and use that money to make an investment that will provide risk-adjusted returns of 15%, then it always makes sense to borrow...

No, I think if we have learned one thing in the recent crisis it is that highly leveraged entities carry cumulative risk that is more than the sum of the parts. Also, the government is not one company of many. It is a monopoly that must be in a position to act countercyclically even when everyone else decides based on risk adjusted returns that it is best to sell everything, fire everyone and hide in a hole in the ground.

If the government is levered up like everyone else and therefore exposed to the same self reenforcing global dynamics when things go wrong, it will not be able to do its job in a crisis. The government must invest when no one else does and that means it has to invest less when everyone else does.

>All public spending is an investment of sorts

Not all of it, but even for the part that is, you have to ask whether that investment has a higher return than if the private sector made those investment decisions. That's obviously a highly ideological question. My own opinion is that it depends on the type of investment. I think we have good examples either way.
Thank you Chris. So a better way would be a compile an executable instead of using a shell script?
Bingo. 250,000 paid back over a decade with interest is a sizeable chunk of lifetime earnings.
Lost in the conversation about government debt is the determining factor of whether or not government debt can ever be a problem at all. It's not how much you owe, it's not who you owe it to; it's what you owe.

If your government owes IOU's that it can print itself (fiat currency), it can never default on those IOU's.

If your government owes IOU's printed by another government or sovereign body, then it can most certainly run out of them and must buy them at market rates.
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Is there data that shows that a massive government debt does not slow economic growth?
> American was not supplying food or hotel vouchers - all those people are coming out of pocket I guess.

Why are they not subject to a class action lawsuit? The problems rather obviously seem to be American's fault.

Seems like some enterprising lawyer should buy a ticket, drive to the airport, go to the AA gates, and start handing out business cards to everyone in sight.
The sequestration has only been painful because the Administration wants to make an example of any efforts to reduce the size of the government. Funny how NIH projects could have a 20% cut when the $44 Billion reduction this year as a result of sequestration is 1% of the actual budget. Where did that other 19% come from? Further, the sequestration only reduced the increase on the baseline budget. We're still going to be spending more this year than we did last year.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/27/sequest...
I've flown from Ireland to the US and Canada with them several times now and the service has been excellent. Now that you mention it though most of the flights arrived slightly late (no more than 30 mins). As they were trans-atlantic flights and I wasn't in a hurry it didn't bother me.
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Did a lot of miners buy pre-programmed FPGAs to do mining? If they're passe, they could probably recover a lot of the cost by selling them to students. Or donating them, since they're now rich (technically).
What Keynesian 6 trillion dollars are you talking about?
I like the simplicity, but from my experience with warehouses no one is willing to take a 5 cent increase in postage costs, let alone a 5% (or less) increase.

Is the rate you're basing the ~5% on commercial base, commercial plus, GEPS? There are other consolidators that will offer those prices (Express1 for example). And while they are more work to integrate, the long term savings can be enormous.
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Mike Merrill's experiment sounds similar -- http://www.wired.com/business/2013/03/ipo-man/all/

Can't say I'm not fascinating in such an idea
That's silly. Even in the least charitable interpretation of what's happened, 1Password's security margin went from N (where N was a hypothetical security level believed to have been achieved by 1Pw, not some objective standard) to N/2. N/2 in this case is still light years past salted hashes.
No matter what the construction being used is, you always have to use a strong master password. Nothing can help you if your password is in the dictionary.
This just is how society currently works, except instead of $125,000 the young person gets four years of classroom lectures. And it's more like 10% of income for 20 years, depending on the school.
Avalon had a trade-back program when they sold their round 2 ASICs, though I'm not sure what they are doing with the old FPGA boards once they receive them.
You're right. We started with % of spend because it was easiest. We've had plans for a while now and will push them soon. These have competitive rates for volume shippers. In need of something like this?
Any idea which college she goes to?
We're in the middle of a recession?
Amazing little app. Great job!
The reality is much more complex than that. There are numerous systems at AA for booking, reservation, ground ops, flight ops, airport integration, etc.... Many of these interact with SABRE, many of them are layered on top of each other but some only partially. Quite frankly it's pretty scary over there.
I think ajross is (mostly) right, ASICs can be re-purposed for SHA256 calculations. To what extent they have baked in a whole round of SHA256 is a good question, they may just be developed around very parallel XORs (which is why some GPUs are faster at BTC mining than others—they have built in XOR logic).

I do believe seeing that (the mythical) Butterfly Labs intends on releasing software for all sorts of other parallel high-performance applications (or some kind of driver/API type of thing), but I could be hallucinating.
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Lets be honest here. How frequently do you think a company changes processors?
> go to the AA gates

You have to be a ticketed passenger to get _to_ the gates.
I agree I'm mainly concerned about cases where gender follows you around a website when you're logged in.

"Good Morning Mr. _" and stuff like that should be avoided unless supplied by the user. For your own stats using this library is probably better than asking users for that information.
LOL, yah right. No they don't earn more. AA does not pay well. Also most of the legacy systems are maintained by contractors.
That's because George Lucas is very seldom telling the truth about his intent. If you look at the things George Lucas said and wrote back then and compare them to what he says and writes now, it seems pretty clear that Lucas doesn't readily distinguish between his present ideas and his previous plans. I don't know whether he actually doesn't remember that he used to think differently or if he's consciously trying to reshape history — but at any rate, the George Lucas of today can't be relied upon for insight into the mind of the George Lucas of yesterday.
I wouldn't say that I wasn't unimpressed with your double negative.
Yeah totally, when small it looks like its waving a hello
One of the most important qualities of an entrepreneur is resourcefulness. I'm not sure what your idea is or why it needs so much money, but thats a hurdle you'll have to jump yourself. Traction is most important, so find a way to get that. Start networking, and find a way to do this stuff cheap.

Sorry I couldn't be more help.
Amusingly, if the graduate's average yearly income over the career is $62500 (about right for a median college graduate) and the length of career is 40 years, then it comes out to exactly 10%.
Re: FPGAs, don't forget their other major downfall for mining- power. An equivalent ASIC uses much less power.
In quite a few languages, you need to know the gender to write personalised emails, eg. Cher Joe vs. Chère Jane.
To me the tone of that tweet sounded very insincere.
Are people actually going into $250k of debt just for an undergraduate degree? I wouldn't even consider that sort of debt unless it was for medical school.
I feel the need to point out that on an unbiased search engine (DDG), SO was the first hit but not any of the subsequent hits. However, all of the hits were various developer-oriented forums.

I would suggest that, if we must have developer-oriented forums, the SO model is great, but it should not be the way that we teach programmers to look for knowledge. You should SO in anger because something has stumped you all day, not because you're just starting out with a language and don't know what you're doing.
Saying "CRUD application" is like saying "Java application". It's an implementation detail and not an actual feature.

Tumblr is a CRUD application, yet it shares almost nothing with Basecamp.

Focusing on the technology does not make great products.

FWIW, I think there are a lot of potentially interesting applications that could be built on Twitter, but they've proven themselves hostile to the idea. I don't even trust them as an OAuth provider anymore.
I think ajross is (mostly) right, ASICs can be re-purposed for SHA256 calculations.

I know what you mean, but I think you should be more specific in your statement. Bitcoin mining ASICs might be re-purposable. Not all ASICs.
Oops, you're right, I was looking at the wrong process in htop: the "go run test.go" process used to build and launch it, not the actual test process, which indeed burned up memory very quickly (but not fast enough to crash when I ran it for a minute earlier). I should have sorted by CPU usage instead of searching by process name.

Can anyone think of any other way to implement this kind of dispatch system in Go? If it isn't possible, I don't think Go deserves the status of being "a good language to write emulators in," as this is a pretty important technique for improving performance of CPU emulation.
I just left a comment on the hashcat forum asking if anyone could offer a better back-of-the-napkin calculation of the real-world implications of this. My understanding is that we're still looking at something like 10^27 years of cracking to exhaust the password space.

Any (more clever) HNers care to offer a interpretation and calcuation?
Sex isn't binary as binary as you'd think. There are people with ambiguous genitals, so that doesn't work. There are people with genitals that don't match the sex of the rest of their body. Genes then? There are people that have male genes and female bodies, and vice versa. There are people with both male and female genes (XXY).
"atheistic Colombine murderers"

Holy shit. Nice troll.
Don't forget governments, which tend to take a much larger portion of your lifetime income.
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1528-the-bullshit-of-outage-l...
Another update. I'm still here. We are parked at the gate waiting for additional fuel before we can leave. Not sure why they boarded us just to have us sit here for another hour (or more - no clue how long this will end up taking). The good news is the plane has AC power in my row so I was able to build the navigation for a site I'm working on.
I hope they roll out a new version for better syncing between computers and phones, but I'm pretty comfortable with the security in 1Password 3 today.

There really isn't a good way for anyone except Apple to make a great password manager on iOS, though, without getting every single app vendor to write to a password manager's API. But 1Password on iOS is pretty good. (what doesn't work so well is that you have to manually cut and paste passwords into browser or other apps; I'm not comfortable running a browser inside 1password)
SABRE was fine. Some of the systems at AA couldn't talk to it. Having seen their systems none of this surprises me.
So, I see certain groups (union of airline attendants) opposing knives in cabins.

It sounds reasonable enough for their safety... until I consider the fact that anyone can have a knife, virtually anywhere, already. On the bus. On the train. On the subway. In a bar.

Yet in none of those places is anyone contemplating removing them. So now that the cabin door is reinforced, what's so special about planes that you shouldn't be allowed to carry a swiss army knife? I just don't see the logic.
Not following you. I'm saying that fiat derives value from the state. Taxes drive money.
I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say "such young OS". Solaris zones and ZFS have been around for almost a decade. Docker is young, but it wraps around LXC, cgroups, AUFS, and namespaces. Cgroups and AUFS were introduced in 2006. Namespaces are more recent, but they are basically a reimplementation of concepts from OpenVZ and VServer (and the latter is more than 10 years old). FreeBSD jails are great, and they have also been around for a while; but they are still lacking a lot of features (a jail doesn't have its own network stack, and resource accounting and limiting isn't as evolved as what cgroups provide), and unionfs is far from being as stable as AUFS.

Don't misunderstand me: FreeBSD jails are awesome if you're doing FreeBSD and want lightweight virtualization. For the rest of us, LXC is just as awesome, and docker lowers the barrier of entry considerably!

My 2c.
Good point. An ASIC could be completely non-repurposable. The commonly-available (soon) BTC ASICS should be damn good at SHA256 cracking, maybe other XOR-related applications too.
Sorry? Your comment's not clear.

Are you saying that today we have more skin in the game and it's not helping, or that today we don't have more skin in the game (with market stability left AFAICT uncommented on)?
No, I'm not. Violent muggings are not a backlog type of crime for the NYPD because they do not want a serial robber running around. You're right that high-profile crimes will bring in new technology and capabilities, but if the infrastructure isn't there (i.e. the tech skills of the officers in the field and in the office), then it's not a given that the processing of mass digital information is going to be smooth.
+1 for VMWare, havent crashed yet after a year and a half since switching

thanks for your Vagrant + VMware work, that was the biggest thing keeping me from vagrant
Thanks!
Good luck for all teams.
It might be nice if in the meantime more teams would share their ideas/projects - it would be interesting to see what you've been working on.

Com'on, don't be shy ;)
Boston here. Couple of us had the same idea and are meeting tonight in the CIC (101 Main in Kendall Square) to pull together an app. Designers and PR ppl especially welcome. For now, please contact me at @jaredchung on twitter and I'll rope you in.
We use the Endicia and Express1 API's in our software currently (Mainly because Express1 will share a bit of our client's revenue with us). We are definitely still in the marketplace for UPS, FedEx, etc solutions though. Haven't gotten around to their API's yet, and I don't know if there are good consolidator rates for them.
And here it is: http://www.lulu.com/shop/john-graham-cumming/a-non-mathemati...
The problem with EZ countries is precisely that you can't "take them together" because there is no centralized fiscal agent. You need this because there has to be fiscal transfers between weaker and stronger nations or else face growing imbalance of payments, and with the right catalyst, financial crisis. That's why the U.S. works as a monetary union.
Correct. The optimizations are landing now/soon. Feedback welcome!
cf the discussion in the same thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5559282
I really liked the puzzle difficulty with Machinarium. I think I had to use the hints system once for one of the particularly difficult puzzles. Great game.
That looks like a great tool! I recently took a class in programming language design where we had to implement a simulated Treadmill garbage collector using a circular linked list in Java. It taught us the basics of how the algorithm works but not really how it functions within the context of an actual programming language implementation.

The proposed framework looks like it has a lot of potential.
On this tangent, I wouldn't suggest premium features, unless they're minor because they tend to tear apart communities (look at all the games). I'd suggest nonintrusive ads and/or affiliate links to books, which would fit this site nicely. You could also put a store in there selling things relating to these topics, either setting that up yourself, or again going the affiliate route. Honestly, you could just look into how similar sites are doing their financing, and see what you can copy from their methods.
Parents.

I have been travelling for 12 years and I really want to spend time with them now. Both are above 60 and this is the ideal time to be with them.

You might ask why they don't just move. That's because the bulk of their life is spent here. There social circle is all based here. It keeps them busy at this age. They visit my siblings in US every year but after a few weeks they get bored. We don't push them because at the end of the day we think it's criminal to move your parents to a totally new place in their age to start a new life all over again. They've worked really hard all their lives, it's time for them to enjoy.
No, it would not. Please read my post again. The webserver would not have login credentials for the password management machine.

Additionally, I object to your implication that any network service can be trivially compromised with "one more round of cracking". This is a view of software security that is propagated by science-fiction movies, and is not grounded in real life. Vulnerabilities that permit remote code execution are relatively easy to prevent by taking appropriate precautions when designing and implementing a network service, and almost every such vulnerability has its root cause in doing something obviously insecure (e.g. writing in C/C++ or a language with eval(), passing user input into an OS procedure).
One of my favorites: http://glyph3d.com "Glyph3D is a font atlas generation tool. It enables game developers / artists to create beautiful font atlas maps using various filter effects."
Facebook has shown a willingness to send Cease and Desist letters to people who do this[1]. I'm sure they would be more than willing to follow up with a lawsuit. Most sites (that I've actually looked at :) with APIs have clauses against the automated gathering of data from their site. This would fall directly within that.

I suppose if you are located somewhere where you feel like you are outside of the reach of their legal arm, you might be able to get away with it. Otherwise, you are in a legally shaky position, at best.

1. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-bans-browser-plu...
Are you only trolling or deliberately misinterpreting a comment just to be angry at evil atheists?
Thank you. Great answer, great thread.
Add to the "chance of moving" cost: your opportunity cost in lost income (or additional expenses) by being unable to sell your house in the course of a move. Either you lose out on the income opportunity (which is what this subthread started with), or you're left with the higher costs of renting out your home (likely not covering mortgage) while renting at the new location.

We saw this last situation for a new hire who last year was unable to sell his underwater midwest home while finding rents in a markedly hotter housing market much higher, especially when proximity to good schools and low crime rates were factored in.
It isn't the norm, but yes. Folks have generally settled on that number as the benchmark college debt because it is very dramatic, but still not so far off in fantasy that you could call it false.

What is the actual average debt on graduation? ~$27,000
Really it is unrealistic to expect users to have a sufficiently long password entered on every operation on iOS to provide adequate protection.

There should be some iOS-specific system with a key in protected keystore/keybag on the phone, combined with your encrypted password db potentially living in dropbox/icloud/etc., and then a user passphrase or biometric or whatever to unlock the file. Then you at least are protected against brute force once someone steals the encrypted keyfile from dropbox or some other service.

I've suggested this to them ~10 times. A keyfile format that doesn't rely on the crazy Apple resource forks and works with a user-self-hostable sync server would also be nice.
Admittedly, I know little about all of this but:

1. So when NASAs budget gets cut, it's not because there's not enough money available?

2. Other actors in the economy who spend it on what?? How is that supposed to be equal in economic growth to spending it directly on investment?

3. Similar to #1. If government is always able to spend money on programs in addition to interest payments, then why are programs ever cut? And why then would debt ever be a concern? You make it seem as though debt is completely irrelevant.
I'm not so sure that this error means that a free lunch has been discovered.
Then buy a ticket. It'd be a worthwhile expenditure.
Agreed, however, imho you'd have to be insane to run a company with hundreds of thousands of monthly billed customers and turn control of the card details over to a third party (who, lets be honest, will be running their backend in a very similar manner i.e. encrypted CC details protected with a passphrase). I'd take my chances the same way Linode chose to rather than punt the issue upstream and hope for the best.

I might be biased though as my default approach to most things is to do (and have control over) as much as possible yourself unless there are extremely good, unequivocal reasons not to.
What do they earn?
It's not that hard of a problem to solve really. Weve come a long way as an industry since SABRE came out 53 years ago. AA's biggest problem is that their IT dept is 80% low grade contractors and they've been unsuccessful in delivering their own solution for what SABRE does. They've been pushing back the sunset of SABRE for over a decade. Many days I'm surprised anything written at AA runs at all.
I reached your answer (but I'm not a native speaker).