skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this, it doesn't sound like you said anything different. Sure, it isn't the ATM itself that makes the decision, but the authorization system can still step in and allow a transaction that is not committed to the actual account's log.

I'm sure that, under the hood, there are a lot of ACIDic transactions going on, but, stepping back, it still looks pretty BASEic. When I hit "withdraw $200", there is no guarantee that my actual account has a transaction commit for that amount. Instead, there may just be a log message saying "SoftwareMaven withdrew $200".
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Fat people have lots of fat. Muscle and bone amd cardiovascula health and brain mylenation are another matter.
From what I asked, it seems like it is possible. Not sure how easy/hard it is though. The Senior Manager of the group that I interviewed for has 3 sub groups and he assured that it is totally possible to move between those groups.
The smoothing and variable stroke width look pretty good there, a lot like Paper. Care to share what you're doing?
I don't think people who really know what they're talking about say that. Sure the JVM is slow to start so there's latency involved in getting Java up and going, but Java is very fast over the long term.
Yes, you should probably buy it if you're serious about the company.
I'd generally take half my normal on-site rate to work from home. Although I'd also take a discounted rate to go to interesting places (assuming travel paid, but even then, it might be a discount), or a surcharge to go somewhere uninteresting and on short notice.

I'd absolutely do IT/satellite stuff in Antarctica if I had nothing else I had to be doing, just for the experience (although I think it also pays decently, like $80k for a season with no other expenses...)
What do you suggest in arduino's place?
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I'll get one when my friend's printer can print me one.
It was in a sense a generalization to shed light on a larger point in that acclimating to cultures isn't about you, it's about the people who are a part of the culture accepting you.

I also don't want to discourage anyone from leaving their culture to try something new. It's an amazing truly eye opening experience.

Just be aware of the challenges you face.
> the current owners are using it in bad faith

He never says this. Merely holding a trademark does not entitle you to take a domain from someone (see: Nissan Motor Company v Nissan.com). Sitting on domains is not illegal.
Income is a poor approximation of wealth, indeed.
I went ahead and did it. Got to town: P4L5HYCHHJXXYQI43MYLJMNSKALYQL5V
Python is more popular, Ruby is more trendy and visible.

http://www.langpop.com/

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
I got one at work...
The life expectancy in India is 65.5 years. Less than 3% of Indian townships are served by water treatment plants.
Investment in German tech surpassed France in Q1 2013
I think the point is that people who say it is impossible to build a banking system without full transaction support for every action are ignoring the reality that transactions are not guaranteed to occur, but the actions themselves are. If, at a level of abstraction, the system can be said to be a BASE, then it is probably true that the underlying data stores are not required to be ACIDic. Whereas everything I've read has always said "you can't do banking without ACID".

Whether that is true or not is a much deeper discussion that three or four paragraphs on a blog.
We get a $90K blanket exemption + we can directly deduct whatever we pay for taxes in the country we are working in. So it usually works out to $0 + the expense of filing a tax form. Disclaimer: I am not a tax attorney and this shouldn't be taken as advice.
> just spewing out money to every piece of plastic calling itself a card when your network connection has been dropped isn't really a recipe for success.

Well they do this in Australia... http://www.news.com.au/money/banking/computer-glitch-hits-cb...

> "People were running past me screaming 'Free money! Free money!'," Punchbowl Pharmacy manager Feriale Zakhia said of the people using a nearby ATM.

> "Everyone was so happy. They were running around with huge smiles."

> [A technical problem] forced the bank to put all of their ATM machines into offline mode. Customers had no access to their account balance but were still able to withdraw money - more than their accounts held.

> Those withdrawal limits are up to $2000 a day for holders of keycards and debit Mastercards.

> "No one has received free cash," Mr Fitzgerald said. "What they've done is overdrawn their accounts. We will be following those people up and recovering that money."
Flickr didn't have flicker.com until recently and I think it cost them over $800,000 if I remember the bidding for it correctly. Probably worth just buying it now and not worrying about it.
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That's an interesting stat, but it confusing. Is this a case where people are not taking advantage of the social services offered? $2/day works out to $300 for a family of five.

This reminds me of Medicaid in the US. Something like 20% of the uninsured in America are actually qualified for free healthcare, but don't enroll.
That's interesting, because in most games the people who exploit bugs in a game are banned/removed/punished. It's standard practice in online games to punish those who use the game in an unintended but presented way (exploit bugs).

David Sirlin has a chapter in his book "Playing To Win" entitled, "What Should be Banned?" It's about tounaments, but it may apply here as well: http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/what-should-be-banned.html
Nissan.com is a legitimate company with a legitimate purpose though.
If you fry frozen vegetables in a wok with butter or oil and some spices it is delicious, healthy and very, very cheap. Adding beans or mincemeat for protein still leaves it at very cheap. I can't speak to the education system or public transport system in the States but frozen vegetables are surely available in most convenience stores, yeah?
How many signups have you see / are you expecting? In my experience, it's much easier to open the flood gates and close them if need be than the other way around. Remove all friction and just get users in.

Good luck!
Not yet, but definitely on my wish list.
But as far as I have read the article the glitch is not about the simulation of cards but rather about game mode flags you can carry unintendedly between different game modes.

The quoted example makes him pause game one at a high win, switch to game type two to achieve a 'tenfold win' token and then combine this with the paused game.

These are arbitrary rules put in place just for the simulated card games in the first place.

And of course for him it hugely increases the probability to achieve this scenario intended to be very rare.
There are Jews living in other parts of the world:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_India
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/24/bnei-menashe-move-t...
Howdy Patrick. First, let me say thanks as well, as I like your product and have sent people your way when they ask about something like PortableApps.com for local software. I'd also like to make clear that I in no way have a problem with the way Ninite works. I just had a problem with the way this article was written. Looking back at my original post, I definitely wrote a few things incorrectly and I apologize for that.

Regarding profits XOR good, I agree that you can do both and hope it didn't seem like I was implying otherwise. PortableApps.com, though fully open source, is also a for-profit venture that also intends to do good. It just happens to not be turning a profit yet. We're working on a freemium model as well, but we decided against making our updater and app store a paid feature and against bundling in ads as it would negatively impact some of our users.

I was unaware that Adobe had accessibility issues but, considering the interface, it makes sense. So, let me commend you on assisting with that. We did some custom work to ensure accessibility in our products as we have a large contingent of folks it helps as well.

Regarding publishers making updating their software artificially hard, I'm with you on that. We've had more than one publisher refuse to appear in the PortableApps.com App Store and Updater for that very reason: they want to have users to visit their website on each new version to see offers. That's why the portable version of the app that's not on Ninite isn't available on PortableApps.com either, despite offering up possible alternative revenue streams and offering capabilities. So, we're in the same boat there.

We should have a chat sometime and see if there are any ways we could work together.
>>A goroutine count doesn't seem like it'd be useful for diagnosing this in a non-trivial program.

Sure it is, if you are leaking goroutines you will see an every increasing count, even when your app is idle if the count doesn't return to the proper baseline then you know you have a problem.

If you start a goroutine should should have a plan for terminating it. If you don't have a natural way like the life cycle of handling a request then you need to use channels (defer/close are your friends), waitgroups, condition vars etc. I work on some fairly large Go applications and this hasn't been a pain point.
Hello, I'm a reprap developer. What specific intelligence do you have in mind? Want to come in to #reprap on freenode and tell us about it?
At this point, the amount of complete data losses I've seen on the LKML makes me wonder why anyone wants to promote BTRFS as being better than anything I would want to use for things approaching production.

I may be an old Solaris hand now but ZFS works. Now, not in the future, my home fileservers on FreeBSD have worked for ages and had no issues. Unlike the many complete losses on BTRFS on Linux that I see happening time and time again. SuSE might be promoting BTRFS, but objectively I can't agree with their decision.
Bitcoin - Transaction block chains
These are useless gimmicks, and in the worst case they can't be recycled. I didn't know of shapeways before, and I couldn't find a single useful thing on it. Are there more pragmatic 3D printing sites?
That's because of extreme poverty on the very lower end (also, I always wonder if these age expectancy numbers are taking into account low child mortality rates). If you take care of yourself well in India, you'll be fine.

To be clear, I'm not advocating here that hey if you're in poverty here might as well leave the country, I'm saying if things are not working out spectacularly, you're stuck with a dead-end job (or are having trouble finding employment despite a degree), and you are adventurous/wouldn't mind a big cultural change, you can think about it carefully and plan things out and you'll be fine. Getting out of America for a better life is a very real and viable option in this day for some people.
I believe it uses the default Program Files and (x86) directory. Have you tried setting that to your other drive so your Ninite-installed apps default to their, but you can still manually select your SSD for the apps you wish to run more quickly (PhotoShop, etc).
Toronto, Canada
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> only bringing in $2M a year

Surprise, surprise. Startup burning through venture capital while actual 'revenue' is smoke and mirrors. We've seen this movie before.
> If, at a level of abstraction, the system can be said to be a BASE, then it is probably true that the underlying data stores are not required to be ACIDic.

I don't think this follows. While the system as a whole might be eventually consistent (where consistency is defined as: what's in the General Ledger), it doesn't follow that you relax constraints on the parts.

The individual components are generally ACID and the steps to move data are ACID as well. The only thing that prevents the whole system from being ACID is that transactions don't go immediately from POS/ATMs/card clearance/cheque clearance into the General Ledger, but instead must go through a series of intermediate transactions. But those intermediate transactions must, themselves, be ACID.

That's why I talked about how the boundaries matter. The final central accounts are ACID, the subsystems are ACID and the data transfers are ACID.

edit: though to contradict myself, I expect that there will be counterexamples in different banks where some stores or steps will not be strictly ACID, but will have been "good enough" or with sufficiently-acceptable workarounds that they haven't been upgraded. I don't think this fatally breaks my argument, but YMMV.
That would be fen (.01x). They are made of plastic as their value is so low. Mao (.10x) and Yuan (1x) are more like real coins, though mao's are smaller than yuan, and they have a plastic mao variant also, I believe.
My guess is that the discrepancy between the general $10/yr from godaddy and the current $1500 is what's getting to you... My advice would be to try to disregard the "standard" price for a domain and just ask if it's worth it on its own.

One way to look at it: you could say that the "standard" price for a domain name is no longer standard at all--that most (not all, but most) good domain names are already taken, and that "$10/yr" was a historical moment that already passed. However you create the story, it should lead you to ignoring what you think "should" be the case, and help you take full consideration what IS the case.
I remember there was a time when rails releases meant extraction of working knowledge into the framework. Now it looks like they are just choosing to support frameworks which they think are the best.
But it doesn't - in the online environment of Hacker News.

A good well-actually here often adds a lot to the discussion: it brings up points that others may have forgotten, elaborates on concepts that can be very complex, points the anonymous reader toward other resources that they may never have heard of, and can lend validation and social proof to ideas. And the negatives are curtailed by the short, high-population, transactional nature of message boards. When someone corrects you on Hacker News, it doesn't make you feel stupid (I hope): it just means that someone out there, among the hundreds of thousands of readers, had better information than you did. There's no real jockeying for social status on Hacker News, because if you get karma or score that point - who cares? You never see them again.

That's very different from a school environment, where you are pushing your comfort zone in front of a small number of classmates, and a correction can make you feel stupid and negatively impact your confidence. You have to learn with these people for a while; if you feel devalued from the beginning, your learning is going to suffer.
The very lower end? 97% of Indian townships lack water treatment. Only 30% of Indians live in major metro areas.
I don't want to take anything away from Astrid.

I keeps dismissing my ideas as trivial and already done. When I think I have a new idea, my friends would dismiss it as trivial and already done. Take astrid's todo list or task sharing for example. My initial and only thought would be 'does the world need another todo app', 'another list making app' really? If I take the idea to my friends, they would bombard me with companies who do exactly the same thing. And yet here we are with Astrid being acquired. It seems to have some angel investment/funding even. The founders may not be millionaires but they definitely made more money than I did.

Note to self: do something. anything. and get acquired.
In the US, public transport is at least $20 per week, for a minimum commute.

x2 for 2 wage earners.

$1/day(!) per person is another $5 each.

Replacing worn out clothes adds a touch.

Water/sewer is ~$5/wk/person for very light use. Energy for light/heat/cooking is similar.

That is bare minimum for survival.
100 RMB bills get replaced pretty quickly also; its rare to see an old one. 50 RMB bills can be more worn, and its kind of a pain because the DPRK counterfeiters usually go after these notes. Recently, they've caught on to this and have been replacing 50 RMB bills more often.
Omitted </p> tags have always been perfectly conforming in HTML, just not XHTML. The same goes for </li> tags. It's more common than you think for people to omit closing tags for those elements.
The submission here says nothing about who owns the mystery domain except that they're willing to sell it. You don't need to be a "legitimate company with a legitimate purpose" to register domains. I own domains I only use for mailboxes; you can't take them by paying $350 to register them as trademarks. If I put a "for sale" page on the domain, that wouldn't let you take them either.

The UDRP only allows a dispute when the current owner is using the name to intentionally "attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark...". Or, if the domain was registered for the purpose of selling it to the trademark holder, but that's not the case since the domain wasn't registered after the trademark and the owner didn't reach out to him.
>You might want to reconsider the way you talk to people.

That's amusing to see in a post where you've included both an "asshole" and a "fuck you".

>Here's the summary:

More like an angry oversimplification.

1&2: I think your post actually goes in two directions, finding individual motivation and catalyzing group motivations. The latter is what I chose to comment on.

3&4: The commentor offered an anecdote, I asked him to think critically about what he's saying versus experiencing. You've taken it upon yourself to assume a very specific response and quote it as a statement - ridiculous.
Really? Wow. Honestly doesn't seem worth it to wait. It'll most likely only help to have it earlier for word of mouth and SEO.
It's not cynical at all. You just demonstrated an example of a phenomenon that was well-documented in the 80s by people like Noam Chomsky. His book Manufacturing Consent talks in great detail about how mass media is used to manipulate public opinion.
I used to pay my rent every three months in cash, which was essentially 20K RMB all in cash. I was almost thinking of investing in a man purse.

Now that my rent has gone up and they want me to pay once every 6 months, we just go to the bank and do a huge transfer directly to my landlord's account.
Seems a bit late for them to be figuring out how to make money.
For OpenBSD at least, I'm pretty sure the practice of only accepting code patches that have accompanying man page patches when it changes behavior has something to do with it.
Drop me a line - I have some tools to explore this space I am working on that might help you.
Unfortunately it would appear Debian is actually lagging a bit behind in this regard:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565308
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Cnczone is pretty cool as a community, but I do think the reprap community is more helpful by an order of magnitude. Having met many members of both groups in real life, the reprappers are generally more approachable. I get the impression that every CNC build is a custom design "because I can" whereas most reprappers tend to stick to a few common designs and possibly modify them. Modifications that work generally spread back to the community really really fast and improve life for everyone. The #reprap IRC channel on freenode is an absolute goldmine of a resource, people with questions or problems generally get answers within seconds and it's active, fun discussion the rest of the time. Haven't seen anything equivalent in CNC (cnczone comes closest).
Sounds awful. With the rewards of credit cards these days, you're basically throwing away money. Fidelity offers an AmEx card with 2% cashback on all purchases, and there are plenty of other options to choose from.
If it's self control you're after, does cash really make a difference? I think modern personal finance tools as Mint do a better job with budgeting.
Personally, I have used plastic ever since I was old enough to have a debit card, and I've never looked back.
I did AngelPad with them in Winter 2011 and we worked out of the same office building for a year. Awesome guys, great passion, sharp technologists and all around good people. Couldn't have happened to better people.
>The other interesting thing about Chinese currency is how light the coins are. They feel like they're made of plastic.

This is only the really old designs (1950s), also really small coins. 0.01 and 0.05 RMB coins are cheap and flimsy aluminum or something (? dunno exactly what metal). You almost never see those any more.

The newer 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 coins are equivalent to US coins in sturdiness, some kind of brass or nickel or something.
And he better not dare eat pop rocks to go along with it!
When you mine your GPU/CPU is running at full load, producing lots of noise and heat. It also maxes out power consumption on your rig and ups your electricity bill. I don't see many gamers willing to do this.
This is awesome if you actually want to understand the linear algebra behind it.

A useful paper is also Bryan and Leise's The $25B Eigenvector, The Linear Algebra Behind Google.
Not really. Also, frozen vegetables aren't very healthy for you; nutrients are lost in the freezing process. They work well enough for starchy veggies, but these are also the ones that make you fat.
(from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5642484)

I don't want to take anything away from Astrid.

I keeps dismissing my ideas as trivial and already done. When I think I have a new idea, my friends would dismiss it as trivial and already done. Take astrid's todo list or task sharing for example. My initial and only thought would be 'does the world need another todo app', 'another list making app' really? If I take the idea to my friends, they would bombard me with companies who do exactly the same thing. And yet here we are with Astrid being acquired. It seems to have some angel investment/funding even. The founders may not be millionaires but they definitely made more money than I did.

Note to self: do something. anything. and get acquired.
Interesting. I picked them up in 2003, the 0.05RMB were the most obvious ones, the larger denominations were definitely more coin-like.