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Likely pg means, "don't let your startup die aka run out of cash and/or have the founders lose interest."
Because they're so close to having C99 support.
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To quibble.

On Intelligence is a prescription for an intelligent system which Numenta's software is intended to fill. So On Intelligence would tell you the motivation for the system but not how the system works in any detail.
Are you kidding? This style is awesome.

In all seriousness, what issues do you have with it?

Reading it on my tablet at night means I don't get blinded by a light background, and the green is something my eyes deal with easily. Honestly, I think his site looks better than most of the same vanilla layouts we see here posted every day.
DRC is hardly a conflict free region, or if it is right this moment, it is only because the genocide was so far reaching that there is no one left causing sufficient disturbance to meet whatever bar they've set.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Cong...

From the article:
- 45,000 people were dying daily as of 2009
- estimates on deaths due to the most recent conflict (deadliest since WWII) were 5,400,000 (though that number is in dispute, no one seems to be standing firmly behind another statistic).
- 400,000 women are raped yearly (2011 statistic)

WTF.
should have bought some puts
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I've asked different people their opinions. Coders say its great, cheap and effective. Designers despise its existence.

The designers argue that it is bad for them, however from my perspective it lowers the barriers for entry if you are a young talent trying to build a name.

How easy is it to put a value on good design? I see big companies out there with what I believe to be terrible logos that I know would have costed hundreds of thousands. On the other hand, I see companies like facebook and twitter that started out with plain text logos and spent nothing yet still have a powerful brand.
It was tech related. Posts about the protests in Turkey are also surfacing on here and they are hardly tech related. They also appear on reddit.

Logic fail.
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I had thought that Vine was something akin to Google Hangouts until now.

So now I know instead that it is a simple to use, high quality animated gif generator... Which I guess isn't such a bad thing. It certainly has entertainment value (I'm not really of the camp that believes that every company has to make world-changing products)
My uncle was recently laid off and given severance of a year's salary ($150k). He got another $150k job soon after. He'll make $300k this year. This is in Missouri, where that's a lot of money.
Severance packages can be good, but you don't want to be the last to leave. I stayed at a company until the bitter end (Chap 11) and got almost no severance. I would have made more money in absolute terms if I had been sacked in the last round of layoffs. I thought I was skilled to avoid the layoffs but really it cost me money.

You want to be the second to last to leave.
> You can't be arrested for resisting arrest alone.

There have been plenty of examples cropping up on YouTube recently showing videos of people being arrested for resisting arrest for their arrest and nothing more.

Of course, they don't get charged. But they do get arrested.
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Is this actually HIPAA compliant? Assuming the information falls under HIPAA, is this group actually saving it on a certified HIPAA compliant server?
it has nothing to do with their pizza, people just thought your comment wasn't constructive
> If the history of the Internet has proven anything, it is that open technologies lead to unbounded innovation and unprecedented value added to the entire economy.

When has that been true for hardware? It seems to me that the most exciting hardware innovations have been proprietary models.
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Pearl Harbor beat Japan.

The bomb was tactically economical, and nothing else. It did the work of 500 B-29s. Guess what? We had those 500 B-29s, and the bomb did nothing more than save petrol.

Quit hand-wringing.
To put my slightly cynical hat on (one of my favourite hats) - the viral marketing video space is a popular one at the moment, since everyone knows how quickly video content can spread - especially when it's entertaining and/or novel, and marketers would love to reach those kind of audience sizes with their brands.

There are also a great number of video producers out there - often relatively young folks who keep in tune with what's popular online, stay current on technology trends, and would love to earn their income by creating and selling videos which advertise brands (Dominos) and products.

So, these folks - their raison d'être is to produce videos which promote a brand and spread virally - and to achieve that, they need to 'feel' unique, but the catch is that they generally need to display the branding quite prominently in the content.

Here's a similar situation: http://www.livescience.com/23150-seagull-video-hoax.html

To me, I'd suspect both are viral marketing, if well disguised - and even if they're not, I'd suspect that viral video marketers are going to become more sophisticated at making videos 'appear' to be genuine / user-generated / found footage.

One question that springs to mind with this one is: if Dominos were beta-testing this, would they have the operator wear the Dominos delivery uniform?

Either way, they're fun to watch.
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I hope Pinterest sends a C&D to Intel...

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pin-a-dynamic-binar...
Scientist in philosophy, not scientist in profession.

I would think of it like going to the moon. Curiosity took us there, but a lack of a financial motive to continue going there made future missions more difficult, to the point where we stopped going.

People have effectively gotten around Python's GIL for most engineering purposes. Those who remain aren't doing so because they have a problem to solve, they remain because the GIL is is the problem to solve. An end, rather than a means. This makes it... well you're right, not leisurely, but certainly more pensive an activity than trying to solve another problem and having to "overcome" the GIL. I doubt anyone these days would get paid to fully remove the GIL implementation in CPython.

And yes I get it, you're old as fuck and know more than everyone younger than you. Neat.
Unfortunately what starts as alcohol overuse, or drug abuse, as a coping mechanism can quickly spiral to full-blown addiction, both for physiological and psychological reasons.
"We've made great strides in adding social networking features to your service's downtime!"
Someone already managed to upload the full music video of "Never Gonna Give You Up", but apparently Twitter asked the user to take it down:

https://twitter.com/ws/status/341684952276029442
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I figure the answer to this question is when you are so experienced (and confident) that it simply becomes irrelevant. But I'm curious about everyone else's perception.
Greatest post I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing!
good question...i wonder the same thing
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Packages are great when you can take a whole package then walk across the street and get a new job the day after. The main problem with this strategy is when the year is 2001 and every company in the tech-industry is going bust at the same time.
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Multicopters like the one in the video have no trouble reaching much higher altitudes, where obstacles would likely be fewer and easier to detect. Given a specific delivery area, a reasonable cruising altitude could be preconfigured and the flight could probably be navigated by GPS with no CV whatsoever. Then, like you say, a human pilot could handle the landing and subsequent take-off.

The location of the pizzeria could even be chosen such that take-offs and landings at that end of the trip could be entirely automated, by GPS or perhaps with some much more basic CV.
I'm wondering: is it better to be one of the first to get sacked or the second to last?

It'd seem like the company would have more resources to "pay out" for the earlier rounds, gradually decreasing as the rounds go on. Besides, you probably want to get out of a failing company, and provided that you are competent (though increased competence would in reality lessen the chances of your getting sacked in the first round) I'd think that you'd prefer to get your severance and get out asap.
Which is essentially dismissing the entire subject of history. How can arguing about things that happened seventy years ago not be speculation? History is not hard science. We speculate, we argue, but we never reach perfect certainty.
In my opinion, I think Yelp can't really implement some of the algorithm changes because it would radically affect all of the ratings across the board. Also for changing the review structure (one text box), that probably most likely wouldn't change.

I think the tweaks would differentiate the service from Yelp, but you do have a super valid point about the cost of user base acquisition.

As for monetizing the site, I'm hoping (again laying out a business assumption that may be faulty), that businesses would want to subscribe to a service for a low cost say like $5/month to get customer feedback to help improve their bottom line. It does kind of assume businesses would listen to the customer though.
Great! I was looking for a mobile-first version of YouTwitFace.com.
That's great to hear and it's a wonderful turn of events, but I shudder thinking about the tax bill (though obviously you're coming out ahead no matter what)
Disclosure: I'm a new guy at Microsoft, not in the VS team, just speaking from prior experience as a Win32 developer.

There are still internal limits in the PE32 format which mean parts of the output as a whole will be limited to 2 GiB or so, regardless of the address space available to the linker.

I too have hit internal linker limits from time-to-time, but the span of computing history in which it makes sense to have a 64-bit linker building a load module output with 32-bit internal limits to run on 64-bit processors doesn't seem like the place to be in the great scheme of things. Just my personal observation.
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> Nobody is finding comfort in simplistic stories. In fact, the more details people know, the happier I am. But dropping the bombs on Japan saved millions of both Japanese and allied lives. It served as a quick end to a long war, and it saved thousands of allied prisoners whom the Japanese were ready to execute. It also allowed the great Japanese culture to continue.

Yeah the US played ball by nuking japan. But saying it saved japanese people and their culture because it quickly ended the war, it's a little fast. I mean we're talking about nukes, not some poker games, those are war decision, you're still talking like the winner won because it took the best decision. Nuking is not a good decision, but it was a necessary one at the time. You're saying it like japan also thought "yeah, you nuked us, that really saved us, thanks !". When I read "bombs saved japanese", it sounds a little weird.

At least the article offer the reader some opportunity to think about the japanese perspective.

> Smells of a political agenda and manipulation.

UFO and conspiracy theories at it again ! The internet is never holding the truth, it's mandatory to not believe everything, it applies especially for this article. Consider the alternative like an opportunity to explore perspectives, not just like another one of those "deviant zealot".
The insurance company didn't pay that much.

This article is silly.

Our health care system certainly has lots of problems but at least know how it works before sharing commentary on it.
While IANAL, the issue isn't just "pin" — it's the word + the color + the font, all of which make the logo a lot more similar to Pinterest than the word alone suggests.
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Notice the author lists dozens of other infringing companies in the "Similar Services" section.

This is known as the "throw 'em under the bus" technique and is often an infringer's first line of defense.

Note: I'm not taking sides. Just pointing out the phenomenon.
Isn't this ultimately inevitable when twitter hands out mass access to its service to any 3rd party app that wants to self promote.

Every game nowadays has twitter integration, it even works in hacked games. So really, how long was it going to be before some 3rd party iPhone or Android, or even a popular pirated game became the source of spam attacks?

It's like leaving teenagers alone in the house just after you bought four kegs and two dozen boxes of liquor. If you're shocked they have a house party, it's shame on you not them.

This is shame on twitter for not doing their own due diligence to be able to shut these hacks down before it comes to public attention. Something as simple as putting a base 36 code that's registered to an app and prefixes any tweet from said app would have made this quick to block whilst identifying the source.

I mean it's not like someone would hack say a Tropico 4 crack and upload it to a peer farm to make it more popular than the original file, would they? Definitely they would.
You're right, but then again, I also like being able to run my own software on my own devices.

If secure means closed well, that is not a trade off a lot of people are not willing to make. Just take a look at the outrage from the Windows 8 secure boot loader that can theoretically stop linux from being installed.

Personally, I like it when companies include some physical mechanism of getting root access to the machine. Whether we have to get root access through the charger port, or pressing F12 when the PC is booting, this mechanism will by definition have to be a 'vulnerability.' Of course, root access in this sense is referring to bootloader root access, not the operating system - that would be bad. We can only assume which type of root access is being referred to in the hack above.
What they are currently doing is running a 32-bit linker to produce 32-bit output on 64-bit windows.

This 32-bit linker is apparently LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE, so running it on 64-bit windows gets them 4GB to play with (which they are apparently rapidly burning through.) What they need is a 64-bit linker to run on 64-bit windows that can produce 32-bit output.

OS Linker Output Mem
1 32 32 32 3GB
2 32 32 64 3GB
3 64 32 32 4GB
4 64 64 32 8TB

They use to be doing 1, now they are doing 3. They need to do 4, but apparently cannot. My understanding of this may be wrong, or they may be wrong, I don't know.
That is what the bad companies will always say, even when it is not true.

Landlords will happily allow the tenant to pay the cost of renovating the bathroom. Good companies understand that certain basic creature comforts for employees are a cost of doing business, and it is very little money in the long haul. Penny-pinching here is a bad sign (unless it is a very early start up, or the company anticipates moving offices within a couple years for some reason).
This kind of thing leads to ridiculousness like the "death panel" meme. The American healthcare system prizes choice and expansive options at the cost of, well, almost everything else. This means that wealthy people can receive a higher standard of care, but does make things very very very expensive.
Real hackers care about typography, design, and UX.

On HN you're not a real hacker until even your tweets have a colophon.
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So Arduino does not count for anything?
On stock JB, even with USB debugging turned on, it's been tightened down.
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/02/security-enha...
A rational voice in a sea of specifics.

It's all about touching every vital task to operating an application.

* Domain Configuration
* Site Architecture
* Database
* Pre Processor
* HTML + CSS + Other UI
* JS

It doesn't matter how "knowledgable" of each operation your are as long as you can get to point a to z. I've work plenty of developers who wear only one hat.
I think the point here is that all of those companies still work, and hardly take any effort to find, so Pinterest does not care anyway.
That is an interesting hypothesis. There is, however, very little evidence to support it.
Agreed. Early experience with a Model 16 entrained my eyes to appreciate green on black. Jwz is doing it right, reminding us of where we came from.
In all your examples, you aren't dealing with a person's health or (potentially) life. The risk-benefit calculation changes (and people become, understandably, somewhat irrational) when the stakes get that high.
So when is someone going to release a Kickstarter for a small laptop with a 10.2" [0] ePaper display so I can finally work out in the sun?

[0]: http://www.pervasivedisplays.com/products/panels
Surprised to see this on HNs front page when there's an Oscar-winning documentary that makes this pretty clear (Errol Morris's "The Fog of War").

Vonnegut also talks about this on Slaughterhouse-V:

"The advocates of nuclear disarmament seem to believe that, if they could achieve their aim, war would become tolerable and decent. They would do well to read this book and ponder the fate of Dresden, where 135,000 people died as the result of an air attack with conventional weapons. On the night of March 9th, 1945, an air attack on Tokyo by American heavy bombers, using incendiary and high explosive bombs, caused the death of 83,793 people. The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 71,379 people.
So it goes."
(Chapter 9)

The nuclear attacks served their purpose, sure, but they were definitely not decisive for the outcome of the war.
Did you read the entire article? It provides plenty of sound sources for its rather specific (as opposed to vague) speculations.

History is a science only in the sense that "political science" is.
I am talking about the cl.exe executable that output x86-32 code itself, not the code it produces. You can use a 32-bit cl.exe to cross compile 64-bit code, but not the other way round.
IANAL, but I think trademark violations don't hinge on just one element (i.e. name, or in this case, prefix). It's the combination of the name, logo, and the use of a pinterest.com URL as the central piece of this service, which might confuse users, thinking this service is affiliated with Pinterest. I think their letter explains this pretty well, and I couldn't spot the "threat" in it? There was just a vague hint of "consequences".

BTW, http://pinteresf.org now redirects to pinterest.com. I wonder if they got a similar letter, and as a result handed over their domain?
I have to agree. Remember there were TWO bombs dropped. Japan didn't surrender after the 1st one.

The only thing that matters is that Japan surrendered. That they were "thinking" about it or "close to it" is pretty much irrelevant.
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Exactly. Moreover, that's one of the nicest C&D letters I think I've ever seen:

We ask you to ... [c]learly indicate that your service is not an official Pinterest service - after all you deserve the credit :)

For a corporate communication of any sort, let alone a lawyergram, that's positively pleasant.
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Well it will obviously drain the battery, as e-ink displays only consume electricity on refresh. the 'ink' is either black or white, and changing the state is what costs electricity. Once the state is changed, it doesn't consume any more electricity. So increasing refresh-rate when scrolling increases the amount of current needed to flow through the system, and will indeed drain battery life.
That's a really intriguing concept. I wonder if there would be some way of doing metrics on Yelp to see how many are obviously faking the review.
Question for a lawyer: Isn't Pinterest required to send these letters out or risk trademark erosion? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark#Trademark...)
I thought everyone already knew that.

Maybe when someone will combine bittorrent and forums, something really new will come out, but for now, facebook is just one big computer cluster, where you can gossip using your real name and where everyone can read you. I don't really call it a progress. I guess paparazzis enjoy it, but not everyone is into that stuff.
Hell, if this comment gets enough upvotes, I'll launch the KickStarter. Raspberry Pi-ePaper laptop?
Begin with learning Android or iOS?
I am web programmer(LAMP stack) & 3x entrepreneur and planning to take a break from work to learn mobile dev.

Which mobile dev. shall I learn for next 3-4 months? Android or iOS? My end goal is build some mobile-first products in future.

Although, I will be hiring experienced folks to build these products but I prefer building working prototypes before taking up any business idea full time.

If possible, also suggest some good resource to learn whatever framework/OS you suggest.
Reading the article my knees both began to ache and I started to rethink my choice of sports - squash and indoor soccer...
You need to add cl.exe to the table.
Nor the Raspberry Pi?
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I host a game on App Engine as well. I have about 3k DAU for which I pay about $3 a day. I can _almost_ pay for this in ads alone. Then the premium players I convert is profit!

The secret of affordable app engine is the pending latency slider. The default is CRAZY FAST. I have it set at min 5 seconds and max automatic. This is about 10x price reduction over the default settings. This prevents new instances spinning up until a request has not been served for 5 seconds.

The client replicates all the game rules so as far as the player are concerned there is no latency at all.

The game is called Neptune's Pride 2: Triton if any of you would like to have a look.

http://triton.ironhelmet.com

As a single developer, more interested in the game rules and player interaction, I would not switch to trying to manage my own servers for all the money in the world.

For those interested, right now I have the entire games save file stored in a blob property which I unpickle for each request.
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One of my favorite breweries (Strange Brewing Company - http://www.strangebrewingco.com/) essentially started on two severance packages from the Rocky Mountain News. Those guys definitely won when they lost their jobs.
Vonnegut was very probably wrong about the Dresden numbers. One of the people to popularize a disproportionally high death toll from the firebombing of Dresden was David Irving — later discredited and now largely known for his fascist leanings and his denial of the Holocaust — in his first book [1]. The modern estimate, from a report done by the city of Dresden in 2010 [2], is is that around 25.000 people died.

He's more right about the Tokyo bombing. Richard Rhodes, in his fantastic "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", cites 100,000 dead and 1 million injured.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War...

[2] http://www.dresden.de/media/pdf/infoblaetter/Historikerkommi...
I'm not sure where that fits in. Are they wanting to use a 64-bit cl.exe and a 64-bit linker to make 32-bit output? Does mixing and matching the cl.exe and the linker change how much memory the linker can use?

I am baaarely familiar with Microsoft-world development.
If you can't manage your money or your emotional relationship to it, the salary is still not the problem.
Soon, you will not see the same Google Maps as everyone else:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/06/01/the-new...

So, enjoy your once democratic access to information.