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You've got to be joking right? Stallman would view your "commodity hardware" as evil proprietary garbage. Also, how is the development of all of these things funded, such as Linux and so on? I'm not debating how to fund open source. I'm debating how to fund your wonderful LAMP stack in the world where Stallman's ideology is the way of the world. You certainly wouldn't have Linux kernel developers working at a proprietary software company like Novell because none of these would exist.

Honestly, on some level, while I do admire Stallman in a certain way, seeing otherwise intelligent people seriously defend the possibility of enacting this paradigm is sort of a totally fruitless endeavor. I mean, I myself couldn't imagine living in such a world. As much as I love open source (which is not something Stallman things is even minutely worthwhile) and can, from a distance, admire the notion of FSF, I can't help but think how crazy it would be for me to seriously think of myself as some sort sinner for even pondering the idea of developing a piece of software and distributing it without the source; it's sort of hard to take seriously for me. :)
Is there some kind of law that states for all science/maths/technology phenomena there is a relevant xkcd?
No factoring or quadratic formulas necessary. I'm going to write c_n instead of a_n and a,b instead of alpha,beta.

Since a and b satisfy that equation, you know that

a^2 = 6a+ 2, b^2 = 6b+ 2

and hence

c_10 - 2 * c_8 = a^8 * (6a + 2) - b^8 * (6b + 2) + 2b^8 - 2a^8 = 6c_9.

Dividing by 2c_9 gives 3.

Edit: asafira beat me to it!
IITs have been increasing seats at a rate that is often unsustainable. During my stay at IITB from 2007-2012, I saw the number of undergraduate freshmen increase from about 500 to about 900. I think the largest issue has been scaling infrastructure and faculty.

And no, IITs don't have any nobel laureate to boast about, largely because of the lack of core sciences and graduate/post-graduate programs when compared to MIT/Stanford etc.
No I wanted reasonable tradeoffs.

e.g. 20% faster execution for 100% more memory

In my case it was 15% faster execution (give or take), with a 400% memory increase.

This was on a simple view which did nothing, so it's hard to tell how it'd handle more complex views in the app.

Either way this is a huge detour from what this actual topic is about, whether you use PyPy or CPython
I was not criticizing, I was genuinely curious.

Okay then, I donwloaded Debian Hurd and made a VirtualBox image out of it. This should be fun.
Pretty much, yes. The instructions are constant-time.
There are several fiber optic beam splitting patents that are actual prisms which serve various needs.

For example : http://www.google.com/patents/US4671613 (one of the many). I'm not saying this is used but it does exist.
If you really want efficiency, eat South-East Asian style: spoon in the right, fork in the left. The fork is used to hold onto larger things and to rake food onto your spoon, but it never goes into your mouth; the spoon shovels food into your mouth, and its edge can be used to cut as well. This way you can plow through rice and curry like you wouldn't believe, and it's a surprisingly good way of eating even things like chicken legs doused in sauce without getting your hands dirty.

In much of Asia, knifes are reserved for the kitchen, where it's the cook's job to chop everything up into bite-size pieces before being served.
Be for you do ANY coding. VALIDATE your idea to see if people actually want it.

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"dogfooding". Uh-huh.
One might argue that ID cards actually preserve privacy. In order to give some company or person proof of my identity, I just have to show them my ID card. This transfers less personal information to them than a driver's license, birth certificate, etc. State-issued ID cards are usually much harder to falsify than those, too. Therfore, rarely something else beside them is needed for identification. Therefore, identity theft is more or less a non-issue in Germany.
You do realize how the last one of these Greenwald articles from the Guardian played out, right? Another reporter actually had to write a piece walking back every one of the accusations concerning PRISM. And yet, given Greenwald's proven track record of being wrong, you're happy to take him at face value? Perhaps it's time you look inward and consider your own personal biases and motivations here?
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> Linus just got "lucky" and happened to make a kernel before Hurd was done -- but that wasn't the case at all.

The funny thing is it's not even the case that there's only room for just 1 production-quality open source kernel. Through all this time the *BSDs have done rather well in comparison. We might just conclude that despite a great body of work that we all respect and owe a lot to, maybe GNU/FSF isn't all that great at managing a project. (See also: Emacs Schism, GCC vs. ECGS, GCC vs. LLVM.)

(Aside: Personally, I booted Debian GNU/HURD on a Pentium II more than ten years ago to try it out. At the time it was slow and had a bunch of drivers ported from Linux 2.0. It sounds like not much has changed, however I never did get X working, so good job there.)
I don't know very much about the banking system, but I had a roommate in college who was a business/finance student, and always told me, "Banks are for businesses. You, as a person, don't have enough assets to make a bank care about you. Credit Unions are for people."

I don't know if he is right or not, but I've been a die-hard CU member for the last 12 years, and would never go back to a bank for my personal finances.
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Hi! About 4 months ago I got my first tech related job as a software developer at a company that makes BI software. I don't think this situation is the best fit for me. In my spare time I've been studying Haskell, but (with much regret) I'm considering switching to a more widely used language to increase my job prospects.

Some more details:
-I live about 50 minutes from NYC.
-I'm strongest with Java and don't have much proficiency with anything else

I'm looking for advice. What should I study if I want to increase my marketability JS/RoR/PHP/??

Thanks!!
Why is "Max CPU" a stated goal?
You write as if the actual YouTube video isn't available for us to watch. (Did you actually watch it?)

Brown vows to subject Agent Smith and his family to the public opprobrium that he feels is due to LEOs who file fraudulent charges, frame innocent people, suborn perjury, and endanger the public, as Brown describes. The parallel he draws is that the same techniques he alleges have been used to destroy his reputation, will be used to destroy Smith's reputation. He also promises to defend himself from unlawful assault with deadly force.

I think Brown is a bit optimistic about the public opprobrium. People just don't care enough, and besides the people ain't running the show. At one point he seemed to expect to get some incriminating evidence about FBI malfeasance off his laptop once he got the laptop back from the FBI. That seems... naive. I don't think the system works that way. Of course, I also don't see the harm in the crazed ramblings of a drug addict on his back porch. While you're sure that such awful speech is the equivalent of vehicular homicide.

That still doesn't make sense.

By the way "the children" are a bit older than you may think.
Can't stand is a bit strong- its basically the same damn thing.
I love the Voyager program, its great science and its paid back many times its investment in knowledge. But the writing at Wired could use some help. The things that bug me most were calling particles in space "supersonic" (what does that even mean when you have no atmosphere to carry sound?) and that they "carried the magnetic field" as opposed to "the motion of these charged particles generates a magnetic field."

That said, I look forward to future updates from the science team and the space craft doesn't run out of juice before it runs out of things to report on.
Because getting food into us faster is a serious efficiency problem plaguing Americans everywhere.
Michael Crichton: “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business.

You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
I have absolutely no idea how HN replies work, but this is in response to the PyPy memory usage.

I'm optimizing for my application. If you want to use PyPy, use it. I couldn't care less.

If I was having a hard time already maxing CPU due to memory constraints, how does switching to something that will use a very large amount of memory (relative to the CPU gains) make any sense at all? Do you really think "more complex code" is going to use less memory?

If you want benchmarks, go find some, or go create some. It has absolutely nothing to do with the gains I'm pointing out by simple webserver choices and minor tuning.
Bloody hell, that is an instant, trust destroying, security cock-up. You can set JBoss to bind to a separate IP address (i.e. one not publicly accessible etc.) for all management functions, it is a simple configuration change.
Not really. The US Constitution is fine. What we need is compliance on the part of the government.
I prefer to work remote for ages, but I dislike the choices of tools. Publishing valuable business critical documentation into the cloud looks to me to like typical US stupidity, I prefer to host them myself.

I host my own teamspeak, my own upload file server, my own repository, my own wiki, my own ...

I do not need PRISM scans. We had two burglars in 2010 who did not steal anything, but tried to reboot systems to install malware. Just raise the bar for industry spionage, do not make it to easy for them.

In the list of tools Sqwiggle would be a no go for me. I would walk out of the virtual hiring chat, if someone tells me that he wants to watch me with a webcam, while i'm sitting here in underpants. Hey - go to chatroulet if you want that.
> Which is of greater embarrassment, the alleged behaviour of the NSA, or an offer of asylum to a whistle blower destined for death or Guantanamo?

Given that Snowden is not destined for either death or Guantanamo I'm not sure how to take your question. The NSA's alleged behavior is at least consistent with what we've known and thought it able to do since the Cold War. The worst I can say about it is that they are pushing right up on the edge of the law and court precedent... but is that worse than flat-out breaking the law or doing things like actually focusing specific IRS attention on specific political-interest groups? Or passing laws to disenfranchise minority voters?

I'm not sure of the answer to that question, but I don't think it's "Yes", given what I know of what our law enforcement and national security teams have already had the fully-legal ability to do.

---

As for the friendship question, for me that goes back to who is really the 'friend' here. A 'friend' would certainly not castigate another about 'human rights abuses' (as if Snowden were clearly innocent) while at the same time having an asylum process that itself violates basic human rights as claimed by Human Rights Watch [1].

A "friend" would at least take the stick out of their eye before pointing to others' flaws. And this is why I say that the government of Ecuador has no legitimate friendly intent here. Even if I agreed with Snowden 100%, the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, and neither is the friend of my friend.

[1] http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/06/19/ecuador-fully-respect-ref...
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gunicorn + meinheld is even better than gevent in my experience. meinheld is written in C and offers a monkey patch option, and is a little bit faster than gevent. i'm using it with flask + sqlalchemy + redis with great success.
Using the same convention as yours, I tried to break c_10 in terms of c_9 as follows:

(a^10-b^10) = (e a + f b) * (a^9-b^9)

Multiplying out the RHS, e = f = 1 are the best choices, but there remained a residual. At a second glance though, this residual was proportional to (a^8-b^8). Problem solved.
Yes, this is what I'm curious about. Is there anyone still looking into the stratfor info?
Similarly, "deadly explosions of massive stars"?
Hm, is there a terribly important difference? I'm not in "formal natural science" so I don't know how it goes in the real world.

But I would think that if you're being honest with yourself and your results in the "observe" state, regardless of whether or not you had an existing hypothesis, you would draw the same conclusions.

I suppose if you intentionally set out to ONLY observe before hypothesizing, you might eliminate some unintended bias or something.
What or who is "PG"?
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You didn't include the real big guy of Google(who died in an unfortunate accident later) who was Brin's and Page's professor and mentor.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajeev_Motwani

Motwani joined Stanford soon after U.C. Berkeley. Motwani was one of the co-authors (with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Terry Winograd) of an influential early paper on the PageRank algorithm, the basis for Google's search techniques. He also co-authored another seminal search paper What Can You Do With A Web In Your Pocket with those same authors.[3]

He was also an author of two widely-used theoretical computer science textbooks, Randomized Algorithms (Cambridge University Press 1995, ISBN 978-0-521-47465-8, with Prabhakar Raghavan) and Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, 2000, with John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman).

Prior to his involvement with Google, Motwani founded the Mining Data at Stanford project (MIDAS), an umbrella organization for several groups looking into new and innovative data management concepts. His research included data privacy, web search, robotics, and computational drug design
A primary complaint, believe it or not, is that the net would hurt the aesthetics of the bridge.

People have been pushing for a net for years, but a variety of (lame) excuses keep conspiring against it. The reality is that there's no really good reason to keep from doing it...just a lot of little bad ones that seem to win.
At least for me, just understanding myself better has helped me cope with the difficulties I have.
Doesn't Googlebot respect Crawl-Delay in robots.txt? PG has set it to be 30 secs - https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt - which IMHO should not cause any load issues given the overall traffic profile of HN.
I only know the basics of crypto, but couldn't the key be hidden and itself encrypted within the machine code for IE, and then authenticated via HTTPS? I would think this is mainly a problem for open-source browsers, which would require closed-source plugins.
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Must be different in the US. I don't even know the term for 'credit unions' in my native language, everyone here uses a bank. Although, the larger banks tend to favour businesses, while the smaller banks tend to favour people.

As far as I can gather from Wikipedia, it seems that in other languages, the term for 'Credit Union' still includes the word 'bank', so that might be the confusion. Still, I don't believe my bank technically is a credit union. Also, bankers here aren't dicks.
Here is a talk by the founders @ the Bitcoin 2013 conference... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD6fVNGEnlI

They are working on quite a bit at the moment; their site might appear 'sketchy' at first glance but it seems like this is only the beginning and they have some pretty serious plans for their future.
"... deploy those apps to others through the Propeller app on an iPhone ..."

This is explicitly forbidden in the iPhone app store. Actually distributing these apps will be a problem; code signing and adhoc and/or appstore distribution is a complex and distinctly non-user-friendly activity.
Well the 'secret imposed gag order' is itself nothing new in the USA so if that's the only risk factor then that big step came decades ago.
My understanding is that you can use a beam splitter created from two prisms that will split laser light. This is done during holography from what I understand.

I don't entirely understand all of this, my optics is very rusty.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography#Apparatus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_internal_reflection#Fract...
Restricted to US individuals and companies only... I'm not sure why sites don't call that out from the get-go.
There's something in the comments about this (the supersonic part, anyways). Apparently they are referring to the speed of sound in the solar wind "...which is roughly 220,000 mph".

Huh. Makes sense, but I wouldn't have thought of that. That's non-obvious enough that it would have been worth a mention in the article.
Okay, so let's get to my main quibble here. You say that Z = X + delta_X. I specifically disagree with this statement, assuming that Z == "Snowden's actions" and X == "Civil Disobedience". Snowden's actions no more resemble Civil Disobedience than shooting a man or robbing a bank; all of these involve breaking a law, but only one of them involves breaking a law that the perpetrator believes to be unjust, in the hopes that their defiance will inspire people to strike down the law.

I don't know what this jibber-jabber about "indirect civil disobedience" is. I agree that a lot of people say Z looks a lot like X. In fact, my entry into this thread consisted of saying "Z does not look like X at all". They are so different, in my mind that applying delta X is like saying "imagine that instead of leaking documents and fleeing the country, he had not leaked documents, but instead sat at a segregated lunch counter, and instead of fleeing the country, he calmly complied with the police and spent the night in jail".

I agree with all of your points about Civil Disobedience itself; and you beat me to quoting King's Birmingham Jail letter by the barest of fractions of hairs. If you choose to, say, not pay taxes, and when the government gets wise, you skip town to avoid paying, this is not civil disobedience; even if you chose to not pay taxes to specifically protest the tax itself. But this does not even barely resemble what Snowden has done, so I do not concede that Y is necessary or even relevant to the justification.
There are even fan additions to make them relevant:
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Wouldn't matter, I'm afraid.

Even if the NSA put free text detection algorithms to look for such a disclaimer (since they claim messages themselves are not examined without a warrant), they'd ignore the disclaimer anyways as anyone could easily claim they were a US citizen.
The track/car generation is done through JS, so some modifications aren't anything Chrome Dev Tools can't handle. Add to that the fact that the "best" car is populated into the gene pools of all the other users and that's the outcome.
Not me, I'm from Ohio which is decidedly not very hip or cool.
That, and he's a dead ringer for the original Augustus Gloop.
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However you spin it, I don't think many people would enjoy having a webcam on them as they code. It doesn't sit well. Chatting is one thing, because there's no sense of someone watching you. There's a certain creepy factor about not knowing if someone else is just watching you on their screen.

I've used Campfire, IRC, Skype, GTalk, and most recently Hipchat with various agencies and startups. It's just my personal preference to use that over face to face when we have random questions.
It is really interesting to me that a lot of games on the Apple platform are written in Unity C#.
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"> Mining data from 35 million Flickr photos"

I'm not sure Flickr can be considered an accurate representation of the majority of photographers.
Kill-lists (that cannot be challenged in court) of Americans that are not in combat roles and are far from any battlefield.
It's not hype. They are cheap ($5/m), reasonably reliable, and trusted. I can't say I'd trust most of the companies on Low End Box.

Disclaimer: I have droplets with DigitalOcean in SF datacenter. I've experienced the occasional network issue, but its generally a quite stable network.
Surely you (Stripe) must have known that providers would respond.

If people are saying "Feature X in stripe is awesome", it isn't lazy to copy, it's smart (That's what startups would do). They quickly catch up to your product and hopefully (for them) innovate further.

I get you'd be flustered/angry you have a worthy competitor (with way more resources than you), but companies don't have to be innovators to be competitors. You innovated, and got first mover advantage, now comes the competition.
Reading the Plan 9 kernel code hasn't convinced me that its authors focused on correctness. The kernel code is pretty, and its twenty-year-old architecture could pass as only ten years old; but even excluding drivers, there is no shortage of bugs.
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This was the spoken about way of achieving the goal on the HTML WG mailing list, if that is required, on Linux (note Flash doesn't do that currently and many are happy to licence content for it despite that, so this may well never come to fruition).
I looked into the feasibility of starting a web-based credit union a few years ago and I discovered that federal regulations require credit unions to serve some distinct community -- whether it be a physical community (like a town) or an affinity community (like an alumni association).

This makes it more difficult to establish an open-to-everyone web-based credit union; you basically have to have some sort of online community already in place, and attract members from that community.

Nevertheless, there are some web-based credit unions that have been able to successfully meet the requirements ... however, this explains why you don't see the cooperative equivalent of an ING Direct/Capital One 360.

Even so, I do hope that either the regulations change or some established web-based credit unions are able to attract people away from the for-profit banks, because credit unions, being member owned, never put profits before people. (But if they DO happen to make a profit, it goes back to the members, not to some outside shareholder.)
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