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> First, Part 1 is only 1 hour and 17 minutes long

There is no such thing IMO as only 1:17 when referring to a presentation/talk. I tune out after about 10 minutes, 15 or so tops (e.g. for the git imerge discussion).

Anything that is so complicated that it requires that much exposition is something that I will read about or probably not find out at all.
i didn't. i am just trying to explain what the original poster was referring to. i would guess that they're making some implication / assumption about organized voting. but that's just a guess.

i thought maybe it would help you, but i get the impression you're more interested in being pedantic for internet points... \me shrugs, walks away.
Thanks xentronium, I probably wasn't clear on this but my linux skills are okay (been woring in Unix for 25+years). I set up a VDI with Linux Mint which seems okay... Thanks for the encouragement! (and the tip on the "reply" button -- haha)
Yeah, I also thought that was weird. I don't know any gay guys that would step in like that.

I found a much more in-depth discussion of the article on meta-filter, maybe it's interesting to you.

http://www.metafilter.com/129974/Changing-the-Creepy-Guy-Nar...
In my opinion it's up to the authors of Apache to provide a supported and tested method to shut Apache down.
OVH is a french company. Their NA data center is relatively new.

There's no real direct comparison on hardware between the 2 vendors, but there seems to be little exciting about the price point in the OP.
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My suspicion is that you don't want generic users. You want users who are going to stick with your product for a while and not jump from one train to another. Without them thinking that your product stands out changes are pretty low that they are going to talk with somebody else about it.
I also converted. Plus, much better for me than the amazon ecosystem, there is calibre with all its automatic creation of news source documents and format conversions that usually just work. I wish they would just make the actual readers more bulletproof since I seem to break one on an annual basis but at today's cost I'll deal with it.
Ask HN: Am I using this site correctly?
I mainly just post things that I create a-la github under the text "Show HN:"

I'm wondering if this is a misuse of the site as some I don't really see other people doing the same. Is what I'm doing incorrect?

Also, recently there have been stars next to my three most recent submission, which, combined with the fact that no one seems to click on the links or give it any votes, makes me suspect that I may be banned/under probation. Would something like that happen in my situation?
Two things here.

1) These are not the police. Police are trained law enforcement officers. These are customs and immigration employees. They get training, but it's more important that they can get a security clearance.

2) Can you think of a reason for having a file of white noise that you could explain to this person that they would understand and believe?

You really don't have many rights outside immigration/customs. "Probable cause" is "he acted weird." Cars have been destructively disassembled for less.
Libturpial 1.0 released
Guy thinks his sister is hot (watch before reading the comments)
no worries, everyone has been to gonewild at least once.
A substantial part of feminist theory holds that intercourse is rape.
No... It falls under disparate impact.
I can't comment why it's on the frontpage. But transatlantic latency is in the eye of the beholder, and when you say "superior servers", you're probably ignoring the prices. The Hetzner server mentioned here costs 59 EUR/month. For that price (or a bit more 54 GBP -> 62 EUR) your .uk link gives:

- A CPU two generations older, without hyperthreading (i7-4770k vs. i5-2400k), with 25% less cache and 10% lower frequency

- Half the memory

- HDDs instead of SSDs

- A 100Mbps connection instead of 1Gbps, and half the
guaranteed bandwidth

If you wanted 32GB and the SSDs, at OVH it'd be 83 EUR vs. Hetzner's 59 EUR.
My response was to clone1018's comment/question that wouldn't anything saying X+ years of experience qualify as discrimination.
Poettering oversold its state of stability and then seems to have largely lost interest during the most critical period of adoption. The distributions are responsible for believing the hype and shipping too early, but that doesn't change the fact that the developers were hyping it well beyond what was justified. PulseAudio has a lot of nice features, but it's still less stable and has more bizarre failure modes for me _9 years_ after its initial release than plain old ALSA. I literally know no other linux users who have ever had anything good to say about PulseAudio. Entirely anecdotal, but when it comes to trusting developers to do a good job in the first place, much less help with a major transition I'm not inclined to discount that.
This isn't really the place to argue about the definition of a startup, but "has lost money continuously since inception" and "hasn't IPOed" are on the list of many people when they define what a startup is. Amazon has both IPOed and has had many quarters of profit.
I don't think PGP is complicated. I think the implementations are subpar (mainly due to lack of interest toward encryption and thus "good enough" generally won)
Even the command line gpg options aren't quite right..
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Amazon does not use ECC RAM in its AWS servers and the internet seems to work ok.
Ahaha who the hell are William & Mary? What a childish name for a college.
It likely does for the law as well.
@jchrisa: Sometimes the HN comment timeout doesn't make sense. Hah! This is my reply.

"When you have traction, you'll know it. Traction is what allows you to learn. Then you might wanna try not failing, or at least, let features fail fast, but keep the overall ball rolling.

Real traction isn't something you can buy, so if you find it, stick to it and grow it."

This is true, but if step #1 is "getting traction" then there's a learning loop there, too. I'm not sure if what you're proposing is a process that looks like "try lots of things until you get traction and then worry about focused iterations."

If you are then I think when that approach works it works by accident. It's true you'll have a hard time coming by lots of quantitative data before you get traction, but that's only the strictest kind of learning. On the other hand, if each failure results in a complete product/market reboot, that's not learning -- that's guessing. :)

It sounds like this is what the OP's company was doing, though.

If your product didn't get traction, why not? What will you do differently next time? Will our product work, but not for the customers we thought it would work for? Is our first market too big, too small, too ill-defined? How will we know when we're succeeding or not, pre-traction?

etc. etc.
iMovie? Windows Movie Maker? Corel VideoStudio? MAGIX Movie Edit Pro? Sony Movie Studio? Pinnacle Studio?
My son said the same thing. I guess my concern was getting all the way to the deployment stage only to realize there was something I should have been doing differently way too late in the game... (I'm probably being paranoid!) Anyhow, so you recommend that I press with the development and NOT worry about deploying (to Heroko -- or whatever) until much later... I can live with that! (Just run the rails server and connect with browser at port 3000... right?
I could have typed this comment. I'm glad I'm not the only one to work that way and think that way.

Note: it's possible to hack in a pinentry program that is compatible with "what you want" (pretty sure it's doable for keepass). Easier than emulating gpg-agent and/or more convenient than using a smartcard.
Obligatory Hoare link: http://usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf
I like black on white, because a lot of the displays I use (e.g. my mobile phone) are too washed out to display more subtle differences in color.

Have you considered using a user stylesheet to override the default font colors in the browser?
Would we really consider IBM as a come back? From a B2B and patent revenues perspective I concede this could be a possibility, but from a B2C perspective, surely that ship has already sailed?
It's Count von Count's favorite kind of company.
You have fragmented "I'd like to..." in 4 parts, I don't in 2, partial in 4 and "I do" in one. Be careful to interpret the results.
Not if the rest of the company is unable to turn the results of that research into products that aren't just another vehicle for shoving Office down people's throats.
Yeah.. OTR implementations generally succeeded being more painful to use than PGP/GPG. Aaaand they don't even have the trust model of PGP... too much to sacrifice for the forward secrecy and what not.
There are no bandwidth limits on Hetzner's servers which are a BIG plus.
journals and the media in general are surprisingly generally incompetent with HTML/JS/CSS,

they take text and images and don't use HTML/JS/CSS to make it look nice but rather Adobe InDesign or some other framework incompatible with how the rest of the world works to make PDFs and not webpages, frustrating.
I don't know about the UK, but the average customs and immigration employee in the USA does not have a security clearance.
I completely agree with everything you said, particularly the difference between learning quickly and learning thoroughly.

I'd love to hear more about your autodidacism. Do you mind explaining your learning process a bit more?
I don't generally read scientific papers, but I found it annoying that I had to click on the "Figure 1" in the text to see the figure, and that the space in the figure seemed useless until you hit the reference in the text.

Part of me wants parallax scroll, but I'm sure that would be a terrible fit unless you had the right number of diagrams and the references to diagrams were equally spaced out (as opposed to having two in the same line).

This also reminds me of good old <frame>s from the 90s...

Edit: I realized afterwards that you refer to some diagrams multiple times, such as Figure 4. I guess this is a step towards not having to flip back three pages in the PDF to get to that diagram, but I'm not sure it's a "300x improvement" that would cause scientists/academics to switch away from LaTeX (or use your new LaTeX module, if you went that way) any time soon.
The combination of PCs, tablets, phones, search, consumer services, living room entertainment, a compelling software and server stack, and the best R&D in the world gives them the potential to do things other companies can't do.

Microsoft is incredibly well suited to compete in the future. Although it is easy to dismiss Microsoft due to their stumbling in the consumer market in the past couple years, you have to realize this is going to be a decades long battle for Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Out of those 4 companies, I'd say Apple is the one who needs to diversify their profits and rapidly improve their ability to create services.
I remember going to a hackathon[1] where the winning team developed a system like this. Their demo involved doing 10-dimensional integrals with Monte Carlo, on all of the audience's laptops. It was pretty cool :).

[1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marissa-louie/for-the-win-at-t...

Given a bunch of college students could put together a credible system in ~18 hours without sleep, it's certainly not challenging technically. I suspect there are deep logistical and business reasons for why it has not caught on--you wouldn't be able to get all that much done without a ton of traffic, and it would really annoy people when they found out about it.

Still, even if it isn't entirely practical, I think it's a really cool idea. Certainly the sort of thing I love seeing at a hackathon, more than the winners of some of the more recent ones I've been to. (But that, of course, is a complaint for another time and another post.)
I'll look into it... This sounds like it could be exactly what I need! Thanks!
Can anyone with more economic insight than myself comment on how increased automation leading to higher unemployment (ie, self-driving car) might change the recommendations?
Are we back to the Basic Income? Seems to be an increasingly relevant proposal.
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Effective communication is not dumbing down "ad finitum" as the parent comment suggests.

That said, the major part of a professor's job description is knowing his shit, and being able to convey it clearly.

This has nothing to do with whether the students can understand it easily or not. He could be communicating effectively (e.g as Knuth does in his Art of Computer Programming books) with the students still not getting it.

Science is hard -- you have to work up to it. Merely getting some high level view spoon fed to you because you cannot/don't want to study and understand the actual science is not "effective communication".
Hi,
Thanks for the constructive criticism, we are working to address all of our clients' and potential clients' concerns in a timely manner.

First and foremost, I'd like to make a clarification: we're not a money lender, we only facilitate the lending. Lenders sign up on our website, fund their accounts with BTC and they decide who to lend to, at what interest rate and how much to fund loans for. BitLendingClub does not perform any funding itself.

Bitcoin lending, and Bitcoin in general, don't fall under any particular state/country's regulatory jurisdiction. As such, it's not necessary for us to register with any regulators as long as we don't facilitate lending of some state currency, such as USD, EUR, GBP, etc. I live and operate this website from Chicago, IL, but based on the current statements from the government and since we only allow lending with Bitcoins, it doesn't seem like we have to comply with any specific lending regulations within Illinois or the states.

I've updated the company page to include the corporate information:

BitLendingClub is owned by Tanager, Inc registered in the State of Illinois in October 08, 2009.
File number: 66992225
Name registered under: Kiril Gantchev
Address registered under (residential):
217 N. Park Blvd.
Streamwood, IL 60107
Please feel free to look up the corporate information at http://www.ilsos.gov/corporatellc/CorporateLlcController

With regards to the team: people can find out about the team by visiting the About Us page (http://bitlendingclub.com/content/about-us). The page lists the CEO (myelf) and the CTO of the company as well as links to our LinkedIn profiles. The LinkedIn profiles include our current employers and cities where we live/work. I live and work in Chicago, IL and a cursory search in google will confirm all of that information. Both of us are software developers, so we don't have particular experience in loans, but we hope that the key aspect we're going to resolve is providing the platform where people with experience in lending can conduct lending.

The T&C is empty because we're still in Beta and we were more focused on the functionality rather than the content. We're working with our lawyer to draft a T&C prior to completing the Beta.

Best Regards,
Kiril Gantchev
CEO of BitLendingClub
"agile methodologies" are certainly not only 12 years old. The Agile Manifesto coined the phrase "agile" in 2001 (read your link wikipedia page), but the ideas were around long, long before this.
The joke is actually only funny for x > y ;-)
> just being able to write stock algorithms correctly without much thought

Outside of a job interview, I don't see why this would be a good idea. If you need a stock algorithm and your environment has a stock implementation, why on earth would you roll your own umpteen zillionth implementation?

Sometimes you have an embedded problem or some weird feature of the problem domain that favours a non-stock algorithm. But that surely suggests only knowing algos to the depth required to pass Algorithms 202 ("this is an odd case, I'll look up the alternatives"), not having muscle memory that can instantly spray plain mergesorts into a text editor.
Not sure why "best of the best" would be so inclined to join a company that has mission to help marketers (primarily retailers) increase their customer lifetime value.
Somewhere out there is a great 30 year old who started working at 18 that this dumb company is missing out on.
what on earth is happening to the kerning? chrome/linux the line "but is better than the hand-waving I was doing." is awful (no space between words).

edit: word-spacing: -2px; wtf?
Ah, thanks. I considered doing a lights on/off button like project euler, but decided not to. Part of it was that it seemed like additional complexity and I was worried it might overload the minimalist design, and part of it was that I'm not a javascript developer, so additional overhead is more of an issue than it would be, say, for a n intern at the Khan Academy ;)

Ultimately, it would be great for someone to do that, but this is more proof of concept than a product per se.
From your profile: "Cofounder of a dev training program called Hack Reactor"

Hacker Reactor is where this website originated from and you're behaving this way? You've been a HNer for over 2,000 days. You should know better.
> Man I love when people on hn ask genuine questions rather than trying to one up one another. It's one of the reasons I was so reluctant to stop lurking for so long.

Well then, you're exactly the kind of person we need to stop lurking and start participating, so welcome aboard. But yeah, I totally understand you.

> this is just a guess based upon my experience with similar systems

You mean planetary rovers? If not, can you be more specific? I realize it's not necessarily wise to divulge too much industrial information. I actually have worked on UAVs... not to the point that I can say the scenario you're presenting is incorrect (I wasn't involved in that kind of stuff), but I don't think it's very plausible. I could see that strategy being more reasonable on a super memory-constrained device where the system is radiation hardened, like space equipment. I would think for a normal UAV, you'd just keep all the code (algorithms) you might need in memory.
I represented UT Austin twice for the world finals. I was really blown away by the amount of practice the Eastern European and Chinese students had (biweekly intra/inter school contests and regular coaching/TopCoder sessions). Even most top American schools (Stanford, CMU) had Asian grad students (they allow 1st year grad students in ICPC) and even those schools did not manage a top 10 ranking.
Worst pricing page I have ever seen. It took me 2 minutes to figure out the prices. If I war the CEO with such an offer I would take some mesures to make sure this page is very easy to read.
Personally, I found the Haskell in this article far harder than the math, which was more or less trivial to anyone who knows some category theory. For instance, the following

newtype (FComp g f) x = FComp { unCompose :: g (f x) }

instance (Functor b c f, Functor a b g) => Functor a c (FComp g f) where
fmap f (FComp xs) = FComp $ fmap (fmap f) xs

just does not parse easily at all to my mind. In fact, I don't see how someone who doesn't know Haskell could possibly understand the above truly. unCompose isn't even ever used.
Everyone seems to have different preferences. Maybe you could provide a means to select from among several color schemes.

But I really wanted to say that this is a wonderful idea. I agree that there is a great deal of friction in flipping back and forth between text and figures plus text and references. Your solution is a great step in the direction of solving this.

EDIT: Just went back for another look and realized that you can move and resize the figures. Nifty! Now if only we could combine this kind of convenient online reading with decent typography - but that's a huge issue in itself.
Something that isn't mentioned in the article but probably plays some role in the desire to believe that these things work in parts of the world where Islam is prevalent is the low stature of dogs in the religion. Since dogs are the typical go to bomb and contraband detecting technology in the world it's easy to see why a police department in a Muslim area might find a device that can detect bombs w/o the use of a dog attractive.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029887/Muslims-sear...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_animals#Muslims_and_s...
Couldn't have said it better myself, as an autodidact of CS, math, and music, this is my thoughts.

Managing your own time and learning curve is really hard. As an autodidact, I can just not do it because I am tired, busy, not in the mood, or whatever.

The second thing that college grads don't get the value of is that they are able to learn by some proven path. This path is not etched out so well and requires considerable research, self-assessment, and decisions that aren't comfortable at all times. You could spend weeks a) researching what is next and b) attempting things you aren't ready for and blowing off a few weeks on something you gained nothing from because that knowledge base just wasn't there.

There are many other little things you learn in college that are at times quite difficult to learn about on your own. Despite the apparent "free" education, nothing is free and there are things that you simply cannot learn or discover on your own. Guidance, whether from an instructor or a mentor, is very important when you are learning. Trust me, I'd gladly shovel out money for good guidance.

You also live a lonely life and there is no one you can call up who is also struggling or trade information with.

There is no way to really test yourself so you know you are correct and where you went wrong. Self-testing is either very hard or impossible in many instances, and that little epiphany you get from a red circle isn't available for you. It takes a certain amount of brutal honesty to get it right, and then you still don't always know. This is frustrating for me.

The final piece is the double-edged sword of readiness. As a grad, you have proved to someone or some institution that you have mastered the material and are ready to work, whereas when you are an autodidact, you simply won't have the confidence to face an interviewer unless you are something like 10x better than any bachelor-holder, and sometimes masters-holder, that walks through the door. The time you lose on getting better and better -- plus the massive confidence boost -- is offset in spades by a decent education.
It's not just about AWS, though. What about hard disk encryption, PGP, Bitcoin, or any other process that doesn't immediately leak its timing information over the network?

I imagine it would be difficult to covertly leak LUKS keys on a massive scale via a compromised AES-NI implementation. It's not like you can just modify the ciphertext output, and anything that uses a lot of silicon would attract attention.

On the other hand, a compromised RNG can do this pretty easily. Hell, NIST already published an algorithm that can do this.
so you're sayin "no more than 12 years experience" is not a code for "no oldies" ?
Your comment presumes that "negativity" has no place in a "civilized discussion," which is outrageous.

Honestly, the discourse here is pretty civil and all of the points are valid. When did it become "uncivilized" to argue that something is detrimental? (If this is true, is it not then totally "uncivilized" to decry negativity on HN?)

This irrational insistence on artificial enthusiasm and compulsory positivity is ridiculous. Skepticism is the foundation of "civilized discourse."

Nowhere is it written that you have to entertain every idea, even those with which you vehemently disagree, with disingenuous positivity. That's not what HN is for.
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Why was this submitted to HN? It's a very interesting style (and the man reading has a great voice) but I don't see the relevance.