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This x 100. The CLR was designed for this from the ground up (or they copied the design from Java, take your pick). As you pointed out, they've had a working implementation forever in the form of the .NET Compact Framework. And yet they went with the 'strategy' they went with.... You couldn't make this shit up if you tried...
Took the Xbox years to be profitable. Microsoft is turning in a new direction and its going to take a while before they get onto their new course.

http://septemberlove.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/turning-...

Big ships don't turn on a dime.
Excel in particular is the Swiss army knife of corporate applications. It's capable of much more than people give it credit for.
Ok that rewind feature is amazingly awesome.
It's not really "don't hate the player, hate the game" at all. It's "don't be an asshole to a guy you've never met and have no idea about, and assume bad faith on his part".

FISC is not a rubber stamp, as explained in that very article.

As a federal judge, he is bound by the rules of the FISC court, and the legal statutes that enacted it and set the standards they must follow. He just went out of his way to say, in public: "Just FYI, you guys are more than welcome to challenge this. I believe you have the authority to do so, and here is the statute I believe grants you that authority". Instead of saying "hey, great look, even the main judge thinks we have a right to challenge this", y'all are jumping on him like he's lying through his teeth.

He has no right to challenge these orders himself. He can modify them, but only within the bounds of the law. As I said, his job is not to make law, but to be bound by the statutes that rule his court. Have you ever stopped for a second to think that maybe this is his way of trying to explain to people how to get this stuff shut down?

You know, instead of assuming he's just trying to lie to save face.

I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he is lying to save face. Maybe he doesn't really give a shit. Most federal judges I know are better than that. I may not always agree with their ideologies or rulings, but just about every one i've ever met tries to do the right thing.

Whatever you may believe, they certainly aren't mouthpieces for any administration.
Hell, even his wikipedia page will tell you that.
Here is the original context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3710748

The original meaning was, "You call the shots, but if you add a bunch of changes, we're going to slip on the schedule."

What I meant was that you could probably use a similar line, to the effect of, "I'm happy to change this to do X instead of Y, but since that's a rather major change, I may need to send you a revised quote for the feature. Would you like me to do that, or maybe do Y', which should meet most of your needs for now?"
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Not yet but will soon. It is not just one function but an entire family of functions with some interesting aspects beyond just the algorithms.

The hash functions were algorithmically optimized around a scaffolding I designed that guaranteed certain performance characteristics and easy analyzability. It has literally produced many, many thousands of high quality hash functions. Tens of thousands of CPU hours have been burned on the optimization process, which is still running, and the ones that have been put into use so far were early samples pulled out of that process but the hash functions still being processed in the pipeline are statistically more robust than the earlier versions. Much easier than trying to design them the old fashioned way. At some point soon, since the optimization is converging, I will evaluate the most promising parts of the phase space to select the strongest and most aesthetic functions and publish those into the public domain.
Dating is not a "solvable" problem because asymmetric information and asymmetric supply/demand meaning that the solutions to the Stable Marriage Problem aren't applicable.

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

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

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

"Outsourcing" just makes the informational asymmetry worse. It's a negative-sum strategy. Hooray.
cookie greed doesn't explain it, because they don't issue any cookies for www.google.com, or at least, I don't have any; they do issue cookies for .google.com, which www and finance can access equally. It's either a branding thing, or a they paid for the fancy load balancer so they're going to use it thing.
Time to go around to Fortune 100 companies and say "use it or lose it".
Science is only concerned with what things 'truly' are. Anything that is presently an untestable claim - such as the brain having explicit circuitry devoted to our concept of willpower - is not a scientific hypothesis.

Measurements tell you about the thing you are measuring and you can do science with them. However they do not tell you the mechanism by which the thing you are measuring works internally. For example, when Newton discovered gravity he did not know how gravity worked, so gravity was a black box that he simply measured. It's now a much smaller black box thanks to better experimental methods. The problem is not making scientific claims about the behavior of the black box, the problem is extrapolating to the point where you're claiming that your model of what's in the box is the right model, with no way of checking. Hopefully as neuroscience makes progress we will be able to test our claims about the inside of the brain.

I don't know how to make it clearer. As far as fatalism is concerned, some scientists believe that everything since the big bang is predetermined, and choice is an illusion. It's unfalsifiable, but the point is that's just as valid as the claim that we actually have willpower.
Something is suspicious here. He lost 125kg of which roughly a third might be fat and two thirds water. A gram of fat burns into 9 kcal. He fasted 382 days.
This means that he burned about 980 kcal per day which sounds very low even for someone that is not doing any exercise
Come to wonder when I try to see the places on where this can be applied in my particular working field.
If I check my everyday working flow, it seems like I'm constrained to all the scenarios that he mention, and I'm aware of how limiting it can be for what the technology and multiple cores...
I'm talking about working on files, not interacting visually with the computer, not letting the computer figure out the stuff... not working parallely

and then I notice...

how I deliver software to a distributed environment of virtual machines some running on the same cpu, some boxes with their own one and realize that maybe the everyday cpu that you buy for your everyday box, is that small cpu on the cpu grid he shows....
network between the cpus are the lines that connects them....
and notice that I don't remember when it was the last time that I wrote the last tcp stack for connecting those machines....
so they somehow are figuring they out on they own how to talk to each other (notice how this is different from having a goal and try to achieve it) I still think we are way far from this happening (probably luckily for us)...

so: what if all he mentions here does somehow exist but it requires to shift the way you see stuff?
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I think it is worth mentioning that not even Ubuntu is its own distro in the sense you seem to be talking about it; it is a derivative of Debian, and the majority of the packages are still maintained upstream.

There is also alot of room for new types of operating systems. CoreOS seems to be a operating system design that is not present in any other distro that I am aware of, and definantly not stripped down Ubuntu.

Another interesting OS design I am aware of is NixOS[1], which features a purely functional package management system.

For the typical use cases, the answer is, as always, stick with the tried and tested. However there is still plenty of unexplored space that may be superior for specific domains, and might even become superior (or more likely influence) the common case solution.

[1] http://nixos.org/
Quip is Bret Taylor's new company.

Bret founded Google Maps and FriendFeed. Then he was CTO of Facebook for 3 years.

So this should be interesting.
There's a market because online dating is a funnel process. In large markets, there are thousands of potential female matches and tens of thousands of potential female matches.

The funnel from initial message to reply is brutal. The funnel from conversation to date is also brutal. Relying on mass messaging has a terrible conversion rate. So you need relatively specific messages, and lot of them, to get as far in the funnel as "first date".

Some people feel that they don't have time for that nonsense. Along comes an English lit grad who needs some extra cash ...
Can those companies sell their IPs on the open market when the normal pool has run out? Is that allowed?
This is an excellent point, however, there are a few things to keep in mind: first, compilers can (and do) perform this optimization for you (ignoring details about re-associating floating-point since we’re talking about bit twiddling).

For people who know what they're doing (e.g. DarkShikari), the compiler doesn't stand a chance: http://www.scribd.com/doc/137419114/Introduction-to-AVX2-opt... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5598010)

P.S. Scribd stinks. The important numbers are on the hidden second and third pages. Do people know that Scribd is doing this to their documents? That document is CC-BY-NC -- charging money to read pages 2 and 3 or download the original is not NC.

Found the original here: http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/x264-devel/attachments...
The economy is not fine. You can't fix a credit fueled housing market bubble and subsequent crash with $4T in more debt. The Fed papered over the worst of the crash to minimize the political consequences. I don't agree with all of his analysis but http://danielamerman.com this site has some good explanations of what is going on. See his discussion on Hiding a Depression.

The PC market can't grow forever, how close it is to saturation I don't know but there is still a lot of money to be made in mature markets like autos, etc. MS needs to get its act together and defend its market share or it might end up like GM.
First, where in what I said do you infer an accusation of lying? I never said, nor even thought such a thing. To the contrary, I'm actually rather thrilled to see someone that deeply involved in this nastiness stand up and say what he's just said.

That doesn't excuse his participation to date one whit, however. He's as culpable as anyone else who actively and willingly participates in the surveillance state for the fact that we have a surveillance state, he's directly and personally responsible for whatever abuses of the law have passed across his bench, and I'm willing to bet everything I have that such abuses have crossed his bench, and been approved by him.

Second, how exactly does one not characterize a situation in which, "In short, it appears that the government only submits applications that it knows will get approved—after having first gotten them modified to meet that approval," as more or less a rubber stamp?
I honestly think the Metro UI is pretty neat. I don't really like most of the apps I've tried though, but the OS itself is pretty innovative compared to iOS. Love the app switching by swiping in from the right. The charms bar makes sense. Swiping from above to close an app is convenient. Search is good (but improved in 8.1). Most of all it's really snappy. Of course I'm biased because I actually bought one. It's the first MS product that impressed me for a long time. I like humble, beaten down Microsoft, I can feel they're actually trying and fighting for their life this time around, and I think if people would just try it out instead of spewing the default hate for M$, they might actually like it too. I have a feeling it's too little too late though, not sure if their business model can survive this decade. If Apple came out with an Air tablet that could be used as a laptop replacement, then that would probably be it for the surface and Windows 8.
You mean the same issue that's faced many other fields of endeavour in the past, all of which still exist today? It will always be an issue in new technologies, there's no easy to avoid it.

I'm still yet to find a good reason why there should be a blanket ban on software patents. There are many inventions which are simply not possible without software, but if you're right, that invention is worthless. I'm sure you'd be quite happy for the first invention that uses two fingers to say open a mechanism, but now software happens to be involved, it's completely obvious? What a joke.

My other problem with this whole "Ban software patents because they're bad because I say they are" circlejerk that goes on HN is that you don't see any of the good patents, you just look at the tentative/borderline/outright invalid cases. There are many inventions which are truly novel and inventive in the software world, but you choose to ignore them because of the few bad ones. It's akin to saying all blacks are criminals because there's a higher percentage in prison, or all Toyotas are shit because some of them had break problems. It's just another form if gross selection bias, and you should be aware that there's much more good in the system than the media would have you realise.
Its funny that you say "people doing "cyber" work for the government aren't poor kids from the suburbs trying to pay for college by doing a tour of duty." This is essentially what the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service is sans combat. The program has been going on for a long time now, Mudge played a part in the creation of the program.

https://www​.sfs.opm.gov/
I don't understand why is Samsung so hellbend on doing such things. Copying designs, faking reviews, faking benchmarks... Its not like they are at the bottom of the barrel, infact they are the best in mobile space right now. Are they getting too greedy?
Your comments seems to be ignoring both the facts and the issues.
Right. How much code is out there that looks like

if(recv.ip.contains("2.") {
//well we know that they're from X co.
}
Old, but very detailed:

http://drpeering.net/white-papers/A-Business-Case-For-Peerin...
There is now a 60 day payment window that wasn't there before. And a review of previous procedures that could result in various minor revisions. So it is different, but not a lot different.
Recovering additional IPv4 space at this point only prolongs the inevitable problem. The solution is IPv6.
Fifth talk: Kimbro Staken from Jumpbox demoes Maestro, an orchestration tool for multi-container development stacks: https://github.com/toscanini/maestro
Some good information on this from Geoff Huston: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2012-08/EndPt2.html
How Google manage Android Update, High Load and version management?
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/50248/google-android-update-deployment-process
Re: "a layer of amelioration and obfuscation for every layer of management":

http://ogun.stanford.edu/~bnayfeh/plan.html
I dropped out and am doing well career wise. In computer systems engineering it's the results that matter, not diplomas.
You'd be amazed at how much your metabolism can slow down when you fast. When in college I saw a presentation at the medical school where they showed the effect of low calorie diets.

It's not unusual for people on low calorie diets to see a 30-40% drop in their basal metabolic rates. And those are diet where the person is getting some food.

I agree that 980 kcal/day is pretty low, especially for someone of his size, but it's not completely out of the question.
So, can i set up a bar in my garage like homer simpson and start selling alcohol without a liquor license if i only accept payment in donations?
Travelling? Up all night to get lucky? Meet Slango
bingo, but it can also goes the other way back, the photograph example:

how much time do you need by tangling lines (or any other method you can come with) to define all the level of detail you are looking?

now, "no matter how eloquent" if the photo can be made digital it can be saved to file and it can be described with a rather simple language, all 0 and 1, so it can be done, and methods for being that eloquent exist...

what if the programs written on text actually are a representation of some more complex ideas? (IMO that's what they are, code is just the way of ... coding those ideas to text...) and text is visual remember... (same abstraction for words and the ideas they represent)
Day one was mostly hard due to habit (I cut out sugar and carbohydrates four days prior, so no withdrawal to deal with) and after day 8 or 9 I started to feel a bit weaker. But in between I felt more energetic and was certainly no less sharp mentally (I mean, I was still doing quite well in my coursework and research).

What really stuck out for me was just how much time I was spending each day either planning meals or eating them. Easily four hours a day, including cooking, cleaning, eating, and planning meals with friends.

The social part was not so big a deal for me, but only because there were four of us in our fraternity trying it all together. Plus, well, living in a fraternity and being in college. I didn't need the excuse of a meal to hang out with people.
I reckon a good tool (that this psd.rd wouldn't actually help write, but), would be one that rendered an html/css page - and exported a layered PSD, so you could prototype an app, render it to .psd and send it to your designer friend to make it look rad.
And Go is so much ahead of Rust, that Go zealots can waste time trolling.
And news.ycombinator.com is still IPv4-only.
Nothing cures cancer in the sense that people mean when they speak of "curing cancer" as some sort of saintly alternative to "living your life."

Many thousands of people are treated for cancer every day. Some of them survive significantly longer, or are significantly happier, as a result. None of the many, many people who work tirelessly to treat the sick are ever credited with "curing cancer," though that is what they do, every day, one person and one day at a time.

I worked as a cancer researcher for three years. It was kind of embarrassing. People tend to fawn over you. You get a lot of credit you don't deserve. I never cured any cancer that I know of. I gave cancer to a lot of mice. Few of them ever recovered.

Downstairs in the shop were some machinists. They didn't have Ph.D.s. They made custom radiation shields for patients undergoing radiotherapy. When a beam of cell-destroying radiation blasts the tumor inside, say, your head, you want to be sure it blasts as little of the rest of your head as possible. Your future depends, in part, on the quality work of the machinist who carefully builds your radiation shield, just for you, according to the plans drawn up by your friendly medical physicist.

These people cured cancer. For all I know they've been laid off by now, replaced by a terrifying molten-lead-extruding 3D printer or something. But they should be proud. People are alive today because of their work. People survived long enough to see graduations and weddings because of their work. People suffered less because of their work.

If we ever really do "cure cancer" in the grand-visionary sense of having a magical vaccine against all cancer, people will rapidly become bored of it. Every fifty years or so there will be a resurgence of cancer because folks will have forgotten what it was like, but the rest of the time nobody will care. There will be a small but crucial guild of people who guard the knowledge and procedures for keeping cancer at bay for all humanity, and nobody will know their names except at industry conferences.

But that's okay. This is how life really works. It's really big and you live your part of it. Only in the movies does a bright light shine down out of the sky when you do good things.
"Potassium is essential for the proper working of the heart, and when his potassium levels got a little low around the 100-day mark, he was given potassium tablets for about 70 days. "

This is why fasting is out of the question unless you have constant medical supervision. You need a prescription to get potassium supplements that actually meet the daily requirement.
When a dictator comes to power he does so and remains in power because of the support of the people around them. Wrongs are perpetuated and maintained all in the name of 'laws'.
Characterizations like 'wrongheadedness' have no part in this discussion. If his conclusions are wrong you can explain why without generalizing to his nature as a person.
Sure you can die of protein deficiencies! Don't forget that there are essential amino acids that you need to get through your diet.
If we consider all forms of software. DNA is the oldest.
I've enjoyed a, for lack of a better term, per-sprint billing cycle. It lies somewhere between all of the techniques on the page and has worked the best for my past client base (startups creating MVPs, companies that need relatively stand-alone websites and services).

You bill by sprint (2 weeks; expectation of full-time), planning for a set of deliverables with approximate story weight among them. This gives the client something concrete that you're building towards and gives me incentive to actually produce value and not get mired in non-value-producing things like tweaking styles or excessively mulling over long-term architecture and deployment. Also, it has sufficient room for the inevitable adjustment to scope mid-sprint (although I found this was rare; perhaps 1/4 of my sprints experienced this). We'd just estimate the new work that gets introduced and pick off an equally weighted task, no fuss.

My clients found the level of certainty reassuring, and the bug flow of deliverables at the sprint pace was very satisfying, especially to clients who are used to project-scale deliverables. I also found it was conducive to producing better overall software. The sprints made us work together to constrain our thinking to the most valuable things to do in that time horizon. For my specific client base, it left us flexibility to adjust to acquisitions, major project-level scope changes, and financial circumstances, which typically only happened at a biweekly sprint pace.
How would end-user software deal with an IPv6 address though? Surely some of it is IPv6 capable already, but I would imagine that a lot of it makes assumptions about IPv4. If the OS were operating on a IPv6 network, would that software function correctly as long as the addresses were IPv4-compatible (i.e. within the IPv4 range, and not in IPv6 notation)?
Yeah because apple only gives away all your privacy to the NSA, they have heaps more integrity.

Oh that's right, Apple are American, not Korean... americans are never evil, and always full of integrity. .... But those Koreans!

Why don't we just stop pretending any of these companies have 'integrity' and admit they are just cold businesses competing for money... they are not people with moral codes. They are capitalist entities looking for $$$.
In actual compiled code, conditional branches (without branch prediction) are translated to jumps to different targets, which are specified inline with the instructions. Specifying a modifiable target would mean fetching it from a register (or worse, memory) and delaying execution until the fetch is complete (several cycles minimum on a pipelined machine). With branch prediction, instructions are predicated on a condition inline and we avoid the costly jump instructions.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_predication
EDIT: Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_predictor

I think we more commonly use the latter, which tries to guess which way the code will branch and load the appropriate jump target. It's actually typically very successful in modern processors.