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The Go rewrite of dl.google.com happened last year [1]. Today, Brad Fitz gave a presentation about the rewrite and open-sourced a component of the rewrite, groupcache[2].

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/golang-nuts/dl.go...

[2]: https://github.com/golang/groupcache
Aleluia !!!

Hey, it's just a takedown. People? well I've to sleep...

If apple were so "cool", now they should have some detail, present, or something with the service users.

Or at a minimal, the corner grocery store, could do that at least.

I think.
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So why not contribute to (or extend) say ScaLAPACK to make it do what you need and add a wrapped to an existing linear algebra library?

Looking at ScaLAPACK, it's been developed since 1995. I've never touched it, but it's probably many many lines of code (and maybe a few PhD thesis) with all sorts of kinks worked out that will take you decades to iron out yourself. To throw out all that knowledge/work/man-hours and to start from scratch seems like a waste.
This. I don't think people are necessarily expecting the literal Blu-Ray to be streamed, but even casual cinephiles (over a certain age anyway) probably expect to be notified if a film has been "formatted to fit [your] screen".
It's both. The code was completely rewritten, but the interface to the service stayed the same.
I was overwhelmed when I first started. I took a class in High School about CAD and 3D modelling but forgot most of it. I used Sketchup to mess around. I had a project I wanted to build and learn on my own. I just found it a little too time consuming. I followed some Sketchup video tutorials that help learning how to switch tools quickly and talks about the tools that are best for certain shapes. From what I have noticed 3D modelling is a lot of trial and error.
My friend died last year at age 38. If the cause of death is not released it's usually drug or alcohol related.
I think I knew this wasn't just a problem for me, but it's nice to see it confirmed by someone else.
As much as it might put a dampener on the whole "look how many sales we made" thing, I'd be curious to see any piracy statistics if they had any.
I guess, what you miss is that the author was the author of LiveJournal, memcached, now also of groupcache in Go. So the guy who rewrote the program was much, much more capable that any "typical" programmer.
For anyone wishing to emulate Tufte's style in books using LaTeX, http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tufte-latex.
I kind of fail to see the advantage of being able to walk given that the robot can fly - I'm sure there are some, but I can't think of any.
Quite alright.
This is a beautiful thing you've put out. Thank you.

The ASCII guardpost in the API docs is also pure gold.
How do I tell my team to work more hours to hit a launch date?
It would be cool if sellbox would tell me more about the file. If PDF - tell me how many pages, how big the file etc.

While $1.00 is not much in this particular case - I have no idea what the actual details of the file are that I am looking to buy.
For another take on that "What the dormouse said" by John Markoff that traces a whole lot of the early beginnings of Silicon Valley culture back to 60's and 70's counter culture, including extensive LSD and pot experimentation (in some cases on corporate time, encouraged by people in charge...) and participation in the anti war movements etc..
I ended up writing my own app to sell my ebook and it wasn't all that hard using Stripe. Deploying to Heroku is free if you're ok with their wildcard https certificate.

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The book is called Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails. It's a guide to integrating Stripe with your Rails app and includes a bunch of goodies that help make your integration robust in the face of failure.

http://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments
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If that's true, get a new registrar. I've had my home number and alternatively, my cell number, listed on my registrations and I've never received a phone call as a result.
Thanks for the response! What would you say was your biggest hurdle getting started at the time?
My reaction too. That's a rather odd way of presenting an article.
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It's an inherent limitation for OS X. The closest you can get is using app-launched and window-opened events to move them yourself. You can do that in either Slate or Zephyros but I think it's easier in Zeph.
I don't think the article asking for your sympathy. Its showing (rather than telling) how effective legalization is and how many positives have come as a result
https://gumroad.com/ is another that uses 5% (+ 25c per transaction) but doesn't go through paypal or Dropbox. The ease of use and customisability provides a lot of value in itself.
Corporations are people now as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Elec...

Let's sue for the violation of our company's 4th amendment rights.
Ask HN: How to hire a sales person for SME? 
We my co-founder and I have built a product for storefront SME. Both of us are engineering type and not very good going door to door selling. We tried but haven't been able to convince any to buy from us. We know this product can sell because our competitor (in a different geographical area) is able to sell plenty, so it's not that we are building something no one wants. So my question is how do we hire a good sales person who can help us sell our product?
I don't understand the part about the info being available on the net for years already. I'm sure the reporters garbled that since they probably have zero domain knowledge, but it sure implied that anyone with criminal intent probably already has what they need to unlock those cars.
It's just a more macro version of the buy local movement, I think.

In some places it's feasible, in others not so much. But, to each their own, I think. If that's what makes them feel better. Just like if it makes people feel better that their veggies are grown locally vs shipped in, even if the local veggies require more 'human subsidies' (energy, water, fertilizer, etc.) that in places where they grow more readily, so be it.
It was available via the Humble Bundle sale before it was released in the play store, so people who are "into" android gaming probably grabbed it then.
This is basically what I was hinting at, but you described it a lot more clearly than I did. Basically using a virtual 3D environment in which the player can 'be' and view the video feed through a virtual 'window'.
Personally, I came to very different conclusions. I found the book thought-provoking, and while your criticisms seem to be factually accurate, so was the original material you were criticising in each case I checked.

I am upvoting you anyway, because we should never take things for granted just because someone famous said them, and because I appreciate that you took the time to make a careful and reasonable argument even if I personally disagree with it.
Best resource in my experience is a business cofounder who will do all that for you.

Marketing is more than just getting the word out, but also who to get the word out to, want to say, etc. There isn't enough time in the day to really do this right and write code for your product at the same time.
Exactly. I mentioned on another submission, that got killed, that it would be a great tribute to the man if one of his friends/associates that new his work well could fill in and give his presentation at the conference. With so little time, I now think that might be unreasonable. Maybe use the time slot to hand out the slides, raise a toast and share some stories. The subject of his talk is incredibly important and should be distributed.

After minor digging, here is his blog about medical device hacking vs. the hollywood version:

http://blog.ioactive.com/2013/02/broken-hearts-how-plausible...

Interesting tidbit from the blog-The CEO's father has a pacemaker.
I attended a seminar a few years back. The books are great, but I actually really enjoyed his commentary on the designs. He really explains well why certain designs work well for a given purpose and fail miserably at other purposes.

For example, the Minard chart[1] works exceptionally well to convey the loss of life in Napoleon's campaign in Russia. However, if you may not be able to apply this type of chart to a typical dashboard as easily. Tufte does a great job explaining exactly what makes Minard's visualization work so well.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minard.png
Well, I think there's clearly such a contingent, and I think it's more visible because of Haskell's academic heritage; it may also be larger, but I am much less confident in that - there are people who love pushing the tech in most languages.
"I am not aware of any filters that are placed there for my safety. I asked to remove the filter that was placed there to ensure I have access only to the information approved by the government".
My country of birth is small enough that practically none of the nontrivial products I want to buy or consume are made locally, so hearing about this sort of preference (e.g. for "made in $my_country" products) makes me think. Since I can't fall back on a no-brainer nationalist preference on a daily basis (except for a few locally grown vegetables) like the citizens of a country as large as the United States, what should I prefer, if anything?

>Of course you would not buy a laptop from them, you don't want to give more money/power to this awful country.

The approach you describe entails rating countries of manufacture based on labour/environmental/civil standards. So, without more detailed knowledge of the factories in question, an American who follows this approach should prefer a product made in (say) Germany or Sweden, rather than one made in the USA, since it could be argued that the former countries treat their workers better, and take better care of their environment.

I think a reasonable proviso to this policy might be to source high-volume/frequency items locally (e.g. produce) when possible to reduce pollution from transportation (or any other wasteful overhead), assuming almost everything else is equal. Which also means that if this hypothetical American resident is close to a land border, s/he might want to buy something from Canada or Mexico rather than a U.S. state at the other end of the country.
Measurement scale. Working with fractions of an inch. I also had difficulties with alignment. These are things that improve with practice.
We @ Diffbot created a Twitter account using our Custom API Toolkit to track the status of individual services: https://twitter.com/diffbotappledev
What are the long term implications to how one thinks if they learn to program before they learn to read a language such as english?

Will the actual way they think be different? What will their thought processes be like when they are teen/adult?
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Britain already has a mostly mandatory filter designed to save it from child pornography. Cleanfeed is run by the Internet Watch Foundation who look for images of abuse and put it on the blocklist. They're responsible for blocking Wikipedia due to an album cover.

The same filter is now used to action on high court demands to block torrent websites like The Pirate Bay.
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Roughly, yes. I'm just happy to see that there are 3 now, instead of only Amazon.

It depends how you define "the space", of course. Dropbox, GitHub Pages, Heroku, and many more can be used to host static content. But I think this is an accurate list if you want something that is a) dirt cheap at any scale, b) fast and reliable, c) meant for this purpose, d) configurable enough to host a professional website without embarrassing quirks, e) not overly tied to a particular platform configuration.
The point is that the timestamp type is meant more for calendaring, unless you're manually normalizing the dates you're passing into postgres to a certain timezone like UTC. Timestamptz is what you actually want 99% of the time.
I am amazed that someone somewhere is still using cassette tape. Literally the worst format for music ever.

And I speak as someone who enjoys using old junk.
Um isn't this the explanation for the rash of high tech car robberies we've been witnessing ALREADY? This seems old news to the thieves. This is really just preventing the owners of the cars from reading in the paper that their car is freely stealable. It is regardless of weather the owners know it or now tho.

Shameful now they'll move to try and blame these guys when they probably botched the security in the first place.
Bit off topic, but I wish the page transitions in the provisioning portal didn't reload all the javascript assets (with a cache busting timestamp in the url) making every click annoyingly laggy.
Most of the people in the US are not very interested in what happens in Europe unless it is something extraordinary. So European protests against Iraq war may be scarcely reported by US media for the mere reason that the customers of US media don't care too much if people somewhere in Lissabon like their government or not. You don't need to censor something that nobody of your audience cares about. Protests against Iraq war in the US itself was very amply reported by the media.
> I suspect the police force would dislike being put in this category.

I suspect you're right, but it seems to be true. Unless this source is unreliable (let me know why if you think it is!):

http://www.republicreport.org/2012/exclusive-why-cant-you-sm...
The numbers here have some weird factors (significant lag in release date, available on PC before Android, Humble Bundle sales.) But yes, it's generally accepted that iOS games are more profitable.

However, they still made a significant amount of revenue from non-iOS sources. (It was about half and half.) Whether it's worth investing in an Android version probably depends on how just how much effort it would be. Here they got about 1/5 as much revenue from Android as they did iOS, but I'd bet it took less than 20% of their initial budget to do the port. (Especially given that they had already ported it to Windows, OSX, and Linux.)
If the code isn't incorrect, the label printed is. It is not computing the total.
It is included in the default OS distribution for the raspberry PI.
I interpreted that statement as meaning the software that the cars run is available online. And that software is what the researchers examined.

Not the results of this research.
I think that's just regular Scratch, not Scratch Jr.
It's still callback spaghetti though right.

You still need to break function "doAll()" into function "doPart1()", "doPart2()"...,"doPartN()". It's just that now you have a new syntax for calling all of the functions. Like Rx for JavaScript instead of C#.

I do believe the syntax for calling all of the component functions is better.. but it would be great if you didn't have to make the component functions at all.
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This is all good advice; especially that working more hours generally isn't the answer (and can do more harm than good).

For those cases where it is useful, I would add:
* Make it more fun to work than not to work. Bring in dinners. Invite their families to visit in the evening. Acknowledge that you're camping out.
* Remove non-work obstacles and distractions. Drive people to and from the train station or their homes. Help them find babysitting. Do their laundry (yourself, or hire a service).
* Remove work obstacles and distractions. If you're in a big company with bureaucracy, run interference. Explain that the team is in crunch mode, and do or defer their expense reports, training procedures, and other overhead.
* Have a nap area. I've only been at one company that had a formal nap room, but everywhere else has gone through cycles of using a conference room or out-of-the-way sofa, and then hiring enough people that there's not space for that any more, and then getting more floorspace, and repeat. During the phases when there's not an on-site nap room, people either home in the evening and don't come back, and/or turn braindead and might as well be gone.
* Have an end in sight. If there's not a natural exogenous deadline (such as an industry event), fake one (this has to be the Solstice release because reasons). It's particularly important that crunch mode be timeboxed, not feature-boxed; if you've been in feature-milestone mode, now's the time to pivot.
* Work longer hours yourself. A leader should be first in, last out.
Desktop sales were mostly through Steam and the HumbleBundle, which both include all platforms.

The bundle does track total money spent per platform (you can specify which you want your purchase to count towards): http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/281...
The new software relies heavily on the Go net/http implementation of a HTTP server. That is arguably a very very big chunk of the complexity in a HTTP download server.

So it leaves a bad taste when the presentation mocks the original C++ implementation while the Go solution only works because there is a fully functional high performance HTTP server already in the standard library.

There is not a single slide that tells us it may not be a good idea to rely on the standard library for such high-level functionality. Thats why I linked to the bug. A normal user has very little options when it turns out theres a bug in the standard library, other than to report it and wait for you to fix it. The problem is exacerbated since standard library and language versions are tightly coupled.
I agree that it's weird & bad when applied to publishing information. The information will leak somehow.

It makes a bit more sense when applied to things like child abuse - US citizens who travel abroad and pay to have sex with someone under the age of 18 can be tried in the US. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sex_tourism#Tourists_fro...)
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I wonder about kids who can read at that age, like I could. Would they be surpassing those who couldn't, or does the graphical layout really offer that much flexibility?

In addition, it seems like a wasted opportunity to not throw some text in to help teach kids to read at the same time.
They just want to get access to email address of people!
Please don't bring reddit style here. There's plenty of reddit on reddit. This kind of snark detracts from what makes this site good.
In the five years that I've practiced data visualization and analysis, the day-long Tufte seminar that my boss sent me to was likely the most important single day of my development career. Tufte has virtually nothing to say about how visualization should be done off paper, but his general principles are invaluable. I was still making annoying Flash charts at the time, shortly after attending Tufte's workshop, I realized how much of an anti-pattern it is to rely heavily on button-pushing and on-hovers.

It's true that Tufte's pioneering work was done in the age of paper, but that simplicity and clarity of purpose is even in greater need today.

(And I'll also say, Jesus Christ this submitted headline made me fear that he was dead)

Edit: I can't avoid saying that some of the more contemporary ideas he's really into are sometimes a little boring compared to his data visualization ideas...if you live in New York, Tufte has a gallery of art that he's done and space devoted to others' ideas...I thought the documentary on the designer mentioned in the OP was a little dry. Also, at his gallery, Tufte has a short video on loop about how he'd improve the Apple iPhone weather app...I forgot the details but I remember thinking that I disagreed with a lot of what he proposed.

(On certain days of the week, Tufte is actually in the gallery...he was very nice to talk to)

His gallery: http://etmodern.com/ETmodern/ET_Modern.html
He's a legend from days of yore, but his books and presentations really don't talk about the web or even modern technology. It's great if you're working in traditional graphic design, and there are some core concepts you can take and apply to web design, but I don't see why people think he's some hero of modern design.
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The app does not have to crash. It can gracefully exit.

Which, in the end, has the same result - if the user does not grant the permission, the app will refuse to work.
What fun is a slide show without a talk?
This is great, just book marked.
Actually it's thousands, perhaps millions of email addresses. Those have non-zero value in aggregate.
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Just to reply to myself, it seems that they do send encoded video- http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1j27ro/an_indepth_l...

And now people have published the extension of that, which is that you can cast whole screens and arbitrary content just as video streams - http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/26/tip-chromecast-can-cast...
My eldest was already doing amazing things with his arduino when he was 7, well before his reading and writing skills caught up. I deliberately held back with help on certain things to force him to RTFM. His fierce desire to figure it out did wonders for motivation.

It is gratifying to hear an 8 year old correctly use "instantiate" in conversation. We did have to warn him about using "magic" words amongst his "muggle" friends.
I'd be interested to hear your progress against this 1024 byte chess game. It could make an interesting blog post - each game you play, with some analysis of what you do to try to win and whether that works or not. :-)
Aside: If an order of magnitude is a factor of 10^1, half an order of magnitude is actually 10^0.5 ~= 0.3.

So rounding 500 to the nearest order of magnitude gives 1000. 310 is the mid point.
I imagine a good use case could be for search and rescue in rough/inaccessible terrain. Imagine a building has collapsed trapping people inside. A flight-capable vehicle could quickly navigate to the area, and once it reaches the rubble, it can crawl in, searching for survivors.
I was curious about the article claiming "... the 16:9 HD widescreen aspect ratio that the majority of films are shot in ..."

and came across this:

http://www.projectorcentral.com/build_home_theater_screen_as...
Was that code already published by 1937?