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As an aside, pitcher.io looks cool... congrats :)

If you don't mind, I'd suggest toning down the 'Our' side of the copy a bit... e.g. 'Our amazing content. Your expert knowledge.' sounds too boastful (no offense) and might sound better with 'great' instead of 'amazing'...

Also: 'To start you off every Pitcher account comes loaded with content we love' might be better as 'To start you off every Pitcher account comes loaded with great/useful content' ...

HTH and all the best.
It's funny, because Lyme is one of those diseases where "it could be anything" to the outsider because there are no external indicators that something is wrong with them.

Back when I was younger I got Lyme disease at the age of 13. I got treated for it by some quack without antibiotics and then went on with my life - essentially untreated. Between the ages of 14 and 17 I have barely any memories. There are snippets of events that I can recall in my memory, but in total they must be less than 20 snippets over the course of 3 years of my life. If I try my very best to go back to other moments in there, there is nothing, kind of like after having had a few too many drinks and being unable to remember how you got home, but then having that feeling for about 3 years of your life.

Much like stated in the post, your memory is affected by Lyme disease. You actually still have the capacity to think complete thoughts, but after only a few seconds your thoughts are gone.

One of the few snippets of memory that I have left, is the sudden strong realisation that I tried my very best to remember what had happened in the last 7 days - and the complete and utter inability to recall even one single event over those 7 days. I wasn't even able to remember what I ate for lunch 3 hours earlier, or what I had been doing for the previous 5 minutes. I remember getting really upset that I felt that that memory was also fading and I kept on repeating it in my head to prevent it from disappearing. It was scary.

I am apparently fortunate enough to continue functioning well after Lyme disease, but I can guarantee you that the experience being written in this post is absolutely identical to the experience that I had.

It's bizarre, it's scary, but fortunately for Waldo: he won't remember a thing anyway.
> question and XOR the output of RDRAND with the randomness from the other entropy sources before returning it.

How is that easy ? No, predicting or detecting that the returned value of your assembly instruction will later be xor'ed by some other value, in all it's machine code variants that different versions of gcc will produce, is not easy.

It is theoretically possible if you have access to the CPU design and can modify it, but even then it is very non-trivial, if even doable in the general case.

There are several free CPUs around you can instantiate on an FPGA and boot linux on - if someone makes a proof-of-concept rdrand() on one of these that can detect the future bit operations on the value(even when it's moved to another register or to/from main memory) and cancel out that bit operation - then I'll believe it's possible.

Until then, I'm more(more compared to not at all is still very little) worried that:

* the chip (whose part number google knows nothing about) in my dsl modem have a backdoor and being able to mirror all its traffic

* that the baseband chip in my HTC has the same ability - in addition to the know ability of being able to report its gps location without informing me

* that the NSA probably still can read my gmail mail

* that my raspberry pi SoC can contain an unknown component that dumps it's memory out the ethernet card

* that the latest iPhone perhaps complies nicely with the 3GPP TS 33.108 spec.
I can't speak from personal experience, but the one piece of advice every single person I know who's written a book has given me is don't do it for the money.
as poorly thought out as this looks, what I wouldn't give for a smart phone with a very low resolution e-ink swapped in screen plus the opportunity to replace all the camerawork,sensors, storage , etc with more battery. At least this may get someone thinking about the idea.

also the video and concepts kept making me think of how hot a big metallic "speed block" would be against my hand
Sorry for the late reply.

RackConnect is a product that allows us to link cloud servers in our public Cloud environment with servers in a dedicated configuration.

We are currently using RackConnect 2.0 which achieves this by attaching the shared private network to the dedicated environment and configuring the cloud servers network stacks to use the dedicated load balancer and firewall as their default gateway, so that all traffic flows through the dedicated config. Incoming traffic (or traffic from the dedicated configuration) will be routed out to the Cloud servers by the dedicated load balancer.

RackConnect 3.0 (coming soon) will provide the same service, but the connection from the cloud servers to the dedicated configuration will be provided by Cloud Networks, our SDN product. This simplifies the configuration and provides additional security to the traffic.
Sorry for the slow reply. Yes - Cloud Networks is fully supported.
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Ugh, “the girl who let herself be gang raped”? I expect much better than this from the Guardian.
Why would you doubt that Putin is intelligent and articulate? He is Russian so me must be a some crude vodka drinking bear hunter?
The Internet isn't the problem here, consumption is, just like TV wasn't the problem 20 years ago, or computer games wasn't 10 years ago.

Let us not forget the 7 deadly sins: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride.

Teenagers simply aren't equipped to deal with these issues like adults are, hell even some adults struggle.
They used to, before 10.3 or 10.4 or so. I suspect that it was offputting to people moving from Linux.
That's only partially true. Compile times are absolutely a factor in development time for the same reason that how long your test suite takes to run is a factor. A faster feedback loop can shorten dev cycles. If nothing else, it's more fun to have faster compiles.

This is one reason Go is so appealing to many people. The compile times make it "feel" like ruby or python or php in terms of "hit refresh and the change is there" style of development. That is a huge difference from, hit save and wait a minute for my java project to compile, and push out to tomcat a minute later. Even with JRebel the best I've seen is a 2-5 second page change refresh cycle in Scala and a minimum 5 second test suite reload time using SBT.

Scala is a beautiful language, but compared to Go, it's a very slow dev cycle.
Yes, but your iPhone isn't nearly as cool to sit on.
php is not a framework. How many people use bare ruby , bare python or bare java to code webpages ? ( and by the way JSP can be a mess too , so it's not about the language,it's about the brain behind the desk ). Rails , Django and others give devs MVC for free , not PHP, not Ruby , not Python.
You're comparing off-the-shelf disks to enterprise-class storage.
Oddly, I was a teenager, too.

The mistake some members of the adult generation make, and have always made, is thinking that, or acting as though (and that is an easy cop out), the current teen generation is fundamentally different to their own.
Sean! I love you!

My sister, 14 next month, was diagnosed ~18 months ago with UC. Everything has been such a roller coaster for her, it's been unbearable. On and off this and that medication, etc, etc - after reading through crohnology.com/testimonials, it seems like you guys really get it. :)

Do you have any tips on how best to introduce her to the site? You and your team, I glean from your Stanford talk, have made a real commitment to making the site as friendly as possible (not in the usual "even dumb users will get it" guruspeak sense, but actually friendly - you know, in the "friend" sense). So let me lean on you.

Right now, this month and last, is/has been such a critical time for her, medically and, due to the nature of the illness, personally. She's inherently super shy, so it took her a long time to open up with her first doctor and start moving forward-- but he moved recently, and the new doc, well, just ain't working out... But the thing is - and this is why I'm so fucking happy you've made Crohnology! :) - she's also a very bright girl who knows the ins and outs of the treatments she's going through. (And she does the social thing online, has 50 apps on her phone, yada yada - picking up functionality will be a non-issue.) So you see how, shy girl + a personal medical issue + C.com = 8 birds with one stone for her.

My single (hopefully ignorant) worry is that my sister, being 13 and shy, will come on the site and think, 'This isn't my crowd.' Or something to that effect. Please, please, please, tell me I'm being a big, dumb idiot and why, or just point me somewhere that might be a good first link for her to visit, or... anything! I know from your vids you've thought about this stuff in and out!

Eternally Grateful,

Mike

P.S. - Commented here rather than on your site because I wasn't sure what the policy on the undiagnosed barging in on the community was. Given the personal nature of things, there's definitely an advantage to keeping things "members only." That said, if you feel this discussion is better had in say, the comments section of a post on C.com/blog, I'm happy to sign up and repost over there. :)
the idea of money flowing towards stability and away from instability is one worth toying with, in my opinion.
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> Lots of people seem to agree this concept is appealing indeed, but physically impossible.

I remember when it was physically impossible to fit 32 GIGs of data in my jeans pocket...
Did you read the article? They explained why an implementation of RDRAND as "XOR together the contents of all registers and return it" would result in removing nearly all of the entropy in the state vector. And it proposed a simple solution: modify the code so that the hardware entropy is mixed in earlier in the process (in which case it WOULD require the prodigious feats you are talking about).
>a better answer would be to discuss pornography addiction as part of the sexual education curriculum, but too many people would consider it "teaching children porn".

Sort of like how DARE teaches children drugs?
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For me, it reached the point where I several times fell asleep sitting up in my office chair -- in the middle of a conversation!
Technical people may not be their biggest market, but they do have a sizable percentage of the technical-person demographic.

I use an old macbook (that has an ethernet port). When it comes time to replace it I'll buy a dongle with the new one, and on the relatively rare cases I actually need it use that. I can't really imagine it ever being a significant issue to me.
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You mean like in the bootstrap documentation, where with a small enough viewport you cannot access bottom of the menu?
Yet our smartphones can't seem to get over 64GB limit. Personally, I'm afraid that the cloud will effectively slow-down the progress in the storage space, at least in the consumer portion of it.
No offence, but what does that have to do with iOS7's battery life? It seems you just wanted to start screaming about how everyone that buys Apple is a 'sheep' and use some terrible puns. You do tend to get downvoted if you don't contribute anything to the conversation.

You said my 'phone is useless now' which is completely incorrect. I wouldn't expect it to have perfect battery life in a BETA...
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Depends how you mean it, really. Android has had an impact, and happens to be open-source (albeit not operated like a normal open-source project; it's closer to a code-dump, as with Apple WebKit in the early days). However, if Android was not open-source, but had source shared with OEMs, would its impact really have been substantially different? I suspect not.

However, if Mozilla, clang or WebKit had not been open-source, their impact would have been very different (and much less).
I assume your post was intended to be ironic?

> "Write an operating system that is used by millions of people and powers a large part of the Internet (together with BSD and friends)."

Linux wrote a kernel, not the full OS user land. What's more, most of the code in Linux (the kernel) isn't actually written by him - these days he's job is more that of a maintainer. Not that I'm trying to undermine his achievements - just pointing out that you're making the same exaggerated arguments as the blogger you're condemning.

> " Stop writing bullet lists about people."

You mean like the bullet list you've just written?

> "Stop trying to attract hits to your tech blog and create something of use to the human species."

Again, like you've just done. Let me explain with a little code:

($potkettleblack = $_) =~ s/tech blog/forums/;

> "Criticize what people say, not how they say it."

Which would be fine if the whole premise of your argument is complaining about not what the blog said by how the blogger said it.

Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for Torvalds, but your comments were -at best- hypocritical. Though I'd say they were much worse than that as at least the blog in question added some content to compliment their clickbait headline. You've not even touched on the real subject matter of this topic.
> All it has to do is detect the code sequence in question

Extraordinary claims...
E-ink has too many problems, and it's not very good for anything other than mostly static content. If you're thinking "like Pebble" - Pebble doesn't use e-ink. It's using a type of LCD similar to PixelQi.

Mirasol on the other hand, has a ton of potential, and it seems to improve the overall battery life of a device by at least 3x (which means the display itself should be many times more efficient than LCD). Too bad nobody has picked up yet (other than Qualcomm themselves [1]) to use it into a line of products, so we can see improvements done faster to it (such as to color accuracy, gamut, contrast, animation speed, etc).

[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/09/07/ifa-2013-hands-on-wi...
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It'd be awesome if this is possible for a horizontal setup too!
I'm surprised no one has said anything about the intern. Decent presentation and solid work. Good on him.
Reading some Baudrillard lately?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/baudrillard/
Bit off-topic, but interesting that in this sentence:

> Kidron, who carries lightly the title Baroness for her pioneering work not just in making such films as the BBC's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit but in spreading the narrative wonder of great movies to schoolkids across the country through her FilmClub, says that many of her friends have said the same thing

where would you except the "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" link to lead? Maybe another Guardian article about the film? Wikipedia? IMDB? Homepage of the film? Trailer? I for one would not have excepted a credible paper like Guardian link to a crappy and most likely illegimate rip of the film. That's barely above linking directly to The PirateBay.
You can try something similar to this (although more related to the older barrel technique) at home with a soldering iron . Melt some tin at the tip while holding the iron at a sufficiently large enough height over a glass of water. It takes some practice to make nice round balls, but it works!
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Right, by front end I was referring to HTML5, CSS3, Modern JS Apps etc, not the pixel pushing kind of work.
I'm wondering if, from UX perspective, in most cases it would be sufficient to draw the headers based on the mouse position. If the user hovers the mouse over a row in the able that causes the headers to pop-over one (or more) rows above the mouse position in a tool-tip like fashion (correctly aligned with the columns, of course).
You know 1 person doesn't represent a community right?
Steam for linux is a game-changer though. While previous efforts (there was a surge around 2000 with the likes of Q3, NWN etc) lacked cohesion, there is a convenient banner under which to promote games on linux and real stats on how many people are actually playing games on linux rather than the overhyped estimates of the past.

Linux gaming in the past has too much been about poor-grade clones of popular games. Now via Steam Linux is getting a lot of real games delivered, and in a manner where the publisher/developer can see the true impact of the decisions to port.

So no, Metro: LL might not change anything itself, but it is a sign that other stuff is having a real effect and that there is a pull.
This type of broken experience compared with what is possible in native applications is what makes me always take native projects over web ones, when given the choice.
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No mention of C. S. Peirce?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/peirce.html
That's not the problem. The problem is some people's assumption that they can pick up Vim just like any other editor and use it right away.

It takes time to be productive with Vim. There's no way to get around that.
While the evidence seems to suggest that some people do get addicted to porn, the vast majority do not.
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Prospective starlets used to go to Hollywood and get literally screwed. Engineers now go to the Valley and only get metaphorically screwed. I guess that's progress.
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I fell for the same thing, the wording is ambiguous in the first sentence. :)
> simply

Sure.
Each to their own, these all look undrinkable though!
Sure you can, but for the entire archive? Running a caching HTTP proxy is far easier and more lightweight.
Why is the first comment always negative? The author of the link wrote an article based on his experience. I find that every first comment on HN is a tear down of the original post. The tone of every top comment seems to want to prove the com mentor's genius over the author.
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In the book Hippel talks about two different kinds of innovation, one which "lead users" can come up with because they're at the cutting edge of their field and wanting to go further, and another that manufacturers can come up with because they've got deep knowledge about manufacturing. If "repackaging" involves making it cheaper to produce then that's a good thing, even if it's not the cool kind of innovation that people like to celebrate.
Well, yes. It obviously wouldn't be a foreign language to the speechwriters, of which I assume there were many people involved in writing, editing and reviewing. Unless someone expects an English language document addressed to US citizens to have been written by a Russian-born writer who didn't speak English.
Not the same, but I was already imagining carrying a microSD card around with a Linux VM on it for portable dev. I enjoy the native Win8 experience, though.

Edit: Of course, this[1] thread seems to indicate that microSD might not be fast enough, in which case I'd have to fall back to the USB3 port. Either way, not a terrible solution.

[1] http://superuser.com/questions/492182/using-a-microsd-card-a...
Would you consider any news source objective? Private news sources aren't owned by people with its own interests? More important than a mystical objectivity is the access to diversity of opinions in media.
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Remember Windows NT which ran on PowerPC, MIPS and Alpha. They even ran x86 binaries on Alpha which were not only emulated but also translated for later runs [1].

Admittedly, all the other architectures Windows supported apart from x86 were added and later dropped again, so it were more sidesteps instead of transitions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32
While I agree with your remark [1], it does not pay the bills.

Fact is, most people in HN like open source, but the reality speaks otherwise when you try to make a living out of it.

I have been through it a few times, so I speak from experience.
About that....

> the program was sometimes counterproductive in some populations, with those who graduated from D.A.R.E. later having higher than average rates of drug use

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Education...
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Dropwizard is very well implemented and uses annotations for achieving a very concise syntax as far as Java goes. No XML too, which is a big plus for me.

But when I though how many lines some webapp I was writing would take in Clojure, I went to the corner of the room and cried.

My conclusion for now is that "first versions" should be written in dynamic languages.
The article does not list Saint Jacques Tower in Paris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jacques_Tower
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If you went to a US university, are you on an H-1 at this point or one of the other visas (F-1 IIRC?)? The reason I ask is my understanding of the visas for graduates of US programs is that there is no cost or real burden on the employer for a few years, which is much different than an H-1 that might have expectations of GC processing.
> what does that have to do with iOS7's battery life?

It has to do with Apple's apparent general battery strategy. The devaluing of devices sold as "upgrade" was done a few years back, and as I've mentioned above, it's still done today.

> You do tend to get downvoted if you don't contribute anything to the conversation.

The contribution here is: DO NOT "UPGRADE", UNLESS you are ok with being forced to buy a new phone BEFORE your "old" phone ceases to fulfill your actual/real needs! I hope this is now clear enough.

If this warning is NOT valuable, then I'm clearly on the wrong site here.

> You said my 'phone is useless now' which is completely incorrect.

Of course it is useless as a mobile phone. It's supposed to be a mobile phone (for travel etc.). So, if I have to keep it plugged in just to do calls, WiFi and bluetooth, then it's called a landline phone and I have to buy a new mobile phone.

> I wouldn't expect it to have perfect battery life in a BETA...

Why do you keep talking about "beta". As I've said in the downvoted posts already (twice): It was a NORMAL UPGRADE downloaded because iTunes kept bugging me with it. NO BETA HERE.
>> Most of my friends had access since they were 10 or 11. We turned out fine.

Much akin to "when we were kids we rode in the front seat without seat belts on, we turned out fine", and several other versions of that phrase.

I don't think it's a valid argument at all.
> Objects respond to messages from "god" at arbitrary times in an untestable way

That's definitely a downside of an events-driven model, but I sometimes/oftentimes find it difficult and unmaintainable to squeeze in delegate callbacks (in objective-c) in code, where a notification (event) would work great. Sometimes, when I would have to implement a cascading callback of 2 or 3 delegates, I choose notifications for the clearness it gives to the code.

I don't know about Backbone (never tried it, maybe I should), but if the events are clearly contained in each controller, and the observer properly removed when the controller is deallocated, it's not a big problem (here I'm referring to a language like objective-c).