skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you? They're as available as DVDs at most big-box, media, and electronics retailers in urban and suburban locations across the midwestern US, at least. Wal-Mart, sure, but also Target, Best Buy, Barnes and Noble, Fry's, most independent stores that sell, resell, or rent movies, and Red Box rental kiosks. They're also available from chain drug stores like Walgreens and CVS. Smaller and rural locations tend to have smaller selections, but that's true of most any product type.

Honestly, the only retailers that come immediately to mind selling DVD but not Blu-ray are gas stations and truck stops.
>The lesson, applicable to games, startups, governance, and indeed systems engineering in general, is that systems react.

A great humorous look at how systems react is: http://www.amazon.com/The-Systems-Bible-Beginners-Guide/dp/0...

I found it very insightful, and very relevant to software engineering, too.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but the argument of "people are using it and the government keeps paying for them" is hardly convincing.
I think you overestimate our ability to prevent him from running another scam. As the old wisdom goes, there's a sucker born every minute
Verizon reportedly won't activate Google's Nexus 7 on its network
If people's reactions to iOS7, and the keynote, are anything to go by, you could possibly argue that their pursuit of 'shininess' has overtaken their pursuit of innovation and novelty, which now makes it look like they're playing catchup with other companies. I'm not saying that this is the case, but it seems to be an increasingly pervasive and snowballing attitude.

The comments in the iOS6 vs iOS7 thread are almost all variations of "now it looks like Android/WP8". That's not a good perception for Apple, even if it's not a fair perception for people to have.
While this subject is full of interesting sub-topics to investigate for real-world use, Parallel Computing is a field much wider than just a DMM. Look at systems designed more than 10 years ago for better ideas about alternative computing models (all the good papers were written by the end of the 20th century). For example, if your "big data" is just computationally-intensive normal data, you might want to look into PVM/MPI or SSI. It's not as sexy, though, because you don't use it in JavaScript.
what exactly is meant...

It means, not much. More akin to the ivestor has thought about it before. In this case, 'thesis. As in 'Hypothesis', but abbreviated. Not like a shorter version of a dissertation. The investment is "hypothesis testing", by creating a data set, to see if it should be rejeceted. etc
Same as StavrosK -- HP Micro Server. The 16TB box is an N40L. I bought it awhile ago, but haven't needed extra storage until recently.

I also have an N36L running FreeNAS/ZFS on 4x2TB disks which I've used for about 1.5 years. It finally filled up (SO has data intensive profession) so I was forced to pony up. It's still being used every day and has no signs of failing.

They're both great home servers. I sometimes wish they had more CPU, but for the money, HP is basically giving them away.
Everyone in the community reads these essays. I would hazard that pg's goal in them is to coach both startups AND investors in how to behave toward each other. In this case, such bold language is him saying, "don't be this guy".
I was confused about this as well. Check p.5 of the linked paper, it's got the actual algorithm in pseudocode, explains it a lot clearer.
We could allow him to live the rest of his life out in relative comfort

I agree that proactively making his life miserable is silly, but the question becomes "how much comfort do we provide". Different people have different ideas of how much they are willing to pay to fund this man's life in "relative comfort", and of course only naturally their desire to channel their dollars towards his comfort is lower than it probably would be for an individual who is not a convicted criminal...
It makes knowingly false claimers liable. Massive systematic negligence has zero punishment.
Ummm .. but port 80 & 443 are still open, so if someone downloads child porn then you'll get an early morning visit (and a lot more) from the police.

What would be great would be if you could restrict the websites people could go to. I would gladly offer people in internet-oppressed countries access to bbc.co.uk (only).
There is http://code.google.com/p/zfs-win/ ,but it is not really useful.
Years ago I watched MIT's course 6.033. It is a great way to understand the first principles at hand in distributed / non-trivial programs:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... (also on iTunesU).

If you're just getting started with this stuff, having a solid understanding of these principles is critical. I can't recommend these videos enough.
You're right, they can piggyback off everybody else's exit node.
I don't see the need to treat water different from earlier placed markers.

Here's how I would hack this: whenever you place an icon, draw a slighty larger circular 'lake' on top of that hidden canvas. That added lake prevents you from placing another icon in the neighborhood of that icon.
But are these things "open" in the first place to be forkable?
You don't need to run it from your home to get a 5am visit from the local SWAT team.
I'm with you on this one.

You're hoping that somebody
1) has a static website
2) wants to change hosting
3) doesn't have access to the source
4) just happens to call you

That's not a very solid customer.
That's what probationary periods are for, if you can't evaluate a person in 6 or so months of actual work you are probably doing something drastically wrong.
The New Turbo Button
Awesome. I really like the design and simplicity. From the example on http://apiary.io/how-it-works how are language bindings generated? How do you know the schema of a message?

I've actually been working on something similar, but more focused on library generation and like a "npm for APIs", e.g. reusable schemas. Instead of markdown I'm using something more akin to Google's Discovery Document (https://developers.google.com/discovery/v1/reference/apis#re...).
Is Apple not doing the same (I believe they started last year)?
Dealing with the Startup Emotional Roller Coaster
Chinese University scientists build tiny robot to battle human diseases
You might want to check the settings on your Blu-ray playback system, because the Godfather Blu-ray is one of the more "filmic" transfers I've seen, preserving the grain of the film print rather than attempting to "clean it up" with digital noise reduction, and it should play back at the original 24fps frame rate on any system that supports it.
Did China's ban on time travel make Looper a bigger hit there?
Yuck - looks too much like Windows 8 to me :(
Well, to be detailed, both the first kernel and the first compiler was probably entered from a stack of punchcards or punch tape made with mechanical "typewriters"; punching a program from console is rather unwieldy and generally you should do that only for the bootloader that loads the rest of the (manually compiled) code from some electromechanical device.
Looks much better. iOS used to look like Mac OS from the mid 90's, now it looks like it belongs in this decade. It does look more Android and WP8 ish, but I consider that a good thing.
ZFS on Linux large scale deployments: 55 Petabytes at LLNL

http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewAhrens/open-zfs-linuxcon

See slide 3; last slide has a little more detail.

ZFS on illumos: Nexenta claims 1.5 Exabytes under management (across multiple deployments)

http://billroth.ulitzer.com/node/2461630
Getting into a Ponzi scheme late is okay, so long as you still get out early (before it becomes apparent that it is a Ponzi scheme).
If you liked D2 You should try Path of Exile. It retains a lot of the great things from D2 while bringing some unique twists of its own, like "currency items" rather then a gold based economy and gigantic passive skill trees.
It'll give the police and the prosecutors a good laugh.
Good luck... Love the design.

I can't help but wonder... a person experienced enough to design a REST API wouldn't need or want to rely on said service just to mock it up. I don't see a market for Apiary.

At least in the node.js community, there are lots of tools and projects for mocking REST APIs. Why should I spend the time to sign-up and pay for Apiary, when I could already mock an API in that time instead?

> TCP dumps, Wireshark, installing local HTTP proxies… Not fun.

Developers should be able to debug the freakin' API they are supposed to be building! If someone needs Wireshark or HTTP proxies to debug their code, they are doing it very wrong.
You could make the same argument for sports- most children who interact in sports will not do so professionally. There are physical/mental benefits to sports which at the end of the day 'doesn't matter'.

I feel that the purpose of making your child learn X at a young age is to simply expose your child the possibilities of life. There are so many overlapping ideas or life skills between different disciplines that any experience is good experience. Of course, like the answer to many things in life, moderation is the key.
A problem with that solution is that the loot system was so garbage that you could likely go through multiple playthroughs without finding a single decent item for your character. At least when I played, most uniques were completely inferior to highly rolled magic items from the end game.

It was basically at the point where your only real choice end game was to grind gold to buy items, it wasn't even worth it to try to search for items.
Hi, there are some 3rd party works in progress and we will promote them. We are leaving this to community though, as respective languages/frameworks are best supported by people that use them.

And as said -- Apiary is more about design than documentation and writing blueprint should take place before writing code. A lot of things is lost when it's the other way around.
Exactly, especially if your job has you sitting in front of a computer for most of the day.

Getting rid of my TV, unsubscribing from mailing lists and limiting the time I spend on reddit/facebook/hn/etc to 10 minutes a day was one of the best decisions I've made in a while.
You might want to draft a bylaw the codify the no one living there permanently part. Any plans to post your LLC operating agreement + bylaws publicly and/or in source control?
Reducing contrast is really a problem in my opinion for users. I totally agree with you.

SeatGeek is elegant (I like the visual), but as with most flat designs, affordance is a problem. I believe that the word Filter on the right side of Great Deals might be clickable/tappable text (based on my previous flat design button hunts and the previous iOS7 image with a gear). The problem is, I don't know for sure without actually trying it.

When I have to go beyond skimming to discover basic functionality, the user experience is broken in my opinion and cognitive load increases.
I'm not stumped, your point was simply not clear.

Your subjective experience is unique to yourself.

Correct.

Your Self (your personal subjective experience -- which is denied by the scientific materialists)

I dispute that claim, science does not deny subjective experience nor does materialism; you've simply misunderstood them.

So the problem is is that this subjective experience has no real evidence of its existence

False.

so it doesn't exist right? Just like fairies don't exist, right? And THAT is the absolutistic mindset of the scientific materialist.

You're confused, materialists don't deny subjective experience, they deny subjective reality and they are correct in doing so. There is an objective reality, and there is your brain's limited interpretations of that reality that create your own personal subjective experience of that reality.

Your subjective experience is not a thing (i.e. physical) that can exist or not, it's simply your limited interpretation of reality. Your subjective experience, in the real world, is just patterns of electrical signals in your brain, that's what actually exist. Your subjective experiences exist much as a thought exists, as electrical patterns in your brain.
Fuck Blizzard. I will never forgive them for the cashgrab they called D3 I don't care how they change it.
Anecdote; as a teenager, my brother started to stray. He was caught by the law. The consequences were light, but (speaking as a bystander) I think the fear of the experience itself- being arrested, booked, and charged- served as a form of punishment, and as best I have been able to tell pretty much straightened him back out.

Of course, he is a fundamentally gentle soul; this anecdote doesn't apply to the hardened criminals.
Thank you for this bringing this up. It was the first thing I thought about when reading the article. I also recommend the book.
I can't get this to open. I will note there is a known correlation between teaching classical music and math ability. Also, not everything worthwhile in life is about a paycheck.
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I actually agree and find them very unappealing. They seem too dense and the text either too light, too small, or both.
No matter how obscure and Hollywood-like this "gang" sounds, I am long glad the reporting about anything with the term "hacking" stopped including seemlingly obligatory references to Anonymous; the obscure Hollywood-like hacking gang having ties with everything involving hacking and security breaches. In a previous situation, surely Hidden Lynx had ties with Anonymous!

Good to see we are done with that fad, at least.
And your point is ...?

Please bear in mind that 1) that number is the highest marginal tax bracket, only paid by those with the most income, and 2) it's actually 57% not the rounded up value of 60%.

For comparison, the marginal tax rate for the highest tax bracket in the US was above 60% during 1932-1986, with a peak was 91% in 1946-1964.

Of course you're mostly just sniping numbers, since that article you quoted also says Swedes say they are "very happy to pay high taxes because I know I am getting value for the money later on."

In the US we pay for things directly which are, in Sweden, paid indirectly through taxes.

Do you really care if you pay 5% less in taxes only to have to pay 10% of your income per year in health care?
Having just come from NYC and seen some of the street hardened types there, I can just imagine.
For any practical purposes, it is best to simply use the full complex software stack on another computer to generate binary code meant for that new architecture.

If we'd really need to bootstrap a compiler from scratch, then a possibility would be to hand-code a Forth system, and then find/modify/make an assembler written in forth; then write a compiler for some small language (scheme?) in that assembler, and then from scheme you can easily get to some C compiler that can compile the full GCC.
Bernie is an interesting example for a number of reasons.

The likelihood of being caught is probably a bigger factor in deterrence than the severity of the punishment itself. White collar criminals probably get away with a lot of small crimes (I am guessing).

Madoff is a very extreme example because he was doomed to eventually be caught. But we can look at it the other direction and consider how many hundreds(?!?) of small and large crimes did he get away with before it all collapsed on him?
First off, the Fed is a creature of Congress. Congress issues spending orders, the Treasury creates bonds and sells them to the primary dealers (who are contractually obligated to buy them), and the Fed will make liquidity available to those primary dealers if necessary. The practice of issuing bonds equal to the difference between taxes and spending is a self-imposed constraint, and is really a hold-over from the convertible currency era.

>What is the problem with a toy model in extreme to illustrate the absurdity of your position?

It's not illustrative of anything, other than a contrived absurd example.

If there was capacity to absorb 100 trillion in massages (equally absurd), then prices would remain stable.

Think of it like this: we hit a recession, orders drop and companies lay off workers and produce less output. From one day to the next the capacity for a certain level of output remains the same, but on the second day less is produced.
If only there was something like maps.google.com for OSM. Yes, there's openstreetmap.org but that doesn't have directions or location sharing. Also, if people started using it like maps.google.com, I'm sure the OSM project wouldn't be too happy, seeing as how tile serving on such a scale gets expensive fast.
Sure.

http://opensourceecology.org/
http://www.cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/cd3wd/index.htm
http://theurbanfarmingguys.com/our-story
http://urbanrootsamerica.com/urbanrootsamerica.com/Home.html
http://arkfab.org/
Believe it or not, i've been living for quite some time in Russia and you hear Russians saying exactly what you say, all the time. I think that all the last century "big-players" have this "we are different, we are better" syndrome.

Just let me say, Sweden is a really GOOD place where to live- No need to troll around.
The point is move makes things that look like values as annoying as pointers. You have to keep track.
Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms by Tannenbaum is a classic textbook. It's considered pretty dry though.

I recommend strongly MIT's Distributed Systems course, both for the lectures and the labs. See
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824

As a bonus, the labs (in Go) give you invaluable hands-on knowledge.
A "business ask" is like a "business need", but not clearly a need. It's a way to differentiate (and possibly dismiss) them and avoid seeming dismissive.
I happen to agree with you re:dividends. I've been a big proponent of MSFT's dividend for years. But I'm not sure that increasing it (or share buybacks) right now is a good idea.

Microsoft is struggling to figure out their future direction in the new mobile-centric world. They've now released multiple products that are (IMO) flops. Throwing cash back to investors might be good for the short term, but its all for naught if the company is irrelevant in 10 years.
Another point is to never assume that getting a raise will solve your saving problem. It won't.
Worth till last cent considering the level of services you get, IMHO.
http://www.amtrak.com/journey-with-wi-fi-train-station
Sexting, Shame and Suicide
There are lots of things stopping me from doing that. Like ensuring I don't break everything I touch. Not everybody is a sysadmin.
http://mayoneez.1g.fi/hiddenlynx/

HiddenLynx is a relaxing chinese chess (Xiangqi) game designed to be played every now and then.
I don't buy the "wallowing in cash" argument.

In the last quarter, Google reported $54.4B in cash and short term investments and $14.1B in revenue, Apple reported $42.6B in cash and equivalents and $35.3B in revenue and Microsoft reported $76.7B in cash & equivalents and $19.8B in revenue.

Measured in terms of quarters of revenue held in cash & equivalents, Google and Microsoft are more or less tied at 3.8 quarters, and Apple is running relatively lean at 1.2 quarters.

Despite not paying dividends Google is, proportionate to revenue, not holding any more cash than Microsoft, and Apple is holding far less.
By default, Gatekeeper only requires signing with an Apple-issued developer certificate, not distribution through the App Store, and even then only affects applications downloaded from the Internet through a Web browser or other application that intentionally sets specific extended attributes on downloaded files. Which, unless it wants to trigger these warnings, Steam would never do.

Unless I'm mistaken, (non-ARM) Windows works the same way, except Microsoft relies on third-party CAs to issue code-signing certificates (and, pedantically, NTFS calls extended attributes "alternative data streams").
Yeah, but it's probably expensive. The pricing isn't even public:
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/purchase/quote.htm
Scientific materialism doesn't deny the existence of subjective experience.

Rather, it is a system of deciding the weight to give different components of the subjective experience in terms of constructing belief systems.
> Your developers suck if they can't debug the freakin' API they are supposed to be building. You're doing it very very wrong if you need wireshark or HTTP proxies to debug your code.

And what if I am using a library to connect to a 3rd party service (i.e. github) and I'd like to debug my API calls?
Hey Paul, I found another small typo:

"but if we raise a few hundred thousand we can hire a one or two smart friends"

Should be:

"but if we raise a few hundred thousand we can hire one or two smart friends"

Thanks again for the article, very useful.
>> it powers all Blizzard games

I could see that forcing a proper test cycle to take longer than implementing a change.
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I agree with this. I also believe removing the AH doesn't solve the problems with D3. It's D3's item/stat/skill systems that lead to the issues with the AH. Everyone was desiring the same items (using their class's 1 OP build).

In lieu of no Auction House the game will definitely need named-games or some sort of trading post where people bid on items with their own items. I hope they understand that Diablo was always about trading too, not BoA like WoW. We will see I guess! Good luck Blizz :)
Thanks for this post! Really enjoyed it - as I am in my first few months of entrepreneurship :)

Always nice to hear 'human' perspectives on the lifestyle.
Just crunching some numbers here, and these are rough estimates, presented without comment:

- Norway: 4,000 prisoners / 5M population (0.08% incarceration)

- United Kingdom: 84,000 prisoners / 63M pop. (0.13%)

- United States: 2,270,000 prisoners / 317M pop. (0.72%)

The US prison population rises to about 7M when you include everyone "under correctional supervision" (e.g., in probation, on parole, in jail, etc.), increasing to a >2% figure. But I don't have apples-to-apples figures for the UK and Norway in this regard.
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I suspect the growth through the 2000s was more related to the internet causing easy dissemination of information, but it is interesting to see the large spike around 2007/8 and then a steady decline in sightings reported since.
I found a weird trend: If I looked at the before first, and then scanned back and forth, I preferred before.

If I looked at the after first, before scanning back and forth, I preferred the after.

Not sure if this is a known cognitive quirk, or even if others would have the same impression.
A bit of self-promotion here. If you're into games, and like hearing two guys rant about them, you should check out my gaming podcast: www.chips-and-bits.com and tell me how terrible it is. Feedback welcome, of course.

Hi, Jack.
The onus is not on me to make this project's documentation presentable: it is on the author. My language skills are immaterial! The author's language skills do not excuse lazy presentation, they only help explain it.
Actually, Fancy's design is basically the same as before. They just have a slightly translucent header and the system icons have a dark grey background instead of the standard flat black.
Do you have any sources which confirm that Blizzard built the game around AH monetization? I see this claim made frequently, but I've never actually seen anything that wasn't pure speculation.
You could say the same thing about google's backend (batch processing and copying data), but it seems to be working for them as well.