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Interesting catch, Paul. If you look at the plan itself (E*Trade Commission-Free ETFs) there aren't a lot of fixed income options available in the list and all of them seem to be international. So, the first point here is that it's tough to get a truly low-risk, low correlation instrument within this list.

The chinese yuan is an edge case (ie. we don't classify it well because it's currently outside the granularity of our framework - that will change), but if you think about it, probably not a bad choice. The yuan is pegged to the U.S. dollar and has a return (unlike US money market).

So simply, yuan is being used as a U.S. fixed income proxy in this case. The benchmark for the conservative models is about 40% bonds, 60% stocks.

Tell you what you can do - subscribe to the model and add a U.S. treasury ETF (eg. TLT) to the list...then re-run the models. My hunch is you'll find it heavily weighted in the models.
Files > ~8 MB won't be served. git clone the repo for those...
I don't see that happening, unless Sony and Microsoft follow suit with similar controllers, or this one is somehow made compatible with those systems.
When it comes to market share, those systems are still top. AAA developers especially will be making games geared towards them - they won't shift the way they make a game for one new entry. They will still make it standard: console-style for the thumbstick, and PC port for keyboard+mouse.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he invented snail-mail

Dude was proverbially "leet as fuck" back in that day.
> I'm not sure mid-90's Linux is still more usable than HURD

Mid-90s Linux was more usable on then-current hardware than the Hurd is on now-current hardware, though I suspect that mid-90s Linux would be less usable now (on current hardware) than the Hurd.
... touchee.

I hadn't thought of that at all. Including two scrollwheels would be doubly expensive and thus kinda wasteful, and including only one means giving a south-pawed middle finger to the sinister folk.
This thread and the companion thread about justfab.com have just been flagged straight from the homepage. Too bad, this sort of thing is well worth discussing. Being successful should not translate into 'get money from the customer at any cost'.
You're correct. I guess this is why I speculate that the new trackpads uncomfortable with action/platforming games, since in those games, you move your character and dictate their speed (velocity plus direction), not pointing their position.

We'll see of course, and since the controller will be "hackable" I think there will be many way to use the controller for many types of games.

Edit for spelling
> Even the older titles in the catalog and the ones which were not built with controller support. (We’ve fooled those older games into thinking they’re being played with a keyboard and mouse, but we’ve designed a gamepad that’s nothing like either one of those devices.
Then there are also automated scripts for server monitoring with html real time displays http://www.myinstantwebsite.com/servermon/
I misphrased. It's a side benefit, but a really really welcome one when compiling Scala.
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i'm rooting for this thing so hard. i have hundreds of games sans controller support that i never play because i run big picture mode in the living room with an xbox controller for the few games that do have controller support.
"RMS annexed it as the GNU "kernel" trying to get everyone to call it GNU/Linux for a while."

This is not how I remember it. RMS has not, to my knowledge, ever pushed for the Linux kernel to be called GNU/Linux, but for systems running a combination of GNU software and the Linux kernel to be called GNU/Linux.
BitTorrent Please!
Why does it cost so much? They grabbed our data for free and they have enough free Bandwidth. Let's assume they are greedy, then they could at least offer it through BitTorrent. DVD's for that amount of data is ridiculous. I don't even have a DVD-Reader…

Can't afford buying all that + shipping to Europe, but would like to play with the Data for my NLP Project.
Which is kind of disappointing. I mean, you can obviously bind some keyboard keys to work as a scrollwheel if you have only a 2-button mouse, but it's not the same is it?
What's up with their website? Press links don't work, their add to cart adds 2 and then pre-sets 3 different mailing addresses to what I assume is real people at real addresses... is this a legit thing? Cause I want some.
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? > mouse.

Do you really think that the mouse which was invented in the 60s (mother of all demos) is the pinnacle of technology regarding input? It is for now (I do agree with your premise for my own personal reasons) but such a bold expression seems a little, how should I put this, small minded.

I feel this is an interesting direction to experiment on.
The important thing isn't the crossing, it's not needing to be accompanied by an icebreaker. The oil tanker SS Manhattan [1] made the trip in 1969, but unassisted crossing makes this economically competitive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Manhattan_(1962)
I have, and I strongly prefer the TrackPoint--by a whole order of magnitude. I never have to keep my fingers off home row.

I do use a tiling window manager and bindings like Vrome/Vimperator, so my use case is probably atypical. My mouse usage is limited to when I deem it absolutely necessary; I hate physical/mental context switching, and bringing my hand from keyboard to TrackPad/mouse/whatever is a huge context switch.
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That's a good call. If while speaking to someone, you told them they could skip the month, they would likely think that no action is needed. Then, the average user's attention is probably gone by the time they get to "Skip as many months as you'd like." At this point, they'd probably be satisfied, stop reading, and never get to the part about "If you do not take action..."

Also, wow. Looking at the progression from the old page to the new page, it becomes obvious that they're trying to hide the "VIP Membership" details.

1) The right-side column has become more narrow.

2) The right-side column becomes almost entirely devoid of color.

3) The right-side columns now uses grey instead of black.

4) The 4th item, originally headlined with "If You Do Not Make A Purchase Or Skip The Month By The 5th, You'll Be Charged $39.99 For A Member Credit On The 6th" in large, bold font is now moved to the end of the details on the 3rd point and changed match the same light, small-print font as those other details. As a side-note, this point is also the 2nd-to-last sentence in the right-side column; this could arguably make it worse since anyone skipping to the bottom would read "Each credit can be redeemed for 1 JustFab item, so use it to shop later!" and think that it doesn't sound bad.

5) The old page requires you to check a box to "accept the terms of the Just Fab VIP Membership Program."

On the old page, the only other stuff on the page appears to be the form. I'd wager that most people viewing the page would at least glance at the right-column's text, thinking that it's instructions. For that matter, moving the membership details to the order summary page from the payment & shipping page is in itself a way of playing it down.

Seeing the two pages side-by-side, I cannot imagine that many if not all of the points described above were specifically designed to lessen likeliness of the user actually reading the membership details.
It is not about living wages. The anguish is that a smaller share of the boom-profit reaches the bottom.

While a select few people become multi-millionaires, the rest cannot be expected to be happy about the effect of such wealth on everyone else. Even regular programmers are not becoming "rich" per se. Yes, we have high-paying jobs but we are essentially making someone else beyond-your-wildest-dreams rich.

PS: I agree this is a bad article though.
In their defense, while having 3 things to announce, they did "number" them "O", "[O ]" and "O+O", none of which look like a 3...
I think you're discounting the state of GNU in 1991 by quite a bit. It's probably true that the bulk of the "effort" was spend on the toolchain (because, well, toolchain), but almost all of the GNU userspace (bash, coreutils, make, flex/bison, etc...) was present and working at that time. It was routine on the proprietary Unix boxes I was working with for someone to have built all the GNU stuff and left it in /usr/gnu/bin for use. Frankly the userspace stuff was already better in many ways (c.f. all the feature/bloat flames, "cat has arguments", etc...) than the proprietary equivalents already.

When Linux arrived, it was booting to a working free userspace within months. The FSF had, from their perspective, the right plan. They certainly weren't just a compiler.
"This is too good to be true?"

Um... no... Not at all. Not in the least.

They are your classic fast fashion shoes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_fashion) fast fashion is cheap. Go into your local Forever 21 and look at the prices, especially the shoe prices. I can buy a whole wardrobe there for under $100.

These shoes aren't built to last. They are built fast and cheaply to capitalize on current trends.

I bought some boots last year for $30, and now they need replacing this year because they are starting to fall apart. I don't wear them every day, or even close to every day, and not during the summer. They were not built to last. I knew they weren't built to last.
Yeah but I don't like watching actual presentation videos, because then there is audio and they move at their own pace. I'd love to see more slides + detailed notes though.
Maybe you don't, however the comment was really more generally targeted given that we're discussing it here. However when you start renaming things, other things start to not make sense. For instance-

"It's important to note that ARM64 includes a full 32-bit compatibility mode that allows running normal 32-bit ARM code without any changes and without emulation."

If ARM64 == AArch64 (which is what you decided), then no, this doesn't make sense. ARMv8 includes both AArch64 and optionally AArch32, the former running A64, the latter running traditional ARM. There are ARMv8 designs that actually can't run any traditional 32-bit code.
So what you're saying is, Imgur needs to partner with a clothing and accessories company and REALLY make some money.
Not necessarily: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen#Northwest_Passag...
There are some very good, very expensive machines for this.

Open-source wise, there's Tsung:
http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/
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Slightly more than 100,000 people in 3,867,271 km^2 of the 3 northern territories. (Just under half of Canada by area, bigger than India) It's going to be very hard to assert sovereignty when it's such a large area to monitor with so few people. For example a German weather station build in Labrador in 1943 wasn't found until the 1980s. Who knows what other countries are already doing in Canada's north.
Checked that. One of the reasons is slow server response and I'm not sure if it's because of the applications or the server network speed. Server hosting company seems to think its the application
First born.
Canada does not have the resources to defend against any scenario. That does not mean that it should be walked over like this either.
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They're in a better position to try it. If Sony released an unpopular controller with their new console it could cost them billions in console sales.

If this doesn't work, valve can forget about it and move on HL3.
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This smells bad, because it seems so similar to something from 80s cyberpunk. A drug that comes from Russia, made from mostly easy-to-obtain precursors (except maybe the cocaine), has more kick than heroin, and it rots junkies from within. It's a perfect cyberpunk throwaway drug! Anyone remember "greenies" from Richard Kadrey's "Metrophage" (http://www.amazon.com/Metrophage-Ace-Science-Fiction-Special...)?

I expect that mainstream media will try to whip up a moral panic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic) over "krokodil", complete with horrifying billboards of "krok" addicts rotting all over each other, and admonitions to never smoke "krok", not even once! and other warnings about backing away from the "krok" pipe. This meth thing has gone on long enough for almost everyone to determine that it's not as bad as the Moral Panicers protrayed, and that having to sign for sudafed is a ginormous nuisance. FDA and DEA and BATF gotta come up with another boogie man to get even more funding. Heck, even "terrorism" is drying up as a magic word to get more funds.
The following two headers are also useful:

add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000;
add_header X-Frame-Options DENY;

The first one tells browsers it should never try to visit the http version of this site, even if the user clicks on a http link the browser will visit the https version. This helps prevent ssl stripping attacks.

The second prevents browsers from including this site in an iframe or frame, which helps prevent clickjacking attacks. If your site depends on those you can also set the option to SAMEORIGIN.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/X-Frame-Option...
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Security/HTTP_Stric...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSL_stripping#SSL_stripping
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It depends more on intent than percentages. If you set out to mislead and only a few people fall for it, then it is still a scam, albeit not a very effective one.

On the other hand, if your intentions are honest, but a ton of people are confused, then it is not a scam. It is just poor execution. Of course, if you become aware of this but do nothing to address it, then your intent becomes questionable.
"Including two on the back"

Holy crap wait what? Not highlighted in any of the diagrams but visible in the teardown graphic, there's an extra pair of buttons on the back in ring-finger position too. They said 16 buttons, so it's two front touchpad/buttons, 1 front screen/button, 3 nav-buttons (the bars along the bottom) 4 face-buttons (a/b/x/y) 4 shoulder-buttons and 2 hidden back-side buttons.
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So I'm not new to Hacker News. I check the site everyday, however I've never bothered to actually post or submit content.

So I'm wondering, how does one get their post to hit the front page, and actually get some decent traffic?

If it does hit the front page, how much traffic can one expect to get from HN?

Does it require simply submitting great content alone, or do you have to be social and know a lot of startup people on here to get your stuff upvoted?

Thanks
With AFNetworking 2.0, you'll use AFHTTPRequestOperationManager in iOS 6 and AFHTTPSessionManager in iOS 7 rather than AFHTTPClient.
TL;DR can we get something like a controlled sample and a regression analysis, please? You know, something besides "some of the most successful companies ... are also some of the youngest", "for every Zuckerberg there are dozens of..."
I've heard this before in the context of why .NET tends to have less alternate language implementations on it than the JVM. I don't understand why though. Why do reified generics make it near impossible?
I've always been confused by this argument. I can reach my trackpad with my right thumb without moving any of my other fingers off of the home row. Is this an unusual amount of flexibility?
I think you would have to check converted code for all the well documented interop issues: annotations, static members, checked exceptions etc. The Manning books "In Depth" and "In Action" cover these really well,
How do you scroll? Do use scroll bars?
WebRTC is to messaging/socket communication APIs as WebGL is to 3D graphics APIs? So big game changer is that web browsers will implement functionality that native applications have had for decades? I don't understand this obsession of running everything inside a web browser with HTML and JavaScript and then declaring it as some kind of revolutionary step forward. What we want to do as developers is make it easy and secure to run applications on end-user desktops. Web browsers are the dominant delivery platform right now (for consumer applications anyway) but that does not mean that it will always be this way or that it is the optimal solution. There are a lot of W3C standards ... are they all really so great? Does anyone remember VRML?
It seems like it would be hard to play fighting games where you have to hit combinations of buttons quickly.
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"Too many twentysomething founders look for employees just like themselves. “So you discriminate against anyone who is in their 30s or 40s or has a family,” says Mickiewicz. “But the most talented and experienced people will be in their 30s and 40s."

It's always a relief to see an article like this not just calling out age bias, but putting it at the top. There are other good points in the article too, but it's important to note that Bay Area tech culture skews heavily towards white dudes in their 20s. There are plenty of people pushing back against the "white dudes" part, but we could use a little more pushing back against the "in their 20s." Especially since someone who's 35 today was born in 1978 and was turning 12 in 1990, right around the elbow of the explosive growth curve of home-available computing. You could have maybe made an argument that someone who was 35 in 1995, born in 1960, was a bit late to the game to profoundly grok the web then (I think that argument's wrong, but you could make it without being laughed out of the room). But in 2013, a 35-year-old engineer is someone you want to look for because that's probably going to be someone with perspective and a mature skill set. There are plenty of smart 20-year-olds out there, yet there is no substitute good for experience.
I do like the idea of strategically selling volatility in a portfolio. I've been toying with the idea of adding some of these orthogonal (or nearly so) parameters in the Kivalia framework...as it would be cool to see how a portfolio is positioned with regards to things like vol, momentum, etc.

I'm sure we'll come back to this, but we'll want some stable ETFs to use as factors. Russell had a slew of interesting ETFs but closed them down due to lack of interest.
I used an Apple one (one of the large ones) on a 2010 MBP. It was error prone and made my fingers numb after a while. Not only that, the full pad depression to click is awkward and configuring sensitivity for tap to click was never just right.

Possibly a shocking statement here but I went from a top end 2010 MBP to a 2009 T400 running windows 7 and am much happier as a whole, even though I have my head in UNIX machines a lot.
Eat that SONY!

This is how you really make a Game Controller.
>> The nice thing about Crowdfunding is that, like traditional trading, motivations vary.

Most certainly they do but I'm guessing that a large chunk of the crowd will be going into this thinking it's a surefire way to make money.
You can get a lot of mileage out of Apache Bench[1].

[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html
It'll be much like the past.
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I was assuming the opposite. Keyboard and Mouse is usually regarded as superior to joysticks for FPS so I assumed they were trying to bridge the gap and come up with something more mouse-like?
Hold the middle button and use the nipple. It scrolls like a mousewheel.
I can't wait for it.
Oddly enough, it seems like valve used the earlier patent as flak.

I just hope the Linux drivers are open source, if they're not piggybacking off bluetooth or something.
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On thinkpads you can press the middle mouse button (below the spacebar) then press the trackpoint up or down.

I have always usually done this, but also remapped the trackpad to be entirely a "scrollpad"
See, even if I had that, I wouldn't be working more than 40 hours per week. I have a wife and kid, and I value my home life greatly. I wouldn't put in a 50+ hour work week because that takes away time from the rest of my life. I would make sure I get everything that needs to be done in those 40 hours. If you have good estimates then there should be no need to work more than 40 hours a week. If you are making estimates based on more than 40 hours a week, then you're doing it wrong.
Right, this report is based on input from groups like Greenpeace and the WWF. What is the point of posting this leftist troll bait?
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No, but it was only a few weeks ago.

It could make sense - even CRUD needs to scale at some point.
I can't wait to get waffles with some generous donor...
Yep. Those kind of games were designed to map very closely to the physical nature of gamepads so they will be harder to use the further you diverge from a typical Playstation style controller.
They already have a store, but I don't see them trying to sell anything based on user uploaded content although it seems to be within their rights if they wanted to.

http://store.imgur.com/
Not my experience at all. Apple trackpads tire my fingertips, they become sore after extended usage.
damn this is a good idea. i hope i win the #waffle prize. or maybe get to eat some other #pastry with #you.
Wait, wasn't this submitted yesterday? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6451899

And before that, which was deleted so it could be resubmitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6451740

(curiously, all three links have the same initial commenters)
Wow, this editorial exactly parallels my concern. Basically people chasing outsized returns getting fleeced by the bottom of the barrel type pump-n-dump types.

Here is my thesis, there exists a significant number of people who attempt to exploit people's desire four outsized returns using illegal "pump and dump" schemes where they pump up the value of a penny stock and them dump their shares to the unwitting victims. This is illegal and they get hunted down and sometimes caught. Now we'll have a "perfectly legal"[1] way for these same folks to create the illusion of an outsized opportunity. And that will create dark versions of wefunder type companies which are focused not on enabling the next generation of entrepreneurs but instead in fleecing the next generation of technology "investors".

[1] "Perfectly Legal" - code for a way to take money from someone where they cannot get it back, and yet had they known all of the facts would never have handed it over in the first place.
In their defense the 360's controller is considered an amazing controller already, so I understand them only making incremental improvements.
Also, good for you that you've decided to actually run a scalability test. Most people don't ;-)
Both Android and iPhone expose an accelerometer API even to web pages without user input, although I'm not sure what the sample rate is.
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If it were me doing it, I would use the trackpad and the trackpad buttons. (I'm not sure, but I believe each trackpad is "pressable" and has multiple buttons, replicating a d-pad)

I would tap and drag for little and precise movements, swipe for fast movements, and press the button for default movement. With some training, it can become pretty natural.
Let me second the request for a video pass. I would love instant access to some of the talks. I would actually love to attend a StrangeLoop but so far that hasn't been in the cards.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
Nothing to defend; I think it's hilarious. Although I do think it would make sense to announce HL3 for the Steam Machine on launch day.