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I don't think capitalists are a separate category in and of themselves - they invariably belong in one camp or the other.

Elon Musk is a scientist. Andy Warhol is an artist. Both are known for savvy and shrewd capitalistic exploitation of their talents.

A capitalist who is neither scientist nor artist is not much of a capitalist at all, for he/she has nothing upon which to capitalize. All business, at the end of the day, is the exploitation of an art or a science to fulfill a need.
I captured my most targeted visitors when they happened to stumble across my site. If it wasn't for the email newsletter, they would have forgotten about my site. People need reminders.

You still need to market your site, an email newsletter simply let's you capture the audience better.
Why does everyone keep saying this?

There is no guarantee they will be paid! If they will, it will have to be specifically specified in the new budget. Why does everyone act like it is a given?

How about a "probably" instead?
> I tried putting in 1/3 but looks like the lowest number it can handle is 1.

It also fails to handle the case where your parents don't live together and therefore you see them at different intervals, or are already dead. But obviously this is a throwaway thing and doesn't really merit overthinking.
Wow! When I started working with Scala, I realized that its actor model was sort of like Erlang, but missing stuff like the supervisor tree which is rather useful. So I looked around, and discovered Akka. Shortly afterwards, Typesafe was formed by merging the groups creating Scala and creating Akka. Then, my company was moving towards a services oriented architecture that used the HTTP api as its core for accessing services. I felt that this was inefficient, especially because you couldn`t do any message queuing or event related stuff without layering it over the top of HTPP`s RPC calls. That seemed counterintutive because fire and forget messaging is a more fundamental construct than RPC. Then I discovered Spray which had already done a lot of the groundwork needed to have an HTTP composition technique for services, plus it even had a more efficient HTTP server to use when you needed to allow for HTTP RPC. And now, Typesafe has joined with Spray.

This is making Scala look more and more like THE Java successor. Clojure is still a strong contender, but the Typesafe activities have really pushed Groovy out of the ring, as well as things like JRuby and Jython. I doubt that Java will ever go away, but I can see that Scala and/or Clojure will eventually supercede Java as the main development language for the JVM.

And this is important because the JVM is showing signs of moving into the dominant position in the new world of massive multicore. It may never muscle out things like Erlang/Elixir or Python, but it will probably be the core dominant platform of this century.
This is a really good thing.

There are going to be people who, for whatever reason, are going to be on XP for loooong time. It's better for everyone that they have access to a modern, evolving browser.
This is a facinating interactive tool to navigate through the transaction history of the blockchain
For those that are not familiar, the Saturn V was equipped with 5 (yes, you read that right)... five F-1 rocket engines. Each engine produced an absolutely staggering 1,500,000 pounds of thrust; that's a total of 7,500,000 pounds of thrust!

Can you imagine being tucked into the small, cramped Command Module, sitting on top of this power at lift-off?

The whole thing, the technology, the sound, the people coming together to make it happen... it's soul-stirring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-cv_JJOxGI
I did not expect to have my spirit crushed on HN this morning. Need to call my parents.
That is not a correct assumption. Most DB vendors only provide JDBC drivers. There are some async drivers, but there is no standard for them and availability and quality varies substantially. This problem is repeated for other network libraries - if they weren't written specific for NIO then you have to KNOW that and you have to be sure you run that Actor in it's own thread. Its a leaky abstraction.
Great hackathon project :) This is the kind of thing tech can easily do that is much better than social mobile video for dogs.
Kathryn Bertine wrote a book and a series of articles for ESPN in which she tried to do something very similar. After trying several sports, she settled on cycling and gained citizenship of St. Kitts and Nevis.

More about her story at:
http://espn.go.com/espnw/blogs/training/article/6177784/kath...
No, I bailed out when I got to the third question. I appreciate the intention behind this though.
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The guy who drew him (Joe Palrang) called him 'Fang' and most of the rest of the folks in the Java group did as well. When we went public with Java Sun PR didn't like the name we'd given him so they picked Duke. I think Wayne Rosing suggested that name but my memory of that is quite fuzzy.
Thats a relatively close minded approach that may destroy America.

Question: did your Representative contribute to the blocking of the bills? Is it really your representative's fault for the shutdown?

Some Senators, such as Senator McCain have gone against his party and tried to support the bipartisan effort to reopen the government. (Demonstrating that maybe McCain would have served as a decent President).

Research your senators, research your representatives. Learn their names, and what they did during the shutdown. DONT blindly elect them away. Actually do your research and make an informed choice.

Too many Americans don't understand politics. No wonder we have so many idiots in Congress.
Utter nonsense, a more plausible and realistic explanation would be Presidential candidates say anything to get themselves into power, and then it becomes abundantly clear that the President is little else than a figurehead.

The goals, perspective, opinion, etc of the President are irrelevant -- they are (and always will be) a puppet.
because world depends from US and back.

Lets open kickstarter or something else.
If you find yourself not able to fall asleep until later than you'd like, I recommend trying the warmer flux setting. I've been using RedScreen + a little script I wrote instead of flux because it gets far redder, and for me works far better.

It looks like flux still only goes down to 2200 on Mac, so I may continue using RedScreen.
That's a good point. Newer isn't always better, but sometimes it is.
What an ignorant thing to say. Public libraries do more than cater to homeless people and children.

They also employee the advanced degree educated professional librarians you are talking about too.
Angular Anmiation
Have they ever not been paid in similar situations?
I'd send a dollar but only if it went towards a swift kick in every single American's ass.
Hundreds Gather in NYC for Anti-NSA Guerilla Video Premier
Nearly three hundred people gathered around 9PM, stopping traffic and packing a street corner to watch a crowdfunded video on the NSA spying programs, projected high on the side of a building from a bike-mounted projector & sound system. Now the video's live and we can all watch it. One impression was just impossible to avoid: tons of people care about this issue, perhaps more than any issue we’ve ever worked on. If we can reach them all and build a movement, I have no doubt we can take apart the NSA’s mass spying operation piece by piece.
It is actually correct. Variance is standard deviation squared.
If version >= 5.10 you can drop the 'or die' and for that matter neither of the close statements are necessary(in any recent version).
Difficult as in you are looking for Erlangers but cannot find them? I haven't seen many postings looking for Erlang programmers.
I got 3 192.x.x.x addresses from Ramnode for one of my nodes. They can't be that rare.
Why "slightly" disrespectful? He has his mind set to do something, and is preparing for it. Where do you see the problem?
It is actually correct. Variance is measured in "squared dollars", so it's not very meaningful in terms of interpretation.
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What revenue is being raised? This is a hike of the debt limit, and allocation of funds for spending. No new taxes to speak of.
Quasar is distributed on top of our own IMDG called Galaxy. Our goal is not to give you scalability, but to give you scalability while keeping familiar and simple programming models. There is absolutely no reason not to use Netty with Quasar. In fact, we're doing exactly that in an internal project.
"Fewer people in the world" solves a lot of employment problems - we're a dime-a-dozen right now.
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So, we're the new Neanderthals?

While I'm somewhat convinced that human-equivalent or greater machine intelligence will likely happen within the next hundred years (or less), good luck convincing a majority of humans of that.
I'm depressed I have to see them that many more times....
Damn, my dad had a stroke on Saturday night. Thankfully he got very prompt and first class medical treatment (Thanks NHS. Socialised medicine FTW) so the damage is fortunately very limited. I'm actually on my way to the hospital to see him now.

This is a great reminder to pick up the phone and tell your folks or anyone that matters to you that you love them. Everyone reading this should do that now if they can. You never know when it will be too late and you don't want those regrets.
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I still don't understand why we don't use algorithms to fix gerrymandering.

https://code.google.com/p/redistricter/
It's pretty crappy (no autolocation, broken option processing, still barebones functionality). Doesn't seem actively developed, and definitely not trying to do better than redshift.
On the other hand, Parallels and VMWare frequently charge for their updates. I rarely find software that has such short license spans. I bought Fusion 5.0.3 in June and they already want to charge me for Fusion 6 (btw. the only version that officially supports Mavericks). Fusion 5 is now dead in the water.

This is okay for me on a single machine, but at scale of a development team, it gets expensive quick.
Fascinating! but I would add that not only DC motors use permanent magnets, but also many synchronous motors, including stepper motors.
Not only are they not fake, but you can have one today!

Callcentric is an "internet phone service", which has been around for at least 8+ years. They allow you to search for unused phone numbers [1] in various area codes [2]. I searched for unused 555 numbers in the following area codes (213, 310, 626, 818) all have some available! So, you could create an account, and for something like $3/month, forward this 555 number to your existing number [3].

[1] http://www.callcentric.com/did_lookup.php?type=check_by_us_n...

[2] http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html

[3] http://www.callcentric.com/dids/phone_number_sale
not showing price before signup -> no go
I thought the issue of back pay was already resolved (back pay was approved in congress): http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57606174/government-shut...
> There's a cost to automating any task: the time spent designing and testing the system.

Good point, but, once something's automated, it's automated (and cheaper) forever.
Whilst I agree entirely in the context of potential employers, I don't necessarily agree in the context of your current employer.

The entire topic of depression in tech is something that needs infinitely more publicity and support than it currently gets.

If you want to see an absolutely phenomenal talk on Developers & Depression then I couldn't recommend this highly enough: http://programme2013.scottishrubyconference.com/proposals/86...
It's because you are thinking logically.

Politics sadly has nothing to do with logic, it's a popularity contest.
Is this open source? Maybe someone should fork and change to something with a different thematic:

"Where do your in-laws live?"

"On average how many times do you see your in-laws a year?"

/jk
but I couldn't find a better example of a single mistake compromising an identity and thereby a network.

Silkroad? Seems like the perfect example to me.
This concept is something I cannot even fathom. My base salary has never been less than 95% of my total compensation. How common is this?
So the "original" move to native threads was motivated by the fact that Sun didn't want Java to be SunOS only (there were a number of SunOSism's in it when it was Oak). That the system threading system would improve independently of the language and have fewer edge cases were put forth as good reasons to do that.

Initially it was slower because context switches are slower, and anything that had to context switch into and out of the kernel was thus slower. Later there were other reasons. "User level" or as I prefer "Single Context" [1] threads have the ability to be very fast because they have extra knowledge about what is going on and access to other address spaces (so you don't have to save something if you know how it's used). There has been lots of great work on this since the early 90's when this decision was made so I suspect the issue would be significantly less.

[1] At the time kernel threads were 'single context' and quite fast. Fast enough to be used for interrupts. There is a great paper on the threading system in Solaris which describes them. -- http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=202217
I actually disagree with this, despite being a die-hard XP user.

Once security fixes stop for the OS, you don't want to lure people into sticking around.
I think the programming/algorithms questions are probamatic. They by and large depend on seeing some trick. Take the array 1..n one. It's an 'aha' type question. You either see the trick, or not. I saw it after a minute, but rolled my eyes. How does that in any way predict whether I can solve hard problems in production. I give myself pretty high probability of not having that 'aha' moment in an interview; whether I did or did not tells you nothing useful.

Not to mention that this is not exactly an obscure trick. If you've seen it a few times it is trivial to remember the trick and apply it. It's been awhile since I've looked at the 'interview questions exposed' type books or websites, so it didn't leap immediately to mind. Would you really select against me because I haven't read such things?

edit: my phrasing was way to strong and unfriendly. I reworded the first sentence.
What is the argument that you're trying to refute? I got more of a vibe from your comment. I feel like this is a great opportunity for the AskHistorians subreddit. But I think generalizing to just Europe says something, though, rather than comparing countries to countries. And while I do agree there has likely been some exaggeration, I also think you may be underestimating the logistics of massive populations considering the time period (as well as just how early they had certain things, if you're ever near the Met in NY, check out their Chinese stuff and the dates next to them, though their collection is pretty small).

The best hypotheses I've seen (which I can't find, it was in passing long ago somewhere), suggests European division fueled a lot of later innovation. War does seem to drive technology. When you're China back then, who are you really competing against? You've already finished the conquering and unification phase that individual European countries are still dreaming about. So why do you need guns? You're essentially Rome of East Asia (and Romans are no more, perhaps not a coincidence). Korea, Japan, and Vietnam are either vassals or non-threats. You've got silk, porcelain (which itself was pretty amazing compared to "European" alternatives), and tea to pass your time instead (and to trade with). You're already pretty huge for the time period, and managing a country of that size and technology level is already pretty challenging. Meanwhile, Europe is a perfect climate for border skirmishing and competition. When England came knocking on China's door in a more aggressive fashion, the Emperor at the time still had arrogant delusions about China's comparative might. And they paid for that. But the opium wars and WW2 were a wake up call.

Also, glass. China never discovered glass, and glass unlocked all sorts of technologies.

Edit: So the other way of looking at it is: The Han tribe did get ahead of their neighbors with all their fancy doodads early on, and perhaps that's why China is the size it is now. The Romans almost did it in their local sphere, and arguably England later, although by then technological spread was more uniform. If ancient Europe had been sitting next to ancient China, perhaps they'd be speaking Chinese now?
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iPhone 5S base cost is estimated around $200-$300[1], so iPhone for £100 should be either seriously inferior model or seriously subsidized. Apple does not need to subsidize it - they sell fine as is. So either carrier subsidizes it and gets their money back in contract fees, or you are paying the cost plus margins of all the middlemen (unless you manage to buy it straight from the assembly line, which you can't).

[1] http://www.asymco.com/2012/02/22/the-iphone-manufacturing-co...
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Catering to homeless people and children? Seriously?
> Leave yourself plenty of room. You may need to add code or notes in between lines later. Start at the top of the board and leave a blank line between each line.

That's a good idea I'll adopt. It looks messy when you start trying to shoehorn in a missed line somewhere.
Any time I've been a part of hiring new talent, I'm looking at three things:

1. How you process information. I'm not going to be impressed if someone at the table says 'Microsoft' and you cringe.
2. Can you admit to not knowing everything? You'd be shocked how big of an issue this is.
3. Are you willing to adapt? In a smaller team, you have to bend and be willing to take on new challenges.
In this context there are two kinds of people - the "just a job" crowd and the "live and breathe this thing" crowd.

Either is a completely valid lifestyle, but they just don't mix well, so they should screen each other out at interviews.
I don't see it as a straw-man as I see threads as a tool. Existence of the actor model does not detract from the value that OS threads provide, the same way that existence of Common Lisp does not detract from the value that C provides. They are both tools. It's just that some tools are more dangerous than others. In other words, I don't believe that threads are a "worse is better" approach. There are things that can be improved about the specific implementations of threading, but on the whole, the paradigm is far from broken.

> Empirically, if people are fucking up, it makes sense to analyze why and to give them automatic solutions to their fuck-ups.

The problem is that other implementations of concurrency are not as widely adopted and people tend to fall back on threads (especially OS threads) when they really don't need them. But when you really do need threads, very few things are a good substitute.

P.S.: I am aware of the table saw you refer to, and this is the kind of improvement that tooling around threads could use. Note that this new table saw does not completely re-design how you interact with the blade in order to provide the safety.
Absolutely, and the comparisons get kind of hairy sometimes. GS-12+ aren't all supervisory, it's possible to have GS-14 and 15s that are mostly specialists with few or no individuals in their direct charge. For those curious, the general mapping of GS grades to officer ranks:

GS-15 = O-6 (Colonel/Navy Captain)

GS-14 = O-5 (Lt Colonel/Commander)

GS-13 = O-4 (Major)

GS-12 = O-3 (Captain, this is the journeyman level for engineesr)

GS-9/11 = O-1/2 (Lt's, apprentice stage)

GS doesn't start at 9, though. The lower grades are typically limited scope, no supervisory responsibility, office jobs (secretaries, mail room, clerk, data entry, etc.). Or they're training positions, straight out of college an engineer may be a GS-5/7 and after 2-4 years a GS-11/12. They don't really have a clean comparison to military ranks, that I know of.
Feels bad man.
I'm concerned that the singularitians (sp?) have perhaps let their knowledge of computing and economics go to their head, thinking that they understand philosophy and psychology just as well. But on the technical side, there's no reason to expect they won't be right eventually.

I think the moral philosophy is a lot more of a grey area. Those expounding in this area seem to likely be subject to the biases of their own beliefs and the particular fads of this time period just as much as everyone else.
Assuming those people are purchasing their meds from multi product vendors, you wouldn't have that level of detail. You've built a straw man.

But, yes, I believe the general idea is that there is a webpage where you could see that little Sally spent $11.87 at the pharmacy on Saturday.
Why then did math, astronomy and other sciences, and natural philosophy not originate in China, but centuries earlier in Europe (with a loose definition of "originate", I know Europeans were not the first)?

A few examples, Pythagoras Theorem is called 勾股定理 in China, named after its individual discoverer Gou Gu from China. Circa 1090~ AD, There is a book called 梦溪笔谈 by Sheng Kuo consisting of discussion of various topics such as Astronomy, Physics, Math etc. Some other books in Math include 数学九章，四元玉鉴。Circa 500～ AD, Zu Chong Zhi figured out Pi to 6 decimal digits. Sorry I didn't have time looking up the English name of those books.

I see you have made your edits thereafter. Though I would just like to say really it's hard to define what is 'awesome' or not as per your argument.

"China invented gun powder, but they didn't use it to gain a military advantage."

So is it awesome to utilize tools made to enhance men's life to slaughter men?

"Most of Chinese philosophy seems to me to be mostly about society and the duty of men etc."

This is largely correct, but it isn't any less than the modern science we have today. Iching in particular is really a science of life, the science of nature. Yet nobody can understand it now.

While I like some of your arguments about China missing out on further opportunities, but to simply dismiss China as not 'awesome' is also an over stretch.
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And similarly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_%22The_Eagle%22_Edwards
Naturally, we've experimented a lot measuring context-switch cost. While pretty bad on OS X, on Linux it's quite good in many circumstances (sleep, IO interrupt) but not so good when a thread waits to be woken up by another application thread (as opposed to being woken up by some kernel event). Aside from consuming less memory, Quasar fibers shine exactly in that last scenario: when fibers wait on other fibers (they could be waiting for an actor or channel message, a condition variable, or an in-memory DB transaction). Fibers use Doug Lea's awesome fork/join thread pool for scheduling.

I hope to write about our context-switch results some day.
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Redshift is doing pretty great: 3044K resident, 560K with shared libraries amortised in gnome system monitor.