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Outsources their customer service to India? At first I thought you were just bitter. Now I see you're an uninformed moron. Yeah the SOPA thing was a fiasco but the Legal exec running that show has long-ago "decided to pursue other opportunities." The nascar driver got as much positive exposure as GD got from her as their spokesperson.
If your only communication mechanism is actors, then you're right: several process would be fine. But I think that almost any software built with actors requires some shared memory as well. Even Erlang has ETS. In the demo, we use an in-memory spatial database. It's this shared data store that's hard to get right with several processors, especially if it is supposed to help with parallelization and scheduling.

BTW, Quasar also has distributed actors.
I think it supports bikes with gears where the pedals are( in the middle not on the last wheel ). If you look in the video at about 3:58 you will see some bikes with gears. This does limit you to two to four gears but that should be enough. Just have two low gears and one high one.
Exactly. Still parallel, but don't start the next cycle until the previous one has completed.
Haskell is even older, but you don't see many job ads for it. I don't think it has much to do with the age of the language. Node.js is an example of a very young platform that many, many startups are using. (Although, to be fair, JavaScript has been around for quite some time now.)
It sounds like it would depend a lot of 3rd party tracking cookies. But how's that work with Safari in iOS defaulting 3rd party cookies to off?
I was going to join everyone else in this thread in bashing elements of the design and product, the specifications, etc. But I won't do that.

Instead I'll do the opposite.

I'll point out upfront, I own 5 bikes, I run one of the largest cycling forums in the world, and I run one of the largest cycling clubs in the UK. I get cycling.

I like it. The FlyKly.

I like it because it allows a rider to keep their existing bike, and yet to retrofit for a really reasonable price an electric motor.

I like it because the vast majority of the weight within the wheel isn't a moving thing, the batteries are fixed.

I like it because the 30 mile range, whilst not suiting my 18 mile commute for a daily charge, actually does suit the vast majority of cyclists that I know who only commute fewer than 10 miles.

I like the 1,000 cycles, which is probably 900 in reality, is actually a few years of use for the average cyclist. Even most cycle commuters don't actually cycle 7 days a week, and those do diligently do so on all work days only do so for 220 > 250 days per year.

It hits all of the sweet spots:

1) Can I keep my existing bicycle?

2) Can I just get the electric bit and not pay to replace all of the other bits I have?

3) Will it just work and be easy to install?

4) Will it help me on my commute?

5) Will it realistically last a couple of years?

6) Is it priced such that I can afford it?

For the majority of cyclists I know, the answer is yes to all of the above.

I think it's got a good chance, which doesn't mean I'll be buying one but then I'm not your average cyclist.

PS: FlyKly, you show several times the use of the wheel on a brakeless fixed-gear bike. That's just for the aesthetics right? Or is the wheel fixed compatible such that you're fine with people skid/skip stopping?
I wouldn't pick integrated graphics card for a "high-end" PC laptop. What about 1.88kg RAZER Blade, with quad core i7 and nVidia 765M, and 512GB SSD?
Another cool HAProxy option is setting up backup/failover backends. So if all of your real backends die or go offline, haproxy can serve a friendly maintenance/downtime page from the failover backend.
About half of them have been patched in Java 5, more details here:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2013...
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I have one. Doesn't get hot. CPU clocks down a lot when on battery, so "gaming monstrosity" only more or less valid when on AC. Battery perf in general not great, 3-4 hours in my experience. As a mobile workstation pretty good, only real bummer is that the keyboard is crap - not a good option if you plan to type tons on it (but you might get used to it; I for one just use an external ergonomic keyboard).
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Yeah, no problem, just shared some awesomesauce
where haproxy scores above ngingx..I am curious to know, as we use nginx....
Try redshift instead, you can use it from the terminal. If you want it to change according to time of day use redshift -l lon:lat. i.e longitude and latitude of current position. But you can also use redshift -O to set a specific level. I often use redshift -O 3500
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Of course a $500 ipad will do better than a $300 laptop.

$200 tablets arentr very satisfying either. Web browsers can't do nearly as much as a cheap laptop can.
Quasar gives you fibers. On top of them you can build actors, Go-channels, or data flow variables.

Scala gives you no advantage here. None of its concurrency constructs really require Scala. There is no reason not to implement them in Java and use them in any JVM language. More specifically, Quasar actors are more general and powerful than Scala actors because they run in true lightweight threads and can block. Also, a lot of people don't like Scala.
Nitpicking because this tripped me up: You can do this in-place and in O(n) time by repeatedly partitioning the array in half (by value) and discarding the smaller half. I'd have needed a hint that you can do it in one pass to have noticed the summation approach.
I just got a T430 with 8gb and a 256 SSD on the Lenovo Outlet for $449. They have been clearing inventory lately to make space for the new models.
A nitpick on San Jose:

The city’s tallest building, Yglesias notes, is a mere twenty-two stories high.

Anyone who lives in San Jose can tell you why this is the case. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California#Arts_and_a...

Because the downtown area is in the flight path to nearby Mineta San Jose International Airport, there is a height limit for buildings in the downtown area, which is under the final approach corridor to the airport. The height limit is dictated by local ordinances, driven by the distance from the runway and a slope defined by Federal Aviation Administration regulations. Core downtown buildings are limited to approximately 300 feet (91 m) but can get taller farther from the airport.[80]

The rest of the article did a good job of arguing that housing prices harm migration and contribute to income inequality. But twisting a fact like that makes me suspicious. Hopefully fault lies with Matt Yglesias, not the author.
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That honestly isn't that bad. Sounds like their laid back. Seems like the trend in tech...hoodies, flip flops, beer. Pocket protectors, white shirt and ties are a thing of the past.
I wish they stopped forcing touchscreens on their users. I would so buy a Haswell-based follow-up to the Asus Zenbook UX51VZ as a developer machine, but having fingerprints on a glossy display is a showstopper for me.
That's excellent, thank you for pointing those out! Renders the whole discussion somewhat moot.
RAID-0 still breaks if either disk breaks, thus doubling your potential for failure.
I wonder how are things going in U.K. in this respect? Their upper class must be mostly still with roots from 1066AD?
It doesn't really translate well because an important aspect of cross-country skiing is the technique, and without proper technique you dispel too much energy to be competitive.
The 5100 and 5200 integrated GPUs are as fast or faster than some discrete GPUs in previous generations' high-end laptops, which themselves are plenty to play many games at medium-high settings. They're a leap ahead of the old Intel HD 4xxx stuff.

Plus, it looks goofy. I'm not 17 and don't want to carry around a laptop that glows neon green at tech conferences or coffee shops.
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That's going on my to-watch list tonight. Thanks for the pointer.
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Can anyone recommend a good chair for long term sitting which costs under $300 usd? I would like to find something mesh-like; it stays cleaner and breathes nicer than foam cushiony things.

For a while I tried a medicine ball, but noticed towards the end of the day I would be in bad posture. I also found it hard to have it inflated at the right level and be at the right height.

The only thing I could find, which seems to have a cult following, is the "Euro Style" bungee chairs. Something like

http://www.gotoeurostyle.com/prod_detail.asp?product_id=835

They have a bunch, but I only got a chance to try two. The flat bungee is definitely comfortable, regular bungee had too much pressure on my skin.

Anyone else have recommendations for budget mesh all-day office chairs?
You can also elevate your feet, which will (naturally) force you to sit more upright. In the past, I've used some books (wrapped in an old plastic garbage bag to keep them safe from mopping). But now, I'm used to it, and it's enough for me to just put my feet on the chair's wheels.
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I was astonished to hear what my friend paid his content writers (on a millions/month user celebrity gossip site)... let's just say it's around minimum wage.

You don't need a VC for that, even if your topic takes a bit more edification.
Great article.

I don't agree that you should focus on anything less than the "Give me results" clients. First off, you know what they say is the problem with goals? You'll probably reach them. Meaning, you're setting your ceiling. I've found that if you hand pick your clients, you can make certain that you have clients who focus on results. Most consultants talk about word of mouth as the main way that they get new clients, but I dislike that approach. The reason is that you're letting clients choose you. My best client is a client that I picked and cold called. I knew they were making lots of money and I knew they needed what I was selling. Selling something as a consultant is about specialization. Specialization doesn't necessarily mean that your experience is focused in one area. It means that you can present yourself as an expert in one area.

Here's something counterintuitive that I've found that goes along with this article: Clients who pay the least are usually the most demanding. I used to lower my price when people complained, but I quickly realized that my price was a filter blocking bad clients. Plus accepting a lower price really led to likely bad outcomes because when the going got tough, the voice in the back of my head said, "These guys are paying you less than your other jobs", then I suddenly felt completely unmotivated to work hard for them.

Here's a really good book about consulting that helped me. Not focused on software consulting, but a lot of the concepts are the same:
http://www.amazon.com/Million-Dollar-Consulting-Alan-Weiss/d...
Lazy research - they probably googled "tallest building in San Jose", went to the first result, then forgot to sort by floors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Sa...
I just bought the Mirra 1 two weeks ago to replace an aging office chair that I'd picked up without much thinking in a furniture store for ~200 Eur. Recently I felt that my back was not feeling that good anymore after longer coding sessions and started looking for an alternative. Being a single indie dev, I didn't want to spend around 1000 Eur for an Aeron but then I stumbled upon a used Mirra in good condition (around 300 Eur) and picket it up. It is an absolutely great chair, way better than my old one. I'm really impressed with the quality of this chair.
I'm still sitting on a former Enron-owned HM Aeron I got off of Ebay for less than $200.

The mesh seat is great for farts, but ergonomically it is crap, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. The edge of the chair where the mesh attaches puts pressure on a vein or an artery and makes my legs falls asleep. I've read reports that the design was more about form over function too.

Consequently, I'm thinking about picking up a Humanscale which I've been told was designed for ergonomics first and appearances second. I'd be interested in hearing any opinions comments from people who've sat in one for over a year.
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What about laptops that glow neon white apples? :-)
They didn't even put indicative weight on the web page yet...
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You know if this kind of thing keeps happening on the internet I might just have to start counting on my toes.
I had an opportunity recently to move to the Bay for a contract position from a fulltime one in LA. Risk/benefit considerations aside, the cost of living, much of it rent, in the Bay stayed my hand from signing off and changing jobs, and I am someone who could afford to live there, I can easily see why anyone who made as much or less would never move from here to there either.
That's one way of looking at it. Another is that SSDs are just a series of flash memory chips that add up to the capacity you're sold, plus some extra to use when cells go bad.

If you buy a 256GB SSD, you're probably buying 8 32GB chips and a controller.

Here, you're buying 16 instead of 8 chips, but two controllers. So they call it "two drives in RAID-0", but it's very little different from one SSD.

It's not 16 times more likely to fail; I think the annual SSD failure rate is about 30% that of a spinning disk. Even if the double controllers means a double failure rate, it's still statistically more reliable than a single new spinning disk.
I'm pretty sure my companys filter will block this only because of the name.
So what do you use for the front-end? How is it communicating with your API?
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Yeah I feel the same.. I'm also searching for alternatives, even paid ones and preferably not Google/Microsoft/Apple-related. Anyone got some suggestions?
That does start to sound attractive. I'd rather not have to hack anything just to install an OS, though. It'll probably be bad enough learning UEFI.
Because MBP hardware is not good enough. I have had to use a rMBP since April, and it just hate it. I don't care if it's extremely thin if it's running _that_ hot. I have to stick with it as I need to use OSX (what I also dislike), otherwise I'd buy a Dell Venue Pro 11 with an external dock or something like that.
No touchscreen.
I thought I'd check back and see how it is going today and I noticed something else; after you hover over an image thumbnail the border-radius disappears so the image is square instead of rounded like it is when the page loads.
To me, this comment is the essence of hacker news. Guy goes around the world. Guy visits tons of dangerous places and miles of border paperwork. One presumes he did a ton of research. And yet, there's a guy on the internet saying "oh, here's this thing you missed".

Sorry if you take the huff.
I think in C++1y we'll be able to define a function 'foreach' that we can use like:

foreach(data, []<class T>(const T & item) {
ofile << item << std::endl;
});

This should eliminate the potential implicit conversion to temp. But I'm not sure it's seriously better than the original range based for with auto.
Also my country can issue you a temporary passport if you're planning to travel in country A and you have a visa of country B in your passport, when countries A and B are at war.

I expect more countries do the same.
Cocaine is usually associated with providing a rush of energy, so I guess they're trying to say that their platform is fast.

My guess is, they hired an idiot who loves edgy marketing to name it.
There are also likely to be misunderstandings when communities start forming local Cocaine User Group chapters. There might be difficulty in getting space for meetings, and it will be interesting to see who might show up.
One of the lessons of every startup or application, is it is not always clear how to find the population of interest, and that it will take trying out many avenues, methods, and channels, again and again, to discover or grow the community of interest.

Perhaps the market niche is not compelling enough for people to use. Or you're finding a population that doesn't have a compelling desire or need.

It appears you hope for an almost obsessive population to be your desired market. (I'm thinking of the legendary Grateful Dead concert tape trading era as an example of an obsessive trading population and community.) Are there additional potential markets for trading person-to-person that have an unmet need that might have a compelling payoff for you to serve?

I notice that there is some similarity in function to the Craig's List and eBay and Amazon markets -- are they inadvertent competitors?

Is community trust, and trust building, or trustworthiness measurement an issue?

What if I want to search by genre, or by other kinds of dimensions, and not by publisher?

Does there need to be a forum for the obsessed? The site looks like a storefront, not a community coffee shop to hang out in.

Could it be worthwhile to contact one-hundred-plus signups personally, hoping for an informative conversation. What other means and methods do people use if not your application? What do they like about your app? What do they find lacking? Is the community big enough to serve the population you desire? Are you capable of contacting every new sign-up for a while to learn what new signups think?

Could it be worthwhile to have a friendly and informative process (email?) that contacts signups perhaps once a week, during their first weeks, or first month, to remind them of their interest and your offering?

Does this essay give any useful perspectives for you? (Paul Graham's "Do things that don't scale") http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
The note about the copyright on the diffs seems a bit paranoid or something.
I always wonder how its feasible for people in service industry roles to work in the bay area. (Something I think about a lot when I go to work at a cafe).

That being said, it would be interesting to see a graphic of commute time and wage/salary to see the tradeoffs people make.
Guilty I say. Off with his head!
It only comes in 26 and 29 inches size. Good luck then selling to one of the biggest market of Bikes (and electrical bikes), Europe, where the common size for Urban bikes is 28 inches.
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Well nobody else is doing it apparently. Everybody gets seduced to pursue vanity metrics once they go big, that's the art in it.
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They did it publicly, ie

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Med 2(8): e124. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

and privately: the matter of fact is, pharma companies are unhappy, because according to them, over 70% is irreproducible (euphemism for BS).

This is why ie. BMJ will only accept papers from January on that publish evidence ie. data also. One wonders what happened before...

BMJ 2013; 347 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f5975
I really really miss my 5 year old old Lenovo T61p! 1400*1050 is the perfect screensize for me and the Core 2 Duo would still be fast enough for most applications. Perhaps I will buy one on ebay for 220 Euro...
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I was under the impression we did that for exactly this case in America but when I searched I found a page saying we only issue two passports in extraordinary circumstances. This might count though.
Could someone explain why Applets/Webstart is so insecure? I know that JRE itself isn't really bad, it's the web-plugin for Java that has security vurnabilities. But how so?
I don't like this Chamath guy, but he has recognized something that's real. Though his words are mostly hyperbole, power is shifting to the valley.
> (everyone wants 30% rent and malware/piracy/whatever will be cited as justification).

Emacs is a platform in itself. I don't think anyone has figured out how to create sub-gardens inside walled gardens yet, and what that even means to the curated vetted app experience. Taken to an extreme, obviously, even postscript viewers and other non-trivial viewers aren't allowed either (since they have to "interpret" documents).
Hopefully some of this can be solved by better/faster public transportation.
So you are saying that you have interviewed hundreds of engineers and found many, many wanting according to whatever standards you set up in your interviews? Including many who came with high, verified recommendations from other workplace?

Have you also followed up on those failed interviewees to verify that in a real world setting they cannot perform?

If you haven't, then all I can see is a statement of "I have a standard very few can meet".
it is definitely targets market outside of Russia. Otherwise they would name it like "Samogon" (moonshine :)
They would gain a bit more respect by getting rid of the Ask toolbar option from the Java installer. Wonder if they actually make any significant money from that garbage.
Having enough money that you can invest it (in hardware or business processes) to make more money for yourself is an advantage over those people who barely have enough money to live on.

I don't consider this a design flaw in the concept of money itself. The same goes for BTC.
Don't worry about the cat it does have a purpose: portability.
cat in.txt | sort > out.txt
works in powershell(cat is an alias for Get-Content and sort is an alias for sort-object)(without the sort it wouln't work).
> we don't want to be without the results; and technical fields are so far no substitutes.

True enough, for now. Once our understanding of human psychiatry is more complete, a much more accurate model will hopefully be possible. Of course getting a true understanding of another's mental state at any point in time to simulate the model forward to predict their next behavior will be the hard part. Even doing such forward prediction with the (compared to biological brains) toy computers we have today is already almost impossible if one wants absolute certainty.[1]

Of course one can view all artistic observations of human behaviors so far as a sort of an indirect empirical guide to human behavioral patterns.

Although it is often to the frequent irritation of those of us not blessed with a natural abundance of social skills that those who have the understanding allowing them to write down such observations are also often unable to understand that others do not possess their same social talents and that therefore many unspoken assumptions need to indeed be spoken up of.

[1] Computers are of course 100% predictable, short of a true random # generator plugged into the side, but there is a large gulf of difference between "theoretically doable" and "here is a state frozen 8GB 3.2GHZ desktop PC, tell me what is going to happen next without booting it up."