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That's exactly how the iOS app I'm building right now is factored, specifically so that all of the networking/model layer/sync code is identical between iOS and Android.

I'm using libuv, SQLite, CurveCP/NaCl and MessagePack for the cross-platform stuff, and the rest of the code is straight C (which I prefer to C++). So far, it's working well, although it did require more effort to set up initially, primarily due to multi-threading.
Disrupt is fine. Its basically a quick way of saying a company is in a specific industry.

disrupt industry x.

Bubble, lets lose that. People are so bad a predicting bubbles it is laughable.
Where can one learn more about how Watson actually works?

...starting from the IBM website and Wikipedia one mostly gets to whitepapers and high level descriptions. I hope at least bits of it are open source or at least have the math and logic underlying them well documented.
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DabbleDB was a very forward thinking product, pity it was shutdown. Could you share an estimate of the number of man-hours it took to build it?
Wouldn't client_max_body_size (which is set to 1MB by default) in nginx config prevent the 4GB to even reach the node backend ?
It's already a big plus for him, if he sends this online resume only to his own network. The animation clearly pictures his capabilities and indicates the type of people he wants to work with.
its HTML5 and SSE?
Is there a list of good IPs to block, similar to the hosts files that people pass around?

EDIT: chrsstrm mentions something below
One of my professors was fond of saying, "the proton is a garbage dump," to emphasize the mess of gluons and virtual quarks that you see when you start to probe the proton.

It's also worth noting that the in the LHC, which collides protons, most of the interesting collisions are due to gluons interacting, rather than the quarks.
now waiting release for support lxc containers :)
Simple fix: don't go outside. :D
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Technology is not dehumanizing. It’s what makes us human.
In a way, that's worse! You'll have someone "open" a file, maybe make some edits to it, save it -- and it won't indicate a problem with that because it's considered as a file on disk somewhere -- and then when they go to send it, they can't find it and it may have been overwritten / deleted.
I wonder who Satoshi is and how much he's worth now. Not many people can put on their CV that they created a new currency.
If you want there is: http://uptimerobot.com/
Most Mac users don’t use Photoshop or Final Cut Pro. Most Mac users are not power users. Many don’t know about browser tabs, let alone how to open new ones with keyboard shortcuts or contextual menus. Savvy users use keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste text in a word processor, not so savvy users go to the Edit menu for every action.

(I have no proof for any of this. I have watched all kinds of people use computers for 25 years, in all kinds of settings.)
This is surely the end of the world.
"outlaw" should read "out-lawyer", "without the invention" should be "without the protection". Sorry about the haste.
This is entirely my own empirical evidence (I worked tech support in a design house), but mac users seem to use keyboard shortcuts more than contextual menus. E.g. opening links in a new tab is command+click or alt+click, depending on the browser.

I've worked a lot with FCP (and other editing suites) and PS, and everyone I see, especially pros, seems to make heavy use of keyboard shortcuts and modifiers, rather than fishing around in menus.
That really isn't telling the whole story at all. Webapps have their own problems -- like no ownership or control over your data.
You saw the same thing when 747's came out, lounges, bars, common areas, lots of seat pitch. All of these were eclipsed by high density seating over time. Eventually all the A380's will move to high density seating as well.
Bitcoin is not a ponzi scheme. It's a technology with actual useful properties. The code is out there to see.

If you don't understand why these properties are useful to so many people, I welcome you to the third world countries where you can't start selling your product to the rest of the world (even if it's a great one), because PayPal doesn't work with your country and cc processors won't let you accept cards from other countries (fraud risk). It's not just that. It's also that you don't have to report to anyone and go through all the tedious paperwork to incorporate BEFORE you actually made a cent on your product. When you compare the ease with which you can start selling your product with Bitcoin, it's just amazing. Government regulations stifle innovation and entrepreneurship, Bitcoin let's you break free.
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for the record, it's the 90 per cent use case.
I thought this was only being used for RSS - interesting!
Do you have a better idea where to find a lot of Mac notebooks in one place? (Besides in Apple Stores, that is.)
Sorry for the hijacking.

Someone named eulerphi replied to your comment, but they're "hellbanned" from Hacker News and their reply is only visible if you turn on showdead in your settings.
Some of both, I suspect.
I am too lazy to create a lmgtfy link for you, sorry. Google yourself. Lots of places accept Bitcoin. Although I am not sure how many people actually use it for shopping.
"Forty-seven per cent of strangers offered their phone when the actor apologised for the rain first, compared with just nine per cent when there was no apology."

UK: I have never seen anyone ask to borrow someone else's mobile phone over here. Is that a common behaviour in the US?

I have to say that if someone asked to borrow mine, I'd refuse, especially if they said something inane first. That could just be my crabbed and ungenerous nature but I think not somehow...
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There is no inherent conflict of interest between consumer and advertiser.
There are conflicts of interest a between some consumers and advertisers. That is the point -- web search monetization is more complex than "ZOMG too many ads"
Design Principles FTW
Awww, that is an adorable question :)

I think in DefCon 18, Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon was talking about using Lua in Nmap. He said that the description mentioned that all of it and the doc could fit in a floppy disk.. And then he said "For the younger audience, a floppy disk is.." at which point the audience exploded in laughter.

I'm 26 now, but my oldest brother is 18 years older than me and almost all of us in the family are engineers so I had different technologies around the house. (Not old enough to see "drum memory", though).
I didn't know about this feature. The documentation says it just reduces font size. WP did that but also increased kerning, reduced linespacing as well as a few other tricks.
How dare lawmen close our illegal underground online drug shop?
That's the rational way to see it. Then again, what would you invest in at all thinking like that?
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Wow. 600 days old.
This is what I called a well researched article.
OMG, i'm getting too old.
The World Needs Data Scientists
If bitcoin replaces the dollar as the unit of account, currency of international trade, world reserve currency, and so on, it might be better simply to spend the bitcoins than to "sell" them.
I think one effect might be that when you don't look to closely at something, and later remember the price being just what's before the decimal separator.
Only if that currency is the basis for your economic system, and you wish to continuously stimulate artificial demand in your economic system through continuous currency debasement.

It has been theorized that though such continuous stimulus may lead to greater growth on paper, that growth is more likely to be malignant than it would be were the economy allowed to grow at a more natural rate. Furthermore, continuous inflation is also at least partially responsible for the business cycle. The price of money is the interest rate at which it can be borrowed, and constant inflation is what keeps interest rates low. When money's cheap, people tend to borrow more of it and are less careful about what they do with that money. Hence, due diligence declines, and economic bubbles become more likely.
But why does a fixed supply make it deflationary? What happens when all BTC have been mined, will the price still go up all the time?

I guess it could go up if the Dollar goes down at the same time. The actual price is staying the same, but the Dollar is worth less, so it takes more to buy X. Not sure why that would be bad.

Also I suspect banks will create virtual bitcoin, as they do with money (lending BTC that they borrowed). Perhaps that will affect the price as well.
Here's a little lesson I've learned about claims of theft of revolutionary products: they're always false. Innovation and invention are continuous and gradual processes, with numerous precursors and multiple independent and simultaneous origins. It's basically evolution. There is no such thing as intellectual theft, nor are there revolutionary products, nor are there genius or original inventors.

There's just dumb plodding incremental innovation by connecting past ideas together into useful products.

Everything is a remix. There are no revolutionaries, only winners writing their own versions of history.

Good entrepreneurs copy. Great entrepreneurs steal.
What if I develop software that allows me to restrict usage of software based on field of endeavour, then I apply an open source license to it?
That's what disrupt means now. It used to mean a company is changing the way an industry does business. But then everybody started claiming they would do that, no matter how trivial the change, so now it means "there's a new company in this industry and it has a hip website."
A friend of my Father's was a mainframe guru, back in the day, and he told us about "cylinder" hard drives that would take several hours to power down because the torsional stress on them would get too high if slowed down too quickly. Also tape drives that were spinning so quickly they could be dangerous.

Sounds almost like heavy engineering!
I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again: the biggest risk to bitcoin is a government (specifically the US government) deciding that they don't like it. Barring that, its growth will likely continue.
Well, maybe because it only took such a small hit when SR went down and quickly recovered, whereas everyone expected it to greatly lose in value. It basically has proven it can exist without SR.
Also, there are two big new markets and countless smaller ones already.
I came here to say that. In fact, bugger it, I don't care about originality! I'm going to say it too!

Oh gods, I'm so old.
thank you for your detailed and thoughtful answer. This makes a lot of sense.
We've been doing that for millenia. It's called writing and reading.
The Zumwalt is using Real-Time Java, using a JVM from IBM that has an incremental GC with real-time guarantees (unlike the real-time Java spec, which essentially works by disabling the GC for real-time threads, so their NonHeapRealTime threads were essentially an architected memory leak). IBM's Real-Time Java, with their real-time Metronome GC, is running on real-time Linux, for which I was the tech lead at the IBM Linux Technology Center.

It was a fun project; since we were able to use the real-time Linux code base which Ingo Molnar and Stephen Rostedt worked on upstream, we spent most of our time stablizing the patches, and fed quite a few patches back upstream to get it into a production-ready state. Anyway, we had 50 microsecond interrupt and scheduler latency using real-time Linux, which allowed millisecond level real-time guarantees using garbage collected java threads.
I was at Apple when they were transitioning from Pascal (which had driven much of the Lisa and Macintosh) to C (and some C++).

With the exception of a few curmudgeons, C was the way to go for most people. You lost nested procedures, but the stuff you got back was immense. Pascal's big problem was that the extensions required to make it a "real" systems programming language (arbitrary memory access, I/O that didn't suck, etc.) were not standardized; good luck porting anything. Pascal strings were effectively broken (with a proliferation of Str255 / Str64 / Str32 types that were effectively incompatible unless you cheated).

C, while it still lacked a standard, had everything you needed out of the box, and the direction for a standard was clear.

Pascal became a legacy language and died at Apple in the early 90s.
China is leading this rally - so look there for answers. Baidu accepting bitcoins is a good example of what is going on there - this would not happen if the party did not want it - so many people think that maybe the Chinese government would like to give it a try, experiment, maybe not as the final move - but to test the grounds of alternative international currency.
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Senility poll: Did you know the answer to this question?
China would be looking at SDRs (= special drawing rights issued by the IMF) for a world currency, though
You do realize that other people can't see your poll result right?
Yes I don't understand something and I'm asking for an explanation. If you, or someone else does not understand my actual question, and has nothing more to contribute than "It's hard" then I am not interested in their answers or their condescension and I couldn't give two tosses if you turn around and perceive me as being condescending. It's projection. And I wasn't asking you anyway. But since I'm here, what is the point of YOUR post? I don't need more self awareness, people on hacker news need to stop answering questions they don't understand with bullshit nonsense condescension and getting pissy when the victim of their idiocy gets annoyed by it.

Seriously I will not tolerate this curiosity shaming, the ethic that one should feel embarrassed about asking questions. I do not buy the idea that it is condescending to be dissatisfied with shallow lazy nothing answers. I have no control over you perceiving it that way. It is just a flaw in your background that you should perhaps be more self aware about.
Could also be that some people only used Macs or Linux or Unix or iPads.
Not only Russians. I believe it's the other way around - in English you have the same name "blue" for two colors that exist in quite few languages.

синий: http://yandex.ua/yandsearch?text=%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0...

голубой: http://yandex.ua/yandsearch?text=%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83%D0...

It was a bit of mind-blowing to learn that English world for #0000ff is "blue" and then suddenly "The sky is blue" (what?! no it isn't #0000ff)

The same thing goes for redheads - what? but this is not red!
Indeed. The Everything Is A Remix series has been great for showing this. The 3rd part actually covers Apple and their "inventions", too, but all are very interesting, and even enlightening:

http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
I remember the time someone thought they'd save money by buying cheap paper for the high speed IBM 6400 line printer. The print head moved so fast it just shredded the paper into a fine dust that caked in every internal part. It sucked cleaning that out.
Feeling blue(Screen) with windows 8.1: Officially the first?
If you have used anything windows you know my pain. The pain of a blue screen staring back at you. True, they have toned down the contrast and stuff but it still hurts when you upgrade to a new windows (8.1) and in a couple of hours get a sad smiley face making fun of you.
I have been an enthusiast of the Windows 8 series having used every thing from 8 developer version to 8.1 preview but a fully paid product dead in 4 hours is enough of experimentation with Windows I would say.
Friends from Microsoft: Won't ask for much from you now. Just remove that stupid smiley from the face of the already devastated blue screen.

If you write a comment and I don't respond you should know that the "thread exception was not handled" and I might be feeling blue about it.
The drive letter B: is also used by BartPE [1] as the default for its RAM disk. In fact, I think every time but one I encountered a Windows-era PC that had a B: drive it was a RAM disk, not a floppy drive.

[1] A bootable live Windows XP/Server 2003 environment. See http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/.
You don't need to be a prophet to guess that. Of course they don't like it. To me, it's not even a question. The question is, what are they gonna do about it and for how long will they manage to delay Bitcoin adoption.
glad it's not just me
For a more clearer picture, look at this graph:

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg1460zig12-hourztg...

Bitcoin is deflationary and has enough actual use to support small trading volume even without speculators. It's perfect vessel for speculators and bubbles, but the long trend is pretty obvious. I suspect that it will grow until it has reached all of it's potential users and potential speculators.

It has actual use as currency for bad stuff, money laundering and avoiding currency restrictions like in China for example, so I think the exchange rate will grow for some time. I suspect that grey economy might support money supply worth of 200-300 billion at least. Government interventions might cut it into much smaller number though. Virtual currency has little value if you can't interact with the rest of the economy.

It's not path to cyberanarcist-utopia, but it's not clearly useless either. I think it might find it's niche or be replaced with something similar.
Yikes, me too! Although the first realization was when I heard Aerosmith on the oldies radio station.
I had to go digging for a 3.5" drive a couple months back because I found some floppies that had some college papers on them. I have a zip disk with some artwork, too. At one point I had a SCSI zip drive and an Adaptec controller for it, but I have no idea where they're at now.
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If they really wanted to test a superfluous apology, they could have the actor lead with something more like "I'm sorry for your loss."

I suspect very few people would then loan out their phone, unless they were under the impression they were being mugged.
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> You say no a few times, they stop asking, and time and distance just drift relationships apart.

I've been on both sides of this, and I've found that when I get a few "no"s from someone I'm fairly close to, I can't help but think they don't like me - even though from experience their "no"s might just come from their anxiety. There's simply no way to tell - and it stinks for both parties.
It's funny to talk about the 20 year old hackers who didn't ever have the experience of installing Word Perfect 5.x from 30-40 floppies, but let me tell you that those kids are going to feel just as old pretty soon. My daughter, who is about to turn one, is puzzled by why my Macbook Air doesn't do anything when she touches the screen. She doesn't recognize my dad's old Treo, which he gave her as a toy, as a phone, but will put a thin slab block up to her ear. We don't have cable at home, so she watches all her shows on Netflix and iTunes.
Thanks I think this is an insightful interpretation of my question. I think I have been satisfactorily answered elsewhere on the thread. It totally makes sense now, but on the other hand I still don't see how this tech helps much. It would improve things marginally, in theory but it seems like a bandaid to what you really want, which is a steady stream of animation frames. it feels like a concession to the impossibility of creating rich smooth realtime animation in the presence of a multiprocess operating system.
I think this was literally the first piece of "computer knowledge" I ever learned.
I hope that's a joke. In case it isn't: IBM PC predates all of those except UNIX (and you wouldn't think much of the pre-1980 UNIXen); CP/M, which originated the standard, comes from 1973.
Does anyone know what it that's led to the big improvements in power supplies over the last ten years or so? Wall warts have shrunk tenfold.
already better than Free pingdom.
I moved from San Diego to Miami two years ago. For anyone seriously thinking of coming to Miami from California, I'd like to reiterate a few points.

* Miami is a great place to live if you prioritize partying. If you don't -- or are past that stage in your life -- you are going to find fewer people with things in common than in any other city I've lived.

* If we are generalizing...people are ruder and quicker to screw you over if the opportunity presents itself. And before you say it, no, it's not just because it's a big city. It's different here. It's worse here.

* South Florida drivers are statistically the worst in the country. Luckily I don't have to commute.

* Food is a push, I agree. I really miss the Asian-fare back home. Thankfully, I've found one really awesome Thai place to keep me sane.

* I don't participate in the tech market, as I work remotely for a CA based company.

* The neighborhoods downtown are not awesome. I live across the street [0] from OP and would not feel comfortable walking even a block east with my wife at night. Miami has

* The weather is really subjective. At first, I struggled with the humidity and heat. But now I love it. That and the water are probably the things I love most about Miami.

[0] : http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdesimone/8761046729/

If you have any questions... ask away.
I really like the design and I am trying it with a couple of tests, but it seems to be reporting the opposite of reality. Shows one of my sites as down though it says Keyword Found and it shows the response time, while another one which is really down is shown as up:

http://cl.ly/image/1Y1U3b0z2U0U

http://cl.ly/image/3c0e38312a2W

edit: If it is of any use for debugging, these sites' IDs are: 775909552 (up) and 775909549 (down).
We're not very far away from "what is the blue 'Save' icon meant to be?" are we?

Kind of amazing really. Girlfriend's nephews are 6 and 9, pretty tech savvy (there's a lot in the house), but they had no idea what the slots in the front of their grandfather's computer were (and why should they?!).
Not generally. Only for certain problems. There are precious few problems that quantum computers are known to be asymptotically better at than classical computers, and one of them (Grover's search) is only a sqrt(N) speedup.
Partially. I am old enough to remember computers with one floppy drive (for old software, explaining the A:-position), but too young to have experienced the times when you needed two.
Oh man I am getting old :)
Only knew about A:
That's exactly how I felt when reading the question :\
Doesn't work on the latest Chromium for me, using Gnome-Shell 3.8
So maybe not the best way to showcase oneself, if it's not reliable.
People have been saying this for the last $100 or so of rise.

And yet here we are.
There are arguments in favor of the fixed supply model. The usual economic one is this:

When you earn and stockpile currency units, what you are doing is producing more than you consume, so in real terms you are allowing others to temporarily consume more than they produce. This essentially means that you are investing the difference into society as a whole. Thus, it makes sense that if the economy grows by 2x, your currency units should grow 2x in value, as that's the way any other investment works.
Not for me! I just forked.
For the rugrats among us: http://imgur.com/bOdxEUW
Digital Ocean's network is down?
My sites are down and I cannot sign in to their site.