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I don't know if Node will win for THE non-blocking platform award, but it's coming close to THE non-blocking web platform.

I think Go (and heck even Clojure with it's added core.async model) would be better at winning the first award. They are much more general and can be used freely. Node is basically limited to web and web servers (including tcp servers here).

I think Node is turning onto generator mode. Now that generators hit V8 (and Node under a flag), it's much easier to write async code (even easier than callbacks) yet you write in a synchronous style. That'll definitely improve the concurrency model.
That's just what GP states:

I let people wait to buy tickets, and let Capitalism decide who would get the tickets instead of who got word of the shows first or who cared the most.

That's also the reason why they are so hurtful: People with little time and plenty of money are not usually great fans. People who gets an early word of shows, or cares the most are almost by definition great fans. So scalpers buy cheap tickets so that fewer fans can go, and sell them so more suits can go.
Spotify was doing it when I tried to join. They apparently changed it later, to not require Facebook. But, you know, first impressions being what they are, I'll never be a subscriber. Trust is hard to recover once lost. Guess Google is going to find that out the hard way.
It was pretty abstract, but I think it's meant to be mostly high level. "looking at the world through the lens of software" from what I got, is just seeing all problems as solvable by software. Not sure how much deeper you can take it, other than just giving a whole bunch of examples of problems to be solved with software.
they are "only" doing a preorder, the launch seem to be in summer 2014
There will be a lot of opposition (much of it valid) to these cards, but I really think its a step in the right direction. I can easily see this as a stepping stone to having your cards directly integrated into your mobile.
The algorithm I used app is a simple modification of the standard elo formula, which I got from the US Chess Federation's rating estimator[1]. For two player games, the app uses the standard elo formula. For games with more than two players, it simply calculates the expected score as per a two player game and then divides it by (num_players/2). For instance, a two player game with player A and B rated 1200 would result in a expected score of .5 for each player. In a four player game, the pair-wise expected score is calculated by averaging the opponents' ratings and then using a standard elo calculation. This is then divided by (4/2) to give the expected score. For those interested, I wrote a blog post where I go into more detail [2].

Although this is a pretty crude method, I've been pretty happy with the results. I run a Settlers of Catan league where 111 rated games have been played. Here's a graph of all players who have played more than 5 games: http://imgur.com/ZoICwNM

Here's the rating distribution: http://imgur.com/Rot4zkF

The current ratings for those in the graph above:

1185

1079

1067

1043

1001

991

975

973

937

928

916

912

906

854

Median: 974, Mean: 983

Overall, I think this algorithm produces more accurate ratings than many other multiplayer rating systems, including the one the official online Settlers of Catan site uses (I discuss this in my blog post). This algorithm does break down if there is a really large rating difference (i.e. 500+ points) between one player and the rest, but that's a pretty unlikely scenario.

The source code is available on Github [3]. Pull requests welcome! If anybody wants to create an iOS version, I'd be happy to collaborate and help out in any way. There is also a desktop version I made eons ago for those without Android—unfortunately, I never added in two player functionality [4].

[1] http://www.glicko.net/ratings/approx.pdf
[2] http://www.gautamnarula.com/rating/
[3] https://github.com/gnarizzy/gameratingcalculator
[4] http://www.mediafire.com/download/3n3ah3lt571ngy2/Game+Ratin...
amex cards all have chip versions that you can request for free
I don't think the authors issue is with the Mail Order Rule, but instead card processing networks.

Visa and MasterCard will allow you to authorize cards for a pre-order (actually for any transaction, they don't care if it is a pre-order ot not), and then finalize the purchase when you ship. They do not allow you to use finalized funds as a business loan.
Although I disagree with almost everything you've said in this thread, I appreciate the different perspective and your points are certainly reasonable (ie. have given me something to think about). However, this:

>> 3) More people are getting their code out to the world than before Github.

> It's the conceit of every generation that they exceed the previous, but this statement (and the implication that this is due to Github's introduction) is simply not true.

has me scratching my head. I would have assumed "there are more people writing code now than five years ago" and "Github has enabled/encouraged/caused/what-have-you proportionately more programmers to publish their code" to both be true statements, leading to an obvious conclusion. What do you think I'm missing?
HAHA. As a PhD student, I agree with most of your sentiments. The PhD application process is nothing, try applying for fellowships. Go to a prestigious institution, pull allnighters, to get a subpar gpa, and have no time for volunteering activities. These are the criteria you need to satisfy to get something like NSF GRP (Broader Impact is 50% of the application). You might have a better shot at a lesser prestigious university with a not-so-great engineering program and being a super smart person, killing it. Then, apply for fellowship --> you will get it. It is all a rubric.

Now on to the game of academia. It is one that is based on reputation, papers, and not money. No one cares for efficiency either and no one is building crap. All they are doing is trying out different "solutions," which may or may not make any sense. For instance, "hey guys, let's apply game theory to problem X, it will be a good/novel experiment and we can get a paper out of it." Waste of tax dollars. The logical answer that solves problem X might have already been solved and can be solved using ordinary methods, but academia doesn't want that. Research labs have business models, keep proposing new complexity on complexities, very unnecessary. Overcrowded fields like computer vision reek of this.
> This is a concern to me because it doesn't make sense to me that somebody who tries to kill somebody but does a poor job of it should be punished less harshly than somebody who tries to kill somebody and manages to pull it off.

Your friend calls you. The police have discovered you tried to hire a hitman to kill your wife. You despair, but then realize you won't get punished any worse for killing her before they show up...
Most rewards cards are linked to your phone number, which you can use at the POS instead of the card.
well, not quite "all", looks like this one has a limit of 3 cards at a time on the Echo card, where the Coin has a limit of 8 at a time.
Wrong. Per the FTC, all you need is a "reasonable basis" for an express or implied shipping date.

http://www.business.ftc.gov/documents/bus02-business-guide-m...
Because they aren't selling supercomputers?
What if we view sentencing not as punishment or revenge, but rather as something that we do for the safety of society?

It isn't clear to me that an attempted murderer is less dangerous to society than a successful murderer (unless we assume that all failed murder attempts failed due to incompetence, but I don't think that is safe to say), surely they should both be kept off the streets for the same amount of time.
So none of the uploaders in a swarm, no matter how many times they have shared the file, will be considered to have shared the file? Bittorrent will just be impenetrable to the law? I agree that copyright law needs reform, but I don't see how granting blanket immunity to Bittorrent users makes sense.
I am reasonably confident that people pre-order items, and are charged for them before they ship, all the darn time.

For the OP to combine two entirely separate things--1) I think it's a bad solution, and 2) and it's illegal to charge money that way--makes it just seem like he has an axe to grind. Those things have nothing to do with each other. The security issues are at least related to the technology, and he could have brought them together: "I think it's a bad solution because it involves challenges to doing it securely, as demonstrated by..."

But the payment stuff? Come on.
But when do you hit the line on when things are fad or not? 5 years, 10 years, 20 years? How about 50 years?

The word "fad" is being redefined as the cycles are getting shorter. Maybe Node, Ruby, Go are/(will be) all just 10 year fads, but when do we redefine the word to be more appropriate?
One other issue to consider is that AWS Micro DB Instances have "low" I/O capacity and no provisioned IOPS.

Last I heard Heroku is hosted on top of AWS. Does anyone know if Heroku's cheapest Postgres plan is hosted on a dedicated AWS Micro instance, or do they buy large AWS instances and host multiple databases on each box thereby potentially providing more IO performance?
The whole point of chips is they can't be cloned. This whole product works by cloning.
They say Google is working to address it, so presumably this is still an issue in the current shipping version of Chrome (eg: on Nexus 5)?

So then the interesting thing is whether it is also an issue in the new WebView which is Chromium based. If it is, then it is actually burned into the ROMs and requires an OTA to address. By far my biggest problem with the Android update situation is that security issues are baked into ROMs on locked phones and consumers have literally no physical way to protect themselves against vulnerabilities that are discovered. Google's own phone, the Nexus One, has not received an OTA since October 2011, which must surely mean it has some serious security flaws discovered by now. I think Google is very lucky that a persistent, widespread security epidemic has not occurred based on one of these "baked in" flaws.
These guys have been around much longer than Coin. I think this goes to show how much hype being part of YC can generate.

Kudos to both products.
Credit/Debit Card can be replaced on the spot at some bank.
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Feels similar to amazon subscription goods, but just accessible from the phone. Kinda nice idea. Wonder if it will pick up traction.
So, how do you remove a cork from a bottle like that?
Maybe I'm missing your point. You don't lose the ability to get a new card quickly with Coin (i.e., Coin gets stolen, cancel cards and Amex will send a new one), you just don't gain the ability to get a replacement Coin.
The product manages to create more headaches for the consumer

I have 4 credit cards in my wallet. If this consolidates down to 1 then I don't care what else it does.
SpaceSniffer is another great tool for Windows that uses a treemap to visualize files on disk.

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer
rocksdb: Embedded key-value store for fast storage
Yeah. Wells Fargo is just about the worst bank ever. Even says a WF District Manager I know.
Is hiring a hitman who successfully kills somebody the same crime as successfully killing somebody yourself?

I understand not increasing the punishment of certain types of crimes so that we don't create incentives to escalate (for example, don't give the death penalty for armed robberies, because then all armed robberies would turn into murders as well), but in the case of attempted murder, the person doing it has already committed themselves to killing somebody. There aren't really many ways that can escalate. If they tried to kill somebody, realized that they failed, and had the opportunity to try again, I don't think there is much incentive currently for them to not try again.
Well, of course if you charge someone for a product and don't ship it, then you owe them their money back.

I'm not sure there's anything illegal about it if you give them their money back -- I'm pretty sure I've tried to buy something from a seller on Amazon, been charged, it turned out they were unable to fulfill, they refunded. It happens.

Now, if you run out of money and go out of business without giving everyone their money back -- that's still not exactly 'illegal', it's not in and of itself fraud. Companies go out of business with creditors all the time, almost any time anyone does go out of business they owe someone something (I mean, in a sense, that's what makes you go out of business!)
IIRC, you get a dedicated database not a dedicated PG cluster, so presumably their will be multiple plans hosted on the same underyling server instance.
My answer is too long to fit this comment box, so here it is:
http://paste.lisp.org/display/139933
As a little kid I once asked my father "how does the eye work". He brought me a picture in an encyclopedia showing a disection of an eye ball with all the parts being given their medical, technical names. But my thirst of knowledge was great so my father told me about Newton and light rays, the lenses and how they focus the image on the retina's surface.

My thirst was not yet quenched, but my father didn't know what else to say, and I grew unpatient. Later in life I learned that the image projecten on the retina is then turned into electric impulses that go to the brain, are converted into a state of your psyche and perceived as an image coming from your senses.

For me it's a bit miraculous and divine how it happens. Back to your question: I don't really think that there is an answer to it, because even if you take a single letter on your screen, all the voltage shifts that happen inside of the machine are very complex, multiple hardware elements take part in it, there is the graphics processor and the screen, the different memory parts and the operating system that manages everything. In such a complicated structure it is very hard to say what actually happens that you can see a group of pixels on your screen that represents a letter "A". And even if you take a very simple microcontroller and a simple display there is quite a lot of operations going on inside, the data being stored, pushed through the arithmetic and logic unit, through the registers and so on. So there is no simple answer as the letter "a" is not a simple high voltage state in one single transistor, and even if you look at a really single byte or an electric impulse it probably does nothing at all.
> I think you can genuinely believe that you know something until you are called out on it, only to realise that you can't even explain it.

When I was a young boy, my mom always used to tell me that the true benchmark of whether you understand something is whether you can explain it to someone else. It's a great self-checking habit to form indeed, because relating knowledge forces one to organize it and whittle it down to essentials, and often new insights spring forth in the process. So I really frequently grab someone blessed with curiosity and just talk at them about what I'm doing.

Good old mom wisdom.
It's so easy to steal someone's credit card that I can name at least 10 people off the top of my head who have had it done, and I'm not even trying. I myself have had it happen twice. The good news is, you just cancel it, there's a paper trail to track the people who did it, and you have fraud protection.

All of that can be done better though when you get off the credit card rail, which is what I'm working on. tommy@thecityswig.com if you wanna talk
Yes, it's correct. Giving it more thought, I agree that the scenario of original article should be prosecuted, barring issues of entrapment, unless the perpetrator understood that it's a fake (and he didn't).

That still leaves a point about such "avatars" being legal if made/bough/sold for recreational purposes if everyone knows that noone is getting harmed. i.e., treating childporn as evil not in itself, but because it's evidence and financing for actual evil acts.
> Is hiring a hitman who successfully kills somebody the same crime as successfully killing somebody yourself?

Yes.

(Well, hiring the hitman may itself be other crimes, but once you've done it, its the same set of crimes for "hiring the hitman to kill somebody" + "hitman kills them" and "hiring the hitman to kill somebody" + "you kill them yourself". For you, at least. Less crimes for the hitman, though.)
From what I understand, the value would be based on a multiple of each traffic source and the likelihood of it standing the test of time...
SEO traffic can expect to trade at 1.5x-2x
Paid search traffic at a 6 month multiple
direct navigation traffic at a 3x-4x multiple

Also, It would be based on the previous 6 months average... Not the current year sales...

Personally, I am way to skeptical of this guy finding a buyer, and than scamming him by buying up inventory through friends and entities he creates, knowing he will get 2.5x+ on each product he buys.
The other issue is that prose is horribly inefficient for transmitting concepts direct to a person's brain. It's a representation of verbalization, and verbalization is based on our limitations around hearing & generating sounds. We end up doing a 2-step process with reading & writing in prose.
Er, are you aware of the C++ standard library's std::nth_element() function? (Even my "pure C" programs tend to be compiled with g++ to gain access to that and std::sort().)
So true. Not even western world, the US. In my travels I have never found a place that is as open and easy to return stuff as America. Even the same company has different return policies depending on the country. H&M has 30 day return for cash with tag & receipt. H&M Brussels will not give your money back, only credit. It might even be only 14 days their I forget.

We pay less of a risk premium in the US. Some of these scams will drive that up.
> 1. Standards. The Dart VM is not part of any web standard

I can see how many would see that as tail wagging the dog. But I see your point. And I agree it should be part of a standard. However I would imagine (and correct me if I am wrong) it is a lot easier to approve and go through the standard approval if there is already an implementation out there to look at. Standardizing on a hypothetical future feature via a large committee, doesn't work too well.

> 2. Effort.

Here, again, this is not a hypothetical, we haven't proven if it is possible we are just dreaming about adding a VM. Dartium works today. Presumably other would have a bit less work to do but it depends on how DOM interaction differs between them.

EDIT: 2nd part initially completely didn't make sense
That's a very 20th century view of birthing positions and certainly not in poorer countries. Clean equipment, good pre-natal care and general excellent health plus some good luck are needed more.

http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/globalissues.asp

"Outcomes in these maternity centers were so good that Dr. Araujo began to study what the traditional midwives did, and ended up incorporating hammocks, more patience, and upright positions for birth into the hospital"
The US is shifting to EMV at merchants by 2015, see: http://corporate.visa.com/newsroom/press-releases/press1142....
It's one thing to attempt to monetize a platform, it's another completely to sell out your users and blur the lines of what's ethical.

Their methods are neither new nor innovative. They have simply been used historically by less-than-honest organizations.

When SourceForge started monetizing by confusing their users, they opened themselves up to criticism.
Just DDL transaction make life so much easier but there is much more like Materialized Views, Advanced Data type, Efficient JOIN, pg_stat_statements, PL, full text search, GIS features (pretty useful to do near by query), fuzzy search, ISO SQL standard compliant, Piece of cake replication.

Do some search and give it a try one weekend.. Trying it is loving it.
It's probably too strong to say that they can't be cloned, but I don't think the banks would be very happy at all with someone selling chip skimmers to end users. I'm not sure if users should be happy with that either.
Grenade built from items available inside airport terminal (post-screening)
England has been at war for most of _any_ part of it's history, including the last couple of centuries.

"without major wars or revolutions for centuries" doesn't seem to discount overseas wars.

For what it's worth, the first world war had a major impact on the social life of British people by the simple device of killing a large fraction of the upper class men, and a smaller fraction of working class men. That contributed to the subsequent rise of the middle classes, which may have come to an end recently.
I went HTML then PHP (hadn't discovered CSS yet in 2004), then MySQL, then back to HTML/CSS. Then Javascript, jQuery, Ruby/Rails, since then.

But I would say rails. Ruby/Rails is way easier than Javascript for new devs I feel like.
Brute forcing 128 bit encryption, depending on the algorithm used, is not trivial.

Remember, the difficulty goes up EXPONENTIALLY for every bit you add.
Yes, but the judge isn't just using a shoe-horn to fit Google's actions in to fair use he's using a car compactor.
If this is a novel antibiotic with any therapeutic potential, please let's outlaw feeding it to cattle by the ton.
Hmm, that seems strange, but on the other hand felony murder makes sense to me so I'm not sure why I should find this strange. My intuition on what punishments should be dolled out for extreme crimes is probably a little wonky.
That is absolutely ridiculous. Less than 1% of 1% of mysql users are using replication. Suggesting it is a "total non-starter" for most production uses is crazy.
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Actually I wouldn't say Go is a better C++.

Rust is a better C++. Go is.. weird. I would even say it is a better Java.
I ran Gentoo as my main/desktop OS for a year or so. Have multiple machines that run ArchLinux and Ubuntu. I don't think Windows is fundamentally broken.

"This isn't a native feature for Windows"

That line makes no sense at all.
Yea, I thought it was kind of cool - seems like a simple target for Amazon acquisition but I'm so dependent on Amazon in every day life that I don't even know that I'd notice/if it would be worth it for them, but I think its a nice idea
Yeah, you're right: had I not written the code myself, it would not have been clear to me what that special line did or why i+3 without documentation. Your proposed comment describes it nicely; I've added it verbatim:

https://github.com/naftaliharris/lazysort/commit/a56f30adef7...
That's correct, but see my response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6736764 - that was 18 years ago, the industry has changed a lot since then.
Take a look at your wallet now. There are three cards in there you don't need. That guy's business card you put in your wallet as a nice gesture, but never called. A store loyalty card you can't remember the last time you visited. The buy 9 get 1 sandwich free card you forget to pull out everytime you get a ruben. They're still in your wallet because you simply don't care enough to even filter your wallet on a regular basis. Why would anybody care so much now with Coin?

The future is no wallet at all. This in-between technology is both more expensive and complex.
More or less:

"Q: Echo mimics just 3 cards?

A: No. Echo mimics an unlimited number of cards with the help of our free mobile app - simply drag and drop any card you’d like Echo to mimic within the app."
None of that has anything to do with postgresql. Pgadmin is crappy, don't use it. Use one of the dozens of database independent admin tools, or just stick with the best tool: psql.