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It's unfortunate that a possibly productive member of society has to go to jail for this.

At the same time, I wonder at what seems like a tone of surprise about the outcome. What he did is not materially different from breaking into secure offices and stealing copies of private documents. Apparently he or others working with him also made donations in the order of millions of dollars using stolen credit card numbers from this hack. His punishment should be of the same order as someone who did those things. Political motivation is not a get out of jail free card.

Presumably he knows this and the emphasis in this direction is the work of the article's author. Or maybe I'm picking up on something that's not there.
The headline is provocative, and certainly not absolutely true. It would be better phrased as 'Why mongodb is unsuitable for most use cases'.

However she then wrote a full piece justifying her position. We might disagree but she provided valuable insight.

Most people here did nothing of the sort. And the argument that 'it would be better to dive in rather than read blog posts' is a generic argument against anyone reading or writing technical blog posts.

Surely you can't really mean that.
I was thinking exactly the same, the photos with the forced distance between them looks really weird.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=t3+magazine&tbm=isch#q=cos...

I do get what you are saying but you are literally judging the magazine by it's cover.

If I was the editor a tech magazine and knew my readership breakdown was 70/30 then I would be inclined (given that I have to have either a woman or man on the cover) towards putting the woman on the cover.
I had a somewhat similar story a few years ago with Bejeweled 2 (except that I didn't seek a way to cheat, just came across it).

I wrote it up here: http://timotheeboucher.com/on-writing-laconic-error-messages... but the gist of it was that their score submission endpoint required a checksum, but the error message if the checksum was wrong was:

<Response type="error" reason="Checksum failed (ext_csm = cc7ae8d3d26d911f9d6e6178d93b9fc0, int_csm = c1f19e476622b8df7f830ee0c45df533)" server_ver="1.0"/>

Yes, the `int_csm` value is the checksum the server expected instead of the one I had passed. It would tell you "you're wrong. But here is the correct answer". I could then just re-submit with the proper value…
This is fantastic. Mad props to Brian for this.

While I think some of the posters here have valid points regarding performance, merely being able to do this in a browser makes this capability available to a ton of people who would otherwise be intimidated with the process of installing or compiling FFMPEG.

This is a long way from an alert() box, which in the mid-90s the only thing I saw Javascript good for.... aside from making pointless in-page clocks. Wow.
The ghost of Storm King rises again.
I too used to think traveling sounded more stressful than it's worth, but going overseas with friends who are veteran globetrotters helped me see the experience through their eyes, and I eventually got infected with the travel bug. Somewhere along the way I figured out how to embrace the discomfort. yrmv of course; there's nothing wrong staying home.
Yes, replacement rate is about 2.2 per woman in my memory. The only reason its as high as it is is because of our relatively open immigration policy.
and the stratfor people are all innocent even after the leaks. that will surely tell people that they should not be activists but live within the law.
China's Fertility Rate is Below Replacement
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You can do extreme performance coding for Java, Javascript, R, Python, Haskell or the language of your choice as long as the number-crunching is done by calling low-level heavily optimized code. For example, PyCUDA:

http://mathema.tician.de/software/pycuda/

And this is where I get told by data scientists that they don't wish to support such code. And IMO that's fine for piddling around and experimentation. But for production, on thousands to hundreds of thousands of servers, running 24/7, at companies with billions and billions of dollars in the bank, that's leaving way too many transistors and electrons on the table for me to stomach. In contrast, here's what you can achieve when you do pay attention to these things:

http://istc-bigdata.org/index.php/mapd-a-way-to-map-big-data...
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Screen scraping is now considering hacking? Well, I guess Andrew Auernheimer "Weev" did get convicted for something similar.
> But I remember my younger years very clearly, when something that sat on your director's desk for a week would plop down on yours at 6PM with a next-day deadline

That's a sign of a badly-run company. It happens, but by no means all companies are like that (and in an area like IT with generally high mobility, it might be a sign that you should be updating your CV). There _are_ genuine emergencies, as you say, but they're typically rare.
Still not available in Canada.
My wife and I are "vegan" in that we try not to eat animal products. But what's made us able to do it for 2 years now is the flexibility we give ourselves. For us it's mostly not an ethical choice, so we don't feel bad when a sandwich comes with a slice of cheese, or if there is only pizza to eat at a party, or whatever.

It would be way to difficult, and just not worth it, to be strict about being vegan to a t. So, if you are vegan for reasons other than ethics/morals then I'd strongly recommend you accept some animal products in your diet to make issues like "Is there butter in my chana masala?" a non issue.
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Are you a woman? If not, then you have no right to be tired of this kind of “woman analysis” (which is not, in fact, what the attached article is). It’s analyzing media and its approach to the spending habits of its target market, and how they miss the opportunity to introduce new advertisers to cover the fact that women in the UK spend on average 40% more annually on technology purchases than they do cosmetic purchases.

This is not asking for a Pink Power Wired; it's saying that the publishers of “women’s” magazines are leaving advertising dollars on the table and potentially missing the needs and/or interests of their purported audience by ignoring technology purchases and dealing with them in a non-sexist, adult way.

Quite specifically, this article isn't about you—especially if you're a man. It's about how the magazines, their advertisers, and manufacturers are missing an opportunity to be more meaningful and targeted toward the needs of their audience, which is increasingly more sophisticated than the magazines themselves.
Its reassuring to see that at least one other person has the same viewpoint as me, when I seem to be surrounded by people who 'love' traveling
Would you care to explain with an example.
Have you not considered the possibility that many people here actually do already understand what the argument is, and have already investigated the costs and drawbacks for themselves?

If so, it seems as though you're simply hiding a position that you're not willing to defend.
There are two big issues with quoted catalog sizes.

#1 - Catalog sizes are inflated for international services

Services in multiple countries have larger catalogs because they include content in local languages. This means much of the catalog is there, but less useful for you (unless, of course, you're into German polkas or Swedish midsummer dances). XBox and Spotify do tally all of these up to arrive at their totals.

#2 - The full catalog in international services isn't usually available to you

At least on Spotify, you cannot access all of the items in the catalog of another country (e.g. with a US account, you cannot access all of the Dutch catalog, I tried). I'm assuming this is also the case for XBox. They list the total, but access is limited by billing address or geo location.

In that context I suggest that you and everyone else checks out the mother of all streaming services, Rhapsody (18MM songs, US only, i.e. these are actually 18MM songs available to you). I've tried the others, but time and again I found Rhapsody's catalog to be somehow bigger, more older albums, more classical music, etc.

Note: I've been a Rh member since 2004 (longer if you count listen.com). Use it on my Android, iOS, Desktop and Sonos. Haven't bought a CD since I joined (except Dutch ones, of course)
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I've only looked briefly (mostly wikipedia and the linked article), but I didn't see anything that referenced lawbreaking on the part of the Stratfor or its employees. Can you post a citation?
And the judges husband is a stratfor client directly affected by the hack..

edit: wrong word
Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr, tells a story about one particular airline she just can't fly on. The system lets her buy tickets just fine, but when she shows up to fly, they've never heard of her.

I guess that's one way to solve the test data vs real data problem.
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... and only 24 weeks after it was promised "within weeks."
"No matter what the technology, a sustained 2.3% energy growth rate would require us to produce as much energy as the entire sun within 1400 years." [1]

I recently came across this blog in an HN user's comment. I found the writing clear, detailed, and well supported with math. The author has a PhD in astrophysics, so I imagine he deserves greater credibility than a pseudointellectual.

So here's what this guy is arguing in the first post: as we extrapolate our current economic growth rate, we begin to run up against thermodynamic limits. Therefore, it's absurd to extrapolate that our economy will grow at the same pace forever. That is, technology can't fix everything.

I would agree that outright genocide is a bad idea. But I think population control has its merits.

On another note, can someone explain to me how the Irish Potato Famine was the result of population policy? As far as I know, the Irish screwed up because they put their eggs in a single basket. I don't see how this is relevant to eugenics.

[index] http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/post-index/

[1] http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...
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Thanks! My comment is basically a tl;dr of a book I read called "The Coming Population Crash and Our Planet's Surprising Future" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Population-Crash-Surprising...).

Terrible title for a great book that isn't nearly as alarmist as it sounds. If anything it covers how we're not breeding to replacement numbers and are facing labour shortages as our current population ages in the developed world.
Another interesting division, from Software Estimation by McConnell is Estimates vs Targets vs Commitments. You could add "Goals" and "Plans" to that perhaps.
See "github flow": http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html
Definitely not the worst. I work with it every day and most of the time it behaves quite well. Glassfish 4 (Java EE 7 support) behaves relatively well, too. I do wish they made it more light weight and faster, but clearly it is good enough to be bundled with NetBeans 7.4.
It's a very cool product but panoramas still look awkward and awful to me.
They are not "disgraceful" anymore than anything else on the shelves is, You have magazines aimed at girls in their early teens discussing sexual techniques, you have magazines telling women if they are not a size 0 then nothing they do matters, you have magazines telling women that if they are not devastatingly good in bed their partners will cheat on them, you have magazines telling women their entire value lies in what they look/smell like and dress in.

If anything is disgraceful those are disgraceful, by comparison "look at the tits on that" magazines are not, hell if you measured the body shape of the women in the "disgraceful" mags compared to Cosmo I wonder which one would have the most realistic average body type.

Pornography is legal and they are not (under most definitions) even pornography and there is nothing wrong with sexual urges or wanting to see the naked human form.
90% of the time I get out of this echo chamber I find myself trapped in discussing the last episode of X TV series or Y sports match. I'm fine with that, but sometimes I'd prefer to talk about other stuff and finding the right people blindly can be hard.
I get an error when trying to sign up.
Jeremy Hammond? Doesn't seem very anonymous to me.
I agree, just want to change to "ask open questions" with emphasis on "open".
Script injection in whois responses?
Deezer - 30 million
One of the reasons why I love JS (and don't fully understand it)
For more background, The Rolling Stone had a good piece on him last year after he was arrested: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Hammond: Enemy of the State [0]

[0] http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-rise-and-fall-o...
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> “The same beast bit us both,” Hammond said. “They went after Aaron because of his involvement in legitimate political causes – they railroaded charges against him, and look what happened.”

First let me say that I am pretty sympathetic to Hammond and Swartz (though I think their actions were totally different). I am sympathetic because I've been in Hammond's shoes actually. I had my door kicked in when I was 15 for things I shouldn't have done online.

What Hammond has said here really bothers me for two reasons. The first is that he attempt to conflate things that are not equal in any way. Swartz may have had a "legitimate political cause" but he sullied it (in my opinion) with illegal activities. Anonymous may also have a legitimate gripe but their actions were illegal and Hammond is now paying the price. That's how it works. It is wrong to act as if you somehow should be looked at differently by the law because you had a "legitimate political cause."

Also, it's really not fair at all for Hammond to compare his situation to Swartz. The damage done by what Swartz did is nothing compared to damage and potential for real harm with what Hammond did. Maybe I'm alone in this but I think that is an asinine comparison that does Swartz's reputation a disservice.
As opposed to MySQL, which is respected and certainly not a target widespread of hatred and mockery?
Yes? Branching (and the speed with which "git checkout -b" runs) is half the point of git!

(Never going back to the bad old days of 'branching' in SVN.)
Let me look one up in my enemy combatants handbook.
but in the past revealing crimes in those secret documents often lead to trials. now, watergate would have not have ended with 43 incarcerations from nixon admin and his resignation, but probably with journalists from the post being sent to Guantanamo for reporting on national security matters.
Original website from 2011: http://jonaspfeil.de/ballcamera
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Are Git and Mercurial Anti-Agile?
That link is awesome, I haven't locked down a comprehensive workflow yet and this helps a lot.
>ask questions!

it would be nice. Unfortunately asking questions i feel like i'm interrogating or intruding onto somebody's else private property.
So if someone does nasty things, but getting access to evidence for these nasty things is impossible without breaking a law, how do you suggest that one should go about proving that the aforementioned nasty things were committed?
If you've got the time, try writing one in python and see what you think.
No problem, I will be waiting for my compensation when you get hella rich ;-)
The Answer To Why Silicon Valley Funds Instagrams Not Hyperloops
How to get out of a one-on-one conversation:

OPTION 1

You: "So who are you hoping to meet tonight?"

Them: "I'm hoping to meet with someone that does $x."

You: "Oh I just met Bob, who's into $x. He's over there, do you want to meet him?"

Them: "Sure!"

You go and introduce them, then after a minute excuse yourself. They'll hardly notice.

OPTION 2

You: "So who are you hoping to meet tonight?"

Them: "I'm hoping to meet with someone that does $x."

You: "Great! I'm looking to meet someone that does $y. Have you met anyone here that's into that?"

Them: "Oh yeah, Steve over there works in $y!"

You: "Oh interesting. Would you introduce us?"

They go introduce you to Steve and will likely (hopefully) excuse themselves shortly thereafter.

OPTION 3

And finally, if neither of you can make an introduction (eg, if you both just arrived):

You: "So who are you hoping to meet tonight?"

Them: "I'm hoping to meet with someone that does $x."

You: "Great! I'm looking to meet someone that does $y. Have you met anyone here that's into that?"

Them: "Not yet, I just got here."

You: "Me too. Let's go meet some people together. That looks like a good group over there." (Point to group of 3+ people)

Them: "Sure!"

You walk up to the group together and make introductions. The group will naturally split up within a few minutes and you'll be left speaking with new people.
I definitely blame Google most for not sticking with their original plan of stopping support for h.264 in Chrome 10. They could've done like Apple, when they decided not to support Flash, and Apple "won" - why? Because them dropping the support for a proprietary plugin was the right thing to do.

Google could've done the right thing and dropped the proprietary h.264, too, but they didn't, and instead left Mozilla alone, as they "watched and saw" how things were going, instead of pushing VP8 as hard as possible to Android devices/chips, and making VP8 the default codec for Youtube, with fallback to Flash, for browsers who didn't support it.

That being said, I think Mozilla adopting Cisco's "open source" binary blob for h.264 turned a situation from bad to worse. Daala better be 2-3x more efficient at the same quality than HEVC/VP9, and arrive in 2015, otherwise the codec war is probably over (at least for the rest of this decade).
> Rau, in other words, is the very opposite of the sort of computer programmer you would imagine: a guy with pasty skin who hasn't showered in days, sitting in a dark room tapping away on a keyboard through the night.

I wish they would stop projecting such stereotypes of teenage male programmers. Isn't it possible to celebrate Rau and others like her without what seems like attempts at character assassination on male programmers?
"Abortions for all!"

"Boo!"

"Very well, no abortions for anyone."

"Boo!"
I think what you mean is they were eventually confirmed by repeatable experiments )even if eventually was shortly after the theory in some cases). Science begins with theory. It's appropriate to criticize people presenting theories as likely without evidence, but it's important to distinguish theory that is intended to be tested, but just can't or hasn't been yet from that which doesn't really expect to be tested.
Hey, I read you book! I thought you will never go academia... things change...
To be honest, I'm also someone who doesn't mind jumping online to fix something quickly in off hours. But I think the ad that prompted the post by dhh is part of a trend in our society that is only going to get worse. It's ok for you and me who can find a job in a week, but that isn't most people. Most people don't have the option of telling their boss that it's after hours. They'll lose their job, or significantly endanger their job/raise/bonus/performance eval/etc. if they do so.

There has been an amazing increase in productivity over the last 20+ years, but all it's led to is companies making their employees do more. The ads just reinforce that this is ok. That you are at the mercy of your job 24/7/365. It's a disturbing trend.
Those of us outside America never hear the word "Liberty" and we don't understand or care why or how it differs from the word "Freedom".

They're both just tools of manipulation.
Generally, I agree.

I worked on one website where we made a pre-prod version public but restricted by IP. We had a load test vendor (whose IPs were whitelisted) hammer the site from locations worldwide. This let us compare latency from, say, APAC vs EMEA.
Everything at Amazon is about creating scale.

Prime exists to get shipping volumes up far enough to pull things like trucking items daily from Vegas to Southern California, directly into the USPS system at the sorting facilities - and eventually direct deliveries.

The other thing - which lead to AWS, FBA, etc, was that each Amazon department had to make a globally usable API, even for (then!) inside facing stuff.

Combining those and you get a giant. Hopefully Bezos will stick around for a while yet - I can't see Amazon continuing to not maximize profits in exchange for volume very long after he's gone.
pg has said that he considers How to Win Friends and Influence People to be the most inspiring book on leadership[0]. I think it's especially helpful for hackers, because it basically lays out instructions for how to meet (and then exceed) people's social expectations. A lot of non-hackers seem to have learned those skills in middle school, while many of us were busy learning other skills. Learning to "play along" and meet expectations is enormously valuable, in business and in life.

I had a bit of an aversion to the premise of the book at first, because it seemed manipulative to me somehow ("winning" and "influencing" people, ie. thinking of them as systems and trying to "hack" them) but I eventually came to see how narcissistic that was--I am not superhuman and cannot exert mind control, so any social "hacking" is really just using the system the way it is designed to be used. At the end of the day, most of Carnegie's advice boils down to being a nice person and putting yourself in other people's shoes often, but with examples of how that sort of behavior can be beneficial to you.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6636086
For many people getting the data from A to B as reliable as possible is more important than getting max performance. If that's something you need to worry about, you either end up implementing a worse TCP on top of UDP, or wondering why data disappear without notice.

Dealing with multicast is a real pain in the neck to deal with in your network infrastructure unless you only want it on one subnet, which restricts you just as much as traditional broadcast.

multipath is either something you leave to the routers, or use a protocol such as SCTP or, hope multipath-TCP will come to your OS in the near future, or you manage it in the application.

It's unclear what you mean by server to many, in this context it sounds like what you'd use a zmq socket to fan out messages for.

The queue mechanism in TCP/IP are for the transport layer, not for implementing application policy.
Is "Radio" supposed to be Rdio?
Not sure. You might have to take one for the team like with other acts of civil disobedience.

That said, in this case, were nasty things uncovered? I can't find anything about that. Also, mixing investigative journalism with theft and use of other people's credit card numbers is probably not the best way to maintain an appearance of innocence.
I hate to come off as anti-intellectual, but science is bound by the burden of proof and has no capacity to account for human ingenuity or dramatically different models of consumption, production and growth. Yet history shows we can expect precisely these kinds of changes, every time.

There is lots of writing and historical context for how Malthus and his theories influenced the day of the potato famine, google around for it and draw your own conclusions.
Microsoft's CEO selection: The unanswered questions