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Any Linux alternative to this? Nice work.
This reminds me of the fungus you see growing on the sides of distillery facilities (if you ever go through bourbon country in Kentucky, all the whisky aging warehouses are covered in the stuff). Instead of radiation, they thrive on ethanol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudoinia_compniacensis
Except this isn't going to make sense unless my paycheck is in Bitcoin. I'll still have to do the currency conversion in my head because I get paid in USD.
I should note that our logged in application utilizes the API whereas our frontend site is primarily static content for purposes of page speed and to lighten server load.
I saw it across manufacturers the German manufacturers: BMW, Mercedes, and Audi.

On the Japanese side, Nissan/Infiniti abused the hell out of their 3.5L V6 in every car they made for more than a decade.

Regarding the BMW M5, the F10 is actually very similar to the F01 which came on the previous 7 series in 2008. Even the E60 was considered an upsized 3 series engine.[1]

Regardless, the point I'm trying to make is that Tesla is really trying to break new ground and needs about a decade for their vehicle platforms to mature before comparisons can be made with any of the current luxury brand. The other brands have a pedigree which goes back multiple decades so even their newer vehicles have a few decades of maturity baked into them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_F10#cite_note-12
> Probably due to the current building standards.

No, probably because consumers demand stairs. There are plenty of places with very lax building codes; do you really think that ladders to get to the second floor are common in those places? Damn near nobody is interested in a house that forces you to climb a ladder to reach your kitchen, the absence of such houses isn't creditable to people in wheelchairs. You are the one reducing this conversation to the absurd.

How "inclusive by default" are we suppose to be? Every few months you hear a story about firefighters cutting another fat person out of their own house, maybe we should double all door widths?

Maybe we should ban glass coffee tables and make them all out of plexiglass instead, in case anyone with vertigo wants one. That would be pretty "functionally and cost equivalent".

The only reason you think that is more absurd than replacing doorknobs is because I thought of it instead of you, and because I thought of it for the sole purpose of mocking it.
Slick tool.
There are scenarios where this does work and work well (e.g. static layout) but for responsive web layout design involving transitions this falls a little flat.
Yeah, it's unclear what Square's responsibility is in this situation, especially since they are indirectly performing transactions on your behalf.
I think the right direction would be to have a system of inter-bank transfers that was instantaneous, and didn't suck. The banking system in, say, the UK isn't perfect by a long shot, but at least I can move money from one bank account to another (across banks) a) instantaneously, and b) for free.

The fact that the US insists on operating on such a terrible system where it takes five business days reflects really badly on the infrastructure in place.

So on the one hand, I really like Square Cash as a concept. On the other, I wish banks would actually stop sitting on their hands and make a transfer system that works. Of course, there's no incentive for banks to do that, because they can keep charging money for 'instant' wire transfers right now.
I don't think examples are needed here, since this is just common sense.
Also if you could reply to the actual content of my post, that would be great.
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I think it's just that most folks can't yet imagine that Bitcoin is really going to revolutionize anything. For now, it's interesting speculation. It's really hard to see, for example, getting paid in BTC, or buying gas in BTC.
I'm sure the change was made because "The Right Way..." falls under the "gratuitous adjective" clause in the guidelines, no different than if it said "The #1 Way...".
This is a very bold statement. IO-bound means that the bottleneck is at IO. GPU has little benefit in IO.

Also, mapreduce is not embarrassingly parallel. Out of mapreduce, map is the only embarrassingly parallel phase. It has input parsing, shuffle, reduction phases that are not embarrassingly parallel.
Sure, I think that's a fair assessment. I've just gotten a few offers where they offer SIGNIFICANTLY below market rate and offer a lot of equity, and when I counter, they get upset. That's frustrating.

I'd happily take a pay cut to work for a startup that I believed in, but there is a lower limit that I can feasibly accept before I'm living paycheck to paycheck again, and that's just a miserable place to be, imo.
Most of the infinality patchset was merged into the Freetype project in time for version 2.5, and according to Distrowatch, OpenSUSE 13.1 is running 2.5.1.
In most states you are only required to have a license to drive on public roads. You are free to drive recklessly on your own private property.
Agreed. While I agree with his thesis that the risk with electric cars is much lower, this "analysis" is very infuriating. He speaks in absolutes and compares the entire automotive industry to a single premium luxury car model. Of course he knows this. This is just a PR piece instead of a well articulated rebuttal of the fire risk claims. That said, he presents it as something else altogether (and will defend it quite boldly).

Full disclosure: I'm an electric car owner (leaf) and I want to see tesla succeed, but Elon can be a rather poor spokesman at times.
I'm 14. Does HTML count? Because I have a hideous CSS-less page up somewhere from when I was 8.
Why non-smart especially ? You're free not to connect it to the internet.

Until they get "smart" enough to connect via someone else's WiFi hotspot within range.

If you think this is a joke or some sort of silly conspiracy theory, please consider the scheme BT already operate across the UK where you can piggy back on other people's home broadband to get wireless Internet access. On my fairly typical residential street, I already have several homes within range of this computer that are part of that scheme, which any wireless device in my home could be connecting to without my knowledge or consent, including those with access to my home network or that include equipment like cameras and microphones.

I expect BT could make a tidy profit from making deals with these kinds of companies so they can phone home using their built-in wireless without depending on the customer's own Internet provision, and given their track record, I have no reason to believe they would object to their networks being used for the purposes of intrusive surveillance. I am hoping that laws against these in-home privacy intrusions will arrive before it becomes the norm for consumer products to use the national wireless spynet for this kind of purpose, but given the way the market is going, I am not happy about our prospects on this one.
(not parent) Yes, since highend GPUs have 1,000's of cores, it makes sense (though I wouldn't expect one GPU core to be faster than one CPU core.)

Please, could you quote the CPU and GPU for which you got that 350x speedup? Also, for the 1000x speedup.

(also, it would be interesting to know the CPU/GPU that gave the original 1 hour to 0.2 sec (18,000x speedup) - I'm guessing other factors like network latency, low-end CPU + high-end CPU, optimized code etc were part of it.)
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Yes, I remembered hearing about it back then. But this does make me wonder if anything new has been found out about how it works. A quick wikipedia/google scholar suggests it hasn't, sadly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
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I'm also not convinced that selecting the data based on where Tesla's three fires occurred is the right why to analyze the statistics. Nor is it clear that the fires occuring in parking lots and similar areas involved solely stationary and unoccupied vehicles. In fact, all categories caused deaths at a rate similar to or greater than the fire rate except for one category, parking lots (which still caused 6% of deaths). Perhaps these fires involve someone driving too fast through a parking lot?
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That's not the point of the tulip mania comparison. It's more about the extraordinarily quick rise in price, and the (ir)rational choices/decisions that can follow.
I've started blogging for fun in May this year. When I started, I used Wordpress to start a blog ASAP. With all that is being said about blogs and revenues, I'm surprised blog engine still tries to focus their engine on the editorial part of the blog.

I couldn't find a blog engine that focused on A/B Testing and analytics. Is it because I missed something?
The problem today would be finding a buyer for those bitcoins.
I'm not sure where you got this from. But Visa already supports P2P payments for its acquirers: https://developer.visa.com/vpp/.

Venmo uses it. Square probably does it as well. Mastercard has an equivalent.
I think it's about the perspective that every problem can be solved with a hammer-like-thing, however inefficiently.
It's too bad your views don't represent the views of the vast majority of TV buyers.
> "we are paying you market rate, you are reinvesting some of that in exchange for equity"

We didn't represent it like that at all. We were very upfront that we just don't have the money to pay them today what they expect, but we believe that this is a good market and we have the right team to become successful. Also that we understand that this is a huge risk they're taking, and so we will reward that with much higher equity. Some people were ok with it, some weren't and passed on our offer, and we fully respected that.
>whereas our frontend site is primarily static content for purposes of page speed and to lighten server load.

Yeah, that's absolutely the right way to do it. So it's less "API-first", and more "API-first-unless-we-want-it-fast". =)
The point of the tulips argument is being missed. The point of the tulips argument is that everything looks great when the price is still increasing in a bubble. This is true whether you're talking about tulips in Nov 1636 or tech stocks in 1998 or Las Vegas real estate in 2005 or gold in 2012 or possibly Bitcoin today.
Your memory is correct.

http://www.caucho.com/resin-web-server/

http://www.caucho.com/resin-application-server-2/
That talks about TFS 2010. TFS has changed and improved a lot since that time. Especially the online version.

For starters, you can now use git with TFS 2013 and Visual Studio Online (formerly TFS Online) rather than TFVC. See - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mvpawardprogram/archive/2013/11/13/g...
This is great. Thanks for everything you do for the community of developers (.NET and not .NET)
Other commenters beat me to the first two examples, though there's more.

GoFY (which hilariously I'm a contributor on) was probably the closest analogy; it booted on x86. Russ Cox's did as well, but it was removed from the go tree years ago when it bitrotted.

Really it boils down to 1) custom linker scripts/targets and 2) a custom "OS" target that emulates syscalls/etc

I've done it a couple times (on ARM-based embedded devices), I end up throwing it out every time. Should get a proper writeup I suppose.
Why can't you already do that?
i have an NX Bravia and in the Channel Guide there are ads.. what about yours?
> interpreted languages

Being interpreted is an implementation detail. For example, V8 (Chrome's JS engine) doesn't have an interpreter. It compiles to (quick and dirty) machine code right off the bat. Later, the "hot" parts are compiled to better more optimized machine code.

There are also several C interpreters.
At the current coinbase exchange rate, your BTC holdings would be worth about $576,000,000. It would have been tough to buy $1000 worth back then, though.
Sounds to me like he is commenting on two things: many developers only see only type of problem; and many developers have a hard time picking the most appropriate tool any given problem. He's paraphrasing and expanding on the original metaphor by acknowledging our field's desire for standardization as an optimization strategy while introducing irony in the misuse/non-standard use of tools to complete the same function.
Square is taking advantage of the existing terrible system to give users an experience that is a step in the right direction.

But I agree having instantaneous transfers instituted at the bank level would be real progress. Unfortunately congress can't even agree on the incremental changes it makes to the existing system, so I have little hope for sweeping reform.
There are plugins for almost anything you want to do with wordpress. I'm a co-founder @ AdPushup, our tool allows bloggers to use A/B Testing on AdSense and other ad networks to improve ad revenues.
"maybe some products should not be free and the creators should consider paying for them"?

Not sure what you mean by the creators should consider paying for them.
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Is that a loss leader?

I shop at WinCo in the PacNW and $3/lb would be pretty standard for pork chops when buying a ~2-3 lb package.

I see that you're talking local grocer, but I assume their pricing wouldn't be that drastically different to a major chain.
Agreed. People have different appetite for risk and are at different stages in life, and it strikes me as very strange when folks - especially young, single founders with few living expenses - get upset when someone negotiates for higher compensation.
Someone might mention that the ebook (PDF, ePub and mobi) is provided free in the link.
I moved from Kubuntu to openSuse. On big plus is easier administration and almost generic packages (except branding). openSuse's Yast is basically a neat GUI wrapper and it works fine even if when you change some config manually.

You need to add Pacman repo to install the goodies.

You can choose to remain with FLOSS software or install proprietary packages if you want.

Besides, a distro doesn't matter much, what matters is what you do on that.
I'd happily force anyone building > X new dwellings to make sure that Y% of those are wheelchair accessible, or to have other accessible features.
It isn't clear to me that he meant "trend of whistle-blowers" to mean "whistle-blowers inspired exclusively by Snowden". Both Snowden and Chelsea Manning (who previously went by Bradley, not Daniel) are a part of the presumed trend.
Watch Dogs will be the tipping point for me, I think.
That bastard probably actually got a bunch of them for cheap too. YC was aware of bitcoins pretty early. I mean they have Coinbase...
There is no product on the market with similar-but-slightly-lower specs to the PS4 chip.
Unless you already have a large social following, the amount of time it takes to build a successful blog is too much on average.

There are many other activities which can pay off much better with the same amount of time invested.
Where are you getting your valuation multiple from? You seem extremely confident in stating "You'd probably be looking at about $10k for it usually: trailing year's proven revenue." I've been a successful website broker for many years now, and I have never seen anyone using trailing year's proven revenue in practice.

In my opinion with a few simple changes she could have gotten quite a bit more than $36k from the site. Flippa is usually the last avenue you should consider if you own a site with traffic and revenue history.
I think the commenter is taking a dig at the result of Atwood's Law in application here.

Maybe somebody should coin a new "Law". Something like, "The fact that something can (and apparently therefore will) be programmed in JavaScript doesn't mean that it will be (useful|performant|efficient|high-quality)."

I happen to agree with him. Just because something can be written in JavaScript doesn't make it a "good idea" for certain domains.
I have a hard time taking provocative titles and harshly written articles like these serious. Especially when the author has no real, credible experience building sustainable businesses.
You posted the same two problems in two different areas of the thread. As mentioned here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6763780), your first assertion is incorrect. Page loads do take longer, but you also win being able to support multiple frontends (consumer facing web, backend management web, mobile apps, desktop apps, other services, etc) much easier than if you had to maintain server-side rendering as well as an API. After the first page load, however, you're transferring far less data and will be loading pages much quicker. Sure, if you have a mostly static site, it's not worthwile, but if your app is highly personalized, this is a great direction to go.
I hope this could be cultivated and embedded around sites in Japan.
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A more accurate depiction for us is a separation of our public facing website, which is more for marketing, from our backend, logged in customer website, which is what I'd consider our actual application. A few endpoints carry over such as login, logout, forgot password, registration, and contact/support.
>There's no reason that API driven design has to involve client-side rendering. You can always consume your API on the backend and render on the server.

I'll give you that I suppose, though I understand it as a lightweight server, and heavier client. On the other hand, splitting up your components into API and page-rendering servers (in addition to your database, caching, messaging servers and your reverse proxies and load-balancers) complicates your deployment and maintenance and you pay for that - so it isn't quite the panacea and now you really have to decide whether it makes sense to go down that route, that early.
Well, it is partly backed by donuts, along with any other commodities or instruments of value that it can be easily exchanged with.
I'm trying to respond to the content of your post. If it's such common sense then it should be easy to come up with examples. I'd argue that there isn't much in between. Either you're building a company that has to sell a product or you're building a high growth monetize later company. This post is addressing the former option.
People were giving Bitcoins away at that point, as a way to spread the idea of the currency (people still do, just in smaller divisions of coins). But, no one was giving away, or selling, all of their coins because it would have destroyed the economy before it started. At that stage, the goal was to grow, spread awareness, and test the concept...not get rich.
I think the real issue is that the “larger amount of equity” needs to be significantly larger than it usually is in practice in order to justify the below-market salary for a strong hire.

(Not saying that you guys didn’t offer people enough equity, rather that I’ve seen many stories of startups not offering nearly enough to justify the risk and below-market salary.)
EFI even talks FAT and there exists licensing such that you can use FAT for EFI reasons without any patent worries.

Surely all the patents on FAT have expired by now regardless. Even FAT32 was introduced 17 years ago.
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> Isnt bitcoin supposed to be pseudonomous?

Yes, but the rest of the world isn't. Financial companies still must comply with laws (tax evasion, money laundering, etc) regardless if they're going dollars to euros or dollars to bitcoins. Much of the current hype around bitcoins comes specifically from recent comments regarding regulation of bitcoin transactions.

Also, you want to buy because the price recently spiked? That's rarely a good idea (whether in stocks, real estate or bitcoins).
$318 is purely cost of parts and labour.

Doesn't include years of R&D, manufacturing setup, advertising, shipping, support, finance-related costs, retailer mark-up, QA and repairs, etc.

Production costs will drop, but they are likely years away from profits.
That sounds like a poorly designed lanyard-ligature. Proper lanyards have anti-ligature features to prevent the wearer dying in an accident.
Another european citizen getting to learn the realities of the world. As many others mentioned he has no idea about what's going on in EU for 'others'. That attitude is almost the same everywhere in the world, only enemies, minorities and passports need to be watched change.
"First, we have rolled out an over-the-air update to the air suspension that will result in greater ground clearance at highway speeds."

Wow. Now I live in the future.
You're possibly right in that I may feel different a few years from now, but going back on the job market was a nightmare. As much as you can prepare theres just a lot that you can't account for from being an engineer working full time on it vs trying to manage people doing it while working on networking, marketing, organizing, etc as well programming with any available cycles left.
The "value" may well be the sale price by definition, but that's not really the important thing here.

The important question is, was buying this particular site for this particular price a good decision, one that will tend to make money for the purchaser. I don't know what the answer is, but opinions can certainly vary.
Solr and its backend Lucene are written in Java. so it runs on any platform arguably even more easily than Python.
This sums it well. Intellisense is a discovery tool, not a productivity tool once you have discovered. Intellisense helps you write code without having to StackOverflow all the time.
Yep. IIRC at the time Sony said something to the effect that they were willing to lose $4B in the short term to ensure that Blu-ray won the format war.
Poll: How many bitcoins do you own?
with all the bitcoin frenzy, is it worth a poll ?

EDIT: Embarrasing that I messed up the ranges initially. Shows my bitcoin ignorance. Hopefully looks good now
500 or more
100-499.99999999
50-99.99999999
10-49.99999999
1-9.99999999
0.00000001- 0.99999999
This looks really cool, but what really blew me away was the way the pencil dismantles as you scroll the page down.

Absolutely beautifully done.
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Looks a little more digestible than CLRS http://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Cormen.... :)
Perhaps similar in size, but not in newness (the market needs to sort out fair value), untested exchanges, difficulty of moving money in and out. These are early adopter challenges, but they are also sources of volatility.
As ahoge points out, interpreted/compiled is an implementation detail.

OTOH, you might have a point if you replaced the first category with "strongly, statically typed" and the latter category with "weakly and/or dynamically typed".

On the third hand, maybe not -- with its type inference, Haskell (and, IME, even Scala, with its much more limited type inference) allow crafting working code with speed comparable to, e.g., Python. Perhaps its not strong/static typing that slows down the dev process so much as implementations of such systems that require lots of ritualistic incantations to the type system.
I think you have it backwards. If someone forms opinions on languages based on out of context quotations then they are the fool, not SPJ.
I thought all modern web/mobile apps were architected this way? Is this novel information?
I've been wanting to learn RoR for a while so thanks for this.
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