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DigitalOcean Announces Second Amsterdam Datacenter (AMS2)
I can't wait for the sprite era to end.
Only write meta posts that complain about community rules and slyly use the article you're trying to promote as an example of how the rule has failed the community. Win/win.
Amazon Promises Package Delivery By Drone: Is It for Real?
Or another way of looking at it ... We (should) do what we are interested in, rather than what others perceive we should do, or others may perceive as worthy.
My son is exceptionally smart (and I deal with a lot of kids, so I have a reasonable basis to compare). He's only young ... But his strong suit seems to be very involved stories that he makes up. If I were to guess (yes, I'm crystal ball gazing), he'll be a writer. Despite being one of the most academically gifted children I know, he is looking to "only" amount to a writer. If he does, I'll fully encourage that as it has been his keen interest since he was about 2. Mind you, I'll support any constructive interest he has :)
its preference, not requirement. Read again. I would prefer to work with someone my age, or nearby thats it what I said. It doesn't mean others can't apply. Thank god people are not as jumpy as you.
At least for me intelligence is brain fitness for anything in particular. For example running, or writing.
I've put some thoughts into it as well. By doing that you create a new problem :

pushing crappy stories to the frontpage and scaring new users away. For a website like HN that doesn't need or want new users that's a good thing. But for a reddit, hypem, etc... the best solution, IMO, is to trust people browsing /r/new to do the work for the others.
Partially on.

I find it too creepy. Especially after the Snowden leaks. My life isn't that interesting, but still. If my location data could be anonymised somehow then I'd be more happy allowing Google access to my location data.

I do use the reminder feature though, which is part of Google Now I believe.

TL;DR: I have location sharing switched off on my Nexus 4 because I find it intrusive. Google Now is switched on, but useless without location data.
As a few others have said, the current language is suitable for the original intended purpose, although a better way of managing if..then..else situations would be appreciated.

If anything, I'd take away some of the non-core mathematical procedures and functions (ie: cell prettifiers) so that people stop using spreadsheets for such diverse purposes as project management (GANTT in spereadsheet columns - ugh!), tabular text reports that should be done in a word processor and anything else where another app would be more suitable.
As I said above, its not restrictive policy.
What does your build process look like? What's the tooling, and how do you invoke it? Just curious about alternatives.
Yay! And private networking, too!
Awesome. The private network offering is what finally got me to move some sites to DigitalOcean. Haven't looked back, I love it.
Amazon Prime Air Drone Hunt
Purely technical problems are much rarer than most technologists like to admit.
Like trying to smuggle cigarettes into a prison?

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/27/21645567-...
The best spies are the ones you don't hear about so...
This is my view on scala as well. I used it for one project and will not be using it again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Cohen
She just couldn't wrap her head around it. Kept going back and forth. She was trying to determine whether a number in a document she was translating meant million or billion.
I remember seeing this before but the course wasn't available, cool!
Point taken. It's just that the article in question is focusing on a particular kind of suppression.

I too live in a country where ageism and xenophobia attribute far more alienation and oppressive behaviour then sexism. But oppression is oppression, and whenever somebody is oppressed, it is worth fighting against, be it general, like you want to fight against, or specific, like this article is fighting against.
FYI, there are a couple ETFs that focus on high-dividend companies. I hold a small position in HDV, for instance.
It depends what you mean by "big".

If "big" means being on the track that leads to a super acquisition or an IPO you are probably also getting VC money and don't need to keep your day job.

If "big" means being able to make enough money to leave your day job and then some, that happens all the time.
Tale of Two -ends
If you change the x-axis to be roughly the same range as on graph.tk, it turns out like this:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=d%2Fdx%28sin%28x*x%29+%...
Note: the following comment is based as my experience as an engineering officer in the RAAF, with cryptographic clearance (someone has to load the keys into the crypto devices!).

Yes, as anyone that has ever had a security clearance knows, the biggest target of humint is sigint. The level of clearance that is needed to handle cryptographic material is higher than the clearance to know about the information sent by the cryptographic system. That's because one piece of information, no matter how sensitive, is nowhere near as damaging as being able to read all encrypted material of your enemy.

Clearances aren't just a title that you get - an increase in your security clearance goes hand in hand with your history coming under heavier scrutiny. At first you might just get a cursory check to verify that you are who you say you are - teachers from your school may be contacted, neighbours etc. As you start gaining access to cryptographic networks, the checks start going into who you associate with, what your hobbies are, what's happening in your bank account. And the checks get more discreet - you might learn about your primary school teacher getting asked questions about you, but you won't learn that your telephone conversations were listened to for 6 months to make sure you're not hanging out with $THREAT_DU_JOUR.

So if sigint is valuable, one of the best ways to get your hands on it is to compromise someone that has access - in other words humint. The two are not disassociable.
To this point, I've heard "Scala is the C++ of Java."
Putting their wealth into Bitcoin isn't putting it into USD - on the contrary. The Chinese exchanges are all in CNY, dollar isn't mention there at all, which creates a number of issues like psychological levels being different and CNY/USD ratio varying on its own.
Lying would be if Apple said that Bromwich demanded daily two-hour meetings with Tim Cook when he in fact had not. Saying that Bromwich is "interfering" is merely characterization. One man's "interfering" is another man's "getting an executive to spend time on an issue he doesn't want to deal with, but which he is obligated to do so." You shouldn't take a characterization at face value, not when it's made by an interested party.
After years of applying the KISS principle to software development I became curious whether others were applying the same philosophy to investing. Random searches for "suckless" and "investing" converged upon softpanorama.org's investing articles. The articles, while rambling and poorly formatted, were both skeptical and simplicity-oriented - a sort of Unix approach to the problem of investing. As a 401k investor, this article in particular resonated with me:

http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Financial_skeptic/Prote...

I studied the writings for several days and began to question my retirement plan's fees, limited fund selection, as well as my 100%-stock-because-I'm-young approach to investing. Eventually I worked with my company to institute a brokerage window, began holding ETFs rather than mutual funds, and set up a Harry Browne portfolio. While this allocation's performance has been good historically ( http://www.crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/22/permanent-portfo... ), 2013's gold tumble has negatively affected returns. Still, cutting out middle men and better knowing what is held is a relief.

Softpanorama.org may convince others to review their finances, or at least give Ksh and Tcl/Tk another try.
China Successfully Launches Its Lunar Lander Mission
Enjoy playing games or using anything else than requires precision and speed on your fancy multitouch trackpad.

Also the scrollwheel on my mouse happily scrolled the page to the right when I pushed it to the right.
Build, Borrow, or Buy
I wouldn't call it a very good point. I'd call it, based in no small part on your response, a bias towards people who use MacBooks. It's unfortunate to see this attitude towards the very large segment of the internet-using population that are using "older" input devices (which are still much more practical for many use cases).
True. I would expect IA-64 chips to benchmark differently from AMD's amd64 chips, though. Would be interesting to see them (the percentage changes for each arch, relative to 1.1) side-by-side.
In our example, if Fred didn't look at the book and decides to put in a buy for $10.05, he'll get his 10 shares at $10.05 and Pete would make out like a bandit and the price would briefly shoot up to $10.05.

There is no market in the world that I know of that works that way. In the real world if you submit a marketable buy order (limit price > best offered price) the match will happen at the best offered price which is $10.00 in your example. If it clears out all the shares available at that price level it will continue to match at the next best price until the order is fully matched or the matching sweeps up to the order limit price.

Limit orders are the fundemental building block of a market. There are other order types but they're always built using one or more limit orders.

This is not technically true either. A market order by definition has no limit price.

I'm glad to see this article on HN. For you next step you might think about how you can make money by placing orders on both sides of the market (making a market).
Typo in the third paragraph after 'Basic Concepts'?

'Andrew would like to buy 10 shares of TSLA and is willing to pay $9.95 per share'

but the order book shows '10 @ $9.99' under 'Sell'.
I use make.
I always assumed the handled it through Accounts Receivable.
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Good guess
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=300bps+microso...
> Spying may be worthwhile in cases where it is very hard or very costly to produce misleading information. Two potential cases are [omitted] and that of a secret weapon, where the information produced by spies can be checked by actually making the weapon.

Interestingly, this is what I always say to people who proclaim that torture can't produce reliable information. The "hit him with this $5 wrench until he tells us his password" school of torture produces highly reliable information, because it's trivial to check whether what the guy said was correct.

No one ever seems to be happy to hear it. :/
HN itself is something of an echo chamber, there are not many differing viewpoints held in high esteem here. So it's not always just when looking for information, but the fact that we try to find others who think like we do when actually looking for rest and entertainment. Your social group ends up shielding you from other viewpoints because that is the easier way to exist.
It appears he wants to correlate the number of comments with their contextual value, though.

A better indicator of how trollish a thread is and how much that's getting in the way of the conversation (because those are two different things - users may be willing to put up with vehement discussion in one instance but not another) would be the ratio of downvoted comments to comments. I can even see measuring the length of comments and the depth of a thread, as a deep thread with lots of tiny comments might be an indication of sniping.

I realize i'm probably being incredibly naive and that the whole thing is complex with multiple factors interrelating but I don't see how the ratio of upvotes to comments tells you anything useful, if it doesn't take into account that people may comment without upvoting, and people might upvote bad comments. I make certain to upvote the article now with every comment because i'm aware that not doing so, regardless of the content of my comment, is an implicit downvote.

I think it's also a mistake to correlate "controversial" with "unwanted" but that might just be a matter of semantics.
Salesforce loses money, but masters art of distraction
s/Grunt/JSHint/
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What EB White and New York can teach us about ‘Cyber Monday’ and ‘the Internet’
Maybe protecting children from discovering new words?
> Receiving dividends isn't buying part of a debt; it's receiving your share of the profits of the company due to ownership.

Apologies, I'm applying my own meta-interpretation of company funding - for a non-profit, ownership consists only of the assets since there will never be profit, by definition, so the market goodwill is defined to be 0. In such a situation, you can still get exactly the same money to change hands as an investment in a for-profit - by calling it debt. The non-profit could pay interest on the debt in the same way as dividends are paid, and so on. These work like non-voting/Preference shares.

I automatically convert "real" terminology into this framework in my head, as I don't really believe groups of people (companies) can be valued philosophically. Apologies for letting it slip out!

> What do you suppose happens when you "save" money?

I am well aware of all this, a savings account is a less risky way of doing the same thing (although you're supposed to be investing in mortgages rather than companies). When savings rates are good, there isn't any need to risk your capital (let the bank do it for you). When rates are bad, you need to take on some of the risk yourself in order to get a good return. My analysis doesn't change.

> For a site that is so encouraging towards investing in businesses with good ideas, I don't understand the aversion to doing the same through the stock market.

But you aren't. If you're buying a new share issue, then sure you are. But if you're buying from someone else in the market, you are not funding the company in any way - they don't get any money out of the transaction - what you are doing is much closer to buying a debt in terms of what money actually changes hands.
Short answer: maybe, but you shouldn't depend on doing that. Most compilers will even warn you about doing this exact thing, depending on their settings.
I wonder if this is why I can't type the word "Yo". Not only can't I type it. But if I select it as the word I want, it's not added to the dictionary. But if I type in "lmnop" and select it, it's added to the dictionary. I have even added "Yo" to my personal dictionary and it still suggest to. Sadly, I have given up trying.
day/month/year in the readme is pretty clear I'd say.

Though I wonder why not yyyy-mm-dd
Any references on who had used this? The web page totally phugges my browser (Chrome).
I agree, some titles are simply bad, others are virtually impossible to decipher, like "Untitled" or "hj4jh5g4j5h.pdf".

Mods would have a much easier time not needing to edit headlines if they just let the submitters write what the damn thing is about.
Self-driving cars to be on roads of Swedish capital Gothenburg by 2017
As a sophomore in High school, I cannot agree more. Up until my freshman year, I overachieved and excelled in academia, but had nothing to do outside of my school subjects. I would argue with people who thought school was pointless and try to convince them that each subject was necessary. After getting deeper into coding and entrepreneurship, I slowly started realizing that the time I spent on schoolwork could be used better with something more pertinent to me and my career. I started disagreeing with the things I desperately argued for at one point. Right now, I'm still doing good in school, but my performance is declining becuase I'm starting to spend more and more time coding and learning new tech. Maybe its good, maybe its bad, only time will tell.
I'm not talking about a new share release. I'm talking about the buying and selling of existing shares.
The in-house language isn't open source, no.
You can sort of hide the dependencies (while making them easy to clear out) using Homebrew...

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

...and brew-cask...

brew tap phinze/homebrew-cask && brew install brew-cask

...Just...

brew cask install virtualbox
brew cask install vagrant

Also...
brew install ansible
College says time's up for cheaters, bans all watch-wearing during exams
I haven't used a sprite in quite a while. Gzipped svgs do the job quite well, are very light, and you don't ever have to worry about resolution. The only downside is if/when you have to support IE8.
Very nice, France just disappeared.
The Sad State of Hashcash
Repeating the same false argument won't make it true, but aside from that: what is your point? Were you conscripted? Were you "oppressed" as a man? Are women not oppressed? What are you actually trying to say here? A middle-schooler knows that the world is full of oppressed people, and that no one group has an exclusive license to the title of "oppressed". What's the goal of trying to deflect attention from this example of repression?

Are you sure this was a smart argument to make? A reasonable person might attribute unfortunate subtext to it.
- 1st of all, I want to apologize for getting fired but still I dont think that should shake up your confidence. But in regards to freelancing, its all about marketing and executing. No matter how good you are, if you don't market yourself well, you'll never get a break because it is very competitive. However, if you not good at executing but you are good at marketing, people will love to give you a try. Especially at a cheap rate.
I've noticed that performance has been reduced greatly lately on their offering. Has anyone else noticed this? Also had a few machines randomly reboot.

/edit Just now I'm unable to join using the console access on a few of my droplets. I'm on a pretty fast internet connection (60MBps).
> In the real world if you submit a marketable buy order (limit price > best offered price) the match will happen at the best offered price which is $10.00 in your example. If it clears out all the shares available at that price level it will continue to match at the next best price until the order is fully matched or the matching sweeps up to the order limit price.

Thanks, this makes a lot more sense. I'll fix the article.

> This is not technically true either. A market order by definition has no limit price.

I figured that a market order was implemented as a limit order with a bid over the ask, but it makes sense that real world markets would have a special case order type for it.
> Callahan seems in no hurry to let his own death have its day, and I can’t blame him.

Reminds me of a (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) warning against the universal condemnation of suicide that those who have discovered the most compelling arguments for it aren't around to give it a proper defense.
I learned Modula-2 in my university (UMA, Spain) around 2000. they changed to C++ a year later. Even now days all the pseudocode used by many courses is strong inspired in Modula-2.
>"I made 4x on TSLA earlier this year"

This implies that you made the round trip (ie bought and sold). If not, you've made exactly zero.

So what was it that you saw, that institutional investors missed, that caused you to buy? What changed with the company's prospects in the past year that caused you to sell recently, and book your profit?

Otherwise, you haven't "beaten" anyone.
I'm still waiting on an official response to this[1] before I'd even consider it. I went so far as to email the CEO (after receiving marketing mail from his address) and got no response.

[1] http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...
who did you buy from the first time, and what did they pay for the stock? and who bought it?

The whole exercise is just shuffling money between people's accounts, nothing substantive changes in the real world.
This is a very common conception. The problem is that this requires me to set you a task before we can deem you intelligent. In nature, whatever it is we're deeming innate intelligence comes before any task, and then builds upon itself based on tasks.
They are also A/B giving a $10 promo credit by email to some users apparently.
- I pretty saved up money from my first job.
Are there a number of slightly different and incomplete variants of LINQ, like there are SQL DSLs in Scala? Because if not, then LINQ is "the right way" of doing this kind of thing. And if I remember correctly, LINQ is also useful outside of the DB domain, for things like filtering arrays and so forth.

I once read an article about how Java programmers can hold a conversation on the topic of upsides and downsides of multiple dependency injection containers while C# programmers only have one available and have nothing to say on this topic. That article concluded that having one "good enough" solution can often be better than having multiple slightly different and incomplete ones, even if each has its own strenghts, and I'd say the same is true when it comes to the C# LINQ vs. Scala SQL DSLs.
And in Norway they have extended conscription to both sexes. And I agree with that. If you have conscription, it should apply to men and women.

The existence of a patriarchial system in a country doesn't mean "all feminism is now incorrect".
- Nice post.
It's an LG. No perceptible image retention, actually (the problem I was worried about), but I think I'd almost prefer it to these issues.
USSR point of view:

1. Elimination of opposition abroad, Trotzkyi assassination and many others.

2. Discovery that Japan will not enter war. Results in transfer of Siberian divisions to Moscow that play decisive role in war

3. Plans for operation Citadel. Key point in war in the east

4. Nuclear bomb, author discounts 1-3 years.. that had huge effect on politics around the world

Invasion of USSR failure, one of the reason for lack of reaction was that NKVD had apparently established set of citeria that would tell them that Germany of planning an attack. Winter uniforms production, non-freezing oil production and some others.. since none of those were crossed, detailed and very good humint they were getting was discounted.

Also he forgets that Nazis also broke a lot of allied codes. If I remember correctly one of the allowed them to know most of the convoy routes through atlantic

Also forget that Battle of Midway was basically won because of sigint.

Generating believable crap is not that easy.
This is a mixture of the Guardian being stereotypically British, seeing the problems in everything, and ignoring the vast suburban reality of much of the US, where the problems would be smaller and the idea that much more practical, even if it's not necessarily easy.

It clearly is inevitable that at some point things will be delivered in this manner, but simply whining about it in this way is just an attempt to take away from anyone that tries to make progress, because heaven help the Guardian if they ever acknowledge someone in the private sector contributing to the advance of humanity.
I wouldn't change a lot, perhaps nothing.

VBA is a fuzzy line; a lot of functionality is added through plugins from Bloomberg / Datastream / Reauters (I live in the financial world) through C++ libraries for all kinds of functions.

Integrity of data and calculation... Best not to use Excel for critical, non audited systems. Changing the language will not change the potential to use a dodgy clockwork clock (spreadsheet) to do the job of a digital watch.

I do deeply dislike the visualisation of data. Formatting a chart is simple but tedious. If venturing from bar / line / area / scatter charts i.e. more than an extremely linear presentation of data, then Excel does not excel.

But a vlookup, or a pivot, at the stroke of a few characters, is amazing. Given the >65535 line restriction of earlier versions of excel, it would be very nice these functions could function on larger data groups, the hundreds of thousands of lines Excel now represents in rows.