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everyone with half a brain can see the system is awful at healing people... But everyone attributes it to incompetence while forgetting that the US, besides nazi Germany, was the only country to have eugenics into law.
Too bad SIGGRAPH doesn't give such an award; I was curious to look at the top graphics papers.
I assume he means failure from a financial perspective, given the OP was asking about writing books specifically as a form of income. I have largely the same story, I wrote a tech For Dummies book that sold a few copies but was largely a flop. Overall it was definitely worth it from a CV perspective and as something I can say I've done in my life. But we only got a small advanced (I cleared $4.5k) and then never made enough in royalties to get out of the advance hole. So if looking at things purely from an income level it was a complete failure. But of course there are a lot of decent reasons to write a book besides the money.
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Speed is another big concern. You want your DVCS to be as fast as possible. You don't want to wait even half a second to see the output of "hg status" just to see which files you've modified.
Nope, no ECC. Apple has a history of these sorts of shenanigans -- the time capsule, for example, was advertised as having a "server-grade" hard drive when in fact it just had a bog standard consumer drive in it.
From the article:

I do have to say that as someone who sometimes conducts technical interviews, I'm not sure I would actually give this question to an interviewee, unless I was leaving him or her alone to work for a couple of hours, because of how long it would probably take to reach an answer.

So it appears they are aware of that problem. I'm of the opinion that some "non-classical" problem is probably a better indication of skill and reasoning. Work through a known problem you had at work (which the candidate is hopefully not too familiar with, otherwise abort and try another), and see how they reason out the problem, then ask for some code that might fix it.
If you can't hear and handle the truth, then you will persistently and consistently fell. Even if you generate profits, that is not the end all, be all marker of success. After all, Microsoft is ever increasing its profits, yet it is polluting the world with products that are barely innovating.

But please, keep thanking the complacent comments that do nothing to better your case.
They don't want Titans, but that's essentially what they're getting. D700s don't have the features that normally define workstation video cards, like ECC RAM.
> Some guy in Arizona can set himself up online, sign up for Stripe

I'm not from Arizona, so Stripe isn't an option. But then there is Bitcoin. Countries: All. Requirements: Internet.
Fuck yes (from someone with a decently "high" f-carma, actually)!
Huh? It's a list of best papers. What kind of summary can you give of hundreds of CS papers in different fields? "There sure is a lot of stuff you can do with computers!"

greenyoda already included the first few lines of the summary of institutions which contributed most to this list, which is about as close to a TL;DR as you can get for this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6992714

But really, what were you expecting a TL;DR to be? There's no way you can summarize nearly two decades worth of computer science research in a single TL;DR.
What are you using the GPU for? An actual Vegas, Maya, or proprietary in-house rendering engine user could easily answer your question–

• Enough VRAM to load their entire dataset on the GPU (yes, the Mac Pro skimps on this)

• Hardware optimized for pro-level GPGPU (e.g. ECC RAM, but the Mac Pro skimps on this)

• Dedicated pro-level support from AMD and a pro-level expectation of QA before you buy it; think of those proprietary in-house tools here (you're not likely to get AMD support for the D300 since it is custom to the Mac Pro)

If none of those seem that important to you (you're just mining altcoins or playing BF4), you really _don't_ benefit from a $4,000 card. AMD knows that.

For the guys that need it every day to get their work done, $4,000 is a pittance for what they get in return.

Obviously, I concluded that the Mac Pro GPUs fail in all respects to compete at the pro level.
Yes, but sellers, business and marketing need to be driven by higher purpose then just "making more cash". We all like to make money, but that should not be the priority. Quality will eventually bring in money.
Skeptical is not the right word. The following sentence after the quote says there is some evidence. I would call the tone measured and probing, but not skeptical. I admit it's splitting hairs.
> "Children don't tend to get the same sort of benefit from full "hard" keyboards that adults do"

How do you expect them to learn to, if you don't give them devices with keyboards? Sure, they could wait until that typing class in middle-school, but wouldn't it be better to have them pick it up themselves, much earlier?
okay bringing out the anecdotal stories.

firstly, my son used a chromebook and ssh'ed into cloud nine in order to do most of his learning of JavaScript and web development.

secondly, my wife has been using the chromebook the last year to do all of her homeschooling planning, finances, correspondence, and web browsing.

tertiarily, my father who spent the week with us over the holidays, used my wife's chromebook to great effect and is planning on buying one as soon as he gets back.
I use Stack Overflow because I won't have to re-implement my solutions from scratch at the next job.
It doesn't handle fraud in the form of not receiving what you paid for... as a consumer, you can issue a chargeback right now. That doesn't exist for bitcoin, so until we factor in another layer that provides that protection, you can't compare the 2.5% credit card fee to the bitcoin fee.
One more reason why this is terrible question: many people solved it in the past as part of a programming course, many didn't. If you want to test which school they went to you can look at the resume. If you want to see how they handle writing solvers for simple games/puzzles under pressure of the interview come up with one that is guaranteed (or almost) to be new for the interviewee.
love the perpetually rising real estate prices though

maybe live somewhere dirt cheap and keep your bay area home rented
While the origin of the 20 year extension is unrelated, the persistence is what he was referring to. Rather than matching others they kept their own.
The source is cited. If you truly care, you can look into the methodology to your heart's content.

The Gallup link you provide doesn't tell you anything about causality because the relationship is backwards ("educational attainment by income"), while still providing data to refute your original argument (there's a clear positive correlation between education and wealth).
I disagree the details are not the story. If the perfect information was available it would almost certainly tell the same story: the cost of college education is rising rapidly relative to the income benefit of that education. Do you disagree?

A details analysis could potentially allow us to understand the magnitude of this gap but it is certainly both positive and significant. The biggest error in the graph is using total debt versus median or average debts since we know the number of students has increased. I wish he had used median debt or median cost but as I noted above both median debt and cost has roughly double over the past 10 years - so the story stands.

Part of any good analytical education should include the skill to form judgements with imperfect, incomplete and/or inaccurate data. In the real world it is very rare you have a perfect experiment that gives you perfect data. That said I agree we need better analytical education. We also need better data.
AnandTech hardware and Ars Technica's software (especially OS X) reviews are works of art by themselves. The level of details that goes into these pieces is nothing short of amazing. They are examples of tech journaling done right.
That is all programs in general, checking a specific program is totally within bounds.
> And substantially more homogenous (not sure how you're getting a different impression)

Not sure what you define as 'homogenous' but over 20% of Canada's population is foreign born, and less than 57% are english speaking by mother tongue.
> Until you consider where GPG and OTR are used, e.g. Enigmail or Pidgin, addons or clients which both autoupdate or ask to be updated.

I can't speak to those; I use KMail and Kopete, neither of which auto-updates. My OS does ask to update those packages, but it will only do so with my explicit intervention, there's a code signing process in place (and any bad updates would be traceable to individuals rather than an institution), and the people who run it are based outside the US.
I agree that un-bundling the escrow from the rest of the stack would be a good thing. However, I think it is important to keep in mind that replacing credit cards with something less effective (for whatever definition of "effective" matters) than credit cards isn't a true replacement.

The way I am thinking about it is sort of like those threads on HN where someone says "You can create a Dropbox clone in N lines of X and an external hard drive". That's NOT a Dropbox "clone", but rather something that could be used to replace Dropbox for some people some of the time. It would take much, much more to replace Dropbox, and maybe someone will get it right someday. Same goes for Bitcoin, it's fine to think of alternative financial networks (awesome, in fact, I hate banks!) but it's important not to get ahead of ourselves.
It's important to note that New York is one of the states from which ACA looks better than most:

New York's announcement this week that insurance premiums would drop 50% next year for individuals buying their own coverage in new online marketplaces made good talking points for proponents of the Affordable Care Act, but consumers in most states are unlikely to see similar savings.

That's because only a handful have New York's rules, which — like the federal law — bar insurers from rejecting people with health problems. Unlike the federal law, however, New York does not require consumers to purchase coverage, so over time, mainly older, sicker people, have purchased coverage. That drove up prices and discouraged younger, healthier people from buying policies, as did a requirement that insurers charge the same rates regardless of age or health status.

As a result, premium prices listed for individuals often top $1,000 a month for some New Yorkers buying their own coverage, making the state's rates among most expensive in the nation.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/20/kaise...

And the old New York model of a lousy risk pool with unaffordable premiums is where ACA is potentially headed if the individual mandate "tax" isn't given much teeth.
You may want to check out pandoc[1]. It's what I'm using for conversions for a book I'm writing.

[1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Snapchat? Smart watches?
AWS (or similar) so you can switch to a bigger instance when you have a traffic spike.

Or just use Cloudflare.
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It's funny, I would have agreed with you not all that long ago, but nowadays I'm much more concerned about avoiding Google than I am about avoiding Windows.
I am UK citizen and see the NHS (universal, nationalised, funded from taxation) morphing to accommodate more market led enterprise.

I often wonder how other nations health systems work. The American system is often ridiculed anedotally in the UK as an unfair example.
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I mean come on, I'm not expecting 12 years of backwards compatibility, I'm just saying that maybe one of their hardware engineers might have said: "Gee, is it possible that we might develop a new cover next year that needs power, for a backlight or something? We're under a time crunch now, so we probably won't have time to take advantage of it yet, but maybe we could add a couple pins for power to future proof it?"

It's absurd to consider that an impossible foresight to make.
I've been working on a Bitcoin card over the past twelve months so I have had a lot of time to think about the benefits and drawbacks of using Bitcoins for everyday transactions and I completely agree with you, no compelling advantage.

Besides the obvious problem of the volatile exchange rate there is just no trust in any of the Bitcoin institutions, if I can't trust anyone else to manage my Bitcoins I need to do it myself. I can do that, but it takes time and effort to maintain secure systems. The real kicker is if something goes wrong, its my problem. If someone hacks my netbanking details the bank will cover my losses.

So what does Bitcoin offer? it opens up transactions that would have otherwise been too risky. Irreversible electronic transactions are Bitcoins niche. However that fact makes it very difficult to acquire Bitcoins with reversible payment methods. This slows down the process of entering and exiting the Bitcoin market leaving you vulnerable to the volatile exchange rate.

I really want Bitcoin to succeed but at this stage there is no way I would use Bitcoin for a transaction unless it was the only option.
"Instead some deletionist authoritarian jerk needs to force his idea on everyone else, because obviously no one else is worthy enough to make a judgment."

I think they caught this disease from Wikipedia, where deletionist authoritarian editors kill articles on real people because they're "not notable enough" while allowing thousands of words to be written about minor characters in TV series.
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A subjective comment. "Better". Their music has done nothing to move our species' art forward. If you are just going to release the same stuff as another band then you are stagnating evolution, move to the side!

Don't compare the two. The Beatles have ushered in new song writing, band lineup, tone setup and lyrical prowess. Incomparable. Do you even use your ears, or are you just regurgitating?
Bitcoin being deflationary, storing value in it is very good idea, apart being a bit risky. I also do not see why it should be limited to small payments, bitcoin is full currency not a toy.
I'm sure many things, though mainly in small volume. ;)
No one is talking about Soviet-style suppression of free speech. To see my direction, compare media-enabled witch-hunts and mob politics to an immune reaction of an organism. A small, appropriate dose of it is good for the body. A disproportionate immune reaction (like what we're seeing here), is an inflammation, and should probably call for administration of cortisone (while a Soviet-style reaction would be cutting out the whole inflamed tissue and harming everything in the process). It gets worse. If left unchecked, we can have an auto-immune disease. Someone has to be watching the watchers.
Personally, I post each and every question I have to StackOverflow. When I figure it out, I take some time to write out a detailed answer to my own question.

Why?

Because:

a) I love contributing with the online developer community and sharing back all that I've taken since I started freshman year of college.

b) Writing it out step by step solidifies the knowledge within me.

It's a win-win!
That should be mostly fixed now. ACA plans have a reasonable max out-of-pocket and don't have lifetime maximums.
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The blockchain in twister is used as a distributed user registration database:

> How does it work?

> For the complete description you should refer to the white paper. But in short: twister is comprised of three mostly independent overlay networks. The first provides distributed user registration and authentication and is based on the Bitcoin protocol. The second one is a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) overlay network providing key/value storage for user resources and tracker location for the third network. The last network is a collection of possibly disjoint “swarms” of followers, based on the Bittorrent protocol, which can be used for efficient near-instant notification delivery to many users.
Like Tahrir?
I won't argue with that. Employer-provided healthcare is one of the key obfuscators of the cost of healthcare as far as patients are concerned.

It also has secondary effects in employment markets:

* employers should not be encouraged to replace full-time workers with part-time workers because of health insurance costs

* employees shouldn't be making decisions about careers and jobs based on what health insurance costs will be

* the actual compensation levels between jobs is harder to evaluate since health benefits can be a huge chunk of compensation these days
Nonetheless, STOP spamming your site on HackerNews
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Why? Without any information, your comment just looks trollish.
You must have missed that I have 6 disks to connect.
Find, make and sell something people want, almost certainly aided by technology. I hate how vague it is too :)
Not disagreeing with you, but it's interesting that iPhone still dominates Android in metrics that measure actual use (go check android vs iphone in your web logs, for example).
I understand astroturf to mean an organized group that purports to be grassroots (i.e. driven by broad membership) but is instead organized, funded, and run by a coterie paid by some outside entity.

It's hard to see how a post by an individual relating his own opinions and experiences can possibly fit that term. It seems like a category error.

Did you have some other definition in mind?
I'm glad they mention the HP Z420. The killer for me on the Z420:

three-year Mon-Fri 8-5 next business day, parts, labor and 24x7 phone support,

They come to me.

Edit: to all the naysayers: I'm in the UK. HP here is pretty good. We have over 200 machines on next day and we've had only two (!) problems and they were relating to part supply resulting in a quick purchase on Misco that arrived next day.
Wikipedia has already been updated? That's ridiculous.
cough Irony cough
Never had a job where programming chess boards was a requirement. So unless you have one don't ask this. It's not a programming question it's a puzzle.
Is there more to the evidence for this than the slide? Because the slide says that the product is "In development." Just because capabilities are described in present tense on a slide does not mean that they are in fact available.
And it's much easier if you pick hardware that is known to work.

I think AmVess is just trolling. Over at the forums on tonymacx86.com, there are a lot of happy people.
From a cursory glance it seems like this may be somewhat inaccurate. It states NLTK doesn't support 3, when it definitely does.
Reposting a worthy comment from user chimmy, who has been hellbanned for 1.5 years for no apparent reason:

> This is a great list but I would rather look at the most cited papers from that conference (say 10 years later). As an example, MapReduce did not win the best paper in OSDI 2004. However, it has impacted the industry like no other paper in that conference.
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Eventually (soon I hope) internet connectivity will be truly like electricity. I wonder how many arguments there were 100 yrs ago about how device X or activity Y were useless because "what happens when the electricity goes down"?

Anyway it's a relevant argument today because as you say, we don't want the new "my dog ate my homework" to be "our internet went down and so I couldn't access my work on the cloud"
I cannot say I have a "successful life", because my definition of successful could be different than yours.

I dropped out on my last semesters of CS BEng, and in retrospective, I think I made a great decision: After dropping out school I launched a community of Android Developers in Mexico, which a year later helped me close a 1 year contract with Motorola advocating about Android SDK. During the same year I did consulting gigs for Google here in Mexico also, which led to became the youngest ever Android SDK contractor in LATAM, at age 24.

This could sound great for you, but being totally honest, the main reason I dropped out was because I didn't feel passionate about the stuff I was doing there. On the other side, I fell in love with Android because I saw an opportunity of doing code and make a living, in a year where no one knew about that technology.
Because then the entire country would essentially be working to stay alive and healthy instead of towards loftier goals.
I've been slowly replacing every machine that I'm responsible for supporting (family members who ask me which computer to buy, and to please set it up) with a ChromeOS computer. Usually it's just a case of buying the new laptop and logging them in. Last week I found a used Chromebox for my dad to replace his WinXP desktop. It went well, but I did get bitten. I didn't know he even had a printer, and since you can't plug a printer directly into ChromeOS, we had to buy a new, networked one (which does work amazingly well, btw). I also had to _write_ two Chrome Packaged Apps (fun learning experience, haha) to replace the WinXP camera import wizard he was using and his photo slideshow screensaver.

Despite all that, I'm still happy with the decision. It's a super simple machine that's fast as hell, updates without him even knowing, and is incredibly secure. And the dev APIs are getting reasonably complete pretty quickly, such that I was able to write a little app to import photos off a camera in just a couple days.
I don't know how much they overlap, but Steve Gibson was saying recently in one of this latest Security Now podcasts that what FIDO is trying to do is inferior to his recently launched SQRL protocol. He starts talking about it at 0:56:

http://twit.tv/show/security-now/435

He says the FIDO spec is overdesigned, and everyone there has their own interests, it's tied to certain technologies, and it's not free. SQRL on the other hand generates the keys on the fly instead of storing them on the phone for each website. If a hacker steals your identity, you can also get it back with SQRL - you can't with FIDO. He says SQRL is also much easier to implement.

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

http://www.sqrl.pl/ (fan-made)

Also, an interesting excerpt from Wikipedia, referring to when he announced the protocol for the first time:

> Within 2 days of the airing of this podcast, both the W3C and Google expressed interest in working on the standard.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQRL
I think the practicality of the attack will still depend more on the price of bitcoin at that point in time than it will on the sudden availability of all the least efficient mining hardware.

At some point obsolete ASIC rigs should be coming on the market for cheap (but right now the reward isn't anywhere near 'full' in terms of the amount of electricity apparently being used to chase it).

(FWIW, I expect a crisis of confidence long before 2025. Let's see how many miners are left after that happens.)
If they get one in the future then they drop the statement from their report.

moron4hire seems to believe that they would force them to keep the statement (and thus lie), but I'm going to need a source on that.