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Yep using http://www.yearloop.com/ every day. Each day it sends me an email with picture from 1 yr ago, 2 yrs ago, etc. It is powered by Dropbox. Beta testing now if you want to join in for free!
Because conspiracies make for a good story to fill your hunger for curiosity, and when you are only loosely versed in the circumstances it is easy to find reasons to believe it was a conspiracy.
Not every computer, just a random subset of them.
Strange nobody listed Apple Inc.
Regarding workflow, the best option is IJulia (https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl) which has nice integration with plotting and useful things like LaTeX. Vi and Emacs are well-supported, and I know the Sublime tools have gotten a lot of attention from several people.

Not directly related to performance, but you might be interested in this: https://github.com/helgee/JPLEphemeris.jl
We took them into account and updated it. So comes this thread, to ask feedback about the second version.
Same here, good luck!
Why do I get the feeling that Red Hat is a software company run by software engineers?

It's hard for me to shake off the distinction between companies run by business/product-goons whipping their engineers into submission to produce code that they can sell and companies run by engineers themselves. Wether or not the CEO codes is irrelevant, but the fact that it's entirely engineer driven.
I hope it's Google.
Thanks for the feedback. Will look into what happened.
Mishaps happen. Intelligence agencies in particular have a long history of mishaps (and incompetence), probably due to the lack of oversight …
> The third-party seller who uses Amazon to accept orders screwed up and gave Amazon the wrong tracking number.

This should be easy to find out. Check if the tracking number on the website differs from what's printed on the package itself, and if so what the tracking for it looks like.
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It's possible, but there is no evidence suggesting that is what happened here.

The overwhelming likelihood is that the package simply took an unusual route due to factors that are unknown to us. For this story to be true, it would require a level of incompetence that is orders of magnitude beyond that which we have previously seen from the NSA.
If a laptops FN keys work in BIOS/UEFI, does it even matter?

See other post about embedded firmware and DMA.
Much love to LS! Been using it almost exclusively for over a year.
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That's too idealistic. The reduction of accidents caused by human errors could very well be offset by a substantial increase in machine/OS/SW/HW caused accidents.
SaaS platform the renewable industry.

As I'm not an installer not much need for it (life would be a lot easier if I was :) ).
Some background: this is a curriculum for a week-long, student-run workshop series and hackathon called DevFest hosted at Columbia University (http://devfe.st).
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Everything returns:

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500

Is this broken?
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Must also disclaim that since this is an HTML5 based app, performance on anything below an iPhone 5 is really subpar.

On the flip slide, performance on the 5/5s is nearly native. Interesting to see what the crossover will mean for app development in the future.
Yes, we've been slammed. We are shrinking the timeout and bring up more servers. But our capacity is not unlimited. Folks might have to come back later.
Thoreau is clearly comparing the Massachusetts startup scene to the one in California.
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While not software like most ITT but As a hobbyist game developer Sometimes I'll stop playing an intentional reason like testing a feature or looking for a bug and just goof off and play around in it and not think about what to fix or improve and just enjoy playing A fun game.
Netflix's goals run much deeper than this. The article touches on this briefly. The goal of becoming HBO has been completed. Take a look at the list of Netflix Original Programming. They've succeeded at becoming a content generator, and they are actively scooping up other companies' IP a la Valve (Arrested Development being the epitomal example of this.). All this does, however, is puts them in league with the major studios.

Netflix is still at the mercy of the internet providers, which are increasingly also controlled by the major content studios. Comcast just won a huge net neutrality battle and is making a play for Cablevision. Netflix has said it's willing to "mobilize its users" against traffic throttling abuse. Netflix's goal is to become Disney before Disney can become Netflix.

They've got better data and infrastructure. And they seem to have a one-up on a culture that lets them be flexable with IP. We'll see what happens.
Also I'd add 2 other subjects, if that's the right word

Getting things done and

How to win friends and influence people

[Edit] actually make that 3, I'd also add

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You only phrase your headline as a question if the answer is No, but you really want it to be Yes.
But humans are really shitty drivers.

The software would have to be written by chimps for it to be worse than human drivers.

I fully expect all kinds of errors to cause human death. I just hope the backlash doesn't destroy something that could save very many lives.
Oh, I like this game. Let's play again: WHICH IS MORE LIKELY?!

* The world's largest online retailer that does $54M in sales per day has a bug in its procurement system that randomly transposes tracking codes.

ORRRRRRRR!

* The intelligence agency whose massive scope and pervasive operational shortcomings were recently exposed by one low-level operative had a slip-up in applying a well-publicized tactic to an obviously high value target.

On the other hand, what's great about your way of putting it is that it juxtaposes your belief in the all encompassing nature of the NSA's programs with your incredulity that such a program might have been applied specifically here. I also like the part where the NSA is guarded by the Catch-22 "it wasn't them, because if it was, you'd never know", such that that there's no scenario in which you could be convinced that the NSA did anything.

And yet again, maybe it's time to stop thinking of the NSA as some far-off abstraction and start thinking about it is an actual thing that affects our daily lives.
It will be different though, and interesting to see play out. Netflix became a big deal because they provided a much better experience than the incumbent. What you're describing is not a better experience at all; It seems more likely to me that cable would continue as-is rather than there be a fractured online marketplace where every provider is effectively a premium channel.
Are you implying that parent should be charging his or her parents for the work, or that he or she should cover the difference out of pocket?
No we did not. This is perhaps the most annoying meme to have come out of the Wikileaks and Snowden disclosures. Nobody working in technology laughed about dragnet surveillance or cryptanalysis capabilities or trojan horses. The 1990s was the era of Clipper and Echelon. People did not assume in the 1990s that the intelligence community was benign or disconnected. All you have to do is read _Applied Cryptography_ to see a sober, expansive concern about NSA surveillance. And Schneier's writing was far more carefully considered than, say, Usenet.

For fuck's sake, the most popular show on television centered on government conspiracies.

The millenials did not invent distrust of the government.
What you do, is living in tornado zone and counting each day without tornado as a win attributed to our skill on picking and swapping houses in the zone.
The libraries that are abstraction layers to imagemagick or ffmpeg are, in fact, that: libraries. There is a very critical distinction between a library/module and a command-line wrapper. Your programming language probably has a module that exposes the imagemagick API. However, this doesn't mean that it uses shell commands for anything; it just exposes the functions to your programming language of choice.

I wrote the backend and processing system for a website[1] that deals with converting files, and incidentally uses imagemagick and ffmpeg, amongst other things. You'll notice that everything that that calls external programs is handled very carefully. One example of this careful handling is that all of the commands that can be executed are in a single file[2], and very easy to think about. Compare that to OP's software, where there are multiple commands scattered across different files. Also, although this is a bit harder to see superficially, but no HTTP request triggers any external program call directly. This is by design.

Coming back to your question,

>Genuinely curious, how would you implement something like a cron web interface? Certainly it would require you to have a program execute a shell command upon some HTTP request.

You set up a cron job[3] that gathers the data and stores it somewhere like a database, or even a file. The idea here is that you have a strictly one-way flow of data, which prevents a large number of attacks (register_globals is the easiest)

[1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush

[2] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/blob/master/mediacr...

[3] Or a daemon, whatever; the point is that the website can only communicate with it through a specific channel with a very small attack surface (i.e a UNIX socket where the messages are very limited), whereas doing it on the script that generates the website exposes a very large attack surface
Our Julia REPL servers been slammed. We are shrinking the timeout and bring up more servers. But our capacity is not unlimited. Folks might have to come back later. Sorry about that.
The Server version of Ubuntu or the 12.04 version does not have the add-apt-repository command. How can i add a PPA to the server without this command? Answer in http://askubuntu.com/questions/38021/how-to-add-a-ppa-on-a-s...

There are several options, I chose the one with sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and

1514 sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
1515 sudo apt-get update #not needed
1516 sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 3D3D3ACC
1517 sudo apt-get update
1518 sudo apt-get install julia (there are broken dependencies)
1519 sudo apt-get install libopenblas-base
1520 sudo apt-get update
1521 sudo apt-get install libopenblas-base
1522 sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev
1523 sudo apt-get install libopenblas-base
1524 sudo apt-get install julia
1525 julia
1526 history | tail
1527 history | tail -n 20
Yeah there may be new jobs, but why would you have a human doing them, when a robot could?

We can't pretend that a new tool for humans to use is equivalent to a fully autonomous robot which can think for itself beyond any human capacity. Those two things are fundamentally un-alike.
So only because some regulations were/are bad, all regulations are bad?

Come on...
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According to the section entitled "Demise":

>In the late 1920s a Swedish-Danish-Norwegian union of companies (the North European Luma Co-op Society) began planning an independent manufacturing centre. Economic and legal threats by Phoebus did not achieve the desired effect, and in 1931 the Scandinavians produced and sold lamps at a considerably lower price than Phoebus.

They are, in fact, difficult to maintain. That doesn't mean impossible, but your chances of maintaining a cartel in a free market drop drastically within the first few years, if not the first few months.

And let's not fail to consider the fact that the economy back then was much less globalized, and therefore much easier to cartelize then it is today.
My iPhone doesn't. Probably a market effect.
" so I go to Hulu Plus; surely they will have the whole season, that's why you pay the sub, right? 2 latest episodes available! WTF. . . . These incumbents are not competing with Netflix et al, they are actively burning the subscriber base and encouraging them to switch."

As far as I know, Netflix doesn't have current season of TV shows at all. So Hulu Plus and the cable 'on demand' services are mostly complementary to Netflix, purely complementary if you buy Hulu Plus for access to current season shows.
Of course, and I'm not saying they don't. I'm just saying, which is more likely? I'd wager the USPS screws up a lot more often that the NSA.
Maybe it makes me a looney but I was educated about things like COINTELPRO and TEMPEST before I was a teenager and the idea that a government wouldn't be doing these things is more surprising to me than the leaks that they are.
Wealth redistribution is the easy and correct solution to the poverty problem.

Given that poverty is defined as income before transfers, it can't possibly be a solution. Even if you completely eliminated consumption poverty with wealth redistribution (hint: we nearly have), the official poverty rate would be unaffected. If wealth redistribution induced people to reduce their earned income, it would increase the official poverty level.

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=24126

Incidentally, you should read your Scott Winship (I linked to him elsewhere in the thread). He runs similar analysis to Wilkinson and Picket, but finds much stronger correlations between single motherhood than income inequality.
Yup, we've been properly slashdotted. Attempting to bring up more servers and shrinking session timeout. But...
I have been looking for something like this. Original author: do you have any screen shots to share of Yalo running in VirtualBox?
Very cool, thanks for the tips!

That JPL Ephemeris library has given me an idea. I think I might try porting over the NAIF Spice [1] toolkit to Julia. It has MATLAB, IDL, C and FORTRAN ports so I think Julia would fit right in there.

[1] http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/
Cross-county comparisons are useless without adjusting for race, especially looking at the south where a major fraction of the bottom 20% are black. This is a group that faced de jure segregation until just a couple of generations ago, and continued to face de facto segregation today. Making it just about the "super rich" whitewashes the legacy of segregation,that continues to affect income mobility in the U.S. versus Europe. And its something even liberals are eager to do, because frankly its shameful that in places like Atlanta, most of the poor blacks still live in the neighborhoods their grandparents were segregated into.
I don't understand. Richard's point doesn't depend on an Amazon bug that transposes tracking codes. But your point does depend on the NSA redirecting packages to Alexandria in such a way that anyone who checked their order status would notice.
Excitedly tried it out, but I get this error on both 32-bit and 64-bit ubuntu:

$ git clone https://github.com/whily/yalo
$ cd yalo/cc
$ ./lnasdf
$ sbcl --version
SBCL 1.0.58
$ sbcl
* (require 'asdf)
* (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op 'cc)
* (cc:write-kernel "floppy.img")
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {AB4FD11}>:
match-instruction: unsupported instruction (JC NO-BGA-ERROR)

Also, I'd love to hear more about Ink. I'm not sure where it is in such a tiny codebase.
In any case, a malicious keyboard can simulate keypresses and pwn your machine that way. No evil driver needed.

Indeed: https://hakshop.myshopify.com/collections/usb-rubber-ducky/p...
Excellent essay, thanks for posting. It parallels the following important idea from pg's essay on losing time and money (http://paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html):

The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work.

As a person who has suffered for the latter all my life, I cannot emphasize this more. Even now, when I have a few precious hours to myself on a Sunday afternoon (this happens very rarely), I have no immediate plans, so I surf this or that website, taking notes about ideas, etc., which to someone watching me would seem like I was engaged in valuable activity.
I made similar dashboard app a year ago, written in python with extensible and configurable metrics https://github.com/Eyjafjallajokull/aboco
also supports application-specific stats.
I know you're just trolling, but honest question, where else would you ask?
Very nice. +1.
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Am I crazy for feeling like Julia is the new HN darling like clojure, go, ruby, lisp, and scala before it?

It seems like in the last week it just started popping up on HN every couple days.
All traded things are subject to market manipulation. It helps though if there's a bunch of real volume and a dozen or two active exchanges, that makes it harder to move the market.

With Dogecoin however, barely any exchanges, and most of the circulation from their insanely steep on-ramp is in the hands of a handful of people... gonna be a lot of milking going on there.
The Carlin quote makes a good point here. Also #3 really summarizes what I think about the American dream. I think, historically, the American dream makes some sense, when people had to flee from Europe, to have any possibility at all to live a free and content life. But even in this time, this dream did not come true for everybody.

Today, we have a different setting: The American dream is hold on, to appease the masses of people that never have any chance to get in reach of the American dream at all.
I guess this Wolong person is taking the scam serious..

> Wolong To Launch A Forum

> The plan is to make the forum private and tight-knit; thereby locking out trolls. According to him, the entrance fee will be between $25-$30 USD

http://www.dailydoge.org/2014/01/wolong-to-launch-a-forum/
You are right, reading the sentence again it doesn't make sense at all.

I definitely confused "technical problems" solved by the company mission vs the feeling of excitement and freedom that a single developer gets solving a "technical problem" in a typical early stage startup.
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What makes Bitcoin and Litecoin not scam coins?
> Some deleted comment about tv wags joking about conspiracy people wearing tinfoil hats.

If people were relying on television entertainers for informed political opinions in the '90s, they were already hopelessly lost.

It's hardly even 'back in the day' as you said. Network was released in theaters in 1976.
Certainly he or his parents should value his time at something other than zero, and maybe be willing to pay a little more for a computer that is identical but demands fewer hours of AIDS removal.
As if Amazon is the only place for a screwup to happen here. There are a lot of different benign possibilities:

1. Amazon transposed a tracking code.

2. A third-party reseller transposed a tracking code.

3. USPS transposed a tracking code.

4. The tracking code is correct, but an error in USPS's backend showed tracking data for another shipment anyway.

5. The tracking code is correct, and the tracking data is correct, and the package went to Virginia because USPS screwed up.

I've personally seen #5, and none of the others are all that hard to believe.
Phew, so bad at proofreading on my lovely mobile device. HN, please forgive me.
I realize this is useful for cpu-bound computations; but for network-bound here is a REAL two-liner that will instantly make your program concurrent (not parallel):

from gevent import monkey
monkey.patch_all()

This is a lot lighter than processes. You can combine the two- use gevent to handle network, and then multiprocessing to handle cpu stuff!
Strange there are some phones who are cheap and don't have bloatware or less bloatware. How is this even possible with your theory? I'm sorry but I don't buy that marketing propaganda anymore.

I am also sure if you could give a customer the choice between a bloatware loaded phone and a clean phone (where he can install more games etc.) he would chose the one with no bloatware. He just has no idea there are ways to get rid of it. Some try over the known ways like the Apps preferences. But it's not working and they just don't know what to to about it.

This is where the government can help and if it does that why is this a problem?? You can still let people install apps afterwards that give them money or make whatever cheaper. But give them a choice!
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That over-localizes the issue. IBM only downsizes in the USA, but for every American they fire, they hire about three from India and two from China. Obviously those numbers vary from quarter to quarter. From what I've heard, ditto Intel.

They're pulling out of the US while expanding dramatically overseas. Rats abandoning a sinking ship or whatever.
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If I were him then I think I'd be suggesting that people tend to ignore externalities when praising markets.
> They are more like share owners than customers - they can vote on who will be on the board. And they can migrate if they doesn't like some policy.

I never understood this argument. If I don't like every company, I can start my own company and disrupt the market. But if I don't like every state in existence, I cannot start my own country and migrate to it.

It is more like slavery: you can choose your master, but you can never become fully free. Just like russian Yuriy's day( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%27s_Day ): once a year russian peasants were granted the right to move to another master. "If you don't like your master, why don't you go to another?".

> if you want to do sth like this please do it on volunteers.

This is the exact problem with governments/states: people are not allowed to live however they like. It is not like anarchy is crazy social order that even anarchists are scared to try. Anarchists are simply not allowed to start their own country/city and live there.

> BTW google started in 1997 IIRC. It's like the old movies that came out decade age = in nineties

BTW, google is not a monopoly in many countries(including USA). It doesn't even have a majority market share in every country(e.g. Russia, China)
" If we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book" - Elon Musk
It looks like it's just written in assembly, but with a Lisp syntax.
"imminent demise", pointed out not for pedantry but because "immanent" is a lovely word in its own right.
I just use Sublime Text and often copy/paste or include("code.jl") to REPL. I use Eclipse for Java development, but I just don't see a lot of added value for a Julia IDE.
USPS tracking codes aren't the most accurate thing.
This is tricky because correlation != causation. It's also plausible that poverty results in fewer marriages, rather than the other way around. A decent argument to that effect:

http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/4938.html
The main one is the ability to reuse code on server and client. It's not something to be sniffed at.
HN goes through phases, which I rather like. This way, we get semi-in-depth coverage of topics serially instead of always uniformly dividing our attention among all interesting projects at the same time.
In Middle Ages and before, games and magic and religion weren't separated.

Even mundane games played in taverns were magically bound to your luck and well-being. More sophisticated (board) games were outright sacred and were seen as a way to communicate with gods.
It seems to me that key management in Red Hat come from Digital/DEC, and have the same engineer-led ethos that Digital had (before it was acquired by Compaq).

Edit: Also Red Hat is somewhat cult-like (I say that in a good way). Open source, "upstream first", etc are taken very seriously.