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Ask HN: In your opinion, which USB flash drive manufacturer is best?
I mean "best" in terms of possibility of complete data loss.

You can't really compare speeds or prices.

I bought a cheap ADATA stick once from a local shop and about a year later I was unable to read from the drive on numerous machines.

I bought the Patriot Supersonic Magnum (because of this post I saw on HN: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/11/a-ssd-in-your-pocket.html ) and within a few months it suffered a complete data loss. I had to contact the company and they sent me some .exe file that restored the drive back to working order... but I have yet to place a single file on it since considering that a complete data loss was even possibile on that drive.

In my experience, corsair has been very good to me. I own a number of those USBs and I have yet to see one stop working.

I had one of these babies which I used extensively for a number of years: http://ocz.com/consumer/flash-drives/atv-flash-drive

Once it died, I was still able to remove the data from it which was nice.

I welcome your thoughts on the subject.
I hope they intend to collect the data the people are willingly giving to them, and not just collecting it from the Internet or wherever they find it.

I have no problem with "digital immortality", and I think it can be a good idea, but only as long as people themselves want it to remain immortal, rather than being collected NSA-style.

The difference is that you may not want to save all of your sex scandals, and porn watching habits, forever, but only certain information - like a biography. That's why it needs to be voluntary, and you need to know exactly what it is you're giving them to store for you.
First, I NEVER said Samsung was defeating anyone in my post. But come to think of it, Samsung has defeated pretty much every other Android phone makers. But again, I never said Samsung was defeating anyone.

Not only that, Samsung was more profitable than apple for 2 consecutive quarters in 2013 before newer iPhones were released. Of course ton of other profits of samsung came from non-phones.
http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-is-now-a-more-profita...

Second, source on that battery story?
Ticked a debug output flag on prod for a specific IP (Proprietary CMS, couldn't replicate the issue on test even with a full codebase and db sync), brought down the entire server for an hour.

edit: This was after I asked for permission to do this.

Lesson learned: Don't EVER use Coldfusion as a web server.
Have you some reason to believe that's what I'm doing, or do you just enjoy snark? I can't blame you in the latter case; so do I. But I'm curious whether you know, or think you know, something that might change my opinion of Star Citizen. (It's not too late to initiate a dispute on the initial $140 charge, should I feel it necessary to do so.)
> There are few things which can effect change better than billionaires in fear of losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

What change would you like this to effect? I thought Google already had a solid reputation of being against patent trolls and software patents. For example:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/17/4233818/google-submits-pub...

http://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/pledge/

http://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/patents/
In Haskell, I can add a single line containing a macro to derive the JSON [de]serialization code.

Even when there's no simple 1-to-1 mappings. I don't see why you think unityping makes this serialization easier?
> That Iceland officially nationalized banks and the US left the banks officially in private hands is really a trivial detail.

That detail is anything but trivial. It's the difference between giving the assets of a company to creditors during bankrupcy, or just clearing the debts, and keeping the assets as company possessions (and keeping the company owners).

To tell you the truth, I still can not understand how the US (out of all countries, the one where people do not trust the State) accepted that bank bailout.
I once worked for a company that schedules advertising before films. This wasn't in the US and the company had a monopoly over all of the ads shown across the country. It was my first programming job and done during university holidays, so I was there for a couple of months and then back to university. Toward the end of the following year I get a phone call: something was wrong with the system, it was allowing agents to overbook advertising slots. I diagnosed the problem over the phone and they put a fix in but management decided it was too late for the company to go back and cancel all of the ads that were already booked. This was not surprising as it was the most money they'd ever made. Conveniently, the parent company owned the cinemas so they did a deal where they just showed all of the ads that were booked.

Because of me, one December, everyone in the country who went to the cinema got to watch anywhere between 30 and 45 minutes of ads before the main presentation started.

Lesson learned: write more tests, monitor everything.
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Coming to the thread late, slides can be found here: http://chris.ill-logic.com/systems-neuroscience/ (plus the video)
I owned a furniture company for a little bit... So understand I am a furniture snob. West elm and restoration hardware are shit...

Baller should be

http://www.hudsonfurnitureinc.com
http://bocci.ca
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Maybe even room and board.

Know the market better and you will have better success.

Other then that I think its a great start.
I'm actually somewhat similar. I'm moving relatively soon and was trying to find furniture but it's difficult to both find things and figure out how everything would fit together. I'm not worried so much about how long it'll last (other than general feel, I'm not sure I could tell) but it's generally not clear just how large the furniture would be.
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What constitutes credible data in a study?

Obviously the more credible the reporter, the more evidence, the more witnesses - the more credible the anecdote.

Are you implying that no story from a layman can be considered credible, but scientists have some magical power that makes them credible?

Data is mismeasured, misinterpreted, misremembered, or simply made up in studies all the time.
They need to do the opposite, and allow Android apps to work on Chrome
I think it's useful. Last time I had to do furniture shopping, I had to keep going to a bunch of different sites to see who had what I wanted and what their price ranges were.

I also like the grouping of items based on cost range, as that was how I was primarily searching for stuff.

The only place it falls apart for me is in the ability to create a shopping cart. I may be in the minority, but when I was furniture shopping I was looking for a whole room or set of things. With this site, it's very easy to buy one thing, but when you want to buy 3 or 4 pieces it can become a bit of a hassle.
Agree with everything you've said, and I still think Google has to pay for infringing.

Patents are NOT just to prevent copying. Patents are not supposed to be worthless against larger companies who can just replicate your work without your help.

If you could just re-engineer any patented invention, patents would be worthless. Companies would be incentivized to bury their heads in the sand so they could be sure they were not 'inspired' by anything out there that might have been patented. The only way to prevent this is to say, we don't care if you "knew" about the patent you still can be found infringing.

The thing I hope will be reversed on appeal is willfulness. It seems to me this was not willful. Or perhaps the definition of 'willful' should be tightened to mean reverse-engineered or copied from a practicing entity. That's one way to get the damage award to be more reasonable.
You can study patents for free; that is part of the purported purpose of the system. So if you copy the code purely to learn about it, that is arguably not an infringement. Using the code is in violation without a license. This applies whether source, interpreted, compiled, bytecode, or decompiled. It will be harder to convince a judge that you were just studying it if you have only a form that is conducive to running and not conducive to study, though, if you are found out and sued.

Of course, you'd better not plan on using anything you learned from it until you negotiate licenses for your users (or the patent expires).
looks like someone doesn't understand anything about number theory and how computer's actually work with number representations to make your stupid fucking twitterbook feed work. you're an idiot.
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Delivery to your doorstep, a logistics solution
This post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7143399 got me thinking, how about we have a network of pipes with conveyor belts to each home, running underground, or maybe dedicated lanes alongside the existing network of roads.

We could order whatever groceries, gadgets, take-out, whatever we want, it would be automatically moved from shelf and an address would be attached to it. These packets would go zipping down the street and to your doorstep where they'll automatically download at a designated area of your home.
I know, a big infrastructure challenge, but so were roads, and so is hyperloop.
>Edward Kmett is a Haskell evangelist

Really? Could you point me to some of his evangelizing? Or did you mean "he uses haskell and is quite happy with it"? Because that isn't the same thing.

>inconsistencies that the average programmer will never even realize exist.

Do you honestly believe that? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg

>Scala that only when you leave it's confines do you realize, shit, I miss

But the very point Edward makes is that you don't give up those things when you leave scala. You only give up those things if you leave scala for something worse. You could leave for something better, keep all those things, and get tons of important things that you also won't realize you are missing until you get used to them and then try to live without them.
At Ticketmaster, I once lazily used a N^2 instead of N in a place. I didn't think N was large. It caused the system to boot slow and my boss asked what I had done! It was a simple fix. It was in the module string table initialization.

At Graphic Technologies, I set-up a computer for our client, the Bank of England printing building. My boss asked what the root password was. I told him. He said, "That's our password!" I was never clear what our business was-- who was our company, who was other people. I did not give a fuck or they didn't bother to tell me shit.

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looks like someone doesn't understand anything about number theory and how computers actually work with number representations to make your stupid fucking twitterbook feed work. you're an idiot.
This one time we used Ruby on Fails. That was the worst screw up ever!
Hi Bruce.

I actually met prom yesterday and he showed me that there are much more information on MPS know. I already read threw most of the documentation and I'm very interested to maybe use it.

I don't yet fully understand the license and what it means, I will probably join IRC in the next days and dig for some more info on MPS.

Great that you get payed to work on this.
Being "first to market" only matters when you're building things like Facebook or Windows, where network effects are relevant. If you're making consumable or durable goods, being first to market is irrelevant. India will clone your drug within a few months of its release, but there is no way you'll make up all that capital investment by then.

Without patents, the rational thing to do is not invest any more in an invention than you can recoup in the short window before someone clones it and undercuts you on price. Moreover, it diminishes inventors and elevates manufacturers. The smart strategy in a world without patents is to build up massive overseas manufacturing capacity, because you can always quickly copy designs and then undercut the original designer with your manufacturing muscle.

'Andrewfong has a good point about independent invention being a defense. The idea of inventing something on your own only to have someone else claim they patented it is most of what bugs people about patents. In engineering circles where that is much less common, you don't have an anti-patent sentiment. When I was studying aerospace engineering in college, nobody I encountered perceived patents as anything but a good thing.
Create vouchers in 711 you can instantly redeem for bit/altcoins. Bitinstant did this but was badly implemented. Unsure if msb required. Some millionaire prince could make it happen. Probably issues with it being able to use for online gambling too considering paysafecard is forced to sell a crippled version in the US
Strictly speaking, they do have one benefit. If someone steals your password, there is really no way to know. If they reset your account with a security question, you'll know as soon as you access.

Still pretty terrible, though.
I would use it. I don't like going to furniture places and trying to figure out what I want, so your website appeals to me. In fact, if this is still around in a few months when I furnish my apartment, I will use this.
I don't know why u guys are arguing, he wouldn't have much use this ARM part. Where this will excel is in CRUD web apps. The ARM part it there just to shuttle data between the 10Ge and the 128GB of ram.
I wonder if the people are also happier.
(tumbleweed)

PayPal is the only way I can get paid by my American client (in Canada) other than waiting a week for a cheque to mail, walking to the bank to deposit it, then another week or two for it to clear.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=series+representation+o...
We shipped an Android app that didn't like the way we had our HTTPS certs configured, so I had logic in there to accept the connection if the cert matched the one we had.

Two months later, the certs were expiring soon and we changed our configuration to something Android liked by default. The bad news was that our production Android app rejected the new configuration and only wanted to accept the current certs.

We ended up quickly shipping a hotfix that accepted the current and upcoming configuration a few days before the certs expired. There technically wasn't any 'downtime' as long as users updated the app, but this all took place right before 'holiday vacations', and the QA team had to test the fix while all the devs were away.
What do you want from a CTO? As a serial CTO/lead dev/architect-y guy, I can tell you that the title can be extremely varied in interest and actual duties.

Are you looking for someone to select the tools and the way those tools work together to meet your goals? Then they might not want to see an already built product.

Are you looking for someone to help you scale the application as engagement (hopefully) goes through the roof? You may be looking for more of a devops person.

Are you looking for someone to set up the developer culture, the process and hire/mentor an internal team? A good lead developer can handle these issues.

Are you looking for someone to which to hand ALL of these issues, to just handle them? Then, you are actually looking for a CTO. This person will be more expensive than the others, and will likely drive additional expenses through hiring those others as well. So consider your MVT (minimum viable team) as well as MVP, and go looking for the people you really need.

Best of luck!
I poured gasoline into the tractor's radiator instead of the gas tank.

Thankfully, someone stopped me before I turned it on.
I bet > 66% of these are something to do with databases. :-)

My story (though I wasn't directly responsible): we were delivering our software to an obscure government agency. Based on our recommendation, they had ordered a couple of SGI boxes. I wrote the installation script, which copied stuff off the CD, etc. Being a tcsh afficianado, I decided to write it in tcsh with the shebang line

#!/usr/local/bin/tcsh

Anyways: we send them the CD. Some dude on the other side logs in as root, mounts the CD, and tries to run "installme.csh". "command not found" comes the response.
So he peeks at the script, and sees that it's a shell script. He knows enough of unix that "shell == bash". So he runs "bash installme.csh" . A few minutes go by, and lots of errors. So he reboots; now the system won't come up.
The genius that he is, he decides to try the CD on the second SGI box. Same results.

In the script, the first few lines were something like:

set HOME = "/some/location"
/bin/rm -rf $HOME/*

Hint: IRIX didn't ship with /usr/local/bin/tcsh. And guess what's the value of "HOME" in bash?
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That depends if the domains are valuable to you. For example, see this post, which could have been prevented by a registrar that was more secure.

https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd
SmartVoicemail released for Android
You realize that some of the largest Bitcoin businesses, such as the now defunct Trade Hill, and the still operating moneero, have moved overseas to more open Latin American economies, right? Uraguay and Costa Rica seem like pretty nice places to live.

These businesses employ/have employed dozens of people, and that could easily grow to hundreds.

Also, by shutting out any chance of an complying American exchange, we de facto sent jobs to Bitstamp in Slovenia, which is growing in to a very nice-sized business, I hear.
Optimisation colouring was one of the Harlequin Dylan features I was most proud of having a hand in back in the day. Did anything like it ever get implemented in a more mainstream IDE?

We only implemented it for static optimisations I think (i.e. you could see at a glance how well the compiler had inferred types, resolved method calls, inlined functions, etc), but we had a lot of ideas at the time around its future application to profiling results, as well as layered, more interactive presentation.

It'd be a great addition to Light Table...
I'd bet on released at first parole hearing as long as Manning is willing to be "quiet" and just goes on to enjoy life. Which would probably be a desirable outcome, given age. It's pretty easy to make an argument for leniency based on age, irresponsibility-when-committed, and complete life changes (I mean, sex change, the Snowden revelations, by then no troops in Iraq/Afghanistan (hopefully!), stepping down from perpetual war (if for no other reason than economics), and at least one change of President.
We have more gates than we know what do with. There is little correlation with die area and end user price.
Years ago (early 80's) one of my Dad's buddies was a dealer for the Writehander.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxto...

It never really took off, but at the time, it was super cool.

Edit: some more links on chord keyboards:

http://www.billbuxton.com/input06.ChordKeyboards.pdf

http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-14851.html
Look, we're all coders here, I get the instinct to be precise with our words. But what about the cost/benefit trade-off? Is a small matter of personal policy related to definitions really worth hurting somebody who's already a member of easily the most downtrodden and crapped-upon group in modern society? Is preventing a tiny incremental shift in vocabulary really worth kicking somebody while they're down? I mean, I'm as grumpy as the next geek about the literally/not-literally thing, but this?

Also, think of it like an interface - the idea is that you should treat the transgendered person as their identified gender. So if you're planning on treating this person as a woman in every way in respect for her situation, wouldn't the pronoun/terminology actually make the matter clearer?
I'd love to see some publications from their R&D to outline how this won't turn into another one of those chat bot apps that you can have write Facebook posts in your style based on frequency analysis of your past posts.
It's connected to the facetiousatron sensor.
And if I had to rank shutting down a home PC on a difficulty spectrum, it would be pretty damn near the "Low" end, but... there it is.
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An in place and efficient quick sort? :)
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Unfortunately, I think slower then I type.
>I can't back up my absurd claim with an actual argument, so go google some strawmen for me

Really? How does this kind of shit not get downvoted to oblivion?
If you have a startup that you care about, at the end of the day it isn't all about money.

Thanks for the healthy dose of optimism and realism :). I'll keep that in mind.
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What if the people getting duped to give away your account are minimum wage call centre workers who'd probably like you off the phone ASAP? You're a genius who'd never get scammed like this, fine, but you're not the weakest link here.
There's already a bunch of weird and superfluous ones that hardly anyone encounters (ever see a .jobs or .pro?), so unless they bother you, I don't think things will be any different come February.
I've had a somewhat similar idea related to storing memories and I suspect that it's a fairly common idea that's occurred to lots of us.

However, this sounds ridiculous. The worst and most tone deaf example of how ridiculous this sounds is the part that shows an image of the deceased person with, "Hello Mike! Remember that time we went fishing?" with a spot for a reply.

I mean this literally, not rhetorically: who would honestly engage in that type of "conversation"? If you were someone who truly loved the deceased person and mourns their loss, I simply can't imagine this "conversation" taking place, unless you are in a spot of such grief and emotional pain that you're no longer able to cope and will grasp any straw that is offered. If you didn't truly love the deceased person, perhaps you would engage this way just for kicks? But it's still weird.
In my own experience with restaurant owners where I worked in-person and live product demonstrations go a very long way.

Also follow-up, follow-up, follow-up
In my teens, my father traded commodities. Hogs, corn, soy, all on the CME (for a brief period, he worked on the trading floor, but then I came along). During this time, I provided IT support (this was in the early 90's), aggregating historical market data (hello Knight Ridder!), plotting charts (Supercharts, when it was still software and not a SaaS platform, on Windows 3.1), and so forth.

I saw first hand what happens when you're sweating the market going against your trades. My father would smoke heavily and not sleep at night.

Now that I'm 31, we joke about those times. I still build algos with Quantopian for fun (and share them with my dad over a beer, throwing the backtest up on a 70" TV), and make a few bucks here and there, but you would be fucking insane to try to be a day trader now (competing against people with crazy financial and technological resources).
Why does "moderate" coffee tables have many that are $2000+? It makes me lose confidence in the site, and it is broken. I won't want to use it, in case there are other errors, ie. billing, etc.
You didn't screw up here. The entire infrastructure, org chart, and policies that allowed you to accidentally modify a production database containing critical medical information screwed up.

Blaming yourself here is like blaming yourself for being hurt after being told to drive a car with no seatbelt or brakes.
In the end, you are still dead. Living people interacting with a digital mishmash of your digital leavings seems both disingenuous and kind of creepy.
'And guess what's the value of "HOME" in bash?'

In the rm line of the snippet above, "/some/location". Magic variables in bash tend to lose their magic once set.