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Mountain View, CA. Relocation available to the right candidate.

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Well, I was considering getting an ASUS to replace my current Netgear R6200 (the built-in DNS relay stops working after a few days of operation and can't be disabled). Now it's looking like I'd be better served building a little ITX box and doing it myself.
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This is not surprising. Michael Dell spent billions to take the company private because he believed the company was undervalued and under-performing[0], and that he knew how to save it, not because he was content with leaving it the way it was.

That process necessarily involves personnel changes - if anything, I'm surprised we didn't see these sooner.

The real question will be who they're cutting (and more importantly, who they'll be replaced with, or if those positions will be replaced at all).

[0] The other reason public companies go private is to liquidate, but that's clearly not his goal.
I agree. I think every bitcoin transaction should be reviewed by finely trained employees of Finance Security Agency (FSA). Amongst other things they should make sure:

1. Correct amount of bitcoins were withdrawn from source bitcoin wallet.

2. Correct amount of bitcoins were deposited into target wallet.

3. Both target and source wallets are valid.

4. Etc.

AFAIK, bitcoin is currency and FX market is in generally way less regulated compared to securities market. Thus any regulation introduced would be targeting money transfers between individuals, rather than exchanges[1].

[1] We probably should regulate exchanges, as of right now it is super simple for exchanges to make profit on their customers. Consider following strategy, whenever bitcoin order comes in that moves market exchange would execute small order in same direction before customer order, reverse order as soon as larger order moved market. Instant profit.
Another City is Possible: Cars and Climate
High-speed rail project reaches new milestone
Find a technical co-founder as soon as possible.

This question is asked so routinely here. Apostolee said it, but just so you can know that it is really true....you can't keep an idea safe, unless it's algorithmic-based (in which case you would already know that).

Sadly, something that you should think about is that most of the time there are multiple groups working on the same idea. Your great hacker competitor could be working on it this weekend.

Time is really critical and getting a co-founder should be where your energy is spent.
Heh, heck my db and app live in the same data center, and the latency is more than 30-40 MS.
Can anyone explain how disabling ssh has anything to do with automation? We automate all our deployments through ssh and I was not aware of another way of doing.
An interesting point of view. With that said, my anecdotal experiences indicate that it's possible to discuss media with people even if you're not on the same page, as it were.

Consider Game of Thrones -- I'm perfectly able to discuss Seasons 1 and 2 with my friends who haven't yet seen Season 3, if I'm mindful to avoid spoilers.

Community discussion can be had, it just needs to be conscientious.
notable in the "Apple technology at the center of it all" panel: no Mac Pros
If you think that's cool you should have a look at this frog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1vyB-O5i6E&list=PL8E7ED16454...

The physics behind this are explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation
If your ancestors had only been here for five minutes, during those five minutes you would enjoy advantages based on your race that black people would not.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI

Look at the Dow Jones index. If you look at it today, it looks like a dramatic drop. If you look at it in the span of several years, that drop looks somewhat trivial.

Same thing goes for climate change. Go back 1 billion years, and you will find that the earth has warmed and cooled far more dramatically than in the last 100 years. I'm not denying anthropogenic global warming, I'm just saying that correlation does not necessarily equal causation.

(And for the record, I'm not pushing one political agenda or the other, I'm just trying to look at a given data set rationally).

Edit: either way, I encourage the pursuit of clean energy and reusable resources.
In my personal experience, discussions occur just fine after the conclusion of the binge, and I've also discussed "historical" stuff with people (for instance, "Stargate: SG-1"). This doesn't seem to be obviously worse, just different, which is not the same thing despite great evident belief to the contrary.
Iron is ferromagnetic, so the magnet will stick to the tube and not fall through.
So can I create one actor for each of my clients, and add/remove machines to my cluster and have them automatically balance across it? And I can do normal SQL queries including joins as long as I never need to join across several clients?

If so, this might be the first one of these new databases that actually helps with my use case. (Though I'll wait to see what jepsen makes of it first).
Persistence for AWS can be relatively simple if you use a distributed filesystem, such as GlusterFS (http://gluster.org) or our ObjectiveFS (https://objectivefs.com). You get a shared namespace for all your instances and persisting your data becomes as simple as writing files.
So does this mean that all purchases on the iOS Pebble App Store have to go through the iTunes App Store and thus Pebble pay a cut to Apple ? Because iTunes App Store T&C say all purchases go through them, right ?
I did try it (and signed in) to your site. I'll admit, I knew I was going there for Persona, and "sign in via email" got me curious to click on it, even though I already knew what it was.
Ask HN: What are your opinions about GridFTP?
Wow looks like a big pain.
New Jersey School Throws Away Autistic Child’s Lunch Numerous Times
He has a bunch of really good videos
If magnet was not rotated when dropped through the tube, would it simply stick to one wall in case of slightest imbalance?
Yes it's paid, because it's storing and rendering images that are updated by the minute in a very fast time. That sort of compution, and calculation isn't cheap. As you can see the compressed file format is about 25GB.
I imagine most regulation to bitcoin would be more vague and instead be written to apply to all cryptocurrencies.

People aren't calling for the regulation of other cryptocurrencies mostly because they don't have the same kind of usage and economy surrounding them that bitcoin has. If people start trading coinye in the same way and it reaches similar volumes as bitcoin, you'll see the same sort of talk. It just makes more sense to treat cryptocurrencies the same under the law, unless there is something about a particular one that made it most different than all the other current variations.
I am not seeing anywhere that this is due to a lack of demand, but rather due to re-structuring the company.
The first thing that jumped out at me in the (very interesting I thought) article was this; "If you need validation and encouragement from others, it isn't going to happen". In other words, you need a thick skin as well as technical ability. I remember Walter Bright achieved a certain amount of fame in the programming community back in the 80s by writing and productizing outstanding C and C++ compilers for MS-DOS when that was an important market with big competitors including MS and Borland. He seems to have been plugging away with D, conceived as a better successor for C than C++ for a long time now. I suspect that the reason that C++ is ubiquitous while D remains relatively obscure has a lot more to do with inertia and momentum than the objective merits of the two languages. It's a tough field to get traction in with so many brilliant and opinionated critics and competitors. My impression is that Walter Bright is an outstanding programmer who deserves more recognition and kudos.
> Bitcoin has fluctuated wildly in value, highlighted by a chart from Coinbase showing that it increased over 400 percent in November and then lost nearly half its value in December. That type of volatility is an invitation to unscrupulous dealers and merchants to overcharge or underpay.

> To protect consumers who want to use Bitcoin for legitimate transactions, the government may adopt reporting requirements on virtual currency exchanges so that there is a public repository of information about prices. Although the government cannot control the value of a virtual currency, it can make the currency more transparent to users so that they are not defrauded.

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Ehhh, really? In one paragraph they point out the price history of Coinbase, and then in the next paragraph they say "the government outta do it".

And yeah-- the government is technically unable to control the prices of virtual currencies but government also _should not_ be in the business of controlling prices anyway. That leads to a distortion of market prices and a bad deal for one side or the other.
Interpolation, probably. The location can still be estimated from other data, albeit with increasing loss as the number of independent samples decreases.
I'm aware this happened with Season Four of Arrested Development. There was a massive hype right up until it was to premiere on Netflix and then … nothing. People watched it, then moved on.

I personally love to be able to binge a new television show, like House of Cards but at the same time I also love the discussions around it (Breaking Bad had some very cool discussions in between episodes). So I'm not quite sure what format is better in the long run.

Perhaps the future will be more like how Sherlock Series 3 was aired (only a few days between episodes, not an entire week). Whatever the case, television is only getting better from this point onwards.
A bunch of Chef cookbooks does not AWS make. Configuration management tools are of course a necessity in AWS but do not replace their offerings.

I'm very impressed that you were able to build in 3 weeks time a low-latency multi-data center application with master/slave database failover, robust fault tolerant load balancing, and backups that can be restored in minutes with an API to control all of those services.
That would normally take a senior team of engineers several months to accomplish and have it be of the quality and reliability of the services provided by AWS.

More likely is that you had a use case or a mindset that did not suit AWS very well and was easy to implement on your own. That's awesome and I'm glad you were able to find better value elsewhere. AWS is not for everyone, and is definitely quite expensive on the pocketbook.
There are different types of Lisps.

1) the Lisps: they carry the name and share basics: Lisp 1.5 ... Common Lisp, ...

2) the derived dialects with some compatibility: Scheme, Interlisp, ...

3) the derived^2 dialects: Logo, MDL, Dylan, Racket, Clojure, ...

4) the derived^3 dialects: ML, ...

The Lisps is category one were and are able to share code. Emacs Lisp implements some of Common Lisp. Something complex like the LOOP macro was once a single source file for Maclisp, Lisp Machine Lisp and Common Lisp.

Clojure shares no source code with any other Lisp. It renames basic vocabulary ('atom') and lacks some older concepts. It's basically a new language.
'Candy' protest over King.com trademark move
A definitive guide to responsive text
Don't forget we're also near the end of a mini ice age so we should be expecting the earth to heat up. A lot of people forget this. Antarctica was once warm...
Can you possibly explain a little more? From my research [1] the fed tapering off looks good for business as stocks skyrocketed according to the article [1]. Personally I think it is good the Fed is tapering off and starting a slow transition (note: I have libertarian views hence less gov't involvement the better). Obviously, I am no expert, maybe someone can explain why it's bad other than the market might not being ready?

[1] - http://www.cnbc.com/id/101282912
Show HN: Readium 1.3 – Medium Ghost Theme + Featured, Figcaptions and Fluidbox
This is hardly a new problem. I am nearly always a week or two behind with some shows I have on my DVR. Due to one scheduling conflict or another, I don't always have time to watch every thing the night is airs. Couple that with needing to coordinate with my wife for some of the shows we watch together and it can be weeks sometimes before we sit down to catch up on a few shows.
All watch apps in the Pebble App Store are free. There are no purchases in the Pebble App Store.

However: It's common for a watch app to require a "companion app" that runs on the phone. The developer can charge for their companion app through the iTunes App Store and/or the Google Play store. Then Apple/Google take their usual cut (and Pebble is not involved in the sale at all).

Source: http://developer.getpebble.com/2/distribute/publish-to-pebbl...
I'm not surprised to see this "threat" angle approached by NYT. Most of their articles on Bitcoin have been negative so far, and about how awful Bitcoin is whether from an economic point of view or from an "enabling crime" point of view.

Normally, you would see "real journalists" try to balance the views, and insert opposite views and quotes in their articles. But not here, it seems.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-...

It's reached the point where Google defenders on HN need to state their employer, given the evidence we now know it's ridiculous.
It'll be interesting to see how development is affected. Dell has had a reputation of being the place to work if you wanted a high salary with minimal responsibilities here in Austin. I've heard the politics are brutal, though.
Anyone can edit and improve OSM straight away. It's like editing Wikipedia. There is no-one there to "accept" or "reject" "pull requests"
> Just use a terminating character, and use the standard one: a semi-colon.

Significant whitespace is popular as well. You can argue all day about it, but at the moment I think making a language "look like python" is the safer bet for a new language.
This doesn't seem to have a lot of granularity in color around the 0 mark. Above 0 we have a warm color, below 0 we have a cold color. Would it paint a more informative picture to give +/-(relevant fraction) a distinct color?
The problem here is that you're classifying everything AWS does as "EC2", which then causes confusion when someone else comes along and says "vendor X does everything EC2 does for half the price", and they mean solely the VM-related stuff, not the additional array of services.
Yeah, I've heard that. GM is better at lower qualitys. But then search is google's main skill, and addresses can be all over the place...
It's not the opinion or the idea. The argument is incredibly weak.
I genuinely don't understand this statement as a metric for assessing effectiveness.

What you're saying is that the best way to tell whether or not the federal government is doing its job is by the simple number of laws it passes. That sounds incorrect. I don't know, maybe I don't understand that measurement, but it seems like volume is a piss-poor way to measure how well the government is operating.
It's interesting to see someone else talk about this. Becoming something like independently poor has become sort of a goal of mine. It's a little surprising to me to realize how hard this is. There are so many organizations eager to give me a high salary for full-time development work, which has a high probability of keeping me feeling unhappy and trapped. But if I only want to work 30 hours a week, and I only need to make about $25 an hour to live - so far that seems like a harder situation to find. It's like, I'd be happy to give up all this extra money for more time and less stress, but there aren't as many takers for that deal.
Entrepreneurs Seek Profits From Pot
Your comment also reveals how the only Dell-related ad people can remember is 10+ years old.
I think it's related to the recent crappy weather. Correlation and causation and all.
But ABP considers Google ads to be "acceptable". I do not. Google is one of the creepiest companies on the internet to date, and I'd prefer to disappear off their radar entirely
You can also think of it as magnetic flux lines encountering "drag" as they pass through conductors.

The limiting behavior of this view is in type II superconductors, which entirely "pin" flux lines -- they present an effectively infinite resistance to the movement of flux lines. That's why a magnet levitates over such a superconductor. [1]

You can even image these "vortices" directly [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_pinning
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ZgiumS41Q
Yet another demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s9I8OI82Ag
Underpants +? = Profit. Where? = the "build value" stage.
Bill Gates may work on future products at Microsoft
Ah, but of course you are right. Then aluminum it is!
Web design just stepped up its game to the levels of fashion. I mean, in terms of not making sense.
By some predictions we are going into another mini-Ice Age (Ice Ages are typically preceded by climbing temperatures, which might seem counter-intuitive but a similar phenomenon is when you experience several warm, sunny days and then it suddenly gets very cold).
I wonder what % of their users are on Android. Everyone I know who owns a Pebble is on Android. Perhaps that is the minority?
At least your power steering system was ok or you would have only been able to reverse in a straight line without the significant effort of wrenching on the wheel.
The one programming language to rule them all that isn't for everyone.

I had to laugh at the irony of the juxtaposition of the title and the final sentiment! I like languages so I'll definitely be checking out Julia.
The company hasn't changed in ten years. Their notebooks today look virtually the same as those from ten years ago. Maybe a little thinner, plus they come in different colors, but that's about it.
Copper isn't ferrous, magnets can't stick to it.
New bill would restore net neutrality pending FCC action.
Oh no, our second least meaningful form of social interaction is getting harder. I'll have to fall back to talking about the weather.
lol makes me feel like a wimp for feeling like -20 was cold.
I don't know how you conclude that - evidence please. Seems more likely that these are cost cutting measures taken to trim costs as part of the private equity restructuring, and the fact that their products are not being exactly welcomed in the marketplace.
There have been some changes on the API, I need to look onto it.
The way IAM roles work is terrifyingly simple. IAM generates temporary access key identifier and secret access key with the configured permissions and EC2 makes them available to your instance via the instance metadata as JSON at http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credent... . The AWS SDK periodically retrieves and parses the JSON to get the new credentials. That's it. I'm not entirely sure whether the credentials can be used from a different IP or not, but given a proxying function that does not really matter.

I make sure all HTTP requests in my (Java) application go through a DNS resolver that throws an exception if:
ip.isLoopbackAddress() || ip.isMulticastAddress() || ip.isAnyLocalAddress() || ip.isLinkLocalAddress()

The last clause captures 169.254.169.254. Of course, many libraries use their own HTTP client, so it's easy to make a mistake.

I'm trying to bring my usage of IAM roles down to 0 as a matter of policy. Currently, I'm only using an IAM role to retrieve an encrypted Java key store from S3 (key provided via CloudFormation) and encrypted AWS credentials for other functions (keys contained in the key store). I'd be happier to bootstrap using CloudFormation with credentials that are removed from the instance after start-up.

Thanks for making updates. There are definitely some great tips in there.
With the invention of the telephone and email, the art of writing long well thought out letters has all but vanished.

It sucks, but with progress we sometimes (often?) lose some nice things.

In my opinion, it's worth it, in this case. I love having the freedom to watch a show when I want. I hate it when I have to wait for the next episode, especially if its release is delayed due to some football game (I'm looking at you True Detective).
Game of Thrones has that mentality built in already though, since half of the watchers already know the story from the books. That may be a unique eco-system. I know the subreddits built around GoT and ASOIAF have intricate spoiler systems built in.