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I think the difference is that you're reading it as practical word problem, when the intent is to present a math problem.

I first heard about this problem in a politically incorrect variation: a tribe chief is given the opportunity to choose a wife from a pool of n women, presented in a random order, one at a time. He can choose any woman, but can't choose a woman who he has already passed up. What's the strategy for the chief to choose the most beautiful wife?
>I can script the installation of software I need to develop with. I've d...

This is a serious problem with Linux'es. Seriously, what user base is Linux optimizing for? Nearly 100% of the people using a computer don't have to ever do such a thing ever.

People use computers to get work done, or get some entertainment. Not play with their guts. Imagine if your TV or Washing Machine, or even you Car required you to have deep understanding of Electronics or mechanical engineering to just get them working.

I'm sure we people who call ourselves hackers wouldn't touch such a thing with a 10 foot pole.
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if the drones could really stay airborne for 24h at about the same altitude it would be at least 1-2 orders of magnitude more expensive. The 24h is holy grail of this industry because above clouds it is the same basically as 5 years. Once somebody develops it, it will be a game changer for many industries.
Look at the short-run loss-minimization problem.

In the short run, a business (or an individual) will continue to operate (or work) so long as at least a portion of its fixed costs are covered (that is: you're meeting the marginal cost of operation / labor).

By putting the subsidy of BI underneath an individual, you're covering that much more of their fixed costs, and it may well be that the person is ahead by working at a below-full-cost wage. And if the BI covers enough of those fixed costs, this can be sustained indefinitely.

Again: this represents a net subsidy of the business which is receiving this labor. There's a reason I'm saying BI and MW are complimentary. They address different market failures.
We do this too, attaching req and res objects to a domain, as well as databases and other network related objects (like smtp clients, etc). This is a huge improvement, but I'm still seeing occasional uncaught error events in our logs on a very large codebase and only in production. Some of them are just ECONNRESET events with no details given, so their origins are REALLY hard to track down. Have you got some magic for catching everything without explicitly having to find all objects that could be emitting? I'd love to hear it if so...
"Wall Streeters are greedy, but they don't go out of their way to ruin peoples' careers..."

How confident are you about this claim?
>Facebook has a clear vision: Connect the world

to Facebook platform.
I wouldn't fret. Looking at history, MS will probably release several versions of Windows including paid versions. Microsoft's biggest strength and weakness is that they want to cater to everyone at the same time.
Have you tried recompiling Go?

This is building the tool chain and standard library on my modest machine with a cold cache:

$ time ./make.bash
real	0m42.763s
user	1m11.655s
sys	0m13.411s

Hardly a colossal burden.
I was a security specialist at a large software company for a couple of years, and I did some developer training.

> I'm not a roving security consultant, so my sample size is limited, but I have seen little evidence that even basic security awareness is part of the toolkit any substantial number of developers have.

My experience matches yours.
Piracy feels the the same in most of East and South East Asia as well.
I think what's missing actually is an ability to really cancel a certificate and issue a new one for a piece of software. This doesn't work with Windows code signing for a number of economic and technical reasons. For example, you can't verify that a certificate hasn't been revoked when installing offline, and you can't resign packages you have given to other developers to distribute.

So what this means is that code signing does not work for redistributable software or for hard media very well. Ideally it would work if you have a single trusted online source for signatures but then this renders the system far less useful for many applications.

I am not sold on code signing. We sign our code and centrally publish the signatures separate from the code, so that while the code may be signed, the signatures can be updated if we need to change the key.

It's not that the developer does something bad but that if you can't revoke a compromised key effectively and safely for all parties, then you can't revoke it at all. And code signing in its current incarnations (whether with RPMs or MSIs) has serious problems there.
Julia,

Awesome work.

Paul, great that you recognized it and contributed.

I sometimes despair about how much negativity and nit picking there is around people who are doing, or at least trying to do, things that really change the world.

In my mind this is way ahead of Whatsapp getting all the money, yet there was very little negative reaction to that event.
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employees low enough level to be riding the shuttles

Yes, SF's banking-class and politicians are loving this. The middle-class is distracted fighting their middle-class peers.
Australia has also talked of removing Russia from the G8, which is now being called the G7, I'm sure just as a sign of the members being serious.

I suspect all it takes is for G7 countries not to invite Russia to the meetings.

They have been uninvited to the G20 meetings in Australia.
This reminds me very much of the situation we had here in Switzerland. Two years ago Nestle's Swiss patent on their capsules expired, so now the market gets flooded with third party 'compatible' capsules. Lately they've introduced new Nespresso machines that automatically eject the used capsules using an electric motor. This has introduced much smaller tolerances, so the machine often gets stuck on third party capsules.
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Hey L.Bh.,

thanks for the advice, it's appreciated.

My boss already complained that it's taking me so long integrating all that heavy exaggerated crypto stuff, and your suggestions are indeed easier! Customers won't realize there's a difference anyway.

Yours truly,
Incompetent firmware guy
The "Postmortems" book from Game Developer Magazine has a bunch of similar stories about Diablo 2, Thief, Deus Ex, AoE, and more.

http://www.amazon.com/Postmortems-Game-Developer-Developers-...
A host-it-yourself version of this would be nice.
I would argue that Wall Streeters go out of their way to ruin peoples' lives, not just careers, in the name of greed.
Eh, fair enough. He just struck three nerves on a Monday morning.

1. proselytism
2. grammatical solecism
3. inflating the value of a "downvote"

In hindsight, I should have kept my mouth shut. But hit those three before my caffeine deficiency has been addressed, and I'll likely find myself in _that_ role.
> I might get some heat for this but I must say Windows is still the OS with the least closed garden or heck even a garden.

Surely you meant "OS with a significant market share" or something, because there's no way Windows is more "open" in any way than Linux!
Dude, I don't even trust code I do write myself. I can trust myself not to be malicious. But I can't trust myself to be perfectly vigilant against cutting corners all the time (everyone does this, especially those who think they don't). And I can't trust my coding to be perfect.
I'm an ex-Bay Area guy living in LA. In LA, it's a slightly different game.

It's sortof like high school. Popular people treat the unpopular badly. Type A's are revered, have lots of friends, and get lots of sex.

Nerds are treated badly because they are "different". There isn't much compassion for people who are "different". You better be funny and Type A or you got some serious character flaws ;-)

Nonetheless, it's still a game. It's also a cold world. Some people transcend and live a more meaningful life, some don't.
Appear.in was incredibly convenient when I tried it, but it used an insane amount of CPU or GPU power (Firefox Linux on a 2012 Macbook Pro), causing my laptop fans to spin up to full speed. The fan noise became unbearable for the other participants in the conversation.
If we could make this as a square, could we not create transforms to perfectly replicate any filter e.g Instagram, as a map of colours?
You mean installing reclaimed log cabins in your cafeteria, sorry casual dining area, isn't endearing? [1]

[1] http://www.marinij.com/novato/ci_25251868/lib-at-large-novat...
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Looks like google has succeeded in comoditizing their ccompliments, which their competitor (Microsoft) used to be able to make money off. If I were MS I'd be trying to figure out how to launch a free competitor to adwords.
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-gol...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2013/07/22/carl-icah...

people in every industry hold long term grudges and wreck each others careers. They simply just exist in whatever industry you choose.
"ONE TRUE WAY is overrated. I'd rather use whatever works given the context."
That's it.
If you're looking for an open source alternative, please consider my Huginn project, which now has quite an active community.

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Hi Julia,

Before I get to my questions, I want to applaud your and Paul's efforts. It's great to see resources being spent in pursuit of causes that really matter.

First, what basis do you have for believing that micro lending is an effective means of poverty alleviation? I've yet to come across a well-respected study that proves it is, but have read a few [1] that question its efficacy.

And second, given your stance on aid, I'm curious why you structured Zidisha as a non profit? Couldn't an argument be made that the same negative effects you claim handouts have on the poor [2], also negatively impact Zidisha if you accept donations to run your organization?

Thanks for your responses.

[1] https://www.givedirectly.org/pdf/DFID_microfinance_evidence_...

[2] http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4623503
You see a huge amount of this sort of poor-man's version control in other industries - everyone I have worked with in other industries has worked out some personal scheme of versioning using initials, dates, numbering in order to sequence the various states of their work as it passes through multiple people and multiple versions.

A lot of room for disruption there I think if someone works out how to make version control fit better with ordinary people's view of the world (i.e. not git, svn etc). Versions in word are the closest I've seen to it but it really shouldn't be in one specific program but in the OS or a helper program.
End-user Windows licenses haven't been a significant source of income for Microsoft for a very long time. They make their money from their enterprise ecosystem, and end-user Windows serves only to support that ecosystem.

So unfortunately, I hate to break it to you that as an end user the money you're giving Microsoft for their products never gave you control.

But on the bright side, pissing off the end users that provide sustenance and influx for their volume-licenses cash cows doesn't serve Microsoft's bottom line either. So even if you pay nothing, your usage of Microsoft's products is very much something Microsoft would prefer to continue.
> Currently, the biggest pain point for me in backups is VMWare images. I currently have 4 Linux and 3 Windows images on this system, and they can cause a huge amount of data needing to be backed up every time they are used.

This is where a sector-by-sector backup program shines.

I don't know what to recommend on the Mac, but on Windows, ShadowProtect is pretty wonderful. It backs up only changed sectors - update 10MB in a 10GB file and it only copies that 10MB - and it's insanely fast.

Even with a file-by-file backup, one thing you can do for VMware images is to take a snapshot. After you take a snapshot, further changes to the VM don't go into the large .vmdk file you just snapshotted, they go into a new, potentially much smaller .vmdk file, so your next incremental backups may be much smaller.
The thing with NSA is not about privacy. It's about goverment violating it en masse in vastly useless and potentially malicious even Orwellian schemes.

I don't mind hackers doing what they must because they can. I consider them force for good when they get into rich and poweful peoples drawers and publish things. It's a reminder that no matter how rich you are and how many laws you have bought you are never outside of public scrutiny.
Not necessarily. They may be giving away their platform to encourage the ecosystem that surrounds it (to both consumers and developers), which is probably much more valuable than the OS itself.
You are providing an HTTP link to git.io, so it cannot be verified whether I am connecting to the real git.io. This means an attacker can fake himself being git.io very easily (a classic man-in-the-middle attack).

It doesn't matter if git.io can only shorten git urls, as git.io will never be involved in a potential attack.

Using a link shortener is okay, but use one that supports HTTPS.
Federal minimum wage in the US is at best a rough proxy for living wage, as living expenses vary greatly by region (Jane Jacobs has some interesting things to say about this in The Rise & Fall of Great American Cities and Cities and the Wealth of Nations). In reality you'd want to calculate a living wage specific to a given area or region.

The official Federal poverty rate is based largely on the cost of food (housing was a much smaller component of expenses when it was first calculated, and for political reasons, the formula hasn't been adjusted mostly because it would make whatever administration did so look bad). It's presently $11,490/year for an individual ($5.75/hr), or $23,550 for a family of four ($11.78/hr). Good luck living on that in New York or San Francisco. In recognition of this, many aid programs are available at some multiple (e.g., 4x) of the poverty level.

http://www.obamacarefacts.com/federal-poverty-level.php

In which case, I'd argue that the present Federal minimum wage of $7.75/hr is well below subsistence for a family throughout the US, and is below that of individual subsistence in many larger cities. Since providing for continued labor means supporting at least one child, if not two plus at least a partial share of a spouse's support, it's low by several times.
This seems like a clever move: make the OS free, to encourage developers and consumers to adopt it, and profit from the OS's suddenly-flourishing ecosystem rather than the OS itself.
You missed the point completely.

"I can script the installation of software I need to develop with" means he can simply write a script (similar to a windows batch file) that automatically installs whatever software he needs using the package manager. You are not required to do this, and this is simply a convenient method of preparing a freshly installed OS for use. For example, if I install an OS on a new machine, I usually install chrome, openbox, tint2, etc. I have a script that does that for me so that I don't waste time installing every single piece separately. I don't even know how to do anything similar on Windows.

If anything, the way software installation is managed on most linux distros (package managers and software repositories) is superior to the way it's done on Windows today (download setup.exe from god-knows-where and run it, and a constant pain in the ass with updates).
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I declined a PhD offer (full-ride even!) for a start-up

It wasn't the money potential, but the lack of opportunities in the field. You can work for less pay if you're compensated for something else in terms of opportunity cost (social status, privilege of doing what you love etc) but right now there's zero incentive and it's so bleak

A lot of my professor friends don't rely purely on salary even if they're tenured. There's other ways like speaking engagements, book royalties etc. I know some tenured professors who don't use grant system at all (especially in humanities) instead they get funding through collaborations and other sources
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Google doesn't compete with them for the desktop really. But desktop Linux distros do. Especially when it comes to gaming. Note that Valve pushes Linux a lot lately with their whole SteamOS effort especially. I think that's a major threat for MS who for a long time enjoyed an unchallenged position as a platform in PC gaming.

Latest Linux gaming renaissance eats at their confidence. For many gamers Windows is not seen as a requirement anymore, and they simply ditch it and start using better systems (especially because Wine became so good lately). While gamers are a minority amongst Windows users, MS still fears that dynamic because it breaks their network effect and creates the same effect in the Linux world.
> Who uses GnuTLS

According to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuTLS

Apache httpd (configurable), GNOME, wireshark
No, I mean regular Linux. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7338814
> I might get some heat for this but I must say Windows is still the OS with the least closed garden or heck even a garden.

The Windows App Store is as closed as Apple's, just not as successful - and I was comparing interests, not achievements.

> To get even the legitimate and popular x86 applications you still have to manually browse to websites and download it. You can install whatever you want whether it has a digital signature or not and yes it also includes the plentitude of crapwares and spywares.

It's not as open as Linux, or Android, and about as open as OSX. You can't load unsigned drivers anymore without much work. I have no idea why you'd think Windows is "least closed garden" - unless you've never used any of the others.

> Or maybe some people like a touch OS with their touchscreen laptop and its just MS thinking forward? I don't know what other OS can you recommend that is touch friendly for my Surface pro?

Stockholm syndrome? How can it be "forward looking" to force you to use a touch interface when you don't want to? You want it? fine, use it. I don't. But if I use Win8, I still have to use it. Forward looking? Bullying is the only description I can give it.

> No sure what you mean by this.

Then read skrebbel's post I was replying to. He is under the mistaken assumption that because he was paying for Windows, he had any control over the direction it went in the last 10 years.
Clearly this would be faster than using the requests library to scrape pages in serial, but would it also be faster than using the requests library in several threads at once? Besides the simplified syntax, what is the advantage of asyncio over a threaded scraper?
I've just referenced the Federal poverty rate elsewhere: $11,670 for an individual, $23,850 for a family of four.

http://familiesusa.org/product/federal-poverty-guidelines (the numbers cited previously are apparently pre-2014 and are slightly lower).

There are criticisms of the calculation of this (it's weighted for food, housing and transport costs are a much large component now than when the index was first created), but it would correspond to $5.84 for an individual, $11.93 for a family of four. In the latter case, I'd assume one parent is working less than full time.

By either measure, and with the requirement that subsistence cover both the worker's and their childrens' living costs, the present federal minimum wage is below subsistence.

How do you figure a few dollars per day for someone within the US?
Whenever I read HN and see an extremely anti-startup comment I always know it's from you. For a while I'd get angry reading your comments, but I'm actually curious- What on earth happened between you and startups to make you think they're a huge scam to take advantage of the unsuspecting?

I'm a nobody who came to Silicon Valley and has done relatively well for himself as a founder. I've seen many, many other founders with similar stories. We raised a significant amount of money and can spend it however we want. The worst I can say about my experience with investors is sometimes they can be arrogant. The ones that did invest in us have been nothing but incredibly humble and helpful. But going out of their way to screw someone over? I just haven't ever seen anything close to that happen to anyone in the 3 years I've been here.

I used to work in finance where they're much more ruthless. I have a classmate from undergrad who recently was arrested for "stealing trade secrets" from a hedge fund: http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2014/02/19/analyst-c.... Who knows what actually happened but that sort of stuff would never fly in Silicon Valley.

That's not to say I have the correct perspective but I always see these generalizations coming from you that seem so far off from my reality that I wonder what's going on. What happened to you?
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Well, thanks, but I am not smug about this. I don't care if Windows lives or dies. I've moved on. We are no longer dating.

And here's how it happened: http://www.iwebthereforeiam.com/iwebthereforeiam/2009/10/int...

I was a happy Windows developer (DOS, Windows 3,1, NT, Windows 95, Windows whatever) and found that windows was too annoying to live with.

And I don't pretend this is everyone's situation or even anyone else's. It doesn't matter to me. I've moved on and I'm happy.
I disagree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7338761
Same thing in Russia and all former soviet republics, I don't know any of my friends back there who has ever purchased a licensed copy of windows.
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any inelastic demand markets will not follow that model. tournament-systems rely on incredible elasticity of demand so any small change will cause ripple of larger magnitude (i.e. if a new VC joined in the supply of VCs, it will cause 1000x more startups to be funded in order of magnitude)

Equity/stock traders is one of them because of legislation that fixes the commission price per lot (so the banks cannot really use information asymmetry as an advantage) Not all banking is as profitable as people think it is
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Is it something you can easily and obviously do, in place, when you find links to spam & malware sites?

Or do you have to know a special URL?
First, I would expect that if someone like Ken Thompson says something like this there is more to the comment than you are going to get from the blurb. You really must read it.

Secondly, if you read it, you will recognize that what he is talking about is a real issue, particularly in the post-Snowden era and is totally relevant to the article. And his point really is that you can never be sure there isn't a backdoor planted somewhere in your software or hardware. Even if you write all the code yourself, it is still operating in an environment that you did not build.

Understanding this problem at its root is the beginning of an understanding into why depth is so important to IT security and why all our current approaches at trusted binaries are inadequate at least on their own.
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