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The PS4 might have strong sales but the generation has a whole isn't faring so well. Don't miss the forest for the trees (or tree) here... January is actually generally a weak month for console sales while the strongest is December, so it is true that one month probably isn't the best way to compare them.

I would say the best period to really see if any of this is true or not is probably at the 6 months mark.
16gb of ram for $37 CAD? what does the ipv6, 128 mean, 128 ip addresses? what is this 4c/4t mean?
Why do you believe an insider shared information with Ackman?
Exactly, some clever, hardworking people also managed to win the Facebook lottery. Therefore the system works and there's no need to change anything…

The worst thing about the wsj article was that it didn't even examine why the piñata people were annoyed.

It's perfectly rational to be ticked off at the people who are making your rent go up 200%. Even though breaking bus windows and having whack a piñata parties doesn't seem like a very helpful solution to your problem.

But since it's the WSJ, we got mindless liberal bashing instead.
It's shorthand for "optimal." Assuming an omniscient god, he would be able to always solve a Rubik's Cube in the minimum (optimal) number of moves.

You're reading too much into it, I think.
The author did, but the gist of the story is "government regulations bad, free enterprise good", and whatever amount of wealth Silicon Valley generates must be a Good Thing because it's Free Market wealth made by Makers, instead of government teat-sucking Takers.
oh cmon :)
Try Googling "Better than Free" and you'll find the answer to your question.

The three most important reasons, for me, are:

- immediacy/ease of use: It just works and I can find what I want easily. I value my time at roughly $200/hr, so it's easy to justify ~$10/mo if it saves me even 3 minutes of my time.

- availability: I don't need to have terabytes of local storage because I can just stream whatever I want, whenever I want.

- patronage: This is the most important thing for me...I want to pay for content. I think the industry has, by and large, behaved like spoiled toddlers for the better part of 2 decades now, but that doesn't make it right to not pay them for their work. And I think I'll get better content if I pay for the things I like.
Making an annual salary + bonus of $300K at a mobile games studio, in Boulder CO is pretty impressive. Counting stock though is always a bit dicey, especially if you coded through the 90's :-).
Yes, the same to Twitter. When you paste any links into your tweets, a Tweet Bot will crawl the link to show preview information.
Let me first start by noting that I am not of the opinion that attacking Google Buses is the right way to go to fight rising housing prices, nor do I believe there should be some class warfare raged.

This being said, why does paying collectively $14.5B in taxes mean that you are exempt from attack if you commit a societal wrong? I think this is extremely backward logic, that perhaps Mr. Malchow by which feels threatened -- the belief of "why would there be a world where you can't pay your way out of being a good member of society?" This being said, I do not believe that Googlers and the like are necessarily perpetrating some great societal misdeed, but Malchow's argument is highly problematic.
Only last year it was cheaper to fly to the US buy a full featured copy of photoshop fly back than to buy it in Australia (including digitally distributed versions).
I've been playing around (http://yield.io) with Flot, which uses canvas and rendering speed seems pretty good, but resizing gets a bit wonky when there are multiple canvas elements on a page.
Featherstitch http://lwn.net/Articles/354861/ is an interface (and an implementation) for write ordering without blocking. As far as I can tell, it went nowhere.
I did some stuff with terrain LOD by using tessellation, but that is a DX 11 feature and not supported in WebGL yet. Basically I rendered Bezier patches that were turned into triangles on the GPU, and then used screen-space displacement mapping for the finer details. The bezier patches were designed to be seamless but still add/remove triangles as the distance grew. Unfortunately I no longer have the code, but here is an image:

http://www.gavanw.com/uploads/9/5/4/0/9540564/8069858_orig.png
I hate to be reductive, but this article deserves such treatment. I feel like the article can really be summed up with this one quote:

> "[At SXSW] this year the Spotify House was completely 100% corporate."
Yeah, I have to agree I tried looking up demographic information about Chongqing and Chengdu and while they do seem to be growing, I didn't see anything that could explain a growth of that magnitude. Maybe it's an artifact of some interpolation method he's using? The source data he linked to seems only to go to 2000, so I'm not sure where the data for 2005 - 2015 came from.
There's always the convenience in having something that is freely advertised. So just "official, legal and safe" is a value. And if the existence (and success) of iTunes, Spotify, Steam, and others are any proof, those values are very well understood by people. People don't only want to have the cheapest thing, most people also don't want to hurt others (and they understand that not paying the content producer hurts them).
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Uptime is bullshit... just kidding, I'm excited to read it eventually because I tend to agree.
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Good luck with your book.
Take plenty of time to warm up before doing anything with weight, and pay close attention to form. Never let your knees go in front of your toes!

The good news is that all my knee problems basically disappeared once I started doing some strength training. Hopefully it'll work for you too.
This hit my fiancee recently, she wanted to grab grim fandango, and your options were a secondhand very used copy from ebay/amazon, or pirating. (the latter even had more baked in support for running on modern platforms, too...)

GoG is doing good work in making a lot of these things available, it solved the big System Shock 2 hole in game retail.
You can't blame that on the people who wrote the US Constitution, which constitutes the basic law of government in the US. Reading it reveals no distinction between citizens and non-citizens. It relies heavily on the idea of natural rights. It is addressed to the government, not the people. That is, it assumes the people have all the rights, and it carves out a space in which the government is allowed to operate. It is remarkably future-proof. If you hear someone say "They didn't have computers" or similar horseshit you can bet heavily that they are an enemy of freedom.

If only we actually obeyed it.
Kind of wary about putting a sample of Malaria-infected fluid up to my face like that. But mostly I'm jealous that nothing I'm working on stands to have a tenth the impact this could make.
The 2005, 2010, and 2015 numbers are projections based on data from 2000:

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/gpw-v3-population-...

I should add a note about the Chongqing spike being incorrect to the about.
Yeah, we started with Flotr2...too many graphs on a page (with thousands of datapoints per graph) brings Chrome to its knees, even with auto margins and whatnot turned off.

EDIT: Very clean site! I like your style. :)
I think you're on the right track and I've had the same thought.

The word I used is 'goal' or 'requirement'. Virtualisation is not an end in itself.

The point of virtualisation is isolation. It is not totally successful in that and it is certainly not the only way to get some isolation.

I've been meaning to put together a list of various approaches in a heirarchy of levels.

It would look something like

* threads

* processes

* users

* 'virtual' ips

* chroot

* jails

* namespaces (same kernel)

* kernels (same machine)

* hardware (same data centre)

These are not linear or orthogonal of course.
This is surprisingly slow on my computers whereas other WebGL stuff are rendered pretty well. I guess that's the cost of doing things with SVG.
The engineer revolution is showing that people are using tech to build wealth. This is not a multi-billionare banker who scemed millions out of their homes to make a few more bucks, this is someone providing real value to people making a few bucks. Is this so wrong wrong?

These people buy homes, shop in the local economy, they are doing what our country was meant to be like. But they are apparently an easy target, because real targets are too hard to get to.
Why isn't this working for me?

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/9QzI3Z2
Really, it shouldn't be up to the government to decide what is unbiased of factual. I know a lot of people got their panties in a twist when the court said it was OK to lie, but what's the alternative? The FCC having a commission deciding if a given news report is factual and unbiased? Some judge who barely understands how to use a mouse and email deciding if the a given report about SOPA and the MPAA is 'true'?
I'm a senior software engineer in the Bay Area and spend most of my days writing Javascript/Ruby. I don't manage anyone directly, but have technical/product leadership responsibility on my team.

My gross comp is ~$350k, 60% cash.

The 3 main learnings that I've leveraged to get that high are:

0) be the top performer on your team, no excuses

1) ask very explicitly for the things you want [0]

2) negotiate from a position of power (have a BATNA [1])

---

[0] "I'd like a raise" != "I'd like my salary to be $X"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiate...
I found the projection on the GRUMP FAQ page[0]. Turns out they don't use a projection:

*Projection: None, the data is in Geographic (latitude/longitude)*

and so the resulting map is similar to the Mercator.

I wonder how easy it is to map lat/long co-ordinates into different projections - would be a cool option to have on all similar maps.

[0] http://sedac.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/41635-what...
> it needs to meet the expected level of truthiness.

Who do you propose be the arbiter of this? A government panel?
TPB had ads.
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It's not about the price, it's about the timing. I don't like going to a cinema that much but I like discussing recent movies with friends (that live half a world away from me). I would pay the full cinema price (or at least a considerable percentage) for access on my computer. It's not about the price, it's about the product/market that just isn't legally available.

P.S.: Btw - I don't usually download movies and wait until they are released on GooglePlay/iTunes/Amazon. But you know what? From all of those back in Germany only iTunes was available and even then you had to be lucky to get good quality and original language instead of the German dub. There are countries outside of the US.
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As someone who used to ride one of those buses I was understandably annoyed and confused as to why people thought attacking the buses would help housing prices.

Then I spent six weeks abroad with people from all over North and South America. They knew about the protests and thought that the point was raising awareness about growing income inequality. They were totally right. Upon returning home and making an effort to meet some of the organizations that are involved with the protests they explained that while some media outlets and groups who have co-opted their movements are hateful towards new comers, the initial point was to raise awareness about issues.
What real value?
Expose sps as web services on the fly.
This is a nodejs project which allows to expose sps of mysql and sql databases as web services on the fly.
In a turn of events which should surprise no-one, the tech side of things destroyed the incubator.
Continuous delivery is a killer advantage to move fast witho breaking things
After about 14 minutes, I got to 1024. It was enjoyable, but is hard when you can't swap values. http://puu.sh/7r2eH.png
The federal gov't injecting a few billion dollars into an economy can't hurt. So, yeah, I'm sure it helps stimulate the growth here.

But, I rarely find many, if any, gov't contractors at the HN meetups in DC.

There are actually a lot of startups here, and lots of VC money, in general. A lot of people come here to live, and work from home, here. Housing prices and costs of living are high, but not as high as some other locations (SF, NY, etc.).

So, definitely other factors, too.
Private trackers get scene releases hours (maybe 1 or 2) before they show up on TPB. On good trackers the number of seedboxes can max out any leecher's connection. The best trackers race to supply the content the quickest. This is called tracing or torrent racing. The groups with public trackers are p2p groups. The scene does not use torrents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene Watch tracing live: https://trace.corrupt-net.org/live.php
The laser cutting surprised me. I know it's almost certainly just for prototyping, but I couldn't help but think that a full scale industrial process could drive costs far lower. I would love to work on the line trying to produce a quarter million a day per line. Ram a ribbon of that paper between an anvil roll and a pattern cutter, with another line rounding and polishing ball bearing lenses.

I hope it takes off - these sorts of cheap tech solutions will bootstrap the rest of the world faster than anything else!
I do personally analyzed 50+ companies in Indian startup scene who gone through incubators. Not many of them had success. I asked one of the founder of the company who had gone to MS Accelerator, he mentioned as 4 months of office space without rent.

I serious doubt mentor contribution in the startups. Every problem is unique, I exactly don't know what mentors brings to the team and table in such a short meeting (1-2 hrs) on weekly basis.
Anyone got it to load? Seems not to be working.
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It is safER by stopping random 'bystanders' such as your ISP from just happening to notice that you torrent. It is not secure from a poisoned tracker, no.
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I would really love if they offered a "bitcoin payment" option where the studios who own the rights to a film can opt to get paid. That way all the studio would have to do is set up a bitcoin wallet and the developers would publish the wallet associated with a movie so that people consuming music can voluntarily pay for what they consume.

Legally, most studios may not be able to take advantage of such a payment option because of arcane licensing contract clauses, but most indie filmmakers without such a burden could.

Ideally such a feature would come with some sort of agreement that a studio absolves its right to pursue legal action upon payment of some reasonable amount (like $2-$4 for a movie and $1-$2 for a tv show).
The one in Bangalore right? I don't think they take equity though, so not a bad deal.
Hi! I'd be happy to say why. VMware itself costs money, unlike VirtualBox which is free. We felt it was fair to charge for a provider where the underlying hypervisor cost money. Additionally, it was our first and only way to support ourselves in developing this product.

If we had a ton of money we'd make the VMware provider free, too. :) But as it is, it is our primary source of income at the moment. Based on interest in on-premise Vagrant Cloud solutions, that may quickly change (hopefully!).

Hyper-V, on the hand, was developed mostly by MS OpenTech. It would be unfair (and likely illegal) to charge for their work they did and contributed as MIT licensed code to Vagrant core.

Thanks for your support!
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Over 25 years on both coasts, I have yet to see someone strictly coding (no exec or mgmt duties) break $200K.

All the families I know in SV are either lawyer/finance/medical, 2-income households, or cashed out.
There are still increased costs of doing business. A risk-averse seller will want to vet the local consumer laws to ensure they're not in violation of privacy laws, refund entitlements, quality guarantees, etc etc.

If you're doing those things at arms length, it's really difficult to keep those costs down. Your only option is basically an internationally known Tier 1 law firm. They are _not cheap_. Not only will they bill you plenty per hour, they will take a heck of a lot of time making absolutely certain before they provide an opinion as they don't want to expose themselves to liability.

Whether or not it justifies every price hike out there is in the wind. There are still non-trivial costs associated with doing business in another market even in the digital age, though.

Source: have done digital business in many, many countries from Australia as a base. Have had legal docs localised into AU, US and UK law. Paid staggering amounts of money to lawyers for same.
@angersock That's a good point on the number of points. If I downsampled the yield history to monthly yields, that would probably help the performance.
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I can understand why movie studios and copyright holders in the US would be worried, Popcorn Time lets you watch movies for free much like a traditional streaming service like Netflix offers. However, as an Australian, I see it very differently.

In Australia there is nothing that comes anywhere near as close as Netflix. We have cable TV in the form of Foxtel, but the price is about $110 AUD per month to get the good movie channels and channels with popular shows on them. Then we have the up and coming Fetch TV service which offers a somewhat good alternative to cable, but nothing like Netflix or Popcorn Time does. There is no online service like Netflix in Australia.

Sure, the price point is one thing, but I think Spotify has shown that an all you can eat premium service at a decent price can help reduce piracy. When Spotify launched in Australia a little while ago, I stopped downloading music because Spotify was faster and more convenient, many of my friends did the same.

Americans have a good range of choice when it comes to legal options for movies and TV shows. People in Australia, New Zealand and other countries, not so much and this is why torrents and applications like Popcorn Time will continue to be the best alternative until content licencing for music and movies/tv is sorted.
China has been cracking down on visas lately also...I'm not sure I would pick China if I could go anywhere, it is more expensive than the alternatives, and I still feel like I'm crossing into the developed world when I fly to Thailand or even the Philippines. And still no Chai Tea Lattes at starbucks (though Indonesia doesn't have them either).

I'm dreaming about moving to India, but I like my current job too much, and my next move is probably back to the states to settle down.
..."you might well eliminate all trace of Nakamoto."

Except for aaaaa his full name? If he was trying to be discreet, something tells me he wouldn't use his actual name.
Anyone know where I could find schematics? I would like to do it with kids in our summer tech camp.
This is inaccurate, because you have a 10% chance of getting a 4 tile added instead of a 2. That part makes the game tricky, because otherwise you could optimize every solution like an algorithm without ever losing.

var value = Math.random() < 0.9 ? 2 : 4;

https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048/blob/master/js/game_...
Thanks time.com! Great publicity. Downloading now.
You can always saturate a storage subsystem -- add more clients (assuming you don't saturate the CPU, the CPU's memory bandwidth, or the network interface -- any of which can happen if you put a high-end storage device on otherwise typical hardware). But what you get is higher than the minimal possible latency.

For example, suppose you send a bunch of write operations to the disk and then send an fsync. Well, if those write operations happen one after the other (figuratively) (because there's a bunch of them), their actual completion time would on average be half that of the actual waiting time all of them must suffer through.

Now suppose you've got the ability to do fine-grained fsyncs on particular write operations, efficiently. It would still be useful and result in improved latency if the disk or OS knew that getting block A on disk didn't matter to the process until block B was also on disk, and took advantage of that fact. And it would be extra-useful if the disk or OS knew that block B had to be written after block A, because then you would be able to save a round-trip or save on CPU bandwidth necessary for marking or checksumming blocks to a sufficient degree that you can determine upon startup whether they were completely and correctly written.
Yes but the peers with less blocks tend to catch up to the peers with slightly more blocks as they can download from more peers. This means you reach a point where all the peers are after roughly the same set of blocks and few of the peers have them, so the system is limited by connections to seeders.

It effectively degrades the delivery (especially near the source) into something akin to a tree shape rather than a mesh. This can choke the network considerably. This situation would be best alleviated by guaranteeing that when a peer connects to the seeder/peer it downloads a block that is least common in the network, or failing that (the overhead would be horrible) a random block.

This is largely an issue while the torrent has few seeders (i.e. it's young but many people are trying to download it) and you'd be right in assuming that once the file has been available for a while the high demand would improve performance (in the sense there are more people to download from) it's just the initial download for those first trying to download the torrent would be slower (potentially much slower). Though seeders that drop out after completing a certain share/download ratio can cause the more rare end of file pieces to be in even shorter supply as the majority of requests they receive are for the start of file as the swarm grows.
Same here. I don't see the value in physical media that get scratched up or lost. And I had a 500gb MyBook back in the day that failed and lost all of my data with it. It was a huge PITA. Lots of people will talk about how cloud provided media can disappear at the whim of rights holders. And that's true. But physical media can disappear at the whim of a thief or of nature or of my poor memory and carelessness. So all of our television and film watching happens through iTunes and Netflix (refuse to pay for HBO Go as an add on but would love to be able to, and refuse to pay for Hulu+ with commercials). As a result, we do miss out on a lot of stuff on release day, and we only just saw Frozen on Saturday (it's great if you like musicals or amazing animation) but it's a price worth paying for the convenience and the ability to time-shift our viewing.
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http://www.foldscope.com/ has some info about the project, but you can also signup for their beta program. re: > To signup, please send an email to signup@foldscope.com with description of community you are involved with or one question you would like to tackle. See categories below for details. @ http://www.foldscope.com/#/10ksignup/
One point worth mentioning here is minimal requirements for virtual machine installation: 64 bit host OS and 4 GB dedicated RAM. Is data science becoming a force for hardware upgrading similar to gaming?
This is an incredibly nice looking piece of software. I have to admit I've become so conditioned to FEARING getting sued by the movie companies. I wish I could pay for this. The movie selection of streaming/bundled movies on netflix/hulu/amazon always disappoints me (new releases are never there).
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