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> there are no fights to watch at the top

Were we watching the same race? The last 11 laps were an epic battle between Rosberg and Hamilton, and the mob contending for points was no less thrilling. I thought it was a great race, at least at the end.

And have you already forgotten 2013? Red Bull won every single race in the second half of the season. Yeah, Mercedes is on top, for now, it's not like a constructor has never been dominant before.
We do sometimes. We use Google Alerts with the names of our competitors as the keywords. And (seo)Moz for backlink tracking.
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What did OkCupid think was going to happen here?
Did they really think that if they kicked this hornet's nest there wouldn't be any blowback?

They didn't think there was any C level executive at OkCupid or match.com who'd made a controversial political donation?
If the memory isn't available, it doesn't segfault; it blocks until memory is available, thanks to either swap or the OOM killer doing its thing.

If you want to ensure that you don't block, you can use mlock().
Android is dumb then... Not surprised.
Why not just have a terminal that renders html? It would probably need a nontrivial amount of work to specify exactly how input will be handled, or how DOM events will work, but it sounds as something interesting to try.
The other point to make is that OkCupid's protest cost them nothing. If they really cared, their registration page could have the usual checkbox: I hereby agree to blah blah terms and conditions, and a second checkbox saying: "I affirm my support for gay marriage rights." Failing to select both boxes would bounce the user off of the OkCupid side.

But no, they wouldn't do that, because that might cost OkCupid business.
Essentially, the password hashes are AES encrypted with a shamir secret key that is stored in memory, and on boot up can be unlocked by k of n administrators/power users logging in.

It also presents a technique to weakly verify normal logins between bootup and when the k admins log in by essentially leaking a few bits of entropy of the user's hashed password.

This only protects against attackers accessing the password database/file from disk, not from an attack that compromises memory and the key stored there on a running server. However, in the case that the key is compromised, this is no worse than best practices used today.

Assuming the admins use strong passwords, this requires potential crackers to crack k strong admin passwords at once if they only have the file.
This is cool, but definitely took me longer than 5 minutes. I gave up halfway through. The tour should simply do these things for the user, and narrate it as it goes live. That would be impressive.

Giving us some funky interface and having us click through 52 slides, read them, and then do what they say but converting the couple of sentences of text into many clicks and drop downs? It seems cool, but I definitely gave up.
I think performance is slightly more complicated than that. For just a document, like a blog post, I totally agree -- and find it irritating that Blogger has a "static app" now just to serve a damn page with a blog post. But for an application, doing it this way can front-load things, so that the startup time for the app is long, but transitioning between states can be faster.
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The hypocrisy of okcupid was evident even before this little bit of info (Yagan's past political contribution) was shared. As I and others pointed out, okcupid went on using javascript!

As for okcupid occupying the moral high ground, I still remember when, right after their purchase by match.com, they removed one of the most interesting posts on their blog. It was about why you should never pay for dating web sites and why paid dating website were not worth it. As with all of their blog posts it was backed up with data and evidence.

After the purchase and change of monetization model, poof! it was gone. Why? because it was rightly critical of match.com !!

Here it is:
http://www.columbia.edu/~jhb2147/why-you-should-never-pay-fo...
The article says he had two microelectrode arrays(MEA) implanted, one jack per array, The MEA was probably a standard Utah MEA, 10x10 multiplexed to 100 electrodes, so, just 20 leads per array per "data port"
Porn industry? Isn't 4Chan an ocean of something or another?
Unfortunately, I doubt it that this makes much of a ripple. "OKCupid blocks firefox to send message to Mozilla" is short and easily tweetable. This follow up requires more explanation.
It's really not worth sperging out about this. It just means the HTML/JS/CSS assets delivered by the front-end server do not change.
Those are kind of strange, but struck a chord because I have been myself trying to discover these fundamentals which make us human and which most of technology is 'amplifying' (by Kay's terms). For example, music is not on that list which I personally think is one of the most important fundamental and which a lot of technology is built upon. Nor is communication, which is another fundamental and also a driver of a lot of technology. Maybe I'm thinking in a bit different terms, though.
While I do recognize this is a marketing piece for HyperDex, I'm disappointed HyperDex only chooses to compare itself with MongoDB and Cassandra.

It would be different if HyperDex was fully open source and free, but its not. The "transaction" feature is only available with a license, which in most cases will price you out of any developer who is looking to start a bitcoin exchange. So unfortunately it comes across as "If only you had spent $x/mo, buying our product, then you wouldn't have had this problem!"

Now that isn't bad, and its the definition of marketing, but then it goes on to compare itself against Cassandra (which has a widely different use case in the wild) and Mongo (which is already the whipping boy of the database community). However it doesn't help the use cases are also extremely well served by something like Postgres, which doesn't need a Warp addon, and has a huge developer community.

What I would be more interested in, is how does HyperDex compare with the new "NoSQL" databases (FoundationDB, OrientDB, Spanner-like Databases) or even the traditional commercial SQL like Oracle.

In short, it doesn't help to test and compare unsuccessful and unpopular use cases with these technologies. Most competent people, the same people who might pay for HyperDex, already know Cassandra is bad at transactions. What I would like to see is tell me why someone like Netflix, or Ooyala (tried, tested and popular use cases) would move from Cassandra to HyperDex.
The article title might have given it away ...
and then, instead of using a browser, use a platform specific app. Persist user agent data so you can remove the captcha, and it will be just like the original 4chan.
Ask HN: What in Digital Ocean's business plan convinced top VCs to invest? 
They sure have
1. An awesome team
2. An amazing growth story

but they are primarily differentiated by price in a highly capital intensive market [building out DCs is not cheap]. They are going against 3 giants[AMZN, MSFT, GOOG] each with:

1. Constantly slashed prices
2. A bigger ecosystem/more value add services to further subsidize the infrastructure -- eg. buy Sharepoint licenses, get compute free
3. Native advantage of needing big clouds for their internal infrastructure
4. Deep pockets

What positioning moat beyond price am I missing?
While it doesn't address the problem of not having an audience, you might be interested in the Iron Blogger concept: http://blog.lazerwalker.com/blog/2013/12/24/one-post-a-week-...
Isn't this really just advocating clear separation/encapsulation between client-side and server-side? IE. create a "static" web app that can get data from server side through REST API or allow you to plug in other sources of data (pouchdb).
I find the entire Eich scandal disheartening. A man lost his job (one he was undoubtedly qualified for) because people find it easier to heap hatred on someone they've never met, than to act with dignity and respect.

We have some serious issues in this country, and our inability to compromise or respect a person we don't agree with is frightening. Life is filled with shades of grey, compromise is not "that nice thing your kindergarten teacher told you about" it's a critical aspect of a functioning democracy. One we seem to be losing.
They are of comparable quality. I find the h264 slightly better, but I have not done extensive testing.

I did try dropping the quality significantly with my webm profile, but it had a trivial performance improvement.
Probably he cares about software freedom?
That link doesn't work either: Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at blog.4chan.org.

Edit: I just noticed moot's comment about disabling HTTPS Everywhere. The XML has an exclusion for "status" but not "blog". I'll send a pull request.
The point to discuss not really looking for a perfect answer :)
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What is the obsession with the titles?

The front page consists of them, so they're pretty crucial to HN.
I'm shocked at how fast Wayland is coming together. It's inspiring to watch.
"Building a useful product is easy" ... stopped reading.
Everyone with strong ties in marketing world will know that dating sites are one of the most shadies businesses balancing on the line of legal/illegal.
OKCupid action was blatant marketing stunt - but thei CEO is immune.
No one cares what he did etc.
No one on the board or anyone working for him will be approving his departure upon this news. Mozilla case is probably one of the most ethical ways to get publicity this guys did in years...
12/13 credit hour semesters are the only way I was able to enjoy myself and do well in classes at college. My best grades actually came from the summer classes where it was a couple hours every day for 4 weeks. I think there's a lot to be said for letting people finish in what ways work for them. I think the arbitrary 4 year "goal" adds unnecessary stress.
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There will be some half-assed explanation (not an apology) and it'll go away.
The whole concept is how to solve problem at its edges, whether 64 or 128, let's say in 10 years time.
Plus, would you use IBM System/37 or DEC VAX to run HN?
18 billion posts by 1 billion users will cumulatively make sense in the context of time.
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You just added two entries to the maximum number of digits a processor can handle at once.
I didn't get your suggested solution in full: how would you hande the extra identifier?
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Qt and particularly now QML (Qt Meta/Modeling Language), is an awesome framework and really happy that NASA picked Qt.
My hypothesis for the performance disparity is that h264 encoding is hardware accelerated and webm is not.
I don't think you get a pass on a politician with a record like this. http://www.ontheissues.org/house/Chris_Cannon.htm#Civil_Righ...

It's like saying 'well, he's a white supremacist, but he has pretty good views on economic policy!' - if those issues are important to you (and they probably should be!) it's not reasonable to overlook them. You have to draw a line somewhere, even if you are occasionally willing to ally with people you disagree with to achieve a common goal.
That trade might not be equal. As it is, the second one there according to the article only makes up 14% of traffic. I've got to imagine that Firefox makes up a significant portion of the 86% left. Couldn't guess about the platforms though.
Got any specific examples?
Any extra bit added to the edge won't be handled by the processor.
Do you think having a cluster would solve such kind of problem efficiently? Especially that HN used to run on one core in the backend.
Why would it be bad to put hot air into the engine?

For blast furnaces you want to preheat the air going in so that it does not cool down the furnace. Is it just about cooling the engine down, or is it something else?
Please read my entire comment:

> (It's true that the Hamilton-Rosberg fight in Bahrain was also fun to watch)

My point is: this year looks like the last years' championships with RBR... same dog, different collar.
http://www.quicksprout.com/ very good, free check for up to three competing pages! You can buy a pro account to.
The link works for me on Firefox Nightly (yesterday's update).
The word "emulation" is uncharitable. Breaking a high-level instruction into micro-operations allows the architecture to present a consistent ISA to programmers while optimizing execution for the micro-architecture. Yes, x86 originally did this out of necessity. But it's a little unfair to call it "duct tape". Case in point: ARM sometimes does the same thing, despite being a RISC.

In other words: design your clean, orthogonal RISC ISA however you want: at some point in the future, some processor designer is going to end up translating those instructions into something else.

As for layers upon layers of abstractions: welcome to computer science. ;)
> On Linux, somewhat infamously, malloc never fails.

Pretty close to true but I think that is a bit of a simplification. I seem to recall for instance on 32-bit Linux it's not hard to get malloc to return NULL: ask for some absurd size, like maybe a few allocations of a gigabyte or two, something that fits in a size_t but a 32-bit address space could not possibly accommodate with all the other things in the address space (stacks, your binary, libraries, kernel-only addresses in the page table, etc).
I have to admit I love the sound of a good engine - and aeroplanes, and boats, trains, everything. It's the sound of power. Watching cars race without that sound is a far less emotive experience. One of the commentators on tonight's Bahrain race said that the safety car sounded much better than the race cars, and I wistfully agreed.

That said, I do think some people overdo it a bit and I actually like that FIA is willing to force innovation, even if it's (initially?) unpopular.
Ruby on Rails is a good platform for building applications which are essentially large content management systems, with very relational content. If you can break your application down nicely into resource/data models, then Rails is a great way to build it, and very powerful.

Alternatively, if your application is much more about processes, and data isn't as important, or isn't as relational, Node.js might be a better thing to develop in it. The main problem with Node at the moment however is that it's much less mature than the Rails/Ruby community, and lacks the higher level frameworks like Rails.

I can't recommend PHP for anything at all, unless you've got 10 years PHP experience and don't want to learn a new technology. Although I'm guessing that isn't the case from the wording of your question.

Some other things you might want to consider: Python and Django are similar to Ruby/Rails. I think Rails is a bit more capable, but Django is easier to learn. C# and Microsoft's MVC stack is remarkably good - I usually don't work with anything Microsoft based, but was given a project that required it, I was very impressed.
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cool air = more dense = more oxygen to burn
How does using Javascript financially benefit opponents of gay equality?

Hint: it doesn't.
Cold air is denser. Denser air contains more oxygen for combustion, and won't get as hot after compression. In 4-stroke engines, this means more power.
I think the real question is - Can you challenge yourself when you already have the "Last Mover Advantage."

“First mover isn't what’s important — it’s the last mover. Like Microsoft was the last operating system, and Google was the last search engine.”

I personally cant find or have any analytics of this kind of situation. Its obvious though that Microsoft hasn't quite hit the nail on the head as far as proper reinvestment and focus on maintaining their position in the OS space. I.E Amazon spending almost all of their net profit year after year to put themselves so far ahead that to even enter the race the investment would have to be unheard of.
> This device purports to be able to measure glucose levels non-invasively.

It doesn't. The campaign page specifically disclaims that.
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This would be prohibitively large to implant in the brain.
Betavoltaics could provide a novel power source, I believe they are used in some pacemakers. RF would be a problem because cancer.

People forget that magnetic induction can also be used for data and power transfer simultaneously, I believe they use this approach with some cochlear implants.
>because people find it easier to heap hatred on someone they've never met, than to act with dignity and respect.

Turn it around. Eich found it easier to treat millions of people he's never met as second class citizens, than to act with dignity and respect.

There are two sides to this story, and you seem to be very eager to tell the one and handwave the other for a "why can't we all just get along" platitude.
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Would your attitude be the same if the issue was not same sex, but interracial marriage?
Swing is/was verbose for simple stuff, but beyond a fairly low complexity bar it is enormously preferable to the web stack, at least from a developer perspective.

While Java got somewhere with the whole deployment thing it was never quite as slick as the web, and that's the killer aspect of the web really.

What is funny about the web these days is how they're very slowly reinventing all the things NeXT were doing in the 80s, only using a lot more memory and CPU in the process. Ironic given it started on a NeXT in the first place.
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Then why would 4chan be not free?
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Allow me to describe a revolutionary way of creating web applications. I call it "Pages and forms".

If you need to display some information, you use an abstraction called a "page" - a full HTML document served from a URL. You can generate the HTML using a variety well understood, easily tested server-side frameworks. You can even just serve static HTML saved in a file.

Pages are easy to scale, easy to link to and work on every device, platform and browser released since IE and Netscape 3 back in 1996 (or earlier if you don't need to rely on the Host header).

How about adding interactivity? That's where "forms" come in. Forms allow your application to request information from users and submit it back to your server using a simple and widely understood key/value mechanism.

By combining pages and forms you can build applications that work everywhere, are easy to link to, easy to maintain and can be scaled to handle anything you can throw at them.
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Also indexing by search engines or the like. Expecting a web crawler to resolve your JavaScript code to produce a complete page is probably a recipe for pain.
No, it's not "exactly the same." I don't think anyone really benefited from this entire shit show, but stop trying to excuse and water down what Prop 8 supporters did.

Giving money to a bad politician is not the same as giving money to support a war of pure bigotry and hatred against gay people. Perhaps you weren't there in 2008, or perhaps you weren't a target. But the Yes on Prop 8 campaign deployed deeply disturbing and hateful rhetoric that relied on the worst tropes about gay people--that they want to corrupt your children into homosexuality. All this wasn't just to pass a law, but to permanently enshrine and sacralize hatred in the California Constitution.

Here's a question: many people, perhaps you the reader, oppose Eich's forced resignation because of freedom of speech concerns. Great, I'm with you! And why I think this was all a stupid idea that doesn't benefit gay rights at all. But why are we as a society up in arms about this firing in particular? Why are we not focused on ENDA, for instance, which protects you from being fired for saying you're gay? Why aren't we outraged that workers (illegally) get fired for saying they want to unionize? Or, more tech-focused, people getting fired for shit-talking their boss on Facebook? It seems that, as usual, freedom of speech is only a concern in the media if you're a rich, straight white man.
This is about as non as non-stories get.

For one, there's about 27 universes worth of difference from supporting a specific law which does a specific thing, and supporting a politician who has different positions on different laws. Maybe the other positions he has took priority over marriage equality?

For instance: five years ago, coming out of the economic mess, I'd have prioritized economic recovery (so, someone who knows what they're doing on that front) over marriage equality. That's not to say marriage equality isn't important, but it's all rather pointless if the economy is trashed and everything else goes with it.
A programmer social network. I find myself with two distinct sets of friends on Facebook: my tech friends and my normal friends. With my tech friends, I just want to post neat snippets of code as statuses and share github gists on walls and whatnot. So I'd like basically github with more social elements thrown in.

Imagine seeing a cool repo, then being able to friend the owner, and open a chat box to have a quick chat about it right there on the page rather than having to go to another communication method.

EDIT: I know this super similar to github. Really I just want github to implement the equivalent of friends, chats, and public profiles people can post things to (a la facebook wall).
Well that's even more interesting! So you can have a program appear to be stuck and not know why! At least now I know I can use mlock() everywhere to determine if it locked on a write to promised-but-not-yet-available memory.
OR... You could recognize that his action stands directly against the values of Mozilla and will only lead to less diversity at the top of Mozilla, which even further runs against it's values. Not to mention his politically impotent non-appology appology, where he neither stood up for a separation of personal views nor identified his reasoning and how it has or hadn't changed.
Was completely unaware of the upcoming Formula E. Thanks for sharing.

I'm a bit surprised by the "single provider" system used there. Read the Wikipedia article and it sounds like McLaren will supply all teams? Doesn't sound ideal to promote research. Also would love to see a Tesla Formula E team.
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Sorry. Pretty late night where I am, and a couple too many bottles of, uh, "rose water".

Anyway my point was - the lack of a real fight doesn't have much to do with the rule change, since it was present last year as well. And anyway, the season's just beginning - let's see what happens.
Thanks. Well fingers crossed it matures in the right direction. I'd hope that it'll become a simple solution to just throw up on a VPS and get apps deployed without the fuss of managing Apache, Virtualhosts, PHP/Ruby/Node/etc binaries, databases and whatnot. I like to think of Peas as the next logical step up from Dokku.

To be fair Deis already does a good job of this.
I doubt they would have removed the Microelectrode arrays from the brain, that would have caused serious damage as the MEAs would be encapsulated in glial scar tissue. The article made it sound like they just removed the two jacks from his skull.

The devices were probably Utah Microelectrode Arrays(MEAs) the MEAs were no doubt implanted on the visual cortex on the cerebral cortex to induce phospehnes.

This is no holy grail, and MEAs have provided computer-brain interfaces since the 80's.

check out my other comments in the thread for more information