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Nothing really, although on the flip side if you've got machines in a co-location data center that lease comes up for renewal and your prices are going to change. Often they will go up because the data center folks figure its harder for you to move than negotiate. As long as AWS and Google prices are 10x the cost of self running for large deployments that won't be an issue, but when they start getting closer to parity it is going to put the data center guys in a world of hurt.
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i think you're refering to another article? this one is not about any picture.
rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/) which is a wrapper around rsync.

Backups go to a local machine with a three drive linux software raid-5 array.

Occasional offsite sync to another remote Linux box.
Watch the 60 minutes piece, they describe it in layman's terms very well. The basic gist is that for any large order, no single exchange will be able to fill it entirely. So exchanges will partially fill the order and let other exchanges fill the rest. What HFT firms are doing is registering the partial fill on one exchange and then using their direct fiber lines to the other exchanges to buy shares before the original order gets there to fill the remaining portion.

It's risk-free arbitrage...exploiting the difference in price between two exchanges that will exist for only a fraction of a second knowing that the rest of the order will arrive fractions of a second after they trade.
He could link to Falun Dafa exercise videos and watch as their customers disappear one by one...
As someone who has been working on parsing/serialization for many years, I can absolutely confirm that generating schema-specific code will beat generic code almost every time.

The article discovers an important tradeoff: speed vs. convenience. Generated code is faster but less convenient, because it adds steps to your compile. And you pay this compile-time overhead for every message type you want to manipulate. The pain of this generated code was one of Kenton Varda's motivations for creating Cap'n Proto after working on Protocol Buffers for years. Unlike Protocol Buffers, Cap'n Proto doesn't need to generate parsing/serialization code because its serialization format also works as an in-memory format.

I have taken a somewhat different approach to the problem, with my Protocol Buffer / JSON / etc. serialization framework upb (https://github.com/haberman/upb). Instead of using static code generation, I use a JIT approach where I generate specialized code on-the-fly. This approach is particularly important when you are wrapping the library in an interpreted language like Python/Ruby/Lua/JavaScript, because users of these languages don't have a compile cycle at all, so adding one is a large inconvenience.

My library isn't ready for prime time but I'm hoping to have something ready to use this year.
I certainly have a problem with it.

I have a rather firm rule that when a company moves its competition from the marketplace to the courthouse, it's a bad sign, one way or another.

That doesn't mean they weren't justified in doing so, but it's still a bad sign, e.g. consumes management and eventually engineer/designer/the creators of this stuff mind share, tells us they're really worried about competition, etc. And as noted in the article, tends to result in reputational damage.
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> How is it a bad thing?

I don't. I think it's a great thing, I thought my comment was pretty clear that I think "too many options" is B.S.
If officers act in a reckless and fraudulent manner, the veil can be pierced to pay back creditors. I should have prefaced this with stating that I am not a lawyer and do not provide legal advice. I can speak from personal experience having been part of companies with liabilities when they folded that none of the officers assumed those liabilities personally. No one accused them of negligence or fraud, so I do not know how that would play out.
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Actually there is a tool for this. I think the author was simply un-aware of it. It is called oracle* and is able to answer this typing question and many more.

*: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/cmd/oracle/main.g...
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Javascript has plenty of terrible language features, particularly in the scoping rules, but the biggest problem is the lack of any concept of modules/packages, or namespaces. <script> tags just dump everything into the current page context. So you get stupid issues like name conflicts between all the different libraries that define a "$" function. Refresh the page or navigate to a new page and the context gets wiped out, so you have to store state in cookies to mimic the concept of a session. The 'Back' button often breaks everything. The whole platform was just designed for rendering simple documents and forms, not complex applications. The deficiencies of HTML/CSS/JS are why stuff like ActiveX, Flash, and now PNaCl even exist. They are workarounds, but they are proprietary and break portability, so they are not the way forward.

Yeah, you can make some pretty amazing applications with HTML/CSS/JS, but it's unnecessarily hard, you have to fight against the platform constantly, and the only reason why we do it is because we currently have no good alternative. Don't let the status quo blind you to the possibilities of how much better portable networked applications could be.
Yes, it's the reason I'm working for https://peerby.com/ . When my internship ends I definitely want to do something in the theme of sustainability again.
The only reason for Intel's R&D spend over that time is that mobile chips are even more terrifying, especially once you factor in the compute capacity on the GPU.

The memory bottleneck is the real problem, but once you start getting systems conceptually related to nVidia's Tegra K1 (or even the PS4 system architecture) where the CPU is relegated to a sort of system co-ordinator Intel are going to have a major headache and find themselves in that single threaded performance niche that kept the SPARC and POWERs of the world occupied prior to their decline.
I guess Apple is plucking low hanging fruits, but speedup from Apple A6 to Apple A7 (spaced almost exactly a year) is about 50% in average, which corresponds to more than 2 years of speedup in recent Intel cores. I also note that this speedup was achieved without increasing clock, which is not the case for Intel.
Interesting. My wife had similar issues when she stopped drinking coffee, too. She didn't quit cold turkey, either.

I stopped because I suspected the caffeine was contributed to my border-line hypertension. While there isn't necessarily a hard link between caffeine consumption and high blood pressure, I figured it certainly couldn't hurt to stop drinking so much caffeine each day.
Andrew, co-founder @ https://circuithub.com here.

Thanks for the support. I agree completely, really simple stuff is 'quite' well catered for already. Ultimately if your board is really basic and you only need one or two you can do it at home.

The problem is if you want to do something cutting edge or even mid-range it get's really expensive/complex. We're hoping to help with that.
Maybe they can only do light physical activity - or even sit up at all - for an hour or two? Maybe they have a debilitating mental illness but still need to get to therapy and doctors' appointments? Maybe they've got Downs Syndrome but are high-functioning enough to drive (it happens!)?
We're working on it! Next up: Data analysis. Which ones would you like to see?
Every application granted Dropbox access doesn't necessarily have access to the 1Password datafile. I use several applications which only have permission to read/write to Dropbox/Apps/[App Name].
That's just showing the compression (deflate). Deduplication is why "(unique data)" line which you didn't paste will be lower.
Run from this. You've been lucky.

1) You are almost certainly operating a money transmitting service (like Western Union). If you are an intermediary between people giving each other money, there are piles of regulations and compliances you must deal with just to stay out of jail!

2) Anything dealing with money and internet is HARD. This is like complaining that you tried to be a veterinarian on the side and some animals died. There is a minimum amount of knowledge you need just to start. You presently don't know what you don't know in this space. Its dangerous.

Sorry for the downer, but pick a different side project.
Why the limiting of proffered statistics to ages 18-64? I'd expect those outside that range are most in need of coverage, yet are curiously excluded from statistics touting progress toward the goal of "health insurance for all".
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I think that this particular approach might be useful only for individuals with a bit of time on their hands, but it really helped me. When I was trying to grasp OOP I decided to make a project using the Seaside framework for Smalltalk. There's an excellent free book available here: http://book.seaside.st/book

While it's not explicitly an OO tutorial it was really helpful for me, coming from a web development background, to better understand how ideas like inheritance play out in a real application. Seaside is a component-based framework, so ideas like instances and subclassing objects with different features were very concrete. On top of that, when viewing the site in your browser in dev mode you can click on any component and explore its state.

Of course one also has to pick up Smalltalk for this to work out, so it does require a particular commitment! But Smalltalk itself is a great way to learn OO, as it's based entirely around objects and messages, using a very simple syntax. Even if other OO languages don't fully adhere to this idea, it's still helpful when moving on to other ones. A great way to learn Smalltalk is Pharo by Example. http://pharobyexample.org/ Actually, one could just use this on its own to learn OO. But playing with Seaside was a lot of fun!

Otherwise, I found the OO portion of Learn Python the Hard Way to be quite good, and that's probably the better choice for pretty much everyone. :)
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i do not yet have enough money to through around.
anyway, optimism and pessimism can be misleading here.
It's hard to know which is the best option, build a brand new EDA tool and provide this service, or stand on the shoulders of giants in the past. CircuitHub has decided to go the route of allowing you to use your EDA of choice. Right now they support Altium, Eagle, and KiCAD.

Reflow is tough. Getting the profile right so as not to damage components is a real pain without very expensive equipment.
The wiki hasn't been updated for the last few kernel versions either. I think the only place to get good information right now is the IRC channel, #btrfs on freenode. webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23btrfs
I am thinking that this is looking up to be what the G5 aimed to be.

Unfortunately the ARM architecture, even with those optimizations is probably slower "clock by clock" compared with x86/PPC

But yes, I think this is something Apple is probably testing (Desktop Mac OSX on ARM)
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Credit Card companies basically tell merchants (in their merchant guides) not to (1) deposit funds from CC transactions in any account but their own, or (2) allow CC users to extract cash or the equivalent from CCs as by cash refunds, and highlight that these things are wide open gates for fraud, money laundering, and high chargeback rates. [1]

This sounds like a grossly irresponsible "side project".

[1] example: See "Laundering" on p. 11, "No Cash Refunds" on p. 13 of https://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/card-acceptance-guid...
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ECMAScript 6 modules: http://www.2ality.com/2013/11/es6-modules-browsers.html. The JavaScript language is evolving and the issues you mentioned have been addressed.
I've been thinking about this for a while. Last I checked, to be in the top 1% in the US you had to have about $250K of annual income. In the Bay Area, pretty much anyone who holds the title of Director or VP (and even Senior Manager at some places) at any sizable tech company makes that much, if not a lot more. So if you work at one of those companies, you might think your Director is doing well, but you probably don't think of them as insanely wealthy.
But then how do you explain all the Google apps for iOS?
I think the real first entry barrier is parts for protoyping. Its not as severe, since you can make packaging compromises on brassboard prototypes, but some parts are simply unavailable because manufacturers won't sell them to distributors and insist on NDAs and business plans to even get samples.

This service will help tremendously when it is time to jump from brassboard to final CCA. However, it is not feasible for most brassboard development because it requires redesigning and blue-wiring boards on the fly. The engineer working on the prototype needs parts on hand for this.
Hey, thank you! I will look for Recommendations Algorithms and I will try implement the A* Algorithm.

You have some recommendations in math books?
Thanks, will check it out. We've leaned towards free resources where available, though $5.99 shouldn't burn a hole in most pockets.
Just to clarify, I've worked in this business. You can set something up and test it in sandbox mode with every payment processor I've worked with. That's the proper approach for a "side project." What blows my mind is having this set up and accessible to the public. It's just amazingly naive. I don't mean to beat up on you, OP, but you really should shut this thing down. Systems like this are monitored 24x7 for fraudulent activity. You're not really prepared to be in this business yet.
http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&fiel...

Prices range from $35 to $140
My understanding: not all that much, from a legal perspective.

However, part of the reason Republicans fought it to the bitter end was likely that once implemented, it'll be very difficult to do politically. The number of "I had health insurance and then it was ripped away!" stories that would result would potentially doom the GOP in subsequent elections.
Given the amount of "open this image in notepad" malware I'm guessing 4chon wants to reduce possible attack vectors as much as possible.

I wonder what the ad revenue would be from that domain? And would m00t be able to put ads on 4chan.com?
Pretty impressive that Apple is capable of such CPU disruption with just a few small acquisitions. Is PA Semi the main reason for this, or could Apple have been building up a CPU design team for years before that acquisition?
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Based on my experience today, I can attest to this. If you purchased recently, they may very well accommodate you.
What happens with concurrency was the area I was thinking about too. Particularly what happens if you want a render thread accessing various nodes while the rest of the engine could be in another thread updating the same data.
The draft (the last version I've found is March 2009):

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rescorla-tls-extended-rando...

(The first seems to be "Opaque PRF Inputs for TLS" from December 2006. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rescorla-tls-opaque-prf-inp... so the process lasted more than two years)

The relevant parts from the last:

TLS [I-D.ietf-tls-rfc4346-bis] and DTLS [RFC4347] use a 32-byte
"Random" value consisting of a 32-bit time value time and 28 randomly
generated bytes:

struct {
uint32 gmt_unix_time;
opaque random_bytes[28];
} Random;

The United States Department of Defense has requested a TLS mode
which allows the use of longer public randomness values for use with
high security level cipher suites like those specified in Suite B
[I-D.rescorla-tls-suiteb].

This document defines a new TLS extension called "extended_random".

The "extended_random" extension carried in a new TLS extension called
"ExtendedRandom".

struct {
opaque extended_random_value<0..2^16-1>;
} ExtendedRandom;

Note how they used the notation that casually looks smaller as in "there's 2 and 16 and 1" when they actually mean up to 65535 bytes (I've first thought it's fixed but it looks the length is a subject of negotiation).

Roughly 2300 times more than the default 28 bytes.

TPtacek says: "It's now thought to be risky to disclose too much state. But that was definitely not the attitude in place in the early 2000s --- more randomness was better."

I can't imagine that there was ever an attitude that it's not risky "to disclose too much state."
It's unlikely that AWS prices would increase because they're already making some healthy profits, and there is (as others have said) more and more competition. For the competition, they don't offer the same services at AWS, and don't have the same market share, so they have to offer at a discount.

That said, there can be quite a bit of customer lock-in associated with the "premium" services, such as DBaaS, or DNSaaS which make it really difficult to switch off of a platform. That could be the hook at some point in the future to keep people paying the "AWS tax".
Alright let me take your example and turn it around. Say someone decides to build a big fancy complex mall on Main St that will not only generate 10's of thousands employment but also attract a good amount of tourists. They finally found the plot of land, bought it and put up a sign called "Coming Soon". Pushing the paperwork, completing the construction would take 5+ years. In the mean time, someone read about this big project and decides to built a mini mart called Main St. Shopping right around the corner and demands the original Mall should be renamed. Now what? Now who is creating a bigger waste?

Things are not always black and white. If Google decides to squat on a domain for a future project, would you still called it squatting? Or them owning Google.io despite not having a business in these tiny islands be considered squatting too?
I read this article and the comments, and was appalled that the Executive Chairman of a wealth management company doesn't seem to know the difference between marginal and effective tax rate:

https://blog.wealthfront.com/college-vs-retirement-savings-s...

I'd stay away.
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But isn't better use a Functional Language, for example, math functions act like a function in a functional language?
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If memory serves, Cook mentioned that Apple's semiconductor division was larger than Intel during one of the last investor conference calls.
Again, I should have prefaced this with stating that I am not a lawyer and do not provide legal advice.
With a DUNS number, you can open business cards if you have an established history of paying your suppliers and can show sales to other companies.

> And your business credit cards would almost certainly be personally guaranteed -- who would give a credit card to a business with no credit history?

Not true. While it is easier to get a business credit card if you personally guarantee it from day 1, you can get one using you business identification information.
You can get Citi business cards with a DUNS and EIN number.
https://www.citicards.com/cards/wv/html/cm/business/know-the...
You can also get corporate AMEX cards once your business has $10M in revenue a year. Employee cards only require a SSN to verify identity, not to guarantee them (the regular, business amex cads, however, do).
The same could be said for using object pools. No need specifically for asm.js. ATM asm.js is used primary for supporting large existing C/C++ codebases, not trying to get free performance gains in your game via premature optimizations.
I feel this kind of service is extraordinarily important. As a software person who's gotten into hardware and robotics I am continually frustrated by the tyranny of choice in electronics. There are so many ways to accomplish a goal and it's so expensive to do things wrong that a huge amount of my time is spent researching parts rather than building things out of those parts.

The more companies like this develop a clean pallet of available parts (even if the excuse is price control) the better! While I'm sure many people will be quick to point out that solid EE is hard for good reasons, I think we're light-years from the point where we can say "we can't make useful prototyping any easier."

Perhaps this exists and I haven't found it, but I'd love not to have to even think about parts and assembly. I want to write a clean high-level spec for the functions of a board and have part choice, fab, and assembly taken care of for me. I see services like this and ciruits.io as great stepping stones on the way to that goal.
For last couple of years every python project I was working on was using requests, so its welcome addition.
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Counterpoint: I keep applying for a Linux sysadmin job at SpaceX that would have me taking a ~$80K/year paycut, so I can work at SpaceX.

Substantial payoff? Mine is getting to work in launch operations, no matter what the position is.
The jump from 15% to 20% for capital gains should have some effect on that.
Because they probably aren't insanely wealthy. They just have a high income, and probably have high expenses as well.

Insanely wealthy, to me, is the condition of having assets that throw off net income that puts you into the top 1% of income before you've worked 200 hours in a year. (You might have to work a bit to oversee and manage the assets, but it shouldn't represent anything like a work-a-day job.)
Wouldn't it be awesome if it turned out to be a great indicator of movies they'd like though? That sounds like a fascinating experiment.
there are cdns happy to host useful opensource scripts for free, assuming you want to release your script as open source.
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> The difference between a failed-state dictator and a benevolent one isn't how much money they have in their banks at the end of it, but how much they grew their nation/state/company/organization/brand in the process

Are you joking? Is this your serious view of reality? That dictators are fine as long as they make the country as a whole richer?
I've been wondering about this too. I'd love to see a price breakdown comparing reserved prices vs. prices with expected price drops.

There is still utility in knowing exactly what you're going to be paying, so for some people, that might be more desirable than getting the best deal.
Is a $270 million acquisition a small acquisition these days? Not to mention the fact that they acquired a team responsible for two large CPU disruptions: DEC Alpha and StrongARM. A third disruption is perhaps not so surprising.