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Yes. Sorry, I was reading below, but that was another event:

"All six finalist teams will get exclusive tickets to the to-be-sold-out tech conference of the year Reaktor Dev Day, worth 500e/piece. More information on the conference. Travel and accommodations costs are not included."
I'm only semi-fluent, my wife is fluent, but is, typical of her friends, mostly into western TV shows and Korean soaps.
That's a really good way to put it. And combining with that, he's got enough money that he can afford far-sightedness.
Not according to http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY0NTc

No risks for an LTS release I guess.
Hello,

Please forgive me if the content of my message is already in others.

Maybe I could have written your message, a couple year ago. I am not succeeding now to our hacker/entrepreneur/whatever startuper's standards, I am just cooler about it.

First point, you may have talent, you may work hard, and you may just miss the point. Don't ruin your days, enjoy what you are doing. The point of life is not money or fame, or other form of success ; it's happiness. You may work hard on a smart idea and fail, luck is in the game too, admit it. Work, skills and being smart are playing, but luck still be here.

I have read that Rovio's last try was called Angry Birds, I don't think they radically changed something.

One of the biggest benefits I have in my life wasn't a book, it was two weeks break from any internet access, and phone. I had my computer though. You are in the middle of a battle in everyday life, the Braveheart like. Have a break, see the big picture. Do not hit the repeat button by habit, habits are bad when they are here for intellectual comfort. Use your brain, question what you do and how you do it. Have breaks, breaks are important for those things.

Take care of your family, friends and girlfriend. They are invaluable, they may be the source of that little luck you need, they are a good point of reference. Don't become that jerk that place eveything behind his work!

Don't be ashamed to come for a working class environment, you may know more about life and business than those spoiled children we see everywhere.
"delete this;"

That brings back some fond memories. Well, memories.

Thanks for asking about ACE. I'm curious to know as well.
In Software, patents are silly because everything is derivative, and it's very difficult to separate the obvious from the non-obvious. It's not as if most patents are coming from many years of research: Enough eyeballs often would have arrived at the same conclusion.

To play Devil's advocate for a moment...

Not long ago I was involved with the application process for a patent that was the result of a lot of original research by a small organisation, which was competing head-on with much larger and better funded organisations that hadn't come up with the same invention despite several years of competing in the same industry. One could certainly make a reasonable argument that the "enough eyeballs" theory does not apply in this case.

Do you think the patent in question should be allowed? Does it matter whether the patent in question involved software in any way? If so, does it matter in what way or to what extent? Do the nature of the overall invention or of any part of it that involves software matter in any other way?
Actually, the film's portrayal of Iron Man/Tony Stark was based on Elon Musk.

So yeah.
Perhaps you really are just that atypical corner case, I don't really know. But if you study some of the techniques for detecting "tells" and subtle cues that someone is lying (basically the works and/or derivatives of Dr. Paul Ekman) - and if you follow up on instances where suspected "hits" can be investigated discreetly and without a huge confrontation - you may come to realize just how depressingly common and widespread casual lying is.

Actually, while it might sound cool - I don't really recommend this course of study. It would almost certainly NOT make you a happier person. "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." (- Eccl. 1:18)
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if that was a requirement how would you time coffee breaks?

A fair lottery would solve that.

You're using an interesting sense of bias, where a fair lottery is in fact perfectly unbiased.

There are lots of things which can cause an arbitrary assignment of winnings to a given trader. Go back and re-read A Random Walk Down Wall Street if you've forgotten. The problem isn't the randomness, it's the bias, particularly to those with an inside advantage and edge.
> (almost) all of the world's smartphones and tablets

Almost none of which will ever run this particular Linux kernel release.

Given the regularity of the kernel release schedule, it seems to me that a release would have to include something particularly interesting (not just support for yet another processor and yet another file system) in order to qualify as newsworthy on a general interest news site like this one.
This sounds exciting, and I'm sure I'm not the only one in thinking that coding an AI for a race car bot is at least as interesting as the final prize.

Will the server be open-sourced later ? I think it would be awesome to be able build a bot at home.
Interesting that while Node and other Libuv-based projects use IOCP, Nginx keeps using select(1) calls on Windows: http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html
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It appears that $80M of that $590M came from a one-off patent sale - which was the kind of thing I was talking about.

That's a ~14% (artificial) boost in profit that takes them from "$65M down on 2012" (bad) to "$23M up on 2012" (adequate).
I'm not sure, but I think I heard they are not open source?
I think that would then be the first time that Ubuntu LTS is piggybacking on an LTS kernel. With 3.12 already 6 months old that seems unlikely to me given Ubuntu's usual attempts to support modern hardware.
That's interesting. Why did they drop it? Because of lacking support in LLVM? Are they planning to reimplement it? Or because of stability issues?
When Steve Jobs died they said that a long time would pass since we'd have another Steve.
Well, I think they were wrong. We have some great Jobs-like guy right here...
One that's easy to root for and that really shares some traits with Steve Jobs.
Now excuse me while I'll go buy some Tesla shares out of pure Muskboism.
I've heard a few versions of that chestnut, but the only one which both rhymes and scans is this: 'Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.'
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encfs is not completely transparent, so don't just blindly do this, you need to check that your data/workflow does not interact badly.

Two examples: (Depending on the settings you choose) hard links might not work at all, and renaming can be very very slow. Both of these are common in certain applications.
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Also, it is €5000, not $5000
I know Mozilla cannot please everyone, and I understand you are probably not going to change your convictions, but I think your attitude towards this browser and their work is pretty rude.

Mozilla, fighting against a current to open source the only proprietary competition to Internet Explorer in its day, has spent over a decade improving a lot of old, ugly code, and making not just a good (maybe not great to you, even if it is to me; I will try to word it fairly) browser, but a spate of technological advances and solid policy positions.

Chrome and Google might be the new hotness, but I respect how much Mozilla has done with Firefox, and how they take their time to make the right choices (to them, you might not agree; that is ok).

And if you think moving the whole underlying architecture of a widely distributed browser is an easier milestone than changing a skin that runs an easily prototyped UI in Javascript (XULRunner), I strongly encourage you to download the source, read the very solid documentation, talk to the community, and compile.

I know your attitude re Firefox is commonplace, but as a younger hacker I am disappointed how people think their more-than-a-decade long project to build a browser is just not fast enough.

Now only if they would get their crap together with the X11 server ...

(Yes, that was a joke, just to be clear.)
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I'm not too convinced about the plausible deniability here, could someone that has reviewed their tech comment on the following:

- Encryption works by blocks and do not generally hide the size of the plaintext.

- Once I get the encrypted material, I thus approximatively know the size of the original file within a few bytes (uncertainty is due to padding to block size).

- I collect a few candidates files with size in the right range (There might be only one but it's still deniable).

Knowing your login information and the algorithm used to "derive the key from the login information", can't I encrypt the candidate and test against the encrypted material ?
The algorithms can be repeatable, though at a cost: a defined set of seeds can be used to create a random, but reproduceable, lottery sequence. I'm going beyond my pay grade, but if you've got issues of trust, then seeds based on pre-selected values supplied by independent agents and a random hashing algorith can assure that 1) the sequence is entirely predetermined, 2) random, and 3) not obtainable by any one party or subset of parties without access to all the seed streams.

A deposit of the stream with an escrow holder, under encryption, can ensure that the seeds weren't modified by the seed providers after generation. The encryption key would be provided after the seeds are played.

Those with questions about the fairness of the random sequences can re-assemble the seeds after they've been played, and see that there was, in fact, no gaming of the sequence during the trading period. And if there were discrepencies between the pre-selected values and those actually played, they'd show up.

Feel free to poke holes in this.
I think the quote refers more to people who use alcohol as a form of escapism.
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shoutouts to xperf. it is truly an amazing tool.
You don't need shred. A simple zeroing of the data works fine.

The badblocks program from e2fsprogs works very nicely (and is often installed already on bootable linux images):

badblocks -s -t 0x00 -w -v /dev/foo

I would not shred only interesting files, with journaling file systems (the default these days) you can't really tell for sure where your data ended up.
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During the competition the server code is not released. There are going to be game servers where developers can connect and test their bots.

We haven't discussed about what happens after the race. Lets see :)
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Then why are people investing massive amounts of money to shave milliseconds in communication times between trading markets (London, Tokyo, NY, Chicago)?

They are all attempting to gain an edge on correlated inter market differences.
In this world, where everyone finds everything with Google, Elon is one of the few persons thinking through his mind..
More here: http://techgeekforever.com/2014/02/20/elon-musk-one-man-who-...
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You'll notice that any accurate argument against HFT can be applied to any kind of trading.

There's nothing sinister about HFT except that it's a faster version of ordinary market making. If you think market making is evil, then you'll think HFT is evil. But market making is perfectly healthy, economically speaking. Information advantages and speed have been part of this world in the 400-odd years that centralized trading has been a thing.

HFT is a threat to other market makers, but you're smart enough to know that common people shouldn't be market making and can (provably) only benefit from reduced spreads and increased liquidity. Right?
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Since MySQL 5.6, most schema changes (add/drop field) are possible online as well:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-create-index-o...
From http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/scidb/vignettes/scidb... - it could be "n-dimensional arrays" or "arrays"
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About 10 years ago I kicked my caffeine addiction. Now:

- the number and intensity of my headaches has reduced substantially

- I fall asleep in about 5 minutes rather than 120.

- I wake up without an alarm clock

- my energy levels throughout the day are regular

- and if they aren't, I can fix it with a 5 minute nap

- because I am no longer tolerant towards it, caffeine makes other drugs such as acetaminophen (aka paracetamol aka Tylenol) and acetyl salicylic acid (aka aspirin) much more effective.

- because I am no longer tolerant towards it, caffeine can be used as a powerful stimulant on the rare occasions when the need of such is a life and death situation. (aka driving late at night)

Kicking caffeine is hard. I recommend quitting gradually rather than going cold turkey, but even so I had a month of crippling headaches. I took time off work to do it. (More accurately, I took advantage of unintentional unpaid leave)
Years ago, I've used procmon.exe and saw VB6 load project files by doing tons of 1 byte reads...

I wonder if the behavior in the article also applies to C# compiles?
It sounds like a cool competition, but it would be nice if they gave a little more explanation about their technical solution. If it's true that the only way to test your bot is by uploading it to them and waiting for the CI to finish (once per day), then that's not very nice at all.

Will the participants get an environment in which they can test their bots outside of the competition CI?
So nuke marketing, pr and send all politicians in exile?

I would say something else dont bullshit. No dont lie. A lie can be forgiven and managed. Spinning the language and saying I told the truth creates much more poisonous effects.
+1 for this. But the bottom line is that;
You will be sooo bored in your daily job so you will end up with incredible ideas that you cannot think about with just brainstorming. It is simple fact. I remember when I was in collage, a night before exam, I was creating lots of ides since studying exam is so boring. So work life is similar. If your daily job becomes not satisfactory for you, your brain will sense the emptiness inside and automatically come up with ideas, about work or something else. The caveat is, this is a way of releasing the vision inside you. If you have no vision in deeps of your brain, it is still not bad at all since you will most probably be in a better station. Just remember, only small amount of people believe they got the success that they deserve. Go for big, but not underestimate small, short time happiness.
Great work! Personally, I really hope Project Electrolysis will be successful, for both security and performance reasons. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
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There's a nice movie that touches the topics of addiction, dependence and dreams: The Congress (2013): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/
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Let's make it a less abstract example first

element.setValue value unless no_change

I'd read this example as: In most cases, we set the value of the element. However, sometimes there haven't been any chances, so there's no need to set any new value.

Of course, I could write it as, for example

if change
element.setValue

but to me, however, although the end result is the same, that second example does not convey the same message to me as the first. In the second example, I'd interpret the normal situation as there being no change, but if there is one, update the element.

I think that's also the reason why I like programming in ruby. I feel I am able to better express my understanding of the situation in code than I could if these seemingly syntactical sugary bits weren't there. I also think it is mostly a matter of personal preference.
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>> There's a real growing unrest out there about how a few greedy people control [the movie] business - making their billions

Those greedy people understand the importance of "story." The Gooseberry trailer showed no promise there. The industry story telling isn't always that great but I could see none in the Blender trailer.

If this is just a technical showcase label it such. The early pixar public demos were such but their stories were so great audiences looked forward to the five minute delay to see them before the main feature.
I'm so glad I quit drinking coffee before having kids. Being able to fall asleep easily at almost any time is a great benefit when you may be woken up easily at any time!
You need to reduce the parallelism in your build. If it is possible in your build setup to be runing 144 concurrent builds you are trashing your caches. This isn't an optimization. You need to reduce the number of projects being built concurrently (or even the number of total projects.) While I advocate a bit of over allocation, you have it in the extreme and this is really not optimal at all.

Also you need to get using the precompiled headers if you can -- sometimes this requires structuring your projects right to avoid lots of little projects.

Even with large projects I usually have really low compilation times for C++.

Here is a blog post I wrote about the right way to do this:

http://exocortex.com/blog/speeding_up_cpp_builds_on_windows
All property requires a coercive third party. You couldn't actually defend your yard, for example, you almost certainly would lose possession to someone bigger and stronger with more weapons. That's true of almost everyone. The way we think of property, something even weak people can "own," is an artificial state of affairs created by the coercive third party of government. The difference between "property" as it exists in a civilized world and mere objects of possession, as they exist in the state of nature, is precisely the fact that "property" is a possessory interest backed by a coercive third party.

Re: scarcity, nothing about property requires it to be scarce. Anglo law has been treating intangible things like contractual rights as property for hundreds of years. Moreover, you're playing a definitional game you're going to lose. Are you suggesting, for example, that if land weren't scarce, it shouldn't be the subject of property rights? Moreover, while copies of say a movie may be infinite, movies themselves are not. There are finite movies in existence, and each one takes effort and investment to produce. The property right attaches to the scarce resource of movies, not the unlimited resource of copies thereof.
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Also if conditions need to be perfect but the effect is incredible we will just see the return of the arcade.
The OP can have fun with candy crush 2 waiting outside while I fly my cowing through the death star for real.
If VR is good people will queue to pay for it, even if doesn't work at home for another 10 years.
How much coffee were you drinking a day? I'm curious, because I kicked the habit about a month ago [0], and didn't suffer any ill effects. In fact, I actually felt really good the first few weeks. My habit, though, was relatively mild--I would, at most, have 3 cups of coffee a day.

[0] I am not 100% caffeine-free. I still drink decaf coffee, and will occasionally have a cup of green tea during the day.
That's a little unfair. Many interesting and useful projects / apps have been launched on HN.
I tell people the truth with humor. Examples:

Wife: "Does this make me look fat?"

Me: doot doot diddiddit doot doot.. (circus music which is our code for "Circus fat." Once upon a time super fat people were rare enough to qualify as circus attractions i.e. the Fat Man/Woman.)

Wife: "Does this look trashy?"

Me: "Well I like it but I think everyone else will think it looks kinda slutty."

Wife: "What do you think of this? (Wearing insulated underwear as a top. It's a Maine thing)

Me: (In a fashion runway voice) "It's the look that says Trailer Park."
I wish I knew specifically what kind of data we would be given.

For example, is track details a 3d representation of the map to use for collision detection, the weather in a particular scenario. How much detail do we have for the cars? Drag coefficient, acceleration, max speed, bounding box?
most likely, one of the comments hinted it's from the movie brainscan
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Javascript is the new Flash except it cannot be disabled. That's what the Web became, unfortunately.
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I think Bruce already knows plenty about making builds fast ;-)

The linked article demonstrates some ignorance as well by noting that command-line MSBuild builds are slower than from Visual Studio. I'd hazard a guess and say that they didn't find the /m option.
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A standard test for scheduler responsiveness in Linux is to fire up a kernel compile with unlimited jobs[0]. If responsiveness is lost, the scheduler isn't ready for prime time. You think Microsoft wants the answer to this issue to be "we can't even match Linux"?

[0] Well, it used to be. I assume they've moved on to more demanding tests now, since hardware has far outstripped kernel build complexity.
All models are wrong. Some are useful.

You're confusing the model with reality. The classification system is simply a model that describes many things correctly, and many other things incorrectly. If you feel that there is inherent truth of the idea, then that probably means that it's a really good model. But it's still just a model.

For example, you said that a human ISA primate. But that's only in the model. Outside of the model, there is no such thing as a primate. Reality is far more complicated, and "human ISA primate" misses many corner cases. You also said we literally share implementation, which, again, may be useful but isn't quite true, whether one is talking about DNA, epigenetics, or macroscopic properties.

But that's okay -- it's still a good model, because it's useful and simple and easy to understand and works much of the time. We just have to be careful not to forget its limitations and applicability.
My favorite solution to the breakdown of correlation is to have order books for beta adjusted prices. That is, you don't bid for Google stocks, you bid for a Google stock minus an equivalent amount of S&P. The price of this pair is much more stable than the price of Google, which means spreads can be tighter.

The nuttier generalization would be to have an order book for each principal component of the covariance matrix of the market. It wouldn't work in practice for a variety of reason (least of which is that the covariance matrix is unstable, ill defined, etc) but it's a good thought experiment to understand the problem.