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> Rest in peace.

I, on the other hand, hope that the three men that Marquez's close friend Castro had executed for trying to get to the US on a boat will rest in peace. Not to mention all the dissidents who died in his prisons.

Marquez lived in Cuba and for decades witnessed the daily suffering and poverty of the Cuban people. The endless monitoring of Castro's secret police. The constant rationing of basic necessities (though not for Castro or Marquez, who lived lives of luxury).

He was a master of writing about the lives of the people of Latin America. But he walked the streets of Havana, saw what anyone could see, and never wrote about any of that. Perhaps he was too busy sharing a fine repast with Fidel and Raul to get around to it.
Unfortunately a lot of the users had and have proprietary/sensitive content, so opening it up to Google wasn't an option.
Thats not the issue. The issue is if (and only if) you have a perfectly parallelizable task, you would be better off getting 4 x $5 DO servers with a rate of (4 x 287) 1148 MB/sec which is much better than 816 MB/sec for the same price. Or you could even get 3 $5 servers and have a rate of (3 x 287) 861 MB/sec which is still better and also cheaper.
I haven't been able to find the 4gb model, where did you get it?
Meaning that Yahoo's actual business -- Yglesias calls it "Tumblr and Flickr and the iOS weather app that I love and all the news sites and the mail and the fantasy sports stuff" -- is worth a negative amount of money

Poor Yahoo! Let me have them for $0 which is a lot more than negative billions.

Of course, Y! Japan and Alibaba cannot be sold without incurring taxes or lowering the price. And they are worth this much, right now. Tomorrow their stock might drop
It's an old post, but it applies to X.org all the same. Wasn't Wayland planning on addressing these issues?
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The global meshnet project
+1 on that. I bought a car last year, and my car (at $22k) is costing way more than the expected cost of gas over a 10 year lifetime (~$12k). Gas prices aren't actually the blocker, when you take the long view.

Driving, on the other hand. I grew up (and learned to drive in a city the (geographic) size of San Jose, with 700k people in the entire metro area. Living in the bay area now, I don't understand why people have cars. I can't drive to work in SF ($30/day parking is almost half what my rent is). I can't even drive, well, anywhere. Bay Bridge and 101 are both stop-and-go every time I get on them. People drive like maniacs, tailgate me, cut me off. Routinely break traffic law, creating dangerous situations I can't deal with. And then, at least in SF, the pedestrians and cyclists are ballsy motherfuckers, and it's too hard for me to track them all. Every time I go driving, I have a panic attack over either someone on the road who is going to kill me, or a pedestrian I'm going to accidentally kill.

Or, I can hop on BART and walk the rest of the way. Just go in, sit (or stand, whatever), wait 20 minutes, and BAM HOLYSHIT LOOK THERE I AM.

I can understand the convenience of driving, but I sure as shit can't figure out why so many people enjoy driving in a major city.
Is there convincing evidence that such approach works?

There were articles that Google's employees in satellite offices were alienated due to perceived lack of power over decisions, power struggles with the mothership (Mountain View engineers would schedule meetings at a time that's convenient to them, forcing their foreign office to be online at ungodly hours), and project visibility.
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I bet the OP has traveled to only a few cities. New Orleans gets it right. NYC definitely doesn't, and it's a no-brainer why, it's crowded as heck.
Mmm, how does having less capital on hand benefit the company that's approaching public markets for financing?
I was looking into alternatives but now I'll stick with them, I can't find another cloud provider whose stuff works so well.

edit: I just finished the migration, my disk speed test is through the roof, free ram is phenomenal!
I believe (could be wrong) that that is "true in the general case". However, in the actual general case, a contract includes a "severability clause" specifically providing that invalid provisions do not render other provisions invalid.
I remember a weekend project someone showed here on HN quite some time ago that was something similar.

Does anyone else remember?
Two objects always attract under gravity, never repel under gravity. Why is this less mysterious than thermodynamic equilibrium, which is some sense just an opposite of gravity (repulsive instead of attractive)?
What you seem to be missing with re: asm.js is that, while the JIT to native code gets you your super-fast integer operations, it's still critically incomplete with regard to memory access. Every single individual memory access has to be bounds checked or pushed through some other indirection inside the runtime. Google demonstrated similar ideas with NaCl, which achieved safety with a similarly restricted native code and a just-in-time verification step. Even if these memory accesses could be made as efficient as those performed by the CPUs access protection, you're still not gaining anything you don't already have.

Regarding context switches: A full CPU context switch on x86 (not to ring1 but between two arbitrary points within a single userland address space) takes a few dozen instructions and about 40-80 cycles. A single cache-line miss resulting in a load from main memory on the other hand takes at least twice that (~200 cycles). Again, hits from jumping around in memory will dominate.

How significant is a 20% overhead from virtual memory? Probably about the same as getting 1% more of your memory accesses back in to high level caches.
There's likely a bunch of liabilities and break-up fees involved in such liquidation.

Real estate, data center space is likely to be under long-term leases with penalties for early termination.

Personnel layoffs are not a trivial thing either - there are severance costs which in case of upper management can run into tens of millions - http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/04/17/fired-yahoo-coo-ge... And that's just US - Yahoo! has a network of European offices which likely have more protective labor laws.
This is very true, the new Silicon Valley show Episode 1 is free on YouTube (son clued me in) but that isn't how acquisitions always work out, the word dilution rings loudly.
So powerful. I did not understand what I had got into until the end. It's been a while since I read it, but I remember how the rubble that world turned into in the last pages just crushed me.
I think he was, in no small part, popular for the same reason that Sean Penn got his second Oscar for Milk: politics.

Marquez thumbed the eye of colonialism. And he wrote a bunch of rolling sentences with colourful imagery. But I don't see why he deserves the Nobel Prize over, to take a glaring example, Borges.

Except that Borges didn't really write anything politically fashionable, as opposed to possessing any other literary virtue.

So. Politics.
The author explicitly mentioned enjoying a site in New Orleans.
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Maybe they live far away from a BART or Caltrain station?
I believe you're thinking of JobPoacher. https://jobpoacher.com
Dear employers: it's expensive to live in the bay area. I think for many people, you can credibly claim sf is as or more expensive than manhattan (particularly once you nearly require a car per couple in order to live an adult life, go grocery shopping, travel to tahoe, go places on weekends, get to the gym in under 50 minutes each way, etc.)

Options are fine and all, but they pay neither rent to landlords nor mortgages to bankers.

If you don't keep your employees well paid, there will be people whispering in their ears offering another $10 or $20k.
Gleason's theorem speaks to that. Mathematically, any "well-behaved" density function can be expressed as linear combination of quantum states
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Well, 'perfectly acceptable' doesn't mean 'actively encouraged'. If you don't have a problem with something, it's acceptable to you, whether or not you endorse it.

I haven't seen a recent comment where pg spoke against the practise, but it'd be very easy to miss in the firehose of content (which is why I specified 'I haven't noticed'). Do you have a link to the relevant post?
It's important to capitalize the A in Aspect, as it refers to the name of the physicist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Aspect
I agree but as I read this I had a morbid thought - I'm posing it wondering if anyone else relates. I couldn't help but think, now that he's dead I can dig into his works without the fear of being overrun by his output. It is as though death has given me a little bit of an upper hand.

I think I should go to bed.
Rust as a language is compiled, so interpreting it doesn't make much sense, and JIT only makes sense for interpreters.
It's ~3x slower than native on my test (native vs asm.js vs PNaCl): https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx#30hz-test-for-browsers
I think it does matter. Defence is relevant at almost every level of software. If a window manager can make smart design choices to make it non-trivial to implement bad software for the interfaces it serves, it's an obvious choice IMO.
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Indeed, I usually see at least one or two comments a day (out of a thousand) that I find to be so completely void of content or contribution that I feel they merit a downvote. But, in 6+ years, I've only flagged about a half dozen comments (if that) - usually vitrolic, racist, or homophobic slurs that have already been nuked into downvote oblivion.
The cost of owning a car is one reason why I picked NYC over SF, when I was lucky enough to be given the option. I prefer SF in many respects, but the fact is that in NYC I can get to anywhere of interest without a car. And in the Bay Area I cannot. I simply can't.
East/West village in NY are fine.
That's what I wondered. Wouldn't they be better Icahn-bait than eBay?
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Well, if you count Android as mainstream OS then it too has GUI isolation. One app can't receive key events when another has focus, nor can it inject events into other applications.
Ivo Andric, The Bridge on the Drina; another Nobel Prize winner
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Well sure, that's the sci-fi part...
Why China, which has an over-population problem. Why not countries who want to solve their declining population problems such as Russia, Japan, many Western European countries, or Israel (whose Jewish population is declining quickly relative to other groups)? Those with popular biases in favor of specific ethnic groups might see this as the alternative to immigration or national decline.
Credit card companies will usually refund fraud related charges, so while their consumers don't get affected, the banks do take the hit here.
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Ask HN: Competitor's M&A/Corp Dev group reached out to meet. Tips?
Background - The corp dev group of a competitor reached out recently to set up time to talk. We are meeting with them in about a month.

The meeting is a bit agenda-less - it's "exploratory". We have no need to sell our company (we are doing very well), but it's worth hearing what they're thinking.

Given the lack of formal agenda, we'd like to drive the discussion if possible. Or at a minimum, we want to ensure we get answers to the questions we have and figure out how serious they are. While they're going to want to learn about our company, we'd like to also learn about them given their competitive offering/strategy, etc.

So from those who've been involved in a similar process, any tips on the right approach to the meeting, questions we should ask, questions to avoid, research to do prior to the meeting, etc. Anything and everything welcome. Thanks.

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Rather than liquidating the entire company, Yahoo could sell its Yahoo Japan and Alibaba shares, pay a one-time dividend, and keep its core business intact. The now-isolated core business would have positive value.

But it might be difficult to acquire a controlling interest in Yahoo without driving up the price.
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If the idea of all out bidding wars over candidates sight unseen catches on, what would it do to the economics of startups and tech workers? Seems like it could either inflate salaries to levels unattainable by early stage startups or on the flip side turn good engineers into a commodity
My first favorite novel in spanish was of GGM, "Relato de un náufrago"(The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor). Many don't know but the full title is actually "Relato de un náufrago que estuvo diez días a la deriva en una balsa sin comer ni beber, que fue proclamado héroe de la patria, besado por las reinas de la belleza y hecho rico por la publicidad, y luego aborrecido por el gobierno y olvidado para siempre."(The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Liferaft for Ten Days Without Food or Water, Was Proclaimed a National Hero, Kissed by Beauty Queens, Made Rich Through Publicity, and Then Spurned by the Government and Forgotten for All Time.)
I interview developers at a medium sized software company. Definitely the second would be more valuable for me, unless the startup does something complex, not another hipster consumer site as most of the startups do.

However, everything depends on what you want. If you want to have very interesting work, which uses cool tech and is knowledge intensive, you should choose companies which can afford long term investments, not small startups which want to get profitable quickly. If you want to get rich, you probably should choose a different path, but I don't have expertise here.
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Yeah, the way the rules work magnesium is a dead-end. You have to double-oxygen to get to silicon, and then it's smooth sailing. (Note that all implemented reactions are listed if you scroll down)
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Have you considered, instead of basing rank on upvotes/time, basing it on upvotes/views? Views could be either views of the actual link, or just views of the listing page containing the story, or a combination of the two. (Of course absolute number of votes would still have to factor in somewhat so brand new stories with one vote don't jump to the top.)

Perhaps this is already happening, but my (probably simplified) understanding of the system was that it only took into account time since the story was posted, not the number of views it's had, compared to votes.
>but I'm ok with downvoting requiring slightly more effort (picking a reason).

How about downvoting requiring a reply? I reply to everyone I downvote, the exception being copypasta, strictly-copypasta. A one-word variation on copypasta gets a reply.

Be anti-echo.
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I think there was an episode of Numb3rs that was based on this. Maybe Season 1 episode 4 (Structural Corruption)?

It was fun to see the premise turn up in the show and go, oh, I think I know where they got this idea from.
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> That's all been doable for a long time, using controlled breeding. We do it all the time with animals; look what we've done to dogs. The only difference genetic engineering brings is how quickly it can be done.

Selective sexual reproduction and genetic engineering are actually markedly different. Genetic engineering involves precise splicing, insertion, or rearrangement of an organism's genome (or subset of genes). Selective sexual reproduction is a directed random rearrangement of genetic material over successive generations based (on often poorly understood) "meta-characteristics" or traits.

The critical distinction is that genetic engineering is the deliberate editing of exact genetic information, whereas selective sexual reproduction is a gradual, iterated, locally-random mixing of genetic information with imprecise results.

Furthermore, genetic engineering enables genetic mixing that aren't possible with selective sexual reproduction. For example, the insertion of genetic information into E.coli in order to produce human insulin for diabetics. Or, the modification of a particular cyanobacteria to secrete petroleum after photosynthesis.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/gc/c3gc42...

>> ...eliminating allergies, Alzheimer's, and cancer...

> That's all been doable for a long time, using controlled breeding...

This is incorrect. You may be surprised to learn that those deeply complicated, diverse families of afflictions would not be effectively treated via 'controlled breeding'.

A simple, naive disproof of the assertion that cancer can be eliminated in domesticated or selectively selectively bred animals (via artificial selection): pigs, huskies, and laboratory mice all get cancer at rates that are more or less congruent with wild boar, wolves, and rats.
People can be wary of new neighbours, i don't see why it wouldn't apply to space neighbours.
On a brighter note, maybe we should welcome with open arms anyone, after all, better be nice than not nice!
Google. Berkshire. Apple. Etc.
Brilliant, although the wave rendering is quite pixelated, and so after a while strains the eyes.
I think the HN plays 2048 was the best one.
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Because it's full of Americans.
Like the interpreted language that is Java? :) A JIT compiler could make sense for Rust, though I'd agree that the usecases for that are probably not very interesting compared to some other languages.
This is not a comment on Marquez, who probably deserved his Nobel, but: everyone knows that the literature Prize is thoroughly politicized, perhaps as much as that supreme expression of European political sentiment, the Nobel Peace Prize. Just reflect for a moment how it is that the writer of English sometimes described as the most important since Shakespeare never won: Nabokov's unwavering opposition to Communist tyranny and disdain for literature as a vehicle for political propaganda disqualified him.
I'm shocked that someone who disagreed with tptacek got downvoted.
Here is a presentation (and its slides) describing the implementation details of Firefox's cycle collector:

https://air.mozilla.org/gecko-cycle-collector-intro/

http://mozilla.pettay.fi/cycle_collection_optimizations/
What I also find very interesting are the "tuned column liquid dampers", which applies the same idea of "tuning" the period of the liquid system to one period of the structure. They are found to be very effective in dissipating energy after seismic events or constant wind. I'm a civil engineering student (currently writing my thesis) and I just loved this systems when I learned from them.
Yeah, because most ppl don't read the rules and don't understand how the game works, with chat we could try n' educate 'em...
IE11 security feature I guess!!
The church could have been established as floors 2 through 10 (or indeed, floors 70 through 80) of a conventional rectangular box skyscraper, instead of building what is effectively a large shack at ground level, and designing a risky skyscraper without corner supports because one of those corners would pierce the shack.

http://www.saintpeters.org/your-church/the-building/
This makes it closer to what MS charged for NT4/2000 custom support before.
A flappy bird style presentation about flappy bird (impress.js)
I always enjoy Gary's tasks
It really is sad when the richest, biggest company in the world defers to a patent trolling entity to do it's dirty deeds. It's also a sad sad commentary on America's broken legislative system that such obvious and blatant abuses of the judicial system (patent trolling in the first place but East-Texas district using the patent litigation system as a local industry) can't be fixed legislatively.
This is utter nonsense. García Márquez wrote some of the most compelling and beautiful stories of the 20th century. Borges wrote the literary equivalent of late night stoner conversations, covering up a lack of substance with erudition.

I don't deny that the Nobel Prize can be political, but García Márquez was one of the most deserving recipients.
Doesn't a company with less assets than liabilities have to enter bankruptcy even if it's profitable? e.g. Mt Gox
Did anyone ever wonder why Satoshi Nakamoto used a GMX mail account?
I know those were very common in Germany before Gmail became more popular, but I have never known anyone outside of Germany to use GMX.
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I live in Boulder, CO and they definitely get it right. It really depends on where you are. The same goes for Europe.

We are all very critical of our own country. Visiting a country is not the same as living in that country. You don't necessary see it the same way and the grass is always greener on the other side (especially in Ireland :) ). So I have the impression that the author is overreacting a little.
Your story is a perfect example of the dark side of Postel's law: "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept." The people who care about writing software that Just Works™ end up maintaining software that is crushed under its own gravity. :)
Vladimir Putin must be called to account on surveillance just like Obama
In learning Clojure first then Racket, it struck me how many good ideas came from racket.. and now how many are still being mined - typed racket being the obvious one.
> The thing about programming language is that it can only be made once whereas Process, training and personnel can be constantly adjusted.

This is why I think that language is absolutely a much more important decision than almost any decision about your process. Choosing a poor process is fixable. Choosing a poor language is forever.
And in New York.
I think you should probably review Icahns previous run at Yahoo.
This is very nicely implemented, and I'm assuming your background will allow this to morph and improve this quickly. My only concern is whether this will be enough to make users switch from existing solutions? i.e, is this 10X better than everything else?

Is there a way to create this as an overlay on the center of the page (sort of like a fade-over splash page)? perhaps you can allow users to add logos/images etc and customize the display of the layover?

Congrats on the YC interview!