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It does for human beings. We use base-10 for basically everything. This is true even for most programmers in most situations. Human beings aren't computers, and we aren't abstract math processing units who by default consider numbers abstracted (e.g. as elements of Rings). This goes double for string representations of numbers--in the majority of cases a number represented by a string is a number meant for human consumption in a normal human context; not some machine running in base-2 (or -8 or -16). It is certainly reasonable to expect "parseInt" to parse an integer out of a string in base-10 by default, and entirely unreasonable to expect to be required to provide a base as anything except an optional argument, and certainly it is unreasonable to expect that that second optional argument is treated as not optional in a composition operation.
Why do you think self-driving cars are questionable? Maybe I've missed something, but it seems very plausible to me that they will take off; and even if Google didn't profit directly from the cars, their core business would profit from people having more free time to stare at a screen.
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Javascript is a terrible language, even though Rust is experimental it would be a big improvement. And it does have attractive aspects as a language.

More broadly, breaking the iron grip Javascript has on client-side development would be wonderful and Mozilla is the last stumbling block in front of this goal.
America had a privately built and privately funded transcontinental railroad. Without the option of government land grants there presumably would have been others, though their timing would have been different (they would have been built more slowly with more economically sustainable routes).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)
Very very sad news. His book LDD helped me a lot in my studies.
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Current practice from the doctors I've talked to in North America is to encourage people to implant one egg per attempt, with two eggs being allowed if the couple insists.
The gist of the idea is waffle.io for estimation, time tracking, metrics, and invoicing on Github projects. It's a pretty critical need for my current day-job employer, and there's nothing else out there that fills this role, so I figured I'd build it out at night and have at least one guaranteed client.
"Hide" after "link" would be handy.
It's no where near 3^81 as there are winning strategy's that don't fill the board. Optimal play is really about delaying how long it takes to force a win.
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Thanks guys for clarifying. So am I right to think that they don't have any "identity" that makes them "yahoo" anymore and they just collect rent from a bunch of properties they acquired? In my mind, google is google (identified primarily by search) microsoft is Microsoft( primarily identified by windows and office) yahoo is? ... Is it like if Facebook abandoned social media altogether and became a simple owner of "stuff"?
Yup. It's not a geopolitics IRC chat. Only the tech aspects of evading censorship would qualify but only if they were novel.
Enterprise value is an M&A metric. As an equity holder, equity value is the valuation of concern. Market cap is generally the best estimator of equity value.

Takeover value, equity value in the event someone wants to own all (or a controlling part of) the equity, is a different beast. It includes the strategic optionality that comes with owning a company. Having to take what management doles out thus produces a different equity value than takeover value. Market cap is the best estimate of this passive investor's equity value.
Just for the sake of putting it under consideration:

Make this a user option. If you want fine-grained downvoting (or at least downvote confirmation), enable it in your user profile. If you don't care that much, don't.
Cool post.

But this idea isn't new at all.

In fact most of the "cheap" seeds you see on seed racks at stores like the dollar store are "open source".
Seeds like Black Seed Simpson Lettuce and Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans for instance.

One has to remember that people have been breeding for thousands of years before seed patents came into being and there are many many patent free varieties. These are seldom are grown commercially because hybrids have preferable characteristics for commercial growers, but for home growers and smaller market gardens they have stood the test of time.

It is neat that people are continuing to do this with new varieties, but the concept is hardly novel and these are not even close to the "first open source seeds".
Ask HN: Why do I never hear of acquisitions outside of the U.S.?
Or am I being lazy and not looking them up?

Or even an international hacker news where only things non U.S. are allowed?
This idea will likely be appalling to many here, but it's an interesting and novel concept -- a promo DB folder with trial versions of, say, five products you can install if you wish, and the contents of the folder refreshes with new stuff every so often. If Dropbox is selective about the stuff it lets into the folder, I'd be up for it. It's kind of like all those subscribe-to-a-box-of-stuff services that are springing up.
Very sad news. His wife died of cancer too. Hope he gets well soon.
Signals FTW.
Controversial topics create a problem. People should be reading more than one viewpoint on them. But submitting multiple stories creates duplication issues. A 'save' function would allow people to increase access to information without promoting the visibility of the topic on the front page.
Yeah, I was really interested in messing around with it, but was being lazy and would have rather just entered my credit card instead of having to call or email.
By that logic, the 6502 is a 16-bit CPU, because it (and just about every other CPU we call 8-bit) has a 16-bit address bus.

The 68000 has a 16-bit data bus and ALU, a 24-bit address bus, and 32-bit registers, but is usually considered a 16-bit CPU. I guess for older CPUs, the data bus and the ALU size are the determining factors.
Of course, the opposite is companies like Google, who run services as experiments and discontinue them because they have better things to do. It's hard to reach that middle ground of stability.
if someone said to linus

"given that kernels are your research project, i expected that you'd already tested whatever you're talking about on wayland and contacted its developers about security holes,"

and he replied curtly, i don't think anyone on hacker news would be "calling him out." the idea that her tone is "too aggressive" is highly suspect. it is not unusual to express ideas as if you believe them, nor to conduct yourself as if your blog posts needn't be written in the tone of My-First-Job-Interview or Visiting-My-Conservative-Grandmother-In-The-Hospital.
Agreed. You can't generally won't get the same plant from a commercially produced tomato. Instead you will get all kinds of random stuff. Some of it may produce good tomatoes, some may not.

If you are going to go to the effort of growing a garden it's probably worth spending a buck or two and getting some Heirloom or open pollinated seeds. These will breed true and you can replant the seeds from the fruits and get the same plant as the parent.
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Those ideas tempted me to stop what I was working on and try one of those ideas though, it was a great set of ideas.
It's sort of like Computer Associates, but with less cachet.
I found the article rather confusing: it starts out by saying look, the laws of physics make sense forwards or backwards. But we only see one kind (entropy increasing) of process. Why is that? Entanglement.

Is there something about entanglement that is irreversible? As the article says "it is the loss of information through quantum entanglement, rather than a subjective lack of human knowledge, that drives a cup of coffee into equilibrium with the surrounding room." Okay, but then why don't we ever see the reverse making coffee depart from equilibrium? Something like the acquisition of information through breaking entanglement drives a cup of coffee away from equilibrium.
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On reddit, I find [personally] most of these threads are never-ending chains of well-trodden memes or loops; this isn't something usually encouraged on Hacker News. If a thread is boring or doesn't pique curiosity it probably isn't too encouraging.
KVM supports nested virtualization, so you can run Xen inside a KVM VM. VMware does as well.

Xen paravirt has always run inside VMs, even before nesting support. I used to run it in VMware all the time for development purposes.
Market cap isn't the value of a company, but rather the value investors place on the shares times outstanding shares.

In Yahoo's case it's priced so cheap because investors aren't betting they'll get a lot of return (dividends and buybacks).
The argument is not that Yahoo! will burn Alibaba to the ground. It's that their asset holding in Alibaba will have to be liquidated to make up for losses by Core Yahoo!

That is, they might burn their stake in Alibaba to the ground.
True that. not only the best opening line,but also one of the greatest lines ever written
Isn't that the efficient market hypothesis ?

Which, when you read it, I'm sure you can come up with 10 counterexamples (obvious counterexample: ponzi schemes). I guess you could call me a disbeliever.
There have been a number of acquisitions of companies outside the US. Waze (Israel) by Google was the most recent and most high-profile. FlexyCore (also by Google) was a French startup. doo.net (German) got a serious offer from Dropbox but declined.

I think you're being lazy and not looking them up.
Pathe has their own archive which they are making available to the public using the most accessible method. Why would they upload their archive to another archive?
Liquidity has a cost. Yahoo probably has many illiquid assets, not to mention transaction costs. Plus, who has $37B to throw around?
Wordpress.com is a hosted implementation of Wordpress, which is available at wordpress.org. It sounds like you should research the available blog platforms out there. You can google search "top blog platforms 2014" or something similar to get an idea of what's possible.

The upside of Wordpress is that there are thousands of themes and plugins that come close to what you want. The downside of Wordpress (especially on this website) is that many developers and designers are tired of it. The code is bloated but will probably be your best bet to use because of the large community surrounding it. You can edit anything in the self-installed version, but you can also break it which is why wordpress.com doesn't let you edit the HTML.

Do a google search of "Best _____ Premium Wordpress theme" or "best ____ wordpress plugin" with whatever your ideas are and see what comes up.
Ive been thinking the same thing for a while. Once graffiti drones become an easy DIY project there is only one way I can see them being combatted: ubiquitous aerial surveillance (which can track an object back to its source in video recordings). Incidentally this is also a drone based technology. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS for instance. I'll leave the idea of drone-hunting drones to sci fi, for now.
Well, fancy that: it worked! Sounds like you'll get on fine here.
Correct...dfc, you are going crazy.

While you are here I should take the opportunity to thank you for making my favorite corner of the internet even better. Thanks dang...
Okay. What does this have to do with MongoDB, though? People in this thread have presented plenty of usecases for it, but every single one of them (pretty much--someone correct me if I'm wrong) is also satisfied by jsonb in Postgres 9.4, which in your analogy would make it a truck that gets 85mpg.
http://nextiva.com does this well. We use it, excellent customer service, very competitive prices.
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I think people want high SNR value before a clever triple entendre, but accomplishing both is far better. Failing that, expressing a clear, reasoned sentiment is also another tact.
I am trying to figure out how Consul meshes with a configuration management system such as Puppet. There is a lot of overlap.

From what I can tell, Consul supports two registration mechanisms: Static defined services in /etc/consul.d, and dynamically defined services through the HTTP API.

For the statically-defined case, for any given node, you have to create Puppet (or Chef, or whatever) definitions that populate /etc/consul.d with the stuff that's going to run on that node. For the actual configuration itself, you still want Puppet to be the one to populate it. The question then is what you gain by doing this; if that configuration goes into Puppet, then Puppet is still the main truth where you want to centralize things, so then you have this flow of data:

client <- DNS <- Consul <- /etc/consul.d <- Puppet

...compared to the "old" way:

client <- /srv/myapp/myapp.conf-or-whatever <- Puppet

In this case, Consul's benefit comes from the fact that it can know which services are alive and not, so that when myapp needs otherapp, it doesn't need a load-balancer to figure that out.

The documentation makes a point about Puppet updates being slow and unsynchronized, and it's true that you get into situations where, for example, service A is configured with hosts that aren't up yet, for example. With Consul you can update the config "live"; surely you want to centralize config in Puppet and populate Consul's K/V from Puppet, and then you get the single-point-of-update synchronization missing from Puppet, but you still need to store the truth in Puppet.

So I'm counting two good, but not altogether mind-blowing benefits from using Consul with Puppet, over not using Consul at all. The overlap is looking a lot like two systems vaguely competing for dominance.

I suspect the better use of Consul is in conjunction with something like Docker, where you ditch Puppet altogether (except as a way to update the host OS), and instead build images of apps and services that don't contain any configuration at all, but simply point themselves at Consul. That means that when you bring up a new Docker container, it can start its Consul agent, register its services, and suddenly its contained services are dynamically available to the whole cluster.

The container itself contains no config, no context, just general-purpose application/service code; and Consul doesn't need to be populated through Puppet because in that way, Consul is (in conjunction with some container provisioning system) the application world's Puppet.

That, to me, sounds pretty nice.
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I'm not sure I understand the claims toward the end of the talk about there no longer being binaries and debuggers and linkers, etc. with METAL.

I mean, instead of machine code "binaries", don't we now have asm blobs instead? What happens when I need to debug some opaque asm blob that I don't have the source to? Wouldn't I use something not so unlike gdb?

Or what happens when one asm blob wants to reuse code from another asm blob -- won't there have to be something fairly analogous to a linker to match them up and put names from both into the VM's namespace?
To (perfectly) solve 9x9 go, you need to consider almost every move at every turn. That's a branching factor of 40+.

In this game, there are (usually) at most 9 legal moves per turn. The branching factor is a lot less. (Giving your opponent free choice to play anywhere is frequently a mistake.)
Sure you can claim that getting hacked is "nature of the game" - but that's not the real issue.

The issue was with how they handled the public disclosure of the hack. Instead of immediately alerting their clients that there has been an issue (so that - as you say - people could take mitigating actions) they stalled on giving information and tried to cover up the whole fiasco. This should give people ZERO confidence in their moral integrity.

If you run a service like Linode or DO, you need to provide certain guarantees on disclosure of security failures and maybe get an externally audit from time to time.
I think some of the cities that have come online more recently are a bit higher-res ( example: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Copenhagen/@55.6686089,12.... ). Maybe they'll reprocess San Francisco eventually.
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Glad to hear it. What specifically makes you think it's effective?
The last mover advantage of waiting for other people to do the heavy lifting for them and then swoop in for the win.
It's amazing how short people's memories are. They behaved in a very scummy way back when that all happened. I was sure they would have to close their doors within 6 month.

But it's exactly one year since the hack and everyone is back to talking about how amazing Linode is

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Claim-to-Have-Gained-...
Most full stack frameworks have a way to create migrations. When the schema changes over time, you just get a mess with mongo, thats just my observation. Its far easier to manage change with db migrations.
To qualify as a tax-free spinoff, the parent company must own a controlling stake in the company to be spun. Yahoo does not own a controlling stake in either Y! Japan or Alibaba.

However, there is a tax maneuver being considered, called a "cash rich split off" [0]. Yahoo would do a tax-free swap of its Alibaba shares for a 5-year historic business owned by Alibaba. This historic business can have as much as two-thirds of its assets consisting of cash. Warren Buffett did something similar with his shares in GHC.

One question is why did Yahoo not pursue a cash-rich split off in its 2012 transaction with Ali? I would argue that it's most likely for political reasons. As unfair as it may be, the optics of Jerry Yang and Jack Ma teaming up to deprive the US Treasury of tax revenue is very different from the optics of Warren Buffett and Don Graham doing the exact same thing. I think they might still pursue it, just because that's a lot of money to leave on the table.

[0]: http://taxdidactic.blogspot.com/2011/10/yahoo-evaluating-cas...
Sad, but the first thing my sci-fi mind thought of was whether Earth would be able to establish relations with a perhaps-society there without establishing military superiority first, just starting off with a Cold War.
In the 1950s and 60s, American capital markets produced conglomerates. These conglomerates offered an unsophisticated investing public pre-packaged diversification. They were also able to leverage their mass to reliably tap the capital markets. Through the 1970s and 80s, the American finance matured. Investors found portfolios better vehicles of diversification than conglomerates. New capital markets negated size as a pre-requisite to financing. The inefficiencies of having unrelated businesses under one roof became a greater liability than any prior advantages. The LBO tigers dismantled the titans.

A similar story seems to be playing out in tech. The dot com bubble scarred a generation of management. These firms hoard cash, disdain debt and covet the reliability size brings. This is not irrational–the technology capital markets are notoriously capricious. LBOs don't work on an equity-rich capital structure where management holds all the voting rights. Perhaps this will bring an alternative to the acid pens of activist investors.
The ibus in Ubuntu 14.04 uses Super+Space to switch between languages. Not the Ctrl+Space anymore. Nevertheless, it's easy to change it to any other key combination.
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And yeah, that'd be what I don't like about startup culture. I went into software development, not marketing.
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> Market cap isn't the value of a company, but rather the value investors place on the shares times outstanding shares.

What's the difference? (honest question)

My understanding is that, theoretically, share price is intended to reflect expected value of future payouts (dividends) assuming the company lasts forever. In practice, I would think share price is more likely to reflect expected value of future payouts over some fixed time period plus expected time-adjusted price appreciation over that same interval, which seems to be at least as reasonable a method.

What is the (monetary) value of a company other than return to owners?
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I disagree. I remember running Minix on a no-name 8088 machine with 640K of RAM and no hard drive at all. Unix was developed on machines with far less resources than that. It is not a particularly heavy-weight OS.
I found it to really suck with horizontal scalability and high performance. We are paying 3k per month for mongo hosting because its such a pain to manage and it performs so poorly at just 150gb of data that we need 3 shards which I find incredibly ridiculous. I would pick postgres tables with JSON fields over mongo any day of the week.
Any planet harboring intelligent life would likely be several hundreds (like this one) if not thousands or millions of light years away, making any contact impossible at human scale. Even with this relatively close example of a possibly habitable planet, communications would take 1000 years to go back and forth.

As for actual contact... many earth civilizations would rise and fall before a spaceship going at even 2% of the speed of light could reach such a planet.
Are you sure about that? You can validate an awful lot in a PostgreSQL constraint, and I often don't bother validating in the app as a result. Validation in the app can also be extremely difficult to get right in a concurrent environment. There is a high likelihood that many such checks have race conditions that you aren't aware of, if you haven't gone over your application with a dedicated DBA.
They've always viewed themselves as a platform with rich APIs, what you're describing is applications built on top of that platform.

With that said, recent releases (Carousel, Mailbox) point that due to the dearth of applications built on top of Dropbox they're bootstrapping the application layer themselves.
cstross has commented that as a result of The SCO Group's actions, he considers the association in his resume to be a liability. Lessee ... here we are:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/01/i_get_ma...

(Which reminds me: according to a legal friend of mine, here in the UK it's actually a civil offense for a corporation to bring its name into such disrepute that it damages former employees' prospects. This harks back to the BCCI collapse in the early 90s, but suggests that if I was still in the software biz I might actually have a case in law against post-takeover SCO for shitting all over my resumé. But I digress ...)

(Yes, the whole bit is a parenthetical.)

I've only somewhat recently discovered Stross's fiction and blog, I recommend both strongly.
The python drivers never made it safe by default.
I'd be interested to see some benchmarks comparing Linux and FreeBSD power usage. Personally I've been impressed w/ power management on FreeBSD 10 using recent hardware - once I enabled powerd and set the powerd_flags - but I haven't installed Linux on the same hardware.
As a European, I greatly enjoyed downtown Palo Alto for this. In SF, north beach gets it fairly right, but that seems to be it.