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Intel is really good. Really really really good, I have a hard time dismissing them but the ability to buy from many vendors and build custom hardware is compelling. I felt this way before about powerpc but there seems to be more compelling community support for arm this time around, the installed base of mobile devices makes a huge difference. It seems to me that intel has been lazy exploiting their performance edge, if amd and others start selling inexpensive lowish power arm 8 and 12 core systems that can legitimately hang with intel then I think they'll have some serious competition. Especially as the niche vendors start making 32 and 64 core chips, assuming they can keep the prices decent.

It could be very interesting if a Dell, for example, starts to get in on the game, they're already attempting to be solution vendors. Perhaps targeted arm core start being built, like storage centric designs for SAN type systems and network processors will fall out pretty quickly, all with fundamentally the same isa and just different accelerators for different domains. That something intel has always been against.
The bill mandates that telecommunication companies retain all customers' communication data for 12 months. Do they really mean ALL the data? Everything I watch on Netflix, Crunchyroll & YouTube? All the games I download from Steam, PSN & the eShop? All the data from my ssh & scp sessions (which should be useless to anybody)?
It seems to me that they do not understand what they are asking for.
Now there's talk of Carmack's previous employer alleging IP theft.

Hmmm... maybe that's why they scurried under the FB rock.
I prefer Papers 3 - would rather be in control of my saved papers than rely on a SaaS that could go out of business whenever.
The population density is still radically different even when you cut the vast empty spaces between cities in the west.

I live in a midwestern suburb. In the land area that my house uses, you'd have 10-20 families in Madrid. Our idea of dense shopping is a two story mall, not stores under every residential area. And don't get me started with mandated parking spots in strip malls that aren't ever half full.

So unless you live in Manhattan or downtown Chicago, you don't see the same levels of population density.

Single fami
SPKI: Simple Public Key Infrastructure (2013) [pdf]
I want the bike shed to be blue, god dammit!
Kenton Varda deserves the respect you are giving him when it comes to serialization libraries. Cap'n Proto is a great project that I'd love to work with anytime. That said, Martin Thompson whose blog this is a link to is also very well respected in his particular domain (low latency messaging systems especially on the JVM and JVM/C++ hybrid space).

All that's to say, the Cap'n Proto and SBE libraries have exceedingly similar design philosophies and pedigrees. I expect them to have near performance parity in the shared language of C++. But if you are looking for a JVM/C# solution I think you can pretty reasonably choose to start working with SBE today as it provides those language bindings out of the gate and there is unlikely to be such a performance mismatch between SBE and Cap'n Proto in the future for it to matter long term.
Got any articles on this?
I like how the only way to comment on this article is by your Facebook account.

Now, reporters will look at the comments by FB predisposed people and assume there is now acceptance.
It is a debatable point. Some judges agree with the interpretation that you're pretending is universal, and some don't. This is why this is a controversial political issue. If gay marriage were self-evidently legal, all of these court cases would not have happened. To many, the crux of the issue that the government chose to provide rewards and recognition for those willing to engage in a certain behavior, and now there are people trying to say that they should be included because they're doing something superficially similar. Whatever you believe about homosexuality or gay marriage, permanent cohabitation with same-sex individuals is not the same as permanent cohabitation with opposite-sex individuals. Maybe you think it doesn't make a difference, but a lot of people do, and only want to use state powers to encourage the latter behavior.

The issue here is that you see this as a matter of bigotry. As long as your view of the opposition is that narrow, a constructive dialogue is impossible. I understand it may be difficult to overcome that impulse with activists constantly trying to shame people into exactly that submissive position that doesn't allow them to consider the arguments of any opposition figure without automatically self-incriminating, but I hope that people can learn not to fall for that shaming.

True, there are always people anticipating major social collapse. It just so happens that occasionally, those people are right. The fact that some of them have been wrong in the past doesn't mean the suggestion is automatically invalid.

Your belligerent, empty retort only further illustrates the validity of my arguments. The attitude of "Fuck you, and the half of society that agrees with you" doesn't really make for social cohesion or stability.
Lock-free Data Structures Part 1 – Introduction
Don't Virgin use their own last mile for fibre?
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So, we imagined we have shipped our closed BETA version of Mailcloud, and nobody wants it. Worse than that, it doesn’t even work, reviews are terrible and generally the whole world hates us – signified in a homepage Techcrunch piece because our product was so bad.

Problem is, your failure is not likely going to be that dramatic. The product will likely work, have some users who like it and some positive or at least not terrible reviews, but will just never take off. Might not be a clear reason why, you just didn't "hit it."
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Symantec calls antivirus 'doomed' as security giants fight for survival
Well, it's somewhat more realistic than the "smoking causes your fingers to fall off" ads that have been plastered all over NYC for years:

http://dcfadvertising.com/blog/images/Amputations_2Sheets.jp...
The Programmer's Curse
I can believe it, but reading on a retina iPad mini, I was actually struck by how nice it looked!

I think now that A-grade browsers are generally equal in most basic respects, we often forget to test things that might seem inconsequential and not worth testing, like font-weights.
It seems like a minor distinction, however asking people:

"6 months from now, we end up failing. What went wrong?"

gets much better answers than:

"what are the biggest risks?"
No, Singapore does allow you to register the car again -- problem is, this requires paying for a new "Certificate of Entitlement", which are sold at auction for >US$70k each. So most people switch to a new car instead.
I find the "premortem" way of looking at it psychologically more appealing. When asked to "think of all the dangers", I can imagine a tendency existing to bury one's head in sand and say "what danger? What risk?". We also know of "hindsight bias", and I wonder whether a premortem would be a way to exploit it rather than be a victim to it.

At least, I'm not rational enough to reason identically whether I've been primed with death or just the risk of death. So I think this would be a useful exercise for me (and those like me).
> not giving any indication as to whether they have even attempted to expand capacity on their side.

I guess you missed this part then:

"Six of those 12 have a single congested port, and we are both (Level 3 and our peer) in the process of making upgrades – this is business as usual and happens occasionally as traffic swings around the Internet as customers change providers."
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Thanks for Clojure dude.
FunnyBizz:Conference on Tech Startups Using Humor and Storytelling
Google has made giant piles of money that they are using to solve more and more problems re: organizing the world's information. Facebook is figuring out how to get people to upload more pictures? I guess there's Oculus and Instagram. I don't see Instagram as much more than chewing up a potential competitor. We'll see on Oculus.

I am not saying that making a self-driving car or a book-scanning machine or any of that in any way guarantees that they will hit other big markets. But they're trying on a pretty grand scale.

A VC who raises a fund and has some yearly burn rate for his operation will eventually go broke if he doesn't invest. Google definitely is investing. Facebook might be.
Yeah... maybe the new homepage increased conversions when they removed any semblance of information from the page? The only two options now are, "I have no idea what this is, but I'm curious"; and "I don't give my email address to randoms"
Except that, and all similar statements, are pretty much talking about a slippery slope within a single body politic. Because I'm not out protesting against North Korea's or China's policies, I'm contributing to the decay of civil liberties and internet freedom in the United States? I don't think so. Mexico is not a China or a North Korea, but there's political separation between any countries that can't be ignored.

I don't mind too much if EFF gives some support to Mexican organizations opposing this, but I think the main effort against it should originate from Mexico. Nothing makes conservative Americans more upset than hearing Central or South American leaders lecture the United States on policy. We should be cautious about lecturing or trying to influence other countries. Saving people from themselves is a noble goal, but it has a low success rate, is highly stressful and is not for everyone.

Political corruption and dissociation between the wishes of the people and the actions of government is a problem in most representative democracies, and I don't mean to trivialize that.

It's also seems plausible to me that Central and South American governments might pursue these sorts of policies partly as an evolution of surveillance against gang and drug crime, and therefore partly at the behest of certain U.S. political interests. Which would mean it's quite a political tangle.

Is Mexico's internet policy more significant than China's to the internet as a whole? Will lawmakers or courts of the U.S. or Europe look to Mexico to decide how to proceed on issues of civil liberties on the internet? In other words, is this the best place for freedom-minded technologists to put what little political muscle they have to work?
lane following, speed adaption, and merging traffic all by themselves

Well, that's better than most human Volvo drivers can do, by my experience. Whenever I see a car make a bone-headed move in traffic, chances are it's a Volvo.
I agree. There's not much more that needs to be said than, "Smoking makes you smell bad and slowly kills you."[1]

What I don't get is why e-cigs haven't taken off among smokers, as they're much healthier than cigarettes. I've brought up the topic with friends and family who smoke. Most of them think e-cigs aren't cool. One of my uncles said, "I'm not gonna look like a fag smoking on a glowstick."

1. I believe I first heard it put that way by Douglas Crockford.
On April 24th, we got one ticket out of a thousand like we do any other day. We fixed this bug like we do all bugs.

Shits fucked here, ok? We had no idea if you were some asshole who can't read a tutorial, or if you have some phantom dating app with 1,000s of users. When we finally got around to it, we fixed it quickly because we are boss.

When we lay down our new rules, we said we would get to the important things sometime this week. We want to demonstrate we have a process for our madness. You continually bitch about it so we know how important you feel it is for us to move slower and stabilize things.

You act like the API wasn't responding with data, or that it was all data all the time. It was some obscure content edge case that doesn't provide us any real direct revenue. How would you have expected us to react in a situation like this?

We know bugs are important. We don't open them on the weekends for fun anymore either. We get to decide whats important and how, and then fix it when we want to or can. We fixed the bug, and are going to find someone to blame about it so you can all stop worrying.
It seems like HN took the site down, here's the Google cache

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kgO8-Tc...
I am having trouble understanding what the problem was. I don't even think he explain anything...

In this specific case, the bug with the Realtime API didn't prevent apps from accessing data about likes, posts and comments on pages - those were always query-able via the API on demand. That, along with our understanding that this issue affected only apps subscribed to updates on page content, meant we didn't, on this occasion, classify the bug as within the 48-hour SLA. We're constantly listening to our community, and may revisit how we classify and prioritize issues like this going forward.

I'd like to hear a detail postmortem.
For very important accounts such as banks I use KeePass. For everything else I use a password generator I wrote called hash0: http://github.com/dannysu.com/hash0
Why the downvotes? What I wrote is correct:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/main.cpp#...
> built around a relatively small alphabet is simply superior.

How? With a smaller alphabet, words can tend to comprise of more letters; with a larger alphabet, words can tend to comprise of fewer letters. It might be that smaller is better in this case for storing text efficiently, but I don't see how it obviously follows.
Pretty sure it's Apple Menlo, which IIRC from my OS X experience is the default font for Terminal.app. (Or is it? Might have been Monaco. I'm sure it's one of the two, and the other is the one I ended up preferring for reasons I've since forgotten; they are very similar overall.)
Yes - although he has mixed credibility with original bitcoin research.
No support for os. Yet. Maybe in a future version. ;)
An actual offer? No, but I never let things get that far. But I have turned down solicitations from Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon (never heard anything from Facebook though).

Why? Well multiple reasons. For Amazon (and to some extent, Microsoft) - I don't want to live in the Pacific Northwest. Nothing against the area, it looks beautiful, but I live for warm weather.

For Microsoft, in addition to location, I'm an Open Source ideologue, consider Microsoft to the The Evil Empire, and want nothing to do with them.

For Apple, they're another Evil Empire pitching closed-source, locked-down, proprietary products that I want nothing to do with.

For Google, it was much simpler: By the time I heard from them, I was well into starting Fogbeam Labs, and that's my focus right now. I still work a "regular job" during the day, but my overriding passion is to get this company off the ground and make a go of it. I don't see going to work for Google as compatible with that. Plus, GOOG seem (from my outsider's perspective) a bit too big and bureaucratic for my tastes at this point. I'm more of a small company person, unless it's the company I'm running.

OTOH, myself and one of our other co-founders were talking a few days ago, and we commented that we'd consider an "acquihire" scenario from somebody like Google. So that's one way I might wind up at Google or some other $BIGCORP.
I use text files with tagging and a simple naming convention to manage my web development projects, my house rentals, car insurance, vacation plans, contacts, and more. Most projects have the same core things to keep track of... analytics, adwords, ad campaigns, webmaster tools, hosting details, etc... I use txt files that are backed up with Dropbox.

I add tags within each file like project-businessName tag-adwords tag-campaign priority-high etc.

I use xplorer2 ( a windows explorer replacement $40 ) to filter by tag and or filename.

Example: Say I want to see all outstanding campaigns for a certain client.... I apply the following filter ( alt+h ) then type +tag-campaigns,+project-businessName . Same works for to do lists.... +priority-high,+project-businessName .

I also use a file name convention for super quick opening of whatever customer file I need.

Example: Say I want to check on a clients adwords situation... I hit alt+h to invoke the filter tool.... type adwords businessName to see the exact file I need.

I use two extra free software apps to speed things up further...
FindandRunRobot - a launcher
Everything ( from voidtools ) - plugs into the above launcher for super fast file opening by name. For example: Say I'm in my browser and want to open up my main file for my client.... I hit alt+space to invoke the launcher tool... then type any part of the file name ... hit enter to open.

I've used wikis before as well as enterprise crm... this is a breath of fresh air!
Not sure if this is satire parody or real negative FBer. Also not sure if such parody is needed on HN. I am not trying to defend FB, but they do have a lot of bugs. As I said in my comment below, I want to hear a postmortem.
>Google is more profitable than Comcast and TWV combined

Reference, please? When I look up the financials, Google's quarterly gross profits are running about $9B, and Comcast's about $11B.
I actually did a bit of testing, including grabbing VMs of various versions of Windows to see how things looked on XP, 7, and 8.1. It remained quite readable in my testing.
So understandably you don't want to be too specific about how you pick search results to beat the seo people, but could you talk briefly about how ddg returns results? Is it still some variant of PageRank?
Actually yes you can.

If you have > 51% hashing power for a long period of time then you could theoretically choose an arbitrary block some time in the past (the further back you go the more difficult and time consuming it will be) and begin mining from that block. Including (or making up) whatever transactions you want as you go. Eventually you will have a longer chain than the "main" block and unless manual intervention is made you will orphan all of the other blocks and be able to rewrite history.
I disagree, Risk Assessment is the process of assessing what could go wrong. In the Pre-Mortem, you take a different approach, and take, as a given that the project has failed, so now you are not discussing what could go wrong, but what did go wrong.

It's a subtle, but important distinction. As the article notes, that once you have an image in your mind of a failed project, you come up with a somewhat different analysis than if you are trying to picture what could wrong.

I frequently see attitudes in risk-assessment, particularly in those that have planning responsibilities, where people actually get quite defensive when people are pointing out the risks in the project, to the point at which others in the room no longer wish to participate. On the flip side, if we are presupposing things went really wrong, and everything failed - it almost becomes a game to figure out what went wrong.

I'll take it one step further - at a tactical level, when my engineers/technicians are preparing for a complex change in our IT environments, and they do their walkthrough, and demonstrate the change is guaranteed to work - that is just the first, almost minor step. The second, much more important one, is to then find at least three ways in which the change will fail. Getting something to work might only take a few hours. Finding out how the change will fail may take several days, or even weeks - but it's much more informative and useful to the change control procedure than demonstrating something will work, and I find the mindset of "accepting and looking for failure, rather than resisting it" is the key.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1w1SQ3ezh 8

A huge collection of After Dark screen savers. 2:50 in is the X-Men which I had the pleasure of working on as an artist. Many hours spent in front of Deluxe Paint and Deluxe Animator to get the characters on to the screen.

I should have some of that work on a floppy somewhere.
> The regulatory hurdles that Google is demanding relief from are (largely) not the result of lobbying. They're the result of the dysfunction of municipal politics.

Isn't that basically what caust1c said? It looks like the two of you are in violent agreement. :-)
there's a whole conference dedicated to this?
Brazil's other passion: Malba Tahan and the man who counted
Something you can wear passively. Like a watch, bracelet, hell a toe ring. But earbuds are an awful UX for a sensor IMO.
My friends and I had a stack of hand drawn maps of Metroid on graph paper that we traded back and forth. Not as convenient as sharing them on the internet, but somehow more gratifying.
It's interesting that there's a spinner on the CVV of the credit card.
Perhaps using Paranoid Android (if supported on your phone) would be a start.
I can't turn off the infinite scroll. I've set "Auto-load" in the settings to Off. But when I scroll to the end of the page new links still get appended automatically. This also happens on the current version DDG as well. Am I misunderstanding this option?
Actually, that's no longer true under the deal Netflix recently worked out with Comcast:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/23...
What happened to The JavaScript Show?
Analysis of Reddit's ad inventory
A bit more here: http://www.reddit.com/r/marketing/comments/24tsl0/analysis_of_reddits_ad_inventory/
I used to listen to this podcast a while ago. I visited the site today and it looks pretty dead (some sort of landing / squatting / registration page).

Anyone know what happened? The Ruby Show seems to be alright.
How Better Customer Interactions Can Improve Business Sales   Revenues
Kernel restart is zero clicks if you use the shortcut: esc-0-0-return

esc to go to command mode
zero-zero to bring up the kernel restart prompt
return/enter to confirm

I definitely still get thrown by the command vs editing mode (mostly manifesting in new cells above or below the one I'm working on). But, I'm willing to accept the temporary handicap since everything has a shortcut now.

That's not to mention the other big convenience win of 2.0: directory navigation. You used to have to boot up a new server for each directory of notebooks you wanted to use. I have hundreds of notebooks...things were getting out of hand. Now you can run a single server, easily navigate your notebook directories from the browser, and write simple links between your notebooks.

I love this project.
While I'd still consider FB a PHP-company, it's important to note that their use of it has evolved into a PHP derivative language ("Hack"). Also, Yahoo is years into a project to move everything away from PHP to JavaScript (Node.js) and Java.

So, those companies abandoning stock PHP isn't much of an endorsement of the language & ecosystem.
What would happen when the aforementioned emergency weather broadcast app fails to notify users of a tornado coming their way, because it was given the wrong locations? What would that do to the app's reputation? How many people would believe it's user's fault as oppose to blaming the shitty app?

By your logic, a laptop with li-ion battery can be "forced" to keep running in an 140F degree environment, because that's what user "explicitly chose". When it explodes, who's getting the blame?

There's something call operational envelope, which applies to software too. And believe it or not, that is for user's "best interest".
And I thought I had a cool idea for a custom flash cart for a Game Gear. In addition to proving the ROM to the Game Gear, it would present some of its own memory-mapped registers on the bus to use as a debugging channel. This certainly blows that out of the water!
Hey, I was the guy that submitted the trick to Nintendo Power! A friend of a friend showed it to me after school and I immediately mailed it in to the magazine. Nintendo Power Agent #826.
> Comcast doesnt have a direct connection to netflix

They do now that a deal has been worked out:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/23...