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> The only benefit Base10 has over Base2 is that it's more easily understandable by beginners.

Dr. William Kahan argues better than I can [1][2]. As far back as the 1970s, he tried to convince both Intel [3] and IBM [2] to implement base 10 floating point in hardware.

First of all, in an ideal world, all software is written and reviewed by people have taken, aced, and remembered their discrete math courses. We don't live in that world. I work with a lot of bright people, but I've come to find that many of them have a model that's essentially floating point operations result in a value that's a low variance Gaussian distribution about the correct value. It's not uncommon for me to see things like doubles compared thusly:

if (abs( floor(x) - floor(y) ) < 1e-30) ...

Secondly, almost no financial or accounting rules or regulations are drafted by people with any knowledge of binary floating point semantics, so the semantics of IEEE 754-2008 decimal numbers more closely match financial rules and regulations.

Thirdly, base 10 floating point numbers are less confusing for end users and result in fewer hacks such as the display hacks in Excel to prevent users from thinking floating point artifacts are bugs in Excel.[1]

I think IEEE 754-1985 is a wonderful and well thought-out standard. However, the IEEE 754-2008 committee didn't add decimal floating points on a whim. There are very compelling use cases.

[1] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ARITH_17.pdf
[2] http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/email/msg01831.html (search for Yorktown Heights)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985#History

Edit: It was a bit harsh to begin with "Incorrect." Sorry.
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Is everyone that is 'cool' an 'individual free-thinking anarchist' nowadays?
SendOwl (http://www.sendowl.com), formerly known as Digital Delivery App. No particular complaints, but it's been a while since I've looked at the competition.
i can't really tell what service is being offered. or maybe i am being naive and missing the point...

i guess work on the page so is clearer.

imo there is a very strong sell and not enough information on the product for me to determine what it does, if i need it and esp. if its worth forking out for.
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That hedge-fund manager also has legions of analysts and traders that do the manager's bidding. The idea that the manager is doing the actual button pushing on a trading terminal is bullshit as well.

Friend of a friend owns a modest investment fund and hasn't set foot in the office in a year. He directs his staff via smartphone from his boat.
In what way would Adobe profit from creating such a Linux distribution of their own? They probably can't even rationalize porting creative suite to the Linux desktop, let alone develop a partial OS around it. They're making a crapload of money on operating systems they don't own and their customers have no incentive in switching from.
I think the problem is that something is considered a verified fact if you link to two separate places on the web. Bloggers have been posting complete garbage and lies for the past 7 years now and even "mainstream" news outlets sometimes believe the garbage and actually re-print the lies making it even easier to get the garbage on Wikipedia.
Ladies and dudes, there's a solution:

http://www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com/
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Joining the union was completely here choice. She wasn't a member of any for the 1st few years. In fact there are more than one. Some based on profession (ground crew, cabin crew, pilots) and others based on criteria (regional, international fleets). There is a union that is pro-corp, another that is pro-labor, and her union sits in the middle and is the largest.

We've never received email or letters from other members. with 10,000 members it would be ridiculous to do so. Like any club members tend to display their dissatisfaction by canceling their membership. Everyone can express their opinions anonymously on the various aviation forums. It's how I learned about the other unions being created because her some weren't satisfied with the current leadership.

I've met her union leaders while walking around the campus and I get the impression it is a thankless job. You're rarely credited with successes and any failure is your fault. As has been said before, you know a good negotiation when no one is satisfied.
there is something oddly satisfying about stumbling upon compiler bugs. here's one i discovered a while back http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11303732/x86-vs-anycpu-re...
>is a fairly good indicator of the lack of value had by the idea.

Or a fairly good indicator of accounting habits inertia. I have no idea which one is true, but a great idea is not enough by itself to be adopted by everybody (end of world hunger anybody ?).
> working sound card drivers

Has this really been an issue in recent times? The last time I had serious sound card driver issues was trying to run Linux on an old Powerbook G4 back ~2006.
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For well over three years, the Wikipedia article for Wildebeest stated the plural was Wildebai: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wildebeest&diff=48...

Of course this was false, but it took well over three years for a correction. In the meantime, many other sources still refer to the plural as Wildebai:

https://www.google.com/search?q=wildebai
See the third citation in my reply to your sibling comment.

Granted, personal exchange after an IEEE committee meeting is a weak citation, it is consistent with Kahan's email stating that he had tried to convince IBM to implement decimal floating point in hardware approximately 30 years prior to 2005 (my second citation to your sibling comment).
I guess it depends on what you are doing. I rarely use the trackpad at all. In fact, I'd say that 85-90% of the time I have my trackpad disabled. Whether I'm working or not I tend to get by with just the keyboard (tiling wm).
I guess those would be important points to me if I did any work with graphics or UI.
Have you considered mailgun ? It is rock solid and affordable
our experience with fastspring is good as well!
Thanks for feedback!

1 project plan sounds like something to consider.
Micromanagement is the #1 problem I've seen with inexperienced managers (and some experienced ones, too). I'm surprised the article didn't mention that, although a couple of the commenters did, at least.

You have to hire good people that you can trust to do the job, up front. Then you have to trust them to do the job. It's as simple as that.
Check the following;

GoSquared is a web analytics app that covers exactly the sort of scenarios you mentioned.

In brief, they use Cassandra and Redis for their backend. Redis is their middle layer for fast writes, sorting, aggregations (hourly, day, weekly, monthly), while cassandra is their "persistence" layer where they store the aggregations as a blob. Within Cassandra they optimize heavily on data locality for fast lookups of 'contiguous' rows using partitioning and clustering keys.

When they need to pull them back, they scan the key ranges and pull their blob from Cassandra, then push it into Redis, which, with the various default data types, does a lot of the heavy lifting.

You should watch the following presentation from them:

https://engineering.gosquared.com/video-databases-tech-gosqu...
I'm curious about the kind of authentication required to communicate with a satellite from the eighties. Does anyone know?
> And what are the implications for cryptography?

The D-Wave implements, in hardware, a certain multivariable optimization algorithm. It is not a general purpose computer, and it has no implications for cryptography.
8 hours ago I read this and the reasons where because Windows 8 was expensive in China, now they are talking more about security: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-05/20/c_1333472...
Product is important, but marketing is important too; never underestimate it.
I feel it may have something to do with the recent news that US charges "five Chinese army officers with espionage charges for hacking into major US companies":
http://nypost.com/2014/05/19/us-to-charge-chinese-military-o...
Word vulnerability exploited. Beware of .rtf files.
For WordPress plugins and themes I enjoy https://easydigitaldownloads.com
It's not perfect, but has some nice plugins (licensing!).
>they don't believe a US company to provide them with an operating system that even has a slight chance to be NSA secure feels quite sensible

Or a British company or an Canadian company or an Australian etc. etc.
I'll ask about the reasoning instead of attacking the decision (since that didn't get a response).

Why not embed HAProxy?
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Having found way too many bugs in the OS and compiler, it's amusing at first, but then gets tiresome. It's way easier to fix a bug when you're the one at fault, so any time something looks like it might be in the compiler or OS, I end up fervently hoping that it's not.
I like how they're saying that Docker's strength is in letting you never learn how to package applications. Which is a bit like saying that a Google self-driving car's strength is that you never have to learn how to drive.

The useful features of Docker are resource isolation, image layering, and staged deployment. The idea that you can run two versions of PHP or move your files between distros has been a solved problem for at least 30 years.
Maybe because they've fixed XP for their security concerns:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/qihoo-360-announces-...
I've been in a similar place with back pain in my lower back. I also play a lot of sport. Simply a mixture of not stretching enough after sports combined with sitting for long periods of time and not being active enough during development hours can make your body really tighten up. My advice is to see a good physio even just for one session who will most likely be able to manipulate your back etc. and really help you out. That's what I did and it was the best thing to do. I'd left it til it got that bad I went to hospital because I thought maybe there was something really wrong... a few days later and one session with a physio I felt awesome. Riding a bike is great cardio for you and it shouldn't harm you. It's just making sure to stretch out all the right places after. It's amazing how many places will affect your back.
Does anyone know what local Quantum effects imply for the complexity of problems it can solve ?

I thought the watershed between a Classical computer and Quantum one was the ability to solve some hard problems believed to be in both NP and co-NP.
Similarly, there's quite a few messages going to a uninhabited point in Manitona Canada, that's usually where the label for Canada is. Country level geocoding in plain sight!
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"I would bet money"

The point is that this sort of feedback loop, and similar pollution of knowledge by the fake authority of Wikipedia, is routine. There's even a joke: "If you don't believe my claim, just check Wikipedia -- but wait 15 minutes before you do."

So I'm not interested in taking up your monetary wager, but can you come up with one example where this happened with Britannica?

"Stench"

The New Yorker is well known for something called "fact checking", where they have a staff that tries to make sure that any claim appearing in the magazine is actually true. Wikipedia has random volunteers who might or might not eventually get around to checking some things that are on the site.
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I'm guessing they are using Visa's lesser known Money Transfer features. This stuff has been around for a little while. The company I work for recently started supporting this for insurance company payouts to customers.

https://usa.visamoneytransfer.com/Visa/Web/Help/FAQ

BTW, you can chargeback stuff on your debit card just like you can with your credit card. Both are save and typically 100% covered by the credit card company that issued the card.

I'm still amazed that people don't understand how disposable credit card numbers are. The worst thing thing you really risk when giving out your credit card is the hassle of changing any auto-payments you had attached to that card in the off-chance that your card is compromised. Debit cards are a little different in that your funds may be held for a couple of weeks under certain circumstances so that could suck but that's not often the case. /rant
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> I wish more presenters and performers opted out of the glowing marketing campaigns of the equipment they use. The brand of your equipment is not the reason why you're up there presenting.

This. It looks like everyone is happy to promote the Apple brand on top of themselves. For free.
Licences and a cut from app/content sales. The problem with the Linux desktop is the 'everything is free' mentality.
And is still relevant.
First thought was that this should be a grunt plugin, then I read the comments. Here it is: https://github.com/addyosmani/grunt-uncss
I doubt it, China would only be happy if they could vet & build the source code themselves. MS wouldn't be too clever to give them that.

If this is really about security and not to pull off exactly that above.
How much money has China's government paid Microsoft for OS in the past?

(The question I'm really asking: how much piracy did China do in the past, and how likely is that going to just continue as is?)
> Microsoft closes support of XP in hopes people move to W8

Do you really think that's why Microsoft dropped support for a 12 year old OS?
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Your interpretation, unknown due to lack of value, may be valid but is more likely incorrect. Historically, ideas take a long time (decades or more), before adoption. Some are simply not marketed on a wide scale, little exposure causing little adoption/implementation. Other ideas, even though as equally valid as ones that are adopted, are simply not implemented due to circumstance (one excludes the other due to existing infrastructure, etc.). Others are actively resisted (especially in the sciences, e.g. tectonics, ulcers due to bacteria/viruses instead of stress). Please do not judge an idea based on its age or lack thereof.
What cybernetic issues? Du you even know what cybernetics means?
10 years is not a long time in accounting. Just consider the fact that there is no complete theoretical framework behind the IFRS, or any accounting standard for that matter. But there have been multi-dimensional approaches to accounting Ellerman and Ijiri coming to mind. Furthermore, dimensions are used extensively in consolidations etc., albeit in a double entry manner. One year is definitely not the beta-testing period in accounting.
Gerrit user here, how does it compare? Gerrit is terribly slow and pretty ugly even with a nice theme.

What's it written in? (On mobile can't inspect right now)
It seems to me the problem is that people think there even exists such a thing as an authoritative source.
Joining the party late, but haven't seen my perspective offered yet...

I'm a little disheartened at the state of IM clients and usage. Since Google's dodgy Hangouts and open XMPP slaying I've struggled to find a decent alternative to Gtalk. I liked the old client, the lightweight desktop one. Pidgin was a solid enough replacement, and apparently version 3 due soon ought to bring audio/video. That's all well and good, but to reach a minimum level of real privacy it would make sense to leave the Google ecosystem.

Well. I opened a Dukgo account last year and had a few contacts added to that, hoping to grow the list over time, but few Gmail contacts (most of my contacts) actually receive or can accept the XMPP invites anymore (those who've moved wholesale over to Hangouts?) and any that are added have the conversations logged at their end anyway. The 'Google owns most people's email' problem applies to chat, too, unfortunately. Add to that the barrier of setting up a new IM client or XMPP account, most folks are just not interested in leaving the convenience of Google-world.

At the moment I've got Finch set up on the Raspberry Pi (running on tmux), to be connected to whenever/from wherever. It's working quite well, but is obviously short on 'features'. Nice to not have to disconnect/reconnect constantly though, and pick up messages at my convenience. I do the same with IRSSI to a lesser extent. I'm not connecting to the Google contact list with it.

I did try out Jitsi, but found it to be nearly as much of a resource hog as Skype, a client I've been trying to extricate myself from, but have been forced to re-install for certain clients/contacts. As I mentioned above, the new Pidgin will be interesting.

It's really hard for me to understand how many people are happy to support Facebook/Skype/Google's walled-garden approach in this day and age. Now that the momentum behind the privacy debate is waning, I'm worried (perhaps annoyed, more accurately) that there's even less incentive for people to support an open and private IM client, be it XMPP/OTR or P2P-based.

So I'm left with a tiny contact list, mainly consisting of Google-based contacts anyway and wondering if it's time to give up on going private. To accept that people just aren't interested, and are happy to cede as much control as popular-company-of-the-day wants to take? The cost of not accepting that fact is a certain level of social cut-off. I do wonder if life is too short to worry myself about things like this. But life does go on after I'm gone, and I'd rather the future was open, or at least had open alternatives that people actually wanted to use.

Actual answer: Finch on RPi via SSH, back to email/phone for those who couldn't be added to the Dukgo contact list.
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Suppose Netflix has profit P, and AT&T charges them X. Netflix has the option of not paying AT&T, which could cost them (P-X) and cost AT&T X. This gives Netflix leverage to get AT&T to lower the price.

Actually going through with this threat costs both companies money, so they will likely work out a mutually acceptable division of profit without doing so. However, if one company thinks the other is bluffing, they may try calling the bluff.

Also, this likely means more expansive for end users.
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If this happens I am scared.

We will now have people hacking into Space Objects as the new pinnacle of extreme hacking. Someone is going to do something bad with this new idea.
Note that in white collar fields (most of us on HN) people are usually graded on "hours in the office" not "hours of productivity" and rarely if ever quit over hours, they just spend more time at amazon.com, facebook, HN, twitter, that kind of thing. "He's demanding we go from 10 hour days to 12 hour days so he can get a bigger bonus and we will get squat other than maybe a demand to work 14 hour days next year, well F him, I'm going to increase my time playing farmville on my phone and tweeting, from 4 hours to 7 hours per day" I've seen this kind of thing with my own eyes. This is the genesis of the effect where a bog standard boring off the shelf employee, when converted to "contractor" suddenly gets three times as much work done in a mere six hours as an employee required to be butt in seat for twelve hours can accomplish.

I think its a nearly universal truth amongst white collar employees that if they only had to be at work while actually working, they'd probably only be at work about four to six hours per day, but they'd get at least twice as much work done. This is obviously a Fortune50 kind of observation more so than a startup.

In the pre-internet era it was pointless meetings and teambuilding activities and water cooler talk and especially smoke breaks. Oh and extended lunch at desk, in addition to the actual lunch hour, plus extended breaks.

In the end, if not carried out to extremes, it works out for everyone. The white collar workers experience something like a grade school playground or perhaps kindergarten classroom experience where most of their time is spent talking about their feelings, and who's in or out of such and such club, gossip, and what they saw on TV last night, and the boss gets a promotion because obviously he's more effective because he had butts in seats for 12 hours and his management competitors only had butts in seats for 10 hours and that's all that matters because that's all that can be verifiably documented and measured. Its not a bad life, as things go, as long as you don't mind sitting around doing nothing in an office (literally) almost all day.
you can see the news here.

http://www.zycg.gov.cn/article/show/242846

5. 所有计算机类产品不允许安装Windows 8操作系统。
5. all computer products are not allowed to install Windows 8 operating system. (Google Translate)
It is a modified version of what we use at Yipit. I stripped out mostly things related to working with Django/Flask apps. It comes in very handy when making sure we maintain style and push fewer broken commits. Feel free to re-use.
Any thoughts about forking Angular and building in Hoist support to make an officially supported Angular/Hoist client side library?
It doesn't look like you took transaction fees into consideration.

Also, remember that a lot of orders on exchanges are superfluous and can be removed anytime. This might leave you with a loss on a few trades. Liquidity is another issue to consider, especially with fiat markets.
>well, everything is a choice if we start going that route.

Exactly. And I would add that part of the point posed by the article is that we seem to be overly busy, given whatever life objectives/circumstances we have. So, given that a person choses to have, say, a job and 2 kids, then they are busier on average than in times past.

So, the question isn't whether an individual person can choose to be less busy. The question is why do we tend to be busier than ever on average, when we should theoretically have more leisure time.
AMD Launches "Bald Eagle" R-Series APUs, Talks Up Linux
Rumors say, that happened with Russia with Windows 7 (and I've heard similar stories about Windows 98, 2000 and XP). Why not China?

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-opens-source-code-to-russian-...
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Yeah and most of my "late Fridays" have nothing to do with code quality and more to do with idiots from other departments who realize at 6pm they didnkt do anything all week and then stopping by to ask for something so they an say they did it in the Monday AM meeting...
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Really? What if we were debating where nollidge was born and where he went to school. Would you not be an authoritative source of information on these subjects?
I would bet money the same sort of thing happened in 1880, the Golden Age of Authority. Some intern at Encyclopedia Britainica slipped in a minor edit

...and an editor with knowledge in that topic area removed that edit before publication. Which is the part of the process Wikipedia lacks.
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