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"For the sake of arguement, let's say that China decided to annex Alaska. If we retorted with a threat of military action, China could come back and say we'll increase your interest rates."

Our debt is not callable. China can say "we won't buy from you except at a higher interest rate" as new loans come due, but anyone else in the market could come in and undercut them (and might be likely to, if they knew China was backing off because of politics and not worry about the soundness of our debt) - heck, it could even be patriotic Americans - BUY WAR BONDS!
Hey this is cool, thanks! I'm going to dig in to their surface crack tool and see what they consider for it. It could be very useful in my line of work.

I'd love to see them put up more code for simulation and analysis of mechanical systems.

edit: Holy crap, I'm flicking through the Tech Transfer Software Catalogue and there's a heap of cool mechanical engineer stuff in here. I wish more of it were available in the academic and/or commercial realm (particularly outside the US)!
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You should go to a music school, thats what I did and in 5 months I'm playing pretty decent (I'm a professional programmer too).
Yes, certainly that metric should be "the amount you use your new oven", not "the amount you use your current oven".
Not sure how closely you pay attention to what fingerings are shown, but on this lesson: https://getinstinct.com/courses/intro-to-guitar/low-strings/...

I noticed the last 4 notes are fingered 2-1-1-open, which has a slide on the first finger. Probably better to not encourage sliding on first finger unless needed. I wonder if other lessons might have less than optimal fingerings shown?

edit: but, very cool! :)
Well, taking 2+ years (and at least one lawsuit) to fix the "iMessage switcher" bug seems to fit the same pattern.
Trustworthy Teleprescence
Interesting article. I played with making Doom levels back in the day and it wasn't exactly easy. The tools (DEU, DETH, etc.) were generally clunky DOS apps that resembled very simplified CAD programs. Documentation was non-existent or spotty at best, so you really had to spend a lot of time figuring out how to do simple things. It would easily take you months to ramp up and start building levels that were more complex than two rooms with a door (and even that was pretty complex to figure out the right line defs, sectors, actions, etc. to just make a door work!). This was before the web took off so you couldn't just Google for a Stackoverflow answer when you got stuck!

Duke Nukem 3D and the Build engine were pretty interesting for level creation. The game engine included the editor so you could actually drop into a mode where you walk through the level and directly modify textures, floor/ceiling height, etc. Was a very cool experience at the time.
meh...I've been in the "Apple Camp" since they released the SDK in 2008 and I've yet to work with anyone who would find it offensive that someone has different tastes than them when it comes to their device choices. it really doesnt matter that much.

That said I'll probably be looking to do more non-iOS work as well in the near future, I need to expand my horizons again.
Android botnets are very valuable because they use mobile network IPs that confuse fraud and login classifiers that use ASN or GeoIP.
I wrote this a while back as a blog post, it ended up being the actual intro. I hope to go over it again soon, and make it better. There's nothing super wrong with it, but you can always improve! Feedback welcome.

Oh, and we had a big discussion last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7051835
You will pay triple for your iPhone, your car, your TV, your laptop, your monitor... If you haven't checked recently anything you buy comes from China or has a significant % of it's BOM from China and is essentially financed by that debt. Your standard of living would collapse.

Obviously both China and the US would take a big hit but I'd argue the US would take a bigger hit. Right now the US benefits from the status of the US$ as the world's reserve currency. If all foreign US bond holders sell their their bonds the US$ will not simply depreciate, it will collapse. The US will be able to import nothing and it's not geared to handle that. It's very comfortable having the cheap manufacturing and the environmental implications somewhere else. Now none of the US debt holders want to see this happen but also no one will want to be the last one holding to debt in a collapsed currency - if someone sneezes.

Given that a lot of US businesses do their business worldwide and keep their money out of the US they won't necessarily be impacted as much but this "run on the bank" scenario is not going to be pretty.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Painkiller does feel more like Doom than most other more modern FPSs, but I never felt like the bunny hopping really measured up evasion wise.

The game that I felt captured this dynamic really well, at least in multiplayer deathmatches, was Half-Life. You were surprisingly zippy, and the long jump module gave you a lot of ability to get out of where you were in a hurry. I enjoyed this sort of dynamic because it played well to my strengths. Having mediocre aim but being able to dodge well worked out okay in this setting. Doom and Half-Life are probably the only shooters I've ever been decent at.
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It generally rots quickly (and is thus not premade) specifically because it's healthy. Rotting indicates the presence of thriving yeast/mold/bacteria, which can't live without nutrients to feed on.

There are plenty of decently-nutritious pre-made meals in the freezer section of your grocery store. If "take the wrapping off and put it in the oven for an hour" is too much work, though, there's always Soylent.
Thanks for this. Also: does formalizing the role of the CEO matter as much as this article suggests that it does? In two startups I've been involved in, "CEO" was chosen with a coin flip.
Later in the order they required Microsoft to post a $200,000 bond. Not sure if that actually covers the potential damages.
Anecdotally, I've heard horror stories from friends who develop apps for multiple platforms of being "punished" by Apple for releasing features to their Android application first, or similar things.

Those friends don't talk about it publicly for fear of further retaliation, but given their experiences, what OP wrote doesn't surprise me in the least.
I would never say instead of. Read whomever you like; read them all. Though, I would suggest that anyone who still takes Copenhagen seriously really needs to digest that sequence.

Eliezer is a smart guy with great insights into how to think about questions. His "position of authority" is that he writes in a way that's clear and conveys meaningful novel insights. If you think that only Ph.D.s have insights worth reading you're missing out. There's nothing "new" or "publishable" in the sequence, but Eliezer collates a lot of good ideas and presents them well.

For what it's worth, I personally feel like I've learned a lot from reading him. I was just trying to share it in the hopes that someone else on HN may find him as insightful as I do, and the quantum physics sequence is one of his better works. It was just a friendly pointer. If you're not interested, disregard.
One of the things that I've always seen as an interesting difference between how Google and Apple run their developer relations teams is the title that they give their employees. Apple has Technology Evangelists, suggesting that they promote the use of certain technologies (typically Apple's own technology or Apple-supported web technology). Google, on the other hand, has Developer Advocates - these are people who actually represent non-Googler developers internally at Google.

While they may just be titles, my experience has been consistent with their titles. Apple representatives you see once a year at WWDC, while Google representatives you see at Google I/O and also at a number of Google-hosted events year-round, including the regular videos they put out (and the "office-hours" type Hangouts they have so that you can actually talk to them and get your problems resolved) - just look at all of the events they have scheduled on the Google Developer Events page[0] or all of the videos they have on their YouTube channel[1]. I've also seen a lot of them give talks at tech conferences, while Apple employees are rarely seen at conferences. And you can see that Google's Developer Advocates really do talk directly to the actual teams directly and file bugs against them when necessary on behalf of developers everywhere. It's a system that has worked pretty well in my experience.

I will also agree that Google's Developer Advocates don't care too much about what platform you're using and just want to help you. I've been to a number of Google-run technical workshops and codelabs, and the people there are willing to help you with whatever problems you run into, no matter what it is.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/events/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers
More likely in my opinion: They might command a premium because buying them like this would be a lot less expensive than buying the same quantity on the open markets, where you would likely drive the price way up before you finished purchasing your target quantity.
I wouldn't want it back without Whedon at the helm, and I'm sure the many truckloads of money Marvel has backed up to his house to run the cinematic Marvel-verse will preclude him coming back.
I vaguely remember Yahoo! bringing over a NBC executive to spin up their exclusive content. I had completely forgotten that was something they wanted to do. This is definitely good marketing.
Redis sorted set stores score as a floating point number
I knew this was your work!

EDIT:

concurrency.rs:12:20: 12:27 error: use of moved value: 'numbers'

Is this a compile-time or a run-time error?
In terms of liberty, one crime doesn't excuse another, especially when they're not directly related. If I manufacture cigarettes and someone dies of lung cancer, I could be ethically liable but my liberty to make cigarettes shouldn't be impacted. If someone uses YouTube to upload copyrighted things, should YouTube have its domain stolen and its users unable to use the site any more?
Emscripten!
Constraint Satisfaction for First-Oder Logic [pdf]
Hmm.. doesn't Twitter API has a rule where you can't mix tweets with other social messages like FB?
Or they get performance pay based on converting/retaining their assigned customers.
Exactly. If China dumps their bonds rates are going to go to the sky and the US currency will depreciate. No one wants to do this but no one will want to sit on the sidelines holding billions of US bonds if this starts happening. It's not that different than a run on a bank that does not have enough reserves. (well, it's a little bit different, a bank can't print money)

What everyone is trying to do is figure out a way to unwind this slowly and/or grow out of it. I think a lot of past growth was fuelled by population growth and "free" resources (oil, coal, etc.). Population isn't growing as fast and resources aren't as free any more.
This is such a brilliant move by Yahoo - there can't have been many people who even knew Yahoo was going into streaming content (I didn't, and I follow the space pretty closely). Now, if they really wanted to bring in built in audiences - they need to get on bringing back Firefly, Terriers, Lone Star, and Deadwood, along with saving shows like Trophy Wife and Enlisted (both new shows this year that critics loved but were cancelled, for those who have never heard of them)
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You have excellent suggestions. I will try to follow up.

A strategy that I am taking is the promotion of Computer Science education and the use of open source technology. Computer Science needs to be cheaper, easier and more attractive to learn. We need more teachers, better communication between the school and the office, and more girls studying CS.
It is the FBI's job to enforce cyber criminal law and execute takedowns of malicious domains. Not Microsoft's[or any other NGO].
A friend of mine works in energy and once said "If roads catered for traffic the way power networks cater for power demand, the Sydney Harbour Bridge would be 100 lanes wide."
I can't imagine it without Mal, as Nathan Fillion has a gift for delivering Whedonisms. Maybe something from before the Browncoats?
What? The modern definition of pseudorandomness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandomness#Pseudorandomn...) was figured out in the 80s through the works of Blum, Goldwasser, Micali, Goldreich, etc. and is not hand-wavy at all. It's pretty rigorous and reliable.
That's not true. On June 19, Microsoft filed the Complaint, Motion to Seal, and Ex Parte TRO Application all at the same time.

The TRO actually says: “...good cause and the interest of justice require that this Order be Granted without prior notice to Defendants, and accordingly, Microsoft is relieved of the duty to provide Defendants with prior notice of Microsoft’s motion.”

It says that because Microsoft wanted it to say that; Microsoft used that language in their proposed TRO for the judge to sign, and the judge apparently agreed.

The Summons has nothing to do with this. The court issued the Summons, but the court doesn't do anything with it. It's the plaintiff's obligation to serve a summons on a defendant, and they have 120 days to do so before the Court would require the plaintiff dismiss the case without prejudice. The plaintiff could serve them the same day, or they could take their time. Corporations with registered agents are much easier to serve than an individual that dodges a process server.

There's often a good chance a defendant will receive a solicitation from an attorney (who searches court records for new cases) to represent them before they actually get served with the summons and complaint. However, nothing would come up in court records in this case because the entire docket is sealed.

There's no way Vitalwerks/No-IP would have known about this, and it sounds like they weren't served until today, after Microsoft's action.

I think it's pretty clear that Microsoft wanted to ensure that nobody, including No-IP, knew about the case until they were able to strike.
That's kind of the point made about halfway through the article where he states if you expand a road to 100 lanes you won't ever see any traffic.

In those country towns with a population of 30,000 but a super road through the center that could carry 100,000 people a day the road _is_ the same as if that 100 lane highway had been built in a major city.

In the article they state that there are more factors at work but they do need a title for the article that will draw people to read it.
My list:

- i5 or better

- 16GB of RAM or bust

- SSD, preferably 240GB or bigger

I actually prefer the 13 inch over the 15 inch for public/airplane use.
I'm getting a 500-server error
The Microsoft hate here is unfounded and ill informed.

Those of us working defense at large organizations have known for a while that No-IP domains are wretched hives of scum and villainy. Any company with a threat model that includes at least one of a diverse set of characters ranging from malware authors to organized crime to nation state teams should be logging all DNS requests and treating any request to a No-IP domain as an indicator of compromise.

Microsoft has a successful history of disrupting botnet C&C and distribution channels via domain seizures, which is why this request probably sailed through Federal Court. The only difference in this situation is that there are innocent bystanders affected, which generally doesn't happen since the other domains they have seized have been 100% used for fraud.

I feel bad for those folks and the people at No-IP who maybe meant well, but the truth is that the fight to keep normal people safe is bigger than just technological, and needs to include civil legal actions like this.
Come on, this is great for founders who is struggling to survive before they can hire lawyers. Thanks a lot for the blog and it's easy to learn some basics comparing to the 400-page Nolo books which I have a few.
No. Angels invest their own money.

I assume that he can't get interest in his idea because folks are dubious about the idea, but are willing to be disproven ("come back when you have some traction")
That podcast is completely amazing, by the way. Anyone on HN who is into food that doesn't listen to Cooking Issues is missing out, bigtime.
40% better single-threaded performance in MariaDB with PGO
If that last line were true then surely the GP's noip domain would still work and traffic would be routing without any interference. Ergo, they are telling lies as they are not simply routing "bad traffic" elsewhere but also "good traffic".
> Android is now clearly their platform of choice, it runs on TVs, cars, phones, tablets, watches and in your home. The same OS, different screens was their message.

This was one of the big surprising take aways for me. The minute Pichai took over I had the feeling that Android's future was limited - they would keep investing in it for sure but it would be on a long term road map for convergence and eventual transition to ChromeOS. I expected to first see Chrome apps running as first class citizens on Android, then a new SDK for Android that was all about ChromeOS and then finally a deprecating of the Java SDK. It always felt to me like internally Google preferred ChromeOS and the web as a platform and Android was a sort of accidental success that they were just running with until they could somehow meld it into their pure vision of computing, as represented by ChromeOS.

So now I'm having to significantly revisit all that thinking, as if anything Google seems to be pushing Android everywhere and little was said about ChromeOS.
> Android one changes case to match the Caps lock setting.

My primary mobile device runs Android and it's always a shock to me that the iOS keyboard doesn't do this. Are they taking their skeuomorphism too literally?
Taiwan and Hong Kong have. If Facebook wasn't blocked in China, you would assume that trend would have continued.
I've been working on the Wheel of Time series for a while now. I just got through book 11, which means I'm out of the books that Robert Jordan wrote and into the home stretch of books that were finished by Brandon Sanderson.

Overall, the series has been good, if not a little long-winded and a bit repetitive at times.
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You beat me to posting this. I think we'll see automated public transport using minivans that can quickly navigate smaller streets. The route home might be different each time, but you'll always get an indication of ETA. Part of the hassle of catching a bus is the last mile and the wait. If a vehicle is arriving shortly after you hail it (or prebook it) and right at your location, those two factors are eliminated.

For the privacy factor, I think people will just get used to it as they have with current public transport, or tiers will be in operation (as you suggested) or someone will inevitably design a pod-based vehicle with seats facing port and starboard and a clever door system.

I do wonder if people will be uncomfortable with other passengers knowing exactly where they live and work? Perhaps designating pickup from the nearest corner would help with that, and pricing that encourages that (to save extra turns down side streets) will help too.

I wrote a bit more about all of these likely developments here for anyone else fascinated by the rise of automated vehicles: http://www.isaacforman.com.au/n/self-driving-cars/
Not necessarily "nobody". They do have a shared source program:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx
> When is playlist support planned?

Playlists are awesome. Hard to say, Plug is a hobby project so we add features as we can. But we usually prioritize features by how many requests we get.

> Where can I report bugs?

Hit us up at @plugformac

> Consider allowing horizontal resizing or a marquee effect on table cell hover

Totally, this is very high on the to-do list
Well, G+ is popular in tech circles.
Actually this promo is back on for Chicago as well - https://blog.uber.com/CHIuberXpricecut
"However, it is hard to imagine that interest rates would increase without a serious uptick in economic performance."

It's not that hard to imagine; what you describe is essentially Stagflation. You may consider it unlikely, but there are some known potential causes[1].

As I understand it, Stagflation happens when increased demand is less able to stimulate increased supply than one might expect.

As mentioned in [1], an oil supply shock could be a cause. That is not outlandish given the current instability in the middle east and our tense relationship with other oil producers (Russia and Venezuela). The US and Canada do produce a lot of oil, which may offer insulation, but I don't think that's necessarily a defense.

Another cause listed is tough regulatory atmosphere. For instance, if the EPA decides to strongly curb CO2 emissions, or misguided labor laws come into effect, or the healthcare system in the US gets even worse. Again, not outlandish.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation

EDIT: reworded for clarity
> "...which did that because there was no communication from No-IP ... The court ordered No-IP to send a response and looks like there was no response."

That's absolutely false. Microsoft explicitly asked the court to allow them to file the entire case under seal, and to obtain ex parte emergency relief without notifying the defendants.

The TRO states: “...good cause and the interest of justice require that this Order be Granted without prior notice to Defendants, and accordingly, Microsoft is relieved of the duty to provide Defendants with prior notice of Microsoft’s motion.”

The judge signed that. No-IP did not receive any advance warning or service by Microsoft's own admission, and No-IP's blog post confirms they weren't served until today.
The difference between a developer advocate and a developer evangelist is inbound vs outbound.

Developer advocates are focused on helping address developers' problems. Developer evangelists are focused on increasing product use and adoption.

That said, the responsibility of these positions mostly overlap. In my personal experience as a developer evangelist at Marketo, my day-to-day work has encompassed the function of both titles. My goal is to create a great developer experience [0] in order to drive platform adoption [1].

Anecdotally, I have noticed a shift towards the developer advocate title. At Facebook, Dropbox, and Twitter, the role is called this.

[0] http://murtza.org/creating-a-great-developer-experience/

[1] http://murtza.org/driving-the-api-adoption-funnel/
I feel like this HNews post is just a plug for an Uber ad. This is just a summer marketing gimmick.
Not directly related to his post, but if you haven't tried Pocket Casts yet, I highly recommend it. Best podcast app I've ever used, hands down.
So what is its GOTO?
Thanks for your help guys!
Except here the drivers are not setting the price, Uber is. This is effectively a monopoly of two markets (both between the drivers and Uber, and Uber and the customers). Supply and demand don't magically make things better if there's no, or limited choice.

I'm not aware of the capital costs of entering a market like Uber, but I feel like it's probably pretty high (esp. considering their rollout techniques like '2 free weeks of rides'). This is basically exactly what happened to telecom service: There might be a bunch of services but locally drivers will only have the choice between one or two.

"They could get other jobs" you might say, but people tend to overestimate the amount of jobs available (or rather, the variety of the skillsets these drivers might have).
At the end of the day, Apple has always delivered far superior tools, frameworks, and ecosystem (development-wise). That to me says a lot more than how friendly the staff is.