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> What makes people think benchmarking on virtualized hardware is at all worthwhile?

Benchmarking is worthwile. Blogging about any perceived objective results is indeed questionable.
islice should be used, not xrange
Eh? I can run XBMC on my MacBook Pro, mirror to AppleTV using the feature built in to OS X, and watch video on my TV without dragging my laptop to the living room.
I've tried ChromeCast with my Ubuntu. It works perfectly. Even screen mirroring, while friends on OS X had problems with it. Just check for Chrome extension.
I imagine the reason your business failed is due to ignoring the lefthand side gutter on your website. A simple group focus test would have found this. The text is hard up against the edge of the screen, causing users to feel trapped and confined. With a 15px margin users would feel free and excited by your offering, leading to an improved conversion ratio and additional social back links from sharing on Bebo and MySpace.

UX Consultancy: $3200, payable in Dogecoin.
Because the y axis represents notable births as a fraction of all births.
In honor of the 1,000,000+ once-upon-a-time notables who'll likely never be known to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Linksvayer/Article_of...
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..maybe since we started using that buzzword 5 or so years ago, but sysadmins have written shell scripts since the birth of *NIX operating systems...
The EU had had a law (well, directive) covering electronic money for almost a decade when Bitcoin appeared.
> I think that to be a proactive Feminist, you have to examine the total impact of your actions . . .

Then I beg you to consider the impact of this sort of cross examination, which men seem to engage in as a knee jerk reaction whenever they encounter a woman who don't fit the desired flavor. It is part of the problem; it is not part of the solution.
You can see it rendering its buttons and menus.. slowly. Typing may take 10 seconds to respond. It is completely unoptimized for ARM, or at least was when I tried it.
If Comcast said, "I can get you a 10Gbit connection, it's fiber all the way, but it's going to end as an SFP port at the pole/wiring closet, and you have to take it from there."

I would have thought homeowners and businessowners alike would spend the money to upgrade their own "infra" to make that work, rather than something like this. Obviously AL thinks there's a market here, it just seems like such a waste.
you should have pivoted to dog underwear... !
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I think you are a bit confused. I would compare Mathematica to a an old digital desktop calculator. Nobody who used those wanted to see their insides. The point in Mathematica is not that they have some closed source pixie dust that no one else can understand or implement. The value of the software comes from the fact that you need a lot of grunt work in a large software package to maintain user experience - fix all the unfun bugs etc - and very few open source projects manage to attract enough interest to have people do also the gruntwork and not the interesting new development or 'cool refactorings'.
It's possible she's not too concerned that people see the pictures as such, but rather with the violation Pink Meth has committed here. That is, maybe she would be fine with every last human being viewing nude pictures of her, if it meant putting Pink Meth out of commission and punishing the people who run it.
When I point with a cursor on a graph line, there are numbers with a caption "notable births". And then "notable births fraction". So, I suppose, first one is count...
That is generally true for things like minimum wage laws or regulations on manufacturing. If it is expensive to manufacture in the US then companies can easily manufacture in China.

It doesn't really work for healthcare because you can't remove it from the jurisdiction. It isn't practical to fly to another country to receive emergency medical services or if all you need is to fill a prescription. Meanwhile the customers with the wealth to sustain research into novel health products are in the countries that impose heavy regulatory burdens on anyone who wants to service them.
I bought a Moto E, and am running the stock firmware (Android 4.4.3).

I can't use Google Cardboard because the device doesn't have the sensors to detect movement or the magnetic 'tap'.

I can't use GoShow (which seems to be the most popular app for watching 3D video) because it crashes.

Today I finally had a reason to buy a Chromecast, until I saw no Moto devices are on the list of supported devices.

:(
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Android has had Miracast support (with display mirroring) for a while now...just nobody used it. Chromecast is/has the potential to be a much more widely used and supported protocol.
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If you want an optional yearly recurring charge, why not pay for the archiving feature and think if it as a $25/year donation?
Ask HN: What's the role of a business model in a lean startup?
After reading The Lean Startup by Eric Ries it's not immediately clear what the role of a business model is in a Lean Startup. Is it taken for granted that a business model exists? Or is the business model some that comes with time as the startup tests their ideas?

Chapter 5 of the book has a section titled "Strategy is Based on Assumptions" which while not spelling it out seems to suggest that our "leaps of faith" are derived from the assumptions that are spelled out in our business plan/model. In my understanding the goal the lean startup methodology is to put these leap of faith assumptions to the test. Therefore my best interpretation is that a business model is taken for granted and should be the foundation on which we conduct our experiments.

My business partner disagrees and states "We need baseline numbers. We need to take a jump shot. We need to start without knowing the end, which is the exact opposite of the traditional business plan model. The old way of thinking is not suited for high uncertainty environments."
I went on a long rant at my last company about how pretentious it is for anyone to call themselves a "thought leader". Guess what my next nametag had as my position...
No. It's about nit needing to rip out whole buildings to put in fiber to the plug. They say it in the article.
I think for most people, bitcoin isn't particularly user-friendly yet. By comparison, selling a used phone on eBay or craigslist is pretty easy...
Just as a contrasting opinion and at risk of sounding defensive -- I'm a UCD Alum (BS in a different field) who took the lower div CSE track there.

ECS10 (Intro to CS using Python) was my first formal CS class. Took it as a filler elective and was hooked. It was definitely geared toward first-time programmers and used Python to ease into fundamental CS/Programming concepts. I found it successful in that.

Following that was ECS30 which is in C and the first major-track CS class. The difference in difficulty/workload substantial, mostly due to the introduction of things like pointers, dynamic memory allocation, etc. But the intro class helped a lot. From ECS30 on, it's primarily C/C++ for OOP/Software design, Data Structs, systems, algos, etc. I don't think Python is used much if at all in major track CS/CSE classes I can remember.

I'm a little surprised at the dismissive tone toward UCD's CSE program relative to CSUS. I've audited classes at CSU in consideration of applying for a master's there, and while not outright disappointed, nor was I impressed.

I got the feeling that the CSUS programs are not as geared toward fundamental research and "CS" to the same extent as UCD and are slightly more skewed toward developing employable skill sets. That's not a bad thing, just a different goal. I also disliked the general push toward MS stacks.

Having peers at Cal that took I took summer sessions with at UCD, the feeling was that UCD was less challenging in the sense that there are smaller class sizes, better professor access (especially in classes taught by excellent lecturers like Sean Davis who devote lots of time to students), and less competitive nature of grade curving. I didn't hear anyone say it was easier, simply that it felt more collaborative. Though, that's not hard to imagine when they were in classes with nearly 1000k students split across two simulcast lecture halls in freshman CS classes at Cal.

Being in the shadow of Cal and Stanford makes it harder for UCD to get noticed, ut it has world-class faculty, smaller class sizes and great options for research. I have friends/acquaintances that ended up at Goog, Twitter, MS, SpaceX... etc. Is it MIT, Stanford, CIT? Perhaps no. Is it more known for it's Bio Sciences? Sure. But it's far from the 'last place' I would matriculate into for CS.

Just presenting (an admittedly verbose) alternative opinion.
I love reading about pinboard and it's success. it's the epitome of a business that does something small that solves a pain point and does it well. Now, it's not a huge pain point, so it's never going to be a billion dollar business (i don't think) but it shows that people will indeed still pay for software when you make their lives a little bit better.
Relevant comment from author (lukego) in this thread of few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7250505#up_7251722

"I'm the Snabb Switch originator.

The project is new: I and other open source contributors are currently under contract to build a Network Functions Virtualization platform for Deutsche Telekom's TeraStream project [1] [2]. This is called Snabb NFV [3] and it's going to be totally open source and integrated with OpenStack.

Currently we are doing a lot of virtualization work from the "outside" of the VM: implementing Intel VMDq hardware acceleration and providing zero-copy Virtio-net to the VMs. So the virtual machine will see normal Virtio-net but we will make that operate really fast.

Inside the VMs we can either access a hardware NIC directly (via IOMMU "PCI passthrough") or we can write a device driver for the Virtio-net device.

So, early days, first major product being built, and lots of potential both inside and outside VMs, lots of fantastic products to build with nobody yet building them :-)"
Airplay on iOS and the Wii U controllers both do a fantastic job at this.
Yeah. This was a special case for a one line CSV that was requested by my client. It was a dictionary with a bunch of single measurements.
Why?
You would just get a new list back.
color. you forgot about the colored pencils.
One interesting bit is that to a judge Bitcoin is obviously money. This shoes precedent for future cases.
That was depressingly stupid. If you plan on wearing a skirt then you shouldn't be riding a bike with a crossbar.
> Really? What about all the services like Bitstamp? I am fairly sure that bitcoin is more liquid than used iPhones.

The actual problem is that the entire concept of trying to separate currency from commodities is defective. Forget about used iPhones. You can walk into any pawn shop and exchange a bar of silver for goods or cash. Does that mean silver is a currency? What about copper? Or gasoline? Try to buy something on Craigslist and offer to pay with a gas card. More likely to succeed than offering bitcoin.
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I changed the google hangout button by a normal link. Check it out: http://hang0ut.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/. It should work now.
OCaml has subtyping: it addresses the undecidability issue by requiring "cast" annotations for some use cases.
We're also using OCaml at Esper. Here's our implementation for folks who are interested in using functional programming lagnuages: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19350590/designing-large-...
Cool. If you wind up in southern California hit me up.
I found the Functional Programming Principles in Scala course on Coursera to be incredibly helpful

https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

The course was very challenging and I learned a lot in a very short period of time. Highly recommend it.
This seems reasonable. I think the 'themed' naming works well for up to perhaps a 100 or so servers/devices managed by a single team, but with tons of automated provisioning, I suppose unfun naming is a requirement.
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The real question is why is the US so high? Our rates are almost as high as India's, with 1/3 the population. I have a feeling it is likely diet related, and possibly due to either the "low fat" craze not providing building blocks in the brain or the industrial fats (in particular trans fats but maybe the massive quantities of n-6 fats) causing structures to be built incorrectly or causing excess inflammation.

So, that's my hypothesis based on having done a lot of nutrition research but no Parkinson's research. Does anybody have any real info about why the US rates are so high?
God, how awful. That's the point of TTL!
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>C/C++ were never ideal for beginners, but it was still possible to strip it down to building blocks without immediately resorting "don't worry about this now."

I agree. Except during that first C lecture when reading console input and was told 'don't worry about the ampersand, just remember to use it for scanf variables, we'll get to that later'.
Pinboard is so great. I've bookmarked dozens and dozens of PDF crypto papers, and Pinboard does full-text search across them (and everything else I've bookmarked); I can type "pin subgroup" in my browser bar and poof! I have the paper I was trying to remember that breaks down the known attacks on GCM. To me, it's not "bookmarking" so much as "personal search".

Also, I would pay 2x if it generated more published back-and-forth with the current owners of Delicious.
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You have to appreciate the context of the situation the author came from... The procedure you describe is conservative but sound for someone who is starting with nothing and building wealth. The shocks to lifestyle when you already have some wealth and lose your income look very different and require a somewhat different approach.

The author began 2008 with dual-source, six-figure income, a modest house, and a couple of cars, and no kids. Within the year, the couple had twins, had lost the greater of their two income sources, and had the audacity to hope that they could recover from their sudden and not-at-all-expected fall from grace.

This is not poverty born of mismanagement of funds, irresponsible spending, or negligence. It is temporary poverty born of bad luck. It's also the sort that the assistance programs in the U.S. are designed to help, and the fact that the author's family was able to recover with that assistance makes this a success story.
Bitcoin aims at being money, notwithstanding its relative lack of convertibility. I went to the bitcoin Foundation website just now: 'Bitcoin Foundation standardizes, protects and promotes the use of Bitcoin cryptographic money for the benefit of users worldwide.' (my emphasis)

Bitcoin has been referred to as a 'cryptocurrency' since its inception, and much as I treasure my own copy of Black's Law Dictionary, its definitions are not legally binding. You might as well say 'my clients large collection of unfinished diamonds and gold nuggets don't amount to a hoard of wealth - have you ever tried to buy groceries with an unfinished diamond? I rest my case!'
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I just got image on Chrome as well. Based on the picture, I thought maybe this is a site urging people to .. like .. actually hangout with other people instead of google hangouts :) That would've been cool too.
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.ru/2014/07/flash-player...

read the comments princess..
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This is super cool! Nice work.
You should just use dataset.values() (or itervalues if you're using Python 2) instead of iterating over the keys, and then looking them up.
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Steam streaming works pretty damn well (over fast, high signal strength wifi)
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I don't think tags were front and center.

We wanted to do images; the delicious predecessor did have inage capture.
The Iron Dome missile defense system has achieved a nearly 90% success rate
With Selenium 2, you aren't required to use the selenium-server anymore. You can drive browsers directly from the client lib.
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Damn you! A loud fart sound in the middle of 10s of people in a conference room. :@ NSFW :D
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Dammit, I first understood this as the Desktop Manager and awkwardly asked "How can a software change the... oh!"

Need to take a vacation it seems XD
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Another interesting write up about anonymization https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/no-silver-bu...

tl;dr: it does not work much.
Not good and not bad. I wouldn't compare the two as it's a false dichotomy. Just as some tasks are better done in pairs, others are better done alone. You can work as part of a team, but also individually.
- You might even say that Haskell functions always take one argument

This is exactly true. Every Haskell function takes either zero arguments, or one.
Being user-friendly has nothing to do with liquidity.

Stocks, which most people don't understand and can't be sold without contacting a broker are considered liquid.

Jewelry & stamp collections are not considered liquid assets, yet everyone understands what these are and where to purchase them.
Maybe it's also worth looking into some of their competitors. I've bought some beacons from Kontakt.io as well as Onyx Beacon. They both had similar offering. For Onyx Beacon I also ordered 50 for an event we were doing since they had good pricing and they shipped it to us in one day.
they're for different use cases.

mechanicalsoup is more like zombie.js ( http://zombie.labnotes.org/ ) than selenium, chromedriver, or some other webdriver ( https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webdriver/raw-file/default/webdriver-... ) implementation in that it emulates browser functionality from within a runtime, making http requests and parsing the response directly from the python (or node or ruby or whatever) runtime rather than communicating with a browser that, in turn, makes requests to the website.

the advantages of these "emulated" browsers is that tests run faster and are easier to set up. the disadvantage is that they don't fully duplicate browser functionality, particularly for client-side javascript. i think zombie might be able to run some javascript since it's in no, but mechanical soup appears ( https://github.com/hickford/MechanicalSoup/blob/master/mecha... ) not to execute javascript at all.

this is a nice little library that, as the README explains, fills a spot in the python ecosystem that had apparently become somewhat stagnant, but there's really not much to it other than combining Requests with beautifulsoup in order to provide a drop-in replacement for some existing api. i think this would mainly be useful for scraping rather than testing. the emulated browser and custom unittest module that ship with Django are probably better for the latter.
A heavily neutered version of the original post is now back on line:
http://blog.thumbtack.net/another-kind-of-speed-mongodb-and-...

To see the diffs: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/stennie/2a2722fc70c77fb2b...
Afair, we had close to 100Mbit/s on our lines. The building wasn't very old, apparently we had good copper wires (I can't comment on the average quality of those across the country, but knowing Japan, it should be good).
The ingredients in cigarettes are what actually make nicotine addictive...alone, it can actually be beneficial to the brain
There exist many successful screencasts businesses. I think the main problem with "subscribe monthly for unlimited access and new screencasts every month" is the "new screencasts every month" bit. That is an issue with the business/charging model, not with publishing screencasts for money.

There's no reason why somebody with a back catalog of 200 episodes who doesn't have desire/bandwidth to record more can't sell access to the back catalog and fairly easily get to $X00,000 per year.
Thanks for the amazing write-up. Extremely clear. I learned a lot about Angular and ES6, from this, and I encourage this meticulous write-up style for future projects.

Also, your attitude in dealing with the comments here is extremely commendable.
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Android has had it for quite some time also if you have a smart tv with dlna support(most of the newer ones). What's new is the support in chromecast. Does the ios solution work with any smart tv or do you need an airplay?
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This is a really offensive comment... Plants create compounds to battle pests and radiation from the sun. A lot of these compounds such as anthocyanins and phenols are extremely beneficial to healthy humans. Definitive science is actually still catching up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocyanin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol
It's part of the childish and entitled attitude that a lot of googler's suffer from, which leads to the passive-aggressive memes, the condescencing asshole attitude towards other companies and a general "we're better than everybody else" mentality that got so bad that Urs Hoelze had to write his famours "No jerks" manifesto to try to put a stop to it.

Disclaimer: I work for the arrogant Google jerks.
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While I was partially playing Devil's Advocate, I'd would definitely agree up to the point where you said JS is simple. I personally think it's awful and we should all collectively feel ashamed that Javascript tends to be the first "code" anyone dips their toe into when starting out in our field.

I've never wanted for better guides, books, and tutorials online for any of the languages I've gotten into. Specifically Golang and Java have both been much more approachable for me in recent months because I feel like I don't need a degree in rocket surgery just to open the IDE.

Maybe that's my problem. I'd rather not have to learn an IDE at the same time I'm having to learn a language. Now that I think about it, I also hated VS (but not Eclipse or the Jetbrains products).

Thanks, Doc ;) I think I just figured out my big problem!
You can read up all of this science and keep adjusting your diet - or you can just shift to Indian food - recent medical research is ceiling its place as the healthiest diets on plant earth.
As an analogy, I would say a law against counterfeiting money shouldn't apply to things which aren't currencies (like counterfeiting a designer handbag or forging Linden dollars in Second Life...). If the law's purpose is to protect and maintain the legitimacy of certain bedrock instruments the public relies on (cash, real estate titles), I think it's overreaching to extend it to every aspiring virtual (or even gaming) currency...
So all you need is 10 missiles to win against the statistics?
From what I can tell, as someone who's used the site on-and-off and won some contracts, it's slowly transitioned from algorithm contests as the main focus to being a weird freelance site for very... traditional (think waterfall as an aesthetic) companies and for civilian fringes of the military-industrial complex like NASA and DARPA. Lots of users in high school and from 2nd world countries.
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