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> "it's also one of the single biggest proofs that Wall Street analysts have no idea how to run a real business."

While it sounds like your friend definitely knows how to run a real business, he/you may want to re-asses Wall Street's real business: it isn't "running companies", it isn't "building value" and it sure isn't "giving away solid analysis for free".

They make money off trade-activity that generates short-term returns.

The sell trades, not stocks. Not unlike eBay. They can and do profit from irrational/emotional behavior and they have no qualms about designing their business to fuel and leverage those behaviors for increased returns.

If 2007 taught us anything, it should be that Wall Street is more than happy to tell you whatever you need to hear to generate predictable trades -- more than happy to tell business news channels whatever will generate predictable trades -- even those they know those trades to be bad and foolish to the extent that they personally bet against them.
We record data from the internal sensors in your iPhone while shooting the video (mainly, the gyroscope), which allows us to estimate how your camera moves when taking the video and compensate for that.
> Nimrod's pointers to garbage collected memory are separate from the pointers you can allocate yourself.

Does this mean that they use different heaps?
Recounting for tenured generations would be awesome!
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The idea that discussion of a company is mutually exclusive with criticism of a company is strange. The comment which prompted that reply by pmarca was

> Every time I read about this company I get a feeling everyone involved is completely insane

This is a bad comment in my opinion, but it's not a bad comment because it's particularly mean-spirited or because it's false. (I don't think that comment is either of those things.) It's a bad comment because it's not particularly germane to the discussion, any more so than the so common variation of "I knew [Employee related to YC Company] way back when [personal anecdote]! [Generic congratulation]!"

That's a roundabout way of saying the following: optimizing for signal vs. noise is not incompatible with optimizing for 'nice' vs. 'mean', but I'd prefer a forum filled with substantive criticism to one filled with hollow praise.
They could just as easily run their cloud services on a Linux or BSD based OS. Nothing about a "Devices and Services" company requires a proprietary OS.

I think it really just shows that they aren't that serious about actually pivoting their business model. Their leadership aspires to be a devices and services company because they look at their competitors and see that Apple is making money from devices, and Google and Amazon are making money from services, so they think they need to compete in those fields. But they're not going to truly pivot because that would require spinning off or killing their core, cash cow business model, which is a PC operating system and a suite of productivity software products.
Downloaded and playing with it, seems to work fairly well. However, I can't seem to figure out how to get the app to work in 16:9 mode.
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Do you want the originals? ;)
(as they are not post-processed, they are just longer)
When I worked for a Fortune 500 company, the department head in my department did not write his own anything. He had a staff writer (I applied for the position at one point). And I am reasonably sure that the staff writer also got his stuff edited or reviewed by someone to make sure it contained no typos, etc. before it went out as the Face of The Department.

So I would be kind of surprised if Satya actually wrote this at all. Someone else wrote it. He put his name on it and posted it. Being the face of the company is part of his job.
Verizon probably needs to pay Level 3 for the bandwidth - so apart from the cost of the hardware (cards + cables) there is a possibly large cost which is not mentioned in the Level 3 article.
Resumes are often flawed and imperfect, we get that.

But you might also think of the contemporary US style CV as a marketing document. By that measure, it provides valuable insights into individual writing, communication, and presentation skills. Intangible things we look for in good managers.
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"Political correctness"? Ben Fritz was completely correct to ask why people are celebrating the colonial era with entirely unchallenging entertainment products. Colonization as a historical event was absolutely horrific and to make a game, something just for entertainment, in it without acknowledging this is straight-up wrong. Meier consciously skated away from the fact that colonials enslaved and exterminated other human beings in order to sell a game, and fucking well should be faulted for it. I mean, for god's sake, if you have a mission in a settlement and you start shelling it with artillery the natives will flock to your mission for protection. Do you, like, not see how shitty (not to mention ahistorical) that is? Or is it just that it didn't happen to white people so it doesn't matter?

And that isn't to say it's a bad game when divorced from the failure to accept and reasonably present the historical context that Meier wanted to play in. It's a tremendous game. I still think Colonization is a more fun experience than Civ, and the Religion and Revolution mod for Civ4Col is absolutely fantastic. But the game cannot be divorced from the astonishingly shitty historical context. RaR also does a lot (not as much as it could, but a lot more than anything Meier or MicroProse or Firaxis ever did) to make you answer those questions, too, and is a much, much better game for it.
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yeah, I wonder, why?
His desk is so cluttered he "need[s] to burn it down someday."

In other news from the Linux world, Linus's Mercedes is so dirty, he is planning on scrapping it
About. damn. time.
Yes they are legit :) The originals are only longer...
Those in the forest were shot (with an iPhone 5) on a bike, and you can "feel" the footsteps for those on the beach :)
(it was last month in the South-West of France...)
Turn your iPhone to landscape position ;)
(and make sure you are not locking the rotation in control center)
What happens if the entities aren't based in NY?
"If that’s the case, we’ll buy one for them. Maybe they can’t afford the small piece of cable between our two ports. If that’s the case, we’ll provide it. Heck, we’ll even install it."

That's what I would call a mortal wound to Verizon's arguments.
I do think Nimrod will catch on in a little while. It has amazing potential. But things like type classes aren't done yet.

Personally I believe Nimrod will be perfect as a Hardware Description Language. There's a couple of features missing, but they're currently being worked on. This is an area where Nimrod could really shine, and where it could start to gain massive commercial support.
just rotate the camera view to landscape orientation, it will switch to 16:9 capture
Maybe verizon is throttling your connection
I can't know about intel's tech, of course, but I can read what they are saying: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/29/euv_lithography_stil... and where they are spending: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/in... I can't find a link now, but somewhere I've read from an intel guy they were expecting production runs in 2017.

It might be due to my limited scope of knowledge, but how would one scale E-beam to a production capacity anyways?

Thanks for the link. I'll have to cross-read it with a lot of info though since it's 'a bit' over my head. I'm already lost at 1D and how it relates to, well, anything. I still can't warp my head around 1D geometry.
K stands for 1000.
Netflix has offered to directly connect to Verizon without the need for Level3 to be in the middle.
Works for me. Those who can't see it: are you on Verizon?
Shouldn't be hard - I couldn't tell you a single product that Ballmer had a vision for.

I heard a quote a couple of decades ago: "more companies die of digestion than starvation". I'd sure hate to see it happen here with Nokia and Microsoft.
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Boo hoo. That's how the world turns. Microsoft is not in it to save jobs, it's in it to make money. They have absolutely no obligation to keep someone if they don't need them anymore, just like any other company. It sucks that people are being laid off, but that just comes with having any job. You have to realize that at some point, it is going to end. It will suck when it does, but life goes on.
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As has been explained before, when you're carrying out your normal daily activities you have a fair degree of control over your own safety and a sense of autonomy, plus there's a reasonable chance of being rescued/assisted in many contexts (eg if you are hit by a car on a busy street). When you're a passenger on a plane, you are largely helpless in the event that trouble strikes, however remote that possibility, and the probability of rescue is virtually nil. People's risk calculus is rationally altered by their aversion to helplessness and their wish to avoid stress.

Addressing first-order probabilities only provides half the picture.
But hey, the winners write the history books.

Yeah, that too. That's another reason that all of these definitions are a bit fuzzy.
In addition to these sites, start volunteering for local/nearby charities. You'll find that it's a good way to build up your network (why do you think so many execs are on nonprofit boards?) and your credibility within the nonprofit space.
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Common people.

Ryan is a compelling founder. PH has traction. YC decided to back him. Period.
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So maybe it would be better phrased as, people will act rationally given their own optimization function that I may or may not agree with. There is the concept of Bounded rationality, in that I am going to make rational decisions given the information I have, and how much cognitive resources I am willing to spend on it. I may not make an optimal decision, but I can make one that is good enough.

Also, someone can rationally choose to do something that I don't agree with, because they have very different preferences than I do; and thus would optimize for those.

Even the same person can make very different decisions at different points. When I was younger, I was more likely to drink a lot. My preference was to have a social lubricant, even if that was bad for brain cells and my liver. You could say that it wasn't a rational decision, but I wouldn't have engaged in the behavior if there was zero benefit.
We also already have a pretty functional package manager (https://github.com/nimrod-code/babel) and many packages already make use of it: http://nimrod-lang.org/lib.html#babel
Waggle for gaming certainly seems "done" as a trend.

But Kinect, as technology, has huge potential in the robotics and connected home spaces.

Also, if they can cram it into Windows Phone, they could easily out-pace Google's Tango to consumer-facing apps and products that really differentiate their mobile devices.

If they're serious about 3d printing support, it would be incredibly powerful to have a device that can create a source model just from waving your phone around a thing to be replicated.
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Tcl shows up in all sorts of places, like Cisco IOS, or haptic feedback robotic surgery interfaces, or IRC bots. It's fast, it's small, it's robust, it's powerful. It's just not sexy.
If they have any customers in NY they need to follow NY laws. This is one of the problems with money transfer laws in the US.
And Korean Air 902 in 1978 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902).

You might also count a 1955 shoot down by the People's Republic of Bulgaria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al_Flight_402), and one shot down in 1940 during a period of nominal peace between Finland and the Soviet Union, but probably related to the latter's occupation of Estonia two days later (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleva_(airplane) ).
Just spins the loading animation without showing any video in the camera screen. Wondering if there is any server work and it might be under heavy load due to HN and whatnot. Edit: iPhone 5s. Edit2: its working now!
I've always been suspect of cable and wireless internet connections. Anything that shares bandwidth with all subscribers is going to get maxed out if a large number of customers start streaming video. Is it possible that Verison (and Comcast and etc...) know that opening up the gate to the outside world will crush their network under the increased load? I like the milk-our-monopoly-on-the-last-mile theory as much as the next guy, but is it even possible for the technology used to deliver the necessary bandwidth if they open up the pipe?
> XBox Live accounts for a large share of Netflix streaming usage

Is that an anecdote or is there some data behind it? I would be surprised to hear a majority of Netflix users are using it from Xbox live accounts since for the longest time it was an extra cost on top of Netflix.
It's working for me now as well. When I posted the cached version the page on Level3 blog was giving me a 404 although the post was on the "Recent posts" list.

I'm not getting why I'm being down voted for posting the cached version when I was getting the 404.
Datavault. Syncs nice with Mac/iOS.
Even so, as a paying customer I would expect them to calculate for this and know how to scale.
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Verizon probably doesn't need to pay Level 3 for the bandwidth. Typically peering points like this are settlement free. In other words it's a voluntary exchange of traffic and each side of the line keeps 100% of the revenue from its customers using the interchange.
I feel like this is what people often forget in the net neutrality debate. The pipe providers have a horse in the race (FiOS TV On Demand, XFinity On Demand) and we need to make sure they aren't rigging the race so to speak.
The picture of the squished piece looks like there it was a combination of buckling failure of the sides (a geometric instability) and a material failure along the sides (ripping, to allow the buckling failure of the sides). It doesn't look like a fluidlike or flow failure to me.

FWIW, Plastic deformation here is in contrast to elastic, it's not the material. Elastic deformation is linear, Hooke's law deformation: f=kx. Plastic deformation is when elastic breaks down, and you can have additional deformation at the same (or lower) load. Generally, there's an elastic region, then a plastic region, and then total failure.

The numbers suggest that legos are actually pretty similar to unreinforced masonry, the strength looks like about 4000 PSI in compression and nearly no tensile strength. That's about equivalent to bog standard concrete or concrete blocks (CMU). The main difference is that Legos are much less dense. It would be interesting to see something similar to Gothic architecture done in Legos though there would have to be some tweaking to deal with flying buttresses due to the density.
These seem jittery on a MBPr with 16GB of RAM. What gives?
The thing that REALLY surprises me is that according to the article they pulled the plug on Asha and S40 phones. That's insane. In the market where the volumes are (Asia, Africa) they are everywhere.

In Q3 2013 Nokia sold 47 million feature phones (6 times more than their Lumias). In comparison, Apple sold 31 million iPhones in that time frame.

Pulling the plug on that seems crazy to me. Big opportunity for Firefox OS though, as it was created to compete at the Asha price level. If there is no competition from Nokia/MS anymore the only offering between 30-50 USD will be FFOS devices.
Wonder if they will allow 3rd party payments through paypal, amazon, or google.
The states are what give the constitution its authority, not vice versa. The commerce clause is part of the fed govt's "enumerated" powers, meaning that the fed govt only has the powers listed in the Constitution. The states, however, have the "police power", letting them pass pretty much whatever laws they want.

When it comes to the commerce clause, courts have decided to let states do what they want, more or less, unless a specific federal law "preempts" the state one.
It's kind of frustrating for those of us without the 5 friends necessary to get on the home page is all.

It doesn't feel like we're on even footing.
No, I think Nimrod's approach is absolutely correct.

What I hope will happen is that once Nimrod's effects system matures, the compiler will be able to figure out when it can statically free references when they go out of scope, rather than always using the GC.

Rusts approach, I think, is in the entirely wrong direction. You should only have one kind of reference, but if you use it correctly the compiler should figure out how to free it. You should then be able to make an assertion that a procedure (possibly "main") does not allocate any GC memory, and have the compiler tell you what part of your code violates this constraint.
I think the strategy is not to compete with IBM at first and there are plenty of potential clients out there.

Banks and big government won't switch to trust a startup after working with IBM for twenty years. The risk of a failing startup and buyout is a real risk. Even should you do such transition, it will take a long time. Maybe for small components you can switch within months.

I like PG's advise to startup founders: go out there, sell your product, do the necessary customer supports (do demo, train users, troubleshoot, etc) and stop the hype because big companies like IBM and VMWare can sell their product with ease. I think the right attitude is to start small, build the reputation and make progress.
The app does not require any type of connectivity. Try killing it and relaunching.
Companies evolve with time. Not every business has to look like a traditional revenue-generating machine out the gate. Great products and ideas can take time to be big.
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Kickstarter's terms are very clear that you may receive nothing in return for your money, just like with other investments.
Flow, while not open source, is a modern and social version of these types of tools.

https://flow.proquest.com/
Which VPN did you go with?
There is a parallel in the end game: Military advancements. Civilization lets you research new technology for significantly more effective military units, to ease the mop-up phase. The equivalent military advancement in chess is queening a pawn.

The difference is that chess requires continued tactical execution to get there, while Civilization lets you sit back and get there on a superior economy.
Oversubscribing lines has been one of the ways to keep ISPs profitable for years. Streaming video absolutely cuts into the ability to do this of course but I doubt it's the primary issue here. Verizon has every incentive to not add more bandwidth to their peering points with Level 3 and try to get more money from Netflix directly.
Apple's deal with IBM is a strategic strike in a larger war
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Train crashes are still a big deal, but if you're in a train crash and survive then rescue vehicles/personnel will show up. If your plane breaks up or whatever and you survive, you're almost certainly going to die when you hit the ground. Gravity and velocity are much bigger factors than for trains, in general.

The Asiana plane crash at SFO last year where only 2 or 3 people died as the plane crashed and broke up upon landing is very, very unusual.
You're not really getting it.
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I did this on Comcast as well, but its interesting to note they do shoot downs of ssh tunnels. Using IPSEC hasn't been an issue though.
Stupeflix (the company behind Steady) actually has a tool designed specifically for Real Estate agents : http://studio.stupeflix.com/en/realestate/
As usual, we should wait for the results of official investigation. Right now all versions are equally possible: ground-to-air missile from either side, malfunctioning air-to-air missile on a fighter jet, UFO, ...

As many correctly pointed out, there is a civil war going on in this region. These days the military war also means propaganda war. Thus, there will be all kind of statements by "officials". Unless you want to join the propaganda war yourself, I would suggest that you do not repeat this crap and wait for investigation results.
Yes, yes, yes. Password hashes that use salts or rounds are prefixed with said information, either so you know how to decrypt it, or know how to strip away the salt, or know what number of rounds to decrypt to.
maybe a link to the seminal article by Martin Fowler from 2006 could be useful for those who want to learn more? http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html

Of course CI is older than 2006 but that article is the most referenced one, and for good reasons IMHO
Ask HN: How good do you have to be to start a web consulting business?
I graduated from college (MS in CS) 3 years ago. I have around 3 years of Java experience. I had 2 years of PHP/JavaScript web dev experience while I was a student. I have a great interest in RoR/Ruby/JS and web dev. I built a couple of apps in the past year. This year I joined bloc.io and started working on my skills.

I want to start my own Ruby on Rails consultancy firm but I am not sure how good I am. What are some benchmarks I need to hit before I can confidently start a firm? My goal is to take on projects from clients and keep improving my skills and make decent money as well.
"one turn takes a day. Games usually last half a year. We've been playing it this way for ten years now, since around 2004."

So you are still a noob? :-) :-P
same here, i think its probably one of the only franchises where i have played all of the sequels. playing Civ 5 a bit now until beyond earth comes out. Alpha Centauri was really fun and had some really cool features, i hope beyond earth really is a "spiritual successor" as they claim..
The whole point of addressing first-order probabilities is to attempt to overcome that altered risk calculus. I'm not ignoring it, I'm directly attacking it.
What music sources are you pulling from in search?

I think if you're going for a hardcore music loving crowd, a lot of recommendations will be coming from places like SoundCloud and Bandcamp.
Unrelated to this disclosure, I have acquired quite a lot of Fail2Ban attack reports generated by hosts around the world. I put together an initial set of charts showing attacks by country; I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for interesting things that should be done to analyze/visualize the data.

The data set contains the IP addresses for attacker and victim, the date, and the service name for each of a couple million attack reports.

edit: https://int80k.com/ftb/
Let's not forget that those providers that Netflix chooses to use are global edge service providers for high bandwidth streaming content services. Cogent, Level 3, Limelight, etc... Their whole business is providing high capacity back-end network transit which they do well, otherwise they wouldn't be in business for very long. High-five Level 3 for calling B.S. on this!
I just added an experimental execsnoop to the repo as well: https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools .