skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the inside, firms are usually set up as something like communist autocracies (formally everyone subordinate to the CEO, no internal prices, budgets set by fiat, etc). This has the advantage of reducing transaction costs (which in classical theory of the firm, is why they exist in the first place) but results in some of the same pathologies.
They were not a "backlog of games". They sold old games. Now they sell old and new. That's all that was discussed really.
I have only used Linux for the last 12 years. I use a thinkpad in an office full of macs and HP printers and 5ghz networks.

None of it works as seamlessly as on a Mac. I'm pretty comfortable compiling my custom kernels, so I'm more than the average Joe trying to setup networking.

There is still a reason why every Linux install asks you to explicitly select that you want mp3 codecs insralled. Flash is not installed by default.
I don't know what the legal reasons are, but I'm willing to pay my share to not having to deal with it.
The Atheros HAL was reverse engineered for OpenBSD.
adrian@freebsd used to work at Atheros and managed to get them to open source their HAL. The code is now in FreeBSD where the HAL was a blob for years. AFAIK no hardware docs are available for people outside the company.

Ralink used to provide documentation on request. They've been acquired by Mediatek since. Mediatek allows OpenBSD to distribute binary firmware images under free terms (for the run(4) driver). Perhaps they'd still provide docs. I haven't asked yet.

Realtek's engineers tend to be kind and helpful, but they don't provide docs on request, citing NDAs, and management has ignored my requests. There are several open source drivers for Linux written by Realtek engineers which can be used as a reference but they are pretty large so studying them takes time.

Broadcom's open source drivers are unreadable to the point of being more or less equivalent to binary blobs. If you want to see why try to make sense of this file in Linux:
drivers/netwireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_n.c
The top would be Chinese.
easy integration is cool, obviously, but 2.9% + .30 is the same price as paypal. businesses ultimately don't care about how easy it is to integrate but how much it costs.
AppScale is Google's answer to App Engine lock-in concerns, so it probably benefits them more than it hurts them.
You might be able to flip this a little. I can spend lots of time sitting in front of the screen and achieving pretty much nothing. Whereas sometimes a good walk and logical run through of the problem is all that's needed, in fact it's pretty vital for positive head space.
Build chat in 10 lines of code
I hear what you are saying. What I'm interested in exploring the consequences around rational behavior should if you make the assumption that (a) each unit of GH/s has a certain cost, (b) the miners are expecting to recover this cost, (c) for an ethical player this cost can be recovered through the sum of the block reward and transaction fees, and (d) an unethical player could also attempt to recover the mining costs by performing a double spend attack.

My question is for what transaction values does (d) become a viable and rational strategy.

The reason I ask this question is because mining is hugely more expensive operation in comparison to a centralized transaction processing system. It is way more inefficient to have hundreds and thousands of computers chugging away trying to shove a SHA puzzle than it is to just do a simple atomic database update. So somebody must be paying for this and the question is who? And what is all this really costing them. And from this, the next question that follows is what is the impact of the mining reward/cost on what can be secured by the network? So that is the question I was really trying to get at. I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on this or pointers to analyses along these lines.
Why eating sugar is even bad for healthy peoples (
I'm confused by what you're getting at here
Lucky for us the free market isn't Darwinian.
As a novice programmer, I found this post extremely helpful! It's given me insights on a problem I wasn't even aware I had.
I think the reason they don't say Namecoin explicitly is because at the end of the day, it doesn't particularly matter which *coin's blockchain gets used. At this point in the course of distributed system design, a "blockchain" can be thought of as a building-block for a system, and the matter of which particular blockchain gets used is an implementation detail.
I use Linux on ThinkPads since 1999 or so.
I can not remember issues I could not solve.
Just last week I installed Debian Wheezy on a X61 and everything worked out of the box. Works like a charm.
This is a helpful resource: http://www.thinkwiki.org
Perhaps you could commit the unit test in a separate commit, then `git cherry-pick` it as a part of the script?
I kind of liked Foursquare. I don't like the looks of Swarm. And I'm kind of pissed they bug me constantly to install it. I guess they want to kick out the old Foursquare users and make it into a Yelp competitor or something. Haven't really decided what to do. They are taking away my check in functionality so maybe I'll just uninstall it. Why should I go install some new app for what I've always been using.
assuming you have unrestricted access to the user information, which to me usually means I already have unfettered access to your system, why would I need passwords?

Do many systems allow nearly unlimited attempts? Is this common on some platforms? For all except the most locked down users; single task; it pretty much is three strikes your out, call to fix your access.
Weird... Thanks for the feedback. It must be a javascript issue in your browser or maybe it's not working on that particular browser. What are you using?
Just be careful...

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2012/nov/22/...
App Engine recently got a new game changing feature called Managed VMS(Appengine on GCE instances, with all cool appengine features, gce pricing and no limits(filesystem support, sockets without limits, ...)

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/
At times I just skipped reddit to browser imgur.
It's a pity that while the bisect did point in the general direction of where the bug was in 3.15, it didn't actually find the right bug (the one it found had already been fixed and a different one introduced that led to the same errant behavior).

With something as complex as the kernel, I also wonder about automatic bisect being led astray by unrelated changes. The bisect script might fail for a different reason and zone in on the wrong commit.
Inconsistency - again this is not about Ctrl c but rather some (any) consistency.

I truly envy the OSX guys, their consistency

P.S. google for IBM CUA . Linux is supposed to follow it, but doesn't. Macvim is more consistent than gvim !
Cool idea, but how do we know that destroyer.io itself is not an elaborate phishing front?
Ron Burkey has a great simulator that uses the actual code ... http://ibiblio.org/apollo/index.html .... here you have an unfinished port of his simulator ( although functional ) for iOS devices ... https://github.com/argaldo/iAGC ... which all of you are greately encouraged to contribute patches .. ;-)
(BTW I am a Brit, but have lived in the US for ~15 years).

The UK is also complicated - eg if a number starts with 08.

There aren't hidden rates. You are applying a British mentality - that the area code defines an area. In the US it is the exchange numbers (next 3 digits after the area code). It used to be normal to not dial area codes. I got bitten by this exact issue the first time I made a "local" call from a hotel, arguing with the front desk that a call to the same area code is by definition the same (local) area.

There are actually 3 distances - local, local toll, and long distance. You can actually have a different carrier for each one! For example local is a few miles around, local toll would be 20-100 miles away, and long distance after that. (Americans like things complicated.) When I had a land line it was about 5 times as much to call San Francisco (~60 miles away) than New York (~2,000 miles away)!

Local calls are included with your service price, also called "free" by people. However the base service price was about four times what I paid in the UK. There was a wonderful paper I saw years ago and haven't been able to find again, where they showed that Americans preferred fixed pricing - ie you know in advance what your bill will be - versus a pay as you go model. Not only that they are willing to pay more for the certainty of those future bills.

The issue you are thinking of is that the termination rates in some rural areas are very high in order to subsidise providing the service there. Consequently various "free" conference calls and similar services are sourced out of those areas. The rural telco then shares the revenue. The caller's telco ends up paying for the increased rates - it isn't visible to the caller. This is why there is some weasel language in various phone contracts saying they won't connect you to those numbers/services.

Call forwarding isn't a perfect solution. It still requires the cooperation of two companies - the one with the number, and the one where the number is forwarded to.

The argument isn't defeated as such - rather the US had no option than to go the way it did. Call prices are very cheap when adding together what the caller and recipient pay, compared to the rest of the world where some of it is hidden and regulators have stepped in setting rates rather than there being meaningful competition.

Telemarketers aren't allowed to call cell phones. Obviously that won't just stop them, but since they are actually trying to sell something and they need to contact a reasonable volume of people to have success, it is a lot easier for them to be detected and blocked by the carriers. I get about one telemarketer call a year. I could also contact my carrier and they would remove charges for telemarketing calls.

The majority of cellular and landline plans now are unlimited voice calls in any direction, so most of the earlier issues aren't present any more.
I'd be interested to find out more of hardware details of these devices. 100+ TB of storage in a 4U is pretty respectable. From the images in the article, it looks like the drives are not hot-swappable, so I'd guess Netflix is able to remotely track loss of redundancy and will just send out an entire replacement unit when needed.

For comparison, Supermicro makes one of the highest-density storage servers that I'm aware of[1]. 72 3.5" drives in 36 drive bays, so up to 288tB of raw storage, if you're brave enough to use 4tB drives.

[1] http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/6047/SSG-6047R-...
What is the threat model that concerns you? If you don't trust Apple then don't use iOS full stop.

I trust Apple engineers, but not Apple Store employees. So, for me the question to ask is what effort is required to circumvent the system. If any employee at an Apple Store can circumvent your encryption then that is an issue. If circumventing requires your passcode, then that's far less concerning.
Don't they use Gtk2 & Cairo?
These things can pump out 12Gbit during peak viewing, which is enough for about 4,000 avg. 3 Mbit streams.

If they can cram in 256GB of DRAM, that's enough room for a 64MB buffer per stream, or about 170 seconds worth of streaming. Now you only need to be able to fill those buffers at a rate of about 24/second.

I'm assuming whatever file system is on the disks uses a massive block size, so the number of seeks you'd have to perform to pull 64MB off is probably pretty low. Eight? Sixteen? Even if it's the latter, that's only 384 seeks/second, which you could very plausibly do striped over only a half dozen disks, and the device presumably has many more.
Start multiple streams of high bandwidth videos and the maximum throughput from the drives drops sharply due to the random reads.

I think this can be fixed by prefetching harder (like 1-2 MB).

100 Netflix streams would be less than 100 MB/s which can be satisfied with a single SATA drive. And some of the Netflix boxes have dozens of SSDs that each do 500 MB/s.
Will bisect not get confused if you change the commit range it's testing as part of running it? Also cherry-picking might still generate conflicts.
Copper is quite expensive for long cable runs, but your point about pushing lower voltage DC needing super conductors is true compared to high voltage DC not needing super conductors.

You can also use the earth as a return in an AC system. This is often done with more remote areas when distributing power in order to keep the cost down. It has downsides, but it works well enough.
> It also allows for dead people to be watchlisted.

That actually makes great sense as identity spoofs, or at least that's what I read in Kevin Mitnick's Ghost in the Wires, are most easily done under the name of deceased infants near your own year of birth.
It is a 4th generation iPad.
I'd like to know if it's done differently in other languages. In my view, methods are curried function over self with a '.' syntactic shortcut.
I always had troubles with the managers too, and now use wpa_supplicant directly combined with systemd-networkd.
When a connection is established networkd automatically starts dhcp. I think it connects faster, and I've had no problems with wifi since I switched.
Sounds challenging. If it's something that happened a lot, you could keep the test suite in a separate repo with API levels, such that tests need newer APIs go in a higher numbered folder (think database migrations in web frameworks) and create a simple run script.
Wow, I love the conversation. I am the CEO of AppScale, so my perspective will be biased. Spoiler alert.

We have many customers using AppScale in production. Some migrated away from GAE for very specific reasons. Privacy (particularly in Europe), lock-in, control, performance and cost are the typical reasons...in that order. Many, however, come to AppScale because they love the GAE development model and want the independence to run their application wherever is best for their business; without the restrictions, quotas and performance irregularities.

The brilliance of GAE is the development model. The notion of concentrating on the business logic, the problem you are trying to solve, rather than working with stacks of software is the innovation. Our customers, and GAE's, are typically not tech companies. They do not have a deep bench of experienced developers. They are fashion and electronics retailers, global non-profits, SaaS companies trying to rapidly prototype and create MVP's. They want to innovate quickly and fail fast as they develop their business model. This is where the GAE model shines. It's fast. Business today must move at the speed of need, and the App Engine model, whether GAE or AppScale, is a tool that facilitates this.

AppScale is a complement to GAE. If want to run in AWS, SoftLayer, Azure or Digital Ocean, no problem. You can also run your app behind the firewall on OpenStack, Eucalyptus, CloudStack, Mothership1 or simply on top of KVM or VMware. AppScale is easy to install and deploy from GitHub. GAE needs to worry about running 4.5M active applications (up from 3M last year) but AppScale only needs to worry about one application, yours.

We understand that GAE did not make many fans in the early days. That has changed and their 50% growth in active apps over last year is evidence. Add AppScale to the picture and you get to continue using the awesome development model but you have the complete flexibility to run where you choose and maintain complete granular control over your app.

So, I will make a bold offer. Check out AppScale and give it a test drive. I would love to hear your feedback. If you need some extra love, our engineers will help over our IRC channel at freenode, #appscale

It is our goal to be the open source private PaaS of choice for forward-thinking developers and companies. We would love your support.
> it doesn't particularly matter which 'coin's blockchain gets used.

Well, except that it does, because depending on the blockchain used, you are dealing with different consensus protocols, and most importantly, different people. Namecoin is a worthy project, has been doing its noble thing for quite some time, and deserves at least a mention if this project is going to be working off of the sweat its core devs have put into it (and continue to do so).
Indeed. A deceased person flying should raise red flags everywhere.
I learned from YouTube user captnduck back in the day - they're great tutorials made all the more appealing by the guy's incredibly soothing Dutch accent.
I totally agree that onename.io has done a good job integrating that site with Namecoin. However, with this new project ONS, I don't yet see a way to certify all the social identities that Keybase supports, not to mention the attractive user interface and convenient command line client of Keybase.

That said, it's a new project. I'm not saying onename.io won't accomplish this (I hope they do!). I'm just saying they have a lot to do to match what Keybase has.
That is good advice and works for me. I only leave negative reviews when there is no contact info, or they don't respond when I submit a bug.
Rotary motion was used for conversion long before semiconductor devices were invented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_converter

I don't know what the limits on efficiency are, and the Wikipedia article mainly addresses AC-to-DC conversion rather than DC-to-AC, but I assume simply from the fact that they aren't used these days that they aren't an improvement on solid-state inverters.
If I recall, they'd surpassed reddit in terms of users last year; and, if they're still growing from 3.5-4bn monthly pageviews, they may catch up to reddit's ~5bn monthly [1].

[0]: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/11/imgur-yaho...
[1]: http://www.reddit.com/about/
A very interesting list to say the least.

The major component of the mega-corp money saving justification is the consolidation of overhead functions. e.g. finance, payroll, HR, media

At tiny companies, these tasks are either outsourced or done by the c-level employees. As a company scales you need departments to handle these things. A company of 50 people may need 2 HR folks but the tasks for HR can scale (especially with technology) such that if that same company scaled to 1,000 employees it wouldnt need to hire 20 HR folks (maybe just 10 total needed) thus saving 10 heads in HR of salary + benefits + office + IT assets + support. Not insignificant sums.
They do when they are starting out, but care less as they grow.
Don Dodge gives 2minute Startup Pitching Advice
Vista was the first time I suddenly found myself unable to use my headphones on a Windows machine. Sounds was forced to go out through the speakers. I eventually rebooted to fix it.

I feel things are moving backwards.
I was fascinated with Brooks' proposed "head surgeon" solution to the coordination problem for large projects - basically (and forgive me if my summary butchers this a bit), instead of having 1000 programmers on one repo arguing, you have a smaller number of vertically-integrated teams with a "head surgeon" at the top of each, and it is the head surgeons who have to coordinate. (Needless to say, the "head surgeon" has to know how to code pretty well and be significantly involved in the project rather than hovering at 20,000 feet...)

I guess most people would only like to be the "head surgeon" because of the implied status (and not really knowing what it is like to be e.g. Linus Torvalds). But personally, I wouldn't mind doing a specialized job like the tools programmer or language lawyer because these are still interesting jobs allowing good forward progress to be made.

If the load of tedious work like build systems is too much, and the best we can do is either load-balance it across the team or dump it on some schmuck, maybe that just means we should try harder to break up projects into smaller units so that process doesn't completely dominate them.
Montana Democrat’s Thesis Presented Others’ Work as His Own
Fantastic work. I think the pride one would feel in making this work is well worth the $90 or so required for parts!
Minecraft was actually started as an explicit DF clone and then deviated from there
The most viable seem to be getting a tablet with a pixel qi display. This way the battery life will be good, it's in a good package and you won't need to rely on your own modding skills.

However, the first Adam tablet is out of production. It also got obliterating reviews. The only two devices I find is the Adam II which is only available for shipping in India and the SOL 7" android-g.

Adam II: http://www.amazon.in/Notion-Ink-Adam-Tablet-White/dp/B00HYVR...
Android-g: http://www.solcomputer.com/sunlight-readable-tablet/7-androi...

The Adam II got good reviews by the Indian users but I haven't seen any western review of it.

I would so back a kickstarter campaign for something like this.
> A regular company couldn’t have experimented with creating 10 versions of an online photo album, then picked the best one.

Yes, but often 10 companies try to make an online photo album and the market picks one (or a few). The comparison between open source projects and the dynamics inside a company doesn't seem like the right one.
Ah, you're right. I thought they had moved to the Bitcoin blockchain. But that's a whole can of worms, so it's probably best they stay on Namecoin.

Bar the big incident last year (which it did recover from), Namecoin has been pretty stable.
Used many wireless printers or scanners?
Man ejected from Southwest after tweeting about a rude gate agent
Rule #1: Anyone reading this rulebook.
I usually enjoy his posts a lot, but this one let me down. He didn't really put much thought into applications of statistics. Maybe the academic perspective is too limiting.

There are lots of non-trivial problems that depend heavily on statistics for solutions. Some examples that come to mind --

signal processing (optimal detectors, say for radar or modems)
medical image reconstruction (Poisson counting statistics, regularization)
wireless channel allocation
source/channel coding (for all radio comms)
gzip (and all universal source coding)
robotics (localization, object detection)
Kalman filters (navigation for planes, etc.)
hidden Markov models (for audio/speech processing)
weather prediction, data assimilation

I'm just getting warmed up. Weird post.
The problem with paypal is they have different APIs with different features that are non-overlapping.

There is no API that allows you to chain payments through my account to the seller and the affiliate when you check out multiple items when the user does not have a PayPal account.

That combination of features is mutually exclusive, but it should be like the most common thing in the world for an e-commerce website with an affiliate program and multiple item check-out.
> more sensibly

Really?

When I'm setting a budget, it's going to be in dollars. If I'm getting prices in cents, I have to remember to convert, or I'm going to make the same mistake your parent comment did.

The currency is dollars, not cents. Most prices are set in dollars, not cents. Most transactions are performed in dollars, not cents. Budgeting is done in dollars, not cents.

Save trouble and use the same units everybody else does.
This is the chilling effect in action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect_(law)
You might be interested in Gnomoria[1]. It's not Dwarf Fortress, but is inspired by it.

[1] http://gnomoria.com/
On a related note, http://www.currly.com is a place for a compiled view on digital currency news.
I thought this required me to unlock my phone and say 'I trust this computer' before anything else could happen, are you saying that is not the case?

I'll yield to the fact that I cannot remove trust from a computer, that seems like a now obvious shortcoming.
Chinese city sealed off after man dies from bubonic plague | KurzweilAI