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Making extinct arachnids walk again
And now microMIPS, another attempt at 16-bit encodings.
L0pht testimony before United States Senate (1998)
Can anyone tell me which of the OP's arguments against ORMs isn't already addressed in SQLAlchemy? I can't find any, but maybe I've overlooked something.

Anyone who is already coding in Python and hasn't yet discovered SQLAlchemy would find that doing so is a great investment in the little time that is available.
Isn't it powered by last.fm? Was wondering why you said "youtube powered." Also, when you do start to support youtube, have you thought about how to deal with search? At least with last.fm or soundcloud you know that you are dealing with 99% music. But youtube is all over the map. Anyway to filter only music results? This thing has often been a roadblock in my thinking when trying to include results in my apps from youtube and the like.

Anyway, its really cool. I'm actually building a music site which will only have a rudimentary player at first, its mostly focused on discussion, discovery and voting. Not sure what your end goal is but maybe we started at different places but are pointing to the same end state?
tl;dr: no, it won't be a very stable orbit for very long.

One definition for the "stability" of an orbit is that if you give the orbiter a small nudge, it will not radically change its orbit. Lagrangian points L4 and L5 are not stable (with this definition) while L1, L2 and L3 are (only in theory, though, in practice perturbations matter a lot).

Since the mass distribution is unknown, we can't quite predict if the orbit will be stable or not. The mass distribution may be very uneven and there may be spikes in the distribution (due to shape and porosity of the comet) that could cause the orbit to be unstable. The comet also rotates and makes things more difficult.

Now the goal of the crew is to find an orbit that is reasonably stable and predictable given the knowledge of mass distribution they have. Nevertheless, the space craft will probably have to do thrust maneuvers to stay in orbit around the comet.

And once the comet comes close enough to the sun and starts to lose mass to the vapor trail, all bets are off. That almost certainly implies some kind of unstability due to mass changes as well as the drag from the vapor trail. The comet may even break down to several pieces when it comes close to the sun.
"... the monkey had taken the photo, and was therefore the real copyright owner."
The fact that non-human primates can now supposedly hold copyrights is my big take-away from this.
I've used all those products for decades, visual studio since version 6 in 1998. I have never seen anything that would back up your statement at any point in history and I don't know anyone with the relevant experience that would agree with you.

The world is made a better place when people post from a wealth of real world personal experience and cheapened by those that who do not. Please refrain.
>While the links do not appear on Google.co.uk and other versions of the search engine created for specific EU countries, they do still appear on Google.com, which can be accessed in Europe.

Even a great firewall of Europe would not make this kind of censorship work.
> Those are pictures of an adult, not a child. When you use the word "girl" to describe an adult woman you're implicitly belittling her. Don't be that guy.

Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker (so I'm not confident enough to downvote or anything), but your judging this use of “girl” as female version of “boy”, ignoring the overall mode of expression, doesn't seem adequate. I would have no objections if thomaseng's comment was more formal:

> I would consider these pictures of a girl quite lifelike

But it's not.

If I were the author, and the pictures were of a man, I'd totally say “guy”. Once you flip the gender, “guy” seems to become “girl”, not “woman”. (Again, given the overall informal style used.)

And as for the word “guy”, it doesn't sound in any way belittling a grown-up man (and you just used it yourself).
To be clear, these were co-founders and our company was also incorporated outside the U.S, which allowed for more room for manoeuvre.

Many things that are 'forbidden' on paper turn out to not be so when it comes to the visa process. Many other things that aren't mentioned at all become crucial factors. The U.S visa process is incredibly onerous, and giving facts only as necessary was what worked for us.
I was in a similar position working support for a large international shipping company. I would work my 40 hours (day/afternoon/midnight) and then be required to take calls off hours. For example if I worked 6pm to 6am I would be required to wake up at 10am (mid sleep cycle) and join a BS staff meeting. Also if a major issue started during your shift you were expected to stay and handle it when you could turn it over to the next shift. Many times my colleagues would be on the 14 hours of their day while I sat there with nothing to do because they were handling it.
There could be a huge benefit for someone who wants to send websocket frames to say, 100,000 clients. You can't do that with a single server; you'd run out of ports (reuse aside). You'd also have a lot of load on one server. At the cost of a little latency to the true event, you can increase performance and scalability dramatically by sending the event to just a few intermediaries that then broadcast the event to a subset of clients.
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RFC 7239: Forwarded HTTP Extension
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Apple is good, and it's already being assembled in China.
At last some standard for the variety described in http://stackoverflow.com/a/16042648/253049
Here's another myth: "Functional programming solves the concurrency problem".

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-performance

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Thanks Wuliwong! Appreciate the feedback...
California seems to be the state that has the most employee favorable employment laws. Other states should following things like the CA stance on non-competes.
It's orbiting the sun, however its orbit is such that it will take it around the comet in a roughly triangular shape - but this isn't the same thing as orbiting.
I think the idea is that continuous deployment is like working out a muscle. At first it is way more painful that the status quo. But over time the muscle (deployment team/system) can adapt to the workload and become stronger.

But it only works if you have the time and resources to react to what happens. For example if you find out that differences between dev and prod servers can cause problems, you could add a tool like Chef/Puppet/Ansible to prevent those differences.

But if you don't have the time or resources to invest in that sort of change (as in many government agencies), then continuous deployment will just pack more problems into a shorter period of time.

This would be analogous to lifting weights, but never getting enough sleep or good nutrition. Under those circumstances, a person will just get weaker and more injured over time.
I sincerely doubt nobody on HN works in HPC.
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5 emails from each account? CTR is WAY higher when email comes from someone you personally know.
I thought the funeral one was interesting, as the iphone had lost the top spot around then IIRC - just to Android and not windows mobile, so the whole stunt was really just saying congratulations to google.
To compound on everything said here: traditionally, you would either have a set of load balancers, or set of web servers, taking requests directly from clients. If someone wanted to DDoS you, they hit the public IPs of these machines. It can be nearly impossible to mitigate a large enough attack to the point of restoring normal service. You'd most likely be forced to switch to entirely new IPs for a long enough attack event. CloudFlare, in general, accomplishes their DDoS protection by having a super large, geographically redundant network that absorbs the attack before passing legitimate traffic on to your servers.

This problem isn't strictly related to HTTP requests - it's really anything running on your servers. If the request is able to get past firewalls, switches, routers, to your machine, it has a chance to eat up resources, and ultimately take down that server / service. WebSockets are being used more and more for event-based communications, as you mentioned, providing real-time updates instead of relying on polling, or long polling hacks. Thus, they're just as viable of an attack vector as directing an attack at port 80. This is where the intermediate layer, provided by CloudFlare, comes into play.

The caching aspect of CloudFlare is an important, but separate aspect of their service.
Google company philosophy: Ten things we know to be true
Successful Online Community Managers Share These Traits: Part 1
The Russian 'hack of the century' doesn't add up
11 Awesome Quotes About Game Design
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It's microsoft. They probably think their customers shouldn't know what a server is lest they cut into MS' license to print mone-...I mean, 'cloud' business.
Obama on net neutrality: My administration is against Internet fast lanes
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I mean everything that is typing on the keyboard or at maximum a step away from it. Thinking about the code would be included in that.

That being said, we do have a around 6h a week of Agile meetings. Usually split into 3 x 2h meetings. Depends on how each team wants to proceed.

Of course, if I have to attend meetings, talk to clients or work on the structure of a project, I'm not expected to do that in overtime. I cut in the 6 hours. But on a 7.5h shift, we are expected to spend 6 hours on average typing on the computer.

It's not like anybody is looking over my shoulder however. If you work faster by making pseudocode on paper before you start working, you would be allowed to.
"Since my adolescence I've also been a migraine sufferer, which is where I originally "discovered" Aspirin, because it helps lessen the impact like no other substance and over the "
Really? I've been a migraine sufferer since adolescence and nothing short of morphine would make any difference.

Perhaps you are not referring to actual "migraines" but simply bad headache (the term gets tossed around loosely a lot but it actually does mean something very specific, not just a headache)?
Maybe https://www.goconspire.com is part of that workflow? At least the maintaining my contacts over time part.
MIT Considers Offering 'Modules' Instead of Courses
CloudFlare, in general, accomplishes their DDoS protection by having a super large, geographically redundant network that absorbs the attack before passing legitimate traffic on to your servers.

That's part of the answer. But also we do very high packet rate filtering using stuff like this: http://blog.cloudflare.com/bpf-the-forgotten-bytecode
OK, where do you have your GNU X11 server? Or GNU SMB implementation? No, Samba does not come from under GNU umbrella.
I "see" some game images after I quit playing. I wouldn't call it "hallucinating," to use the headline's word, but I do have images of DDR or puzzle games or 2048 dance in my head after stopping playing.

Does this happen to others?
Just because a group of people got together to agree on something work-related doesn't necessarily make them like a union.

But I agree on the prestige thing, I'm a non-union web developer and I don't feel much prestige in my position.
I agree, and I wonder how much further ahead it would be if they'd switched to the current licensing scheme years earlier.

Other than writing native for each platform, which I don't have time to do, I haven't seen any good alternatives to Qt. And I'm not going back to MFC.
This sounds like a problem that hyper-links should have solved.
Not unexpected. Apple have more control over unrooted iphone (or even rooted) than the owner.
Definitely add an unlimited plan at a higher price point if that's what they have voiced concerns over previously.

Plus committees like choice so lay out a few options/plans and detail out things they might ask about.

I would stress things like unlimited, custom, support, CMS and downplay things like wordpress/themes.

I would also offer a higher price point where you maintain their website . . . maybe with once a month or once a week batches of changes . . . this could minimize WP training and them breaking things trying to learn WP or stressing about having a member make updates.

btw, if you get a client taxing the limits of the bandwidth you were expecting them to use on your azure vm set them up on a shared hostgator plan . . . just set the price point of the unlimited so you can cover that if needed.

"my nephew is good with computers - he can do that!"

Think about expanding your services to include things their nephew can't do . . .

Setup donations via stripe on the website . . .

A web application for events, event sign ups, prayer lists, etc . . .

As far as decisions typically being made by committees . . . test out asking for a letter of feedback, questions, concerns from committees considering your service . . . then you'll see what they are thinking about and can respond with an outline of responses to seal the deal . . . plus use the feedback to improve your plans/marketing.

Churches do seem to be a difficult sell . . . but there are companies that do well in that niche . . . there is a local company that has a saas book keeping app with a focus on churches that I know is doing well.

I would try some recommendations you received and see what happens . . .

Good luck turning things around . . .
just like most people who are sasha fanboys, you obviously have zero domain knowledge on this subject.

try them out yourself, see what happens.
Jesus, this is a terrible idea.
s/government/democratic society/g

If the alternative is an invisible hand without democratic constraints, this is a rather utopian ideal also without rigorous scientific evidence.

Social systems are hard to experiment with.
Though... when's the last time you heard about an American hacker being extradited or prosecuted for hacking against Russian citizens?
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Fulfilling the higher calling
it's not slander, it's the truth. someone else discovered and tested MDMA many decades before sasha, but he is credited with "discovering" the compound.
You would expect this, because SSRIs perform no better than placebo except in cases of extreme depression.

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=185157
I wonder if there will be a comeback of self-hosted software in the near future just for the security and surveillance reasons, especially in business environment. There was the whole Cloud craze not so long ago, where many companies were pushing all their data outside local infrastructure, but I wonder if this is a good move in the long-term. SaaS has many advantages over "classic" solutions, but security and reliability was always a weak point and it may be a major factor against it in the future.
That's true, there is quite some overlap with what the Echo Nest are doing, albeit using a different approach. As I mentioned in the post, a lot of different collaborative filtering techniques are currently used together, so the same could be done for content-based techniques.
Why Programmers Don't Join The ACM
Yeah, I've seen that site. But where I live it isn't used at frequently it seems.
NASA Resurrected an 'Impossible' Microwave Thruster Technology
2 hours a week? I guess I'm set for a few hundred years with of mental work.

Although if I had to guess this would probably be more related to elderly people doing mental work that stimulates new connections. If a young person today who had been playing games their whole life were to try it when they were old it probably wouldn't have the same effect because they would be so used to those mental stimulation.

Just a thought from a person who knows nothing about this field.
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If this works it's a great idea and will serve a wonderful purpose. I'm a big supporter of Bitcoin (and my own buy in came long after I was aware of it), but Ethereum doesn't seem baked enough to warrant throwing (at the current price) 1 BTC at something that isn't fully operational. Definitely something to keep an eye on, though.
I'm wondering what you mean by "not quite good enough". It's by far the best UI toolkit out there and a very high quality application toolkit.

It has shortcomings, but to the point it's unusable?
Clutter is taking a toll on both morale and productivity
The CRUD layer wouldn't be used for live updates. You'd use a separate messaging system for that. My point is that you should build the 100% reliable CRUD layer first, then add on a messaging layer for realtime push. This, as opposed to starting with the messaging layer, and then going in circles trying to patch all the ways it can fail.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072081/quotes?item=qt0332024

Reminds me of Inspector Clouseau's encounter with an organ grinder.

"I am a musician and the monkey is a businessman. He doesn't tell me what to play, and I don't tell him what to do with his money."
I don't think this feature functions as a fanout mechanism.
Yes, really.

I think the misunderstanding here comes from your assumption that I'm using Aspirin as an analgesic, which is incorrect. For me, it drastically reduces the frequency of the attacks, not their severity - but then again, I already said that ;)
Name away-from-keyboard contexts where people don't do this. It's not a common as you seem to claim.
1. I didn't say it was slander, I said you come in casting aspersions without references, which you have

2. The article doesn't say he discovered it, I didn't say that either, only that he introduced it to psychiatrists.

So what exactly are both of you talking about with taking credit?

(for reference I'm not american either)
Minitrue prevents crimethink.
> Why would you be buying a board with 192 CUDA cores to run a server? This is the strongest point of this entire concept - desktop grade GPU to do GPGPU work, and yet you would use it as a server? Why?

GPGPU isn't limited to desktop computing, a server heavily utilizing GPU for whatever needs would benefit from this board all the same.
I'd be interested to know what their lifestyle is, are they spending the majority of their lives watching insipid TV? (That would certainly be enough to depress me...)
It's a shame Microsoft didn't elaborate.

However, I'll bite:

> Will your Linux provider be able to support your entire infrastructure in the Cloud if the time comes?

We wouldn't put our entire infrastructure in the "Cloud", nor would our provider suggest it. Other companies have done so, though. While speaking informally, they're not happy with being "in the cloud" generally - regardless of provider.

> Does your provider offer a robust group of offerings, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)?

I'm not very good at buzzword bingo.. but yes, they do provide their infrastructure and platform as a service.
The last outage was about 18 months ago, entirely our fault.
When was the last Microsoft cloud outage?

> Are they focused solely on the private cloud,

No, they're not focused solely on the private cloud - nor are Microsoft.

> and can they support Microsoft technologies for your existing Windows, Office, SQL Server and .NET users?

We have no need for supporting users of Microsoft technologies, so I really don't know how they'd be. Crap, I guess.

> Considering starting your next project on Linux?
Yes. Have you?

> Acquisition costs are a fraction of the Total Cost of Ownership of software projects. Will skilled talent be readily available if your project grows?
Yes, we have been successful in the past and we don't expect any problems in the near future. Personal note: Finding a good Windows developer out of the crowd of clowns is more difficult.

> What will support costs be if you choose to outsource?
This is not something we have considered.

> Could future migration costs be prohibitive?
We do have a back-out strategy. We're not locked in.

> Will patching and security lead to downtime?
No. We do not use Microsoft products in production.

> We encourage you to fully assess these factors.
Good advice, I will read more than just this "article" when deciding what platform we'll use...

> What does the vendor ecosystem look like for your proposed Linux solution?
There is more than one.

> Do your potential partners have a certification program for their professionals and how extensive is their experience?
To be honest, in my role I really don't give a damn about our "potential partners". Most non-windows shops seem to be adept, in my experience.

> Persistent threats and dedicated attackers can slow your projects and put your IT environment at risk with Linux projects.

As with all platforms, as Microsoft has experienced.
even better, how about you name the compounds he "discovered" and demonstrate that they were not the subject of prior work.

maybe i should write a book about a whole bunch of stuff other ppl did, not give proper attribution, then demand that people prove that i did not invent it.
Don't think about RAM. Instead, consider something like the mathematical expression

x = 3 = y

thus `x` and `y` are both just new names for the same identical value `3`. Since both variables reference the same thing then we ought to be able to substitute x for y whenever we like.

Of course, in Perl `x` isn't really a variable but instead a name referencing a "slot" which can be mutated. That mutation breaks the reference and makes `x` hold more meaning than merely a "reference to 3". So then you cannot substitute it for `y` any longer.

I think his example code snippet is a little obtuse, though.
I simply opted to call out your network because that is the mechanism that hides the origins, despite the other layers of protection provided by software running at the edge. :)
And how is that different from every piece of electronic equipment ever made ?

The creators of the OS always have more control over how the phone works than the owner. iOS is more locked down than Android (no access to root FS) but I would argue that 99% of users don't know the difference and just blindly install software from third parties.
Phew, for a moment I thought that they will be focusing only on enterprise licenses and make Qt closed-source (which would probably be a suicide).
Photo of the comet: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuWJaVSIcAAVgZ9.jpg:large
I don't have access to equipment or precursors.

I'm still waiting for a reference. I'm genuinely interested.