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As a Cassandra Committer, I would really appreciate you updating your ycsb integration so we can corroborate your benchmarks, as I currently doubt their authenticity/honesty. It looks very much like you compared non-durable performance in Aerospike to durable performance in Cassandra.

It also appears from your documentation that you do not support any kind of safe active-active multi-dc mode, even in your paid-for offering (http://www.aerospike.com/docs/architecture/xdr.html), so even if faster than Cassandra, users should carefully read the fine print before deciding to use Aerospike, unless as the application grows in size and necessity (i.e. uninterruptibility in event of disaster) you want to find multi-dc is not actually viable for you.

NB: I'm unaware of any adform contributions to Cassandra, although a senior developer there has filed a few bug reports.
Wouldn't it more like having a Nike stand in a store called Google's Play App Store, with a small sign noting "this is not an official Nike stand"? (the developers name and notice).

I understand that Nike wouldn't want the unauthorized usage, but an app is a product, not a store.
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Just found a great summary about what is proved to be secure and what is assumed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8100033
Very happy to read this!
It's traditional "improve the bicycle" design fluff. Whenever you see integrated anything on a bike, you know the designer isn't thinking about service life or tweakability or any of the other things that makes bikes so cool.

I'd like to see haptic directions in Wear though - buzz once for left, twice for right.
Keep in mind that most personal bankruptcies are caused by medical bills. You can not exactly postpone critical operation until you save money. You can not work while you are sick a lot. And medical prices are non-transparent, patient have no idea which tests/interventions are needed and which are not, so it is hard to price shopping even if you have time for it.

If 35% percent of population do something, then it is better to look for structural reasons other then "population is stupid" simplification.
This sort of thing really needs a live demo. I don't want to sign up for 50 different Product Management sites to find the one I want to use, and have to deal with the other 49's spam once I choose one. Even once you delete your account do some of them spam you.
I wrote a Maven plugin to avoid this.

It's available under MIT licence: https://github.com/gary-rowe/BitcoinjEnforcerRules
> 3) Not all hundrends of thousands or millions of app programmers competing with each other can live by their app income alone. In fact, few can. (DUH!)

This doesn't deserve your "DUH!". It reflects the fact that making these apps is easy. If it were so difficult or time-consuming that hobbyists starved trying to get an app done, everyone in the app store would be living on their app income.
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Well once I decided to go this route I figured take advantage of the opportunity to put a good CPU in it and allow it to take over a number of services that I'd previously hosted on another machine (since retired).

It host several services in VMs(dns, transparent HTTP proxy, torrent client running in X11 open via VNC). I also use VPNs quite extensively and seeing as the Intel chip-set doesn't support AES natively, I opted to up the clock speed of the CPU to the highest I could get it without exceeding my budget.
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I bought that thing on amazon back when it was on sale for like 40 quid and it works fine.
> From the aggressive use of NINA loans (in some cases targeted at minorities)

Which was being done by the local banks, not the wall street guys. If anything the banks were ripping off the institutional investors they sold these bonds to, by selling mortgages that they wouldn't've taken themselves.

> selling mortgage-backed securities while betting AGAINST them

Any trade has two sides; anyone you buy a stock from is essentially betting against that stock.

> The assumption you're making the insinuation that all homeowners engaged in this kind of activity

No more than you're assuming everyone in the finance industry engaged in such activities.

> one party (the financial industry) has more training, connections, influence, and knowledge and the other (homeowners) have CNBC, it's a stretch to say that the homeowners are the ones to blame

Some of the losses were from complex products that were missold, reverse-amortization mortgages and the like, and yeah, the guys who sold those are responsible for most of the damage they caused. But a lot of the crash was simply people taking out a loan for $x/month when they couldn't afford to pay $x/month (or could until they lost their job), and that's not a complex question where training and experience make a difference.
Yeah, but if we are sensitive to light from under a door with our eyes closed it seems that just changing the hue will have little effect.
I really would like to see a comparison of the minified + gzipped vs just gzipped vs just collapsing all multiple blank spaces into a single ones + gzipped
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I'm not sure if processing power is going to be any different here. To get acceptable results from the proposed method you need twice the resolution (two displays) and twice the frame rate. Which translates, surprise, to four times as much processing power needed, just as a quadrupling of the resolution would.
Static Apps also encompass statically compiled web apps (e.g. Jekyll sites), so it's not just SPA. I've also always hated the term Single-Page App, it's like "horseless carriage." I prefer the term "Web Client."

That being said, there is lots of confusion out there because of the term static. While the term is accurate in terms of using static file servers to run web applications, I'm beginning to think a new term might be necessary.
I suspect a bigger influence on this was people's general desire not to stab themselves in the mouth with sharp corners.
The consumer-accessible (not industrial) 3D printing is, like, 3 years old field; a lot of things changed in hardware and software during that time and I'd expect many more to change in the following years.
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That would be surprising since ancient humans didn't sleep in total darkness either; they got light from the moon and stars.
So, does this make stores 'Flux capacitors'? (pretty pls)
If you enable the free New Relic add on and turn on availability checking, then the pings it sends every 60 seconds keep the dynos from ever being shut down.

Also, if you're using Rails, switching to Unicorn as the server allows 3-5 concurrent requests, so you can get quite a bit out of the one free dyno if you don't use the standard config.
Out of curiosity, what kind of scanner do you have?

I've been wanting to scan all my important mail and documents for a while, but I need the process to be as frictionless as possible for me to actually go through with it and I'm unsure what kind of scanner to buy for that.
Thank you for your answer. I may have been a bit imprecise with my point there. I'm well aware of the reasons to maintain multiple repositories for different projects. The weak part of the story above is that we're not talking about separate projects. We're taking about a single project, where the build system is now effectively responsible for source control for some part of the project using totally different protocols for communication, authentication and versioning. Where's the win?
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As a non-american I cannot understand why debt would hurt your job prospects. Can anyone clarify?
The same goes for relativity.
I think you will develop such intuition over time. As a biologist I have a firm grasp on what a nanometer is, how big a protein is, what to expect when I "glue" two of them together or what happens when I pour formalin over a cell.

It is extremely hard for me to talk about work to a layman who does not even know what DNA is. Try explaining that every base pairs is about 0.3 nm apart and we have about two meters of DNA, spread over 30.000 genes. What does it mean for promotor accessibility related to transcription factors? It would take some time to calculate these things but I have a pretty nice picture in my head of vibrating proteins and the chaos it is down there (Movies such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKW4F0Nu-UY are extremely misleading!)

I had a colleague who got the molecular structure of optically active molecules in his head when he saw the absorption and fluorescence spectra of molecules.

But try getting that into the mind of an infant who learns by doing. Would it make sense? It reminds me of a piece from the book of Woz, where he explains how significant it was for his development that his father explained the workings of a transistor by explaining the flows of electrons. It made understanding much easier for him.

I guess, when a kid is ready I won't hurt to feed her/him such information but I wouldn't teach my son that he could in theory tunnel through the wall and end up in the neighbors kitchen...

Nice topic by the way, I remember watching the quantum mechanics movies (and the relativity movies) on my Encarta CDrom (I was 12 I think) over and over and just enjoy that feeling of uneasiness, the feeling that there is another world down there.
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> An inverted valuation-weighted fund would put that vast majority of assets into stocks that are worth just above nothing. I suspect that a good portion of these are companies that are about to go bankrupt - probably a much bigger proportion than the ones that are small and about to take off, or the ones that are small and overlooked. Investing in companies that are about to go bankrupt isn't really a sound strategy.

I don't know, isn't that what the junk-bonds guys did in the '80s, and more recent value investors? I could believe that the market still undervalues companies that are about to go bankrupt (but might not).
The Soviets did have an automated system that could launch their missiles automatically:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_%28nuclear_war%29

It may still be operational, but not normally turned on - for obvious reasons....

At the other end of the spectrum the UK has no automated control preventing unauthorized launches (no Permissive Action Locks) and we check to see whether Radio 4 is still broadcast to detect whether civilisation has ended and hand written letters to instruct the captains of our Tridents subs what to do in that event.
Good point @gherkin!

Want me to give you a quick demo of ProdPad? We don't yet have a full video walkthrough, though we're working hard on the product tour and the help guides. In the meantime, we're on hand to help out with any questions or even to jump on a call to walk you and your team through how to use it with your own processes and other tools in place.

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You could buy two such full featured smart watches and it'd probably still be cheaper and less maintenance than building it into the bike. Actually, the dev kit for Glass could well be cheaper too.

As a bike rider, I'm not sure why these bike design things get so viral. Is it like food shows where people who don't cook watch people making impractically extravagant dishes?
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I don't know what steams cut is, but I suspect most indie developers are willing to pay it for the benefits it can offer in terms of distribution
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I find it interesting that over-the-counter melatonin comes in pills ranging from 0.25mg up to 10mg - a 40X range.

I suspect some people just try whatever bottle they grab first, and may find either no effect, or unwanted effects (excess grogginess/nightmares), and never try another dose.
Checkout at Walmart or a McJob, however, much more so.
Any bio-availability studies on that? I assumed the high doses were because uptake was bad / it was destroyed by stomach acid.
In that case you should have more than just one KPI to combat any perverse incentives. Further, any decision making based on the KPIs should take into account thorough analysis.

It's far from perfect but making things quantifiable does have a lot of benefits.
Does Sam Altman continue to do angel investing or now that he's running YC he's stopped as part of their policy?
That's one thing, but another is how people feel entitled to luxury products - entertainment, technology, cars, etcetera. Things like I /need/ a car, so I'll get a new one on a payment plan. Or I /need/ an iPhone because of Reasons, disregarding how it's a very expensive phone with a very expensive phone plan alongside it.

I guess you could call that some kind of inflation too, but it's pretty self-inflicted.
idea: a quantum fps. By interacting within a world governed by quantum principles, you might develop an intuition. Similar to muscle memory, or training in mathematical notation.

Especially, taking a leaf out of Ender's Game, for children.
The average human needs years of training for fluent reading, writing and arithmetic.

Though, might be computationally infeasible to do with adequate accuracy; would necessarily be extraordinarily bizarre and counter-intuitive; and... might not be much fun.
What exactly does it mean to have "debt in collection"? It seems to be a binary state, if so, what are the exact parameters for entering and exiting?
Hetzner null route you in the event of a DDoS.

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So wait, they're paying illegal websites to advertise that those websites are illegal?
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Good point, updated.

These were done on 2.3GHz Core i7 & OS X 10.9.4.

Note that "max" settings were used, meaning that, for example, both JS and CSS had to be minified (and that's delegated to UglifyJS2 and clean-css packages correspondingly).
> Pop, chip, candy makers used to label their products as multiple servings when it was normally used as a single portion and have since been forced to stop.

Forced to stop? As far as I've ever heard, serving size for all of those things has always been set by law. It's a little weird to say you're "forcing [someone] to stop" doing something you were forcing them to do in the first place.

You can see the Code of Federal Regulations defining the serving size of chips as 30 grams here: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRS... . For "pop" (ok, carbonated beverages), a serving is defined as 8 fluid ounces. Unsurprisingly, a 20-ounce bottle usually contains 2.5 servings of carbonated beverage. How is that the pop, chip, and candy makers' fault?
The whole "bioidentical hormones" thing some describe as unscientific, but I've been taking 10mg synthetic without knowing I've overdosing (that was the most popular OTC dose) with no effect. 0.3mg Herbatonin works pretty quickly. Here's something I just found: http://www.naturalhi.com/media/custom/Newsletter%20Melatonin...
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No, Parisians suck. They will tell you that themselves if you ask. I say this as someone that has been living in Paris since 2003, so I think I have a pretty good handle in the city.
AFAIK the beaglebones load their entire executable environment, including bootloader, from removable flash media - there shouldn't be any bravery required to test out experimental software (even bootloaders and firmware) because you can always just swap out the entire card. There's no bricking them.
Isn't "absolute termination" the Unix meaning of "halt" as well?
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Which is not referenced from the linked article. What is the point of posting something with all but no information?
The American Project Pluto/SLAM system was meant to be autonomous and self-launching too. The Western MAD system.

Boy am I glad that project never got off the ground. A MAD-gap/race would have been terrifying.

A plane that can circle the Earth 4 and a half times is pretty cool, but at the cost of irradiating the whole planet? Maybe not so much.
Oh yeah, sorry about that, I forgot that it's hard to see the advantage in video playback.
However, in games, when rendering a Full HD frame twice (with different settings/specifications), you would see a huge advantage in terms of the memory & some benefits in the amount of processing power required.
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Does anything come closer to this than Flevoland?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevoland

Slightly related: "a narrow body of water was preserved along the old coast to stabilise the water table and to prevent coastal towns from losing their access to the sea."
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If I was punished for downtime I wouldn't have upgraded OpenSSL after heartbleed.

I wouldn't put new features online.

I general I would do little that might cause the system to be unstable, even if it was a actually a good thing.
"“If you have everything but land – if you have a population that is displaced – whether that allows you to be a state is a novel question,”"

Well, I can think of our own example - Poland has been forcibly taken and split into three parts during late 18th century, by Russia, Prussia(Germany) and Austria. For nearly 20 years there was no such country as Poland on the map, and people who lived on the lands of former Poland were forbidden from even speaking Polish.

Yet the entire country has survived - we had a government and an army which both operated from other countries, until finally we were given little independence back in 1807 - but even after that Russia has controlled majority of the land here. Fast forward 200 years - Poland is a large country in the centre of Europe, despite having disappeared from every map for more than two decades at one point.

So based on that I would say that yes, there can be a nation without land.
In practice, it means any debt where the original holder of the debt has determined that it is unlikely to receive payment from the debtor so the right to collect the debt is sold to a third party.

An example: Bob takes out a credit card with a limit of $500 and charges $300 to it. Bob makes no payments. After three months (90 days), interest, late fees, and so on have pushed the total debt to $620 and Bob's credit card issuer decides that Bob is unlikely to pay. The debt is sold to a collection agency and is written off as a bad debt on the books of the credit card company. The collection agency pays $20 for the debt (so low because Bob is, through external methods, deemed to be unlikely to pay any debts, much less an unsecured credit card) and now hassles Bob for the next several years.

At the point that the debt was sold is when most people consider it to be "in collections." You exit collections by paying the debt.
The trouble is, the decisions based on KPI do not take these things into account. They are usually made up in the hierarchy by people entirely detached from what is done day to day. They usually do not know the harm done and wonder where the company is loosing money.

Your combination of multiple KPI amounts to somewhat more complicated KPI. There will be perverse incentives unless you get perfectly right. And that is possible only if the work, including the long term consequences of decisions, are easily quantifiable - which is not the case of most non-trivial jobs.
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f.lux probably isn't meant for use while you're actually asleep.
Is this example removed? Shows just the main page here...
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Payment or non-payment (overwhelmingly non-payment+) of debt is reported to credit reporting agencies. Employers, as part of an employment decision, are allowed by law to pull copies of credit reports. A poor credit report tends to be treated by many employers as an indication of the candidate being a poor hire so the candidate is rejected.

+ Noted because many sources of negative marks on a credit report (like a utility bill, mobile phone account, rent-to-own store, apartment lease, and so on) only report negative actions. If a person never pays late, the business doesn't report the favorable upside.
It's not just an IMSI catcher, it's an IMSI catcher catcher - see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdHSJsEOck
It's not as bad as the Valve Args were/are. The hardest part for me would have been finding the red herring!
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Finally someone who sees the real problem.
There are a bunch of different SCMs. It's nice to decouple "hold released builds at specific versions" from your general development repository.
You can already write Android apps in a number of JVM languages. You're not stuck with the Java language. ;-)
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And yet not a single person proficient in Brainfuck lives off that knowledge.
I'm already feeling better that someone I never met stroke gold. I'll kick myself, don't bother.
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Oh enough already of this "X company could've done Y product decades ago" bullshit. The fact remains that:

1) they didn't - so who cares now?

2) they couldn't have done it as good as it was done now, anyway. So again - who cares about ifs and buts?

I feel these stories do nothing than just give the company some positive but completely unwarranted PR. In fact, these stories should be approached from the opposite direction, like "look how stupid this company was for not releasing the 'iPad' 20 years ago", or whatever. I feel that would be a more appropriate direction for these articles.

The truth is, anyone who will study Nokia's history in business schools years later, should only think how stupid Nokia was for either:

1) not going full steam with Maemo, their "modern" mobile OS, years before.

2) not adopting Android back in 2009 or 2010, when Samsung did, and when Nokia still had 2x Samsung's market share in smartphones. If they did, they could've retained their 60+ percent global market share in smartphones.

Doing either of those 2 could've saved them from near bankruptcy/acquisition. But they didn't. Therefore they were stupid (and arrogant) - and that's how history should remember them, if new companies are to learn anything from that.

Approaching this from "look how awesome Nokia was for almost building the iPad more than a decade ago (yet still almost going bankrupt)" is the wrong way to look at it.
> centralized services such as email

Stopped reading right there.
Well they are not. MiTV and LeTV in China are selling them at less then $500 USD for 50".

I can see this being useful in gaming but not anything else. And my valid question got downvoted. :(