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This is why I like Google News. Despite my usual reflexive dislike of Google products, it's a decent mash of lots of different sources.
Awesome movie about traveling and different people
Nice idea, although I'm sure you'll have fun taking that on holiday with you through the airport... :)
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>However, the Chinese don't have the amount of freedom we are enjoying. But how do you compare non-freedom versus material suffering?

I think this is a false dilemma. Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong all managed to develop into wealthy nations (PPP GDPs per capita of around 35k, 60k and 40k respectively compared to 12k in the mainland), in spite of having far greater degrees of freedom than Mainland China.

>most Chinese were suffering a lot more from poverty than from individual rights

The poverty was to a degree due to the lack of individual rights. In Maoist China, you literally didn't even have the right to the grain you farmed in your field; you had to give it to the Party and then wait in line for whatever they decided you deserved. There was no opportunity to save up and improve your lot; starting a business, privately buying and selling things, was literally grounds for execution.
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My astronomy friends are into hard-core start gazing. One experiment was in La Palma island with near-perfect night sky at 8 000 feet. One guy could see 8.1 magnitude stars at 80% cases (independent stats). With oxygen and some training he would probably get to 8.5 magnitudes.

There are similar stories with sound etc. I think some people can see near infrared, it is just question of finding them.
DigitalOcean or Linode? What Do You Guys Recommend?
Though, I already switched to DigitalOcean's SSD cloud VPS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8211327 and satisfied with it, But Interested to know some in-depth analysis of Linode. I just discovered Linode and Not sure that, If linode is better than DigitalOcean.

I Can't Compare between these two unmanaged VPS. The price and Hardware is same the only difference I have found between these is, Network out and Network In.

Linode offering 40Gbit network in while DigitalOcean 1Gbit

and

Linode's Network out is 250Mbit while DigitalOcean 1Gbit.

Could you guys give me a hand to figure out the best between these two?

Thanks In Advance!
There are some games this will simply not work for, like fighting games, where even the delay caused by the LCD rendering each frame is noticeable. The ADC in the LCD is either too slow or has too much processing happening. Many hardcore fighting game fans prefer CRTs due to this.

There is no cure for latency. The network is physical. Instead of trying to abstract it away in a library and assume lag doesn't exist, it should be designed for in the application. The last time Microsoft abstracted the network away, we ended up with asp.net WebForms.
Interesting, I will try it out.
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I don't understand how it works. Does it only use the GPS to find photos from around your spot, or does it use some sort of camera to find something that matches what you take? I imagine the former, since I didn't see anything that could sense light in there.
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I find you comment interesting and agreeable, but I'm not sure what to make of this sentence:

> There is such deep denial of the corrupt nature of private money creation in banks in the west that most analysts overlook this as a key advantage of the Chinese system.

Can you maybe explain it? Are banks more corrupted in the West or in China? Is <something, I'm not sure what> an advantage or a disadvantage of the Chinese system as compared to the west?
That's nice. How many game or film studios will be driven bankrupt by the yet-again increased cost of content production?

But yes, Blood Soaked Shoot-em-Up 93x-treme is going to look very realistic. It will be almost as if I was really invading Iraq!
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I'm like the parent, I just can't see the common IR LEDs with the naked eye, not even faintly, not even in pitch darkness with the led 1cm from my eye. I think you just have a skill that we don't. Or maybe you just have IR leds with shorter wavelengths...
A well-written geopolitical overview of China's rise - it's well worth reading the entire article if you have the time.
I think it's almost criminal what doctors and residents are subjected to.
From other places, at a slightly higher cost.

Most food Californians eat (or any American) doesn't come from there to start.
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Hmm, this thread would suggest that many people can see it:

http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Alert-Security-Systems/IR-LEDS...

Security cameras with IR leds are pretty bright to me. I can easily tell when the IR leds are on. Have you noticed anything like that?
Quick feedback:

- couldn't find the "share button" after long-pressing a board

- breadcrumbs at top of page are useful, might be useful if long-press on a parent or grandparent breadcrumb brought up a list of peers

- could there be an option to disable transition animation? Rollover on selection of item is good, but the whole-page zoom animation makes me dizzy.

- need template support to reuse "forms" created by drawing lines

Overall feels promising. Scapple also looks cool, too bad it's only on OSX.
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I expected something related with Stellar coins.

Looks like a good project, I definitely want an easy way to manage development databases.
Other than Google or Amazon, where would one research translation bias/quality? Is there a site which reviews all translations for a given work?
Regarding the Racket concurrency story, it has places; http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/places.html.

"A place is a parallel task that is effectively a separate instance of the Racket virtual machine. Places communicate through place channels, which are endpoints for a two-way buffered communication."

So places are somewhat like Erlang processes.

Distributed Places are also interesting:
http://docs.racket-lang.org/distributed-places/index.html
Wow. First time I've read this speech. It's actually incredible.
I prefer Linode. DO often has network issues and nodes take a little while to boot. Linode seems to offer a much more consistent product because they have been around whereas DO grew very quickly and I don't think they have gotten everything stable yet. I would also imagine the performance on the Linode are better with their new hardware.
(Haven't looked through the code) I think the idea is that you press the button, it gets the current GPS coordinate, searches the internet and gives you a virtual photo of what's around you, given the photos it found taken nearby. Then it's shown on the screen taped to it. So it's like a camera without the lens, you press the button and get the picture.
That's just semantics. It's called the UN Declaration of Human Rights, not the UN Declaration of Human Privileges. By the way, Article 17 section 1? Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
I'm confused as to why this isn't an app for a smartphone. Cool demo of how to simply link bits of hardware together though.
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Here[0] is the previous HN discussion of this, submitted 10 hours earlier:

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8210319
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Right, that's what it looks like, thanks. From the description, I thought it would also know which way you're looking, and maybe the conditions (time of day, weather, etc). Something that took a low-res photo and matched it with a higher res/better-taken photo would be pretty interesting.
Thanks for replying back on this thread and sharing your recommendation. Anyway, Can you explain, How to migrate from DigitalOcean to Linode? Sorry for asking you again :(
Interesting but I'm very glad I don't need to worry about issues at that a low level in my work.
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This is a nice project. I used to have my database dump tracked by git (in binary mode). anytime my db changes I'll have to overwrite the file with the new database dump and include it with the commit.

I'm just wondering if this project offers anything special/better than the method I described.
Unfortunate name, excellent project :)
Yes, and conversely, why is there a smartphone attached to the box?

All you need is a gyroscope, GPS and a button to press, right?
You're right that is how it works. But it only search into Panoramio base so far.
I find the BBC to be very good for most topics, generally better than e.g. the Guardian or other 'broadsheet' newspapers.

BUT I have been shocked/amazed by the BBC coverage of Snowden - their silence was often deafening. From what I have seen this last year or so, they are definitely severely biased and/or muzzled on some topics - presumably following pressure by the UK govt.
Thanks for the reference. I will buy it.
Banks loan much more money than there is available, creating systemic risk and in extreme cases making the government unable to directly control inflation. The upside is that loans get much cheaper, making it possible to invest on enterprises that wouldn't exist otherwise.

Looks like banks in China can only do that with their government authorization.
really nice thanks! i made a small php class to get work done. https://github.com/ins0/php-simple-ziplocate
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A used books search engine: http://used.addall.com. Bookfinder is owned by Abebooks which is owned by Amazon. Biblio is independent and often price competitive.
The page does not really explain what this thing is or show what it does.
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It's not a smartphone, it's a "4.3 Inch LCD TFT Rearview Monitor screen".
There could be a browser plugin which provides links to out-of-print versions of books when they are referenced on a page, e.g. in a bibliography or other list of books.
From an end user perspective, you can basically look at it as OpenStack + Kubernetes.
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Is there a Google-like indexer that indexes all the photos it can find online and makes them searchable on location information in the EXIF data? That would be a killer backend for something like this. Seems like something Google Images could easily do but I can't find an option for it.
It's a very interesting project regardless, but the idea that all the angles and lights have been captured of even famous monuments is entirely wrong. That's precisely why photography is interesting and why we do it - each moment is visually unique and will never be repeated. It's worth being aware of if you spend your time designing systems for automation (i.e. software development)
This sort of thing is useful, but already supported by Postgres through transactional DDL. Migrations that fail will have their transaction reverted.
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I am not sure how this is going to help. This kind of barbarism needs to be brought to public, it needs to burn deep into our minds. It should scare the shit out of us so that we don't let this happen ever again.
Yes, I would also like to help in some way if possible. Maybe I can make the iOS app or something. I have been programming RM for 10+ months
I go through airport security all the time with all sorts of rPI's and Arduino's often wired to buttons and IMU's and various SDR Radio's.. Every time I put them in my bag I think "this is the one that's going to get me stopped". Not even a sideways glance from the scanning operators.

I often go through with things in static protection bags, sometimes big bundles of LED strings and again nobody stops me.

I'm not sure if I'm happy because I don't have to explain the things in my bag or worried that they're looking for stuff so specific that someone with 1/2 a brain could build something that would get though easily...
Without governments, your rights in the state of nature are to wield whatever weapon you can lay your hands on or to run as fast as you can so as to avoid having what you call "property" sliced out of your hands, fingers still attached, by whatever armed gang takes a fancy to it.

I'm sure stone-aged people huddled in caves hiding from axe-wielding mobs did indeed dream of "property" and a place where they'd have a "right" to it. So, sure, the state didn't "invent" property rights. They merely enable them.
If an article doesn't say it will only be about men, but is then only about men, is it sexist? (I don't really have a firm result here, certainly some articles just happen to be about men, and others which should mention men).
It looks like a camera but, instead of taking a picture, figures out the location with GPS and downloads and displays an already existing picture from the Internet.
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> criticise C for its inability to create sensible APIs

Where in the C manual is kill() described again?
Man, I loved that!
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You can avoid this and all the quasi-legal unregulated airspace drama by... wait for it... just being regulated and flying higher up in regulated airspace! Sure, meeting FAA regulation is hard, but it's necessary and I'd be very confident that's the right route for a service like this. If they fly high enough the only point it can be shot down is over Amazon's depots when they pick up goods, and over the house of the recipient when it drops them off. The former is well isolated, and the latter is unpredictable from the point of view of the hypothetical shooter.
But as a software engineer, I can certainly say that comic is wrong.

After enough short sighted releases, mountains of technical debt, poor coding standards, and general apathy, I do not believe the engineer depicted in the comic is accurate. "Hours of simulation" and "took me a week to work out the timing sequences". No. No government paid software engineer spent a week working out the timing sequences. They hacked out something as quick as they could to meet the ridiculous deadline they were given, and then had a good laugh about fixing the process during the retrospective meeting.
You can only believe that if you believe you have a natural right not to be clubbed over the head and robbed blind. For that right to exist practically, somebody else has must work to provide it for you. Now you see, it is the "taxation is theft" person making the claim on someone else's labor.
Interesting. I wonder how does this compare to:

1) Buying every month

2) Only buying at some set period after each correction (e.g. market drops x% over 7 days).

Are there any online tools that make it simple to work out these ideas?
In my experience this is entirely correct, which is why I have always pulled estimates out of the air and stuck to them, flexing scope to fit.
I agree, after just being admitted to OMSCS, if this was roughly the same price I might consider taking it as an augmentation to my resume. GRE/Tuition requirements kill the ROI in my case
Well but speculation has to follow the same laws, so it's not really an optimization.
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Are you on Clock time or Event time?
Linode is tried and true. They've overcome the growing pains that DO has, is and will experience. I've been a very satisfied Linode customer since 2008.

This isn't the time to compare spec to spec (outbound network speed, for example). If you're #1 priority is stability, I'd go with Linode.
> The Japanese identified the problem and created a vocalic language from Chinese, the kana.

This is not quite accurate, kana are basically just an alphabet (two alphabets actually) that can be used to write Japanese. To my knowledge kana were adopted to the spoken language rather than the other way around.

> The reason Japanese stated running circles around Chinese and humiliated them.(Chinese and Japanese hate each other so much)

Is it? Perhaps you are right -- but your argument strikes me as somewhat implausible.

First of all, the Japanese were extremely isolationist until the Meiji era (1860's); they didn't start to "run circles" around China until close to 1900.

So I suppose that you are claiming that many Japanese books were published using only kana in this time period? Contemporary Japanese books, except those written for young children, use a combination of kana and Chinese characters. I believe the same has been true since 1860 (i.e. the start of the Meiji era), so I'm not sure that the existence of kana can be responsible for Japan's rise to power.

Please correct me if I have said anything incorrect.
My mistake. Thanks for the correction. :)
There's no easy answer or solution to the problem of 1.3 billion people. You certainly couldn't replicate the rise of the "free USA" anymore, sadly. (Those less than 100m "seed people" had a whole continent sheltered by two oceans at their disposal. And even they used slavery as long as possible.)

In the hierarchy of needs, a full stomach for you and your family comes before individual freedoms, free press etc. The vast majority of those 1.3b people still struggle with this. Those in power know it. They've seen the British Opiumpire, Maoism and the Cultural Revolution, anything after that was a step forward.
> In products estimates are used to work out which features provide the most value, in the shortest amount of time.

And this is why there is actually no difference between a product and a project. But value doesn't depend on estimates at all, as there may be many different ways to implement. Calculating value is therefore more important than estimating net value for any specific implementation - it tells you what your direction of travel should be.
I know this is an inevitable comment on any article that calls any software slow, but: "~500 requests/sec" using ten servers? Python may be slow, but I would be very suprised if it can't do 50req/second.
Thank you for submitting this article! I have always heard that FORTRAN is faster and commonly used in Aerospace, and I am glad to finally know why, as well as how to bridge the performance gap.
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One of the things I sometimes say to our clients at my workplace is that estimation can be done two ways. The traditional way is summative. Take all the things you want to do, estimate them (which is where McConnell's book really shines), then produce a range that expresses your likely outcomes.

The other way is emergently. Build a pile of things you want to do, put them in rough order of value, then estimate a few things at a time. Then start working. Only after a few weeks will you be able to begin to predict outcomes.

This is old news. I'm talking about velocity. Which is actually the perfect word, because summative estimations are about a total distance travelled; velocity is about the speed and direction you're currently moving in. Velocity is the differential of the project's outcomes.

Velocity is a more powerful metric because it includes its own mechanism for updating estimates. A classic "estimate smell" is that the first estimate made is the last estimate ever made. The closely related smell is "estimates that fit the plan", aka "estimation by fiat".

Velocity, however, emerges from observation. No additional action is required to update summative estimates. And what comes for free is typically, in software methodology, all that gets done.

Another way in which moving to velocity as your estimating technique is that you change what is fixed and what is fluid in discussions with clients. Traditional project management takes the work breakdown as a fixed outcome and then looks to optimise around that. Time, schedule and quality are then the variables. Velocity allows you to vary scope and work as well. You can then hold quality, time and schedule constant instead.

It's hard to convey how big of a deal this is in practice. It seems like a minor alteration. But taking seriously that the speed of light in a vacuum is fixed (per Maxwell's equations) means that spacetime varies. Which makes ... a big difference to physics.

I have seen this change in thinking bring high-risk projects to a successful conclusion under tight deadlines, with high friction, with high technical demands, in short timeframes. We had the data to show where the project was going, and that allowed us to focus on ensuring we were delivering in order of value. It also allowed us to discuss with the client what was possible and what was not possible.

Under traditional schemes we'd have had a fixed pile of features and the project would've been a "failure". Yet it did everything that was needed on a particular day, with very generous margins of safety.
> There's often uncertain deliverable a long way off into the future, and a guess at whether it will actually generate any value.

That sounds more like lousy planning than anything else.
You're absolutely right, but tourists pointing their phones up at the Eiffel Tower aren't paying attention to the angle, light, or anything else. They're just mindlessly snapping a picture of the Famous Thing. You know you're not dealing with photographers when you see them using their flashes to photograph a distant mountain range, or fireworks.

Maybe they'll send it out in a text message to show where they are. It's just a kind of ritual behavior. The purpose is not to acquire a photograph of Famous Thing, because, as this invention reminds us, there are already photographs available. It's a bit more functional when your friends' heads are arrayed in front of the Famous Thing. The next iteration of this device should be able to superimpose the faces of your travelling companions.
What's the difference then between the new system and the legacy one?
Something like this http://www.panoramio.com/map ?
I wish projects like these would always include some basic info in their README about: (1) how it works, and (2) how it might fail.
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Totally agree. Whether you're creating a new product feature, or doing a specific piece of work for a customer you need an estimate to define the cost, resource and time-line. Without it you can't understand whether the work is worth doing.

For managing cost and resource the estimating process acts as a way of discovering the complexity in the problem. Yes, it will probably be wrong to some degree, but there are ways of handling that (ie probability) on the effort analysis side. The other thing that helps is to identify the edge of what you can see, if something truly is totally unknown then breaking the work into blocks or discovery stages makes sense.

At a practical level time-line is the one that's the least useful to estimate up front, and seems the least amenable to assessment.

Without the ability to make some sort of estimate you cannot assess whether the work is likely to be worth the investment.
Sure, for some reason I thought this was a known issue. I saw it mentioned somewhere else on github - but its can't be that well known since you don't know about it. Ill open an issue this afternoon.
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