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You're being downvoted because your comment is, to most of us, a complete non-sequitur. Everyone understands that "cracking" this program is a harmless game. Successfully doing so, however, demonstrates that the interviewee has a decent grasp of various systems concepts, and is able to apply them.
One nice feature is that Domino charges by the minute where AWS charges by the hour, so if you want to run a 32 CPU job for 5 minutes, it only costs you 30c. Domino's prices are 2X AWS per minute for this reason. I have tried Domino out, and it's pretty nice, but I'm not sure if I will end up using it long term. Having 32 CPUs is not quite enough benefit over my 8 core laptop, and as you say, more complex parallelization requires you to do the heavy lifting yourself.
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Caveat: The rag-doll should be considered mindless. No fair trying to project EM radiation into it in order to make it susceptible to verbal suggestion either.
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I've used both Domino and AWS.

AWS isn't hard to use, but Domino is much easier and more streamlined for analytics.

My recollection is also that AWS rounds charges up to the hour, whereas domino does not.

I didn't know spinning up analysis in the cloud could be so easy and frictionless before trying domino.
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Since that's more readable, and since the original url (http://www.cs.uml.edu/ecg/pub/uploads/OPLspr09/genesis-of-li...) wasn't canonical, we updated it to yours. Thanks!
>> It is up to the elites in our society, including journalists, to ensure they are getting something closer to the truth.

> Think about what your statement says about democracy. It's a fair position to take on a question that has been debated for centuries. But did you realize you were taking such a position?

I can imagine a few things you might be implying, but I'm not sure which one. I'd be very interested in learning what you mean.
> Queens typically live for about four or five years

This figure is from an old study that others have repeatedly failed to reproduce. More recent attempts to determine queen longevity have shown they live to an average of about a year, and furthermore failed to find any of significantly advanced age. So it shouldn't too much of a surprise that she only lasted a season. Since there seem to be a few beekeepers hanging out here, I'd be curious to hear anecdotal evidence of queen lifespan.
What are you saying beside that games you see today don't fulfil your standards (which is what I summarized the article to)

Any criticism of X can be reduced to saying that X doesn't meet one's standards. But without investigating the nature and value of those standards, you're not addressing the argument being made. And I don't think you investigated the OP's standards; in fact, I think you dismissed them as nostalgia. It was borderline ageist!
Good article. For lay readers, perhaps you might include a definition of your usage of 'asset manager' (where you reference Blackrock). It's confusing if you don't know the terminology: a hedge fund manages assets sometimes on behalf of institutions, but it's not an institutional asset manager.
You know, it unnerves me how forceful and imperative you are about it. In the authors opinion, hedge funds do serve a social purpose: To regulate volatile markets via arbitrage, preventing bubbles on the high end and undervaluation on the low end.

You can't just enforce an arbitrary rule on something as subjective as semantics.
Hey Apple/Google - add a new feature that allows me to set a second 'wipe phone code'.
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The common definition of a hedge fund I encounter is they're designed to earn an absolute rate of return regardless of how the border markets are performing.

There are so many strategies (even down to use of derivatives, leverage, shorts, etc) employed by HF managers to achieve this that defining the HF industry by strategy doesn't seem viable.
Maybe?
The truth is I feel like it didn't matter what they chose.

Apple is very good at convincing people of what they want (i don't think they simply give people what people already wanted). In a case like this, IMHO, they could have had slightly better battery life than the 5S, and said "we've packed a lot more power in the same battery life", and people would have likely been fine with it.
Apple's implementation makes this incredibly difficult given the 10-attempt failsafe (wipes device) and increasing timeouts for failed login ("try again in 1 hr" - after 7th failed attempt).

Also even given a trivial passcode, if you use "complex passcode" and the same 4-character passcode, you've vastly increase the key search space with a minor change to usability (esp. if you have touchID).
I think it's similar to why people don't just set up an AWS box and cron rsync instead of using Dropbox. Or the same benefit as using Heroku over AWS directly. If you're not deeply familiar with server administration, there are a hundred or so snags in managing synchronization of code and data between systems, getting the remote system set up to run the same code as your local system, and managing all the runs and results.
> Social is an useless word to include, and only invokes trolls to argue.

Some irony there.

Author addresses the point well: read the article and pay attention to later paragraphs which discuss liquidity provision, price formation, and market stabilization.
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You can use a hacksaw to:
(a) cut a lock that you have permission to cut
(b) cut a lock illegally

You can use the code to:
(a) legally mine bitcoins on visitors' computers
(b) illegally mine bitcoins on visitors' computers

Potential for a law to be broken is a stupid basis for a subpoena.
Perhaps not the most glamorous phrasing, but I think what you just described is the essence (and power) of gamification.
> ... assuming those tabs are cross-origin.

Not sure why this has to be a condition. Perhaps tabs loading pages from the same origin will both have read/write access to some shared data in the browser kernel (like the site's cookies), but they still run in separate address spaces regardless. A compromised tab won't be able to directly access another tab's RAM, as is the case with single-process browsers.

> Also assumes that a compromised tab can't go on to compromise the OS kernel.

Very true. However, my argument was that a multi-process model limits (but obviously does not eliminate) the impact of zero-days. In the single process model, the attacker could compromise any tab and have all tab state available with no additional effort. In the multi-process model, the attacker would have to compromise the right tab, compromise a different tab and trick the browser kernel to performing the requisite operations, or somehow bypass the OS's memory protection. Each of these require more work than before.
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Narratives. Stories. Parables.

Why are we all drawn to these? It kind of weird, isn't it? I've learned that an audience tends to have about a 10 minute attention span. To snap people out of drifting off, just tell a quick story, and you reset your audience's attention span for another 10 minutes.

What is it about narratives, stories, and parables that intrigue us?
It sounds to me like NJ wants to start mining bitcoin. Nothing is sacred when you're running a deficit I guess.
I can't find any official statements about this renaming (there's a BigBreak branch which is supposed to take care of renaming as per a thread reply on the forum[1]) but I assume that people have been citing the name as a barrier to a widespread adoption of Nimrod [2][3].

[1] http://forum.nimrod-lang.org/t/541

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7076451

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7074774
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and which book would that be? :)
If you did this, a court would usually sanction you.
In cases like this, the sanction is often "whatever they thought they could prove with the phone, is assumed to be proved".
It sucks that you're getting downvoted. I totally agree that this "RAM is cheap" thinking is problematic. Sure, if you only ran one program at a time on a computer, it would make perfect sense. But when I have a finite amount of RAM to spread among a multitude of applications, screaming "RAM is cheap" is bollocks. Never mind that on my current laptop I'm already at the max it can physically support, which means if I want more RAM, I have to buy a whole new machine.

Here's a thought for developers: Next time you find yourself saying "RAM is cheap" (or any variation thereof) thwack yourself about the head multiple times with a big stick, then go rinse your mouth out with soap and water.
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In a different subject, there was this comment that I like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8323556
That presupposes that lighting up and drawing pixels is most if the overall power budget. Moreover, the biggest component of screen power usage is the backlight, which doesn't scale linearly with the number of pixels.
> there's something odd about the benchmarks

You say odd, I say meaningless :)
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It's easy to chalk this up to herd behavior but what's scarier is the real possibility that solid investment choices don't really exist in America anymore.
There is evidence that the code was present on websites, but, the code was never functional, that is, it never mined bitcoins. Therefore it never breached any laws.

As such, one has to wonder either whether the cyber fraud unit of the state department has basic understanding of programming or whether the state department is willfully taking this action to send some sort of message.
Depends on your definition of "compel." If the government offers you a choice between you giving testimony or them making your life a living hell, I would consider that compulsion.
Add a feature where you can select what to wipe, e.g. you could choose to have it wipe only your SMS messages, so the phone still looks lived-in and not factory-fresh and make it impossible to tell whether the normal unlock code or wipe code was used.
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There is an idea floating around out there that boardgames are becoming more popular recently because of the social gap left behind when multi-player video games went online, removing the need to physically be in the same room as your friends.
> Politely asking that you unlock it yourself, and letting you rot in a cell until you do.

Does anyone know the details of the second part of that sentence? Surely you wouldn't be in jail indefinitely until you give the password...
You might be able to work around that by using dispatches in a lunguage you don't know. Russian or Swedish police radio chatter would have similar sense of urgency, etc, but you wouldn't know the specific Bad Things that are happening.
Can you tell me what company you work for where you may be in a position to hire people? I'd like to make sure I never waste my time by applying there.
This only works if you value your github streak number/commit stats. "measure your self-worth by" implies that all other values are secondary, which would just be silly.
You assume that memory and flash content of phone can not be go cloned.
Is there another website other than wired with this article?
So good that the only thing I can complain about is punctuation.
This article claims hedge funds aren't allowed to advertise to the public. That is not true anymore.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/with-ban-on-ads-lifte...
What I satisfy myself is: "People are responsible for their own actions".

That relies on some emotionally intuitive notion of "responsible" which I cannot bootstrap from what I know of the universe. That is why "free will" is foma to me. Rationally I do not believe it to exist because I cannot define it rationally (not only do I find myself unable to do it, I believe that it is not possible).
Yet no website provides you with an add free version first or analytic free version first before asking for your consent. The way EU law is currently implemented by websites assumes consent making the whole exercise completely redundant.
I think the fall of the middle class has a lot to do with a lot of different factors, but probably the biggest is the lack of negotiation that happens in our country by the average person.

We are a country of price takers, not price setters. Most people are taking whatever price they are offered with no push back. No raises this year? Well maybe next year. Maybe a tiny bonus. Etc.

Unions had their own set of problems and at some point might be unsustainable, but when people stop negotiating deals, they get taken advantage of.

I've changed jobs more than some people I know because it would get me a better deal, and it has. But before that, I experienced myself and watched my parents stick to the same job without getting appropriate raises and bonuses for the work they did.

In our current economy the best way to get a raise seems to be to switch companies because companies don't like giving raises and people don't like asking for them. Eventually what used to be a early raise negotiation will be a yearly job negotiation. It's starting to happen with younger workers and the more that is normal, the less efficient all these businesses will become.

All because people stopped negotiating.
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You'll continually be found in contempt of court until you comply, until they break through some other way, or until they get tired of dealing with you.
I think he's out of touch, period. He's at a stage where he seems to be saying things just to see if anyone bothers, and if they do, he rides them into additional PR. He's like the music industries answer to Bill Gates; he knows his main gig is past prime and that he's now mostly a joke, so let's do some 'philanthropy' (read: massage my reputation into something else so I won't just be remembered for re-recording the same album 11 times in a row)
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> The AOT thing seemed to take root as some sort of differentiating talking point.

I think it took root in part because even end-users who were only casually interested saw a dialog suggesting as much on upgrade. When you upgraded to an Android version that used ART, you got a message telling you that the apps were being precompiled, which took a while to finish.
If their investment strategies are secret, then how do we know that hedge funds haven't been bailed out by governments - at least indirectly? The secrecy makes it more difficult to evaluate if public policy could have been steered by politically connected hedge funds.
Hi izyda. We get that question a lot, and we're working on our messaging around this, so I appreciate the feedback. Here are some reasons our customers find Domino valuable:

- Domino makes it really easy to start and manage multiple runs in parallel (think a modern, easy-to-use cluster). If you're doing all this directly with AWS, you're quickly running into pain points managing all your instances and images.

- Domino auto automatically keeps a revisioned history of your work. It supports large files like data sets (which git can't handle) and it tracks the results/artifacts of your analysis (which makes it more like git + CI). These things are critical to analytics workflows, rather than pure software development.

- Domino lets you deploy your analyses as self-service web UI tools, or deploy them to API endpoints. Doing this on your own would involve building an entire web stack around your analysis.

- Domino hosts your analysis centrally so you can share and collaborate with others (yes, this is like github, but on a platform that has all the benefits above).

- The entire product can be installed on-premise, so companies can use the functionality described above without going to the cloud if they don't want to.

Finally, even for pure infrastructure management, we've found that many data scientists don't want to spend their time dealing with system administration. It's true that it's not that hard to start an EC2 instance. But pretty quickly you're installing packages (perhaps in an environment you aren't used to), dealing with security groups, file transfer (configuring S3), etc. People use Domino for the same reason they use Heroku: yes, you could deal with all that, but it might be a better use of your time to let someone else do it.
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Seems plausible, though there's no way that's the only reason.
It's not always easy even for technical people. For example, I bought a game not long ago. When I bought it, the game wasn't on Steam or Origin or common gaming stores. You bought it directly from their site.

So I go to http://www.beamng.com. I click the link that says "buy it now". I'm suddenly redirected to http://sites.fastspring.com/beamng/product/alpha

Both of these sites are unencrypted, and the second site has nothing to do with the first site. Do I book it out of there? All signs say yes. I wanted to buy a game from BeamNG, not from Fast Spring, whatever the hell that is. I've never even heard of them.

If we train users to follow the best practices, this game would never have a single sale. If people want to buy this game, they have to ignore that. How do we teach exceptions? Now we're getting into the territory where it's too difficult to teach to people who aren't techies.

If I have a cough, I take Robitussin. If it doesn't go away, I go to the doctor because I am not a medical expert. It's not that I can't be taught how to tell what is wrong with me, its that it's unreasonable for me to know that and still keep my day job. If I knew that, I would be a doctor. If users knew every exception to security, they would be security engineers.
So this is for me to meet up with friends, right? Not strangers?

I really, really wish my friends would use something like this, but they won't. It's been a struggle over the course of 2 years to get them all on Venmo. P2P payments are a no-brainer and even life-changing, but they were just too lazy. And as of now, I have about 1/3 of them on Hangouts instead of SMS.

Things like this are great, but even young, relatively tech-friendly people are too set in their ways.
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I wouldn't say that the universe is clockwork; quantum mechanics throws a wrench in that. However, unlike Penrose, I do not believe that quantum mechanics plays a crucial role in the human mind. I believe that the human mind could be (and probably is) clockwork.

I find that it is difficult to get shit done with that mindset though, so I live my life as though I did not believe it.
Since hypothetical person may have hypothetically used Windows as well, the NJ AG should be subpoenaing Microsoft for a complete copy of the source code for Windows 8.1
The failsafe/wipe and timeouts are all implemented in software, and are still in Apple's control. They would be able to easily remove those restrictions without you needing to give up anything.
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Every USA embassy is a spying station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ndx...
Not everything needs to have a social function.
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You'll rarely be wrong if you assume that prosecutors are fishing.

On the other hand, you'll also rarely be wrong if you assume Wired fucked up the story.

50/50, flip a coin.
Surely you mean AwesomeWM.
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Give my social login before I can even see anything? No thanks
... He mentioned that in the article?
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Drawing a legal distinction between a password to unlock and a fingerprint to unlock is absurd.

Legally, the method of restricting access (physical key, combination safe, fingerprint, password) should have no bearing on whether somebody can be compelled to provide access. A smartphone filled with documents should be legally equivalent to a locked filing cabinet. Either both should be compellable or neither.
"Social function" is a term of art in sociology. It is absolutely not meaningless in this context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_functionalism
Good point. Although, I'd argue that more often than not, institutions (pension funds, funds of funds, etc.) are the ones investing in hedge funds rather than individuals. Usually there is a pretty high minimum investment (and needing to know the right people) that you won't be able to meet, unless you are a very high net worth individual. For example (ps this was a pretty big deal last week), CALPERs the largest U.S. pension fund, is leaving the hedge fund space and re-allocating the 10% of assets they allocated to it, to other strategies like Private Equity[1].

[1]http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/15/nations-biggest-pensi...
See the article, paragraph 37 (or Control + F for "LTCM").
This is the bug report you provided:

Nice updates to Xamarin Studio. Too bad they can't fix that pesky "indenting pukes on itself" or "lines disappearing in the editor".

And all I did was ask you for information about this, purely because I had not experienced it myself:

@edropple bug report please

But for the record, you do not need to sign up for our bug tracking system. You can email your concerns, complains to support@xamarin.com who will be happy to shepherd your problem through our developers.

As for filing the bug with the exception: I am merely trying to prioritize someone with a bug right then. We do get crash reports with the exceptions, and we go through those and fix those.

The only reason to ask for the exception is to provide you with better support and address your fix faster.
The TabPolish Chrome extension implements similar behavior (in a slightly different way; it doesn't hook into the suggestion menu, and duplicate detection is per window, rather than per browser instance).

I find it essential to manage the mess that is my Chrome tabs.
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Said Screwtape: If ever there were a bunch of stalks that needed their tops knocked off, it was surely they.
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...their trades are supposed to bully mis-priced assets into more reasonable valuations. That way, undervalued securities pick up in price, and overpriced securities are shorted down before they form a bubble. Though hedge funds failed to prevent the last two bubbles, it was not for lack of trying: Hedge funds bet against many tech companies, and many were on the right side of the housing bubble, i.e. holding CDS on the CDOs.

So, in essence, hedge funds either failed or are incapable of actually fulfilling one of their main social functions (to avoid "bubbles" by helping to achieve more "reasonable valuations"), but "hey, some of us tried!".
I would also be wary of putting the limp rag-doll into an MRI, then talking to it and seeing how the brain lights up.
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You negotiate with people you trust. When there's no trust, negotiations break down.

The all-pervading "glue" of society is crumbling down.
Interestingly and strangely enough, jail can only be used for contempt of court when they believe that keeping you there has a chance of making you comply. If you make a principled enough stand that you are never going to comply, they legally have to let you out. In practice, this usually takes a long time.