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They don't favor anyone, they simply charge for an unbiased service that only traders with considerable other infrastructure investments would care about, and at the $1500/mo cost based on the WSJ being cited, it's nothing. They aren't even really delaying the release of the free information, they just don't care about the timing as much as some HFT traders. The only potentially injured parties here are cheapskate professional traders.
Central banks would love to have the problems of the mid 80s back as well.
Um, yes, it is harassment. Don't do this.
Did you ever clue in to the CoCo having 64K ram that you could use if you messed with the video/memory controller for a bit to copy the ROM to RAM first? After that you could enable the full 64K and modify the (former) ROM data! Very neat and I used that trick quite a bit to relocate the basic to the highest 16K (giving much more free space in basic) and for all kinds of other tricks requiring more memory. Adding a bunch of new commands/functions to basic was also a fun project.
They're using NVMe, so the SSDs are either really local or at least in the same rack using a PCIe switch. One could imagine that different servers have different numbers of SSDs and when you create a VM with N SSDs they put it on a server with that many.
Just like there are iMacs and custom built desktop PCs, more choice is good for everyone
So far, what I've heard about CurrentC reminds me of Circuit City's failed attempt to push their proprietary pay-per-view DVD scam.

Like any number of similar schemes, up to and including Microsoft's attempt to force-feed Metro to desktop users, it's all about what the company wants, rather than what the consumer wants. That always works out so well for the company.
Thanks, that page helps.
No need to be rude about what may be long-held theological beliefs. Respectfully disagreeing is fine, thinly veiled hostility is a bit uncivil
I quick look at the Wikipedia page [1] reveals there is and I always assumed it all kind of works - I know WMI, CMI and the related stuff and it is not completely cooked up by Microsoft alone and therefore I always assumed that this is a standard solution and I could just point a WMI console to a Linux machine if I wanted to. Now I am not sure if I should like this project because it does something useful or dislike it because it is another incompatible solution (and I lean a bit towards a One True Way philosophy).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-Based_Enterprise_Management...
Interesting tidbit: Coherent was produced by Aaron Swartz' father.
Are you creating a breakthrough technology instead of incremental improvements?

Are you starting with a big share of a small market?

Will your market position be defensible 10 and 20 years into the future?

Have you identified a unique opportunity that others don't see?

I'm guess you've answered no to several of the questions above. That's why they didn't pick you.
Right. An outright fabrication from pure silence is less likely than a creative "misinterpretation".
While you might be "technically" correct... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90qpDg5y7Lo
"We saw rust and crack, so we repaired them" seems like the culprit. Not the age.
You would probably have to make a few assesments, like how often is this package used in my project, and how exposed is it in terms of security vulnerabilities.

An authentication package that provides HTTP endpoints onto your framework where the controller classes are entirely out of your control or you simply pass a Request instance to the service class seems highly likely to be a security risk. The same goes for your ORM(s). Something like a Markdown converter seems less likely, though not impossible.

The popularity of the package could also play a role. If it's popular, it's more likely bugs/vulnerabilities will be spotted and revealed publicly on places like HN or Reddit.

Lastly, if you can ensure that all the packages you use follow semantic versioning, you can lock the version constraint in composer.json to only receive bugfix releases, which would in theory make it safe to run composer update as a cronjob. However, in my experience very few packages do this, and most of them when releasing a new minor version won't backport bugfixes/security fixes to older versions.

Personally, I have an RSS reader set up to notify me of new tags on Github for the more involved packages I use, but I also put a high emphasis on writing a lot of the code myself rather than use packages.
Good for everyone, ...except Google shareholders maybe? (Maybe not though; it might earn more for them in marketing value, as Satya Nadella pointed out.)
When all else fails, blame Russia.
Here’s TIGHAR’s map of possible Earhart evidence on Nikumaroro: http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/MapsandPhotos/ma...

Note: their copyright disclaimer in the footer technically disallows linking to or visiting their site, so click at your own risk! ;)
Man, I would have given up some serious allowance money for this back when the Apollo program was active.

Reading through the descriptions of some of the flight and launch control systems gives me a high level of respect for the software folk responsible. Sure, the systems were simple compared to today, but there was no room for any of the sloppiness we see passed off as "software engineering" in the interim years. "Mmm, I'm not entirely sure about that launch abort method, but we'll check it in, see if test finds anything."
"Secure Enclave" was (is?) the term Apple was using for the "element" storing fingerprints for Touch ID.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/09/10Apple-Announces-iP...
There hasn't been much development in this types of engines since the moon race. And we may have even gone backwards, because a lot of the institutional knowledge and probably some of the documentation is lost.
And that's why I print all my documents in blood.
> This makes it easy to think about system data across all sorts of boundaries that the file metaphor makes somewhat cumbersome.

while file metaphor became big in previously SQL domain of data processing, i.e. the whole ecosystem of HDFS and everything on top of it
And the punchline is, those engines weren't even very good when they were first made all those decades ago.

If they article is right, they were first developed for use on the N1 rocket, the Soviet moon-rocket counterpart to America's Saturn V. There's a reason why Saturn V beat the N1 to the moon -- the N1 had a distressingly consistent habit of blowing up:

N1-L3 was underfunded and undertested, and started development in October 1965, almost four years after the Saturn V. The project was badly derailed by the death of its chief designer Sergei Korolev in 1966. Each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed; during the second launch attempt the N1 rocket crashed back onto its launch pad shortly after liftoff and exploded, resulting in one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in human history. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket))
I am highly skeptical of any analysis performed by TIGHAR. They are way too biased in their interpretation of their "finds." I would like to see a detailed report on how they determined that piece of metal is the one they say it is. If and only if that report draws reasonable conclusions, I would then be interested in what a third party analysis had to say about it. That is my minimum bar for even considering TIGHAR's claims.
As someone who was learning drupal I was wondering this. My test site came up with a friendly notice to "upgrade core". I figured I should since it seemed like a good exercise.

But trying to figure out how was not intuitive. The drupal web site was mum on the issue (you figured they post something on the site telling people to upgrade asap)

I figured it out eventually. Was disappointed how it was handled.
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They were probably famous because it was so risky and they were seen as daring. You might crash or be marooned at any time.
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That is strange. You should report it to google's bug bounty program so that they can triage it or get it to a group that can fix it. (I'm not sure of another avenue to get through to a person there.)
Where was the glove compartment where this manual went?
I've always felt like it's harder to spy on an LCD screen due to the limited viewing angles as opposed to physical buttons. And the physical layout of the PIN pad should be similar so it should be a smooth transition. The device will also be PCI PTS approved so it will be on par in terms of physical and logical security.
It's interesting how much negativity Perl 6 (or Perl, in general) generates, and how dismissive folks are of it's usefulness. The fact is that Perl is used extremely widely in a huge variety of roles. New projects are being launched in Perl (DuckDuckGo is a relatively recent thing that has been very successful, but there are many others), and a lot of very smart people work in Perl, both 5 and 6.

If Perl isn't your bag, or Perl 6 is taking too long to be "finished" for you to want to use it, that's fine. There are hundreds of languages to choose from. I understand the frustration of longtime Perl developers; Perl 6 is the Perl developer vanguard seemingly turning their backs on "pragmatic" and running somewhat haphazardly toward the theoretical and (very far) forward looking (Perl 6 contains many more novel concepts than a lot of newer languages, such as Go).

Could it, should it, have been done differently? Incrementally, with real-world testing for each new feature? Probably. Hindsight is 20/20. Is it a victim of second system effect? Possibly, we won't know until it hits some reasonable levels of production; right now it's still quite academic. Hubris is one of the Perl virtues, and it may have led to "perfect is the enemy of the good" winning out on more decisions than it should have.

But, Perl 5 is a great language today, certainly a match for Python or Ruby for conciseness, performance, capability, etc. And a vastly better language than Perl 5 was 14 years ago. Perl lost the popular mindshare war..but, it still helps people build a lot of cool software in a lot of fields.

Regardless of whether you'll use Perl 6, I'd love it if people here at HN would actually take a look at the novel ideas contained therein, rather than focusing on the superficial "it's late and I don't like it". There are concepts in Perl 6 that could improve your favorite language, and might alter the way you think about solving problems. If only you'd check it out. I'd wager most of you have read a bit about Haskell or Go or Erlang or Scala, without ever seriously intending to develop in it. I would suggest the same approach to Perl 6.
In regards to the perception of unfairness, most of that should be a non-issue as of Q2 2014.

http://www.utpplan.com/DOC/Q2%20US%20Consolidated%20Tape%20D...

http://www.utpplan.com/DOC/Q1%202014%20U.S.%20Consolidated%2...

Tape C average SIP latency from Q1 2014 to Q2 2014 went from ~1ms to 40-50 microseconds. That's about 20x faster. 40-50 microsecond average is about the technological limit for what these systems can do unless one resorts to FPGAs. Even then, the improvements to be gained is to take a 40-50 microsecond system and make it into a 5-10 microsecond system.

The best network switches today with cut-through propagation have port to port latencies of around 200ns. These things are pretty much approaching the speed of light.
Those are harassment, unless you're saying them to a lot of people. If you're only saying it to women you think are hot, in an anonymous street context (not a singles bar), stop it.
FWIW, the iMac's Fusion Drive includes a 128Gb SSD and a discrete spinning HDD, whereas the sprout appears to have a 'hybrid drive' which is a spinning disk with a small SSD used for cache. Much less expensive, flexible, and speedy.

A more Apples to Apples (sorry) comparison would be the non-fusion drive iMac for $1699

That said, the added hardware on this still seems to make it a relative bargain.
Minor nitpick: Frank Culbertson is an executive vice president at Orbital, not the CEO.

The CEO mentioned in the article (Elon Musk) said "there is better technology to use".
While you're at it, one related piece that I'd like to see explored is relations-as-code, code-as-relations a la Lisp. It would be interesting to see what a program would look like if represented as tuples in a relation, and able to self-modify by updating that relation.

Abstract, I know, but I don't think anyone has looked at this in any detail yet.
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I was commenting more on the (not surprising) comments from their detractors, not so much on the official explanation.
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The following White House announcement seems to say that they have already transitioned the main site to Drupal 7. [1] Do you have contrary evidence or insider knowledge?

[1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/10/24/welcome-white-hous...
"You're telling me that once you have my information you throw it away immediately. That's great, but you are still forcing me to give you my information in the first place by standing in the middle of the street yelling it through a loud hailer".
It's definitely planned (I have a 'formations' table ready to go), I just haven't spent the time to build it yet.
Here's the thing: the rocket itself is not 'decades old'. The design is.

This is tantamount to saying "Oh, cars use a decades old design.. they must be terrible!"

The article also completely overlooks the fact that Russia launched a rocket with the supplies within 24 hours of the failure.
http://news.yahoo.com/cause-sought-space-supply-rocket-08252...
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Looking at the patch that fixed the vulnerability [0], I think it's a pretty safe bet to say that having a hybrid array/key-value store [1] is a generally terrible idea.

[0]: https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/SA-CORE-2014-005-D7.patc...
[1]: http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php
So out of a video containing 90% harassment, you hone in on the one or two that are lesser in degree. Do you not agree that the woman in this video was harassed repeatedly?
The only argument here is that crypto on internet connected (and potentially compromised) devices is insecure. There's nothing inherently more insecure about browser crypto.

Our multisig vault relies on BitcoinJS, which we had audited by an external consulting firm. We also don't allow multisig vault creation on browsers which don't support crypto.getRandomValues()
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We're already doing that one :)
Sure... bigger batteries will be bulkier, but they will at least be an option. My Nexus 5 battery sucks and there is nothing that can be done.
If the form is POSTed directly to stripe (which is the recommended usage), your info is never seen by a third party. The site in question would only potentially store a token. Are you sure this wasn't the case?
There's a lot less redundancy in a rocket. A B-52 can keep flying if a bunch of stuff stops working or falls off. You just cannot design a rocket that way.
Technically, it's not the convention in Common Lisp, but rather Scheme and Dylan. But yes.
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Click-baity headline for what looks like a poorly-written advertisement.
Sorry if I misunderstood you.

> part of liberal arts education, especially at the most liberal artsy institutions (University of Chicago, Swarthmore, Reed, etc) is specifically training you the tools of an academic discipline

Having no expertise in this area myself ... I agree that learning how to be a professional academic is not widely valuable. However,

I suspect there is value in focusing on an academic discipline. The thinking required for academic disciplines -- especially in regard to creating new knowledge -- may differ from more practical ones, and learning something in depth differs from learning in more superficial breadth.

It may not matter so much what you learn, as long as you study something in depth.

Finally, it may prepare you well for graduate school, which is much more common than academic careers.
Nice! I'd recommend changing from keyup to keydown -- it'll make everything feel snappier.
I think the key bit is 7) Gets tired...

If you get tired of working on a profitable side project - sell it! Don't refund users or abandon it. There are lots of people that would like to get started and learn from an existing product.

Decide what is the most enjoyable part for you. Finding the idea, building it, solving problems, selling? Try to do that more.

Maybe you end up building SasS products for other people, partnering on a project you really love.

Like you say, you can't keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results. The only reason to do something over and over is if you enjoy it.
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Jeez, take it easy.

It's a legit question, few people are aware of runas.
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But cars are... they are extremely inefficient to more modern designs. We just haven't found something better then the internal combustion engine.
Haven't read the code, but this transactional behaviour should be possible to implement. Just ensure that all bound tables in a query reference the same snapshot.
For detailed skeptical analysis of TIGHAR's other Earhart claims, see:

http://skeptoid.com/blog/2012/03/20/more-amelia-earhart-nons...

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4295
I don't think it's so much about age as it is about design. From my understanding the original NK 33 rocket engines used a unique oxygen-rich fuel turbo-pump mechanism that the west considered too dangerous. Aerojet-Rocketdyne took these engines and refurbished them and therein lies the question. But I think it might be premature to ask this given they haven't told us what happened.

The thing is they are very powerful engines and the price was right.
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Yeah, I realized that. But his point is a bit narrow and strawmanish, so I thought it should be expanded.

The entire world isn't engineering, and there are plenty of things that we have to agree to disagree on (we can come up with objective solutions that minimize the disagreement, but that only goes so far). Since softer subjects will always lack clear objective answers, we could hope for a change in liberal arts teaching that required creating independent rational arguments rather than getting by by restating the specific one the professor happens to believe in.
You are wrong. http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/v7vq7r/masters-of-sexism--...

In the words of Jessica Williams.
"Our walk to work is not there for [you] to comment on. It's not a red carpet. It's not a fashion week runway. It's a sidewalk. And believe it or not, getting the horny clap of approval from any guy does not improve my day, it actually creeps me out. So guys get some impulse control because I've got some shit to do"
Context for the Musk Quotes, his 2012 Wired interview:

http://www.wired.com/2012/10/ff-elon-musk-qa/all/
I'm not suggesting that learning to code isn't "worth" 4 years and 250k, given no other option. I would say that there are far more efficient ways to learn to code and win that kind of job or salary.
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The article refers to them as "refurbished Soviet engines" which certainly sounds like Some parts of the engines are original.
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Uninformed, yes :( .

There are theoretical limits for how high Isp - the specific impulse, defined as how much thrust, in, say, pounds of force, you can get from a unit of fuel flow, going into the engine, in, say, pounds of mass per second. The engines created in '60s are already rather close to that theoretical limit - so saying that you can do much better just because decades has passed is similar to saying "well, surely we had SR-71 flying back in '70s already - by today we ought to have all civil aviation routinely doing at least Mach 2".

So - no, it's pretty hard, including for fundamental reasons, to make engines much better that NK-33 by Isp. And that parameter is of paramount importance for a rocket engine.

Mind you, this is still not the only parameter. After all, you probably care a lot about economic efficiency. Elon Musk seems to understand that pretty well - and SpaceX engines, while lacking technically, could be in a much better position economically. Next, you're right that design and manufacturing aren't standing still. Both control of materials parameters and the ability to convert the raw material into an engineered device substantially rose - talking about, say, 3D printing engines or parts, which happens rather frequently now, but didn't in '70s.

So it's a complicated matter. However, NK-33 still have good technical parameters, and were bought inexpensively - in '90s, when Russia was severely starved for cash. Why not to use something which is already there, and not expensive? That's quite a rational decision Orbital - and Aerojet before them - took.

Regarding the second part, about storage. Surely this is unprecedented case. That's why the engines were tested - many times, both in Russia and in USA, and also analysed, trying to predict how several decades of storage could affect engines. The results were apparently positive - of course you and I don't have the original raw data which was used to make that decision. But don't think the engines just were, say, buried underground; their storage history is roughly known and isn't that different from other products of heavy machinery industry.

So I think Elon is habitually being overreacting in regard to Orbital usage of those engines. May be it has something to do with Elon's unsuccessful attempts to strike a deal with Russian space industry back when SpaceX was really young - or may be it's just a tradition for him, Elon sometimes says something out of proportions, even though SpaceX real - smaller - results are undeniable. Elon misses the point - it's only for uninformed the phrase "rocket engines made in USSR 40 years ago" would mean "unacceptable variant". George Sutton, author of "History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines" mentions that USSR spent far more towards rocket engine research than all other countries combined, and NK-33 is one of the serious achievements of Soviet rocket school. Don't discount something off hand just because it's old and foreign.
Actually, the engines are. The AJ-26 is a rebuilt NK-33, originally built in the early 1970s.
Those B-52's have been maintained (with some parts from boneyard-ed planes, though) and presumably at least occasionally flown all that time...
The rocket engine is actually decades old. The engines were built many years ago, then stored under a tarp in a Russian facility somewhere. They were supposed to be dismantled, but some Party official risked his neck by sparing them the destruction, hiding them in some forgotten facility - however, the flip side to that was that the engines were stored in probably not the best conditions.

Orbital used them because they were the cheap option.
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