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I'm not sure I find this article all that compelling because I think it's founded on a faulty premise:

> Email is the "dumb pipe" version of communication technology, which is why it remains popular.

Email might be a dumb pipe. Gmail is anything but that.

Data mining personal emails is an advertiser's dream. The second I start sending emails to my spouse about purchasing a house, lo and behold Google can show me an ad for homeowner's insurance. Given correct semantic analysis, it's incredibly persuasive and highly targeted advertising.

It's arguably akin to wiretapping or spying on my text messages - and lest we forget, there was a huge class-action lawsuit against Google that argued just that.

> Carriers resist becoming "dumb pipes" because there's no money in it

There's a boatload of money to be made in email, even as a 'dumb pipe', if you're an advertiser targeting ads at people based on the contents of those e-mails.

Further, and this I could easily be wrong about, isn't the whole American telecom industry the complete antithesis to the argument "there's no money to be made as a dumb pipe"? Even if net neutrality is maintained, I don't see anyone realistically arguing that Comcast will become nigh-unprofitable in the near future.

Maybe there's no money to be made as a newcomer onto the scene, and competition can be fierce at the lower tiers, but Gmail is certainly an established player in the e-mail game.
If you've used other db like OrientDB, you can use SQL to query documents. Even if MongoDB added this I wouldn't rely on it, as there have been many deployments that couldn't scale properly due to MongoDB and ended up switching to another vendor. It already has the reputation of being snake oil salesman of the DB world.
I think the RS7 has the engine but not handling performance.

The R8 was based on the Gallardo chassis, whose successor has already appeared. Presumably a Huracan-based R8 successor can't be far behind. Unfortunately RWD sports cars still out handle the Huracan, though by a lesser margin than previously.
Google has lots of pointless products that don't make any money, it's not why reader was killed.
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I'd recommend crafting your title as a pointer towards wherever you want to go. In the next few years what's your ideal title? If you can "jr" or "deputy" that title, (or in some other way place yourself logically on track to that title) it might help in the long run.

It seems like you're trending towards eventually being a COO role, so something like "Deputy COO", or "Operations Manager" might be nice. If those feel too senior for you, keep stepping it down until it feels right. And of course if you're actually pursuing something other than COO long term then adjust accordingly.
Agree 100%. It doesn't even have to be connectivity (brain wiring). There have been plenty of studies that have found a variety of different neuropathologies at the cellular scale.

/postdoc
> They all had overhead for their time period, and many of them were academic rather than pragmatic

What overhead? The one spread by C crowed without experience in the said languages?

I used a few commercial compilers for those languages. They were quite comparable in terms of generated code quality to C compilers of the same generation, back in the day.

C was also a research language until AT&T made the code available.

> It's widely regarded as an example of a monster language, but it is still absolutely used where the safety is critical.

Actually, I would dare to say that Ada 2012 is smaller than C++14.

Its use has increased in Europe thanks to what is being discussed here, namely the amount of money lost in security issues thanks to the industry adoption of C due to its relation to UNIX.

I included Ada in the list, because most developers aren't aware that it still exists and is being used. Or that GNAT is just one of many compilers that are still available.
What?

This isn't the point of the article--nothing in it even implies anything about people buying a spot in your inbox--and selling an advertising email slot guaranteed not to fall into the spam folder would be the dumbest move an email provider could possibly make.

We also only have to look as far as the fact that sometimes email from Google themselves gets put in the spam folder to see the likelihood of this coming to pass.
That's a good point. A feed reader is responsible for delivering the ads embedded in feeds. That leaves not much room for any of your own.

I think Google's strategy was to get their ads into people's feeds with services like FeedBurner, but when that didn't go over so well they didn't see much use for Reader.
I'll happily lose 5% compile performance in exchange for a safe compiler. Unfortunately, writing a compiler in a safe language isn't enough to make it a safe compiler.
I wouldn't think so. The data being processed are the same.
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It's interesting you talked about the writing process and not the content. After reading your comment I realised that I was overlooking a huge aspect of providing this resource. As a consumer of Pro Git, all I ever see is the end result. Thank you for reminding me there are serious man hours behind this, and thank you for your time and effort and the time and effort of all the people that contributed.
As with Coin, this seems like another rather US-specific situation.

I get the impression that in the US, credit cards are more common than debit cards, and the banks try to keep it that way. Debit cards are also somewhat expensive - customers pay 0.79% on average [1].

In the UK, and i believe in the rest of Europe, everyone uses debit rather than credit cards in shops, and they are much cheaper - interchange fees for debit cards are about 0.2% [2]. Most debit cards these days are also contactless payment devices.

If Apple Pay takes off here, it will be just another contactless payment option. I don't see any great reason for shops, banks, or customers to feel strongly about it.

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/regii-average-i...

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23431543
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Not sure if the article did not do into enough detail, or I am not technical enough in this field. But would this be able to bypass python and other interpreters GIL. ie "VISC’s secret sauce" is to hook into raw machine code instruction set and determine if it is changing anything in other cached/executing instructions, and if it is not pipe it to another core. Thus if Python issues instructions it can immediately determine if it can be piped to multiple cores.
Inbox doesn't show ads, and marketers are complaining that if anything, the promos folder hides their marketing spam by moving into something easily ignored.
CDC has a bunch of information about this:

http://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/index.html

The sub pages are lengthy and cite specific laws and so on.

Skimming, CDC has broad authority to detain travelers and states and local health departments usually have the power to enforce a quarantine (with violation of the quarantine being a misdemeanor).
Ephesus, where the bones are from, is a remarkable city: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesos

Much of the stone architecture ruins still stand, including an ampitheater, library, bathhouses, and much more.
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"The result shows that gladiators mostly ate a vegetarian diet. There is virtually no difference in terms of nutrition from the local "normal population." Meals consisted primarily of grain and meat-free meals. The word "barley eater" relates in this case to the fact that gladiators were probably given grain of an inferior quality."

1) You don't waste expensive food on people who are about to die stabbing each other to death for your entertainment.

2) You don't even bother to waste good grain on them.

3) Most people ate a mostly vegetarian diet, meat is expensive and hard to transport.
True. Flawed as any analogy, but cars don't need animal-like legs, wheels are more efficient and they are not well-represented in nature.
It sounds like the watermark includes encoded info about the network, IP addresses, what have you. From one of Schneier's commenters, black-and-white printers have their own method, involving tiny imperfections in certain letters.

It reminds me of how Blizzard encoded info in World of Warcraft screenshots (user, ip, campaign, timestamp, realm, what have you).

Scary stuff. Makes you want to not take it seriously, almost as a mental defense mechanism.
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Given the anti-competitive nature of this move, combined with the massive market power of those involved, I think the DOJ might take some action here. "Let's band together to crush our competitors and ensure the success of our own product" is generally illegal under US law. As a consumer, this is actually pretty upsetting, and I would be in favor of legal action. This doesn't just affect Apple Pay - it affects all contactless payments. I quite often use(d) my contactless debit card at CVS.

All of this to promote a payment system that literally has a 0% chance of success. As noted in the parent comment, given the history of major retailer data breaches, no one in their right mind is giving these people their checking account information. It's just not going to happen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.
Interesting to see this on HN, just a couple months after I ran into the same problem with GCC's intrinsic popcount myself on a project! I found that I needed to use an "-march" argument for GCC to actually emit POPCNT instructions.
> April 2, 1981

USCD Pascal was created in 1978, Mesa in the mid-70s and Algol in 1968.

Most of the complaints don't apply to them.
Hmmm. I have over half a million dollars in electronic components and custom assemblies sitting in storage pretty much rotting away. A market shift made the project and the product almost impossible to sell.

All employees were paid on exit, including generous severance pay, etc. All of them found employment relatively quickly. A number of them were able to parlay the experience gained during the couple of years they worked for me to gain higher level jobs. One particular individual came in with very little experience in the field. I spent over a year tutoring him. He was able to get a VP position at a competing company within a week after we closed the shop.

My? I nearly lost everything. Probably took a million dollar hit (don't know exactly how much yet) and have components and supplies in storage that I paid half a million dollars for that you might be able to sell for less than five cents on the dollar.

Be careful making assumptions about who risks more based on silly examples like some guy flipping burgers at a fast food joint. Things often aren't that simple. I know one entrepreneur who died due to the stress of his business tanking during the economic collapse of 2008. His employees moved on just fine.

Yes, these are extremes. And, yes, these cases might not compare well when we are talking about billionaires. Don't know. From my perspective few people are willing to do the kinds of things I do: Put it all on the line. All. Take a huge risk. And if it pays off you reap the rewards and live to have someone call you a greedy bastard. If you fail miserably nobody gives a crap. They might even call you an idiot and malign you for firing a bunch of people without much notice.

Walk in someone else's shoes before being opinionated. Reading about something on the net is very different from living it. Don't think so? Go SCUBA diving with sharks. I've done it. Pissed myself. Multiple times. Easy to read and sound really smart about on the 'net. Not so when you are 100 feet under water with five of them surrounding you.
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Sorry to pile on the "you're wrong" argument, but the existing replies don't address the distinction between ApplePay and CurrentC, and yes, ApplePay is more secure. CurrentC provides a central point of failure (and attack, for that matter), since they hold all the account details in their system. Contrast that with ApplePay, which doesn't even use the actual credit card number for the transaction, but instead a device-specific, remotely wipeable, single-origin system. ApplePay is definitely more secure, and I will actively seek out retailers who let me use ApplePay and avoid those that use CurrentC.
You are assuming that Google will team up with Apple for that but they could always do nothing because of their "don't be evil" mantra.
As I switch off the moment I see "signal" or "wave" let alone spinning it around the circle here is my take without any engineering intuitions:

-you can represent any (nice enough) function as sum of sines and cosines of given frequencies and amplitudes (frequency is how often the function hits the whole period, amplitude is by how much you multiple its value). The functions look this way: Amplitude* sine(x* freq)

-So you have your sines and cosines at various frequencies and you wonder what the amplitudes should be for every one o them so that if we add them all up we end up with the original function

-The idea to answer this question is to see how values of your sine or cosine correlate with values of original function. If it turns out that the original function is high in value when your sine/cosine is high in value then sine/cosine at this frequency needs to have higher weight than sine/cosine at other frequency where it doesn't correlate well with original function. Intuitively if you take functions which correlate well with original one with higher weight and those which doesn't with lower weight then you will have good approximation of the original function.

-Euler formula tells you what sine and cosine at given point are representing it as one complex number; to get value of sine/cosine at frequency different than 1 you need to multiple the argument by k*2PI (as frequency is given in beats/period and period is 2PI it's quite obvious why); So e^(xi) is value of cosx and sinx and e^(xik2PI) is value of those functions at frequencies different than 1.

So now let's see what this formula is:

-it's an average of things (1/N and a sum of N elements)

-those things are multplications of values of sine/cosine at given frequency at given point with value of original function at this point

-this average is going to be high if places where sine/cosine at given frequency is high and original function is high overlap (you multiple big number by big number) and low if described correlation is low; that's the concept of correlation

-the points are evenly spaced from 0 to n-1 (that's why n/N in the formula) and the sum goes over them.

That's it. No circles and spinning. The only trick is to realize that:
e^(ix) represent value of sine and cosine at x and e^(ixk2PI) represents value of sine/cosine at frequency k (if k is 1, then it's standard sine/cosine as everything simplifies).

One sentence explanation could be: the more sine/cosine at given frequency correlates with original function the more that sine/cosine contribute to the original function.
A surprisingly huge amount of modern science is formalising and quantifying existing knowledge. I would say that they either discovered this by chance or adopted it from another group that made the discovery - they had access to a very wide range of folk remedies from across the Roman empire.

They may have had no insight into how or why this worked other than drinking ash tonics makes you feel better than not drinking them.
The book, "The millionaire next door" is based on extensive research on the consumption patterns of America's wealthiest and a surprising majority live below their means and don't play that game. They're wealthy is spite of being low earners -- in other words they play solid economic defense and often have a weaker economic offense than many. There are a lot of people driving BMWs who can't afford them, and the economic crises revealed a ton of people over-leveraged on mortages. Now, in that case there's certainly a strong argument that people were taken advantage of, and inequality is a really big problem -- I'm just not convinced the status game is something that must be played. Again, the book makes a compelling, fact based argument that frugality is a bigger determinant of wealth than high income.
Interesting. Funnily, I don't care either way. With the exception of eating out, entertainment and clothing, all the money I spend is spent online, so none of this impacts me either way.
Surely, a better name would be SimCoin.
Someone tell me if there's an error in my takeaway:

For short sequences, linear searches can be faster than binary searches because a short sequence of mostly predictable branches (no,no,no,no,yes) is usually faster than an even shorter sequence of unpredictable branches (yes,no,yes). To work around this, the author restricts his searches to compile-time constant sequence lengths so that GCC can unroll the fixed-size binary searches into short, fixed, linear series of branchless conditional move instructions. That setup executes reliably faster than optimized linear searches for in-cache sequences of size 8, 16, 32 and 64.

However, if the data is uncached, then memory latency dominates ALU execution time and the memory prefetcher's preference for forward, linear scans leads to linear searches being faster than branches binary because of the difference in memory access patterns. Interestingly, the behavior of the prefetcher on the author's machine appears to prefer forward scans over backward scans at a sub-cache-line level.
Per http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/12/travel/la-tr-airline..., the US government placed requirements on airport security since the 70s.

"[1972:] The FAA in December issues an emergency rule requiring all passengers and carry-on baggage to be either screened by metal detectors or searched by hand and requiring airports to station armed guards at boarding checkpoints."

"[1974:] The 1974 Air Transportation Security Act sanctions the FAA's universal screening rule, which spurs U.S. airports to adopt metal-detection screening portals for passengers and X-ray inspection systems for carry-on bags."

And progressively more as we go on.
I saw the film last night, and it is incredibly well done. It's crazy to see the actual events unfold right there in the room with Snowden. Go see it.
To support the statement that dumb pipes can be incredibly profitable: Intelsat. They openly admit they are a commodity business focused on MHz and Mbps, and have no problem consistently hitting 70% margins.
Quandl is great but be sure to truly understand their ToS correctly - they pull a lot of their data from sources that forfeit (or dont explicitly allow) public/for profit redistribution
It was just a genuine question. I'm amazed that I suffered downvotes because of it, but it just goes to show that my instincts were correct (hence the throwaway account), and that it would be perceived as a tone-deaf, buffoonish question.

So much for the old adage: "there are no stupid questions"
I don't think you're grasping Elgan's meaning of "mediate".

He mostly means "monetize", in that Google is a company built entirely on slipping paid placements into things while disarming people's aversion (or even realization) that they're being advertised to.

Gmail is mediated in the technical sense, but Gmail Adwords is hardly an efficient channel into which subtle paid manipulation can be injected. If Google started adding ads into emails in transit everyone would flip. This is suboptimal for Google.

Whatever Inbox is today, it's a break from the email model that Google can freely evolve into a channel optimized for injecting paid content, in a way that people won't be outraged over. When everyone is using Inbox, Google calls the shots over what you see and true "mediation" can begin.

> Inbox is an attempt to improve the experience of email given the reality of how it's used.

No, Inbox is a Product by a company that holds a monopoly on Internet advertising. They're not in the business of improving the experience of email with a free product. They'e ultimately in the business of finding more subtle and effective ways to deliver ads. If you refuse to believe this, then congratulations to Google for a mission accomplished.
Vue is French, you know, right?
http://www.erights.org/talks/no-sep/ agrees that there's a basic problem with having a program run as the user. "Treating security as a separate concern has not succeeded in bridging the gap between principle and practice, because it operates without knowledge of what constitutes least authority. Only when requests are made -- whether by humans acting through a user interface, or by one object invoking another -- can we determine how much authority is adequate. Without this knowledge, we must provide programs with enough authority to do anything they might be requested to do."

It's also a basic problem that so much complicated systems software is written in C, but that's better known.
There are some fictional worlds that come to mind that present a positive future (I'm not particularly well versed in it, but isn't that the whole appeal of the Star Trek universe?) What I think it boils down to, though, is that dystopias offer more narrative possibilities and stylistic choices for writers/filmmakers than do utopias. Utopian societies just aren't that fun to fictionalize, even though they're more fun to live in. There's a reason why more people Dante's Inferno than the Paradiso.
I understand it, I just don't buy it. Reader was a great opportunity to apply machine learning. When left neglected to a couple of days, my feed reader becomes a huge pain to sift through. There's a lot of room for innovation in this space, a la Inbox.

I'm not accusing Google of anything, but their treatment of Atom/RSS can be likened to Microsoft's old Embrace/Extend/Extinguish strategy. I honestly believe that in some ways it's worse off now than it would've been had Google not got involved. Killing Reader was at worst malicious and at best irresponsible.
Ask HN: Waiting list for Twitter's Fabric
Having decided to give Fabric a try it was disappointing to be added to a waiting list without any indication as to when it would be made available to actually use.

Does anyone here have any insights into this?

Also, will Digits be a paid service, e.g. will Twitter pay to send millions of SMS to users without any benefit?
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> Inbox doesn't show ads.

(Yet). Google is an ad company. They will.

> the promos folder hides their marketing spam

Would it surprise you that some people actually sign up for newsletters they want to read?
What was the reason then?
> All of this to promote a payment system that literally has a 0% chance of success.

I don't think so. If retailers choose to not support a system then the system itself is kinda doom because this system was made for retailers.

The current payment systems are becoming obsolete at a fast pace (faster than I thought anyway). Cryptocurrencies, large chains of retailers rolling up their own payment system, etc.

Just a small comment on security: Most banks suffer serious hacks that you and I never know about it, for obvious reasons. So don't be so sure that banking systems are more secure than retailers.