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Really?? trotting out reagan? How many years ago was this? You can't keep blaming bush and Reagan for all of your woes.

Calling all republicans traitors is a lot like calling all democrats socialists. It's a politically charged word to defame the opposition and silence them before they even have a chance to speak.

The problem is that just judging from facebook and other forms of social media, the dummies believe it. I just wish there were more intelligent people out there. Most politicians and radical groups have started to exploit the general public by starting online lynch mobs.
You can do digital control of analog circuits, PGA, digital pots, etc.

Just had a fun idea, you could use an LED to charge a rotating photoluminescent medium and then read out the intensity some rotation angle later, it be like a magnetic tape loop but have its own decay as well. Modulate the speed of rotation, the read angle and the intensity of the write.

http://www.identi-tape.com/photolum-tape.htm on the edge of a turn table
See Mrkurt's comment, something that can likely be copied and pasted a bunch of times in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8591724
Interesting excerpts from the details :
* "On the surface the Sun rotates slowly at the poles and quickly at the equator." (~26d vs 38d)
* "The rotation rate through the interior is roughly equal to the rotation rate at mid-latitudes, i.e. in-between the rate at the slow poles and the fast equator." (interior being <0.7 radius)
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SSDs as RAM + projects like Tachyon are the future of big data processing -- current workflows are still way too slow. I wonder how this will affect Spark.
It's an interesting concept they put together. It's akin to the problem Google posed for Microsoft, in that there was no price to undercut as they did with Netscape (since Google's search is obviously free). That's how Alibaba was able to essentially eliminate eBay from the China market (eBay purchased a leading market / platform play, and had a meaningful position in China, prior to Alibaba's lift-off); eBay was charging fees for listings, mirroring their approach in the US, and Alibaba didn't. How do you compete against that? You pretty much have to be another Chinese juggernaut like Tencent or Baidu to even attempt it.
Can we have the inverse transformation also?

So \alpha would become a unicode α and \int would be ∫.

Emacs has an input method that does the transformation automatically [1]. Yet most of my collaborators have not yet caught that bug..

[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TeXInputMethod
One problem with that is that Ubuntu is actually quite limited. As soon as you enable universe you're out of support.

Luckily there are many small consulting companies out there which can happily support both Debian and Ubuntu!
I'd never heard of that and it's remotely plausible but apparently debunked:

http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/01/does-nyc-water...
How would you test for bad sequences? Does that method manage to flag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RANDU?
it definitely can save money/time/etc... when used in a most typical modern conflict against localized and less [military] powerful enemy, like Iraq, Libya, ISIS, etc... that lacks modern airspace offense/defense capabilities.

It would be much less useful against another type of opponent, like Russia, China, probably Iran (at least it comes close to it), Syria (has pretty functional fighter jets and bought S-400 missile systems) - ie. the ones who possess capabilities of striking airborne targets hundred miles away.
Thanks for sharing;)
Wouldn't a trader who was so Bitcoin-savvy they could make returns well in excess of 5-10% whilst maintaining the full value of their loan in BTC on recognised exchanges be smart enough to borrow BTC on less onerous terms from a pure p2p exchange?
Does anyone have any feedback from using this? Would be interested in hearing how it went.
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I tend to think about the "nice" parts of Consider Phlebas (i.e. the Culture refererer Fal 'Ngeestra) during the verses (When she was just a girl/She expected the world/But it flew away from her reach so/She ran away in her sleep) and then the extremely violent parts (Orbital's been blasted, escapes from the GSV) during the chorus (Para-para-paradise....). :-)
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The author does not indicate what sort of target the benchmarks were run on, but for comparison ChaCha20/8 which is a more modern secure PRNG compared to the arcfour that they show runs about 10Gb/s on modern hardware.

ChaCha20/20 is a more conservative choice (i.e. there are classes of attacks on ChaCha20/8 that would be infeasible against ChaCha20/20) but runs somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 the speed of 20/8.
That sounds relatively easy to fix. I'd imagine a diff between two Docker images is relatively small compared to the size of the image. I'd imagine a deduplication scheme based on widely available tools (e.g. rsync) would solve this problems fairly easily. (Though I have no idea how hard it would be to implement; it doesn't sound too hard off the top of my head)
I once put a good deal of effort prototyping a full-featured <canvas>-based video player. One feature was subtitles, which was text-on-canvas.

I found that an absolutely positioned div beat the pants off the performance of rendering text to canvas in almost all scenarios. In fact, I would almost never espouse layering of canvas rendering, and rather propose the layering of <canvas> elements themselves and letting markup engines take care of the composition.
This is the article being refereed to for anyone interested;

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-ou...
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IMHO Banks manages to do his best opening in Espedair Street:

Two days ago I decided to kill myself. I would walk and hitch and sail away from this dark city to the bright spaces of the wet west coast, and there throw myself into the tall, glittering seas beyond Iona (with its cargo of mouldering kings) to let the gulls and seals and tides have their way with my remains, and in my dying moments look forward to an encounter with Staffa’s six-sided columns and Fingal’s cave; or I might head south to Corryvrecken, to be spun inside the whirlpool and listen with my waterlogged deaf ears to its mile-wide voice ringing over the wave-race; or be borne north, to where the white sands sing and coral hides, pink-fingered and hard-soft, beneath the ocean swell, and the rampart cliffs climb thousand-foot above the seething acres of milky foam, rainbow-buttressed.

Last night I changed my mind and decided to stay alive. Everything that follows is . . . just to try and explain.
>> I really think this glamourises weed, and moves us towards a point where there will be companies marketing weed at us.

Then we outlaw that like tobacco advertising is outlawed in most countries. But companies selling weed to us isn't actually a problem. In fact it's better than unregulated black-market sales.

>> We need to stop throwing people in prison for using heroin and cocaine. But if the only alternative is to put someone in the business of getting people addicted to heroin...Well, why should we accept that dilemma?

Why would that be the only alternative? Look at the Portuguese model.

>> We need to find a third way, in between drugs being illegal, and them being a marketable product like any other.

We already have this third way for alcohol and tobacco in most places.

>> And shit like this isn't helping.

Neither is the use of the term 'drugs', nor the idea that we necessarily have to treat them all the same.
Looking at the PCG paper, it shows that a basic XorShift generator doesn't pass statistical tests as it gets bigger. Basically, there are some tests it never passes no matter how big it gets.

But a tiny change (XorShift*) is enough to get a generator that passes empirical statistical tests.

The page about other RNGs has lots of good info about this stuff.
That's right, we already have a filesystem backed by RAM: tmpfs. Except now it's no longer so tmp. I suppose then yes we don't have to do much in the way of emulating block devices: just run tmpfs or it's later revisions and know that everything is permanent. In that case, this is not much of a leap for the current OS's to support it, which is great. I wonder if this means that theoretically mmap() can become a one liner now.
What is the name in question?
Was looking at Tengine as well, it seems pretty awesome. Anyone use it in production (that is not Alibaba?) and have comments on it?
Also, wine is barely better than water in terms of taste perception. Even wine "experts" can't differentiate wine in a blind test - they've been known to confuse red and white wine, give wildly inconsistent ratings to a single wine over multiple tests, and correlate high ratings with high price - even if the "expensive" wine is really a cheap on with a fake fancy label and price tag.
The benchmark details are in the paper. It's a pretty ordinary Haswell PC.
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I don't think any real studies have been done on this, or any real comprehensive information.

Its more played fast and loose by developers primarily by just copying what other people did before them that they liked.

Really the terminal output isn't a place people look for inspired design, just give me the information I want and keep going.
What stands out to me is the apparent "quirkiness", which could be compared to Comic Sans.

I built a website a few years ago that used Comic Sans, quite correctly. How can that ever be so, you ask? It turns out that children under 10 are more likely to engage with content presented in Comic Sans than "plain" fonts.

Seeing this, I can't help but wonder if someone could design a quirky, "fun" font specifically to appeal to children, which incorporates the same ideas used here - perhaps exaggerated even further. Undiagnosed dyslexia is a significant cause of children falling behind at school, so there's a lot of potential benefit in getting that design right and then producing learning materials with it.

As is, this could even be used as an simple test for dyslexia, by A/B testing quizzes of roughly the same difficulty, presented in different fonts. Children whose scores differ significantly should be given a more thorough test for dyslexia.
Signal conditioning is still an important part of EE design. Not all signals are TTL level and unipolar.

For example, this appnote[0] uses a Delta-Sigma converter to digitize a load cell, with the ability to "detect one sheet of copier paper dropped on a stack of 20 reams". In order to do this, it relies on an intrumentation amplifier and custom correlated-double sampling to get a measurement accurate to 200,000 counts.

And even if your input signal can be directly input to your ADC, you'll still need an analog anti-aliasing filter.

Signal conditioning is an important part of signal processing that has to happen in the analog domain.

[0] http://cds.linear.com/docs/en/application-note/an96fa.pdf
At least around here (SF Peninsula/Silicon Valley), "pot" isn't a derogatory term at all. It seems to be what most everyone calls it, users and non-users alike.

Except for the kids. They call it "weed". Which is a bit confusing because "weed" used to mean the cheap stuff and "pot" the good stuff.

A few people called it "dope" 25-30 years ago, but that didn't last. Before that it was "grass", but that really was the bad cheap stuff, ten dollars a lid (an ounce of leaves in a baggie with the flap sealed by spit) from Mexico.

The dispensaries and producers seem to prefer "cannabis" - there's Buddy's Cannabis for example - or "medical marijuana", but never just "marijuana".

In fact, the dispensaries never call it "pot" either. It's "medicine" or "flowers", or just referred to by the name of the specific strain.
Part of the bottled water craze is due to the fact that youngsters are mistakenly made to believe that you will get dehydrated if you take a walk around the block, do your math homework or just sit around. If you don't drink x glasses of water (insert random number for x) your health will be at risk.

So, for those situations where you find yourself with your (BPA-free) water bottle empty of course you're going to spring for a bottle of tap water. And since you're afraid of catching Ebola you're not going to use anyone's tap, it has to be a one-way safe and sanitized bottle.
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This is generally understood to be debunked, but I believe the oven wall particulate theory is still possible.
"Deis must make it simple for ops folks to publish a set of reusable backing services (databases, queues, storage, etc.) and to allow developers to attach those services to applications."

What are some projects focused on implementing these *-as-a-service components in a cloud-agnostic manner? Rancher is one that came up earlier today on HN.

[0] http://www.ibuildthecloud.com/blog/2014/11/11/announcing-ran...
This sounds right in term of what to look for. But what are the mechanics of the search?

It seems like something really personal for the company--and yet founders are often not likely to have great independent board candidates that they have long histories with.

Investors are much more likely to know great independent board candidates--so how do you structure a search so it yields the independents are 1) as good as you need them to be and 2) not actually just more investor seats on the board?
So wait, just so that I understand: This would be for editors that input unicode greek letters, and preTeX should compile them to \alpha etc? But you seem to suggest the opposite. Care to explain?
Except you can taste silica, which is available in much higher quantities in bottled artesian water than regular tap water.

Ask someone to help you double-blind taste-test FIJI water and your tap water. There is a big difference.
I couldn't believe that either... it's kind of sad.
This definitely seems like something I'd like to use and also contribute to if you are interested. One question I have is, how do you imagine routing being done? I don't see it in the examples so I was curious if you have ideas about this.
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Theres a fundamental flaw in this type of review. For all of us reading this article we assume this jack ripper strain is the bomb, but really it just happens that the grower he got it from grew some good jack the ripper or whatever. I work in the industry, and mostly people will be like, Oh I tried this strain and its no good, but its just because they got it from a mediocre grower and indeed it wasn't as good as the real deal. Also, there are hundreds of seed companies selling similar strains under various names and thus one persons og kush isn't the same as another.

The problem with this is, outside of places like Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, under the guise of medical marijuana its now more important for the specific review of a flower that can be reproduced by the grower. Ugh, I am just saying, these reviews are specifically of the nug that guy smoked not of the overall strain but they pretend it is of the overall strain.
Hi aston. As you suggest in your post, the majority of demand for bitcoin borrowing comes from market making traders on bitcoin exchanges. They have a need to borrower for a number of reasons, including going short. You say that currently there are cheaper ways to short, which is true. For example, on Bitfinex the borrowing rate is something like 4% APR. However, the rate is also very volatile and can jump up to 50%+ when demand is high. That's one reason why borrowers receive funds from us. Another is that they can use their funds on Coinfloor, which offers access to the GBP/BTC market. Trading of this kind is very popular right now, so I can assure you that these people exist. You and other posters are right to be concerned about Ponzi scheme. What might reassure you and others is reading our full T&Cs - you'll see the time and care we have put in to them. They might give an indication of how we do not want to do anything illegal, or even unprofessional. However, there's always going to be an element of trust involved and if you're too suspicious then you should keep your bitcoin in your own wallet until we're able to prove ourselves.
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It does, amusingly, know about nanoacres, a unit of measurement sometimes employed when describing chip die surface area.
How is schlepping around non-portable Linux-specific binaries packaged into what is essentially a VM a "more modern toolchain"?
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I was searching stuff on Python lambdas.

No, not Google :) Just been lurking on HN for a while and never had anything interesting to add before.
I tried an on-tap Brita filter. Maybe the pitcher would have worked better, I did not try it.
As someone who's used both Gitlab, Github Enterprise, and Stash in a corporate environment, I have to admit I prefer GHE, for the features it shares with core Github, if nothing else.

My only gripe w/ GHE is the lack of branch-based ACLs. If we want to implement a Github Flow (https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/index.html) methodology, but also have automatic branch detection and testing in our CI (Jenkins/Bamboo/whatever), we end up having to assign all users the ability to create branches in the given repository (which, in turn, gives them the perms to push to master). I'm actually quite surprised that this hasn't been implemented yet in GHE; I can understand why GH wouldn't have it, but GHE (because of the nature of its user base) really should.

That issue aside, the UI in GHE is simply superior to GL and Stash.
man, now i know what it was! - about 35 years ago, living in USSR near border we had some reception of some foreign TV and this was like nothing else available on USSR TV, these series blew our minds, it was literally "out of this world" :) I'm actually torn right now between curiosity to watch it now and fear that it will spoil the magic that it built in my mind those decades ago :)
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There's a big difference between bottled sparkling water, filtered water, and plain old tap water.

Also, there's differing qualities of tap water as well, because it does depend on your tap and sink itself.

If you have a good tap, and you are serving the water without carbonation, sure, there's going to be little noticeable difference in general. But try running water directly from an average to low quality tap directly into a soda stream (without any time to even allow chlorine dissipate) and you'll find that's nowhere near as pleasant as a bottle of perrier.
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If I had to guess, it's the result of Microsoft's gaming presence. They're still the main game in town on the PC (platform-wise) and have a large console presence.
In my little experience with bzr, it was slow as molasses. The only competitive advantage it had against Git at the time was a simpler command line and better windows support (we are talking about the days when git commands were still spelled like git-branch, git-reflog and so on.)

Eventually Mercurial ate Bazaar's pie and now Git is slowly eroding projects away from Mercurial. All hail Linus, who managed to create two open source systems that became de-facto industry standards.
What is the incentive of a formal board member and why can't it be replicated with an advisor?
I'm doing the same but for C++ development
Very neat. Btrfs is a practical choice. Looks like the Go http server listens for both changes and jobs?

Could you tell me about the advantages git semantics add to MapReduce?

Last, how does Pfs choose to distribute data across containers?

You've inspired me to put up an Unbounce page. Let's talk ZFS soon!
I do wish the iRam had stuck around longer. The 4GB limit makes it practically useless today, but a modern version of the same would be incredibly useful for some workloads.
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i live in LA, but when i'm in new york city, i drink tap water when indoors (it's always nice and cold and delicious even when it's hot out, i don't know if this varies building to building) but when i'm out, i always buy cheap bottled water (poland spring or crystal geyser) because i don't want to carry a non-disposable water bottle with me when i'm out and about. new yorkers are out most of the time so that would explain it.

LA tapwater is nowhere near as good, in fact it's downright disgusting in some parts of town, but i drink it anyway when i'm at home because buying large amounts of bottled water is a pain in the ass (heavy, bulky) and expensive. sometimes i'll buy some perrier or pellegrino if i want a treat. i've found that if i fill several large mason jars full of water and put them in the fridge, it's a good compromise. a lot of the shittiness just evaporates out. i'll grab one and put it by my bedstand before i go to sleep, for example.

at the office we have the standard 5-gallon jug water delivery service which is the best. i might start getting the service at home, honestly.
The idea that any identifiable subculture could be composed of nonconformists seems obviously false. The subculture as a whole could represent a break from the mainstream, but it could only be identified as a subculture once its members have conformed to a set of common traits.

It's interesting that the article was written in 2008, at which point hipsters were already ripe for critique, but we're still talking about them. There may be more microbrews and less PBR, more thick-rimmed glasses and fewer keffiyehs, more discussion of Kanye West than indie rock -- but it still is distinctly "hipster." Maybe a subculture based on cooption and ironic detachment is particularly well suited to evolve with changing environmental conditions.

Another possible reason for its staying power is that other subcultures have typically made a person look increasingly ridiculous / marginalized / unemployable as they aged (goth, punk, gangster rap, rave), whereas hipster style trends play it relatively safe.
Thank you so much! This was so needed on this horrible internet connection I have here at work!
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Hah, this prompted me to look online for an Android-based iPod knock-off and was quickly greeted with this awsome deal:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/in-stock-2014-New-model-Lenov...

Then some googling revealed that there is no such device as a "Lenovo S7000 5.0 inch Tablet".

Still aways to go, I think.
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No hipsters are something different - they are people who hijack the symbols of other subcultures without contributing anything to those subcultures. The guy with the sailor tattoos was never in the Navy - he works in advertising and drinks lattes. The girl with the thick-rimmed glasses has never rolled a D12 or written a line of assembly - she thinks only about cupcakes and "vintage" dresses. That is why they are looked down on by everyone, their sense of entitlement.
One of the highest performing VMs with some of the most advanced JIT and GC technology is a poor choice for greenfield development?

In what universe?

The issue with OpenJDK arose when open source folks "backported" the unstable Java 7 OpenJDK source drops to create OpenJDK6, which was ostensibly compatible with (but not identical to) Java 6.

As of OpenJDK7/OpenJDK8, none of this hackery is required, and we're seeing convergence of the implementations.