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Ueli Maurer continues to be one of the foremost theoretical cryptographers out there. He is responsible for the notion of indifferentiability, which has been quite useful in designing hashing modes out of block ciphers / compression functions and proving them 'secure'.
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Keynesian economists think that Japan's real estate implosion was deflation.

Back in reality, Japan hasn't suffered any real deflation in 25 years. Which is why their prices are among the highest for pretty much everything.

The deflation argument is a fraud cover for the failed Keynesian experiment. It's meant to give them the ability to endlessly print to debase the debt that the failed experiment took on. That's why the US Fed pretends to worry non-stop about deflation, while they massively expand the monetary base and hold rates at zero; it's a lie to provide cover for the massive inflation programs.
In terms of functionality they are basically the same :) pathod has one server that behaves differently depending on the request you send. Hamms has different servers listening on different ports. I thought the interface was a little nicer that way. (I'm the author of hamms).

I tried to add some things as well that make testing easier when I am writing a client. Testing retry logic is hard for example because the client is making the same request a bunch of times in a row so you have to either mock the client request or make the server return different things based on the same request. I added a server that errors twice and then returns a 200, to make that easier to test.
Yes, the new iWorks (if it can still be called that) is clearly a step back - no new features and a dummed down UI. I don't consider it part of the OS though.
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Real GDP did not jump. Japan massively debased their currency, that provided a fake spike to both GDP and the stock market.

In real terms, their stock market has gone down, and their GDP has contracted even more than the nominal terms show.
I'm short sighted, I am not welcome in church

(Leviticus 21:18-21)
You are right that Spotify is lose/lose/lose. It's helping crush the industry, they're losing money hand over fist, and artists aren't being supported. Awesome.

Like I said, I'm totally cool if people want to not pay for music. That's fine. Great. Continue to not pay for music! I won't even blame you. Just don't falsely believe that Spotify supports artists you enjoy. If you want to support an artist you gotta do it yourself.
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ToS has nothing to do with legality. Companies do not get to create their own laws.
That's interesting to know. Thanks.
I would think that people hiring would like potential hires to be unrepresented. An un-represented developer is going to be cheaper.
I wonder how much research Spotify has done with their pricing. I assume they must have done at least some. But they could double the monthly fee and I wouldn't blink.

Disclaimer- I am an outlier in terms of music consumption.
Some parts of this article feel like the author doesn't have much experience in the field of cloud services. For example:

"What makes Amazon unique in the fight to own the computing cloud is what it’s not — a traditional tech company with a long history of providing products and services to business customers. Finding a way to deliver services over the Internet that behave like databases and other traditional software products will be critical to keeping its lead because older tech companies like Microsoft are already capable of doing it.
"

I understand what the author was trying to get at - IBM/Microsoft/Oracle have 20+ years of providing Business Services, (Well, IBM is closer to 100) - And Amazon has only been providing cloud services for about 10 years - but what an incredible 10 years! Most people would suggest that Amazon is the market leader in providing these types of services to business, and that IBM/Microsoft are playing catch up.

A good counterexample is Salesforce - they've only been around for 15 years, but nobody would suggest they aren't a dominant player in their industry.

The reality is - when it comes to new and disruptive technologies, the innovator quite often becomes the dominant and trusted player much faster than in traditional (non disruptive) industries.
Show me the countries in Europe that have substantially reduced government spending over the last six years.

In fact, spending as a % of GDP has increased.

http://www.cato.org/blog/where-are-european-spending-cuts

There has been almost zero spending reduction in Europe. They're calling a slow-down in spending expansion, austerity, when in fact there has been no austerity.
I seriously doubt they would have been able to deliver site with complexity of Opentable in a couple of month even if working full time. Do they have track record of building sites like this in that short timeframe? In two month you could deliver something that will choke with 20 users, will have no failover or reliable backup, horrible db schema and will likely have unusable design. Anything else requires more time, meetings, people and research.

Even if it was their idea (aka no communication and decision overhead, working 16hours/day), two month is pushing it.
> Japan has to debase the Yen to pay its bills. Their government is insolvent due to the extreme debt. They have already defaulted.

Back in the real world: When I said earlier that Japan has to pay $250B this year to service their debt, that means there is an actual no-kidding line item in their fiscal year 2015 budget for the Ministry of Finance to pay that money to bondholders. They've budgeted the money already and it will be paid out starting in April just like it was in 2014, 2013, 2012, and so on.
A lot of that, though, is actually loading LaTeX packages itself.

TeX underneath is really very speedy; on my several year old laptop it can compile several hundred pages in around half a second (and pdftex takes around twice as long).

I believe it's also possible to perform optimal line breaking algorithms incrementally, so you wouldn't have to reset the whole document as you add to the end of it (although you may as you add to the start of it, but that happens in Word anyway).
It'd be interesting to see how this compares to hstore on flat data.
OS X, Chrome 38. Now it works just fine. Didn't try refreshing the browser last time so don't know about that.
They also let users take their data out of their services and have been making good strides in that regard with Google takeout.
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Sounds cool, but why the tiny font? 13px font size doesn't feel like good design in 2014.

Is it just me?
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It isn't appeal to popularity it's just noticing that if it didn't work nobody could possibly use it. Certainly not as many as do use it.
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Wait, you never heard of THP?! It's virtually mandatory for pink box testing: http://neilbowers.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/pink-box-testing/
I agree that the browser engines are too limited at the moment. It somewhat works, if you use the proprietary PrinceXML.

http://www.princexml.com/
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Having written a web crawler recently, it's surprising just how many misbehaving servers are actually out there.

Without proper error handling, a wide randomly seeded crawl would hit some form of malformed response or bizarre header within 15 minutes at the most. I eventually gave up on trying to parse all the myriad odd behaviours and now just dump them all onto a blacklist and move the crawler on.
The Linux community is mostly just like the BSD community. It's just larger so there are numerically more assholes because the proportion is constant.
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> Wouldn't that API use would also funnel users to its competitors in the case that Netflix doesn't offer the movie you were looking for?

I don't know what you are envisioning :(. What I am talking about is when you find yourself on some random movie review website, and there's a "buy/rent on iTunes" button, and a "stream from Amazon Prime" button, but no Netflix button, that sounds like it would be bad for Netflix. Especially so if the only reason the person added the "stream from Amazon Prime" button is because they wanted to have a "stream" button, were sufficiently lazy to only put one such button, and Netflix (their first choice as having a longer-term brand) didn't have an API available. Like, I can't imagine Apple ever deciding "no, we would rather have you put a buy from Walmart button on your website than a buy on iTunes button, so we are going to stop giving you database dumps".
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> there is absolutely pagination control

Put something at the bottom of the current page, like a footnote.
> Large scale immigration is just passing the buck down onto a currently-poorer country

This can also create a return of experience, business investments and money from the rich country to the poor one. Some poor countries are so backwards that what they need most is not more people, but people who have seen a better way of doing things and can apply at home.
Hmmm… JavaScript wasn't supported last time I tried GNU GLOBAL, two years ago. I'll have to check it out.
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It absolutely does matter what vehicle the rich store their wealth in.

If they store it in a bank, it boosts the lending capabilities of that bank.

If they buy stocks, it provides financing for public companies.

Even if the rich hide their cash under a mattress for a long time, they provide a purchasing power boost to other consumers by reducing the freely available supply of currency.

Saying that the parent is wrong about Apple's cash, does not actually prove they're wrong. "Wrong." is not an argument.

There's practically nothing a rich person can do with their hoard to harm the economy, other than to take that capital out of the domestic economy or invest into a ponzi scheme or asset bubble.
> Let's agree he should have said "no practical length limit".

I would have agreed if he hadn't explicitly mentioned the 2GB limit of MSSQL's TEXT and NTEXT in the very next paragraph.
Support network in London is great, because people want to see a huge success story. But actually that's not what people need most (IMO). They need mentorship and support from people who have done it before.

We were lucky to share our office with a YC company when we raised our Series A. I must have bugged one of the founders every day for advice on terms and which partners were cool. But now we're all just scaling like crazy and there isn't that shift up the chain towards new mentors who have gone from e.g. £10m p.a. to £100m p.a. revenue. Those people are rare overall, but concentrated in the Valley.
That happened because every publication wanted to have an edge over the others. So some monthly mags started sending their february issue to the stores in january 28th, and the others looked "late", being the one "01" issue in a see of "02"s, scheduling future issues a bit earlier to retaliate. Now they're all nearly a month early.

Similar for weekly publications.
Well, it gets funny if you e.g. put math stuff into titles and still want the table of contents of your pdf viewer to work.

Solution: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Hyperlinks#Problems_with...
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Uh, they removed the TLS requirement.
> Yeah I give them $10 a month but so little reaches artists I might as well have stolen the music.

And buying physical albums is much better in that regard?
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Been using nix for a while for bookkeeping my development environments and it's been nice. The config syntax just is a bit unfamiliar so I'd be happy to check out Guix. The problem is that I
also use non-free software and I haven't yet figured out how to set up my own Guix repo for that. Anyone got any luck with that?
The way you phrase it makes it sound like it's somehow wrong for athletes to improve in all areas of their sport except when it comes to using performance enhancing drugs? That's like saying a Vim user should not be allowed to use certain plugins, because: because we decided it's not allowed. End of conversation.

The reason players 'hack' the testing is because they either (a) believe other players are doing the same, or (b) other players are _actually_ doing the same, so it's another variable that has to be taking into consideration if you want to 'be the best'.
> let me tell you Microsoft's tools are simply awful at following the CSV standard.

There's no such thing. CSV is a convention that people mostly agree on but there's no written CSV standard and no CSV standards body.
How is the rockstar being evaluated? I mean, if the rockstar sucked at two clients before, is it still 250/hr for the next client, because he co-authored X? Or is the 100% success rate guaranteed in the contract? It is like reading about a homeopathy product.
the issue is that you only make $500k if you are a name like taylor swift who ironically doesn't really need that money since she can make much more from touring. if you are an indie artist, you are making basically $0.
Japan's biggest problems are extreme debt, and poor allocation of capital via government spending (Japan's famed public works programs, which have net resulted in zero real GDP growth for 20 years).

Japan is the poster-child for what's happening to the US and Europe: Keynesian economics has failed. QE, inflation, central bank stimulus, debt accumulation - none of it actually grows an economy or increases productivity. It's all fake, all of these measures are meant to keep the fraud going a bit longer, and now the clock has run out and the consequences are being paid.
I could, of course, but I like it less bloated - 70 shared libraries less.)
(Founder of 10x here.)

Max* is right... we have spent literally zero dollars on PR. The New Yorker approached us for this article. (As did Mashable for their piece last week which interviewed a bunch of 10xers: http://mashable.com/2014/11/09/digital-nomads/ .)

Frankly, it makes it even more exciting to me, because it means this is an actual trend, rather than a manufactured one.

* Yes, the parent is Max Nanis from the article. The article failed to mention that he also currently has a sculpture in the Smithsonian. :)
> Amazon, has returned less in profits in its 17-year life as a public company than cloud competitors ... earn in a single quarter. If Wall Street grows tired of Amazon’s continued losses, it could also pinch A.W.S.

The share price two years ago was 250. Today 320. Ok the peak was 408 but that is still pretty good.

Over the 17 years it has gone from 1 to 320.

I'm still calling Hold / Buy
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A similar project, using docker and pexpect for dynamic and programmable - but auditable and deterministically built - images:

http://ianmiell.github.io/shutit/
Fair enough, I misinterpreted it.
This project is really cool! Well done.
I think we haven't seen what Spotify will do. You can't run pirated music in public.

Integration with Spotify and Uber is super smart, there's no competition for that (not from pirated music anyway) -> extra revenue, extra attention to the service

Increase the monthly price to 25$ / month for streaming in public... (eg. a doctor's waiting office, ...) -> extra revenue.
We are embarking on a reverse negotiation model for startups as well. Feel free to signup http://250ksalary.com

There are lots of areas in life where the cost of acquiring a quality product/service is clearly communicated.
Salaries haven't been one of them, which might change.

Don't confuse upfront salary negotiations with lack of motivation etc. This just brings more quality candidates to job markets, saves everyone a lot of time and lets you focus on other important parts of hiring process.
Well, yes, for the immediate set of transactions, it's entirely the case that companies are incentivized to dissuade candidates from reaching out to us. This doesn't mean the statements come from a bad place, just a particular viewpoint - it's why I wanted to point them out specifically. :-)
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My understanding is that German debt was not denominated in paper, but that they had to print money to buy gold at whatever rapidly falling rate people would give. Presuming my understanding is correct, the debt was certainly the root problem, but the inflation wasn't helping - it made it harder to buy the next payment's gold.
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That would be patio11 and tptacek: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...
No, we're constantly evaluating people during and after each project. Thankfully we've only had to drop someone in one situation, but we're not afraid to do that if necessary to keep the quality high.

Also thankfully, the people we rep tend to bring their A-game to projects because they understand that it's not just their reputation on the line... they're also representing 10x and all of the other consultants that 10x represents.
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What are you talking about?

AAC is pay for use codec and Apple receives royalties for its use through MPEG-LA. ALAC was historically proprietary, it was opened only after it lost to FLAC. Apple never supported any codec, that was really free, like Vorbis or FLAC.
agreed, but maybe easier without all the new.
Can you tell me any usecases where you want to index every key on the json ?
Did you start in London and move to SV? Where was your London office located that you felt had a good support network?
I'm all for FOSS tools, and have (and still) use ctags / cscope (mainly in vim), however the best source code referencing tool I've ever used is Understand - https://scitools.com Yes, it's commercial, however it beats anything free that I've found so far.
Google, in their growth days, had some interesting methods. One day I was looking up a topic in proof of correctness with Google, and there was a Google recruiting ad on it. I was once contacted by a Google recruiter because I'd been posting on "comp.lang.c++".
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Japan can only fund their government through debasing the Yen, because 50% of tax revenues are being consumed by interest payments, and that's rising by the year. That's a death spiral that is only going to get worse.

The government of Japan is plainly bankrupt. People that own Japanese government debt are already being paid back in devalued Yen. The only options left for Japan are to either openly default, or dramatically increase the debasement of the Yen - the last option is exactly what they will choose. So rather than an open default, they will default by destroying their currency.

Abenomics will be followed by a call for Abenomics 2, and a more dramatic destruction of the Yen. Japan has been living on borrowed time for 15+ years, maintaining a fake standard of living that was dependent on perpetually greater amounts of debt; the bill has come due. The exact same process is occurring in several of the biggest economies of Europe.
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Free software built for astronomy that appears to do what Tableau (and to some extent Lyra) does, without the gloss.

http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/
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Thanks for the write up. I've been getting into docker lately and this is really useful.
I agree that this should be under control of an international organization as long as this organization includes all countries and isn't a closed club of America's lapdogs.
I just checked your Naphthalene pdf. Looking at the first page of text (page 1):

* The first real kerning issue is the third word "wondering", which looks like "wo n d erin g" to me. The kerning is terrible, but that is probably more of a font issue.

* There should be no line break between the words: >>overpowering circumstance?”<< Probably should hyphenate circum-stance.
I'm with you, it's certainly not the most elegant solution to the problem, but we're basically Doing Things That Don't Scale. (http://paulgraham.com/ds.html)

As we grow, we identify bottlenecks, and we write software to automate those processes; I imagine we're iterating towards something like what you're envisioning. (At least internally, if not externally.)

But your last couple sentences got at an important point... as much as I'd like to see this problem solved with software, there are still a lot of unavoidable, messy, people-related issues that, currently, still require manual finesse.
That's incorrect.

Japan's savings rate has collapsed, and is in dire condition.

Via the WSJ:

http://i.imgur.com/vYsbHWg.jpg

That formerly high savings rate was the only thing that enabled the Japanese government to borrow as much debt as they did.

Now that the Japanese are no longer able to save enough money, the government can't continue to borrow from that source, and accordingly the govt. has been forced to turn to the last measure available: currency debasement.
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I pay my monthly primarily fee for the convenience and legality of the service. I used to buy about 30 CDs a year, and then a similar number of albums on iTunes, and now there's Spotify, and that's all I use now.

I am probably the Worst Person On The Internet for the following view, but supporting the artists falls fairly low on my priority list, and certainly wasn't the reason I was buying CDs. For smaller acts, I'd have thought (citation needed) that the promotional power of Spotify for concerts and so on is worthwhile.

For larger acts, how much extra monetary support do they need, especially given how much cash concerts bring in? Would they stop producing music if they were making a decent middle class wage instead of millions of dollars?

Would we be in a better place if libraries didn't exist, and authors made super-normal profits as a result? Probably not. I pay for books for the same reason I pay for Spotify - the convenience of having the book I want, when I want it, rather than trudging down to my local library, and getting a dog-eared copy that smells of tobacco. But I note the cost of a book - especially for the Kindle - is really quite different from most CDs I've seen.

I have a friend who's a very talented backing musician who tours around playing guitar for the latest TV contest winners, and I note he's compensated on similar terms to talented developers I know who show up at companies and solve other people's problems.
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Really, you don't know THP? Lots of demand for it these days...

J/K, yeah, I'm guessing that "P" happens to sound a lot like "T" on a fact-checking call. =P I sent them a note about the typo. Hopefully will be fixed online if not in print.
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