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Hard work is the coolest thing in the world, and money shows that you are capable of actually accomplishing things. Another great thing about money is that you can put it towards nearly infinite good uses.

Now work hard and make money.
Lambda was announced today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8602936
Except that it can have side effects, can't it - it can trigger services, cause stuff to be changed in a datastore. It doesn't have any local stateful storage, but it can make use of remote state. In that respect, how is it different from basically any web request processor?
It's a common quote, but there's no argument contained within it other than an argument by Churchill's authority.

"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill
Saying that the efficient market hypothesis is false is like saying that the principle of entropy is false because you can heat a pot of water on your stove. The efficient market hypothesis as a long-term, general phenomenon is consistent with short-term, local arbitrage and other examples of information asymmetry in markets.

P.S. The blog from which this submission comes bears the usual signs of hype exceeding performance. The author's firm was established in 2008, which means it

1) doesn't really have a very long-term record,

and

2) what record it does have was established during a recovery from a worldwide financial shock and depression, an atypical period during my lifetime.
Picture this. Twenty years ago, you had the opportunity to lease premium real estate - a massive storefront, open to billions of people - for only $10 a year.

The catch? There's already an equally massive sign above the storefront - Accelerated Pneumatic Deliveries.

You can't move the sign, cover over it, paint it, etc. But the lease was so low you couldn't help but purchase it, and now, as long as you pay your $10, each year you can own this storefront.

A few decades later, Bill Pneumatic, the owner and son of the founder of Accelerated Pneumatic Deliveries, comes along. He wants to purchase your storefront.

Here in lies the rub. You've put roughly $200 into your storefront at this point. Clearly $1000 - a 400% ROI - would be a fair price. But you know:

1. The value of the storefront to APD is nearly priceless. Your storefront is unique, but it will only ever have one interested buyer.

2. The downside potential should you decline is nearly nothing. Three less coffees a year, or skimping a bit one night out a year for the rest of your life, and you can keep that storefront until you're buried in front of it.

Welcome to the world of domain ownership, where the owner has no rational basis to sell to you a domain for anything but a ludicrous price. I know of a handful of established companies that have changed their name over domain availability. I know about a dozen more that have paid thousands for a domain. If those purchasers make up only 15-20% of all businesses, the domain owners are making comfortable, easy money.

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Do not go through GoDaddy or Namecheap. Their services are a flat fee plus commission - why would you want to pay someone commission to buy something for you that you already know is going to be unreasonably priced? Especially a company who specialized in commoditizing their services.

I would recommend contacting the proxy and trying to make contact with the owner. It will take longer, but you have a much higher chance of success.

But you should probably just find a different domain.
ha ha! fun. How did you wire it up?
One thing is clear: this is a smartcard, the private key never leaves the token, period. gpg-agent acts only as a middleman between ssh and the token, that's all. It's impossible to capture or extract the private key (unless you're the NSA and you have physical possession of the token, I guess).

Now, are there ways to attack the authentication via tapping as root into the gpg-agent process? I don't think so, but frankly I'm not that familiar with the sausage-making parts of it. I'd like to learn more about this topic.
It looks like Lambda functions are limited in complexity and runtime duration.

The way I see it is pairing it with the container service (ECS) and spawning containers in response to events, possibly spawning EC2 instances if you need more computer.

It looks like Lambdas can also be set to execute at a scheduled time, so you could make a delayed Lambda that would shut down any EC2 instances you spawned as well.
that's an awesome service. Is it always only text based?
What do you mean by "factor in"? Are you saying I have my viewpoint because I'm privileged? Are you saying my viewpoint on the matter would be different if I didn't have the privilege? Or are you saying that my viewpoint is invalid because I have privilege?

Or something else, entirely? Really, I'm curious... As someone whose parents had no privilege and were poor.
You just sign up to "Bing Rewards" then search 30 times/day (15 points). When you reach 475 points you redeem them for a $5 Amazon gift card.

There are other ways to earn points too (aside from the 15/day) which is why it works out closer to every month...
C++ Programming and Brain RAM
Indeed, unlike billg, Ballmer actually graduated!

I've learned over the years that, when a bio says "So-and-so attended Harvard", it means So-and-so went there but didn't finish. Not that I object! Harvard dropouts like Gates, Zuck, and Matt Damon often do exceptionally well—they typically leave because they have an opportunity that's even better than attending Harvard.
Does anyone know of any replacements?

I get zero chargebacks via Google and struggle to find anything that's comparable?

I've got the usual horror story behind PayPal (that cost a lot) and Stripe does not have adequate anti-fraud.

At the moment Amazon Payments seems to be a worthwhile competitor (they guarantee no chargebacks related to fraud) however their service is much harder to integrate. Although plenty of humans in the mix which is a very nice touch.

As a merchant, this is why Bitcoin is so valuable.
I'm actually all the way through close-minded and out the other side. As cfontes above pointed out, in 6 months time they'll have given up the gluten diet and be doing the next fad. Lactose intolerence. Paleo. Multivitamins. Organic. It goes on and on. The perpetual fadders.

The same person will go through all these things. And then change their mind without any comment.

But going through the motions still makes them feel better, so I'm saying, even though it's not pharmacologically effective, psychologically it is a kind of cure and you shouldn't just dismiss it. It helps them, so why criticize it? Unless it's dangerous of course.

You can believe in the actual science, but believe in the cure at the same time. It's the best of both worlds.

And I'm actually saying this from experience, I'm going through it at the moment. In reality I'm simply suffering from anxiety. But my brain keeps irrationally latching on to things, it wants something to point at and be scared of. I have had to stop googling any sensations I feel as my brain will just latch on to anything I read.

At the beginning it was actually very scary and disorientating.

Now I'm getting over the anxiety and understand it, I can laugh at it and it's becoming less frequent. But it still happens. Someone mentioned vitamin D deficiency here a few days ago. And now of course I have that. But my scientific brain can understand that it's the anxiety again, and I don't. But I do. In a week or two, rationality will win, simply by waiting for that anxiety to disappear.

Being actually able to do something, like cut gluten out, is in itself actually quite calming.
Yeah, I generally agree about pie and donut charts. I thought about unrolling this one, so that the inner most circle would just be one long bar, and each successive step would just be an adjacent bar. I'm not sure that makes it better (and might make it worse, since the whole thing might end up being really tall).

There might be a clever way to do this with a tree map, but it wouldn't be particularly intuitive to read.
This almost seems like something you'd see in a thedailywtf article.

Want to write an application that does X? Design, build, test, and document a flexible cross-platform framework that can safely and portably run any application in the domain, and then specialize it to do X!

I have to say, though, that it seems to have actually worked out for the best in this case. He added a ton of puzzles at a rapid pace and they've spread to a surprising number of platforms.
The document does not have the image of the ad itself or how it was advertised to customers. What was stopping customers with discover card to temporarily remove and re-add it? Promotions like this are picked up by coupon blogs, with detailed steps to get the deals. This would explain the ad budget getting over before the forecast and also, gift cards being awarded to users, who had not even seen the ad.

The document does acknowledge that the team responsible for forecast "ad execution team", admitting the fuck up and using amazon cash to fund the the remainder of the promotion. Meanwhile implementing the workflow to require ad click requirement.

Given the context that this was a secretive gen 1 kindle tablet project, people should have been working hard to pull it off by deadline. And you have this whistleblower shooting emails to SVP looking for "who is responsible for latency on amazon.com". I am an engineer at an equally big company in bay area, I hate to work with PMs like OP.
Seen this repeatedly in multiple corporate settings. The sooner you learn it, the better you may fare. (Including sometimes making decisions to "get out", preemptively.)

Once you understand it, it can also help explain some of the staffing and personalities you will encounter in HR departments.

P.S. I'll add that, in my experience, this extends to most performance reviews. Their primary function is to reenforce top-down policy and decisions. They are not really, primarily, about assessing you and planning (real) improvements. They are about laying the paperwork for whatever Management decides.

Perhaps this sounds overly cynical. And for favored employees, these processes may align more with their own interests. Even then, favored one year may not extend to the next year.
Custom Error Marshaling to JSON in Go
And US government units really care about this because among other things, you're not getting paid overtime, and they've not getting their cut in taxes on that.
Paul Stamets Unravels the Link Between Mushrooms and Cancer Treatment
Not Tajikistan, but of Bangladesh origin. Bangladesh (Once East Pakistan) is the eastern neighbor of India.
Significant portion of his start-up, Photobucket. He didn't own Newscorp...
Hard to imagine it would feel much different from a mouthful of Pop Rocks, really.
They're only shutting down payment for digital goods, so I'm guessing it has something to do with fraud and risk.
This idea has existed for years (see storm, samza), but it's great AWS is wrapping the infrastructure piece for those who can't roll their own!
Considerations when hosting a CMS in the cloud
The US says we are innocent until proven guilty. But as soon as you are arrested that information is public. They shouldn't be able to destroy you publicly if you haven't been convicted.

We really need to fix this.
I finished an 8x8 and it didn't accept. Showed it to 4 co-workers and nobody could find any issue with violating the rules... Should've screenshotted.
Big factors for me:

Diet ( no sugar or carbs or red meat)
Lots of sleep
Yes, it's called a prior, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Not sure what the fuss is here, you'd have to trick a user to right-click and pic a non-default action from the temp folder... not a big risk imho.
I probably wouldn't do something as blatant as "always pre-mark identical rows for me". But something simpler like a "highlight all rows that currently match this one" button would be nice for probing for identical rows.
Oh, and I'm 99% sure you could use the smartcard portion to store your private certificates for something like OpenVPN. It's a standard PKCS#11 hardware widget after all, and OpenVPN can speak PKCS#11.

I just haven't seen any howto showing how to do it, and I could not find the time to research this option.
That's actually entirely not what he said there. He said "On average, active investors will do just as well as passive investors, but due to fees will actually perform worse."

That doesn't mean that some active investors are not going to do incredibly well. Some of those active investors will be smart and lucky, and some of them will be very good at what they do.
And the Bill and Melinda Gates building @ UT Austin.

I'm guessing there are even more?
I'm not sure the analogy holds up since a TLD is separable from the IP it points to and, thus, can have separate commercial value. There is really no way to do this (that I am aware of) with street addresses.
Oh, sorry...wasn't clear.

The problem with just doing the rb_obj_equal call for everything is that if people override eql? in their Ruby code, you need to call that overridden method, instead.

The consequences of this decision mean that the comparison operator needs to be more complex.
as MBlume mentionned[1], they seem to support NodeJS.

From the FAQ :

"At launch AWS Lambda supports code written in Node.js (JavaScript). Your code can include existing Node.js libraries, even native ones."

so it seems that you can avoid lock-in if most of your javascript code is not too coupled to Amazon's API

And they claim on the detail page:

"With AWS Lambda, there are no new languages, tools, or frameworks to learn. You can use any third party library, even native ones. At launch, AWS Lambda will support Node.js code, with support for other languages coming in the future."

[1] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603059
what about those practicing utilitarian ethics?
This looks awesome. Being able to program your own civilization without doing all the time-consuming micro-management is a wonderful idea. Almost every multiplayer game in this genre just costs a lot of time (for most games you have to log on every day or so because then certain actions are completed), and I always wanted to be it more strategical while not sacrifiying the possibilites that each "creature" has.

Some people point out that code sharing might be a problem, but I don't think it is. People have to adapt the code to their own environment and as the creator of this game pointed out [1] AI's will have to be efficient to not exceed resources. That will also limit the possibilities of just pasting some nice scripts.

I hope this game will be as awesome as it looks like and I'm excited to try it out!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8600284
Seems some people complain as a survival strategy: enough whining will persuade others to resolve problems & supply needs, if only to shut that person up.
All: Drive-by one-liners and shrill sarcasm are not helpful. Those of you posting these are ruining this thread and, by extension, this site. You're not contributing, you're venting. That is not what Hacker News is for, so please stop.

If you can't comment in the spirit of what PG wrote here:

A comment should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating
in good faith to figure out the truth about something, not
politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent the other side. [1]

... then kindly don't post anything until you can. This holds regardless of the position you're trying to bolster—which you're not bolstering at all, but detracting from.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761
Hi, I'm Martin, the author. Thanks for analyzing the game and the recommendations. I was actually working on your solution a already. So it will be coming up shortly. Also, for those who were suggesting to put it on iTunes and the Play Store, it already is. Enjoy playing! - @mrtnkl
Show HN: Node.js middleware for unifying the way you send HTTP response statuses
Guys was referring to the companies. "Ours" meaning private businesses and individuals.

I'm sorry if my comment implied "vulnerabilities from the NSA" these are vulnerabilities in everything else, being sold to the NSA, then kept secret by the NSA from the people they are supposed to be protecting.

If I accidentally left a door open on my house and a police officer that knew who I was saw my house left wide open, I'd hope a) he'd let me know or b) not do anything. I hope he wouldn't just go inside and take pictures of my private affairs for using against me later when it's convenient.

This is opposed from him seeing the door with indications of a break in, that'd be different, but again, I'd hope he doesn't go in.

This isn't out of fear of illegal activities being discovered (I have none, I'm boring), instead it's from the fear of someone using their position of power to take advantage of me for personal or professional, or the protection/enforcement of political ideologies.
I'm not saying it's unlikely... These things do happen, and we need to be aware of them. We need to be afraid of them, and prepare accordingly. But pretending like they don't exist and "can never happen to me" is like sticking your head in the sand.
Nine people injured and they ask for millions while families in Afghanistan are compensated with $5000 per collateral fatality (and if I remember correctly there was at least one case where it was $200 per killed and $75 per wounded). This doesn't sound like justice to me. Yes, it is a bit apples and oranges, but then again the people were just civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Addendum: I am aware that this is quite a bit off-topic, but I just had that thought how kind of ridiculous it is, to go to such lengths to get financial compensations while the state will just hand you a couple hundred or thousand dollars and case closed.
Well, among other things, you can override the object equality check in Ruby -- so you can't simply rely on pointer identity as a check of equality.

That said, yeah, it'd be nice if you could just make the assumption that if two objects point to the same memory, they're de facto identical...
UT Austin also has a Gates CS Building/Complex.
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/about-us/new-building
Culture and that other stuff you mention are important, but so is size and distance. In the same way that someone who moved from Austria to Scotland would be tolerant of differences in official services, so is someone who moves from Seattle to Orlando.
For different take on the same theme, see Lamport's "The Future of Computing: Logic or Biology".

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/f...
10x10 solved. It seems too easy. It is almost an auto solver, you just have to find two blocks of the same color together, or two blocks with the same color with an empty block in-between.

Great for a young person, but I would like to see a version with more rules and constraints to follow.

The UI and the UI feedback is outstanding though.
I've long suspected that this would be a valuable service.
> You can't own a database record.

Well not when you put it that way. But you certainly can have a property interest in a database record's being updated or not updated in a certain way. Think of it this way: your money on deposit at the bank is "just" a database record -- either at the band itself or, less directly, at the Federal Reserve. And this is just one example. Plenty of assets ultimately reduce to a database entry on a computer somewhere.
you can ask @online_en to get an invite on twitter,
it's free during beta
Ask HN: How Much Do Devs in Rich Europe (SUI, GER, LUX, MON and Scandinavia) Make?
I am considering making a move out there. I am also curious to know how tough it is for foreigners to get jobs there and what fields of software development are lucrative.
Joey Hess: on leaving
Some student contacted me about buying mine. He offered like $80 and I agreed. Free money. I'm pretty sure I had lofty plans when I registered the name, but in reality I ended up just sitting on it, which isn't a fun situation for anyone. So along with the $80 I got to feel good about no longer being a squatter. Win-win.

Just make an offer. You may be surprised to find it's accepted.
Perhaps NTSB will have some thoughts about how to coordinate seat separation and chute deployment.
I don't understand why so many here are questioning this move. You can shoot down his logic about the future upside but clearly it wasn't about the money anyway. Call me crazy but I find it encouraging that this guys is measuring the success of his business not just by how much it makes but also by whether it produces a good product that people actually want to use.
I sort of do.
"Just ask the Romanian immigrant to the U.K. that lost her 'welfare tourism' case in a recent final ruling in the ECJ."

That was actually a case from Germany, not the UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30011512

However, I agree with your broader point that there is hypocrisy from all sides in this debate.
This is my version, which deals with multiple machines using my same remote-mounted home directory:

https://gist.github.com/jamesgraves/9af46a544b6dc7da9097

However, it tries to keep one agent running forever, which the OP doesn't like.

I am frequently in situations, like using cygwin, where I don't have a nice graphical shell to kill the agent / keyring when I log out.

Though I don't often log out either, unless I need to reboot for an OS upgrade. I don't know, either you're going to rely on the screen lock for security, or you aren't.

As for mixing work with personal stuff, I've created multiple accounts on my laptop for each to more easily keep them separate.
It's easy to mess up a somewhat complex repo in git, but for versioning really simple things like rsync scripts or dot-files, where you have one committer, one branch, and a linear commit log, git's pretty easy. git init, git commit -am, gitk to view history or diff, done.
Thanks to the sorta dumbbell shape, depending on where Philae landed the apparent gravity may be a LOT less, should a considerable amount of the comet's mass be "above" the lander. (Think "what's the pull of gravity in the center of a planet?")
In general I agree with you but with one caveat. Right now the very rich pay the lowest percent of their wealth in taxes in many decades. Taxation is the means by which society is able to make its desires known. I would agree wholeheartedly if the taxation was significantly greater than what it currently is int he U.S. (for the wealthy).
It seems like you're limited to 25 concurrent lambda functions executing (at least at this time).

This looks like it's more geared towards enabling you to automate / orchestrate your AWS resources, that run customer-facing code.
Obama and Scalia, United on Broadband as a Utility
As someone who is non-technical, how much code/infrastructure would this save? I'm trying to understand how locked in this would really make you, and how difficult it would be to replace this on some other IaaS provider?
I'm guessing they borrowed it from this :
http://lambda-architecture.net/
That's essentially correct. Funny thing is, people outside the US consider the UN a Trojan horse for US hegemony; many living inside the US consider the UN a Trojan horse for destroying US sovereignty.
Data Elixir #10: Open data problems, Data and design, Data Viz, conservation
I bought domain names as an investment and sat on them for years until people with lots of money wanted them bad enough. I think this is the mindset you'll be up against.
Sharing state in AngularJS: $watch issues and race condition prevention