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> Mozilla had 3 years to become profitable.

Mozilla is a non-profit. This doesn't make sense. Google was paying $300M/year to Mozilla, and I seriously doubt that Mozilla's expenses would be more than that. Most of the work is done by unpaid coders anyways; they don't need vast teams of sales people selling Mozilla, it sells by itself.
For sure, but jumping into Node from a clean slate is probably not the best idea, legacy is different.

If anything the comment on hiring highlights the use of Node being problematic. It's difficult to write robust systems in Node even as a seasoned Node developer.
It seems that most are commenting on why Uber executive shouldn't be doing this. But none has viewed this from Uber's perspective. If your startup was being threatened by a brown-nosing bonus-loving trigger-happy reporter, what are you going to do? Publish a press statement? Hire more reporter to spread positive propaganda? A cost-benefit analysis would show it is simply cheaper to hire a hitman to take her out. Before you argue with me over ethics and human rights, this isn't the first time a company has did this. Do a google on volkswagon and Glaxo-smith klein cost-benefit analysises and they are equally expedient. So why our society allows large corporations to trade capital for human lives while we condamn a startup for doing the exact same thing?!?
Out of "93 quasars", "19 of them found a significantly polarized signal." "Results indicate that the rotation axes of the quasars tend to be parallel to the large-scale structures in which they find themselves."

Do quasars that aren't parallel to their large-scale structures not have a significantly polarized signal? Maybe interference from the structure or a weaker signal because of their alignment?
Regarding Elon Musk being considered as PayPal Co-founder or not. Here is Elon Musk's take on that
http://gawker.com/230076/an-alternate-history-according-to-e...
I am upset that the title has been changed from "Node.js in Flames". Which is not only the real title of the article, but also a reasonable description of what they've been facing with Node.

#moderationfail
There are at least two released jailbreak tweaks that does something related to this [0][1]. Although I don't know exactly what they actually do, technically, as I have not had the interest in these specific screen details.

[0] http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/11/07/littlebrother-iphone...
[1] http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/11/06/upscale-change-resol...
Mozilla's.
They're not compelled to respond but they will, because it's good politics to do so, and it's potentially a good chance to carefully craft a message to defend themselves.
Comes with NVIDIA GT840M Graphics. How could the driver be free without Nvidia providing it!
If you see "[dupe]" on a dead comment you can be sure that that is why it was killed.

The problem was that there were two identical comments, the software killed one as a dupe, and avik deleted the other one. The software tries to fix this very scenario—it normally would have automatically unkilled the remaining member of the pair. But there are some corner cases where that doesn't work, and avik seems to have outsmarted it.

We'll take a look and try to fix the fix.
I fully agree with that (and didn't read it negatively at all). The 5% meme/week is definitely surreal -- that's >10x/year growth! I'm always really impressed when I see companies with that kind of growth, especially after they've reached non-trivial revenues (e.g. $50k-$100k/mo)
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Why is everyone so surprised that Uber is tracking information about their users, or that employees have access to that information.

I just think it's incredibly naive to think that they wouldn't use it in any way possible.
Note that Bram is the treasurer of said charity. You can read their latest financial report here:

http://iccf-holland.org/jaarrekening2013en.pdf
I'd like to completely retract my statement! Reading the Senator's letter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8633683) put things in perspective for me. Forget bad for business, it's bad for human rights. Ethical grey area is an understatement.
Note this is not an example of "no network effects". This is the opposite. Both services benefit from the shared network effects. The real question is whether the future market for ridesharing is zero-sum, which seems unlikely looking at analogous markets.
The scaling makes sense for legacy apps, but I can't understand why they don't present a 1920x1080 screen for everything else.

Hasn't iOS had tools for building resolution-independent apps ever since the iPhone 5 was released?
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Hm, those two tweaks appear to be for iphone5/5s only. I'm more interested in the capabilities of the 3x screen on the 6+.

I wonder if this whole downsampling business is happening because the 6+ didn't get a "full resolution" screen in time and so they had to go with off-the-shelf 1080p screens? Related to the GT scandal maybe?
Hang any SSHD on the internet, and within minutes you get these attempts. You can choose to log the passwords if you like and this is what you would see.
I hadn't thought about it before, but I wonder if Yahoo would be willing to front a Firefox advertising campaign across its portals; similar to how Google used to (stil does?) promote Chrome across its own properties.
Could you expand more on the ops issues you have encountered in your systems?
I actually agree with the letter for the most part. Yes, Uber are not the only company out there with troves of data that is most likely being abused without anyone noticing, but it is just unfortunate that the spotlight is currently on Uber because of the silly words from a man in a position who should know better than to say such stupid things in public (on or off the record, it doesn't matter). He worked as an advisor to the White House, he should know the importance of holding your tongue.

Not to mention all of the lobbyist pressure Uber is experiencing on the business side of things, this is the kind of stuff taxi driver unions and companies/entities threatened by Uber's business model can only dream of getting. They are not doing themselves any favours here.

It seems that Uber have well and truly put their foot in it this time over any of the other controversies and scandals that have involved the company. And yet, after all of this, Emil Michael gets to keep his job? Seems to me the only way Uber can start to make amends and repair their broken image here is to make some effort and fire Emil.
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Where were the allegations of putting someone's family in harms way? The initial reports read like it was a hypothetical solution to show bias in tech journalism. SL happens to work at a blog who was funded by a competitor of Uber.

Real journalists give full notice about potential conflicts of interest (especially when they write flimsy attack articles). Exposing that unacknowledged conflict of interest doesn't seem like it puts someone's family in harms way. All it would do is show clear bias in a clearly biased attack article.
Does anyone wonder what's with the odd 414x736 resolution? I can't say I've ever heard of that resolution before; 360x640 at 3x would fit the 1080x1920 native resolution perfectly, or 2x the 540x960 of the iPhone 4. Apple's "Think Different" mentality at play here?
Probably because 1080p as a @3x screen gives a smaller effective viewport than the lesser models, which would make it look weaker?
It's not even that. Everytime I have to write an aggregation in Elasticsearch, I cringe. JSON is a terrible human format, and their annoying nested trees to do the simplest thing really suck to type out. I understand SQL doesn't cover everything a DB may expose, but then allow it for what it can do, or come up with nice syntax instead. Don't make me deal with your AST.
I really dislike how so many editors bind the evaluation/compile/menu key to ctrl + space or ctrl + shift. On the default multilingual key setting on windows, it is especially annoying when you want to run the code but instead your typing language changes to chinese
This.

I'm actually more surprised if I find a company who is actively supporting users privacy. In this day and age, you just have to assume a company is tracking everything they can to find out more about you and your preferences.

Also, if you don't like being tracked using Uber, make a statement with your wallet and don't use the service - problem solved.
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Or a Steinway piano. - http://www.today.com/id/30442451#.VG1nVYVb9hF
Yeah, definite problem. I ran 1280x1024 until last month when that monitor (lcd, from 1999) finally died. The web was a horrible place and made me angry at humanity. I've got 1920x1080 now, and I now have enough screen pixels to see what they were fucking up my 1280 for. Not worth it.
Um, there's more to the world outside the US than Russia and China...
Caller 1: "Hi, I'm calling from Accompani."
Caller 2: "Ok, which company?"
Caller 1: "Accompani."
Caller 2: "Yes, I got that. Which company."
Caller 1: "Accompani!"
Caller 2: "Which one? What is the name of your company?"
Caller 1: "Accompani!"
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Do you have a link to the original 'boober' transcript? Haven't been able to find one, context is everything so I'd rather have the full backstory before making any assumptions.
Facebook blew away earnings this summer citing "mobile ads" as the reason for growth. Instagram had its first ad ever a few weeks prior to the earnings release, which had hundreds of thousands of comments. I can't help but feel Facebook was being misleading when they cited "mobile ads" for the revenue spike. Merchants had renewed faith in the platform thus resulting in a positive feedback cycle(merchants come back/signup -> more revenue -> revenue jumps again -> repeat). I think a break down of their mobile ad revenue would tell a much different story than the one they were trying to promote
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I, like quite a few others around here it seems, read the web version when it was posted to HN a while back. It was so good that I actually ditched my daily cycle commute for a couple of weeks so I had the chance read little snatches on the train.

For those that haven't read it, have a look - I'm sure you'll be hooked. The content (in terms of the patterns) is really nice and very clearly explained. Beyond that though, the style and humour is absolutely spot on. It doesn't feel like a technical read - it's more like an adventure.

I'm going to buy a copy out of support, and honestly, I'll probably read it again.
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Hey Silicon Valley, We Are All Uber
I also use 16:10 only. The dominance of 16:9 is really getting annoying. It's harder and harder to get 16:10 monitors these days, especially anything with higher resolution than 1920x1200.
Right - impressive though this is, also the cat isn't black, the woman with the bananas might well not be a woman, the girl isn't swinging on a swing, the construction worker is probably not in the road, and the guitarist is tuning the guitar, not playing it. It's pretty much wrong -in detail- on every count.

The weird thing is how at a glance, it seems pretty much correct. And how some people here are willing to look at that and think 'automated law enforcement is clearly imminently possible'.
> He worked as an advisor to the White House, he should know the importance of holding your tongue.

You'd be surprised . . .
How much of mobile ad revenue is VC money recycled by startups through facebook seeking installs of their apps? Is there a breakdown of this somewhere?
Generally, I agree with your sentiment regard proper accreditation in the media, but claiming that Thrun doesn't deserve a huge chunk of credit for self-driving cars at Google is thoroughly unsupported by the evidence (check out the history of the DARPA challenges). This article seems to be grasping at a sinister story of a coverup that simply doesn't exist.

From the article: "From then on, we started doing a lot of work with Google," says Majusiak. "We did almost all of their hardware integration. They were just doing software."

Just software? Holy cow. The machine learning, control systems, mapping software, and all the other algorithms in a self-driving car are the really fundamental pieces. It's super important to get the hardware right, and 510 did a great job of that, but the software is the brain.
That's crazy successful. I'm working on my own auto responder course. How did you build up traffic to the sales page?
Oh, this bread is so tasty and the clowns are so funny! Thanks Al Franken!
OTOH, Frankenstein is the chair of the committee whose job is to oversee these matters. Perhaps the Senate Intelligence committee would be the analogous thing for government surveillance: http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/memberscurrent.html
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A simple "if file exists" check shouldn't take 1ms on average.

OSes cache directory entries for a reason.

I mean, even Python manages 40,000 checks / second:

>>> timeit.timeit("os.path.exists(data)", setup="import os; import random; import string; data = os.path.join(r'C:\Windows\System32', ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_letters) for _ in range(10)))", number=40000)
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Depends on if its just an intro to programming course or part of the backbone of a full degree. Either way thou ML appears to be a compelling choice.
Did you consider alternatives, like for example, Mozilla Public License version 2 ? It is a file based copy-left license that is compatible with GPL.
> 5) Released nothing.

I've been tracking the neovim repo for a while, and my feeling is that they could have easily made a couple of releases with stability matching some other notable projects, but they have intentionally chosen to be conservative and wait.

If you want an example of one area where there has been work and improvement, check out the Wiki page on the updated clipboard integration: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Python-plugins,-clipbo... . Yeah, it's different, and not yet as capable as Vim's built-in clipboard integration. But if they are headed toward a goal of more generalized integration points, then this is a strong step in the right direction.
Dumb question alert. Could an advanced civilization have done this? Perhaps to collect power?
Word on the Apple rumor street was that the display was supposed to be a full 3x 414x736 (1242x2208), but the display yield was too poor.
and note this:

We aim at very low costs. The goal is to limit the costs to 5% of the
revenue. The revenue and expenses show that the costs in 2013 were only 0.5%
of the total revenue. This is within the goal by a large margin. The
largest parts of the costs are unavoidable banking costs.

That is an exceptionally frugal charity; lots of charity monitoring sites seem to think that over 80% is doing well.
You also might want to consider changing your SSH Port

http://danielmiessler.com/blog/security-and-obscurity-does-c...
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Cassandra's CQL is an SQL variant/subset (albeit without joins, which don't scale out horizontally anyway) that is adapted to variable partitions with rows grouped into partitions. It addresses the problem of locality by embedding partition awareness into the query language.
If we wind the clock back far enough couldn't we explain this if the original matter that went on to form the black holes originated from blobs of matter that were affected by the same local forces? Then we just wait long enough and things that were next to each other in the distant past now reside long the dark mater filaments? Given the angular momentum of these suckers I'd guess that it is pretty hard to significantly change their axis of rotation even over a couple billion years.
I can get at the post and I also couldn't see anything about the default outside of US/Russia/China.

What makes this particularly interesting is the rest of the globe includes some of Firefox's strongest markets. My gut suggests this is obscure because Google will remain the default there, but that's just a guess.

EDIT: My gut seems to be wrong. The Yahoo post on this ( http://yahoo.tumblr.com/1313 ) mentions "the long-term framework we developed with Mozilla for future product integrations and expansion into international markets". I think that means Yahoo will end up being the default outside Russia and China, though the rollout may take some time.
1). Good question. Paul Sztorc -- the inventor of the Truthcoin concept, on which Augur is based -- has been helping us a lot with game theoretic calculations. The Reputation concept's goal is to create a Schelling point on the consensus. You can construct a thought experiment, where you look at how the Reputation payoffs align with a perfect coordination game (with Schelling points). The result was that there is around a 90% chance that the Reputation mechanism creates a Schelling point. I don't have the details of this calculation, but I'm sure Paul and/or Jack (our project lead) could provide them if you're interested!

As for emptying the funds, we have the B parameter in LMSR vary according to volume. However, we're currently talking with an expert in automated market making (PhD @ CMU in CS w/ thesis in market makers) and he's recommending that we do not use LMSR (because new, advanced, market making algorithms have came out that don't allow issues like the one you mentioned come up).

2). I'm not exactly sure what you're asking here. We currently plan to encrypt votes using time lapse cryptography and then decrypt them via distributed key sharing.

3). SVD 0 and 1 work fine for binary outcomes, however when you include scalar predictions you have to fit the scalar values between 0 and 1 (because that's what svd operates on), hence floating point decimals. We're currently writing and implementation using fixed point, however, and that's probably what we'll end up using.

4). Yes we have, that was the simplest way to do it in a bitcoin transaction, however...

5) Absolutely, we're currently looking at Serpent contracts as a way to implement this (it looks like the biggest hurdle will be keeping SVD costs low, but so far it's progressing nicely)!
To the down voter. If you think an advanced alien civilization is out of hand then why does SETI exist? Why did we put messages on voyager?
We know from previous whistleblowers the most likely response to raising concerns is being sidelined or punished.
So if you plan to take your laptop it is better to upload the disk image and buy a new one in the states? I'm assuming the TSA can force a foreigner to unlock and then copy the disk.

Wow this is sick:

http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2011/06/10-of-tsas-worst-ac...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2014/07/07/th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba030UmbkCo

http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2011/05/nottheonion-tsa-sea...
"This isn’t just Uber’s problem to solve, it’s all of our problem to solve. Every executive, employee and VC in tech needs to lead by example to change this culture."

The reason why the Uber story got so much attention is because that Uber exec's actions were way outside the norm of what we expect from corporate behavior (inside or outside the tech industry). Most tech companies are not so ruthless and unethical that they'd think about spending a million dollars to try to smear a critical journalist. So no, it's not everyone's problem, it's the problem of a small number of sociopaths. We are not all Uber.
Still early days but the reception has been strongly positive. We may be a biased bunch but we like our code mostly statically typed with the flexibility provided by dynamically typed languages. A large part of this culture is due to the immense internal success of Hack (http://hacklang.org/).
It's only a small market in today's (arguably inflated) valuations. Plenty of publicly traded companies have valuations in the millions, rather than billions.
Facebook mobile ads are pure crap. Here is a proof if anyone needs one:
http://forums.makingmoneywithandroid.com/income-reports/1635...

Most installs from Facebook Mobile ads never even open the app once (Yes even Once).

If you read the post from the same guy, you will notice he actually targeted to People who play word games on mobile.
Sure. A dumb civilization could have done it too, perhaps as something to do with crystals or the Zodiac.

But in all seriousness, Occam's Razor is a great tool here. So far, every cosmological problem we believe we've figured out has occurred due to natural processes. There is very likely something we don't know about large scale structures (an understatement!).
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Oop, yep, thanks!
I like the simplicity of this site, but can you tell me a little bit more about it? What its for and why you're doing this?

Love the concept though :)
That still sounds like a blow to the meaningfulness or usefulness of the principle.
Doesn't that mean that you have exponential worst-case complexity?
Bill Bailey on Australian Customs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s5AF4ahrOk
I think Gizmodo is a source HN's algorithms penalizes, which is a shame in this case. It's an interesting article with some good details.
If Mozilla wanted to promote choice, why not present the user with an option of some sort? I fail to see how picking s default provider counts as "choice".
Try the download link at http://lighttable.com/
Interesting question. Makes me wonder about the breakdown of those astronomical numbers in general. Is it longer tail, with tons of smaller buys, or fewer large companies with massive buys that are generating the bulk of it?
We're working on a more scalable and secure version currently. Eta is sometime around May for the official production version
That's because the military are actually really good at doing systems engineering, because it's all about writing requirements specifications, managing acquisitions and testing for delivery against requirements which is the military's bread and butter. Most of my experience in this area has been workign for ex-military people. NASA are also really good at it, and they publish a handbook on it which is very good:

(warning: 8.1MB PDF)
http://foiaelibrary.gsfc.nasa.gov/_assets/doclibBidder/tech_...

They may not refer to the acronym "POSTED" exactly, but said acronym is what I learned and I thought highlighted the scope of what a system covers, specifically that it is not just the equipment i.e.: software. In the NASA SE Handbook, page 3 says the following, which essentially maps across to what I described:

"A “system” is a construct or collection of different elements that together produce results not obtainable by the elements alone. The elements, or parts, can include people, hardware, software, facilities, policies, and documents; that is, all things required to produce system-level results."
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What uses IEEE 1588?
Fascinating! So the letter is probably a veiled threat. I hope the Senate has better things to do with its time, though a debate of much stronger privacy laws would be a healthy outcome of this mess.
And if all else fails, just scale out further... until you're effectively outside the universe.

Stipulate the presence of additional universes.

Then call the whole theoretical collection a "multiverse."

Voilà. We have no reason to believe this reflects reality, but it must be assumed...

...in order to preserve the Cosmological Principle.
Not if you're using a Cuckoo hashmap.

Honestly, I have no idea why people aren't taught Cuckoo-maps by default. It's simple, has true O(1) worst-case lookup, and has easy deletion. About the only problem is trying to prove insertion time.