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> US GDP growth has exceeded nearly all counties, including emerging markets (adjusted for inflation).

Do you have a source for that? According to Wikipedia, the US ranked 151st for year 2013. Did they make such a huge jump in ranking in 2014? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_g...
We've had a shale oil and gas boom for roughly a decade. Imagine how fucked we'd have been in the "Great Recession" without that.

I'll toast our success after we unwind QE and a reasonable fraction of the bottom 70% have jobs and wages that support buying a house.

We still have TBTF banks that can implode again, just like in 2007. We still count military spending and excess medical spending on the plus side of the GDP and productivity ledgers. We still have disturbing quality of life issues in policing, the Drug War, education, and health.

Let's say Putin wakes up on the wrong side of the bed and invades some FSU nations. Still complacent?
flow looks cool. I just have not had time yet to give it a chance. I use typescript a lot at work and I really am digging react on the side so that is why i chose to do this. typescript is nice in that it gives you type checking plus classes, modules, lambdas etc today. I am looking forward to class support for react components (0.13?)
I wish AWS made it possible to move reserved instances between accounts. We have reserved instances for our test environment that are in the same account as our production instances, and I'd need to sell them from one account at a loss and repurchase them in the other account.
The trade is a big one - one of the reasons for the recent annexation of Crimea by Russia is to give Russia another deep-water port. They have surprisingly little viable coastline given their size.

The other thing is that the US sits on very wealthy land that's in the temperate zone. Large amounts of Russia is difficult to access and the viable parts spend more of the year affected by bad weather. You can even see it in the national stereotypes - the US citizen wears a t-shirt and jeans, the Russian citizen wears an ushanka and heavy coat.

Similarly, once the US conquered the west, it was in a situation where there was no real credible military threat bordering it - it could afford to shift more defence spending to power projection rather than home defence. It's not to say political ideologies had nothing to do with the differences in success stories, just that ideology alone is not responsible.
Kind of confused as to what exactly happens and how to deal with a user sending bitcon to an expired receiver.

All the docs seem to say is "we will do our best to convert them to the requested amount of USD, but the effects are not predictable."

Obviously the amount of USD converted won't be predictable, but it's a situation that needs to be handled.
I use ijulia which is based on python notebooks. Try juliabox.org which is a notebook (and more) offering by the julia folks.
Then there is juno and julia studio if you are inclined towards an rstudio like interface.
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and for some reason instagram always has to grab my GPS location when I open it. hmmm gtfo.
Right. The problem with Kel'Thuzad is that they changed some interactions to fix bugs and they don't really tell you.
Since the original player piano mechanism doesn't support force there was no need to incorporate it into my design. Many of the original QRS piano roll scans don't even have that information. Although with further work and a switch out of the solenoid to a pressure control valvle I might be able to control the pressure of the key stroke.
I just started Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, it's interesting.
That's interesting. I'll look into adding fresh ones back in, but the existing ones were definitely getting in the way of the action, probably because of age. I'm not sure what the sound is like without them, but the whole system still sounds pretty good.
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CLFLUSH is definitely unprivileged - I made use of it on a recent project (evicting outbound messages from a core's cache cut cash misses meaningfully).
I just bought 4 books off of Amazon and got them today:

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning. Highly recommended overview of math by some HNers so I figured I would check it out.

Venture capitalists at work. I didn't realize there were more "at work" series books other than coders and founders, so this one sounds right up my alley.

Information Rules, a book that's supposedly dated on economics and how it applies to the internet world. Recommended on Chris Dixon's blog and looked interesting. Thought I might get some new insights to bitcoin or something with it.

And Walter Isaacson's new book, the innovators.
Good point. I probably could have done more research on that. The little that I DID do placed the piano roll at late 1800s. I'm not a historian. ;) I absolutely find all these ancient systems remarkable.
I don't know if there has been any concerted effort to find possible patents, however daala is touted as patent free because its implementation uses different technologies from H264/HEVC, hence most/all of the MPEG-LA patents shouldn't apply.
There is UberX in Philly now, although as far as I know there were no regulatory changes (and Black still operates legally). The PPA actually did a handful of "sting" operations against UberX drivers when the service started, calling an Uber and then impounding the vehicle (http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/10/26/uber-philadelphia-u...).
Data.table package by matt dowle definitely deserves a mention! Its fast and I like the indexing functonalities it provides. The benchmark timings are pretty impressive.
The small clips I recorded don't really convey the connection as well as when you're standing right in front of it. You see the connection between the keypress and the visualizer much better when it all works as one.
I think geotagging, like other image metadata, is far less obvious to the general public than it should be because the location information isn't directly visible most of the time; maybe if cameras that geotagged photos showed their GPS coordinates in the same way that timestamps are shown, people would get the idea.

It's funny how many people will think you're a "hacker" and be very shocked if you reply to a geotagged photo they casually sent with a map pointing to exactly where it was taken. :-)
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Given what you've said and if it is correct, this means that YC is no longer a seed-stage accelerator for ideas but more a hyper-growth accelerator for businesses with proven product/business-model?
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I'm 32+, live with my parents and have failed at 4 different startups in the past 10 years, two since I left my last paying job in 2012. In 2014, I had $0 taxable income (due to being unemployed) and was rejected by the following companies:

Google* (third time in 3 years)
Twilio* (x2)
Smartling*
Samsung*
Amazon+
Facebook
Cloudflare
AppDynamics*
DigitalOcean
Placemeter*
E.W.Scripps*
Hatch
AppNexus*
OpenX
ThoughtWorks*
Roost
... several others I can't remember
... several others I can remember, but mutually decided the fit was wrong
... MANY others to whom I submitted a resume and never heard back

* = rejected after in-person interview
+ = withdrew, sensing impending rejection
else, rejected after phone screen

In addition, I took the GMAT and was rejected by the following schools:

MIT Sloan
Stanford Business School
Columbia Business School
Harvard Business School

If you're thinking "Wow that's a lot of calls and interviews to come up empty-handed", you're right. You see, while my resume is (apparently) attractive, I suffer from crippling anxiety, the kind that says "Hey, you have in interview tomorrow! No sleep for you!" It turns out interviewers don't like bloodshot eyes, dark circles and a foggy Xanax brain. (Nor does the GMAT.)

But finally... last week I had an interview at a major university, got 3 hours of sleep but somehow landed the job (pending HR salary approval). It doesn't pay like Google does, but I think I'll learn a lot and I'm extremely grateful that someone finally said "yes" to me. I'm going to make the most of it and will be a better engineer from the experience.

Don't give up! If you have any technical skill, whatsoever, someone out there wants to hire you. Just keep plugging along!
Ok sorry, but there has got to be a way to get humanity more interested in Science and math than entertainment.

What can we do? We need to be United as a species rather than divided by race. How can we as "hackers" change this?
So Instagram geotags photos when the user agrees to enable geotagging. And photos on public feeds are public.

I'm not seeing how this is unexpected or newsworthy. It just sounds like there are folks out there who don't consider their location to be a secret. Folks who do are able to communicate that by denying the geotagging permission.
Because entertainment is entertaining?
If you're interested in this kind of stuff, this German guy has a great channel on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/JoergSprave (his slingshot cannon is especially impressive)
"A moat the size of two oceans."
From interviewing at Google, I had a really robotic impression of employees and life there. The entire process was disorganized. I drove four hours across the state to get there, navigating all sorts of construction, and found my own accommodations. When I arrived on site I was repeatedly asked to solve the same Java/C problems on whiteboards for a new person each time.

No one bothered to ask me what made me unique or interesting, even though I have amazing stories to tell from traveling around the world and from projects I've worked on in the past. The free lunch thing is sort of over-blown, when you have to fill out a form and shout over a line of people to get a BLT sandwich made. And then there were a bunch of bicycles strewn out across the campus, mostly toppled over, for no explicable reason.

Honestly, the only reason I would want to work there is for the money, and for that reason employees should not really expect to enjoy their time there.
Evangelical Christians have these kind of argument tactics down to a science—how to convince anybody through peer-group research w/in communities of scientists intent on "proving" banalities that socialization more often overcomes—and separately, that feed more limiting stereotypes than they benifit anybody or further productive research.

I am a mechanic and a gearhead. A former motorcycle racer, with a pixie physique. An ice hockey player, and a robotics hobbiest. Your praised research has shaped society to present me and others like me with far more barriers, than it has presented to anyone, benefits with any kind.

Hence: my assertion that your evangelism of this research as anything positive. Share some Eugenics research, why not?

Social consequences from non-scientific interpretstions of scientific work, are more often than not dangerous. Leave the science to the scientists, and be a human engaged with other humans as we choose to co-exist.
So do people with numbers listed in the phonebook.
Isn't the point more that geotagging of not your home still tends to inadvetantly reveal it, since statistically you'll tag things in an approximate radii of where you live?
let me know if you guys find better replacements, but this is what I got on my list:

O'Reilly - Scott Murray - Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook

A First Course in Probability

Rails AntiPatterns - Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring

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The Pragmatic Programmer

Code Complete

Bishop - Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

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Like the glossed over fact that US occupation and military domination of Italy, rather than populist uprising, is what kept Italy with its economic system undisturbed? The US didn't even try to hide what it was doing during the fixed elections of 1948, by the time of Gladio, P2, strategy of tension etc. it had become a little more hidden. The US still occupies Italy with seven military bases which alternately has hot dog pilots killing civilians ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_%28... ) when they're not kidnapping Arab nationalists ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case ).

Hungary established a soviet republic on its own in 1919, so it's obvious there was a populist wellstream of worker's organizations to pull from. It's also obvious the post-1945 Hungarian people's republic was a popular government - if it wasn't, the USSR wouldn't have had to invade Hungary in 1956. Because Imre Nagy would have never become prime minister if the USSR had imposed the government by Russian occupation and military domination.
How many folks who answer "yes" to geotagging actually know what they're saying yes to? Are there any who say "yes" because they click yes to all dialog boxes?

How many of them intend to publicize the location of pretty pictures they take while traveling, but haven't thought about publicizing their home address?

Note that even Foursquare, bastion of not considering your location a secret, fuzzes home addresses/GPS locations if you somehow decide it's a good idea to check in to your home, even though they publish exact locations of everywhere else you go.

I'm sure there are a number of users who are intentionally geotagging all their pictures, and thinking about the fact they do so every time they hit publish. The author probably just doesn't expect that that number is 100%.
It should be noted that it's extremely easy to scrape geotag information or any public hashtag feed via the Instagram API.

http://instagram.com/developer/

EDIT: Here's a very quick map of all the #tree tweets on Instagram in the past hour or so: http://i.imgur.com/D66r3Ui.png
Take a look at Stephan T. Lavavej aka STL series at C9, http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Stephan-T-Lavave...

Totally worthy.
Thanks for that - I've never seen that book before but it looks incredibly thorough and comprehensive.

Another book on the subject is Arthur Reblitz's classic "Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding: For the Professional, the Student, and the Hobbyist" which I do own and highly recommend.

http://www.amazon.com/Piano-Servicing-Tuning-Rebuilding-Prof...
> But the whole thing is too ridiculous to be plausible.

This is my take as well. State sponsored attacks, or at least the attacks that have allegedly been state sponsored up until now, have been quiet little things that go on for months or years so far under the radar that they only get revealed months afterwards by accident. They aren't filled with green-on-black text and pixelated skeleton images. Something just doesn't feel right about blaming North Korea for this. Maybe it came from the DPRK, but if so it had about as much to do with them as 9/11 did with the Saudis.

Does anyone also feel that the media is the only one that really linked the DPRK to this? I don't recall hearing about North Korea until after the "whodunnit" questions started coming out and speculation between the DPRK's denouncement months ago about The Interview and the very weak correlation between Chinese IPs being frequently involved in attacks and the DPRK's relationship with China, and the recycled malware that has some loose ties to Korea were thrown in a pot and mixed together. Once that started rolling, it seemed that the hackers started playing the Korean card, more for lulz than anything tangible. And now, long after the media has shifted from Poor Sony to Damned Korea (with even the President stepping in with his opinions), we're really heard very little from the attackers. It honestly feels like a bunch of guys in a basement collectively said to themselves "Oh shit, the President of the United States is talking about shit I did, time to cool off". From what I've read about the abysmal security at SPE, it wouldn't be surprising in the least that it didn't take a state sponsored group to do as much damage as they did. Blaming the DPRK only helps Sony sound less like a failure.

The only facts I can be sure of is that Sony did everything wrong in response. Every CIO should learn from this as what _not_ to do when hacked.
Does anyone here remember those huge catalogs of everyone's home address? I recall they were full of yellow and white pages.

I'm not sure what the point is here...if someone knows your name they can often simply look up your home address online (or in an anachronism).

Even social security numbers are available online for people who have died: http://ssdmf.info/

I can sympathize with the idea that people should be able to live private lives, but what Instagram is doing doesn't seem particularly notable.
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As usual, incompetent American intelligence was used instead since it was convenient.

It was actually the finest in British confectionery, with lashings of custard.

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Either hire or avoid hiring 'culture fits' or do some amount of hiring 'culture fits' and some amount of avoiding them.
I've worked at one of these places too. Some managers knew the deal, others, for whatever reason, drank and lived the kool-aid. That is to say, they truly believed in it or at least believed believing would get them somewhere and did everything in their power to advance it.

I can be satirical and sarcastic --most managers were okay with it as it helped to relieve pressures and a way to communicate issues --a few saw this as heresy. I really can't stand that kind of manager. One who believes so much in the system they are so personally vested in the company ideology.
The default Photos app on iOS displays the location directly above the timestamp.
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Here's a corresponding C program in which I use a #define that is not processed by the pre-processor since it's not a dumb string matcher. http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=dE7QsTgS

Define might be. But actual directives are not. In go, the directives are.
> No, they say, we killed way more buffalo than whites ever did.

Ah, but the official mythology is that they used every part.

Sure. They herded massive groups of buffalo off buffalo jumps, which are essentially small cliffs, so that they'd fall and crush each other when they went off the edge, and they'd use every part of all of the hundreds of full-grown buffalo they killed.

But everyone knows the White Man invented waste. Thus it was, thus it must ever be.
It was a nightmare parody because unlike the Russians the Native Americans were nomadic.
I recently took a cab home in philly, and throughout the ride home the cab driver was telling me about uber and the impact its had on him. He works 2 shifts and makes $70 but the cab itself is $80/day. He used to own a gas station and other real estate but the economy screwed him and he resorted to driving a cab to try and support his kids, which he was barely able to do.

equally, there was a time I had to take my cat to the vet and could not get a cab home. I called every company I could find, tried the apps for the ones that required it, but nothing. One of the people that worked at the clinic drove me about 2 blocks and there was a cab of one of the companies I had tried, sitting in the parking lot of a gas station. That was frustrating.

So I think its unfair what cab drivers are going through. I think Uber and other services bring innovation to the market and consumers have expressed an interest in this. While its true advances in technology often leave a given workforce obsolete, this is more subtle and "technical" in a legal sense; and not nearly as dramatic as self-driving cars will be.

I think philly should give these cab companies a break, or tighten their grip on Uber. Both should be allowed to compete, and do so fairly. Its not in the consumers interests for one or the other to go away.

Also, I think the "uber is just an app" is BS, because they're setting the rates and getting a commission from the ride (someone correct me if I'm wrong on this) so in reality they're operating an automated dispatch service. But I think their entire business model revolves around that talking point, and doubt they would be able to compete with taxi's if forced to play by those rules.
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Interesting heat dissipation challenges with vertically stacked CPU's. I wonder if there would be advantages to stacking alternating layers of CPU core, DRAM, CPU, DRAM...

For cooling purposes, is it feasible to put a solid-state Peltier cooler integrated onto the die? The first thing that comes to mind is the energy costs but I would think that it would be less than sending current through a fan motor.
'I would argue that open source begins to show a way, insofar as effectively the worker as individual owns the means of production (owns, meaning here, "has the right to utilize or direct utilization of").'

I would recommend reading up on the Cooperative movement, if you haven't.

'google "Emilia-Romagna Manufacturing"'

I did, but I'm not sure I'm getting relevant results. Could you expand on this?
The example which claims to get "all the rows from 50th row to the 55th row" is broken, since Python is zero-based whereas Julia and R are one-based. The 50th row in Python is at index 49, so the code is not equivalent between the examples.
Have you read the linked page? "Trade secrets", "stolen databases", and "military intelligence relevant to real-time conflicts" are listed as examples of types of information they "expect to see on the Slur marketplace". I think "covert" and "dark" can safely be used to describe this service.
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The argument isn't "Instagram is publishing people's locations," it's "People are allowing lots of services, Instagram among them, to publish their location, and it's harder to participate in modern society while reliably opting out of all of them."

It used to be the case that you could call up the phone company and say, please leave me out of the phone book. It still is. But there are so many more ways to learn your address today, and as always with security, it only takes one oversight to be compromised.

There's nothing unique about what Instagram is doing. They're one of several services other than the phone company that can leak your location if you're not being constantly vigilant. They're not notable, and that's the real story.
One specific case I wanted to address is a continuous backup of all my projects, pictures, and documents. I also wanted to browse the archive and the revision history.
This is somewhat different problem than one that can be solved by KeePass, TrueCrypt/CipherShed, or Crashplan.
Is this a problem that other people have - that is the question.
The US still has an exceedingly poor lower and middle class, and even if tech has helped alleviate that (cheap phones/tablets let more people be connected), general quality of life for the average American is worse than many places in Western Europe, in Japan, SK, etc.

There are structural issues with how America works that has prevented trickle-down economics from being a reality.
Ah, ok, thanks for the correction.
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