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The author describes an interesting framework. The problem I find in praxis is, that founders know about principles Paul Graham or Peter Thiel talk about, but they have not internalized them and still fail to act according to them. The more complex the framework gets, the more opportunity is given to misjudge and fail to act on them.

Founders try to make something people want, they just misjudge what people want. They know, that they should fail fast but end up playing business anyway, because they are scared of talking to people and to actually fail.

I therefore think, that complex frameworks are interesting to look at but short catchphrases are more useful in praxis, because they are already hard enough to act by.
For which there are completely different expectations when compared to individuals on the street with a roving camera.
> You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak...

I can really relate to that. I also think I failed at school because it was boring and I would not learn anything, except in math and physics. But if you dare say that, everybody tells you you're pretentious and that your scores don't match your intelligence. Tests bore me so much I don't even try to answer the questions. I also can't stand working under pressure.

In the end, it alienates the smartest, they fail at school, but to be fair, school is just part of modern civilization, its purpose is just to lift the masses from ignorance, not to give a better opportunity for the more capable.

It's true there are classes for more capable students, but I never saw the color of it. Also, higher education seems to work in the same baby-feeding mechanisms.
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Ian! Thanks, much appreciated. Good to know Consul is standing up to your usage, gives me more confidence in it. I made the registry an interface so it could be used in many ways.
That's not a lack of code review, that's a lack of QA.
Did you redirect?
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Yeah, it just seems to be getting ridiculous the last few months. I can watch streaming video from youku or iqiyi with no problems, but when I try to load anything outside of mainland, with or without VPN, it's like being back on 28k dialup again at best.
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The main objective of school is not to improve one's knowledge but to raise everyone at the same level of knowledge, an average knowledge.

Other type of educations, like Montessori's are better but often more expensive, attracting elite people with a very different point of view and background education.
I think you are ignoring the elephant in the room.

Active people have higher BMR because they build up bigger muscles. Not talking about bodybuilders - though that is the extreme of a continuous, but anyone who does regular exercise builds up some lean mass.

Off course, if you ever stop your body will pick up the signal and decide to not sustain the extra muscle anymore. If no change in diet follows immediately, you will pick up body fat pretty quickly.
Or the fine details of "constant" as a synonym for O(1).

I guess those having some sense for "exponential" would be surprised to hear that "constant" can be way larger than "exponential".

It's like explaining infinities (examples: there are as many odd integers as integers; 0.99999... is equal to 1)
I called Mark Karpeles the DPR on Twitter and he replied "PHP is good for the right job." He's obviously guilty.
I think everyone has preferences. And some have languages they are more comfortable with. Maybe because they're more groovy or more structured or has better data handling protocols and whatnot.
It's not Google's product any more than it's the Linux Foundation's product. Both are just organizations with software built into somebody else's product. Nexus phones purchased from Google are Google's product.

Separately, complaining that the vulnerabilities are unpatched in Android is a rubbish argument. They are fixed in the latest release.
Camera issue is easily solvable by visible LED activated when camera is recording. Phones are also capable of hidden video/voice recording, but nobody cares.

Usability is what killed Google Glass. Voice recognition does not really cut it. Joystick in ring on finger would be great. Or perhaps muscle sensor on neck to capture silent speaking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_speech_interface
It would be interesting to see how it compares to linux with grsecurity
It's almost as if Dick Smith made exactly the same mistake as RS.
The Grasshopper was SpaceX's testbed rocket that did the "easy" version of this - taking off straight up (to a maximum altitude of 744m) and then landing right back at its launch pad. I believe one of them also did some sideways maneuvers too.

It was a bit smaller-scale (two-thirds the height) of a Falcon first stage, and I believe also had a less complicated engine. More importantly, though, given the failure mode of this rocket, it had no mission other than taking off a bit and then landing - it wasn't integrated into a rocket that was intended to get to the edge of space, decelerate from hypersonic speeds, and then do the complicated landing.
Cool app you got here. Maybe you can add a few more functionalities to this.
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I have a friend who used to be a "Private Eye", just a few years ago. I suspect the kind of work he did will never fully go away. Most of his cases were workman's comp fraud--he basically sat in a van all day, waiting to catch a photo of someone lifting a heavy object or engaging in vigorous exertion.

He had no training photography, but he ended up playing around with his camera equipment to the point that he's now a professional photographer instead, which (to him) is a much more satisfying job.
"A jury can find you not guilty just because they don't like the law."

This is not really the case. It would be tough to find all jurors didn't LIKE the law. The people sitting on the jury were asked questions during the selection process to make sure they are neutral. The question is, do they understand the law and the issues at hand.

The prosecuting team bears the burden of proof (obviously). The prosecutors are required to prove their version of the actual events. This means that the proposition that is being presented before the judge / jury by the prosecution must be proven to the extent that there could be no reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty. The defense needs to convince the criminal jury so they are unable to find beyond a reasonable doubt, that this guy is guilty.

The defense seems to be casting doubt for the jury to consider from the get-go. Well played.
I didnt know AI can be traced back to the 1950's. Well there certainly are a lot of things I do not know about AI. Thanks to this article, I now know a bit of its timeline.
We've had CAs for two decades already and they haven't improved much, why would their third decade be different?
Trivia: the PDF is in a folder called "protected-files" - LOL
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An NSL is secret, right? Some nation-states have the power to compel changes to the root zone, but none have the ability to do it in secret.
Didn't the PS2 also have the PSX chips?
Wait, so its possible to have our own episode of "Honey I blew up the kid?" Is this for real?
Absolutely agree with the first part, have seen this too often, considering it's such an obvious mistake to make. People end up making an 'MVP' that is a whole-cloth beta of what they think people will want, releasing it and seeing it fail, without the necessary focus to get feedback. They are failing fast, but only relative to a big corporation.
> Trusting fishermen to limit themselves is a nice idea, but incredibly naive.

Well it's happened before. Fishermen associations getting together and being like "we will not have anything left to fish if we don't stop fishing so much" and they agreed. Basically ends up working.
I can't see that awakening happening on a big enough scale in a hurry. Insulated in homes, I think many would sit through the disappearance of swathes of wildlife without changing behaviour unless maybe the chicken, pork or beef they ate weren't available. And given they're factory farmed, that won't change until there are accurate and cheaper substitutes. We'll be frogs in boiling water.

I have wondered if losing iconic animals familiar to children (lions, tigers, elephants) might jolt people but I doubt that. How often do you read about endangered white rhinos? I can just imagine the consensus thought being "Well, what can I do? Plus, we have the regular rhinos" then when they go, "Well, we have hippos, they're big and grey too."

When you buy sustainable or ethical produce, you feel so ineffective against a tide of cheap or efficient.
JavaScript became this "immediate language" that we compile other languages to. Could we instead get rid of it by making PROPER immediate language for the browser?
Google should rename Google Glass to "Googly Eyes".
Deploying 100% bug-free code is the Holy Grail of software development.

Is this really true? Judging by their decisions, most people's Holy Grail is more like something reasonably good and shipped on time. 100% bug-free code is already possible, but few are willing to pay for it.
Grasshopper was "just" a test vehicle, it never went to space. Here's a video of what they were doing with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDkItO-0a4
I am not quite sure why they were arrested... Is it for using secure email or they had other malicious intent for using secure email services?
You are probably right. It is clingey. I promise to let go! My question was more a reflection on what is it that may burn a programmer out. In this case it is more than just a mere programmer, it was someone with great communication skills. A rather rare combination.
Grasshopper and the Falcon 9R Dev were the two rockets of spaceX which landed back successfully. Those were limited altitude test flight, this one were the expended first stage of a revenue flight. This rocket went higher, and faster before separation and performing a boost back burn. Might seem as just a quantitative difference, but the different aerodynamical regimes (vacum, hypersonic, supersonic, transonic) provides a real challenge.

It's also worth noting that the engines were lit 100% during those previous tests, while they have to be relight during this one. That comes with it's own set of complications of course.

see more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_%28rocket%29
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_reusable_launch_system_d...
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Nice tips. Nonetheless, I still mark them as spam and setup auto delete.
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In some games the models are of pretty high quality but the hardware couldn't keep up so they had to lower the displayed quality.

https://i.imgur.com/fyFlk4V.png

Left: real NDS

Right: Emulated
Well if you were being serious it sounds like you really need to read this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythical_man_month
Not every drug reasearch ends up in a commercial big bang. From what I understand very few do, so the money they bring in end up financing all of the research.
Previous discussion on another blogposting of the same author:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8871705
Though, OpenBSD rarely supports hardware, since this isn't their goal.
I would second that and add, that there are two groups of people:

Members of the first group, generally a bit older and less tech savvy, see these problems as actual skilled work, which needs explanation. "Then you got to move your mouse over here and click, when this pops up you need to …"

People from the second group realize, that they are doing dumb work and either do not care or realize, that a computer should do this. If they have seen a solution in the past, they use it. For example using Doodle instead of e-mail to schedule an event or using Dropbox or Google Docs to collaborate.

They might even come up with a process, which removes the need for the manual work, for example by putting the data in the right format in the first place. What they often can not see is, that you could hire somebody to connect the systems let alone use some Unix piping magic on their own. Also they do not consider the implications of using a consumer solution in a business setting like security concerns, fragmentation etc.
I have the same dilemma. Sometimes I feel that I am thinking too much and doing so much less. But really the truth is I am not doing creative thinking. It's more of distractive thinking.
A large % of the population these days participate in social media and seem to have no qualms about putting all their personal / private details online, despite that that might mean massive backlash if it goes viral, or at the very least a permanent record of any mistakes made (the internet doesn't forget).

To me, Glass got the backlash it did because there are still a lot of people who think that way of living is stupid. People are getting sick of 24/7 surveillance, and Glass was merely a great poster boy for that push.

It's also just dehumanizing to talk to someone with that on. They have a big camera / computer strapped onto their face. It's almost like trying to talk to someone when they've got their phone held up and are only half paying attention to you while recording. It just comes across as really rude to a lot of folks.
time to grab an arduino for like $10 just before the local one closes its doors lmfao
SpaceX took a Falcon 9 core but with just 3 engines in it and flew it around under 1km altitude to test everything now deployed on the launch vehicle.
I am about to do that part-time. Here is how it happened to me.
I worked on various idea full time for about 2 years now and I joined a new accelerator about 10 months ago, working on my last project <a href="http://www.relinkdevice.com"> Relink </a>. I use to talk a lot with the other startups about their problems and give them as many advises possible based on my previous experiences or what I learned in books (Lean startup, rework, blogs, marketing books, etc.). Now, everyone come to talk with me about their problems and look for my point of view. People managing the accelerator have a background in finance, lacks sometimes marketing or entrepreneur skills and noticed I become quite central in the accelerator.

I think the key take-over is you need to be credible to do so. There is some people who advice startup having a background in business but I believe it's much easier if you have/had a startup yourself.

You can contact me on twitter (@Atresontani) if you want to discuss that further and see if I can help you.
Are you talking about this TED "presentation"? http://www.ted.com/talks/sergey_brin_why_google_glass?langua...

Don't bother watching it. TLDR; Sergey stands awkwardly on stage for 5 minutes, telling you how isolating it is to whip out your cellphone. With Glass you can keep your head up, something he cannot seem to demonstrate himself - choosing instead to come across as isolated from the audience, distracted, and unprepared. 2 million people have watched this for some reason.
Why are you vilifying H1B in this? H1B holders would have been affected just as badly by this as anyone else.

In fact, probably more so. It's difficult to move job as an H1B holder due to the legal requirement to have the same job role. The only places fulfilling this would very likely be between these companies, which would have been suppressed.
Little noises are healthy I think, either for system or human beings who develop these systems. A bit of a clutter here and there would help too, otherwise you will not realize and discover the things that can be improved on literally and metaphorically speaking.
Google glass "utterly improbable", "too smooth" and "a fantacy" according to Alex Feyerke who compares Microsoft visions and Google glass promos to an old vision video of the British postal office that include normal problems an realism in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPz_5-MEvcg
In Finland, kids as young as 6 or 7 routinely walk to school on their own, and when it's winter time, that means they do it during night time. No one thinks this is weird, and nothing happens to them.
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> it's not as if "rf -rf foo" and "rm -rf foo/" can ever mean two different things

That's true, but the original code was akin "rm -rf foo/*" and that's different, since it removes the content of the directory while preserving it.
I was going to include that exact screenshot, but I didn't think the HN crowd would be down with iM@S.
Drugs and stress is never a good combination... And I think this article just supports that. Dont do drugs when you are in distress, that's the lesson here.
It's an interesting tactic, but will likely fall upon deaf ears. They arrested him at the library while he was logged into the site as an admin. That, combined with the fact that he possessed a Bitcoin wallet with ~144,000 BTC (worth ~$28.5 million at the time) in it, will likely carry more weight than any argument that other people were possibly running it. They also admitted on day 1 of the trial that he created SR - they are just saying that he turned it over to someone else and wasn't running it. All the government has to prove now is that he profited from it, which seems like a very low hurdle given the amount of BTC he had.

Based upon all of this, I'd say he has a 99.9% chance of conviction, and will receive a sentence that will amount to life in prison. This judge will make an example out of him.
You had one system on, at most, a few thousand machines, and those machines were tailored to the software.

The still-supported Windows versions, by contrast, are 50+ million lines of code EACH installed on hundreds of millions of machines EACH.

Your telephone switch analogy is just not even in the same solar system as what Microsoft is dealing with.

I'm not saying 90 days is necessarily too little time, I'm just saying your reasoning is totally flawed.
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Just wanted to remind everyone that deleted files can be recovered until their space is reclaimed for something else.

So if you notice something like this happening, shut down computer asap, so they can't be overwritten. Plug drive into another computer but do not mount it. Instead run some file recovery program on it.

For an SSD it becomes murkier though, what with their trimming and automatic garbage collection.
I agree. SWOT technique is not really very helpful. I find it redundant and not able to help pin-point issues that need to be addressed.
There was a thread on Reddit by some dude who claimed to be a friend of a friend of someone who had some connection with the group.

...as I remember it, it felt on slightly stronger than speculation.
That's also used in (and often a reference when making fun of..) the dialect in Saxony.
I am a complete noob regarding SEO. My naive interpretation of the drop in rating is that it takes time for Google to rebuild the index. It needs not only the content on your website, but links from other websites and people's clicking habit to determine the ranking.

On what level is my interpretation wrong?
That is not globally true.

Here in Sweden for instance, public space can't legally be covered by CCTV without a permit. That means private entities can't just throw up cameras at random. Of course it happens anyway, but it's not "nearly everywhere".
I hate to be pedantic, but, bitcoin wallets don't contain dollars. You can express bitcoin value in dollars, but that's a number that can change on a daily basis. It's like saying "he had a stock portfolio with $28 million in it"
I am aware of that book. I considered referencing it in my earlier comments.

I don't know how I can my my point more clear.

If a manager shoves in more workers and slows things down, they are failing at their job.

They are worse than useless.

Because someone useless would take the extra budget, not hire anyone, and not slow down the work. Perhaps they would waste it in vegas.

I am saying nothing that contradicts that book. Just two simple points:

1. More resources only slow down a project when they are misused. They are never inherently bad.

2. It's not even hard to speed up work on security bugs, because each bugfix is a different project and can have its own dedicated team.

Please actually point out something I said that was wrong, instead of making vague references.
Indeed. I feel quite confident saying that Satoshi Nakamoto is not Mark Karpeles. <g>
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> However car ownership there is not as widespread as in the US due to a number of economic constraints (space cost, gas price, taxes).

It's not just economic constraint here in the Netherlands. A lot of people can reach anything they need using their bike and public transport (you can take your bike on the train).

If you don't need a car, why bother getting and maintaining one?
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Or was it a normal year for cloud security, and we just got better at discovering attacks?

If you've ever worked at a large company, you'd find it absolutely unbelievable that 2014 had an unprecedented number or scope of cracks.

A lot of web-facing, enterprise software is a landfill of abandoned code, unnecessary abstractions, and random hacks thrown in at the last minute to meet a deadline. "Security" for stuff like that is an illusion.
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Yes, you are being pedantic. I did, however, edit the comment to make it more clear in case anyone else feels like being pedantic.
If you hate being pedantic, why be it?
Google treats subdomains (almost) like completely different sites. Links to the root domain do not count for the subdomain and vice versa.
The best book I've read on these matters is The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea by Callum Roberts. It's about 400 pages long and meticulously details our effects on the marine environment (though in an entertaining and accessible manner).

We're looking at cataclysmic changes in the oceans. It's not too late to revert course, but overfishing and pollution (acidification, in particular) have already changed our marine ecosystems, and they will continue to do so. Great diversity has been lost, while jellies and other more primitive lifeforms used to less hospitable conditions are now thriving.

The bizarre tragedy comes, in part, from the dilution hypothesis: it's commonly accepted that the oceans are really big, so big that they can withstand our meddling. While the oceans are big, they're neither that large nor are they totally homogeneous: there are many marine ecosystems, all of which are fragile. But most of these marine ecosystems are still large enough to change slowly -- too slowly to be immediately noticed by laypersons.

The slowness of change in the marine ecosystems makes environmentalism a politically difficult platform: good policies do not yield immediately measurable positive results, and while the threat is grave, it is creeping sufficiently slowly for action to be continuously procrastinated.
Which are often out of view, at a distance, and at a high angle - definitely different than someone looking at you with a camera lens. Just ask someone to hold their phone's camera next to their head while they talk to you, you'll see.

I was in the train yesterday and there was a guy sitting across me, somewhat elderly so he held his phone up high. Looked like he was taking a picture of me (which he probably wasn't), which was awkward.
Since I'm not an insider, I won't argue the merits and difficulties of extracting a settlement in a situation such as this. But if I were a shareholder looking at this not-very-surprising and easy-to-stomach number, I would simply see this as having been an acceptable cost of doing business.
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I think the two desk idea is great, though I can see it being an issue when space is limited.