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Lisp in 3 words - Too Many Brackets!
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Everything else should still be fine though. And the flash that holds the pointers (redirection table for wear leveling) can be a slightly higher quality flash that lasts just a little bit longer.
just picked up a couple domains for my biz
Honestly, while it makes sense to shut down Google Code, it is mindboggling that Google destroys information. Public projects on Google Code ought to be archived and the archives and redirects ought to be kept up in perpetuity. People may not be reached by the announcements. Some projects, the authors may be dead, in a coma, etc. Some may just not care.

This is the #1 reason I fear the cloud. When Google shuts a project down, unless you act fast, you lose data.

Would it be rocket science for Google to set up a service which provides:

1. DNS hosting
2. Static page redirects
3. Static page hosting
4. Secure static page hosting (available only to authenticated accounts)

in perpetuity? This would be a read/delete-only service.

When Google Reader shuts down, I could access my data forever. When Google Code shut down, the project archives would stay up as read-only. Etc. No maintenance, and a one-time migration with Google Takeout for each dying service.
>It sounds easy but it's not: before you write, you don't know if the write will succeed. Once you've written, exactly the information that gives the pointers to the valid data could be the one that is destroyed.

How is that different from any other write the drive had experienced though?
There is still the violence involved in production and distribution, though.
"a dip in global carbon dioxide levels caused by the abandonment of native farms across the Americas following the deaths of millions of indigenous people in the aftermath of European colonisation."

Wouldn't this suggest that the advent of native farming had previously caused a rise in global carbon dioxide levels, and consequently that the human epoch began much earlier?
> You can download an HL7 or XML-parsing library

That depends heavily on what kind of HL7 you're receiving.

A formal grammar to describe the HL7 2.x pipehat format does not exist because there are irreconcilable ambiguities in the definition of the format. (It's something like: "it's impossible to tell the difference between FOO-1.1.2 and FOO-1.1[1]" BUT, that's not it. Sorry, I don't have the details.)

That being said... There are parsers for specific message types. An ADTA08 is defined well enough, you know?
You still own copyright on the footage, and it can't be used without your permission.
Correct. That's only become particularly relevant in the past few years, though. Sure, they retired projects before, but they are becoming increasingly ambitious with the retirements. By that I mean they are retiring things that lots of people still use (Reader), were not released that long beforehand (Helpouts), could be viable businesses with modifications (Wallet for Digital Goods), or contain large quantities of valuable content (Code).

My point is that Code has been running for quite a while, and at one stage it probably did look like the safest way to keep a project online. Can't blame people for choosing it earlier on.
Chrome Extension Dropchat: Chat with strangers on any web page
There are horror stories of the CentOS & Apache team's being harassed by people claiming that they 'destroyed their website'. All because their website host screwed up their hosting and their site was showing a default web page of some kind.
An AR Drone is essentially a "toy class" quadcopter. It's understandable that it would quickly become boring. But as I'm sure you're aware, there is a lot more that can be done with more hobby-grade quadcopters with rate mode (no auto-leveling). And, like large RC helis, there is the whole other world of the electronics and mechanics that go into building, maintaining, and tuning the aircraft. That, for me, is perhaps even more of the fun than actually flying my multirotors.
Interesting question, I don't know whether skydiving is regulated by the FAA. You don't need a certificate at all to do that.
I have a friend who was a hardcore wheeler and dealer of Magic cards back in highschool. He would travel around North America, buying and selling cards.

He had all the old cards: Alpha, Beta, Arabian Nights, etc. He would also cycle through lots of copies of the "Power 9" (the moxes, lotus, Library of Alexandria, Ancestral recall, Timetwister, Timewalk).

We played in type 1 tournaments (it's a format that lets you use all the cards ever printed, with a few banned cards that involved things like coin flips) and he would lend me all these power cards for my decks. It was always a treat to play a mox or lotus on the first turn and watch my opponent's eyes go wide just from seeing an actual card like that in play.

When we went to college, he ended up "cashing out" and selling something like $30,000 worth of cards to fund his first apartment. He still had tens of thousands worth of cards, and over the years he was slowly selling them off to fund various things.

That was years ago. Prices for the old cards today have massively jumped in price in just a few years. I think if he had held on to those old cards instead of selling them to buy an apartment, he would have made more money just from them going up in value vs. renting out his apartment to pay off its mortgage.
If a Drone company is showing video of their drone on their site to advertise themselves is that also prohibited?
>In June, Bloomberg News reported that Paul Bilzerian, a former Wall Street raider who served two prison terms for fraud, was claiming to be licensed to process citizenship applications for St. Kitts, where he now lives. Bilzerian helped an entrepreneur named Roger Ver—a provocateur widely known as Bitcoin Jesus—to purchase citizenship on the island. The two men then launched a website called Passports for Bitcoin to help people in places such as China use virtual currency to skirt local laws limiting money transfers. Learning of this, the St. Kitts citizenship unit made a hasty announcement that it wouldn’t be accepting bitcoins as payment. Bilzerian declined to comment for this story.

If you ever are on Instagram, this is Dan Bilzerians Dad
I don't get all the negativity towards negativity. It's a common therapy method to shout into a pillow. Support groups for people to shout their frustrations in a supportive space abound. Why is Yik Yak any different?

Sure, it's a cesspool. Sure, it's used for lots of bullying. This makes it no worse than 4chan, and 4chan is absolutely vital to society. A truly anonymous, open forum is necessary for civilization, for the very 'progress' that the people wanting to ban it hold so dear. Without a place for marginalized groups to congregate, even if they're shat on all the while, how will they band together to make their voices heard? Today's villain is tomorrow's saint; I'm not going to say that we've finally got it 'right' yet. Or ever.
No, my Google-fu also failed me. There's also an SPI ROM that is an input into the DP-HDMI2 chip, so there's likely firmware there that is not part of Google's open-sourcing.
The likely TC39 debate is between Dart-like Puritanism: no implicit conversion from primitive values or object references to Boolean values; vs. implicit conversion of primitives but not of object refs. I'm in the latter camp.

Update: this does not say 0 == "" of course, separate issue.

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aiG has released TaiG 1.3.0 jailbreak tool for iOS 8.2 beta 2
Agreed, am in the space now trying to isolate the seemingly malicious systemic backwardness from our product logic.

Honestly, I think the best thing to do would be to get a whole shitton of venture capital and start opening brand new hospitals with modern workflows and policies designed to optimize data entry and acquisition.

Bolting that onto institutions with the most amazing sorts of data denormalization possible is kinda painful.
Ask HN: Where in Ireland or the UK should someone visit that most tourists miss?
My mother will be traveling there this June for three weeks. This will probably be her last vacation, and I really hope she loves it. She's always wanted to visit Ireland and the UK as much of her family's heritage originates there. When visiting foreign countries, she really enjoys spending most of her time observing the culture outside of tourist hot spots.

More details:
She plans to visit London, Wales (I don't know which city), Nottingham, Edinburgh, and Stonehenge or another henge. She'll be in Ireland for about a week, but isn't sure where to go outside of Dublin yet. She'll be traveling with three of her sisters and a friend. They plan to rent a car. She doesn't drink alcohol. She prefers BnBs to hotels, and I've shown her how to use Airbnb if they don't find a vacant BnB where they plan to sleep.

I would greatly appreciate if anyone from or familiar with these countries could offer any tips, suggestions, or warnings.
Watsi Analysis: SaaS Economics Are the Future of Charity
> What has finally been made clear is that it's okay to have difficult to code APIs, if the end result just works.

So true and yet, we have all those crazy JavaScript frameworks trying to abstract everything away from developers. There's a lesson in there.
This is one of these issues where there are no "right" answers, no black & white, just shades of grey.

For example, on one hand if you only allow normal names then you wind up hampering or completely stopping name progression/evolution/adoption. Historically names have fallen in and out of popularity every few years going as far back as records date.

Another troubling consequence of having a certain group of people signing off on names, is that those people have inherent (even unintended) biases. So for example if someone moves to Sweden and wants to use a family name from abroad that could be rejected for being too unusual even if it may be completely unusual where they're from.

On the other hand is it really in the child's best interests to be named e.g. "Hitler," "AAAAAAA," "Bobby tables," "Stupid," etc? I think if you asked people in the street they would say no most of the time.

It really is a complex issue with no right answer. I will say except in extreme cases I'd side more with the freedom for parents to choose rather than some draconian list. I think new and original names are healthy, even if not well received initially.
If you mark the footage as public domain?
So, this suits big engine and AAA studios really well, right, because they can spare that time.

Indies are going to increasingly look at the web and other interfaces because of the easy layers.
How come, that the open source drivers did not show much better performance?
You have to plug the non-part-of-the-laptop PCMCIA card, just like you have to plug the non-part-of-the-laptop USB adapter. Not much big of a difference.
Algorithms that unintentionally have quadratic complexity, it would seem.
The DrScheme repl isn't the one in Emacs (2009)
If I understand correctly you agree that there are potential conflict of interest considerations. (This may be tempered by a belief that in practice these potential conflicts are not a problem for various reasons.)

This is the distinction my initial comment sought to clarify -- in bootstrapping (as I understand it) a company is funding itself so there is only one party and hence no conflict of interest. When a VC firm funds one of the partners, there might be. Given the particular circumstances this may or may not be problematic.

Would you agree further that it might be wise for VC firms to have clear conflict of interest policies in the same ways it is wise for VC firms and companies in general to have clear HR policies?
Just wanted to chime in here -- I'm the architect for SMART Platforms and happy to answer any questions. Over the past five years I've gotten much more deeply involved the healthcare standards development world than I ever would have imagined. I came at this space from the perspective of wanting to build applications that plug into real-world systems, but in some ways I've been digging lower and lower down the stack trying to lay firm groundwork. There's constant tension between laying groundwork and trying to get "real" work done.
For some values of "things". Some software should last a long time. Some software (like UIs) shouldn't, and businesses should plan for that.
Discussions of systems-level applications that turn out to operate in quadratic (O(n^2)) time. It's a poke at algorithmic inefficiency.
He died of a form of Alzheimer's disease. Even if cryonics worked, which it doesn't, that would still be unrecoverable.
The taxes you pay on the gain is just the normal personal income tax, right? Isn't that a separate issue from being regulated as operating a business or commercial venture?
"This is why, if you have an idea, you need to bootstrap it, get customers, and generate revenue"

Another thing in addition to this - you need to out-execute future competitors. Imagine that the idea is public anyway, and build it better than anyone else could.
We had a similar experience at marine.travel a couple weeks ago.

Google would crawl our GAE site at bursts of about 30,000 requests in 4-minute periods.
We had some quota exceeded moments.

On the other hand we got to load test our MongoDB backend in GCE without writing gatling tests. The results weren't promising for our ~$180/month VM.
The federal divisions are supposed to fight. That is the point of balance of power. A unified government is a tyrannous one.
You can buy 32 port versions of these from many vendors online, such as https://bm-switch.com. Adapting FBOSS to run on one of these would take some time figuring out the hardware layout and addresses, but there are other, commercially supported, operating systems that can be run on these bare metal switches.

I'm pretty underwhelmed by the Wedge switch in this chassis though. Half of the ports (16 of them!) are left off, meaning that it's only really useful if you have fewer than 15 compute nodes and don't want to have a full-bandwidth uplink anywhere.

The only way this design makes sense is if the 16 ports out the back of the switch are connected to a larger bus. That's how it's used in the 6-pack chassis, and how the "line card" connects to the rest of the 6-pack fabric. The other place it may make sense is if there's some sort of network bus on the OCP racks, with fiber transcievers on the top of rack or something.
so you can

(1) posses flight footage; but

(2) you can't sell it.

That put these FAA rules into the regulation of media.

That sounds like something that will be litigated, IMHO.

I doubt a court will let that stand without some threshold of materiality. A flight that costs $5 or whater and makes $0.05 is not implicitly a commercial enterprise. Using basic IRS rules, that is a "hobby" activity not a business activity, by definition. That's at least one objective standard that could be brought to bear.

But who knows, maybe I'm missing something.
What "opaqueness" are you talking about? What kinds of "trades"? What are you referring to when you talk about "trade volume"? What "pools" are you talking about? By the technical definition of the term --- and the context of your subsequent words --- you could (validly) be referring to the major exchanges as "pools"; they are, after all, centralized and responsible for their own rule-writing.
The 840 Pro that lasted more than 2 PBW was rated for 73TBW.

>With twice the endurance of the previous model, the 850 PRO will keep working as long as you do. Samsung's V-NAND technology is built to handle 300 Terabytes Written (TBW)* which equates to a 40 GB daily read/write workload over a 10-year period. Plus, it comes with the industry's top-level ten-year limited warranty.
* 840 PRO: 73 TBW < 850 PRO: 150 TBW
850 PRO 120/250 GB : 150 TBW, 500/1TB(1,024 GB) : 300 TBW
A whole half-dozen, eh? :) You haven't been around long.

Specific code quality is not what I'm talking about. I think you've misunderstood me. Let me try and be more specific and concrete.

The degree to which code written by different authors at different times can gel together depends on the idioms they have in common. In languages without common collection libraries, code needs to communicate at the level of arrays and custom iterators. Languages without a single common memory allocator need have libraries negotiate who owns what memory, and have custom free functions specific to routines and libraries. Languages without lambdas typically reinvent the concept a half-dozen different, incompatible ways.

The amount of friction when trying to compose code or integrate with existing code is proportional to its divergence from the lowest common denominator of all code written in that language. The higher-level a language is, the larger a standard library it has, the more concepts that are shared between libraries and codebases and don't need to be reinvented in each individual code silo.

Go back to C in the dark days of Windows 95. Merely getting a string out of the OS was an ordeal; you could choose to allocate a buffer, send it to the OS, but always prepared to react to a failure and reallocate the buffer when the string turns out bigger than expected. C has no universal string type nor a common memory allocator (you might rely on glibc's malloc on Linux, but you're relying on non-portable convention). This directly resulted in a substantial amount of friction simply interoperating between two binary libraries.

The same thing follows through with higher-level concepts. When higher-level concepts are concrete in the language or available in standard libraries rather than composed out of simpler primitives a half-dozen times in slightly different ways, you lose a bunch of composability. You spend more time writing shims and adapters to smooth away the differences between interfaces.

And code isn't the only interface; your mind is too, especially in a larger legacy codebase. You may understand iterators, lambdas, functors, monads and so on, but in a language without first-class support and standard definitions for these things, you'll find them reinvented over and over again, to varying degrees of fidelity, sometimes under obscure names, which you'll need to discover and research as you dig into code nobody still in the organization has ever had to dig through themselves.

None of this has anything to do with code quality possible in a language. I've had to maintain some extremely high quality assembly. But it wasn't mentally cheap to get into, and a lot of concepts had to be reverse engineered from the code before they could be modified and transformed back down.

The risk with something like Lisp is that you use it as a language construction toolkit. With a closely knit team that grows a codebase amongst themselves, this can be a huge productivity win. But I don't think it scales. And I think history agrees. Excessively malleable languages (including Smalltalk) have not outcompeted less expressive languages, for one reason or another.
Yeah I've totally never run into someone who "owns a startup" and was "actually broke."
It's still an agreement between Comcast and HBO based on TV subscriptions - it's not like Comcast is null routing the packets that would allow "authentication". Luckily, the market (i.e. HBO, in the face of consumer demand and competition) has already worked around these stifling agreements by providing the unbundled HBO Now. Which Comcast can't block, DNSSEC misconfiguration notwithstanding.
You are when you eat: Limiting flies eating hours protects hearts against aging
I'm really struggling to understand the issue. I understand the issue of conflict of interest when it comes to things like government contracts and public corporations. Here conflict of interest occurs because the person makes decisions on how to spend money that isn't their money. It is either the taxpayer's money or the stockholder's money.

In a private company, like Andreessen Horowitz, they are effectively spending their own money. If they choose to invest in a company founded by one of their partners, I do not see the conflict of interest. From the outside we may question whether or not the startup is really worthy of being funded, but it really isn't our call to make.

But what if it was our call to make? Did they make a bad decision by funding one of their own? Looking at his track record he already has experience as a co-founder and a CTO. On top of having prior experience, he has worked as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz for over a year. The people making the decision whether or not to fund his startup have experience working with him. They probably have a good idea of whether this person can or cannot deliver.

I think most people object to this, because they imagine a situation where a better startup is not funded because the partners decided to fund their buddy instead. Let us say that is true. For the sake of argument, assume this guy is incompetent and should not be given funding. Imagine this guy worked at Andreessen Horowitz for over a year and everyone knew he was incompetent, but decided to fund him anyways just because they were BFFs.

I guess it is possible something like this happened, but I doubt it. I recently finished reading Horowitz’s book The Hard Thing about Hard Things and he doesn’t seem like the type of person who keeps incompetent people around just because likes them.

The only valid objection I see is if they are using information provided to them under a non-disclosure agreement to gain unfair advantage. But is this a valid concern? As others have pointed out, most ideas are cheap. Even if that information provides some short-term advantage, it won’t help in the long-term as the market changes.
Because the documentation for the hardware is not open source. You need to sign very strict papers to be able to look at the hardware documentation which means few selected people have access to it which means not much support, etc. Can't remember why I know this but it was something related to my linux open source back in the days.
Yeah, but the animal wouldn't really be wild, so it wouldn't really be the same experience. Everybody's different, of course.
Is it their own money? I thought the general partners are using money from limited partners. As the article put it: "I would love to ask the investment officers at a firefighter’s pension fund in Wyoming what they think of venture capital GPs using their money to fund their colleagues’ personal projects."
This kid got a cool deck
When the SSD is bricked to read it's the redirection table that is corrupted. The corruption means that the random bits are wrong. Once the random bits are wrong, the redirection is wrong. If the redirection table is in the separate flash, you have to spend more flash for redirection table than for data, as that table will be heavily stressed (the redirections have to be often updated with the writes if you want good wear levelling). If you offload the part of the redirection table to the "normal flash" you're still at the beginning. Some random bits will be wrong after some write and you depend exactly on them to be able to read properly.
> This conflict is nothing new and is inherent to the model of organized private investors picking companies to invest in.

We're in agreement here.

Because this comes up in practice there are a slew of reasonable ways to deal with these sorts of scenarios. I think the original article's "what do we do about it" section falls nicely into this discussion.

I think the extent of my position here is that VC firms are at a heightened risk of dealing with this type of conflict of interest problem, and would be well served by having clear policies on how they resolve them.

edit:grammar
A canary in the mine moment - relying solely on a single third-party for your hosting is always a risk - you are there at their grace, nothing more.
Migrate to Github? Hmm... they are becoming the defacto single monopoly platform - and no one seems to notice or care?