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> My argument is this: your time is the most important thing you have, and you shouldn't be wasting your time on maintaining your own source control servers.

And then you wrote this comment, spending these alleged pair of minutes bragging about how cheap it is to just pay for something.

On the other hand, I remember spending a fair bit of time and energy at my current company to get approved 10$ per month Bitbucket plan. Let's say it took us months to actually get it declined. Then, we happily spent 200$ per month for a virtual machine that we had to maintaint and ended up installing Gitblit.
Thanks! I can't promise anything but we'll take your suggestion into account.
Since you aren't making personal attacks, like others on this message board, I'll explain my personal point of view.

I don't deny that humans can influence earth's climate. But the tone of climate change media is beyond hysterics.

For instance, the headline from this article is, in full, "The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse."

I posted below links to scientific studies showing that Antarctica has 12.5 million cubic km of ice. 125 cubic km of ice is "melting" each year. On top of that, surveyors noticed reductions in Antarctic ice at least as far back as 1932, far far before "climate change."

My naturally skeptical alarms go off when I realize that headlines like the OP are pure hysterics. At the current rate, Antarctica will melt in 1 million years. Of course, climate changes dramatically on that geologic time scale, so the headline completely destroys the credibility, in my mind, of the central argument -- that Antarctica is "melting."

One look a tide gauges shows that the sea level rise we've been seeing has been going on for about 150 years with no change in the rate of rise.

So, naturally, I'm going to be skeptical of hysterical claims.

As to your point about HN being hostile to climate change, I see it the complete opposite way. Any skeptical arguments, even links to objective scientific facts, are immediately flagkilled and downvoted into hell.
I'm not being negative or sarcastic, but what is the purpose of this?

If I was concerned about secrecy or privacy, why is this better than just using some regular encryption tools and some "cloud drive" or whateveryoumightcallit?

I appreciate that this is a weekend project (and by the way it looks nice) so I'm not trying to beat it up, but its a big leap from a project for scratching your own itch to inviting others to give you their sensitive data (encrypted or not) with a promise of security.

At the very least you might want to publish a terms of service and privacy policy. A warrant canary might be nice as well.

PS - I have a spectacular ability to make an ass of myself, so if my criticisms come off as rude or are unwarranted, I truly apologize.
I totally agree, but it's not going to be the kind of quick money making endeavor that attracts people from finance.
> Sadly I don't think I can say that it's definitely not true, but this is mostly speculation. UAE could have easily just gotten a memo from the FBI about a terrorism suspect and they decided on their lonesome to torture him.

True. It's perfectly plausible the FBI would outsource their dirty work in a deniable manner, but equally plausible the UAE would be highly motivated to take extreme measures in interrogating someone circumstantially linked to terrorism entirely of their own accord. Arguably the interrogator volunteering the US and UAE are definitely working together is better evidence for the latter than the former.

Either way the beatings actually add to the suspicion that the approach - joined up or otherwise - was governed more by a "just because we don't have any evidence of your guilt doesn't mean we believe you're innocent" attitude than "we really badly want you to work for us"
> The problem with that is that you inevitably run into this dialog with nothing else attached to the machine. How are you going to confirm the dialog?

That's only a serious issue for a keyboard, and for this specific situation the keyboard could be segregated (globally inactive) and require a specific sequence of action to be activated.

> Better to focus on isolating the keyboard driver from the rest of the OS, so the only thing it should be able to do is read in input from the keyboard and report it back to the OS.

The virtual keyboard can send whatever keypresses (and thus indirectly commands) it wants to the system.
That kind of defeats the purpose of removing the parking requirements. If you require every 3 units to have one parking spot, you raise the price of each unit by 30%. Additionally since tenants are paying for the spot anyway, it incentivizes them to buy a car that they might otherwise do without. If there turns out to be a market need for parking spots, I'm sure someone will step in and build a long term parking garage in the neighbourhood, but you aren't mandating every tenant regardless of car ownership desire subsidize the others.
There are certain stories that remain perennially "surprising" no matter how often they are reported on. For example, "Engineers use nature as a source of inspiration" is still reported with breathless amazement despite every engineer for the past century (at least) being taught to look to nature for inspiration.

Likewise, "Companies go green to save money" apparently astonishes people, decades after Interface became famous for doing precisely that.

And "Old people had sex and porn" will never get old, any more than "Ancient peoples traded over the whole world".

I'm not sure why these stories get the "that's surprising" reaction they do. Simple ignorance won't cut it, because they all get reported on so many times that eventually ignorance would decline, but it never does. It may have something to do with people's stereotypes overwhelming their knowledge, so even though they know engineers are sensitive and thoughtful people or that ancient peoples traded widely, that knowledge never "sticks" to the stereotype of engineers as uncultured and insensitive or ancient peoples as immobile and sedentary.
It's also difficult to solve problems like priority inversion, where a high-priority task H is blocked on a low-priority task L. Ideally you'd increase L's priority so H can make progress. But a semaphore doesn't track which thread is in the critical section, so you don't know which thread's priority to boost.
"Varangian guard"

Are impressive, a local re-enactment. Close order combat with sword and shield ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/7215762766820695... and chain ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/6146924256/in/set-721... will withstand all blows except stiletto attack.
About three quarters of the way down, the author draws these conclusions from a classic 1980 paper:

- there is smart money in the market,
- the smart money can and is outperforming right now, but that smart money isn't YOU,
- so sit down and index.

I don't mean to be anti-intellectual, the various versions of the EMH and the responses to them are interesting, important concerns in the study of finance and economics. But the take away for the vast majority of the public should be the above. The market may or may not be efficient but you aren't going to beat it. And even if someone else can, he isn't going to use that ability for your benefit.
Yes. Paved doesn't necessarily mean that it's vehicle-accessible.
So many mirrors knocked off. Even if you turned your mirror in, you had a chance of a total sideswipe. Not fun.
I'll let someone else rant about browser Javascript encryption (it serves essentially no security purpose), but instead just comment to say that "AES-256 in CBC mode" is not a confidence-inspiring description of a cryptosystem.

Have you published the Javascript code you used for this anywhere? Can we see it? I was going to peek at it, but would apparently need to register for the site to do that.

You might consider hoisting your SJCL crypto code out of the DOM and sticking it in a Chrome extension.
It does from my perspective. I could list many companies that use it for major things.

It doesn't always get publicity. I work for a major company, and we don't scream from the roof tops about it.
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This is totally wrong; there's very little skill involved in trading. Any university student with a basic knowledge of calculus can learn all there is to know about the markets from a skill perspective in a year or less. In fact, this is exactly why the big investment banks prefer to hire kids fresh out of college.

Where companies really make a lot of money is on the relationships. Goldman Sachs doesn't make $500 million off an IPO because they're better at drafting SEC paperwork than anyone else; they make that money because they have thousands of clients with money to invest that they can call and convince to fund the IPO.
We are also redesigning Windows’ Refresh and Reset functionalities to no longer use a separate recovery image (often preinstalled by manufacturers today) in order to bring Windows devices back to a pristine state

If this mean that you will be able to go to BestBuy, and do a recovery to a pure Windows 10, blotware-less, without any .iso but just following a few steps, it seems even more interesting than a compact footprint!
In addition, on an example 64-bit installation, 6.6GB are freed by the new compression algorithm and the removal of the recovery image.

As illustrated here: http://az648995.vo.msecnd.net/win/2015/03/1a.png
This is basically the idea of the algedonic meter that was set to be part of Chile's project Cybersyn in the 1970s [1] before a military coup overthrew the Allende government.

[1]: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machin...
There is some research going on in Information Centric Networking and Named Data Networking. The basic idea is switching to a system based on content instead of hosts. The proposed solutions try to reduce traffic overhead (like replication and caching of content on switches and routers), provide better indexing and search functionalities etc.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-centric_networking
That's what the MacBook Pro is for. Pros.
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Sometimes it's because things are objectively worse. Cringing doesn't change the facts.

The original claim that we're less violent is easy to debunk, and has been debunked by many people. See e.g.

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/john-gray-steven-...

But more than that, it's clear that economics and politics have become prime vectors for social violence in the 'developed' West: particularly economics, which has been used as an ideological excuse to destroy the possible future prospects and current living conditions of entire generations now.

Unemployment in - say - Spain for the under-25s is more than 50%. The rate in the US is around 12%, but that disguises the fact that many 'jobs' barely pay a living wage now, where fifty years ago even starter jobs offered comfortable salaries.

The destruction has been justified by a steady stream of clearly wrong 'economic theories' that don't stand up to even the most basic undergraduate-level scrutiny. See e.g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt

So yes - things are objectively worse for many people.

The fact that some people are doing okay and a tiny minority are doing really well doesn't change that.

Getting this stuff wrong has very real long-term social and political consequences. It's irrational to ignore that.
Chicago had its worst 'once in 100 year' winter last year and this year also broke more than a handful of records both in snowfall and temperature. From what I can tell, the jetstream that usually blocks off Arctic air has weakened, thus raising the chances of cold air blowing on the midwest. We may be in a completely new winter pattern now. Or it may be a fluke, who knows, but its not safe to assume regular variability anymore. So far climate change has been blamed by some for the new higher frequency of this pattern. They may be right.
Keep the good news rolling in!
It's cheaper if you have a good team, which it sounds like you do.

A ton of places don't have a good team, and the cost numbers end up being a lot closer.

A great team will destroy Cloud margins. An Average-Bad team will fall in line, plus you don't have to run the team anymore.
I have seen exactly this style of thinking happen in a large code base. Some of it was my own, sadly.

The odd thing to me, is you say this still of problem doesn't happen in a large code base. But, to me, this style of problem just happens many times in a large codebase. That is, large problems are just made up of smaller problems. Have I ever used the DLX problem? No. Do I appreciate that it is a good way to look at a problem you are working? Definitely. I wish I had more time to consider the implications there.

More subtly in your post, to me, is the idea that with the right people the problems don't happen. This leads me to this lovely piece.[1]

[1] http://www.ckwop.me.uk/Meditation-driven-development.html
The scientists did an AMA a couple weeks ago. Check it out here for more info: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2x3sja/science_ama_...
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Hope to see a lot of OSes properly contacted and ready to release fixes on 3/19
Contrast that to my experience with renting from Softlayer:

1) The operational overhead is the same as Amazon. Actually I think it's less because everything is so predictable. Every machine we get has identical performance to any other. We still don't have to care about the exact same list of things that EC2 provided but we also don't have to care about weird cloud issues.

2) See above answer but also Softlayer are happy to provide actual support for any issues in a timely manner. In general everything has been much more reliable that you actually have to think less about High Availabilty technologies that make your stack more complex. In the years I've been using them we have only had a few hard disk failures that were replaced in around an hour and we just failed over to a replicated slave manually for around 2-3 minutes of downtime.

3) Resources are no more finite than EC2. The only difference is that the provisioning time is 1 hour rather than 1 minute. That has still been perfectly fine to respond to unexpected load events.

4) Absolutely

5) Also great.

People often compare Cloud Hosting with Colo. What they should compare cloud hosting with is renting servers. You get 95% of the benefits of cloud with none of the drawbacks.
Thanks - we're on the case!
How do you handle spikes in request volume? That is, one of the nice things about working in the cloud with dynamic sizing is that your costs should only be relative to your average load, not necessarily your peak load. Given the size of Swiftype, and the fact that you back tons of individual sites (instead of being your own site), there might be enough variance in the sites you back so that your peak and average load is pretty similar. For a single ecommerce site, though, they might get a huge peak over baseline if they do a big marketing push, for example. In that case, they might have to provision many more physical servers than they usually need to handle that peak. Just wanted to see if this issue came up in your planning.
No but that has been done in the experimental economics literature: http://web.stanford.edu/~niederle/GuessingGames.pdf (see slide 11)

The answer is: the mean gradually approaches zero.
It's possible to filter based on vendor ID and device ID, but deviceid is shared (it's more of a product id), and both can be faked of course. On Linux it's handled via udev, on Windows via group policies (since Server 2008/Vista), on OSX it might be possible via MDM, in the Server application (I'm not sure)
I don't think that means it's fundamentally unprofitable. It's a pretty standard strategy to grow the market by subsidizing early adopters. They can try to raise prices over time or benefit from economics of scale. Perhaps, for example, when they get to a certain size, they'll have enough clout to get discounts on the various services they utilize.
High user growth doesn’t equal high market awareness or valuation
A Motley Fool article claims that while AWS is successful, it isn't profitable, mainly because of the accounting behind capital expenditure. Last year Amazon spent more in interest than their entire operating income. http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/02/04/amazon-just...
visit old Europe. The tiny little avenues between buildings are quite cozy and beautiful
For me, I typically can get over most motivation crises if I just manage to get started making steady progress. Then, typically the most boring pieces will be rather soon overcome, but it also happens quite often that as soon as I have gotten into that boring task a bit, I start to realize that it isn't that boring at all, but rather might have a lot of things that I can learn from etc.

So, to me it seems the main challenge is to be able to make steady progress with or without motivation!

So, how to do that? Well, I'm sure different people have different stories, but to me, the one single thing that immediately made this possible, was to carefully implement the technique described in "Pomodoro Technique Illustrated", by fellow Swede Staffan Nöteberg [1].

The book isn't that long, and you probably could get the gist of the idea elsewhere on the net, but to me this was so "game-changing" :) ... that I don't regret buying the book for a second.

[1] https://pragprog.com/book/snfocus/pomodoro-technique-illustr...
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Indeed the article is poor. His beauty contest results are more plausibly explained by anchoring bias (start at 2 thirds of 100). EMH is about price dynamics so a single "run" of the beauty contest says nothing about it. I am willing to bet a significant amount that after a couple of iterations, the bids would go to zero.

I simply dont see The "paradox" the author thinks they have discovered. There is reams of empirical evidence that active fund management is GENERALLY a losing proposition for savers. Both parties to a trade can end up losers because trading costs are never zero. If you want to go quickly broke, just keep blindly buying and selling over and over. Even if you beat the spread, the fees will swallow your money.
It was more like buying new apartment. Contract (decret) was life-long cheap rent, transferable to children and other family members. Price was very high.
Property taxes in the US are mainly state law. Like anything else about taxes, California created a very weird system for its property taxes. Property taxes are a percentage of the property's value, but states have very creative ways to define the property's value. For instance, North Carolina automatically updates property values every few years ( http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML... ), and there is a way to dispute the tax assessor's office.

California put limits on what property tax can be used for, how much it can change per year, and when the property's value gets reassessed (answer: when the property sells) in the '70s ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%2819... ). It was done through a ballot measure, which means the legislature can't make any changes by itself.
I installed it. I'm enjoying it.

Curious about how it fetches images. On my machine it loads a blurry jpeg which sharpens over about two seconds. I'd be happy to have a couple hundred batch-loaded at a time so I can immediately see high-res art.
One of the least understood facets of statistics. In random or natural distributions, we do not expect any kind of evenness or predictable spacing. Clustering of seemingly random events happens and happens often.

Only when averaged over a sufficient number of samples can we make sense of patterns.
Yes this is true. You are just expected to tough it out in winter. I grew up in an area where it would be around 70F during the day in winter, but it would get down into the 20s at the night. We had no heating in our bedrooms and would just pile on the 'donnas' to stay warm. Even now I have no heating in my bedroom, but I do now have an electric blanket :)
VP9 has lossless encoding support.

http://base-n.de/webm/VP9lossless.html
A paranoid user wouldn't use a power port, either. At least not without whipping out a multimeter first.
A lot of "tech kids", myself included, are immigrants and can't vote.

And, on a separate note, it's ridiculous that I have lived here for over 4 years and paid hundreds of thousands in taxes but do not have any way to influence the democratic process (it is equally ridiculous that I can still vote in my home country despite not setting foot there for more than 2 weeks per year for the past 6 years and not contributing to its economy at all. The current definition of citizenship is completely outdated in the globalized world)
This would have been amazing while writing all those thank you notes after I got married. I could have linked this with my spreadsheet of gifts received and scripted the whole thing.
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What an interesting wikipedia article. The scholars of the Islamic period are so under appreciated.
On top of that, surveyors noticed reductions in Antarctic ice at least as far back as 1932, far far before "climate change."

We have been increasing atmospheric CO2 since long before 1932 and Svante Arrhenius predicted that the burning of fossil fuels was increasing the earth's temperature back in 1896.
You're right: AGI might not be as powerful as some predict it can be. And there might be a way to contain it if it is. And we might be able to enforce said containment strategy on researches worldwide. And the AGI might be benevolent even if it is super powerful and uncontainable.

The authors above are unpersuasive in arguing that these things are inevitable, but they are persuasive in arguing that these things are possible. And if they are possible, then what matters to me is their likelihood. Based on current estimates, are we talking about a 50-50 chance here? 80-20? 99-1? 99.999-0.001?

If we're talking about the future of the human race, these chances matter. But instead it seems everyone is just waving their hands at the what-ifs simply because they aren't 100%.
Darn it. Now my boss has probably tracked me reading an article about not reading glassdoor from the company network!
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More evidence of the US supporting torture in its backwards client regimes. This evidence has piled up for years and years, starting from well before the School of the Americas.

On the topic of schools and supporting torture in client regimes, remember that someone had to both negotiate with the UAE in order to convince them that it would be in their best interest to do as the US says on the topic of torturing foreigners, as well as teach UAE's security forces how to torture in the US-approved way. That way, when someone the US wants information from comes along, they can be tortured by the UAE so that US can keep its PR.

Think about that for a minute. The US is teaching third parties how to torture effectively on its behalf because it wants the torturing done to the proper standard and because it is afraid of the backlash that will occur when torture is exposed. From this thought, we can say that the US has extensive internal standards regarding what methods of torture are acceptable and useful for clients to know, which are likely influenced by how bad and how directly attributable these torture techniques will look when exposed.

A speculation: the US still tortures people directly in addition to third party torture. They already have the secrecy, infrastructure, training, standards, incentive, and targets in hand.
Until you have to deploy something with automated provisioning tools and Github or Bitbucket is down. It has happened a few times. We use gitolite with no UI for this very reason.
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