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Unfortunately, even the docs at doc.perl6.org give me the impression that either the language is extremely complicated, or that the docs leave out too many essential details, or both. I don't wish to pick apart docs here though.

I think that what Perl 6 needs if it is to have a chance to succeed is a really good comprehensive and comprehensible tutorial.
I have found that the two services are comparable in supply side liquidity in SF, but that Uber far outpaces Lyft in that regard near Stanford.

I wonder if it's possible to stave off this issue.
Sometimes I get surveys from Google about how much I like App Engine. I'm always hesitant about marking them too poorly out of fear that they'll decide to shut it down if the results come back too bad. They need a question along the lines of "would you rather that we fixed the issues preventing App Engine from being an amazing, awesome PAAS solution, or shut it down?" question.

Ultimately, I do love App Engine. It's just the really poor support from Google that is letting down what could be an awesome platform. Neglected bugs, outdated docs, key limitations (eg. no https on naked domains, which looks like it will hopefully be fixed soon) and such.
I'm not aware of anyone who specifically uses Mac Pros (although I've heard some private rumblings). I suspect part of the issue is that the old form factor was not very rack-friendly, and people haven't gotten comfortable with the new form factor. Maybe this chassis design will help move this forward.

Mac Minis are a little more common than it might seem at first glance, particularly for use cases that some other people have outlined in their comments throughout this thread. Mozilla uses them to test Firefox builds on OS X for instance. I would imagine that places like Sauce Labs must have a Mac Mini farm to facilitate browser tests on OS X.

I'm not aware of any other service that operates in the same space as imgix that runs outside of EC2, so they definitely aren't using OS X there. I think in general there's a sort of disregard for the particular graphics processing benefits that OS X provides (as evidenced by some of the comments in the thread).

I would also be remiss to not mention Mac Mini Colo (http://macminicolo.net/) who do co-located hosting. imgix started out with them, and they did a great job.

There's another interesting use case where you need to have OS X (or iOS): when you want to display photos taken on iOS devices with their applied filters (the images are stored pristine, and the filters are applied on top when you view them). To recreate these photos exactly as they were on the device, you ideally need to render it within an Apple environment. You can probably imagine the use case for a service that stores a lot of user generated photography, in a world where iPhones are the most popular cameras (https://www.flickr.com/cameras).

I also heard through the grapevine today that a certain film studio is interested in getting one of these chassis to test out, because they saw this article. That's pretty exciting to hear, even though we don't profit in any way from the sale of these chassis.
And blocking a road in protest is now terrorism ("interference with infrastructure").

With the current government Canada is going downhill real fast. Sad, because it's one of the most socially developed countries.
It's not the "getting left behind" angle that I don't like. It's the fact that I have to wait +/- 20 more years for them to die before I can FOAD because that is what society expects.
AMD and Intel used to compete. It appeared neck-and-neck at times. Now AMD has 1.1% of the market cap of Intel. And that's with AMD also competing with Nvidia on graphics.
Ouch.
Memristors Used to Make a Neural-Network Chip
ASW_JSPs
ggg
Im guessing (based on recently using Estimote beacons in a project) that this relies on inexpensive beacons and most of what happens is in the app. The beacons don't talk to the cloud service - the app does. I think the app listens for the beacons which are sending sending RSSI (received signal strength indication) information as well as heir unique id, and the cloud service is estimating your distances from 3 or 4 beacons and solving to get a position then sending that back to the app. (It's probable the app could do that itself, but Estimote might have some "secret sauce" that makes their cloud-reliant solution better - perhaps by aggregating data about the Bluetooth reception quality on a per model or device basis and updating their position estimate algorithms in real time. If I wanted to implement something like this without leaking user location data to Estimote/The NSA, I'd probably try using rough models in-app (without sending the beacon data anywhere) and using accelerometer/gyro data to provide additional dead reckoning input.

Note though - much of the same tricks can be pulled with 2.4gHz capable SDRs passively listening for wifi/bluetooth (and even cellular) transmission from your phone. This is almost certainly being used to track you in shopping malls already, and I'd be quite surprised to head it's not also deployed in airports, military contractor campuses, and large privacy invasive corporations - as well as wherever various three letter agencies of overreaching law enforcement want it.
This is a list of tactics, not strategies.
No. There is an excellent work by Steve Keen that shows how simple it is for non-communicating bots under perfect competition to collude: http://arxiv.org/pdf/nlin/0411006.pdf

I wish that mainstream economists would accept that the collusion and not competition (aka price war) is the normal state of affairs and updated their school models accordingly.
I'm actually wondering why the politicians voted for the bill today. Federal elections are only a few months away, and surely with such a large show of backlash from the public and the media, they would be more mindful of the effect of this on their chances of getting re-elected? What's the use in passing a bill if it means you potentially won't get to take advantage and/or abuse it for more than a couple of months?
FP and the arguments have evolved in the 25 years after this paper. Laziness by default was important because it forced language and library developers to invent new purely functional constructs such as monads and functional reactive programming. Functional programming has won with lambdas in every language and even mainstream GUIs getting programmed with React.js, pure Flux architecture and Immutable-js.
I use a mix of services including Gmail, Rackspace, and MXroute
http://mxroute.com
Without going into too much detail about our stack, there's quite a bit more to Core Image than OpenGL+graphics card driver.

Those are important components, and we're not talking about splitting the atom here, but Apple has had a number of smart people working on graphics technologies for a long time now. imgix also has a bunch of smart people working on this, but for a much shorter period of time.
What does understanding how computers work have to do with your political views about how people should be able to use computers?
Show HN: Image based circuit simulation
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The first units of such a currency are "issued" when someone takes the other side of the bet. If I think bitcoins are going to be worth more soon, I can offer to pay the system $100 worth of bitcoins to generate 100 cryptodollars. If the price goes up, I make a profit because the size of my debt shrank. If the price goes down, I lose money. These systems require the speculators to lock money in the system as collateral to handle price swings. Meanwhile, anyone who wants stable cryptodollars can use them without price fluctuations.

There are several ways to peg a cryptocurrency to a price described here: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/11/search-stable-cryptocur...

Here's a slightly different method built on top of Ethereum, a platform for defining transaction logic on a global database: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/30f98i/introducin...

We can create currencies based on any price, whether it's the price of an existing currency, gold, or an abstract price, like a price index. This ability will change the world.

My email address is in my profile if you have more questions. There's some fascinating stuff going on out there.
I have not followed canadian politics. Could someone give a tiny synopsis - Has there been some major political shift there recently or what?
When you start debates with uber simplified words as "the poor" and "the rich", you end up with a sub-par debate with sub-par arguments.
What worked for me was converting the PDFs to Kindle format, using Calibre. Most of the time it works fairly well.
Because it isn't really about the OS, it's about the software. OS X is fine as a server platform, but it doesn't have the same software and support ecosystem for data center usage. Apple dumped that market with the Xserve because it didn't work for them.

Red Hat/Suse/Oracle etc. all sell tailored solutions for that usage that are Linux specific technology (mostly, some stuff gets ported to other Unix derivatives but most doesn't). Sure Apple could do all that too, but they don't want to. It isn't their market, so why sink money and effort into engineering OS X to do it when they can just buy high quality products ready to go?
This article is very timely for me. I am about to buy some external storage for my laptop, and was looking exclusively at SSD. Had no idea about this major downside, but sounds like SSD are the last thing I want to be using for archiving.
Hmm, so are they using laser transits as the input to adjust implement height when leveling fields? I always assumed it was dGPS, but 1m in the vertical isn't nearly enough.

Robots have been (helping) grow our food for quite a while now and we just don't think of it that way.
It's probably the work of a low-paid developer under pressure from business folks to force ad refreshing quickly.
Exposing more detail behind this math is unfortunately not something that I'm ready to do, but I'm pretty comfortable with it in broad strokes. EC2 really is that much more expensive, when you factor in things like network bandwidth.

As I noted elsewhere, I mention EC2 because all of our (funded) competitors run there. We can split hairs over whether I could save 10% on Linux systems vs Mac systems, but the elephant in the room are all of the companies trying to make this sort of service work in EC2. You can't do it, and make money at the same time. Even if you can make money at small scale, you will eventually be crushed by your own success.

My overriding goal for imgix's datacenter strategy (and elsewhere in the company) is to build for success. To do that, we have to get the economies of scale right. I believe we have done so.
This (quite recent) HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416549 and the top comment on it explain C-51 quite well.

Current Canadian politics summary: Stephen Harper.
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>>The people making shoes, iPhones, TVs---they don't have to do that. They could do whatever they were doing before that factory came to town.

This isn't always true. There are situations where some big factory shows up, ruins the local economy(usually by wrecking the environment) and now the only way to make a living is to be part of the company... or move far away. Leaving your homeland of generations is technically a choice, but emotionally... not really.
Don't worry, we'll get rid of Harper soon enough. Alberta just dumped a 44-year dynasty, and this is the Conservatives' home ground. Most Canadians are sick of him.
Try 35-38% overall, and 72% of conservatives: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/04/10/bill-c-51-poll-anti-.... The government is listening to the people that elected them.
I guess it's only fair that I reveal my bias here: I am deeply skeptical of people who claim to have a philosophical or political "answer" to "mental illness". In my experience, most such people seem to be utterly unfamiliar with the effects of unusual physiological states on the mind, and ultimately find their inspirations in the more flowery and idealistic schools of philosophy rather than in the scientific crucible of rationality and empiricism (neither is sufficient on its own: the two must be joined to make any sense of the world; this is, at any rate, my reading of Kant and his critics).

All that said, I'm a little confused by your invocation of "R.D. Laing etc". Usually, the name I see paired with R.D. Laing is Thomas Szasz, and I am far more receptive to the former than the latter. As far as I understand it, they had some pretty deep disagreements. Perhaps Foucault is closer to Laing than to Szasz, and you meant something closer to Foucault's formulation of mental illness, but I am less familiar with his ideas. I admit a certain reluctance to risk exposing myself to yet another flavor of pontification uninformed by experience (there are so many to choose from, and it seems that they uniformly exhaust my patience; I can only spare so much effort entertaining "learned" people who dismiss my lived experience as utter delusion).

As it happens, I was prescribed an ADHD drug by the same psychiatrist who ultimately urged me to pursue the physiological diagnosis whose treatment I actually found helpful. I found that the drug was only modestly helpful at best, and he was quite receptive to my assessment that I should discontinue it. I actually still have almost a month's supply in my cupboard, have felt no temptation to (ab)use it, and am not sure whether I should turn it in to the DEA (it being Schedule II, which is supposedly accounted with some precision) or quietly dispose of it in the bags of my paper shredder.
I'm in complete agreement with you that this will provide much needed motivation for adoption of technical security.

I have to wonder though, does technical literacy or computer science training really cause a person to respect basic civil liberties?

The people who built the mass surveillance apparatus must be just as much a part of the technical community as anyone here.
Your proxy IP block has probably been flagged as a source of badness.
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I have not met one single person who thought Bill C-51 was a good idea.

I know we can't govern by conscensus, but I think that when there is so much controversy around a law there should be a referendum, seems to work for Switzerland.
I disagree with the Zenefits' CEO's choice to publicly rescind the offer, but the OP is not the kind of person I would want to hire, either.
There's a similar group in Sydney, Australia doing a very similar thing, creating duplicate restaurant websites and taking a fee in-between.
Two hours after Rust (2014)
State of Washington Hires Goats to Clean Up Weeds on Highway
I'm giving these politicians the benefit of the doubt and assuming they truly believe these laws could be effective, and that they truly want what's best for their country.

But these laws obviously are not going to be effective. The people we have to worry about, the extremists, the perverts, the druggies, they're not able to be controlled anyway. What good is a law that locks someone's bank account and takes down someone's website when you don't know who they are and you don't know where their server is?

The point is: They're misinformed if they think this is actually going to thwart terrorism, or extremism, or communications of anyone who is actually discussing sensitive things. And they need to be educated, so that they can understand that.
I can't be the only one who thinks that implementing a toy function in one line of terse code doesn't demonstrate anything useful. What about programming in the large? What about efficiency of naive implementations? What about maintainability? These are things that actually matter in software engineering.
How Using Periscope Got My PGA Tour Media Credential Revoked
New ‘NSA’ App Designed to Expose Android Apps’ Secret Web Visits
It will be nice to see a good HN client for iOS. I've tried many and they're all very light on features, particularly stuff like posting comments.
that's an issue with the state of tor, not an issue with tor itself. It can and will improve.
The human brain has between 100 and 500 trillion synapses and consumes a lowly 12 watts. (In contrast, a 12.6 megawatt supercomputer, in 2013, took 40 minutes to simulate one second of biological brain activity.)

The article cites 250 billion synapses per watt.

For the same 12 watts as a human brain eats up, a set of memristors could simulate three trillion synapses. A cat, in comparison, has 10 trillion. To get 100 trillion synapses, multiply those 12 watts by 33.3 to get 400 watts (the draw of nearly seven 60-watt incandescent bulbs).

Since one watt bags us 250 billion synapses and 400 watts is equivalent to a memristor-based human brain, then 400 cm^2 is the area needed to emulate the meekest of human minds.

That's nearly the same area as half of a medium Domino's pizza.

Certainly is... food for thought.
I don't know you, but I'm thirteen years your junior and this statement gives me hope.
What surprised me was the the Liberal party helped pass it.
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I started training on the dev tools at age 46. Big learning curve: linux, ruby, erlang, devops, sql, css, javascript, growth hacking, etc. etc. Now have my first customer, coding hard every day. Not aiming for billions but millions - yes. I started on this path because I felt the dev tools and hacker community were developed enough to support this independent style of work. So far everything feels very good. It is very sweet to forego the hassle of investors and employees. Since you're only 35 you've got time to prepare if you decide to go this route.
"vendors are too scared (for whatever reason, legitimate or otherwise) to add extra languages to the mix, like python."

Tried python server-side, mod_python and got lots of issues with formatting. Not syntax or mixed tab/spaces but one-off spacing errors. I realised then, Python used this way has problems. Could be fixed though.
I've noticed that too when I recently was able to upgrade from a very old phone (with 3G only!) to a T-Mobile Nexus 6. I never bothered with too many apps before because the phone was just so slow.

Now though every free app is so annoying to use. Trying to not accidentally click an ad. Having to see (and sometimes wait to close) an ad every few game plays or after so much amount of use.

Most paid apps I've used remove the ad annoyance completely and are often more polished or offer features not found in free alternatives.

Plus I get to support the developers for making a quality product and not an ad-infested money grab.
What'd you love about CTF3?
"Also, Haskell & macros don't seem to mix so well, and meta-programming is a big deal for me."

With the ability to manipulate more of the components of your programs in regular code, macros become less important. But if you want to do compile-time metaprogramming in Haskell, Template Haskell is effective - typed or untyped.
Not certain if I understand your question, but I'll take a shot at answering:

I expect a useful life span for any datacenter equipment of 3 years. A Mac Pros list price is about $4000. We pay less but I'll use public figures throughout. Using equipment leasing, I can pay that $4000 over the 3 year period, with let's say a 5% interest rate and no residual value (to keep this simple). So over 3 years, I spend $4315 in total per machine to get 2200 gflop/s.

Over 3 years with EC2, a g2.xlarge is $7410 up front (to secure a 57% discount) for 2300 gflop/s.

So I can pay over time, save $3100 over a 3 year period, and probably still resell the Mac Pro for $500 at the end of its life span. That's pretty compelling math to me. There are costs involved with building and operating a datacenter, and that evens things out a bit. What really kills EC2 though is the network bandwidth costs. It is just insane.
I agree generally, especially if you are exterior but it fails completely with overhang or poor overhead coverage. Better to have a system that can do everything without the third reference as it will be less cumbersome.

The other thing is that a CDGPS doesn't initiate with high precision like a camera does so you will always have (arguably) a higher amount of correction you need to apply manually if you initiate from that reference as opposed to with visual odometry.
The people didn't want it in the first place - it wasn't like 72% of conservatives came up and said "hey we need a spying bill". Please. Idiots are just voting for their party or what the millions of dollars of propaganda tells them to, while decades of "think of the children" monologues echo through their minds.
The article gives some examples.
Those form the primary keys to access your credit record, they aren't going to be getting much data from them by themselves.
I remembered there was an antitrust lawsuit between AMD and Intel, but hadn't heard how it resolved. Turns out Intel paid 1.25 billion to settle it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v.....

A quick google search fails to bring up the original suit text, but from what I recall it was pretty scathing. I hope that cash infusion is at the root of this announcement and AMD can get back in the game.
Sounds like pretty much all the antivirus "web guards" out there and I don't trust other companies to route all my traffic through them. It might be useful for researchers and such, though.
Itch.io now lets game developers organize their own bundles
They've also said they've been waiting for technology that is palpable to what they did with the havok engine and source graphics in hl2 days. This seems to line up pretty perfectly, and I highly doubt they will just abandon the series at this point.
Is there any commercially sold solution for this to allow my phone to track me through my home, preferably a solution that I can IFTTT or similar to?
Am I crazy? With a hot disk cache, the cut command he gave takes 1.2 seconds on my machine.
Only a very few star real estate agents make anywhere near that much. Most close few if any transactions per year. Out of the typical 3% commission per side of the transaction, the agent will only net about half. The rest goes to the broker and expenses.
> Who would have guessed

Except for not being a dog, such a spider is anticipated in Goethe's little poem «Annonce» (Advertisement):

A little dog is sought
that never barked nor bit
takes broken glass as feed
leaves diamonds as - -

(my own translation, but wouldn't be surprised if it has appeared in these words before)
Sustaining the Ballast
https://www.fundera.com/
DIY Computer Startup gets $15M
We will revamp clunky websites
I'm no Harper fan, but he hasn't been anywhere as arrogant as Prentice had become in the last few weeks.
The question is will whoever comes to power reverse all of this, or will you get a "choice" that is just as much pro-mass surveillance and pro-unaccountability for abuses like in the US?
Politics I believe. The liberals knew it was going to get passed one way or another, and if they voted against it, the Conservatives would use the "supporting terrorism and pedophilia" attack on them in the coming election.
The answer is no. I still expect 25 more years of claims with no further proof though. People believe what they want to believe.
Other than being a task that's inherently CPU-bound, not much. There's been a lot of Mozillians itching to have any excuse to play with Rust lately. :P