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I need to try a Nespresso somewhere (not sure where/how).

At the moment I'm reduced to decaf, and I'm finding Percol Decaf Colombia excellent: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Percol-Fairtrade-Decaffeinated-Colom...

Though next I want to try a Peruvian coffee,.
Not only the simplified code you write with async/await (using babeljs for this today) ... There are a lot of complex processes that are easier to reason against in JS over low level C.

Not to mention, that the article's example is only comparing a small piece of work... A single node instance can easily manage 10K simultaneous requests... launching a thread per request, and you're going to hit resource bottlenecks at the CPU pretty quickly, compared to several node instances approaching a million simultaneous connections on a single server. Node uses not only an even loop, but a shared thread pool for isolation of work without blowing out resource contention.

I've seen issues with even a few thousand threads in poorly written simulation servers... going to an event-loop against a threadpool always worked out better under true load.
I tend to prefer links from the actual researchers if available other than links from news sites. Just a general observation.
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Toshiba and Pixel have 16 GB.
You wrote:

> Given that Greece is 'paying' for these imports with borrowed money, which is unlikely ever to be paid back, how is this setup benefitting?

> Well, the Euro collapsed for everybody, so all other Euro members had exactly the same benefit.

I don't know if you're trolling me or not. Maybe you should read a little bit about the context before engaging into similar discussions.

A few good starting points:

Macronomics: http://www.amazon.com/Macroeconomics-3rd-Edition-Paul-Krugma...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Currency-Wars-Making-Global-Crisis-ebo...

Also read about public debts what they are and how they did evolve.

Finally, you're looking financial answers to a political problem. Strictly financially speaking, debt restructuring is the only sensible solution to Greece AND everyone else. What you're watching, is a live show of poor justifications from failed politicians (all over the EU).
You might want to change the title.
Just wanted to comment on the "Blocking vs. Non-Blocking" nature of the different actor implementions. The article here says

A reason for choosing the asynchronous, callback-based approach has been that blocking plain OS threads entails significant overhead (as does the mere existence of many threads), which can be avoided with a non-blocking API. However, because Quasar – just like Erlang and Go – has true lightweight threads, blocking carries virtually no overhead

In my opinion the difference is much then whether an OS thread is blocked or not. Being able to make synchronous-looking (but not-thread-blocking) calls inside Actors still will block the Actor for other incoming messages for that amount of time. So you have states were the Actor is unresponsive - and with the right amount of dependencies between Actors you can deadlock.

A Actor which doesn't use any blocking calls internally will be more responsive and less prone to deadlock. But of course - you have to model more states explicetly. E.g. if I have an Actor routine that's like

while true {
var msg = await mailbox.Get();
if (msg is XYZ) {
var result = await doSthAsync()
updateState(result)
}
}

and would like to transform that into a completly nonblocking implementation then I would need to model an extra state and probably handle messages differently in the timeframe between doSthAsync() was sent and the result is received.

This can be a good thing (you can be more responsive and all states are explicit) and also a bad thing (more verbose code).

Important is also that with the blocked Actor one get some kind of backpressure strategy for free. Whereas with the nonblocked Actor one has to handle that also explicitly.

I tried both concepts in my recent work, the blocked actor mainly with F#'s mailbox processor and the nonblocked with my own implementation and personally favor the second version now. I find it quite useful to think about and model Actors as state machines and beeing able to handle all kinds of state transitions explicitly. It also made deadlock prevention easier.

Nevertheless I'm seriously impressed about the capabilities of Quasar and Pulsar.
Ask HN: What CPM/CPC Ad Network should I use for low traffic content sites?
I have some small (low traffic) content websites and Google won't let me sign them up in AdSense program (not a lot of content and traffic).
The content is good, nice design also.
What CPM/CPC Ad Network are there in order to monetize my web traffic? I'm looking for something legit, no pop unders, no "Download" button, or other impersonations. I have the standard formats available 700x90, 300x250.
Thanks!
So, basically anyone providing online services to customers then? Who's threat model should not include intelligence agencies? Online pet shop?
"Providing a Valuable Platform for Advertisers, Content Publishers, and Users" Sure does say a lot about their priorities here, doesn't it? First come advertisers, then publishers, then in last place are the users. This is the message I'm getting.
kvmtool may not be in the mainline kernel source tree, but that doesn't mean it's dead or that it's failed. It had no need to be in the kernel source tree in the first place -- it's a standalone userspace tool that uses the publicly documented and stable KVM syscalls and ioctls, exactly like QEMU. QEMU isn't in the kernel source tree either, and nobody's ever suggested that putting it there would be a good idea...
If you didn't know, a single espresso with a double shot of coffee is called a ristretto and is usually delicious :) None of it sounds horrible at all!

Cappuccinos from ristrettos are also really good. Sometimes they taste like brown sugar.
Hmm, how does Famo.us stack up to GreenSpck's GSAP? I've been tinkering with GSAP for the past week and have been pleasantly suprised with its capabilities, but I don't know if its the more performant of the animation libraries.
I'd say at least 10K simultaneous requests on a single instance with ease, let alone several. Just a simple echo web-server... http://localhost/foo => "hello foo" ...

Launching that many threads will quickly hit bottlenecks on most systems... I've seen this happen in a poorly written simulation server (each actor had it's own work thread)... the server would freeze up randomly with only a handful of connections in a test scenario... changing to an event-loop using an async thread-pool resolved most of these issues (this was before node).
haha, maybe! Anyway, when I learned dvorak, I used http://www.typingstudy.com which I think is the key for my fast speed. But maybe I'm mistaken :)
Stripe isn't available in my country.
Very nice work. How about a graph type "arrow diagram" as a subtype of "drawing"? One thing I'm missing a bit in the list is GraphViz style diagrams.
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"republic of Africa"?

Africa is a continent that consists of at least 54 separate countries. It is like asking "Who is the president of Europe".
That graphic is just begging for a remix in the style of the leaked Snowden / NSA docs.
Thanks - definitely open to suggestions :) we're just wrestling with the classic issue of monetisation without killing the free distribution model that's working so well for us.
> When instead, the real problem is that people's applications should be able to run in-place without having to take control of the entire operating system.

We have plenty of mechanisms - including cgroups - that allows you to achieve that.

What containerisation solutions solve is providing a convenient build and packaging solution that includes a decent level of isolation including preventing state from polluting the surrounding system.

The biggest problem is not lack of isolation mechanisms, but that most developers have no clue they even exist.

Try to get the average Linux developer to tell you what seccomp is, for example, and if they know what it is, try to get them to tell you how to use it [1]. There's plenty of room for innovation here, and plenty of room for more different solutions, but the biggest problem they will need to solve is how to make these mechanisms easy enough to use.

[1] An example here: http://blog.viraptor.info/post/seccomp-sandboxes-and-memcach...
It's interesting how JS was created for animations, yet is typically failing even at that.
You can learn dvorak by using http://www.typingstudy.com ;) helped me a lot
Why don't you use Backblaze or CrashPlan?
Are they comparable in video quality to LCD displays?

What are the advantages besides being thinner? I mean, I can understand using OLED in a cellphone or a tablet, but when hanging on a wall what's the difference between 2mm and 2cm?
I don't want to spin up instances. I want to spin up functions.
I think the lack of exit nodes has more to do with legal considerations than actual computational resources/willing volunteers. See the tor blog's Tips for Running an Exit Node with Minimal Harassment - https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-mini...

"Suggest creation of LLC for large exit nodes" I'm guessing that this might be a larger barrier to entry for most willing volunteers compared to hardware and bandwidth costs
It's a big world after all: Computing the diameter of the flights graph
Show HN: Simple canteen menu for Portuguese college
This would be perfect for a chart / graph library.
I believe the two week timer only starts if you initiate a domain transfer, modify your domain's WHOIS info, or have a renewal notice bounce. 2/3 of this are forces that are within your control, so you can at least plan around that.
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> Yes, it's brutal, and a bit ruthless, but effective.

I'm not saying that people who don't work out should not be let go, and I'm certainly not saying that you "owe" people anything. It's a business and not a charity. (Just remember that this goes the other way as well; people who show loyalty to some company are doing themselves a great disservice, in my opinion. I work for money. I'm passionate and will do great work, but I'm a mercenary.)

That being said, I would be very hesitant to go work at a place known to err on the side of just hiring someone and kicking them to the curb if it doesn't work out. Why? Because it can say a great deal about the management at that company, and how they will treat me. I also have no interest in being hired unless you are confident that I'm a great fit. I don't want anyone to take a chance on me. I want people to be delighted to hire me over someone else.
Boxing bloody nose
I've since determined that Google scrapes our corporate website, which lists employees.
Ask HN: Good advice on writing VST Plugins?
Hi all,
I'm trying to realize a plugin that combines samples based on pseudorandomly created patterns.
We've decided to try going the VST route but have no experience with it.
Since I'm not super familiar with C++ I just wanna find out if there are other ways to VSTs than the Steinberg SDK or JUCE, maybe python or Java wrappers that work?
There's pyvst but it seems not to be maintained.

Glad for any input, have a good one.
Please note that this blogpost is BS, sorry.

The paper describes the squatting situation in contrast to the blog very good.

Simple question:

Do you know the squatters described in this paper?
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Lessons I’ve Learned in Business That Couldn’t Be Taught
Maybe intent was good, but some advices are harmful. For example, 1 and 7. While in general it's not lie, but they can lead to thoughts "eat everything you want, just try to eat more "healthy" things, and "don't go to screenings at all".
This one was posted on HN just a few days ago. Looks good.

http://www.marinamele.com/taskbuster-django-tutorial
Different problem, actually. These letters are not even 'calibrated' in the application. I tried contacting the developer but got no response.
that's what I call good public service :D
Now forgive my naivety, but isn't this just threads?

I understand that because if the funny scoping rules it means that threading is actually surprisingly hard? surely you'd want more control over your threaded event loops?
Is the robot-voice code published anywhere?

You can make money out of that kind of thing btw!

https://soniccharge.com/bitspeek

(Obviously not the same thing but the point is that silly robo-voice code is marketable :)
That's what my post was getting at, over-generalising about an entire continent...
A 2 second google search would show you that the market segment is not 0.
Yeah, unfortunately it's Windows only atm. Outlook API's on Mac are basically non-existent, so we are having a hard time bridging these :/
If the problem were just historical compatibility, I don't see what would be preventing them from adding a flag --do-things-sensibly to turn on the reasonable behavior.
It should, and it allows you to do some changes over a socket, but allowing complete updates with the current haproxy architecture is a lot of work and isn't there yet.
And apparently explicit SIMD approach was initiated by John McCutchan from Google's Dart team.
How to setup Docker Monitoring
Yes, I am from South Africa, and right now I have to remote into my home computer to shut it down, before our power provider (parastatal monopoly Eskom), shuts down the power across the whole of Cape Town for 2.5 hours because they are so severely miss managed.

But yes, this seems appropriate.

As others have mentioned if this actually became legitimate it would mean nothing. They have nobody to police this.
It's also a lot more complex. It mainly makes a difference if you're reloading haproxy configs frequently, which most of us don't do.
I don't know, maybe it's a matter of style. For example the coffee in Milan is not as good as the coffee in Naples. But I have to disagree with you about Spain and Portugal, I found pretty consistent good quality in Lisbon for example.
That's the easy part - the tricky part is when you need to reload the haproxy config to do any of the many things you can't do over the socket.
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It's not OCR, but I would call it Optical Pattern Recognition. I think it's kind of a compression, similar image segments are stored only once in memory and repeated occurrences are linked to the one stored copy. Unfortunately identifying similar image segments is not that accurate in these Xerox scanner devices.
Using biometrics to predict developer happiness and frustration
> Your suspicion is likely wrong though

Doubt it; I'm sure you could buy very bad capsule, which might give the game away, otherwise ... are you familiar with:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-tas...
There is no benefit of io being async in itself until you have many users. The immediate and more accessible benefit is speeding up individual requests due to the ease at which you can perfom io in parallel. But if you just sprinkle await/yield everywhere (which everyone unfortunately does), you don't even get this benefit.
EU seeks to dump net neutrality completely
Why not just DX12?
Those have 1366*768 displays, and that's just sad.

Otherwise it's great laptop.
The robot learns to see it's arm and the target using a Imagenet trained CNN.

The robot is then shown the task a few times. A human controls the robot for a few minutes, performing the task.

Then an innovative policy search finds a robust policy so the robot can perform the task from any initial position and is robust to changes such as the addition of a shirt to the hanger task after training.

Potentially the robot can learn from videos of humans performing the task - i.e. by copying people.
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Who do you think will write the acceptance tests? (to be honest they're sometimes more complex than the code itself. E.g. write the acceptance tests for x=a/b for a and b as inputs )

I'm all for it, it's going to be a productivity gain. It's like going from a manual screwdriver to a motorized one.
Are you sure? All my searches led me to 8GB max.

EDIT: aha, seems like a company called Intelligent Memory makes a single 16GB module [1] that works with X250.

[1]: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/now-16gb-ddr3-module...
Software Memories, Simulated Machines – Google Tech Talk Meetup Stockholm
Great that they reverted back from the adaptive function keys of the 2014 model. They don't work that well in practice.
In other news, bicycle crushes car in weight and cost.
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Adult Friend Finder database compromised
> The problem with pre-ground beans, is that ground beans go stale in a matter of hours. Whole beans from supermarkets are no better since you usually can't tell when they were roasted and they are most likely also stale.

The point is that in a blind test, "a lot %" of the people would never distinguish a freshly opened pack and a pack opened a week before, as much as "a lot %" of the people would never distinguish gold-plated from non-plated ones.

Of course, it's easy to distinguish a "great" coffee [espresso] from a "non-great" one, but then we're talking about a much wider context (that is, many other facts weigh in).

[edit: added note]
Are there any examples of products that use the famous framework in production? The lack of case study examples on their website worries me a little.
Even if it did (and it doesn't, I checked), you're probably still better off doing it explicitly since it's easier to audit, less likely to differ across implementations, and less error prone (e.g. swap the order of the comparison and you're back to plain old String#==).
Those are usually called "graphs" ;-)
They are listed under "network" (of course there are lots of types or styles here, too).
While this is true, it's worth noting that recycling is not the preferred step in eco consumerism. Refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, compost. Nespresso pods cannot be reused, unless someone has hacked a kludge for that, and I doubt the recycling process composts the grounds (more info on that would be great). Extracting aluminium from its ore is hugely energy-consuming. So the most sensible thing to do is simply not use Nespresso, and avoid contributing to the aluminium problem.

There are Nespresso-compatible pods made by third parties, but they tend to be plastic. I'm unconvinced that these can be effectively recycled.

FWIW, before my landlord bought a fancy-pants bean grinding espresso machine, I'd use a stove-top espresso maker. A mokka/mukka, spelling varies. 3 mins to make a perfect espresso from grounds, and I could compost the grounds.
Haxe 3.2.0 released
Nope: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x250/...

> Memory: Up to 8GB (1 DIMM), DDR3L-1600 PC3-12800 1600 MHz
When I wake up I really don't feel like dressing, going outside, walking to the nearest coffee shop, ordering and waiting, paying 5x as much as for Nespresso, walking back home, drinking the coffee, undressing, showering, dressing properly this time, then walking to the coffee shop again to order a second one.

No, I'll take the device in my home which instantly produces a cup of coffee at the press of a button.
A simulated being in a simulated world is just as real in its world as we are in ours.

If we can bridge the simulated world to our world then we can interact with it.

Being in different worlds does not imply that it can never reach conciousness (among other properties). To imply that is invoking magic.

Anything from our world can be simulated.
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It's not about the numbers. It's about people. Right now not a single individual can be trusted not to misuse somebody's personal details, through malice or negligence, and not create a severe risk for the owner. Being one in a narrow selection of computer professionals doesn't help much. One can be a genius and a person of low ethical standards at the same time. No solution until the civilization progresses much further than what we have now. Until then, lock down the Whois database. Even better, discontinue it altogether. Let individual registrars hold the personal details of their customers. At least it will remove the risk of compromising everyone's privacy with one action by not putting all eggs in one basket.
I hope they find some works that were mentioned in antiquity but are lost to us now. EG Some of this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_work#Classical_world
You're right of course. I was referring to the rare countries in Africa that social, economic, and health issues. My apologies.
Yep. Just one of the many reasons I am no longer an academic. I should mention that students are still being abused as cheap labor - the only change is the incompetent are getting pushed through.
I think thats not directly language related but an implementation detail - although a very important one. Javascript on the JVM (Nashorn) allows full multithreading - including then the need for all the common synchronization stuff.

But of course - Javascript and also the typical Javascript libraries were not made with multithreading in mind.
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This is true. The problem is that when you go looking for a post doc if you don't have any publications then you are thought to be incompetent.
If you go here: http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x250/...

You can select a 16Gb option for the X250. It does say "single SODIMM" though, which presumably means single channel memory => a very expensive SODIMM & sub-par performance compared to a dual channel equivalent.
The chat room kicks me straight out as soon as I see it. :(
Microsoft faces claims it threatened MPs with job cuts in constituencies
FWIW the aeropress is a very good alternative to french presses, significantly simpler cleaning (just pop the coffee plug in the compost/trash and rinse the components), almost no fines (if you use paper filters). Though the rest of the operations (grinding coffee, pouring boiling water in the press and pressing down) are the same.
Thieves are using commercial drones for burglaries
Content-addressable union file system built on Fuse, Hyperlog, LevelDB and Node
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8kb ROM, 1Kb RAM. I had one of these little machines and played 3D Monster Maze.

As well as being an impressive bit of code for such a diminutive machine it's also a testament to how engaging even the simplest of games of this type can be utterly absorbing - I recall being frantic to escape the monster :)

I reckon I still have bruises on my finger tips from that horrible keyboard.
I have the sonic CD iOS rerelease. I always thought it was an emulator.
"“A day or two before we were going to give a speech, a couple of backbench MPs called the office – they said Microsoft had called them saying if we went ahead with the speech on open standards, open architecture and open source, they would cut spending or maybe close research and development centres in the constituencies of the MPs they had called."
Spotify keeps ignoring its user base
Lower consumption != lower standard of living. My life would be much better if I didn't have to consume a few cups of gasoline just to be able to get to work.
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There's not a lot of floating point in the kernel though.
Yes, because all issues need to be tackled sequentially.
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That doesn't seem available in all stores. The 16GB option is not available on the US store.
Which part of the architecture causes the latency? The author says it's between 2 and 13 seconds and is faster the more users there are - why would that be the case?