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No one said AMD is virtuous. However they work hard to produce and mantain open standards that benefit everyone. The only other GPU producer is anti-competitive and anti-customer, so obviously we'll say "buy from AMD, they're better. " You bet the moment AMD starts bad practices (again?), I'll be putting the same critisisms on them.

With your last sentence, I don't see how meeting the basic "not exclusive" keyword to avoid legal trouble makes this okay? Nvidia doesn't allow the code to be shared or even communication with AMD (correct me if I'm wrong of course). I'm not really sure how AMD is supposed to work with that.
Argh, that is an awkward title. "Draft Subscriber Agreement for Let's Encrypt" would be clearer. Or even just adding quotes around "Let's Encrypt" would help.
Haven't programmers been doing that for years? Pay me $75 an hour so I can reduce the number of $20/hour employees you need.
This was (still is?) a big part of the development methodology at Amazon; there it was called "starting by writing the press release": http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/11/working_backward...
Thanks, didn't know about bigpicture.js. The whole idea isn't that super new.

Not sure if I communicated it across: Writelive drawings are always updated in real time. Think shared whiteboard. Co-drawing / co-writing. Currently you can only view via web. Drawing is limited to Android - drawing without a pressure sensitive stylus offers bad experience anyway.
Thanks for raising this concern.

One thing to emphasize about the PRI is that (perhaps differently from what you might be used to with some domain registrars or certificate authorities), the PRI is always optional for Let's Encrypt, and is used only in case of a problem such as losing your private key. You don't have to provide the PRI in order to get a cert, and this isn't a backdoor effort to require people to give a legal name in order to get a cert.

Having a working e-mail address is really valuable as a recovery mechanism -- but if you're very confident you won't need that and you don't want to give contact information, you need not do so.
Sure there is. Outsource that verification to someone who already needs to do it, like the local government. South Korea has a pretty poor implementation of this already, but things will only get better over time.
Yup, but for customers, it's just a periodic annoyance. For registrar, it's a constant support overhead. I expect domain pricing to increase as more registrars have to move over to the 2013 RAA.

Nobody's happy with this crap.
But the artificially cheap currency comes about because savers' savings are being inflated away. Moreover it's unlikely that the money lent to Greece will ever come back. I don't see any evidence that in balance Germany benefits from this. Have you got any?
I've used Google Compute Engine to host new web sites. It's cheap, it's rock solid.

I'm still running my fairly large wiki on Linode, just because I haven't had the time to properly migrate it to Compute Engine.
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>Who exactly is "we"? Second Life is not so popular today, but it was pretty huge with some people for a very long time.

Second Life was a real life and good implementation of the sci-fi metaverse concept. You could trivially build things, script things, monetize things, etc. It was shoved down everyone's throat by marketers and corporate fad chasers looking for the next big thing to reach customers with. It was universally panned for being...well stupid. Meatspace equivalents make zero sense, 3D goggles or not. Plan 9 from Outer Space is a bad movie in both 3D and 2D.

>And I'm not going to use anything Sony makes as invalidation of any concept.

Ironically, Home was a much more stable and mature Metaverse and it targeted gamers exclusively, who would be much more open to the concept as they spend so much time in virtual worlds anyway. Even that failed. No one wants this crap. 3D Rift will be great for AAA shooters. It'll be yet another expensive gaming toy, not a revolution. The same way the Ouya didn't kill consoles and how Linux didn't kill Windows desktop. The nerd friendly PR that Oculus and Facebook have paid for is very much working.
> The actual question is, what level of lifestyle should minimum wage/basic income/whatever support?

Enough to enable the barista, garbage collector, concierge, etc, to live in the same city they work in. It produces nicer cities. Like reserving and maintaining park-space, it's a cost you pay for for a nice place to live.

If some coffee shops want to automate, great. They'll be competing with vending machines, not the remaining human-staffed cafes.
Erlang's processes are actually better than threads for many use cases, yes. But the thing is that with 1:1 multi-threading you can build many abstractions on top and for example on top of the JVM frameworks using Erlang's model like Akka [1] and Quasar [2] are very popular. Either way, you can't compare Erlang with platforms whose notion of parallelism involves POSIX's fork, but lo and behold, I'm comparing it with Java because I can.

MOST problems are not easily parallelizable and you'll end up with concurrency. Concurrency means synchronizing and sending messages between processes. For example sending messages between processes means opening a socket of some sort, serializing the data you want to send and deserializing it on the consumer's side. That's extremely inneficient and there's no way you can end up with a pipeline of tens of millions of messages per second, but with 1:1 multi-threading you can [3]. Erlang can't cope with this load btw.

One other thing I like about working with threads is the user-friendliness. Yes, skipping over the perils of multi-threading which you can sort of avoid by using better libraries, you can easily do things like number crunching using "parallel collections", combine actors with reactive streams and futures, or fake asynchronous I/O by blocking threads. People nowadays tend to underestimate the utility of blocking threads, but it's pretty cool having an interface like `def fetchData: Future[Result]` that could be implemented on top of Netty (asynchronous I/O) or with JBDC (blocking I/O), only suffer a very small penalty and your process to still be able to reach 80% of CPU utilization.

So I think OCaml getting multi-threading support is a pretty big deal.

[1] http://akka.io/

[2] https://github.com/puniverse/quasar

[3] https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/
> The fact that it is still running at all after 12 years is surely a testament to its popularity with some people.

I think the fact that is still running is more of a testament to how much they convinced large corporations and universities to spend enormous amount of money on virtual land, rather than it's popularity or usability among end-users.
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Don't forget that Rift also seemed to support Linux, but then decided to push that to the back of their planning. So even if it's in the list of things to do, that doesn't mean it will happen in the near future, or even at all.
not really. Although generic internet users keep making the internet a "safer space" , there will be a critical point when a fork will occur for those who still think the internet can be interesting.
That study was replicated across other state borders. Same outcome. No statistically significant change in employment detected.

The amount of vitriol thrown at that particular study is pretty shocking. You can tell it's a threat. One "researcher" (Neumark) even went as far as to redo the study with a restricted, smaller data set in order to yield the preferred outcome - a decrease in employment.
So the phisher registers a new domain, gets the real authentication e-mail, alters it to insert a malicious payload of some sort, then mails the altered copies to the marks. The validation e-mail notices may be triggered by events that are not verifiable by the customer, so if one shows up out of the blue, you have no way of knowing whether the registrar got a bounce from temporary network congestion or whether some phisher got your unredacted WHOIS record.

No matter what the registrar does, the phisher can obtain and alter a copy of it.

The only way to stop the phisher is to inconvenience the customer in a much more annoying way. The registrar could remove all hardpoints to which any phisher could attach his payload, such as by omitting phone numbers, clickable links, scripts, or customer-identifying information. That leaves, "Contact your registrar as soon as you are able, or your domain may be disabled within 15 days."

Anything that anyone does to make the validation process easier could be hijacked to put the customer in the phisher's false reality.
Ah, I see them now. I had ctrl+f'ed for 'install' and few other terms before giving up.
Then we should adapt our wording: CRUD becomes CRUDU.
It was a backhanded compliment. The name is a bit... unprofessional.

On the other hand, it does help you grok its function, and I suspect the 'memorable' name is at least partially responsible for its popularity.
Hmm, the 'No true AI' fallacy, then, eh?
I don't want to convert those people to being philosophy fans because I'm not that big of a fan either. I simply want them to at least respect it and not hate it.
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In a way meditation can be seen as a form of play. When you were a kid, did you ask yourself at the end of a day: Did I play successfully today? Did I get better at playing? Chances are you did not. Yet you gained experiences from playing which perhaps an activity that allows to measure some sort of progress can't provide.
Actually the statement about logging is a bit different and says that Akka offers an additional logging API, which is correct I believe, and I think this is unnecessary since a pre-existing one could be used.
As for clustering it's probably just an error in the table, thanks for pointing it out, I'll fix it.
As for JMX, I didn't find info about non-cluster metrics, although there seem to be some 3rd-party projects to get more, but maybe I missed something. Do you have pointers?
Baidu huh. Those plots looks really slick. IE6+ support is quite the accomplishment.
Interesting, a month ago or so I watched this interview at the Smithsonian where he talks about a lot of the same subjects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl59RPs7PiI

Apparently one of his iconic guitars was donated to the museum.
Austerity can't be looked at only from the spending point of view, especially since it carries with it an element of affordability. Its also about looking at taxation receipts.

On overall the deficit between the two has been decreasing which is where the 'austerity' terminology is used. The comparison comes in handy where alot of Europe has been going through this (in spite of decreasing or low economic growth) whereas the US increased its deficits too.

What I mean to say is austerity is tied more to the affordability as opposed to the absolute dollar amounts.

Deficits

Year Amount
2009 156.3
2010 148.6
2011 120.6
2012 99.5
I'm still not sold on the whole VR idea myself and I loved (and still love) Second Life. Frankly, if I want a share space online I'll just boot up Minecraft or Facebook. They're both just as fulfilling as a full VR headset and take up less mental and physical space.

The only way I see VR catching on is if some energy crisis situation like in Ready Player One occurs. Then there's no other option but to use VR to communicate and do business. And if that situation comes I'll just check out of life (sorry if that's a grim thing to state, but who wants to live through a Hell where you can't even get food?).
Actually it seems their selector is bugged.
If you hover over them individually, two of them are tagged with "Large Data Set"

Sigma and Dygraphs
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I don't know about the author, but I buy my insurance not for my yearly cholesterol checks, but in case I need to hop on a plane and get treatment at a major medical center.

Narrow networks are unequivocally bad for people needing specialist care, which happens to be the main reason for health insurance.
Seems to be missing http://metricsgraphicsjs.org/
So, if one believes that Varoufakis is right, but also believe that the European Commission and the European Central Bank are idiots, empowered by the EU democratic deficit, does anyone have any ideas how to best invest to bet against the EU?
Cruise (YC W14) is hiring robotics engineers for self-driving cars
The CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements require that the CA have you sign one:

"Prior to the issuance of a Certificate, the CA SHALL obtain ... either: 1. The Applicant’s agreement to the Subscriber Agreement with the CA, or 2. The Applicant’s agreement to the Terms of Use agreement."

https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/CAB-Forum-BR-1.3.0.p...
I live in a post soviet country and I don't think it is so heavily influenced by American culture. I actually found European people to be much more open to such matters. Otherwise I agree with you.
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Can you expand on why you think these statements are not correct? I think they are thoroughly explained in the post.
You've got things a little confused here. Let's Encrypt doesn't need to be part of the CABF in order to be included in the browsers, but they do need to demonstrate that they abide by the rules that CABF defines (the Baseline Requirements). They only need to join CABF if they want to be able to vote on those rules.
I really don't get why its going from lodash -> underscore. This is a clear case where lodash has won imo and if anything it obviates underscore.
> Jak & Daxter the whole engine was lisp based.

Only when "the whole" is defined to mean "the object scripting."

http://www.psxextreme.com/feature/45.html

"The final game engine has about nine different renderers, each is optimized for its specific task."

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispInJakAndDaxter

"GOOL was used to control objects in the game"

Jak II had apparently the most of GOAL:

http://lemonodor.com/archives/000610.html

"Of the 1.2 million lines of code, roughly 900,000 lines are written in GOAL."

Still that leaves 300,000 lines which were certainly the most low-level and performance-sensitive ones.

The 900,000 lines aren't exactly "the Lisp," but that custom language, developed using the commercial Lisp, but I admit it's certainly an engineering achievement.
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you've got a typo in the title for one of them :)

XChats -> XCharts
If you no longer need as much training or education to make $15/hour, then wouldn't the supply of workers decrease for skilled jobs that don't increase their pay?
buy dollars and wait until the euro explode? It netted me quite a bit this last year
For your question about HN comments and Econ:

If you are discussing molecular biology, it's easy to tell that you don't know anything. Not that no one makes mistakes about the subject, but at least there is a sizeable group of people prepared to say "I know nothing about that"

Economics is something that everyone participates in. This increases the ease of having an opinion about it, and decreases the number of people willing to say "I know nothing about that"

As for Bitcoin, that may be partly due to the halo effect. Bitcoin has an effective technical base. That can lead us to assume that all aspects of Bitcoin are effective.

(Note that this is not an argument against Bitcoin. Instead it's an explanation for why people might overestimate it.)
If you're going to write an article with highlighted, bolded, enlarged exerpts to distract me from the main text, could you please put those exerpts in the right place? It's really jarring when I'm reading something about health insurance only to be interrupted with some segue about dietary studies that would have been more relevant 10 paragraphs earlier.
As a father, the output feels really familiar. It's like a child learning to talk. At first, though the words they say are actual words (and mean something to you), they themselves have no idea what the meaning is. Eventually though they start understanding the meaning, which combined with the syntax creates a person who can communicate.

I wonder if all that's missing is just a few more layers, and another source of input. Maybe a list of requirements/output/input matched with the code so it understands why what was written was written. I wonder what would happen if you ran the program, took the output, and fed it back in as input.

Really cool stuff here.
Does the UK employement rate include the "zero-hour contracts"?...
Only 44 CAs are actually members of the Forum:

https://cabforum.org/members/

You'll see that that's far from including all root or intermediate CAs that are active on the web.

But the major browsers have incorporated the Forum's standards directly or indirectly into their root certificate programs. If a CA doesn't comply with the standards, it will be harder for the CA (or its parent, if it's an intermediate) to be trusted by browsers.
I don't agree but can you expand? Which parts are one-sided in your opinion and which other posts?
This would be my impression. He might have had a specific candidate in mind when he created the job req and now has to disqualify everybody else who applied.
Minecraft with oculus rift would be amazing.
I never understood why the .com (.net, .org etc.) domains provide the registrant information via port 43. Denic for example only provides information about Tech-C und Zone-C. The other information are behind a Captcha.
The article takes on an interesting subject, and starts off informatively, holding my interest.

Unfortunately, hit a glitch navigating from page 2 to 3. The article's text is missing on page 3, saying only "undefined". Pretty sure that's a javascript error. Disappointing, always thought of "Forbes" as a major content producer who could handle it.

Maybe it goes to show that putting up "fancy" effects isn't really worth the trouble. I'd much rather just be able to read the article and can easily do without the "slick" section transitions.

I did like the illustrations/images, they're definitely worth keeping.
Amazon did a great job with that technique and we were inspired a lot by that. Of course companies/startups do less "press-releases" these days, so we adopted it to blogging.

The content of published articles does help not only with team focus, but also is a natural "deliverable" definition for UI-less products such as SDK. Blog post simply cannot be published unless code is in the Github repo, tutorials and sample apps are there as well as illustrations and narration communicating new features.
I didn't know lukas haas coded js. More seriously I've probably never seen such a clear explanation and demo of why currying is so awesome.
One a similar note I recently spent a few hours trying to figure out if saturated fat is ok or not and whether coconut oil is healthy.

(I still have no clue)
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Mostly because most folks that have no understanding of molecular biology won't really comment on it, so you will get the 'experts' doing so, unfortunately, everyone thinks they know economics enough to spout some of their ideas. (you can see this at bars as well, talk about physics, and you get a conversation with the only person that understands it, you talk about economics (or politics) and everyone is an expert, including the drunk hobo in the corner)
Attempting to understand the wisdom of those who came before you might be a good idea when you inherit a software or sysadmin project as well.
>> Who exactly is "we"? Second Life is not so popular today, but it was pretty huge with some people for a very long time.

There were two things that killed Second Life's growth.

1. It was poorly managed in every respect (sim tier prices, user base governance and enforcement of TOS, and the poor quality of the infrastructure).

2. Trolls. Trust me, the trolls were good at running just about everyone off. In fact, I believe I know one troll that shot Phil Rosedale's avatar with a penis gun (what do you expect from SL?). So, even when the Grand Pooba of LL can't avoid the trolls you know you're in trouble.
Firstly, congratulations on finding a large enough industry you are passionate about.

Pick a niche in the coaching industry based on the following conditions.

1. The niche must be small enough such that there is no current market leader (or market leader can be displaced)

2. The niche is big enough that there are enough customers to validate the idea.

3. You have some unfair advantage in that niche. For e.g. You have experience in business coaching or you have access to customers in the fitness coaching, or you have a close friend working in relationship coaching.

Then, validate your idea by talking to customers in that niche. Build and market your app till you are the market leader in that niche. After that, you can decide to pick and dominate another niche (or all of them)

Benefits of this approach

1. By sticking to a small niche, you can make something that resonates with the customers. It is much easier validating a product built for a very specific purpose.

2. By starting with a small niche, your goal will also be small. So it will be easier to figure out whether you are on the right track.

3. You will be able to become the market leader in a small niche much faster than you can become the market leader in the coaching industry. Once you have validated your business in the niche, it is much easier raising funding for the larger goal.
Everyone wants to crush their citizens. Except Iceland, maybe.
I would say creating a library that enables a "truer form" of functional programming is probably a pretty good enough feature on its own.
looks tiny. great!! I'll use it in my next toy project to test it out.
Absolutely. TVTropes has a real danger of adding its crazy vocabulary to your everyday life, especially on things unrelated to entertainment. (See also Idiot Ball, Fridge Logic, and Forensic Phlebotinum, which may be on topic.)

Really, someone should write up some of these political stories in terms of TVTropes so I can know how I feel about how the plot's progressing. So far it seems like we're in a poorly written mockumentary.
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In this case, as in many others, "not needed" means that one abstraction that is present makes other abstractions unnecessary. For example, if blocking is free, a non-blocking API is not needed, or if actor receives are selective, then message stashing is not needed. Saying "no" would imply that the functionality is missing, when in fact it is present only doesn't require a separate abstraction.
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If I have read the OA correctly, the vault depends on electricity supplies from the local community, has freezers running without spare parts (I'd have expected a complete duplicate freezer unit kept as parts with regular swap outs for more recent designs after a certain number of hours). The data about the samples is not attached to the samples themselves as well as being indexed off site, and there appears to be no viability checking.

I my understanding is correct, then perhaps agencies should be funding other kinds of activity such as that outlined later in the article.
I always rely on Highcharts, probably the biggest library presented here.

Fit all the case (except map maybe) and flexible enough to let you change everything if you or your designer want something very specific !
> increase the exchange rate wrt the Mark

Italy pulled this same stunt in the past; mostly as a way to avoid actually fixing the many problems with the economy here. Floating exchange rates are good in some ways, but those kinds of devaluations are problematic in many ways: you're basically stealing wealth from savers in order to goose export industries a bit, until your crappy economic policies come back to bite you yet again and you need to repeat the cycle.