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The article appears to be a rehash of this Nantero press release:[1] That says "Signaling a new era in memory, Nantero’s NRAM has already been installed in multiple production fabs..."

This technology has been around for a while. Lockheed Martin built a 4MB NRAM back in 2008, and sent it up with a memory tester on a Space Shuttle flight in 2009.[2] That was done in conjunction with Nantero; they had an arrangement for government products. The technology is inherently rad-hard, so it's useful for space operations.

This technology has been two years from volume production since 2008.[3] It's not clear why it hasn't reached production yet. It clearly works. It may just cost too much.

[1] http://nantero.com/nantero-closes-30m-series-e-round-its-nex...
[2] http://www.nsti.org/events/NNI/sld/pdf/65.pdf
[3] http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/na...
It seems like this is targeted at Investment Advisors, would it be useful for the rest of us without any finance training?
Why Many Computer Science Programs Are Stagnating
The nominal government has ballooned in size, but the whole power structure is still a microkernel architecture. How many aspects of your daily life are determined by insurance companies and private rulemaking bodies? Nothing can get through congress unless it benefits some special interest, illustrating that most power is outside of USG itself, as it is held by capital. Even large scale policy is set by prominent universities that prevail through attrition by repeatedly broadcasting "the way it's going to be". None of these things are accountable to the voters, even if democracy actually worked.
I just did this again out of Austin this morning. Zero issues.
Ideas like this one smell of ponzi schemes. If this method were really a profitable idea they would not share it.
Paedomorphosis (juvenile characteristics remaining in adults) is a really neat mechanism for producing radically different-looking animals in a short time.

In the short span of ~30,000 years, we've managed to turn wolves into corgis that look like puppies their entire lives. We ourselves are often said to be a result of paedomorphosis from other primates -- now with less hair, bigger heads, and weaker muscles.
Yeah .5 seconds is way to long, the reason for the animation is that in this game you are looking at the list of functions and only after you are done does your eyes have time to register changes elsewhere. If it has already changed your brain has to try to figure out what has changed when the system can provide hints.

Because you would rapidly move them around changing it to be 0.05 or something just slow enough so that your brain would notice movement above, but not slow enough to impede in trying new things.
Firefox Devtools still shows scripts in the debugger as one single scrollable list. No folder hierarchy.
Agreed -- the paper mentions "there are a number of issues with respect to making these systems [Spark and Samza] work in its current form at our scale" but unfortunately does not outline go into any detail.
TreeSheets is worth a look, open-source for Windows, Linux and Mac (beta): http://strlen.com/treesheets/

It's like a spreadsheet, but more suitable for complex data
because it's hierarchical.
It's like a mind mapper, but more organized and compact.
It's like an outliner, but in more than one dimension.
It's like a text editor, but with structure.
(DISCLAIMER: I am an Apache Storm PMC Member)

This could be very good thing for Apache Storm depending on how Twitter handles it.

Just to clarify, the Storm version mentioned in the paper and blog post is not an official Apache release and doesn't include many performance improvements included in the newer releases of Apache Storm. There are a lot, and many more on the horizon.

That being said, the performance numbers look impressive, even though there is no way confirm those since no code or benchmarks have been published. IMHO, until that happens, there's not much to see here (not that I doubt it -- I'd just like to see proof/code).

My hope is that Twitter is dedicated to the projects it has open-sourced, and this is not a case of NIH, but rather an honest effort on Twitter's part to contribute back to the open source community.

@haberman:

Storm implements exactly-once processing through a higher-level API called Trident, that I like to call Storm's "Streams API" since it's not unlike Java 8's Streams API (and largely inspired by Cascading). Trident processes data in configurable micro-batches, as opposed to one-at-a-time, which gives it an advantage in terms of throughput, but at the cost of latency. Trident topologies "compile" down to Core Spout/Bolt topologies (The Trident API has a planner implementation that figures that out -- not unlike an SQL query planner).

The Storm Core API provides at-least-once semantics through an acking mechanism described here [1]. The Trident API builds on top of that to support exactly-once semantics by essentially doing a de-dupe [2].

I'm not sure exactly why they don't claim to support this, since Trident is build on top of Storm's Core API.

[1] https://storm.apache.org/documentation/Acking-framework-impl...
[2] https://storm.apache.org/documentation/Trident-state.html

@filereaper:

Assuming you are referring to Spark streaming, forget about any benchmarks you may have seen. Either can be faster than the other depending on how you configure it, and what your use case is. See my presentation on the subject here [3]. With either, you can configure yourself into a corner and screw your performance.

Performance tuning distributed systems is a mysterious art. As is benchmarking. Unfortunately, that fact is frequently exploited for "benchmarketing" purposes. Don't trust any benchmark but your own unless it is fully open-sourced (including configuration).

[3] http://www.slideshare.net/ptgoetz/apache-storm-vs-spark-stre...

@vicaya

Version numbers don't necessarily equate to code quality, performance, or stability. I've seen many projects bump to 1.0 only for marketing purposes.
Hat tip to the eff... Don't forget to support them, they've got your back on stuff like this....
Every single display works by projecting photons into the eye.
Like they did with insider trading!

http://nyulocal.com/national/2013/04/15/congress-quietly-rep...
No, that's a low enough number that wear-leveling logic will be needed, as with flash memory. This is a fast device, approaching DRAM speeds. A program could easily bang on a cell 10^12 times.
Thanks for the feedback! Integrating with other brokers is definitely an option.

There are similarities between Instavest and other platforms. One thing I notice that's different is that you don't pay any fixed fees on Instavest. We also don't allow FX trading currently.
Rand Paul and the tech vote
>I'm not quite sure how, because atrocities previously have been committed, its acceptable to allow them to be committed now.

The problem is they haven't just "previously been committed" they are constantly being commited by people who pretend to have the "moral high ground".

Even on a much larger scale than ISIS.

So it helps to
a) highlight the hypocrisy, b) highlight the unsuitability and inner motives of self-proclaimed saviors, c) bring to the front additional atrocities that need to be aknowledged and stopped.

If there's a serial killer in your town that's killed 300 people, it's not actually optimal to mobilize the whole town to go catch a gang that killed 2 people in a nearby village.

Especially if your actual target is to get some access to some nice beach-front property in the nearby village, so you could not give less fucks about the effectiveness of your methods or what happens after your involvement. (E.g. civil war, chaos, and hellish instabililty in what were more of less stable societies for decades).

Case in point: who destroyed Iraq's stability and helped ISIS take over in the first place?
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Pretty sure it's this large file.

https://github.com/wealthbot-io/wealthbot/blob/master/system...
10 Important Business Lessons from Our Community
Sorry, just realized that the email in the profile wasn't visible publicly. I've updated it so my email is there now.
Steven M. Bellovin: “Facebook could become a de facto CA, for PGP and/or S/MIME”
No 401k match? (assuming since you prioritize it after ira)
No worries I took no offense.
While I think there will be plenty of eye-rolling at the obvious digs at Google, I'm pleased to see such strong push-back against the government arguments for weakening or punching holes in encryption.
PayPal's new TOS. Lets PayPal and its affiliates robocall/text you
The arithmetic here is high-school arithmetic. Even if one doesn't know it, it is easy to derive/see it during the interview.

Not saying it's an excellent question. Just saying it's pretty much as quirky/inefficient as any other technical interview question.
Tim Cook took a huge potshot at ad-driven companies like Google and Facebook
How will the universe end, and will anything survive?
Your link to "What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?" is broken. It appears the page has been deleted.
if they are "compromised" then the whole security of internet is.
A lot of good answers, and lot of good advices. But it seems there is a lot of assumptions on my motivations and personal view on moneys.While i think that those aren't strictly necessary to answer the question, i guess i am asking a personal question so it's only fair if people some assumptions. So in no particular order , i am sharing my perspective on some the recurring themes :

1 - Why do i want money (or why do i want a lot if it :)) :
I am not interested in a luxurious or grandiose life style. For me money is to buy freedom and safety booth for me and the peole i care about. I want myself and them to be able to afford the best of the health care systems, to be able to focus on exactly what we do, etc...etc...

2 - How much is "significant wealth"
10M+

3 - Money shouldn't be the focus, the craft is:
I think they both should be. I don't think getting wealthy should be though as a direct consequences of great work.
Great work might be correlated or even necessary to building wealth but i don't the former always implies the latter. To get wealth i believe i will have to learn how, much in the same wayi had to learn to be a software dev.

4 - There is no quick fix. stop looking for it.

I am not looking for a quick fix. I am willing to put the hours (hell i am looking forward to it). But i also want to capture and leverage some of the value i will be creating (in a way that's is both legal and ecological)

So again a lot of great idea i didn't though of and i am already reading on all those venues. The idea i am particular interested is consulting : Is there a demand out there for consulting to startup say 30/week for 6 month for some equity in the company ?

Any body in the fanancial market want to share his experience ?

Again thanks for all the great answers
that's a pretty terrible practice no matter what OS you're using.
This isn't exactly new.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/14/government-plan...
All that will prove is that someone was willing to burn less than a half an hour of CPU time.
Yep, point is not to test if they know Fibonacci or prime numbers. If the candidate has forgotten, then you just tell them what those things are. And then expect them to answer it.

But here is the (sad?) reality: There will always be someone else applying for the same job, who knows what fibonacci numbers are. You have to be careful to give equal opportunity to both those kinds of people.
Relational database in your SaaS Application
San Francisco’s median rent hits a ridiculous $4,225
This is not a ponzi scheme. You are not giving your money to an individual. You're investing in a publicly traded company. Think of Instavest as an aggregation of research. You read the research and decide what to buy. If you do well, you have the option to donate to the author of that research. Hope that helps.
I've never gotten this comment from anyone. Do you actually have friends that ask these types of questions?
A story I had published years ago:

"PRESTIDIGITATION"

or,

"The Curious Bi-Location of Professor Iszkahngaard's Reactionless Drive Transteleporter"

The robinbird fluttered, as most creatures sometimes do.

And continued Professor Iszkahngaard-

it’s a transmitter, specifically, a massive construct of steamfilled, geometrically incomprehensible clockworks

and miscellanea of unintelligible designs and mechanized phenomena. To be located, as it were, at the end of

time. Acting as the penultimate of beacons, attracting the decaying molecules of all that ever was (and could

have been, and might have been, and should have been), breaking them down to their basest subatomic particles

and transpositioning said subatomic particles to the receiver, my other construct of mechanized phenomena, which

would be located, as it were, at the very beginning of all that ever will be. Imagine- the endless wave of

subatomic matter broken down to nth degrees, base particles of energy broadcast via transteleportation from the

very end of everything, directly to the very beginning of everything. Now, as the creation of all that ever will

be obviously includes all of the possibilities of the infinite, then infinite energy is clearly required. This

is only possible using the energy of all that ever was, so as the particles neverendingly explode from my

receiver, they are immediately redistributed into the birthing of the possibility of everything, thus completing

the timeless circle of the omnidimensional continuum!

Question mark, implies the robinbird.

And continues Professor Iszkahngaard-

reverse interstellar transmogrification! Think of it as a process…at least that is what I told the buyer when he

picked up my invention earlier. Who? Well, GOD of course! And actually, it was more of a trade, really. After

all, what price could be ascribed to such an invention as my Reactionless Drive Teleporter? What did I receive

then in place of more traditional payment? I asked GOD to remove from not only all of existences, but from the

MEMORY of all of existences, something…something very particular…But you will have to excuse me of course, dear

friend, for I cannot seem to remember what it was…

The robinbird fluttered, as most creatures sometimes do.
Did we stop the surveillance? Did we continue it?

Up is down, black is white, we've always been at war with Eastasia.
Absolutely, I am with you on that one. I don't know why it is downvoted...
You could use it to track the performance and to rebalance your own portfolio.

Here's some background on rebalancing: http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Rebalancing

Btw, I highly recommend Bogleheads.com if you want to learn more about personal portfolio management.
Wondering why the top 1% can get away with it in the US...
If you want to give back to Pharo in a way that counts, fund improvements to the UI. The font rendering is bad right now and HiDPI screens are not even supported. This makes for a terrible first impression.
Cool! I work at IBM with POWER, so I'm trying to get that to run on real hardware now --- I'll let you know how I go.
Ufront – client/server web framework for Haxe
The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry
Neural network!
I'm not trying to be flippant, but have you considered finding something you like enough that you don't look forward to retiring?

I get paid (well) to do stuff I love so it is possible and possibly easier than becoming wealthy. I think loving your "work" will put a lot more happiness "under the curve" than waiting until you retire to be happy - even if you retire early.
This seems to imply that you can't learn about a candidate without giving them a problem them had not previously memorized. I have most of the solutions to common problems memorized in a few languages and can complete them on a board or a txt doc. Does that make me less of a good candidate? Or more?
Any such interface for SSDs would need to be able to work with a dozen different kinds of flash, a few sizes for each, a wide range of quantities of flash chips, all while exposing the performance and endurance characteristics of the flash and the topology of its connection to the host bus so that the software FTL can properly tune itself.

You're asking for a hardware interface of unprecedented complexity and cross-platform vendor neutral drivers of comparable complexity to 3d graphics drivers, all for the sake of letting SSDs have "dumb" controllers for a generation or two before the technology changes enough that the controllers need to start translating things again.
This is really up to you and how well you know your users.

Like some have said, you're not being evil by making all new FEATURES to only in the paid app. Alternatively, you could make this app as full-featured as possible, and make the new app for multiple platforms only.
What do you think is the right thing to do, both for yourself (how much time and money do you have?) and your audience?

A way to promote the new app inside the old app:

- Add a button that says, "new features!" that you keep updated whenever you 1) release new bug fixes or features to either the regular or the beefed up version. This way, all users of the regular app will stay updated on whats going on in both the regular and the beefed up versions. Many of them will buy the beefed up version.
A tweet from the OpenSSH developers:

https://twitter.com/damienmiller/status/605865246016692225
Pardon my ignorance on the subject but is there any reason to prefer little endian POWER over big endian?
Microsoft purchases Wunderlist
> Rob Rix (https://github.com/robrix) for his focused classes.

Link?
It's against Imgur's terms of service. You can't show ad's and direct link to their images. Any other ideas :).
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Only if that's a thing they're capable of doing in the first place. Which, to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure they are. It seems like any time the US military gets involved in something nowadays, the surrounding people end up worse off than when they started.
I can't say that I've heard those exact comments either, but in context, it's really hard to voice an opinion that criticizes something named "The Civil Rights Act" or "The Clean Air Act", because a lot of America takes their cue from the political rhetoric of their party.

Using neutral bill names, e.g., HR 625 or SB 1780 would be an upgrade from what we have now.
Would you prefer "random and haphazardly prioritized omniscience?" Reducing corruption among prison guards and raising violent crime solution rates is hard. Buying shiny stabilized cameras and airplanes is easy and it's wicked cool. So you need to use your super-powers and arrest some people for... whatever, to show you are using your shiny toys.

It's not hard to explain how a government can have seeming omniscience in some cases, and still be bumbling in many others. That also explains the warped priorities.
New SOHO router security audit uncovers over 60 flaws in 22 models
SUA was deprecated in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, and MS actually recommends using cygwin or mingw as alternatives to it.
Two articles about this currently on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9648689

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9648917
1. Make it cross platform

Swift is useless to me if I have to re-write code on other platforms. In such cases I will always use as little as possible and then switch to some other portable language for the meat of my code.
For anyone looking for old and mature options, xterm on a rootless Cygwin X server works quite well.
College Is Much More Than a Means to a Higher Salary
Australian student confirms that giant plasma tubes are floating above Earth
They originally said it'd be a few years, but the JP government is on behind, so it might take longer to decontaminate. I don't think anyone is talking more than a decade or few. Countries sell land, so think of it that way, at worst. The clean up is also super expensive. And, over 1000 people died from evacuation-related issues. I guess that's just a factor when you move older people around, for any reason. So, yes Fukushima sucked, but in context, given the incompetence, it seems very encouraging. Unless we act even more stupid and get a large disaster, why would it be worse?

From what I've read, the estimates of cancer are really low. But you're right, there might be a few directly related deaths over the next several decades.

You'd think this would result in an attitude of wanting to push newer designs and so on, but running away is a more human reaction, it seems. :(
Yeah. The phantom limb sort of sensation was surprisingly powerful.
> But in real-world terms, some users are less likely to be compromised if GitHub hadn't published them.

This is not true.
> The write up is reviewed internally by member of the Instavest team and is cross checked for financial discrepancies against SEC filings.

Is this really scalable?
Consultants: what services do you provide and how do you set your rates?
I am being hired for a hardware security audit and have no idea how to structure the deal. It would be helpful to know the following:

- What services do you provide?

- How experienced are you?

- What industry do you operate in?

- How much do you charge per hour, and how do you structure your SOWs?
> Unless you're assuming they don't have it via other means.

Never, ever assume this of your public key.

The solution to the Debian bug is to use a keypair not generated by the bugged Debian build, not "continue to use the bugged keypair".
Waxing nostalgic now. This was my first computer. A Radioshack employee later told me PC hobbyists joked that the TRS was short for 'trash'.
This goes both ways. People were all about 'the affordable care act' and were not at all about 'obamacare.'

Even if a bill is given letter-letter-#### names, it'll get labeled and spun.
Yes and I'd be loathe to spend any real time learning the SDK of a device that is so far mostly concept videos (as far as I can tell).

That won't make a whit of difference to them of course, it's not like I'm known in the gaming space anyway...

I'm pessimistically hopeful that they aren't just hype and don't spend so long trying to get it right that they're irrelevant by the time they launch.
You can't search for URLs via the top search bar so whenever I want to do a search on a URL, I type in google which searches Google for google for me and then I paste the URL into the Google search bar.
Exactly.

And further, I don't think that Satya and Marissa would lag as much with the CEO of {Company Name} scheme.
It makes porting non-endian-aware software much easier. If you've written software that, for example, serialises data to disk, or sends and receives it over the network, and you haven't specifically coded for it, you can get a bit of a shock when you change endians.