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About consumers: Up to a point I would argue: so? Business space is huge. Big orgs - well, most orgs - have Microsoft running their desktops and their it departments are familiar in managing them.

I'm not sure what the consumer aspects of hololens are but from what I hear (from pre release developers external to MS) it has lots of potential in the professional AR space. The FOV is not a thing but having accurate positioning and 'good enough' AR is. Think of construction engineers using hololens onsite for displaying most of their data.
Nootropics aside, I've felt my best when I have:

1) Had a low carb, high protein medium fatty diet.

2) Worked out heavily for 40 minutes to an hour

3) Slept for atleast 6h 30m

I've experienced amazing focus and quick thinking on such days, not to say of the health benefits too!
How to fund a startup without having VC's money?
how can a startup can survivee without giving equity for the VC's.
Counting new rigs/new investment is much better metric, and rig counts have responded to pricing pressure by stopping drilling. Counting current crude is just measuring what happened before the Saudis dropped the prices.

Most fracking companies are pretty bloated right now and they have plenty of things they can do to improve returns w/o new tech. But lower gas prices means higher risk - thus less investment.
This made me laugh hard enough to actually write it:

http://gurukhalsa.me/2015/the-mediocre-front-end-developer/
I can't disclose which metrics are measured, sorry. Basically, they had to be at least metrics-neutral with strategic value (where "strategic value" means "some exec thinks this is a good idea and we really need to do it"), or pretty strongly metrics-positive without an exec's personal interest. Conflicts between CTRs on organic results vs. ads happen less often than you think, they're usually an issue only on full-page redesigns. I was an informed bystander for a few of them - I can't detail the precise process, but let's say that it's a complex balancing act that tries to balance the interests of all constituencies: users, webmasters, advertisers, and shareholders. (The one constituency that doesn't get a break are the poor engineers and PMs that have to implement it all..we often had some incredibly complex solutions to make the page marginally more user-friendly.)
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Yes, that's the next sentence on that Wikipedia page. However, it also says the message wasn't that clearly a declaration of war, and adds:

"In 1999, however, Takeo Iguchi, a professor of law and international relations at International Christian University in Tokyo, discovered documents that pointed to a vigorous debate inside the government over how, and indeed whether, to notify Washington of Japan's intention to break off negotiations and start a war, including a December 7 entry in the war diary saying, "our deceptive diplomacy is steadily proceeding toward success." Of this, Iguchi said, "The diary shows that the army and navy did not want to give any proper declaration of war, or indeed prior notice even of the termination of negotiations ... and they clearly prevailed."

I don't see how one can conclude that "clearly prevailed". The message apparently wasn't 100% clear, but there was a message.

Wikipedia also says the U.S. had broken the code used to encrypt that message. That makes it unlikely that there was a second super-secret message "make sure the next message arrives late"

(Of course, this is all playing historian from a single Wikipedia page, the occasional TV program, and a tiny bit of other reading over the years)
Those represent our previous best information about the surface of Pluto, but they're not individual photos -- they're composite reconstructions from a number of different images taken over a long period of time, as the planet rotated.

> The Hubble images are a few pixels wide. But through a technique called dithering, multiple, slightly offset pictures can be combined through computer-image processing to synthesize a higher-resolution view than could be seen in a single exposure. "This has taken four years and 20 computers operating continuously and simultaneously to accomplish," says Buie, who developed special algorithms to sharpen the Hubble data.
> If I had to guess it's probably because they look a lot different than most Pakistani's...looks are usually the strongest influencer when it comes to discrimination.

A large majority of Hazaras identify themselves as 'shia muslim'[1]. While those, who target and kill Hazaras in Pakistan, belong to different sunni[2] militant/terrorist groups (for example, taliban, lashkar-e-jhangvi[3], their affiliated groups and offshoots in Pakistan) as they consider all 'shia muslim' heretics and fair to be killed. Since Hazaras look different and easily recognizable from a typical Pakistani, they are easy targets for their terrorist activities.

> I wonder why more of them don't go to Tajikistan/Uzbekistan/Kyrgyzstan where they would fit in ethnically. Probably because the socio-economic conditions there are still pretty poor, and the majority of their (usually very large) families are in Afghanistan/Pakistan/Iran.

I think you are not very far off the mark in your assumption here. :)

---

[1] I'm a Hazara from Baluchistan, Pakistan.

[2] Btw, not all sunni muslims are extremist and after shia muslim. It's mostly follower of one particular sunni muslim sect (in Pakistan particularly): Deobandi ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deobandi)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
oh great, more downvotes!
Source? Link?
I downvoted you because - while you raise a generally valid concern - your statement is exaggerated to a degree that makes it grossly misleading. You say:

> which means that they could make arbitrary changes to the blockchain

This makes it sound like the 51% attacker could make arbitrary changes to the ledger, thereby stealing arbitrary shares. That is not the case. For example, such an attacker cannot forge any signatures and thus cannot manipulate transactions. All the attacker can do is censor new transactions or slowly unroll past transactions. In case of 51% of the computing power, unrolling could happen at a speed of (51% - 49%) = 2% of time, i.e. if the attack lasts for 50 days, the attacker could unroll one day worth of transactions. What makes the unrolling problematic, is that it enables the attacker to double-spend. One potential measure for NASDAQ to prevent this is to demand known signatures to be used for transactions (i.e. whenever you transfer shares, you must use a signature you previously registered with NASDAQ). With colored coins, the issuer can enforce such restrictions by refusing to redeem shares that were not properly obtained. So even in case of such an attack, NASDAQ could identify the attacker (or the person collaborating with the attacker in order to attempt a double-spend) and initiate legal measures (i.e. sue the attacker for damages).
These topics should be blocked in HN. As those retards do not know what they are doing at the moment, but there are some younger audience reading HN, which might get confused with the thinking that unlocking your potential, might be achieved just by taking unapproved chemical drugs.
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It's just a waste of productivity. Not a strategy.
It used to be, but occasionally a substantive article shows up there, so we moved it up a level to penalized-but-not-banned.
Mojolicious is Great, a flying holy Camel.
There are an estimated 1 trillion stars in the Andromeda galaxy.
Not the scale you're looking for, but cool nonetheless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System

EDIT: Wait! I think this is exactly the scale you're proposing: http://www.jeffreybennett.com/model-solar-systems/voyage-sca...

EDIT2: Well, actually 10^10, so another order of magnitude smaller than 10^9.
Call Indiegogo to task. They're developing a reputation for shady practices. Considering they get their cut whether the startup is real or not begs the question are they honestly diligent in vetting a project? Given their history it seems to me they're more interested in their piece of the pie and believe those foolish enough to buy in get what they deserve. You won't see them refunding their portion of a fund when it becomes apparent it was a scam. They carefully pretend nothing bad happened and go on down the road to the bank.
"Omg, Yishan's most recent tirade in the announcement thread. Ellen Pao was the only think keeping reddit behind this "free speech" ideal and redditors hounded her out of her job." https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3dcm69/live...

Good Job, Reddit.
Aside: it's hugely ironic how frequently commenters on HN, of all places, berate sites for being hard to read on mobile.
This is an interesting comment but it's attached to the wrong article.
Ad astra per aspera.
It doesn't matter if you're C-level or not. As soon as you get to a point in your life where you don't care if you ever work again you can say pretty much anything you want.
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Yes, and that's exactly one of the things Satya talks about. If people are using Outlook as a Gmail client on iOS and it's enforcing corporate data retention policies via Azure Active Directory then who cares how many iPhones sold to consumers that quarter. The more the better.

Microsoft thought they had to defend the enterprise from iPads, too. Nope, they just needed to make PowerPoint run great on the damn things.

The broader point is that people are bringing their work home and to the extent that Microsoft makes the best productivity tools, they'll never lose "consumer." They get that for free.

When consumer trends change, maybe they'll catch one. Maybe Sony will. Maybe Samsung. But that's really not the front line battle anymore.
The cost of solar production is highly dependent on geography, and in some places, like California, Nevada or Arizona deserts cheap land and good weather allows for massive economies of scale https://gigaom.com/2015/01/20/a-special-report-the-rise-of-a...

Countries with sunny deserts do get an economic edge on this one though compared to overcast, densely populated countries http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-15/acwa-power...

But there's no turning back - once the newcomer into space gets a massive economic advantage by having access to cheap energy, they attract industries that are relying on cheap energy, and soon those market participants overrun their competitors whose cost structure includes higher energy costs.
Space is like that one time you're in another country and you look out over the ocean, and there's a little boat there and then you realize it's actually a very large sailboat and for a moment you're struck by vertigo, wondering who the skipper is, wondering if they are out on vacation too or if this is their life, out here on the open ocean, with water like blue glass, and you have to take quick breaths and stare down at the beach rocks until it's passed, because for just a moment you feel like a tiny little part of the web of people moving upon the globe, and it makes your chest seize up because you know there is more out there than you will ever be able to see or know, there is so much that you will never be able to experience and understand, a thousand million things that you just can't fit into your life before you run out of life to live —

— but so much bigger than that.
> since you can basically only trade them with people you find on Craigslist.

You can sign them and send them in to your broker.
Plus, as in Egan's Diaspora, virtual entities can hibernate, or live at far lower clock frequency.
This is brilliant. I've been looking for an explanation like this, which truly understands the perspective of a beginner. Thanks!
Could you explain the downfalls of taking nootropics [that you are implying]?
Any idea why the colour changes from grey to sepia between 12'th and 13'th July?
If you're a house owner in California, what economic motivation is there to not do it?
My apologies, I will edit to make my point clear.

A common application of RAID is fault-tolerant storage.

If one does not test one's product in the same configuration as used by one's customers, one's customers may find a failure mode that one's tests are incapable of finding. In AMCC's case I was concerned about the Special Magic that Apple used to convert 64-bit system calls to 32-bit.

The opinion of the engineer who originally wrote the driver I maintained was that a 32-bit tool was sufficient to test a 32-bit driver.

My opinion is that a 64-bit tool was required to test Apple's Special Magic. I have found and reported numerous bugs in Apple's kernels, all but two were promptly fixed.

I struggled to convince Apple to fix the other two, but was refused. One was fixed a year later after someone else reported it, the other is a spectacular zero-day that I could exploit in a heartbeat but I won't tell you what it is not so much because Apple refuses to fix it but because the fix would break a lot of existing code.

In 1990 I was testing MacTCP 1.0.1 or maybe 1.1. My manager Bruce Southwick suggested I beta test A/UX 2.0, in large part so I could help with A/UX' MacTCP emulation which was a wrapper around Berkeley sockets.

Among the first things I did was to verify A/UX' compliance with each of the CERT recommendations. When I found a security hole I dropped a dime to some random A/UX team member:

"May I speak to your Security Manager?"

"What's a Security Manager?"

Me and the A/UX people went back and forth for quite a long time until I attached a 12 or maybe 15 line remote root exploit to a Radar bug report. I then blasted an eMail all over G-d's Creation that pointed out that "The United States Air Force isn't going to want to pay seventy million dollars for this."

Their reply?

"We'll let the Air Force take care of it."

I could have fixed the zero day in ten minutes without breaking anything whatsover. Even so it was not fixed until A/UX 3.0.
I assume that the probe is travelling in a straight line? I also assume that each planet is busily orbiting the sun. How on earth (pardon the pun) did they work out the exact speed the probe should travel at (I also assume it accelerates) in order to fly past each planet and moon at exactly the right point of time and space?
Yngve worked serveral years for Opera Software, and had a major role in both our TLS implementation and general security.

On side note; I envy the employees of Vivaldi, since they are now getting Yngves famous chocolate cake. (He used to bake cake for the entire Oslo office back in the days) :)
I don't believe he has actually revealed anything that would be considered "confidential". The thing is most ex C-level executives don't act this way because they don't want to look bad to their current employer, or ruin their chances with future employers. Burning bridges like this is usually not a good idea if you want your career to keep moving forward.
had a good guidebook with me when I was in Rome. It said that the water is excellent and showed the trick with the hole - so I knew it and used it.

Mostly I filled a pretty small bottle with water and carried that around. Didn't had to carry much, because I could refill it on nearly every corner.
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Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9882268
had a similar experience with the Gamestick on kickstarter. unfortunately, kickstarter basically put their hands up and say "welp, you're on your own". after emailing them constantly, they eventually agreed to send me the item in question (the rewards had shipped except for about 1% of them, and I was in the 1% that didn't ship for whatever reason), but that was about a year after the rewards originally should have shipped.

there is at least 1 example of action being taken [1] against a dodgy project though. Im not sure of the details, but I think it consisted of coordinated effort from a lot of the backers.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/06/crowd...
Wouldn't be too hard to rebut. Just do some skimming over the Second Sino-Japanese War and Japanese actions/attitudes/writings towards the Chinese at the time. If one's time is short, just look up Japan's infamous Unit 731, who were involved in Japan's own "shock and awe" through providing the means (and gruesome testing) of carrying out Japan's chemical and biological warfare.

All countries do awful things during war, just some more deliberate and unethical than others.

As William Tecumseh Sherman once said, "War is Hell."
I've never seen Secret of the Incas before! What a fascinating movie - especially as such a clear inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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"Very unfortunate!" and a knowing look appeared on the faces of all those present'.
This is mentioned at the end. However, Youtube was acquired and at the time Google Video already existed. Given the traction that Youtube already had, it's no wonder that they purchased Youtube regardless having their own video service.
Nice! Just saw this. I love it. Thanks a lot for this resource.
Cool. But why is an outside researcher writing about this? Where is the research from within Reddit? They have as unique a dataset as Facebook, google or yahoo. They should do something cool with it and share it, like this guy
Please don't break the HN guidelines when commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But how do we save that web? I want to - can't think of how but want to help.
Does anyone with a disqus account want to mention that the "Bool" in the type signature of isKey should be "Maybe Bool"?
+1 for ArgoUML. After created the diagram, I usually just did a C&P to Google Docs / Evernote as document. It is very convenience.
Be clever and good things will happen to you.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9863919
Some of you may like seeing the two level neural network code translated to kona (or k3)!

nonlin:{:[y;x*1-x;1%1+_exp -x]}
x:(0 0 1;0 1 1;1 0 1;1 1 1)
y:+,0 0 1 1
syn0:-0.5+3 1 _draw 0
step:{L1:nonlin[x _mul syn0;0]
L1err:y-L1
L1delta:L1err*nonlin[L1;1]
syn0+:(+x)_mul L1delta;L1}
do[10000;L1:step[x;y]]
L1
(,0.009668795
,0.007862982
,0.9935916
,0.9921171)

k3 does this in 140ms, Kona in 2030ms on the same machine.
Simple ballistics. The probe is still subject to gravity and it can receive trajectory adjustments as needed. It's not like it was launched ten years ago and then it was on its own: it's been piloted remotely from the Earth as necessary.

It's a remarkable achievement but the science behind it has been known and used successfully for decades.
> OS X is far more frustrating and useless than any other OS I've ever used. It doesn't give reasonable error messages, and it doesn't keep your stuff safe. It's a confusing minefield.

All software sucks. The only reason you think OSX sucks more than other OSs is because you haven't had time to discover the work-arounds for annoying buggy behaviour.
A belief that me flying would be safe(ish.) Mostly, I'm worried about fucking up in mid air and killing people. I don't know what the safety margins are for recovering from f-ups, so I don't do it.
Visio is terrible at UML. Fortunately there are 3rd party stencils available which make it much better.

Whatever you do, go for a drawing tool (Visio, Omnigraffle) and not a UML tool (Visual paradigm, Enterprise architect). The latter are too complicated and expect that the diagram is correct from a UML standard perspective, which unless you're generating code is useless and cumbersome to do.
> Just as you wouldn't want to use a general purpose PRNG for security applications so too you wouldn't want to use a secure PRNG for general purposes, particularly demanding applications such as Monte Carlo simulations.

Why not?
It's perfectly valid to use a secure RNG for non-secure purposes.

As I mentioned, I've used ChaCha20 for those sort of purposes too. And the random number generation barely shows up as a fraction of the runtime.

i.e. improving 1% of the runtime by 99% isn't worth the overhead of having more than one random number generator.
> you're ignorant, unimaginative and small-minded

I'm sure you know that personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't do this.
Unfortunately, Los Alamos National Lab has been setting its sights a little lower these days:

"How to use the stairs"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDsTc2oWGSI

Nothing a little federal cash can't fix, though:

"The Los Alamos National Laboratory Slip Simulator Experience"
http://www.efcog.org/wg/ism/events/Fall12mtg/presentations/L...
Yeah, but that is a consequence of not having a Rust aware linker and relying on one that basically uses C semantics.

Languages that use their own linkers tend to have better opportunities for code optimization during linking.
... ambivalent about the success of Windows Phone, because it's about the success of Microsoft, not just one facet of their business.

Isn't that the approach that got Microsoft left out from the mobile boom, even though they were present in the market continuously?

Between 1995 and 2007, Microsoft had a competitor in every race in mobile:

- Clamshell + keyboard mobile devices à la Psion (Windows CE, "Handheld PC" [1])

- Stylus-driven PDAs à la Palm (Palm-size PC [2], Pocket PC [3])

- Stylus-driven smartphones à la Symbian (Pocket PC 2002 [4])

These products were about the success of Microsoft and its strategy, rather than building successful mobile devices that users want. And it didn't work: competitors eventually came out with devices that were desirable on their own, not just as Outlook terminals.

The success of iOS and Android forced Microsoft to reset their mobile platform into a product-oriented design that became Windows Phone 7. For the first time, Microsoft was offering a mobile OS that stood on its own rather than as a piece in Microsoft's chess game of technology stacks.

That didn't work either, but at least the product was good. Now Microsoft is throwing away the holistic approach of Windows Phone and reverting their mobile efforts back into the earlier strategy-driven "chess piece" mode. I don't see how that will help anything, but I guess it sounds good in Microsoft board room PowerPoints.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld_PC
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm-size_PC
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPAQ
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_PC_2002
How does this compare to Omnigraffle? Too bad I didn't find it when looking for such a tool.
Yet somehow, Open Whisper Systems apps are doing just fine being GPL.
I'd like to see more emphasis in improving tooling and less in creating new languages too.

I feel like the battery of concepts from different languages is "good enough" for concisely and elegantly expressing software solutions (if you mix and match them), but annoys me that programming language authors seem to leave the implementation of debuggers, language analysis tools, and editors support to the final stages of the project.

E.g. in a lot of languages, getting and working AST of it is no easy matter and many times relies on user supplied libraries. Same for repls/debuggers.
That's a good question - AFAIK nobody has any real idea how much Uranium is present within nearby asteroids. Hopefully they will create some more RTGs & send some probes to find out!
My MBP tends to lose connection with my external trackpad after coming back from sleep. In fact, Bluetooth stops responding entirely.

The only way to fix it AFAIK is to reboot. (Doesn't that remind you of Windows?)

My colleagues have encountered the same issue.
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Not if it runs Windows. That sorts of kills the idea (which companies like canonical and others are already playing with). I think though that Apple had a more practical approach in hand-off, where the system don't converge rather each do what they do best, while making it easier for the user to move between devices. Microsoft user experience sucks as is on either platforms, continuum is not going to improve on that.
the linux voice interviews are in general really good. keep up the good work!