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I don't think the care as much about contamination in the way it might mess with the martian ecosystem, what they do care about is getting uncontaminated results.

Finding a life outside of Earth will be one of the greatest discoveries of man kind, something that will never be overshadowed by anything. They want to make sure that when we'll find something it didn't catch a ride on what ever we sent to find it.

Eventually when we start exploring space it wouldn't really matter, yes some precautions might still be kept but we wouldn't take as much care as we do now.

I for one also do not see humans contaminating an alien ecosystem as something unnatural, humans evolved, they've spread out, they seed life (intentionally or otherwise) this is just as much of a natural process as the potential for comets and meteorites to seed solar systems and beyond with organic compounds and even life it self.
Surface Pro 3 use chips at 22nm, but it's still impressive.
Not directly related to the article content, but did anyone notice the odd caption/credit under the top article image? It reads "Source: Google images approved for reuse." which I haven't seen before.

A quick reverse image search reveals that it's by this guy on Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/6273248505/) and carries a CC Attribution license, which this article is clearly not in compliance with. It's a publisher owned website an you would think they know a bit about copyright.
The cost of 1) transportation 2) education 3) healthcare is insane, in the US. Unfortunately, I don't see any of these changing anytime soon.
I think it's because Kotlin and Scala infer types so it's more convenient to write it afterwards, as needed, hopefully not to often.
if ceylon had better android support (codegen and tooling) i would start learning it immediately. kotlin seems like it's gotten that right; if it builds up enough momentum that there's a good third party ecosystem of android libraries i can see it doing very well in the future. it's design is not quite as nice as ceylon's, and it doesn't do as much as scala, but it's a very pleasant language to use and jetbrains has some really good tooling for it.
TBH, the image quality isn't the limiting factor.

The lack of interchangeable lenses, manual control, and RAW files will always limit the appeal of camera phones for pros and more advanced amateurs.
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I'm not sure if I find it astonishing or expected that somebody finds all that magic good enough to both build that tool and to be thrilled about somebody did. I, for one, find it absolutely unacceptable. The whole point of virtual containers is to have development environment closely resembling production one (not entirely possible, but better than nothing). Your promise that your tool gives me "best possible environment for Python web-app" isn't enough for me, not even close. In fact, I don't really care what you consider "best possible environment", because I already know that there isn't one and I have experienced multiple times these unpleasant moments when you find out that for your app it actually matters if you use Amazon S3 or GlusterFS on real hardware, how many nodes there are, what are exact settings in php.ini or something else you'd be glad not to care for, but you suddenly do care. I don't need magic software, I don't want magic software, I don't like magic software, I'm afraid of it. I really struggle to imagine somebody who isn't a total newcomer and feels otherwise, but apparently there are such people.

What I ideally want is virtual machine based (like vagrant), immutable configuration (like NixOS) approach, with reasonably simple configuration (like docker+fig) and file-based settings (as opposed to docker, where your image is pretty much separate from Dockerfile) with 1 common repo for your "best possible environment" config examples, where every somewhat important decision is explicitly listed and can be changed by user. So something similar (in some sense) to vim-pathogen: git clone, maybe run some other magic command and your env is up and running in several minutes. If contents of config get changed, so does virtual machine.

I understand that what I'd like to have is a bit utopical in today's reality. But nevertheless, Otto is pretty much opposite of what I consider perfect — I cannot imagine anything farther from desirable than that.
Well, clearly, when the interviewer heard "smart and motivated" it was immediately clear you weren't going to fit in there. So probably worked out best for everyone involved.
A concern about a rapid increase in EV usage that I see a lot is of having the infrastructure to cope with the increased electricity usage. To that end, wouldn't this be creating even more of a problem?

While 75% efficiency (I assume that's only under optimal conditions) sounds pretty good, that's still a lot of wasted energy. And wouldn't there be some overhead for running these roads while no EV vehicles are on it? Seems like a lot of wasted energy to promote use of something that is supposed to be more environment/energy conscious.
One of the posts illustrates that nicely, I think.

http://mathmistakes.org/subtraction-algorithms/

There's a sheet of a bunch of sums. The student has got them all correct. But we don't know if the student actually understands the concepts, or if the student is using their wrong understanding and an algorithm that coincidentally gives the right answer.

The comments give a good take down of that style of teaching.
It shouldn't have any implications for the customer, performance/power consumption/reliability are much more defined during the design phase than the fabrication phase.

The end user shouldn't worry, or even think, in what foundry was the chip fabricated in because it doesn't really matter if you are not the engineering team.
> Down this road lies kings!

You'd think so, but as I wrote in another comment, 70% of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation, and 90% by the third. Rich kids do a crappy job of holding on to wealth (although I'm sure they're still better than poor kids would be).
Student wages are lower, student debt is higher.
Although George Carlin certainly had some hilariously entertaining things to say about parenting (and no doubt insightful to some degree), it seems he didn't necessarily have such a stellar parenting record himself:

http://www.amazon.com/Carlin-Home-Companion-Growing-George/d...
Exactly.

We've set up a system that punishes failure to the point of exclusion. Whereas, creativity and learning can only really flourish in an environment that allows (and hopefully encourages) one to try things which aren't necessarily guaranteed to succeed.

Let's also be sure not to conflate this fact with an anecdotal story about a student who was afraid of a mouse, which is rather silly.
I agree that non-nullable reference types are a big advantage. (People who haven't programmed in Java might underestimate how big a problem null pointers are in Java.)
Speak for yourself; I saw quite a bit of overt hostility from the faculty at my schools. Things like berating and humiliating students in front of the class, refusing to meet with students or sign necessary paperwork for them to proceed, and a frequent attitude that teaching classes and dealing with students was the absolute worst part of their day, an unnecessary burden that they didn't have the time for. Quite frankly if I should end up having kids of my own, I'm doubtful whether I will even want them to attend college if it's still the same environment by then. Worse yet, I'm afraid all these articles about millennial entitlement just work to reinforce and justify these attitudes among teachers and faculty.
I haven't studied it (the specifics of what is going on in SF) well enough to make specific recommendations for San Francisco. If I were on a task force looking for answers, I would start by reading everything I could get my hands on concerning a) California real estate taxes and b) rent control. I would look for studies, I would look for what we can quantifiably show has a measurable impact.

Then I would look at trying to find ways to incentivize making small spaces with housing basics more available.

I would also look at economic factors like the fact that you can live in SF without a car, so some people can afford the nosebleed rental prices because they are paying only for rent rather than rent plus a car. And I would consider creating a PR program around that angle. Walkable communities typically are more expensive, because humans value the high quality of life they afford, and they are mostly zoned out of existence. A lot of things that historically created walkable communities cannot be recreated under modern car-centric zoning laws.

Edit: To be clear, those are things I would start with, not everything I would do.
You'll always find people like that in University.

The interesting thing is the younger generation treating education like a commodity. And given tuition costs, they have a right to. This will inevitably cause tension between the academics and the students.

The most damaging cause it will have is on society long term, as higher learning traditionally has been used for demonstrating the capability of an individual. Instead we're seeing the capability for obtaining ~$30k debt.
> the performer is not remunerated

Except he's getting paid by Youtube, so scratch that off the list.
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What are the options? It should be something that any clerk can handle and that doesn't become obsolete.
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Sadly, I'm only half joking.
Fascinating. As a Canadian, I certainly appreciate the commonalities between areas north and south of the border. (Of course, I am unsure whether I agree, but it is food for thought. Quebec, e.g., labelled as part of New France, may be liberal in some areas but is decidedly us-or-them in others, straining to wholly intolerant of those who even appear to be anything other than "pure laine" (pure wool).)
Even if you're consider "poor" by American standards, you do not have a problem with earning "enough to cover even the basics of life".

Quoting from [1]

"According to the government’s own reports, the typical American defined as poor by the Census Bureau has a car, air conditioning, and cable or satellite TV. Half of the poor have computers, 43 percent have Internet, and 40 percent have a wide-screen plasma or LCD TV.

"Far from being overcrowded, poor Americans have more living space in their home than the average non-poor person in Western Europe. Some 42 percent of all poor households actually own their own homes; on average, this is a well-maintained three-bedroom house with one and a half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio."

And that's just the poor people. In this article, we're talking about people who at least have the resources to attend college.

[1] http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/16/are-there-really-40-millio...

EDIT: remove duplicate word in first sentence.
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I wonder if the revamped Facebook Notes made Medium act quicker.
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That gave me mixed feelings. On the one hand, the teacher did an admirable job (for a teacher) of seeing the correct thinking behind the "wrong" notation. On the other hand, the teacher still accused the student of making a mistake.
Aren't Skype's nodes Linux boxes, too?
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Me too, although our morality doesn't influence their choices unless we can communicate with them and/or realistically fight for our survival. Do you think there are races out there quietly observing our behavior and preparing their verdict? If so, I sure hope we are given awareness of membership in the law before the sentencing.
> I personally won't be running these, but I'm curious if others are really comfortable with the idea of uploading their customer lists to Google (or FB or anyone else for that matter) in plaintext vs. going through a neutral middle-man that lets you just provide hashed values to get a match.

according to the linked [1] you only upload hashes of email addresses.

[1] https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6276125
How did mounting canon lenses on the front work for your needs? I would be very keen on that if its practical.
Never used Vagrant that much. How does Vagrant/Otto compare to Docker/Docker Compose/Docker Swarm?
I've noticed this same pattern with other founders, notably Dennis Crowley with Dodgeball (location-based social network founded in 2000, sold to Google in 2005) and Foursquare (location based social network with different branding).
I am sorry that you felt that way in school, but "real life" shouldn't, and doesn't have to, be like that. Whether your anecdote is true or merely a creative reimagination from a prototypical brilliant slacker, the point still stands: work and pay should not (typically) be measured by the time spent doing that work, but by the output and effectiveness of the individual.

Sure, certain civil service jobs inherently require a time component, e.g. firemen, police officers, etc., but many professions would benefit from a departure from the 8 hour work day.
I was wondering how to take advantage of situations like this that arise in the future. Be mindful of college level research of corporations.
Its an abstraction layer that uses them behind the scenes. If it can avoid being a leaky abstraction, it could move away from the current underlying tools to future tools and built-in functionality in the future.
Really? "It's always sucked, accept that it has sucked and therefore will suck. Do not attempt to change the status-quo."

Do you really think there isn't a better way to set things up? That nobody should try to fix this really shitty status quo? I seriously hope you're wrong because that is one of the most depressing sentiments about the state of humanity I've hard.
Personally I'm not having discussions about Scala with the purpose of winning arguments, but rather with the purpose of clearing misunderstandings and this goes both ways.

The "_" character is a placeholder for things that can be named, but for which you don't care about that name. And because you don't care about the name, it can function as a wildcard (i.e. any). To me all use-cases of the underscore make perfect sense and I can't remember a single instance in which I was confused by its meaning.

Type lambdas are arcane, but as @lmm points out, this is more about the absence of a feature. Basically in Scala type lambdas do not have first class support and so they are based on Scala's abstract types.

As to why they don't have first class support? Well, because people complain about too many features ;-) But it's worth pointing out that the TypeLevel folks have plans to introduce first-class support in their fork and thus propose an improvement. And also, because of the work that happened in Dotty, Scala the language is heading towards a DOT calculus foundation, along with a unification of higher kinded types with abstract types, which should iron out the edge cases.

The curry syntax seems silly if you come from SML, Ocaml, Haskell or languages from the ML family in general. In such languages all functions have exactly one argument. But Scala is not an ML language and so it doesn't do currying by default. It's annoying sometimes, but as with all design choices there are disadvantages and benefits.
> Maybe you can try and explain why the Moto watch isn't selling very well and Apple's is.

The Apple brand. Nothing more. That was my point. Apple released a watch which when announced had year old specs and technology, and when shipped was older yet still. But just because of the brand every major news outlet had a piece about it, every major tech blog had several articles about it, and people drolled over what is essentially a "me too!" product.

> Maybe Apple is a company focused on engaging with customers and delivering products they want rather than what Motorola is doing by launching a watch just because.

Do you have any basis at all for this? Other companies release stuff "just because" but when Apple releases stuff it is to "engage customers?" That comes across so bias/clouded it is incredible.

> Apple was very concerned with making the watch relevant to people. Motorola was very concerned with getting to market first.

Motorola wasn't first to market, smartwatches are years old at this point. This is third generation tech'. Apple entered the market late, nobody was racing to beat them. You could literally go into any major electronics retailer and buy six or more different smartwatches on the day Apple announced the Watch (and that was six months before it shipped).

So, no, nobody was racing to take Apple's toys. Apple was racing to get into a preexisting market last of any major manufacturer.

> So what we have is watches for early adopters (Motorola, etc.) and watches for ordinary people (Apple Watch). I don't think choice is a bad thing here, and I wouldn't think less of someone for making a decision between the two.

Early adopters are 2011. It is 2014-15 we're talking about. Unless the Pebble (1), Galaxy Gear (1), LG Watch, etc didn't ship for the last three or four years...

There's nothing "ordinary" about Apple's brick-shaped watch. Circular watches blend in. They appear like normal watches. Apple's Watch is for tech geeks who wish to stand out.

I think categorising three years and three generations of smart watches as "early adopters" and anything post-Apple as a copycat product is incredible.
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Everyone knows what transformers are. And that they're powered by the Allspark. I think you're just jaded.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10285778
> The scary thing is this means Google is targeting and following us on an account basis, not just an anonymous advertiser id

this is only for "Google Search, YouTube, and Gmail"
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Yes, but "eating into the market share" doesn't necessarily mean it isn't still a heavy contender. I think we can agree that while Internet Explorer has been losing market share for quite a long while, you can't classify it as niche. In that respect, my original statement regarding it dominating some industries and your reply don't really affect the answer to the question of whether or not it's a relatively niche language. The blame is mostly mine though since you were responding to something I put forth that wasn't really relevant.
>> we have much higher expectations of colleges today than we did 30+ years ago

Who is 'we'? I see this argument sometimes, but I've never heard of anyone choosing to go to school A versus school B because school B didn't have a gym. It seems like the people who want rec centers, dining halls, new dorms, etc. are school presidents -- both so they'll have something to fund raise for and so they'll have additional staff to boss around.
Does that change your opinion about having a centralized log data store? If you need it anyway for your data scientists, why not give your security/devops people access to it when they need to debug a problem?
You're a perfect fit for government! Object to something meaningless and then make a conflict out of it. We should make a committee to discuss what words to use and then go forward. I'll book a conference room.
Which I think is symptomatic of the bigger issue. Car companies look at anything that goes into a car as a physical part, and they've gotten extraordinarily efficient (through ruthless competition) at process for dealing with physical parts.

Except... anything that contains code has orders of magnitude more test dimensions than a typical physical part.

I would probably stop driving altogether if I knew exact figures on how many auto manufacturers even have in-house test coverage of their outsourced ECU / microcontrollers.
Although anecdotal, I've always seen a strong correlation between candidates that are capable of sharing strong examples of past failures and employees that excel. Like anything else, coping and persistence require practice. There is value in failure.
Note that it appears that the Appfile can (or will be able to before a 1.0 release, at any rate; the documentation is incomplete and not entirely consistent and its not clear if how to do this is just not documented or not yet present) specify these things, but the intent to is to provide basic defaults so that the "get something minimally working" workflow is as simple as possible.
Url changed from http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/28/first-nano-photonic-memor..., which points to this.
What is your mother telling her friends about your startup?
Increase in diagnosis may not be increase in incidence, but could be decreased stigma, easier access to diagnosis, wider understanding of when to seek help etc.
Manufacturing process definitely impacts transistor performance including critical things like leakage and speed/voltage trade-offs. I'd be quite surprised if benchmarks that included power consumption couldn't distinguish between the two sources. As to whether it's going to be noticeable in practice - who knows, but the fact that apple's risking it suggests they're confident enough.

Similarly, I'm not sure how you expect reliability not to be affected by process; of course it'll be. But how often have you heard of a chip failing after it passes initial validation (something presumably apple does have a hand in)? It's not going to matter.
You sound awfully sure about what you think will happen to housing costs in the face of a universal basic income.

Do you have anything to back that up?
You missed a step. Blogger (text posting on internet). Twitter (text posting on internet). Medium (text posting on internet). Nice hat trick.

But, if anybody deserves internet funny money, it's ev. He's the most genuine and least evil founder of internet things I've seen.
With any luck, your former employer patented the general concept and then sold the IP to Nathan Myhrvold, who will now sue everybody in the business for eleventy billion dollars.
It's not that surprising if you think about it.

Some companies end too early because the technology or capital wasn't there to let it get to its full potential. Also, those founders tend to be the people who understand the space the best because they're the ones with the most experience.
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> If you were just logging the exception, you'd have said "huh that's funny" when you deployed the code, rather than when you have enough data to realise that you've already lost the customers.

I'm assuming that you still have the local logs on the local server and you're looking at one instance as you deploy to find those exceptions.

I'm also assuming that we're talking about a system too complex to actually watch logs go by in real time.

If the log level is light enough that you can actually read the logs as you deploy, then by all means do so. But if you're aggregating them just to be able to search them because you can't read them as they go by, then I'm saying there are better things to be doing than storing all those logs.
Out of curiosity, how does one learn to use lightroom?
Thank you for your thoughts. This 'game' has been created in just a few hours as a personal experiment, and it'n not designed to be completely cross platform. However, I will edit the code, trying to get a more nice experience.

A major issue is that codepen doesn't automatically focus the frame of the game, and this causes the keyboard event to be missed.
What I’ve heard is that folks with the 6+ generally love it, 6 users either wish they’d gone all the way w/ 6+ or wanna go back to the 5S.

(my money is on small/medium/large next year, waiting out this whole model/generation)
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