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Who said it was impossible? It just has to compete with many other forms of transit. So, put simply, if biking to work means arriving at work late, dripping sweat, and getting grazed by cars doing 60, then people will take other options if they can.

And a lot of the US really is pretty f*cking dangerous to bike during rush hour.
I do not agree, I have worked for a year on a startup using Clojure(Script) and I hadn't touched Clojure before. Never looked back and did not encounter any major issues springing from the choice of language. To the contrary, I have really enjoyed not having to deal with the disadvatages of older languages. The issue could possibly be in hiring, if the supply of Elixir-developers would be scarce.
Let me put it this way:

If we slept together, it was against company rules for him to be my boss. If I turned down the date, I would not be barred from working for him, but rejecting him was not going to establish a good working relationship. It would not be a good career move to personally reject a man and then seek out a job working for him.

So, in practical terms, simply asking me for a date, regardless of the outcome, was closing doors for me. I am sure that before he asked, he thought about whether or not this could harm his career. He apparently did not think about the impact on mine.

So, yes, while you are correct that I would have to consent for sex to happen, his decision to take an action based on his attraction to me that limited my career prospects was, in fact, unilateral and something I had no control over.
My reaction when he pulled the stent out was that went wrong then he said that is of course the stent.

When he flew the tour of the arteries was an actual verbal holy shit moment, I have an oesphagal problem and this kind of imaging would be frankly incredible.

I'd love to see what he could with a modern slide set from a high resolution state of the art MRI.
Maybe you could approach some experts in the field, humbly present yourself, briefly explain how your tool works and how it can make their life easier, and ask them whether they'd consider a no-string attached test run.

If it's a real niche field like you said, they probably won't get swamped by this kind of emails very much and will get curious.

Once you make a few fans, you could ask whether they can spread the word, or, if they're really into it, they'll do it for you on twitter and such.
More than 0%, which makes it more useful than not.
as you get older, you realize you have to pick a side. i've chosen my side, and it doesn't involve allah.

i'm guessing you have also, you just haven't really come to grips with it. who do you pay your taxes to?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518066/could-electric-c...

> Researchers ... have calculated that the grid has enough excess capacity to support over 150 million battery-powered cars, or about 75 percent of the cars, pickups, and SUVs on the road in the United States.
This can't really be called a bug because they did it on purpose, but what are the most costly software 'issues' in history? As VW set aside 6 billion for damages I assume this is the worst.
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The people displaying the content (the site) and the people providing the "crap" (the ad company) are often different entities, with different servers. This is why ads are often served with javascript. Since the scripts that load the ads can change, as they are deployed by the ad company, there's not always a definitive way to know what you can expect to exist. Additionally, since there are exchanges and aggregators, you can't always be sure the same ad company is providing the script. This could be normalized, but anything that makes it easy to detect that the ad has been loaded form the page is probably also easy to detect from the ad-blocker, and trace back to something that needs to be removed.
> The lack of a major company/product using Elixir is making me worried as well.

Anyone here who hasn't yet been burned by social proof, please raise their hands.
All excellent points. This is why we should invest more heavily in proven mass transit systems rather than divert limited public funds into these inefficient pods or hyperloop systems.

Corollary: Is it really that bad to have to ride a bus or train with other people on-board?
Here's a taste: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/xddlp/describe_wha...
> It usually reads something like “venture backed company burns through mountain of cash without real business” or some other such garbage.

...

> The 6 year journey of the company was a balancing act between an extraordinarily bold vision and a fundamentally broken business model.

Wait, didn't you say earlier that "without real business" was garbage?
Why the heck are you writing a custom installer like this?

One possible example: User specific installs. Interaction with the system package manager requires root rights, and isn't something that is a good fit for something like, say, RVM or rbenv. If I'm a nonprivileged user on someone else's general purpose system, I shouldn't have to bug the administrator to install something useful to me.
Wikipedia is wrong if it means the effective metropolitan area surrounding San Jose is just San Jose. People live and work spread across the entire Silicon Valley area, that is indeed why that term is used most often for the region. Since housing is expensive and difficult to find and expensive, workers wind-up spread out at close to the maximum drivable to distance, putting them at far from an easily bikable distance.

"Geographically, Silicon Valley is generally thought to encompass all of the Santa Clara Valley, the southern half of the Peninsula and southern portions of the East Bay."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley
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Why does everyone seem to assume this is specific to VW in particular. They nay have been the most egregious but I would be surprised if this was isolated.

Just look a those EPA mpg estimates, everybody seems to game the system and "tune" their cars to get highest ratings. Does anybody still hope to get anywhere near the estimate when buying a new car, especially city mpg?

I would argue this sort of manipulation is done widely and was pretty well known and accepted but VW must have overdone it. Of course Diesel cars have potential for worse emssisons than gas but I bet this happens across the board, except the Germans are screwed because they are pushing Diesels.
This is my observation as well.

There's also a non-zero number of companies filing for SR&ED credits and complaining about the onerousness of the audits who, quite frankly, should not be eligible for SR&ED.

Paying devs to build yet another time tracking tool or yet another social network might be contorted to meet the letter of "advancing the state of science by encouraging R&D investment in Canada", but it certainly doesn't meet its spirit.
Can we do without needless snipes like "hipster languages" please?
It it possible Apple overprovisions their batteries such that they only ever charge the physical calls up to an ideal level (~80% or whatever, of nominal Wh capacity), and then they show in software a 100% charge? If the battery is larger than it needs to be, the extra headroom would allow long usage on a "full" charge while preserving cell longevity. In time when capacity does diminish, software could also raise the full-charge point from ~80% of physical capacity closer to the nominal physical cell capacity.

This would be similar to what SSD manufacturers do with drive sizes. There are more memory cells on the die than the sticker capacity, and as cells fall out of use (due to failure or maximum number of write cycles) extra cells are rotated into use to maintain speed and capacity.
Will these improvements be used when using voice input in Google Docs?

http://gizmodo.com/you-can-now-type-with-your-voice-in-googl...
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With such attitude they should stop developing any tools and everyone would be better for it.
For those reading who are not familiar with English as used in India, a "lakh", as in "astromical 1 lakh kilos annually", is 10E5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh .
It's really disappointing everyone focuses on the volatility yet everyone dismisses the advantages of Bitcoin.
In terms of getting a system like this set up, you seem to be complaining that it might succeed too much. Perhaps so, but that's a problem the inventor here would prefer to have rather than the one he has now.

Also, if that did happen, the RV might take up 2-3x the space of a car while moving, but then they end up not taking up the space of a house while stationary, which they usually are, so, you know, probably a net win for density. On the off chance this took off bigtime the economy would further adjust (rentable spots, etc.).
> I've always thought they made a mistake not covering the whole park with one of these.

Appropriately enough given the topic at hand, they have a train for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Railroad
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My understanding is that it's entirely possibly for just the contract pursuit process to overrun a project before one jot of work is expended on actual fulfillment.

That's less likely than in transactions with private companies - although for IT projects...
Busses are the least-worst alternative to walking. People are noisy, they smell, they crowd you when you're holding groceries, they make a trip with friends or God forbid a date unpleasant, they're late when you're early and early when you're late, and chances are you'll still have to walk a few blocks to get where you want to go.

Obviously not every case, but I've taken a fair amount of Bay Area busses in my time and there was always at least one of the above complaints.
I see a lot of people posting things to the effect of "It's probably not a huge deal, just a firmware patch." That strikes me as unlikely. If that were the case, then why would VW take this risk in the first place? Clearly, there was some benefit to the car that made engaging in what was clearly illegal behavior seem like a financially sound option to who knows how many people within the company. If applying a firmware patch to fix this doesn't change the value of the car that much, why wouldn't they ship it was that firmware in the first place?
One counter point is the "Python Paradox"[1], though I don't know how well that conjecture was ever actually supported. However, isn't the Elixir/OTP ecosphere considered relatively practical and tested, rather than just esoteric or purist, even if it is new?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
That's not true. Curl doesn't use HSTS, whereas a browser does. Installer packages are signed, as well, so there's at least two ways in which downloading a proper installer from a browser is more secure.
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This would be an awesome way to interact with computers, if I didn't have to get my hands wet to use it! Love the effect of the speaker blasting water up.
The Effort to Create an 'Iron Man'-Style Exoskeleton
I've not see http://www.wemakemaps.com/ before, looks like a cool site, but whats with consistently referring to OpenStreetMap as OpenMap? and how about adding proper attribution on the OSM maps?
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I tried Elixir about 2 months ago for a project and found the standard library was lacking and the quality of community contributed modules wasn't up to par with other languages. I've worked with Python and Node my career and I prefer the Multi-paradigm approach of a Language like Go or Rust than the functional approach. I'll probably give it a try again in a year when it's more mature.
Yeah, that's certainly how the rest of the world puts it. Unfortunately it's not very actionable. "The key is to have something to say!" "Hmm, but what if I don't have anything to say right now?" And they're stuck again. It's kinda like "be attractive, don't be unattractive". Whereas my answer is "do interesting intellectual work, get results, write them up". A little more actionable, no?
Here's the research paper presented at USENIX https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
I really like what people are doing here, with applications of depth perception and sensing from Kinect (a similar hardware), there are other project I've seen throughout the years that are intriguing. (Please share any you've found.)

I recently saw this from UC Davis - an augmented-reality sandbox:
http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox/

Also, there is the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab (http://fluid.media.mit.edu/), which aims "to design novel form factors that leverage the full range of sensory capabilities and control modalities of the user...".

Although I don't see the immediate practicality of this project, it's very inspiring. I like to imagine this project used at a pool, like when kids are playing or diving for sunken objects, how cool would that aquatic playground be?
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> In a place that is so startup-centric, I can't believe that there is so much pushback against startup-like pricing

That would only makes sense if JetBrains were a startup. No one likes startup-like pricing for the sake of it- even on HN. Do you want 'startup-like pricing' for your car? I for one didn't like the pricing regime because it was retrogressive and changed what I understood to be a purchase into a short-notice rental.
My taxes go to fund a professional military that kills people around the world from my goverment and related corporations, and I benefit from the higher stock market.

Over the years, my taxes have toppled democratically elected governments, supported brutal dictatorships and been directly responsible for the displacement and misery of millions of people. Even better, my taxes have directly supported the expansion of Radical Islam in the past 50 years- remember that the ME was not that radical before we installed the Shah. Afghanistan was nice, before the Soviets invaded.

Of course, I'm not happy about this but there is little I can do to change it.
Would be interested to see some comparison with the Android app which seems to have most of the same functionality at 1/4 the size with 25MB [1] compared to the 100MB of iOS. Seems like either iOS team at FB has significant cruft laying around or iOS doesn't scale as well as Android and FB is hacking around that. Possibly a bit of both but think it would be an interesting comparison in addition to the war stories about hacking their entire tool chain.

[1] https://gigaom.com/2015/01/26/facebooks-new-android-app-goes...
Nix solves this problem neatly.

Not saying that's answering your question, since Nix is woefully underused, but it's something to look at.
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There are startups that in fact ONLY have government contracts. There are mechanisms that allow small startups to be awarded contracts without the need to compete with larger companies. The advantage in this approach is that founders don't need to go find venture funding, allowing them to retain more ownership of their company. This gives them the ability to have more to offer to new and talented employees. The disadvantage... well the government work slowly (which is counter to the silicon valley culture of rapid development, growth, and sell).
Great article by Ben -- see many comments that SR&ED isn't "that bad". The first time, it might not be. As you scale and add more engineers, the risk of audit starts to outweigh any benefit.
Oddly Khanna's paper, while referenced, is not linked. Here is the original if anyone is interested: http://lincolnlabs.com/innovation_report
It seems Microsoft, Cisco and many other companies are doing these "deals" [1] now, no doubt forced upon them by the Chinese government if they want to continue to do business in the country. At the same time it sort of "exempts" the companies from being accused of surveillance or censorship because they can say they don't offer the final product or service to the Chinese customers, but their Chinese partner there does.

This way China gets all the backdoors it wants, while US companies can continue to pretend they are pure and innocent in public and it allows them to save face and continue to promote how much they care about privacy and security elsewhere.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/24/us-cisco-systems-c...
Unfortunately, I can't recommend a System76 laptop. I use the Galago UltraPro as a work laptop, and it is not an enjoyable experience at all. The construction is flimsy, and the keyboard is _terrible_. I have never used a worse keyboard on a laptop. I wanted to love it, but I can't recommend it at all.
File sharing is not theft, and there's unambiguous legal precedent to that effect. Really bad example. Stop conflating two laws that mean different things.

Nothing special about computers? Okay. "Persons, papers, and effects" no longer means emails, computer files, or anything other than physical, tangible documents that existed when that law was drafted. I really don't think that's the world you want to live in, or the argument you really want to be making.

The fact that the legal system thinks there's "nothing special about computers" is the cause of a great deal of difficulties that should not exist in a sane world. This is a world with new concepts that did not exist when a lot of our laws were written, and it doesn't make much sense to presuppose that there is or even can be a 1:1 mapping between the tangible and the not, all of the time.
Or alternatively, you can have multiple layers of encryption a la Truecrypt Hidden Volumes (http://www.howtogeek.com/109210/the-htg-guide-to-hiding-your...)

The first layer contains something embarrassing but legal like gay porn, and the second layer contains the stuff you really want to hide.

You just unlock the first layer and act really embarrassed if forced and never acknowledge the existence of the second layer.
Yea it can spit out hilarious stuff..

Just to update you. Some affiliate links (e.g. namecheap) now redirect directly to the corresponding domain.

I've also changed the domain availability check from the api I used before to a homegrown dns ns lookup. This is not 100% accurate too but seems to be better and a lot faster until now!
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Let's put it this way: we had te technology for basic solar energy in the 19th century. If we had forbidden fossil fuels and exclusively used solar and other renewables like hydro, we would have taken a much longer time to get where we are today, but the environment would have benefited and we wouldn't be in such trouble with climate change. The path we choose is just that: a choice. And cheap choices are easier.

I'm all for innovation, but one of the most laughable human qualities is the idea that there will ever be a solution to a problem that makes the problem go away. Ex: We may have eliminated smallpox but if it ever came back we'd be in serious trouble.
Exactly! This had to be one of the stupidest manufactured controversies I had seen.

It's cool they listened and changed it I guess, but the subscription hate thing is ridiculous. Maybe some of these developers should step back and look at their own companies offerings before they start screaming... almost all of us are working on subscription software.
Self-driving cars aren't a band-aid. In the long term, where every vehicle on the road is self-driving, then they're the best solution possible (for any travel distance that doesn't warrant something like Hyperloop / planes / trains). I say this because self-driving cars can go everywhere (that cars can go). Pods have a fixed track, they can only go where there's track to go. The only way for Pods to be better than self-driving cars is if we rip up all the roads and replace the entire road network with a pod track network, but that obviously will never happen (and even then it's not necessarily better, because a pod track network could only be used for pods, but roads can be used by a lot more than just cars).
If you are in Japan, then no, trains are clean and people are mostly sane. In the US here, esp Portland, they are filled with interesting individuals, smells and acts. I have rode the Max train for years, but now drive since it is more pleasant and shortens my overall trip considerably.
> Installing software not managed by the distro’s package manager can be inconvenient for system administrators, especially those who are deeply familiar with the inner workings of their distro.

They raise this point themselves, but never address it.

I guess I'm a "system administrator" of my personal machines, because the last thing I want is software being randomly dumped wherever the author thinks appropriate for now, I guess /opt/ in this case. The post mentions running as a separate user, but if the installer expects to write to /opt/ I don't see how that is possible. Installing in ~/opt/ would be barely acceptable, but it's barking up the wrong tree and now I really have to want to use your software to read enough to understand its expectations.

You don't need packages for all systems, since this also isn't convenient for rapidly changing software (unless you're going to make a full-on repo). But please keep and support a (git clone <repo> && ./configure --PREFIX=<my-choice> && make && make install) option. It solves all of these problems for users who do care.

And preemptively - no, "use a VM" is never an appropriate answer to these concerns. The POSIX system model has many annoying shortcomings, but indiscriminately deprecating the whole thing creates ten times as many problems when what POSIX did provide has to be reinvented in order to connect those monolithic images.
and surprisingly tasty (common Andean dish).
This is a really interesting read. I'm excited for urbit now!