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I don't agree with you. Firefox is an infrastructure product; it's how end users interact with actual products they care about (e.g., Facebook, Netflix, etc). Few people fire up a web browser without the intention of consuming third-party (non-Mozilla) content, just like few people boot a linux system just to watch the kernel run.
"It’s as if North Carolina, which has about the same population as Sweden, sprouted a new city the size of Raleigh in three years."

A meaningless sentence to anyone outside the States. Can someone write to Bloomberg and tell them how the Internet works?
That's true but it's still possible to make a completely unauthenticated $4000 purchase with a physically stolen US credit card.

I didn't mention this earlier but NFC payments over $100 generally only require a PIN be entered but this is a relatively (to signatures) painless process and comes with the benefit of requiring something not printed on the credit card.

For small payments, NFC is faster. For large payments, NFC (at least as implemented in Australia, with PIN), is significantly more secure.
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Unfortunately they have also yet again changed things internally that break plug-ins, apparently including various popular ones used for privacy and blocking purposes. So in reality, since I don't habitually browse in Private Browsing mode, the more private browsing I've experienced with the recent Firefox updates has involved more ads and trackers than I've seen in years, followed by a lot of frustration searching for replacement extensions that actually work and then still more frustration configuring things manually that used to just work a few months ago.

I really wish Mozilla would get back to promoting the add-ons model that once made Firefox so attractive, and prioritising flexibility and stability accordingly. Some of the other features they've added directly might be useful, but the price of the constant change is too high, and in just about every case I can think of the add-ons community already had good, working solutions.
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Food automation, like a lot of home automation, seems a questionable concept. You could buy a lot of ready meals (which are just food that's been prepared offsite in bulk) for the cost of a smart kitchen.

Low-hassle domestic stock control / inventory maangement though, that would be genuinely useful.
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If you're willing to introduce the term "projection" then I think it's illustrative and has a good connection to other metaphorically identical connected projection concepts.

"A mold is a projection function ranging over a span. As a projection function it converts any noun to the 'nearest' point in the span and is idempotent."

(Edit: just realized that everyone under the sun whose had a dose of algebra is suggesting this term. I mean to go further when descrbing it as "taking nouns to the nearest thing in the span". A mathematician or sufficiently picky reader will ask what "nearest" means—and this may be exactly the right question—but the intuitive image may be more clear.)
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/27/george-w-bush-was-awol-b...
>>So let them put their money where their mouths are

Sure, let them. I don't see how this is achieved by increasing taxes on them - general income taxes go to a broad variety of causes.
Under the BLS occupational classifications, there are 53 distinct categories for "teacher".

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3832wx/occupat...
Sweet! The part where you generate the code to run the HTTP server... can that also be done by generating a file which you copy to the existing server's root directory?

Wow, ACME protocol seems way over-designed for what was actually required.
I just wish there was some sort of automated handover for APs on the same subnet. I had the same problem as GP, bu I now have two APs connected to my LAN over powerline, but I have to manually switch them over when I go from one side of the house to the other.
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My bank's web portal actually provides a good aggregator service for the checking/savings/investment/loan accounts I have both there and elsewhere. I find it very convenient when I do my monthly "what are the state of my finances" spread sheet.
Mine (US) bank does just that.
The word might not appear in the article but the article mentions (as in other swedish media) that it's hard for the government to find more housing for the refugees and that they are now struggling to create new places for them to live temporary.
Well, if you're on Europe, the presumption is you know Sweden. For Asia, a little more than Laos, or you know, use the internet....
did they make a patent on that algorithm?
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And if he were a democrat, this bill would be branded as liberal anti-police bureaucracy designed to cripple the cops and put their lives in danger. I just hope Obama and other prominent democrats avoid giving the bill any praise, otherwise it'll never pass.
I get the North Carolina - Sweden thing, but Raleigh...?
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I think that's a good thing when the principles are worth it. :-)
Why does this need write access to my public repos?
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Interesting, and thanks for sharing!

What kind of paradigm do you think you'd use for a larger project? Also do you think you'd stick with Flux vs Redux/Alt/etc?
That sounds quite feasible, though it hasn't really been worth the effort until we have quite a few more genomes. And typically extra information about the variant (is it in a gene, does it change a protein, etc.) so that extra lookups aren't required during a scan.

There are typically 4-6 million variants discovered through this method of genome sequencing in a normal genome. A simple variant consists of a genome coordinate at ~32 bits (one of 3.2e9), and the change from the reference, which is a x,y index into {A, C, G, T}^2, at ~4 bits. Typically the coordinates are spaced on average ~1k bases apart, so the coordinate could probably be squeezed into ~15bits with clever encoding. So a naive encoding of this information gets to 27MB, and that could probably be shoved down into 10MB if coordinates are deltas from the previous, rather than absolute. 1MB seems feasible, but with diminishing returns computationally.
> Can you explain what the taxes are for on the rail lines?

I know they pay property taxes on the land (plus the value of what's on the land). I don't know how much that is, but it's different from a government-owned highway, which pays no taxes.

> In your example could the customer build their own small rail lines to meet up with the existing tracks of BNSF and UP both to allow them to pick who they use to haul freight between Chicago and LA? Does that happen?

There are two parts to the answer here. First, yes, sometimes shippers build a rail line to connect to an existing railroad. Sometimes shippers have their own locomotives to move cars on their track, too.

Second, connecting to two different railroads. This only works (economically) if the two railroads are close to each other. Around Chicago, say, it's easy. In Nevada, not so much. You might have to build two hundred miles of track to get a connection to a different railroad. No matter how bad the freight rates are from the railroad you've got, it's not worth it.

> Do railroads have a anything similar to the meet up rooms in carrier hotels where you can move from one rail network to another?

I'm not sure what "meet up rooms in carrier hotels" are, but yes, railroads have places where traffic moves from one railroad to another.
Sure, the company may (or may not) be doomed, but the value provided by the product is here to stay.

All it takes is a critical mass of users to migrate to a clone, (which I assume is very likely if the company were to fail).
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I'd also mention that what counts as 'R&D' is often paper thin. Normal developer activities can count if they are spun correctly.

Whether that's a problem depends on the amount that you think of this as a general small business tax credit vs an incentive to do research.
Not so true. With the internet it's easier to learn about the reputation of a vendor, so much so that many vendors are confident enough to offer return policies that go beyond what the law requires and most people rely more on these reviews than whatever refund policy vendors offer anyway.
It might be worth your time to run that same benchmark without any hypervisor to establish a baseline.
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Swedish migration minister Morgan Johansson now says that Sweden can no longer guarantee housing for refugees [1][2].

This is a new development as the previous official line has been that the situation is strained but under control.

[1]: http://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/morgan-johansson-gransen-fo...

[2]: http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/1.2887462-minister-boenden-...

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Of course, some types of protection for own inventions is necessary ... but what here shall be protected, are the building blocks of life!

This is not about protecting own inventions, but about land-grabbing things that we did not invent, but nature!

The same thing, corporations try again and again. For example, once they copied cures of traditional Indian medicine, patented them in the USA and tried to forbid the free usage.

When this goes on this way, we all will soon have to pay a life-tax for having some type of DNA or bacteria in our bodies. Already, many cures are not invented, because to many patents on life building blocks make the creation to financially risky.
yeah, only i wished the insight would have been an algo that determines the necessary distance based on the drone's speed
I love people who spend time explaining things like this. It's how I've learned a lot of what I know about computers.
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Loved that game (and its variants). The ship took damage and became less effective, so you had to take time out to find a base to repair. So few games of that era carried any interesting state.
Banks are ruled by iron fist, old school systems that effectively get a long line of innovation only when needed. Think Cobol, 2000 year issues. Millions were spent on the infrastructure eons ago, and the idea of innovation goes exactly against what they stand up for - stingy, Scrooge type ideals. I don't blame them, but tech eventually moves around ideas like this. Think again of the automotive industry, and why don't we have 1 billion new ideas extended to the most vast product producing machine in the country ... unions, old school profit engines (pardon the pun), and the sticky idea that innovation will disrupt it. Tesla is basically the ONLY car dealer to shake the crust off, because its THAT much better of a tech innovator. Not without the fight from big-auto though. It's just how these machines work, however because banking online and new startup FDIC innovation driven banks work WAY BETTER than these dinosaurs. Lucky for me, my bank doesn't even have branches ... so I get my dough back from the ATMs I use, within reason mind you. Online services are STELLAR, because of the reinvestment into tech vs. traditional banks. Ah, I hope they ALL die to be honest.
Which add-ons are you referring to? AFAIK the big 3 are AdBlock (Plus? There's so many jeez), uBlock (and Origin), and, in a distant third, Privacy Badger.
Landing on the repository doesn't really explain much unless you find the interactive demo. It's worth checking out:

http://ncase.me/neurons/
I'm not so sure, how is the end result any different than patenting a better manufacturing technique? That happens all the time in the macro-world.

Again, I'm not sure how I feel on whether it should be patentable or not. But, at least as I understand it, their intent is protection for something they've spent millions/billions developing -- no different than the process patents we have now.
It doesn't really need write access, but in order for it to fetch the contributor stats, I had to add the "repo" scope to the permissions. Unfortunately, I couldn't see any other way around that. See: https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes
Honest question: does 1 job taken by an immigrant equal 1 job lost by a local? How else is it?

I was a migrant worker myself, and while I'm grateful for the opportunity to work for a higher salary than I could get home, I still believe that the open work policies are bad for both sides - developing nations get a huge brain drain and a slower internal development, while developed countries get a lot of cheap workers and have unemployment problems with their own citizens...
You can strip it from the code, its not too hard. The issue is with the release cycle, an having to modify the code each time. I wish they would just make a build without the crapware bundled.

edit: to -> too
I used to be an avid reader of Newtekniques magazine, which was required reading for anyone obsessed with Lightwave3D and the Video Toaster. There was Mojo's opinion column on the back page where he mused about rendering, the Amiga, and sometimes things a little deeper.

I remember one column where mojo said (paraphrasing), "I see a lot of people going to film school, learning everything they can about making movies; cameras, lighting, props..."

"Problem is, when they get out of school, they know everything about _how_ to make a film, but no clue what to make a film _about_."

The value of a liberal arts education is the world of stuff you don't know you don't know. You get exposed to a wide range of topics, and you never know what might catch your eye and reach deep inside of you, to your core, beyond technical mastery of a skill.

As an entrepreneur, having empathy and a deep understanding of the humanities is extremely useful throughout your personal journey.
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> Real cooks would never use table salt.

Real cooks use table salt all the time. Other salts are mostly useful as finishing salts (where the subtle distinctions in flavor and texture between different salts, or different sized grinds of the same salt, come out, and where color distinctions can impact presentation) rather than in cooking itself (where they don't.)

> My Himalayan salt is quite good for seasoning and was deposited millions of years ago. Compare that to Morton's table salt with iodine my grandmother used to use.

...and, what? Both are good for seasoning, the table salt with iodine is better for avoiding the (otherwise fairly common) iodine deficiency (conversely, its a good thing to avoid if you are iodine sensitive). I'd rather use the Himalayan salt as a finishing salt for some things.

Also, table salt vs. other salt and iodized salt vs. non-iodized salt are orthogonal distinctions (and table vs. other salt is a different distinction than "made in nature" vs. "made in a chemical process in a plant".)

Kosher, Sea, and some other salts are available iodized, and table salt is available non-iodized.
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Great points. Thanks for the feedback.

I ended up deciding on yearly pricing to keep processing costs down. Each charge is .30 + 2.9%, so it's cheaper for me if I only charge once a year. Monthly pricing is something I'm going to have to really consider. Or maybe a free month to get started. Thanks for the perspective.

My email provider (Mandrill) allows you to choose whether you want to track opens on each email you send. I'm guessing they use some sort of tracking pixel. So you still get the poems in your inbox, but they watch their servers for if that pixel was requested.
This brings up a really important question. Are your banking transactions your's or the bank's? I know in Europe the law says that you own your transactions, but I'm not sure if the US has clarity either way.
Can you help me understand what you mean with some concrete examples you've experienced?
Right now, HAMs in the US can run personal/private GSM as long as they do it in that little overlapping part of 900mhz band that euro GSM shares with an amateur band...

Do I understand that one could also run a personal/private LTE in this 5.8ghz band ?
I think one way to signal that something isn't likely to be maintained, is in the licensing choice. Public Domain isn't a very good licence because of it's questionalble legal status, but in my mind, somehow, CC0 is more of a "do whatever you want, just don't blame me" than eg: a simple BSD/MIT license.

But I think perhaps the core isn't just the license, but also the readme, and guidelines on naming/"trademark": eg: when it comes to markdown, the issue (as mentioned in a sibling comment) was more one of "I don't think what you want do do deserves to be called 'markdown' -- that named was coined for my vision of 'rich plain text'".

I'm generally in favour of strong copyleft licences, because of the need to maintain user (as opposed to, in addition to developer) freedom. But when it comes to stuff that's basically just some ideas that maybe someone else might want to run with -- I think it's important to give them away as unrestricted as possible. Technically trivial snippets of code aren't under copyright -- but with how hostile the "intellectual property" climate is -- I think it's important to be clear when sharing something unfinished that if someone else builds on it, one will not retain any ownership of/claim on the result (beyond what copyright law forces one to keep, hence CC0 etc).
> I am also convinced that for bigger projects people should be very careful and think twice before going with this paradigm.

Wise words.
If data security is job 1, why treat it as an afterthought?
> Is it widely used? Can you get staff with a couple years experience using ledger? Will accounting staff be productive using the interface? Does it cope well with multiple simultaneous users? Is it compatible with other software? Can you get local support? Can you export/import to other packages? Are the fringe case glitches known?

I know that Accountants are conservative, but there will never be any new accounting software if all accounting software used needs to meet these requirements.

Lastly, I think a lot of people thought "one man show" meant a business with only one employee, while it is clear after your response that you meant one book-keeper. Ledger will not be used at any company with "Accounting staff" (plural). The largest organization I'm aware of that uses it is a free software non-profit that has moral reasons for avoiding proprietary software.
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The "Hello" button automatically came back to the toolbar (I had removed it) after the Firefox 42 upgrade. Thought that it could be accidental and checked on a different machine, the same thing happened.
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Great video. Got closer to the engines than I would lol.
From NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-new-findi...):

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The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

The news conference participants will be:

Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters

Bruce Jakosky, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) principal investigator at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder

Jasper Halekas, MAVEN Solar Wind Ion Analyzer instrument lead at the University of Iowa, Iowa City

Yaxue Dong, MAVEN science team member at LASP

Dave Brain, MAVEN co-investigator at LASP

A brief question-and-answer session will take place during the event with media on site and by phone. Members of the public also can ask questions during the briefing on social media using #AskNASA.
It is. He is not saying that they should not be able to fire him.
The fact that they can fire him does not mean that they should.
Where does the camera man sit and how does he/she move the camera?

This basically forces you into stable shots only which are far less compelling. Ring type VR cameras allow the cameraman to sit in the middle of the ring while moving the scene for far more interesting results.

EX: http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/nytvr/
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It doesn't matter. At worst it says that impeachment issues have to win by 2 votes. That doesn't damage separation of powers in any way. It's just an oddity.
The Pocket code is being moved to a bundled add-on: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215694
Also read this https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/10/20...
There are probably 100x more servers sitting in server farms running websites (and burning power) than need to be because companies would rather hire 10 cheap Ruby or PHP programmers than one "expensive" Erlang/Elixer programmer. So there is some harm to bad programmers, even for non-critical websites.
Here's a blog post I wrote about this project: https://medium.com/@jico/building-gitmark-d6a4e193e19 (it talks about the permissions overkill).

If you want to take a peek at the dashboard without having to grant GitHub access, here's a screenshot of mine: http://i.imgur.com/ufqifkp.jpg
That would be Capital.

(Also, not really, really evil. I subscribe to the 1848 _Manifesto_ part 1, not parts 2,3 and 4)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-m...
Has there been any speculation that they'll roll out a Premium (read, "ad-free") monthly subscription format?
That certainly does sound better for fraud, but that's just a policy choice, not anything inherent to NFC or EMV. NFC could be without limits (I think that's how it is in the US) and EMV could require a PIN (as is typically the case in Europe).

It would be interesting to see the breakdown of different types of credit card fraud. How much fraud is physically stolen card versus copied card versus online purchases? I have no real idea myself.
I'm assuming that you mean Linux/Windows/MacOS when you say multiplatform. I agree that for Desktop apps its sometimes okay to use the same codebase (thinking of Blender, Gimp, other open source apps that work across Desktop OSes). Other times there are apps that work significantly better because they utilize an OS's strengths (Pixelmator for MacOS).

The key difference here is that user expectations are completely different between a mobile app, a desktop app (either native or node webkit), and a web app - at the moment I would say that its rare to see any app share the same codebase (not including shared libraries/dependencies) for all of those. As this post shows, its not impossible, but there are still some tradeoffs.

If I was starting a brand new application that needed to work across all platforms, I would still consider having independent code bases sharing a library as a dependency rather than having a single codebase for everything - especially if I wanted to be sure to have the best possible experience for each platform.
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I agree, my MP was nominated to Small Business and Tourism, arguably she has no experience in either whatsoever and being a 2nd generation immigrant woman may have been the deciding factor for her nomination.

Still I'll be moderately optimist (see the example of the MP in Quebec who was in Vegas at election time since she 'had no chance' and didn't speak French, apparently she has been very successful and won again) until actions and facts speak.