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> Which is Canonical's problem, and no one else's.

It then becomes the problem of its users, and rapidly the problem of userland developers, because users expect their software to just work in Ubuntu.

Developers can now go and waste effort just to comply to Canonical's de facto walled garden, or lose all Ubuntu users (furthering the "Linux is too complicated and fragmented!" narrative).

Everybody loses, nobody wins.
I've been saying this for years: federal interstates have contributed to sprawl by effectively subsidizing both land and driving. It creates all sorts of disincentives.
I just received this printer a week or so ago. It's an absolute steal for the money. Here's a part of a phone car holder I printed last night. It took five hours with a layer resolution of 0.15mm and a shell of 0.4mm with a 20% infill.

http://imgur.com/a/4U9Xz

I think overall it's a great printer! with a printable area of 200x200x190mm (8x8x7 inches) and a heated bed, it really can't be beat as an entry level printer.

Edit: here are a few others that I didn't skimp as much on the print settings with. http://imgur.com/a/c7IGV
Consider 2 outcomes. One is that the project moves forward with the owner getting x+y for their land. The other is that the project doesn't move forward and they are able to sell it for roughly x.

There is at least a sense in which turning down y is irrational. Of course it doesn't have to be irrational, but if they believe they would be better off with y and are simply trying to get more, there is some degree of unreasonableness involved.
A niche is a niche...
For me the enthusiastic part is that it's the first language I used for a lot of stuff. My brain knows how to work with it. I know what I get. Perl is also a constant, it doesn't change a lot and my scripts from almost two decades ago still work. Also, it's part of the basic install of any common Linux distribution.

Dealing with a reference-counting GC is a bit of a nuisance when occasionally having to help it along manually, after getting used to a real GC, but it can also be beneficial: memory usage is deterministic and rather low.

Perl is also slow handling data structures compared to languages like Java, Clojure or Haskell, unless you implement those / the bottlenecks in C, which functional-perl currently does not do.

Perl is very hacky, in both the good and bad senses: it's not a simple and clean language or ecosystem (kind of the anti-thesis of Scheme), but it's also very malleable: core perl allows you to do a lot of things for which you would need macros or similar features (I still don't know how Ruby works in this regard) in other languages, and various approaches to extend it exist nowadays (e.g. you want something nicer than "sub { my ($x)=@_; ... }"? Today you can write a module that allows you to write "fun ($x) { ... }" pretty cleanly (also someone implemented[1] one for this example already)). Also, I've been positively surprised to find good hackers in the Perl community when I returned; perhaps that's correlated.

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Function::Parameters
Why? It's perfectly fine to beleive that one is more harmful in various ways than another.
Redstone has no means of communication to the outside, so even if you created an entire computer with redstone(very unlikely) you would have no means of communication outside of minecraft.
for the range of 100 parts 3D printing is still more viable for many cases than injection molding. mold alone will cost on average $5k in China.

Also, not everything can be injection molded.

There is certainly a place for 3D printed products (I know, since I am selling some)
My current job (and previous one, for that matter) both started with the company emailing me out of the blue with a fairly compelling offer that got even better after we talked a bit. But, they found me because I freelanced my way through college and built up a fairly impressive portfolio + have a ton of open source stuff on github. (It also helps that I decided to focus on JavaScript & front-end dev just before it exploded in popularity.)
Creator of TRON, Japanese RTOS, on Why Japan Hasn't Led IoT
They would also expect it for dirt cheap or free :(
Historically trains, and street cars were privately funded and operated in a lot of US cities. For example in the early 1900's Baltimore was one of the largest cities in the US and had a massive street car network that was privately operated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_MTA_Maryland#Baltim...
I'm in Nairobi, Kenya right now on a business trip to Safaricom and I can tell you that M-Pesa is huge. In fact, the application we're building has an M-Pesa payment component which will be leveraged to pay hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers in M-Pesa instead of regular cash.
Good point, this makes a big difference when copying files of different sizes (though if copying large files of roughly the same size it is still a useful indicator).
Transportation is a classic externality. The costs of building infrastructure are direct, while the benefits diffuse. You tend only to see that sort of behavior by monopolies, like the examples you mentioned applying to companies that own very large swaths of land. You can sometimes see this behavior in R&D, too. Bell spent a lot of money on research and development because they knew as the only major telephone company they would be the only ones to benefit.
Transport is not a zero-sum game. People optionally telecommute. People work odd hours (or don't work at all) and take optional trips at peak times. People move closer to or farther away from the places they routinely go (e.g. work).
The article has plenty of flaws, sure, and anyone familiar with linguistics could point some of them out. One of my favorites was the statement that Broca's area was the language center, without any mention of Wernicke's area.

But Chomsky has switched his theoretical perspective so much and so many times that it's hard to tell what his current framework actually is. And increasingly, how relevant it is to contemporary research. It seems like you're advocating the "principles and parameters" approach, but AFAIK Chomsky hasn't advocated that in something like 20 years. P&P is where Chomsky lost me—with the argument that dropping pronouns in English and French amounts to a mental switch that languages flip on or off. Whereas subsequent research immediately showed that pronoun-dropping is just a continuum where English is at one extreme. And lots of Chomsky's arguments, like the poverty of the stimulus, just plain look bad.

Stephen Pinker has completely dominated popular understanding of linguistics with "The Language Instinct", which has influenced how a generation of ordinary people think about language and linguistics. And Chomsky's program dominated both academic and popular understanding before that. But linguistics is a strongly multidisciplinary and multiparadigmatic field, and this is an article aimed at a popular audience that helps make that more plain.
Well there's a difference in that water is never really lost, though it can become unusable for our purposes.
I fly quadcopters and do a bit of FPV racing[1], and a 3d printer is so incredibly useful for printing parts.

[1] http://www.multigp.com/
Using water doesn't destroy it.
Sure, let's just bring public transit subsidies up to the same level as car subsidies, then.
Also, I would want a Wizard of Oz animation movie in my collection.
By the way, your reply was one of the most common replies to me that quickly turned into flaming (people offending me in all way they could to tell me Lua was perfect, and I was seeing things, because 32-bit is enough for the integers I was using...)
Is Venture Capital Killing Startups?
Huh, I should. The upside of Speex was just that I found a prebuilt library that more or less worked out the box. The project itself fell to the back burner about a year ago.
I bought a replicator 2 when they were new, thinking that it was a consumer device.

Difficulties I was aware of:

- Modeling is kind of a pain. Thingiverse and other 3d model repositories are helpful, but anything custom modeled can be a pain. TinkerCAD is pretty simple.

- Single color limits the kind of ornamental models you can print

- Filament isn't food-safe

Difficulties I was surprised by:

- It is extremely slow to print anything. The simplest model is maybe 10 minutes. For larger models the time can increase to 8-10 hours easily.

- Model prep (slicing and supports) took a surprisingly large amount of time. This has been improved, but still not great.

- Supports are horrible to deal with and remove. There are other slicing packages that offer better supports, but nothing fantastic.

- The hardware was definitely not consumer grade. I was expecting something like a microwave, where I open the door at the end and a model comes out. I have to know far too much about how the 3d printer works.

So, here is a short history of issues with my replicator 2:

- First few prints worked great.

- The nut and bolt print was misaligned by layers - the nut was skewed into sort of a parallelogram. This was due to one of my belts needing to be tightened, causing slippage each layer.

- After a few prints, I started getting good prints at the bottom of the part, but then at the top it would get all stringy. I tried various things to fix this like decreasing the distance between the build plate and the print nozzle, increasing it, and so forth. Eventually I needed to open up the print assembly and tighten something that controlled how tightly it pulled filament through.

- At one point I had some filament break off inside, blocking the nozzle. I needed to remove the heat sink to get at it, but when I put it back together, I accidentally squished the wire that sent temperature information, so it stopped being able to heat. Took a while to figure out the problem.

- I also had a problem where one of the circuit boards was misaligned, so when it was trying to go to its home position it wasn't touching the sensor and would just keep trying to move in the one direction even though it had reached the end.

- I had a file with the normals flipped, so it wouldn't print supports properly. It was a minor problem, really.

- I had lots of problems where the filament would either be too far away and not adhere properly to the build platform, or too close and jam the nozzle. I also had a problem where some prints were very difficult to remove, I ended up destroying them trying to remove them. Using blue 3M painter's tape solved the issue. If you get the 2" rolls, 3 strips cover the build plate.

- I had several prints getting stringy, I ended up having to replace the nozzle and thermal tape entirely
Why TransferWise doesn't have a Business Intelligence team
A hammer is better at putting nails into wood than a screwdriver is.

Hobby CNC mills like the Xcarve or the shapeoko only have a 3"~ Z axis. That's on top of the normal limits of carving out of a solid block of material vs printing from nothing.

I don't disagree though. Much of what people demonstrate with a 3d printer would have come out better with a hobby CNC mill.
That is correct. The cartridges are chipped. Not only that, but if the printer breaks down, they are completely closed source and effectively unfixable.

If you want a good printer on the cheap, try here: www.aliexpress.com/item/Black-Factory-High-Quality-Precision-Reprap-Prusa-i3-DIY-3d-Printer-kit-with-2-Rolls-Filament/32357171936.html?ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_9_79_78_77_80,searchweb201644_5,searchweb201560_8

It's $220, free shipping. It's a Prusa i3, easily moddable, fixable, and complete open source software stack. I know 2 people who have them. And aside the initial tuning (which is always fiddly), the printers are rock solid.
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks.
I have been wondering recently if analog computing would make more sense for certain search algorithms, like protein folding simulations. Basically, let a set of potentials be placed in the op amp setting representing position, and let them miller integrate the surronding charges and watch it evolve. Basically, physical modelling directly. Im not sure of the state of analog device precision, drift, and temp stability these days but it might be worth a try.
I don't even know what "demanding inclusion" means here.

Most complaints about Canonical's exclusivity underpin a utopian fantasy that everyone in the Linux community must converge towards one holy solution. Any deviation is considered "fragmentation" and brutally discouraged.
Being someone who is familiar the Connecticut segments of the highways mentioned it seems much like a false comparision. I-95 in that segment is the major artery from the US west of New Jersey and New York to Boston and most of the northeast, and I-84 is much the same (except it goes through Hartford and is consistently a disaster).

Most of the segments of I-95 and I-84 they will want to improve already are 2-lanes and are frequently stopped due to accidents. While I agree with the article's claim that the increase in economic activity in those areas is dubious it's something that is needed. If anything it's going to increase tourism traffic to points north as well as Connecticut as there is already plenty of traffic from NYC/NJ through to other coastal areas (RI, Cape Cod). Also this includes traffic from points north to the Connecticut casinos that are in the heart of the state which is another major inflow.

I just don't understand if the roads CalTrans are describing and the author is trying to demonstrate are really equivalent, where 'thru' traffic is just as vital as in-state to in-state traffic.
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This is what Code Hero, which I helped develop [1] tries to be. I hope this will have some success as well! With the right spark, there is a ton of creative fuel that can be channeled from excited kids into computer programming.

[1] http://primerlabs.com/codehero
I wonder if the point of the botnet is to get SERPs from Google? They stopped letting you know quite a bit of information about keyowrds, rankings, etc. a while ago.

Seems like there is lots of potential for blackhat SEO with this type of botnet.
I'd be much more scared to bike in Greensboro than in Manhattan. Drivers aren't used to bikes and the streets in some areas are poorly set up for biking (no shoulders, many lanes in each direction, high speed limits, so you have to cross four lanes of traffic with one a highway entrance to make a left turn).
Microsoft finds loophole in Sony exclusive Star Wars Battlefront marketing drive
Every once in a while, I hear about FPAA's (field programmable _analog_ arrays), but the concept never seems to take off despite serious efforts, even by Motorola in the 90's.

Isn't the GPAC the same thing?

I suppose the reason these aren't popular is because the use-cases are rather narrow (or at least usually implementable with an ordinary digital approach)?
Two rats, cocaine and one of the greatest life lessons
Hm, a bunch of relatively shortsighted and narrow-scope bullet points.

I like to summarize the trends and inaccuracies in the article as the "mainstreamization of the internet as the primary mode of life". The internet is now the primary technology for play, work, general communications, commerce, social life, and human knowledge. 10 years ago, the internet still had tinges of being a hobbyist project, and you probably wouldn't be able to find your grandma on Myspace or another equivalent. That era was a smarter, more innocent, and smaller time for the internet, though even then it was vast and deep.

The arrival of the TV cohort to the internet (via Myspace and Facebook's gateways) necessitated a departure from the non-commercialized function-emphatic early days of the net. The media companies correctly view these people as their money farm, and allowing them to escape to the internet isn't acceptable. As a result, we now have internet commodities (user information, paywalled content) that are sustained by the masses. In some ways, the commodification of the internet resulted in unification many smaller content and social sites into a few giants. During this unification, the depth and variety of content on the internet took a huge hit.

At this point, mainstream internet is approaching the locked-down nature of TV, though to the user there is significantly more freedom of customization of content to be consumed. For the most part, people who use the internet for Netflix and Facebook (and probably a few other big name sites) are viewing the same pre-prepared frame of content that they were via the TV, and getting more out of it as they did before in terms of content.

I have to say, there is very little for intelligent/technical people to consume on this mainstream internet relative to the days of yore. Watering everything down for proliterian consumption means that the deep, obtuse, technical, inscrutable, or complex content and discussion is forced far away from the "front pages" so as not to confuse or frighten the primary consumers who are largely treated like children. Of course, there's still bastions of sanity, but you'd need to seek them out or find them via word of mouth. It's not so bad, but effectively places like HN are tiny fiefdoms that are far removed from the reddit/facebook/netflix/whatever dreck that is dominant.
25 reasons why you should consume, publish, contribute to, and support open source
"Uses a separate process for every TLS connection" sounds scalable.
Another problem: if you were previously very conservative with your water use, then how do you cut it further? I have a coworker that years ago cut her water use dramatically. Now, she's in a quandary because she's being asked to cut it more. Her solution: family members now take showers at the gym.
Hm interesting, good point. Would have to check if the API returns the same results as the real search listings...
I wish there was a "Kinkos for 3D printing". It seems like the old copy shop model will work for 3d printing for a while.
More power than sense
Assuming binary-only distribution, you already have this problem for a multitude of distros. If you're employing such a proprietary model, you'll obviously have problems you'll need to overcome.

Assuming source distribution, I do not see any special effort required.

This is a protectionist, anti-choice argument.
The headline makes the claim that the idea of a language instinct that has dominated linguistics for decades is completely wrong. That's a much narrower claim than "there is no innate linguistic knowledge."
Just curious: What are you selling?
PONG in a chip
"This is an effective subsidy for "sprawl" and is a huge driver of why the US built environment looks the way it does."

To be fair, the subsidies are not mostly in highway building. Suburban feeder style streets (4-8 lanes with lights, turn lanes) get bigger subsidies and drive more sprawl. But even those are a smallish factor.

The big subsidy is free and cheap parking. Most American cities require that businesses and new homes provide enough parking for everyone who ever wants to come to park free. That's a subsidy equivalent to about $10-30k per car per year, depending on your local real estate costs. The outright majority of space in real estate development in the USA is devoted to satisfying this centralized Soviet style command-and-control mandate.

Countries with the most free market real estate development in the free world, like Japan, still build freeways. In fact, Japan has a silly amount of freeways because you don't even need or want a car usually. Those countries are different because they require a lot less parking.

So the induced demand and highway subsidy question is not the most central to the car dependence and sprawl question. Parking mandates are much more important to the way life is actually lived in America.
The person who wrote this could be an alien from the planet Zepton III, for all my ability to relate to him and his opinions.
Didn't downvote, am the author of the write up. Since I don't run Windows in the house any more, there's little opportunity for mods (I'm playing on the PS4). Tinkering with the network was fun in its own right.
Right, but the private key is also included(!), so anyone can now sign code that will be trusted by these computers.

Edit: Confirmed can issue ssl certs. https://mobile.twitter.com/_xpn_/status/668745489823768576
With Its 100-Gig Switch, Facebook Sees Disaggregation in Action
Interesting discussion. What's the definition of "fixed" and "broken" you're implicitly using in your argument?
> There's the whole elephant in the room of de jure segregation and disenfranchisement that significantly weakened the demand side's ability to engage in voluntary contracts. That's not some incidental thing to gloss over, but a clear case of crippling binary intervention.

How is disenfranchisement relevant? And why would legal segregation matter when blacks were a small part of the population? You could say that the USSR being autocratic is also not something incidental to gloss over (and I'd argue a far greater deviation from the ideal). Feudalism has always had "demand-side" problems, with or without legal roadblocks.

> There were plenty of land grant programs at the time... The federal government was weaker, but not as much as often presented...

Sure, but all of it amounted to very little regulation compared to any modern Western countries.

> You can't really characterize it as anything beyond that, the circumstances were rather unique.

True, but again, it was still closer to the libertarian ideals than the USSR ever was to communism, and it would be at least as equally disingenuous to conclude that we can't draw any conclusions from that era to libertarianism. Bear in mind that the Gilded-Age America was only the latest such experiment in the West. All other (older) examples of weak governments gave rise to feudalism and similar results.

So while libertarianism later created a well-formed political theory behind free markets and low regulation, it is a stretch to claim that its practices have never been tried. If a valid experiment can be nothing short of full global libertarianism, then it will forever be a beautiful utopia in the minds of the precious few who still prescribe to that ideal.