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You're looking for something like:

l8n_context.format('file_not_found', file)

'file_not_found' is just an identifier to lookup the actual format template (likely a format string) that will be combined with the file object to render the error message.
Drone Year in Review: Top drone stories from 2015
I was most surprised by the linked research ethics - http://jepsen.io/ethics.html

I think this is a resonable approach to getting funding but also being open/transparent about it.
> Ownership of The Beatles catalogue would remain unchanged from 1969 to 1981 when ATV was sold to an Australian business tycoon named Robert Holmes à Court. Prior to the sale, McCartney had the opportunity to purchase the catalogue from ATV for $40 million. He approached Yoko Ono to see if she wanted to split the cost, but she insisted the catalogue wasn't worth more than $20 million so they eventually declined. To his credit, at the time McCartney was personally worth hundreds of millions of dollars and could have bought the catalgue outright himself, but he feared that buying the songs on his own would make him look greedy and disrespectful of John Lennon's legacy.
I have a fairly big head as well (I can't really wear an adjustable baseball cap for instance, unless I cut my hair short), but the DK2 worked for me, with a little room to spare. It also worked for my 4 and 7 year old kids.
I would wait until after CES 2016 to make a decision, HTC is meant to have a big announcement:

http://www.techradar.com/news/wearables/major-htc-vive-break...
Uncle Bob's Programmer's Oath: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2015/11/18/TheProgramme...
This looks really cool. I went ahead and added it to the Arch User Repositories[0].

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pipecat-bin/
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The worry is, as time goes on, it will become harder and harder to "bolt on" Linux (or OSX) support.

Being cross-platform is a design decision, and it effects how you go about developing your platform (what technologies you use, etc...). So the fear is, they'll go down the Microsoft path and find it difficult to bring in other platforms down the road.
Exactly.

So the take away is that in order to avoid burnout you need to mindfully develop the skill of 'stopping work'. While that is easy when you work on a factory line and you can't bring the tools home, and its really really hard when your job consists mostly about thinking about how to solve a problem.

I found early on that since I really enjoy programming I couldn't "stop" instead I had to shift to one of my projects so that it would be more enjoyable for me. That works a bit but not as much as sitting on the deck of a mountain cabin with no Internet connectivity does :-).

But the bottom line is figure out a way to "not work", whether it is by reading, exercising, or doing some hobby, so that you don't let the stress of work overwhelm you.
Uh, they still haven't added decent screens to the classic X/T thinkpad models.

A 16:9 screen is bad enough, but looks even worse when the laptop's frame is 16:10.

Also, still offering 1366x768 TN screens is really embarrassing, especially on expensive machines like these.
Tata (a large automobile company based in India with cars globally) invested $100m in Uber. I imagine there will be more from other companies.
This really hit home for me. I was recently looking for a job so these ideas are fresh on my mind.

What I have been trying to figure out, is it better to work for a company that has a good product strategy, or an other wise good company without a product strategy? At the time, my thoughts were to find a company that needs a product minded developer. A company that has everything else figured out but product.
I was going through this process for a while before I came to the conclusion that I needed to pick up an artistic hobby. I figured my entire life was very unbalanced towards technical betterment and improving my technical skillset. I took up photography as a hobby for my off-time. I no longer think about work when I'm not there or there's not an emergency with someone paging me. It's a really nice feeling to be able to apply the same amount of mental hyperactivity to something non-technical. Just don't fall into the gear obsession trap!
"Almost any work in history had and 'end', i.e. you could finish it."

I'm unsuccessfully trying to think of any examples. Fine arts painting, maybe?
"3rd to market"?

The first consumer VR hardware on the market was the GearVR, made by Samsung AND Oculus.

The second consumer VR hardware on the market is likely to be the Oculus Rift (Q1 Jan-Mar shipping) and the Vive is likely to be the third to market (est. April shipping)

This is nothing like the developer previews from years ago. You should read up on the major differences from the DK1->DK2->CV1. Each was a massive leap forward in capability.

Note: I've been developing VR for 1+ years and own every VR headset.
GM has good reason to make risky decisions, since the taxpayers will likely be asked to support the company a second time if it runs into trouble. As a taxpayer, I would like them to be as safe and stagnant as possible, but I have no say in the matter. This is the moral hazard created by the bailout.
Presumably because they want to be able to justify the pricing by telling you all about the new stuff they put into the thing, and they want to time details of the product with a big unveiling and marketing push.

Just announcing the price without details of what you're getting for it is just going to make a bunch of forums and subreddits very angry in the way only gaming communities can get really angry.
Based on the prices they have in Europe, I'm not sure how predatory their prices are (I know that they operate at a loss in China and India). In term of treatment of drivers, there's also been a lot of issues before in countries with Taxi companies owning the medaillon and not treating the drivers well either.

From my experience talking to Uber drivers in Paris and Lisbon, they're often employed by a separate company that hires them and provide them with a car (That's uberX, not uberPop though since uberPop is illegal in both of those countries). The few drivers I met who were independent were quite happy with the opportunity they had.

In the end, the problem is that in quite a few countries, Taxis are a regulated business with rules that have been created not for the benefits of the customers but instead to guarantee the benefits and monopoly of the existing taxi owners. And Uber (and other companies that are sure to follow in it's wake if the barrier of entry are lowered) helps counter that.
Yeah, you might not be cooking and serving off hours, but you're going to be doing marketing, you're going to be doing purchasing, you're going to be talking to clients about locations, you're going to be fixing your recipes when your order of beans didn't come in right, or when the price of ketchup spikes.

If you own your business, no matter what, you are always thinking of your business. Especially when your business is small and will always be small enough that you're the only significant leadership in the entire company. You won't be doing too much delegation of responsibilities in a food truck.
I think in the tech world if the founders feel screwed they'd just bail and start a new company. The Beatles not only got screwed but essentially had to continue running their company under the agreement for 10 years.
"Please note: this lot includes a code license"

For a fragment shorter than a tweet. It's a stretch IMO.
Real-time web monitoring service launches out of limited beta
This is one of the reasons why you should send documents like this as a PDF.
Well said. Running a food truck is one of the most ridiculous businesses out there.
And you never finish gathering food. As soon as you do, you eat it and you need more.
Npm shrinkwrap hell
Even if all cars are self driving, these cars have to come from somewhere. The rental model may in the end provide more profits, because it has built-in repeated charges.
> If a backwards compatible, "IPv4.1" version would have been deployed, designed to route transparently through the legacy IPv4 infrastructure, then public routes could have been restricted to the legacy field for a number of years by IANA.

So endpoints would not have publicly routable addresses, and your packets would be sent across the Internet encapsulated as IPv4. Isn't that just NAT? It would work, to the extent that NAT works today, but it wouldn't get us any closer to having a publicly routable network with more addresses (you'd still get undebuggable problems whenever you tried to switch on public routing), and it wouldn't address the real problem which is not just IP address exhaustion but also class A, B and C exhaustion. What do you do when a new datacenter wants to connect to the Internet? Give it a single IP taken from the middle of a block owned by the same company? That's your "route explosion caused by exhaustion itself" right there.
I tried a similar thing once for my country but the market was too small. I'm interested in knowing how you're using NNs.
Original Affluent Society
This gets back to the point that Swift is not a functional language. By default, the closure is capturing an immutable reference - the fact that the value might change is implicit to the way you must think about programming in a non-functional language. The mechanism to capture a constant value is to declare it in in a capture list:

var f = {[i] in print("hello I'm a callback and i =", i)}
Sure (I was aware of most of that in general, but not the specifics), which only slightly alters my point, which is that major automakers have lots of experience in finance at certain levels. GM may have sold off a large portion of the division that handled this for them, but I would be surprised if there's not still a lot of people with quite a of of experience in finance embedded somewhere in their org.

My real objection is to thinking of automakers as not having finance as core to their business. The vast majority of new car purchases are financed in some manner[1], and many of those are through the financial divisions of the automakers[2]. To my eyes, finance incentives are core to their marketing, and marketing is core to their business.

1: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/09/car-financin...

2: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-financing-insight-id...
> He's complaining about mutable state

Bindings rather than state, the author has no issue with captured objects being mutable, only with the captured environment being mutable.
Major trade shows in the coming months are your best bet. I assume you're in SF and the next best SF event to demo would be GDC in March (if you can wait that long)
No I used to do OSI based networking for the UK's main x.400 domain - and we knew about the ip4 address exhaustion back then and I looked at some of the initial proposals.

By the late 80's it was obvious that the way that ipv6 was proposed was not tenable - it should have been killed 20 years ago.
Exactly. Half Life 2 worked when hardware was 10x slower than today. Lots of 3D games worked even before that. They just didn't look like Star Wars Battlefront.
Have a big touch screen in the car that shows the destination and the route the car is going to take? And allow you to drag/drop to alter the route similar to Google Maps?
Yeah... Maybe change it to a cat crawling into a pipe? Depicted from the side?
>The US Treasury made a ~ $2.4 billion profit on a $17.2 billion investment

Factor in the interest USA would have saved by paying down the national debt instead. Additionally, consider what private investors would have returned with the same investment and what they would have paid in tax on personal income if they had never been taxed that $17.2b instead.

They won on this one, we can point at the various Solyndras the USA has bet on and lost while we are at it. This ignores the fact that we don't mail taxes in for government to act like a massive VC. We send the cash in so they can fix the 'crumbling roads and bridges', service debt and help the poor we are always hearing about.
The bailout was massively profitable for the government and every penny has been repaid. Investing in innovation is exactly what a company like GM should be doing and our tax dollars are in no way involved in this.

Edit: didn't make money on GM http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-gm-treasury-idUSBREA...
Made lots of money overall: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/20/business/us-signals-end-of...
No I am thinking of the fact that code gets bigger, since assets get bigger, which results in execution is slower.

Actually there is a whole domain of application for which 64bits coding results in slower code.

Plus extending memory address space results in slower memory access. L1, L2, L3 caches are hardly accessible from python/ruby/...(ahhh using register is sooo fast).

Which in turn results in more watt/instructions.

Nowadays, the IT industry might be the leading one in its contribution to fossil energy consumption.

Do we need to add coal plants to support the cloud insanity bloating web pages to 16Mb for applications that are hardly more than 8 operation calculators to tell you how "green" you are?

I have a degree in ASIC design. Modern x86_64 architecture is insane. It has a lot of hidden complex mechanic built in that are de facto additional CPUs inside the CPU for on the fly optimisations (memory+OOP), "security", buses, plug n'play...

And who pays?

Actual IT industry is literally taxing the masses for something they neither ask nor need.

The IT is locking consumers in arbitrary choices that results in higher costs.
>that military veterans tend to be very successful in this space

Most, if not all agencies, have a mandate to prefer veteran run businesses. That means, you may have a great product with great pricing and a great reputation, but the mediocre product or service owned by a veteran will win out 100% of the time.

Some then have preferred women or minority run business as well. Then the bureaucracy, connections, patronage, etc on top of that. Its a very different game than what you're used to in the private world. This also explains why fed technology is so terrible. Its not remotely a meritocracy.
Taxicab number
Did anyone try installing it on Linux? If so I'd love some pointers, I tried unsuccessfully tonight.

It seems it was build solely for Pi, I don't think there will be issues though since it is written in Python
Given that those talented engineers were not trained de novo by any of those companies it is a fair bet that they joined for a potential upside and could be bought by Lyft+GM under the right circumstances. There were people willing to actually go work for Uber in this space so, obviously, anything is possible...
Don't cross contaminate passwords or utilize like passwords.

So don't use the same passwords while utilizing tor that you have used with other accounts.

Or use similar passwords naming schemes. So if you are in the habit of using '@' for 'a' then try to avoid that and use random schemes.
The X220 takes 16GB, and an onboard gig-e Intel nic. It was released in 2011.
There's now an OLED screen option in the new X1.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/lenovo-x1-carbon-adds...
Playing Poker with Elixir (pt. 5)
Well it's...memorable?
"G.M. will also work with Lyft to set up a series of short-term car rental hubs across the United States, places where people who do not own cars can pick up a vehicle and drive for Lyft to earn money. Daniel Ammann, president of G.M., will join Lyft’s board of directors."

This reminds me very much of the taxi model; where the driver is going to start the shift in the hole and has to work their way out of it.
Over $350 if this article/interview[0] is to be believed. $350 is the "ballpark" but more, so likely less than $500 but more than $350.

If I had to pull a figure out of the air: $425.

[0] http://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-founder-palmer-luckey-explain...
Would I use it? Possibly.

Would I pay for it? Almost certainly not.

My most important accounts are protected by Two Factor Auth which is enough security for my needs.
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback--I think these are very fair comments.

When we first designed Jasper, it was just for us to hack around with, so regex matching, the priority system, the single-instance configuration, etc.--these all made a lot of sense for our use case (and the use cases that we foresaw w/r/t casual hackers). Our goal was just to make things simple and accessible (hence our focus on documentation). Since our initial release, Jan Holthuis has taken over much of the development, and he's put a big emphasis on abstracting out the STT and TSS libraries (as you mentioned) and improving the design more generally. My hope is that Jasper will continue to grow and mature, and that the suggestions and possibilities you mention become realities.
I agree pay for content on hackernews is very prohibitive and distracting.
FYI, on iPhone this shows up at maybe 2/3rds width of the screen with the rest as white space.
Standard marketing BS these days [0]. Announce the coming announcement for the pre-ordering of an unreleased product. A fake news event to generate the exact press they're getting.

I wouldn't be surprised if they announce the price before that timer goes away, just to get another round of press.

[0] Stuff like this is outlined in "Trust Me, I'm Lying" - http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulator...
Even the latest 5k iMacs don't meet the recommended spec for the Rift (due to the M390), but it will "work" ... it's just not guaranteed to perform at an optimal level.
haha yeah the trip to the hospital lasted less than a week thanks to the advanced way to remove appendix, but since then I started on the proper schedule of sleeping at least 7 hrs a day no matter what, diet, exercise and everything else, so getting enough sleep is the part of living a proper life and the hospital life I have to thank
Thanks! As you guessed, I missed it because lack of "" in search string. I've learned to assume Google is pretty much ignoring quotes nowadays. Apparently they're not.
Probably the better link is to the announcement of the pre-orders itself: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/oculus-rift-pre-orders-to-...

I'm confused though; why do a pre-announcement for an announcement about pre-purchasing a product that's only two days away? They should have simply opened up pre-orders immediately.

That being said I can't imagine they expect to sell much. It requires such a beefy PC (of which fewer and fewer are buying them nowadays for ultrabooks and tablets) and it's going to be expensive plus it won't ship with the touch controllers.

I think VR will ultimately become HUGE but until I can get one for at most $200 and use without a beefy PC I'll pass.
Well until Xcode 6 (I think). Neither xibs nore storyboards were indexable. Meaning if you wanted to find something related to your layout, you would had to search through xml. Also much easier to refactor typed code than xml ;)
Ibrutinib is neither miraculous, nor is it a cure for anything. Like any cytostatic, it has severe side effects, but it does disrupt a critical signaling path in certain types of B-cell cancers. It's an expensive drug that cancer patients can take to prolong their lives for a comparatively short period. It's not a cure.

Of course, since patients on Ibrutinib require daily doses, Pharmacyclics is golden for now, but only until better cytostatics become available or the patent runs out.

Even from a business perspective, this doesn't seem to be a particularly inspiring story. By rights, this company should have gone under, but then randomly struck gold. However nice this turn-around may be for the founders, there is no special insight, scientific or business-related, to be gained here.
1. Peacocks are sentient.

2. Morality is a human tool to think about human behavior.
RAM is the new disk - we're seeing a phase change whereby most data can be held permanently in RAM. For a laptop, this might not a lot of sense (until non-volatile RAM arrives), but for servers, RAM density is enabling multi-TB datasets to be held in memory. This will be transformative since it means that businesses can easily access memory like the big boys (Google, Facebook) using off-the-shelf software.
Big RAM? 16GB is a lot of RAM but it's not unheard of. My Thinkpad W540 has that much, which is standard in my company. I think any Mac can be configured with 16GB of RAM. 32GB is a lot, but of the four laptops they mentioned, only two of them support that much.
Was interested in this but from my reading of the docs it looks like it just queries a local instance of Wikipedia? So I couldn't ask "What's the weather today" or "Do I have an appointment on Saturday" or "Who won last night's Redskins game?". Which means it's a neat toy but nothing I'd ever use.
Morality is a human tool to think about human behavior. Applying it to nonhuman animals is a distraction.
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> Like working in a factory or something, where there is literally nothing I can do during the off hours other than relax.

My chemical engineer friend gets called into the plant all the time on nights/weekends when things catch fire.
Better link?

https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/oculus-rift-pre-orders-to-...

Also, no mention of the promised Xbox One controller among the bundled items. Wonder if they'll just be sending a coupon or something in the box.
React's learning curve is tiny compared to Angular. With React, you need to understand the component API, which consists of about 5 methods that one uses regularly, and the top level API, which consists of 2 (or just 1 if you use ES6 class syntax to create components).

And as the article points out, it's just JavaScript.
Tor was not designed for circumvention? Bypassing censorship is a primary design feature.