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> What if the paint coating [...] contained markers which could be more readily tracked.

The ocean provides huge amounts of dilution.
Absolutely. Their mistake was not making it open source sooner and the development is going very slow, too.

It was inevitable that once a good cross-platform open source editor is available many people would jump ship.

ST is a great editor, but Atom has already surpassed it in most categories, thanks to the community. You can't beat that with a small team working on a closed source editor.
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Can we take “learn python the hard way” off the sidebar?
So... when will you start a Kickstarter campaign?
If there were a special tax on heart rate monitors that _are_ medical devices, and FitBit was calling theirs not a medical devices to avoid paying that tax, then the analogy would be reasonable.

The whole employee/contractor thing is all about payroll taxes. You have to pay them yourself if you get a 1099, but your employer pays them if you're on a W-2. Employers have a much better track record of paying that, so the government wants to avoid too many 1099s.

I've been a contractor before. I got a W-2, but no benefits. Now everyone is happy.
The argument against Standard Oil was that it kept prices low until their competitors went out of business or were cheap to acquire, and then raised prices as a monopolist.

Simply keeping prices low to keep the competition away is just competitive markets working - there's no benefit to consumers in the entrance of new suppliers if they will offer the same product at the same or higher price.
Nearly €2bn wiped off Renault's shares on reports of emissions probe
You can style it using CSS. How much easier could it be?
“Feet in Both Worlds: From Objective-C to Swift” by Andy Matuschak
Do you think a camera would be precise enough? This looks pretty awesome.
> I mean, you have to code your themes

Are you talking about themes in Emacs? Because if so, that statement is definitely not correct.

You can code your themes (and sometimes I do!), but it's definitely not the standard or only way of doing it.

If you're talking about Atom... Thanks for the info :)
Interesting. From my pov, it's just making a satirical statement. But I expect a lot of others will get a bee in their bonnet.

I don't think you can really do anything these days without someone taking offense, so you might as well just crack on with things.
Thanks for the explanation, that was great!

I imagine you could play Where's Waldo without changing screens. Just "find the next Waldo" on an ever changing scenario. The moment you find one, another is created at other spot.

Could be very addictive, although sounds kind of stressfull also.
"Your one-stop chill-out spot" :D
So you might be interested by the blog of Matt Keeter [1].
It's thesis is worth a read too [2].

[1] http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/
[2] http://www.mattkeeter.com/research/thesis.pdf
I seem to learn the same lesson again and again from all the press about startups and my own experience (both as an employee in many and CEO/Founder in another). If you join the startup for the money (doesn't matter if you mean salary or equity), you're going to have a bad time. But if you expect to get experience, career and professional growth out of it, you can get pretty awesome results regardless of how successful startup turns out to be.
Great article. Best time to join: either as a founder, or post the Oracle acquisition!

If you're going to take a risk, may as well maximise the risk/reward and be (co) founder. In the mean time enjoy a well-paying job you enjoy in a space that you'd like to disrupt; learn on the job, build your network, then leave to found the startup that will disrupt your previous employer...
Hi fellow hackers!

I am the maker of Uggozi. In Uggozi you can discover new places, meet explorers and spread the wanderlust to your friends by composing and sending them short inspiring picture postcards. Set a photo as wallpaper and be inspired the moment you open your phone.

The mission is to create a community where people can inspire and also help each other to be explorers.

This is just the beginning, we're working on new features and we hope to make it the best community of travellers, explorers and dreamers.

Would love to hear feedbacks :)
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Has there ever been any in-depth analysis on the cause of this slowness in windows-based computers over time? I got my work laptop around the same time as my Macbook Air - 4 years ago. While the MBA is still lovely (only flaw is that the battery lasts only ~4 hours) and the Windows laptop is truly awful, takes forever to boot and chugs along on simple tasks. I cannot think of what could be causing this, there was very little difference in their performance when I first got them.
I also use Gammu, smstools was new to me.

We've been using Gammu for over 5 years now for on-call alerts or other small services. It has worked very well with an ordinary 3G dongle you can buy to get mobile internet on your laptop. The SIM card is provided by the company since we're a large telco we get pretty much free unlimited SMS from them.

This has been used in two different data centres without any reception issues, even though they're properly shileded data centres and we have no external antennae.

Only issues have been forced re-seats of the USB dongle a few times a year, most likely due to oxidation on the connector.
When I saw the buzz around Holacracy I thought this isn't going to end well as the negatives and cliques that occur have been experienced before in bullying in high schools around the world, early Marxist movements with their purges and plenty of other situations that rely on humans being egoless and fair, when they're not.

I was also reminded of the story of the communes in Adam Curtis' All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2eagvn_all-watched-over-by...

Go to 46:45 for the bit that's relevant.

Eventually all that would happen with a Holacracy is that the people who drink after work and become friends would back each other up during meetings, the smokers would make decisions whilst smoking that the others have no input into, and the alpha personalities (sales, marketing etc.) would bully the beta personalities (tech, ops, support etc.) into submission, and anyone who is marginalised would look for others that have been marginalisd and form groups to support each other.

Next thing you know there's silos of power and dysfunction.

I'd bet that Hsieh is an Alpha, but a kind one, and thinks given the opportunity everyone would be as fair as he is.
With respect, you're only one person out of billions. Individually, I used it as well. And (as far as I heard), XMPP sucks for developers to implement and support, not necessarily for users themselves.
I don't agree that it's the UI that makes the difference here. I think it's the context. In an "email" like context, it's not uncommon to write a few sentences. However in a chat its usual only to write one or two sentences, wait for a response, and then respond to that again. Its not an mail that your sending and hoping to receive a response later, its instant chat. If you had just said "Hey, what a show last night! Pretty sure my ears will be ringing for the next week. lol", and then waited for a response before writing anything more, then you probably wouldn't look that desperate. It's not about the UI, it's about the expectations for the medium.
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> Vipassana is actually quite a new tradition

Hmm, no not really.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassan%C4%81)

It's dealt with in a couple of the Pali suttas afaik.
That's what I read in a couple of blog posts in articles by people who implemented it. I can't bring the up right now, but after one minute in google, I found this conversation to be quite interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2069810
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The point of Charlie Hebdo is to cause offence. They do this by pushing buttons - holocaust denial, anti semitism, sexism, racism, etc.

If you hate that then paying any attention to them at all is probably the wrong tactic.

EDIT: Although some of the tweets pointing out that it's about the press hypocrisy (lots of sorrow for dead children; condemning all male migrants as rapists) have a good point.
The simplest possible device can be an entirely self-contained GPS and sat modem, just needs a power supply.

When you can buy IFE units for $1500 per seat, it should be possible to build and certify such a device for much less than $120k.

http://airfax.com/blog/index.php/2015/04/09/lumexis-ipax-and...

That said, $120k is not an outrageous amount of money in aviation. A 777 costs $8700/hour in fuel and oil alone to operate.

http://www.what2fly.com/manufacturer/operating_cost/Boeing/7...
Heat loss is proportional to the temperature difference across the boundary (walls and windows and roof). Even when it's quite cold outside, heat loss slows down as the house gets colder, and then you still have all the phase change energy to dump before pipes freeze. This will not happen overnight except in the most extreme cases, and it certainly will not then warm back up to 60.

Anecdotally, I was once without central heat for three days in 0-20F, and nothing froze. The basement got down to 38.
Does anyone know if datasets generated by the search e.g. bathymetry are being made public?
I was inspired to check out AWK after reading this sentence from the book Masterminds of Programming:

"If I had to choose a word to describe our centering forces in language design, I’d say Kernighan emphasized ease of learning; Weiberger, soundness of implementation; and I, utility. I think AWK has all three of these properties."
It costs more than 100$ for macbooks: https://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&geo=Unite...

It's important to note how the retina macbook pro and 12 inch macbook are the most expensive - 70$ more than all other macbooks in the 11"-15" range. Probably because of their glued in battery that needs to be replaced as a whole together with parts of the case.
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A cool effect would be to have the painting actually looking at you using face recognition.

Freaky.
Some of the lighter business books are great to listen to as audiobooks while you are travelling - while walking through airports, waiting in line, on a plane. If the book is too complex, then you are better off reading the book yourself.
Outliers, Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Lean Startup, How to win friends and influence people.....
BART + fold-up bicycle?
> so what, i'm not supposed to have any good way to cut across the city and get to the airport?

If you come from inside the city, the city could (and should) have the transportation necessary.

If you come from outside the city, the article is only about intra-urban highways, not about circular roads to go around the city if you just need to go through to the other side.

> also in the world of automated cars we're about to enter i would think the amount of people you can transport via freeway would far outstrip rail

That makes very little sense.

> I love rail, but i feel like we're about to see rail become far less pervasive with automated cars / busses etc coming online. it will just be that much more convenient to get to where you're going.

I'd expect the opposite. With full car automation you remove the necessity for car ownership and parking, this means you can easily get automated transport to a hub, then use public transport from there. That's especially the case for intra-urban transport, even in cities with good intra-urban public transport there is very limited capacity and convenience to leave your car on the outskirt and jump on light rail or metro if you come from the suburbs or from a neighbouring city. Automated cars fix this, you just leave the car and it goes do something else, the other way around you can notify the system that you'll need a car when your traincar reaches whichever station, and it can wait you there.
I highly doubt people making all these lists recommending SICP, Code Complete and the dragon book have read those either.
Well, as I wrote earlier, as someone who has been fluently reading and listening to Spanish conversation, TV, magazines and books since childhood, I find it hard to believe that any significant number of Spanish speakers would automatically read the irony.
> I didn't mind it was unpaid, because I would not be spending money for 10 days either.

How much does registering for the course cost?
Don't care really what you do Microsoft. Your legacy of vendor lock-in, monopoly market, unethical business strategies and even bribes still lives on today with your toy OS. You set us back many, many years. Hopefully this free and open movement will be your undoing.

Unfortunately there are people here right now that are paid to shill your crap and constantly come up with excues like "things have changed". Yeah right, like I will forget what you have done.
A quick look at the follow up tweets and I'm glad I'm out of Twitter.
Offensive for who? Let's try to avoid double-standards here. Mohammed images were offensive for many people in the world as well, but West protected it. So if the images were okay, this one should be protected in the same way.
If you like vim and spacemacs, give proton-mode a shot: https://atom.io/packages/proton-mode
I'm pretty sure the fail safe for a furnace should not be on and blasting. In a well insulated house (well, not CA either) you could easily get the temperature into dangerous areas with a constantly on furnace, and you don't want that happening when asleep.
Well then we're three :)
we should encourage the universal adoption of

OPEN TRACTOR API 1.0
Ok, so according to you, what one should do is keep your mouth shut during the sale, buy an un-hackable machine and afterwards try to get hacking rights by "lobbying" the government. Imagine if you sold your product to a customer, he promises not to void your terms but then immediately he goes to the government to try to make it legal to void the terms he first agreed upon.

Don't get me wrong, I love open source, I love Linus/RMS for giving me such a beautiful product with which I make a living. But it was theirs to give, not mine to take. You have the same strange ethics as RMS, two consenting adults make a trade, based on rules known in advance (ie., you cannot see/alter the source code), no one was hurt and no one has anything to do with this trade... and yet... RMS calls this evil. Again: I prefer open source to anything but the rights are the creators to hand out and the customers to accept or not, that is freedom.

Buy a different Tractor or try to negotiate a deal before you buy a tractor. Or start a forum to gather a lot of people that John Deere may listen to. But don't buy it and then start crying you don't like it.

And "by that logic" I shouldn't post on HN if I don't like downvotes. But I agreed to this system before I post. I won't whine about it afterwards since the possibility of being downvoted/offended existed before I commented. By your logic I should now start to pressure the government to do something about these awfull comments on HN, because I don't like them.
I don't know. I haven't really paid attention. For me Atom is just free ST. It gets the job done for me.
Thanks, I will have a look. Mostly Go and Python at the moment, so I'm sure there are some decent meetups in London somewhere. I'm Clapham based.

Have you got any experience in London with meetups for people looking for work? I will need to hire at least 2 more devs this year for my startup and have no clue where to start. Certainly don't want to use a recruiter...
The decision to base Atom on web technologies remains controversial and it's still not as snappy as Sublime, for example, for similar tasks. But I think that decision has been vindicated by the speed of development it's made possible. Since the bar to entry for contributors is so low the ecosystem that's developed around Atom is second to none. You can find a package for just about anything and the UI polish of a lot of these packages is much higher than I've seen for any other editor, thanks to the ability to leverage modern HTML, CSS & JS.

Atom may never be as fast as a truly native client but it's perfectly usable now and is increasingly leaving the competition in the dust when it comes to features.
Hogwarts paintings!
Good point, very good point, but you too are skipping the first hurdle: Learning the name of the phone's user, or even narrowing the number of candidates down from millions to thousands.
Could it be more precise!? :)
Wow this is incredibly cool! I love the shy feature especially, to screw with the viewer :P

One question I have, though, is that since the aspect ratio of the screen is fixed, does that mean that all the photos have to be rescaled? That is kinda inelegant, I wonder if there's a way to fix it.
I think everyone has pretty much agreed on 1.09 GHz for ADS-B.

ADS-B isn't required for all aircraft but a substantial number of them are already using it. The other aircraft (that will be required to use ADS-B) still have some time before it's mandatory (2017 in Europe and 2020 in the U.S., IIRC).

Wasn't one of the issues with MH370 that some of the transponder equipment had been turned off?
Ahh! Yes, I see what you mean - interesting. In my limited experience with a hackspace I'd say it would be kind of true amongst themselves, but there is not much evidence of them wanting to show what they are doing to the outside, no blogs, no tweets, videos, conferences etc. It appears that all showing off is done within the group.
The whole 2 vs 3 issue is quite annoying when you are starting out with Python. I really, really hope that it is sorted once and for all either very soon or with Python 4, if that comes one day.

It's a great language but really off-putting when there is seemingly a war going on within it.
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The SSD of the Macbook Air is replaceable, it's just using a proprietary slot and form factor. It would have been just as possible with mSATA cards, and is just as possible today with M.2 cards. Apple could switch to M.2 today, as they switched between slot types all the time:
http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/768/images/LSI_blog-ss...

There probably also still would be enough space for one ram slot, it's not thicker than the ssd which also sits on top of the main board.
I don't know about fitbit so much. The main advantage to me isn't the hardware, it's that it all uploads smoothly to their website for tracking. If I got a different device I'd have one website for steps, one for weight etc...
So after your startup experience, somebody will shell out the big bucks to pay for your experience and professional growth? Or is it just that you can write more deep sounding blog articles in the future?
The wikipedia page is a good start, as it gives you an overview of the concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
Atom seems pretty nice these days, but why would a competent emacs user switch to atom?

Why would a spacemacs user switch to atom? Does it have any advantages?
In the UK we have built bypasses for most towns and most of the traffic goes around them instead of through.
Those advices are new informations to me, but they are all waters under the bridge. Peaces out! ;)

http://www.learn-english-today.com/lessons/lesson_contents/g...
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Let’s Rethink Space: Does space exist without objects, or is it made by them?
The only thing I've had trouble with is suspend/resume/etc on OSX which seems to hang gammu occasionally. I used the cheapest E170 I got from Ebay, the hardest part was messing with all the unlock tools to get it to play with the SIM in the first place :)
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This would imply that there is also a 10% chance we are currently looking at the first 10% of the country's existence, which means you have confidently calculated the odds of the USA lasting at least 2350 years at 10% based on absolutely nothing. These probabilities are nonsense.
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I don't know if it's intended, but I picked up a whiff of condescension from this comment.

I think it's worthy of celebration that the field has come so far that we can have such a thing as "practical programmers" who achieve very significant things in their respective business fields, without having to know much if any theoretical computer science at all.

Slight hyperbole: the CRUD app is basically the indoor sanitation of this century.

This is facilitated by lots of brilliant people who DID read and understand TAoCP (or equivalent), and it's a credit to their brilliance that so many get so much done without reading it.
What is your comment aggressive towards the OP? He presented his experience for anyone who might be interested. No one is being required to become aware of the OP's story.
Indeed. I stopped reading when I got to that line. Modern tractors are industrial production machines valued according to their output, and designed as such. These things are indeed complex, expensive, wonders of technology. Not only that, they are no longer simply tractors, they are now parts of systems.
To try to expand this a bit more, because Americans don't always understand Europe's limited version of freedom of speech.

In some EU countries holocaust denial is banned. Or anti-semitism is banned under race discrimination hate speech law. Or blasphemy[1] is banned. But that leaves a gap for hate speech against Muslims - they're not a racial group and they're not Christian, so there was nothing preventing for example the Mohammed cartoons.

So when Muslims protest the cartoons often they're not asking for much, they're just asking for something similar to what Jews and Christians have, or they're asking for the protections that Jews and Christians have to be relaxed.

In the context of the EU where freedom of speech is already limited that claim is not bizarre or out of place. Personally I'd want countries to remove some of the laws (eg, the blasphemy laws got dropped in England) rather than adding nebulous anti-Muslim hate speech to the law.

[1] EG, "Life of Brian" was banned from Glasgow cinemas for years because blasphemy; the comedian Stewart Lee went through a very expensive legal case for "Jerry Springer the Opera".
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As someone who implemented stuff for XMPP many years ago: it's a super complex, XML infested protocol that if implemented correctly can only result in a bad user experience. It gets a little bit better if you support only a subset of it (eg: you take away the federation aspect of it) and target a single server and assume you control all clients.

But it's really very tricky to get a good user experience with it and the protocol is just not at all fun to work with. If it would not be the darling of the open source community it would not have gone far.
I've heard that Atom doesn't really reuse CSS or (SASS/LESS sheet variables) in any meaningful way, meaning having consistent theming is hard, at least if you want to use extra modules and plugins.

He may be thinking about that?
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Is it me or the author is simply making assumptions based on his "intelligent point of view".

Here is my version: Urban highways create unparalleled amounts of wealth. By enabling people, businessman, police, firefighters to get from point A to point B faster; they boost the economy. They also reduce pollution, since you are not stuck in traffic.

But hey, I have no data to back this up.
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