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Obsessed with becoming an advertising company for the masses, they stopped "productizing" their technology. Amazon doesn't stop other people from selling stuff with AWS servers, but that's basically what Twitter did when it destroyed its own developer ecosystem.

The parallel with Slack is very apt. The only real strength of that platform is how easily and freely it integrates with third-party services. If Skype, Facebook or Twitter allowed that freedom and ease, Slack would have never appeared. Instead, they want to maintain an iron grip on who does what (or endorse a model where your corporate sysadmin maintains such grip, like Skype For Business does), and they lose.
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I have one next to my bed. Bought a used one that it roughly 20 years old ^^

I plan to replace the temperature sensor + controller with some 1 wire ones and use a raspberry pie to control the heater.

Some time ago I build a underwater speaker but the first experimental design is kind of quiet. It is unbelievable how expansive commercial once are. They are in fact just a speaker which use the plastic housing as membrane. Maybe I should print a housing.

As a addition I added a oxygen compressor to boost the oxygen level inside the tank. It is much more comfortable as the quite high humidity inside the tank is not that pleasant.

If you build a tank from scratch, I would say ~1500 € in material, depends how much you want to hunt for heap parts.

Nice things not many know:

you can sleep quite good in the tank. It's different form of sleep, but very relaxing. You drift more between the sleep world (DMT) and awake world (Serotonin). Very lucid dreams, sometimes multiple a day.

No, you don't rotate as those are reactions to pressures which you simply don't have. If you turn, you will awake. Usually those tanks are filled with bittersalt, which is very, very bitter and burns like hell ^^

I rotated once, because I had a very lucid dream about drowning and panicked after waking up. Funny thing, it was then when I actually rotated and drank a good sip of water ^^

You should not overdo it, as it may affect your ability to sleep in a normal bed.

If you spend longer time in the tank >9h-12h, depends on the person, you get hallucinations from sensor deprivation. A very interesting way to observe internal states without altering them first. But of course, it's only nice if you know that you can open the door anytime you want. Once you spend some time in it, you understand why this can be abused for torture as well :(
No, you're confusing open source and source available.
It is open source, but it's not FOSS.
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Paying for Wired does nothing to ensure you won't be tracked anyway.
They needed to really hire non SF based techno geeks and advisors

Twitter should be led by someone who is strong in PR. PR is where Twitter has excelled most.
I believe neither Jack Dorsey nor Dick Costolo are even known outside of the tech industry, how can they manage a PR product if people barely knows them? Even Scooble would be a better fit than Jack Dorsey.
If I were Twitter I'd put in charge some well known public figure with connections in the media and movies industries.
Wow -- the fact that this allows deployment of a "regular" Django application to Lambda is awesome!

Have you checked if Postgres works via the py-postgresql driver? It's implemented in only Python 3, with all C optimisations optional.
This post was way more interesting than the blog article.
Like many other things in life, you don't need an apple laptop. Some developers prefer it over Win* for example, but it isn't a be-all, end-all. I personally prefer mac, but i know competent dev's who use Win* . I think it comes down to your preference. Go in an apple store, and try one out.
Yeah, you really have to cull it. If someone in your timeline isn't posting things you enjoy reading, remove them. I use it primarily as a media consumption device; I follow people who create and say things I enjoy. I only follow one or two personal friends. The idea of using it for any serious communication is ludicrous.
POSSE is along the lines of a higher set of principles to aspire to: in essence where some system under your control is the first place that you publish your content (social posts. blog posts, photos, pretty much any of your content)...And then, your content gets sent out to other distribution points (e.g. facebook, twitter, etc.). It basically increases the value of your web presence to a system that you can control, instead of depending on an outside platform that may not have your interests as its primary goal. While GNU Social is one (out of many) types of tools/platforms that can implement/help achieve some of those POSSE principles. See also: http://indiewebcamp.com/principles
Shame to hear that, I had hoped things had improved a lot. I tried it early on, then tried to open something like a 100M file and it threw an error about loading "large files".
"Tactical" label is mostly empty fluff, "milspec" means it meets a published military specification -- which, absent specifying which specification, is also fluff.

So, if the point of your analogy is that this use of the AAA label is empty fluff, then, mission accomplished.
Maybe we've reached the point where everybody has it :)
Or too many noisy people. Some folks can literally drown your timeline.
I assume many hackers play instruments
Define "run better". They're enabling it, but I fail to see why it should run better.
Is there a story behind the project's development?
"together with their hundreds of millions of followers"

For no particular reason I can determine, we've temporarily merged the cultural / social automation technology for personal friendships with fanboy relationships with social status signalling. Future systems are unlikely to be identical clones of past systems.

This seems usable for personal relationships. Quite possibly automation for fanboy relationships might be a totally different service and technology. Maybe in the future people won't do geolocated at all. Or maybe status signalling will go out of style in the larger culture.

Sometimes coincidences don't matter.

The rest of your argument is the eternal wheel of IT which never stops rotating between centralization and distribution. Much as we had mainframes in the past and have centralized social media today, the wheel will rotate thru yet another decentralized phase soon enough. It never stops rolling.
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The fact that the Swedish prosecuting authorities have persistently "refused ‘unreasonably and disproportionately’ to ‘question him through alternative means offered under the process of mutual assistance’" is precisely what generates the suspicion that they are not acting with honest and transparent motives, leading one to pretty quickly conclude that it seems likely that their real intent is to simply hand Assange over to the US.
wouldn't it make more sense to focus on AWS offerings for Unity3D/Unreal Engine instead?
Health and life insurance regulations would presumably have very little to do with your payroll.
Is there any chance of some ARM builds? (pretty please!)

(also, congrats!)
The mic I have works across the room, but e.g. our living room is arranged in such a way that sometimes you sit with your back towards where the mic is. In that case, you have to turn around and address the mic, as it were. Also, when you're all the way across the room, you have to speak up - not just talk at conversational level, or mumble under your breath as I tend to do.

How well does the Acousticmagic work in such cases? Can you speak away from it, and will it still pick it up? Furthermore, how well does it work wrt background sound filtering? Does it hear you when the tv is on, or when children are playing or similar cases? Those are the main cases in which my setup requires speaking up.
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isnt the main problem with C#, Java and similars the garbage collector? which can at its worst kick in while you're in the middle of a fight or something. Even if its just 20ms, in a online FPS it potentially makes the difference between winning and loosing it.

edit: I am a Java guy myself, and would like to do some amateur gamedev in that direction (online FPS), but im worried about above mentioned point.
For those commenting here that they can't get into Twitter, but love Facebook, try stepping away from Facebook for a month, but leave Twitter available as an alternative. I think you will find after a month that it is much more enjoyable and useful. I think the real world analogy would be that Facebook is like going to a party where you know everyone already...it's safe and comfortable. Twitter is more like moving to a new city where you don't know a single soul. It's scary and overwhelming, but once you adapt, a whole new world opens up to you. By taking Facebook out of your daily life for a bit, you might get to experience this whole new world...if you wish to do so.
How is the user supposed to know how many people is a good amount to follow? I think that is Twitter's problem, not the user's.
Twitter is not a great way to interact with your real friends. It's best at connecting perfect strangers with shared interests. You cultivate and refine your followees until, any time you look at your feed, it's bound to be filled with pithy and relevant observations, some of which may inspire you to tweet your own bons mots.
Can I use GameLift client SDK for browser games? It doesn't look like it but can't find a clear answer.

(Also GameLift server SDK is Windows only, requires visual studio http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gamelift/latest/developerguide/se...)
Gitlab is quite impressive. I've dropped bitbucket for it. I still love github, I find its best use case for me is a great repository of code samples(I've also contributed to several projects ); the social aspect is valuable (to me) because generally the most starred projects are of the highest quality, it's a valuable vetting process.

The curse of the growth hacking is this: there's a fixed number of top developers and hackers on this planet. Once you've crossed that number, the next new user's input decreases the signal to noise. This happens everywhere. (not pointing any fingers to not get down votes... :-)

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It's funny that pointing out that someone made 10% RoI is spitting on walls. It's not a fantastic return, but it's certainly not a failure.

But that goes to the original problem: YC participation is advertised as a way to make money beyond your wildest dreams, but the only people who can actually expect to do that are investors. So many good and competent founders fail that even a modest success is enough qualification to lead YC; at the same time, the fact that so many good and competent founders fail is so taboo that pointing out that YC's president was only modestly successful looks like an insult.

And, to bring this back on topic, it is more-or-less this taboo that compels companies like Zenefits to prioritize stupendous growth over complying with the law. They could have grown cautiously and still made well over a 10% RoI, but they wanted to gamble harder.
Q1 net loss of $162 million, it's easy to loose money, much harder to turn a profit.
Sure, there are browser plugins to override the HTTP user agent header and in my experience impersonating Google Bot works quite well. On the other hand, this tactic runs afoul with sites detecting your UA for browser specific hacks (especially with HTML5 video) or parts of a sites where bots are blocked by policy.

Also the IP ranges of search bots are more or less well known, so it would be trivial for publishers to block this kind of hack, if they wanted.
There's lots of words that mean straightforward (to be frank / blunt / candid / brutal / clear / straightforward / abrupt / etc) but honesty is something else entirely.

The comparable phrase 'To tell the truth, ...' is even less ambiguous (yes, it's idiomatic, but that shouldn't let you ignore semantics).

As for amazon reviews I rarely expect people to be especially honest -- if they self-assess as being extra honest despite swag, that's less compelling.
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I know that it's blocked in Russia at least because of hosting some drugs-related content.
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500k flow ccy spot via voice? I think you are joking. It's easier for a client and a bank just to trade via an electronic platform. The voice trader would likely direct the client to his on screen rates and he would trade there. I suggest anything under 15mn would be traded via screen.
What is their revenue stream? Most people I know use third party clients that show no ads or similar. Feels like everyone who has used it long enough ditches the Twitter.com apps and websites. If they stopped supporting access through third party clients a huge amount of (power) users would disappear and with them their content.
I think too many companies have pulled forward demand through easy credit. Things have caught up, and all the demand at present was already sold to the past.
I think the MXL is the cheapest conference mic around that is USB and gets good reviews. Also in my experience the quality of the mic is more important than the voice recognition software/model.
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If you rely on Django or another open-source project, can you afford not to help fund it?
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That's a contradiction "FOSS" encompasses the software which meets the (nearly-equivalent in practical application) FSF Free Software definition and/or OSI Open Source definition.

If it is open source software (which this is emphatically and expressly not), it is FOSS.
Just use ConEmu (or get off Windows) if you need a terminal. It's still far more fully-featured than the Console Host will ever be.

The stagnation in cmd.exe (and even PowerShell) appears to be a casualty of Microsoft assuming that point-and-click would take over the world completely, which clearly hasn't happened in development. I still shake my head at the ops nightmare that is RDPing into hosted Windows Servers.

As one of the sibling posts here notes, there's really no reason to use Windows Server for anything, unless you have legacy applications to support. They're going to have to do a lot, lot more to make this a competitor.
I find GitHub rather ironic. Git was created in the first place to pick up the pieces after the BitKeeper debacle [1]

BitKeeper is/was a proprietary VCS platform, which enticed in developers by providing a free (gratis) version for FOSS projects. Sound familiar? When the "no reverse-engineering" terms were inevitably broken, access was revoked and many Linux kernel developers who'd come to rely on BitKeeper found themselves out of luck.

Torvalds et al wrote Git to replace the functionality of BitKeeper. Not only did this give those devs who'd come to rely on DVCS something to use (IIRC, Torvalds himself sent/received patches via email; a workflow which is well supported in Git), but it would ensure that no one entity could have too much control over Linux (and other FOSS) development.

Then GitHub came along, a proprietary VCS platform which enticed in developers by providing a free (gratis) version for FOSS projects, and quickly overtook previous alternatives like Gitorious, and became a single entity with too much control over FOSS development.

Whilst I admire GitLab's work, since Gitorious went away I'm reluctant to advocate such a single point of control/failure again. I now host my git repos on my own server[2], with a static HTML interface generated by git2html[3] (with a few tweaks [4]). Patches are welcome by email.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper
[2] http://chriswarbo.net/git
[3] http://hssl.cs.jhu.edu/~neal/git2html/
[4] http://chriswarbo.net/git/git2html/
Unfortunately, NC is one of those things that is intuitively appealing to a lot of people--"I'm happy to give my stuff away for free but I don't want someone else to make money off of it". But it breaks down with essentially any non-trivial use.

Yes, using a photo off flickr as a screensaver on my home computer is clearly non-commercial but, really, who cares if that usage is properly licensed or not. Pretty much any substantive use could be argued to be commercial in some way, shape, or form.
Haven't tried that yet - want to give it a shot? Pull requests welcome! :D :D
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Doesn't even sound like the GP is even following anyone. I've known a few people for whom the twitter interface and, well, really, the whole platform, just doesn't make much sense. It never clicks with them. None of these people had the "whoah... you're following way too many people!" problem. Almost the opposite, in most cases.
"if you're developing a fast-twitch action game or shooter - a GC pause might drop enough frames to matter there, but for most games, Java or C# should be fine."

Are most games adventure, puzzle solving, or turn-based?
Now that I think about it, public education is great training for a future of working in open-offices. You learn to accept that you have to wake up at an arbitrary time, spend eight hours getting very little productive done, whilst being bombarded with noise, interruptions, and politics, then if you want to make any real progress, you have to do it afterwards on your own time, outside the school/work day.
So you're basically saying Twitter should be the next Yahoo!. That didn't work out so well for them. Besides, media people are the ones who actually like Twitter as it is now: top-down broadcasts in a controlled environment with ads and analytics.

If I were Twitter I would poach Amazon executives and make them flog the company into shape: lean, dogfooding, pushing out services to the tech community, and letting new paradigms emerge before co-opting them.
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Thank you for this reminder, we owe IBM a lot for their early Linux efforts.

I was pushing Linux into production, hard, for a very large company in the late 90s, with only limited success. It wasn't until 2001, because of IBM, when the nearly fanatical resistance to Linux started to fade.
This looks interesting but is hard to read in the online form (the black on gray is particularly taxing on the eyes). Do the authors plan to make a PDF available, esp if more readable?
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This is really cool! However, I was somewhat disappointed that it only models a linearizable memory (each low-level operation atomically acts on the same global state). It would be great to teach people that they can't actually think about memory this way, since various reorderings are possible. The UI design gets a lot trickier, but this could become a great way to teach people how to deal with things like atomic instructions, memory fences, and the differences between the x86 and ARM memory models.
Their only agenda should be to promote democracy and educate people about it. It's hard to tell if they hold up to that but, personally, I trust them to be objective (and most people in Germany would agree, I guess).

Anyway, the pieces they publish are just translations from newspapers around Europe. It looks like they select them in order to outline a variety of political positions. It's very interesting to see how different the same incident is perceived in countries like Hungary, Spain and the UK, for example.
Is there any way past the first level besides logging in with facebook?

A friend of mine just started (yesterday) looking at Ruby stuff and this looks awesome, but I wouldnt recommend any service that has an impassable FB login after level 1.
That one seems far more fair to me though, just because you're limiting it to a certain distance around your particular shop (and I know gyms are super competitive so the protection measures make sense).

It's not like you're saying you can't get a job or own a gym anywhere on the planet for one year after your resignation or something to that effect.
Developing software means you're standing on the shoulders of the opensource giants. Let's feed them from time to time :-)
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Try switching to Adblock Edge, if for no other reason than it doesn't have the whitelist. No idea if Forbes is on the whitelist. However I use ublock now. (Firefox not chrome also, if it makes a difference)
Even that's not entirely accurate. Japan is larger than the UK. That's England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland combined.

Japan is actually closer to the size of Germany - which isn't a large country but certainly isn't small either.
That is not correct. You can set the timeout to the maximum if you want and you only pay that when the call does not complete.
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Also, arkOS: https://arkos.io/
The Erlang scheduler is very interesting. I attempted to reimplement it in JavaScript with some success. It works like the first version of the scheduler but I could see web workers being used to make it more like the current version. https://github.com/bryanjos/processes
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True as far as it goes. Modern GC can mostly be done concurrently (it's only heap compaction that requires stopping the world). Fully pauseless GC is very much possible (see e.g. Azul C4), as are e.g. architectures involving multiple short-lived processes with individual heaps. Even without that, it's often possible to do a relatively small amount of manual work to do the things that require pausing only at appropriate times.
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Silly me trying to read a news article: https://twitter.com/ColdPie1/status/654350476612272128
Seems like it wouldn't even be a fight, I'm not sure I'd want to work for an employer that would so readily throw me under the bus like that anyway.
Not exactly. One from Japan, one from China, one from Germany, and one from France.

Medical studies are often limited to a particular country, for regulatory reasons. So most ResearchKit apps choose to restrict their App Store availably (and ask for a confirmation during the setup process)
"computers get faster"

Not everywhere. Phones, tablets and older or low end laptops are very popular.
That's how things used to be. However, the meaning of words is decided by their usage.

My attempt to summarize the new meaning of the word hacker is "any person who employs (especially technological) ingenuity to solve a problem".

Full explanation: https://scott.arciszewski.me/blog/2014/08/cause-and-infect-w...
I add that $1 a week is probably out of touch with reality. It assumes that people goes to Wired.com to browse articles at least few times per week. I might be wrong, but people lands there coming from sites like HN or from Google searches. I'm among this group of people. That means that we read a few articles per month, maybe none at all. Paying even as little as $1 for something I might use and maybe not is out of question. Imagine if I'd have to do that for any random web site I land to. Unfortunately for them the very existence of the hyperlink and the zillion of other news outlets makes paywalled site an as sustainable business as paid web browsers.

Still, if I could pay on demand, 1 cent per article, I'll consider it. Show me an abstract first and remember that I'll remember if your content is really worth that cent. If you think it's tiny, divide the price of a paper newpaper by the number of articles it's made of and we get to that order of magnitude.
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