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+1 on mobiledoc-kit. We switched from a custom, hard to maintain and full of browser-specific quirks rich-text editor to mobiledoc-kit about 3 months ago. It's a world of difference in terms of stability and maintenance. It's still under heavy development but it's improving quickly and we're very happy with our choice so far. Kudos to the 201 Created team for this!
Companies will come up with smart ways of maximising the strengths and minimising the weaknesses of VR. They'll find that efficiency just the way office chat systems (Slack, etc) have done.

In the shortterm, they'll be saving money/time spent on offices and commutes or long-distance travel so they'll have an advantage in sales.
You could put a city like Hong Kong or Singapore in some part of the bay area, and put quite a few willing people in there.
Knowledge != Experience. Education, Sex, Race, pffh - all bullshit - experience trumps all of it. Top talent doesn't need bullshit technicalities and qualifications to shine and anyone that uses any of the above to tear others down has hit the glass ceiling of their own ability and see no other way to look good without tearing others down. In day to day life, these people sometimes seem like they are getting ahead, but in my experience, you can't escape karma and these folks almost always get weeded out over time (on a competent team).

I'm sure you've seen the image showing the creation of a simple program and the variations created during different stages of a programmers career (http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer....). You aren't the exception, you will find yourself following this exact progression in your career.

Oh, and mind your ego, rockstar's aren't worth the trouble if they are a complete asshole to everyone around them. No one, I repeat, no one, is worth so much. Also, don't tie your self-worth to your career and job level - it'll hurt 10x more if and when you get laid off or fired the first time. It's not personal, it's just business.

Last thing, no matter how valuable you think you may be to the company, the closer you are to the frontline of bringing new money into the biz and the easier this correlation is seen by management is the real measure of how important you are to the company. Sales is the lifeblood of any company, don't fool yourself into thinking technical ability by itself trumps someone half as good as you technically but 3x the salesman you are.
The only time you're actually investing in the company is when they IPO. That's what the market is primarily for, getting capital to companies that need it; after that however, the market also has to allow people to trade those shares with speculators otherwise there's no way to exit your investment. This secondary market is the other function of the market (what you just called investing in the flow of money in and out of a position). Both are necessary. Traders have always played the short term ups and downs, that's what makes them traders rather than investors and without them, there wouldn't be liquidity to exit your positions.
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I have no idea what your comment has to do with mine. If you read it again you'll see I imply nothing beyond the fact that Americans, as a group, suffer from poor health choices.
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I have a relative that is type 1. A couple of years ago he went on a no carb diet and at xmas he was telling me that he now uses a lot less insulin and generally feels a lot better. He also lost some weight (he wasn't obese, either, but he now looks very trim).

Have you tried something like that?
The word 'democracy', when used without clarification, is rarely intended to mean a direct democracy with 100% majority rule. Instead, it almost always is shorthand for a republic with representative government.

Here is a good discussion of these differences: http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/demr...
Indeed, that's the information that housing prices convey - how badly you want to move into a particular area. The problem is that the current residents of the Bay Area are using this demand to extract economic rents. They're even encouraging it: see how much easier it is to bring 10k office jobs to the area than it is to build 10k bedrooms.

I'm fine with limiting the size of the Bay Area, but not as a deliberate maneuver to move wealth from the tech ecosystem to the fortunate landowners in the area.
This is the first time I have heard "RAII requires exception".

But then reading the comments section, I get that the author completely missed the point.

The claimers, whoever they are, aren't claiming RAII needs exception for deallocation, which the author has covered.

But they claim RAII needs exception to handle resource allocation failures. Which the author is trying to undermine saying that is a rare case. Which probably isn't that rare.
5 Marketing metrics you should be measuring
Consumption metrics
Sharing metrics
Lead Generation metrics
Sales Metrics
Net user metrics

You can take a look at the in-depth post here http://www.iaexperiment.com/blog/marketing-metrics/
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The funny thing is, Intuit used to have a product called CPA Select that would connect you with a CPA to complete your taxes. It was even intelligent, so that if you'd started your return on TurboTax, the CPA could pick up right where you left off and didn't have to ask as many questions.

However I can't find it anymore, so I guess they discontinued it. Given how many people ask the same question you've asked, I guess they did a really bad job of getting the word out about it and didn't get adoption.
Kim is easily in the top 3 writers ever at techcrunch
Danielle Fong is a hero.
The pay in these sorts of articles is always overhyped. As with any business, the people making the most money at these kinds of firms are the owners of the firms. Consider this line

“As a trader, if you do well, you will retire before you turn 30,” said one employee on an industry message board.

That is basically 100% unattributed, unconfirmed bullshit.
> The only time you're actually investing in the company is when they IPO.

Well, no, anytime the company is selling shares you can invest in the company rather than the secondary market. The IPO is obviously the first such event, but it isn't necessarily the only such event.
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This selectively applied XKCD is relevant https://xkcd.com/1357/
They're not unusable, it just becomes a bit more inconvenient to use them. In my experience, you need to solve 2-3 captchas per site per new circuit (i.e. every 10 minutes, IIRC, although TFA mentions this might have changed recently).

Exit node IPs end up on a lot of block lists. This is not specific to CloudFlare. It's in the nature of a project like Tor that some of its users use it for things like comment spam, which is one of the things CloudFlare tries to block. This might very well be what most of their customers want - a lot of non-CloudFlare sites block exit nodes completely. They're also adding a whitelisting feature for those who want to disable those features for Tor users.
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I thought nuclide was released several months ago.
There's multiple confusing metropolitan areas, depending on what you want to count. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area which lists it at 7.44 million.

The 4.5 million is for San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, which notably excludes San Jose and things more associated with that part of the area.
Assuming they can get past the veto-2/3 majority dance. It also strongly depends on the nature of the EO. Major economic restructurings have been struck down before, though usually by judicial review. Military deployments, most infamously WWII-era internment, are less likely to be challenged - especially if they're perceived as "ephemeral" irrespective of consequences.
Some differences, from someone who knows far more about news and the news industry than they should (and I'm not in the industry):

* Very generally, the Times focuses more on investigative journalism and non-business news; the WSJ's priority is business news. But they both cover plenty in all fields.

* The Times is generally a little more prominent, the leading newspaper (and news source) in the world and the "Newspaper of Record"[1] for the U.S., but I'm not sure how that reputation benefits you, the reader.

* The Times' arts coverage is unquestionably the best and most sophisticated of any newspaper, if that matters to you, from film to theater to music to exhibitions to other 'fine' arts. However, it is somewhat New York-centric (it is the New York Times, after all, and NY is the center of the U.S. and global art world).

* Editorial: Even the best newspapers' standards of accuracy on their editorial pages are far below those of their journalism; they often are happy to print outright lies and propaganda either to push a political issue or because it's influential. IIRC, maybe a decade ago the Times decided they would raise the standards somewhat on their editorial page. Regardless, I find the Times publishes less outright bullsh-t; they have a politically diverse roster of columnists but the unsigned editorials are definitely liberal. The WSJ regularly pushes things like climate denial and other bizarre ideas (that serve the conservative, wealthy busiess elite) such as this one:[2] Personally, I don't read any editorials in any paper - they are so regularly ignorant of or lying about the facts and full of propaganda (that word again) that I never know if I'm becoming more misinformed by reading them.

* Other options: Also, I'd consider the Financial Times, the leading international competitor to the WSJ, which I think is just as good as the other two and provides a more diverse perspective coming from the UK. Certainly there is more overlap in coverage between the NYT and WSJ than between either and the FT - check out their site and you'll see many important stories you'd oterwise miss. The Washington Post also is excellent. I can't think of another source of serious news, in English, in the class of those four.

* IMHO: The WSJ is owned by News Corp (Rupert Murdoch), the same company that owns Fox News. Their demonstrated willingness to lie and push propaganda at Fox News, as well as openly use it to control the political process, makes me doubt that the same owners would have more integrity at WSJ. Their editorial page confirms my doubts to a degree. I don't trust it, though many others do. I don't completely trust the NY Times either, of course, but much more than their Manhatten neighbor.

I hope that helps.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_of_record - don't believe some Wikipedia editor's attempt to equate the LA Times and Washington Post with the Times. If any challenges its position, it's the WSJ.

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/wsj-defends-kristal... - It describes and links to the original, which is behind a paywall.
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Hah, never happen since the people who would vote on this are all on the Pharma take. Both parties, an equal opportunity bribery, which means nothing will ever change.
Why not another 8 million? The Bay Area could be Tokyo or London. NYC could finally become #2.

More than just people, entire industries might find this a better place to operate if housing were not such a burden on workers. No doubt this is an amazing place to do business, but in the long run "only the paranoid survive". In some parts of the Bay Area economy, jobs and factories have shipped overseas. Why is that? Could costs be involved?

There are also the huge secondary effects of dramatically reducing a key cost or other burden that reduce the creative potential of the economy. Where would we be without Moore's Law? Where would we be if we could do that in other parts of our economy?

In Taipei for example there is a huge supply of "small spaces" for small businesses, and this space is very cheap to rent. The price of food and other services are extremely low partly due to this, an important component of the amazing food scene that is happening there.

Much innovation and value are unleashed by improvements in the underlying costs and conditions.
And if you use something like Fluid.app you can create an app per email account and even have a separate app for your Calendar like me! Unfortunately Fluid.app is poorly maintained and based on Safari...
> Ben Franklin's observation that "those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither"

It is an opinion, not an observation ('deserve' in particular is not an observation). Just because someone famous said a thing doesn't make it true, or even true-ish. If you want to be such a purist about Franklin's comment, then abolish the police altogether; you'll rapidly see that Franklin's comment is not meant to be read in such a purist way. Or to put it another way: where do you draw the line with Franklin's comment?

The article then goes on to talk about gun rights for some reason, with the usual canards thrown in, plus a bit of good ol' selective reporting: "gun deaths are down by half in the past 25 years!", neatly ignoring that they're measuring from the peak, not from the previous baseline. And the US homicide rate is still nearly four times higher than most other western democracies...
I would draw the opposite conclusion. If bad software can cost you hundreds of millions, that places a greater emphasis on the role of technology.
It's really not, HFT doesn't require quants, it's all about latency arbitrage, not about predicting future prices with quantitative analysis.

It is all about the shift to algorithmic trading, of which HFT is only a small sub-category.
When I graduated from NYU's mathematical finance program with a Master's, I thought I'd be a quant. I thought they make the big bucks. Nope, that was traders and they didn't even need a bachelor's degree sometimes. I never quite figured out how traders get into those positions where they make multi million dollar annual commissions, but I realized early on I like to create social web apps and left finance.

I still always joked about the idea of myself and a friend becoming traders and trading opposite strategies, then splitting the bonus one of us is bound to get. Obviously we'd need to obfuscate that the expectations on our ambitious strategies would be roughly mirror images of each other -- one would get fired, the other may get a few million.
> TurboTax needs to afford their $1M houses in the Valley.

FYI: While Intuit's main headquarters may be in Mtn View, TurboTax is primarily based in San Diego. That's not Iowa cheap, but it's somewhere in between.
not necessarily, I often feel the same way about people who are experts in literature. But just mastering SOME topics is still a contribution to humanity and can be applied in other areas.
Looks like a nice entrant to the space. React is very well suited to this problem space and they clearly understand many of the pitfalls and problems.

A few questions/concerns:

1. It doesn't look like the undo/redo state is global to the page. The built in undo/redo stack in browsers is global to the page so this is the expectation users will have. If you use multiple instances of Draft.js in your page they will each have their own stack, which is less than ideal. I realize having a singleton to manage this across all editor instances is more difficult in the React/Flux paradigm, but it would be much better from a user experience perspective. Related to this:

2. I don't think you can nest Draft.js instances. There are a number of simple cases where you might want to do this (e.g. custom block with image + caption). To support this in the future it seems you would need to account for it in the selection and undo/redo stack state handling.

3. The data format has a lot of repetition in how it stores inline styles[1]. I'm interested to know why they chose to represent the data this way instead of using indices. For instance, you can represent a inline bold style with a json object like so: {type: 'BOLD', startOffset: 5, endOffset: 10}. The format they chose to use is easier to render directly, but more difficult to parse visually and less space efficient (except in the case of styles that only cover a few characters).

Finally, it seems most modern WYSIWYG editors mentioned in the comments here were at least partially influenced by the original Medium post "Why ContentEditable is Terrible"[2]. It would be great for the community to standardize on a data model/format that could be used in all of these editors. There are enough commonalities (blocks, elements, etc.) that I believe we could create a common document spec that would be usable in all of these popular editors. The benefit of this would be having a common spec to build additional libraries for diffing, server rendering, native mobile editing, and so on.

[1] http://facebook.github.io/draft-js/docs/advanced-topics-inli...
[2] https://medium.com/medium-eng/why-contenteditable-is-terribl...
So, to extend the question I asked before: Does that mean because we cannot ever really know what goes on in another human's mind, does that mean human "feelings", "free will", or "consciousness", are meaningless and does not help us make decisions about how to interact with other human beings?
I'm a biologist who works in the pharmaceutical industry. I like the idea of open source insulin as much as the next guy. But. I just took a look at their website and it's a complete joke, frankly. It's basically a high-school science experiment. The sort of thing that a single undergrad could do in a few days. Compared to the thousands of man-years required to produce and test a new pharmaceutical product.

I wish them luck, but c'mon. Biopharma is not IT where a smart kid can compete from his garage. It just isn't.

The NYTimes article says "the hackers hope to be able to demonstrate the technological feasibility" rather than manufacture a drug. But everyone knows that it's technically feasible -- the challenge (and cost) is in the doing.
I don't like this line of reasoning because it allows for a pro-surveillance outcome if you change the statistics. At what threshold do you switch sides? Ben Franklin is pretty clear and so is the constitution. We don't need to argue on the government agency's terms because we win this argument hands down on principal alone. Please don't weaken the argument.
Bingo! While preventing a user from accidentally hosing their system due to a bad firmware implementation this still does nothing to address potential malware, it's good to have a patch that helps but I think any blame directed at systemd or the kernel devs really needs to be redirected at poor firmware engineering efforts. Mounting efivars as ro is a bandaid, this patch is a bandaid - the real damage is yet to be done!
What a ridiculous incendiary article. Certainly has no place here. Flagged.
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Check out https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier, it's like fluid in that it builds a standalone app for any website, incl. support for badges and segregated cookies.
Yes, exactly. Without knowing anything about the people involved I am (was) reluctant to invest further time and attention (I'm studying Category Theory right now with an aim to implement programming tools, so you can imagine I'm very interested!)

It's really great that you're addressing this. Thank you! ;-)
> Now all we need is for AWS IoT to support TLS 1.1 with symmetric keys.

Making the ESP8266 libraries support TLS 1.2 is a better idea
Low commodity prices are a good thing, they don't cause stagnation.
I know you mean well, but managing this sort of thing is something that's extremely different from person to person, very hard to get right, and often a source of great personal pain for people trying and failing. Please refrain or be extremely cautious about enthusiastically telling everyone what worked for your relative.
> Wmail os open source.

There is a typo here.
By comparison, Swift has them both beat:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=angular.js%2C%20reac...
Yes ... the website is a "work in progress" and we just got our second round of PCBs that we are testing. We're pushing to get the kits up there in the next couple of weeks.

In the mean time, the Github repo is at: https://github.com/Wovyn

We've got the initial KiCAD files up there, and are putting together our sample code, etc.
Good luck competing with Twitter. Also, it's not just friends, it's trending topics, suggestions or even ads which are super useful for businesses.
Perhaps it shows how flawed the so called online polls are. They obviously don't represent the fact, nor the concern of the majority; rather outputs the interest of the highly motivated biased group.
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:-(
And here I thought this was an epic Snowden pun
>Anyone else think its kinda sketchy that they're just saying "sub-1Ghz" frequencies?

No. Why is that sketchy?

It's probably because it's different from their competition and they don't want to release that signal yet. I don't remember GoTenna pre-releasing their exact frequencies either.
Definitely agree. Once any area starts to take on the characteristics of a modern megacity, it becomes self-sustaining.

I would even go as far as to say that megacities attain the closest thing to a singularity that human beings currently experience.
I think there are dog trackers on the market that use GPS + Cell. At least there are motorcycle trackers.

Generally the problem with WiFi is if it's close enough to work the dog can usually hear you. You could use a directional antenna but an extra 10db isn't going to buy you much. And at 2.4GHZ WiFi gets attenuated rapidly when not line of sight. Same is true for anything else in the 900MHz/ 2.4GHZ bands. Cellular gets around this by putting their antennas up high to clear local clutter (buildings, trees, hills, etc).

Problem with Cellular is the power drain and the monthly bill. On the other hand, probably will work. Cellular coverage is pretty good everywhere now. If you want to mess about I think there are modules with Cellular and GPS.

You also might be able to use a 900MHz solution[1] where you just send a ping of the GPS coordinates every so often. If you up the power to the max allowed (Like 20-30db) and drop the data rate down to a few hundred/thousand bits per second. You could probably go two to three miles. I think your current choices here are some sort of FSK radio or the newer LoRa radio. The reason is FSK radios and LoRa both allow you to turn the bandwidth way way down. The lower the bandwidth the better the signal to noise for the same transmit power.

[1] The lower the transmit frequency better it will propagate through clutter on the ground. But lower frequency means a bigger antenna.

PS: If you're messing with RF using module or manufactures dev board is the way to go. It's very hard to tune the RF path and antenna without experience and a spectrum analyzer.

PSS: I've found the transceivers from SemTech to be pretty bulletproof. They have their own power regulators on board which makes them insensitive to being powered by crappy supplies.
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> > Ben Franklin's observation that "those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither"

> It is an opinion, not an observation* ('deserve' in particular is not an observation).

And the quote is both butchered here (the original is: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety") and -- as it usually is -- applied poorly considering its original context. [0]

[0] http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous...
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