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I really enjoy naming things. The naming has a bit of a history. The first version used open flow. We wrote the flows on demand for the connections, and the project's name was 'Minuteman: flows at a moment's notice' as a reference to the soldiers during the revolutionary war that were prepared to fight at a moment's notice.

Although we changed the architecture, we decided to stick with Minuteman. Mesosphere's naming scheme has historically had to do with space. The road to the stars was originally paved by programs such as Minuteman -- Our mission is to orchestrate the data center. You can't do that without networking. Minuteman is our first networking component of many as one of the first components to help pave our way.
Is it reasonable to think of it like this: RNA is procedural, and DNA is declarative? RNA : PostScript :: DNA : PDF?
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I actually really love the look of your first link. Though I think it only works as a piece of art, the Escher-esque impossible shape as well as the empty naturalness of the surroundings. You'd never see such a dense building all by itself in isolation.

I was interested in a print until I found out it was $3,500 for an Inkjet print.
Carmakers continually buy all sorts of competitors' models for comparison testing and R&D purposes. From what I remember, the company I interned for (one of the big 3 in Detroit) bought Ferraris, Porsches, BMWs, etc to compare drive quality and for R&D. Additionally, sometimes they don't want a new car, they want one that is 10 years old and has real world wear and tear. They essentially have a broker who will find any car they ask for. I worked on the alloy design team, and one of the more unique stories I heard was about 10 years ago, they bought a 20 year old Mercedes to essentially cut into pieces. Why? The model they bought was one of the first cars with a unique alloy in the body IIRC, and they wanted to run mechanical as well as characterization tests on it to see how it aged.
But in a language with multi methods defining new extensions to the type hierarchy is defining methods that overwrite some other methods. If startup code for a library calls any methods which are later meant to be extended you are going to get weird unexpected behavior.

Lets see, there is a logging library with a custom string formatter, in another library I specialize the string formatter, and I log that the library started up with a value based on that abstract tag. Now as a user I specialize a concrete type for logging, but it doesn't work, why? That's a weird error, and also, the expression problem via multi-methods, well done you guys implemented multi-methods that don't solve one of the core purposes of multi-methods.

How much you wanna bet I can find startup code in many python libraries which calls code that is later specialized by users. Edge cases are where it's important.
Looks like it's part of the UNCODE theme[1], and can be disabled by dropping smooth-scroller from the body class.

Your personal blog is much more readable, thanks :)

1: http://themeforest.net/item/uncode-creative-multiuse-wordpre...
If all you want to do is change the Sleep/Hibernate modes you are correct that the command line will do it for you.

SmartSleep does add a significant trick, it allows you to automatically change the mode based on the current battery level.
What strikes me about the article is that a gratitude journal is recommended because of its effect, with no real discussion of the cause of the increased happiness. What could possibly explain a strong, common desire regardless of life-circumstances to thank an external source for the good things in our lives? If we're merely products of genetic mutation, this seems like a very bizarre psychological phenomenon.
Markets where most teenagers and families can't afford to buy multiple 500EUR phones and have to settle for something cheaper (where Android ate the whole market). These markets also happen to be the ones where, for the same economic reasons, people need a non-walled garden so they can pirate apps and games.

Cold numbers: http://www.statista.com/statistics/260419/market-share-held-...
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It's the second and third points that I take issue (with Google) on. The first seems a reasonable way to try to ensure that if manufacturers want to benefit from the ecosystem Google has built they have to provide users with the experience Google intended. Less than that can reflect poorly on Google if the manufacturer provided ecosystem integration is lackluster or even intentionally restricted.

The other two points are problematic because they apply restrictions to business decisions the manufacturer can deliver independent of how those offerings do or do not rely on the ecosystem Google developed and are therefore Google leveraging its business position to reduce consumer choice in its favor.
Funny, because Venezuela, Russia, North Korea, Cuba etc are not beacons of equality.

Regulated free market countries empirically have more equality.
500k were for testing, we trained on several million. Can't say where I get them.
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That depends if you can apply for redundancy you can lose the good people.

Most of the UK's mobile industry was staffed by Ex Cellnet/BT who took Redundancy with some massive TAX free payouts - Senior Guys could get 5 figure payoffs and an extra 6 years on your pension.

The head of Vodafone in the UK was an example and as soem one said at his level they threw in a gold plated wheelbarrow for you to take your cash away in.
Our "wedding" cost $25 at the court house and we had a reception later on for around $3000.
What could be more indicative of a completely dysfunctional economy? When a non-productive asset 'makes' more money than someone going out and doing productive work.
> Though slavery with respect to ownership means even people are considered productive means to be owned.

But they are, especially in low-wage or tipped shift work. People are kept under unethical and often illegal rules, pointing out that they're illegal will probably get you fired, and even holding a second job to make ends meet might end up with you being fired from one or the other if both your bosses decide they need you in on a certain shift. The idea of "self-ownership" only applies insofar as you can find someone else who will hire you (likely under very similar terms to your current job - i.e. under constant threat of being fired) for most people.

As people generally in a skilled job with some savings, most people on this site are somewhat buffered from the realities of what a lot of people across most of the world, including their own countries, have to deal with.
This happens constantly on the iOS platform. Popular apps are replaced by built in iOS features.
Yes, especially the born-and-bred Southerners who are migrating North for a bit of stability in their lives, leaving behind their friends and family. :(
You could look to China for an example of what might happen - not quite the same dynamic, but Google did pull out there some time ago.

http://www.radiofreemobile.com/google-flavour-of-china/
So for people with Alzheimer's disease, is that plaque always associated with prions/protein mis-folding? (and if so, is it worthless to do things like "Learn a second language," "Learn to play more instruments," etc because our brain usage doesn't really play into the development of Alzheimer's? It's mostly a genetic thing?
I very much think auth should be centralized.

It gives you a lot of benefits.

- Easier to scale securely. Adding 100 auth'ed services that may or may not work differently is a recipe for disaster. Ad-hoc security by people who aren't security experts generally does not work...And maintaining it will not be easy....

- One way to auth. Developers make fewer auth mistakes this way. For example, if you are a Go shop, you have a company wide auth package that can be used by everyone. Mistakes are limited this way. Fewer vulnerabilities. Less developer friction and more productivity, not having to have developers worry about auth themselves.

- Control. Revocation and adding new permissions is hard if it is not central. How many services have to restart when someone quits or a service is hacked. How do you even know how to revoke something if some auth scheme is built where one service can talk to several services with the same auth token? As complexity is added, the process is more unclear. This leads to mistakes.

There are more but these three bullet points came to mind first.
Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10257305
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The other big draw to Amazon, for me, is the reviews. I know it's not perfect, but by and large, items with 4 or 5 star reviews tend to be good. Going outside Amazon leaves me without that, most of the time. Add that to your federated system and I'm sold.
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No it's not. Public healthcare spending in the US is higher, per capita, than spending on the NHS.

And how the buggery are you managing to spend £2300 a year on health insurance in the UK? That's crazy expensive. Ok, it's less than people in the US pay, but it's still mad for UK.
> They're also trying hard to make Windows 10 run on the widest range of machines possible.

Why do you say so? Do you work at Microsoft?

Anecdotally: I upgraded a somewhat older laptop to Windows 10 and found that the screen brightness was locked to full. Called up support and was told that no, there's no fix and no, there won't be one for the foreseeable future - mine isn't a "supported system", so it has to stay on Windows 7. Looked up the issue online and found many others with the same problem going back to release day.
I have a friend who is a divorce lawyer for the rich, and basically, yes. Most fortunes are built in illegitimate ways and there is a lot of asset hiding.

Think of the Kennedys who built their fortune rum-running and then went legit with the money pile they built up. Nice work if you can get it.
Very true. It wouldn't at all would it? You'd need to have actual preserved cells and protein from that era.
Why is that worthy of respect?
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> Studies have cast doubt on whether Subjective Well-Being (SWB) levels actually return to normal after significant life events.

I had heard (in a TED talk I think) that humans typically need only three months or so to get back to "feeling normal" after a terrible life event.

Then I had my one terrible life event (widowed two days after marriage). Boy was that TED talk wrong! The next few years were a desolate wasteland.
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But the dangerous part of a prion is the way it's folded, right? All you have to do is denature it to render it harmless. It's just harder to do for some proteins than others.
Since the topic here is the teardown, thought we were discussing the mechanical side of it. As of the Linux kernel there are actually a few people who have very, very thorough understanding of near every design aspect there, even if they didn't memorize every line of code. Linus Torvalds is certainly one.

That's excessive for automotive software, however; you do some device drivers here and there but ain't going to modify the memory allocator or process scheduler. How much detail Musk keeps on to here is open to speculation. On my part, I can say the industrial products I developed I understand really well. Starting from where and why ejector pins on diecasting molds go, the particular conductor plate used for spot welding, wire gage in the cable bundles, through kernel drivers, FPGA programming, EMC compliance issues in PCB layout to how many units fit on a euro pallet.. and am no Elon Musk. Don't sell your ability short.
For folks looking for a simple Github Flavored Markdown previewer I've been very happy with grip:

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This is no longer true. We have laptops, a VPN, a cellular hotspot, and a privacy screen.
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So what does this mean for the career of one of these engineers? This sounds like a pretty ratty gig: take apart someone else's product, write up a report, and now you don't get to do any actual engineering of your own unless you quit and find a new job.

It makes me wonder how useful the information will be, since it'll likely be done by the worst engineers in the company. Why would a good engineer sign up for this job?
> I'm curious how you'd be downgrading your phone's security by installing software from a different app store or repository (or even just directly downloading it from the developer and installing it).

I have to enable "install software from other sources", which opens the door to ANY source other than the Play store. I've got the Amazon App Store on my phone too, and for that to work I have to permit installation from any source. That's downgrading my phone's security.

> Either way, I find it much easier to run a Google-less Android than an Apple-less iOS and somewhat easier than a MS-less Windows. The fact that I don't have to "jailbreak" or otherwise exploit security holes to install software from other sources than the OS maker is a big reason I tend to use Android on mobile devices.

That is true. The difference is most probably the market share and how the OS is licensed to hardware OEMs (iOS is not licensed - Windows Phone I've no idea).
That is exactly how corruption spreads.

> Before it, I strongly believed that it's possible to be just as successful and competitive without breaking any rules.

Yes. Immunity to corruption can be a bit like herd immunity equivalent to outbreaks of "corruption" if it was seen as a disease. If everyone is more or less honest, those will suppress and flush out those who are corrupt. If there is no-one to pay a bribe to, then it is hard to be corrupt and so on.

However after a certain threshold, it is hard not to be corrupt. Because you fight an uphill battle against corruption (and it will fight back).

For example, in school you didn't cheat. Now imagine 50% of people cheat. They start getting better grades. Teachers think material is a bit too easy, even those that slack off during the year, seem to ace the finals. So they make those harder. You start falling behind. Now you have an incentive to cheat.

Another example. You go to take your driving test. Examiner is corrupt. He tells you to turn at the wrong place. You turn. He fails you. He suggest <wink, wink> to try a different approach next time. You don't understand what he means. You keep getting failed every time. Until someone suggest he meant he wanted a bribe. So you bribe him because otherwise you probably never going to get a drivers' license.

And so on. But you get the idea.
Essentially by definition.

Property value escalation either means that the actual structure becomes more valuable (something that very rarely, if ever happens), or that the ground underneath becomes more valuable.

The land becoming more valuable (up to $X) is equivalent to saying that the market price on the unimproved land is now worth $X-- this is the amount of money any landowner can expect to collect on this land, given the proper amount of improvements upon it.

Since there is no marginal cost in the unimproved land, the entire return to this land is pure Economic Rent. The LVT would tax the full Economic Rent of the land (which is essentially equivalent to an annuity on $X, for land worth $X.)

Why wouldn't the landlord pass on the LVT to tenants? Competition, essentially. Land would only be desirable to be held by people well-equipped to build (and gain the return on) the proper improvements. These landowners would have an advantage over a landowner who does not make the proper improvements, and competition would drive the market rate of rent towards the marginal cost of improvements.
Amazon has economy of scale, it can make deals for more units and therefore drive down the cost. It also has negotiating and brand power to coerce suppliers to give a better price much like Wal-mart. Amazon competing with its own retailers is a stupid idea and will cause many of them to pull away. Say you offer 1,000 products. Do you really want Amazon knowing which ones are popular?

Just like everything else is now the case with Amazon. You can't build your own business on someone else's platform.

Hell if they start stealing data from AWS from their competitors I would run like hell away from their services.

What you are going to do about it is run away from Amazon. That's what.
So humans can't get a prion disease from eating infected wild game?

Where does alzheimer's disease fit into this? Are there instances where plaque build up is caused by protein misfolding, or are there other causes?
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So if Amazon contracted with same manufacturer and just took some of the margin for distribution, that'd be OK (or at least less bad)?
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Right now we are focusing on companies, that want to sell via phone. For example in B2B Services, Real Estate, Auto Dealers, Fitness Clubs and etc.

If this kind of company has sales department, the value of phone call is much higher than of message, cause sales reps can sell them a product through live conversation.
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>I expect/hope we'll one day discover/invent a source of energy that is nearly-free, nearly-infinite, and nearly-zero-maintenance.

The sun? :-)
Curious to see what someone like tptacek notes on this. From what I recall of the past, either him or someone else (Matthew Green maybe?) has had significant issues with the EFF's scorecards.
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Perhaps that is already happening, with a select few manufacturers. But consider that many marketplace sellers are third parties (e.g. an electronics shop). Or other manufacturers with different costs (many factors affect this... location, workforce..). What happens with these?

I do wonder if Amazon are making any kind of profit on these items. With their long term strategy they can very well afford to make a loss just to undercut the competition and put their products out there, make a name.
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Right--as I understand it, it's not that different than Google's "Meeting Room Hardware Virus":

"I imagine it started with all of the adapters which were thrown around in every meeting room. Everyone with a Macbook of some flavor needed a DVI to VGA adaptor in order to use the projectors, so they were plentiful. Somehow, someone probably damaged one of them and smooshed a couple of pins into places where they should not have gone.

"Then, someone else forced this into their Mac. Perhaps two pins tried to go into just the one socket. At any rate, it would now break the socket and get it all out of whack. That socket, used with another adapter in another room, would then break that adapter. This new broken adapter would then go on to break even more Macbook DVI connectors.

Thus, we had a hardware virus." [1]

[1] https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/09/24/dvi/
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This may not be quite the way it sounds.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/dod/usfk-opcon...
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I think that'd be great. Would be a great opportunity for some other retailer to do this. Wal-mart? Target?
It's not wrong.

I've lived very close to the equator for a couple of decades. I never had to care about weather forecasts at all, because I alway knew what the weather would be like: 30 degrees celsius (86F), +/- a couple of degrees. Sunny. Too hot under direct sunlight, but completely fine under a tree shade even at noon.

If anything, you get fed up with the single season and will welcome rainy days. There is this mountain nearby that was hugely popular because it was a few degrees colder. So I guess even nice beaches under perfect weather get boring, given enough time.
> virii

Pet peeve of mine, but it looks like you slept through English class as well. The plural of "virus" in English is "viruses". "virus" in latin is a mass word and has no plural, like "sugar" and "air".
Reminds me of the classic argument against just allowing all drugs in sports.

If Drug A gives you 10% better performance for 20% worse health, you probably wouldn't bother using it. But the opposing team has no such inhibitions and are all on it! So, if you wanted to be competitive anymore, you have to sacrifice that 20% health. And on and on.
Every monitoring system eventually is used for social control, despite the best intentions of the creators. This is as true in the "public" domain as it is in the private workplace.

In this instance we will soon hear a hue & cry for monitoring of the drug levels in public waterways and sewers. To ensure no crime goes unpunished, that will be followed by the creation and use of systems that track drug use to the individual household (if such systems don't already exist). The information from such systems will be handed over to law enforcement et al, who will use it the same way they use all other information from monitoring devices.

As the ACLU predicted years ago, this information will be shared with 3rd parties to the degree that, should you order take-out pizza with cheese, you will receive an e-mail warning from your insurance company that your premium may increase if you don't control your diet better.

Now, by monitoring your sewer (indeed all your inputs and outputs), your insurance company (and others) can ensure that you don't make that cheese or that pizza yourself on the sly. There is no escape.
[Disclaimer: I work for AgileBits. I also started the #slack-murderer hashtag inside :slack: before we switched over. My opinions are my own. Just ask anyone at AG!]

"Slack is heroin" is pretty accurate. Instant communication (and video games, and Facebook, and Y-Combinator ...) feeds the gratification / pleasure parts of the brain. That's great if one is working on their own time and can enjoy the inevitable crash when everyone else has finally gone to sleep, but when you've got a company full of people flitting around like crazy, because their neurochemistry says they have to "keep up", because "keeping up" is what keeps the brain in a happy mood -- that's a bad thing.

Changing collaboration software won't do a damned thing until teams have a chance to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
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Someone who knows more should prove me wrong, but...

Intuitively shouldn't a dedicated plant's machinery have much higher efficiency? Coupling that with the biggest problems of recycling being the combined energy costs of transportation and processing, this seems to not solve anything?

It kind of solves only one leg of the transportation, but the final recycled plastic will still need to be transported. That's again assuming costs of transportation are linear with respect to number of sources (but I don't think that's true...). And assuming same thing about processing energy efficiency, this does worse with the processing energy part.
There are patent/IP concerns all over the place.

This would be a form of white box reverse engineering.