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It's more a matter of the A10 being the craziest aircraft attached to a gun, ever. The aircraft was basically designed as an answer to the question, "how do we put this cannon where we need it in a hurry?"
Unless you have a very advanced infrastructure sitting around, their version of the distributed pieces is going to be worthless. Same reason tensorflow was initially released without it.
I think this is a very nice explanation that gets to the heart one of the key net neutrality issues. I would quibble with the statement "For each connection, there is someone paying money who can take their money elsewhere if that connection is too slow."

There is one person in that lineup who often can't put their money elsewhere if the connection is slow, and that's the consumer. This is the main reason that the Consumer-ISP is in the economic position to demand payment for passage through the monopoly gateway to the consumer. If the consumer could chose other access options then Consumer-ISP isn't going to be able to demand extra payment for passage.
Here is what my fellow Eastern Europeans do not know (and I'm from there so I'm qualified):

> A good developer in Eastern Europe now costs $1000-$1500

> a month. I kid you not.

In Eastern Europe definition of a good developer is "hamburger flipper which knows a little of HTML". I kid you not. Also work ethics are horrendous.

In short it ends up much cheaper to hire somebody in mid-west than from Eastern Europe (even though I tried very very hard).

The really good developer in Eastern Europe is $6000/month - less than US mid-west but you have to adjust for time change, logistic, trust, etc. So you end up at same.
DigitalOcean Borrows $131M to Add Storage and Expand into India
Thanks for the clear and concise explanation. Love those ASCII diagrams haha!
> The Codename One SDK (Software Developer Kit) contains IDE plugins, our visual design tool, simulators for phones/tablets, our documentation/API and implementations for multiple platforms. Included in the SDK are simulators and build environment for iOS (java for iPhone/java for iPad), Android, Blackberry (RIM) and others (Windows Phone 7 Coming SOON!).

Uh, huh.
Another thing which is often missing is a very clear "What's new in the latest version and when was it actually released" message on the homepage. Sometimes this very vital information is just impossible to find.

(I am looking at you, http://matplotlib.org)
What worries me is that, rightly or wrongly, there are an increasing number of people who are disappointed with the direction that Mozilla has taken itself lately. While Mozilla once received almost universal praise, I'm starting to see the opposite happen now. More and more people appear to be holding an increasingly negative view of Mozilla and Firefox. Mozilla plays an important role within the web ecosystem, and it needs the support of the wider community in order to be effective.
One reason China does ok as they are fairly laid back on that stuff.
I think you misread his comment — the issue was reported _years_ ago and then fixed just two weeks back.
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Yet almost all business depends on personal relationships
I think I read once that two people started their relationship while their only shared language was Klingon.

So, I think that maybe makes a good counterpoint to "no Klingons exist".
I personally have bought about a dozen apps over the past 12 months, some for myself and some for my kids. $.99 to a couple of dollars is really not that much to me or most people.
The tyrant in question was Cylon of Athens who staged a failed coup in 632 BCE leaving him only a would be tyrant.
What about the article strikes you as liberal? Your tone makes it sound like you are dismissing it because of this, but I doubt you'd find many self-described liberals who would be as gentle on Redpillers (or friendly toward Jian Ghomeshi) as the author.

And why is the $CURRENT_YEAR meme popping up everywhere recently?
Having backed the DK1 and now having my consumer version sitting here for over a week, with a high-end desktop attached I have to say Oculus made a big damn mistake by releasing it without proper controllers and room tracking like the Vive.

I've tried practically anything by now but the only "Killer"-Apps that I've seen so far work better on the GearVR: Porn and other filmed experiences, but mostly Porn.

Elite Dangerous still makes me nauseous and the other games that are available are just not much more fun because of VR, it just gets in the way.

The contending killer apps seem to be on the Vive, f.e. Job Simulator and Tilt Brush to name a few, but they also still are miles away from Platform Sellers.

If i had to bet, my money would be on the GearVR and Porn.
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Depending on what the peanut is, it's probably not good for anyone (including the population at large) for it to be that way. That's why our laws and judicial system should protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority.
"The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, machine learning and much more."

http://jupyter.org/
QGIS 2.14 Essen
I don't remember it being that hard to uninstall.
This was quite an interesting and useful read, but please can we stop with the thin light grey typeface on a light grey background. Not everyone is a 22 year old with 20/10 vision. Now get off my lawn!
If we are really serious about local food then we need a much more significant set of changes. I have integrated some ideas into this site: http://tinyvillages.org
The argument about ad spending and dumb money makes sense and I can relate to it. SV startups have the freedom to build products which are inherently unprofitable (unprofitable by design).

There are many incestuous networks of companies and investors within which startups dogfeed on each other's products in an attempt to generate profit for themselves.

Unfortunately, money can't keep moving in a closed loop. Just like the economy of a country; if money exits the network faster than new money enters it, the network's finances will dry and shrivel up.

The incestuous pattern of dogfeeding which is common in tech centers like SV tends to rely on a few 'alpha dogs' to actually extract money from outside the network. These alpha dogs are the tech giants; Google, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Facebook... - To avoid a bubble, these tech giants have to be able to make enough OUTSIDE profit to feed not only themselves but all startups and investors which indirectly depend on them for profit.

With this dynamic, you would hope that the alpha dogs of the industry are highly profitable; but it's simply not the case. It's very rare to find a large tech company with a Stock Price/Earnings ratio below 30 - It seems that even the alpha dogs are struggling to feed themselves so it's hard to imagine that they would leave behind enough scraps for the others who depend on them.

Interestingly enough, the giants like Google and Facebook tend to rely heavily on customers from INSIDE their network for profit (I believe a decent share of their revenue would come from advertising other tech companies) - Which means that even the alpha dogs are dogfeeding.
Pro tip: when someone makes a comment that's structured in the argument/persuasion form, you can look to the final sentence for something to riff on if you feel obliged to comment.

Is there enough Senate support to override a veto? If not, then who gives a damn. This is already done. If yes, then why is Engadget asking me to contact my Representative instead of my Senator?

This is clickbait-gone-amok with the usual I-didn't-pay-attention-in-high-school-civics class. The intent of the bill is clear. Frankly a Judge can rule either way if it were litigated anyway.

Why don't we do the work toward cleaning this stuff up instead of just taking the most extreme negative position and killing things? Setting up a pressure cooker via gridlock is not going to produce a satisfactory outcome.
On the off chance that someone reading wasn't subjected to 1990's song "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice, that's where the title of the article comes from :)
I didn't understand the comment from person 2.. I would say keep learning about it and playing but you know as do I you don't have to move to it now just cuz it's new.
While it's clear that p2p is going to face an uphill battle to demonstrate its value to the average Joe, I would also argue that federation doesn't address the underlying issues with user control of data.

Email is federated. Does it give us any more control over our data? No, because one company controls the largest email service and monitors not just that user's emails but also the ones I send to them.

XMPP is federated. One company managed to get a large enough market share, at the first opportunity they lock other federation servers out and change the protocol.

Federation for established websites is long a thing, CDNs are taking care of that for them. Central points of contact combined with P2P distribution like WebTorrent is the worst of both worlds: The centralized site still owns all your data, and in addition you're paying with your bandwidth and CPU resources to reduce their bill.

A fully client-centric model isn't anywhere near likely to make it big in the near future. However, client-first (with personal servers provided by friends & non-profits) is the only feasible approach for reclaiming ownership of our data.

For-profit companies don't have any incentives to let you store large amounts of encrypted data on their servers for free, at best they'll use it for cross-selling. At worst they'll push for a modified protocol version that relies on the central company server for crucial functionality, scheming the next lock-in.

If the past is any indication, the future looks bleak for idealists who (merely?) want a user-controlled alternative to those data-driven monopolist platform ecosystems.

The technology might be getting there, but the average user's priorities make it a super hard sell. In the face of the Google/Apple duopoly, open standards are more and more an optional gimmick - instead of standard data transfer protocols we get CarPlay and Dropbox, instead of wireless standards we get Chromecast and Apple Multipeer, instead of mini-computer smartphones we get constrained consumption devices with tracking built in as a core feature.

The value of client-first P2P is really not about censorship or failure. It's about control. By giving control over protocols and platforms to a handful of large service providers, we got more convenience in exchange for our opportunities to tinker and improve on the status quo. Instead of being able to change things as a society, now we have to rely on shareholder-controlled entities to decide what's good for us. It used to be just code and Windows vs. Linux, now it's data and Google vs. basic assumptions of privacy.

And the user doesn't even know the difference.
Publicly available to me means: "for free, but in the binary form". Open Source = can have some constraints like CDDL license for example, but I can at least read the source code.
That is describing the lawyers goal, but technically the summary judgment order by the judge didn't find that the song was in the public domain. The order did find that the defendants had zero proof that they were assigned the rights to the song.

Basically the judge found that Warner didn't own the song. But didn't go so far as saying nobody owned it.

The order says: " Because Summy Co. never acquired the rights to the Happy Birthday lyrics, Defendants, as Summy Co.’s purported successors-in-interest, do not own a valid copyright in the Happy Birthday lyrics."

There are real questions to whether the song is actually in the public domain. The date of authorship is unclear and some the actions undertaken by the alleged authors might have sent the work into the public domain.
Mostly due to lack of competition. Which is something that both congress and the FCC desperately need to encourage.

Competition like, preventing states from making laws that limit competition. If the free market is truly healthy then it CAN compete with government provided services.
You can plant more trees. You can't un-burn the coal that spins the motor. (I wonder if there's a way of actually comparing the environmental impact, though).
Thanks for your comment. The EFF article is woefully short of details re: what provisions in the bill are undesirable. I read the House info about the bill and read the committee reports (including the minority report), but none of this shed light on exactly what were the objections.

I didn't know about the consumer ISP-proposed demand for payment from business. That indeed seems inconsistent with the mental model I've held re: how the internet is organized (i.e., like the first diagram). It seems pretty simple so it's surprising that the elected officials didn't grasp it. Perhaps their advisers/staff didn't inform them of the extortionate ISP demands.

BTW looks like I'll need to write to my senators again about net neutrality, etc. It would be excellent if US citizens contacted their senators for the same purpose.
So you suggest that we should put even more emphasis on Computer Science fundamentals?

I’d say more like engineering fundamentals and robust professional practice, rather than CS as such.

Ad of most jobs don't already put too mich emphasis on mindlessly coding reference implementations of naive classical algorithms and data structures as proof of competence.

The thing is, when you neglect awareness of basic data structures and algorithms, and understanding of related issues like algorithmic complexity, you get developers who have no idea why (for example) their framework-based front-end is horrendously slow, and worse, who then assume they’ll fix the problem just by switching to React+Redux because They’re Fast™. You get people who have no idea how to weigh up the pros and cons of different designs, or where the expensive parts of their code will be, or what to do about those parts if they’re causing problems. You get people who are entirely reliant on other people knowing what they’re doing to get acceptable results.

Encouraging inexperienced devs to embrace NIH (Not Invented Here) Syndrome is not the answer.

I don’t want them to embrace NIH. I want them to think critically about the costs and benefits of developing some functionality themselves vs. reusing some existing code, and make intelligent decisions.

Even poorly supported open source projects will often have better edge case coverage, testing, and battle hardened code than a prototype produced by a reasonably experienced dev alone could provide.

I see little evidence of that in any field of programming I have ever worked in. It seems to me that a great many poorly supported open source projects are themselves developed mostly or entirely by a single contributor, so unless that lone developer is significantly better than whoever you have on your own team, there is no reason to expect their project to be better than what you would produce in-house just because it’s freely available.

A good example is the now-infamous left-pad package that was a dependency of some of the most popular and high-profile projects in the JS ecosystem today. It consisted of a single function that was just 10 lines long, yet within those 10 lines it still managed to have potentially quadratic time cost, potentially surprising handling of null input, and potentially surprising behaviour given various non-English text input.

The sad truth for devs who pride themselves on a strong knowledge of algos and data structures is, most jobs don't require those skills. Software produced for profit requires mostly composing an application of existing code, not writing original implementations.

Well, that’s one way to build software for profit. Whether it’s actually faster, more reliable, more cost-effective, easier to maintain or otherwise superior to actually knowing what you’re doing and programming is a different set of questions. If you’re trying to create something more demanding than a simple front-end to a CRUD system with modest amounts of data and little complexity in what you’re doing with it, those questions may be answered very quickly…
You cannot tell me with a straight face that someone trying to pull this crap does not know exactly what they're doing.

At a basic level they understand exactly what they're doing. But their prefrontal cortex isn't yet completely developed. So they don't understand just how harmful their actions are.

I did some stupid stuff as a teenager that I certainly am not proud of right now. But, at the time, I didn't at all understand the broader ramifications of my stupid behavior and the harm it caused others.
>Some sort of "non-anonymous" score can be assigned a voip number. Paying via a credit card or cheque can attach an address to the voip number. Does this address match the reported home of the caller? Does the IP originate from the same area as the caller? Has this voip number been used by the same account for several years?

So what you are saying is, before responding to a potentially life threatening emergency call, the police should first obtain a subpoena for the relevant data of the VoIP operator? Or are you saying the police should have unfettered access to payment methods, address and names of everyone who registers a VoIP number?
I believe sites like http://up-for-grabs.net/ and https://openhatch.org/ are the kind of communities that we need more of.

There is an attitude where people create projects to feed their egos, and giving help on existing projects doesn't seem to fulfil egos so much. Unfortunately, marketing your project is necessary, and for now the only idea I can give you is that we need to build tools to make that job easier.
I liked AbiWord. It was very lean and GTK+ friendly. But I always had little gotchas with the formatting and problems with ODF occurring between word processors that didn't occur as often when originating from LibreOffice. It had the clean/snappy interface that LibreOffice should have had, but definitely not the document feature support it needed.

These days, I'm not sure why anyone would bother trying to revive AbiWord. Not that I don't have my fair share of software engineering projects that are specific to my interests, but I personally wouldn't go back to using it or LibreOffice. If I really need a full-blown word processor, Google Docs does everything I need, and their Chrome app works for offline use. Most of the time, I can get away with writing stuff in Markdown. Then again, I'm a developer so that appeals to me. Microsoft Word online also works well cross-platform. With either one, you may not get the best multi-format support, but they're both very dependable IMO. I couldn't depend on AbiWord most of the time unless I knew the same doc would be opened in another AbiWord instance.

Web-based technology really is, I think, the best way forward in cross-platform development for things like word processing which are not CPU intensive. People can and should use whatever tools they want to get the job done but, if I was to start a new Linux/CP word processor today, I'd be using Node.js with Babel and make it "Web Native". For some things you'll want C++ but, for me, not this. But best of luck to them for sure.
You can be on the winning side or the losing side.

Obviously you are a retard nigger who does not know what a random number is.
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Reply was to parent's comment about Air Force and Army VR projects.
I'm not sure if you need to be online to generate these codes. On OS X, it's possible to go to System Preferences > iCloud > Account Details > Security > Get A Verification Code, which returns you a 6 digit verification code that looks like a TFA code.
TILd! Thank you!
Tutorial: Resilient Riak Clusters with Mesos, Marathon, and Flocker
LibreSSL 2.3.3
How am I confused? AMD works in the browser, CommonJS doesn't. It's very simple, and tools that convert CommonJS to a format that works in the browser only prove that it doesn't.

The history of the formats does not change the facts of how they operate today.
Right, but what if you want to combine your test commands, their output, and comments? Share that with other people? Let them change things and re-run the examples in the same place? NOW you're cooking with notebooks.
> When a lawyer is advocating for a client, he's giving the most one-sided presentation that he can make in good faith.

I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. While the context isn't academic legal analysis, the EFF has no reason to advocate against the bill unless they sincerely believe it to be bad, based on the legal advice they've been given.
I'm a bit younger than many of you (talking about your grandchildren and sons playing this game!). I'm 20, and played a lot of Roblox and then Minecraft before they were this popular. I even interviewed Notch on a cute little podcast called "MineCast" I made back then.

Administrating a medieval-themed role-playing server back then taught me a lot about server administration and general diplomacy (handling bans and choosing admins), chatting on the MinecraftForums and its IRC showed me how to function well in online communities, and now children are experiencing this all over again.

I'm a lot older than the majority of fans, but it's a great touching stone when chatting with younger cousins. My haircutter's son was playing Roblox on a computer a few feet away from me last time I got my hair cut there, and she went on and on about how much time he spent on that game. It really brought me back to those days.

It's going to be fun watching these little nerdlings growing up with such a great toy. Minecraft's popularity goes to show that we don't need to worry about a lack of modding-friendly games (Doom/Quake/Garry's Mod), the kids will find them :)
Unfortunately some religious rules require inflicting extreme and unnecessary suffering on animals in the way they are killed.
Interestingly some abattoirs have created loopholes to these religious laws (to comply with the food production laws, but maintain religious certification) by having the machines that stun and kill the animals in the normal humane way "blessed" and prayers said.
I should have probably added that I run Arch on my personal machine (XPS15, infinity display).

The arch wiki is absolutely great, but it doesn't have much/any info for some (newer) laptops (e.g. XPS15 9550, X1 Carbon 4th gen..)
I believe it has even created security issues. Didn’t Rails have at least one YAML-based vuln?
Every Angular or React component or every lodash dependent carrying along it's own copy of the modules sounds entirely unworkable.
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No, most of his stake is almost certainly from shares given to him as a founder. Mark Zuckerberg publicly admitted at Startup School that it was a billion dollar mistake not to have founder vesting (because he didn't know anything about startups at the time), and claims that Eduardo "just bounced."

Anyways, this is irrelevant because the fact is Facebook initially did not have founder vesting.
Well for starters, dairy and meat don't really digest well together and can create upset in the stomach. But I'm sure OP has better facts than my simple one.
Racist 4chan screenshots, really?

South Africa is a complicated country, but it's not like the "first world" (US in primis) is completely void of huge ghettoes and racial issues.
What would be the security implications of storing all your precious passwords in a Firefox extension?