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> If you listen to people like Eric Raymond, open source is all about quality. "Many eyes make all bugs shallow", etc.

I'm not a fan of ESR at all (he's a bit of a paranoid nutcase), but you are taking that way out of context here.

The "given enough eyeballs" quote was about project leadership styles not software licensing. It was about empowering and accepting many contributors into a project (the bazaar) instead of having a small clique in charge of a project (the cathedral).

> Or to put it another way: if Eric Raymond one days wakes up convinced that Open Source is technically inferior, he must drop it in order to remain consistent with his own justifications.

ESR thought that attracting large contributor bases to projects was the key to improving quality. Not that Open Source automatically means better quality.
I don't think the longevity of the brine shrimp is the issue, and I'm sorry if that's the impression you took away from my post.
Remember when all the major IM platforms supported xmpp and you could just use pidgin/adium/trillian/your client of choice for everything at once?

That was a fantastic time...
The gut-to-hip ratio is a rough, but effective, alternative. At least if you start from an overweight/obese body type.
While I appreciate the logic behind this, and agree in principle, it's an overly simplistic picture.

If you decrease your calorie intake your body compensates by lowering your metabolism. Between this and the decreased metabolic burden of carrying less fat and muscle, this is why many dieters find that their weight loss plateaus after a while of making progress.

As far as low-carb diets in particular, there are also additional factors. If you get the carbs down under about 20 carbs a day you can go into ketosis, which is a wasteful metabolism. You literally piss away some 10-20% of your calories.

But the biggest benefit of low-carb is you don't have those blasted carbs (and especially sugar!) adding calories to your diet without triggering the satiated response in your brain - you just eat less on a low-carb diet, without feeling hungry.
Personally, I like being able to Cmd+tab to commonly-used chat apps. Really hard to have a conversation (while doing other stuff) when you have to Cmd+tab to Chrome, and then find the tab.
Now that I looked it up, the analogy used was "could melt half a ton of copper". So it's less than your average car.

Still a lot of energy to get rid off at short notice, in case of emergency shutdowns. If I recall correctly they modulate the beam with steering magnets so it sweeps through an area and water-cool the target material. And its absorption can't be too high so the energy gets deposited over some depth.

Or from wikipedia:

> Each of the two beam dumps, in case, for instance, of a dipole magnet quench, must be able to dissipate 362 MJ of beam energy in the 90 μs circulation time, which equates to a power of 4 TW.
Show HN: A FB Messenger Bot Written on Kotlin+Lambda
I really like your counter argument, focusing on the process instead of the output. However I have to ask: isn't the end goal of submitting a manuscript to get recognition for it? Do you genuinely hope every time that your submission will be mercilessly torn apart and possibly rejected instead of getting the recognition for the work you've done?

Truly I have seen article reviews ruin a budding research scientist's career. Of course one could argue that other problems contribute to finding themselves in that position.
This project uses Lambada, our take for a Maven Based Serverless Environment, and Combines CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Lambda, ngrok and API Gateway with Kotlin to build a local development environment for FB Bots, then deploying to production.

I will need to enhance the production deployment docs, but it basically works. Currently, it implements a "Choose your Own Adventure" interpreter on FB Messenger. :)

Feel free to come up with any questions and comments. I'm happy to help. :)

Thank you.
I think fat finger is more like adding too many zeros, or hitting the wrong numbers on the keyboard. This incident was a UI confusion; entering correct values in the wrong inputs.
Drobo 5D with BeyondRAID – Protected Direct-Attached Storage Made Simple
Estate taxes are a problem, but only because inheritances aren't treated as normal income for the recipients. Death shouldn't be a taxable event...but receiving income (even as a result of someone else's death) should be. If there is a desire to allow some level of ubtaxed inheritance, then instead of exempting estates below a certain size, we ought to exempt a certain amount of inheritance income per recipient.
Blackroom
John Langford's (Machine Learning Researcher) Quora Session
This is just Diffie-Hellman. It's working at a level lower than PFS and authenticated key exchange; it's a primitive, not a complete cryptosystem.
150? That's a lot of doctor. snicker
Your point about "doing the right thing" is a complete logical fallacy. Are you implying that group A is somehow more deserving that group B?

Don't forget - the "tech giants" you refer to are comprised of people, most of whom have jobs and families

This isn't about whims of tech giants - more about whims of the market.

If the pitchfork-waving masses on HN screaming about Revolv had all actually, well, bought a Revolv, I suspect the company wouldn't have gone bust. The fact of the matter is - the market (or we) spoke - we didn't like Revolv, and that was the reason they failed in the marketplace.

I don't think Nest made any secret of it - as soon as they bought out Revolv, they announced it quite publicly on their blog - we are stopping all sales of this product, immediately - but we will continue to support it for some time.

This was no deep conspiracy - it was, well, the product's a wash, we're buying out the company, and keeping the team.

Think about it - they probably still had stock of the product lying around at the time - they would rather just destroy those than sell them - what does that tell you about the product?

http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/24/7061557/nest-acquires-rev.... http://www.cepro.com/article/theories_on_home_automation_hub....

There were heaps of pundits at the time who speculated on why Revolv failed.

I think that's a far more worthy topic of discussion (i.e lessons learned on why it didn't gain traction), than going on about why we're not supporting a failed product from 2 years ago.
I've generally enjoyed my time with ECS and I think it's pretty likely it will be a strong-contender/the-winner of the docker wars, because net-net if you're starting from scratch without experience and a skilled ops team it's the easiest to Standup.

But I definitely agree that at this stage there's some oddly rough edges. I'm glad to hear logging is a bit better. But I would love if that were just solved by default. Similarly build/deploy. I think a teeny bit more standardization and UI would make that a ton easier.

Overall though I'm still bullish. I put together a sample terraform config that is the skeleton for a basic rails app in ECS https://github.com/jdwyah/rails-docker-ecs-datadog-traceview...
Vimium helped me with this - the `T` shortcut opens an omnibar that searches your open tabs for the text you're entering. It's still two-part, but it's keyboard shortcut + text search instead of visually identifying the correct tab and clicking on it.
Except with most FOSS licenses, the application of the license has a direct and practical impact: You can hack on it yourself.

The problem is that Javascript is already like that (obfuscated or otherwise). I can step through even the crappiest JS obfuscation with a debugger and, say, find out if it's working against me. Or tracking me. Or whatever.

The license header stuff serves no purpose but to appease the paranoia of a subset of a microscopic subset of users who would not visit a website, on principle alone, because of the "freeness" of its javascript.

And this is not a slam against those users, it's a simple fact of numbers. Even with the most liberal possible estimates of how many of those users exist, and the most conservative estimate of what my theoretical engineers are getting paid, it doesn't make sense to bother with this.
We translated to Portuguese https://medium.com/@rochacbruno/um-protocolo-para-morrer-661...
It's not that far off. If you're not looking at calories in and calories out first, you'll be disappointed. Thermodynamics doesn't cease to operate inside the human body.

Sure, if you're tracking your food intake closely, maintaining a significant deficit, and not losing weight, talk to a doctor about your thyroid. If you're putting in hours in the gym and eating a lot and not gaining any muscle, talk to your doctor about your testosterone level. But if you're looking to hormones and whatnot first, you're probably just deluding yourself.
Ask HN: Intellectually-stimulating/interesting websites you recommend?
I know this question has been asked before but the results are outdated. What are some websites that pique your interests?
Vivaldi closes in on the cure for the common browser
As someone who has tracked their weight on a daily basis for the better part of 8 months, I wouldn't suggest doing that alone. Your weight will fluctuate by a few pounds day to day and sometimes will trend up for a few days, then down for a few. What time of day you weight yourself and factors like your hydration level will play a part.

What I did was weigh myself every morning and record my weight and body fat %. Then calculate a rolling 10 day average. That was nice because if my weight went up for a day or two but overall was trending downwards it was visible. Graphing it and watching the graph go downwards was very motivating.
You can just move the "tab" to it's own window :)
Well, it's still pretty typical Microsoft -- the license agreement is distributed as a .docx file.
Popularity plays a role. Here's a real life example: One of my quantum physics mentors submitted a paper to PRL (a high prestige physics journal) and it was rejected. Why? Because it came from a small, rather unknown university in Spain.

He was later admitted to Cambridge for a PhD and sent the exact same paper (same formatting, content, layout but different department/uni). It was immediately accepted. Does it necessarily mean that scientists in poorer countries are doing bad science? Or just that they didn't get their visa / couldn't leave their country / just want to stay there, etc.

The first filter most editors use is: "Do I know this research group? Are they part of the club? Have they published in top journals?". If not, it won't get read (unless it's a compelling and exciting title and abstract).
That's why you have to make sure you have a good contract with all potential what-ifs covered. Then the big company will have to find a what-if that you didn't cover and if you're luck it will be ridiculous enough that you won't need a massive legal team to defend your agreement.

Either that or you go into it just hoping to get all of the money, but you make sure that the up-front money is enough to keep you floating down the river.
The USPTO may have a differing opinion.

Just because a word is a common dictionary word doesn't mean it can't be trademarked with limited use. For example, you can't launch a new computer and name it Apples. However you can launch a new type of lipstick called Apples (assuming it's not trademarked in that context already).

If the original trademark owner can show that there's the potential for confusion among consumers, that the products are competitive, Infinit may very well prevail. Dropbox's lawyers didn't do a great job at due diligence here.

I like how Infinit responded.
How easy it is to decide for others if they are mad or not, even not asking them about details... No worries, I'm not proposing it as default for all, I was just asking if it's possible to set as flag for some programms.
You can also use the pins of a RaspberryPi as a PWN output and do the same thing with only 3 inexpensive power transistors: http://mitchtech.net/raspberry-pi-pwm-rgb-led-strip/

Instead of servoblaster I recommend you to use PiBlaster: https://github.com/sarfata/pi-blaster
I wrote a similar program in plain Java + Swing (and no other libraries) years ago, which I dumped on GitHub here (there are a few screenshots): https://github.com/idolize/ray-tracer
AiPet: GoPiGo and Alexa Voice API and Clarifai and Google Vision API
I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch
Show HN: Let's make music
I think his point is that people are pushing back against emotional stories that don't have actionable responses. It's more pleasant to feel righteous and smug, to blame the victim, than to recognize that, no, this is the arbitrary tragedy of life. You could be next. And there's nothing you can do about it. (From the Pulitzer Prize winning article cited. "Humans...have a fundamental need to create and maintain a narrative for their lives in which the universe is not implacable and heartless, that terrible things do not happen at random, and that catastrophe can be avoided if you are vigilant and responsible.")

I wonder what it would look like if we actually were presented with actionable solutions?
Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartphone and tablet markets
I agree that the author's points could have been developed in a more compelling manner but I think the purpose of this article is to draw attention on the topic and open the debate.

Several members of Congress are currently discussing the topic ( http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35846-members-of-congress... ). However, it is expected that mainstream media won't echo these talks as it would result in opening a can of worms.
Awesome, thanks for the heads up! Like it says in the blog post, PWM + transistors was an option I was thinking of (and still am if I ever decided to dip into dedicated hardware later on), I just wasn't sure if I had the electronics chops yet to not blow something up.
People who build up a lot of muscle sometimes fall into odd BMI classificiations.

e.g. Phil Heath, Mr. Olympia winner of 2015, is 5'9" and 250 lbs at competition weight, which would classify him as severely obese (BMI 36.9), even though at that weight his body fat is probably close to the minimum a human can tolerate.

For most people, there's simply no way to build up that amount of muscle without some form of chemical assistance (e.g. steroids). If your BMI falls into the obese range, it's exceedingly unlikely that you're just big-boned and muscular.
I picked up a http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017CKVG7G a couple of months ago - it's pretty terrible in terms of build quality and range, but it's a simple Bluetooth LE protocol for full RGB control of the lights, and you can run multiple sets off a single machine with a bluetooth 4.0 controller. Rather than using a custom protocol I bridged it to something that emulates enough of a Hue hub for the Amazon Echo to let me control it. I don't know how the economics compare, but there's plenty of avenues to explore here.
Time for the next Trilian/Adium/Pidgin.
Charging money for hardware and then remotely disabling it sounds awfully similar to fraud.
But then it's Cmd+`
I remember it as a bunch of applications that supported half of the standards, were buggy, and had clunky fits-none-well UX
Haven't upgraded any of our apps to use it yet, but I really like what I've seen. The default output always seemed heavy on verbosity for me, but managing it was always one of these things we often never got around to!
Rovi acquires DVR company TiVo
I found ECS to be quite good honestly (recent experience).

I have some multi-server deploys running with load balancers, rolling restarts, SSL, private registries and more.

In fact, I like it so much that I created an end to end course that teaches you all about using roughly half a dozen AWS resources to deploy and scale a web application with ECS.

Details can be found here (it's an online course taken at your own pace and costs $20):

https://www.udemy.com/scaling-docker-on-aws/?couponCode=HN_2...

The example application is a multi-service rails app that uses postgres, redis and sidekiq but you can follow along without needing any rails experience.
A company of Dropbox's size most certainly has a legal department that does, among other things, trademark and patent searches for upcoming products.
Nobody's worried about targeted state attacks, they're worried about dragnet state attacks.
It's still paranoia at the end of the day. Consistent paranoia, thoughtful paranoia, but still, ultimately, paranoia.

I think what bothers people about Stallman (or at least, what bothers me about him, and extrapolating) is that he takes a moralistic approach. Non free software isn't a non optimal thing to be fixed for well-thought-out reasons X, Y, and Z, it is an Evil, and you are Wrong for perpetuating it.
Its childish to compare rich and successful people like that. There had been and will be in future more rich and successful people measured by revenue, profit, employees, product reach etc.

This sort of comparison is a silly thing, a hero worship kind of behaviour un-characteristic of HN.
However people still want something to compare. How about instead of just being capital etc add some other measures like business risk, turning around from absolute failure, fighting david and goliath in same industry, building something that was just given up by all etc . Again these measures are subjective and there could be somebody else who may like building a steady growth or being more charitable and equitable etc.

We like to see the world and measure it up in the way its important to us. When somebody says X is the greatest person, then realise that he is measuring with the qualities he finds important.
Well hey, would you look at that. Exactly what I'm trying to do!

Heh I was shooting for the REST API because I figured there's nothing that doesn't communicate through it today. I'll have to check into it more, especially if I decide to do dedicated stuffs down the line. I am a fan of the multiple strips thing.
As for these JSR's: I have a strong feeling that Enterprise Edition has become a little detached from the real world.

Java SE is fine but the audience and industry is becoming not interested in Java Server Faces and Portlets as society is shifting to client-side technologies to do same stuff with JavaScript, TypeScript, etc. Java SE is enough to work on server providing RESTful interfaces to the outside world.

Regarding JMS: may be it is a variety of Java asynchronous processing/storage tools that don't need EE at all (like Actors, Hazelcast, Hadoop, Redis, etc).
Just like "Mars Attacks!" is a good movie about the perils of an alien invasion. If things that will never happen in our lifetimes can legitimately be described as perils.
...which don't seem to rely on vulnerabilities introduced via update mechanisms.
Lizard Squad Ransom Threats: New Name, Same Faux Armada Collective M.O
There is spamgourmet (https://www.spamgourmet.com/index.pl). It doesn't satisfy 4 exactly, but it's pretty close. If you give out an email like 'foo.20.myusername@spamgourmet.com' (there are other domains too), then it'll forward 20 emails to the configured email for your account, but you can always log in and set it to 0 remaining at any point, regardless of how many emails have been received.
Seems that there's no mention of async functions and no browser support apart from Edge. Are there any concerns about it's availability in ES7 at this point?
I don't think so. From the summary posted on Wikipedia [0], it sounds more like a routine software engineering interface error: the Lockheed Martin system returned U.S. units, while the NASA system expected metric units.

Also, looks like classic project mismanagement made a vital contribution, too:

> The discrepancy between calculated and measured position, resulting in the discrepancy between desired and actual orbit insertion altitude, had been noticed earlier by at least two navigators, whose concerns were dismissed. A meeting of trajectory software engineers, trajectory software operators (navigators), propulsion engineers, and managers, was convened to consider the possibility of executing Trajectory Correction Maneuver-5, which was in the schedule. Attendees of the meeting recall an agreement to conduct TCM-5, but it was ultimately not done.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
I've been waiting to buy a router for the same reason. Expecting newer versions with support for Weave/Brillo being announced. I had also read somewhere that it has a disabled Zigbee/Z-wave radio - don't know if that's true. But it would be nice to have a "smart hub" integrated into your router.
YouTube isn't a very reputable source. That being said, universal voter registration is the real answer, which sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
when I was a kid I would tell people I was a 'Senior IT Consultant', now if anyone asks I tell them I'm a computer guy
Why? Buffet and not Bezos are both profit-turners. Musk is not. I like that he's going after the bigger and riskier things, but he's small-scale right now.
WebExtensions in Firefox 48
If Target can figure out that someone is pregnant based off of buying unscented lotion, mineral supplements, and cotton balls, then Amazon could easily gauge the financial health of its consumers. Perhaps they noticed a trend leading up to the last recession, and its occurring again. Whether or not it's true, it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility.
Fabio: A zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) router for deploying microservices
You post a lot about matrix.org. Are you involved with it, or just a happy user?
i'm not entirely sure about your timeline. plan9 came about in 1990. plenty of "sharing" back then was the unique property of distributed systems like amoeba.
Benchmarking Node 6 vs. Babel
Well aren't you an opportunistic prick.
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If you don't deliberately send an overflow through every function that does any arithmetic, they could quietly give wrong answers sometimes and I don't see how you'd know that.