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That's kind of the whole point. Why even pretend that HTML is data and CSS is presentation when the presentation language can't even reliably order things on the screen?

You claim that "CSS was never intended to do that" but the goal of CSS is explicitly to manage the rendering of a document on a given device/browser. Obviously it was intended to manage layout. Deciding which order to show sections is absolutely something a presentation layer should be able to manage, and CSS can't do it.
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If I am to be giving my money to anyone for safekeeping, I better be damned sure I understand the financial and legal details. Are the FDIC-insured accounts in (Bank)Simple's name? What happens if they go under? Can the creditors of Simple use those deposits to recoup their investment?

Now do you see the problem?
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Interesting, I wonder how zeynalov could have thought he read so much in Kazakh. Thanks!
I think it is the Doppler shift from the back scattered EM Imaging.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_shift
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What happens to the deposits if Simple (the company) goes under?

EDIT: Yes, I know they are FDIC-insured. But inside accounts setup by Simple. Are those accounts also in Simple's name, or jointly setup? What could potentially happen then during the lawful unwinding of the company?
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I have an idea for something that I could really use but can't find anywhere.. So let's say I design my thingy, I'm thinking of roughly the size of 20cm x 5cm x 4cm, how much would it roughly cost to have this printed and sent to me? Would it get much cheaper if I ordered 20 or 100 pieces?
This is something we all should pay attention to. For if we, as a society, are quite they will not have to ram it down our throats for we will simply swallow it unknowingly.
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This is an obvious case of fraud which the SEC should be investigating:

http://www.smauthority.com/raystream/
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The answer is somewhat technical so bear with me. tl;dr solid modeling is O(n^3)

Computer graphics, which is what most games require, is largely a solved problem. An iPad or a WebGL browser is easily able to run most games from a few years ago without sweating too much. However, to model physical objects you don't just need a graphical representation, you need what's called a solid geometry kernel. What the kernel does is give you the ability to do boolean operations on two solid objects, something Tinkercad does with every editing operation. The problem is that these operations are computationally extremely complex, fundamentally O(n^3).

When I say we use a 100 core cluster I specifically mean that many operations use the whole cluster. So if a single operation you make in Tinkercad takes 200ms of cluster wall time you might be using 10s of CPU time. And the code we run on the servers is optimized and vectorized Go/C++ code, easily 10x faster than anything you could do in Javascript. A second consideration is that we use gigabytes of memory to do each operation, which gives us the advantage of much faster running times. So when you compound these, instead of having to wait a second for your operation (depending on where you are located) a Javascript version would take minutes or hours for every operation.

The kernel we have is unique, it is written from scratch for Tinkercad. As far as we know there is no equivalent even in the high end professional tools.
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The most important reason for it was to keep new features from being stuck in limbo just because they happened to be part of the same branch as a feature that was taking a long time to be production ready. This is what killed us with 4.0. There were big and nice features in 4 that were actually ready more than 6 months prior to release, but they couldn't go because they were "full release" features and they were waiting for other features that were considered to be "must have" for 4.0.

With the rapid release cycle, when features start development, they have the ability to be easily configured out of the release product if they aren't ready for a particular version. We have a reliable release schedule that we expect to hit every 6 weeks. Obviously, we do our best to have as many new features as are ready be part of each release, but we don't leave people wondering when it will finally happen because we keep to the schedule and release the features that are ready.

Some of the biggest parts of this release were actually groundwork improvements to make the add-ons ecosphere more comfortable in the context of rapid release.
I mean, what could possibly be more important than protecting our innate, individual rights?

Lots of things. If you are on a lifeboat and are terribly paranoid and aggressive, then the other passengers may be quite justified in tossing you into the water. The existence and general primacy of individual rights does not negate the existence of collective rights; see an overview of these issues going back to Thomas Jefferson at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constitution_is_not_a_suici...
they seem to be pretty active for being supposedly fake. Check their twitter feed. They tweet as much if not more than most video companies and it's not fluff.

A good pump and dump scam requires a believable company presence. You just fell for the smoke screen.
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Great question. Josh, CEO of Simple, here.

The way it works is the card gets linked to an account on signup. This account is a non-interest bearing card account. When you deposit funds, we place those funds in other accounts. The other accounts are determined by what products we have available from our partner banks, and your historic usage patterns.

For example, if you start spending less, we'll move more of your money into an interest bearing account so that you can benefit from your financial restraint.

As you spend money, we (in real time) move funds to the card account from your other accounts to cover the cost of anything you buy using the card.

As our portfolio of financial products grow, we'll continually rebalance your money across these products to maximize your return.

This system automates what most people try to achieve, but banks make difficult to do: namely, earn as much interest on money you have and pay as little interest on money you borrow.

We do this because it is the right thing to do for our customers & quite easy for a computer to manage. Other banks don't do this because they earn significant revenue when people make mistakes in managing their money. We have none of those punitive fees, so our interests are aligned with our users.

(PS: I'm in London right now. What's up with English Bacon??)
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>In practice, no journals ever publish replications, so nobody wastes their time reproducing others' work when they could be working on something publishable or their next grant proposal.

Uh, this is exactly how Science works. It's not worth publishing the exact same results of the exact same experiment by multiple people. That only adds noise to the discussion.

If I arrive to the same conclusion after running the experiment again, then there is little benefit to anyone if I do a full writeup and publish it. On the other hand, if I am unable to arrive to the same results, there is a tremendous value in publishing my findings. Was the original study flawed? Were my own methods? That's what peer review and publishing results help determine.
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Cool post. Interesting you bring this up, because I've had a colleague who went to MIT, and took HTML for her required English requirement!
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I had installed X, tested. Afterwards, wanted to use xmonad, installed it using pacman however couldn't configure. I think I will give another try some time later, since everything I have done so far is still in my laptop.
If you're running Fedora 15, you can also upgrade using yum:

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Conversion of a person's own property into a device used against their interests, and a possible source of testimony against them, is sufficiently like entering a locked premises, opening a closed purse, or active wiretapping that it should be subject to the same procedural protections.

This seems especially true if the attachment requires concealment via modification to the property, camouflage, tools, or splicing into the existing electrical system. But anything which follows the person onto their own private property and perhaps even into their home garage – as an attached bug necessarily does – has crossed what I see as a bright line between 'surveillance in public' and 'surveillance in private'.
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You were off by a bit there. We should expect to be on version 16 by this time next year. Not that the version number should be important to end users. Just developers.
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"I'm not generally opposed to things that allow law enforcement to do a better job with fewer resources"

To that I reply "A policeman's job is only easy in a police state" from Orson Well's "A Touch of Evil"
Why do we need the process of peer review?

Peer review is not robust against even low levels of collusion (http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4324v1). Scientists who win the Nobel Prize find their other work suddenly being heavily cited (http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110506/full/news.2011.270.ht...), suggesting either that the community either badly failed in recognizing the work's true value or that they are now sucking up & attempting to look better by the halo effect. (A mathematician once told me that often, to boost a paper's acceptance chance, they would add citations to papers by the journal's editors - a practice that will surprise none familiar with Goodhart's law and the use of citations in tenure & grants.)

Physicist Michael Nielsen points out (http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/three-myths-about-scientific-...) that peer review is historically rare (just one of Einstein's 300 papers was peer reviewed! the famous _Nature_ did not institute peer review until 1967), has been poorly studied (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/287/21/2784) & not shown to be effective, is nationally biased (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/295/14/1675), erroneously rejects many historic discoveries (one study lists "34 Nobel Laureates whose awarded work was rejected by peer review" (http://www.canonicalscience.org/publications/canonicalscienc...); Horribin 1990 (http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/263/10/1438.abstract) lists others like the discovery of quarks), and catches only a small fraction (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/280/3/237) of errors. And fraud, like the one we just saw in psychology? Forget about it (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...);

> "A pooled weighted average of 1.97% (N = 7, 95%CI: 0.86–4.45) of scientists admitted to have fabricated, falsified or modified data or results at least once –a serious form of misconduct by any standard– and up to 33.7% admitted other questionable research practices. In surveys asking about the behaviour of colleagues, admission rates were 14.12% (N = 12, 95% CI: 9.91–19.72) for falsification, and up to 72% for other questionable research practices....When these factors were controlled for, misconduct was reported more frequently by medical/pharmacological researchers than others."

No, peer review is not the secret sauce of science. Replication is more like it.
Love the idea.
I'm a New Yorker and I know what you mean by "B of A," as do many of the people I know. I think we're both dealing with small anecdotal data sets here, though.
Hopefully the bottle would be taken seriously.
Well, I guess this is the sort of thing you can expect from a CEO who ends each workday with: "Good night, Westley. Good work. I'll most likely fire you in the morning."
Funny too since Amazon has the ability to revoke books and they did so last year over some issue when a big company was involved, and it pissed off a lot of customers. But now, not only will they not pay the little guy, they won't revoke the erroneously given away books.
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This sounds sadly like my experiences trying to get the Yi editor to install. I love Haskell in theory, but the build system is so painful if you aren't an expert!
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Looks great, now time to convince my cofounders we need it...
"I give Facebook five years before it shares the fate of MySpace. I give Google ten years before it becomes a Yahoo -- still around but not a leading light, by any means."

Personally, I find that very hard to envision.
"do.com" and "cool.com" are not comparable.

1) "do" is a verb
2) "do" describes exactly the value proposition
3) "do" describes the product, not your relationship to it
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Let's say I'm a customer and I don't have a huge pile of savings - maybe I'm earning $2500/month and the total cash I own at any one time is between $7500 and $10,000.

My usage patterns might suggest that every month I spend around $2200, so you could leave that on the card and play around with say $7k. What happens if I then want to go out and, in a single transaction, spend more than $3k. Do you let me go technically "overdrawn" without charging me a fee and instantly move money in from elsewhere to replace it? Or do I have to inform Simple in advance of spending that much? Or do people without enough money to give plenty of buffer just not get their money moved around as much?

Thanks for your answers - and what's wrong with our bacon, it's amazing! How long are you over here for?
Yes. My claim holds even for a true random number generator that has no period.

It's a pigeon hole problem. If you are trying to put M pigeons in n pigeon holes, and M is not a multiple of n, you can't put the same number of pigeons in each hole.

The right way, given r() generates integers in [0,M-1], and you want an integer in [0,n-1], is to first compare r() to floor(M/n)*(n+1). If r() is greater or equal to that, discard that value of r() and try again. Once you have an r below that limit, you can go ahead and it mod n to get your number in [0,n-1]. (Careful for off by one errors in this...I have not double checked my work!)

Alternatively, you can reject r() that is less than M%n:

while ( (this_r = r()) < M%n )
;
return this_r % n;

PS: note that other methods of reducing a range [0,M-1] to [0,n-1] also have to worry about this. It is not limited to just methods using mod. The only difference if you ignore the pigeon hole problem is that the different range reduction methods will differ in how they distribute their bias in the output range.
Does anyone know if these things actually transmit as well as record?
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The trick is usually to look at the references section of a paper. If there's an old paper in there (say, >10 years old), then it's probably seminal. If you see the same paper in a lot of reference sections, then it's probably seminal.

So: to know what's seminal so you can skip reading a bunch of papers, you need to read a bunch of papers. Right.
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I use the Ubuntu patchset. The difference between that and stock fontconfig is night-and-day; installing it is a constant reminder that for all the controversial moves Canonical has made in recent months, making Linux fonts not look like ass was one thing they did about as well as they possibly could have.
Is it really necessary to precisely quantify the damages? Amazon was clearly in the wrong here and essentially* violated this fellow's copyright, so it would only make sense for the damages to be set at the number of copies times the previous royalties, even if he wouldn't have sold that many otherwise.

* Weasel wording here because it seems likely to me that the distribution contract ends up giving Amazon the right to do this sort of thing with this guy's copyrighted work.
So the "change banking startup" has morphed into a credit card reseller?
There will always be somebody ready to take money from the moneyed, with goods of real or imagined superior quality. Just look at what having the right label on the rags you wear, does to the price.
Less energy use, smaller form factors, and mobility - i.e. just a continuation of the transistor revolution.
Like others have echoed, I just want to know how this really works. Part of the problem of "disruption" is that it creates confusion and breaks the usual pattern of doing things. Noone will sign up for your service if it's just 1 huge black box that is completely foreign and new to them. You will need to educate how it all works... I mean, I still don't know what you guys do, or are.. You're not really a bank, Ok.. that's a start.
Oh but I wish you were a bank or credit union. How my deposits are used is something we should be able to negotiate about.
Looks great, I'd love to try it, but I had an error 500 while attempting to register.
Being an IRC fan, I believe a service like this will really help me to convince my workmates to talk over something else than Google Talk or Skype.
On which side of your line do roller-skates fall? :)
Check out http://www.ccnx.org/ for another protocol with similar intentions. CCNX supports a whole load more, including unified routing and caching, multi-path, enumeration, isn't designed just for small data (i.e. it's perfectly feasible to publish/retrieve terabyte-sized videos over it), and originated with a team that included Van Jacobsen.

MQTT seems more focused on small devices and ultra-low bandwidth, which could be a good or bad thing. Considering the overheads of CCNX (header size is 64-128 bytes IIRC), I'm not convinced a minimalist protocol for this stuff is such a good idea, given even the tinyest hardware around these days, and currently prevalent wireless communications protocols could already easily handle something that heavy.
You should be able to use Hubot with Grove as it provides IRC interface. We have few users already using it.
This would be cool if it included what I think is the most useful aspect of IRC for teams: trainable IRC bots.

Back in 1999 - I used IRC to manage my IT org. We had two IT channels: one for IT staff, which we were all required to be logged into when on the clock - and another that was company wide, where users could jump on IRC to ask the IT/dev/support teams questions.

We used bots to train IT FAQ and system info...

So for example, we would type "DNS Server" and the bot would reply with the IP of the DNS server.

We could type in a hostname and the bot would reply with the system details we put in there.

So, i this had the capability of learning and storing data that was retrievable in this way, rather than simple search, I think it could be very useful.

User:"Whats the current version of ProductX"

Bot:"Product X current version is 1.1.2"
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Check out http://mosquitto.org/ which is an open source implementation of MQTT.
If you spend more money than what we have placed on the card account, but you have available funds at other accounts we manage, we'll automatically move over the money to cover the cost of your transaction. No fee. Real time.

We don't have the notion of 'overdraft'. Instead, we set up a special savings goal for each customer called an Emergency Fund. We automatically start saving a small amount each day towards the Emergency Fund. So, you might have $1,000 in your account and $500 in your Emergency Fund. If you then went to a store and spent $1,200, we would draw $1,000 from your Safe-to-Spend and an additional $200 from your Emergency Fund. Again, no overdraft fee. In fact, instead of paying a fee and then paying interest on the overdraft, you will be earning interest on any money in your Emergency Fund. A small tweak on how overdrafts typically work, but a huge bonus for customers.

I'm just here for the day. I came to town to speak at The Economist's banking conference. Flying back tomorrow to celebrate the launch with our team.
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Mozilla will soon be auto-updating Firefox every 6 weeks like Chrome, so half the Internet will be getting a regular update and progress will happen much more quickly. The version number is irrelevant. Personally, I think it's amazing that we can move this quickly.
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In the future I would advise using http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/ or some other linux compatibility hardware list before buying hardware. Using linux on a poorly supported device can cause you grief and make you dislike linux for reasons that it does not deserve.
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Thanks jaequery! I enjoyed discussing it with you, thanks for your feedback :)
As they mention on their Banking Blockade site, the Treasury found no reason to put them on their blacklist, and nobody has frozen their bank accounts.

I agree they're a 'journalistic entity' -- whatever that means. I was only rebuffing when you said "We have just established a precedent that the US government can unilaterally decide to shutdown any journalistic entity that reports news it doesn't like."

Their webpage is still up. Assange is still making cheesy videos where he tells you how terrible the world is. It's still legal for you to donate. Nobody has accused them of committing any crime. A handful of US companies decided not to do business with them, but with only circumstantial evidence of government influence. There were certainly no judges involved.

Wikileaks shut themselves down to new submissions a year and a half ago when they started pushing Brad Manning leaks, and they've done nothing but hype up and politicize those leaks since. Now they're whining that nobody's donating to a whistleblower site that doesn't accept whistleblowing. They shut themselves down.

In no way did the US government unilaterally decide to shut anyone down. They're still allowed to operate, and just drama-queening that they're shut down. If the government were to try to shut down a news organization just because it didn't agree with them, there definitely would be a gigantic backlash.