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I didn't say yurts were cold, they normally have multiple layers of canvas (or similar material) that acts as very effective insulation. Air gaps are often better than foam. IIRC <3cm of air cannot convect, meaning from a well formed air gap you could be getting a far higher R value than an inch of extruded/spray foam insulation.

What I said was that ramped earth walls provide little value in a winter climate and are in fact extremely dangerous. >4' of dirt against a laterally unsupported foundation wall is actually illegal in my municipality. I see no lateral support in this guys structure. His walls would have to be incredibly thick (which they don't appear to be) to support the weight. The timbers need to go down a sufficient depth, which without the use of machinery, is unlikely to have happened and unlikely to have had the soil re-compacted properly.

What I'm saying is that the $5000 this guy spent on a 'house' is likely to collapse and kill whomevers inside the minute frost gets anywhere near his walls, let alone under the foundation or timbers.

A yurt on the other hand, due to its tent like structure and completely using flexible building materials would cope extremely well with differential frost heaving (which is what cleaves houses in two).

If the houses foundation doesn't extend below the frost line, you've got two choices. Heat it like you want it to spontaneously combust, because you want to keep the frost line well away from your structure. Or 2, ride it. I've seen many cottages here in Canada built on grade that have survived decades of winters because they aren't tied to the ground they simply move when shifted.
Curing disease? That's nothing special compared to my latest startup.

It's for social sharing of fair-trade coffee brewing tips and lets users upload Lomo style pictures of their coffee cups, that it plays in a slideshow with a Mos Def soundtrack. We have a maxed-out Heroku account serving it, all done in node.js and Sinatra, of course, though we will be rewriting some cpu-intensive parts in ZetaLisp to run on some Lisp Machines.
Plus, to detect if its a systemic, or semi-systemic name, and extract the structure from that. I know of three tools which do that, and only one is free.

If you want a SMILES detector, you can use my opensmiles-ragel grammar to detect if a word is syntactically correct. (Not grammatically correct; it will allow "c1C" unless you write code to require balanced parentheses and matching ring counts.)

This would be much faster than passing it to any of the cheminformatics toolkits to do the first level detection.

If you're doing similarity searches, you might be interested in my chemfp project.
I guess .Net [1] is no option either?
Not sure if that stuff works on top of mono as well..

1: https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr
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I then contacted the vendor to let them know what was happening. They cancelled the order immediately and provided instructions for next steps.

If this is true, then you've got a much bigger problem than a phishing attempt. You paypal account has been compromised and people are using it to pay for stuff that they are buying on ebay.

Ebay's questions were likely an attempt to discover which account was doing the buying (probably also hijacked) and shut it down.

Change your passwords and security questions post-haste.
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The loan guarantee is actually against government induced project delays not default. The goal is to make the government a stakeholder. The last two built at that same site had > 10x cost overruns for that reason.
> isn't a particularly uplifting

Not everything that is true is uplifting.

If it were easy, you could just outsource business creation to some low-paid workers, with clear rules about how to go about doing it.

Instead, it's basically hill-climbing with some intuitive leaps. Not to say that the process can't be improved some, but it's always going to be hard.
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Plus, if you overprovision a 320 you not only increase IOPS, but also increase endurance.
On the one hand the idea is good. In libguestfs we go to huge lengths to deal with the release files of many different Linux and BSD distributions[1].

On the other hand, when was this discussed? Are all the Linux distros and BSD on board? OS X? Windows? (I'm serious)

/etc/os-release has all the problems of /etc/lsb-release, but even fewer people will use it (if you count distro numbers rather than users, hardly anyone is using lsb-release).

This file could have been a lot more useful if it had been discussed with people who might consume it. As it is, we'll be parsing this as a fallback, but continue using distro-specific release files.

[1] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/84a4160fd30c46...
Maybe it is me misunderstanding things, but Wayland and X11 are not technologies in contrast with each other.

Wayland is a glorified and up-to-date framebuffer and input system, X11 is a library that draws shapes and is responsible for delivering input from the user to the correct application.

I think the current situation is confusing because current X11 implementations not only do what X11 is meant to do, but they also need a way to push pixels to the framebuffer and listen to keystrokes. Basically X servers needed their own way to talk to the graphic card and they implemented it (decades ago). That part is almost completely independent from the protocol that draws shapes and routes input to applications. What Wayland is replacing is _that_ part, the part that deals with the framebuffer (that in the modern times is no longer a simple strip of memory region with RGB pixel data).

In the end we will have Wayland as the only owner of the graphic device and many clients, one of which will be the X server. When they say "client-side decoration" they are referring to the status quo: the Wayland client called X11 will draw the decorations (asking the WM to do that); nothing different from what we have now.

Once Wayland will be stable there will be other direct clients that will want to bypass X11: games probably, but also other multi-platform toolkit like Qt. And X12, eventually ;)

To me Wayland looks as the perfect example of how to move forward: make older unsustainable technologies coexist with newer technologies.
As a pedantic note, I wonder if the cap is measured from your cable modem or access to and from the Internet. Because if it's the latter (ever how unlikely) then a P2P protocol could make a difference.
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I understand your point and I am a big supporter of the free market, but I think consumers need a minimum protection against infomercials.
> Google Chrome is much better than xmms because you can turn the client-side window decoration and custom colour schemes off.

How? I didn't know this was possible and tried it (after some googling). Basically I have two choices: bad and worse. The default has the tabs on top. If I enable "hide system title bar", it adds a frame with close, minimize, maximize buttons.

I use a window manager with no decorations, just 1px border around active window. I'd like to get rid of the Chromium custom ugly tab bar.
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I don't get the list. What is their definition of innovative? Only web companies at the top - this seems questionable for me.
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Every company wants to have control over its own programming language. Even more since Oracle sued Google over Java.

Microsoft -> C#
Google -> Go, Dart
Apple -> Objective C
Oracle -> Java
VMWare -> Groovy
Red Hat -> Ceylon
JetBrains -> Kotlin
Mozilla -> Rust

Facebook and Amazon should invent their own languages as well.
He puts the articles together by researching from various sources, often without direct access to the company themselves.

It's going to be a little fragmented, but nonetheless, I found this a hugely interesting article.
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This isn't completely true. lsb-release contains everything that is in os-release, including the version of the distro in a neutral format.

However I agree with you that lsb-release is not much used, and in some distros is only present when some huge X-dependent LSB package is installed.

But hey, we could fix LSB! Instead of, you know, making up something new that will be as little used as lsb-release.
Haven't had much experience of brainstorming in a group session, but I find it immensely useful individually. Any time I'm stuck for ideas for blog posts, web-based projects, libraries etc, I timebox 20 minutes and spit as many ideas out into a buffer as I can manage. Most of the time I get junk but occasionally I discover ones worth testing.
while I agree that a feature not working as intended is a bad thing, magic_quotes_gpc also is a very, very bad idea, is deprecated for years and is going to be gone from PHP 5.4.

Also, it never worked right ever since PHP supported more than just MySQL and mSQL (and even for these databases it doesn't work any more, especially since the advent of Unicode)

In fact, it works so badly that projects usually go out of their way to turn this mis-feature off or work around it before even looking at input data.

As such, I really think this is not newsworthy enough because applications still relying on this mis-feature already have different issues anyways (and are likely not running on hosts that can/want to update PHP)
But there are PDF to HTML converters already available http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf-to-html/

One advantage for Google API is that it has OCR, by which JPG/BMP etc can be converted to text/Html. That will be useful I guess.
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Well, it depends on the investor, doesn't it? Evidence strongly suggests Apple is avoiding GPLv3 (much less AGPLv3), so if you want Apple to invest in you then it's a no-go.

It depends also on the product and the market. If the AGPLv3 is for part of the code base while you have other parts which aren't, then that's different than having all AGPLv3 code.

Also, think back to the 1990s, when companies were hesitant to use GPL at all; eg, wouldn't use Linux because it was under the strange GPLv2 license. That's changed, but we're still in a period where people might not want to take a chance on v3 just because no on else has taken a chance on v3.
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In Wales, no this isn't likely a problem. However, due to temperatures staying near-zero it can be worse on a structure if it's regularly cycling below freezing at night.

I wouldn't trust the retaining wall if it wasn't at least 20" of masonry when it's laterally unsupported. Flagstone walls here with lime mortar, laterally supported on floor and ceiling cope at around 14" thick, at which point they can support 6' 11" (by the municipal bylaw) of earth, his walls are laterally unsupported, and by law here can't support more than 3' 11" (if built with a strength equivalent to 8" of 15 Mpa poured concrete, locally about a 14" flagstone wall). Well drained soil will help, but when you're building a wall into the face of a hill, you're being stupid and putting your house below-grade.

I seriously expect this house to fail in a bad winter. I would trust this house in warmer climates, but definitely not in anything colder. I'd also like to know if this guy got approval by a structural engineer, because I certainly didn't read it when I glanced over.
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If you take the view that government is needed to protect people's rights (you know, "to secure these rights governments are instituted among men") as opposed to providing people with solutions for their problems - then the question becomes easy.

False dichotomy.

Of course, the government would always have a lot of purely technical questions where scientific training would allow one to decide them efficiently - but these always would be secondary roles and rarely need to be elected, but rather properly hired, which can be done by any decent manager.

If politicians were people who give difficult problems to a team of scientists to allow them to come up with the best solutions, and then choose from the equally good ones based on the underlying philosophical principles they stand for, then no, we wouldn't need scientists in the government.

Failing that, I'll take the group who at least in principle deals with new problems through a better method than guesswork or trial and error.
It's viable. Drivers exist for most of the interesting storage engines you'd use for user records, leaderboards and the like. You'll need to pay attention to any server-side operations that require heavy CPU and ensure those tasks don't block time-critical operations.

You may or may not get the same level of concurrency as someone's custom-tuned C++ backend, but you won't have to pay an arm and a leg to license it, either. :)
From a cursory glance at https://github.com/eigenhombre/PyClojure/blob/master/core.py it doesn't do anything with the lists yet, other than having a list class which stores the values.

As far as lazy goes, how does clojure does it? Thunks? The implementer can opt for thunks or generators(doesn't generator serve as an higher level abstraction to manually "thunk and force") as far as Python implementation goes.
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Battle the dragons to get up 6am in the morning. Drive through a snowstorm up up up towards the mountain of Doom in the alps. Sneak past the security guards in Davos & enter the WEF. Sit around for hours like a good little camper, freezing your butt off.

Ok, done with the editorializing, here's what you should do in reality: find out where he'll be, go there, talk to him, be normal. He's very approachable.
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You might look into running openvpn on your slicehost. If you use an ssh tunnel and then watch netflix, you'll be tunnelling UDP packets using TCP packets. TCP windowing can make your connection decidedly sub-optimal.

Openvpn also has nice windows and OSX gui clients so you don't have to monkey with SSH and socks proxies every time you want to invoke the setup.
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You can use Clojurescript on top of Node.js to achieve that. I never tried it so I don't have first hand experience.

https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki
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You think this consumer protection laws should be removed?
I'm afraid I've got bad news for you. In current Wayland they're still trying to work out how the close button will work when the app is non-responsive.
I tried to register in the Android app, but it doesn't work. I get an endless spinning progress bar after I press "register".
I wish users could understand they are not the center of the universe, and "one machine I got didn't work for me" doesn't automatically translate to "those brand of machines are bad". Bugs, problems, bad runs, happen with everything. One personal case (or 10,000 or 50,000) out of some 30,000,000 computers, is NOT the determining factor in respect to whether a brand of hardware works reliably or not.

"Just works" is relative. Given that Apple controls both the Wifi card and the driver for their machines, and that it offers a limited range of such cards, it sure is better poised to "just work" than some obscure wifi card used in a PC alongside with some third-party open source driver for it. This is, pretty much, common sense.

So, as relativity goes, it's pretty much true, or Apple wouldn't hold the higher user satisfaction position of multiple years in a row, with over 20% distance from the second runner.
recently the majority of the big distributions adopted /etc/os-release and many small ones did, too[2]

[2] To our knowledge at least OpenSUSE, Fedora, ArchLinux, Angstrom, Frugalware have adopted this.

So "OpenSUSE, Fedora, ArchLinux, Angstrom, Frugalware" is "the majority of the big distributions" now?
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> But what about something like grouphug.us? Or even Facebook?

This may sound a bit enraged, but I HOPE that someday Facebook shuts down removing and all 850M users lose their information, messaging histories, etc. I think it's the only way to teach them to nnot trust the only copy of such things to an external entity.

PS. I _really_ archive all my emails offline (with backups, of course), exception for some mailing list. It's 15 yeasr worth of emails now.
We're getting reports of that & sadly I can't reproduce them. We're on it!
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And if not then this xkcd comes to mind:
http://xkcd.com/927/
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There is a Better Way. Instead of using fixed sized blocks, use variable sized blocks. Decide the block boundaries using the data in the blocks themselves. This will reduce your search from O(n^2) to O(n).

Tarsnap does this. My project (ddar) does the same.
I'm doing occasionally some cross-platform development using Windows API and X11 and what I hope mostly for is that Wayland will reduce the complexity when programming compared to what is needed for X. Even simply things get complicated on X11 due to the client&server communication. A simple call to check the cursor-position can freeze your application for several milliseconds when the server decides to ignore your client for a few frames (and yes, depending on the application that matters - for games it's really annoying). Or adding copy&paste support will send you through a hell of no-longer-working examples and you can find lots of custom implementation where no 2 people tried the same workaround to ensure they really wait long enough for the server to respond and filter the right messages. I think the X people are also working on improving the situation when client&server are on the same system, but unfortunately you never can really ignore that communication completely and it will probably be many years before older X11 systems out there can safely be ignored.

I realize many people care a lot about the network part of X11. I suppose especially if you are working as Sysop it might be a big deal. I've not used it for over a decade, so obviously not something I care about so much. But on the programming side that client&server split makes life a lot harder and is not a solved problem.
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Agreed.

I think this was written before Turbo Pascal, which is really quite different from all other Pascals.
He's in the circle(s) of 500,000 people and when he posts a video it has 250 views after 9 hours... how can his click throughs to the video rate be so low.
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I wasn't going to comment, as everyone else seems to have already commented how horrible this looks (and performs).

However, on closer inspection it looks like they've just tried to copy Windows Phone. There's the obvious big bold tiles, a generic enough idea that I wouldn't completely attribute it to Metro. However it starts to get suspiciously similar when you compare the mobile link in the top right of html5rocks with the more apps arrow to the right of WP7 start screen:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Windows_Phone_...
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The real problem, and confusion in this discussion is because X11 is a loaded concept and when people talk about Wayland they dont seem to understand what part of X11 wayland is supposed to replace.

X11 meanings:

- X11 protocol: Allows remote applications.

- X11 server: Controlling applications and redirect input and such.

- X11 drivers: Controlling hadware.

As i understand it, Wayland is supposed to replace X11 drivers and parts of X11 server. Apparently you can still use the X11 protocol on top of Wayland if you want.

Theres a good FAQ about it: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html
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I released an app that I had been working on for a while, and I have very few downloads. When I advertised using a mob, the numbers increased substantially. However now that I've stopped, so have the downloads.

Are there any ways to get your app more visible? Searching for a key term in the title and description doesn't return anything!
Neither Facebook nor Amazon are developer's companies. They will do very well with whatever technology they used. Amazon will run any program written in any language on their elastic cloud. Facebook's apps can be written in any language, too.
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Interesting observation. I'm looking at the stats right now & Scoble vs. HN is indeed an interesting battle to observe. It's bit, ummm, one-sided ... I'll do a post-launch blog post on this tomorrow.