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So, this basically the definition of selling your soul to the devil?
I saw the ToC and almost all information from the book seems to be present on the elinux wiki for the RPi, looks like it is a very basic introduction to the RPi indeed.
Starbucks won't be using any Square dongles. I'd imagine there will be a small sticker at their normal POS.
src: http://www.splatf.com/2012/08/starbucks-square-payments/
Impressive, considering this could have been an even better pull request without all the "like, white guy speak, yo".
We love grid.
What would be interesting to see is how that 68% is sliced. How much of that % has access to the official Google Marketplace, How much of that % are non Google approved phones etc. Those numbers give would give developers a better sense of what the potential market size is like, and help identify gaps in the market.

The Android share is somewhat like the DOS market at the beginning of the nineties. While DOS commanded a sizable share verses Mac OS, it was broken down into 3 variants (MSDOS, DRDOS, PCDOS) with sub versions (MSDOS 5, DRDOS 6 etc). While they were mostly compatible they had enough differences to cause developers headaches.
Broke down for me when I hit Java, although it may be a version issue. Either way, incredibly awesome.
I don't know where you're getting your data, but I don't think most people are too concerned about paying for things.

Of course, if you ask them, "Do you want to pay for this or do you want it free?", they'll choose free.

But if you don't ask and just charge for it, I don't think most people would mind. It's the way things worked for thousands of years. It's the way things still work for every product in the world except online content. Maybe it's a huge issue for you, but most people just don't mind paying for products and content they find worthwhile.
Starbucks isn't supporting the geofencing: http://www.splatf.com/2012/08/starbucks-square-payments/
I recall in one of the interviews he said he <inexact quote, summarized>

"I do appreciate money and it is needed to invest in ventures, but I personally I'm not in it for the money. I can already buy everything I could want."

EDIT: I am just supporting parent post's claim that

"but frankly I would respond by pointing out that Elon really doesn't seem to be in it for the money, but rather despite the money."
I'm just amazed at the amount of ad copy that they thought people were willing to read back then.
Exactly, which is why I'm so passionate about this. I live on a meager $200 a month ($CAD) for food and cigarettes (I smoke unfortunately, but it's hard to quit...), and the rest goes to rent, bills, and my student loan debt.

If someone attempts to tell me to buy media, the last thing I would prioritize, I'd tell them I couldn't, which I believe as the truth. Now you could say I'm harming the industry, but like I said, I don't have a budget for this stuff ATM.

When I manage to pay my debt off, I should be able to afford certain things, like Netflix, which in my opinion, is what a 20 something like me can justify. So in conclusion, I would if I could but I can't so I won't. But when I can, I will.
You don't notice your own smell. I shower every morning and after a workout, but I don't use 'oder' enhancing products and people have commented that I smell nice. But, it's also possible to stink without noticing it. I think this has a lot to do with diet as I have read that a lot of what people consider 'bad' smells are actually signs that something is wrong with you.
Would be good to clarify this is from one of the OLD rovers. It IS a beautiful panorama regardless.
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Defining engineering in terms of what a legal definition somewhere undefined (I'm assuming you're talking about the US) seems unnecessarily narrow.
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Seeing as how there is no penalty whatsoever for misidentifying a video and taking it down(1), I'm wondering if its a feature and not a bug. Remember back in the bad old days of youtube, when everyone thought that Google was crazy for acquiring them because there just seemed to be no way to get around the billions demanded in lawsuits (I wish that were hyperbole)?

This is the way. Just let the system run amok and get everyone talking about how they just ban everything at the drop of a hat. No one can argue that they're "not doing enough" when the idea is always percolating in the public conscious that videos get banned all the time, even when they shouldn't be.

(1) And there really should be a small one, paid by the "owner" of the material. You should have to think carefully about how much it might cost you to turn on content protection for your material.
That's an amazing video, really made me want to plan a camping trip. I love the ability to integrate photos and video in my spreadsheet. Will I be able to share a read-only link to a mobile site or is it iOS only for now?
Call me paranoid, but I'm scared it's also getting the attention it probably shouldn't.
Another product which does similar advertising, but convinces their color of skin could be better is http://www.fairandlovely.in/

Guess even the name has a subtle meaning, be fair "and" you become lovely :)
It is pretty awesome, but not from Curiosity. I hope we get similar stuff from the current mission.
I take it you've never worked closely with someone who had it.
2025 is 13 years from now. With any luck SpaceX will have proven its heavy lift launcher within the next year and its manned capsule within the next few years. More so, they are poised to rake in billions of dollars in profits from commercial satellite launches and NASA contracts in the next decade alone.

Combine that capability plus R&D money and you have a potent mix.

Getting to Mars isn't actually that difficult, we already have a lot of the technical details worked out. The biggest element that adds cost and complexity is launch, which is precisely where SpaceX excels.
The header of the blog post is broken in Firefox. I had to remove an element with Firebug in order to read the first couple paragraphs.
after meeting him on a Github drinkup, I certainly agree.
Yes, the forced data plans are irritating. I bought a used unlocked phone from another carrier and activated it on the target carrier. Their database has no a priori knowledge that my IMEI is a smartphone, so no data plan is forced on me. WiFi data works great, though, and I disable all the other data connections to avoid accidental data charges.
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very nice i've been hoping for this for a long time ... and will be giving this consideration when my current crunchbang desktop needs a reinstall: http://figital.typepad.com/blog/2006/06/xubuntu_with_a_.html (hoping to see more javascript hooks now in the XFCE widgets)
Looks great.

Would be nice to see a demo of its number-crunching capabilities, to judge whether it's innovative in that area as well.
Great points. I went into this knowing full-well that to many, many people, these misspellings were not considered as such. As the graph suggests, though, the majority of people still use the "older" spellings of "yeah" and "anyway". There are two ways of spelling each one (with "yea" and "anyways" considered to be the more nascent), and I'm approaching this from the standpoint of why the spellings are changing. Is the language evolving (suggesting improvement) or devolving (suggesting perpetuated errors). We could discuss linguistics, but what indicators are there from the data showing Reddit has a lower percentage of yeas and anywayss compared to Twitter? Is it simply the medium? How does that data compare to your anecdotal classification of the respective aggregate intelligence level of both sites' users? What do you think the data would say about HN vs. Youtube on the frequency of these (as you would consider) both valid spellings? This all boils down to me labeling the graph as common misspellings, but ignoring that, you should be able to make of the graphs what you will, as there's no associated hypothesis or conclusion.
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I keep a tab on those but I was more talking about real desktop/laptop/workstation class x86 hardware, not VM.

I have tried and given up running Solaris derivatives on bare metal even if for running just command line. The hardware /peripheral support just doesn't seem to be there.
Really impressive demonstration of re-thinking an unsexy technology that is so important to so many. A great example on how start ups can disrupt a giant like Microsoft by being bold and not giving a shit. Good luck Grid!
Are you a dev? Try awesome. Invest two hours of confusion and RTFM and you may never go back.
I've got a hunch this is why Curiosity is equipped with a high-tech geology kit.. "If we find traces of life, wonderful! But if we find large quantities of easily retrievable oil, precious metals or rare-earth minerals? We're in business!"
I found it whimsical and funny, I don't see it as brogramming. It was also a very good pull request, so this further decreases my brogramming expectation.
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I'm working on the assumption of statistical significance of people using "yea" pronounced "yeah" vs. the very few people who might have reason to take to Twitter to use "yea" in a voting or biblical context.
http://www.virginmobileusa.com/

Hell you can buy an iPhone through them.
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The book costs a third of the device?
Sweat on some parts of the body will keep you cool. Trapped inside a joint, not so much.
Meant to up vote on mobile and hit down instead, sorry. Someone balance it for me?
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That would imply that in his personal life he does not need or want more money, since he is already incredibly wealthy. However, personal wealth will not be enough to fund SpaceX indefinitely. The system needs to be balanced.
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I wonder how much our attitude towards body odor changed because of advertising and how much was a direct result of indoor plumbing and urbanization.

Around the same time as some of these advertisements started, indoor plumbing was becoming popular. Until then it wasn't really practical to bathe every day.

Additionally, odor didn't matter as much if you worked on a farm, but urbanization meant Americans spent more time indoors in close proximity, where smell was more of a problem.
Thanks for sharing. My list has much more CRUD apps with different UI challenges (like a single person todo list).
Nope: http://www.amazon.com/Mars-Uncovering-Secrets-National-Geogr... published by the National Geographic from Pathfinder images in 1998.
All valid and succinct points in my opinion.

I've always entertained the idea of travelling the world if/when I have a kid, and using exploration as a means of instruction.

I've always found that passion is the most important thing, regardless of subject. So why do we teach subjects and hope that passion follows? I'd rather explore passions, and let the subjects become known within that passion.

Take programming as a prime example:

Most programmers who are passionate about the craft, use self learning and interest to fuel their development. While you could argue that they might miss some fundamentals such as Database design if they don't like DB work, or even CSS if they're not into web development, it doesn't matter because we all know in our hearts that if they're passionate about a certain realm within the industry, they'll most likely do OK.

Why don't we teach this? I've never understood the stigma associated with home schooling. The main argument against it is that the child won't learn fundamental life skills. So what about living? Won't that teach life skills?

If someone said I need to teach arithmetic to a child because they need to learn how to handle money, Why can't I just teach them how to handle money?

School in my opinion is an abstraction that isn't necessary anymore. A relic of the industrial age, when information was sparse and communities were largely illiterate.

Now we have mostly literate communities with an abundance of information at our finger tips.

Considering that the ability to learn no is largely in the domain of seeking knowledge instead of memorizing and testing yourself with that knowledge, I think that one only needs to instill the ability to follow ones passions, and to parse through information adequately.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_alum

Though it's probably just 1 in a mixture of many salts.

Even if regular deodorant has this listed as an ingredient, it's quantity is questionable, and it's mixed in with other substances that prevent the alum from making full contact on the surface of the skin.

> Your sweat lessens" with this product, but it does not. The FAQ stresses that it does not reduce sweat.

It does a bit. But not to a significant effect. It's probably a secondary effect (clean pores, less sweat ... something like that).
Or DWM, or Xmonad, or i3, or Spectrwm, or StumpWM...
You don't even need to be a dev, just want to learn!
This article is strange: Some parts of it are sooo right, but then some parts are sooo wrong. Yes, the Linux world should stop obsessing about mobile and tablets, since they've basically already lost that battle. (And frankly: Who gives a damn about mobile? Some of us have work to do...) And yes, they should focus on their strengths in the desktop. But their strength is not web design and multimedia. As someone pointed out, they lost that domain to Apple a long time ago. Their strength is the scientific and technical desktop users. CERN uses Linux heavily. Many of the screenshots from the Curiousity landing showed a Linux desktop. I.e. people who need the computing equivalent of a truck, not a car. That's the core audience that desktop Linux should be trying to serve. And frankly, both Unity and the Gnome 3 Shell are steps in the wrong direction. Unity is clearly aimed at netbooks and tablets, and both Unity and Gnome Shell value simplicity over power, which is not what scientific and technical users want.

For my money, the recent moves Linux Mint has been making are the most promising ones happening in the Linux ecosystem right now: Don't fix what isn't broken, and make a distribution the just works out of the box. When the Gnome 3 goofballs eliminate yet another piece of useful functionality, do a fork. (And now they've started selling Linux Mint branded hardware, another smart move. One of the real problems with Linux these days is that you just can't buy hardware with Linux pre-installed that is equal in quality to Apple's hardware.)

Or at least that's my two cents.
When Chrome was announced, I recall a reporter asked what Google's goal was in terms of market adoption within a year (10%? 20%? market share). They said that misses the point, and they weren't using adoption as metric, but rather they were tracking performance attributes of all browsers (how much better will the web experience get for everybody, regardless of browser). Absolutely brilliant. Now, Microsoft could try to do the same thing on the privacy front. Its a much harder play though.
Environments like that already exist, Xmonad/Xfce/Whatever. Linux already has massive developer usage, apart from in.Net/Mac/iPhone developers who wouldn't be able to use it anyway.

Media creation software doesn't have to be high level pro stuff. Having Gnome ship with software that is great for amateurs who want to make youtube videos, mess around with filters on digital photos, or record themselves jamming on their guitar would be a great start.

The existing software like GIMP would certainly be powerful enough for this, the main work would be in reworking it's difficult UI.
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For 10 years, at a maximum of 14.99% of annual return.
Here's what a thief could do:

Open Chrome

Go to Settings

Click on "Show Advanced Settings"

Click on "Managed Saved Passwords"

Click on a saved password

Click on "Show"

Write down or copy/paste/email the login in this fashion one-by-one.

If they are after a pile of logins, keep clicking "Show" all the way down the list. Capture the screen and email/print or simply take your smartphone and snap a picture.

Scroll through the entire login list to get it all.

Takes very little time to get all of someone's private login data in this fashion. An, since the vast majority of Internet users re-use login user id's and passwords across many services I would imagine it might not take long to identify this pattern and have access to every login.

Locking the workstation behind a password doesn't help either for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that workstation password removal, recovery or cracking tools are widely and easily available.
This is wrong even in the context of economics. The whole history of the tech industry is a story of cheaper mass market solutions winning out over more expensive ones. Apple is the "IBM" in this chapter and Android is the "DEC" (or "Apple" I guess, though that's confusing). That's not a great place to be, even though it makes you more money in the short term.
I like that the video on your homepage shows most of the functionality pretty quickly, but I realized that I spent the whole demo with my head tilted to the right. There's no need for that tilt.

(somehow, it now says "this video does not exist" right now)
Quick clarification on Google Ventures: Microsoft in Facebook or Starbuck in Square are those companies acting as "strategic" investors. Google Ventures is different in that it's a venture investor: it tries to be completely separate from Google proper and doesn't necessarily come with any close business relationship between the investments and Google. People can argue over whether it can actually achieve this separation, but it's run in a completely different way from ordinary corporate VC (which is usually managed by business development inside the parent company).
There's an interesting Quora discussion on the legality, logistics and mechanisms behind "human shares": http://www.quora.com/Can-you-buy-human-shares
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Since you're running on GAE you're likely using either python or java:

Python bcrypt implementation: http://www.mindrot.org/projects/py-bcrypt/

Java bcrypt implementation: http://www.mindrot.org/projects/jBCrypt/
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Nobody likes unity except for a few.

I wish people would stop putting this line without anything backing it up. We've had this conversation recently, and it turns out that actually not everyone hates Unity [1]. Besides my comments, here's a sampling:

"Unity is the best desktop I've ever used."

"I like Unity... I rarely go into a forum and announce how much I like something."

"'it's not as bad as everyone says.' This is the camp I fall in. "

"People that are happy with their desktop environment are not particularly likely to go to some site and talk about how good it is."

"unity is what you get by default on ubuntu? if so, i really like it"

"Never used Unity but I really enjoy Gnome 3"

Point being, you can't listen to people complaining then say "oh hey, there are 50 people complaining out of millions of users, this must be pretty awful". People will always complain more than they will praise, especially for a desktop environment. You might not like it, but you can't seriously extend that out to everyone save a few. Point being, people do like Unity and Gnome 3. But the people who would rather complain about something they don't like (and aren't forced to use) tend to be loudmouths. The silent majority just don't care.

So if you're stating that nobody except a few likes Unity or Gnome 3, I'm going to have to call your bluff.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4318228
Maybe not a Henry Ford, unless we want Jews excluded from the system.
We create way too much content today
Whether it's a dongle or a logo, the benefit is still essentially the same - recognition of it as a payment brand on par with Visa/Mastercard.
Can someone explain this to a layman who "only" uses credit cards at the moment? How is whatever this is going to make my checkout at Starbucks quicker or more convenient than a card or a $5?
The thing about those beatings is that while they are occurring you don't know whether it's going to stop at a point that still allows you to enjoy that financial security.
Second that. All tiling window mangers. Much more efficient.
Wouldn't a Kickstarter for political campaigns just be... launching political campaigns? Or are you thinking of a central hosting service/market?

And what would the political campaign's deliverable be? If I raise this much money, I will run? Or I will give this to a PAC or SuperPAC or a political party?

Or are you looking at a currency involving action instead of cash? Votes, phone calls, endorsements, house parties, and other political gestures could be a supporter's commitment.
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It’s also currently hard (impossible?) to add a tip to Starbucks credit card orders. (I assume this is done to minimize time spent on each customer.)

Square makes it ridiculously easy.
Well, I like to exaggerate a little bit. Especially since sociopathy/asperger are rather ill defined. So discard all my remarks as pure troll (don't feed the troll :).

The real point is there are no truly acceptable positive feedbacks if one does not equally express negative feedbacks.

So ... one should not whine for getting flamed even if it is socially unacceptable to discard all this work because that's the path for improving...and later maybe getting praised.
Yes, the Linux world should stop obsessing about mobile and tablets, since they've basically already lost that battle.

Well that depends on if you include Android or not and I don't really understand the logic not to.
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The queue of usage events is an API for collecting usage information, but it sounds like it's not as high a layer as you'd like to see.

There is also the (new) Ceilometer project which sounds like it implements what you're looking for:

https://github.com/stackforge/ceilometer

It is new, so it's probably not as mature as other options, but it has had a lot of activity recently.
Unless we invent a much faster engine, traveling to and back from Mars is practically impossible. In the 16 months it takes to get there and return the amount of radiation that will be received from humans could pose significant health risks. It's not surprising that NASA's plans about a manned mission to Mars talk about a one way trip and building some kind of habitat there where they will stay permanently.
Yes, the Linux world should stop obsessing about mobile and tablets, since they've basically already lost that battle.

Android is doing ok I think. Or do you just mean linux with a gnu/unix userland?
Do you have a reference for "(2) how to assign interceptors to targets in the best possible way in guaranteed execution time"? I would love to read that paper!
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