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>Those are just guesses at their motivation, but I cannot come up with any better explanations. Can you?

Think about it from a game theoretical perspective. How can they lose?

1) They get to pretend they're protecting users. Look at us we turned on Do Not Track by default (because you're too stupid to do it yourself, naturally -- wait, sorry, you're not stupid, come back)!

2) It makes their competitors look like they're not protecting users as much as Microsoft claims they are. Look how sinister Google is, they don't even turn on Do Not Track by default in their web browser. And Mozilla is therefore just as evil (notwithstanding that they're a nonprofit with a far less clear incentive than Microsoft to want to track you and pretty unambiguously have it turned off by default as a result of realism rather than malice), so doesn't that just make you want to come back to Windows and Internet Explorer?

3) If they manage to scuttle Do Not Track, yay! Now they get to keep tracking the people who use Bing, etc.

4) When having it turned on by default becomes the obvious deal breaker everyone expected it to be when taking part in a voluntary consensus-based process with advertisers, the subsequent falling apart of talks makes the advertisers look like dirtbags, which falls right into Microsoft's narrative of trying to make any of their ad-funded competitors (but especially Google) look like they're constantly doing something sinister.

5) If they don't manage to scuttle Do Not Track, yay! It's on by default in Internet Explorer. This hurts Microsoft's online services, but it likely hurts their competitors more, and Microsoft has historically been very successful with a strategy based on destroying competitors.

Realistically, the response to Microsoft turning it on by default should have been extremely simple: Make the spec say that the browser must have it turned off by default, and then allow websites to ignore the flag whenever the browser implementation doesn't comply with the spec. Then Microsoft can do whatever they want, but if they do the thing that breaks the consensus then the flag is no longer respected, but just for Internet Explorer users. Everyone else gets the same Do Not Track that everyone else agreed was a good idea, and Microsoft's strategy backfires because now their browser is the least privacy-protecting one since even the users who actually want to turn it on can't when all advertisers are ignoring the flag just with Internet Explorer.
anyone counted the portable toilet cabins in the base camp(s) - stopped with 58

how do they get those up and down?
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At some point people need to be pushed off. That's all there is to it. A lot of wasted developer time goes into supporting old browsers. Probably a lot more time than it would take to upgrade the browsers in the first place. If a large portion of the Internet stops working because a company/govt is using IE7, Firefox 3.6, etc, maybe they'll come to the conclusion that it's worth looking at different options.
More likely the case is it knows what its mother looks like.
You really think it's a good idea for a company to be that petty and passive-aggressive to its users?
Making a copy of something for a friend is sharing. Making millions of copies for complete strangers is not.
The FreeTime program is what got a KF in the door of our all-Apple household. As far as I'm concerned, this makes it THE toy for families.
From TFA, it looks like it was because they published addresses.

http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/a-fwehncyaa9r...

I wonder if you will get your account blocked by publishing a Google Maps/Street View link right outside the person's house instead?
One can argue it was the calorie restriction and not the bacteria. However, the interesting part was that the pathogen then caused the mice to gain weight.
I think it makes sense if you have a large user base. The initial roll out becomes the beta test for the feature. It allows you to have a sample that provides a ton of information: how often people use it, infrastructure usage change, customer complaint/feedback change, etc.
I'm wondering what it will look like in 2D because not only was it shot at 48fps, but it was presumably also shot with a shutter speed of 1/96th of a second. 24fps films are shot with a 1/48th second shutter speed, so the motion blur helps to compensate for the lack of temporal accuracy. Showing a film shot at 48fps, 1/96th shutter at 24fps by presumably throwing away every other frame would result in much more "choppy" and stark motion than a film that was shot for 24fps to begin with. I'm wondering if they used some kind of process to generate fake motion blur for the 24fps version, sort of the opposite of what our 240hz TVs do?
What a poor comment and wholly unnecessary. Even though I agree that the golden ratio article here is fanciful to a fault, the whole premise here is to put some thought into typography and calibrate text to look its best.

The math here is entirely relevant: knowing what the measure / font size should be, or at least figuring out minimum and maximum dimensions, that makes a difference. Got a responsive text container? Make sure it doesn't become hard to read. And the type of font you use (different fonts have different metrics, character widths, etc) makes a difference, it adds considerations that can lead to better design. People should put more thought into making their texts as readable as possible - it benefits everyone.

The waxing lyrical about golden ratios is a cheap way to drive interest and add allure, it gets the eyeballs. I think it's clever and it makes an otherwise dull topic interesting .
I think the benefit might be less of scaring away predators, but just acting as an alternative, bigger target for them. Anyone looking at spider webs for a meal will immediately go for the large obvious spider-looking thing in the web, and while that predator is dealing with the confusion of getting a mouthful of debris and gunk the real spider can make a get-away.
True hackers. Love it.
The writer/editor chose that picture. Scroll down and there's a 5-legged decoy. It's still cool, but they chose the most impressive picture to lead with.
Cool links.
Not that strong. For printer, the shape of a W is an external input. This spider outputs something resembling its own shape. So the question is here, why this and not something else (like randomly shaped clump), and how did it acquire this particular decoy blueprint.
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emoji in commit messages? who'da thunk it?
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Some mussels have evolved a similar feature : they are able to make part of them look like a fish even if they are blind :
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/amazing-m...

Probably those spiders are the result of a similar evolutionary process.
It depends. You'll get better integration into the browser if you transcode. But if you're doing the "YouTube testcase", just using a Flash player fallback (without transcoding) would probably suit your needs adequately.
Simple DHT implementation, binary trees refresher, and finish my website generator.
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I need to be able to define consistent labels and colors for machines across multiple graphs. So a machine named 'uk' is always displayed 'London' in dark green, consistently across all graphs.
You're right, we should all lament the possible passing of another way of judging people inferior to us.
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Thanks
Why do you say "as an employee"? I understand the rest of your comment without that clause.
Your right reasons and my right reasons differ. I think if they did it for the right reasons it would be developed in the open, and non-Google employees could earn commit privileges. And they wouldn't punish parties who used the source in ways Google disapproves.
If passwords are dead in part because people use the same passwords for different sites, and because password databases keep getting leaked... why would we replace them with biometrics? People will use the same biometrics for different sites, and the biometrics will keep getting leaked.

The only problem it solves is that of people choosing weak passwords... but it suffers from the problem that people cannot change their biometrics.
For even more mind-blowing, a mussel that looks like a fish:

http://unionid.missouristate.edu/gallery/L_reeveiana/Reevian...

EDIT: looks like jre beat me to it
The lowest I could find (outside of basecamp) were here: http://i.imgur.com/U6GaL.jpg

Did anyone find climbers lower in the icefall?
Right its a problem that exists in every language, there is nothing novel about scala that lends it to being any more cryptic then c++, other then there is a different set of rules as to what can be used where. Operator overloading in C++ is just as bad as scala, but most c++ programmers are used to it since they have seen it for a while. The first time I saw :/ I was really confused as to what it was since that's not an idiomatic C operator, but after seeing it in a few places you get used to the fact that its an operator and you read through it, just like I would if I saw a << in C++
The Facebook Product is Full.
This looks really interesting, but to be completely honest, I lost all interest once I saw that there was no other option but to sign up with Facebook.

As a developer, I understand the business and UX need for it, but it still manages to turn me away from really interesting services. It looks like you're looking to improve on this pain-point, so I'll definitely check this out later. :)

I'd also love it if the About page was on your own site as well. Linking to the Facebook app page feels like you were a little rushed.
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pretty amazing that they can make something to scare the big guys while catching the small guys. also prevent the bigger guys from ruining the trap.
Pretty decent and clean interface, I like that -- I think the next step to take from here would be implementing a system that lets users keep track of a list of watched/not-watched movies.

Up for it? :)

Anyway, do please remark on what kind of stack you've got going and what went into making this.
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Keep this in mind: Their understanding of psychology, technology and communication is much more important than how many followers they have on social networks. Someone's social network activity is often misinterpreted as being important in helping grow a company. That is really not the case in most circumstances. Try to find someone who is up to speed on the latest tools, but maintains a healthy level of skepticism to them. They need the ability to help your potential customers become aware of and understand your product. There is a flip side to this as well. A good marketer will be much more than just a mouthpiece for your company. They should be able to communicate the needs of the market back to you as well.
We are primarily in us-east-1, as I mentioned in the post, with a skeleton set of DB slaves sitting in us-west as an emergency recovery if all of east-1 goes down.

In terms of AZs, were are distributed roughly evenly across all AZs in east-1.
Ok, this is an interesting observation:

"After 9 weeks on the WTP diet, this Enterobacter population in the volunteer's gut reduced to 1.8%, and became undetectable by the end of the 23-week trial"

So the thesis is that this bacteria lives in obese people's gut, and it makes them more obese. But once they diet to a point where they are not obese, the bacteria dies off? I wonder if they are going to try a diet + anti-biotic treatment, diet + placebo trial on two obese patients to see if it improves their chances to get back into a regular balance.
The UI is gorgeous; well done there.
I'm a Mozilla Corporation (MoCo) employee, as are most "Mozilla employees." The thing is, Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the honest-to-goodness 501(c)(3) nonprofit Mozilla Foundation. Thanks to this structure, our work is in the service of the Mozilla Manifesto, http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.en.html, not in pursuit of enriching shareholders.

Mozilla Corporation has been growing -- I think it's around ~700 paid folks right now -- but that's still very, very small compared to the number of people employed by its peer organizations at Apple, Microsoft, and Google.

But that's irrelevant, because the Mozilla project, emphatically, is not the Corporation. Mozilla didn't change the world by having the most money, or hiring the most engineers. It changed the world through the contributions of the world. By being born of the open source movement, and recognizing the potential of an open web. Insofar as Mozilla exists at all, it exists to support you, and the open web. Consider getting involved: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/
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How about a printer with a picture of itself built-in as a test page pattern? :)

I'd guess that its sculptures started as fairly undefined clumps that served the purpose somewhat well (presumably that's what's built by other "sculpting spiders" that the article mentions?). And then evolution has refined that clump, like it does so well.
I'm surprised gists haven't grown that much in use. Such a great feature.
He missed the part where Monsanto makes a weaponized form of the bacteria that you use against your enemies to make them fat.
Great advice. I need to find a way (as a developer) to assess technical aptitude without resorting to technicalities
If a friend and I invent something, it's in both our interests to assign it to a company we own, rather than trying to figure out which "half" he owns and I own, or if we own it in joint, or any other a thousand other crazy ways.

Or, what rayiner said.
Maybe thats the difference. I've been pretty surprised anyway since I didn't have the warranty slip ready (sometimes tidding up isn't that a good idea).
Nice, it works neat on my retina display, :D
I don't think its dismissive, The truth is Scala is _not_ complicated.

No. You think it's not complicated. I think it's complicated but manageable and that its real problems lie elsewhere. Claiming your position as "the truth" is dismissive and insulting to people who have the temerity to disagree with you.

As for your second bit--the thing is, I do not use "shorthand". The problem, I feel, lies more in the haphazard (to a reader) usage of "code punctuation marks" like braces and so forth. You find situations where they're used inconsistently or not at all, making it much harder for the eye to pick up what are otherwise natural breakpoints within the code for your eye to use to parse the intent of the code. Other design decisions such as including initialization logic in the class body, versus using a dedicated constructor method, contributes, for me, to a general sense of chaos. I do not feel like a lot of effort was put into writing a language that is conducive to reading the next day.

Note that I am not saying that you cannot write clean code in Scala--but I am of the opinion that the language's design is such that it does not encourage it.
Thanks. We'll see. Each feature costs developer's time.

Edit: the stack is G-WAN and everything is written in plain ANSI C. I wrote my own HTTP servers in C/C++ for my previous websites, but this time I tried G-WAN. I think it saved me one week of work or two.

The website is running on the cheapest virtual dedicated server from 1&1 with 25% of one processor time. The total cost is less than $10 monthly.
Why the massive spike in pull requests in March-April? And the spike in creates in July?
They can't upgrade.

Hospitals and big companies lock down the computers, you can't install anything. If it comes with IE7, that's all you got.

And it's not because of these companies.

E.g. they need to run a specific custom version of SAP (accounting), which on turn crashes if any other browser is present. Upgrading would cost over $30M, so forget it for a while.

Or the hospital needs to validate the hardware + OS + software. Until GE does not support feature X they are stuck with the old version which requires a specific list of software to be installed.

You don't want to hear "sorry about the bad news last week that you have cancer - actually it was just a rendering glitch on your MRI due to the new Chrome version".

So life is a bit more complex than "just upgrade"...
because one with legs is a more effective decoy? (or whatever other implications a larger spider has)
ISME Journal.

1. Two independent facts from the experiment: A pathogen that causes obesity (in mice) seems to be active in some obese humans.

2. Severely restricted diet seems to powerfully reduce the population of this organism.

I doubt that these facts are unrelated. It's classic host-parasite behavior. The pathogen depends on high calorie intake in its host, and therefore engineers that behavior (somehow).

Further there is no reason to make the leap that the only or best way to counter this pathogen is through diet. It's not impossible that a targeted antibiotic that eliminates this pathogen would have an effect on the body composition of the host.
good point. but this means that step 1 has to immediately be appetizing to be of evolutionary benefit. (arguably it could be). It also conflicts a little bit with the observed behavior that the spider is shaking the web, trying to get attention to the bigger spider. If the true benefit was escape, I would think not-attracting attention would be the resultant behavior.

Just my opinion. I guess we don't know for sure. There's probably a way for some biologist to figure that out for certain - would make an interesting postdoc.
"given that there's no native JavaScript way refer to things down the prototype chain instead of up?"

For a method "xyz", look for whether there's currently an "xyz_inner" and call that if so. It's easy enough for the Dart compiler to do the resulting paperwork; it's what compilers do. (Yes, it is yet more complicated a bit to keep going down to a second layer of inheritance but it seems like it could be done, just more paperwork. And of course the symbol names are arbitrary, it need not be "inner".)
I saw the /gigapans/ in the URL and googled for it, thinking it must be a super intelligent panoramic "image sticher"+"image viewer" written in flash - but found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigapan
Facebook has no control over a user's browser. The most they can do is randomly ban users, like this guy.

The truth is this is something no website can control. If I want to view FB via a local proxy on my device that filters out commercial garbage, I can do so. And I can show any of my friends how to do the same. A little tcpserver, tcpclient and sed and we can clean things up quite nicely, with minimal fuss.

These attempts to control how someone views a website (e.g. see Twitter's recent efforts) are futile. This is digital, not print. A social website is mainly just text (html) and various resource files (e.g. images), it is all malleable in digital form and there are myriad ways to process it and render it, of which the Facebook developers' choice or a popular web browser developers' choice are only a few.

You have to wonder if FB's legal team even understands what is technically feasible and what isn't (like controlling how a page is viewed, on the client side).
Is it just me or isn't that basically what they feed you in the Matrix?

"Tank: Here you go, buddy; 'Breakfast of Champions.'
Mouse: If you close your eyes, it almost feels like you're eating runny eggs.
Apoc: Yeah, or a bowl of snot.
Mouse: Do you know what it really reminds me of? Tasty Wheat. Did you ever eat Tasty Wheat?
Switch: No, but technically, neither did you.
Mouse: That's exactly my point. Exactly. Because you have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything.
Apoc: Shut up, Mouse."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/quotes?qt0324288
We are planning a follow-up blog post that goes into more technical detail about our backup and restore strategies; look for it in a week or two.
Delete "almost".
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I believe Apple has (had?) to license 'IPhone' from some telco.
One tiny recommendation: Give a visual indication that the movie I just rated will move elsewhere. It was very confusing to see things vanish when I clicked on them :)

But leaving nitpicks aside - I really like it.
The TSA is a pet issue of the upper-middle class because they annoy and harass them frequently and they are an easy and relatively safe way to push back against a police style authority. They're a figurehead of what was lost after 9/11.

The TSA is also an obvious waste. They aren't that much different before hand although, their function were covered by a hodgepodge of regulations usually dictated by the FAA and private airport security employed at airports US wide.

The upper-middle class tends to set the agenda for the media in general. They're also the archetype of what are depicted in TV shows and so on. Why the recent school shooting became a national outrage is probably because they were a middle class school. The death toll also added to it.
and anything looking at spider webs for a meal is going to expect a spider shaped thing on there, not a tiger.
Cool site. I love the simple interface.

From a UX perspective, the header should be sticky when you scroll. I was having fun looking at the "moods" and genres that get highlighted when you hover over a movie, but after I scroll down, I can't see it anymore
It doesn't. It just likes to stick bits to its web in patterns. Feels good, (spider) man.

Something like this:

1. get bit of leaf.
2. go to center of web.
3. while standing on leaf bits, go down (with G).
4. drop bit of leaf, leaving gap to the left and right.
5. if more than 20 paces from the center. Forget it, relax.
6. goto 1.

With a bit of fiddling I have no doubt you can write a simple program to produce these shapes.

If you find this interesting, check YouTube for termite and wasp nest videos. Incredible!
Hey borgopants -- I'm one of the devs at wavo.

We've gotten the same feedback from several people, and we know it's a priority. Artists and labels, in particular, have asked for non-Facebook login methods. It's on its way, promise. We just haven't quite made it there yet.