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This looks great! I've seen it used before very well.

But the animated icon's look really naff. For me (Chrome version 23), they shake all over the place as they animate, does anyone else see this?
From my experience the main benefit comes from the alignment of particular scenarios, with contexts, the result of which is a single place to reason about the algorithm(s) behind that scenario.

I see very little reason for the dogma behind the way role injection is typically handled, yet everyone seems to be attached to doing this in Ruby. This is odd because there are DCI examples in almost every language, each one has it's awkwardness when it comes to roles, but they all manage to get it done with some workaround. I don't see why Ruby should be any different, if it wasn't possible to call #extend, we'd just do it another way.

Either way, I wouldn't dismiss DCI just because the canonical approach some academics cooked up is completely senseless in practice. In fact the author seems to agree in the end so the title is a bit exaggerated.
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I've heard of this before; as crazy as it sounds, I'll try it.
There were still some kilometer markers on the roads in Alabama when I moved there in 1997. Apparently, the state spent $3.2 million to put up km markers and signs in addition to the mile markers and signs. This proved to be too confusing, and they were all taken down. Most the people I knew didn't miss them.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19971128&...
There obviously is a trade-off between the strength of the language and the number of people who will click through.

Maybe, but I'm not arguing about the 'strength' of the language. I'm arguing about the accuracy of it.

The messages are accurate, Twitpic was unfortunately a distributor of malware. Here's a copy and paste of the current detailed report.

Actually, this report proves my point. Twitpic is implicated because ad networks they embed have distributed malware.

This is a perfectly good reason for warning people, but it is not justification for calling Twitpic "A known distributor of malware" - a statement which portrays Twitpic as an intentional agent in this.

If I called you "A known distributor of falsehoods", and my evidence was that you made a few mistakes on a math test, and mistyped the a URL in one of your postings, I imagine most people would consider that a misrepresentation, because the phrase "A known distributor" implies agency and intent.

Another analogy would be if a grocery store carried a batch of improperly pasteurized milk from that people got food poisoning from.

Calling the grocery store "A known poisoner" would be an obvious misrepresentation.

In just the same way, Twitpic is not "a known distributor" of malware.

I'm not sure why you're placing the business interests of Twitpic over the safety of users, but I disagree with your attitude.

You are simply misrepresenting my position. You keep making a false dichotomy, as though the users safety and accurate messaging are in conflict with one another. This is not true.

It is perfectly possible for Google to strongly state their opinion about the dangers of clicking through without misrepresenting twitpic.

I think that the communications of those in a position of power should be critiqued, and I think that misleading people 'for their own protection' is almost never justified and certainly shouldn't be casually accepted as a necessary tradeoff.

I disagree with your attitude too, but I guess at least we know where we stand.
While we are at it, can we exempt scientific papers from copyright? Copyright only serves the interests of journal publishers, who are entirely redundant now that we have the Internet. Rather than ensuring access to scientific work, copyrights have become a way to restrict access -- even universities cannot guarantee their students and professors access to all journals. Journal articles are reviewed by volunteers, and sometimes journals are even edited by volunteers.

We need to stop this nonsense already. Copyright is not an incentive for scientists, it is a burden.
Verizon appears to care now

I was told there would be no issue activating my old iPhone4 on my mother in law's account as long as "no one reported it stolen"
I live 4 miles from work. I left my house at 8:20am and arrived in my office at 9:25am.

Try to grab a train from San Francisco to LA. That's about 400 miles. How long would you expect that to take in this future of which you speak?
Actually, some companies (Thrifty for example) will accept a debit card, but they will/may do a credit check first, and they will lock-up a few hundred dollars of your funds.

You are only doing yourself a disservice by not getting a credit card. I get purchase protection, price matching, fraud protection, free extended warranties, etc, for free, from my credit card provider. That's a pretty good deal.
Awesome, but I can't delete my comments or posts. D:

Also I think a great purpose for this would be to highlight particular bits of code/changes found in git, even if it is just a part of a gist.
Indeed. Although there would be little point for the distance involved (compared to air travel), a cross-US high-speed rail line using the best existing technology on a non-stop trip would go through in ~15h (the Wuhan–Guangzhou line non-stop service averaged 194mph station to station, although non-stop service has ended and the best average commercial train service has gone back to the french LGV Est with 174mph)
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A car is going to lose some value every month no matter how you finance it or pay cash. So it's safe to assume a few hundred a month for depreciation for a newer model car like Zipcar provides.
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There are a large number of very high quality domestic models, easily rivaling any from anywhere. Again, saying domestic was completely unnecessary bigotry that added zero value to the comment. Especially odd that you then use VW and Audi as the comparator, given that both of those are historically, and recently, lower quality brands -- the incident rate for defects is much higher than average (though note that one survey put them on top by noting that sure the defect rate is high, but the owners are happy anyways so that equals quality anyways).
Also the video at the end is just a marketing video from the Office department.

At least it's not just a marketing vehicle like IBM Research and they build real products like Kinect. But that was also a bought company afaik and didn't come out of MS R&D.
Yeah, that's one of the things I'm updating. Getting animations to appear the same in every browser is a pretty deep rabbit hole, and full of changing one breaks another.
I love heavy metal, but when coding I've found trance and upbeat techno helps me better. The tempo keeps me pumped up and the repetitive lyrics (or none at all) aren't as distracting as regular lyrics.

Astral projection and Tiesto are my faves.
I have a data plan on an iPhone with AT&T and I pay an additional $15 over the standard 450 minute plan for 200 MB of data. I understand that AT&T has raised this minimum to $20 for 300 MB.

That price won't break the bank for most people but 200-300 MB for a month of data isn't much. I'm generally on WiFi so I don't care but I suspect that many people would find this too small for comfort. If they don't care about surfing from the phone, I can see people just avoiding using any data at all so that they don't have to worry about additional fees.
What's wrong with Music and Podcasts in Windows Phone 8
It's 4x cheaper ($250 vs. $1000), for one. If you realize you are spending 90% of your time doing work (or not) in the Chrome browser, why not just get a Chromebook then? A lot of people are arguing that Chromebooks are better for school kids, too, than more expensive desktops, laptops, or even ipads.

I have a mac laptop at work, which I only keep around for video editing, but you can even do basic video editing in the browser nowadays, with sites such as WeVideo and Pixorial.
They just bought out a competitor. Less competitors means rates go up on average. Don't expect lower Zipcar rates from this...
I'm guessing you're quite unfamiliar with the metric system. The different types of measurements are defined in relation to one another and are thus easy to figure out, unlike the imperial system where everything is odds and ends.

A kilogram is (almost exactly, but slightly different) to the mass of one litre of water.
The force required to accelerate this mass at one metre per second squared is one Newton.
One Newton acting on one square metre is one Pascal of pressure.
Applying a force of one Newton through a distance of one metre is one joule of energy.
This is the same amount of energy in passing a one ampere current of electricity through a resistance of one ohm for one second.
One joule per second is one Watt.
Hello, I'm the creator of this (trevmex is one of my co-workers).

I just want to thank everyone for the feedback so far, I am looking into the issues that have been brought up (they'll have to wait until this evening to be fixed though...I have a day job).
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Ask HN: CLI tools for DNS, IP, and HTTP (like ViewDNS.info)
I use tools like ViewDNS.info with some regularity, but it has always struck me as strange that these tools are packaged as a web service, rather than an open source tool that you can use from the command line. Additionally, there's zero transparency at ViewDNS. I don't even know who they are. That tingles my spidey sense every time I use the service.

Some of the tools at ViewDNS are already implemented as basic command line tools (ping, dig, traceroute, curl, etc), but more advanced items like the DNS report aren't. These are the tools I use most frequently.

The question for HN is: is there already a package or library that has the same functionality? Specifically, a tool that contains the non-trivial features like DNS reports with sanity checks, DNS propagation, spam database lookups, etc.

Assuming there isn't, what's the interest level in a toolset like this. Do you think it's something that makes sense as a package for a scripting library (like Ruby or Python), or do you think that it should be implemented as a native application for Linux (written in C)?

From my perspective, I see something following the Git CLI model where you invoke the tool, issue a command, and pass options.

newtool dns-report domain.com

Something like Ruby's Rake might make even more sense, with it's built-in support for namespacing.

newtool dns:report domain.com

I think it makes sense as a scripting language package, seeing that there are no performance requirements here. Writing it in a scripting language would make contribution more accessible. With good namespacing, it would be easy for authors to contribute new modules for additional functionality.

Thoughts?
Sure, and that's a $36,000 difference over those ten years. It's much easier to break even when you make that change :D
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You don't actually have to unless you're moving from major version to major version (i.e. FreeBSD 8.x to 9.1 in this case), though it's never a bad idea to do so.

The FreeBSD ABI doesn't change with minor version releases so the majority of ports should work through all of the 9.x releases without needing to be upgraded. The big exception is ports that work closely or otherwise depend on kernel functions, those may changes and therefore those ports will need to be upgraded in order to keep working.
Ruby is a language, not an implementation. DCI in ruby seems just fine, but all implementations are not friendly to the dynamic mixin hell hole.
Ah, so it's not legal definitions that make street signs show distances in miles and speeds in miles per hour?

And if it's indeed the law since 1875, we wouldn't have needed the Metric Conversion Act from 1975, would we?

We're still on Imperial units because the U.S. commitment to metric units has been patchy and haphazard since the beginning. Unless we're willing to mandate the use of metric units only for all state business, especially in education, we're going to be stuck with furlongs per fortnight.
@oellegaard: If You had issues with manual then puppet modules + setup will be the same. If You just want to try You can use Cloudera Manager to setup cloud without any knowledge of hadoop. You just need to have ssh using keys as root on all hosts from host where cloudera manager is installed and it will just happen in seconds.

https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/DOC/Documentation#Documenta...
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I was on travel a lot this summer, so I had a chance to rent and try many cars. I was universally unimpressed with every American car I drove, pleasantly surprised by every Korean car, and unsurprised by the quality of the Japanese makes.

The domestics didn't piss me off because they were unreliable, but because they each were designed somewhat poorly -- as an example, one featured a HUGE miles-per-gallon readout in the center of the driver's console... and you had to move one of your hands to see either the speedometer or the tachometer. Crap like that, bad decisions.

So I don't think the "crappy domestic cars" bit is worn out.

EDIT: someone's gonna ask. IIRC the Americans I drove were a Ford Focus, a Chevy Aveo, and a Ford Escape.
iOS user here, so bias acknowledged, but I am a mobile security guy and I get new phones quite often.

Just last week I fired up the new Google Nexus device from LG and tried to spend a full week on it--for the purpose of being more familiar with Android as a user.

I couldn't make it a full 24 hours.

This was a fully stock Android experience, on the latest and greatest phone, and Chrome crashed six (6) times on me. Scrolling in the browser was markedly inferior. And the overall experience of reading on the device just felt far worse.

I didn't want to read anything on it, honestly. I tried to account for my own bias towards iPhone/iOS, but I don't think it makes up even half of the bad experience I had.

In short, I think Android phones discourage, from a UX standpoint, the activity of browsing. And I think that's a much larger factor than that mentioned in the original post.
Breaks for:

^([^\W]+)@((?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)+(?:org|com|net|gov))$

Though this works:

^([^\W]+)@([a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)+(?:org|com|net|gov)$

And it doesn't seem to be the nested groups that are screwing it up because this works:

((?:tinker|tailor)+(?:soldier|spy))
If someone could provide further detail as to the benefit of this, I might be willing to consider signing. I just dont know enough about both arguments to make a determination.
I like to think of it as "the world that bicycle fans dream of," but I doubt that the showrunners recognize that.
roderikvdv's answer was helpful. I also found a long post discussing Django VMs specifically using vagrant:

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/06/django-advice/
Last year I went from London to Shanghai by rail, taking two weeks. For the first stretch we were spending each day in a new capital; by the time we got to Moscow the best part of three days on a single train was just what we needed.

It was a lot of fun, although I actually found Japan (where we caught a ferry to from Shanghai) more interesting.
Question: LeanPub and Pandoc have some differences in markdown. This is because LeanPub uses Kramdown not Pandoc. For example they use different syntax for code highlighting and for defining tables. Does Wbb handle these differences in a portable way?
When someone tells me "half a kilometer" assuming they really mean 500m would usually be a dreadful mistake. It means "some uncertain distance you can probably walk". Decimal units don't magically make people more accurate.
And that's even funnier because Canada (as well as "the African ones") English isn't the only standard language. Canada for example has French as well as English, and Africa, well that depends which one. But it certainly isn't 100% English.
Wow! Thanks so much for that link.

One of the downsides of the diversity in the Minecraft modding community is that it can be difficult to identify the "best" way to do something. New tools come and go, and compatibility wanes when new releases hit.
You likely are missing context. I am not "being dramatic".
Quite right.
I just finished a civil engineering degree and found that despite the vast amounts of published academic research and literature from the US, the use of imperial units rendered a very large proportion virtually unusable. Its an inherently empirical subject and continual conversion was both incredibly tedious and introduced a likely source of error (you get "an eye" for metric units so you can quickly tell if you are obviously an order out from where you should be).
WordPress is not a web application framework
One of my co-workers submitted the nested groups issue to github, so I'll definitely look into that one.

I'm also going to look into the RFC822 one as well (even though rendering something that size isn't really a goal). I suspect I might not be handling massive inputs sufficiently and want to make sure to address that.

You're probably lucky it didn't render though...that SVG would be non-trivial...
When you say 'metric sized' do you mean 1250x2500 or do you mean 1219.20 x 2438.4?

Home Depot does not agree with you.

From http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZbu0m/h_d2/Navigation?c...

this is my absolute favorite: "5.2 mm x 2 ft. x 4 ft. Sanded project panel", all the rest is in Imperial.
To try it out, I made up the regex "car[pet] cleaner", but what I really meant was "car(pet)? cleaner". When I visualized it, I instantly noticed the bug. It's an indicator that this can turn out to be very useful.
I've done two 24 hour (one way) train journeys, they're fantastic. Paris to Lisbon (for honeymoon) changing trains to Iberian gauge at Irun/Hendaye. And Viedma to Bariloche with the desolation of the pampas and the stunning views as you approach the mountains. I've also done a 3 night 4 day ferry through the Chilean Fjords from Puerto Montt down to Puerto Natales (in order to go do the "W" in Torres del Paine). So much stunning scenery to look at (and a bar at night!).

Travelling in Argentina many people use coaches to go long distances between cities as air travel is so much more expensive. You can get a coach from Puerto Iguazu to Ushuaia if you've got a spare 60 odd hours. The coaches are surprisingly comfy with big reclining seats that are not far off being full beds. We mainly did 12-14h overnight trips between cities so we got some sleep and saved on a night's accommodation.
Ubuntu ported to phones/tablets.

What I'd like to see, but probably won't, is for Canonical to partner up with an OEM to actually put Ubuntu branded devices in stores.

Honestly, if I may digress, that is what Canonical should have done from day one. We didn't need another distro, guys. And we definitely didn't need ads when we search for files and programs on our own desktop. What we need from a billionaire like Shuttleworth is preinstalled GNU/Linux on hardware that regular people can buy in stores.
Absolutely, similar-looking ruby, too. I was disheartened by the wheel reinvention, but to each his own.
Perhaps off topic, but I love all the Britishisms in this comment. So many words Americans and Canadians don't use in there.
This is a lot of platitudes but doesn't provide any specific criticisms. Most problems are "Solvable by MapReduce" since map/reduce != Hadoop but is simply an abstraction for computing functions on data in general. The architecture outlined here is a pattern for a generalized system for computing functions on data in real time that has nice properties.
I think a demo would be useful if it provided examples of how to format tables, and code, and lists. For example, suppose I want to have a code block that is Ruby and another code block that is Objective-C. How would I do this in wbb?
That is exactly the reason I rarely use my phone for browsing. The internet is just too expensive.
Of course, see my edit. The $300–400/mo is more than a tad on the high side though.
Power grids tend to have the properties of a natural monopoly, but note that power itself does not (ex. solar panels). The challenge is to regulate the existing monopoly in ways that do not discourage innovation in providing the more general end service that is not a monopoly.
I guess the issue is that once you get beyond core markdown there are variations. Pandoc and LeanPub use different ways to indicate code highlighting and tables. There might be other variations as well. A demo would show me how to use these features in a portable way.
FYI table sugar is 50% fructose. HFCS is usually 55% fructose. Honey and maple syrup are also ~50% fructose. You cannot escape it unless your only sugar comes from starch & dairy.

It should be obvious to everyone that a diet higher in sugar which is energy dense but not very satiating will tend to lead to one eating more and gaining weight.

If you want to decrease your appetite, eat more protein. No other macronutrient is as satiating as protein.

Reducing your sugar intake is a good tactic for weight loss, but only because it tends to mean you're reducing your overall caloric intake, which is the most important factor by far for losing weight.
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"Redmond spends more on R&D than Google and Apple combined. Think about that the next time someone tells you Microsoft doesn’t have a future."

Two words, Xerox PARC.

At Sun there was a weird joke that Sun Labs was where good ideas went to die. It was frustrating.

The point here is that good R&D is a necessary but not sufficient component of innovation, the second is a willingness to productize your work. Strangely the hardest thing about that is not making a product out of it, the hardest thing is making a product you can ship.

Good R&D isn't constrained, which is to say that you don't tell the folks doing the research you are only researching things we can sell for a profit, but that is a constraint on products. What happens is the 'Apple effect' where you have a bunch of researchers who can't make a profitable product (Xerox Star) and then a product guy comes along (Steve Jobs) who sees the essence of the innovation, and can strip away the parts where it goes too far and ships that.

Its really challenging to build something close to your vision and not ship it, it seems like it is impossible to build something that is close to your vision and then ship something only half as close as that. But that is where the success can be. "Fumbling the Future" [1] is a fascinating read for that reason.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Fumbling-Future-Invented-Personal-Comp...
They got about 2,000 "guns" (I use the quotes because many of the items were non-functional and in some cases not even guns to begin with). Los Angeles has a population of 3.8 million. There's somewhere in the range of one gun per capita in the United States. That's not a "couple of percentage [points]". Not even close.
Nitpick: "subset", not "sub-set"
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How about a book generated from the wiki markdown? I think for people who haven't written a book before, there's a conceptual gap where it would be handy to see visually 'if you write this markdown, this is the book that gets generated'
But it's limited for 1 or 2 years. After that you have to pay if you want that extra storage.
Survivor in what sense? E-mail newsletters are not the stuff of huge cash profit.
Android is the default OS, so naturally it picks up a lot of users that don't want to use all of it's core features. No surprises here.
Completely agreed, the title is a red herring and serves to dissuade people from giving DCI a try. "It's too slow" is not an argument against DCI, it's an argument for fixing a slow implementation of #extend or using a different method.
Well, you can make a change too. Don't use products that are not in metric.