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If the power grid in the US drops to 57HZ, we're all boned.

Fun fact: Texas is the only state in the union with it's own power grid independent of other states. It is literally the only state that could successfully secede from the union.
And then y'all started talking to each other in plural all the time.

(OK, so 'you' was used as a formal singular for a long time too, but I like my version better)
Cool, seems interesting and related, but also very different and more specific. The point of price of anarchy is to take any game and quantify the "loss" due to selfishness or lack of cooperation.
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Background: Scot. English power market? That's somewhere south of this part of Britain.
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I can't think of a more worthless and demoralizing idea. Not all bugs are created equal, thus the measure is inaccurate.
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I've yet to see a border that made sense to me. It looks like there are people on the one side, and people on the other. And then there are people that would like to be on the one side or the other that are being stopped from going where they want to by people in the middle.

By what right those people in the middle are obstructing the people that want to move is beyond my ability to comprehend.

Let's just say that borders have a special place in my heart and that immigration policies by extension do as well.
I am Canadian citizen and for two years I was traveling every second week to US on TN visa. In all that time I got 1 "bad" experience from US side and 2 from Canadian side. (it wasn't that bad just longer questioning with 'trick' questions)
Question which confused me a most entering Canada was "How long you plan to stay ?" , WTF , I have Canadian passport ?
It took me a moment not to say "Not your damn business." and just play nice....
But in general crossing border is 99% no issue
I don't think Adblock is really any worse than fast-forwarding past ads on my PVR (especially having never once clicked on an ad on the internet).

But an ISP blocking ads is very dodgy... An ISP tampering with web pages at all is wrong - I think an their job is to deliver only, and exactly what the web server gives them to the person who requested it, who is then free to choose what part of the page they see. All the more reason for more web sites to use SSL/TLS.
If you're referring to the language, it's derived from J, which is derived from APL. There's a whole philosophy underlying this terseness, which is basically but probably inadequately represented as: mathematical notation isn't designed for amateur readability, it's designed as a tool for the mind of the working mathematician, so it doesn't need to be all that approachable to the newcomer.
What to do with "theroyalpregnancy.com" since I'm not creating a royal baby watch and maternity fashion site?
I whether or not there is a stack is similar to the complementary nature of foldL vs parallel fold (ie Clojure's core/reduce vs reducers). Left-to-right concatenative languages make use of a stack and are appropriate for side effects and stream processing. However, there are pure concatenative languages that operate in parallel via term rewriting, which has a computational model akin to that of a DNA computer.
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The article mentions that infinite scroll is "prominent among popular Tumblr themes, Pinterest, and of course, at Facebook and Twitter". All of these are content consumption sites, and for at least Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter, clicking on an item in the list opens it in-page -- for Pinterest and Facebook, it's in a modal box; for Twitter, it's expanded within the stream. The content you're browsing is all there; there's no problem with clicking on an item in the list to get a more detailed view.

At Etsy, introducing infinite scroll resulted in "fewer clicks on the results and fewer items 'favorited' from the infinite results page". On an Etsy search results page [1], clicking on an item bounces you to another page. And on sites with "infinite scroll", this is typically a very uncomfortable experience, particularly when trying to get back. Depending on the implementation, you're wind up back at the beginning of the result set; even if you don't, it's usually a fairly bumpy ride, with the time taken for the page to reload its data and the jumps in scrolling as everything loads in. Even if it technically works, the kind of sensation this brings about is enough to discourage someone from actually clicking through. There's an negative association that develops with clicking on these items, the foreboding feeling that you'll end up losing your place, such that one tries to do so as little as possible -- in line with what was observed from the Etsy experiment.

On the Etsy search page, you can indeed "favorite" items without going into the item's actual page. But that's not something one is likely to do based on a tiny little thumbnail -- one would usually first click through, see a bigger picture, and possibly read the description below. It doesn't help that, on the results page, the "favorite" button is but a tiny little icon, that only appears if you directly mouse over the thumbnail; meanwhile, on an actual item page, it's right there under "Add to Cart" [2]. Perhaps users weren't even aware that you could do this from the search page.

With a site like Etsy, where lists are a means to an end -- a way to get to information on other pages -- it's no surprise that infinite scroll performs quite poorly, as opposed to content consumption sites, where browsing is a self-contained experience of its own.

(As an aside, it's fairly silly to compare infinite scroll with Google's Instant Search. Instant is well-liked because it gets you to your search results faster; this being Google, the user isn't there to hang around and enjoy the scenery, but to get to the information they're looking for as quickly as possible. And Google's results pages themselves still use pagination, despite their experimenting with infinite scrolling back in 2011 [3] -- a change that, quite clearly, didn't make the cut.)

[1] http://www.etsy.com/search?q=test&view_type=gallery&...

[2] http://www.etsy.com/listing/65114535/12-boracilicate-glass-t...

[3] http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2103479/Google-Experime...
I much prefer:

"Application has detected and error!"

"OK" – "Cancel"
Doesn't ISPs making a decision between two different pieces of traffic fall under Net Neutrality?

Just because people don't generally like the ads, Free is deciding which content gets through its system. If it's going to do this, then why can't it decide not to allow particular news through because 'the news provider should pay for the bandwidth'?
Plenty of electro-mechanical heating timers work in this way.
Perhaps neuroticism includes it, but I think the term has been retired from usage in the past couple decades.
The way to deal with that is pick a few standard versions. Businesses do that all the time - my workplace is standardized on RHEL 6. Then you release a client and say "We know it runs on this flavor of Linux. You're welcome to try running it on other stuff, but if it doesn't work that's on you."
Soundz like a great idea but I cant imagine that 150kit is enough to buy and roll out this project.

Terre Star - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerreStar_Corporation - is now owned by Dish Network. Arent they interested by these satelites?
Nitpicking but... I'd say responding to complaints on Twitter is a great idea, but just to show you're listening and then as an arrow pointing to the correct channel for resolving an issue
I am going to port it to Linux eventually. There's not even that much to "port", I just have to write a makefile. All the OS-specific things are handled by the libraries for which Linux, Mac and Windows versions are available.
Well done for finishing it!
Works great on OSX ML. Anything similar for Firefox ?, I just prefer that to Chrome (FF esp with Pentadactyl).
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Before reading the article, I hoped this was going to have something to do with the oldest issues (open, fixed recently, commented, etc) across all of GitHub. Does such a thing exist?
I don't understand what X's network transparency has to do with any of this...
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>Free doesn't want to pay to make it any larger, and neither does Google.

My understanding is that when these things happen, the content provider is virtually always willing to make the link bigger (because congestion causes lag for their customers, which they don't want).

The problem is that ISPs have started leveraging the hard monopoly they have over the ability to send packets to their own customers. So instead of just paying to upgrade the link between the two networks, they want content providers to pay in effect to upgrade the ISP's own internal network -- which their own customers already paid them to do, but if they double dip then it's pure profit. And the content providers (or their own network provider) will have no choice but to pay whatever is asked or lose access to many thousands of customers.

The real problem with all of this is what it's going to do to the marketplace. Because the only way to push back against that sort of extortion is to have sufficiently compelling content that the ISP can't risk losing it, in effect having your own monopoly to counter the ISP's. So YouTube is fine, Netflix is probably fine (but see spat with Comcast a while back), and what happens to the little guy? Screwed.

Which is why the people saying this is about Google have it totally wrong. Did you catch the "no comment" from the article? You would think they might have something to say if it actually affected them, right? Condemn the ISPs acting unreasonably? But Google is fine. They're the ones with leverage -- they're the ones the ISPs are complaining about because they can't push them around.

The problem is the ISPs can and do push everybody else around. And that has to stop, or we'll be left with the core of the network owned exclusively by a tight cartel of the likes of Google and Amazon because they're the only ones with enough clout to push back against every regional monopoly ISP in the world.
I hate that we are back to the days of "works best on xyz"

Firefox ran it just fine.
I think that is generally referred to as self-consciousness, and it can be very extreme (to the point of paranoia and anxiety attacks) or more tame, as in the stereotype of the average teenager.
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It might be easier to generalize by kind of work. Unpaid engineers is a very bad sign.
The slightly less terse:

if(a)
foo(b)
else
foo(c)
If there ends up being enough interest, I'll support FF and Safari.
Holy crap. Looking at examples from the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)

The following expression sorts a list of strings by their lengths:

x@>#:'x

A function to determine if a number is prime can be written as:

{&/x!/:2_!x}

This looks like brainfuck's cousin, but I'll bet Perl users feel right at home. Edit: I'm not trying to make fun of Perl or anything, it's just that I've seen some really hard to read one liners come out of it as well.
Good question! We currently track that externally. E.g. in the issue description we might say "This is worth 100 whisky-points". It would be cool to build in a notion of value.
empath? https://www.google.com/search?q=empath
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Yeah, this happened to me when I was integrating Ur/Web and Haskell; Ur/Web generated C and wanted to handle linking, but to link against Haskell libraries I needed GHC to do everything. There's a happy ending to the story, though: we patched Ur/Web to use ghc instead of gcc to do compilation, and everything worked out great. :-)
But when you automate things the benefits are often orders of magnitude larger than simply the cost savings from the jobs you replace.
I was expecting to read an article about understanding human nature without morality and respect clouding your judgment. Instead I read that psychopaths are clever at thinking up nefarious schemes to get what they want. I don't buy it as "wisdom." Anyone can think of evil ways to get what they want, as long as the situation is hypothetical. Just yesterday I posted a comment describing how if I ran a dating site I would screw over my customers by giving them the exact opposite of what was good for them because it would be more profitable for me [1]. Most people have fantasized about violence from time to time, and half the internet seems to advocate being a psychopath as the best way to get laid. It's the reality of a situation that stops people from being as "wise" as a psychopath, and, I would argue, there's no loss, because in a practical situation there's no point in seeing solutions that you won't execute in real life. Did the author's friends use the asbestos solution? I think not. It would be awkward to explain to friends, they would have moral scruples, and it might very well be illegal. If a non-psychopath and a psychopath both limit their imaginations to plausible options, the psychopath isn't any more wise for seeing options the non-psychopath doesn't.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5015068
> it's derived from J, which is derived from APL

Q is derived from K (it's a thin wrapper that uses words instead of sigils for some verbs), which is derived from APL; J is a completely separate lineage, also based on APL.
I would go with a happy face and a sad face or a thumbs up or a thumbs down and save alot of language issues in one simple approach.

I would also have the `yes`/`no` options apart and not how must people do it with them next to each other, avoids mistakes more.
Amazing work. I have the best predictor of any product success - ask Steve (em)Ballmer what is the correct thing to do and find someone that does the exact opposite.

Surface RT and the whole metro store were very exciting until Microsoft unveiled the lockdown.

And even today I think that a reversal of course is possible and will be beneficial for the adoption of windows 8/RT. Just unlock the damn things - a lot of professionals are looking for a third device still.

Windows and PC succeeded because they were wild and buggy and moldable - that allowed them to deliver good solution now instead of perfect in 10 years.

The same things is happening with ARM/Android - I am having more fun switching roms than anytime since the late 90s. And from anecdotal evidence Raspberry Pis and the likes are busy taking over the world where mobility is not a concern - the moment you are asked by non geek about the Pi and can it move a home server, you know the rules of the game are changing and fast.
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I'm in favour of a more market based solution. If an ISP can show that there is meaningful competition for a customer then they can do whatever they want right up to charging more for access to particular content/services. This will encourage experimentation with pricing and access and would be very helpful.

But where there is no meaningful competition the ISP does not get to pick winners and losers - they should be a dumb pipe that does not discriminate.

Of course there isn't meaningful competition in most of the US.
I was not attacking anyone. I just asked for concrete examples.

Is there ever a negative connotation to asking for concrete examples? (I'd actually like a concrete example if there is one)
Thank you thank you thank you. I have to admit that HK News was a big inspiration to me. I have been following the startups world for several years and I have always been deeply fascinated by the idea of creating something new, shipping products, working on bug fixes, etc.

The spirit of these replies confirms my idea of this world, made of people passionate about their projects and willing to share this passion with other people.

Thanks again to each and every one of you.
Maybe I'm being insensitive, but why would anyone burst in to tears for making a reasonable request that _indirectly_ causing somebody to have a crappy day at work? Furthermore, it's not even apparent that she really did ruin the day of these delivery folks. They probably got paid nicely to go through all that trouble. The fact that it took all day for the social media team to find somebody willing to go that extra mile implies to me that there were likely several people who turned down that sale/delivery.

Even if they were pressured in to that delivery by some contract or power-play, it's not her fault that she demanded quality service. Twitter et al are making companies accountable for their shortcomings. As a result, the treatment of customers is improving steadily across many industries. Like with anything, sometimes you need to break a few eggs to make an omelet.
The viewport is set incorrectly in my iPhone. I can't seem to zoom out either.
I am a Cheddar user with a free account and have to say that it really is a well designed, intuitive app.

Personally, while I really like Cheddar I do not feel that it is a service that I would ever pay a recurring fee for.

I am a pinboard, fever rss, and instapaper user and feel that all of these nominal one time investments were more than worth supporting these projects.

I could see paying a one time $30-$50 fee for Cheddar

It will definitely be interesting to see what happens.
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Starcraft 2 is certainly a commercial success, but it will never, ever make as much money as WoW. WoW grosses more than SC2's total sales every five or six months.
I think it's really weird when people argue that the only acceptable response to problems is to quit.

Complaining is a valid response, too!

"Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one, “exit,” is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other, “voice,” is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change “from within.”"

-Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
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Fair, except that DI in Ruby is pretty dang simple.

def some_method(dependency = SomeClass.new)
dependency.do_something
end

I'd argue that injecting the dependency gives you even more expressiveness and improves readability since you now can name the dependency whatever you want (assuming you give your variables meaningful names and think it's a good thing).

Sandi Metz really does the topic justice in her talks on SOLID design: http://www.confreaks.com/videos/240-goruco2009-solid-object-...
Wow, Free sounds pretty amazing, other than the whole anti-net neutrality and auto ad-blocking thing. They are the largest native IPv6 ISP in the world and the largest IPTV provider in the world.

Free includes the Freebox Server (for free), which features:

ADSL modem, router, WiFi
NAS (250GB)
External HDD support
DVR
Supports a lot of media formats, including mkv
IPTV to any computer on the network (including VLC on Linux is seems)
Time Machine and AirPlay compatible
BitTorrent (seriously, an ISP that includes BT on their router)
VoIP (SIP) server/proxy with support for:
Wired RJ11 phone
Built-in cordless base station (DECT)
Smartphone or computer VoIP
Free calling to phones in France, including mobile
Free SMS/MMS in France

Then there is the Freebox Player (which connects to a TV) that adds:

Blu-ray/DVD player
VLC Player for playing nearly any media type
Plays media from Freebox Server, networked computer, or USB drive
Web and email on the TV
Games, with includes gamepad
RF remote, and phone/tablet control apps

You get all of that, internet, TV, and phone, for 35 EUR/month.

Dare I say, maybe they should charge their customers more, and not blame Google.

BTW, the ad-blocking will be disabled on Monday (http://www.freebox-v6.fr/index.php). The ad-blocking is done by the Freebox Server (which is the home router). Open source code is here: http://floss.freebox.fr/
I interviewed at a New York financial services company that expected you to write Q on the whiteboard during the interview. That'd normally be fine in that market, I guess, but this was for a general operations and systems administration position.

Needless to say, I don't work there. However, that said, one of the graybeards that works there described his home MP3 collection which he wired up with a Q server, though.
Especially after that Terminator Salvation thing exposed his real personality, I'm pretty sure he would be able to play McAfee quite well.
There's no realistic situation in which having another person working in a country decreases its GDP. GDP is simply the sum of all goods and services after net exports and investments. Given that a working person is, by definition, producing a good or service, their contribution to GDP is always positive.
Sorry, you mean Alaska and Hawaii have some sort of connection to the rest of the grid, and Texas does not? Or do you mean that Alaska and Hawaii are not states in the union?

Maybe you mean 'most of Texas' and 'only state in the contiguous US'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection

The part of your comment relating secession merits no response.
I've wanted something like this for ages. Location + Instagram = Win.
This was the problem I had with the article as well. It fails to point out, in conclusion, that these people are committed for life because they are extremely dangerous - and not just in theory, but because they have taken actions to achieve goals that have had damaging and terrifying outcomes in the real world. Despite being 5 pages long, the article feels unfinished - maybe that is the author's idea of a teaser for a book, but for me as a reader it felt like a waste of time.
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This makes me like the US needs "a day with immigrants" day where every business founded or run by an immigrant suspends service to demonstrate to xenophobic Americans what they are losing when you remove the immigrant element from the country.