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Elixir v0.8.0 - Better apps support, unicode and performance improvements
The alternative - rasterising SVG on the server - is a heavyweight task, I've not found any libraries which can do this quickly.

Wikipedia does it using librsvg, fwiw: https://live.gnome.org/LibRsvg
It'll happen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h...
search the repositories for packages that may match "friefox"

After having used Xubuntu for a while I'm getting really tempted to just ln -s /bin/grep /bin/grerp

:)
Yes. People who are creative will use the medium (in this case 6 second videos) in interesting ways. Of course, Vine will highlight those videos as examples of how great the service is.

There's really no difference between this and giving everyone a box of Crayolas: most people will produce crap, a few will be Picasso. The ease of sharing your creation is the key element.
I'm gonna push back a little bit by raising a few questions:

Jerome Guillen is talking about incremental improvements because when they launched, the car wasn't good enough.
Being able to update the software is great but is it really a strength ?
It's not, unless your car has Google Car type of innovation in it !

Imagine how exciting it would be to get updates for the Nokia phones we bought in the 90s ?
It's not exciting at all.
The Model S is a year 2000 design, still on the market 10 years later.
I know I'm not being nice when I say that but when did that ever help someone invent the future ?

Now look at the Model X.
They are catching up and that's good.
But the concept was revealed in February 2012 and it won't be ready before early 2014.
I don't know what I will be thinking in 2014 but I do know an incremental software update won't make me go wow.
What we really need is not another walkman. We need an iPod.
We don't need an iPod, we need an iPhone.
We don't need another PC, we need an iPad.
Are those falcon doors impressive ?
They are a gimmick, designed to attract attention.
Those doors are a problem and I bet they are giving Elon's team headaches!

I did see those backview mirrors in the Model X.
My first thought was MEH...
But if what Elon is really doing is secretly building camera's inside the car, then I'm gonna be like NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT !!
Imagine everyone driving around with those camera's recording everything !!
Imagine Tim Cook signing a deal with Elon in order to get the map data. Up she goes !!
But as far as I know, that's not the case.

The article mentions 20,000 Model S cars a year.
The first prototype was revealed in I think September 2009 and the first one was delivered in June 2012.
Henry Ford was making 1 Model T a day in 1908.
He electrified his factory with Tesla's invention.
Fast forward 2 years and he was building over 100,000 cars a year.
That's 5 times more than Elon.
It's not about how fast you can do your software updates.
It's about creating demand and how fast you can build those cars !

I do like the solar power play.
It disrupts everyone's business model.
But a major concern has to be the fuel cell threat.
Lots of car manufacturers are placing their bets on it.
Is it because Elon has the market locked up with his patents ?
Should he be working on fuel cells as well ?
Are the fuel cell problems too big to overcome or is that market locked up with patents ?
One of the things that makes cheap drones possible is easily accessible, off-the-shelf, cheap and lightweight computer/GPS/wireless hardware. Losing GPS and having to use inertial guidance makes the problem a lot more expensive and complicated, and advanced AI is like manned missions to mars--always further off than it looks.
They claimed they can stream 1.8 gigapixel video live or near real-time in the PBS video. Does anyone have an idea of how they can get that much bandwidth wirelessly ?
Edit: Ooh, almost forgot: http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png Ubuntu has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Would you prefer seeing a terminal login prompt after X crashed?
Here's a video of duck hunt paused a second before a shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1NyIsZXeqU&feature=playe...

If you click play and then pause and then hold down space it'll slow-mo the video and you'll see the white block on the black background that the article is talking about.
You haven't worked with embedded systems, have you? 96 numbers is 384 bytes. That's a lot of space for some applications.
I think it's important to note that if this code never grows or changes, then this refactor is totally unnecessary. It DOES add code, and it DOES almost over-decompose the structure.

The payoff, however, is if more features or behaviors were in the pipeline (and when aren't they?). This really sets you up to gracefully manage more complexity by having sensical places to put more code, instead of writing a few more $(document).ready callbacks to ship something on time.

Backbone.js might not be the right tool for the contrived example, but I've come to expect a sacrifice of real-world applicability for smaller, digestible chunks. That the synthesis is up to you is ok, I think.
Thanks.

The ratio going from Small > Medium seems strange. Twice the space, but more than twice the cost. Yet, Medium > Large follows the more conventional pricing method, where you pay twice the amount but get more than twice the benefits.

Intended?
This one is my favorite:
http://vine.co/v/bJn01Em7jej
Added to the list, thanks!
Nothing in the post implies I support this self-curation. I don't. Also, the quotes around 'creative' are instructive.
I have one: clearInput(), which clears the textarea, is tied directly to the addition of a new status, not to the submission of a new status via that textarea. Any other piece of the app that adds a new status (from other users, from automated systems, whatever) would clear what I'm typing. I can't imagine why you'd do that.
5 Mistakes Web Designers Make
God no. They had more than enough publicity from the start, being owned by Twitter and all. This has brought them nothing but negative coverage, and a risk of getting kicked off the App Store.
This kind of drones are relatively slow. The perimeter around in the president in any exposed situation is pretty large. Any appearance of unidentified flying objects on the scene is likely to trigger an evacuation of any key targets. For the kind of payloads small drones can carry, and with no possibility of changing the target, you don't even need to move the target very far for the strike to be non-lethal.

On the other hand, you could build a cruise missile (essentially a drone) that might be big and fast enough to hit your target. But those date back to WWII, so if they keep the Secret Service up at night, it's a pretty exhausted security detail by now.
Re-commenting on OP @ author's request:

The article really isn't about speed, it's more that engineers shouldn't necessarily take mathematical results as the end-all to their considerations when developing an algorithm. In particular, what is considered "best" in theory is not necessarily the best choice in a given program.

Math is important to formulating algorithms, since it can provide, in theory, a closed form solution for something typically done iteratively (the example here: fibonacci numbers). But you still need to verify when an algorithm is going to be correct, and more importantly, appropriate. In this case, it's pretty well known how inaccurate floats and doubles can be within X significant figures, and this is why I've always said the analytical solution doesn't really work on a computer unless you have a CAS library that can approximate an exact answer to an arbitrary number of significant figures (and it still won't be accurate if shoved into a float/double afterwards). So there's a trade-off, and choosing the theoretically best solution (a closed form solution) isn't necessarily the best possible choice for the task. In this case, yes, as others have pointed out, if we only need the first 96 fibonacci numbers, ever, it makes more sense to pre-compute them. However, if we only do the computation once in the entire program, even that doesn't necessarily make sense. It entirely depends on the application, but that's the entire point: a closed form for fibonacci numbers isn't the end of considerations.

I am curious though, why is it so many people are oblivious that there's an O(logN) time algorithm to compute fibonacci numbers iteratively on integers? It's a beautiful piece of math, and very simple so everyone should understand it. Just notice that:

((1, 1), (1, 0))^N -> ((f_{N+1}, f_N), (f_N, f_{N-1}))

given N > 0, where f_N denotes the Nth fibonacci number. For SW engineers who are actively interviewing: does anyone still ask you to write a function to compute the Nth fibonacci number in technical interviews?
Ok, so you are specifically referring to GPS. I agree, GPS is important for cheap and easy navigation. I was presuming you were talking about a link to a base-station.

Of course, aren't all the GPS satellites already government satellites in the first place? Seems like they wouldn't need to jam the signal, they could just shut them down, or maybe GPS can be set to require authentication...
I don't really think that is a realistic reason to pursue higher education. Without even getting into some of the deeper conversations, there are only so many "better" jobs to go around. 80% of the jobs out there pay less than $50K per year, and just $45K per year for 75% of the jobs. Meanwhile, if you are aged 25-29, 30% of your peers have a degree. Therefore, 33% of college graduates in that age group are basically guaranteed to make less than $50K per year and many of them will fail to even make the $45K threshold. Not to mention that in reality, percentage is even larger than that as a significant number of non-college graduates live in the top 25% of earners.

Furthermore, 18% of university graduates fail to even earn $20K per year and just 24% of the top 1% have a non-graduate degree as their highest level of education attainment. I see no compelling reason to even begin to think you would go to college to get a better job, unless that job is in a specific field where the law requires (doctor, lawyer, etc.) Someone still has to drive the taxis. Having a degree doesn't put you above such work and the more people obtain their degrees, the greater chance someone with a degree will take on such work.

With that said, college still has merit and should not be discounted. Finding a job at the end should be one of the last reasons you consider attending.
Perl isn't going anywhere -- for better or worse
And yet, athletes who constantly subject their body to mechanical damage, have a much lower incidence of cancer than the general population. Yes, there are a lot of confounding factors and it is hard to tell what causes what.

But there is also a lot of evidence for hormesis - the idea that small amounts of bad stuff is good for you; a small amounts of alcohol daily is better than no alcohol at all, and better than exactly same cumulative amount consumed weekly. And I assume the same thing goes for sun, and mechanical damage, although I'm not familiar with the literature.
You need to look at it from MIT's perspective. The laptop in the closet was not an isolated incident. It was clearly connected to the person who had been abusing their open wireless access earlier. This person clearly knew his actions were not welcome.

I don't know anything about MIT culture other than what I've read, but people have told me it is similar to Caltech's culture. At Caltech, the most important rule is the Caltech honor code:

No member of the Caltech community shall take unfair
advantage of another member of the Caltech community.

This covers the sort of hacking which is traditional at Caltech (and I presume MIT). It means that you do no intentional harm, and you take responsibility for your actions, and you stop a particular hack if the parties you are asking catch you and tell you to stop.

If the Swartz incident had happened at Caltech then when it reached the laptop in the closet stage the conclusion would be that the intruder was almost certainly an outsider, not a member of the community. At that point it is appropriate to call in the outside authorities.
Netflix Ribbon: tying mid-tier services together
1 pound every day.. that sure ain't a very healthy diet. Go easy, bro.
List Of States Charging 4% Surcharge ‘Checkout’ Fee
Except that there already are thousands of sites for the discerning porn connoisseur that don't distract with cats or comic clips, and are unconnected with personal Twitter profiles people usually use for safe-for-work activities.

It's reasonable to expect Twitter to take steps to make the porn much harder to find in the near future too.

It's going to make it easier for Facebook to justify blocking the app too, assuming they want to, which might slow adoption through that channel.
>Some of these programmers are terrible. Some are awesome. I dare say, just like in NYC? :)

Only with a different percentage of terrible and awesome.

>Do all Indian/Pakistani/Egyptian/etc. hackers deserve to be painted with the same brush?

No, of course there are great Indian/Pakistani/etc programmers.

But generalising is not about being fair or accurate.

Generalisation is a compromise between being accurate and making a decision in time.

It's about being accurate _enough_ to make decisions as correct as possible without getting lost in the minutiae.

And the reason people generalise about Indian/etc programmers is because they have been burned a lot of times by them (and not as many times by NYC programmers).

If I had a nickel for every "please sir, solve my programming problem from me" type by an Indian programmer in an internet forum I would be rich. And a lot of those posters are not kids in school. They openly admit they work for a company, programming.
http://jsfiddle.net/mt6Tt/1/

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It could operate on visual recognition. It shouldn't be too difficult to find three easily recognisable landmarks around the Mall.
Remember Why You Are Here
Visual.ly's Marketplace Payments Powered by Balanced (YC W11)
No. SQL Server, Oracle, IBM and other NoSQL databases. Everything that runs on Rails that is not SQLite3 or PostgreSQL requires an upgrade.
I just created my first project on blimp and I really like it. It seems to be very easy to use and has almost every feature I need. You could add a messaging feature for the users that are involved in the project.
Just one feed with the face the time and the message for discussing new ideas.

I will definitely recommend it. Good luck with it.
+1 for HeidiSQL! Its a nifty little program and does not hog system resources.
I make $48/hr at my fulltime job. I take an odd freelance job here and there and charge the same rate to my clients. Sure, I could charge more but I don't have a huge portfolio. So, he charges $125/hr and has 3 examples of clients whose previous devs failed. Must mean he's correct.
Right - I noticed Rose's Vines go back as far as 130 days. Figured he (and GV) was involved as an investor.
Samsung being investigated in fatality at semiconductor plant
My thoughts exactly. It would be almost trivial to find out where someone has driven their car after committing a crime. I'm curious to see what might happen if they deploy these in US cities.
I loved the ad I saw on the page (I am on a mobile device) proclaiming, "Need an eye exam?" from Pearle Vision. Seems oddly fitting.
Apple releases iOS 6.1
While I agree with the gist of your comment, it's important to note that none of these give an O(lg(n)) algorithm for computing fibonacci numbers (except on a hypothetical computer that can do arbitrary size integer operations in O(1) time).

The nth fibonacci number has O(n) digits, so you can't even write it out in time less than O(n). The repeated-squaring approach will involve multiplying numbers with O(n/2) = O(n) digits in its final step, so a very coarse analysis says the complexity is at least O(n lg n).
I doubt they're sending the entire stream. 1.8Gp isn't useful to look at "zoomed all of the way out".

The video is [probably] cropped onboard the drone down to whatever resolution is usable, and then that is streamed.
"Upgrade immediately" so do drop everything. I have amended the blog post to mention an attacker could gain control of other accounts.
Put another way -- how many upper-middle class professionals (doctors/lawyers/engineers) would you say have graduated from college? Many, many more than 1 in 5. You can't deduce data about specific occupations from a broad statistical measure like overall percentage of bachelor's degrees in a population.
I guess if I'm going to my parents' or a friend's and I know they've got a keyboard and monitor - I just take my phone instead of my laptop.

If I don't know what's available at my destination then I take the extra bag.

(although I use a 3G iPad for emergencies - it is an extra bag but only a small one)
I don't like "collateral damage," but if this was a war, and if they needed to take out enemy without losing friendlies, they'd usually call in an artillery strike. This is way more accurate than that.

I understand your sentiment, but the historical context is that this is much cleaner than previous methods.

Notice that I said in war. I'm not sure how we piece together a moral system to deal with this kind of asymmetric enemy like terrorists/rebels. War is horrible. Is this lower grade conflict any better?
Muy buee
Software available in the Software Center includes software that is not part of Ubuntu. Ubuntu's rules only covers software that is part of Ubuntu.
Very impressive, especially for a weekend "hack". What did you write the site in?
When people say things like "I thought it would be interesting to unpack Vine’s success so far", what is "success" based on?

Is Vine a "success"/popular? How is this quantified?
I am an economist by training, and also an investor in cross-border startup teams. On both fronts, the original article strikes me as unfair and inaccurate.

The fact is that there are scores of successful valley start-ups and product tech companies, with successful teams of product engineers in good ol' India writing their core production ready code - (not low cost "back-end", whatever that means) - I could name dozens of such companies.

Equally, there are new several start-ups founded in India going after global internet product markets (see freshdesk.com, recently funded by Accel Partners).

Like in the Valley, some of them hire great programmers, some average, and some awful. This reflects the labor pool of a deep market of available talent.

The "original" OP is clearly being unfair to hard working entrepreneurs and hackers in low-cost economies. As well as disregarding, basic economic theory of a connected global labor market. (Sorry Paul Krugman!).

Disclosure: I am investor in the OP who wrote the response.
p.s: Replace "India" with low cost country of choice.
People might be interested in knowing what you did at Google and Salesforce (especially if it's linked with the sales/marketing which is where an inexperienced non-technical cofounder can add plenty of value to some startups)
There's a huge discussion here on how what really matters is company culture, not policies on how much vacation time you're allowed.

My takeaway is to only work for companies where you already know somebody outside of work. The problem is that it's really hard to get a sense of a company's culture during the interview process, so unless you have a friend who's willing to tell the truth you can easily be deceived. I know some companies that claimed to have 40 hour work weeks but people frequently came in on weekends. More surprisingly, I knew some companies where they claimed to be workaholics but generally held 9-5 hours.

So find someone you trust to tell you the raw truth about the company-not the whitewashed sales pitch. "2 weeks of official vacation, but people actually take 5" is a lot better than "unlimited vacation, but no one takes any."
Which neatly sums up the argument for the second amendment.
All I can think about here is some kind of big brother eye in the sky watching every subject go about their daily lives as soon as they leave their house.

/just going to be over here with my tin-foil hat...
It's popular the same way Quora is:

1. People like Techcrunch are talking about it.

2. (...)

3. Success!
I don't like what you said. You made it sound like that English and Journalism are easy majors. Even though it is harder to find jobs with those majors right now, they are not necessarily easy majors. In fact, depending on your talents,these majors can be very hard. Taking me as an example, I can never imagine myself majoring in English or Journalism because I dislike writing and I have never done too well in my English courses. To me these two majors would be harder than Math and Chemistry. On the other hand, my friend who is a history major is naturally good at writing but has very difficult times understanding Math related materials. I always admire her for her writing skills and always ask her for help when it comes to writing application and essays. She always wishes that she could be good at Math.
Also what majors make good money also depends on the time we are living in. I don't know about American history but I know in Chinese history during the 1910s,people with arts majors would make more money. At that times, China was going through an intellectual revolution in which Western ideas were being introduced. At that times, many scholars would abandon their engineering, economic and medicine degrees and become writers or journalists.

Edit: I don't live in China....
Lawyer Jokes Are Funny. Legal Problems? Not So Much.
Congrats Jeff and David and Team Pagelever!
typo, the second one was supposed to be 0 based... although that shows how off by 1 errors occur.
Announcing the App.net File API
1 million doesn't seem that big a number on the internet?
I'm a huge fan of Elon Musk. That said, if you think that Tesla is a source of trouble for traditional manufacturers then I think that goes against every bit of wisdom out there at the moment.

Tesla is interesting, a pioneer, much like Elons other ventures. But it is not a threat by any stretch of the imagination to established car manufacturers. Think of it as a large scale testbed, technology to be licensed when proven over the longer term, just like what happened to every other technology in the car industry.

Don't forget that the era of the electric car already came and went once before, it definitely looks like it is here to stay but it will be a long time before Tesla will be named as a viable contender to Toyota, VW, MB, BMW, Ford or even GM. This is not virgin territory, the cards have been dealt, customers have to be won from other suppliers and brand loyalty counts for quite a bit.

By the numbers Tesla is still a very small player, and likely to remain small for quite a while.
When will google block DDG?
Out of curiosity, why? Do you believe that a machine can't do as good a job mixing drinks, do you want the social element, or is there something else?
Is that a big copper counterweight in the handle? That'd never fly nowadays, copper's too expensive :)
1) Same students, same teachers and same support in same schools but the assignment of students and teachers to classes was randomized. Consent was obtained from principals, teachers and parents.

2) Randomized experiments can establish causation if done properly. This is how medical treatments are evaluated. The theory is simple: teachers that were more effective in the past will be more effective in the future and using objective metrics (tests, classroom observation and surveys) we can measure teacher effectiveness. This certainly positivist but more important likely repeatable.

You seem like you are interested in this but I get the sense you already have strong views. Maybe you should put those aside for a moment and take a closer look at this new and interesting study you might learn something:

http://www.metproject.org/reports.php