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I was just shocked that Nevada wasn't "Playa". Seriously, the missed connections post-Burning Man are amazing.

"You were wearing a flamethrower with bright pink hair and green blinking boots while you were riding on top of the bus made to look like a disco elephant..."
This reminds me of the great article by Mencius Moldbug on monetary restandardization:
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2011/04/on-mone...

"If Bitcoin becomes the new global monetary system, one bitcoin purchased today (for 90 cents, last time I checked) will make you a very wealthy individual. You are essentially buying Manhattan for a quarter. There are only 21 million bitcoins (including those not yet minted). (In my design, this was a far more elegant 2^64, with quantities in exponential notation. Just sayin'.) Mapped to $100 trillion of global money, to pull a random number out of the air, you become a millionaire. Wow!"
This is really cool! I had some trouble with the harmonic setting at first (in Chrome), but after refreshing the page it seems to work fine. It's crazy how much harder it got once that setting went on.
> Saying French workers work 3 hours a day is totally stupid. Normal work day is 8 hours for private sector, and 7 hours for public sector (but most public sector workers work 8 hours and then take a day off to compensate over worked days)

He didn't say workers came to the factory for 3 hours then left. What he said was that out of the 7 hours of a work day, 1 is lost in breaks and lunch, 3 are spent chatting instead of working and there's only 3 ours of actual work being done.

If you read the comments on the article the vast majority actually support what that CEO says and disapprove the actions of the CGT.
Couple examples I could think of:

"I saw your at home. You were walking down the street talking to your friend in the pink shirt on Sunday by the intersection of Oak & Grove."

"Me: In my garden working on my herbs. You: In the red SUV listening to Lady Gaga with the windows down. We made eye contact."

"Saw you, cute redhead, at your home. Peeping in your window."
Most of that is really good advice, despite it seeming obvious. When I got my first job I remember imagining that my boss would think less of me every time I took a day off.
Read the video description: "Thanks to Vicon for the tracking system" - the same system used in this juggling video, as far as I know.

I think all of the KMel Robotics projects (at least all of the ones I've seen on video, like the Bond theme) have used the same basic design, which involves a Vicon system.
The original criticism was that it was childish and reactionary. Likening this to phishing is quite the stretch.
SOAP/WSDL has IDE support and various tooling because it would be almost unusable without it.

Imagine doing SOAP entirely by hand, with a semi-complicated WSDL. It's a nightmare. Doing a RESTful service based on JSON data is not just not a nightmare, it's a breeze, with no need for any of the tooling you describe and with, in my opinion, absolutely no difference in API richness, interoperability, security, quality etc.
I think that notion may be a case of "story bias". The stories of scientific advancement coming form those outside the field are so much more interesting that they get told in vast disproportion, making it seem they are the norm.
I wouldn't put too much stock into what this guy says; he's not a mental health professional.

The problem with geeks nowadays is that we are conditioned to think logically about problems and find solutions to them. Unfortunately, this gives us the perception that our logic can solve all problems as if they were puzzles.

This leads geeks to give advice out of their domain. Armed with a little bit of knowlege, we give advice as if we understand the problem fully and completely.

I think that this akin to an astrophysicist adivising people how to build and scale a Rails app just because he read a Rails introduction book.

But don't listen to me, I'm a geek speaking outside of my domain. If you're having interpersonal issues at work/home or struggling in general, I urge you to seek a professional in these matters.
This analysis is a bit disingenuous, from the article: "The larger they are.. the result is an implicit subsidy: The banks that are potentially the most dangerous can borrow at lower rates, because creditors perceive them as too big to fail."

As an implicit subsidy it is not as if there the 83 billion dollars that can be "taken away" from the banks and used for other purposes. The implicit government guarantee has value but if you can not find a way to recover that value in some other way when taking it away from the banks you would just be robbing the economy of that growth.

That being said it seems like the way to remedy this would be to use a tax mechanism that can measure this subsidy and extract it from the banks in a manner that is fair to bank investors and citizens.
Of course short selling drives prices down, while long positions drive prices up. That's basic supply and demand. What else could determine prices?

I agree that short selling is overall a good thing, though it can also be abused (e.g. naked shorts). I am not claiming any market abuse in the case of Tesla.

Most people do not buy individual stocks based purely on a risk calculation. They also want to believe that the firms are working for good, not evil, because buying a stock means you own part of that company, and therefore are in some small way responsible for its actions.

Short selling is the same, but in the opposite direction. You own a negative fraction of that company, and so your moral relationship to it has a minus sign. I think that Tesla is a good company. But some people think that owning no TSLA is still too much, and I hope they get burned (financially).
I think he felt it necessary to explain in greater details why buying this distressed factory made no sense. If you can read the comments (http://commentaires.lesechos.fr/commentaires.php?id=02025770...) the vast majority said they're very happy to see someone bluntly tell the government what the majority of French people understood a long time ago but can't say publicly because it's taboo to talk about business, productivity and how the big unions are costing more jobs then they're saving.
Redis as well.
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Mono-nitrogen oxides, aka NOx, are a regulated byproduct of diesel and gasoline engines. They're produced especially at high combustion temperatures and are a component of acid rain. NOx itself is pretty toxic to humans too.

Normal modern diesel engines are unthrottled [1] and control the power output of the engine by limiting the amount of fuel injected to the engine. The unthrottled bit is important--we'll come back to that. For now, just note that the engine computer can't regulate how much oxygen gets into the combustion chamber.

By comparison, modern gasoline engines use a throttle to control how much oxygen gets into the combustion chamber. On top of that, the fuel injection is computer-controlled to deliver enough gasoline to the engine so that all oxygen is consumed and there's some left-over gasoline from the combustion. That leftover gasoline plays an important role in temperature control--liquid matter tends to have much more specific heat than gaseous matter. The gasoline absorbs some of the heat released from the combustion such that combustion chamber temperatures don't spike, creating excessive NOx.

Back to diesel engines, because the basic design of diesels uses no throttle, the engine will have minimal post-combustion liquid droplets to absorb the excess energy (heat) that would cause massive NOx emissions.

There are workarounds:

I. Some diesel engines introduce throttles for this purpose [2], but adding a throttle to an engine introduces pumping losses to the engine. Being throttleless is one of many reasons why diesel engines tend to be more efficient than equivalently sized gasoline engines. This system tends to cost more because of the extra engineering involved.

II. Diesel exhaust fluid [3] can be sprayed into the exhaust stream of diesel engines. DEF is pretty much urea and purified water. The urea combines with NOx to form ammonia and CO2. A selective catalytic reducer (SCR) downstream converts the ammonia into water and N2. This system is somewhat simple and clean, but is open to lazy and cheap owners. I've been told that this system is disallowed in America for consumer vehicles. The DEF is consumed fairly quickly and needs to be refilled at least as frequently as oil changes. There's no reasonably cheap way to regulate that cars have adequate DEF, as the engines will run just fine without it. The only side effect to a diesel engine out of DEF is that it'll output NOx like your typical 1970's car in Los Angeles. Owners have little incentive (beyond moral obligation) to refill DEF according to a schedule. They might even be ignorant as to the side effects.

So long story short, producing consumer diesels that meet regulations is pretty hard. The freight industries are not as regulated regarding diesel (maybe land-shipping industries are more tightly regulated?...there are holes in my knowledge).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throttle#Internal_combustion_en...
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_exhaust_fluid
Because they would fall even more behind Apple. If you had to choose between Jelly Bean or whatever crap that the other manufacturers would develop, which would you choose?
It somewhat a surprise for me, it was a pretty quick rise. Reminds me of 2011, I wonder if it will crash the same way.
This is interesting. Do you know whether he has native IPv6 connectivity or is using a tunnel? A few months ago, I tried using HE's IPv6 tunnel from China. It connected, but did not enable me to access blocked sites.
"As soon as we learned of the attack, we patched the vulnerability and closed the access that the hacker had."

Ok, so striking out so far. The machine is still running? With the same software (patched) and user accounts? How do you know only 3 users were exposed?
It seems like he/she was trying too hard.

Generally, it's this kinda article that leads to fuckedcompany (hat tip to @pud), which marks the beginning of the end (of this cycle).
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5253880

(Flagged this one)
Doesn't $100 trillion exceeds the value of the sum of all currency in the world?
Actually... looking at the pictures, I'm surprised about how much was left behind in general. For example, the kitchen had industrial baking and mixing equipment, etc., which I'm sure is all worth a decent amount of dough (pun very very much intended =).

Anyway, all of this reminds me about a documentary I saw called Urban Explorers (you can probably find it on netflix)... pretty interesting stuff out there.

Thanks for the post!
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This comment depresses me. It's like some kind of dream killer or something I'm not quite sure what it is about this comment but it's not good. :(
My guess is that it's more likely to be another cryptocurrency that becomes the standard. Once the right people figure out how to be the main beneficiaries. Also, I'm not sure that a depreciating currency is good for society as a whole, since it encourages hoarding, rather than investment.
I thought the writing was pretty tight.

Can you point to an example where a word's connotation didn't match the context in which it was used?
"In other words, the banks occupying the commanding heights of the U.S. financial industry -- with almost $9 trillion in assets, more than half the size of the U.S. economy -- would just about break even in the absence of corporate welfare."

That's a brilliant observation. Props to Bloomberg for this incredibly lucid op-ed.
I think he was referring to people that drive under the speed limit.
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My thoughts exactly, lol. The headline is truly hilarious when you consider the typically quite spectacular number of compromised accounts reported in most other high-caliber incidents.

Well done Zendesk.
This makes me incredibly happy. 8^D
Didn't it hit $20 like a week ago?

Bubble?
Since Obj-C messaging supports duck typing, I'm not sure I understand the argument you're making against the syntax.
Did you mean Bitcoin is appreciating because it's deflationary?
This. It depends if the blocking is at the content owners end, or somewhere in between. This method didn't work in China last time I tried.
I think she's too cynical, in the sense that she's assuming the worst 100% of the time, when she should be assuming the worst only about 80% of the time. Each of these cultural statements she is interpreting in the worst possible way.

My observation is that companies tend to regress to the mean with size. This is not unexpected or surprising. What gets left out of the equation is that, while the best companies are likely to be small, so are the worst companies.

The reality is that culture is complex and almost impossible to determine in the course of a single-day interview. It also changes. There are a lot of companies that "compete on culture" dishonestly, by misrepresenting their work environments, but it's not fair to assume that every company is corrupt and dishonest.

What would be more useful, but require the perspective of someone older and more experienced, is how to pick the good startups.

The one thing I would say is that any company that focuses on non-work perks is showing some serious warning signs. Work and compensation actually matter. "Free dinner" is a warning sign, not a perk. If the company seems to have more interest in talking about non-work than work, that's an obvious bad sign.
Brandon's a great guy, very proactive and helpful. We didn't have quite enough volume yet (w/ Gittip) to use his services, but I have a positive opinion of him.

E.g.: https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/pull/387
They can trivially swap out that file for their choice of stuff you don't want on your website. They can do it for every 1/1000 requests so you don't know wtf is going on. They can use the host header to only do this to your website. They can simply delete it and your content is gone.
Yes, probably the world money supply is smaller than this. Nonetheless, but the point is still valid.
If it was, at it occurred after the vulnerabilities were made public, they probably wouldn't say so as it would look pretty bad given the amount of advance warning they had.
I get matched pretty fast, but the opponent never does anything. =/
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Minneapolis has a similar building, formerly a Sears warehouse and retail store, now known as the Midtown Exchange. It houses retail, a hospital, a DMV office, apartments and condos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midtown_Exchange

I believe it was the largest building by square footage in the state until the Mall of America opened.
Indeed, it seems like a stretch to compare that discussion to this one, where I haven't seen a single poster who seemed eager to by one.
Here is a higher resolution image: http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/slideshow/2013/02/11869...
The original response in English is below the French translation on this page:
http://www.lesechos.fr/economie-politique/france/document/02...
if you like this kind of things there is also:

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~bx/elf-bf-tools/slides/ELF-berl...
I believe this question is hotly debated among economists. I think deflation is probably fine: In the end, money isn't any good if you don't spend it, so hoarding has a natural limit.
The truth is that personality stays relatively stable over time. The author seems to believe that people are born as blank slates and thus we can easily change our behaviour and personality..The reality is that we are not born as blank slates. We are born with many innate qualities (i.e., temperament, intelligence). I do agree that we can change some of our habits. But there are aspects of ourselves that we simply can't change. For myself, I think it is anxiety and depression. It is part of me. I can do things to minimize it but I will still be prone to it.
I think my future partner really just has to accept this imperfect aspect of me.. I feel sorry that he will have to deal it with me.. But in turn, I will also accept his imperfections. Isn't relationship more about tolerance and compromise?
"How difficult would it be to purchase one, and how expensive?"

This sort of real-estate tends to be priced based on the income it can produce. Or might produce. If you have enough money, probably not that difficult.

But keep in mind that the building probably sits empty for good reasons. Obsolescence being the most obvious. There isn't much call for that type of retail space.
The article mentions one drawback of VPNs: if you're using one to access the wider internet (rather than a specific LAN), then it's likely that all of your traffic goes through it.

One effective way around this, at least for those using VPNs in China, is to create a set of static routes forcing your in-country connections to go directly. This python program gets a list of China IP ranges from APNIC, and creates a shell script with a list of route commands:
https://github.com/jimmyxu/chnroute
It is absolutely ridiculous to compare a property, if modest would steal your treasures to amount of 200K, with a 500 bucks phone. Nice thing would be if people abandon this culture of getting subsidized phones and then blame carriers for implementing restrictions.
Most of the abandoned structures I've seen photos of are standalone, the fact that this is still part of a functioning building is very interesting.

It makes me wonder how many other interesting abandoned "structures" fill up floors of Manhattan skyscrapers for example.
> I doubt they work any less harder than him either.

Actually, his main gripe is that after visiting the factory, he realized workers only do 3 hours of actual work in a typical 7-hour day. When he brought that up to union reps, they bluntly replied that "it's the French way".
We've not had any Java problems on any of the platforms. Note that the script is used by developers to verify correct integration of an SDK for Android, so they already have Java installed. This is a somewhat different scenario from random end user machines.

No installation is done - you just run the script. It has an accompanying data file which is actually a zip file and one member is the jar. It is extracted to a temporary directory and run and then deleted afterwards. (Performance is not a problem since this isn't run that often.)

The open deletion isn't relevant to this but is something I've dealt with elsewhere. Note that you can still have problems doing deletions even after you have closed the file due to tagalongs.

In this particular scenario a command line tool that has an exit code and can be automated via make, ides etc is the right solution.

I've done cross platform GUIs before as well as cross platform servers. For one company the latter was done using Qt but there was no gui so it was QThread, QString etc.

For cross platform GUIs there are roughly two approaches. One is where there is some sort of wrapper that uses the native platform widgets and tries to provide the same API on each platform. This often suffers from the lowest common denominator effect across the platforms. The other end is a toolkit that draws everything itself effectively mimicking the platform and provided the same underlying code on all the platforms.

I really don't like the latter approach. There will always be discontinuities between the real platform and the mimc. The mimic will always lag the platform and its developers will have to spend a lot of effort just to stand still.

For the first approach I like to use wxPython/wxWidgets. One neat thing they do is provide their own widgets (composed out of as many platform widgets as possible) when the platform doesn't have the relevant one so you do get a good set to develop on.

That said I do user interfaces in HTML these days where possible so there aren't as many cross platform issues (and I never support IE6 although it often works well enough).
Is it impossible to develop Chrome apps on a Chromebook? Do IDEs like ShiftEdit and Cloud9 allow that?
The winning quote: "[sic] surfing the Web is a procrastinator's dream. And people who see you doing it might even imagine you're working."

How many people are identifying with that premonition right this second?
How about this setup: IntelliJ (catches typo better), SSD (faster disk access), JRebel (free for Scala).
The big picture here is that three customers' data was compromised -- customers in this context means entire platforms using Zendesk for support, not users. If the customers were, say, WePay, Box.net and OpenTable (random companies taken from their portfolio), this is potentially hundreds of thousands of users.

Also, it is a big deal because (as a former support person I know this), users often send in sensitive info with their support requests: SSNs, full credit card info with CVV data, date of birth (yes, sometimes all in the same message).
Read "The Paradox of Savings" by F.A Hayek for a different view.
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>>You're not the first person to have considered that the company might be successful and grow exponentially in the future -- that's already priced in to the stock!

This is actually a flawed view, because it assumes perfect information by all market participants. George Soros goes into quite a bit of detail in the second part of his General Theory of Reflexivity. You should read it.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dbc0e0c6-bfe9-11de-aed2-00144feab4...

Relevant excerpt:

"Let me state the two cardinal principles of my conceptual framework as it applies to the financial markets. First, market prices always distort the underlying fundamentals. The degree of distortion may range from the negligible to the significant. This is in direct contradiction to the efficient market hypothesis, which maintains that market prices accurately reflect all the available information.

Second, instead of playing a purely passive role in reflecting an underlying reality, financial markets also have an active role: they can affect the so-called fundamentals they are supposed to reflect. That is the point that behavioral economics is missing. It focuses only on one half of a reflexive process: the mispricing of financial assets; it does not concern itself with the impact of the mispricing on the so-called fundamentals.

There are various feedback mechanisms at work which may validate the mispricing of financial assets, at least for a while. This may give the impression that markets are often right, but the mechanism at work is very different from the one proposed by the prevailing paradigm. I claim that financial markets have ways of altering the fundamentals and that may bring about a closer correspondence between market prices and the underlying fundamentals. Contrast that with the efficient market hypothesis, which claims that markets always accurately reflect reality and automatically tend towards equilibrium. There are various pathways by which the mispricing of financial assets can affect the so-called fundamentals. The most widely travelled are those which involve the use of leverage—both debt and equity leveraging. These pathways deserve a lot more research."
There is a simple dissolution form that you can file with delaware, but you have to pay the taxes first.

Check your documents, if you are working with a major SV law firm, they regularly take startups under the guise that if you don't raise / exit / generate significant revenue, they write off the fees. After all, you shouldn't be personally on the line and the corp has no real assets of note.

Or, if the investor still wants the company, sign it over to them...what do you all care at this point?