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> the decline in demand for most meat varieties

That doesn't sound right:

https://www.google.com/search?q=meat+consumption&hl=en&#...

If anything, where there's been a slight reduction in one area of consumption (e.g. beef) there's been an increase in another (poultry) with an overall rise in meat consumption.

> economics do not allow those animals to be part of the cycle anymore

Given the incredible size of modern farms, using animals as a source of fertilizer is no longer practical. Meat consumption isn't really part of the equation - livestock require food themselves, so you'd need to grow huge sums just to feed the animals as well as produce enough grain/vegetables for human consumption. If you can artificially produce fertilizer then you remove this bottleneck.

Smaller farms would allow animals to be part of the rotation.
Neither carrier has a property interest in the phone. Nobody is charged a fee for breaking their phone while under contract; they are expected to just buy another phone.

You know perfectly well that you retain liability for the ETF, which is a proxy for the phone, and reflective of the impracticality of repossessing it.

And the administration supports the right to unlock your phone out of contract. While it's in contract, and non-unlocking is a contractual provision, that's between you and your carrier. If you find the non-unlocking provision of the contract offensive, as I do, then don't enter into such a contract.
Technically it's a "title", however everyone refers to the XKCD text shown on hover as "alt text". (See http://m.xkcd.com/, even xkcd calls it that).
I would recommend the solar powered Logitech keyboard [1] as it means one less thing to worry about charging. Does anybody know of a solar powered trackpad?

[1] http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/product/Wireless-Solar-Keyboar...
I wouldn't be surprised if it affected the timing of his announcement - get all the bad news out at once and wipe the slate clean - bit it's been clear for some time that R. was in trouble if EA's financial situation didn't turn around soon. At this point it's pretty much guaranteed that the next step will be either a sale or severe cuts, likely planned out over the next couple of months so that they can be announced when their next earnings report is due. R. may just not have wanted to play the axe man.
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> How can this make sense to you. If I pay a dollar in taxes and get $0.80 in services, does that sound like a subsidy to you? On my planet that's not a subsidy.

I claim you are getting more subsidies than you believe.

> You may have noticed the Democrats ran Congress from 2006 to 2010.

You may have noticed that there is something called a requirement for a super majority such that and you might also recall that the other parties stated agenda, see Mitch McConnell, was to block all legislation. So, I don't see how this is the case.
They should certainly be useable for disabled/blind users, but it seems silly to retard the growth of human knowledge in this manner, just to please conservative elements.
It wouldn't be based too much on user complaints or metacritic scores for SimCity or any other game really. Underperforming revenue is likely the largest factor in Riccitello's departure. There has been a string of quarters hitting below/low on their outlook.

To Riccitello's credit, EA was in a terrible position pre-recession. A bad business plan, an inflated stock price and a bloated portfolio. JR had to make some brutal choices during the recession and has turned EA into a leaner beast, banking on online distribution and focusing on a smaller, higher quality portfolio.

And while the big picture of where he took EA is a logical one, I assume that the missed revenue from underperforming titles is the biggest factor in him stepping down. Of course, this is all conjecture on my part.
Dereferencing objects with angularJS' $resource?
This is not the future. This is a gimmick, at least in this form, in front of a laptop.

How is this better than a multi touch touchpad?

Maybe in front of an audience, with a projector, it could make sense..
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You're talking about JS; I'm talking about it starting up.
Besides the "modern" VCS's, I've used SVN, CVS, Perforce, and done both manual patch management and patch management with Quilt. I am sure there are some VCSes out there I would hate more than SVN if I used them, SourceSafe I'm sure, but I would honestly use any of those others I just listed before SVN again. Yes, I consider SVN to be a devolution of CVS.
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I agree.

Although, many of the individuals are nutritionists at reputable scientific institutes, so hopefully their opinions are informed by scientific studies. There's no guarantee of that, of course, but at least their credentials are stated up front (unlike the many nutrition experts you'll find in any given message board).
> Can you buy an N4 simply yet?

Yep :) https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb
I had no trouble ordering a Nexus 4 from the Canadian Play store. It arrived a couple of days after I ordered it. So far, I'm very happy with it. It's a huge upgrade from my Cyanogenmod running Galaxy S1.
"Pearls before breakfast" was a fantastic article. Best with the accompanying video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myq8upzJDJc
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Sounds like he needs to get himself an SPF DNS record (assuming his email is at the linked domain).

Yes, his situation sucks, and it's also bad that seemingly no-one at Google cares (though as was mentioned in the comments there, they do have phone + email support for paying apps customers). It doesn't really sound like Google's fault or problem, because raising whatever limit they have on his account won't fix a problem with someone presumably using his misconfigured domain to send spam, triggering the limit in the first place.

Of course, that doesn't change the fact that Google really doesn't seem to value customer service.
Could you guys please look at why I'm getting an error deep inside protocol buffers?

https://gist.github.com/sibblegp/cfe88c672bf613eaba42

Managed to replicate it with ease :(
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"Transforming wikitext into HTML is surprisingly IO-bound, since most Wikipedia pages transclude many other pages for templating and logic."

Sounds like a case for in memory caching. Or is it that any random Wikipedia page requires logic from a random subset of a large pool of other pages? Somehow I doubt that, with Zipf's law coming to my mind.

Also remember that an HTML5 front-end would be able to cache a substantial amount of this (a few megs at least) and Lua can be quite effectively compiled into JS.
What's the deal with headlines these days that any information about even not so popular products that no one cares about are also called 'leaked'? As if all companies care so much about secrecy and as if the whole world is waiting with bated breath just to have a glance of these images?
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Unicode support, concurrency/parallelism, and monkey patching were very big reasons for me using Go rather than python.
> Lua has at least two implementations as well

The difference is that the Lua C API is standardized meaning that C code can work with either just fine. The only big incompatibility problem is that LuaJIT provides an extra, non-portable, FFI library in addition to the standard one.
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Timing is a great question and there a jillion factors involved - both our customers and the market have changed considerably in just the few years we've been around.

I'm not sure that engineering challenge is often a primary blocker on picking the products we bring to market - most everything we work on ends up being pretty tough. In the case of SIP From Twilio, I think it was more driven by the market trend of moving critical applications from on-premise hardware to the cloud.

We still have a lot of work to do to prove doing such makes as much sense in the phone closet as the server room. Complementing that effort with SIP connectivity now felt right.
This is a really helpful outline.

I like your idea of keeping a "features" list and "questions" list separate. Otherwise, it gets confusing when the two get jumbled together.

One tool that most hardcore engineers chuckle at - but that I love for the higher fidelity mockups - is using Keynote/Powerpoint. It is extremely fast to make things like buttons, move text around, etc.

Most importantly, these tools make super easy to make a duplicate of any view and completely overhaul the layout...giving the ability to show users A/B options for the same slide.

Finally, it's easy to export the entire "app" mockup as one PDF file (made of many slides) and share all the mockups with users. I like it as a last step before diving into actual CSS/HTML. I like this more than Balsmiq because it lets me get closer to pixel perfect before I start coding - emphasis on actual look & feel, vs functionality (which balsamiq is probably faster at depicting).

Anyway, great writeup, thx for sharing.
Neat. Reminded me of how Pharo Smalltalk you can open the Method Finder and enter the arguments and expected output, and it lists methods that return the correct output. Now, back to work in my primitive, modern IDE :(
The rear camera of the LG Nexus 5 is supposedly a 16MP
OmniVision capable of recording 4K video at 30 frames-
per-second, or 1080p video at 60FPS

Well isn't that impressive. This reminds of videos comparing iPhone4S's camera with top-of-the-line cameras like the Canon 5d Mark ii: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIaa8IM-Auo

My question is: why aren't these uber-powerful camera phones driving down the costs of high-end dedicated cameras, when they are in fact in some cases competing with them head-to-head?
Yes. If you put in a Google Analytics code the site will show you what other site share the OwnerID-part. Same with adsense (and soon AddThis).
I am not a designer and the first thing i would do if i had some money over would be to hire a designer to make my site look more pro.
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While, we all know and hate Oracle RDBMS this is actually a well engineered project IMHO. And if you need to provide "big" data to the RDBMS the external table space capability is really nice.
Don't have anything to report here, though I would love to hear how you would use such a feature.

Can you shoot me what you think to rob [at] twilio?
Your culture is becoming less valuable every second.
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You cannot comprehend? Goose. Rose. I can see how writing "loose" instead of "lose" happens, especially for non-native speakers.
If that is the case then pretty disappointing. It really needed to be 4x to compete with DigitalOcean and the like.

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
Ah, Prismatic is a new one for me :)

A quick glance shows that they have the most engaging team page I've ever seen - http://getprismatic.com/people
Short squeeze (they also call it dead cat bounce) or shorts are just taking their profit off the table. In this case, it is just "dead cat bounce".
What a pleasantly amicable settlement of what could have been a thorny issue. I get so used to people trying to abuse patents and trademarks I'm now shocked when they say "Oh, ok, I see what you mean, fine we'll do this differently."
Please don't get me wrong, but are there any details as to when RethinkDB will get its old speed back (before the addition of the cluster layer)?

Because currently it seems that even for instance MySQL mostly performs a lot faster than RethinkDB and that makes me kinda sad, because I would really like to try this in a production environment.
Is the network really that powerful between NYC and Boston alumnies that may never have met for instance?
If your bizarre ancient internal thing doesn't need to do async I/O, then don't import it monkey-patched. I use Eventlet heavily in production, and this tends to be pretty easy.
When you use Facebook, you are always implicitly friends with Mark Zuckerberg and whomever he chooses to share your information with.
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> if you used Brainfuck or Perl

TMTOWTDI, dammit.
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Don't put your URL in the text field, it's not clickable. Better to delete and submit again.
"Steve Jobs is a Palo Alto RapGenius"

"Net Neutrality with SnapChat"

"acqui-hire haters"

Surprisingly fun.
The short are taking their profits - buying to cover their positions.
You came back to edit your comment but didn't bring the link with you?
Hm. Wish I'd seen this when it went by, I'm the original author. I think Graeber's Debt is probably pretty important in grounding any discussion about money at this point - given how much of our "money" is complex chains of debt, rather than cash!
> And because you have to either continue paying for service or pay a termination fee.

Isn't that still the case if I switch carriers?
Thanx! Yes IPv6 support should be implemented soon (within this year). But as i am not actually making any money at all right now (i suffering from depression & ADD) i have problem scaling the site with the much needed extra hardware and design. This is something i put together first for fun and now it has grown a bit hehe. To be able to serve the data i do i have to resolve hunders of millions of hostnames/domains and spider the net. That takes hardware, software, time and bandwidth which i only has time of hehe. Looking for sponsors when you are trying to be a commercial service is a bit hard but if anyone here has a hosting company that could give me access to dedi and/or VPS (low outgoing bw and HIGH incomming) i would love to trade "powered by COMPANY" and maybe banners.
Because you will get much better images out of a larger sensor, which can take in a lot more light than the tiny sensors you get on phones.

Also, a phone isn't thick enough to allow for a physical zoom.
That was a popular theory until 2008, when the industry was harshly disabused. I think it held so long as gaming was still expanding into the mainstream, but since the Wii/360/PS3 came out console gaming, at least, has been a saturated market.
I would be, but waiting for jruby's postgresql activerecord adapter to get updated. Doesn't work with Rails 4 yet.
I saw this and thought "Mother Earth, Motherboard" ... and it's the first article.
As someone who's contributed to Eventlet, I've always felt that the only way that it could get over this scary hurdle (and it is legitimately scary) is for it to be integrated within Python itself. Almost all of the weird problems come from fighting with the baked-in assumptions of the Python runtime. Eventlet does try to alleviate the scariness a little bit by allowing you to import "greened" modules rather than changing the global versions, but that has its own problems.

If it were integrated with Python, there would be no monkeypatching, no special magic, it would be just how things work. That said, I'm not at all surprised that Guido doesn't favor a coroutine-based solution; his opposition to general coroutines is as famous as his opposition to anonymous functions. (to clarify: I don't think the @coroutine decorator creates "real" coroutines, any more than generators were already coroutines)
I always enjoy people who are willing to share what makes them successful.
"We’re investing millions to make your Linodes faster. Crazy faster. "

Skeptical. I'm wondering if this is just advertising hyperbole because Linode doesn't seem to be large enough (and there is no evidence to indicate any "funding") to be able to "invest millions".

They operate out of a suite in an office park outside Atlantic City NJ.

(I think it's a great company by the way I just don't think they are investing millions it doesn't make any sense given what I know about them.)
So stating the uncontroversial recorded range of penalties for a particular charge is sensationalist and wildly misleading, and making up a "realistic" number is the proper function of journalism?

Before the charges came down, I would've thought the realistic number was 30 days of probation or maybe 20 hours of community service. Of course, that number would have said more about me than about reality. I prefer my reporters to deliver the facts first, and their interpretations and guesses second.
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The reason why you getting so many downvotes is because your comment is not just silly but flat wrong. Twisted, Tornado were around before nodejs. There are also async frameworks that make writing async code the same as synchronous code. I like tornado but I am using nodejs for my current app because of the libraries. This is where nodejs really shines, the community and libraries are awesome. Twisted has a lot of libraries but it has so much going on that many developers find it too complex. Tornado is a much simpler async framework to adapt to and allows you to run twisted libraries.

Twisted's inlinecallback's and tornado's gen module gets rid of all the async spaghetti code. This is hard to do with nodejs but I still chose nodejs because the available libraries made my project quicker to develop.
Any plans to add Pinboard integration? (I reckon Pinterest integration would also be relevant)
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They did not mix the audio correctly. So many people miss out on mixing and end up with all audio fighting to be heard. If you're not going to invest in a sound engineer to mix your audio, at least learn about using a simple compressor with side chain fed from the voice channel; it'll let people hear what you're trying to say even with loud music in the background.
This is one of the coolest things that have happened on HN this year!
Uploading and running executable code on other people's devices without their permission is absolutely illegal, regardless if it's exposed or not. I would be pissed if someone did this on any of my devices.
Thanks... just realized that thanks to you.. have to long-click on the dock/window icon to switch modes to side/bottom dock. Not quite intuitive, but wouldn't have tried if not for your comment.
There was a case where a search spider deleted all content from a database by following delete links. Would that count?
I sold my apple stock when I heard about the iPad mini. To me its an indication that there's no more radical innovation at Apple. They're going to try to ride on their past successes. I'm sure some new things will come out in the next few years, and i'm sure they'll make a billion dollars doing it, but they won't have that "Steve jobs" touch that made people want to wait outside in cold weather for days in advance to buy them.
I think because scientific features are not fundamental tools of expression, while he is working a language that is trying to be the foundation (most general) for the more specific libraries or tools.
>There are legitimate reasons to allow restrictions on what can be done with subsidized devices which are still bound by a service agreement.

Like what? As long as the customer is paying the service fee as they agreed to, the carrier shouldn't care if someone wants to use their device on another network. That means less network congestion and less necessary infrastructure, with the possible downside of fewer overage fees going to the carrier.

It's not like people would be able to buy a subsidized phone, unlock it and break their contract to go with another carrier, and pocket the subsidy. The early termination fee covers that. The carriers even say so: when Verizon increased their ETF from $175 to $350 for smartphones, they cited smartphone subsidies as their reason.
The "gang member pointing a gun" is actually the main character in Ubisoft's upcoming game Watch Dogs[1]. My guess is that this page / slide was shown in the context of mobile gaming.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Dogs
"Said nobody, ever" is simply the new version of the mid-90s' use of "not."
This seems to be the story (or a very similar one):

http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall11/CSCI-GA.2965-001/geneticalg...

From New Scientist, November 1997.
But Samsung did have a Mini Cooper on stage. I can't say how being laid on its side affected its RPMs though.
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It's almost always against the terms of your provider's AUP.
If anything, I've given Chrome a bigger crutch by giving it more letters to work with. And it's still worse than FF. ;)
"Criminal intent...to do what exactly?"

Intent to commit a criminal act: "conspiracy to access a computer without authorization". If he'd just accessed a few accounts then that could be attributed to user error or a technical fault, if anyone ever even noticed. Put what he did shows persistent intent to do something which is illegal in the US, even if he wasn't aware of the illegality.

Look, I agree with you. Jailing this guy is manifestly absurd, stupid, and cruel. I was just trying to explain who other people, who may hold differing opinions to you and I and happen to write the law, might see things. Doesn't mean I agree.
Web-based SaaS has made it much easier for corporate buyers to circumvent internal IT altogether.

The shift in focus (if that is actually the case) probably has more to do with wider acceptance and saturation of the tech-to-tech market.

How far this trend will go? Until internal IT for most companies except those with very specialized needs has been reduced to maintaining desktops and a network.

Edit: of course those desktops also risk getting replaced by BYOD...
Linode has over 45,000 customers (as of 2011), paying a bare minimum of $20 usd/month. Realistically they're probably bigger than that now, and the avg $/customer is higher. I'd say they're pretty good sized.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/8/prweb8739680.htm
Excited to see what the Relevance team and others roll out with this. Clojure could really come into its own if a tool set like this picks up steam.
Woooo hoo! Congratulations Mike & Humberto!
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I must admit Linode IO is pretty bad,

:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=3k oflag=dsync && rm test
3072+0 records in
3072+0 records out
201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 41.3478 s, 4.9 MB/s

this a 512MB Linode but still...

I hope they fix this with the new hard drives
Great to see your working process!

My mousepad is a pad of paper, when a page gets too many notes (or too many coffee stains) it gets torn off.
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Good point :)

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/19xb2m/a_letter_from...
Love it. It shows that how the "i" language could work.

The "i" stands for internet or interactive:
http://tandrasz.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/i-programming-langua...

Tomasz