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Dojo is trying to get rid of the design elements present since as early as 2005. In another decade yes, but this whole shift to is geared towards a more stable 2.0. It is the developers who want more change, not the dojo foundation, who is more focused on backward foundation.

And changing the way you access a method (from global variable to requiring them through AMD) is not relearning everything.
+1 for https://waveapps.com. Most things are good, but I still end up spending way too much time/money on book keeping. The payroll is awesome. Currently exploring http://10sheet.com for a more streamlined solution to take my mind off the books. Around $100/month which includes access to a real human bookkeeper.
Exactly what I wanted to say. WalMart doesn't make any of the products they sell. They can focus on making money selling stuff, and manufacturers can focus on making money making stuff.

I could see Tesla one day letting a company like Amazon sell the cars and handle the logistics of delivering them to the customer.
This x 1000. Seriously, it's like that newspaper photo of the pregnant lady smoking a cigarette while the caption reads "Area woman concerned about the effect of the sound of jackhammers on her baby."
Design matters. Decoration doesn't necessarily matter.
> Facebook also failed to implement some sort of craigslist, which is something that would really serve a big purpose for people in general (advertise for any sort of stuff, jobs, dating, help needed, local announcements...). I don't understand why they don't do that.

Facebook introduced Marketplace in 2007: https://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2383962130
Here's another fun walkthrough that was posted here a little while ago. http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/03/list-out-of-lambda/
Hey, it was just a tutorial feature, I have tried to faithfully copy the feature as done in jquery to demonstrate its not really any different from jquery, and if you read till near the end, its arguably much better than jquery based solution. Of course you can use MVC/AMD etc with jQuery, but it will send you in search of a new solution, unlike dojo which has it covered, rather nicely.
Maybe I wasn't clear (sorry). At the end of my testing after using 128GB (end of the month), I did the speed test to check if I was throttled.

And just because my ipad was capable of that high DL speed, my hosting server that I was constantly streaming HD movies from, isn't capable of that upload throughput (50Mbps uploading).
>Come on, we're talking about food!

This is exactly what makes it so dangerous. Just food? Food is something that can be as deadly as drugs, yet is as accepted as air.

>Not medicine.

It's worse than medicine exactly for the sentiment you are expressing. No big deal right? It's so normal it couldn't possibly be abused, right? It's exactly the opposite. We can push poison and it's no big deal because it's "just food".

It's not about forcing people to make decisions. It's about deceiving people into make the wrong decisions for your own profit. That is not innocent business. That is fraud.
Yet another project that lands at HN because people don't bother to look at what it actually does.

It's 44 lines of Python code.

An "insert" is implemented by loading the whole "database", in json format, into memory, adding an element and writing the whole thing back to a file.

It's not a database, it's 30 min coding exercise by a Python beginner.

Also, inexcusable self-promotion by max0563 (this is his 7th submission of a toy python program of his, with grandiose names like "NoSQL database engine in Python" or "Dropbox clone in Python" but whose implementation boils down to few lines of code).
> They've become too smart to lose their place as #1.

You don't believe that'll last forever, do you?

Facebook can innovate until the wee hours of the morning, but if a significant social group (I'm thinking young people, but I suppose it doesn't have to be) goes with another platform simply for fashion reasons, Facebook could slowly die off as users migrate away.
Amen to that. People tend to forget that Amazon started off selling only books, Facebook started off exclusive to Harvard students, CraigsList started off as a local SF site, etc. Companies that try to do too much at once end up spreading themselves too thin.
That is the best-written article I've ever seen on this topic. Thank you for posting it!
I would take it to mean that they basically went too far past the gray area of "legitimate" SEO in any or all areas. Spammy links, low quality links on "link farm" sites, keyword abuse, etc.
Maybe they're taking about people who use the smart bit of their smartphones?
Well, you could use geothermal energy or make use of the temperature gradient between the top of the ocean and the 100m down.

Its true the that pressure difference between vacuum and sea level is much greater than between sea level and deep underwater. However you have the advantage of not having to lift everything up to orbit. You you can build a really heavy steel tank using relatively 'simple' construction techniques, then just tow it out to position, before sinking it and anchoring it to the seabed.

The more I think about it, the more it sounds like like a self-sustaining undersea colony would be a affordable and useful way both ensure species Survivability and act as a prototype for a space colony.
If an extinction level event is the justification for colonizing another planet, I wonder if the scenario we should prepare for should be nuclear annihilation, and not an asteroid event? Seems like nuclear war would be much more likely. The relevance to the discussion is that unless the nuclear annihilation is complete, then the colony only has to survive for 200 years on its own (or however long it takes for Earth's survivors to rebuild civilization) rather than forever.
Try reading up on relational calculus (and relational algebra). You may find it enlightening
stackato as well.

production ready doesn't mean much tho. you can use anything you like for prod. it doesn't make it better or worse.

a ton of things that are considered "production ready" today are crippled with bugs, design flaws, etc.

The major issue of linux namespaces (or containers or "lxc" if you will) is that they're generally used as a security feature and haven't not been designed primarily as a security feature.
(it wouldn't have entered the kernel if it had been designed as such anyways)
vm's provide a better level of isolation so far, even thus they're not perfect either.

and for what it's worth, freebsd for example (among some others) provide a similar namespacing that is much better security wise. also openvz, vservers are doing similar things.
Oh and rsbac's jail too. (it might be the "strongest" of the list)
The idea is that one would live in Venus' atmosphere, not on the surface.
I thought 83 GB/hr seemed like not much capacity, and indeed that really isn't much. I've seen these units (and from other carriers as well, IIRC) before and figured they were bringing massive amounts of extra backhaul to spots with big events.

I'm curious how these figures relate with what 'normal' towers have allocated. I've seen the rough 1 gbps figure before but don't know how accurate that is.
I have been sitting for 20 minutes now, trying to come up with an answer to this. Simply, I don't know. For me, I hope that being able to put "Ronin" down in the "institute" field on CFPs and research grants allows my work to be taken seriously. It's hard to corral a movement out of "independents" but Jon Wilkins and the folks at Ronin are devoting themselves to it.

I believe it's people like Jon who are giving me the chance to be someday remembered as someone who contributed to the sum total of human knowledge, rather than just some guy who knew a lot about locks.
Google's quantum artificial intelligence lab launched
> Parents who do not wish their children exposed to advertising could use the same rules they would use to prevent their children from being exposed to violent media and profanity.

That doesn't fly. The nature of advertising is intrusive. I have to sign up for porn cable channel. I have no control about what goes on air on Discovery Kids at 10 PM between the shows. I can choose what magazine I buy. I can't choose which ads are printed between the articles. It goes on...

Dumb mass media advertising could die tomorrow. Every advertising should be like AdWords (query initiated suggestions curated by the channel, not nagging driven by the advertisers). Unfortunately we still have mass media since that's profitable for the agencies mafia, they still get away selling impressions/exposure, not real results.
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Yahoo is like HP. They once had pretty great engineering and relevance, but they are a zombie company now. If I were a Yahoo shareholder, I'd be pretty pissed about this deal.
KSM makes the overhead pretty low memory wise
Well see, that's just it. This harebrained theory is way too hollywood, and light on evidence.

In reality, a mathematician doesn't make significant contributions to two different completely separate fields that both get widespread media attention within the span of a few years.
Protein reverses effects of heart aging in mice
I tend to use ranges (e.g. [0-9]) as they seem to me to be more standard than the token for "any digit" (often \d, but in elisp (Emacs) it's [:digit:])
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For satiation index, I suggest we use micronutrient-to-macronutrient ratio. More simply stated, "nutrient density".

Raw fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, and lean meat all contain a high ratio of micronutrients to calories. Ignorant consumers could finally stop avoiding cashews and avocado, and start avoiding low-fat pop tarts and cereals.
Also since there is virtually no atmosphere, you could make use of a Mass Driver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver
Early publicity photos of Parallella had this exact dev board in them. :)
Conveniently, floating cities would go a long, long way towards ensuring that we'd survive any Venusian impactors...
The conclusions of that article that are nonsensical, at least those that weren't already established. In particular, the evidence cited doesn't support drawing the causality arrow in that direction. Why on earth would a logo for a car company or something stimulate the same areas as one for food? That's not how people work, and it's not specific to children.
Yet it succeeded in becoming a moving an alive project. "Nobody wants" is a too blank of a statement.
As a physics PhD (experimental HEP) with excellent credentials who has been unemployed for a year, I suggest you consider doing work that is a) more practical and b) better-funded. FYI: I know of two other colleuages who are also unemployed for 6+ months, one who soon will be, and one who is selling sporting goods retail.

I'd love to encourage you to follow your dreams, but I've found that advanced degrees in physics don't mean much to non-physics employers.
I feel like the argument he makes is very circular though. He lambaste the rich for investing in low risk (government bonds), and then says that we need more taxes to support more government R&D. Perhaps the answer isn't a return to a different tax structure, but the government acting more like a corporation (in this limited area). Making money off their R&D and financing it through debt.
Yahoo doesn't necessarily have to bolt onto Tumblr onto a dying core, one option would be to milk yahoo.com (and leverage whatever synergies exist) to invest in Tumblr as a new and seperate replacement core.

Maybe not likely, and maybe not enough "there there" to build an appropriate sized business around.
(a) Too many pop-ups on Slate.com to even read the article.

(b) Ayn Rand was a terrible writer (hyperverbose) and philosopher (simplistic idealism). I doubt most modern day adherents have read "Atlas Shrugged".
You could say that if no users would join Diaspora. Yet, more come constantly, so you can't say that it didn't gain traction.
More info on the Ayn Rand cult: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html
Firefox 21, running on Ubuntu 12.04! Nothing fancy for hardware, just the built-in panel for the Dell Latitude series.
If you watch the video of the two AT&T engineers, they basically say that they just had the idea; their (unnamed) vendor actually did the work to see if it was feasible and designed the antenna.
How to sell a car
See: https://www.loomio.org/groups/194
I use RSS, Google Reader, and Reeder on my iPad/iPhone. Still I think it's fair to say that RSS is dead because the general public does not use it. Of course that's also a good reason to kill off G+. Google is killing Reader because they no longer see the benefit of providing the service or they get a benefit by not providing the service.

I would've been happy to pay for Google Reader. Truth is I'll move to another RSS service and be happy to pay. I'm not sure what it costs Goole to run Reader so this is all conjecture.
Great work on this. It's easy to use and fun to play with. I spent more time than I'd care to admit zooming in, panning around, and looking at all of the different impact sites.

I also liked your write-up of the project:
http://www.roadtolarissa.com/meteor-map/

(The only small, minor, nitpicky thing I noticed was hovering over a new impact site displayed the old one for a split second. You probably already knew that though :)
I think we're at the height of the cycle, or nearing it right now, similar to right before the Progressive Era of last century.

Once the baby boomers are fully overwhelmed by their progeny in the voting roles (which should take another decade or two), and the red scare mentalities that caused rejection of any ideas that might be good, but are grouped in with "communism" historically, we'll be in a more rational place.

Or we might end up like Idiocracy...
I remember seeing a sales page for a backlink generating script a while back, before the penguin update. They had a section with the heading "Can this hurt my traffic in any way?" saying something the lines of "Of course not! If it could, your competitors could do this to you to destroy your ranking, and google wouldn't let that happen."

Is this obviously not the case anymore? You could easily cause a lot of grief to smaller startup websites by setting up a server to constantly generate spammy links at them. And maybe I should delete this comment before it inspires someone to be a jackass.
Corporations don't pay taxes. Whatever taxes are levied on them, they build into the price of what they sell, which is ultimately paid for with money that's already been taxed.
> No one knows what food is healthy and what food isn't.

I don't know about "healthy" food, but I'm pretty certain that Cap'n'Crunch Oops All Berries! (which contains 50% sugar and—oops—no berries whatsoever) is the opposite of that.

Better labeling is nice, but I'd rather have a law that says that breakfast cereals should contain at least 50% of cereals.
Thou shall not covet. Highs and lows balance.

If you got rich, you would be disappointed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTBx-hHf4BE

God says...

judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to
possess it.

4:15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner
of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of
the midst of the fire: 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a
graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or
female, 4:17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the
likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 4:18 The likeness
of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish
that is in the waters beneath the earth: 4:19 And lest thou lift up
thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and
the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship
them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all
nations under the whole heaven.

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Some Mexicans want justice for the land taken by the US. If they owned the SouthWest it would be... Mexico.

A friend said they would say, "You keep it, we just want to work there."

Look at African farms taken from whites. Fucken coveting is wrong.

On socialism God said, "Pardon the French, never happy, never enough."

Chavez was blaming the US. God said, "Japan industrious." They were occupied by the US!
It's good to see Diaspora moving forward. Since the original creators team mostly stopped contributing to the project, it's now developed by community developers.
For (some) cargo, yes. For passengers, not so much.
I think you're off by a generation. The Baby Boomers did/do not, by and large, have a "red scare" mentality. They are responsible, largely, for the mess we're in today however.
The huge hole in your analogy is that the coffee is not sold by YL, but by a fully owned Starbucks subsidiary.

And it's Starbucks corporate that relentlessly games the system, adjusts the licencing fees and defines the licensor (all owned by the very same company) in order to minimize tax.

That makes the 3 quid licece fee not really a legitimate business expense, but a sham. Set up in order not to pay taxes.

Legal? Sure. Honest, fair and decent? Most certainly not.

With all the anger, the austerity and the countries waking up to such shenigans I wonder how much longer such dodgy schemes will work anyway and I have a hunch the clampdown will be very, very hard.

At least I hope so.
The spirit of the tool is to make JSON easier to work with in shell flows. There's plenty of times where you'll get a deluge of JSON and need to work with it (for debugging or whatever).

You may not have a program to use the JSON in.
I didn't think fontawesome was around when bootstrap started, but I'd think now it'd be better to bundle fontawesome instead - more icons and they're scalable; that's been my experience of why FA>GI.
And here I was thinking New Myspace was the New Myspace :D.
While working on some problem or just playing around (with numbers) you could discover something by accident. Noticing the Collatz conjecture for only two numbers is probably enough to cause some curiosity and then you try some more examples and not much later you have a conjecture without any idea why it could be true.
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I don't think this is a magic bullet, but it's very important. There are biological feedback loops in satiety, and high-carb diets do make one artificially hungry. After giving up sugar and grains, it's a lot easier to maintain caloric equilibrium by just eating until I'm full, and I usually only need two meals per day.
Side note: Most people represent the natural logarithm in ascii with ln(). Makes it easier to read for people expecting log(10) to be 1...
It turns out the "Paul Buchheit" that wrote the article (whom I suspect is this fellow http://www.commondreams.org/paul-buchheit) is not the "Paul Buchheit" of YC.

Post edited.

It is clear the author of the article has not read Atlas Shrugged.

And now for a "someone said something wrong on the internet" rebuttal. There is too much horse shit to respond to, so here are just three points from the first few paragraphs.

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Perhaps Ayn Rand never anticipated the impact of unregulated greed on a productive middle class.
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Rand observed that regulations are created by the financially and politically powerful to restrain and oppress the individuals trying to improve their lot in life and change the world. Also, we live in a very heavily regulated economy, leftist delusions of persecution not withstanding.

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Ayn Rand’s philosophy suggests that average working people are “takers.”
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No, Objectivism suggests no such thing. In fact, in the opening scenes of Atlas Shrugged, the character Eddie Willers admires a bus that is being "expertly driven". Under Objectivist philosophy, you are virtuous when you put forth the best within yourself. A plumber can be, and often is, more morally virtuous than a CEO.

"Takers" or "moochers" are not "working people". They are individuals who, through coercion or deception, consume more than they produce.

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Perhaps she never understood the fairness of tax money for public research and infrastructure and security, all of which have contributed to the success of big business.
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You are right, she didn't understand the fairness of the coercive taking of money from one set of people who's only crime is to produce value, only to hand that money over to another set of people whose only claim is that they need it. Atlas Shrugged, through numerous sub-plots and character development, explain how Rand is staunchly opposed to corporate welfare. Also, Rand is not an advocate of "big business", and nearly all of the villains in Atlas Shrugged are CEOs.
In math you often don't need super precise bounds. I think it just happens that 70m works. If you try harder you can probably find something more accurate. IMO even a bound like 100m is good because it's a finite number.
Mexico is interesting. A table full of fresh food, and... what looks like 12 2-liter bottles of Coke.

On the USA table, there is literally nothing fresh. Every food is packaged, plus McDonalds, Burger King, 2 pizzas... Plus Diet Coke of course.

And in Germany, again looks like a lot of healthy food there but then there's like 4 bottles of wine and 30 bottles of beer. Uh, that's a weeks worth of booze is it?

And finally, with Chad. Three bags of something (rice I suppose) and a bottle of water. No fresh food, like the Americans. But compare the two pics side by side - wow.
For those who asked about chat functionality in Diaspora - the project is looking into enabling a chat capability, naturally using interoperable protocols like XMPP. It's not as trivial as it seems though, since it will require running additional XMPP server on the pod. Another option is to allow using external XMPP accounts for the web UI.

Having a chat is not really the highest priority, since there are tons of federated XMPP servers around already, and standalone XMPP clients that are light years better and feature rich than any possible web UI. But having web UI for chat as a convenience is still useful and attractive, so see the discussion here about adding this feature:

https://www.loomio.org/discussions/3678
In that case, say goodbye to the Internet. Running any website with user accounts would be untenable if you can go to jail just because somebody found yet another Rails 0-day.
What portion of a tax is paid by consumers is not so simple. It is generally thought to be determined by the slopes of supply and demand curves. The term to look up is tax incidence. There is a fair amount of debate about who really pays corporate taxes.
If it wasn't clear from the article content this isn't the Paul Buchheit that created gmail and was a YC partner

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

It is this Paul Buchheit who teaches economic inequality at DePaul University.
http://www.alternet.org/authors/paul-buchheit
(a) how dare you imply Slate don't have every right to put pop-ups anywhere they like on their property.
(b) but she makes a great straw woman for people who don't want to debate against classical economic arguments.
I think that the HN community also deserves references to high quality existing software that is not promoted because the community around them is surely busy building new stuff. I recommend http://www.garret.ru/dybase.html an excellent Python embedded database from a guy who did a lot of embedded databases.