skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah something like the Pebble watch but as a Bluetooth-style headset. (Come on Kickstarter community)

It should support something more reliable than SCO and an input touchpad like Glass. It would also make sense to have some of the initial NLP processing in the device, or even a full ARM processor like the Glass running arbitrary applications.

You would be able to make calls through an offloaded cell phone using a more advanced profile than SCO HS.

If I could remove the device and place it on the car visor to use as a noise-cancelling speakerphone like the Motorola Bluetooth unit I have, even better.
Life has hardly begun by the time you're 40, and some of the best programmers I've met are women.
Clearly written by a guy who hasn't left a Makerbot (sloooooowly) printing something overnight, only to wake up to a room full of PLA fairy floss…

;-)
Downvotes are sometimes accidental. Ignore single downvotes, they normally self-correct.

Complaining about downvotes will sometimes attract very many more downvotes than the original downvoted post.

I didn't downvote you, but your first post misunderstands a simple metaphor ("it's hard work!") and attacks it vigorously.
I was thinking of a distance for which arriving in under 24 hours would be doable but not without frequent stops.

To use a specific example, these people drive from Chicago to Kerrville which is about 19 hours according to Google Maps. Arriving in 24 hours would probably not be possible even if no time was wasted getting into and out of charging stations.

Edit reply: it's a few refills but each is quick and lasts longer than a battery charge. Would estimate 5 minutes for human needs every 3-6 hours is reasonable. I don't believe this is unusual long-distance driving behavior. And again, I don't think Tesla should be judged right now on their ability to cater to that market; we should be looking at how well Tesla serves those driving a couple hundred miles or several hundred miles in a more leisurely fashion.
If I read the article correctly, hosts are still in control as to whether they will allow all guests or just verified. Did I misinterpret this?

Is the uproar over the mandate that a random 25% of users are now required to go through verification?
It is an option. Last I heard, you could still advertise short term rentals on Craigslist, after all.
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Actually, sourdough is the only bread worth eating.
You might need to signup for the Gmail search field trial to get some of that stuff: https://www.google.com/experimental/gmailfieldtrial/ , you also need search history on for it to learn from your searches.
Or BIG.little which would allow selecting the ARM processor core to use based on the current needs, using the more power efficient chip when passive.
How many people would rather hack hardware than pay money to watch TV and play video games?

At least where I live, "chipping" Playstations was extremely popular. You could get it done for $40 without having to know a lick of hardware.
Mary Meeker highlights US immigration hypocrisy
It does make it easier to add support to new platforms, though. If Linux support is just a recompile with a different compiler away (supposing the browser/plugin interface is a simple C API with no GUI), it's more likely to happen.
Yep, the newton is nothing of the sort :-P
Specifically, him (or his parents) through taxes, tuition, fees.
Seems to me the bigger issue here is HOW they implemented this, not WHY they implemented it.

Yes, some people are asking that they personally be allowed to take the risk of hosting unverified people. As AirBNB continues to grow, I understand and agree why they won't let you do it - more cases of drug parties or robberies could ruin their business, and your business isn't worth as much to them as their business.

But requiring (if I understand it correctly) one of Facebook, LinkedIn, or a video? Telling you this ~80% of the way through a booking process? Implementing it with no notification (so people currently on holidays suddenly bump into the requirements)? These are the bigger issue.

I doubt they will cancel the current implementation plan in order to rethink a new one. But improving upon it - in particular with additional ways to verify identity - seems important.
From the news that I've been following, those "particularly authoritarian jurisdictions" include about every country with some level of regulations for the hotel industry - which basically includes each and every european country and the USA.
This DRM proposition definitely needs all the resistance it can get. We cannot allow DRM into our wonderful, open standards. This is not an option. Not at any price.

I'm honestly surprised that Mozilla haven't been more vocal about this issue. Have they issued any statements what so ever?

Seeing what amazing things the web have enabled the last few decades, purely by being open, who are we to deny the future the same possibilities by locking it all down now? What sort of short-sighted asshole would propose such a thing?

To those who yammer on about Netflix: Allow me to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin. He who gives up freedom for comfort deserves neither.

If this goes through though, what I see others are calling out for is a new consortium. If the W3C is hellbent on forking and fragmenting the web, then lets have it. But let's have it on our terms: By creating a new open web standards consortium.
Interesting blurb which negates the opportunity to explore the mental flow we acquire through the state which programmers go through when working through a problem set or pet project.

Though I agree that avid learners new to programming concepts may experience anxiety or euphoria depending on the problems which they are working on defeating. I wouldn't necessarily call it an addiction; no more than I would suggest that a musician is addicted to playing their instrument or writer is addicted to creating prose.

The art of programming in which begins with exploring computational programming models and processes ultimately ends with the craft in which itself is as fluid as a master composer composing whom subsequently is also a master musician.

Though it's that "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" which may be what TFA is referring. Not everyone programs inside skinner's box, even in their early years of programming. There is better research on the subject than this generalized blog post which is far from aphoristic of the effects of computer programming on the brain.
Steam is kind of the least worst DRM, why: it has more advantages !
- Easy installation, no hassle with CD's: Check
- Automatic updates: Check
- Price: Sales from time to time: Check
- Does it get in the way ?: Only slightly.
However there are quite a few bad risks attached:
- Need internet ? Yes :(
- Can the block your account and screw you over ? Yes :(
- What if they go bankrupt ?
So all in all I don't prefer steam, but for Linux atm it brings in a few games :)
Do you have multiple Google accounts? If you're signed in to one you don't use for things, that will cripple Now, because it won't have all the data it needs to do things. Same problem if you do all your searching and Youtube watching and whatnot while signed out.
Two things might interest you: Optomec's process of printing semiconductors onto 3D structures, and the NovoGen MMX Bioprinter, which prints human tissue.

Still, I agree that fused deposition modeling is not going to be cost effective compared to injection molding if you need more than 2000 objects worldwide.
I found the original comment relevant. Facebook and the way people use it has changed dramatically from its early days. It is quite a bit spammier, and the signal to noise ratio has gone down.
Vt.js: A reusable VT Emulator written in NodeJS
> there are plenty of people who should know better singing the praises of online financial currencies and other broad operations that operate outside the controls and oversight of governments.

"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these [regulators] are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?"

-Frederic Bastiat, 1850
100% Correct. The only way a boycott works is by people taking a stand, and then letting everyone know about it. Same goes for canceling subscriptions, vegetarians boycotting MC-donalds, people staying home and not voting in elections, or hunger striking in a prison.

So the alternative to pay for an movie, TV show or videogame is to organize a movement to let people know about the issue. This happens. Remember people voting down Simcity on Amazon? Remember people producing jailbreaks? Remember people picketing outside studios or shops? All those are the alternatives to buying and supporting a broken businesses model. Pressing or not pressing a download button in silence has in contrast zero impact.
In performance tuning, this is actually pretty straightforward:

- Processes which run many times.

- Processes which run long time (and block other processing).

- If at all possible: both.

The more subtle approach is to identify things you don't need to do (needless initializations, "settle" delays, doing (or allowing to be done) the _wrong_ thing requiring both unwinding that operation _and_ doing the right one, and anything you don't have to wait for (if it's an ancillary process, spin it off and handle it out-of-sequence). Redesigning a process to avoid sorting data. Eliminating global locks. Spinning off tasks to parallelized processing (especially if you have multiple cores/systems available. Pipelining data to avoid writing/reading from disk multiple times. Handling data in memory rather than on disk. Realizing you _can_ handle data in-memory, and that disk-seeks will kill you, so sorting or bucketing output. Swapping spinning rust for SSD. Specific tools such as COW, snapshots, or the like can be very useful in such cases.

Algorithms (or methods invoking algorithms) can be another big win.

I've seen processes fall in time requirements by 90% following such an optimization process.
Look into some of the pruning development discussions that are happening, if you haven't already [0]. I believe it's a question of when, not if. Probably, only a few nodes will end up needing to keep the full merkle tree, that others can then use to bootstrap. But then, a few full, original nodes are all your service really needs, too.

0. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bitcoin.devel/2065
Those aren't LED. It's an unshielded UV lamp.
I think there is a worldwide market for maybe five 3D printers.
Open letter to Microsoft on specs for obsolete file formats [2012]
You mean the guy that one could argue is solely responsible for the Code of Conduct header on every TypeSafe affiliated Google Group?

Yah, that guy. Sure, for $250/hour he's probably fairly amicable.

He's categorically brilliant (in FP implemented Scala, certainly), but good luck grokking his mile long type signatures when he's gone from the project.

Saying that, if part of his consultancy is to train the team in FP and explain his code, then there is "real" value in the hiring; otherwise, where would you know to begin when updating the system down the road?
OpenPGP JavaScript implementation
MS response: http://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/response-...
Google started with a consumer focus. And a large portion of their traffic remains consumer.
The kitchen is a good place to do this exercise.
> And writing-off the Facebook and LinkedIn integration as merely a ploy for access to your social graph

Even if they actually didn't set out to get it (unlikely), I have no doubt at all that they'll abuse it once they have it. Rule #1: spammers lie.
I want to agree with you (everything you say is good), except that there's no evidence that Ben is actually anti-silver-bullet. It seems like he focused efforts on improving the company's own product/tech in-house instead of looking for an alternative to doing that, because the alternative ideas were low-quality. Presumably lots of thinking was involved on all sides.
Well, perhaps I don't. The reasoning was similar to that of money. People have indicated that if you stop paying for things (DRM-laded goods and services, for example) the companies will notice the lack of sales and change their behaviour accordingly. Now, for not watching, perhaps if they noticed that torrents that previously had tens of thousands of people downloading only had a handful—or better yet, the different warez groups/whatever stopped their releases—the companies would notice that people are making a stand by not even watching. Popularity of TV show x would go down and what happens when TV shows aren't popular? They're killed. Also, supposedly people pirate things, come to like them, and then buy them so limiting watching also leads to making your preference known.

I think that not watching could be even more powerful than not voting with your wallet. It shows greater self-control, dedication, etc. It says "Screw you guys, we won't even watch it!" Though, as mentioned in my previous post, I doubt many people would do that as they simply want something for free nor are they so invested in the whole anti-DRM thing.

Even if I don't understand voting, I would still love to hear why the hell people are so up in arms about not being able to watch a TV show especially so when their complaint is that it's released a week later. It would be fantastic to see the pirates look at themselves and what they're doing wrong. A last thing I would like too is an answer to a question: If I create something and will only sell it for $1000 and it is not a human right/basic necessity, if I ask or tell you to not acquire it and use it without paying, would you follow what I've said or ignore it? -- you here isn't meaning you, icebraining.
If they're anything like our politicians, they didn't have to rush anywhere. They were probably already in the red light.
Ah yes, a dual license. But to dual license the project has to own all the rights to every part of the system, correct? That is, it can't incorporate other libraries that are incompatible with the proprietary license.
Being a Pepper plugin doesn't help at all. It's still a black box. It still has full access to your machine. It can not be sandboxed because it's up to the CDM to decide how to validate and how deep to connect to the machine. The CDM will want to control the bits from the time they get delivered to the CDM from the browser, all the way to the monitor with whatever tech the CDM author feels like employing.

Chrome can not validate the code nor the inputs to the code. It's a giant security hole. For all you know some CDM will just implement the blu-ray standard, Java and all. Yep, unsecured code execution.
From what I hear Japan doesn't have a good social safety net.

See eg. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/world/asia/08japan.html?pa...

I would be happy to be wrong and the situation might have improved very recently?
But virtually nobody is going to buy a 3D printer to print a house for themselves. They're going to call up their local house building company, send over the drawings they came up with together with their architect and then the house-building company will make the house using whatever technique is best, which may very well be a 3d-printer.

I think 3D does have future in commercial settings and offering on demand print services, but I still doubt most people will have one in their home in the near future.
Another thought. Turn on the computer, turn it into something that frees you.

And if you want to be a little less selfish, make it something that frees more than just you.

(bye for now)
thank you both, of course "companies/company" was just a distraction while "I/me" is due to the fact that many times in Italian you can swap them (maybe it's not perfectly correct in Italian too but for spoken language it's ok)
Sorry to hear about the trollery. I'm looking into it.

I wonder if you have a profile that goes back years and has some property that tickles a latent bug. Sorry if I missed it: have you tried running on a brand new profile? You'll have to use the -ProfileManager option on the command line at startup, I think.

/be
How Blink has affected WebGL?
If it turns out to be a big enough problem, Google could probably add a way for people to run Glass off of a throat mike [0], simultaneously solving the "crazy bluetooth headset person" and "hostile takeover" problems.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laryngophone
It's an analogy. Yes, programming is more mental and less physical than running. Yes, analogies are and can be terrible.

But you're overreacting, even if we take your stance that she's somehow trivialized an entire field that she happens to think worthwhile enough to try and get into herself. No apologies are warranted. If they were, equating competitive running with walking to the grocery store would be at least as inappropriate. Regardless of whether or not that's what you mean to do, that's what you start with when you open up with your "dilution".

Though it's not my place to say, if you're as worked up as your text would portray, I'd suggest you're doing yourself a disservice. All over an offhand quote that got the wrong adjectives on the flavor of effort and skill involved with programming, by someone new to the field, who I'd suspect was merely trying to compare it to more familiar territory.
Ranbaxy is an anomaly, right? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/business/global/ranbaxy-in...
Just like my ice cream shop :(
Another quick note. In the app, I can get as far as submitting a recording without signing up... but then I am forced to go back and sign up, which causes my recording to be deleted. You should either make a way for me to sign up via the sound-sharing screen, or prevent me from getting that far without signing up.
If you're in a position where you even have to submit a resume or deal with an organization that even knows what affirmative action is, you are already in a better caste than the majority of India.
By scale, I mean big companies. Inbound marketing does scale, but it's risky at scale.

See my point about the fact that for every inbound marketing campaign there is always an equal interruption marketing plan assigned to it. Want to write blogs every week? Great! But you need to spam it through distribution channels (twitter, facebbok, email campaigns, PPC, etc)
Some companies seem to be like a VC in disguise: I would think of Supercell(http://blog.idonethis.com/post/48277151394/least-powerful-ce...) and Google when it had 20% free time.
I liked the 20% free time model, people have some freedom to pursue their goals without worrying so much about money. It probably leads to more innovation being done as it takes money out of people's concerns.
I don't know how it's done now on Google.
> do you ever think about how

Well, yes, but maybe I'm not the average case. For example, How many ice scrapers do I need to buy for walmart to think it's snowing here? If I go to the five nearest walmarts and buy all their available ISO400 film will that land on someone's desk?
I would have thought twice in the first place to join an accelerator. What do you get in return for these $40K ? Will your startup get this money back at least 4 to 5 times with what they offer ?

A startup should earn money ASAP and any investment should be strictly limited to what can facilitate or increase money earning. I really doubt an accelerator has much value in that (except YC). Note my opinion is based on the accelerators I saw here where I live.
First Toronto Go Meetup
Of course it has an impact, I just don't think it's a net positive one.
Not that it has much to do with the point, but the El Camino came out in 1959.
I am relatively new to Angular, but wouldn't you want to have the comments be a Factory using ngResource? If the comments are restful then it seems much easier.
deep, calming breath

Please, have a read of the proposal. You'll see that a browser implementing EME does not make it any easier to compile a DRM plugin on a different operating system. The proposed standard has nothing to do with that whatsoever.

All the EME spec specifies is a way to interact with the plugin using Javascript.
Also he wasn't the founder of PayPal, but it's competitor X.com, until they merged.
Measuring customer satisfaction with Infusionsoft
SCM-Manager: share and manage Git, Mercurial and SVN repositories over http
HeyWatch - new video preview API
> No, but if I know that you don't have another option, I'm not going to be as willing to give up more.

That doesn't really make sense. The candidate has at least this much in their favor:

1. A recruiter has had probably 2-3 phone calls with them, a technical person (or two) has done a phone screen, and they've taken up the time of, say, 4-6 people for in-person interviews. The company has already spent a not-insignificant amount of time (aka money) evaluating this person, and losing them over a (reasonable) salary increase would be foolish.

2. Having evaluated the candidate, the company has decided they want this person to work for them. Assuming the candidate is great for the position, but the only sticking point is salary, why would the company go back to square 1 to save a little money? Hiring is hard.

Available comp for a particular position is usually a range, and the initial offer will rarely (if ever) quote the top of that range. If the budget is available, and the candidate is good, whether or not they have a competing offer isn't relevant, unless you know that they'll be forced to take your offer even if you don't budge (which in tech, at least, is pretty rare, I'd think).
How to Use a Contest to Generate Leads and Sales
Sorry Linode I have moved out
TFA says: "I wasn't being bullied because I was sensitive, in other words. I was being bullied because I was privileged" and that his refusal to accept this was "but simply an excuse to perpetuate" the "system of power."

What the fuck, man. I guess all those ~privileged~ gay kids who killed themselves deserved it for not checking their privilege. Ridiculous.

As a GLBT, and in addition to that, a smart and geeky one, I got bullied a lot in high school. There were some occasions where I couldn't (and still can't) understand the reasons why, but there were at least a few times where it was pretty clear whether I was being targeted for being GLBT or being targeted for being smart. This author is full of shit.
Rackspace's monitoring is in beta and only offers 5 minute level granularity last I checked.

Their backups you noted aren't free or included in managed cloud (they're additional).
I would like to see a similar tutorial which also covers authentication and how to add security to your app. There are a few but I want to see a really simple one.

What I don't understand is how you add login while keeping your REST backend stateless. How do you validate the request and make sure that it comes from the correct user and not just someone who forges the request without keeping a state on the server-side? Normally you just add a session.
... on the other hand, the css on her bio page is 404'ing, and completely breaking the layout:
http://www.kpcb.com/partner/mary-meeker

(here's a screenshot, in the case it gets back automatically, and you want to investigate: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v4bdllfs5zvlajj/kpcb.com.png)
My main problem with these (as user) is that I usually have hard time remembering which sign-on system I have used for a particular site. Twitter? Google? Facebook? Username and pass? Amazon?

In most cases what I would truly like to have is a option to order a sign-on link to my email that would be valid for single use and just for some minutes.
This seems to explain how to do it pretty well using angular.

http://www.frederiknakstad.com/authentication-in-single-page...