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Mozilla's user stats show that 96% of Firefox Beta users restart their browsers daily and 98% within 2 days. I imagine non-beta Firefox users restart even more often, e.g. they open Firefox to check their Yahoo mail and quit. Most people do not live in their browsers.
Well, remember that the IE components are global system files that require at least restarting Windows Explorer and often a reboot to update and all versions of IE follows the lifecycle of the underlying version of Windows. I have proposed rapid release IE in the past but it'd have to be separate from the current IE installation.
Agree: This is great, slight complaint...

The scales on the walks should be synchronized to the extremes across both images. I was trying to compare the two walks visually and realized that the scaled didn't match.
I found Erlang to be much easier to digest the second time through. The first time I looked at Erlang, I knew of its benefits, but didn't have much experience with functional programming. The unusual syntax and unfamiliar paradigm led me to put it aside.

Later, after I learned me some foldr and flatMaps (mostly thanks to Martin Odersky's Scala/FP course on Coursera), I revisited the language when I saw an article here about an Erlang based CMS (http://zotonic.com/). It seemed pretty cool, I host some websites for local businesses, so I set up it to evaluate it and realized that I now had no trouble at all with Erlang and the syntax made more sense. Searching around for some other web stuff I found Chicago Boss (http://chicagoboss.org/), a Rails-inspired web framework with ridiculously easy Comet/WebSocket/"real time" support.

Now I'm really excited about it and I can't wait to do some cool things with it.
To be fair, this slashdot story covering the original story (presumably submitted because the original story was submitted and talked about yesterday) mentions the "performance crown", which was just "by a nose". You're right about the overall test, though.
Another nitpick, on the FAQ page it says to 'click here' to create a FB account but there is no link to click - http://www.smiirl.com/faq
http://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2013/06/10/compare-data-dis... is pretty good about box plots and historgrams (static) and mentions Chambers' visualization book (besides Cleveland's classic text)
We may do a follow-up survey to attempt to confirm our assumption that the vast majority of people that make money from apps are doing so by invoicing clients, rather than selling apps in the store(s).
This is sort of similar to pg's "Python Paradox" essay. http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

It's a slightly different conclusion (use best tool for the job, earn respect of developers vs. use esoteric tool for the job, attract developers eager to learn something off-the beaten-path), but with similar ends. Using an offbeat language can have its benefits.
There isnt an advantage other than adding a DRM layer so you can't print as many as you like. It says in the help page that you can restart the print as many times as you like, but after 80% you have to mail them to get another try.

This seems to solve a problem the sellers have, not the customers (printers).

(Nevermind that you can just grab the gcode output and save it for later if you want to)
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It's funny, I was using Chrome for about a month (when they finally released a Linux version) but was forced back to Firefox mainly because of massive memory consumption (because I keep a lot of open tabs). The other problem I had with it was lack of AdBlock Plus back then - without it the web is unusable.
Do you have something better to point to? It's easy to complain about stuff, but at least he's out there trying to do something. Presumably it can be improved.

I'm particularly fond of the quote "lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way", which is a bit harsh in this case because a lot of your advice is good. It could be framed in a more constructive way, though - there's some Comic Book Guy tone there in your comment.
And compare it to a dedicated box, and they all suck. If you're looking for a stationary server and just need raw power, get a dedicated server plan and good backups.

If you need what Amazon offers, all of the AWS services or most of them, then go for it. But you don't use AWS for raw power.
I thought AIMA was pretty gentle on the math. It also doesn't assume, as this text does, that AI == machine learning (even if that is a more and more popular assumption these days).
Do you have any add-ons installed? I'm not shifting the blame from Mozilla to the add-on developer, but it might pinpoint the problem you found. If add-ons are using slow APIs, then Mozilla can do something about it. For example, some synchronous add-on APIs have been replaced with async versions.
Heh. Reminds me of The Name of the Rose. This kind of thing is endlessly interesting to me.

Edit: I see this comes from Lapham's Quarterly, which is far and away my favorite magazine and an incredible resource to anyone remotely interested in ideas and history:

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/
Not a watch face, but a Space Invaders game for Pebble: http://www.mypebblefaces.com/view?fID=2052&aName=pocketscien...
Since your based in Birmingham I can take a good guess at where that is, because I studied there and live in birmingham. And I agree, but the machine learning/A.I modules themselves had to have maths placed within them.

Nice to see brummies on hacker news. Since your start up guy, I guess you hang around faraday wharf?
A nit with this... by "ideas", I think they mean "details". The big, sweeping ideas need to be strong and defended against a market that Just Doesn't Get It right away.

There's something to the point a friend once made, that 100 years ago, customers would be asking for better buggy whips.
You could really support an arbitrary password size by locally hashing the password to a length at least as long as the one you store in the database to preserve entropy, then send the fixed length hash as the user's "password", and hash it again on the server using something slower, like PBKDF2 with a few thousand rounds.
I've owned both the Nokia 710 and the new 521 and as an excessive phone-dropper have had no problems. I have also dropped both of these phones in water, picked them up, dried them off with a paper towel, and simply moved on with my day.
That link is super helpful! We started out with the most common layouts and are now adding more based on feedback. Thanks!!
Somewhere around Romans 12, I think. The end product will be multiple volumes, with the gospels making the first volume. Judging by the size of Volume II (which contains Acts and in-progress Romans so far) I'll probably be able to fit in a few of the epistles before I split for Volume III.
Sounds like a very interesting project. I have a few questions, which I hope are not too much of an imposition.

How far have you gotten? What's your estimated completion date and total man-hours for the project?

What are you using as source material? If your source material contains non-canonical works (like the Epistle of Barnabas, included in the Codex Sinaiticus) are you going to hand-write those as well?

What does your copying process look like? Do you write whole sentences, one word at a time, one letter at a time, etc.? Do you have error detection and error correction processes? (Some Hebrew Old Testament scribes used a rudimentary checksum - counting how many times each character appeared on a page, locating the middle character, etc. - and would destroy pages with errors.)

Aside from a really cool book and hand cramps, what are you getting out of this? What have you learned so far, either about the process of hand-copying or about the content of the text you're copying?
I used the US helicopter one once - it just wasn't efficient enough. The whole point of the service was that it was 10? 15? minutes to JFK, but you had to clear security at the helipad once, adn then (as you say) it was only for Delta's terminal, so for anything else you wanted to do, you had to get back terminal-side, take the airtrain around to the terminal you wanted, clear security again and find your gate.

Depending on how close you were to the heliport to start out with, say favorably it's a 10 minute walk/cab ride to the helipad, 15 minutes for security and waiting for the helicopter, 10-15 minute flight, 10 minutes to get back airside, 5-10 minutes to the right terminal, reclear security, etc. and it's almost an hour or more in total.

From most places in midtown or lower, it's vastly more convenient to have a black car pick you up and drop you off right in front of your terminal in an hour or so, depending on traffic, while you read, do work, or finish a conference call. You just get in the car, and get out at the other side, clear security once, and go to your gate.

The only time I used it was when I had a meeting a few minutes away from the helipad, I had an international flight I had to make, and traffic was all screwed up due to some major accident, google maps saying it would be 2 hours to get to the airport.
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Even on a modern, high-powered laptop, Visual Studio still runs slowly for me. Some actions inexplicably cause the UI to hang for a few seconds. I really appreciate how OSX seems to prioritize UI responsiveness, which doesn't seem to be the case in Windows.
We're thinking webhooks would be a good way to achieve this. A texter gets to a node which does a webhook to your server which provides the options or the response. Perhaps some sort of database could be built in the future if we see demand for it.
That's awesome :D If you are looking for any particular resources for the presentation let me know.

As for adding awesomeness, I would say the core devs do a pretty fantastic job of that. I just utilize it is odd ways ;)
:) Since UK schools are considering experimenting with shorter/different summer holidays for the educational benefit, there was a parent on talk radio just this morning saying this was unfair because he may need to organise more babysitting.

Luckily, most parents are looking for good education.
the problem when you have 'tons of RSS apps with little or no syncing is that it becomes hard to find the ones that work in standalone mode from the rest. Thanks for the tip on Reeder. It looks great but I can't figure out where the OPML import is.
How about this: when you register an account with an already existing email, the website returns the same message as it would if the email didn't already exist: "The account have been created, but needs to be activated. Click on the link in the activation email that has been sent to your email address.". Now, the email that is actually sent says "Someone tried to create an account with your email address. If it was you, we remind you that you already have an account at our website". If the email does not exist, then usual activation email is sent.

This way, we don't leak the emails of registered users. If we use emails as usernames, we don't leak usernames either.
Ahh, you are right.
whoa. mind blown.
There's a smart watch platform in kickstarter that runs .net/c# mini apps.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/secretlabs/agent-the-wor...
And here lies my greatest frustration with hardware Kickstarters.

Despite Kickstarter's protestations, hardware kickstarters have been de facto preorders. The expectations here are vastly different than "I've never done this before, help me do this".

Kickstarter introduced the "risks and challenges" section after some particularly infamous failures. This section is still routinely glossed over, and project owners continue to project authority and confidence, even if in reality the "I have no idea what I'm doing" meme dog is more appropriate.

I do not back hardware kickstarters as a rule. I backed Pebble because I knew the founder, and knew that he has a track record delivering hardware - and for the most part this has held true. Hardware Kickstarters that are later or failing to deliver anything resembling the original pitch are depressingly common.

Pebble can't be fairly singled out here, this is a huge problem with crowdfunding hardware projects in general.

> "And, as you mentioned, they've been surprisingly open about all their problems throughout the process."

The bulk of the process complaints here have been from color backers (I was one, until I switched to black), and that's telling. The Pebble team was extremely on top of the ball prior to the black watches shipping out. Lots of detailed updates about where they are and what the expected schedule is.

Personally I was completely nonplussed by the various delays because of how transparent they were.

Then the black watches shipped out and the color backers were forgotten. There was a vague "after the black watches", and a lot of silence. There was more silence until the color backers suddenly found out that color Pebbles were in trouble and there was an option to switch.

A lot of color backers - and from this thread I'm obviously not the only one - were left in the lurch. There was no timeline for anything except "late" - and in the mean time there were big announcements about the SDK, RunKeeper, and other software stack progress, with nothing for other backers.

I have zero doubt that Pebble is working as hard as they can to fulfill the rest of their orders, but looking in from the outside, it's hard for color backers to feel anything but forgotten. The frustration at the Best Buy news I don't think comes from some entitled "I should get it before everyone else" mentality, but rather annoyance at every piece of news from the company, for months on end, not address their chief concern ("where is my watch").

If the updates on color manufacturing was even half as frequent and detailed as the pre-launch updates, this whole thing would be a non-issue, even if color backers still don't have their watches.
T.T But the idea was so neat!
dave winer. he's a beast. not a journo. but well written, and a legend in the space.
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unless I missed something, Vienna looks like a Mac OS X app… I was looking for an iPhone/iPad app
How is that relevant? One of the nice features of a language like Python is that it's very easy to write cross-platform code with it. You really have to do effort to code a python web app on Windows that breaks on Linux. The same holds for e.g. Ruby, Node.js and Java.

I prefer Windows for a dev platform (really, I do), but I've only once written a webapp that was hosted on Windows. I'd much rather prefer unixy servers.
It was a really smart decision to eschew a LCD or LED display. The old-school flip display really humanizes the numbers.
No one hires hackers using normal job postings and titles. They show up at DefCon and Black Hat Briefings and then schmooze in t-shirts and blue jeans.

Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz0ejKersnM
I was secretly hoping for "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of God's existence, which this margin is too narrow to contain."
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Facebook should include a QR code scanner in their app to do this. I rarely scan QR codes because I would rather type in a short URL than find some QR scanning app. (I realize Google's app can do this, but you end up in an in-app web browser where you are likely not signed into Facebook.) If I could get to a business' official page in a couple of taps in the Facebook app, my chances of interacting with the page would definitely increase.
And more: you can create new ActiveX Objects from within that JScript script giving you access to just about anything. This has been there forever (I started using this in 2006) and I use it to let my users insert their code into the process of my desktop application.
>...a lot won't even scroll down past that line.

It really sucks that this is being reinforced. I read the tag line and was like "ok" -- but then I watched the demo movie of setting up the ITTT text tree and thought it was pretty bad ass.

People need to stop being lazy and actually expend a small amount of effort to understand something.

Its a sad state that everyone expects every single piece of information spoon fed to them.
IE's "like Gecko" string is to more closely match WebKit's UA string (e.g. "... (KHTML, like Gecko) ..."), not Firefox's.
Same, that only worked a couple of times for me though (Safari Mac)
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I am working on a site http://unbouncepages.com/sparkle/

Its a community for programmers to practice on real projects. I was wondering what projects you would be interested in seeing.

So far I have the following apps:

Todo
Weather
Calculator
Why would anyone want an 'iTunes for 3D printing'?
You're right, I overstated that.
In another 1000 years, your hard drives will be unreadable.
It's a lot easier to recover pieces from a desert than from an ocean.
This seems to be fixed in Chrome 27. Still broken in Firefox 22 though.
"E-Paper" is the term they used. Yeah, it's an LCD, but it has the features one would want from e-ink in this context; namely, good daylight visibility and low power draw.
I do believe that Erlang is the right tool for the job when you're building a distributed database, especially for the distribution part. For a company like Basho it's understandably a good investment to take expert distributed systems/database engineers and let them take their time learning Erlang.

If, however, you, like most of us, are not building a distributed database, think carefully before you choose Erlang, especially if you're in a startup.

Most startups don't have a distributed database as their core technology, and for many startups, it's important that developers can push production code from day one.
Actually, I think a good idea would be a 99designs kind of service. Maybe not today, but as 3D printing matures, there's going to be more people who just want to print somehthing custom or some broken part, than there are people willing to learn 3D modeling.
...obviously there was more "fact-checking" yet to do.

When is that ever not the case? News media retractions are not a bad thing in and of themselves. Occasionally a flawed story will harm a private citizen, but that isn't possible here, as we are talking about the activities of public servants.
I'm interested in seeing Google's Compute Engine show up in some of these benchmarks. Any reason why someone would not want to use them? Some benchmark's I've seen show them with awesome stats.
> That's why I voted third party. It would have been great if a third party candidate won, but more importantly, third party votes send a message to the major parties. If the major parties want my vote, they better do something to earn it.

But...they don't. At least, not collectively. Under the status quo system, each major party has preferences, numbered in order (letters distinguish approximately-equal-preference alternatives within the numbered category):

1. We get your vote,

2a. Your vote goes to someone other than the other major party

2b. You don't vote,

3. The other major party gets your vote.

In fact, each major party has a pretty strong incentive to want people that aren't sold on their platform to blame the two-party system and opt out entirely either by not voting or voting third party, since you voting for the other major party is going to be twice as bad for the major party you aren't voting for than not voting or voting third party.
It's also a result. Normal people don't volunteer that they were home-schooled, the strange ones do.
They have to support all these versions for the lifecycle of the underlying Windows version. Trivia: I personally reported a security bug in IE6/7 that was fixed in the May 2013 security update.
Also, it is important to note that Gaussian is symmetric about its mean, whereas an exponential distribution takes values between 0 and infinity.
You imply that conventional hard drives are the only storage mechanism that exists. It's a valid point, but there are ways to keep data around. The monks of 500-1000 years ago were writing books that were meant to be kept for a long period of time, so they were already thinking past their own lifetime (even a monk's comment in the article mentions that).
>> "- Can someone point to one clear unambiguous place where an iOS developer position is advertised at over $100 per hour?"

I think this misses the point. You seem to imply you're thinking about what a developer could make in a full-time salaried position. What a consultancy (whether one person or ten) charges is generally significantly higher.
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Can't speak for Ubisoft, but Origin sells games not published by EA. I think right now they sell Sega, Square and Warner Brother games. They also sell physical copies of games not published by them, including some Valve games. They're growing their catalog.
For me it's Web Essentials 2012. Create and compile LESS files among other great things

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/07d54d12-7133-...
Even in this video you can see the inherent safety of liquid fuel rockets over solid fuel. (although this is a hypergolic rocket, not like the cryogenic fuel rockets that we typically use for people.) The launch vehicle started breaking up and became engulfed in flames, but it didn't blow up per-se until it hit the ground. Solid fuel rockets do not tend to be so considerate; see the Challenger or Delta II 7925. Lots of things can go wrong on a liquid fuel rocket (engine shutoffs, fires, vehicle breakup, etc) but on solid fuel rockets you basically only have one failure mode: "pop".

With a proper launch escape system, most failure scenarios of a liquid fuel rocket should be quite survivable. You can build working launch escape systems for solid fuel rockets too, but that is a worse situation.

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Unless I'm mistaken, this isn't possible in OSX is it?
I could see why sellers would want it, and by extension customers would want it if some really beautiful models were for sale. Ref Shapeways vs thingiverse. I'm not sure now is the right time for it though, just like iTunes would have been dead in the water before MP3 players became widespread.
For the last few months I have been seriously considering applying to be a TFA teacher. But this article has definitely opened my eyes quite a bit.

The fact that even the kids themselves realize the lack of quality in the teachers should be a huge indicator that something isn't right.
Brilliant - https://brilliant.org/ - Hiring senior full stack engineers in SF (remote OK, H1B OK)

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I want to think this is funny. What's it referencing?
Pipes & Filters
WinRT isn't a kernel, it's a shell. It's like saying that Android is going to replace Linux.
I guess it depends what aspects of iTunes. I think there's a market for selling designs for things which can be printed. Even better, a market for designs that can be customised and printed.