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> US president to deliver speeches to the entire country within 10 minutes of a disaster occurring

WTF? Doesn't he usually speech like the next day? What will he say within 10 minutes when there is very little information available? "Don't cry kids mommy is here"?
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> My biggest "issue" with this generally rather decent article is that CPU-bound applications are rare. For the plethora of social, productivity and novelty apps it doesn't matter at all.

Or we can argue the other way around. Maybe we only have social, productivity and novelties over and over again because the limitations make those feasible?
This looks great. Since SpoonRocket is in Berkeley, I wonder if this idea was inspired by the Cheeseboard, which is a great pizza place in that city (http://cheeseboardcollective.coop/pizza/). The Cheeseboard has a pizza flavor of the day, and they just make that single pizza flavor until they close (or run out of ingredients). Because the operation is optimized to deliver a single product, it's very efficient and (I'm guessing) cost effective. Seems like a great business model.
You forget that we are as a whole a up-and-coming group and
in 10 years, many of us will be in very powerful positions. The digital revolution did not enter mainstream before the 2000s: What we can and should do now, is talk to others, explain what is going on, share our ideas. Be the change and the world will follow.
For goodness, stop this hyperbole. At least in the UK, the health benefits of cycling far outweigh the danger:
http://cyclehelmets.org/1015.html
And there is a substantive difference between surveillance and mass surveillance. It's not just a matter of degree; it's a matter of kind.
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I look forward to seeing the results! As a freelancer I'll have clients who I work for regularly, and clients I work for once in a blue moon. A way to archive projects (and not pay for them as GitHub makes me) is crucial - because on my books I have 30+ clients, and can't lose the info in case they come back in 2 years for a change to the system.
The thought of having to share the road with cars, especially in a place where people aren't used to bike traffic, terrifies me

It should terrify you. It's terrifying. I know dozens of people who regularly commute by bike in the ostensibly bike-friendly city of Seattle. Nearly all of them have been hit by a car at some point.
The urban cores are very old, but many of them are surprisingly small, with the bulk of the city dating to the past 100-150 years. Copenhagen's old center, for example, was less than 10km across (confined within city walls until the 1850s), so nearly the entire city was laid out according to 19th- and 20th-century urban plans (the 20th-century one was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Plan).

The city where it's architecturally most visible is probably Barcelona, where you can see the medieval core's winding streets, and then a massive expanse of centrally planned regular squares outside of that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eixample_aire.jpg
A tragedy. I knew Seth - albeit just barely - through friends in Durham. Great guy; I knew he was a fellow cyclist but I had no idea that he was also a programmer.

One of his most recent tweets is about bike commuting: "Just enjoy the ride."

My heart goes out to his friends and family.
Would this support streaming? What about multiple outputs?

A bunch of gamers have issues live streaming to youtube and twitch. Each requires special (different) encoding parameters for streaming, and youtube needs each resolution streamed separately. This, along with separate streams for twitch and youtube murders most people's bandwidth not to mention a home computer's encoding capacity.

Most of the time they end up choosing only one site and a specific resolution and miss out on a large portion of their fan base. (People have a wide range of quality preferences/bandwidth requirements, in addition to being on different sites.)

Someone should use this to build a super easy multi-output streaming transcoder for youtube / twitch.tv / etc.
> This is a good example where adding an object-oriented representation to every header out there would require a lot of work.

Most of the tools I've used represent the header as a hash/dictionary. I fail to see how that approach "requires a lot of work".

> Until you try to use grep or something of that sort for some non-trivial analysis operation.

You're arguing from the assumption that a binary protocol would be implemented by idiots. Custom binary tools can always emit a textual representation, at which point you can grep through it to your heart's content. This is the exact same problem that we've been solving with compilers for generations. It isn't nearly as insurmountable as you seem to believe.
By the same token, many bicyclists freely ignore traffic laws too. They don't properly stop at stop signs or intersections (on red or yellow) and they act like pedestrians when it suits them.

>[Slam] their brakes without noticing my bike behind them

You're a vehicle when you ride on the streets, it's your responsibility to maintain a safe distance from the person in front of you and to react to their brake lights. The person in front of you is well within their rights to slam on their brakes if and when they need/want
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If you want no frills, low cost, you can fire up a Dotcloud Redis instance pretty easily.
I think that is actually very relevant.

For example, if I scrape email in an automated manner and send messages to those emails for purpose of profit (say, advertising my business), then I am subject to very different laws regarding spam than if I manually gathered the emails.

I'm sure, given your legal prowess, you could expand a very interesting argument here. Ok, your turn ;)
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I think these things are not mutually exclusive. You raise good points that aren't addressed at Prism Break though.
Linked at the bottom of the landing page:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/action-mac/Nitrous-Mac-0.1.5.zip
How often does a native developer "trick" their framework to trigger an implementation detail to get performance gains? That's really I can think about when I hear web developers talk about "hardware accelerated CSS".
In San Francisco, according to CSC 21202, the bicyclist is allowed full use of lanes. The important clause to pay attention to is clause (c). The most important part of that clause is the use of the term "substandard width lane", which although not defined in the statute, has been established via jurisprudence to be approximately 14-15 ft. Many many rightmost lanes in SF are not 14+ ft wide, meaning that on most roads in SF you can legally ride right in the middle of the rightmost lane. This is much safer than putting yourself in the doorzone and swerving to avoid a door and getting hit by a driver on your left or leaving too little room on your lefthand side that some driver will try to squeeze through.

Every cyclist should go out and measure a lane or two here and there to get a feeling for approximately how wide a 14 ft lane is, so you know when you can legally take up the whole lane.

The only other thing to keep in mind with this, is that if you do take up the whole lane, it is your responsibility to pull over to the right periodically if the number of cars backed up behind you exceeds 5 (IIRC)
Yes, yes, I know that, I was focusing on getting an example.

I think I should call it a day and reboot tomorrow...
How are you going to see the header? Useless to debug if you can't see it.
I think that a cyclist flaunting traffic laws should always be liable for accidents, but the last thing we need if we want to encourage bicycling is nanny-state policing of proper signaling and such. Any city that has resources for this ought to take a hard look at the size of their police force.

Your idea of banning cycle traffic on >25mph roads is misguided. Most cyclists have no trouble traveling at a speed greater than 25mph, even uphill.
I logged out first to check that. Oh well. Here is another related: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/2013-03-01-stateme...
I was under the impression that LinkedIn already does this, I constantly receive notifications from them alerting me when a connection has taken up a new job or job title. Why the need for this app?
Congrats on the launch, this looks great! Have you guys testing the file syncing a git repo or is that not recommended?
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Here's a link to the original one from 2008:
http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

Much of it still seems relevant and proved over the ensuing 5 years to be quite prescient. I'd love to hear what new ideas/themes have emerged in the time since this was written.
> without actually mentioning what's there in the spec to be wary about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6013088

And, as I mention elsewhere, it's not just the spec, it's the general trend of Google dominating the web. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6013468
Go look up the original SCOTUS case for the state secrets defense: it was based on Pentagon lies. There was no, repeat NO national security secret involved, merely facts which would have embarassed people and possibly ruined careers (which should probably have been ruined).
The academic education has two purposes:

1. To instruct you in a systematic manner. You can do a good job by yourself but for someone else who might depend on your knowledge and experience, it is easier to trust an institution to do that than to trust one to do it by oneself. There is the inherent risk of erratic learning. There are reasons to prefer having a guide or a mentor. This is not to refute any of your arguments. You may find free mentorship, your autodidact ability might be of high quality and the academic institutions may as well violate the trust of the benefiting parties - both future employers and future employees.

2. To asses in the end the quality of your enlightenment. Because the academic system's interests depend on this, it might be a faulty process. For one, the competition game and the perceived self value/image involved in this is driving the education prices like crazy (which is not like the other competition-ruled areas, mind you), and for other - the "propaganda" that is meant to keep the high demand for education, sadly regardless of its quality. Yet, the value assessment is a hassle into which many employers do not want to get involved. This is what maintains artificially the value of a degree.

The academic system has its dirty game and you were smart enough to reap its promised benefits without being played. Congratulations! I am sure you'll find a way to deal with the after-effects of those who didn't.
Anyone know of any good tutorials on setting up a SAML ID Provider or integrating SAML into a website?
Have you ever tried watching James Burke's "Connections"? A lot of facts are wrong, and connections are weak, but it's still more entertaining and educational than 99% of the stuff out there. I could say the same thing about the "Radiolab" podcast.

If you really want to help these people (and all of us), why don't you email Vi Hart, and offer your fact-checking services for her next video?

I'm sure her production team is quite small (~1). I love her videos, but I'd also to be happy for them to be more accurate.
Someone told me I could get cited for riding my bike on a sidewalk

Depending on where you ride, that may or may not actually be the case. In my city, it's absolutely legal to ride on the sidewalk as long as you yield to pedestrians.
This is very sad, but not every tragedy requires a corrective response.

"5 Whys" is great, but expecting a solution to everything that happens is unreasonable; at a certain point we just have to say "shit happens" instead of incrementally covering the world in bubblewrap.
ASCII is inefficient, but nobody cares. For vast majority of Web users, which aren't working on scales of Google and Amazon, difference in performance couldn't even be measured. And for them easiness of use - low barrier of entry, basically all you need is a basic ASCII tool and you're ready to go - is vastly more important than completely immeasurable performance gains from using opaque protocols.

Of course, you can say TCP/IP is still binary, and it is true. But TCP/IP tools are built in every OS in existence now, so they do not form a real entrance barrier. Would HTTP tools be in the same position? I'm not sure - most HTTP tools right now are not standard and do not cover even HTTP/1.1 completely, what reason is there to expect they'd cover the whole 2.0 protocol properly and be widely standard and available on the level tcp/ip tools are? Which means much higher barrier of entry.
First, I don't think "equivocation" means what you think it means.

Second, the equivalence isn't false. The Venn diagram of sites that can be compromised by script kiddies is entirely contained by that of sites that can be compromised by NSA.
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Never understood why would someone like to use hosted Redis solutions from redis-cloud, redistogo etc... Their Customers are developers.. why cant developers spawn an instance with Redis on it and use it themselves.. how does this hosted redis business model work..?
A driver turning off the street onto a side street or down a driveway needs to ensure that there will be no one in his driving path before starting the turn. If people are walking on the sidewalk, he needs to look 10 feet or so to either side. If they're riding bikes or skateboards or something that travels much faster than a walking person, he needs to look much further to either side.
Sure, the general trend is a good point, just not entirely relevant to this specific thread. Your comment above does make good points about the actual spec, I agree.
To some extent these chain of command cultural issues (or whatever you want to call them) are unavoidable and show up in most airlines. The worst aviation disaster in history could largely be chalked up to this problem. Two 747's collided in Tenerife because the co-pilot of one was too timid to tell his pilot, who was practically famous within the company, that he was wrong and should wait to take off.
That's not true. If I'm a motorist, moving at speed, and I slam my brakes to grab that nifty parking spot, I am liable. Not the person who rear-ends me.
Build light rail in existing cities, build parking lots for people who need to drive to a light rail station, and start charging a toll for people who drive in places where light rail could take them. Slowly but surely you can turn a city built around cars into a city built around public transit. This is possible in small and large cities and would reduce congestion, pollution, and the danger to pedestrians and cyclists.
Apple finally locks down the USB port in iOS 7
Best of luck to you guys. Dollars are hard to find for healthy food startups unless, of course, you're part of the correct old boys club.

Me, not being a part of that club, found it very hard to do healthy food delivery in Berkeley/Emeryville/Oakland.
Apache rules? They'd stay human-readable.

I look forward to servers having different text representation of the same binary headers in their config files.

tell me one thing, one single thing, that only humans are able to do with HTTP using their eyes

You're missing the point.

No one writes HTML manually anymore either. People generate it using tools (string processing tools in a language or templates) and read it using browsers. Heck, even Notepad++ is a tool, but a generic one.

If you want, you can generate all your HTML using DOM. But almost no one does that, because DOM tools are clumsy, while text-based tools are easy to use.
I don't know that this analogy is valid or not.
When that timetable is 72 hours long, it's a slap in the face.

We'd be talking about this a lot differently if MyRedis' sunset were six months out.
I work for RedisGreen - a different take as we do dedicated servers and focus on analytics/monitoring. Feel free to ping me with any questions. bpo at stovepipestudios.com
Just like Patrick Smith thinks it's rash to indite the pilots of Flight 214 before we have all the data, I'd ask Pat to do the same for the victims, ahem, passengers.

I don't think the emergency exit was some walk down the isle where a few people stopped to reach under their seats and grab their carry-on to save the inconvenience. From the pictures I saw of the cabin, the seats were torn loose, piled up on top of each other, and there was no 'center isle' left. However, it does seem that the condition of the cabin after the plane came to rest was highly variable depending on where you were sitting.

For all we know, passengers that were seen carrying bags outside the aircraft could have had to throw those bags down the chute to clear the egress. Or maybe they were in a state of panic and shock and were running on autopilot (if only the plane had landed that way).

I do think Patrick is on to something, that the increased level of automation makes it more likely that when the automation isn't there to help that accidents will happen. What I still don't get is flying 30 knots too slow on approach should have been ringing alarms all over the place, including in the tower, and yet no one noticed?
https://s3.amazonaws.com/action-mac/Nitrous-Mac-0.1.6.zip now
Hey, I'm Miles Smith, the Founder of MyRedis. I sent the email this morning and didn't read it through the eyes of my customers. I take ownership of that. We have updated our website, and sent a followup email to all customers, to clarify the availability of customer data.

All customer instances and data will be fully online and operational until at least July 30th. Furthermore, I will be storing an archive of all customer data for an additional 90 days, just in case someone missed something.

I will be available to help all customers who would like assistance in migrating.

- Miles Smith
Founder, MyRedis
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I like their idea and wish them good luck. But I'm tired to read all these /\w+ fundamentally change the way we think about \w+/

"SpoonRocket was built to fundamentally change the way we think about food.". I'm sorry, but adjusting parameters like delivery time or price or number of choices in the menu does not "fundamentally change the way" I think about food.

That being said, that's a great business idea and I'm looking forward to trying them!
I'm in SF and I've been hit twice. Once in Berkeley and once in SF. The thing that bothers me the most is that the police are very non-chalant about the whole affair. They refused to fill out a police report unless someone was hurt. This means that both of my accidents didn't show up on the official statistics for number of bike accidents in the city.
The employees can see how the customers are being treated. I expect most of them will be moving on, negating the acquihire.
Did you see this one from 2012 ?

http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
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Even heard of July Nullification? Please read about it. Sometimes groups of citizens decide that a law should not be followed, and we are empowered to do that. The government is of the people, by the people and for the people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification_in_the_Unite...
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So which is which? Is html the csv or the DB dump? What is this metaphor even supposed to mean? It's not as though a csv file is sufficient to serialize a database.

Actually, it would be more informative to point us at a "binary encoding", any binary encoding, that compresses smaller than the equivalent html text.
In Uruguay we have a system bought from Italy, also in use in Argentina:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trash_container_Rosar...

they're picked up at night.
The phones are also being built by multiple large ODM's, and not just one company that's barely staying afloat (Palm) or a company suffering at the time from a horrible CEO (HP)...
Citation. I mean I know it does happen, but I'm extremely skeptical of the use of the word "often" here.
This story repeats with most such startups:
- indextank - was a great cloud full text indexing service, acquired by linkedin
- mailgun - acquired by rackspace - still functioning but they stopped expanding into interesting directions and are winding down some of their more advanced APIs

So bottom line is, if you want to be sure about your data, set it up on your servers instead of some hot cloud providing startup..
You can surely hurt a pedestrian while riding on the sidewalk (or through a crosswalk, for that matter). You surely can not hurt them "as much as" a car in the traffic lanes will hurt a cyclist in a much faster collision with a much heavier object. That assertion is just silly.
This is most interesting and a step forward in the right direction.

However to highlight some of the larger downfalls, the current metal alloy used is very expensive and while it oxidizes and becomes solid, only the outer edges of each drop are exposed to the air and so become solid. All items that are 3d printed still have liquid metal inside them, only the outer edges of it have solidified.

This is a bit of a downside to this method to me. However the day that I can 3d print solid metal structures will be an awesome one.
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For Windows, take at look at Xara Photo and Graphic Designer. It's principally a vector Illustration program but includes some photo manipulation capabilities too (cropping images, adjusting brightness and contrast etc).

The interface is far superior to Illustrator and it's extremely fast in performance.

I have used this program for many years and recommend you give it a try to see if you like it.

There is a free trial version of the software on the Xara website

http://www.xara.com/uk/photo-graphic-designer/
the team page on the website changed in the last few days to remove the other owner it looks like abandonment of the company so they probably dont care about what people think
The long weekend in the US was last weekend, before this announcement. I don't see what that has to do with anything.
Damn, this is sad. I'll echo the other comments here that he was a nice guy. I was an undergrad at Duke circa 1999-2000 and knew him through the Duke LUG. I was a noob, and he always showed a fair amount of patience with my questions on the mailing list. Later on the LUG started meeting for beers on Friday afternoons and he was just as friendly in real life. He was one of those guys that seemed like a computing god for me so early in my career.
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>Most cyclists have no trouble traveling at a speed greater than 25mph, even uphill

I doubt that, maybe in burst/sprint but not sustained...Hell, the average top speeds in the Tour de France during the sprints is barely 25mph and those are top athletes.

>but the last thing we need if we want to encourage bicycling is nanny-state policing of proper signaling and such.

So we should enforce traffic laws on cars but not on bicycles? That's fairly myopic...
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How is using a CSS feature "tricking" the framework? If it's a trick then native developers are using the same trick when they use the device's video hardware, for the same reasons, instead of relying on the software renderer.
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Cool, I will keep an eye out for announcements regarding this.
They do, but in an inconsistent way and without any sort of customizability. I sometimes get these emails, and sometimes don't. JCN let you also choose who to watch and will always send an email when it sees one.