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Once they launched the App Store they started doing things like not allowing new performance features (javascript JITing) into webapps. ( they've since fixed it: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/06/ios-5-brings-nitro-spee... )
can't the mods fix this? makes no sense
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I think a Poisson distribution is what you're looking for here. Roughly, if events happen independently and with a fixed probability per time interval, you get a Poisson distribution. Poisson distributions apply to a lot of things, so it's a very useful distribution to know about.

But since the number of cars is increasing, it's not a Poisson distribution; if the chance per car per time is constant, you'd expect the time to the next fire to be shorter.
Obligatory. I'm guessing this is from mid-80's:

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8509517-16-bit-Intel-8088-chip-by-...
No ReSharper.
No NuGet.
No extensibility.
Single language.
...

Ballmer did not say "developers, developers" for no reason.
Say what you want, but Microsoft always strived to provide best tools and libraries. Even if their communication is a mess.
These things affect what plans you qualify for and how much they'll cost you. It also does work, it's not as if they built something that nobody will ever use. Some millions get through each day, and long before the 6 month enrollment period is over, there won't be anywhere near this kind of load to handle.

It's only been 3 days. Imagine if Blizzard Entertainment wrote off World of Warcraft on day 3, when it was also barely usable with almost exactly the same number of people trying to get online. That'd be ridiculous.

If it weren't day 3 and the site was working, you'd never wish what you just wished for. Nobody would want a system where you have to choose a plan then wait an unknown amount of time to see if you're approved, interact with a bureacracy to correct conflicts between what you provided and what they found in those other systems after-the-fact, have to re-make all your decisions. That's essentially what we have now, except you're interacting with the government instead of a private insurer, and it sucks. What they're giving us instead is the simplicity of online shopping applied to health insurance -- a listing of plans you actually qualify for, the true price you'll pay for them, and online signup on-the-spot.
It sounds like he was insinuating that a BGP based Solution scales better than a VLAN/Spanning Tree Solution when your infrastructure reaches an extremely large capacity. I'm not sure exactly what he's referring to, but I would guess that it has something to do with either the 12-bit VLAN ID limitation (802.1q maximum theoretical limit of 4096 VLAN ID's), or more likely a limitation relating to the MAC Address Table and/or a Solution that relies on MAC Addresses (for example, 802.1d spanning tree). I believe there are new approaches to overcome these limitations (for example, 802.1ab double tagging or VMWare's VXLAN), but I guess they just decided to skip Layer 2 entirely. I've never worked in an environment where BGP is used extensively internally, but I guess from a conceptual standpoint it could be done with a good ibgp/ebgp strategy and use of techniques like Route Reflectors and/or Confederations. Going with the Layer 3 approach also seems to match well with their vision of the Open Compute Network, where the Networking Appliances are viewed more like Virtual Appliances. Very cool stuff. Wish I worked there, way more fun that the stuff I'm working with.
This is the longest one. national.healthandmedicine.washingtondc.museum It redirects to a real estate site in Spokane.
It was not originally presented as a tax, but as fees, Justice Roberts' categorization of the fee as a tax was the first time that had happened.

Beyond that, yes, I did conflate spending and taxation, but both taxes are indeed at the discretion of the House, or we wouldn't have the impasse that we currently do.

Regardless, my point remains that either the Democratically controlled Senate or the Republican controlled House could reopen the government today with a simple vote, and I cannot fault Boehner or Reid for being just as obstinate as the other, when both are clearly being equally bull-headed.
> the burden of proof ends up more on the side of the accused then on the gov't.

That's how tyrannies operate.
Not sure what stage they were when the got that tax break (nor do I know the details) I do know a lot of cities offer these and the cities tend to reap a lot of benefits through having them stay. So maybe it's fair.
it isn't much of a data point, but when the fire brigade turn up to a car fire they first thing they ask is about how much fuel is in the tank. The less there is the more worried they are. I've been in the situation twice. Presumably an explosion is more worrying than big flames.
It's about the journey, not the destination.

XY problems cause misunderstandings and overcomplexity: what's your real question?
Melatonin is this person’s religion. I wonder how much time they spend thinking and talking about it.

Stranger still is the herd of commenters who condone the stuff. Do you really think this will make you need an hour less sleep than everyone else?

Sleep is important. Don’t intentionally destroy your body’s ability to regulate it. If you aren’t already addicted to melatonin, it’s not too late:

Go to bed and wake up at the same time every day.
Don’t drink caffeine after breakfast.
Expose yourself to natural sunlight every day.
Don’t play Grand Theft Auto after midnight.
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The title is missing word "incident". My first thought was that Tesla has a new model "S Fire".
I've been curious about this too. I never know quite how to communicate that something is a web address if my audience is both technical and non-technical folks.

I wonder, though, if a better solution than going back to prepending www would be to prepend // instead. Shorter than http:// (or https:// as the case may be), but doesn't assume that www is a valid subdomain.
Oracle had a net income of over $10B in 2013. That's some serious cashflow.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:ORCL&fstype=ii&ei=lM...
Not a fan of Mongo personally, but understand the context of what is happening in corporate IT. Slashing and commoditization. They look at the $10M line item for Oracle and say wait a minute.. The last section of the article was the most telling.. We replace the millions $ and staff with a $5000 server. Just like trading in your US employee for an offshore replacement at 1/5th the cost. They love that message.

Remember too, the quality of the tech is one factor (way down on the list) in decision making of what these companies buy.

As far as the tech, Relational DB is certainly not the problem and even if it was, Mongo wouldn't be the solution. Mongo's riding the wave of slash and burn, and Oracle has pissed on more than a few customers over the years, basically with the attitude.. "where you gonna go!" Any company gets a toe-hold in big companies like Mongo has gonna be looked on very favorably by Wall St right now..

Mongo will get bought for sure, the valuation is not that nuts.
Exactly. I rather suspect that Tesla drivers are actually comparable to other drivers, rather than being demonstrably better or worse, but the only way to know would be to actually conduct a study on the subject.
Yeah, while the Post seems to be talking about the user agent string, I don't think that's what they used, the Post just misinterpreted the document's use of the phrase User Agent to refer to the browser.
That's the point. larrys wants to compare the Model S miles driven by "people who buy brand new expensive cars" against other car miles driven by "people who buy brand new expensive cars," instead of comparing the Model S miles [...] against other car miles driven by everyone.
I have no idea how Tesla operates internally, but I wouldn't be too surprised if, like at most companies, letters that go out under the CEO's name are vetted by both the legal and PR departments, and possibly written or edited by them. If that's the case, then "Elon Musk" is a sort of composite entity, which includes a human named "Elon Musk", but not solely that human.
The problem is skeuomorphism was and is a lazy way to provide contextual cues. It is merely one tool amongst a set of tools for providing non-explicit information to the user.
It has been corrected. Give it another try...
I had the opportunity to use the educational edition of SolidWorks for a few weeks a year or so ago. It seemed to have a fair number of the extra features included with it, one of which was CircuitWorks. I generated a model from a CircuitWorks example board and it turned out really well. When I tried to generate a model from one of my own Eagle projects it didn't look as good. From what I remember if there is no model of a component in the library, CircuitWorks just drops a bounding box in it's place which you can replace with your own model of the component. I had a deadline looming so I ended up using a photo of a prototype board as a texture on the part for the renderings I needed to do. This [1] help page mentions a lite version of CircuitWorks being available for all SolidWorks users, but I haven't tried it myself so I'm not sure about it's limitations.

[1] http://help.solidworks.com/2012/English/SolidWorks/circuitwo...
there is a donation link on this page, but the content is stolen from www.zenpencil.com very blatantly.
I'm a casual user of GNOME. I would like to do what someone mentioned on here: use a TWM with the GNOME menu bar for applets but I want them to have predifined "snaps". [0]

How hard is it to implement this?

[0] http://imgur.com/SO4LmDq
I would agree. But there's nothing in here that's cause for concern legally. And PR folks are going to have a tough time overruling Elon based on "style" points. As I mentioned he probably sees nothing wrong with his approach and thus any PR comments would fall on deaf ears.
Then I'm sorry to say, you're doing 4 nines wrong.
Adobe hacked, millions of credit cards and accounts stolen
You may want to consider posting with an answer, so that someone else (or yourself in the future) may benefit further.
This is a great example of how 2D UX design is going completely off the rails.

FlatUI is making it impossible to distinguish between buttons, tags, labels and tabs. Skeuomorphism, correctly derided in its cartoonish, Mac Calendar form, has come to mean having any depth in a UI. Sane-looking buttons? Skeuomorphic! Using an inset for an aside? Skeuomorphic! Icons? Skeuomorphic! Mouse pointer? Skeuomorphic!

It reminds me of the way the the Bauhaus guys would yell "Bourgeois!" at one another's designs until all they were left with were unlivable, white cubes:

http://www.tomwolfe.com/BauhausExcerpt.html
Another option is to run an amnesiac OS on a material that is not re-writable (CD-R). Note this would replace the VM, not the separate Tor machine.
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Make a 2nd chart, with little inset zoomy lines to connect the 2 charts (like you see on a paper map that shows a zoom of the downtown core)

Like this: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
I have a hunch icons and text are recognized by a different part of the brain, and the best way is to use them together, e.g. have an icon plus some text right next to it.

Some people are image oriented, and can go by the icons. Some people are text oriented and can just read the text.

The text helps first timers who might not yet be aware of certain icon conventions. The icons help power users because icons with clear silhouettes can be read very fast.

And yet another group of people read the text and look at the icon every time - even during repeated use. Because there are several parts of the brain that recognize a command, they feel more assured that what they are about to click is the right thing, and therefore feel more comfortable with the GUI.

All of this is nothing new, really. It goes back to the very first GUIs. There is 30 years of experience with this, there are probably lots of studies that this is indeed a good way to go.

So no, we should not kill the icon.
Are you using a percentage growth as your measurement or an absolute value because I can guarantee you that if you are using a percentage value this is not true.
I was sorta hinting that Monsanto would probably be more ruthless than the cartels and bring their end much quicker.
Probably, but we wouldn't want to.
It was proposed in the Yahoo! Directory era - that is, during a period of time in which it made sense to try to build a hierarchical index of the Internet. By the time .museum was actually approved and implemented, though, crawler-based indexes were already rising to dominance, so the TLD basically missed its chance at relevance.
"I drive it like I stole it, to quote my mechanic" -> LOL!
I would say: "like I'm stealing it" :)
Oh but I wish they had
Traffic on 280 (and to a lesser degree 880) seems to track pretty closely how inflated the current SV bubble is.
Prosecutors said they expect to transfer Ulbricht to the East Coast, where he faces a criminal complaint filed in New York and a grand jury indictment handed down in Maryland.

If they had arrested someone in New York, the complaint would have been filed in Texas and the grand jury would be impaneled in San Francisco.
At least it has a text only version? Who wants to read a poem in a comic. (but yeah, I agree, hosting the whole comic...)
Ehh, I mean, they already know there is a fire and that fire getting bigger is something they anticipate one way or the other, but an explosion could take them by surprise.

I suspect that more people are killed by big flames than explosions, but more fire fighers are killed by explosions than big flames.
There was also someone who deanonymized some bitmessage users' disposable identities: those who copy-pasted a link (that the client prevented them from clicking on) to a website they'd never visited before from a random user with whom they'd never communicated into a web browser that did not use any anonymizing method.

FTFY
Do you have issues with FlipCam?
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It's unfortunate that our current media climate requires it, but a straightforward, "accept the inherent risks" approach to the problem would be massacred by news outlets. Were Musk to say something like this, headlines could read "Tesla's Billionaire Owner Disregards Model S Fire Hazzard" and not suffer libel.

Particularly for people such as Musk, who are doing so much to advance the expectations of consumers and raise the bar for what is possible with new technology (and here I'm speaking as an un-abashed Musk supporter), I can't help but support his rigorous defense of his projects. Whether it's the NYT "review" that attempted to slam the Model S mile range or the astonishingly good crash ratings for the same car, I think it serves us all to let Musk use his soapbox to be an advocate for his work at Tesla, SpaceX, etc.
We're replacing at least one collection with text files. That's half Mongo's fault, half our fault for using it to store the kind of info we're storing.
Ah... that would be interesting to see play out, to say the least. I imagine Monsanto would compete on price and convenience though, not with guns.
Sure, still got hacked by Russian usb's though. What I'm seeing (the slides, Mr Alexander and so forth) is a huge list of incompetent dinosaurs in key positions. Sure there are skilled - very skilled - people all over the place, NSA, Iran, India, China, Australia, Cyprus (you name it). Sure the NSA employs more mathematicians than anybody else.

They have vision of hackers with AK Rifles on their back, wearing masks? Logos with a planet and a huge eye spying on it?

The flops these Agencies do, might surpass the successes by far. The thing is that you need dig in order to find out the real story. Hollywood even makes movies, advertising epic failures for wins (i.e. Argo, seriously???).
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Could you prepay your attorney(s) / legal team in the form of retainers like they (seem to) do in the television show "The Wire"?

The cost of any future trial could be anticipated ahead of time and paid upfront by the perpetrating party. Right?

That way there is no burden on the accused, to prove how the cost of the trial will be borne. Right?

The state (DA) must know that there is certainly no way "Stringer Bell" or "Avon Barksdale" can afford a high priced lawyer (Maurice Levy) from the proceeds of a legitimate yet small-time printing business - an obvious front operation for their drug dealing syndicate, which constituted the lion-share of their earnings.

Right?

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringer_Bell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avon_Barksdale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Levy_(The_Wire)
My boat's hull happens to be made of 1/4 inch metal plate (6mm) which is apparently the same as the protected underside of a Tesla. I've hit a concrete block, gone aground a few times and generally have a bit of excperiencing with impacting hard immovable objects with a vehicle protected by a 1/4 inch metal plate.

It takes a LOT of force to pierce 1/4 inch plate. My boat weighs 12 tons, and it hardly has a dent from the collissions I and previous owners have been in.
You could just buy a Trojan and infect yourself with it, setting the C&C to send out email spam or something similarly (relatively) innocuous.

Still, if you're at the point where they have your laptop and have you fingered, the "plausible" aspect of plausible deniability is likely diminished.
Based on the pricing we're seeing on the 5C (some offers for $50 or $100 less than announced price) Apple is putting some flexibility in its wholesale pricing to give third parties more wiggle room with the 5C. So it's by no means a "cheap" phone, but it's not as expensive as it first appears.

As for Apple gaining market share in the US, I think what we've seen is that Android is starting to run out of feature phones to replace, so it's now in a fight for the high end space with Apple, which will probably see movement in both directions for a while. I suspect a significant portion of the iPhone market and a larger portion of the Android market is really just phones with touch screens -- these are people who don't buy apps or use most of their phones' capabilities. The "network" effects that will determine the fates of the ecosystems depend on people using their phones as computers rather than merely phones.

In Europe recently Windows phone (i.e. Nokia) is doing very well. It will be interesting to see how that plays out too.
It may not be possible to enforce. My position, some days, tends to lean more towards the DevOps role. Because of past history where often the problems were related to infrastructure issues usually are raised to my team for vetting. It became natural to pass on an issue and wait for team duct tape to take a cursory glance.

My position has made a divide between me and some of the developers because I'm out of the normal management structure. It may be a natural "fear of the unknown," but the ways that I try to counterbalance this:

* Give them interesting or fun problems to solve;

* Debate and challenge their ideas openly;

* Admit that (most of the time) I have absolutely no idea what I am talking about.

I usually end most coffee conversations egging them on and telling them to test their theories. I think by creating a better team environment the fifteen minute rule may organically be followed.
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Please tell me you're taking into account cost of living here.

$100k does not go very far in San Francisco and Manhattan. Nobody making $100k in those places could reasonably afford a Tesla without severe over-spending (which they're welcome to do if they want to--whatever floats your boat). If you view the middle class as owning detached single family homes with yards, you would be lower middle class at best in those cities at $100k. If your spouse also made $100k, you could afford the crappiest single family home that was still livable.

But it's a really good salary in Denver or Houston; you could definitely find a nice house to buy and afford comfortably, though it might have a bit of a commute. If your spouse also made $100k, you could afford a nice home in any neighborhood with no commute.

And it might nearly qualify you as wealthy in a small rural town of 15k people total, where you would never need to spend more than $150k on any house.
> It was not originally presented as a tax, but as fees.

How something is presented is tangential, and often outright irrelevant, to its Constitutional status. You statement that the Court struck down the mandate but offered a tax as an option is simply, directly, factually wrong. They upheld it, which is exactly the opposite of striking it down.

> but both taxes are indeed at the discretion of the House, or we wouldn't have the impasse that we currently do.

No, if anything relevant to the current situation (in which the critical thing which allows it to produce a shutdown is spending, not taxes) was at the discretion of the House, we would not have an impasse. The House would dictate their will, and it would be done -- no impasse.

We have an impasse because, like any law, appropriations (whether in the form of the budget or more limited appropriations bills) must be approved by both houses and the President (or by both houses with sufficient support to override a veto), and there is a lack of consensus between the three (two colletive and one individual) actors involved, not because the matters involved are at the discretion of any one of those actors.
Meh. The very letters he is using to communicate his ideas are descendants of icons. The capital A is derived from Aleph, the ancient Semitic symbol of an ox. It used to look like the head of an ox, sort of. In fact, "A" still kind of looks like an upside down ox head, with the horns and everything. It does no longer mean an ox, it means letter A. Because the that’s the first sound in the word "Aleph". Similarly these icons have evolved to have abstract meanings beyond their original ones.
I submitted this after seeing a video of their WildCat robot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g
Going from theory to practice, getting rid of the wall of icons on the iOS home screen would certainly be nice. But replacing it with what? Siri and spotlight maybe?
This is a dumb article and a not-so-subtle advertisement for svbtle.com , yet another shitty blog hole by yet another "startup" "co-creater".
He was pretty into computers at the time —

http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukows...
Reading this leaves me feeling like the author has some enormous cognitive dissonance going on:

"And finally I defended some of YouTube’s UX elements by demonstrating how it needed to feel like the community’s fingerprints were on the site, not just some experience they lean back and watch but don’t touch."

Every Google service is an experience where Google just leans back and watches but doesn't touch. They have no tech support, not even an email to write to in most cases. What a baffling statement to make.
One thing I'm curious about (but haven't seen mentioned yet), is whether the bitcoins that were seized were Ulbrichts or "DPR's". That might seem like a silly distinction (as obviously the state is arguing that Ulbrict is DPR), but I can imagine a case where it's actually important.

i.e.: If the FBI identified the bitcoins as part of their efforts investigating DPR, for Ulbrict to claim ownership of them might actually be bad for his defense. On the other hand, if they were seized when he was apprehended (presumably they were stored on his laptop), than I think it becomes much less problematic for him to assert that they are his.