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Is this really tiring?

I get tired standing in line or even just trying to sit with good posture in my office chair.

As a 22 year old, though, I expect I will need to make changes if I want to maintain my physical condition while spending all my time at a computer.
Why would there be anything past the first "battle" - terrorist fill drones with dirty radioactive dust, launch from sea into US, slowly release payload.

Game over, half the population on the east or west coast becomes extremely ill or develop cancers, food and water sources permanently tainted.

Instead of making drones we should be making drone detection and capture systems.
That's very useful, but cropping/resizing the images is not the hard part. If you change the image src after the page is loaded, the first request is already underway, so you end up downloading two images, just as happens with the OP. You need to send device profiles to the server and somehow keep them up-to-date, or create images on the client - and then serve a different version to crawlers... there are plenty of proposals (image-set, srcset) to handle this in HTML5/CSS but none has become standard yet.
people don't buy in bulk because then they are stuck with that one product for a long time. I mean really, am I supposed to use last years outdated butt wipes when I know there is a better way to wipe my ass?
First off, I don't think their products are mediocre. The blades are just as good as any other disposable blade. The appeal for me is that it forces me to change out the blades regularly. Before yes I could buy blades at the store, but I rarely had to because I wasn't changing out my blades as much as I should have. Now I get a pack in the mail and think, "welp, I need to use these 4 in a month before I get more" and I change them out regularly.

Like others have said, it completely removed one more thing to think about in my life. That's the appeal for me.
I bet all those clerks who stand all day long feel very healthy.

A smoke break is a break from sitting. Smoke for your health!
Knowingly and willfully destroying evidence that's been legally subpoenaed is indeed illegal, whether done by Enron "immorally" or $tech_company "morally".
Like others have noted, most of this can be generally applied to Kickstarter projects in general. Some thoughts from someone working with consumer 3D printers almost daily:

I can't see disappointment (as he's outlined it) as a consequence of these delays. It's something unavoidably bound up in home and hobbyist 3D printing in general. It doesn't matter if you have a Makerbot or Kickstarter-backed printer... there's still a learning curve in terms of mechanical operation and maintenance, 3D modeling, etc. that the average user won't have had previous experience with.

The greater consumer 3D printing market is not on Kickstarter. Makerbot machines, the Afinia, the Cube series... these are the greater consumer market. I can't see the potential pitfalls for Kickstarted 3D printers as being much different than the usual risks/mindset of people who contribute to crowd-funding stuff.

Obsolescence also doesn't seem like as much of an issue. If you get a reliable printer in a medium that will work for your needs, you're good for a while... it's more important that the user decide what they want. Print material, build size, software and hardware niceties... it really depends on what you're doing and what you need. And the person who put together a RepRap is probably much different than the person who saw the Form 1 on Kickstarter and thought it sounded cool enough to try. There are different expectations along the broad spectrum of things the consumer can buy in the 3D printing space.
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Those numbers are all surprisingly high
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I think companies start addressing things like security more seriously when they start becoming 'comfortable' companies. Which means securely profitable. Security is higher on the pavlov pyramid of software company needs than 'is a viable business'. I doubt WhatsApp is securely profitable, or flip a switch profitable like amazon.com.

When you are not viable as a business new features or begrudgingly addressing the huge amount of technical debt you generated in your early days so you can deliver new features faster is what you focus on. WhatsApp will only address security when it threatens the viability of their business, which by that time will probably be too late.
I'll readily agree we're "not meant to".

However, I'm not sure how to be equally productive without sitting in front of a screen.
This is in the latest Gmail update.

However in Gmail I feel like I'm less likely to accidentally open one of the ads.
There's evidence (1) that sitting 9-to-5 is harmful even if you exercise vigorously outside this period.

(1) http://www.natap.org/2010/newsUpdates/SittingTimeCauses.pdf
The name URX stemmed from a conversation our team had with Paul Graham during YCombinator. PG and our team agreed that URX was the most succinct way to describe the opportunity behind our vision.

The ability to link into the middle of mobile apps is massive. Imagine where the web (or AdWords) would be if the deep content within websites was not able to be indexed or referenced. Right now, most mobile developers don't implement deeplinks, and even fewer marketers use them to drive traffic.

In concept, "URX" represents this next version of the URL that is built for the cross-screen, native/web world. URX's mission is to help app developers and marketers enable and monetize deeplinking in their mobile apps, and the name "URX" keeps us honest to that.
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Gave you ever tried printing something from GDoc?
Agree and same as a statistic of chance of "getting hit by lighting" or any activities that doesn't take into account where someone is located or even whether an indoor or outdoor location.
For example are there any statistics on the chance of getting hit by lighting while playing golf outdoors with a storm within 50 miles? Vs. in general?

And what if you calculated the chance of starting a billion dollar company in Bentonville Ark (Walmart) which has a population of 38k (which no doubt was way less when Sam Walton decided to locate there). Not bad "odds".
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Apologies for the tangent, but I wanted to share my review of Fresh [1]. It's a mixed-bag, pun intended.

I laughed at your mix of computer equipment and groceries, but that's exactly it: you can have a wild variety of things delivered as if they were groceries. I was most amused/bemused by the weapons selection.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/amazon-fresh
Nature has no intent, we aren't meant for anything.
I think it's up high, because the smoke would rise.
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Witness: iAds.
Dune allows running privileged instructions in userland using VT-x on Linux
They just don't work for me. I'm an easy customer, too, as I can't grow a beard that doesn't look like fruit you let sit too long. Takes the same time as a razor, and gives a crap shave. I've tried several at various price levels, too.

I'd be curious to know what characteristics make electrics work for some, but (apparently) not for most. They work great on a certain kind of face, or is it that those who love electrics just don't care as much about a close shave?
If you are going to use this, you should use querySelectorAll('[data-2x]') to select the nodes, rather than getElementsByTagName('*') and then check if each node has a data-2x as is done in the article, for performance reasons[1] and to make your code simpler.

[1] http://jsperf.com/queryselectorall-vs-getelementsbytagname/6...
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This is our policy for student papers of all sorts as well. All cited weblinks must be submitted in PDF form as well. Pretty sure that's super standard practice.
Well ... I wouldn't agree with 4 and maybe not even 3 (that stands to be seen), but it's definitely not the new smoking.
It says children and pets are too low to disable it.
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> As the WebSocket standard is very recent, it has never been supported by ELBs in HTTP mode.

WebSocket has been around since 2010. This is just confirmation to me that Heroku isn't a good fit for apps targeting new web technologies. It's a good fit for apps targeting IE8.
Shorting will require more borrowing/lending in the BTC ecosystem. But there are other ways to mitigate downside risks, such as hedging (put options in particular). This is really our goal, to create a futures/options exchange.

As we get more volume, then we can do stuff like this and let the market dictate things like "Prediction Target" or "BTCUSD Strike Price".
>LumoBack polled 2,019 adults for this survey. The company is backed by $6.3 million in venture capital..

Love this line, in the same vein as your comment.
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Aha! I should read more carefully.
Is there a Kickstarter hangover? Genuine question--I've been hearing about "Kickstarter fatigue" for years now, and I'm not sure the data is there to support it. Anyone have any figures on this?
I think you're missing the point people are trying to make: what matters is how people actually behave, not how they should behave. If the current design of smoke alarms causes people to disable them - irrespective of whether or not they should - then the design can be improved.
No it doesn't. It simply requires a reminder. On Jan 1, change the batteries. On June 1, change the batteries.

Of if you live in a majority of the US, when you change the clocks, change the batteries.

Neither of these schedules will sneak up on you. If you don't change them and it wakes you, it's your own fault.

Sorry to sound snarky, but it's not _that_ complicated.
"Just look at the numbers, he says: “There’s a 0.00006% chance of building a company that will grow to be worth more than a billion dollars. Even if you do raise money and sell a company or take it public, your median time to doing that is probably 49 months. Assuming there are three founders, your median expected payoff would be $300,000 each — that’s the equivalent of $73,000 a year. And the probability of making nothing is 67%. So if your motivation for doing a startup is financial reward, you’re better off going to Google, a hedge fund, choosing a career with stable income potential.”

I guess I'm curious how such an obvious typo could appear here. They mean 300m not 300k. But the rest of the paragraph is written in a "so what" way which seems to backup the "small" number.
From the paper:

This paper introduces a new approach to application use of kernel hardware features: using virtualization hardware to provide a process, rather than a machine abstraction. We have implemented this approach for Linux on 64-bit Intel CPUs in a system called Dune. Dune provides a loadable kernel module that works with unmodified Linux kernels. The module allows processes to enter "Dune mode", an irreversible transition in which, through virtualization hardware, safe and fast access to privileged hardware features is enabled, including privilege modes, virtual memory registers, page tables, and interrupt, exception, and system call vectors.

...Our evaluation shows both performance and security benefits to Dune. For instance, we built a sandbox that approaches zero overhead, modified a garbage collector to improve performance by up to 40.7%, and created a privilege separation system with 3x less context switch overhead than without Dune.
I'm sure you could buy Call options[1] to eliminate that downside risk, if someone is willing to price and sell such an option to take that risk for you.

[1] Call options[2] give you the right, but not obligation, to sell an asset at a given price, so if the strike price of the option is the price you don't want the BTC to go below, and the price of BTC does go below that value, you eliminate your downside risk because somebody has already agreeed with you to buy at that price - and you have to pay for that agreement up front.

[2] Options ~= Insurance, where ~= means 'pretty much equals'
Thank you; was hoping I wouldn't have to be the one to say that.
Pointing out that the noun "guys" is gendered is "accosting" someone, whereas saying "boobs or gtfo" is a "poorly chosen attempt at ironic humor by rhetorically employing a couple common internet memes".

Fuck off.
By the time the Manhattan Project started, we had already made signficant progress. Such as Fermi's pile. We knew how to seperate uranium. The math was all there; it was mostly a matter of decision-making and execution.

I never said anything was impossible. But fusion is still solidly an unknown unknown: we have no credible path at this time to even plan a workable test reactor. I'm saying, for the amount invested, the results achieved, and the potential payoff, our money is best spent elsewhere are more boring and conventional things.
I went down this road too. A long time Gillette Mach/Fusion/whatever is the top end of the year.

I tried DSC and they were ok. I canceled and bought in bulk from Dorco. Exact same shave. Not quite a Gillette but at 20% of the price I could live with that.

As I was about to order another bulk set of blades I decided to try the old fashioned double edge shaver for the hell of it. Amazon has a Merkur 180 for less than $35 and a can of Barbasol is $1.25 at Target.

The DE shave is far better than the Gillette Fusion and much cheaper than DSC, Dorco, etc.

Even as a complete novice I've had no issues with nicks or cuts and actually look forward to shaving again.
I for one look forward to Judgement Day...
Which is quite significant I would say. Suddenly we can no longer talk about what is objectively true and false, only what is subjectively useful. That last sentence is of course also neither objectively true nor false, just like this one. See it's a mess :)
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Which part do you hate, that humans have the biological flaw of fear/ego being their greatest motivator or that we live in a market economy that feeds into it?

"Predictably Irrational" is a brilliant book about this subject. Consumers do not buy things rationally. And the answer is not simply exploitation by marketing companies (although that is a big part of the narrative).

http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expande...
Posture has been a big concern for me. I've improved mine a lot over the years with Esther Gokhale's excellent book (http://amzn.com/B003M9YTYY). Recently I also installed an app that forces me to take a five minute break every 30 minutes. So I'm really excited to see a startup in this space. I'm not sure if just wearing the device will be enough though...sitting up straight can also be bad for your back if you don't do it right. Just one example: pulling your shoulders back causes strain; you need to roll them back. Even so, I'm glad someone's working on this!
> Verbs and resources ARE REST. By definition.

Verbs and resources without HATEOAS are not REST. By definition.

Proper semantic use of HTTP verbs against HTTP-accessible resource is just an idiomatic HTTP API, not REST.
What if a drone could drop something like a small cluster-bomb munition, but instead of bomblets, the payload was a bunch of smaller quadcopter drones equipped with TASERs and programmed to immobilize anyone in the area? This wouldn't be free of fatalities, but it could involve far fewer of them.
It's a metaphor. We use lots of metaphors when talking about evolution. They're useful. We say features of organisms were designed and have purposes. It's all metaphor; nothing to get upset over.
Hypnosis?
Might make sense for fire alarms: but this home alarm system had a battery that was in a sealed strong-box in a midwestern US basement.

tl;dr: the battery, in this case, was in a room that is continuously controlled for humidity, temperature, and in this case: light.

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The system usage should also be pretty static: as our house guest was home and presumably tripping the motion sensors all day. (Yes: even though the system was unarmed _and unactivated_, our motion sensors still appeared to be _sensing._ -- It's purely coincidence, but this ordeal started right around when the Internet was in an uproar over PRISM & the NSA.)

Retiring to our unprotected bedroom dwellings for the evening would've only _decreased_ the system's draw, if it had any impact at all.
Another handy feature would be - ability to call teammates from within hipchat. When I read the title, that is the feature I expected. But even this is pretty neat.
Among my friends, peers, and coworkers (generally 22-40), I've noticed many women calling mixed groups - and even groups of women - "guys". In the same groups, in casual parlance, women will call other women "dude".

I think these terms are losing their gender-specificity and merely becoming a way to refer to a generic (non-sex/gender specified) person.

Of course, depending on your peer groups, and the level of formality in communication, your situation may be different. (i.e. if your entire peer-group is hypersensitive, politically-correct language police, feel free to modify.)
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In basic training, the lines were grueling coming from a computer background. The motto is 'hurry up and wait', and most of that waiting is done in a uniform line. After a few weeks, I noticed I did not bend my knees or twitch around as much.

Five years later, I transferred to a standing desk after sitting in labs and office chairs for three years. After that three week point, once again, I noticed the uncomfortableness of it fade away. Standing desks nearly insta-improve posture if you setup your angles correctly.

The real problem with chairs: most people do not take the time to adjust the arms, height, angles, monitor angles, and keyboard/mouse position for correct posture. Usually, the adjustments are made for comfort. Temporary comfort does not equate to long term comfort. Our CIO suffers from extreme back problems in his older age.
Soda is extremely cheap and abundant. You can buy 2L bottles for under a dollar everywhere, and it's the express lane to obesity if you drink versions with calories in them. It's even social, where people provide it at parties and offer it to other people, creating a social pressure to consume it. Obesity is spreading throughout the USA at alarming rates, with over %70 of the population being overweight and ~%35 being actually obese!
I don't care about Windows but Chrome OS is based on Gentoo so why the hell can't I just install some other Linux distro like I do on any other computer? It annoys me that it is coming to the end of 2013 and I still can't get the kind of laptop I want running Linux. The closest I can get is the Dell XPS 13 DE but I don't want to run Ubuntu and people I know with them have found getting other distros to work well a pain in the ass. I don't know if things are any better now as I know Dell was trying to improve things for other distros by making drivers more available outside of Ubuntu.
Drunk driving endangers lives, can websites really endanger lives?
Like solving problems? Here are some really deep and big ones.
A lot of software developers are attracted to entrepreneurship because they like solving problems, and there are a lot of problems that need to be solved to get a new business off the ground. But there are other areas in addition to technology and business. Paul Graham wrote a bit about ambitious problems in this article: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html but they are still mainly technology related suggestions. How would you like to hack on the code that runs America? The rules and processes of governance itself. This Washington Post article outlines 13 areas in which governance itself is broken: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/07/the-13-reasons-washington-is-failing/

Each one of these is an opportunity to debug, and craft something better. Better yet, the rules and processes of governance are open source so anyone who is interested can get involved. It is obviously not easy, i.e. you can't just wave a better mousetrap around, but the democratic political system makes it possible for anyone with a good idea to publish it, to promote it, and perhaps ultimately, to see it accepted and implemented in Washington.

Silicon Valley (and its knockoffs) has a great concentration of intellectual power but too often, these people (us) entirely ignore politics as something that is distant and unimportant. But everyone loves a good bug that needs to be rooted out and now the Washington Post has given us the list of 13 issues that need solutions.
Is anyone else thinking with cloud computing and the right amount of seed money, you could bump the numbers before the round ends, raking in your winnings + whatever the cloud mines in the hour you run it for?
Eugene is in Oregon with the free medicaid. ABQ is my favorite, though. I hear great things about Boise, especially if you are into river sports.
It can be at first, but it just takes some conditioning. The more you do it, the more your muscles will adjust to it. An added benefit is that you likely be less tired standing in line too.
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From the 'How It Works' page [1] - " During the betting round, payout odds will change depending on how many BTCs are placed on either side at any given time. Payout odds are finalized once the betting round closes."

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Is there room for an advisory-only VC that's not beholden to LPs? And if so, what would that look like?
Does the flag option just gray out or what happens
so he proposed a nuclear first strike against russia? what an amazing person :D
#CLJ-183, #CLJ-188, #CLJ-186, #CLJ-178, #CLJ-165, #CLJ-129, #CLJ-77 to mention just a few.
> Over-riding their primary purpose for the sake of occupant convenience violates the basic principles of life safety.

For me, anecdotally, this isn't the case at all.

I had a fire alarm near our kitchen that was so sensitive it would go off at the drop of a hat. We kept removing the batteries because it wouldn't shut up. Occasionally after eating we'd forget to re-enable the alarm.

So, for me, the override is very much a welcome feature that improves safety. In fact, I think I'll be buying one.
Perhaps the disagreement is that sitting is cheap and abundant.
Maybe it's not which one is beter over another. Who is beter at sales, marketing and networking. Sometimes soft skills are as or more important then your technical superiority?
I feel exactly the same way. Could I save a bit of money by buying somewhere else? Sure. But it's not enough of a difference to matter in the scheme of things, and it's one less thing to have to worry about.
And then what? You'd have to have a commando team in these tribal areas close enough to catch the incapacitated victims before they can stand up again.
That exists. Fair use covers non-profit educational uses, such as the awesome Internet Archive:

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I don't mean to be mean or rude, but yes, you are wasting our time. It was, in fact, a warrant.
If there's a fire to the extent you're continually waving within 8 feet of the sensor then chances are it's one of the alarm types you can't silence [1]

[1] http://support.nest.com/article/What-types-of-alarms-can-I-s...
Lies! It's not radiation-free because light and heat was generated (and thus radiated)!