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Oh don't you dare! Run an a/b test first, before you disable autoplay. If autoplay gets more signups then keep it. You're not here to be our friend and drink tea, you're running a business.

From a design point of view, I LOVE your desaturated forest look with the logo. It's all very memorable
A fascinating account of a special access tour of an operational Advanced Gas Cooled nuclear reactor (AGR).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_gas-cooled_reactor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torness_nuclear_power_station
> Younger Japanese (age 40 and below) [..] understand that the social structures which served their parents and grandparents are keeping Japan held back and isolated

I don't know where you're getting this from. Decline of those old structures is roughly equated in the public mind with the decline of Japanese society as a whole. Holding the country back? From what? From being like America? Neoliberal economic excess is not viewed positively in Japan. Go and watch any finance-related drama (Hagetaka, Hanzawa Naoki) to understand the cultural norms better.

The generation you're talking about who are more worldly (roughly, the shibuya-kei generation) rose on the back of those old structures, and fell with them, too. The current generation is as inward-looking as ever, perhaps more so.

> But because of deeply ingrained Confucian cultural values about submission to elders, there's little they can do about it

So submission to elders prevents them from voting, is that what you're trying to say? Rubbish, if so. If not, I don't know what you're trying to say.

Your depiction of otaku culture as headstrong rebels determined to do their own thing, damn the criticism, is the inverse of reality as I know it. And if the hikikomori phenomenon is a pure reaction to a restrictive social culture, where was it 20 years ago? Nowhere, of course - hikikomori is an internet-enabled phenomenon, and it is everywhere, not just Japan.

For someone who criticised Gibson for his pseudo-intellectual pontifications, you're spouting quite a bit yourself.
Bitcoin's ease of movement comes with significant disadvantages, too. If I want to steal a ton of gold from a bank, it's going to take a pretty good plan. Stealing some Bitcoins just takes a zero-day.
You should read the linked PDF - they had systems that were 100% dependent on human monitoring, that no one was checking, or where no one recognized anything unusual. If anything, their failures were due to massive lack of automation in deployment, testing, and monitoring.
It's not really possible to fail upwards this way. It would be like forgetting how to play chess in the middle of a game and then winning. Anomalies are universally negative in high-stakes environments, or if they're positive, only engender modest improvements.
Here I was hoping for a new, cool and exciting open source facebook clone :(
Sucrose is a molecule made by joining a glucose and a fructose molecule together. It is not the same thing as two separate molecules, though it is broken down rather quickly into its individual components.

Additionally, the key point is that the sucrose would be replaced with just fructose, which if done by weight would mean roughly twice as much fructose in the food. With the position the article has on fructose this seems like an obviously worse position, however I would love to see sources on it.
It was a flag that was re-purposed. If the code is never deleted and the flag's use is discontinued then the code never runs. However, it seems that the flag was reused years later causing the old code to be inadvertently reactivated. It has nothing to do with the language it was written in.
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Given that he wouldn't have been running it for anywhere near an hour, nor at full blast, it's not 19 cents either.

Do you pay for shipping for Soylent? Because that's already going to cost more than cooking multiple meals.
Quick thing: you are expecting a header to be specified? If so, that's not a good API design. You should fall back to keyword argument ``headers=``.
Jim Bell's theorem clearly demonstrates that the politicians have lost the monopoly on the use of force. At the same time, the politicians have never had any real or valid claim to legitimacy. Libertarians reject government claims to legitimacy on grounds of Occam's razor. Religious people reject it because such claims amount to paganism and often also blasphemy. Therefore, politicians will have to contend with retaliatory measures, which may make any of their attempts at keeping BTC small, irrelevant.
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It's not just the site, my npm command is hanging.
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This connects back to the 'autonomous corporation' being discussed on the bitcoin discussion on HN today.
A lot of very smart computer scientists then, are the ones who claim stewardship of the system.

Let's say the computer scientists die, and leave these systems behind. If their legacy is ignored, it will not persist in humanity's absence. Unless people continue to employ these tools, the tools will not spring back to life and animate themselves for their own sake.

Just because you have an idea, and you throw up a wiki, and some client code on github, does not an A.I. make. This all sounds so much like it's just a Simple Matter of Programming (SMOP).

http://everything2.com/title/Smop

As humans, we generate the electricity, we manufacture the chips and lithium-ion batteries. We buy the remote controlled quad-copters, and send them flying through the air. We turn the radios on and off. We plug in the network switches and routers, and administer the servers and prevent them from overheating. These things don't produce and care for themselves. There's a person on the other end, no matter how much they attempt to obfuscate their identity, or piggyback on crowdsourcing. Even with distributed peer-to-peer crowdsourcing, you still need peers and you still need a crowd.

Are there self-replicating computers out there, building 3D printed copies of one another, fabricating their own solar cells, growing legs, walking themselves over to wall outlets, plugging in, and then executing block transactions for the sake of their own desire to be a bitcoin node?

How, then, is this autonomy?
If Bitcoin ever graduates to anything more than a toy currency (last count was a billion or two USD globally?) then it's going to have to deal with graduate level problems. The business cycle is a thing I'm afraid, and the management of a recession to prevent it's becoming a depression is as close to a fusion of science and art as you'll ever see. The necessity for this isn't going to change as long as the human brain continues to function as it does.

In good times people want more money - a discussion on what they should want is irrelevant, lets stick to the facts - and in bad times people want to protect what they have (aggressively so). Now consider that what makes times good vs bad is not determined by money - it's determined and prolonged by some other shock like an asset misvaluation, the destruction of a massive crop, or some combination of external factors underlying the real or nominal non-money thing.

Let's say it's a rice crop. Those dependent on rice freak out, and push all their money into safe assets, those dependent on those dependent on rice do the same. The chain reaction continues until all the economy's money is tied up in safe assets, not being spent, and everyone is sat at home waiting for it to blow over. If policymakers do not intervene correctly at this point, this situation will become a depression, and much misery will ensue.

So what do we do? We make safe assets more expensive to lower the risk/reward ratio for commercial activities: we make bank holdings very unrewarding (lower interest rates), we devalue the money in circulation and provide liquidity in one move (print money), and government invests in big infrastructure (liquidity, jobs, momentum, signalling etc). All of this is designed to keep things moving and ward off a depression. And it works - this is why we abandoned the gold standard.

So given that Bitcoin means nothing to rice, or most other external factors, and not to the rigidities that exacerbate recessions - how exactly do we deal with this in the described autonomous utopia?

I very much agree that the regulators of currency leave a tremendous amount to be desired, but unfortunately this appears to be one of very few economic problems where decentralisation is not the answer.
For starters, markets cannot be perfectly efficient unless P = NP: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2284.pdf
The top comment is someone wishing this was a totally different service which ends up in people either mentioning other startups which do something like that but not quite the same, or what it is like to store things in SF.
Is there any benefit to the market as a whole to have these high speed transactions trying to game the system?

Seems like as a rule, they're likely to cause instability, and I have a hard time seeing any benefits in them.
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It's still active :)
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"How can it be otherwise? You'd need scheduled downtime to do it any other way."

Trading floor is only open a few hours every day, the functionality being rolled out required the markets to be open. Furthermore, since the changes were all for new functionality they rolled it out in stages days ahead of time (good move).
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This is/was a scheduled outage

> NYC2 Public Network Upgrade - Part II (10/21/2013 22:00EDT)
Tue Oct 22 02:00:00 2013

Start: Monday 21 October, 22:00 EDT
End: Tuesday 22 October, 04:00 EDT

This is the second part of our scheduled maintenance to upgrade our core routers in the NY2 region which will provide capacity for additional peering and provide 5-6x the current routing capacity.

Expected Impact:

There will be several short periods of high latency and packet loss
lasting 1-3 minutes as providers and hyperviors are re-routed to the
new hardware. This will be spread out during the above window.

The shared private network will not be impacted, all communication
between droplets will remain normal.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact support.

Thanks,
DigitalOcean Networking Team
It's most likely a giant C++ server or set of servers. It's not really that surprising that old code is in there. One way releases are handled in these kinds of places is to roll out new features on some kind of external flag system, perhaps shared memory flags or some other mechanism. This way if something goes wrong with that one feature, you can disable it by flipping the switch, rather than having to back out the software, which would likely cause downtime during market hours, a major problem.

What sometimes happens when you want to decommission features is you just turn the flags off rather than remove the code. There's an obvious allure to this as you have already tested the on/off functionality of the switch when you did the original roll-out so you can avoid having to test whether you have removed the code correctly. It sounds like in this case they removed the code and repurposed the switch that disabled said code (it may really be a shared memory system and they are running out of flags), but they fucked it up. The old code was still there on some servers and the switch was turned back in intent to enable the new feature it was re-purposed for, re-enabling this old code.
Fructose is digested/processed differently from glucose. So the issue isn't even glycemic load alone, either.
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Hello. Mallory Paine here. I wrote FIC. This is not legacy code...it should be trivial to convert it to ARC and performance should be unaffected. I'm a bit old school myself so I chose to write it with manual retains. Does this approach make the code more difficult for you to use within an ARC project?
here it comes. Merely accelerates the ineluctable march of capital, which you can conceive of a conceptual mathematical-material virus kept in check so far by social forces and technological constraints.
Congratulations on taking on an ambitious project at such a young age! This strikes me as extremely useful for a large segment of PHP devs.

Just as a FYI, the layout doesn't work on my Win7 Chrome browser. The content appears below the content div.

You may be interested in the comments in this article - http://drawrdesign.com/twitter-bootstrap-for-cakephp. It's from a plugin for a PHP framework (CakePHP) where someone built a bootstrap template for Cake.

While there are similar projects, I encourage you to complete your work to your own satisfaction. I believe there is a need for a framework you can download that jump starts your application. I know many developers who have their own packaging of this, so it's something that's commonly used.

Again, nice job!
...nobody has successfully made functional code approachable

I'm not totally sure what to make of this statement. I think of functional programming as an extension of the expression-based computation almost everyone (in the first world anyway) learns in pre-algebra. What could be more approachable?

Yet I always have trouble recommending a specific functional language to someone who's curious. I'd say scheme if sexprs weren't so intimidating, ocaml if the syntax weren't so annoying, Haskell if it weren't, well, Haskell (not that I've really used Haskell myself). So for now I just tell people to learn Python and show them map() and closures.

Is there a semi-practical functional language with C-ish call syntax, especially with dynamic typing? And don't tell me Javascript, that's still mostly imperative. Rust seems close (closer than Python at least). I might start recommending that when it stabilizes.
It's not the hardware costs, it's the head count to setup and keep those database instances running, backed up, and tuned. That's the IaaS pitch -- no sysadmin.

As for the vendor lock, most of the datastore API is very similar to other nosql APIs I've seen. It wouldn't be trivial to switch, but not impossible either. I imagine it'd be even easier if you used a orm that is widely supported but I stay away from those, so I couldn't say for sure.
With these Japanese robots, there won’t be a need for humans anymore
Are you aware of -fno-objc-arc?
This was fixed in Java 1.2 I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictfp
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... and how much did you buy them for ? :)
Why would you write it with manual retains? Who doesn't use ARC at this point?
I seem to have misread, but not in a way that markedly distorts things.
Loading here just fine in the Bay Area. Where exactly are you? Who's your ISP? What network are you coming from?
I think you're probably right. Except in this case, bitcoin was actually designed. Gold and gold deposits just naturally had the right characteristics to work as a currency.
> To libertarians your statement sounds very anti-libertarian

And to reasonable people, it sounds reasonable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

"Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16717]"
It's loading fine for me now as well, but it was redirecting to a Cloudfare snapshot earlier.
This is a good point, I've just opened an issue.
Thought off the top of my head so it's not developed or thought through, but wouldn't Wikipedia do well to find a way of somehow connecting itself in with academia? It might gain better resources to knowledge and people and more credibility as a result. And make it more difficult to "just get access" to editing a page.
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It's redirecting to a maintenance page for me now also. Looks like they might be working on some back-end things right now.
When the pages are first accessed, the file data is paged in, and yes, this will be a blocking operation. One way to mitigate this would be to force the data to be paged in using a background thread, so that the pages are live by the time Core Animation needs those bytes to render the layer. This page preheating isn't usually necessary for small images, which is the primary use case for FIC.

FIC really pays off in a scenario like Path's mobile app. We have many, many small-to-medium-size user images to display, and those images are competing for CPU time with all of the styled text labels we're drawing. The less CPU we have to devote to images, the faster we'll be able to scroll.
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Thank you for your encouragement! I will try to fix the problems when I can on cross screen size browser issues. I can't wait to launch this project!
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As an aside: the title image depicts the Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand.
A Freudian flip?
why not support proper http including caching
If the rest of the project is non-ARC it's easier in my experience to write new additions that way as well. I've only been using ARC on newly-created projects because having to add -fobjc-arc or -fno-objc-arc to dozens of files in Xcode is very, very tedious.
The minimal-profile is something I experimented with when I made my current profile picture (http://stackoverflow.com/users/55720/machinaut) and really liked the look of it.

Your lineup of speakers looks great! To me it's a good combination of minimalism with just enough details to pick out what's important.
Why port the Linux kernel to Lisp? What advantages would it have that would justify the huge amount of work that would have to go into it before it could even begin to compete with Linux?

Linux took many years to get to the point where it had the stability and performance to be able to compete with commercial operating systems. Users of Linux will not care what language the kernel is written in. They're only going to care whether it will run all of their existing applications without changes, as fast and reliably as Linux does. If the new system doesn't, it will never have any users. (People were willing to put up with the early versions of Linux because it was free and its competitors were not. Any new OS would have to compete with an existing free OS.)

Who would write and maintain it? Linus and most of his followers would stick with the C version, which they know and love, so where are we going to suddenly find the hundreds or thousands of contributors who are both expert Lisp programmers and expert kernel hackers?
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Yeah ours was monitoring just rubber stamped it. Afterwards everyone remarked, everyone could tell they were bad just looking at what was in front of them, our theory was she was too busy watching the breaking bad final episode or something.
I'd say this is a fair assessment. It's a pure marketing play, not a tech company in any meaningful sense of the word, any more than 5-Hour-Energy is a tech product.
Fly by wires have three redundancy systems built in (afaik), so four systems have to fail for loss of control. It might be as unlikely to lose data from S3 with their nine 9s of durability as it is to crash from a failure in fly by wire.

Also, as @lmm says mechanical systems break too. And when they break, objects fly from the plane – sometimes into the fuselage, sometimes into the engine. I remember reading something about it and I think this caused a crash in a flight before, but I can't find the source right now.
> If Bitcoin ever graduates to anything more than a toy currency (last count was a billion or two USD globally?)

This isn't a response to any of your points, but I'm deeply amused to see someone still calling Bitcoin a 'toy currency' at a market cap of $2b. Many people were calling Bitcoin a toy currency when the market cap was more like millions. Truly, people can differ in opinions a great deal.
Too much emulation/virtualization/sandboxing (to be able to run old corporate_win32crap.exe) badly implemented?)
Also "power" not "powder"
According to https://twitter.com/paulg/status/392057586389753856, 5% of applicants are nonprofits.
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Maybe a landing page might have worked better? Or even a quick explanation at the top of the page? It reminded me of those video link sites that link to other video link sites.

I really like the look and feel of the profile pages; especially "the influential in" part. I may have to play around a bit more.
In what way will an IQ or SAT test give you an indication if the applicant even knows what a compiler is? Your comment is cute but I'm not sure how useful it is ... :(
Those 4 tests are easily met in this case. I don't feel like digging up a whole bunch of specific citations, but courts take a reasonably broad view of what might confuse consumers, and in this case the argument would be trivially easy to make because the 'facebook' in question is Facebook, if you see what I mean. If you don't think Facebook has a colorable case here then you're deluding yourself, and a close reading of the material at Chilling Effects will back that up.

Picking a non-infringing name most certainly is the solution, because that will cost the guy little to no money and his economic losses from abandoning breakmyfacebook.com are trivial, most likely less than the cost of even filing a small claims court case to recover his economic loss. Facebook does not appear to have anything against his app per se, so there's no need to abandon his investment in that - he could just set up another domain called something like 'breakmysocialnetwork.com' and carry on where he left off.
I still find just the fact scary that at this moment automated systems are shoving billions of fake money back and forth around the world.
Assuming a normal work schedule (weekdays only), with four weeks of vacation, the usual holidays (10) plus paid sick days (5), there are about 225 work days a year. Multiply 800 by 225 and you get $180000, which is a very reasonable yearly cost for a senior developer (it needs to include salary, benefits, office space, equipment, support staff, etc.).
What distribution does my data have?
I think the counter-spin turbine is really innovative idea. I wonder if it makes a big deal in terms of efficiency.

http://youtu.be/zy4A-z2WKhw?t=7m3s
Do you know what relation this has to bitcoin or autonomous corporations?
I knew I'd get called out on that no matter how I worded it. I have nothing against Bitcoin, but in regard to the points I made - yes, it's a toy currency: it's magnitude is nowhere near enough to be even close to relevant to the business cycle. There are many circumstances where the phrase "Bitcoin is a toy currency" would not apply, this just isn't one of them.