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Other than the RAM usage, I'm not that impressed with the CPU usage. It uses about as much as Windows would use.

I actually had to try a bunch of Linux distros for an old Atom netbook with 1 GB of RAM. The one with the lowest resource usage was Zorin OS Lite 7.1 which uses 0-1 percent CPU when doing nothing, or even with the system monitor on, and ~100 MB of RAM. Zorin Lite is based on LXDE/Lubuntu, so I assume Lubuntu uses about as much, but I didn't try it anymore, because I don't really like the default LXDE interface, and I like Zorin's more.

The one with relatively low CPU (5 percent doing nothing( and RAM usage (140 MB) that I liked most was Linux Lite, with its XFCE-based interface. The slightly extra resources it needed were a noticeable a little when trying to open stuff, compared to Zorin Lite, but not a significant slowdown (still much smaller than what I see with Elementary in the video).

I could've lived with that, because I really liked the interface, but unfortunately for some reason it doesn't recognize the keyboard properly, and for some keys, instead of typing the letters on them, it would type the numbers on them. Maybe they can get it fixed with the next version that will be based on 14.04 LTS (they only base it on LTS versions).

Super lightweight distros like Puppy and others that run in RAM are a non-starter for me, because they have really ugly, non-intuitive interfaces, and I actually want to use apps like Chrome and so on.

http://zorin-os.com/lite.html

https://www.linuxliteos.com/
Totally different beast. The issue here is that LastPass claims they can hide the password from the person you're sharing it with. Passpack makes no such claim. When you share a password with someone, they see it.
Sounds like you want to take a subset of axioms that you like, label them "facts", and go from there. Presumably, you'll end up with a subset of mathematics.

Math has the same basis in perceptual concretes (i.e. "real things") as physics, biology, chemistry, etc.

Can you show me what I get when I subtract three apples from two apples? How about showing me however many apples I need to square in order to get negative one apple?
rxvt is also a good choice.
We have a lot of customers lined up already: two fast food outlets who want it as a digital menu system, a local council who want it as a digital signage product and some SMEs who want it for reception-based product display. So we're going to be supplying complete solutions with internet connections for updates and each customer will get their own content of course. Pis are incredibly cheap so we'll be highly competitive against other digital signage products.

I will definitely release the framework as LGPLed code when its good enough for public consumption. It's nothing technically very special: a C API to create graphics elements using old style OpenGL behind the scenes, a video decoder pinched from hello_videocube.c and a LuaJIT wrapper around it all with ideas from Cocos-2D. Flash will never be supported on the Pi so this is my attempt at an open alternative.
My dad is 60 and non-tech and he switched to Linux a month back. First Ubuntu but then to Mint because that felt similar to Windows. He hasn't complained even once. Personally I have to Windows only because my office dictates that - some of their software's wont work otherwise.
Citizens are responsible the same way parents are responsible for their childrens shenanigans, and company management is responsible for acts done by the company.
I'm working on a game based on memorizing Chinese characters.
It's cool because it uses the qualities that motivate people to play farm sims to encourage players to study a language. Players plant character-flowers and must pass quizzes in order to pluck them.
This website has more information and a download link for the beta, which only works on android at the moment: http://zhongwengarden.com/
Google May Be Launching Floating Data Centers Off U.S. Coasts
Number of hosts on the Internet now close to one billion
Very cool to hear about the Entity-Relationship diagram project. I'm working on something similar myself, an entity annotation and relationship builder app to annotate biomedical texts: http://mark2cure.org/
In my opinion, if the set of beliefs is orthogonal and irrefutable, it is a set of axioms. Orthogonal: It is not possible to derive one belief from another or a combination of other beliefs. Irrefutable: Counterexamples have not been found or counterexamples can simply not ever be found. It is obvious, however, that orthogonal and irrefutable do not mean "true". On the contrary, "true" means that a statement can be derived from the axioms, while the axioms by definition themselves cannot. Axiomatic systems are simply a form of rigorous and highly systematic beliefs, but not necessarily internally consistent nor necessarily consistent with reality.
Language isn't a problem, as long as you speak English. Outside work, you'll hear both Catalan and Spanish. Both are easy to learn and understand, and people do really make an effort to understand and be understood, so no problem there either.
The ZFC axiom set [1] doesn't define a made-up world. Actually, once you understand the axioms (they're somewhat difficult in notation and definitions, but the ideas behind are understandable) they make sense. There are some axioms made to avoid paradoxes (notably ZFC3 [2]), but the majority describe how we understand the world. It'd be difficult to imagine a world where two sets aren't equal even when they have the same elements, or where you couldn't construct a set that contains all elements of two other sets.

How's this different to a set of facts as you say, like one unit + one unit is two units? It's not. I'm not sure of this, but I'd say you could construct a set of axioms based on those facts that is compatible with the ZFC axiom set.

So, why choose ZFC? Because it's simple to define (how'd you formally define what is a unit, and what does the + operation mean?) and because it's more or less consistent with our world. We can extrapolate the things we find while doing mathematics to the real world. And, sometimes, we can discover things of the real world based on findings on things that don't exist. Complex numbers, for example: they don't exist, but they're really useful to define and explain electrical experiments [3].

We approach all of mathematics like this because its easier to study everything within the same system. And it's important that we keep a consistent underlying system so we can be sure that everything we discover based on the set of axioms and rules we've defined is true in a mathematical sense; and then those discoveries could describe our world. Wouldn't we have a consistent system, we could end up with contradictions. If we extracted mathematical concepts from the real world, we wouldn't be sure if a discovery we make from those concepts can be applied to the real world.

TL;DR: Our set of axioms describes properly the real world, is simple and consistent enough and that enables us to infer new ideas that can be applicable to the real world too.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_th...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_schema_of_specification
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number#Electromagnetism...
Wars between neighbouring countries are a common case & main reason for existance of many armies. I suppose you could make the case that a few hundred km is "distant", but at least one party is at home.
This is good for Windows. On Mac/Linux we have Transmission (which is quite small, fast and not bloated) and rtorrent for the minimalists.
I recently moved office and the company gave us all new chairs. They had eight different adjustments, and could presumably be made comfortable for most people. Most people didn't spend more than 30 seconds trying to adjust before giving up. They had no instructions and where very confusing, with weird locking mechanisms.

Very adjustable chairs exist that are reasonably affordable. What is lacking is a standardised mechanism to make those adjustments easily and in the correct way for your particular body shape.
Barcelona is a different city. Most of the europeans come to Barcelona because we're used to speak english, if you compare to other cities where people barely speaks spanish well. Barcelona is multicultural to a high level.

At my job we all speak english. And sometimes we speak mix english / spanish but its rare.
I just did a bunch of Craigslist searches and verified that the apartments looked nice.

I didn't say Mitte, though, but close to Mitte. Central areas like Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg, Prenzlauer Berg.
And that argument would be correct. Common-carrier rules are a product of law and regulation over the telecom industry, not a Constitutional right. In an unregulated, un-subsidized, purely private telecommunications market, you would have no right to do anything the provider doesn't want you to.

Because there is such a high barrier to entry for basic telecoms infrastructure, this would be extremely problematic for society, and the infrastructure is regulated to prevent the companies from interfering with speech just because they don't like its content.

Facebook is not infrastructure. The infrastructure used to communicate with it can also be used to freely communicate with any other person or service, with a very low barrier to entry. Witness now, you and I and many others are communicating on this very site without any involvement of Facebook whatsoever. Many people use Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, good ol' email, SMS, and various IM services to communicate entirely separate from Facebook. I don't even have a Facebook account, nor do most of the people I have regular in-person contact with -- it holds no appeal to us.

I can setup any number of services and applications in minutes at minimal cost on servers likewise entirely distinct from Facebook that would facilitate a wide variety of communications.

Facebook could shut down tomorrow and the societal disruption would be fleeting and mostly non-fiscal. The hive mind would quickly anoint a successor or two, and life would go on.

If, somehow, all the major telecom companies and their infrastructure disappeared tomorrow, severe economic disruption would occur, and it would take years, probably decades, to restore full service, much less recover from the economic collapse.

Thus is the distinction between a popular social networking service run on top of a telecommunications network, and the telecommunications network itself, and thus the disparity in law and rights.
The majority of the article talks about free cash flow which takes capex into account. And capex does impact the p&l once it is built and being depreciated.
What was the hardest part about getting this off the ground, and how did you get passed it?
Of course the aim is not only "memory or cpu low usage" but also features.

eOS does what Unity or Gnome3 should do but with much less resources.
The link to the study in TFA is broken, but here are some more relevant studies:

1. Study of startup patenting in various industries indicating entrepreneurs say patents help getting financing: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/9135.htm

(There was controversy around this study, where VCs with an anti patent stance, such as Brad Feld, publicly disagreed with the analysis. As TFA shows, they are probably in the minority.)

2. Study showing startups with patents more likely to get late stage financing and/or have a successful exit: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=802806

3. Study (apparently -- it's paywalled unfortunately) showing startups with "stronger than typical" IP more likely to succeed: http://m.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=ae1d78db-9c5e-4... (Note that the study was done by MIT Sloan and IPVision, an IP consulting firm, so something to keep in mind.)

Keep in mind that all studies must necessarily make some assumptions to make sense of their data, and some assumptions may be more valid than others. Also, different data sets and different methodologies give different results. For instance, the 2007 paper in [2] found much lower patenting rates in software than did the 2008 survey in [1].

Yet the patent possession/success correlation is hard to doubt. In addition to [2] and [3], there are other papers, such as by Rosemary Zeidonis, that also show a robust correlation between patenting and eventual success in high tech industries. Also, there's a working paper by a Pepperdine professor showing firms with patents four times more likely to succeed. I linked [2] particularly because it has a greater focus on the software industry.

I do agree that Twitter's strength is in network effects, and so is less likely to be affected by issues affecting other startups. Just trying to show some numbers to explain why (some) investors see the lack of patents as worrying.

However, the argument that the Innovators's Patent Agreement will attract the "best and brightest" is a false premise, handily disproved by Google and Facebook, just to pick two. It will attract a certain type of talent, maybe something Twitter is particularly looking for, but "best and brightest" is not necessarily it.
Complex numbers, for example: they don't exist, but they're really useful to define and explain electrical experiments

At risk of turning this into a discussion of what "exist" means, I reckon they do exist :p If they didn't exist, how could we possibly use them, and use them so effectively and consistently?

Of course, if a number "existing" means "I can see this many number of apples" then sure, it doesn't "exist". Yes, this is definitely becoming a discussion of what the word "exist" means applied to number. I'll stop. :)
I don't know. It's clearly first-world. And it's a major city -- the political center of Germany, one of the top tourist destinations in the world, and highly regarded for its arts and culture, nightlife and high standards of living. It's got low unemployment and high growth. It's also host to an apparently booming startup culture (although many of the actors with presence in the city are in fact foreign companies).
Musk's hyperloop might or might not be workable in the right place, but it's simply not going to work in London. (Cost of new construction: prohibitive. Also, London's transport infrastructure is groaning at the seams -- it dates to the 19th century or earlier (road layout mostly dates to the 1670s) and it's simply overloaded. Hyperloop seems to be a high-speed low-numbers solution; what London needs is relatively low-speed but extremely high volume transport.
Both qBittorrent and deluge both already fill this open source, minimalistic libtorrent space. There's actually over 20 other GUIs for libtorrent.[1] I've tried most of them and we don't need yet another µtorrent 1.6 imitator based on libtorrent.

We needs more developers to help optimize the libtorrent library so it can download as fast as utorrent and help fix some of the core bugs and memory leaks. In addition, there is still no open source replacement for Bittorrent Sync or streaming torrents. Yes, some clients allow sequential downloading, but this is bad for the health of the swarm.

Like most open source projects, it's easy to find GUI developers and hard to find volunteers to work on the difficult problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libtorrent#Applications
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I'm still trying to work out whether (1) ballard's remarkable cascade of mixed metaphors was itself a joke, or (2) eru's comment was poking fun at it, or (3) both comments were intended entirely straight and it's just coincidence that the density of metaphor mixture is so high.

Both comments make perfectly good sense taken "straight". I'm leaning towards #3, with apologies to ballard and/or eru if I missed their joke.

(My father was in a meeting once when someone said "Let's not beat about the bush. | When all's said and done, | at the end of the day | you just have to take the bull by the horns." At which, at least the way he tells it, everyone else nodded sagely while he desperately tried not to laugh too loudly.)
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http://www.omerkorner.com/rail/

Let's you find rail connections using Google Maps and directly buy the tickets on the rail site.
Currently only in Germany, but other countries to come, and also cross-country tickets using each relevant rail provider.
A statement about facts belongs to the natural sciences. A statement about numbers (or dually: sets) belongs to math. A statement about statements, belongs to philosophy. Since the scientific method requires testability against facts, while (in this definition) statements can impossibly be facts in reality, it is not possible to apply the scientific method in philosophy. The same holds true for programming. Any statement about programming languages or programs is either mathematical or philosophical, but never scientific.
Nope, not wrong in GF(2) at all. In GF(2), adding one unit to another gives you two units. It just happens that in GF(2) having two units is the same thing as having zero units.
Don't get me wrong, Python is my favorite scripting language but this all seems incredibly complicated compared to say deploying a Java webapp.
London trains are hardly affordable. A 30 min commute into London on the train would add £300/month to the cost for where I live. Or 500/mo if you want to park at the station.
The writing style and grammar in this post interfered with my comprehension. In the end, I was unable to finish reading it.

Some examples:

"Giant, heavy electronics items that Amazon sometimes ships for free when the shipping cost is clearly non-trivial and cost more than the usual thin margins on such goods are another."

"But if you sell a glass of lemonade for $2 and it only costs you $1 to make it, and you decide business is so great you're going to build a lemonade stand on every street corner in the world so you can eventually afford to move humanity into outer space or buy a newspaper in your spare time, and that requires you to invest all your profits in buying up some lemon fields and timber to set up lemonade franchises on every street corner, that sounds like a many things to me, but it doesn't sound like a charitable organization."

"The vast vast majority of products Amazon sells it makes a profit on."

It should be relatively easy to rephrase most of the language. For example, the last sentence should be worded: "Amazon makes a profit on the vast, vast majority of products it sells."

I think it would be worth it. I can't understand a lot of the post without effort.
Highest port number is limited by the port field in TCP[1]; a unsigned short (2^16, 0-65535).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#T...
Well, yes, I was talking about exist in the sense "I can't count i apples", and like you say better stop here because this can get infinitely long :)
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Hey, we've chatted in IRC a couple of times. Just wanted to say I love Nimrod, and I'm so thankful that it's being written. I'm currently learning C so that I can play with Nimrod and Vala and have a better idea of how they work :)
In the same sense that an axiom can't be proved, it can neither be refuted. I think you mean they're consistent: that you can't infer a paradox or a contradiction from your set of axioms.
I don't understand your astonishment when most of the people believed that the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_S... actually worked. It was assumed that the oppresive regimes are somewhere else.
Providers should create anti-spam system, so when Clients get hacked they don't receive tons of spam on users' walls
There is no compelling reason to switch to or use passenger. Only the enterprise version is feature-parity equivalent to mod_wsgi. Ofcourse mod_wgsi doesn't have an external daemon (the flying mode) but uWSGI has that and many other non-equated features ...
I've always thought of Amazon as this last dinosaur of a by gone era. The days where you can have a really big vision, where if you work a spreadsheet a bit here and there you suddenly have massive amounts of profit. We just need to wait for the world to finished being disrupted. If you disagree with the vision, then you "just don't understand". Most of these business failed, but Amazon found just enough profits sitting somewhere that they have managed to keep on living... So they are in this unique position where they are allowed to invest, and grow to unfathomable heights (well theoretically) because its a survivor bias of the investors.
Your welcome, I'm learning Python as well, love the bignum.

"The thing is though, I come from other languages where reinventing the wheel is seen as a really dumb idea, but perhaps in C it is the right way to go? I'm honestly not sure!" They often say that about assembly, and I think I may have to pull my foot out one day and learn it.

The C programming mindset requires one to think like a machine. Very few people are born with that skill, it has to be beaten into programmers with a keyboard.

BTW I only started learning coding last year, but I started with C++. Did you do the same or jump straight to C? I tend to agree more with Stallman and Torvalds these days: "A horrible language".
Awesome! Let me enable some upcoming features like deep links and screens for you.

I can also enable developer mode, if you want: https://github.com/starthq/search#starthq-search-api
Sick, perverted, twisted, dying and rotting industry? Wow, you can't have had many jobs. Our industry is like heaven in comparison to the really rotten and twisted ones.
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What makes you sure, that the daemon listening on port 22 is is a 'true and sanctioned sshd'?
Because of it uses a port under 22?

If you have fear that a port of your server listens on any unprivileged port and it than you have far more problems with that box then the sshd.
_If_ a port is opened by a user that emulates the sshd daemon to grab your passwords that means that:

a) this is the usual port you use for ssh

b) your box is hacked, then the real sshd daemon that usualy would listen at this high port is replaced by something else. That means sombody has root access to that box (the sshd has to be killed for that)- big big OUTCH

c) you box isn't hacked but you have some non trustwoth people have access to that box, that use some exploits for rights traversal

All in all I would say, constructing a security issue of using a non standard ssh port is academic. If that could be abused you have far more problems on your system than that changed ssh port.

On our production servers I use the following:

1. ssh access with keywords is disabled
2. ssh access for root is not allowed
3. ssh access is allowed from one trusted IP address only
4. restrict users with access to ssh to only the needed ones
5. users with git access get as shell '/usr/bin/git-shell'

optional: If you're paranoic like me and like some technical baublery you step 3 this way that users have a VPN to the server with the trusted IP
How to configure the development environment on Windows?
This points to what is actually quite a large problem with the LastPass vault. A lot of people I know (myself included) keep the password saved on the vault, so that it will offer to AutoFill/AutoLogin when you visit a site you have an account on. It then is set to re-prompt for the master password to actually fill or reveal the site's password.

Unfortunately, passwords are retrievable out of the LastPass vault in exactly the same way as in the article. It is trivial to simply inspect the DOM and pull them out with some basic JS. This is unacceptable IMO and must be fixed; LastPass is barely functional if you don't keep it logged in. But if you do, all it takes is a right click and a few keystrokes to reveal each password.

I feel a lot worse about this product, now.