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Candidly, Stackato is an interesting platform/fork, but I looked into your pricing before and it's not really all that reasonable. If pricing was more realistic, or there was an open-source release of your CF fork, I'd be more interested.
Too many meters and ranks and percentages - it feels too gamified to me, and focused on competition between users and not on the content itself. That's just one person's opinion though - I like a bit more minimalism.
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It was indeed, but the usage was much lower. At least people use that feature now.
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> The place still seemed popular. I don't know why.

Isn't it because Japanese people love animals, but with the sizes of apartments in Tokyo it's pretty much impossible to have one of your own?
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I'll get on a 787 and fly on it because I have faith in Boeing etc.

But you're right in that if I was actually working on the 787, I would have no such faith, and would verify the designs I was responsible for.
The Terms Project
Terms is a system for knowledge representation and reasoning. The main thing about Terms is the language in which it expresses knowledge, which is very simple but very expressive, and almost understandable as plain English.
I imagine you could, it just would be expensive, and owuld not involve the customers at large.
Yeah, that's a deal breaker for me. They're assuming too much about my motivations, what I want, etc... Looks pretty slick otherwise.
Audio is one of those things they've never figured out. There's a good "truth in graphs" about that:

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguinswf/files/penguinswf/linuxaudi...
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Capitalism often presents a choice between aggressively building unsafe products, or losing out to the competition. It's extremely hard to win in a fast market by being stable, secure, and correct, at least when it comes to software.
You're missing the point.

A static language catches the error at compile-time.

A dynamic language catches the error at run-time.

Javascript hides the error and gives a cryptic bug, instead.
>I have to admit though I'm surprised that some of those accessories even require a bus as they're typically operated by simple switches.

They certainly don't require a bus in principle. However, if you want to understand both the business case and some very good engineering reasoning behind the use of data buses to control simple automobile accessories you should have a look at the wiring harness for an early 90's Mercedes or similar luxury car. Demand for fancy features drove the number of wires running to and fro to an unmanageable level. Having a mile of wires in a car is expensive for many reasons I'm sure you can imagine, as well as each connection point becoming an opportunity for something to go wrong.

I'm also curious how electric cars in general will manage safety systems going forward, especially in light of this Toyota court decision.
On the front page, the image of the laptop is ON TOP OF the sign up button, so the right side of the sign up button cannot be clicked. Move it to the back. Great startup btw, I can't wait for launch.
Bringing back horrible memories. I ended up with an EE degree, but I was two or three core classes away from a CompE. The software literacy has been nice throughout my career[1], but I was never able to swing into any of the firmware development groups at my previous employer. Closest I got was some systems engineering that covered custom FPGAs and off-the-shelf signal processing hardware. Now I will probably never make it past the gatekeepers for any kind of embedded job.

What the embedded industry needs is more systems engineering. Not taking an EE and saying, "Poof, you're a systems engineer now!", but actual, interdisciplinary engineers who understand systems development concepts, requirements analysis, safety analysis, and everything else that goes along with it. Its primarily an aerospace thing right now, but it really should expand to the broader field.

[1] In fact, at the moment I am a pure software engineer.
What contract?

Exactly. That's the problem I have with marriage. So much for the rule against perpetuities, among other things.

Not all tricky legal issues can be covered with a "well let's just make a contract."

Sure they can. If one Fortune 500 company merges with another, the resulting contracts are thick enough to fill multiple heavy leather-bound volumes the size of major metropolitan telephone books. The lawyers are paid to think of everything that could go wrong.

So it's not debatable that an adequate legal framework for simple domestic partnerships can exist, it's just that for some reason, people don't bother.
You should try out "chocolatey" on windows. It enough people adopt it, more packages will get on to it.
No AIM? Is this a joke?
Part of the reason for this is that a lot of the 'Windows' apps I've seen for healthcare are really, really bad (and have UI much too small/complex to use on a touchscreen), whereas the iOS apps I've seen are much more polished, user-friendly, and accessible because they're designed for touchscreens from the start.
I'm such a noob. I learned way too many things from this post.
Sounds a lot like how video quality degraded gracefully in Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep". Transcendent beautiful 3d video with all kinds of other extras degrades seamlessly to janky paper cut -like actors in the book iirc.
Yeah I'm not optimistic about those. They're clearly too small to be electromagnetic drivers (think magnets and coils) so best-case they're active piezo devices that are epoxied on (need to have a good bond) turning the whole window into a radiative speaker. Sadly those are limited to high frequency sound only (several kHz and up) so they wouldn't do much good for anything other than perhaps the bottle noise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudspeaker#Piezoelectric_speak...
From the server-side infection to the drive-by download on php.net
Have you considered not outsourcing critical parts of your company to startups that are iterating fast and potentially breaking things? Could you share the reasoning behind Buffer choosing to store their customers' private data with MongoHQ, instead of your own secure infrastructure?
I just see kanji's and a some arabic characters. I checked and firefox is set to allow pages to use their fonts.
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The TNG scale have a asymptote at Warp 10. The TNG scale come from a draw, and actually have a very complex formula derive from these hand draw graph, but can be approximated to a exponential scale below Warp 9.

TOS (and Enterprise) uses other scale with a much more simpler math exponential formula, were the same Warp factor is less quick that in TNG scale.

Actually the TNG scale is because Rodenbery like to give the impression that the ships are more fast that in TOS but he like to avoid using Warp 10 and huger numbers.

You can check it in http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Warp_factor , appendices section.
I am European, but to me that sounds racist "I am white and heterosexual, I have the privilege". Like other people are worth less because they do not have privilege?

I understand there are bonus points for this in America. But it also means that rest of the article is very likely going to be a political rant
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I think the biggest problem with software is that it can be perfectly safe and work OK in 99.9999% of all cases, and still contain deadly bugs that strike in very specific and difficult to reproduce circumstances. That the software works very well most of the time only adds to the belief that there must be another explanation for what happened (I think even Woz could reproduce the runaway accelerator bug in his Prius?)

That a piece of software is widespread and works good most of the time simply can't be used to say whether the software is "safe". To say anything about that, you have to look at the process used to develop the software, and see whether that process has a good success rate of predicting and uncovering software bugs.

If Toyotas code is as bad as this article makes it out to be and the certification standards are so poor, I won't be surprised if we see more cases like this in the future, although they will still be rare.
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It would seem to me that New Relic license keys would also be available to the hacker(s), as they are required to link MongoHQ to New Relic.

In speaking with New Relic, these keys cannot be regenerated.

Wondering if anybody could advise as to what security issues that might create? I presume it could potentially give access to some infrastructure information. Have emailed their support but waiting on a reply.

I'd like to chime in that, this circumstance notwithstanding, MongoHQ has been great during the time we've been a customer of theirs.
As the original poster to Facebook that Travis is responding to, I'd just like to add a few thoughts here. First, I'm an early adopter of Uber and have been + remain a big fan of the company. Second, I commend Travis for taking the time to write out his thoughts and provide a well-thought out response--even if I don't fully agree with everything he wrote. Third, I think it's a good sign for Uber that a) people care enough to be talking about it...passionately; and b) their CEO is involved in the debate. Fourth, the quality in SF has been declining for those of us with a longitudinal view over time, and even if the top-line metric of overall reviews inflates the NPS score, the fact that this is striking a chord with "power users" should be alarming. Fifth, I think this is correctable, and is not unique for a company scaling this quickly. Thanks everyone for the debate. - Noah Lichtenstein
That is exactly I would not trust firmware written primarily or entirely by Google. For all the talk of clueless EEs writing code in this thread, I have horror stories of clueless SEs messing with hardware.
also I cant help but notice you are french and maybe that has a bit to do with being defensive here ;)
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Uber claims [1] they have a "series of rigorous screening tests, including a background check, an in-person screening, a city knowledge exam, and other ongoing quality controls".

If true, that would seem to address your point about screening driver quality. But a number of people are reporting drivers who don't really know their way around the city, which suggests (if those reports are true) that the city-knowledge exam is either not rigorous enough, or somehow not testing the right thing.

[1] http://blog.uber.com/2013/02/25/uber-sf-to-add-more-drivers-...
Does the change in social dynamic result in an improvement in service? I don't think most people are looking for a social dynamic this form of transportation. Most people that I know are looking for friendly, clean, and efficient. Were friendly isn't intrusive unwanted discourse.
> 2% of all medical expenditures

Who is talking about all medical expenditures? I am talking only about emergency room visits.

1) Ads for emergency rooms function as ads for hospitals in general. People in need of non-critical care will naturally be influenced by ads that depict a high quality of care for emergencies. The existence of ads for emergency rooms therefore tell us little.

2) "Real" emergencies will almost certainly be more expensive than "non"-emergencies. They are going to charge more to sew your hand back on than to give your kid some coughdrops.

3) "Non"-emergencies, as perceived by a doctor, are not the same as "non"-emergencies, as perceived by patients. The mother frantically driving her kid with a broken arm to the hospital is going to consider the situation far more urgent than a doctor would. In these cases, people are not going to act with price sensitivity, even though they could, strictly speaking.
That's great. I should also clarify that because we have health insurance, our out-of-pocket expense was less than $200.
This is a good point, but I think the answer is pretty straight forward:

"Not everybody can afford cell phones. What's the point in offering them on a free market place for the 1% who can afford them?"

Initially introducing price sensitivity into the healthcare space would only touch marginal areas - maybe surgeries that could be scheduled and small things where it's quite interesting to see whether CVS or Walgreens is the more inexpensive choice, or whether the physical is cheaper at an urgent care clinic or my primary care doctor who offers a monthly low membership fee. But, eventually, open competition by those who master processes and methodologies will create a price pressure (combined with public reviews/vetting) that will permeate the entire industry. Those who optimize by leaving patients happier (less cost more care) will draw more attention, money, expand). So, if you can picture such a model, even the person hit by a car in an accident could benefit from faster and higher quality EMR as and end point of a whole long list of improvements triggered initially by something as mundane as transparency in pricing. Still, funny, we accept that for most parts of our lives as a given.
I've been using Arch Linux for a little more than two years, and it's probably one of the best decisions I've made in my life. Once you get used to the terminal, you will never want to touch a Windows computer (unfortunately). I have i3wm (tiling wm) + (rxvt + tmux + vim) + luakit (browser with vim keybindings), and some other stuff, and my productivity went straight up. Of course you might not want to go to that extreme, especially if you are not used to the terminal, but it's worth giving it a try.
The value of a VPN over individually-secured HTTPS/TLS+2FA connections is that you can configure the VPN once, use very standard networking tools to continuously ensure that your internal services are only available over the VPN, and not have to worry about individually securing different internal services.

Another benefit is that as your internal userbase changes, you can revoke access from a single point and be reasonably assured that you've mitigated risk, which is something you only get with individually-secured services if you have a reliable directory system.

A problem with individually-secured ops/support systems is that most 3rd party code is not ready to be securely deployed Internet-facing.

Both approaches are totally workable, but the VPN approach is easier.
just ID number, name and birthday.

Probably the hardest thing to get is someone's ID number, but it doesn't sound like that is a secret. If you do have those three things, you can look them up in this system and then photoshop a fake-id that will pass anything facebook can verify via that system too.
You're right that it is a luxury but you are wrong that it is unfair to expect startups to set a higher standard.

Startups have fewer assets than big companies. If you can't secure 1 webserver or you have a security breach with only 3 employees, there is something seriously wrong.

If you expect to one day have 10,000 servers you better believe I expect you to be able to handle 3 or 5 or 10 by yourself.
Lovely, thanks.

I have to feel like it's the end of an era when new icon sets don't include a floppy disk, though. :`/
I assumed we're speaking about the first world. I totally agree that different people are treated differently by the (majority of the) society, but to speak of privilege... Maybe women are more likely to be touched by strangers in a club, but most of my male friends have already been assaulted, either in clubs or in the street. I was assaulted in broad dailght. I don't personally know any woman that had anything similar happen to her, which of course doesn't say much, but claiming that one sex (or race) has it uniformly better or worse than another seems a bit of a stretch to me.
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Would you feel better or worse if your alerting system were down and Yoh didn't see that your site has been hard down for hours? When something I'm babysitting breaks and I get a timely notification of that, I'm quite happy that I received that notification.
I love the linux desktop, especially Gnome2. For me it's a godsend.

I make heavy use of workspaces (got 6 of them atm), very handy to organise work/tasks, even on dual monitor setups. It's very easy to move applications on another workspace or monitor, even without the use of a mouse.

"Always on top" and "Always on the visible workspace" are great features that I use even right now (mplayer running in my upper-right corner while I type this).

I use a distro based on RHEL6 that's super stable and don't have to put up with annoyances like rolling-release specific breakages and so on.

All my laptop's hardware is well supported and just works.

Firefox, Thunderbird and Libreoffice are excellent applications that more than meet my requirements.
Virt-manager & kvm rock and Gnome-terminal is pretty damn awesome.

I use Windows rarely and it feels like having my hands tied at the back.

I know it's not for everyone, but for me, it has been the decade of the linux dextop. :-)
You're absolutel right about that. I should have mentioned that I mostly use 3 virtual desktops (browser in the first one, vim in the second and some messaging app on the third) so I do arrows for 99% of my moving anyway.
Seriously. I wish other services did security notifications with this much detail (I'm looking at you linode).
In absolutely nothing I said did I make the claim that social engineering wasn't used by malware.

You made the claim that there was a level playing field with regards to security between Windows and OSX, "especially considering that a lot of malware today actually relies on social engineering rather than 0days". My response was simply that this isn't 100%, that many malware variants still use exploits to get onto systems, and that your statements based around that are also incorrect.
Ah, that's just for fun, and we wanted something different that's not really out there. But it's also there to combat spam, trolling, etc.
It's not, it's slightly larger and more massive than the Sun. Only the outermost planet is within the habitable zone, but it's a gas giant.
I have to agree. With my social anxiety I tend to be internally thinking 'Why are you talking to me, when can I get out of here'
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Seven planets, and it fits into one Earth orbit?

Hey, it's Kerbin!
...and btw, to anyone here who is a ruby or php developer and feels very strongly about this topic and likes to help with our project that is trying to change this (pricepain.com/why) shoot me an email, we can need some help.
Although "never" is probably too strong a word, I prefer colorful icons as well :)
Wow, is it April already?

Do you suppose after they successfully implement /dev/random as a service, they might implement /dev/zero or /dev/full next? Or /dev/console might be especially useful.
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The latest venture from the German sportswear company is a fast and funky custom Ducati built in the USA.
Sorry http://blog.ideabile.com/en/2013/10/javascript-is-not-a-shit...
Chromium, Thunderbird and Apache Openoffice for me ... but otherwise I could have written the rest of your post! :D

(Yes, the newer versions of Openoffice are actually really good, and their UI is really comfy for someone coming in from MS Office on Windows/Mac.)
I am an EE, and I wrote several thousand lines of production code for an airborne radar system. It wasn't even firmware; it was signal processing application code running in RTLinux on commercial server hardware. Our firmware was all written by EEs, though I ended up having to help the EE tasked with the C code quite a bit.
They're not "stupid" and "piss-poor". Linear desktops are a huge usability win for a multitude of reasons:

* It's spatially an easier mental model.

* This mental model is consistent with iOS multitasking and iOS home screen.

* It allows for simple gestures to switch between desktops.

* In western society, we read from left to right. New is to the right. Fullscreen a new desktops are added to the right.

* This also sets up a linear "Forward/back" model similar to web pages.

* You can easily add ONE desktop on the fly. No need to make it a grid for no reason.

* The biggest reason: Spaces and expose are unified into Mission Control. One action to see EVERYTHING. This is a huge plus, as people don't have to check two different locations for a window. A grid of desktops wouldn't fit up above in mission control.

* There's nothing below the dock and there's nothing above the menubar. Simple mental model.

Regarding "maximize for windows":

* It's a "fit window to content" button. A window shouldn't take up more space than is necessary in a multi-tasking environment. Regardless, there is a fullscreen mode and windows also remember their position and dimensions if you drag them.
"If it floats or flies..."

My guess is that these are not permanent structures. Barges are not particularly suited to harsh open ocean conditions, and as others mentioned, there are some pretty heavy regulations against 'building out' into the bay. The secrecy of it hints at a marketing ploy.
Calculated risk assessment isn't the same thing as lack of freedom. I have cystic fibrosis, so I've been making those decisions for a long time. (100% freelancer here)
That's sort of a loaded question, no? A database is, in one way or another, critical to almost every business. I don't think that means every business should build one in house.
Hello, I signed up specifically to argue with you (be proud).

I think that may have been an overzealous algorithm giving the car a blip of throttle to stop it from stalling when it is idling.

An engine still needs fuel and air to run when even when there is no load on it and this is controlled by a computer. This computer targets some rpm for idling. If the rpm drops substantially low, due to for example a 'mechanical' glitch like dodgy fuel, then the computer may over compensate with too much throttle, causing the revving you experienced.

:)
> And all they had to do to get that was to be ripped from their homes and placed into residential schools, which existed into the 60s.

Just FYI, the last Canadian residential school closed in... drum roll... 1996. Sweet deal indeed.
I especially love that the web proxies at my place of employment block this site as "Online Storage"
you can hear news of some low-level worker being arrested for accepting payments for illegal transactions

This does happen, but it might be worth distinguishing two kinds of low-level bribery: 1) clerks can be bribed to look the other way on something, or even assist in it, usually "out-of-band" when you've meet them elsewhere and arranged a plan; or 2) clerks must be bribed by slipping them some cash to get legal things done.

The U.S. has almost none of #2: if you legitimately have business with a government office, you can just follow the official rules, file your paperwork, and it'll get processed in line. In some countries you're expected to slip in a $20 with the paperwork, or it will never get processed, while doing so in the U.S would probably either not help, or actually delay your paperwork as the clerk figures out what additional paperwork they need to file about this unexpected cash. It's completely unexpected and usually unwelcome to do that kind of "cold" bribe, where you just slip someone you've never met some money; they might even suspect you of being a cop.

Both are bad, but in somewhat different ways; #2 is particularly influential on corruption perceptions, because regular people run into it when doing mundane things.
Any piece of advice will help. I know that it is a big question but I'm going to need help from many experts on this field. Thanks in advance =)