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> Otoh, what this establishes is that in fact, the US is quite willing to consider actions that may damage the national security interests of its allies.

That's long since been established. Hell, the Pentagon has plans for an invasion of Canada.
Congratulations! You've just won a $50,000 gift certificate for SalesForce!
The syntax got much nicer in SBT 0.13: http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13.0/docs/Community/ChangeSummary...
You will always get people complaining about an industry/professsion. There are lots of people complaining about the tech industry.
> Think of it this way: The abundance of money should somehow correlate with the abundance of real resources. When this correlation breaks down, bad things happen to the economy.

citation please. The abundance of real resources in the cpu, memory, and storage markets have been outgrowing the dollar supply for several decades (evidence by the steady drop in prices even with a much larger dollar + credit supply). Nothing bad has happened to those markets. The growth of real resources varies wildly from resource to resource. If your first statement was true, shouldn't we see see resources that are not correlated with the dollar supply have 'bad things happen'?

Also its almost impossible to measure 'abundance of real resources', so any fiat currency pegged to that metric will not be aligned.
It sounds like it requires everything.
I never use installers for these types of software, I prefer using portable versions where possible:

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/utorrent_portable
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/qbittorrent_portable

I still use uTorrent Portbale, never had problems with toolbar installers or hijackers yet.
In between Newton and the quantum mechanics, Dmitri Mendeleev for the periodic table, a complete discontinuity in chemistry.

Linus Pauling wouldn't make the top 100 because someone would have done it around that time, it was that obvious, but he was the first to apply quantum theory to chemistry.
The article notes a slump in car sales, but doesn't chart historical bike sales (it only notes that in America bike sales are "solid") It could be coincidence: European bike might have risen, might have stayed the same.

>We decided to delve a little deeper into the figures and see which of these countries had the highest rates of bicycle-to-car ownership.

I'm more interested in historical bike sales, historical car sales, and the correlations and causations we could find, than which countries had the highest rates of bike-to-car ownership.
You don't have to - but it would be a very nice touch. :)
>> Scala is difficult for Java developers to learn, because Scala has new concepts in it, like type-classes or monads and these concepts are exposed within a static type system. Are these concepts useful? After using Scala for the last 2 years, I can bet my life on it. However there's a learning curve involved and Scala is definitely more expensive to learn than Java. That's why context matters. If a company has the resources to invest in this learning curve, then it's worth it, otherwise it isn't.

This sounds similar to some of the stories about Twitter's switch to Scala. The developers who liked Ruby loved Scala, while the rest of the team stuck with Java, I believe.
In response to your #4, check out the stopBindings option. It provides a pretty simple pattern where you can wrap your knockout bound components in a stopBindings, then you don't have to worry about other binds on the page interfering with them.

See here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9254632/how-to-stop-knock...

Also note that you can configure it as a virtual element, so you can use the <!--ko stopBindings: true--> syntax.
Microsoft makes Surface docking station available in limited quantities
> vendor-specific passcodes could solve that. You could go to your credit card website and request a passcode to provide to a specific online store. If their database gets compromised, you can revoke the password.

If it's vendor specific then it shouldn't matter if anyone else has it. Only that vendor should be able to use it. If that's not possible then if their database gets compromised, the vendor should be able to invalidate their password.
So it costs $99 to participate in this? Let me get this straight -- I pay Salesforce $99 for the privilege of developing mobile software for them, using their API, in return for a (very small) change of winning a big prize?

Yeah, I'll stick to developing for those companies who don't charge developers for this kind of free exposure and software (for Salesforce).
Psshh. The Eastern front was a diversion for the real war on the other side. ;)
Typefaces are meaningless.

Now that I have your attention I'll blow your mind: A good typeface on a bad site does nothing but polish the turd. Designers that obsess over typefaces also generally give equal care to spacing and layout that when all put together makes for a great site.

Flipboard would never have chosen Comic Sans as a font and people that pushed Helvetica Neue would never use dancing chipmunk gifs in their layout.
what hasn't been the case? that more sheets of paper and more pencils have been sold than computers? I'm almost certain this is the case, even in the gadget-awash United States.
They have a number of different APIs and services that allow you to access their CRM and ERP products, as well as manipulate data with their services. Most of their products are geared toward supporting enterprise clients, but they can be extended to a number of different use cases. Integrating Chatter (chat) with CRM to help support customers over mobile all run on a dyno. (or some such).

Let's also remember that they own Heroku, and that only 25% of the prize is about using their APIs (though I have a feeling that will be weighted more heavily).
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Why don't you dig around and look at all the pieces of information, abuses, problems not corrected, situations allowed to spiral out of control, the waste of trillions of dollars, the cover ups, the intimidation, the assassinations, the governments overthrown, the hundreds of thousands of dead in other countries..., then come have a discussion about evil and the folks the control our government.
Take with a grain of salt some of the more known names. History is written by the victors (i.e. Edison) so your list is probably rigged by construction, and sometimes what changed history is not the person or what he really did, but the story about him (i.e. Jesus).
Also, calling the "world" the line of culture that comes from greece and rome to us is dangerous, who invented gunpowder or arabic numerals? Anyway, considering that with globalization that line of culture is the prevalent now in all the world, the victor that writes the history, probably is what you can know.
The comment thread attacks Yahoo! for it's dirty tactics, but the difference is that we kind of expect this crap from Yahoo!. People are miffed at uTorrent because it was an application they trusted. It's more of a betrayal.

If a thief breaks into your home and steals your TV, you're pissed that your TV was stolen but that's what you expect of thieves. If your best friend does it, it adds that extra layer of betrayal and it adds the feeling of shame and stupidity for ever having trusted them.
It's an MLM scam, which is different from a pyramid scam. Still a scam.

We velebrstet people who create value and make people happier, not people who trick others into signing up for moneylosing premise who them off in search of a greater fool.

If the profits come from the pockets of the sales staff, not from end users enjoying the product, it is a scam.
They're aiming for a market that is willing to pay $300 to $600 for a iPad, and a free word processor sweetens the deal a bit. The fact that you can access your docs on your mac or in browser (also for free) is nice sweetener, too.
Homebrew is definitely the way to go for installing python for development on Mac
Also, it means you're at the mercy of your network if it starts dropping or duplicating packets. Which is potentially very bad when each of those packets is an ATA command…
I wonder how much the 'cycle to work' scheme in the UK has affected our numbers. (It means a lot of middle class white collar workers buy a new high-end bike every year, before income-tax.)
"Jumped the gun" has a different meaning and can't be used interchangeably with "jumped to the wrong conclusion" without further stilted language.

This is what journalistic restraint looks like.
what hasn't been the case was bikes outselling cars. It hasn't happened. And not it is. Seems significant.
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If you posted something the length of Moby Dick, with 127 spelling mistakes, which you then corrected?

No need to applaud, but no need to criticise...
I think he means the bikes outselling cars part
Sweet! I can afford signing up for the hackathon.
What I mean is that they will try to print bare chips on their own motherboard to save space and weight. They can afford ordering custom chips without industry standard enclosure in volume - why not do that if it saves space.
In many cities guns are available and besides, farmers all have shotguns. I put the low gun crime rate here down to the police not being issued sidearms, so the average low level criminal doesn't usually get into an arms race with the cops.
Could you elaborate what you mean by "insisting everything work in the JAR world"? SBT works with git submodules, git sources, other URI or File sources for dependencies. So you must mean something else, but I'm having trouble parsing.
What happened yesterday on Google event? (24th oct. 2013)
I've won gift cards before by presenting at Dreamforce. They were for globalgiving.org, an awesome non-profit that allows you to donate to another non-profit of your choice.
You really think they are going to "get an overhaul of the their mobile platform and, as a result, their business" from a three day hackathon? You underestimate Salesforce's size, the complexity of business in general, and about 50 other factors that make an event like this far from a silver bullet overhaul, whatever that means.
Someone must've posted an HN link on 4chan.
What is going to happen to Fort Knox? Is a madman going to blow up a nuclear bomb inside of it, irradiating the gold for thousands of years?
What's despicable about Bittorrent, Inc.? They seem like a very pleasant company to me. I won't be using any of their products because I generally don't use closed source stuff, but I'm grateful for their protocol.
An app on a phone doesn't necessarily qualify as being "on the Internet". That's like saying if you use Calculator on your PC then you shouldn't expect privacy on the Internet.
Fairly relevant for female entrepreneurs. I have a professional acquaintance who has been toying with being the prototypical power woman (who, IMO, doesn't really exist): involved supermom, successful entrepreneur, good wife. My advice to her was that I've been successful and have a family and family is way more satisfying. Besides, once your kids are grown up, PLEASE continue contributing to society by being an entrepreneur. You're not going to keep having kids when you're 40. Enjoy your youth and love your kids.

Before people say "why don't men do the same?" here is why: http://jobs.economist.com/article/when-women-dare-to-outearn...

"For the couples themselves, the dynamic may be a problem. As long as the woman earns less, her income does not cause trouble in the marriage. Once she earns more, however, marriage difficulties jump and divorce rates increase. Interestingly, it does not seem to matter whether she earns only slightly more, or substantially more—an indication that it is not female income per se, but the mere fact of earning more, that causes trouble."

I doubt that is changing anytime soon.
Well, you can also make your own bullets. I cast my own lead bullets sometimes (in the garage, you have to heat the lead and vapor doesn't belong in the house), but most of the time just reload old scruffy brass. Or as another poster mentioned, just buy the ammo. Ammo really is the easy part.
You're looking at a tiny niche.

The vast majority of people are better served by longer battery runtime. The need to maintain that second battery charge is something that you have to keep up on, and if you don't you have a $150 brick.
any pointers how to go about?
"The Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform eliminates the storage server tier of traditional data center architectures by enabling applications to speak directly to the storage device, thereby reducing expenses associated with the acquisition, deployment, and support of hyperscale storage infrastructures."

First of all: Hyperscale? I'm not a retarded non-technical manager or MBO, so I just stopped listening to your entire pitch. Second: You're still selling storage infrastructure, and I still have to support it. The expense just has a different name now.

"Companies can realize additional cost savings while maximizing storage density through reduced power and cooling costs, and receiving potentially dramatic savings in cloud data center build outs."

How does reducing my power and cooling costs maximize my storage density? Oh, by getting me to spend more money on your product instead of power and cooling. Nice try, buddy; give me the cost comparison or stfu.

Their whole pitch here is "throw away your key/value servers and use our key/value server instead". I wonder which will be more expensive: something I throw together with commodity PCs, or a SAN developed by Seagate.
A few random comments:
2) This certainly can get messy in my experience, a complex nested viewmodel is nasty to selectively create observables. I haven't figured a clean way to do this.

3)I found binding handlers in the beginning to be more work to write, but in the long run the code is less brittle and much more reusable (not tied to a specific element). Although pitching to front end folks may not care about this.

4) If I'm understanding what you are saying this sounds to me like you are hitting the limits of Knockout. Durandal has a much better structured system for models/views and nested bindings. The compose syntax in Durandal also comparable to the template binding in knockout, although a lot more flexible. Durandal is built on knockout so much of what you already know will just work.

5) Agreed
It is not mainly about conciseness. Conciseness by itself is not that important. Conciseness is a side-effect of being able to apply DRY and to build more powerful abstractions. You could write more concise Java by using one letter identifiers everywhere, but that would only make things worse, wouldn't it?
Difficult for whom?
lem72, here's a thought. I just released my JavaScript course, "A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript: The Tech-Assisted Approach that Requires Half the Effort." I'm looking for learner feedback. If you purchase the Kindle book for the course, I'll be happy to work with you by email on any problems or questions you have. Here's the link: http://www.asmarterwaytolearn.com
Scala support in IDEA is great right now. I think it's better than Eclipse at the moment, although my experience with Eclipse was observing over my coworkers' shoulders.
No, he is definitely not creating a 'inspired by' editor, since a major point is compatibility with the existing ST plugins, so it has to be a near-clone to do that.
Beyond Convincing
Saw amway and immediately got what it's about.
Total institution
Save Airbnb in New York
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but haven't most of these 'quit/don't go' essays come from academics in the humanities? Are there similar essays coming from science or engineering grad students / tenured professors?
Using GPS to track someone is for lazy people. If they have a signal, you don't need GPS to have an idea of where they are.
Seems way off topic.

Sometimes it seems as if HN-users are feeling so guilty about the whole bro-gramming topic, that they up vote anything that has to do with women..
Has there ever been a point where women haven't lost the dating game? It might not be right, but I think it's a social reality that men have an easier time finding a spouse than women do, and I think that's probably been the trend for hundreds if not thousands of years.
Ah, that is useful! I never knew about that binding - good to know!

(Though the Frontend guys will complain about another 'logic binding' in their Views... I don't know what I can do about that other than to point out that the benefits are worth having those in the views. Virtual elements or not, these kinds of bindings annoy them. I see it as the price you pay for all of the benefits personally, but I'm a person who can't stand hunting for arbitrary jQuery bindings to figure out why a behavior occurred.)
House GOP plans no immigration vote in 2013
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6507718 will suffice. If I think about it, I will start to get sick to my stomach.
The shot, however, is not plastic.
I was going to say just this, but found this comment. I was an Azureus user, but they jumped the shark. Then I switched to uTorrent, and was delighted that the resource use on my computer went down a ton. Then uTorrent started getting bloatware I didn't want, but by then, Transmission had gotten good.
This model is simply Seagate trying to do via IP what FibreChannel has allowed with expensive hardware most of us don't have.

Yes, it means your switch must not fail. But if you worry about your switch failing, you have that worry if it's not handling storage too, and you deal with it with redundancy. Moving the storage to hang off a switch does not change that - if you have a single switch and it fails, your servers are just as unavailable either way.

But hanging storage off your switches means it is possible to have servers take over drives of failing servers, which makes many other failure scenarios easier to handle.

In terms of pipes, yes, that is a concern for some uses. It won't be fast unless you go to 10GE, and 10GE switches are still hopelessly overpriced. But "most people" do not serve up gigabits of content, and could do just fine with slower drives hanging off cheap 1Gbps switches.

I already assume not only that my drives will fail, but that the network and servers will fail too. Which means I need to replicate data over many servers on different networks. In that case having the drives be directly addressable over TCP/IP is not an added complexity, and it opens up so many opportunities in improving flexibility of server enclosures etc.
YES!

I would also love to see a publishing workflow that could render IPython Notebooks for print on dead trees.
Knife crime on the other hand...
I realized that after I posted but given that trust is hardly a discrete variable I'd say 'equal' is somewhat unlikely in this case.
So would you say he jumped the gun with his joke?
correct. Which is how all dollar fractional reserve banks operate.

The sum of balances they report to depositors is much greater than the currency they actually have.
Can joining a Toastmasters Club help with pitching?
I would like to improve my spoken speech!! I was wondering whether joining the local club would help.
Thanks
OTOH, humanities contains more people who reflexively reach for a pen.
I finally pushed myself to bike to work this year, and up until this week managed to make my way to work 4-5 times a week using the bike. Living a 10-15 minute bike ride away from work really encouraged me to try this year, and I'm glad I did. I found it considerably more relaxing, even when riding in traffic, when compared to driving.
Unfortunately, living in the Great White North, it has gotten too cold in the morning to bike (or at least it has for me). Temperatures are dipping below 0C, and I'm sure we will see snow soon enough. Bike is on standby mode now until next April or May when the snow is finally gone.
I don't think that you are understanding it correctly. First it helps to understand some history. In the ancient voice telecoms networks of the 20th century there was the principle that "he who dials the number pays the bill". Therefore, when a telecom provider (like DT) tried to connect a call with another telecom provider (such as BT in the UK), both telecoms companies knew that there was money flowing into DT's pockets. So the recipient's provider (in this case BT) wanted some of that money. This became a principle worldwide that interconnects between two networks had to be bought and paid for. Of course, calls went both directions over the interconnect so the concept of peering was born. What it meant was that the two companies would count up the calls at the end of the month, and the one with the most calls would pay the other company.

Then came US telecom deregulation, CLECS, the growth of the American-centric Internet, and a new way of making connections. On the Internet, one party opens a socket and superficially that seems to be similar to dialling a phone call. But the big difference is the the party opening a socket is not paying anyone a fee to do this. And they aren't paying a per-minute fee for using the socket. In fact, the party opening the socket is paying money for the use of the whole network, and the party whose socket is being opened is also paying a fee for the whole socket. Thust the concept was born that interconnects should be free because they are a cost of doing business as an ISP.

And then began much confusion and strange business dealings as telecom management wrestled with how to reconcile these two worlds. The result was that deregulated US providers charged a lot less for interconnects, and the international telephone calls of the world started to take a detour through the USA. And internet connections did the same thing.

So basically, there should be no extra cost if Germany implements this. Some companies might get into arm-twisting battles if significant traffic flows shift from one circuit to another because they will likely need to upgrade some interconnects, but that is just a one time hit. It should not increase fees at all.
Yeah, but remember there are far more grad students obtaining PhD's than faculty positions - in other words, sure, not many who make it to faculty leave, but far more people leave than stay overall.
A lot of hackathons, like Node Knockout, are announced in advance. http://nodeknockout.com/
It's up to the moderation team, of course, and I am aware that Airbnb is a YC company, but I think there is wisdom in the policy of some other online communities to be wary of submissions that are basically political campaigning. On my part, I'm not going to be signing any petitions on behalf of Airbnb (a company whose services I have never used), and I generally don't lobby on behalf of for-profit businesses, expecting them to thrive or fail based on how they serve their customers.
Scala is awesome, but I wish it had a faster compiler. The web dev experience of 2-5 second code refreshes is painful IMO. If they got it to less than a second Scala might be my ideal language.
> what hasn't been the case was bikes outselling cars. It hasn't happened.

Are you kidding me? Of course it happened! How many cars do you think were sold in 1900?
Natural selection is on the side of women in their 20's and on the side of men from then on.

All the crap women put us through most men read this article and cheer.
The 1.0.0 version started bundling nbconvert, which does a pretty good job of exporting to html, pdf, latex, etc. Have you tried it out yet?
Among my personal peer group, all with graduate degrees from good schools at top-of-class GPAs, approximately 0 (zero) have decided to stay in academia. We all know of a few folks who did stay in to pursue a PhD, and the horror stories we heard were more than enough to keep us away. That, and now with all of us in hiring positions and seeing how little it buys in the job market (outside of very few milieus) has confirmed that we'd all rather go back for another Masters or even another Undergraduate degree than go for a PhD in our fields -- some of us already have.