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For example, I was a little surprised when I was talking to a friend who was going to go on the radio. He does work on cosmology and astronomy, and he wondered how he would explain what the applications of his work were. "Well," I said, "there aren't any." He said, "Yes, but then we won't get support for more research of this kind." I think that's kind of dishonest. If you're representing yourself as a scientist, then you should explain to the layman what you're doing—and if they don't support you under those circumstances, then that's their decision.

-Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science

http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html
Maybe, but it does not seem to be very powerful at all. I've seen most of the upcoming games for launch (and played about half of them) and I was far from being impressed. It feels like a mid-range gaming PC kind of power at best, and many games apparently struggled to run in full HD, with the framerate low enough to make you feel you were back in the PS2 days. If they are planning to sell these consoles solely on the graphics, they'll have a tough time.
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God this drives my absolutely insane. Elvish marketing speak is such a stupid waste of time. Why can't we stick to commonly accepted terms instead of trying to bake up new "Cloud"esque replacement terms.
I think they provide "blocker toolkits" with registry keys so Windows Update offers security updates for the current version of IE instead (all versions of IE follows the support lifecycle of the Windows version it is installed on).
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> Hungarian notation presents type information at the point of use, as opposed to declaration.

> I must ask: are you really arguing that identifiers need not give any hint as to what they are bound to? Because that idea is kinda problematic.

seanmcdirmid's live programming environment makes heavy use of a "gutter" between code lines to display things like possible values of variables and errors, I could see adding terse inferred type information there too, without the programmer having to type any of it or go through the error-prone process of updating it when it changes.

I'm guessing the hard part would be identifying exactly what type information the developer cares about, heavy anonymous type inference can result in very verbose type specifications with lots of noise.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/liveprogr...
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They have advisers with strong credentials: http://blog.soylent.me/post/64789154918/soylent-funding-anno...
That's true, but the valuations on deals were much lower after the dot com crash and 9/11. Flickr I think went for less than $100million at about the same time, and it was the Instagram of its day.
I'm in exactly the same situation. Nothing else feels quite like Sparrow.
While this story might be sensational, does anybody know the rationale behind keeping treaties like this secret.

I could come up with all kinds of explanations like our leader being fearful of criticism, but I would like to know if there an actual practical reason.
As others have pointed out, Slackware does indeed have an excellent package manager and even slackbuilds, a package depository of sorts. The slackware package manager does not do dependency checking, however. I see this as a good thing because I've broken things by compiling from source on Debian. Slackbuilds is quite helpful and provides most needed dependencies for you to compile first.

>I never knew if it was the founders/dev's (I think was only 1 at the time) own attitude but seriously, slackware attracted idiots like honey bees.

There's still only one and he's fairly hands off when it comes to the community. No one hears much from Pat and he does what he and his small team wants. So it's not the founder that's driving that attitude. I've actually found the slackware community to be one of the most open and helpful around. Check their forums and linuxquestions.org.
I was surprised with how many Leafs have sold. I rarely see one, but I see a Tesla at least twice a week these days.
You're correct in your understanding - the company maximized the price and ended up with a nice chunk of cash in its bank account.

Internally someone starting the week of IPO might have received his stock grant at that week's price might not feel particularly upbeat when the stock price is later cut in half. There's always some churn and renegotiation going on at the companies whose stock price suffers significantly, and that makes it harder to concentrate on execution.
My first dabble with linux (late 90s) was good old ZipSlack on an a Zip100. Good to see Slackware is still alive and kickin'.
All these slackware haters! Go back to heroku, lusers. Glad to see slackware is still kickin', still have fond memories of my first linux install :>
I believe the motivation was that most Outlook users were at corporations who sent/received most of their emails from coworkers who also used Outlook.

What these users really wanted was the ability to edit and format their emails the same way they did in Word. Word really is a fantastic document editor/formatter, and I don't know of any html doc editor that comes close to the flexibility, ease, and power of Word.

So they traded standards for what people really wanted - email that they could format.
True. Probably a bad comparison and point. Thanks.

>Gasoline gars don't catch on fire in non-fatal accident to begin with.

That can't be true. I live in a relatively small town and I've seen 2 car fires(or the aftermath) in the past year, as a result of an accident.
It's not so much just "adding" that person to their team so much.

In the medical community, there's very much the idea of keeping your credibility stable. You don't want to be the Chief Medical Officer of a product that has as much hype as Soylent, and then have it turn out to be fluff, or be horrendous for the human body.

Remember, Soylent isn't just being tested - they're already making pre-sales and shipping in early '14. While there's been a lot of talk and debate about the product, there's been a relatively small amount of actual medical studies on how their formula effects our body's chemistry. As a doctor there's also the risk of breaking your own ethics and being the "Dr. who endorses Soylent".

Soylent as a product is incredibly young. Promising, but young. While I'm sure there're a number of MDs working on contract with their team, I'm also sure it'll be a little while before there's a real reputable MD or firm that'll be slapping their name on the product.

From a technical viewpoint, it's kind of like banking your entire career and credibility on a young company that has a lot of technical debt.
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Middle school education? What country did you hear this in? That is definitely not the case in the US, and I'd venture to guess that would be customary only in countries where a middle school education is generally the highest level obtained.
> Gasoline gars don't catch on fire in non-fatal accident with any frequency

There were 187,500 car fires in 2011 (http://www.nfpa.org/research/fire-statistics/the-us-fire-pro...), that's just over 3600 a week, which is about 0.07% of the total cars (~254M,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unite...).

3 of 18,300 Model S vehicles have caught fire. That's 0.02%.
This one was fun:

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#6,6,1,2,2,5,3,0,0...
I've checked the requirements for dictating name usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Re...

A complainant in a UDRP proceeding must establish three elements to succeed:

The domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights;

The registrant does not have any rights or legitimate interests in the domain name; and

The registrant registered the domain name and is using it in "bad faith".

In a UDRP proceeding, a panel will consider several non-exclusive factors to assess bad faith, such as:

Whether the registrant registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark;

Whether the registrant registered the domain name to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, if the domain name owner has engaged in a pattern of such conduct; and

Whether the registrant registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or
Whether by using the domain name, the registrant has intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, internet users to the registrant's website, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark.

In this case, I don't think that bad faith could be established, so Canonical may have to adjust their policy to reflect certain use cases in domain names to be completely accurate.
HBase 0.94.13 has been released.
I found this to be a fascinating waste of time. An asm.js fork also exists here: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/
>The undrewriters don't always come out doing so well. Take a look at the Facebbok IPO as an example. They didn't end up selling all of the stock that was issued in the IPO and had to buy up stock back from the market at elevated prices in order to keep the stock from plummeting on the first day. They still made money but not what they expected.

If they still made money, what's the risk? I don't consider "X chance of making 100% return, (100-X) chance of making 10% return" to be much of a risk.
So I just checked the docker website (http://www.docker.io/learn_more/) and there is still a flag up stating it's not yet ready for production use. Does this mean you guys/gals are gaining enough confidence in it now?
In Haskell, I often suffix lists with 's' or 'es':

f (x:xs) = ...
g args = ...

I also often prefix 'Maybe' types with 'm':

mValue <- gets (Map.lookup key)
I would say that adding inches and feet is a well-defined operation, you just need to take the different scales into consideration. How much more complicated does the Go code get if you want to allow for addition of inches and feet, but still prevent nonsensical things like adding inches and seconds?

How much more complicated does the code get if you then want to allow for the division of length and time to produce velocity?

An example: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/doc/html/boost_units.ht...
His first recipe missed out a number of micronutrients that while not necessarily fatal in the mid to short term, wouldn't be that much fun to go without. IIRC, Creatine, Tyrosine, Beta-Alanine, and a number of others.
"While there are an average of 150,000 car fires in the U.S. each year."

Straight from the article.
So what do the majority of recipients see (who don't have images load by default)?
Why are people investing in new top level domains?
Ok. So domains have been much unchanged since the beginning. Well at least in respect to the 3 majors; .com, .org ,.net. Then there are some well established new-er TLD's i.e. .fr, .de, .co.uk etc... Now people (opportunists) want a domain like:

somewhere.holiday

why?

If your SEO and your link backs point to a site which offers value then domain is surely pointless?

If so, why are investors excited by such dns choices?
I don't think the NYT Editorial Board has actually seen the contents.
Timing is definitely part of it.

Being too early can kill you. If you think your idea is awesome but too early, my advice is to keep trying for as long as it takes. Docker was not my first attempt at solving this particular problem :) [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://bitbucket.org/Foi3GraS/dotcloud-fork/commits/1

[2] https://github.com/dotcloud/cloudlets/commit/0af885a5266fba7...

[3] https://bitbucket.org/dotcloud/vm2vm/commits/2a34438989fbff0...
There may be a problem. We can consider the Tesla as a car body bolted on top of a huge battery. Collisions with road debris seem to be sufficient to pierce the battery's armour and start a fire.

This isn't disastrous. Problems like this routinely emerge with new designs. And at least the flammable materials stay in one place (unlike a gasoline engine). But still, a fire's a fire, and I'm sure Tesla's engineers are working overtime trying to figure out a solution.
I'm not sure what this has to do with a contract. It's just a matter of trademark law.
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Are you suggesting that Leafs and Volts never collide with road debris?
It’s interesting how most of the machines seem to quickly reach a steady loop, freeze with no further changes, or descend into static with no discernible pattern. It would be cool to see how they would behave if they had access to limited I/O—the current display notwithstanding, as it’s less like listening to a person speak and more like watching their brain function.
You'd be surprised how many people don't know how to tab through multiple fields. If the expiration date is broken into multiple text fields that creates more work as "regular" users need to switch between keyboard and mouse repeatedly.
two of the three fires were from objects hitting the underside of the car.

Nissan Leaf has sold 3x more vehicles than Tesla.

Are you saying that objects don't hit the underside of Leafs? (Perhaps they are repelled magically?) Or that objects are somehow more attracted to the underside of Teslas cars? Or the Leaf accidents don't count because the Leaf owners didn't file a report that nothing happened?
Why yes... it is the same old x86 we run on our PC configurations, but that's just the instruction set we're talking about. Just look at the hardware and chip configuration, it's not a regular PC setup, they have some serious innovation going on there.
You've got 8GB of GDDR5 memory, plus a very modern, custom designed GPU embedded in the same CPU dye.
Sony has always launched systems that resist time, and I wouldn't be surprised if the PS4 stayed around for the next 4/5 years to come.
In case you are not trolling:

1. Everything is as close to the upstream package as possible. Debian maintainers sometimes heavily modify their packages and that makes finding help difficult. Slackware rarely changes their packages or only does if necessary.

2. Package manager does not do dependency checking. This makes installing packages from source easier because I don't have to worry about breaking the system when compiling. If something breaks, it's easy to know what to roll back.

3. Good for understanding the innards of Linux. There are no distro specific config tools or non-standard setups. Packages may come with them, but they are standard and well documented. Good way to understand what's going on.

EDIT: I thought of one more:

4. Documentation. Patrick's documentation is great. If you have no other tools, you could get Slackware setup just reading his documents.

All said, Slackware is a throwback to when distros were just a quick way to get a Linux system running, not OSes in and of themselves. If you took each piece and compiled it yourself, you'd get Slackware. That's pretty cool.

But seriously, that's the beauty of Linux. You go ahead and use Arch or Debian. Absolutely no one is going to stop you. But someone using Slackware has zero negative effect on you.
> Yes, it's a pretty good configuration at a reasonable price

Not even. Actually for a repackaged PC (which is more or less what it is), I find the launch price relatively expensive. I have also heard that both Sony and Microsoft took the strategy for this generation to make money on the hardware itself from day 1, so they are not selling anything at loss, apparently.
Opening paragraph: "Officials from the United States and 11 other countries bordering the Pacific are trying to complete a trade agreement by the end of the year that could help all of our economies and strengthen relations between the United States and several important Asian allies."

Sounds pretty positive and makes it look like only a totally irrational person would oppose it...

Last paragraph: "A good agreement would lower duties and trade barriers on most products and services, strengthen labor and environmental protections, limit the ability of governments to tilt the playing field in favor of state-owned firms and balance the interests of consumers and creators of intellectual property. Such a deal will not only help individual countries but set an example for global trade talks."

Again, super positive, up-beat, "let's do it!" sort of thing...

Second to last paragraph, closing: "Others are worried about provisions on intellectual property that could restrict the availability of generic medicines and grant longer copyright protections to big media companies."

Huh? Doesn't sound good at all, but if I am to believe the rest of this rosy article, these must be uneducated and paranoid people... right?

This is exactly why I personally view this as an endorsement. None of the issues raised by the EFF are addressed or even named in a meaningful name. What does it actually mean to "balance the interests of consumers and creators of intellectual property"? Are they so worried about creators or end owners?

Now let's examine what EFF is raising: Need for open debate, need for a check on the executive branch by the legislative branch, need for full disclosure of potential conflicts of interests... Sounds very reasonable to me. In fact, why wouldn't you want an open and fair debate on this? What are we to lose?

The idea that an international treaty cannot supercede the law of the land and the proper legislative processes of the land set US apart in the historic terms. Before this notion, the head of the state usually had unilateral ability to sign a treaty. Wikipedia has a solid write up on the treaty clause and I encourage everyone to read it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_Clause
For such a high price, they could pay some more attention to their own buy license page: the security code help section is partially (mostly) hidden.
Haskell can do it: there's a library with common Unicode operators[1] (including ∘ for function composition) and an extension allowing you to use Unicode syntax[2] (things like → in place of ->).

I've seen these things used, but they're not super common. People still worry about not being able to input Unicode symbols in their editor! I personally think this is absurd in this day and age. Naturally, it's very easy to do in Emacs; somebody even wrote a Haskell input mode[3].

[1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-unicode-symbols-0.2....

[2]: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.2.1/html/users_guide/synta...

[3]: https://github.com/roelvandijk/emacs-haskell-unicode-input-m...
Huh. While I rarely use them nowadays, I still find tables much easier than divs.
I understand how Amazon works ... I was implying that it didn't work the same for McKenzie Bezos. (I should have been more clear that I meant purchases suspended rather than the account).
Unfair comparison still. How many of those cars were old and in disrepair? How many of them were non-fatal accidents? How many of them were due to running over debris?
I learned about it from creack (lead contributor according to github) @ a startup meetup in SF.

Things that impressed me:

1. super passionate

2. he was very receptive and quick at squashing bugs I reported (real or not)

3. docker was super portable (the same across all linux distros)

4. they (the docker team) had real solutions for the long application deployment times that were plaguing me

Everyone seemed to know it would succeed, which is rare around here.
I mean, tbh I really don't care - I still want one. I feel like this is the same as saying people get struck by lightening.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out with ShopLocket making a solid play in the "after Kickstarter but before shipping" space.

http://shoplocket.com
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this will probably ruin nobodies reptuation, our memories are very short and similar things that have happened in the past have been forgotten or swept away.
Author of this blog post here.

They claim that they need to keep it secret to maintain a strategic advantage as each of the countries trade off different provisions that could benefit or harm their economies. US Trade Rep says that if they make the draft texts public, then it will somehow effect their "game plan" against other nations.

This justification has become ever more dubious (or at the very least, extremely hypocritical) given the fact that the NSA has been spying on trade delegates and shares that information with the US Trade Rep. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/world/no-morsel-too-minusc...)
hey good to e-meet you! you still in Tokyo? would like to see and hear how the interview went on S13.
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The mistakes and solutions section is great info, thanks. That said, there's a bunch of problems with the actual implementation. I put together a payment form that converts very well for selling my book Mastering Modern Payments[1] and it's included with the middle package ($59 instead of $149). It uses jquery.payment from Stripe which several people mentioned earlier in the thread.

[1]: https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments
Okay, well at least you're trying something new. That should get some attention. Good luck!
In other news cars tend to burn when their fuel tanks are punctured after colliding with large objects at high speed.
I'm using FireFox 25.0 and I got a notice about my browser not being new enough ... I never win!
Theres a term for that! I think its called passive agression. Passive agression and active accomodation (ie, being nice) shouldn't be confused though. The purpose of course, for the adversary, is to disguise the former as the latter to gain a tactical advantage. While the laguage used by the parent was (somewhat) blunt, I don't think the pheonomenan he is describing is an empirical anomaly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive-aggressive_behavior
When you are an ops and spend time finding the perfect way to make "redeploying easier than fixing", docker became the answer.

I got to meet the docker team (a lot of french dudes in the team!). Very passionate, technically super sharp, and really fun ! They were interested in my point of view and opinion. Plus, there lead dev knows how to party from what i have seen during a meetup !
Amen. I can't believe what people do for free, and that OSS has taken off at all. While there's room in this world for all kinds, my soul dies a little when someone comments, "wow, kids these days are so smart with computers!" While they watch them install iPhoto off the App Store.

It's not true, but there will always be awesome people with awesome ideas and be willing to share them with the community. It's like http://bedrocklinux.org/ Damned if I need to use it, but it's awesome that someone is pushing boundaries like that. Or CoreOS, or Docker, or Debian, or Sugar (OLPC)... It just goes on. Be a hacker, and enjoy life. Loud people are everywhere, but it's the quiet ones in the corner doing the cool work.
I've yet to see any Tesla car on the road. I have seen the Leaf and Volt. I have a feeling they have different geographical distributions.
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Well, you could argue the labor theory of value, and since that directory consumed your labor it theoretically has value. Does it have value to anyone but you? Probably not.
No response yet, hmm. Seriously, guys, I have a $100 bill here with your name on it.
Don't VPN clients generally let you specify which traffic goes over the VPN and which goes out directly via the gateway? When considering to finally implement an OpenVPN running on my home server to provide remote access when I'm at a coffee shop, etc I always figured that I would have the ability to make this choice?
Skeuocard (http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/) was on the top page of HN a couple of months ago.