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I use this myself to host my website. I've forked it and added buildpacks for Jekyll and Octopress (one of the recent commits broke Octopress) for anyone who's interested and although I haven't cleaned it up enough to submit a pull request, it works perfectly. May take a look at sending one over the holidays

Octopress bare repo: https://github.com/rodeva/octopress-dokku-bare

Dokku fork for Jekyll and Octopress: https://github.com/rodeva/dokku
All of a sudden, the US is sending vast amounts of photographic film to China
Yes that's the way to do it. No need to "request money" as explained by someone else.
I just applied for an invite and received it in ~15 minutes.
Again, so what? Carly Fiorina is a woman CEO of a significant corporation, and her tenure has been a disaster.

Incidentally, the CFO of Lehman's at the time of the crash was a woman too, yet it's Dick Fuld who gets mentioned...
I can imagine this tool being pretty useful. Particularly if you had an URL structure that let people autogenerate links.

Your demo should have default code in b/c I wanna try it out, but don't want to find some actual code to put in there.
Just like any other market when you read about it in the news, it has already been factored/baked into the price most likely.
Totally agree with this sentiment.

The best thing about teaching kids some basic programming is that it shows them that they have the power to shape the world, rather than just experience it.

Whether or not they go on to do anything code-related in their "real life", I think getting that experience at an early age is extremely empowering.
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> Border officials won't have a clue. If they confiscate your laptop, buy a new one.

Is that really your mentality? That's fucked up. If they take away my $3000 work mac I'd be absolutely livid.

Actually I'm travelling soon. What precautions should I take? What can I even do if they take my electronics?
And, a good PM also says "no" or "can it wait" or "ok, if you insist, but here's the downside" to folks on the other side of the line - customers, senior management.
No you don't need to read 10+ hours of news about the same story unless there's new information and it has an effect on you. I didn't make that point so I'm not sure what you're getting at.

There's plenty people can do: develop a means to protect ourselves from the governments spying, activism, find out who was responsible at the top and try and get them removed.

I used to work in television news. I agree with you that some of it is just entertainment. The problem is that's what people want. Not everyone. But a good portion who never speak out about the news don't mind the entertainment part.

There's also reason to educate yourself about the world and culture without having to directly apply it. But that's another philosophical argument.
did any one notice this "Instagram for Android version 5.0 is available today on Google Play." Android 5.0 ??
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Let let me explain why one might watermark their photos. I sell aftermarket car parts for JDM vehicles. Most of these products don't have images from the manufacturer. Why? Well there lots of reasons but it boils down to different configurations. It would be too time consuming to take an image of every product in every configuration for every model they sell. So they may have a generic picture of an exhaust system, that may or may not be the product you're paying for.

I know that consumers like to see what they buy. I want to have pictures of every image I sell. To do that, I need to order 1 of everything I plan to sell so I can take photos of each item. As you can see it gets pretty costly. I'm spending time, money and effort, to give the best possible shopping experience. All while letting the customer know I have a product in my hands that my competitors don't.

My competitors on the other hand. They just signed up for a new drop shipping account with the same distributor but guess what? They have no images of the items they sell and have no capital to order the item in. So where do they get those images? You guessed it, from everyone else.

When I first started I remember giving discounts to customers who would allow me to open their package and take showcase photos before sending them. I would be upset if someone used my photos without my permission. I don't have time or money to police the internet. So I protect my investment through the use of the water mark. If not, it'd be like Ebay where you see 40 different sellers using the same exact product image, atrocious.
No-one's forcing them to pay for ads on Google Shopping, it's just the only way to show up above the fold on Google searches for the products you're selling, which happens to be one of the main ways potential customers will look for sellers. (Google's the best-known search engine and set as the default almost everywhere, in large part based on their reputation from back when they actually tried to provide the best results rather than the most profitable ones.)
I know this sounds pedantic and distracts from your software, but that's because the website really distracts. With any service or product, make the focus on that thing instead of the website taking the limelight, because even if it works you still steal focus.
> If we publish our home brewed content without watermarks and it is lifted off google and used to compete against us, we have no effective recourse.

Sure you do. Compete back. Preferably on price and quality of your product rather than the prettiness of your pictures.

Anyone can take a picture of a CPAP machine. Yours aren't special, and if that's what's harming your business, you're doing something wrong. Probably a lot of things.
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Most the issues under "bower is a mess" are being discussed in the https://github.com/bower/bower.json-spec repo. I have a number of proposals to improve the "main" directive and other require paths.

There is a strong dissenting opinion in bower community that it should basically be just like "npm" and none of these structured require build tool hints should be encouraged. It'd be great if others in support of the current Sprockets bower integration or this Rails Asset tool to voice their opinion and real world use asset for improving the state of the bower.json manifest.

Thanks,
Josh, author of Sprockets.
Keep in mind Mint is somewhat restricted to US. There might be a market for similar apps for other regions.
It's probably hard to have a general rule about something like that. My take away from the article was that much of the current news that we consume isn't particularly useful to us--it doesn't improve the way we think or act, it just makes us sad and afraid.

Like, say, watching a report about a kidnapped child. Or reading about the trial of a serial killer.
Uhh..not always. The work is balanced out, but often, there is a net loss of jobs. There may always be a need for mundane labor, but that doesn't mean it will be priced at a point that makes living very sustainable. And no, technology doesn't necessarily make sustenance cheaper -- perhaps in theory but not in practice. Technology, like any other kind of a driver of industrial development, frequently concentrates power in the hands of those who can take it. Sometimes, that happens in a way that does make it such that more people can live better on less. It also sometimes happens in a way that blots out much of China's skyline with dangerous smog.

The ability for people to be able to live well, on the whole, is something that depends on society. Technology is merely a lever, not an autonomous agent or operator.
That's not a rebuttal. Look at the diffs for Taleb/Dobelli and Chabris&Simons/Dobelli for yourself. This is textbook plagiarism.
This is why software patents are such an evil. If you've been granted a software patent it's fairly easy to shake down someone that's allegedly infringing because it's cheaper to pay the amount demanded than it is to litigate. For this very reason, a tactic used by some patent trolls is to go after small companies that they know can afford the "license fee" but can't afford to fight back in court. Lodsys are well-known for this.

Some companies with deep pockets are now fighting back at patent trolls to make it as expensive for them to do business as possible, and possibly even invalidating the patent in question. Regular ol' software companies obviously can't afford this, as it comes with price tag in the millions.
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> So, would I give my bank credentials to a company of which business model is to sell its user's data?

I think this sentence is poorly written. I'd replace "of which" with "whose" and "user's" with "users'".
Who deemed the transaction "too risky"? Coinbase, or your bank?
UK to introduce preferential visas for "tech experts"
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If there were "obviously people before YogaGlo" doing the same thing then any citation that can be date verified of that will invalidate the patent.

This has nothing to do with first to file. You still need to meet obviousness and novelty requirements.

The move actually is to reduce the legal wranglings and to come in line with the rest of the world.
And somehow there are still people who believe patents protect the little inventor from being robbed blind by big businesses.

The worst thing that can happen to an innovator is not that somebody copies your precious thing, is that they (trolls or not) sue you first, that you can't even compete. Even if the patent is bogus and you hope to theoretically win the legal battle you'll go broke from even trying.
This will have a huge impact on Snapchat, IMO. Instagram Direct allows you to keep a conversation going with close friends, which is much more engaging and fun. Snapchat does not allow for that. One of the reasons that I'm not as prolific on Snapchat is that I just can't know what the hell I'm going to take a picture of next in response to someone's Snapchat. This addresses that issue by allowing just one picture to be the instigator for a conversation. Obviously loyal Snapchat fans will still stay there but I think the less prolific Snapchatters will opt to send a picture this way rather than thru Snapchat.
Next stage Moody and the like will grant an "AAA" on everything related to bitcoin and the final stage is a worldwide financial disaster.
How many months it takes an average worker to earn what the CEO makes in an hour
Elsevier — owner of Mendeley — also going after individual academics
Nice!

Several options were recommended when I asked for help learning SQL several months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5713882 ), including one interactive website:

http://sqlzoo.net/
> Lock is to box as encryption is to computer.

Um, you realize that you can't carry locked boxes through customs and then refuse to open them, right? That comparison actually hurts the case for taking encrypted data through customs.
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You're mostly right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Technical_specif...

The cell processor had a main PowerPC core and eight floating-point SIMD co-processors called synergistic processing elements (SPE). For the PS3, one of the eight SPEs was disabled and another was reserved for the operating system, leaving the other six for developers.
we are hiring Go developers :-)
My forearms are tilted upwards very slightly; the kinesis is indeed a bit "high" and my desk has no keyboard tray, nor is the height adjustable. It does bother me in the sense that I would prefer to have my forearms level or tilted slightly downwards. On the other hand, it doesn't feel like my setup is causing any actual discomfort or ergonomic problems.
"Why I've stopped [perfectly normal thing] and you should too!"
What is hilarious is that this article was Number 1 on Pocket Hits Best of 2013.

A reading app's top read article was an article about giving up reading.
I wonder what he would think of the proliferation of cell phones (now) and how they distract immensely from life and thought.
I rely on talking to people who share my interests and do read the news. Works pretty well.
Versus Photostream!!!!! This is almost identical to Photostream which really is an under-appreciated iPhone product.
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Agreed. The online material is outstanding. What worries me is how many people went through it and still feel their data science skills are lacking (90% of people I talked to). 'Yes, I took the Andrew Ng course; it's great, I feel like I learned a lot. But... now what?'

Data science is such a complex skillset that to reach mastery nothing beats an apprenticeship (sitting elbow-to-elbow with people who are world-class at it). This is why we are launching an an intensive 12-week pair-programming-based course called Data Science Retreat:
http://datascienceretreat.com

It assumes people have gone through at least one of the popular MOOCs, and know one programming language well. Then it builds from there.

On top of that, it tries to bump up business and communication skills, which are often lacking in many PhD-level people. We want to record presentations, given in front of a non-technical audience, and use the recording to give laser-targeted feedback. If you cannot convince the CEO in a 10-min. meeting, all your predictive modeling efforts will be wasted.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the organizers.
I think this will pretty substantively impact Snapchat's moderate to less prolific users. Most people don't NEED their pictures to self-destruct, they weren't that embarrassing in the first place. This however, allows for more fun engagement after the initial picture sending and once users get a feel for that, people would opt for this I believe.
I got to speak with Harley F once, and I was blown away by how thoughtful he was. He was very, very present and gave me his fullest attention. It was a pleasure talking with him. I've also interacted with some of the Shopify folk on Twitter from time to time and they're all just lovely, lovely people.

I think a world with Shopify in it is a happier place than a world without, and I wish them all the success in the world.
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Not myself directly, but my cube mate had this problem before he left for greener pastures.

There was no resolution. He tried to teach them SQL, however when that failed he fell back on at least trying to get the Cognos scripts under SVN. He left two weeks ago, and just last week I overheard a conversation along the lines of:

"He showed me this Tortoise thing, but when I hit update everything has red next to it. It used to be green, but no matter what I do it stays red."

At this point, I don't even know what could have been done. He was probably working on this for his entire employment here, which was close to a year.
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Yeah, this is an issue of "probability" in the physical sense not being the same thing as probability as defined by the Komolgorov axioms -- essentially, a sample space that does not have unit measure. This can end up being "resolved" by redefining the sample space, and the notion of what an "elementary events" is for physical interactions, for something we can define (and normalize) a total measure over, or by accepting the fact that probability isn't an accurate/complete description of what's going on (in the same way that quantum mechanics resulted in accepting that measurement wasn't a complete description of what's going on).
Sure, but the process can become wildly unbalanced. If the engineering is enough of a limiting factor that 90% of the planned ideas never happen and the 10% remainder consists entirely of mission-critical features, then a PM doesn't have much value proposition and it makes sense to combine the engineer and PM roles (supplemented with a culture of "why are you doing that" at standups to prevent tunnel-vision).

The opposite can happen too, of course, when the engineers focus on features that nobody actually wants. I think grandparent's point was that PMs aren't always a good cure for this problem.
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Photostream is really the end game for what sharing photos should be. You serve it on space that you rent privately from Apple. You have comments, likes, and filters. You can post photos of any size. Your social network is not being analyzed because Apple is selling you the space (iCloud) and the device (iPhone).
I was raised on NPR and have used/use it as my main source for general news and find it very informative. Although it is not perfect, NPR seems to focus on the delivery of information in a balanced (if that is possible) way allowing me to draw my own conclusions. My problem with the big news outlets (cnn, msnbc, fox, etc) is that they are clearly a business and focused on profitability (I have much empathy for them as I do the same when I am at work). The problem is when editorial decisions are made not by what is news worthy but by what will draw the most eye balls. For me it feels presenters are trying to one up each other with outrageous comments as their personal views become the story at the expense of the news. I am sorry but I want the news presented in a sterile/factual way. But instead it feels like American Idol with the presenters angling for a book deal, more twitter followers or other forms of personal enrichment. Of course there is nothing wrong with self-promotion, I do it every day at work, but maybe I am old fashion in my longing for the days of Ted Koppel who for the most part delivered the facts as he knew them and purposely tried not to show emotion one way or another. So I don’t think consuming news is bad but the self-promotion/echo chamber creating delivery of that news is another thing entirely.
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My point is that you still not to manage this. Heroku does that for you.
Thanks for the interesting perspective.
This doesn't help you since you already have a catalog of photos, but I wonder if you might get around this rule if you took pictures of <part> on a backdrop with your logo repeated.
That way, sure, I could try to crop it to get rid of your logo, but if it's an irregular shape I'd have to Photoshop your stuff out. Or maybe a sticker with your logo on an unimportant part of the product.
When Fiorina was the CEO of a significant corporation, HP, she got a lot of ink, too. Of course, HP itself, got a lot of ink before, during and immediately after her tenure there.
Yes, Snowden was everywhere for a long time in the media. But that doesn't change even a bit. Yes, we people were and are concerned, but as you may have heard in the media response. Otherwise it wouldn't keep aired for so long, just because of honest journalism. They need money too.

Keep in mind that the "Snowden Affair" only reflects the morale of the citizen, not that of the government ruling their citizen. And the media can show it as often as they wish, but the German folk is the last to stand up for it. That's really no pessimism. I can see that there are protests in almost every country in the world against Governments, for all kinds of reasons. I don't know exactly why, but protests in Germany are much smaller and less frequent. I wish I knew why. Friends keep telling me that the folk is numb and doesn't care anymore, but I can't believe that. The situation is far worse in Italy and France where the entire media is ruled and owned by just one person for each country. However, that doesn't really help us.

We're probably the first nation, that officially "fired" it's president (Wulff). According to him, it's all because he called and threatened the Media, which started the anti Wulff campaign. That resulted in the media humiliating his credibility publicly. However, he wasn't without fault, because he was cheapish and accepted offers from the industry. Now he's at court, because of this! You can see this kind selfishness spread through the whole political landscape in Germany.

We have many parties, but only two that count: The red & The black party. Other parties are just their allies or help them to rip votes from their enemies. These main parties are very similar to the USA and represent the democrats vs conservatists.

* The Red (SPD) party originally represented "The Workers"..
* The Green (Grüne) party originally stood for the "The Environment & Green Energy".
* The Black (CDU & CSU) party still represent the "Conservative pro Economy & Industry opportunists".
* The Left party originally represented "leftism", but now just fights for survival and represents popular ideas.

That back-story was needed, so that you can imagine how lost the fight is. Currently it's as clear as never before, that all political parties agree on most points. Interestingly, they keep their meetings and agreements secret from the public. But announce things like agreements between the Green, Black and Red party. Should be shocking, but you can't be shocked when it's slowly introduced like this.
You don't need a patent to be defensive. You only need publication. You can get that publication with an A document (published but not examined/granted) if you wish, there are cheaper ways; write it down and have it notarised.
That this is the top comment on Hacker News, rather than discussion about ideas, demonstrates Rolf/Taleb's ideas pretty well
I might give Zuck my bank credentials but I would have no trust whatsoever in some random .cc site (whose demo doesn't work).
First OSS PFM?

Really?

http://skrooge.org/
http://www.gnucash.org/
http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/
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"“Some of the teachers were getting the iPad on the first day of school with their students, can you imagine? All the students were on Facebook, Twitter and the teachers were like, ‘Oh my God, this is not working,’ and blaming the technology because he or she was not ready,” said Karsenti, the Canada Research Chair for information and communication technologies in education."

My cousin was required to buy an iPad when he started secondary school (Grade 7). The teacher spent the first week trying to set up his own device.

I don't know how a tablet can prove useful given how most classes are taught in Quebec. You have to adjust how the teacher will interact with the student since the "teacher in front of the class" way won't work with iPads on every desk. I for one also don't listen as much when I have a screen in front of me.

If they're trying to close the gap between technology and learning, they're unfortunately not doing it right.
virtual currency ? money as we know it is already a virtual currency made by institution you can sue. Bitcoin is a virtual currency made by a virtual institution no one knows. The only reason you'd like to switch for a new currency is because it is a more trustworthy currency i.e one that reflect more the real economy not one based on some crypto algorithm
s/journalist/commenter

Any journalist who writes, "The market moved because of X" or "the company went bankrupt because of Y" is an idiot. I am fed up with this cheap way of "explaining" the world.
We do compete in those areas as well.

Anyone can take a picture of a CPAP machine but not every can do so after 5 years experience serving customers using them. What angles do they want to see, what zoom shots make things most clear, how do those zooms relate to the specific features and usage of that machine/mask/product.

CPAP is unfamiliar and visuals are the guide. It is important to do it right and hard to do it right. I think they are special as are the people who made them.