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Two unsolicited suggestions, if I may:

1. Make open source releasing of algorithms compulsory, not optional.

Think of it from your prospective clients' perspective: the upside of digging out an algorithm from academic journals and implementing it yourself is that you get to fully understand the source code (since you end up writing it yourself); you can attest its correctness; and you get to stand on the shoulders of giants by tweaking and extending it later, if you wish.

Admittedly this might not be seen as that much a benefit for business users, but for many actual users of advanced algorithms in the scientific computing community, having to use proprietary algorithms with restrictions on their use has been seen as a significant step backwards, as manifest during the controversy brewed over the "Numerical Recipes" controversy [1,2,3]. Even if the benefits are more a matter of principle than mere practicality, the palpable distaste for proprietary algorithms in the scientific computing community is something you should at least keep in mind, lest you risk alienating a core user base for your product.

2. Formally verify the correctness of every algorithm submitted.

This is as crucial as large-scale deployment for many scientific computing users, and it is one of the banes of (and reasons why) implementing the algorithm yourself. Here your product then could really offer a compelling proposition to these users.

This would also be beneficial for ensuring the reliability of your API, even if you formally waive liability to the algorithm developers (as you surely do). Else you might find yourself on the other side of securities regulators for a multi-million dollar trading glitch caused by one of your algorithms [4], or something crazy like that.

[1] In fact, in the wikipedia article for Numerical Recipes, it is claimed that one of the motivations for the development of the GNU C library was precisely to come up with a free alternative to them! See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Recipes

[2] http://aufbix.org/~bolek/download/nr.pdf

[3] http://www.astro.umd.edu/~bjw/software/boycottnr.html

[4] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-16/knight-capital-agre...
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Hehe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6803680
What, call this number and say something vague about opposing surveillance and supporting a law with an extremely vague name and no link to the actual content thereof?

A momentary tsunami of opinions will soon pass, vs the persuasive job-preserving quiet comments of a few people who know everything. I don't want to knock this effort as all efforts in the same directions help; I'm concerned that it will have little effect, vs the potential of grossly under-used objective tools of actual laws enforced starting with first principles (the Constitution).

Educate users? Start with an up-front link to the actual text of the law, with explanation of how portions of it apply and how it has real teeth vs an agency protected (sometimes with force) by extreme & legal secrecy.

I'm suspect of bills named as vapidly as "USA Freedom Act" with little addressing of its content. More like a legal Rorschach test, eliciting what individuals want to see and then asking them to act on what they imagined it is.
Has Shoprunner actually worked well for you?

I've been unimpressed. The last few times I've bought from NewEgg or TigerDirect I tried to use it but literally nothing on my shopping list was marked as shoprunner-eligible.

I signed-up because of the free-with-amex thing but I don't see myself using it all that much.
NewEgg sent me 1000 dollar Titan GPUs late, despite me paying extra for 1 day shipping. The box came with a huge hole in it and one Titan, out of the three that I ordered, was missing. I called up customer support and they dicked around and finally said they would send me new ones' overnight. Well I didn't get the GPUs for two weeks because they waited until they got the holed up package back. I would never order from NewEgg again, Amazon has amazing customer support and NewEgg just pales in comparison. Plus I would think that any box with NewEgg on the side of t, is more likely to be ransacked during shipment.
From a Canadian perspective, this is really interesting. The article makes great points about how much more advantageous learning second languages other than French could be (it mentions Arabic, Japanese, etc.), which I find pretty convincing. In Canada, though, having French language skills can be a huge advantage for anyone who wants a government job, or to teach, or to enter politics. French might not be useful or important in America, but it can be an asset in Canada.
There's nothing preventing anyone from jamming extra headers onto some guy's poor cellular connection. There's also nothing preventing competent developers from making sure this header isn't implemented in a way that it would affect endusers poorly.

Maybe it's only on a single page? Maybe just some developer documentation? Maybe an API endpoint?

No one is saying how this should be implemented, or even if it is the best idea. It's just a PoC and an idea to share amongst developers.
Good. I have wondered if I should call Newegg to complain. I really only need 6x6+2 connectors, but I still feel like I was cheated. Not only does the PSU only have 6 connectors, two of them share the same rail. One wire splits in two at the end, and 4 wires are independent. Nowhere was this mentioned.

I'm not sure how, if ever, this will affect my graphics card.
The Blink team seems dead-set on repeating the mistakes they made with the Web Audio API (shipping an immature, vendor-specific API to the web without third-party feedback and then forcing it through a standards process, etc). Pretty frustrating.
Sometimes I feel like people who sign onto startups in SV as employees are sort of like DC people who sign onto different candidates' campaigns. Every not-yet-mature/proven startup is, in a way, a kind of campaign.
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I was thinking precisely this...
Noting that parent was referring to net primary productivity (on which, Jeffrey Dukes, "Burning Buried Sunshine", is very strongly recommended: http://globalecology.stanford.edu/DGE/Dukes/Dukes_ClimChange...), the sustainability of various renewable energy technologies is an open question.

But here's the dilemma as I see it:

• Modern technological civilization is predicated on abundant cheap (high EROEI) energy sources. Technology follows from, rather than leads to, energy availability, and hence isn't an answer.

• For reasons of both depletion (peak oil / gas / coal) and pollution (greenhouse gasses, AGW, mercury and other emissions), continued use of fossil fuels isn't viable. We've already heat peak conventional liquids (oil), and global total peak oil production is likely within 5-15 years. Gas follows shortly after, coal likely by the late 21st / mid 22nd century assuming demand doesn't collapse entirely (which would generally indicate a collapse of civilization).

• If you want to continue a technological civilization of some sort, then you've got to find alternative high-grade forms of energy. Likely a mix of electrical generation (highly fungible) and limited liquid or solid fuels production (for transport and storage needs). Capacities to produce both are fairly constrained.

• The alternative is ... a non-technological level of civilization. Likely a collapse in both technological levels and population (from famine, disease, war, the usual). Which means that the future of humanity will be relying on solar power -- collected and stored by plants. And be living in a drastically depleted environment in which many ores and mineral resources, as well as water, topsoil, and ecosystems have been hugely depleted. "Rebooting" civilization would be at best very, very difficult.

• I like a technological civilization, don't get me wrong. But I don't see it as sustainable. And there's nothing in the laws of physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, or geology which say the Universe owes us our standard of living.

Answering your question about solar PV: the economics look difficult, and numerous people who are convinced of peak oil and climate change suggest that they may well not work, see Ted Trainer, John Michael Greer, Charles A.S. Hall, and Gail Tverberg among them:

"Renewable Energy: No Solution For Consumer Society" http://www.countercurrents.org/trainer240411.htm

But that doesn't exactly leave us with good alternatives, and my feeling is that PV or other high-grade solar technologies (solar thermal, Stirling or related engines) are worth pursuing with our remaining fossil fuel reserve (we really should have been pursuing these decades ago).

What's your alternative?

Enjoy your day.
Hmm, human headers. I like it.
My experience too. If they balk at the price/time it will take to build a quality solution, let them go with a lower bidder. They'll come back and willingly pay this time.
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I ordered from Newegg once and won't ever again. I had to return something and it was a major hassle that took about 10 emails to their support. Amazon makes it so much easier and asks less questions.
Thank you. Contributing to OSM will be much more gratifying than contributing to Google via Ingress was.
Eye opening at certain points, dragged on at others. Either way I'm more excited to code. I mean, program. :)
I have no idea why you think I'm talking about animal welfare.

Let me rephrase my original post: People often say "the planet will recover once we're gone", which to me sounds like something intended to make us feel better about the direction the world is heading in because the human race can't "truly destroy the planet". I disagree because in the process we'll be destroying billions of individual animals, which I think will be a tragedy in itself.

This is all I've been talking about since the beginning.
Diabetes in a modern technological society with socialized healthcare (and all modern healthcare systems are to some extent socialized) does impose negative externalities.

As do many other diseases. TDR-TB is one of my, um, favorites in this regard: http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1wc86m/the_nast...
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Bing is also getting better and better. As an advertiser we're seeing more and better viewers and upping our bing spend significantly. Their reps are also great and showing up at conferences pretty often.
My point is that narratives about the friction that exists in a society are created by the intelligentsia. For example, Mr. Vindu Goel, author of this article, is a Harvard graduate. So it's important to look at the culture of the intelligentsia in a community (those who are educated there or choose to settle there), relative to the culture of the "haves."

New York has groups of people leading the charge on behalf of the "have nots." But if you look at the background of someone in that camp, you'll often see say a Columbia or NYU grad who has family who works in finance or one of its ancillary industries. A lot of the journalists who might cover the issue of "Wall Street versus Main Street" come from privileged backgrounds themselves and eat at the same restaurants and go to the same nightclubs as people who work on Wall Street. In the Bay Area, I think you see more of a disconnect. I think a stereotypical member of the opposition might have a background like my wife's uncle: mom was a professor at Berkeley and grow up in town. That person doesn't have a lot in common with a Google engineer who moved into the city from the east coast and takes a shuttle bus into the suburbs every day for work.
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It's true and not just in biking:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation
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From my limited experience, Amazon is behind the customer experience while NewEgg is mainly behind low prices for computer parts, and that's about it. I'd say that you feel the difference when the 'limited' experiences occur, because good support only really matters when there are problems.
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This won't work.
Even if you had individual standing (4th amendment violations were actionable on their own due to bivens, but not so much anymore due to later precedent. For the most part, federal agencies don't count as a whole), your plan to flood the courts would fail.

They have multi-district litigation panels, etc, meant to manage the process of thousands of claims that are not class claims, and are spread out all over the place.
I think I've been careful enough to mention it's not the death sentence for NewEgg. I will definitely be ordering from them again, it's just that in 5 years of Amazon, never has this happend. It took NewEgg only 3 shipments to slightly mess up.

And I should mention that I've ordered this from NewEgg Canada.

Personal experience is just that :)
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It's pretty hard to do it with a conventional OSI certified license. Anyone can rebuild your product and resell it or give it away. Red Hat tried something similar but CentOS still existed.

Microsoft could come up with their own license that was "open source" but not "free software" by Stallman's definitions (ignoring here the people who've attempted to make these terms synonymous), which would allow people to change code and distribute freely among license holders, but not allow people to resell or just give out copies of Windows. I'd actually be really excited about this, because I think the FSF is overboard with their demand that everyone essentially make their software unsellable.

They could go the Red Hat route, go GPL, accept that they'll no longer get money for software licenses but instead support contracts (they could even try selling these to consumers; Dell would pay MS $50/PC not for a copy of Windows, but for a subscription to Windows Update). This would shift the dynamics of the company a bit, but probably not as much as one may think, since enterprise keeps MS afloat anyway, and it may be a good solution.
> Why not turn over the source code?

Other than a reflexive, blind compliance with capricious government demands, why would they? If you want it to be open sourced, it's of course fine to ask for that, but using the government's threat of force to accomplish it is just sinister.
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Thanks for the report. We are working on a fix ASAP and will post updates on https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/3683.
What he said.
For javascript, i'd use MIT and be done with it.

As a lawyer, i would tell a client never to use AGPLv3 javascript code on a website. The bounds of what it impacts are just way too unclear.
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It's starting to dawn on me what this will really be used for, and I can't say I'm stoked about it. But the article you've linked to seems pretty upbeat about the whole thing.
Yeah I don't think we're talking about the same 'customers'. I would not consider people who want to build something as a subset of the people we're talking about when we say 'everyone should learn code'. People who are actually motivated have bountiful, free resources to learn how to program online. People who want general knowledge of the technology landscape, at least enough to contribute in a career setting, might not benefit from skimming through a zed shaw book or doing codecademy for a week.
I would guess it would depend on the organization.

I would also guess it would depend on the developer.

I'm not an organization and this isn't an implementation. It's just a possibility.
I really like this!

Still, a simple sentence like "I was happy at noon" will not be understood at all.
This is satire, but it's hilariously close to what happened when Bill Gates attempted to install Movie Maker.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-...
That's why my plan is this :
Build a gamified app that is centered around getting wages >$22. -- Refer a friend to the movement and earn points, refer 5 get a badge, --go to a support rally or checkin at an event for the movement -get more badges(think Foursquare) - tweet about the movement earn badges...

And you're right - those earning less than $22/hour can't afford to strike at least for prolonged periods- but phase 1 is really building a database and organization of people -- being able to send a txt msg to all McDonald's workers and say. Two day strike Monday and Tuesday. -- It would be more like flash strikes across related industries.. 2 days for MCd's, 2 Days for Wendy's..etc..rotate through the list-- all to bring awareness to the cause.
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Cool idea. The Ruby code takes a long time to evaluate - even though I passed the first two challenges without any issues, this would frustrate me if I were a beginner. Why not use a Ruby REPL? Looks like you're evaluating the code server side.
You seem to be saying that the problem has been obvious for 3+ years. Has the solution also been obvious? Even to nongooglers?

I haven't followed this closely, but from the surface it seems as if a couple of paragraphs in a public spec document 9 months ago could have diffused a lot of these ostensibly reasonable sounding criticisms.
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I think the fear is this happening in the background, without your knowledge, causing you to pay more for electricity or draining your laptop battery.
Someone ask Target if they'd rather highend security w/ a missed deadline or insecure and on time...

The point: Context is king in this matter, it sounds like the OP doesnt work on things that really matter much (and hence the cost of a bug is miniscule)
2GB in transfer costs is a few pennies. That's why I suggested it as a paid feature.

I travel a lot, often unexpectedly, and I have a 128GB iPad for precisely that reason.
Also if you have AMEX, watchout for their offers tab. During December they had $25 off $50 & $75 for Newegg, Amazon & Walmart. No codes, no referral, just use your Amex card at checkout and it automatically deducts from your statement. It also means you can use Ebates & other coupons on top of it.
It would be great if CPU mining of bitcoin wasn't so laughably inefficient as to be pointless. The hashing rate that Tidbit claims to achieve, if left running continuously at the current difficulty level, would earn about a penny per decade.
For those who don't know what this refers to: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-...
Fish farms are some of the worst pollutants in the ocean. Remote stretches of Patagonia are becoming cess pools of salmon shit as a result of salmon farming.

Don't get me wrong, there are sustainable ways to farm fish and other seafood, but most are a complete ecological disaster. Even something as seemingly harmless as mussel farming has detrimental impacts on the local ocean ecology, as surprise, surprise mussels produce waste and accumulating it in one place is not a good thing.
[...] proverbial monkey playing with a live grenade.

Now I'm curious! What proverb do you imagine he was thinking of here?
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Would developing an educational computer game about science (i.e. based on SimCity but with special features to support using it in the classroom and teaching topics like global warming, pollution, economics, etc) be within the scope of this site?
I am thinking commoditization of the entire device is flawed while commoditization of parts is not. The way people think they can buy a PC for cheaper than the price of its parts is probably a good example.
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It just seems like a personal complaint on your part. You seem to feel cheated. That's fine, I'd feel the same way.

But to say it's DRM when the content isn't even digital smells like bait. It's clearly a form of copy protection but DRM is a different issue.
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I agree they are basically like cd companies. No incentive to change (except the obvious one everyone but they see)
I find it depends on the podcast. Generally professionally produced radio is well paced and edited, chatty enthusiast podcasts on the other hand have, for me at least, a poor information density and I get why someone might listen to them sped up.
I wouldn't call it horrible but you can't compare it to NetFlix or Hulu. Their selections are very limited and they rarely update ~ every 3 months or so.
I live near Edison, their warehouse in NJ. I can pick up up same day with their "will-call" program, or I can get it delivered tomorrow or the day after for free :)
Author forgot to mention that CPAN modules are automatically tested on various platforms and different Perl versions.

The test matrix,
http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/W/WebService-NationBuilder...

The test itself,
https://metacpan.org/source/AANARI/WebService-NationBuilder-...
Sad how? Would you rather the funding be enforced through brutality?
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This is misdirection. The allegation is that Google is using it's market power to subvert the standards process and subvert the open web it once championed now that it is powerful enough to do so.
Why 10 years? Given that we've known what a mess the software development world is for 50 years and nothing has improved, what makes you think anything will be better 10 years from now?
>How much developer time do you waste down the line because they have to fix the "working" code?

That is absolutely spot on. One of the hardest thing is explaining to management that the code your co-worker wrote in a "flash" three years ago is still eating up developer time today. We have a few ill-conceived or badly written systems that seems to eat up time and constantly interfere with new projects. The problems are pretty much invisible to management, because the developers spend a few hours here and there proppring up the badly written systems. Over time you end up having to spend all your time just putting out fires rather than helping the business moving forward.
This is excellent news. I really look forward to seeing Experiment grow. These are two challenges I foresee...

1. At the moment, the people posting projects are mostly PhD students. This is excellent for PhD students, but the real challenge is getting more entrenched scientists to explore this new medium. I've seen a few professors, but not many. I'd love to know how Experiment are planning to engage the science community.

2. Currently it's only open to US scientists. This really sucks for the rest of us. A major potential benefit of this platform is to open up science to those in places where science funding is really bad, unlike the US where it's just not as good as it used to be, but is still tens of billions per year. Please fix this.
Yeah, I think people just pretty much assume that a programming book would have a digital version these days.
I'm surprised it got so far on hn too. Thank you for the video. I didn't realize this was a style, so I'm excited to see it.
Okay then, how do I find a travel agent that will book me the cheapest flight to London for 50 bucks?
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