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A platform play for "Snail-Mail as a Service (SMAAS)"!

I love the idea, but most of my outgoing mail requires that I send along a specific piece of paper. Most of my bills can be paid on-line now, but my quarterly income/tax declarations require a coupon that's 1/4 letter size.

I suppose it's the signature they really want (though my account details are on there too and for some people, that eliminates incoming payments that can't be read due to illegible hand-writing).
"Google" was also one of the main forces combating DRM in HTML. Amongst others, the guy with his foot in his mouth in this thread (Tab) was one of the most vociferous opponents of the DRM proposal.

(there's also, of course, Hixie, but it's not surprising that his opinion wouldn't be informed by his employers)
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Is it possible to Kickstarter to fund science or engineering projects?

Kickstarter seems geared towards the music, arts or engineering with clear visual impact. Most science does not have elevator pitches -- they are hard to explain or visualize, and they deal with unsexy issues.

Einstein said if you can't explain a theory to a 5 year old you don't understand it. Is that even really true?

I doubt you can explain the technical details of web apps to the typical 5-year old. Perhaps that is just a defect of our current explanations?
The original announcement implied that name-change bikeshedding was the only thing holding up this wonderful feature. TFA counters that disagreements remain over "the syntax and the semantics". ISTM that this kind of difference of opinion is expected and nearly unavoidable, but doesn't portend especially dire consequences. The difference between "feature-switch" and "google-kicks-ass-hell-yeah-suck-it-wc3-feature-switch" was a PITA in the past, but now we have tools to abstract away the details. If web developers collectively decide that the pending Chrome feature is more broken than simply having obnoxious names would imply, then we'll just have to endure another round of this when Mozilla or whoever comes out with the next version.
>Storing every package tarball as an attachment on a CouchDB document is painful. It works fine for a few hundred docs, but at well over a quarter million package versions, this makes view generation and compaction much too onerous, and the file becomes too large to ever successfully compact.

How big is the average npm package? Is this issue due to couchdb's treatment of attachments, or simply due to the size/volume of the packages themselves?
It reads as an advisement, but it really is an ultimatum. the analogy you provide about advisements is that something is going into effect which the adviser has no power over. However, Google does have the choice whether or not this goes through. It's not the weather, it's not a god, there are people that make decisions and they can be modified. That is where the ultimatum is, just disguised as an advisement.
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Well then I would recommend a video or screenshot instead, or just populate with fake data. I personally just wanted to see what the possible values could be.

I know the service is new so I am giving you the benefit of the doubt. But if I came to your website from Google or a news article, I would be immediately turned off by that giant sign-up popup.
I can't recommend Codewars highly enough as a way to sharpen your skills. It's like a slightly more verbose, prettier Project Euler.

They currently support CoffeeScript, Javascript, and Ruby, but are working on supporting a ton more. Definitely worth investigating.
No story here. No budget provider I've looked at says they will help you withstand a DDoS attack. [Thanks to the commenter who says OVH does, I will look into them closely.]

I did this due diligence for a 10-user app. These guys have no excuse for not planning for a DDoS with a serious business.
I think my point has gotten lost somewhere. My point is that we can and therefore should do less damage, not for the sake of the human race's karma or to "fix the planet", but for the sake of individual animals. Not because it's right in the philosophical sense, but because thinking about animals not suffering makes me happy.

Sorry if I am misunderstanding you, but all your replies seem to be about the big picture, while that is exactly what I was saying I "don't get about most people".
Kickstarter is fairly restrictive about what you post, but you could certainly do so with IndieGoGo or another similar service.
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Eventually:

Water: too much in some places, not enough in other places.

Increased starvation and disease, from drought, mono-cultural industrial production of food from the likes of Monsanto and ADM, and constant and spreading low grade war from national militaries above and local militarized police forces below.

Economic catastrophe caused by revolution or effective dissolution of the United States and other current economic leaders.
It may be, but I assume not everyone wants to pay for that, and may prefer just having Newegg's service + Netflix instead. This is smart business/pricing strategy from Newegg, and it couldn't have come at a better time.
I can't . However, I have discussed with my management that we should talk about our work with AngularJS to be able to recruit programmers, who are otherwise choose to go to 'exciting' start-ups. When we are ready, we will reach out to AngularJS to showcase our apps. We are doing mobile and tablet focused web apps as well as traditional web apps with AngularJS.
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Is this data accesible somewhere?
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Thanks, we're going to address this in the next release.
> Anybody holding their breaths for full ES6 support?

For which browser? Because currently, Gecko leads by a half marathon, and it's a marathon: http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/
We must use different parts of the web then. I don’t use google docs, and if you really want an online word processor use the web version of Microsoft Word since they have made the effort to make it accessible. While it is not a good experience I was just able to create a gist, see
https://gist.github.com/jareds/8832236
Most of what I use the web for is online shopping, reading news, and technical documentation. This is generally accessible although I do agree that web apps like Gmail leave a lot to be desired. That is why I use Mail on OSX or the mail app on my iPhone. The popups are annoying but usable. If something doesn’t behave as expected then you should check the bottom of the page to see if something new appeared. I realize I am not an average blind computer user but in my case I will stand by my 95% comment. My 95% may be a lot higher than the average blind user though.
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I've hit a major wall in figuring out the best workflow for this exact scenario. Good to finally hear an official suggestion on the matter. I've been depending on shared directories, so I'll definitely be experimenting with network filesystems.

As Docker evolves, it would be great to have some kind of official resource to get suggestions for optimal workflows as new features become available (the weekly docker email is my best resource right now). Searching the internet for info has been a huge chore as most of the resources (including the ones hosted by docker.io) are woefully out of date.
Your code may be elegant, but mine works. Until it doesn't. And then I spend hours and hours of time trying to find my bug because of my crappy code.
You criticized the analogy and ignored the entire rest of the text which made my point entirely clear. Why do people do this?

OK, fine, here's another analogy: "I'm going to be leaving in 10 minutes, so if you have any questions, you'd better ask them now." The thing being "threatened" here is entirely in the speaker's control — he could opt not to leave. So is that an ultimatum? I don't think it would generally be viewed that way. Why? Because there is no threat being used as leverage to get something — the speaker (i.e. Google) isn't really making demands here, but rather stating what it's going to do. The thing being "threatened" will happen regardless; this is just an advisement that it will happen so that you can respond accordingly.

Put another way, the "threat" component of an ultimatum can't be unconditional. It is conditioned on noncompliance. AFAIK that's the defining characteristic of an ultimatum. It is possible to read this as being a conditioned threat, but it seems entirely reasonable to me to read it more in the spirit of "I'm going to do something, so here's your chance to get ready." It's entirely possible that Google doesn't care if it receives any further input (which is theoretically the "demand" in this ultimatum).
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Ultimately though if you're relying upon intelligence agencies, ISPs, etc to change what they do, good luck. Unless I can be elected head of the NSA, the democractic process isn't going to help much here.
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Thank you for this. I found it extremely helpful.
This is amazing, a real glimpse into what scientific research will look like in the future. One issue I see is actually motivating average people to back research - unlike Kickstarter, the reward is intangible (although much more worthwhile). I think this will gain a lot of traction amongst affluent and/or altruistic people, but building a true crowdfunding platform will be challenging, although certainly not unattainable. I'll pass this along to everyone I know, best of luck to your team!
Is it common and responsible to name the source of the credential leak like that? I can imagine that maybe other retailers would want to know that information, but I can also imagine the investigation is continuing and thus the opportunity exists for the story to become more complex.
Don't feed the troll, OVH's DDOS is state of the art. There is a LOT of reading about it on their blog.
When you have time (and are allowed to), it would be really cool if you could submit a patch against http://github.com/angular/builtwith.angularjs.org. It's not necessarily the simplest process, but there's a simple server in the repository so you can preview the change.

Just ping me on the PR and I'll be happy to merge that for you
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Even without paying for expedited shipping, I get stuff the next day from NewEgg with the free ground shipping option; one of the benefits of living in the Bay Area, near their distribution center. That turn-around is a large part of the reason I prefer to use NewEgg over Amazon, whose merchant partners typically take a week to get stuff to me.
Wow, I have an AMEX but didn't know about it.

For anyone else curious: https://www.shoprunner.com/americanexpress/

EDIT: Apparently it's not all American Express cards. My Fidelity AMEX doesn't qualify.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world (or the ocean). Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

May Ms. Mead be with us always.
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I doubt that Windows is monolithic/bloated. Convoluted sure, backwards compatibility is a bitch, but Windows is probably broken into neat little modules by now.
> Why should Google's product roadmap be subject to a consensus of their competitors?

...because they're attempting to shape standards around their product roadmap, in committees in which their competitors also participate?

You can tell your competitors to go fuck themselves and do whatever you want with your roadmap, or you can make standards promulgation and compliance a part of your roadmap, but you don't get to have your cake and eat it too.
We will. If you're rich, you'll be able to afford to drink it. Nestle will likely be one of the providers, and there will be others just like them. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nestle+water+ceo
SOrry, I meant the well-meaning curriculum writers in my hometown. No offense!
OK, I see what you're saying. But if an organization doesn't want their developers sharing this kind of information on their main web site, wouldn't they also object to developers setting up what's essentially their own hidden web page? Do you expect that developers will seek corporate approval before adding these headers?
Is Docker a good way to bring more security on a server with a few different websites? Separating the sites from each other and run nginx as a proxy in front of them?

What's the overhead?
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I'd have to view that with a large grain of salt. I'm sure there are a lot of innate components of personality that are genetic. And those components of personality do make a big difference in life outcomes. But at the same time there are a lot of home enviromental factors that I've seen make a big difference in children's lives.

For one, if you have parents who got you started reading and doing math early, you're going to have an advantage going into school. If you get school and are ahead of your peers, you're more likely to get extra attention or to be put into gifted and talented programs, which will in turn, reinforce that advantage.

Kids who come from disrupted or abusive households are going to be at an undeniable disadvantage. Kids from families that don't teach them the value of education are more likely not to value education. Kids from families with poor work habits are more likely to have poor work habits.

Again, it doesn't mean that 100% of kids who don't learn to read by 2 and have 2 perfect parents are going to fail, it just means it is harder for those kids to succeed. If that wasn't the case, parents shouldn't bother putting much effort into parenting at all. "Welp son, I hope the genes I gave ya will do ya some good, you're on your own. I'm sure you'll figure out how to feed and clothe yourself..."
The status quo now is not broken: developers who want to share IP are encouraged to incorporate their work into open source libraries so they can be used by everyone and be made robust and evolve over time. In various domains these libraries are more or less agreed upon, and the patches go through extensive review to get incorporated.

This type of system will encourage these folks to release their source code in a form compatible with your API, and 3rd parties who want to leverage their work will need to either cut-and-paste it to incorporate it into their own system (a nightmare), or access it through a slow network API, likely paying for it along the way. Libraries have solved the problem of code re-use of algorithms for the last several decades. You're basically proposing that LAPACK and BLAS and Mahout and all these great algorithmic libraries would have been best served up without any centralized coordination or binary distribution, but with each individual algorithm behind a separate API with each author publishing each one individually. I don't see how if the goal is really to enable wider distribution of good algorithmic work that you can't see that an heterogenous API-centric approach to this problem (while one that would certainly make you a pile of cash if it catches on) wouldn't really be a great step forward for the industry compared to the centralized open source library model we have now. Good algorithmic work is hard, and the model we have now results in battle hardened, robust, agreed-upon implementations of well understood algorithms.

If you really want to make me a believer, all algorithms that your API supports that have public source code should also be integrated and built into a binary library that a user can download instead. At the very least, the path for a contributor to take what they have written and additionally publish it as a appropriate binary package themselves should be minimal. For example, if I implement something in Ruby that uses your service, I should be able to push it as a un-coupled, reusable gem in a straightforward manner.
Isn't newegg only for electronics? How is this competing with amazon?
Thank you - that is very good information. I have done some perl scripting using "Finance::Quote" and "Finance::QuoteHist" but I guess I have been looking for the next step up. Particularly historical financial statement information, like EPS and Sales data quarterly history. Historical fundamentals as a data feed. I don't know where to find that. I'll check quantstart and see what they offer.
Same for me in New York (they have a warehouse in New Jersey, apparently). Maybe this program will be one of those "less than 30 minutes or it's free" deals? Or possibly delivering them slightly before we finish checkout?
Yeah, this seems bizarre. There is better access right now to cutting-edge algorithms than ever, as well as building blocks that make it easier than ever to implement the algorithms described. I've been doing this for years, and I've noticed it get progressively easier. Honorable mention to http://thepaperbay.com/ for making it easier to get around those occasional papers stuck behind paywalls.
Thanks for the best wishes. LDA was an interesting one since when we were investigating it it was our first exposure. Although the algorithm itself is well documented there was at least 3 or 4 libraries that could be implemented and we really didnt know where to go from there. We want academic papers to be accompanied by live code as you mentioned. We strongly believe this will not only increase the reach of developed algorithms but also significantly lower the bar of understanding for those who are not.
> Not because it's right in the philosophical sense, but because thinking about animals not suffering makes me happy.

Right, and that's exactly what I'm responding to: "following your happiness" in helping animals is, on the whole, actually pretty shitty for the average, randomly-selected animal (where any randomly-selected animal will tend to live in the wild, not near any humans) compared to other things you could do, like introducing invasive plants with known anti-parasitic properties to foraging ranges.

If you actually care about animals suffering less, rather than the fuzzy feeling you get by seeing an animal near you suffering less, then you should do things that maximize global animal welfare, not urban animal welfare.

Read http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sepa....
I would normally have to look it up on google or within my existing code base.

But, I still think its a good idea to refresh yourself on stuff like this before hand, because in an interview:

- you don't need the mental distraction from the real problem.

- you're always under time pressure.

- it's never a positive, if you don't know something.
Turning HMTL 5 into a competent application platform = million of man hours.

Convincing Google, Apple, Mozilla, the rest of the universe to adopt Microsoft's closed platform (even if it were Open Sourced) = billions of billions of man hours :)
Hi there,

We've been working on a site that helps connect science projects with skilled (volunteer) developers. We're about ready to launch to the general public, and would absolutely love to connect and discuss how we can help each other out if you're interested.

Please drop me an email at davedx@gmail.com

Thanks, and great job!
This is a very fun way to learn and get better. It's still in a very active development stage, so things go up-and-down regularly (which sucks when you want to get your fix), but it's mostly been awesome while I've used it the last few months or so.

If you do try it out, one of the best parts is adding your own "kata" — basically the games or tests. You will learn a lot by writing them (the community is very active in helping users improve description text and test cases). And there's nothing like seeing someone come in and absolutely blast your best effort out of the water with something even more amazing.
No problem. I do see the service being useful and I think it has potential.
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To me this shouldn't be a header. Why not create something like humans.txt? Better to do something you can opt into, instead of jamming an extra header on some guys poor cellular connection.
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Ah ok, sorry for the harsh comment.
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Sorry. I was completely oblivious to that. Will check, thanks.
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I think the biggest issue is that they are un-accustomed to technology - most of the real estate agents I've interacted with see it as a necessary pain-in-the-ass, not as something that makes them more productive. I think this will probably begin to change as "digital natives" become more influential in the industry.
... no. they make programmers feel like kings so they don't mind giving up their nights and weekends working for free.
Haven't found the answer so far. Like Amazon Prime? Or .. US only (and maybe like Amazon, for one single country).
Why not put this information in the html? Then it's only available on one page.
Apple's Mac Pro looks nothing like any computer ever made before, and their new MacBook Retina machines are radically different from their 2004 Aluminum Powerbook models.

I kind of like HP's redesigns, it shows they're trying. The Envy isn't bad for a MacBook inspired knock-off.
I'm with the others who mentioned humans.txt. No header overhead (little as it is), no need to have access to the web server (apache, nginx, etc) (how many professional devs are also their own sysadmin?).

If you want to build a plugin to display the info when you surf the web, make it read humans.txt as that is already in the wild.
Another good resource is Steven Skiena's Stony Brook Algorithm Repository [0].

It's not immediately clear on the linked page, but the "By Language", "By Problem", "Algorithm Links" targets will drop down with links to a specific page. The "By Problem" targets link to a page that is very similar to what is in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Algorithms" part in Skiena's "The Algorithm Design Manual" textbook. They each lead with an image representation of the input and output of the general case of the algorithm, a problem description, some short text description, and then links to implementations. It's not as detailed as what is in the textbook, and I'm not sure how up to date it is these days, but it's a good place to browse about.

[0] http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/
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hi emhart, interesting question. The contest format was certainly novel and helped garner a lot of early attention from press. So there's that. But I think you may be right that the contests helped us a) find experts, but also b) learn what was possible.

That somewhat fits with the idea that crowdsourcing is best when you have less info. Once you have more info, then (at least we think) it's best to work with fewer specialists. Although this is mostly referring to the customer, maybe we can apply the thinking to our product lifecycle too.