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Couldn't disagree more with your statement. What if you have a sidebar that appears 20+ times throughout your application in different contexts. You might decide it is too wide. Are you going to go through all your templates and change class="col-md-blah" or are you going to change one mixin?

Also, if you are providing a theme, I don't see how you lose portability. Your mixins will be relying on base bootstrap anyway?
> nooo, please!! not any more of this kurzweil crap.

Ray Kurzweil has little to do with this. When he talks about "singularity", he thinks about "accelerating change", with exponential growth everywhere, even beyond human intelligence scales.

Those who work on Friendly AI have another scenario: "intelligence explosion". Typically a self-improving AI that would grow itself into a super intelligence. You should read this introduction on the subject: http://intelligenceexplosion.com/

> This world is not some asimov sci-fi story.

Indeed. In Asimov's stories, the robots mostly behave, though in every story there is some problem with the way the laws of robotics apply.

In the real world, the laws of robotics don't work, and we
would at best be put "safe" into cushioned rooms so we can't hurt ourselves. As for emotional hurt, drugs and lobotomy are extremely efficient remedies.
Awesome! I happened to stumble upon ShareLaTeX just a couple of days ago, when I needed a CV and had no LaTeX installation available due to my personal laptop being broken.

I found it easy to get started, fast and overall a pleasure to use. :)
I use tmuxinator[0] to manage it. [0]: https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator
I saw that, but if you take a look at the wording they use for denial ("Maybe Later"), that's what they did every single time before shoving it down on all customers' throats. Plus, that question pops up every single time Hangouts gets updated and there's no way to make it stop, because surprise, you can't uninstall Hangouts. The message on the wall is very clear - in future versions of Android Hangouts will be the SMS app.

> It just makes it easier to manage SMS and Hangouts conversations side by side through the same app.

No it doesn't, it's actually quite confusing. At some point I sent a message to my wife, without paying attention if it's SMS or not and so I sent it by Hangouts because that's the default, but she's not using her Google account at all and never received the message. And you have to pay attention like every single time.

It's much, much easier to separate services, when they are in fact different. For SMS, I open the SMS app and I send and receive SMS messages. For Hangouts, I open the Hangouts app and I send and receive Hangouts messages. When I'm not sure what protocol to use for somebody, I go to that contact's details and check out the available options. If I have to read new messages, I click on the notification. If I want to reply to a new message, I'm already in the right app. What could be simpler than that?

Trying to combine Hangouts or any other SMS alternative with SMS in the same app is first of all a huge usability fail - unless that service would fallback to SMS in case delivery didn't happen, in which case there's always the question of unexpected billing, because your phone number is going to have to send that SMS and SMS can get quite expensive - so no, it's an epic failure.
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This is not creepy at all...
You know, virtually everything in vomit is something you ate on purpose. Stomach acid isn't, but we eat plenty of acid voluntarily too.
This sounds exactly like the complaints lodged against structured programming[1] by traditional GOTO-based programmers.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming
Amazing.

I have wondered about why planes have windows before - sure, it's nice to look out on takeoff and landing, but I'd rather have a cheaper flight that's otherwise the same but without windows.
As well as being a stupid thing to do, it is usually also a break of the agreement between the user and their mail provider. These usually have a clause stating that you agree to never share your credentials with a 3rd party except where required to by law.
Speaking of Android, there's a neat hacker dude at GOOG that has an unreleased Android-based visual environment based on Squeak complete with animated 3D and 2D examples. It's pretty neat that basically anything in it can be changed, and other bits of code can be imported from the web. Would be a fun environment to build a game in.
Yes, what a blessing that was, getting the most disgusting and fascist kind of war technology at the hands of an unstable superpower (and perhaps everybody else too).
>Look at every famous company and you'll find tactics that you don't agree with

Most people here recognize that growth hacking is necessary for a startup to grow. The users complain only when the tactics employed do not result in a better experience for them. This was not the case when AirBnB, YouTube, etc executed their growth hacking tactics.

AirBnB: Their growth hacking tactic of posting to Craigslist resulted in a better experience for their existing users.
YouTube: Their subtle permission to upload and watch copyrighted videos resulted in a better experience for their existing users.

LinkedIn though, seems to be misleading their existing users. That is why you see plenty of these comments. So, it is not a case of "nerds being nerds" (paraphrased) as someone commented elsewhere in this thread.
ever may be hyperbole.

An email client has a good use for it. A chat app may too. In the general case, no. It's definitely something to be very wary of.
Really surprised by all the comments here. This seems like a solid business decision by LinkedIn, riding the line of what a user is willing to accept

The comments indicate that the typical HN class of user considers the line to be crossed. Does a service like linkedin really want to upset the HN segment of their user base? Up to them, naturally.

If you're not willing to do desperate things

Yeah, and when linkedin sells all our info because they're "desperate", the only people who will be surprised are fools.

Personally, I feel that if they're resorting to "desperate" measures to succeed, then they don't have a solid business model.
>I much prefer the murder of limited numbers innocent civilians with drones (which is usually a mistake) to the mass murder of innocent civilians by "Shock and Awe" tactics and cluster bombing.

Sure, as long as it's your side/country/flag that's doing the killing.

And it's not about preventing baddies, it's about the consequences of building a totalitarian superpower with access to that to fuck and exploit everybody else with.
I thought the Europeans had been at each other's throats for around three hundred years.

In Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, he argues that the technological innovations of Europe during the enlightenment were partially due to intense competition and wars. He compared it to China, which by 1350 was highly advanced, but had a more homogeneous political structure, suggesting less competition.
Bosnia Herzegovina wasn't "occupied" in any way and it belonging to Austria-Hungary was recognized by all European powers, including Serbia, and thus legal under then international law. A limited war against Serbia following the assassination was thus justified, but Austria hadn't considered the "chain" of allied countries assisting each other extending the conflict to basically all of Europe, plus the Germans used it as justification to finally implement 30, 40 year old plans to wage war on basically everyone else around them.

tl;dr it's complicated.
I think the discomfort here is that it's not a standard practice - usually people are clicking an "Invite" action - and so the expectations of what happens creates some cognitive dissonance.
> On the other hand, they can be a little frightening because they are the theoretical grail for DRMs and such.

Definitely. I can't help thinking that the ones who will end up using this sort of technology are corporations who want to control their users, and malware writers. The phrase "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither" and http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html also come to mind... it's scary, security is a double-edged sword.
I'm from the UK. Our chocolate has taken a beating lately, and in fact there was a call from some part of the EU establishment to ban UK chocolate manufacturers from calling their chocolate 'chocolate'. Instead they would have to call it 'hydrogenated something or other'. It didn't happen.

That said, I once tried a Hershey's chocolate bar on a work trip to the US. I was almost physically sick from the taste. It is truely, truely awful.
That is by no means a fact. Nobody expected war in 1914, and most of the Great Powers did not want war. Franz Ferdinand was a force for moderation in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A lot of domino stones had to fall for WWI to happen. By the way, I can recommend "The War that Ended Peace", excellent book about the causes of WWI.
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I don't know if you are the only European that likes Hershey's chocolate, but being a European that has tried Hershey's chocolate, I can say with confidence that you are completely nuts.
I spend a lot of time creating hypercard (and supercard) applications 20 years ago, before moving on to web development. HyperCard could not adapt to different screen sizes, and html+css+js is just way more advanced. But the idea of having a development platform that everybody can learn in a few minutes is very good, and could be used inside web sites today.
You're falling into the same naturalistic fallacy the likes of Clement Ader fell into: thinking you had to imitate nature to get flight (or AI) done. I trust the underlying principles of intelligence are much simpler than current implementations.

It's probably not going to be easy, tough.
Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.
One awful theory would be that Hitler was a time traveler (the awful part being the assumption that he succeeded in making things less bad).
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Some years ago I was at a lecture on chocolate by some industrial chemists from Cadbury UK.

They said that the Hershey taste was based on milk that had spoiled by the need to transport without refrigeration. That on changing the flavor (sic) USA consumers had demanded a return to the former recipe.

We then got to taste the Hershey chocolate. The entire theatre erupted with [largely] mock retching and disdain calls of how vile the product was. Thankfully we had water and a pack of other chocolate treats to taste as part of the lecture.

Vomit was the overwhelming flavour agreed by all those around me.

But then I was listening to a radio programme about Ethopians eating goat intestines with bile sauce squeezed over the other day; apparently the chef was hugely excited to eat the dish, the Europeans present less so.

A chacun son gout.
You're doing a great thing by making your platform open source. Even though you make it incredibly easy to get set up with a well written readme, I'd much rather purchase this service because it's not expensive and I know I'm supporting good people that care about contributing to the open source community. Plus, your product is awesome.
Nail in the head.

I have chatted with one of the agents about how do they work, and no surprise - they lend out everything by phone, because "uploading pictures to website takes 24 hours."
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If the size of your data is less than 4GB, a box of DVD+R's is also a cheap, secure and convenient way to make read-only backups. Just burn a new disc at the end of each workday, or whatever other interval your schedule and budget allows.

Of course this isn't really automated, but if you have one of those disc changers that people often use with audio CDs, you might be able to turn that into an automated system with a bit of scripting and hardware hacking.
I actually thought I had found a way to delete these contacts. You can go to Network -> Add Connections -> Manage Imported Connections. Then you can delete those contacts (10 at a time - WTF).

Sadly, those deleted contacts are still showing up in my "People You May Know" page.

Hence, I think it is safe to assume that LinkedIn are doing a "Facebook delete".
I can't tell if you're being ironic and describing rockets that could reach London in the hands of Hitler, or just completely missing the point.
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This is awesome. A group of us used this to write a project for University a couple of years ago. It certainly made collaboration a lot easier, without everyone learning how to use git, for example.
I would really appreciate an invite! Thanks

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that's not how it works. android device drivers aren't even compatible through android releases. i'm talking 4.0-4.1 4.1-4.2 etc.

they could be if we would have access to the binary blobs they link against, but we don't. asking for binary compatibility in device drivers across linux distributions is not really a trivial think to ask for.
Well, I can't dispute the claim that Chinese Pizza Huts are disgusting to Americans and Chinese Papa John'ses aren't; that's pretty much how I feel about them.

Pizza Hut's success isn't necessarily down to adapting its pizzas, though. They do two other things differently: the Pizza Hut menu includes chinese dishes like fried rice, and their branding/decor is super-fancy, whereas the decor at Papa John's says "pizza place".

Also, Papa John's isn't exactly hard to find (in Shanghai, anyway). It's one of a few joints (like Ajisen and KFC) that I think of as ubiquitous.
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You're kind of stretching the definition of "language," though. Programming language grammars are defined textually.

Do you think, for example, that a (useful) pictorial representation of Haskell code can be derived simply from the language grammar?

Sure, the map is not the territory, but you can also say the language is itself the map, and the territory is something way more abstract, like "computation."

Perhaps you can take the semantics of Haskell and invent a graphical syntax for it, perhaps even strongly inspired by the textual syntax of Haskell. But it wouldn't be straightforward, and any obvious, straightforward attempt would probably be terrible.

In other words, I don't think it's obvious that there is a "deep structure" of programming languages that can be worked on directly in a wide variety of formats. Unless you count the AST as such a structure, in which case graphical programming is reduced to graphical tree manipulation (which admittedly is the path taken by many of these examples).
Yeah we've been talking to them. We've had nearly 10,000 people sign up, given we only launched very recently, I wouldn't say this is killing our business at the moment and we're confident they will deliver a solution in the future.

It would be exceptionally difficult for us to add/delete an SSH key by a bug, because we don't ever call or reference keys anywhere and there's really not much else we do other than GET items.
2 days ago it read [and still reads]:

>"Special Note to International Users

>"The WhatsApp Site and Service are hosted in the United States and are intended for and directed to users in the United States. If you are a user accessing the WhatsApp Site and Service from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the WhatsApp Site and Service, which are governed by California law, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Service, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you expressly consent to that transfer and consent to be governed by California law for these purposes." //

Indeed checking now, from UK on 21 Feb 2014, http://www.whatsapp.com/legal/ still reads as above.

"intended for and directed to users in the United States"
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> because of the lack of workspace reordering in tmux

What do you mean? Commands like tmux swap-window and tmux move window allow you do move the order of the windows / workspaces.
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Their argument probably contains the following two phrases: "making money" and "that eighty-five page document you agreed to when you signed up."

Less cynically, all they seem to say is "ask this person to connect with you." That doesn't imply that they're using LinkedIn.
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This obsession with collecting users (dead or alive) reminds me of Gogol's Dead Souls - companies trading in users (who may or may not exist) in order to boost their standing and taking out huge loans on the basis of their illusory popularity. Even illusory users can have some value, just like the dead serfs in Gogol's tale, and like the dead serfs, their value is not in their existence, but in being entries on a ledger of chattels.

It doesn't matter to LinkedIn whether these accounts are used or real, because they are judged on basic numbers like how many users they have. Since real money is involved and salaries and careers are riding on this number going up, they'll employ all kinds of perverse and intrusive tricks in order to inflate that number every quarter for as long as it is a measure of success.
On iOS, at least, it will ask if you want to allow it access to your contacts, and you can just say no.
Most acquisitions should be compared from a lenses of a peer company acquisition (Peer multiples in financial-speak). If you compare the acquisition of Whatsapp with Viber a few days back, you would know why Whatsapp was such a steal.

Read more here: http://appiterate.com/whatsapp-vs-viber-who-got-a-better-dea...
Maybe in corporate email systems, but I've never seen a legal requirement to not share my credentials in any sort of consumer service.
That's a bit shady since they don't mention that on the UK app store page.
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I am fine with the government having my floor plans for administrative, safety and regulatory issues. I am not fine with private, data-mining, advertising companies having up-to-date point clouds and imagery of my home.
Bootstrap already depends on the markup structure, which makes your point moot.
Check the changelog again. Normal changes, point #4:

* Tmux now runs under Cygwin natively.
It is weird isn't it. But you can verify it by going to http://www.whatsapp.com/legal/ and reading the "Special note to international users".

My interpretation of this and a couple of other hints - you agree to transfer your info to the USA, anyone not blocked that has your phone number can read your communiques - is that they're saying that a USA TLA [or whoever] are guaranteed to be observing you when you use the service. But that could easily be misinterpretation on my part.
No. Even if my country was the target I would prefer inaccurate drone strikes than inaccurate mass bombing. Especially if that mass bombing includes cluster bombs which stay around continuing to kill civillians, sometimes long after war has ended in that region.
Speaking of food related ideas, when can a grocery store let me just pick up things, and walk out the door? Why can't I walk in a grocery store, swipe my credit card, then just fill up bags, and walk out? Or pause for a second at the door as it verifies my CC is good for that amount, then allow me to walk out.

It's such a waste of time to get groceries, wait in line, unload them at the cashier, scan them all, pay for them, reload them again.

Couple of ideas...

1. Some type of RFID tags built into all items, so the checkout can read all the prices when you step through the scanner.

2. You order everything online at home. When you get to the store, you swipe your CC, and your order is automatically picked in the back warehouse, and comes out out within a minute. Downside, this wouldn't work for certain produce, where you want to pick the bananas that look the best, or the green onions only if they're up to your freshness standard. However, it could be combined, so you order 95% of your groceries ahead of time, then just pickup the few extras and add them to your order waiting at checkout. This would mean 95% less time picking out items, faster checkout times since 95% of your items don't need to be scanned, or bagged.
I think once you started programming in "Ruby", you've given up your right to talk about how to program in the right way. Just saying.
I would humbly add Victor Weisskopf to the list, in particular his article "Of Atoms, Mountains, and Stars: A Study in Qualitative Physics."
I don't think pretty much everyone agrees. I went on a WWI reading binge earlier this year, and of the 4 books on the war written in this millennium, none described a general European war as unavoidable. There had been major crises in the previous few years that didn't lead to one. And while the trend had been for increased polarization, there was good reason to believe that the tide was turning.

France was a month away from getting a pacifist government that was looking to patch things up with Germany (and would've had one by the time of crisis, except for by a freak occurence in the form of the Caillaux affair). Russia was losing their shot on Constantinople at the end of that summer, when the Turkish Dreadnaughts would've been delivered. In Austria-Hungary Franz Ferdinand was the main driver for peace, and the main warmonger (Conrad )was about to be sacked. England was likely to detach itself from Russia when the next round of treaty negotiations over Persia came up. Germans were convinced that a war against Russia would be unwinnable in a couple of years.

So there's some reason to believe that the time window for a general European war was fairly short, and it was only by bad luck that something sufficiently serious happened in that window.
You can do that right now with a gazillion of applications that do photogrammetry. Project Tango is nothing new per se. Just add a stereoscopic camera, choose software and add the analysis/decision-making. Some links to get you started:

http://insight3d.sourceforge.net/

http://ccwu.me/vsfm/

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~snavely/bundler/

http://www.arc-team.homelinux.com/arcteam/ppt.php

http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/tech/asr/intelligent-robotics/ngt/ste...
> Or, I may have acquired higher standards in the intervening time.

Don't discount this idea too much. There was a sea change in my dietary inclinations around the time I was 20-21 years old; I started preferring fatty foods to sugary foods. I'll still eat candy, but I'm much less attached to it now.
* Time travel -> kill Hitler -> no WW2 -> no need to kill Hitler in the future --> Hitler not killed -> WW2 -> Time travel -> *

Or

Time travel -> kill Hitler -> History changed -> previous time traveler doesn't exist in the future so he won't go -> ???
The death rate for yatch sailing is way below that of general aviation.

It's reported at 5.4 deaths per 100.000.

I've been involved in some ugly accidents myself as a crew member (a broken mast off the coast) and the only thing I got from that is an anecdote :) .

Unless you're in a mid-Atlantic crossing or caught in a storm, most screwups are recoverable. That's not to say you don't have to respect the sea - you definitely do.

http://www.uscgboating.org/statistics/accident_statistics.as...

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That is. And they call it data mining...
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