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Check this out, Japan is going their own way instead of this experiment

According to researchers at a demonstration reactor in Japan, a fusion generator should be feasible in the 2030s and no later than the 2050s. Japan is pursuing its own research program with several operational facilities that are exploring several fusion paths.

http://iopscience.iop.org/0029-5515/45/2/004

Also, they are already planning the successor to ITER, a commercial plant called DEMO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMO
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What kind of applications are Rust aiming for?
It converts gas to liquid. The gas comes from radioactive decay of elements in the earth's crust. It's a non-renewable resource. When helium escapes into the atmosphere, it's so light that it eventually escapes out into space and is gone for good.

A fusion reactor such as this will make helium from hydrogen, and would be the only way we have to do so. It probably won't do it in industrially interesting quantities though.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the new mobile king
Ideally that last mile network would be point-to-point FTTP though, eliminating this entire issue.
On "The Future of JavaScript MVC Frameworks"
Practical Project Management Tips for Grassroots Organizations
BANKER SUICIDES UP HIGH
I think more than a cheap phone they need a premium phone. A good looking, high end camera packing phone that shows the best of the platform. I agree with many who state here that Android is already doing well at the low end. The sub 25 USD buyer finds such phones too complicated.
There's also Leksah http://leksah.org/ . I used this a bit a few years ago. It does on-the-fly recompiles, reports errors, and shows type signatures.
Even though the internet is mainstream, I think imdb's rating are still a bit "nerdy". Granny doesn't go to imdb to rate a movie.

eg Batman: The Dark Knight Rises gets 8.6
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/
Oracle Buys BlueKai
When did IMDB go online? This seems like one of those things where nostalgia factor is pretty big. If people were rating those movies from a few decades ago at the time they were in theaters then these graphs might look pretty flat.

That or it is becoming increasingly harder to entertain people with new ideas as they watch more and more movies. People could be getting desensitized to entertainment.
Grandma's gun collection-first single
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUHpupPrt0Y
Quoth Steve app released – get a quote from Steve Jobs every day.
A Nokia device that supports Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook, Nokia's maps and so on has arguably the only competitive bundle of services to the Google one, even considering iOS.

I am amazed by the negativity around this announcement when the reality is Nokia should have been doing this from the beginning, but this is certainly going to make the low end market in the EU very interesting.
I don't know if this is a good idea. Jerry Seinfeld is clear, nobody wants to talk anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR1ckgXN8G0 :D
> Politicians honestly seem to think

I am not making an anti-American point here. UK politics has equally daft politicians. But politics is full of people like this:

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=87390

> "Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is. Wouldn't it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? Now, I'm not saying that's going to happen, Mr. Chairman, but that is definitely something on the massive scale. I mean, it does make some sense. You stop something, you can't transfer that heat, and the heat goes up. It's just something to think about."

http://imgur.com/gallery/JPoWLEx
Outernet: Information for the World from Outer Space
Let us know what you think about it!
Don't know, but it is a question I get from people coming from Java from time to time.
You can't even resolve DNS of many/most v6 sites without v4. Specifically, even if someone is serving v6 DNS they often neglect to put a v6 glue record in the root servers (if it's even possible in their TLD).

I still can't see someone running v6 without v4 except as a toy or to prove the point of how bad an experience it would be.
Not everything I do involves competing with someone else for both my own and their money.
Everything to DigitalOcean
"Select 3rd party apps". Now there's a crazy idea -- what if the maker of the device vetted the apps that run on the device?

Crazy idea. It just might work.
Not wishing to harp on (honest), but we just launched some very real competition. We've spent the last 2 years polishing our app which allows you to make VOIP calls out to US, UK and Canadian numbers for free. You even get assigned your own phone number so people can call you back, even if they don't have the app. We can also supply a data-only SIM card for $15/month. It's called Upptalk, check it out.
I worked on some software that automatically generated documentation for engineers. During testing someone put "hello fuckers" in the code so that he could easily see when it came out the other end.

Naturally that code was left in and went into production, and the customer rings up to complain they'd just printed out a 2000 page manual with "hello fuckers" at the end of every line.

I've never seen a manager look so furious, but we were all paid so little we just laughed.
But the price will get there soon with or without Mozilla. Android phones are already readily available at <$40. Give it another year and chances are they'll hit $25 anyway.
Why doesn't print software include a "placeholder" text formatting function? You highlight some text and mark it as placeholder. You can toggle on highlighting when you want to find it to replace, or toggle off to see what it looks like as a final piece. It could also auto-generate lipsum for you. Also, before you publish it, it'll warn you if you have any placeholder text left.
This sounds like the big win that's promised with type systems.
>> What would the ideal be? There’s a renewable energy startup in Providence, Rhode Island, called VCharge that probably could have used Cole too. Its chief science officer, Jessica Millar, has a PhD in math from MIT. VCharge is trying to make our energy grid more efficient using energy storage and transmission algorithms. It’s not a sure thing, but if it succeeds we’ll all be better off for it.

How is a more efficient energy grid the ideal? It sounds very status quo to me.

The ideal would be doubling human life expectancy, building massive Elysium-like space stations that orbit the Earth, a guaranteed minimum income for everyone, and stuff like that. It seems like everyone lacks an imagination nowadays. Where are the people who used to invent things like airplanes and such?
Me personally? for nothing. Are you assuming I have a vested interest on my position?

The reality is that they are registered AND they also transmit USD, EUR, etc (see list above) which they can't retain indefinitely as they are doing.

Be very sure they are in violation of the law, whatever they say.
I don't know...

There's something "romantic" about the whole thing. Sometimes we have to do things that are irrational to experience life. It's sort of like climbing Everest. It makes no sense and still quite dangerous but people do it to satisfy some irrational yearning.

The irrationality and the circumstances of his story are what makes it all so beautiful.
> As an added bonus it supports some Python and PCRE-specific extensions.

This is a bit of a strange thing to say, since nearly all of the advanced regex features showed up in Perl first. PCRE stands for "Perl-compliant regular expressions," so there's certainly no extensions there that didn't originally come from Perl. I'm less sure about Python, but I get the sense that they borrow from Perl regular expressions as well.
I've really started to love Go. There are some great tidbits in here.
Buffett Warns of Liquidity Curse, Celebrates Property Bet
Yep, you are right. I just mailed rust-dev an announcement of the new Hash framework:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-February/00...
Dataset provides ad-hoc SQL querying of ... SQL databases.

It looks like a neat API, but it's not really similar to this project.
Ideally, you'd get to know one of the employees. Then ask away. Ideally you'd want one of the more employees more capable of cynicism (or realism, if you wish); statements like, "It's a really good environment!" are useless. You can ask what would happen if you perturb the system: "What if I do <something often interpreted as upsetting the chain of command>?"

If you know the industry, or can speak with a friend in it, that's good. Then you can predict much of what they do/think, and watch out for irrational/ignorant deviations.

Will they give you contact info of a normal employee, or leave you alone to speak with them? If they're really good, they'll do it without you needing to ask.

Bosses are professional liars. (This includes technically true statements designed to mislead. Whether they're even aware of it is not relevant.) Conditioned daily to say what maximizes their interests, or they fail. They are virtually the worst sources of direct info, unless they open up their books and emails to you (which they won't). They often don't even know some answers due to blindspots.

So when speaking with bosses, I try to observe "rationality" (which I agree is subjective). Charismatic talkiness is a flag; it may indicate ego. Evaluating it isn't easy; that practiced charisma may be useful for success, but it can also be a pain to work with.

One thing I care about is how much ability I'll have to help the company maximize its success. Part of that is knowing how many employees there currently are, and what kind of people they are, because their work is "legacy code" as far as I'm concerned. Do I have to deal with it? (Because usually it'll suck.)

But really, the high-risk sort of startups come with... well, inherent risk.
TokuDB vs. InnoDB vs. the MySQL ARCHIVE storage engine
At Couchbase we created two open source mobile embedded databases (iOS and Android) that can sync with Apache CouchDB / Cloudant / PouchDB. Which is no small contribution. Even Cloudant bases thier mobile stuff on that code.

More info: http://mobile.couchbase.com

Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/mobile-couchbase
> It's in addition to web apps of course.

No it's not: https://sailfishos.org/about-technology.html

> We are investigating Cordova Qt and compatibility with Firefox OS APIs for this purpose.

No mention of "add to homescreen" style web apps that require little/no extra effort from developers. They are going all-in with QT it seems, and it's going to fail.
Facebook potentially lost $1.33B this weekend
No. But what's affecting kids might be spreading among adults as well, without causing symptoms.
60% Of App Developers Earn Less Than $500/App Monthly
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I just got off an overseas voice call with my parents. We've been using Skype forever, and it drops calls constantly. Tonight it was particularly bad, so I googled around for a WebRTC client, found this (https://vline.com/) and told my mom to use it.

Immediately the call was clear as day. It dropped once or twice, but the quality was pretty high otherwise. If I can find a WebRTC client with a few more features, I may never use Skype (or any other XMPP video chat) again.
Web applications are nowhere near native ones given current limitations of hardware, performance and power consumption and limitations of browser virtual machines in general.

Given all that, Sailfish is able to use FirefoxOS APIs, so here go your Web applications. Nothing prevents you from using them there.

There is room not only for 3rd of 4th but for any innovative platforms. Android and iOS aren't even innovating anymore, so there is no point to talk about "room" there.
Anatoli Bugorski's particle accelerator accident
The ?q= doesn't cause the referrer to get set properly.
not really. they won't be able to publish product which incorporates GPL library without releasing this product under compatible license.

they can use and patch GPL product internally as long as they want.
and then there is PROTO (seriously, these guys love acronyms)
Google's automated systems should still be smart enough to figure out the situation...
Sounds algorithmic and not manual.

A lot of the junk in the trunk of a once-spammmy domain is hard to chase off. It's always important to complete due diligence when buying a seemingly authoritative domain.

From the horse's mouth:

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-old-penalties-expired-dom...

Personally I think Google should figure out a way to wipe clean a domain's history when it transfers owners, but... that creates an incentive to spam the shit out of a domain and then just "transfer ownership" once it's hit with a penalty. Kind of a hard problem to solve, but an important one. I imagine someone like my dad, not knowing the first thing about the internet, wanting to set up a small site for his business. I picture him trying to buy a domain that matches his business name or something, and then never getting out of the gutter due to past damage to the domain. Not really fair to him (maybe this is a bit of an edge case, I dunno).

I think you'll find a thorough re-inclusion request here will likely help but won't completely bring a recovery (but seriously, make it as thorough as possible, including disavowing every link you didn't build).

Disavowing "dozens" of links is not exactly hard work - I've had people ask for help disavowing THOUSANDS of links their ex-agencies had pointed at their site.
Even if you ask the "stupid product" more tactfully. eg "I can't see a large market for this product."
Real threads ... and ... that's probably it.
Side project to make money?
I'm trying to think of a small service I can provide to people that'll make me a decent bit of cash on the side. I'm thinking something I can write in PHP and similar technologies. Something that would be reasonably quick to write and release a first version of and then iterate upon. Any ideas? It might help to know I'm a primarily a linux sysadmin and can write okay OOPHP and I generally like the hosting industry, virtual servers etc. Ideas don't need to be limited to this area but just incase that inspires any ideas.

Thanks all
Huddy
I see what you're getting at, but I would argue that all attempts of "generating" energy are actually "transporting" energy from one storage to another.

Take oil, for example; it is just a method of storing energy. In the same way, the hydrogen atom is the stored energy. Any of the methods you mentioned - sunlight, wind, streams, temperature gradients, etc. - are all examples of that same stored energy. The game is in converting it for our consumption. We're never actually "generating" energy.

With that in mind, the single item with the highest "energy density" is the hydrogen atom. When we are capable of "transporting" it's stored energy to one of our storage mediums, we will have all the energy we need.

Seems like it's worth the risk.
It is Google's fault that their pagerank algorithm isn't sophisticated enough to handle understanding that internet domain ownership isn't static, and for not understanding that spam sites pointing to 404s on another site are a prime indication that a change has happened.
Mythic Beasts (a great UK hosting/colo service) just announced an IPv6-only virtual server - £5/month instead of £7/month for IPv4:

https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/vps6
Depends on the OS

https://sites.google.com/site/tmoipv6/lg-mytouch
(For T-Mobile, I believe AT&T also has IPv6 available)

Also depends on correct instructions, the linked PDF (under screenshots) there is correct, the instructions at that link do not appear to work.

As for wifi, I can't say, my AP doesn't pass RA's so none of my wireless clients configure to IPv6. Time to add it to the list of stuff to upgrade.
It's hard for educated young people to feel like they can take risks when many of them are shackled by five or six figures of student loan debt. When you know you have a $500-$1000 minimum loan payment ahead of you every month for the next 10-25 years, it's hard to feel like you can fight a dragon when selling a sword is a sure thing.
Growth hacking/lead gen with Twitter
They are mostly the ones getting laughed at and dismissed. Which means there are probably as many or more as there have ever been, but they are not recognized until well after the fact, once it is no longer a risk to laud them.
Network effect is important though
There's much less scope for catastrophic failure, because the 'bottle' is falling apart and being reconstructed repeatedly by design: There's not a lot of evidence it can be made completely stable but it only needs to be stable for long enough to be energy positive.
Right now the only downside of Jolla is hardware - limited modem which doesn't support many frequencies especially in North America I hope Jolla will address this problem fast.
Spammers are certainly able to have the whois data on a domain changed. It's simply a catch 22 for Google.
That makes absolutely no sense. You're already arguing from authority while citing less reliable authorities than the security experts who recommend bcrypt, and then you're going one step further by including a site that hurts your argument by having already had a massive data breach that resulted in leaked passwords.

And your excuse is "people who disagree with me in an unrelated argument cite LinkedIn, so I'm doing it too"?
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It was abandoned because "internal politics"
Okay, not surprising.
Have you heard of Ur? It takes this idea even further - http://www.impredicative.com/ur/
The Library of Congress periodically archives public tweets.
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/01/update-on-the-twitter-archi...
To solve this problem in the context of HTTP proxying you'd need more than just a way to refer to arbitrary content (which, honestly, doesn't need to be a crypto hash, it just needs to be an arbitrary identifier unique to the user and session). First, consider why we use HTTPS (in an overly-simplistic view):

1. Integrity

You want to make sure the data you're getting is from the source you expect, and that it hasn't been compromised. HTTPS does this with PKI by enabling you to verify the destination host is really who they say they are (Certificates) and to only trade data with them. Anybody who doesn't pass the signed-certificate-verifying test, doesn't get to give us data.

2. Secrecy

We don't want anyone else knowing what our data is because it may contain sensitive information. Once we verify the identity of the sender, each session is independently encrypted to prevent later decoding.

So what would we need to cache our content and retain its integrity and secrecy? The simplest thing would be encrypted blobs of data signed by our destination host's certificate. A proxy could keep data for a set amount of time, perhaps each piece of data encapsulated in a different session. All our client would need to do was connect once and initiate a session, and the server could deliver a copy of the encrypted/signed payload to the proxy.

With some magic flags in the new protocol our client could be instructed that the server allows the client to make a 'proxy request' to the destination for content. This request could be made in such a way that it allows a proxy to intercept this request from the client (which could be plaintext actually), get the encrypted chunk from the destination (which could also be done plaintext), and the proxy could deliver the chunk to the client, similar to what it does now with HTTP. Since the chunk was signed and encrypted by the destination, the proxy can't do anything but deliver the exact copy the destination gave it. Our client receives the data it wants from the proxy and verifies it's from the destination, unpacks it and loads it.

1. Client requests content from server (HTTPS)
2. Server replies back that server allows proxy requests (HTTPS)
3. Client sends request again with proxy-request flags and arbitrary content identifier & session identifier (HTTP)
4. Proxy receives request, gets content from server (HTTP)
5. Proxy replies to client delivering content from server (HTTP)
6. Client verifies content was signed by server

Of course this would be limited in its usefulness compared to plaintext caching; it would be user and session specific, so only lots of requests by the same client in a session would benefit from this. But it would theoretically save on bulk requests of encrypted content while preserving integrity and secrecy.
> Keep in mind that the "rest of the world" on average still runs on 2G with spotty 3G coverage

That may be true, but it is changing rapidly. Ericsson, ZTE and Huawei are all betting large on rapid 3G deployment throughout sub-Saharan Africa, for example.

Even countries like Ethiopia is seeing the start of 4G deployments.
Odd. This is the first time I've seen it, the one about Go that is.
Ruby has real threads now.

Java had green threads back then.
Interesting - I'd love to see the number of stories on the front page about politics over time. Is it really growing, or does it just seem that way?
Yes. This kind of micro-A/B testing ("red or green buttons?") feels analogous to premature optimization when coding. Don't worry about the tiny 0.0001% improvements you get from using a for-loop over a while-loop; improve the algorithm itself for order-of-magnitude changes. Focus on the big picture.
one day a coworker came over to my desk and said

"The guy I was interviewing just asked me what time I come into work in the morning! Can you believe the nerve? I don't think that's a good sign."

... and that's when I realized that we had some serious overworking-culture problems and I needed to get out of there.
WhatsApp to WhatsApp will just be a data stream. WhatsApp to Phone will need to touch a phone network at some point for call completion.

When you make calls from within gmail, your endpoint is a google server but google is still making a regular telephone call and just bridging the two.
Too bad U.S. citizens can't get in on it, to skirt U.S. spying.
If an evenly distributed percentage opt out, i can see where a vaccine may be less effective. like widening the holes in a net. However, is there a partial vaccination protocol which would strategically place an immunization net around an area of insufficient vaccination which could combat nonvaccination impact and thus prevent or limit spread?
According to their site they are "investigating" compatibility with FirefoxOS' web apis: https://sailfishos.org/about-technology.html

That doesn't say anything about "add to homescreen" web apps, what is the story there? Do they exist? Do they appear as just another app in the task switcher? Do they stay in memory as long as qt apps?
I think that's what //FIXME: is for. TODO and FIXME are both commonly supported, as well as a few others.
I'm not sure why it has to be 'young people'. Don't we need people in general to build inspiring things?
[Infographic] January 2014: Is Your Facebook Page Performance Above The Average?
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good primer on IPv6? Is there something significantly better than reading the IPv6 wikipedia page or googling 'IPv6 primer'?
For 4G (WiMax / LTE), Verizon requires devices to support IPv6. My Moto X is dual-stack, with a public IPv6 address and a private 10/8 IPv4 address.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G#IPv6_support
IBM buys NoSQL cloud database startup Cloudant
WhatsApp at Facebook and Implications for the Industry
I'm having trouble thinking of questions where the answers would have information content.

For example, you could ask whether your entire chain of command and half the team are planning on leaving within a year, but the answer you get won't have any information content. It will be about how everyone loves what they're doing and is fully committed to the mission.
Spy Lockout: The NSA debate comes to the Apple Shareholder meeting