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lxc is sort of just a wrapper and is pretty broken (I found around 10 bugs before giving up) why build on lxc? a simple C library (not libvirt) would be much better.
Did you ever read "The Transparent Society"? In that 1996 non-fiction book, sci-fi author David Brin suggested that the decreasing cost of data collection and storage gave us two basic paths.

In one, data and data about access to data would be widely available, giving us an unprecedented level of citizen oversight of society. Think sunshine laws increased a thousandfold. In the other, access to data would be limited, and those who had the data would have incredible power. The kind of power that totalitarian states dreamed of but never achieved.

Every Googler I've met, which at this point is quite a number, is a fine person. I trust them as individuals. But for my tastes, Google as a company is already more than sufficiently powerful. Power corrupts. Power attracts the corrupt.

At this point, I think everything new they do should be treated with suspicion. Not hostility, but with the same sort of scrutiny that we should monitor every other dominant megacorp.
I totally agree. In the beginning, I was !g a lot. These days, I mostly !g for more natural language kind of questions.

For more technical searches, Google has become next to useless for me. "lupdate.exe not working Qt" transforms to "did you mean 'Update not working'?" (lupdate.exe is part of the Qt translation toolchain and Windows forces it to run as admin only because there is "update" in its file name. The Google 'correction' of that is perfectly useless).
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Yeah it's quite a high horse considering JP got canned for embezzling money from Motionloft.
Really? That reaction strikes me as quite odd. Do you not chit-chat with tellers at your bank in person?
Well, it's pretty common for municipal power companies to return a profit to the city, which is then used to offset property taxes. In fact, a number of successful muni fiber projects have been managed by the municipal power company, or the municipal cable provider.

The problem is that a lot of municipalities aren't run all that well. Local politics can sometimes be very ugly. Muni fiber only really works when the municipal government works. Sadly, that's not as common as it ought to be.
Imagine if you integrate this with a future version of NEST thermostat or an integrated lighting, you can create different environments in a single room and change it on the fly.
An electrician working in a Hotel would be navigated to the right junction box.
You buy a new car and the manufacturer provides you with a virtual manual to find new controls, may be even basic repairs.
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Your argument is that because I don't realize that some other brand of chocolate is superior to Hershey's chocolate, I'm not a supertaster?

Please read the Wikipedia article, or any research on, what a supertaster is. It is not a "person with more distinguished tastes", since these are wholly subjective and cultural constructs. Just as you believe in your own superiority for preferring Swiss chocolate over American chocolate (might you have refined taste in wine as well? [1]), a Chinese citizen no doubt realizes how superior his tastes are to yours for preferring his largely sugar-free chocolate to your (in his eyes) sickeningly sweet, additive-laden, and clearly unrefined dessert of choice.

And if your argument is that Hershey must certainly be producing what it produces in order to "take advantage of lax standards", you've much to learn about the nature of big business. Visit Asia some time, and you'll notice quite quickly how American chain Pizza Hut, which has adapted to the tastes of the locals by changing its recipes and producing all manner of pizzas largely unappealing to Americans but very appealing to Asians, is rapidly outcompeting other American chain Papa John's, which has stuck with its original American recipe, remaining tasty to Americans... but not so tasty to most Asians. Branded food businesses win by serving the market, not by cranking out crappy tasting morsels that cost less to produce. Those that go the latter route fail in their respective markets.

If Hershey is producing what it's producing to "take advantage of lax standards" and not because it's what the market wants, then the American chocolate industry is wide open for someone more willing to produce in line with what Americans want - and with a market as large as the dessert market in a nation of obese individuals, that'd be a pretty tempting niche to fill (maybe Nestle could do the job?). Yet, unless you can point to tremendously high barriers to entry keeping new entrants from the market, or somehow forcing Americans to buy Hershey instead of some of Dove, Nestle, Ferrero Rocher, etc., your premise seems flawed; the far simpler solution is simply that Hershey is winning the chocolate race in America not because it's skirting the rules, but because it's producing what its (so obviously unrefined) customers all want.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-tas...
If HyperCard had had a good network API, things would have been a lot different. The thing that steamrollered HyperCard was Visual BASIC, which could talk to all kinds of system services, and once it had COM support, could talk to just about anything on the planet. Also, everyone understood BASIC, and HyperTalk, though interesting and easy to use, was very closed and pretty much a toy.

Apple's networking APIs weren't very well designed. In fact, you couldn't even get to AppleShare volumes; there wasn't an official API to mount 'em. So I wrote one, and I was still getting occasional email about the Mount XCMD a decade later. Apple just didn't have much vision or follow-through back in the late 80s and early 90s.
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http://www.linkedin.com/pub/josh-jones/3/91a/44a

It does have cross-referencing. See:

> Founder at Bitcoin Builder
I read a comment that said people run their entire businesses on it, and that in many places there is a 90% chance that someone you're talking to has WhatsApp on their phone. Sounds pretty valuable to me. It's a communication platform, what's more valuable than communication.

You might say they don't have enough lock-in, that someone else could come along and take their business. True, but I don't think that changes the value of this space in general. People always say that startups focus too much on problems that young white males tend to have, well here's something that's as generally useful as you can get.
>so they can have a map of your room, too, in case they, or other parties, ever need it.

You mean like the blueprints that were provided to your local municipality when whoever built it applied for a permit?
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God damn is that page annoying to read... Put more dumb links in it, why don'tcha? Make every freakin' word a link!
To me it's neither of them. I don't know how I'd call that, semantic .. ontologic ? The 'text' is as much an interface to the abstract model as the 'visual'.

When I see repls with sophisticated real-time output representation it's as much visual as dataflow programming by connecting nodes to an output sink.

Brett Victor's work is bringing them even closer since usually dataflow/reactive was used in mathematical settings (time varying scala or scalar arrays... image or sound) but he demonstrated far more the benefits in non linear logic (games).

It's the disconnected, char per char ascii, file saving, build time, run time tradition that creates an artificial segmentation.
In real life you can frown to communicate your extreme disapproval. You can grit your teeth, kick the dirt, squeeze your fists, and do all sorts of non-verbal gyrations before having to spit out a simple 'fuck you' in order to communicate.

This isn't 'real life'. This is text-based communication.
Still waiting for the explanation of why it's rotten to want to create value through technology and seek reward for it.

One might argue WhatsApp isn't worth what was paid for, or that the money would be better spent elsewhere. But that's a rather subjective judgement. Spending $16 billion on, say, philanthropic causes, doesn't necessarily lead to desirable or sustainable effects. As with any scarce resource, it depends on how the money is managed.
No, I've never chit-chatted with tellers, nor would I want to.
Share some tips? I never lose on Easy but have yet to win on Normal
Validation for pure-play software is cheap in today's markets. Work-two-years-for-a-large-company-to-save-up-some-cash-to-bootstrap cheap.
Oh man yeah tell me about it! The good news is you can find lots of specialty colas that make up for it lol. I live in Vancouver but down near Seattle this company has lots of great stuff: http://www.orcabeverage.com/
Human muscle also stores energy in the form of glycogen, so it's got batteries included. The approx 25% energy efficiency of the human muscle is limited mostly by the 40% efficiency of burning glucose into ATP molecules. The article mentions 'relative inefficiency' of the new muscle - a quick search indicates it's around 1%. My respect for human muscles has increased!
I work with some Nestle folks in Japan. One of them told me that they have 200 kitkat varieties nationwide. The idea is to align to local taste and pride in the "meibutsu" of each region. (e.g. pickled plum in Nagasaki). Nobody else does this, to my knowledge. The kit-kats are imported though as there is no local production.
This marketing has been successful. KitKat is the #1 chocolate bar in Japan. Anecdotally, I was told that many consumers believe Nestle is a Japanese company.
I'm glad some have taken the 3D tack. The neattools network was pretty imposing because it was so compact. Perhaps it would behoove the designers to pair a visual language with an oculus rift and 3D mouse to take advantage of the flexibility their medium offers over text.
Ha, I had the exact same idea on its disqus comment thread.
I can see this being HUGE in the real estate market. Imagine if a house seller can walk through his house with one of these, then upload the data to a website and now you can have a truly online "open house".
Father? It's the second item on the list for me (and I use incognito)
Maybe the air force? They have tons of experience and the pay is pretty low for pilots. I don't think we're in a drought.
I'm pretty sure the HyperCard screenshot is not actually a screenshot of HyperCard, but a screenshot of an early Mac control panel. In the link it seems like it's an example of what things looked like on the machine on which HyperCard was originally written to run, not HyperCard itself.
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It does seem weird, but it also makes sense.

On first glance, this appears to be a type of meta-exchange specific to the circumstance of speculation on Mt. Gox's solvency and actual legitimacy.

If this is a serious service, there is reason to require this information to offer legitimacy.

Collection of this information is typical of exchanges to follow presumed KYC (know your customer) guidelines for exchange of Bitcoin for fiat. [1]

I think this is a very interesting move to claim "Gox" Bitcoin is separate the rest of the Bitcoin market.

If you don't follow the Mt. Gox saga closely, you might also be interested to know that one week ago Roger Ver (prominent Bitcoin advocate) offered to purchase Mt. Gox BTC from folks trying to exit that marketplace. [2]

From my perspective, some reasonable amount of KYC is necessary to offering a service that does this.

I commend Josh for building this. The situation Bitcoin is facing with Mt Gox right now is totally new territory. Bitcoin Builder seems like a creative hack around a real problem in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

[1] For example, Bitbox required this information for normal buy / sell orders on their website prior to pause.

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xrmb1/roger_ver_a_...
I have a close friend who owns two new Cirus planes. There are tons of people who own jets as well. It all depends on your economic bracket. I think, though, that the private plane industry is going towards smaller, more expensive aircraft.

It is more of a microcosm of the economy than anything else.

People still fly Cesnas because they are very stable and were not built with planned obsolescence in mind.
Thanks. Which browser are you using?
Widget Workshop is what got me into computers!
I think the chances of getting your money back are _significantly_ worse than 50/50 if you don't have money trapped in Gox count yourself lucky and move along. Betting on a Gox recovery at this point is like walking into a casino and putting a bet down on the the number 10. It is a gamble with odds stacked significantly against you.
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Which is a pretty stupid move really as getting USD out of Gox has been vastly more difficult than getting BTC out of them. I don't think Gox could have lost too many BTC to the recent 'transaction malleability' attacks (and even if they did I'm sure they have a ton of USD in the bank and would gladly buy back enough BTC to cover the losses at the ridiculously depressed current going price).
You may be the odd one out then. I've spent a fair amount of time in lines at the bank and most people are quite chatty.
I'm not sure how you're doing the calculation, but your answer is not correct.

Our current best-fit model of the universe has it being spatially infinite, which means the "volume of spacetime" between the Big Bang and "now" (more precisely, between the Big Bang and the "comoving" surface of simultaneity that passes through the Earth right now--now" is relative so you have to specify what simultaneity convention you're using) is infinite. Since the volume of any past light cone is finite, it will be effectively zero compared to the total volume of spacetime up to any surface of simultaneity. (But as you go to later and later surfaces of simultaneity, the volume of the past light cone of any event on the surface of simultaneity still increases without bound.)

Even in spatially finite models (which are not conclusively ruled out by the data we have, though they are unlikely to be correct), the fraction of spacetime between the Big Bang and a given "comoving" surface of simultaneity that is occupied by the past light cone of an event on that surface of simultaneity is not constant; it gets larger as you go to later surfaces of simultaneity.
As someone who also grew up in Belgium and now lives in New York, I completely agree. I brought back as much as I could when I went back to visit a few months ago - and it was still not nearly enough.
> What investors don't like is a company they invest in, own a big chunk of the equity and it never goes anywhere. So called "zombies", companies that are nominally profitable, but not not enough cash flow to support M&A, too much cash flow to just roll them up. Those companies need an innovative way to 'cash out' their investor over time so that they can get on with their lives.

You know, the whole point of a venture capitalist was to provide money to companies that would take 5-7 years of profitability to cash out.

The idea that being a venture capitalist is akin to buying lottery tickets is only since the DotBomb.
Actually SQL gives you bag semantics, not set semantics. (But otherwise, yes.)
Human muscles are capable of much...(comparable to chimpanzees?). But there is some sort of a governor in place to ensure safety. In extreme circumstances, the governor can be "turned off" (adrenalin?) and we have cases of mothers lifting cars to save her child, etc.
I'm looking and it is hard to find a good example. Something like this maybe? http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.03/03.10/HyperCa...
Fishing line is designed for hauling up hundreds of pounds of fish when being cranked up with a human-powered reel. It's not surprising that it can be applied in this fashion.
Trivial to implement.
This is really amazing. This is basically the stepping stone for 'self driving car' equivalent applications for indoors.

One wonders what Google is upto. Big investments in AI research, and then things like this. You could build domestic robots to do all sorts for work with a technology like this.

And I'm not just talking of toys or games here. The very nature of consumer electronics can be redefined with technologies like these.

Something to think of:

2015:

-> By now, it is likely that "clean a house" will be within the capabilities of a household robot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwei...
Jesus, you guys are paranoid and don't do any research. This site is way legit.

I've personally talked with Josh about bitcoinbuilder. See that link at the top for Political Donations? This is the same site that Josh built for Jeremy Hansen's bitcoin-fueled political campaign, which is linked all over the web:

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/2517/bitcoin-usage-for-political-...
http://watchdog.org/119342/the-bitcoin-politician-who-wants-...
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She is fully supportive of the post and the use of her Twitter handle.

I appreciate your concern for my stalker tendencies and social skills.
Did you see the temperatures? Unless you're worried about hysteresis you should give shape-memory wire (e.g. nitinol) a try. I've got some .004" (100-micron) nitinol wire that can lift 100 grams.
The best inventions leave you thinking "Why didn't I do this?"

Awesome, this looks like it can be done at home.
This is an over-simplification. I'm also not entirely sure how much I can say, so I'm skipping things.

Most banks use what we term "bank-in-a-box" software provided by one of two vendors:

FIS - http://www.fisglobal.com/
Fiserv - http://www.fiserv.com/

In fact, just about the only ones who aren't using a complete bank-in-a-box solution are the megabanks, for example: BofA, Wells Fargo, Chase.

The upside of using a bank-in-a-box solution is that you can spin it up almost immediately and at very little cost (relatively). The downside is that you're running technology that, very often, was written last decade. For example: https://secure.ally.com/allyWebClient/login.do uses jQuery 1.3.2, released in 2009.

But worst of all, you can't really differentiate yourself from your competitors–they're using the same thing under the hood. In order to begin the process of differentiation you typically see banks progress through stages out of dependence upon these solutions.

1. First you enable service calls into the system of record (SoR).

2. Then you Balkanize your services, calling back and forth between your BiaB solution and your own custom component which reaches out to the SoR through services instead of the hosted, white-labeled BiaB. This is terribly slow. Remember what I said about last-decade technology?

3. Eventually a bank completely migrates completely to service calls on the backend to the SoR. But they still haven't implemented any of the reporting or back-of-house processing.

4. The ambitious banks then start trying to move the SoR and the back-of-house processing and reporting (this is a big deal) in-house. However, to work, this has to be a one-time switchover since "eventually consistent" is not a valid state for bank data.

Almost everybody stops before attempting Step 4. It starts getting expensive and hard really fast at that point–and almost no bank has that appetite for risk. However, even if you attempt Step 4, the legacy of your technical decisions has resulted in loosely coupled and often poorly integrated experiences wherein even pulling your data in-house likely doesn't fix it. At this point Step 5 is digging out of your technical debt, and I've yet to see any bank succeed at that.

Simple skipped Steps 1 & 2. They never incurred Step 5. They were insulated from Step 4 by using a holding bank. Step 3 was why they took so long to launch. On a technical level Simple is years ahead of every bank out there. Features they had the data for could be implemented in no time. Organizationally their mission was clear enough that everybody bought in. Their race, which I've said numerous times, was to catch up to Ally's marketing and deposit assets before Ally (or others) catches up to their technology. It's an asymmetric race, but not being a bank means that Simple couldn't leverage fractional reserve banking to its fullest which cuts into profit margins and makes it much harder to succeed. Their acquisition price implies to me that their burn rate was too high for their revenues to make the long game sustainable.

Contrast with BofA: "We spend, just overall, about $3 billion and change in annual technology development."
Haven't you learned anything from the last crash?

Doing that basically caused our economy to collapse for several years. Instead, you should do it in a safe way, like with cubed CDOs that contain slices of Bitcoin, LiteCoin and Dogecoin, there is no way that can ever go wrong.
Your argument is really that syntax is nothing and semantics everything. I sympathize, but it's not how most people see it.

As long as we accept syntax as a significant part of what defines a programming language, "visual language" is a reasonable concept.

Edit: Reasonable implementations are another matter. :)
The second huge fail of google with technical queries is when it starts substituting synonyms for words in your query the make the search useless. It makes you not want to name commands in a common sense style.
They were forced to knowingly make hundreds of thousands of fraudulent loans?

Yes. Why do you think everyone was so keen to sell the mortgages they had written on? Because everyone knew they were bad of course! But they were compelled to write them by the Community Reinvestment Act passed by Clinton.
A great person and developer who will be dearly missed. He was too young, but sadly is a prime example for the risks factors of heart disease. With overweight like that over a long period of time, he most likely had blood pressure and cholesterol issues, along with not much physical exercise. Of course there are a ton of people in similar condition who get to be much older, but still, risk factors are risk factors.
Perhaps because I am using my terms loosely. My apologies.

By spending I intended "purchasing depreciating (or disposable) assets"

Purchasing equities as an inflation hedge is not what I meant. Inflation does encourage riskier investments, as merely holding currency is insufficient to maintain capital.

I agree that it's an open question whether or not that's a good thing: some would argue that encouraging riskier investments encourages malinvestments which becomes a net negative; others argue that the increased activity caused by risky investments outweighs the damage done by malinvestments; I've even run into many who claim that even malinvestments are good, since moving money around is good no matter the reason.

If that last point of view is true, I'm giving up on economics, but the first two both seem reasonable to me.
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Yeah, I didn't get that either. To me Hypercard was really basic web with super-simple HTML holding the stacks together. I don't code much these days but I remember fondly all the little games and tools I could make with a little ingenuity and experimentation in Hypercard.
great story. Did you give that talk ? If so, how did it go ?
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