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Yep, I was just about to post this one:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/1070...
How is this different from setting up a base development image then cloning it as AWS/DO instances for new developers?

Obviously there is a bit more to that but moving your private code/etc to yet another start-up with no security track record sounds like a funny joke to me.

Please don't tell me the Web IDE is a selling point here.
I switched from Chrome to Fx this week. So far the only annoyance really is that flash elements on a webpage can takeover keyboard focus. I'm used to KB navigation and opening a youtube tab can really mess with your flow.
Mt. Gox users can now log in to check balance
tiny, small, idiomatic javascript;

uses POJOs; has just enough 'binding'; uses routing and basic promise/A+ implementation.

I'd say this is good and as high level as one should go if they want to churn really good performance out of an app.

Keep it coming mate, and link with me on Twitter. I used a number of micro frameworks and my own glue to make my own mini-framework using much of the same concepts, only I used a templating engine called doT instead of declaring my HTML structure in JS (although I know it is easily possible to generate view code with a tool/script with HTML as input).

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We've been using Slack, you should check it out.
http://amturing.acm.org/byyear.cfm
Study suggests people willing to take orders from a robot boss
There are plenty of super-early or even idea stage companies that apply, right? Seems relevant in that case.
What Clinkle Is and Isn’t Building
The last time I used Google Now was too scared to use it ever again. I don't want to report my location, see cool pictures of my surroundings, or know about the events of my city. It's not just only about the surveillance, it's about the future. The connected future, the uninteresting one. The one on which one must "opt-in" or just stay out. Personally, I do not get Google Now cards. When they are relevant, they are depressing.

Hopefully this stage of the future is just a step into a more positive and fulfilling one.

That being said, give me a rooted version of this device where I can install a custom OS that allows me to use it as a computer and I am in.
A lighter wallet and another thing needing charge.
Article reminded me of the quote:

"Experience is something that we get right after we needed it most"

People can experience all kinds of things, acts of kindness, cruelty, logic, and compassion are some of them. As you gain experience your world begins to be colored by it. In that vein cruel person will see cruelty in others and seek violent solutions first because in his experience that is what works.

Of course nothing is absolute, thus above should not be taken out of context of random philosophical musing.
Building an Ingress table using flow-based programming
How very true. Abstract reasoning and pattern recognition from other areas help programming hugely.
You are acknowledging that you are wrong without even noticing. No, haskell is not an "ivory tower". It is a very practical, useful language. That is precisely the reason it has gained so much momentum and usage. Ocaml had more users than haskell back in the mid 00s. Now haskell absolutely dwarfs ocaml. The reason ocaml doesn't get more interest pigging backing off of haskell is that there is no reason to use ocaml over haskell.
That said, Visual Studio Express is free in multiple versions,inlcuding ones for the web and Windows phone... http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-exp...
Facebook's Facial Recognition Nearing Human-Level Performance
Because people more strongly identify with, and are thus more receptive to suggestions from, people with whom they are alike physically. And as it's a campaign that's trying to sell yet another gadget (that exists in a space primarily full of failures) then it would probably be a good idea to try to reach several types of person, rather than just the one.
How do you get the work?
We're talking about a visual representation of 1,000 years in about 200 seconds (a pretty awesome feat) and, instead of focusing on the awesomeness of what it represents, you are hyper-focusing on about a 10-year time period and complaining about how it is "ridiculous". Tough crowd.
Slack offers an IRC and XMPP gateway, I think HipChat does as well.
Reading this news on a desktop, laughing on the way to the bank.
This is really interesting to see - nice work!
I've seen this "non-technical" assumption many times and I always cringe.
from my experience linking youtube videos results in an instant [dead]
We've been using Slack at work and we haven't turned back.
Just another crapshoot from a research institution trying to divest as its core business decays.

Google is showing evidence they can't predict the future very well and won't sustain development in shaky fields.

Instead, they're going for PR and military research projects, like IBM and Veridian Dynamics.
That's the reason why I just shake my head every time I hear "HTML5 will overtake native for mobile apps anyday now".
They still fight over what is the best MVC framework and have no idea what native offers. When did you last saw Android or iOS dev worried which MVC framework should they use, or maybe write their own?
If you are going to use Backbone for the first time in a big project, beware that you don't end up with low-level code that is duplicated in different flavours all over the place.

When you have implemented features enough to notice that it takes too many steps to make new views that resemble old ones, ease off from feature building, and make proper custom abstractions suitable for that particular project.

Also check out Backbone extension: Marionette for modularizing and backbone-documentmodel for non-linear forms.
Why are you requiring 'things you didn't fix when you came across them' ? It'd seem to me those'd be ideal - and they should be sitting around in source control.
One can't help but question the wisdom of hiring multiple sales people to sell merchants on accepting a method of payment that has no users.
Women's watches are smaller, so it's harder to do.
The pebble is always on, but the backlight can be set to turn on when you flick your wrist to look at it. While it could definitely benefit from a more sensitive accelerometer, it works well enough 90% of the time.
>But its use of structural typing instead of nominative typing effectively means it takes half the compiler assistance you can get out of static type checking and chucks it out the window

It is quite rare for people to use objects in ocaml anyways, so it doesn't matter much.

>A language that doesn't do this is a language that can't be taught to understand the difference between 12 meters and 12 Newtons.

Sure it can. Make a type for meters and a type for newtons. Haskell won't think there is a difference between those if you make them both an int either.
Part of the problem in doing that is that most women's watches have really small faces. Fitting a usable amount of information and interface onto a huge men's watch (even by men's watch standards) is a challenge already.
Is it common for professional pilots to have flight simulators at home?

Edit: added "professional"
Most Expensive Tweet Ever Sends $11,000 To Kenyan Water Charity Via Dogecoin
It may not sort itself out. There could be non-performance reasons why companies behave poorly. Managers could have incentives for bad behavior (they like going to strip clubs with customers, for example) that present principal-agent problems.

I once observed a Japanese subsidiary of an American firm. They gave women the same career opportunities as men. As a result, they could get highly competent women from top schools (who wouldn't want to be office ladies at traditional Japanese firms) even though they couldn't get as competent men. As a result, the women at the subsidiary substantially outperformed the men at every level.
Smartwatches are somehow male?
There's nothing untrustworthy about IRC.
Software has dependencies. If Rust's attitude were "software shouldn't have dependencies", it'd simply be trying to wish away a problem. Rust should solve the dependency problem instead of pretending it doesn't exist.
Yes - exactly.
This is HUGE news if it performs as well as advertised. We have been creating games in Unity for a couple years and eyeing HTML5 as a possibility that just was never capable enough to trust with a major project.

Unity as a development platform is a joy to use, and now we won't have to have the same "Unity plugin or messy HTML5 game?" conversation for every new project.
I's saying this trend toward a closer and closer association between computers and people -- beginning with a huge, noisy room with lab-coat-wearing attendants who accepted your stack of 80-column cards through a little window, sort of like a bank (my first exposure to computers years ago) -- and now moving toward blurring the line between the computer and its "wearer", and given a number of neurological experiments in which the line between the computer and the human is blurred, I can see the handwriting on the wall.

That sentence was way too long, but I think you get the idea. :)
Hula hoopers weren't compared to strippers, the gawkers were compared to how "customers" behave at the strip club. I know lots of women who do not enjoy being "gawked" at, including my wife and daughter.

I don't think it was expected for CL to be stripped of her clothing for stage diving, even if it maybe wasn't the best idea. However, if her gender wasn't female, she probably would have had no problems stage diving. I was insinuating that blaming the victim was your viewpoint, which it still seems to be.
You are everything that's wrong in tech right now.
The Shell, the Whole Shell, and Nothing but the Shell
Saw a new metal Pebble watch yesterday and was actually shocked to discover it was both smaller and thinner than my own analog watch, which isn't particularly big or chunky.
In other news inspecting Michael Schumacher's copy of GT5 indicates he practiced on Formula 1 tracks.
I was under the impression this is rule out because the timing is eight hours after it vanished
One approach would be to require that a person/group/company that is aggregating information report the storage and use of the information to the people in the database.

You could have some arbitrary cutoffs, like don't worry about information on less than 1000 people or stored less than 3 months (or whatever numbers you want to pick out of the air, the point is that the threshold for reporting might not be 0).

What I think this might do in many cases is make storing the information more expensive than any value derived from it. It also gives people a chance to learn that the water company is sharing their usage with the police (or whatever).
I wonder how can you call someone? You can speak to the phone but how do you hear what is being said to you? Does it comes with some kind of wireless earphones or something?
Is it common for developers to have compilers at home?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxchrome/
These days you just have compile it with --with-http_spdy_module in configure step. (for the current 1.4.6-stable). We were about to go into production but will hold it off.

Also the current mainline 1.5 version has implementation of spdy/3.
Is this a phishing site?
Just ask! No one will think it's spam.
Why didn't they come forward before? Seems a little odd that they waited until after other evidence pointed to an island landing to claim they saw the plane.
>but I hope one day we'll look back on this time and wonder what we were thinking by allowing digital goods to be closed source

Yes, let's have the government mandate what license your code should have! Facepalm.
Why not approach this from the computing as a bicycle for your mind point of view?

Smartphones were the latest computing evolution bringing general purpose computing with you all the time and with an incredibly ease to use interface. Now people are trying to introduce this new computing device (the smart watch). What does it bring?

It doesn't take up a hand since you don't have to hold it. You don't have to get it out of your pocket or turn it or pick it up to use it. To get it to do stuff you speak to it (possibly even easier to use than touch computing). It can be attached to your skin and read all sorts of data through your skin.

What it doesn't bring you is a sizable enough screen to view photos or text (yet). Also it doesn't take advantage of one of our most precise tools (our hands).

From this we may be able to predict what niches smart watches will evolve into to fill. Heavily voice based, quick call and respond style communications, updates and reminders, location based notifications, no-hand enhancers such as leveling, altimeters, etc... And since the watch is oriented towards your own face... it is heavily personal and can't be easily shared like a phone.
How Heap's 5-line MVP evolved into a 30,000 TPS beast
A pretty glaring oversight these days. Who's in charge of marketing there that they would make such a ridiculous error?
Actually, what's really illegal is "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" which covers oral and anal sex - both heterosexual and homosexual.
So if Moto's research told them that their potential early-adopters are likely to be "white males", wouldn't it make sense for their first wave of marketing to target this audience so they're more receptive to the product?
How does this model usually work with web design? Is it simply that the client subscribes to n hours per month for updates, hosting isssues, etc? Then if the client wants substantial work done, they can temporarily contract for more hours?
That would traditionally be called a cyborg, not a literal android (a sci fi reader would expect the android to be fully synthetic).
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Plenty of mass-market devices with round screen. Heres a 3+ year old Garmin watch with touch and pixel-based round screen:

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/images/2011/04/IMG_0486A-720x479....
Financiers like Icahn are motivated by short term profits above all else. Building a company takes people with a long term vision. The two are often not compatible. Having a leech trying to bleed out every cent as soon as it's made is not generally a good thing unless your company throws off wads of unneeded cash like nobody's business.
Yes, but that doesn't matter at this time. We are pretty much getting what we expected out of a first gen smartwatch.

What you are asking for is premature optimization.
The harder Satoshi's denials are, the more I think
Newsweek was on to something here.

What would you expect if Newsweek was wrong, if not a denial?
I think this is the first real smart watch that i might buy depending on the final price, battery lifetime and design/functionality.
You're looking at this after the fact though.

Imagine 2 scenarios for a corporate chef in San Francisco, who expects his next job to last 10 years:
1) He goes work at Safeway, and earns $60K.
2) He goes to work at Google, and earns $50K with a very high risk lottery ticket that has an NPV of $200K, or $20K/year. (Say 1 in 100 shot of getting $20 million, or use Black-Sholes on an option)

Who are we to begrudge him if #2 pays out? The company does it because it's better for them than getting more VC money to pay the extra $10K.

For the chef, it's a better deal than Vegas, Lotto, or the options market.
Someone correct me if I am wrong but I don't think Bitcoin took genius levels of C++ or cryptography knowledge. I am not saying Bitcoin isn't a genius invention (it is), I am saying that it wasn't necessarily hard to code up once the inventor conceived the idea. Also, it is not an advancement of cryptography, just an incredibly cool application of already existing cryptography.

Please don't take this as me saying it was easy to come up with Bitcoin, I am just saying the genius wasn't in Satoshi's coding skills, or advancements of cryptography, it was in his using of these tools to solve a problem many thought was impossible to solve (distributed consensus).
Just simulate the entire universe. It requires a computer the size of the universe.

There is one freely available, however, you will have to share it with a few other people. It's barely noticeable though because it's highly parallelizable.
I don't understand what eBay's problem is. I mean c'mon, Gordon Gekko was only partially based on Icahn.
Nginx SPDY heap buffer overflow (affects 1.3.15 – 1.5.11)
Do people really think it's a good idea to have an IDE on the web? What do you do when the network is down, or when you're on the plane, train, etc. And what if the network is slow?

I think I'll keep my local development workstation for some time.
I see very little value here. The first angle tries to sell this as a productivity gain, but the fact that new hires will not be able to start committing code for 1-2 days is hardly killing companies. Additionally, the initial setup is a onetime cost which will be amortized over the life of the employee. Locking into a proprietary ecosystem -- that's the gift that keeps on giving.
Or drive a car?
Tests are very legally hard to do in the US for recruitment. The firm has to prove they don't exclude any sub-group.

From the post it sounds like RDS pulled it off in the other direction.
The double-twist to open the camera on the Moto X is probably my favorite physical interaction with a device. It works perfectly 100% of the time and I never accidentally open my camera in my pocket. I take more instantaneous photos than ever before. If that precision is brought to the interactions on this watch, sign me up.
Bikeshedding on config syntax isn't a valid critique.

Apache uses tons of memory regardless of which worker model is used.

Nginx is reliable and stable, we've never had memory leaks or weird shit happen. This is why it's often uses as a front-end reverse proxy.

More often, nginx is put out in front of apache where other dependencies require it (dav svn).
I (still) think Newsweek was probably right. I found his interview about "bitcoms" and "I've never communicated with bitcoin" to be at odds with who this guy is/was even if he wasn't the "bitcoin" Satoshi; just a bit over-the-top in selling an ignorance that I don't believe is likely in someone with his background.

Also to me the sending of a letter "via lawyer" seems fairly suspicious, adding some air of legal legitimacy to the claims without actually suing Newsweek or taking action that would open the issue up to real legal discovery.
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Can I ask a dumb question? Is this a stand-alone device (requiring a SIM card) or does it require pairing with a phone for data access?

Because if it's the latter it's no better on the key feature of portability than the existing Samsung/Pebble devices (AIUI).
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Why not show multiple people in multiple situations throughout each of their days?
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Without funding these projects would not have happened, and the inventions would have died. Or at the very least would only have happened much, much slower.

An example of this is that however one designs a working fusion reactior, one thing you can be near sure of : the design is in the US patent database (and publicly accessible). Yes, really. Of course, most of them are not getting built (the US is the only country that's even considering anything but a tokamak approach at all).

Would humanity never ever have invented these technologies without war ? Probably we'd have found them eventually. Would we have them today ? No way in hell.
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Weren't they recently caught silently logging GPS coordinates and transmitting them once the phone was connected to a computer? How is it not in there interest to utilize personalized data?
Easily move data from MongoDB to Orchestrate
I like servers that work reliably so the "pager" doesn't go off in the middle of the night nor get calls as to why our service is down.
That's because a $10/month subscription is likely $60 at a minimum. $3/month like Pandora or $1/month like WhatsApp are better comparisons for a 1-time $25 charge.
As most of the heavy lifting is offloaded to SmartPhones I think all day usage won't be too much of a problem for most wearable devices. Charging devices overnight while we sleep/re-charge seems to work out well enough.
It's not even clear what you're complaining about here. Exchanges get hacked because they suck. Banks don't affect the customer as often because they are old and already have been hacked many times before, and have all kinds of insurance and hand wavy ways to avoid liability when they actually get hacked.

It's as if you are discontent that you are now liable for walking across the road safely after being driven around by a private taxi all your life (if the taxi crashed, the company would not lose any reputation, it would be the driver's fault, despite the low wages paid to the driver, pushed to the limit time pressures on the drivers, the recent line of flawed cars they ordered and decided to keep to expenses, and you would die, and it would just be like any other day).
> The poster he was responding to made an idiotic statement:

> "In statistics, σ refers to an area under the normal distribution defined in terms of standard deviations (1σ = 1 standard deviation)."

Not only is that not idiotic, that's the default definition in a statistical context (see below). Anyone can argue that σ is just another Greek letter with no special significance, but that require one to ignore the context in which the term is used.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation

Quote: "In statistics and probability theory, the standard deviation (SD) (represented by the Greek letter sigma, σ) shows how much variation or dispersion from the average exists."

> He was just stating that the standard deviation is a general concept of spread, that any distribution has, and not just the normal one.

Again, this disregards context. When nontechnical people ask what the significance of 5σ is to scientific statistical analysis in physics (which is how this thread got started), there is precisely one answer.
Good design is cheap, timeless and virtually invisible. The world is full of products so brilliantly designed that they have endured for decades unchanged, because there is nothing left to improve. We don't notice these products, because they are ubiquitous and seem to have been there forever. The iPhone/iPad is the initiator of such a breed of design, and modern handheld devices are broadly converging on a similar featureless slab design. Before long, we'll all have forgotten that things were ever any different, just as the Mac's WIMP interface went from being a revolution to the default within a decade or so.

The ballpoint pen, the bottlecap, the Clipper lighter, cinderblocks, the Yale lock and key. We're surrounded by objects of sublime brilliance, most of which are trivially inexpensive, but we just don't notice them because they're part of the fabric of our lives.

Look at the faucet in your bathroom. It's a shitty, ugly piece of design, because all faucets are awful. Go to Home Depot and you'll see a hundred different kinds of faucet, all of them ugly in their own way, all of them annoying to use. Maybe one day, some genius will invent a brilliant new kind of faucet that becomes a fashion item, then a much-imitated fad, then just how faucets look, then just how all faucets have always looked. But before that can happen, some smart people need to care more about faucets than anything else in the world.
Is it common for surgeons to have scalpels at home?