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Wow, first time I've seen Virtual Machine Manager mentioned in the wild. I was on the original team that built that product at Microsoft. How long I fought for a real, native API :( Worst part was that there was a decent one hiding beneath the PowerShell layer that was not exposed.
that's not really how it will work. If to generate $1500 per year each person needs to invest $150,000, then it ain't gonna happen.
I hope Musk would have better business sense than lifting hydrocarbons from Venus back to Earth in order to burn them in cars! This would be for fueling transport and exploration of the solar system, it's always cheaper to make it there than bring it with you.
It’s the same reason rock stars are more famous than scientists.
In our opinion, event discovery via a directory isn't that effective. Real discovery comes from social proof and recommendations from friends/connections.

We're working on some things to assist with this, but we're also looking into other channels of mobile commerce (beyond ticketing) that we can monetize.
Is it open source ? An add-in in my business Excel sheet is something I would prefer not to have to only trust. Anyway, very nice and I would totally understand if you keep it closed.
You're absolutely right that there's a vast practical difference between the two things. This is, of course, why our actual real-world computers are modeled on Turing machines with finite memory, not on pure finite state machines. To model a machine with 1GB of RAM, an FSM would need 2^1024^3 states, multiplied by however many states are needed to model the CPU.

However, the difference is purely in practical terms when it comes time to actually build one. In the theoretical world they are equally capable and can recognize the same languages.
Beginners wouldn't have a problem with Haskell, the intermediates are the problem.

If you learned Java or another imperative language, picking up another imperative language is nearly trivial.
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I think the package ecosystem is a big barrier. I code on OS X, and it seems like half the Haskell packages I try to install fail to compile. I always get super motivated to do my next project in Haskell, but then give up when I can't install the required libraries. Maybe the situation is better on Linux.

In any case, I think Haskell will need reliable package management on at least OS X and Linux before most developers consider it a serious choice for real projects.
Am I weird for preferring raw SQL over query abstractions like these ORMs expose? IMHO SQL is a perfectly fine language. I do however like letting a library do all the dirty work of turning SQL query output into objects. There's a good talk from this year's PyCon that shows SQLAlchemy's core library and how it gives a nice closer to raw SQL interface to a database: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PSdzUxRYpA
Considering the laudable intended user cases I think limiting the argument to spectrum policies in the UK or USA is a bit unfair.
True, but procedures can be coded as "go to page 5, do instructions 2 to 55, and move to instruction 3 on this page."

Of course page 5 was probably written by someone else, because it's probably a very basic instruction. But that just adds to our fun as programmers!
venus also has a 93 times the pressure at the surface, and a temperature of 500 deg c ( that's when steel becomes red hot) in a sulphuric acid fog cloud. So unless elon musk is superman it is unlikely that a solar plant will ever be made on the venus surface.
That is just an (excellent) argument for medical devices to have some kind of connectivity to the outside world, but not for having the actual device ever connected to the Internet.

Strict air gaps would be desirable.
Great, thank you so much. Did you consider including Request Policy? It's not apples-to-apples and might be tricky to test (it breaks more sites without per-website configuration).
And the categories the NYT assigned to the three articles (business, technology, science) explain why it’s useless to try to decide who is more “important”.
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i think efficient fuel cells converting "cheap and environmentally friendly hydrocarbon fuels" straight into electricity would definitely be of interest to Musk - replace the 500Kg battery with 200Kg of the cell and the fuel and double the range of the Tesla.

Of course there is also batteries (metal-air) with 10x capacity vs. current lithium-ion - in couple years they may make even the above mentioned fuel cell improvements obsolete.
Perhaps now is a good time to mention that if you want to work on projects like Privacy Badger with EFF, we're hiring for a Staff Technologist: https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/staff-technologist. The role is a mix of software engineering, doing security/privacy research, pressuring large internet companies and standards groups to not be evil, and teaching lawyers/reporters about technology issues.

It's overall a fun job. I wrote most of Privacy Badger Firefox with help from Mozilla folks in the last two months, and it's very satisfying to see people using and reporting bugs in the software that I made almost immediately after launch. :)
It could be done as a murder for hire, or as a terrorist event. It's possible some hackers would do it 'for the lulz' or maybe they just want to test out a hack and accidentally go to far, though these are more unlikely. And there is also extortion, maybe you find everyone that has a vulnerable pacemaker, and demand they pay you or else you stop their heart. Criminals are clever, if they find a way to attack people they can often exploit it.
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In python's case (or other dynamic languages), honestly not sure.

In statically typed languages, you can catch a lot more errors at compile time with ORM's than you can if you write queries by hand.

Good unit tests are critical regardless, it's just one more nice thing.
Thanks. Considering that event management covers a lot of areas, there is definitely some overlap into other spaces. For instance, we do offer lightweight email campaigns and will soon offer custom email invites.
I'm not at all knowledgeable in this subject, but wouldn't those methane emissions occur, regardless of if this method is used?
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I had a stretch where I was very fond of walking around my neighborhood at night - the quiet, the lack of cars, the wildlife.

A flashlight is going to destroy what little night vision the streetlamps have left you with, and make you blind to the world.

Try a cheap, bright orange/yellow reflective vest - it serves the same purpose.
Steve Jobs was a white, male billionaire. Of course he wouldn't be in jail.
"The best woods are even better when they have been cut the same day (this allows you to "seed" the wood with your choice of fungus - shitake mushrooms perhaps?)."

This is wrong, you need to wait a month before inoculating a fresh log. Less time than that and it will still have too many antifungal chemicals present. But more than a few months and it'll be colonized by something else.
I do want to point out that bhouston does have a nugget of useful insight in his post: Java lost a lot of credibility in the 3D visualization market in part because it is crazy inefficient to do 3D without value types. C# did very well there with the XNA tool did in part because it had value types and Java didn’t.

That's a very interesting point: the lack of this very feature closed Java off from an entire field. That implies that if this feature is implemented, it could open up that field to Java. (And, presumably, others with similar requirements.) I wish that bhouston had expanded on that subject.

This, I think, can make the difference between a middlebrow dismissal and an insightful contribution. Instead of framing a comment in terms of what is wrong, frame it in terms of "what would this enable"? You can still make the same fundamental points ("Java lost 3D visualization because it lacked this feature"), but the ensuing discussion can be very different. The post changes from a dismissal to the start of a discussion.
That piece of CSS appeared relatively recently. Guess, it's a weird side effect - that page was supposed to annoy web hipsters, not challenge them to restore vintage tag behavior.
Do we understand the math behind the PPP calculations?
this is why parent mentioned blimps - this is how human installations will exist there
>> Imagine joining an engineering team […] for a bridge in a major metropolitan area.

> Programming is like building structures out of Lego, but I never run out of Lego bricks

Nice two articles. One says programming sucks, reply says programming is amazing.

I would say programming is like building stuff out of Lego bricks. If you are building bridge (or anything people depend on) and have some sort of engineering self integrity, than it pretty sucks.
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A Python ORM that stands out of the pack is Pony: http://ponyorm.com/
If bit.ly implemented DNSSEC exactly to spec, and it appears clean to a user, who could be an attacker and in what way?
And now I feel compelled to reread Infinite Jest... a compulsion which is satisfying, in a self-referential kind of way.
On a related note: The article (quite reasonably) avoids discussion of the graphics library, but I want to know more about that side of things. I wish graphics got more attention in the Haskell ecosystem in general.

The options right now are pretty dismal. There is quite literally not a single Haskell graphics or GUI package that I've been able to install on OS X. I'd love to use Haskell to build games or desktop GUI apps, but without a library for OpenGL, windowing, etc., it's not practical.

This isn't just whining, though. I bring this up to ask: What can I, as a relatively green Haskell developer, do to improve the situation? Is there a realistic path for a new Haskell user to get involved in the package ecosystem?

I'd be willing to bet that a great many developers like me wanted to try Haskell, but gave up when they found out how many Cabal packages don't compile. I think fixing that would do a lot for Haskell's mainstream acceptance.
Fast(er) persistent arrays are easier than purely functional ones. See Baker's Shallow Binding Makes Functional Arrays Fast (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.47.3...). The problem with impure persistence is that it doesn't help concurrent accesses at all.
Any recs on a headphone that doesn't destroy modern music? I listen to prog rock/metal/classical/techno and I think I'm just looking for a nice soundstage and 'fun' headphone. I listen to some of this stuff on the HD280 and it sounds really flat.

I tried the HD700 in the store and it was unbelievable. But I'm not paying that much for headphones.
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No mention of Active Record vs Entity Mapping ORMs? Are there not many Entity Mappers in existence? The only popular one I know of is Symfony's Doctrine (in PHP land)
Yes, that's a basic fact that I'm well aware of. To hopefully express what I'm saying more clearly: Assume your open strings on a guitar are tuned perfectly in the standard way: the A string is 110 Hz, the low E string is 110 * 2^-5/12 Hz, the D string is 110 * 2^5/12 Hz, and so forth. This will allow you to play an in-tune E minor chord on the open strings, but other chords will not be in tune (again, with reference to the equally-tempered pitch space) to the same degree because of the fact that the strings have different densities and widths. You could imagine accounting for this by tuning the strings such that some other chord was in tune, but then your original E minor chord would no longer be in tune. Thus my point that even though the guitar's design is predicated on equal temperament, it still requires per-key adjustments to be in tune for an arbitrary chord, unless you're using one of the guitars I linked to above.
One difference between the CA system and DNSSEC w/r/t/ government dependence is that DNSSEC's dependence on government fiat is explicit and de jure, and the CA system's is implied and de facto.

Another difference between CA and DNSSEC government dependence is that DNSSEC is, as I said, baked into the core of the Internet; it sets policy for name resolution. It's difficult to override decisions made by DNS/DNSSEC. The same isn't true of the CA system; for instance, everyone using Chrome and Firefox is routinely overriding the CA system when they use Google Mail.

No, it's not simply a rhetorical device.
I appreciate your taking the time to respond to my concerns, but honesty compels of me the admission that I'd appreciate it more if you could offer something more substantive than the browser equivalent of "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" Of course I have, and if it'd solved my problems, I wouldn't still be complaining about them on Hacker News, where the response is certain to include an overwhelming preponderance of "works just fine for me!"

On the other hand, per a decision made a couple of years ago, I also stick with the ESR release track rather than keeping up with the mainstream releases, because I got tired of having to restart for updates even more frequently than for performance reasons, and also of having the user-interface tablecloth yanked out from under me every time the major version changed -- on that latter point, incidentally, if I want Google Chrome's UI, I know where to find it.

It's possible that running Firefox 24 ESR means I've missed out on some recent stability and performance updates, although I had the impression that both sorts of fixes were generally backported to the ESR branch; given my prior experience, I'd be astonished (and delighted) to see those missed updates make a major difference, but who knows? Perhaps in June, when Firefox 31 ESR drops, I'll find myself astonished and delighted.
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"But I had in the back of my head that I could be a star, that I could get a little fame in the hobby world, like Bill Gates, if I created the first BASIC for the 6502." Big things start small!
Through practice and repetition, like every other skill.

BASIC certainly didn't come "naturally" to you - I doubt you were born with an innate notion of for loops, variables and methods. Rather, you played with it, put it together, you enjoyed it so you kept at it, and you became better over the months and years.

It wouldn't have been any different if the skill had been playing an instrument, drawing, writing short stories, etc. - especially when you're 8.

There's nothing special about the skills involved with programming themselves - it's just that they're hard to develop outside of mathematics/programming, and schools aren't that preoccupied with conveying them, so in the end very few people get to develop them from a young age (and those who do tend to all fall in similar buckets: upper middle class with enough money to own a computer, initiated by a programmer parent or relative, etc).
It's not open source. Not out of principle, just that it would take some time to clean up.
Ah, this paper is classic... It is a response to the other (equally classic) paper "Why threads are a bad idea" [0].

In fact, threads and events are dual [1], and one can be made as efficient and the other (given a proper implementation).

[0] http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf
[1] Lauer and Needham. “On the Duality of Operating System Structures” in 1978;
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I have hundreds of tabs open all the time and Firefox runs for weeks; Windows or something else gives out first and requires a reboot.

But my main point is, with hundreds of millions of users, what are our anecdotal experiences worth?
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I don't see why not. He builds electric cars, yes, but he also builds rockets. Falcon 9 burns kerosene with liquid oxygen and burns about 30,000 gallons for a launch.
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For the average person, programming is simply sorcery.

"How did this iPhone app get built?"

"Um, someone was on a computer, and typed things on a keyboard… uh…"

is not that different from

"How did this otherworldly vortex open and begin spewing demons?"

"Um, this guy was waving his arms, and then it just appeared…"

In the past, this was treated as the inscrutable dark art it is for most people, but now it's blasé.

"That's Peggy, she's HR… Tony, he raises the dead… that's Jim, sales…"

It's therefore unsurprising that the average person could not care less if a given program uses all the best wizarding standard practices, unless it has some horrible side effect--and even then, probably not.

"The wand has a low risk of incinerating the person who uses it."

"How low?"

"Probably 1 in 1000."

"We'll add a disclaimer. Ship it."

The average person has no desire to learn about it beyond the surface trappings. It's hard, you have to learn a lot, and it's boring reading spell books all the time. Sure, necromancers use a lot of garlic, but as to why…? Who cares? Get back in the black spire and finish the undead army already.
Bob is on a medical device. It take readings (which it hides from him) and provides medication at a rate which is set by someone else.

Every few weeks / months Bob needs to see a doctor w o enters a password, retrieves the data, and makes changes to the settings.

Bob feels that the $DISEASE community can help him interpret the data and tweak the settings and Bob could then reduce doctor visits to once every six months.

Ann is an undisclosed drug addict and wishes to hack her morphine pump to supply more than she is currently getting.

Etc
>An investigation by Apple’s lawyers cleared Mr. Jobs of wrongdoing, saying he didn’t understand the accounting implications.

I'm being hyperbolic but it strikes me as unlikely that Jobs sat down, opened up Quickbooks and just fiddled with it until the numbers made sense. You can't scratch your nose at an organization of that size without involving several layers of accountants and lawyers; did everyone else involved with this also happen to "not understand the accounting implications"?

>Mr. Jobs’s conduct is a reminder that the difference between genius and potentially criminal behavior can be a fine line.

What a loathsome false dichotomy.

What is being described here is not genius but instead sociopathy. There's a rather large line between being able to think coherently about how we interact with technology, and breaking accounting laws so you can make more money.

I'm willing to accept that being a huge asshole correlates strongly with your ability to milk every ounce of creativity out of your employees but I see no reason to grant them special courtesy; this ain't no high minded civil disobedience.
Wow, if there's one thing that's worse than burning fossil fuels, it's importing entirely new carbon from another planet so you can burn it. The environmentalists are going to love you!

>> negligent amounts of oxygen

Yeah, I've heard that the oxygen on Venus doesn't pay attention to anything and is generally untrustworthy. Stupid negligent atoms! ;-)
Who has the money to sue Google? Not me. Even if the court says you are right, Google has more money than most people and can simply keep litigating. For a good example of this take a look at a company called Vringo. The court has upheld that Google has willfully infringed upon their patents in their adwords system. Penalties have been set, the patent office has upheld it, etc. but Google continues to use the willfully infringing technology. They even tried a cosmetic fix to keep using it and avoid paying ongoing royalties. The court saw through that and basically said they are still willfully infringing and upped the royalty award. Google is still fighting, probably will for some time, all the while using technology that infringes on anothers patent knowingly. They are above the law. If they are going to act this way towards companies that have the assets to fight them in court, how do you think they are going to act towards the little guys who don't have millions upon millions of dollars to spend on legal teams? This info is my understanding of the case, everyone should look it up and come to their own conculusions in case I've misinterpreted what I've read.
I use HD280's for guitar practice from my POD. They work really well in this case: as they're very analytical, and they don't leak. The closed cup helps me focus on listening to my playing v. the drums/bass.

However, they're really hard on most music that hasn't been mastered well. And that is pretty much all modern music.