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It's true currently. At the support page you link first it is promised that it will be eventually changed but now: "Outside of Google's GCM, the fact is that there are no alternative push messaging frameworks for Android that can scale to the millions of users that TextSecure has. GCM requires Google Play."

Note, the page confirms: Google Play still has to be installed to use TextSecure on Android. That is the current state. Google has practically the root access to the every Android device which runs TextSecure.
Fair, I'd love to see some hard data on this. I don't think I've ever spent more than ten minutes looking for a spot, though it's certainly seemed like a lot longer during the process itself.
This may be why concerning of testing in ruby, dhh supports native Test::Unit instead of Cucumber [1].

1. http://cukes.info
xsnow and xpenguins were pretty cool on the Unix/Linux side.
From a blog post last year, you can calculate an absolute minimum;

March 2013 - "Double digit millions revenue run rate."

So a minimum monthly rate in 2013 would be ~$850k, so a minimum monthly rate for March 2014 would then be $1.7M.

http://blog.optimizely.com/2013/04/10/optimizely-raises-28-m...
ha right, I missed it at first because it doesn't work without enabling javascript ...
so they turn it into a pathetic marketing coup now - honestly, who cares!? well, I don't.
>If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The lighting discharge happens very quickly (a few microseconds [1]) so it's unlikely you'll get the same shifting you see in that video. The exposure time of the camera in that dim light was probably much longer than the time of the lightning discharge.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#Downward_leader_forma...
It just blows my mind that something like this exists. Really beautiful how diverse the world is and how computing snuck its way into every little nook and cranny.
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As Donald Shoup http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/ keeps reminding us, if there are no free spaces in a block, then the parking is under-priced. The city needs to charge more, in that block, at that time, so that spaces are made available and there is no need for cruising for parking. It would be interesting to see whereabouts in SF the app is offering parks for, probably not in the SFPark pilot areas.

Bottom line, it's a market problem but the market is dysfunctional. The app is not disruptive, it's simply exploiting market failure.
I'm curious what your experience was with the LD_PRELOAD thing. By "problems with fork," you mean the possibility of forking without that environment variable set via exevpe or similar?

MooseFS targets exactly the same use case as GlusterFS.

Yeah, actually you are quite right. I was getting MooseFS confused with a different filesystem. MooseFS looks like it has a GFS heritage. Kind of like what I am working on now... HDFS.

...and it's probably not a coincidence that the file system component is the one piece of Ceph that still hasn't reached production readiness.

Ceph's filesystem component is reasonably stable. It's the multi-MDS use case which still had problems (at least a few years ago when I was working on the project.) The challenge was coordinating multiple metadata servers to do dynamic subtree partitioning and other distributed algorithms. Ceph has a FUSE client which you can use if you don't want to install kernel modules, and a library API.

It seems that Lustre has an in-kernel server. This might have led to some of the maintenance difficulties people seem to have with it. (I never worked on Lustre myself.) I don't think this discredits the idea of in-kernel clients, which are different beasts entirely. Especially when the client is in the mainline kernel, rather than an out-of-tree patch like with Lustre in the past.

It's a tough market out there for clustered filesystems. HPC is shrinking due to government sequesters and budget freezes. The growth area seems to be Hadoop, but most users prefer to just run HDFS, since it has a proven track record and is integrated well into the rest of the project. Moving into the object store world is one option, but that is also a very crowded space. It will be interesting to see how things unfold.
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It's missing the money part

/e math isn't far away, but it helps to put it in context. On that note, it's nice to have an updated list with most vc deals made in the past 3 years
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Compared to Europe or Asia or Latin America, SF public transit is a pathetic disaster.

Just because transit is slightly better in SF than in Atlanta or Antarctica doesn't make it other than broken.

Even third world cities the size of SF can build reasonable subway capacity with a real city-wide network, busses than run regularly with short lead times, affordable tickets without bizarre subsidies, BRT and some lines of fast commuter rail.
I'm still not sure how this was done. Here's what I have gathered so far from the post: The author has two images taken unknown location. He scaled them and then marked points on each. Then he matched up points on two images manually. Now he has dx and dy for each point on one image, relative to other. Now he asserts that bigger dx means nearer to camera. So I'm thinking he takes some proportionality constant to get z = c * dx.

But wouldn't that produce pretty arbitrary shape depending on value of c?
I don't store them. I use the password recovery feature.
Seems like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. And I'm weary as to how reliable their automated methods for tamper detection are (if someone really cares they would want every image manually examined anyway).

It also seems like these two quotes are contradictory:

> It won't necessarily help you figure out if a photo shared on Facebook is too good to be true...

> ...Izitru also could help when people need to send photos to...others who would want to be sure a photo is legitimate
> nothing has been published on Rust yet

That's a bit scary, right. A lot of stuff has been published on Rust, just not in a 10pt LaTeX font. Is there a rule in universities that things don't exist until they appear in a journal?
After Dark was great (I remember oogling it in Babbage's) but firing up my Dad's high-powered 486 and watching my Star Wars screensaver really made me feel high-tech. Especially when the Jawas started walking onscreen and stealing my folders.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Screen_Entertainmen...
A note worthy initiative to capture this valuable information. Another one that may be worth looking at is http://internetdealbook.com/category/top-deals/. It focuses on the more visible deals and does include deal size where public.
TBF I was applying the banking / Toronto mayor sitaution to a broader pool. I don't have data to back it up.

I also specifically mentioned uppers e.g.: cocaine, rather than alcohol which I agree with you isn't going to be used to work extensively (obviously).
My current favourite use of gesture control is the Peek option for the glance screen in WP8 [1]. I find it sits in a nice spot where it allows crude interaction with the device when you dont want to commit to fully interacting with it.
Similarly with the xbox one gesture controls - I use them as a last resort when I dont want to commit to making full use of the device; such as when I am sitting on the sofa and want to change it to watching TV and all other controls are out of range.

Also, sorry for being off-topic, but as someone from New Zealand I find the name to be slightly confusing. Is there any connection to NZ, the fruit or the bird? I'm not complaining, just sounds odd to me.

[1] http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-brings-new-hover-feature-lumi...
It looks like it's just scraping the portfolio pages of most of these, and most portfolio directories list nothing more than a company's name and website.

That said, doesn't AngelList or CrunchBase have something like this already? (or at least an API to extract more information from)
This is only possible because SF street parking is wrongly priced. If parking meters charged enough so that there were always at least one parking stall available on the street within two blocks of everywhere in the city, you'd never be able to charge for saving one.

The City actually installed the technology to set prices dynamically in a network with predictive systems so that prices can rise to keep those free spaces open.

But the city insists on charging so little at the meters that the very chance to pay such a low rate is worth $20. Let's have market rate parking in The City so drivers can always find a place to park. The money they pay for the privilege could be used to make MUNI less awful.
If it's not for profit, why don't you open source the server-side code too? Then those that are interested can rely on their own infrastructure.
Yup, Laravel is a great starter framework. Like jafaku said, it uses a lot of Symfony components under the hood so it will be familiar territory if you decide to try out Symfony one day.

Be sure to check out Jeffrey Way's Laracasts, it's a really good site offering tutorials mostly for newbies.
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You only speak English, though, right?
Wow. Total TIL moment. I love the fact that they take pedestrian safety seriously. I can't think of any other car manufacturer that really does that.
As I'm responsible for a small development department, I regularly do interviews including written tests. If one of the candidates would ask me if they could do it on their notebook, I would probably say no, as it sort of defeats the purpose.

However, I don't think bringing your notebook to show off some of your work is a bad idea.
> If you want to call people with phone numbers, you need voice specific service

This isn't true. I use google voice and the GrooVe app to make and receive calls to and from land lines. They don't need GVoice; I do. And I have it.

Then again, my GV calls connect to US numbers. On examination, the Google Voice rate to call mexico is indeed ridiculously high ($0.15 / minute -- compare the $7.14 / minute my parents' land line wanted in order to connect to China [GV rate: $0.02]).

But if the use case is talking to family members on a regular basis (seems likely when the cash cow is US -> mexico calls), it shouldn't even be difficult to tell them "if you use the internet, we can all talk for free". Your family seems especially likely to be willing to make some accommodations.
do you mean reducing accidents (is the primary driver..), or are "recuding accident" a category of accidents?
My gut feeling tells me that there should be a mandate that requires all safety software to be open-source and liberally licensed. Safety should be very much part of the commons and we all lose out when this type of software isn't shared freely.

Building high quality safety software and sharing it with all car manufacturers wins way more brownie points in my book than using it as a selling point.
A mind-bending piece for those that want to re-live high school mathematics. Loved it. Now time to get back to work
I'm not sure why you posted this link. The comment I was responding to does not meet any of the definitions you posted.

As others have pointed out using Google cache to view a high traffic anti-Google article would be coincidental and not ironic.
Do keep in mind the date when the actual investment happened is probably 2-5 months before the vcs had posted it on their site, especially for earlier rounds.
Depends on what productive means.
For pure coding, when I want to create a bubble around me I usually listen to trance.

I had a playlist of more than 200 hundred remixes of satisfaction back in the days. Good way to code for 5 hours without putting your eyes off the screen.

When I need to think / design, it is usually some chill out (like enigma).
I think you need to qualify that a bit - what are "way more goodies" exactly?

Can you name something that Python can do that PHP can't?
I've been following their twitter feed for a long time (https://twitter.com/vcdelta) ... one of my favorite twitter bots
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No, but I can name a lot of things that are way easier and cleaner to do in Python than in PHP.
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This is an impressive bit of work. The ability to typecheck a tail-recursive type-changing “map” implementation is particularly good, and a lot of practical results follow from that. I don’t expect Mezzo to be the next big thing, but ideas from it will most probably make their way into upcoming type-safe systems languages.
"published" != "on the web somewhere".
The standard LaTeX classes (page styles) are really meant for books and such where generous margins are a good thing. See the IEEE journal paper LaTeX template [1] for an example of space-constrained LaTeX typesetting.

[1] http://css.paperplaza.net/conferences/support/files/IEEEtran...
The written form of Gulf Arabic used for sending text messages (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet ) uses most of the 10 digits for extra vowels as well as the 26 Latin letters.
What's the specific timing attack you're considering here?
The Dulux range, circa 1692.
There are better templates approaches that don't use string concatenation like HTMLBars and Meteor's Blaze.
I wonder how lane detection works. I've had it warn me in a situation where there was no markings on the asphalt due to recent construction work, so it seems to be more clever than just detecting when you drive over markings.
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This may be a stupid question, but why don't people drive in with a bike rack, park in a non-busy section a mile or two from the busy section, then bike to the busy section? It'd probably be faster, and healthier too.
> No, but I can name a lot of things that are way easier and cleaner to do in Python than in PHP.

Please do.
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Loved this part about certificate revocation... again, in 2011;

It turns SSL into the worlds biggest privacy leak.

But worse than that, it turns those revocation servers into critical
Internet infrastructure. What fun Anonymous can have when they turn
the LOIC not on Mastercard, but on an OCSP server and thus cause commerce
failures to happen everywhere. Locks create burglars, guys.

Man, Anonymous has been trolling for a long time. Not so much lately?
I'd use it, if only I could get them to index my site...
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Very well put!

My RSS reader (http://kouio.com after Google's shut down) has always been my complete command centre:

- Google Alerts

- LinkedIn updates

- Every issue/comment/star on my Github projects

- The exact ages of my children every day (via http://howoldismykid.com)

- New questions per tag on stack overflow.

- New messages for individual Google Groups.

and so much more.

I was just lost when Google Reader shut down thinking I'd lose all that, RSS really is the universal API of web data.
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I was really excited to try this out, but then I hit the requirement to provide contact information just to download the library. This is, for good or bad, always off putting to me. I don't consider the need to collect certain information bad in itself as long as it's reasonable or at least justified. In this case however, there's a distinct lack of communication as to why the information is being collected and that makes me wary (it's also fairly common recently so this isn't the only offender). I can make all sorts of my own assumptions as to why the developers would need that information, but after being bitten a few times by folks who have been a little less than transparent with their actual use of that information I'd prefer not to rely on my own assumptions.

Some feedback based on my experience (take with a healthy dose of salt):

- The quickstart menu item is the only one that takes you away from the main page which interrupts the experience when using this particular style of pagination. The way back to the main page from the quickstart page is also not particularly obvious (just a back arrow within the logo would be sufficient).

- A big red flag is the counter counting how many gestures have been "tracked" leading me to believe that there's some sort of phone home going on which, all things being equal, doesn't make too much sense for a gesture library (unless some explanation is provided).

- Another big red flag is no mention of why the need for a full name is required in addition to the email, or why the email is necessary for the download (It's mentioned that it will be sent to the email if the user scrolls down to the 2nd form, but not in the first "page").

- No obvious way to provide feedback is immediately available (I assume it's provided in whatever email communication is made or within the library itself).

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The original infix operators and their precedences were natural to reason about...

* /
+ -
= !=
&&
||

Of course you can always use an infix macro in Clojure, e.g. http://data-sorcery.org/2010/05/14/infix-math/
I can't think of a better way for me to quickly browse hundreds of Web sources than RSS. Speed is key, and the option to save things of interest for deeper review later.

One of the things that made it hard to find a replacement for me for Reader was that so many new rss readers do too much while not offering a simple, compact list view.

As it happens I decided to go with The Old Reader despite some speed issues.
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Well, if that's true, YC is making 12X return on their investment on average per startup. If we assume average exits as 5 years, this would be equivalent to more than 2X return per year per startup. Either we are in bubble, or YC is the best investment vehicle human kind has invented, or there is lot of smoke and mirrors. Either way, interesting times...
Very impressive! I just left a bug report with instructions to get it working with VC2013 Express.

How does your technique in epanos compare to https://github.com/notaz/ia32rtools used to decompile Starcraft so it could be ported to ARM?

If you do get around to it, I'd love to see a Linux version. Even a 32-bit only version would be sweet. I've had great success with the ia32-libs getting 32-bit apps to run on 64-bit OS's.
Parking is free? It has no cost associated with it?

Money is only buying something here because someone, i.e. the previous parker, is getting it for less than it is worth and can now monetize the difference.
> Is it? Can it not ever apply beyond that? Did the poet make it clear that it only applies to a single body politic?

It can be, of course, but there are political realities when trying to influence public policy in another country.

> Looking at your previous example, I feel that you're confusing a non-profit organization with the US government.

Unlike governments, non-profits have no political pull in foreign countries other than to get citizens of those countries motivated to organize their own political blocs. Which the EFF should try to do, to a point. But U.S. citizens getting involved is, quite frankly, political interference. We can write all the rhetoric we want on the internet about how logging internet traffic is stupid, and how Mexico shouldn't do it (of course that's true), but is it going to change policymakers' minds in Mexico? I very much doubt it. And internet-using freedom-loving Mexicans willing to get politically involved probably don't need the U.S. based EFF to tell them about political machinations within Mexico.

The U.S. government could use some of its muscle and convince the Mexican government to shelve this proposal, but how well would that go over, when the NSA is selectively logging anything it wants anywhere in the world (anywhere that it can get at and tap)?
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I'm just commenting to say that there's an unfortunate typo in the 5th full paragraph:

It is *the* problem that is created by pubic key cryptography;

Obviously, it should say public key.
I think he used something like z = c * dy since earlier in the post he mentioned the photos were from a similar direction but different elevations. He compared this to your how your eyes compute distance but in this case the difference is vertical.

And don't forget "In this case because the precise location and elevation of the photographers isn't known this is slightly more art than science, but it is still fun!"
A hook-heavy attitude toward composition is a style of writing songs in itself. However, we can't extrapolate to the graphs presented because Mr. Brown's attitude assumes a predictable reaction by the audience, as well as the graphs assuming a constant quality of music presented.

I think the graphs would be more interesting if they weighted the values according to e.g. the number of playlists a skipping user listens to regularly (or not, if they are a listener who seeks out new combinations/playlists).
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Agreed. However, people don't seem to want market-based pricing of parking. The city actually recently turned off the meters on Sunday in part due to public outcry, and now parking is once again hard to find on Sundays.
nothing: anytime anything is on in the background I find it to be completely distracting. This includes classical / jazz and any of the obvious non-offensive niches.

I work in an office of 8 people. 5 listen to music, 3 of us prefer silence.
What on earth is 42?
There is no such proof at all.
For certain safety classes, to reach the highest qualification, the vehicle-under-test must pass some pedestrian accident scenarios, so it's not that the manufacturers do this out of good will. The S-Class used to flatten pedestrians quite liberally, which caused it to fail certain tests, which in turn caused them to implement this: http://www.daimler.com/dccom/0-5-1210222-1-1210363-1-0-0-121...
Some other HN comment I can't remember mentioned this:
A logistic curve looks a lot like an exponential curve if you can only see the "start" of it ;-)
That looks like a shopping list of opportunities to me. Exactly the sort of place you'd want to be investing in startups...
I think TextSecure is coming to iPhone soon, so just wait.
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I was wondering why my fans started spinning up yesterday, now I know. Firefox 29 on linux here, and indeed it does seem that page is doing something weird.
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I would like to second "learn something new each *" (for anybody, university degree or not!). It is great if you can do so on your own. If you have a hard time, you can change your situation (pay money to take courses, work through free courses online, get a mentor, study with others, work on open source projects, etc., etc.) in order to get yourself to do the necessary work to learn [relevant] new things regularly. Note that the key is yourself, not external factors: you simply have to do the work.
That site says you should look at http://plane.ardupilot.com/ for documentation.