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I think only some one far detached from reality would expect, a Perl 5 like ecosystem ready on the day of Perl 6.0.0 release. And most people don't need many Perl 6 esoteric features either. So I guess your "a list of big ticket items remaining" hopefully won't be "a big list of ticket items remaining".

Besides I was of an opinion even after the 6.0.0 release the spec won't be complete. Spec will never be complete. Spec is a backwards compatible changing piece of document which the implementation tries to catch up with. The stable releases of the implementation are production releases.

Lastly you could just say. Esoteric features a, b, c, d are left for next 6.* releases. While release a 6.0.0 release is cut after with whatever you decide from that list earlier. The world is in no hurry to use the esoteric features anyway.

Either way, I wish you guys all the very best. And hope to soon see a closure soon on this.
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It's so cute! Look at it! It's even got a happy face! It's totally not a life-threatening robot of doom!

And it promotes family talking time! Just like fast food restaurants in recent episodes of Mad Men!

Sorry. It really is a slick ad for a neat product, I just can't resist noticing how they position it.
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See http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/uberauto/
The requirements are quite specific. As a designer I didn't qualify for shred when I got here, but programmer colleagues (with an appropriate degree) did.
Funniest vulnerability ever!
SmartBar has been around a few years with a ready commercial product:

http://smartbarusa.com/

They've found some traction with places like cruise ships and hotel conference facilities. They can drop one of these at a cocktail hour with a preset spend limit and the machine will happily pour drinks until the tab is maxxed out.
Need a co-founder for our startup in nutraceutical industry
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Something about us, we are youngsters who have experience in start-ups in the IT industry. We had created our first start-up and recently had an exit. Now planning to enter the nutraceutical industry. We are based out of India.
Increase the effectiveness of traditional methods of treating obesity?
Why such a traditional methods of treating obesity as restrictive diets and increased physical activity have shown success for short-term weight loss, but long-term results are disappointing because regaining weight is the rule.

One of the most important reasons for the low efficiency of the obesity treatment is the development of adaptive responses on the homeostatic system level. In particular, in the conditions of the hypocaloric nutrition level of energy metabolism in the body compensatory reduced and cause development of so-called «diet depression», that slows down the rate of weight loss . Researches of these processes in obese people allowed Boris B. Pinkhasov and his colleagues developed a method for correcting the human body mass with the inclusion in the scheme of treatment impacts of full spectrum bright artificial light.

In Boris B. Pinkhasov’s research article from Scientific Centre of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, published in Health Journal 2014 vol. 3 by Scientific Research Publishing, the use of complex method of obesity correction including the combination of exercise and bright light exposure, against the background of a low calorie diet, provides a greater reduction of body weight and adipose tissue mass than the use of a diet alone or a diet in combination with physical exercises. Inclusion of bright light exposures in a complex scheme of obesity correction increases the level of energy metabolism in the body, despite long-term food restriction.
It's probably been suggested a million times but a ctrl+f couldn't find it so I'll it.

Infinite scrolling on the main page. I'm not sure much more needs to be said.
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If you just left out one "F" from "FFT" it would be more precise and less confusing. Is there any reason to bring the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm up at all?
>Why have seats that are fixed and facing forward?

Seats facing forward means that acceleration pushes you backward into your seat. Any other direction would increase motion sickness. And what would be the advantage of the seats facing a different way?

>What about a couch?

The seats do look like a couch to me...
Does it? For me its a strong-armed position (my 50% hurts less than your 50%), which is why they are in this battle to begin with.
Hachette: "They're using leverage on us in a negotiation to get us to agree to terms!"

Amazon: "Well, yeah."
Even if you are a typical user, how much would it possibly hurt Amazon? If this becomes a regular occurrence I can see Amazon's leverage eroding but the company regularly goes toe to toe with many different industries and holds it own against half trillion dollar a year giants like Walmart. Amazon's core competencies are growing and the network effects are difficult to quantify.

I suspect encroaching on Amazon's market dominance would be a hard task even for Google, let alone B&N
Honestly I can't imagine how we ever used HipChat. The Linux client is abysmal, and the IRC/Jabber integration is also terrible.

Slack is really the best I've seen.
I didn't know about the silver ratio, or rather that 1:√2 ratio is known as the silver ratio. Thanks for enlightening me.
Buses don't need to be on fixed route. In Helsinki some buses are using dynamic routing based on demand. So basically those are shared taxis with drivers. When the driver can be dropped out of the equation service can be cheaper and there can be a lot more of these vehicles.

https://kutsuplus.fi/home
> deprecated technology

Are you calling Python 2 deprecated? Could you provide a reference?

> not old gold - this is a brand new library for access to Bloomberg's massive

You clearly missed the meaning of 'old is gold' here. It's the 2.x Python code I'm referring to.
I disagree a little bit -- why not for the general public? reference implementation phones aren't necessarily just-for-developers -- i.e. nexus line...
No, the Russians have mot backdoored nginx.
I used public transit, taxis and car sharing services exclusively until I started a family. At which point setting up the carseat every time became prohibitively cumbersome and I bought my own car. Children's car seats are very personal in terms of size and configuration and are required by law.

I think things like that will make people want their own self driving car. You want the one that fits your wife and two kids and your dog. Or you're rich and you want to be driven around in a really nice one that hasn't been used by other people.

The more I think about it, the more I imagine rich people increasing their car ownership due to self driving cars. Take your fleet with you to the cottage or across the country, why not?
TIL that Santos-Dumont was not French (as I always thought), but a Brazilian!
Education is an active pursuit. You can't learn until you know what problems one is looking to solve. Colleges have made education a passive process. You go to classes. You do your homework and you take exams. It doesn't work like that.
In the short term, no. I’d like to think that the (somewhat unplanned) overhead of developing Basis will be paid off in future as a commercial advantage for my apps — I guess we’ll see whether that pans out ;)

In the longer term, yes absolutely I’d like to make it open source. In the meantime, I’m happy to share some of the lessons I’ve learnt along the way.
The technical term you're looking for is "drive by wire" and it actually only came onto the market in the last year on the Infinity Q50.
Now that's some progress from last time. Good to see it coming along
All the signs right now point to Google's self-driving cars being a fleet, not personal vehicles. A few points:

* Google has expertise in "big data" and algorithms: running a fleet would fit their expertise.

* On the other hand, Google has no expertise in designing or marketing pretty cars. They don't have any dealership or repair network. To release a personal vehicle, they'd have to team up with a car company (and that partnership would have to be in place by now given Google's aggressive timeline).

* A fleet lets Google control the deployment carefully. Nobody is going to buy a self-driving car that only works in Mountain View. (Or, worse, they would buy the car, and then complain loudly.) But with a fleet, Google can start on a corporate campus, expand to Stanford, say, then Mountain View, etc. No worries about driving in the snow. No worries about self-driving cars getting in well-publicized accidents after an owner ignored the maintenance schedule.
Super relaxed here in Canmore :-)
Here is an interesting prototyping app which does exactly that. Downloaded the beta and playing with it.
http://www.mitya-app.com/
Wow this brings back some memories! I spent a long time doing research in this area. You can do very cool stuff by realizing that spatial light pattern propagates as Fourier transform with a "spherical" term in the integral (having a perfect convex lens at the focal point cancels this term, hence Fourier transform. Also if laser propagates to sufficient large distance, the term vanishes. A lensless, diffractive projector will always be in focused).

Note that you need a coherent, planar light source like an expanded laser beam.
I once had a peek at a slide deck from another marketing services company, with very imaginative cluster names.

If you're in Australia you should wonder if you'd be filed under "Bogan Dreams". Or "Guns and Trucks" if you're in the US.
If the typical behavior of their current multi-year Prime subscribers is to shop around because they no longer like the company that is a BIG problem for Amazon.
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I miss the days when you could read science fiction and think, "none of this exists, I wonder what the future will end up looking like?" We are way past the conceptual stage for the future of transport, and I think it will look exactly like the mashup you are describing.
With approximately 30 thousand road fatalities every year, people today are barely qualified to drive. But with so few viable transportation options in most areas, we make do with a bad situation.
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Not to mention snow/ice. The software might be able to handle the nasty Minnesota roads, but not for a while (and what if people don't trust the cars in those conditions?). As far as I know, they've only been tested in sunny California.

That statement was probably a bit of a jump.
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Fair observation, but I think this sort of centralization will come after maybe 2 or 3 generations (40 - 60 years). With a long enough timetable I believe the sentiment behind private car ownership will dwindle until it becomes a hobby akin to collecting telegraph machines.
Think of this as a bike-commute substitute with a roof.
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this still doesn't fix the fact that there is no longer private 1 on 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7649524
+1

I'd love to see your notes.

I found that when I was learning git there were two concepts that were crucial: understanding the staging area, and understanding the very basics of the DAG (not talking about tree objects, only spending just enough time to learn how to merge and rebase).

I have to say I was a little disappointed this tutorial didn't even mention the word staging, since it's pretty important to being able to use the interface.
We're talking about a program that dates back to 1944 as if it's some new idea...
You're going to need to translate some of this for me. How long in advance do I have to signal my intent to get the bus? How frequent are the busses/how long will I wait on average? How close will busses come to me, will they come to my house in a court where it needs to three point turn to get out? Will the bus wait 10 minutes while I load my things in it?

I don't think the google car will replace mass transit like busses, trains and trams. They're a far more blunt instrument. I do however see it as a more flexible hybrid of car sharing and taxis. A taxi fleet that doesn't have the overhead of keeping enough drivers active for small demand spikes and can be sent directly to the user.

Edit: Weird, was not showing up in English on my phone, does on my laptop.
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> I don't imagine that we'll get away from people who drive because they find it enjoyable any time soon.

I can see that there will be a rapid change in social attitudes, once automated driving reaches the point where it is generally accepted to kill/maim fewer people than automated driving.

Think back 30 years, when it was socially acceptable to light up cigarettes around small children. Now it is socially unacceptable to do so, to the point that it is illegal in many jurisdictions. Where I live, it is illegal to smoke in the vicinity of a school, within 10 metres of a playground or in a car with a child under 16 years [1].

Once a tipping point is reached, where manual driving is widely accepted to be more dangerous that automated driving, manual driving will quickly be banned in the vicinity of schools. There will be resistance and arguments from manual driving aficionados. Eventually, public manual driving will be confined to either remote areas or purpose built facilities, just as public smoking is restricted to open-areas and smoking rooms.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_in_Austral...
I wouldn't call it "classy", it's a public relations ploy, meant to turn public opinion in Amazon's favor.
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I feel like the way you're positioning this paints women as weak and unintelligent and plays off of their fears.

This line in particular paints women as weak and unintelligent:

"Existing self defense devices such as pepper spray and stun guns can be scary and intimidating."

Bringing up the 2012 Delhi gang rape is really playing off of women's fears and I seriously doubt your product would have made any difference whatsoever in the outcome of that attack.

Another problem I have with this is the positioning of it as only a product for women. Men are the victims of violent crime more often than women. Why wouldn't this be a good product for men too? By marketing only towards women to protect themselves from men you are implicitly placing women in the role of victim and men in the role of aggressor. This just serves to reinforce the roles prescribed by the so-called rape culture you're trying so hard to put and end to.
"nearly 40 times closer than the next closest GRB we have detected"*

Announcement from the Gamma-ray Coordinates Network: https://www.facebook.com/bob.rutledge/posts/1015420661720524...

Robert Rutledge on Twitter:
"A super Eddington (at 500 Msun) X-ray source, from a GC in M31, where a GRB went off an hour ago. If you've got glass near Turkey, observe."

"It's a potentially known type of phenomenon, but the best, closest look at it yet. Not yet clear."

https://twitter.com/rerutled/status/471423831240740864

Another interesting Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/steinly0

* Post from Heavy Metallicity:
http://heavymetallicity.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/gamma-ray-bu...
I believe it. Networking is seen as a commodity now. It's transparent until it fails. There's a whole lot of technical debt lurking out there. I personally have seen the dark shadow of spanning tree suck the light out of DevOp engineers eyes.
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You can install FOS on a lot of devices, been available for a while now, same as Android itself and Ubuntu Phone or Sailfish.

What you are saying only applies to iOS really.
"The next time your friends or family ask you about bitcoin, you can just send them some with QuickCoin!"

Start with firing the person who came up with this ingenius marketing pitch and try again.
I can't see that working. You'll require a ton of cars taking individuals or small groups to and from work in a big city. That's not very efficient, and the reason we have a metro system in the first place.

1. That's a lot of pollution.
2. You have twice as much traffic, since these cars need to come to your house every morning, and drive back to their charging station in the evening. They can take those trips off-peak hours, but you still have a lot more cars on the road. They could stay at your house overnight to save on wasting energy, but at that point you're just owning a car, or renting one full-time.
3. Do many people take a taxi to and from work daily? No, and this is quite similar. It's too expensive, people take public transportation, or buy a cheap vehicle (this could be that vehicle).

This is a replacement for the taxi, and for car rentals. If you live in a city and need to rent a car for a day, this would be a great situation. You don't even need a driver's license, so you just push a button, car appears, and you're taking it to your destination. I've lived in a dozen different cities, and this is something I'd use. I don't rent cars often because it's kind of a hassle, a little scary driving in a new city, and a little annoying searching for parking, but the convenience of pushing a button would encourage me to use it for certain trips. It should also be slightly cheaper than a taxi since you're not paying or tipping a driver.

They could probably get creative and offer monthly plans, where you get up to X trips, and Y kilometers, for a slightly better rate than renting on a per trip basis.
I agree. I've had to spend some time lately on the host pricing page for an AirBnB rental and I would love some more advanced features.

I've previously thought about writing a little program that keeps an eye on the major hotels in the city, so I can work out when rooms are more in demand and amend my pricing.

Even a "this is the average cost of similar rentals within a X radius of you" would be helpful.

It would be beneficial to AirBnB too. They'd get more money in fees and money flowing through their system. It also works both ways - if I reduce pricing in low demand times, it's possible I'd get bookings I wouldn't have before - again increasing the amount for AirBnB.
I've seen generally brilliant people be bit by bad process. The worst example was an important hard drive being wiped thanks to a lack of labeling, obviously taking a production server down with it.

Other things that have caused outages: lack of power capacity planning, unplugging an unrelated test server from the network (go go gadget BGP), cascading backup power failure, building maintenance taking down AC units, expensive equipment caching ARP replies indefinitely… the list goes on.

I had my own fun fuckup too. I learned SQL on PostgreSQL, and had to fix a problem with logged data in a MySQL database. Not trusting myself, I typed "BEGIN;" to enter a transaction, ran my update, and queried the table to check my results. I noticed my update did more than I expected, so I entered "ROLLBACK;" only to learn that MyISAM tables don't actually implement transactions.

Thankfully, in this case it turned out to be possible to undo the damage, but talk about a heart-stopping moment!

Shit happens. You deal with it, then do what you can to keep it from happening again. I've learned to respect early morning change windows as a way to limit damage caused by mistakes.
Sure, Steer by wire is new. DBW generally refers to the connection between the accelerator pedal and the throttle. There, DBW has been the norm for many years.
The requirements are, but enforcement isn't always particularly strong. There's a LOT of companies using SR&ED and relatively not a lot of bureaucrats checking up on it. It's extremely valuable to a company, so some will go to some pretty ridiculous lengths to get it.
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Edit: On reading other comments, I'd extend the analogy to smoking (and other activities that carry a public risk) by pointing out that there will be a financial penalty for choosing to drive oneself. Just as smoking is a risk factor that increases health/life insurance premiums, manual driving will also be a factor in calculating insurance premiums.
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Rear facing seats are safest, since acceleration is not the biggest problem, rapid deceleration is.

http://www.airspacemag.com/need-to-know/are-aft-facing-airpl...
I fully agree with all of the above. I also feel that people who have the means to purchase a self-driving car will do so. The compromises necessary to make a vehicle appropriate for use by multiple users conflict with the comfort and luxury many people expect in a vehicle they spend hours each day in. Would you like to spend your hour commute each day in a bus or taxi seat when you can afford the comfort of a Mercedes, BMW or even Toyota seat?
>Santos-Dumont would then land in front of his favorite café, tie the guide rope much like one might tie a horse to a hitching post, and walk in for a meal. It must have been quite a sight.

Okay, now I want my own personal dirigible for commuting. Kickstarter?
As a customer I see it as a feature that Amazon don't allow people to to collect my data, I bought the book at Amazon, nobody else should know the details.

That does not change that Amazon is scummy but that they don't allow you data is actually a customer protection feature.
Looking at my own graduating class... it's not lack of talent, it's lack of opportunity. Many (most) graduates end up taking jobs south of the border within their first year post-graduation.
I disagree with this advice.

SR&ED consultants are simply exploiting a knowledge gap for serious profits. If you can, you should find someone who can help you and give advice, but don't give away 10%+ of the return.
Knowing the emerging marketa this OS is too little too late. 3 or 2 years ago maybe, but now you got android phones with better specs going for that price, and now that the big ones like motorola are jumping in its only going to get even cheaper.

Then there's the popularity factor and the consequential app availability that makes customers go for the market leader because all their friends use that one and they are afraid of possible compatibility issues.
While I sort of like the idea, there's still going to be lots of traffic in and around those bus/van depots. We're also going still need storage near urban downtowns for all those 1-person cars that spend 95% of their day idle waiting for the 5pm rush.