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> First of all, what kind of insane person pays $5k for parking and insurance?

> My parking expenditure (yes, I live in SF) is maybe $10 a week

"You'd have to be insane to get the unusually low rate I get on parking!"

Please tell me this is a joke. This is as dumb as saying "I can't believe people let themselves get so ripped off on their rent: I pay $900/mo to live downtown under rent control, why don't they just do that?" For some actual data instead of nonsense like what you're saying, look at something like: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/prk/

You can't really find a parking spot for less than $250 (~$62/wk). I expected this to not be the case in some outlying areas, but it looks like you have to go all the way to Glen Park to find parking for cheaper than that. Parking that comes with rentals is cheaper (about $150/mo generally), but not everyone has that option and I'm sure you agree that it's idiotic to say that you have to be "insane" to happen to live somewhere that doesn't come with a parking spot option. Either way, parking is 3-5x what you seem to think it is.

> As to gas and maintenance, you obviously pay those for an Uber car just like you pay for it for your own car -- in fact, you pay more for these mileage-related costs, since the car has to drive over to you as well as drive you wherever you go.

Your math is wayyyyy off here. You pay a minuscule fraction of the insurance costs for an Uber: largely because you're paying in proportion to your usage, and all the times that the car is parked or picking up other fares is not your responsibility to pay for. By contrast, even if you drive the exact same amount you would've Uber'ed, you don't get to tell the insurance company "I only drove 3 out of every 24 hrs this week, so I'm going to pay you 1/8 the premium". TL;DR for this paragraph: You seem to be completely forgetting the fact that insurance (and maintenance) related costs are driven down by increased utilization, and almost by definition an Uber has infinitely higher utilization than an owned car.
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It's not your network. It's Comcast's.
It's interesting to see David Hockney there, since he made a documentary many years ago (the 90s?) about how Vermeer might have used lenses and mirrors to create his paintings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynrnfBnhWSo

He points out that the intricacy of Vermeer's paintings, and peculiarities of perspective, strongly suggest the use of a camera obscura (or other optical device) to aid his work.

This is not to detract from the investigation in the OA, just point out that others have been this way before.
TLDR; Everything I "need" to know? Doubt that
There's not really anything to worry about. One of the UK's largest ISPs, BT Broadband, does the same kind of thing (in collaboration with their own network of 'BT Openzone' public wifi spots, and the 'Fon' network).

Basically, (unless an individual subscriber has chosen to disable the function) their home router radiates a second Wireless SSID, which is _completely_ isolated from your connection (all traffic to/from is tunnelled over a VPN back to ISP base) and _never_ detracts from your download speed (your own traffic always takes priority.)

In return, you have wireless access to thousands of similar hotspots - and in any populated area there's a more than reasonable chance that you'll be near someone that uses BT broadband. (UK's largest ISP.)

Nothing not to like about it. It's really convenient and works well.
I don't know why, but to me it feels like that will-change property should have been associated to the HTML, not CSS.

<section class="animatable" will-change='transition'></section>

section.animatable:active {
// someanimation
}

The above makes more sense to me than the following:

section.animatable {
will-change: 'transition';
&.animating {
// Some animation
}
}
Both Chrome and Firefox have the same approach of implementing first, standardizing later. For example, Firefox has had large swaths of ES6 implemented since 2006 or so.

Rather, it's not so much that they refuse to implement features until they're standardized, it's that each browser maker refuses to implement the features dreamed up by the other browser makers until they're standardized.
Huh? The whole point of MacPorts is that it builds its own dependencies, thereby not touching the "system components" at all. It's entirely self-contained in /opt/local, or /Applications/MacPorts for GUI apps. I've been using it for many years and it's never broken anything. (Except occasionally itself.)

I would argue that you're far more likely to have stuff already installed in /usr/local than in /opt/local.

Homebrew is currently trendy but there was nothing wrong with MacPorts. Declaring the entire project to be "a terrible idea" is simply ignorant.
As far as I'm aware, not all ISPs get that deal - the ISPs need to pay Netflix for it.

There are four invariants as I see it:

1) Netflix is using a significant amount of a limited resource (bandwidth)
2) If Netflix doesn't work, consumers blame their ISP, not Netflix
3) The consumer is going to pay for this bandwidth, whether via ISP or Netflix
4) Consumers don't like caps or understand special packages that differentiate between packets routed one way or another

If Netflix doesn't pay for this bandwidth, then ISPs need to pay for it - and consumers will pay more to their ISPs to cover these costs. That means that consumers that don't use Netflix will be subsidizing consumers who do use Netflix.

IMO ISPs should charge Netflix so that Netflix can charge higher prices to users who are using more bandwidth via Netflix. That better reflects the link between who's using a limited resource and who's paying for it. Unfortunately, because of point (2) above, Netflix has quite a strong bargaining position.
As of at least a year ago, their are bindings for the BLAS library of your choice (github.com/gonum/blas), which are used in many parts of the matrix package (github.com/gonum/matrix/mat64). As of a week ago, there are bindings for the Lapack implementation of your choice (github.com/gonum/lapack). These have not yet been worked in with matrix, but will be eventually (PR welcome!).
hopefully netflix continues this push toward broadband transparency. as justice louis brandeis said, "sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." it seems unreasonable for verizon and broadband providers to advertise, and charge consumers for, high-quality networks -- then try to pry money from data suppliers like netflix when usage rises. that said, is there a fair counterargument that justifies verizon's desire to charge both consumers for high-speed access and netflix for increased network usage?
That is exactly the problem with Scribd? No growth no pivots, so all that is left do to is plaster the thing with ads and have someone keep it running at night.

It's terrible exactly because it is too old now.
"The next generation of smart technology from the company that invented The Round thermostat."

Wow
What I want to know is if this will count toward my 300gb data cap.
I prefer adapting the method described in Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4193
Anyone know if array comprehensions are also supported in chrome?
Actually that is a libc issue. It only reads in 32k of directory entries at a time.

If you compile your own lame ls implementation and read in say a 1 meg buffer vs 1024 bytes at a time, you can print out directories with over 4 million entries in about a second versus 20ish hours with 1024 byte buffers (yeah I timed it).

I'm not saying ext4 doesn't have issues, just that its not as simple as it seems on the surface.
That might still be the case. IIRC I read somewhere that when the iterator code gets inlined, the non-nullness of the pointer gets lost, as the iterators internally use raw pointers (which can be null in Rust).
The causality question was addressed years ago in this paper:

http://exvacuo.free.fr/div/Sciences/Dossiers/Time/A%20E%20Ev...

TL/DR: Yes, the Alcubierre drive does violate causality.
I thought there was some ext4 specific mount option you could set to tell it to speed that up significantly? I can't seem to find it now.

In any case, the classic workaround (which can be a PITA) is to create a tree of subfolders and distribute files between them. E.g. first letter of filename, second letter of filename, or for more even distribution use first characters from hashing the filename.
Well Rust is checking for null pointers at the assembly level: http://goo.gl/eh2aqc (lines 22--27).
A few years ago, I bought an internet module add on for a Honeywell alarm system and was shocked to find that the control UI communicated in plain text with no authentication to the internet module. The module broadcast its address across the entire network every few seconds.

At any location that has one of these installed on a weak WiFi network (an unfortunately likely combination), it would be feasible to crack the network and brute force disable the alarm from the outside, disabling the alarm before ever setting foot inside.

Let's just say I wont be buying any Honeywell products in the future.
Well they need to know your wishes. If this procedure has a 60% success rate but 95% of those people only survived with 75% brain function would you want it done? Vs a procedure that has a 10% success rate but 95% of people who survived had complete brain functionality restored.

Personally I'd want to take the 1/10 chance, but I'm sure there are a lot of people who would want to live even if it meant diminished mental capacity.
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You're absolutely correct, IMO.

This argument is over whether or not non-Netflix users will end up subsidizing Netflix watchers.

The bandwidth needs to be paid for, at the end of the day. The only thing anybody is arguing about is how the balance of payments work out.
This is far more restricted than that. They approved the use of drones by BP to survey their operations / pipelines in Alaska.

I think the restrictions in SoCal will be much more stringent.
Anyone have a rough idea of when/if this will effect the Amazon Linux distro for EC2?

Glad they went with MariaDB, I've had some small problems with certain versions of the mysql jdbc being incompatible with MariaDB due to some kind of protocol quirk, but generally I've been planning as if MySQL development will converge on this project.
Where is the difference of 5 iterations coming from?
I don't know about you, but for me, some of the best things I've ever found were in places I shouldn't have been looking.
True, but just as a note, that page also includes APIs available in Chrome and not Firefox, including directoryReader:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DirectoryRe...
I've considered removing the dependency, but I'm not quite sure how I want to go about it. It's something I'd like to do, certainly, but as we use jQuery on pretty much all of our projects there wasn't too much motivation to ditch it.

Feel free to open an issue—or even better, send a pull request—on GitHub. :)
doesnt this reek of hoax to anyone? Not just the 'response' letter, but the initial twitter 'screen shot' as well. Why in the world would an executive scan a letter like that opening them up to litigation? even if they were 'right', they would probably get fired for it.
Tim's is better. ;D
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Not to mention there's 2/3rds of a go BLAS implementation (benchmarks https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/gonum-dev/Cqa41tbUUCw/...). Level 3 routines are much harder to make efficient (people are still researching efficient matrix multiply)
Interesting theory. I can think of two additional counterarguments:

1) the decline in price of advertising belies the growth in users and the steady increase in advertising spend Y/Y (+14% in 2014 according to Mary Meeker's latest report).

2) the paper focuses only on advertising targeted toward the bottom of the purchase funnel. A considerable amount of display ad revenue comes from upper-funnel ads, where the objectives are not behavioral but rather perceptual. That said, I don't know what proportion of total display ad revenue falls into this category.
Sounds like they require customers to log in with their Comcast credentials. My understanding is that in the US, the laws are such that if someone is authenticated into a wifi system, the provider of the wifi network is no longer liable. The article alludes to this in the closing paragraphs.
This Firefox is already running bug is really annoying. I love Firefox but it's some poor UX when i manually have to shutdown the process.
Another datapoint: my computer is just as good in remembering strong passwords as it is in remembering weak ones, so I use strong ones almost everywhere. My weakest password is the one that opens my keychain, but that one never leaves my computers (at least, I trust it doesn't. That probably is the weakest part of my password management)
NASA is building a gorgeous new rocket it can't afford to fly
Mindfulness is meta-concentration.

Concentration is the ability to focus on a task. Mindfulness is the ability to be aware of your concentration.

Concentration is akin to a programming thread or groups of threads working on tasks. Mindfulness is akin to the thread scheduler and process manager components.
Take a look at the number of downvotes that answer got. Suffice to say that most people don't buy Google's excuse for completely eliminating the option to install extensions from 3rd parties.
It won't because (at least in the UK model), other people using the public hotspot have their traffic tunnelled over a VPN back to the ISP. They don't share your IP address and their traffic is clearly and accountably separated from your own personal Internet use.

Sure, some big companies are stupid, but not THAT stupid.
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Motif Investing allows users to create and share motifs. I don't understand why this site was made?
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Would it really be so hard to support a calendar?

http://robertnyman.com/html5/forms/input-types.html
> quantum gravity isn't far from my field, and I've never heard of this take on the origin of gravity and inertia

That's probably because nobody in the field pays any attention to Haisch, Puthoff, and Rueda, who have been publishing papers on "zero point energy" and how they claim it causes gravity and inertia for a couple of decades now.
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You're right. There's no real privacy to protect with the urls... I'll change it even for private leagues.

For the users however the "safe" url is useful otherwise people could guess other people's url and change their predictions!
I was recruited to work as editor on this project about two years ago. My reason for not taking the job at the time was that it would be hard to make the ending interesting enough to justify the effort. Two years have passed and now that I see the reproduction, I've changed my mind, it was impossible to make the ending interesting enough. Would have made a good magazine article in the Smithsonian though.

"what a sweep of vanity comes this way!" - Shakespeare
Yup. The same goes for dropdown list '<select>' elements. No mention of that in this release though.
There was a Kickstarter done to build a modern camera lucida, they are still building batches of them (they even have DYI including prescription lucidas):

http://neolucida.com

(not affiliated, just an art geek)
Blech. I'm pretty sure LLVM, not the frontend, is inserting those null checks for some reason.
Google Tag Manager is great!

Pros:
- It's good at dealing with older browsers
- It's async (non blocking)
- Simple to implement
- No dependencies

Cons:
- UI is simple but workflow is a little confusing at first
- Not "plug-and-play". Still requires a little working knowledge about Google Analytics.
I love the change to prohibit non-whitelisted plugins. Together with the changes to Chrome to move away from NPAPI, hopefully we can kill off the majority of plugins across all browsers.

If we can get it down to just Flash and nothing else, hopefully a few years from now Mozilla's HTML5 implementation of Flash will take off (similar to PDF.js), which pushes Flash inside the browser sandbox, and ensures that it has no more privileges or capabilities than normal in-browser content.
AFAICT, standard human behavior is a lot more multiprocess and conflicted than most of us would like to think about. Framing the situation as "Steering your emotions is like steering and elephant." is a lot more realistic and useful than a (extreme example) monoistic approach like "Why did you eat that dessert? Are you lying to me about being on a diet? Or, do you not understand how diets work? Well, which one is it?" The reality is a third option: your foreground process knows you need to lose weight, but some background process has the conflicting goal of eating high-calorie food.

The good news is that with practice, your foreground process can learn to recognize these conflicts as they are forming and gently steer them to a non-conflicting state before they get out of control. So, the end result is conflict reduction, not conflict induction.
How many weeks until we start seeing job postings requiring "5 years experience programming in Swift"? (Saw the same thing happen with Java just a few months after it was publicized.)
All ISPs oversell; the two alternatives are (a) really low bandwidth for everyone, or (b) really expensive bandwidth with lots of wasted capacity that people seldom use. If you're arguing against contention, you're arguing for a massively inefficient allocation of money. This is basically a thin provisioning vs thick provisioning argument. Thin provisioning makes lots of sense when not everyone is using the maximum all the time, and especially when thick provisioning is expensive. Uncontended bandwidth is expensive.

If customers who watch Netflix are using more bandwidth on average than customers who don't watch Netflix, who should pay more?

If you think Netflix shouldn't pay more for their bandwidth (and then take it out of their customer), you're arguing that Verizon should pay for the extra bandwidth (and thus take it out of their customer).

The logical conclusion is that Netflix-watching users would be subsidized by non-Netflix-watching users.

Alternatives might be a special "Netflix" package sold by Verizon that has better quality interconnects to Netflix. Would you agree with that? Not very net-neutral though.
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Yeah, nonnull is only allowed on parameters in LLVM IR, so it gets lost post-inlining. I'm pretty sure it's LLVM that is inserting those null checks, as we never do in the frontend (since safe pointers are not null in Rust, and unsafe pointers are never checked for null since they're unsafe).
Should be "degrading image for smoother playback". We know that's what's happening; do most people?
I used to use Firebug extensively. These days, the built-in Firefox developer tools seem to cover everything I need.
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> Both Chrome and Firefox have the same approach of implementing first, standardizing later

>Rather, it's not so much that they refuse to implement features until they're standardized, it's that each browser maker refuses to implement the features dreamed up by the other browser makers until they're standardized.

I guess that's what happened with this. A Mozilla engineer explicitly argued against implementing something because it's not a standard in this issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782233
> People always use causality to argue against FTL, but then readily acknowledge that wormholes or Albicurie might allow it

Wormholes and Alcubierre drives do lead to causality violations. That's why most physicists view them as not physically possible. They're just mathematical solutions to the Einstein Field Equations that can't be physically realized. There are plenty of other such solutions; nobody has ever claimed that every mathematical solution of the equations has to correspond to something that's physically possible.
For your second paragraph, that is what Open Connect is about -- put netflix hardware inside the ISP's own network to reduce congestion at interconnects.

That said, it's also an inscrutable battle among corporate giants, but one that people care about because in general, most people hate their ISP but like internet companies like Netflix and so put up with things.

For up-to-date analysis on Internet issues, read up on dslreports.com as each stunt happens. It's not enough to hit mainstream news often, but if you follow it online you'll pick up on patterns. Here they cover this PDF (the last paragraph links to backstory): http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Netflix-Wont-Back-Down-on...
I've been using MacPorts for the better part of decade and some ports in it clobber system files without warning. I've been bitten one too many times by that
>I don't understand how this actually changes that need.

It doesn't.

It's a literal example of the cliche of the entrepreneur building the "X for Y". They substituted X for Twitter and Y for email, real needs or relevancy be damned. They even boast of it on their landing page: "Toastio is like Twitter for email".

>I'm also not so much a fan of the fact that this service will auto respond to people saying they should send a shorter email.

That's just an added stroke of genius.
I consider how we understand that at the speed of light, all distances are zero. So even if you can somehow travel at C, there would be nowhere to go, because you're already everywhere. Given this, travelling faster than C can be seen as travelling a distance of less than zero... which makes no sense.
If it's unsupported it's a hypothesis, not a theory. Conflating the two is what gives us the "but it's just a theory!" statement people try to make.
I'm one of those people who had to deal with an XFS corruption about ten years ago, and the recovery process was messy - to say the least. At least with ext4, the recovery is easier to manage.

I'm still scarred by it.

This actually makes me happier with my decision to use FreeBSD and ZFS for a recent file server. I'll still use RHEL/CentOS for client nodes, but they'll all be using the ZFS export for storage.
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An absolute figure tells us nothing. Unless any company that has a profit should never raise prices on anything.

And just to show how the numbers can be cherry-picked, in 2012 Verizon had a net profit margin of less than 1 percent.
But it's a ycombinator company, so it doesn't matter. People will blindly support it due to the nature.
This will be a neat documentary and the idea clever to recreate the painting, but the camera obscura idea has been pretty well know for a while. Here is some evidence due to the quality of 17th C lens: http://www.essentialvermeer.com/camera_obscura/co_three.html I can't find a link but there was also good evidence of how the image shifts as focus changes in another painting. Some people even claim it's visible here: http://www.archiviobolano.it/img/arnolfini_SPECCHIO.JPG
That argument assumes that our understanding of physics is correct and complete. If FTL is possible, that is an incorrect assumption. But yes, any theory including FTL travel must explain how nature behaves if this happens.
"Without heartbeat and brain activity, the patients will be clinically dead."

As far as I can tell, that statement is correct. The headline is drawing attention to the evolving nature of just what constitutes "death" and how this particular procedure is pushing it out even further.
Yup! Release early, release often. Linux (kernel), Gnome, Ubuntu, Firefox, and Chrome (and lots more) are all on scheduled updates.

Edit: The advantage to rapid releases is that you can roll out minor updates when they're ready without having to wait for big ones, and you don't have to rush big ones for a deadline. If you miss one release, it's no a big deal because there's another one coming right up. Release when it's ready!