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> Mathematica is a desktop product, specifically an IDE for the Wolfram Language

Presenting Mathematica (or, rather, FrontEnd?) as IDE is harmful for its reputation among hackers:

1) Workflow differs from one in traditional IDEs, and lots of build tools are simply not there

2) It has different goals, being a bottom-up environment: users start with tiny one-cell programs; IDEs like Eclipse suggest to “create a new project” by default

It's a tool for discovery and improvisation, not for building large programs, with multi-modular source code provided by different independent authors, that is sometimes (often?) written in different languages.

“Improvisations and Experiment Environment” or something like that would be a more adequate description.

It's not that FrontEnd can't be an IDE too. I believe it can be a better IDE than anything else out there but experienced programmers disagree unanimously. Part of it is personal tastes, part is mind being closed by means of classical IDE heritage, part is not-so-rational disgust towards proprietary software, paid software, S.W., etc.

FrontEnd and the language itself encourage users to add features themselves. Those who persist probably end up with the highly personalised product the majority of them could never buy. (+) Still, some features would be universally needed, so one might want to install a package from a public hub, but FrontEnd lacks this feature. (–)

I think hackers would appreciate it more if Mathematica (FrontEnd?) were marketed as emacs-like tool. Still, without a proper package manager (and an open package server, or at least an open standard for package server) it would be a hopeless take. — Though I heard something like package manager is coming. :-)
The power of reddit
Yesterday I linked my new game (http://parrothunt.nergal.se) in reddit.com/r/webgames to hopefully get feedback. And just then I realized how powerful reddit is to spread your work and get feedback. It's so simple to target towards correct group of people, in this case games created for the web. Nowhere else that I'm aware of can you reach out to thousands of people around the world with the same interest that easily.

So only in 24 hours my little game has been played about 1100 times and had above 1500 unique visitors. I've gotten multiple feature requests and a lot of positive comments.

Reaching out to people interested in the same subject and get that huge response gets you motivated to continue develop what you love to do. I strongly recommend people who spend a lot of time working on small projects in their spare time to spread their work at reddit. It's not just another funny pictures site!

Thumbs up for reddit!
>Foreign Investors Want You to Have a Global Vision

a reasonable expectation given that it is a part of big space speaking the same language and close [relatively, like closer than Russia for example] culturally.

>In a nutshell start-up employees are liable for the tax charge on shares when they vest (not when sold)

the same for the shares - RSU - here, in the US. Or may be the author meant "options"? It is really 2 different things...

> I’ve witnessed a huge explosion of enthusiasm in Australia, we’ve got more incubators than ever before, we got lots of amazing co-working spaces & everyone is really just trying to find their product market fit in the big bad world.

sounds like a gold rush, or at least sounds very similar to the one happening right now here in SV.

Anyway, startup is a tool, not the goal...
From Idea to App Store: My Adventure in App Development (2012)
I like Sundar Pichai, but I have a feeling he has absolutely no intention of putting Android on laptops, and besides thinking that's the wrong strategy for the company, because many OEMs have shown more interest in that than in ChromeOS, it also pisses me off.
Try it again. Maybe WebFaction customized it? Roundcube is plenty fast.
It's not suprising that Duo Security is interested in exposing this flaw in their 2FA flow, since their product is a somewhat better 2FA solution. I've evaluated their solution for my project, but ultimately settled with MePIN which offered similar security at lower price.
You can download the zip file if you'd rather install that way.
You clipped my sentence. "For its intended use", I said. Sporty cars are tuned for performance. Cushy cars are tuned for comfort. Econoboxes are tuned for economy. Of course if you want to make your Yaris do 0-60 in 6.0 s there are changes you can make. But drilling random holes on your STi ain't gonna do shit for its time on the track.
What _are_ examples of HPC installations that *BSD is key? Free, Net, Dragon Fly, Open?
I upgraded to ubuntu 14.04 on my reasonably late-model desktop from a major name and now my nvidia graphics card doesn't cause the x server to segfault and send me back to a login prompt when rendering certain fonts, but now my keyboard stops working after screen lock about 10% of the time and sometimes half the usb ports will shut down for no reason at all.

This is a little better then when I was hand-editing x configs back in the 90s but overall I'm disappointed.
Yeah, sadly enough.
While I agree with much of what you say, your "safety" justification confuses me. If someone is wanted for a lesser, non-violent crime, it is arguably safer for the police to knock on the front door, as residents often mistake SWAT teams for armed robbers and grab their weapons in fear for their lives. There is almost zero incentive to shoot a cop knocking on your door unless you are facing decades in prison if caught, the purpose for SWAT raids on non-violent offenders is to prevent escape/the destruction of evidence. If the police were concerned with safety, they would wear chest mounted cameras (proven to reduce assaults on officers), but they actively resist this.
You can end up with the same problem even if you use Duo.
I'd allocate swap on the order of how much RAM your applications use. So if they need 2 GB of RAM to be comfortable, 1-4 GB of swap will give them room to be paged out when necessary. In most situations disk space is cheap, so erring on the side of too much won't hurt.
Could you share alternatives written in another language ?
They are one tool, but not sufficient for a real education. For instance, I doubt you could effectively teach social and emotional development in early childhood using a web portal.
So it takes a BI article to get AirBnB to respond?
Writing articles like this counts as "get the message about this sort of thing out to the layperson". You complain that he is not doing what he just did.
The Wikipedia article on Nastaliq puts the number at around 20,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasta%CA%BFl%C4%ABq_script
Independent artists need to stop being independent and form up into groups that collectively have a large audience and then higher a lawyer to represent them, its the only smaller bands can have any leverage with streaming services. This is arguably the only reason for "record labels" to still exist.
>we have yet to hire a Singaporean into the Haskell team (the language is pretty much unknown here).

There's a good chance that if I can recognize your company based on this sentence alone (and I can), it's not a very transferable skill.
You are correct about the history. Unfortunately the Abbasid empire came to an end in 1258 AD and Urdu wasn't even around then.

I take your point that naskh has been wide-spread. And it is true that it is even in the Indian sub-continent. Sindhi, for example, is a naskh based language. Punjabi, which my parents spoke, on the other hand, prefers nastaliq, and regionally the two places are adjacet. That doesn't mean that those people didn't historically play around with scripts. They did.

However, my piece is entirely about what is going on today. Sure you can find Ottoman era signs in Egypt and the Levant that display Arabic in nastasliq (my readers sent me plenty such pictures), but by and large Arabic today is written in naskh and almost never in nastaliq. Take a look at some of the fonts that the Omani government is playing around with. They are not nastaliq. This is the political aspect I briefly touched upon in the article. I hope you will get a chance to look into the Arabization aspects of the political debates raging in that part of the world. I make brief mention of it by bringing up the fight over "Khuda Hafiz" or "Allah Hafiz."

Meanwhile, the past two or three generations of Urdu readers and writers grew up associating nastaliq and Urdu almost exclusively with each other (thus the jarring effect associated with having to read Urdu in something else). I have plenty of emails testifying to this from people from my parents generation and some people of mine.

In short, no one is really talking about ancient Arab history here, as fascinating as that would be.
I didn't express that very well. To me the difference is that in science you need to make good on your claim - it's no good announcing my intuition that the universe is has the interior of a foofaraw without defining exactly what I mean by that and how it might be tested, in terms that make sense to other people. In art it only matters that you engage the viewer (or listener or...) who need not necessarily have any critical understanding of a work in order to derive an aesthetic experience from it.

That's not much more helpful, sorry. It might give more context if I mention that I have an extreme antipathy towards postmodernism and critical theory in general, which colors my opinions on related topics.
Seems pretty sane to me: checks for dependencies, unzips the application files, chmods some data folders.

It may be a little complex, but that's understandable since PHP can be used on any platform.
I wonder if a large cohort of middle class individuals have recently retired.
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"Organic" change is little more than the result of repeated oversight. It is often triggered by changes in hardware availability.

Scripts that were developed in the age of stone tablets will change when the tablet and chisel are replaced with paper and brush, and again when the brush is replaced with a fountain pen, and again when the whole setup is replaced with a computer. People will naturally adopt the style that allows them to convey meaning the most conveniently in a given medium.

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean were all written vertically from right to left (|||) until only a few decades ago. Now they are very often written horizontally from left to right (≡). A lot of factors have contributed to the change, such as the ease of embedding Western, mathematical and scientific symbols in a CJK sentence, the need to keep one's hands clean when writing with a modern pen, and of course the introduction of computerized typesetting.

Nobody forced anyone to write horizontally. People just gravitated towards what they found more convenient given the availability of new writing tools. And of course, many artists and calligraphers continue to write vertically when it suits their intentions better. Even better, new calligraphical techniques have been developed to take advantage of unique opportunities that horizontal writing offers. As long as everyone gets what they need (art for artists and utility for utilitarians), I don't see any problem with this arrangement.
I don't know if this is common knowledge but PayPal lets you log in with your CC number instead of the auth token sent via text message. I know because the text messages often do not arrive at all for me, even after repeated requests.

It "only" works one time though, the second time you're asked the dreaded "security question"
May 2014 virus activity review from Doctor Web
Mobile Threats in May 2014
I'm sure that whoever is making this drug is already 10 times ahead of any of us in monetizing this for commercial hair loss applications.

I'll give it my best shot. The reason steroidal creams work is because the steroids are lipid soluble and their mechanism of action involves penetrating cell membranes and bindings to transcription factors in the cytoplasm/nucleus.

A tyrosine kinase inhibitor wouldn't be lipid soluble and therefore wouldn't be able to diffuse across the skin or into the capillaries feeding the hair follicles which is where I'm assuming the positive effect is coming from. (Turning off White Blood Cells).
Based on this timeline, I don't understand why Duo didn't go public on 2014-04-28 when PayPal began being weasely about their bug bounty program. This probably would be better for users for two reasons: one, in the past 2 months, this bug may have been exploited in the wild, and two, it would make it easier for users to make informed decisions about which payments providers to use in the future (as well as which 2fa providers are technically competent).
There's a real height, and there's a "listed" height. A lot of people say that the "listed" height is often very wrong. Sometimes by several inches and more for certain organizations that aren't really particular about getting an accurate height.
You forgot PGP and SSL. http://rainloop.net/features/
There is an online judge with problems from the competition:
https://icpc.kattis.com/problems

Live comments about the problems from the legendary Petr Mitrichev:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rjGwA7ChLJr2ibHVbt-GirDp...
> With nobody else producing works with your characters & world, you are the sole source. If we think about supply & demand, we know what that means.

We do know what it means. It means the price will be higher. Be careful though, because price is not equivalent to profit. Selling a million copies for $10 each is much more profitable than selling a hundred copies for $1000 each.

And if derivative works bring publicity for the original it can drive sales and increase profits, even at the same time as it lowers prices.
Are there standalone libraries that fully support, say, Gmail IMAP features?

If you have to call them "Gmail IMAP features" they really aren't IMAP at all and it would be better to call them proprietary Google-extensions.

Gmail does not follow standard IMAP, and no standard IMAP client can fully interop with Gmail. That's a decision Google made, and you can't blame anyone else for the consequences of that.
security fraud is much lower and SEC is successful at enforcing cheaters. We need this level of regulation for kickstarter with equity to be successful, otherwise we are going to see innocent people getting duped easily and slip away without facing any restitution.

I just don't see this happening without support from government regulatory body and without it, the result would be disastrous.
It's a bit more nuanced than the no-pain-no-gain attitude toward exercise, too. We are fond of the saying, "worksheets don't build dendrites" around here.

I think many institutions are set up as human proof-of-work verification machines, when they should be set up as human brain debuggers. Debuggers show you counter-examples to your mental model. You set the goals and drive the process.
size does matter. You're not going to be a great soccer player if you're 7'4".
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historically the best players have been on the shorter side. Maradona was 5'5'', Pele 5'8''. One of the greatest parts of soccer is that it doesn't immediately disqualify 70%+ of the potential talent pool based on the importance of a single attribute, like height in basketball.
That's debatable - all the actual figures from the real construction that was actually happening were within the estimates provided, and they had factored in efficiency savings that were being made along the way (as has been shown to happen in other rollouts internationally).

It wasn't 'massively understated' until Malcolm Turnbull's theoretical 'Strategic Review' that estimated that the cost was going to suddenly double because of [redacted] (the alleged reasons that the previous downward trend suddenly stops and then jumps up is blacked out in the report), as well as things like inflating the peak funding because they counted the full cost but stopped counting future revenue after something like 2022 (adding about $12bn to the peak funding), and ignore like $6bn of savings from design changes that had already been signed off.

It was all pretty dodgy, but still with all the fudging only came to $56bn (instead of the old $44bn - the $14bn additional to the Government spend was to be private equity).

The second paragraph of your post is a misconception. They required a $90 per month ARPU - when you factor in business use (many who would be paying in the region of $400 - $2000 because of higher traffic classes, lower contended CVC, business SLAs, etc), home users would only need to average about $60-70 a month (that's more than I pay for ADSL that doesn't hit 4Mb/s), and that's an average which is skewed by the power users (as per the Pareto principle).

So the average household would only be paying $30 to $60 a month, which is more than competitive with ADSL when you factor in Telstra line rental. And this is across all services, not necessarily just internet, so add in phone and pay TV, which people already pay $100pm for, and it's easily conceivable that prices would have dropped.

Even now, if I were in an NBN area I could have 100Mb/s internet and VoIP for just $10 more than I pay for my slow ADSL2+ with phone (I'm on the $79p/m iiNet bundle)
But if customers have the option to choose between investing or preordering, it will probably get a lot harder for preorder only kickstarters to raise money.
Is there actually any evidence that derivative works are damaging to the original? If anything, they serve to advertise the original, making it more well known, or even fueling the subcultures that arise around a piece of art.

If you're not familiar with it, have a look at the Touhou project (set of Japanese arcade-style games, where the author explicitly gave permission for people to remix his art, whilst retaining fully copyright over the games, and forbidding commercial distribution of them). Touhou is huge - and it's not just because of the games - the derived art works have significantly impacted take up of the games, and created a somewhat unavoidable franchise, inspired countless of creators to produce and share, and will probably have a long lasting presence within otaku culture.
Let's get one thing straight - the SEC "worrying" about fraudulent behavior in crowd-based equity is laughable.

Yes, fraud can happen in crowd-based equity - that's not what I'm talking about though.

What is laughable is that the one thing the SEC is supposed to monitor (the stock market) is the single biggest fraud perpetuated on the American people. It is where young, naive people like myself put their life savings only to have it crushed by people who were richer than me, who could generate volume on whim, perform insider trading while not worrying about the consequences, and take bailouts from a government that milks the rest of the population for taxes. I'll honestly be damned if the SEC isn't in the pocket of those who would benefit from it.
LG Optimus Fuel ($30 unlocked at Walmart, runs KitKat but has a tiny screen)

Is this Straight Talk version unlocked?

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Straight-Talk-LG-L34C-Optimus-Fuel...
It doesn't mean subjective or inconsistent decisions have to be made, it just means you need to learn to get comfortable with degrees of uncertainty.
That's exactly what I do with my own installation of QADE on my dev box. The README on GitHub recommends others to do the same, since it's pretty much the only way to make QADE secure.
NYU team coach here writing from Russia. :)

Indeed, most of the top competitors have been practicing since high school. We were lucky to assemble a team that has been training well before.

MIT's team consists of freshmen who are still in good training since their national high school math olympiad trainings from their respective countries.
Is this a good business model?
Those are some very generous numbers you have there! Of course, there are examples of successful KS campaigns but it's not exactly a sure thing.

Also, it requires that you have a (typically consumer) product that you can pre-sell. What if you are making a Saas that could turn into a profitable business but that cannot be launched on Kickstarter? It might still be a good investment opportunity so the other model could work.
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Who else to keep companies honest but their competitors?
Well, there's at least two of us (at least publicly) since last year :P
You may incur a substantial liability or even worse be charged with fraud if you are actually working full time (on your startup) and at the same time claim unemployment benefits. I like Australia's social welfare safety net and I think it helps startups to have it, but I wouldn't recommend it be abused to start a company.
You're making it way too complicated. You only need one flask app. Here's how you do it:

1) Build the app so it's able to generically handle any request by parsing the subdomain from the URL (google "flask multiple subdomains" for plenty of solutions to this)

2) Install the app on one droplet at first, and more as you need to scale.

3) Create a wildcard A record in the site.com DNS (* .site.com), with round robin load balancing between the IP of each of your droplets. e.g. If you have one droplet at 1.1.1.1, one at 2.2.2.2, set "* .site.com" to round robin [1.1.1.1, 2.2.2.2].

This should take care of your scaling for a while. You're severely overestimating how rapidly you will need to scale. Start with one small droplet, add to its resources when your traffic grows, and then once it's maxed out, go to the DNS round robin method.

Further down the line, you can replace those app servers with something like HAProxy to load balance between them, or do more fine grained load balancing than DNS round robin.
warehouses are different. It's very costly to send a guy to people's houses. They're simply limited by the walking/running rate of the human body, and traffic.
> Pick better things to learn

Awesome advice.
It is (out of 120+ applicants, we had 1 PR and 1 EP holder, rest foreign) but it's also incredibly easy to import talent. Pay them enough for an EP, and you get the EP approved in hours if not days.

In one case, the guy was in Colombia when we made him an offer and sent him his flights, his EP was rejected when he was transferring in New York (because he didn't have a degree, so the government thought we were "overpaying" and asked us to explain), his appeal was approved just before he landed in Hong Kong, where he downloaded the Letter and showed it to border control in Singapore. Total time from offer to walking into the office: 36 hours. Good luck doing that in the US.
Interesting, considering Kaplan already has a bootcamp arm, Metis (http://www.thisismetis.com/). From what I can tell, Metis provides courses developed by industry groups, although it's not clear what Kaplan provides - infrastructure for applications and buildings, perhaps? Either way, this purchase shows they're serious about the whole thing.
Are all companies which have such stores traded publicly? I don't see a direct connection between these two aspects. For instance, in China there are various Android markets and I'm not sure all of them belong to publicly traded companies.
For some reason the link to all the scene lingo is down now. Is there a backup? Did it move? Do I need to be "in" something?
Being on both sides, I feel interview processes are a part of the problem too. Every place I have interviewed assumes that the interviewers are good and by default, the candidate is bad. While it is probably statistically true, it makes things worse if a good candidate gets rejected because of an issue with the interviewer's own abilities.