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I wish I had more faith that any bill protecting net neutrality would have a glimmer of hope.

I'm not sure how much of an effect our voices really will have, but you can share with the FCC your opinions on the proceeding "Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet" (docket 10-127). If anything it feels very cathartic to share your thoughts there.

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=10-127
So FilePicker was replaced by Ink and now FilePicker has returned?
just pinged you.
No offense but that's starting to sound like scope creep. RethinkDB is a great project, and I've used it before, but these kinds of candy-coating features really aren't necessary.

Someone who wants to periodically pull in feeds in production code can easily write a short script in their language of choice to grab it and add it to the DB.

It's not the role of the database to be an HTTP client, cron job scheduler, etc. Can it set the Accept header? The User-Agent header? Can it support different HTTP methods? How does it handle retries, and streaming downloads? Does the timer have to be initiated by a script each time or will it remain persistent in the database server? How can debugging info like the last time it ran and the next time it'll run by displayed?

It's not worth building supporting for all of these myriad possible use cases when someone can accomplish this easily in their general purpose programming language.

I understand adding r.http as a basic prototyping utility, but I think it should be left as it is. A timer primitive has no use for prototyping or experimenting. Developer time should be spent on improving core functionality, driver support and performance, etc.
>the capabilities afforded to us by this astonishing bounty of personal technology has produced: "A new way to share photos and videos"

Where's the double upvote link?

And, it's not just the waste of resources/developer talent. It's also the complete dumbing down of everyone consuming this stuff. If this "succeeds", then we now have yet another novel way to waste our precious time replacing real relationships with superficial interactions, and otherwise doing very little of actual consequence.

We are iterating on superficiality, distraction, and nothingness. I suppose one fine day, we'll perfect it.
Quite a few people I know would prefer to travel on an American passport because it offers less hassle than most other passports. We have fewer VISA requirements, etc.

We have somewhat shot ourselves in the foot here or there since we tightened travel restrictions on some countries. But it's still an incredibly good passport to have for traveling.
Which is very fun and keeps the spirit of the original X-Com alive and well.
The Force (Star Wars) was inspired very much by this spiritual meaning as places could have strong mana as well.

While the etymology is supposedly Proto-Oceanic, there's an interesting parallel with Kriyamana karma, particularly in the more modern usage of gaining/losing mana/karma through your actions.
What is the name of that law? I'm not familiar with it.

The reason this isn't a problem is that not working gets boring really quickly and people want luxuries they can't get on basic income.
I do miss that though I've learned to make some of it. I also moved to a town with a couple of large research lab which gives it enough of a collage town feel to have some good restaurants but the closest we get to Indian is a fusion place that has a couple of dishes...we have a great Sushi place which is nice.
Have a look at Xenonauts (http://store.steampowered.com/app/223830/) as well, it very much keeps the original x-com spirit alive.
Art of Optimization: The Legacy of GOAL
Beats staying at home. Certainly learning languages and history are Good Things, but I'll take somebody who has traveled extensively over somebody who's never left their own country any day of the week.
Other countries aren't warmongers that are constantly looking for the next large scale conflict they can use to rationalize irrational levels of spending.

No other country has had any kind of conflict where a drone would have provided any advantage. Hell, even our drones are not effective and cause more problems than they are worth. We just like being screwed and bamboozled by the next big thing our military services complex has to sell us.

If you have any idea of the consequences and effects of using drones in tactical operations then you would know that if any other country was using them in the way we use them we would be crying foul and trying to passive aggressively shame them for killing innocent civilians.
Hey - I'm the author.

And this is exactly right - it's all the work that goes 'around' the billable time, which is the real time suck. Also factoring in that this was my first full-time experience and so, since I was determined to get really good at what I was doing, I was also trying to learn as much as possible end expose myself to as much new stuff as I could.

You get major economy of scale by the time you reach Step 5, in terms of admin time costs (accounting, invoicing, legal fees) but at Step 2, you're doing it all yourself, and learning as you go along. A real killer.

It's £30, rather than $30, btw. Minor clarification, doesn't change the relative calculation, of course.
Did you see http://surfaceproartist.com/blog/2014/5/27/microsoft-address... ?
Does it really matter if the user gains access to a part of the app that they don't have authorization for? It's up to the API to enforce what the users are or aren't allowed to see, otherwise they can just by-pass the browser all together and make requests to the API willy-nilly.
Assuming such a tool existed, would writers be ready to use it? Is there much precedent for writing "scalable copy" to the level of detail you describe? Seems like it would be pretty difficult and the necessary magic (e.g. in the example you posted, cutting out the "Well, " would require capitalization of "yes") could lead to unexpected results and awkward flow.
Currently I'm living about 20 minutes outside the city on $450/mo rent, utilities included except gas. I eat really cheaply by buying in bulk from Sam's Club, though about once a week I go out drinking/eating. I don't pay any cable bill -- I just tether off of my phone for internet. I also don't have any student loans anymore, so that helps.
It's not about supporting a lifestyle it's about having a CEO willing to keep working there. Finding a competent replacement for significantly under 200k is unlikely. Sure, they might take stock but that's not 'free'.
> Try giving the money away with no strings attached in one city or state (far away from me please) and see what happens.

My Alma Mater did that in the 70s. The results were unequivocably positive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
I've had good results with: http://ember-simple-auth.simplabs.com/ in Ember, though most of what it's good at is managing the session on the client-side.
If you are using Unicode, getting a character out of a string actually can be a bit difficult to do correctly (depending on the language).
100K generally pays for about 5 months of a highly talented programmers salary+ overhead. It may depending on funding levels extend a startups runway by less than 1 week.

Compare successful Authors and find making 200k/year is far from the top. Why? Because sometimes highly productive people doing the same task are less than 10% as efficient as others. Dentists, Athletes, Programmers, Lawyers, Sales People, Architect, and most other complex jobs have a huge range of talent once you cross highly productive.

EX: JK Rowling made well over 50 million per year working on HP. 1% of that is 500k which is still extremely high for an author.
I'm pretty sure it's just the complex result of simple evolutionary forces and small benign decisions, and not the result of some malicious intelligent design.
Change feeds look great. r.http seems like a frippery, though. Not a great signal to see things like that getting added when there are much bigger fish yet to fry.
Thanks, but I'll contact AWS support through our account.
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Would writers be ready to use it? Not at first. Well, at least not the older writers who are still resentful that they have to write with a digital audience in mind. But those writers are dropping like flies.

Is there much precedent for writing scalable copy? Yes! I used to have to cut wire stories to fit. Let's say 25 newspapers run the same wire story, each with different length requirements. That's 25 editors who have to make different cuts, and some might in haste cut sections that are actually pretty important. Some writers give cues to the editors -- "cut this graf if necessary" -- to avoid that happening.

Is there much NEED for scalable copy? Yes! It potentially saves copy editors a lot of work. And if the "magic" can be automated, it saves a lot of time, too!
Agreed. He was pretty down on the F15, which has proved pretty effective (if expensive). The F18 isn't VTOL, or "stealth", and isn't touted as an A10 replacement, so it's not completely insane.

That said, it's hard to measure the effectiveness of most US aircraft because they've never been operated in truly competitive conditions (the best measure is of aircraft which the israeli's use, since israel has often fought russian proxies such as Syria with late model aircraft and "advisors". By that measure, the F15 and F16 are unparalelled. The israelis don't use the F18 iirc, which says something.
Great work! Always wondered what the vibe masters were up to ;)
Drupal and Wordpress are growing in different ways. Drupal is growing into more complex, higher-cost-per-project jobs that would have gone to big ticket closed source CMS platforms a few years ago. And Wordpress is growing into the mid-size jobs that Drupal and Joomla used to be the only option for.

By any metric of public popularity, Wordpress is growing a lot faster than Drupal. Drupal's growth is into the enterprise arena which is not as public.

The number of purely Drupal shops is dropping because pretty much every agency of note had added Drupal to their stable of solutions. It's not an esoteric differentiator anymore--which is actually a form of growth for the platform.
I don't believe this is actually true. Compare the cost of living and minimum wage in Sydney, Australia with comparable cities in the US(San Francisco for example) or Canada(Vancouver). The cost is about the same for most things despite Sydney having a much higher minimum wage.
There is an amazingly intolerant environment on twitter: simply reposting Shanley rants (something she did routinely to others) -- will get you shut down, apparently by the back-channel of supporters who want to cover up her routinely abusive, polarizing language. It's a little bit frightening.

I think that regardless of how critical the article is (or isn't) -- her reactions already suggest that her views on tech culture are histrionic distortions of reality, where any disagreement is equated with violence: even a fellow woman journalist is castigated for contributing to 'harassment and violence' for simply writing a profile that was probably, on balance, originally leaning positive.

The key word here is histrionic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder
Something people apparently generally don't realize is that the stealth claim has only ever been about the front profile of the aircraft. Nobody is claiming the F-22 is invisible, just that it's rather hard to see from a distance if it's coming straight at you. And going straight at enemy fighters and air defense radars is the role of the F-22. Radar onboard an enemy fighter is not going to be long wave. So I don't really get Sprey's claim that stealth is a scam. The stealth claims are modest and accurate as best I can tell.
You have to solve two problems -- your place of citizenship and your place of residence. Dominica and St. Kitts are the two places most people look to buy citizenship. There are other more expensive places too.

Residence - this is easier to arrange. If the country will give you a tourist visa you're in, at least temporarily.
I'll refer you to this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7880440
reminds me of http://www.openscad.org/
I don't recommend trying to monetize this margin.
just saw this reply, also thought same thing!

http://www.openscad.org/
How often does the WSJ ask you for a quote on this issue? I ask because they seem to run this same story every 6 months or so.
Look up CEOs on Linkedin, look at their history. Maybe shoot them some messages. Networking is necessary anyway.

My uncle, who runs a resort as CEO, started as a bellhop with no college and just climbed in rank (I'm glossing over because I don't know the entire story).

I'm pessimistic and feel like that progression is very, very rare today in larger companies with everyone trying to hold on to middle-class positions as they dry up (so says the news). Hard to advance when there's no room. You'd also likely hit a ceiling today without a degree instead of in the past.

At the same time, I make a grand $15/hr, so I can only glimpse what I've heard from him. Definitely dig and try to reach out.
Thanks for saying this, and don't worry, RethinkDB will never degenerate into a hodgepodge of feature creep! We always follow a simple guideline; before we decide to add a feature we ask ourselves, is this going to make the product feel tighter? If the feature makes the product feel bigger, we probably won't add it. Things get added only if they fit really, really well.

We added `r.http` because it just fits magically well with the rest of ReQL on many many levels. JSON fits, streams fit, lazy evaluation fits, even batch prefetching fits! Everything works so wonderfully and provides such a great interactive experience, it almost would be odd not to add.

Now, we won't add timers just for the sake of adding timers. If we add them, we'll make sure they fit and make the product tighter. There are good reasons to consider a timer implementation in the server:

- Many users have asked for "capped" tables for logging, which
can be implemented as a combination of timers and secondary
indexes (i.e. delete everything older than X on a timer).
- There is already internal timer functionality that we use for
various tasks. It makes sense to evaluate whether it's worth
exposing to the user.
- Before we add timer support, we'd have to add more robust job
control (which many people have already asked for). If we do
add job control, timers feel like they might fit very
elegantly.

These are difficult questions, and we take these really seriously. If a feature doesn't fit magically well and feels elegant, almost as if it makes the product smaller, we don't add it. So don't worry about feature creep -- if RethinkDB does stray from a sound path, it almost certainly won't be because of scope creep!
I wish the title of the article better reflected the real point - explained in the article itself - instead of saying "escape tax rules", with all the implications

The fact is, more and more of us with solid middle-class incomes and perfectly normal lives are becoming increasingly concerned about laws that are poorly explained and advertised to us, but with huge potential penalties if we go unaware of them. These are exclusive to people living in other countries - if they imposed some of these on non-expatriates, there would be a riot.

It is becoming a very stressful burden.
On OS X, Chrome renders boxes, Safari renders the proper characters.
magamiako, your account is hell-banned.
There's no arguing that the major aerospace companies are files with smart people. But these companies have historically not been very good at optimizing total operational cost. For a recent example, look at SpaceX. Every design decision they've made is to optimize operational cost instead of performance. The majors have been busy optimizing for performance, and they've ended up with very expensive rocket systems.

It is the same for military procurement.

Something else... If the drones are cheap and "disposable", then maybe upgrades can occur more frequently to keep up with current events. I don't think that trying to design weapon systems to least 40 years is the way forward.
What's new in Yosemite OS X 10.10 Beta 2?
The degeneration you fear sounds like a fine alternative to me. I'd rather deal with happy drunks than stressed out angry workers. Idleness doesn't bother me. The crime you allude to is usually committed by the young men who have no income in those situations and result to crime to obtain funds.
Yes, it was a serious question. Because I was suspecting there was some problem behind this (I just didn't know it was serious as you and the other people explained).
It's a nice start although it is hard to tell without signing up. There needs to be more available prior to committing.

Not sure where your TOS came from but there seems to be a lot of focus on free trial that moves to a subscription after 30 days. This is a valid choice for a business model but it seems like it will limit your growth.

From a technical standpoint it looks like some of the routes for authenticated users are available to unauthentic folks like me. Also, ssl is a requirement even for early stage projects, pick one up asap.

All that said, you o have a nice bootstrap based layout that looks nice which is more than many projects have.

Lastly, being from Grand Rapids I do like the 'Made in the Mitten – By geeks, for geeks.' slogan.
>Sharing photos and videos is an activity that brings meaning to billions of lives, and it's not unreasonable to try to improve upon it.

On the other hand, the "meaning" that people derive from sharing can be defined in some basic terms (e.g. interaction, connection, etc.). At what point does the incremental "improvement" in sharing mechanics no longer justify the resources required to produce that improvement? First, we share it. Then, we share it and it disappears. Next, we can't see what's shared until we share something back. Is this really improving on the basic "meaning"?

Sure, Facebook gets to decide how their resources are applied. But, I don't think we should pretend that there's some great and noble effort to bring still more meaning to billions of lives. Facebook wants a novel way to keep you on Facebook where you can bring more meaning to their bottom line. Period.

And, you know what else has meaning? Talking to people. Having lunch with people. Seeing people; not watching their latest "broadcast", but actually seeing them.

I'm just over it, and I'm guessing others are as well. There's just this constant, vapid, soul-sucking effort to endlessly distract people with some novel piece of nothingness as a means of generating still more revenue.

Gets a little old.
"However, some have argued these drops may be artificially low because participants knew the guaranteed income was temporary."

That negates the experiment. There is little incentive to quit your job or loaf when the free money is only temporary. It may also take years for the effects to be felt, as social norms break down gradually. Also, there is a big, big difference between doing this policy in a small town in Canada, where there can be social pressure to not free-load, and where you have a population with a strong cultural work ethnic, versus enacting this policy in a large, heterogeneous city.
Steve Wozniak!
i have one too. The problem I have with it is that its just too much screen real estate, horz and vertical together. I would have preferred one of those ultra wide monitors instead.
If you have lots of money, you can buy citizenship and a sweet tax deal from one of Switzerland's municipalities/cantons.
How do you see hell-banned posts?
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As a "geek", I can vouch for the bodyweight fitness that this guy is recommending. The toughest part is working out regularly. The main benefit of choosing BWF is that you can literally do it anywhere. I even did it on vacation. The things I've found that help are:

1. Subscribe to fitness-related forums on reddit or find friends with whom you can compete. Huge motivational boosts here.

2. Try not to let yourself get depressed when you have weeks upon weeks of really tough work with no end in sight. This happened to me recently and I let go of my habits which I had built up over months. It's seriously killing me and my mood is suffering. It's a vicious cycle.

3. Eat well. Doesn't mean eat like a rabbit (you'd be surprised, you don't even need to eat remotely like a rabbit.) Like Scooby said in his videos: eat a little less, exercise a little more and lay off the carbs.

In as little as one month, people noticed the difference to the point where they said I appeared even more intimidating than usual (I'm pretty tall). I want to get to the point where I do this continuously for at least one year. But man, is it hard.
This is an interesting vision. Not concrete in a lot of ways, but you a lot of the core ideas seem at least somewhat plausible: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

The first story seems more plausible than the second, but I hope the future looks more like the second.
>I can offer all the benefits you want if the odds of my products' prices being undercut by a competitor are roughly zero.

Sweden, Denmark and co seem to be able to offer "all the benefits you want" (and them some) even with lots of competitors being able to undercut them.

It's not like a country is like a shop in a commercial street with competing shops around it, and only the rules of competition hold.

There are also laws we make and consciously shaping on the environment we operate on. Like, say, tarrifs and subsidies.

And it's funny that those are taboo in America, when most of the success of the American economy is the result of a sort of "subsidy" of having a huge military presence and diplomatic pressure (not to mention the actual huge subsidies, to farmers, Detroit, Wall Street et co, shadowing any "socialist" country's GDP spending).
Right. We share the opinion in your first paragraph. The second paragraph is because people who believe in science are still humans and therefore still have an in-group out-group instinct; You probably already know this. We also have a strong pattern-matching instinct: "You said $statement? You've probably from $ideological_group."

I'm totally willing to believe that golden rice was over-engineering and was imprudent allocation of resources, but I thought we didn't yet know enough because it was still in testing. Has it actually been deployed?

Science based aid is great if you can choose your metrics successfully.

I think we are in broad agreement.
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I have to say, that just sounds dangerous to me. A roll-your-own solution connected to a powerful (not to mention expensive) piece of electrical equipment, sitting on the open internet? I love hardware hacking and things, but this just looks like a big ole target to me. Not to mention, as much as I love Arduinos, in my experience it doesn't have a very mature codebase - I wouldn't be surprised if you could leverage that open port into an attack on other devices on the LAN (like the router).

I could see maybe doing it if I were running an OpenVPN server and restricting access to LAN+VPN Clients, but even then it seems like it's not worth bothering, since you pretty much know when you're going to go home anyway, so you can just put it on a timer. If it starts an hour early, does that really cost that much?