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Virgin are primarily a brand, not a syndicate.

Branson owns Virgin Management who are the central VC/Management corp. He has varying stakes in the other companies which vary from outright ownership, majority holding, minority holding, to brand licensing deals with occasional informal management input but no shareholding.

Bottom line is the different businesses are independent. Branson probably gets perks like free travel, and maybe some of the Virgin execs do. But I'm not aware of any loose internal market or preferred vendor relationship.

I'm trying and failing to think of an example of the model you're suggesting. (Which doesn't mean there isn't one - just that I'm not familiar with it. Maybe the recent Apple/IBM deal?)

It's an interesting model, but I'm not sure how well it works when customers can also be potential competitors. AFAIK syndication traditionally works better when relationships are distant and there's no immediate danger of competition.
There are flash carts for the DS like the DsTwo. It's a custom-made DS cartridge with a slot for a microSD card, which is where you put the OS of the flash cart along with any roms/software to run with it. Getting one for the old DS/DSi line is a safe bet because their firmware isn't updated anymore. Firmware updates are liable to brick flash carts.
Paris Hilton did it as well - leak a sex tape, do all sorts of outrageous shit, and make sure that the media covers it all and people talk about it. Ironically, she's the first Hilton in a while to be a self-made millionaire; her actions got her cut off from the bulk of her trust fund, but she's making about $10M/year in endorsements and public appearances.
Gaming oriented Nvidia Shield Tablet wins early praise
They absolutely are enabled by default, running as active daemons which cannot be disabled by the device owner.

The circumstances by which they may be accessed include user agreement to "trust another computer", but may not be limited to that.

Because DROPOUTJEEP.
It's interesting to me that firms do some of these things internally (e.g., maintaining a 100 person organization unable to make a profit) but firms have an outside source of discipline such as the market, whereas the Communist society doesn't.
You're confusing the end user experience from the developer experience.
I haven't used phabricator, but will check it out. Seems to have a lot going on!
Aviato was an airline booking aggregator, "acquired by a major airline in 2008 for low seven figures."

http://www.piedpiper.com/#the-crew
I've been using weekly and monthly rates for close to a year (ever since I started consulting), and it's been wonderful. Neither I nor my clients ever have to worry about carefully watching the hours. There are no arguments about billable vs. non-billable hours, no time wasted on making and approving hourly estimates, etc. As a result, everyone can focus on the main objective, and be happy. I highly recommend trying this.
> (anything other than German. "Das Mädchen". Seriously? Das???)

Die Kartoffel.
Do they measure how many people load a like button on a 3rd party site?
I don't want to sound harsh at all, but if someone can't get over the quirks of the UI and the abstract ASCII art, I think it's not the kind of person that will love the complexity of the game either. The UI of DF is actually a pons asinorum.
That is what I mean. I understand the practical reasons for distinguishing your laptop from others', but to do it with marketing logos from technologies you use seems childish to me.
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On this topic, it would be great to have some kind of gantt chart UI for scheduled cards.
Income equality has been around for longer than the whole certified investor business (or even the US).
A finite memory machine is a finite state machine. These are not Turing complete. The notion of Turing completeness becomes uninteresting if we can't even draw this distinction.

"dynamic memory allocation" may not have been the right term to use to denote moving beyond finite state machines, for an audience which wants to consider a Turing machine as having statically allocated infinite memory. But it makes sense if you think of a Turing machine's memory as only storing enough data for the portion of the tape which has already been accessed, and allocating new memory as new tape regions are needed.

It's true that the actual machine sitting on your desk only has a fixed finite memory. In that sense, without a peripheral unbounded store, it's not properly Turing complete.

It's also true that we often find it convenient to analyze it as Turing complete anyway, but this abstraction basically goes hand-in-hand with abstracting away its memory limitations. I don't see any point in pretending you can be Turing complete using only programs with a statically given memory bound (which amounts to a logarithmic bound on the number of states in a corresponding finite state machine); if we're going to pretend, let's pretend the memory is effectively infinite as well.
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While we are all posting these types of things, here is a Scheme I did in Prolog: https://github.com/FigBug/scheme
# of comments vs points would be interesting, and if you are willing to crawl the comments then diversity or complexity of commentary would also be interestin g- eg several multi-threaded discussions vs. a string of 'this is awesome' comments on some popular but shallow topic (eg Huble space telescope imagery or somesuch, which tends to attract much admiration but not necessarily a lot of discussion).
hmmm, I looked into sendwithus earlier as they are local to me.

The twist to my challenge is that I'd like my customers to be able to access their OWN mandrill/mailchimp/campaign monitor accounts and use the existing templates/workflows they already have.

Is there a way this can be done with sendwithus that I might have missed?
Unfortunately, that joke on DS9 (which I absolutely love) was taken as establishing as canon that TOS-era Klingons actually looked different. A sane person would interpret it as a meta joke in an episode full of them, but these are Star Trek fans we're talking about here.

That still doesn't justify Enterprise trying to explain it. If one must insist that there be an in-universe explanation because of the DS9 precedent, just say Q decided to mutate the entire species for a hundred years as a lark.
> US blew over 4 Trillion and countless lives for oil in Iraq

We lined the pockets of the military industrial complex. Think of it simply as taking a nice percentage out of everyone's pocket and handing it off to Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop, GD, etc. As part of that transfer it was necessary to kill a good number of people on both sides.
The behaviour is understandable. But it is still inefficient in the economically sense of the term.
This looks promising. My team really likes Trello, namely it's UI and flexibility. However, that flexibility is a double-edged sword that misses the mark on several things specific to a dev team.

I think the key things to get us to switch will be good keyboard shortcuts, more flexibility on labeling, dependencies between cards, and an importer from Trello, of course!
HUSL was already mentioned, so I bring up HSP [1]. The idea is to adjust the lightness (the L in HSL) by something which is closer to the percieved luminescence.

Also I wonder if HSL will ever manage to replace HSB/HSV as the default choice for color pickers.

[1] http://alienryderflex.com/hsp.html
Although I'm not opposed to that in principle, "forward me any email you've ever sent and I'll make ours look like that" seems like it is easier for all parties.
I believe part of the idea is not to take on jobs that are an hour here or there, but to take on work that requires full days or weeks. Your daily/weekly wouldn't change from customer to customer.
Because the box saves the ISP more money than its hosting costs.
We have a bunch of importers already (not public yet), so they'll be released in a week or two. Importing our stuff from Trello was one of the first things we did :)

Keyboard shortcuts are a must, probably my favourite thing from using Asana. Also on the list :)
Try Slackware, http://www.slackware.com/, none of that auto-magical stuff of the other distros, with it you control your system instead of your system controlling you.
I started programming in the 7th grade with QBASIC. This made me nostalgic. Thanks for sharing. Nice seeing WEND after a long time.
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Researchers working on Ebola in rich western labs will have full measures of protection.

Doctors working on the front lines of an outbreak in rural Africa don't necessarily have that option.
I spent 2 months in Sierra Leone last year and a month working with Wellbody Alliance [1] in the impoverished mining district of Kono. So far that part of Sierra Leone has been spared from the virus but with the limited health resources in that area, it is only a matter of time.

I can personally speak for their effectiveness and tell you that your donations will actually end up in the form of medicine or medical services to someone who really needs them and not in the hands of some giant NGO that ends up swallowing 75% of what you send them for admin costs and first class tickets.

[1] http://wellbodyalliance.org/donate/
This was posted a few months back by the team and I'll say the same think I said last time:

Trello is Trello for dev teams. I just don't see the value in this.
This is indeed an important question, best addressed in Ronald Coase's 1937 article "The Nature of the Firm". It is such an influential article that has its own wiki page, which is quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm

The short answer as to why firms exist (and why it is not markets all the way down such that every microtask is contracted out to the free market) is "transaction costs". For the long answer, I suggest you start at the wiki article, and if interested, read this Economist blog summary: http://www.economist.com/node/17730360, and if still interested, read the original article (you can find it by just googling for it).
Isn't Trello intended to be for dev teams?

Even if it wasn't, or even if it failed at doing so, this looks exactly like Trello except Trello has a free tier and this service does not.
Unfortunately, this oft-repeated description is wrong. Ebola has a weeks-long incubation period and is contagious throughout most of the incubation period. Plenty of time to spread the virus before the host becomes symptomatic.
>Ebola kills up to 90 percent of those infected and there is no cure or vaccine

Apparently this strand of the virus "only" kills 63% of the patients[1]. Even if it doesn't kill him, does anybody know what are the consequences of having suffered from ebola?

I don't mean to disrespect his work, and I'm asking this without having any clue: Why is this doctor so important? If there is no cure, what was his main role? Can't he be easily "replaced" by another brave person that is also willing to risk his life?

On another note, the article says that ebola has killed 600 people. Apparently this strand of ebola "only" killed 63% of the people that contract the disease. So far 964 people contracted the disease in a country of more than 6 million people. Aren't HIV or Hep C worst threats than ebola?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus
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Indeed, we see entire industries rewarding failure.
Mobile advertising revenue represented approximately 62% of advertising revenue for the second quarter of 2014

Wow, that seems really high. Are other companies monetizing mobile ads like this?
Ask HN: How do you share scripts with non-coders?
I used to work on a team with analysts who didn't know how to code. Typically, I'd write my own Python or R functions for data cleaning, light analysis, and plotting.

Eventually, the other analysts wanted to use my functions for their own projects, so I tried teaching them how to execute Python from the terminal. That didn't really work.

Then I spent a day building a small app to run my script. It was valuable, but still a lot of work for something so small.

Just wondering - what do others do to share scripts with non-coders?
> They also define as terrorism any act that is “dangerous” to property and intended to influence government policy through intimidation.

By that logic our founding fathers are one of the most dangerous and evil terrorists. Acts that are dangerous to property? [check]. Trying to influence government policy [check]. They would be sent to Gitmo and watertortured 3 times per day.
Given that wifi has been constantly evolving since it started, it's not going to settle on chips any time soon. 802.11ac has just been released, prompting a new round of chips.
Great idea. I keep a folder full of Markdown files that I push to a Bitbucket wiki.
I am not tie-shirt serious nor is the company I work at. I have gone to work in almost any type of clothing, including football (soccer for Americans) shirt + shorts (for playing after work).

I feel strange about the plaster laptops because it seems that people lend their identity from whatever they stick on their laptop which in turn comes from what technology they happen to use. I like Coffee script, Rails, Backbone, etc. but I don't really identify with it any further than my resume.
And just like that your wallets aren't anonymous anymore or at least are tied to each other beyond transactions between them.

Seriously, though, this is kinda neat.
We're currently in MVP. I've mentioned in comments elsewhere about some of the things we have planned.

If you've used Pivotal, Asana, JIRA Agile or Sprintly you'll see there is a whole bunch of stuff that Trello needs that they don't provide (and aren't likely to provide). We plan on providing it. Integrations, reporting, estimations, quick keys etc etc etc
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Replace him with another brave person and they are also a hero. You don't need to have super powers to be a hero.
Adafruit has a great Raspberry Pi 'game grrl' kit you can make: https://learn.adafruit.com/pigrrl-raspberry-pi-gameboy/overv...
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No, but people for some reason still believe him after he has spent the past few years making up excuse after excuse for why it couldn't be tested independently.
I disagree. It's possible to get advanced output from various command line tools in Linux, and it's possible to get networking information. It's much more difficult to do that on other OSs, especially Windows. I loathe debugging network troubles in Windows, because there is essentially no information. OS X has most of your standard tools, though some in some odd places, e.g., printing the routing table not being done with `route`.

Furthermore, I care. My 2013 Macbook Pro is terribly slow to associate to even nearby APs, and drops the connection often. I have no idea why, because it is opaque: how do you list nearby APs? their signal strength or encryption type? I didn't learn this until just now, and it's,

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -s

Seriously. There's no way I'll remember it, and if you're reaching for it, you likely can't Google it. And it appears to be deprecated. It's a much shorter command in Linux, and in general I find it easier to determine if the problem is the network connection or DHCP failure. IIRC, Network Manager's icon changes — admittedly not much – depending on which one it's on, so even without command line tools, I have some idea what's going on.

OS X has the troubleshooter dialog, but that's never been able to fix the problem. (In general, I feel, those things never do. They also never tell you what they're doing. For all I know, they're just progress bars and timers.) WiFi off, WiFi on fixes a lot of problems.
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Byte September 1981 did have a nontrivial program in Lisp: it parsed, differentiated, and simplified algebraic expressions. (I remember it fondly as my first Byte issue and first exposure to Lisp and calculus, the latter two almost equally mysterious. But going back and rereading the code, it was amateurish.)

I don't remember any Lisp in Basic in either Byte or DDJ, and I'd have probably seen it.
Yes (note: most people who have replicated it distinguish it from "cold fusion" - obviously this is controversial.)

In 1994 Thermacore, under contract by the US Air Force, observed anomalous heat: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GernertNnascenthyd.pdf

In 1996 the CERN observed both (1) excess heat (however they theorize it is caused by local variations of its thermal characteristics) and (2) hydrogen absorption (which they concede is unexplained): http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CerronZebainvestigat.pdf

In 2011 Celani observed excess heat: http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/pap...

There are some other groups who have reproduced it but the quality of their research vary a lot (for an overview see http://nickelpower.org/2011/12/30/replicators-as-if-december...). The problem is that it remains still hard to replicate. Zawodny (from the NASA Langley Research Center) has some theories about why, see slide 17: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/government/NASA/20110922NASA-Za...
Emerson references Alan Kay's Dynabook, saying "[u]ncovering documentation from the 1970s on Smalltalk and on Alan Kay's vision of a Dynabook (as a device that would have given users the ability to create their own ways to view and manipulate information) demonstrated to me that there are real alternatives to the binary of experts on one side and everyday users on the other."

From Kay's 1972 paper on the Dynabook [1]:

"The active interface should be a language whish uses linguistics concepts not far removed from the owner of the device. The owner will be able to maintain and edit his own files and programs when and where he chooses [....] One can imagine one of the first programs an owner will write is a filter to eliminate advertising!"

[1] http://history-computer.com/Library/Kay72.pdf
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Ah, thank you. It was a 500 earlier, and now it just says,

> Checking your browser before accessing zdziarski.com.
> This process is automatic. Your browser will redirect to your requested content shortly.
> Please allow up to 5 seconds…
> DDoS protection by CloudFlare

And then refreshes indefinitely.
Indeed, and the tablet has nothing to do with the original Shield concept.
I've to say that it's an impressive product. I've implemented Owncloud6 in the past for two clients and they're very happy with it. I can't wait to upgrade to this new version!

To try this new version, I've installed Owncloud7 on a Terminal.com container. You can check my shared snapshot at: https://terminal.com/tiny/i8vunoPtPu
I'm not sure how to untangle it, but I think you've got your abstraction layers mixed up. Anyway, that infinite tape is critical to Turing completeness. So strictly speaking, a limited-memory computer isn't strictly Turing complete, just close enough as makes no difference, because in practice they can use as much memory as they want, via dynamic memory allocation. When you tell the program it can't use as much memory as it wants, by taking away dynamic allocation, then you're not only not Turing complete, you're not even close to the Turing machine model.
Dwarf fortress made me pickup emacs. After getting into dwarf fortress for a while, I found the idea of only using a keyboard liberating so I ended up seeking out a text editor that could give me that.
hey lets talk. do you live in SF? Can i have your email? -siraj
As washedup accurately points out they only launch south because in the event of a scrub they are over the ocean. And while Spacex could request an eastward flight plan, its unlikely the FAA would grant such a request because it is unlikely that SpaceX could assure them adequately that Bakersfield would not be at risk. For grins and giggles I confirmed this with the Air Force (their response was "Safety concerns restrict the available launches from this facility."

Interestingly SpacePort America (http://spaceportamerica.com/) has a similar problem, although if you look (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Spaceport+America/@33.0125...) you will see there isn't much east of it.
I've even seen a Visual Studio plugin to debug the Linux kernel. No joke. Really looked to just be a layer over kgdb but still.
yeah, if you have an experienced team, you can easily refactor your one-customer-per-db model into something that will handle 1,000 new customers signing up every month. given a good enough team, you can even do this while doing other sort-of important things like customer support, bug fixes, and new development.

however, inexperienced developers and teams are not good enough, or fast enough, to do that, and end up painting themselves into a corner when they have thousands of live customers to support and need to change their entire application architecture + database schema when their backup, replication, and housekeeping tasks choke on 1,000+ databases.

and oftentimes, one-customer-per-db also means one-instance-of-application-per-customer, another anti pattern to avoid.

we see this kind of stuff ALL the time. it happens a lot - people make terrible decisions and then are stuck with them 5 years down the line and are looking at a monumental cost to redo. not everyone is experience enough to work their way out of an awful situation like that.
I have the alpha, didn't impress me that much in comparison to something like DF. The voxels engine is nice but asside from that, last time i checked there wasn't anything else that stood out.
The whatsapp deal hasn't closed, so no.

I don't think the numbers include instagram either, it hasn't been monetized and therefore irrelevant to financials.

Edit: Confirmed, doesn't include instagram users. In the earnings slides http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-NJ5DZ/3349527922...

> The number of DAUs, mobile DAUs, MAUs, and mobile MAUs do not include Instagram users unless they would otherwise qualify as such users, respectively, based on their other activities on Facebook.
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Which is to say, you know, the one Dell laptop and the System76 behemoths. So, yeah, two options out of ... thousands.

And, research or not, _no_ hardware really, fully supports linux (or, vice-versa). Which is sort of the point of this whole thread.
not sure i get your point. i'm talking about the services ecosystem around tech. when i need servers, i just sign up at heroku. when i need source control, i get github. when i need agile tools, jira. need an html framework? bootstrap. analytics? email marketing? sales automation? bookkeeping? transportation? lodging? etc. etc.

it's super efficient--just go to a website and pay. i spend no time coordinating my efforts with those companies, and the price i pay tends to compare very favorably to building it ourselves.

the coordination problem is wrung out of the equation because teams are small and must compete. haier replicated this within the company with their STS model: each group in the supply chain effectively "paid" the upstream group and that became a simple metric for efficiency of coordination.
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> Aren't HIV or Hep C worst threats than ebola?

They've certainly killed more people, but the terrifying thing about ebola is how very contagious it is.
I loved Factorio, but had to give it up because it gave me worse eye strain than any program ever has.
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