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Seems disingenuous, since the email talked about "branding on expressjs.com", but what actually happened was moving the github repo out of the independent expressjs organization into strongloop's namespace, which is extremely different. It sounds like TJ doesn't understand what part of this was upsetting.
What's wrong with a future where some software devs can be tossed aside? We have been excited to disrupt all other areas of labor. Disruption is good, it means progress, right?
For me the question isn't really "how much would I pay", but more like "how much markup would I pay for the service of someone doing all that setup work". If you make a breakdown of the cost of all the items and then show me that the package includes a markup which is still much less than my hourly rate for doing the setup work, then I'd probably buy it.
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I assume compression will be used for http content for serving content. I wouldn't be surprised if they include a few algorithms.

This is a dev kit not a commercial offering...
It'd be nice to have an idea of how affordable it would get. For now, the $3000 dev kit is the only solid price we can work with...
What's with the conspiracy strawman?

I think it's hard to argue that a trillion dollars to the NIH, CDC, preventative medicine for the poor, etc. wouldn't result in at least 3k lives saved during the period.

I also think it's impossible to rationally argue that the Iraq war did anything to reduce terrorism, given that the pretext for invasion was WMD, not terrorism, and that extremists now control large swaths of the country where they had minimal power under Hussein.
I think you might be surprised exactly what running code through an optimising compiler achieves.
I'd love to make a DIY spherical globe display, even if it were quite limited compared to the official SOS model. I imagine setting up the projection is the most difficult aspect... anyone have resources on the matter?
Who will be a vendor of those cars?

It seems to me that it's clear that driverless cars are the future, which is going to become real very soon. Any progressive government would (and should) allow such testing, even given the inflexibility of the state's bureaucratic machine. Allowing is an easy part. The hard part is actually building those cars and to my knowledge no UK firm does this at the moment.
Why all the hate? Create a product that shares more images than any other technology in the whole world and you can have a $10B app, too.
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> The transaction rate (in USD/time) is microscopic in altcoins.

I believe the word you're looking for is liquidity.
Which one ? http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/failsafe/ vs http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1175374-fail_safe/
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Found the culprit, but it's unlikely to happen:

1.- The characters "> <" need to be present (they are inside the X in Clearfix:

2.- Only breaks when pasting inline CSS with no enclosing <style>:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sogen/e2ec898e586a9cb9e33...

removing the " > < " makes it work.
> Corporations no longer are loyal to employees

It has been that way since at least the mid 90's. I am amazed at the number of people who still think they need to show where they work any kind of loyalty.
Because learning skills takes time, and in tech, time is everything.
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It's a generational thing as well.

My wife is just out of residency running her own medical practice. She went with the latest-and-greatest electronic medical record system that's all either web of iPad based, with all her records stored in the cloud and fully integrated with similarly advanced billing software. It's pretty good, and does most of what we need well. It's definitely head-and-shoulders above any other software out there that's specific to her specialty.

Right now she's considering buying another practice, and during the pre-purchase process the ~65 year old doc was talking about how fantastic their medical record/billing software suite is. Does everything they could ever want it to do, everyone in the office loves it, etc..

So, I ask for a demo, and he loads up a Filemaker database running off the server in the back room. Looks like it was designed in 1996, offers zero web-connectivity, and they're 100% happy with it.

That practice would never consider "upgrading" to the software we use. We'd never consider the software they use. There's a generational gap in medicine and dentistry, just like everything else. The more young docs come out of medical school, the higher their expectations will be for things like GUI, UX/UI and mobile connectivity.
You make 1000 a month from this site? I'm very impressed. I feel like I should be doing something with the gigs of photos I have sitting on my computer now...
Perhaps incorporate solar panels to the wings?
Thanks for the info, It's the first real explanation of value other than users and being the current hotness
> Clone it?

Yes, isn't that enough?
As an old service company employer adviced me, you should not waist more than 3 years at a service company , you never learn anything after that periode , you will just waist your time, better move on and build something useful in small companies.
If you use ClojureScript, it strips out unused functions...
"Sure but the money you save by reselling a book is probably less than what you save by buying the ebook"

Not under the publisher's model.
Is Linode down everywhere?
It's Mapserver [http://mapserver.org/]. At NOAA, if the license cost is $0, its good.
Even when going through areas with a lot of lights(ie:stop/starts) I still average over 25km an hour. With a light road bike it really isn't that fast.
It's a bit odd that Google didn't pick a name with an empty googlespace seeing as they should be the kings of SEO.
I would guess back when Dropbox passed 10,000 users
Not to mention more importantly they did it at just the wrong time.
Things change. Now if you're in England the first line treatment should not be meds, but either a talking therapy or a combination of talking therapy and meds.
"No money ever changes hands with Humanity Box", but their partner, GiveForward, a for-profit company, seems to charge fees: http://www.giveforward.com/learn#fees.

GiveForward's remarks defending why they are for-profit: http://help.giveforward.com/customer/portal/articles/757696-...
It would be good to have an ability to have more knowledge about my commute. Ex: what is the best time to leave, do i need an umbrella, what shops will come on my way, what interesting places i can stop by,etc.
And this could have all been solved from the beginning if they just named it "Issue9" as so many proposed.
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Somewhat misleading, as Andrew Ng had left Google in 2012 to co-found and run Coursera. Baidu got him back into AI/ML. More details on his own blog post from 3 months ago — http://blog.coursera.org/post/85921942887/a-personal-message...
Would you hire designers and developers from Cuba?
I am thinking in promoting great Cuban freelance designers and developers to work remotely for start-ups that need to save money. It has worked for me and my brother in the past, we has worked for start-ups in Sf and Finland but so far can't get more work easily, so maybe I can create a channel to find more jobs at better and interesting start-ups.
sorry for my English,
Thanks
Yeah, learning Moose has been on my todo-list for a while now. Back when I still used Perl almost exclusively, I hardly did any object-oriented programming in it, and when I did, it felt awkward.
Moose looks like a game changer, both for OOP in Perl and for typing. Right now, I have a lot on my plate, but once my schedule clears up a little, I will look into it. Thanks for the hint!
(For sysadmin-scripting, non-OOP Perl is entirely sufficient, though.)
When ever I see a new place or country allowing a test of these cars this wired article always comes to mind [1].

I think the two main questions will be liability & drivability -

1) when (not if) these cars get into a serious crash,
who is to assume liability? Is it Google who created the algorithm? Is it the Audi integrator who fused Google technology into the Audi? Is it the fault of the mapping software that did not update the fact that the signals had been moved to a different position on that street?

2) More mundane - will a driverless car be able to drive every single place that a drivered car would? When a flash flood closes down the freeway will this autonomous beast be able to drive on the back road that is normally closed to traffic?

Having said that I cannot wait for Cars-As-A-Service where the Cars park themselves & disappear when I don't need them and magically reappear when I do (without humans - Lyft, Uber et al. need not apply).

[1] http://www.wired.com/2014/05/the-robot-car-of-tomorrow-might...
They have access to it yes, they just risk being fired if they nose into data unrelated to their job.

(That is, at least for employees at one of the big ones. ;-)
+1 to this. as much as i despise IAB sized advertising, it is the standard and you'll get more adoption.
Yeah, I don't mean to imply there is anything wrong with medication, but what you've found is that you've exhausted the limits of what your GP can do for you. So it's time to move on to a specialist. I would suggest starting with talk therapy simply because it's the less extreme response than psychiatry + drugs and it's always easier to escalate, but I really don't know you and I don't know what you're going through.

Going to a therapist is absolutely a major time and money commitment and those are the things that stopped me from doing it for way too long. My basic experience finding a therapist was that there were two kind: one that was in my network, and one that could see me at a reasonable time. I ended up just paying out of pocket and getting somewhat reimbursed later by the insurance company. It wasn't great, but it was totally worth it and I really wish I'd done it sooner.

I don't mean to sound pretentious, but this line:

> I'm still no where near what I feel is normal.

Tells me that you hardly scratched the surface of what therapy can offer you, at the very least in terms of perspective.

It sounds like you're in a rut, and you aren't making progress. Regardless of if you enter therapy, it's time to try something else. If you happen to be in NYC feel free to email me and I can set you up with a great therapist who really helped me. Either way, best of luck to you and keep up the good fight.
Yeah, thanks for clarifying the neo900 or Pheonux project or whatever they call themselves now are what I am waiting for.

If I had money, I would pledge but I am tight on cash and 500-900USD promise of a phone is out of my league for the coming year.
If they do stuff, by definition then they aren't "idea guys" :)

You might mean "nontechnical people can do a functioning MVP" which they couldn't before :)
it's the only item on 'new' not showing an upvote link/image for me
Why not try Show HN? Maybe someone thought you were "hijacking" the thread.
I'm an engineer on the Zencoder team, which is an API for the transcoding piece of the puzzle. My company (Brightcove) also has a full video CMS product (Video Cloud), but it's not really geared towards small businesses.

If you want a fairly cheap solution to bootstrap that you control, I'd honestly suggest going the DIY route in terms of hosting / playback and use a service like Zencoder to deal with the transcoding. If you go this route and need a player, I also contribute to the Video.js project :)
Perl is an awesome tool to have under any developer's belt. It's likely that somewhere during the course of your development you'll need to hack together some one-off script to do something and Perl is likely the best tool for the job and will probably already be on your system. It's worth it to learn it for no other reason than it's probably the most productive tool for this kind of use-case available. It'll also give you some ideas for your main development languages in how things can work, and the "perl way" of doing things will bleed into that. You'll start to look at some of the overly complex line consuming ways of doing things like "reading in a text file to a string" as moronic and will start to write abstraction libraries to "fix" your other languages.

I know this is a limited view of Perl (and I'm a huge fan of Perl and using it in various key places has helped provide for a not-insignificant percent of my lifetime career earnings). But Perl 6 has effectively killed Perl.

It's a case of announcing too early and getting the entire community to back off from investment of resources into new Perl code when Perl 6 feels like it's been just around the corner for years.

Regardless of how you think of Perl 6 (an incremental upgrade or a major overhaul) the effect has been the same in almost every Perl shop I'm aware of. People backed off of new Perl 5 work, expecting it to stagnate (it didn't, but perceptions are hard to overcome) and waited and waited and waited for the version # in their perl -v to increment to 6.

Since they were going to switch to new code anyway, why not try out the half-dozen other languages that have soared in popularity since? And now you end up with the situation we have now.

Perl 6 also provided a long standing competition target for other languages to hit. It allowed other languages to figure out what Perl 6 was and wasn't going to bring to the table and hit the kinds of things that people really needed.

My ultimate opinion on 6 is that it's a huge effort/a major rewrite, for some rather incremental changes, without addressing long standing issues with Perl for large-scale development work. There's some really cool stuff in Perl 6, built in grammars are potentially amazing, but I'm not sure a 14 year wait (and counting) was worth it (and yes, I'm aware there are some implementations available, but until perl6 is a default command from the cli in any major *nix distro it doesn't matter).
My guess is that a service like ZipCar will retrofit vehicles since car manufacturers do not have an incentive to reduce car ownership.
So cloud companies that want to preserve user's rights w/r/t to user data and doing email should not be able to do spam detection? Should they be able to adjust the markup in HTML emails such that the composition of emails into the web UI does not compromise the well-formed-ness of the page? Should they not be able to provide a "search" feature to locate emails that are relevant to a user's query?

These sorts of things are all capabilities I expect in a local mail client; I think it's a reasonable to apply 4th amendment protections to the user's data, even if computation done on behalf of the user (including selecting relevant ads) happens in a remote datacenter using code the user didn't write.

It is pretty ridiculous to treat users' emails the same as a grocery store's payroll when deciding whether customers have constitutional privacy safeguards.
It's RamNode (http://ramnode.com/) :)

I got a DDoS-mitigated VPS in Seattle. I believe the plan I have is normally $15, but I used a coupon code so I pay $9.30 recurring.

I can definitely recommend them - however, I should add that their DDoS mitigation appears to suffer from the same issues as all other cheap VPS DDoS mitigation proxies; speeds are not always reliable, and connections occasionally break halfway through. That's not a problem with RamNode though, but with the mitigation provider (CNServers in this case) and/or proxy setup - their own connectivity is rock solid.

Some other hosts I can recommend in a similar vein are RAM Host (http://ramhost.us/) and VPS-Forge (http://vps-forge.com/), in case you want to set up a redundant system of sorts. I've hosted with both for years, and they're both rock solid and very helpful as well. (Relatively) small operations like RamNode, but very reliable.
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I work on the team at Rackspace that partners with Accelerators IE TechStars. I can tell you there is solid competition from both Amazon and Softlayer at Techstars and we have no extra/special influence in their accelerator.
>they want the 4th amendment benefits of treating the cloud like real world private areas (e.g. bank lock boxes), without any of the obligations that come along with that.

and...

>That said, I think they're ultimately going to win.

Warning: Total Conspiracy Theory Ahead

Could this be an end-around by Microsoft to eliminate one of Google's main revenue streams? Follow me for a second.

1. Let's assume Microsoft wins this court case. By doing so, e-mails will be afforded the same protection, under the law, as physical letters.

2. A Microsoft backed plaintiff sues Google for data-mining her email's content, arguing under the same 4th Amendment ruling.

3. After years of legal procedures and court battles, Google (and all other e-mail providers) are forced throw away their master keys. Essentially all email is blind to the providers.

4. Google loses one of their larger revenue streams.

Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory, so indulge me for the moment. Why would this not work (And for the record, I'm sure it wouldn't. But I would honestly like to know why.)?
Moreover, I know more important and intelligent people than I are interested in such things, but if you want a C++ SCM system that has strong signing and allows for pseudo-anonymous development, check out Monotone. I had trouble using it and building it with Lua 5.2 after core Lua API changes. Nonetheless, it is what the I2P project uses, and i assume they take such things seriously for a reason.
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If you watch the linked video above you will see how clever persistent data structures mean that nothing is ever cloned or copied.
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the part scares me the most - "Free Forever"
Thanks for the info (I've been out of Australia for ten years). The fact remains that Australia still has quite a few solid independent papers (the SMH and Age) and two real public broadcasters (ABC and SBS).

Even though Murdoch doesn't own as large a proportion of the US market, I think his effect on the media here is actually worse than I ever found it to be in Australia (mainly owing to Fox News and the awfulness of its alternatives).
Maybe something based on the Dining Cryptographers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_cryptographers_problem Someone actually implemented it, but it didn't seem very practical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQQcoROQoI
My understanding was that he offered them his programming services to create a method to do exactly what they wanted- pull the email info out for just one user. True, he was going to charge them for it, but it was only $2000. A laughably small sum for the people he was dealing with. Supposedly, they denied this offer because they couldn't control it. From my perspective, $2k and a couple day wait is a paltry sum to pay to not trample over the constitution.

According to Wikipedia, just one month prior, Lavabit had complied with a search order for one user suspected of child pornography. I'm not exactly sure what the difference was between these two cases, but it does show he had at least some capability to do what they asked.

I do agree that "one SSL key to rule them all" is perhaps not the best practice. That said, the design of the system doesn't matter as much to me. Reality is that the system was designed in the way it was, and when offered two methods of getting their data, the feds decided to take the wrong one. (In my opinion.)
This sounds like an awesome and fun project to hack on!

However, optimizing around context switches and task preemptions is something you would usually do if your application is actually bound by IO/context switching, is extremely latency sensitive or when you are trying to squeeze the last bits of performance out of a machine. Why did you choose to build such a microoptimized system in a garbage collected language? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of the whole exercise?

I feel the need for more powerful types and built-in/standardized exception handling too, but since performance seems to be one of your major goals, wouldn't something like C++ be a better fit here? You'd get proper error handling and a good type system (with some tradeoffs) without a significant performance penalty.

On a sidenote, I agree that code written in a functional language with a strong type system tends to be easier to get right than bare C, but this doesn't imply that all low-level code is bug ridden and unsafe. In fact the linux kernel is one of the most stable and reliable pieces of software I've had the pleasure to work with so far. Suggesting there is a problem with the linux kernel because it contains "a large amount of C code in security-critical places" seems a bit dishonest.
People have looked at it, but I think the general consensus is that there's not enough surface area on the airframe to generate enough electricity to make a significant impact.

Depending on the exact motor+prop setup, peak draw of between 200-400W is pretty common for fixed wings in the 1.5-2M wingspan range, and cruise is often around half of that.
What platform do you use to automate the trading? I was always surprised that innovative companies like Interactive Brokers never invested in a simple to use scripting language that would allow people to try out ideas out in the markets.
> Temperatures are in both depending largely on the age of the person talking

The biggest argument for metric for length and mass is the uniform way of making larger and smaller units. If you need to cover 1875 square centimeters with something that is priced by the square meter, the conversion is going to be a multiplication or division by a power of 10. Figuring out how many square yards you need to buy to cover 1875 square inches is much more annoying.

There is no such argument for temperature. For both C and F, we use a decimal system to get units smaller or larger than a degree. The only advantage C has is that a difference of 1 degree C = 1 Kelvin, so converting between C and K just requires addition or subtraction of an ugly number (273.15). Converting between F and either C or K requires both a multiplication or division (by 1.8) and an addition or subtraction.

F, on the other hand, has the advantage of a smaller degree (1 degree C = 1.8 degree F), giving us a finer scale when we are sticking to integers.

The F scale and choice of reference points aligns it very nicely with the weather. 0 F to 100 F is pretty much the range that a world traveller will encounter as they visit various major cities. In C, that's -18 C to 38 C.

The most sensible system would be to use metric for length and mass, F for temperature when you don't need your 0 point set to absolute 0, and a Kelvin like scale where 1 K = 1 degree F instead of 1 degree C when you do need the 0 point to be absolute 0.