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... which you can also do on platforms like digitalocean. Just spin up a preconfigured dokku droplet and git push.
First Ebola, now Facebook.
Symfony2 is definitely not going in the direction of Rails. It was and will be Rails' opposite: built around a dependency injection container, favors configuration over convention and uses as little magic as possible.
Oh woah. There's actually a bunch of examples of that person's Github account.
They're pretty helpful.

https://github.com/kritts/HandWave-Sample-Apps
I think people just say it on purpose now.
Gmail has ~500mn users. Rapportive is possibly the most used Gmail extension out there for Chrome & Firefox. By deduction, Rapportive is the largest business/product built on top of Gmail. With only 326,000 active users isn't it a worry that products on top of Gmail are difficult to market?

Is this a reason of fear for companies like Streak and Yesware who bet heavily on the Gmail extension? (Technically their market size would have been 500mn but since the largest player only has 326k users, the total addressable market becomes really small). Something seems off since YC itself has many companies that are following this model.

Anything I'm missing out here?
Should I buy/read the second edition when I already own the first one?
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One of my sisters and her husband live in Zambia, where they do public health work. Specifically, he works on malaria[1], and one of the greatest challenges he faces is field data collection. Enabling everyone with a compatible phone to send in data would, I'm sure, be incredibly valuable.

I'm bummed that there aren't any public health tools included in this app. Hopefully they'll consider adding something like that in the future.

[1] Malaria affects almost 1/3 of the country's population annually: http://www.unicef.org/zambia/5109_8454.html
My thoughts exactly. Started reading on the site a couple of weeks ago after an article about lawns on HN (which was reasonably ok and correct). His CFL article starts ok, and he does make some good and valid points but then the pseudo-science and false logic kicks in to levels that make my cry.
Only if you feel you want to go over that material again, in a more up-to-date format, and with better/more example projects. If you've already mastered JS and web development, the new edition probably won't teach you anything new.
Why do people not see that every single time, what is so hard to understand about that?

Twitter & Facebook didn't make no money at all either for the first 3 years even, now look at them. If you have millions and millions of users that use your product all the time, you will always make money. It's just a matter of when you turn monetization on, which Snapchat is already testing with sponsored stories.
In suburban America, it's often seen as weird if not suspicious to be out walking. Trayvon Martin was killed by an overenthusiastic and overarmed neighborhood watch member in a Florida suburb, and a lot of people think it was due to racism. In reality it might have (also) been because he was on foot.
This is a great idea for Facebook! They're in the perfect position to have widespread adoption quickly and the service would be invaluable. Privacy would be key though, they'd have to opensource it and prove to people that it's secure and private.
yes, like a mixture of:

* original The Microsoft Network (1994-1995) the MSN client that shipped with Win95 (instead of a web browser) that was meant as an alternative to the WWW; or similar limited portal services like America Online, CompuServe that are now obsolete

* portal websites with widgets like Yahoo, AltaVista, MSN (1996+)

* HTML5 web app store (btw. the Mozilla smartphone shown in the video already has an official Mozilla web app store)
>...but the ideal structure is not supposed to exchange air with the outside particularly because of this.

With regard to letting a house cool down at night, that's impossible. If you heat a quantity of air from 273 K to 300 K at constant volume, the pressure increases from 1 atm to 1.1 atm. That may not sound like much, but it's better expressed as a pressure differential of 10 kilonewtons per square meter, and the surface area of your house is such that it could severely damage the walls and blow the door open -- popping it like a balloon.

(The fundamental mathematical error made by those who minimize this effect is ignoring the surface area of the building)
Meet Microsoft's Sharks Cove: A Raspberry Pi-style mini-PC running Windows 8.1
tricky

Well, it is mainly a matter of installing a proper ventilation system.

So improving energy efficiency of heating for existing houses with lesser insulation is very useful.

it is, but it can never reach the levels of energy savings coming form decent insulation (where decent means: German standards for instance)
That's the thing that stuck out for me in the article. It mentions practice, but there is no distinction from deliberate practice. It may well be that the highest performers did more deliberate practice, which totalled less practice overall.

The last sentence of your comment sums up my thoughts exactly.
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That's still $60 a year, which is at least double the price of a simple reliable shared hosting package. The shared hosting has other conveniences too. I'm not saying it's without downsides, but there are cases for choosing it, and therefore for choosing PHP.
Yes, even iOS is more open - you can use C/C++, C#/F# (Xamarin), Java/Scala (RoboVM) to build apps. Now that's a freedom.
Or you go there to better protect your kids and get them better schools.
"2. Enjoy side projects." - check the contract before doing them, especially in USA.
The author is asking us to think beyond cars is very relevant out site America. America can afford its suburbia because it was a sparsely populated land when the Europeans started settling. This is a luxury densely populated parts of the developing world cannot afford. A post-automobile era is surely a welcome thought when we plan future human settlements.
I believe the parent is referring to episodic memory [1]. Of course we are forming "memories" as we are making sense of the world since day 1 (and this includes learning about our bodies).

The concept we usually refer to when speaking about "memories" is that of episodic memories which have a lot of context associated with them. These types of "memories" are formed and retained reliably mostly after children reach school age [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodic_memory
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_development#Episodic_Mem...
So Europe and Asia are fantasy continents then?
Wow, very cool. I suspect this is a model that could be applied to a lot of scenarios where people want to feed raw data into a report and get some nice looking stats out.

One possible application might be recurring revenue stats (growth, churn, etc). There are some solutions for this but they all depend on certain billing providers. Would be nice if you could just upload a .csv file of all your transactions, tag the columns, and get a nice report.
And when people realize they can't watch any of the funny videos their friends link to, or view the 9gag links they post, or sign the change.org petitions they are hammered with?

Not everything you see on facebook is hosted at facebook.com, and people will very quickly realize that.
Isn't this almost exactly what Google punished rap genius for doing?
Japan's low-crime culture helps a lot to keep such density pleasant.
Google has a browser called Canary and this http://rt.com/usa/161192-google-facebook-microsoft-nsa-gag/ They have a new language called Dart -- Google's first ever reference to violence. They're nice people, but they've gotten a bit anxiety causing, not like they used to be (blame it on being a large company I guess, but don't forget to think).
If they want to privde Internet for everyone, why don't they use their money to fund, for example, DTN research? Ah right, then they couldn't collect every move the internet user makes onlne.
Ah yes, of course. It's missing secure identification.
It's funny, but when you are after reputation points, then SO is very similar to app markets: one lucky or well-designed generic question ("Flappy Bird", "Candy Crush Saga") can generate and will keep generating much more "profit" than a dozen of much more useful but very specific questions ("indie games").
That was a lot of fun, thank you!

Apologies if I went a little overboard on the fun.
Walking in Phoenix, AZ is uncommon simply because of massive sunburn exposure...
Interesting timing considering Sprint just announced the Facebook plan for $12/month.

And internet.org reeks of imperialism in the worst way.
> But are you actually more alone in the suburbs? I mean, except for the airgap that makes up for the shitty sound proofing that american homes seem to have, you're still surrounded by neighbors.

The bummer about suburban sprawl is, even if the answer that first question is "no" right now, you'll need to move in a decade or two if you want to maintain that level of quiet. Eventually your suburb will develop every square foot as densely as it can.
The quoted (>) text is from the sublevel founder's blog.
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> Google's first ever reference to violence.

This is a stretch. The name "dart" comes from the other meaning of the word, as in "an act of running somewhere suddenly and rapidly." Source: I work on languages at Google.
Never ever is a long time, and you won't be able to say "told you so" until the end of never ever.
http://www.cdc.gov/mold/dampness_facts.htm

> In addition, in 2004 the IOM found sufficient evidence to link exposure to damp indoor environments in general to upper respiratory tract symptoms, cough, and wheeze in otherwise healthy people and with asthma symptoms in people with asthma. The IOM also found limited or suggestive evidence linking exposure to damp indoor environments in general to shortness of breath, to respiratory illness in otherwise healthy children and to potential development of asthma in susceptible individuals. In 2009, the World Health Organization issued additional guidance, the WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality: Dampness and Mould. Other recent studies have suggested a potential link of early mold exposure to development of asthma in some children, particularly among children who may be genetically susceptible to asthma development, and that selected interventions that improve housing conditions can reduce morbidity from asthma and respiratory allergies, but more research is needed in this regard.

Whether that counts as "downright unhealthy" is up to you.

http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/78636/Da...
It's funny you talk about transit not being possible to finance by developers, because that's exactly what happened in Japan. Well it's actually the other way around, railway operators like Tokyu, Tobu, Odakyu or Keio playing the role of developers. They're huge groups that also includes department stores, malls, development, construction, real estate...

1. They make a line that goes from one big Tokyo station (Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ikebukuro...) to outside, that used to be farming lands

2. They pretty build mini-cities around their train stations (like Futako-tamagawa for example) with shops, housing, that's all walkable or bikable for people living a bit further

The result is a small human-size neighborhood with an easy access to Tokyo (because they built the train line). One example is Futako-tamagawa.
Wow, this is annoying. But, people should have access to the internet, so it's good I suppose. It really looks like someone's trying a new form of censorship. Here's hoping Google brings free speech to people (facebook is the king of sleezily building reputation). Also looks like facebook's trying to get rid of Google.
Sure but then I'm limited to OCaML and have to run in kernel mode when developing apps.

Occasionally a good tradeoff, but a significant one.
> ... do you have a link to more on that topic?

The following may be of interest [1]. There's been more progress since and we'll be talking about it at OCaml 2014 [2].

[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/multicore.md

[2] http://ocaml.org/meetings/ocaml/2014/program.html
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I switched to audiobooks almost exclusively recently. Very compatible with walking and running, and even mild outside exercise such as pullups.
Canary is just the name for their nightly release channel, it's been named that for several years. Most people should not use Canary because it's mainly for finding bugs before they get sent to the Dev channel.

I don't really associate Dart with violence when I hear the word, haven't even consider it until you mentioned it just now. Dart to me (other than just a random short word that was unused and sounds decent) means precision and fast moving.

While Google did have gag orders, they did a lot to actually notify users, there were popups that would only appear when users accounts were accessed by someone with unusual permissions, they were the first to provide a transparency report with the numbers of law-enforcement requests (had to use ranges to stay legal but still provide the information). As soon as they found out the NSA was tapping their datacenter fiber connections they started encrypting the traffic and had a press release about it soon after.

Yeah, a company as large and powerful as Google is going to have all intelligence agencies pressuring them for information constantly, the worst thing they could do would be being completely silent about it and deny everything, but they haven't done that.
This would be a nice addition to AirBnB...
Seconded.

I'm currently using it as a beginners Javascript book and find it extremely accessible.
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In light of non-existent public transportation infrastructure in most of the USA, it's sad after a car/bike that walking is not only the single alternative, but also looked at with suspicion... Prague, Czech Republic has amazing public transportation, with support 24 hours a day on trolleys and buses. And taxis are inexpensive too. Wow, I'm lucky! ;-)
Why such a strange name for a development board? Does "Shark's cove" have any cultural or historical significance?
> On the other hand, I think that we underestimate childrens ability to get up again after failure or isolated stray word of discouragement. Telling children they sux one too many times will lower their self-esteem, sure. However, most of them will recover from hearing something slightly discouraging once in a while just fine.

For sure, I would even go so far as to say discouragement is a normal part of life and if one was to shelter a child from all forms of discouragement - assuming that's even possible - then that child would probably not be very well equipped for life generally. This is an interesting issue as well, but I think it's orthogonal to the main point I was trying to make.
But if things have got better, then perhaps the criticism is no longer valid? Criticism leads to things getting better which leads to the (original) criticism having been resolved and no longer applicable to the current versions.

(I'm not going to weigh in on whether any of the criticisms have been resolved in PHPs case specifically, as I've been away from PHP long enough to not be able to talk on any problems with the current language)
Its always good to teach and share to reinforce your existing skills and discover new ones.

Like many said, mentoring or taking up/ suggesting new projects may be a plausible avenue. You could also internally create some challenges for yourself in relation to work, for example I may want to have codes in portable modular form so I can use for other projects etc.

There is no need to burn bridges even if the work is not fitting, especially when people are nice.

Ultimately, this is admittedly short term. Alignment of interests and incentives are critical in the long run, thats why often people are willing to forgo larger stable paychecks to head over to risky startups with low paychecks.
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This effect isn't going to be very significant. A constant exchange of air will have a significant effect, but a one-off exchange of 10% of the air will be negligible. The reason for this is that the air has a very small thermal mass compared to the building structure.

I've got mote sensors in every room in my house, including the hall. When my kids leave the front door open in winter for a few minutes, as kids tend to do, I can see the temperature in the hall dive on the graphs. But close the door again, and the temperature is right back up very close to where it started in just a few minutes - even when the heating is off.
Welcome to the Internet where you exist only if you beg the powers that be to include you in a list.

This is the first time in my life I see a "country" going from democracy to aristocracy.
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The ads would just go to storefronts hosted by Facebook, who get a larger cut of the revenue for hosting them.
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Yeah, maybe it wasn't a great question. I can get 3.5% where I live, though.

Mutual funds may be a much better option, though.
ADTs are a bit like garbage collection: they originated in functional languages, they provide huge productivity gains, and they are (in theory) very easy to prop onto any kind of language. You can imagine a variant of C that has ADTs---they'd just be called tagged unions.
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Here's an introduction to OKR's we recently did in addition to the resource link in the article: https://blog.weekdone.com/introduction-okr-objectives-key-re...
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By the way, how big is your dataset: millions, billions records for the U.S.? Or how many (approximately) records are there for, let's say, Washington city or LA?
If you make it this way drop me a note and I'll buy you a drink. I've been here 8 years and love it.
A few ideas:

1. Keep it at 80 for a couple of weeks, you'll get habituated quickly enough and will suffer less outside as a byproduct.

2. Use the AC only in the room you are actually in and close the door.

3. Unless it's very very very warm outside, and once you got used to higher temperatures a couple open windows or a simple fan will do wonders.

Source: I live in Rome, I have AC but I only turn it on when it's over 95 outside, because I have thick walls and good circulation.
Quick video about how it works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJDiIfynbXw
Out of curiosity, with the recent release of their patents, is Tesla going to be enabling other car manufacturers to purchase these batteries? Standardising on a housing module across manufacturers seems a 'good thing' for the general consumer.
To mathematicians, the two are kind of interchangeable. I suppose "cartesian product" is a bit more specific, as "cross product" is also used to mean the vector cross product, which is different.
you could do the same on public transport...

Or maybe question why you have the long commute at all...
Maybe humanity will only win if some people are limited to just Twitter and Facebook?
How can heating be any less efficient than 100%? I get that engines can be less efficient than 100% since the remaining energy is dissipated as heat and heat is the not desired energy in that case.

What happens with the remaining energy if you heat with less than 100% efficiency? Does it start to rotate things?
No he's saying the opposite. The UK does have a lot of narrow bending rounds and tiny country lanes :)
More roundabout than the current paradigm of duplicate Linux stacks and supporting services for DevOps just to get stuff deployed? That doesn't make sense to me.

Your argument is actually "It seems very new. Not enough people know/use it. Therefore, I won't use it." -- which is fine, but please don't mischaracterise it in terms of increased complexity or expense.
So are they working on a new battery design?

The last time I did some research on the Tesla batteries it was just a ton of high-quality 18650s, is this still true?
Founder of Streak here, we aren't too worried that Rapportive only had 326K users. First that number is a pretty low estimate. Thats their current active weekly users. This is after they let their product die slowly after a few years. This also doesn't count all the installs that didn't use to be from the chrome webstore nor does it count safari and IE.

Even if those numbers were accurate, I don't think products like Rapportive/Streak/Yesware are limited at all by Gmail. If anything being in Gmail helps a ton with engagement. The reason the install numbers seem low is the same reason any startup may have low install numbers - their small, they need to perfect their product/distribution/sales/etc. I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that they are in gmail.
Not seen that before, looks useful, thanks for the heads up - however, no info on pricing anywhere so not something I'd consider using myself as things stand. Who signs up to services without knowing in advance what commitment is going to be required to continue using it? I really don't understand businesses that operate like that.
Nerd Fitness Academy has created their own game as well, with quests and leveling up. It just released a few days ago. Here's the video tour of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLLF2RkZnSY
> (not USA)

Is the content in English, or a foreign language? Do you get most of your "long tail" referrals from google.com or an international version?

I suspect there are a lot of wide open playing fields for content sites in foreign languages that simply replicate popular US based ones.
Founder of Streak here - we've actually thought of adding this functionality to Streak but as others have mentioned the hard part is finding a good data source. Give our current infrastructure, we could build a rapportive replacement pretty quick if we could find a good partner on the data side....
I work at Booking.com - have been here for two years and I consider it to be one of the best jobs I've ever had (admittedly, my previous jobs weren't great). Great team of people and we get a lot of flexibility to choose how we want to work. Personally, as a father I also really appreciate the work/life balance here - there is zero pressure to work silly hours.
Have you written a blog post about your support outsourcing process? I would be interested to see your process.

My first side business was profiting $10k/mo but I ultimately lost it because of neglecting support emails.
May I present to you a list of cool functions Clojure doesn't have?

map-keys, map-values, map-entries, group-by-1, group-by-2 on [[k, v]], zip-with [k] -> [[k v]].

That's what you immediately need if you do any data processing. Had to write those myself.
> As others have said, try cooling a house with rads. It's not like North America is oblivious to radiators; they were very much a standard way of heating houses before the popularity of AC made forced air a much more logical choice.

I've always found the popularity of AC in the US bizarre, every single European who've traveled to the US in the summer and had to spend extensive time inside complained about the cold and quickly switched to long sleeves and trousers.