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I see your problems are that core XMPP provides very little and you need extensions to actually build something interesting. Which is very true, however we have come to a state where some of them are included by default in any good server or client implementation)

> Not particularly web-friendly – you can’t easily speak XMPP from a web browser.

Is Bosh (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0124.html) not good enough ?

> Single server per MUC is a single point of control and availability

Very true. There has been attempts to federate MUCS (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0289.html) but the problem here is about human roles and who can do what (notwithstanding end-to-end integrity)

> History synchronisation is very much a second class citizen feature

Not yet standard, but everyone is betting on Message Archive Management (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html).

I could cite counterpoints for every one of your points but that's not interesting. The real issues I see with XMPP are:

* No efficient support for binary -- The official way to do it is to setup another transport with Jingle. Which is sad because a transport was already setup, and now we need another one...

* Because of previous point, any potential cryptography will waste a lot of space

* No framing (a point you cited), which is absurd considering that XMPP is a routing protocol

* XML is a non-joy to work with (Note: JSON would not be a complete solution, see previous points)

Even though it has deficiencies, I'm still betting (and working) on it. What we really lack is software, and tools built on a protocol, not a new protocol.
Having magic in your worldview indicates your lack of understanding, not the existence of magic.
This is great!

However their launcher program eats 100% of one of my CPU cores all the time while its running. Seems like their Slate UI works the same way as the game actors do: update everything every frame.

This makes it hard to have background downloads while you're doing something else.
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This is a valid point. What better way to convince people that your product is superior to the competition? "Why are we so late to the robot-vacuum game? Great question. You see, we spent 16 years perfecting our robot, whereas our competitors rushed something to launch to capitalize on a trend."
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See also the discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8273305
> We have to make it clear it is not okay to regard ivory hacked from the face of an elephant as better than a synthetic polymer.

The best thing to do would be to make natural ivory anything boorish and in bad taste.

Although there's a risk of exciting the morons: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...
I don't understand why they thought that Moto X's most important feature - its size - was something they could get rid of.
I'm not saying this was the wrong move, but one drawback of the change is that I'm not in a setting where I can watch a video with sound right now, so the writeup is much more helpful than the video to me.

On the other hand, as long as you make a comment like this when you change a link, it alleviates the problem pretty well.
Did you say the same about the iPhone?
> I don't think those are the only two options.

Another option is that it's made illegal, and there are no good alternatives, so "unofficial" sources for loans are found. These can range from family members to Mafias.
There was no belittling in melling's comment. Even with the little knowledge we have today about how the brain functions, it is perfectly reasonable to hold the materialist position that everything happening in the brain is built on the laws of physics as we understand them today, and can therefore be simulated in principle.

Whether a perfect brain simulation, or a "truly thinking" AI[0] is ever built is therefore not so much a question of whether it is possible in principle, and much more a question of whether the (immense) resources required will ever be put in use to achieve this task. It is therefore a question of economics and political science rather than a question of neuroscience.

[0] Whatever that may mean.
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Does your "spiritual component" figure out metaphors? Because that's the problem we're trying to solve.
Thanks for the kind words. Curious as to how long you actively developed. Also interested in what felt worked/didn't work in engaging your audience.
There is only a purely material mind. In every god, deamon, spirit, angel, ghost, miracle or pantheon that has ever been put forth for scrutiny, a mundane non spiritualistic world presented itself as the cause. A scientist need not focus on fairy tales to explain the workings of nature.
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I'd self classify as an advanced user and I prefer a larger phone. I have average sized hands too.
My father also runs one of these to help people learn Photoshop (mainly for editing family photos). It's surprising the topics that can be learned though these groups
That's not what NDN is about.

NDN assigns names (or addresses) to data contents, not physical machines/interfaces like IP does. So it's conceptually quite different from the way IP routing works.

The issue you mention is already solved by DNS.

This looks like a solution in search of a problem.

NDN attempts to make content distribution more efficient through caching. Whether solving that problem justifies rewriting the entire network stack is highly questionable.
Buy mid range phones from Aliexpress or similar. My latest phone was about $250 - a Kingzone K1 -, and is an octa-core MTK based phone (so per core performance is not stellar, but more than good enough unless you're doing heavy 3D stuff), 2GB RAM, 16GB flash, SD card slot, 5.5" 1080p IPS display.

Pretty much all of these phones are thin (7mm or so for my current one), decent to great build quality (my current one has a metal back plate), and easily replaceable battery. Most of them also have dual SIM slots.

There are some things to look out for, like bad sellers and models with poor GPS (MTK phones are notorious for that - my current model works great).

The increased risks and increased hassle if having to deal with returns is more than compensated for by the prices. I'm pretty much expecting to replace my phone up to once a year on average at that price. In practice, my 3 last phones have all been good quality and I've had few problems (GPS being the only issue...)
I'm sure you're right but I also think there are many kids who have probably never even thought about the mechanics of what goes on behind the web sites they visit, the games they play (and everything else vaguely tech related they come into contact with on a daily basis). So maybe it will, at the very least, introduce more kids to the fun that can be had, and ultimately, to careers in the sector.
Thanks. I'll try and track down who did what.
Their security teams do important work, and largely it seems because they profoundly give a shit about these issues. They're still the front line technically.
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We are framing it as a show but what about people who actually play baseball for the sake of playing a game ?
I'm curious, how do you define "true free-will"? Most people define it as "the ability to freely decide what I want", but that just means "the ability for my brain to figure out what the best cause of action is, based on my previous experiences", which is just another way of saying "determinism" (even if it includes some non-material planes, e.g. "soul").
Shame that some are already moving to a new resolution - 1440p - isn't it? And next year, some will adopt 4k in smartphones. Why would they do that, it doesn't matter. What matters is that they will.
Absolutely and great suggestion. We 100% agree with you and that is our plan moving forward.
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I have very fond memories of Gentoo Linux.

My first Linux distribution was Mandrake 7. After a few months, unsatisfied with the experience, I found out about Gentoo and Portage. The idea of having running a system that was fine-tuned to my hardware intrigued me, so I decided to try it. That was 10 years ago.

I downloaded the Stage 1 Live CD and ran it off my main box. I loved its colorful framebuffered background, and the way it simply dropped you in a terminal. We didn't have desktop virtualization back then, so I had to read the docs on my brothers PC and go back and forth between his computer and mine.

With my very little experience with Linux, I hardly understood the commands I was typing in. Somehow I made some progress. I managed to partition the hard disk (burning the bridges - as the say), chroot into the boostrap environment, and use portage to update my system. I remember setting my CFLAGS with the most unstable options possible ( -O3 for everything, obviously), compiling GCC three times, and then beginning to slowly compile all the essential packages.

Finally, I reached the crowning moment of the installation: configuring my first kernel. Unfortunately, I made a mistake somewhere between "make menuconfig" (I went through each option!) and installing LILO, and was rewarded with my first Kernel Panic, and a bricked system.

After several failed attempts, I managed to get a working system and log in. I remember the great sense of achievement. It still was less challenging than whipping up an LFS system, but - what a ride!

I later abandoned Windows, became a Linux system administrator, converted an entire webfarm (80+ servers) to Gentoo, started a career as a web developer, and became lazy. Today, I am happy with Xubuntu on my desktop, and CentOS on my servers.

On #gentoo, denigrators would often link to https://web.archive.org/web/20050217094757/http://funroll-lo... (now a spam site) and laugh about all the pain and time to get that 0.02% increase in overall system performance.
I assume the post was a joke, even then it´s completely out of place here.
Hi Drostie,
It is an excellent analysis, when designing the algorithm there are 2 choices, to make the Global Addresses somehow related, so you can know that REJATE-POKAJA is near RIJATE-PIKAJAS, or to make them totally different so you wont get confused by the similarity, both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages , and as you say, is not something difficult to implement
Am I the only one who felt like he refused to acknowledge this might be a bad product? The Verge has been gushing over this watch for months now and when they finally get it they have the same faults with it as other Android Wear devices. Yet for some reason because it's round and stylish (I beg to differ) it's immediately a better product?
Get back to us on that when you find some place to live after we automated your trading position. ~~ software industry
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You're missing something there. Phones have also had smaller and smaller bezels. I remember seeing a Motorola Defy a few years ago, that was 4", and it was the same size as my 3.2" HTC Legend.

A much better way to measure these is how tall they are in milimeters. Moto X was 129mm. Now it's 140mm. I've tested some phones in a store, and I've come to the conclusion that 130mm is my ideal size. 135mm I can compromise on if I like the specs too much, and I wouldn't go any bigger than 140mm. Ever.
A classic take on the situation can be found at http://www.npr.org/2011/03/30/134960461/its-time-for-basebal...
Fantastic idea. I've seen similar sites, but 99.9% of them focus on fashion for women and I felt this market was undeserved for men. I'm not suggesting you maintain only one gender, but I appreciate that you are showing male outfits. Really love the notion of a daily (at minimum) outfit as well. Perhaps, in addition to Facebook/Instagram/e-newsletter, you could add a link for RSS? Keep fighting the good fight, love the site.
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There has to be a good explanation as to why the black box is kept inside the aircraft. My suspicion is that cost (i.e. investment ROI) is a main driver given low occurrence of plane disappearances / disasters. Intuitively I can also think of design advantages of having a “black box” recording everything locally. For one, it can continue to track data even after external communications are cut. However, it’s always been puzzling to me why at least basic flight or positioning data is not wirelessly transmitted to satellites. Surely there has to be a better middle ground.
This little interchange highlights something I find interesting: we don't really 'get it' so why should machines? Ie all an AI has to do is fake it. How much miscommunication and lack of understanding is there in human interaction? A lot I think.

So all an AI has to do is get close enough. Talking to such an AI would be like talking to a dull witted friend who's really good at arithmetic.
I don't care about a status symbol. I'm not in the vacuum market right now and already own a miele.

Based on all the hype Dyson tries to generate, their product renders, commercials, sales lingo, etc, I expected this to be the iPhone of vacuums, where it was priced high, because it functions well, and has a great build quality.

Instead, it just looked overpriced, and the quality appeared no better than the vacuums a third of the price. I was disappointed, that's all, it looks like they spent their budget on marketing and the quality of the product came second.
Use genkernel instead of configuring the kernel by hand. That will save you hours of time. ;)

Oh, and this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml
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Do you (or anyone else) have any idea if this is getting better, and how quickly, if so?

I'm of the same mind that I'm incredibly willing to shell out a bunch of money on super high resolution displays (and even more powerful video cards to drive them) just as soon as I'm sure I'm not going to be on the painful part of the adoption curve.
Looks good except for the stand height, which would actually be a dealbreaker for me - a high stand is fine for the living room floor, but there's no point putting a great monitor on your desk that you can't look at without tilting your head back and giving yourself chronic neck strain. Are there any similar monitors with lower stands?
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its not about its shortcomings, its a database. your saying it replaces chef and opsworks. you're missing a few pieces to make that picture.

ie. how do i update the load balancer as i add capacity to my web app, how do i setup a new db instance and open up the firewall rules to an app on a different host. etc.

docker, and etcd are both nice pieces, but they don't make a complete picture. nor does fleet imo.
Great idea. We're trying to think of ways we can do this. Thanks for taking a look.
aside of what rando289 said about not reaching the theoretical maximum, you're mixing up units. You'd have to divide by (1000^3) as bits are always measured in proper SI units (1KBit = 1000 Bit).

TB does 20 GBit/s

And 5120x2880x24x60 Bits/s / (1000^3) is 21.23 GBits/s, so even in the best-case scenario (which is likely unrealistic), you wouldn't have enough bandwith over TB2.

DisplayPort 1.3 will solve the issue of course, but that doesn't help me personally much as the hardware I'm using is a 2012 retina MacBook (which I'd be theoretically willing to replace to be able to use the resolution we're talking about here) and a 2013 MacPro (which I won't replace this early), neither of which have DP 1.3 support.
At least re: online pharmacy, that's patently false. Coming from someone who currently runs a legitimate online pharmacy, there is a 9-12 month accreditation process (VIPPS) that adwords, etc requires before letting you advertise.
Display port works well enough for UHD, I'm not sure about this resolution, but it should be ok. Even a lowly Intel integrated GPU might be able to drive this for non gaming applications. Visual studio and X code already support 2X, I think Office and iWork do also.

No displays, past present or future, can run over USB, sorry.
Thanks for trying to do the right thing.
With traditional technology you need more than 300square foot to support a single person.

But with hydroponic + vertical farming you could need a lot less (±1meter square).

You can with today technology have a production (versus traditional farming) gain of :
- 2x improvement by controlling light cycle to trick plant into growing faster
- 4x improvement by controlling season (in temperate climate you can just growth 6 months a year)
- 5x for hydroponic vs. soil growing.
- 15x production by stacking cultivation box in top of one other.

Using this technique you should be able to attain 600x production over traditional farming for the same surface.

Some are already doing it for cabbage in Japan (see Mirai : http://www.fieldrobotics.org/~ssingh/VF/Challenges_in_Vertic..., who sell itself to GE and who produce 5000kg of cabbage / day in a 1200m2 farm).

What make this technology viable now is the availability of cheap and energy efficient LEDs.
From the video (for those who can't be bothered to watch it): 5 year old girl: "How do you pick up a Jewish girl? Go to Auschwitz with a dust pan." Camera crew chuckles.

Seriously?

WTF. Speechless.
What software are you using?
LastPass

What hardware are you using?
mobile phone 2fa

I have a decent size passphrase that I change every 3 months. I store the back up keys for my gmail and dropbox account in my personal safe. I also have a Truecrypt container for storing sensitive information like a backup of my LastPass db. LastPass is very convenient but storing it in the cloud makes me wonder if there is a backdoor for gov.
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Is Google still planning to release a new Nexus phone later this year?
Looks like Dell's typical adjustable stand, which allows you to slide the monitor almost all the way down to the desk. If not that, then surely it has a VESA mount that you could use with your own stand.
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That's a valid point, and it was already something that we have been looking into, and possibly even doing the Getty editorial images.
You need to talk to an accountant or a lawyer, because it depends. At least as far as Delaware is concerned, the meeting with the accountant will probably suffice to prevent you from having to pay anything to Delaware.
The USPS has already banned shipment of lithium batteries overseas because of suspicions of battery fires in flight causing cargo jet crashes. When it was first created, the ban included devices as well as just solo batteries but it looks like that has been loosened.
Then 'as close to magic as it gets' is 'not magic', and there isn't really a conflict here.
So far as we know, it isn't possible to solve NP-complete problems quickly using any means. Even quantum computers, which are fundamentally more powerful than the computers we have now, are not known to be able to solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time (i.e., efficiently). So it seems unlikely that simulating the brain is out in NP; it's probably no worse than BQP (what quantum computers can do).
This is not true. There is no such thing as UDK any more. You need to pay $19/month for full source code access to the engine. You could however pay for just one month, cancel your subscription and continue using whatever you have downloaded.
Off the cuff answers, but, driving eye balls, and they engage their audiences. Which is why their valuation is so high, and why most news organizations are seeking investment into them.

They have a balance of 'mediocre' (per your comment) but engaging content, as well as very in-depth investigative documentaries. Both drive different eye balls, but they have kept their 'cool' factor for the new generation which is not following traditional news sources [1].

[1] I am at work, can't pull citations.
The regulation is different in Germany, private hire cars have to operate out of a registered address, and return to that address between hires. Obviously has no relevance to safety. But Uber is playing by these rules for "regular" black car Uber, the effort that was shut down was Uber Pop, which was meant to compete in the carpooling space.
Thanks for posting and checking out the site. From the article that was linked, it sounds like reason for the suit was a refusal to remove the photos after a cease and desist. We are actively looking for the best solution.
Light from non-luminous materials is as close to magic as it gets.. (lamps)

Computations from non-computing materials is as close to magic as it gets.. (computers)

Movement from non-moving materials is as close to magic as it gets.. (engines)
This documentary is about Aisha (tiny orphan elephant, who barely made it to 6 months) and Daphne Sheldrick

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365284372/

Daphne's efforts to save these amazing animals started with Aisha. It is a sad yet beautiful doc. Well worth the 50 mins or so.
Maybe not for everything, and i'm sure there are loads of technicalities on the edge of london.

But for your examples:

EC1A and EC1M are both in or around the city

EN1 is enfield I think? So far north, EN10 I imagine is just further north

KT9 I think is Kingston. Both KT9 and KT11 are probably south west near the edge of london

> I can only manage that if you define London as "The area covered by the London compass-direction based postal districts"

That's actually basically what I meant. Compass postcode = london, non-compass is effectively outside london (or on the very edge)

Either way, the point that post codes carry a lot more information than codes generated from GPS coordinates still stands
So I can't quite see this working in a physical retail location, which is where the Target and Home Depot happened.

So this, like chip and pin, would not have helped these particular issues.
Why not just shrink the strike zone a little?
So what you are saying is that we need a new standard that gets wide adoption that support 2K and 4K (and soon 8K) monitors. I completely agree. And it should be a single cable as well. It would be best if it was a straight forward extension of an existing standard.
I agree partially. Refereeing mistakes are part of the fun of soccer and other sports, but it is not so funny when the team you support ends up losing a game or a championship because of them.
Because it's transmitted by radio to anyone who can receive it.

See http://www.flightradar24.com/free-ads-b-equipment/ for some equipment capable of getting these local radio signals.
You can buy displays that run over USB.

http://www.displaylink.com/technology/technology_overview.ph...
Thanks for your insight. We're doing our best to represent the brands we link to positively. In fact, we've already had two of the brands we link to reach out to us and ask if they could be of help in any way.
Straight C++ or C# put through IL2CPP to get C++, put through Emscripten to get JavaScript... What a wealth of choice between well grounded software engineering foundations, I feel bad for anyone stuck with something like Lua!
The President is "of the United States" not "of the US Government", it doesn't mean everyone in the country reports to him - I think you might be over-thinking the terminology a little bit.
That's a fantastic idea, phonetic is not important now, this is a code, then you can customize algorithm later for example more language/layers.

This should be started for people names too, stop silly names and lets put some genetic into.