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So I assume you also have a 2nd set of keyboard/mouse with the standing monitor? Regardless, I would much prefer having all three monitors on a large rising/lowering platform.

I don't think $500 breaks the bank here - it's an expensable item, costs less than a high-end smartphone, and probably has much better ROI.
Every time I begin to explore using RDF and the associated technologies for a knowledge rich problem I always find the tool support a major disappointment. I understand there are exceptions (4store is a good example of a mature triple store) but generally speaking I always leave feeling much of the core tools never made it out of academia. And in a world where development time is a precious commodity, I always end up going with a lower friction but ultimately less powerful technology.
Marathon is a Mesos framework for long-running "always on" apps that can serve up http among other things.

It ensures that an app stays up even when machines or entire racks fail.
`curl | sh` is protected by a ssl certificate issued by CA that my system trusts.

"pgp-signed installer file" is protected by a key from a stranger.

Both are insecure.

Could you enumerate several points that show "pgp-signed installer file is __a lot better__ than curl | sh" ?
That cuts both ways, you realize? The guy in the article got his tickets killed because the moronic city broke the law by not having the signage posted correctly:

>Fixed came through. The startup couldn’t do anything about the street cleaning ticket, but after reviewing some Google Street View pictures of the scene of the parking ticket crime, one of Fixed’s full-time “advocates” determined that the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency (SFMTA) had not complied with California state law specifying where parking signage must be placed.

The city needs to suck it up and follow their own laws if they're going to levy stealth taxes on people.

Live by the law, die by the law.
> powerful, elegant, and future-proof

ReactJS. It's totally unlike Angular and Ember in a good way. You will not regret it.
COM is the reason.
Actually functions or array being objects internally has nothing to do with "object-oriented" as style of writing code. Here it is about style, which is obviously dictated by Processing (and thus Proseccing.js) being ideologically object-oriented. So, well, yeah, it is quite more object-oriented than "proper" code in js, although I don't see why it is such a problem for the person you relply to.
> What does a PC really need?

I'd like a large address space and some way to do read and write barriers (for real-time GC).

> These things are reasons why I consider Alan's approach of "back to the roots" the right way and very promising.

What do you think about OpenBSD? The only reason I switched from OpenBSD to Lubuntu on my personal laptop is because of Adobe Flash.
1) Steve Jobs was not gay

2) They probably shouldn't of had a monument of an American business man in the first place.

3) The article is making a stretch when saying it was taken down because Tim Cook came out. The monument is in the shape of a now-old iPhone and was interactive with Steve Jobs, and was a little dated by the looks of it. Perhaps it was just being taken down. In fact, the article even says that before the announcement, the monument was flagged to be taken down for repairs.

I see a link-bait article here.
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The ultimate feature for hackers is how hackable something is. That means it is easier to develop the version for hackers first, and then package a specific version for end-users. Therefore, if they do develop a hackable browser and allow everybody to innovate on it, they may well be in their way to create the next best browser.

This paradox is similar to creating a new microcomputer only for hackers (Apple I/II) which in turns allows them to develop cool stuff on it (Visicalc) which in turn makes it the standard for all users.
Mt. Everest is higher. Because of the Earth's rotation, every point on earth traces 360 degrees every day. However the radius of these arcs depends on elevation. Ergo the top of Mt. Everest travels farther every day due to rotation that any other place on earth. That is the same as saying it is moving faster.

EDIT: I guess compared to a rotating reference frame this isn't true? Clearly this isn't my area of expertise.
I think it's witty/funny that the OP is "Why Silicon Valley Works" while your comment aptly describes "How Silicon Valley Works".

Also, I totally agree with your comment on Japan. I think start-ups have a very tough time sustainably generating value through innovation in Japan. Taking the national psyche and tendency for risk aversion into consideration, most likely, it needs to come from either big companies or government programs (like in the 60s-80s).
Why does exercising your constitutional right for legal do process make you an asshole?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

Has a nice analogy, that being two radio listeners do know what each other are hearing which is cool, but can't communicate anything between them.

I would have to think about the effect of creating a one time pad.
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"Last year, its safety chief resigned and has not been replaced."

If true, that sounds unforgivable to me.

It echoes other reports of high level people leaving recently, and there's more of that sort of thing in this article. Plus the demonstrated safety culture problem in their handling of N02, which killed three of their employees in 2007.

On the other hand, this is being reported as white-line (co-)pilot error, although not definitively the cause of the breakup.
Our Internet is also piss-poor, so streaming generally is not an option.
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Steve Jobs memorial in St. Petersburg was removed
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Yeah, they're not sensitive to magnetic fields. But they do drift with temperature. Which leads to fancy semi-improv solutions, like placing the quartz in a small case, together with a heating element and a temperature sensor, to keep that sucker incubated at constant temp. A lot of HAMs used to do this back in the day - or maybe they still do, I dunno.

Also, placing a small variable capacitor in series with the quartz is an easy way to tune it, if it's too fast. I actually have a wall clock that looks nifty but is too fast, and I'm gonna tune it by trial and error, inserting small caps in series with the crystal.
"The odometer on this thing reads about 60 million miles."

That was John Grunsfeld - he used to work on his car at Hacker's Haven in the late 70's (a DIY garage that Ray and Tom ran in Cambridge for a few years). That's just awesome that he was able to call in from the Space Shuttle.
Dude. You come to SV to make it. Kids, house, schools... they all need to be taken into consideration, sure... but you can't just choose one part of your lifestyle while assuming that you'll be able to continue on with no effect on the other...

Yes, it's a cooker. So what? You want the cooker, sign up... You don't want it, then pass, and start counting your already-existing chickens...
To elaborate, this is quite easy: you wrap the entire contents of the script into a function definition, then call the function as the last line.
I would say the problems Blockbuster had mirrored the problems the author of the article implied, but for different reasons.

Retailers think of technology as a pure cost center: The products on their shelves are what the customers want; having the physical location and the right products in your inventory are enough. Technology is for operational things like cash registers and warehouse systems, and you don't upgrade any of them before your business plan says so.

Entertainment companies have to think differently about technology. Their product is intellectual property, and as technology evolves, so do the way customers interact with their product. This is nothing new - entertainment companies have had to adapt to FM radio, broadcast TV, color TV, cable TV, HD video, VHS, DVD, etc. But distribution has always been tightly controlled, and technology is a key component of this. So entertainment companies in general are pretty forward-looking in a technology sense - at least moreso than retailers.

In retail, the general customer interaction hasn't changed in a long time (or rather, in 1998 it hadn't changed fundamentally since the advent of credit cards). So the thought that technology could revolutionize the customer experience hadn't even crossed their minds. They had DVDs and VHS tapes - physical goods that they sold. But the product in entertainment is NOT physical, it's the intellectual property: and the retail guys never understood that. Once the consumers realized that, it was game over, man.

Realistically, there was probably very little Blockbuster could have done to challenge Netflix. Netflix was lean and able to move fast - Blockbuster was tied to an aging and slow-moving brick and mortar retail business. Even if Blockbuster had tried to close all their stores and move to a Netflix model, it's ridiculously hard for a large company to disrupt itself. Politically, you'll have a lot of resistance from within and meddling by the "old guard" to make sure the new "disruptive" product isn't going to be good enough to make them obsolete. There is also just a lot of capital overhead involved in running a retail business - obstacles that Netflix didn't have.
Regarding locality, they experimented with selling local event tickets through their kiosks for a short time, I don't think it lasted too long though and dissapeared quietly. http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/4/3453566/redbox-concert-eve...
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Maybe it is because I'm not familiar with adjustable standing desk and the complexity needed, but I was disappointed by the price. Does it really need to be adjusted through electronics? I was hoping to see something really simple, cheaper no electronics. But as I said, I'm not familiar with this kind of product.
Most of my side projects tend to be mobile apps. Find things in the real world that either piss you off or make you wish that there was a better way of doing things. For example, public transport is usually a good source, and any PT company worth its salt has an API you can hit to do something useful with.
I strongly disagree that the high cost of living is beneficial for startups. Keep in mind the very term Silicon Valley comes from chip companies (Fairchild, Intel, etc.) who came to SV because it was cheap, open farm land. There isn't a business in the world that doesn't want to optimize on costs.

Take a look at a modern SV company now: Apple. It creates lots of jobs in SV, but far more in China.

SV succeeds in spite of the costs, not because of them.
if procssing power is the thing you are looking for go for a desktop, else you can choose a cheap chromebook it can run BSD but it needs some tinkering, unfortunately there are very few linux boxes that come out of the box, inedeed Dell XPS 13 is an amazing laptop period. may be the only one ;) also you can go through raigs list and buy a server for lessthan 100 bucks
'But this new clock is so sensitive, little changes in height throw it way off. Lift it just a couple of centimeters, Ye says, "and you will start to see that difference." '

How do they do these differences? Surely they would need a second, equally accurate clock to compare it with?
A QR code should be sufficient.
Can you elaborate? I'm genuinely interested in hearing from someone with experience in both industries to weigh in on this. Especially once the risks on both sides have been calculated in, since otherwise the comparison is largely meaningless.
That's the yearly percentage, not the lifetime percentage. The chance of something happening to someone in a given year is vastly smaller than the chance of something happening to someone during their life.

So if 600,000 medical bankruptcies a year happen, how does that compare to other yearly numbers? Well, there are about 4 million births a year in the USA, so someone being born in the USA happens only 7 times more often than someone becoming bankrupt through medical bills.

It may have been slightly inaccurate to use the word typical, however these figures seem to indicate that it is at least fairly common.
>Why does exercising your constitutional right for legal do process make you an asshole?

It doesn't, of course. There are those, however, who are under the mistaken impression that all parking tickets that are issued are justified. Thus if you contest it, you're creating extra costs for the city and should feel bad about it. I happen to disagree with them.
In my mind, if you look at the sheer number of people who self-XSS themselves on Facebook and Google, that the average user shouldn't be able to trigger a JavaScript Console seems like a logical conclusion to me.

Is it condescending? Yes. Does it make the barrier to entry in programming higher? Yes, but considering that properly debugging a web application on a tablet seems to require a separate laptop connected at the same time (with admin privileges to install whatever crazy USB drivers), I'd say that barrier is already high enough that the kid can figure out how to download $DEVELOPER_FIREFOX.
The Gerton Leg, adjustable is not a good solution for a free-standing desk. The recommended installation is two of them at max height with the tabletop affixed to something solid, like a wall.

I learned this after I built the free-standing desk I am currently using. There is noticeable wobble while typing.
Does it have to be new? What about second hand Lenovo X230 models and their ilk? Running Ubuntu just fine on an old X201 to satisfy a similar itch.
This was my first thought as well, but actually this is not what is happening AFAIK, and the performance hit is likely due to inefficient huge page allocation. There are reasons I believe this, but I'm actually checking in a more systematic way right now before saying random things.

EDIT: you were exactly right. This is what happens, there are 50 clients in the benchmark, with many queued requests, so indeed since the benchmark is designed to touch all the keys evenly, what happens is that every client served in a given event loop cycle has a big chance to get a page fault. This seemed unrealistic to me, since I saw the spike in a single event-loop cycle, but it is how is working actually. Thanks!
I think a way to rephrase the question is to ask, is the light coming from the top of mt. everest red shifted or blue shifted or neither? (I'm not certain of the answer, either. Physics was a long time ago.)
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Probably because you only read the headline. The article quotes a press release from the company that owns/maintains the statue explicitly stating that it was removed as a result of Cook's public disclosure.
Maybe time really is running out. ;)
Google doesn't have a choice with Angular. They have to rewrite it because the original is a wrong approach.
>truly improve humanity, the Valley extremely inefficient

I think Intel, Google and Facebook have improved humanity though your tastes may vary and I enjoy Apple's shiny stuff. Those have a market cap of $1.4 tr and it's hard to think of anywhere else with similar output. Maybe like democracy it's the worse possible system apart from all the other ones?
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Redbox will be fine, at least for as long as physical media hangs on. It's a different use case - an impulse buy for the less technologically adept. As technology adoption of streaming video solutions reaches saturation though, I can see Redbox fading away.

It won't be a spectacular implosion like Blockbuster because they have the benefit of low capital overhead: those kiosks aren't that expensive and the DVDs themselves are basically free (AFAIK Redbox prints copies of them as-needed in exchange for a share of rental revenue to the copyright owners). So they can keep running them as long as the rental revenue covers the maintenance and re-stocking of the kiosks. The kiosks aren't even using valuable real-estate: if you got rid of a Redbox kiosk, I don't know there's anything else you could really put there that would generate a lot of money.
Ooh. I didn't know about this. I'm using VS2012, because I don't want to shell out again for VS2013 but want ReSharper - I'll have to look at this...thank you!
Well, it's off by 30 seconds now. But eventually....
Exactly! Doing this. There are ways to do this fortunately (Redis does this actually... in order to report the amount of copy-on-write performed during save, you may want to check the code if you are curious, it is pretty trivial, and it is possible thanks to /proc/<pid>/smaps info).

You were right! Please check: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8553666
Many of the legs and desktops for Ikea desks are interchangeable. So it maybe that the video just features the corner style. In fact within the Bekant line, I see quite a variety of desktops. Since Ikea has pulled the motorized legs off of the site, it is hard to say if they are compatible with any/all of the tops.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/wor...
When I saw this internally a few months ago, I said that I haven't been more excited about a new project in a long time. I personally think this will solve a lot of scalability problems people have while letting them keep their favorite database.
Few years ago, I was in a team implementing IPSec/IKE protocols for a US based company in Pakistan. Though implemented in Pakistan, that product could not be sold there :)
Maybe it's just me, but displaying 4 wobbly out-of-sync vine videos at once is really distracting.
Chrome, for example, works as you describe on Windows, but scrolls an entire page on a Mac.
I hope the term 'Administrivia' was intentional.
I picked up a cheap Thinkpad T420 from the Lenovo outlet. It's a few years old model but has the great keypad, touch pointer and runs Linux Mint w/no issues.
I watched the video twice and I still can't figure out what the changes are about because I kept getting distracted by all the stuff happening in the background.

Even after I purposely tried to focus on the device UI, I couldn't process all of it in any coherent way. Please don't make promo videos that leave me with no sense of the product you are trying to demo.
Both special and general relativity effects are well known to affect clocks. This is a major headache for GPS satellites, which have atomic clocks that gain about 38 microseconds a day vs earth-based clocks from the combination of speed and gravity difference.

38us/day slip is huge. That's 6 miles of GPS positional error. So GPS was designed with an correction and adjustment scheme to deal with this. So it's been a practical problem for decades.
Nope, the spin isn't changeable and you cannot communicate via entaglement. If the spin was changeable however we'd have a long distance bit (0 or 1).
What's interesting is when there are a lower number of people, say 100. With so much space, the "moshers" tend to just go in one direction until they bump into another person, but this isn't really accurate. There needs to be some level of randomness in their movement, so that when there are large spaces they are not just coasting, but still bouncing around.

That being said, this is pretty fun, and the dynamics for crowded areas looks appropriate.
I should probably submit this as a story as it keeps coming up. I have a very nice sit-stand setup that I put together for less than $200. You can do the same provided you have 1) a regular desk and 2) a wall.

http://planiverse.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/building-a-sit-st...
it would take some time to develop "gravitationally stealth" F-22 :)
I agree, it's strange that Alan knowingly broke userland, and then argued that he was right. Something more must have been going on.

At the same time, do you really believe that the only way to get people to see the error of their ways is to be as harsh as Linus usually is and to resort to personal attacks (referring to your line about how he could and should have been harsher)? This is indeed Linus's usual style. The reality is that maintaining some basic level of respect with your colleagues would mean not losing great kernel developers to Linus's outbursts. Alan leaving was a big deal and was widely publicized. How many others have left to never return after receiving a nastygram from Linus?

Let's take it further: if your boss publicly called you a "fucking idiot" as Linus is known to do, every time you screwed up, would you want to continue working for her? Chances are, most people would resign on the stop.

Lastly, I disagree. Even if Alan still thought he was right after receiving my version of the email, he would have a much harder time arguing with a more reasoned version. He would certainly be less likely to throw his hands up in the air and leave the team. This whole "Linus needs to be an asshole sociopath to get shit done" is simply not true: most effective project managers don't resort to this type of behavior because they have better ways to get things done. Linus has fallen into this MO, and it's working for him, but I argue that if he was a better manager and a nicer person he would get more stuff done, not less.
But if I'm standing on the Earth's surface, it's not accelerating relative to me. It's always at the same distance and direction.

Since acceleration is change in velocity, it's impossible to have absolute acceleration without absolute velocity. You can only say that it's accelerating compared to X.
This is why open-source software is so rad. I suspect that you'd never see an Oracle customer complaining publicly and then an Oracle engineer publicly tracking down the source of their complaints.
The main problem is the GUI Windows Forms that Visual Studio uses that they won't allow for use on other operating systems other than Windows.

If they included libraries that could compile the Windows GUI Forms to other operating systems like GNU/Linux, *BSD Unix, iOS, Android, Mac OSX ect it would be used more for those platforms.

Instead you have an incompatibility and it prevents developers on Non-Windows platforms to take it seriously. How can you claim it is cross platform when the GUI parts won't even compile?

Visual BASIC 6.0 was the last version of Visual BASIC that didn't stink and add in a bunch of Java features. I consider it Classic Visual BASIC for version 6.0 and under.

This Visual BASIC is really VB.Net and not Classic Visual BASIC. I'd much rather use the BASIC based Jabaco http://www.jabaco.org/ to make Java Bytecode JAR files than use VB.Net to make binaries. At least the Java JAR files are cross platform better than VB.Net and C#.