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If an electric car is your daily driver then you charge it each night, and never worry about how many more commuting trips you can make before you have to stop at the gas station. In one sense you are filling up every day, and at the same time you never have to worry you will be late in the morning because you have to stop and fill up.

Road trips are a completely different issue. For me, trips over 200 miles happen once every few months, and I think I get out more than a lot of people do.
I think the technology here is so deceptively simple and generic that it's hard to say what the true killer use case is yet. It's definitely unfortunate that the "ads" examples are the most prevalent. Despite that, I'm betting devs will find cool and novel uses for it.
I wouldn't call wanting a second act ego. It's about contributing and working on interesting problems. Elon, for example, made some money on PayPal but that's not what he really wanted to do. Once you become successful it opens doors. The guys at Google didn't want to be an advertising company, they probably want to just work on Google X all day. Anyway, the Woz already made a dent in the universe. He's certainly entitled to relax if that's what he so chooses.
Because there hasn't been anyone whose made money offline?
Though you are correct, it would have been nice to at least present an explanation. I was asking a legitimate question.

This would have helped, for example: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/coldweather.shtml
Given that this is the alpha launch of Container Engine, and the Beta launch of Autoscaling and Managed VMs, what is the anticipated timeframe for this to be ready for production workloads?

I'm assuming that there'll be a beta of Container Engine in the near future, and then a stable 1.0 launch?
Interesting, how would one go about finding ⌽ on a keyboard.
Quartz already does this for free every morning. They even email it to me.
Yeah, same for Cold Case due to the background music, which was licensed only for TV broadcast...
bye bye box.net?
9860.fbl_release is publicly available.

RemoteIE uses 9860.winmain (as in, it's 9860 from the mainline branch, rather than 9860 from the fbl_release branch). And naturally, it's server -- 9860 server isn't public at all.
Hence the emphasis on production cars, once you get into special racing or one-offs it's meaningless: you can just strap a soon-to-be-dismantled body on a rocket sled and launch it at 50+G.
Wouldn't you think typing the exact name of the app should show you that app first?

It seems pretty basic. When I type the exact name of a product on Amazon, I expect it to come up right away. And it does!
this is great news, esp. with the $100K google is giving to qualified startups!
He tried: http://www.geek.com/mobile/steve-wozniaks-startup-handheld-c...
I mean, I don't want want to be the "640K oughtta be enough for everybody" person here, yet somehow I can't accept that it should take a quarter gigabyte to render a "hello world" HTML document. Every morning when I get into work, the first thing I have to do is click a button that I installed into Firefox to restart it so that my machine (4Gb RAM) becomes responsive. (That this important button even has to be a third-party add-on indicates serious reality denial.)
Thanks for your feedback! Sorry to hear about faulty beacons, what happened definitely doesn't sound normal. I'd suggest to contact our community team at contact@estimote.com and they're probably able to replace these beacons with new ones.

Indoor SDK is still in very early phase, but we're pushing very hard to roll out a series of updates with new features like multiple rooms support, cloud integration and even better accuracy, so you can expect more comprehensive solution in the near future.

And if you're interested in bigger deployments we also offer beacons in bulk quantities with much better pricing.

We're treating R&D very seriously as we're thinking of beacons as much more than simply hardware. There's still a lot of ideas to explore and we try to support the community as much as we can, so I hope you'll give it another chance.

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts. That's extremely important to us and makes it possible to address issues people have with beacon technology ASAP
Which images are still shellshock vulnerable? Wasn't aware that was an issue if we stick to the docker-managed images.
Quick question: why aren't there any code samples [0] in C/C++? It would be nice to at least have a documented C++ WinRT API to work with for those of us that still write native desktop applications/services. I'm sure other folks across the company would agree ;)

[0]: http://dev.office.com/code-samples
do hipsters wear all black?
Mainstream culture doesn't exist? That's hilariously wrong. Kanye West would like you to twerk to some Hunger Games and The Hobbit, and take a selfie on Snapchat while #hashtagging about it on Twitter. Just don't take a naked one like Jennifer Lawrence. And don't forget to catch The Big Bang Theory next Sunday! Isn't the Harlem Shake so last year? And Psy, oh my God, who listens to Gangnam Style anymore?

If you think mainstream culture doesn't exist, you're probably stuck right inside it -- or so far from it that you don't even realize it's there. Oh well, back to playing some CS:GO.
The Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy (2012)
> and not used so much for long-running services like a web app

Mesosphere Marathon, which sits on top of Mesos, makes doing long-running services easier; it starts services, restarts them if machines crash, etc etc. Where Mesos is the resource schedular, Marathon is more like a *nix init system.

Aurora is supposed to do much the same thing, but is in Incubation at the moment. There's also "Singularity", which does a bunch of stuff including managing long-running services and one-off services through an HTTP API and webapp.

Mesos is supposed to be treated sort of as a "cluster kernel", with "frameworks" which sit on top of it and use it to schedule things. It's a lot more versatile than "I want to deploy a bunch of services" - it's more along the lines of having your own EC2 that you can request resources from on-demand.
This is why it was a good idea to launch the N7 first - N7 is "close-enough" to phone-size that phone-scaled apps appearing aren't jarringly awful, as long as they support landscape rotation.
>As in, downtown.

As in, not from here but moved here within the past few years from a comfortable middle-class existence in the suburbs or some small town, in the case of Chicago at least. Chicago has always been this way, though; any hip cultural history that it has had in the past 40 years was produced by people not from here (like New York.)

What's the most obvious indication that someone is not from Chicago? A tattoo of the Chicago flag.
My interpretation of what they are trying to say is that they may need to modify stuff by wrapping headers on it and so on to make it work with their systems,

Or: we make tape backups of data and tapes a shipped to some storage and we cannot guarantee that your data is immediately erased from all our infrastructure (including types) the moment after you delete it.
Rackspace OnMetal? http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal/
I remember reading some not-so-nice things about Rackspace downtime recently though.
It's pretty difficult for me to imagine getting paid enough that purchasing the Blu-ray would be easier. I would basically have to have an assistant who can place the order, receive the discs, and rip them into a (DRM-free) digital format so that I can watch them on a computer or mobile device, which is how I prefer to consume all of my content (except for the cinema).
>I thought Firefox was mostly written in C++? Pretty surprised that raw realloc()s are widespread enough to warrant a note like this.

It is, but STL usage is very limited, because of all the headaches involved in linking against all the different STL implementations in all the different platforms. mozilla-central has its own containers.
Many counter-culture folk are not seeking to be different for difference's sake. Counter-culture means against the dominant culture, not against all culture.

There are people who primarily seek to be different, and that can devolve into self-parody, but that is not the only kind of member of counter-culture.
I think the more immediate point here is that if you want to watch it right now, the $175 won't get you anything at all; it's not for sale yet. BitTorrent might be less convenient than just buying something, but it's much more convenient than being legally unable to buy something because it hasn't been released yet, and might never be in your market.
That's sort of irrational, since the availability of many other shows for streaming serves as a counterexample. Usually* the scope of ownership and transferability of rights is defined very very tightly in media contracts. When you have a lot of people with a potential claim then you run into the holdout problem, succinctly summarized here: http://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/810/game-theory-st...

* but obviously, not always, or we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Agreed, and if we can also agree that there are likely varying amounts of cultural involvement and self-awareness in any broadly painted group of humans, I think this follows:

It seems the root cause and motivation of many people who get classified as "hipster," who aren't simply reacting to or against whatever is the prevalent culture around them, comes directly from this Internet-driven, information-saturated, always-on media environment. It also directly results from how identity politics and marketing are dovetailing to constrain peoples' ideas of self-agency. People performing whatever actions are considered "hipster" are doing so from a position of ambivalence toward being constrained in such a way. They are resisting categorization, specifically because 1) it seems to immediately lead to someone trying to sell you something based on limited or superficial evidence, and 2) because, like the above commenter mentions, there is no longer a "mainstream". It's dissolved into countless iterations of pastiche. The people who have seen this all happening have determined that they'd rather select from the detritus of cultures past, as it's all being recycled anyway, and not subscribe to ideologies beyond what interests them in the moment.

All this also comes off as quite superficial and easily derided.
But beneath the derision, I think the loudest anti-hipster voices are upset that this kind of person doesn't seem to attach themselves to an Ideology. This must terrify some people.
http://devartcodefactory.com is 100% Clojure + Clojurescript (+ open source) and one of the few examples deployed on Google AppEngine
seems like too many kids are right.
Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8289898
I'm reasonably hardcore and find Flickr Pro fine--but for sharing and otherwise having them available online. It only functions as a backup in a "very worst case scenario" sort of sense. I use BackBlaze to store my Raw images (in addition to local backups).
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IIRC only OneDrive for Business (née SharePoint) did that, not the OneDrive consumers use.
I really enjoyed iWoz book - even so much that I wrote directly to Steve to thank him for writing it. It's warm and inspiring book and especially the last chapters about following your passion really made it for me.
I'll take an uninformed off the cuff vote over the abstention of a depressed slacktivist any day, but maybe that's just me.

If voters are voting ignorantly, then let the politicians spend more time informing them rather than slinging mud at each other. Oh excuse me, I mean hey check out that boat full of cocaine owned by Mitch McConnell's in-laws because scandal!
I mean, that SOUNDS reasonable, but I can guarantee that that's not the definition that most people operate by. Which in turn seems to support the idea that the name is meaningless.
"Let me put it this way - name a couple of open design issues with the current Telegram protocol."

Sorry, it doesn't work this way: 'When someone hands you a security system and says, "I believe this is secure," the first thing you have to ask is, "Who the hell are you?" Show me what you've broken to demonstrate that your assertion of the system's security means something.'
I downloaded Loki and ran some tests and the README is wrong, it does not do any automatic persisting to disk at any time. That might be a future planned feature, perhaps.

However it does throw events, so it would not be hard to implement this behavior yourself with a simple event listener.
Does this mean that Google feels confident in running untrusted code inside containers? Or is each container actually running in an isolated VM?

It is my understanding that Docker containers are "generally" secure (https://docs.docker.com/articles/security/). But that statement isn't enough for me to use them to power a multi-user production hosting environment.
removing check cashing stores and their high fees from the paradigm is a huge win. are you guys targeting companies with high levels of temp/hourly workers? i would think those employees would benefit most from this service.
Stable production ready GKE will gate on Kubernetes. Our Kubernetes roadmap is here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/maste...

We are driving aggressively here. I hate to put a date on it but things are converging.
Preallocating beat reallocating? You don't say!

The context of this post is when you are implementing a growable abstraction like a string or vector. When you are the library, you have no reasonable way of guessing how big it will ultimately grow. At the application layer, of course you have better options available.
Something more is coming soon, though: https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/529493907839533056
This is especially true in markets outside the US. Wonder why your favourite show isn't on the local equivalent of Netflix (or why you can't get a non-dubbed version if you live in a non-English speaking country)? Licensing.
That's so inexact I still don't know if I should bother continuing this reply. So would a popular 8 year old who is into Paris Hilton be called a hipster? Is each of the real housewives a 'hipster'?

The term originated in the 40s in a very specific subculture, and of recent years has re-emerged with a new subculture that particularly originated out of New York. Wikipedia does an ok job [1] but obviously like any actual subculture entire books are written on it and even still won't fully capture the meaning the same as being integrated into it socially and authentically.

Hipsters themselves wouldn't consider themselves seeking to be hip -- that's something that an outside person such as yourself is labeling. In fact the hipster subculture is anathema against 'trying' to be 'anything.'

I'm remarking that at this point the term blends beyond the actual subculture so much that this random physics paper is using it to describe anything that isn't mainstream, as if hipster is the only subculture that exists outside of mainstream.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subcultur...
Apparently I missed the discussion. However, just for clarity. Current space travel uses enormous amounts of fuel, which I see as hard to defend for tourism purposes. It is a luxury in the sense that I'm not sure if tourism is an ok enough reason to spend a limited resource on. It might be insignificant compared to other stuff, butch for me it just feels bad.
there is this benchmark : https://github.com/danstocker/jorder/wiki/Benchmarks ... I maintain this one (https://github.com/kristopolous/db.js) which is part of that.

From my perspective, with a small collection size, I'll sacrifice performance for expressiveness. I have a number of expensive features that I think do nice things.
Of course you can compete with free piracy for digital products. If you couldn't, then I wouldn't purchase any piratable digital products, but I absolutely do. iTunes, for example, is in many cases much quicker, more convenient, and more reliable than pirating music. Likewise with Kindle e-books.
Of course you can, look at the wild success of Steam and iTunes. They've created billion dollar businesses out of being more convenient than the free alternatives.

These services, and every other retail platform is absolutely in competition with grey and black market competitors. Why do you think the RIAA/MPAA/etc. try so hard to shut them down?
npm and front-end packaging
How do you put in diacritics (tashkil)? Can you use a regular English keyboard and do phonetic transliteration?
This is often repeated nonsense. What is hard on your eyes is changing intensity. Switching between dark code and light email is the problem. The screen should also be about the same brightness as the room, so looking away from the computer doesn't require eye adjustment.

The transition from dark to light is mildly painful, so you have a false sensation that the dark background is better because switching away from it is irritating.
I think another real problem is that at the end of the 32km of track you need to stop going sideways and start going up. At mach4 (at sea level this is really, really fast) you're going to need either a huge radius or you're going to have incredible g forces. Either way, big engineering problems.
If I understand Checkout correctly, a user on Site A enters her card details, and then when she's on Site B, her details are shown back (with some obfuscations). Does this ever alarm users? I'm sure the goal is that it would be a seamless experience, but I'd be curious if anyone here has used Checkout and heard positive / negative feedback from users.
Try stripping locally and see if the checksum matches.
Yes, I honestly think that the system would be more representative of the country if more of the country voted. Young people's views, and those of boomers and the elderly differ greatly on many issues, but they don't vote.

I'm not saying it would magically fix everything but it's certainly a start. But by all means, continue to not vote, and complain about the system, because that's sure to help.
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> Tinder’s parent company just swiped left on Sean Rad, ...

https://i.imgur.com/Sg8vJkv.gif
despite the hype BLE turns out to be a niche technology with poor capabilities and questionable benefits.

While I agree that beacons are over-hyped, I think it's worth pointing out that BLE does other things that I think are more useful. Being able to talk to devices without having to perform the awkward pairing process, for example.
I don't think that's true, and I don't thing e.g. Apple does, which is why they pushed so hard for DRM free music. I think they know perfectly well that if DRM protected content offers a worse user experience than pirated material, people will pirate instead of buying. The success of Napster proved this.

However, offering a reasonably priced, easy to use and hassle free customer experience has a lot of value, which people are prepared to pay for. The success of the iTunes store proves this.
Beacons.

The thing where everyone has some idea of what they want people to see it as useful for (Ads, etc), but don't understand how to jive this from what consumers want from them.

At this stage, it still looks like a technology solution in search of a consumer problem (it certainly solves the "how do i push indoor location based ads/etc" problem, but consumers don't care or want that).

Watching most of these companies is like watching microsoft announce the xbox one.

Everyone tries to sell indoor location, but there are better ways to do indoor location, cheaper, than placing $200 of beacons and meticulously mapping where you put them. So that isn't going to go very well over time (highly likely to be supplanted by something better).

Even some of the examples are just a result of otherwise poor planning on companies part.

For example, i don't want to know "things on my shopping list are nearby", i want to know, ahead of time, exactly where the things on my shopping list are.

It's only recently (past year or two) home depot or lowes would even tell me what aisle stuff was in.
I still can't go to a safeway website and get an idea what aisle my items are in.

In some cases, this is deliberate - they want you to have to browse.
In any case, beacons solve none of this problem (except maybe the "i'm in aisle 46 and i still can't find x" problem, but the distance issues often stop this from being particularly useful use case).

I struggle to think of an interesting use case on the consumer side for beacons.

Maybe locations for things that move like booths at a farmers market or something.
Is there a specific reason for the coin cell batteries?

I would be much happier paying the same amount for something that looks like a AA battery and will last a few years.
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Agree! With http://tah.io/get we have tried to make use of BLE not just as beacons but also for combining the power of your physical sensors with 'smartphone' sensors to have much more interesting use cases!
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We aren't doing multi-tenant in a VM. Instead, each user/account/project has their own set of VMs implementing the cluster.

My view is that the surface area for cgroups/kernel namespaces is just too large and isn't appropriate for hostile untrusted workloads right now.

More nuanced statement on this here: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/08/containers-v...
The acceleration looks wrong. It looks like the show altered the footage to have constant speed, and Reddit just sped it up.
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Yes, an app is required to trigger the surveillance since beacons are one-way, but not really a 'malicious' app install. If tomorrow candy crush/angry birds want to tap into the gimbal database, well congratulations. Worst, if FB/Google want to tap into the database, nearly every android/iOS phone with BLE on will be a target due to their massive app install base.
I quit my job to work on a startup with 2 friends about 6 months ago. Wanted to cut costs, so I cancelled my gym membership. Built this on the side.
Sends a <15 min bodyweight workout every morning. Don't need a gym, or any equipment. Only a few feet of space, a desire to be healthy, and a towel to wipe up the sweat.
Is Tesla the market leader? Nissan's Leaf is the best selling electric car in history.
I want a very fast, client-side, read-only database with rich query support. Is this the best choice?
On exactly that topic, see another (great) post by the same author: http://blog.hut8labs.com/no-deadlines-for-you.html
Looks neat but please don't forget about colorblind people. Adding additional distinguishing features like textures, patterns, borders, etc will make the colors easier to distiguish for all users.

tinyurl.com/colorassign
Dropbox is banned on my office network. Therefore, at least for me, this is a bit useless.
One of my science teachers demonstrated it in class with a vacuum glass tube containing a small feather and a small lead weight. I remember being equally amazed to see it. As pointed out, there is a difference between being told something and seeing it.
Yep, but there's an important difference I think...

Mesos (some customizations, but largely the same as open-source Apache Mesos) IS what Twitter uses to deploy and manage their clusters. Battle-hardened at scale running diverse production workloads.

With Kubernetes, we're told that it is built using architectural and philosophical principles proven to work at scale on Google's production systems. But it's a fairly clean-room built-from-scratch implementation and although developing quickly, is still immature and untested.