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1. I mean page I get to when after loading page the first time (why is it different the second time, it's confusing?) and clicking "Explore interactions". Url you provided leads to 404...

2. "He uses his guitar to pick up girls", "He spends way too much time dealing with css animations and transitions", "Still has some trouble undestanding why everyone else doesn't think dashboards are so freakin' sexy."
Those don't seem proper to me, but maybe it's cultural difference. They're irrelevant to your work and even negative (who want's to pay a guy who spends "too much time" on something?). I understand the aim was to show those people as interesting humans but I would rather learn about them being professional first.
I don't know, we've done hack weeks where I work and they were really fun and productive. The past few times, it has basically been "take a few days off of your normal tasks and work on a feature that you personally want to work on". Things that you might really like, but haven't been prioritized by the organization.
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Falling prices are bad in the current arrangement, unfortunately, for more reasons than the current owners being upset: a bunch of other financial products are also tied to them, so falling house prices cause a mess cascading beyond just the real-estate market. E.g. the 2008 crash produced defaults on housing derivatives worth more than the entirety of the actual real-estate in question, which in turn produced bank failures, etc. (Not a good situation in the first place, but it's why financial news treats falling housing prices as negative news.)
Thanks.

I'm using flask for web app, but the glitching mechanism runs on client side.
The difference here - is that you are actually assigning a value to the dictionary element. It's the assignment that's growing the dictionary, not the query.
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This is one of the great lessons from Objective-C, IMHO: layering additional functionality in such a way as to be completely compatible with the platform ABI.

There are other compromises you make as a result, but that one feature is a huge win. (And yes, Objective-Smalltalk tries to extend that lesson of connectivity to other areas).
I'm pretty sure that Android setting opts you out of Google-interest based ads, ie the same setting you can change via https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads

I doubt that changes anything for Twitter. AFAIK it doesn't stop an application doing scanning like this.
True, though wait until Amazon starts selling insurance, loans, mortgages and legal services.

(See http://www.wordstream.com/articles/most-expensive-keywords)
Hey, what I just said is - spend less time on bs and more on creating valuable tools to everyday users and world will be a better place. It's not about fault, it's about lack of impact. Imagine how cool place would this world be if Linux was major customer OS and open source languages would be major ones used to create customer software with open protocols. Call me idealist but I would totally sacrifice half of the Linux distros to achieve those goals... :)
Agreed, food / grocery delivery and transportation services would certainly be interesting, but defining the rates based on some sort of a base-cost-unit like mileage and speed of delivery would be extremely challenging to do smoothly for the end user. I think it would end up being non-satisfying for the customer and the sellers.

Besides, amazon.com has amazon fresh for the grocery delivery service needs. Why cut into their own business?
Wow great comment. I couldnt understand what all the peeves had to do with a hackathon specifically. This is suppose d to be a fun event really.
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I was also thinking redbeacon.com, although they've already exited to Home Depot so it's not so much of a concern.
"I have a very fulfilling life, full of hobbies, friends and shit to do. Your hobby sucks! Don't you have anything better to do with your life, other than eating pizza and drinking caffeine and having fun coding?"
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If you're hoping for more than $100K or so, you might look into brokers or reach out directly to companies you think might be potential buyers.
Enforcing quality-standards for services rendered sounds nightmarish for either the end user or for the service provider. It's going to be interesting to see how this pans out for amazon.com.
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I came to the same revelations when writing my own 6502 assembler in CL. You even get access to the reader in CL which allowed me to write a parser that could read 6502 assembler source files and compile them.

You can start writing a debugger on top, disassembler, and an emulator. You're not restricted in Lisp from doing low-level bit-twiddling of this sort.
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Video lectures during the meditation? That sounds bad... the only things that I think would be acceptable are guided meditations, where you focus on different parts of your body, or moving your energy or whatever. If they legitimately had video lectures unrelated to instruction or chanting that seemed to have an agenda, I would also have left.

Personally, I think the only thing you should hear during meditation is nothing. A guided relaxation process is fine for a half hour but after that you need to leave people to their thoughts (or lack thereof :). I wonder if you would have felt better at a more Zen-style meditation where anyone talking gets hit with a stick? That's the kind of place I would want to go.
Thank you very much for such a clear explanation! The example about engaging in vs observing an argument works great.

I've had very little success keeping up with a meditation schedule and have "seen" some positive result in my anxiety levels when I restart after a broken chain of sessions.

It would seem, much like diet and exercise, you have to force yourself for the initial habit-forming phase for meditation to benefit you. All boils down to will power (to keep to the schedules).
That actually sounds very cool, productive and fertile for product development - a prototype may be enough for the organization to "see" a new direction. Unfortunately, my experience hasn't been quite the same...
"Does backup have to be open source??? Maybe there are good commercial solutions available?"

I've dealt with almost every major commercial backup solution, and in my opinion, all of them suck. Why? Mostly because of intuitiveness. I've seen knowledgeable techs get confused by terminology during setup and during testin/restoring. Differential, incremental, archive bit, etc.

Another note is cost. At one the support startups I was at, we licensed a backup solution that we customized so the customers thought it was our own in house, when it wasn't really. Many of the bigger names can get really $$$ really fast. (looking at you EMC)

Backup doesn't have to be open-source, but honestly I don't know how much I would trust anything else? I have, reluctantly at first, recently embraced the google drive ecosystem, combined with vault for regulatory compliance, and the versioning that comes with google, makes me feel more confident regarding documents stored there than documents put on random servers and being backed up to other places.

The problem with your original question though, is that open-source solutions still suck as well. That's why, depending on the complexity and needs of the situation, will generally just roll my own using rsync, git, rsnapshot, etc, in a transparent way to the user. eg, user uses file server A, wich backs up to backup 1, with backup 1 backing up to backup 2.

I would also like to point out the growing issue of raid. In my mind, at hdd sizes where they are, ZFS or a similar solution is the only way to go. Raid-5 is dead to me.
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Good point - that could definitely be worth 20% when done properly. But I can't help think of eBay which does all that and still feels like a hella rip-off. My last eBay run had some international sales and when I did the final sums, taking into account FX charges and PayPal fees, the eBay machine sucked up near 40% of the final sale price.
"E-labelling would be cost-effective, in keeping with the consumer electronics industry's important ongoing environmental sustainability efforts and a beneficial and innovative use of today's technology."

I understand the logos are annoying and clutter. But is it really more cost-effective and better for the environment not to print them?
We offer something similar in Australia[1]. We try and focus on high quality services & try not to commoditize our service desks though.

Amazon has been with this for some time. Its a bit surprising that they've not launch in entirety. (Still looks like a sign up phase)

[1] https://servicelocale.com
> It's well known that OS X gets much better battery life than Linux on Apple hardware.

I couldn't find any information to back that up. Do you have a link to a benchmark?

I don't think kernels throttle CPUs — CPUs do that themselves already. I could imagine Apple doing something like OpenBSD in that they favour security over performance for some operations, but that seems unlikely. IOKit might be to blame as well, given that it's written in embedded C++ instead of C.

All things considered, I think it's highly likely that, while OS X is quite shiny on the outside, the underlying OS isn't as modern as some of the others. Windows and OpenBSD have better security features and now Linux apparently has better performance.
The medallion is a license to operate a for hire vehicle. IIRC, you can remove and re-attach it to as many different vehicles as you like.
That wasn't spelled out perfectly in the post. The answer is that the set of crayon colors (e.g., red, blue, purple) is fixed and known to all parties. The only thing Google gets to swap is the ordering of which of the three colors it uses to color in each vertex. If I pull off a hat and find an illegal color -- e.g., hot pink, no color at all -- then I know Google is cheating.
Yes, I do.

I've not found meditation to be an absolute silver bullet for RSI in the same way that I found appropriate stretches, trigger point therapy, and Pilates to be.

However, it's definitely extremely useful, and if your RSI stems from anxiety or similar issues, it's very good for treating the underlying causes.

For uncovering suppressed feelings and thoughts, my personal recommendation would be to go for a good - note GOOD - talk therapist and see if that works for you. I've found that more effective for understanding myself than meditation. But I'd certainly encourage you to give meditation a go too - a lot of people including me find it very useful.
Even if he owned all 98 medallions outright, once he started selling them en masse, the price would drop just like a stock. Those are extremely illiquid assets so the price for 1 or 2 is different for all 98.
Our core value is around the simplicity of use, so instead of having to read a novel of a manual written by a crusty UNIX sysadmin, along with combining it with storage, you can create an account and copy-and-paste a single command that does all the work for you. We've even tested it with people who've never used Linux before and they were able to install it and restore a file without much direction.

With that said, we do provide the ability to hook your own scripts and commands into the backup process itself, for instance backing up MySQL you'd just put in the mysqldump command (with relevant DB and user/pass info) into the hook script uncleverly titlted 'run-before-backup.sh' in the config directory.

I personally don't have any experience with Redmine. Application-specific backups are outside the scope of our initial launch, but as we get more user feedback we'll be able to build plugins that integrate with specific applications. In the mean time, I'd both: 1) pester the developers to provide a simple backup solution for Redmine, and 2) look into either putting it on a VM that you can snapshot, or use something like ZFS snapshots and send/receive it to a remote location.
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> * Price reliability: Prices in most taxi systems follow strict rules. Customers can use this knowledge to estimate what they will spend, and drivers what they can earn.

Don't Uber give you an estimation? I took a taxi a single time in my life, I can tell you, I had no idea how expensive it would be (and it was) and it took me multiple call and about 45 minutes before getting inside the taxi. I still have no idea how to estimate the price, I'm still not interested in taking a taxi after all that.

> * Service dependability: Because medallions are limited and prices are regulated, taxi drivers can make a living, and the service does not boom/bust. This means customers are not gouged in good times and unable to find taxis in bad times.

This is something that I never liked and I don't understands how people can be for that. What purpose does it make to have a unique price when you can't even get it at that price. I will sell you a new amazing smartphone for 1$, the best price of the world and I will never change it's price, but I only have 100 of them and I don't plan to make more. It's great for the one that get it but at the end of the day, if you really need it and you can't even get it, it's amazing price won't help.

> * Non-discrimination: Taxis are usually required to respond to all hails, and to not refuse service because your ride is too short/long.

I can't see how you can believe that.

> * Driver tracking: because a taxi driver must have a medallion and follow rules about posting information in/on their cabs, passengers can distinguish between 'taxis' and random people offering ride services. While there may be no built-in reputation system, there is incentive and recourse. How do passengers know if a non-taxi is a guy who makes his living from offering rides, or a guy who just stole a car and is going to rob them? A taxi driver is risking a lot by robbing his passenger.

That's depends of the service. If people require it, if it stop people from taking that service because they are afraid of it, then the offering will change.

With a monopoly it doesn't, it stay the same, it doesn't have to change, I still have no idea what's the price, I have no easy way to make sure I will really get one fast enough. I'm a potential market but they don't freaking care about me. At least, with competition the market can affect how it work, they have an impact on it. If we need more taxi during rush hour, it's possible, if we need less, it's possible, if we need more security, it's possible.

If there's still enough people interested in your monopoly taxi system, they will keep using your monopoly taxi system and it will survive but we both know it's not the case and currently it's subsidized by people who have no other option than taking that crappy service.
Probably dumb question, but why is every app registering their own URL scheme? Is that an iOS requirement?
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This sort of doublespeak seems not uncommon amongst browser vendors lately, and Yandex is no exception. They run a search engine just like Google, so they also want to encourage its use instead of URLs. The difficulty of entering a direct URL with this browser and deemphasising its presence is no doubt a deliberate decision in this direction, and meanwhile they divert attention away from this by emphasising all the non-functional eyecandy.

These are displayed on an animated backdrop, with very little other interface furniture to clutter up the look and feel of the page

By convincing users that anything other than what these companies want them to see/use is "clutter" and "distraction", and therefore unnecessary, they can achieve better control over them. As the saying goes, "out of sight, out of mind." It's both sad and a little amusing that they're basically saying implicitly "we removed all these things we thought you won't ever use... but you can have a pretty picture to look at."

The "modern web user experience" is all about taking control and freedom away from the users - giving it to "content providers" - and conditioning the users to like it and accept it complacently. I think it's the exact opposite of the ideals of the web.
That all sounds very nice, but the Fukushima reactor material is still above ground and totally at risk of explosion and entry into the atmosphere if it is not continually water cooled. The cooling water has contaminated the entire nearby water system and the ocean.
16 participants in the study! Neuro-imaging bolloxology. Meditation might be pleasant, but this is a pretty poor piece of science reporting.
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Unfortunately all the major browsers appear to be headed in this direction, so it's only an illusion of choice.
I'd take issue with the idea that there was no/minimal coordination with the reactor operators.

In fact, the issue that made the turbine spindown test such a disaster for Chernobyl was the extended amount of time and number of power excursions that that reactor (not non-nuclear) operators had spent trying to setup for the initial conditions of the turbine test.

The test had been intended for the afternoon shift, and required reactor power and steam output to be set within a prescribed band before the test. The operators duly setup these initial conditions, but then the regional electrical control center unexpectedly asked Chernobyl-4 to remain online (instead of shutting down as planned) to service electrical demands.

The reactor operators then resumed power operations and tried to re-establish test conditions at the end of their shift when they received permission to shutdown. But this shift from power operations to low power back to power operations and back again to low power induced xenon transients, and an extremely unusual and dangerous control rod configuration, all in an effort to establish the nuclear parameters to run the non-nuclear test.

And then they turned over to the evening shift as if they were handing over a set of car keys for a company sedan, an evening shift that had not been expecting the test (though by this point the conditions were such that either shift would have caused the reactor accident IMHO, assuming no one made the brave call to abort the test completely).

I'm willing to grant that professional nuclear testing groups were not actually involved in the design and implementation of the test, but it's simply not true that this was the result of a bunch of steam plant engineers running a test that was felt to be non-nuclear in nature. The nuclear reactor operators were deeply involved in setup and spent almost the entirety of a shift setting up for this test, and had plenty of opportunity throughout to evaluate the possible reactor plant response to their actions.

In fact had the test simply been to take a reactor operating at power and to spontaneously trip the steam supply valve to the turbines the accident would never have happened, even without coordinating with the reactor operators first. In the actual event the closure of the steam valve was simply the non-nuclear nudge that finally tipped off a disaster laboriously arranged during a full shift by nuclear reactor operators, operators who should have known better just from first nuclear principles.
Sounds interesting.

Would love to talk, e-mail is on my profile.
I think the best way is to replace individual services that Facebook provides with unbundled superior ones. For example the way WhatsApp succeeded was among other things by using the phone number as the unique identifier, that way especially signing up and starting to use the App was significantly easier than manually adding all your "Friends" again. Another example would be Instagram. Obviously Facebook realised the threat in both cases and bought them.

The underlying idea is that focussed "minimalistic" apps are easier to use than kitchen sinks like Facebook, especially on mobile devices. On top of that mobile phones already come with some sort of "social network" build in, everyone has the telephone number of people and businesses that matter to them. So the attempt of most big web companies to provide people with a "web identity" is mostly misguided in this case. With the advent of ipv6, hopefully it will be come pointless on the web as well. The remainder of todays "Social networks" will then probably be just a very well organised and feature full address book on your personal devices.
Has it been confirmed that these are being used for ad targeting? Or is this just a frenzy of indignation based on speculation?

[Update: OK, wow, yes I see, Twitter themselves announced the tracking: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20172069]

There are legitimate uses for this information in an app, such as for when a user is given the chance to tweet about a high score from a game, for example, and the app URL for the game could be used to get them back into the game app after they finish in the Twitter app.

I'm not saying this is the case (I don't know). It would be interesting to see whether all the apps in the list have some way that they interact with the Twitter app.
You act as if we have no actual influence over what happens. Pick your target and get to work, I'd say.
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Bit off topic: On the first picture right at the top you can see through the workers. I read that this was caused by radiation, but to me it looks more as if they (or he) was simply moving during a longer exposure?
All those seem to be at apostrophes -- possibly a "smart quote" cut & paste issue?
Interesting, no - I'm not looking to get over $100k.
This is explicit in the OP:

> Google can now enter enter[sic], shuffle a collection of three crayons to pick a random assignment of the three agreed-upon crayon colors (red/blue/purple, as in the example above), and color in the graph in with their solution.
Don't points 2 and 3 conflict?
if it's anything like their marketplace, Amazon will keep all,contact information and all of your customers will be the property of Amazon. As a business owner, this is scary, because you can get banned or dropped by Amazon at any time.

It happened this month with DVDs on Amazon. If you aren't a wholesaler or someone that sells a lot in bulk, you can no longer sell DVDs. so if you are a small seller and you build up your customer base over a view years, you now effectively have to start completely over. Still least eBay allows you to keep your customers and build an actual business.

Now with services, I'm not sure how they will enforce this. If you are meeting with the customer, you could easily just tell them to start purchasing from you directly (and avoid Amazon fees). But I suppose if Amazon saw you only getting 1-time customers, they might get suspicious.

Either way, I would steer clear of doing any business with Amazon, unless you are fine with the fact that you aren't building yourself a business. You are building up amazon's
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> If people get to chatty I remove them from that list, but keep them on the main feed.

Why continue to follow them at all?
By fix the problem, do you mean diversify sources, or switch to sources you control entirely?

Apart from direct return traffic I'm having trouble thinking what source could quality as being entirely controlled by a business.
Is this a brand new language or more like Coffeescript (something that makes Javascript look nicer)? Either is fine I just couldn't tell from the post.