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Oh, it's that guy that hates everything.

ChangeTip is cool. It is a Bitcoin killer app. Like it or not, giving tips, even to people who don't need them, is fun. And for every person who is tipped who may not want or need it, I've seen some kid who is quite happy as they realise they've just been gifted something worth a few dollars. And then their journey into Bitcoin begins as they try to figure out how to actually spend it.
Network, find people who can work with. Develop the idea more.
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They should have built youtube competitor in house rather than looking at dailymotion. Given yahoo user base and talented developers, it should have reached respectable market share and ad revenue.
> Do you keep a log of your experiments?

Not always, but when I investigate something particularly interesting or just learned something generally useful I usually convert my playground - be it a dump from the REPL or a file I was scribbling in - into Literate Programming style document. The process of inventing narrative for the code indeed makes it easier to remember. LP is actually a very neat tool I'd like to see more people use.
> which by virtue of network effects probably tends towards monopoly

Uber could dominate their market the way that Google dominates search, but for both companies (and unlike, say, Facebook), the switching cost for users is essentially zero.

Drivers would lose their built-up reputation by switching, and would have to spend the time to be vetted by their new agency, but these are somewhat low switching costs.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm just not seeing network-effect-driven monopoly power here. I can see advantages coming from a strong brand driven by nationwide (and international) reputation, and from battle hardened business practices and from economies of scale...
Income equality helps businesses and the economy grow. Consider the extreme case of inequality where all the wealth is concentrated in just a few people... there'd be no market for Uber.
Would you consider adding one's selection filters to the navigation hash, so that I can reload the page (or follow a link and come back) without having to re-do all of my filtering selections?
Yeah, it would have been better if the article went into detail about its use of the term "invariably". I don't know if the author was just loosely using the term or if he actually meant that she was habitually late.

Still, I don't see that as "unacceptable" behaviour. It's something to be frowned upon for sure and it would be great if she could be punctual all the time, but being the CEO of an incredibly large and diverse organisation, she could be forgiven if she was late due to some other meeting or work-related issues.

Also, remember she's getting only about 4 hours of sleep everyday and practically lives at her workplace, so I doubt she's being late on purpose.
Exiles who left the country. If you were to speak to elderly Cubans who fled they would tell you about how they all had their possessions taken from them.
I think it's quite the opposite, believing we are alone in the universe just because we don't have the capability to explore and detect life for me it looks the same as the belief people had a few hundred years ago that the sun orbits around the earth and we are the center of the universe.
There is work being done to replace silicon with graphene. It's of course a long shot, but would make this a lot more feasible if possible.
You should recruit the rest of a founding team that can get a working version built without hiring.

Y Combinator funds that sort of thing, and can help a lot with turning an idea into a growing business. You can still apply late for the Winter cycle, though if you don't have the complete team yet the Summer cycle might be better. http://www.ycombinator.com/apply
Guantanamo Bay isn't US soil, it's Cuban soil indefinitely leased to the US for the purpose of maintaining a naval base. (The concentration camp is a side benefit, constructed to evade laws against building concentration camps on American soil.)
True. But with an Eris chain mining doesn't need to happen.

We've taken consensus and security logic which is usually baked in to a blockchain protocol and moved it into into a smart contract kernel of the genesis block - and seeing as you can script whatever the heck you want there (as the Thelonious design is smart contract-capable), you can set the security parameters to whatever you want. E.g., specify that only certain nodes known to the administrator can process data.

This isn't a blockchain to be used in currency applications - but in data management, and application-specific data management at that. Developers can parameterise a Thelonious framework to do whatever they need it to do. Think of a social network or a corporate interactive application. In such cases it's the usefulness of the database in efficiently administering data and blockchain fault-tolerance, not token rewards, which would meant to be the primary incentive for adoption.

We have rather a lot of writing on the subject - please do check out some of our blog posts! https://blog.erisindustries.com/products/2014/12/17/on-3p/
I take it you don't agree with the story you mention from your tone, so I'm not arguing with you.

However, as the concept of work to rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule) shows, employees don't treat themselves as being only obligated to do what their contracts specify, and it would be disastrous if they did. Similarly, managers view themselves as owing something to their employees that's not specified in the contract.

Hostile takeovers often work by going into a company and breaking all the relationships of trust that previously existed. By doing that, you can often cut costs in ways that the previous management couldn't do. (Here's the paper, though I confess I've only read the summaries of it: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c2052.pdf)
I've been using them on and off, and the first thing I'd like to mention is that they're in no way magical -- both when it comes to using them (which is mostly knowing a few shortcuts and internalizing the layout system), but also in regard to how much they help you.

Sure, they certainly do look snazzy, especially when coupled with the movie hacker-approved unified dark color scheme. New windows pop up and quickly assume their rightful space and everything just looks so darn tidy.

But for certain usage patterns, that doesn't get you a lot. Even if you're popping up disposable shell windows left and right, you might also do that within screen/tmux, where the window manager doesn't come into play at all (or have some drop-down quake-like console). Also, your running applications and especially their different configurations might not change that often, in which case you're really saving yourself some manual layout fiddling once. So a lot of people would perform pretty much the same with just alt-tab window cycling and virtual desktops (which seem orthogonal to the whole deal).

I mean, if you look at the vast majority of screenshots, you don't even see that much work. The obligatory IRC client, fake-GUI music players and/or file managers and probably an editor with the configuration file or some minor coursework open. It's not exactly Scotty and his Mac Plus.

Having said that, I'd add my vote to i3wm, as it isn't as ideologically pure as some others (you still have window titles if you want them, and the layout remains somewhat manual). Plus a rather readable configuration format, even if the default configuration is seemingly intended to drive vi-users mad.

My alternative would be bspwm, the binary space partitioning wm. A lot more minimal, but the automatic layout algorithm is rather tractable and one certainly wouldn't be confused with too many options.
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"Believe it or not, Jobs had empathy for what the user truly needed, which gave him a killer sense of taste. I feel that's lacking here."

Yes. It's often said that Steve Jobs was an asshole, but that he was an asshole for the right reasons. He was the guy in the room who cared more than anyone else. He wanted everyone else to give as much of a shit as he did, even when it came to seemingly tiny details.

I don't mean to paint a rosy, revisionist, hagiographic coat over his entire legacy, because plenty of his actions burned people in horrible ways. But when he was being micromanager-in-chief, he was usually doing it for a reason.
That makes this a little trickier. Both of those states do not have right-to-work laws. I still doubt they will chase you down over anything you do so long as you don't start a competing business.

I've been in a similar position a few times and generally as long as you don't screw anyone over those documents mean very little, especially at an internship level.
> so it's definitely capable of re-use without being stripped and cleaned. How many times I don't know

I'm confident SpaceX themselves would have tested multiple engines to failure with many, many re-light, shutdown, re-light cycles so they have a good understanding of what's going to happen when they try to re-use one of these things.

There is no way they'd be going to all this trouble to design a rocket that can come back, all the trouble of giving it someplace to land if they were not already confident the engine can be used at least a few times.
I don't see why not. There is a javac task included with the built-in tasks that ship with boot itself, but boot is designed for ease of extension so you can write tasks to implement your particular workflow. You can even write tasks that use Ant or Maven in a pod (pods are a sort of first-class implementation of isolated classloaders in which work can be done). We even have a jRuby task now that can be used as a component of a Ruby build pipeline, so yes, I think boot would be a great way to build Java projects!
In general that's my theory also (that after the initial fill, and maybe after an initial "data churn" we might power them down). However, a full pod often has at least one file from several hundred thousand individual customers. If any one of those customers prepares a restore, those drives have to be spinning. Also, we now have an iOS and Android app that you have access to all your files on your laptop from the convenience of your Smartphone - which again means the drives have to be spinning.

> Are you worried about the stresses induced by spin up/down and thermal variations?

Absolutely. Our datacenter techs are convinced that if they swap a drive QUICKLY the pod has a higher chance of coming back up without any problems, if they let the pod get entirely cool it statistically seems to have more problems when it comes back up - a full cool down and heat up seems to cause issues.
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Not yet, the hoplon task hasn't been ported yet. But very soon, I promise :)
one of spacex's goals is to make us a multiplanetary species,

with the knowledge and technology we have now that means propulsive is the only way to do it

musk says of the moon, "there's are no runways and no atmosphere"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOpmaLY9XdI#t=11m30s

why colonise other planets?
musk says, "planetary redundancy, backing up the biosphere..there are some risks that are just extremely difficult to mitigate and some risks which we ultimately not be able to mitigate"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOpmaLY9XdI#t=30m22s
Unfortunately I do not think this is the full truth. I believe there should not be an embargo BUT the embargo is not the main cause of poverty in Cuba.

Cuba has a huge tourism industry. A lot of the business that serve tourists are state owned. Where does this money go? Everything from hotels to restaurants are state owned. Who is profiting here?

I think at this point its less personal and more choice. Cuba chooses to run its govern and keep their people in poverty, the US chooses to keep them on an embargo list. Comparing this to Mexico is a poor example. There is ample current trade with Mexico that if cut off, would hurt the country. The US has not traded with Cuba for a LONG time but has traded with most other world super powers. Nobody here to blame but the Cuban government.
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So much for don't be evil.
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I added the Nexus 6 with 64 GB 5 minutes before your message. Either you tried before, or it's a cache issue. Try reloading real hard!
In the past two days I've dealt with just such a beast, and the answer is simple: start with just one, whole system test. If you've got an output file which is "known good", it can be as simple as running the program and doing a diff between the "known good" and the output, then start making changes. Automate this test, then start refactoring mercilessly, adding tests as you go.
Thelonious is an ethereum derivative designed to be programmable so dapp makers can add in the consensus constraints they want. Maybe they don't want just anyone to mine but instead just trusted operators. Its a smart contract controlled chain so you can do this. We call these "locked down" chains they embrace the idea that some dapp makers might need to have more assurances about control over the database. Thelonious can provide alternative means of consensus for those people.

In addition we have the decerver which in its current iteration is compatible with ethereum thelonious ipfs (a bittorrent+git-like filesystem) and bitcoin. Allowing one platform to use all of these P2P technologies. We don't believe in one chain to rule them all syndrome we feel like all of these technologies can have something to contribute. Once we have incorporated dynamic module loading into the platform all you need is to write the wrapper for your favoured technology and you can start implementing some truely amazing dapps.

I hope this answers your question!
The "scraper site" is perfectly reasonable though. Wikipedia's content is published under Creative Commons. Heck, you can download all of Wikipedia yourself[0]. Google properly attributes the content they have to Wikipedia and displays it. I don't see anything wrong here.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Funny, I got the opposite impression. I would tell her "Throw away everything and focus 100% on mid- to low-brow content." More celebrity blogs, fantasy sports, etc. Yahoo has a lot of unsophisticated eyeballs, but they're not a tech leader.
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Because that would make you... a believer of an out-of-touch white middle class moral framework that has failed to predict anything.
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Don't deal with Keurig, because they are taking a page out of the printer industry, making their machine only compatible with their cartridge / coffee pod so, that they can control the price, keep it high...
I would not use a Keurig machine as you cannot properly clean the water container, machines end up with mold and other nasties growing inside the machine, so they are potential health hazards, plus the K-cups made of plastic also add chemical residue to your coffee...another reason to leave it alone!

You can also use frenchpress, aeropress or Espresso Machine. You will make far better coffee at ¼ of price.

I use Rancilio Hd Silvia & Vario grinder, it is very durable and allows me make high quality coffee. The following article will introduce you to espresso machines, there is listed best espresso machines within various price range&class - http://wikiespresso.com/the-best-espresso-machines-for-the-h.... If you want to dig deeper, you can visit coffeegeek and home-barista forums, where community members will help you with great enthusiasm.
The Helms–Burton Act dictates that any firm that does trade with Cuba can't trade with the US. So no trade for Cuba, then.
> You can control nearly everything from the keyboard

Personally I'm still waiting for a tiling WM with mouse support - having used a few keyboard based WMs, and having used Eclipse, I find Eclipse to be by far the nicest. The only problem being that it's an application panel manager, not an X windows manager :(

The features I want from a WM: http://shimmie.shishnet.org/v2/_images/ae13a6ed6a5d725f34d10...
on that note though, from my experiments, acetone vapor bath does seem to strengthen abs prints some, cause it melts the surface together. Not terribly big effect, but it actually helps a lot for low infill parts and stuff.
I don't like Uber or its founder, but I find it fascinating.

I'm starting to think that technological growth's self-limiting dynamic might be the generation of cheap labor. Ultimately, technical progress isn't needed if labor is cheap. You're not going to find much audience for modern agriculture in countries where farm laborers can be paid $5 per day. Sure, there are things that the very rich might theoretically want (just as Henry VIII would have had a better life with antibiotics) but since they tend to measure prosperity and status in relative terms, they don't have the imagination to push anything forward. Instead, elites retrench and block progress. It's only when labor is expensive (or in a war, which will make labor expensive if it carries on for long enough, due to depopulation) that anyone in power is willing to fund technology. Of course, those with the resources would rather find cheap labor overseas if that's an option; excluding a small set of celebrity visionaries who are less than 1% of the elite, they only invest in technical growth as a last resort.

Uber isn't at fault for the abundance of cheap labor that has made "the Uber Economy" possible, but poorly managed technological progress is. If technological progress slows in the 21st century (I don't expect it to halt or regress, but it could slow to an uninspiring crawl and give us a disappointing "lost century") it will be due to the demotivation of investment encouraged by an abundance of cheap labor. For all the complaint about "talent shortage" by Silicon Valley executives, the fact is that no such thing exists; there are plenty of unemployed or underemployed PhDs out there. If there were a real talent shortage, the classism and sexism and ageism that characterize the contemporary VC-funded culture wouldn't be affordable, and you'd see all sorts of people (currently below a ceiling) getting coveted opportunities.

In an ideal world, we'd stop this from happening by training people up, out of the jobs no longer needed, in order to be ready for the new jobs created by technology. In practice, this doesn't seem to be what's happening. Laid-off factory workers in Detroit (and Ferguson, MO) aren't being sent to school and trained for the new jobs; they've just been abandoned.

Uber seems to capture the next phase of the Silicon Valley society. There's no basic research or fundamental innovation, but we're seeing new ideas around what to do with the abundance of dislocated and unemployed or underemployed people. Zynga's another one: capitalizing on middle-class ennui. Ultimately, this might explain, in part, the increasing dislike of Silicon Valley that we've seen in the past five years. Silicon Valley isn't singularly or even mainly responsible for deindustrialization and cultural decay, but the modern incarnation seems to be most strongly oriented toward profiting from it.
I can't name a single OAuth2-enabled website that does this. Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Google, LinkedIn, ...

They all let you approve if you are already logged in.
Earth's magnetic field is not powered by the moon. As far as we currently know, the dynamo effect is caused by the action of molten material against a rotating solid inner core. It's true that our magnetosphere keeps the atmosphere in, but having a magnetic field is far from uncommon or unexpected for a planet of Earth's size and composition. In fact, Mars - a planet lacking powerful moons - once had a magnetic field just like ours. The problem here is the size of the planet was not sufficient to keep enough heat inside for as long as ours has.

You might be conflating this with the theory that the Moon stabilizes the Earth's rotational axis and prevents it from wobbling too strongly, which would cause unpredictable summers and winters, kind of like the ones described in A Song of Ice and Fire.

Yes, the Earth-Moon system probably has some uncommon features, but let's not make the mistake to postulate that a world has to be precisely like Earth in order to support intelligent life. It's not at all obvious that our ecosystem represents the only possible solution for an environment that can produce intelligence. All we know is it is one solution.

> The conclusion is we better start working on colonization techniques, because chances are that the future of life in our galaxy is in our hands.

I agree!
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Then go for it. Send me a sample chapter as soon as you complete it. My email is in my profile.
Good luck.
Drivers won't move to a new service that has no demand. Customers won't use a service that has 15+ minute wait times when they could be in an Uber in 3.

Google can reasonably claim not to have a forcing monopoly because they and their competitors are directly providing all of the relevant value, so a competitor (Microsoft, Yahoo) could provide exactly the same service even while Google continues to exist. Uber and co. don't directly provide anything, and only work with the existence of a driver/consumer network.

If they paid drivers directly for their time and not just on commission, it would be different, but then it wouldn't be Uber.
I don't know why this keeps being brought up. Do China and India cheer when the economy picks up in the U.S., for reasons other than the increased demand they'll experience? Does GE include Microsoft's performance in its reports to shareholders?

I mean, fewer people starving is always awesome. But it is not the question being asked.
Exactly, and this is maximized by putting launch sites close to the equator. This is one reason why the European Space Agency launches from South America, by the way:

> Kourou lies at latitude 5°3', just over 500 km north of the equator. Its nearness to the equator makes it ideally placed for launches into geostationary transfer orbit as few changes have to be made to a satellite’s trajectory.

> Launchers also profit from the ‘slingshot’ effect, that is the energy created by the speed of the Earth’s rotation around the axis of the Poles. This increases the speed of a launcher by 460 m per second. These important factors save fuel and money, and prolong the active life of satellites.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Launchers/Europe_s_Spacepo...
Unfortunately you do need root as of 4.4, IIRC.
> I mean, if you look at the vast majority of screenshots, you don't even see that much work. The obligatory IRC client, fake-GUI music players and/or file managers and probably an editor with the configuration file or some minor coursework open. It's not exactly Scotty and his Mac Plus.

Well, this applies to all WM screenshots ever, not just tiling window managers. The main problem with WM screenshots is that you want to show how it looks, show off some features, but my actual work is generally spread across many virtual desktops, each with just a few windows (mostly xterm)