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Ah, the good old Libretto[1] form factor.

It actually used to be moderately popular back before smartphones became ubiquitous. It's just amazing what you can build nowadays on a shoe-string budget with off-the-shelf parts...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Libretto
Do you need to add sugar to the smoothie or does sweetness come from the coconut milk or banana?

Why coconut milk over regular milk or almond milk?
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Terrorist's goals are to drive a wedge between societies so they can exploit the fallout for recruiting and support. It's like when car bombs go off in front of holy shrines in Iraq, the terrorists want reprisals to happen so they can operate in the violence and fanaticism that erupts after. Somewhere are people who helped planned the Paris attacks who are dismayed the French public didn't immediately firebomb all visible mosques in revenge to spark chaos.
I've studied Quran too and a bit of comparative religion and nowhere did I find any instance where it preaches violence.

Look on the life of Prophet Muhammad for instance (you'll find plenty of non-Muslim accounts on His life that are non-biased) never you'll find any instance where he punished someone just because he ridiculed him.

Forget about prophet, just when Europe was going through the dark ages and Muslims were building knowledge cities in Spain etc. There were departments specifically reserved for scholars to come and discuss and question each other's religion! It's part of our history books, and a fact.

What we're seeing today is some radical Muslims dominating the majority and just because they have taken up guns people have started associating violence with Islam.

Do you know that the most number of people that have suffered from these extremists are infact Muslims themselves? I'll urge you to dig this further :)

p.s "Islam" when translated to english means Peace. Do I need to say any further?
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I'd guess installing a distro and installing a distro with all dependencies for developing a complex game engine might be different things.

If they say it's a legitimate roadblock for them, then I tend to believe it.
This person seemed ready to sell, and was interested in having discussions to that end, so that advice isn't of much assistance there, unfortunately.
There was quite a scandal in Germany recently, when a court ruled that circumcision was illegal, and both Muslims and Jews threw a fit, saying that Nazism is back.
With so many Windows users and developers how come there is nothing like Debian's apt? With zip-like packages instead of executable files, signed by the maintainers and with a uniform installation ui. The closest thing I know is Chocolatey and it doesn't even comes close.

Even if only open source applications used it, it would be so useful.
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I'm unaware of any dedicated provider that will let me take a $20/mo small instance and scale it within minutes to an insanely beef 8 core instance for a day for about $20 and then back down, with less than 15 mins total downtime. Total cost for a month less than $50.

One of the things I feel AWS has succeeded at is putting control of infrastructure in the technology team's hands. In many places dedi or colo requires contract negotiation with the provider and involves some sort of purchasing dept. There are some places I've worked with where getting a dedi/colo could be weeks or months of different teams paperwork. With AWS the tech team can spin up 100 servers with no outside involvement needed after the initial work of getting an aws account with $x-xxx k/mo limit.

It's hard to beat the operational flexibility AWS provides, but I can see a few scenarios where creating your own mini private cloud out of dedi/colo servers could be more cost effective.
Confucianism is a religion. No blurring out of technical theological details is required. Confucianism has a holy city, temples where people pray to him, miracles attributed to him, unquestionable holy books and an organization to promote itself. It doesn't lack anything that other religions have so it makes sense to call it a religion.
You can still chain, you just have to do type conversion to and from the interface{} type.

It's not pretty (and not in broad adoption), but neither is it impossible.
Congratulations, the product looks very polished and powerful.

I just wanted to point out about the mythical "5000 dollars is a rounding error" companies:

I work for one, but they won't buy your product at U$ 75 because you're not selling it to the people with purchasing power, you're getting sales from internal champions.

I think you should read Jason Cohen's articles on his A Smart Bear blog, your company sounds a lot like his - I'm trying to find a particularly relevant post where he talks about an internal champion for your product, but I can't find it, I did find

http://blog.asmartbear.com/pricing-business-model.html

Also, Joel Spolsky's famous article on pricing:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
You Missed my point. I wasn't comparing the Linux ecosystem to Apple ecosystem.
The Debian repo and Ubuntu software center is a fairly good source for 90% of the popular great apps available within the linux ecosystem. It is as or almost as secure, easily accessible and user-friendly as the Apple App Store, while at the same time giving the user full freedom to do what he wants.
The Apple system takes away the user's freedom to achieve the same(the 'Orwellian tyranny' part)
If you're interested in this type of computation and have some basic knowledge of Python, there is a package called pyephem that you can install that allows you to perform all sorts of calculations on the planets and other astronomical bodies. It uses the same ephemerides data set that is used by professional astronomers so it is quite accurate.
Hmmm, that's interesting. I got downvoted for saying that violent acts on abortion clinics are evil and go against a religious principal? Would the downvoter care to actually engage in a conversation about why they thought I an deemed worthy of a downvote? Is it because I identified myself with a religious belief? Please, please do engage with me.
the guy saw the invention of drones in 1953, and most people didn't hear about him yet! interesting
I think one reason why most people have a hard time reading regex is because they don't use any indentation or linebreaks.

Honestly, if a buddy came to you and asked you to help him debug a javascript method and all 15 statements were on the same line, would you offer to help him, or tell him to fix his shit first so you can read it?

What if it was all on one line and his variable names were all "v1", "v2", etc. Would you help him then? fuck no. And yet, this is standard operating procedure with regex, except you don't even get "v1", "v2" because nothing is labeled at all. v1/v2/... would be an improvement!

This is how most people write a simple date regex:

\d{1,2}/\d{1,2}/(\d{4}|\d{2})

And mind you, this is a very simple scenario. Here is how you would write it if you treated it like actual code:

(?<month>\d{1,2})

/

(?<day>\d{1,2})

/

(?<year>\d{4}|\d{2})

First off, you can know what my intent is when I'm capturing each group. Maybe this code gets used by a european where the month and day switch places. They can figure out how to fix it in like two seconds. Secondly, the forward slashes are not lost in a sea of characters anymore because we use whitespace like a civilized developer, not a regex savage.

I linked it in another comment, but I've got a free regex tool that I wrote www.regexpixie.com. my email is in my profile if anyone has any questions/comments.
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It's difficult to be surprised by this turn of events.

It's in poor taste, in one sense, but overall it's the only appropriate response that a satirist magazine could take in the wake of this tragedy.

Followers of Islam the whole world over will continue to ignore these publications nonviolently, though a few extremists might be further radicalized by this decision.

Meanwhile, David Cameron is trying to outlaw cryptography after these attacks. Surely that deserves more of our attention right now?
Funny how people complain about piping wget into bash, but will happily install and run random node/ruby/whatever packages downloaded from a random github repository.[1]

The truth is that program isolation sucks terribly on all operating systems that one might reasonably use for a development machine. Fixing that would be so great, but a lot of work.

[1] Perhaps you're the lone wolfling who doesn't do that, but I have seen this kind of behaviour from people on the don't-pipe-wget-into-shell bandwagon.
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I agree that there's a benefit to making processes more efficient by replacing human labor with AI where possible, but I interpreted this to refer to systems that have wide economic effects, like robosigning foreclosures or selling company stocks.
I've had the same problem. I tried using Basecamp, Trello cards, and spreadsheets, but none really helped organize my thoughts how I wanted. What I did want was somewhere I could define ideas, define tests / hypotheses, and collect feedback so that I could see all this information in one space.

I ended turning this problem into a side project (leanlab.io) which you could checkout ;). I also know that Javelin are doing something similar with experiments (experiments.javelin.com).
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Agreed with you. If a comment is utterly useless, it can always be flagged. Downvoting shouldn't be implemented the way it is, as it does not explain why the comment is downvoted and as it hides the comment by graying it, hiding unpopular opinions most often.
NTFS3g not was ported to OS X ?
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It probably won't be suitable for map-reduce. Buried in the FAQ is a statement that a "Lambda" function (scare-quoting because darn it, that name has been taken for longer than anybody working on it has been alive and is still in active use... grrrr... I'd like to see their trademark on that denied) can only run for up to a minute, with the initial default set to 3 seconds ("How long can a Lambda function execute?").

It's suitable for flinging a map-reduce job in response to some event, but I wouldn't try to jam a map-reduce job into those constraints. I mean, sure, yeah, theoretically possible, but really the wrong way to do it. If you're doing a task that even takes a second or two in Lambda you're coming perilously close to being less than an order of magnitude from a hard cutoff, which isn't a great plan in the public cloud. You really ought to be targeting getting in and out of Lambda much faster than that, and anything that needs to be longer being a process triggered in another more permanent instance.
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To sum you up, "this is unfortunate but can we still be friends?"

You are not guaranteed that. Nobody has to be friendly to you and reasserting your "feelings" will make people avoid you further.
Offering forgiveness in the face of such brutality is very powerful and meaningful to me. It is moving and inspiring. When something so brutal like this happens, I can get depressed and not understand. It is easy to feel a lot of anger about it.

But then in the face of this brutality, when their co-workers and friends were murdered in cold blood, to offer forgiveness - it really does a lot to restore my faith in humanity.
Reminds me of the Zipit Z2, which was a handheld messenger toy that could be hacked to run linux:
https://mozzwald.com/zipitz2

Not as much power as an RPi though.
Can I point, that one of the central tenants of Islam is that the only source of Quran is Quran itself. Wikipedia is not a accurate source. But you knew that right?
> It just strikes me as profoundly short-sighted (and unwitting self-parody) for people to claim such assuredness of the falseness of others' beliefs when we all know so very little.

It's the other way around; I ridicule others based on their self-assuredness that their belief is correct (without proof). Discussion of things that probably don't exist (e.g. time travel) or that we don't know whether they exist or not (wormholes) can be perfectly rational and reasonable, as long as all parties fully acknowledge that their knowledge is limited, and abstain from referring to strong, but ultimately unprovable, belief. Discussions about god/religion usually are not like that; in particular, most religions are based on an implicit denial of all other religions/prophets/versions of the truth.

> The approach you take is materially no different than that taken by those whom attacked Hebdo.

My approach might be philosophically no different, but it is very materially different (I didn't even attack anybody physical (in the material world), let alone kill anyone).

> And, you both believe your positions to be evidence-based.

No, I just ridicule other's belief when it's not evidence based (which is, essentially, the basis of science).
The old testament is incredible violent, with literal genocides ordered by God. I struggle to see how anybody who have read both could consider it less violent than the Quran.
Exactly. It sounds to me like Google was possibly interested in purchasing the company, put out feelers, got a way-too-high asking price, and then lost interest.

I'm not sure I buy the whole "faked identities" thing, but even if it's true, I fail to see why it's such an outrage. It doesn't seem any more harmful than me telling them, "I need to check with my family" as a way of buying time to consider a relocation. People hide things or offer misdirections to improve their standing in a negotiation. That's just the way things work. It sounds like, at worst, the Google people were pretty straightforward once they'd gotten past the initial information gathering bit.
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Was just testing the water with this to see if anybody had anything to add, argue about or dismiss as bunkum. Interested in getting other people's insight. Thanks.
Apple tricked quite a few Windows users into installing Safari and setting it as the default. Then Apple discontinued Safari for Windows without making an announcement or notifying uses (same as they do with older OS X versions... they just stop updating them). So there are quite a few people out there using Safari on Windows with no clue about the fact that they're using a completely insecure browser.
> Research into AI, using a variety of approaches, had brought about great progress on speech recognition, image analysis, driverless cars, translation and robot motion, it said.

How much of this progress required training data generated by working humans? What would feed future statistical algorithms if this source of training data was greatly reduced?
Trite response: if trigger warnings offend you, you can choose to stop reading when you encounter them. Or just skip them, they take up one line in any given article. Problem solved!

Longer response:

I accept that you, and others like you, don't like trigger warnings. What concrete action would you like me to take in response to this?

If the answer is "stop posting this thing that I don't like", well... sorry, but I'm not going to do that. I think there's a lot of good that comes from trigger warnings, and I don't think the harm they do to you outweighs that.

Meanwhile, other people are saying "I don't like when you post things like this. Please warn me when you're going to post them." That costs a lot less to comply with.
I take it the application is RoomScan (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/roomscan-app-that-draws-floo...).

It's bugging me that I can't understand how it works, at least not in a way that would produce accurate results in most environments (i.e. No GPS).

http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/roomscan-app-iphone-floor-...

Anyone have any ideas?
> And I'm sure people openly mock the temple ceremony somewhere -- that would cause any Mormons to kill two dozen people.

Didn't you mean 'wouldn't' ?
I found it rather tedious and un-climactic. A bit of a disappointment and a waste of time.
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I'm not sure that's terribly different from ext4's lineage, which is generally accepted (AFAIK) as a pretty good file system, even if not cutting-edge.
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I have a clue of what conferences/summits are the best about theoretical machine learning (NIPS, ICML etc) and about "big data"-technology (Hadoop summit etc). I want something more focused on the data scientists-experience/workflow/promes and use of technology.
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I agree with you almost completely - except I do think that forgiveness definitely will and does make the world a better place. It just did - you and I and countless other people have been moved and inspired by this gesture of forgiveness. How can that not make the world better?

If they had instead requested vengeance - it would continue the cycle of misery, hate and destruction.
Yes, I did. I was kind of editing it as I went, and ended up cutting that part out. My apologies.
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We have much the same functionality at http://PortableApps.com/ You get an app store, an automatic app updater, an app manager, and hundreds of freeware and open source apps. All free of malware and bundleware.

As a bonus, all the apps run from a single directory each, making it easy as pie to uninstall and remove all the apps settings at the same time (as opposed to bits left behind in AppData, Local AppData, the Registry, your Profile directory, etc). And they're portable, so you can run them from a cloud drive (DropBox, Google Drive, etc) that's backed up and synced between machines or from a USB drive.
Exactly. Glenn Greenwald posted a great article on Intercept about this topic yesterday. Worth reading.
From Freakonomics:

No one is more susceptible to an expert’s fearmongering than a parent. Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting. A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature’s life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any other species. This leads a lot of parents to spend a lot of their parenting energy simply being scared.

The problem is that they are often scared of the wrong things. It’s not their fault, really. Separating facts from rumors is always hard work, especially for a busy parent. And the white noise generated by the experts — to say nothing of the pressure exerted by fellow parents — is so overwhelming that they can barely think for themselves. The facts they do manage to glean have usually been varnished or exaggerated or otherwise taken out of context to serve an agenda that isn’t their own.
>And bringing in the concept of "groupthink".. Surely showing us the up vote has the exact same affect in that regard?

It's not the same. Firstly, and most obviously, upvotes cannot lead to a comment being grayed out or barely legible and, thus, overlooked.

Secondly, for those who do actually care about Magic Karma Beans for some reason, venturing from the herd runs the risk of earning downvotes, since they are used to express mere disagreement. If there was no risk of that "loss", then those people would be more willing to take a chance on expressing alternative or unpopular views.

So, there's a downside to differing with the group sentiment and downvotes explicitly encourage people to post more when their views are in alignment with the group.
The meaning of satire has lost its edge. People today think satire = political humor, but satire is supposed to be daring, edgy, and in its highest form be:

a) virtually indistinguishable from reality

b) expose the author to real danger and reprisal

c) nearly impossible to reverse on the satirist

Satire has very often been very dangerous to produce, and I think we're being reminded of this right now. It's why satirists take their work so seriously, because it exposes malformed thinking by people who've built their power bases on such thoughts.

In my opinion satire is one of the highest forms of free speech and one of the most powerful tools available for parsing people capable of rational thought and those who aren't.

It's a kind of gom jabbar test and is not for the faint of heart. It's almost a true battle of the pen vs. the sword.
My apologies, I misread your comment as saying that freedom of expression was only just beginning to be under threat. I do agree with your primary point.
I think he might have just Google translated that and thereby ignored the point that I wanted the reader to translate, not the writer.
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the argument is chemical degradation with age, not physical abrasion. You leave plastic out in the sun and reactions occur that can depolymerize the plastic, releasing monomeric components. In the case of polycarbonate, those components include bisphenol.
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Yeah, of course. All the English translations say the same thing, so it's not a translation issue:

33:57: http://www.internetmosque.net/read/english_translation_of_th...

33:58: http://www.internetmosque.net/read/english_translation_of_th...

33:59: http://www.internetmosque.net/read/english_translation_of_th...

33:60: http://www.internetmosque.net/read/english_translation_of_th...

33:61: http://www.internetmosque.net/read/english_translation_of_th...
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> I think, and someone correct me if this is wrong, that implementing exceptions in Go is prohibited by go routines.

No. Go already has all the runtime functionality necessary to support exceptions via panic/recover.
Those are theological details.
So since the protocol contains basically no authentication other than the MAC address of the keyboard which the attacker can easily figure out, why isn't there already a key injection portion of this exploit ala wireless USBdriveby? I can totally see this being extended to wireless keyboard and mouse combos which would give you a great way to know if the user was at the computer and when it would be safe to compromise it without someone noticing.
What are the better alternatives for allocating resources? Any distribution mechanism will need a standard metric for measuring and dividing piles of resources. Money is that metric.

I do agree with you about work though. Assuming a future government structure similar to our current one, a humane economic policy will probably need to provide some form of universal basic income.
I installed imgburn, I was careful to uncheck everything, yet I still ended up with OpenCandy. I -probably- fucked up, but I don't see why someone who is shady enough to bundle OpenCandy wouldn't also be shady enough to ignore what people choose during installation as they will usually only blame themselves.
Yep that's what I was thinking, "Thirty-five blocks of Broadway were destroyed".
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>Reminds me of the Zipit Z2

Yep. That, and Ben NanoNote (http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Ben_NanoNote), which is another Linux device in the same size category as the Z2 and with similar specs. The notable differences between the NanoNote and the Z2 is that the NanoNote has a USB 2 host port and no Wi-Fi.
I find SkyMotion's 2 hour precipitation forecast to be superior for the purpose of determining whether I should go out for an walk right now or not.

http://skymotion.com/