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The first part regarding Firefox is not true. Calculation is completely asynchronous in the IPython notebooks, i.e. if you run a cell that doesn't output anything your browser is idling.

Even if it has one pretty large output it works quite well. However, if you `print` each intermediate result and have a few hundred of those you get a problem indeed, there is a need for some kind of overflow protection here.
This is the result what one would expect. Scientists (until recently) have only been able to sequence species which can be cultured in the laboratory (you need massive amounts of DNA for sequencing). But in fact, more than 90 percent of all microbial species cannot be cultured in the lab and hence (until recently) could not be sequenced and stayed unknown. However, in the past few years, "Next next generation sequencing" (that's how I like to call it) techniques emerged and we are now able to sequence nearly everything. The umbrella terms "metagenomics" and "single-cell sequencing" are often used for such new methods and have huuuge potential in many, many fields. Basically, the new methods eliminate the culturing step and instead have novel techniques for amplifying DNA from only a single strand.
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If it's based on GPS, you could get a rough idea of where north was for the user, on average, while they were moving. It would be very static and wouldn't lend well to this sort of interface.

If all you have is WiFi- or cell-tower-based location, then you're not going to be able to get enough precision to make the value meaningful.
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Someone once told me: "3D printers are not for making what you can buy at Walmart. They're for making what you can't buy at Walmart."
Really, the Honeybee helicopter is an Air Force drone?? I had one of those 4-5 years ago and was lucky to keep it in the air for 30 seconds. Its the heli in the article with a purple tailboom and training-gear.

I was eating somewhere that had CNN on TV and they were discussing the use of rockets to take out civilian drones. Not which part of that scenario is more dangerous.

I'm not sure this is sensationalism with amazing ignorance or are people really this dumb and crazy(I usually avoid mainstream news).
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Seems to have some bugs arond movies with the same title. For example, I clicked on "inside man":

1. Navigate to
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/inside-man

2. Observe the photos and descriptions for the 2006 denzel washington version

3. Click on the "prime instant video" streaming link

4. Observe that the movie starts playing but it is the much older "Dennis hopper" movie of the same name
Conversely, it is far easier to hit a moving target with a laser than it is to hit a moving target with a projectile. With a projectile, you have to aim where the target is projected to be, whereas with a laser you aim where it is now.

CIWS systems and fighter cannon are gatling guns precisely because the probability of any single round hitting a small, moving target is low.

If all you need to do is overload the optical circuits of a drone, a 1W laser is sufficient. Whether you kill the drone by incinerating it in midair or kill it by causing it to crash due to loss of orientation, the result is the same.
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Yes, but if you can have something in 7 hours instead of 7 weeks, then the 3d printing thing starts to make a lot of sense.

Granted, there are many online services now which will 3d print parts for you with very high quality and about 1 week turn around, so owning your own 3d printer is not always a good financial move for a business, depending on the desired uses.
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The Adam Curtis "Century Of the Self" is where he explains this assertion in substantial depth. IMHO its much better than Bitter Lake. It has much more content and insight about the history of psychology in the hands of politicians and corporations.

The short story is that during Clinton\Blair era of government, political parties changed from devising policies based on principles which they would then try to popularise to discovering what policies would get them elected from the voters themselves.

They did this by using the new sciences of marketing psychology i.e. demographics, polling, focus groups, psychological profiling etc. to identify what appealed to the whims of the tiny minority of swing voters that truly determine the outcome of elections.

This may not sound too bad but this is the "not believing anything" because any question whether foreign or domestic was answered by carefully designed focus group instead of a leader with a vision of what type of society we want to live in. It won elections but bred inconsistent, short-term, short-sighted, minority desire driven policy.
Completely improved. That's what we want our Mad Scientists to sound like, dammit.
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I like the idea - why should everything be a different thing? I think that perhaps all things are actually different aspects one thing. It makes the universe much simpler.
> but the people in these organisations tend to believe they're doing the right thing. They're not scofflaws, but they are isolated and insulated.

I agree. They think they're following UK law. Here's an article from Grauniad which supports that: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/legal-loopholes-gc...

> The briefings, which are entitled UK Operational Legalities, stress that GCHQ "is an organisation with a highly responsible approach to compliance with the law".

> GCHQ also has a well staffed legal team, known as OPP-LEG, to help staff navigate their way through the complexities of the law.

> But there appears to be some nervousness about Tempora. In a paper written for National Security Agency (NSA) analysts entitled A Guide to Using Internet Buffers at GCHQ, the author notes: "[Tempora] represents an exciting opportunity to get direct access to enormous amounts of GCHQ's special source data.

> "As large-scale buffering of metadata and content represent a new concept for GCHQ's exploitation of the internet, GCHQ's legal and policy officers are understandably taking a careful approach to their access and use."
Basically there aren’t much reasons besides security considerations to use net/http multiplexer at all.

The baseline was profiled under STATICALL as the default net/http multiplexer does not support dynamic paths http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#ServeMux. The benchmark is named BenchmarkHttpServeMux_StaticAll you can read the code at https://github.com/julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark/b.... Frankly, net/http it not a very good http router. The results show that julienschmidt/httprouter trie based implementing outperforms net/http by 60x.
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Actually it looks like this was fixed in a rollout on the 4th. I wasn't seeing that update when I looked yesterday, but it's working now. :)
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And we're likely talking about fairly low angles, i.e. less than 45 degrees up from horizontal. Straight up is fairly safe because air resistance slows the bullet on its way down. Less than 45 degrees, it's going to come down hard a long distance away.

Shotguns are another possible approach, but I'm pretty sure the shot size required would be big enough to cause harm to more than people's eyes. And for this sort of thing civilian shotguns would have an effective range of maybe 50 yards max, so it would be a CIWS.

The US Navy is moving from the 20mm Vulcan Gatling gun based Phalanx to a missile based CIWS ... that might be the most discriminating system after a laser, but still very problematic, you would have issues with the operators being very hesitant to set them to firing because there would likely be civilian casualties, and if it just turned out to be a paparazzi or otherwise non-dangerous drone, they'd get crucified.... And neither an effective laser nor an effective kinetic/explosive CIWS would be cheap.
I used CrunchBang for quite a while, and it's sad to see it go, but I completely understand why the maintainer doesn't want to do it anymore, even though I disagree with his statement that CrunchBang no longer has value.
Census has reports about that stuff:

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/agriculture/farm...

827 is instructive:

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0827.p...

More than 1/3 of harvested acres come from farms larger than 2000 acres (of which there are ~80).

Farms larger than 500 acres account for roughly another 1/3 of harvested acres.

Of the remainder, about half of acreage is harvested on farms larger than 260 acres.

There are some huge land holders in that top category (the mean harvested acres is 1.5 million, the mean land ownership is ~4x that).
I honestly thought that was Lama V3 without a canopy. These have been available for years, and yeah, controlling one is a huge feat, the battery life is around 10 minutes and they can lift absolutely nothing. It's a toy essentially. I used to be really interested in R/C helicopters years ago, but it is(or used to be) a very expensive hobby. Usually you spend few hundred dollars on a helicopter only to crash it on the very first day(it's just inevitable) and then you just keep on spending money on parts. It's most definitely not a "drone" like the quadrocopters are, not any more than R/C electric cars are.

Edit: that's a lama V3 if you were wondering:
http://www.dx.com/p/e-sky-lama-v3-r-c-helicopter-1166
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A lot of CIWS systems are missle based: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-in_weapon_system#Missile... And the US and Germany are moving from Gatling gun based ones to a "Rolling Airframe Missile" that as I read it is self-guided once fired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-116_Rolling_Airframe_Missi... Needless to say, using blast fragmentation warheads near crowds is sub-optimal.

This really sounds like a job for Death Rays, err, the laser finally getting a serious workout as a kill mechanism.
Does it also work for the "Live" streams on Youtube? That's the use-case in which I could use the most this kind of synch.
So roughly speaking, the US could spy on the UK but when they shared the data with the UK it was illegal for the UK authorities to "solicit, receive, store and transmit" that data.

However they previously had said that the new process of sharing data was now legal. In order to comply with the law GCHQ and the NSA have ... Made public the fact they are sharing information and how much.

Yeah, please take that one to a higher court and decide not on narrow technicalities but should we be doing this at all?

I am rather proud of Liberty (who I used to work for (IT and campaigns it's fun!) - it took a long time to get here.
Its ok, he got like 200k in 24 hours so he's good now.
Slightly off-topic, but a Bologna detection kit wouldn't be that difficult to construct: even standard CV software could detect standard Bologna in standard shape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_sausage

On the other hand, I imagine Italian bologna is prepared with essential oils, so a working Bologna detection kit would also positively identify essential oils.

On the other hand, Sagan's kit would be quite a useful tool in detecting baloney.

As a non-native speaker, I was particularly thrown off by that, and had to look it up. :)

Do I agree with you! Apply the system to homeopathy, and most of it comes off as baloney. The saddest part is, it is often the people who would benefit from 'actual' medicine the most (the sick and the poor) that also fall into the homeopathy trap. At least in the neck of the woods I am from.
Reminds me of: http://xkcd.com/1217
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I have checked with Amazon and I am set on buying a smart TV, on sale right now at a discount of 46%. In what way your site will help me save even more money than that?
This is sad. I am using CB on my Notebooks and i love it. It's preconfigured setup was the perfect sweet spot between a Debian-minimal install and the somewhat "bloated" big distros out there.
The longer conversation might have shown... the overstatement of "Painstaking process" was either poor wording or sarcasm.
We've known about silicene and germanene for a while, the question of their stability free standing is still open. But because their application primarily lay in electronics the goal is to grow a silicene or germanene in place, on top of some inductor and use it as is. Its hard though, you need just the right surface with just the right AVD settings. Basically you do a few thousand simulations to figure out what might work, then you lock a grad student in a lab and have them try to grow it.

We knew it would likely be possible to grow, but how easily and what final properties it would have (due to interactions with the surface it is grown on) weren't entirely known. Also keep in mind this is one of a dozen different possible technologies for building future devices with.
Different sources are saying the same:

http://www.youaretrulyloved.com/bashar-explains-how-everythi...
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Or hunter-killer drones that can close in and fire some sort of directed fragmentation / shaped charge warhead? That might be a viable alternative, especially once 3d fabrication reaches an acceptable maturity.
I did. And about 3 hours later I get an email (automated) saying I got the credit. Not email from the service rep...
>That 'gps-lockdown' is to make sure the machine doesn't get moved around just for the heck of it taking it out of spec and then having the manufacturer turn up after a bunch of complaining.

Nonsense. If they move it, then that spoils the calibration, sure, but rendering it inoperable is stupid. Also why would the mfr complain about having to recalibrate the machine, they get paid for that if you're the one that ruined it. You also seem to assume that machinists are mere button pushers following instructions. A good experienced machinist knows more about his/her machine's capabilities/precision than anyone ITT. Hell, for the machine we're talking about, the machinist may well be an ME and if not, then probably one won't be far from it.

>Ostensibly another reason is that some guy in Iran could set up a shop in the US as a front, buy a bunch of these machines and then ship them to evade an embargo so that's why they are locked to location.

Also nonsense. Let's not pretend that Iranians (as in Iranian physicists) are too stupid to defeat such a scheme.

>The calibration gear costs a multiple of what the machine itself costs, usually works on the laser-interferometry principle

No way. This is all just hand-waviness and big-words. Laser interferometry systems have gotten much cheaper, more portable; and purpose built instruments are available for all manner of trades.

Here, a maintenance mechanic job posting that requires knowledge of "laser interferometer system" http://jobview.monster.com/Maintenance-Mechanic-offre-emploi...

Now either that is a very special maintenance mechanic, or laser-interferometry is more common than you thought.
I've blogged about an almost exact replica of this in 2012: http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-so...

Funny enough, I'm a direct client of EdgeCast and I believe I witnessed a case of file corruption on their layer last week.
I never used CrunchBang, but heard quite a bit about it, and like an big open source user/supporter, I'm sorry to see CrunchBang go.

But honest question: with the rise of Ubuntu, Debian and a few other "alpha" Linux versions, does it make sense to put in effort and keep an alternative Linux version running? I've always toyed with making my own Ubuntu variant with custom window manager, but never got around to it.
A lot of the technological hurdles associated with using lasers can be overcome by using a chemical bonding agent 'extruded' onto the particles by an inkjet print head. There's at least one open source printer that's trying this at the moment[1], and HP proposed a similar machine for the commercial sector[2].

The biggest issue, in my experience, ends up being that most non-metal printed parts are relatively brittle and prone to the material rubbing off if the outer layers are even lightly abraded. Ytec3D gets around this by soaking the prints with a liquid glue to solidify the bonds, but between that and the cleanup environment (compressed air, brushes, respirators) it's a hard sell for consumers.

EDIT: It's also important to note that FFF/FDM (extrusion-based) printers are getting much closer to 'freedom to print anything you want'. This year, I feel like multi-extrusion systems are going to become much more mainstream, allowing users to print more complex objects with support material that can be dissolved away later (e.g. ABS with HIPS support).

[1] http://ytec3d.com/plan-b/

[2] http://h10124.www1.hp.com/campaigns/ga/3dprinting/4AA5-5472E...
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I've been looking into both stacks and it seems like they are both capable of visualizing and analyzing your collected metrics. Are there specific use-cases for each that differentiate the two?
Do you know which CPUs have or will have these instructions?
What's so "bloated" about Debian with task-lxde-desktop, or task-xfce-desktop?
That was my only point. Sullivan type 40 post a day blogs don't make much sense anymore, but the entire premise of my article is that blogs still matter and can still be a business.

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> Like the car bomb, the drone bomb could become a cheap, ubiquitous and anonymous way to deliver explosives.

Should we ban cars as well then?
http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Decision-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451417...
Doesn't even require explosives. It's more like the laser pointer threat to aircraft; all it needs is for someone to fly a reasonably solid drone into a jet engine on takeoff to achieve a major air disaster. This has come close to happening by accident at least once (drone near Heathrow).
Well, perhaps it's only in our time frame. For instance, let's imagine that the electron goes forward from 0 to 5, then bounces back to 1, then to 5 again, and back to 2 etc.

If we were at 1.5, we would see it moving forward TWICE (0=>5 and 1=>5), but only returning ONCE (1<=5; we haven't gotten to observe 2<=5 yet).

Whether it's plausible I have no clue :) it just shows that in principle you can have local asymmetry while everything still balances out at the end.
For a contrary, and I think, more informed opinion, see http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/09/what-heartbleed-can-teac...
> but mainstream news cycles and breaking news are increasingly preceded by and/or quote tweets.

That is nothing more than an indication main stream news is no longer reporting the news, but rather quoting gossip, which I don't disagree is the case.

News organizations around the world are facing cost pressures, so rather than pay a specialist to investigate and write articles, it's much cheaper to pay a lesser skilled worker to troll Twitter and copy and paste a few tweets.

But those news organizations are on a race to the bottom.

If people aren't prepared to pay for well research, well written, hard hitting journalistic articles, they are certainly not going to pay for a few copied tweets.
He did another one for Screenwipe about Richard Nixon, I prefer it to the above - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxV3_bG1EHA
Just like today's printer cartridges, the 'print material' used by 3D printers is insanely expensive. That's gotta change for any essential daily lives application.
This is the 5th email back and forth... and I wasn't really complaining initially... so the comment "I do apologize that this has been such a painstaking
experience" was really taken with a high dose of sarcastic intent. In noway was it painstaking... it was just bad user experience.

I fully admit that I may have been overly sensitive... in email it is tough to read people. But generally, the discussion to this point did not warrant that comment.
They're quite up-front about edgecast being owned by verizon (see large logo at the top left of the page) and the lead sentence.

This is a pretty good write-up of what happens behind the scenes when debugging a network issue.
Nooooo Crunchbang is perfect
Ok, I am compelled to point out that the $22,000 printer works ~8 times as fast or does 8 times as much work...depending on how you look at it. Droplets versus mugs.

Maths
(0.2mm/0.1mm)^3

There is not much of a premium for performance in supply costs. The premium in hardware costs is ~4.5x. A lot for a consumer. Cheap if you're racing.

What I was reminded of is commodity servers. You run the models through a cluster of three or four cheap rigs (maybe with different slicing software) to increase the odds of getting a good artifact in 8 hours and to allow taking a machine offline for tuning.

Of course eight 0.2mm resolution printers will no more create a 0.1mms artifact than 9 fertile ladies will gestate an infant in one month.
Pair the "junior" developers with the ones that you are more happy with and have them learn productive habits through collaboration and observation?
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I've been using gists. Does that seem like an ok idea? My only complaint is that they don't show up in google searches or when someone looks at my profile in github so I don't really get to share them by default.

I also keep forgetting my password :-(
Maybe you need to pick your battles. Your question reminded me of this video: John Maxwell The 5 Levels of Leadership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPwXeg8ThWI

See also this oldie article: Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html

Sometimes people have good ideas that may be a little overkill for your project. Running a VM could help with creating test environments. Although there may be alternatives to that. So maybe they just want to test more. Maybe they are more QA types.

Try to understand where they are coming from and give them some guidance. :-)

Cheers.
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It started as an easy to use but minimal Linux for the eeePC 701 (4 GB soldered SSD; 512(?)mB RAM).

When I used it it didn't quite fit that - it had the help files for Open Office because they were a dependency for something else (not Open Office) which was a bit weird.

If someone tried the same thing now I guess they'd use Arch.

> I've always toyed with making my own Ubuntu variant with custom window manager, but never got around to it.

Why? Why not just use Arch? Or, if you want the hard work, Linux from Scratch?
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30369701 and http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-30446136 for more info on that near-miss.