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'That it could have happened only in Germany' is an open question IMO. Or at least, if it isn't, then it's not obvious why (bearing in mind most people are not historians).
SpaceX to attempt second landing on autonomous drone ship at 2:50pm PST[Webcast]
I see bold claims, no contact information and the photo is really a Oculus RV press release photo (e.g. https://gigaom.com/2014/05/30/report-samsung-is-building-a-v...)
do you know if the barge cam is public?
Downvote me to oblivion but the facts are mozilla has long been funded by google and advertising, thus actively contributed (and still contributing) to turn the web into a surveillance tool.
You may have forgotten but I still remember how mozilla alienated developers around the time firefox was still firebird (or was it when it was phoenix?). How they killed the mozilla suite that turned out to perform better than the unbloated replacement for it. Then there's the legal threats towards debian.

These are only a few examples off the top of my head, but one does not have to look very deep to find a trail of not doing the right thing at mozilla along its history. Sorry if pointing this out infuriates the fanboï in you, but mozilla has done its share of wrong along the otherwise good stuff.
What's the use case? In a scenario where you're able to use another language/tool, why would you want a C++ template metaprogramming stage at all?

(The only use cases I'm aware of for C++ template metaprogramming are where you have a hard requirement to do something in standard C++, or for the sake of doing it in C++ template metaprogramming)
You can create demand for anything with enough hype.
I can see why some people might enjoy a collective day of rest, but that's no justifiable reason to make it illegal for people who don't care about that to buy and sell goods. Not everyone has the same 9-5 M-F week schedule. It's not like you can't just close up on Sunday if you want, anyway.
There are some good emulators out there; I use WinAPE ( http://www.winape.net/ ) under Wine, which works nicely on both Linux Mint or FreeBSD.
I have seen more than one such compiler, usually from Haskell-like dialects to C++ metafunctions (e.g., http://gergo.erdi.hu/projects/metafun/).

In this case the metaprogramming seems unnecessary---even assuming that it makes any sense to run a snake game at compile time---since C++14's relaxed `constexpr` functions are a much more readable way to achieve the same thing. Metaprogramming is only required now when types need to be computed; most of everything else is more cleanly done with `constexpr`.
SpaceX DSCOVR livestream, launch scheduled for 6:10PM EST
It's fascinating to understand that originally there was no "official" US currency, only that the Spanish dollar was circulating as a sort of international currency. The US dollar was then defined a unit of weight of either gold or silver and not some floating, independent notion of value. Anyone could bring a quantity of gold or silver into the mint and have it turned into a dollar coin. Of course, that original notion has been inflated away and the dollar has lost some 99% of its value.

One of my favorite sites for seeing the effect of debasement is http://www.coinflation.com/.
The fact that different municipalities, cities, and states have different laws are not, as NYer suggests, evidence that 'modernity' has not come to these places.

Part of the glory and endurance of the United States is its dual republic[1]. It oxygenates conflicts and allows for experimentation. The modern left dislikes it and prefers federal power, but if I had to take a bet on whether the United States will exist in 500 years, it'd be premised in large part on the exquisitely balanced dual sovereignty of state and federal governments.

[1] http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_45.html
Nonsense. Net neutrality doesn't factor in at all. Bad infrastructure problems are not solved by net neutrality. Net neutrality regulation prohibits telcos from actively throttling certain types of content, traffic to certain sites, etc. It does not require that telcos provide fast connections in general, or that they keep their infrastructure in good condition. It does not require that telcos provide X amount of bandwidth for X amount of dollars per month. Google Fiber is as relevant as it has always been.

It's sad that this is even remotely controversial. Why can't pundits look at countries like Sweden, Japan, South Korea, Estonia, Germany, ...the list goes on, and see that regulation and competition can go hand in hand?

All that these net neutrality changes will do is prevent existing ISPs from becoming (read: becoming -- most ISPs don't do anything that violates net neutrality right now!) even shittier. It changes almost nothing when it comes to competition. The U.S. is still hilariously out-of-date compared with the rest of the (more-strictly-regulated) industrialized world, and consumers will continue to demand better whether or not there's regulation in place to prevent bottom-of-the-barrel behavior.
> That's maybe ~100 Evil Empire FTEs doing OSS every day as their 9-5

This action doesn't make them any less Evil. If they didn't neglected the server back end and just concentrated on user desktop they would never be doing open source. The fact was they lost when they didn't bet on the internet and several sector.

Now that they are losing ground on several sectors and that they are doing open source stuff doesn't mean that they're not evil anymore. Their open source stuff is to help them stay relevant in these sectors. This isn't purely out of altruism. If they were to cross over to the good side they wouldn't be making money off of Android by threatening these companies with patents lawsuit.
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And still no really good justification why general society should have to pay the price of the needs of some specialist systems and astronomers. I'm disappointed that civil time decided that UTC instead of TAI made sense. The least we can do is fix UTC and let specialists deal with it.

And yes, while repeating a second at the end of the day is a terrible approach, it's not a worse sin than leap seconds in the first place. I do hope that slowing down the clock is generally picked up and accepted.
well that and they can pretty much suspend build out for years while raking in the bucks. eventually they might have to put more cable down but likely will get subsidies to do so
Reddit discussion thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2uuskl/rspacex_dsco...
> How to Win Friends and influence People - Dale Carnegie

Probably the most helpful book I ever read as a teenager, and I still read it every so often as a reminder. The lessons are simple but effective, not just in business but all relationships. Empathy, listening, and genuine interest will do more to 'win' people than anything else you can do.
Sure functions when I use it.
mtmail, thank you for your time.

First of all, that Oculus Rift press release photo is being sold on internet and we paid attention to its copyright.

They are just bold claims because we are building an early startup and we're not ready to demonstrate our progress; but if you want to have more information, you can subscribe to mail list. You'll also get the contact information :)

Again, thanks for your time and valuable feedback.
This is correct, and is why (afaik) most modern browsers no longer support it.
You listed some benefits of using Groovy over Java (i.e. closure, dynamic typing, and collections syntax making code shorter, and metaclassing) but you haven't shown any benefits of Groovy over other languages for Android, e.g. Scala, which already have those benefits.
Specifically, the US dollar exists only since 1785 and the sign $ was already used before for Peso according to Prof. Cajori who examined the West Indian manuscripts dated 1760 to 1778 http://books.google.at/books?id=4ykDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontc...
Here is a link to the 24 minute documentary about the Harvard Depository...

http://librarybeyondthebook.org/cold_storage/

Very cool how they use the depository floor plan as a way to navigate the film.
roughly 400 GB of malware samples (after decompression, 190 GB testing samples, 185 GB training samples) available for participants to access (after registration)...

Take a look and have fun...
No, the leap second is not the problem at all. UTC has sense since the calendar day is more important for everybody than some ideas of some confused programmers. Who needs "just pure atomic seconds" already has TAI.

All the computer clocks are inaccurate and synchronize sometimes, often more than one second, and nobody worries about that or maintains any tables when his computer adjusted (try yourself, you'd soon see why you shouldn't care about the leap second). Likewise nobody would worry about the leap second were there not too much confusion among the programmers, enough to have the NTP implementation as it was and the people who used djb's or the code from Olsen tz to "account" for the leap second all the time for the calculations that didn't need that.

For some examples of confusion see:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7552104/is-a-day-always-8...

The least voted comment is right: "in POSIX, a day is exactly 86400 seconds by definition" (when we ignore the daylight saving time changes of the wall clocks and computers of the whole hour, of course).

Linus agrees it's a good decision:

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/torvalds_leapsecond/

"the POSIX approach puts the pain where it belongs, and hides it from the vast majority of cases that really don’t care. I think it was the right decision."

"The people and computers who really care about “atomic” time tend to be astronomers. For the rest of us – both people and computers – we’re probably better off taking the POSIX approach to it, and just say “who cares”, with a few unlucky people worrying about bugs happening because of the perversities of timekeeping."
It sounds like what this means is that after removal of a tumor, a good thing to do would be to undergo a course of antibiotics?
Key question #1 : how is payment settlement going to take place? In the US and the vast majority of floating fx currency regimes(fiat money regimes), payment settlement occurs via credit/debits to/from reserve accounts at banks. Banks have accounts at the Federal Reserve which are used to settle payment amongst each other. By settling in reserves and allowing bank deposits to be merely denominated in reserves -US case- money supply is much more flexible.

Key Question #2: How will loans be made ? Will banks be able to make loans out of thin air as in the US and most of world or will loan creation be tied to reserves?

As it stands today, Ecuador's monetary regime looks like a gold standard fixed currency regime. This digitization change appears to be an attempt to eliminate cash transactions but maintain the dependency on dollar reserves which the Ecuadorian government cannot print and must be obtained via exports, which is hard. Golds standards died because of this inflexibility. My guess is this is a first step in returning to a sovereign currency but without saying so explicitly. If loans and settlement are based 100% on dollar reserves today maybe tomorrow they can remove the US Dollar reserve usage.
MySQL (and thus MariaDB I presume) and SQLite seem to be pretty poor in supporting these "new" features.

SQLite seems logical because it needs to be kept lean for embedding purposes, but do people know why MySQL is lagging behind so much?
Aborted on avionics problems. :(
The Oblique Strategies cards get a mention in this cartoon about Bowie and Eno recording Low:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FODvjYoVEi8
Aborted due to range radar issues and stage 1 avi issues.
There are plenty of jobs that are 100% open source. Based on my experience working on open source software is both interesting and challenging. Biggest challenge for me is that people are expecting you to provide 24/7 support.

Here are some jobs I found that are 100% open source:

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/80088/javascript-engin...

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/80212/senior-software-...

http://jobs.netflix.com/jobs.php?id=NFX01939
Some contract-funded R&D projects are required to be open source. Check out the Darpa open catalog, for example.
Often I'll do something like

long_running_thing | tee long_running_thing_stdout

and want to see the first few lines of output before going to do something else. The pipe causes buffering on stdout, though, so I have to sit there until 4k of output has come out on stdout.

As seen on https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25372/turn-off-buff... , either `unbuffer long_running_thing` or `stdbuf -oL long_running_thing` causes it to output linewise instead of 4k at a time.
If you trust the Fed you might as well use Chaumian digital cash; a blockchain just adds overhead and reduces privacy.
I remember this one post on HN some time ago, where someone calculated how much electricity the entire Bitcoin network was using per month...and then someone who runs operations at a large coal mine came around and said that his mine uses that much electricity....daily.
I guess everyone has their own theories. I'm happy to know you've been successful with yours.
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> Of course "AD" is Latin, and the AD2015 order is probably appropriate for Latin.

It'd be just as appropriate if Anno Domini was translated into English.
I've read this post over several times and for the life of me it seems that you believe the existence of a fiat currency is... a bad thing?
Side question: I'd like to stream some audio content to a few 1000 people (24/7) and wondered if anyone knew (back of the envelope) what the cost model for this would look like? Assuming it's just bandwidth unless I go p2p... Just trying to understand the current lay of the land as I remember the youtube guys were paying $$$/mo for bandwidth when they first started. Thanks.
The next possible launch window is three minutes earlier tomorrow. (6:07 PM ET)

EDIT: The big problem was the air forces radar going down, a transmitter went down as well, but if I understand Musk correctly that was not needed.
I work for Treasure Data (https://jobs.lever.co/treasure-data). I do 100% Open Source stuff.
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The 1st Amendment applies to states via the 14th Amendment. I don't get why states and counties are allowed to have religious laws. Of course, it's a long standing double standard that Christian laws are allowed. I'd hope if someone took this to the Supreme Court that these laws would be struck down.

That said, I fully support privately recognized religious days or "personal sabbaths".
In a mass-connected society it seems holding on to physical traditions is nearly impossible. Perhaps the 'day of rest' tradition has actually been fueled by the merit of sharing rhythms. A shared pulse allows for self-organizing behavior, and benefits strategies for decentralized markov-decision processes.

Interest in these kind of decentralized behavioral patterns is rising, which could revolutionize our views on the utility of traditions such as the 'day of rest'.
By 2016- People start realizing that overriding browser scroll functions in an attempt to be stylish or clever results in way to much breakage and causes people to leave the pages as content cannot be read.
i thought $ was a snake on a stick.
Well, the post is only five hours old. I'd say you should give it another 24 hours. If, at that point, there's still not a comment in that thread with a big red [A], then I agree, that's inexcusable, unless there's some kind of a gag order or other complicated legal thing going on. Heavily-upvoted petitions deserve at least a brief official response.

That said, there could be all kinds of reasonable explanations for what happened, including automated anti-abuse defenses that malfunctioned.
Launch aborted. :-(
It's interesting to think of the perspective of wanting to make a product used by billions of people every day slightly worse so some labor could be made redundant.
Via the live stream: There's an instantaneous launch window they have to meet which only happens once per day. This is necessary for the satellite to reach its destination at the L1 point[1]. They could try again this time tomorrow, though weather doesn't look as good, and then Tuesday or Wednesday.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point#mediaviewer/Fi...
"Alternatively, the $ symbol derives from the scroll on the pillar, on the reverse of the "pillar dollar" variety of pieces of eight [Spanish Dollars]."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar#mediaviewer/File...

Which you can clearly see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar#mediaviewer/File...
Iceland already did something similar: http://www.auroracoin.org/
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In other words, the reverse of a flash crash?
Second that request. What can I read to go beyond my SELECT * from t order by c-level knowledge?
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Elon Musk tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/564562686478807043

"Air Force tracking radar went down. Launch postponed to same time tomorrow."
I fail to understand why they haven't scanned all the books yet.
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I worked for a summer in the text-to-speech lab at Motorola and remember banging my head on this problem---especially because something like "$2 million" or even "$2m" has to get rewritten for the speech engine. It's like a middle-endian notation.
Yeah, I have difficulty understanding this too. In what sense is USD not a digital currency? The vast majority of USD exists only in digital form, albeit it is exchangable for physical currency. The vast majority of USD transactions take place purely digitally. To be sure, the implementation is not as nice as some people would expect, as not every bank has a convenient/free/cheap way to send currency to other individuals (though plenty do).

Is "digital currency" just a buzzword? A misnomer referring to cryptocurrencies?
Google+ does that:
http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2013/09/25/raw-photos-in-the-c...
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/

Just read it. Seriously. Literally cover to cover, or nearly so. (Maybe simply scan the C-related sections if you're not into that, but do take note they exist. Similarly for some pl/ sections.) It might take you a few evenings, but you won't regret it. The Postgres docs is one of the best out there...
Well, coal is different. It's mined for energy, not store of value. But I suppose gold and silver would be in the same ballpark.
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Also interesting re: reproducible builds: http://lwn.net/Articles/630074/
The three newest chapters form a new book, starting again at chapter 1. The linked story is from the new book, the pdf is the old book.
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I believe Bitcoin miners have every incentive to be efficient, as they pay for their hardware and energy. Am I missing something?
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HAHAHA. I almost fell for the trolling.
How much work is that? It sounds like something that might be a few hours of work, maybe? I haven't looked that closely at it.

Personally I'm totally okay with expecting a code sample. The best hiring process I've been through had me writing some trivial code in the employer's favourite framework (which required me to learn the basics of that framework), and then present my code to the programmers, who would ask questions and then (by email) vote. It was not code that would be used in production, but it was a great way to look at how people worked.

In the DuckDuckGo case, it looks like it might be something that would be used in production, which would make it a bit less ethical, as it would make it technically work for free.
Yes, I've become fairly certain that fiat currency is indeed a bad thing.
One point not mentioned in the article: Sales Tax.

Clothing is fully tax exempt in New Jersey. Bergen County is in very close proximity to NYC and plenty of people make the drive over to NJ (or take one of the buses from Port Authority Bus Terminal to Garden State Plaza) to save on sales tax, and the malls in Bergen County have pretty much every major brand that has a presence on Madison Avenue, so it's easy to save a pretty penny by going to NJ and purchase clothes. One of the big fears is that allowing Sunday shopping would increase traffic due to these shoppers.
We're getting closer to full support for custom/advanced queries with full queryset support. See the release notes for 1.8 expressions: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/expressions...

The GROUP BY still isn't exposed directly, but neither are joins or subqueries. The rules that make up what should be included in the group by are fairly elaborate. However, writing custom expressions will now allow you to craft some pretty cool SQL, and allow the sub-expression to specify whether it should contribute to GROUP BY or not.

Disclaimer: I did a lot of the work for query expressions in 1.8. The ORM team is expanding, and people are actively working on bringing more powerful features to the ORM.
> And because the US dollar was named after the Spanish peso de ocho "dollar" coin

I am still not sure where the word "dollar" comes from though. If we are using the sign for pesos, who not use the word "pesos" instead of "dollar"?
I used to work with the Library of Congress' digitization efforts, so some perspective..

I know you said books but the larger problem is that sometimes the equipment to play back the media is no longer available.. or damages/changes the media in some way.

For books specifically, to get the entire "work" many scanning efforts are destructive in that you have to cut the binding of the book to get the full page.. because if there are notes in the margin, that is part of the work. For some researchers, the medium (material) of the paper itself is significant and could be useful. It can help establish age, printing process used, provenance and a variety of other aspects.

If you just care about the words printed on the page, it's much easier. But that's only part of the picture. (pun intended)
Oracle influence? Postgres is the leader now in mindshare and features for the opensource offerings. If you like MySQL you could check out mariadb
Google Fiber is a huge improvement over DSL and Cable, but it doesn't have to be. That's just a side effect of it being a new network built with current technology instead of 90s technology. If Google were instead rolling out DOCSIS at significantly lower prices than the incumbents, it would still get the job done.

The incumbent ISPs have a clear track record of moving in a direction that's dangerous to Google: they react badly to new technology (Bittorrent throttling/blocking), they acquire new conflicts of interest (Comcast+NBC, DSL providers introducing TV), they do what they can to cause trouble for Netflix, and they lobby and sue against even the regulations that shouldn't pose any trouble. In the meantime, the regulations Google needs to protect its core business haven't made any tangible progress until this year.
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"Compared to Silicon Valley, Canada’s technology industry has always been low-key and workmanlike. There aren’t any Ubers here, companies that transform entire industries in highly obvious ways. Instead, the start-up landscape is dotted with companies that have dull but necessary functions."

It's not quite Silicon Valley, but Montreal's (and Toronto's) start-up scene is anything but dull.