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It's said semi-tongue-in-cheek. The original statement was filled with caveats. [0]

Sometimes it's said less tongue-in-cheek. Then it usually has to do with the facts that large refactorings can be handled by merely breaking things and rewiring until types check. This generally does work since types typically guard "wirings".

But taken out of contexts and as the meaning is extended bit by bit it becomes truly ridiculous and nobody would disagree.

So, don't just propagate the rumor. Nobody is claiming miracles. It just sounds like that at around the 8th iteration of the telephone game.

[0]: As far as I'm aware, this is the origin of the idea: http://r6.ca/blog/20120708T122219Z.html
Does this actually exist outside of, well, the minds of children? I'm genuinely interested, I've never heard of this before.

The images in the article seem to all be from immature young adults. Children will find the most petty, ridiculous things to differentiate themselves with, it's what they do.

e.g. 'gay' as a playground insult.

Also, what happens if a message is sent while data is disabled from an iPhone? Does it go through as an SMS and appear in green to the iRecipient?
I'm as much of an Elon fan as anyone, but scheduling this SpaceX event and the Tesla earnings call coincidentally shows that there's some growth needed in terms of corporate governance.
Samsung to launch smartphone with 3-sided screen
Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams
People get excited when they find out they can have types that are expressive, eliminate many useless bad programs almost for free, and be working in a language more expressive than most.
How was Rapidshare supposed to replicate that feat?
Thanks for your comment. I am definitely aware of the need for more materials, but haven't had time since posting to npm earlier this week.

If you'd like to chat more about the project, or would like me to walk you through the main ideas or any part of it, please feel free to e-mail me. I'm looking for feedback and dog-fooding the system at present, trying to ferret out flaws in the data model before building out the web interface.
They have such a feature, they call it "darking".
If they rename io.js back to node.js under governance of Node Foundation, including members of io.js TC, I don't see the problem.. keep version 1.x as is, and re-release under node's name for 1.0.x and 1.1.x

I don't know that there is too much need to change hands back... I don't want to ever again be more than two years removed from core v8/libuv development in my tools.
Go take a look at any large and expensive European city and it seems to be running on Asian consumption of high end fashion, food, and real estate.
Click the primes
I disagree that it's solved. 90% of community libraries aren't even following the gp's recommendation, let alone minor and incremental release versions. And as you said, there's no standard. With nexus/maven repos, when you push v1.4.2 of your library, that's it, it's only published once and everyone sees the same thing. Bug fixes can go out in 1.4.3, new features in 1.5.x and incompatible features in 2.x. Right now, even if everyone followed GP'S advice, I still risk a bug fix breaking my code, or different behavior depending on when I last ran go get.
Hackable Pi-Like SBC Packs 1.6GHz Quad-Core STB SoC
Over the past week I've had no problems getting an unlock code from ATT for a GoPhone Nokia 635 bought on Black Friday for $40 (and never activated), and for a HTC One M7 bought outright from Best Buy last week for $150. It took a couple of days for each one but the unlock codes arrived in email after I submitted the info using their online form.
> Of 12 day care facilities affiliated with tech companies, six—that’s half—have below-average vaccination rates, according to the state’s data.

Um, "half of the ones we looked at are below average" is exactly what you'd expect with a normal (or any symmetric, really) distribution.

They also assert there is a 92 percent immunization threshold for herd immunity for measles, and note that half are below that level -- which is a legitimate grounds for some concern -- but then go on and compare immunization levels for other diseases to that 92 percent threshold, without any discussion of why.

And deep in the article we find the response from Google that explains why the current-year numbers are unreliable -- they reflect the share of total enrollees that have provided documentation of meeting vaccination requirements, so the fact that documentation from parents is incomplete for the current year results in understatement of the current rates.

A better headline than Wired's "The Sickeningly Low Vaccination Rates at Silicon Valley Day Cares" might be "The Sickeningly Shoddy Journalism on Vaccination Rates at Silicon Valley Day Cares at Wired".
It is too bad that these went down, but yech, sharing binaries or even entire OS images made of open source code... what if you want to change one configuration option or line of code while keeping whatever special modifications were made? What if you want to combine the changes in X fancy ROM with Y? (Never mind that the kernel is GPL.)

I'm not an Android user myself, but I will nevertheless suggest that optimally these things would be distributed as source on GitHub, with a deterministic build system guaranteed to be able to reproduce binaries in the future, and only secondarily as binaries.
Oh, which one?
I've searched high and low after reading your reply, trying for an hour to jog my memory of how I got that to work.

Well, I found it — quite a few entries in /etc/hosts, made at 02:30 AM, together with unflattering comments about the parents of those responsible for Yosemites new DNS subsystem...

So sorry for getting your hopes up! I have no idea how I could have misremembered all that so badly.
OK, but it wasn't found before the current OS cycle presumably because one would imagine they'd fix it ... ha-ha!

So it either wasn't found or they found it and continued to bake it in to the OS nonetheless. Which is better?
yes, I've used visjs to do some cool stuff but haven't known about GoJS until now. Very impressive. In fact, I'm constantly amazed at the growing number and power of JS libraries in just about every programming domain, data visualisation being just one example.
He's a VC so he probably thinks that $10 a GB is cheap.
Word's HTML export still is pretty much the same, even in Word 2013. Yes, you can use Word 2013 to generate HTML that won't render properly in MS's own IE10 by default!
Slightly misleading to say the summed colour value difference between the frames a distance that's analogous to a geometric distance, geometric distance measures on data with high numbers of dimensions becomes useless, as the dimensionality increases the difference between 'near' and 'far' tends towards zero.
The answer really depends on the "something meaningful" performed by the app.
Cassandra Website – Error establishing a database connection
Error establishing a database connection on http://planetcassandra.org/

http://i.imgur.com/mjgKKDk.png
We could assume that Rapidshare got shut down because of evil copyright blah blah...

Or maybe they just couldn't compete with Dropbox et al.
Actually the complete opposite is happening. Apple isn't modularising. They are unifying.

Apple has built a unified SDK for iOS and OSX that has been used in the Photos app. This means that going forward we could see a single development platform across all Apple devices. When you combine this with Continuity and iCloud and it's a pretty big deal.

Seamless movement between devices that of course only works with the Apple ecosystem.
As founder of an early stage SaaS company, this is amazing. Thank you!
I'd like to thank Brianna for writing this and keeping it in the media. Just as with the video of the women walking in New York and being harassed, a lot of us don't get to see this first hand.
There may be an "is -> isn't" or "can -> can't" issue in the line I quoted, but I don't think so -- the rest of the sentiment in that article seems to be a specific case where the poster believes that someone is making an error of offering an opinion without experience (which I agree is an error), which makes sense (though, I'd obviously argue, represents an overgeneralization from a valid example) if its supporting a generalization that opinions without experience are invalid, but, without some "but" or "on the other hand", etc., doesn't make a lot of sense if the thesis it goes with is that some such opinions are valid.

So I don't think I misunderstood it.
revoke() would be useful for things like device nodes (and even regular files) - consider "you can open the sound device while you are logged in locally, but you can't keep using it after you've logged off".
I don't think "people get excited when they encounter convenient sets of features" is a reasonable excuse for misleading claims like "if it compiles it works."

It is a reasonable explanation for why some people make these claims (over excitement), but they still shouldn't be misleading people like that.
I suppose it doesn't matter if you're never going to encounter the poisonous seeds in your life, but in general it is valuable to know what will kill you and what will not.
Anybody aware of general graph drawing algorithms that are optimal in one sense or the other? Like minimal number of edge-crossings, minimual number of edge-bends, or minimal length of edges, or a combination thereof.

Preferably in JS of course :)
I'm not entirely convinced on the US leading in innovation, particularly per head of population. The UK (as just one example) is surely way ahead by that measure and yet has come a long way from the global top spot.
Agreed. They seemed oddly insistent on pushing their implicit premise that heating large volumes of air is wasteful.

http://krisdedecker.typepad.com/.a/6a00e0099229e8883301bb07e...

However, the volume of air is not inextricably linked to energy expenditure, which only happens when heat flows down a gradient, not while it sits in a room. We can model it like a simple resistive circuit; the equations are analogous.

V = I * R
∆T = P * R

P is heat energy expended per time (power)
∆T is the temperature difference between hottest and coldest regions
R is thermal resistance, a measure of how insulating something is

Bringing the thermal gradients into the room (as opposed to holding them across the wall alone) adds a small, fixed bit of thermal resistance "in series" to what's already in the walls and windows.

P = ∆T/R
R = Rwall + Rroom

Rwall is a function of the amount of insulation, while Rroom is fixed by the geometry of the room. If Rwall==Rroom, you can save 50% of your heating bill by huddling over your heated desk. However, if Rwall=10*Rroom, which it may well be if your house is properly insulated, you can't even save 10% of your heating bill with area heating.

alricb is right: don't let the name of the site fool you. Insulation is the cheap low-tech solution that works, while spot-heating is the gimmicky high-tech solution that only works in specific circumstances and even then only after ignoring the time, money, and discomfort invested in reinventing the wheel.
It's not a NIC; it's an FPGA that can be programmed to do things that NICs have never dreamed of.
What "trend" are you referring to? "Cheating among Chinese students is pandemic." is the trend? So it used to be not "pandemic" but has become more and more so recently? That would actually be very interesting to read if not merely backed up by some hand waving stats or anecdotal evidences.
This is your interpretation.

Mine, and pretty much everyone else's on the thread. If everyone interprets what you say a particular way, maybe that's what it appears to mean? And if that's not what you meant, maybe you said it wrong?

There exists no statement which says that this is a novel
product. In fact, there is a direct quote where it says
this is based on a well known scientific principle, and
that this is basically a battery.

This is Michael Moore logic. This is the idea that if you say something which is technically correct, but is obviously misinterpreted by many readers to mean something else, you didn't lie, because there is an alternative technical interpretation which is correct. I don't live by Michael Moore logic.

You have just taken a "this sounds like" and turned it
into "a claim"; you have just invented through
assumptions and insinuations a problem which does not
exist. The idea that these people are being deceptive
is in your head.

Oh, come on. I was using the word claim to refer to the concept I had just described in a previous sentence. Sadly I don't know a word that means, "the idea either intentionally or naively, but either way incorrectly, implied by someone".

You based all this perceived deceit on the technical
definition of the word 'power', or the phrase 'to
power',

No, I based it on the colloquial definition, of "to give energy to", or to "make go". Motor oil and spark plugs don't power a car, in colloquial language. Similarly, salt water does not power this lamp.

and their lack of a complete, one-sentence description
of the operation of the chemical reaction which creates
energy in the device.

When you're selling a battery, and you refuse to call what you're selling a battery, it makes the reader rightfully suspicious. And the (paraphrased) sentence "based on the science of batteries" implies it is different than a battery, because to a casual reader, the only reason to say "based on the science of X" is that it is not the same thing as X, otherwise you would just say, "this is an X".

In the end, they do get across fully the idea of how
the device works and the implications thereof.

No, they really really don't. They just don't. I repeat: how many non-scientific readers do you think would conclude, "wow, this thing creates energy from salt water?". I would say most. An that statement is false.

This is a textbook example of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD).

No, the website is a textbook example of misdirection. Similar examples: http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html or if you prefer XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1481/

And it's an incredibly long troll.

And you, sir, are a nincompoop.
Really nice contribution. Especially for companies who are starting from nothing. Note that if you have big customers, they will probably want to negotiate every last thing. Smaller companies may or may not care about the details, as long as the software works as promised and support is good.

This is a contract, without any of the "this is why you should use this awesome sauce", which I generally like to include before going into the nitty gritty, but just for fun, I created a sample proposal in my app (Mimiran Online Proposals) from the doc, incorporating @teachingaway's feedback that 1 column with decent sized text is more readable, especially online (you can always generate the PDF version).

http://www.mimiran.com/sample-proposal/ycombinator-sales-agr...
Using wild speculation about a man's death to try to further your personal political agenda is a bit macabre, don't you think?
1) Initial thought - cool, but then

2) I'd still want to use insurance, particularly as there is variability in the cost.

3) Some things listed require prescriptions to be filled. In those cases, I assume I'm still going to have to get dressed and drive to the pharmacy, at which point, what it is the benefit?

4) Some insurance carriers provide services similar to this. A few years back, I had a physical injury which left my physically limited for several months. My insurance actually covered the cost of a physical therapist coming to my house to make sure I knew how to get around in my limited state, to make minor alterations around the house, and to begin physical therapy. In talking to the insurance company and the therapist, there were a ton of different in-home services that they provided - unfortunately I was way too doped up to remember what the other services were they provided.
The claim "If it compiles, it works" taken literally is so trivially falsifiable that it cannot reasonably be interpreted as a serious claim that types "solve all correctness problems".

EDIT: I propose that next time you read "If it compiles, it works" you reply with "Are you suggesting that types solve all correctness problems?" I guarantee you that you will not get an affirmative response.

EDIT: I do however take the point that fans of strongly typed programming should act to moderate the excitement of some amongst their numbers in order to reduce the incidence of ambigous or misleading claims.
You've zoomed in on one aspect of Apple while Ben Thompson is looking at the company as a whole. Apple has integrated on what they perceive to be the important parts of the value chain (which is why Apple designs chips but doesn't manufacture them).
Good thing it is not targeted at people looking to buy a 4x1G NIC, but at people who want a nicely integrated FPGA dev plattform with 4x1G and fast connection to a PC.
Here I point you to what tome & tel said.

If it's so clearly nuts, why are you picking that interpretation? Do you read everyone's words in the least-charitable/sensible light possible?
This is why I have stopped believing that "The Year of the Linux Desktop" would even be a good thing.

Android has "regular old joe sixpack" users by the millions, but has the Android community actually benefited from that? The existing "desktop linux" community has their act together far more than the Android community, despite (or because of?) not having those legions of unskilled users.
Driverless cars can be tested on UK public roads
We crawl and index freely available RSS/Atom feeds that podcasters publish. Technically (and legally) it's not much different from how Google crawls your blog. We don't currently host any content ourselves. But have plans to introduce a caching and transcoding layer to be able to guarantee a consistent user experience and low latency streaming. Which is hard to do when you don't host the content yourself or have any control over the coding of the files that is streaming.
io.js resembles node prior to 0.11 stalling out for over two years... Responsive community and core contributors. The inclusiveness seems to be much better than it has been under Joyent.

Short of the Node Foundation turning over operations to the io.js TC, I don't see Node remaining the choice platform within the next two years as they diverge farther than they have. I wouldn't mind seeing them re-join, and re-release io.js 1.x as "node" 1.x proper.

It's bad enough that we have to use transpilers (6to5/traceur, etc) for new feature support in the browser... having to use them on the server was a pain... co/koa and similar have been around for over two years waiting for 0.12 to come out of beta... Even then, they were significantly behind v8 and libuv.

If Node Foundation brings io.js back into the fold, great.. if not, I'm with io.js on this one.
On the other hand, the motion of the solar system is essentially why we may be able to measure dark matter at Earth. If dark matter is made up of WIMPs, then our ability to observe its direct (non-gravitational) effects depends heavily on the velocity distribution function of dark matter at Earth.

Because the non-dark matter component of the galaxy formed a disk while the dark matter halo will likely have remained roughly spherical, we expect that Earth is moving through the dark matter halo at O(230 km/s). This has a few important impliciations. First, it increases the expected kinetic energy of WIMPs in our frame, thus resulting in more energetic WIMP-nucleon interactions, making direct detection (which essentially consists of having a bunch of material and waiting for an unexplained interaction within it) significantly more feasible. Secondly, it leads to an annual modulation effect (as reportedly, controversially. observed by DAMA or COGENT) related to the Earth's motion around the sun. Thirdly, it means that recoils from interactions with WIMPs will have a preferred direction away from the direction of the Earth's propagation through the galaxy. Because no potential terrestrial background can have this signature, a number of groups, including the one I work with, are trying to develop detectors sensitive to the direction of low-energy recoils in order to potentially unambiguously detect WIMPs.
> Apple has built a unified SDK for iOS and OSX that has been used in the Photos app.

I think the important point about modularizing was about Apple Pay, HomeKit, etc. Apple's interfaces with 3rd party components are modular. Apple is setting up the modular infrastructure for other people to take advantage, not necessarily being modular about how you develop apps for their platform.
Rampant fraudulent reporting from Chinese officials regarding fishing quotas threw off the global catch totals for years. Until they realized that the Chinese officials were lying (due to raises and payments based on meeting quota) the true scope of global fishery loss wasn't understood.
> but you bet your bottom dollar people here and on reddit and slashdot sing the praises of Cuba, Syria, and Russia. Usuallly the sentiment come from Europeans and others with an anti-US bone to pick

I think its a lot more common that American Exceptionalists mistake arguments of the form that, e.g., Cuba does better on some narrow measure than the US despite its much poorer, economy, so one might want to consider how the US could do better, or that abuses being complained about in Russia have parallels in the US, or that US government (or popular media) complaints about Syria are hypocritical in light of the same sources defense of regimes with the same features, in greater degree, than Syria shows as "singing the praises of" Cuba, Russia, or Syria.
On a similar note, I just recently became aware of Cumulus[1] Debian based switches (but the good bits are closed source) from among others edge-core[2] (via a presentation by PaaS-provider http://zetta.io) -- eg:

http://whiteboxswitch.com/products/edge-core-as4600-54t

[1] http://cumulusnetworks.com/support/faq/

[2] http://www.edge-core.com/
Best Foreign Country to Go Work in? (for a new college grad)
I am graduating this coming summer and I am feeling as though if I am ever going to live in another country and travel the world, now is the perfect time.
(I am non-technical so that cuts out all those jobs)
My job will likely be in sales, marketing or education.

I want to live and work in a foreign country for at least 1 year...Options as of now: Argentina, Asia, Europe, Australia/New Zealand

Does anyone have any experience working abroad?

What countries are hiring the most Americans? Paying the best?
What industry is best there?

Thanks for any input!
You're eliding two very dissimilar things. I'm not saying you can't group people and say quantitative things about them (like GDP). That would be stupid.

I'm saying I have no idea what a statement like "the Chinese value hard work" means. It is not testable or quantifiable, and it's genuinely meaningless. Now maybe you could publish some survey data that shows Chinese people more value hard work. That might add something to the conversation.
littlebits.com as software and more professional.
... I guess I should also mention that not all of them are these kinds of issues, there's also lots of stuff, like in any tracker, that got fixed somewhere, but the issue was never closed. Or where a library that used to exist no longer does. Etc. Triage is drudge work, but really valuable for any big project.