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> with links clearly differentiated in some way (maybe links are at the bottom or in a clearly delineated box)

Back in my day links were blue and they were underlined and we liked it.
The headgear tip is essential.
I live in a temperate climate, but for leaving the house some sort of head cover is a must, particularly if there's even a slight breeze.
An alternative would be to make energy cheaper, instead of altering behaviours to cope with energy poverty.
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Sorry, I should have specifically mentioned how it differs from random indexing/projection. I was immediately reminded of a similar inference example using random indexing/projection.

https://code.google.com/p/semanticvectors/wiki/PredicationBa...
> I think that slightly incorrect usage of "race" might be one of them.

D&D "race" isn't exactly like "race" in the real world, but I don't think its an incorrect use of the term so much as deliberate, context-specific jargon because there is no existing readily recognized term that exactly captures D&D race (which isn't species -- though some D&D races are also distinct species from some or all of the other D&D races -- since there are D&D races which both can produce fertile offspring and do voluntarily produce offspring together) and "race" is the nearest readily recognized term.

> Other games have both "races" and cultures, which makes things a bit clearer.

D&D has both races and cultures (and in some settings in some versions of the rules, the latter also can have game mechanical effects), though only the former is somewhat "generic" across different game worlds, and the latter is gameworld specific.
And, do people do unjust oppressive things in the name of justice and anti-oppression? Sure.

So you're obviously aware why conversations about where the line between activism and asshole-ness is always turns to shit. You'll understand why I'm gonna bail on this conversation.
If a company doesn't even trust their own £800+ product to not develop a defect in under two years I don't think I want it.

If they make a solid product a manufactures warranty shouldn't cost them anything.
Elegant, easy to maintain, fixes a real problem …

Wow. I mean, it’s right there. Right there! Suddenly it’s no longer black and white.
I guess you could say it that way. When some researchers say plaque is a "symptom," they might just mean that there is an underlying mechanism that is broken and causing plaque to build up. No one thinks the plaque is good or normal. The real question is why some people get it in the first place and others don't.

By analogy, broken bones are a symptom of osteoporosis (chronic brittle bones). No one is saying a broken bone doesn't hurt or shouldn't be fixed, but we've had more success historically by ALSO treating the underlying cause to prevent damage from coming back.
I think it all comes down to this:

> Hunting ranches have been widely credited with saving the rhinoceros from extinction in the 1960s, when there were just an estimated 575,000 large wild animals in the country.

Megafauna compete human beings: they eat us, or they eat our food, or they displace our food. We're really, really good at competing.

Fortunately, private property rights give an incentive for people to protect & foster animals they would otherwise have an incentive to kill. No sane person would want to live within range of a lion—unless he derived some benefit from it. That's precisely what these operations do: they have every reason to preserve the species they are each interested in (yes, even the non-mutants, because they provide breeding stock).

Now, I don't particularly get why anyone would want to shoot a more-or-less captive animal: for me and every other huntsman I know, the fun really is in the pursuit, in trying to match the animals' advantages with our own. I could see paying for a white tiger skin rug (it'd be pretty), but I can't imagine tromping out some ranch, riding out in a truck and shooting it myself. What'd be the point? I don't go to a cattle ranch and shoot steers; I don't go to a potato farm and pull potatoes.
What does 21 do?
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Your gateway headlines page is great, but they still all lead to articles on web UX hell ;)
I had a 2012 jetta that had this. It was complete touchscreen with only a couple basic function buttons. I found it extremely annoying to use. To make matters worse, when the flimsy screen got a tiny crack in it, I lost all control of the radio because I could no longer touch to interact with it. I guess that would be a big deal breaker from me if I had means to be in the market for a tesla. I'm not big on having everything in a touchscreen.
The lexus I recently purchased uses a mouse essentially to interact with the screen which I find pleasant to use and also offers a full range of buttons for the radio and climate control. I find this to be a much better experience for myself.
Did you do that math right? Shouldn't it be about one pod per day?
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Of course this is purely anecdotal, but amongst my friends and coworkers I've seen magsafe connectors fail at about the same rate as normal power adapters. Usually at the end where the wire goes into the wall plug brick part.
I've worked with some excellent former-lawyer devs. I think there is significant overlap between the ways a person must think as an attorney, and as a developer.
Just throwing out ideas here.. you could reward user contribution of recalls by sharing a portion of the subscription revenue. You would require the user submitted recall to include a link to an official source. Pretty easy to verify.
Yep, that was the inspiration for this. :) I actually linked to it in the short intro bit at the beginning.
Love this! Tracking deliverables from meetings is challenging. Would love to see an "Old Business" list of deliverables (action items) from the prior meeting in a series (e.g. weekly one-on-ones with direct report)
It's been speculated that they are developing a consumer-oriented hardware bitcoin wallet/node.
Aren't most affordances just arbitrary rules that most people can be expected to already know? I'm not sure that an adult introduced to computers for the first time in their live would figure out convex-looking buttons much faster.
Maybe the designer should think about what speed connection the person who is accessing the site is using before they use a couple hundred kilobytes of web fonts on their page ?
The very first link in the article leads to the previous post [1] that does mention CoreOS.

[1] http://blog.docker.com/2015/02/the-new-minimalist-operating-...
> It feels a little redundant to have to manually list out all the elements when the information is known statically, and updating the list will be necessary if the Peg type changes. In Racket, writing a macro for this would be trivial, but alas, this is Haskell. Perhaps there is a way, I’m just not aware of it.

A reasonably clean way would be to define

data Color = Red | Green | Blue | Yellow | Orange | Purple
deriving (Enum, Bounded, Show)

and then (e.g. in ghci) you can do

>> [minBound .. maxBound] :: [Color]
[Red,Green,Blue,Yellow,Orange,Purple]

I often define the useful function

enumerate :: (Enum a, Bounded a) => [a]
enumerate = [minBound .. maxBound]

for exactly this purpose.
Correct, but you will find that type of insurance is covered by general home and contents insurance. No need for device specific insurance.
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I didn't know either. It looks like they're a company who want to 'take bitcoin mainstream'

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/10/secretive-bitcoin-sta...
It also could give you a false sense of security in case it's something that's not published on this particular service.

Also, in most reasonable countries products that are known to cause deaths are removed from the market instead of continuing to be sold with the "buyer beware" assumption.
Three things:
1. So this is for both US and India - hence the average is $11.
2. We pay you when your referral gets an interview so the chances of making it is much higher(probably 100x).
3. You can refer people for any company - not just your employer.

Does this make sense?
That is a very helpful clarification - I was aware of this tax exemption but didn't realize that Wilson was jumping through the hoops to obtain one. That's something that would be rather germane to the article, especially dramatically opening with a "university dropout" showing off the "M-16" he manufactured. If Wilson has the special occupational taxpayer status then that makes the article even more misrepresentative.
What a nice young man, virtuously punching forwards in his quest to allow everyone to make guns. The biproduct of his quest to "defend the human and civil right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the United States Constitution" is that countries that aren't the USA all get to benefit from his wonderful innovations.

I guess it's inevitable that new and interesting creative technology such as 3D printing would be used in such a way, but always sad to see so much support for it.

I don't even understand why there is demand for this home gun manufacturing in the USA, libertarian cheer leading aside. I'm under the impression it's damn easy to get hold of weapons in the USA. And I'm pretty sure a purchased weapon will have orders of magnitude less chance of blowing your hand off in a misfire that a plastic counterpart.
>but it at least prevents people's credit card numbers from being sent across the web in plain text.

Which is probably how no one individual's card info was stolen, ever.
I wonder how much Google makes on these devices in advertising per user.
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> it really is not clear that even Google can force Dart down others' throats

It's peculiar that Google claims that it is utterly impotent to persuade developers to use Pointer Events, and so it is going to give up even trying, and yet it continues to develop Dart and make vague noises about integrating it into the browser.
Yeah, with the elephant in the room being that the increase of ad clicks come from tricking users into doing something they don't want to.
According to CrunchBase [1]:

> 21 Inc is a Bitcoin mining pool. It is working on specially designed chips that will drive new equipment specifically aimed at doing this more efficiently

Though I guess that description is outdated now. Go figure. Perhaps they are randomly pivoting bitcoin stuff until something sticks?

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/21e6
> Falling solar install prices are a good thing, but they don't close down other generation types. Coal plants still have to burn even if there is a glut of electricity because of favourable solar conditions.

And as such, coal plants should be deprecated for combined cycle natural gas plants that can be throttled more granularly for demand (and can also meet air regulations coal plants cannot without great expense).

> Solar boosters like the article author love to prove how baseline producers have to accept negative rates means that they are somehow wrong in the market, but having baseline producers run at loss or worse, close down permanently is not something that any of us want - especially in the middle of a harsh winter.

Negative rates are a signal, and effect all base load (coal, nuclear, hydro, etc) equally. I don't see how sending proper market signals are a bad thing.
Ah, no, I probably wouldn't do it any simpler in Racket. Racket tends to de-emphasize more complicated function composition, which tends to serve it just fine. I've always adopted a somewhat pro-functional approach in my usage of the language, but even here there wouldn't really be a distinctly better way to do it.

I guess I was just hoping that Haskell, being a more composition-oriented language in many ways, would have some nice built-in to do that for me.
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This is pretty funny coming from Ferlinghetti. I wonder how many times he and his friends were accused of lacking manners and having no respect for "high culture." He spent decades building a bookstore, a publishing company, holding art exhibits, and encouraging anyone who would listen to come to San Francisco. Any list of the folks most responsible for its gentrification would have to include his name.

He did what so many are doing now: come for the adventure, stay to run a business.
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This would indeed be very lucrative, as it is the missing component for adoption, IMO. I wonder why it's taken them 3 years though.
I know this might seem like preaching to the choir on HN. But living in Michigan I see this close up and it's not pretty.

The Big 3 were blindsided by the Japanese in the seventies and laughed at licensing Tesla's stuff because everyone knew the future of auto propulsion was the hydrogen fuel cells that they were developing in their labs.

Most are still in denial that the center for auto technology has shifted from Detroit to the Silicon Valley.
I think so too.
I'm not as smart as you guys,community college.
I usually lurk and look forward to spin deconstruction here.
its one of the reasons I love reading comments here
You are very correct. The huge problem with this is that it focuses on toys. Now let me tell you, a two-year old does not give a crap if something is a toy or a water bottle or a folding ruler from daddys tool set. They will play with anything they find. You as a parent have to be vigilent and responsible. There's no app for that.
Honestly, yes, I would say that abolishing State espionage departments is right along anarchist thinking. It's been well known for centuries that gentlemen in the government business read each others mail as a matter of course.
Yep, I posted this on r/haskell and someone pointed this out, which is cool. The provided type for Peg didn't derive Enum or Bounded, but it's a good trick to know.
You sound surprised. Are web apps better than Android apps?
What I hear people complaining about is that the product isn't complete out of the box: You immediately have to go out and buy a hub, or at least a charger that also acts like a hub, and/or an HDMI adapter. Some of these gadgets are, for now, a little expensive -- $40 for something that used to be built in is, for some people, an insult. (I don't mind myself; I take the long view about things like this.)
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That's how true startups are born. Building a solution to an ever ongoing problem. This company will sustain itself as usually passion comes with success, how much more passionate can you be after your kid has choked on a toy? Kudos to the op
I worked for cody for 6 months. He is brilliant and his real cause is a political one. You can gather this by watching his talks and even observing his videos. He just happens to like guns and understands that the gun is an excellent catalyst for his political ideas because of how much attention it grabs.
This was just announced today. Stay tuned for a confirmed speakers and a tentative schedule once they firm up a bit.
Yes agree, but that's a second layer problem. I am solving the first layer problem for myself.
With XtraFinder it has cut & paste, and much more http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/
There's been Trezor for some time now: https://www.bitcointrezor.com/

Projects like these are great, but they won't drive adoption per se.
$2B every 6 months? That's a huge cost in my book. Not to mention reliability issues, downstream power limitation and low upstream capacity compared to cell towers.
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In competitive video games, if you give the client a large open window of freedom sooner or later you'll notice that window being used as a door by swaths of your userbase.
The advocates of dropping NoSQL and returning to SQL databases are indeed a minority — as the majority never went away from SQL databases, especially for the purposes they fulfil well.

Right tool for the job and all that stuff.
Google, the company, is really selling the new Chromebook (i have one). They're like, "Ok nerds come & watch this video our marketing department made of this product our engineering team built." Great, Google. No one is paying attention!!! There was a new one last year & the year before & it sold then
There's an analogy to computers here. Anyone could build a computer at home in 1975. You can also build one in 2015, and it is a whole lot easier and can be done by a lot more people.
What is up with the scrolling on that site? It's jumps to hyperspeed about 1/2 way down the fold
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Bravo! This is a brilliant idea, and quite well executed. I wish you every success.

Thank you.
Re-evaluating process isn't necessarily a priority. One place I worked at had a paper handling process involving a specific method of stapling and folding a form.

Why? Nobody knew, but it was something that was audited by the QC people. The reason turned out to be a special accommodation for a one-armed man (literally) who was a clerk at some point in the past.
Unfortunately duplicity is very inefficient, it needs to reupload the full set every so often, which takes up a lot of bandwidth. I guess attic is my best bet in the foreseeable future.
Hardware is hard; crypto is hard. Most people seem to think the Trezor's usability leaves a lot to be desired.
I keep thinking about why I am not taking as much risks as I should and PG's poverty factor could be the issue.

I am not poor and have a family with a bit of savings cushion. So does that mean I need to freaking blow my savings before I start giving approval to myself to start taking some big bets..
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The other part being that, in a startup, you'll be rewarded if things go well. In a corporate environment, many times you won't be.
Admittedly that's all happening with javascript passthrough to stripe's API using https.
There are a variety of development boards (Livid Brain, uCApps MIDIbox) designed to allow semi-technical users to build their own MIDI controllers. It's also reasonably straightforward to configure an Arduino Micro or a Teensy to work as a USB HID interface. If you can use a soldering iron and a drill, you can build a custom controller.
Guardian backtracks, says Whisper doesn’t spy on its users after all
I cite Dickey's site often in documentation regarding terminal programming.

I enjoyed learning about curses history and ESR being a dick http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-license.html
We have used RethinkDB in production for a handful of months now. 100M docs, 250 GB data spread out on two servers.

We added it to the mix because it got increasingly difficult to tune SQL queries involved in building API responses, especially for endpoints that needed to pull data from many tables.

Our limited experience of MySQL operations was also a factor. We're on 5.5 and couldn't do some table operations that seemed promising without service disruptions. There were solutions to perform the actions we wanted without downtime but they scared us a bit. We also looked into upgrading to 5.6 or MariaDB but that seemed like it would take a long time and need much testing, while there were no guarantees that we would see performance gains.

We looked for alternative solutions and found RethinkDB. We reused the parts that serialize data for the API and put the resulting documents in RethinkDB. Then we had our API request handlers pull data from there instead of from MySQL and added indexes to support various kinds of filtering, pagination, and so on. We built this for our most problematic endpoint and got the two-server cluster up and running in about a week, tried it out on employees for another week, and then enabled it for everyone (with the option to quickly fall back to pulling data from MySQL).

This turned out to work well and we saw good response times, so we did the same thing for other endpoints.

There's some complexity involved in keeping RethinkDB docs up to date with MySQL (where writes still go) but nothing extreme and we haven't had many sync issues.

RethinkDB has been rock solid and it's a joy to operate.
We had a similar issue with queries that didn't match an index... later pages would time out, etc... we limited our results for that class of queries... The next generation will use cassandra with some custom searching/caching... that will work a bit differently.
This is really cool. Does it use the WebPagetest API?

https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.org/docs/advanced-fea...

Didn't know there was an API until I saw this site.
Thanks! The word 'vacation' is just removed from the list since it's exactly what we're looking for.
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I have same problem, i really really would like to go back web 1.0, just text with minimal design and max pictures. living in this JS heavy world and using http and html for something it was never intended to be used is silly.
Very different, given what a member of the group "anybody" can do with open-source software, compared to what they can do with a gun. Both to themselves and to other people. Both the advantages and the disadvantages.