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It's interesting that you ask about nanovaccines in relation to this article. The lead inventor and CEO on this project also founded another company that works in that exact area [1].

As to the precision of Carbon3D, the best I can figure based on their recent publication is printed layers as small as 1µm. That's pretty darn good resolution for a 3D printer.

1. http://www.liquidia.com/
In related news, leukemia is also under attack by nanobots:

http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/03/ido-bachelet-dna-nanobots-s...
It's not an either-or proposition here.

But let's get real, bitcoin combines the ease-of-use of sendmail.cf with the stable value of the Russian ruble.
I've never really been on FB that much, so this may be fueled by that.. but i would hate adding my CC info to FB. Generally speaking i am very loose with my CC.. i don't worry about it too much, and give it out often. With that said though, FB (to an outsider) has had a history of sketchy FB apps doing sketchy shit with your data/feed/etc. This has seemed to install a distrust of FB and the FB-app ecosystem in me.

Not sure if that's common or not, and i'm sure i'm in the minority, but nevertheless i figure it's a valid thought. To be clear, i'm not saying that they shouldn't be trusted, i'm saying that to a FB-ignorant person, i'm not too trusting of them.

Note: This has nothing to do with anti FB/"FB data" type of people.
How much of the responsibility lies with men to stop interrupting? And how much with women to not allow interruptions?

I don't think interruptions are a simple issue where gender is the sole factor.
Sadly, the Sputnik version of the XPS 13, the one I was more interested in, still has issues/hasn't come out yet. This 3rd-party article/thread seems to be a good place for tracking those developments: https://major.io/2015/02/03/linux-support-dell-xps-13-9343-2...

Issues w/ the XPS 13 include keyboard repeat issues (fixed w/ BIOS A01 update), trackpad issues (kernel patches, switching from I2C to PS2 mode), sound (switching from I2S to HDA, requires ACPI jigger-pokery including another kernel patch since the BIOS breaks sound init when ACPI is sent properly https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/12/149). Also the XPS 13 uses a somewhat flakey Broadcom wireless card as well. And people have reported some S3 sleep issues.

My main goal was to replace my MBA11 w/ something about the same size w/ better battery-life (my Yosemite battery-life is pathetic, about 4hrs even just web browsing). The FHD XPS13 claims 15 hours, but I couldn't wait anymore and ended up going w/ the new Lenovo X250 - slightly less sexy but more or less equivalent and only a tiny bit larger, largely works OOTB w/ Linux, and has 20 hours claimed battery life w/ the 6-cell battery option.
While it is mostly marketing (i.e. still using Chakra and Trident engines), the biggest change from a web developer's perspective is that the new Spartan browser will be evergreen[1].

[1]: https://plus.google.com/+PaulIrish/posts/f15yUhu4tE3
"and they nag until friend Y does sign up"

Despite gmails best efforts to block the dozens of emails offering to send me money, I still get a couple once in awhile, and like most internet users I'm pretty good at deleting them without falling for the scam.

I suspect life will be very rough on early adopters.
I already have a way to send money for free to any of my Facebook friends: Venmo.

I have had Venmo for about 4 years now (it started at my school so we were early) and it is tied with Lyft for the startup I could not live without. Last year I sent ~$8,000 and received about $8,500 on Venmo. So a $500 diff but the amount of time it saved me versus transferring that $16,000 any other way is many, many hours.

I don't think Venmo does too well as a business (processing cash for free for years can't be good business) but they have nailed the user experience.
That's because it's not a for loop. Maybe the problem is that it's inconsistently named.

I like for/yield because it reminds me of do-notation in Haskell, and it's used for a similar purpose.
The Fed employs 2.7M people. I don't really understand the people who imagine it's one great big well-oiled machine with everybody in agreement, on the same page of the same playbook.
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I'm assuming it's to unify the `apply()` operation between collections (maps, sequences, arrays, etc). The collection library derives from a trait hierarchy, and an array is one of these collection types.
Such a verification system does not need to be centralized. It can be a public, signed log that can be verified with other parties.
I know I haven't been keeping up on this hot topic.

But Wow, I didn't know that.

It adds a whole new dimension to this case.
I thought this was going to a humorous article about wrap rage, which is a pretty interesting topic. This article sounded a bit whiny to me - "I can't compete with Apple's packaging! Waah!" I don't think anyone expects a startup's packaging to be at the level of Apple, so I'm not sure the topic is all that valid.
Just because I find many people uninteresting does not make me a broken person lacking in basic skills. I possess the skills discussed in spades. Spare me the insults, if you please.

What I've found is that taking your advice does not lead to the results you anticipate. It's really that simple. Upon experimentation, your hypothesis goes from "most certainly" producing positive results to "almost certainly not". Your expectations and reality are disjoint and you assert that the fault lies with me.

If I may return the favor and dispense unwanted advice, might I suggest some empathy? Take us at our word when we say that we've tried what you advocate and it hasn't produced what you say it will. Consider how this makes us feel and why we would choose to not continue to throw good money after bad (so to speak).

And hey! Maybe don't look to marginalize people because they are different from you. That'd be nice. We might actually consider taking you seriously once more.
The same way users were going to flock to Netscape instead of IE?

Spartan will be pre-installed and "good enough" for a lot of people. IT departments will de facto have to support it because it comes on the Windows image. Joe User read a lot things about Chrome spying on him or blocking his favorite ad blocker and might want to try it out.

>If IE was an issue for users

IE as legacy browser tied to active x junk and old school enterprise sites was the problem. Spartan dumps all of that. Oh some $crappy_site_coded_for_ie6 doesnt work in Spartan? Too bad. IE is there for legacy stuff, Spartan is for modern stuff.

If MS doesn't screw it up, Spartan may be a big deal and could cut into Chrome's marketshare. I wouldn't write it off.
You have no idea how jealous I am of that and your whole SWIFT code system.... ACH is the worst and most things (this included) have to use gross "refund" hacks to send money to a user's debit card because ACH is so slow, unrecoverable, and a large number of people just give you a blank stare if you ask for their Routing + Account numbers.
I feel like Philangist is probably showing his US roots here: the most popular of Fry's works on this side of the pond is Top Gear. As an American, the only reason I ever came across A Bit of Fry and Laurie is because of a British friend, and I hadn't heard of QI or Jeeves and Wooster. And I've some exposure to British culture (I've watched Doctor Who, Allo Allo, Black Adder, Black Books, Orphan Black, Black Mirror (you guys like your black names!), Monty Python, and others that don't immediately spring to mind).

I'm somewhat surprised to find what didn't make it over to the UK from here, though. Someone recently asked me why Americans call her "Willis" and ask what she's talking about, for example.
Indeed. If you make something expressive then some people are going to express themselves in obtuse ways. There is no way out of that tradeoff. Of they don't have to share the code with anyone else then it's fine. But if you have a team and you don't code review for clarity then you are in trouble no matter what language you are using. The other thing is that the expressivity of Scala makes it actually possible to make your code even clearer.
Elon Musk: Cars you can drive will eventually be outlawed
Before clicking, I half expected to see stupid click bait. But it is actually awesome.

Does anyone know how I can learn to make css art?
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Any news if this will be opened up through one of their Developer API's?
It's debit card not credit card, so usually they just pay a small flat fee of a couple of cents. Small enough to not pass on to the customer.
I agree that it's confusingly named, what I meant was that I disagree w/ those colleagues who avoid it like the plague because of the confusing name.

I feel like it's one of those things that seems weird the first time you see it but idioms are idioms.
Those graphs don't show a prediction of an x% increase for a particular decade, however. It seems you're interpreting them as literal average temperature predictions for a decade, when they represent where a linear regression line would pass through when that decade's averages are considered alongside previous decades' temperature data.

In case you don't grok the difference, the difference is that a relatively flat decade followed by a huge temperature jump will have the linear regression line for that decade be higher than the actual temperature, because the of the later jump. This is what is (likely) happening now (and what happened in 77-86, and 87-96). The most popular theory as to this seems to be that the heat is stored in the deep ocean, and then releases in a burst into the surface atmosphere.

Which takes me to my second point, that even with your interpretation (which is generally the interpretation of the graphs used to make the 'no warming in 15 years' argument), the graphs being used are surface temperature, and don't include ocean warming. As I mentioned above, including ocean temperatures shows a rise even in static decade temperature, without even involving linear regression.

If you'd like a source, the intended interpretation of the results are all in the IPCC reports, most of which have (reasonably) short summaries. http://www.ipcc.ch/
Or - here's this "checkbook" thing I have sitting in my bag, I'll write you a $20 check, and you open up your banking app and deposit it immediately, and keep the paper check just for a receipt.
I can't imagine this working for the simple reason that an interaction with a Starbucks barista (or really any person providing service for a major food and drink chain) is entirely passive, mechanical and strictly limited to the transaction being made. I'm sure you could throw in a few seconds of smalltalk out of courtesy, but nothing remotely resembling a profound conversation in race relations.

Now, this definitely could work in small coffee shops, which often serve as informal gathering places for certain groups in a given municipality or social circle. But then you wouldn't need to set up any particular campaign to encourage racial conversations - you already discuss everything to your heart's desire to begin with.

The highly blunt way this is being presented and the inappropriate setting is bound for awkward situations galore.
I've spent plenty of time on keyboards without them (largely macs) and I still hate it. My old Toshiba laptop (z830 -- a 14" laptop, no less) just has them in a straight line along the right edge of the keyboard and that works just fine and doesn't require me to use two hands to do something that should be one finger. Again, it's not like there's some lack of space on this and other 15" laptops.

"It's not that hard to..." arguments are basically admitting defeat before the debate begins. I could probably get used to a 5 key chording keyboard if I tried, but I don't think it would enrich my life.
After a week or so for people to adopt it send out $1 gifts to 100,000 (or however many that will represent a rounding error in dollars) people with accounts meeting some set of activity requirements, who have not yet signed up. They then have to enter their info to claim it, once their info is entered they have no barrier to use it and may send money to others further spreading it.

Also publicize that you will be giving like $1,000 to 100 lucky fb pay users who have performed at least 5 transactions, after 2 months of fb pay.

I mean Facebook just needs to get a decent initial seed of people to add their info, and for it to be so painfully stupidly easy that every relative on Facebook can now send their nephews/nieces and grand children those $5 birthday gifts so that it spreads.
There is a difference between not enjoying a particular topic and extending that feeling onto the person speaking as well.

>I do not find the existence of passion on someone else's part to be a compelling motivation for me to expend energy indulging them.

Why not? Certainly, if you were speaking about something you were passionate about, would you not agree that I would learn at least a little bit of something by trying to grasp the source and fuel of your passion? Could I not relate quite directly if you say "Space is so amazing due to its complexity and movement..." if I replace that with "Football is so amazing due to its complexity and movement..."? Have I not just related to you as a fellow human in a meaningful way? Has making this connection not just better my understand of what drives my own passion and interests?

Surely you cannot be ready to say that you have learned all there is worth knowing about yourself and are now stagnant in desire and interest? Why close the door on an opportunity to learn? I find it incredibly interesting (and admittedly, perplexing) that you see the value of gaining knowledge from a book but see limited value in gaining knowledge from another human.
The landing page looks clean and you do a great job of selling your idea. The problem is this doesn't solve any of your users problems. Might you get a few customers from the allure of free money? Yes. Will you have long term recurring customers loyal to your brand to promote your growth... probably not.

I commend you for dreaming this up but I don't think this one is the home run your looking for. Keep up the good work!
Yeah it sounds really cool but let's see it in action!
This is completely different. Usage of the API will translate directly to more rides on the platform and more $$ for Uber. The company will have every incentive to keep developers happy if apps are increasing ridership.
This looks good, but it can't be a Show HN until there's something that anybody can try out. You're welcome to post it as a Show HN then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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The square brackets are used already for type parameters on types. I do think they are easier to read than angle brackets are, for some reason. There was some discussion on this point in the Rust community as well recently where it was noted several people found square brackets easier to read and wanted to emulate Scala here (and another group wanting emulate D, using () for both!).

Another reason is that an IndexedSeq is really itself a function (extends Function1), so the parens are literally function application, not some specially interpreted syntax for indexing.
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That would be awesome to have here in the US.
I can still sideload apps onto my android device, no? I don't view a monitored app store as a "walled garden", I consider it a convenience. I view limiting what I can install as a "walled garden" and Apple definitely falls into that category.
Where do you get the 101 million from?
Ted's post was a reaction to my overconfident assertion that even with a custom allocator, Rust would prohibit code from compiling that could lead to Heartbleed-like conditions. Furthermore, he was pointing out that random dorks like me talking great about Rust don't seem to actually know what was going on. I was under the impression that Heartbleed was purely out-of-bounds access, and it's not quite just that. (Still, I find it highly unlikely any memory safe language would end up with a real world program reusing the same buffers for SSL keys and user buffers, but it's possible.)

Had I been a bit more careful in my claim then there'd have been no question. Ted was technically accurate (the best kind), but a lot of the resulting discussion was of the form "bad coders can always write security holes, therefore a language isn't the fix, so C's OK". Even when major products, like everything MS ships, have critical CVEs almost exclusively due to memory safety, not arbitrary bad logic. Further tptacek likes to point out that memory safety is just one class of sec bugs, and that there's frillions of other bugs in other classes. My suspicion is that this is more of a bias towards app-level stuff (ie command injection in a billion web apps), not systems. I suppose if you get pwnd it doesn't matter how, but a world free of all those MS memsafety RCEs seems like a qualitatively different one.

But hey, I'm just some arbitrary weakling, and I find it hard to challenge people that are both smarter and drastically more experienced than I.
I'm not sure why the title emphasizes the Y Combinator part as it seems irrelevant to the narrative given. The article otherwise is just another thought piece about Product Hunt.
I did something similar when I drove my daughters to school a few years ago. The story and characters were different (in our case, woodland creatures having adventures), but the overall idea — and, it seems, many of the benefits — were similar.

One of the great outcomes of it was that when my wife or I heard the girls say interesting things about their social dynamics at school (another child getting picked on, kids with "fancy shoes", questions about kids with different-colored skin, a new kid to the school, etc.), I could weave those situations into the narrative. It gave us a safe space to explore the issues, and to help the girls process various lessons in an enjoyable way.

Eventually, we moved on to audiobooks and then the girls reading to themselves. But what started out as frustration at a "long" commute ended up being one of the highlights of the day.
> How can a country function like this? Is everyone proficient in their native language plus a 'common' one

Yes, there may be multiple "common" languages if the country is large/populated enough or for historical reasons (Switzerland has 4 official languages — though official acts only have to be provided in 3 of them, Swiss-German, French and Italian — and they only have 8 million people)

> Regardless of historical and cultural value, if that's the case, it seems... inefficient.

Well telling people to fuck off with their generations-old gobbledygook and imposing a brand new language on them tends to make them kind-of restless, so unless you're willing to assert your declarations in blood (or at least in the specific suppression of non-primary languages)…

The latter has happened quite bit, e.g. post-revolutionary France tried very hard to stamp out both dialects and non-french languages until very recently (the EU shows a distinct lack of appreciation for the finer points of linguicide and linguistic discrimination), the UK did the same throughout the Empire.

> I do realize that there are more countries like this

Almost all of them aside from former british colonies (where native languages were by and large eradicated), at least to an extent (many countries carried out linguistic unification as part of their rise as nation-states, to various levels of success).
In what situations do you need to do this, but don't need to show any other data (dates and times, localized UI, user timezone, culturally appropriate fonts, RTLness) that involves knowing the user's languages and locale?

This can happen if the user is intentionally reading mixed-language text or text not in their computer's UI language, of course. In that case different CJK languages also have different preferred fonts, so having language tagging or just guessing is pretty important.
So to get a cup of coffee you need to nod in stupefied agreement to whatever some jackass barista is spouting of whatever left wing indoctrination is the theme of the week, while making sure that you nods are sincere enough in case some social justice warrior isn't Youtubing you so you don't lose your job? Why not just ask people to put a picture of Lenin on their wall and in their cubicle?
More like quibids meets milliondollarhomepage

The difference is I didn't feel like million dollar home page was trying to swindle me
I'd like to know more about the biomedical companies. There's a lot more of them than I would have imagined. They have to be relatively capital intensive to get going, at least compared to a software startup.
Anyone know how much an ad "article" like this costs?
Apple used to have the best packaging in the world, but lately it's been my opinion that they've lost sight of making the packaging functionally nice and are simply focusing on making it nice looking. Case in point, the incident last year where the guy first in line at the Apple store for his iPhone on release day struggled with opening the box and ended up launching his new phone onto the sidewalk in front of a news crew. Incidentally, I watched a friend do exactly the same thing the very next day. And recently, a friend and I both bought some particular apple accessory and separately commented on how difficult it was to figure out how to get it out of the box.
Note that the first two would also be issues running linux on a macbook. Thunderbolt support on linux is extremely weak.
Does not having a dedicated test/QA team affect productivity? How does this correlate with build quality in general?

Thanks,
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Technically yes (although, by default, no), but it's more efficient than that would imply. By default, I think only small chunks are overwritten, so OpenSSL's meagre 64 KB of Heartbleed payload would have been filled with useless junk, whereas multi-megabyte mallocs() in e.g. a RDBMS would have been unaffected.

There are some other protection mechanism included, too; there's a more in-depth presentation here:

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2009/otto-malloc.pdf
It's got nothing to do with the scare tactics and "actual science," the fact is, GMO crops are showered with pesticides that are finding its way into our food. Those pesticide laden crops are then classified as "generally considered safe," bypassing all further independent scientific testing, allowing us to consume them unabated. Food allergies and intolerance has increased exponentially since this started. This may or may not be related. I'm sorry, but I can't get behind "generally considered safe" until proven so - and it hasn't been, and in fact there's plenty of anecdotal evidence that draws healthy skepticism.

Beyond that, I've got my own internal debate about whether or not GMO crops are safe without the pesticides... I mean, they may be... I've read the science and I've read the skepticism regarding the science. They're both about as conclusive to me as the argument that says that science negates all possibility of divine intervention and I can't honestly say, all things considered, that either negates any possibility of the other.

Until someone can conclusively prove to me that GMO is 100% safe, I will continue to consider that they may be unsafe and will, where possible, avoid them.

Anyway, that has nothing to do with my argument. My argument is that people have a right to know what they are consuming so they can make informed decisions. Starbucks are standing with Monsanto and protesting against GMO labeling. I will stand against anyone that argues against my right to know what I am eating. It's your choice to eat GMO and I respect that, completely. It's my choice to avoid eating GMO. Either way, you have a right to know what you're eating.
Never thought of this...i hope not.