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Any reason to assume it would only spread the (debatable) existence of a bubble?
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It is not from today, it is from February
You could remove all the installers, replace them with a README.txt, and update the website and project description.

That said, looking at the top story, I guess they consciously chose not to do that and then things went sour.
Go ahead and break this robot’s legs. It'll figure out how to chase you without
Is there a roadmap for Servo on Windows7+ ? Is this the best start point to dive in: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/1908 ?
I wish they'd replace Java stuff with something like Go , just get rid of Art/Dalvik . Java is very verbose and the xmls and build tools are all really hard work.

I am obviously being naive here. It probably can't be done
Whatever information flows from California to China to enable that is IP.

Congratulations, you've just blurred the issue beyond repair. Now, not only do I have no idea what "IP" is, other than some vague "information" (bits and bytes? phrases on paper? verbal instructions? URLs? methods of production?), I have no idea how to tell if some particular piece of information is "stolen" or "not stolen". I have to go ask someone (who?) to check.

My basic contention is that considering ideas or concepts or math as property, warps society beyond what most of us would like, and therefore, we should do away with the concept of "IP". We'll have to figure out something other than an "IP regime" to create appropriate incentives, but the possible disincentives from just about any "IP regime" are too bad to actually implement those "IP regimes".
> The big problem that remains is getting it onto devices is a timely manner.

This. I own devices from a manufacturer that supposedly uses close to vanilla Android to roll out quick updates. My Moto X 2013 is still rocking 4.4.4, despite the fact that it was just over a year old when Lollipop came out.

My Moto X 2014 (also pure) has Lollipop, but the bugfix releases (5.0.1 and 5.0.2) were never rolled out. The rumor is that 5.1 is now rolling out in Brazil (I am in the EU) and one US carrier. It's been 2.5 months since 5.1 was released.

No surprise that my next phone will either be a Nexus or an iPhone (I used an iPhone 3G and then 4 for years, and always had prompt updates).

The counterargument is always: the user does not care about updates. But I assume that people who drop 500 Euro on a smartphone care more than those who buy low-end.
Well I would argue if they're positioning it as a growth based investment, that's a huge red flag to you, the potential investor. But of course, some people will believe in their story.
Microsoft is trying real hard to make Edge successful. Competition really does wonders for innovation.
OK, thanks for the information.
I stopped reading at "Igniting passion".
Oh right, the other reason I forgot to mention is lack of volunteer time/enthusiasm to deal with a move. If you already bounced between Google Code and SourceForge two years ago, chances are you're probably not completely excited about jumping ship to GitHub right now.

(But yes, right now, if you're on Git, GitHub will give you binary downloads and all licenses.)
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For those of you who, like me, don't know much about the background and context, Bloomberg Business recently did an in-depth piece on Blatter and his ascension: http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-sepp-blatter-fifa/
Not always. My wife is an adjunct at two different colleges. She would love to be full time, not just for pay or benefits, but because it would mean that her opinions and class proposals would actually be taken seriously by the department.

As for why she does it?

>> Sunk cost fallacy

I'm assuming this is based on the phrase "those who can, do; those who can't, teach". That all of her time has been teaching, so she might as well keep teaching. I'm also assuming you've never met someone who is actually passionate about their work. Is willing to work at 70% salary because funding is tight, or will take a pay cut to do something they love versus something they have little emotional investment in.

>> 2) What else are you going to do when all your training is academic?

I'm assuming here that you've never talked to anyone concerning their experience in getting a PhD. While many go on to academia, very little do it specifically to teach, many enjoy the prestige, pure research communities, and subject matter they study.
I would say the primary benefit of docker is that you can build once, run the same everywhere.

E.g. you have a consistent, reproducible application environment which _should_ be vetted through a gauntlet of continuous integration, testing, etc. that once created will run identically on any host running docker.

If you have a "trusted source" to do all the grunt work for you, fine. But docker's promise isn't guaranteeing a trusted source. It's providing a consistent, invariant application target from developer laptop -> production host.
> And yet FIFA insists on a bunch of expensive stadiums each time.

Of course, they can easily demand mad money for entry tickets this way.
Am I the only one that experiences anxiety when imposing sensory deprivation on myself in a crowded environment?

When headphones are effective at masking background noise, people sometimes tap me on the shoulder or knock on my desk. It can be really jarring if you're lost in thought and not aware of your surroundings. Interruptions are normally costly, but being surprised like that makes it so much harder to regain focus afterward.
Crashlytics unveils NDK support
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It would be interesting if US News & World Report changed their ranking algorithm to heavily factor in "Percentage of classes taught by adjuncts". I know everyone complains about the methodology of the rankings, but almost every college except for the few who are consistently in the top seem to go out the way to improve their position. It could possibly reverse this situation quickly.
A surprising limitation on these systems is how short range they are. Ships and Aircraft regularly fire on targets that are over the horizon, but lasers are pure line of sight.
Oh surely he will be fine. You would be a fool if you did as well as they did now, and ended up in really dire straights on a personal level.

Having said that, I agree. It was likely a huge mistake to turn that down. FB has whats app, and there is now so much competition in this space its uncanny. From iMessages, to FB Messenger, to Whats App, and smaller players like Kik, it seems like a congested market.
I prefer sockets over Service Worker, no installation, no warnings. But definitely I will read in depth about this. Thanks.
>Whelp, now we're one step closer to indestructible killer robots! Just kidding. Probably. Maybe? Hopefully.

Let's open with fear-mongering! Why can't robotics/drone articles be more optimistic?

>Whelp, now we're one step closer to search & rescue drones that, if damaged by terrain or falls can continue to function.

Imagine a robot searching a tunnel where a cave-diver fell and injured themselves. The robot lost footing and one of the legs was damaged. Luckily, it can adapt and search the cave. The cave-diver is found and a rescue team is sent in to save them.

Or you know, death to humanity and all that jazz.
There is a tradition of corruption when it comes to world cup hosting. These are the events for which the JD feels it has evidence and for which a claim could be made about the involvement of US financial institutions (hence localizing the corruption on US soil).

It does not mean Qatar/Russia campaigns were corruption free. They do not have the evidence for it, or have not yet found a localization (US) vector that could aid in prosecution. My personal opinion is there was corruption (as normal) for both Russia and Qatar, but especially Qatar. The Jeremy Schapp ESPN documentary gives you a peek into things, including the bribing of local African football association officials.
True, but the horizon goes down as you go up ;)

Besides those are just weapon delivery systems. Those same systems can be used to transport a laser weapon system to the area they want to attack (e.g. missile + laser, aircraft + laser)
> FIFA is a sort of international club, right? If I make an international group for the placement of Tiddlywinks world cups, and I make some internal rules for it, why does the state care how the politics turns out?

The state cares if the people who are officers of your club defraud your club of funds by directing funds from the club to third parties who provide kickbacks, contrary to their contract with your club, as part of the way that states generally are concerned with criminal frauds.

And they'll especially care about that if that fraud also appears likely to have disadvantaged an effort in which the state had interest that was dependent on decisions by your club.

> Is it illegal to bribe someone making some private decision?

It generally is illegal for a person making a decision as an agent of another private person to take a bribe and as a result to act in their own interest and contrary to the best interest of the person whose agent they are nominally acting as -- and note that, for legal purposes, a corporate entity like FIFA (or any of its subordinate clubs) is a distinct "person" from any of its officers.
Gradberry Unveils a Recruiting AI That Analyzes Engineers and Their Code
Correct!

And if you have a continuous integration environment building and validating artifacts on every developer commit with a regular, vetted release cycle that catches any regression bugs...

Well, now you're on the right track.
> I find the comparison compelling, but if you want to criticize it, it's because Microsoft _has_ managed to diversify more than it is given credit for

Actually I would criticize it as anyone using a hugely successful company as a cautionary tale should have more to back themselves up than the gut instinct of two tech bloggers, because clearly it could turn around as quickly as they are claiming Google is going the other way.

If in fact instinctive feelings on which companies are hot right now are so fickle...maybe not write entire articles based entirely on them?
For me personally, that might actually be a counterexample to Betteridge's law. I'd love to have a chance to fuse with other people, if only for a short time.
The short stories of P.G. Wodenhouse, just to see what real mastery of the English language looks like.
TISA: Another Treaty You've Never Heard of Makes Secret Rules for Internet
What does the SourceForge shell access get you? If it's only the ability to edit your website and maybe your code (and not install, compile, etc. things), is it valuable in a world with git-push-to-deploy and with web-based editors?
Composable pipelines in Go, Flow based style, without framework
Compromised software can do anything a compromised RNG can do and more. Especially with something finicky like asymmetric crypto.
At some places they have. I know that George Washington University's adjuncts, at least in the School of Professional Studies, belong to an SEIU local. (If they want--the school is located in Virginia, which is a right-to-work state.) However, unionization drives do face many difficulties.
Swedish study suggests cases of autism have not been rising
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-re...

"Even more strikingly, an analysis by a professor at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, found that, while the total number of full-time faculty members in the C.S.U. system grew from 11,614 to 12,019 between 1975 and 2008, the total number of administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183 — a 221 percent increase."
SanDisk promises hard drive pricing for Z400s SSDs
Pointing out something is not slander, of course. But, what's the difference between slander and allegations? They both entail the same action: saying something bad without proving, no? Only in the end we will know.
I buy that, for some companies. As a developer, I can tell you that my productivity is shot/reduced 90% by a noisy open environment. So I always find a company that needs my skills, and houses me appropriately to capitalize on those skills. If I'm a low-level measurement that the company can do without, so they put me in open plan anyway, I'll leave.
Actually I think it's just this author. He seems to just write tech articles about "sure X seems successful now, but maybe it's about to lose everything!"
In many cases, the University doesn't have legal authority to divert funds wherever they like.
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Not to mention the whole "Greatest country on earth".
Scientists reverse aging in human cell lines and give theory of aging a new life
You can do both--sell your revenue-less startup for billions and then start a real business with a portion of your fortune.
I understand that the standard build/release procedure for compilers which are the primary compiler for the language they are written in is to:

Build the new version of the compiler with the previous version of the compiler

Rebuild the new version of the compiler with the new compiler from the previous step, that was built with the old compiler

Rebuild the new compiler with the new compiler from the previous step, that was also built with the new compiler, and that's your official binary

The initial creation of the language requires somebody to write a compiler for it in assembly or in some other language that already has one, but once you get that first one built, all the rest could be in their own language.
In one case (slander) you say it as if its true. In the other its qualified. They are very different! Be fair.
Paid version, something that would rival web page hosting. Regarding features, I'm mostly thinking about the possibility of basing business on top of Github, for example uptime guarantees and notifications before termination in case of abuse. Maybe even stuff like throttling instead of pulling the plug in case of DDoS.

If these can be added to the free version, cool! :)
Well, all docker containers are hashed and can be version tagged. If you do a pull and run the 'latest' tag, it'll always be the HEAD of the commit hash.

This is assuming you want to trust some 3rd party with the maintenance and security of your production environment.

Docker containers are, usually, just operating systems running a single logical application service. I don't think Docker promises a free Sys Admin. ;)
Agreed. I think static sites have their niche and Github probably isn't interested in more than that.
You could open source it
Doesn't matter. Someone elsewhere in the discussion found out what they're doing - Sourceforge now has a policy of taking over the project pages of projects that've moved off Sourceforge and running the pages themselves as mirrors (apparently with added extras in the installers): http://sourceforge.net/mirror/ If you remove all the installers, they'll just get them off your website instead. If anything, removing everything from the project page would just give them even more of an excuse to take it over.
There are so many presentations of the form "We're using Erlang/Scala/whatever, it's so awesome!", but so few followups when they give up on the idea for production..
I've heard it said that it's suppose to be "those who can, teach; those who can't, do". Doing something is often easier than teaching it to others.
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Related: http://www.sandisk.com/products/ssd/sata/z400s/
That's a good idea, we have many plans for this if we get users, I will write you if we do this. Thanks.
If you've got other tips I missed to increase the value you get out of Pivotal Tracker post and I'll add (& credit you)
Since nobody else has responded I figured I'd try to give you at least a little feedback.

Based on your username I'm not sure if you're asking about using the boards themselves with the frameworks or the frameworks in general?

If you're talking about the boards, I can say from my experience that it's definitely an interesting product and I've wanted to mess around with it but the price point is a bit high for my hobbyist interest in it. If I wanted to play around with things like OpenCL I would do it on my current GPU instead. For something where I need small with GPIO I would use a Raspberry Pi instead.

For the frameworks... They're things I've also wanted to play with but haven't found a good use for yet. Erlang and OpenCL are two that are near the top of my list.

I'm curious, though, what are your thoughts on it?
One of the authors here. I'd like to second this take-home message. The core of our work was to bring to the fore-front that package management using containers is important and we need to have sound operations management/security practices in place.

We think Docker, and containers in general, is a great way to deploy software -- the speed and agility is so much better than traditional approaches. This also means that we should have sound security practices in place from the very beginning, or else we could easily end up with insecure images floating around in several places (dev laptops to public cloud).
> the user does not care about updates.

The Manufacturer does not care about updates. It nets them no cash flows. Delay the updates, force people to buy new phones for new (software) features.
I misread "a scheme" as "Scheme"
I love this write up. Awesome example of how to build the minimal, simple thing first and expand as traction and needs develop.
You're assuming the intelligence will be independent and not owned by the advertisers.

That may happen eventually, and I'd be surprised if commodified IQ enhancement with reasoning skills wasn't available within - say - 10-15 years.

But there has to be a mainframe-like stage before then, because the first versions of the technology will be industrial (Watson++), not domestic.

Google are well placed to be big players at that stage. More speculatively, so are Amazon and Facebook.

MS are maybe half-way to thinking that far ahead. Apple don't seem to be, because they're too fixated on shiny trinkets now and not on long-term strategy. (Siri was a creditable v0.1 attempt but doesn't seem to have improved at all since release. Watch is - to be polite - not a player in this market.)

But even after that stage, how can you be sure that a commodified agent won't be acting in the interests of its creators/sellers/sponsors instead of its owner?
In a Five-Star Setting, FIFA Officials Are Arrested, the Swiss Way
Around 25-30% block Ads and probably also tracking pixel, in the US and Europe . I suspect the numbers are probably twice that high on tech news sites. So this alone could probably explain the low estimates.
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Pretty much, but you get to maintain your self-respect.

Self respect can't feed you, but it's not so bad.
Mises.org is a Libertarian propaganda site. That PDF hardly contains everything you need to know about Economics, unless you only want to learn a bunch of Libertarian talking points.
GitLab CEO here, glad to hear you're considering using it, please let me know if we can help in any way.
A third party solution would have to provide some compelling benefit to get app developers to add support or switch. Otherwise it's not worth the time and effort to switch just to benefit the tiny amount of users who don't have GPS.
Someone, or some group of someones, does have that authority, and they have not chosen to prioritize hiring well-compensated, full-time professors.
Full ACID reliability is not mission critical for them.
We spent the day at the top of Product Hunt, here are the results
You know that Erlang is not entirely written in Erlang, right?
Possibly because one enjoys it and finds one class per semester or year not to burdensome. Or one may be trying to break into the tenured world.

I taught briefly as a resume-builder. My wife did so to help out a friend who was taking over a class but not prepared to teach all of it; she later taught a restructured version by herself. Neither of us depended on it for a serious contribution to income.

But a friend of my wife's did the business of four classes at three colleges for a good while before she manage to catch on at a school prepared to offer her a tenure-track position. There is only so much work out there for an anthropologist.
My OS isn't American, and my English certainly isn't American.
Am I the only one that doesn't like anything that Dolby has been near? Sounds 'wrong'.
You probably can't sue the patent office since it is a part of the federal government and enjoys sovereign immunity.
"The Congress shall have Power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" -- Article I, Section 8, US Constitution (http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_trans...)

This is the exact opposite of promoting progress, and this type of behavior needs to be overturned on constitutional grounds. This is so far beyond what the Constitution authorizes Congress to oversee with respect to patent and copyright law that the specifics of the case are almost meaningless. There is absolutely nothing to suggest that anyone would stop developing APIs or turn them into trade secrets unless they can be copyrighted. 40+ years of sharing and software development prove otherwise.

Time for the Federal Circuit and Justice Department to wake up, or for there to be an investigation into bribery and corruption in East Texas and DC. Preferably both.
Indeed it enforces some function calling convention, which may be an issue if you want to compile a high level language via C, particularly since C does not guarantee tail call optimization.

Also there's no fast way to check arithmetic overflow from portable C, which limits bignum performance.

Due to these limitations better portable assembly languages like C-- have been designed; these days LLVM bitcode is an option as well (which is not actually portable IIRC...).
For those of you who don't like reading, John Oliver did a fantastic segment on FIFA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I
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Comments like this depress me. It's like saying a matchstick is the same as a tree because they are both made of wood. Theres no real way to engage with a comment like that.
Mathematicians have a 4.7% chance of being automated. That's good to know and kinda disappointing. We need more abstract thinkers and mathematicians. I am guessing an ultimate AI machine will be invented by a high level thinker rather than an experimentalist.
AdBlock Plus secures another court victory in Germany
Authorities accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF, of raping a maid in a New York hotel and made him do the perp walk in front of the cameras. What happened in the end? Career ruined but all charges dropped.
Interesting trend to developing cross platform applications we are seeing here: build core libs in C/c++ cross platform and build platform native UI. Spotify, Google Inbox and a few others apparently do this.