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Software looks, to the layman, as very hard to understand. The infrastructure concerns of external dependencies are hard; I spent a full day configuring a build server the other day. We persevere despite these things. I doubt that the open source hardware community will ever be even a tenth the size of the software community, but if it can be large enough it can have amazing knock-on effects. Look at the outsized effect even simple things like the Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone have. They're reference boards slapped together out of commodity parts, but represent a very real gateway to software and hardware hacking to many people.
Hi there, one of the founders from Zesty here. There is definitely some variety in the level of healthiness of our meals, and this is something we want to keep increasing over time, evangelizing healthy eating as we go. However, in order to have a significant impact, you need to operate on a large scale. We've learned from trying that you can't get most companies to adopt a service that is too extreme on the health side. It's too much of a behavior change for most people. Compared to what our clients were eating before, we are a significant step in the right direction, and we intend to keep taking bigger steps here over time. We're excited about the progress we've already made and look forward to how much more we can make with this funding.
Not that you can easily escape it, but if you are ever visiting Barcelona (wonderful city) be sure to drop by the church - but don't forget to visit his many other little pieces throughout the area. Highly unique, and highly refined.
I think they usually have a black and white camera with filters of specific wavelengths, some of which roughly correspond to red, green, blue, and they combine them. The color pictures I've seen from Mars and Cassini usually say "approximate true color."
I find it absolutely amazing that nobody knew this 12 hours ago.
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It would be fine if the price of housing, food, and healthcare weren't so far out of sync with the wages earned. This is going to lead to a permanent underclass where people are worse off than even serfs of the medieval period.
Agree that TransferCorp is amateur land in terms of design and UX.
By adding Flash/Java to the browser you are increasing the attack surface of the browser "package" as a whole.

By adding HTML5 video and now its DRM-related infrastructure, WebGL, and other features that developers used to use Flash/Java for, you are also increasing the attack surface of the browser "package" as a whole. The comparison is a perfectly reasonable one.
I had no issues. It simply worked.
The tooling was amazing. I used to do a ton of Flash development back in the day, and the ability to seamlessly create the UI and backend code is still light years ahead of the cross-browser nightmare of creating HTML5 apps. I think Adobe has tried to achieve the same level of functionality with other tools over the years (Adobe Edge Suite), but it never really made it to the same level as web application development in Flash.
Especially in this climate, there are lots of startups fundraising all the time (indeed a few other startups announced their fundraising today), and I can imagine that from the outside it may often look easy to raise large sums of money. I can say without doubt first hand that this fundraise for Zesty is the result of just immense hardwork and relentless hustle from David and his team.

I have huge respect for 1) the aggressive growth and customer development; 2) the operational roll out (which, given each customer has Zesty workers onsite to set out the food, is a huge operational nightmare); 3) being humble enough to deviate and pivot the initial idea from a mobile app to a much more operations heavy b2b play
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Most phones have really terrible UIs for getting to something like this. In circumstances where I want to start using an app like this, I usually don't have 5-10 seconds to take my concentration off of my surroundings to load the app. I've been in plenty of situations where I wished I could immediately start recording things but didn't have time to navigate my phone's UI.
It's third party features that I will never use.
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Downvoted because ToS concerns have indeed been queried about repeatedly on various public forums.
But isn't that how evidence in support of these these programs should be generated?

If not, how else can these programs be accurately evaluated prior to implementing on a more generic scale?

The idea is to find better solutions than we have now. The counterarguments you are raising sound to me like they could equally be applicable to any proposed solution. If we can't seriously consider something until we know it works in exactly the same conditions, I feel like nothing would ever change.

Let me know if I've read you wrong though.
That's a very narrow and technical view of what constitutes a state, to the point of excluding ancient empires and nations like Greece, Rome, Egypt, Israel, China and others. They wouldn't meet the standards of modern statehood insofar as they lacked rigidly-defined borders or fully-developed civic institutions, but I think it's a mistake to imagine that they lacked any sense of national identity.

I certainly agree that competition can be wasteful, but proxy conflict can be healthy, eg the space race as proxy competition for the Cold War which almost nobody wanted to see played out as an actual military conflict. Private competition will undoubtedly exist the future (and is already coming into being today) but the capital and infrastructural requirements of space exploration are such that only nation states can command the resources for large-scale projects at present. You might be interested in this comparison of how Apple, the world's most valuabel company, stacks up against actual countries, which suggests it could be considered in the same league as Azerbaijan, Belarus, or perhaps Norway, depending on what metric you use - impressive, but still small potatoes in the overall scheme of things: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/28/2103622/if-apple-were-...
are there any popular sites that rely on Hello or Pocket to function?
I should clarify that I worked at reddit and speak from experience and not conjecture. Selling ads on reddit is hard, I'm actually impressed that they made that much from display ads last year.
Feist established that there has to be creativity in something for it to be copyrightable. The level of creativity required is not very high. The Court said:

To be sure, the requisite level of creativity is
extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice.
The vast majority of works make the grade quite easily,
as they possess some creative spark, "no matter how crude,
humble or obvious" it might be.

They also use the phrase "modicum of creativity" to describe the necessary creative level.

Formatting can have sufficient creativity to qualify for copyright. Such copyright will only cover the formatting, not the underlying text. If someone were to take just the text, and format it themselves (by hand or by script), that should be OK.

Taking his exact e-text formatting? I don't know. Without comparing the originals to his version, I have no idea if his formatting was obvious and mechanical, or if it required creativity.
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Wow, wasn't aware of how impressive that is.

Makes me blush a bit that we have 1000 - 1100 customer websites (which don't get many hits) spread across 6 CloudLinux servers and the performance is terrible... (not that I have anything to do with those servers!)
The problem is that the Puritan psyche you've mentioned means the average person (some who probably would be or were prisoners) would never go along with your program. I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I'm just saying that we Americans are not going to change our culture over night or even in the coming decades.
You can't make money from this and be outside their jurisdiction. To move money through the US stock market you have to have a brokerage account that follows the rules (and fines) of the SEC.
Hate to burst your bubble, but the SEC is probably one of the most under funded government organizations there is. They are going against billion dollar companies and individuals, and honestly are sort of a joke.
I disagree that the missing of 464-XLAT is a problem for Apple. 464-XLAT is a big incentive for companies like Skype et al. to keep shipping software that only works on IPv4.

Instead, the need for 464-XLAT on iOS is completely overruled by the new policy that requires apps to be able to correctly operate in IPv6 mode only from iOS9 onwards (or they get rejected). So Skype will now be forced to fix their backend servers to handle IPv6 connections, or they won't be able to ship on iOS9. This way, Apple completely bypassed the need of a transition solution.

In fact, iOS support might even be a good global push for companies to transition to IPv6 support (just like Mobile Safari has been for begin dropping Flash and supporting HTML5 videos). If anything, I think this policy change should overrule whatever negative points you want to give to them for not supporting 464-XLAT.
While on vacation recently, I had to switch from Google Maps to OSMAnd. OSM map data was just as good for my purposes at least (arguably better), but the real motivating factor was just how fucking pathetic Google Maps on Android has become.

Just having it find my location became a chore. I'd be walking down the street looking at my phone the whole block, waiting for it to get my location. Many times it would show my location (with several miles of uncertainty) as being somewhere that I had not been for more than several hours. Other times it would just never find the location at all, not even having any idea what country, let alone city, I was in.

I downloaded OSMAnd and the province map data, and it was able to find my location within mere seconds every time. It was able to do it fast enough that if I clicked the power button as I was pulling my phone out of my pocket, it would have my position before my phone was in front of my face.

Unfortunately OSMAnd does not do transit routing, so I was attempting to use both at the same time. This gave me a direct comparison between how fast both were able to find my position, and how accurately. OSMAnd blows Google Maps away. I often resorted to typing in my "from" location in Google Maps, just so that I could use it to find routes for me while it was stalling on finding my location itself.

My location permissions were all correct. I tried wiping the application settings, with no luck. On the last day of my vacation I uninstalled all the google maps updates on my phone, and tried the version that shipped with it. It worked just fine.

If anybody else ever gets annoyed at Google Maps being unable to find their location in a timely manner, I highly recommend they try OSMAnd. It saved my vacation. As a bonus, it even behaves sensibly when on a boat.
"In a meeting during early December with top shareholders, Chief Executive Larry Page said Google understands the need to balance long-term investments against the risk that a weak stock price will dent employee morale and hurt recruiting and employee retention."

Yeah right. Nothing sends the morale soaring like the "necessary cuts".
The major contribution was given by @fantix, I appreciate him for the hard work.

However, I'm deeply disappointed by the low interest on Python 3 issues in the gevent team. @fantix's Python 3 branch was there for more than a year. I've used it on production machines since last year, and it has worked great. However, the actual merging didn't happen until weeks ago, so I couldn't help but think they were not interested. Thankfully it finally happened, but it took too much time.
What do you mean? Clearly our own personal reality is happening within 1 scrollbar-handle-height, and the whole of space is about 20 scrollbar-handle-heights, so space can't be that big...
I was having lunch with a friend yesterday and as we were getting up to leave he pulls his phone out of his pocket and announced "My Nexus 4 just exploded." As he shows it to us you can see the bloated battery had almost completely separated the back cover from the case. It had apparently been acting up for about a week before the battery expanded. Surprisingly it was still on and working.

Of course this happens with other manufacturer's batteries too. I had this happen with a kindle fire (first generation) and Amazon replaced the unit free of charge. I also had this happen with the battery for my late 2011 17" MacBook Pro. I walked into an Apple store handed it to a clerk and said I needed that one to be disposed of and to purchase a new one since I was out of warranty. He took it to a genius who said something along the lines of "Oh shit, that's a defect just give him a new one" and off I went with a free new battery.
For the record, no one ever asked we take down that post. We did it just to be polite.

By contrast, when we sold TheSpark.com to iTurf.com in 2000, we spent several man-months of company time making the parody AyeTurf.com, which pissed a lot of people off.
It's fascinating to be able to see generational power shifts in such short cycles of time. I still vividly remember the days when M$ could never do anything wrong, and only a few years later, an upstart Google became the next M$, and Facebook the next Google, and so on. Old timers may also remember the IBM to M$ power shift, which played out over multiple decades.
In terms of the computations performed in the brain by the mathematician, at the time the insight is achieved, it's not.

But appropriately accounted for, I think it is.

The relevant metric would be, "what do I have to increase in order to get more [interesting, new] theorems proved?" Is it as easy has having mathematicians work more hours? Having more people start working on them?

Intuitively, it is not so easy -- each insights need exponentially more work as time progresses. An exponentially-small fraction of humans is capable of producing novel results, and so on.

This, I think, is what Aaronson is getting at: if P = NP, if proving is as easy as verifying, then coming up with hard mathematical insights should be as easy as following a cookbook, or any other routine, mundane mental task.

But that doesn't seem to describe the world we live in, where getting mathematical insights has rapidly diminishing returns per unit resource invested.
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stopped reading there. Atleast I should've 'anti-intellectualism'. Being a non-marxist doesn't mark one an anti-intellectualist. Such pomp for ones own ideas..
That's a fine idea. Now that you mention it I'm surprised it hasn't been tried already (unless it has and failed...). I'll look into it.
You've hit the nail right on the head. A 2-stage process (1-record 2-notify) is definitely the number one feature request. For this version, I wanted to keep things super simple and get it out there as soon as possible so I can start getting feedback. I should be adding that to the next version.

Would you prefer an automatic 24-hour notification or a manual 2-stage process where you first record and then notify the emergency contacts if needed?
This is an excellent idea. I wish you the best of luck.

I have experience with social networking apps and a BIG challenge that you'll have is if the functionality depends on the person's friends onboarding for the person to get value.

I would encourage you to think very hard about providing value for the user without any of their friends necessarily being on the app. Even if you had a 90% completion rate for each step of your on boarding funnel, the longer you make your funnel, the more you'll trend toward 0% activation.
Yes, definitely in the club scene and night life scene. Very different in the online world however.
A few months ago someone posted on HN about "ballistic capture" to enter a Martian orbit with far less fuel, and I've spent the last few months wondering if you could do that to mosey into a Plutonian orbit:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-way-to-reach...
WKWebView was released in iOS 8 that does bring the performance on par, it is still missing features that UIWebView provides and as such Chrome for iOS is still utilizing UIWebView instead of WKWebView.
Two things that amazed me when I visited it years ago:

1. The concept of long term planning (or rather fits and starts) in building these monuments. The construction time scale is in the centuries.

2. The character of the various architects (Gaudi, Subirachs et al) that were involved at each stage of construction reflected in different parts of the church.

It makes us think of the relationship between our insignificant lifetimes compared to the institutions that endure long after we are gone.
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It was going much too fast to stop (given the available propellant). Also, that would have extended the transit time significantly. On the upside, it's sounding like the Kuiper belt is a really interesting place, so we'll get to see much more!
The odds for a VC are better than the lottery. They get free options giving to them by every startup - "Call us when you have traction".

It's time we started charging them for those options.
I don't see it as "modern panic", but simply as a fact of life. Just like the OP, I love the ability modern technology gives us for communication, information, creativity, etc. But pretending that there are no drawbacks would be dumb and blinding oneself.
Hey, neighbor. That new house you're building looks an awful lot like a submarine! Why is that?
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It's moving too fast for it to stop. It's not [currently] possible to ship enough fuel for it to stop by using rockets. And there is no good atmosphere for it to use to stop (plus we don't have enough information about the atmosphere to design anything yet).

So it will just do a very short flyby, then spend the next year or two sending the data back to Earth. After that it's not decided, but probably some Kuiper belt object like you suggest.
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>rampant antisemitism in Europe

rampant bullshit. The only antisemitism in Europe is that which is cried out loud by Israelis and Jewish lobbies every time Israel's actions are criticized. It's frankly sickening.
Safer than getting rear-ended in stop-and-go traffic.
I guess this explains the disclaimer in all of Fool.com's articles. The author of the article tends to disclose if he/she holds any positions.
nice, looks like you're on producthunt today too :) http://www.producthunt.com/tech/mixmax-scheduling-assistant
And to your point, Craigslist is also a haven for scammers and therefore not as trust worthy.
Those holding equity probably feel differently. The stock is up 3% today, to year-to-date highs.
And yet it's one of the few ways to get the word out for matters like LGBT rights.
Exactly. Does not matter what country you live in. If you happen to live in a country with no extradition treaty, you will never be able to enter the U.S. again without being arrested and it's highly likely you will be arrested in most countries you step into.

The days of hiding in the Caymans or in Switzerland are over.
Big difference with this scenario though as this article had an intention to deceive, the onion makes it very clear it is satire.
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Maybe you heard it in the comment I was replying to?
did it cross your mind that they may not bitch about their job to a person who can fire them (you)? If their rating falls below 4, they are essentially canned by uber.

Also, there's plenty of room for regulation even if customers and employees are happy. Uber is a giant negative externality, and we should force them to internalize it.
Agree. I've done a lot of decision trees in R lately and the two packages I've seen with the "most" documentation are rattle and rpart. I've found rpart much easier to use and understand, and it has pretty involved documentation. [1]

[1]http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rpart/vignettes/longi...
Here is one example:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100630626

http://www.ibtimes.com/why-did-gold-crash-april-2013-compute...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100665045
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> A living minimum wage.

Meh. The idea that "people should be able to earn a living wage" is fine but does not always imply that it should be illegal to work for less, and structuring the economy such that this is the case can have ill effects too: it can eliminate entry-level positions and worsen unemployment, which seriously damages one's ability to improve his career later. It also impacts youths and retirees, neither of whom are working as their primary means of support, and community organizations/nonprofits who might benefit from time to time from a little more manpower than a pure volunteer solution might be able to provide.

Economic growth, and the employment opportunities it affords, are a far better way to improve economic opportunities than legislation is.
Same here. It works really well if you are passionate about what you do.
Are you just looking to have a single VM running Windows Server?

We definitely have individual VMs that cost less than that (the f1-micro would be about $5/month for the VM, the g1-small about $13/month). You can hook them up to Autoscaling, Google Cloud DNS and Google Cloud Load Balancing (which Azure's "Basic tier" VMs don't seem to support; I'm not familiar with them, just reading what it says).

That said, I'm not sure I'd try to run Windows server on such a small instance (we apparently allow it and only charge $.02/hr in those cases). For example, Chrome's Clusterfuzz team runs Windows bots using the n1-standard-2 (2 vCPUs and ~8 GiB of RAM). Maybe someone can comment as to whether Nano Server would improve this situation...
We wouldn't really notice if the simulation keeps getting slower though.
The craziest thing, is this stuff happens all the time. People are 'gaming' the market, naked shorting, front-running, insider trading, the SEC has no chance. You have to imagine the guys who built this fake site dropped some cash having it done. Just imagine how much money they made when TWTR shot up (http://i.imgur.com/AXYEebF.jpg).
Beautiful, beautiful city (not to mention the people, the food). One of the high points in my life was spending 3 months there. Every little building has some unique architectural detail.
They can use Americium-241, it's not quite as good, but it has some advantages, plus it's in much larger supply.