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by gmisra 10y ago
For those in search of a succinct summary of the science: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/first-eukaryotes-foun...
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That time a bot invaded Thingiverse and created weird new 3D objects(arstechnica.com)
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by gmisra 10y ago
Headline is intentionally awful. tl;dr: the "lie" is that javascript is a bad language, and developers should not learn it. Proceed if you enjoy programming language screeds, this one makes few technical points and focused on the
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by gmisra 11y ago
As pointed out elsewhere, npm also already supports scoped namespaces: https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scope ...and has for almost a year: > (As of 2015-04-19, the public npm registry does support scoped packages) The r
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by gmisra 11y ago
It's worth noting that the official NPM dispute resolution policy makes the following very clear ( https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/disputes ) > Some things are not allowed, and will be removed without discussion if t
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by gmisra 11y ago
This looks very useful. For the commenters who think this is a trivial service, I'd like to know how you handle the publishing step for your current FAQ pages. Most of our FAQ content comes from the product team, and much of the rest
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by gmisra 11y ago
There is a great twitter feed, @AsteroidMisses, that tweets out based off a NASA monitoring dataset. Browsing it provides some perspective on just how many asteroids are whizzing around the Earth all the time. https://twitter.com
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by gmisra 11y ago
This looks interesting for me, thanks for sharing! Question: what is your end-of-life plan in the event of acquisition or business shut down?
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Mothballed Launch Sites Stand as Monuments to the US Space Program(medium.com)
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by gmisra 11y ago
From the proposal overview: The Chairman’s proposal will create a framework for providing innovators, device manufacturers and app developers the information they need to develop new technologies. Consumers should be able to choose how the
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by gmisra 11y ago
The "if you can make a robot" problem for this use-case is quickly becoming "when you can make a robot" that. See, e.g., these (mostly) roboticized lettuce farms: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3050750/t
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by gmisra 11y ago
(Source; I have been working on the next generation of auto insurance risk models for the United States) Car (really, driving) insurance is heavily regulated by the government, each state has agency over what information insurers are allowe
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by gmisra 11y ago
Taken in isolation, this is a laudable move. But shouldn't it be evaluated within the context of their own internet.org initiative? For those unaware, internet.org does not support TLS/HTTPS for most connections. It is probably th
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by gmisra 11y ago
People seem to be conflating "tracking user behavior" with "tracking user behavior without consent or transparency". Yes, there are plenty of people opposed to the former, but that is a moot point with respect to Google.
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by gmisra 11y ago
IANAL, but this feels like a good thing, that these issues are being hammered out in the courts. I think most people would find the idea that simply viewing a single webpage constitutes a contract with obligations to be unreasonable (as opp
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by gmisra 11y ago
Aspirational is great, but I would suggest you update that page to clearly identify what is currently supported versus what is aspirational. There is probably limited overlap between your target user audience and your target collaborator au
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by gmisra 11y ago
To save everybody some time, here is a list of the runtimes and frameworks actually supported by nanobox: - ruby 1.9, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 / jruby 1.6, 1.7, 9.0 - node 0.8, 0.10, 0.12 / iojs 2.3 - python 2.7, 3.4 - php 5.3, 5.4
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by gmisra 11y ago
Key points: 1. The 15M number is massively inflated for unique viewers, as the game was auto-playing on the Yahoo! and tumblr homepages. More detailed breakdown of the numbers here: http://deadspin.com/not-nearly-as-many-peo
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by gmisra 11y ago
Does anybody else get the feeling that the primary goal of large scale venture capital these days is to pump-and-dump IPOs, regardless of the actual stability/validity of the underlying business?
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by gmisra 11y ago
This article from last week suggests that the patent may not be that important. A team has recently discovered a second protein that can be used to power the crispr process, and they believe that more such proteins may exist [1]. ...but pat
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CVE-2015-7384: Node.js HTTP Denial of Service Vulnerability(groups.google.com)
1 points by gmisra 11y ago|0 comments
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Sources: Zirtual founders hid financial mess from investors(pando.com)
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by gmisra 11y ago
One of the most beautiful things about the internet is that it enables platforms for individuals to create value and then receive no share of that value. We see much lamenting about lack of innovation in "business plans" around he
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by gmisra 11y ago
This is incorrect, after every ride you have the opportunity to rate your experience on the same low information 1-5 star scale as Uber. It's more expensive because the cost is not subsidized by VC capital, and the rates are regulated
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by gmisra 11y ago
In many places, you now can. And it is worth noting that Uber/Lyft put significant pressure on taxi companies to modernize into smartphone friendly businesses (pre-Uber apps, like TaxiMagic v1, were awful). ps - are you aware that in A
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by gmisra 11y ago
The right answer is that the "on demand economy" does not fit into existing labor structures, and trying to shoehorn these new jobs into current legal frameworks is probably doomed to confusion. This is especially complicated beca
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by gmisra 11y ago
Interestingly, Cuba has developed an alternative network for the distribution of many types of digital content: people with access to content download it and distribute it using portable hard drives and usb sticks. A friend of mine recently
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Cuba's 'offline internet': no access, no power, no problem(theguardian.com)
1 points by gmisra 11y ago|0 comments
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by gmisra 11y ago
Julian Assange believes that "Google Ideas" is, amongst other things, a channel for Google to get involved in geopolitics while maintaing political cover and distance - and Google Ideas often engages in surreptitious actions in co
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by gmisra 11y ago
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-f

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