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Denial of service attacks against networks where devices need to be authorized to connect? A little bit of an overreaching headline.

I await the first few apps to put ads on the Touch Bar. It seems all but inevitable.

So it's like a reverse lottery? The more people that play the lower the payout?

I was aware of NTVS but not the other, thank you! Although it's still hard to keep getting a full team to keep installing plugins ;).

The four month cycle isn't bad unless you are doing anything with JavaScript. There it seems like the four-month cycle slowly begins to pile up, and it makes the already impossible task of keeping up with the js-world even harder.

Thinking about it, if it weren't for JavaScript/JSX, I would be perfectly happy with the longer release cycle.

Visual Studio really needs to drop the large but seldom release schedule. There are so many pieces that just need minor improvements, that must await for these gigantic day-to-install releases before they see light.

Saying that, I absolutely love VS just wish they actually managed to fix the update/release process.

A quick search shows that a meal at McDoanld's is 50% more in Denmark than in the US. I am not really sure on the accuracy of Numbeo, but the comparative price of a meal to wage is interesting.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resu...

I read through this and I still have no idea what they actually applied the idea of the blockchain to within healthcare. To an HIE? Does each patient receive their own "wallet" that is their patient record? This just seems to be a generic overview of EHRs/Blockchains within the same page.

For those wondering (like myself) what the breaking changes are for the v5.0 release, you can find the full list here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.0/...

Five hours battery life is a killer. I can't even get through a flight without having to charge my headphones -- a no go for me.

"We soon realized that ants took unexpected short-cuts. To solve this we switched to a drone based delivery model, cutting out the middle-man. In our second-generation organic-learning model we also switched to bees. We call this algorithm, buzzfeed."

"We placed ants in a scale model of the entire city. Placed food at the delivery points and recorded their steps. In the end it's the first swarming, multi-node, organic-learning food delivery algorithm."

Oh god, as I read through it I kind of just started laughing to myself. They opened a chain restaurant -- surely VC-money worthy.

If that is true, I believe that falls under fraud when a company is publicly traded. No idea when privately owned!

I'm a little more disappointed that someone didn't provide him a bit more guidance on this. I, like many here, find the rejection crazy. But you can't go and blame a 14 year-old for it, it's the adults surrounding him.

His parents are really to blame for that rejection. Hell he must have a patent attorney, who at some point mentioned this would probably be easily challenged. This has a ton of risk with what upside?

For anyone who has not had the chance to read it there is a good article from the New Yorker on airships: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/29/a-new-generatio....

It was a fun light read. Although at the end I just felt like I got a lesson in really expensive, and partially complete vaporware (vapor-commercial-ware?) and was left with little hope for their future.

No I get that but I now have to look at it three times. Say I am using some feature, f, then I have to go check the case where the browser supports @supports but not @supports(f), supports @supports(f) and does not support @supports, since the styling changes are not all in isolation.

Now to make it even crazier say we have another feature f1 that somehow impacts the case of @supports(f). We'll need to check five different cases (@s(f) + @s(f1), !@s(f) + @s(f1), etc...). It seems like I might as well just find the minimum feature set I can use and just go ahead with that. Anything more and there would be too much mental work for me.

  /* NOT IE */
  @supports (@supports) {}

IE does not support it so it's kind of pointless, no? If I ever actually make the user of a feature query, I would need to create a backup plan for everything and then another backup plan when that backup plan fails!

Just think, there were even multiple versions of JSONx so someone somewhere had to be using it.

Wonderful idea, and we could even go so far as standardizing how we write it so that we don't need to worry about putting it into JSON and makes it more memorable for humans. Something like:

Length Street

City

Country

If that was the case we might run into naming collisions if there are multiple cities with the same street names. It would be best if we namespace it to the city as well. So we would have something like { "street": "Church Street", "length": "5", "city": "Church City" } all of course packaged in JSON.

From my perspective, the DNC leaks really didn't show that the primaries were rigged. It basically just showed that workers within an organization are human and naturally form biases. These were not public communications from the DNC, but private conversations between individuals. Expecting them to practice full-neutrality in every conversation is a little too much to expect.

WikiLeaks is becoming a political mess with Assange leading the charge.

The philosophy that all information should be public is just absurd. There is a reason that the whistle-blowers prior passed their information to reporters, it allowed for certain pieces of information to be redacted.

Sending out the name of every woman voter in Turkey does not benefit anyone. Leaking the private conversation of a man and his daughter does not benefit anyone.

Assange's crazed obsession of having WikiLeaks in the news doesn't help either, it only leads to further politicization and larger claims. The whole site has just turned into a show more than anything.

Looks cool but a minimum of 1 minute polling intervals? That's a pretty long time for what should be streaming data, no? If the data has no need to be real-time then why stream it?

Might want to fix the Heartbeat icon link by the way, it currently links to https://heartbeat.appbase.io/heartbeat.appbase.io

Short for saying combine HR, accounting, etc. but it's still always annoying to read.

I really wish the WP7 idea was fully executed, it seemed like they abandoned the Metro idea midway. I feel like Metro (errr... ModernUI?) was a design language that needed and still needs and all or nothing commitment otherwise it ends up looking like Windows 8, a bit childish. The lack of commitment to the design language and awful app adoption really killed it. Disappointing to watch.

It also looked like more an insurance nightmare than Uber but it appears that they are partnered with Allianz so I assume they have that figured out.

Interesting is it more of a regional thing then? I've lived in the NE suburbs my whole life and really never ran into that many installations.

A question more out of unfamiliarity more than anything, but is the market for at-home security cameras really that large? Then to overlap that with the market that can afford to pay the $10+/month to support it, I would guess you run kind of low on customers?

I mean I guess not since the product is coming to market -- I just personally don't know of anyone who uses one.

Nylas is pretty bug-ridden at this point, and they have committed to a pretty crazy pricing model ($7 per month). It's hard to get behind it.