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I had a bad stay with airbnb. I can't be bothered to repost the whole situation but their customer service was fucking shit.

I use them all the time. I think they're fantastic. They make me so relaxed I almost cannot move. I relax in a very different way compared to when I meditate (with these it's a much more physical deep relaxation, but when meditating I feel a bit more dissociated from my body).

Solves a non-problem.

Ha ha, great video :-)

That's exactly how some vaccines work. See: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/vaccination/faq.asp

"Most people experience normal, usually mild reactions that include a sore arm, fever, and body aches."

It's about time we stop giving religious beliefs any special treatment at all compared to actual measurable evidence (e.g. inhumanely killing animals, mutilating/indoctrinating children, etc.).

Apparently not:

"HMRC can prosecute tax advisers if they try to hide schemes, but has no sanction against those that create and sell artificial trading arrangements designed solely to dodge taxes."

That's what she wants to change.

At least it hasn't taken the Tories nearly a whole term to begin to address this issue...

Got to say I agree with this http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4285739.e... (paywall).

Summary: Hodge wants to make it a criminal offence to sell or promote illegal tax avoidance schemes in the first place. So if HMRC challenge a scheme and it's found illegal, the lawyers/accountants who developed it can be criminally prosecuted as well as those who used it.

...and it looks like one's in the works: https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/

I assume this is new as well given the 2015 release date...

PCI compliance.

Baking everything into AMIs is the "right" way to go, but if AWS had a supported, hosted git server inside their network to push into, I'd rather have the speed of deploying from git, and only bake AMIs when necessary for system upgrades.

"The next real step in this, and one that is really at the core of the microservices architecture, would be to cluster etcd and remove nginx completely"

Nginx is useful to stop slow clients attacking app servers, so still a useful layer to have depending on how the clojure app servers handle slow clients, etc.

He claims he's building the first functional 3D printed house, but the Chinese seem to be way ahead: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27156775. Still pretty cool though.

I think this might be a better system than 3D printing for houses though: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2683192/Could...

I read a book once - I think it was the Gift of Fear (but I might be wrong) - that said that plane crashes often occur in clusters, same with other tragedies like mass shootings at schools etc. The author suggested this was because people who might do those things - or in the case of pilots, pilots who might want to commit suicide and take the plane down with them - get prompted to act when they see other incidents have occurred. So according to that author, these events are not random.

Obviously a civilian plane being shot down would lie outside this theory (he suggested more plane crashes were due to pilot depression than mechanical fault/other factors).

Because if you watch that film and believe Apollo went to the moon, the only conclusion is that light has different properties on the moon compared to Earth.

I'd like to know what could explain, for example, their shadows lengthening significantly when they move a small distance as shown in the NASA footage better than "the astronauts were close to a large artificial light source" as they claim in the film that physics implies.

I'd like to see some refutation of the claims in this film (and not by the guy - physicist as I recall - in the film who just hand-waves say "well we know they went there and it can't possibly have been a hoax"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5w0pm24ic

This is like: http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/1341.html

I picked up "The Founder's Dilemmas" and the first chapter tries to talk you out of starting a business by telling you that your business will probably fail, and you'd probably end up wealthier working for other people.

It's good to remember, after the hype surrounding large exits, that the chances of creating a similarly valuable company are incredibly small. So yeah, if you're in it for the money it's probably not worth it.

Check out devpi (http://doc.devpi.net/latest/). We build our projects as wheels with pip using devpi as a custom index, i.e.:

BUILD_DIR="/tmp/wheelhouse/$PROJECT" pip wheel --wheel-dir=$BUILD_DIR --find-links=$BUILD_DIR --index=http://$DEVPI_HOST:$DEVPI_PORT/${DEVPI_USER}/${DEVPI_INDEX} --extra-index-url=https://pypi.python.org/simple/ ../$PROJECT

This will try to get packages from your devpi index, but will fall back to pypi if you don't have them.

Then upload this to devpi. It can later be installed by pip with:

pip install --use-wheel --index=http://$DEVPI_HOST:$DEVPI_PORT/${DEVPI_USER}/${DEVPI_INDEX} $PROJECT

This makes deployments super fast because you're deploying pre-built wheels instead of downloading and compiling from pypi. It also gives you resiliance by storing copies of the dependencies you need in devpi, so if they vanish from pypi (or it's unavailable) you can still deploy your software with all the dependencies you developed against.

Unless you want to host a site for peanuts on S3...

For now. If this spreads to being able to DRM images and text, or they use it on YouTube/whatever other video site, you will be affected. That's the real danger to my eyes.

I've become good at understanding lecture videos played back at faster than real-time. Sometimes I can get up to 2x playback speed with VLC and still understand what's being said. It'd be so boring watching things in real-time. I'm so glad Coursera let you download videos so you can do that.

Sweet. I'm sold :-)

Awesome idea. Will definitely check it out. Any plans for an android version?

Cars...meh. One word: Dinner plates.

It's Redhat trying not to get left out when the container revolution starts.

There are problems with your APIs losing data because of errors or downtime. A lot of the Internet is going over unreliable wireless technologies. So your beautiful REST calls are now riddled with exception handling, because there are so many ways of things going wrong.

Couldn't this be easily solved by: a) putting the server behind nginx to terminate slow connections after several seconds, and b) adding retry logic to the client?

This isn't a rhetorical question - would this approach actually work if a client was part way through sending data when it lost network connectivity, or am I missing something?

Unless you're going to be wildly successful the moment you launch, you're better off picking one stack that you understand, creating a working version, then iterating to improve on it. If you try to do it perfectly or make it as fast as possible from the start you may never finish - and you'll never be able to test your idea.

Sorry it was perhaps a bit abrupt.

Many people often feel that something's wrong with life or something is missing. A little voice in their heads comes up and says "maybe if I had X that'd fix it", or "maybe if I was Y I'd be happy". In fact, I'm coming to realise (as all the books I've read over the years have been saying) that it's the thinking that is the whole problem. In fact it's not a case of just intellectually accepting this idea that's important. We can go deeper.

Where does the voice come from? What is this thing called "I" that is blindly followed? It would appear it is just another thought. The mind is just a stream of thoughts and "I" is just another one. It has no substance, no reality.

It seems that the only thing that does exist is the present, so just ignore the past and future. The more you are able to ignore the voice in your head (and it's much easier when you see it has no reality) the more you start to tingle, literally. You (well I don't know about you, but I) feel amazing. Satisfied and replete.

So to conclude, what I was getting at was that maintaining the belief that you need to "improve" somehow, or be "better" just adds more fuel to the fire and keeps the mind spinning, distracting us from the present and ever experiencing that fulfilling feeling.