So why should you bother with containers? For one simple reason: You can stick a lot more containers on a single server than you can VMs. How many more? Try two to three times more.
via Containers bring a skinny new world of virtualization to Linux | ITworld.
After losing with a rock, for example, a player was more likely to play paper in the next round than the “one in three” rule would predict.
This “win-stay lose-shift” strategy is known in game theory as a conditional response – and it may be hard-wired into the human brain, the researchers say
When using the Cordova APIs, an app can be built without any native code (Java, Objective-C, etc) from the app developer. Instead, web technologies are used, and they are hosted in the app itself locally (generally not on a remote http server).
And because these JavaScript APIs are consistent across multiple device platforms and built on web standards, the app should be portable to other device platforms with minimal to no changes.
via Apache Cordova.
What exactly are colored coins? I’ve tried understanding, but I don’t quite get it yet . . . Do any examples exist?
via alternatives – What are colored coins? – Bitcoin Stack Exchange.
Colored coins are a method to track the origin of bitcoins, so that a certain set of coins can be set aside and conserved, allowing a party to acknowledge them in various ways. Such coins can be used to represent arbitrary digital tokens, such as stocks, bonds, smart property and so on.
The colored coins protocol is decentralized just like Bitcoin, but the current effort to develop an implementation is done under the BitcoinX project (tentative name), which also aims to provide some related services.
As this is still under development, you will not find any existing examples.
You can read more about it in Overview of colored coins (work in progress).
Functionality
The User interface allows you to:
- position the dolly on the rail via the motor control buttons
- change the motor pulse duration between shots
- change the delay between shots
- change the number of shots
- see what time is left for the current sequence
- start and stop the time-lapse
And it’s all done using a few simple screens with a simplistic, easy-to-use touchscreen user interface. The following video shows it all in action.
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a part of Homeland Security known as US-CERT, said in an advisory released on Monday morning that the vulnerability in versions 6 to 11 of Internet Explorer could lead to “the complete compromise” of an affected system.
“We are currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem,” Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute warned in a separate advisory, that US-CERT linked to in its warning.
via U.S.: Stop using Internet Explorer – chicagotribune.com.
Previous telecommunications systems — most notably the phone system — are regulated as “common carriers”. This means you can call whoever you like; you can use whatever phone you want; and anyone in a service area can sign up at a fair rate.
This designation recognizes that communication systems are too important to be left to the vagaries of profit-be-damned executives and that the operators are in very powerful positions to do harm and extract tolls.
via How the FCC Plans to Save the Internet By Destroying It: An Explainer — Medium.
No matter how you slice it, the database market is massive and evolving. It’s also a market that has received a disproportionate share of VC investment, with VCs plowing funding into a long list of database related market segments including: NoSQL, Hadoop, graph databases, open-source SQL, cloud-based databases, visualization, etc. But for all of that innovation, the process of setting up and running very large database remains either expensive or complicated. Expensive because large databases still often require expensive hardware and/or licenses. Complicated because setting up a massive cluster of commodity machines to run a database requires a ton of administrative work and expertise that not a lot of people have. It’s this administrative complexity that Crate is out to eliminate – and that’s the real story behind the investment: the democratization of database cluster management. Crate’s real claim to fame is that it allows developers – any developer – to easily set up a massively scalable data store on commodity hardware with sub-second query latency simply and within minutes.
via Democratizing the Datastore: Why we invested in Crate | Yankee Sabra Limey.
The new rules, according to the people briefed on them, will allow a company like Comcast or Verizon to negotiate separately with each content company—like Netflix, Amazon, Disney or Google—and charge different companies different amounts for priority service.
via F.C.C., in ‘Net Neutrality’ Turnaround, Plans to Allow Fast Lane.
Daily active users (DAUs) in the first quarter of 2014 were 28 million, compared to 52 million in the first quarter of 2013. On a consecutive quarter basis, DAUs were up 7% from 27 million in the fourth quarter of 2013. Web DAUs and Mobile DAUs were 12 million and 16 million in the first quarter of 2014, respectively.
via EX-99.1.