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I'll try to find a print copy when the Yomiuri hits news stands on the 3rd and post the gist of it, but don't get your hopes up on this shedding a lot of light on the story.
I'm imagining the scene where a bunch of American Millenials were asked to solve basic math problems and computer literacy tests. "Jeez this is pointless," one said. "Yeah, reminds me of high school," said another. And they twiddled their thumbs until it was over.

While I'm sure these are relevant statistics, I don't see it having much bearing on real competitiveness going forward. There's no measure of creativity, adaptability, or tenacity. Show me Americans are lagging in those and I'll start to worry.
“David seems to have put the cart in front of the horse and needs to very quickly find some top-notch programming talent.”

It would be nice to find top notch programming talent quickly, but I am not going to rush this decision. I need to make sure this person[s] has integrity, good energy, is in a position both mentally and financially to do a startup, and above all if we enjoy each other.

I will email you to get in touch with the developers you know
My email is dbosson@gmail.com if anyone else want to get together.
Ford, IBM, and other large firms have internal security departments, some of whom are sworn officers.
Ah, I was referring to <strong> and <em> vs. <b> and <i>.
Sex sells! Depraved sex maybe even sells better. Remember Philips' V2000 video tape format? It went titsup because Philips wanted to project a 'decent image' of itself and didn't allow porn on V2000. The rest is history...
Google is an advertising company which likes models which scale to the moon. Groupon is an advertising company which demonstrably scales to the moon.

One possible strategy for Google is to stop messing around with the seven-pack on queries like "Houston Pizza" and start selling the AdWordsGroupon among Houston Pizza shops at the top of that search result. This takes the AdWords learning cliff out of the local retail sales equation, because retailers grok "Check this out: you give us a big discount, we will sell your stuff, then we give you a check for this much and you service people who come in with a coupon -- no money down and no risk!" much more than they do "OK, so you front us a couple thousand dollars for CPC ads and if your QS outperforms competitors in the local auction for the query string, match options dependent, then as long as your CTR is decent we'll send the user to your landing page and you might achieve a conversion which if it has a CPA less than your LTV is a win for you. P.S. If you don't understand that, Pizza Shop Owner Guy, Google Customer Service says to FOAD."
Another interesting example is trying to look for a hotel. Try to search for the one you know - there's ~0 chance that their actual page will appear on the front page. Only resellers, spam and car renting...
We've only very recently been able to track things like that, but the main part of the problem has been not wanting to acknowledge the truth until now. WW.com was never intended as an adult site, but a communications platform, far pre-dating justin.tv. However, it's clear our revenues come almost entirely from the adult market, so without taking funding, that's the direction we have to take the site.
I concur. I got to the second page before I found anything other than a first class result (incidently it was how to build a bookcase in 5 minutes which seems to be a dubious proposition at best). Now if you looking for information on something you actually want to buy then yes, google's results are indeed a sea of spam.
Git doesn’t implement any way to watch the repository and emit events when changes occur.

What wrong with hooks[1]?

[1] http://progit.org/book/ch7-3.html
You don't explain in detail why you decided to go back on your decision...

It seems like the decision to go back to 'non-clean' was purely short term profit driven.

Seems like given more time and effort, keeping it clean may well have paid off in the longer run.
so the media saying it was launched be 4Chan is actually incorrect.
While it's certainly true that PHP is better than it was 7 years ago, that is primarily in the ecosystem and not the language.

The language remains as bad as it was 7 years ago, and they seem to be woefully unwilling to actually fix it.
Yandex reverse image search is also much better then Google's version in my experience.
Perhaps there is an unhappy middle temperature where ice forms more easily? I know some people from the northern US that moved to Texas and were mocking how slowly they drove in the snow. Until they had a close call and realized the barely freezing weather makes for worse ice sheets.
Yea, thus ain’t true.

When my daughter was diagnosed with autism three weeks plenty of for profit options. We ended up putting her in a charter school because it was far more flexible and attentive to our needs than public school was, where all decisions seemed to revolve around what was best for the school, not our child.
Thanks for pointing out, yes I've to work on that.
I didn't see any mass hysteria.
Start acting more like investigators of truth rather than as promoters of ideology, start acting more like free thinkers and less like thought police, start speaking truth to power more and being in bed with power less, and maybe more people will trust you.
It surprised me how well cloud providers have managed to sell "availability" and lack of responsibly for site downtime, and how much of a premium they can charge for it. Most people don't need 5 9's (not that any cloud actually provides that level of reliability) or infinite scalability, just a box that's good enough in both dimensions.
No. The problem is Google kept trying to force Glass as a consumer product for use in public.

And given that most normal people would know that it was socially awkward to use it in public only "glassholes" remained. This meant that buying/wearing Glass tarnished you with that label and associated you with that group.
Oh very cool point! Definitely possible - we keep a many-many db table of views (which includes the link to the user) so we could potential do like a simulation..hmm interesting thanks!
Obviously there's a bunch of people...

I guess 700k is a bunch...

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A%221434%22

Since we can't expect those jokers to fix anything, it's probably best to drop traffic on that port.
> (for application state in React, I've also had some success with passing around an immutable cursor, like react-cursor[1]).

The react-cursor library really introduced cursors based on immutable data for me. I've never used the library, but the idea stuck. Omniscient looks very shiny as well, but it too invasively changes the workings of React for me.

Immutable.js provides a great Immutability library, with a very lightweight cursor implementation on top. You can make a simple object that recursively updates itself with the newest state from the cursor. You have to merge updated states at the keyPath to prevent clobbering from 'synchronous' updates at different cursors.

If you give that object a listen(), a getCurrentState() and a private trigger() method, you are well on your way to a complete store. Reflux offers roughly this model, and adds much needed actions and listening to other stores.

Here's a gist with a tightly coupled (incomplete) example store that emits a cursor, and a React component that listens to the store and updates it:

https://gist.github.com/confiks/745d27f7308db1935eb9
Virtual, not wireless ;)

Think this - size-adjustable holo keyboard, ergonomic natural of course.
> You need a better dictionary

Indeed, perhaps.

> or to stop making things up.

I didn't make it up but thanks for the insinuation.

> The Oxford Dictionary

I haven't spent $90 on the Oxford Dictionary because I haven't believed it to be necessary.

> defines purchase as merely "acquiring something".

Really? Tell that to Google which claims its definition comes from "Oxford Languages" [0]. I'm sure that's not quite the Oxford English Dictionary though.

Google states:

1. acquire (something) by paying for it; buy.
2. haul in (a rope or cable) or haul up (an anchor) by means of a pulley, lever, etc.

But that's just Google and we all know Google can be manipulated. Let's take the free definition from Merriam-Webster instead [1].

1 a : to obtain by paying money or its equivalent

Okay how about a third source? Dictionary.com [2] states:

to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.

Finally, Cambridge at the fourth source, is where a monetary transaction isn't directly part of the definition but it certainly is part of the supporting descriptions.

verb: to buy something
* She purchased her first house with the money.

noun: something that you buy
* How do you wish to pay for your purchases?

So they're all free dictionaries so they're not as elite as the Oxford English Dictionary. But their definitions are fairly consistent. And, given that I think that a purchase without money is actually a barter then perhaps the Oxford English Dictionary isn't as good of a source.

You might want to learn about the definition of a rent by the way. It's a bit closer to what goes on with cloud instances.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=define+purchase

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purchase

[2] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/purchase

[3] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/purch...
OP.

One of my fears. That unless we, as the PostgreSQL Community, do something about it, and embrace the efforts that AWS started doing and I hope will continue, it would effectively end up being a fork. And a fork with a collaboration on GitHub, which many would prefer to contribute to rather than current's Postgres contribution mechanism.

And if that's the case, I wonder if it could become the MariaDB, or the LibreOffice, of Postgres. I hope we will be able to do the best thing and have the contribution that Postgres is receiving integrated and merged into Postgres.
There are many more dietary sources of saturated fats than just meat.
You realize that pretty much all of that happens when you use Windows 10, yes?
RB Woodward won the 1965 Chemistry Nobel Prize for his astounding achievements in total synthesis. Some people say that he should have been awarded a part of the 1973 prize that went to Fischer and Wilkinson for sandwich compounds, and he definitively would have received it again in 1981 together with Fukui and Hoffmann for explaining how orbitals influence stereochemistry.
Isn't that 'thousand mile stare' often attributed to scientologists? Did this happen after his conversion?
I like Sargent, but I didn't know about these charcoals. They're terrific.
I'm a web dev and I agree. Complexity justifies paychecks.
Something similar I had written a year back: http://tuhinkumar.com/journal/good-taste/
Kafkaesque licensing processes and protectionism are totally orthogonal to the welfare state, as demonstrated by many a developing country which neither permits the average person to try and start a business larger than a food stall nor provides them with access to any form of welfare whatsoever.

Edit: Do people genuinely believe that the average sub-Saharan African state, or even growing economies like Vietnam or Indonesia are either easier to legally form a trading company in or more generous with welfare (relative to incomes) than say, the UK, Sweden or even the USA? If there's evidence rather than blindly partisan "he said welfare states weren't bad for business" knee-jerk reactions behind the downvotes, I'd really like to see it.
It still exists and people the NSA is interested in use it.
Magnetic storage density is held back by how small you can make a bit (magnetic domain) and still be able to write it AND not have it succumb to random flips due to thermal energy. EAMR works by temporarily making tiny magnetic domains of a hard to flip material easier to flip while under the influence of additional energy.
I'm more interested in the Title III changes supposedly coming down the pipe, where you can file regulation D and then raise up to $1m from non-accredited investors, but engaging in general solicitation.

This would be absolutely killer for independent films, which are badly in need of a financial boost at the bottom end of the market, and which in many ways resemble a specialized startup. On the negative side, they don't have a recurring revenue model of the same sort as a traditional product or service. On the positive side, the business process/manufacturing path of a film is very well understood.

Right now, some films are successfully crowdfunded. It works very well for documentariesthat address a topic which already has a dedicated interest community, and some kinds of fictional projects eg Super Troupers 2 met its $2m funding target in something ridiculous like 48 hours. But crowdfunding is very heavily geared towards projects that have a pre-existing audience, sometimes through participation of a Famous Person. If you're trying to launch a film from scratch it's way harder, and it's harder again if you're not targeting a very specific demographic (which is why you see a disproportionate number of LGBT films on crowdfunding sites - it's a demographic that is underserved by Hollywood and one that's easy to connect with from a marketing standpoint). Paradoxically, the less money you are looking for, the more difficult it can be.

Small indie films already go down the regulation D route - pre-filing with the SEC, and then raising production/marketing costs through a combination of presales to distributors and by offering a limited number of equity blocks to accredited investors. But this is very very time-consuming. There are things like tax incentives to help, but they require a lot of administrative overhead and are more targeted at mid-sized projects from established producers, eg California tax incentives require a minimum budget of $1 million, presumably so to make the state's administrative overhead worthwhile.

It would be a huge change for indie films to be able to do general solicitation for sub-$1m budgets, and offset the lack of brand identity by offering investment participation instead, notwithstanding the high risks involved. Unfortunately, it looks like there won't be any movement on this before October of this year, meaining the earliest that Title III crowdfunding will take off is in 2016, nearly 3 years after the final implementation deadline set out in the 2012 legislation. I don't know if this is the fault of the SEC itself or if the agency is too underfunded to go any faster, but it's quite frustrating for those of us who'd like to raise capital int he micro-equity space.

https://fundwisdom.com/article/brian-thopsey/title-iii-equit...
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I had a similar experience with slicehost. I canceled cc and thought they would delete but they didn't and I paid it back and they kept me as a customer for years afterwords.
Tumblr is horrible with this. If you want to set a click-through link for a new photo post, it's usually click-[ctrl a]-backspace-[ctrl v] as a click-through link is really never typed out, but is most likely pre-existing.
Basically as a proxy for "is reasonably intelligent and able to apply him/herself for some period of time to achieve goals". Not necessarily a great proxy (and a very expensive one), but for a lot of semi-generic jobs it's the best currently available. At the very least, it weeds out some of the people the companies definitely don't want to hire.
I think that linking to the Valve posted video makes a little more sense to me. Either way it's the same video.
Do you have a link to said video?
I'm not confusing anything. The definition of Hacker is strongly about FREE software and being at least somewhat anti-establishment. That kinda goes in the face of the Hacker Group saying you can only post about CASH gigs.
Can we please please pretty please rename this site "Cell Phone Stealer News", just to make it clear we're a group of thugs and petty criminals with only occasional tidbits of technical knowledge?
it is a browser based app:-)

yes i liked publish as well...but we liked the "ds"...dash, design, develop & deploy....maybe we will change it based on usage
For "Everything the Soviet embassy staff routinely copied on their new photocopier was of vital intelligence value to the United States." read "The CIA wanted everything the staff copied." No doubt prodigies of inference can be achieved from routine data, but you can bet that there were a lot of expense reports and dinner menus copied.
This discussion could circle for ages.

Maybe those people are like they are because they are living in a glittery facade world based on ignorance for too long?
> is the fact that this leak has likely put the brakes on limiting the further spread of nuclear weapons a net positive?

I think this leak has done no such thing.

It has merely documented a situation, which will continue to exist for some time.

Having the knowledge that the situation exists out there might actually put pressure on the parties involved to do something about it, rather than to let it persist.

Also, I'm not at all afraid of the 'terrorists' acquiring such weapons of mass destruction, I sleep pretty good and I estimate my chances of dying from crossing the street significantly larger than from rogue states or terrorists acquiring a dirty or fissile bomb.

Fear mongering has very little effect on me in general, but I do perceive that the terrorists have gotten value for their money. After all fear runs rampant.

> So does that make it morally wrong for them to try to reduce the proliferation of those arms?

If you want to be credible about non-proliferation I think you should not only commit to reduction of your own stockpile but you should commit to elimination.

The current reduction strategy is just a step back from the overkill situation in the cold war, which is offset in large part by better targeting and by higher yield as well as more reliable systems for simulation and stockpile control.

The threat is just as large as it ever was.

30,000 bombs or 5,000 it makes no difference.
git itself is distributed. However, GitHub has more or less broken that model in the sense that many rely upon Github's web-based features for workflow. Additional, a number of processes (CI, deployment, static analysis, etc) rely upon Github's webhooks.
> Which leads to lots unnecessary code complexity because they engineer systems designed to be future proof for everything, instead of of what realistically will be necessary for the future of the project or projects.

This has been a bane for me in my work. I have termed it lasagna code: lots of layers with a little filling in between each. Often, each layer is isolating things for which there is little-to-zero reason to ever suspect that they will need to change. I've even seen attempts to abstract away data model... As if the entire program wouldn't have to be modified if the data model changed. I have learned to design and code only to known requirements. All the extra time saved in design, coding, and maintenance of the easier reduced system more than pays for the small redesigns necessary when things shift.
Do keep us posted on how well you do with this - maybe a counter somewhere on the page
While my method isn't as secure as your most likely is, I prefer a simpler algorithm based upon the site name. I can perform my algorithm in my head and enter a password quickly and without having to refer to a terminal or another program.

Btw, do you ever worry that your command history might be accessed to discover your passwords?
Yeah but nobody really cared about Geocities other than for the novelty, right?
will there be a history feature so people can browse to previous pictures?
I'm where he is. Interesting discussion, though -- and it really highlights the limits of "with many eyes all bugs are shallow".
Just saw this on the news, actually. Very much sorry, but I didn't catch the channel / show - wasn't close enough to the TV, and it wasn't mine.

Seems like the attention for this has gone way beyond HN. Congratulations!
> You know, where if you access a link to a network, or access an open networked path after 255 seconds or so ... You receive a network error.

I don't even know what this means. What's the actual, reproducible scenario?