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Is this the same syntax that PlantUML uses?
http://plantuml.com/sequence.html
Houston is about double Chicago as well. Texas cities are attractive due to space and cost. Austin's average home price, despite being at an all time high, is 1/2 to 1/3 that of San Jose.
> Why not?

I think you missed the point, the plugin or program wouldn't have a distinct pattern or scheme since it would be coming from the website you're visiting.

Say, for example, I want to show an ad for denture cream. Nothing fancy, just a gif. Well, the URL would look like http://www.randomsite.com/img/filename.gif

How do you block that without blocking every image on the website?

Granted, what you propose would be easier to do for more advanced systems, but the key here, is that 95% of adblockers almost exclusively look for calls to ad networks. If you eliminate that, you open up that 95%.
So is this actually a blockchain in the Bitcoin sense, or just a cryptographically-verifiable ledger, e.g. something based on a Merkle tree? They're not running competitive proof-of-work or anything.

Or is it "blockchain" only in the buzzword sense of the term?
Have we crossed the point where more private money is going into space flight than government money? Always makes me wonder what would happen if one of Russia's Oligarchs decided to build their own rockets.
Let me ask another way:

Do you want TCP/IP re-designed by popular vote?
i was there last month. the EDSAC is pretty much in the same condition the video. ie not operational yet.

There's a cool tic-tac-toe program for ESDAC called "OXO". you can run it on the emulator.
That looks much more complete. The syntax is given on the GitHub page but really only covers a very very small subset of UML sequence diagrams.
C++ will be around for at least the next 50 to 100 years. It has the speed of C along with the expressiveness, encapsulation and flexibility of higher-level languages.

Basically, you can do bare metal OS and device driver work in C++ AND safely/consistently manipulate strings and complex data structures too. It's really the best of both worlds.
Sneakers has held up amazingly well to the passage of time. It didn't do anything impossible, just highly improbable.

If you haven't rewatched it in a while, it's worth watching again.
Ad blockers can do what you suggest, but it's very rudamentary. What it relies on, almost exclusively, is blocking calls to known ad networks. In my experience, about 95% of ads are blocked this way. Even if it was only 50%, that's still a gigantic number of previously unseen ads being seen.
This is a great observation, I didn't realize that clearinghouses were a thing. John, have you thought about what other backend bookkeeping systems could benefit from using blockchains?
> Nothing aside from the fact that you have literally eliminated the "common man" from even remotely participating in the market...

Even today, in the world of HFTs, this isn't the case. Long-term positions are still valid.

The common man was eliminated from regular trading a very long time ago. I don't see what's to complain about.
People are likely to cheat toward the end for a different obvious reason: namely that their estimate of impending poor success more and more accurate as the end nears, and so the pressure to do something to improve the outcome increases.

(This is in a different setting, when there is some limited time to achieve some predetermined, measurable goal.)

When the pressure sets in is when people start cutting corners, and that can come simply from being closer to a deadline while lagging in progress.
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Black on white murder is also extremely low.

~84% of white victims are murdered by whites and ~90% of black victims are murdered by blacks.[1]

Crime is primarily a function of opportunity. When opportunity is taken into account, the main reason for the discrepancy is blacks are simply more likely to come into contact with whites day to day than the reverse.

So while I can't confirm the above statistic for you I can refute the assumption that there is a significant discrepancy between white-on-black crime vs. black-on-white crime.

1. http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2015/may/21/update...
This will probably get downvoted into oblivion but ...

I have a kind of love hate relationship with SO.

I love that I get answers. I hate that I spend so much time writing answers and then see SO make bank from my work.

I've probably spent over 1000 hours writing answers on SO. Most of that time is spent writing working samples for answers. In fact http://webglfundamentals.org was started because of answers I wrote on SO where it they seemed too long for SO.

But, now there's this feeling of conflict where for every answer I have on webglfundamentals.org I really just want to paste a link to the article there on SO when it's relevent. But, SO frowns on that. So, I have to basically give SO all my content and work for free [or ignore it]. I supposedly get some kind of benefit from their gamification rep which I can show on my resume or something but conversely it feels like a treadmill that I must keep running on or lose my rep. It's become an unpaid responsibility.

To be clear it's not just webglfundamentals.org. It's any tech blog post period. I feel like an SO gets more popular they just suck up all content. Why write anything tech on my blog when 99% of the people looking for an answer will go to SO first? So it's become a negative influence for me in a way. Because no one is going to look anywhere but SO I feel less compelled to write tech articles.

Sorry for the rant. Maybe there's a solution? Maybe I've just got a bad POV. Like I said I certainly appreciate the other answers. Random brainfart, maybe like Youtube they should pay contributors? Yea, that will never work but something just feels wrong to me at moment. Also it isn't about the money really. I can't really put my finger on it.
Using a poshformat (which, if the use case was general enough, might be formalized into a microformat.) [0] Probably leveraging the HTML time element.

Of course, that lets you specify the execution time, but unless you have a system consuming the format that is aware of the additional semantics beyond the base HTML semantics, specifying that won't do anything.

[0] http://microformats.org/wiki/poshformats
a location based ViewMaster would be more interesting
By "disobedient tool for taking unique photographs" I was expecting a camera that added some sort of noise/glitches/features to pictures to make them unique.

As an art project, it sounds provoking to restrict a fellow photographer to reinterpret an ordinary/popular scenery.

Looking through the lenses of an engineer, the GPS alone won't tell accurately enough the direction at which you are pointing. Would be nice to take that into consideration, forcing a building to be photographed from every angle.
As helpful as that sounds, it still wouldn't help earlier in the pipeline effects such as policing (a fighting kid in a white school is just a fighting kid who gets de-escalated and a note sent home, a fighting kid in a black school is arrested automatically). Or another difficult early pipeline area is prosecution and plea bargains being racially different (the white kid gets a plea offer for municipal loitering, the black kid gets prosecuted for misdemeanor possession of burglary tools).

Explosive growth in income inequality makes the debate meaningless. There won't be grades of legal support, they'll just be billionaires who above the system and dirt poor peasants who get no support at all. Now (or recently) is probably not a good cultural era to go into the defense attorney field, for example. Being a defense attorney in an era where no one needs or can afford a defense attorney is like being a really great star trek warp field engineer in 2015, thats nice but how do you pay your bills?
How would you prefer technical standards be established?
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It is a disliked term, because it's a buzzword, which get really hyped up in the beginning until everyone can't hear it anymore. If you still use it after the initial hupe, it makes you sound like a tool. That's the thing with buzzwords ^^
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It was pretty noticeable on the first viewing IIRC. It's a common movie trope: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LineOfSightName
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I am pretty interested in the drug war - just finished el narco and chasing the scream:

http://www.amazon.com/El-Narco-Mexicos-Criminal-Insurgency/d...

http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-First-Last-Drugs/dp/162...

can you recommend any other good books on the topic ?
> Perhaps there are some things that could be improved within the penal system in the United States?

So many. But most of all, the attitude about what the hell prison is for needs to change. Many people embrace the death penalty in spite of increased costs, and support high sentences despite a low rate of successful rehabilitation. We need to care about our prisoners and vote for them for change to happen.

It's not that people aren't aware of it, it's a matter of priorities. There's a reason Trump is emphasizing immigration changes.
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I think that would be premature. She's still kicking ass. At least wait until she's past middle age.
I never really felt Bitcoin was all that pseudonymous - it's trivial to connect a blockchain address to an individual.

The blockchain elegantly solves a number of problems that had individual solutions, but does it in a way that is easy to repeat and extend while not having any obvious gaps.
So much wrong with this statement it's hard to even know where to start.
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BigCommerce probably is at this point, or very close to it.
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There's still a much larger difference in both laws and culture between European countires than between American states. Also, much of what you said doesn't make much sense. Lower life expectancy and productivity? Are you arguing that investing in startups is irrational and Europeans realize this while Americans don't?
I did via audiobook. It's much easier to passively listen until you find something interesting. There are so many little stories in history. For example, leaders of armies burning their own ships as soon as they make landfall. This forces their soldiers to fight or die. The conquistadors who followed this pattern (sinking instead of burning) their ships did not come up with the idea on their own. They drew from history.
What makes you choose Hacker News over other sites?
I agree, I think the script writers knew exactly what they were doing. They did not have to achieve technical accuracy to convey the hacker ethos to a general, or even a technical, audience.
Still haven't seen it though it's been regularly recommended to me for the last decade (ever since my...first or second 2600 meetup)
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As a statement of non-violence, it is an excellent goal. However, we should be trying to ensure that violence isn't happening.
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Is this really something all banks want? Well I don't want a blockchain for my private transactions where people can see what I pay for. I'm ok for it with larger interbanking transactions but not every company or bank wants to reveal every granular transaction. Or do I understand it wrong?
It is a bit odd that Schneier was stating it as an obvious fact despite no evidence. Of course, the NSA had and has great incentive to compromise them, as well as the ability to do so, but it's still an empty claim (even if it's probably a true one).
No, the key innovation of Bitcoin is that it enables establishing a consensus in a distributed system. That's what the blockchain does. Pseudononymity, by contrast, is nothing special, and arguably all electronic systems can trivially have pseudononymity because how can you really say which real-world entity something virtual corresponds to anyway? Bitcoin is no more pseudononymous than if I generate some random PGP keys with fake names and start signing and sending messages with them.
Sure, but if you're reaching consensus on a cryptographic chain of transactions, that's exactly what a blockchain is. Mining is not an integral feature.
And I did mine more recently (2010) [1] :) (Mostly semantic web stuff ... showing how it can far outperform Java based SPARQL implementations for some stuff).

It was a real joy to work with semantic web data in SWI-prolog! Prolog lets you raise your level of abstraction so quickly, as defining prolog rules basically is a form of creating "named queries", something that is not possible e.g. in SPARQL (the canonical semweb query language).

I can't understand why this feature of prolog is not implemented more widely in more recent systems. The only example I know of that does, is Datomic [2], by Rich Hickey.

[1] http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A3988...

[2] http://www.datomic.com
Sorry, but how does this respond to the parent post above? Opening more tabs as a response to site bloat?

If anything I'll abandon the site.

Still not a positive outcome.
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Trigger warnings are actually detrimental to mental health as enunciated in this Atlantic article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-codd...

Anxiety, for instance can be alleviated by exposure to the source of fear. Education needs something similar to cognitive behavioral therapy, with emphasis on evidence rather than the emotion-based trigger warnings.
It's definitely proof of work (ethash), although the plan is to transition to proof of stake in the future. Their most recent blog entry on this:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/08/01/introducing-casper-frie...
Boston is a first tier startup city, clearly.

It ranked above New York for total VC dollars raised in 2014, to go with its 371 deals, versus New York's 395.

It's basically third in deal activity nationally. It's four times larger than Seattle, and perhaps ten times larger than Pittsburgh when you account for deals + money.

http://nvca.org/pressreleases/u-s-venture-capital-investment...
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> Was "anonymous justice" ever attempted?

No, and it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

> What if judges, juries and lawyers worked on cases where the accused and the victim are anonymous.

How is the jury going to evaluate guilt or innocent based on evidence (whether physical evidence or witness testimony) -- including, particularly, evidence relating to the perpetrator, victim, and the details of their interactions that are essential to the question of guilt or innocence of the crime, if the identities, sex, race, etc., of the accused and the victim(s) are obscured from the jury?

What you might plausibly do is remove sentencing from the trial court, and anonymize the bare findings of fact before forwarding them to a separate body that handles sentencing. That might have some utility, though it would still be subject to bias in the trial courts actually in completing the findings of fact used for determining sentence.
Yes, but Bitcoin is a full system already designed for this exact purpose. The only real issue is the waste of proof-of-work, but that's proportional to the hashing power given to it; if the chain is private, a single server per bank would suffice.
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No hashpower is required. If you have a fixed pool of validators, just rotate through the validators to pick who creates the next block.
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It's not just technical though. BACS/CHAPS (payment systems that take days to move money and cost about £30 a go) would never die while banks had control of common technical standards. They're absurd. These standards mandate that each network hop include a holding delay measured in tens of hours. From light speed to days and why? Because it's a cash cow they'd be insane to mess with.
I do not see LISP as "declarative". I see LISP as recursive+immutable but “von Neumann style” on the end.

LISP is not declarative, I think.
Look if you want to move the goalposts ("killed zero" -> "rounding error") and admit your earlier claims overreached and were wrong I'm fine with that.

I'm very much pro-nuclear power and while I don't think of it as a panacea I'm open to the idea that it might be. OTOH, like most pro-nuclear people, I'm not lining up to raise my family next door to the reactor and I also don't think that the case for the safety of nuclear power needs to be exaggerated. Being 'a lot safer than coal' is a box that a lot of alternative energy sources get to tick off and a number of them are safer than nuclear too.
I know this is considered the most vile politically incorrect thing to say but please don't just downvote without comment.

The Jews, Italians, Irish, Chinese, and many more peoples all overcame decades, centuries, and millennia of brutal oppression to develop successful societies.

Why is that? Because African Americans have an average IQ of 85 and only 11-16% have an IQ > 100 (the national average).

When talking about population trends it's just physically impossible for blacks to compete on the same level as other peoples. Intelligence is correlated with long term planning and academic performance and is anti-correlated with lack of intelligence.

This is a shitty truth, one that liberals refuse to accept. But it doesn't matter what they choose to believe since this is reality.

Disclaimer: Obviously there are many intelligent black people and you shouldn't treat someone poorly because of the color of their skin.
"The book's basic argument is that free markets creative incentives for businesses to "phish."

This means that markets incent these businesses to sell bad products or peddle misinformation to customers."
Obama likely knows that a black person talking about racism gets deemed "the real racist" or "whining" by a significant portion of Americans.
Not all of those groups were considered "white" at the same time. A century ago, a hypothetically accurate census would have distinguished between more assimilated, older arrivals (WASPs, Scots-Irish, Germans, etc.) with Catholic immigrants.

Point is, different immigrant groups have different origins. Some have a leg up over other ones in terms of socioeconomic and education backgrounds, leading to different results. Asian-American isn't a monolithic bloc, regardless of what activists might say.
> I have no idea how American start ups can get away with demanding users live on the bleeding edge but apparently cultures can be very different.

Most of the startups have private customers, not corporate!
Is that even true? I'm familiar with the recent story about everyone supposedly passing on AirBnB. But the real reason is that it was an odd way to try to raise that amount of money. When raising a few 100,000s pre-product you go to a much smaller circle, not cold-ish intros to "pros".
>I heard so many times bullshit like "I don't know if you'll be alive in a year or two, so I can't adopt your technology")

That's a completely valid reason to not take your business, and it's a problem that US startups face just as much. Personally I don't touch products from startups with a ten foot pole unless the benefit is overwhelmingly massive (very rare) or it's designed as a one time purchase with little necessary long term support.

If you're selling to businesses then longevity is going to be a top concern no matter where you go. Whatever benefit they get over your mainstream competitor is likely not worth it compared to the risk of incurring the cost of switching technologies twice in a short amount of time.
Means they can run a closed pool on a secure network - reduces/eliminates (depending on implementation) risk of forking due to Chinese ASIC farms etc.

My understanding is that the first usage of blockchain would just be an inter-bank shared ledger.
A movie that went from her childhood through her days in school to quitting school, racing, opening her store and becoming a hardware engineer up to her recent successful funding would be great. Plus we can always have a second movie for what she does later instead of yearly reboots like those Steve Jobs biopics. Pirates of Silicon Valley was completed before the release of the iPhone, right?
If blacks are more likely to come into contact with whites than the reverse then it would follow that blacks are more likely to be killed by whites than whites are by blacks.
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NAFTA isn't free trade. That's the lies the capitalists play with. NAFTA is a mechanism for heavily regulating trade, setting quotas, etc - in essence, state-granted monopolization.

https://c4ss.org/content/5231
You have to write a functionality for this scenario. Similarly You can also ask how Sql server is going to avoid DOS attacks?
I had fun last year playing with WebGL implementations of these systems, e.g.

http://bl.ocks.org/robinhouston/ed597847175cf692ecce

http://bl.ocks.org/robinhouston/f2592c6b2e779b26f60d

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How is sex, race etc required to evaluate guilt or innocent?

What you suggest in your last paragraph is pretty much what I had in mind. Facts would be gathered and then anonymized before being used for sentencing. Instead of "this black guy raped this white woman" they would make their decision based on "this person raped this other".
Don't flatter yourself, you didn't "critically" review nothing, what you exhibit here is (ironically) lots of Cherry picking which lead us of course to Confirmation bias.

The focus on the "Revolution-news" site (Btw It's NOT the source of the said slides) and your godawful example about the mangoes speak for itself.
Upvoted you, I agree. Also, for the non-Germans, take-home cash (after taxes and mandatory medical insurance), depending on your tax class, may be as low as 1.800€ from said 3.000€.
As always, there's an XKCD about it :)

https://xkcd.com/927/
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I guess it's meant to go over TLS, just like HTTP basic auth.
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The traffic light exploit still works, sort of. They didn't upgrade the sensors or the communication protocol, they just changed it so that it turns all of the lights red. Emergency vehicles can run reds, so it works for them and not you.