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> I do not know who is the uneducated here, but in the case of OAuth, the other company already has the user data.

No, they don't. Google, for example, doesn't have the entire signup list of all the users of The Old Reader, but they have a lot of The Old Reader's users, because The Old Reader outsources authorization for some of its users to Google. That's data that Google is collecting via OAuth, and you'd better believe they use that data.

> What OAuth enables is to use their information to verify the user.

That's what it enables for the OAuth consumer, but there are far easier ways of doing that. The difficulties of OAuth exist because OAuth doesn't serve the OAuth consumer's needs, it serves the OAuth provider's needs.
The IPFS API isn't exposed like that, there is actually a whitelist for hashes that can access the API (the IPFS webui is in the whitelist by default), and hashes that are blocked will get a 403.
"By which metric would you measure this "efficiency"?"

Good question. A few ideas:

-- ROIC
-- Competitive advantage versus peers (hard to measure, but one attempt: http://web.mit.edu/is08/pdf/Parrish.pdf)
-- Share of market
-- Enlargement of market
-- Quality of hiring versus peers

These are the things that can make a company last for centuries. The hunch I was stating -- though admittedly without a clear way to prove it yea or nay -- is that enterprises that invest in small nimble VC-backed technology companies will begin to outperform, on these measures, traditional in-house R&D departments.
I'd wager that a large proportion of elderly drivers lack the strength to make a full brake application.
There are major differences. First is that your point (1) is simply untrue. There is resistance, yes, but not violent resistance.

More importantly, measles is still pretty widespread and there's no realistic prospect for near-term eradication. Getting all the California hippies to vaccinate wouldn't make a difference in terms of measles eradication, because they make up an insignificant proportion of global measles cases. Polio, however, is endemic in precisely two regions of the world, and getting those two regions to vaccinate would eliminate the disease entirely.
I'm perfectly comfortable with the idea of CPS taking children away from anti-vax parents, and unvaccinated adults who refuse vaccination being forcibly quarantined.
Taken to an extreme: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/08/tiger-oil-memos.html
While there are merits to that, there are two roles to a citation.

One is to reference clearly foundational work. Here, you've got a limited set of choices, but also, directly consequent, the total number of works is small. The key here is to ensure that they're made publicly available -- SciLib, LibGen, etc.

I've found myself frustrated by researchers who don't cite key foundational works -- case in point is Fischer-Tropsch based fuel synthesis from electricity. I'd run across several studies from the US Naval Research Lab none of which cited research prior to the mid 1990s. Turns out the field is actually over 50 years old, with early work at Brookhaven National Labs -- not some sketchy fly-by-night. The lack of citations here was egregious.

The other purpose, and far more common, is simply to show documentation of established claims or facts in a field. Here, virtually any credible source will do, and it's for this type of citation that open-access pubs can and should be strongly favoured.
If I understand it correctly, the problem isn't really overpopulation, it was a mix of overpopulation and underpopulation. IIRC, beavers were trapped for their fur, which lead to their population being wiped out in some areas. At the same time, you had beavers in urban or suburban areas, where their dams can cause flooding and other problems.

So what they did was trap the beavers that lived close enough to humans to cause problems, and airdropped them into places where they would benefit the environment (at least from our perspective).

I assume back then - when fur coats were a thing - the idea of increasing the beaver population was considered an economic win.
It is important to look at the background and qualifications of the coding bootcamp graduates who then (allegedly) land a high paying job. I have seen a number of cases where the graduate landed a so-called "data science" job but had a strong relevant background even without the boot camp. For example, an actuary might plausibly take a 12-week data science/coding bootcamp to learn or strengthen their knowledge of certain coding or other skills and then land a job as a "data scientist" as actuaries already have most of the statistical knowledge and intuitions from their work.

Data science in particular is drawing heavily on highly qualified applicants with backgrounds in statistics, mathematics, various sciences such as physics where there is extensive data analysis but not formal CS degrees. Many can benefit however from a crash course in some aspects of coding or certain hot data science tools. The job placement prospects for applicants without the strong background, relying solely on the coding bootcamp training, will probably be much poorer.
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[Romans 7:14] For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. [15] For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good which I will; but the evil which I hate, that I do. [16] If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it is good. [17] Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. [18] For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will, is present with me; but to accomplish that which is good, I find not. [19] For the good which I will, I do not; but the evil which I will not, that I do. [20] Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Are you implying that this patent should not have been granted?
I have seem cases when a group of stateless monoliths would have solved more efficiently a business case than the micro-services alternative.

I'm not saying micro-services are a fad, because they are great for isolating domains and degradation of service, but that comes with a high amount of boilerplate code for remote invocation and serialization.

I would personally say, if your project has not reached 10,000 lines of code do not go that way. also if you can solve the problem at hand with a cluster of stateless monoliths, keep it simple.

Dear friends, keep at hand the Occam's razor
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Meanwhile, Texans are not even vaguely aware were "Norwegia" is. (More of a statement as to how important Norway is on the world stage than Texans' geographic knowledge)
I first read about Twitter in this [0] Wired article in 2007.

I admit that I pretty much agreed: "pointless email on steroids." "You can't say anything in such a short message... So why do it at all?"

There must be an aphorism to do with obvious solutions to obvious problems are already solved. So the hidden gems are the inverse: Counter-intuitive solutions to problems we didn't know we had.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2007/06/st-thompson-4/
And that's your piece of first-hand experience why rampant inequality afflicts even the wealthy.
There's nothing religious in this article at all, and speaking as a Christian jailing people for being too poor to pay an arbitrary fine is nothing close to what we'd encourage in our public officials.

It's just greed, good old fashioned greed. Greed from the municipalities that want more money, and greed from the taxpayers who constantly demand more services for less money out of their paychecks.
ESPN is shutting down its YouTube channels over paid subscriptions
I completely agree with this comment. Indian consultancies are here to cheat. Have seen this happen first hand.
I had to re-read that part. They are talking about an ordinary red or green laser pointer. The beam itself is hardly visible compared to the spot on the wall--unless your air contains a lot of dust or smoke or fog.
Others here can better answer this than me. All I would say is that "5%-better-marketing-dashboard-optmization-platform" type companies get far more attention from the tech press than they probably merit. There is a lot of high risk R&D going on here: medicine, medical devices, transport, semis, crypto, and insurance, to name a few disparate areas.
Why make an exception for ads? Sending millions of emails to people who did not solicit them is unethical and spam, but using an ad network to accomplish the same thing is okay?
I find this to be shortsighted. It might work, and polio might be eradicated because of it, but what happens with the next disease? You'll simply confirm their fears and cause even more resistance to medical science.

It strikes me as being the same sort of thinking that caused the CIA to abuse the vaccination program in their hunt for bin Laden. In both cases, a focus on a single short-term goal harms more people overall because of the larger consequences.
Europeans seem to need to believe that Americans are horribly oppressed, but of course that is laughable in the same way as thinking they will be carjacked if they come to the US. Watching too many American movies maybe. Americans pay little attention to Europe while Europeans obsess over America, which sets an odd dynamic because Europe is larger and richer yet somehow ineffectual in comparison.
Good analysis, for those who have a knee-jerk reaction to this line of thinking, consider how you'd feel if we were talking about terrorist groups that we knew were planning massive strikes against civilization.

If you view deaths due to diseases that would be prevented by vaccination in that light the money that we're spending on fighting terrorism versus spending similar amounts (literally trillions of dollars) on eradicating diseases by any means necessary (yes, even boots on the ground & forceful vaccination) the situation starts looking very different.

Why can a few ignorant pockets of humanity hold the entirety of the rest of the species hostage in perpetuity? And unlike some needing to take out some insurgent group because they might attack the west it's pretty much guaranteed that these diseases will flare up again, with guaranteed deaths for untold amount of innocents. Just look at how close we came with the recent Ebola crisis.
Hairdressers, doctors, and baristas operate in a market of free choice. Their motivation to be polite is that customers will go elsewhere if they don't.

Police officers have a monopoly in their industry. If you're being detained, you can't choose to take your business to another police jurisdiction. You're stuck with them no matter how rude they decide to be.
At the end of the day they are also people and they interact with other people in their day to day lives. When they go to the bank they don't arrest the teller. When they go to the supermarket they don't arrest the cashier. When they go home they don't arrest their wife and kids. Maybe they've seen the same movie you did last night. Maybe they are fans of the the same team. Maybe their brother went to school with you.

You can connect with anyone on a personal level but you need to have people skills. If you're confrontational and non compliant you're setting yourself up for this power contest you can't win.
True, and I don't have an issue with inheritance. I'd prefer no estate tax.

Whether zeroed-out grantor-retained annuity trusts should be a valid tax avoidance scheme is a valid question, if that's your point.
This is giving me a strong Renowned Explorers vibe :p Want to play the new content when I get home.
"Four random negative comments selected from techcrunch and twitter".

You can find such commentary on anything from startups to movies or nutrition or blog posts trying to force-fit a popular narrative, it's just a byproduct of opinion intersecting with literacy.
Any plans to open source the code?
The uncomfortable question that needs asking here is why are all these cities hurting for money so badly and the answer is us. We as taxpayers are constantly demanding and electing politicians who promise (and deliver) tax cuts. Then we turn around and bitch because potholes don't get fixed.

If you want your Government to run well, you need to goddamn pay for it. People need to grow up.
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I can't remember where I read it, but I saw a comment that said Samsung is leading the way with its "3D NAND" technology and they are pushing a lot of consumer products into the pipeline, which is why there has been a recent fall in 1TB SSD prices.

Makes you wonder if online cloud backup services are going to have a tough time in the future...
Ah good thing, so imgur abstracts extensions apparently

Better if you request with .gifv extension, then it's a much smaller (than a gif) html5 video)
Start by eating lots of fatty foots instead. Meat, vegetables, eggs, and nuts have very little to no sugar.
>Old websites will simply vanish, even ones that are otherwise maintained on the current web.

Not really. Today, a website needs to be maintained by the original host or it goes away. If IPFS were used, the same site would need to be hosted by the original host or any other interested party.

If absolutely nobody else is interested enough to host it, the original host can continue to do so, and the site would be in the same situation as today's sites: hosted by one node.

>In particular, applications like this post itself, that are part backup part publishing, aren't great applications of IPFS because your images are just hosted off your home internet connection. Power outage? No data. ISP issue? No data. Hardware failure? Hope you had a real backup. Basically, why would I choose IPFS, which is in this case equivalent to self hosting, over flickr, instagram, etc?

While I haven't looked at the source code, I'm fairly certain ipfs.pics is uploading the photos to their servers as well. It's effectively a Flickr-type site using IPFS as the backend, with the added benefit that the photos may still be available somewhere else if their servers disappear.
The keto (short for ketogenic) diet is a popular name for this. You only eat proteins and fats as your macronutrients (with room for 20g or less of net carbs per day). You have to consciously choose to avoid carbohydrates, which can be difficult. But the energy/mood stability and quick weight loss are undeniable positive results.
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That was a great episode.
That may be true, but it hardly supports the claim (at the start of this subthread) that it's ok for a fine to be like a credit card balance. At best it's an irrelevant tangent.
Thanks! That's completely new to me. You got me looking into Dire, which looks like a similar pattern for error handling.

https://github.com/MichaelDrogalis/dire
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So don't collect any more information than you need.

Choosing OAuth amounts to a very bad assumption that you'll never care about who your users are.
true - but the curve is not what you'd expect. Apartments in Bangalore cost half of what they do in San Jose.
One could argue that mandatory vaccination laws, which are being passed in some states, are a form of force. I think that these laws are good and useful, but they do point out that even Westerners need coercion at times. They also point out a potential way to apply 'force' to the remaining pockets, which is to introduce vaccination requirements into international treaties, either as requirements for trade deals or something else. The UN would probably be the proper vessel for this, rather than any individual Western country, although certainly those countries could spearhead the effort to make this happen.
> No normal user is going to jump through the hoops necessary to turn experimental flags on.

That's the feature, it's not a bug.

It's a technical debt issue for the web. Some of those early -webkit prefixed CSS features changed between when the prefixed version was introduced to Webkit and the final spec. Because enough of the old version exists in the wild on the web, the nonstandard versions effectively have to be supported forever or someone's aunt's favorite website mysteriously breaks.

Ultimately the change here is to trust in the standardization process. We, as the web development community, can solve the root cause problem: standards take too long from proposal to "recommendation". We don't need to use the hack of using experimental/prototypal/unfinished features for years, if we can speed up the process for features the web wants.

The benefit of a little bit of patience (or the usage of smart polyfills) with respect to the latest and greatest features is hope for a better web where we can all spend less time worrying about cross-browser quirks like which vendor prefixes are supported/not-supported and whether or not they use some ancient nonstandard form.
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He was replying to a post that matches the price of a computer to a car, with the implication that that's expensive. He replied saying that a rMBP "starts at $1299", and he was disagreeing with the post he was replying. Thus his implication was that this is a cheap price.
You also have to look at labor participation rate, as discouraged workers who stop looking for a job are not counted in unemployment numbers: http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_303.htm

Note an interesting trend that while the rate drops from 80.2% for 45-54 age to 64.5% for 55-64, it's been trending up since 1992 sharply, while other participation rates have seen a modest decline.

This could suggest that people 55-64 are more employable today, but it could also mean they are poorer on average and have to take a job to survive. My money is on the latter.
What if it recommends me food that I don't like? What if cafeteria only offers non-compliant food on some days? What if I go to a party? What if I eat out with other people?
Yes, luckily for these people, they live in a region where Polio is uncommon.

Most of the world could stop vaccinating their children if they chose to. It'd be fine. Until the disease spreads to their population and people start to get infected.

One case of Polio could quite quickly cause California to become a Polio infected region, like Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Then we'd have to deal with that area too.

Though without the conviction of other populations, I imagine a once-defiant Western population would quickly revert to willingly accepting the vaccine once they've seen the horrors of the disease with their own eyes.
You're playing with semantics.

Every single one of the policies you describe are exactly wealth redistribution (except for corporate lobbying -- that's restriction on speech). You just perceive them as examples of good policies. You think they are particularly fair ways to redistribute wealth.

Unless you think that when tuition is free, the cost isn't passed to anyone? Or if the minimum wage is raised, no one has to pay?
I don't support the rioters. However they faced the exact same treatment from those who were supposed to protect them. They were fucked over and abused and had their lives smashed simply because they were poor or black or different.

The message that they wanted expressed is being effectively expressed at the cost of innocents just like they were innocent and abused.
Exactly my point :)
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I was born in Texas and have lived here for most of my life. I travel a lot and get to see many locales and cultures, especially in the US.

Texas really has two sides to it:

There is the traditional 'Texas' that most people outside of Texas probably think of. It's the guy on his land that walks around with his gun in one hand and the bible in the other, literally and metaphorically. Many of these people are close minded to new thoughts or ideas. They don't like anything that doesn't fit in with how they were raised. You will find many girls saying, "I want a man who's country." When you ask them what that means, they say, "has good family values, hard working, owns a truck" and many others of course. I've even said, "Well I live in downtown Dallas, so I'm not 'country' in that aspect, but I do believe in strong family values...and well I don't own a truck because I simply don't need one." And I'm immediately rejected. And told that I can't have good morals/values...This has happened to me several times. I do have to say that these people are still nice. For the most part they will not be rude to you, and they will keep a smile. Yes, they are highly ignorant, but at least they are..for the majority of them, polite and non violent about it.

Then there is the other side of Texas. This is usually in the cities...Dallas, Austin, Houston, and various suburbs. These places have probably some of the nicest people I've met in the U.S. Many people in these cities aren't even from Texas. They have had some of the most job growth in the nation in the last few years. Most people here are completely opposite of what most people from outside think of Texas think of.

Some of my friends recently visited me in Dallas, who had also never been to Texas before, said "This is not at all what I was expecting...I love Dallas!". We have some of the top schools in the nation, some very nice people, a ridiculously good economy, lower cost of living and mild winters. (Ok, the traffic is getting really bad here because the highways can't keep up with the population growth...). Many of my friends moved here because their job moved here, and they said initially they were pretty disappointed in having to move to Texas. Now, they won't leave. These friends are from Seattle, Washington D.C., NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, Den, all over.

I encourage anyone who has not visited Texas before to give it a shot, go to Dallas, Austin and around those areas, you're in for a surprise.