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> All that to say, there is value in "becoming an expert" in a framework.

You can spend time learning Bootstrap's eccentricities, or you can learn something useful like OOCSS. One will make you really productive at making websites that are instantly recognizable as Bootstrap-based, the other will make you productive implementing any kind of design.

Time spent fighting Bootstrap is wasted time from this perspective. Time spent fighting your own designs is time spent learning valuable lessons about front-end coding. You may gain a marginal speed improvement with Bootstrap, especially (and perhaps only, I find Bootstrap slows me down) if you're new at front-end, but you're paying a steep price for it down the line, if you ever plan on building a site that doesn't work with the framework.
There's a group in Waterloo called LabForge who set up actual physical lab experiments for undergrads to interact with over the internet. I think they may have pivoted since then, but there's a demo of it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uveI-8BrZ4

I'm with a robotics company, and we've also periodically toyed with setting up "robot playpen" where you could log in, pay by the hour, and run your algorithms or whatever on actual hardware. The reality is, though, that for a lot of the interesting problems in robotics (perception, mapping, localization), a recorded dataset is more than enough, and for the rest (controls, guidance), a sufficiently high-fidelity simulation is better for development anyway.

By the time you've made all those software investments, you probably own hardware anyway, so the total market for an "AWS of robots" is probably not really all that large.
> The other side wants to propagate individual liberty and democracy and takes great lengths to avoid civilian casualties

This is why you're wrong. No, the leaders (whether it is the politicians or the military command) don't care about civilian casualties unless there's large vocal resistance.
Any rational actor does not respect any treaties. That's the normal way of business in international relations. It's a grand chessboard. The point is to put your opponent in check and keep it that way. In order to do that you can utilize any means necessary to do so while appearing as if you are following the rules.

It's the same way all government organizations in the West operate.
They mention in the article non-biological process that can affect isotope ratios. This seems much more plausible. Suggesting that there were large enough amounts of terrestrial chemotrophs to change isotopic ratios is not supported by anything else we know about this time period, or life on Earth in general. The burden of proof is still in their camp to demonstrate:

1. Any evidence to suggest biological origin
2. Reasons why biological process are more likely to account for the observed iostope ratio that non-biological.

Until then, this is only an interesting, though unlikely, explanation.
Move to Finland.

They have a population database which is queried by companies, such that if you move house your details are updated once, and instantly visible to companies.

It's both a little disturbing, and highly useful.
That would be fraud, you are now asking the advertiser to fund the web without any upsides.
Thank you the links are very appreciated. I do feel like I am fighting against parts of bootstrap at times. Responsive websites are the reason I used bootstrap in the first place. It's very easy to build a responsive website with out of the box bootstrap.
I don't disagree with the fact that there are and have been domestic Christian extremists. I was specifically responding to DanBC's claim that US citizens are at GREATER risk from the police and Christian terrorists.

What information sources do you follow that indicate that Christian extremism is even remotely as great a threat as Islamic extremism? When I look at the FBI most wanted terrorists lists and other sources, I see a complete dominance by Islamic terrorist groups.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/10/23/fbi-c...

Contrary to your claim that the DoJ is downplaying domestic terrorism, I've noted several efforts by the administration to "talk up" domestic terrorism and downplay Islamic terrorism - then when pressed on who these domestic terrorists are, administration officials have been at a loss to name any specifics.
You wouldn't.

The government would just have the private keys so they could decrypt traffic easily.
You can set the entropy to any amount you want. You need to consider encryption methods that put in at least a bit of effort to hide themselves. It could select random phrases and pretend to be a spambot.
Here's a Chicago Tribune story about Chicago's startup drain that was on the front page recently: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/globalcity/ct-global-city...

It seems the most important issue is the chicken-and-egg problem: Chicago doesn't have a large magnate company with lots of b/millionaire founders that then fund the ecosystem. Groupon was once thought to be just that company but hasn't turned out good.

The other problem seems to be plain and simple: being in the middle of nowhere doesn't help. From the article:

"The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign turns out more engineering graduates than any U.S. school except the Georgia Institute of Technology, yet no tech scene has grown around it — or 140 miles north in Chicago. Fewer than half of these engineers remain in the state while 10 to 15 percent have gone to California in each of the past five years"

For a young person, there are many more opportunities to do sports (mountain biking, hiking, skiing, kayaking) in other places.

As a final point: Chicago, long the city of broad shoulders, is not famous for its counterculture, like Seattle or Portland is, so loses that chance for attracting people, too.
This same narrative has been massaged into hundreds of stories on the attacks. These news outlets are doing surveillance-crazed politicians' bidding for them by creating the public perception that these people would still be alive were it not for encryption. Perhaps the Times realized how dangerously stupid this narrative is and is working to do something about it.

We are told that if we stop going to the mall or sporting events out of fear, then the terrorists win. They also win if we lose our privacy rights in response to this or any other attack.
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Good luck building images inside a docker container..
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If this really is what Greenwald is saying, than he's pretty solidly turned into the Glenn Beck of the left.

The rule of law might not seem always fair, but it hampers the powerful much more than the weak. As an example: None of the billionaires in my city have set up their own duchy pressed us into an army, enforcing their own laws. Their taxes, while not as high as I would like, in fact pay for much of our city budget including city services. Even the poor in my city have access to clean water and the library system.

Just because we have to fight to maintain the sanctity of the legal system and because every actor isn't perfect, does not mean that it's entirely corrupt and captive. I would ask you to take a moment to compare the current rule of law, rule of law in a developing country, and rule of law without the rights guarded by a nation-state.
Real estate auction collusion is a big problem that robs people of 10s of thousands of dollars. I don't buy the argument that conducting your crimes on the courthouse steps should entitle you to any kind of protection.
Maybe donate them to charity instead?
>Tying simulation to framerate is often the best choice, when you consider that most hardware is average, it minimizes latency for the average user, and results with a more accurate simulation

It can be, if you either are on a fixed hardware platform or have both modest demands and a framelimiter in place to keep things from going off the rails. But in return you pay with a great source of nondeterminism that can cause maddening bugs, break replays, and hinder synchronization in networked games.

>so long as people keep vsync on (why do you need framerate greater than your monitor's refresh rate anyway...)

Two things going on here. Vsync is theoretically a great idea (that worked perfectly in practice on countless simpler platforms in the past), but due to driver flaws and the realities of preemptive multitasking introduces a noticeable additional frame or two of latency on every PC I've used in the past decade or so, whether playing a game or just using regular desktop applications. My guess is that the OS scheduler isn't precise enough to keep applications from barely missing a present deadline (thus causing unnecessary stuttering), so driver devs force triple buffering when vsync is enabled to compensate, giving you a smooth but unresponsive presentation. It really sucks that I have to toggle desktop composition (and thus, vsync) on and off to fix stuttering in one application or tearing in another, but somewhere in the Lovecraftian horror that is Windows, someone screwed up.

The other is "why do you need framerate greater than your monitor's refresh rate anyway," and the answer is "to provide the lowest latency and smoothest presentation possible within the constraints of a preemptive multitasking OS." In a perfect world, a game would know exactly how long it would take to simulate and render a frame, and would wait as long as possible before doing so, so that the most up-to-date input from the keyboard, mouse, and network could be used to display a frame with the least amount of latency factored into it to the player. This is not a perfect world, but you can get a similar effect (at a greater CPU and GPU cost) by rendering multiple superfluous frames, so that whichever one happens to be presented is much closer to the ideal than the one you'd see if you rendered the frame at the start of the 16ms then yielded for the rest of it.

This is part of why you often see "pro e-sports" types turning the graphics settings down to comical levels, by the way. Not only to lessen the threat of a completely missed frame due to a spike in visual complexity, but also so that they can run their game with the framelimiter off.
I wouldn't dispute that we do not all enjoy equal protection under the law. But I wonder how your belief accounts for instances where the "rule of law" has been prioritized by the courts over criminal investigations.

For a notorious example, consider that some members of the Weather Underground committed crimes that could easily have resulted in life sentences, yet they are free today because the court found the evidence against them was collected illegally. This may not be a typical example, but it would seem to conflict with the idea that the rule of law is "largely a joke."
Google would not be a 300 Billion dollar company. I got down voted for simply saying the truth. A lot of companies are as big as they are due to the Ad revenue.
Because that's considered ad fraud. There're websites specifically doing this such as have a silent video ad playing in a hidden div and try to get paid for it. But the ad network is not stupid enough to pay for this kind of fake "impression" where users don't even see the ad. In addition, this kind of action will lower the advertising value of the website. So in the end, even for the website itself, it's more harmful to have adblocker click on ads rather than just block it.
I wanted a Samsung phone but a pure Android experience. Not all those Samsung and AT&T mods. Shouldn't have to buy a phone direct from Google to get that.

Apple is a hardware company Google is not.
Recording cameras on buses also catch plenty of indiscriminate random conversation. These recording devices were placed in a public space, so you have no expectation of privacy. However that doesn't mean that they should be permitted in court or is that the FBI isn't quite rude in having placed them.

It really is up to the judges to prevent tainted evidence and flat out fishing from being made cases of. The method is not unreasonable, in the right circumstances, but the justification and building of a case makes all the difference.
It's my understanding that the fact that women could inherit at all was a huge move toward social progress at the time.
I don't understand how you can square the idea that the market will pay good amounts for content with the fact that ads are ubiquitous, not just something found on low-quality sites. If ads weren't the best way to make a living, why wouldn't quality publications like Ars Technica just ask people to pay?
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The few generations before were the only generations ever to have job security. I suspect it was because Europe was so devastated by the war (and so many of the previous generation were dead), that the economy couldn't help but grow.
Reminded me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luv_bWmb9lE
Someone who looked at the size of the existing taxi and carpool market would have missed how Lyft and Uber significantly increased the number of people willing to take rides with strangers (whether drivers or co-travelers).
The data is interesting, but the git repo is actually nice as well. easy to read through and replicate for other kind of stats.
thanks!
If the safety of your products depends on disabling features, you should stay out of anything remotely safety critical.
Don't lots of credit unions already offer this kind of service.
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And again, what drove them to take that position?
It's a bunch of microservices, look at the other projects in the org.
I really enjoyed the article as well. I wasn't even aware of some of the structure standards you listed (specifically JSend and HAL).

Side note: I think there is a typo near the bottom trough should be through in the header based versioning section.
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This is a good explanation and probably close to how it works. However, the "build a model of the other person in your head" method isn't foolproof. In fact, the longer you consider it, the less sense it seems to make. Your model can never be accurate to what that person is thinking (might as well not even have the person if you can already simulate their entire mind in yours). It would be dangerous to think that you have an actual model of someone's mind (as opposed to a model of your own perceptions of someone's mind).
It seems structured to fail. Anyone annoyed enough by ads isn't going to pay for 50% less ads when they could have 100% less ads for free with an ad blocker.
Fighting my way through the article, looking for some info I read this:

...uptake has been slow...
...the idea has gotten little interest from readers...
...The adoption rate is very, very low...
...a tiny percentage of the site’s overall inventory...
...has not been a meaningful driver of revenue...
...the number of paying subscribers hasn’t been huge...

Dudes! Instead of repeating the same foggy sentence over and over and over to make an article out of a simple number - how about giving a simple percentage of how many readers have signed up and be done with it?
A money manager. It knows all the expenses and allocates an allowance. it tells you to get a new job and to trim expenses in a sensible way. it tells you to stop buying so many clothes/books/whatever. it asks you to repeat what you are doing when you don't spend money. it makes you justify expenses before you can have money. it saves for you.

I think this is possible now, when it was impossible before. it funds a debit card monthly for you, and calculates everything else. it learns you finances and then plans accordingly. most people will adapt to whatever money they have, they just suck at managing it. there isn't anyone that tells you "you can't afford that." or "you will run out of money if your lunches are so expensive" "your rent is too much money, get a better job" "you are not saving enough, what can you change so I can save you more money?" that would make life SO much easier.
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Kind of like the TSA approved locks for your baggage. Those are very secure and can be opened only by the government officials, last I heard. The only downside is that those TSA master keys might become available to the third party somehow, but I don't see that happening anytime soon, since we can always trust the government to keep such information secure.
> Pumping money into worthless products with no return

This part shows your fundamental misunderstanding of what startups are all about.

9 failures for 1 success is expected. That means 9 worthless products, for 1 hit. But you don't know they're worthless until they've developed enough to be tested by the market. And that sometimes takes money. And that is what YC is about.

The truth is you're applying to YC just to be in YC, part of the club. You need to have a great idea and show you can execute and make a return for investors who believed in you and took your bet. Do that and the door is wide open, just like it has been the last 8 times you applied.

There is no shame in getting up and trying again, so good luck to you in the next round.
Also, canvas support can be turned off. We have clients who have the latest version of Chrome, however they run on VMs and the system admins have canvas turned off (no gpu rendering at all). Out of our control...
There're more freeloaders that you can imaging. And there're lots of paying users love to be freeloader if they can get the same thing without paying. Reference the music industry and napster.
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Also, Digital Apollo by David Mindell.

Early on--being the late 50s and into the early 70s--the desire for pilot control was entirely the rational thing. Automation was very primitive and pretty much limited to doing the right thing only when the situation was nominal. Pilots are easily overwhelmed by tedium and a "pilot in the loop" design methodology prevailed at NASA. Basically that means if a human can do it, they should. The Soviet design took a different tack and invested more in automation, dooming some cosmonauts but being probably for the best long-term.

Nowadays we know how to do some things very, very well--rendezvous--so heavy automation makes sense. In other areas that are more research projects pilot in the loop still makes sense.

It's a tradeoff of efficiency for flexibility and fault tolerance.
The quoted range was two miles though I have to think that was within the atmosphere. Even in LEO something fired @ 1500mph relative to the source should continue to travel at that speed unless it interacts with something no?
Just curious, why do you prefer shell instead of term or ansi-term?

Both of those other modes have better support for curses applications and act closer to an actual terminal emulator than M-x shell does.

Also, if you like term, you can use the "multi-term" script (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/multi-term.el), which will automatically open a new terminal window with M-x multi-term, and you can cycle through your open terminals with M-x multi-term-next and multi-term-prev
No, but i would use the experience from my hackathon in my own long-term project. Hackathon is when i try out new things and did a lot of experiments.
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If the secret service is relying on snooped messages as the main affective method to catch criminals then it's doing it wrong. They're stuck in the WW2 mentality where they could listen on radio and decrypt codes. Back then it was very effective but that was 60 years ago.

Secret services should consider decrypted communication as a nice to have, but they should be completely capable of being effective without decrypting communication channels and listening on private citizens.
I'd just add that Uber being fairly successful in a lot of areas in spite of the fact that taxis were already a thing has probably led a lot of people to take away a (somewhat) incorrect lesson--namely that app-ing the taxi experience fundamentally changes the economics.

In fact, Uber has, for example, had a lot less relative impact in Manhattan which already has lots of taxis than in other locales. So the more correct lesson is that taxis were and are pretty broken in a lot of places and that those markets would actually have supported a more functional taxicab system.

Now, one can assume that low-density suburbs and exurbs are also underserved markets but I don't see a lot of evidence that's the case.
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That sci-fi book was already written, "This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin. A computer is in control of a nearly global utopian socialist society, but critical thinking, emotions, and familial attachment is strictly discouraged via regular drug-aided "therapy", propaganda, surveillance, etc. A softer, peace-loving, technocratic version of 1984. The protagonist rebels, relapses, and rebels again, eventually in spectacular fashion. It's revealed that the computer is used by an elite class who do all the planning, and who grow their ranks by taking in those who are the most successful and clever in their rebellion. It may not be quite what you're looking for, because some members of this hidden leadership are quite cynical, but many are also sincere and think that their work is good citizenry.
How well does plot.ly do with plain old equation plotting? In particular, I'm looking for something that can produce mobile friendly plots that scales diagrams automatically to show relevant features (x, y intercepts, inflection points, etc) for simple function families - y= mx + b, ax^2 + bx + c, etc.

Any suggestions on available libraries, or am I better to start from scratch on this?
As a counterpoint: what about the efficacy of condensed matter physics informing developments in quantum field theory?

Of course analog systems must be treated carefully, but I think we shouldn't rush to do away with the practice entirely. Naturally, we do want to study black holes directly (with experiments like LIGO, LISA, etc.), but this is very expensive, difficult, and time consuming. If a small lab wants to try out some gravitationally analogous system, why not?
"It’s time to use the password reset link again, which at this point is basically your login button."

This actually is not a bad idea. For rarely used sites I might as well just make something up that is impossible to guess and that I will never remember, and then just use the reset link every time.
His or her edit wasn't tactful, but I also think the reply represented a common opinion that hadn't been represented on this thread and deserved the consideration you were good enough to provide. I've seen even well-educated people espouse the belief that anything goes as far as monitoring the behavior of people while in "public." I wouldn't defend this view myself, but it's an idea worth engaging, if only because of its prevalence.
Plus you forfeit up-to-substantial speed advantages when you are bidding on the ad space yourself.