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> What about people who think it's simply unjust when innocent people are killed in the name of some religious/political end?

I don't think that you'll find many exceptions to that.

> E.g. I know that there is almost no chance that I'll be the victim of gang violence. But that doesn't mean I have to just accept the existence of gang violence in my community.

So, as a member of that community you then have the option to go out and do something about it. You can also move out, you can pay someone else to do something about it (which you already do through your taxes, hopefully they do enough). You can also keep your eyes open if you see anything suspicious and report it. You can rally support for better pay for the police so the chances of corrupt police interacting with gangs goes down.

And finally, it may actually mean that yes, you will have to accept the existence of gang violence in your community if that community is incapable of changing from within.

Gang violence takes a while to establish itself, and it - even with the best of the best working to get rid of it - can't be gotten rid overnight. Problems of this kind usually take roughly as long to fix as it takes to solve them.
"illegal algorithms"

Wow, how do you define that? So, start banning math now?
Netbeans, despite what some people argue, is very good with both Java and PHP.

TBH I have minor snags with 8.1 so I'm holding back there. However compared to Intellij where I had a paid license and they still replied with: "just buy the next version where it will be fixed" in the Netbeans community Geertjan replied personally and helped with the troubleshooting for my unpaid product.
This is actually CSS, not JS. z-index sets the layer of an element, so a higher z-index means that content will appear above other content.
Trying to meet payroll with gold and silver would lead to some serious problems. Hell, given how little gold there is in public hands outside of jewelry, it'd be a bitch to make change for.

As far as weird CEO tendencies go, hoarding precious metals isn't really that big of a deal. Long-term, they aren't really losing money from it. They aren't earning much, either so I guess you can chock it up to a wash. But it beats the hell out of some other habits he could have; at least he isn't freaking out about blueberry distribution across muffins or something like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz_-k9qoYns

Now, replenishing the food stockpiles as food goes bad would be a huge waste of money unless we're talking about MREs that will last until the heat death of the universe. But if he tries to serve that to his employees, he might have a mutiny on his hands.
> But seriously, all what python (and as a matter of the fact majority of languages) is placing a clear distinction between a byte and a character.

No, they make a clear distinction between bytes and code points. This is the wrong approach as code points are not characters. People are going to think that everything is fine now that they're using code points and the unicode type when they should be using a unicode library for text manipulation.
Solid point. Indeed, that should be safe.
As @barakm said in the comment above, "it's not something you just build without working with a couple people"...

It requires a lot of work to get to a "real" product which includes documentation, basic website, traction with users, etc,. I eventually got side-tracked with life and other work. I will be very happy to continue work on it if someone will be willing to actively help out.
If you've been around Mormons in your life, this wouldn't really seem that odd.
Except that you dont get to decide whether someone is being exploited at a certain salary or not. The Market Decides, that is how markets work. If you want to pay below market, usually the only way is to broaden the labor pool by importing workers. If that is your goal, then just be honest about it. Dont say "x wage is good enough."

Since you do bring up salaries though, after taxes, health premiums, co-pays, 75 will get you a shared 1br rent in SF. If that is good for you, great. Don't say it "should" be good for everyone, it isnt. We live in a market economy, so everyone needs to play by the rules, not try to justify market manipulations with "well, oh, that should be good for you."
I looked into this but iTunes Match appears to only work for official albums it "knows". I am really into live music and have a ton of concert recordings (legal -- bands that allow audience taping), and also a lot of recordings of my own music I've made with various bands.

Thanks for the suggestion though, I appreciate it.
> That's not even close to the truth. Look it up

I did. Reliable information about this is hard to find. But among other sources, I found this:

http://www.bible.ca/7-pope-changed.htm

> even the Catholics admit it was to increase members by attracting the Romans of the time

Again, I don't see how this contradicts what I said. Basically, it was a marketing ploy.

> Its does contradict what was meant

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about that.

> I'm done

Let's hope.
If I destroy them, your bitcoins will not instantly
appreciate because my bitcoins were not actively marketed.

- Not instantly no, but if you were to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you possessed 10 million BTC, and somehow also were able to prove that you destroyed those 10 million coins, the reaction from the economy would assume the current coins in circulation have just become more valuable purely due to the perception of "scarcity". I would personally contest that perception as BTC is sparsely more than a record keeping system, and the value of a BTC should not matter if there were 40 million coins in the network, or 10 coins that could be divided infinitely.

A major premise of the 'Bitcoin economy' involves the stipulation that the 'BTC economy' is hard limited to "21,000,000" coins and dividable only down to .00000001

These rules are part of what has attracted people to apply real world value to an otherwise simple piece of accounting software. If someone proved they destroyed 20 million bitcoins somehow, or if there were a hard fork consensus among all major miners to nullify the last 10 million coins from being minable, thus limiting the BTC network to 11,000,000 full coins (1,100,000,000,000,000.0 total accountable units), than the perception of value relative to Euros or Dollars would, in what I would compare to the perceived value of limited edition toys like Beanie Babies, Magic the Gathering Cards, or Happy Meal toys. Only instead of a mass produced toy, it is a digital point system where people have used computer hardware to 'mine' BTC points.

If the Genesis coins started moving, one might assume the price of BTC to fluctuate as a result of peoples perception on the 'supply' of this digital currency.

If another cryptocoin is created with a design that agreeably surpasses that of the BTC protocol, than one might assume a migration of users from BTC to the presumably better protocol.
"rely on steganography and disappearing in the noise."

They already do that[0].

0. http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/steganography-how-al...
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It really depends on the way the shares are distributed. I suspect they aren't "screwed" but they aren't exactly going to get rich from this.
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Okay, so you don't know how index funds track an index. That's too bad, but put that aside for a moment.

The notion that long-term investors in anything should be punished so severely on the front end (if you understood compound interest you would know that losing 0.1% right away is a bigger hit to the long-term investor than it at first appears, which is why basis points matter a lot when a long-term investor is weighing the cost of a mutual fund or taking into account brokerage fees) as part of a tax designed to penalize HFT and derivatives trading is just completely strange. It's an indicator that the people who created the law don't know what they're doing or have (really dumb) ulterior motives.
If anything I build over the next year gets any traction, then I was planning to take advantage of Act 20/22. The idea of having a corporation based in the US, but not in a state, is attractive because of Puerto Rico's big push for startups to relocate to the island. 10 years of pretty much no corporate taxes is very appealing.

Plus, the personal benefit of not having to pay any Federal Income Taxes, nor taxes on capital gains... It's really a great opportunity.
That is the central debate isnt it? The market fix is to increase wages until "shortages" disappear. The disingenuous fix is to claim there is a "shortage" and import workers to broaden the supply. That is great for hard-working foreign workers, but sucks for the domestic graduate pool that has a higher standard of living -- most Americans simply will not raise a family in a shared 2br apartment -- while that is common for immigrants. So they will instead seek better pay in other industries.

This is all fine, but it is disingenuous to claim shortages when the real problem is a refusal to pay market wages.
Their net revenue should be about 100 bps, and their loss is 16 bps, at least for 2015.
I disagree. Before the game plan was to keep everyone in windows. Now with iOS and android killing things it's no longer about just windows. Satya's vision is very different from Ballmer. The big money makers are now shifting to Azure. This means if open sourcing tools that didn't make money will attract more Devs to azure. That is very valuable in the long term in business sense. This also gives Microsoft a good rep and gives a broader reach.
>That means that would justify the persecution of the world's Jews and the general anti-semitic sentiment of the mainstream during that period?

Of course not. But they were persecuted. But the point is: Muslims are not. So your opinion that Muslims are in the same position as the Jews in 1915 is nonsense.

> which they did during the zionist insurgency, and are also doing today

I think that implying that what Israel does today is similar to the barbaric acts of constant mass murdering, ethnic cleansing, torturing, raping and beheading that is done by Isis is absurd.
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately my iMac is "early 2007" so I missed the El Cap (and Mavericks/Yosemite) cutoff by a few months. As for the VPC, that is a fantastic idea. Might even just wipe the whole thing and install Windows as the primary OS (then copy back my music from an external drive backup). Surely a windows license is cheaper than a new machine (or is it? Been a while since I've bought windows or PC's).
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Check out how many people[0] get elected to the Congress without one and you'll see that their organizational advantages outweigh their irrational issue agglomeration.

[0] 2/100 senators, 0/434 congressmen
Hi, one of the authors here. Thanks for raising a valid concern. Vimeo in fact already offers FTP uploads for premium users, but helped us write this as the advantages of something HTTP based are significant. We can:

- be sure that browsers and servers already speak it (so small additional libraries required on both ends)

- gracefully degrade to regular form POSTs should tus support not be possible (IE8, etc)

- easily write hooks for progress bars, and e.g. encoding of the uploaded material

- use existing holes in firewalls. FTP requires many ports (for PORT, DATA, PASV) that are blocked on airports, public libraries, large corporations

- add existing HTTP components to make tus better (loadbalancing, intrusion detection, auth, proxies, etc). Some of these apply to FTP as well, but the HTTP options are more (advanced).

Bittorrent is not really client-server oriented, which is what this protocol is trying to solve. Rsync has many the same disadvantages as FTP listed above.

As for a single TCP connection with no traffic shaping, tus support splitting up a file into multiple parts and uploading them in parallel (as regular tus uploads, so profiting from checksums, retries, and resumability) and stitching them together on the server-side by issuing a 'concat'. This means you can have as many connections as you like, and the individual chunks can complete in any order as well.

Traffic shaping is not part of the protocol. By default tus should saturate available connections.

That said we're writing down some recommendations in a separate 'developer guide' document that offers best practices for implementing and deploying tus, traffic shaping could be part of it. Feel free to weigh in here https://github.com/tus/tus-resumable-upload-protocol/pull/68
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Yes. My point is, they'll keep doing that, so backdooring encryption doesn't really help in any way.
Your source, or is this pure speculation? Even Walmart can't negotiate Visa/MC interchange fees.[1] And they do ~400X Square's volume. It's not just a matter of merchant/processor size. Once enough consumers have adopted it as their primary/only card, the card network has an extremely strong position. (This is why AmEx rates are more negotiable; it's usually an alternate card.)

[1] They do lawsuits instead. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/27/us-walmart-visa-la...
Data is typically not very conclusive by itself. So, people often make a number of behind-the-scenes decisions that make the conclusions seem stronger than they actually are (whether on purpose or not).

For a great example of this, try the interactive portion of the following article, where you'll use data to support an argument whether Democrats or Republicans are better for the US economy: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/.

Takeaway: Both conclusions are valid ... it all depends on you define "economy" and what subset of Democrats/Republicans you choose to count.
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That's roughly equivalent to 'if those documents had not been properly shred that data would not have been available'.

Each and every operation of this magnitude leaves a trail. The party perpetrating it will try what they can to erase that trail but that will always be an imperfect process.

Maybe next time the phone will be secured, they will scrub themselves of parking tickets, they will burn up their escape vehicle after a few minutes ride and so on. All the media has succeeded in doing is educate the terrorists about how to be more successful in evading capture and possibly being more successful in carrying out the attack in the first place.
Any assets seized by police should be burned in a bonfire.* Anything else causes poorly-aligned incentives.

*OK, maybe I would agree with donated to certain causes, if chosen carefully.
Hi, one of the authors here. We're currently working on an official implementation in Node.js ES6 now here: https://github.com/tus/tus-node-server - so yes :)
Yes, I know. That's why I elaborated with "specifically the literal truth of the story of Creation in Genesis 1". I don't know if 7DAs are literalists w.r.t. the rest of the Bible (their official doctrine doesn't say) but they are quite specific about this point:

"[God] created the universe, and in a recent six-day creation the Lord made “the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them” and rested on the seventh day. Thus He established the Sabbath as a perpetual memorial of the work He performed and completed during six literal days that together with the Sabbath constituted the same unit of time that we call a week today."
If I'm reading this correctly, the security methodology is to screen all people who arrive at the airport with trained agents using "age, race, religion and destination" to determine how the interview should go. This is somewhat different from the kind of profiling we are talking about because a) they screen everyone who passes through and b) their assumption has to be that nearly 100% of people passing through the airport are innocent vs this kind of "that guy looks guilty" profiling.

I have some links:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/profiling.htm... - a blog post by someone respected by many here on when profiling can be effective vs the risks

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racial-profiling-t... - discussion of when it might be appropriate statistically based on a study

I haven't found anything that implies that it would be effective in this sort of case.
The Explorabook ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591747996 ) came with a Fresnel lens as one of its pages.

Yes, a children's book came with a Fresnel lens inside!

A kid detached his and brought it to summer camp, and after a few days, he was asked to leave it at home.
well, that will only work until the rename the element.
I've been forced do some awful things with squid and WCCP for this very purpose. A control channel would be great.
Hi, one of the authors here. I really hope the sites that you're using a lot will all implement tus :) I'm confident that could avoid some frustrations
I am kind of annoyed by these semi-sensationalized end-of-the-world type pieces.

While antibiotic resistance is terrible, and people may die, common resistance to one polymyxin does not constitute the 'post-antibiotic era'.
Author of go-sct here. It's totally true that it increased the LOC and is heavily based on C. There's a number of limitations in cgo such as not being able to use macros which caused the LOC bump.

The primary reason I did this was I wanted to learn more about cgo since I haven't used it in any useful way before.

This also allows it to be easily installed instead of having to download a .c file and compiling it.
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It's hard to tell whether or not you are joking.
Who is going to shop at an online junk retailer (and make no bones, that is what Overstock is) after the financial system collapses?
This is brutal. I know someone at Square that exercised his options, and I guess he is underwater by a massive amount now. And since VCs are generally move like flocks of birds, this will likely create a massive chill in terms of funding. Either they are going to take a pound of flesh from the founders coming for their next round of funding, or they will just pull away.

It looks like 2016 is going to see a lot of unicorns take a massive hit. You can bet Stripe and other payment companies are going to take a hit to their valuation, although Stripe seems pretty well-funded at this point.
There is a lot of bureaucracy here as well, but people here are nice and patient. Knowing Spanish is a big plus as it's the official language.

Navigation is tricky as the addressing scheme relies on naming the road and then how many kilometers the house is from the roads starting point. Google Maps is practically ineffective here.

Some things are far cheaper here and some things are far more expensive. Used vehicles are about equal as they would be on the mainland, but vehicle maintenance work is much cheaper. Rental prices outside of San Juan are very good. I'm living in the mountains around Adjuntas, in the interior, and paying $300 a month for a 1100 sqft 3 bedroom, 1 bath house. Since I'm at a higher altitude in the interior, the temperature hasn't gotten above 80 degrees yet (or dropped below 65) so we don't need to spend money on AC or heating.

Food and goods in stores is more expensive because of an ancient merchant marine law that requires goods shipped from US ports to US ports travel on US flagged ships constructed in the US. This means that the few ships that can make the journey legally get to charge what they want and that increases the costs of all goods delivered.

The way around it is ordering things online and having them shipped via USPS which treats Puerto Rico as domestic. Unfortunately, FedEx and UPS treat Puerto Rico as a foreign location and charge more. It's difficult to buy things on eBay because of that incongruity.

We're likely to remain here until next August and then we'll decide if we want to stay another year in the mountains, try living on the beach, or go back to the mainland. We left from Austin but we think we'll try either Chattanooga TN (for the 10gb connections) or some small town in Colorado (the kids demand snow) next.

All in all, I recommend a hacker retreat to Puerto Rico if you want to have some seclusion to get work done. It's easy to do on a budget and it's a bit easier for a (mainlander) American to pass here than it is in Central or South America.
Read my paper. It describes exactly such an experiment.
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It's like this company is being run by Ron Swanson...
The irrational bit of that whole argument to me is that they are effectively trying to keep 'the lights on' when their customers can no longer use overstock anyway. After all, if the banking system collapses your inability to use 'overstock.com' is going to be the least of your problems.

Recently Greece went through something like this on a much smaller scale (and with daily limits rather than a total collapse but it got quite close). Paying with gold was never even considered, people switched to cash in stead. It's not as if you're going to buy a bread or fill up your basket at the supermarket and expect to pay with gold, people will not be able to ascertain its value on the spot at the register.

Having $10M in cash in various currencies to hedge against the collapse of one currency or banking system would already be quite an act of paranoia, having it in gold is taking that to a completely different level. That's end-of-times level stuff, it means there is no more trust in any currency at all. Merchants in Greece would have been happy to take your cash if you had it.
The script is inlined, so blocking by origin seems not possible. You could write a greasemonkey script (is that still a thing?) or write an extension which removes the line

_ComcastAlert.go();

from every visited page.
Just to be clear I am not opposed to what you did, by all means keep doing it. I just followed the link and didn't understand right away. It seemed kind of like a funny substitution. And probably a learning exercise that suddenly was on HN's front page.
Well it is a very high zIndex, which of would force the element in the plane 99999.

What it says about the developer though, is that he didn't bother reading up on, what is the highest value, but just chose a rather high value of 99999.
These all sound like bad things. Why should one bad thing justify another?
Stock reverse splits don't "destroy" value anymore than exchanging four quarters for a $1 bill. You do not have less value just because you own 1 unit instead of 4, because the value of the unit increased proportionately.

You can dilute proportional ownership, but there you just shifted the meaning of the term "destroy" and are using it in a funny way. Dilution does not decrease value. The reason your percentage of the pie decreases due to dilution is because the pie is getting bigger. You still have the same absolute amount of pie on your plate. Nobody destroyed any pie.
Washington Post's Wonkblog has more on this with a graph of CA seizuires from 2001-2014. It's staggering (I looked it up doubting the Armstrong blog, ended up verifying it):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/10/repor...
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I find this announcement absolutely bizarre. Even if you believe there's a 5% chance of a banking crisis, there's a much higher chance many investors will think you're insane and unfit to manage a company. I imagine publicly announcing this precaution hasn't done wonders for their stock value.
Representative John Culberson's district is in Houston. Does anyone know if it includes many NASA facilities or people in the space industry?
Again, hard to say without seeing the video, but my guess is that they're not wrong, they're just engaged in (IMHO) bad pedagogy.
You can have terminal tabs in PowerShell ISE, with Ctrl+T or File -> New PowerShell Tab.
And why many seasoned sysadmins balks at using it, as they have by experience learned to value certainty.

Devops on the other hand seems to thrive on uncertainty...