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Same thing happens to me.

Then a few years ago, I started doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, which sort of tapped into the same challenge/logic pathways.

But BJJ is a physical activity, so that helps justify the obsession.
Not as tenacious as the bod who is now manually creating @TurMedia336 to @TurMedia99999999.

But, one might have thought that Titter would have blocked creation of these accounts already.
Looks like there are really some nice features in this project, and development has been moving forward-- I haven't actually used it, only read about it, but I particularly like the sound of its robust ACID compliance (as described in the Wikipedia article) and the emphasis on minimizing disk i/o. It's also apparently being rolled into LibreOffice, which could make it easier to play with and learn.

I'm curious what people who've had experience working with this software have to say about how it stacks up with other solutions. For example, from some comparisons I've seen, PostgreSQL has more features overall, but there might be situations - such as if disk access is a major constraint - where this would be a better choice...?
> “When Twitter says, ‘We can’t do this,’ I don’t believe that,” said Hany Farid, chairman of the computer science department at Dartmouth College ... “There’s no fundamental technology or engineering limitation,” he said. “This is a business or policy decision. Unless the companies have decided that they just can’t be bothered.”

Can anyone comment whether this is true or not? It seems rather trivial to create new accounts and post data. Is it just whack-a-mole or is there something more sophisticated that goes on?
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Sorry but ads are a very effective and proven way for a web business to generate revenue. That is all together a different discussion on what is an effective way to monetize your web business. But my question is for small business or startups which already have a revenue and relying on that ad revenue. How will they be affected ?
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I don't disagree but it is a bit more complex. But first, allow me to dispell the myth that solar cells don't generate power when it is overcast, they do. My panels typically run at 52 - 58% of rated power when the sky is wall to wall clouds. Granted that is a big drop in production it isn't 0 and can be planned around.

The "discussion inside the discussion" here is money. As inverter and management technology has gotten better, it becomes possible for a single family home, in the lower 48 states, to locally generate perhaps 95% of its annual power requirements, and to supplement that last 5% with onsite generated power using propane or methane.

In such a configuration, the consumer's on going payments are either lease payments or a maintenance contract on the gear to keep it running. Not some utility company. And that means that you cannot distribute the cost of "big" energy projects across a wide base of payers (as a utility, you can still do that with taxes). And that leads us too ... Commercial power.

While you and I might be able to live off grid, your typical multi-story office building or apartment can not. They don't have the square footage available for panels, and they generally don't have the space for back up power equipment. So they still need generators and transmission lines and a "grid." And because the cost of that grid is distributed across fewer people, their costs are significantly (I've seen estimates of 10x) higher. That raises rents, and the cost of goods, and generally puts a real crimp in any economy. Not to mention the power utility is now just another botique supplier to these guys and so loses a lot of scale it had before.

The shifting balance of power (pun intended) is going to cause a lot of disruptions and cost shifting. At the end of the day it could be the thing that puts a lot of brick and mortar stores out of business.
Maybe he has become some sort of brand name status symbol? I have the impression that most people are more interested in status symbols than art itself.
I would want to compare the numbers with the two during similar timelines; their ramp up, once they became known internationally, once they became a big enough concern to directly target, and then on their decline. Plus I would wonder if there's something along the lines of the new one feeding off the older.
First time I tried chess on my phone. Fat finger is a usability problem with irreversible consequences. I had to abandon a game.

Maybe drag and drop is not the best interaction model here.
So, it's a band-aid, just like those hubs for the Mac Pro.

This lunacy has gone too far.
I remember a counter-example to this (which may be a fluke) a few years ago when Burial got album of the year on metacritic for a spacey, ambient dubstep record. Maybe not super-niche but definitely not mainstream.
The best solution would be to build a public platform for Twitter-like communication.

This would give people the same free speech protections they have on public streets and town squares, which they don't have when using private platforms like Instagram or Facebook.

It would also give law enforcement the ability to do their jobs.

We have a public postal service, why not a public social media platform?

Wouldn't it be great if this public platform had a completely open API, without the restrictions that Twitter puts in place to artificially limit access in order to create demand?

Remember the good old days when 3rd party developers basically built everything good about Twitter?
Just thinking out loud, there are a few angles to it.

#1 is that ESPN doesn't own the rights to air all sports (1), they have rights to certain events or leagues to air games on certain nights. For example, ESPN only airs 1 NFL football game per week, which is on Monday night. CBS, Fox, & NBC air games (which are subject to localized markets) on Sundays at various times.

Another example, DirectTV (a satellite provider) offers a content package called NFL Sunday Ticket which gives subscribers the ability to stream any game live in any market (which is in many NFL fans opinion, the superior option).

... which brings another note to the parent topic - I would assert Sports (specifically the individual sport leagues) are effectively monopolies. The NBA is the professional basketball league in the USA. Its largely considered the best league in the world. It's product is very difficult to replicate. So those specific "properties" will continue to try to maximize their value as well as grow their audiences - and its not like you know Seinfeld is super popular so you can just write a new show and call it Friends.

2. When I was growing up, Sports highlights were ESPN's bread and butter. You couldn't watch every game the day or weekend before, so you watched ESPN that morning or night to see what happened and the spectacular plays. Well, now twitter or youtube or reddit are better sources of highlights than ESPN. They are on demand, close to real time, and (IMO) often higher quality.

3. Lastly, the "analysis" and ancillary Sports content that ESPN works hard at, is very competitive now. There are great podcasts and blogs for every sport and most teams. Those channels can be accessed almost anywhere - and they are often more "targeted" than what ESPN is offering.

For example, I am a Memphis Grizzlies NBA fan. Let's equate that to I'm an Enterprise SaaS fan. Well, r/MemphisGrizzlies is kind of like Jason Lemkin's SaaStr - a site dedicated primarily to my specific niche. ESPN would be more like TechCrunch at large.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ESPN_sports_properties
And clearly the best way to win the information war against an adversary who says we've traded away our values for comfort, riches, and decadence is to throw away the First Amendment because "propaganda works."

Keep in mind, we're not just talking about accounts used by actual terrorists to coordinate actual attacks. We're talking about "pro-ISIS" Twitter accounts.

How will we decide who is pro-ISIS? I propose a system of hearings, with the most important ones conducted by a senate committee. The most important question at these hearings will be "are you now or have ever been a sympathizer with Islamic State." If they "fail" the hearing we could put them in some kind of database used by employers and government hiring agents and so forth. A sort of blacklist, if you will.

And anyone on the blacklist doesn't get to use corporate media platforms. It's not a First Amendment violation, you see, because it's VOLUNTARY. Just ask these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
The US Gov. also sees it as a useful tool and now can use it against its own people: https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-3695702701/apple...
Wanting to force doctors to apologize, for one, which I think is counterproductive. Don't wait for an apology, just get your treatment plan and get out of the office.
Typically, yes. My method is for high trustworthiness but people merely concerned with reliability can do this. Got a tool that you've used to successfully make your other tools? Use it on the next tool. Crazy idea, eh?
It is also worth noting that NASA doesn't only do space exploration. It also does important work on civil aviation technology, remote sensing, climate studies, etc.
Could be blockchain analysis. Block accounts that receive bitcoin from known seized funds, like a Silk Road wallet. Basically just the opposite of tactics companies like Coinbase employ.
Noob dollars spend just as well.
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This has been written exclusively with PHP 7 in mind and must have taken a reasonable amount of thought and a lot of hard work.

The source code looks great, and I could see this supplanting some of the other tools out there for PHP static analysis.
> Which means the NFL is going to have to find someone else (there is no one else)

Except NBC, CBS, FOX, Yahoo (hah), and the NFL itself via NFL Network, all of which already have contracts with the NFL which are worth more combined than ESPN's. For the NFL, having ESPN drop out would probably be a blip.
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Some older Tesla products were separate boxes:

http://www.nvidia.in/object/product-tesla-S2050-in.html

The form factor isn't a choice... The cards have a lot of stuff on them that need to go somewhere. For applications that need it, single servers can fit 8 GPUs these days.

As for why they're still "GPUs"; there is nothing particularly "central" about modern CPUs either. One could argue that neural networks are a form of "graph" though.
Because you cannot break the law if you're rich enough to afford perpetual appeals and good lawyers?
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Why is it Focus by Firefox and not Focus by Mozilla? Mozilla is the name of the company, Firefox is the name of one of Mozilla's products. So a software program was created by another software program?

This type of illogical branding is becoming typical of Mozilla these days. It's a shame because the web really needs browser leadership from an organization that isn't a multinational corporation.
What stupid times we live in, that we demand apologies for everything and from everyone, even people who have been buried for 200 years!
On the other hand, no industry shields more rapists and abusers than major sports franchises.
Thanks for the question. The 64/36 is pre-VC-investment, and the story could have explained that better.

Marquardt's venture firm, TCI bought 5% of Microsoft in 1981. Link is here: http://www.techntechie.com/early-investors-in-microsoft-you-...

I'm thinking that the Gates/Allen stake settles post re-org at 79% once TCI is invested. That gets the percentages to add to 100% (always wise.)
User will avoid the web if it provide poor user experience. What user want major battery drains, unwanted traffic cost, and all the drawbacks of malware-behavior that spies, steals, and acts hostile?

The current system is unsustainable and advertisement through the web is slowly turning into the same fate as advertisement through email, and people and companies did not stop using email when spam started to get universally blocked.
Co-author here. Happy to answer any questions folks have about Phan.
You may be thinking of later accusations that the United States military distributed smallpox-infected blankets to American Indians, which I do not believe is well supported: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/plag/5240451.0001.009/--did-the-...

(Even if one must be cynical, let us be fully cynical, not conveniently partially cynical: Historically speaking there was little compunction about simply killing people. Distributing infected blankets is an awfully roundabout and even dangerous-to-the-distributors way of doing something there was a much simpler way to do. I'd say "imagine the way we think of bird flu today" but back then the putative blanket infectors would be even more terrified of smallpox than that.)

I don't see a way accidental-genocide-by-disease could have been avoided. It only takes one sneeze to set off a powderkeg tens of thousands of years in the making. It was unfortunately structurally inevitable. (Inconceivably, beyond words "unfortunate", but still, inevitable.) It's hard to call it deliberate when I would frankly question our ability today to prevent it; very similarly, witness the number of invasive species that have been put into ecosystems even when we have known better and tried to avoid it. It just takes one action at the right place and the right time, and boom, exponential biological explosion.
Note that in the future VR googles will have eye tracking to improve the efficiency of the rendering, so you could also use this data to render correctly the face.
Because Apple is very far from being a monopoly.
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Red. I was going for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_Sane#/media/File:Davis...

(I got lucky. I really like how it turned out, so I'm glad it was permanent.)
Looks like AppStore is still updating this in inventory. Might take 30-60 minutes more before we can download.
Exactly this. This was what was sad about the dot com bust. People would not listen when I tried to explain that most of the companies they were putting their retirement funds into would die, and take their funds with it.
If version control stored refactorings (tree operations) against the AST it would open up a whole new world of possibilities.
At this point, the NYT is just a mouthpiece for the executive branch. They've been pushing a ridiculous anti-encryption, anti-privacy agenda since Glenn Greenwald.
I don't have League Pass, but I looked into the option last season. It turns out they black out the local team's game based on your IP geolocation. Aside from that annoying limitation, the general consensus on the Internet is that the paid pirate services can be much cheaper and have better quality streams than League pass.
Probably because Firefox is a well known brand and Mozilla isn't.
I agree. I tend to genocide Lich and mind-flayers so there is nothing too bad left if you have enough HP, AC and blessed potion of full healing. But the riders can be scary if you don't know how to deal with them.
Ultimately little will change but the tactics. The propaganda industry has learned time and time again that ever more "personalization" is an ever greater means to control people as they become so wrapped up in their primitive desires they ignore the blatant manipulation being performed by them.

The hippies thought that consumerism's end was just around the corner. Then Madison Avenue learned the value in simulating self-actualization, and catering to those desires. The hippies became the hipsters.
That's what CDNs are for.
They are, however, in the article itself.

There are so many easy ways I could make gobs of money if I threw ethics out the window, and so few if I won't.

In my view this guy is a total assclown, and the "scare quotes" (I see them more as mocking than scary here, but whatever) are well deserved.
I rarely cook to win :).

You play chess to win and losing is stressful and unpleasant. So you train more to increase your chances of winning.
I still enjoy playing just for fun, but after a couple of "fun" games, the competitive side kicks in and it stops being fun and becomes a goal.
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I don't see the claim that Lebron James is not impressive, but I have no problem with imagining someone having little idea of who he is. Besides, he's nothing compared to Michael Jordan and if you don't know about him then you're just not alive.
I'm not sure what comment you're replying to, but I'm assuming it's not mine since you're not replying to anything that I actually said.

> No definitive decision, and the case was settled.

Both statements are factually wrong. I'm not saying I agree with the Second Circuit's decision, I'm saying that there was a definitive decision, the case was not settled.

And I'm not sure a single appeal constitutes "perpetual."
Back when al-Qaeda was the focus of attention, you heard plenty about people, including Americans and other Westerners, being radicalized by them and/or via a system of radical madrassas (mostly in Pakistan) and radical networks (throughout the world) associated with them and their ideology.

It's true that the mechanisms were different, because social media wasn't a big thing at the time: John Walker Lindh was radicalized before the services that really made "social media" a global force existed.
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His work is still more interesting then what sells as modern art.
I just hit the App Store in the US and didn't see it yet.
On the flip side, its just as easy to write off dissenting opinions as 'propaganda'.

Just curious, but what do you think the world's opinion of CNN is?

Answer: not unbiased news...
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I did, for exactly that reason. And I'm guessing just about everyone else on HN did, too :)

It's a good point, though. "Normal" people should be protected against themselves in their financial decisions.
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Reminds me of the "Wingdings Predicted 9/11" bug:

http://gizmodo.com/wingdings-predicted-9-11-a-truthers-tale-...
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Except correlation doesn't prove causation. How many times does this have to be stated for people to understand this? The number of pirates is perfectly inversely correlational to the atmospheric CO2. Is it pretty clear that one causes the other?

Sediment cores and being able to extrapolate data going back thousands or millions of years is a theory only. No one can state CO2 levels going back thousands of years with any level of certainty, certainly not in the Ppm accuracy.
Google the title of WSJ articles and you get full access.
To me the core decision centers around rolling the existing company into a new company that has multiple founders with equal equity. The decision is around creating something new at the price of giving away control and being generous with the other people building it.

The price of having other people around for motivation is having other people around who have shared interests.

Good luck.
While his art isn't in galleries, Banksy can certainly count himself among the wealthiest of artists, despite his anti-capitalistic nature, he's still raking in millions from his works.
I propose that a few fake credit card numbers and names be issued to different companies and that they place them in their records. If there is a breach, finding those fakes will identify where the breach came from. Each set of fakes would only be given to a specific company.

This is similar to how dictionaries (before the internet) would post fake entries to discover if competitors were copying them. Or how (some claim) map makers would plant fake places to identify similar copying. In the credit card case though, it wouldn't harm innocent users who may mistakenly think the fake is real.
> Part of the reason for this is their relatively large social media presence, and their videography is actually quite decent for what they do.

Not to take any merit from your argument but AQ was good in recruiting online at least for its franchise or affiliate in Yemen under the leadership of the US-born Anwar Awlaki. This is the man who made online propaganda and media blitz as a core element of Islamic terrorism and Jihadism strategy.

Also, please note that Al-Qaeda in Iraq was the progenitor of ISIS but they broke away due to ideological and strategical differences with Ayman Zwahiri the No. 1 AQ leader and they were very hardened under AQ sponsorship.
Calling for mass murder isn't a valid case of free speech.

And even if it were, Twitter can ban accounts for any reason.
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This is not only a more concise but also a clearer explanation.

well put!
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Thanks. We added a link to that to our background document here: https://github.com/linuxfoundation/cii-best-practices-badge/...
But I can't crowdfund if I don't buy a computer...
I've seen APIs that always return 200 because the iOS app that was the API consumer couldn't handle non-200 responses (something about it being harder to get the response body IIRC).
Not for minors though. Hope this fact doesn't make an example not to follow for other countries.
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The article speculates about some other possibilities.

> Then again, perhaps Rescator’s site simply noticed something amiss when my source funded his account with Bitcoin.

Maybe they walked the transactions back to some well-known funding source for law enforcement/government.
Some of the comments here are positing a false dichotomy. The choices aren't between returning 200 with an error code and returning an HTTP code for each error.

I've gone down the path of trying to shoe horn every error condition into a separate HTTP status code and (IMHO) it's a Big Mistake [tm]. You really are confusing transport and application layers and the transport layer simply doesn't have enough codes for what you need.

When something obviously fits into an HTTP status code then sure, use it, particularly when it'll mostly make your client do something sensible.

But you just can't get away from needing error codes that go beyond HTTP status codes for any moderately complex Web application.
You're asking legitimate questions, but I'm not sure if it's reasonable to expect a good answer. You seem to want a perfect plan to go solar.

If you look at predictions for renewables from a few years ago you will find out that they are all - no matter who you asked - largely wrong. I remember that not that long ago nobody would have expected that prices for onshore wind and solar would go down so rapidly. On the other hand offshore wind was often praised as the tech that would make renewables cheap. The opposite has happened. Onshore wind and solar got cheaper in a speed that even the most outspoken renewable advocates hadn't predicted, offshore wind is one of the most expensive ways to get renewable energy.

Basically today there is not a single country that largely relies on "new" renewables (wind + solar). Denmark comes close, but they are small and interconnected with neighbors that have a lot of water power capacity and pumped storage.

I think it is pretty much impossible to predict which techs will work out in a future grid that will need a lot more storage tech. Some things we think today are promising will spectacularly fail and maybe some things we don't have on the radar yet will provide solutions.
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