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Why not forgive the loans? The negative affect of debt on people's capacity to contribute to the world economy is high, and I think it stands to reason that people would contribute more for the duration of paying off their loan if the loan wasn't hanging over their head.

The banks would scream bloody murder, obviously, but their slack policies got us into this mess in the first place.

The intention is to throw people a rope to save them from drowning, but the rope is ending up as a noose around their neck more than anything else. The government's may have had good intentions in their support for the proliferation of subprime lending, but I think it would've been more effective to just give people money without the expectation that they pay it back directly. It will find its way back into the economy as, so to speak, trickle up economics.
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For me (5) is the major reason. Web development with Rails/Django is so much easier and smooth compared to that of any Java/JVM based frameworks, it doesn't make sense to use the Java/JVM ones. Even a Ruby/Python novice can pick up and run with Rails/Django. You will end up building a robust, secure solution following well documented best practices and leveraging abundant 3rd party library ecosystem.

I think Play Framework is trying to achieve such usability, but I don't think it's there yet.
yeah there's a good chance they agreed to exactly that, google doesn't give things away for 'free', there's a transaction there, google gives you stuff to use you give them data in return
Non-profits can still pay their employees & managers well (very well, in this case).
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> It may be worth noting here that child support is considered to be something to which the child is entitled

That's only half true. The truth is that the father is entitled to pay, in the "best interests of the child". But there is no requirement in law or in practice that the mother actually spends the money on the child. Or even that she's accountable to the the father (who typically has legal rights over the child), for how any of the money is spent.
This can be used when you have limited resources like cpus and you want only a limited set of resource intensive tasks executing at any particular point of time..
What are the other plausible mechanisms? The effect of low intensity RF fields on chemistry is essentially negligible. For the most part, folks doing chemistry with non-ionizing radiation need intense lasers or microwave resonating cavities.

The main exceptions (which in reality also mostly require intense radiation) are highly engineered scenarios where you finely tune a radiation source to excite an electron to a specific level that's far from the continuous spectrum, but useful for some other chemical to interact with. To detect low frequency radiation, these usually require very specific materials with nearly continuous energy bands (think carefully doped semiconductors or possibly photoreceptor proteins).

These are also highly unlikely to occur - again, unless you've engineered it to happen, 10^{-5} is probably an extreme overestimate on the probability.

But if you know a plausible mechanism, I'd love to hear it. Feel free to provide references or go into physical detail.
What is hard about it? I've never used it, but have been meaning to for a while. Are there licensing issues? or is it just hard to actually get working?
Awesome ! Added to my playlist :)
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Is anyone keeping track? In the last 7 days Parse was shut down, then a couple days ago Dropbox alternative Copy was shut down and now Firefox OS. Anyone else curious about what's next?
Anecdote: Deploying a single jar generated with lein uberjar for clojure project is really simple.
I am sorry you are down voted because fundamentally you are right. If you have a trademark, you are obliged to handle the use of your trademark very carefully, these are the rules and this is not because you are an organisation supporting free software that you can escape these rules.
> There could be an over-represented subgroup of the general population who are more susceptible to the cell phone radiation, but selecting from that group would not necessarily obscure the relationship between the amount of cell phone use and any resulting biological impact.

That's not what he said. If you read the abstract, it says that the candidates were chosen using "questionnaires accessing demographic data and characteristics of cell phone usage were completed by 106 men referred for semen analysis." The fact that they were referred for semen analysis (read: they were having trouble reproducing) indicates there'd be a selection bias in their study. And without a control group, it's all hand-waving anyway.

> They don't go very far out on the limb, they say that it probably justifies a bigger study, which is pretty mild.

In order to do it properly, they'd need a much bigger study and a much better sample.
Will our children really not know economic growth?
> 'Follow your dreams'...'Do what you love and the money will follow'...'Nothing ventured, nothing gained' these are phrases that all sound great from the other side of success, but when you have a normal life with a family and a mortgage, the decision to pursue your opportunities is not as cut and dried. Having to weigh the consequences of not earning a paycheck to pursue one of these opportunities against food on the table or missing a mortgage payment, or even just not spending those evening free-time hours with your kids changes the equation substantially.

It's so refreshing to see someone else on the other side of start-up culture. I enjoy my current position including the people that I work with, but deep down, I would love nothing more than the option to do nothing all day if I wish. That always triggers the influx of, "Start your own business!" comments followed by, "Tons of people just quit, bootstrap and succeed!"

They ignore all of the failures. They ignore all of the people who ruined their family stability, who lost assets, or who gave up weeks/months/years of family time to chase a dream that didn't pan out. I'm not some curmudgeon who believes that chasing dreams is for suckers; I feel like it's very reasonable to want to set yourself up for continued stability (much like a 3-6 month emergency fund) if you're gambling your family's financial and mental well-being on your dream.
I don't think Android-with-Google-Play-Services (not AOSP) any better in this regard. Never owned or observed network activity of an Apple device, so no idea about those.

<offtopic:rant>Gosh, I'd wish there'd be a wiki full of packet dumps and protocol analysis, showing what modern software really is. So when a topic "$software is spying on users" happens one link can show what's exactly is sent (sure, there'll be a lot "some identifier, meaning's unknown" stuff there, but still), and, possibly, refutes popular myths too.</offtopic:rant>
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But Play is sorta of a response to Django/Rails/Sinatra-like that came before, right?

Maybe there's a legacy effect here.
We have been using Mesos+Marathon+Docker in production for more than year. Mesos has been very reliable, there are a lot of moving parts so it does take some effort to get everything going.

Caveat: We only use it to run state-less applications. Applications like Kafka that require data persistence are run outside Mesos as data persistance is not yet handled reliably with Marathon.

[1] http://datajet.io/One-year-with-Apache-Mesos-The-Good-The-Ba...
Ugh, disgusting. Think of how much damage that troll will now be able to wreak.

With that kind of money it can buy all sorts of other patents and start the whole progress over again.
Wow, who could have ever imagined that a fake operating system that in reality was a mobile browser supporting "applications" written in html, css and javascript was going to miserably fail?
Well, when the pencil is made of hydrogen that's currently behaving much as it would inside the Sun, you don't want it to fall over too hard.
Glad you like it! Feel free to ask questions!
Question: is there a way to clip websites to it? This is a feature I use a lot in Evernote that I'd sorely miss.
Extending Zendesk with the Help of Zendesk App, Ruby on Rails API and CORS
I'm sad this keeps getting posted over and over :(
Similar here... I had one large (master) TODO file and one large IDEAS file and I would move tasks from TODO file on my daily TODO list. The IDEAS file grown to more then 50 pages and I rarely read it... :-)

Nowdays I moved to paper so NSA can not read my ideas and tasks anymore. For TODOs I use one paper sheet per project/subject and carry all these 10-12 sheets in a folder. Then I move the tasks on my daily TODO list in Moleskine... For IDEAS: I draw/sketch/write them on paper and store them in archive folder (just in case I need it)... :-)
When my sister was in the fire academy, there was a nearby hotel slated to be demolished, so they used it for training. On one particular evolution, the task was "Search this whole floor for victims". The first door was locked, so they forced it (not an easy task with hotel doors designed to be reasonably secure), and then proceeded to break down every other door on the floor (20 minutes later, they're completely spent...).

Turns out, the instructors had only locked the first door, and they hadn't bothered to check any of the others, just assuming they were also locked.

Always, always, always try before you pry.
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After 100 years, scientists are finally closing in on Einstein’s ripples
Uh, what's rape in the Swedish sense?
I don't even need to read the actual paper in order to debunk it. They admit a selection bias in their fucking abstract: "Questionnaires accessing demographic data and characteristics of cell phone usage were completed by 106 men referred for semen analysis."
Pretty sure it's an AdSense ad: http://imgur.com/OBy1PFR

The AdChoices icon is used by many ad networks, not just Google's, to indicate that there's per-user targeting happening. [1] But if you click on that "AdChoices" button and you get an AdSense help page.

[1] http://www.youradchoices.com/faq.aspx
I'm not too familiar with AdSense vs. DoubleClick vs. AdChoices, but when I hover the ad it shows a link to DoubleClick, the little triangle icon points to an AdSense support page, and the JavaScript to load the ad comes from googlesyndication.com. From what I understand, that all points to it being an AdSense ad.

I suspect the reason that kind of ad is allowed (despite being deceptive IMHO) is that it's not just a download link. It also indicates that it's an ad for a driver update site (which makes it even shadier to my eye, but probably not violating any policies).
My site does not have any reviews. Each product overview is just a description of the product and its specifications. Rather than telling people which one to buy I give them the ability to find the one that best fits their criteria. I rank all of the products by how popular they are and I think many people trust this more than they do a review.
There is research on ultrasound devices which do what you're asking. Designed to work as short-medium term contraceptives[0]. That isn't how smartphones kill sperm however, just as an aside for getting the same-ish results.

[0] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-zap-sperm-counts-with...
No, but it might be the reason ball lightning doesn't explode.
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The article doesn't mention this explicitly, but it sure seems as though this tiny house project is geared towards Appalachia and the rural South. Appalachia is generally the mountainous parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina (maybe some parts of Ohio, too). It has its own culture and dialect. It is also the poorest region of the United States; Appalachia is a huge component of why the US is not like other first world countries.

In Appalachia, it is not uncommon for desperately poor families to live in shacks or horribly broken down mobile homes, on land that's been passed down for generations, sometimes predating US independence. So, this house helps to solve the safe, modern, cheap problem for housing in Appalachia. Also note that one of their goals is making it sustainable for contractors to build and providing lots of instructions--that's to help provide jobs. There aren't a lot of jobs in Appalachia.

So, this is why the house is not an apartment building. It's not built for Germany.
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Sure, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

There are several pretty light-weight ways to make both action- and API-oriented back ends on the JVM now, even in Java. (Although I prefer different JVM languages.)
How slowing down will make you healthier and happier
WikiLeaks. Not Wikipedia. Very different things.
IMO there is nothing worse than a non-native app, especially if it's something designed for a web browser like NodeJS and friends.
> To be pedantic (and why not), I don't think that the procedures described in the paper strictly qualify as algorithms because there's no guarantee of termination.

I don't think that's part of the description of 'algorithm' (although I don't know if the word has a technical definition, so that we may be left arguing about how we use the word personally). Otherwise, there could be no algorithm for listing all the natural numbers, for example.
I'm guessing (hoping?) that these things are going to be a hell of a lot quieter and less pollutant than diesel trains so perhaps it would be something I wouldn't mind living next to or around.
I hadn't thought about first time home ownership in terms of access to the market like that. Possibly related (among other factors) in 2008 the US tax code gave $8000 tax credits to first time homebuyers. It was enough for me to jump from renting a little earlier, because I knew that money would be there to fund repairs and start chipping away at the mortgage principal. Of course this assumes prices are in reach and one has some savings ready to go for the opportunity, and I'm sure more people took advantage in rural areas to mid-sized cities than, say, SF or NYC.

The issue of rentals adding inefficiencies to the market is also quite complex and tied to local variables. If supply is ok, I think there's not such a premium on rentals. Where I live (Indianapolis) it's generally cheaper to own, but not by a lot. The overall value greatly depends on local pricing, interest rates, and definitely on not moving around and paying closing costs very often. In such an environment, renters may be enjoying the value of extra flexibility for not too much premium while landlords have to work harder to extract efficiencies in maintenance and management. Consider me as a homeowner looking up a few contractors or appliance servicers in the phone book vs. a landlord who has the experience and the rolodex to know who to call for the best price and service for each problem?

Also, less money goes to financial servicing when landlords pay cash. Without knowing how many pay cash vs. use leverage it's hard to say if there is an overall effect.

I see your point on the fueled inequality, though, and have no naive market analysis for that.
In general I think it's the job of governments to fund research. Research is one of those things where it doesn't make sense to do for a monetary gain.
For those wondering: the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is a panel currently consisting of one individual each from South Korea, Australia, Mexico, Benin, and Ukraine.

Its charter gives it no legal power; it is like a version of Amnesty International housed in the UN.
Don't play with your phone instead of your partner or penis.
Yay for DSLs! Awesome :).
This is a good news and kudos to them for trying to increase our options. FF OS might have taken off had it been a little bit earlier. It took a lot of time for Android to get to where it is right now. Even for Google, it took them a lot to get it right.
It was a good project but lets face it, there was no way it would have been more than just an experiment. Firefox OS never had a chance to begin with.
I hope they've learned their lesson. Now they can focus on their real projects.
> if you don't want to risk having a child, don't have sex.

... which applies only to one sex. Women can have an abortion, and choose to not be a parent. Men can't. That doesn't sound like equality to me.

Western courts have held that men have absolute liability for their sperm. This includes the following situations:

* your girlfriend lies about being on the pill

* your girlfriend fishes the condom out of the garbage and impregnates herself

* your girlfriends roommate fishes the condom out of the garbage and impregnates herself

* your girlfriend impregnates herself with the leavings after giving you oral sex

* as an underage boy, you are raped by an adult woman.

The last one is surprising.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-12-22/features/96122...

The judge said "Victims have rights. Here, the victim also has responsibilities."

The admitted and convicted pedophile has full custody of a minor child, and her victim is ordered to pay the criminal money... or go to jail for non-payment of support.

I support equality. I have a hard time finding equality in the court decisions in this area.
I wouldn't know, my phone was supposed to get it 15 months ago and still hasn't.
From what I see in Melbourne at least, most Devs and iOS people use OS-X, if they're not using that they're running fedora or arch. I'm yet to see anyone run Windows other than project managers in places I've worked over the last 4 or so years.
Yeah... IBM CGA text wasn't that good even in the best of circumstances. The 640x200 resolution and 8x8 character cells were really inadequate.

Part of the reason for this is that IBM split the market into CGA for graphics and MDA for better text (9x14 character cell). Because the MDA adapter didn't display graphics, IBM made it possible to run both a CGA and a MDA in the same machine. Software like Lotus 1-2-3 could put the spreadsheet on the MDA and the graphics on the CGA. Dual monitors in the mid-80's.

Prior to the development of the EGA and VGA, there were a few interesting competitive responses to IBM's CGA/MDA split. The first was the Hercules card. This would let customers that had bought IBM's MDA (and it's matching monitor) get access to graphics. It wasn't compatible with CGA graphics, but it was higher resolution and wound up being fairly widely supported where it mattered. Compaq also had a solution to the problem... they shipped adapter/monitor pairs that could display MDA-quality text in the text modes and would scale down to 640x200 to display graphics.

What ultimately wound up happening is pretty much what you'd expect. As graphics resolutions got better with EGA and VGA, the quality of text on color displays got to the point where the MDA didn't represent an improvement. That said, there was always the ability to run an MDA (or clone) in parallel with a EGA, VGA, etc... that configuration was useful to programmers because it let you put debug information on one display while the main display ran the software you were developing.
That is what I think. It's not a huge problem for Apple. It seems like to stay competitive in this market you have to play the troll's game and Apple has shown many times that it knows the game very well. In the end, it probably balances out. I'd like to see numbers on this.

The real issue is small players getting buried under legal fees.
Slightly off topic, but what would a modern looking pre-fab house cost? I've always wanted to buy a piece of land somewhere rural and have a house built so I can take mini getaway vacations with my dog.
I have a FxOS device, flame. But actually it was not so useful. and utilities on OS (meaning Gaia) were little bit cheap.

FirefoxOS is interesting I think.
Browser is enough feature for OS in these days. but... it was not so enough in real life.
Maybe people with low sperm concentrations tend to sit around using their cell phone while it is plugged in?

The abstract doesn't really propose a mechanism, it just notes the correlation.

Pushing people with certain usage patterns to get screening for low t (or whatever) can still be a useful outcome of the further research.

Not that I think they really need to get funding to pursue it, but you are imputing the proposal of a causative radiation mechanism.
I'm not, the UK is a country with the rule of law. Assange is probably the most high-profile fugitive in the UK.

When those two prisoners escaped from prison in upstate new york,it cost new york 23 million dollars to find them [1] (and they were only fugitives for less than a month).

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/US/ny-prison-escape-manhunt-cost-state...
For those of you wondering about the "awesome list" phenomenon (as I was). It is a git repository that is marked as being a curated list of awesome things. Here is a manifesto:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/blob/master/awesome....

Edit: Don't know if any other infrastructure has sprung up around it. Maybe an awesome list of awesome tools?
Apple may owe Ireland $19B, but Ireland doesn’t want the money
Mozilla wants people to be able to trust the Firefox brand. They don't even use "Firefox" branding on their own nightly or dev builds. They only put it on software that's been through their own QA. So you're free to use the code, but they won't let you put the name or logo on any forks or even builds they haven't signed off on.
Perhaps apple ABUSES patents (that's a different discussion I do not want to get into), but I prefer to reserve the term "patent troll" for those individuals or organizations that do not actually perform invention nor manufacture, sales and marketing of actual products.
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Google doesn't make any attempts to pander to the MPAA/RIAA anymore. http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-mpaas-att...
Erm, that's the manage posting link (with a secret edit key / password in the URL.)
It even has a porch with rocking chairs. That is a clue.
Why isn't this a problem for Linux? Or Perl, Python, Drupal or many of the other packages that exist under their trademarked names in Debian and other distributions?
Yes I've seen the 100K estimate on paying users but that isn't that significant considering how many millions of free users they have (and how many full-time employees they need to pay for).

And "not need new financing" is no indication of profitability either.
Some counterpoints:

2. You have access to troves of Java libraries from most JVM languages.

3. Again, not all JVM languages suffer from this.

4. Some JVM languages have a REPL. JRuby and Scala for example.

5. You can use Ruby on Rails out of the box with JRuby and Torquebox. A couple of gemfile changes and you're good to go.
As far as I can tell, Clojure is pretty seriously popular. Before Clojure, and before Java 8, I wasn't attracted to the JVM very much at all, because I didn't enjoy writing Java code, I am seriously allergic to startup times, and I like my tools to fit in nicely in a GNU/Linux environment. I'm not a huge Clojure fan either, but I don't mind working with it. On a subconscious level I feel like Java is controlled by corporate leviathans that kind of terrify me, but I don't know how true this is.
14K for materials, 6K for labour was the goal.