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Yahoo owns Tumblr, but it runs independently. If the Tumblr portion of Yahoo is hiring they should (and I suspect would have) put their logo up.

And no, Tumblr is not "top tech" either. It may be more than a dying husk, but it's 2 tiers below "top tech."
You can install OS X on a surface tablet. it's definitely been done.
But you can't have infinite stars in your field of view since they'd get in each other's way; blocking radiation. Using the tree example from the article, you wouldn't see infinite trees, you'd only see the pieces that are directly in front of you.
Surprisingly, at the end of the wikipedia article about Olber paradox there is a integral which describes the summation of all stars and takes the distance into account, and according to what we know currently about the matter distribution in the universe, the integral is infinite :)
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Interesting. It's funny that the comment where I mention Gamergate is sitting at -2 but all of my comments that address the points of the movement are ~+6.

I wish people would look into it for themselves instead of just hearing out one side/the media. That's really what my argument is about. When you silence one side of an argument, uninvolved people are apt to believe the unchallenged narrative.
"You say that like it's a bad thing."

This is Ycombinator, a site for supposed future business owners. Yes, it's a bad thing.

"If a piece of content or a given website cannot survive without ads propping it up, was it ever worth anything in the first place? Ads are far from the only revenue-generating method available nowadays, they're just the easiest/laziest."

Sure. Instead, we will now have fully integrated advertising that can't be blocked.

Would you rather see an advertisement or an entire article on a blog centered around a product? The average consumer isn't going to take a stand on things like this because they just don't care. It will only pollute the content that you actually enjoy even more.

"There may be less content overall, but I suspect the content that survives will be much higher quality as a result."

Higher quality content doesn't pay the bills alone. I don't mind because my business doesn't rely on ad revenue.

However, when I see more and more people clamoring for something like a 'basic income', I really start to shake my head...because things like this are quickly destroying many jobs.

It's not the first time the tech community has dug their own salary grave and then cried out to everyone when they can't pay the bills or they lose their house.

This is why I'm not on the other side of this: I would rather take advantage of this foolishness than be forced into it.
In some circles, sure, but in other circles he's known as the guy who tried to unapologetically rip off Aphex Twin[1], ruined a perfectly good Daft Punk song, and is pretty much a punchline. As in, I don't think he ever got beyond mediocre. Mediocrity and accessibility are significant elements to success in popular music; kind of like the other side of the coin to Max Martin's genius when it comes to the perfect song formula which is complexity posing as simplicity.

[1]http://pitchfork.com/news/56459-aphex-twin-speaks-on-his-new...
I guess I don't really see the value to businesses. People have an awful tendency to (a) overrate themselves dramatically and (b) have wildly unrealistic expectations for what they're worth and what's out there. So you wind up with a bunch of "10/10" Ruby engineers who think they're worth 150k, when the reality is that they're probably 7/10 guys that are worth 2/3s of that.
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The top 10% (over $125K/yr) pay 70% of all income tax in the US. In 1990, it was 55%.[1]

[1]http://www.ntu.org/foundation/page/who-pays-income-taxes
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Lazarus, a great tool for writing desktop applications
But "Fees" are well within the POTUS purview.

So, make "Fees" that are means-tested (charge exorbitant those whom are rich). They aren't considered taxes. They're 'something else' (bullshit, but that's what the courts say).
This was a multi hour meal involving a lot of alcohol, most of it shared with the staff.

This is a small town and was basically ruined by the tsunami and trying to recover, so I was trying to spend as much as possible there. (I was also on my way back from one of the cat islands so in a particularly good mood.)
This is the biggest question I have as well. Will be interesting to see how they differentiate themselves, Hired has been providing this anonymized, salary-first hiring platform for a few years now.

I hate to ask how Woo plans to "disrupt" the existing market, but...
The two diffs have exactly the same number of lines here, the difference is which lines are selected as part of the insertion.
> The above description makes left wing views sound superior to right wing views, which was not my intention.

It certainly wouldn't be Sowell's intention (you don't get to be a Hoover Institute fellow with that kind of attitude.)

> In fact Sowell's book lays down an extremely fair and balanced description of both right and left wing beliefs and assumptions, with IMHO no discernable bias between them.

As I understand it, A Conflict of Visions is the first part of a trilogy whose overall thrust, as I understand, is an attack on the "unconstrained" vision (the one you ascribe to the left wing -- not sure how accurate that reflects Sowell); though the first volume is mostly stage setting and the serious attacks are in the other two volumes.

From your description, it may be fair and balanced (though, given everything else I've seen from Sowell, I wouldn't expect that except in the Fox News sense of "fair and balanced"), but it doesn't seem at all accurate of the difference between the left and the right (it might better explain some of the difference between the libertarian and the authoritarian -- though I would not describe it, even there, as the dominant or sole basis for either view -- and certainly its not unheard of for right-libertarians, especially American right-libertarians, which Sowell certainly is, to conflate the left-right and libertarian-authoritarian axes.)
sometimes you need to do the right thing, not the optimal thing.
or when I can create nul.txt file.
Excellent idea. I would assume there would be many false positives when adding unit tests (e.g. faking out a password), so I wouldn't be so sure to add it to an automated gating system. Although, I guess you can choose non-random strings for unit tests.
'An Average Guy' Excels at Teaching Students AP Calculus
So... what is Parse? Neither the blog post nor the repo give any idea what you'd actually use the parse-server package for.
Edit:

Your argument is largely based on the idea of using copyright to prevent mischariacterization of the work, and more broadly for the author to control perception of the contents of the work. My original comment (preserved below) pointed out that such arguments have little legal footing in the first place and wouldn't even work offline.

I presumed you did not know this, but now I wonder if you're arguing to remove existing standards for fair use. But if you're making that case I would have expected to see different arguments. Arguments founded on the utility to society w/r/t progressing the useful arts and sciences, or a new class of utility all together.

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>and what's more the court has withheld the author's ability to decide how they want their books to be advertised/presented.

Controlling the external perception of the contents of the work is not a purpose of copyright. There is even a well established realm of fair use covering criticism and comment. I don't intend to say that reproduction of excerpts for use in advertising (and google's implementation of it) are fair use. They very well may not be. However, a court will not be swayed by legal reasoning based on an author's ability to wield copyright to control public perception of the work.

>I could scan in books, present content without context, and misrepresent what a book is trying to say. For example I could create a climate skeptic website that takes pro-climate change books and misquotes them into supporting me. But because of this "transformative change" from physical to digital, suddenly I am allowed to do that.

No, this is again an established area of fair use that has nothing to do with digitization specifically. Someone could publish that hypothetical website as a book and argue fair use with the standards of "research and scholarship" fair use (and maybe "criticism and comment," depending on how the quotes were used).

>Every time Google quotes part of a book without context they're changing the meaning of that book. The author has lost their right to stop that from happening.

The author NEVER had the right to wield copyright on the basis of preventing mischaracterization of their work, even if is/was de facto ability.
I think it's a matter of price. GPS receivers are cheap and widely supported by timekeeping software. The cheapest atomic clock I can find is $1,500, but it's a hard thing to search for since the term is used to refer to radio-synchronized clocks.

If you did have an atomic clock in every datacenter, you'd still need to make sure that they didn't develop a problem that caused them to drift apart, and also you'd need to make sure that they were in sync with each other in the first place.
What happened to this line from the second file in the screenshot?

- var optionsGlassPane = new WebInspector.GlassPane(document);

An important part of viewing diffs for me is seeing what the old code was.
Yes, this makes sense. If this is the case though, then aren't there some obvious problems with how we think of dimensions (at least the first three or four anyway)?

It seems like creating space to fill the "voids" between particles moving at-what-would-be-faster than the speed of light is like a tesseract for whatever matter is in that rapidly created/expanding space. Unless that space is only accessible to the particles creating it by their relative motion (which still gives us problems with our ideas of dimensions)?
I should add too, that as someone who has personally played guitar for 30+ years, "the same 9 chords" is a good route to extraordinary musical depth. Music isn't just technique - it's expressiveness. Knowing more chords won't necessarily make you a better musician, or even a good one.

My own technique hasn't improved significantly in ages, but I'm a better musician year after year. Why? Because I become more profound. I have better things to say with the technique I have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag#Solutions_and_lag_compensa...
She doesn't believe in the concept of innocent until proven guilty (investigation into rape accusations is immoral, just sentence the male). Not to mention that she has such a broad defintion of terms like "rape" that it's quite disgusting to see her heralded as a defender of women's rights. And her video game criticisms (which is her whole thing) are so far removed from the actual content she's reviewing (inventing anti-women tropes that don't exist) that I'm not sure she knows what she's reviewing. There's lots of other bullshit (she's literally the mouthpiece of Macintosh, has lied to all of her backers and has cried wolf about harassment that didn't happen of she invented).

So yes. She's an extremist, and I'd argue she's barely a feminist (if you use the "equality for women" to mean that women and men should be treated equally and not women t
treated "more equally" than men).
> This is a category of dark patterns: have the user click on something that has been benign the last 20 times they've seen something similar, but this time isn't.

This is the nature of OAuth, in which the scopes can be different for many different clients. Not that this makes it any better, you just need to be aware of it. Slideshare do the same thing when you click download - if you verify using linkedin they want access to everything on your linked in profile just so you can download the slides. Ridiculous (even if they're essentially the same company).

Changing your password here is no good, you need to go to linkedin and then your account settings, then third party apps and delete whatever it was you allowed to connect. Despite all the failings of OAuth that's one of the good features about it, you can actually control the access.

Tip: if you're logging in using OAuth (generally when you get redirected to another site to confirm) always check the requested scopes and always remove all the scopes but those essential to the functioning of the calling app/site, which is usually just access to your e-mail address.If you can't disallow certain scopes then try logging in using something else, github, facebook, whatever, and rinse and repeat. If you're still not happy then just signup with a throw away email.
GPS reference clocks are nanosecond resolution. Synchronizing from Earth would be challenging due to varying transmission distances and relativistic effects.
Very good service, comrade. Soviet bless you.
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A ground-based transmitter could be destroyed in an attack, so having the clocks on orbit meant they were protected and would still be operational for a retaliatory ICBM launch.

Edit: So far as latency - the on-board clocks get resynced today every now and again against a ground-based reference time as they pass overhead of a USAF transmitter (primary + backup). If they used only moderately-accurate clocks as a cost-saving measure (or were at the limit of late 1970's technology) drift would be more severe and the tail-end of each orbit would be less correct than at the start of the orbit. So additional ground stations would be required in parts of the planet not always so friendly to the US, and they would have to coordinate their time sources, allowing for the light-speed delay travelling around the earth. Much more expensive/harder solution from an operational aspect.

Edit Edit: Don't forget that the GPS system was designed around military requirements. All the satellites (even today) have nuclear weapon detonation detectors on board and are a primary input to NORAD.

> The 2nd SOPS has three missions: global navigation, time transfer and nuclear detection.

http://www.schriever.af.mil/GPS/
Analogy: The larger your training set, the better your neural net. Of course, having a good quality training set is important as well. But with enough data, even not-so-great-data at huge quantities helps generate a well-performing neural net.
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Using Windows 10 iOS bridge to convert Canabalt to Windows 10 in under 5 minutes
> That said, I'll add some Manual Install instructions to the readme so it's clear how to do this on your own

Yeah, that helps a lot :)

I saw this, was like "cool, I want to use this", and then noted that it uses npm. I avoid installing ruby and node apps -- I have nothing against either, just that I currently don't use either language or have a dependency on a major tool written in those; but they pull in a lot of deps which take up space (at least, my experiences have been that many of these tools install way too much -- probably because I don't use either and all the "default libs" aren't on my system). On my previous machine I had lots of issues with this, so as a rule I avoid these things unless absolutely necessary. I know others who are of a similar opinion.

Fortunately I realized that it was just a shell script, and installed it directly :)
It's been a little over a month since the first launch of the last major revision to the Falcon 9. It's kind of been in beta for six years.
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I wholly agree regarding email hosted in the United States, especially for any emails stored over 180 days on servers you don't own (see Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986).
Good creative content is difficult to incentivise for.

Case in point: SO incentivises for it without payment. Largely through providing an "interesting things to work on" dynamic, with rapid review and improvement of naff responses.

But answers to technical problems (many quite trivial) are a different class than, say, deep investigative reporting, or solving really hard technical problems.

On that last, there's an essay written a few years back on how the current iteration of the Internet seems to incentivise for trivial things, featured on HN. I'll see if I can't track it down.

(See what you just incentivised me to do there?)
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My wife got the same letter from her time working at the VA. Fingerprints, social security number and all the other personal details that they required.
Q: If someone wants to make a scalable, stable and high performant desktop application, why would someone choose Lazarus (Pascal) over let's say JavaFX (Java) or otherwise?

A: Lazarus supports constructs such as generic programming with type constraints, iterators and enumerators, user definable conversions, value types with properties methods and events, extension methods, and more.

In the video you'll see many examples of applications all written with Lazarus. They look fantastic, perform great, and they don't depend on a runtime environment.

Additionally, Free Pascal, the language it uses, includes events and properties, two core concepts important in creating desktop applications.

Properties are the nouns and adjectives which you place on objects or value types (structs). They allow you to have descriptive words associated with your types such as Color, Caption, and Width.

When you write:

Button.Color := Red;

The property setter is invoked causing code to execute invalidating the Button and refreshing the area of the screen occupied by Button. This is different than having a bunch of Button.SetColor(Red), Button.GetColor(), Button.SetCaption(Text), and Button.GetCaption().

Without properties what's to say what nouns and verbs are important to the state and presentation of an object or value type? You just have a bunch of methods with nothing to distinguish them from properties as I've described.

Then there are methods, again something which Java is sorely missing. In Free Pascal they are their own intrinsic type.

Using an example again:

Button.OnClick := LoadFile;

We've associated some notification on Button with a handler method. Now how hard is that? Better yet, in Lazarus you can browse all the events an object supports and double click it assign a handler. The Java method of inner classes and interfaces results in a lot of unnecessary typing and code. It's also antithetical to the concept of lambdas and closures, whereas in Lazarus they fit perfectly.
Here's the notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2016-02-04-Wahoo-....

Also, basically the same thing happened 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10271304
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They aren't, mainly because it's painstakingly clear she hasn't played the games (or whoever writes her script hasn't played the games). She talks about what happens in the first 5 minutes and pretends that <female character that you cared about dies> is sexism.
the netbeans.team.diff tool is similar (showing the specific words that changed), allows interactive editing, and does a good job even with large insertions and deletions
Teenagers Are Much Better at Snapchat Than You
> But "Fees" are well within the POTUS purview.

No, they aren't. (Except to the extent that fees have been authorized by statute and the authority to adjust them given the executive in the statute, but that clearly isn't what you are referring to, since you are talking about arbitrarily introducing new fees.)

The executive has very little independent (that is, not dependent on Congressional action) domestic policy authority.
Kudos to StackOverflow! Especially the sentiment recognizing "scantily-clad women selling flight deals" as a low quality ad. I'm a married man, I don't need that sort of noise and nonsense in my life. This blog further deepens my loyalty to the StackOverflow community.
Nobody is proposing it per se, but many companies and people are installing it on every browser. The average person probably didn't even care about seeing ads in the first place.

Forcibly removing revenue streams in the tech industry is not really going to help any future business owners.

Sure, Ad revenue isn't the only way to make money, but when you have $0 startup capital, it's many times the only way.

This only pushes out the smaller business owner and average person that wants to make some extra money and gives more power to big companies and venture capitalists.

Nobody seems to think long-term, only in their own self-interest.
Yeah, it works only between iOS-iOS or Mac-Mac for me. Rarely works cross-platform.

I even called AppleCare to troubleshoot, and the level 2 tech I spoke with said that it "might not work reliably" on pre-2014 devices. I pointed out that Apple's website claims compatibility for post-2012 devices (my MBA is 2013), and he said I was being argumentative. He also couldn't cite any documentation for his 2014 claim.

I now use Dropbox instead of AirDrop, which is inefficient—especially given my slow upstream connection—but at least works reliably.
Cheap and easier access to free online prep courses would help. Also there's a lot that can be done by bringing kids into a community and giving them a group to belong to that encourages education. Freakonomics did a pretty good podcast about a project in Toronto that cut the dropout rate by ~15 percentage points. [0] The whole thing is worth a read but the basics are they provided support advocates, transportation, a scholarship if they kept with the program, tutoring, and group activities.

Really though there's probably always going to be some level of education outcome gap between rich and poor kids, having an easier and more stable home life is a substantial leg up.

[0] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/fix-broken-high-schooler-fou...
A mathematical explanation would involve a comparison of the density of stars throughout the universe with the inverse-square drop-off in light intensity from each.

If you assume for the sake of argument that all stars are as bright as the sun, and that stars have a uniform density throughout the universe (either a finite-but-huge or infinite universe, it makes little difference here), then you could solve for the mean intensity of light throughout, or in our case, "how bright the sky is at night."

The article makes a classic (and really hard to escape! I've seen this sort of thing called a "paradox" on many occasions.) mistake of examining two infinite quantities (infinite stars, up to an infinite distance away) and assuming that they must cancel each other out, that infinity/infinity=1. But not all infinities are the same, and infinity/infinity can work out to 0, or to 0.1, or to pi, or to infinity (as in the case of "# real numbers"/"# integers"), or to anything else; you have to look at the details -- what kind of infinity is it? -- and figure out how they compare.
I dunno, i get family guy, but it's need to work for a reaction out of progressively more jaded audiences lost its lustre for me in the end.

When you're just nodding along to the commentary I suspect satire is largely wasted in a haze of confirmation bias.

Tl;dr family guy isn't funny anymore.
Everything Steve touches turns to crap.