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Sorry - I've editted this message multiple times - so I'm just starting over. May I recommend that everyone read parts 1 and 2 or this story? She addresses in detail some of the concerns that have been voiced here, such as her own medical experience, the details of the alternatives she was given, etc... When taken in that context, her decision is much more scientific than some are giving her credit for.
It's also standard operating procedure in journalism to name who.

...unless he just sold you something that should have been handed in to the police or Apple, apparently.
Yes, as both the title of the article and it's text clearly tell.

"He donated the the money to buy the company to Charter School Growth Fund. The acquisition price was not disclosed. He also invested $10 million in DreamBox to expand to more schools and subjects beyond math. He will become chairman of the DreamBox board, while continuing his role at Netflix, and DreamBox’s co-founder and chief executive, Lou Gray, will leave the company."

He = Reed Hastings
First saw it back in 2008 as a parody of the whole subprime CDO meltdown. Hitler shouts "But S&P said these were AAA! Now Goldman says they're only worth 70 cents on the dollar!" and so forth. Not too long after that, it came from Netflix. Great movie.
I am voting you up because I agree with your comment.
Wonder how quickly somebody is going to create one about the downfall of the downfall meme...
Online newspapers/blogs should definitely consider a feature like this. It could be really helpful in getting users to visit more often if they start designing their time around reading a few articles and then playing games for a bit.
I do know the full story actually. I'll summarize. In 2007 Guo Quan wrote a letter to the Chinese leadership asking for political reform, while peacefully founding an opposition party called the China New Democracy Party. Guo's writings were blacked out online and his name blacklisted from search. Guo was given a 10 year jail sentence in 2009 after being convicted under the charge "subversion of state power". Guo has 9.5 years of his jail sentence left.

If you have credible evidence that Guo was a violent, extremist terrorist funded by the West, I'd love to see it.
That and I wanted to make a Mad Max reference. Both these frameworks are doing exciting and interesting things that will help change the web.
One you have a prototype push link up and running; server and client able to reach each other on demand, the rest is just a simple matter of user authentication, managing timestamps, and maintaining consistency between the server side data-structure modeling the shared "object" being collaberated on, and the disparate views the users have of it in their clients.

This stuff can't be trivially made into a framework, because "collaboration" is not a particular problem, but a whole class of same-same but different problems (as Thais would say.)
True... but the question is, does it get less entertaining if it's not true? For most people it doesn't... Mackey himself invoked the quote "The perfect is the enemy of the good" in response to this question...

So, if you fill up your cart at Whole Foods you may not be 100% cruelty free and 100% organic.. maybe you're 40% cruelty free and 30% organic.... the question is, is it worth it to you?

Maybe someone will be able to create a profitable business by making a real promise in the marketing about what kind of food is being sold... But until society is ready for it, it won't be a profitable business. For now people prefer the feel good approach of making a minor difference and signaling it strongly... Just look around at all the Priuses for an example of this phenomenon in action.

Anyway... the perfect is the enemy of the good...
Yes, exactly. The problem with the standard NOT operator ('-') is that it's really hard for a user to discover it by experimentation, therefore most users never find it.

By exposing the same functionality in a visual manner it makes it much easier for the average user to play with...
how should they provide context?

update: i mean: maybe they had to protect their sources? maybe they have the (naive?) idea that they only have to bring up "the truth" and "the truth" speaks for itself? for sure, there is a gap between them and the traditional media. and: who can you believe when in war?
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Or take 3 APs and start your own business at the same time.

It's doable if you're motivated enough.
Hackers Stole Source Code of Google's Global Password System
WOFF web font submission accepted, published by W3C
One additional point to note is that if you show the user which keywords/tags are associated with the entire result set they are much more likely to be able to intelligently, and quickly, weed out results they don't want. As opposed to having to scan through the result, find the string they don't want, then type it into the search bar preceded by the negation operator...
I hope that girl wearing the backpack got paid a lot of money because I see her picture all the damn time.
Downfall was an incredibly powerful movie and that meme was wearing the impact off of its best scene. I could see the creators ignoring the fact that it's making the movie more popular and demanding a take-down as a matter of principle.
Can you explain why changing your password would thwart brute force attacks?
vector? is a fundamental type predicate in Scheme and Clojure but it's left out because it has no analog in CL.

Uh, (typep foo 'vector)?
anyone know the origin of that photo? I'm surprised there's not a parody on that one.
the image looks like it could be from UT, but lots of college campuses probably look alike.

i've been trying to hit the API all day!
The schools seem to removing days, not adding them, in order to meet their budget.
I believe the photographer posted to a thread on reddit or something. IIRC both he and the girl are getting residuals off the stock photo site he uses. It's not a great deal of money though.
The artist's biggest enemy is not piracy but obscurity.
It wasn't just fuzziness, it was outright whimsy in the YAML spec. Interpreting the string "Yes" (and "on") to actually mean a boolean true is one of the dumbest things I've seen in any specification, anywhere.
Trader Joe's sells a lot of garbage. I shop there now and then but if Trader Joe's is a substitute for Whole Foods then you are not shopping for the same sort of items. I've heard rumors that some Trader Joes (such as the one in Boston) have good fresh produce, but none that I've ever shopped in do.

Trader Joe's is essentially a clever white label branding and merchandising strategy. It's a great store, but mostly sells processed, frozen food and lots of junk food and booze.
Google Buys Stealth Hardware Startup Agnilux
Yes, but to get that information in bulk as Google would, you (usually) have to print it all out.
Very useful product. This is a service I'm actually going to use. By the way, If you change your name to something more generic, add a couple of other educational sources to you engine as well, you will be google as academic earth is youtube.
10 Nations Demand Online Privacy - Or Else
They're clearly incapable of doing real investigative journalism, so they should stick to what they're good at. Just release all the facts and the media and let the world do the rest.
Don't forget there are some positions that require a fair amount of training. I guess if those in school because they're forced go away, it would leave a better environment for those picking up the background for advanced studies.

And I see criticisms of the American model of college. Yeah, it pushes a lot of debt on the students but I thought the European model resulted in more years spent in college. There's ways to secure funding for school (such as taking the King's Shilling), and there's no real reason to try for Harvard vs. less-expensive schools, etc.
I think it's just incomplete. Coming from a CL perspective I see many problems. For example:

* missing equalp

* very non-idiomatic loop
The debt burden for most students in higher education is a major problem. We're almost at the point that getting a college degree is not an economically viable option. This has very bad long term consequences.
hump! yeah!
Although they aren't legally required to. Al does it as a courtesy. He specifically gets permission from the artist now, because when he did Amish Paradise he'd received an okay from Coolio's label, but later learned Coolio himself was upset about the parody.
If your problem was obscurity, Bono just writing songs about it would actually be a solution.
Remember that everyone starts out as a beginner.
Come on - how can you ignore a guy who "combines moral autonomy with rigorous scholarship"! Moral autonomy - I think that means nobody can make him do the right thing?
FWIW you can get a Asus Aspire Revo for $199 which seems to be able to do this. I bought one but haven't hooked it up yet.
"Oppenheimer: We’re not focused on making a lot of money on the App Store — with the iPad or iPhone. We’re just above break-even."

That's interesting to me: that may explain the desire to keep the App store "clean" and the occasional hurt they put on developers. The App store reels people in; if they aren't making money on it the risks of bad publicity is higher than the risk of losing some apps
One need only throw a stone at Amazon.com and hit several dozen books that are essentially just that. Obviously, the existence of that sort of information isn't enough. Something more needs to be done.
The director loves the meme.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/01/the_director_of...
this is my update from above, as i realized that was paul graham....

i mean: maybe they had to protect their sources? maybe they have the (naive?) idea that they only have to bring up "the truth" and "the truth" speaks for itself? for sure, there is a gap between them and the traditional media. and: who can you believe when in war?
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I honestly think Steve Jobs should make light of the situation and have your friend walk the production version of the new iPhone onto the stage at June's keynote. It was the plastering of this guy's poor face and name across their site that pushed me over the edge into boycotting Gizmodo. Didn't they run around at Comdex a few years back randomly turning off displays with one of those IR tv blasters? We are talking about a bunch of immature douchebags here.
I think you meant to link this: http://jmesnil.net/weblog/2009/09/28/how-books-shape-my-appr... but you linked to the image in the page instead.
Let me elaborate:

This whole anti-rockstar programmer movement sees the glass half empty rather than the glass half full. Rockstar programming should be encouraged, not shunned.

It would be wonderful to have a Lenny Kravitz or Mick Jagger despite being washed up and well passed their musical prime able to crank out good Python code. So why the development community energizing this ongoing global campaign against the "rockstar programmer" and thus discouraging any attempt by these rockstars to reinvent themselves and to find success in a respectable and head-down career change? I myself am all for it.

In terms of employment, they'll be good for your firm and its morale:

- entertaining lunch break stories, and "musical recesses"

- Because they're usually older and not money driven but rather skills driven, easier to manage and remunerate.

- You'll be seen as an equal opportunity employer and not age-biased.

- Most importantly, the PR value of having your startup or firm name-dropped globally alongside your rockstar will be priceless, more than making up for novice skill sets.

- Lastly, it's altruistic: getting rockstars off the stage and into the coding booth will be good for music: no more comeback hits. And we won't have these dinosaurs taking attention away from what would otherwise be standout emerging artists.

Rockstar programmers, bring 'em on I say. Let's support the likes of Kylie Minogue and Steven Tyler in their learning to become Pythonistas or Rubyists, or whatever language they choose, whether that learning be done on the tour bus or tour jet. So on behalf of the development community everywhere, we're right behind you, and we'll help. They'll mitigate further hearing loss too.
In the Napoleonic wars, 20 year old Generals commanded armies. Today, Napoleon's military tactics are taught at West Point and other noted military academies. Life expectancy was mid-thirties to forty-ish if my memory serves me correctly. Necessity drives people to do whatever is required to achieve a goal if the need is pressing enough.

The notion that young adults aren't able to cope with "real life" (what an oxymoron that is) is utter rubbish. Try giving them real responsibility (within reason) is the cure.
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I think the problem is they didn't provide the truth and only the truth. There was editorial spin on the video release.
This argument bothers me, since it degrades everything teachers do. My girlfriend student taught this semester, and worked her ass off, in coordination with her supervising teacher to build interesting lessons (history in particular).

The sheer amount of teacher hate I run across here is amazing.
I wonder what the price distribution curve is for this (and for Rainbows)? In particular, were there many outliers who paid an abnormally high amount for a CD, like $200+?
For historical reasons, most databases are made/configured around the assumption that it is better to fail loudly and completely rather than fudge the ACID guarantees silently.

It's the opposite, actually. The default install of modern databases (Oracle, MySQL, and Postgres are all guilty) is to silently corrupt data rather than to abort transactions. If you want data integrity, you have to explicitly ask for it:

http://search.cpan.org/~nuffin/KiokuDB-Backend-DBI-1.10/lib/...

Presumably this is because people get really scared when transactions fail. (Except that's the whole point of transactions -- optimize for success, and clean up a few failures here and there.)

Also, most NoSQL databases are fully ACID. OK, CouchDB isn't, but nobody uses that anymore, right? What people "give up" with NoSQL is the strict structure of the relational model. Things like sets and transactions still exist -- it's just that sets can be polymorphic, or you can use some other collection structure!
They were selling more CDs, but the average price was lower.
It's still amazing that they got so much in total sales, but maybe they could have achieved something similar by just lowering the price.

Terry said that the band did this for a while, and soon they were selling about $1200 per night on average, even including those people who took it for free! I think the average selling price was about $10.
Yeah, clearly we don't agree. I take the "no stones unturned" approach to journalism. You report every fact that might be relevant and figure out (or let readers determine for themselves) what's relevant and what's not.

The story to me isn't that it was found, it's how, a big part of which is who. I'm way less interested in whether or not the next unit has a front-facing camera or micro-sim card than how Apple (a company with better IP security than anyone) had one of their prototypes end up abandoned on a bar floor.

As someone who may one day be in a position where I'm developing a product that requires secrecy, I want to know this stuff. All of it. I want to know how Apple keeps their secrets so closely guarded, and especially want to know points of failure.

It's clearly not as important as government intelligence leaks, but who leaked is no less relevant to it's own story. I want to know who dropped the iPhone, because who the hell has the next gen iPhone? And who would be careless enough with such a thing to get drunk at a bar and leave it there?

It's very interesting that he's in his mid 20's for instance. That tells me more about their organization than I previously knew, including that people way lower on the totem pole than I would have guessed are walking around with prototypes. (Or were anyway, that may have changed.)

Also I meant they didn't do anything wrong by naming him. They may have done other things wrong (buying the phone perhaps). I'm not an attorney by any means, and I'd guess neither are most if not all of the people here speculating about legalities. I'm not particularly interested in that, though I can see why some would be.

And as far as the birthday thing, that's why I said "loosely". It's moderately amusing that the guy lost it on his b-day, but by far the least interesting part. That's just good old Gawker flogging a dead horse and milking page views.
Most people I've presented this idea to don't have much to say about it. If you had a similar reaction, I'm curious, is it because:

1) tl;dr
2) tried to read it, but fell asleep/zoned out
3) read it; didn't get it
4) don't think it's monetizable
5) too trivial
6) already busy building it

Thanks :)
You know what I find most depressing? That Gizmodo got 20 Million page views in a day for their iPhone 4G scoop. I somehow doubt this will get as much coverage.

Shame.
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this might help a little: http://www.fbpurity.com/
People buy iPhones in Q2? I figured pretty much everyone bought them in the summer so they wouldn't be "obsolete" (ie. not the newest iPhone) almost immediately.
[EDIT: The following comment is off-topic; therefore I wish I hadn't posted it. I didn't delete it, though, so that you could make sense of the comment responses to it. My apologies for being off-topic.]

I'm about to express an unpopular opinion, so I'm expecting lots of downvotes, but at least I believe that what I'm expressing is rational and from the heart.

Regarding this whole WikiLeaks incident, I felt bad for both the Iraqi casualties and the soldiers. If the soldiers had full knowledge that they were firing on a family that was simply trying to help the wounded, you know that they wouldn't have fired. They fired because they assumed there were insurgents in the van. They made a mistake.

What really bothers me is that so many people get outraged over the soldiers' mistake, but so many people gladly eat factory-farmed meat. Animals in factory farms are subject to a very painful existence before their lives are cut short. Yet most people don't care. It's hard for me to stomach the criticism that the soldiers get knowing that many of the people who criticize these soldiers will then go eat a burger, fully and willfully participating in a system that creates unnecessary suffering and carnage to innocent beings.

In other words, our priorities as a society are out of whack. If we really cared about violence, there is something that each of us can do right away: go vegetarian. It's easier to criticize the violence of soldiers than take action ourselves to live a less violent life.

Let the downvoting begin. :/
Because the savings make it worth it?
What I want to know is how Google recruits photographers :)
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/businessphotos/#utm_campaig...

None of the job openings at your SF office seem oriented around this.

PS: nice job on the polygons. It helps on the N1.
Sure, if you've done several projects for that client and you charged them $100/hour each time, they'll be more likely to offer a price that's in line with that.

Still, it's a kind of gamble and not a very smart one.
Shows you how attuned your average customer is to release cycles.
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Depends on the IRC server. Freenode's old IRC daemon was very liberal about the IRC protocol. If you "accidentally" included "POST /whatever HTTP/1.1" before the IRC commands, the server would be just fine with that. You could also send commands without acknowledging responses. This meant that an arbitrary HTTP request could create an IRC connection and send stuff to channels!

The result was a web page that merely visiting would spam people on the IRC network with hate messages from your IP. It was amusing.
See, the thing is, I don't know German, so how can it really be a theft of the movie if the original English subtitles aren't there for me to understand it? Doesn't comprehensibility figure into this at all?
Ya dude, that's taking it too far. You can't compare the loss of human life to ANYTHING else. I understand your position, but stating it detracts from what's really important - the unnecessary loss of human life.
I remember a thread on this very board where there was a article on year-round-schooling.
The majority of users in my experience just increment the last digit in there password by 1 each time they are forced to change it.
It's 100% doable.

I'm taking 3 APs and a few past-AP classes (classes for which APs don't exist), and in my free time working at making iPhone apps/mobile contractor work with a few of my similarly motivated friends. It's not exactly what people around here consider a "business" (i.e. startup), but it does show that it's possible.
You're right that it's not that odd. I was pandering a little to readers who might otherwise be open to Po Bronson and alternative child-rearing theories, but have biases against Gingrich based on a partisan caricature of him.

But, Gingrich is a former college professor and sometimes-member of a political establishment which usually emphasizes more high-school-graduations, and more people going to college. So it is a little odd (and brave) for Gingrich to advocate a change in thinking that, practically, could mean fewer traditional K-12 high school diplomas granted, and lower traditional college enrollment.

He's breaking a political taboo, the simpleminded idea that more years-of-schooling is always better. That's a little odd for someone who might have presidential ambitions.
The article itself is quite useful, but a warning on the sort tutorial he links to (http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/arraysort.shtml). Contrary to what it says, you cannot reliably shuffle a list by doing:

myarray.sort(function() {return 0.5 - Math.random()})

This just makes every comparison return a random value, which may or may not produce particularly random results, depending on the sort algorithm. It's exactly the bug that bit Microsoft in their not-very-random browser shuffle screen.
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This will work in certain situations. Basically, in negotiation the one to mention price first 'loses'. The reason the first party to mention a price 'loses', especially if it is the payee, is fairly simple game theory. The first price mentioned by the payee will set a high bound. If they payer must set a first price, this will be the low bound, and may exceed the payees high bound. For instance, if a dev offers to do work for $100, but it is really worth $200 to the client, the client will accept the $100. The client may have offered $200, but now with the information that the dev will do it for $100, of course they will only offer $100.

tl;dr - The client must come up with a price first, and if they have a personal relationship with you and the value they gain is higher than your sunk costs, it will probably be higher than what you would have set.
I'm not trying to be a jerk about this, but you really cannot expect us to hold the lives of children in Iraq anywhere near that of Cattle. It's hardly hypocrisy to eat a burger after calling out the soldiers, as people and animals really are, according to almost every person as well as almost every religion/philosophy, on completely different planes of existence.

I support the troops who did this, but I don't think people who don't and who eat non-organic meats are hypocrites for it.
It sounds like it's the registrar's fault. But yeah, when it happened once, he definitely should have gotten the hell away from that registrar.

"@qmx Domain registrar fuckup. Domain is paid, but they still let it lapse with their reseller. My bad for not moving it last yr." http://twitter.com/qmx/status/12537976791