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I specialize in Educational apps. Previous clients were large publishers who hired me because of my ability to innovate and further evolve a vague idea of what they have. Instead of having to receive a super specific plan of the final deliverable.
As consumers we could do better. Instead of just focusing on the price and features we could be also interested in how the product was produced.

I think the pressure from consumers can be even stronger force than regulation. It can act faster and it is not so susceptible to lobbying and loopholes.
I really wish mobile device vendors would add support for multiple unlock modes. E.g.:

* "Me mode" that unlocks everything.

* "Kid mode" that only allows one's kid access to pre-approved apps and features.

* A "lend to a stranger to make a call" mode that is a lot like the kid mode, but it also causes the phone to start broadcasting its GPS location frequently (and refuse to turn off [though it might fake it]) in case the stranger steals it.

* An "under duress" alternate PIN that unlocks an alternate profile full of nothing but benign activity, with no indication of (or access to) the encrypted real profile. Once in this mode, the phone cannot unlock normally without a non-phone 2-factor authentication (e.g., email).

All but the last could use the normal PIN, perhaps with different "submit" buttons. I would also love to see the same thing on ATMs, where an alternate "I'm being robbed" PIN will show a fake, low balance in the account and limit withdrawal to that value.
Actually there is now design out of 74ls series logic that replicates functionality of the ULA (it is probably completely bug-for-bug compatible), IIRC it was designed by author of said book.
No, the Mongols were nomadic, not agrarian, and the fermentation of alcohol does not require an agrarian society to produce. In point of fact, it is so easy to make alcohol that we can hardly keep people from doing so in prisons. Generally, people make and consume alcohol, whether or not they are interested in settling anywhere in particular. So, while you are generally correct that there are a number of factors that make the combination of agrarianism and alcohol production particularly successful, it's not a causal relationship.
The universe is not mathematics. Mathematics is a game. When we talk about the universe (physics, chemistry, etc.) we use mathematics as a language. The universe is not "doing" mathematics, but when we observe the universe we use mathematics to describe what we are seeing to each other.
What? What are "real sites"? I'm in the adtech industry and know execs and devs at all the top publishers. Revenue/traffic issues are at the top of the list. They don't sit around doing nothing all day.

Regardless, resources are always constrained and working on AMP means not working on the standard (mobile) HTML version.
I read the article, it mentions the amendments by number but I don't have awareness of them by number alone.
Visual languages are very diverse. Drakon and DeepUI have very little in common beside both being visual.
The problem is, they can't be held accountable if no one knows what they're doing (how they process data, how they store data, etc.).
Good eye. 20 paragraphs and 11 mentions of the website. Native advertising, but it does bring up a good point. Though I think overstated in its effectiveness.
Thanks for the background, but somebody has to say it: his failure was looking at child pornography.
>Because apparently the exact name somehow makes the act better (or worse?) in God's eyes.

Not a christian per se, but theoretically speaking, the name is not some mere dressing: it gives the justification (or lack thereof) for the act.

So it makes sense that something described with a different name changes the act in "God's eyes" -- the same way that e.g. killing someone to take their money and killing someone to stop them from killing you are not both "murder".

Besides, what's allowed to humans and what's allowed to God doesn't need to be the same thing. No hypocrisy in that, we're talking about different entities, and nobody said they are equal (on the contrary).
The claim that the first clause is prefatory is some seriously contorted motivated reasoning on the part of the majority in the Heller case, and for those who would like to see what real historians think I would direct you to the amicus brief in that case from Rakove et al (http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/07-290_...)
Perhaps it is from overeating the things that make you fat? :).

We should all figure out what works best for our lifestyles and bodies.
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> There's no "fair" anywhere in there - nor should there be.

This is basically a moral claim. I think it's a sad sort of morality. That's irrelevant to that point, which is a practical one. Businesses generally have to give investors a return they feel is fair, or they stop getting investors. Investors are primates, and so have a sense of fairness. [1] The notion of a fair rate of return is also related to the market rate, and companies that fail to provide market-rate returns don't do well, no matter how precisely correct their forward-looking statements.

As to profit being a sustaining motivation, feel free to give examples, but I find your raw assertions unpersuasive. I believe that it's necessarily true for organization in the long run, in that profit-seeking is a short-term motivation, one that essentially conflicts with the long-term work needed for sustainable companies.

> we should take steps that we are not fragile to such actors.

Sure, but that's true whether or not their exploitative behavior is in some sense sustainable. Indeed, we need to be most careful of the unsustainable ones; they're the most dangerous.

[1] See, e.g., https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_mora...
Also, get more women into the military, oil refineries, etc.
Awesome! Yeah try it out for a few days and if you like it drop me a line.

Edit:

Also drop me a line if you don't like it and let me know why! :D
No, actually happened. Both so random that I'm convinced twitter is listening in! Not sure how I was targeted for both otherwise.
Western governments around the world make special considerations for persecuted minorities all the time. That is 'singling out' usually on the basis of ethnicity or religion, sometimes sexual orientation.
And if you just let nominal housing prices fall, the banks get to keep their unearned gains. The homeowners still owe them the full mortgage amount.

Some homeowners will default and the banks will suffer too.

Or we get a huge number of defaults and relive the housing crisis, and then the banks keep the foreclosed homes off the market as they did last time.

The reason banks did this is they wanted to pretend bad homes and bad loans were still valuable, in order to use them to satisfy capital reserve requirements. There's a very simple solution to this problem.

You are being exploited the same as homeowners because high housing prices result in high rents. Reducing real housing prices will reduce real rents to your benefit. Reducing nominal housing prices is politically and economically intractable, so the alternative to inflation is that you continue to pay high rents.

This is simply not true. The housing bubble was manifest in the price vs rent ratio, which skyrocketed. The only way to reduce rents is to produce more housing. If that tanks the price of existing houses, I don't really care.

I want real housing costs to come down. Do you have a better idea, that won't be defeated politically by existing homeowners?

My mistake, I thought you were discussing whether this is something we should do. I didn't realize you were merely discussing what is politically possible.

I don't believe that fixing the US is politically possible. In spite of this being the Flight 93 Election [1], I think the odds that Trump will save us are close to zero. I don't plan to be here for the end.

[1] http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-electio...
I guess we can bury our heads into the sands with the problems that Airbnb or Uber creates because we enjoy the services.
These jobs are the opposite of flexible schedules.
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He is saying that we the people must hold them to those standards. We should not sit idly and say "We hold you to these standards" while not actively ensuring that the standards are being followed.
Who's this "we" you speak of? I guess it's Fuck-You-Got-Mine baby-boomer Tory brigade, who bought cheap suburban houses in the 1970s and 80s and have watched them rocket in value ever since.

Because it certainly isn't the rest of us, who have no prospect of ever buying a home, or getting a pension, but are still expected to pay hundreds of thousands in taxes to subsidise over our lifetime the retirement of the aforementioned baby-boomers, while listening to their lectures about how we don't work hard enough, and don't value the precious green belt that keeps their house prices buoyant.

England is ~10% urban[1]; the figure is even lower in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The green belt isn't about protecting some dwindling remnant of unspoilt land, it's about propping up the house prices of people too stupid and selfish to even admit to themselves how stupid and selfish they're being.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18623096
In the Lean world (as in Lean Manufacturing), the definition of value is the customer's definition. That makes sense, as that's the definition that, at least over the long term, controls how much you can make.
If you're worried about losing issues, then just backup them using Github's API and some script[0].

[0] https://gist.github.com/Tharre/706b0d8c3567c1f5346a
The implication is that you shouldn't expect it to be there, you can hold them to those standards but that means actually putting work into verifying that they are meeting the standards, and having some recourse if they are not.
Unless you plan on paying taxes in all 50 states (you shouldn't), then collecting sales tax from customers outside of the states you are paying taxes in is moot. You generally only need to pay taxes in states you have nexus in (depending on state tax law). In this case, it sounds like you only have nexus in WI which as you mention, does not require sales tax collected.

Generally speaking, you are not responsible for sales tax for online sales, outside of the states you are paying taxes in; the customer is. They are supposed to report stuff they bought online and pay their sales tax (ya right...).
The problem with the efficiency gap as a metric is that, even when districts are drawn by algorithms blind to partisan affiliation, (considering only geometric compactness, for instance,) often an efficiency gap persists.

"The challenge for House Democrats is that their while their voter coalition has proved large enough to carry the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections, it remains intensely concentrated, mostly in urban areas. That concentration provides a systematic advantage to Republicans in the struggle for the House—even before considering the GOP's edge in control of redistricting after the 2010 census." (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-gop...)

Gerrymandering is bad, but fair and equal representation is an individual right, not something to which political parties are entitled.
> there are no border controls (when walking or driving).

In practice they may not always exist, but I think Schengen member states have the authority to perform border controls in all cases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#Border_checks does not talk about distinctions depending on the mode of entry). In the current political climate, even as a citizen of a Schengen country, I would not cross borders within Schengen space without ID: I would not be surprised if states decided to perform border checks, and they would probably have the right to deny me passage if I do not have suitable ID.
A few questions/suggestions:

I don't know if it was present, but I would like a loading bar. It's not always clear whether or not a website has finished loading.

Is the border-radius on the app's WebView really necessary? Although minor, it takes away from the page content.

Consider enlarging the address bar at the bottom. It becomes extremely annoying when I accidentally activate a button in my attempt to open Control Center.

Can you go forward a page, in addition to going back one page?
There are many privacy guides on the Internet, many of very uneven quality. How do I know I can rely on that one?

I prefer the one tptacek helped produce (if I understand him correctly):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13622684
Is this susceptible to any of S3's eventual consistency constraints?
Cool. The end of the article reminds me of a somewhat recent cheating scandal that the US Navy had at one of its huge schools. The Navy adjusts its tests to be harder if pass rates get too high, which was the case at a base where instructors were passing answer keys to one another (ongoing certification tests, it seems.) The cheating led to higher pass rates and harder tests until eventually it was impossible to pass the test by just studying.

Similarly, the only way to have a life at these jobs is by cheating on the appearance of hours worked. I would say nearly the majority of my colleagues now are big savers who plan to get their money and then leave to have families for about this same reason.
> there's far more stigma attached to being the man who can't come in to work because his child threw up.

I'm pretty spoiled ("privileged" might be a more accurate term), but I've called out fairly often due to having a much better time off policy than my wife - so when the kid is sick and can't go to daycare, I tend to pick up 75%+ of the stay-home time with her. I've never had a problem at work, and other dads at work have done the same thing.

I literally can't imagine someone giving me shit about it, or a coworker suggesting that it's the woman's/mom's job to stay home with a sick child. I guess it's different in non-software fields?
And ascribing too much importance to social network reputation leads to a great episode of Black Mirror, hardly a desirable world to live in though.
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Another post already pointed out that you are probably wrong about Trump's homophobia.

But about European countries creating their own laws, the federalist movement so prevalent in Brussels these days certainly doesn't see it that way. What you describe was the EEC or the EEA. What the EU is about is different: it is not just free trade; it's about accepting laws, devised in Brussels, regulating many aspects of life - from how taxation must be organised, how economic activity may be encouraged, whether a nation may allow its subjects to chew tobacco, how wind power must or must not be subsidized, whether and what kind of hunting is permitted and whether people may own firearms... everything. Not just trade.

Also, creating a EU army is a recurring topic.

See how the Brussels is so wound up now that Britain dared to say "no thank you" to ever closer political and monetary union. There's a huge disconnect between Brussels (and European Parliament members) and the nations they are supposed to represent.

I'd be in favour of the kind of EU you imagine it is. Unfortunately that's not what we're getting, and that's why EU is disintegrating.
Conversely, at one point I wanted to start using Postgres' JSONB features, but was running my production app on a MySQL backend.

Switching was as simple as:

1. Export all data to fixtures.
2. Change settings.py to use the Postgres drive.
3. Load all data into fixtures.

Granted, I was sticking to core Django ORM calls, so I wasn't hard coding any SQL anywhere. And the null ordering does change a little, but the tests caught that.

So I was definitely glad that worked out. And have been super happy with postgres.
I know which ad you're referring to. Don't have to click this link, it was a catchy one!
I thought that NYT had to add a disclaimer when it's sponsored content?

If that's true, then this might just be lazy reporting?

I'm all for putting an end to native ads, but we have to admit any press about something is effectively an ad.
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>I once worked in a company where the managers were paranoid about us leaking the source code of the game we developed.

Not necessarily unwarranted; I still remember the leak of the source code for Half-Life 2 making headlines back in 2003.

https://games.slashdot.org/story/03/10/02/1547218/half-life-...

(Good grief, has it really been that long since Half-Life 2? I feel old.)
Value is definitely closer to revenue, but it's important to note that it can diverge. For example, channel-stuffing [1] creates revenue but does not deliver value. Fraud too can have high revenue but deliver no value.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_stuffing
From reading the landing page I don't really get how it works, is it like Tinder but with videos? If I open the app will it start broadcasting? Is it just with pre-recorded videos instead of pictures?

So you can't really do it anywhere casually like swiping through Tinder because you need to be somewhere where you'll be able to talk?
Got it done with Python/Mechanize! Thanks for the suggestion!
I used to work for Denso (who's heavily quoted in this story) in their research lab. I remember my boss telling me that one of the rubber seals in their HVAC system had something like 17 patents to get the characteristics just right (iirc they're the #1 auto HVAC supplier).

(It fit onto one of the openings in the box-like compartment you can see in the left side of the unit http://www.hpaircraft.com/neon/100_2342a.JPG)

I didn't appreciate it then, but I find modern automobiles to be a minor miracle given how many components go into it and the level of detail that goes into designing each one, both individually and so that they all get nicely packaged together.
That's obviously really stupid, but John McCain jokingly sang "bomb bomb bomb Iran" about a decade ago while campaigning.

I don't want to make light of that statement or be pedantic but that's not genocide. I have no idea what Trump thinks he would nuke to target ISIS, but coming from a guy who said he'd make Mexico pay for a wall and at times is incoherent, that strikes me less as a plan and more of the kind of dumb thing he says pretty regularly.

I do believe he has enough of a traditional base around him like Pence to prevent that from happening, but that may be too optimistic.

Still haven't seen anything which suggests he wants to target a race or group of people for eradication, though.
I think you are talking about two different groups. As in: will three letter agency type people have the incentive and the desire to expand their capabilities, independent of xenophobia and racism? Yes, absolutely. Do xenophobia and racism play a significant part on why large swats of the population are going along with this? Also, yes. A U.S. where most Americans don't fear foreigners from any part of the world is one where justifying scanners, pat downs at the airport and massive data collection becomes a lot harder for the kind of people whose core objective is to justify scanners, pat downs and massive data collection.
Author of the tool here -

Thanks so much for checking the tool out!

If you notice something funky, let me know. If you have feedback on improvements, feature requests.. those are welcome as well!
For finite proofs, proof by contradiction can be interpreted as continuation passing and then results in an algorithm. On the other hand, this algorithm may be no better than exhaustive search.
Please do put yourself in this position and refuse to give your password to unlock your phone or social media accounts. You may be detained and have your phone or laptop confiscated. In which case you can try to sue them, which I agree we all need to attempt to stand up to this sort of thing. For me though, I cannot currently not afford to lose my phone to make a point on principal.

But the reality is that customs and other agencies in places like airports seem to be getting away with pretty much any sort of invasion of privacy they want, very consistently, so things may not go the way you assume.
By "a" gender gap they ought to imply that there's more than 2 genders, otherwise there can between zero and one gaps so it has to be "the" gap; or else they refer to "women>men" and "men>women" as 2 different gaps.

This makes me wonder if they care about all of those gaps equally (don't women dominate higher education already? wanna close that gap, too?)
That's exactly what I've recently done, and I'm sharing all the journey on my blog which is also getting interest. See http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2017/02/12/my-weekly-curat...
You also need to enable the referer header, if you've disabled transmitting that.
> > You must provide your name

It never says "full legal name", just "your name". Suppose you decide to use an alias? (Especially if you use one that sounds like a legitimate name?) Does that violate the TOS?

I am not a lawyer so I am not going to even try to interpret GitHub's TOS. But I do think GitHub ought to clarify this point–either explicitly say that aliases/pseudonyms are permitted, or alternatively if they insist on your legal name, say that. Although demanding one's legal name, if taken literally, can produce some odd results – if everyone calls you "Peggy Smith" but your legal name is "Margaret Helen Smith", should it be a TOS violation to create an account as "Peggy Smith"? Or, to give another example, a woman who marries may decide to adopt her husband's surname as her legal surname (or in some countries that might even happen automatically by law without her having any say in it), but still use her maiden name for professional purposes–that's what my mother did at least.
Because you can't describe metabolic needs with an implicit, seemingly obvious(!?) limit to how many calories you need of which types.
There's nothing stopping you and like minded people from setting up your own corporation where you collectively control the means of production.
A lot of jobs require coordination with other people.

A truck driver can arrive whenever they want provided there are staff ready to unload when they arrive.

An uncoordinated house build can take 2-3x as long due to trades waiting on each other. Etc.
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Wouldn't it be better to address the article on its own merits, whatever those may be, instead of looking for the author trying to make an ad hominem argument?
This wasn't true during the height of the refugee influx through Greece. I took a flight from Greece to Frankfurt and the German police inspected each passenger individually before we were allowed to the gate.
He is very very far from pro free market. Most people here seem to be Bernie bros who support Soviet style regulations.
That isn't an issue with Windows but with all file systems. When you delete a file it does not remove the data it marks the area it resides as "free" allowing anything to be saved there.

Even tails if not immune to this unless you use some secure wipe tool. Even they flash drives have wear level management that loves data around to make the wear on each chip equal so you can't be sure its even gone.
Thank you for the insight. I was being semi facetious with my comment; owning the MoP isn't the only required change for a Socialist society; I had similar thoughts to yours with regard to segregation of the more and less productive.

Though I am not sure how this problem can be addressed. I suspect that the fact that humans wouldn't have to work so much would alleviate part of the problem.
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it can also be used to generate simple parity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_bit#RAID
So python eventually moved to git from mercurial.
Was in Whole Foods today, a gallon of non-organic milk is only $3.49. Here is a photo:

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Organic milk was $6.49.
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