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Yay, finally, there is a supported API for the Calendar. It's always been such a strange omission and has really hurt the emergence of quality calendar apps and third party calendar integration. I've personally omitted otherwise handy features from apps ("Add this to my calendar") because the calendar APIs were missing and I really didn't want to go the unsupported route.
How soon we forget. At the end of the Clinton years, government surpluses were treated as a frightening inevitability by Fed Chair, Alan Greenspan:

Mr. Greenspan said he was concerned that if the government did not begin to curtail its revenue, it would have more money than it needed when most of its debts were paid, leading to an accumulation of cash that he opposed. He said the government needed to start planning soon because there was $750 billion of debt that would not mature by 2011, so cash accumulation would begin by then, based on current projections, even though some of the debt would remain unpaid.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/26/news/26iht-fed.2.t_1.html

The Bush Administration figured out a couple different solutions to this problem.
Meh...As other commenters have noted, Dropbox is not for anyone who values their privacy. Your files are not secure from Dropbox staff snooping, and they'll fink you off to the flimsiest government request to paw through your stuff. I use Spideroak because they have true zero-knowledge encryption. Only the account holder has the encryption key, and they cannot get into your files. Of course this is sad for people who cannot track their passwords and always need the vendor to look out for them. And Pogue's entire workflow is goofy.
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I watched it fine on my iPad, it should be viewable in an HTML5-mp4 capable browser I guess.
https://github.com/emerose/pbkdf2-ruby
If you can't find what you are looking for on DDG, just slap a !g on the query and you go straight to google. This slight inconvenience for some searches is outweighed by the power of !bangs and the zero click info.
Launch weekend. Has the whole rocket trajectory thing going for it.
You do know that there was an interval of twelve years between the Crash of '29 and our entry into WWII, right?
I also notice that TextEdit is A LOT slower now thanks to Versions. The app used to open instantly. Now it takes a few seconds to launch or quit.
Wow, this is right in my area. I'm definitely going!
Unless you read the parent.

>We were merely reducing one kind of debt, namely debt held by the public. Total debt continued to increase.
Then a slider for decimal values [-1, +1]?
Ugh. USPS. I cannot actually remember the last time I used their service.
But you could always book cruises!
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Slightly OT: What's the name of the template used in his presentation? It's beautiful and has a nice contrast of colours.
Why does this service need access to my entire Dropbox? Does Dropbox's API allow you to just create a new folder for your app to access?
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Clinton never shut the government down. Clinton did not have the power to shut it down. Why are you changing history? I don't understand why people do that.
I don't see how I "proved your point".

A "status symbol" means I use it to increase my social status. Which I do not, or don't even care about. I do, however, care about the small (and large) details though, because they make my life better.

Is wanting a less heavy laptop wanting a "status symbol"? Or thinking that a magnetic lid is better than an ugly protruding prone-to-break piece of plastic? Or wanting a laptop with a nice case design? By your logic, anyone wanting a beautiful spouse is because he wants to use him/her as a status symbol. How about appreciating beauty for what it is and how it makes US feel?

"Commodity" does not mean that you are equally satisfied with anything as long as it does the basics of what you want. Food is a commodity too, but I prefer a nice restaurant to a fast food joint, because it is better there, even if both can equally take care of my hunger.
Where is this "Show item preview" located? I can only find "Show icon preview"
Considering how much more you'll pay to consistently use livery instead of cabs, they'd have to pay me to use that app.
There was no implication:

> Many non-crazies [...] One of them is running for
> President.

The poster was explicit.
And features those nice Intel Inside, Windows 7, NVIDIA, Jeremy was here, etc stickers...
Good idea! The id-parameter could absolutely be a element instead, will add that to next release.

But one point with only allowing id i.e is consistency.
According to my wife, delivery confirmation on a parcel is around 20c, saving money against using registered mail.
Seems like pretty thin reasoning to hang the (great-) grandparent's assertion.
This theme has been done so many times, it is not even funny any more. Buggered if I'm going back to House XP, because House 7 shits all over it. Stop being a Luddite and resisting progress, get used to things changing, it is inevitable. Windows rocks.
I love that the NewsBlur home page (for unregistered users) jumps right into the action! As a Google Reader user, I was able to see right away (without having to poke around or register) how NewsBlur works.
Thanks! (You are amazing.)
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...and Quicksand is dependent on jQuery :)
Lots of my bosses have given me negative reviews without talking to me first.
The mayor of New York City was a republican when first elected and is now an independent. He is a billionaire who has always touted his business expertise as his biggest advantage. So I think the original poster's claim kind of stands if he just replaces "right wing" with Bloomberg.

Hillary Clinton used to be a senator for the state of New York and now is the Secretary of State of the US. Neither of these roles have much to do with New York City government.
According to your CBO link, debt held by the public decreased. I'm not disputing this point. However, debt held by the public is only one component of federal debt.

Your note is also incorrect. From my link:

Title: Gross Federal Debt
Certainly the policies of the government in place can have an effect but for the most part that effect is not felt immediately and many times it can be years and years before any policy change ripples down to cause any type of drastic change in the economy.

Suggesting that Clinton was responsible for the takeoff of internet companies in 2000 and the housing boom is silly. He was a major beneficiary of a great economic time.
It would be nice if he specified what version of OS X.
Sweet! I would love to get some feedback when you tried it out.
It's hard to say that's "all it takes" when the actual Mayor of New York City had a huge fight on his hands just to wrench a tiny amount of power away from the medallion owners: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/nyregion/bloomberg-plan-to...

I don't understand it. The taxi industry is a huge and powerful lobby which manages to twist the law in its favour in just about every first-world city on Earth. I don't know how they do it, but they do.
> ... it's how people end up spending years building stuff nobody wants to buy.

Isn't that the opposite of the coffeeshop fallacy? i.e. that you enjoy producing it, not consuming it; the coffeeshop fallacy is that you enjoy consuming, not producing.
i don't see this bug...
This is really cool! I just setup my own deployment of this at rubynews.heroku.com :) I've fixed some styling issues and I'm thinking of tweaking a few things... I may contribute to this on github. Thanks!
Besides checking being poor by yourself (which will come easy for a lot of people in the current economy), and/or hanging around poor neighborhoods and making friends, I recommend "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed

A small road trip in South Dakota, Mississippi, Alabama et al would also be insightful.
Pair programming is like casual dating for finding co-founders. :-)
Bloomberg is attempting to clip the wings of the taxi industry, but he's having a hard time of it.

I'm not sure of the details and precisely why the taxi industry has so much power. (Maybe they have carefully compiled dossiers on the late-night trips of every politician in the city...)
So, I'm cleaning this up on our servers, and there are a bunch of other ad networks that appear to be vulnerable. Adcentric and Adinterax appear to be vulnerable. addineyev2 appears to be vulnerable as well.

Edit: Pointroll, eyeblaster also vulnerable. Unicast is vulnerable, but it'd be very hard to exploit.

Whoever wrote these stub files should be flogged Old Testament style. This is just negligent.

The good news is that the headline isn't accurate anymore. :)
Wow they actually pay pretty good dividend.
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> The border patrol officer started telling me I was hiding something because of my body language (apparently he saw too much "Lie to me") and started questioning why I had friends in the US, how had I met them and so on

Cops are dicks, plain and simple, they are not your friends; Hollywood definitely glosses over this. The reality is more like Training Day, those are real cops, mostly straight but dirty when it benefits them. How they treat you tends to depend heavily on your race.

> In (most) mainstream US movies, you see that no matter what your job is you can lead a pretty nice life. Even if you work as a bartender, you can have your small apartment and be in charge of your life.

Ah, interesting observation; yea, that's not true that all.
Thanks for distilling it. Your comment makes me want to watch the presentation and also to perhaps take a closer look at Clojure. Good thoughtful reply.
I accept. Let the battle of wits begin.
I agree that they have power but as I said above that power is usually not felt immediately.

My top comment comes off like I'm a big time republican and that couldn't be further from the truth. I just want to point out that the great economy that Clinton benefited from was not his creation.

I tend to agree that some of the deregulation did contribute to the crash in 2008. Some of that same deregulation also, very likely, contributed to the boom in the early 2000's.
Seriously? Income = social contribution?

By your logic, all volunteer work is worthless. Likewise, a mother raising their child to become a good citizen has no value if they are not paid for it.

To put this into better perspective, consider the hypothetical that parents didn't toilet train their children. What would the cost to business be if they couldn't externalize this training to society?
As any other Governmental agency, they'll keep trying to expand and finding new reasons to get an increased budget.

"Sure, we check every plane, but that's what - 5% of the travelling population? We need to check them at the subway, buses, trains, trucks and cars, too. Then we'll consider malls and Walmarts. Anything to protect the country against "terrorism"."
Nominal debt seems like a pretty horrible measure. By that measure, Greece is much better off than the U.S., because its debt is a fraction of the size. Of course, it also has a smaller population and a smaller GDP--- exactly why it makes sense to report debt at least normalized by population, and probably, better, by GDP.
No repro.
By the time a million people have learned the incantation, the value of teaching it to one more person is much lower, because it was already pretty easy to find one. No matter how important the labor is, at some point we have enough people doing it, and the pay is supposed to be a signal that attracts people to other needs which aren't being met.
An application layer protocol is the layer above TCP and defines the formats of those messages over that transport. Other application layer protocols are, for example, FTP, DNS, and SMTP. SPDY and HTTP have completely different (and incompatible) message formats even though they are meant for the same task. And it isn't HTTP tunneled through SPDY; there are significant differences.

For example, although SPDY supports HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT) the method and parameters are specified as headers in the request. Also, all the header names are lower-cased in SPDY. The client and server don't communicate by a single stream as in HTTP but instead communicate in frames over the stream that can contain multiplexed requests and responses.

At the very high level, you might be able to build an API that could handle web requests and responses over HTTP or SPDY interchangeably but that API isn't "HTTP".
But a good number of them are 0-16 so are entirely unable to work, and many others are over 65 and are unlikely to work.
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> The GOP might be singing his praises.

Not likely.
> He talked about orange trees everywhere, which was not something to see in Mexico because all the oranges would be stolen long before they were ripe.

American's pick anything from a tree without being forced to... never happen, lol.

> And he also spoke of sandwiches the size of your palm.

I thought sandwiches were pretty much the same size everywhere?

> I have seen some Americans do amazing things

Such as?

> and I have seen Americans act like punks.

This I expect.
Plenty of big sites get posted pretty much daily to /r/xss, not to take away from the severity of the problem in having big holes like this in ad networks.
That's an interesting point. I've noticed that as I grow as an engineer, I still place a high importance on tests, but the type of tests I write and how I write them has changed a lot.

When I first started testing it seemed like the world suddenly got really scary and now I had to test everything. I ended up testing ridiculous stuff, things that the language would provide by default. (I did this in many languages which is why I don't mention a specific one).

What I've found valuable as I do testing (I do TDD) is that it has made me change how I think about design and composability.

I agree that there should be a greater focus on "what is appropriate to test" but even knowing how to write tests and what to test is a skill in itself.
i don't know about other countries, but being a software developer is not high-status anywhere in the united states.

i lived many years in sf and mountain view. even there, being a "product manager" is higher status than "software developer" or "engineer".
You're much more likely to get in trouble with the law yourself than gain any benefit out of the situation. IT departments will be quick to blame a "hacker" instead of themselves for the vulnerability.
You're saying a lot there, so rather than create a wall of text in response I'd like to boil it down a bit - assume N=25Mb, give or take an order of magnitude:

Are you making the claim that the N bits of DNA involved in coding the brain can encode more than 2^N neural algorithms?

Or do you think that the particular set of 2^N (assuming no redundancy, which is generous...) neural algorithms that N bits of DNA can encode are more likely to result in intelligence than a random sampling of algorithms of equivalent Kolmogorov complexity?

Or are you claiming that epigenetic factors are able to reliably transmit significantly more than N bits of mission-critical data across the generations, and that epigenetic evolution is likely to thank for devising the human intelligence algorithm rather than evolution of DNA?

Edit: looking over your post, I suspect that part of the misunderstanding is over the word "complexity". You seem to be focusing on the complexity of the products; these estimates focus on the complexity of the spec. In humans the difference is muddled because the spec goes through such ridiculously complicated machinery to become the product, but when it comes to designing algorithms, that complicated machinery might as well be a random shuffle for all it matters to the algorithm's proper functioning, so the Kolmogorov complexity that it adds is effectively zero.
Keep an eye out for PayPal shenanigans; lots of donation drives have had problems with them lately.

Oh, I will donate $10 when the html is 100% valid :)
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwillworkforam...
Really? Downvoting me for asking a question in possibly the most polite and non-ignorant manner?

I know this is hacker-news, but do you guys really have to get into this anti-big company behavior?
Mad respect Chuck but I feel like you're being a little reductionist. Couldn't I weave a story that these guys would have been hackers in the 70s, exploiting telephone networks for fun and profit?

Rather than do that, I'll just say some things are just what they are, and don't need to be explained by being 'like' something else. Especially when it comes to Madmen, its just too easy to make anything mythological by conflating it with that show.
I find that with a REPL in hand, I tend to play with functions while letting my mind almost drop into the problem space.

So I do less up-front design, but wind-up with somewhat better code at the end.

The other weird effect is that I find that this helps me think better about coding in something like C as well. A little experimentation at the REPL helps me understand pieces of the solution better.
Ditto on the Wire; that show rocked, that's real America on the bad side of town. Couldn't get into Treme, haven't tried Shameless yet.
"I hate my smartphine because I can't code on it or move what I'm doing from the computer immediately into it"? Really?

You should probably hate books (even the kindle) because they're worthless - you can't even play a video or worse, do ssh from them! And how about those pesky microwave ovens?

All microwaves should be computers. And still fit my pocket, make calls and have a big keyboard. I'm sure everyone thinks like me, so That's where the industry should be heading...
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Misleading headline. Commercial vehicles have different standards than non-commercial vehicles. The article makes it seem that they were running standard weigh station inspections but adding a Big Brother "report your neighbor" aspect to it.
Many economists wisely point to Republican-led market deregulation, notably the repeal of Glass-Steagal in 1999...

Um, Gramm-Leach was supported by a majority of both Dems and Reps. Clinton signed it.

The only major dispute between the parties was over whether to make CRA compliance a precursor for banking mergers. (I.e., banks can't merge or acquire if they don't lend to enough minorities.)

As far as I know, Bush's main forays into finance were Sarbox (increasing regulation), his ill-fated attempts to more strictly regulate Fannie and Freddie, and various laws pushing more people into homeownership (again, increasing regulation). Could you point out any acts of Republican-led market deregulation, ideally from the past 10 or so years?
rjd: If you are afraid of something like the Android Beam, then I would be too worried.

Any sensitive data will have at least a password level nfc security measure to prevent sniffing. It's not like you can just take your NFC enabled device and sniff devices with google wallet installed. You would require explicit permission to gain any data.
Interesting - I've not seen any Blackberries that have a Ctrl key though - which model are you using?
daeken thanks for your knowledge. We should follow your example of understanding how things works instead of repeating "use bcrypt".
I refuse to take lectures on conspicuous consumption from somebody called "Veyron".

Seriously though, I concede that there's a gradient from "sensible consumption" to "conspicuous consumption". I'd classify a Mercedes as "sensible" rather than "conspicuous", unless you plate it in gold like this guy:

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/23/gold-fingers-mercedes-c63...

I also concede that Gucci shoes (which aren't that expensive or that ostentatious) aren't the best example. I was thinking more of a Gucci t-shirt. But I probably should have chosen a different brand.
Don't be so harsh... and they do know something about developing facebook pages:
>Require yours fans to like you on Facebook before playing certain tracks and videos.
(I find that extremly annoying though)
I think it is "show icon preview" considering that "use as default" that he also mentions is right below it.
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Why I hate being a developer...
Speak for yourself; I find it far faster and easier to open an app and press a button than call a phone number and try to verbally explain my location to some guy with a thick accent. When you add in the fact that Uber also takes care of payment and tip, which is another hassle at the end of the trip, it's a far better experience.
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So why does it make so much sense for you to ask someone to spend an average of 66 hours a week of their time to make $28k, when I spent about 44 hours a week to make $43k?

Why did you include commute time in their payment, and exclude it in yours?

I'm not sure what you're doing, but even in my summer internship I spent a good 10-11 hours a day, excluding commute time working. I wasn't even paid hourly. Most of my friends working proper jobs, in finance and tech spend at least 10 hours a day working - usually more.