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> 1. Packages need to be updated manually by maintainers.

Yes, but considering uploading new versions can be done with M-x marmalade-upload-buffer, generally Marmalade encourages short release cycles. So there's not much reason to ever work from master unless you're hacking on it yourself, in which case you already have it checked out.

> 2. Marmalade (the community repository) has licensing requirements for package inclusion.

This is not specific to Marmalade since Emacs itself has licensing requirements. Every elisp library is a derivative work of Emacs itself, therefore it must be distributed under the same license.

EDIT: Perhaps you're thinking of elpa.gnu.org? That repository requires copyright assignment for libraries to be included, but Marmalade does not.
The users have spoken. They want free software products. Open source, piracy, and free websites, together have burned into people's heads that software is worthless regardless of the platform (windows, ios, web, server-side).

Unless this mentality changes, expect all software to continue this cycle of froth and recycling.
Very much so. However, it's much less successful at instilling that way of thinking than Refactoring is. Worse yet, many readers becomeoverly enamored with the "canonical" design patterns, seemingly not realizing that most of them are special purpose constructs and only useful in very specific circumstances (and in some languages wholly obsolete). They also often don't understand that those examples are but a drop in the bucket amongst the universe of useful patterns (many of which assuredly haven't even been created yet).
DNSCurve is a proposal for a solution to cache poisoning (which is a problem that dates back to the mid-90's) that admits to incremental deployment.

On day one, it protects the desktops that opt into deployments provided by servers that opt into it.

But unlike with DNSSEC, which retains the DNS' architectural distinction between the stub resolver in your browser or OS and the cache server at your ISP, the same security protocol that secures the "last mile" with DNSCurve is also workable between servers. Most notably, deploying that secure option does not require the server to change its database.

The day 1 benefit of having a secure channel between browsers and resolver servers probably addresses 60% of the DNS security problem in reality --- that's not a small win, it's an immense win. But even in the long run, DNSCurve is a more workable path to secure name resolution than DNSSEC.
I don't see how law enforcement is more of a public good than education. There is enough wealth in the country, and enough means to provide decent education to everyone and decent law enforcement. Why is education not a public good when law enforcement is?
This doesn't solve anything. The core problem is that women get tons of spam messages and men get very few responses. This means the matching algorithm is broken. This site is just a tweak on hot or not.
The major difference is lectures of Khan Academy, or the new Stanford lectures have a one-to-one lecture format, that probably engages people more.

College lectures, or classroom lectures are non-ideal [1], in an ideal world, each student would have a corresponding teacher. The beauty of technology and Internet is that now we can simulate one-to-one lectures for masses.

[1] There are probably some situations where classroom lectures are better, when the lecture is enhanced by questions via discussion.
I was hoping for something (more) sane like that, yes. I verified it though — and yes, the original password is returned, clear as day.
>an elephant in the room all debates on US education dance around.

is that

>US children

is pure virtual "statistical" entity. The education in the US is local. Chinese children from Bay Area Cupertino are tigers ( as i heard, don't have direct experience). Children of my Russian or "native" (WASP type) American friends in the Bay Area have no problem being accepted to Stanford, Harward, Berkeley (though one "lazy" one was forced to go to lesser known UC campus).

On the other side, beside obvious case of black ghettos, there are well known areas in the US where school boards decide to teach Creationism, where people "cling to their guns and religion" while waiting for the President to bring back from China and hand them down "good paying jobs". What kind of motivation and resulting education will children get there?

The children must not be held hostages of the local political, religious, economical situation. Alabama didn't want to integrate schools - the real force was apllied to enforce the right of the people. The same way here - the basic education is a guaranteed right and the children don't have a way to defend their right. That means that federal government must step in and apply necessary resources (and force if necessary) to make sure that the children's right for the basic education (and that has very specific meaning in the 21st century, and isn't subject to specific religious beliefs of local school board members) isn't violated.
Not so keen on the pop-out box design, but I quite like the general idea. If you want some design help, let me know.

Picturing it shading hours in the office, after-hours appointments, approximate lunch times, reminders to move cars or do other things.
Oh HELL yeah
Just to compare/contrast, we do more video/minute at Zencoder than the iTunes video ingest system could handle, with many fewer engineers, a far smaller budget, and a much broader set of capabilities.

To a certain extent, this is an apples and oranges comparison, but the service model really seems to fit precisely with video encoding (or I wouldn't be here).
For me personally, if I have the opportunity to ask questions, I will think of questions to ask and as a byproduct, think about the lecture more critically. If I am unable to ask questions, I am less likely to think critically. Of course, I have just realized this and now that I am aware of this, I can possibly put a stop to this and get more out of video lectures and even real life lectures where questions are discouraged.
If this is upheld, the existing 'old world' media organisations just became gatekeepers to a very useful status.

We need to start a Bloggers Media Network.
I suspect you are being voted down because the facts aren't on your side.

Firstly "Europe" isn't a single country, and by putting basket cases like Greece in the same class as Germany you weaken your argument.

It concerns the welfare system that has grown too big to be sustained by income taxes.

You need some facts to support that. Government spending in Germany is 43% of GDP, 45% in the Netherlands and 38% in the US. Most people would say the German and Dutch economies are stronger than the US economy at the moment.

Even having a taxation that is now close to 50% of the GDP

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/48/27/41498733.pdf lists tax as a percentage of GDP. The only country with tax close to 50% of GDP is Denmark (which has a strong economy). Greece is 31%, the US 28%. Australia and Canada (examples of developed nations with strong economies) are 30.6% and 33.3%. That doesn't seem to indicate a direct link at all.

What is driving now the crisis are public expenses, don't fool around with other fantasies.

The evidence doesn't seem to support that.

Please address the example of Ireland (where there was no public debt crisis until the government bailed out the banks) and Iceland (where banks weren't bailed out, welfare and tax are high but the economy is growing again).
Why are pornstars more notable than scientists on Wikipedia?
What sort of situations have you encountered?
> When's the last time you heard someone who wasn't employed by fox news actually say anything about GM pensions?

I've heard actual humans say it. I didn't quiz them as to why.

As to Fox, do you actually listen to/watch Fox or are you just guessing/getting it second hand? (I ask because several months ago, I watched enough to discover that most people who talk about what's on Fox get it wrong.)
If you ranked individual US states among countries, you'd find that many of them are near the very top. (As a whole, the US can't compete against tiny countries like Luxembourg because of the law of large numbers.) Wouldn't it make a lot more sense for the badly performing states to look at the well performing states rather than foreign countries? There will be fewer confounding variables and cultural hurdles to applying lessons learned.

In any case, as soon as an author writes something like

>To many in the financial community, these market-inspired reform ideas are very appealing.

I know this is smear job rather than an intellectually honest appraisal. I mean, really. We shouldn't try new models of schooling because they are basically like the financial crisis? Are you kidding me?
Not that I'm interested in buying any or I'm in favor of any. Some of them have screenshot of their paypal account.

I was actually shocked to find that you can buy Google + and Facebook likes...

I have a friend who owns a few subways. What he shared was, usually owning a subway is a volume business. You would make $2,500 to $3,000 on each (avg location). But you have to slog a lot, manage employees and all other headaches.

owning a few of these micro sites is lot easier than running something like subway (is what came to my mind)
Gallery of Processor Cache effects
As an overview for us more novice iOS programmers, how are you going about sharing the screen with a user? I am going to download this and check it out, but really curious as this looks fantastic!
> I really doubt that most people know [that financial TARP was break-even/modestly profitable].

I didn't say that they knew it. I said that they were open to the possibility and explanation.

Thanks for the RTC reference.
The 6 most important metrics in online dating is gender, location, age, children, active site user, and attractiveness. After that many guys just start spamming accounts.
Phoenix Online provides a very good counterexample to your belief that

"A school that has only profitability as it's goal will be outed as such in a free market, and will not be chosen by consumers that care more about their children's experience."

Consumers make bad choices. They do so frequently. Besides there is a moral aspect to this.

Suppose a school is very bad. People discover this and go to a competitor school. In the time it takes for people to wise up to the school's terribleness damage has been done to society. I don't see how the free market would be any better at determining this than the current system in the U.S.

As to healthcare; think cartels. What there is no choice for consumers to choose a provider that doesn't "try to bend them over backwards for their own bottom-line"?
There are a few core problems here.

The first is that dating sites typically don't care about people actually finding a good partner, because there's a negative economic incentive for it. If you find your perfect man/woman, you won't come back to the site and keep paying.

The reason why women typically get loads of spam is because many sites are expressly designed to encourage this. A common pattern is where it is not made clear whether or not a profile is active. Since only a small percentage of profiles on the site are active, it's hopeless for a guy to try to send detailed, personalized messages -- odds are, they'll all fall on deaf ears, inactive accounts.

This is intentional -- because it lets the site appear as if they have far more profiles than they actually do. Once they've suckered someone into paying to send messages, they find that they get almost no responses, and end up finding themselves forced to send hundreds just to reach a few live people.

Which of course leaves the recipients flooded by spam... so they leave. Adding to the glut of inactive accounts.

Combined with the general sleaziness of the industry and the type of people who use general-audience dating sites (read: the type who tolerate all these problems), it's no wonder the entire industry is a disaster.

There are definitely niches available for matchmaking sites not built around the typical model, that try to pair up people for long-term relationships based on what actually matters instead of providing sex-starved 20-somethings with people of the opposite sex to ogle. But it's hard to market such a thing, even in a specific niche, because the entire industry tarred themselves with their own brush, leaving a huge number of possible customers permanently turned off from the idea of ever using such a service.
A good is either rivalrous and excludible, or it's not. If it is, it's private. If it is neither rivalrous nor excludible, it's public.

This has nothing to do with the "social cost" (whatever that is).
Looks amazing, any chance for some HN invite codes?
Well, back when browsers gave you any character set you wanted as long as it was ISO-8859-1, that was probably the only reliable way to build a web page that displayed Chinese/Japanese native script.
The Elements of Style by Strunk&White.

If it has to be a programming book, then The Unix Programming Environment by Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan.
Well, it's arguable whether public education is a public good. Wikipedia says:

Law enforcement, streets, libraries, museums, and education are commonly misclassified as public goods, but they are technically classified in economic terms as quasi-public goods because excludability is possible, but they do still fit some of the characteristics of public goods.

Since ERs can't turn away indigent patients, health care also has some degree of non-excludability, in practice. Perhaps the question of whether or not it's a public good lies at the heart of the health care debate. Here's the argument in favor: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/08/is-health-care-a-public-...
Whatever Happened to Discipline and Hard Work?
Efficient was the wrong word. The reason videotaped lectures are worse than being there in person: I often can't see the board on the video, and I can't ask questions.
I think these places are not first choice but depending where you are from may be a way to stay in the country. Where are you graduating?
I just found these slides from a MSC Module at an Irish university on "Software in Production" which are well worth reading through if you're tasked with scaling systems and have a Software Development background:

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~niallm/day[1-5].pdf
> I think it's just a matter of UX to show the price in USD to a foreign audience.

There are risk implications from having to predict currency movements. Or I could take futures contracts, which is difficult and in itself a warning flag to banks if I have low income. There may also be complicating tax implications from trying conduct all my business in USD and then converting the profits.

It would be easier for me, by far, to conduct my business in my local currency. This is not an unreasonable constraint.
The distinction between private goods and public goods is somewhat artificial. It's more useful to think in terms of externalities. Education doesn't just produce a private benefit, like a piece of cake. It produces a large positive externality.
_Especially_ when going up against a law firm in court!
Amazon’s Next Step: Destroy Local Merchants
Yes, more invites please ;)
Ah, good old karma whoring times on StackOverflow, with inane questions that make people feel warm and fuzzy (and press the plus).
May I ask for your opinion on the $500 bounty issue that was mentioned?
For Java work, I use Emacs and command line tools.
It says there she had blogs about the legal industry, so it is likely that she is a lawyer. Of course it is usually not a good idea to represent yourself even if you are a lawyer, but maybe she could not afford representation.

Hopefully the ACLU would take up her cause on appeal.
It was an investment firm and not a law firm.
This seems to be a case of a judge ignoring a few words in order to be able to misinterpret a law. Oregon's media shield law applies to people who are "connected with, employed by or engaged in any medium of communication to the public", and defines "any medium of communication" thus:

“Medium of communication” has its ordinary meaning and includes, but is not limited to, any newspaper, magazine or other periodical, book, pamphlet, news service, wire service, news or feature syndicate, broadcast station or network, or cable television system.

Apparently, the judge didn't spot the "but is not limited to" part of that definition.

(The text of the relevant laws: http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/044.html)
Exact comparison is of course subjective, but I would prefer JW Blue over the cheapest of single malts, but I no-where near 10x as much. And, I would rather buy a £25 of Glenfiddich 12yo (picked because it is available, in my experience, in pretty much every supermarket and bar in the UK), even if the JW Blue was the same price.

So, good blended is more expensive than as-good single malt - indeed, it is also more expensive than great single malts. The only bottles I'll buy more than once are ones I personally consider great, and for me that's rarely less than £50 and never more than £500.

But, really, price isn't equatable to quality even within a category. You can't say that a £100 bottle will be twice as good as a £50 bottle, nor even that it will be better. The reason for spending more on a bottle is not that more expensive is better, just that, the wider your price range, the more options you have - and naturally, some of the more expensive bottles are better than some of the cheaper ones, and visa versa. If I couldn't afford it I could be perfectly happy with a lower top-end, and actually my second favourite bottle right now does cost around £50.

Two things to note: as with anything subjective, anyone can have a completely different opinion. Some people may genuinely love the JW Blue, enough to justify its cost. Most people who drink it don't, and they either haven't tried nicer whisky, or they are fooled by the price into deciding how good it is without paying attention to the drink itself, or (often) they don't really want to be whisky drinkers, and are doing it for the image not for the taste. But just because the majority are like that, doesn't mean there aren't people who, for their own tastes, are correct in loving it.

Also worth keeping in mind than JW Blue is notorious for being overpriced, don't think of it as representative of blended whisky. There are even nicer drinks in the JW range itself, and Blue is, at least by price, the top of their standard range. Green, for example, is considered by many to be nicer than Blue - not just better value, but nicer ignoring price. (I disagree on that, but at £30 it certainly is much, much better value.)

JW Blue is not whisky makers thinking "how can we make the best scotch", it is businessmen thinking "how can we market this", the drink itself is an afterthought.

edit: Personally I will always think single malts are much, much more attractive. But, blends can be good. JW, instead of trying to play with the blend to create an interesting and unique drink, tries hard to create a bland drink, with no interesting notes, a drink that will be acceptable rather than amazing to as many people as possible. It's not that they tried and failed, being smooth and boring is the purpose of the drink.

edit2: Am I just going on way too much about this?
Do you happen to know if it supports Bluetooth?
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>Law enforcement is very different than education.

no. Both - right for basic education and right for not being robbed/killed - are just guaranteed rights that the government is supposed to deliver upon.

>A school that has only profitability as it's goal will be outed as such in a free market, and will not be chosen by consumers that care more about their children's experience.

speaking about tired argument. To make your argument stronger you should have added some statement about "tricking down of good education from good school students to the students of bad schools".

Without going into how fast and effectively free market can out a bad school, i'll just note that basic education isn't object of consumption, it is a right of the children.
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Yep. This is not a limitation of the law, this is a deeply unimaginative judge. The "ordinary meaning" of "medium of communication" is extremely broad, and even if implicitly narrowed to the general context of the statute, easily includes most bloggers.
Keepass2 also has a "synchronize" feature that can merge edits made in memory to a stored file on disk; just throw your keys into dropbox, and when you need to change anything just hit "synchronize with file" and it will merge your keys. Works great.
I appreciate your research here, but I hope HNers don't downvote rubashov's unsourced but more-or-less true statement because you've thrown up some links to articles.

You point to the fact that Asian Americans underperform most all east-Asian countries. This is certainly interesting, but it hardly shows that the US's underachievement isn't mostly explained by ethnic make up. In particular, one would expect that a hypothetically strong group to perform worse when educated in a diverse system than when that group is educated in a system designed just for it.
What does it mean by even more free (sic)? Getting paid to use the service?
EFF would be more likely, I think. The ACLU's focus is mostly government-related, they don't step into a lot of private lawsuits.
Where did it say these pay services never shut down and free services never live on? It was just highlighting a trend.
As they say, the lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.