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If they actually listened to the sermons, they'd hear they had the same chance to pass into heaven as a camel through a needle's eye, but that didn't affect how they used their money as far as I could see.

Not to go two far into the realm of religion but since it was brought up I though I would address it, when Jesus spoke of the poor and the rich he was speaking about the poor of spirit and the rich of spirit. The poor of spirit and the rich of spirit where contrasted by the meek and the Pharisees, he was saying that someone so rich in themselves will be like a Camel through the eye of the needle. Now many times the two paralleled each other financially, the financially rich where generally of a class that had more access to Judaism and rank inside the religion. So the writing can seem to be referring to the two as purely a financial matter, but their are a few key sermons, in particular the sermon on the mount in which Jesus specifically addressed the poor as being the poor of spirit. Otherwise those that look to god for strengthen rather than those that seek power for themselves in this world.

For what it is worth, to this thread I am a spiritual person after growing up an agnostic, but I still accept that the naturalist view could be right, even if if it is, I like the teachings of Christ, if it where proven tomorrow that he was just some crazy dude he is still of immense value when time is taken to read his words. I actually had very little tolerance for religion given the hypocrisy it displayed. In an effort to be a better agnostic I started reading religious text starting with the Koran, the Torah and the books of Zohar, the words of Buddha, and finally the old and then new testament. In doing so John really struck me when he talked about how Jesus said that people would proclaim his name, by would not act in accordance to his example. He talks about a speck of dust on another eye while a log is in your own. Anyways, there is something about Jesus that I really like. After reading his words and actions I realized he was the type of person that I was trying to be all along. As well after reading his teachings I see nothing irrational about modeling ones life after a man who taught universal love, obedience, forgiveness and humility. I no longer see it as a religion full of hypocrites, but as a religion full of flawed people that where far worse off before they started to strive to be better through the model of Christ. In learning about their religion I was able to forgive them. I also no longer see all religious leaders as con men, but rather some are while others genuinely do care and are genuinely good people.

I agree with your statement though that is is futile to argue from one point or the other, people will formulate their own opinion and their is so much dogma on both side that people are so guarded to the possibility or lack their of that the more one speaks for or against, the more defensive the other party becomes.
I kind of agree. It was definitely a combination of those factors and a few others. I think there was an inflection point in the past ten years where performance became less of an issue, allowing us to say now that performance isn't the issue it used to be. I still think that logic programming will be rediscovered as the language paradigm for the "killer app" to manage "big data."

Ultimately, it felt like less of a speed problem or even a design and personnel problem than a simple matter of taste. In other words, the reason why prolog isn't more widely used is because no one _wanted_ to train people to use it, the way they trained people to use scheme, c,c++,java, and now python. For some reason, logic and logic programming was distasteful to some influential people and many unfavorable conclusions were drawn about it without much foundation, whereas similar issues in other programming paradigms tended to be glossed over.

[edit] AFAIK those Japanese FG guys dispersed into academia and industry. But in the meantime, there was a development of being able to use multi-paradigm programming in a variety of languages including Java, so it's possible they are using other languages where appropriate parts of programs are written in the logic programming paradigm.
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Yes you can't break into government buildings to show they are insecure, but you could buy the same kind of door as they have, and show how insecure it is.

I think this is how a lot of the e-voting machine hacks are done.
Competition is king: why Nokia and Microsoft are the perfect match
same here, why dont people just use github or other usefull hosting for their blogs :-/
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Some points:

* Generating migrations automatically when saved may cause some troubles while making large changes. It's a default setting?

* Hamlet seems good but not so obvious for real-world designers. Would be great if you provide an easy way of switching to another template language.

* Keep the good work :)
I like them for that reason - they're very simple, yet easy-to-recognize visually, and still appealing.
If you prefer Django to Pyramid, you'll probably prefer Yesod to Happstack for basically the same reasons. Snap is more like the Java Servlet API.
I agree. Having also used erb and haml, I find that Hamlet is the best of both worlds. close enough to HTML for designers to understand implicitly but with a lot of the HTML warts gone.
Anything that furthers discussion of the HSA and TSA is a good thing in my opinion.

Too many people blindly follow whatever they are told to do, the best way to combat that is with a clear message that is repeated ad nauseum.
Yes, i dont mind that notch is writing code without tests.

I just dont want anyone else to think it is a good idea for them :-)
I think it's a bug that Android's integration requires you to accept a complete remote wipe, rather than just Exchange data. "Simply" not syncing has only one downside in my practical experience: no calendar integration. The "security" doesn't protect much when there's also IMAP access.
Examples? Apple doesn't seem to sue individuals over patents. They are very aggressive about defending trademarks, though. Microsoft has a history of defending their so-called technologies like FAT and SMB, much to the dismay of many, but have lightened up in recent years.
If you see a stylus, they blew it. Not.
Acela is awesome and I prefer it to flying when going from Boston to NYC and back, but you can really tell that the tracks are old. The ride is nowhere near as smooth as the trains in Europe, especially when you hit 150 mph.
It is a default but its quite simple to turn off. In one project, we turned it off and whipped up some quick shell scripts to do rails style up/down migrations.
Can anybody tell me more about the cdma and gsm usage ratio in the US?
Almost skipped the link, I thought it was some app for high school teachers or something since I mostly associate that with grades. Maybe some reference to the fact that its about restaurants may be a good idea.
Microsoft to pay $1 billion for rights to entire AOL patent portfolio
Google Doodle For Eadweard J. Muybridge's in CSS
Born Edward James Muggeridge, he was of Dutch descent. As an adult, Muggeridge changed his name several times early in his US career. First he changed his forenames to the Spanish equivalent Eduardo Santiago, perhaps because of seeing the Spanish influence on Californian place names. He presented his surname at times as Muggridge and Muygridge (possibly due to misspellings), and Muybridge from the 1860s.
In the 1870s, he changed his first name again to Eadweard, to match the spelling of King Edward shown on the plinth of the Kingston coronation stone, which was re-erected in Kingston in 1850. He used Eadweard Muybridge for the rest of his career.[2] His gravestone carries his name as Eadweard Maybridge

Google Animation converted in CSS for Source Code follow above link:

http://www.megawrz.com/css/186765-google-doodle-eadweard-j-muybridges-182nd-birthday.html
On the iPhone the header doesn't take the whole width.
Sounds good, and if it's in London even better :) Where do I sign up for updates?
hahaha sorry I read the title and could not help but thinking, "a high performance web framework for Haskell" that will not actually output HTML without a doctorate in computer science...
The irony is that editors and colorists spend extra time and effort degrading digital footage to make it look like film.
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> It almost sounds like we are nothing more than the sum of some animalistic urges we have little control over.

Actually it looks like that's precisely what many believe; that's the excuse for veiling women in "traditional" religious societies after all (because you know, men all are rabid rapists; at least all pious believers must be, apparently).
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Interestingly, among the professional quake live players, the average fov seems to be in the ballpark of 90 to 100. Most of the aim-heavy players with a 90 fov.

My guess is that players who play team-based games might like to have larger fovs, but 130 is definitely a bad choice from the perspective of hitting an opponent.

The point about consoles using a 50 fov is interesting though. It kinda makes sense since most console FPS games are just point-n-shoot-hide-n-seek types of games.
how do the hundreds of KLoC of Haskell in production at a certain bank headquartered in Singapore feel about Haskell being unsuitable for production?
Sony to Eliminate 10,000 Jobs, 6% of Workforce, Nikkei Says
This is interesting stuff. I started a fantasy baseball analytics site as well a couple of years ago and have a bunch of feedback.

1) I would love for the site to integrate with my Yahoo/CBS/ESPN leagues and adjust the stat displays to account for my league settings

2) These stats are great for during research, but are also available at baseball-reference.com, fangraphs.com and several other sites. What would be great is for this to use the CBS/Yahoo API (scrape ESPN until they open their fantasy leagues API), and pull in my league info, teams, settings, positions and give me customized advice.

3) One this I found 2 years ago was that these stats were great for hard core stat nerds, but for more casual games, I've found that these numbers didn't make sense to them. We had to provide a simpler dashboard, with easily digestible recommendations/graphs and allow them to drill into more detail for each point.

4) Historical data is nice to have, but the real value would be to use the historical data to try and project the future. I don't really care that in 35 career ABs that Aaron Hill hit 4 HR (too small a sample size). What I'd like to know, is given his age, his ball park, and the profiles of the opposing starting pitchers, what range of stats can I expect from him?

5) In addition to historical stats, it would be nice to use your particular league context to define what a "good" trade is. For instance, trading Miguel Cabrera for Michael Bourn late in the season may seem crazy, but if you need SB and trading Cabrera to an opponent might prevent your nearest opponents from gaining on you in HR/RBI, this trade might make all the sense and actually improve your odds of winning.

These are just some of my quick thoughts and I hope they help.
I thought the plan was to rebase in Guile Scheme?
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Microsoft buys Netscape patents from AOL as part of $1 billion deal
Patents have been around since ancient Greece (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_patent_law). I don't know anything about its pattern of litigation though.
Yes they are. Every time I tap a link within the book it doesn't go anywhere. Pagination is really bad, old school. Search sucks. Not to mention code samples never work.
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Fair enough, I am too tech focused so it has always been the school that I would have attended had I chosen to pursue a top school. As well I have a large social circle of MIT grads so they have biased me as well.
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I'm more curious as to how it finds me. I guess these days everyone's various accounts are pretty interlinked, and you can mine 80% of data from github and twitter.
http://imgur.com/Y8XNb text is in 3D? it looks strange on firefox 11 xubuntu
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Also consider going the the Fantasy Sports Trade Association conferences. They have them twice a year and the opportunity to meet a lot of folks in the Fantasy sports world gives you an opportunity for cross promotion and just meeting good guys (and it's almost all guys)
Oops, I accidentally inverted the first sentence in the last paragraph, I think people got the gist of it though. (In my defense, it was really late and I was very tired.)
port scanners, password crackers, vulnerability identification tools, all have legitimate system engineering uses.

consider the black hole exploit kit, or the poison ivy RAT, or zeus. these are tools that have one purpose: exploit specific vulnerabilities, some of them unreported, and install monitoring software that allows a third party to take control of a system without that systems user or owners knowledge or consent.

surely the number of times that activity is going to be part of perfectly legitimate system engineering would be vanishingly small? when would you need to exploit a 0day vulnerability as part of legitimate system engineering?
"We've always been at war with Eurasia."

Bickering amongst the titans of tech doesn't mean they won't gang up on issues they deem to be mutually beneficial, and often those are at odds against startups.
I'm sorry to hear about your troubles. It seems obvious to me that you need to talk about software, not your personal life, when you apply for YC and talk to recruiters. Everyone is different in some way and almost nobody is interested in hearing about it. It has nothing to do with activism.
(Just a little site I threw together since I didn't have a religious holiday to celebrate.)
Just as before they spent extra time to clean up the film. It's nothing new. You're always trying to push it in a direction that's slightly different from where you start.
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Interesting.. I've been trying to get friends to conduct this experiment, and - albeit with a ridiculously low sample size - we've had 100% failure so far.
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Tangentially related: I have found http://dochub.io to be absolutely indispensable for JS, DOM, and CSS.
Lisping (written by the author of the article) purchaser here - a really interesting product.

Now, nit-picks with this article: mostly that Haskell and Scheme are not suitable for production.

I am fairly weak with Haskell. I have bought three books, read through parts of them, and played with a lot of little bits of code. My non-expert opinion based on reading people's and company's success stories with Haskell convinces me that either the language is fit for production or the people who use Haskell are great developers and can ship with anything. Probably both possibilities are true.

I do have a lot of experience with Scheme (I wrote a (not very good) Springer Verlag Scheme book in ancient times, once ported all of OPS5 from Common Lisp to Scheme in about 10 hours flat, and lots of projects...). I find Gambit Scheme great for writing small and efficient utility programs and the Racket system certainly has a lot of available libraires for getting stuff done.
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While I appreciate the need for a political fight I still wonder why the tech community has not been working hard on a technical solution that will make much of what SOPA is supposed to have done to take sites off the Internet impossible? Shouldn't that be part of "what we do to stop them"?
I will admit to not knowing enough to know if it is feasible/possible but I sure would like to hear from someone who does. We can't make tools that make a new, more decentralized, name system user friendly?
Gamer, while an uninspired movie, was shot fully digital on RED and had a large number of green-screen shots. Even using beta firmware the results are impressive.

The compositing software you can get today does an amazing job of adding and subtracting elements. Maybe you mean film is cheaper because it doesn't mess with your existing work-flow and you don't have to re-tune your tools.
This is a great article that seems to have been passed over by a lot of people. The conference's three points brought ot the table by "Order" really seem to be completely missing the real crisis at stake outlined by this article's author in conjunction with the forced of "Organized Chaos". However, given that Organized Chaos has no organization and that DefCon is still really small, is there a chance at mkaing enough of an impact so that the real issues are brought up instead of internet taxation and requests for government surveillance?
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the text "The powerful and easy NYC restaurant grade reference app for the iPhone is now available. There are no more excuses to the unknown reasons behind your favorite restaurant's grade." looks really weird on chrome 18 ... not sure what it is supposed to look like, other than that the site looks good
The AWS dashboard is pretty much exactly that: a dashboard. There's gauges you can look at and switches you can use to turn things on and off.

Sounds like these guys are building a little robot that watches the gauges for you and decides when to switch things on and off.
Would there be space for a hands-on workshop for new users? What would such a workshop cover?
It all depends on the one-time payment and the size of the failure. And even that is relative - Mark Hurd and Richard Belluzzo come immediately to mind.
I completely agree. I'm a game developer, and I'd have a hard time intentionally designing a worse mouse look. Ouch. (I realize that they're not using mouse capture intentionally).

That said, it's a fantastic demonstration of what's possible in the browser. I'm really looking forward to seeing what three.js is like in a year or two, and how that rivals Flash.
I hope they will at least look at XUL to try and understand what is good and what is suboptimal in that space.

This sounds like a great thing (less C++ means wider availability of potential developers), but I will be really sad for my industry if QML ends up running into the same landmines that XUL has already uncovered.
Nice. What's the story there, if I may ask?
Think bigger. Give your mind the opportunity to discover the path.
> Can someone with experience tell me a little bit about the dashboard AWS provides to clients and why it would be worth paying for an additional service to manage the cloud?

It's really, really complicated. That's partly because I don't think Amazon is particularly good at UI, but largely because AWS lets you do so much. They have taken things that have traditionally been sold together and split them all apart (IP addresses, compute, storage). Heck, they even sell elastic network interfaces now! Also, AWS was largely designed to be controlled through APIs (and that's how the heavyweight customers use it), so there's not much incentive to make the UI good.

But most customers don't need that level of control, yet they're using AWS to run their apps anyways, probably because they have the most market recognition. Now they have to deal with the complexity but without reaping the benefits, which is rather unpleasant. Hence the need for additional services to help them manage it all.
AOL to make over $1 billion in patent sale to Microsoft
AOL Strikes $1.1 Billion Patent Deal With Microsoft
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FBI: Smart Meter Hacks Likely to Spread
Im not really a fan of browser add-ons but this one is a Godsend: http://www.readability.com/

It gets rid of anything that isnt pertinent to the article and allows you to customize viewing conditions.
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Congratulations! I have been working with Yesod off and on for about 6 months now. It is truly fantastic; I am actually transitioning off of Django in favor of Yesod. Type safety and conduits for the win.
Don't put words in my mouth please.

Each package has a global namespace, so each const has to be unique at the package level to avoid namespace collisions.

With proper enumerations, only the enumeration needs to be unique, while the enumeration elements would be scoped to the enumeration level, as most (not all) languages do.
> But it also won't be able to get recurring revenue from the majority of its patents.

True, but $1b is so much money that it probably overvalues the lifetime revenue AOL would be able to get from the patents, even assuming they'd step up aggressive enforcement leading to licenses/settlements. They would need a few really big wins out of those 800 patents for the average lifetime revenue to top $1.25m/patent.
I think you make a great point about the AWS brand. I notice a lot of startups using it because everyone else does, not because they have shopped around to find the best fit for their company.
I'd go for B. The experience is bound to be highly memorable for the surviving couple, which should let the dead couple be well remembered.
Uhm, no...
http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.patterns.php

A singleton uses a static factory method in PHP and Java. AFAIK there is no (mainstream) language where a singleton is an instance method.
AOL sells off 800 patents to Microsoft for over $1 billion, licenses the rest
Hi,

I'm one part of http://www.44con.com/ and having run quite a few events in London would be happy to help out where I can. It might be worth at least meeting up for a chat to see what you want to do and bounce a few ideas around. My contact details are on my profile if you'd care to get in touch (as you don't have any on yours and a search for dotemacs on google yields quite a few results!).