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See, this is exactly why this sort of thing should not be on facebook. It will contribute to a decay of relations between people who think someone is a bad person for not donating and someone who thinks there is nothing wrong with not donating.
About line of credit: she is Canadian, and in Canada line of credit is a revolving debt instrument pretty much like credit card, but with lower rate and no card attached to it, so it is less convenient to pay from it. This is designed for medium-ticket one-off purchases, like say TV or washing machine.
> We're sorry but the beta version of the briarpatch extension is only available for Google Chrome.

Looks like I won't be using it after all.
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"I earned lvl80 through endless hours of tedious busywork, so you have to go through the same pain!"

The fact that MMORPGs are full of people who think like this is one of the worst things about the current crop of MMORPGs. I think there's a long tail opportunity for MMORPGs where "Work smarter" is the prevailing ethos.
> Are you aware of any extra functionality gained by marking methods async?

As far as I know there isn't any, the gain is in code readability/simplicity from the POV of an imperative developer: async/await are hints which the compiler transforms into CPS by thunkifying code following an `await`. According to Eric Lippert's series on async/await[0], the compiler also performs complex code generation to try and make try/except blocks behave "sensibly" in this imperative-looking code. While necessary for the coding style, I still am not sure whether that's an advantage or a drawback of async/await.

> It seems the new markup is more useful for frameworks. Think async action methods on controllers for mvc rather than your own little methods.

Technically, from outside the method `async T foo()` is no different from `Task<T> foo()` I believe, it's only the internal detail which change (mostly composing async callees and returning the result of an async chain). On the other hand (again this is something drawn from Eric's post) alongside async/await the framework team will add new APIs the Tasks API set, one of them being "multiplexing" of tasks (waiting for all tasks of a set of tasks, or any task of the set, although I'm sure the community has already implemented that separately)

[0] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/tags/async/
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Oddly I was faster if I concentrated on the vanishing red light (210-220 ms) instead on concentrating the lightening of the green light (240-260 ms).

I also tried out not focus (aren't the rod cells on the edge of your vision faster in detecting movement than the cone cells in the center?), but it didn't amount to much.
I'd like that (and I'd like to pay reasonable prices). But would the movie studios like that? And cable companies? I think the last 90 years have given copyright behemoths a war chest that they will continue to use for some time, to the detriment of innovation and reasonable compromises.
> if you were driving around taking pictures of peoples homes some might call that creepy---but that's exactly what Google did to create Street View.

I do find street view creepy.
> But it prevented them stepping back and designing a crude little 30K transistor RISC processor from a blank sheet - which later goes onto rule the world.

It's unfair to tick-tock to blame it for their failure to preempt ARM, it is far more recent than that. It's not that Intel hasn't tried to wean away folks from x86 with novel and innovative blank-sheet architectures. They tried with ipx432, i860 and Itanic, but all were expensive and well-deserved failures. It certainly seems like Intel engineers need the constraints of the x86 ISA to keep their wild impulses in check.
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This is the part that terrified me:
"Here's the weird part. If you fail the apnea test, your respirator is reconnected. You will begin to breathe again, your heart pumping blood, keeping the organs fresh. Doctors like to say that, at this point, the "person" has departed the body. You will now be called a BHC, or beating-heart cadaver."

"What if there is sound evidence that you are alive after being declared brain dead? In a 1999 article in the peer-reviewed journal Anesthesiology, Gail A. Van Norman, a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Washington, reported a case in which a 30-year-old patient with severe head trauma began breathing spontaneously after being declared brain dead. The physicians said that, because there was no chance of recovery, he could still be considered dead. The harvest proceeded over the objections of the anesthesiologist, who saw the donor move, and then react to the scalpel with hypertension."

While the donation of organs is a noble cause, articles like that make me question of under this noble cause, so seriously questionable behaviors have sprung up. In the end, this seems like a deeply personal decision and trying to pressure someone into making it is very questionable, but then again, it wouldn't be the first or last time another human has tried to impose their ethics on to someone else...
Ah, that makes sense and is a nice workaround. Thanks for the reply!
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AT&T and Verizon stores are "everywhere". Apples stores are not. There are more and more, but they stick to upscale areas and big cities, so it's very easy to be 100 miles from the nearest Apple store if you aren't on the coast.
In 2016, any executives in the movie industry who prefer that people copy movies around manually on BitTorrent can easily make that happen by blocking their product from convenient streaming access.
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This is precisely the reason why I keep up with Quora. I've seen so many individuals of note from the industry answering questions on it and it really gives a nice one-degree of separation kind of perspective. It's kind of cool to know that I could ask a question on a topic like data science and someone like Jeff Hammerbacher could reply directly.
The premise is entirely US centric - strategies aimed at ATT, Verizon, and carrier subsidies don't scale globally.

And of course, begs the question of how this would help Apple sell the hardware from which it derives the bulk of it's profits.
Bingo. And the probability of Apple building their own wireless network is pretty close to zero.
How about the Kopimi Vector? http://www.kopimi.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piratbyrån#Kopimi
FUSE plugins such as the ones you mentioned could be a fine enabling technology for this or at least a stepping stone. As you suggested, tags might not cleanly fit into the hierachical system, so perhaps a simple tree hierarchy is not the way to go for organisation of data at all. How we actually map things into the file system is a difficult question since there will need to be some common interface at some level. This could be a relational system or key/value store or something more like a graph perhaps.

Conflating data with applications is an interesting issue. On the one hand I feel that there may be a move towards this, for example it would be advantageous to (say) Apple for every photo you took on your iphone to be tied into the iCloud ecosystem never to escape.

On the other hand , storage is such a commodity that there's no reason that you couldn't hold your data where you want but hook into the functionality of a particular application to organise it.

For example maybe you use gmail to look through your archives of old emails that you had from a previous provider that are stored on your HDD. Spotify already does something like this with it's local music functionality.
In Canada it also apparently used to potentially say something about your sexual orientation as well, at least if you were male - gay men were barred from donating organs a few years ago.
Yeah, sorry about that. This is an early beta version, and I've only built the chrome extension for it at the moment. I'm working on firefox. If you want, I can notify you when it's available?
This is such a great deck. Unless you're working on a photo sharing app, this slide might offer more generally useful advice:

http://speakerdeck.com/u/mikeyk/p/secrets-to-lightning-fast-...
Tangential, but I wish there was a good tool for automatic video transcript creation. It would make text of all the speech, in a nice html format. Further, this tool would allow an editor to click a time tag for the speech, and grab a screen cap to insert as an image into the transcript (e.g. for slides, pertinent screen displays, or just amusement). If such a thing was easy enough to do, more people would hopefully provide (or crowdsource) good articles based on these videos.

The reason I would like to see this, is I just don't have the ability to spend 45 minutes on multiple interesting talks each day, but would love to skim the transcript for the bits that are new and interesting to me.
IIRC, several years ago, maliciously crafted JPG images introduced vulnerabilities, particularly with respect to broken/vulnerable Microsoft parsing functionality.

IMO, if you haven't vetted it, don't pawn it off as secure.

I realize their are practical limitations, but simply turning oneself into a blind indirection does not meet a particularly high standard, again IMO.

And the other commentor has a point about MITM, even if you decide you trust the image source.
We're an agency that does client work so a lot of times we're each lone-wolfing a separate project and there's less need for constant communication. We do have a chat room and we're all on AIM. If you want to talk to someone who has headphones on you generally ping them on IM with "do you have a minute" before walking over to their desk.
They would probably charge even more than the carriers.
Oh, come on hacker news! Don't upvote crazy Apple rumors. Leave that stuff on Macrumors.
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This is a really bad argument. First of all with the understanding by the public that your Facebook status is not necessarily your organ donor status, there is no stigma.

Then your edit... organ donations are a good thing just not as good as donating food to Africa? I'm sorry Mark Zuckerberg isn't saving the world as fast as you would like him to.

I see an enormous benefit in this - as mentioned even your driver's license doesn't really determine whether or not you donate organs upon death; it's up to your family in the end. Do you know everyone in your family's organ donor status? My hunch is that this is news to a lot of family members upon the death of their loved one.

Because your Facebook profile is public, I think your family is more inclined to believe that it is what you really wanted - whereas your driver's license is a box you check once when you're 16 that you never really think about again.
Selfish, maybe, but that's still a very personal choice and one that doesn't cause any direct harm, if you choose not to.

We are all well within our rights not to donate organs.
Are you aware of any (free or open) code out there that has implemented a reasonably efficient fingerprinting system? I'd love to take a look at it and/or use it for a project I'm working on.
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Similar experience from a while back. At that time, this problem only manifested on the India side.
In fast FPSes this makes a huge diff regardless of your ping indeed. Even in, game mode on some monitors/video card setups. You only see it well during LANs when the guy sees you half to a full second BEFORE you see him.

Then you realize no one was cheating, ur hardware is just crap ;-)
It's a natural extension and obvious next step for what we already have right now, the only major missing piece is "global".
Surely you're not implying people who copy files on occasion have uninteresting lives, worth more no more than a passing sneer? That would be a terribly absurd thing to imply.

Surely in this day and age, you can't actually have trouble with file types?

Surely you don't think everyone who copies files from one volume to another just sits around with baited breath waiting for the transfer to complete?
I sincerely doubt a single bouncer you've encountered remembers your name, much less your donor status.

That may sound rude, but what I mean is that these bouncers aren't saving and categorizing the information for monetization purposes.

And would you feel the same way if you found out that one of the bouncers has been scanning every drivers license and then selling the extracted data?

On the other hand, while the information on your drivers license is private, the information you choose to put on your public facebook profile inherently ceases to be private.
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I have a feeling Google will announce some kind of merger of ChromeOS and Android for Android 5.0 at Google I/O, or at least they will announce porting NativeClient to Android.
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I think time-tracking has fascination for a certain bracket of freelancers because it is an easy, low-stress way to rescue waste from the business: you are actually doing more work then you are invoicing, so if you actually tracked it better your billings go up and your client will be happy and it doesn't hurt any shadow beliefs about the evilness of making money.

There are better ways to accomplish these goals, like switching to daily rates (or weekly rates). No client worth having cares what your work structure looks like if you're capable of producing -- just move to a day rate, give them your honest best effort, and deliver results.

e.g. Most of my clients are pretty happy with me. None of them would perceive value from me slicing out 7 minutes from an invoice because, e.g., I wrote a post on HN. (They just profoundly don't care about that, they care about the deliverables, the feeling of happiness they get working with me, and -- ideally -- measurable results as a result of the engagement.)
That't be nice, yes, thank you.

Just one question about this:

> If you installed the briarpatch extension, all of your bookmarks are now in sync.

If I had been using Chrome, all my bookmarks would have been uploaded automatically? Don't you think that's a bit intrusive? Trying to be constructive here, not criticizing your system at all.
> Many advertisers would like to be able to target organ donors.

The horror running thru my mind right now has pretty much made me decide never to donate anything every again.
+1

I made a lot of tests with LCD TV input lag, and 30ms lag vs 100ms lag makes a huge difference in playability. At 120ms+ FPS games are unplayable.
Whether this is a good idea or not, I have no idea. I is an interesting social experiment and it will be interesting to see the results.

But, does anyone else see a Criminal Minds episode in this? Lonely road; quiet, dark house; dank alley; victims are found one after another, the only thing tying them all together is their organ donor status on their facebook page. The villain turns out be the husband of someone who died waiting for a kidney, lung, or heart transplant.
Dired works, but I really like Textmate's (or Sublime Text's) project explorer. Sometimes, at least for me, it's nice to see where a file is in relation with the "big picture". Having a file explorer only open one directory at a time is a tad disorienting.

Thanks for the cheatsheet though - Dired is mighty handy :)
Especially since that isn't the sort of business they tend to get into anyway. Apple hasn't become a record label either, despite having been involved with the music industry rather longer. Ultimately, being a mobile network operator simply doesn't give Apple the opportunity to provide a superior product in the same kind of way that building hardware/software does, so I strongly doubt they'd do it.
I'm not sure about all banks, but my credit union offers an unsecured line of credit for up to about $10k with a rate around 9%. They go a little higher for small businesses.

If you're looking for a cushion to reduce the impact of receivables, it's a good option.
I meant the 'awesome belonging to you'.

It's what I want to see when I look at your job application materials. If you don't have any, or can't show it, I can't appreciate that you are awesome and therefore won't follow up to talk with you.
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I don't mind my friends and relatives knowing, but somehow, I am unable to countenance the idea of some corporate somewhere knowing this level of detail about me.
I could be wrong, but I think process for buying spectrum varies widely from country to country.

I don't see Apple doing something like this if they can't do it globally. In other words, I would file this under "highly unlikely".