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He gave IBM a special license to do evil with it. IBM complained that, whilst they thought they were doing good things, they were not so sure there customers would.
yer fucked.

God says...
C:\Text\BIBLE.TXT

py shalt thou
be, and it shall be well with thee.

128:3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine
house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

128:4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the
LORD.

128:5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the
good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

128:6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon
Israel.

129:1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my yout

----

God says...
quite Greece joyful freak talk_to_my_lawyer
Ireland is a temperance culture as well (not surprisingly). Protestantism is not a necessary factor here, it's just that historically temperance cultures have tended to appear in Protestant countries, along with pietistic movements. I don't know enough about this to say whether religion has played a major role or if it's just a coincidence.
Actually Japan has invested heavily in creating replacements for certain rare-earths since China (temporarily) cut exports to them a while back. So has the US. See "Research: Removing rare-earth" [1]

[1] http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2012/04/releasing-the-rare-...
I just like everything to be upfront with no hidden costs, rather than having the social pressures of paying for other people's employees. For example, would I receive a lower level of service than new customers if I returned after not tipping?
I think the daily standup and retrospective meetings are easy to implement because they can be seen as status meetings for the chicken's benefit. They aren't, really, but it does seem easy to turn these from "developers appraising other developers about their problems and status" to "give me, the chicken, a list of the ticket numbers you plan on working on today and their status"

Retrospectives of course are seen as meetings (and managers love meetings) where the team works internally to make itself better. Woh , what a great idea! Except this also misses the point - sometimes the retrospective generates feedback for the organization/environment the team works in. "Sales people should file tickets, instead of cornering us and making us listen/do their thing". Things like this may be ignored or shoved in a desk drawer because "it's just developers whining"
Yeah, I've seen both sides as well; in the Netherlands we have this 'coma drinking' thing going on which is young people drinking until they pass out/fall into a coma. In southern Spain, people on average, during the week/weekend drink far far more than Dutch people drink, however they don't binge. It's just drinking from morning to night a few liquors, beers and bottles of wine, every day. While in NL a lot of people drink nothing all week and then go insane in the weekend. In the UK that's even worse. No idea why. Anyone?
Yes, it is dangerous, and totally breaks basic firearm safety rules.
"This is really a rationality test, not an intelligence test."

Yes. This seems to be a test of your ability to gauge, be aware of, and override your first emotional reactions to material. That process, which is driven primarily by the prefrontal cortex within the brain, is correlated with intelligence -- but it is not the sole basis of intelligence.

"...I answered Yes to question 4."

Questions 4 and 5 are the most problematic on the "test," precisely because they require us to make or withhold judgments based on something we can't verify: what John believes about race, what motivated him to write the article, etc.

John Derbyshire is still likely to be a racist even if every statistic he cited is true, just as it's possible for him to be a racist if nothing he cited is true. Labeling him a racist, or not a racist, is our best attempt at guessing his views on race based on the text he's written. Arriving at the conclusion that he is racist, based solely on reading his text, is fairly rational -- regardless of whether or not we're open-minded w/r/t to what his article says, and regardless of whether or not we consider the label of "racist" to be a good, neutral, or bad thing.

I suppose the answer that the author wants us to arrive at for Question 4 is "We can't know for sure." And, while that's true in some respects, the available evidence points us in a direction that we'd be silly to disregard.
Still somewhat dangerous, and the reason why celebratory gunfire, which is rather customary in some countries, is now frowned upon by the authorities.
Diversity is always a good tacit in defeating pest.
Learn from nature / biology. Monocultures are unstable and have to be superficially stabilized with great effort.
I'm less interested in the politics and more in the technical details. They seem to be keeping their secret sauce a secret. The best I could find in a brief search is this quote from the article:

We used a number of servers to make a connection to each and every p2p client that distributed this film. Then Pirate Pay sent specific traffic to confuse these clients about the real I.P. addresses of other clients and to make them disconnect from each other.

My guess: the software connects to seeds and floods them with peer-exchange messages containing fake peers. (Essentially it's a DoS attack.) If that's the trick, then disabling PEX would leave a seeder immune.
Is it not possible to make a ballistic vest do both at once? If not, why not? I'm curious. And if they can, why don't they wear them? Seems knives are a lot easier to get for any age?
agreed. In the end its just a business decision. If their really people who you want to stay in touch with then they will understand your decision
Yes

I'm not sure how it works in Clang, but of course, GCC doesn't "see" macros, this is seen by the CPP (C pre processor) and GCC operates in C code only

There's a flag (-E) that makes GCC output the preprocessed code and stop
JSLint isn't that bad. Some people disagree with his opinions, but I quite like them. I write all my code with JSLint on strict mode and, while I hate how picky it is about whitespace, my code is nicer as a result.
Authentically off-duty cab drivers will do exactly what you say. They ask you where you are going and don't unlock unless they like your answer. I'm not saying that abuse never happens, but this scenario is perfectly valid for cab drivers on their way home.

Source: http://nycitycab.com/NYC%20Taxi%20Guide.aspx#offduty
It's funny that you mention "well connected idea guys" not letting a programmer sit in on investor meetings. I actually surprisingly was invited to the last investor meeting that the startup that I work for was involved in. All 3 of us sat there, and I have a feeling the reason why I was invited is because I'm the stereotypical "programmer" in how I dress, I have a slight beard, sort of unkempt. My guess is that they figure the chances of getting funded are better with me there, than with me not there.

The investor kindly pointed out some very important facts about how our registration process and our product that I had very much agreed with him on and had voiced these concerns and opinions PRIOR to the meeting and they were ignored. The registration process on our site takes about 3-4 minutes before a user can get into the app, and I had been saying all along that no user in their right mind is going to wait that long, the investor 100% was on the ball with this one, the product guy did not agree, based on our tester feedback this supposedly wasn't an issue (all testers are in some way connected to the co-founders though, relatives + friends). When was the last time the user knew what they wanted though? Sometimes you need to know what's best for your users and making them wait 4 minutes for a product when they're not sure what it does, is definitely a lesson in futility. Me being involved in web development since I was in middle school, I knew 100% the investor was going to bring that up and I'm glad he did, but we've still continued to ignore that sentiment which I believe is a mistake
"In the case of a bullet fired at sufficiently close to a vertical angle to result in a non-ballistic trajectory, the bullet would tumble, lose its spin, and fall at a much slower speed due to terminal velocity and is therefore rendered less than lethal on impact (the Busted rating). However, if a bullet is fired at a lower angle allowing for a ballistic trajectory (a far more likely case), it will maintain its spin and will retain enough energy to be lethal on impact (the Plausible rating). Because of this potentiality, firing a gun into the air is illegal in most U.S. states, and even in the states where it is legal, it is not recommended by the police. Also the MythBusters were able to identify two people who had been injured by falling bullets (fired from approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) away, and hence at a lower angle), one of them fatally (the Confirmed rating). To date, this is the only myth to receive all three ratings at the same time." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2006_season)#Episo...
No, this is about how the libraries that bind to HTTP don't actually match HTTP's model of operation.

I've banged on this drum in a couple of cases myself with framework authors, in some cases even right at the beginning of the framework's life, and generally hit a brick wall. HTTP is not a request/response protocol. It certainly once was back in HTTP/1.0, but with pipelining and reusing connections and now websockets (and soon SPDY's server push/hint), it's a streaming protocol that has a common use case where it is used for request/response, and that requires a completely, completely different API than a protocol that is truly request/response. It is a lot easier to build a streaming base that has a special case for request/response than it is to build a request/response base and then hack in bizarre conceptually-impure bullshit for streaming, but every web framework I can find is the latter, if indeed they don't simply punt entirely on streaming because they've written it so thoroughly out of the API. (I'm vaguely aware of some that are actually sensible but all in languages I don't know and haven't gotten to yet, so I'm not sure if they really are built on a sensible base or if it merely raises the bizarre crap to API-blessed status.)
Simple: No piece of software is perfect and bugs should be expected. You charge for work at an hourly rate. A bug fix requires additional hours of work. Therefore you charge for fixing bugs.
This number is revenue, but don't forget about cost. Cab drivers only started incurring credit card fees when the city made them start taking cards. I tip more when I use my card than when I pay by cash to help the driver offset the few-dollar fees. It's not a very high-margin business.
Right, that's a pretty accurate clarification of my position. The implicit assumption in question 4 is that people will be unwilling to apply the label 'racist' to a position they believe to be true.

Here I get to quote Paul Graham[1]:

"In every period of history, there seem to have been labels that got applied to statements to shoot them down before anyone had a chance to ask if they were true or not."

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/say.html
Alternatively, the client could keep PEX and just wait for confirmation from other peers that the IPs are valid. Flooding then becomes linearly more difficult with the size of the swarm. If BitTorrent goes for something like the majority vote in Bitcoin, the effort would be exponential in the size of the swarm, making it relatively infeasible.

Further, the swarm could start maintaining a blacklist and throw out the flooders.

Bitcoin is a good start in this direction, hopefully the algorithms will trickle down to more common technologies like BitTorrent.
I understand that perspective. However it's not something I would favor as a customer. Managers are essentially offloading their duties onto customers to keep their employees in check. It's interesting to contemplate the societal implications though. Where I worked we had a lot of tourists. US tourists, fairly or unfairly, had a reputation for being more critical and short tempered with staff. I wonder if that culture of being more responsible for staff performance creates that situation.
Your math for the $144 million button makes for a good headline, but seems a bit dodgey. Plus, why is this article linked to instead of the New York Times article it references with actual information?

WHEN TIP WAS 10%:
BASE REVENUE = 82,497
TIP REVENUE = 8,250
TOTAL REVENUE = 90,747

TIP UP TO 22%, ASSUMING SAME BASE REVENUE
BASE REVENUE = 82,497
TIP REVENUE = 18,149
TOTAL REVENUE = 100,646

TIP REVENUE INCREASE = 9,899

CREDIT CARD FEE AT
1% = 1,006
2% = 2,012
3% = 3,018
4% = 4,024
5% = 5,030

13,267 CABS

LETS ASSUME THAT EVERY FARE WERE PAID WITH CC.

ASSUME 5% CC FEE, BECAUSE THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE SAYS "higher tips are tempered by a 5 percent service fee applied to fares that are paid with plastic," TOTAL REVENUE, LESS CREDIT CARDS = 95,616

TOTAL TIP INCREASE = ~131.3 MILLION
TOTAL CC FEES = ~66.7 MILLION

TOTAL INCREASE FOR CABS, LESS CC FEES = ~64.4 MILLION

Now, since the credit card tips are going to have to be fully declared for tax purposes, since they will come back to cab drivers in paychecks and with 5% of the TOTAL FARE taken out, I would actually guess cab drivers are seeing LESS MONEY than they were before the credit card machines were installed. I would bet that the 10% tip average pre-card machine is actually low based on undeclared cash tips, and having tax taken on a full 22% will drop the net significantly. When factoring in credit card fees and taxes, cab drivers are probably making less on this deal. But hey, at least Visa and MasterCard must be psyched.

NYT:
Told of the statistics that showed higher tips, some drivers scoffed. “I know that’s not true,” said William Lindauer, a driver and coordinating member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. “They get no tips, or less tips.”
My five year old refers to the floppy icon as "the treasure chest" which I find delightful.

I also suggest replacing the set-up cogs and tools with an ikea style hex wrench. Not only is it iconic abd recognizeable by twenty somethings, it nore accurately reflects the level of customisation and setup required.
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I'd recommend the business model canvas and the book 4 steps to the epiphany. The lean way is to make hypothesis about your product or idea, and then get out of the building and see if people would like it. Then, if its worth it, pursue. If not then pivot.

*edit sorry for the buzz-word spree.
In a few professions (bellhop, restaurant waiter) tips are an expected, normal part of their wages. Sometimes it's legal to pay them below minimum wage, because it is expected that tips will make up the difference.
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Interesting shift between homicides and suicides. Suicide by offending an armed drunk?
A Google search for [“Vysotsky. Thanks to God, I’m alive”] returns 13 hits, all about this start-up.

Searching for [“Vysotsky" Thanks to God, I’m alive] returns some more hits about the film, including some Youtube copy-vios.

Searching for ["Vysotsky" amazon] returns a bunch of out-of-stock items.

Sony - I want to pay for this. I want to give you my money. I want to buy this film. I want to buy many films, especially if they're not mindless blockbusters. You need to learn how to make search engines work and you need to make the official site have some kind of link to sales.
Off the top of my head, there are teams at DB using Ruby and Clojure, and there are teams using Haskell at BarCap. CoL is not all boring Java and .net, and there is plenty of interesting stuff going on to attract the best people.
I would unconsciously give feedback for the whole experience, because I'm not able to discern who benefits from my tip, and what I'm really tipping. So the waitress gets punished for the bad food and atmosphere and the taxi driver for a horrible credit card interface.
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> Estimated 45 Million shooting weapons are in possession.

Why are you suggesting that police should only shoot someone who has a gun?
That probably was a misconfiguration. IceWM has never done this on my system. Maybe you want to give it another chance :)

(I'm very happy using IceWM without taskbar, but with simdock, conky for date/time and cpu/network-monitor and stalonetray)
Reckless? Hardly.

Think about risk and probability. The probability of any of these warning shots actually hitting, hurting or even killing someone is extremely low. I'm not aware of any warning shot fired by the German police ever hurting anyone.

So, 50 years or so of warning shots and no one was hurt. If a warning shot kills someone today, those 50 years of warning shots only had to save two lives (someone decides to give up instead of seeking confrontation and being killed) to be worth it.

I think it's pretty simple, actually. On the whole, warning shots seem quite beneficial, that more than outweighs the low probability of hurting or killing someone.

But humans are bad at dealing with probability, so your error is understandable.
Even if I couldn't download movies, I wouldn't buy blu-rays and I would continue watching movies in theaters only in some festivals like Berlinale or HIFF. Same losses for the industry. Money well spent.
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Which US airport are you talking about? I've flown out of Newark and La Guardia a few times in the past year and a half, and I've seen uniformed people with machine guns each time.

Hell, I've seen policemen with machine guns in the subway. (I'm not a gun person, by the way, so maybe "machine gun" isn't the right term, but it's definitely the kind of gun that doesn't require you to pull the trigger per bullet fired.)
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->And next time you agree to be a technical co-founder (which is what you are here), be sure you team up with people who give you an equal say in the decision making process - not people who view you as an order taker.

Well put.
> Would you trust a court-ordered psychologist to make an accurate appraisal of your psyche?

That's not what happens. They are asked very specific questions about the person being evaluated.

> When Tom Cruise begins to sound more sane than the psychology he criticizes, you know something is wrong.

Luckily, that hasn't happened yet.
Thx! I see now, it's nice that the keyword its customizable.
You certainly sound like a citizen of the world to me. Are you sure you wouldn't rather consider yourself a citizen of the world?

One of the strange things you might discover, if as an American communist ("liberal" being, of course, a euphemism) you try living abroad, is the number of cultural tropes you share with American fundamentalists and don't share with European communists. (This discovery is forced on all Foreign Service brats by the fact that our embassies, while staffed by State Department communists, still have to be guarded by Marine fundamentalists.)

Your sympathy could be quite easily mistaken for contempt. And you don't think NPR is ever manipulative, at all, ever? When you try watching Fox News, you're eating very, very low off the hog. Try reading, say, the Claremont Review of Books.

Or here - test your open-mindedness in one step. Read a book by a Confederate:

http://archive.org/details/serviceafloatwar00semmrich

Nyah nyah nyah, I dare you.
> I'm sure many in London would be intrigued where all the typical full-time software engineer salaries of £62k-£78k are to be had ;-) Maybe I talk to the wrong people or we're just more secretive in the UK but it's not often I hear salaries like that being thrown about.

In London there are definitely a fair amount of people making £100k+ writing software, and outside of finance. The key difference is they are on the contract market. There seems to be a ceiling on perm salaries even if someone is worth the money.
Hardly the holy grail they're talking about. The fatal flaw is as soon as you close you one door, the pirates are already looking for 10 other ways to get around your technology.

Case in point? Look at how many times they've tried to shut down Pirate Bay. They just keep re-tooling and continue on.
I would second this. This is a lucrative field, and being from the inside may offer you an insight that not many others have.

You also don't need to know how to code to begin a start-up. I would take the time to learn, but you can get the ball rolling with freelancers. Then, validate your idea and build a prototype.
Sad all together frequently heard story. Your told to go be good grades in highschool attend the highest ranked school you can go to make the most out of your life. You evangelizing college to college students who may be the first in their family who don't know the dangerous of college. Now we have a generation of people in debt up to their necks with no way to get out. We need to fix the education bubble this is not a sustainable model for educating people having people place themselve in debt and working it off. Because any problem that forces you to quit college will irreparably ruin your life.
I don't know for EU police. I know what is practical, what works.

With a pistol, shooting at anything but center mass is foolish.
Ask HN: Best second language to learn?
English is my native language, but what would be the best/most valuable second language to learn? Also what would be the easiest language to learn for english speakers?

What are the best resources to learn languages?
> Can I ask what the hell Europe is expecting that the US isn't?

Probably terrorist attacks like these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_and_Vienna_airport_attacks
> Often one has to sit back and wonder how reasonable, decent people can support horrible policies such as banning gay marriage, torture, and so on.

What definition of "torture" are we using?

For example, suppose someone comes from a culture that stones gay men. Is it "torture" to force them to witness a gay marriage? How about two men kissing? How about two men making love? If said "torturee" is male, how about having him be kissed by a man?

I note that some folks have serious problems with menstrual blood. How about wiping fake blood on them, telling them that it is MB?
"This is something that Mediterranean countries tend not to have."

Last time I checked a lot of Mediterranean countries frown upon the consumption of alcohol - even if they tolerate visiting Europeans consuming it in large quantities.
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It would be difficult to track discharges in the USA. Tens of millions of Americans go hunting and skeet shooting, and go to firing ranges, etc. Unless the discharge is illegal and results in injury or property damage, it's not really an issue which you would want to spend money tracking.
I wonder how would this "wonderful" technology would perform in private torrent networks. Also I think it would be relatively easy to build protection against this kind of an attack also I wonder if doing this is legal in the first place...

These studios should spend their money on competing with torrent networks rather than always trying to destroy them.

Just create a descent media streaming service that makes accessing content easier and faster and most people will probably ditch torrent. To me my time is worth a lot, when I hunt down a movie on the internet it takes my time away and by extension my money(time = money) if the media companies would help me out with this, and offer a service where I could get anything in no time, I would gladly pay them for the time they saved me.