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It's not just as bad; it gives a closer to accurate picture, and it's pretty obnoxious of the mods to change it to be less illuminating. The way it's written now, I thought it was going to be about asking people a nonsensical mathematical question (which still has a correct answer), and seeing how the nonsensical curve-ball affects their answer.
How does this compare to your first day on the job?
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How about the significant decrease in per-student state funding?

In any case, I don't see anyone on either side in this standoff making that tough proposal. Instead, we have the (now-fired) incrementalist looking for across-the-board savings, and the apparently-incompetent Goldman Sachs schemers looking to cut the faculty who don't even account for the past decade's salary increases (humanities, etc.). If someone is actually in favor of making the tough call to fire the 6-figure STEM faculty, they should come out and say so, and lay out their proposal.
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Too many of those features are particular to the application. You specifically mention using subdomains as user pages, but that's not necessarily how I'd do an SaaS app (or how too many others do). How do you bundle pricing and billing into an SaaS app beyond providing making certain libraries available? What payment provider are you using? Paypal? Braintree? Stripe? That depends on the subscription model you want to implement. Is your app a 30 day bill cycle? Paid yearly? Billed on the first of every month? Does it offer a 12-month prepay discount? What happens if account isn't paid up immediately? Is there a 30 day grace period? Is the account disabled immediately?

These are all decisions that each app has to make for themselves, and while sure, some of it could perhaps be rolled into a 'framework' that sits on Django or RoR, it's going to be difficult to get anywhere close to something most people wouldn't have to change.

As the target market for this would almost certainly be developers who can take a few libraries off of GitHub, tailor them to themselves, and have all the above functionality implemented within a day, I'd be surprised to find if something existed in the way you want.
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It says nothing. How about some facts?
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Is it outside the realm of possibility that Senator Schumer, Wall Street bagman, incorrigible publicity hound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Schumer), could just shut the fuck up? These companies are making maps, for heaven's sake, based on information gleaned from the air, which, as far as I know, is still freely available to everyone.
This is very good to know. I wonder if having a bar stool can help.

I used to work on a shop floor where you had to be on your feet all day with just a lunch break in between wherein you get to sit. The first few days where killer, but the second week onwards the body just gets used to standing and walking all day.

One part of my rotation was through QA where we had tall tables to work on. We were provided tall stools to sit, and we usually worked half standing half sitting.
Wasn't that kind of obvious after the discovered similarities that suggested "cooperation" between Flame and Stux developers? Pandoras box is open, will be interesting to see what follows.
Get that damn Galaxy S II, and do NOT upgrade from Android 2.x to 4.x -- you'll get almost perfect smartphone.
Interesting points. Yes there are many parameters that could be application specific but i was wondering if some of them could potentially be provided as libraries ? for example, able to select subdomain style vs. others, set a billing cycle with certain parameters? etc. Or am I already too specific to be a framework ? Just wondered.
Is it not axiomatic that there are more startup failures than successes?
Wow, that is a ridiculously suggestive hit piece you're linking to, but even that doesn't justify your claim, since even in that piece neither Assange (who isn't even quoted in it) nor his lawyer says anything of the kind.

It's merely his lawyer quoting the accusations, and the author trying to twist this into an admission of guilt because of, OMG, "the tone". And then there's you piling it on claiming it was Assange who said it, which is a complete fabrication, at least if you take that link as "evidence".

If you want to know where the skepticism is coming from: it comes from these kind of filthy propaganda tactics.
Oh ok, so it wasn't just my SSD then. Something fishy going on with that streaming, it's so proprietary that it needs Safari AND Lion..
Ping me?

Or, more directly: I sometimes find myself with more work than I can handle. I've prepared a form so I can know your skills and pull you in on the appropriate project.

The form: http://www.wilcoxd.com/agent_signup

I end up doing a lot of Cocoa, Rails and Python.
To be fair, 64-bit Windows 7 (and Windows 8) don't support Win16 (as I understand it, because you can't sneak real-mode code into x86 64-bit mode the way you can in x86 32-bit mode).

OTOH, let's be clear about what Win16 is. Win16 is an API that Microsoft deprecated in 1995 (not coincidentally, when Windows 95 was released). In other words, Microsoft took 14 years to go from deprecation to significant (partial) non-support.
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Wow! That was quick! I love it! So happy that they did this a week after WWDC.
Csmith is much less like a random walk; most program generation steps result in forward progress. The problem is that at the end of many forward steps, we may have a test case that is, in some sense, very similar to all of the other programs generated by Csmith. So when we compile this test case, nothing very interesting happens.

If we decided up front that, for example, the next program to generate would have 95% stores through pointers and only 5% scalar operations, then this would probably be pretty useful. But nothing in Csmith currently supports this kind of high-level goal-seeking behavior.

So overall there are engineering issues, but also there are some hard open questions about what it is that a random tester is trying to accomplish. By necessity these programs start with only very weak hypothesis about what the bugs that they are trying to find look like.
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I mean, Django and RoR are typically (with high degrees of arguability) the types of frameworks people use for this sort of thing.

There are a variety[1] of[2] ways[3] you can implement subdomain keys in Django, but each is effectively downloadable from somewhere and installable, possibly just with pip.

Again, there are a myriad[4] of ways to implement payment processing and subscriptions using Django, easily installable, but picking the right one for your application type is up to the architect. Creating one monolithic payment library that supports every possible payment type, subscription method, payment gateway provider, etc., is just asking someone to build a bloated app. I'd much rather drop in 'payments-with-stripe' if I'm using Stripe as my payment gateway than to install 'omni-payments' and have to spend the day configuring it to work how I want, then worry about the size of the codebase and the likelihood of human error.

Like I said, most of the things you're looking for can either be dropped in or just coded in a day.

[1] - http://thingsilearned.com/2009/01/05/using-subdomains-in-dja...

[2] - https://github.com/tkaemming/django-subdomains

[3] - http://code.google.com/p/django-accounts/

[4] - http://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/payment-processing/
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For brilliant masterworks that would otherwise have gone unknown for decades, sure. But if I demand $10M for an invention that two vendors could have otherwise independently recreated for $1M and five years each, I have made that disclosure a net loss for society and the industry. The problem is that there's no market mechanism ensuring that licenses are available fairly at lower costs than would otherwise be spent on reinvention. And of course the avalanche of patents which merely disclose the obvious and claim the entire problem, yet can only be overturned individually at enormous risk and (uncompensated!) expense. And the 3x wilful-infringement doctrine over which practitioners are well advised never to even look at patents.
I don't know much about LG's intended strategy, however the market would be better of if only the partners that are very invested in this technology would actually make the tablets, and not just anyone that thinks they could profit off of it. LG pulling out would make me believe they hadn't planned on being invested enough to make something great.

Setting the bar high was definitely part of Microsoft's strategy I believe. Good job.
Let me just say it - what a silly name.
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Isn't change.org just a lead generation website for fund raisers?
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'items from the original list aren't exactly "truths" as much as implementations or configurations' QFT.
Top Secret America is a good if somewhat depressing read on all of this: http://www.amazon.com/Top-Secret-America-American-Security/d...

With compartmentization and the short terms of congress people (2 years and then there could be a change, worse if the party in control switches) nobody knows what our top secret money is spent on. It's so bad that we ask the people we give the money to if what they are doing is worth while because nobody knows and nobody wants to be the guy that cut the budget of x y ad z and let the terrorists attack again.

Think on the order of a half trillion dollars that they can kind of account for (it's black, could be more, probably not tons less) that we have no idea what it actually does.

Funny thing, NSA might not know and probably doesn't have an easy way to find out. This is an artistic response in that it doesn't make them sound like idiots for not knowing. there is just a staggering amount of communication going on, even if tried really hard to follow the rules try would still screw up.
I guess China is now free to create their own shitware to slow American economic recovery no? The supremacist attitudes in our country are unbounded.
For $50 at amazon (+free shipping, yay for Prime), I got a hospital style bedside table. It's small, and not perfectly stable, but it is quite stable, easily adjusted (some models go from 22" to 48" - make sure you get one that goes to 40" if you get one), and comfortably hosts a 17" laptop and a mousepad.

Plus, it has lockable wheels, so it can move around. And you can use it as a bedside table, when you feel like feeling decadent.
You've used the word "growing" twice in your comment where it's probably more wishful thinking than an accurate description of reality.
So this whole rant was just about the name having a common substring of three or more characters?

I hope nobody tells JWZ what Linux was supposed to sound like.
The results from Facebook would depend on who your Facebook friends are, while searching for twitter hash tags shows results from all users.

To say "facebook was full of junk" when comparing to twitter is a bit unfair.
Surely if he wanted to see the reality of the situation he should visit the occupied territories. I wonder whether one could even succesfully manage a start up in occupied Palestine.

Sometimes I wonder whether the hacker spirit is best exemplified in people under opressive circumstances who have to adapt and hack to survive.
I find it quite ironic that both this article and the nsa one are on the front page at the same time. Something that is supposedly top-secret is leaking all over the place, while something that ought to be open is completely clamped down shut.
> 1. No modern coal-plant leads to waste areas of uninhabitable land. Nuclear Plants do.

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

Over 71 million tons of the stuff per year (According to wikipedia sources) in the US alone that has to be stored somewhere. Mostly* in landfill sites or ash ponds which renders them "waste areas of uninhabitable land", and this is part of normal operating procedures, not when something goes catastrophically wrong.

* Recycling accounts for 43% according to wikipedia sources.
I think UVA as Universidad valladolid because i use their online judge.
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>In-state tuition has increased about 275%.

I was thinking about going to graduate school there in 2008, but somehow it was cheaper to take 3 classes remotely at out-of-state rates (at a higher-ranked school, mind you) than to drive 15 miles into town and take 1 class at UVa as an in-state student, so I decided against it.

Edited to add: I later moved to start a PhD program at the other school, stayed here and got a job, so UVa's high tuition indirectly removed me from the pool of people that would work and pay taxes in VA.
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Good to finally see a nice theme on top of Bootstrap that actually changes things to make it look individual, as expected from a quality site, while keeping the good parts that you initially picked Bootstrap for. Thumbs up for the theme and the business idea!

Not everyone is using Rails though and even the Rails coders might want to use other plugins, are you going to offer themes without all the Rails customization as well?
OK, what departments did she want to cut?

Honestly, I've never hard a harder time trying to figure out what an HN story was all about.
I don’t think this is true. Pretty much the only proven thing you can do if you want to live longer is calorie restriction. Supposedly this is because the fewer calories you consume the less exposure your body has to free radicals that are important in aging. The corollary of this is that building muscle, which requires eating a lot, is inferior to being a skinny rake for longevity alone. Then, if you eat barely anything, you would be better with only a small amount of exercise.

And, just to rule out any suspicion of bias, know that I have a job where I’m constantly lifting weight, I have my own strength exercise regime outside work, I drink protein shakes, and I eat quite a lot for my frame.
You might be correct, thats an interesting point you've picked up. I might re-read my comments to see what else can be extrapolated and what biases I'm susceptible to.
Hmm... maybe you're used to an environment with a lot of overweight people.

Anything under 18.5 is considered "underweight", just as anything over 25 is considered "overweight". 17.6 is only off by .9 points. He's less off the charts than someone 6'0 and 195lbs (BMI of 26.4)
God forbid some other country in the region acquire nuclear technology.

I find it exceedingly hypocritical and pathetic that Israel wants to stop the spread of nuclear arms in the Middle East when it's sitting on the only (massive) stockpile.
Telcordia recommends start testing generators monthly and doing a full load test once a year. Not every generator that starts will carry a load as many folks have discovered.
I'm inclined to think that regardless of the actor responsible for this, the only thing that has changed with regard to 'cyberthreats' is that this work which is thought to be the work of a state actor, has become public and that the method has changed a bit. It's not as if the Chinese (or the US or whomever) were not spearfishing each other or using other methods to extricate sensitive information.

One other difference is that this is equivalent to low-grade but effective sabotage. I guess we can expect more of this kind of sabotage, yet, it's not as though there aren't state actors and non-state actors attempting this kind of sabotage for either economic, political, military or other reasons on a routine basis.

I also imagine there are tacit rules by which they 'play'. That is, some is expected, some frowned upon, but seen as par for the cyber course, but other things might be seen as totally off-limits (like remotely sabotaging a reservoir's gates sitting atop a city). That's to say, this form does not involve collateral killings. So, in some ways, it may be preferable to the 'magnetic' bombs alternative which have been used to slow the Iranian atomic program.
Israeli Startup Map. Amazing concentration. The next Silicon Valley?
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Interesting. I hear what you are saying.

To contradict everything I've said elsewhere on compatibility - I'm actually in favor of the 1.0/1.1 OpenGL ES standards and would have liked WebGL to offer 1.1.

My self deceiving justification in this instance is that plenty of platforms that can touch the web are still running hardware only capable of fixed function (eg. Intel 945GM).

Fixed function is easy to make safe, and offers a path to leverage 3d acceleration on these platforms that cannot be beaten in software. Sure its not as exciting as 3d with programmable shaders, but it is still useful 3d none the less.
Were people really surprised that Java ME, Java SE and Java EE were different APIs around the same core idea of write once, run everywhere?
We’re only focusing on the BMI issue because that was revealed by the original comment. Goodside could have spikes placed on the ceiling that dug into his head only when standing. If this was the case we’d be barking up completely the wrong tree. I’m pretty sure he’s not that stupid but my point is, without being present to make an assessment we have absolutely no idea what could be going on. It’s like trying to fix your parent’s computer over the telephone with them operating it.
Impressive computation, but not much new here. The problem solved was a discrete logarithm over the finite field GF(3^(97*6)), which is known to be "easy" due to the low complexity of the function field sieve, asymptotically similar to the special number field sieve used to break 1039-bit integers a few years back (eprint.iacr.org/2007/205).

This is relevant because pairing-based cryptosystems require that logarithms be difficult to solve both in the elliptic curve groups (in this case E(GF(3^97))), and in the finite field groups that result from pairing evaluations. What failed here was the latter, due to the function field sieve.

There aren't many details on this computation, but you can get a good hint of how this was done by the previous paper of the same group (676 bits last time): http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/090

TL;DR Don't use low embedding degrees for pairing-based crypto, and you'll be fine.
While you're not "dealing" with the conflict, I hope you take a look over the giant wall that Israel has built--not only between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories--but around every single Palestinian city.

In order to get in and out of every city, Palestinians need to get permission from 20-year-old Israeli soldiers. Every single Palestinian is treated like a terrorist--children, old people, families. When the soldiers decide to close the gates, no one gets in or out.

I was there for three weeks. It's the world's largest prison. And it's funded by U.S. tax dollars and people who invest in the "Jewish" state. The expansion of Israeli settlements continue as more and more Palestinian land is confiscated for this technical reason or that.

Israel should be treated as a pariah until they end the occupation and give one person one vote instead of treating an entire population like prisoners.
It showed that some existing code with a shim containing a reimplementation of a small subset of OpenGL 1.3 could be made to run acceptably fast on a rather beefy example of 2012's mobile hardware.

It certainly did not show that there was no need to exclude those calls back in 2003 when they were originally not included in OpenGL ES.
> Nobody I know is capable of standing for an entire workday.

I used to work in a supermarket and would stand for nearly the entire day apart from a short tea break and lunch break. All the other employees would too. It's not uncommon.
Bad example. China benefits from a strong US economy. At most, I would expect China to continue to focus on electronic warfare, and not attempt to undermine their largest customer without provocation.
I bet you a nickel google will live stream IO next week.
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I am hoping that Bootstrap will become a standard base for most themes as well. Just makes sense.
I've looked into these. I'm leaning towards a Geek Desk for one reason: The pedestal in the middle, does it not get in the way of your legs at all?
#40 actually made me laugh out loud. Bitterly, but out loud :-)
It felt like Borges wrote the first half and Neal Stephenson wrote the second.

I liked the first half better -- the mystery of the situation was so fabulous that any possible resolution would be a letdown.
I switched to a standing desk a year ago and will never go back. The biggest benefit is that it completely got rid of my wrist pain. I'm still trying to figure out exactly why though.

The first couple of months were rough on my back, but adding a nice standing mat helped that a lot...as well as doing some back excercises like back extensions and dead lifts.
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Maybe. But it's pretty easy to understand why Israel and the Western world would want to stop Iran getting nukes.
I'd really love to write up a blog about this, but I'll do my best to summarize my thoughts here:

It's a legitimate question. Empirically, it seems like it is possible since DevBootcamp in SF has been able to do it and 88% of their students were qualified enough to obtain jobs as Rails developers. I think that's a pretty fair metric to go by.

Our bootcamp is not as much of a time commitment as DevBootcamp, but I think more than half of the battle of learning a new domain is minimizing the space of "things you don't know you don't know". I think that's a much more reasonable goal, after which it's a lot easier to direct your own learning because you've gotten through the steepest parts of the learning curve.

For example, if you never had any concept of a database, it'd be really hard to learn more about them. Someone new to web development and programming probably has no concept of databases being separate from code. If they wanted to have "users" in their application, they probably wouldn't even know how to formulate a question to ask Google. Would they ask "how do I store users in an app?" No, because they probably don't have any concept of "storage" in an app. Or maybe they do but they pick the wrong word and ask "how do I save users in an app?". "save" and "store" are almost synonymous in a general context, but Google will give you drastically different results because they have different idiomatic meanings in a web development context. In any case, neither of those queries will get you what you want from Google (which is, to discover what a "database" is).

I guess my point is that the goal for us at Bloc isn't to cram your brain with enough knowledge for you to call yourself a Rails hacker -- it's to get you through the steep part of the learning curve and give you a large enough view of the landscape of web development for you to continue learning afterword.