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By far the most extreme christian persecution was by Diocletian. His hatred for christians began when fortune tellers, and priests of the Oracle of Apollo told him they couldn't predict the future because of the influence of Christians--definitely a religious rather than political reason.

>creating unrest and speaking against Rome

Those were the charges leveled against them (many times falsely) primarily by their fellow pagan citizens who were motivated by religious intolerance not political concern.

Most of the time the state wouldn't have persecuted the Christians had not the people demanded it.

The Romans also had a history of banning religious cults before the rise of Christianity.
You can go far in life by following a very successful boss. And there may well be more promotion opportunities / more responsibility available at yahoo under Marissa than staying at Google. Or perhaps they've already made a million or so and own a home; why not take a flyer and see where it goes? I think you massively underestimate personal loyalty to someone who it sounds like went way out of her way to look out for these folks' careers. Because if someone did that for me I'd be loyal.
Sort of a bum out wrt to the license. If I read it right it is free only for evaluation but not for use in your own product ala MIT? What is the pricing model then?
What I wrote is actually possible to do on Ubuntu without ever opening a terminal.
> In most of California, for example, there is hefty competition for cable/satellite services and high-speed internet, despite cable television monopolies.

Are you kidding me? I currently live in LA and used to live in SD and my choices were either TWC or... DSL. Previously Cox and... that's pretty much it.

Which is hilarious considering my parent's choices in San Bernardino are: Fios, Time Warner Cable, and of course DSL.
I love it that you're doing it in Lua. Can you tell us more about it?
How do you propose you'd track e-mail opens in such a setup?
Especially given the currently depressed state of Yahoo stock, and the potentially enormous upside of the stock options that will undoubtedly be available.
So his only valuable contribution was as an investor? That doesn't speak very well of him.
Screenshots are useful. But it would have been trivial to keep a technical article SFW.

As-is, this is a solid article that I can't send to my team because of that one poor choice.

Here's why:

1) I don't know the personal histories of everyone I work with, and it's none of my business (they aren't expected to tell me).

2) Some people would be seriously distressed to have their boss or co-worker email them anything with remotely sexual content.

3) I can't reliably identify who these people are, and so I simply shouldn't send anything with sexual content to co-workers/employees.

Doesn't this same logic apply to just about everyone?
First, Breivik's acts in Norway were terrorism. Don't pretend that because he's Norwegian he wasn't trying to use fear and violence to cause political change.

Second, I'm sorry, but as an American who currently lives in Oslo (and was at work 2 blocks from where the bomb exploded last year), the comparison to how America has reacted to terrorism compared to how Norway reacted to this event is entirely fair.

Immediately after the bombing, nobody knew who was responsible, but many people immediately started theorizing that it must have been Muslim extremists (Norway is active in the international community, and not everyone is happy with them based on their attempts to help with negotiations between Israel/Palestine, opposing forces in Sri Lanka, and not to mention their ongoing attempts to figure out what to do with Mullah Krekar).

After the attacks, the government could very easily have made changes to the law and done so very quickly (look at how the U.S. was able to pass the horrible Patriot Act in less than a month after 9/11). Instead they had a very reasoned response. --The army was deployed to several locations around Oslo for two days (to help keep people out of areas with heavy damage after the bomb, around their parliament, palace, and a few other locations), and then they were gone. Very few new laws have been introduced - the only big one is the one to allow them to hold Breivik in prison even if he is declared insane, although they're now considering laws to allow more internet monitoring, which I hope will not pass.

In comparison, the U.S. reaction to 9/11 (which resulted in fewer deaths and injuries per capita than in Norway) include the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, and military tribunals where defendants and their legal counsel aren't even allowed to see the evidence against them.

I had a lot of friends and relatives asking me if I wanted to move back to the States after the attack, and I've always been able to point to the reasonable response Norway had to a horrific attack vs how the U.S. responded and easily say no.
"Clearly, they smoke the good stuff at Gartner."
I signed up for your service earlier this morning because Zerigo were taking their time to solve the issue.

However, what I would like to know is - have you guys implemented any procedures to mitigate any negative effects a DDoS may have on your services? (Assuming your service gets DDoS'd like Zerigo) The last thing I want is more down time and to switch to another provider once again.
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It will be sold as a standard commercial license and licensed per domain, with support and updates included for the duration of a term. The details aren't final yet, though.
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This is welcome, useful and covers many of the salient points. However, without wanting to detract from the content, this is 2012. None of these issues are new. For people who aren't doing some or all of this, isn't it time to consider not reinventing this well-worn wheel? Libraries of reusable code; now there's a good idea! Now I know what mom meant when she talked about the OO silver bullet.

I'm off to invent distributed processing and BSD sockets.
the USSR had no import/export figures to report prior to 1992

You are looking at the data for Russia. Which was a part of the USSR until 1992m hence there is no stats prior to 1992. This link will help [1]

[1] http://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Oil-Prices-And-The-Fal...
My wife (a regular Tesco customer) notes that Tesco has price scanners located around the stores so you can check the prices of items on the go. In theory, you could run a test using one of those scanners and simply have a picture of the barcode on an iPhone/printed/whatever. No fraud necessary.
I had a Marine come into my clinic over the weekend, complaining of a head cold that had lasted for two weeks. His mom came with him. He had a sniffle. The physical exam screamed viral. The rapid strep test was negative. I advised my standard care for viral upper respiratory infections. He was fine with that but looked at me like a whipped puppy while his mom berated me for not prescribing an antibiotic.

Later, a 35 yo woman with chronic supperative otitis media comes in, she's had chunks of her skull removed and can't hear out of her right ear because her eardrum doesn't exist any more, comes in with her dad because she can't drive due to chronic vestibular dysfunction (she's been dizzy since she was 5). She is a portrait of misery, holding back tears during the exam, profusely apologetic for coming in, this is her first infection in 2 years and she's just in absolute despair because she doesn't want more surgery, and begs for the antibiotic only because the antibiotic-steroid combo, in her experience, hurts more and promises she will got to the ER if she gets a headache. Dad says bip the entire time and thanks me for seeing her on short notice on the way out the door.

Has this dichotomy always been present in society and I'm just now at the level where I see it?
There's also Zferral. FYI.
Love the day/night view and rotating the view. Shame the timeline is disabled, would love to slide that thing back and forward.

I don't quite get the point of their app, though. Not sure why I'd want to build a cute version of my town.
National Science Fair at Wisconsin?
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Explainer Video Madness?
Best luck to her and yahoo, but all their and hers assets are meaningless until she, with her team, finds first needed thing for yahoo - vision. Hopefully they succeed.
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People work at Google because it's Google, not because they want to work for Marissa Mayer.

The idea that Google's best and brightest will now jump ship to work at Yahoo seems unlikely.
I can see how that explains the 3-year service minimum, but I'm not sure how that explains the field-of-study restrictions. Once you're there for 3 years, why do they care which courses you enroll in?
Really intrigued by the social referral program. I'm excited to play around with the API and implement it on our company site
Are you serious? Look at any inflation adjusted chart of the US equities market and there are obviously multiple such periods.

http://www.angelfire.com/or/truthfinder/index14.html

http://www.dogsofthedow.com/dow1925cpilog.htm

Furthermore, market history did not begin in 1910 in the United States. Stock markets go back hundreds of years in many countries. A global long-view perspective is worth a lot more than 90 years of US data. And from that perspective "stocks for the long haul" have very often been a bad idea.
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Why should I use this over Mandrill? http://mandrill.com/
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>That's ridiculous. Unless you're also posting your address in the video description, it's practically impossible for a viewer to match a name (even your legal name) to your physical location.

Clearly you have not spent enough time on 4chan. Two instances off the top of my head:

1. Youtuber posts video of his room where he is being mean to his cat. Within 24 hours police are knocking on his door and making an arrest on account of cruelty to animals. 4chan got all his info from something as bening as a webcam's view of a teenager's room.

2. Girl throws puppies into river in bosnia. 48 hours later, police is knocking on her door on account of animal cruelty charges. 4chan had nothing to go on but a video of some average-looking wilderness.

Also a famous case of a few lads throwing a puppy off a bridge.

Now imagine how quickly all of those stories woudl unfold with a name attached! Unimaginably quickly.

Remember, 4chan is the kind of "guy" who tracked down Boxxy and harassed her so much she practically hid from the internet for ~4 years. All from videos of nothing but a face with a black background. They found her home address, her phone number, the school she goes to. Everything.

4chan is scary. I do not want my name on the internet publicly anywhere. Anywhere.
Presumably, systems like SES have direct lines to the major ISPs, and religiously monitor the blacklists. I'd imagine any affected IPs get pulled out of the pool within a minute of going on any of the major lists.

If the provider is responsive to spam, you've probably got more benefit from their IP block being considered very safe than you'd get from a dedicated IP, and having a dedicated IP doesn't protect you from your ISP's entire range getting flagged if someone else in it goes on a rampage.
The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button probably costs Google about $110 million a year.

According to: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/03/10-unusual-things-about...
We used a device called an "iclicker" at my school that could do all of this, though it was pretty much only used for paperless pop quizzes.

One benefit was immediately after, the teacher could display a bar chart showing the correct multiple choice answer and how many students voted for each of A,B,C,D thereby giving students and idea of where they ranked in the class.

http://www.iclicker.com/
That's transactional. Sendy is bulk and should be compared with MailChimp, not Mandrill.
All the time. I installed a Chrome extension that triggers the "i'm feeling lucky" result when using the Omnibar.

I look up baseball player stats all the time, and the search on those site stinks. So I can just use the Felling Lucky on a query like "fangraphs jose bautista" and it will take me immediately to the page on the site I want. Saves me a click, since I'm usually pretty confident I know what the first result is.
Power strip or network hacking tool? It's both, actually
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Funny story: Same mom in both comics.
> If we're still talking about him half a year after he's
> gone he must have gotten something right.

Godwin might disagree with this logic. :)
Hmm, so gaussian distributions are easy to use and ubiquitous and all (they're the basis functions used in SVM), except that I don't see any reason for them to be priors here. But since 2012 > 2008 I feel like I'm obligated (and I'm semi-trolling) to point out the obvious about lazy assumptions based on "flexibility and tractability", which is that they can implode hilariously in your face. C.f. the financial crisis.

[1] http://econometricsense.blogspot.com/2011/03/copula-function...
David Nolen is really involved in the Clojure community (core.logic, core.match, clojurescript). I had no idea he worked at the Times.
Interesting idea. I have wondered about this problem too. Thanks for sharing.
> There are enough high-quality women programmers out there to have 50/50 gender balance (obviously)

Do you have a source for that?
It really does. I ended up grabbing a bread knife, which was both effective and enjoyable after spending ten minutes trying to get the thing open. The whole thing reminded me of buying IKEA furniture.

Frustrating unboxing leaves me predisposed to dislike whatever it is I've just wrestled out of the case.
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what do you do when you are the new guy ? 1-6 months int the current company ? Also i'm not the only dev ,there are atleast 3 other guys that can do the stuff i do. :|
This seems like one occasion when a headline question is correctly answered "yes" :-)
Redis now lets you write extensions in Lua so it's not unusual. It would be interesting to hear more about though.
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The best and brightest will work where they see opportunity and sufficient reward for the risk.
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Thanks for looking. :)
The problem was that if the court declares Breivik insane, Norway couldn't (legally) put him in a high-security criminal prison.

That's wrong - they can do that without Lex Breivik. The issue is when he's declared healthy, what would then happen? It's legal to detain him if it can be proved that he constitutes a danger to society. However, if he is not considered a danger to the society, he will be able to walk freely. With Lex Breivik, they will be allowed to detain him as long the society is a danger to the person.

Think about that for a moment. With Lex Breivik, you can be isolated even if you've not done anything illegal (or have finished serving your imprisonment) or is considered healthy, because some people in the society want to do you harm.
I see a promising start here, but I am puzzled by why all this instead of just maintaining different sheets and use lookup functions myself.

From reading your friend's blog it seems that you're going after flexibility and automation. I don't see much automation in the example given...
Did you know that Amazon SES is built in Romania ? http://romania.amazon.com
Use an image pixel on s3 + s3 access logs.

Can't reply below- but you can use Elastic MapReduce or an EC2 instance I can boot up when I want to send mail. The point I'm getting at, is if I need to keep another LAMP setup running 24/7 ($10/mo), I might as well just save myself the headache and spend the extra $10/mo to use MailChimp.
If the secret weapon is a baby, I don't wanna hear about it!
Do we have any APM's here on HN that might be willing to comment?
EMACS FTW...

As for your question, when run efficiently, yes.
Wow, I have to say this was a pretty disgusting comment. Didn't expect to see this on HN.

If you start your post off with any variant of "from an evolutionary psychological standpoint" in a thread about sexism/feminist issues you need to seriously consider not clicking the "add comment" button. Also, look up "projection". I can honestly tell you that no, the reason I support women in tech is absolutely not so I can "get babes."

Really, your post was unbelievable.
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Agreed. The book "how to be invisible" makes a good case for how easy it is to match a persons name to their address and why this is a bad thing.
That was interesting. I've often wondered if it would be possible to ditch the current keyboard layouts and start from zero.

If I had to do that, my initial approach would probably be letters + a certain number of modifier keys. Each one would roughly correspond to a "level": System/OS, application, content, text... So hitting "System+x" would make your OS do something (like killing the application), "App+x" would make your application do something (like opening a new tab), "Content+x" would make your content do something (web apps would probably use those). Of course, in real life, after two years it would basically be "all combinations that make sense are taken, so grab whichever is still available", but oh well, in the end you have to memorize them anyways so it's no use trying to enforce specific rules.
There is an escrow service that we'd use for the deal. The quote price doesn't include escrow fees.
>There are enough high-quality women programmers out there to have 50/50 gender balance (obviously)

That hasn't been true since the 60s.
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Also on the same street a division of SendGrid works too. Iasi, Romania a little Silicon Valley :)
Peons work at Google because it's Google, but the people this article is talking about (and the people Marissa Mayer needs at the moment) will go where the opportunity is.
Yes updates are included until the next major version, just like desktop apps. And yes you can send multipart emails. :)
All this paper shows is that men compete just as hard even if you give preferences to women.

It does not address the question of whether lowering the bar for some people will lower the overall average or the average for that subgroup (hint: it will - this is almost a mathematical identity).
The pricing model is based on number of developers, number of app (domains) used, and length of support/update subscription. Pricing figures aren't final, but they won't be aimed at hobbyists, probably closer to Sencha's ExtJS prices.
I was told at the Tesla showroom that a replacement battery is currently ~$13k, and will probably drop in price by the time you need to replace it.

They said after 100k miles you might be looking at ~70% capacity.

Maybe the guy was wrong, though.
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The less obvious and more ethical thing to do is to buy two identical products, one for 10p more and one for 10p less.
duh? I'm sorry but low security systems like hotel rooms of course have wide vulnerabilities. The front desk will just give out keys based on trust since you don't have to register everyone staying in the room; they don't even have an audit trail if they wanted to use it.

Keyless entry cars are mostly crackable ... garage door systems are trivial, you can bump pin tumbler locks, many home security systems have no backup power. rfid skimmers are cheap and easy-to-use. almost every elock I've seen has the bus readily exposed on the outside (secured by a single screw at best).

There's at most 6 things I can think of that actually do not have trivial security issues.

If I knew I would become famous by informing the press that, for instance, a car model only has a handful of key patterns for millions of cars, I would have done it a long time ago, but I thought such things were just stupefyingly obvious.
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Change the genders and you see how fucking ridiculous it is. 'How we got 50 men to go to our [stereotypically female activity].

Have fun with stereotyping yourselves...
"Feed People Well: Offer vegetarian-friendly options, salad, fruit, and wine in addition to the usual beer/pizza/redbull. We got at least a dozen thank-you’s specifically for having fruit with breakfast. Everyone likes healthy food – so why not go the extra mile?"
+1 for Salesforce.com.

About two years ago I worked on a Salesforce implementation for a political organization. Prior to SF.com, everything lived in Excel spreadsheets on network shares. After some research we went all-in on a SF.com implementation. 65 'sales' staff used it (all with 'unlimited' licenses), with between 200-300 users on an in house application at any given time pushing data into SF via the API. Overall, I was quite happy with SF.com.

The dashboards and reports are generally quite powerful, and AppExchange is great for hooking into 3rd party apps. If an app isn't available on AppExchange, you can always write custom code and deploy it to SF.com - which we did quite a bit of. SF also has campaign functionality built in - so if you have 250 hot leads you want to work through, you can dump them into a new campaign and just assign calls from that.

I recommend getting a SF.com developer account (they're free and you don't need to talk to a salesperson) and trying out some of the functionality. It'll have test data already in there so you can get a feel for how SF envisions you using their product.
It's the Locksmith Institute. Locksmiths are who you call to get into a door to something own, but to which you lost the key. So presumably there's situations where a hotel can't get their keys working, and they'd like to have locksmiths in their city who are trained in this. Don't think it's any more complicated than that...
The .htaccess contains rewrite rules for pretty urls.
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If you haven't yet seen Blade Runner, I emphatically advise you to avoid the version with narration (theatrical release).
That's why I wouldn't use it for anything else but prototyping. But what would you consider for fast prototyping instead of a 3D printer? With the same flexibility; you basically input (not that simple, but you know) a 3D model and get your prototype as output (like said; that's oversimplified but that's how I use it)?

But I am very new to this; it's only a hobby; i'm checking out 2nd hand CNC machines, but in my mind that's for the next step, after the prototyping.
If this is true, it's like a 'fun mode' for an API.
Instead of the button, is there a way I can just give each customer a unique referral link?

I'd much prefer to simply give them a link they can pass along instead of requiring them to click on a button off my website.
I'm surprised they allow photography in art museums anyway. Even putting aside the "buy a print at the gift shop" argument, you're taking a picture of a painting. What's the point? Are you really going to be looking through your photo album for pictures of the Mona Lisa?

Have an experience for once that doesn't exist through the lens of a camera. A famous painting isn't something that can only be seen once in a lifetime by traveling to Paris.
OK, and what goes through the logs to make the pretty graphs?
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Mandrill's "mostly RESTful" API isn't remotely RESTful and only knows the POST HTTP verb.
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If it works, get things cheaper.
Kill or be killed.
You have libraries that do all this? Fantastic - please submit a reference so we can all benefit from it - thanks.