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They're probably referring to this, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice. I've read the creator of Ksplice explaining that the dropping of Red Hat support wasn't as abrupt as it sounds here:

Ksplice is an open source extension of the Linux kernel ... It was developed by Ksplice, Inc. until 21 July 2011, when Oracle acquired Ksplice and started offering support for Oracle Linux. Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux was dropped and turned into a free 30-day trial for RHEL customers as an incentive to migrate to Oracle Linux Premier Support.
Jon Gertner's recent book about Bell Labs talks about this. Having a monopoly was essential for the Labs' success. A few choice passages:

Still, the contrasts between these organizations and Bell Labs are crucial. “This was a company that literally dumped technology on our country,” the physics historian Michael Riordan has said of Bell Labs. “I don’t think we’ll see an organization with that kind of record ever again.” The expectation that, say, Google or Apple could behave like Bell Labs—that such companies could invest heavily in basic or applied research and then sprinkle the results freely around California—seems misplaced, if not naive. Such companies don’t exist as part of a highly regulated national public trust. They exist as part of our international capital markets. They are superb at producing a specific and limited range of technology products.

...

“I’ve often said to my old friends that we were very lucky we got to work there, in an environment that I don’t think will ever exist again,” remarks Dick Frenkiel, who worked on the first generation of cellular technology. “It’s hard to say something will never happen again. But with the monopoly gone, with the whole concept of monopoly essentially discredited, how could there ever be a place like that again?”

...

That perceived natural monopoly wasn’t only justified by the phone system’s technological complexity and interdependence; it was also—in an argument that telephone executives made over and over again—a matter of economics. With one company in effect serving the country’s phone customers, some parts of the phone business that were highly profitable, such as long-distance service, could subsidize other aspects that were less profitable, such as local calling. Profits from high-paying corporate customers, moreover, could subsidize service to residential customers. Profits from dense urban areas could subsidize expansion into sparse rural areas. All in all, this kind of “averaging,” as it was sometimes called, helped make telephone service available and affordable for most Americans.

...

In testimony before the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, Bill Baker asserted that “the notion that Bell Laboratories could endure and function away from AT&T, Western Electric, and the operating integrated Bell System would be laughable were it not so sinister and so ominous.” It was an argument like the one a gifted child might make in favor of preserving his parents’ marriage.
I saw this when it was posted on his blog...extremely helpful. Probably the most succinct "when x happens y happens" spreadsheet I've found when dealing with C-Notes.
A massive issue with iframes is the browser back button, if you click 10 things inside the iframe and hit back in the browser it will start to navigate the iframe history, not the parent and I do not know any way possible to have a normal navigation inside the iframe without filling the browser history with its pages.
"Ever since the middle of season one where he was given the out (the rich couple offered to pay) I just couldn't stand him"

No offense, but I think you're largely missing the point of the show - this is about a man who never got to 'drive' in his life despite having tremendous promise early on. He didn't take the money because he didn't think he had a life to save and even if he did it would be more of the same... this was his chance to do something for once in his life.

Just like The Wire, there are no clear-cut good/bad guys. It's about choices made, having to live with the consequences of those choices, and exploring the resulting character transformations. Yes, the main character is moving closer to the dark, but he's believable as a person who could rise from a fairly ho-hum existence to becoming a drug lord. Of course it's going to be uncomfortable and grisly to watch due to the subject matter.

This is why I love the show. It isn't some silly two dimensional hollywood'ish heist thing where the good guys and the bad guys are clearly delineated. It actually has a soul.
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Thanks so much - we still have work to do on it :)
That's an observation.
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Vacuum tubes hold up better than today's little transistors, and there are ways of EMP-protecting things, like putting them in Faraday cages.
My father had some bad experiences with "La Raza" in the 60s because back then it really was race politics. Today my wife and I participate in a lot of their arts programs even though I look as white as Martha Stewart.

I imagine that if a hispanic girl were to ask to join this program, she would not be told no. It'd be an interesting experiment. On the other hand this looks like a privately-funded venture so they are free to do what they wish.

I have a dog in this fight because I give away copies of my book to clubs like this. I have noticed that the girls clubs are a lot more organized and get press, which worries me a bit. But helping someone is better than helping no one.

Have you a suggestion for how I can reach out to more kinds of people?
It's kind of like readability for gists.
You could just use our curlish wrapper (http://packages.python.org/curlish/) which just wraps curl directly. You get a nicer UI if you want but still the full power of curl.
Keep in mind that speed of sound is not a constant in air, it varies by temperature and pressure (it's actually slower at altitude). Also, the initial fireball (of perhaps a few thousand feet in radius) would have expanded supersonically. that makes the calculation a bit more complicated.

Edit: Also, I watched the relevant portion of the video a couple more times, it seems like there's a possibility the audio is edited. The video cuts back and forth so it's clearly not a continuous shot, we're just trusting that they kept the timing the same and the audio the same, which seems like a bit much to hope for.
Does anyone else recognise this as totally manufactured propaganda? Some of the statements here are ludicrous and make no sense.

Its as believable as Indiana Jones hiding in a fridge and walking away unscathed.

Jeez -- come on. Prompt gamma flux would have destroyed their minds almost instantly even if their bodies had (improbably) survived incineration.
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Glad to hear that it is helpful!
I'm sure it puts you on a list, but I'd rather leave the US if any consequences come from it than just not donate.
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do you have any photos of what the 85 bike trail used to look like? i only found some constructions shots at http://www.interstate80.info/85_uc_california_2.html but i'm sure it must've been beautiful.
I'm remembering visiting the Nike Missile site just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.

http://www.nps.gov/goga/nike-missile-site.htm
http://nikemissile.org/site_sf88.shtml

It's both wonderful and creepy. They've restored some beautiful old mechanical computers which are works of art in my eyes, but they also point out that the missiles were capable of carrying nuclear warheads, "but they neither confirm nor deny" whether the missiles at this facility ever had them installed. They _do_ however point out that not only were the missiles capable of taking down incoming aircraft heading towards San Francisco, but they were also pre-targetted at Sacramento… "Just in case" (I'm sure the guys who run the tours are pretty good at setting just the right tone with their stories, but they certainly left me with some interesting impressions).

I _highly_ recommend the tour of SF88 to anybody who's got an afternoon spare in San Francisco.
The Vaio Z-series is also made partially from carbon fiber. Mine also has the same resolution (1600x900) in a 13" screen.

That said, if the X1 carbon was out when I was buying my laptop, I'd probably have gone for it. The low resolution of the old X1 was what really turned me off. Also, I think a 14" screen is a better compromise than 13" between portability and convenience.
How about global clout?
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I wouldn't trust statistics like that unless they had strong differences betweeen other cities over the same time period. There's been a hell of a lot of social change over the last half century, assuming something like dropout rates should remain constant over a period of decades is a non-starter.
Walt is portrayed as a good (if deeply flawed) guy whose path to crime corrupts his good character and has (despite his initially good intentions) unintended and violent consequences for the people around him. In the later seasons he starts making some morally pretty indefensible decisions.

If we've learned anything about how the writers' minds work, it's that they like having characters realize the long-ranging and tragic repercussions of their own selfish actions. So if anyone dies at the end, it won't be Walter, it will be his family, and it will be his own fault.

Personally I like Walt, for all his flaws. Watching the series certainly is like watching a train wreck in slow motion, but it's a really well done train wreck. Note that it really picks up (in my opinion) in season three -- it goes from being a merely decent series to a mindblowingly well-made one that deserves a place alongside The Sopranos and The Wire. You may want to give it another chance.
Where are your studies that show that black children that grow up in actual middle class homes in non-impoverished communities do substantially worse than their white counter parts? By your position they should be as illiterate as those in deep poverty.

This is a key point. You are completely dismissing environmental factors. So therefore, under your ridiculous argument we should see no significant difference between the supposed "intellectual inferiority" of black people between those two groups. How could there be? You have stated that would be done clearly because it is genetic. However, your case now fails completely.

You're just a racist and you want to proffer your position in a way that tries to make fun of those that agree with your racism as either being naive or "liberal fools" or whatever. But it is you that are deceived.
So far, just need a Python client now :)
I'm really liking this use of gists as a backend to more specialized services (eg http://dabblet.com & http://codepen.io ). It's a nice, easy way to get a versioned document store without having to build out the infrastructure. Direct access to the "raw" form is a plus.
Actually, when you "search" for papers on a paticular topic, you need more information that what was best paper; the "best" paper for a topic is probably not distinguished in a conference that cover multiple topics!

Citation rank is one way to evaluate a bunch of papers on a paticular topic, and its definitely one of the best way to find related papers in the first place. However, citations are fairly easy to game (cite yourself, get your colleagues to cite your paper) and therefore are not a great indicator of quality/influence/impact. Next, the venue of the conference is important; an OSDI paper will probably be pretty good given their low acceptance rate. But you can find lots of noise even at the best first-tier venue; its not that hard to get published (in CS) and many rising academics will flood the system with papers to make their tenure case stronger (where the tenure committee is not composed of peers, sheer numbers + conference rank are very important).

Sometimes you'll also find a gem in someone's dissertation 10 years back who didn't really focus on publishing: if you don't pursue an academic career, you don't have too much motivation to publish broadly. Or a good paper that was never cited at all on some topic that was then just emerging or way before its time. The quality of my own papers (as judged personally and subjectively) are inversely related to their citation counts.
What about kids? "I won't spend time with my 2y.o. because he wants to drive trucks around in the mud and aspires to stop peeing his pants, and that just doesn't align with my life goals".
Get the book "Who's your city". Don't just move somewhere because that's where you find a job. Spend a good amount of time and effort on finding the right city for you (the book explains why this is important). I so wish I had done this long ago - I've lived for 15 years in cities/towns where there is very little to no tech community, and it has been soul-crushing. My next move is a well thought out, planned and researched move - basically so i can be with more people like me.
We're doing a blog post on fluidui.com soon about the prototyping process that we used to build Fluid UI - we have the first infinite canvas prototypes that we made and we can include them in the post. That will explain it better :) Thanks!
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I've heard my Asian friends make similar remarks about a lack of Asians in Hollywood. I see it as mainly a consequence of the fact that A. they don't traditionally view acting as a noble or lucrative career path and B. they only make up a small percentage of the population (4.5%)
"What utter racist drivel is this?"

Yes, I'm expecting some real intelligent debate outta this one.

"In a later comment you get upset by someone equating your position with thinking intelligence with economic status but you are clearly making such a claim here."

I see just like the other guy reading comprehension isn't your strong point.

"do you know how Haiti become populated with all those people? Are familiar with this idea called the slave trade?"

Slavery and colonialism ended in Haiti a long time ago but lets keep making excuses. Have you considered the possibility that using historical happenings as a crutch might be part of the reason real progress isn't being made in Haiti? What if the Asians who suffered on the railroads in 19th century US made the same types of excuses? What about Indians that suffered under British rule? Kurds in Iraq? And on and on.

I'm sorry, I'm done with debating you idiots for one day. This has become a time sink into collective delusion and willful ignorance. Buh bye.
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Different strokes for different folks.

I forced my self to sit through 6 hours of the wire before I declared it mind numbingly dull and realized I wasn't going to get what others were getting out of it, but I've loved pretty much all of breaking bad.

It's ok to accept that it's not for you, even if a lot of people claim its the best show ever
As I say in another comment, it really picks up in season three. It goes from being a merely decent series to a mindblowingly well-made one that deserves a place alongside The Sopranos and The Wire. You may want to give it another shot.
You would not have to research any of them unless you believed I was making it up, and PayPal did not enter retail, mobile, micropayments, platforms, etc. All innovating means is making changes in something established, trying new things. PayPal innovated itself. It's not the same company today as it was pre-eBay; it's entered new countries, new channels, new lines of business. That's the answer to the question of whether PayPal has innovated since eBay. There was never a debate. Nobody else saw a debate; I'm not trying to win one, just frustratedly curious why you are trying to create one, and letting that frustration get the better of me when I should just be ignoring it.
Call me elitist, but I hardly think that a single story from a blogger/editor at the Atlantic is enough to discount all of the work of one of the preeminent scholars of bankruptcy law in the United States.

Warren has successfully defended her conclusions in academic circles for years.
Yep it might be. We still need to discover that! We might cap it to a certain price!
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Completely agree - it's high on our list.
Now generalize that state of affairs to science at large: it ain't just the nutritional scientists.
Why is this being downvoted? I'm not a physicist but to me this sounds plausible. I think that's pretty mind-boggling.
ok... you are presumed innocent... right up until the point that you are found guilty. Same difference.
Right, I wasn't trying to rain on the submission.

But you bring up a good point -- DuckDuckGoog is still useful with Alfred since it saves you from having to manually create a bunch of custom searches.
Sorry to disappoint on the firefox front, we'd love to support it and we will as soon as we can, but we're a small startup and sometimes we need to make tough decisions about where we spend our time and resources. We'll get to it!
I wouldn't say The Wire is 'much better' but they are definitely 1,2 all time TV shows. Debatable which is first.

The best part about Breaking Bad is that each season just gets better and better. Season 4 was hands down the best single season of TV ever.

So yes, you should definitely try to get through season 2. You haven't even met Gus yet. I hate to use so much hyperbole in one post but he is the biggest badass in TV history. Far ahead of number 2: Marlo Stanfield.
what could they possibly hope to gain by defying the EU?

they can't just ignore the law in a country they are operating in, especially when it's the world's biggest economy, which could just seize the assets owed without issue.
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I wasn't really trying to imply anything other than it was an interesting contrast. I'm not sure why his wife and kids come into it - is it not possible to be safe if you don't live in a gated community?
The show hit a major slump somewhere around season 2-3, and I almost quit it. It picks up from that and turns into one of the most amazing shows after that. But it feels like a serious slog at one point regardless.

It's also a testament to how great the writing for the show is now that no one is pointing out how poorly written Walt's background and motivations were initially. People - myself included - just don't care, because there is so much else going on.

Give it a shot. So many great shows require you to give them the benefit of the doubt at one point. I think I watched the Mad Men pilot three times, and it finally clicked, and now I couldn't be more thrilled that I am following the best TV show ever to air on television.
The main story point here, of course, is that the human body has capacity to self-repair from exposure to ionizing radiation, which is to be expected given the evolutionary development of sexually reproducing multicellular organisms.

I found it interesting that this article stands as a counterexample to the "law" often referred to on Hacker News that one should assume the answer to a headline that asks a yes/no question is no.

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

Another unit of National Public Radio (the larger organization responsible for this story) has even provided advice on the subject of how to ask questions in headlines:

http://stateimpact.npr.org/teamblog/tag/questions-in-headlin...

Other headline tips (not specific to the issue of headlines that ask yes/no questions) can be found on the site of the The Poynter Institute.

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/14...
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Two reasons LPs do this:

1. Investing in the best funds is competitive for LPs. Top funds often have more demand for investment than the fund will accept, so the partners have greater leverage to dictate terms. It's like an entrepreneur having multiple term sheets.

2. The big bucks come from fund returns, not management fees. In this sense, LPs and partners are highly aligned, since 80% of those returns go to LPs (assuming a 20% carried interest fee - obviously this varies by fund).
Do you have images / 3D renderings of the current design? Would be a good thing to add to the indiegogo page.

Apart from that... thumbs up, great work!
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IANAl but my understanding is that the current lines are drawn at active collaboration or directed communications to a designated foreign terrorist organization. I don't know whether this means that Brandenburg v. Ohio would come out differently today (remember, Brandenburg was accused of advocating terrorism at a domestic terrorist organization's meetings-- the domestic terrorism organization being the KKK, and yes the word terrorism occurred in the statute).

Under lines drawn in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project you can blog all day and night about how groups like Hamas could adopt nonviolent means of resistance and be more successful, but if you directly talk to Hamas and make such a recommendation, then the court has declined to say that is protected.

Worse, there is reason to think that is not protected. In Citizens United v. FEC the court said that independent expenditures were protected and corporations had a right to speak on election issues, but that speech coordinated in any way with candidates was not protected, because that makes it into a gift in kind that has the same effect, in essence, of a bribe. The idea that Citizens United and Holder v. HLP draw this funny line at who you talk to vs what you say strikes me as dangerous.

But at least it isn't hard for the EFF to stay on the right side of that line.
you'd find it pretty difficult to demonstrate that by abusing their monopoly in the desktop shell market they caused harm in another; it was pretty easy to demonstrate for browsers.
Holy Hell. That second video really drives home the devastation caused in the blast wave. Paint on vehicles turned instantly to ash and blew away. Wooden structures instantly caught fire. What was unexpected to me (I saw this in the first video which made me aware of it) was the 'backwash' after the initial shock wave.

Terrifying.
To me, this once again proves Betteridge's Law of Headlines.

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

Just ask some Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing survivors, or survivors of the Chernobyl disaster.
Interesting story. Many people don't think about the fact that the world is a naturally a radioactive place, between radon, cosmic rays, and just uranium and what not. We've evolved great defensive mechanisms in our DNA.

That said, I worry about too much the 'playing down' of nuclear warfare. One of my fears these events move out of living memory into history is that people don't 'get' just how horrific the destruction is. Of course that isn't going to stop the crazies. I don't doubt for a minute that we'll refresh our 'living memory' of just what its like to have a nuclear bomb go off in a city of millions, too many people have access and probability tells us one of them is too stupid not to try it.
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