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I'm not convinced:

The 'open internet' is often just a reverse walled garden. Things used to be locked down on your device, now they are locked down on remote servers where you couldn't even pry them out if you tried hard & ignored the law. (Unless you're the US government, in that case things have gotten much easier.)

The only advantage is that there is no middle-man between you and using any app (website) you want. But no company has ever tried to restrict web access on its devices, so where's the advantage?

And judging Google by its products: Google+ actually seems a lot more closed to me than Facebook (hardly any API?). Android itself is open source, but it is hardly about pushing the open web either. (At least it stopped pushing Flash)
Do you deliver high quality?
You can do it but it wouldn't compress most things because the x and y will be larger than the input.
Your post made me check it, and you CAN overload "operator," in C++ apparently :)

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_Programming/Operators/O...

My mind is blown. You can write bottom-up code in C++ :)

EDIT: no, you still can't the expressions are evaluated first, before calling "operator,"
That, together with the fact that http://www.appointmentreminder.org also exists and is a diffirent company certainly seems very confusing to me.
Here's a mirror for those who cannot access The Pirate Bay: http://pirateproxy.net/static/apple_response.txt
Something is very wrong with that country.

It is not mere about depriving people from their right to free information access, it is an attempt to deprive people from their right to grow up, to improve their lives, to learn how they have been cheated and by whom.

For example, to learn that not just those finance guys, but the whole economic science has no clue about what's going on with the economy, except that it is very broken.)
Interesting, could you explain the pun?
Implementation details are the least valuable part design patterns. Implementing a visitor via map doesn't some how make it not a visitor. You still have to have some way of referring to what is going on when you do visitor like things.
2005? I feel like an archeologist. Can you please properly tag this with, [2005], it is certainly not current news.
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I don't see how you can make such a determination about a online information site (i.e. one that provides information but not accredited diplomas or degrees.) You can learn all day from Wikipedia, will they ban wikipedia next? This really looks like politicians overreaching on behalf of some frightened post-secondary institution.

From the article's page, commenter Greg Shenaut points out that further reading of MN law would render this political "threat" moot. His comment pasted below:

Bottom line, they should have considered Coursera, since it offers no degrees at all, under their “Private Career Schools” statute (Chapter 141) rather than under their “Private and Public Postsecondary Education Act (136A.61-71)”. The latter act is concerned with (1) degree granting institutions and (2) schools that call themselves universities or colleges as part of their name. Coursera grants no degrees and doesn't call itself anything except “Coursera” (or coursera.org), so it is really bizarre that they decided to regulate it under 136A.61-71.

If they had made the opposite determination, then, under 141.21(10) and 141.35(17), Coursera would probably have been exempted from any need for official approval: “[The Private Career Schools Act] shall not apply to... schools with no physical presence in Minnesota, as determined by the office, engaged exclusively in offering distance instruction that are located in and regulated by other states or jurisdictions”.
Yeah, they do that to a lot of people, not just Apple: http://thepiratebay.se/legal

The Apple exchange doesn't appear to be a particularly notable standout, really. Gr8pop Ltd is far more amusing because there is some back-and-forth, but still there's not much to see beyond profanity and entertainment value (depending on your viewpoint).
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The buffers have the same capacity at each level of the tree. It doesn't have to be that way, and you can find different strategies in the literature, but that's the way we do it.

The degree of each internal node is way lower, because we want to use the space in internal nodes for buffers more than for keys. In a 16TB tree, we would probably have a tree of height 6 or 7.

What we restrict is the size of a whole internal node, so that any one buffer in it can get much more full than the others if it needs to. We want to pick a node size that makes sense for your media. 4MB is a good compromise for spinning disks between their typical bandwidth and seek time, and it's large enough to give the garbage collector a rest on SSDs.
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I did a quick test for this, would add a comment to the stackexchange thread, but it's closed now.

Test at https://github.com/walle/pi2ascii

The algorithm can be greatly improved though.
Yes, but that's saying the same thing as "you can write all binary numbers with the digits 0 and 1".

These correspond to choosing a 'book length' of 1 bit.

Each million-bit book is just a number in a base 2^1,000,000

Numbers larger than that require more than one book, just as numbers larger than 1 require more than one binary digit.
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I should add that, to reduce the cost of a flush by a pretty decent constant number of I/Os, you keep one buffer per child in each node. Basically, you want to do the sorting work on arrival into the node, not during the flush.
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I have seen a Taiwanese bank's ActiveX(!!) customer support applet just a year ago.
Yes, or British, depending on if it's a British or American international school.

When I lived in Thailand I met lots of Thai people who spoke perfect unaccented English for this reason. Whether they had an American or English accent depended on if they went to Bangkok Patana School (British) or International School Bangkok (American).
No, it's being applied exactly as it was intended: to reduce competition, for the benefit of existing players, at the expense of Minnesota consumers.
SoundCloud and everything similar, and at least recently, Facebook video - I use Chrome mostly for these two websites.
The notable things about this is the irony. When Steve Jobs was running the Macintosh team, he put up a pirate flag to signal their defiance of the status quo as he went about disrupting Apple itself (a company making its money off the Apple // and investing in the bloated and expensive Lisa).

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
What is odd is how self defeating it is, I just don't see them selling many at £250.
If you are deleting a word in order to correct a mistake (ie/ by typing it back in) it's usually best to `cw` or `cb`, which will leave you in insert mode after the delete.
I hope this is the case. It does make sense considering we're Post-Hamza now.
This business model is not new at all. That's what video games console manufacturers (except Nintendo) have been doing for dozens of years. Selling the hardware very cheap, at no margin or even "dumping it", to make money on the software licenses. Really, Google has not invented anything.
Well i didn't make it up, but yeah i get your point. I didn't mean that i'd assume it means false, but it's still clearly counterintuitive to use a tick to encode as utf-8 when any character at all will do. A tick has an opposite, an X, a snowman (as in the Rails case) doesn't.
A bureaucracy calling itself a "Minnesota Office of Higher Education"

https://www.coursera.org/about/terms

https://www.ohe.state.mn.us/
[For the really lazy]

PDF download link:

http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/textbook/270212.pdf
They show the keys as they are on the keyboard...
Just did the upgrade from 12.04 and most things worked fine, but I lost the sound output in the way. After a quick search on the ubuntu forums, I found the way to restore it, and voila, sound is back and everything is working like before. A little strange, though. If I expect any issue, it's probably not about the sound...
This space is pretty big and it is often hard to understand the actual difference between the players.

We here over at 46elks are proud of our API focused on the mobile side of things. If you are in Europe and need numbers for SMS, MMS or phone calls (not just voice-only), we'd be happy to help you. You can find us at http://www.46elks.com/
Hi,

is there any slides of the presentations there so I can learn more about this? I was not able to attend the meeting as I was out of money, but I'm an awarded hacker by Andrew Mager, so this is very important for me. Mager sent me a pair of headphones from the US to me. He said I'm a embassadour and is talented.

Also, did the speakers mention anything about a engine called Spider, from previous speaks I heard about it, and it was used for internal pages in the Spotify client before the introduction of the spotify apps, though it still used by the oldest parts of the spotify client (like artist and playlist pages).
Indeed, every German and Scandinavian I've ever met had a noticeable accent when speaking english, even if their grammar and vocabulary was flawless (which it often is).
Isn't MVC a specific case of "make your code modular"? I don't have as much confidence that I can imagine a language getting rid of that.
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I'm surprised people don't immediately recognize this for what it almost certainly is: a calculated attempt by the North Korean government to manipulate the media and foreign governments. Perhaps the word manipulate is a bit strong because the goal may very well be to improve relations, but to think that this wasn't vetted and planned by the North Korean leadership is a bit silly. The family wouldn't go to great lengths to keep a low profile for so long only to have a 17-year old randomly give an interview like this - and risk being cutoff financially or even barred from the country/arrested etc. The answer to his question about the plight of the poor people in his country being removed is a huge clue that this is what is going on.

Personally I applaud this effort and I hope we see more of it - and it would be great for this young man to go to North Korea and work as a diplomat or something. But people should see this and future actions from him for what they are - carefully crafted maneuvers by the North Korean government.
Can't disagree. Consistent efforts to water down those safe guards paid off.

And why discuss just the mortgage bubble? There are so many other damning independent events in the past 4 years.

1) The mess with LIBOR. If you want to improve spin and double speak, you can do worse than remember this line "LIBOR has become dislocated from itself."

2) The failure of mortgage managers to maintain chain of ownership, and the robo signing scandal. Which is a nice way of wrapping up flat out fraud with a different set of words.

3) The flash crash - fine lets call it teeting issues with new technology. But what about deals where GS knowingly sells crud instruments to its clients? Or the oversight that creates such lovely euphemisms like the "London Whale". I'm currently betting that the Citi CEOs ouster will add itself to this list.

4) Too big to fail - If we say "market forces will handle it", and at the same time create institutions which are too big to fail, then haven't we essentially given up on free markets as we know it?

What I find amusing, is how the narrative is divorced from the historical timeline.

Fannie and Freddie were great ideas for their time. They were terrible ideas for a time where they were used by people who considered scruples to be ballast to be discarded, and that risk would be "managed by the market".

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On a separate note - I think any discussion that ends up overlapping the finance industry with entrepreneurship is broken. The finance industry / wall street are so removed from the spirit and intent of the law compared to the tech industry and SV startup-land that the we need separate dictionaries.
Good written article, I agree with most of it, except:

> Don’t just complain or critique, offer up solutions too;

I often had the feeling that, when I got offered a solution from a good guy who's opinion I value, the usually limited time could be better spend with critique or hints.

Say I describe my solution A and solution B is offered, I don't know why she/he values B more than A.

Could be: 1) She/he knows something about A or B that I don't.
2) I know something about A or B that she/he doesn't.
3) She/he doesn't have additional knowledge. but she/he weights it differently.

In cases 1) and 3) I can hardly go ahead and implement solution B correctly. Case 2) is actually not that unlikely if I have spent a lot of time on the topic.

So if instead she/he tells me what is wrong about A or which opportunity I may exploit, I can use that info to either do B, or more often, come up with C.
Always nice to have some context. Spark is a distributed computing framework, akin to Hadoop in delivering MapReduce style processing, but with some uniquely capable additional features. It was originally somewhat scala-centric (built on scala), but is now branching out.

From the docs:
"Spark is a MapReduce-like cluster computing framework designed for low-latency iterative jobs and interactive use from an interpreter. It provides clean, language-integrated APIs in Scala and Java, with a rich array of parallel operators. Spark can run on top of the Apache Mesos cluster manager, Hadoop YARN, Amazon EC2, or without an independent resource manager (“standalone mode”)."
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How could they enforce this? If someone from Minnesota takes a class, is Minnesota going to sue Coursera? Fine/jail the student? There's really no option that doesn't leave Minnesota looking bad.
I'm talking about the rule against doxxing in general and why it is necessary. You are are picking a specific person and arguing that the rule shouldn't apply in this case. But that's not how rules like this work and you are taking a shallow view of the issue.
Ah yes. It's always smart to punish your best customers. That's how you end up with Organizations like The Pirate Bay.
It’s a UX battle that we’r trying to conquer.
We are just getting started!.
It is, but most patterns are like that to a certain extent. I'm not thinking of a language that eliminates MVC so much as one where MVC is so easy and natural that it's not even a concept that needs a name. (Just like passing a function as a parameter doesn't really replace the Command pattern, it just means it's so normal and obvious that you don't think of it as a pattern).
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I feel like the second time I do an action in vim, it tends to get macro'd so subsequent uses aren't repetitive.
Exactly. This is what happens in blue states: protectionism and regulation designed to benefit a defined constituency while screwing the majority. This law never would be passed or enforced in Texas.
Done. I hope this makes your day much more pleasant.
Well, a Facade is very much about hiding away something that you have no control over. Even in an FP environment, you need to communicate with third parties, and they generally to a crap job of their api's.
Ask HN: which web server is the fastest?
What is the fastest web server for serving static content and proxying? And what is its peak throughput? I've seen Nginx, Cherokee, GWan, etc. mentioned...

Additional info such as ease of use (custom C/C++ handlers, asynchronous request handling, etc.), community maturity, etc. would be useful as well...
I'm glad you liked it. :)
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Which is entirely Democrat.
There actually was a mechanism designed into the * 69 service for a situation like this, but it was meant more for threatening calls or things that required police action.

You could dial * 57 after hanging up on the caller and the calling number would be recorded at the phone company, where the police could obtain it if was determined to be necessary.

tldr; the mechanism is there, but probably will never be used.
Why is speaking in an American accent considered a mark of English mastery? I've always thought of good grammar as the only meaningful measure.
Yes, eval is evil. And remember folks, eval is just as evil in PHP where use defined data is nearby.
Follow the money. Walden University is based in MN. Find our which politicians received the contributions. But Minnesota people will still continue voting for the same people so even if we did know, it's of no consequence. It's the same reason guys like Jesse Jackson Jr, and Marion Berry keep getting reelected year after year despite their obvious corruption and incompetence.
Have you seen the Dear Sophie ad? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vkVHijdQk
Same in Germany if you want to file your taxes online.

However, using a java applet to login is slow and painful. Maybe this move my Apple will increase support costs and encourage these govt agencies to drop the java requirement.
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I admit this was bait ;)

It comes from "Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design" (R.Bird)
It's basically a tree with shared nodes.
It gets worse: religious schools are exempt from this law: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/statutes/?id=136A.657

Here's an index of the relevant statutes (scroll down to the 'MINNESOTA PRIVATE AND OUT-OF-STATE PUBLIC POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION ACT' section):
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/statutes/?id=136A
Most functional (tromp - implementing Binary Lambda Calculus)
I don't see any irony at all. The only similarity with those stories is the word "pirate".
I'm not sure this discussion applies to MVC as easily as you're making out. It's a design pattern, not a code pattern. Let's make it more general, though. How would a language that "gets rid" of the problem of modular code look like? That is, a language that makes it natural to organize your code based on high-level functionality, responsibility, and/or dependency? It seems to me that such a language would have to bring in arbitrary limits and introduce a lot more problems than it would solve, assuming it's feasible at all. I'm not saying this is something I've given a lot of thought to, it just has a "concept smell" to me.

There are cross-cutting concerns in software development that don't have an obvious technical solution. Modular code is one of them. There's no logical reason for us to organize code in such a roundabout way, it's only to help us measly humans reason about it more efficiently during the process of software development. So, there's unlikely to be a way to unproblematically translate that process into something logical.
That xmonad was almost certainly managing the X11 apps while the native apps were being managed by the standard Apple window manager.

Most Mac users (including myself) make no regular use of any X11 app.

(In fact, shortcomings in X11 and software that relies on X11 are the main reasons I left Linux in the first place).
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My first job with a large consulting firm offered exactly your last option. You had benefit "flex dollars" on top of your salary and you could shop among the plans they offered or you could take the cash and go buy your own (or not). Of course due to group rates their plans were cheaper than what you could buy as an individual, but not by a lot, and if you were a single young male (i.e. didn't need maternity coverage) you might even do better.

I do think we'd be much better off if health insurance was not seen as an employment benefit but as aomething you are responsible for yourself, like car insurance, rent, utilities, groceries, clothes, and all the other necessities of life. (I'm not saying that the government should provide it or administer it though).
Wow, great thanks, now i can continue reading :)
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not?
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EDIT I:

Based on feedback below, I have added my two bits to this conversation

Even supposedly conservative countries are opening up their elite curriculums like this NPTEL effort in India to disseminate the IIT curricula for free on YouTube: http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Placed in context, this bit of news seems particularly galling!

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I'm going to try this line again, particularly since tvtropes says: "On its way to becoming a Forgotten Trope, a Seen It All Suicide occurs when a cartoon character, having seen some outrageous sight, proclaims "Now I've seen everything!" and promptly produces a pistol and shoots himself on the spot."

Wat?[0] >>> Now I've seen everything! !Bang! <<< [1]

[0] That "Wat" feeling. Cf., https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeenItAllSuicide

EDIT II: [This last line removed/redacted based on feedback from below]
The new U.S. passport application forms are back, worse than ever
...the new long-form DS-5513 to answer bizarre and intrusive personal trivia questions about everything from whether you were circumcised (and if so, with what accompanying religious rituals) to the dates of all of your mother’s pre- and post-natal medical appointments, your parents’ addresses one year before you were born, every address at which you have ever resided, and your lifetime employment history including the names and phone numbers of each of your supervisors at every job you have ever held.

This sounds too crazy to be real. Any Americans out there to shine some light on this?
sarcasm, methinks (mehopes too)
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When are we going to stop the nonsense to stop any disruption to any existing business by making laws against it? Just like in france recently they want to tax Google for referencing the contents of french newspapers on the basis that they are benefiting from their contents to put their ads - this never stops and the politicians are too easy to corrupt.
There is no gap because COBRA covers you (costs go up precisely 1%) until the next open enrollment. As for "open enrollment", this just means you need to start your business in July.

Anechoic is right - anyone claiming they can't start a business in MA due to employer sponsored healthcare is just making excuses.

See also "I'm a fatass because I don't have time to exercise", "I have no girlfriend because all the girls I don't ask out would say no anway", "I'm underpaid because all other companies would pay me the same, not that I actually interviewed."
From a buyer perspective, I find it bit challenging. Generally, people don't like to commit for a fixed expenditure.

Having said that, as mentioned below; there would be some areas or products where it would work as it would save on other expenditure.

I believe like offline world, online also would have all models. It is on use to make most of a particular model.
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There's an error in his first 'Function Invocation' example, the answer is 500, not 501.

[Reason: 'this.value++;' in the method invocation refers to obj.value, since 'this' is bound to 'obj'. Only in the innerFunction function invocation does 'this' bind to the global object.]
There are SOO many things to be afraid of if you're starting a business, I really don't think that health insurance (or especially other things the article mentioned, e.g. retirement savings, medicare, social security) is a showstopper for most people. In starting your own business, you are risking the ability to put food on the table and pay the rent. Health insurance has got to be less scary than that.
> My advice is to do what I'm doing.

Out of curiosity, what are you doing?