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You don't start a post by earnestly attempting to foment violent revolution, and end it by saying "don't be evil."

If you had ever looked into what tends to happen in a violent revolution, you would have found that due process is not a significant part of it, and the end result is often a dictatorship, theocracy, etc.

There is no reason to suppose that the lawless violence you advocate will ultimately result in any improvement, for anyone except 'the party' which wins the revolution.
Here's another article discussing git add -p: http://blog.tplus1.com/index.php/2008/10/31/break-up-changes...

Nice. Too bad I'm on svn. Though I suppose you'd want to be really careful about not creating a commit that's broken, e.g. by overlooking a declaration. Can you easily check whether currently staged changes still compile and/or pass a test?
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I love it, been looking for something like this for a while. Thanks for the link.
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This is why banks frown upon offering CC merchants to "marketplaces" - anyone who is not charging cards for their own business, but allows one user to give money to another.

You didn't get money laundering, but if your volumes would be larger, you would get also money launderers.
Nice, bookmarked.

This might be a useful addition to the links at the bottom of your page:

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~marios/ethereal-tcpdump.pdf
Cool.

I can purchase additional stuff at my own expense for my brand new device, just so that it has the specs it was claimed to have in the first place!

Lucky me.
As of November 19, 2008 the Xbox OS actually requires additional disk space. It's why they discontinued the Xbox 360 Arcade console package since it didn't come with a hard drive.

"While previous system updates have been stored on internal memory, the NXE was the first to require a storage device—at least a 128 MB memory card or a hard drive."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#New_Xbox_Experience
I don't ever use git -p directly, but I use magit (https://github.com/magit/magit) for emacs, which makes staging changes this way very easy.
> No it isn't,

Yes, really, it is.

> it extends the amount of time the prey is alive and capable of causing harm, and the amount of contact between predator and prey.

No. It keeps the cat's jaw (which is the part that delivers the killing bite, and which is the part that does the eating) away from the beak and teeth and claws, while the paws do batting and patting. It increases the chance of getting a kill, which is what gives the cat food after the hunt.

> Domestic animals play with prey because they still have deeply ingrained hunting instinct, but have no actual need to hunt.

That does not explain why feral cats, cats that need to hunt to survive, play with prey.

> This is why they will hunt a laser pointer just as intently as a mouse. They aren't after food, just reacting to instinct.

Chasing a laser point just demonstrates the hunting instinct. We both agree that cats still have a strong hunting instinct. Hunting a laser pointer is chasing prey, it is not playing with prey.
> That's only true until you start getting chargebacks.

There are compliance ramifications of permitting money laundering, but collusion isn't always money laundering. Here's a few different scenarios:

1. Legitimate money laundering where someone is trying to obfuscate the origin of the money for some illicit reason. The ramifications of permitting or not having strong enough systems to prevent money laundering results in being shutdown. That's a bigger incentive than financial loss

2. Fraud where someone is trying to get cash off of someone else's card. This is the number one form of fraud on a marketplace and, by far, the hardest to catch. This is where the incentive is financial due to chargebacks

3. Cash advance where a marketplace has set their fees low (sometimes even lower than the fees Balanced charges) and someone is incentivized to get money off their card or simply get miles/points. Venmo and a lot of similar services experienced would get targeted by this form of collusion when they didn't charge any fees. This should be prevented due to card network (Amex, Visa, MC, Discover) policies, but they generally won't result in a chargeback
I would not give that man $400 million.
Only people who don't want to be there or also people whose contracts keep them from being there? Danger Mouse and his Dark Night of the Soul is a good example.
yes, using the -k option of git stash allow you to 'put away' the changes which are not in the index.

The argument of creating a broken commit is natural, but not very relevant IMO: after all, with svn and co, the risk of forgetting to commit a new file is pretty strong as well. If you care very much about having non-broken commit, the only reliable solution is a gateway that merge commits only after they pass a test suite.
Really cool hack... wonder how long it will take them to patch it up though
You have never heard a "real user" (and remember, you and I are "real users" as well; you don't stop being a real user just because you are technically inclined) complain about having run out of space and having to clear off space? About not being able to fit all of their music, photos, videos onto their MP3 player, phone, or tablet?

I've certainly encountered that. And I can imagine people saying "hey, this has 32 GB of space, my current device only has 16, this will allow me to fit twice as much", without realizing that a full half of that space is not actually available.
And fomenting violent change from outside works?

Candidates differ on concrete policy issues which have concrete consequences after elections. If you don't care about those differences, that is your affair - it does not mean that voting is 'demonstrably meaningless.'
16 GB being taken up right off the bat isn't a big problem? A standard Windows 7 installation doesn't even take that much space.
I suspect that even just looking at single-core performance it would be hard to make a 10GHz CPU that approaches what we're doing with 3GHz nowadays.

Take Pentium 4 - which used the architecture Intel was working on when they were predicting that they'd have 10GHz CPUs by now. Passmark's score for a 3GHz Pentium 4 is 384.

An i7-3940XM runs at 3GHz, and gets a score of 10,490. That's a quad-core computer, so I'm going to go ahead and be sloppy by dividing by 4 to get a score of 2622.5 per core.

In other words, a single i7 core is doing almost seven times as much work per clock cycle. And assuming they only ramped up the clock rate, the P4 would have to be running at over 20GHz to match what the i7 is doing on a per-core basis.

Given the heat dissipation problems that come into play with high clock rates, that seems like a doubtful proposition. In hindsight, it looks like Intel definitely made the right choice by dumping the NetBurst plan and instead letting clock rates stagnate (they've even retracted a bit from the high water mark) while designing the processor core to do a lot more with each cycle.
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I wish. Unfortunately the backup and restore situation was miserable three years ago and still is today.
All you need to do is type "apt-get install git-core" or "brew install git" and you can try 95% of git out locally. Get a free bitbucket or github account and you can do most of the rest. :)

OK, perhaps you are on Windows, then i am not sure if it's that simple.
RISC vs CISC doesn't matter any more. I wrote an article (once featured on HN, when ARM first began making waves) that is basically "a crashcourse on CPU architecture for dummies" on my blog: http://neosmart.net/blog/2010/the-arm-the-ppc-the-x86-and-th...

The tl;dr of it is that today, the RISC vs CISC or ARM vs x86 debate doesn't really matter - that's just a question of what "APIs" (if you will) are exposed from the CPU. Internally, they're all approaching working the same way.
The Surface Pro will probably have a SSD that can do over 10x that.

Random access speed is what matters for apps, and even tablet solid state storage are much faster than SD cards. The SD should be fine for audio and video though.
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>I don't think even the music industry would complain about people giving their music away for free if they want to.

It devalues their product (in their mind). Competition with lower price is not good for business.
Ive just realised how good AND bad finding life on Mars could be. On the one hand, we find LIFE on another planet. On the other hand, it makes it incredibly difficult for humans to ever move there and begin terraforming the planet into a second home.
I'm confused why this technique is better than just compressing air?
Kim Dotcom Planning $400 Million Fiber Cable To New Zealand
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So you end up committing untested code? (since you did test the whole change, not just part of it).

Sounds like a bad idea to me.
Yes they would. It might break our laws, but when there is a chance to try and impress the US, NZ politicians and bureaucrats are sure to take it. See the current Dotcom saga.
You are reading your own extra motivation into what I said. I stated that your premise ("cruelty to animals is punished purely because of ethical considerations for the animal's well being") is false. I provided evidence to support this. That is all. I did not make a moral or ethical statement. I am not suggesting or proposing anything. Simply pointing out that our protection of non-human animals is in fact based on concern for humans, not for the animals in question.
Sort of. Theft isn't the primary motive, so I think it's inaccurate. A lot of what the fraudsters are (or will be) doing is transferring money from victims to innocent people. The real-life analogy I would use is going to a store and putting something in someone's bag without them noticing to test the store's security. That is arguably not theft, even though it's illegal.

I'd say the proper term is fraud. But I don't really like semantic arguments, so I'd say it's not a huge deal either way :)

edit: I should add, the reason I don't think it's stealing is because the money often gets returned; the illicit transfers can be reversed. When the real stealing will be going on the fraudsters will be taking lots of money and running.

edit2: I feel bad for even objecting, it's really not a big deal. 'Stealing money' is close enough to what's going on.
He's going for the "legally challenging hosting" market.

Otherwise, NZ is fine for the AU/NZ market.

Iceland would be fairly ideal as a "datahaven" with 1) better laws (easy) and 2) a few more redundant fiber connections, ideally in diverse routes.

HK or somewhere nearby could work for Asia. China could make an argument that HK has its own legal system, but would be providing enough overhead cover that the US couldn't just blacklist them.

A Caribbean territory might work, too, if it's an EU country affiliated (e.g. St. Martin) with connectivity back to the EU and to the US. Someone other than France would work better, since overseas French departments are the same as Hawaii is for the US. Maybe NA or a British Overseas Territory.
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Anyone that knows about these things would see this immediately. Anything that involves transferring money from one agent to another is quickly pounced upon. That HN is a popular place for launching new startups would make this an obvious target to watch. And most people starting new money transfer systems are ignorant of the potential for fraud and laundering.

Essentially, this is standard practice.
> You still require honesty from the advertiser.

Yes. And full-circle dishonesty is inherent in upstart/third-tier ad networks (not necessarily the network, but their advertising clients typically).

But in the semi-perfect world of advertisers really trying to sell product, and ad networks with code optimized to make that happen, it works well. If product "A" from retailer "X" is converting well, the system should promote that over products that aren't converting -- and the only way to automatically know is the action-complete ping.

But yes, deception is one of the primary reasons content publishers avoid CPA networks.
I understand the idealistic view. That doesn't negate what I said, however.
"We chose to use these keywords (abortion, gun control and obama) because they are both a) searches where many people want unbiased results..."

I suspect that someone searching for these keywords are looking for reinforcement of their predetermined beliefs. Which is exactly what personalized search would do.

[edit] I've been downvoted so I feel I should clarify. I'm saying that these keywords are "magic" for a reason. This test should be performed using keywords people actually want unbiased results for. A good example would be a good javascript library for making graphs. (something I searched for yesterday and wanted to see an unbiased comparison). These keywords return biased results because they are highly polarized topics and you probably situate yourself on one of those poles - not in the middle. If google knows this about you, good for them and you because you found what you were looking for.
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if people really wanted to find the other side of the story its available to them. I absolutely love personalized search. When I search for something I want local results, I want results that are most relevant to me. Its been proven that people would only go to sites that support their ideas and beliefs already. So showing unbiased results make no difference.
Yay, so DOE funding not only has false positives (Solyndra, at the point where they were clearly doomed by cheap Chinese imports) but also false negatives.
Don't elephants have the same kind of self awareness? There are certainly plenty of stories of elephants helping each other...
However, OP says WP is over 3mb. Including any popular PHP framework means adding a lot of weight in the start (take CakePHP for example).
git stash -k; make test; git stash pop, git commit;

Problem solved.
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Same dynamics of "who's hiring" that you all know but focused on data scientists.
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When you say the algorithm affects 0.3% of searches on google do you mean you select each query with a probability of 0.003 and pass it through this algo, or this algo is used 100% of the time when query A is followed by query B and these combinations account for 0.3% of all searches. If it is the latter then the fact that Obama is a magic keyword may mean that you are biasing a very high percentage of political searches. I am sure election involving an incumbent is an edge case which is very difficult to account for, but now that we know of this I hope google will try to correct the results to remove these specific accidental biases in the future.
he is both right and wrong. relying on APIs can make the world very complex and high-pressure suddenly, but on the other hand, building/owning your complete eco-system is sometimes not doable from a starting perspective (wish I'd started Twitter, but I haven't...). so his advice, while not helpful, does have some truth between the lines.
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You can easily drop in a SDXC card in the Surface if you need additional storage, unlike the other main alternatives like the iPad and Nexus tablets. You can load up any number of movies to take on a trip on microSD cards and swap them in and out. What do you do on the other tablets without the Microsd slot when you run out of storage?
Public statements/positions are actions and have a lot of predictive value. Do you seriously think that we should AVOID looking into the other candidate's relationship to the issue?
Intel would make token investments a la Microsoft into Apple to prevent antitrust litigation, which is direly needed anyway.
Perhaps I was unclear or ambiguous.

I only mentioned it first to underscore how unreasonable and detestable it is - that is, not an option at all.

The ONLY reasonable option, given the facts, is to leave.
It is not only useful for security professionals. Anybody doing any kind of network programming should have it under their belt. Application level debugging only goes so far. Sooner or later you'll hit a problem like a network card sometimes sending super jumbo frames which the switch cannot handle or some weird performance problems. Packet level debugging is a must in such cases.
That is most definitely a major issue of this technique, though it can probably be mitigated through various hooks.
Congrats, DaniFong!

You're one of those people where 10 years from now it is going to blow my mind that I got to share an Internet message board with you.
I think that the potential negative long-term societal impacts, for everyone, are worth equal consideration as extremely distressing edge cases of other policies.

We can't afford to ignore a slowly-worsening trend that hurts everyone because of issues that are rare but acutely bad.
The only problem is, going to an apple store isn't an option for a lot of people where I live (Canada). When I travel, I bring my tablet, which does support USB host mode, but doesn't run iTunes. I know its a rare case, but its also incredibly frustrating when the answer to a problem is to drive three hours or mail your primary computing device away for a week.

Frankly storage is cheap, and Apple has made a business of overcharging for it. They advertise their lowest capacity at a reasonable price, but the upgrades are extortionate. If apple charged more reasonably, maybe we wouldn't be so afraid of using that storage to handle reasonable edge cases like this.
A high-end user benefits from a nicer machine. A low-end user requires it.

For example, I largely mitigate most of your issues when using my netbook by treating it as a terminal. The "real work" gets done on my faster rig, with compilation offloaded to a grid. Because of that, I'm only a tiny bit less productive on my netbook compared to working from my office.

And that entire productivity drop is due to the small screen.
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That is your opinion. However everyone involved in the actual story thought that this was clever of the CEO and respected him for it. It may help that all had managed enough people to understand that manipulation is often necessary. (See, for example, the standard strategy for delivering criticism in a way that will be heard - aka a "shit sandwich".)

The CEO needed an honest answer to a question which people usually lie about, and got it.

For more on this topic I highly recommend reading Machiavelli's The Prince. The advice is both horrifying and effective. Figuring out why it works can be very enlightening.
You have to compare with respect to existing install base. New product sells in percentage compared to existing user bade is more interesting matrix.
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Also remember if you're filtering ip/port you may need to add the vlan filter to see packets that are vlan-tagged.
It's a safe bet that if a candidate publicly opposes SOPA they are a lot less likely to vote for it. So look for that, if you are a single-issue voter on SOPA.
Would you consider moving to a database abstraction layer ? There are many of us here who are running postgres in production already and would like nothing better than to maintain one database engine that we can run and maintain.

Again - I'm not advocating that you switch the default, but if switching database engines is not your bottleneck, then would you be willing to consider that option (maybe Kickstarter it)
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SOPA has a much smaller impact than abortion or gay marriage for people it does impact. And abortion impacts fully half the population. It's not just people who get abortions, it'll being able to plan a career without the risk of it brig torpedoed by an unplanned pregnancy.

Abortion is one of the biggest issues in terms of dollar value. There are two inescapable facts of life: people will have sex, and contraception even properly used has relatively high failure rates (1-3%). The availability of reproductive services is responsible for women being able to participate in the economy as opposed to being stuck in childbearing roles as they have been historically. They are far, far more important than SOPA.
I used to think that "mobile responsiveness" was the "Holy Grail" of smart website design. Now, I've come to the conclusion that most modern mobile devices are completely capable of displaying the full version of most websites.

Every time I use my iPhone to browse to Twitter or LinkedIn I'm taken away from the full site and to a silly "mobile" site that resembles the native app. If I wanted the native app. experience, I'd download and use it! Ever try approving a LinkedIn recommendation using your iPhone? Good luck!

Now think about most business websites...5 pages of text, images, and a touch of javascript... Does their "full site" have content that cannot be displayed properly on a mobile device? No. Is there a benefit to having a second, "mobile" website (one with much less love put into it)? I think not.

It seems to me that many people think that "mobile responsiveness" is such a great thing, but I'm not sure they've really considered whether it's even necessary. I'd bet that most designers who build WP sites on themes that tout "mobile responsiveness" (and have it enabled by default) haven't even considered whether their client needs the second version of their site. Even if they do, I think often times the "mobile" version ends up being an ugly, hardly-tested, bastardized version of the "full site". Just give us the real website, please!
Thank you, good info. For privacy reasons, we've been hoping to not track IP addresses:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/345

Even then, I'm not sure I would trust this approach. I feel much more comfortable white-listing accounts, and for the time being that's not too onerous.
A little bit late on this one. If the internet freedom coalition wants to be effective they need to take a clue on grass roots organizing from the Tea Party and target the primaries. There you need far fewer votes to be effective. And you can recruit someone who you know is good on the issue.
Its like Twitter but with a close knit community and a great background. Think Twitter pre-2007 before it was commercialised and business ads started jumping on board.
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Series D and they don't have a product? :eyeroll:
HEY. ANGERSOCK PERSON ON MESSAGE BOARD. WOMEN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE? NOT A FUCKING EDGE CASE IN 2012.

Holy fuck I'm out of here until the election is over.