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>When and if the Mexican government decides that they have truly had enough, these misguided youths still have the option of throwing down their weapons.

See, here's the thing: like every other government in the world, those in control are the corporations. Because investing money in something that, to be fair, doesn't actually affect them (and in reality, it benefits them greatly), and which gives them no return, they won't do it.

And this is where these topics usually get a bit tough because any supposition isn't based entirely on fact (primarily because it's so easy to cover up or dismiss accusations, since all of those in power are ultimately working together (and this, again, is also pure speculation)). It borders on conspiracy.
This is a B2B play. Talk to companies that would find this feature useful.
Long term, it can be worked around. Short term, it's extremely effective. Did you read that all the bomb detonated in the last 15 days used cell phones?

This will stop people from detonating their bombs until they can design a detonator that doesn't rely on cell phones. I doubt it's just a 5 minute switch to use a different detonator and just have the bombs work as effectively as they do now.
More accurately:

Users of “Anonymous” File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Liable

The software has not been ruled illegal, but users were held liable for files passing through their computer - even if they are not involved in the transfer or aware of the contents.
It still sounds like you think of a 'typical drug user' as an addict. I think the point was that a good portion of drugs are consumed by fairly responsible, recreational users.
I would never consider working for FB too, but to their credit they did use Erlang for their chat backend.
http://podofo.sourceforge.net/
I think what people want and what people need run counter-current. I know too many people who wasted their lives getting high: there is a feedback here. Opportunities close, more time is spent getting high and `smoke weed everyday` becomes a mantra. The only flip side is that some of the folks I know can play a mean bass guitar.
By changing the general theme, the background color of the build panel won't change automatically (screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/35N6Z.png).

You can change the build panel's background color (in Ubuntu) by editing the ~/.config/sublime-text/\Packages\Theme - Default\Widget.sublime-settings file and replacing the current line in the file with

"color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/<insert-your-current-theme>.tmTheme"
mvasilkov, you are hellbanned, all your comments are auto-killed. FYI.
>> It would be nice if people actually used tools like this rather than tried to bang their own together with mysql_query.

Totally agree with this.

After getting super impressed by Django's South migrations[1] app, I wrote a minimal migrations tool[2] for PHP-MySQL projects without checking if solutions already existed :-). Used it in two projects and it made life a lot easier for me and the team.

This looks much better though. Will definitely give it a try for my next PHP project.

[1] http://south.aeracode.org/

[2] https://github.com/naiquevin/phpDbMigrations
Interview with *Turing Cathedral* author George Dyson
Decriminalization for all substances but legal production only for the ones that do not severely harm the body in short-term (not heroin, crack, crystal meth and similar ones)
It seems that the US government is illegally using the infringed copy of justice. I strongly believe that such organisation must delete itself and its illegal copies from the wetware of all abused customers.
Biofuels are also being produced from waste: http://www.st1.eu/index.php?id=2876
Unless you're talking about the strength of something - then, it's "might of". This would be most applicable in bad fantasy.
I saw this article as I was searching for pictures of a certain vacuum tube which I had first read about in this great book about the beginnings of computer science in Princeton. I loved the book and highly recommend it to fellow geeks, especially geeks that like hardware and the history of science.
I agree, I touched on this topic below in a response to anigbrowl.
Is it illegal to run a Microsoft Office web based front end? Install a copy of Office 2010 and have it scripted to open and export files.
Did you have two identical alligator toys that differed only in color?
Its definitely worth consulting, I got paid 2k to instrument apache POI for Word->HTML with cleanup in jsoup.
I think you are a little bit wrong about social. E.g. I know MySQL developer who works for Facebook. How MySQL can be social? The only thing Facebook brings to this is how much you should scale but the same is for Google.

While I agree that choice must be based on desired position/knowledge or specialization that author wants to acquire. It is completely possible that neither Google nor Facebook is right for you because there are limits how much you can do there. Don't forget that you will need to compete with the best what is good for your education but it might be possible that it is not the knowledge you want to acquire.
I work at Facebook.

First, let's not lose track of the high order bits here: the Venn diagram between these two companies is more overlap than not. Both are large-scale, consumer-facing Internet services. They both build heavily customized datacenters; contribute a lot to open source; write a lot of back-end code in C++; have intricate big-data pipelines that make their products go; solve basic problems in information retrieval; care about ad targeting; contribute research results, and PC members, to CS conferences in various disciplines; will hire every good ML person in the world if they can; and so forth.

There is consequently a lot of overlap between their employee populations. Many people have gone on from work they're proud of at Google to do work they're proud of at Facebook. Some have gone the other way, and as FB gets closer to Google's size there will be more of them in the future. Our kids go to the same schools; this is not the Bloods and the Crips. Choosing between the two is one of those "nice problems to have."

While there are lots of "little" differences, I think most are driven by two primary differences.

First: Facebook is about 10% the size of Google, in both headcount and revenue. (An interesting consequence of this, by the way, is that only about 10% as many Facebook engineers as Google engineers are reading and responding on a "smackdown" thread like this one; you should bear this in mind when skimming them.) I think my friends at Google would agree that engineers at Facebook have considerably more autonomy and responsibility, and less process obstructing the exercise of that autonomy.

Second: Google is famously pursuing many "if-you-build-it-they-will-come" tech-for-tech's-sake projects. Each project represents a small portion of Google's much larger headcount, and yields a lot in PR, recruiting, and hopefully someday in creating revolutionary consumer products. Facebook is focused on those technologies that allow humans to communicate with other humans. That problem space is plenty big, encompassing work in programming languages, databases, networking, data science, information retrieval, machine learning, etc. We leave other technical problems to organizations with other missions; they have smart people, too, who understand their problem space better than we will. This is a classic trade-off between breadth and depth; while neither company is 100% dedicated to one or the other, they have clearly chosen different spots on this continuum.

Finally, if anybody is actually wrestling with this dilemma, and would like to reach out in private, feel free to do so at Keith Michael Adams' initials @fb.com.
Adam - If there was a way to share your address with me then I would be sending you some powerfully hopped IPA's!
The HTM buffer is too small for any language for doing what I'm talking about, which is long transactions. Haswell uses its L1 Data cache as buffer --- which means at most 32KB or 64KB, and only if you're on a lucky day. (Actually it depends on cache collision and alignment issues: it can in theory overflow with only 9 memory accesses, but I'd expect the numbers to be generally more than half the full cache size.)

The HTM buffer is big enough if the goal is "only" to remove the GIL. It's going to be a 10-lines patch to CPython or PyPy (yes, really!). The GIL is often made into a big issue, but in my opinion removing it isn't the final solution to all multicore troubles in Python: that's just the first step.
Just because I was talking about addicts, doesn't mean that I think every drug user is a stereotypical addict. Likewise, just because I said that a large number of kids are getting addicted to drugs, doesn't mean that I said that all drug users started as children. Initially, I just mentioned that there is an absurd number of children being exposed to extremely harmful drugs before they are old enough to legitimately make a decision for themselves. There are drugs that are relatively harmless and then there are drugs that will literally destroy your life in a short amount of time, like Meth or Crack. On a personal level I don't really care what a consenting adult does as long as they keep it off the roads, out of the workplace, and as long as it doesn't cause them to mistreat, abuse, or neglect their families.

I've encountered many types of drug users in my lifetime. Several years ago we let my brother in law live with us for 6 months because he was homeless and trying to get off of heroin. He started doing hard drugs as a young teenager because his adopted parents were abusive drug addicts. We watched him regain his health only to have him get addicted to pain medication just a few months after he moved away.

On the other side of the spectrum, I've run into people who have used drugs for 30-40 years for recreational purposes, while enjoying a happy marriage, successful kids, and a steady job.
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Facebook. Google is really an ad company with some money being diverted elsewhere. It really shines through when you see them buy AdMob and break the open source AdWhirl mediation in favor of their own closed source stuff. Ads are where you'll be rewarded if you go to work there, but there are much better ad companies to work for with cool new innovative stuff and with opportunities for equity.

Facebook is more of a social company who eventually put ads in. Heck, they were losing a ton of money on mobile for so long, and finally started putting sponsored stuff in the feed, and it isn't a bad implementation at all. The sponsored posts don't bother me at all and the new native client is slick. And they focused on the social part for a long time before monetizing - it shows what they really care about. At Facebook, if you launch and it decreases the amount that people use a feature, it's just as much a bug as a crash.

Tons of my friends who are not techies are totally into Facebook. I communicate with relatives and have made friends and business connections I never would have or could have without it. They've succeeded at being really important to the public at large and really accessible and inviting. Google, well, I was using search engines long before them, and appreciate the slightly better results. Their Google+ product has only really caught on with techies, despite plastering links to it on top of every page and spamming emails wherever possible. If you are into social and writing something other than ads for the public at large, Google is a failure. I might go for something smaller than Facebook, like Tumblr, but I wouldn't go for Google over either given their poor performance.
Yes, with waiting time there seem to be a zone of frustration. Waiting a short time isn't a problem. Waiting a long time, i.e., 8 minutes gives me ample time to do something else,like, getting a coffee. However, a waiting time in between is frustrating as I am waiting wasting my time, and I know it.
touchend actually, and the fake "click" should be aborted if the user scrolls.
Does the ruling technically means that anyone who processes the copyrighted song on his wetware, for example Jingle Bells (copyrighted by Disney), and then shares the file by means of acoustic murmuring in a public toilet in Hamburg with trusted friends, one of which is an anti-piracy maniac, will be sentenced for 6 months?
I figured out why its in js!

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Yes because people who use drugs are "drug addicts". And don't forget the "pushers" who hang around outside schools.
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Why Culture Matters: Supercell’s Calculated Path To The Top Of The App Store
Very cool, bravo. Awesome graphics and great narration as well.
EVERY problem ever solved was solved piece by piece - steam engine happens when it's steam engine time.

The only exception is the moon-landing, I'm still trying to figure that one out.
Any plans for an API or front-end widget to embed on hotels' websites?
There are so many ramifications, specially with what happens in terms on the national relationships once the money flow is cut to some with drugs being made legal. We don't know how bad things could get for Mexico, and which strings are being pulled when the wrong people being left out of the money. There's also the people. It's easy to think a narc will become a happy member of society and do the nice drugs business once it's legal and stay there in a bubble. You're talking about people knowingly poisoning others and murdering by the hundred. Legalizing the substance won't make those people ethical well behaved persons caring for society. With truckloads of capital to move to other industries, imagine if the doors are fully open for top cartel people to move freely and move to rule the food, communications, or health industries. They're not the kind of people who would rather loose money to stop producing a bad batch of food that poisons people or avoid making people sick to increase profits.They can easily threaten a government inspector, wipe whoever gets in their way since they already do that, plus they have many of the law enforcers in their payroll. It's not like making new law will stop them from doing things their way. If legalization is the solution, at least first their economy and power can't be big enough so that they won't wreck other hubs in the country. So far seems like a fight to make cartels as small as possible to be controllable.
It is not illegal but violates the license
AOAKN seems like greetings or best wishes, in some languages we use same initial and ending for greetings.

The template and the font used in the paper does not seems like typewriter print but LaserJet printer. specially the font used in the words on the top "PIGEON SERVICE". does not seems like printed with a typewriter.

The war's secret message are supposed not to use a single english readable words. Here we see some english words like "TO", FORM. Date, Reply, originator, copies, sender, signature. Why these words are not encrypted.
Care to explain in what respect it is promising?

the way I read this is that they put black particles that adsorb heat better in the water. That makes this produce some steam fast. I do not see how this would produce more steam than, say, a thin layer of water on top of a thin black-painted sheet that is well-insulated from below (sun heats black sheet; sheet heats water).

How is producing some steam rapidly an improvement?
Hi Chris...

"Fleeing TV" -- indeed, a shift is being observed. However, the medium exists because of advertising. Also, the audience segment that time-shifts is not yet at a critical mass, though rising. And, live event TV (sports) is still doing exceptionally well because of advertising.

Email is another matter. Being a former advertising executive would you believe I never did an email campaign? (Probably not) Email spam (simultaneously posted advertising message) has always been more considered a path to malicious exploit than legitimate advertising.

I'm not denying that an increasing segment of users are becoming frustrated with ads, only stating advertising is the best method we have _now_ for monetizing content that costs some degree of expense to obtain and disseminate.
Innovation is easier "one thing at a time"
> One is that real music composition is never done where the timbres are separated from the composition.

It's true that composers almost always have a sound in mind when they write the notes, but it's very common to perform compositions using entirely different instrumentation to that originally envisaged.
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Effectively we do eat oil. We replenish soil fertility with fertilisers made with oil energy, we farm large areas with machines powered by oil, etc. etc. We grow more plants faster, with shorter turn-over times, and use less human effort to do so, thanks to oil. There might be a few intermediaries but the end result is that energy from oil ends up converted into human biomass. I can guarantee you if we had never discovered oil there would be far fewer people, with far slimmer waistlines.
I'd like to thank all of you for such an incredible response to Batch. It has far exceeded anything I could have imagined.

While I was asleep, a complete web font was made, a second is in the works, 2 CSS sprite kits were made and someone sent me a Photoshop CSH file.

I am completely blown away.

I'll spend some time checking these additions thoroughly before adding them to the Batch site.

Thank you all,
Adam
Not sure what you're looking to do, but have you seen Zamzar? http://zamzar.com
Yes and there's a company that makes "nanofluid" for use as coolant in liquid-cooled PCs: http://www.icedragoncooling.com/index.asp?pagename=Technolog... they claim 20% improvement over distilled water.
Exit nodes are identifiable. The original source of that communication is not. The obfuscation is internal to the network, not on the border between networks.
Off topic, but you might want to clarify the licence a bit. It's a bit nitpicky, but you did not specify if we can create derivatives (though your intro message about adding photoshop layer styles strongly implies it), and if can sublicence it, etc. You also might want to add some disclaimers that waive any warranty and liability you might have.

Try http://www.tldrlegal.com/ and pick a licence, if you want to, that might help.
Linode Kernel caused kernel oops. My Post Mortem blog post?
"The IT department of the city of Munich has exactly one mission and that is to enable the employees of the city to service the citizens of Munich in the most efficient manner"

Exactly. It is more efficient for Munich as a City to support local business than to transfer money to american sharehoulders, if they think faresighted instead of shoresighted. Because part of the money comes back as taxes.

National economy is not a profit business but a money circuit. Therefore the efficienty laws are different.
The goal max. efficiency is the same, but the ways to accomplish this are totallly different, because the economic systems are different.
author here.
The reason I post this is to have your valuable comments on the blog post. It's aimed for non technical people (our customers) and tries to explain and be honest about what happened.
Do you think this is a good article? I'd be happy to improve it, as it's my first on this subject.
And of course, any technical comment is welcome.
Thank you!
For what it is worth, from somebody who works at neither: Google and Facebook are not points at two separate coordinates in the multidimensional vector space Interesting Things I Could Possibly Want. They are probability distributions over the same space. Pick any axis you want to look at: some jobs at Google are better than the average Facebook job at it, and some jobs are Facebook are better than the average Google job at it. I think it is virtually impossible to find a meaningful axis among which all of one company's jobs strictly dominate the other's. (e.g. Do you like, I don't know, freedom to pick what tech stack you work on? I guarantee you some jobs at Google/FB will give you no freedom to do that, and some jobs at Google/FB will give you unlimited freedom to do that, and many jobs are somewhere between those two.)

If you're the one figuring out the tradeoffs here, I'd highly recommend using your backchannels and figuring out about the position/team you'll be entering (and, relatedly, how easy internal mobility (+) is), which is highly likely to matter more to you than the exact symbol on your stock options.

+ The nice part about working at either, and in general being a technologist in 2012, is that if things don't work out you'll be able to stand on the street corner, whistle, and have another job within 30 minutes.
Water? With unlimited ultra cheap energy, there is plenty of sweet water in the oceans.

On the other hand: what is stopping us now from combining salt evaporation ponds with sweet water production in e.g. the coastal regions of the Sahara?
Just passing through. Anyways: Nodejitsu made package.json.jit.su well over a year ago (August-ish 2011 iirc) and I'm honestly a bit surprised to see it popping up here now of all times.

Generator's not bad. Nodejitsu never made anything like that on the web, though `npm init` and jitsu's built-in prompts fulfill a similar need on the cli.
Without ongoing revenue the shadow government cannot sustain its own life. It's blood is bribes (quite literally sadly).

This idea that cartels can take their capital on hand and then move directly into being the monopoly player in some other market is more than a bit fantastic.
I think they did do a lot of this stuff, and probably put way too much weight on it. Someone has a mockup of some tweaked and dumbed down UI that streamlines some common tasks, and shows it to a newbie user. It tests well, because the stuff they are measuring is the stuff they implemented ("How well can someone find the internet browser? Easy, it's a big fat button! Yay, win."). Then it hits the real world and edge cases and inconsistencies abound, and you don't have the weight of experience and history to fall back on because you have a radical new UI philosophy. So the rough edges persist longer than they should and people complain, and it harms your brand in the meantime. This kind of stuff requires real investment, and investment is hard to come by in the FOSS world.
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is there any relation to the vote given by people with higher karma or who is more active in the website?
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Spoiler Alert

I was disappointed by pretty much everything "M" did.

First, she said that in order to ensure a smooth transition with the new director, she gave up the operative that would become the main villain. Ok, this might make sense, if she had him scapegoated before parliament or had him arrested for conducting illegal operations. But no, she gave him to hostile foreign operatives. So unless the new director was trying to buddy up with the enemy, how the fuck would that smooth things over? Sounds like she's just a traitor. Even if it did make sense, she still basically said she ended his life so she could keep her job.

Later on something even worse happens. She was testifying before a panel, once again trying to keep her job, and she receives information about an imminent terrorist attack. So, having this information, she proceeds to let the attack take place, because as she said, she was afraid it would make her look bad in front of the panel. As a result, several people are killed, but everyone pretends not to notice that it was entirely her fault.

Other than the fact that her character turned into a terrorist mole, it was the best bond film in a long time.
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Thanks, but no I'm not sharing my address on HN.
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