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It appears that part of the pricing strategy for online news is to charge so much that your subscribers won't even think of paying for another paper. I thought no one would pay these outrageous rates and the strategy would be DOA, but apparently it's actually been quite successful.
It's always a gamble and it depends on a lot of specifics. I thought XNA would've stuck around a little longer, especially given the new console that Microsoft is supposed to be releasing this year, I felt it would've been prudent for them to keep it around so that people can write the newest Xbox games right away.

In the case of Silverlight, I remember thinking to myself about how I would wait on it to see how it fared given the saturation of Flash everywhere else, and see how widespread the adoption was going to be. If I decided to dedicate myself to learning Silverlight I'd be very disappointed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21231380 is the article I read before, specifically the paragraph above a picture of the landmass which starts with the words "Indeed, satellite measurements"

The water moves underneath the sheets causing them to move, this movement has to be part of the reason if not the entire reason sheets fracture.

I am far more the believer that was is under the ice sheet has more affect than what is above it
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> there's no way of knowing where the bias originates

Just off the top of my head, why not go make a Google Ads account and bid on keywords that sound like black names, and then bid on keywords that sound like white names (according to the professor's criteria)? Wouldn't the price differences show that there is greater demand for one set or another?

My hypothesis would be that the discrimination happening here is simply happening in the ad marketplace, and that while it may reveal something unpleasant about our culture which we would like to see changed, doesn't lend itself to prescriptive intervention-type remedies. I'd like to believe that it may only be revealing that when a bunch of white marketing guys buy adwords in bulk they aren't cognizant of their list of "common names" being essentially "white names," and the arrest record websites caught on to this fact first.
That's great advice. It wouldn't have occurred to ask about personal finances.
"That guy" in the sense that the case you're making sounds very much as if you are contradicting people who do have intimate knowledge of Aaron Swartz's situation.

Your case is that the culpability for Swartz's death rests solely with Swartz. Swartz's friends and family have asserted with unanimity that Swartz's life was dominated by this prosecution. Ergo, the series of events culminating in Swartz's suicide would not have happened had he not been prosecuted, or, more importantly, prosecuted in this particular way.

When you assert that Ortiz's office is not culpable, it sounds very much like you are contradicting the prosecution's role in Swartz's life and death.
Does it sound by my post that I am ignorant of these "multiple" reconstructions? They all use the same proxies and similar techniques, Esper, Briffa, bristle cones, etc. I have read a good number of them. They are all awful.

Paleoclimatology isn't any worse than some other soft sciences I guess - the difference is that there isn't so much riding on them being right.
Assuming that jitter will hide the signal seems optimistic to me - "attacks always get better", and e.g. Figure 5 seems to suggest that just throwing more measurements at the problem is fairly effective. Of course, more measurements means that the attack takes longer, but note that the bruteforcing of the initial two bytes dominates the time the attack takes. If those bytes are partially or fully known, e.g. because you know some headers and can manipulate the length of certain fields, the attack becomes comparatively fast.

Of course, you do need a victim which automatically reconnects or uses DTLS, both of which are somewhat questionable.
I'm not following what this is. Can someone explain it like I'm five?
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Not blindly imitating European countries is one thing, being ignorant of their policies and their effects is another. The latter is the case here, and it would take some pretty convoluted rationalization to spin that as "diversity".

Individualism has historically been correlated with urbanization. Just because people are living closer together does not a community make. In fact, urbanization has tracked with the breakdown of old communitarian social relations and its replacement with market relations. If anything is going to erode that, it will be new "solidarity economies" and things of that nature rather than the simple concentration of population.
On a purely technical basis, how can we tell that andres is not ripping off one of these other sites? My gut tells me he isn't, but in the age of perfect digital copies, assuming that justice was cheap and easy to obtain here (and it clearly isn't) how would you establish primacy?
400/week after taxes is something like 1200/mo.

1200
-500 (rent, 2 roommates)
-200 (food/beer)
-100 (car)
-350 (min student loan payment)

50 left over.
"since men at large are not discriminated against based on their gender."

Uh, hello there - that's a huge assumption. I think they are discriminated against very much, but I guess no point to discuss on HN :-/ I'll only say that I don't enjoy having to spend time away from my kid.

"A female posting pictures of a man at the conference wouldn't be signaling that men don't belong in the group"

Very confusing? I thought the problem was that the pictures where fake nudes? In any case I think in general a swath of postings of somebodies picture would be disturbing. Also I don't understand "it's sexism because in the pictures she is a woman"?

"1 in 5 college women are raped during their college years."

This has been debunked, I only googled for that yesterday: http://www.responsibleopposing.com/comment/1in4.html (originally I had a better link but this was the next best I found yesterday - the stats actually seem to go back to some manipulated study in 1985). (Edit: this link from the article is probably the better debunking, but longer http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9502/sommers.html )

"the deed was encouraged by and reflective of rampant sexism in society at large."

They don't even know who did it, so how can they know what inspired it?
Don't forget to check out the contract that they drafted up: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732337520457826...
>Isn't this value derived from the system as a whole rather than Bitcoins themselves?

Capital B Bitcoin (never plural) refers to the system as a whole. Lowercase b bitcoins refers to the units of currency.

And yes, this value is derived from Bitcoin, not bitcoins- which is what the article says.

>If the monetary value of Bitcoin dropped to zero for some reason you wouldn't be able to use your existing Bitcoin for these purposes.

Yes, you would. All of these uses would still apply if bitcoins were worthless.

Namecoins are essentially free, yet they can be used to do all of these as well. In fact, Namecoin is the third item on the list in the article.
I hold:
GOOG, MSFT, JCTCF, BRK.B, Some net current asset bargains, some microcap cigar butt FCF bargains

Just sold HRB, and WILC

I primailly invest in Ben Graham style bargains.

In addition, I am always on the hunt for companies with strong competitve positions protecting high returns on capital, decent growth prospects, and reasonable prices.
However much or little humans may be contributing to climate change, if it affects us we might want to look into doing something about it.
Yes, although it needs a '(sic)' for the poor grammar in the original; I thought the submitter had made the mistake until I clicked through to the article.
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There are not always two sides to a story.
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> Sometimes these customers will argue, and tell you that you are wrong, despite the fact that you have orders of magnitude more knowledge on the subject than they do. I call these people arrogant fools.

I call them students.
I have on a few occasions, but it seems like a loaded perspective. To make it through four years of blood, sweat, and tears and to do it successfully requires significant investment in believing you are doing the right thing. With that, you'll always find some way to justify that you did the right thing, even if you somehow could prove it was a mistake.

It would be like a successful businessman who later regrets it all and wishes he had lived on welfare. It doesn't happen because if he truly wanted to live on welfare, he would not have built his business in the first place. On the other hand, you are apt to find people on welfare who regret not starting a business.
Really? They can "evolve" their site? At what cost? Specifically, do you think it's a cost that's equal to or lower than the cost of simply waiting for others to do the hard work, then copying their advances? If you do, I can understand why you'd see your approach as a viable one. But if it turns out that origination is vastly more time and resource intensive than duplication (which, duh, it is), you'll find that the effort to stay a step ahead of the pirates becomes uneconomical very swiftly.

That's the whole point of patent and copyright law. They're defenses against locusts. The fact that these laws have been abused and need reform should not obscure their underlying value and purpose, which is actually becoming clearer than ever.
Everything you list as actions are good, provided those are pursued with the correct attitude. Please re-read and note that the attitude one approaches this with is my key point.

> Ignoring it doesn't make it go away.

How is advocating a less tense attitude towards the whole notion of racism to achieve a calmer, more rational discussion of it, "ignoring?" Are you emotionally invested in the notion that it should be punished? Or, did you read some sort of meta-witch-hunt accusation into what I wrote?
In what way? The developer should have no problem justifying the decision. "It's what the camera sensor sees".

I absolutely understand the application in webchat and why you would want it to be mirrored at a page level, but I'm at a loss to understand why the browser implementation would try to reflect that.
It's funny because you keep saying "males" in place of "men" (but you don't say "female", you say "woman").
> I could teach myself more in an afternoon than I would learn in a 10-week class.

>The culmination of my second year was a 0.33 GPA.
They have some filters. You can't take out ads on pharmacy, alcohol, or drug related terms for example. I'd assume they have filters on hate related words as well.
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I don't think anyone really objects to food stamps; rather, the expectation of a living wage for doing whatever suits your fancy.
Read danso's post again, the problem isn't with Prof. Sweeney's research, the problem is with the Reuters story that jumped the gun and came to a conclusion that Sweeney hadn't. As a result, the correction note was attached to the Reuters article not Sweeney's research.

(I had the same reaction you did when first reading the post, but when I re-read it, I realized what it was saying. The post could have been clearer though.)
To be honest, those accounts in those pics don't convince me of anything. Most of the frequent posters from those domains post plenty of other links to other sites. They were created years apart. Two of them seem to post extremetech.com and/or geek.com exclusively, but posts are 5-10 days apart.

Isn't it a lot more likely that these are simply people who happen to read enough of those particular sites and post to HN to turn up on in a chart like this?

There's not enough data points to point to any kind of concerted effort by these sites over the span of years.

And even _if_ that were the case. Suppose someone affiliated with these sites is posting 1-2 links a week, that's hardly flooding the system. There's still the voting system, right? Good articles float towards the top. The new submissions page isn't jam packed with dozens of articles a day from these sites, is it?
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As durable as P2P network. In truly apocalyptic scenario I'll most likely be dead so I don't really care.

Resetting accounts to zero might be favorable scenario over getting killed over few pounds of gold in my basement and my suspected withholding of the information where is more.
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This looks awesome, Wish I could make the event!
And yet people who drop out of college do so because they think they're doing the right thing, and yet they regret it much more frequently than the other way around.

The fact that you think you're making a huge investment doesn't explain the fact that some investments are more regrettable than others.
I've been to Costco. It's a madhouse, and quite unnerving for an introvert like myself.

But that's not even the main reason I like Amazon -- it's for the product ratings. How do I know what I'm getting at Costco is the best quality for the price? I can get a very good idea of that at Amazon. Not to mention Costco can't even being to compete with the product selection at Amazon.
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This is likely happening because the public is more likely to click on an arrest-related ad for a black-sounding name. Higher click-through rates mean higher ad quality scores, which in turn mean lower minimum cost-per-click rates, which in turn means instantcheckwhatever's bottom-feeding ads appear more often. In other words, society is more interested in the arrest records of people with black-sounding names, so Google adapts. The professor does raise this as a possibility in her article.

But if that's the case, why is society more interested in the arrest-records of people with black-sounding names? Perhaps it's because in America, blacks are disproportionately likely to have criminal records. (Some quick Googling - in 2010, according to the census, blacks were 13.6% of the population, but in 2009, according to the FBI, 28.3% of arrests were of a black person.)

I'm not making any judgements about black people by quoting these statistics - perhaps these arrest rates reflect institutional racism, or disproportionate levels of poverty, or lack of access to opportunity. But I'd rather the professor focus her time on correcting that disparity instead of trying to make Google's AdWords algorithm correspond to something other than the interests of the public.
I can see why you'd infer that from my wording, but FWIW, I'm not intending to imply anything against Prof. Sweeney's work as I've not yet read the actual study. I was posting what I had found when trying the searches myself; for some reason, Google isn't serving me any ads...and Reuters served me what I had posted above.

If anything, this post is directed at commenters who have reflexively dismissed the study because they dislike the OP's summation. Just because the article summarizing the study may jump to a contentious conclusion does not mean that the study itself did. The fact that Reuters apparently messed up here is just an example of how a study with possible controversial implications can be misread by someone trying to write about it.
We weren't recording the first visit to the page with History.js, for some reason we "got away" with this during testing or didn't press back!

Think we've fixed it now tho
>The amount of ice on Greenland have seen significant variations over the last few hundred years

Yes, because of well known past climatic variations (some of which were probably localised). There are other drivers of climate than carbon emissions, and these drivers have caused climate to change in the past. That doesn't mean carbon emissions can't drive climate today. We can measure many of these other drivers, and we can see that changing solar output for example can't be driving the current warming.
I'm happy to provide more insight, but not sure exactly what you are referring to in asking for a challenge to your thesis but then using my quote as your thesis? I may have missed something, clarify and I'm happy to respond.

I find it interesting that you find employers want to provide more feedback. A mere 30 seconds before writing this reply to your comment, I received an email from a client saying "We looked at the resume and don't think he is a fit for our team". That's it. If this manager wanted to help the candidate, he could mention what skills are missing. If the manager felt there was a problem with the resume, he could have mentioned that. If the manager wanted to help me hit the target better next time, he could have mentioned what was missing.

I think what you are referring to is feedback after interviews mainly, but this very bland, 'not a fit' feedback is exactly what is most commonly provided to recruiters. If given ample free time, managers will provide more detailed feedback, but that usually isn't the case (particularly in the start-up world). I do have clients that are more willing to write a few sentences, but I can tell you that the norm is 'not a fit'.

I don't find managers are in any hurry to help candidates do better next time, which does little to improve the overall ecosystem. If a candidate missed questions on a specific area in programming or a concept, that would be helpful for the candidate to know. I wish more managers wanted to provide more feedback, but for now it is a minority.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/Climate_scienc...

Sorry, but there is a significant minority that in my mind prevents a consensus from existing. Majority is 84%, consensus is in the high 90s for me.

Take away vocal proponents, and you can clearly see that there is still room for debate here.
The problem is that a router's direct neighbors may be subscribed to millions of multicast groups and nobody has enough TCAM to track those memberships.
Bingo.

Also, there's a legal concept called trade dress, which protects the signature elements of a product. Mitusibusi copies Mercedes, but only to point. And that point is defined by law. This law explains why the imitations are so pale, and why the markets for Mitsubishis and Mercedes have so little overlap.

That doesn't mean that Mercedes can stagnate. It's a design icon, after all, and has to fit within a larger sphere that is always changing. But protection for its brand does mean can move at a more considered and deliberate pace (good conditions for thoughtful, lasting design), then it could if competitors could make perfect copies with no appreciable latency.

Slow moving design is a feature, not a bug. You'll note that cars that hit on a relatively unchanging design that doesn't date itself quickly have higher resale values than those that don't (like, ahem, Mitsubishi).
The time spent hovering for the built in title attribute to be displayed is so long that most users will never see/notice the tooltip.
I use both GVim/MacVim and CLI Vim in exactly the same way.
Looks awesome! Nice work.

I don't know how I feel about the closed source -> kickstarter -> open source model. Why not just put it on github now and get people using it?

Unrelated to the product, but I'd change your highlighting on the site to something other than blue - ux wise it makes me think it's going to be a link.
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No it isn't. It is an accurate description of the state of knowledge within the scientific community, and I cited my source.
>In case of major economic turmoil, the value of Bitcoins can drop to zero and stay there permanently.

It really can't. Bitcoin is used in over 100 countries. Economic turmoil in one, or even a few, country will not be sufficient to drop the price to 0.

The system becomes more robust every day. It's essentially a basket currency made of currencies proportional to all the proportion of people which use it in various countries.

After some more maturity there could not be a more robust currency scheme imaginable.
Hard saying in much detail; after all, I showed up after they left. Factually at least twice they were highschoolers or college dropouts. In another case he had a history degree, and a business degree in another. I now work for the NRAO, so I can tell you any level of education in a physics or math track is not necessarily sufficient to learn how to program--the physicists in particular seem wholly unable to perceive code quality or understand what might affect performance and what wouldn't. This, of course, doesn't stop them from writing their own code and giving opinions about what's wrong with your code, sight unseen. ("I think your program is calling malloc and free incorrectly."--scientist, about my Java code).
Exactly what I got scared of :)
If the placebo effect is stimulated, then its stimulated. Why knock the stimulant?
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The null hypothesis is described at the beginning of page 4, under the heading 'problem statement': Our hypothesis: no difference exists in the delivery of ads suggestive of an arrest record responding to online searches of racially associated names. Then, when presented with evidence of a pattern to the contrary, examine the pattern’s credibility, likelihood and circumstances of occurring. This hypothesis is briefly restated in the conclusion.

Methods are spelled out beginning on page 10, observations and how they compare to specific expectations are spelled out beginning on page 20. I can only infer that you didn't bother to read the paper.
Why is it unfair? Are you suggesting that services should be taxed at a greater rate than goods?
I still regret college.

I completed it.

But I wish I had dropped out.

Also I wish I did not had this stupid 20k loan to pay too.

Here in Brazil the best wage you can get as programmer, is still around 36k (yes, I am not kidding).

I get right now 15k.

So I get 15k yearly, and I have a 20k loan =D How awesome is that?
You aren't exactly making this sound more free. I would honestly prefer it if I could just buy her a large TV and we could setup video calls with it. (They already have cameras built in nowdays.) Hell, why stop at the TV. Her phone likely has all that is needed for this. Does this go any further to making that happen?

I guess I can see how it does. I mean, the idea is that this protocol can be used to communicate between two vendors. But, that can already be done. It is done, on a regular basis. What, exactly, makes this special?
I went to RIT and have a similarly negative feeling about it, so maybe that speaks about RIT and Rochester more than about college in general. They wouldn’t give me my degree after I couldn’t complete one class due to illness, so I rage quit and got a job in California. :)

And actually I’m not in nearly as much debt as I could be. Plus I met a bunch of good people while there, and even though the classes were useless, I took the opportunity to learn a lot on my own. College, like any investment, is what you make of it.
> A is the problem. If Congress expands that to economic crimes, then it's instant terrorist.

On the other hand, so is lobbying.
Totally. We played Assassin with platic-disc guns (which I can't find on Amazon) in high school. The school came down on us pretty hard if we were caught playing, so it was doubly stressful avoiding getting whacked by friends and avoiding being caught by faculty. We also had an entrance fee of $5, so the winner took home $100-$200 for surviving.

I never survived.

In general, though, the idea of adding a little game to anything is pretty nice. You can imagine playing tag at CES or assassin at PyCon. Hell, it's be great if the organizers added/encouraged/managed it!