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> With the specific prohibitions on photographs of residences that include people

How do you arrive at that conclusion? The language of the bill specifically excludes from prohibition images not containing "forms identifiable as human beings or man-made objects" (emphasis mine) - yet the
writer of the article came to the same conclusion you have:
..."possibly implying that if no human is in any photo or video taken, it is acceptable."

What am I missing?
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Search is IMO the hard part. I know you can do Lucerne, but getting that working well with email is hard. Until recently Outlook's search was crap compared to gmail. too, and mutt is still essentially "headers only".

Still, shouldn't be that hard to do as long as it is your own server and you trust it; I imagine a lot of the difficulty of gmail is scaling, and even a single user with 20-50GB of mail isn't in the same league.

If you were to outsource it to a service provider:

I'd love a way to do privacy-protecting search on my mailbox, either by building/maintaining a local index, or even more amazingly, some kind of cryptographic/data structure magic: do processing once either pre-encryption or on the local device, then add it to an index, with a configurable slider for data leakage vs. search quality. Search could execute locally and remotely.

(This is to allow you to use webmail with no local persistent storage, or a new phone, to search your email on a server, without trusting the server).
This article is just useless fluff. First, how many people care enough to get 100%? Do you get anything for getting 100%? If not, then the number of people who will probably strive for that and are willing to pay for everything is probably low. Second, it was said in the article, you don't need to buy anything in order to win, so the headline on HN is misleading at best.

I personally see nothing wrong with this approach. Development time is not free and when offering the game for free there has to be a way for the developer(s) to make money. As long as they allow users to beat the game without having to make a single purchase then it's all good in my eyes.
Did you end up choosing something? I fall under the same boat - turning 26 in a few days. Startup founder in NYC but no one else currently needs insurance on my team.
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> Drop gluten for 3 weeks; do you feel better? Feel bad when you get back on it? Problem solved, really. Until science supports our observations, I don't need much more proof than that.

Science does support it if you did the observations, recorded fastidiously and properly controlled your experiment. "big name" science does not exclude normal people from conducting scientific experiments. Oblig xkcd: http://xkcd.com/397/
How does it work? If I have a collection/table with 100,000 rows and want to create a histogram by month does it pull the 100,000 rows over the wire to your servers and does the aggregation there?

select month, sum(x) from T group by month;
It sounds like your primary motivation is making more money. If that's the case, I wouldn't bother--there are lots of other, faster ways to become more expensive if you aren't discriminating.
Looks like a great start. One thing that strikes me is that it's really hard to see how useful the data is on first glance. I kind of like that the pie chart is front and center, but for me it's useless without showing the total number of votes.
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On Ubuntu & Co, you can copy it in your global custom stylesheet:

Chromium: ~/.config/chromium/Default/User\ StyleSheets/Custom.css

Chrome: ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/User\ StyleSheets/Custom.css
Other browsers: Don’t know
I was a (relatively) early adopter of the world wide web. Once upon a time, if you googled my name, every single result would be me. That was over a decade ago. Since then, I have become a bit of an e-recluse. And, other people with the same name as me have showed up online, including a professional poker player in England who seems to dominate the top several PAGES of results. I am afraid that if a hotel tried to do this to me, they would get it very very wrong.
I've finished my comparisons now. HN submission here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5289532
I actually tried many times to setup a mail server on my debian machine but never could find a good tutorial. I gave up because I lack the time.

edit: I just tried again, for more than a couple of hours. First I had to guess that I had to install MDB2_Driver_mysql. Set up a DNS to match my /var/lib/roundcube and now I'm struggling to understand how I could sign-in since he didn't create any user for me.
> useless without showing the total number of votes.

Hover and you can see the % and on the Viewpoints it shows the votes they received but obviously to be even remotely trusted we need total votes. Consider it on the to-do.
That's very similar to a bug YouTube has had for a while. It may be corrected - was still an issue within the past two months - but you would get into a loop where you could not log in to YouTube.

These types of things are what I think about when people tell me how great the Google programmers are, but that's another topic.
Note that Django also works well on Heroku: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django

(where I work)
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Sure, I'm just saying that was (and is) par for the course already for the Navy. It would be like complaining that the software comes in a ugly box... even if it came in a nice box, the Navy would just throw the box away and stuff it in an ugly box anyways.
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With the growing app marketplace on C66, I'll soon be moving my app to this setup. Love it!
Thanks. This makes sense, but now begs the question.

"Why is Stripe holding on to the API Clients' Credit Card Info?".

I see a nightmare situation for you guys wherein your VA Customers ask you to delete their info and you tell them "Oh, we use a 3rd Party and the 3rd Party does not Delete it and hold on to it for EVER!"

And to all you hipsters downvoting me, you live in a Utopia world where you don't care for your Customer's Data Security, and sadly, your customers are not tech savvy enough to realize it and call you on it!

~Prem
I have my reservations about the viability of a Klarna type approach in the US - where there is a high level of credit card penetration among the US customers. Since Affirm will require customers to choose that as a payment option, over other funding sources - Paypal, CC and others, there has to be a compelling reason for a customer to choose Affirm. And atleast in the US, where we are card-entrenched, and everyday we make it easier for customers to use their plastic - it's a tough value proposition for Affirm.
If Samsung can make Tizen work they will probably tell Google to go f themselves, too.
Television interrupts the social interactions, if there is one nearby. As do newspapers, books, people walking by...
Luckily for most of us, most of the hotels I stay in couldn't give a shit to Google for preferences.

Most hotels are too busy trying to get those extra few dollars for their overpriced, shitty wifi, the crappy breakfasts, laundry and all those other overpriced services.
The cooler thing is they make a physical copy of your mail key from a picture. Why is remote key duplication not a business (or at least cool side project)?
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I'm looking at this more from a candidate perspective both I think having a view from both sides is important. IE - what is the interviewer looking for in an ideal candidate and as a candidate what is the best way to prepare.
if the blog has good content I usually just copypaste the content in the notepad to read it.
obligatory link :)

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
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The measure of his paragraphs is around 90 characters. At that length, 125% line-spacing is way to tight for good readability. I would go 150% at a minimum. The line spacing looks a little sparse at 175%, but it remains very readable.
Not that I have found so far.
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At least it is not as bad as Pixelon:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000711031951/http://www.thestan...
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You can see the Stylish icon in the poster's screenshots.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmke...
The problem with dark background sites is that almost every content oriented site that's popular use light backgrounds.

If you spend most of your time looking at a light background then switching to a dark background takes a little bit to adjust to.

It's more of an issue after you read a long article on a dark background, when you switch to a light background then things look weird for a noticeable amount of time.
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When I've used my hearing aids with phones, I've always had the impression that the audio quality is pretty bad. Telecoils apparently go back to 1947, and so it wouldn't surprise me if they were relatively poor quality either for efficiency or simply because it was the state-of-the-art back then (or the quality was limited by some other system - why have higher quality than a telephone can deliver?).
Have to agree with this. I ran my own mail server for a few years and even though set up was easy, deliverability was a PITA (I was never able to successfully deliver to hotmail addresses even after doing everything possible on my end).

Then there's spam.. what a headache. Suddenly one day I realised that I have better things to do with my time and now everything goes through google servers.
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Yes, started about a week ago, crashes (but Mac OS doesn't seem to detect it as a crash), I'm not using any plugins, etc...
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My adsense account is suddenly in French. This is not immediately some awful issue because I know a smidgeon of French, but when I check parametres du compte, it assures me my language is Anglais (Etats-Unis). No, this is not English of the United States. Wondering if anyone else has an issue and what, if anything, I can/should do about it.

Thanks.
"AFAICT, the best we've been able to accomplish is to provide a easier path to correctness with decent overall performance."

Precisely. Which is why for performance-critical systems code it's important to give the programmer the choice of memory allocation techniques, but to add features to the language to make memory use safer.

Garbage collection is great, but occasionally it falls down and programmers have to resort to manual memory pooling. Then it becomes error-prone (use after free, leaks) without type system help such as regions and RAII.
The chosen-prefix collision attack used in signing the Windows Update malware (FLAME) also suspected of being from the US was a never before published variant.

Is anyone aware of a somewhat comprehensive auto-update cryptography survey anywhere?

I am often alarmed by the number of updates pushed through desktop software, often with little explanation. (I'm looking at you, Adobe.) .. not just for security, but for bandwidth management too.

Many open source products seem to just query a URL and direct you to go download stuff. With SSL essentially broken, that's gotta be a bit risky vs. MITM.

Gentoo for one combines pre-distributed SHA256, SHA512 and Whirlpool checksums with file size, which feels secure enough against collisions. But the pre-distribution is decentralized through potential MITM (non-trusted parties), and the cryptography around that process - if any - is less than transparent, and integrity checking is apparently not made upon locally extracted package database.

Perhaps we need a standard, cross-platform solution in the software update query space that is cryptographically paranoid and well-reviewed enough by multiple parties to be considered secure, meets the generalised need and has some OS-level integration features more advanced than "secretly do things in the background".
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Gamer Talent is a very innovative idea that will change the way game development teams are cultivated.
You are talking about something different than what most people are worried about. Sure, locking down what can run at the behest of the administrator is a feature.

What people are talking about is locking down what can run at the behest of the vendor. Like how iOS is. Like how Mac OS X would be, if you couldn't disable Gatekeeper.

You think users "always will be" able to disable Gatekeeper, but I don't think there is any evidence to support that. It's entirely up to Apple, and if they want to implement a TPM-based (or other) Mac UDID and lock Macs down to Apple-approved software, they will go right ahead and do whatever the fuck they want to do.
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>When you let someone else handle your email, they own your email. There is no postal secrecy law, no rule against reading. They can touch, modify or delete according to their whims. It's their email now.

In Germany, email is actually protected by the Fernmeldegeheimnis [1], even while the email is saved on the provider's server. The reasoning behind that [2] seems to be that the mail server's storage is part of the communication process, no matter how long the data sits there.

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernmeldegeheimnis#E-Mail
[2] http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/pressemitteilungen/bv...
Agreed, this is the biggest barrier to running your own mailserver.

Even if you think deliverability is good for 95% of mail servers there's always some ISP that won't cater for you. So you're constantly having to be monitoring the logs to ensure your emails are being delivered.
I have to admit to my own mistakes. When reading the blog, many things did not make any sense, and searching for the name on the Twitter account in Google came up with nothing. No Facebook page, no blog, no Google+ account, no business or web site listing, no forum posts, no eBay listings, nothing on the name this Twitter account was using. It made me very skeptical and in my opinion I thought it was a hoax or staged, so I asked a series of questions. My words were taking out of context, edited in replies, and then deleted. All I was trying to do was find out the truth about the Tweeter and if it was faked or not.

After a series of hoaxes on the Internet like Manti Te'o girlfriend, who also could not be found in Google searches, I got outraged over it and blogged about it being a hoax. I apologize for it now, and I was out of line and admit my mistakes. I issue a public apology to Laura and all involved.

I hope that you can see why I was so suspicious and skeptical over it. usually when there is no trace in Google for someone, it just screams hoax, and fake account. Possible he used a fake name on Twitter and stole someone's picture just to make the tweet and then deleted his account. Did anyone find the man?
feel free to add it :)
Wow I hadn't heard of FTB before now. Excited to kick off a server and check it out!
I don't understand.

I don't understand how giving a company access to all of your mail, permission to open and scan it, and to create their own database with it as they see fit, is somehow an optimization against a walk to the mailbox and then tossing the extra envelopes into the bin.

As if they're not going to send their own advertising to you anyway (they will eventually, now that they can sort through your mail to know just how to target you), or just sell your data (which of course they can because they now have complete access to it, to say nothing of the ability to decide what you get to see and what you don't.)

There are locks on mailboxes and laws against reading other people's mail for a good reason.
Overall, the typography on your blog is pretty good. I'd definitely increase the contrast of the text though. Your measure is a little on the long side. A good guideline is to keep it under 80 characters. You're stretching it a bit at 90-ish characters, but you've got plenty of leading, so you can get away with it. If you reduced your measure a bit, you could reduce your leading a bit so your paragraphs would have a more natural density and better vertical rhythm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_(typography)

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

Note: You'll notice that CSS line height is not the same as leading, but old habits die hard, and I'm used to referring to it as leading.

http://blog.8thlight.com/chris-peak/2012/12/30/vertical-rhyt...
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Luma's cinematic stabilization performs much better than Nokia's optical stabilizer in daylight. As sensors get better (more light sensitive, higher resolution), the advantages of optical stabilizers will diminish even further and eventually disappear. (Disclosure: I cofounded Luma).
Just using x264 with veryslow and/or two pass setting usually cuts file sizes by half compared to e.g. an IP or phone camera output. They could have some magic there, but you can get similar results at home without having to pay anyone. You just have to read a little about how to run x264.

x264 is awesome. super awesome, even.
My own experience, meeting some of these people, suggests this is certainly correct.
Probably doesn't want to burn any bridges or piss anybody off. If he's friends with Mark Otto (creator of Bootstrap) I assume he's not some unknown CS student looking to make a name for himself but actually somebody who works in the industry and cares about his reputation.
Part of it is personal value. I spent years learning Japanese and frequently felt that, while there were many resources for learning kanji, there were few routes that one could take to mastery that were not mostly self-guided and didn't take years to accomplish.

The market for something like this would obviously be niche to those learning Chinese/Japanese characters, but I'd also argue that the absence of a comprehensive way to learn the characters has turned off many learners who were otherwise perfectly capable of learning those languages. Considering the growth of the Chinese economy and the enduring size of the Japanese economy (still one of the largest in the world even after years of recession), I'd bet that the pool of those learning Chinese or Japanese for business purposes will not be dwindling in the near future, even if Chinese and Japanese learners would have an easier time picking up English.

On the other side of things, Chinese and Japanese students also have their own issues learning their own characters. Many young Japanese struggle to master the kanji and it is not uncommon to meet university level students in Japan who would not be able to write a simple character like "turtle" without looking it up first. While I would no doubt love to change how the Japanese school system teaches kanji, that might be a little bit ambitious for only 5 years time, but tools to help students learn at the same pace as their peers could probably be extremely valuable (especially in a society that frequently expects students to go to after-school education to keep an edge on their competition for prestigious colleges).

Now a lot of this is making a lot of assumptions about my success in this endeavor, but hey, if I have 5 years, I would try to do the research and polish the experience to the point where it would be perfect. I do have to admit, 5 years is a long time for me at this point (only been developing for a little more than a year now) so I might be totally off on my estimates and whether this would be a good value for my time. But based on the prompt of this post and where I am at today, this is what I would work on if I had the freedom to focus on something of my own choosing.
You don't need a full IP stack in order to do something useful. 32 kB flash and 4 kB RAM is more than enough for basic IP-networking.

http://www.rowley.co.uk/msp430/uip.htm - requires less than 2 kB RAM, 12916 bytes of flash.

http://dunkels.com/adam/miniweb/ - a minimal "web server", supports only one connection at a time among other restrictions. But it needs only 30 bytes of RAM. Yes, 30 bytes, not kilobytes.
Yes, actually. Because a lot of the early users were entrepreneurs, Premier has some experience in navigating the paperwork requirements for this material -- and there's some state, so they'll learn and share strategies over time.

Pretty interesting use case; an email-to-crowd system can act as a soft API for a lot of things that don't have APIs yet.

Send it in and give it a try!
You are absolutely right about owning your own email, but it is also worth pointing out that no email provider in their right mind would irrevocably, silently delete emails based upon this insane criterion (where a movie script attachment contained a scene where a character views an ad for legal porn).

But Apple isn't in their right mind. They have never understood the cloud, they still don't, and every single Internet service Apple has ever produced, from eWorld to .Mac to Mobile Me to iCloud has utterly sucked gigantic balls.

Which makes relying on Apple to handle your email a lot crazier than relying on say, Google, Yahoo, Rackspace Mail, Tuffmail, etc.
That makes sense. Several of my friends in college developed grey patches in their hair that went away shortly after graduation.
Facebooks architecture here is impressive and you can read more about it, they call it Bigpipe. (Of course this is probably, to some extent, out-dated by now).
I deliberately never reenabled it. I've yet to be "hosed". What are you so afraid of?
Yep, that's where we see a core value add; it's painful to find good assistants, and we think we've solved that part of the problem by cultivating a core group from our backend.
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Gmail search is actually pretty spotty.

I download my email to the Mac mail app. That has let me find some emails that were unfindable on the web interface (even when I searched by sender email!)
Luma applies stabilization on playback. We keep all the pixels we get from the camera, even when you upload to our cloud service. As we improve our algorithms your existing videos will continue to improve with time. There's much more that we can do to help you create stunning videos. We're just getting started :)
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Common law is an iterative and incremental development process.

… that sorely needs to incorporate refactoring.
Don't forget maintenance of the hardware itself, backups, and everything else that comes with running a server (assuming you didn't buy one in the cloud).
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Historically speaking, wasn't the temporary boost in demand for PhDs after WW2 the abnormality?
Alas, I replied before your post. I agree with you completely.

I'm really looking forward to migrating a few projects up to Python 3 and Django 1.5. It's going to be awesome!
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Internet of Things and M2M doesn't imply IP stack.
In many cases it will be a slow non-IP network.
For example most Smart Meters communicate over PLC (PowerLine Communication) once every night - I.e. even not Realtime, like regular IP communication.