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I think it's necessary to respect all points of view and defeat them with traditional means. By all means, consider it absurd. Don't put mocking words in their mouths as parfe has done, nor categorize them unfairly; let them speak for themselves, and defeat the argument when it's presented.

That's how discourse works. I am rapidly tiring of efforts to the contrary, especially among people here and in the industry.
As you clearly joined HN during the Pycon incident to minimize the existence of sexism in tech, you'll have to excuse me if I ignore your advice.
Downloading and unzipping code can be a hassle, so I just head over to Pastebin and read code there.
Facebook's API is definitely something that I have played with as of late. It is being incorporated into a somewhat related project I have in the works so I might have something to say more about it once I have worked with it a bit more.

Really in an essence the data on Facebook is mostly the same as Twitter except that there's a bit more content involved.
One way to avoid loss of precision in the conversion is to check if the number of digits in the integer is larger than the constant DBL_DIG (defined in <cfloat>) -- numbers with less digits than that constant can be safely converted to the 'double' type and back.
Remember when I said I agree with the code of conduct? Thanks for lowering the bar of discourse even further by attacking the messenger.

And it's hilarious that you think I'm minimizing sexism in tech. Hilarious.
Nope. We've been working on this for... quite a few months, actually.
Where the hell do interns get paid $7,000/month salaries?
Not surprising; 'Insurance' is less likely to have the impact people are saying it will - either it will be incredibly hard to get insurance in the first place (making it more of a non-factor), and/or it will not provide the same level of coverage/safety-net as you get with a Bank, and hence BTC will never get to the same level of trust.

Either case, I don't think 'Insurance' is going to be the magic thing that will make BTC as viable as traditional currencies.
$7k is actually on the low end nowadays :). I was as surprised as you, but talking to my friends, salaries seem to have shot up this past year. Dropbox, Google, FB, all pay over $7k, some well over that amount.
What is supposed to happen? Looks normal to me: http://imgur.com/6XA69iv
"Since when does fair use require the preservation of ads or any specific portion of the content? "

When "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." became a factor that must be considered in fair use?

While the 4 factors were not meant to be all-inclusive, there's a great law review article that shows that something like 99% of court decisions only ever consider those factors
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I work as a software developer. I would say that I read other people's code quite often, depending on what I am doing.
April fools jokes should be less obvious ;)
so... aren't you solving a problem that doesn't exist in the django community?
Bitcoin technology allows something that has never before been possible in human history: Two individuals, that never meet in person, can trade with each other without placing any trust in a third party. The implications of this are far-reaching, and will fundamentally shape how governments and businesses operate.
The concept that 'everyone is in the militia' is not the intent of the second amendment. 'everyone is in the militia' is legislation from 1903, a hundred years after the second amendment was framed.

The Battle of Athens could easily have played out without firearms. Angry mobs marching on courthouses have been around forever. Firearms just makes the process shorter if you start using them.

and historically, rights that are once restricted are never restored.

Like the end of Prohibition? Smoking marijuana? Women's vote? Equal rights for minorities? Gay marriage?

(have to be brief... running late for work as usual...)
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PBS sells their content for revenue just like everyone else does. It's true their financials are more complicated, but their motivations really aren't any different. That is, until someone starts a popular campaign of withholding pledges until PBS/CPB adopts a more progressive copyright policy.
This is the first I've heard of what sounds like brilliant technology. It'll take the power away from the networks... so of COURSE it'll get shot down. The only reason I can see them hating this, is that a user seeing broadcast TV from NYC yet living in Salt Lake City is not likely to be spending any money at White Castle Hamburgers...so advertising dollars spent have the perceived effect of deflation. I don't think it's right at all. Would it be illegal if I bought the land, put up an antenna and ran a cable across the country?
> Be careful in the words that you choose.

Nice try in hiding the puritanical censorship aspect of it, but I'm not fooled.
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And the creative engineering in order to beat the letter of the law (but what a waste of time and resources...)
I love the idea of being "professional" on an open-source volunteers project: put on a mask during the work day, and keep your mask at night. Then read articles and watch movies about "being yourself", "finding your inner self" and stuff like that all day long. When the dissonance is too great, your mind break and it's depression, gun violence (in the US), suicide etc.
I was not implying it requires fair value, only that it requires some amount of sufficient consideration.
Are you including corp housing/stipend in that amount?
> How does Heroku not feel the same?

Because they, as a hosting provider, have several orders of magnitude more clients to please than yourself. The only way to be fair to everyone is that everyone gets treated like shit (obviously embellished).

All you should be doing to CYA is telling your clients exactly why this is happening and that its Heroku, and not you, that holds the blame at this point.

The caveat would be those difficult customers (suits, exec managers, etc) that you have to handle with kid gloves. For these people... I don't think there's a graceful way to present the upcoming issue.
We're sorry you feel that way, if you have any specific feedback you can submit it here: https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/#feedback
Heh. Yeah, one of our twitter followers was worried that clients would take this seriously. The comic seems to have helped. Hope you enjoyed it.
Which is hilarious if you've read much King (he was my favorite author for a very long time), unless he actually claims to be a bad writer himself, in which case writing a book called On Writing is a questionable endeavor.
May I say, a brilliant use of domain names.
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I'm assuming this is a reference to some of the after-events of PyCon. We've been working publishing this for a few months now, it's totally unrelated.
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I find alternate maps like this fascinating. You really don't need to bother with much of the description though - the maps speak for themselves!
C++ doesn't have an automatic conversion from void* to T* so having NULL as ((void*)0) wouldn't have worked.
As long as 300 million people are required to convert a fraction of their income to USD for taxes, its value can't go to zero. Bitcoin's value is purely an article of faith so far.
> The problem with hand loading is that you just have inconsistent results...

That's a pretty ridiculous statement for them to make. A person who drops $17K on a precision rifle (and you can drop a heck of a lot more than that on a quality rifle without all the electronic crap) damn well knows about consistency in ammunition, and most of them are going to be experienced handloaders as well.

The best shooters in the world handload, and that includes the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (who can certainly afford the most expensive factory ammo). They do so because you simply can't mass produce cartridges that are as accurate and consistent as handloads. You can't mass produce ammo tailored to the chamber tolerances of a specific rifle. You can't fire form enough brass at the factory to load a lifetime's worth of ammo for an individual rifle. Even if you tried, you're back to square one after you replace the barrel at 5K rounds.

As a result, you end up paying $17K for a rifle that cannot possibly be used to it's fullest potential.

> From the quote above, I doubt the software can compensate for different grain bullets or different amounts of powder.

This could be, but if so would destroy the premise that this computerized gizmo offers any improvement over a human calculator. Experienced shooters have no problem memorizing ballistics tables for their particular loads - that this computer could not would be, well, laughable.

I apologize if I'm being grumpy about all this. It's simply depressing to me that with all the challenges, intricacies and fascinating phenomena in the world of shooting folks here are so fixated on the little computer they strapped on top.
I remember a service that put a physical DVD in an individual DVD player in a warehouse somewhere and streamed it to you. Essentially the same thing as this? Looks like it was shut down.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/08/judge-orders-shut...
That alone doesn't prevent something from being a currency, it simply changes who prefers to use the currency, altering its supply and demand. Currencies have many characteristics and a "store of value" is just one. A volatile currency, may make a poor store of value and thus less favorable to companies that hold large cash accounts (the ones who have to do the hedging you mention), but this volatility may also make it desirable to other economic actors. By accurately reflecting the supply and demand (IE not having an artificially manipulated price as many global currencies do) bitcoin makes a much stronger medium of exchange than many other currencies in the world. The growing interest out of Cyprus is a great indication of this.

My main point was just that for a traditional controlled currency, volatility would be bad, but for bitcoins, which rely on supply and demand to set the price (this includes speculative demand), volatility is not necessarily a bad thing.
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I'm also interested in the company that you used for the injection mold. Looking forward to your answer.
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Are you...saying that dugmartin is spamming?
Fallout generally means something negative. If this is related to the PyCon incident (which it might not be, given that Django says they've been working on it for some months) then the "fallout" is simply the adoption of a formal document that says, in so many words, "don't be a jerk." The Django team has a right to do whatever they please with the spaces they host and moderate, and asking that users don't be jerks in these spaces is completely reasonable by any metric.
At first glance, it does seem like essentially the same thing.

I wonder if it makes any difference, the fact that broadcasting is putting out a signal for "free" to everyone in the first place, whereas the DVD's must be purchased in the first place -- so that they never started as anything public, unlike TV.
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You cite the Ada template, which says "sexual language and imagery" is inappropriate for a conference or other public event. Your website only mentions "sexist language".

From the tone and tenor of the post, I suspect you mean to endorse that aspect of the template, and if so, you probably should state that clearly. Doing so may help when inevitable disputes arise about whether someone's behavior contradicted the code of conduct. You will almost never look back and say "I really regret being clear".

Otherwise, my first thought is that I think this code is a good idea.
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I think a lot of people here would benefit from reading some William Gibson novels.

I don't think the BTC will ever be a 'currency' as the USD or the GBP. It is also not necessary for the BTC to be at a 'fixed value' at any time. As a virtual currency it's ok for the BTC to fluctuate heavily as the only thing needed for it to still succeed is that payment systems are 'always on' and can determine a spot price for goods and services.

I would rather see the BTC tied to 'Pizza index' than USD. This would make it easy for people to use an in-app value determinator when making purchases.

Say you just tap your phone with a BTC wallet against a cash register. The register answers, well your burger will be 0.00065 BTC at spot price as of 12.24.44.32 PM. Accept/decline.

That's it. I see the BTC/LTC (Litecoin) as alternative currencies but still worthy of a HUGE market share for micro/everyday transactions.
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"The dollar amount needed to distinguish a real estate conveyance that is a bona fide sale from one that is a gift is a separate issue from contract law"

I'm not sure why you think i'm talking about a non-contract law issue
There are many issues with gifts, some in real estate, some in torts, and some in contract law.

Plenty of jurisdictions allow disguised gifts (the classic example being nominal consideration, such as $1 for property) to be looked behind, and because they classify the consideration as a gift rather than anything real, do not form a valid contract. That does not mean it occurs in all cases, or that there aren't jurisdictions where i can have a legally binding agreement to buy a house for a dollar (there are plenty)

However, if you don't believe this is a valid issue in the theory of contract formation, i'm not sure what to tell you.

Maybe this helps?

Restatement (second) of contracts

§71. REQUIREMENT OF EXCHANGE; TYPES OF EXCHANGE

...

b. "Bargained for." ...
Moreover, a mere pretense of bargain does not suffice, as
where there is a false recital of consideration or where the
purported consideration is merely nominal. In such cases
there is no consideration and the promise is enforced, if at
all, as a promise binding without consideration under §§82-
94

There are plenty of jurisdictions that follow the restatement view.

Would it make you feel better if I changed the example to sell ing a car to a relative for $1?
Or do you think this is also a legally enforceable contract in all jurisdictions?

(It's not, it would be enforceable in the 'still completely common law' jurisdictions, but not in the 'we take the restatement view' jurisdictions)

I do agree there are separate issues as to whether it is specifically legal to convey real estate in certain situations, but this is completely separate from the general theory of whether you can form a valid contract this way. Even that is different than the question of whether you could get anything, even if the contract was unenforceable (IE some kind of quasi-contract recovery).

However, this is all pretty useless pedantry (though i'm happy to argue about it, since lawyering is fun). I used an example that is legally correct in plenty of jurisdictions to make a point, and the complaint seems to be not about the point I made (that it's not a sham), but about the specific example, and in this case, like everything else, it depends on the jurisdiction.

I could have written a completely legally accurate comment (at least for the US) by adding another few sentences that describe the possible outcomes in all jurisdictions, but it would not be very effective writing :)
I read that too, and I don't want to doubt Stephenson's word, but it's very hard to believe that he hadn't run across Cyphernomicon or the Cypherpunks (hell, they were on the cover of Wired Issue #1.02) in researching crypto for Cryptonomicon. Maybe he forgot he did but the term stuck in his subconscious. Or maybe he really didn't do even basic research before coming up with the name?

PS. Yes, I am the commenter previously known as anarky. No idea why that account got banned after a single comment.
In the article you say you took the pixels without clouds. Just looking at how white it is, or something more complex?
If the whole point is that search and replace feature results in the same infotainment article for sleep, sex, drinking water, exercise, diet, probably a whole bunch of other activities, you may not have objectively learned anything about yourself as you claim. Then again if the subjective experience was fun for you, clearly it doesn't hurt anyone else so go for it, the standard social libertarian thing applies.
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This is not a well-known fact. What makes it the "right" time besides your opinion?
> To deny this is to deny the scientific theory of evolution.

No, it's to understand the statistics. The richer and more economically developed a country is in general; the lower the birthrate. Likewise that's the trend for households/regions/etc. In general the better off a person is, the less likely they are to have children or to have many children.

Your analysis is too simplistic. The issue here is where the incentive lies: with having more children or less. Programs that give money to the poor do neither of those things inherently. It depends on how the money is given; that is what causes the incentive to go one way or the other.

As we covered, it becomes more complicated because there are ways to give incentive to have more children. To put it simply, if you pay a woman for each child she has...she is more likely to have more children. If you give her the chance to earn more money, she is LESS likely to have more children.

> So education can't happen unless the ruling class releases the information essential to education?

That's a rather nice strawman you've constructed.

> How did people educate themselves before

Much more slowly and with greater difficulty than they do now; that's the point.
I doubt customers typically know or care whether you use heroku, Amazon or any other provider. What they want is to see their system up and running.

That said, I wonder if with the heroku postgresql setup, this vulnerability could mean that if even one db is compromised, it could allow access to other databases too. Maybe heroku runs several postgresql db's on the same virtual/physical hosts?. If that's the case, then heroku simply can't afford to let even one database stay exposed because it would risk all others.

Whether or not this is the case, I don't know, but it kinda feels like running your app on a shared-hosting account...
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I really like this, not just because it works towards a community of acceptance, but because the guidelines are laid out publicly. A lot of people seem upset with the idea that they are being censored, but I really don't see it as an absolutely horrible thing. Communities are moderated all the time, but at least in this instance there is a publicly available set of guidelines which one is capable of offering feedback on. I'd love to hear where people differ with this opinion, but I really think this is a good thing for the Django community.
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If you act like yourself, someone might get offended and we cannot have that.
Why do people ask such questions? There's no one right answer. It varies from person to person. Everyone should experiment and find what's optimal for them. If I'm not working out, I'm fine with 4-6hours. If I workout and stay active. I need 8 hours.
Copyright holders are going to have to learn that the Internet is here to stay, that it is free from geographical restrictions, and that we are not going to halt the progress of technology for the sake of their antiquated business models. It takes less time to send a HD feature-length movie from Japan to New York than it takes to go to a video rental store. Times have changed, technology has improved, and we are not stuck with the same restrictions we had in the 1960s.

Red flag laws did not stop the automobile; why should copyright stop innovative uses of the Internet?
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The $1 sale may not be a valid contract, actually, it depends on the state, and whether they are still completely common law or not.

Basically,

under the restatement views, nominal consideration = no consideration

under common law views, nominal consideration = consideration.
Not directed in particular at this site, but the April Fools on the Web thing is so massively overdone, and has been for so many years, that if you're going to do an April Fools joke on the web, it had better be funny.

If there's a day I'd rather stay away from the web, this is it.
While excess weight is an contributing cause, lots of underweight and normal weight people have sleep apnea. Much of it is just based on your jaw morphology.

Source: I am typically underweight, and I have sleep apnea.