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Hackathon.ro, a community which gathers the Romanian programmers through regular hackathons held in Bucharest, announces a new event dedicated to technology enthusiasts. They are invited to compete at Raspberry Hack, a 24-hour marathon of hardware and software development on the smallest computer in the world, Raspberry Pi. The competition will take place on April 20-21 in Bucharest and will include prizes totalising 3,500 Euros.
Participants will develop hardware and software projects, within whatever theme they choose. The only condition is to use a Raspberry Pi for developing their project.
Raspberry Hack is the third competition in a series of events organised by Hackathon.ro to stimulate and support the activity of the main communities of programmers and hardware developers in Romania. The first hackathon took place in June 2012 and was dedicated to all open source fans. In October 2012, a new event took place. Over 200 programmers competed at Hackover, the second edition, in order to develop Mobile, Cloud Computing, Web Dev aplications. The value of the prizes awarded within these competitions has amounted to over 5,500 Euro until now.
The Hackathon.ro community was set up aiming to bring together the programmer communities in Romania, to stimulate the communication and cooperation between them and to encourage programmers to make the most of their creativity and skills. Software competition will be organised by Hackathon.ro at least two times a year.
Besides hackathons, the community intends to run other activities dedicated to programming and technology enthusiasts, such as workshops and trainings or start ups for great ideas.
You can find more details on http://www.hackathon.ro/en and on facebook.com/hackathon.ro
I’m not going into the flaw that, I believe surrounds Bitcoin and its algorithm (in particular that I believe Bitcoin isn’t acting like a currency as its incentivising hoarders & due to that this will lead to a recession and because the money supply does not expand it will evolve into a depression) but rather the issue around Amazon adopting Bitcoin today.

First of all let’s put some perspective here – Bitcoin’s market cap has only recently passed $1 Billion mark[1] whereas, Amazon comprises of 12-20% of online sales (depending on where you look) which makes them the 15th largest US Store.

One of the problems with Bitcoin is despite its low fees, transaction speed is much slower than you’re standard debit/credit card & considerably slower than the 1-click card you already have on file with Amazon. Whilst you may not consider this important, considering that Amazon is trying to get to same-day delivery (especially as eBay already do this[2]) then having to wait for the transaction to verify significantly affects shipping times & Amazon’s intentions to do same-day delivery.

Likewise, going back into my earlier point about Bitcoin only recently reaching the $1B market cap[1] no one really knows exactly how much “financial bandwidth”[3] that the Bitcoin market can carry & and since Bitcoin is highly volatile, if Amazon entered the market at this point it would add even more volatility to the market which in turn makes it more difficult for vendors – who value stability. Moreover, $1 Billion isn’t a significant amount of money (you can argue otherwise but look at Global GDP etc) and Bitcoin is still maturing which, means they still have to demonstrate resiliency to attacks from organized-crime/hackers, spam transactions etc as well as, the fact that it will be high-risk both legally and financially for Amazon especially as, Bitcoin will have a sudden large influx in market cap (after all it is really volatile).

Additionally, Amazon are already looking at Virtual Currencies[4] which suggests that they will probably be looking at them closer over the long-term.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/28/bitcoin-how-an-unregulated-...

[2] http://now.ebay.com

[3] http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Bandwidth

[4] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5d46a9fc-6fbc-11e2-956b-00144feab4...
Elon, you're better than this.

This is such a common sentiment, but why? Elon Musk has helped create a number of awesome things, but that does not make him a virtuous person. His handling of the NYTimes debacle strongly suggested the opposite, in fact

I suspect it's largely because he's the figurehead for the new-age EVs which are making many people giddy with excitement in much the same way that iPods did a few years ago.
What do you mean by "cost"?

At the time we decided it was better to spend our time creating features and improving the site than create our own sign up. It will come soon.
California decoupled the return on investment factor from its spending, with predictable results.

It doesn't help that half the political spectrum has been arguing for decades non-stop to just spend more and more and more on education, without any concern for improving the low return on investment we currently have on education dollars.
Nope, you're right. The ISP would have to install the CA certificate on every device on the network, which is a nontrivial task.

Furthermore, if the ISP has done that, they don't need you to go through a proxy. Your connection is already going directly through them.

Edit: However (as you can see by some of the responses in this thread), there's certainly the possibility that your ISP itself is an actual certificate authority recognized by browsers. That scenario is indeed quite worrying.
Can someone explain the logic behind this

The nomination process is very open and hundreds of nominations are sent in every year, most of them by people who want to make some political point. There are no formal requirements that nominees actually have to have done anything to deserve the prize.
In both cases, the union sits across the table from management/government. The union asks for money, the specifics of how the money is going to be raised are just not their problem.
This applies on broader timescales as well. Get the hard problems out of the way not just on a project, but with the harder decisions in life too (what you're learning, what you invest in, what career to pursue, who to spend time with, etc).
But it should also be noted that they don't advertise it as the price of a Tesla but the cost, or "the true cost of owning a Tesla". Cost and price are 2 different things.
My problem though is that I don't think that they got the math right.

It's like saying: you spend 3000$ every month. A trip to Las Vegas would cost you an additional 1000$. But if you don't go to Las Vegas you are saving 1000$ and now your "true" spending is only 2000$ this month.

What they should have said is: non EV - car X has a monthly price of 1200$ and Tesla Model S also has a monthly price 1200$.
For car X you have some additional monthly costs of 1000$ but for the Tesla, the additional costs are only 300$. So the total cost for you would be 2200$ for having car X and only 1500$ for Tesla.
Or something like that.
All very interesting, but where's the evidence that this actually works?

As they say - fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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It is decent advice but to be taken with a grain of salt - I've worked with developers who just dive in to the project, no plan in their head and just figuring out as they go along. What you're left with is a mess of code, hacks and workarounds - it works, definitely does, but maintaining or extending it is a nightmare.

On the other hand you have projects with incredibly detailed architectures all mapped out, way too much time discussing / planning / envisioning what to build, when to build it and how best to go about it. Not a single one I can think of actually followed the plan (you will always get kinks in the road), and as such these things are always over due and over budget.

I guess it's more about finding a balance with what works - perhaps keep an end goal in sight; with a simplistic high level overview of the project/feature, thus giving you the freedom to move around any problems that may arise, but also not tying you down to a detailed plan / architecture that almost certainly will need changing. Iterate fast, stay flexible(?)

But one thing I definitely agree with - and that's to get started immediately; whether that's to plan or to code - just start. It will always take longer than you think, and that last 10% is equivalent to first 90%, if not more.
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And the "total volume" below?
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I think they know that there is a very good chance this will be invalidated if it found its way to a case.

Unless I was running a massive company I would ignore this. It would be nowhere near lucrative enough for them to risk the case.
What software won't run on "non-geniune" Windows that is not from Microsoft itself?
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Voters have little meaningful check on the ability of the California teachers unions (and, more brazenly, public safety unions, and also state employees generally) to unilaterally award themselves extraordinarily expensive compensation schemes. This is particularly true with regards to pensions, since $X0 billion dollar future outlays are routinely described as "minor adjustments to administrative procedures" and often not subject to the discipline of the ballot at all.

For example, consider a one-line alteration to a statewide contract for teachers, changing the calculation for defined-benefit pensions from being based off of "the average of the highest 3 years of salary in a career" to "the average of the highest 3 years of salary in a career for careers of less than 25 years, or the highest single year of salary for careers of 25 or more years." That doesn't look like "The teachers just asked for $50 billion in extra pensions", does it? But that's exactly what happened.

(If you're unsure of why there's a difference between the two contracts, read up on "pension spiking", which is theft under the cover of law that is an institutional reality for California public employees since "everybody is doing it.")
For me it was kind of ironic - a post on introversion followed by... an invitation to talking on Twitter.

[At least for me, Twitter is a way-of-the-limit too extraverted, short attention-span and distraction-full tool. I'm not saying it's bad, just well... just not too much introvert-friendly.]
The cold and harsh truth nobody is willing to put out there: if Apple and Microsoft may abuse vague software patents, why shouldn't Lodsys?

Monkey see, monkey do. You are either against software patents, or you're not. You can't cherry-pick the companies you like and excuse them for abusing software patents. Lodsys is nothing but an exponent of a broken system large companies themselves created and are now sustaining.
I think that the greatest artist is Da Vinci.
These are easy-peasy, low hanging fruit. How to solve something like this - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15323228/css-transition-i...?
This.

We're using emberjs right now as well. But the lack of test integration is a huge problem for us. We right some tests with busterjs currently, but none of these tests are unit tests and tell us what exactly went wrong — somewhere.

So not to mis-read my comment: our application works and we deployed to production, and it's being used by customers, etc.. But whenver we need to dive into an emberjs-specific issue (e.g. we had a few regressions to fix which were introduced with the RCs) it gets messy.

If anything, the lack of testing (and currently lack of ideas how to integrate any) is the number one reason why I don't want to use emberjs again any time soon.

ember-data seems fine for us. Lots of conventions to adhere to (otherwise it's no fun at all). Once you figure out the side-loading, you're fine. We had to write a custom adapter so we don't have to repeat the things they call REST on the server.

But that part is solid and seems to work. :)
+1. But, is automating that a necessity?
Or have it added to their chain beforehand. An ISP could trivially include this as part of their "welcome pack" installer CD or the like.

Would that silently affect people like us? No. Could they do it to all their non-technical customers? Absolutely.
Neither Singapore.
It's also a pretty trivial task if you control the user's routers and can give them installation disks to make "the internet work". As corporate and university wifi shows, people will willingly accept new certificates required to join hotspots; they'll also do it on their desktops without blinking.
A rescue dog — unless maybe really, really old — needs to be challenged constantly. And by challenged, I mean — these dogs are/were rescue dogs for a reason. :)

Challenges include games and tasks, and all that. These dogs need "work" to feel alive.
Lots of websites block requests from ec2, though. A notable one is Stackoverflow.
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Can it be integrated into an ide? I like it a lot better when I point at method or variable in IDE and can quickly rename it.
BTW: there is already such thing for PHP: PHPStorm, although not open source.
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Try this in a coding interview and you will go home early.
Thank you very much for TLDR. It is horrifying how many life-hours are spent for such bullshit stuffed articles...
Using ADR and creative translation teams. To fit the words with lip movements, dialogue could be quite different from the original while retaining the overall plot.

“In Hungary, practically all television programmes are dubbed, as are about 50 percent of movies in theaters. In the socialist era, every one of them was dubbed with professional and mostly popular actors. Great care was taken to make sure the same voice actor would lend his voice to the same actor. In the early 1990s, as cinemas tried to keep up with showing newly released films, subtitling became dominant in cinema. This, in turn, forced TV channels to make their own cheap versions of dubbed soundtracks for the movies they presented, resulting in a constant degrading of dubbing quality. Once this became customary, cinema distributors resumed the habit of dubbing for popular productions, presenting them in a quality varying from very poor to average. However, every single feature is presented with the original soundtrack in at least one cinema in large towns and cities.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing_(filmmaking)#Countries_...
It sounds like he just restated the idea of POCs and unknown-unknowns. You should consider yourself lucky if you have few enough tasks that you can "go hard early" on without destroying your work/life balance.
The relevant concept is a Parkinson's law [1]

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_law
You don't get it because your premise that all schools are crappy is incorrect. There are good schools, and there are crappy ones, at least by their scores. The big spending happens on the poorest student populations, and the results aren't that good. Why?

Well, I'm going to say something unpopular, but it is often because the parents lack education, or are crappy parents, or don't prioritize education. Maybe they think work or family are more important than education. Or there are no parents.
It's the total amount of money passing trough the network.

But since bitcoin transactions work by sending "change" back to yourself this value is not that relevant. In most cases 90% of the transaction amount is sent back as change.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Change
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> but do you know anything about how that worked? Surely in another language, the form of the lips while speaking is different

It will be different but unless you read lips or pay close attention you won't notice it (too much). IIRC dub translators try to match end vowels of sentences.

> not to mention the length of sentences

A good adaptation will account for that and translate for matching durations.

> double entendres that are impossible to translate

That's not a problem unique to dubbing. When a joke is impossible to translate it isn't. Good translators will compensate for dropped jokes by adding other jokes when possible.
Translated comedy is rarely good.
I agree. It also makes a good topic of conversation with the younger generations and can be used in teaching as a starter for computer history. It's a link to the past, a symbol in the true sense that represents an entire era before computing went mainstream. It's a tribute to the folks that made computing what it is now and I believe should be kept as a Save symbol in reminder of all those achievements. Besides all that, it looks awesome!
My explanation is as follows: the original image uses a checkerboard pattern. When you make a thumbnail it removes some rows and columns to make the image smaller. When you remove all even rows and columns of a checkerboard the fields that are left are of the same color. Similarly when you remove odd rows and columns.

In this case black and white fields of a checkerboard correspond to pear and apple pixels, so you are left with one of the images.
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Final salary pensions are outlandish˜. Utterly so. Using a realistic (inflation + 5%) investment return and 40 years of service, such a pension funded through DC would be ~30% of your salary contributed every year.

The fact that they might be based on a relatively modest salary doesn't change the value of them as a benefit.

˜I am assuming based on article language this is what they have, it is also consistent with the civil service in the UK.
Acquisitions are not everyday's issues, usually beyond L6 and above comments, but sometimes it'll only visible to execs. But certain topics such as "What about Google+ being added to everything?" are actively in discussion.

Disclaimer: I have never worked with Neal Mohan and not familiar with his output. But, product decisions are taken collectively and by relying on data. Anything beyond that doesn't fit Google's culture and internally you'd have a bad time to find engineers that wants to work for you. In order to be in the genius status at Google, you have be a true inventor. We're more or less capable people and giving an impression that Google's core business is run by some 500-600 slides is ridiculous.
I suppose it can be integrated into IDEs. We (the developers) are Vim users, so there is no immediate need for us to integrate it into anything except Vim.

We know that PHP Storm has many refactorings implemented very well, but a command line tool is much more flexible and useable for everyone, not just PHP Storm users.
As much as I agree to what title says, i am against to what the context explains.
> Also, Rails is so easy that you can slide by being junior.

Well that certainly isn't true.
Not going to help if their non-technical customers are using ipads or similar though, which non-technical users tend to like
It is often non-obvious, but possible to find either a direct translation or a very similar idiom. This is very hard work, which is why most dubbing sucks. So I'd rather do without.
Before I send out an email campaign with MailChimp, it lets me test whether my emails will be caught by spam filters of the various major ISPs. If I were to include any of the earlier listed keywords in the subject line, I can be sure that those emails wouldn't arrive in all of my recipients' mailboxes. That's why I refrain from using those, even though I only send out commercial emails that cusatomers have signed up for themselves.
That's a simplistic way of looking at it, and it's not entirely untrue, but it's also not the whole truth. The media represents a reflection of human desire filtered and lensed through the particular business models and technological limitations that reign. And the distortion that has been caused by those things, especially ad driven broadcast media, has had a huge impact. I don't excuse the electorate their responsibility in this either but the impact that the media has had on the process has been enormous and in most ways largely negative, especially over the last half century or so. As technology changes, as business models change, as expectations change we may see some big differences in the interface between candidate campgaigns and the electorate but it's too soon to tell how all that will shake out and whether it will lead to an improvement or worsening in matters.
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Am I misunderstanding what "coins in circulation" means?

Coins in circulation 10994200

that's 201798541 ɃTC

edit: ah, it's showing USD value but putting BTC as the currency
Well done. I think that it would look cleaner if you removed the two decimal places. If it's estimated, then you probably shouldn't be showing them anyway.
Very nice rwinn!
But I have a question. With the fast rise of bitcoins, lets say that I now have $10m worth of coins(I don't btw).
How would I convert all to gbp/usd and would the governments tax you?. With anti-money laundering controls in place in the uk, such a windfall would cause huge problems!
How does it know power consumption?
We need either a smarter mix of politicians (not likely), or some bureaucrats that have to review the financial effects and report their findings on all changes to compensation. Then we would need a smarter press corps. That is more do-able.
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They were pretty common until recently, in both the private and public sectors; it's not a particularly unusual arrangement only for these employees. My father was a non-unionized employee at a Fortune 500 firm and retired on a variant of a final-salary pension in the 2000s (variant because "final salary" was defined as an average of the final 3 years). Presumably his company is not going to decide to retroactively decide they don't feel like paying it, either, since it was the agreed remuneration.

edit: As one concrete example, it looks like IBM had a final-salary plan until 2009, when it was (non-retroactively) phased out, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/07/ibm_final_salary_pen...
Could you explain both those points in a bit more detail - I am a bit fuzzy this morning.
How does this compare to hipchat? It looks very similar.
I'd love to get an economist studying why the value of bitcoins goes up.

After all, they're infinitely reusable, totally fungible, and incredibly low friction. The only reason for their value to rise (rather than them just being passed around at the same price indefinitely) is if people expect them to rise, or if there's a shortage (forcing people to use fractions of a bitcoin to represent the same number of dollars as a whole one used to).

Is the cause largely the latter, or the former? Has there been a high enough rise in the transaction volume to explain the rise in value? Or is it all down to investors?
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