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You must not know a lot of women. Women are their own harshest critics which is what the ad mentions too.
It certainly isn't perfect, but the liability is there. Particularly the organizational liability. People's careers get ruined when they screw up. They certainly don't get promoted for leaving cities on the hook for massive payouts.
(Hatfill won 4.6M from the justice department. Koon and Powell did time in federal prison.)

Whose livelihood is threatened by participating in a 4chan thread pseudonymously?
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Penalties in the Swedish justice system are humane. Even serious crimes only renders 5-10 years of prison time. Conditions in prisons are far better than the US. Prisoners have private rooms, gym and better food than elderly citizens.

The US system have far too severe penalties. Sentences of 10-100 years are now common. Conditions in prisons are horrible with rampant drug abuse, violence and even murders.

However, the Swedish prosecutors and courts are banana republic quality. Look at the Assange parody for an example. A Swedish prosecutor may invent almost anything as evidence, even a photoshopped screenshot - because ANYTHING can be submitted as evidence in a Swedish court. There is even a recent drug case where the Swedish police illegaly put GPS surveillance on a suspected drug trafficker. The court recognizes the police did this illegaly, but the GPS data is still allowed as evidence. This is called "fri bevisföring" in Swedish. The courts are made up by politically chosen representatives, not a jury, which further contributes to the banana republic sentencing.

So - justice is more blind in Sweden, but she is slapping you on the wrist, instead of decapitating you.
It's bullshit propaganda, and the charges are just as valid as Assange's rape charges, courtesy of the same corrupt government. The US entertainment industry wants to make an example of him.

>> He was also charged with hacking into the computer servers of Logica, a Swedish company that handles tax documents.

"Oh noes! Don't hack our taxes!!"

Logica is a big, bloated IT services company that makes (shitty) custom software for big customers, typically government agencies. They're in Finland too, but originally from England.
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>You need a mix of strict procedures, but also lawless vigilantes.

The very notion of justice in civilized western societies is that you DON'T need "lawless vigilantes".

And they ain't that good either. All their allure comes from BS movies, TV shows and comic books.

In real life "lawless vigilantes" are more like Southern lynching mobs.
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I'd almost be surprised if it doesn't hit that within a few weeks.

Not necessarily as a stable value, but in the last few days it's bounced around madly between about 50 and 100 dollars. I think at this point it's fair to say that nobody has any idea of the real 'value' of a bitcoin, and mad speculation is still the order of the day.
Same.. I was the only person in the company unable to access emails. Was scared I was about to be called into a boardroom ;-)
This was my very first programming book:

http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Beginners-Guide-Qbasic-Perry/...

Amazon doesn't have the cover art, but it was very similar to this one:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VswbyvRHL._SL500_SS5...
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Which is why so many top developers recommend that you learn a new language regularly. It exposes you to new thinking and methods. As a result, you grow as a developer.

Kudos to you for doing this.
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There is no problem in thinking like an economist. There is danger in thinking, we could use this knowledge to predict everything.

Thinking like an economist, helps people to make better decisions - in a lot of cases.
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They could still be right, though. Keep IE6 for that piece-of-shit enterprise web apps and still install Chrome or Firefox for the rest of your work.

IE6 just becomes the shell to the webapp instead of a browser in its own right. MS probably even has a way to install multiple versions of IE concurrently so you could run IE6 + "modern IE".
For a second, thanks to that headline, I thought this was a new service from Google (and frankly, I was excited for it).
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I'm pretty sure the 'bigger' issue here is that it's smtp.gmail.com - smtp.google.com is, I believe, always down on account of not existing. :P
I rate it g+
I know a guy who makes a very nice living writing COBOL - support mainframes still in use. Mostly by the banks.

You can also make a nice living writing xBase (dBase/FoxPro/Clipper) code. Millions of lines of xbase still happily running along.
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Are they expecting working prototypes? Is there any period for developing it and then submitting ?
The IDE forced those formatting conventions on you, but QBasic doesn't actually have any indentation rules at all, and IIRC that stuff was also configurable.
I cannot access my email from Sparrow app too.
> Law enforcement has absolutely zero legal liability for anything they do in the course of their job. Anything. This is well-settled law.

That's not actually true, random internet anecdotes aside.http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/cases/katrina/Human%2...
a Swedish writer with immigrant roots writes an open letter to the swedish justice minister.
I would like citations on the fact that Sweden doesn't fulfill the requirement for rule of law and legal security

A random google search revealed this site: http://worldjusticeproject.org/rule-law-index-map

A quick look suggests that the rule of law in Sweden is among the highest in the world. But if you got any sources on the contrary I would be happy to read them.
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> We're currently discussing how to interpret RFC 2616 (http 1.1) for this here: https://github.com/tus/tus-resumable-upload-protocol/issues/...

I've followed up with further comments there.

> If you have a better suggestions than using the Range header that will still allow clients to send multiple file chunks in parallel, I'd be very interested in it!

I don't see a way to support parallel transfers using only existing HTTP headers (without violating the HTTP spec). I would suggest maybe proposing a new header in the HTTPbis WG. For example, something like Available-Ranges that returns a ranges-specifier indicating the set of ranges that are avaiable.

This could possibly be returned as part of a 416 response when attempting to GET a file that isn't entirely available yet. A HEAD request would thus return the same thing.

> It's 100. We haven't specified GET requests yet, but a server could stream an upload in this case until all bytes have been received.

The reason I brought up a GET request is because "the metainformation contained in the HTTP headers in response to a HEAD request SHOULD be identical to the information sent in response to a GET request." (section 9.4 of RFC2616)

If you haven't got all 100 bytes yet, your GET request can't return a Content-Length of 100, thus your HEAD request shouldn't be returning 100 either.

I would have thought you would return whatever content you had available (hence the 70 bytes), but if you want to support parallel transfers, then a 416 error response indicating the available ranges might make more sense.
When a worthwhile Futures market hits, then BTC will really stabilize.

He's right. Without shorting, options, and future contracts... it becomes impossible for BTC to stabilize in the wake of media exposure. Add on to the fact that the majority of BTC users seem to be idiots (ie: they look at the price as some sort of indicator of BTC penetration, as opposed to more useful statistics), and you've definitely got a situation where bubbles will continuously form.

Anyway, I don't necessarily think he's right. There will always be some function that fits some data... and he may have gotten lucky this time that data fits his model. Either way, it is certainly an interesting piece to read. And his model seems to have solid theory behind it.
Since he was already sentanced there was little need from a security perspective to keep him in 'häkte' for three months. Instead they could have just transfered him to the prison where he was to serve his previous sentence (as they eventually did).
I think this is more of a firebase demo than a useful tool. That said, if JSFiddle had real-time support then that could be very cool.
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What's your opinion on Swift (http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-storage/)? It's basically an open standard for "an object store with compatibility to, and the same guarantees of, S3." Used in, for example, Rackspace Cloud Files.
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Last month I had the pleasure I of seeing a Dekatron[1] in action (for those that don't know, a dekatron is a decimal based computer, rather than binary). The machine in question is the oldest working computer in the world (older machines like the Colossus are actually reconstructions) and uses relays rather than valves. It was a true sight to see in action as the relays spin round with a hypnotic orange glow[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwell_computer

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVgc8ksstyg (the video doesn't really do it justice)
Almost perfect! The only thing missing (for me) is the ability to edit in one part of the document at the same time as someone else edits a different part of the document, (similar to how firepad.io works).
With that addition it would be just wonderful!

Any chance you'll be adding this source code to GitHub?
not worse, just misguided.
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Are prices only well described by log periodic power laws if market participants don't know they are well described by log periodic power laws, or does that make things more complicated?
As I said in the other google apps thread on hackernews..

I thought I'd give them a call to find out whats going on, however to call them I need my support/admin pin - which is only accessible from the admin portal and without it they won't answer the phone. Nice.
There has been lately some legitimate-looking companies starting options-markets:
http://forexmagnates.com/ig-groups-launches-bitcoin-binary-o...

And also a new funded startup coming:
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/04/11/coinsetter-the-newes...
I'm not sure it's as simple as that culturally re self-criticism. Women are trained not to be assertive in general and to think that you are one of the beautiful people is considered a huge assertion. Beautiful is something other people are, celebrities and models. It really is a self image thing. It's like if you're 70 and have decided you cannot possibly learn computers, you never will because you'll constantly look for excuses to reinforce your self image.

"Oh my nose is slightly large," "my lips are too thin," "my face is too bony," "I'm too fat," etc etc. Anything not to rock the boat of your self image.
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Agenda? 4pm onward till? Anyway count me in ;)
> I think at this point it's fair to say that nobody has any idea of the real 'value' of a bitcoin.

Nonsense. They have no use, not even as a status symbol or as a practical unit of exchange. The “real value of a bitcoin” is zero, and the fact that this isn’t obvious to everyone is, frankly, astonishing.
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I built http://www.5by.com on AngularJS in about 3 months, and just a few thousand lines of code. The same thing in Backbone would have likely taken a lot more time and a lot more code.

It was my first AngularJS app, and I was learning it on the job, which is why it took that long. Overall, Angular is a joy to work with and its conventions force you to write clean, readable, decoupled code.
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My computer club at university runs our DNS server on a MicroVAX II machine. If you're patient, you can use SSH to log in, and when you're in, you got the choice betweeen vi and ed to edit files. vi of course take ages to load.
I was having on and off problems accessing my google apps account yesterday. I thought it might have been an isolated incident, but maybe this is related.
Its an easy way to excuse bad habits, that's all.
Right, so there aren't any consequences of smoking, but only consequences of inhaling tar?
Upvoting doesn't necessarily mean that you think that these are the guys responsible. It just means you think this is interesting. And it is.
I work for a agency that does pretty substantial projects ($1-10M range) and we've done a fair amount of backbone. Angular has gotten a lot of chatter, but isn't really suitable for our kinds of projects.
IE: the greater fool theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

Come on, people have been doing this stuff for centuries. It doesn't make you a genius, it makes you the lesser fool. Buying something that has little value, because you believe you can find a greater fool to dupe later is both risky and unethical.
Back in the late 80's, early 90's, a friend of mine bought some used PDP-11/70's from Illinois Bell. He'd sell them as parts into the aftermarket and did okay. Not great but steady.

He kept one in his detached garage that would load the initial bootstrap and then prompt the console for the operating system, which he didn't have. From that point on it patiently waited for a response and was used to heat the garage.
I didn't want to say that because people get annoyed. I also didn't want to quote this from the article -

"I have better things to do with my time than play with weird monopoly money"

And say "I like the cut of this guy's jib", for similar reasons, but I guess now I have...
In a way, it is.
The very first comparison of assigning scores based on number of features doesn't add value.

For example, Backbone is designed to be light-weight and this metric doesn't take that into account.

It would be like complaining that git is inferior because it doesn't have all the features of IBM's Clearcase.
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Right, and it was a plausible response back when the rate of increase had only been slow-to-none for ~5 years. But as the length of the slowdown increases to more than a decade and starts to approach two decades that becomes less tenable. There's a REASON those two charts haven't been updated, which is that even a plot of the five year average points WOULD show a slowdown if you did it today.

Yes, it's true that there have been extended slowdowns/downturns before, (eg, 1920-1940) but those were seen as needing an explanation. (Or at least some handwaving.) AFAIK we don't really have an explanation for the current slowdown. One possible explanation is that sensitivity to CO2 is lower than we thought.
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What's interesting is that the value of the yen has plunged in the last month or two, due to hardcore quantitative easing by the BoJ. The first signs of change are maybe, just maybe, in the air.

What's also interesting is that Sony's recently released Xperia Z Android phone has sold quite well.
QB64 appears to compile to various platforms, while VB does not.

Also, VB is pretty GUI and event-centric. QBasic is a pretty good local maximum of being quite expressive while still being a strictly procedural language.
Not to mention that thousands of people have been found guilty, only to be proven innocent (sometimes after decades in jail).

Or that tons of people have been found guilty (and never could proved their innocence), with fabricated data by some corrupt government agency.
Same here. Angular is cool it seems for 'look at pictures my dog took on its collar camera' or 'look how small my todo list code is'. Otherwise it is a world of pain fighting with it.

Basically once you learn Angular you are an Angular programmer from then on. It has its own terminology and way of doing things, I haven't seen the benefit of going that way.

Also looked at its code, founds so much convoluted stuff in that it is a little scary having to run on top of it.
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Thanks for checking it out. I appreciate any feedback. A few notes:

- I created this to solve my own problem: reports at my company that our caller id wasn't displaying properly and no easy way to troubleshoot since our landlines/cells already have our name programmed into them.

- Very little testing done. MVP style out of the gate.

- Built with php/mysql/jquery + twillio API

- I don't love using the CAPTCHA, but needed some way to ensure i don't rack up endless costs initially.
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Ask HN: Are niche website builders a good space for bootstrapped startups?
I've identified an opportunity to create a simple website builder (like Wordpress.com or SquareSpace) for a niche market. However, I have zero experience in this market or with site builders in general so I'm unsure what the challenges are.

My initial thought would be to offer just a small set of templates specific to the niche market and host the sites for a small monthly fee ($9/month). Adding more features (like Facebook Integration, Twitter, etc) would carry certain additional premiums.

What are the biggest challenges in starting and running a business like this? I know many others do this for niches like Church websites, Family Physicians, etc.

Thanks for any feedback provided!
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So far we have this:

> Servers MUST handle overlapping PUT requests in an idempotent fashion given that the overlapping data is identical. Otherwise the behavior is undefined.

Does that adress your concern?
A new router might help, but it might not. It's tough to know exactly what's going on in your complex without being able to get more data on what the local RF environment is like. Something must be interfering with your network, but that could be other wireless networks, or cordless landline phones, or microwave ovens, or the walls, or any number of other things.

In terms of general tips, Jeremy1026's is good. Find the least-used channel in your area and switch to it. If you can find a block of three consecutive low-traffic channels, that's even better: pick the one in the middle. Again going back to Jeremy1026, 4 is often a good choice in the US, and you can also try 8 or 9 if 4 doesn't work out. But if you've got a lot of savvy people in your area looking for a good channel, you may need to look deeper.

Many routers can perform something they usually call a "Wireless Site Survey" to help you find a relatively unused channel. At least in Linux, you can also use the iw family of commands, though there's a lot of output to sift through. I don't know what's out there for Windows in this regard, but there's got to be something.
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Um, maybe they are failing because modern electronics are more about software than hardware. If devices are becoming very small PC's with ARM processors, then of course software companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft will do well.

Companies like Sony have hardware DNA, not software DNA.
Do you freelance as a programmer, or as a marketer? It's not clear from your post.
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Yeah. Coninsetter looks promising and the beta is around the corner.
Not sure if that helps the case or makes it works:

Cafe Townsend. A page for a concert. Recipe sharing website. HTML5 Canvas Gradient Creator.

Those seems like toy examples one would do that something works, any real/serious public examples?
Meritocracy just broke all to pieces I guess.
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Corrupt government? Are we talking about Sweden or Somalia? Sweden is one of the least corrupt countries in the world so please stop with your ridiculous conspiracy theories.
Having not heard of this model before, I'm very surprised how tightly the curve fits, to the point of being sceptical (it's even got the "little" ups and downs" it seems).

Traditionally, the idea with a bubble is that everyone (well, almost everyone) knows it's a bubble, but no one seems to know when it will pop or how far it will fall.

Would this same model have fit the 2008 stock market collapse? Would it have accurately showed when and where the bottom was?

Would this same model have fit the BTC curve as well if the dataset had started 100 or 200 days earlier or later?

Just some curiousity about a model I'm hearing of for the first time.
Once you are doing AJAX you are going to be writing Javascript (or something that compiles to it). Ember.js can help with that. So rather than writing a bunch of code to pull down JSON from the server and manually update the DOM in ways that deal with various browser quirks you can say "here's my model, here's how I want it rendered, link it to this REST API" and it will take care of a ton of heavy lifting for you.

It's true that it doesn't give you any magical power that you didn't have before and you can do everything it can do with vanilla javascript or any of the other frameworks. However that's a bit like saying you don't see the point of rails because you can just use vanilla PHP for everything.
Ruby was created by a Japanese person, yes. But Matz is a Mormon with something like 4 children. Not exactly representative of your average Japanese person.
Or: smtp.googlemail.com
Sounds like you haven't tried making a large AJAX app. Yes, if all you need to do is validate a form this or any other framework is overkill. You'll likely have multiple forms, lots of views, dynamically updating data, filtered tables, modals, etc etc. You can manage it all yourself, but frameworks like Ember maker this a whole lot easier.
> Is Ember worth learning? Let's see.

You asked for an opinion. I gave you one (I'm in the middle of a large Ember project at the moment). I didn't expand on it as you appeared to have already made up your mind and written the whole thing off on the basis that the Java world keeps you pretty happy already.

> It adds no value over anything that we already use or what I see being used elsewhere. It's just another library that doesn't add any significant.

It sounds like you know a lot about it already. Why bother asking if it's worth learning then?

It's not a radical approach sure (that's the main point in fact). The main difference with Java is that Ember all happens inside the browser, and you write it in JavaScript. I have no idea how much experience you have with those things, so have no idea how much you'd learn if you picked it up.

In no way did I imply that you were stuck in Java rut. I said that if you were, you might learn something; if not, you might not. The things you'd learn about (unless you already know a lot about them already of course) involve things that you'd learn doing any front end development.

In no way should you feel bad for wanting to make a lot of money.
You are talking to the wrong kind on BTC users. Hopefully, most of this type of users are gone after the recent events. Aside from that, there's still a vibrant community of people who make useful stuff with BTC.