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Houses are an asset in people's minds. This means that you can sell your house if you need to get extra money and you're in a bind, or to downsize from your current house to a cheaper-to-maintain one.

Let's say you bought a house for $400k with 100k down and have so far paid 50k towards the remaining 300k (plus interest, since it's a loan). The housing market has gone down, and your house is now worth $200k. (These sort of drops happen). Okay, so your house is worth $200k. You need to get out of there, but you've only paid 150k towards your 400k loan. You sold the house for 200k, so now you still owe 50k to the bank for a house you just sold for less. This does not help you out of your current situation, which was to sell an asset to pay for things, or to survive easier.

Edit: Note. This is a VERY simple and slightly inaccurate review of how paying for a house works. The intent of it was to explain why lowering prices are bad for people that already own homes.
Australia, believe it or not, is actually pretty bad in this regard. The amount of xenophobia disguised as "patriotism" is pretty eye opening (well at least for me). I haven't travelled through the USA though, but Australia definitely was a shock.
Who said anything about the post-mortems necessitating new laws?

Use the powers we're given smarter, less broadly.
High quality video of the explosion: http://www.boston.com/video/viral_page/?%2Fservices%2Fplayer...
An unrealistic, one-dimensional character in a second-rate novel by a second-rate philosopher. Next question?
Imperfectly or no, isn't this what recruiters do?
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People losing lives, in this case, will likely not be the end of the tragedy. I think it is legitimate to be concerned about how much worse it may get with political involvement and the resulting unreasoned "do something" responses.
How is the scale of this disaster any different than that of Newtown's? That has obviously had a large political impact.
FPS Russia is getting investigated by the FBI over tannerite, I think.
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the post isn't necessarily a reputable rag to be linking to as a source...
You seem to be implying that because North Korea is less free than us, we are completely free with nothing to lose. That's pretty faulty logic. Better to be aware of the freedoms we are losing (even though we still have many) than to risk ending up like North Korea.
You probably mean pre 1.2 as 2.0 isn't there yet.
Even moreso of a reason to not waste energy and thought on phantom evils. Spending nonstop conscious effort confiscating useless attack vectors leaves you less prepared for actual danger.
If you would spend 2 minutes to do a google search for businesses still using COBOL you'll find your answer. My statement is based on professional experience in the IBM Midrange field talking with people who still work on these systems. Use this link as a jumping off point http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/09/cobol-inter... (not much has changed in this space in the last 4 years, this space moves extremely slow when it comes to change at the systems level)
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To me it looks like they didn't really know what to do at this moment. What is the standard police procedure?
"we gonna see in the name of security"

Watershed events always create these emotional knee jerk reactions. As opposed to "well we can save lives by driving 50 mph instead of 70 mph but since that's legacy we aren't likely to not consider the impact on society as a whole by lowering the speed limit."
Yeah, that edit was needed. My daughter plays with the lego I had as a kid (going on 20-something years now) and it certainly appears to have just as much stick as before. The small ones still defeat my fingernails.
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100's of people die and lose their limbs in an tragic, yet oddly sensational event, and your first move is to decry a person angry about how the government uses similarly sensational events to systematically impose restrictions of freedom on (more or less) the entire world.

Once bit twice shy. Muzzle your fkng dog.
Great source, not many code articles though.
No, I'm not, and obviously they have every right to.

At just seemed crass at the moment. I admit that I was just having an overly emotional response at the time and do not fault them for it whatsoever.
There have only been 3 major terror bombings in US history where cars have been used. One was the original WTC bombing. The other two were OK City and Bath School, back in 1927. There were a couple minor car bombs.

Most other domestic US bombers of all stripes used pipe bombs or suitcase bombs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States
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Why can't they be stored?

Is it a legal requirement to prevent merchants without the CCV from using the credit card?

...oh wait
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Is there some "silly knee-jerk" response to every such event? I don't remember the knee-jerk response to the Oklahoma City bombing. Or the Atlanta Olympics bombing. Or the first WTC bombing. Or the attempted 2010 Times Square bombing. The response to Sandy Hook is better described as "belabored" rather than "knee-jerk."

As for 9/11, that involved 3,000 people dead and the collapse of a major American icon. It killed more people than the Pearl Harbor bombing and involved direct costs and losses approaching $100 billion.[1] Jury's still out on whether it was a "silly knee-jerk" response or a reasonable wake-up to the threat of global islamic terrorism.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57292565/cost-of-911-...
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use a name-blinded review process

What's interesting is when people do the opposite. When they A/B test the name. Same content. Half the people have male names, half female. Now, if gender doesn't matter, and people are judged purely on their achievements, and we are in a real meritocracy, then there should be no difference, right? If there a statistically significant difference in how people treat the male vs. female applicant, then there's some bias going on.

Turns out if you do that (e.g. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/201... ), you get men getting more job offers and getting offered more money. And this is scientists judging applicants for a science job!

Something is wrong here....
They try to put organism's compexity on a logarithmic scale and look where this line "reaches zero". Then they find out it was very very long ago, before the Earth coalesced. They then proceed to imply that life is older than Earth.

The problem here is: you can't do that.
For example, if you look at human population, it was growing kind of exponentially for as long as we know. And if we continue this trend long enough to the past we'll infer that Earth featured several dozens of humans even when it was still in a liquid magmatic state five billion years ago!

Exponential growth becomes glacially slow when we go back in time. Therefore, any growth seems to be not exp(t) but rather max(ct, exp(t)) - not slower than linear.
It doesn't matter once we hit present history, but it does matter when we talk about a linear part in the past.
This is a great list of what _you're_ receptive to, but it's silly to use a person's position as a replacement for their personality.

The reality is, not all developers want to be "left alone," just like not all developers want to talk to people.

Why not invest in the person and tease out _how_ they want to be interacted with instead of making assumptions one way or the other?
It doesn't matter if he got off easy or not. Two wrongs does not make a right.

If you wrong someone, and s/he tries to then injure you with a heavy blunt object but fails, it doesn't mean "you got off easy". You can then counter sue for attempted murder.

So now who got off "easy"?
She asks if quotas are marginalizing women's achievements. The function being used to evaluate speakers is broken - that much is clear from the rate of women being selected. A solid guess is that the specific way in which it is broken is that it is giving undue weight to men, topics men find interesting, and topics that exclude women. In a sense, this is "outsourcing" the discriminatory elements.

This has an obvious correction: put a counterweight on it in the form of a quota. Does this fix the illness? No. It is a pill, medicine to manage the symptoms of the illness while the illness is fought. The malady is diffused, the remedy is not, so it is easy to pick on the remedy - but it's better than doing nothing.

We have some guesses about what the "right" number would be, and a quota of 20% or 25% is hardly getting us there - it is ensuring a lower bound. How much injustice is really resulting from having a lower bound?
> You seem to be implying that because North Korea is less free than us, we are completely free with nothing to lose. That's pretty faulty logic. Better to be aware of the freedoms we are losing (even though we still have many) than to risk ending up like North Korea.

Clearly my point completely flew over your head. I was only commenting on how ridiculous it was that tomjen3 claimed that we had already lost all our freedoms in the very same sentence that he mentioned a country that is far more oppressive than our own.
Well are you able to express the same sympathy and empathy for the people (twice as many) killed with handguns yesterday? and the day before? and the week before? and every day of every week for the entire year before?

are you able to express the same sympathy for the the 4 people killed in a drone attack yesterday in Pakistan?

are you able to express the same sympathy for the innocent people the U.S. has locked down in Guantanamo bay?

are you able to express the same sympathy for children killed by the DEA?
If you're stuck in your home like in sukuriant's example, you can't move if you find a job somewhere else. You're stuck in the town you are in and you'll need to find something locally.

This is part of the problem with the American labor market at the moment.
According to AP cellphone service is being suspended to avoid allowing 'detonation of remote devices'.

Source: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/official-cellphone-service-sh...

4.14 pm Central.
Please learn the massive difference between "excuse" and "reason".

It drives me insane when people try to explain something, and someone replies, "oh, that that excuses it, does it?".
Transit is much harder and has a much stronger security presence - people in general are also far more alert for suspicious packages. It would be much tougher I'd think to get something like this onto a subway rather than a huge crowd.
Ruby is on the list. In the meantime, you can use the REST API from any language. If you need the realtime aspects on your server, we have a node client as well.
To be quite honest, me too. I expected it to just be background radiation: I too feel badly, conflicted and confused. I didn't expect this.

Sitting at the top like that it really does start to look like soap-boxing or attention whoring. Apologies all, I really didn't mean it that way.
What's the legal justification behind doing this? Not surprised that it's done, but am surprised that there's a legal mechanism in place to shut down cell service for an entire major metropolitan city.
As someone who has organized several conferences, and countless events in the tech space, let me just say that it is REALLY hard to find and get top-tier/well-known women to speak at your event. I reached out to over a dozen women execs from 10+ startups that were well known and all of them turned us down for this last conference I helped organized in Miami in February.

Part of the issue is that you need well known speakers to sell more tickets, that coupled with the fact that the % of women working in tech is a minority, you're left with a shallow pool of possible speakers. Furthermore, if you're looking for certain skill-sets in tech to be speakers, you're further diminishing your pool of available candidates.
I think it largely depends on who will be found as the culprit.

If it would be found that this is an Islamist terror attack the aftermath will be much more pronounced then a scenario where the blame will be on say some extreme right wing group.

Much of the lose of freedom we all suffer from is due to entrenched xenophobia becoming political agenda, it seems much harder to enact changes when the criminals are white Americans ala Timothy McVeigh or some horrific mass shooting
It's pretty good at holding traffic. Not so much when it comes to curious "stop by, see what's up, open a websocket, leave." But we're working on making it better, and it is back and running smooth now. Thanks for checking it out :)
Regular testing that you'd expect to do many times, and that's part of your product development process, is almost certainly automated.

But one-off tests are still squarely in the territory of Ye Poor Intern. I remember interning at an auto parts plant years ago where I spent two whole days stuck in a windowless lab where I laser-measured the precise diameter of a batch of motor shafts because there was suspicion of a defect from the supplier.

It's the sort of mind-numbing repetition and boredom that threatens to liquefy your brain, and to this day gives me a greater appreciation for how good I have it writing code for a living :)

(the fact that I was using frickin' lasers to do my job was novel for only the first half hour)

Certain parts of automated testing are still manual too. In the aforementioned plant I was responsible for going into the oven and making measurements every few hours and measuring hundreds of things as part of the heat-cold cycle testing, even though the actual temperature shifting and vibrational stress was fully computer-controlled.

Good times. Glad I'm in software now.
It's easier to destroy than it is to create, for example create safety for the people there.

People outside a certain radius of the initial attack are almost certainly safer. The only thing you can do is get everyone out of the area. Keeping everyone there it seems... I'm confused about what the goal would be. You've got to move everyone out of there eventually so do it. I'm just trying to picture the huge amount of resources it would take to try and quarantine.
The police were notified about the Lloyds / Bishopsgate bombing and the Harrods bombing by the IRA, who has a long history of doing that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Bishopsgate_bombing

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

The Eniskillen bomb was aimed at British soldiers and thus no warning was given.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day_bombing
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I work for a large media organization and we have the ability to suspend advertising in response to crisis events. I'd assume other major outlets would have equivalent capabilities.

At the end of the day advertisers don't want to be associated with certain stories, and there's a public good imperative that drives rapid, open access in these tragic situations that overrides commercial interest even if that were of concern.
They're not running commercials on TV right now, but I agree that it's unrealistic to expect websites to just switch into non-commercial mode on the fly.
Oh, I didn't even notice there was a page 2...

Interesting though, wonder if there's any crossover with their
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Perhaps. That wasn't particularly evident at the time.
Would you say that your site traffic is blowing up in response to this event?

EDIT: Sorry, sorry--in a weird headspace from the news. In all seriousness, did you actually just launch a product in this thread?

EDIT2: Just remember, when launching a product--it's not a sprint, it's a marathon.
It would be awfully convenient if it was. Never let a crisis go to waste and all that.
To be totally honest, if you heard a huge explosion behind you, would YOU stop to see what happened? Personally I'd book it harder.
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Yup, at that stage you are focusing on "the goal" and that is pretty much it.
Nice! Bring on the problem codes! :-)
Really some houses are built to last :-) I was looking to buy a place (before I got made redundant) built in the 1790's (Listed building mentioned in peveinser no less) and the farmhouse next to my parents house is 1500's/1600's John Bunyan preached there back in the day
If you've ever run a marathon, you'd know. 4 hours is still a pretty decent time for 26 miles and, for most runners, the last leg up to finish line is usually a pretty exhausting/euphoric time. Aside from your own heartbeat and breathing, you really don't notice much else.

To me, it looks like they respond physically to the shockwave but are not mentally registering anything other than the finish line.
I just want you to know that your remarks are in really bad taste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks

In my lifetime (I'm 30, from Manchester), I lived through two bomb attacks a few miles away from my home, one in the centre of the City, and another in a nearby town in the main shopping street that killed two children. They didn't 'tend to attack military targets'; they were terrorists.

Terrorism is either bad, or it isn't. Don't dress the IRA up as something they aren't so that you can sit on the fence.
I nearly had a fit with that background full screen. Interesting idea though.
'Quote stuffing' is there, because of absolutely ridiculous SEC rules. If you'd put in fractional prices and remove NBBO rules, there wouldn't be any 'quote stuffing'. And latency arb. What's wrong with latency arb? How else can you move information from one exchange to another fairly?

Think of HFT's as of part of the financial network infrastructure. Where exchanges play role of nodes and HFT companies role of links/queues/buffers.
I doubt Newtown will have much of a legal impact.
Do we really need to "see" the explosions and mangled people?
Of course, because you are spoiled, whining nerd, who has no idea about real suffering.
A video from AP [1] shows the finish line timer displaying 4:09:44 when the first explosion goes off.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vJnC2zgriU&feature=playe...
I'd hope (assume, really) that calls to emergency services can still go through.
the landlord then retains your deposit for "spurious" cleaning or do US landlords not do this nasty little scam.
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The only people that complain that there aren't enough women in tech are men. Women complain about female unfriendly work environments and conferences. But tech people don't understand the difference between "female unfriendly" and "needs more women". All there needs to be is a smart woman whose input is taken seriously when organizing conferences and establishing workplace culture.
It depends on the landlord.
People will set this to indicate that they had to censor something. Obviously if you don't want the censorship to be detected, you will not use this code.
How would a pipe bomb at the Boston Marathon conceivably start a war with North Korea? Wtf.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5553543
"Apparently cellphone service is SHUT DOWN! To make sure new devices are not remotely detonated!"

Oh no. This has been done a lot of times recently and all it means is future devices are going to be designed to go off when service is lost. Like every time you get a text message the 10 minute "reset" button is shorted. On the bright side AT&T outages are now a feature not a bug as they make constructing and transporting devices like this very exciting for the bad guys.
Why is this the top thread? I'm being serious here... I honestly don't understand how this got all the way up to the top where as others of much greater worth (IMHO) sit below...
I just double checked using Opera Firefly and it seems to be fixed. I see Seqoe UI now :).
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I actually have an idea for how to solve that problem but I don't want to blow the idea. There's a startup concept that could work, but I need to pass it by a few key players.
I've never been charged a late fee by a firm I didn't have a credit agreement with. Perhaps other parts of the world are more insane, but here that is definitely not commonplace.
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The response to even the most serious disasters can qualify as a "silly knee-jerk" if the response does little or nothing to ameliorate the disaster or prevent another one. 9/11 was bad, but that still doesn't justify security theater.
If you can't land a job in your desired field, get another job that pays a wage you can live on. Then in every single free moment you have, do work in the field you're interested in. Even if you have to do it for free (assuming the free work looks really good on a resume). It lets you keep something current on your resume and develop skills in the field. Doesn't work for every field and situation, but I've found it useful.
Try saying that when you are directly affected by actions like this.

It is easy to stand back at 100ft and say this type of crap, but the fact is, crazy people are all around us, and we should try to be proactive instead of reactive.

We as a society owe it ourselves to reflect on events such as this, and see if there was anything that could have been done to prevent it. If the answer is yes, then we SHOULD act. Does that mean freedoms need to be restricted, laws to be enacted? No, it could mean better technology, maybe better security, maybe MORE security.

I hope no new laws come of something like this, but if it means reducing the chance that this happens again, I am all for it.

Our rights are absolute, but we also need to compromise. We can't let ourselves become 1984, but we can become safer, smarter, more efficient with regards to security.
This is bad taste we have people getting blow up in Boston, we don't need another circle jerk right now.
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> I don't remember the knee-jerk response to the Oklahoma City bombing.

nor the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, which may almost mirror this in terms of venue, injuries, & deaths. But, I think the fear is that we're now in a post-9/11 world where knee-jerk reactions are far more common.
Even that one I just get "error starting tape mode".
As someone who doesn't care much about audio quality I can try to explain. Part of it I suppose is that even though I like music, I don't _like_ like music as some people seem to do, like music is their life and a huge spare time interest. I just like to listen to some stuff sometimes, but sometimes I can go a week without listening to my Spotify account or the radio. Another part of it is that I feel like I get most of the benefit already with "regular" ear-phones, I don't need super duper audio quality to enjoy a song. The song is in your brain anyway, and your perceptions are not as perfect as you think. Think of it like suspension of disbelief in a video game. I used to play games with really shitty graphics, but that didn't affect the way I enjoyed the game because my brain fills in the rest.
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Wow. Very misguided take at that.

Interesting how she characterizes it throughout her piece as a very violent gender war, but at the end claims it to be a class war at then end.

I think that's the crux of many of the problematic perspectives of contemporary feminism, that what are class differences are jammed into the square box of gender war.
And in the UK you are expected to spend 30 hours a week looking for work in order to claim SS - They have a section of the uk.gov site just for that