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Are you kidding me?

New York Times, NPR even Fox News, will host dissenting opinions. And pretty much every media outlet will allow their competitors to run advertising.
"spotted a fancy lock on the door of some institution (not a private house), lock-picked it and looked what's behind the doors."

And then collected private information of everybody who works for or is a customer of the institution, and then threatened the owners of the institution if they spoke out about what had happened.
Well is it a problem of people not knowing about job opportunities or recruiters not knowing about people pool?

I personally think that no, it isn't and everyone good enough will land a job, degree or not. I think the real issue is raising the quality of engineers finishing these colleges you're referring to or colleges filtering who to admit to and who shouldn't be in IT. Unless it's a visibility problem you can't "force" a company to hire someone.
I've never bothered, neither did my parents. Currently we have three baby geckos hanging out with their parents out the front of the house, a couple of hunstmans, and moths floating around from time to time.

I think nature is awesome :)

/from brisbane
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As a native mid-continent Canadian, I find it interesting that such large swaths of Canada are lumped together. For instance, I find the accent of Albertans quite distinct from Saskatchewan/Manitoba, and BC definitely so.
Cool. Makes life easy. Accessing all info on command line is awesome. History/Diff view is best thing about it. Thanks for sharing. I see myself using it on daily basis.
Yes. When I say the price is $29, people expect to see $29 on their credit card statement. $28.xxx will make them suspicious.

There's a reason why Apple rounds prices on App store to nearest .99 in local currencies so people pay exactly what they see.
I'll take at face value that trial resources are limited at a mere $3.3 billion; having the FBI investigate you and being threatened with Federal Prison time is still within the power of the DOJ. If we assume a fairly high conviction rate of DOJ cases, then it is probably not because they all ended up at trial, but because the FBI had so much on you and the threat of mandatory prison sentences so onerous that deals will be cut to avoid an expensive trial.

No one wants to go to trial, so not having a big trial budget isn't surprising; most of the hard work in building a solid case is in the FBI and the most of the leverage is in the prison system.

Please don't read into this as a condemnation of the DOJ as a body, just my take that it needs to be kept in check by courts as fighting the DOJ is not just making good show at trial.
Have used it for over a year at this stage, and did not realize the full potential until this article.

I have been using it as a direct replacement for git log, and its something that gets installed on any system I work on for any length of time.
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If Metro apps are "pretty useless," and thus easy to avoid/ignore permanently, doesn't that largely undercut the need for Win8 entirely?

Wasn't this supposed to be a "no compromises" OS? I seem to recall hearing that a lot from MS.
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> I was asked to tell what I'm thinking about. This question was being repeated throughout the whole interview.

I think that's what they did.
Um, no, they clearly say they're going to try and sue any commercial entity that uses the word hackathon to 'fund' their own conferences. Which is clearly wrong and I hope someone hands their ass to them. The whole thing is written in deliberate doublethink.

No mention of removing it in that article at all.
people will think he has something to hide no matter what. making decisions according to what people think ends up lol - you end up making decisions based on the worst things because those people often have the loudest and strongest opinion. based on what, i don't know, probably because liberal society worships youth and the brash cockiness associated with it.

if people are thinking the worst things about you, should you always be having to defend yourself? what about your own life, what if there are people in it that you're trying to protect who've been very hurt and just need safety and privacy? going to the press shows that in his experience, drawing attention to something has been mostly positive. this is not everyone's experience. the press is responsible for the streisand effect in the first place. i don't see how bowing down before this pressure is humble, although it is probably smart to be media-savvy, not everyone can afford the mental expense. people are different - as if theres only one way to react to a thing like this, as if the style of the reaction says anything about anything.

true humility would require that this person not care about his career any more, accept that probably he's getting a rightful punishment for his moral degradation by dating what seems like a much younger woman in a country where he has a great deal of power, who is not pulling these attacks out of thin air, in a context where, as one commentor says, a 'westerner and crazy chinese' is common - and move on. it's well known among asians that whites look old to them, and that asians look young to white people. white people have the luxury of not having to care what asian people think, and so this is not common knowledge to them and might explain some ignorance on this thread.
I am playing around with the idea of developing a new beta platform. I have been running beta's for my current company and am frustrated with the current state of beta management services.

Let me know if this is something that you need, or what you use instead to run your betas?
Those are direct quotes from your comments. If you want to retcon them, fine. All I see is a huge set of assertions from you, and now a lot of backpedaling as your arguments are being dismantled.
Strongly agree! I thought it was something else exciting, but it is just the SDK. I have been using it for a while.
It's like any other small business, where new people are overly optimistic about both sales and costs. If they have a business plan, it's all best cases, not realistic.

And because the total dollar amounts are a lot lower than a proper restaurant, people can embark on it with just savings and home equity loans and friend investors... all of which do not require a realistic business plan. Then the sales don't materialize, they lose money every day they are out their busting their ass for 17 hours and throwing away food at the end of the day, and they end up selling the truck to the next food truck dreamer.
> Maybe I'm off my rocker today, but that doesn't really explain the start of the sentence. The only thing I'm getting here is that the pairings are intentional.

You're not off your rocker. I'd imagine that I'm just as confused.
Consider what's behind these numbers...

- The whole point of Windows 8 was to make massive inroads into tablets with the Surface and other OEM models; that's not happening at the rate they hoped

- The PC market is clearly shrinking at an increased rate due to pressure from the smartphone, iPad and other tablets.

So in summary, the growth rates of the iPad, Win 2008 licenses shouldn't be flat - they should be up. These are the charts that worries Microsoft:

http://www.asymco.com/2013/05/01/surface-tension-the-effect-...

Not a bleak picture yet, but not roses either.
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Sometimes it's useful to showcase some features to make people aware of how tools can be used.

I would consider this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5667935 to be a good example of why that can be useful, no?
Further to your advice of getting into the habit of starting things, I think it's invaluable to also having the habit of finishing what you started.

I'm not saying be incredibly pedantic about it, but finish the things you want to work on. Started that app that you love? Make sure you specify time to work on it. Too often when I was 15 I started projects but never got to a significant stage with them due to wanting to do too much at once or playing silly games like World of Warcraft.
Also you find the TV effect on many of the actual accents. Cockney (E London dialect) glottal stops have turned up in Glasgow (Scotland) children because of the very popular BBC Cockney TV soap Eastenders.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3531075.stm
You can monitor exploit sites, but zero days are always possible and what will lead to serious hacks like this. So no, you can never be sure.

The best thing is to keep your eye on the culture of the developers and how seriously they take security - for instance the Ruby on Rails developers ignored exploits/reports until people blew them wide open. Now, if some other hacker had known about that before the disclosure, they could have owned any RoR sites.

From my experience, Django seems to be the best, and has not had any unfixed vulnerabilities for a while (though, due to it's complexity, it's completely possible that 0days exist). However, if I'm running Django sites and some do get owned, I can tell my boss/client/self/whatever that I did everything possible to prevent it happening.

There is no such thing as 100% secure, however, it's fairly reasonable to be hardened to all but the most dedicated crackers.

With an attack like HTP's, there's no fucking way anyone could have been expected to prevent, without running their entire own infrastructure, because they owned registras, Linode's LISH shell (so they get near-physical access to your Linode), and various other crap. If your boss were to fire you for getting owned in this attack, despite it preeetty much being zero of your own fault, they would be in the wrong (unless you have the resources to not depend on anyone).
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Did you read the article? The author is arguing it's not because of that at all, it's because of all unnecessary and conflicting rules and regulations that is in place.
From the section marked "Update (07.05.2013)"

> Thats why we will delete the trademark “hackathon”. 10 companies that have been asked to license, have been informed that we take distance from plans to charge royalties.
I suppose you want him to have an English dialect map that includes Spanish speaking countries? It might ease your sensibilities, but it would be meaninglesss.

While it must be truly invigorating to get the rush of moral superiority you feel by pointing out perceived racism, it is absurd nit-picking that allows you to arrive at your conclusion.

Every other nation in the Western Hemisphere has a name that allows the citizens to be uniquely identified: Mexican, Canadian, Haitian, Brazillian, Ecuadoran, etc. Tell me, what do you propose we call citizens of the United States of America, other than "Americans"? I once was the only American working at an international school. One time, and one time only, a young Spanish man from Madrid made a stink when I referred to myself as "American." The 2 Argentinians, the 1 Brazillian, and 3 Englishmen in attendance all rolled their eyes and collectively told him off with the same question I just asked you. It's absurd, it's over sensitive, and it screams out "Pay attention to me! I'm pointing out oppression!!"

The author doesn't try to cover AAVE because the vast majority of the African American population outside of the South emigrated FROM the South less than 3 generations ago. There's an entire field of study on AAVE, and its not his field. FYI, I'm from the south, and to most northerners, AAVE and "white" southern dialects sound extremely similar, to the point where a white Seattle teenager I encoutnered saying "yall" picked it up from the hip hop culture he was immersed in. It's not necessarily that AAVE is derived from white southern, its that the two dialects grew around each other, with rather extensive interaction between poor whites and black slaves in the rural south. I would say the influence is surely two way, and know for a fact that many of the words my family uses are African in origin.
Last I tried this (2.1?) it took a hell of a lot more boilerplate than TastyPie, and I had a few problems that necessitated changing the source a bit. But maybe I was using it wrong (didn't spend a huge amount of time with it).

The auto generated web interface is nice though.
I don't know the history, but the social network movie highlighted the spamming of his college network through email.
I'm also 15 and I was in a similar situation as you. If you want to get in touch, feel free to email me. My email is zchlatta (at) gmail.com.

I found that going to local hackathons was a great way to get involved and meet other passionate people. I'm situated in Los Angeles, but I can imagine that there's plenty to do in Denver.
Why is the server package so behind?

I am on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, I had use "add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/development" to get nginx/1.3.12, how do I get in to the latest release?

Wiki says:

Stable release	1.4.0 / 24 April 2013

Preview release	1.3.16 / 16 April 2013

How do I get into the latest stable bandwagon?
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happened for me as late as 2008 (last time I bothered checking) - GAIM/Pidgin were usually the culprit - once they'd played a sound, nothing else could until I killed it. Had issues on Ubuntu and Mandriva (and IIRC) fedora, over several versions, with both KDE and Gnome setups, on multiple laptops. Grew tired, switched to macbooks/osx.
I am actually interested in the source code / implementantion. A nice graph might be cool, but it actually shows me nothing concrete.
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The ability for "hackers" to thrive is a necessary price to pay to secure our rights on the Internet. Trading freedom for security pays nothing, and never will. Let the FBI work their asses off to try to bust these people.
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>Electrics. Ahhhh, never a good thing on Astons!!

Or European cars in general, in my experience.
(VW, Mercedes, MINI, Volvo -- all had bad-to-severe electrical problems for me)
Hey Zach thank you for the heads-up, the carousel is intentional. However, it is worth checking if you found it estrange.
Welcome to the real world: users (even power users) don't read on-screen instructions. You can throw at them hundreds of pop-ups and tutorials and wizards, and they still will just go next-next-next.

This is why UI designs must be intuitive. Metro is extremely intuitive in many ways, but it royally screwed up some basics (no shutdown button, no alternative to hot corner... no no no).
It would be great if this cheat sheet existed as a page instead of an image. Unfortunately, I can't Ctrl+F an image.
Don't forget selective enforcement, which is probably the biggest frustration and source of uncertainty and cost. Not knowing if doing one thing one day will be fine the next day are not conditions most businesses thrive in.
Personally I find it much more powerful and organised than TastyPie, and you can use it for much more basic stuff. You don't actually have to do REST at all.

Regarding the boilerplate - IIRC the tutorial starts you off with lots of boilerplate then shows you how to refactor it so it is not needed.
An unexpected bonus when switching to FreeBSD was that it still uses OSS, and like the rest of FreeBSD it all works - maybe not out of the box, but once you've configured it it will never just break for no reason - the way linux of 5-10 years ago used to.
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Really? When did you live in SF?
If it's turned off, you can't use the software, right? If I had to do that every time I was pretty sure I wouldn't use it for a while, I'd probably find different software..
Yours is the first opinion I've read of someone preferring Vista to Windows 7. Win7 is pretty much superior to both Vista and XPSP3 in almost every way, though especially from a usability and secuirty perspective. It's actually not all that different from Vista in my experience (and you can make it look like Vista pretty easily, if the color scheme bothers you).

Windows 7 likely is the next XP - people will stick with it for 10+ years if they can.

In fairness, I gave up and switched to a Mac.
A few years back, urbanization was also causing the breasts of Australian women to grow larger :-|

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/fashion/dd-cup-runneth-...
And it will close all your apps too!
The only thing you can do is ignore them. Become a stone wall. If the stalker can't seem to get any reaction out of you, he/she will eventually get bored and start stalking someone else instead.
While I am annoyed by the overall accuracy. I think the experiments are interesting because the software goes a little beyond what a standard machine learning package will give you. LWPR is a hot algorithm but its not integrated with many general purpose machine learning packages.
And yet the filthy vendor carts (not trucks) are everywhere you look, spewing their putrid clouds of smoke over passing pedestrians, without any requirement to display sanitation inspections (I'm not sure they are even subject to inspections).

If you want a food truck you should go out to a city with friendlier regulations and where you would provide more novelty by being a more unique thing. Then again I'm not a big fan of these new wave food trucks anyways, they are always supremely overpriced. If I'm eating out of a truck, it's because I want to pay less than sitting at a restaurant.
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My girlfriend wants to watch a video on Netflix and have the PDF viewer open to read knitting patterns while she watches.

Oops, can't do that! The PDF viewer is fullscreen-only.
2 cents from an European here:

Why does the US not have VAT and instead have this big mess called sales tax? IIRC it's one of the only few developed countries without VAT.
The FBI is under DOJ, but it doesn't make much sense to lump them together for the purposes of discussion, because the FBI operates mostly independent of the DOJ (as in most governments, there is a organizational barrier between the police force and the prosecuting entity).

No doubt going up against the DOJ is not easy, but it's not exactly an organization that's overflowing with resources given the enormous scope of its responsibilities. That's why it takes such a scorched earth approach--it can't afford to spend time on weaker cases or hashing out fine distinctions in cases.
What I want to know is, what kind of hacker uses hard tabs in their zero day python script.
Yet the article listed only a handful of requirements - health certificate, and don't park next to a school or food market. What else? This doesn't seem like rocket science.

It has to be the business case stinks. I can't see the regulation getting in the way, any more than other businesses.
The difference in your arguments is that the OP is saying they are paying 5% of the tax they are legally required (not allowed) to pay. It is just by using deceitfulness that they do not have to pay the full tax owed.

There is a big difference between minimizing your tax burden and pretending you dont have assets/revenue so you straight up dont have to pay taxes on them.
Don't park next to a school or food market? You can avoid that every day. I think that is a smoke screen for the real problem: a terrible business case.
Spider size is a surprisingly interesting topic, with quite quick evolutionary changes in both directions, and lots of interactions between spider size, web size, prey size, etc.

Here's an excerpt from a book about some effects that influence the size of orb-weaver spiders (internal citations omitted):

Spider size has evolved rapidly and diversely throughout the evolutionary history of spiders, both in terms of absolute size and relative sexual size dimorphism. In general, there seems to be a trend towards increased spider body size, especially for females, across the phylogenetic tree. ... For orb web spiders, the most common explanation is likely fecundity-based female gigantism because clutch size, the most commonly used proxy for spider fecundity, generally strongly correlates with female body size both intra- and inter-specifically. ...

[M]ight the function of orb webs also play a role in spider size evolution? We believe the answer is yes. In general, orb web architecture determines the type of prey intercepted and retained that could be consumed by the spider. Thus, spider size evolution may occur under selection for how webs might fill 'empty niches'. For example, tiny anapid and mysmenids build orb webs that capture insects ignored by larger orb-weavers, and theridiosomatids specialize on mosquitoes that are too small to be relevant to the diets of large spiders but also such specialized fliers that they are rarely captured by the webs of other, less-specialized spiders. ... Similarly, the largest orb-weavers make webs powerful enough to retain the largest insects, which are simply not available to smaller spiders, and their webs can sometimes even subdue vertebrate prey. Orb webs may place an upper limit on the maximum size achievable by orb web spiders due to increases in the costs of producing webs in larger spiders and due to differences in how the kinetic energy of insect prey versus the stopping powers of orb webs scale with size.

Source: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0124159192/ref=as_li_ss_tl?..., pp. 225-226
Bit of a strange article, I think there's a whole bunch of shibboleths/dog-whistles in there that I don't know so it's sounds a bit like buzzwordy-gibberish to me.

But on the point about acceptance of gay marraige being a sudden and inexplicable change unlike anything ever seen, or indeed possible, in a free state, I was reminded of this article by Nate Silver who says that it's actually been gaining slowly in support for years and that at least half the change can be attributed to older folk dying and being replaced by a younger generation of voters:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/how-opin...

This has lots on interesting knock-on effects because some states are older than others, certain ages are more likely to vote etc.

Key conclusion:

"it’s the steadiness of the trend that makes same-sex marriage virtually unique among all major public policy issues, and which might give its supporters more confidence that the numbers will continue to break their way".
The thing about geckos and (as much as it pains me to admit it) spiders is that they prey on much more noxious and difficult to control vermin, particularly the mosquito. This is pretty useful when spiders are basically harmless and Anopheles the most dangerous animal in the world.
my grandfather was a good republican, a mayor of a small town in florida in fact. he raised me to not talk about politics and religion because it's not polite. he said just to do a good job and that would be enough. obviously his times are over if this is the discussion we are having to have and i think that says a lot about this new radical experiment in social relations that the internet has brought about.
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